April 6, 1994
by Peter Safir
It’s nice to hear about some of the class’s members with a scientific bent. Joel Herskowitz, M.D., combines pediatric neurology with singing the blues in Framingham, Mass. Joel and his identical-twin, Ira, professor and chairman of the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the Univ. of California, have prepared a book and tape entitled DOUBLE HELIX BLUES, which stemmed from a song he wrote in medical school some 25 years ago. The book is designed to explain genetics to younger readers, and the song has been performed for medical students and at scientific symposiums. On the more conventional front, Joel reports that on Dec. 30, 1993, he married Roya Sayadi.
Speaking of genetics, Mark Skolnick, working at Myriad Genetics in Salt Lake City, has recently been cited in THE NEW YORK TIMES as one of the key scientists in companies and organizations pursuing technologies related to the Human Genome Project.
Len Brillson notes that in between managing a research department at Xerox Corp. in Rochester, N.Y., he has edited a microelectronics text book, CONTACTS TO SEMICONDUCTORS.
Kenneth L. Oliver is practicing labor and employment law for Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel in Philadelphia, representing employers in occupational safety and health matters.
Stewart Marr is serving as director of the merger and acquisitions group of Coopers and Lybrand in Washington, D.C., but he spends much of his time as a gentleman farmer with his family in rural Orlean, Va.
Bob Hills writes that he is still at Merck as a V.P. “While watching the value of my firm’s stock evaporate, I headed up the team that led to the acquisition of Medco for $6 billion.”
© 1994 Peter Safir and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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