Paul Macri ’70 has been elected to the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers after his work as a partner for the Lewiston, Maine, law firm of Berman & Simmons for more than 15 years. The Academy has recognized the premier appellate lawyers in the nation since 1990. A CSS major at Wesleyan, Macri has argued more than 125 cases in the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Majora Carter ’88, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, environmental activists, and other elected officials to mark the opening of Hunts Point Riverside Park in the Bronx. The groundbreaking signaled the beginning of a $3.2- million project to transform an illegal dump in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx into a park. Carter, whose organization helped spearhead this latest effort in the South Bronx riverfront recapture effort, spoke at the ceremony, saying, “Today, this has become the first waterfront park here in 60 years, and to date, the small $10,000 seed grant that we received has been leveraged more than 300 times.”
Alexis Maniatis ’87 was elected president of The Brattle Group, a worldwide economic consulting firm. He will maintain his practice in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Previously he held positions in the firm as director of the Washington office, the London office, and leader of the Brattle Group’s litigation practice. He has testified in federal and state courts in cases involving the estimation of damages, option valuation, and allocation of environmental liabilities. He has also written more than a dozen articles and has worked with clients in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Australia. He holds an M.B.A. from Yale University. He majored in economics at Wesleyan.
Gail Boxer Marcus ’78 has been named CEO and president of Caris Diagnostics (formerly Pathology Partners, Inc.), a leader in comprehensive gastrointestinal diagnostic services and technology support systems. A Spanish and mathematics major at Wesleyan, she earned her M.S.E. at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Engineering, and earned an M.B.A. at the Wharton School. She has more than 20 years of leadership experience in health care services, most recently, as COO of UnitedHealth Europe. She also has been an adjunct professor for healthcare strategy at the UConn business school. This new position provides Marcus an opportunity to lead a high growth business; she looks forward to the opportunity to have a more direct impact on improving patient care at Caris. She is married to Peter Marcus ’77; Emilie Marcus ’82 is her sister-in-law.
Emilie Marcus ’82 was appointed editor of the bi-weekly life sciences journal, Cell. Previously the editor of Neuron, one of Cell’s sister-publications, Marcus received her Ph.D. from Yale in neurobiology. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in California. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Marcus said, “My main goal is for Cell to be a driving force in promoting interdisciplinary research.”
Fred Maynard ’80 is one of six partners to develop a new country club along Rhode Island’s southern coast, the Shelter Harbor Golf Club. Maynard and his partners have fulfilled their goal of conserving open space by creating an environmentally friendly golf course without adjacent homes. Maynard is a principal of HarbourVest Partners and serves on the advisory boards of several private equity partnerships. He maintains a summer residence in Westerly.
Bruce C. McKenna ’84 recently won the 2003 Writer’s Guild Award for Best Adapted Long Form, for his episode in the Band of Brothers miniseries, “Bastogne.” McKenna has written or co-written three of the ten episodes of Band of Brothers, which was based on the book by Stephen E. Ambrose and produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The miniseries has won numerous awards, including a Peabody Award, a Christopher Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy. McKenna was nominated along with the show’s other writers for an Emmy.
Patricia Head Minaldi ’80 was appointed federal district judge in the western district of Louisiana in June. Previously she served for six years as a state district judge in the 14th judicial district court in Lake Charles, the first woman to hold that seat. A cum laude history major at Wesleyan, she graduated from Tulane Law School and began her career as a prosecutor in Orleans Parish of Louisiana before moving to the Calcasieu parish, where she spent 11 years as an assistant district attorney. She was also the first woman to serve as president of the Louisiana District Judges Association.
Amy Montgomery ’77 was recently honored with a gold medal at the ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year awards ceremony, held at BookExpo America. Montgomery’s novel, Just an Accident, is a record of the life of logger Scott Remington after he sustained spinal injury. The late actor Christopher Reeve praised her work as “captur[ing] not only the drama of an accidental tragedy but the power of the human spirit to overcome it. Montgomery, a CSS major at Wesleyan, holds a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.
This spring, MARION WILSON ’83 will be opening her first solo exhibition at her New York City gallery at Cheryl Pelavin’s. Another solo exhibit will open at the same time at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. The exhibition, Distilled Lives, focuses on issue surrounding the death penalty, an installation comprised of discrete vignettes that reproduce the last meals chosen by five condemned criminals. Wilson, a studio arts major at Wesleyan, received her MA from Columbia University and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati.
![Amy Montgomery '77 was recently honored with a gold medal at the ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year awards ceremony, held at BookExpo America. Montgomery's novel, Just an Accident, is a record of the life of logger Scott Remington after he sustained spinal injury. The late actor Christopher Reeve praised her work as "captur[ing] not only the drama of an accidental tragedy but the power of the human spirit to overcome it. Montgomery, a CSS major at Wesleyan, holds a master's degree from the University of Michigan.](https://classnotes.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2013/11/montgomery.jpg)
