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Frances Merz-Phinney worked in human resources for 30 years and recently accepted a buyout from Oregonian Publishing Company.

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Joseph G. Gonzal was recently appointed to the Nassau County (N.Y.) Comptroller’s Audit Advisory Committee. Gonzal owns and operates an accounting, auditing, and tax firm in Garden City that provides pro bono work for local community service organizations and individuals, as well as tax return preparation for low-income families at affordable rates. Alan R. Griffith (MBA) has stepped down as chair of Lafayette College’s Board of Trustees but remains a board member. A dinner was held in his honor and he was recognized at the college’s 175th Commencement ceremony in May. Griffith retired as vice chairman of the Bank of New York and the Bank of New York Corporation, Inc. Joseph Meyer has been named chief financial officer at Mercy Home for Children, which operates group homes and programs in Brooklyn and Queens for adults and children with developmental challenges. Previously he was treasurer of Integro Ltd., an insurance brokerage firm. John E. Tully (MBA) has joined the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation. Tully, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1963 to 1966 and attained the rank of corporal, retired from the audit unit of the N.J. Division of Property Management & Construction, State of New Jersey, Department of the Treasury.

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In February William J. Cadigan (MBA) was appointed chief financial officer of NutraCea, a company specializing in stabilized rice bran nutrient research and technology. He has served as the firm’s vice president of finance since 2009. Robert S. Lieberman has been appointed chief accounting officer at Spire Corporation, a global solar company. He will also remain corporate controller, a post he has held since April 2009.

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Ilona Lajtay Barkley, who retired in 1989 due to MS, lives in New Bern, the colonial capital of North Carolina. Burton Mitchell had been made name partner at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (formerly Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP). He was previously the firm’s assistant managing partner and is head of its Tax Department. Samuel Rabinowitz, associate dean at the Rutgers School of Business-Camden, won the 2010 Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. Rabinowitz, associate professor of management, is an editorial board member of the Journal of Management Systems and the Journal of Business Research. Retired from Private Capital Management since March 2009, Bruce Sherman (MBA) is currently busy planning the 2011 Naples (Florida) Winter Wine Festival, which he and his wife, Cynthia, will co-chair. The annual three-day festival raises money for children’s charities.

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Barry Brandeis (MBA) was speaker at Penn State Abington’s Commencement ceremony in May. Retired from Twin ERA Ltd., a business he and his wife Renee founded, Brandeis attended Abington and graduated from Penn State’s University Park campus. In April Baruch College Fund Trustee Joseph M. Leone retired as CFO of CIT Group Inc. He had been with the company for 25 years. An article titled “Reagan’s Tax Fairness Surprise” by Gerald E. Scorse (MBA) was published earlier in the year in the Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, CommonDreams.org, and Truthout.org.

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In May Jeffrey Brandeis was named VP of sales–Americas for the CCH TeamMate audit management system, part of Wolters Kluwer’s ARC Logics business unit. Previously he served as director of sales for CCH TeamMate. Leon Diamond is a resource room teacher at PS 315 in Brooklyn, N.Y., assisting students from K through 5. He is in his 30th year with the Department of Education. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., has named Paul Rossi general manager for WTVZ-TV in the Norfolk/Portsmouth/Newport News, Virginia area. Previously he was the station’s general sales manager. Philip Vassallo, an independent communications consultant, has published the books How to Write Fast Under Pressure, The Art of E-mail Writing, and The Art of On-the-Job Writing. After obtaining a BA in English from Baruch, he earned an MS in reading education from Lehman College and an EdD in educational philosophy from Rutgers University.

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Robert J. Bennett (MBA) is CLO and VP of global organizational learning development at FedEx, where he has worked in various capacities since 1979. He serves on the boards of the Salvation Army, the Leadership Academy, and Memphis Academy for Health Sciences. Anthony Carfora has joined NYPPEX, a global secondary private market advisory, trading, and research firm for illiquid assets. Previously he was a director at Credit Suisse, where he worked for 24 years. Regina A. Rochford (MPA ’80), associate professor at Queensborough Community College, published two college textbooks this year, The Keys to the CAAW and Grammar Made Simple for ESL Learners (both Kendall/Hunt Publishing). Shirley Stone (MBA) is a marketing consultant at WDST, a Woodstock, N.Y.-based independent radio station that broadcasts throughout the Hudson Valley. Real estate agent Donee Wyke (MBA) specializes in Mid-Coast Maine’s villages and rural inland areas for Town & Country Realtors. A resident of the Camden-Rockport area, she has been working in Mid-Coast Maine real estate for 21 years.

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In November Bernard Baron merged his tax and accounting practice with Rogoff & Co., P.C.

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