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Anthony DeFazio was elected chairman of the Staten Island chapter of SCORE, the Service Corps of Retired Executives. He most recently worked as the enforcement and customer service chief for the New York City Human Resources Administration’s Office of Child Support Enforcement. Louis “Jake” and Sherry (Kershnar) (’62) Jacobson established—along with Jake’s brother Hal—the Vera and Jacob I. Jacobson Scholarship Fund, which annually offers financial assistance to two third-year students. The fund honors their parents, who never had the opportunity to pursue education beyond elementary school. Jake is a tax consultant with CohnReznick LLP.

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Alan E. Weiner has been appointed to a sixth term (2014-2015) as a judge on the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards Committee. He is partner emeritus at Baker Tilly (formerly Holtz Rubenstein Reminick, at which he was the founding tax partner).

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Photographer Elliott Landy (the subject of a Fall 2007 BCAM profile) is publishing a book of rare, early photographs of The Band, the project made possible by a successful Kickstarter campaign.

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Alan S. Bernikow has been appointed lead independent director of the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation board of directors. Retired as deputy CEO of Deloitte & Touche, Bernikow has been a member of the Mack-Cali board since 2004. In December Roger Hertog was honored, along with David Petraeus, at the New-York Historical Society’s Annual History Makers Gala. Hertog is president of the Hertog Foundation and chairman of the Tikvah Fund; he is one of the founding partners of the investment research and management firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., which merged with Alliance Capital Management in 2000. He served as chairman of the board of the New-York Historical Society from 2007 to 2013.

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M. Freddie Reiss (MBA ’00) was inducted into the Turnaround Management Association’s (TMA) Turnaround, Restructuring, and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame during the 25th TMA Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C., in October. Reiss is senior managing director in FTI Consulting’s corporate finance/restructuring segment.