Gala 2016

The AAGC held the Second Annual Distinguished Alumnae and Alumni Awards Gala on April 15, 2016.

AN EVENING OF FOOD, MUSIC, & FELLOWSHIP Honoring:

DR. SUSAN EPSTEIN LEEMAN ’51

Considered one of the founders of neuroendocrinology, Leeman, a professor in the department of pharmacology at Boston University Medical School, was the first woman elected to the division of physiology and pharmacology in the National Academy of Sciences.

SHEILA KLEINMAN SACHS ’61, ESQ.

A senior member of Gordon Feinblatt law firm in its Litigation Practice Group and the first woman to serve as president of the Bar Association of Baltimore City, Sachs has been a leading Maryland family law practitioner for more than three decades.

DR. LA JERNE TERRY CORNISH ’83, M.ED. ’94, P ’18

Cornish is the associate provost for undergraduate studies at Goucher College. A former assistant principal in the Baltimore City Public Schools, she piloted the Maryland’s Tomorrow Program, which offers at-risk 8th graders paid summer internships as a way of encouraging them to stay in school.

STEVE ZIMMER ’92

Zimmer serves as president of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education, which represents the second largest district in the country and serves more than 640,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade students.

ARIENNA GRODY ’10, ESQ.

A graduate of the UCLA School of Law, Grody is a public defender in Birmingham, Ala., and in 2014 was the recipient of the first UCLA Gideon’s Promise Fellowship. Launched last November, the fellowship places a student from UCLA in a public defender’s office in a high-need community in the South.


Thank you for being a part of a beautiful evening.

Photo Gallery


Thank you to our sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

Miriam Katowitz ’73 [T] and Arthur Radin

Ruth Shapiro Lenrow ’74 [T] and Jay Lenrow

Lisa Pagliaro Selz ’73 [T] and Bernard Selz

Margaret Messler Winslow ’69 [T]

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

Gold Sponsors

Sally Mansbach Herman ’68 [T] and Stephen A. Herman

The Dorothy L. and Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. Foundation

Sheraton Baltimore North

Blue Sponsors

 Ayers Saint Gross

Patricia K. Batza ’91 and Michael J. Batza

Benelli Usa

Black Tie Services LLP/Canteen

Melinda Burdette ’72 [T] and Russ Sweezey

Carefirst Bluecross Blueshield

Clearpath Solutions Group

Coffey and Company

Comcast

Eyre Bus Service, Inc.

Norma Lynn Fox ’76 [T] and Dr. Marko Slusarczuk

Nancy Brandt ’72 and Mark Gertner

Gordon Feinblatt LLC

The Hon. Miriam Brown Hutchins ’73 [T] and Argin M. Hutchins

Kollman and Saucier, Pa

Miles and Stockbridge Pc

Nfp Corporate Benefits/Charon Planning

Proutt Consulting LLC

Carol Hirschfeld Roth ’70

Schmitz Press

Robin Fogel Shaivitz ’72 [T] and Joel Shaivitz

Wendy Solomon White ’72 [T] and Lawrence White

Soft Stuff Distributors, Inc.

Venable LLP

Jeriann Myers Wilson ’62 [T] and Donald Wilson

 

[T] Trustee