Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE Joint-David SchofieM.'60 "is the most godly man I have ever met. He's totally committed to God and makes no apologies for it." —SUSAN RICHARDS, A LONGTIME FRIES Of BISHOP SCHOFIEID,WHO IS URGING HIS DIOCESE TO LEAVE THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DECEMBER 24

Since 1988 Bishop John-David Schofield '60 has led the 8,800-member San Joaquin Diocese in Fresno, California. On December 8 he presided over the dioceses break with the Episcopal Church—the first in the United States—over what Schofield has termed unholy "innovations," such as the consecration of a gay bishop and the ordination of female priests. Delegates from the dioceses 47 parishes voted to accept an in vitation to join a more conservative Anglican province in Argentina. The LosAngeles Times reported on December 24 that Schofield was warned by the church's leaders that lawsuits would ensue if the vote went through and that his office could be declared void. According to the Times, Schofield replied that he considered the South American alignment temporary, "until such time as the Episcopal Church repents."... CNBC s chief economic commentator L. William Seidman '43,Tu'44, was honored by American Banker with a "Best in Banking—Lifetime Achievement" citation in its November 30 edition. In a lengthy profile the former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman was lauded for his intelligence and leadership in guiding the FDIC and later the Resolution Trust Corp. (RTC) through the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s, and also for his sense of levity. "This is going to sound corny, but it was a lot of fun and a privilege to work with him," said David Cooke, the RTC's former executive director. "He got the best out of people."... For the last seven years April Ossmann '92 has served as executive director of Alice James Books, a nonprofit cooperative press in Farmington, Maine, that publishes about six poetry volumes a year. Last November Four Way Books published Ossmann's own poetry debut, Anxious Music, which has been praised by Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl as a "first book of stunning accomplishment." In an October 2006 interview with the Maine Sunday Telegram, Ossmann said, "I am one of those who feels we're in the midst of a poetry renaissance."..."We're living in the future and it is pretty freaking weird," says Scott Listfield '98, whose paintings were featured in the January issue of Wired magazine (and the March-April 2007 issue of DAM). So is his art: He paints an astronaut into scenes that range from the apocalyptic (sitting on an iceberg covering a McDonald's) to the absurd (hanging out at a gas station). "I wanted something that could function like an anthropologist—a bit reserved and off to the side," he says. Listfield shares his character's post-millennial alienation: "Sometimes I feel like graduate Stephanie Owen '04 designed and sold jewelry out of her dorm room. Now her Elizabeth Cole Jewelry line is sold by retailers Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's and worn by celebrities such as actress Drew Barrymore and singers Mary J. Blige and Joss Stone. Owen, who launched the business two years ago with Cate Wright Mowell '99, and named it for her sister, Elizabeth Cole Owen '01, said her parents inspire her designs. "My dads a mountain man and my mom is citified and glamorous," the California native told Lucky magazine last June. "My jewelry is a hybrid of both: earthy yet fancy too." ...Having worked with New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller '30 to oversee the filling of nearly 100 acres of the Hudson River to create Battery Park City in 1968, it's little wonder that Charles J. Urstadt '49 is advocating the expansion of Lower Manhattan and the creation of Battery Park City North through the filling of an addi- tional 50 acres.TheNewYork Times report- ed in mid-October that environmental groups view his proposal as a threat to cru- cial marine habitats, but Urstadt told the Times, "To my knowledge, we didn't kill one fish in creating Battery Park City.".. .Former Big Green soccer captain Mike Lewis 'OO is making waves in the Web 2.0 world with QLoud, an online music service that uti- lizes the Facebook social networking plat- form, allowing folks to listen to clips, recommend them to friends and visit other user profiles. With financial backing from AOL founder Steve Case and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, QLoud's "My Music" application signed up 1.5 million users in just four months and, as of early December, was adding 100,000 new users a week. "QLoud enables people to conveniently listen to the music they love while also helping them discover new music through their friends," Case told PRNews Now in November....Dr. Jerold F. Lucey '4B, the internationally renowned neonatologist and Pediatrics editor-in-chief, was honored with the 2007 Alfred I. duPont Award for Excellence in Children's Health Care in late September. Afewweeks later the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where Lucey is the Wallace Pro- fessor of Neonatology, announced that an endowed chair in neonatal medicine had been named in Lucey s honor. "The dedi- cation of this endowed chair is a wonder- ful reflection on the thousands of pediatricians, nurses, trainees and, most importantly, patients and families who are grateful for and have benefited from his many remarkable contributions to chil- dren's health," Dr. Lewis First, chair of pe- diatrics at the College of Medicine, told the University of Vermont publication, The Frew....Last November Shonda Rhimes '91 was honored in New York City as one of Glamour magazine's 2007 Women of the Year. The creator and producer of ABC's hit shows Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice has "changed television—and, maybe, culture itself," according to Glamour....Legendary writei/actor/director Buck Henry '52 made a guest appearance on the December 13 episode of NBC's30 Rock, playing the father of Tina Fey's character. Upon meeting his daughter's boss, Henry's character marveled, "He looks like an Arrow shirt model."...The New York Times reported in November that 3,624 feature films were submitted to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Among the 29 selected to unspool in Park City, Utah, from January 17 to 27 was American Son, which was executive produced by Chris Frisina '88. The film stars Nick Cannon as a young Marine who falls in love just days before being shipped to Iraq. Frisina's real wife, jewelry designer Sonya Ooten '89, had her 14 karat-gold fishnet South Sea pearl earrings featured in the December issue of InStyle magazine. Her designs are sold at www.sonyaooten.com.... Day Zero, a film written and executive produced by Rob Malkani '92 and produced by Tony Moody '92 and his Indalo Productions, opened in theaters on january 18.An official selection of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, the movie stars Elijah Wood and Chris Klein in a story of three friends who are given 30 days to report for duty after the draft is revived....Robert Saltzman '76 was nominated to the Los Angeles Police Commission in October by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Saltzman is the City Ethics Commission vice president and also serves as associate dean of the University of Southern California law school. "He is a deep and thoughtful person who doesn't bring ideology to the table," city councilman Jack Weiss told the Los Angeles Times last October. "He just brings very solid analytical tools, which makes him eminently smart and reasonable."

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QuoTc/NQuoTE "My commitment is to build from [eBay's] strengths and make the changes necessary in this competitive environment." —JOHN DONAHOE '82, UPON BEING NAMED THE NEW CEO OF EBAY, IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 24