[See also the Livingston College Monthly Updates (2005-2007) page.]

A list of newsletters and letters, available in PDF format, from the Livingston Alumni Association (LAA), and its predecessor, the Livingston College Association of Graduates (LCAG), is below.

The newsletters have been produced in various formats — as a printed copy mailed to members; posted on the current and previous LAA websites; and emailed.

Note that in many cases the information will be outdated or links will be broken. This page will be updated as additional newsletters are scanned or produced.

2008-09 Executive Board and Council

• President – Marty Siederer
• 1st Vice President – Jason Goldstein
• 2nd Vice President – Karen Kanu
• Secretary – Martin Dickerson
• Treasurer – Jeff Isaacs

Committee Chairs:

2008-09 Executive Board and Council

• President – Marty Siederer
• 1st Vice President – Jason Goldstein
• 2nd Vice President – Karen Kanu
• Secretary – Martin Dickerson
• Treasurer – Jeff Isaacs

Committee Chairs:

• Budget & Finance – Jeff Isaacs
• Elections and Nominations – Michael Beachem
• Programming and Events – Maxine Robinson/Kaz Wright co-chairs
• Public Relations – Jason Goldstein
• Membership – Joseph Capo
• Reunion – William Bauer
• Young Alumni – Tiffany Ross

Board Members:

• Carla Alexander
• Rosemary Agrista
• Lynn Astorga 
• William Bauer 
• Michael Beachem
• Rob Bertrand 
• Joseph Capo 
• Yash Dalal 
• Martin Dickerson
• Jason Goldstein 
• Jeff Isaacs 
• Karen Kanu 
• Iris Martinez–Campbell 
• Mike Middleton
• Walter O’Brien
• Maxine Robinson
• Tiffany Ross  
• Eric Schwarz
• Marty Siederer
• Robert Uhrik
• Philip Wang 
• Jacqui Whitfield
• Kaz Wright

Originally posted December 26, 2016
Revised December 26, 2016

Rutgers University-related organizations have presented multiple special awards honoring Livingston College alumni for their service to alumni and the greater Rutgers community. These include:

• 2006 Rutgers University Alumni Federation, William of Orange Award for Dedicated Volunteerism: Eric Clark, LC’98, The Rutgers Club of Chicago
• 2012 Rutgers Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, Human Dignity Award: Leroy C. Haines, LC’71
• 2013 Center for Latino Arts and Culture Honoree: Iris Martinez-Campbell, LC’75, SSW’81
• 2013 Rutgers Alumni Association, Class of 1931 Award: Jason Goldstein, LC’02, RBS’05
• 2013 Rutgers University Alumni Association, Block R Award: Eric Schwarz, LC’92, SCILS’92, ’07
• 2016 Rutgers Alumni Association, Outgoing President’s Award: Marty Siederer, LC ’77
• 2016 Rutgers University Alumni Association, Young Alumni Service Award: Matthew Aquino, LC’08, RBS’08
• 2017 Edward J. Bloustein School, Career Achievement Award: Staci Berger, LC’94, EJB/GSNB’04
• 2020 Rutgers Alumni Association, Walter Seward, RC 1917, Spirit Award:  Derek Young, RC ’87 (longtime executive board member of the Livingston Alumni Association; posthumous award)
• 2022 Rutgers Alumni Association, Class of 1931 Award: John Hester, LC ’94
• 2023 School of Communication & Information Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award: Vivian Salama, LC’00, SCILS (SC&I) ’00
• 2023 Rutgers Alumni Association, Walter Seward, RC 1917, Spirit Award: Marty Siederer, LC ’77
• 2023 Rutgers Business School Honorary Business Excellence Award: Harvey M. Schwartz, LC’87

Eric Clark LC’98	Leroy C. Haines LC’71	Iris Martinez-Campbell LC’75, SSW’81	Jason Goldstein LC’02, RBS’05

Eric Schwarz LC’92, SCILS’92,’07	Marty Siederer LC ’77	Matthew Aquino LC’08, RBS’08	Staci Berger LC’94, EJB/GSNB’04

Derek Young RC ’87	Vivian Salama LC’00, SCILS’00	Harvey M. Schwartz LC’87

The Rutgers University Alumni Federation has presented the Edward J. Bloustein Award to two Livingston College graduates, who are also Livingston College Distinguished Alumni:

2006 KEVIN APUZZIO (LC’06)	2010 JESSIE J. HANNA (LC’07, RWJMS’14)
Heroic Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician (Posthumous; died in 2006)	Physician Researcher on Pediatric Cancer Founder, Sean Hanna Foundation

The Bloustein Award was established in 1992 in memory of the 17th president of Rutgers University. It recognizes community service outside of the university by a Rutgers alumnus or group of alumni. 

In 2009, this award was integrated into the Rutgers Excellence in Alumni Leadership Awards.

Matthew Aquino, a volunteer mentor for students at Rutgers Business School, was honored in 2016 with the Young Alumni Service Award, presented by the Rutgers University Alumni Association (RUAA).

Aquino, a 2008 graduate of both Rutgers’ Livingston College and Rutgers Business School (RBS), has volunteered with RBS’ TeamUP mentoring program since 2013. He has mentored five Rutgers students, and contributed to both their personal and professional development. Aquino spends numerous hours on the phone with his mentees, arranges in-person meetings, and invites them to visit his office. All his mentees have successfully completed their internship programs and earned full-time offers upon graduation. In addition to being involved in the Rutgers University TeamUP, Aquino has also volunteered for his five-year class reunion campaign. Aquino and three other classmates helped raised more than $20,000 for Rutgers through fundraising efforts.

Aquino has been a director of change management at Apollo Global Management LLC in New York City since March 2014. He previously was an assistant vice president at Barclays Investment Bank.

Photo: Matthew Aquino, center, accepts the RUAA’s Young Alumni Service Award from Donna K. Thornton, Rutgers’ Vice President for Alumni Relations, and Timothy S. Farrow, Chairman of the RUAA Board. The award was presented as part of the Rutgers Excellence in Alumni Leadership (REAL) Conference and Awards on October 14, 2016.

2015-2016 term (July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016)

Officers

• Eric Schwarz, President
• Jeffrey Armus, Vice President/Secretary
• Michelle (Jackson) Josias, Vice President
• Debra O’Neal, Vice President  
• Jeff Isaacs, Treasurer

LAA Executive Council 

• Rosemary Agrista
• Carla Alexander-Reilly
• Jeffrey Armus
• Michael Beachem
• Joseph Capo
• Jason Goldstein
• Mindy Hoffman
• Jeff Isaacs
• Michelle (Jackson) Josias
• Debra O’Neal
• Eric Schwarz
• Marty Siederer
• Stephen Yanick
• Derek Young 

Twenty-five Livingston College students were honored from 1987 to 2010 with the Lynne M. Kellermann Memorial Award, “presented annually to an outstanding senior in the four-year college honors program of Livingston College, Rutgers University,” as listed below.

There were two honorees each in 1991, 1992, and 1997. No honorees were listed for 1990 or 1994.

Kellermann held three degrees from Rutgers: a bachelor’s degree (University College-New Brunswick, 1975), and master’s and doctorate degrees from the Graduate School of Education (1978 and 1985).

From the 2007 Livingston College Commencement Convocation program: Lynne M. Kellermann began her career at Livingston College as a secretary and earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English at Rutgers University while working in various capacities. She taught in the writing program at Livingston and eventually became director of the college’s Honors program, a position she held until her untimely death in 1986. Lynne was intensely interested in students and had a wonderful sense of humor; everywhere she went on campus, students followed. This award is presented to the Honors Program senior who best exemplifies her warmth, indomitable spirit, and exceptional dedication to the program. 

The years in the list below link to the Livingston College yearbook page where each student is pictured. / * Photo not available.

Liza M. Kirschenbaum, LC’87	Nilofer Ahmed Khalak, LC’91	Julie Ann Traxler, LC’91	John J. Kottler, LC’92	Jill C. Morrison, LC’92

Connie Angela Liauw, LC’97	Ian Ross Fried, LC’97	David G. Gribben, LC’98	Beth Anne Williams, LC’99	Gregory J.M. Godfrey, LC’00

Cheryll Ann Abuedo, LC’01	Rhonda A. Elhosseiny, LC’02	Jaclyn A. Barnes LC’03	Valentine Ortiz-Meyer, LC’04	Caroline Grace Livingston, LC’05

Jenna Sabatini, LC’06	Charla Bullock, LC’07

On the following pages, we chronicle some of the awards presented to students by the Livingston College administration and the Livingston College Parents Association. These include:

On the following pages, we chronicle some of the awards presented to students by the Livingston College administration and the Livingston College Parents Association. These include:

• Academic Achievement Award
• Contributions and Service Award (Dean’s Award)
• Kellermann (Honors Program) Award
• Parents Association Award

Originally posted August 6, 2016
Revised August 12, 2018

From 1986 to 2008 the Livingston College administration recognized students “for outstanding academic achievement by a graduating student of Livingston College – Rutgers University.” In 2009 and 2010 the Livingston College Dean’s Award honored the graduating student with the highest grade-point average of any student who had attended Livingston College for his or her complete four years.

The years in the list below link to the Livingston College yearbook page where each student is pictured.

† Outstanding Transfer Student, Academic Achievement Award / ^ Livingston College Dean’s Award / * Photo not available

Migdalia Baerga, LC’86	Victoria Chapman, LC’87	Liza M. Kirschenbaum, LC’87	Bianca G. Nebab, LC’91	Michael Carlin Hora, LC’96

Silvia Oloveira Andrade, LC’97	David G. Gribben, LC’98	Matthew Lawrence Bell, LC’99	Richard A. Ferrara, LC’00	Joseph Paul Mersinger, LC’01

Julie Lynn Ciemnolonski, LC’02	Jaclyn A. Barnes, LC’03	Stacy E. Blackwell, LC’04	Christopher Giglio, LC’04	Nicole M. Lewis, LC’05

Jenna Sabatini, LC’06	Annie Agrawal, LC’07	Laura Louise Wootton, LC’07

George Warren Carey, who served as Livingston College’s Acting Dean for one year, from 1973-1974, was a Professor and Chairman of the Division of Urban Studies at Livingston College, affiliated with Rutgers’ Center for Urban Policy Research.

He also had been a professor of Urban Geography at Columbia University.

Carey died on January 10, 2012, at age 85. 

His research includes the 1969 book, Teaching Population Geography: An Interdisciplinary Ecological Approach, co-written with Julie Schwartzberg; the 1972 monograph, Urbanization, Water Pollution, and Public Policy, co-written with several other researchers; and a 1974 study on “hypocritical decision-making” for the journal Human Ecology, co-written with Michael R. Greenberg, an Associate Professor of Community Development, Geography and Planning at Livingston College.

In 1974 he spoke at Vassar College on “Demography, Education, Urban Renewal and the Washington, D. C. Ghetto: A Statistical-Cartographic Analysis.”

Carey, born January 1, 1927, was the son of the late George Anthony and Florence Kearns Carey of the Bronx, New York.

Carey received a B.A., an M.A. in economic history and a Ph.D. in geography from Columbia University, according to a notice of his wedding to Janet Lipschultz, published on October 31, 1988, in The New York Times.

He served in the Army Air Corps from 1944-1946.

In a November 21, 1988, New York Times article, Carey spoke of his conversion to Judaism, “after a lifetime of seeking, of reading in philosophy, of reading in religion, of experiencing what life has to offer.”

At the time of his death, Carey lived in Old Chatham, New York. In addition to his wife, he was survived by multiple children and grandchildren.