Class Notes

Spencer Greene, LA93, LA93, is director of medical toxicology in the Department of Emergency Medicine at HCA Houston Healthcare–Kingwood. He is also a clinical professor at the University of Houston College of Medicine and serves as the president of Bayou City Medical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine Consultants in Houston.

Murray Goldstein, LA93, was promoted to vice president, marketing and sales operations for Cox Communications. His new role includes leadership of sales operations and digital sales, as well as advanced marketing analytics and responsibility for B2B marketing strategy. Goldstein’s career spans more than 25 years in marketing leadership roles at Cox, General Motors and General Electric.

Gina (Butler) Castillo, LW93, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente, enjoys spending time in her Portland, Ore., garden and sells her vegan food items at a neighborhood farmers market.

Risa Seelenfreund, LA92, an executive coach and business trainer, penned Sacred Summer: A Mom’s Guide to Resilience, Discovery, and Family Fun (Gatekeeper Press, 2021). Through humorous and heartfelt personal anecdotes, she relates how she worked during the challenging summer of 2020 to increase her resilience to make managing life a little easier.

Amanda (Paetz) Hiner, GR92, GR98, was promoted to full professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., where she teaches English and is director of the critical thinking program. In May, she was awarded the Winthrop Award of Excellence, which recognizes individuals who have excelled in implementing the university’s strategic plan. A book that Hiner co-edited, British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press), will be released in February 2022.

Catherine Buley, LA91, medical director of SEARHC (Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium) Primary Care Clinics, recently became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the nation’s leading professional society for health-care leaders. The highest standard of professional development, fellow status requires candidates to meet academic and experiential criteria, and to demonstrate community involvement, among other standards.

Mike Salerno, PMBA90, in December 2020 retired from The Boeing Company, where he had worked for 36 years. In his final career role as the CFO of the Phantom Works R&D organization, Salerno was instrumental in the procurement of the T-7A RedHawk trainer jet program for the U.S. Air Force and the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueler aircraft for the U.S. Navy.

Bradley M. Mueller, GR90, was promoted to business development manager for the Heritage and Environmental Resources Office of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. In this role, he assists in guiding and growing Seminole Heritage Services, LLC, a recently established company offering environmental and cultural resources consulting from the perspective of a Native American–owned business. Mueller lives in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area with his wife and two children.

Sandra Cohen, LA89, is a founding partner in the New York City law firm Cohen & Buckmann, P.C. The firm was named a Top Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Firm by Chambers & Partners, a UK-based company considered by many to publish the most researched and coveted rankings of top law firms and lawyers in the U.S. and around the world.

Susan (Pollack) Burns, FA89, designed a four-panel, stained-glass window, “Seasons of Joy,” which was commissioned and recently dedicated by congregation Ohr Tzafon, Atascadero, Calif. Burns writes that her first experience with large-scale graphics was designing the façade mural for the 1986 Thurtene Carnival.