Class Notes

Joel Hardin, LA83, HS93, is medical director of the Tampa Bay Adult Congenital Heart Center. Hardin served in the military, attaining the rank of commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps Fleet Marine Forces as surgeon for the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 1st Marine Division deployed to Iraq. He left the military in 2006.

Joe Nuñez, LA81, is back in private practice after almost 20 years as a supervising attorney in the Target Corporation Real Estate Law work group. He was named to the Super Lawyers directory in each of the past three years and to Best Lawyers for Real Estate in each of the past four years. Nuñez also was twice named a Top Latino Lawyer by Latino Leaders Magazine and to the 2020 Super Lawyers list of the Best 10 Real Estate Lawyers in Minnesota.

Scott Lundius, LA81, was named executive director of the Morrison-Shearer Foundation, Northbrook, Ill. The foundation perpetuates the legacies of dancer-choreographer Sybil Shearer and photographer Helen Balfour Morrison as inspirations for creativity in the arts. Earlier, Lundius worked with arts organizations Pentacle and Prospect Park Alliance, in New York City, and the Taos (New Mexico) Center for the Arts.

Sheri Arbitaljacoby, LA81, received multiple honors from the Press Club of Long Island chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the Sigma Delta Chi Awards competition this year. She took first place with a series examining the healthiest foods and third place for “Plant-Based Eating for Better Family Health.” Both appeared on The Well by Northwell, a website that provides consumers with personalized content that reduces their stress, promotes laughter, and ultimately makes them feel more confident and capable on their health-care journeys. And as managing editor of Temple Beth-El of Great Neck’s Shema magazine, she won third place in the Best Magazine category for the winter and fall 2020 issues.

Richard Thoma, LA80, is the senior editor of 100 Years of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. The book is a history of the society from its formation in 1920 to its present as one of the premier nonprofit natural history organizations. For more, visit WGNSS.org. Thoma recently retired as a protein biochemist after a 35-year career that included time at Washington University School of Medicine.

Scott Serota, HA79, is an executive adviser for Castlight Health, focusing on product and market strategy as well as new opportunities in the health-plan market. Serota retired as CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association at the end of 2020.

Lucinda Marshall, AR79, is an artist, writer, activist and founder of the DiVerse Gaithersburg Poetry Reading and Open Mic. She penned a new collection of poetry, Inheritance of Aging Self (Finishing Line Press, 2021), exploring the impact of the aging, illness and death of elder loved ones, and our grieving for them, on our sense of identity and place as we in turn age.

Steven Boggs, MD, LA79, is chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He and his program director
re-established a residency program at the center after an 18-year hiatus. Boggs has served as president of the Tennessee State Society of Anesthesiologists and continues his work on developing a training curriculum for remote learning and teaching of anesthesia providers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ira Spector, EN78, EN78, is co-founder and CEO of SFA Therapeutics, a development-stage biopharmaceutical startup focused on a new advancement — the use of microbiome-derived metabolites as drugs — in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disease. Spector and his wife, Donna, frequently visit his daughter and grandchildren in St. Louis.

Greg R. Scott, SW78, retired after 30 years as professor and program director of social work at Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Mich. Scott was instrumental in starting the first school of social work in Liberia and taught international social work in the Dominican Republic. He moved to Bethlehem, Pa., to be near his grandchildren.