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Joel Mitnick, AB ’78, opened his own antitrust law boutique, the Law Offices of Joel M Mitnick. He counsels clients about the antitrust clearance process of certain mergers and acquisitions and represents clients in lawsuits involving antitrust/competition law. Previously, Mitnick headed the transactional antitrust practice at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Mitnick’s daughter, Annie, graduated from WashU Arts & […]

Patrick B. Mathis, MBA ’78, JD ’78, LLM ’79, founding shareholder at Mathis, Marifian & Richter, Ltd., was recently honored as the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Estate Planning Award, presented by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. The award recognizes the distinguished contributions and achievements of an Illinois attorney who embodies professionalism, […]

Bonnie-Belle K.C. Chun, AB ’78, retired in July 2018 after 37 years of public service with the County of Los Angeles. She then relocated to hometown Honolulu, Hawaii.

Joseph Stahl, GB78, published Faces of Union Soldiers at Culp’s Hill: Gettyburg’s Critical Defense (Arcadia Publishing, July 2023), the latest book in his Faces of Union Soldiers series.

Joan Saniuk, SI78, retired after 25 years of active ministry in the Metropolitan Community Churches in Hendersonville, North Carolina. She continues to volunteer with PFLAG (Parents and Friends of LGBTQ+ Folks) in Hendersonville.

Jay Heller, LA78, an attorney for more than 40 years, published a second novel, The Man Who Could Fly(Xlibris US,February 2022), almost 11 years after he wrote The Last Man. Heller and his wife of almost 40 years enjoy their three married kids and five grandchildren in Chicagoland.

Tamar Abrams, LA78, is leaving Washington, D.C., after 43 years and moving to Rhode Island so she can awaken to the sounds and smells of the ocean rather than the cacophony of the nation’s capital. Though semiretired, she still writes magazine articles and works a few days each week for a USAID project. Abrams’ daughter, […]

Nina (Gilden) Seavey, LA78, an Emmy award-winning documentarian, is the host of the eight-part podcast “My Fugitive,” which recounts the long-ripple effect of the May 5, 1970, burning of the Washington University ROTC building. Seavey’s father, longtime civil rights attorney Louis Gilden, was the attorney for Howard Mechanic, one of the students arrested and sentenced […]

Daniel Lamaute, GB78, was named to the board of directors of Pathfinder International, a sexual and reproductive health and rights organization. An entrepreneur, he founded Lamaute Capital. Recently, Lamaute served as a Fulbright specialist in South Korea, providing strategic direction to Solbridge International School of Business Center for Entrepreneurship, and as an independent consultant advising […]

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.