 | All Poly alumni are invited to join those who graduated in years ending in 5 or 0 for Special Reunion 2010 at Poly on Saturday, April 24, 2010.
Enjoy spring again on the Dyker Heights campus, meet old friends and classmates, and dip back into the life of Poly during athletic events or the Middle School musical rehearsal scheduled during reunion.
The Class of ’60 is invited to the home of Headmaster David Harman for a pre-reunion cocktail party on Friday, April 23 (attendees from the Class of ’60 have already received a special invitation to this event).
For a complete schedule of Special Reunion 2010 events, click here. |
Poly Wants to Hear From You! Congratulations to 2010 Alumni and School Service Award Winners!
| John A. Artise ‘65
School Service Award
John Artise is Senior Account Executive and Executive Coach with the Ayers Group, an international human capital consulting firm headquartered in New York City.
He works with business leaders in a wide array of industries and professional disciplines in the areas of career transition, talent acquisition, leadership coaching, entrepreneurship, international acculturation, and new product marketing.
John has consulted with companies such as IBM, AT&T, United Airlines, American Express, Citigroup, Avon, NBC, Johnson & Johnson, WR Grace, and Seagram.
He is the author of Hiring With Confidence, Getting Hired: How To Get The Interview, How To Get The Job, and How To Make Training Work.
John is the Chairman of the Networking and Mentoring Committee of the Poly Prep Board of Governors.
As an avocation, he serves on the Program Advisory Committee of the French Culinary Institute in New York City and teaches a course on taste at the Institute of Culinary Education.
He is fluent in seven languages, but never took Latin while at Poly. Instead, as a freshman, he studied Latin on his own time along with Ancient Greek.
Dr. Saul W. Brusilow ‘45
Distinguished Achievement Award
Saul W. Brusilow, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Medical School and former director of the Division of Metabolic Diseases, the Division of Pediatric Nephrology, and the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Brusilow has served on the boards of numerous medical and public health organizations, including the National Institutes of Health General Clinical Research Center Committee and the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at the United States Public Health Service, a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation Awardee, and the holder of the Eudowood Chair at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In addition to these honors and awards, Dr. Brusilow holds patents on many different medicines and has published numerous clinical studies. A native of Brooklyn, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Medical School.
Dr. Joseph L. Wright ‘75
Distinguished Achievement Award
Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, is Senior Vice President and head of the Child Health Advocacy Institute at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. As head of the Institute, Dr. Wright oversees the organization’s work of identifying and studying pubic health threats facing children, and developing and implementing programs to address those threats. Dr. Wright also serves as Vice President for Medical Affairs at the Hospital for Sick Children Pediatric Center, a sub-acute care affiliate of Children’s National, and as Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Pediatrics, as well a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.
A nationally-recognized authority in pediatric emergency medicine, Dr. Wright has been a member of the attending faculty in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National since 1992. As founding director of the division’s Institute for Prehospital Pediatrics and Emergency Research, Dr. Wright provides state-level leadership as the EMS Medical Director for Pediatrics within the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS), and national leadership as senior investigator and medical director of the federally-funded Emergency Medical Services for the Children’s National Resource Center based at Children’s National.
He serves on a number of state and national boards and commissions in the field of public health, including as an Obama administration appointee to the Pediatric Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Robert B. Oxnam ‘60
Distinguished Achievement Award
Robert B. Oxnam was president of The Asia Society from 1981-92, America's leading public education institution on all aspects of the Asia/Pacific region. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Society's Vice President and Washington Center Director (1979-81) and as China Council Director (1975-81).
In recent years, he has been senior advisor to a major wealth management firm, the Bessemer Trust Company, offering insights on the Asia/Pacific region. He often acts as lecturer for prominent Americans seeking in-depth knowledge of China, including Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) and former President George Bush and Mrs. Bush.
Dr. Oxnam is the author of two novels (both from St. Martin's Press): Cinnabar (1990 – a mystery thriller on 20th century China) and Ming (1995 - an historical novel about 17th century China). He has also authored or edited several non-fiction works on Asia: Ruling from Horseback (on the Manchu conquest of China); Dragon and Eagle (a comprehensive review of U.S.-China relations); and several editions of China Briefing (an annual review designed for businesspeople, journalists, and academics). He has contributed articles to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Asian edition of The Wall Street Journal, and Competitive Edge magazine.
In 2005 he published his unusual memoir: A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder (Hyperion Press). The book elicited widespread media coverage including CBS’s Sixty Minutes, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, PBS, The New York Times, and Time Magazine.
He was educated at Williams College (B.A. 1964, Phi Beta Kappa) and Yale University (M.A. 1966, Ph.D., 1969). He taught at Trinity College (1969-75), Columbia University (1990s), and Williams College (Bernhard Professorship, 1995). His academic honors have included the Williams College Bicentennial Medal (1993) and the Trinity College LL.D. (1994). |
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