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Hal Weiner and his wife

Melvin Lazar was appointed to the board of directors of First Choice Healthcare Solutions, Inc. He was founder and managing partner of the accounting firm Lazar Levine and Felix LLP, which merged into ParenteBeard LLC in 2009. Hal Weiner and his wife, Marilyn, have produced, written, and directed over 225 documentaries and public television series, including the PBS series Journey to Planet Earth. They have won Emmy Awards for The Earth Summit Pledge, commissioned by the UN to open the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and Streets of Sorrow, an NBC documentary about a support group that helps people cope with the violent death of a family member.

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Francine Toder

In her newest published book, The Vintage Years: Finding Your Inner Artist (Writer, Musician, Visual Artist) After Sixty, Francine Toder, PhD, encourages older readers to reap the physiological and psychological benefits of learning an art form in their sixth decade and beyond. The Vintage Years is her third book, after Your Child Is Gone: Learning to Live Again (1986) and Your Kids Are Grown: Moving on With and Without Them (1994). Toder, a consulting psychologist and executive coach, lives in Palo Alto, Calif., where she practices the cello daily.

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Ryckje B. (Lowe) Wagner and Evan the tortoise

Alan E. Weiner

Ryckje B. (Lowe) Wagner is retired from a long career in information technology and living in Pacifica, Calif. Her hobbies include singing in and co-directing a choir and “helping friends with their computers and other electronic ‘toys’ (iPods, iPads, digital cameras, etc.).” She is also the author of the hardcover picture book Evan the Russian Tortoise, which chronicles the life of her pet reptile. (Wagner was pictured in BCAM’s article “Baruch’s First Computer,” which ran in the Fall 2012/Winter 2013 issue.) Alan E. Weiner has been appointed to a fifth term (2013–14) as a judge on the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards Committee. He is a founding tax partner, and now partner emeritus, at Holtz Rubenstein Reminick (Long Island and NYC).

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Mark Goldsmith

Mark Goldsmith (profiled in the Summer 2009 issue of BCAM) is included in Everyday Heroes: 50 Americans Changing the World One Nonprofit at a Time (Welcome Books), published last fall. Goldsmith is the founder of Getting Out and Staying Out, an organization devoted to reducing recidivism rates through re-entry services for young offenders.

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Michael Roth

Marc Berman participated in Baruch’s Class Act campaign by naming a classroom in honor of his parents, Leo and Ruth. It is located in the Newman Vertical Campus, Room 10-180. Real Estate broker Lowell Levine created the nonprofit Stop Bullying Now Foundation Inc. (www.stopbullyingnowfoundation.org), in an effort to address and eliminate student bullying in Palm Beach County, Fla., schools. Michael Roth has been named non-executive chairman of the board at Pitney Bowes Inc., where he served as lead independent director since February 2012 and as a member since 1995. Roth is chairman and CEO of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.

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Max W. Berger

Max W. Berger, the senior founding partner of New York–based Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, was named one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by The National Law Journal. In a career spanning over 40 years, Berger has personally negotiated over $25 billion in recoveries on behalf of defrauded investors and prosecuted seminal cases establishing groundbreaking precedents.