Classmate Profiles

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1) Enter information into all the fields below and then click the Register button. Be sure to write down your Password so you can come back later and edit your profile.

2) A new form will allow you to enter information about your time at Senn.  

3) Enter information related to the questions asked if you can - but PLEASE include a little about yourself in the Life Since Senn question. 

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Madeleine (Maddy) Lebedow (Hellman)

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Pres., MfL Associates - Meeting & Conference Planning
Comment: This is so much fun to reconnect in the 21st Century!!!  Look forward to seeing everyone
Grammar (feeder) School: Boone
Division Teacher: Mrs. Forsland
My Life Since Senn ...: Just as the yearbook said, I graduated college(U of I) and became a teacher until I became a full time mother. Went went back to work planning meetings,trade shows, and conferences. Started my own meeting planning/conference coordination company. Aaron and I have five daughters and 12 grandchildren between us....and we travel a great deal - both for business and pleasure. Love the Symphony and fine art - So very blessed to have a wonderful family and good health. This milestone reunion will bring together those who lost touch with one another, with the opportunity to renew old friendships.

Rich Leventhal

State / Province: WI
Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Retired
Grammar (feeder) School: Stephen K. Hayt
Division Teacher: Ms. Beatrice Antoine
No. of Grandchildren: 7
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: The real challenge in life is not to control all we experience but to go
through them and stand in life more fully on the other end.

Richard Leventhal

Then Then
State / Province: WI
Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Retired
Comment: I spent 41 years as a psychologist and clinical supervisor (after recieving my doctorate in 1969) in public clinics who served people who were poor and from mlti-generational, multi-problem families. In 1983, I began working with Vietnam Vets who had PTSD. A collegue of mine, also focusing on the phenomena of PTSD, began working with women with PTSD which frequently had it's origins in being terrorized by adults in their family.  In the last few years of my work, I spent a significant amount of time and energy evaluating and advocating for people with severe and persistant mental disorders who had been denyed social security disability one to three or four times. Out of thirteen reevaluations I performed, 12 were finally awarded disabiliy.



In 2010, 2 days before our 50th reunion, I was hospitalized with cancer, Multiple Myeloma. since that time I have had 5 different treatments which were only effective for a while. I am currently being referred to a FDA approved clinical trials protocol.....MM isn't curable right now but I'll settle for continued control of the disease. All of my treatment has been and will be at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN within the Hematology-Oncology Department.



I cannot express how much I feel for my wife, Margaret Mary. She has shared in everything I have gone through these last almost 5 years. The worst of it on my part is losses in executive function, being an unreasonable irksome pain-in- the-ass, very poor balance, loss of visual acuity and chronic pain (8/10). I have 4 compessed vertabrea as a result of the MM.  So....I think I may miss this reunion too.....



Inspite of all this, my journey also includes standing in and striving to stand in life more fully. I rate the quality of my life as 8/10 where 10 is the best it gets.



Have a great reunion!





richie 















 

Lynda Levin (Futterman)

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Widowed
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Grammar (feeder) School: Clinton
Division Teacher: Mrs. Collins
No. of Grandchildren: 6 + 1 greatgrandson
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Try to live each day of your life to the fullest.
My Life Since Senn ...: I went to college for 1 year. I married Jerry Levin in April 1963, then went back to college through the Board of Education where I was working for its president. I received an associate degree. I have two children, Scott born in 1966 and Debra born in 1967. I worked as a bookkeeper and secretary part time for 16 years while my children were in school. Then I worked as an office manager for a metallurgical engineer) and the secretary to an insurance company vice-president for over 16 years until I retired in 2008.

I love to bowl, golf and play Maj Jong (I go to many tournaments). I was PTA president for 2 years and B`nai Brith president for 2 years. I am very involved Jewish Women International which was previously BBW. My husband passed away in 1996 and in 2005 I met this wonderful gentleman (Burt Lasky) who is going to become my husband on July 4th, 2010. I have 5 wonderful grandchildren - 4 granddaughters and one grandson who married last year and gave me Cooper a precious great grandson. My life is now complete. Burt and I love to travel - we have gone to Alaska, Hawaii and on many cruises. I have also been to Paris, London and Italy. I feel that at this point in my life I have met my soul mate and my life has now come full circle.

Michael Levin

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 5
Occupation: retired attorney
Comment: Three adult chidlren from my first marriage and two (15 and 13) from my second 
Grammar (feeder) School: Stone
Division Teacher: Garo
No. of Grandchildren: 4
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: KISS-- keep it simple, stupid
My Life Since Senn ...: Attended the University of Michigan, AB '64, and the University of Michigan Law School, JD '67. Married Senn alumn, Jane Reinsberg, my second year in law school and was divorced 26 years later. I subsequently married Carol McErlean in 1993, who never heard of Senn. Carol was a partner at a major law firm but retired after our second child was born.

In 1967 with my oldest daughter, Vicki providing a draft exemption, I joined the Chicago law firm of Arnstein, Gluck, Weitzenfeld & Minow. My son, David, wad born in 1969, and my daughter, Betsy, in 1976. I practiced corporate law, corporate finance and securities law when the were only a handful of securities lawyers in Chicago. It was there that I forged a relationship with Sears, Roebuck and Co., becoming their principal outside corporate counsel in my early thirties. In 1981 I left Arnstein--it was rare for lawyers to change firms in those days though it is now commonplace--and founded the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins with some ex-Kirkland and Ellis litigators who had set up their own boutique. Latham was then under 200 lawyers with three California offices and one in DC. Today the firm has over 2500 lawyers, some 40 offices that span the globe and one of the most powerful international brand names in the legal profession, and I'm pleased to have served Latham as its strategic planner for two 4 year terms. Sears followed me to Latham, and I had a relationship with that client for over 30 years, culminating in my leaving Latham at the beginning of 1996 and serving Sears as Senior Vice President and General Counsel until the summer of 1998 when I left and rejoined Latham where I finished my career, retiring at the end of 2007.

I note with some considerable satisfaction that 15 or 16 people who worked for me at some point in their careers subsequently went on to become general counsels of a wide array of businesses.

Emma was born in 1996 and Maddie in 1998.

Several years ago, Carol and I bought out the interests that some of her family members had in a lake property north of Eagle River WI which her grandfather purchased in 1926, and built a lake vacation cottage that Carol had been dreaming of for many years. All five of my kids like to gather there, as do many of our friends like Dale Barnett Ginsburg and David Ginsburg.

We also like to travel. Since retiring, our family has gone to the Galapagos, Egypt, Israel and Italy, plus frequent trips to NY to see theater, cabaret, three of my grandchildren and, of course, do some shopping. I traveled the world with my older three children with enormous interest and satisfaction. We're trying to squeeze in as much travel as we can with the two younger kids, though school, their camps and time in WI doesn't leave too much time.

Dale Ginsburg talked me into taking alumnae courses at Northwestern which I've been doing with the Ginsburgs fairly regularly the past few years.

Finally, there's golf. I took it up when I retired, incentivized by the fact that its the sport of my wife's youth. I got the bug and it is a compelling hobby, the first I ever had other than travel. I'm glad I waited to tackle it until I retired because I would never have had the time while i was still working.

Marcel Lewinski

Then Then
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Grammar (feeder) School: Stockton
Division Teacher: Jacobson
No. of Grandchildren: 2
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Getting old isn’t much fun but it beats the alternative.
My Life Since Senn ...: I graduated from U of I in 1964. I started teaching at West Leyden HS and taught social studies there for 30 years. I then began working in teacher education at Illinois State university where I taught for another 20 years. I have written a number of high school textbooks for Pearson Publications. I’ve been lucky to be able to travel to many countries and to develop close friendships with people in Britain, France,Germany and Japan. I have been married to my lovely Senn alumnus Johara Brenner for 55 years and am very proud of my children and grandchildren.

Arlene Lewis (Neimark)

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: volunteer
Comment:  
Grammar (feeder) School: Clinton
Division Teacher: T. Kennedy
No. of Grandchildren: 2
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: If you always do what you always did, then you will always get what you always got!
My Life Since Senn ...: In my last year at National College of Education, a fellow student fixed me up with her brother, Marty, who has been my husband and best friend for the last 44 years. I taught elementary school in Chicago in the near North and near South neighborhoods till we started our family of three boys. We moved to Glenview and lived there for 29 years. I served on the Avoca School Board for twelve years, of which eleven I served on NSSED(our special education service provider) The last 18 years I have been active in the Jewish United Fund's Women's Board. We have two grandchildren that are the light of my life. We have traveled extensively throughout the world, which only makes me appreciate all that we are blessed with at home. Look forward to seeing you all!

George Litman

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: University Professor
Grammar (feeder) School: Boone
Division Teacher: Garo
No. of Grandchildren: 5
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: Don\'t believe everything you think
My Life Since Senn ...: Married immediately after college and still married to Judy - 50+ years!!

Always around \'education\' -

High school math teacher, Curriculum consultant in Chicago Public Schools, Director of Educational Product Development @ Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp, College Mathematics professor @ National-Louis University in Chicago, then Dean, Provost, and now President.


Following the presidency I have returned to teaching mathematics and mathematics education.
Have had my battles with middle age - bought a horse and rode for a while, bought a boat and sailed for a while, etc. Enjoyed them all, but have exchanged them for trying new restaurants, time with grandchildren, napping, and working hard (can\'t comprehend retirement).

Stephanie Loehr (Schmahl)

Then Then
Now Now
State / Province: WI
Marital status: Widowed
Occupation: Psychiatric Social Worker
Comment:  
Grammar (feeder) School: Harris
Division Teacher: Don't remember
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: This too shall pass. Only time will tell. God only knows. Words are cheaper than whiskey.
My Life Since Senn ...: Education: Ripon College, Ripon WI - BA June 1964, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - MS 1969, MA 1973 (Actor Harrison Ford was one of my classmates).

Job Highlights: Social Worker/Supervisor, Milwaukee Bureau of Child Welfare, Clinical Social Worker, Psychiatric Clinic, Milwaukee. Psychiatric Consultation Associates, Renew Counseling Services, School Social Worker, Milwaukee Public Schools 1989-2005.

Family Highlights: Married: Anton ("Tony") Loehr, 6/25/94. Tony was a plumbing design engineer - a wonderful husband and friend. He loved and cared for domestic farm animals. He was a quiet, gentle man. He died of lung cancer 1/20/08.

Interests: Performing vocal music, church choral music, volunteering for animal humane shelters.

Passions: Anything Spanish, especially the language and the people.

Barbara Lunsford (Nelson)

Then Then
State / Province: IL
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired Insurance administrative Assistant
Grammar (feeder) School: Pierce
Division Teacher: Ms Rose
No. of Grandchildren: 5
Your Favorite Piece Of Wisdom: There really was life after Ridge House, who would have thought it?
My Life Since Senn ...: Married Lunsford #1, divorced him. Married Lunsford #2 for 25 years.