Classmate Profiles

When you click on "WHERE ARE THEY NOW" below a map of the United States will appear with pins showing classmates who have filled out their profiles. Click on their name or one of the gold pins to see their location !

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Sherry Olson

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Jeff Orr

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Charles Orsay

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Bruce Pafume

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Veronica Pantle

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Daniel Papreck

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Donald Papreck

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Occupation: Gymnastics Coach
Comment: I competed in gymnastics in high school and college and qualified for the NAIA Nationals on the horizonal bar twice and all around my last two seasons. My coaching career has included City Recreational gymnastics in 1971, the men's team at BSU from 1973-75, and the women's team from 1982-1983. I have coached all competitive levels of gymnastics while working at the Gym Bin since it opened. I am still coaching gymnastics and really enjoy all the opportunities for "problem solving". The physics of movement is fun to analyze. My hobbies include music and singing in a barber shop quartet for the last 40 years. My favorite food is pizza !

Debby Pardini

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Gary Pasternack

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Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: physician/executive
Comment: It has been an interesting ride.  Following GBN I picked up MD and PhD degrees, trained as a pathologist (had a moonlighting job as a medical examiner during my fellowship), and then spent 21 years on the full time faculty at Johns Hopkins in research, teaching, and some administration.  By 2005, I had become bored with academic life and fearful that I would become stale, morphing into one of the great Johns Hopkins institutional windbags.  So I came home and explained to my wonderfully understanding but inwardly apprehensive wife why I was resigning a secure, effectively lifetime position at Johns Hopkins to move full-time into the private biotech/pharma sector.  I patched together the first couple of years with consulting and some expert witness testimony while developing other options.  Fast forward to Asklepion, where I've been CEO since 2008.  On my watch, we developed and got FDA and EMA (EU) approval for a lifesaving drug to treat a family of rare liver diseases where most kids would die by age 4 without the drug.  FDA honored us with a pediatric rare disease priority review voucher (one of a handful given out thus far they can be sold to big pharma, and ours sold for $245M) for developing the drug, and NORD, the rare disease advocacy group, gave an award to the company.  Along the way, we became involved in a dispute in the EU with a French competitor that resulted in some landmark administrative decisions by the European Commission.  The dispute resulted in litigation that landed me in court in Luxembourg several times and had me denounced in the pages of a French socialist paper, La Libération.

 

We're now in a phase III study of a new drug that promises to eliminate a major serious complication of cardiopulmonary bypass that affects 1/3 of kids undergoing surgery to repair congenital heart defects.  This drug should be on the market in 2018 or 2019.  It cuts down on complications that keep kids in the ICU on respirators and on drugs to support cardiac output for extended periods of time.

 

Along the way, I have formed a business partnership with an Australian colleague with an exceptionally strong business/finance/accounting background  (in a previous life, he ran the company that made Jet Li and Jackie Chan movies in Hong Kong).  We run Asklepion together and have started several other companies.  One, based in the UK, has a clinical trial starting for a new approach to treat diabetic foot ulcers.  A second company, just getting going, will have a home/point-of-care diagnostic device out in about two years to transform management of four diseases - right now, management of these diseases is like treating diabetes without a glucose monitor, which no one today can imagine.

 

I’ve been with my wonderful and extremely tolerant half-French wife, Michelle since 1977.  I’m forever grateful that she waited while I traveled in the hinterlands of Eastern Europe and the Middle East for six months between finishing my degrees and starting my internship.  She’s a retired psychiatric social worker and budding author.  Since moving to Baltimore in 1984, we have lived in a quirky circa 1914 arts and crafts style house with 102 stairs from the street to the entrance.  Our daughter, Sophie, lives not too far away in a millennial hipster community where she is a practicing millennial hipster.  Michelle and I travel quite a bit – she tags along on some of my business trips, particularly the ones to Munich where she had once lived for several years and where I now have a branch office.  We particularly enjoy visiting our friends and relatives in and around Chateau Thierry in the north of France.

 

I've also done a fair bit of public service.  I'm particularly proud of the Ingenuity Project (see ingenuityproject.org ) which is a public/private partnership I helped start that cost-effectively provides transformative STEM education to kids in the Baltimore City public school system - we now have kids who come from areas like the Wire was filmed in winning national science competitions and getting full rides to places like Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins.  I chaired their board for about 12 years, stepping down recently for a lack of time, but remaining as board member and advisor.  I also rescued Theatre Project here in town from an imminent crash and burn, and again chaired its board until recently.  The rescue makes a good story over a beer.

 

If you've read to this point, thanks for putting up with the shameless self-promotion.  I don't often look back to see where I've been.  I mostly look forward at what is next.  And what is immediately next is a tedious deliverable that I have been avoiding by any means possible including the writing of this posting.  So I'll stop here.

 

Look forward to seeing all of you in Santa Fe.
Spouse Name: Michelle
# of Grandchildren: not yet

Janice Paulson (Gaulke)

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Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired (nurse)
Spouse Name: John Paulson
Married Name: Paulson
# of Grandchildren: 3