Brandeis Magazine

Loren Gelber is an independent pharmaceutical regulatory compliance consultant in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she has lived for the past 14 years. David Gerstel’s book “Nail Your Numbers: A Path to Skilled Construction Estimating and Bidding” has frequently been an Amazon No. 1 best-seller in the Construction Industry category since it was published on June 1. “That’s been a thrill,” he reports, “as I not only wrote the book and designed it, but published it via my own publishing operation. I am enjoying invitations from various builders’ organizations and publications asking me to write or speak. I’m also still having a lot of fun swinging a hammer on renovation projects.” Paulette Jellinek continues to add to her website ShoahLetters.org, a compilation of letters, documents and images that detail how her family confronted the Holocaust. She also gives private painting lessons to students and paints in mixed media, inspired recently by a cruise in southeastern Alaska’s Inside Passage. Allan J. Lichtman’s book “The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present” was published by Harvard University Press in September. Gerald Richman has retired as vice president, national productions, at Twin Cities PBS. Gerry was the executive in charge of the Peabody-winning documentary “Hoop Dreams,” voted by the International Documentary Association as the No. 1 documentary of all time. He was also executive in charge of “Slavery by Another Name,” an official selection for the Sundance Film Festival. Gerry and wife Katherine Sandweiss live in Minneapolis and have two daughters. Howard Scher was given a 2018 Influencers of Law award (in the Lifetime Achievement category) by the Philadelphia Media Network. Howard, a shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, is a veteran trial lawyer and president of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. He has endowed the Howard Scher ’67 Tikkun Olam Scholarship at Brandeis. Michael Segal is president and CEO of InstaTrac, a legislative information service. He started the company 25 years ago after a 12-year career as a political columnist and co-author of a 1988 biography of Michael Dukakis. Michael and his wife, Cathy Dunham, who had a 30-year career working nationally to make health care more accessible, travel to Chicago every four to six weeks to see their three grandkids, son and daughter-in-law. In the not-too-distant future, they plan to sell their house in Westport, Massachusetts, and move to Pelican Cove, in Sarasota, Florida.