Brandeis Magazine

Rosalia Baiamonte, P’23, P’25, is president of the Nassau County (New York) Bar Association. She and husband Marc Moniz, who celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary in November, have two sons, Joseph ’23 and Nicholas ’25. Daniel Farkas, executive vice president and general counsel at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, serves as operations committee chair at the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association. Scott Gladstone, P’23, shares family news. Wife Tracy, a clinical psychologist, is on the Brown University School of Public Health faculty. Daughter Sarah, who has a Master of Public Health, is about to earn a Master of Social Work. Son Benjamin is working on a PhD in history and Judaic studies. And son Joshua ’23 is choosing between graduate programs to prepare for a career in advancing the rights of people with disabilities. Seth Goldberg, who lives in Miami, is the author of “The Book of Almosts, Nice Tries, and Good Attempts: Tall Tales With Epic Fails,” published in February. He reports that, “in an amazing feat of procrastination,” he began working on the book — a collection of satirical illustrated tales for adults — in 2001, then waited another 21 years to actually finish it. Jeffrey Greenbaum, managing partner of New York-based media law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, has been elected to his fourth term as chairman of Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance. Under his leadership, GALA membership has grown by more than 25%. In February, Sheri Gross was awarded the S. Lee Kohrman Award in Jewish Experiential Education by the Jewish Education Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Sheri is director of creative programming at Gross Schechter Day School, director of the Testimony Theater program, and arts and entertainment reviewer at the Cleveland Jewish News. Lyla Naseem Gleason in November celebrated her daughter’s bat mitzvah in New York City, with Brandeis friends in attendance. Michael Schmidt received a 2022 Professional Excellence Innovation Award from the New York Law Journal for the creative use of technology in his practice. He is vice chair of the Cozen O’Connor national labor and employment department, and the office managing partner in New York City. Lee Vilker is criminal chief in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island. A federal prosecutor since 1999, Lee was formerly the office’s deputy criminal chief.