Last month nearly 200 alumni gathered on campus for a weekend-long leadership retreat which included several panel discussions; an address by Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walter Mossberg '69 and other prominent alumni; workshops; a visit to art studios and The Rose Art Museum; and a gala awards dinner at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse.

Speakers and panelists included Mossberg, author and creator of the "Personal Technology" column in the Wall Street Journal; Marshall Herskovitz '73, award-winning television director, producer, and writer; Marta Kauffman '78, executive producer and co-creator of the Emmy Award-winning series "Friends;" and Jonathan Brant '68, Cambridge, Massachusetts District Court Judge.


Among the many highlights of the weekend was a birthday bash in honor of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, whose 150th birthday is on November 13. Brandeis’s grandson, Frank Gilbert, was in attendance and helped celebrate by cutting a huge birthday cake at Saturday’s birthday luncheon.


At a special dinner on Friday, October 20, Alumni Association President Darlene Green Kamine '74, P'03, presented several former Alumni Association presidents with a statue of Louis D. Brandeis in honor of their outstanding service to Brandeis University. Bottom Row: Sally Glickman '59, Paul Levenson '52, Paula Resnick '61, Sharyn Sooho '69, Carol Saivetz '69, Darlene Green Kamine '74, P'03 Top Row: Paul Zlotoff '72, Lawrence (Larry) Kane '57, Alan Greenwald '52, Jeffrey (Jeff) Golland '61, Bruce Litwer '61, Charles (Chuck) Eisenberg '70, Yehuda Cohen '81.