Boca Raton Couple to Celebrate 82nd Wedding Anniversary and 102nd Birthdays in 2023 PBSC named a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense

The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security have named Palm Beach State College a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense through 2027. The CAE Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) designation is awarded to regionally accredited academic institutions that offer quality cybersecurity-related degrees and/or certificates and meet rigorous requirements to prepare students for the nation’s cybersecurity workforce.

certifi cates. Students typically start with a two-year Associate in Science or Associate in Arts degree that builds the technical foundation necessary to enter PBSC’s two-year Bachelor of Applied Science degree program in Information Management with a concentration in Security and Network Assurance. People who have a degree, or need a faster route to employment, may choose from a variety of short-term College Credit Certificates.

Boca Raton, FL – The year 2023 will mark extraordinary milestones for Lou and Edith Bluefeld of Boca West Country Club; they will both turn 102 (Lou on January 9 and Edith on August 4) while also celebrating their 82nd wedding anniversary on February 23.

“We’re blessed that we’re still able to live on our own at Boca West Country Club. It’s our 40th year living here, “Lou Bluefeld said. “We’ve stopped having dinner out, but other than that, everything is the same. It’s an amazing thing. Physically, we’re both in excellent shape. We do find that we need each other now more than ever before.”

The couple met in Baltimore when they were 16-year-olds and have been inseparable ever since. When they were 19, Lou’s mother asked him what his intentions were. He told his mother he didn’t have the money to get married and she told him not to worry about it. She said, “If you’re not going to marry her, don’t waste her time. If you’re serious, get married. You’ll have a bedroom in our house. It will work out.” His mother died suddenly later that year at the age of 51, making the memories of their 1941 wedding even more special.

Shortly after their wedding, Lou went off to World War II. Edith traveled for three days by train across the country to say goodbye to Lou when he shipped out from California. Edith wrote him every day of the three years he was in the military. When the war ended, Lou was in the Philippines. He stood in line for nine hours to send a radiogram to Edith with details on when he would be coming home.

They went on to have two children, a son and a daughter.

“Lou and Edith are a fabulous couple! Whenever I see them, they have a gleam in their eye like they are on their honeymoon,” Matthew Linderman, President and COO, Boca West Country Club, said.

“We’re blessed that our minds are good. We have two granddaughters and a lot of grand dogs,” Mr. Bluefeld said. “We’re so lucky to be at Boca West and have lots of friends here that are like extended family.”

Lou’s family owned a Kosher catering business in Baltimore, and he worked in the business all the time as a teen. He told Edith that if she wanted to see him, she would have to come work beside him in the business, so she did. She began as Lou’s secretary.

Their catering business, Bluefeld Caterers–The Orchid Touch, was responsible for koshering the White House kitchen during the announcement of the Peace Accords under President Jimmy Carter. This was the first time a kosher meal had ever been served at the White House. They even catered President Nixon’s Inaugural Ball and events for members of Congress. Many of the non-Jewish socialites in Baltimore society used Bluefeld Caterers for their affairs, even though the food was Kosher, because it was considered the best catering in the city at that time.

“We never took deposits. Our business was built on trust and on a handshake. And it was never just another affair. We knew how much each event meant to our customers, ” Mr. Bluefeld said.

The Bluefelds have lived full time at Boca West Country Club since 1985, and part time since 1983, and a lot of their friends in the community are people whose bar mitzvahs and weddings they catered. Both Edith and Lou have been active volunteers at the Club over the years.

“We’re so thankful we’re both well. More and more, health means everything and money is nothing,” said Mr. Bluefeld. When asked about the most important life lesson, this vibrant almost 100 year old could pass on, he said that his father always told him that, “Name is everything” –your good name is what is most important.

“Earning the CAE-CD designation is a tremendous honor for PBSC and a validation of our faculty’s hard work and dedication,” said Don Gladney, Ed.D., interim dean of bachelor’s degree programs. “We precisely mapped our curriculum to industry best practices and showed evidence over a three-year period that the skills students were obtaining from us were actually in use and valued by employers. We also met the criteria of demonstrating significant community and internal involvement through our Center for Cyber Defense, sponsorship of workshops and special events, and by promoting best cyber defense practices collegewide.”

More than 700,000 cybersecurity jobs were posted by U.S. employers in 2022, according to CyberSeek. In the letter announcing the College’s CAE-CD designation, Karen Leuschner, NSA’s national CAE program manager, cited the critical shortage of cybersecurity professionals and highlighted the importance of higher education institutions, like Palm Beach State College, as part of the solution to defending America’s cyberspace.

“Your ability to meet the increasing demands of the program criteria will serve the nation well in contributing to the protection of the National Information Infrastructure,” Leuschner stated. “Education is the key to promoting these ideals.”

Palm Beach State College offers a cybersecurity pathway that includes associate and bachelor’s degrees and

The CAE-CD designation puts Palm Beach State in a network of other designated colleges and universities and provides distinct advantages for students and the College. Currently, over 300 U.S. institutions are National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity with designations in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD), Cyber Research (CAE-R), and Cyber Operations (CAE-CO).

“Being a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense allows us to partner with other CAE institutions to collaborate on grants, participate in research and gain access to special resources,” said Theo Owusu, D.Sc., professor of information management at PBSC. “Students will benefit from scholarships, internships, conferences, job fairs and competitions, and when they graduate, their diplomas will be stamped to show they went to a CAE-CD school, which commands high respect and interest from employers.”

The CAE-CD designation will also benefit PBSC’s recently announced partnership with the School District of Palm Beach County to enhance cybersecurity instruction and prepare students for careers. The Palm Beach Collaborative Cyber Pathway Project, funded by a $1 million-plus grant from the Florida Department of Education, will align the school district’s curriculum with that of PBSC, improve technology in some high schools and provide professional development and resources for K-12 teachers and PBSC professors.

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For many patients, initial cancer treatments are not enough, and residual cancer cells that survive these treatments can cause relapse. But new research is seeking to harness the immune system to target residual disease, thereby helping patients avoid relapses and live longer.

“Using a novel mechanism of action that directly targets the cancerous cells, we are hoping to enhance the ability of NK cells – that is natural killer cells – to eliminate residual disease,” says RJ Tesi, MD, CEO of INmune Bio Inc., (NASDAQ: INMB), a clinical stage immuno-oncology company. “NK cells are part of our innate immune system and are essential for survival. In addition to directly killing infected cells and cancer cells, NK cells facilitate crosstalk between the innate and adaptive immune system.”

As Dr. Tesi goes on to explain,

NK cells play a critical role in killing cancer cells that remain after such treatments as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. While modern cancer therapies can effec- tively eliminate most cancer in a patient, to eliminate all cancer cells, the patient’s immune system needs to do its part and kill the residual disease. When cancer cells evade

NK cells by making themselves effectively invisible, the immune system can’t identify them and therefore can’t kill them. This failure of the immune system to eliminate residual disease is the cause of cancer relapse.

INKmune, INmune Bio Inc.’s lead product, activates resting NK cells into a primed state to kill cancer. Currently in clinical trials, this therapy is already showing promising results. INKmune-primed NK cells have demonstrated an ability to kill several types of cancer cells. To learn more, visit inmunebio.com.

“Chemotherapy and radiotherapy reduce the tumor burden, but are not always curative alone,” says Dr. Tesi. “To eradicate the disease and turn cancer relapsers into survivors, we also need an effective immune response to control residual cancer cells left behind after primary treatment.”

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