JOURNEY TO CAPITOL HILL COMES FULL CIRCLE

By taking advantage of Syracuse University mentorship opportunities like the first-year leadership program Orange Seeds, Andrew Regalado ’20 B.A. (PSt/PSc) was able to spend his first summer as an undergraduate working in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Regalado, a first-generation American citizen, interned for Ed Royce, the U.S. representative from his hometown congressional district in southern California. He went on to work as a legislative intern with the New York State Assembly in Albany and as a policy research intern with the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. Before earning his degree, he also served as a junior foreign service officer at the U.S. Department of State and as an economic intern with the U.S. embassy in Madrid, Spain.

Shortly after graduation, Regalado was hired as a staff assistant, and he is now a legislative correspondent in the office of U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger from Illinois. He now has his own set of credentials for the Rayburn building.

“I’m grateful for the experiences I had that led me up to this point, and I felt ready for that call to action to serve,” he says. In addition to his official duties managing correspondence and monitoring legislative processes, he also works as grassroots director for Kinzinger’s national initiative, Country First.

Regalado has been paying it forward by supporting students. “Since moving to our nation’s capital, it has been rewarding to mentor SU students also interested in public service and to provide advice throughout their internship search,” he says.

As the regional co-chair of the University’s Alumni Club of Washington, D.C., he continues to plan programs to bring alumni and students in the region together, like the Orange Connections: Mentorship program he created. He’s also thankful for the opportunity to speak on Maxwell

Alex Jeffrey Rouhandeh ’20 B.A. (CCE/PSt) is a writer for Newsweek

Kenza Bouanane ’21 B.A. (IR) is serving as a legal research associate with the New York City-based non-governmental organization, Human Rights Foundation. Human Rights Foundation gives a platform to human rights activists with a focus on closed societies.

Scott Lowry ’21 B.A. (IR/PSc) has accepted a position as a patent assistant with the firm Arent Fox in Washington, D.C.

School career panels and discussions. To remain connected to the campus community, Regalado serves on the Generation Orange Leadership Council and leads an initiative for the Hendricks Chapel Food Pantry that recruited nearly 200 donors and raised over $9,000.

His new role is another step toward becoming the public servant he always wanted to be. “I always viewed myself as someone who could one day be a leader, and over time that’s why I fell in love with getting involved and the concept of service,” he says.

—Brandon Dyer

Vernon Greene, Pioneer in the Study of Aging

Vernon Greene, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs, saw the aging process as much more than a person getting old, and his vision helped build Syracuse University’s reputation as a national leader in gerontology, home of the Aging Studies Institute (ASI) and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies.

Greene died on Oct. 10, 2021, at the age of 77. From 1988 to 1992, he was the director of ASI’s predecessor, the All-University Gerontology Center. He joined Syracuse University in 1986 as an associate professor of public administration and was promoted to professor in 1992. He served as the longtime chair of the doctoral program in social science at Maxwell.

“Vernon was a bedrock for one of the most distinguished interdisciplinary aging institutes in the nation,” says Maxwell School Dean David

M. Van Slyke. “It is a testament to his work that we have been able to recruit and retain prolific research faculty and talented students who have an interest in aging as a life course and its direct relationship to public policy. Throughout his career, he challenged colleagues and students to question conventional norms and to rethink issues through an interdisciplinary lens and rigorous research methodology.”

That was a draw for Douglas Wolf more than two decades ago. Wolf, now professor of public administration and international affairs and Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies, says Greene’s interdisciplinary approach reflected “the Maxwell way of looking at the world.”

“Vernon taught his students to ask the central questions about the rationale for government intervention in people’s lives,” says Wolf. “He explored implications for public funding and policies involving the safety net, housing, organizational and community support. He included the neurosciences, biology and social sciences in his perspectives on aging. His lens was broad and analytical.”

Montgomery Meigs, Decorated General and Former Bantle Chair

Montgomery C. Meigs, a retired four-star general who commanded U.S. Army forces in Europe and served as the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy at the Maxwell School, died on July 6, 2021, in Austin, Texas. He was 76.

Meigs joined the Maxwell faculty in 2004, one year after it partnered with the College of Law to form the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT)–now known as the Institute for Security Policy and Law. He served as a senior faculty advisor for INSCT, where he taught History of American Strategic Practice, a cornerstone of its certificate programs.

Also Greatly Missed

A West Point graduate with a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin, Meigs served in the U.S. Army for more than 35 years. He commanded armored units in Vietnam and during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. At the time of his retirement in 2003, he was Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, charged with the oversight of 60,000 soldiers and commanding NATO’s peacekeeping force in Bosnia. His awards included the Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

Since our last edition, the following deaths have been reported:

Bettie M. Harward Hull ’43 M.P.A.

Gertrude H. Schmidt Pedersen ’44 M.P.A.

Bluma F. Bretstein Schwarz ’44 B.A. (Soc)

Marilynn J. Miller Dyer ’46 B.A. (Soc)

Sylvia Levis Gouse ’46 B.A. (Soc)

Concetta Tuori B.A. ’47 (PSc)/’48 M.A. (Hist)

Adele G. Levin Konecky ’48 B.A. (SSc)

Walter Bodnar ’49 B.A. (Soc)

Frank W. Craig ’49 B.A. (Hist)

Robert S. Fried ’50 B.A. (PSc)

Paul Gershick ’50 B.A. (Hist)

Kenneth H. Katz ’50 B.A. (PSc)

Raymond D. Weisbond ’50 B.A. (PSc)

Norton A. Blumenthal ’51 B.A. (Soc)

W. C. Coyne ’54 B.A. (Hist)

Leon R. DeKing ’54 B.A. (Soc Studies Ed)

Anna B. Buikstra Helisek ’54 B.A. (IR)

Robert A. Bagdasarian ’55 B.A. (PA)/’59 M.A. (Econ)

Alastair McArthur ’55 M.P.A.

Paula R. Matusow Sandfelder ’56 B.A. (IR)

Edward J. Swiatlowski ’56 B.A. (Hist)

John J. Dullea ’57 M.P.A.

Patricia A. Hawkins ’57 B.A. (Soc Studies Ed) (McCracken)

Fleurette I. Myers ’57 B.A. (PSc) (Reon)

Charles F. Adams ’58 M.P.A.

Roger R. Langley ’58 B.A. (Econ)

William C. Johnson ’59 B.A. (Hist)

Robert N. Lawrence ’59 M.P.A.

Richard G. Heydet ’60 B.A. (Geog)

Charles H. Holmes ’60 Ph.D. (SSc)

Ward L. Hopkins ’60 Ph.D. (SSc)

Michael R. Anzivina ’62 B.A. (PSc)

Anne H. Houghton Hopkins ’63 B.A. (PSc)/’65 M.P.A./’69 Ph.D. (PSc)

Hobart L. Morris ’64 M.A. (Hist)

Larry D. Cardwell ’65 M.P.A.

Thomas J. Kerr ’65 Ph.D. (SSc)

Sherry L. Montgomery ’65 B.A. (PSc) (Saxton)

Stuart M. Ginsburg ’66 B.A. (Hist)

Alan V. Sokolow ’66 M.P.A.

James A. Salvatore ’67 B.A. (PSc)

Gina P. Clapp ‘68 M.P.A.

Richard A. Rohstedt ’68 B.A. (PSc)

John F. Celestian ’69 B.A.

Shyamala K. Mahler ’69 Ph.D. (PSc)

Gery E. Yoh ’69 B.A./’71 M.P.A.

Thomas R. Benjamin ’70 M.P.A.

James B. Knight ’70 M.P.A.

Zigmas Paronis ’70 M.P.A.

Sarah J. Taylor-Rogers ’70 M.P.A./’76 Ph.D. (PA)

Charles E. Harrigan ’71 M.P.A.

James R. Hayes ’71 Ph.D. (SSc)

Robert J. Clark ’72 B.A. (Econ)

Thomas H. Cornick ’72 M.A.I.R.

David K. Hallett ’72 M.C. (PA)/’75 M.P.A.

Regina M. Robbins ’72 B.A. (PSc)

David J. Bjornstad ’73 M.A. (Econ)/’73 Ph.D. (Econ)

William J. Reed ’73 B.A. (Hist)

Seymour Slavin ’73 Ph.D. (SSc)

Steven M. Gorenbergh ’74 B.A. (Econ)

Edward R. Hutchison ’75 B.A. (Soc)/’83 M.A. (SSc)

Janet S. Barkun ’76 M.A. (Soc)

Larry R. Dietrich ’77 B.A. (Econ)

Paul V. Palange ’77 B.A. (Soc)

Shirley I. Pardee-Napier ’77 B.A. (Econ)

Mark W. Ryan ’77 B.A. (PSc)

Michael Y. Seletsky ’77 B.A. (Psc)

Alice M. Shimomura ’77 M.C. (PA) (Nishimura)

Jonathan L. Fulbright ’79 B.A. (Hist)

George A. Misner ’79 M.Phil. (SSc)

Bernhard I. Wolff ’79 M.A. (Econ)

Eugene S. Brown ’80 B.A. (Econ)

Mark W. Wasmund ’81 B.A. (PSc)

Andrew K. Katz ’82 B.A. (Hist)

Robert E. Feldman ’83 B.A. (PSt)

Eric W. Sherman ’83 B.A. (PSc)

Derrick D. Jordan ’88 B.A. (Hist)

Christopher C. Cartwright ’90 B.A. (Econ)/’19 E.M.P.A.

Andriy A. Meleshevych ’92 M.A. (PSc)/’98 Ph.D. (PSc)

Allen L. Simmonds ’93 M.A. (Econ)

Midwin Charles ’95 B.A. (IR)

Jason A. Cohen ’98 B.A. (PSt)

Lynette L. Barry Haughton ’03 B.A. (Soc)

Madelyn M. Morris Lovell ’04 M.Phil. (Hist)

Bryan T. Fischer ’11 B.A. (PSt)

Mercedes L. Crymes ’14 B.A. (PSc)