Recent honors, appointments, and arrivals for people who live or work in Newton…
- Josh Ostroff, the City’s Director of Transportation Planning, is leaving to become the MBTA’s Director of Capital Program Planning. Newton Planning Director Barney Heath said, “Josh effectively led many transportation planning initiatives in Newton, including the recently completed Albemarle parking and bike lane improvements, the Washington Street Pilot planning, the bicycle/ pedestrian master plan, Newton Corner MassDOT design coordination, and MBTA commuter rail station accessibility advocacy efforts. We look to forward to working with him in his new role at the MBTA.”
- Newton Parks and Open Space Director Luis Perez Demorizi received the Distinguished Alumni in Landscape Architecture award from his alma mater, Boston Architectural College.
- Julia Dun Rappaport received the Newton Human Rights Award for youth on December 5.
- Amy Seibel and Nat Seelen and their son Benny welcomed to their family Elana Seibel Seelen, born on July 9, 2023.
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison has named to the following students to the Dean’s List for the fall semester of the 2023-2024 academic year:
- School of Human Ecology (Dean’s Honor List): Sage Pollack
- College of Engineering (Dean’s Honor List): Tess Fitzgerald, Holland Hargens
- College of Letters and Science: Abby Altman, Sara Celanovic, Diana Creedon, Erin Cunningham, Fiona Flint, Joseph Gann, Micah Gilpin, Sarah Morrow, Cleo Whitney, Samuel Zarr
- Peter Alemian has launched the Mary Alemian Music Enrichment Fund in support of music education for Newton Public Schools, honoring Mary Alemian, a popular Secretary of the original Horace Mann School, 1964-88. Mary enjoyed providing piano accompaniment for school performances, and she sang in a number of greater Boston area choirs and choruses into her 90s. A former resident of West Newton for over 65 years, Mary will reach her 99th birthday in May.