NOTES ON PEOPLE (09/13/98)

NOTES ON PEOPLE

Pastuszeks celebrate 50th wedding anniversary

SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Mr. and Mrs. William J. Pastuszek celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on August 29. They were married in 1948 at St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Chester, Pa., by the bride's uncle, the Very Rev. Philip Halicke.

Mr. Pastuszek is a realtor with 51 years of experience in the real estate development and management business; his business is located in Swarthmore.

The Pastuszeks are the proud parents of three children, William Jr. of Newtown, Mass., Lydia of Sudsbury, Mass., and Alexander of Swarthmore.

They have six grandchildren. The Pastuszeks were honored by family, friends and employees at a surprise party at their summer home in Beach Haven, N.J.

Mr. Pastuszek is president of Ukrainian National Association Branch 231 and chairman of the UNA Auditing Committee. All members of the family are UNA members.

Appointed to U. Mass. department of finance

AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts board of trustees on August 5 approved the appointment of Anna B. Nagurney of the department of finance and operations management in the Isenberg School of Management as the John F. Smith Memorial Professor.

The endowed professorship is supported by a $750,000 commitment to the management school from alumnus John F. Smith Jr., chairman of General Motors, to honor his father, a 1929 alumnus of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at the university.

Thomas O'Brien, dean of the Isenberg School of Management, said Dr. Nagurney's appointment marks an important milestone for the school. "It is the first endowed professorship given to the school to help us reward and retain outstanding members of the current faculty," he noted. He added that Prof. Nagurney is a good choice because of her strong record of academic achievement at the university.

Prof. Nagurney has been at the University of Massachusetts since 1983 and is an internationally recognized scholar whose work includes constructing computer network models of large-scale financial, transportation and regional economic systems. She is the co-author of "Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics," which has attracted much attention on Wall Street.

In 1996 Prof. Nagurney received a seven-month appointment for a Distinguished Guest Professorship at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where she taught and did research in transportation network theory. She also worked with the institute's president, Janne Carlsson, to enhance female education and research in Sweden.

In 1986 Prof. Nagurney was recognized as an outstanding young researcher by the University of Umea, also in Sweden, which presented her with the Erik Kempe prize, one of Sweden's highest honors.

Prof. Nagurney received a $250,000 Faculty Award for Women from the National Science Foundation in 1991. She was one of 25 women in the U.S. to receive a Visiting Professorship for Women grant from the National Science Foundation in 1988. That $138,828 grant supported a year of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Prof. Nagurney received a Distinguished Young Achiever Prize from the National Association of Women in 1987 sponsored by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, Prof. Nagurney is the daughter of Roman and the late Iwanna (Jarosz) Bobiak. She was educated in St. Michael's Ukrainian Elementary School in Yonkers, N.Y., and Yonkers High School, and received an A.B., Sc.B., Sc.M. and Ph.D. from Brown University.

Prof. Nagurney resides in Amherst with her husband, Prof. Ladimer S. Nagurney of the electrical engineering department of the University of Hartford, and daughter, Alexandra. The family are members of UNA Branch 123 in Scranton, Pa.

Notes on people is a feature geared toward reporting on the achievements of members of the Ukrainian National Association. All submissions should be concise due to space limitations and must include the person's UNA branch number. Items will be published as soon as possible after their receipt, when space permits.

| Home Page |