Kenneth P. Volpe ’86, M.Eng. ’00, a self-taught photographer, has done everything from fine art figure and landscape to wedding and portrait photography in his 25 years as a photographer. He routinely shoots photos for Lehigh Valley Style, Valley Social and Lehigh Valley Living magazines and companies such as Performance Pro-ducts, Jewelry by Design, Mariage Couture, KGK Couture, S1 Digital, ERP Parts and Pig Pen Restaurant. He credits his artistic vision to himself but his technical proficiency partly from his education at Stevens. Volpe owns Transposure (www.transposure.com), a commercial fine art photography studio in Milford, N.J., and also owns and operates The KPV Group, P.C., an engineering company also based in Milford. The company’s clients include Amtrak, Verizon, Actavis, Merck and Pfizer.

Kenneth C. Cooper ’40 was recently featured in the Exeter News-Letter in New Hampshire after he celebrated his 90th birthday by performing a piano concert for his family and friends. Instead of having a grand party, he told his family he’d rather perform, according to the newspaper. So, on May 3, he played a mix of classical piano and Ragtime music at RiverWoods, a continuing care retirement community where he lives with his wife, Ruth. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Cooper began taking piano lessons at age 8 and was inspired by a Hoboken piano instructor while studying at Stevens. He told the newspaper he thinks his college piano instructor regretted his interest in engineering. “I liked being an engineer, and it pays a lot better than music,” he said. Today, Cooper practices piano 90 minutes a day and is RiverWoods’ unofficial piano accompanist. “I estimated that in my life, I’ve spent between two to three years on the piano,” he said.

A. Richard Boera ’46, Hon. M.E. ’86, recently wrote “Einstein and Me” about the day he met Albert Einstein. The story, published in North Star Monthly in Vermont, detailed the day – Sunday, June 25, 1944 – when Boera borrowed his father’s car, drove from Staten Island, N.Y., to Princeton, N.J., and, with a camera in hand, ventured to Einstein’s Mercer Street home. On a dare to himself, Boera knocked on the door. To his surprise, the housekeeper invited him in, led him to the study and introduced him to Einstein. “He looked exactly like his photos – white, unkempt hair, Teddy Roosevelt mustache, wrinkled sweatshirt, sad but twinkling eyes, baggy pants, sandals, curled pipe in hand,” Boera wrote. “Papers and books were piled on shelves, tables and chairs everywhere. He cleared a space and motioned for me to sit down, asking if I would like to join him for some tea and crumpets that he was about to be served. I said that would be great.”

Kenneth R. Chadwick ’80 has been promoted to vice president of More-trench in Rockaway, N.J. He will continue to serve as chief engineer for the company’s Geotechnical Division, which focuses on the design and construction of ground treatment, ground reinforcement, specialty foundation systems and underpinning and excavation support.

Hani J. Salama ’83, was recently featured in Real Estate Weekly’s “Profile of the Week” section. “As a student at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hani Salama would often spend his nights studying in his dorm room, gazing out across the river at the magnificent Empire State Building. Never did he anticipate becoming the iconic building’s director of operations for nearly a decade,” reporter Jason Turcotte wrote. Salama, who emigrated to the U.S. from Egypt at age 11, now works as vice president of property management and operations for Monday Properties in New York, N.Y.

Audrey E. Hale, Esq., ’85 was part of McCarter & English’s four-member Newark, N.J., health-law group, which has moved to Drinker Biddle & Reath in Florham Park, N.J. The move increases Drinker’s New Jersey presence to 150 attorneys. Hale, who was a partner at McCarter & English and had worked with the firm since 1994, represents hospitals and other providers in transactional and regulatory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, contracting, certificates of need and licensure surveys, fraud and abuse, governance, corporate compliance and reimbursement. She was chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Health and Hospital Law Section in 1998-99. She graduated from Rutgers School of Law-Newark in 1990.

Miriam J. Jarney, M.S. ’72, had an exhibit of her Giclée prints titled “Images of Your Neighborhood Parks” on display at the Union County Freeholders Gallery in Elizabeth, N.J. Jarney earned a master of science degree in computer science from Stevens and, after a long career in the software field, she now works full time as a photographer, utilizing Photoshop and Painter X to turn what the camera sees into what her mind’s eye sees in order to create an image all her own, according to the Cranford Chronicle of Cranford, N.J.

Brigante S. Hill, M.S. ’04, recently joined LG CNS America Inc. as a senior account executive. He will be responsible for strategic business development for a portfolio of services that includes complex systems integration, application development, remote infrastructure management, transportation solutions and alternative energy solutions. Brigante previously worked as a regional vice president of Business Development for Technology Infrastructure Solution.