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Theresa Guenther (BA '90) is celebrating a year as Supervising Assistant Counsel at The New York State Justice Center for The Protection of People with Special Needs. She has also accepted a position as an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Buffalo teaching Legal Reasoning. She tells her students that the research methods she used to write her Senior Honors Thesis in History are still the core skills she uses in her legal research and writing today.
Jim Oberly (PhD '83) transcribed and edited Budapest Blackout: A Holocaust Diary, published in August 2023 by the University of Wisconsin Press. The book contains the edited and annotated diaries of Dr. Mária Mádi, a Hungarian physician who shielded Jewish friends during the Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944-45 and was subsequently named a “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem. Jim also published articles in 2023 in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, Maine History, and has another accepted for publication in Historical Methods. He is most pleased, however, to announce that he and his spouse Louise Merriam are proud parents of Dr. Peter Oberly, newly appointed Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the UR.
Bernard Zimmerman (BA '67) has published the third and final edition of his book, Ghost Towns of Nevada County. In it, he explains how Gold Rush towns such as You Bet, Gouge Eye, and Snow Tent got their names, and he shares the histories of 38 local ghost towns. The book is available as a free download from Apple Books, as a paperback from Amazon for $6.99, or as a free PDF from the publisher, You Bet Press (www.YouBetPress.com). Bernie’s resume is a long one: he is Chair of the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission, lifetime member of the Nevada County Historical Society, the Society’s 2021 Citizen of the Year, and co-author of the E-edition “Exploring Nevada County,” a guide to more than 200 historical landmarks in Nevada County.
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