Contemporary Sexuality - December 2008 - (Page 11)

News of Members anet Rosenzweig (Boston, Mass.) was hired by our sister organization, SSSS, to be the organization’s interim executive director. Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life, the second book by members Mark A. Michaels (Yorktown Hts., N.Y.) and Patricia Johnson (Yorktown Hts., N.Y.), has been named a USA Book News National Best Books 2008 Award Winner in the Health: Sexuality category and is an award-winning finalist in the Religion: Eastern Religions category. USA Book News Magazine is the premiere online magazine and review website providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world online community. 2008 has been an eventful year for Sandra Samons (Ann Arbor, Mich.), some things good and some not. Sadly, her husband of many years died of Parkinson’s disease. But the book she has been working on for several years, When The Opposite Sex Isn’t — Sexual Orientation In Male-To-Female Transgender People, was finally published (by Routledge), and she now has a new website: www.sandra samons.com. The AASECT Board of Directors approved the following individuals as members of the AASECT Continuing Education Review Committee: Joan Sughrue (Woodstock, Ga.) as its chair, George Turner (Kansas City, Mo.), Richelle Frabotta (Clarksville, Ohio), Michael Krychman (Newport Beach, Calif.), Jennifer Fariello (Philadelphia, Pa.) contingent upon her certification, and Kathleen Baldwin (Indianapolis, Ind.). Baldwin was also approved to be the chair of the AASECT Institutes Committee. Both committees are part of the Professional Education Steering Committee (PESC), chaired by board member Don Dyson (Westmont, N.J.). Joan Sughrue (Woodstock, Ga.) was also approved by the board as chair of the Awards Committee. Bill Finger (Mountain Home, Tenn.), our president elect, was approved by the AASECT board as chair of the Bylaws Committee and as a member of the PESC. Dennis Sugrue (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), past president of AASECT, was approved as chair of the Personnel Committee. And Bob Woody (Omaha, Neb.) became a member of the Sex Therapy Certification Committee. The AASECT Board of Directors approved the following individuals to be added as members of the AASECT Mentor Committee: Denise Stapley (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Patti Hard (Lexington, Ky.), Carol Sasse (Rapid City, S.D.), Ann Mayes (Greeneville, Tenn.), Alice Christianson (Fargo, N.D.), Terry Couwenhoven (Port Washington, Wisc.), Charles and Amy J Miron (Baltimore, Md.), Rachel Needle (West Plam Beach, Fla.), and Judith Seifer (Lewisburg, W.V.). The Mentor Committee is chaired by Brent Satterly (Westmont, N.J.). Serena McKenzie (Seattle, Wash.) was certified as an AASECT sexuality counselor. Mary Jo Podgurski (Washington, Pa.) was certified as a sexuality educator. The following individuals were certified as AASECT sex therapists: Jasper Jones Lawson, Jr. (Chelmsford, Mass.), Amy Hammer (Newton, Kans.), Dana Tautfest (Troy, Mich.), Lorraine Adassa Mitchell (N. Miami, Fla.), Yisrael Helfand (Cabot, Vt.), Saideh Rezai (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.), Denise Benoit (Cambridge, Mass.), Ann Mayes (Greeneville, Tenn.), Ly-Lan Lofgren (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Joan Atwood (Rockville Centre, N.Y.), Hermina Szeles (Allison Park, Pa.), Michele Marsh (Havertown, Pa.), and Elizabeth Lipman-Stern (Highland Park, N.J.). We would like to bid a huge welcome to our 37 newest and returning members: Thomas Graves (Lancaster, Pa.), Kimberly Gutowski (Boston, Mass.), Ann McNeil (Delray Beach, Fla.), Joanne Irving (Bethesda, Md.), Margaret Adams (Lancaster, Pa.), Kimberly Ludwigsen (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Eunice Aviles (Springfield, Mass.), Claudia Jimenez (Vero Beach, Fla.), Janis Edwards (Wilmington, Del.), Dawn Love (Glendora, N.J.), Amy VanBrussel (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Karen Lynn Owen (Omaha, Neb.), Michael Vigorito (San Diego, Calif.), Regina Kulik Scully (San Francisco, Calif.), Alfred Kulik (San Francisco, Calif.), Dominic Kulik (San Francisco, Calif.), Margo Lewis-Jah (Chester, Pa.), Chandra Blakely (Darby, Pa.), Anne Pelaez (Hempstead, N.Y.), Cynthia Abernathy (Towson, Md.), Kyle Simons (Plainfield, N.J.), Tracy Klemme (Blacksburg, Va.), Meredith Kramer (Levittown, Pa.), Carolyn Rose McKinley (Plattsmouth, Neb.), Alessandra Iantaffi (Minneapolis, Minn.), Jonathan Siden (Chicago, Ill.), Christine Louisignau (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Emily Klamer (Columbia, Mo.), Lindsey Brown (Prestonsburg, Ky.), Heather Hewitt (Chicago, Ill.), Laura Rademacher (Minneapolis, Minn.), Sarah Spring (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Jeffery Moore (Honolulu, Hawaii), Loren Phillip Meissner, Jr. (San Jose, Calif.), Heather Howard (San Francisco, Calif.), Ashley Sprecher (Spokane, Wash.), and Jocelyn Markowicz (La Jolla, Calif.). “News of Members” is a regular column in this publication. Please submit a brief account of your professional or personal news to hani@drmiletski. com. Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life, the second book by members Mark A. Michaels (Yorktown Hts., N.Y.) and Patricia Johnson (Yorktown Hts., N.Y.), has been named a USA Book News National Best Books 2008 Award Winner in the Health: Sexuality category, and is an award-winning finalist in the Religion: Eastern Religions category. December 2008 Vol. 42, No. 12 | www.aasect.org Contemporary Sexuality 11 http://www.sandrasamons.com http://www.aasect.org

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