Bound for the University of Hartford in 1960, Eiko (Mizuno) Johnson arrived in New York via cargo boat one month after leaving her native Japan on a one-way ticket. Alone and with little English, she was met by an acquaintance of her parents who drove her to Connecticut.
Cheryl (Harad) Pilchik, Barney '84, for snagging a highly competitive job coordinating invitations for a celebrity-studded Oscar night party. Pilchik, who runs Invitations Plus out of her home in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., normally specializes in items like wedding and bar/bat mitzvah invitations, birth announcements, and business stationery. But when she heard that Entertainment Weekly magazine was looking for a firm to coordinate and hand-address invitations for its exclusive Academy Awards viewing party in New York City, Pilchik decided to give it a shot.
When Joxel Garcia, M.D., first heard about the new Executive MBA program for health care professionals (EMBA-HCP) at the Barney School of Business, he thought it would help him in his career as assistant director of obstetrics and gynecology at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford. Little did he know that the program would play a significant role in establishing him in a brand-new career as Connecticut's top public health official.
