With Rachel Haug Gilbert, Special To The Observer

On Aug. 28, Walter H. Rice, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, was honored by the Ohio State Bar Association with the 2014 Thomas J. Moyer Award for Judicial Excellence. The award, established in 2010 in memory of the late Ohio chief justice, is given to judges who display outstanding integrity, fairness, open-mindedness, knowledge of the law, professionalism, ethics, creativity, sound judgment and courage. Judge Rice has served on the Steering Committee of Dayton’s Dialogue on Race Relations, the policy board for the Montgomery County Ex-Offender Reentry program, the Building Bridges Board of Directors, and as a founding member of the Montgomery County Volunteer Lawyers Project and the Aviation Heritage Foundation.

Dr. David Shuster and Rhoda Z. Mahran, who co-teach Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine’s Medicine and the Holocaust class, facilitated the program We Were There: Concentration Camp Liberators Speak, on Oct. 18 at the Veteran’s Memorial Museum in Germantown. The Wright State medical school course provides students with an in-depth study of the active participation of physicians in the Holocaust, those physicians who defied the Nazis, and how these lessons apply to modern bioethics.

Retired Dayton Daily News reporter Marc Katz, now a frequent contributor to this paper, has started a new blog, katzcopsnsports.com. Marc writes about sports, and unusual but true stories pulled from police blotters.

In August, AJC Cincinnati named Cathy F. Heldman as its regional director. Cathy succeeded Barbara Glueck, who retired after 22 years as the head of the advocacy organization’s Cincinnati region office. AJC honored Barbara with its AJC Cincinnati Community Service Award at its Appeal for Human Relations Reception on Oct. 21.

On Sept. 30, Lauren Sobol, daughter of Jody and Dr. Todd Sobol, received the inaugural Young Professional Volunteer of the Year Award from Columbus Jewish Family Services at its annual meeting. Lauren is a second-year graduate student at The Ohio State University and is majoring in public health. Lauren was also recognized for her volunteer work in May by OSU at the Second Annual Outreach and Engagement Recognition Awards Ceremony. Lauren was one of five to receive an Excellence in Volunteer Services Award.

Andrew Diamond, in his junior year at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, is the lighting designer for Driving Miss Daisy at The Carnegie Theatre in Covington, Ky. running Nov. 1 to 16. Andrew, the son of Susan and Rob Diamond, is studying theatre design and production, concentrating on lighting.

Addison Caruso has been selected for the Miami University Mock Trial Team. Miami is recognized nationally for its high ranking mock trial team. Addison is a Freshman University Scholar in the pre-law/public policy program. He’s the son of Patty and Michael Caruso and the grandson of Donna and the late Yale Holt, Joan and Jim Stark, and Sandy and Jerry Caruso.

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