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Class Notes
1930s
Gerald H. Doty (Mu31, GMu36) of Missoula,
Mont., is professor emeritus of music at the University of Montana. At the
age of 90, he is still an active violin and viola teacher and in good health.
Elizabeth "Bunny" Wilke Murray (Mu33)
of Bethesda, Md., is living in an assisted living center near her children
and grandchildren.
Patty Schall Engelbrecht (WCAS36)
of Buffalo, N.Y., is living in Baptist Manor, a retirement home near her
son, Bill (WCAS65), a professor. She
is the same height and weight that she was during her sophomore year.
She still enjoys theater, opera and trips to places of interest.
Leile Laura Bretschneider Wickland (Mu38)
of Tucson, Ariz., is a retired music teacher. She enjoys growing roses,
reading about history and traveling around the country to visit historic
sites.
Elaine Dahlgren Schuessler (Mu39, GMu40)
of New Brighton, Minn., is a retired Evanston and Minneapolis public school
educator. In 1987 she founded the Roy A. Schuessler Vocal Arts Center
at the University of Minnesota's School of Music in memory of her husband,
Ray (GMu38).
Elizabeth "Libbe" Spelts (Mu39,
GMu40) of Stockton, Calif., is professor emeritus of voice at the
University of the Pacific's Conservatory, and she continues to teach privately.
Edward C. Weilepp (J39) of Topeka,
Kan., has been named a trustee for the Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka.
He was commissioned to write a playlet about the founders of Christ (Vail)
and Stormont Hospitals as they appear before St. Peter seeking admission
through the heavenly gates for their good works.
1940s
Wilma Dykeman (S40) of Newport, Tenn.,
an environmentalist and feminist, is a retired writer and lecturer at the
University of Tennessee. She has published 18 books, received three honorary
doctoral degrees and delivers 25 to 30 lectures a year across the country.
Eleanor Theresa Miller Patton (S40) of
Mesa, Ariz., and her husband, Dale (Mu39),
have been married for 60 years. They both retired from college teaching
in 1978.
Eugene Richards (SESP41, GSESP47)
of Clearwater, Fla., still plays tennis regularly.
Blanche Rosen Blumenthal (WCAS42)
of Oak Park, Ill., is president of West Suburban Hadassah and lectures
at the Maori House in the Field Museum of Natural History on lifestyles
of Jews throughout the world.
Eva Fink Glassner (SESP42) of Roanoke,
Va., is one of many in her family who attended Northwestern. Her class
was the first to live in Willard Hall, then an all-female dorm.
Carl Kline (M42) of Vancouver, British
Columbia, writes review articles for American orthopsychiatric journals.
He has been married to Carolyn Lacey for 58 years, and he has five children
and eight grandchildren.
Harriet Kahn Rubinstein (WCAS43)
of Henderson, Nev., received a Best Friend of the ParkDistrict award from
the Park Foundation of Buffalo Grove, Ill., her home of 71 years, in 1999.
She has also written a safety manual, "Prepare to be Safe,"
and received a plaque in October for her service to Buffalo Grove's senior
citizens.
Donald K. Buffmire (WCAS44, M48)
of Paradise Valley, Ariz., in November was the recipient of the Spirit
of Philanthropy Award from the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.
Edward Pak (WCAS45) of Jonesboro,
Ga., visited Saraspatök, Hungary, at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.
Richard E. Taylor Jr. (McC45) of
Berryton, Kan., is a retired United Methodist minister. A figure in Kansas
politics for two decades, he led Kansans for Life at Its Best, a group
that opposes legalized gambling and the loosening of liquor laws, until
1992.
Harry Wells (WCAS45) of Show Low
and Wickenburg, Ariz., celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary in March
1999.
Constance Young Root (J46) of Kensington,
Md., gave a presentation on the life of her late father, C. Walter
Young (WCAS22),
entitled "C. Walter Young in Manchuria."
Shirley Stuckert Zoeger (J46) of
Woodland Hills, Calif., is a retired journalist/educator, news editor,
reporter and photographer and is now self-publishing her short stories,
drama, poetry and a novella in book form.
Charles Clarke (Mu48) of Hesperia,
Calif., is organist and choirmaster at St. Timothy's Church in Apple Valley,
Calif. He designed a $303,000 pipe organ for All Saints Church on Pawleys
Island, S.C., while he was music director there.
Rosamond P. Haeberle (GMu48) of Waterford,
Mich., is listed in the 1999–2000 edition of Who's Who of American
Women and the 2000 editions of Who's Who in America and Who's
Who in the World for her work as president of more than 15 local organizations.
Barbara Shamansky Blashek (WCAS49)
of Scottsdale, Ariz., is active as a volunteer, docent and board member
at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. She is married to Bob Blashek, and they
have 11 grandchildren.
John Bohne (WCAS49) of Sun City Center,
Fla., is currently writing a novel.
Rodney A. Jamieson (M49) of Gurnee,
Ill., a retired internist, has been his class representative for 50 years.
He received an award for his contribution to the Physicians Art Exhibit
at the 1999 Midwest Clinical Conference. He and his wife, Barbara, have
five children and 12 grandchildren.
William Kloepfer Jr. (WCAS49) of
Chevy Chase, Md., was one of 50 professionals honored in October by the
Public Relations Society of America's National Capital Chapter.
Robert O. Weiss (GS49) of Greencastle,
Ind., was awarded a 1999 NCA Presidential Citation for outstanding service
to the National Communication Association.
1950s
Yale Roe (J50, GJ52) of New York City
produced and directed a television special on the A&E cable channel last
fall called "The Silent Threat," which revealed the early warning signs
of potential teenage suicide.
Robert Huff (EB51) of Elgin, Ill.,
a sales agent for Century 21 New Heritage, relocated from Roscoe, Ill.
He is still going to school and studying creative writing.
John Cacavas (Mu52) of Beverly Hills,
Calif., composed and conducted the score to the CBS miniseries, Perfect
Murder, Perfect Town, which aired in February.
Ernest Melvin (G52) of Omaha, Neb.,
is director emeritus of the Institute of Community and Area Development
and professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University
of Georgia in Athens.
Russell J. Love (S53, GS54, 62) of
Nashville, Tenn., is the author of Childhood Motor Speech Disability,
2nd ed (Allyn & Bacon, 1999).
Bradford S. Prokop (WCAS54, M57)
of Fort Myers, Fla., was called out of retirement in November to present
a paper he published 21 years ago for the 25th Anniversary Reunion Celebration
of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Los Angeles.
His wife is Adrienne Vollmer Prokop (M58).
John R. Bell (J55) of Chicago is
a retired public relations executive who has launched a successful second
career as a freelance business writer for national and regional business
and trade publications.
Sabih K. Djazzar (KGSM55) of Geneva,
Switzerland, relocated after six years as special adviser to the United
Arab Emirates' Ministry of Health. He is currently a consultant in the
health care industry.
Eileen T. Bender (J56) of South Bend,
Ind., was named one of 1999's top U.S. professors by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. She is a professor of English at Indiana
University at South Bend.
Donald Fraser (EB56, Nav56) of St.
Helena, Calif., is in his 33rd year as a marketer of products relating
to the "Peanuts" comic strip.
Gwen Rosset Knapp (SESP56) of Glencoe,
Ill., is a co-founder and president of the Lupus Foundation of Northern
Illinois, founder of the Gwen Knapp Center of Lupus and Immunology Research
at the University of Chicago and president of the Jules and Gwen Knapp
Foundation.
Bill Mays (KGSM56) of Dallas, administrator
for patient and community relations at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas,
is the author of Behind the Scenes in Hospitals: Life and Times of
Bill Mays (self-published, 2000).
Eugene I. Pavalon (L56) of Chicago
was admitted to the Inner Circle of Advocates, an exclusive group of plaintiffs'
trial lawyers.
M. Mostafa Abdel-Fattah (M58) of
Alexandria, Egypt, is professor emeritus of cardiology at Alexandria University
and president of the Alexandria Medical Association Syndicate.
Carl Evans (GMu58) of Leesburg, Fla.,
is a professor emeritus of music history and literature at the State University
of New York at Cortland. At 83, he continues to teach a class in music
appreciation and builds cherrywood furniture as a hobby.
James D. Snyder (J58) of Jupiter,
Fla., is the author of All God's Children (Pharos Books, 2000).
Chair and CEO of Enterprise Communications from 1985 to 1997, he founded
seven national magazines. He has edited and contributed to more than 100
magazines and medical journals.
Kenneth N. Geiersbach (WCAS59) of
Methuen, Mass., has returned to New England after seven years in Colorado
and Idaho. He is chair of the English department at Somerville Charter
School.
Ron Husmann (S59) of Studio City,
Calif., came out of retirement in October to direct his son, Andrew, who
starred in Guys & Dolls for Norweigan Cruise Lines.
Edward J.P. O'Connor (Mu59, GMU62)
of Pinnacle, N.C., is a contributing author for the Garland Encyclopedia
of World Music (Garland Publishing, 2000).
Richard Grove (McC59) of Camarillo,
Calif., retired as program manager of Hughes Aircraft, is the author of
Myths of World War II (Minerva Press, 2000).
1960s
Robert Benedetti (S60, GS62, 71) of
Santa Monica, Calif., won his third Emmy — for best television movie
of the year — for producing the HBO film A Lesson Before Dying. He
also completed a book on acting, The Actor at Work (Allyn & Bacon,
1996).
E. Barbara Phillips (WCAS60) of Berkeley,
Calif., is professor emerita of sociology and urban studies at San Francisco
State University and founder-director of Latitude, a cultural center in
southwest France that offers weeklong summer courses and conferences.
Ken Washburn (EB60) of Frisco, Colo.,
retired in 1993 from publishing and marketing for McGraw-Hill and now
enjoys skiing, biking and hiking in the mountains. He and his wife, Sally,
have five children and three grandchildren.
Robert Furgason (McC61) of Corpus
Christi, Texas, president of Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi,
was named Newsmaker of the Decade by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
Rex Walford (GSESP61) of Cambridge,
England, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on the
British New Year's Honours List for his services to geographical scholarship.
He is an Honorary Life Member of the Geographical Association and in 1999
received a Pilkington Prize from the University of Cambridge for excellence
in teaching.
Jerry Ziesmer (S61) of Los Angeles
has authored Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Speilberg, Mr. Crowe
(Scarecrow Press, 2000), a memoir of his 30 years in the motion picture
industry on such films as Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters of
the Third Kind and Jerry Maguire.
Fred L. Brown (G62) of St. Louis
was elected to the National Kidney Foundation's board of directors. He
was also a member of President Clinton's Senior Advisers Group on Year
2000 (Y2K) conversions.
Richard A. McMahon Jr. (WCAS62) of
River Forest, Ill., assisted in the 1999 Maywood, Ill., Bataan Day Organization
in memory of area soldiers in the U.S. Army's 192nd Tank Battalion, Company
B, who were on the Bataan Death March in World War II.
Judith Van Gieson (WCAS62) of Albuquerque,
N.M., is the author of a mystery, The Stolen Blue (University of
New Mexico Press/Signet, 2000).
Dana Vannoy (WCAS62) of Naples, Fla.,
is professor emerita in sociology at the University of Cincinnati, where
she taught, conducted research and held administrative positions for 28
years. She now hopes to combine her sociological knowledge and photographic
skills in new professional pursuits.
Neil Shamberg (UC63) of Montpelier,
Ohio, received a master's degree in European history from Ball State University
in 1998 after a 30-year career as a clinical psychologist. He has since
taught modern history and psychology at a number of universities in Ohio.
Larry R. Smith (J63, GJ64) of Harrisburg,
Ill., will have his poem about George Washington, Conversation with
the Master of Mount Vernon, published in an upcoming anthology, America
at the Millenium: The Best Poems and Poets of the 20th Century (Watermark
Press, 2000).
Dean M. Trafelet (S63) of Chicago
is a partner in the law firm of Hedlund, Hanley & John in Chicago and
has been appointed by the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia as a trustee
in the American Home Products Corp. Settlement Trust, a $5 billion action
trust.
James Brush (Mu64, GMu71) of Las
Vegas retired from teaching music in Bremerton, Wash.
Ed Colbach (M64) of West Linn, Ore.,
and his wife, Josephine Taraska (M64),
have been married since June 14, 1964, the day they graduated from Northwestern.
The couple has three children.
Patricia Hoxie Flynn (WCAS64) of
Holland, Mich., retired after 27 years as a high school teacher and counselor.
She was named Volunteer of the Year for the Hospice of Holland and is
on the board of the Women's Literary Club. One of her paintings is displayed
in the Michigan Capitol in Lansing.
Kenneth V. Jones (WCAS64) of Malvern
East, Victoria, Australia, is associate professor of medicineand director
of the Clinical Teaching Administrative Unit at Monash University in Clayton,
Victoria. He was the 1999 recipient of the Award for Achievement in Education
from the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medical Education.
Lynn Wardour (EB64) of Amherst, N.Y.,
is project director for Pike County in Williamsville, N.Y.
Dennis Chookaszian (McC65) of Wilmette,
Ill., is chair and CEO of mPower, a holding company dedicated to delivering
online retirement investment advice.
Ron Fridell (S65, GS69) of Evanston
is the author of Solving Crimes: Pioneers of Forensic Science (Franklin
Watts, 2000).
Brenda Roberts-Fehlinger (Mu65, GMu67)
of Eltville, Germany, is an opera singer and had her debut in Schoenberg's
Erwartung at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Sicily. Her son Mark
is a sophomore in Northwestern's School of Music.
J. Fred Giertz (G66, 70) of Champaign,
Ill., has been named executive director of the National Tax Association.
He is a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
Judi Sheppard Missett (S66) of Oceanside,
Calif., was honored as the March of Dimes' 1999 Mother of the Year in
San Diego. The founder and CEO of Jazzercise, she was also honored at
Working Woman magazine's second annual Entrepreneurial Excellence
Awards Ceremony in Phoenix.
Stephen Rohde (WCAS66) of Los Angeles
is a founding board member of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and recently
published a cover story in the Los Angeles Lawyer on a First Amendment
controversy over the film Natural Born Killers.
John B. Roth (WCAS66) of Louisville
is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville. He serves
as a board member of Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, which is
affiliated with the university, and is board chair of Physicians Inc.
He also is the proud parent of two Northwestern graduates.
Vincent P. Skowronski (Mu66, GMu68)
of Evanston performed a solo concert in February, the first in a yearlong
concert commemoration of the 30th anniversary of being one of seven violinists
to represent the United States in the Fourth International Tchaikovsky
Competition in Moscow in 1970.
Susan Holly Stocking (J66, GJ69)
of Bloomington, Ind., an associate professor of journalism at Indiana
University at Bloomington, is the co-editor of More Quick Hits: Successful
Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers (Indiana University Press, 1998).
She enjoys teaching, writing, Buddhist meditation and yoga. She and her
husband have two children.
Leslie Kelly (S67) of Indianapolis
was recently named by the Indiana Historical Society as one of the state's
Trailblazing Women of the Century. She heads Kelly & Associates Ltd.,
a 22-year-old human resource consulting firm, and is a member of Northwestern's
Council of One Hundred. She and her two adult children are the founders
of Letterkenny Press, a publisher specializing in human resource, training
and educational materials.
Sheryl King Lazzarotti (Mu, GMu67)
of Pittstown, N.J., has been named vice president and director of career
development for Burgdorff ERA Realtors in Parsippany, N.J.
Larry M. Zanger (EB67, GL70) of Chicago
was elected to the executive committee of McBride, Baker & Coles, a Chicago
and Oak Brook, Ill., law firm, and continues to head the firm's information
technology and electronic commerce practice group.
Miriam S. Loewenstein Zimmerman (S67)
of San Mateo, Calif., presented a paper in Jerusalem at the Second International
Convention on the Holocaust and Education in October.
Kendra Haines Ferguson (J68) of Stonington,
Maine, was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant for her sculptures. She is
currently building a house and studio on Deer Isle, Maine.
Laurie A. Lewis (WCAS68) of New York
City is the author of What to Charge: Pricing Strategies for Freelancers
and Consultants (Aletheia Publications, 2000).
Betsy Givan Martens (WCAS68) of Chicago
is an information architect with Quantum Leap Communications, an interactive
Web and news media advertising agency.
Ross James Root (Mu68) of West Bend,
Wis., a former professor of music at Bethel College in Minneapolis, is
now a teacher for G.W. Music in West Bend. He composed three choral pieces
being published by Voice of the Rockies Publishing House in Boulder, Colo.
Douglas E. Torrance (WCAS68) of Columbus,
Ohio, is assistant dean and secretary of the University College at Ohio
State University. His son, Douglas A., is a Northwestern junior studying
clarinet performance and math.
Norma Kathryn Rice Bullock (G69,
73) of Conshohocken, Pa., joined C&D Technologies in Conshohocken
as vice president of technology in December. She was inducted as a fellow
in the Electrochemical Society in October.
Glenn Holmwall (McC69) of Battle
Creek, Mich., was named director of the newly consolidated directorate
of cataloging at the Defense Logistics Agency in Battle Creek.
Tom Laga (GS69) of Bristol, Conn.,
and his wife, Carol Ann, co-wrote and starred in a presentation on Eli
Terry and his wife for the American Clock and Watch Museum in Bristol
in April 1999. (Eli Terry is credited with helping launch the American
industrial revolution with his production of interchangeable clock parts.)
They have also done a similar production about internationally known clockmaker
Chauncey Jerome.
Michel J. Morael (G69) of Boulogive,
France, is a member of the Conseil National des Ingenieurs et des Scientifiques
de France.
M. Sally Sluhan Wright (S69) of Bowling
Green, Ohio, is the author of Pursuit and Persuasion (Multnomah
Publishers, 2000).
1970s
William R. Levin (WCAS70) of Danville,
Ky., is chair of the art program at Centre College in Danville. He is on
a sabbatical leave for the 2000–01 academic year to continue his research
and writing on Italian art and architecture.
Elynne Chaplik Aleskow (S71) of Chicago
and her husband, Richard (UC75), donated
the memoirs of concert pianist Zinaida "Zina" Joelson Aleskow to the Northwestern
University Music Library.
Marie Arana (WCAS71) of Washington,
D.C., has been promoted to book editor of the Washington Post.
John Courtright (WCAS71) of Redmond,
Wash., has been promoted to vice president of sales for the Aviation Communications
Division of AT&T Wireless Services in Seattle. He played a significant
role in developing a system for in-flight passengers to connect to an
airborne server known as ePlane.
Abigail M. Foerstner (J71, GJ72)
of Wilmette, Ill., an author and a critic, wrote Picturing Utopia:
Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers (University of Iowa Press,
2000).
Paul M. Gresham (WCAS71) of Centerville,
Ohio, a pediatrician in the Dayton area, was elected to a four-year term
as a city councilman in Centerville.
Thomas G. May (GMcC71) of Jenkintown,
Pa., was promoted to vice president at Urban Engineers, an urban planning
and environmental consulting firm in Philadelphia.
John J. Bukowczyk (WCAS72) of Royal
Oak, Mich., a professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit,
was awarded Poland's Gold Cross of the Order of Merit in January. The
award honors outstanding public and professional service to that country.
Mbabi Katana (GMu72) of Hoima, Uganda,
a retired professor of music at Makerere University, is chair of the Uganda
National Committee for Olympic Arts. He has published a number of books
on African music and has been vice president of the International Organization
for Folk Art since 1980.
Victor Trastek (WCAS72) of Scottsdale,
Ariz., served at Rochester, Minn.–based Mayo Clinic for 23 years, rising
to head the Division of General Thoracic Surgery. He has been appointed
chair of the Department of Surgery and a member of the Board of Governors
at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale.
Hunt H. Unger (SCS72) of Evanston
retired as an executive career consultant with the professional, managerial
and technical program of Chicago's Jewish Vocational Service after 28
years.
Susan L. Nigro (Mu73, GMu74) of Riverside,
Ill., one of only a few contrabassoon soloists in the United States, substitutes
regularly with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has premiered more
solo works for this instrument than any other musician.
Sondra C. Rabin (GSESP73) of Chicago
is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. She is also a member of the
Chicago Board Options Exchange and serves on the Arbitration Committee.
Kurt Dietrich (GMu74) of Ripon, Wis.,
is the author of Dukes' Bones: Ellington's Great Trombonists (Advanced
Music, 1995), which was named in the top 50 jazz publications of the International
Association of Jazz Educators.
J. Douglas Drushal (WCAS74) of Wooster,
Ohio, practices law and is now a director of Environmental Experiences,
a company that sponsors raft trips through the Arizona's Grand Canyon.
Barry Glassner (J74) of Los Angeles,
professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, is the
author of The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong
Things (Basic Books, 1999).
James D. Holman (WCAS74) of Idaho
Falls, Idaho, enjoys life snowboarding and mountain biking. He has been
married to Barbara Richardson Holman (Mu75) since 1975, and they have
three children, Matthew, Anna and Luke.
James F. Martin (KGSM74) of Town
& Country, Mo., started a human resource/labor relations consulting business
after 25 years with companies in the private sector. He is married to
Diana and has five children.
Francesca Spinelli (S74) of Fort
Worth, Texas, was promoted to senior vice president of the People Division,
which provides support to employees and their families, at Tandy Corp./Radio
Shack's Fort Worth office.
Sue Castorino (S75) of Chicago was
selected by the U.S. Olympic Committee to provide media and communications
training for all U.S. athletes and coaches for the Summer Olympics in
Sydney, Australia. She is president of Chicago-based Speaking Specialists,
which has had the Atlanta Braves, the LPGA and major collegiate programs
as clients.
Joseph M. Schuster (S75) of St. Louis
is chair of the department of communications and journalism at Webster
University in St. Louis.
Jean E. Ensminger (G76, 84) of University
City, Mo., is the Tileston Professor of Political Economy at Washington
University in St. Louis.
David S. Gromala (GMcC76) of Federal
Way, Wash., is a senior engineer at Weyerhaeuser Technology Center in
Federal Way and received the L.J. Markwardt Award for the advancement
of wood engineering, design and construction.
Laurie J. Levin (WCAS76) of Heathrow,
Fla., a board-certified health law attorney in the Orlando office of Baker
& Hostetler, has been named Best Healthcare Attorney in Orlando by Florida
Medical Business.
Richard C. Sustich (WCAS76) of Lake
Zurich, Ill., has been appointed assistant director of research and development
of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's Industrial
Waste Division. He was also named to the Compliance Assistance Advisory
Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and
Technology.
Wendy Taucher (Mu76) of New York
City is the choreographer of several new dance pieces — "Silk
Meadow," "New York New Year," "The Margie Champions"
and "The Mother of Us All" — all of which have been performed
and reviewed. She is currently working on a children's television project
and a new work for performer Colette Berge of Paris.
Sheri J. Tonn (G76) of Tacoma, Wash.,
is vice president for finance and operations at Pacific Lutheran University
in Tacoma.
Jeffrey H. Brodsky (WCAS77, L81, KGSM81)
of Northbrook, Ill., is director of the Lake Michigan Area Personal Financial
Counseling group for Ernst & Young, a professional services firm.
Forrest Didier (WCAS77) of Hong Kong
is executive director for ACNielsen Media International. He is responsible
for ACNielsen media services in 40 countries worldwide and for its Internet
services launch in North Asia.
R. Bruce Dold (J77, GJ78) of La Grange
Park, Ill., was named editorial page editor for the Chicago Tribune.
Previously he served as the Tribune's deputy editorial page editor.
Luther Goins (S77) of Chicago completed
five years as the producing director of the Chicago Theatre Company, a
troupe representing universal themes from an African American perspective.
I. Keith Gordon (McC77) of Placitas,
N.M., manages the southwest region of Weaver, Boos & Gordon, an environmental
consulting firm based in Chicago.
Dean Hansell (L77) of Los Angeles,
a partner with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greens & McKay, is a civilian police commissioners
and a member of the board of directors of the Library Foundation of Los
Angeles.
Bill Hindin (Mu77) of New York City
has been touring with entertainer John Davidson as his musical director/conductor/
arranger/pianist, performing at corporate events, pop concerts, casinos
and cruise ships around the world. He is also performing his one-man show
of Gershwin, Porter and Kern aboard the American Orient Express train
around the United States and Canada.
Suzanne Sciez Katz (S77) of Chicago,
president of the Chicago–North Shore chapter of Zeta Phi Eta, a national
professional fraternity for communication arts and sciences, is a featured
soloist with the Choral Ensemble of Chicago.
Stuart R. Stock (McC77, GMcC78)
of Atlanta is a professor of materials science and engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Steve Miles Sulkin (Mu77) of Lincolnshire,
Ill., is president and CEO of MBM Productions International, an event,
marketing, meeting planning and film production company based in Lincolnshire.
Jody M. Wagner (WCAS77) of Virginia
Beach, Va., a corporate attorney, sits on the Board of Visitors for the
Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va. She also serves as vice
chair of the United Way's foundation, chair of her children's private
school and vice president of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater.
She is running as a Democrat for U.S. Congress in the November election.
Doreen Weisenhaus (J77, L83) of New
York City is taking a one-year leave of absence from The New York Times,
where she is the city editor, to teach at the University of Hong Kong's
new graduate program in journalism. Her husband, Gene Mustain, and son,
Jake, will accompany her.
Robert Carson (J78) of Park Ridge,
Ill., has been with Salomon Smith Barney for 12 years and is currently
vice president of investments. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have a son,
Billy.
Dennis T. Crosby (KGSM78) of Atlanta
retired as vice president of engineering and technology at Rouge Steel
Co. in Dearborn, Mich.
Jill C. Lessard (S78) of Santa Monica,
Calif., is a senior writer for ABC.com, part of the GO Network.
Joyce Birkel Nichols (WCAS78) of
Upper Marlboro, Md., is an administrative law judge for zoning, land use
and planning for Prince Georges County, Md. She lives with her husband,
C. Philip Jr., and their children, Meredith and C. Philip III.
Debra Levinson Winbigler (S78) of
Arlington, Texas, now Deborah L. Matthews, is marketing director of the
Texas chapter of the American Institute of Banking, a nonprofit division
of the American Bankers Association that provides professional training
to all levels of financial service professionals. She has three children,
Jessica, Amy and Michael.
James Boyle (S79) of Vienna, Va.,
is senior vice president of marketing and communications for Digital Focus,
an e-business consulting company in Herndon, Va.
Neil J. Chethik (J79) of Lexington,
Ky., is a freelance writer. His first book, Father Loss: How Sons of
All Ages Come to Terms with the Deaths of Their Dads, was published
by Hyperion in January.
Michael March Fantacci (S79) of Florence,
Italy, is president and creative director of Model T sas, Creativity,
Communication & Marketing in Florence. He was elected to the Art Directors'
Club of Italy in 1989 and is married to Barbara Brodbeck, a gynecologist
from Munich, Germany. They have two daughters, Elba and Stella.
Lance Pressl (WCAS79, G87, 95) of
Rolling Meadows, Ill., is the Democratic candidate for the 8th Congressional
District of Illinois in the November election.
Mary Quinn-Feeney (WCAS79) of Jacksonville,
Fla., and her husband, Jack, are the owners and operators of the Sailboat
Club, a company that rents sailboats and provides sailing instruction
in North Florida. They are parents of twins, Brendan and Ryan.
Gail Gabrielli Ritchie (WCAS79, Nav79)
of Burke, Va., is a kindergarten and first-grade teacher in the Fairfax
County (Va.) public schools. In 1998 she received the Outstanding Early
Childhood Practitioner Award from the district and this year received
Teacher of the Year/Washington Post Outstanding Teacher Award.
Curt Schultz (WCAS79) of Walton-on-Thames,
England, is senior vice president for Citicorp's London office, where
he manages the company's initial rollout of leasing and finance products
in Western Europe.
Ted A. Wendt (GS79) of Eau Claire,
Wis., left Murray State University in Kentucky, where he served as dean
of the College of Fine Arts and Communication, to become dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
Howard Winitsky (SESP79) of Boca
Raton, Fla., sold his insurance and estate planning company to National
Financial Partners, a subsidiary of the Apollo Group. He has a son, Daniel,
and a daughter, Andrea, who is a sophomore in Northwestern's School of
Speech.
Elida Witthoeft (J79, GJ80) of Unionville,
Conn., is coordinating producer of ESPN-TV's award-winning documentary
series, Outside the Lines.
1980s
Gregg Edelman (S80) of Teaneck, N.J.,
is appearing as Inspector Javert in the Broadway production of Les Misérables.
James Fisher (GJ80) of Arlington,
Va., was named group manager for corporate communications at Sprint. Based
in Washington, D.C., he handles communications for the proposed Sprint/MCI
Worldcom merger, as well as state and federal corporate issues. He and
his partner, Ron Bookbinder, celebrated their 12th anniversary.
Deborah Rigling Gallagher (McC80)
of Carrboro, N.C., is pursuing a doctorate in public policy at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and her husband, John, have a son,
Laird, and a daughter, Siobhan.
Jeff R. Hawley (GJ80) of Berkeley,
Calif., is sales manager for the major markets division of Paychex, a
Fortune 500 company that provides payroll and human resource services
to small- and medium-size businesses.
Mary Nihlean Henry (WCAS80, KGSM84)
of Blue Island, Ill., is director of client services at the Chicago-based
law firm of D'Ancona & Pflaum.
Charon Luebbers (WCAS80) of New Smyrna
Beach, Fla., a stone carver and painter, was one of eight U.S. artists
chosen to participate in the first Fields Project in Oregon for artists
in residence. The project brought artists and farmers together to create
large-scale earth/art works by mowing designs into several acres of farmland.
Mark Rossi (KGSM80) of Rye, N.Y.,
is a senior managing director of Cornerstone Equity Investors in New York
City. He received a College Presidential Medal of Honor from St. Vincent
College.
Barbara J. Uehling (KGSM80) of Appleton,
Wis., is finance director of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley
Region.
Rick Wamre (J80) of Dallas is founder
of Advocate Publishing, a magazine publishing house in Dallas.
The company produces four magazine titles as well as the Visitor's
Guide for the State Fair of Texas. Wamre is married to Sally Hollandsworth,
and they have two sons, Jack and Clark.
R.L. Bob Bailey (McC81) of Arlington
Heights, Ill., completed his 20th Lake County (Ill.) marathon in 4:31:35.
Bill Chao (KGSM81) of Shenzhen, China,
is chair of New Century Investment Corp.
Bruce Gordon (J81) of Glen Mills,
Pa., is a reporter/anchor for WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, where he recently
won his second Emmy for news reporting at the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.
He is married to Rita Balice-Gordon (WCAS82),
who is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine. They have two daughters, Alexa and Carolyn.
Joseph Grande (GJ81) of Dalton, Mass.,
is managing editor of Modern Plastics and Modern Plastics International
magazines, publications of Chemical Week Associates in New York City.
Paul E. Lockwood (S81) of Bloomingdale,
Ill., is team leader for the RFP Response Team and the Product Resource
Team at Trans Union LLC in Chicago.
Kent Markus (S81) of Dublin, Ohio,
has been nominated by President Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Sixth Circuit. He has been the director and the visiting professor
of law for the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law at Capital University
Law School since 1998. He obtained his law degree with honors from Harvard
Law School in 1984.
Michael D. Pederson (WCAS81) of Chaska,
Minn., an attorney, is in-house counsel at Cargill Inc. in Wayzata, Minn.
Bradley Smith (McC81) of Highland
Park, Ill., is president of nMinds LLC, an Internet startup company in
Chicago. He and his wife, Lynne, have three children, Evan, Margot and
Jared.
France Winddance Twine (WCAS81) of
Santa Barbara, Calif., an associate professor of sociology at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, has published two volumes, Racing Research,
Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies
(New York University Press, 2000) and Ideologies and Tech-nologies
of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality and Nationalism (Routledge,
2000). She teaches Feminist studies, Antiracist studies and Latin American
studies at the university.
Raymond G. Welling (J81) of St. Leonards,
New South Wales, Australia, is co-author of The Men's Room: A Thinking
Man's Guide to Surviving Women of the Next Millennium (Random House
Australia, 1999).
Megan R. Cawley (WCAS82) of Wilmette,
Ill., is an associate in the real estate, labor and employment relations
and business and transactions departments of the law firm of McBride,
Baker & Coles in Chicago.
Edward Dufner (J82) of Dallas is
business editor and his wife, Connie Pryzant Dufner (J82),
is deputy "Today" editor at the Dallas Morning News.
They are parents of Elena and Adam.
Linda J. Hipkiss (GS82, KGSM86) of
Geneva, Switzerland, is vice president of marketing for Cereal Partners
Worldwide, a joint venture between General Mills USA and Nestlé SA.
Susan Kravits Kessler (WCAS82) of
Deerfield, Ill., is community relations manager for the Grainger Co. in
Lake Forest, Ill.
Sharon R. Mazzarella (S82) of Ithaca,
N.Y., is co-editor of Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction
of Identity (Peter Lang Publishing, 1999).
John P. Miutz (GJ82) of Richmond,
Va., marketing manager for the Virginia Lottery, was voted Marketer of
the Year for 1999 by his peers.
Joseph J. Rencis (GMcC82) of Paxton,
Mass., was promoted to professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. He serves as national chair
of the mechanics division of the American Society of Engineering Education.
He and his wife, Minerva, have a daughter, Christina.
Julie Taylor (WCAS82) of Beverly
Hills, Calif., is principal and founder of Taylor and Co., a public relations
and marketing firm for architecture, design and furniture. Rockford Publishers
published her latest book, Bars, Pubs and Cafes, in February.
Bradley Jon Wright (S82, GS88) of
Indianapolis, associate professor and director of theater at the University
of Indianapolis, was awarded tenure. He directed a University of Indianapolis/Edyvean
Repertory Theatre co-production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo. He
and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children, Maggie and Duncan.
Yogi Bhardwaj (McC83) of Wadsworth,
Ill., president of National Petroleum Inc. in Kenosha, Wis., received
an honorary doctoral degree from City University in California in October.
Michael Butlien (KGSM83) of Akron,
Ohio, has been named vice president and director of operations for direct
marketing for Liggett-Stashower Direct Marketing in Cleveland. He is active
in the American Red Cross, the Akron Jewish Community Board and the Akron
Jewish News.
Jonathan Glassner (S83) of Encino,
Calif., is executive producer of Stargate SG-1, a science fiction
television series on the Showtime cable channel.
Christopher Johnston (GSESP83) of
Glenview, Ill., is practicing psychotherapy in Glencoe, Ill. He is a consultant
for several school systems on the North Shore.
Gregory P. Kalemkerian (WCAS83, M85, GM88,
89) of Ann Arbor, Mich., is co-director of thoracic oncology and
associate professor of medicine at the University of Michigan. His wife,
Mary Varterasian (GM90), is a director of clinical oncology at
Parke-Davis in Ann Arbor.
Dave Kohn (GS83) of Mundelein, Ill.,
is associate executive director of communications for the American Academy
of Dermatology. He and his wife, Julie, have a son, Keith.
Patricia Eggleston Pahl (S83, L88)
of Bethesda, Md., is an associate with the law firm of Olsson, Frank and
Weeda and specializes in food and drug law. She is co-author of two short
stories in the anthology Star Wars: Tales from the New Republic
(Bantam Books, 1999). Her husband, Thomas B. Pahl (L,
KGSM88), is adviser to commissioner Orson Swindle of the Federal
Trade Commission.
Mark O. Swenson (KGSM83) of Plymouth,
Minn., is vice president and portfolio manager of investments at Lutheran
Brotherhood, a Fortune 500 company in Minneapolis. He and his wife, Karen,
have two children.
Sheryl Weiner Ball (WCAS84, KGSM86, 91)
of Blacksburg, Va., is associate professor of economics and director of
undergraduate studies in economics at Virginia Tech, where she was granted
tenure.
James Douthit (GMu84) of Hummelstown,
Pa., assistant professor of music at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg,
Pa., was elected vice president of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association.
Leif Madsen (S84) of Lakewood, Colo.,
is library director at the Art Institute of Colorado in Denver.
Susan L. Miller (WCAS84) of Barrington,
R.I., is president of IndexInvestor.com. She and her husband, Tom, have
three children, Michael, Hallie and Austin.
Robert B. Pickering (G84) of Cody,
Wyo., is deputy director for collections and education at the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center in Cody.
Linda Becker (S85, GJ88) of Arlington,
Va., is chief of staff and senior manager for public policy communications
for the Washington, D.C., office of DaimlerChrysler Corp.
Paul Bettinger (McC85) of Keene,
N.H., an orthopedic hand surgeon at the Hitchcock Clinic in Keene, was
inducted into the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery in March.
Susan N. Shaver Kehoe (GJ85) of Clifton,
Va., general manager and executive producer of George Mason University
Television in Fairfax, Va., was named one of the top 100 producers in
the nation in 1998.
Michael D. Sharkey (KGSM85) of Lincolnshire,
Ill., is executive vice president at LaSalle Bank and president and CEO
of subsidiary LaSalle Business Credit.
Bruce C. Summerville (WCAS85, GM95)
of Lake Bluff, Ill., joined Lake Shore Orthopedics, a four-person practice
in Lake County, Ill.
David Via (GMu85) of Woodstock, New
Brunswick, Canada, is vice president of sales and marketing for the SABIAB
Cymbal Co. in Meductic, New Brunswick.
Esther Benenson (GJ86) of Athens,
Ga., is director of research communications and editor of the university
research magazine for the University of Georgia in Athens.
Stephen M. Church (McC86) of Winchester,
Mass., is a managing director of the Parthenon Group, a strategic advisory
and principal investing firm in Boston. He and his wife are the parents
of Nicholas.
Kim Hawley (WCAS86) of Brookfield,
Ill., is commercial sales manager for Walsworth Publishing Co. and the
current president of the Chicago Book Clinic, a not-for-profit organization.
David Kostelancik (WCAS86) of Brussels,
Belgium, is a U.S. Foreign Service officer posted to the U.S. mission
to NATO, where he is responsible for NATO relations with Russia. He was
a member of the U.S. delegation to the Rambouillet Peace Talks involving
Serbia and Albania in February 1999. He and his wife, Patricia, also a
foreign service officer, have two sons, Timothy and Daniel.
Jeff H. Leshay (J86) of Wilmette,
Ill., is senior vice president of the Chicago office of Fleishman-Hillard,
a public relations agency. He and his wife, Julie, are the parents of
Austin.
Susan A. Messing (S86) of Chicago,
a mainstage performer and improvisation teacher at Second City and Improv
Olympic, was chosen to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen,
Colo., in February.
Peter A. Miller (WCAS86) of Middlebury,
Vt., was certified by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and became
a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. He has had
a podiatry practice in Middlebury since 1993.
John North (J86) of Knoxville, Tenn.,
is a journalist whose series on the cost of the death penalty earned the
Knoxville News-Sentinel the Associated Press Managing Editors Association's
Freedom of Information Award in October. He also won first place in the
general reporting category from the Tennessee Associated Press Managing
Editors Association and first place for best news story from the Tennessee
Press Association.
Janet Prokop (M86, 88) of Los Angeles
is an assistant clinical professor of medicine and health service research
at the University of California, Los Angeles. A director of the UCLA Women's
Center, she and Sharon Lawrence of the television show NYPD Blue
were honored by the city for their work on behalf of the West Side Women's
Health Center. Her husband, Johnathan Pregler (M88),
an anesthesiologist and an associate clinical professor of anesthesiology
at UCLA, is director of the university's surgery center. They have two
daughters.
Thomas J. Van Dam (McC86) of Longwood,
Fla., is a partner in Andersen Consulting's transportation and travel
services unit. He and his wife, Susan, have two daughters, Katie and Emily.
Lynn Weisberg (GJ86, L93) of Chicago
and Thomas Gardiner (L81) of Homewood,
Ill., are with the Chicago law firm Gardiner, Koch, Hines & Weisberg and
argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in November.
Dawn Westlake (S86) of Los Angeles
reported for CBS.com on the beginning of the year 2000 from the 180th
meridian, Taveuni Island, Fiji.
Joseph Bergs (GM87) of Union Grove,
Wis., a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, is president of
the Wisconsin Council of Child Psychiatry for a two-year term. He is also
medical director of the child and adolescent behavioral health department
at St. Luke's Hospital in Racine, Wis. In 1998 he received the Milwaukee
Business Journal's 40 Under 40 award for leadership in children's
mental health issues.
Lisa Parker Gates (GJ87) of Chicago
is an associate with the law firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago, where
she specializes in trademark, copyright and nonprofit corporate law.
Sigurd H. Johnson (GMu87) of Oxford,
Miss., a music and band teacher at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss.,
was named 1999 Mississippi Humanities Scholar of the Year by the Mississippi
Humanities Council. He received a doctorate in percussion performance
last spring at the University of Memphis, and he performs with the Memphis
Symphony Orchestra.
Sujai Nath (McC87) of Wolcott, Conn.,
is a postdoctoral fellow in medical informatics at Yale University.
Pam Nilsson (WCAS87) of Chicago is
the producer of the TV series Small Talk for Parents for WYCC-TV,
a PBS station in Chicago. The program is sponsored by the Chicago Public
Schools.
Staci Adelman Vincent (J, GJ87) of
Beachwood, Ohio, is executive producer for special projects at the Gannett
Co.'s WKYC-TV in Cleveland. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for
investigative and consumer reports.
Ruth M.C. Piepgras Zekowski (KGSM87)
of Skokie, Ill., is retiring after 13 years as manager of research and
planning at Presbyterian Homes, which has retirement homes in Evanston,
Lake Forest, Ill., and Chicago.
Shonagh Aylsworth (KGSM88) of Chicago
is the associate director of MBA Career Services at the University of
Chicago.
Richard Scott Cohen (GMu88, 98) of
Radford, Va., was a guest lecturer at the Second Annual International
Mid-Europe Conference for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Schladming,
Austria, in July 1999.
Susan Dawson-O'Brien (GJ88) of Oklahoma
City, head of the journalism program at Rose State College in Midwest
City, Okla., has received tenure. Her husband, Josh O'Brien (GJ88,
91), is a public affairs specialist for the Oklahoma Education
Association, representing teachers in the Oklahoma City metro area.
Donna Gauwitz (N88) of Rochester,
Minn., is a nursing education specialist in the surgical section of the
Mayo Clinic. She is the author of the textbook Administering Medications:
Pharmacology for Health Careers (McGraw-Hill, 2000) and a medical
expert for a large legal firm.
Janet Kim Lee (McC88, GMcC89) of
Seattle and her husband, Tony, have a son, Keaton.
Rebecca G. Barnum-Coleman (Mu89)
of Edmond, Okla., a band director at Santa Fe High School and Summit Middle
School, serves as a regional adjudicator in music and as a guest conductor
for regional honor bands.
Doug Chamberlin (WCAS89) of Beverly
Hills, Calif., was one of the principal writers on Disney/Pixar's movie
Toy Story 2. He is currently writing a film that will co-star Robin
Williams and Bugs Bunny.
Simon Howard (J89) of Great Neck,
N.Y., is assistant director of public affairs for the Partnership for
a Drug-Free America, the national organization working to reduce demand
for illegal drugs.
Katherine Ling-McGeorge (WCAS89, M91)
of Bingham Farms, Mich., vice chair for education in the department of
pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Michigan, received a Community Access
to Child Health (CATCH) planning grant, which helped her provide fundamental
child care and health advocacy skills to teen mothers in Detroit.
John H. Lloyd (WCAS89) of South Bend,
Ind., joined the Mishawaka, Ind., office of the law firm Plews, Shadley,
Racher & Braun, the largest environmental law firm in Indiana.
Joshua R. Parks (WCAS, Mu89) of Seattle
is editorial producer at Go2Net Inc.
Rick Poole (KGSM89) of Bradenton,
Fla., is vice president and director of supply chain and customer service
for Tropicana Products.
Marcy Oster Spiegel (J89) of G'not
Shomron, Israel, was a senior staff reporter for the Cleveland Jewish
News before moving permanently to Israel this summer with her family.
Cathy A. Venable (Mu89) of Tulsa
is assistant opera director and staff accompanist at the University of
Tulsa and a pianist in Tulsa's Osage Chamber Players. She performed as
the soprano soloist in Ah, Perfido! by Beethoven during the 1998–99
season of the Tulsa Philharmonic.
Rebecca Weinshilbaum (Mu89) of Winston-Salem,
N.C., is a pediatrician in Winston-Salem.
Anne-Sophie Wenig (GS89) of Paris,
France, and her husband, Olivier Dutheil, have created FACTA, a product
design agency. They are the parents of Bertille, Elie and Etienne.
1990s
David Braun (McC90) of Elmhurst, Ill.,
is manager of marketing for Unicom Energy in Westchester, Ill.
Tiffany Ramos Cardwell (WCAS90) of
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., and her husband, Shawn, have just purchased a
new home.
Ariadne A. Carling (GMu90) of Wheaton,
Ill., is a high school choral director for Elmhurst School District 205.
Jennifer A. Ewing (McC90) of Mountain
View, Calif., a management consultant specializing in high-tech industries
for Pittiglio, Rabin, Tood and McGrath, completed a master's degree in
business administration at the University of Chicago in June 1999.
Paul Hedeen (G90) of Waverly, Iowa,
an assistant professor of English at Wartburg College in Waverly, was
named one of 1999's top U.S. professors by the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching.
Jill Yule Houk (WCAS90) of Glenview,
Ill., is a regional sales manager for Usertech, a communications consulting
company.
Lori Mosey Manca (WCAS90) of Rockville,
Md., is a trade and regulatory legal counsel for Life Technologies Inc.,
a biotechnology company in Rockville.
David W. Miller (S90) of Brentwood,
Calif., is an investment banker with Sutro & Co., based in Los Angeles.
Kelly Brandhorst O'Hara (WCAS90)
of Chicago, a consultant, and her mother, Judy, founded a relocation service
for retirees called Movin' on Inc., Relocations with TLC.
Jerrie Hall Powers (GS90) of Lake
Worth, Fla., is the information technology librarian at Lynn University
in Boca Raton. She is responsible for implementing a new library information
system, Endeavor Voyager, and providing reference service to students
and faculty.
Frank Reust (J90) of Webster Groves,
Mo., is a copy editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
John Richmond (G90) of Lutz, Fla.,
co-edited the winter 1999 issue of The Journal of Aesthetic Education.
Jacqueline S. Vargo Teague (WCAS90)
of Menlo Park, Calif., received her master's degree from Stanford University
in June 1999. A consultant, she does research and writing in education
policy.
Pamela Konigsberg Yoss (WCAS90) of
Summit, N.J., left her job as a vice president at JP Morgan after nine
years. She and her husband, Eric, have two children, Elizabeth and John.
Ira N. Adler (WCAS91) of Little Rock
finished his residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences in June. His wife, Jodi James Adler (S92),
completed a residency in family medicine.
Sherene A. Blakita (Mu91) of Boston
is vice president of education finance for Servus Financial Corp. in Herndon,
Va.
Eric Bucher (WCAS91, M95) of Greensburg,
Pa., is a pediatrician.
Stephen M. Cohen (WCAS91) of Portsmouth,
N.H., is a financial analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Andre K. Crump (KGSM91) of San Francisco
is the author of the photo essay Green Eyes, the Greenist Fields
(TCB-Cafe Publishing, 1999).
Tonya Marie Evans (S91) of Philadelphia,
a lawyer at Drinker, Biddle and Reath, is the author of the poetry collection
Seasons of Her (Fyos Entertaiment, 1999).
Deborah Hoffman Gonzalez (GS91)
of Sacramento, Calif., is a speech pathologist at Methodist Hospital
in Sacramento.
Michael E. Lisak (KGSM91) of Chicago
is a financial consultant with Aetna U.S. Healthcare in Chicago.
John K. Min (WCAS91, M95) of St.
Louis is on the faculty of Washington University's School of Medicine.
Seth Neulight (WCAS91) of San Francisco
is an attorney with Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman and specializes
in employment law. His wife, Bonnie (WCAS91),
is director of business development at Pets.com.
Shana Fineburg Owen (WCAS91) of Yardley,
Pa., is program director for the Devereux Foundation and works with developmentally
disabled adults. Her husband, Brad (WCAS,
McC, Nav92), is department head in charge of officer recruiting
for the U.S. Navy in the New York metropolitan area.
Raymond J.D. Roberts (Mu91) of Milwaukee,
director of choral activities at Milwaukee High School of the Arts, received
the Distinguished Teacher Award from the U.S. Department of Education
and the Outstanding Young Conductor Award from the Wisconsin Choral Directors
Association.
Darryl White (GMu91) of Lincoln,
Neb., a professor of trumpet at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln,
has recorded a new CD, Ancient Memories.
Michel Zeisser (KGSM91) of New York
City is a partner in McKinsey & Co., where he runs Silicon Alley@McKinsey,
which advises Internet businesses.
Karen K. Agrawal (McC92) of Atlanta
finished her internal residency at Emory University in Atlanta. She is
a hospitalist in internal medicine with Emory Healthcare Inpatient Physicians
and senior associate of medicine at Emory University.
Jim Arndorfer (J92) of Chicago is
a reporter for Crain's Chicago Business. His wife, Paula Wheeler
(J, GJ92), owns P.K. Wheeler Communications, a communications business
focused on marketing and public relations.
Jennifer Ayres (Mu92) of Canton Center,
Conn., a resident artist with the Connecticut Opera, debuted in New York
City's Carnegie Hall in March.
Julie Bencic-Drellishak (J92) of
Cleveland works for Cole Vision Corp. and is the brand manager for optical
departments in Target stores.
Shannan Satkamp Bishop (WCAS92) of
San Francisco, a fourth-generation Northwestern graduate, earned a master's
degree in business administration in 1996 from Harvard Business School.
Anastasia Congdon (S92) of Berkeley,
Calif., received the 2000 John K. Banner Traveling Fellowship from the
School of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. The
fellowship took her around the world for nine months to study architecture
in different countries.
Daniela Terrizzi DeFrino (WCAS92)
of Chicago works at Northwestern Memorial Hospital as a clinical nurse
educator.
David M. Jenks (McC92) of Brown Deer,
Wis., completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn., and is a doctor with Advance Healthcare, a multispecialty
group in Milwaukee.
Felician D. Jones (WCAS92) of LaGrange,
Ga., completed his internal medicine residency training at the Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. He is now a self-employed
physician in the rural community of Valley, Ala.
Michael Kirsten (S92) of New York
City, a talent agent at Harden-Curtis Associates, handles a number of
Northwestern alumni, including David Eggers (S93), Cheryl Stern
(S78) and Kate Shindle (S99).
Mike Knobloch (S92) of Los Angeles
is vice president of film music for movie studio 20th Century Fox.
Kimberly McGaw (WCAS92) of Houston
is in the Second City Conservatory in Chicago.
Janet Cho Paik (GJ92) of Cleveland
is a reporter for The Plain Dealer. She covers county government.
Josette Parker (WCAS92) of Philadelphia
completed a residency in internal medicine at Philadelphia's Temple University
and is currently obtaining her master's degree in public health at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Wendy Steinhoff (S92) of Los Angeles
is the manager of drama programming for CBS Productions.
Melinda Tilly (WCAS92) of Sacramento,
Calif., spent three months climbing and traveling alone in East Africa,
successfully completing solo winter climbs to the summits of Mount Kenya
and Mount Kilimanjaro by nonstandard routes.
Sarah Wadelton (S92) of Hastings-on-Hudson,
N.Y., graduated from Fordham Law School in May 1999. She is currently
practicing corporate litigation with Friedman, Wittenstein & Hochman in
New York City.
Thomas Corbett Webster (McC92) of
San Mateo, Calif., is a patent attorney with Blakely Sokoloff, Taylor
and Zaffman in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Tom Yoritaka (WCAS92) of Los Angeles,
a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Los Angeles, is enjoying
Southern California's great climate and cultural diversity.
Miriam Ann Stariha Zajicek (WCAS92)
of Oak Brook, Ill., is assistant vice president of IBJ Lanston Futures.
Daniel Chen (McC93) of Irvine, Calif.,
is co-founder of Asianmarketplace.com, an Internet start-up company specializing
in selling Asian snacks.
Keith E. Clifton (GMu93, 98) of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, teaches music and music history at the University of Northern
Iowa. An active singer and pianist, he is also working on a book about
American music.
Elizabeth Nicole Espy (GS93) of Atlanta,
a television/video producer for Kestrel Communications in Atlanta, received
a Telly Award and a Southern Regional Emmy for a piece about the revitalization
of the East Lake area of Atlanta. She has also produced a video, How
to Play Quarterback, for the National Football League Coaches Association.
Erica Haefner (WCAS93) of New York
City is an assistant vice president of finance at Citibank's Private Bank.
Ronald Scott Kaniuk (WCAS93) of New
York City is an associate in the bankruptcy department of the law firm
of Todtman, Nachamie, Spizz & Johns.
Meghan T. Kelley (SESP93) of St.
Paul received dual master's degrees in social work and public affairs
from the University of Minnesota. She is an administrator and public interest
lobbyist for the Minnesota Association of County Social Service Administrators.
Kevin Krizek (McC93) of Seattle completed
the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, and the Xterra
Triathlon on Maui the following weekend.
Gabriella Santinelli (S93) of London,
England, played the role of Blondchen in Mozart's The Abduction from
the Seraglio at London's Covent Garden in the Linbury Studio Theatre.
In November she was Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Tokyo.
Lea Kramer Smiley (M93) of Roanoke,
Va., is a physical therapist at Lewis-Gale Medical Center in Salem, Va.
Chad E. Borden (S94) of Toluca Lake, Calif., is an actor and was
nominated for a Theatre LA Ovation Award for his performance in How
to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. He also co-starred with
Marilyn McCoo in Ellington Songbook and with David Hyde Pierce
in The Boys from Syracuse.
Linda L. Brennan (GMcC94) of Roswell,
Ga., an assistant professor in the Stetson School of Business and Economics
at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., is program director for the master's
degree program in technology management.
Rob Brookby (WCAS94) of Tampa received
a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School
in June 1999. He is a research analyst with the investment bank Raymond
James Financials in Tampa. His wife, Silvy Nordquist (WCAS94),
is teaching algebra at Berkeley Preparatory School.
Rebecca Davis (WCAS94) of Boston
graduated from Harvard Business School in June 1999 and works in business
development for iBelong, an Internet portal company in Waltham, Mass.
Ryan Gostomski (WCAS94) of Namyslow,
Poland, is president and general manager of the Ryan Namyslow Brewery.
George D. Grove (McC94) of Rochester,
N.Y., a medical student at the University of New Mexico, received a master's
degree in fine arts in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology
in the spring. Four of his photos were selected for an exhibition at the
Tisch School of the Arts in New York City in June 1999.
Maura A. Kelly (GJ94) of Chicago
started a one-year reporting stint with the Chicago Tribune in
January.
Sarah J. Kreykes (J94) of Los Angeles
is a management consultant at Sibson and Co. in Los Angeles. She finished
her first marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, in Washington, D.C.
Christopher S. Lake (McC, Nav94)
of Jacksonville, Fla., is stationed at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.
He was deployed for six months on the USS Eisenhower to the Mediterranean
and the Persian Gulf.
Lisa D. Ornstein (S94) of Eau Claire,
Wis., opened a Great Harvest Bread Company store in Eau Claire with Scott
Westphal (S92, GJ95) in April 1998.
Cornell D. Sinclair (Nav94, WCAS95)
of Hartshorne, Okla., a Navy lieutenant, returned in December from a six-month
deployment to the western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf aboard
the aircraft carrier USS Constellation.
Sarah Lai Stirland (J94) of New York
City is a reporter for Red Herring online.
Cat Chow (S95) of Chicago, a fashion
designer, won the Avant Garde Design Vision Award in the Gen Art Styles
International Design Competition. She designs one-of-a-kind clothing using
nontraditional materials.
James Fenelon (G95) of Apple Valley,
Calif., assistant professor of sociology at California State University
in San Bernardino, is the author of Culturicide, Resistance and Survival
of the Lakota (Sioux Nation) (Garland Publishing, 1998).
Kris Gardiner (WCAS95) of San Diego
is working on a doctorate in clinical psychology and working as a therapist
at a psychiatric hospital.
Catherine E. Hottenrott (SESP95)
of Chicago, was a 2000 Golden Apple Award Finalist and recognized as one
of the area's best elementary school teachers. She teaches at McDowell
Elementary School in Chicago.
Richard J. Long (J, GJ95) of Chicago
is global knowledge manager for the customer relationship management practice
at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting in Chicago.
Robert P. Mark (GJ95) of Evanston
is the author of The Professional Pilot Career Guide (McGraw-Hill,
1999).
Zain al-Hussain Moloobhoy (McC95)
of Bombay, India, is self-employed in the international trade of crude
oil and oil products through the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Michelle A. Ravn (WCAS95) of Canton,
Ohio, is an associate with the law firm of Baker & Hostetler in Cleveland.
Courtney Vartan (SESP95) of Palo
Alto, Calif., is assistant director of student affairs at the Stanford
Graduate School of Business.
Melissa Williams (GJ95) of Auckland,
New Zealand, is deputy editor of New Idea, a women's mass market
weekly magazine in Auckland.
Dawn S. Brown (WCAS96, M99) of Cincinnati
received her master's degree in physical therapy from Northwestern in
November.
Sarah C. Davis (WCAS96) of South
Bend, Ind., has begun work on a doctorate in medieval history at Notre
Dame University in South Bend.
Elizabeth Breaden de Larauze (WCAS96)
of Evanston is associate director of business development at Brinson Partners,
a global institutional investment management firm in Chicago.
Jerilan D. Greene (S96) of San Francisco
is the public relations manager at Incyte Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto,
Calif.
Lorin M. Hochman (S96) of Wilmington,
Del., an associate in the Wilmington office of the law firm of Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, was sworn into the Delaware bar.
Carwil R. James (WCAS96) of Berkeley,
Calif., participated in the mass action to shut down the World Trade Organization
in Seattle before moving to Berkeley to work for Project Underground,
an environmental and human rights group.
Gary D. Lueck (McC96) of Redondo
Beach, Calif., is an attorney in intellectual property law with Pretty,
Schroeder & Poplawski in Los Angeles.
John McDermott (WCAS96) of New York
City is an associate in investment banking for JP Morgan.
Christiana Miller (S96) of Studio
City, Calif., wrote two episodes of General Hospital.
Ryann J. Plinska (J96) of Chicago
is an e-commerce business development manager at Household International
and is pursuing a master of management degree in marketing and e-commerce
at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Greg Forbes Siegman (S96) of Chicago
received the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service and was honored
by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. He is the founder of The 11-10-02 Foundation
and The Brunch Bunch, an organization that pairs up Chicago schoolchildren
with area adults for weekly brunches.
Jennifer S. Taff (McC96) of New York
City graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in May
and is a patent attorney for the law firm of Fish & Neave in New York.
Cesar Torres (J96) of Oak Park, Ill.,
syndication producer for Britannica.com in Chicago, is studying for a
master's degree in human-computer interaction at DePaul University.
Lisa Wilson-Wirth (J, GJ96) of Arlington,
Mass., is eMarketing manager for Intranets.com, where she is responsible
for brand and advertising strategies for both traditional and online media.
J. Louis Alford (WCAS97) of McComb,
Miss., is pursuing a master's degree in teaching at Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond, Va.
Mike J. Bosserman (McC97) of Lisbon
Falls, Maine, a scientist at International Paper/Masonite in Lisbon Falls,
is enjoying life.
Zi-Jian Cai (G97) of Shanghai, China,
is a group human resources director for a Danish company.
Elizabeth Warren Cook (GJ97) of Charleston,
S.C., is a reporter for The Post & Courier.
Anne Dudek (S97) of Newton, Mass.,
will be appearing on Broadway in Wrong Mountain, a new play by David Hirson.
Kavita Gupta (McC97) of Springfield,
Va., is in her third year of medical school at the University of Virginia.
Michelle Mikolajczak (S97) of Los
Angeles, assistant to the producer at Jaffilms, produced an original one-person,
one-act play at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood with director
Justine Campbell-Elliott (S97). The
play raised $3,000 for One Voice, a social service organization in Southern
California.
Jill Moore (WCAS97) of Chicago, a
behavioral therapist, spent three weeks with other North American volunteers
working on medical and maintenance projects on Rarotonga, one of the the
Cook Islands of the South Pacific.
Anrienne E. Holz O'Connor (McC97)
of Minneapolis is attending graduate school in chemical engineering at
the University of Minnesota.
Jeniene Phillips-Berger (GJ97) of
Montréal is a senior reporter and health specialist at Global Quebec Television,
an English-language television station in Montréal.
Alison Sneed (S97) of Washington,
D.C., is a political reporter for The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, reporting
on political affairs and education issues. She is currently covering the
presidential race.
Cameron Westwater (WCAS97) of Santa
Barbara, Calif., a second-year law student at the University of California,
Davis, worked as a summer associate for law firm Latham & Watkins in Los
Angeles.
Jason Casell (GJ98) of San Antonio,
a second-year student at the University of Michigan Law School, was a
summer associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in New York.
David Fisher (WCAS98) of Chicago,
district manager of Vector Marketing's Chicago office, has been a member
of the Jesters, a ska-funk band, for the past four years.
Judith A. Forman (J98) of Hartford,
Conn., now a town news reporter for the Journal Inquirer, was a weekly
columnist who wrote on television programming for people in their 20s.
Gaetan E. Gerville-Reache (Mu, Nav98)
of La Mesa, Calif., a Navy ensign, recently returned from a six-month
deployment to the western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf aboard
the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold.
T. Vivian Ishimaru-Tseng (M98) of
Honolulu, assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, was appointed
assistant training director for the university's psychiatric residency
program. She is involved in research on women's mental health.
Jonathan Lipman (J99) of Chicago
is working for the Associated Press after spending six months covering
the U.S. Congress, the Department of Energy and NASA for States News Service.
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