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1980s

Beth Heidi Adelman (J80, GJ81) of Brooklyn wrote her first book, Every Cat's Survival Guide to Living with a Neurotic Owner (Barnes & Noble, 2003), a guide to understanding feline behavior. She also established her own business as an editorial services consultant, working with book publishers, packagers, magazines and corporate clients.

Pamela R. Adkins (GJ80) of New York City is director of public relations at Montefiore Medical Center . She is discovering New York City in her free time.

Peter Kindrachuk (WCAS80) of Brentwood, Tenn., is president of Peter Kindrachuk & Associates, a consulting and interim management company organized in 2003 to assist health care organizations with their physician needs. He and his wife have two daughters.

Nili Yelin Wronski (C80) of Wilmette, Ill., started a storytelling business, The Storybook Mom, combining theater, poetry and literature. She serves as a storyteller for the Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Parent magazine, local museums and bookstores.

Janice McAvenia Amitrano (WCAS81) of Howell, N.J., is corporate director of patient access and financial services at CentraState Healthcare System.

Lisa Holton (J81) of Evanston is a freelance corporate writer at her firm, The Lisa Co. She is an independent writer, editor and researcher who wrote The Essential Dictionary of Real Estate (Barnes & Noble, 2004), a 3,000-word glossary. Her first book was How to Be a Value Investor (McGraw-Hill, 1999) .

Charles Nesbitt (J81) of Vernon Hills, Ill., is head writer on the TV series Health Corner on WGN-TV in Chicago . The half-hour series examines a variety of general interest health topics.

Niki Nicholas (WCAS81) of El Portal, Calif., is chief of resources management at Yosemite National Park .

Bradley Smith (McC81) of Sammamish, Wash., joined Microsoft's licensing and product strategy group in Redmond . He and his wife, Lynne, have three children, Evan, Margot and Jared.

Neri Cohen (G82) of Owings Mills, Md., heads a minimally invasive thoracic surgery center and directs a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology program at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. His wife and children are delighted to be among family in the Baltimore-Washington area.

Judith Hamera (GC82, 87) of South Pasadena, Calif., professor of speech communication and acting associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters at California State University, Los Angeles, received the President's Distinguished Professor Award for 2004. She has taught nine different graduate seminars and 15 undergraduate courses in communication studies and theater arts and dance since 1987.

Sanjaya Maniktala (G82) of Fremont, Calif., principal engineer at National Semiconductor Corp., is a guest columnist for National Semiconductor newsletter. He is also the author of Switching Power Supply Design and Optimization (McGraw Hill, 2004).

Dana M. Oliver (Mu82) of Joliet, Ill., is an outpatient chemotherapy nurse at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She plays the cello with the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra in Clarendon Hills.

Peter Sitz (WCAS82) of San Diego received a master's degree in forensic science from National University in March.

Arlene S. Hirsch (GSESP83) of Chicago is a career counselor and wrote How To Be Happy at Work: A Practical Guide to Career Satisfaction (Jist Works, 2003).

William Malinowski (GJ83) of Barrington, R.I., is a member of the Providence Journal 's investigative team. Among his many awards, he received second place for breaking news stories on the conviction of former Providence Mayor Vincent “Buddy“ Cianci Jr. in 2003. In 1999 he received the Publick Occurrences Award from New England News Association for investigating former Rhode Island Gov. Edward D. DiPrete in a corruption probe. He and his wife have a 10-year old daughter, Molly.

J. David Singer (H83) of Ann Arbor, Mich., retired from teaching in the University of Michigan 's political science department last year. He currently teaches a course on war and the environment in the School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Michael E. Sloane (G83) of Birmingham, Ala., an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Alabama, was named director of the university's honors program beginning in July. He continues to perform research in the area of visual psychophysics.

Sheryl Weiner Ball (WCAS84, KSM86, 91) of Christianburg, Va., associate professor of economics at the College of Science at Virginia Tech, was named associate dean for curriculum, instruction and advising in February. She is a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and related organizations.

Kevin H. Breunig (WCAS84) of Lexington, Mass., became director of communications at the Appalachian Mountain Club in Boston in 2004. He also wrote Losing Ground: At What Cost? (Massachusetts Audubon Society, November 2003), a study of land use and its impact on wildlife habitat. He and his wife, Linda, have two daughters, Virginia and Ella.

David Buzard (WCAS84) of Norfolk, Va., joined the law firm Rutter Mills in February as a partner. He represents injured maritime and railroad workers and persons injured due to government negligence.

Catherine Greener (McC84) of Basalt, Colo., is principal at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass.

Vergel Lattimore (G84) of Westerville, Ohio, is professor of pastoral care and director of the master's of arts in counseling ministries program at Methodist Theological School in Ohio . He was nominated by the president and confirmed as the first African American brigadier general in the Air National Guard and in the U.S. Air Force. He serves as primary liaison between the Air National Guard Chaplain Service and the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Service. He is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and serves as an associate minister with the First A.M.E. Zion Church in Columbus .

Fredric J. Mulvihill (C84) of Carol Stream, Ill., director of inventory management for the McGraw-Hill Companies in Burr Ridge, leads the McGraw-Hill Education Global Transformation Project.

Stephen Pratt (McC84) of San Francisco was named Deloitte Consulting's top client-service consultant in 2003. He founded and led Deloitte Consulting's global customer relationship management practice.

Patty Seyburn (J84, GJ85) of Newport Beach, Calif., teaches poetry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . She has written two poetry books, Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State, 2003) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She and her husband, Eric, have two children, Sydney and Will.

David J. Steinberg (C84) of Los Angeles is an artist, producer and production executive who worked on animated films such as An American Tail and The Land Before Time . He recently produced Walt Disney's animated musical comedy Home on the Range, released in April. After the births of his three sons, Daniel, Micah and Noah, he began writing children's books. His first two books, Grasshopper Pie and Other Poems and Monster Mall and Other Spooky Poems, were published by Grosset & Dunlap in 2004.

Gary Weitman (GJ84) of Highland Park, Ill., vice president of corporate communications at the Tribune Company, was named to the board of directors of the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago in December 2003.

Renee Raab Whitcombe (C84) of Manhattan Beach, Calif., an author and publisher, produced two interactive photo journals for siblings-to-be from Budding Family Publishing in 2003.

Alvin Chow (McC85, KSM94) of Portland, Ore., joined Nike's global strategy group in March. He previously was a senior brand manager for Coca-Cola in Atlanta .

Kurt A. Edwards (Mu85, GC89) of Northbrook, Ill., is director of Client Operations at Morningstar.

Scott Halstead (McC85) of San Francisco was appointed CEO of WageWorks in March. The firm is one of the nation's largest providers of commuter benefits programs and one of the fastest-growing providers of flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care.

Mollie Fromstein Katz (J85) of Bethesda, Md., completed her first year as a freelance public relations professional in December 2003. She specializes in media relations, strategic communications planning and communications skills training. She was part of a communications team that won a Public Relations Society of America 2003 Silver Anvil Award for a campaign on health care for the critically ill and dying. She and her husband have two children.

Roger A. Kittleson (WCAS85) of Williamstown, Mass., is associate professor of history with tenure at Williams College .

John M. Linardakis (WCAS85, GSESP90) of Elmhurst, Ill., recently joined the Chicago Medical School as a research scientist in the department of neuroscience. An active member of the American Chemical Society for more than a decade, he will extend his in vitro diagnostics experience into cutting-edge in vivo neuro-transmission work. He and his wife have two children.

John Santa Lucia (WCAS85, L88) of Chicago is a partner at the law firm of Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg.

Robert M. Moon (WCAS85) of Pasadena, Calif., was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church on Jan. 24 and is serving as curate at the Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre.

Alyse “Allie” Stanko Pleiter (C85) of Villa Park, Ill., wrote two nonfiction books, Becoming a Chief Home Officer (Zondervan, 2002) and Facing Every Mom's Fears (Zondervan, 2004). She continues to write novels about women's everyday lives.

Bruce Summerville (WCAS85, GFSM95) of Lake Bluff, Ill., is a member of the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, a 50-physician orthopedic practice specializing in hip and knee replacement. He and his wife, Martha, are parents of triplets, Macartan, Rory and Finola, and their sister, Maeve.

Luan Troxel (WCAS85) of Darien, Conn., is a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers in New York City .

Margo Kandelman Bartsch (WCAS86, GJ91) of Shelburne, Vt., is founder of Margo Bartsch Consulting, an advertising, marketing and business plan development firm. Her husband, Adam H. Bartsch (GJ91), an attorney, founded NorthEast Estates and Trusts, which specializes in estate planning for residents of New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. They have a 6-year-old daughter, Camille.

Dan D. Chaon (WCAS86) of Cleveland, the Houck Associate Professor in the Humanities at Oberlin College, wrote You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine, 2004), which explores identity, fate and circumstance. In 2002 he wrote the short story collection Among the Missing (Random House, 2002), named one of the best books of the year by the American Library Association. The book received an Ohioana Award from the Ohioana Library Association.

Andrew Bruce McDonald (McC86) of Westwood, Mass., an endowed assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant in the 2004 competition for research focused on modeling and analysis of reconfigurable wireless communications systems. The CAREER Program grant is one of the NSF's most prestigious awards. McDonald and his wife, Laurie, have two sons, Justin Philip and Matthew Stephen.

Harvin Moore (WCAS86) of Houston, senior vice president for operations at Team Encounter, was elected to the Houston Independent School District Board of Education in November 2003.

Susan Nickerson Nielsen (C86, GC92) of Skokie, Ill., was named chair of the English department of Deerfield High School in 2002.

Jeffrey N. Pollack (J86) of Los Angeles, managing director of broadcasting and new media for NASCAR, received a 2003 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television for a Single Program. He was named twice to the Sporting News 100 and listed in the Sports Business Journal 's inaugural “40 Under 40.”

Myrna Reid-Grant (GC86) of Wheaton, Ill., is an associate professor of communication emerita at Wheaton College . She wrote Sacred Legacy: Writings from Nine Women of Strength and Honor (Baker Books, 2003) and a chapter in Mediating Religion (T&T Clark, 2003).

Dawn Westlake (C86) of Los Angeles performed in the comedy film Fake Stacy in April 2003. It was selected for the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin in March and played at the Sundance Film Festival. Her new film, A Life of Death, was performed in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in January. It was featured at the 2004 DC Independent Film Festival in March, where it won the Grand Jury Award, and the Ashland Independent Film Fest in Oregon in April.

Mark S. Anderson (WCAS87) of Larkspur, Calif., is a physician and assistant professor in the Diabetes Center at the University of California, San Francisco . He and his wife, Laura, have three children.

Lisa Caputo (GJ87) of New York City is president and CEO of Citigroup's Women and Co., which serves women's financial needs. She is also managing director of business operations and planning for Citigroup's Global Consumer Group. She was named to the Crain's New York Business “40 under 40” list in January. She was an NBC and MSNBC political analyst for the 2000 elections.

Melinda Cavicchia (SESP87) of Clarksville, Tenn., was recently deployed to Iraq for 10 months with the 101st Airborne Division. She serves as the division's preventive medicine physician. She has served in the U.S. Army for 13 years and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in June 2003.

Patricia Frank (FSM87) of the Chicago area is president and principal consultant for Patricia Frank & Associates, a consulting firm that assists the pharmaceutical industry in product development. She was elected president of the American College of Toxicology and will serve as president-elect in 2004 and president in 2005.

J. Carl Ganter (WCAS87, GJ91) of Traverse City, Mich., is serving a two-year term at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is on the working group for “Navigating Peace: New Thinking on Water,” which addresses the global freshwater crisis and critical human security questions.

Bruce Stephenson (WCAS87) of Arlington, Mass., was named manager at Bain & Company in Boston . He is also a major in the U.S. Air Force Reserve assigned to the Pentagon.

Sheila M. Thomas (WCAS87) of Newton, Mass., is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School .

Laura R. Weinstein (C87) of Washington, D.C., co-produced the National Geographic special Dawn of the Maya, a one-hour documentary about archaeological discoveries of the ancient civilization. The show premiered May 12 on PBS. She also was the associate producer on National Geographic Television's Surviving Everest, Inside Mecca and In Search of the Jaguar, all of which aired in 2003.

Nitu Arora (McC88) of Germantown, Tenn., was named area general manager for Cricket Communications' offices in Arkansas, Nebraska and Tennessee in January. He manages the Midwest market introduction, operation and expansion for the company, a local wireless service provider.

Wendy R. Beer (C88) of New York City was named director of leveraged finance and distressed bank loans at Credit Suisse First Boston in January.

Kristine Stiven Breese (GJ88) of Los Angeles, author and owner of Words and Ideas, wrote her first book, Cereal for Dinner: Strategies, Shortcuts & Sanity for Moms Battling Illness ( St. Martin 's Press, 2004). She left a full-time job to focus on her health, family and writing career after surviving cardiac arrest at age 35.

Donna Eckerman Gauwitz (GFSM88) of Woodbury, Minn., is senior teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota 's School of Nursing . She wrote Administering Medication: Pharmacology for Health Careers, fifth edition (McGraw-Hill, 2004).

Cheryle Robinson Jackson (WCAS88) of Chicago was appointed director of communications for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (WCAS79) in January 2003. She is the first African American woman to hold the position in Illinois . She previously was national director of state government for Amtrak, working with the agency's disaster-response team.

Eric Osterberg (WCAS88) of Wilton, Conn., is counsel to the law firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner in New York City . He and his father, Robert, wrote a legal treatise, Substantial Similarity in Copyright Law (Practising Law Institute, 2003) . He and his wife, Shelly, have two children, Kelley and Lars.

Julia C. Parke (WCAS88) of Holland, Mich., became president and CEO of the Holland Historical Trust in February. The trust operates the Holland Museum and two historic sites.

Rachel Stoler (WCAS88) of Turners Falls, Mass., has spent the last 16 years “having wonderful adventures, meeting great people and learning things that could fill books.” She and her daughter enjoy springtime in western Massachusetts .

Mary Clare Greabe Bonaccorsi (L89) of River Forest, Ill., became a partner at the Chicago international law firm of Bryan Cave in February.

Rebecca Barnum Coleman (Mu89) of Edmond, Okla., is the band director for the Edmond Public Schools.

Suzanne Metzger Haugh (GJ89) of Louisville, a freelance copy editor and writer, is busy raising three children. She writes for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and received two first-place awards from the Catholic Press Association in 2003 for her work on the subject of Eucharistic adoration.

Kelly Riordan Horwitz (SESP89) of San Diego is a law clerk for U.S. District Judge John A. Houston in the Southern District of California.

Francine Pope Huff (J89) of Maplewood, N.J., news editor on the global editing desk at the Wall Street Journal in New York City, wrote The 25-Day Financial Makeover: A Practical Guide for Women (Fleming H. Revell, 2004).

Peter Lograsso (Mu89) of Westchester, Ill., is in his 15th year as orchestra director and music teacher at Albright Middle School in Villa Park . Under his direction the Albright Orchestra was selected to perform at the annual All-State Conference of the Illinois Music Educators Association three times. He continues to play the tuba with the Northshore Concert Band.

Ronald Lueptow (KSM89) of Naperville, Ill., joined Tatum Partners as CFO partner in its Chicago office.

Jye-Cherng Joseph Lyu (KSM89) of Taipei, Taiwan, was appointed president of the Land Bank of Taiwan . In November 2003 he became chair of the Kellogg Alumni Club of Taiwan.

Melissa A. Merz (J89) of Chicago has served as press secretary for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan since August 2002. She lived in Washington, D.C., for 12 years and was communications director for U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.

Carlton Pilger (J89, L94) of Atlanta was named a partner with the law firm of Miller & Martin in the Atlanta office in January. He practices Employment Retirement Income Security Act law with an emphasis on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance.

Rich Skrenta (WCAS89) of Mountain View, Calif., is founder and CEO of the firm Topix.net, a technology startup providing online news organized by subject and location.

Brett Sonnenschein (C89) of Brooklyn is a studio artist with Cossette Post Communications, a New York ad agency. His wife, Jennifer Owens Sonnenschein (J89, GJ90), is a news editor at Footwear News, a sister publication of Women's Wear Daily in New York .

Mark Anthony Vajdik (C89) of Chicago wrote and directed the play R3 — A Gothic Tale, performed at the Bailiwick Arts Center in the spring. His professional name is Mark Vadik.