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1990s

Mike Alzamora (C90) of Evanston was named vice president of communications for the Arena Football League's Chicago Rush.

Thomas Becher (J90, GJ90) of Rosemount, Minn., was named manager of media relations for Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis . He and his wife, Amy, and their son, Phillip, relocated from Purchase, N.Y., to Rosemount.

Kristen Theobald Braig (WCAS90) of Marysville, Ohio, a physician, joined Maple Leaf Family and Sports Medicine, a private practice group in Bellefontaine. In June 2003 she completed her residency in family medicine at Grant Medical Center in Columbus .

Jeffrey A. Brauer (C90) of Kirtland, Ohio, was named a partner at the law firm Hahn Loeser & Parks in January. He is chair of both the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division Litigation Committee and the Ohio State Bar Association's New Lawyers Section.

Anthony B. Byergo (L90) of Lees Summit, Mo., joined the law firm Armstrong Teasdale in Kansas City in January. He is a member of the firm's employment and labor department.

Tiffany Ramos Cardwell (WCAS90) of Louisville is a human resources consultant with Humana. She enjoys the variety of work, including compensation, benefits, associate relations, recruiting and training. She has two children, Ryan and Haley.

Lisa Casalegno (J90) of Rocklin, Calif., was named deputy chief of staff for California State Controller Steve Westly in 2004. She had been press secretary for the office since 2001.

David W. Dietz (McC90) of Wichita, Kan., is a design engineer at Cessna Aircraft Co.

Amber Watson Dimoff (GMu90) of Cleveland, a violinist, is a member and personnel manager for the 2003–04 season with Red {an orchestra}. She also performs with the Cleveland Opera, the Cleveland Pops and the Playhouse Square Ballet. Her husband, Maximilian Dimoff (Mu90), is head of the double bass department at the Cleveland Institute of Music and principal bassist of the Cleveland Orchestra. They have two children, Isabel and Xavier.

Alexander Djuricich (WCAS90) of Greenwood, Ind., is assistant professor of clinical medicine and pediatrics and associate program director of internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed the Michigan State University faculty development fellowship program in 2001.

Margaret “Meg” Heron-Blake (GC90) of Western Springs, Ill., director of the Learning Disabilities Association of Illinois, diagnoses and treats children and adults with learning disabilities. In February she received the Chicago Women of Concern's Brigid Award, presented annually to women who exemplify compassion, justice and generosity. She has a private practice in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago and is the mother of 2-year-old Nora.

Carol Anne Riddell (GJ90) of New York City is a reporter at WNBC-TV, covering education and children's issues. She and her husband have two children.

Dan Ring (WCAS90) of Chicago is a partner at the law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. His wife, Beth Culley Ring (McC90, FSM93), is a practicing emergency physician at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital . They have four children, Austin, Drew, Elena and Tessa.

Elyn Rykken (G90, 93) of Allentown, Pa., earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor of mathematics at Muhlenberg College in January.

Michele S. Suggs (WCAS90) of New York City is associate counsel to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., where she manages commercial litigation. In 2004 she was one of seven new directors elected to the board of The Door, a New York City youth development agency.

Terri M. Trotter-Wright (C90) of Fayetteville, Ark., is vice president of communications at the Walton Arts Center .

Susan Morrow Bell (WCAS91, KSM99) of Mercer Island, Wash., enjoys her work as a commercial product manager for the exercise equipment manufacturer Precor. She and her family relocated to Seattle two years ago.

Laurie Colchamiro (C91) of Port Washington, N.Y., is assistant director of publicity at Simon & Schuster in New York City .

Leslie A. Corbett (C91) of Chicago is an associate director at the Chicago Bar Foundation.

Carolyn Cromer (WCAS91) of Louisville is president of the Blackacre Foundation and director of Blackacre State Nature Preserve. In 2003 she earned her master's degree in forestry and land resource management from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also taking tap dance lessons.

Tamra Powell Drees (C91) of Chicago is public affairs director at the Chicago Bar Association.

Peter Jordan Glawatz (C91) of Beverly Hills, Calif., vice president of business and legal affairs at Universal Network Television in Universal City, manages business pertaining to the Law & Order series franchise.

Michael K. Hubbard (KSM91) of Mercer Island, Wash., became a principal at Capstone Partners' Seattle office in November 2003. He specializes in real estate business with corporate, health care and investment clients.

Shari Hyman (L91) of Brooklyn recently became deputy executive director of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board after clerking for two judges in the New York City Supreme Court for four years.

Theodore Kendris (G91) of Bloomsburg, Pa., a freelance translator and adjunct professor, co-wrote several books with his father, Christopher Kendris (G54, 55), notably 501 French Verbs (Barron's Education Series, 2003) and French Vocabulary (Barron's Education Series, 2002). He earned a doctorate in French literature from l'Université Laval in Quebec City in 2002.

Rachel Garbow Monroe (WCAS91, KSM98) of Owings Mills, Md., was named chief operating officer for the Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore in December 2003. She oversees marketing, operations, facilities, human resources and executive departments. She also serves as an adjunct professor of nonprofit marketing at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies.

Holly Blackford (C92, G94) of Sicklerville, N.J., assistant professor of English and director of writing at Rutgers University in Camden since July 2002, wrote Out of This World: Why Literature Matters to Girls (Teachers College Press, 2004). She teaches and publishes articles on American and children's literature.

Rachel Gunderman Breitbach (C92) of Pasadena, Calif., is corporate human resources director for Tetra Tech, an engineering and specialized consulting company. She also is an adjunct professor in the graduate business school of Azusa Pacific University .

Nora Lynn Curry (WCAS92) of Chicago is project manager in the city of Chicago 's Department of Planning and Development.

Eric M. Gander (GC92) of Briarwood, N.Y., is an associate professor of public argument in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College in New York . He wrote On Our Minds (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), examining the public debate between evolutionary psychologists and their critics.

Sonja Jones Hodgkins (C92) of San Francisco is a news reporter at KPIX-TV.

Lisa Krutzel Katzman (KSM92) of Chantilly, Va., joined Booz Allen Hamilton's Worldwide Technology sector in February. She provides strategic communications consulting services to civil government clients. She is also a freelance writer and enjoys life with her husband, Evan, and their children, David and Caroline.

Antoinette Lucas (WCAS92) of Dover, N.H., was named head field hockey coach for James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., in January. She competed for the United States in field hockey from 1990 to 2002 and was a member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team that placed fifth in the Atlanta Olympic Games. At Northwestern she was a three-time All-American in field hockey and a two-time All-American in lacrosse.

Robert G. Mau (SCS92, G98) of Chicago was appointed senior writer for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in February.

Kimberly L. McGaw (WCAS92) of Houston established the Invisible Bus program, bringing retro playground games and dramatic play into communities. She also created live versions of paintings for the MOMA exhibit at Houston 's Museum of Fine Arts . She is completing her first book.

Mark Verschuur (WCAS92, KSM01) of Chicago is vice president and senior financial adviser at Merrill Lynch.

Cecelia Baukus (WCAS93) of Sanford, N.C., completed her ear, nose and throat residency in June and joined the Cape Fear Otolaryngology group in Fayetteville in July as an ear, nose and throat surgeon.

Jesus H. Delgado-Jenkins (KSM93) of Chicago was appointed deputy assistant secretary for management and budget and chief acquisition officer at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C., in January. He manages the Treasury budget and assists in implementing the President's Management Agenda, an aggressive strategy for improving management of the federal government.

David W. Ellis (L93) of Chicago, partner at Williams, Bax & Ellis, served as deputy counsel to the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. He recently wrote the legal thriller Jury of One (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004). In 2002 his book Line of Vision won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.

Jeff Engelman (WCAS93) of Brookline, Mass., is an oncology fellow at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston . His wife, Dana Rohde Engelman (C93), is busy taking care of their daughter, Lexie.

Rama D. Jager (McC93, FSM99, GME00) of Oak Forest, Ill., is completing his retinal surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School .

Anthony Perucci (C93) of Los Angeles, assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Northridge, earned a doctorate in performance studies from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2003.

B.J. Sigesmund (J93) of New York City is a staff editor at Us Weekly magazine and appears on CNN's American Morning on the “90 Second Pop” showbiz panel.

David J. Ventura (WCAS93) of Menlo Park, Calif., became a principal with Crimson Investment in Palo Alto in February.

Deborah J. Williams (WCAS93) of Springfield, Ill., is assistant counsel for the state of Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

Valerie Banks Amster (J94, GSESP95) of Centreville, Va., is a high school yearbook adviser in northern Virginia . Her last yearbook was named a Pacemaker finalist by the National Scholastic Press Association. Her husband, Michael Amster (WCAS95), joined a group practice in July 2002 after completing his pediatric residency at the Medical College of Virginia in June 2002.

Jala Anderson-McKee (C94) of Gibsonville, N.C., is the weekend anchor at WFMY-TV, the CBS affiliate in Greensboro . She anchors the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts and reports during the week.

Robert Brookby (WCAS94) of Kansas City, Mo., is an investment analyst at American Century.

Paul Claybaker (KSM94) of Chicago was recently elected to the board of directors of Wunder's Association, which manages Chicago 's oldest cemetery.

Sean Essex (KSM94) of Denver is the director of marketing for TRACOM Group, a workplace performance and training company. He also operates a wine appreciation web site.

Kathryn Hentges (WCAS94) of Manchester, England, is assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester, where she researches congenital heart defects and teaches developmental biology and genetics to undergraduates. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in August.

Robert Huff (WCAS94) of White River Junction, Vt., began the adult learning and leadership doctoral program at Columbia University in the fall.

James H. Marshall (WCAS94, L97) of Lemont, Ill., a real estate attorney, became a partner with the newly organized Chicago law firm Daspin and Aument in February.

Mark D. Meyer (FSM94, GFSM99) of San Diego, a physician, joined seven other members of Kaiser Permanente's Team R2R in completing the bicycle ultramarathon Race Across America in June. Riders biked from San Diego to Atlantic City, N.J., in less than 10 days.

Shri Schuette Meyers (C94) of Denver is technical sales manager of the intelligent orthopedics division at DePuy Orthopaedics, a firm specializing in total joint reconstruction. Her division specializes in computer-assisted and image-guided surgery for total joints.

Jennifer A. Reinish (GSESP94) of Santa Barbara, Calif., co-produced and directed the feature documentary The Aphrodite Project, which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February.

Alexander “Alec” Ross (WCAS94) of Baltimore is co-founder and senior vice president for corporate and business development of One Economy in Washington, D.C., a national nonprofit organization bringing technology and educational content to low-income families. In February he joined Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in launching Bring IT Home, a national campaign bringing broadband and computing technology into the homes of the underprivileged.

Andrew W. Severson (C94) of Fallon, Nev., a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, is a transport airplane and search-and-rescue helicopter pilot stationed in Nevada . Prior to this assignment he was deployed to the Middle East and the Mediterranean .

James P. White (GC94) of Evanston established the James White Company and developed an improved electrolarynx device for laryngectomy patients. He also helps young cerebral palsy patients learn computer skills. He says he appreciates the considerations of professors and staff that he received as a disabled student during his Northwestern days.

Daphne Photiades Braun (SESP95) of Amherst, Mass., is an adjunct professor at Greenfield Community College and a member of the New York State Bar Association.

William C. Dudley (G95, 98) of Williamstown, Mass., is an assistant professor of philosophy at Williams College . He earned tenure in February. He specializes in the study of 19th and 20th century continental philosophy and Kant. He wrote Hegel, Nietzsche and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Erika Faust (C95) of Boston is a second-year MBA student at Harvard Business School .

Timothy Finley (L95) of Silver Spring, Md., was elected partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Howrey Simon Arnold & White in January.

Tony Kim (WCAS95) of Matthews, N.C., is a partner with Concha, Kim & Associates in Charlotte . He practices corporate and family-based immigration law.

Amanda Clarfield Newell (Mu95) of Dayton, N.J., is the vocal music teacher at Pine Grove Manor School in Somerset and composes music for her elementary grades choir. She wrote and performed “Let Them Find Peace” for a nationally distributed documentary describing the difficulties children from Sierra Leone face in the U.S. educational system.

Roxana Mehta Dubash (SESP96) of Naperville, Ill., is a manager at Accenture in Chicago .

Michele Earl-Hubbard (L96) of Shoreline, Wash., was named a partner at the Seattle law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine in February. She specializes in media and advertising litigation and counseling and general and commercial litigation.

Maria Gallos (McC96) of St. Augustine, Fla., became a missionary director at the Orthodox Christian Mission Center in October 2002. She served in Guatemala for two years.

Tisha King Havens (C96) of Wichita, Kan., was promoted from senior analyst to team leader for software release and support at CCH Inc. in June 2003. She heads the quality assurance teams for CCH's ProSystem fx fixed assets and planning software packages.

Andrew Hoeveler (C96) of Los Angeles was named in-house designer for 3 Ring Circus in January. The creative branding firm offers services in strategy, design and production.

Kristie L. Koehler (J96) of Chicago is executive director of Barrel of Monkeys, an arts education theater company that teaches creative writing in the Chicago Public Schools. She is also a company member with the Neo Futurists and an adjunct professor at North Park University, where she teaches media writing.

Amy Schlichtemeier Neumeister (Mu96) of Omaha is a fellow in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Ryan Padgett (WCAS96) of Seattle began a practice at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland after serving as chief resident in emergency medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson .

Brian A. Payne (C96) of Chicago is a professional golfer competing on tours worldwide. His wife, Elizabeth Gilley Payne (SESP98), is a business development specialist at Apple Computer. Both played golf at Northwestern.

Nancy Ekdawi Sever (McC96) of Arlington Heights, Ill., is a research scientist at Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park . She earned her doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in July 2002.

Dana Underwood (McC96) of Redwood City, Calif., joined Genentech, a San Francisco Bay–area biotechnology company, after earning her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in June.

Rachel Zajano (McC96) of Cardiff, Wales, recently moved to Wales and is an industrial engineer.

Lindsey Simenson Bass (SCS97) of Roselle, Ill., is operations manager at GN Otometrics North America in Schaumburg . The company develops and manufactures computer-based audiological and vestibular measurement instrumentation.

Danielle Duchatellier Boucree (KSM97) and Nicole Tarlton Cole (KSM97), both of Bowie, Md., founded Color An Angel, the first multicultural line of scrapbooking materials. Danielle also heads a marketing consulting company, L'Affaire, specializing in communications and promotions.

Andrew C. Brown (WCAS97, KSM03) of Stamford, Conn., is an associate at GE Capital. Previously he spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras . He also taught math at Phillips Academy in Andover and at Harvard University Extension School for two years.

Glen Dils (GMcC97, KSM97) of San Francisco became a manager at Archstone Consulting, a strategy and operations firm, in 2003. Fellow alumnus Keith Bough (GMcC01, KSM01) of San Francisco also joined the firm as a manager in 2003.

Naomi Grossman (C97) of Los Angeles produced a self-written solo show, Girl in Argentine Landscape . She was nominated for an LA Weekly Theater Award for best solo performance.

Navreet Basati Heneghan (WCAS97) of Lombard, Ill., an attorney, passed the bar exam and started her own law firm, specializing in real estate closings, wills and trusts, in November 2003.

Peter Hulick (WCAS97) of Boston entered a medical genetics fellowship at Harvard Medical School in July after completing his internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., in June. He will train at Harvard Medical School 's main hospitals — Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital .

Alicia J. Jaeger (McC97) of Oak Park, Ill., is an insurance coverage attorney in Chicago . She earned a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000.

Diane Brzezinski Malik (SESP97, GSESP02) of Mount Prospect, Ill., is director of assessment at Robert Morris College in Chicago .

Andrew B. Maner (KSM97) of Washington, D.C., was appointed chief financial officer of the Department of Homeland Security by the president in January. Previously he served as chief of staff and director of the transition management office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the Department of Homeland Security.

David Meinbach (WCAS97) of Miami is a fourth-year resident in the department of urologic surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center.

Michael Raleigh (SCS97) of Greenwich, Conn., is an award-winning artist whose mixed media piece Easter Parade was accepted in the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts' 2004 International Juried Show, which ran between January and March.

Stewart Shankman (WCAS97, Mu97) of Islandia, N.Y., will complete a doctorate in clinical psychology from Stony Brook University in 2005. He is finishing his internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago . His wife, Alexandra Levit (WCAS98), a corporate public relations manager at Computer Associates, wrote Suit Yourself: A Twenty-Something's Guide to Surviving Corporate America (Career Press, 2004).

Andrew Wackerfuss (WCAS97) of Hamburg, Germany, received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct his doctorate research in Germany .

Beth Higa (WCAS98) of New Haven, Conn., is pursuing a master's degree in public health at Yale University .

Bettina Heinl Koeck (GL98) of Vienna, Austria, established her own law firm after working as an in-house lawyer at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Vienna . She specializes in commercial and employment law.

Kyra Kyles (J98, GJ98) of Chicago was named vice president of media and public relations at Dresner Corporate Services, an investor and media relations firm, in April.

Jennifer Merritt (J98) of New York City was promoted to department editor at BusinessWeek in December 2003 after working as staff editor.

Juliann Blanco Ruffing (C98) of Keansburg, N.J., is a public relations assistant at Legal Voice in Piscataway .

Darren Shulman (WCAS98) of Arlington, Va., was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney for Montgomery County in Ohio in January. He was assigned to the support enforcement/paternity division. In 2001 he earned a law degree from Harvard Law School .

Reed VanMatre (McC98, FSM02) of Durham, N.C. is an anesthesiology resident at Duke University Medical Center . His wife, Gail R. Mandelkern VanMatre (WCAS01), is the project director of the Carolina Mammography Registry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a clarinetist in the Triangle Wind Ensemble.

Morgan Campbell (J99) of Mississauga, Ontario, a sports agate editor for the Toronto Star, won a Canadian Newspaper Association National Newspaper Award for sports writing in June for “Long Shots,” an eight-part narrative series detailing a year in the lives of high school basketball team members.

Stephanie Cooper Cohen (C99, GC01) of Chicago is a pediatric speech-language pathologist at La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center .

Dan J. Cray (WCAS99, Mu99) of Evanston, a jazz musician, leads a trio and has released two albums. In May he was a finalist in the American Pianists Association's sixth annual American Jazz Piano Competition in Indianapolis . He has performed at galas for former Illinois Governors James Edgar and George Ryan and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.

Jeffrey A. Friedman (WCAS99) of Chicago is an attorney for the Entertainment and Intellectual Property Group. He earned a law degree from DePaul University 's College of Law and was admitted to practice law in 2003. He is a play-by-play television broadcaster for Fox Sports Net Chicago's coverage of NCAA women's basketball and an Internet broadcaster for DePaul women's basketball.

Dori A. Graff (WCAS99) of New York City was named an associate in the equity research department of Deutsche Bank Securities.

Chad Hodge (C99) of Los Angeles, a screenwriter, produced I Want to Marry Ryan Banks, his second feature-length movie for television. It premiered in January on the ABC Family Channel.

Nicholas Logan (WCAS99) of Chicago is a financial analyst for Mercy Hospital and attends Chicago-Kent College of Law. His wife, Olga Stavropoulos Logan (J99), is a copy editor for Trialgraphix, a national litigation consulting firm.

Margaret M. Magnarelli (J99, GJ99) of New York City joined Good Housekeeping as features editor in November 2003. She previously was associate editor at Seventeen.

Aaron Mendelsohn (L99) of Washington, D.C., became an assistant U.S. attorney in April 2003.

Mercedes Rohlfs (C99) of Chicago, executive director and co-founder of the Speaking Ring Theatre Company, produced six mainstage shows and two playwriting contests and festivals. The play, Trojan Women: A Love Story, ran in the spring.

Daniel J. Williams (KSM99) of New York City joined Bank of America's Private Bank in January. He manages the financial needs of high-net-worth individuals, families and small institutions. He also serves as president of the Kellogg Alumni Club of New York. He and his wife, Kristen, recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary.