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1980s

Amy E. Burton (Mu80) of New York City, principal artist with New York City Opera and member of the voice faculty of Mannes College of Music, will perform Angelica in Handel's Orlando at the New York City Opera and Elle in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine at Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 2005. She also recorded Souvenir de Printemps, music written for French chanteuse Yvonne Printemps, in January. In 2004 she performed Romilda in Handel's Xerxes at the New York City Opera and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass with Chicago's Music of the Baroque.

Hector Javier Cuellar (KSM80) of Westlake Village, Calif., is president of RSM Capital Markets. He has more than 20 years' experience in corporate and investment banking.

Daniel B. Gelfand (C80) of Los Angeles is vice president of marketing for here! TV, the first national gay and lesbian television station offering films, documentaries and original television series.

Roberto Ballarini (GMcC81, 85) of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was appointed Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in July 2004. He is a professor of civil engineering, with appointments in mechanical and aerospace engineering and materials science and engineering.

Jeffrey G. Collins (WCAS81) of Detroit joined the law firm of Foley & Lardner as a partner in the litigation department in August 2004. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. In 2003 he was named one of the nation's top African American attorneys in Black Enterprise Magazine and was selected Michigan Lawyer of the Year by Michigan Lawyers Weekly.

Joseph A. Grande (GJ81) of Dalton, Mass., was appointed senior editor of Plastics Technology magazine in New York City, a global trade publication of Cincinnati-based Gardner Publications. He previously was editorial director at Omnexus Americas, an Atlanta-based plastics industry e-marketplace, where he created the only dedicated online daily news service for the industry.

Lisa Burgher Haws (WCAS81) of Pasadena, Texas, is a bilingual first-grade teacher and an elder in the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. She and her husband, Kelly, are parents of Hannah and Henry.

Matthew James (KSM81) of Portsmouth, Va., is executive vice president of Peninsula Alliance for Economic Development in Hampton.

Gerald Lee Jones (WCAS81) of Bronx, N.Y., is a special education teacher at Harvey Milk High School in the Greenwich Village neighborhood. After 20 years as an ordained minister he applied to the NYC Teaching Fellows. He is working on a master of science in teaching degree at Fordham University and teaching full time for the New York City Department of Education.

Steven A. Kahrs (WCAS81) of Skokie, Ill., is associate director of management systems in the information technology division at Northwestern. He and his wife, Helen, have two sons, Aidan and Alexander, and a dog, Sophie.

Laura M. Lippman (J81) of Baltimore is author of a popular mystery series on Tess Monaghan, a Baltimore-based private investigator. She published By a Spider's Thread (William Morrow, 2004). She has won several awards, including an Edgar Allan Poe Award, an Agatha Award and a Nero Award.

Marcus J. Nunes (WCAS81, L84) of Chicago established a law firm with partner Gery Chico. He specializes in general civil litigation, school law, government regulation and general business counseling. He spent several years in government service as an assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, as first deputy commissioner of the Chicago Building Department and as special assistant to the chief operating officer and senior assistant on the Chicago Board of Education.

Nancy Freedman Rudolph (McC81) of Newark, Del., earned a master's degree in education with a focus on curriculum and instruction from the University of Delaware in May 2004.

Sol M. Shatz (GMcC81, 83) of Highland Park, Ill., became associate dean for research and graduate studies for the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago in August 2004. He continues to serve as professor of computer science.

Mark J. Sontag (FSM81, 83) of Portola Valley, Calif., sports medicine and rehabilitation physician, opened SPARCmed Pain Program and offices for his practice in Redwood City. He is the consulting team physician for the San Francisco Giants, the Oakland Raiders, San Jose Sharks and several other professional teams.

Carolyn B. Thompson (WCAS81) of Frankfort, Ill., is president of Training Systems, a customized performance improvement and human resources consulting company. She co-wrote The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush (John Wiley & Sons, 2002).

Kenneth Charles Bloom (WCAS82, KSM87) of Highland Park, Ill., became president of Sheldon Good Financial Services in spring 2004. He oversees daily operations of the firm's $250 million global lending fund for commercial, industrial and residential real estate owners.

Judith Zunamon Lewis (Mu82, GSESP87) of Wilmette, Ill., was appointed second oboe of the Lyric Opera Orchestra of Chicago by Sir Andrew Davis. She also is performing with Music of the Baroque, Chicago Philharmonic, Bach Week Festival of Evanston, Midsummer's Music Festival of Door County, Wis., and Ravinia Festival Orchestra.

Alan Lipson (McC82) of Raleigh, N.C., is the retail industry solutions manager at Hewlett-Packard Co., where he is responsible for the Southeast region. He is also president of the Raleigh Civic Symphony Association. He and his wife, Janice, have a daughter, Caroline.

Joseph J. Rencis (GMcC82) of Fayetteville, Ark., received the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education New England Section Outstanding Leader Award. He serves as both professor and head of the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Steven Sheffey (WCAS82, L86) of Highland Park, Ill., wrote God Has Brought Me Laughter: Jokes for the Weekly Torah Portion (iUniverse, 2004). He is married and has three children.

Nels Jensen (J83) of Temecula, Calif., was named deputy managing editor of the Press-Enterprise in Riverside in July 2004. He joins the newsroom staff in pursuing First Amendment issues and investigative projects while continuing daily coverage of diverse communities in the area. He also oversees news departments, including metro and business, La Prensa, the company's first Spanish language newspaper, and the Community Publications Group of weekly newspapers.

Steven W. Kamm (WCAS83) of Sarasota, Fla., is a practicing emergency medicine physician at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. He is president of the 35-member Sarasota Emergency Associates. He and wife, Kelli, are parents of Elizabeth and Avery.

John D. Logan (C83) of Malibu, Calif., received screenwriter of the year honors at the Hollywood Film Festival's Oct. 18, 2004, awards ceremony. He received an Academy Award nomination for Gladiator in 2001. Other credits include The Aviator, The Last Samurai, Star Trek: Nemesis and Any Given Sunday. He also won the Writers Guild of America Award and received an Emmy Award nomination for the TV movie RKO 281.

Karen Page (WCAS83) of New York City was a finalist for the 2004 International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award for the book The New American Chef: Cooking with the Best of Flavors and Techniques from Around the World (John Wiley & Sons, 2003), which she co-wrote with her husband, Andrew Dornenburg. It was named one of the year's best culinary books by the Chicago Tribune and New York magazine among others.

Richard A. Miller (GMcC84, 89) of Mason, Ohio, was named professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He also was elected a fellow of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute and received the institute's 2003 Distinguished Educator Award.

Jaye J. Stricker (WCAS84) of Marshfield, Wis., is an anesthesiologist at Marshfield Clinic.

Elizabeth Tracey (WCAS84) of Berkeley, Calif., is vice president of Bank of America in San Francisco.

Michael S. Brown (KSM85) of Cincinnati became chief operating officer in Japan for J.P. Morgan Securities Asia in July 2004.

Dick C. Engbrecht (GMcC85) of Arlington Heights, Ill., a development associate at USG Corp. in Libertyville, received a 2004 American Society for Testing and Materials International Award of Merit in July 2004 for his contributions to an ASTM international committee on gypsum and related building materials and systems.

Gregory Irvine (GMu85, 01) of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, was appointed chair of the music department at the University of Prince Edward Island, where he has taught brass instruments, music history and instrumental conducting since 1991. He is also a tuba performer and was recently published in Canadian Winds, the journal of the Canadian Band Association. He and his wife, Sue, have a son, Adrian.

Christopher Kubasik (C85) of the Washington, D.C., area, became executive vice president and chief financial officer of Lockheed Martin in August 2004. He is responsible for all aspects of the corporation's financial strategies, processes and operations. He joined Lockheed Martin in 1999 as controller.

Li Poa (FSM85, 89) of Chico, Calif., is chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Enloe Medical Center.

Douglas Coblens (WCAS86) of Washington, D.C., is executive vice president of legal affairs for Discovery Communications. He manages both the operations of the legal department in the United States and legal matters relating to television content acquisition and pre-broadcast clearance worldwide.

Carl Baier (L87) of Portola Valley, Calif., formed Baier Legal Search, which places attorneys with law firms and companies. The job helps him stay in touch with Northwestern School of Law alumni. He previously was deputy attorney general for California. He and his wife, Tamara, are the parents of George and Madeleine.

Kimberley Crews-Goode (J87) of Portage, Mich., was named vice president of worldwide communications for the Kellogg Co. in September 2004. She leads a team responsible for internal and external communications worldwide.

Steve Hickson (C88) of Chicago, managing director of Hell in a Handbag Productions, performed in Durang 4play in summer 2004 at the Theatre Building Chicago.

Joe Ann Jackson (SCS88) of Chicago was promoted to policy associate at the American Medical Association in July 2004.

Alissa Herman Keschner (WCAS88) of Melville, N.Y., is a pediatrician with Central Long Island Pediatrics of Old Bethpage. Her husband, Howard Keschner (WCAS88), is a gastroenterologist and partner with Long Island Digestive Disease Consultants in Setauket. They recently celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary and have three children, Jason, Lauren and Benjamin.

Susan Mars Yue (WCAS88) of Guilford, Conn., is currently raising her two daughters, Lauren and Emily. Her husband, James J. Yue (FSM92), joined the orthopedics faculty of Yale University School of Medicine.

Stephen K. Borst (KSM89) of Charlotte was named senior vice president of sales and marketing at SunGard Collegis in September 2004. He leads the firm's sales organization, including marketing and business development.

Patricia Cleary (G89) of Long Beach, Calif., history professor at California State University, Long Beach, received a 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to develop a web site on 18th-century American entrepreneur Elizabeth Murray. Cleary's work was also on display in "Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business," which appeared at the Los Angeles Public Library through September 2004.

Lee Ann Molleck Hoover (KSM89) of Wilmette, Ill., is a director in the financial and insurance services practices at Navigant Consulting in Chicago. She and her husband, Doug, have two daughters, Morgan and Haley.

Chad B. Rubel (C89) of Chicago is a copy editor for Consumers Digest in Skokie.

Steven Siewert (WCAS89) of Cottage Grove, Wis., is a family physician and partner at Wildwood Family Clinic in Madison.

Catherine A. "Cathy" Venable (Mu89) of New York City worked as a rehearsal pianist on the Broadway show Wonderful Town with fellow Northwestern alumni Gregg Edelman (C80), Susan Derry (Mu92) and David Eggers (C93). She was also an accompanist at Yale University and a member of the professional choir at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. She was keyboardist for a production of Vincent in New York City and an accompanist for Light Opera Oklahoma in summer 2004.

Richard "Ricky" Young (J89) of Brentwood, Tenn., is city editor for the Tennessean in Nashville.

Susan Zimny (GC89) of Chicago is communications administrator at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. She was elected to serve a two-year term beginning in July 2004 on the Portage Park Elementary School's local school council. Her three children attend the Chicago school.