’20s
Arthur Erickson (EB27) of Marquette, Mich., was the pri-vate secretary for the Melville N. Rothschild family in Chicago. He is now 94 years old and saw eight of his family members graduate from Northwestern between 1927 and 1944. He is still active and bowls with other seniors to keep busy.
Kenneth E. Miller (EB29, KGSM30) of Columbia, Mo., is a retired associate professor of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri. He is a member of the Service Corps of Retired Executives, which advises local businesses. He and his wife, Bernice Foley Miller (SESP31), live in the Lenoir Retirement Home and were recently photographed for an advertisement for the home.
She was active in a campus organization helping the families of foreign faculty members.
Beulah Holland Mock (S29, GJ31) of Lacey, Wash., retired from Time Inc. and is writing for residents in her retirement community. In February 1999 she visited Yellowstone National Park.
’30s
John Colmar (L38, 40) of Tequesta, Fla., who retired after practicing law for 50 years in the Chicago area, plays golf, writes
letters to the editor, counsels entrepreneurs, takes cruises and gardens.
Constance McClure Davis (J38) of Elyria, Ohio, retired as women’s editor of the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram but continues to write a weekly column for the newspaper, mostly about the city’s history.
John D. Mitchell (S39, GS41) of Key West, Fla., pursued a life in the theater as an actor, director and writer. He and his wife, Miriam Pitcairn Mitchell (S50), were among the founders of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Arts in New York City. He has written several books on the theater and eight mysteries under the pen name Jack Royce.
Patricia Hunter Roedell (WCAS39) of Madison, Wis., is a retired art
and kindergarten teacher. She has five great-grandchildren.
’40s
Sidney P. Davis (GMu40) of Elyria, Ohio, retired in 1974 after 28 years of teaching music in the Elyria City School District. In 1999 he was voted into
the Elyria Schools and Friends Alumni Association’s Hall of Fame.
Robert C. Broberg (EB42) of Los Osos, Calif., served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and, after being decommissioned, became a partner at Chicago-based livestock brokers G.G. Broberg & Co. He later retired to the
West Coast.
Clifton O. Dummett (D42) of Los Angeles is a retired professor
in the University of Southern California’s School of Dentistry. He and his wife, Lois, authored NDA II, The Story of America’s Second National Dental Association (National Dental Association Foundation, 2000). The book traces the origin and growth of organized dentistry among African Americans in the United States.
Violet Wertens Redding (S42) of El Prado, N.M., moved to the Taos, N.M., area two years ago with her daughter and is delighted with her adobe home and the mountain scenery.
Ned Rorem (Mu44, H77) of New York City, a composer and writer, was elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters last May.
William V. Jackson (WCAS45) of Park Ridge, Ill., visited the University of Texas at Austin, the French National Library in Paris and the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, as well as El Salvador, as part of his duties as senior fellow at Dominican University in River Forest, Ill.
Eleanor Straub Wright (GJ45) of Kirkwood, Mo., and her husband retired and moved to Kirkwood to be near family and friends after many years as community activists in Michigan and Missouri.
Irwin Kremen (J46) of Durham, N.C., is professor emeritus of psychology at Duke University. A self-taught artist, he began making collages and sculptures in 1966. Last summer the Chicago Cultural Center organized an exhibit of his work.
Robert B. Banks (McC47, GMcC49) of La Jolla, Calif., retired after several years as a professor of civil engineering at institutions all over the world and has started a writing career. His latest work, Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics, was published by Princeton University Press in 1999.
Marcia Diamond Cohen (S47) of Toronto has been an actress in Toronto for more than 50 years.
Rosamond Haeberle (GMu48) of Waterford, Mich., now retired, is listed in Who’s Who in America 2000, Who’s Who of American Women 1999–2000 and 2000–2001, primarily for her contributions in the field of music education.
John Bohne (WCAS49) of Sun City Center, Fla., is completing an adventure novel entitled The Sea Change, which makes reference to Northwestern.
Robert Davine (Mu49, GMu50)
of Denver is chair of the music theory department and professor of accordion and theory at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. In 1999 the university awarded him the Most Distinguished Teaching Award. He records for the Crystal Record Co. and is currently writing a bibliography of literature on the accordion.
Anne Wieland Gilbert-Strawbridge (WCAS49) of Laurel Springs, N.C., is a syndicated columnist who is working with her husband on a book about the North Carolina mountains in which they live. They are also involved in wildlife and forest preservation activities.
’50s
Barnett Berman (M50) of Baltimore retired in 1990 as associate professor of medicine after 50 years’ affiliation with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A scholarship fund was established in his honor last February.
William Frink (J50) of Evanston and his wife participate as docents at the Mitchell Indian Museum and the Evanston Historical Society.
Julia Hinson Miles (S50) of New York City is founder and artistic director of Women’s Project and Productions. Now in its own theater, the company has been producing plays by women for 23 seasons.
Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon (G51) of Columbus, Ohio, was awarded an honorary doctor
of humane letters degree by Queens College/City Univer-sity of New York at its spring
commencement.
Slater Newman (G51) of Raleigh, N.C., professor of psychology at North Carolina State University, has been elected to the Na-tional Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Joseph Newton III (SESP51, GSESP52) of Naperville, Ill., was inducted into the Northwestern University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999 for track. He
is the head track and cross-country coach at York High School in Elmhurst, Ill., and his teams have won 20 state titles during his career.
Richard “Dick” M. Shoellhorn (EB51) of Naples, Fla., and his wife, Patricia Shahan Shoellhorn, are retired and enjoy spending their time playing golf and bridge and keeping busy with alumni clubs.
Lou Frank (WCAS52) of Sun City West, Ariz., retired from a medical career in South Bend, Ind., moved west with his wife, Connie, and enjoys skiing.
James E. Harden (J52, GJ53) of Seal Beach, Calif., retired from two careers, one in television news in Chicago and another as owner of a radio station in Long Beach, Calif.
Edwin Heminger (GJ52) of Findlay, Ohio, retired in April after 35 years as publisher of the Findlay Courier. He served on the boards of the Associated Press and Newspaper Association of America and as president of the Inland Press Association. His son, Karl (McC85), succeeded him as
publisher of the newspaper.
Jerome Leavitt (GSESP52) of Tucson has had two of his books published on the Web. He also writes a monthly column on education for Tucson Parent magazine.
Mel Sembler (S52) of Treasure Island, Fla., served as U.S. ambassador to Australia under President Bush and this year received the Order of Australia, one of the country’s highest honors. Married to Betty Schlesinger Sembler (WCAS53), he was named national finance chair for the Republican Party in 1997 and is president of Sembler Co., a developer.
James Suess (M52) of Jackson, Miss., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.
Robert L. Trezise (SESP53) of Lansing, Mich., is the author
of ‘Up North’: A Family Memoir (self-published, 1995). An excerpt appeared in Voices of Michigan (Mackinac Jane’s Publishing, 2000).
Patrick J. Mullan (EB54, KSGM77) of Connemara, Ireland, is writing poetry
and has completed a thriller novel. He previously worked with Citibank and Citicorp
in the United States and Europe.
Stanley Polcyn (McC54, KGSM58) of Newtown, Conn.,
is entering semi-retirement, spending time traveling, skiing, golfing and with his six children and many grandchildren.
Joseph Rebhun (GM54) of Claremont, Calif., published
two books: Crisis of Morality
and Reaction to the Holocaust (University of La Verne
Press, 1998) and Leap to Life:
Triumph over Nazi Evil
(Ardor Scribendi, 2000).
Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk (GS55) of Houston started the communication disorders program in 1955 at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. In May the university named its first endowed chair after her for her contributions
to the program.
James G. Welty (Mu55, GMu56) of Portland, Ore., was organist and choirmaster for 37 years
at the First Presbyterian Church of Portland and
is now minister of music emeritus.
Albert Beck (WCAS56) of Monroe City, Mo., completed his fifth book of poetry and drawings, entitled God Is in the Glove Compartment (Lorien House, 2000).
Ruth Boraks Epstein (SESP56) of New Rochelle, N.Y., had a one-woman art show at the Wally Findlay Gallery in Chicago in June 1999. She was a featured artist in Findlay’s East Hampton, N.Y., and Palm Beach, Fla.,
galleries.
Robert Rexford (EB56, Nav56) of Pearland, Texas, retired from a career in investment banking in Houston and New York City. He now travels and golfs with his wife, Sue.
Henry Rodkin (J56) of Chicago
is executive in residence for DePaul University’s Depart-ment of Marketing and director of the Richard H. Driehaus Center for International Busi-ness. He is also president of Productivity Partners, a marketing consultant.
Evonne Seron Schulze (S56) of San Diego was named interim chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.).
Thomas Doran (Mu57, GMu59, 68) of Albion, Mich., retired after 36 years of teaching in Albion College’s Department of Music.
Stanley Krippner (GSESP57, 61) of San Rafael, Calif., received the 1999 Outstanding Career Award from the Parapsycho-logical Association for his
contributions to the science
of parapsychology.
Marsha Lee Schoenfeldt Berkman (WCAS58) of Redwood City, Calif., is the author of Here I Am: Contemporary Jewish Stories from Around the World (Jewish Publication Society, 1998). She received the Oakland PEN International 1999 Josephine Miles award for non-mainstream literature.
Barbara Timm Gates (WCAS58) of Newark, Del., an Alumni Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies
at the University of Delaware, received the Founders Disting- uished Senior Scholar Award from the American Association of University Women’s Educa-tional Foundation. She has written several books on women
and science.
Sam Levene (S58, GJ62) of Toronto writes, produces, edits and narrates radio documentaries, including tributes to musicians Duke Ellington and Kurt Weill, for CBC Radio
in Canada.
Gordon Anderson (D59) of Grant Pass, Ore., served eight years as mayor of Grant Pass and held a term as president of the Oregon Mayors Association. He is retiring after practicing dentistry for 37 years.
Karen DeCrow (J59) of Jamesville, N.Y., was a guest curator at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, N.Y., and lectured at a joint meeting of the Rochester Women’s Bar Association and Female Corporate Leaders.
Richard Van de Ven (J59) of Western Springs, Ill., was promoted to associate vice president of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter’s Chicago office. He teaches a continuing education course in investments at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Ill.
’60s
H. Daniel Green (D60) of Beloit, Wis., was inducted into the Rock County Hall of Honor for his many years of community service.
Maxye Spens Henry (J60) of Thousand Oaks, Calif., wrote her second book, 101 Tips for Running a Successful Home Business (Lowell House, 2000), with her husband, Lou.
Robert Hyland (WCAS60) of Tucson is a physician specializing in infectious diseases. He and his wife, Marion, traveled
to Norway with Northwestern alumni in August.
William W. Joyce (GSESP60, 64) of East Lansing, Mich., has been renamed director of Canadian studies at Michigan State University and is senior editor of Introducing Canada: An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian History (Scarecrow Press, 1998), a book for
secondary teachers and
college faculty.
Ken Washburn (EB60) of Frisco, Colo., is retired and enjoys skiing, biking and hiking in the mountains. He has five children and three grandchildren.
John Carson (J61, GJ62) of Berlin Heights, Ohio, retired after 30 years as editor of IndustryWeek magazine and returned to his hometown with his wife, Sue Lucas Carson (J62), who taught for 29 years at Bay Village (Ohio) Middle School.
Harry B. Gray (G61, H84) of Pasadena, Calif., director
of the Beckman Institute at
the California Institute of
Technology, was elected to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
Ron Subeck (GS61) of Glenview, Ill., a retired chair and professor of speech and communications at Wright College in Chicago, appeared in E.A. Poe: The Fever Called Living at the Athaeneum Theater in Chicago and in Jackie: An American Life at
the Pilsen Theater.
Rex Walford (GSESP61) of Cambridge, England, was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in July 1999. He also received a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.
Fred L. Brown (WCAS62) of Town and Country, Mo., was awarded the National Health Care Award by B’nai B’rith International and was elected
to the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council’s board of directors.
Lynn Peterson Carpenter (WCAS62) of Winnetka, Ill.,
co-authored A Birder’s Guide to the Chicago Region (Northern Illinois University Press, 1999).
Gwen Cline Powell (Mu62) of Tucson was named professor
of music and director of the Camerata entrepreneurship
program at the University of Arizona, which assists students in preparing for careers in music. She completed two years as president of the National Flute Association.
Robert Rosen (McC62) of Cupertino, Calif., was elected
a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is associate director for aerospace programs at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
Kay Felt (WCAS63) of Grosse Pointe, Mich., specializes in health care at the Detroit law firm of Dykema Gossett. She
is also past president of the American Academy of Health-care Attorneys. She was
appointed by Gov. John Engler
to the Michigan End of Life Commission and to the Advisory Committee on Pain and Symptom Management.
Karen Lee Carpenter Millar (J63) of Indianapolis, senior vice president of Avatar Communications Group, won silver and bronze medals in the 2000 Summit Creative Awards competition, which recognizes exceptional work by advertising agencies and other creative groups.
Michael L. Friedman (WCAS64, M67), of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., is in private practice as
an obstetrician/gynecologist.
D. Ray Heisey (GS64) of Kent, Ohio, edited his second book
on Chinese communication, Chinese Perspectives in Rhetoric and Communication (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000). He also was invited to teach at Beijing University’s School of International Studies.
Marvin Klotz (GD64) of Toronto teaches at the University of Toronto’s dental school and serves as editor of its Alumni Today publication. He has received many professional and academic honors, in-
cluding the University of Toronto Alum-
nus of Distinction award and election as president of the Demosthenes Society.
Terry W. Rose (S64) of Kenosha, Wis., was elected to his eighth term on the Kenosha County Board of Supervisors. An attorney, he practices with Rose & Rose in Kenosha.
Karen Baker Bloustine (S65, GS66) of El Paso, Texas, became the El Paso State Center’s first speech and language pathologist in its Habilitation Department.
Henry A. DePhillips Jr. (G65) of Hartford, Conn., received from Trinity College in Hartford
the 2000 Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching.
He has conducted studies on
the relationship between art and science. As interim dean of
faculty, he has advocated the hiring of minority faculty.
William R. Ferris Jr. (G65) of Washington, D.C., was nominated by President Clinton as chair of the National Endow-ment for the Humanities. A
recognized authority in South-
ern studies, he delivered the keynote address and received
an honorary degree at Davidson College’s spring convocation
in Davidson, N.C. He also received the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities from Clinton and the American Library Association’s Dartmouth Medal.
Ron Fridell (S65, GS69) of Evanston has written Solving Crimes: Pioneers of Forensic Science (Franklin Watts, 2000), which examines the careers of six influential forensic scientists.
William Holloway (L65, Nav65)
of Winnetka, Ill., has been elected a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and is co-author
of Employment Termination:
Rights and Remedies (BNA Books, 1993).
Barbara Molotsky (WCAS65) of Chicago is the elected chair of the Chicago Network, an organization of Chicago’s top businesswomen. She was named vice chair of public relations agency BSMC Worldwide.
Robert Bell (EB66) of Toronto was a delegate at the Demo-cratic National Convention
in Los Angeles, representing Democrats Abroad.
Robert Boyles (S66) of Glencoe, Ill., returned with his wife, Jill Harmon Boyles (WCAS66), to
the Chicago area from San Francisco after 34 years.
Suzanne Bixby (S67) of Cambridge, Mass., directed a production of A.R. Gurney’s play, Richard Cory, which was named a finalist at the EMACT 2000 Festival.
Tom Engel (J67) of Newton, Mass., is president of T.R. Engel Group, which focuses
on real estate consulting and investment advising. He also teaches at Boston University.
Dennis Brindell Fradin (WCAS67) of Evanston has written more than 200 children’s books. He and his wife, Judith Bloom Fradin (WCAS67), have published two dozen books together and are co-authors of Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement (Clarion Books, 2000). They are the parents of Diana (WCAS97), Anthony and Michael and the grandparents of Aaron Bernard.
Stephen A. Szygenda (G67, 69) of Dallas is dean of the Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and Applied Science in Dallas. He
was previously dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Steve Avakian (GJ68) of Hull, Mass., runs his own marketing and consulting firm and was featured in the Dayton Daily News for helping school districts pass tax referenda. His wife, Laura McClary Avakian (G68), is vice president for human resources at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
John T. Clarke (M68, GM75) of Chicago traveled in June with other local physicians, including Annie Huang (WCAS92, M95) of Wheaton, Ill., to Cuenca, Ecuador, on a Christian Medical and Dental Society Global Health Outreach mission.
Edward J. Kies (G68) of Aurora, Ill., became president of MacCormac College, which has campuses in Chicago and Elmhurst, Ill., in July. His earlier posts were at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Jill Astley Miller (WCAS68) of Escondido, Calif., was promoted to vice president of administration at 3DO Co., which develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software.
Robert Antus (G69) of Elmhurst, Ill., an English teacher at Morton East High School in Cicero, Ill., for 28 years and a part-time teacher at MacCormac College in Elmhurst, was listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers five times. He has authored several magazine
articles over the years.
Dan Edwards (SESP69, Nav69)
of Virginia Beach, Va., was
re-elected to a second term on
his local school board.
Bruce Endzel (J69, GJ70)
of Chicago is a marketing
consultant and adjunct pro-
fessor of integrated marketing communications at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Sherry Mullens (WCAS69) of Tucson co-authors and publishes a newsletter called Mind and Medicine, which covers the latest psychiatric drug treatments and research and is geared for mental health consumers, their families and practitioners.
James S. Rubin (EB69) of Santa Fe, N.M., was elected president of Rainbow House, an international adoption agency. He has practiced real estate and commercial law since 1973 with the firm of Rubin, Katz, Salazar, Alley & Rouse, and he serves on the development committee of St. Michael’s High School, where he coaches track.
’70s
Robert R. Frump (GJ70) of Summit, N.J., a vice president
at Standard & Poor’s, signed
a contract with Bantam Doubleday Dell to write a book, Until the Sea Shall Free Them, based on his investigative series for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Malcolm “Mac” McCaleb (L70)
of Northfield, Ill., works for the Chicago law firm of Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum, Perlman & Nagelberg. He had been with Foley & Lardner.
Clarence Ott (KGSM70) of Dowagiac, Mich., was featured in the dedication section of Outstanding People of the 20th Century in 1999 for advising countries worldwide in financial management and investment strategies.
Richard H. Bell Jr. (M71) of Chicago was named the Loyal and Edith Davis Professor
of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Medical School.
Arnold Hansmann (KGSM71)
of Burr Ridge, Ill., retired
from Oak Brook, Ill.–based McDonald’s Corp. after a career managing the company’s international financial organization. With his wife, Barbara, he will spend the winter in Phoenix and travel the rest of the year.
Dale H. Johnson (G71) of Cincinnati and his wife, Winni, have adopted 10 children, now ranging in age from 5 to 15 — Andrew, Theresa, Nicole, David, Matthew, Nathan, Jennifer, Ashley, Molly and Hannah. Another daughter, Erica, is
a volunteer for VISTA in Austin, Texas.
David Kyvig (G71) of DeKalb, Ill., has been named a Presi-dential Research Professor
at Northern Illinois Uni-versity. He edited Un-intended Con-sequences of Constitutional Amendment (University of Georgia Press, 2000), which includes essays by him and other political scientists on the frequently unforeseen consequences of constitutional amendments.
Omar Z. Al Askari (KGSM72),
of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, was elected international president of the Young Presi-dents’ Organi-zation, a worldwide group of younger business leaders, for 1999–2000. After traveling around the globe on behalf of YPO, he looks forward to several years of home life.
Stephen Becker (WCAS72) of Los Alamos, N.M., was evacuated from his home on May 10 because of the Cerro Grande fire, which destroyed more than 47,000 acres. The fire missed his home by half a mile.
Jan Even (SESP72, GJ78) of Seattle was named merchandising director of Expedia.com. A former editor for the Seattle Times, she has been profiled as a leader in the Internet industry by Internet World.
Michael Fischer (G72, 75) of San Antonio was appointed vice president for academic affairs at Trinity University in San Antonio.
Warren J. Miller (SCS72) of
St. Paul earned a doctor of ministry degree from Luther Semi-nary at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis last May.
Philip C. Kolin (G73) of Hattiesburg, Miss., is a professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He wrote Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Cambridge University Press, 2000), which is a history of
the various productions of Tennessee Williams’ famous play.
Durham J. Monsma (GJ73) of Stamford, Conn., is the publisher and CEO of Southern Connecticut Newspapers. In May, he was named to the Illinois Wesleyan University board of trustees.
Kenneth Nelson (GMcC73) of Glencoe, Ill., was promoted to executive vice president/director of operations for Clark Dietz, an engineering design and
construction management
consulting firm.
James R. Sanders (G73, 80)
of Annandale, Va., started
a two-year rotation in the
U.S. State Department’s
Office of External Research
in February 1999.
Stuart Zanger (J73, GJ74)
of Cincinnati received the Peabody Award in May for investigative work in broadcast journalism. He left WCPO-TV in Cincinnati last year to teach television journalism as a visiting faculty member at Duke University in Durham, N.C. His wife, Karen Zanger (S75), produces documentary-style prime-time specials for cable networks and video productions for nonprofit organizations.
Jeff Coney (WCAS74, KGSM76) of Evanston joined the Office
of Strategic Initiatives at North-western as director of new business initiatives. He also manages the University’s relationship with the Illinois Technology Enterprise Corp.
Robert W. Dziubla (WCAS74, L80) of Bangkok, Thailand, retired from practicing law and teaching as an adjunct professor
at the University of Southern California Law School to pursue international investments. He is now the president of Orchid Asset Advisors Ltd.
Barry R. Glassner (J74) of
Los Angeles is a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California.
Mark Newton (KGSM74) of Chicago became president and CEO of Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago in May.
William R. Clayton (S75, L78) of Plantation, Fla., was a speaker at the 2000 Litigation Manage-ment College at Northwestern in June. He is a board-certified civil trial lawyer and a board-certified business litigation lawyer in Florida.
Leigh Cohn (GSESP75) of Carlsbad, Calif., co-authored Making Weight: Men’s Conflict with Food, Weight, Shape & Appearance (Gurze Books, 2000). It is the 10th book he has co-authored on the subject of eating disorders.
Toby Wosk Costas (J75) of Dallas was named supervisory trial attorney at the Dallas office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Amy Cassman Friedman (S75) of Omaha, communications director of the Millard Public Schools, was one of eight women to receive the Women of Vision award from the Omaha YWCA in June. She also designed major campaigns to raise awareness
of heart disease and stroke risk that were targeted for women and African Americans.
Lisa Harbaugh Harrington (S75) of Alamo, Calif., is a publication director at the University of California, Berkeley. She and her husband, Matt, have three daughters.
Jonathan Lehrer (S75) of Lincolnwood, Ill., and Sara O’Daffer Marberry (S81) of Evanston have formed the Web Audit Group in Evanston to provide Web marketing consulting services to small- to medium-sized for-profit and nonprofit corporations.
L. Steven Platt (WCAS75) of Buffalo Grove, Ill., president of the National Employment Lawyers Association, co-authored the book Age Discrimination Litigation
(James Publishing, 2000).
James Wilson (J75, GJ76) of University City, Mo., is morning producer at KSDK-TV and president of Lost Horizon Wordsmiths, a public relations company.
David Devan Carter (S76) of New York City is a sales engineer for Reeve’s AV Systems in New York.
Jennifer James Robinson (S76) of South Orange, N.J., was promoted to associate professor of education at Montclair State University.
She is also director of Teacher Recruitment for Urban Schools of Tomorrow and received
a $500,000 Title II Teacher Quality Recruitment Grant from the U.S. Department
of Education.
David D. Scheidecker (GSESP76) of Bourbonnais, Ill., co-authored Bringing Out the Best in Students: How Legendary Teachers Motivate Kids (Corwin Press, 1999).
Cynthia M. Campbell (WCAS77) of Jersey City, N.J., was ap-pointed assistant dean/director of the minority student pro-gram and director of financial aid at Rutgers University School of Law in Newark. She was also elected secretary of the board of trustees at Jersey City Univer-sity, where she has been a board member for six years.
Cheryl Clarke (GJ77) of Mill Valley, Calif., co-author of Team-Based Fundraising Step by Step (Jossey-Bass, 1999), owns a fundraising consulting business in Mill Valley and is also a writer of short fiction.
James E. Coston (WCAS77) of Chicago, an attorney for the law firm of Coston & Lichtman, was appointed to the Amtrak Reform Council. He is a specialist in equipment leasing
and financial law.
Scott D. Michel (S77) of Washington, D.C., is a partner
in the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale in Washington. His wife, Ann Albrecht Michel (S80), received a master’s degree in theological studies from Wesley Theo-logical Seminary in Washington. They have three sons, Stephen, Jeffrey and Gregory.
Randall K. Roenigk (WCAS77, GM81) of Rochester, Minn., was appointed professor and chair of the dermatology department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Dorothy Echols Tobe (WCAS77) of Fair Lawn, N.J., associate vice president for administration and finance at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., received her
doctorate in organization and leadership from Columbia University in May 1999.
Cheryl Whitesel-Cassingham (S77) of Western Springs, Ill., authored her first novel, Rebel:
A Tibetan Odyssey (Harper Collins, 2000). Geared for adolescents, the book
is about a Tibetan boy
at the turn of the century who becomes a Buddhist monk.
Carol Zink (WCAS77, Nav77) of Palo Alto, Calif., is director of sales for Pathlore, an e-learning software firm, and is involved with Habitat for Humanity. She is a retired naval reserve captain. Her daughter, Katie Chou, is a freshman at Northwestern.
Sandra Gibson (GMu78) of Bethesda, Md., was named president and chief executive of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the largest association of arts professionals in North America.
Geoffrey Levine (GMcC78) of Pittsburgh received a Nuclear Pharmacy Pioneer Award from
the American Pharmaceutical Association at its 147th annual meeting. He has worked as a pharmacist, health physicist and board-certified nuclear pharmacist with more than 25 years of industrial and academic experience with Abbott Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
John E. Marcotte (J78) of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., joined the Polisher Research Institute of Philadelphia Geriatric Center, serving as director of research computing/senior
statistician. He will facilitate
PGC studies in areas such
as Alzheimer’s care, nursing
home quality and home
health care.
Helen Kriz Marshall (GS78) of Wilmette, Ill., Web site editor for WBBM-AM in Chicago, is also a freelance writer, editor and reporter. In April she gave an original presentation, “The Lure of the East: Harems, Sheiks and Desert Caravans,” to a Kenilworth, Ill., audience. The presentation is an exploration
of the Near East in Western artists’ and authors’ imaginations at the turn of the century. She
is married to Edward and has two sons.
Brad H. Rovin (McC78) of Columbus, Ohio, is an associate professor of medicine at Ohio State University. He oversees a research program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, on the mechanism of kidney inflammation and maintains a busy practice in nephrology at the university.
Audrey Holzer Rubin (L78)
of Northfield, Ill., a Chicago
attorney, received the first-
ever Woman of Valor Award from the Jewish National Fund, Chicago Region. She serves as secretary to the Chicago area’s JNF board of directors and is on its executive committee.
Kathryn Dolgosh Sinzinger (J78)
of Washington, D.C., is the founder, editor and publisher
of the Common Denominator,
a biweekly newspaper for
the District of Columbia. In
1999 the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association gave her a first-place investigative reporting award for non-daily newspapers with 20,000-plus circulation for her story “The District’s Power behind the Scenes.”
Martin Michael Storozum (McC78) of Town & County, Mo., is at Morrison Knudsen Corp. in St. Louis as lead project engineer.
Richard C. Tallman (L78) of Seattle was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and started in his new position in July.
Bert Krages (McC79) of Portland, Ore., is the author of Total Environmental Compliance: A Practical Guide for Environ-mental Professionals (Lewis Publishers, 2000). He is an environmental attorney practicing in Portland.
Steven Zuccarini (S79) of Clarendon Hills, Ill., was
promoted to president of
printing conglomerate R.R. Donnelley & Sons.
’80s
James W. Fisher (GJ80) of Arlington, Va., was named group manager for corporate communications at Sprint Communications.
Laura Guilfoyle (J80) of Chicago moved back to the city after living in Ireland for the past five years. She returned to establish a travel promotions company called Celtic Adventure, aimed at student, budget-minded or adventure-seeking travelers.
Mark Roth (WCAS80) of Burke, Va., chief of the current operations division for the U.S. Air Force director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, received a master’s degree from the National War College in June.
Janyth Austin Toye (McC80) of Chicago was promoted to vice president in the corporate property services division of Jones, Lang, LaSalle, a real estate services and investment firm. She manages the Boston Market acquisition project for McDonald’s Corp.
Gerald S. Vigna (G80) of Cherry Hill, N.J., was named dean of arts and sciences at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa. He also serves as an associate professor of theology.
Jacqueline Ward (WCAS80) of Chicago was featured in a Chicago Parent magazine article focusing on the home schooling of her three children.
Wesley D. Avram (S81, GS94) of New Haven, Conn., became the Clement-Meuhl Assistant Pro-fessor of Communications at Yale University Divinity School.
Ann Apalsch Loeffler (WCAS81) of Fremont, Calif., a physician at the Children’s Hospital in Oakland, launched the North-ern California Pediatric Tuber-culosis Resource and Research Center last March. Her husband, Andreas (WCAS84), is a financial manager with Sun Microsystems.
Michael Solomine (L81) of Cincinnati authored Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press, 1999).
Nancy Ypma (GMu81, 86) of Belleville, Ill., was promoted to professor of music at McKendree College and was selected by
faculty, administration and students as the winner of the Norman Grandy Faculty Award.
Harris Meyer (SCS82) of Hollywood, Fla., is executive editor of Florida Lawyer Magazine in Miami. He won the national Gerald Loeb Award for Distin-guished Business and Financial Journalism for an article published in New Times (Broward/ Palm Beach Fla.) about doctors selling dietary supplements to patients through a multilevel marketing company.
Sharon M. Porcellio (L82) of Buffalo was elected chair of the New York State Bar Association’s 1,800-member commercial and federal litigation section.
Michael J. Smith (J82) of Fairfax, Va., lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for the first quarter of 2000. While there, he worked for United Pan-Europe Com-munications, deploying broad-band cable and the Internet throughout Europe. His wife, Lucy, and their two children enjoyed their time being “expats.” He is now starting his own marketing firm, Upstart Vision Inc., to help launch new media companies globally.
Dori Solomon (S82) of Great Falls, Va., is an attorney for America Online in Dulles, Va.
Chris Vanocur (S82) of Salt Lake City is political reporter for KTVX-TV. For his role in breaking the story of the Olympic bribery scandal in Salt Lake City, he and the station received the Dupont, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Brad Wright (S82, GS88) of Indianapolis received tenure at the University of Indianapolis, where he is an associate professor and director of theater.
He and his wife, Elizabeth,
have two children, Margaret
and Duncan.
Mike Markowitz (S83) of Toluca Lake, Calif., is in his third season as a writer and producer of the show Becker, starring Ted Danson, on CBS-TV. He is also developing projects with actor Jason Alexander.
Stephen L. Taylor (WCAS83) of Chicago opened a bed and breakfast in the Wicker Park neighborhood with his partner.
Frederick A. Acomb (Mu84)
of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.,
a principal in the law firm
of Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, lectured in Wurttemberg, Germany, to German com-panies seeking to expand their businesses in the European Union and the United States. He is a member of the American, Michigan and Detroit Metropolitan Bar Associations.
Tony Bartelme (J84) of Charleston, S.C., co-authored Into the Windr(Evening Post Publishing, 1999), a book about the 1998–99 Around Alone sailing race. He also wrote a script for Born to the Wind, a documentary on the race produced by Emmy Award–winning director Laszlo Pal and narrated by actor Peter Fonda.
David A. Buzard (WCAS84), of Norfolk, Va., is listed in Who’s Who in American Law, 2000–01.
Earl Louis Feng (WCAS84, GM93) of Scottsdale, Ariz., was in-ducted last March as a fellow
of the American Academy
of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Orlando, Fla., during the academy’s 67th annual meeting.
Wendi Messing Gilbert (S84) of San Francisco and her husband, Paul, are co-executive producers of their company, Heart at Work Productions. They re-leased their first nationwide consumer video, Sleep Like a Baby … What Every Parent Needs to Know about Babies and Sleep. They have two small children of their own.
Daria Labinsky (S84, GJ86) of Rio Rancho, N.M., co-authored with Stan Hieronymus The
Beer Lover’s Guide to the USA
(St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000).
John Link (G84) of New York City released his first CD, Live at Saint Peter’s, by the John Link Vocal Quintet, which features his arrangements of instrumental works by classical and jazz composers.
Joyce Maxberry (WCAS84) of New York City is chief operating officer and general counsel for Valley Inc., a youth agency. Previously, she was a litigation partner with the law firm of Clausen, Miller PC in Chicago.
Joseph Morton III (WCAS84) of Gretna, La., was named a senior partner in the New Orleans
law firm of Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois & Morton. He and his wife, Edrice, have a daughter, Madison.
John Rompon (WCAS84) of Evanston is the vice president of ChannelPoint, which operates an Internet exchange for insurance and financial service products. He and his wife, Marian Casey, have twins, Audrey and Matthew.
Rebecca Theim (J84, GJ95) of Chicago is director of public relations for Britannica.com Inc. in Chicago. In her spare time, she rides a bicycle to raise money for such organizations
as the Multiple Sclerosis So-ciety, the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Kenneth Watkins (S84) of West Bloomfield, Mich., an attorney and partner at Sommers & Schwartz in Southfield, Mich., was elected president of the Wolverine Bar Association,
the oldest and largest African American bar association in Michigan. He was also elected a state delegate for the American Trial Lawyers Association and
is a member of the ATLA minority caucus.
Harold L. Paz (GM85, 86) of ýrinceton, N.J., is dean of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He had an endowed professorship named for him at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, which was created under his leadership to foster scientific research on the causes and treatment of childhood diseases.
Mary Jane Herman Rattner (S85, GS89) of Vernon Hills, Ill., was named to the board of education for Hawthorn School District 73 in Vernon Hills. She and her husband, Jeff, have a daughter, Alana, and a son, Sam.
Martin A. Rips (WCAS85) of Santa Monica, Calif., joined
the international law firm of Perkins, Coie LLP as a partner in its Internet and e-commerce practice.
Margo Kandelman Bartsch (WCAS86, GJ91) of Greenwich, Conn., is vice president of advertising and marketing
communications for Prodigy Internet. Her husband, Adam Bartsch (GJ91), is an attorney with Huber, Lawrence & Abel in New York City. They have a daughter, Camille.
Alan Brochstein (WCAS86) of Houston joined Piedra Capital Ltd. as an equity analyst. He and his wife, Fran, have two children, Brian and Shayna.
Balaji Gupta (WCAS86, M88) and Kavita Kanal Gupta (WCAS87, D92) of Westmont, Ill., opened a joint health care practice in Elmhurst, Ill. He is an ophthalmologist, and she practices dentistry.
Andrea Shapiro Riberi (WCAS86) of Norwalk, Conn., is vice
president of client services for Information Resources. She is married to Peter Riberi, an operatic tenor.
Kathleen James Ring (WCAS86, GJ89) of Manchester, Vt., spent 10 years working in magazine circulation and marketing for Wisconsin Trails, Circulation Specialists Inc. and Storey Communications. She subsequently became editor of Snow Country, a mountain sports magazine. In 1999 she and her husband, Brad Ring (GJ90), founded a publishing company, Batenkill Communications, which bought two national hobby magazines, Brew Your Own Beer and WineMaker.
David M. Barber (GJ87) of Silver Lake, Calif., is the publicity manager for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl. He is an active volunteer in a tree-planting organization called TreePeople.
Michele Cacdac (J87) of Chicago joined Inforte Corp., an e-business consulting company, as director of marketing. She also is a founding member, former president and current board director of the Society
of Filipino American Young Professionals, based in Chicago.
William D. Hawkins (WCAS87, Mu87) of New York City graduated from Cornell University Law School and joined a New York law firm.
Van Paul Stamos (WCAS87, M89) of Chicago was inducted
last March as a fellow of the American Academy of Ortho-paedic Surgeons in Orlando, Fla., during the organization’s 67th annual meeting.
Robert L. Waldron (WCAS87) of San Francisco is head of the
Bay Area office of SCORE!
A subsidiary of Kaplan Educa-tional Centers, SCORE! pro-vides for-profit educational and career services to the public.
Tom Halvorson (WCAS88, Nav88) of Mount Vernon, Va., is stationed in Washington, D.C., as the flag aide to the director of surface warfare for the U.S. Navy. He and his wife, Carol, have two sons, Ryan and Matthew.
Julie Kirchhausen (Mu88) of
St. Paul was named director
of marketing, sales and public
relations for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Kathy McCormack (GJ88) of Albuquerque was named news editor for the Associated Press in Albuquerque.
Michael Mullen (KGSM88)
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is spending the academic year in England with his wife Joan and their two sons. He is a lecturer in international management at the Judge Institute of Manage-ment Studies at Cambridge University. He is on sabbatical from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla.
Ellen Puff (S88) of Minneapolis is a full-time yoga instructor whose clients have included General Mills and the National Organization for Women. She
is pursuing a master’s degree
in secondary education and
a double major in English/
language arts and speech/
theater arts at the University
of St. Thomas.
Elizabeth Sheridan Rammer (GJ88) of Fridley, Minn.,
is the account director at the advertising firm of Carmichael Lynch in the Twin Cities. She represents White Wave, Capella Education and Sunbeam
Health o Meter Scales.
Pauline Jen Ryan (WCAS88, KGSM92) of Southborough, Mass., is vice president of business development at ImmunoGen,
a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass., that is developing cancer therapeutics. She has a daughter, Alexandra.
Emily Schapmann Stroud (J88)
of Atlanta is a reporter for WGCL-TV in Atlanta.
David Warner (WCAS88) of Chicago moved from Los Angeles and is now an associate in the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP, which merged with his former law firm, Burke, Weaver & Prell.
Julie Rubins Wilen (S88) of Chicago is the director of
welfare-to-work programs for the city of Chicago’s Office of Workforce Development. She and her husband, Roger Wilen, have a son, Ethan Samuel.
Deanna Haunsperger (G89, 91)
of Northfield, Minn., associate professor of mathematics and computer science at Carleton College in Northfield, was granted tenure.
Lawrence A. Lee (SESP89, Nav89) of New Rochelle, N.Y., is a sales representative for Johnson & Johnson’s vision care division after serving 11 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy.
Geoffrey J. Martineau (WCAS89) of Williams Bay, Wis., joined the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service.
Melissa Merz (J89) of Washington, D.C., is press
secretary to U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.).
Shazia Rafiullah Miller (WCAS89, GSESP96, 98) of Chicago is a senior research associate at the Consortium on Chicago School Research. She received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from Phi Delta Kappa for her thesis, in which she tracked eighth graders in Chicago’s public school system.
John Podbielski (WCAS89) of Franklin, Wis., co-founded the law firm of Schelble & Podbielski in 1999. He is married to Karen.
Steven Schmid (GMcC89, 93)
of Lakeville, Ind., an associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, received the John T. Parsons Outstanding Young Manufac-turing Engineer Award for the year 2000.
Lori Kettner Skalitzky (SESP89) of Crofton, Md., is a self-described “domestic engineer” caring for her son. Her husband, Robert (McC90), works on power systems for satellites at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey A. Weil (McC89) of Hanover, N.H., is completing
a fellowship in interventional radiology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
in Hanover. He is married
and has a daughter.
’90s
Ruth Ebenstein (J90) of Jerusalem is director of communications for the New Israel Fund and a doctoral candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jewish studies and Holocaust history.
Charles J. Lee (WCAS90), of Davis, Calif., earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of California, Davis and works at Intel. His wife, Christine, is a nurse practitioner for Kaiser-Permanente.
Colleen McGushin (J90) of
Dallas is the new editor of
Texas Lawyer.
David W. Miller (S90) of Brentwood, Calif., is an investment banker with Sutco & Co., headquartered in Los Angeles.
Hector Ramos (CPS90) of McAllen, Texas, is a captain
in the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Daniel Ring (WCAS90) of Chicago is an attorney at the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago. He is married to Beth Ring (McC90, M93), an emergency medicine physician at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital and Christ Hospital. They have two sons, Austin and Drew.
David W. Rowe (WCAS90,
Nav90) of Oceanside, Calif., received a master’s degree in 1999 in information technology management from the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, Calif.
Rich Scannell (J90) of
San Diego is a news copy
editor for the San Diego
Union-Tribune.
Tim Schmidt (WCAS90) of Arlington, Va., is married to Carole Ann Troutt and is
manager of liability funding
at Freddie Mac Corp. in
McLean, Va.
Ursula A. Wiljanen (J90, GJ91)
of Eugene, Ore., received
a Fulbright Scholarship to
conduct dissertation-related research in Sweden for the 2000–01 academic year. She is in her third year of the doctoral program in comparative literature at the University of Oregon where she is also a graduate teaching fellow in Swedish.
Laura Rubenstein Yurick (WCAS90) of Chicago graduated in May from Loyola University with a master’s degree in social work. She works for Metropolitan Family Services in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.
Jennifer Marcus Barbara (J91) of New York City is the manager of corporate communications for Colgate-Palmolive Co. in New York. She and her husband, Brent, have a daughter, Samantha Mollie.
Ellen Beckmann (WCAS91)
of San Francisco earned her master’s degree in business administration in the spring from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and accepted a position with con-sultants Deloitte & Touche in
San Francisco.
Tonya Marie Evans (S91) of Philadelphia, a former tennis pro and attorney, came out with her debut collection of poetry, Seasons of Her Own (FYOS Publishing, 1999). Her poems explore the allegorical seasons in the life of every woman.
Christopher Holliday (GMu91) of Rochester, N.Y., received a master’s degree in divinity at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., in May.
Margaret Johnson (KGSM91)
of Chicago was inducted into the Chicago Area Entre-preneurship Hall of Fame last February. She is president of the Johnson Group, founded in 1991, which is a financial consulting group.
Raymond 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. He also received the Outstanding Young Conductor Award from the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association, and his students have been
recognized nationally in the NAACP–ACT 50 competition.
Nipa Shah (WCAS91) of Albuquerque accepted a position in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is also founder and president of the UNM International Health Association.
Lori Worley (WCAS91) of London, England, was appointed Euro-pean marketing manager for AirFlash, a start-up company in the wireless Internet market.
John Applegate (WCAS92) of Lawrence, Mass., is director of licensing at Houston Street.com in Portsmouth, N.H.
Pasquale Guglietta (WCAS92) of Philadelphia joined the law firm of Flaster/Greenberg in Cherry Hill, N.J., as an associate in commercial, contractual and employment law.
Courteney Harris (WCAS92, G00), of Lake Bluff, Ill., earned a master’s degree in literature from Northwestern in June.
Scott Relyea (J92) of London, England, earned a master’s degree with distinction in Chinese studies from the School of Oriental Studies at the Uni-versity of London. His article, “Trans-State Entities: Post-modern Cracks in the Great Westphalian Dam,” was published in the journal Geopolitics.
Jun Ro (WCAS92) of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a family medicine
resident at the University of Michigan Hospitals.
Craig Rowley (KGSM92) of Minneapolis is group director of Carmichael Lynch’s account management department.
Alex Saulis (WCAS92, M96) of Chicago was awarded a plastic surgery fellowship at North-western Memorial Hospital after completing her general surgery training and a research fellowship in wound healing. Her husband, Vytas Saulis (WCAS89, M93, GM97), is
an emergency physician at Hinsdale Hospital and North-western Memorial Hospital.
Peter Schoenke (WCAS92, GJ93) of Minneapolis founded Rotonews, a sports Web site based in Los Angeles, with
Jeff Erickson (WCAS93) of Indianapolis and Herb Ilk (McC94) of Oshkosh, Wis. The site enables fans to get detailed information on any sports player at any time.
Frank Vespa-Papaleo (WCAS92)
of Nutley, N.J., an associate with the law firm of Gaccione, Pomaco & Beck, specializes in education law, employment litigation, election law counseling and litigation matters in the political arena.
Tom Yoritaka (WCAS92) of
Los Angeles is a consultant
with the Boston Consulting Group in Los Angeles.
Marc David Blakeman (WCAS93) of Chicago was named senior director of external affairs for Ameritech.
John Dohm (KGSM93) of
Beverly Hills, Calif., moved from Chicago after being named managing director of Digital Coast Partners’ venture planning group for Southern California.
Jeanne Fleming (WCAS93) of
New York City is a professional in-line skater who freelances for Rollerblade and other companies providing equipment for in-line skaters.
Peter J. Krumholz (J93) of Denver joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado as an assistant U.S. attorney in the civil division.
Jennifer Magat (S93, GS94) is a speech-language pathologist at the Wayne Center, an agency that provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities.
Aaron J. Michelfelder (S93) of Chicago is the director of in-patient family medicine at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., and an assistant professsor of family medicine at the Stritch School of Medicine. He was also appointed as a faculty member of the Loyola/ Provident Family Practice Residency Program.
Jason T. Moore (S93) of New York City is associate director of the Broadway and national touring productions of Les Misérables for Cameron Mackintosh Inc.
Brett Schuster (GMu93) of Macomb, Ill., a first-year assistant trombone and euphonium professor at Western Illinois University, earned a Grammy
for Schickele: Hornssmoke, an album recorded when he was playing with the Chestnut
Brass Company.
Bridget Ann Serchak (GJ93) of Arlington, Va., is the area director of public relations for Mariott International in the Washington, D.C., region.
Perchow Joseph Chang (McC94, KGSM99) of Singapore is working with financial consultants McKinsey & Co.
Jody Freeman (WCAS94) of Chicago graduated from the University of Minnesota Med-ical School and is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago.
Cheryl Hewitt (WCAS94) of Quincy, Mass., is program
manager and nutritionist for the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Michael Hickey (KGSM94) of Chicago is a stockholder in Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc., a multidisciplined consulting firm offering architecture, engineering, environmental and transportation services.
Matt Huff (SESP94) of Chicago is the owner and president of USA Homes and Condos.com.
Jessica Zoller Kaplan (GJ94)
of Evanston was promoted to
producer for WTTW-TV in Chicago. She will continue to work on Chicago Tonight and other locally produced programs such as WTTW Presents.
Christina Langlois (S94) of Houston earned a master’s degree in international business from the University of St. Thomas and is now a global service consultant for MCI Worldcom. She is also president of the NU Club of Houston.
Esther Heller Tombragel (WCAS94) of Cincinnati recently bought a house in the city and continues to work for U.S. Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).
Kelly C. Ward (Nav94, S95) of Buzzards Bay, Mass., received a Navy Unit Commendation medal for supporting United Nations efforts in Kosovo. She is now assigned to shore duty
as a professor of naval science, teaching naval history at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay.
Andrew Wunderlich (WCAS94) of Rochester, Minn., graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Medicine in 1998. He is a second-year internal medicine resident at
the Mayo Clinic and Hospital in Rochester.
Mischa Sarche Zupko (Mu94) of Bloomington, Ind., was commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony to write an orchestral work that is set to have its world premiere at Carnegie Hall in February.
Ian Greenblatt (S95) of Chicago is senior vice president of the corporate and legal affairs department of Broadbus Technologies in Chicago.
Michelle A. Jones (J95) of Nashville received a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship for 2000–01, allowing her to work
as a full-time intern in Germany. This annual award is given to 20 American students to fos-
ter better American-German
relations.
Elisa Kronish (GJ95) of Chicago is a writer with chicago.citysearch.com and is also its regional Midwest copy editor.
Karen Lord (Mu95) of Louisville joined the Amaranth String Quartet at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. She had been a member of the violin section of the Louisville Orchestra.
Julia A. McKinsey (WCAS95)
of Gainesville, Fla., is a junior veterinary student at the Uni-versity of Florida, Gainesville.
Diane Tinker (S95) of Wichita, Kan., is special event coordinator for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. She is also vice president of the Wichita Com-munity Theatre’s board of directors, acts in numerous shows, such as Taming of the Shrew, and produces live theater.
John Davis (WCAS96) of Rochester, Minn., is a resident in the department of internal medicine at Rochester’s Mayo Clinic.
Mathew C. Ellsworth (WCAS96)
of Chicago was promoted to manager of Midwest marketing communications for the Wall Street Journal, making him the youngest manager at Dow Jones & Co.
Aidi H. Hamid (McC96) of Kertih, Malaysia, works for Petronas Malaysia, a natural gas producer.
Sharon Hovey (WCAS96) of Kansas City, Kan., graduated from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine
and is continuing her training
as a pediatric resident at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
Thomas Ramsey (KGSM96)
of Frankfort, Ill., joined BP Amoco’s oil trading international group as U.S. controller.
Jim Steger (McC96) of Albuquerque and Mike Anguiano (McC96) of Addison, Ill., won the year 2000 award from Industrie Forum Design Hanover, an internationally renowned firm, for a stapler they designed.
Jody Woodward (WCAS96) of Houston received her master’s degree in clinical psychology from Southern Illinois Univer-sity and is completing a doctoral internship in pediatric neuro-psychology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Jennifer Aloe (SESP97) of Cambridge, Mass., is an intern at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard University Medical School.
William Bush (S97) of Portland, Ore., joined the Metropolitan Group as its new media director. He leads the company’s team
on new media projects such as Web development, interactive marketing, CD-Rom, film and video development.
Elizabeth Betsy Bozdech (J97)
of San Francisco is a content writer for EMode.com.
Sheri Di Iorio (GJ97) of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a reporter for WZZM-TV. She was formerly the weekend news anchor at WIFR-TV in Rockford, Ill.
Ann Donahue (J97, GJ97) of Los Angeles is a technology reporter at Variety. She previously
reported for the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Stacy A. Newbrough (GMu97) of Alexandria, Va., is a flutist for the United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C.,
and was promoted to the rank of technical sergeant.
Ondrea H. Delio (S99) of Stamford, Conn., left her position as the lead Web designer for a manufacturer in Stamford to become creative lead in the New York City office of Sapient Corp., an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm.
Jonna Robertson (J99) of Chicago is a marketing co-
ordinator for the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra.