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Classmates Decoded
Classmates Decoded Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the various schools of the University? Here's the complete list. AF Air Force Commission CB Chicago Business CPS Center for Public Safety (formerly the Traffic Institute) D Dental EB Evanston Business G Graduate (Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences) GD Graduate Dental GJ Graduate Journalism GL Graduate Law GM Graduate Medicine GMcC Graduate McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science GMu Graduate Music GS Graduate Speech GSESP Graduate School of Education and Social Policy, Education H Honorary J Medill School of Journalism KGSM Kellogg Graduate School of Management or Graduate Business L Law M Medicine McC McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Mu Music N Nursing Nav Naval Commission S Speech SESP School of Education and Social Policy, Education Tns Transportation Center SCS School of Continuing Studies WCAS Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts
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Class Notes 1970s Jeffrey Chulay (M70) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was named medical director of Alpha Vax, a vaccine technology firm in Durham, N.C., in February. Kenneth C. Crannell Sr. (GS70) of Saugus, Mass., is professor emeritus of communication at Emerson College in Boston, where he taught for the past 42 years. Richard Hansen (WCAS70) of Seattle, a partner at Allen, Hansen, Maybrown law firm, received the William O. Douglas Award, the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' award for exceptional courage and dedication to the practice of criminal law, in June. Neal D. Hulkower (WCAS70, G73, 77) of Redmond, Wash., was named chief operating officer of RAF Technology in Redmond in May. P. Michael Maher (KGSM70) of Calgary, Alberta, is dean of management at the University of Calgary and a director of Blackwell Capital, an equity investment company based in Portland, Ore. Jayne Carr Thompson (L70) of Chicago heads the development campaign for the Illinois Medical District Guest House Foundation. Its mission is to raise more than $2 million for affordable temporary housing for families and friends of patients at four hospitals on Chicago's West Side. Karla Yale (McC70, KGSM74) of Indianapolis is president of Yale Systems, information technology consultants in Indianapolis. She started a new business, the Clinical Trials Clearinghouse, which is a free service for doctors and patients to learn about human clinical trials and trial participation. Marie Arana (WCAS71) of Washington, D.C., editor of the Washington Post Book World, wrote a memoir, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood (Dial Press, 2001). Arthur Chal (WCAS71) of Phoenix is president of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and has a private practice in Phoenix. Shinae Chun (GSESP71) of Arlington,Va., formerly managing director of the ITR Corp. in Chicago, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May to be the director of the Women's Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor. Steven Elliott (KGSM71) of Pittsburgh, senior vice chair and chief financial officer of Mellon Financial Corp., was elected to its board of directors and to the Mellon Bank N.A. board in Pittsburgh. Andrew Frances (S71) of Playa del Rey, Calif., is a partner in country musician Garth Brooks' management company, a business promoting numerous albums of popular artists. Deborah Hayes (S71, GS73) of Evergreen, Colo., is professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and chair of audiology, speech pathology and learning services at the Children's Hospital in Denver. She was appointed the first chairholder of the Kelley Family/Schlessman Family Scottish Rite Masons Endowed Chair at Children's Hospital in Denver last May. Carlotta J. Willis (S71) of Amherst, Mass., is director of academic affairs for counseling psychology and online alumni career consultant for Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, N.H. Michele McCormick (S72) of Sacramento, Calif., a principal partner with MMC Communications, a public relations firm in Sacramento, was honored by the local chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners with the Owl Award in November 2000. Richard J. Raskin (GM72) of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is vice president and chief medical officer of United Healthcare of Ohio in Cleveland. Jeff Ravitz (S72) of Studio City, Calif., is a lighting designer and principal of Visual Terrain Inc. This year he received a prime-time Emmy Award nomination for his lighting design for the HBO cable television presentation, "Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band." He previously received an Emmy nomination for his design for "Cher Live at the Mirage" on CBS-TV. Richard Sheingold (GJ72) of Weston, Conn., is president of CBS Spot Sales and executive vice president of sales for Viacom television stations in New York City. Louis Stein (S72) of London was named a visiting professor of theater at Rose Bruford College in London in July. Diane Balin (GSESP73, 84) of Riverside, Ill., director of the Board of Governors' bachelor of arts program at Governors State University in University Park, Ill., received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to China in July. She studied culture, history and education in China, focusing on the impact of the Three Gorges Project, the damming of the Yangtze River. Douglas Conant (WCAS73, KGSM76) of Madison, N.J., was elected president, CEO and director of Campbell Soup Co. in Camden, N.J. Margaret O'Mara Frossard (WCAS73) of Chicago is an Illinois appellate court judge. Lee Graber (D73) of Mundelein, Ill., an orthodontist in Vernon Hills, Ill., and Kenilworth, Ill., joined the board of trustees of the American Association of Orthodontists as the Midwest Society of Orthodontists' representative at the 101st annual session in Toronto. He is also president of the World Federation of Orthodontists. Robert Hanson (GMu73) of Highland Park, Ill., is the Elgin Symphony Orchestra conductor and received the Illinois Conductor of the Year award for 2001. Nathan Little (McC73) of Ramsey, N.J., is vice president of operations for Rudolph Technologies in Flanders, N.J. David R. Nissen (WCAS73) of Darien, Conn., was named senior vice president of General Electric Co. in Fairfield, Conn. He is also president and CEO of Global Consumer Finance, a General Electric division. Daniel Shaw (S73) of Nyack, N.Y., a psychoanalyst in New York City, received his certification from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York. He won the Educator's Award for best original scholarly paper, "On the Therapeutic Action of Analytic Love," from the NIP. Rick Sund (WCAS73) of Seattle is general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team. James Oliff (L74) of Deerfield, Ill., is executive director of International Futures and Options Associates, president of LST Commodities and vice chair of LaSalle Street Trading Group. He was re-elected to a one-year term as second vice chair of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Ira Raphaelson (WCAS74, L77) of North Potomac, Md., a partner in O'Melveny & Myers' Washington, D.C., office, is co-chair of the law firm's white collar and regulatory defense group. He received the FBI Agents Association Award for Excellence last July in Seattle in recognition of his pro bono efforts on behalf of a special agent for the FBI. Carl Witte (WCAS74, KGSM76) of Arlington Heights, Ill., is a faculty member in the department of marketing at the Heller College of Business at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He earned a doctorate degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Kenneth G. Bursch (M75) of Chicago, president of the Illinois Psychiatric Society, has a private practice in Chicago. He also is co-chair of the council on medical services of the Illinois State Medical Society and vice president of the North Side branch of the Chicago Medical Society. Alexander Hutchison (G75) of Glasgow, Scotland, a poet, works at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the University of Paisley in Scotland. He was honored at a conference in Arpino, Italy, for his writings, and he composed a poem for the event that will be engraved in stone. Bruce D. Riter (L75) of Los Altos, Calif., is an attorney who delivered the commencement address for engineering graduates at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill., last May. Tim Smight (J75) of El Segundo, Calif., is the manager of investor communications at Unocal Corp. in El Segundo and is a freelance writer. He received first place in the 2001 International Imitation Hemingway Competition sponsored by United Airlines' Hemispheres magazine and PEN Center West. His entry was published in the July issue of Hemispheres. Laura Soll-Broxterman (S75) of Windsor, Conn., president of Laura Soll Public Relations, won a first-place Gold Mercury Award from the Connecticut Valley chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for publicizing the 2000 metropolitan Hartford Veterans' Day parade. This is the second time in three years that she and her firm took first place. William Woodburn (McC75) of Greenwich, Conn., is president and CEO of GE Specialty Materials and a senior vice president for General Electric Co. in Stamford, Conn. James P. Corcoran (KGSM76) of Timonium, Md., is vice president of York International Corp. in York, Pa. Bernard J. DiMuro (WCAS76) of Alexandria, Va., is a partner in the law firm of DiMuro, Ginsberg and Mook PC. He also serves as a faculty member for the American Bar Association's professionalism course in the state of Virginia. Michael J. Herr (J76) of Tampa is working on a professional certificate in management at the University of Tampa. He was inducted into Delta Mu Delta, a national honor society in business administration, in April after receiving a master's degree in business administration from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, in May 2000. Brian Lynch (S76) of Warrenville, Ill., instructor of theater and fine arts outreach director at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., received the $1,000 Dissinger Award for half-time faculty. His presentation of the Pirates of Penzance last year was selected to compete in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region III Festival. John E. Perry (KGSM76) of Allentown, Pa., is vice president of operations for Victaulic Co. in Allentown and also serves as vice president of Victaulic Fire Safety Co. Alan Carswell (McC77) of Washington, D.C., earned a doctorate in business and management from the University of Maryland in May. Karen Datko (GJ77) of Havre, Mont., is the managing editor of the Havre Daily News. Mindy Kitei (GJ77) of Wayne, Pa., co-authored Sugars That Heal: The New Healing Science of Glyconutrients (Ballantine Books, 2001) with physician Emil Mondoa. M. Thaine Lyman (KGSM77) of Lake Forest, Ill., is senior vice president of sales for ONE Inc., a professional services firm in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Steve Sulkin (Mu77) of Buffalo Grove, Ill., president and CEO of Meetings for Business & Medicine Productions International, will celebrate the company's 25th anniversary in 2002. He founded it the day he graduated from Northwestern. Jeffrey Apfelbaum (M78) of Northbrook, Ill., a professor and physician, was promoted to chair of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Chicago. Mitchell Arnold (Mu78, GMu80, 98) of Amherst, Ohio, was the conductor at 2001's Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. He conducted the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra during the 2000-01 season and served as backup conductor for the Cleveland Orchestra. He completed his third year as visiting assistant professor of orchestral conducting at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. His wife, Deborah Campana (GMu79, 85), is conservatory librarian at Oberlin and oversaw a $1 million renovation and expansion of the conservatory library. Mark W. Damisch (S78, L81, KGSM86) of Northbrook, Ill., celebrated his 41st year as a performing pianist with concerts in 11 cities in England and Northern Ireland last summer to raise funds for various charities. He has served as village president of Northbrook for eight years. James Hohmann (WCAS78) of Hawthorn Woods, Ill., is president and CEO of the XL Capital Life and Annuity unit, the new life unit of Bermuda-based XL Capital. Bridget McDonough (S78) of Chicago, general manager of Light Opera Works, led the Evanston Performing Arts Coalition in requesting funds from the city for renovating the Evanston Theater to make it usable for theatrical events. James C. Peterson (WCAS78) of Wingate, N.C., authored Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention (Eerdmans, 2001), describing how society can use available genetic tests, drugs and surgery. Kathryn M. Sinzinger (J78) of Washington, D.C., is the editor and publisher of The Common Denominator, a biweekly newspaper for the District of Columbia. She started the paper in 1998 and joined the board of directors of the Maryland–Delaware–D.C. Press Association in July. Lawrence Stranghoener (KGSM78) of Plymouth, Minn., is the chief financial officer and executive vice president of the Minneapolis-based Lutheran Brotherhood, which manages $27 billion in assets for 1.2 million members. He was the former chief financial officer of Honeywell. Richard C. Tallman (L78) of Seattle was appointed a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court's Ninth Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals. Julia Wallace (J78) of Atlanta is the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and spoke at the Atlanta Press Club in February. Jonathan Addleton (J79) of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, was sworn in as the new mission director for Mongolia by the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C., in August. He had served as director of the program office at the USAID mission in Amman, Jordan. Mary T. Christel (S79) of Wheeling, Ill., a teacher at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., co-authored Seeing and Believing: Media Literacy in the English Classroom (Heinemann Publishers, 2001). Gary English (GS79) of Willimantic, Conn., is artistic director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre and head of the University of Connecticut's drama department. Michael J. Gelfand (S79) of West Palm Beach, Fla., is a senior partner with Gelfand & Arpe P.A. in West Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Fla., and presented a course at the Chatauqua Institute in New York at the institute's summer special studies session. Dawn Plambeck Gray (S79) of Chicago produced her first feature film, Stray Dogs, a Southern gothic drama. She is married and the mother of two children. Gregory Josefowicz (KGSM79) of Ann Arbor, Mich., is president and CEO of Borders Books in Ann Arbor. Elaine Kramer (J79) of Orlando, Fla., became managing editor of the Orlando Sentinel in June. Thomas Murley (WCAS79) of Cambridge, Mass., partner and portfolio manager of CEEPower, a U.S.-and Britain-based private equity fund manager, oversees the London office. Pat Pappas (WCAS79, GM90) of Oak Lawn, Ill., a cardiac surgeon at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, was featured in an article on the use of robotic surgical systems. William Powell (WCAS79) of Beijing is a foreign correspondent for Fortune Magazine and opened the magazine's first bureau in China. Diana Solomon-Glover (S79) of New York City received a $112,000 grant from the Riverside Church in New York to produce a workshop based on her multimedia musical theater piece, Blackwater, in February. Charlie Walker (L79) of San Francisco is CEO of Cadant Inc., a cable data networking company based in Lisle, Ill. Sandi Wisenberg (J79) of Chicago is a visiting scholar in the gender studies program at Northwestern and a fellow of the Women's Residential College. She wrote The Sweetheart Is In (TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 2001) and is working on a second book. She is also a freelance writer with works in CityTalk, the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune. Kevin Anderson Yancy (WCAS79, Nav79) of Burbank, Calif., authored a short story, "DELISA: Derivative Life Sapien," published in The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers (Carroll & Graf Inc., 2001).
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