1970s
Joseph J. Lapiana, MS'70, of Westford, Massachusetts, was named the
Mass-achusetts Outstanding Science Educator of 2000 by the Massachusetts
Association of Science Supervisors. In addition, he was inducted into the
Massachusetts Hall of Fame for Science Educators at the annual State Science
Educators and Supervisors Conference. Lapiana is chair of the science department
at Dracut High School and has been a science educator for more than thirty-four
years.
Donald W. Morgan, BA'70, of Dublin, California, is chief financial
officer of Larscom in Milpitas.
Bradford E. Randolph, E'70, has published his first online novel,
I Used to Spy. It's available at <www1.mightywords.com>.
Randolph has been working in the computer field in the San Francisco area
for twenty years.
Kenneth F. Rogers Jr., BA'70, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, is
senior vice president and chief financial officer and treasurer of Designs
Inc., an operator of Levi and Docker outlet stores.
Robert J. Katz, BA'71, of Winthrop, Massachu-setts, is president
of the New England Tire & Service Association for 2000. He works at
Nu-Tread Tire in East Boston.
Nancy Bonomi Buckley, BB'72, of Manchester, Connecticut, is a physical
therapist at Manchester Memorial Hospital. "Husband, Jim, is well.
Daughter, Meghan, plays soccer at Boston College. Son, James, is a junior
in high school," she reports.
Michael D. Golding, CJ'72, of Somersworth, New Hampshire, has retired
as operations captain of the Durham Police Department after twenty-one
years. He's now a court security analyst and trainer for the administrative
office of the courts in Concord, New Hampshire. "My new job brings
me back to the city where I began my career as a co-op student at the Concord
Police Department in 1968," he notes. "I'd love to hear from
any CJ alumni who attended N.U. in the late 1960s or early '70s."
His e-mail address is <mgolding@courts.state.nh.us>.
Julie Leader-Hockessin, N'72, reports her twin daughters will be
attending college this fall, Laurie at the Wharton School at the University
of Pennsylvania and Haley at Wake Forest University. She says she'd like
to hear from college friends by e-mail at <Jul@aol.com>.
Robert Baris, UC'73, of Aiken, South Carolina, writes, "Aiken
has been named the top retirement area. So come on down and see for yourself.
Boston lost the Braves. See what happened when they went south?"
Gordon E. Castanza, LA'73, of Gig Harbor, Washington, is the new
superintendent of schools for the Tahola School District in Tahola, Washington.
Castanza, who received a doctorate in educational leadership from the University
of Nevada in Reno, previously spent eighteen years in education in Alaska.
He writes, "I have run the Iditarod Trail International Sled Dog Race
twice, in 1981 and 1984. I have run the Kuskokwin 300 Sled Dog Race twice,
in 1982 and 1983. I am the first, and so far, the only superintendent either
in the state of Alaska or the state of Washington-maybe in the entire United
States, for that matter-who has ever run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race."
Richard M. Donovan, BA'73, of Dedham, Massachusetts, is president
and chief operating officer of Stoneham Savings Bank.
James A. Pappas, E'73, ME'80, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, is president
of the New England Water Environment Association. He's employed as manager
of the environmental department and marketing manager and senior project
manager for Sverdup Civil. Pappas also serves as a library trustee in Wakefield
and as director of the Citizens' Scholar-ship Foundation and is a past
president of the Wakefield Center Neighborhood Association. He and his
wife, Diane, have two daughters, Leah and Lauren.
Janet Quinn, E'73, received a doctorate in materials science from
the University of Maryland and now works for the American Dental Association.
Her husband, George Quinn, E'73, is a senior staff scientist at
the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg.
Brenda Brady Boyce, N'74, received a doctorate in education from
Nova-Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Stanley A. Budryk, Ed'74, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was given
an Exemplary Teacher Award by the North Shore Science Supervisors Association.
The award is presented annually to ten outstanding science teachers. Budryk
is a teacher at Swampscott Middle School.
Sally Rachel Cohen-Helfman, LA'74, of Westfield, New Jersey, is
a bilingual specialist at Essex County Vocational Schools in Newark.
Marc H. Hample, BA'74, of Elmira, New York, specializes in the design,
planning, and layout of food service facilities around the world.
Jay Jerome, MA'74, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, received the
Southeastern Microscopy Society's Distinguished Scientist Award.
Larry LaPierre, MEd'74, of White River Junction, Vermont, is chief
of the Chaplain Service at the Veterans' Administration Hospital and an
instructor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School. He writes on the
topics of spirituality and pastoral care. After receiving his master's
degree in counseling from Northeastern, LaPierre attended a seminary in
Bangor, Maine, and performed his doctor of ministry work at Boston University.
He and his wife, Jane, have three children and three grandchildren. The
youngest, Miette, was born in August, in Oregon.
Jeff Mervine, LA'74, is vice president of human resources at Austin,
Nichols & Company, a subsidiary of the French wine and spirits company,
Groupe Pernod-Ricard, in New York City. He says he recently made his first
visit in ten years to Boston and the N.U. campus and was "impressed
and astounded at the changes in the campus and the city." Mervine
and his wife, Diane, live in Stamford, Connecticut. His e-mail address
is <jmervine@austin-nichols.com>.
Raymond P. O'Leary, E'74, has worked for S&C Electric in Chicago
for twenty-five years. Since 1989, he has served as the firm's manager
of research and development, where he developed the S&C PureWave Source-Transfer
System for power quality. O'Leary has been awarded eleven patents and has
an additional nine patents pending. He has been attending Northwestern
University, working toward a master's in engineering management. He and
his wife, Melody, live in Evanston, Illinois, with their two daughters.
Gary M. Shramek, PAH'74, of West Barnstable, Massachusetts, is director
of pharmacy programs for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts. "Living
on Cape Cod and loving it," he says.
Burton J. Buchman, LA'75, of Danvers, Massachusetts, is manager
of editorial review for NewsEdge in Burlington. He has been appointed to
a three-year term on the Parent and Community Advisory Council of the Massachusetts
Board of Education.
Sheryl Nese Nonnenberg, LA'75, received a master of liberal arts
degree from Stanford University in June. She lives in Menlo Park, California,
with her husband, Lane, and children, Cara and Reid. "I would love
to hear from old friends at Northeastern, Jay, Tom, Ed, Jim, and Janet
Lopardo," she says. Her e-mail address is <nonnenberg@aol.com>.
Manny Santos, PAH'76, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, has released
a swing/Latin jazz CD titled Cartagena, The Geoffrey Hicks Quartet. It
can be sampled at <www.CDFreedom.com>.
Rita Shertick, N'76, of Bellflower, California, writes, "Enjoy
fourth year of working with LifeCare Resources, a company innovating disease
management in the work site. Also enjoy my sons, Justin and Jason."
Paul Trusten, PAH'76, of Sherman, Texas, is a pharmacist at Community
Medical Center, Sherman.
Ken Winter, MBA'76, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, is interim associate
dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of WisconsinLa
Crosse.
Virginia Curtin Capasso, N'77, of Reading, Massachusetts, earned
a doctorate in nursing from Boston College in May. Her dissertation research,
"Arterial and Diabetic Wound-Healing: A Comparison of the Cost and
Efficacy of Two Wound Treatments," was funded by a grant from the
Association of Operating Room Nurses Foundation. Capasso is a clinical
nurse specialist and nurse practitioner for vascular nursing and the Vascular
Home Care Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Gary C. Dunton, BA'78, is chief operating officer and president
of MBIA Insurance in Armonk, New York.
Joan W. Krieger, UC'78, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, writes, "Northeastern
was, I believe, the first university to welcome students who had been out
of school for years. For that, I will always be grateful. I was fifty-one
in 1969 when I enrolled, working a very full-time job, still with children
in school."
Robert W. Pasquini, CJ'78, of Delmar, New York, is an agency labor
relations representative for the New York State Department of Corrections.
He represents the state in all disciplinary arbitrations and contract severance
hearings for eight correctional facilities.
Gerard D. Perry, CJ'78, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, is associate
deputy commissioner of the Division of Local Services for the Massachusetts
Department of Revenue.
Gary Robbins, LA'78, is a science writer at the Orange County Register
in Santa Ana, California. He has been named a Knight Science Journalism
Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 20002001
academic year.
Marianne B. Duane-Handerek, LA'79, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
has three daughters, twins Eva and Lily, and Olivia. She is an intravenous
nurse therapist at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.
Dave Ouellette, CJ'79, retired from the Air Force and is now a systems
analyst with General Dynamics in Norfolk, Virginia. He and his wife, Eileen,
and four daughters live in Virginia Beach.
Eliot Popper, BA'79, is an assistant vice president and financial
consultant in charge of the Private Client Group at Merrill Lynch in Madison,
Connecticut. He and his wife, Michele, have two children, Brooke and Drew.
Popper is planning a Class of 1979 reunion at homecoming this fall. "Last
year we had only a handful attend the Duck Tour during homecoming activities,"
he writes. "Hopefully, we can attract a larger crowd this year."
His e-mail address is <epopper@pclient.ml.com>.
Rock A. Rottler, BA'79, lives in Derry, New Hampshire, with his
wife and two sons. He works at Tufts University.
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