1970s
David W. Blood, ME'70, of State College, Pennsylvania, has retired
after thirty-nine years in engineering with Raytheon, MIT Lincoln Labs,
and Pennsylvania State University.
Erich V. Briggs, UC'70, is vice president of Carlton and Company,
fund-raising consultants. He and his wife, Marie, live in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
They have two daughters, Jennifer, a Northeastern 2000 journalism graduate,
and Megan, a Boston University political science graduate.
Eileen Fleischman Mellor, LA'70, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is
saddened to report that her husband, Kenneth G. Mellor, Ed'65, died
of a heart ailment in 1998. The couple had been married twenty-eight years.
Kenneth was a commercial insurance underwriter manager until 1982, owned
and managed a retail soccer equipment store from 1981 to 1987, and taught
at Urbandale (Iowa) High School from 1986 to 1997, where he led the varsity
coed soccer team to four state championships. In 1995, Mellor founded the
Urbandale girls' soccer program. He was the first inductee into the KG
Mellor Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame and is
remembered with the West Des Moines Soccer Club's Annual KG Mellor Great
Plains Shootout Tournament and the annual Iowa High School KG Mellor Soccer
Season Kickoff Tournament. Eileen lives near her three sons, Scot, Chris,
and Shane, and two grandchildren.
Lewis Fisher, LA'71, MA'73, of Ocean, New Jersey, has graduated
from the Army Management's Staff College Sustaining Base Leadership Program
at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He works at the Army CECOM Acquisition Center
at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He and his wife, Cindy, have been married
for twenty-three years. They have two children, Jodi and Matthew.
Raymond W. Cox III, LA'72, of Akron, Ohio, is chair of the Department
of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the University of Akron.
Julie Leader, N'72, of Hockessin, Delaware, has twin daughters 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 <LeaderJul@aol.com>.
She also has a website: <www.Rexall.com/Leader>.
Paul McLaughlin, BA'72, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, received the
William Thayer Tutt Award from USA Hockey at the President's Award Banquet
in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in June.
John W. Moran, ME'72, of Harvard, Massachusetts, is vice president
of administration and information services at New England Baptist Hospital
in Boston.
Edward R. Scheine, LA'72, of Dix Hills, New York, is president of
the New York Workers' Compensation Bar Association. He is a founding partner
of Scheine, Fusco, Brandenstein & Rada. Scheine and his wife, Ora,
have four children, David, Michael, Jonathan, and Amanda.
Ronald D. Zahn, BA'72, of Maynard, Massachusetts, writes, "My
wife, Pam, and I are very proud to announce that our daughter, Heather,
has entered Northeastern as a business major. She will continue her competitive
figure skating and coaching activities."
Leon Geller, LA'73, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, is an attorney
in Boston specializing in criminal defense. He is married and has two daughters,
Ruth and Becky.
Vincent J. Lembo, AS'73, L'76, of Norwood, Massachusetts, who serves
as vice president and university counsel at Northeastern, has been elected
to the board of directors of Club Passim of Cambridge, a nonprofit corporation
that provides community outreach to and musical education programs for
children and adults.
George Keefe, MBA'75, has been named group vice presidentpublishing
for Verizon Information Services. He is responsible for publishing database
management, product quality, art services, and publishing integration.
Constantine E. Kortesis, BA'76, of Warren, Michigan, sends along
regards to classmates and colleagues. He currently works as a consulting
engineer with EDS Corporation's applied engineering solutions division.
His most recent assignment has been as the math-based modeling coordinator
and change agent at the General Motors Global General Assembly Center.
Classmates can e-mail him at <Dino.Kortesis@GM.com>.
Mark Caruso, BA'77, of Milford, Massachusetts, is director of sales
and marketing and part owner of ITS Interactive, a web design and development
company in Newton. He and his wife, Barbara, have two daughters, Catherine
and Rebecca.
Frederick H. Fern, PAH'77, has been named managing partner in the
New York City and New Jersey law offices of Harris Beach & Wilcox.
He and his wife, Marilyn, live in Short Hills, New Jersey, with their sons,
Stuart and Mathew.
Salim M. Alani, BA'78, has been named director of university audit
at the University of Rochester. Prior to taking that post, he served as
director of audit at the University of Pennsylvania. A certified public
accountant and certified internal auditor, Alani has also held auditing
posts at Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Arthur
Andersen & Company.
Wendy K. Kanter, Ed'78, of Nashville, Tennessee, owns a group practice
in massage, Mind/Body, Inc.
Joseph P. Kelly Sr., UC'79, of Arlington, Massachusetts, retired
in April as a subcontract administrator after thirty years with the Charles
Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge. "I plan to do some traveling
with my wife, Sally, including yearly trips to Naples, Florida, to visit
our youngest son, Ed, a deputy with the Collier County Sheriff's Office,"
he writes. "And while there, we hope to attend some Red Sox spring-training
games."