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January 2004

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Harvey Sklar, BB’80, of Randolph, Massachusetts, completed his fifteenth Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Ride in 2003. The ride, a 200-mile bicycle trek from Sturbridge to Provincetown in August, included more than 3,500 riders who raised more than $16 million for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

David C. Alexander, CJ’81, of Wells, Maine, retired in June 2003 as a sergeant after twenty-one years in the Maine State Police. “Choosing to stay in law enforcement, I was selected as a lieutenant for the Ogunquit Police Department and have been working there since the day I left the state police,” he writes.

Shelley (Pollack) Coate, CJ’81, of Hollister, California, earned a doctorate in psychology from Alliant University in Los Angeles and is a correctional psychologist. She also has a small forensic practice. “Work and family keep me quite busy and content,” she writes. “Thanks, Northeastern.”

Barbara Lundeen Collins, MA’81, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, works at home by computer and is a volunteer English tutor to Brazilian immigrants.

Lisa Jewett, BB’81, is the director of corporate alliances for PartnersFirst Mortgage in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Friends can e-mail her at lisajewett@partnersfirst.com.

Bruce A. Kilgallon, CJ’81, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, and his daughter, Katelin, volunteered for the Appalachia Service Project, a home-repair ministry that helps rebuild homes. “This year, we worked on homes in Fayette County, West Virginia,” writes Kilgallon. “This is the fourth consecutive year of our participation in the Appalachia Service Project.”

Sally Hoffman Menard, N’81, lives in Somerset, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children, Stephen and Peter. She is a case worker at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.

Robert Ryan, LC’81, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, is a member of the technical advisory board of Sandburst Corporation and vice president of advance core engineering at Enterasys Networks.

Jim Bailey, PA’82, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is a partner in Needel, Welch, and Stone, an accounting firm in Rockland. He’s also a certified public accountant and a certified financial planner.

Parwez Wahid, E’82, has earned an MBA from the University of Phoenix. He works for JPMorgan in Lowell, Massachusetts. Wahid, his wife, and two sons live in Framingham. His e-mail address is pwahid@aol.com.

Rosalind Berman-Myerson, AS’83, of Quincy, Massachusetts, is the president of the Quincy Toastmasters Club. She’s been a member of the organization since 1984. She’d like to hear from classmates at rbermanmyerson@earthlink.net.

Jeff Engle, E’83, of Boca Raton, Florida, has earned an executive MBA at Florida Atlantic University.

Wendy Talbert-Gordon, AS’83, is an adjunct professor of culinary arts at the State University of New York in Rockland. “I love my new career, for which I returned to school in 1998,” she writes. She, her husband, Keith Gordon, AS’82, and daughter, Jessica, live in Suffern, New York. She can be e-mailed at wgcooking@aol.com.

Frank Vitagliano, BA’83, of Marietta, Georgia, has been an IBM employee for thirty years and is now the company’s vice president of distribution channels management. In 2003, he was presented VARBusiness’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Steven Barry, E’84, of Montreal, is the product manager of Erikson Pro, an audio equipment distribution company based in Montreal.

Gerard S. Carlozzi, LC’84, MBA’86, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Integra LifeSciences Holdings. He was president and chief executive officer of Bionx Implants.

Mary Helen Gillespie, AS’84, MBA’99, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is the president of Gillespie Interactive, a strategic management consulting company. During the fall 2003 term, she returned to NU to teach a course on promoting nonprofit organizations for University College’s graduate certificate program in nonprofit management. She can be e-mailed at mhg@gillespieinteractive.com.

Rebecca L. Cummings, UC’85, of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, is a senior estimator for Cutler Associates, a design-build firm in Worcester.

Frank Santo, BB’86, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and his wife, Stacey, have owned Isabella, a restaurant in Dedham, for eight years. “I invite all to come in and say hello,” he writes. “I’d love to hear from other small-business people.” The couple has three children, Peter, Juliet, and Sheridan. The family’s e-mail address is sasanto@comcast.net.

V. Norene Highleyman, BB’87, of Jackson, Wyoming, married Andrew Christensen on September 19, 2003, at Jackson Lake Lodge. Karen (Conners) Haberbosch, BB’87, was in the wedding party. “My two physical therapy clinics are running well and almost without me, so I should have plenty of time for a new family,” she writes. “Still traveling and exploring all that I can. Hopefully, I will finish my doctorate research this year. Hope everyone is well.”

Anne Glennon, CJ’87, received a law degree from the New England School of Law on May 23, 2003. She was a New England Scholar and won CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in alternate dispute resolution; housing discrimination; and wills, estates, and trusts. She and her husband, Mark, live in Manomet, Massachusetts.

Ed Klotzbier, AS’87, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was honored by the Boston Business Journal as one of its “40 Under 40,” a selection of greater Boston’s best business and civic people under forty years of age. In November, Klotzbier was named vice president for student affairs at Northeastern.

Rich Igo, BA’88, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is the new head hockey coach at Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree. He is a former player and assistant coach at the school.

Edward J. Sennott Jr., CJ’88, married Suzanne Collins of Cohasset, Massachusetts, on October 18, 2003, at St. Stephen’s Church in Cohasset. They live in Norwood.

James Smith, E’88, of Leominster, Massachusetts, is a principal in the Assurance and Business Advisory Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston.

Javier A. Maymir, L’89, writes, “During the summer of 2003, my family and I moved from Kansas City to Dallas. I’m a senior counsel for a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. My wife, Margaret, and our three sons are making new friends, and we’re slowly learning our way around Dallas.”

James F. Nardozzi, CJ’89, of Waterbury, Connecticut (where he is acting deputy police chief), received a doctorate in public administration from Nova Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale, in June 2003. His dissertation concerned the effect of the supervisor-subordinate relationship on sick-day usage in urban municipal police departments. A faculty member at Teikyo Post University, he is the president of the Connecticut chapter of the International Association for Identification. Friends may e-mail him at jnardozzi@wtbypd.org.