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1960s
David C. Gardner, LA’60, of Oceanside, California, has been granted the rank of professor emeritus at Boston University. He notes that he was the doctoral adviser at BU for former NU president Jack Curry.
Frank J. Imbornone, BA’60, writes, “After meeting a lovely widowed lady at a senior center here in Tamarac, Florida, I gave a proposal of marriage, the news of which made three local newspapers and two TV stations. We attended my fortieth reunion last year in June. We married in Mashpee on Cape Cod, honeymooned in Rome and Sicily, and returned from a cruise to the Panama Canal. We attend weekly dances at the new community center here in Tamarac and have won several raffle prizes, including tickets to see Cabaret. We are known here as the fairyland couple by our local mayor.”
Michael P. Kirsch, PAH’60, of Sherman Oaks, California, writes, “Anyone out there remember ‘old dumb’ Mike Kirsch, who started NECP in 1953 and finally graduated and surprised everybody, especially Herbert Perkins, in 1960? Constantine ‘The Din’ Meriano couldn’t believe it, either. Frankly, neither could I. I’d like to hear from any of my old friends to update the last forty-plus years or just to say hello.” E-mail him at <oneputtmik@aol.com>.
Harris Herman, E’61, of New York City, notes he spent thirty-five years in the airline industry as engineer, executive, consultant, and chief executive. He is now president and CEO of Literacy Partners, Inc., a twenty-seven-year-old nonprofit organization that annually teaches, at no cost, a thousand New York City men and women how to read and write.
George Yphantes, LA’63, of Newton, Massachusetts, has retired after thirty-five years in insurance sales, twenty-five with Allstate Insurance and ten as a principal with GV&Y (Grich, Vaughn, and Yphantes) Insurance. “I plan to enjoy my retirement with family, including two grandsons and another grandchild due any day,” he writes. “Vacationing on Cape Cod, Florida, and Bermuda are my goals. I always enjoy hearing from old friends from NU.” His e-mail address is <gvy1@rcn.com>.
Alan Caplan, E’64, of New York City, is semiretired but actively involved in commercial real estate in Rockland County, New York. He reports he spends a good amount of time on the golf course in Florida with his wife, Karyl. They celebrated their thirty-seventh wedding anniversary this past summer with family, including two grandchildren. Alan says he’d like to hear from NU friends. His e-mail address is <ak82964@aol.com>.
Jack O’Donnell, Ed’64, writes, “After thirty-six years in education (thirty of those as a curriculum administrator), I am retiring. My wife, Lynne, and I will become permanent residents of Naples, Florida. I would love to hear from some of my old friends from Northeastern.”
Jason Traiger, Ed’65, is the manager of technical publications at NetPlane Systems, Inc., in Dedham, Massachusetts. He celebrated the birth of a grandchild, Zoe, to his daughter, Jennifer, in July 2000.
Bob Walshaw, MBA’65, of Coweta, Oklahoma, writes, “I retired from my general management career in May 2000 and spent a year catching up on all of the things that I had planned to do in retirement. I passed the Oklahoma Real Estate board exams and embarked on a second career in real estate. I am also continuing my speeches and educational programs on the Eastern Bluebird in addition to monitoring my eighty-three nestbox section of the Transcontinental Bluebird Trail.”
Philip F. Devaux, Ed’66, is the superintendent of schools in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and was presented the 2001 Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year Award by the American Association of School Administrators at the National Conference on Education. He was elected president of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents for the 2000–2001 school year.
Emile J. Hamwey, E’66, is president of Fay, Spofford, and Thorndike, an engineering and planning firm in Burlington, Massachusetts. He has been with the company thirty-three years and has served as a member of the board of directors since 1986.
Michael Kenyon, BA’66, is the vice president of consulting at Gartner/Griggs-Anderson in Portland, Oregon.
Joe Rizzo, E’66, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, has started ValuEdge Consulting Services, which provides expertise in lean manufacturing implementation and supply chain and extended enterprise management for manufacturers. The website is <www.valuedge.com>.
Catherine (Costello) Burgess, N’67, is a nurse manager for the Walpole, Massachusetts, public schools. She had been head nurse for the Walpole schools for fifteen years. She wrote and was awarded a four-year Enhanced School Health Services grant from the state Department of Public Health. Catherine and the Walpole school nursing program were featured as the cover story in the January edition of On Call, a magazine for nurses and health-care professionals.
Charlie Butters, LA’67, of Natick, Massachusetts, writes, “I’m back! The May 1998 issue of this magazine incorrectly reported me as an ‘item’ in the obituaries—definitely not the greatest way to make the school paper. To Paul Bloh, Dean McGranahan, Butch Turcotte, George Campbell, Eddie LaNorman, and the rest of my hockey buddies, I say: ‘Keep your sticks up,’ ’cause you may not see them coming. Heck, it took me three and a half years to find out that I died.”
Jim DellaPenna, BA’68, and his wife, Cindy, are celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary in September. “We moved from Maine to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1994 and greatly enjoy Southern living,” he writes. “I finally got tired of working for other people, began my own hauling company last year, and love every minute of it.”
Eileen Goldstein Eisner, MEd’68, is the director of speech and language services for Westfield, New Jersey. She has written Can-Do Activities for Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease, a book that adapts Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences to geriatric activity planning.
John (Jack) O’Brien, BA’68, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has founded ExecuTec Business Communications after twenty-five years of experience in global marketing and employee communications at International Paper. Friends can reach him at his e-mail address <executecmktg@aol.com>.
Roy Bishop, LA’69, MPA’76, of Boston, received a certificate in systems analysis from University College and is a senior manufacturing systems analyst at Cognex Corporation in Natick, Massachusetts.
Donna Halper, LA’69, MEd’70, MA’73, of North Quincy, Massachusetts, is a member of the journalism department at Emerson College in Boston and the author of Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting. She notes she was the first woman announcer in the history of WNEU (now WRBB). “The book features a rare photo from my personal collection of me doing radio at WNEU in 1968,” she writes.
William S. Howard, E’69, of Somerset, New Jersey, is an executive vice president in the corporate office of the chairman of Camp, Dresser & McKee, Inc. He is a member of Northeastern’s board of overseers and serves on the Student Affairs and Commencement Committee. He’s also a
member of the board of trustees of the National Commission for Cooperative Education.
Bob Pine, BA’69, of Gadsden, Alabama, shares a life-changing experience: “After I was touched by God through His Holy Spirit during my brain surgery event in 1993, I was called by Him to share my story with all that would listen.” The result was a website, <www.piousbob.com>, a daily devotional that is now also available in paperback.