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1980s
Elizabeth Gaudet Nolan, N’80, is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and the chief nurse of the 4209th U.S. Army Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. An honors graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, she has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal. Her e-mail address is <bgn80@hotmail.com>.
The Lt. Steven Demo Cops with Cancer Fund is named to honor Steven Demo, CJ’81, who died after a three-year battle with the disease. “Steve had a passion for football,” writes his sister, Linda. “He played for the Huskies during his years at Northeastern, wearing number 66. At the age of 40, he had to compete in a different type of game, while fighting the strongest contender he’d encounter.” Demo became an officer with the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Police Department soon after graduation. He also worked for the Attorney General’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Drug Task Force in New Hampshire. He began the fund for police officers and their families, naming it the Cops with Cancer Fund. It’s now renamed in his memory.
Michael J. Mandracchia, MA’82, of Trenton, New Jersey, was presented with the Hazardous Materials Manager of the Year Award in August by the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers. At the same conference in Chicago, Illinois, he also was presented with a Champion of Excellence award.
Cheryl P. Santee, AS’83, of Dedham, Massachusetts, is an assistant vice president and banking center manager for Cambridge Savings Bank.
Kavian Soudbakhsh, E’83, of Los Angeles, California, is cofounder and director of operations at Image Square, Inc., a digital imaging and printing company in Santa Monica. For seventeen years, he was a commercialization manager at Eastman Kodak Company in upstate New York. Soudbakhsh says he’d like to hear from electrical engineering friends by e-mail at <kavian@imagesquare.com>.
Mike Webster, CJ’83, of Littlestown, Pennsylvania, earned an MS in human resources development and is the director of campus safety at Western Maryland College. He also volunteers as a paramedic. Webster has been married for six years and is the father of two daughters and a son.
Maria Tedesco, MBA’84, of Canton, Massachusetts, is the director of in-store banking in New England for Citizens Bank. She has held several positions since joining the bank in 1995.
Tim Whitney, BA’88, of Whately, Massachusetts, writes, “After a brief ten-year vacation in Florida, I am back living in western Massachusetts.” E-mail <timcwhitney@yahoo.com>.
John Henwood, BA’89, perished in the September 11 attacks. He was a member and past president of Phi Gamma Pi fraternity in Brookline. He held a senior-level trading position at Cantor Fitzgerald. He is survived by his wife, Concha Munoz Garcia, and two children, Alejandro, 5, and Claudia, 2. He also leaves behind his parents, Mary and David, and siblings, David, Mary, Catherine, and Tara. Send contributions to the Henwood Munoz Children’s Trust, c/o Kevin Honan, 138 Fuller Street, Brookline, MA 02446.
David Inselberg, BA’89, and his wife, Joan (Ross) Inselberg, AS’92, live in Long Beach, New York, with their children, Ross Harrison (born August 10, 1997) and Samantha Erin (born June 21, 2000).
The work of Taru Kinnunen, MA’89, PHD’92, and others at Northeastern was noted in the July issue of Scientific American in an article entitled “The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis.” She and her colleagues have exposed fakers by using lie-detector tests. She is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Kinnunen’s husband, Ramon Venegas, is the director of Enterprise Application Services at Northeastern. They live in Marlborough, Massachusetts.