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1970s
Ingrid Watkins, BB’70, says “hi to all from sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.” She has her own law practice, plays tennis, and is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. Her e-mail address is <attiew@juno.com>.
Stephen F. Woolbert, E’70, of West Hartford, Connecticut, is the director of engineering services for Jewish Geriatric Services in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Ian M. Cotich, E’71, has relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area back to Pennsylvania. The Central Pennsylvania Alumni Club founder and copresident serves as president and COO of the Classic Caramel Co. in York. He’s also a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Confectioners Association. A charter member of the Alumni Admissions Program, Cotich represented Northeastern at several college-night programs shortly after his relocation. He and his wife, Rebecca, and their two sons live in Millersville.
Kenneth J. DeLisa, BA’71, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, has been named chairman of the board of trustees for the Walter “Doc” Hurley Scholarship Foundation. The Hurley Foundation raises funds and grants scholarships to high school seniors in the greater Hartford area. DeLisa is the corporate affairs manager of the Hartford Courant.
Ken Fuld, LA’71, is the chair of the psychology department at the University of New Hampshire, where he has worked for twenty-two years. Fuld received a doctorate from Dartmouth College and spent three years at Brown University on a postdoctoral fellowship. He lives in Durham with his wife, Amanda Merrill. They have a daughter and a son, Annie and Sam.
Franson Kwock Sun Tom, BB’71, of Arlington, Massachusetts, is the advance dental rotation director at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the 2001–2002 president of the Greater Boston Chinese Dental Association, and a member of the executive board of the Wang YMCA in Chinatown. “Sad about the passing of our dean, Catherine Allen,” he writes. “Happy to be a grandfather on May 12 of Madeline Kaeko Kam Tai Tom, and I contribute to nephew Adam Katz’s tuition at Northeastern.” E-mail him at <tlctom@mediaone.net>.
William P. Hayes, BA’72, MBA’75, of Wakefield, Rhode Island, is the president and chief executive officer at Vista Source, Inc., a software company in Westborough, Massachusetts.
Victor Ragucci, BA’72, is the founder and chief executive officer of BarrierMed Glove Co., Inc., in Lake Mary, Florida. After reading reports that some postal workers were unable to use standard loose-fitting sanitary gloves to prevent anthrax exposure, he donated 150,000 pairs of latex-free surgical gloves to the U.S. Postal Service. The gloves were designed to protect against blood-borne pathogens, including those that cause AIDS.
Rick Scrocca, BA’72, of Freehold, New Jersey, has started his own export firm, RWS.USA Export Co., which concentrates on dietary supplements, nonperishable food, and general merchandise items.
Bruce L. Dorner, CJ’73, is a solo attorney in Londonderry, New Hampshire, with a practice that handles business, real estate, and family matters. At a special ceremony in Washington, D.C., he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. An active member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and chair of the Internet board of the General Practice Session, Dorner is one of twelve members of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Solo and Small Firm Practitioners. He also provides technology and management consulting services to small law firms.
Daniel Fishman, LA’73, of Wallagrass, Maine, has returned to teaching high school French and Spanish after sixteen years. He homesteads and raises organic farm products with his wife and three sons near the Canadian border. However, he says he’s decided to give teaching another chance at Fort Kent Community High School: “The classroom has changed somewhat since the seventies and eighties, especially with the omnipresence of computers, but ninth graders are still fourteen years old.” He can be e-mailed at <fishman@maine.edu>.
David A. Skrzysowski, PA’73, of Manchester, New Hampshire, retired as vice president and controller of Energy North, Inc., after twenty-three years with the company. “My wife, Michelle, and I look forward to travel and time at our place in Maine,” he writes. “Daughter Jenna is a 2001 graduate of Northeastern. Son Greg is currently a middler at Northeastern.”
Anna M. Wong, BA’74, of North Reading, Massachusetts, is an assistant vice president and assistant general auditor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a certified general auditor. Her e-mail address is <anna.wong@bos.frb.org>.
Bruce “Ike” Bergeron, BA’76, of Brattleboro, Vermont, received the University of Vermont Outstanding Teacher Award for the Windham Southeast Supervisory District.
Daniel Cahill, PAH’77, of Dudley, Massachusetts, sends greetings to Frank Condella, Neil Stacey, and P. G. P. Brothers, all from the class of 1977.
Mark D. Carey, CJ’77, of Puyallup, Washington, received a master’s degree in marketing in June 2000. After eighteen years in sales and marketing at Fortune 500 companies, he started his own business: MySoftwareHelper.com, a software training company. He notes he’s trying to find his old Pershing Rifles buddies. “Has anyone heard from Silvio Baruzzi, E’75?” he asks.
Judith A. Fitzpatrick, N’77, of Takoma Park, Maryland, retired from the Army Nurse Corps and lives close to Washington, D.C. “I acquired a big dog (Akita) named Charlie,” she writes.
Dave Jones, E’77, of Carmichael, California, is vice president of CH2M Hill in Sacramento, one of the largest engineering and scientific consulting firms in the world. He leads the company’s Northern California water and wastewater initiative. Jones earned a master’s degree in environmental engineering at Stanford University in 1978 and a master’s in business administration at the University of Southern California in 1987. Previously, he was a vice president at Brown and Caldwell, another environmental engineering firm.
Jim Banda, BA’78, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, reports he was sworn in as a member of the Massachusetts bar last winter and was admitted to the federal bar this past summer.
David Lewis, BA’78, of Hingham, Massachusetts, became engaged to Mary Kenney, of North Weymouth, during a trip to Paris. Lewis is a sales manager for Pratt-Read Corp. in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Kenney is a nurse manager for Granite Medical in Quincy.
Tim Moore, CJ’78, MEd’84, of Willow Springs, North Carolina, is the new regional development director for the Center for Employment Training in Research Triangle. Before his promotion, he was director of this private, nonprofit, postsecondary vocational school for six years. He relocated to North Carolina in 1994 after living in Boston for eighteen years.
Randi S. Swartz, LA’78, of Acton, Massachusetts, is the vice president of production for Luxury Golf Homes and Resorts magazine and “would love to hear from other class of ’78 alums.” The e-mail address is <randis@luxurymedia.com>.
John L. Bisol, LC’79, announces the publication of his first novel, The House on South Street (Dorrance Publishing). The book is scheduled for release in April. He describes it as an “old-fashioned ghost story that takes a serious look at why a particular house is haunted by delving into the lives of the previous owners.” John and his wife, Christine, live in Hudson, Massachusetts. He earned a master’s degree in education at Fitchburg State College and now is working on a certificate of advanced graduate study in interdisciplinary studies with a minor in vocational education. He is in his ninth year as an instructor at the Worcester Vocational High School. Friends can drop him an e-mail at <jlbisol@juno.com>.
Philip P. DeVincentis, UC’79, writes about the September terrorist attack, “My prayers go out to the victims and their families.”
Dan Kennedy, LA’79, a senior writer for the Boston Phoenix, won the National Press Club’s 2001 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. His website is at <www.dankennedy.net>. Dan and his wife, Barbara (Tanski) Kennedy, AS’80, a staff photographer for the Salem Evening News, live in Danvers, Massachusetts, with their children, Timothy and Rebecca.