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		1970s Bob Cuneo, E’70, of Bethany, Connecticut, got a taste of gold during the Winter Olympics. Cuneo designed and built the women’s bobsled for the U.S. Bobsled Federation. Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers rode his sled to victory in the first-ever Olympic women’s bobsled race. Cuneo and his company, Chassis Dynamics of Oxford, Connecticut, have designed and built bobsleds for United States teams for twelve years. His wife, Karen, is a class of 1969 Boston Bouvé graduate. Their son, Dan, is a sophomore communications major at Northeastern. Leda (Sipress) Levine, BB’70, of Brockton, Massachusetts, had an Olympic moment of her own when she carried the Olympic torch down Beacon Street in Boston on December 27. She was representing Project Teammate, a partnership between regular and special education students at Mansfield High School. Thomas H. Richardson, LA’70, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, is an associate professor of chemistry and physical science at Marian College. Peter M. Seremet, LA’70, of Annapolis, Maryland, has started a government affairs and public relations consulting firm, The Alliance Group, in Washington, D.C. Buffie Race, Ed’71, writes, “I am now an aquatics instructor at Seoul Foreign School in Seoul, Korea. It is a two-year commitment, or longer! I teach all ages, from four-year-olds to seniors. I’m able to travel during vacations and am enjoying it very much. There is no field hockey, though. I miss officiating that, and lacrosse.” She can be reached by e-mail at <brace@sfs.or.kr>. Richard E. Kramer, LA’72, of Annandale, Virginia, completed his assignment as minister-counselor for Administrative Affairs at the American Embassy in Moscow in July, and is currently serving as the executive director of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the State Department in Washington, D.C. Julie Leader, N’72, of Hockessin, Delaware, received a doctorate with high honors in naturopathy from Clayton College of Natural Health. She has a counseling practice and a website, <www.rexall.com/leader>. In February, Leader visited Florence, Italy. Keith Choper, E’73, ME’77, was elected last fall to a six-year term as township supervisor for West Whiteland Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Choper is president of Keating Environmental Management, an environmental consulting company in Exton. Richard Sobocinski, E’73, of Brunswick, Maine, is leaving Bath Iron Works after almost twenty years to accept a position as vice president of contracts at Colonna’s Shipyard, in Norfolk, Virginia. He most recently worked as an integrated process team leader for the BIW/Lockheed Martin DD(X) Blue Team as they developed plans and designs for the next generation of U.S. Navy destroyers. Mary Jo McMahon Curtis, LA’74, writes, “After living more than twenty years in southeastern Massachusetts, I’ve moved to lovely Bristol, Rhode Island, to cut down my commute to Providence and Brown University, where I’ve been a senior writer and news officer in public affairs since April 2000. My two daughters are now grown. I’d love to hear from former classmates.” Her e-mail address is <mary_jo_curtis@brown.edu>. Joan Linder Greenwald, LA’74, is the sole proprietor of Ebb Tide Kennels and Stables in Holley, New York, where she lives. She is an American Kennel Club and Canadian Kennel Club agility judge. Greenwald says when she’s not running the kennel and riding stable, she enjoys traveling North America to judge agility trials or show her dogs, which can be seen on her website, <www.ebbtidekennels.com>. Bob Humphrys, UC’74, UC’79, of Milton, Massachusetts, is the state’s first realtor to earn the national designation Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES). He is a Conway Senior Specialist program director. “Jack Conway asked me to develop a program for six hundred–plus Conway agents. The rest is history,” he writes. Humphrys can be e-mailed at <bhumphrys@jackconway.com>. Charlayne Murrell-Smith, MEd’74, received the Pinnacle Award for Non-Profit Management from the Women’s Network of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in January. She is the vice president of external relations at Boston’s Children’s Museum, where she oversees public relations, marketing, and corporate relations. Prior to joining the museum, she was director of client services and strategic planning for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Murrell-Smith also was project vice president and general manager of the Wishnow Group, community affairs director of WHDH-AM and WZOU-FM, and served as a guidance counselor in the Cambridge and Newton public schools. She and her husband, Kenneth, live in Roxbury. John Skiver, LA’74, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, writes, “My wife and I have built a wonderful house in the Greek Peloponnese. We intend to live there for much of 2002.” Evans Spileos, E’74, of Chicago, received the City of Hope’s Spirit of Life Award in a ceremony at Chicago’s Navy Pier attended by nearly 700 members of the construction and real estate industries. The Chicago Construction and Real Estate Council recognized Spileos’s accomplishments, character, and good work with the award. He is a vice president of Tishman Construction Corporation in Illinois. Jerry Volkin, E’74, of Folsom, California, is a senior project engineer for Eichleay Engineers. E-mail him at <volkin@eichleay.com>. Charles Chivakos, LA’75, is director of sales and marketing for Shared Visions, which operates Business Radio 1060 in Boston. He lives in Hamilton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ann, LA’74, and their two daughters. Daniel T. Cremin, BB’75, of Melrose, Massachusetts, is in his twenty-seventh year at Malden Catholic High School. He completed his second graduate degree, at Suffolk University, in 2001, and now is a school counselor. He previously was a physical education teacher and cross-country and swimming coach at the school. Wilbert R. Jenkins, E’75, and his wife, Audrey, have been married twenty-five years. They live in Garland, Texas, with their children, Preston and Aliya. After twenty-five years as an electrical engineer for Fortune 500 companies in the automated test equipment field in Texas, Jenkins started his own test consulting business. He is the founder, president, and CEO of Automated Systems, in Dallas. He is an active member as well as cofounder and former president of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the National Technical Association, the largest and oldest African-American/Black technical association in the world. Steven L. Bernstein, ME’76, of Braintree, Massachusetts, is the president and chief operating officer at Daylor Consulting Group. Formerly, he was vice president and director of engineering at the company. Dennis A. Delisle, E’76, of Nashanic Station, New Jersey, is a vice president and operations manager for Turner Construction Company’s New Jersey office. “Daughters Amy and Laura, and son Dennis are keeping Jean and me on our toes,” he writes. “Where are you, CEs from 1976?” He can be e-mailed at <ddelisle@tcco.com>. Laurie Frizzell, BB’76, of Naples, Maine, went to great lengths to celebrate her near-fiftieth birthday. Frizzell, her sister, Sue Trumbauer, and Roxann Weidner embarked on a 4,600-mile snowmobile journey across Canada in February just to prove the mettle of women over fifty. Frizzell, the former head coach of field hockey and women’s lacrosse at Northeastern, is the youngest of the trio at forty-nine. “It was Roxann’s idea,” says Frizzell. “Sue and her husband have a Polaris dealership, and Sue arranged most of the guides and places for us to stay.” The trek started in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 31, and ended in Quebec on March 1 on the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. “It was a great experience,” says this building contractor. “We really had no bad weather, and the people we met along the way were the highlight.” The women attained something of a celebrity status. Their adventure was covered by numerous local Canadian newspapers, and their progress was followed by anyone who clicked on the <www.snoriderswest.com> website. Fred Klein, E’76, is a member of the board of directors of the Connecticut Better Business Bureau. Klein is the assistant general counsel for Northeast Utilities in Berlin, Connecticut. He, his wife, and their two children live in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Paul Donovan, UC’77, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, retired as group traffic manager at the Robert Allen Group. He was with the company thirty-two years. “Now that one career is over, time for career two. Logistics is fun,” he writes. Mike Hanlon, LA’77, of Batavia, Illinois, is design director and one of the founders of TimePilot Corporation, a company that designs and builds high-tech time clocks for business. After spending seventeen years as an editor at the Chicago Tribune, he became a freelance website designer in 1998. He created the site for TimePilot, oversees the company’s marketing campaign, and consults on software design. Hanlon can be reached via e-mail at <mhanlon@timepilot.com>. Allen Lomax, LA’77, and Renee Rappaport, LA’77, of Alexandria, Virginia, write, “Can you believe it’s been twenty-five years since we were students filled with hopes and dreams for the future? A quarter-century is a major milestone that should be commemorated, so our reunion is being planned for the weekend of November 8 to 10. We hope you will come to Boston to reconnect with old friends and make new friends from the class of 1977. You will also get to see all the wonderful changes to our campus since we were there. If you would like to help work out the specific events and promote the reunion among our classmates, contact Toni Meehan, assistant director for reunions, at 617.373.7283. If you don’t have time to volunteer, then spread the word, and save the date instead. We hope all our classmates will join in the fun.” They are co-chairs for the class of 1977 reunion committee. For additional information on plans for the events, please contact Rappaport at <r_rappaport@hotmail.com> or Lomax at <aclomax@aol.com>. Joseph D. Magni Jr., E’77, is a senior associate at Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, of Watertown, Massachusetts. A senior project manager in VHB’s transportation department, Magni joined the company in 1983. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Dedham with their children, Laura and Pedro. Jeffrey Picard, E’77, MBA’99, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, is a vice president for Six Sigma at Textron Systems. Jay Hildreth, PAH’79, of Derry, New Hampshire, writes, “Well, it has been twenty-four years this spring since we graduated. I think we should have a class reunion. Do we dare? Sure!” Friends can contact him via e-mail at <jhnetip@aol.com>.