September 2002			Big-Picture Transformation End of an Era Fortunate Son	Letters Sports E Line Books Alumni Passages Classes From the Field First-Person Huskiana
		1970s Phil (Buz) Bessler, E’70, MBA’74, of Orange Village, Ohio, notes he’s “joining the world of academia after thirty-two successful years in business, most recently as president of Spang Power Electronics.” He now holds the Herzog Chair in Free Enterprise at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. He will start up a community-based business plan clinic for entrepreneurs, and teach in both the undergraduate and graduate schools of business. He and his wife, Judy (Soyka), BA’69, have two grown children and two grandchildren. Peter B. Cameron, BA’70, is a member of the board of directors of the International Housewares Association, a trade association for the housewares industry. He is the chief executive officer of All-Clad Metalcrafters, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He is also vice chairman and owner of Acuity Management, an investment management company. Cameron serves on the president’s council of the James Beard Foundation as a director of the Housewares Charity Foundation and is a member of the Cookware Manufacturers Association. He and his wife, Lynne, live in Reading, Pennsylvania, with their sons, Peter and Ross. Lawrence J. Gramling, MBA’70, of Tolland, Connecticut, is a professor in the accounting department at the University of Connecticut School of Business Administration. He is the chair of the Meritorious Service Committee of the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA). He has also served the Certified Public Accountants Society in a number of offices, and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the American Accounting Association, and the Institute of Internal Auditors. He has won numerous awards, including CSCPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Certificate five times and CSCPA/AICPA Continuing Professional Education Special Recognition Award in 1993. Gramling also serves as the director of the Tolland Baseball League and treasurer of the Tolland Democratic Town Committee. Paul Severance, Ed’70, of Washington, D.C., retired as a colonel from active duty with the Army in July 2000. He was awarded the Joint Civilian Commendation Medal for his actions at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. He is a professor of military science at the National Defense University in Washington, and serves as a volunteer firefighter and EMT in Virginia. Along with seven colleagues from the university, Severance responded to the crisis at the Pentagon on September 11, providing medical, rescue, and recovery help over the next two days. He worked as a member of a medical-stabilization team. John Wellsman, LA’70, is now a licensed realtor after a career in sales, management, and training in the photographic and consumer electronics industries. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife, Jennifer, and adopted greyhounds, Jordi and Nugget. Wellsman has received the GRI designation as a Realtor Institute graduate. He’s enjoying the atmosphere in Arizona. “Tucson is really a Boston in the desert,” he writes. “I don’t miss the snow at all and can see all I want in the Catalina Mountains right from my home in the Oro Valley. If I want to get closer, I have some binoculars that will get me as close as I want. It’s a lot of fun riding around with the top down in March and not having to worry about snowballs.” He says he recommends Tucson as a place to live and would be glad to assist Northeastern alumni relocating to the area for work or retirement. His e-mail address is <wellsman@fastucson.net>. Anthony R. Carlucci, CJ’72, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, writes, “It was great fun last fall to return to campus for the dedication of the Professor H. Robert Sheehan Memorial Seminar Room. My wife and I were extremely pleased with the progress Northeastern has made since I graduated with the first class of criminal justice students in 1972. My wife, Debbie, and I have been married twenty-nine years and have two daughters. I have served the Malden Police Department for twenty-five years and currently serve as the department’s chief of police.” Charles J. Saunders, UC’72, of Billerica, Massachusetts, founded Les Chevaliers du Grand Vin wine society in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1995. He’s now opened a second wine society shop in the T. J. Maxx Plaza in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. The society has a register of twenty-nine French wine knights and 6,000 members who annually attend more than sixty wine-tasting events, seminars, classes, winemaker dinners, and winery tours of France, Italy, Portugal, and California. Frederick Dillon Bagley, CJ’73, was awarded the Stanley H. Rudman Award for demonstrating excellence in the art of trial advocacy. The award is presented by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education as part of its Trial Advocacy Workshop. Dillon, who received a law degree from the Massachusetts School of Law in 1999, practices business law, probate, and family law, as well as real estate and criminal matters with Bagley & Bagley in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Paula, have lived in Melrose for twenty years. They have two children, Kathryn and Matthew. Bonnie A. (Simpson) Evans, BB’73, of Piscataway, New Jersey, received a master’s degree in health administration from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. “I have been enjoying a career in physical rehabilitation at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, New Jersey, for twenty-eight years,” she writes. “I started at Kessler as a co-op physical therapy aide. After I graduated, I spent a year in Worcester as a physical therapist at the Sheraton House, then I returned to Kessler as a physical therapist. I’ve served as vice president since 1995. I was promoted to senior vice president in 2000. I am active in the Executive Women of New Jersey, an organization that promotes the advancement of women. The group recently honored me at the Salute to Policy Makers dinner. My husband, Joe, and I have a beautiful daughter, Shanta.” Carl R. Johnson, E’73, of Beverly Hills, Michigan, is the senior vice president and manager of client services for the Midwest for Camp, Dresser, McKee, a global consulting, engineering, construction, and operations company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His area includes Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. Since 1996, he has been the program manager for the $500 million Wayne County, Michigan, Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project. Johnson earned a master’s degree in civil engineering at Stanford University and served in the Peace Corps in Nepal. He is active in numerous professional organizations and is a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Ralph Whitcomb, BA’73, is vice president of finance for PFERD, which is located in Leominster, Massachusetts. PFERD is the United States subsidiary of the August Ruggeberg GmbH & Company, which designs and manufactures abrasive products and cutting tools. Whitcomb holds a master’s degree from Clark University. He and his wife, Nancy, live in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Eric Kingson, MPA’75, of Manlius, New York, is a professor of social work in the College of Human Services and Health Professions at Syracuse University. In the spring, he gave a presentation on intergenerational approaches to education as part of the opening plenary panel of the annual conference of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kingson is a specialist on the subjects of baby boomers, Social Security financing, aging and gerontology, intergenerational conflict, and retirement policy. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and served as a senior policy adviser to the 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Public Policy and Aging Report, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and the Journal of Social Work in Long-Term Care. Donna Rumrill, CJ’75, of Brockton, Massachusetts, writes, “After twenty-three years working for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections in various capacities, I have retired with my husband, David, to pursue our dream. We travel full time in our thirty-four-foot Winnebago all over this beautiful country. We have been out west twice and are headed to Alaska this summer. Would love to hear from some CJ graduates.” Her e-mail address is <ddrumrill@juno.com>. Donna Bertazzoni, LA’76, of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, is the coauthor of Law, Media, and Culture: The Landscape of Hate. The book, written with Janis Judson, shows how hate permeates people’s everyday lives. Bertazzoni is an associate professor of journalism and codirector of the communication arts program at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. She and Judson received a Teagle Foundation Grant in 1997 to study hate speech on the Internet. They received a Hodson Faculty Fellowship to work on the manuscript of their book during the 2000–2001 academic year. Bertazzoni joined the Hood College faculty in 1987. She holds a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and an MBA from Frostburg State University. Thomas J. Wenzel, LA’76, of Auburn, Maine, won a 2002 Fellows Award from the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Wenzel is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry at Bates College and an expert in the field of chirality (an aspect of molecular structure) and liquid chromatography. His approach to teaching and collaborative research has previously earned national recognition, including the Giddings Award of the analytical division of the American Chemical Society. Wenzel earned his doctorate from the University of Colorado. He has chaired both the chemistry department and the division of natural sciences and mathematics at Bates. He is a past president of CUR and edits the CUR Quarterly. Ron Bessette, E’77, of Roanoke, Virginia, is a registered associate at Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern, a national architectural and design firm. He joined the company in 1978 and is responsible for the evaluation of projects for energy conservation; the design of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems; and the study and design of solar energy systems. Edmond L. Morin, LA’77, of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, says hello to Tony Zaloga, Jeff Jurik, and Ken Riaf. Arthur Canter, BA’78, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, is the executive director of the Massachusetts Lodging Association and the 2002 president of the International Society of Hospitality Association Executives (ISHAE). He has held every executive position with ISHAE and, as dean of the ISHAE Academy in 2000, he focused on public relations and marketing for hospitality association executives. Tom Damm, LA’78, is the director of communications and government relations for the mid-Atlantic region of the Environmental Protection Agency. A former newspaper reporter, he had previously served as director of communications and policy for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. He and his wife, Peggy, have three children, Kelly, Kyle, and Molly. They live in Hamilton Square, New Jersey. Wendy Koplow Kanter, BA’78, of Nashville, Tennessee, writes, “I’ve been searching for Debra Proia. She was my best friend, so I want to reconnect.” Michael Kowolenko, PAH’78, PhD’86, is the vice president for global quality at Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He joined the company from Bayer Corporation in Clayton, North Carolina, where he was vice president of quality assurance for the biological products business unit. Kowolenko held several other positions at Bayer and also at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Prior to joining the industry, he was assistant professor in the department of medicine and the department of microbiology and immunology at Albany Medical College. Virginia Paoletti-Falcone, N’78, of Medford, Massachusetts, is a clinical services manager at Reproductive Science Center in Waltham, a large infertility practice. She participated in the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society and made a poster presentation. The abstract was published in Fertility and Sterility in April. Her original abstract was selected for presentation at the 2001 Organon Smart ART II national infertility nursing conference in Denver, Colorado. Arnvid Froystein, LA’79, of Houston, has been in the logo apparel business since 1981 and owns an embroidery-production facility that employs ten people. He has been in Houston since 1980 and got married in 1986. He says he’s been delighted “not to shovel snow for more than twenty years. It would be great to hear from some of the kids of the seventies (soon to be in our fifties, yuck!).” E-mail him at <arnvid@swbell.net>.