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James A. Greenwood, BA’55, of Arlington, Massachusetts, last month participated in the 365th Fall Field Tour of Duty of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. The company, which is the oldest chartered military organization in the Western Hemisphere (with a charter dating back to 1638), visited Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, the Slovak Republic; and Vienna, Austria. A highlight of the visit to Bratislava was a reception and banquet at the Old Parliament building. Greenwood is a retired Air Force colonel.
C. Thomas Burke, BA’57, of Glen Allen, Virginia, was accorded two distinctive honors in the spring. On May 10, he received a special invitation to the thirty-seventh annual Foreign Service Day, held at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. And on May 15, he was inducted into the International Maritime Hall of Fame during ceremonies at the United Nations. Now senior adviser to the president of K Line America, Burke has enjoyed a distinguished and varied career in the public and private sectors. In 1990, he served as a member of the Panama Canal Study Commission, which produced a document assuring that transit of commerce through the canal would continue well into the twenty-first century. The previous year, he coordinated the U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance Program in Jamaica following Hurricane Gilbert. Burke, who was presented NU’s Outstanding Alumni Award in 1995, is a national vice president of the Federal Bar Association and a member of the Virginia Bar Association, the Maritime Administrative Bar Association, the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Arbitration Association. He is an associate professor in the International Management Institute at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia; a certified mediator of the Supreme Court of Virginia; and guardian ad litem of the Florida Supreme Court. Burke is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Government Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Lewis Stiles, P’59, of Casa Grande, Arizona, writes that he retired from he Veterans Administration in September 2000. Sadly, he also writes his wife, Carol, passed away on August 30, 2001. He’d like to hear from friends at <lewis@cgmailbox.com>.
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