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		1970s Louis M. Cohen, BA’71, of Foxboro, Massachusetts, is chief of underwriting at the Sullivan Group, a regional insurance and risk management firm in Worcester and Needham. He is a Certified Insurance Counselor and a member of the Risk and Insurance Management Society. Joseph Tammaro, E’71, of Leominster, Massachusetts, has completed thirty-one years with the Army. For the last twenty-one years, he has been the director of public works at Fort Devens. He and his wife, Betsy, have five children and four grandchildren. “I would love to hear from brothers from Phi Gamma Pi,” he writes. His e-mail address is <tamm327@msn.com>. David Eichler, BA’72, of Woodside, California, is the chief financial officer at Tripath Technology. He has previously served as CFO at Gadzoox Networks, Alliance Semiconductor, Hyundai Electronics America, and OKI Semiconductor. Michael Ferrantino, UC’73, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the president and chief executive officer at Valpey-Fisher, in Hopkinton. He was formerly president of Micro Networks Division of Integrated Circuit Systems. Steven P. Green, LA’73, of Williamstown, Massachusetts, was cast in the Tony Award–winning Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Once in a Lifetime. Lorraine (Mason) Leahy, Ed’73, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, died on September 16, 2002, after a nine-year struggle with breast and ovarian cancers. In the last month of her life, she agreed to a scholarship in her name. Her family has since established the Lorraine A. Leahy Memorial Fund with the Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation (CSF). Preference will go to students who are coping with cancer within their families. Tax-deductible donations to the Lorraine A. Leahy Memorial Fund can be made to CSF of Wakefield, P.O. Box 321, Wakefield, MA 01880. Please indicate the name of the fund on the check. Douglas White, E’73, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, is a co-manager of the Private Client Group at Fechtor, Detwiler and Company of Boston. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Karen (Ford) Bricker, BB’74, of Sharon, Massachusetts, writes, “I went back to school in 1982 and completed my degree in physical therapy. I continue to enjoy my physical therapy career and practicing in Rhode Island. I retired from working as a director and dance teacher after seventeen years; I’m still dancing but only for enjoyment. I’ve been living in southeastern Massachusetts for twenty-five years with my husband and two children, Caitlin and Jonathan Gavin. I look forward to more free time to travel and create. I remember good times at NU, studying at the Museum of Fine Arts, and the great support of Dean Allen.” Bricker can be reached by e-mail at <galwaygurl0@aol.com>. Carl J. Chancey, PAH’74, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is the vice president of compliance at Drug Development Resources. He had been a pharmaceutical and biotech consultant for two years, and previously worked for Biogen in global regulatory compliance and internal auditing. Delphis Kaczowski, UC’74, MPA’80, of Long Beach, California, teaches allied health and radiology at Bryman College, in Whittier. He has written several articles for medical and technical magazines. Russell H. Kraiterman, E’74, ME’79, of Sharon, Massachusetts, is the president of A. J. Abrams, a regional supplier of industrial hygiene and safety monitoring instrumentation. Martha J. Carter, AS’75, of Wenham, Massachusetts, is the senior vice president of regulatory affairs at Essential Therapeutics, in Waltham. She previously was vice president of regulatory affairs at GelTex. Jack Ghirardini, UC’75, of West Palm Beach, Florida, is the assistant vice president of Fidelity Federal Bank & Trust, in Lake Worth. Lance Newman, CJ’75, of Winter Springs, Florida, is the regional director of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. A graduate of the FBI National Academy, he is a twenty-seven-year veteran of police work, starting as a patrol officer with the Panama City Police Department. He joined the Department of Law Enforcement in 1984 as a special agent in Orlando. Maureen C. Burke, N’76, is the operations director in the post-anesthesia care unit in Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. She earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Barney School of Business at the University of Hartford and previously was a senior medical underwriter at Aetna Life and Casualty. Larry O’Toole, E’76, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the founder and president of Gentle Giant Moving Company, which was named the Small Business of the Year in 2002 by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Evelyn M. Thomson, FD’76, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is a senior lecturer at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, and has co-authored her second textbook, Case Studies in Dental Hygiene, which will be published by Prentice Hall Publishing this year. Steve Cody, LA’77, of Lincroft, New Jersey, is the managing partner and co-founder of Peppercom, a mid-sized public relations company with offices in New York, San Francisco, and London. He’s the author of "What’s Keeping Your Customer Awake at Night?" which will be published by McGraw-Hill in March. He’s also written articles for a number of publications. He heads the marketing committee of the Council of Public Relations Firms. He and his wife, Angie, have two children, Christopher and Catharine. Peter J. Mancusi, LA’77, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is a senior vice president in the Cambridge office of Weber Shandwick, a public relations firm. Mancusi was previously the business editor of the Boston Globe. He joined the Globe in 1979, serving as political editor and city editor. He left the paper in 1993 to join the Boston law firm Bingham McCutcher (then known as Bingham Dana). Four years later, he returned to the Globe, and in 1999 became editor of its business pages. He holds a law degree from Boston College and was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. Raymond G. Fitzgerald, BA’78, of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, writes, “Hard to believe that the twenty-five-year reunion is coming up. I lost touch with a good friend and fellow alum: Howie Turoff, where are you? Contact me if you’re ever in the Boston area.” Joan W. Krieger, UC’78, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, writes, “I was sixty when I got my BA, and I will always be grateful to NU for pioneering the reality of older women returning to school. The UC instructors were superb.” Stephanie Conrad O’Sullivan, LA’78, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, is a senior compliance auditor at Biogen, in Cambridge. She notes she and her husband, Tom, enjoy being back on the East Coast. She also says she’d like to hear from Suzanne Joyal.