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		1970s Pete J. Buswell, Ed’70, became the director of the Department of Career and Technology Education for Oklahoma in January. He was previously vice president of Global Knowledge Network in Waltham, Massachusetts. Peter M. Seremet, LA’70, of Annapolis, Maryland, has started a consulting company in the Washington, D.C., area. The Alliance Group concentrates on government affairs and public relations. Kenneth J. DeLisa, BA’71, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, is the vice president of the Eastern Connecticut State University Foundation, which is directed by a volunteer board and raises funds for the state’s public liberal arts university. DeLisa also is the corporate affairs manager and spokesperson for the Hartford Courant. Buffie Race, BB’71, writes, “I would like my classmates to know that I am in my second year of teaching aquatics at Seoul Foreign School in Korea. This is my second overseas teaching position, and it’s a terrific job, not only for teaching and coaching (I coached the JV volleyball team this fall), but also for traveling and experiencing new adventures. This is a change for me to just teach swimming, but I get to work with all grade levels, K through 12. The facility is great, and the weeks fly by.” She can be e-mailed at <brace@sfs.or.kr>. Phil Scarfo, LA’71, MBA’81, of Winchester, Massachusetts, is the senior vice president of the Identification Solutions Division of NEC Solutions. Prior to joining NEC, he was cofounder and CEO of Imprivata. Stuart Chase, CJ’73, of Danvers, Massachusetts, is the town’s police chief. James Hilly, BA’73, MPA’76, of Portland, Maine, began his second six-year term as a commissioner of the Maine Unemployment Insurance Commission in January. Robert Rusciano, BA’73, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, is the manager of business development for STV Incorporated’s New Jersey office. He has thirty years’ experience with the state, having served as director of the Division of Property Management and Construction and on the State Capitol Joint Management Commission, the New Jersey Building Authority, the New Jersey Historic Trust, and the State House Commission. Michael Barcelona, MS’74, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is the interim chair of the Chemistry department at Western Michigan University. He joined the school’s faculty in 1989 as director of the Institute for Water Sciences and is a tenured professor of chemistry. He left in 1994 to become a research professor and director of operations for the University of Michigan’s National Center for Integrated Bioremediation Research and Development. Barcelona returned to Western Michigan in 2001 as a chemistry professor. David Evans Katz, LA’75, MEd’76, of Granby, Connecticut, is the author of Sin of Omission, a first novel that was published in January by Koenisha Publications. Katz has been an entrepreneur and investment banker. He has completed a second novel and has published several short stories. Ellen Richwine, LA’75, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, is the director of social services at Sun Bridge Care and Rehabilitation in Randolph. Bruce D. Blain, E’76, of Harvard, Massachusetts, is the director of sales, digital microwave radio, for the Radio Communications Systems Division of NEC America. John P. Ricardi, E’76, ME’77, of Camarillo, California, is the vice president of business development at JMAR Technologies of San Diego, California. He was the company’s vice president of corporate development. Thomas Wenzel, LA’76, PHD’81, of Auburn, Maine, is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry at Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine. Eric D. Williams, LC’76, of Milford, Massachusetts, is a real estate agent with ERA Key Realty Services. Peter Karg, LA’77, MA’92, of Newton, Massachusetts, was appointed election commissioner of Newton in February 2002. He had previously served twenty-four years in various positions in the executive branch of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Wendy Vittori, MBA’77, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, is the vice president and general manager of the Motorola Computer Group in Tempe. Robert Bashaw III, BA’78, MBA’85, of San Antonio, Texas, has acquired a Comprehensive Business Services franchise. Patricia M. Casey, UC’78, of El Dorado Hills, California, is the chief executive officer of Benchmark Medical Consulting in Sacramento. The company supports health-care professionals who specialize as experts in injury dispute resolution. She’s also founder and chair of the Piece of the Puzzle, which provides management consulting to clients with a high net worth. Linda Kemp, N’78, of North Adams, Massachusetts, has been working at the North Adams Regional Hospital for twenty-five years; the last twenty have been spent in the maternity department. Lou Shames, LA’78, is the product manager at Comark, a manufacturer of industrial computers in Medfield, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Jenny, and twins, William and Nikki, live in Westwood. “For fun I race cars with the SCCA and am an avid cyclist,” he writes. “Hard to believe it’s been twenty-five years.” Stephen Glassroth, L’79, of Montgomery, Connecticut, is at the center of a constitutional controversy in Alabama. Glassroth won a suit against Alabama chief justice Roy Moore, who had a 5,280-pound granite monument of the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments placed in the Alabama Judicial Building. The suit is being appealed. “I didn’t think it to be particularly appropriate in the state Judicial Building or appropriate for a state official,” says Glassroth. “If you live half a century and can’t do something on principle, life becomes less significant and meaningful. This is something important to me, and it’s about time I take a principled stand on something other than my work.” Eliot Popper, BA’79, of Madison, Connecticut, is an assistant vice president with Merrill Lynch. He reports that he’s completed both the New York City and the Hartford marathons. He and Tim Wigon, BA’79, are coordinating the twenty-fifth reunion for the College of Business Administration. To help, contact Popper at <epopper@pclient.ml.com>.