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March 2004

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Lisa D. Love, CJ’81, was honored as a distinguished woman in real estate by the Women’s Fund of New Jersey in November 2003. A real estate attorney, Love is a partner in the Newark law firm Love and Long with Reginald Long. The couple lives in South Orange with their sons, Reginald Jr. and Bryant. Love is a board member of the National Association of Real Estate Professionals and the New Jersey Association of Real Estate Attorneys. She is also a member of the National Bar Association and the bar associations of Essex County, Pennsylvania; the District of Columbia; and New Jersey. In her private practice, Love concentrates on commercial real estate, banking, corporate finance, municipal, and probate law. Michael Mandracchia, MS’82, of Jackson, New Jersey, was recognized in October 2003 as a fellow of the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management for contributions to the profession. He is a hazardous-site mitigation specialist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Ramon Rodriguez, L’82, of Ashburn, Virginia, is the new host of Hispanics Today, a syndicated English-language television show with an audience of more than twenty-six million. He is also the chief operating officer of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.

Todd Adam Siegel, BA’82, of Mendham, New Jersey, is the senior vice president and director of marketing and leasing for SJP Properties, a New York real estate developer and management company.

Gordon Greenfield, AS’83, is cofounder and chief marketing officer of Confluent Advertising and Marketing. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Bradenton, Florida, with their two daughters. He can be reached by e-mail at ggreenfield@confluentadvertising.com.

John T. McKenna, MBA’83, of Foxborough, Massachusetts, is the president of Dresser Instruments, which manufactures instruments for temperature and pressure measurement and control.

Kevin T. Roche, BA’83, of Arlington, Massachusetts, joined the board of management for Getronics, a provider of information and communication technology services. He is the general manager of Getronics North America in Billerica.

M. Stella Gomez Seitz, UC’83, of Clearwater, Florida, is the author of The Master Cookie-Maker: A True-Life Story for Children. Published by iUniverse, the book was featured in November 2003 at the Miami Book Fair International.

Jerry Humphrey, AS’84, issues this call: “Attention, 1984 journalism grads. What a long, strange trip it’s been. Please consider this an invitation to my palatial pad in Lancaster, Massachusetts, to a twenty-first-century bash. Anybody else who happens to have tilted a few with me is also welcome. I’m thinking late June. Thank you, and good night.” Respond by e-mail at gerald.humphrey@verizon.net.

David Marchione, UC’84, GB’96, of Woburn, Massachusetts, is a technical manager for the MRI Division at Massachusetts General Hospital Imaging­Chelsea.

Paul Kassabian, AS’85, MEd’89, of Wakefield, Rhode Island, and his wife, Chelle, celebrated the birth of Kerkor, or “Koko,” their second child, in October 2003. He joins older sister Ardemis. Kassabian is the NCAA compliance coordinator at the University of Rhode Island. Classmates and track teammates may contact him at kokojr@uri.edu.

Lisa Marie Pane, AS’85, of Boston, writes, “I returned to the Associated Press and the news business in 2000 after a two-year stint as director of press and policy for Connecticut’s attorney general. In the past three years, I spent time as a correspondent in charge of the AP’s Providence bureau—overseeing coverage of the Buddy Cianci corruption trial—and then as interim news editor in the Boston bureau, directing coverage of the church abuse scandal, the Rhode Island nightclub fire, and everything in between. In November 2003, I was promoted to the AP news editor of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It’s been an amazing time to be a journalist, and I’ve loved every minute of it.”

Paul G. Jones, MBA’86, retired as director of construction for AT&T after a thirty-three-year career. He’s now the resident engineer for Fall River, Massachusetts, and is working on the multimillion-dollar Harbor Walkway project along the Taunton River. He and his wife, Evelyn, live on a thirty-five-acre horse farm in Swansea and collect automobiles in a nine-stall garage. They have a daughter, Kelly Jones, BA’95, who is an executive with Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management in New York City.

Jeannette A. McCarthy, MJ’86, of Waltham, Massachusetts, was elected mayor in November 2003, becoming the first woman ever to hold that office in Waltham. McCarthy has also served on the school committee, city council, and as a city staff attorney.

Fabrizio Zanella, E’86, of Milford, Massachusetts, is a principal hardware engineer at Broadbus Technologies in Boxborough. He and his wife, Janice, have three children, Brian, Nicole, and Andrew.

Mary Bonauto, L’87, is a civil-rights lawyer from Maine who wrote the legal briefs that helped convince the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to issue its first-in-the-nation ruling that gay marriages are constitutional. The ruling was handed down in November 2003. Bonauto and her partner live in Portland with their twin daughters.

Bill Donovan, MBA’87, of Acton, Massachusetts, is the manager of human resource information systems for New England Business Service, a Groton-based supplier of business products.

Janice M. Nieh, AS’87, is married to Patrick J. Midri. They live in Westwood, Massachusetts. Nieh works for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and owns an entertainment consulting business.

Amie (Miller) Smith, AS’87, writes, “It has taken me over fifteen years to get around to writing, but here’s what I’ve been up to: I worked as a writer in several high-tech companies in the Boston area for many years. Several years ago, I started my own company, and now I work on a contract basis. I’ve also been teaching and editing for the technical communications program in Northeastern’s University College since 1989. In 1991, I married Jim Smith, E’88. He just became a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City. We now have an apartment in Manhattan. No kids, two cats.” E-mail her at asmith1115@verizon.net.

Jerry Bodmer, E’88, of Norco, California, reports he’s been a civil servant with the Navy for twenty years and earned a master’s degree in systems engineering management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He says he’d like to hear from classmates by e-mail at gerald.bodmer@navy.mil.

Wendy (Koboski) Lombardo, BA’88, of Southington, Connecticut, and her husband, Jimmy, celebrated the birth of their first child, Alexa Cecelia, on November 28, 2003. Lombardo reports she and Alexa are doing well. Friends may reach her at jwlomb@aol.com.

R. Scott McNeilly, L’88, of Washington, D.C., is the winner of the 2004 Jerrold Scoutt Prize, which is presented annually by the District of Columbia Bar Foundation. It goes to an attorney who has worked a significant portion of his or her career at an organization providing direct, hands-on legal services to the needy in Washington, D.C., and has exhibited a high degree of skill on their behalf. McNeilly is a senior staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, which he joined in 1994.

Edward J. “Ned” Sennott, CJ’88, married L. Suzanne Collins on October 18, 2003, in Cohasset, Massachusetts. They live in Norwood.

Jim Sullivan, MBA’88, of North Andover, Massachusetts, is the vice president of the eastern sales region for IT infrastructure integrator Avnet Enterprise Solutions, which has headquarters in Tempe, Arizona. He is responsible for sales in the Great Lakes, Northeast, and Southeast regions of the country.