Steve Burke, LA'70, of Peabody, Massachusetts, has started Burke, Bellemore, and Associates, a health-care consulting company that specializes in long term­ care facility compliance and regulatory affairs. The company's website is at www.burkebellemore.com.

Victor J. Melfa Sr., MBA'70, of Westborough, Massachusetts, started the Training Associates ten years ago. The company is now the largest information-technology trainer firm in the country, with 5,000 contract consultants, and clients that include IBM, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard.

Alan Cotich, E'71, of Millersville, Pennsylvania, is a principal with Birchwood Consulting Group.

Bruce Taub, LA'71, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, has been named to the new position of executive vice president for operations at Viacom. He retains his positions as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Divisions of Viacom include CBS, UPN, King World Productions, and Paramount Television. Taub started working with CBS in 1975.

Richard Bertrand, E'72, retired from the U.S. Department of Defense after thirty-six years (including five as a co-op). He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Braintree, Massachusetts, with their son, Matthew. They also have two older daughters. Bertrand is now a part-time structural engineer.

Richard Curtin, BA'72, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, is a senior program manager for DRS Technologies, in Hudson, and is currently working on a program for the U.S. Navy. "My youngest graduated from college in May, and Carolyn and I are enjoying the empty nest," he writes.

Paul Mauro, LA'72, of Bolton, Massachusetts, and his wife, Linda, own Legacy Financial Advisors, which specializes in helping families solve issues related to aging. The company—which has offices in several towns, including Milford, Waltham, and Duxbury—was featured in September in the PBS special "And Thou Shalt Honor ...," about family caregiving.

Mark P. Fitzgerald, E'73, is the director of air warfare for the U.S. Navy. He has been nominated for promotion to the three-star rank of vice admiral and has been assigned to Norfolk, Virginia, as the commander of the U.S. Second Fleet, which includes more than 100 ships, 1,000 aircraft, and 62,000 personnel.

Bruce L. Haskin, BA'73, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, is the treasurer of PolyMedica, a national medical- products company in Woburn.

Eugene Johnson, PAH'73, of North Hampton, New Hampshire, sends in news of a career change. He received a master's in business administration from Bentley College in 1986, a master's in health administration from the University of New Hampshire in 1999, and a law degree from the Massachusetts School of Law in 2003. He passed the Massachusetts bar examination in February, was sworn in in June, and opened his Methuen practice later that month. "I do expect to practice pharmacy as a per-diem float pharmacist with Pharmstaff, a temp agency," he writes. "My wife, Christine (Tiedemann), also was a 1973 graduate from Northeastern's College of Pharmacy. We have two daughters."

Antonio H. Miguel, MS'73, of Pasadena, California, writes, "I have not had contact with any Chemistry department colleagues. I would love to hear from you." His e-mail address is ahmiguel@hotmail.com.

Richard Yates, BA'73, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is a senior vice president and corporate controller with Textron.

Carole Bitter, MBA'74, of Butler, Pennsylvania, is the president and chief executive officer at Friedman's Supermarkets.

Richard M. Feldt, E'74, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, is the chief executive of Evergreen Solar, in Marlborough.

Kenneth A. Graham, MA'74, of Stratford, Connecticut, has been reappointed to the Office of Superior Court Trial Referee by the chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and to the Office of Arbitrator/Factfinder of the Connecticut Superior Court. Each appointment is for three years.

Karen Porter, L'74, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, founded the Chester County Peace Movement in opposition to the war in Iraq. She reports the organization has more than 700 members in suburban Philadelphia and its URL is . She notes that her "day job" is in insurance-law education, and that she is the single mother of a teenage son.

Stephen Savage, CJ'74, of Plaistow, New Hampshire, became the president of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police in June. He serves as the police chief for Plaistow, where he has worked for seventeen years. Previously, he was a member of the Haverhill (Massachusetts) Police Department. He entered the police field in 1969, working in Baltimore, Maryland, and Newport, New Hampshire, and with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

David E. Katz, LA'75, MEd'76, of Granby, Connecticut, has written his first novel, Sin of Omission. Printed by Koenisha Publications, in Hamilton, Michigan, the book tells of a middle-aged man who confronts the truth about a crime he witnessed forty years earlier. Katz is a managing director for Trafin Corporation, in New York City.

Paul Lanza, E'75, of Foxborough, Massachusetts, writes, "After thirty-three years as a sanitary engineer, working first for consulting engineering firms in the Boston area, I'm taking advantage of the state's early-retirement incentive: I retired on June 30 after fifteen years with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. I'll miss my dedicated colleagues, but tennis courts, golf courses, fishing spots, and my Harley all await me. I expect to enjoy life more than ever with my lovely wife, Linda. We celebrated our thirtieth wedding anniversary on May 25." He says he'd like to hear from classmates by e-mail at airwalk2@comcast.net.

Glenn O. Cassidy, MPA'76, lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife, Maureen, and son Sean. Cassidy retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of colonel after serving for thirty-two years. He then worked fifteen years at the Pentagon in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also was a professor of government at George Mason University. E-mail him at gowencassidy@aol.com.

S. Ann Earon, MEd'76, of Manahawkin, New Jersey, is the president of Telemanagement Resources International, a consulting firm that emphasizes market research, design, project management, promotions, and training for teleconferencing systems. She also is the chair of the Interactive Media and Collaborative Communications Alliance.

Robert F. Radin, BA'76, of Newton, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors at Daou Systems. He is an adjunct professor at Boston College, teaching graduate courses in corporate governance, management, and organizational behavior. Radin, who earned a PhD from Boston College, was formerly president of the Investor Services Group for First Data and president of Shareholder Services for American Express Information Services.

Rita L. Shertick, N'76, of Bellflower, California, has joined the staff of the Long Beach City College School of Nursing. She is a clinical instructor of obstetrics nursing. "I still teach bilingual classes in childbirth education and breastfeeding, using the Spanish I learned while in the Peace Corps," she writes.

Robert Somma, L'76, is a judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Massachusetts. He formerly worked in the Boston office of Seyfarth Shaw. Somma has been a special assistant attorney general for bankruptcy matters for ten years and has taught at Boston University. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

Jeff Stone, BB'76, of Ashland, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors for the National Athletic Trainers' Association. He is a wellness educator in the Natick public school system.

William H. Sullivan, UC'76, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, retired from Verizon after thirty-eight years. He now works for Lightspeed Mortgage Services, in Centerville.

Paul Trusten, PAH'76, of Midland, Texas, is the editor of Metric Today, the newsletter of the U.S. Metric Association, which advocates that the United States convert to the metric system. Trusten says he began a quest for metric conversion as a pharmacy student at Northeastern, when he had to perform calculations in three systems of measurement. He works as a staff pharmacist for Midland Memorial Hospital.

Steve Cody, LA'77, of Lincroft, New Jersey, is the founder and managing partner of Peppercom, a New York City public relations firm. His approach to business landed him a page and a half in Donald Trump's latest book, The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received. In the text, Cody recounts his experience with the late Jim Lyons, who at the time was chief executive officer of Alexander Proudfoot, an international management-consulting company in Florida.

Robert J. Matis, PAH'77, MPH'82, of Westerville, Ohio, took early retirement from the Ross Products Division of Abbott Laboratories in December 2003. He says highlights of his twelve-year career at Ross, where he worked in pharmaceutical research and development and regulatory affairs, include contributing to the development and manufacture of treatments for respiratory diseases in preterm neonates and children. In January, Matis joined Ventaira Pharmaceuticals as director of quality assurance. He and his wife, Karen, have three children, Bethany, Ryan, and Christopher.

Tom McNulty, MBA'77, of Scituate, Massachusetts, is the president of Hingham Lumber. He and his brother purchased the business from their father in 1986.

Susan E. Pease, MJ'77, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, is the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Central Connecticut State University, in New Britain. She started her career at the college in 1989 as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. She became chair of the department in 1993, and chaired Criminology and Criminal Justice when it became a separate department in 1998.

Ed Dion, UC'78, of Tomball, Texas, is the chief financial officer of Martin Apparatus in Houston. Dion, who is originally from Reading, Massachusetts, is retired from the U.S. Navy.

Bernard Horne Jr., BA'78, is the president and portfolio manager of the Polaris Global Value Fund at Boston-based Polaris Capital Management, which Horne founded in 1995.

Bruce MacDougall, MJ'78, of Methuen, Massachusetts, was hired in the spring by the town of New Boston, New Hampshire, to review its police force. The former Methuen police chief, MacDougall works for Municipal Resources, a consulting firm to city and town governments.

David Balto, MPA'79, L'83, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, is a partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, a Washington, D.C.­area law firm. He specializes in antitrust and trade regulation, health-care litigation, and intellectual-property litigation practice groups.

Dorothy M. Cipolla, BA'79, of Winter Garden, Florida, is the chief financial officer and corporate secretary at LaserSight. She started her career as a senior management consultant at Ernst & Young. She has also worked at Alliant Energy, Goliath Networks, and Network Six.

Lindsay Cook, PA'79, of West Newton, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors for the New England­Canada Business Council and a partner at Boston International Capital.

Brendan Dugan, MBA'79, of Tacoma, Washington, is the senior director of marketing and trade for the Port of Tacoma. He formerly worked at the Massachusetts Port Authority and the Port Authority of New York­New Jersey.

John F. Lenihan, CJ'79, of Fairfax, Virginia, is the federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration at Washington Dulles International Airport. He has been director of the Container Security Division at U.S. Customs and Border Protection and special assistant to the under secretary for border and transportation security at the Department of Homeland Security.

Barry M. Libman, PAH'79, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, was honored with a certificate of appreciation by the Maine Health Information Management Association at its annual meeting in Bar Harbor in June. He is the president of Barry Libman, Inc., which provides interim and contract medical-record coding and audit services. Clients include Johns Hopkins Hospital, New England Baptist Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Irving Stackpole, MEd'79, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors for SHARED, a Massachusetts organization dedicated to improving access to medicine for the poor worldwide.

Allan J. Sullivan, BA'79, of Coral Gables, Florida, is a partner in the litigation-practice group of Baker & McKenzie, in Miami. He began his career in 1982 as a commercial-litigation associate with Goodwin Proctor & Hoar, in Boston. In 1996, he returned to Miami as head of the Criminal Division for the Southern District of Florida. Sullivan was a founding shareholder in the Miami firm Sullivan & Rivero.

Liz A. Thiebe, N'79, of Warwick, England, has worked for the National Health Service in Coventry for more than a year. She is designing the clinical structure for a 1,200-bed replacement hospital that's due to open in July 2006. Thiebe says she and her family enjoy living next to Warwick Castle.