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November 2004

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Tim Bailey, MBA'80, of Portola Valley, California, is the business-unit manager of component-application architecture V5 at Spatial, in Westminster, Colorado. He is the founder of Alliance-Strategies, served as president and CEO of Metagraphics, and was an executive with Hewlett-Packard and Computervision.

Michael A. D'Amelio, BA'80, is a member of the board of directors for Solomon Technologies. He was appointed secretary at Solomon's directors' meeting in May. D'Amelio is the founder of JMC Venture Partners, in Boston.

Paul M. Farrell, MBA'80, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, was named senior vice president of advertising at the Providence Journal in July. He was formerly the advertising director for retail and national advertising at the Boston Globe and also has worked at Community Newspapers, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Miami Herald. Farrell has been active in the Boston Ad Club, the Greater Boston Spinal Cord Association, the Boston Chapter of the Better Business Bureau, and the New England Newspaper Association.

Elizabeth Gaudet, N'80, of El Paso, Texas, is a colonel in the Army Nurse Corps and was activated for 365 days to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center, at Fort Bliss. She received a master's degree in diplomacy from Norwich University. Friends may e-mail her at elizabeth.gaudet@amedd.army.mil.

Marc A. Futterweit, BA'81, and his wife, Jill, live in Wayne, New Jersey. Their e-mail address is futterlaw@optonline.net.

Paul McGill, L'81, of Concord, Massachusetts, is called on to make many judgments—as a circuit court judge by day and a softball umpire twice a week at night. A Harvard University graduate, McGill worked for three years as a Northeastern police officer before attending the School of Law. He served as a Massachusetts Defenders Committee lawyer and a general counsel for the Suffolk County sheriff. He was appointed to the bench in Roxbury in 1990, then moved to Concord District Court before becoming a circuit court judge. McGill took up softball umpiring after watching his two daughters play. "In the courtroom, the judge's seat is the best place to sit; you get to see and hear everything. As an umpire, it's the best place to see the whole game," he says.

Rajen Mookerjee, MS'81, PHD'86, of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, is an associate professor of economics at Penn State Beaver. He has received a $50,000 grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania to conduct a study on affordable housing in the rural sections of the state. Mookerjee is on sabbatical for the current academic year.

Joan (Sacks) Rosenthal, N'81, of Missouri City, Texas, received a master's degree in nursing and a women's health-care nurse- practitioner degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center, in Houston. Her daughter, Jackie, was born in April 1998. She and her husband, David, recently traveled to Russia to adopt Maria Rachel, who turned six years old on August 4. Rosenthal's e-mail address is jbean999@aol.com.

Marsha Fanucci, MBA'82, of Winchester, Massachusetts, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

Philip Gavin, AS'82, of Quincy, Massachusetts, is the author of World War II in Europe, a history book for children published by Lucent Books. Gavin says he's working on his next book (also to be published by Lucent), which explores the origins and beliefs of Catholicism and examines the challenges the religion currently faces.

Christopher J. Lahoda, BA'82, of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, is the president of GrowthQuest Management Training, in Princeton. Now in its fourth year, the company conducts management, leadership, and sales-training sessions.

Steven H. Philbrick, CJ'82, of Cobleskill, New York, is the chief administrative law judge for the state's Division of Parole, in Albany. He is a graduate of Albany Law School and worked as an assistant district attorney in Schoharie County.

Ramon Rodriguez, L'82, of Ashburn, Virginia, is the vice president of diversity and community relations for NRT Incorporated, the country's largest residential real-estate brokerage company. Rodriguez was previously the chief operating officer for the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the host of Hispanics Today, a television program that aired in seventy markets in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Ken Fisher, MBA'83, of Trumbull, Connecticut, is the chief financial officer at Cygnus Business Media. Formerly, he was chief financial officer and chief technology officer at Wicks Business Information.

Arthur O'Donnell, MBA'83, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is the chief quality officer at Symbol Technologies, where he retains the positions of senior vice president and general manager of the Global Services Division.

Stewart Ramsay, E'83, of Long Valley, New Jersey, is the vice president for asset management at American Electric Power. He joined the company in February as a vice president for distribution asset management.

Mike Stolz, BA'85, of Mendon, Massachusetts, is the executive vice president of marketing at Xiotech, a storage-networking company. He was formerly vice president of strategic sales at Adaptec.

Sheila Baker, ME'86, of Soquel, California, is the senior vice president of marketing at VA Software. Formerly, she served as vice president of marketing at MontaVista Software and also worked at the Santa Cruz Operation, Apollo Computer, and Raytheon.

Jon Cohan, AS'86, of Needham, Massachusetts, notes that he and his wife, Daryl, celebrated the second year of their business, Tastythyme.com. E-mail him at jon@tastythyme.com.

Ruth M. Kelley, UC'86, of Arlington, Massachusetts, has been promoted to chief of behavioral health at Dimock Community Health Center, in Roxbury. Kelley, who oversees ten programs related to addictions and mental health, received the Dimock Community Health Center President's Award for 2004. In August, she earned a master's degree in management from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, at Brandeis University. She also notes that she's the proud grandmother of Cory, Ryan, Brian, and Jenna. Her e-mail address is rkelley@gis.net.

Tim O'Brien, BA'86, is the vice president in the plastics group at GE Advanced Materials, where he is responsible for the sales, application development, and supply-chain activities of the business's family of engineering thermoplastics throughout the Americas.

Kathleen S. Ferguson, BA'87, of Burlington, Massachusetts, is the vice president of specialty-food purchasing and category management at Millbrook Distribution Services.

Shankar Hariharan, PHD'87, of Smithtown, New York, has been named executive vice president and chief scientific officer (CSO) at Par Pharmaceutical. He is the company's first CSO. Hariharan previously was a senior vice president at Forest Laboratories.

Kaynam Hedayat, E'88, of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, has been promoted to chief technology officer at Brix Networks, in Chelmsford.

Mary Waltuck, UC'88, MBA'90, of Sharon, Massachusetts, is a two-time cancer survivor who celebrated completion of the Danskin Women's Triathlon in August by throwing her final medication pill into the waters of Lake Webster. She completed the swimming-bicycling-running course in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 34 seconds. Waltuck, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1982 and again in 1999, took up the idea of triathlon competition while watching one with her daughter-in-law. "When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I was a single mother, and I had just started going to night school at Northeastern," she says. "And, of course, I thought, ‘Why me?' at first, but as soon as I got past that, my thought was, ‘I have too much to live for.'"

Karen L. Cole, E'89, and her husband, Paul Kearney, celebrated the birth of their daughter, Alicia Leeann, on July 11. They live in Billerica, Massachusetts.

John Donahue, SET'89, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, took part in the U.S. Air Force's twenty-one-ship fly-by salute during President Ronald Reagan's funeral procession on June 9 in Washington, D.C. Donahue is an F-15E weapons system officer with the Fourth Operations Support Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, in Goldsboro.

Phil McCabe Jr., BA'89, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, writes, "Hello to my classmates. I have been actively modeling for ten years and decided to try my hand at designing women's clothing (Fashions by Phil). Things are going great on the catwalk! Marie and I have two lovely children, and would love to hear from old friends." McCabe's e-mail address is pmjinc@juno.com.

Christine (DeSimone) Meckley, AS'89, MEd'91, of Long Island, New York, and her husband, Tom, celebrated the birth of Riley Eileen on February 18. "We live in Port Jefferson, and are doing well," writes Meckley. "I would like to say hello to my swimming friends, as well as some long-lost alumni. Suzy, Debbie, Lori, where are you? Please get in touch." Her e-mail address is meckley7@optonline.net.

Brian Moses, BA'89, of Merrimack, New Hampshire, is a sales associate in Nashua with Coldwell Banker Brian Moses Realty and Mortgage Services. In 2003, he was ranked second among more than 113,800 sales associates worldwide for Coldwell Banker Real Estate.

Louis R. Rivera, BHD'89, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the vice president and part-owner of Worksite Rehabilitation and Consultants. He's also the owner and president of Rivera Physical Therapy.