Paul Tormey, BA'80, is the general manager of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Michael J. Chmura, AS'81, of Waltham, Massachusetts, has been reelected to the board of directors of Friends of LADDERS, which supports the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Rehabilitation Services autism clinic in Wellesley. The clinic provides evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults who have developmental or learning disorders. Chmura is the director of public relations at Babson College in Wellesley. His wife, Susan Sutherland, UC'93, is a self-employed graphic designer and the community producer of Kaleidoscope, a program on autism awareness for Waltham community access television. She's also a member of the steering committee for the Family Autism Center, in Westwood. Chmura and Sutherland have two children.

William E. Wishart, E'81, MBA'83, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is the assistant vice president for mortgage origination at the Hingham Institution for Savings.

Quincy L. Allen, E'82, of Penfield, New York, is the president of the Production Systems Group at Xerox. He has been with Xerox since 1982.

Philip Gavin, AS'82, of Quincy, Massachusetts, founded a website known as the History Place, at www.historyplace.com, eight years ago. "This was a thrilling time, in which individuals from all walks of life rushed to create websites," he says. "They experienced the unprecedented power of instantly communicating their ideas to a global audience without censorship or interference. The History Place was born in this spirit."

Michael J. Mandracchia, MS'82, of Jackson, New Jersey, received the Special Achievements Award in 2004 from the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers at the organization's national conference in Las Vegas. Mandracchia is a hazardous-materials mitigation specialist 1 for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Northern Case Management.

Kevin D. Moran, MBA'82, of Concord, Massachusetts, is the chief executive officer of Reed Group, a disability- and absence-management company that publishes the Medical Disability Advisor textbook and software.

J. Peter Sabonis, L'82, is a new staff attorney at Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Bangor, Maine. Formerly, he was the executive director of the Homeless Persons Representation Project in Baltimore.

Jeff Lane, CJ'84, of Gilber, Arizona, is the public relations officer for the Tempe Police Department. He's been married twenty years and has a daughter, Brittany, and a son, Jeffrey. Lane produces a public-safety and crime-prevention television show that is also available on the Internet at www.tempe.gov/police/streetbeat.

Stephen Peet, MBA'84, of New Canaan, Connecticut, is one of seven partners in Shelter Harbor Golf Club, a country club that opened in early July in Westerly, Rhode Island. The partners' goal was to conserve open space by creating an environmentally friendly golf course without adjacent homes. The 500-acre site includes an eighteen-hole course; a 34,000-square-foot clubhouse with views of Block Island Sound; a nine-hole, par-three course; a driving range; guest cabins; and a wine cellar. Peet is co-president of Fairway Investors, a venture capital firm in Wilton, Connecticut.

Kirk Kirkman, BA'85, of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is vice president of physician recruitment and retention for ZixCorp, which develops technology to protect companies from spam and provide secure e-transactions.

Kimi Lynn King, MPA'86, of Denton, Texas, received the 2004 Community Award from the University of North Texas in Denton. King, an associate professor of political science, has been a faculty member at the school since 1993. She was honored for organizing three-week summer trips to The Hague, Netherlands, where students observed the trial of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic. In addition, she initiated the college's Moot Court Squad in 2000, chairs the Committee on Student Code of Conduct, is the adviser for the Feminist Leadership Alliance, and serves as a pre-law student adviser. She has a law degree and a doctorate in political science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Dalton Lee, BA'86, writes, "Since I left Northeastern, I have had a myriad jobs in the television business that have taken me across the country, from Boston to Dallas, Miami to Des Moines, where I am now the group controller of Meredith Broadcasting Group. We are a group of thirteen television stations affiliated with NBC, CBS, Fox, WB, and UPN in markets as diverse as Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Hartford, Connecticut. I would love to hear from classmates." The e-mail address is dalee122996@yahoo.com.

Richard VanVeldhuisen, CJ'87, of Milford, New Jersey, in May 2004 received a master of arts degree in diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations. He is the assistant chief counsel for immigration and customs enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security in New York City.

George Behrakis, MBA'88, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, was honored by the Hellenic American School Endowment Trust last September with a dinner-dance at the Tewksbury Country Club. In honor of his generosity, a cherry tree was planted in the Lowell school's playground.

Alec Burger, MBA'88, of Surrey, England, is the managing director of GE Capital Real Estate Europe, where he spends much of his time concentrating on commercial real estate deals in London's West End.

Marie Galinski, EDD'88, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the assistant principal of the public school district in Beverly. She was previously principal of the Accelerated Learning Laboratory, in Worcester. Since 1989, she has worked as a part-time associate professor of education at Salem State and Worcester State Colleges.

Stacey Hammerlind, AS'88, and Kirk Stepanian, CS'88, were married September 18, 2004, at their home in Hudson, New Hampshire.

Hubert Desmarest, MBA'89, writes from Paris, France, where heis the consulting director for Wellcom Communication: "Just wondering what's going on in my classmates' lives and wishing I had news from them." He can be e-mailed at hd@wellcom.fr.

Julia Lopez-Robertson, BB'89, of Tucson, earned a doctorate in language, reading, and culture from the University of Arizona in August 2004. Her e-mail address is jlrchica@msn.com.

Ellen (Zaremba) Matthews, AS'89, and her husband, Steve, announce the birth of their second child, Jack Dennis, on June 24, 2004. Nolan Paul, born April 28, 2002, is their older son. The family lives in Scarborough, Maine. Matthews has worked for UnumProvident Insurance in Portland for eleven years. Contact her via e-mail at ematthe1@maine.rr.com or at ematthews@unumprovident.com.

Jim Nichols, E'89, of Surprise, Arizona, writes, "I recently moved from Washington State, and am now serving as the public works director for the city of Surprise. I had lived in Washington for the past ten years but have relocated to Arizona for this great career opportunity. I can be reached at jrn1966@cox.net."

Mario D. Santomassimo, BB'89, and his wife, Michaela, celebrated the birth of their son, Matthew David, on July 15, 2004. "He is already looking forward to his days at NU," comments Santomassimo, who lives in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and is a physical therapist at Lepre Physical Therapy.