Charles Frampton, MBA'90, of Concord, Massachusetts, is vice president of operations at UpToDate, in Wellesley. The company provides clinical information for physicians.

Joseph G. Grassi, AS'90, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, opened Beacon Appraisals, a residential real-estate appraisal company. Grassi, who has been a member of the Cambridge School Committee since 1994, can be reached at beaconappraisals@msn.com.

Lisa (Gans) Griswold, AS'90, and Tom Griswold, E'90, of Plainfield, Illinois, celebrated the birth of Ethan Jacob on August 3, 2004. The family has an older son, Jarod. Their e-mail address is tgris@earthlink.net.

Stuart Selber, MTPW'90, of State College, Pennsylvania, has earned tenure and been promoted to associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

Ennio J. Carboni, CJ'91, MBA'93, of Belmont, Massachusetts, writes, "Laura [Panos] and I had a busy year. We married January 3, 2004, one year after meeting at Governor Mitt Romney's inauguration dinner. And we received a Christmas gift: Max Alexander, born December 3, 2004. Mom is corporate counsel for the New England Journal of Medicine/MMS, and I am working in product management at Computer Associates." Carboni's e-mail address is ennio.carboni@ca.com.

Lisa Coville-King, BA'91, of Southbury, Connecticut, writes, "I have recently moved from Norwalk with my husband of seven years, Greg King, and our boys, Jason, five; Nathaniel, three; and Liam, nine months. I am a stay-at-home mom."

Ari A. Porth, AS'91, of Coral Springs, Florida, is a new state representative. He writes, "I was interested in public service even before my days with the Student Government Association at Northeastern. I finally took the leap and decided to run for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives. After a grueling two-year campaign, I am happy to report I am the newly elected representative for House District 96, representing the northwest parts of Broward County." Porth is a prosecutor in the state attorney's office. He can be e-mailed at coraldem@aol.com.

Velia M. Carboni-Baldassarre, BA'92, of Belmont, Massachusetts, writes, "Rob and I had our first child in October 2004. Joseph is keeping us up at night, but we are enjoying him tremendously." A technology consultant for Fidelity Investments, she can be e-mailed at velia.carboni@fmr.com.

Jeannette M. Hixon, MEd'92, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was presented the Donald L. McCullough Award by the National Association for Campus Activities in November 2004. Hixon is the director of the Bentley College Multicultural Center.

Deb Stanley, BB'92, of Fort Collins, Colorado, has been a physical therapist and an athletic trainer for nine years. She and her husband, Matt, celebrated the birth of a son, Brendan, on April 6, 2004. They have an older daughter, Sydney.

Christine (Haberle) Colella, AS'93, and Thomas Colella, CJ'93, of Wayne, New Jersey, welcomed the birth of Ryan John on September 28, 2004. Reid is their older son. E-mail Christine at chaberle@gibbonslaw.com.

Keith Powers, AS'93, of Santa Monica, California, is the vice president of strategy and business development at the not-for-profit X PRIZE Foundation, which offered a $10 million prize for the first private flight into space. He was responsible for raising nearly $4 million in corporate sponsorship in less than forty days leading up to the most recent attempt at the prize. On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, flew higher than 360,000 feet to win the prize and break an unofficial altitude record that had stood for more than forty years.

Marissa (Pelton) Eller, AS'94, of Tuckahoe, New York, and Clinton Eller, BA'94, celebrated the birth of their son, Owen Davis, on October 20, 2004. They say they'd like to hear from classmates by e-mail at c.eller@att.net. Jordana R. Goodstein, N'94, of Bethesda, Maryland, notes that she provides various promotional products that companies can use for logo placement. "Would love to hear from old classmates and meet new ones as well," she writes. Her e-mail address is jordana.goodstein@leewayne.com.

Kevin J. McGovern, BB'94, of Watertown, Massachusetts, is the president of McGovern Physical Therapy Associates, with offices in Revere, Malden, and Beverly. In 2004, his company won the Physical Therapy Practice of the Year Award from Advance for Directors in Rehabilitation magazine. His employees include Matthew Haley, BB'96; Sean Flaherty, BB'96; and Erin (Neary) Anderson, BB'01, GB'02. McGovern can be reached by e-mail at kmcgovern@mcgovernpt.com.

Erik Nedeau, CJ'94, married Amy Lyman on August 2, 2003. They live in Belchertown, Massachusetts. Amy is a Boston College graduate. The couple met at a track practice at Amherst College, where Nedeau, a former track standout at Northeastern, coaches.

Kurt P. and Yvonne Lum Westergren, both BA'94, live with their daughter, Greta, in New York City. "We left Boston four years ago and live in midtown Manhattan. Yvonne left her career as a fashion designer to raise our daughter," writes Kurt, who is a vice president with Sanford Bernstein, a unit of Alliance Capital. He can be e-mailed at kurtwestergren@hotmail.com.

Tom Cosseboom, BA'95, of Wall, New Jersey, is vice president of investment compliance at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. James R. Laurila, ME'95, of Florence, Massachusetts, has been named an associate with Dufresne-Henry, an engineering, planning, landscape architecture, and environmental science company. A senior project engineer, he specializes in the planning, design, and construction of solid-waste management facilities.

Erez Ofer, MBA'95, of South Grafton, Massachusetts, is vice president of technology strategy at EMC, the world's largest information storage and management company.

Chukwudozie Okpalaobieri, AS'96, of Chicago, writes, "Went back to law school at Northwestern after working for years in Boston. Will graduate in May 2006. Got married in 2001. We had our first child in April 2002, and a new baby boy on October 22, 2004. I am on the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business. I have a job offer with a major law firm in Chicago and plan to practice in the corporate area."

Amy L. Monteiro, AS'97, of Norwood, Massachusetts, is a kindergarten teacher in the Westwood public school system. She received a master's degree in child development and early-childhood education from Wheelock College in 2000. Monteiro was married in Las Vegas last summer. Her e-mail address is amy@blueskeyes.com.

Carole A. Symonds, PA'97, of Arlington, Massachusetts, is a partner in the Private Company Services tax practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Thaddeus Hoffmeister, L'98, of Washington, D.C., is the legislative director for U.S. representative Bob Filner, a Democrat from California, and is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves.

Kara Misto, N'98, of Providence, Rhode Island, and her husband celebrated the birth of their second child, James, on December 14, 2004. Everett is their first child. Misto received a master's degree in nursing education from the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing in May 2004. In September 2004, she became a full-time faculty member at the college. She teaches medical/surgical nursing.

Ara Hagopian, MBA'99, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, has been using paint, pen, and pencil to create artistic works depicting flowers, landscapes, and symbolic abstracts for twenty-five years. In spring 2004, he took first prize at the Chelmsford Art Society's thirty-sixth annual Fourth of July exhibition, his first public showing. In November 2004, his exhibition "Abstract and Traditional" was mounted at the Chelmsford Public Library.

Gary E. McGillivray, AS'99, writes, "I am now a trial attorney living and working in Marina Bay, Massachusetts. I specialize in plaintiffs' personal-injury law at the firm of Giarrusso, Norton, Cooley & McGlone. I have been in practice for two years, having graduated from Boston's New England School of Law in 2002. NU taught me to persevere, which has served me well in representing catastrophically injured clients." McGillivray can be reached by e-mail at garym@gncm.net.

Jeffrey Velez, BA'99, of Derry, New Hampshire, married Amy Shattuck on July 29, 2000. Their son, Jeffrey Jr., was born exactly two years later. Velez left the accounting field in 2003 to start his own business and now publishes Realty Mart, a real-estate magazine, out of his home.