Russell H. Menko, LA'70, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, writes, "I am proud to say I graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School with a master of science. For the past four years, I've been working on software for the U.S. Army. My wife, Susan, and I are blessed with three great children and two beautiful grandchildren. I would love to hear from any of my classmates." His e-mail address is rmenko@wideopenwest.com.

Donald W. Morgan, BA'70, of Dublin, California, is vice president and chief financial officer at RAE Systems, which develops and manufactures chemical and radiation-detection monitors and networks. Morgan was previously CFO at Larscom, a provider of network-access equipment.

William J. Shea, LA'70, MA'72, of North Andover, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors of the wealth-management firm Boston Private Financial Holdings. A trustee of Northeastern and Children's Hospital, Shea was president and chief executive officer at the insurance company Conseco, chaired the board of directors of Centennial Technologies, and was vice chairman and chief financial officer at BankBoston. He is also a member of the Board of Executive Committee for the Boston Stock Exchange.

Michael A. McCarthy, LA'71, MA'73, of Westport, Connecticut, is the vice president of Eastern United States sales for Paychex, which performs payroll and human-resources outsourcing. He has been with the company since 1990.

Russell Rylko, Ed'71, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, is the president of the Mystic Valley Railway Society, a thirty-five-year-old organization with nearly 4,000 members. A retired science teacher from the Natick public schools, Rylko was a member of the Railway Club during his years at Northeastern.

Jim Vrabel, LA'71, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is the author of When in Boston: A Timeline and Almanac. Vrabel and the volume drew acclaim during a March event sponsored by the Bostonian Society at the Old State House.

Robert A. DeLeo, LA'72, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, is serving his eighth term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was appointed the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee by Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi early this year. DeLeo, who has chaired several other committees, is a key player in the drafting of the state's $23 billion budget.

Elizabeth Tempesta Kevilus, BB'72, of San Antonio, Texas, received a master of divinity degree in May 2004 from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She says, "I am loving my appointment as pastor of a United Methodist Church."

Alan Neville, MBA'73, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, is the vice president of marketing and community development at Crossroads Rhode Island, a provider of services for the homeless. He and his wife, Clara, have two sons.

Stephan Ross, MEd'73, H'88, of Newton, Massachusetts, marked the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II earlier this year. He is a member of the American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and a founder of the New England Holocaust Memorial. Ross was born Szmulek Rozental in Lodz, Poland, in 1931. From 1941 to 1945, he spent time in ten concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and was liberated from Dachau on April 29, 1945. After moving to the United States and earning degrees at the University of Vermont and Boston University, as well as Northeastern, he became a staff psychologist at the Boston Community Center. Ross now speaks to school groups about the Holocaust. He has two children, Julie and Michael.

Michael P. Smith, LA'73, of Hamden, Connecticut, is in his twentieth year as the head of the fine arts department at Hamden Hall Country Day School, where he teaches acting and dramatic-literature classes, and directs two major productions each year. Smith reports he's still active in the Actors' Equity Association and will be appearing in a summer production by the Elm Shakespeare Company. Married with three children, he and his family will be traveling to Paris in July to visit his oldest daughter.

Hilda Douglas, Ed'74, of Norfolk, Massachusetts, reports the death of her husband, Paul I. Douglas, E'73, ME'75. "He worked as head patent counsel for Duracell, and worked for Gillette at the Prudential for the past thirteen years," Hilda writes. "He had returned to NU to speak to students in the recent past. For over eleven years, he had worked at building his own experimental aircraft. On October 29, 2004, a craft failed mechanically, and he died upon impact in a crash. He truly lived his dream."

Jack Donovan, E'75, ME'78, of Boston, is a deputy director of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. "We are currently updating the Blue, Green, and Red Line stations to increase capacity, make stations compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and switch to swipe-card entry. The majority of the work should be completed by 2007," he writes.

Thomas Sheerin, CJ'75, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is the Boston metropolitan area police commander for the Federal Protective Service (FPS) division in the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. A lieutenant colonel, Sheerin has worked for FPS for twenty-seven years. He was previously commander in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. His e-mail address is thomas.sheerin@dhs.gov.

Dennis Beaudoin, PAH'77, of Auburn, Washington, retired in 2003 as a colonel in the U.S. Army after twenty-six years as a pharmacy officer. His duty stations included Germany, Somalia, New York, California, Texas, Colorado, Washington, and Hawaii. Upon retirement, he became the lead oncology pharmacist at the Swedish Cancer Institute, in Seattle. In 2004, he joined Schering Plough, a pharmaceutical company based in New Jersey, where he is a national account manager in federal sales.

Henry Nasella, BA'77, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of Denny's Corporation, the restaurant chain. A Northeastern trustee, Nasella is a partner at Apax Partners, a private equity firm. Formerly, he was president of Staples, chairman and chief executive officer of Star Markets, and a principal at Phillips-Smith venture capital group.

Grace L. Blunt, LA'78, of West Boylston, Massachusetts, is the director of human resources at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was previously senior vice president of bank administration at Community National Bank.

Lynn Puleo Hyman, BPH'78, lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Alan, and sons Zach and Adam. She works at Willow Dale Elementary School. "I have worked as a substitute teacher for the last six years, first in Texas and currently in Pennsylvania. I just accepted a position as an aide to those with autism and find the work extremely rewarding," she writes.

Tim Moore, CJ'78, MEd'84, of Willow Spring, North Carolina, has attained the Certified Workforce Development Professional (CWDP) credential from the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals. He notes there are fewer than 1,500 CWDPs in the country. Moore has been a director of the Center for Employment Training in the Raleigh/Durham area since 1995. George Chagaris, Ed'79, of Newmarket, New Hampshire, writes, "I taught algebra for two years in Lexington before moving on to my current job as a software engineer with Liberty Mutual. I am currently awaiting my fourth kidney transplant. I would love to hear from any students to whom I taught freshman algebra in 1979." Chagaris's e-mail address is georgechag@aol.com.

Michael Foy, E'79, of Sharon, Massachusetts, is the author of Future Perfect, a science-fiction novel about a character transported back to the West in 1868. It's his second novel. Foy has authored three short stories for the Internet: "The Adventures of the Moonstone," "The Solar Winds of Change," and "A Land to Call Our Own." He's now working on a third novel, Camelot's Assassin.