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Mark Bloomberg, MBA'90, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, is the chief medical officer at WiFiMed in Maynard and an associate clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Formerly, he was the chief medical officer at Private Health Care Systems. Bloomberg is a graduate of Rutgers University Medical School.

Brenda (Blaney) Cuccinello, BPH'90, lives in her hometown of West Long Branch, New Jersey, with her husband, Terry, and sons Michael and Nicholas. She is the director of rehabilitation at Avante Nursing and Rehab, a long-term care and subacute facility. She says she and her sister, Andrea, often think of their Northeastern classmates and would like to hear from them. Her e-mail address is bbpt37@yahoo.com.

Jerry S. D'Aniello, CJ'90, of Somerville, New Jersey, has joined the law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus. He focuses on family and matrimonial law. D'Aniello is a member of the bars of New Jersey, New York, Washington, D.C., the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He lectures and publishes actively on matrimonial law. In addition, he serves in a number of court-appointed programs concerning mediation of divorce and family law.

Edward C. English, MS'90, of Needham, Massachusetts, is the vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer of Praecis Pharmaceuticals. He has been with the company since 1997. Prior to that, he was a manager at KPMG.

Joseph G. Grassi, AS'90, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the owner of Beacon Appraisals, which appraises residential real estate. He has been a member of the Cambridge School Committee since 1994. Grassi's e-mail address is beaconappraisals@msn.com.

Peter J. Moran, MBA'90, of Arlington, Virginia, writes, "I am trying to get in touch with all September 1990 Co-op MBA graduates to organize a reunion." His e-mail address is petermoran@yahoo.com.

Jon Boroshok, MBA'91, of Groton, Massachusetts, owns Marcom Outsource, a public-relations consulting company. He's also an adjunct instructor at Northeastern, teaching a graduatemarketing-writing course. "I feel likea real-life Welcome Back, Kotter," writes Boroshok, who has taught public relations and writing at Emerson and Bentley Colleges. He has alsocontributed articles to a wide rangeof publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Boston Globe. He and his wife, Caren, live in Groton with their daughter, Stephanie, and son, Tyler. Friends may write him at jb@marcomoutsource.com or jb@pipeline.com.

Tinamarie (Micacci) Blinn, BA'92, of Kensington, Connecticut, and her husband, Roger, celebrated the birth of their second child, Douglas Roger, on September 1, 2004, at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the vice president of quality at TM Industries.

James P. Carey, BA'92, of Belmont, Massachusetts, was appointed to the Board of Bar Overseers, a panel of eight lawyers and four nonlawyers appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to investigate allegations of professional misconduct by attorneys. Carey is a certified public accountant who specializes in forensic accounting, commercial-insurance claim services, litigation services, and general management consulting.

Roslyn M. Michelson, UC'92, of Winchester, Massachusetts, writes, "I met my husband after getting my master's in nursing at UMass­Boston, and we married in 1999. He became an NU grad in 2002 after getting his MBA. In August 2003, we finalized the adoption of our daughter, Daria, from Russia. I am working part-time in the operating room at Massachusetts General Hospital and love it. If anyone from the BSN program remembers me, I would love to get in touch. My e-mail address is roslyn@alumni.neu.edu."

Scot Petersen, MA'92, of Beverly, Massachusetts, is the editor of eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication. He previously was news editor. Petersen has covered the high-tech industry for ten years. He joined eWEEK as department editor in 1995; he became deputy news editor in 1999 and news editor in 2000. Before joining Ziff Davis, Petersen worked at the Boston Herald, the Boston Business Journal, and the Beverly Times.

Kelli M. Trudel, Ed'92, of Dallas, writes, "I have taken a position at MediServe Information Systems as the regional vice president of sales for the Texas region. Looking for old alumni." She can be e-mailed at kellitrudel@hotmail.com.

Viki Vale-Salah, AS'92, MEd'97, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and her husband, Paul Salah, celebrated the first birthday of their daughter, Sophie Rose, earlier this year. "She is the love of our life," writes Vale-Salah, who is a lead teacher in the Boston public schools. "My art degree from Northeastern, my master's in expressive therapies from Lesley, and especially my master's in special needs from Northeastern have provided me with the skills to be a creative and successful educator. I am forever grateful to my professors at Northeastern."

Dan Donner, BA'93, of San Francisco, is a senior vice president at the investment bank Leerink Swann and Company. He notes his daughter, Ashley, was born in July 2004 and a second child is expected this August. Donner can be e-mailed at dan.donner@sbcglobal.net.

Alyssa (Santoro) Gagnon, N'93, and her husband, Brian, celebrated the birth of their second child, Madeline Rose, on June 25, 2004. A son, Noah, is their older child. Alyssa is an oncology nurse at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Brian is director of business development at Monster. They live in Medway, Massachusetts.

J. Jay Gannon, BA'93, and Kelly Gentry, AS'98, were married October 9, 2004, in Napa, California. They honeymooned in Hawaii and now live in West New York, New Jersey.

Patrick L. Reynolds, AS'93, of Chesapeake, Virginia, started Ashby Development, a commercial and industrial real-estate development company.

Michael Scanlon, GB'93, of Robbinsville, New Jersey, is the general manager of the Rose Garden, a 21,000-seat arena in Portland, Oregon, that is the home of the NBA's Portland Trailblazers. He also oversees management of the Portland Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which seats 12,800. He and his wife, Emilia, have a daughter, Allison.

L. Danny Tromp, PHD'93, of Burlington, Massachusetts, was recognized as one of the 2004 Alumni of the Year by the Society of Latino Alumni at Northeastern. He has been with MITRE Corporation since 1986 and is the director of the sensor, processing, and exploitation-systems technical center. His research areas and interests include detection and estimation theory, spectrum analysis and statistical signal processing, and network centric sensing.

David S. Brown, CJ'94, of Lewisville, Texas, writes, "Last year was busy for me. In December, I finally completed my secondary certification requirements for social studies at the University of North Texas. This January, I started teaching at R. L. Turner High School in Carrollton, Texas. My classes consist of a section of ninth-grade geography and four sections of eleventh-grade U.S. history. The district offers classes in criminal justice at one of the other campuses. I hope to put my much-valued undergraduate degree to use teaching a criminal justice class or two, though I want to continue on the history track. I just love it. I would like to hear from some of my fellow Huskies. Best to all." Brown can be e-mailed at gfh7367@yahoo.com or brownda@cfbisd.edu.

Ken Hyers, MA'95, is a principal analyst in charge of global wireless operator research for ABI Research in Oyster Bay, New York. He previously worked at In-Stat.

John Kelly, MBA'95, of Windham, New Hampshire, is director of product marketing at AppIQ in Burlington, Massachusetts. He chairs the Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Management Forum Requirements Committee. Formerly, he was director of product marketing at Sun Microsystems.

Michael Labinski, MBA'95, of Boston, is the chief financial officer at Mathsoft in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had been vice president of finance and administration since March 2003.

Erez Ofer, MBA'95, of South Grafton, Massachusetts, is a venture partner with Greylock Partners, in Waltham. The company is expanding its Israeli investment focus. Ofer, who holds more than thirty storage-related patents, was executive vice president of technology strategy at EMC Corporation.

David B. Estrada, CJ'96, married Heidi Farber in October 2004. They live in Boston. He has been with the Boston Police Department for ten years and is the president of the Greater Boston chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association. "We provide support services and resources for people with spinal-cord injuries and their families," he writes. The organization's website is at .

Eileen Olifiers-Whalen, BPH'96, of Carmel, New York, is a senior therapist at Physical Therapy at Jefferson Valley. She writes, "I am back to work for the past two and a half years after the birth of my beautiful daughter, Hailey. She was a true angel to me. She got me through the death of my father. My daughter celebrated her third birthday in October 2004. She loves coming to work with me on the weekend and ‘fixing people.' I have lost track of many of my former classmates and would like very much to be reunited with them. Feel free to drop me a line." Her e-mail address is eolifiers@hotmail.com.

Noel Texeira, CJ'96, of Foxborough, Massachusetts, was named the 2004 Fan of the Year by the New England Patriots. He and his family were honored at Gillette Stadium during the last game of the Patriots' regular season, against the San Francisco 49ers. Texeira received the Joseph R. Mastrangelo Fan of the Year Memorial Trophy from the Bank of America; the trophy was presented by Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi. A five-minute video of Texeira and his family was shown on the Jumbotron at halftime, and a whirlwind of interviews followed over the next ten days. "To be honored," Texeira writes, "a fan must demonstrate a higher standard of dedication and passion to the Patriots, and the fan must also be nominated by someone other than himself (thank you, Jay and Jen). I was quite honored to be recognized, and the trophy, actually a twenty-pound bronze sculpture, sits proudly on my mantle." Texeira is a senior corporate systems engineer at EMC Corporation.

Pamela Walsh, AS'96, of Concord, New Hampshire, is the communications director on the staff of John Lynch, the Democratic governor of New Hampshire. Walsh was communications director for the New Hampshire Democratic Party and press aide for former governor Jean Shaheen. Prior to that, she was a reporter at the Concord Monitor. At Northeastern, she was editor of the Northeastern News and a student intern at the Boston Globe.

Kristen S. Cloutier, AS'97, of Auburn, Maine, is engaged to be married to Denny Patrick Bourgoin. The wedding is planned for August 19, 2006, on the campus of Bates College, where Cloutier is an event planner.

William Frazier, BPH'97, and Denise (Brousseau) Frazier, CJ'98, of Allenstown, New Hampshire, celebrated the birth of their second child, Pressley Mary, on November 11, 2004.

Jennifer Cardillo French, BPH'97, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is a division manager for Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals.

Vijay Daryanani, BPH'98, GB'99, married Sarina Ajwani, of Miami, Florida, on August 22, 2004. They live in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Daryanani is a clinical sports therapist at the Therapy Centers of Marblehead and has his own personal-training company, V-Fit.

Mark Doran, E'98, and Gale Marticio, BA'99, of Norwood, Massachusetts, are engaged to be married. The wedding is planned for 2006.

Haniza Mokhtar, BA'98, of Sanjara, Malaysia, is the director of She's Fit, a women-only gym in Kuala Lumpur. "You can come in any shape, size, and ability without being judged. You don't have to be intimidated here," she says.

Jim Murphy, BA'98, of North Reading, Massachusetts, is the head coach of the football program at Merrimack College.

Scott Burgess, BPH'99, of Derry, New Hampshire, works alongside Murphy as the strength and conditioning coach for football at Merrimack.

Henry Hanley, MBA'99, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is the chief financial officer of the Boys and Girls Club of Pawtucket.

Philip Kasiecki, E'99, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is the managing editor of Hoopville , a website that covers college basketball, the NBA draft, and college recruiting.

James Rosenberg, L'99, of Bow, New Hampshire, is a former assistant state attorney general who was one-half of the task force that investigated the Catholic Diocese of Manchester for failing to protect children from sexually abusive priests. A trial lawyer with the Concord firm Shaheen & Gordon, he's now part of a litigation team working on behalf of the Democratic Party investigating allegations of phone jamming by the New Hampshire State Republican Committee in the 2002 election. Outside the courtroom, he is a member of the board of directors of the Concord Family YMCA.

Adam Thomas, BPH'99, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is the athletic trainer for the football program at Merrimack College.