1970s

Robert P. Krekorian, LA'70, of Cranston, Rhode Island, is a public affairs specialist at the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport.

Andrew S. Haimes, E'71, of East Islip, New York, is assistant treasurer of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers. He is a senior project manager for Kalogeras & Grosser Consulting Engineers.

Richard B. Trask, MA'71, of Danvers, Massachusetts, appeared last spring on several television news programs, including the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, and ABC's Good Morning America, to discuss a new film about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Trask is the author of Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy, and has worked on the Assassination Record Review Board. His latest book, Danvers, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1899, was published over the summer. It is part of Arcadia Publishers's Images of America series.

Robert P. Williams Jr., L'71, of Houston, Texas, is a resident construction manager for John Brown E&C.

Philip E. Goldsmith, E'72, ME'77, received the Charles V. Culbertson Outstanding Volunteer Service Award from the American Society of Safety Engineers. He is president of Comprehensive Risk Management in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Tempesta Kevilus, BB'72, of San Antonio, Texas, is a program coordinator for United Methodist Campus Ministries and is enrolled in a paralegal program. Her husband, Doug, is in remission after battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma for a year. He is a curriculum developer at the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. They have five children and two grandchildren. Their e-mail address is <drilll9@stic.net>.

David Ray, BA'72, is real estate director for CVS. His territory covers Springfield, Massachusetts, the New York cities of Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Rochester, and the Pennsylvania cities of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. He and his wife, Marybeth, live in Bolting Landing, New York.

Peter J. Wallace, LA'72, is the director of construction litigation services for Deloitte & Touche in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He formerly worked for Hill International as senior vice president and group president for the European region.

Bernard A. Drew, LA'73, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is the author of The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors, which was published last year by Libraries Unlimited. The book contains works by such authors as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Betsy Byars, and Stephen King.

Roland E. Lefebvre, E'73, is vice president for sales and marketing of American Superconductor. Before joining the company, he worked twenty-three years for General Electric.

Sandra Mosher Patterson, N'73, of Severn, Maryland, says she took six months off from the "battleground of today's health-care environment" to do volunteer work teaching literacy and planting trees.

William A. Pritchard, E'73, works in the district sales office of the Falk Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland. The office covers southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, and eastern Maryland.

Wilfred J. Cassie, L'74, L'77, is the head of the applied mathematics and sciences department at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He has been at Wentworth for twenty-four years in various administrative positions. He is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the American Helicopter Society, the National Aeronautic Association, the National Tech Prep Network, the Aero Club of New England, and the Massachusetts School-to-Work Partnership program.

James J. Ferriter Jr., BA'74, MBA'79, of Windham, New Hampshire, is director of marketing and business development for the northeast region of Atlantic Health Group. He was president of Industrial Medical Center for ten years before the company was acquired by Atlantic Health in January 1996. Ferriter, who teaches health management at University College, was sworn in to the New Hampshire Bar last May.

Margaret Mary Francis, UC'74, L'76, MS'88, received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Southwestern Louisiana last May. Her dissertation was titled "Aesthetics-Based Heuristics in Computational Models of Invention and Discovery."

Ken Longo, UC'74, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is manager of technical services for Output Technologies.

Edwin B. Martin, BA'74, of Norwell, Massachusetts, is president of C. W. Fifield Company, an international textile company based in Hingham.

Dale B. Robinson, LA'74, of Knoxville, Tennessee, received the President's Award at the twenty-second annual national conference of the American Association for Affirmative Action in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently the personnel manager for HomeCrest in Clinton, Tennessee, Robinson was formerly director of affirmative action at the College of William and Mary and the University of Texas medical branch.

Sandra Black, MEd'75, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is the AIDS project coordinator for Jewish Family & Children's Service. She has worked as an HIV/AIDS consultant for several organizations and was director of the Cambridge Youth Guidance Center's HIV/AIDS program.

Frederick W. Giffels Jr., E'75, is chief executive officer of HGP in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lives.

Morgan James, UC'75, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, is the owner of Morgan James Realty.

Edward G. Muszynski, E'75, of Rochester, New York, is area director for loans and grants for Empire State Development Corporation, New York state's economic development team. He directs the Rochester regional team. Muszynski was part of Northeastern's interdisciplinary transportation program in the 1970s before going on to work in city government, private development, and then New York state. "Professor Rick Scranton was one of the cornerstones of that program," says Muszynski. "I'm glad to see that he's now an associate dean in the engineering college, where he can shape even more young minds."

David C. Noonan, E'75, of Hanover, Massachusetts, is a vice president with Camp Dresser & McKee, an international environmental consulting firm. Noonan specializes in hazardous waste site investigation and remediation for industry and government. He recently directed several large projects in New Jersey and New Hampshire. Noonan is also the coauthor of two books on soil and groundwater cleanup at underground storage tank sites.

Alan L. Reiss, E'75, of Oceanside, New York, is manager of capital programs for the World Trade Center in New York.

Ron Gomes, MBA'76, and his wife, Mary Lou, received the Donald M. Lawrence Spirit of Convention Promotion Award from the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau. Ron is president and Mary Lou is director of operations for DCI, which produces conferences and expositions for the high technology industry. They have lived in Andover, Massachusetts, for twenty-five years.

Humberto Ferreira Gonçalves, BA'76, has been appointed to a three-year term on the WGBH Community Advisory Board. The board is selected by the trustees of WGBH to advise in matters related to programming goals and how WGBH radio and television stations can be more responsive in meeting the educational and cultural needs of the communities they serve. Gonçalves, a twenty-year employee of Northeastern, is currently budget director for the university. He has formerly served as interim dean of admissions, dean of administrative services, director of institutional research, and director of management systems.

Jeffrey Lant, CAGS'76, is the author of Web Wealth, a guide to using the World Wide Web to profit a business. He is the author of twelve other books on business.

Alan B. Rindler, L'76, has left the law firm of Morrison Mahoney and Miller, where he had been a partner since 1986, to form the firm of Rindler Morgan, which specializes in health-care litigation. "We hope to have an impact on some of the controversial issues now raging through the health-care system," he says. "Elizabeth, my wife, and Lisa (Barnard College, 1999) are working with me. Soon, we hope to explore providing a co-op opportunity."

Frank C. Condella Jr., PAH'77, MBA'84, is vice president for business operations of the Northeast for Roche Laboratories. Condella was formerly vice president and general manager of Lederle Laboratories.

Eugene K. Conti, CJ'77, is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines. He completed a tour of two and a half months on the transport ship USS Ponce, which provided security for American citizens during hostilities in Liberia and Central Africa. Bruce Shapiro, BA'77, is vice president of Allied American Agency in Natick, Massachusetts. He specializes in personal and commercial insurance. He and his wife, Nancy, and their children live in Norfolk, Massachusetts.

Edward N. Smith and Deborah Gomes, both UC'77, were married in 1990, fifteen years after meeting at Northeastern. Smith is vice president of operations for New England Mobile X-Ray. Gomes cares for their three children. The family lives in Raynham, Massachusetts.

Chris Aldieri, BA'78, is director of operations at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is responsible for all food, beverage, and room operations in the 1,230-room resort.

Keith A. Andre, BA'78, MBA'83, of Southborough, Massachusetts, is manager of the Stoneham Co-operative Bank's new Westborough Mortgage Center. He is a member and past chairman of the board of governors of the Massachusetts Young Mortgage Bankers Association and is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

John R. Broderick, LA'78, of Chesapeake, Virginia, is acting vice president for institutional advancement at Old Dominion University. He oversees the offices of development, alumni relations, university relations, publications, events, and copying services.

Neil Burns, BA'78, is credit manager for Shell Chemical Company in Houston, Texas. He, his wife, Stephanie, and children, Garrett and Grant, live in Woodlands, Texas.

Lori B. Girshick, BA'78, is the author of Soledad Women: Wives of Prisoners Speak Out. She is on the faculty at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

Yvonne T. Gonzalez Chase, LA'78, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is the mother of Marisol Aryanna Chase.

Philip Joffe, BA'78, is executive vice president and chief operating officer of CalFarm Insurance Company in Sacramento, California. The company specializes in agriculture insurance. He and his wife, Margaret, own a horse-breeding operation, Slowly Going Broke Stables, in Loomis, California. They specialize in Tennessee walkers and Andalusians.

Donald L. Winters, PAH'78, of Brick, New Jersey, received a master's degree in public administration with a concentration in health services administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University in May 1996.

Robert A. Zografos Jr., E'78, of Plant City, Florida, is general manager of Culligan Water Conditioning Company, a firm with fifty-five employees and $5 million in annual sales.

Matthew Carroll, LA'79, and Elaine Cushman Carroll, AS'81, bought a house in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, where they live with their children, Kasey, Alex, Leigh, and Jack.

Jon Dana, BB'79, and his wife, Peggy, celebrated the birth of Jonathan H. Dana II. He joins a sister, Maggie. Dana is the head athletic trainer at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. He and classmates Chris Troyanos and Bob Burke volunteered to work at last year's 100th running of the Boston Marathon.

Heather Mackey Ford, E'79, was elected last May to the Board of Selectmen in Hamilton, Massachusetts. She has been married for seventeen years to Thomas Ford, E'78. They have two children, Molly and Teri.

Thomas and John (Jack) Enos, E'79, own a construction company in Georgetown, Massachusetts, which provides civil and environmental remediation services.

Cindy Seaman Thomas, LA'79, and her husband, Bob, welcomed the Fourth of July birth of Robert Wright Thomas V. The family lives in Tampa, Florida.

Janice B. Wells, PAH'79, of Grayslake, Illinois, received an MBA with distinction from Keller Graduate School of Management last June.