1970s

Marlene S. Friedman, MEd'70, of Wayne, New Jersey, is a counselor with the Patterson, New Jersey, school system. She has two children, Garrett and Brooke, both in their twenties.

Jeff Klein, E'70, owns the Closet Specialist, which has offices in Savannah, Georgia, and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The Closet Specialist was named the 1996 Small Business of the Year by the Small Business Chamber of Savannah. The company designs and builds storage areas for residential, commercial, and institutional structures. Klein and his wife, Ann, have lived in Savannah since 1980.

Nancy (Young) Kramer, UC'70, of Hull, Massachusetts, is a gift shop manager/buyer for Carousel Station Gift Shop in Hull.

Ralph W. LeGrow, LA'70, and Maryanne Roy LeGrow, MA'73, live in Willington, Connecticut, with their three children. Ralph, a colonel in the Army, recently assumed command of headquarters, First ROTC BDE, at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Maryanne is a doctoral candidate and graduate assistant in the department of education at the University of Connecticut.

Carol (Roop) Nicoll, LA'70, of Billerica, Massachusetts, is a generalist with Chelmsford Pediatrics.

Bill O'Shea, ME'70, is president for international regions and professional services for Lucent Industries. He is responsible for business development, revenue growth, and profitability in the Asia/Pacific and China, Caribbean and Latin America, and Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions.

Kenneth J. DeLisa, BA'71, is the development director at the Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital's mental health network. He lives in Wethersfield, Connecticut, with his wife, Christine, and their three children. DeLisa is an executive committee member of the Hartford Downtown Council and a member of the board of governors of the Hartford Club, the board of directors of the Wethersfield Visiting Nurses Association, and the Wethersfield Development Commission.

Paul M. Lafkowitz, PAH'71, of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, recently celebrated twenty-five years of marriage to his wife, Linda. They have three children, Marla, a junior at Hofstra University, Ian, a freshman at the University of Michigan, and Shawn, a high school freshman.

Mary Ann Tricario, LA'71, of Waban, Massachusetts, is the new director of the Emmanuel College library.

Vincent Vitto, MS'71, has been elected president and chief executive officer of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, an independent, not-for-profit laboratory engaged in applied research, engineering development, education, and technology transfer. Currently an assistant director of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, he will assume his new post July 1.

Judith Achorn Crater, N'72, of Beverly, Massachusetts, received a bachelor of science degree from Endicott College last year. She is currently enrolled in a master's program at Springfield College's School of Human Services.

Norm Judd, BA'72, lives in Ascot, Berkshire, England, with his wife, Laurie, and son, Brian. They moved abroad when Judd was promoted to vice president of finance and MIS of Black & Decker's European Power Tools Group.

Nancy A. Levy, MEd'72, of Sherborn, Massachusetts, is owner of the Sherborn-based Coaching Collaborative, a consulting business that helps clients manage their professional and personal lives, and head of the New England chapter of the International Coach Federation. She was featured in a December 1996 Boston Globe article.

Dean G. Marcaurelle, BB'72, says he's trying to locate classmate Barbara (Bruneau) Pike. His address is 1003 Lycoming Lane, Altoona, PA 16602.

James H. Reeves, LA'72, PHD'81, of Wilmington, North Carolina, is the lead author of ActivChemistry, a CD-ROM developed for Benjamin Cummings Publishing, a division of Addison Wesley Longman.

Joanne E. Burrill, BB'73, of South Hampton, New Hampshire, is a physical therapist for Mariner Health in Amesbury, Massachusetts. She says her hobbies are gardening and continuing education.

Thomas F. Cruise, CJ'73, of Whitman, Massachusetts, is a special agent with the Secret Service's Boston field office. His latest assignment was to South Africa with Vice President Al Gore. Cruise is married and has three children.

Robert Kenny, L'73, is an attorney specializing in tax audit defense, business formation, and estate planning in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. In January, he filed a suit in New Jersey challenging the state's hiring of what he calls "tax bounty hunters"-private-party audit, assessment, and collection agents who get paid a percentage of what they say a taxpayer owes. "It's a little like the police pocketing a percentage of the ticket revenue," he says. Kenny is a certified public accountant in New York and a member of the Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey bars, the United States Tax Court, and the federal district court for the northern district of Illinois.

John E. Siipola, UC'73, UC'76, recently moved from New Hampshire to Las Vegas, Nevada, to become president and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Golf and Tennis, a retail chain of fifty stores.

Mark Vogel, L'73, of Glenview, Illinois, is deputy chief of the organized crime section of the U.S. attorney's office for the northern district of Illinois. He also is the director of security for that office.

Joseph N. Delgardo, Ed'74, MEd'79, is director of organizational diversity and affirmative action at the Boston Water and Sewer Commission. He was elected to the board of directors of the New England Minority Purchasing Council in February. Delgardo, who lives in Jamaica Plain in Boston, is also active in the Boys and Girls Club of Roxbury and the Shelburne Recreation Center, where he tutors and counsels youth.

Joel M. Fridovich, AS'74, of New Rochelle, New York, earned a master's in social work from New York University in 1976 and a post-master's certificate in educational administration from the State University of New York at New Paltz last year. He is an administrator of an alternative high school and is married with three children.

Mary (Wolkovich) Keville, PAH'74, of Harvard, Massachusetts, is director of quality assurance at Coral Therapeutics.

Richard LeBrun-Baker, UC'74, graduated from the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover in May 1996 and has opened a law office in Lynnfield with his wife, Elisabeth. The firm concentrates in employment law.

Glen R. Palmer, E'74, is president of Palmer Group International, a business development and marketing consulting company with clients in environmental and power-generation industries. He lives in Hixson, Tennessee, with his wife and two children.

Rosanna F. Demarco, N'75, of Quincy, Massachusetts, earned a Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit and is an assistant professor of nursing at Northeastern.

Hazel (Howes) Lathrop, UC'75, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, is a staff technician at Children's Hospital in Boston. In anticipation of changing careers, she enrolled in a master's program in historical archaeology at UMass­Boston.

Elliott W. Worcester Jr., UC'75, is a lieutenant colonel in the Navy. He recently graduated from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

Douglas A. Catalano, UC'76, UC'78, is president and chief operating officer of Peritus Software Services in Billerica, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Judith, and two daughters live in Cohasset.

Lynn Miller Doyle, BA'76, married Anthony Doyle in June 1995. They were expecting their first child in April. "I still have my own CPA practice, so the timing of the arrival of the baby was not planned," she comments.

G. William Dunderdale, UC'76, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is director of security for Cablevision of Boston.

Kate Clark Flora, L'76, of Concord, Massachusetts, published Death at the Wheel in November. It's the third book in her Thea Kozak mystery series.

R. Stephen Grumbach, LA'76, of Poway, California, has left IBM in Maryland after fourteen years and is now corporate vice president, director of corporate procurement at Science Applications International in San Diego, California. "I am also continuing to establish, recruit, and employ co-op students from leading business schools around the country," he notes.

James G. Kennedy, BA'76, is director of the auditing and accounting group at Parent, McLaughlin & Nagle, an accounting and business consulting firm in Boston. He recently earned designation as a certified valuation analyst, an accreditation for certified public accountants who are qualified to provide business valuation services.

Terri Orr, MEd'76, of Waltham, Massachusetts, is assistant dean and director of admissions and financial aid at Harvard Medical School. "Greetings to professor Tom Harrington and the members of his 1975­76 college counseling practicum seminar group," she says. "Are any of you still sipping from your pottery wine goblet, made especially for each of the seven of us by our classmate?"

David Solomon, BPH'76, wrote and published How to Win the Mortgage War: No Mortgage, No Debt in As Little As Two Years. "The book is based on my experience of paying off the mortgage on my first house in only six years, and buying my second house for $289,000 and paying off the mortgage in just two years," he says. His e-mail is <sirromds@tiac.net>.

Thomas Cavanaugh, PAH'77, MBA'86, is president of Acorn Environmental. He and his wife, Sandra, and three children live in Milton, Massachusetts.

Lilyan Cuttler, MEd'77, of Boston, is vice president of the investment sales group at the Codman Company, a diversified real estate company in Boston.

Joyce A. Davies-Syvertsen, Ed'77, says she is "happily married, two children, working for Brick Township (New Jersey) Schools, soon to bring computer technology into speech/languages services."

Pamela Dembski-Hart, PAH'77, is a health and safety consultant for Medsafe in Wayland, Massachusetts.

Wayne H. Desberg, LC'77, is plant manager for Owens Corning's insulation plant in Vise, Belgium.

Maura Sweeney Doyle, CJ'77, is clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County in Massachusetts. She is the first woman to be appointed clerk in the court's 143-year history. Before joining the SJC clerk's office in 1992 as an assistant clerk, she was a civil litigation attorney in private practice for eleven years and was an adjunct faculty member at Suffolk University Law School. She and her husband, Frank, live in Dorchester with their three children, Frank Jr., Jacqueline, and Matthew.

Janet Greene, N'77, of Salem, Massachusetts, is a staff nurse in the emergency unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is married and has two children.

David L. Grey, LA'77, of Wenham, Massachusetts, is president of Ipswich Savings Bank. He and his wife, Janet, have two daughters, Lindsay and Hannah.

Karen J. O'Donnell, LA'77, of Waltham, Massachusetts, is president of Volunteers and Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands.

Donald E. Schwarz, BA'77, is president and chief executive officer of Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Boston. He began his career at Jewish Memorial twenty-two years ago as a Northeastern co-op student. Starting in the admissions office, he also worked as a utilization review coordinator, assistant administrator, and chief operating officer. He had been serving as the hospital's acting president.

Sharon Wulf, MBA'77, is president of Enterprise Systems in Framingham, Massachusetts. She wrote Building Performance Values: A New Tool for Setting Goals and Planning Action in Groups.

Carl A. Borgioli, UC'78, UC'80, of Revere, Massachusetts, is a detective sergeant in the Revere Police Department. He notes that he receives an additional twenty percent pay for having a bachelor's degree.

Craig D. Forsyth, MA'78, of Lexington, Massachusetts, notes his seventeen-year-old son, Brandon, placed eighth with his partner, Kerrie O'Donnell, in the ice dance competition at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Seoul, South Korea, in November.

Laurel A. Gay, PAH'78, of Hebron, Connecticut, reports that her husband, Bruce, is a television meteorologist on Channel 3 in Hartford, and that sons Brenden and David "are very interested in nature and marine sciences."

Joanne (Lynch) Hood, LA'78, GB'90, has moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where she is assistant dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at Northern Arizona University.

Steven Levine, E'78, a certified kitchen and bathroom designer, won two awards in the National Kitchen & Bath Association's 1997 design competition.

Carol (Lane) Shum, PAH'78, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is an audit team leader for the U.S. Department of Labor.

David H. Weil, LA'78, of Del Mar, California, is curator of the Computer Museum of America at Coleman College in La Mesa. The Web address is <http://www.computer-museum.org>. His wife, Faye Detsky-Weil, LA'77, is a training database manager at Science Applications International Corporation. "Sons Benjamin, eleven, and Jonathan, eight, are growing like weeds in the California sun," they write.

Mary Jane (Hsu) Yue, MPH'78, of Edina, Minnesota, is a teaching specialist in hematology and laboratory medicine at the University of Minnesota.

Barbara J. Lynch, BB'79, MEd'91, of Medway, Massachusetts, teaches health to sophomores and seniors at Canton High School. "My family keeps me busy chasing the two cats and one dog, along with cross-country skiing and hiking," she comments.

Michael J. O'Neill, BA'79, recently moved from Massachusetts to Huntsville, Alabama, where he is the controller for MEADS, a joint venture undertaken by Raytheon, Hughes Aircraft, Alenia, Siemens, and LFK.

Brian Panarese, BB'79, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, runs Body Elite, a professional fitness training company in Wakefield. "I have trained many local celebs, like Bill Costa of Kiss 108-FM," he says. "I recently trained Bill for a boxing match that was broadcast on the radio. In 1995 I traveled with two of the American Gladiators for a fitness show. We did two shows, one in Boston and one in California. I also do lectures on exercise and nutrition. I married in 1985 and have three children. I hope that a few of the lost tribe read this and contact me."

William W. Sandow, BA'79, of Shark River Hills, New Jersey, reports the birth of his daughter, Cassy Elizabeth, in March 1996. He is sales manager for New Jersey Title Insurance.

Dror Seri, E'79, ME'89, of Needham, Massachusetts, is the U.S. director of sales and marketing for Audiocodes Limited, which has offices in Massachusetts and California.

Denise (Lynch) Vespa, PAH'79, of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, is a medical lab technician at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth.

Rhodes T. Williams III, BB'79, MEd'81, of Moreno Valley, California, was promoted last July from dean of students to assistant principal at Canyon Springs High School in Moreno Valley. He has worked in the school district since 1981.