Chester S. Drake, E'70, is the in-country engineering manager at Tetra Tech in Afghanistan, where he has been since 2003 working with both the Army Corps of Engineers and Perini, an international contractor. Tetra Tech provides consulting, engineering, and technical services. When Drake is not overseas, he lives in Franklin, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lynn.

Janyce Greenblott, LA'70, of Hallandale Beach, Florida, is the coordinator for noncredit programs in the Department of Continuing and Professional Studies at Florida International University, in Miami. She previously served as director of sales and marketing at Nursing Unlimited. Greenblott has been living in the Miami area since 1982.

Russell Menko, LA'70, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, writes, "I graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School with a master of science in software engineering. 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 granddaughters."

Elizabeth Ricci, MS'70, of North Andover, Massachusetts, is the vice president of engineering at Authoria, a human resources communications company. She was named one of ten Women to Watch by Mass High Tech, which compiled the list of top New England leaders and innovators.

Ingrid Watkins, BB'70, of Plantation, Florida, retired on September 1, 2004, from the U.S. Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. She has a law practice specializing in wills, trusts, and estate planning, as well as guardianship and probate law. She'd like to hear from classmates at ltciew@aol.com.

Kenneth Zucker, LA'70, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has practiced endodontics (root-canal specialization) since 1983. He is the chair of continuing education for the American Association of Endodontics. He's also active in the American Dental Association.

Stacey E. Alsfeld, BA'71, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, is the general manager of Truex in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Truex manufactures deep-drawn and stamped metal parts. He was formerly general manager of the precision products unit at Texas Instruments.

Robert Brown, LA'71, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, is a twenty-six-year probation officer at Greenfield District Court. He was among ten officers honored in April during a Probation Employee Recognition Award ceremony held at the Massachusetts State House.

Eduard Christian, LA'71, of Lexington, Massachusetts, writes, "After thirty years in the hospitality business, I have formed a new company, Food for Thought Education Alliance. We train hospitality, restaurant, and food-service companies in improving employee morale and customer service. About five years ago, I started becoming certified in various training courses such as ServeSafe, TIPS, and even Laughter Yoga! I've been teaching ever since. I'm hooked. It feels great to give guidance to younger folks facing our industry's challenges." Christian can be contacted at foodpro@alumni.neu.edu or foodpro@post.harvard.edu.

Patricia Kitchen, LA'71, of New York City, writes, "I'm teaching classes at New York University: careers for people who love to write and correcting your career course in your twenties. By day, I'm still a career/workplace writer for Newsday."

Richard Wissenbach, E'71, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, is a senior vice president and general manager for the compound semiconductor/epitaxial process equipment group at Veeco Instruments. The Woodbury, New York?Äì based company manufactures products for the data storage, semiconductor, and wireless markets.

Anita S. Kaplan, LA'72, of Williamsville, New York, is the executive vice president of academic affairs at Erie Community College, which belongs to the State University of New York system. She previously worked in the Massachusetts community college system for more than twenty-five years. Kaplan served as an American Council on Education Fellow at Northeastern from 1997 to 1998.

Donald K. Williams, BA'72, of New York City, is the executive vice president of Eonstreams, where he heads the New York City office. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Eonstreams is a streaming media company. Williams previously served as vice president of national sales at Petry Media.

Tom Wittenhagen, Ed'72, of Billerica, Massachusetts, is the head coach of the Watertown High School varsity cross-country, and boys' indoor and outdoor track teams. He has coached at Watertown for the last eleven years. In 2004?Äì2005, he was named the Boys' Cross-Country Coach of the Year by the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association. A former Huskies track captain, he coached at Northeastern for eleven years.

Bob Abramms, E'73, of Amherst, Massachusetts, is the project director of the Population Map, published by ODT. The map image represents each country according to its population, not by the size of its land mass. The map also tracks demographic changes over time. More information is available online, at www.odt.org.

Randie Blunt, Ed'73, of West Greenwich, Rhode Island, reports he has happily retired, after thirty-two years as a district manager at Liberty Mutual Insurance.

Paul B. Doran, E'73, ME'79, of Hollis, New Hampshire, is a senior water consultant at the consulting company R. W. Beck, in Boston. He was formerly director of engineering at Alternative Resources, a management and environmental consulting company in Concord, Massachusetts.

Bernard A. Drew, LA'73, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is a freelance writer and editor. He has written three reference books for Libraries Unlimited. The latest is titled 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors. He also penned Jingle of the Silver Spurs: The Hopalong Cassidy Radio Program 1950?Äì1952; Hopalong Cassidy: The Clarence E. Mulford Story; If They Close the Door on You, Go in the Window: Origins of the African American Community in Sheffield, Great Barrington, and Stockbridge; and Great Barrington: Great Town, Great History. In addition, Drew contributed the introduction to Compliments of the Domino Lady, a collection of six Lars Anderson short stories. He is a past president of the Great Barrington and Berkshire County historical societies and served on the boards of the Upper Housatonic Valley Heritage Area and its African American Heritage Trail Committee.

John A. Fiore, LA'73, MBA'78, of Wayland, Massachusetts, is the executive vice president and head of investor services technology at the Bank of New York. Until recently, he was president of Wayland Associates.

Erik Hoffer, BA'73, is a member of the board of directors of Digital Descriptor Systems in Sea Girt, New Jersey. He is the president of CGM Applied Security Technologies, a provider of protective security technology in Somerset, New Jersey.

Robert LeBlanc, E'74, ME'81, of Burlington, Massachusetts, is the chair of the Rules Committee of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He also serves as deputy legal counsel for the Democratic State Committee. A lawyer practicing in Methuen and Boston, LeBlanc is a former city manager and city councilor; he's also a former trustee of Suffolk University.

William Mostyn, L'74, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is the deputy general counsel and corporate secretary at Bank of America.

Richard R. Peppe, MBA'74, of Derry, New Hampshire, writes, "I am still in solo law practice in Pembroke, concentrating in real-estate law. I also wrote a book, Nuclear Weapons and the Blue-Eyed People."

Jeanne Ryan, LA'74, of Peru, New York, received the Chancellor's Research Recognition Award from the State University of New York (SUNY). She chairs the psychology department at SUNY?ÄìPlattsburgh. In 1994, Ryan established SUNY?ÄìPlattsburgh's traumatic brain injury program. She also works as a coordinator of support-group activities at the Brain Injury Association of New York. She received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994.

Christina Crugnola-Petruniw, LA'75, ME'77, of Canterbury, Connecticut, earned a master of arts in teaching from Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield. She was awarded a certificate for outstanding master's project in education for detailing a method of teaching fourth-grade mathematics that increased test scores. Before she returned to college to prepare for a second career as an elementary school teacher, Crugnola-Petruniw worked twenty-four years for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. She retired as a manager of statistical analysis.

Judith (Greenfield) Hering, BB'75, of Silver Spring, Maryland, writes, "I left the Boston area in 1975; I was in New York through 1981, and have lived in Maryland ever since. I work as a vocational/ educational counselor for the city of Greenbelt, and as the supervisor for adult education and GED (high school equivalency diploma) instructor for Montgomery College. I earned a master's degree in counseling and education. I am married and have three daughters."

Ken Marshall, Ed'75, of Hingham, Massachusetts, is the chairman and CEO of Boston-based Extraprise, a business-process outsourcing, database marketing, and systems-integration company.

William Abroms, CJ'76, of Duluth, Georgia, writes, "We have a new son, Will, who turned one on February 17."

Kevin T. Cronin, L'76, of McLean, Virginia, is the executive director of the American Academy of Actuaries. He is a visiting professor of legal studies in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance at Georgia State University. He has worked with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was CEO of the International Insurance Council, and served as president of the northern region of the Federation of Latin American Insurance Trade Associations.

Donna (Holmes) Earnest, BB'76, of Liberty Township, New Jersey, writes, "I am working for the State of New Jersey as a habilitation plan coordinator in the Division of Developmental Disabilities. I earned two master's degrees from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. I have two sons. I am currently living in the middle of Jenny Jump State Park, on the side of a mountain overlooking Mountain Lake, where I enjoy year-round fishing. Would love to hear from all buddies from the 1975?Äì1976 Student Federation."

Kenneth E. Walto, LA'76, of Dalton, Massachusetts, writes, "I am pleased to report that two of my children have followed in their old man's footsteps at Northeastern: Daniel, CJ'05, and Kevin, AS'06. Kevin has even had the pleasure of taking courses with two of my former mentors, Andy Sum and Sungwoo Kim. I also have a budding nursing student; I hope she will soon follow her brothers to NU."

Howard P. Bruck, MBA'77, of Marietta, Georgia, is a senior executive with the Thomas Group, a consulting firm. He has also worked at Oracle and Apple Computer.

Mike Cassettari, BA'77, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is the vice president of marketing at Mathsoft Engineering and Education, a calculation management company in Cambridge. He was previously vice president of marketing at Affinnova.

Paul Donovan, UC'77, of Newton, Massachusetts, writes, "I returned to the work force as a consultant in global customs compliance for W. R. Grace in August 2004, after taking early retirement in 2001 from the Robert Allen Group. I celebrate good health and run marathons."

Mildred Gabriel, PAH'77, of Tamuning, Guam, writes, "There will be two generations of Northeastern graduates from my family. My daughter, Melissa, will be attending Northeastern this fall, following in the footsteps of her mother and entering into the pharmacy program at Bouv?©."

Pamela Dembski Hart, PAH'77, and her husband, Raymond, live in Holliston, Massachusetts. She is asenior partner and health- and safety-compliance specialist at Total Compliance Solutions, a Wellesley-based provider of programs for the health-care industry. Hart stays busy with cross-training, biking, Nautilus, and gardening. As a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration compliance specialist, she has written a number of articles on facility care, and infection-control and sterilization technology.

Richard J. Malone, ME'77, of Beverly, Massachusetts, is a senior vice president in the process engineering group of EBI Consulting in Burlington.

R Wagner, UC'77, of Austin, Texas, writes, "This year, I'm saxophone section leader for the Austin Symphonic Band, our volunteer municipal band. We performed at an international band conference in Seattle in November 2004. I play tenor sax, and occasionally baritone sax. I'm an adjunct faculty member at St. Edward's University in Austin, teaching introductory computer science courses. (Yes, my degree was in accounting, not computer science. It's been a strange twenty-seven years.) I am also one of the leaders of the St. Ed's Afghan Project, making blankets for charity. I've had to cut back a little on my activities in the past two years, since I got diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF). I'm doing well so far, and I'm keeping a blog about CHF. I'll be moving up to Maryland in June 2005, and I am looking forward to being in the Northeast again."

Paul Wooten, L'77, of Brooklyn, is one of six candidates running for district attorney. He is a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney, and has been in private practice for fifteen years.

James Benning, LA'78, of Middlesex, New Jersey, is a financial adviser at Merrill Lynch in Bridgewater. He previously worked at Bankers Trust.

Larry Buchsbaum, BA'78, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, is the director of marketing for professional services at Information Mapping, in Waltham. He was director of international marketing with Invest Northern Ireland.

Joseph (Jay) Devlin Jr., UC'78, of Brewster, Massachusetts, retired from the Boston Police Department in 2004. After twenty-five years of service, he almost immediately began a new career. Devlin took an intensive six-month course at the French Culinary Institute in New York City and was awarded the grand diploma in culinary art. He now works at Chillingsworth Restaurant, in Brewster.

A. John Gill, LA'78, of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, writes, "I'm celebrating my first (and very successful) year in real estate with my partner and fianc?©e, Margarita Swartz, in the Collegeville/Blue Bell area of eastern Pennsylvania."

Geetha Ramamurthy, UC'78, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is the executive director of TIE-Boston, a nonprofit organization that encourages and supports entrepreneurship in New England. Ramamurthy formerly served as the organization's director of operations and external affairs.

William J. Reed, E'78, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, has been promoted to senior vice president and made a member of the board of directors at Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, an engineering company in Burlington.

Barry Steinhardt, L'78, of Westport, Connecticut, is the director of the Technology and Liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Paul Tumolo, UC'78, UC'81, of Medway, Massachusetts, started Edusult Performance Systems, a management consulting firm, in 2002. Clients include Fidelity Investments, Boston Scientific, and Teradyne.

Lindsay Cook, PA'79, of West Newton, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of overseers of MSPCA?Äì Angell, a leader in animal protection and veterinary medicine. The organization runs three veterinary care centers, including Boston's Angell Animal Medical Center, and seven animal care and adoption centers. Cook is also a member of the board of directors for the New England?ÄìCanada Business Council. He is a principal at Kinnen, a mergers and acquisitions advisory company.

Michael Halpern, UC'79, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, is a senior vice president in Citigroup's architecture and emerging technologies organization. He and his wife, Pamela, AS'71, have three children. The family already boasts five Northeastern degrees, with another in the works: Son Anthony is a current Northeastern student.

Dan Kennedy, LA'79, of Danvers, Massachusetts, has left his position as the media critic for the Boston Phoenix to become a visiting professor at Northeastern's School of Journalism. He is a former winner of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. In 2003, he published Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter's Eyes.

Harris L. MacNeill, BA'79, of Northborough, Massachusetts, is the president of MacNeill Engineering Worldwide, the world's largest maker of plastic cleats and metal spikes for athletic shoes (under the brand name Champ). The company's accounts include Adidas, Reebok, New Balance, and Nike.