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Fall 2005 • Volume 31, No. 1

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1980s

Calvin M. Allsop, BA'80, of West Hartford, Connecticut, is an investment representative at Fidelity Investments, where he manages stock and bond portfolios for individuals. He says he'd like to hear from friends at ccma15@aol.com.

David Z. Prince, CJ'80, of Fort Washington, Maryland, received the Nguzu Saba Award from the African American Institute and the Brutus "Skip" Wright Memorial Scholarship from Iota Phi Theta Fraternity. He graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1985 and earned a graduate certificate in public management from George Washington University in 2003. Prince is now the director of equal employment opportunity at the District of Columbia Department of Mental Health. He notes he plays jazz guitar after hours with a band called Phaze II.

John Doring, E'81, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, is a senior program director with EBI Consulting's process engineering group in Burlington. He has worked as a construction project manager since 1988.

Helen O. Enahoro, PAH'81, of Oyo State, Nigeria, is head of the laboratory department at Baptist Medical Center, in Ogbomoso. She and her husband have four children, Imuzese Ohiole, Aigboje Ohiorenuan, Omolegho Biodun, and Ebihonmon Omokhipen.

Ursula Pennell, PAH'81, is a systems implementation specialist with EMRConsultant, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The company helps doctors implement electronic medical records.

Rita (Balian) Allen, BA'82, of Belmont, Massachusetts, has opened Rita B. Allen Associates, which specializes in career management, counseling, and coaching of individuals and organizations. Her e-mail address is rita@ritaballenassociates.com. In addition, she teaches human resources classes at Northeastern's School of Professional and Continuing Studies.

Karen A. Bordeleau, AS'82, and David A. Boulanger, BA'82, of Smithfield, Rhode Island, will celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on September 20. Bordeleau is the assistant managing editor of the Providence Journal. Boulanger is the controller for the leasing division of Bank of America. They have two daughters, Lauren and Caroline. Friends can write them at david.a.boulanger@bankofamerica.com or kbordele@projo.com.

James Crider, AGS'82, of Cataumet, Massachusetts, has a private psychotherapy practice; he also lectures at Cape Cod Community College.

Margaret J. Cromwell, PAH'82, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, is a senior consultant with BESLER Consulting, in Princeton.

Marsha Fanucci, MBA'82, of Winchester, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors at Cambridge-based Momenta, a biotechnology company. She is senior vice president and chief financial officer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

John "Jack" McGee, UC'82, of Maynard, Massachusetts, recently earned a master's degree in accounting from Northeastern. He is an accounting manager at W. R. Grace, in Cambridge. He has worked at the company for twenty-one years.

Armand Morin, UC'82, is a senior vice president for operations at Private Healthcare Systems, in Waltham, Massachusetts.

James E. Murphy, UC'82, MBA'88, of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, is the president of Citistreet, a global benefits-delivery firm. He and his wife have three daughters.

Susan Salvo, AS'82, of Manchester, Connecticut, writes, "I run a sales, marketing, and training company to help clients generate new revenue by presales/appointment setting, one-on-one cold-call coaching, and a half-day seminar."

Steven Surowitz, L'82, of Hazlet, New Jersey, is the chief division counsel for the FBI, based in Newark. He was formerly a supervisory special agent with the FBI, based in New York City.

Kathleen Carney Thibeault, N'82, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, earned a master's degree in anesthesiology from Florida International University, in Miami. She works at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. She and her husband, Don, have three children, Andrew, John, and Madeline.

Ted Behrens, E'83, of Spring, Texas, is a partner at Synaptic Decisions, in Houston. The company provides commercial contract, asset, and investment services.

Rosalind F. Berman-Myerson, AS'83, of Quincy, Massachusetts, writes, "I married Fred Myerson in 1997. In 1987, I received a certificate in meeting management from the College of Continuing and Professional Studies at Bentley College. I was in the direct-marketing industry from 1998 to spring 2002, when I was laid off. I am currently doing some substitute teaching. I am eager to get back into the corporate sector. I would like to hear from other speech communication/communication studies majors to see what they are doing now."

Melinda Kramer-Ernst, CS'83, of Chicago, is the managing director and chief technology officer at hedge fund Grosvenor Capital Management.

David Leitao, BA'83, is the new head men's basketball coach at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. He previously coached at Northeastern, the University of Connecticut, and DePaul. Gabriel Nacht, MBA'83, of Granite Bay, California, is the senior vice president and CFO of Meridian Systems, a vendor of project management solutions to the real-estate and construction industries. He and his wife, Suzanne, have two children.

Anne Proctor, E'83, of Wallingford, Connecticut, is a project manager with consulting firm Woodard & Curran, in Cheshire.

Patrick J. Lott, BA'84, of Somerville, New Jersey, is an assistant principal at Bernardsville Middle School. A former Mr. Husky and Mayor of Huntington Avenue, he and his wife, Lois, have a daughter, Erin.

Sharyn Lovejoy, N'84, of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, writes, "I'm keeping busy by renovating an old house. I live near the New Hampshire border and go north as often as I can to hike, camp, ski, and find deals on antiques."

Michael Shea, BA'84, of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, writes, "I've enjoyed progressive high-tech career assignments, relocations, and international travel of 250,000 miles annually since leaving NU. After a long stint at IBM, I'm now vice president of worldwide sales at a U.K.-based software technology firm, CopperEye. My biggest success has been the arrival of my first child, William, born in July 2003. This, of course, is all thanks to my wife of three years, Josephine. To accommodate our expanding family and tweaked priorities, we moved from Rye, New York, to South Kingstown. We continue to enjoy sailing with the American Yacht Club in New York, motorcycle touring, and visiting with family and friends around the globe."

Mark Tuniewicz, BA'84, of La Jolla, California, is the manager of credit and collections at Intuit, in San Diego. He reports he's "happily single and enjoying a snow-free environment for the first time in forty-three years."

Robert Bodoni, CJ'85, MJ'86, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, earned the designation of fraud claim law associate through the American Educational Institute. He is a senior supervisor in the Special Investigation Unit at MetLife. "My primary focus is in the oversight of the Special Operations Group handling major provider ring investigations," he writes.

Robert V. Donahoe, E'85, of Newton, Massachusetts, is an associate with the Cambridge law firm Lowrie, Lando, and Anastasi. Anthony Lent, BA'85, of Northville, Michigan, is the regional vice president of sales and marketing for Comcast in Southfield. He was formerly vice president of wireless at General Motors, OnStar division.

John Morosini, AS'85, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, is the director of human resources at SEi Companies of Boston. He and his wife have one son.

Brian F. Shea, PAH'85, GB'88, of Peabody, Massachusetts, writes, "I am excited to announce that I was appointed to the editorial advisory board for a new health-care journal, Patient Safety and Quality. I continue to work toward improving patient safety at hospitals in the United States."

Robert "Skip" Bensley, AS'86, writes, "It's been forever since I talked with anyone from Speare Hall East, circa 1981. I was wondering where everyone else is these days. Drop me a line." His e-mail address is skip@brilliantvideoproductions.com.

Lisa Cukier, AS'86, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is a partner in the Boston law firm Burns & Levinson. She is a member of the Probate Litigation Group, Divorce and Family Law Group, and the Family Advisory Services Team. She is the president of the Massachusetts Family and Probate Inn of Court, was formerly co-chair of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, and was on the board of directors of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.

Ellen (Yanofsky) Foley, AS'86, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and husband Kevin celebrated the birth of Richard Kevin on June 6, 2004, in Framingham. "Richie was born two months early," she writes. "But after eighteen days in the hospital, the baby came home, and now he is happy and healthy. We are truly blessed to have our son."

J. Michael Menadue, BA'86, MBA'91, of Boston, is the president of two firms, the Red House Design Company, an architectural and design business in Cambridge, and the Construction Management Team, in Brighton. He says he'd like to get classmates together. His e-mail address is redhousedesignco@hotmail.com.

Paul Altmeyer, AS'87, of Boston, is a member of the sales staff at WBZ News Radio 1030. He previously worked at the New England Sports Network for nine years.

Anne-Marie Dinius, E'87, L'98, of Emerald Hills, California, is a patent litigation attorney with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, a San Francisco law firm. She was with Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Thomas Donnelly, BA'87, and Doreen Strilkauskas, N'93, of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, were married in April. Donnelly notes he's still working as an information technology administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency. Strilkauskas is a nurse practitioner in Providence.

Karl Elken, BA'87, of Half Moon Bay, California, is the publisher of eWEEK, the Ziff Davis Media enterprise weekly. He was previously its national associate publisher.

Janica (Nieh) Midiri, AS'87, of Westwood, Massachusetts, and her husband, Patrick, celebrated the birth of their first child, Nicola Angelina, in December 2004. Midiri reports that the baby, though only two pounds at birth, is now at home and thriving. Her e-mail address is janica220@yahoo.com.

Linda Pesaturo, AS'87, of Nashua, New Hampshire, earned an MBA with high distinction from Rivier College. She is a marketing communications manager at Macronetics.

Craig W. Semple, BB'87, of Clinton, Connecticut, is the Madison School District director of athletic programs. "Sports Illustrated honored our high school, Daniel Hand, as the most outstanding athletic program in the state," he writes. Semple can be reached at semple@madison.k12.ct.us.

Gary Smith, L'87, of West Newton, Massachusetts, gave a presentation on cross-border licensing and IP transactions with Canadian companies at the Doing Business with Canada seminar, sponsored in May by the Boston Bar Association and the New England?ÄìCanada Business Council. Smith heads the intellectual property and technology practice at Posternak Blankstein & Lund, in Boston. He was named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer by Boston magazine.

Scott Heslink, E'88, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and his wife, Donna, celebrated the birth of their second son, John Davis, in April. Heslink is senior vice president and quality and productivity executive of consumer-deposit products at Bank of America.

Bonni Hodges, GB'88, of Cortland, New York, is an associate professor and chair of the health department at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Cortland. She was honored in April as one of the most important and innovative scholars in the SUNY system. Hodges, who joined Cortland's faculty in 1992, has chaired the health department since 2003.

Edward (Ned) J. Sennott Jr., CJ'88, of Norwood, Massachusetts, and his wife celebrated the birth of their first child, Patrick Joseph, on January 8.

Michael Silver, BA'88, of Buenos Aires, writes, "I have been living in Argentina for about two years now. I rent apartments to tourists, a big change from my career at Oracle database programming in the United States. I've been in a relationship for two years now with Luis." His e-mail is michael@buenosairesliving.com.

Ricky Bagolie, BA'89, of Jersey City, New Jersey, writes, "My law firm, Bagolie Friedman, is now located in the city's historic Five Corners Building."

Thomas Bentley, CS'89, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, writes, "I am an advisory software engineer at IBM. Recent accomplishments include the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for XML in Domino, the Invention Achievement Award for reaching First Plateau for patent applications, and a U.S. patent for System and Method for Providing Wireless Device Access to Scheduling Applications."

Shawn Cain, AS'89, of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts is the vice president of operations at Arbios Systems, a biomedical device company based in Los Angeles.

Kevin Cassell, MA'89, of El Prado, New Mexico, is the head of the English department at the University of New Mexico, in Taos. He teaches undergraduate classes in writing, literature, and film. His e-mail address is kevincassell@usa.net.

Eileen Crehan, CJ'89, of Quincy, Massachusetts, was diagnosed with leukemia on April 8, 2004, and has been fighting the disease every day since. Crehan is the sole woman member of the Massachusetts State Police motorcycle unit, where she holds the rank of sergeant. She and her husband, State Police Sergeant Scott Collins, have four children. Crehan attended Northeastern on an athletic scholarship and still holds the school record for the javelin.

Chris Eldredge, AS'89, of Denver, is the managing director of the insurance brokerage Acordia, a Wells Fargo company, where he oversees Colorado operations. Formerly, he was regional manager for business sales at Liberty Mutual's North Texas operation. Sam Heidari, E'89, of Menlo Park, California, is the president and CEO of Doradus Technologies. E-mail him at sam.heidari@doradus-tech.com.

Kenneth Miller, MBA'89, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is a marketing analyst at iKnowtion, in Burlington. He was previously a reporting and data analyst at Amergent.

Tom Murphy, MCS'89, of Franklin, Massachusetts, is the vice president of marketing at Relicore, a Burlington software company.

Homer Pien, MCS'89, PHD'93, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the managing director at the Center for Biomarkers in Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and the cofounder of SRU Biosystems, a biotech start-up. Pien has been an adjunct professor in Northeastern's College of Computer and Information Science since 1993.

Tom Spencer, MBA'89, of Franklin, Massachusetts, is the vice president of operations for Bio-key International, in Marlborough. He was previously vice president of finance for Create!form International. He and his wife, Coreen, have two daughters.

Stephen Svensen, CJ'89, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, is a senior member of the trading desk at Pacific Growth Equities, a Boston investment bank. He formerly served as assistant vice president in equity trading at BB&T Capital Markets.

John Zukowski, CS'89, of Needham, Massachusetts, provides strategic Java consulting, and has written several Java guides and more than two hundred articles. He also teaches web technology courses at Northeastern.