George Patsourakos, LA'60, MEd'65, of Billerica, Massachusetts, retired after two decades as an education specialist for the federal government. "Today, I visit Northeastern occasionally to read and relax at Snell Library," he writes. "As I walk on the campus, I feel a sense of Hellenic pride when I see the Behrakis Health Sciences Center and Kariotis Hall. These two buildings are named for George D. Behrakis and George S. Kariotis, Hellenic American philanthropists whose sizable donations to Northeastern have helped make it a great university."

Neal F. Finnegan, BA'61, H'98, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors of the Hanover Insurance Group. The chair of Northeastern's Board of Trustees, Finnegan is a former senior bank executive and chair at Citizens Bank of Massachusetts.

Ron Zeppieri, BA'61, of Darien, Georgia, writes, "I retired from the Old Saybrook, Connecticut, school district in spring 2003. Judy and I had had a forty-four-foot trawler catamaran built for us by Endeavour Catamaran Corporation, in Clearwater, Florida. We sold everything, put what we couldn't fit aboard in storage, and went cruising for three years. We went up and down the East Coast with the seasons, crossed Florida through the Okeechobee Waterway several times, and cruised the southern part of Florida's west coast, the Keys, the Bahamas, and the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. We had countless beautiful experiences and made many new friends. Our cruising plans were cut short by medical concerns, so we moved back ashore and put our boat, OdySea, up for sale. In March, we settled in the town of Darien, in Georgia's Golden Isles. I'd love to hear from old friends." His e-mail address is ron_zeppieri@juno.com.

John Power, BA'63, of Walpole, Massachusetts, writes, "I thought I was retiring in 2000 to run my financial practice as a CFP-practitioner on a part-time basis. But, as luck would have it, I'm more active than ever. I've been a lead person in the Financial Planning Association of Massachusetts in their pro bono program to provide support to soldiers who have been deployed around the world and their families. I work part-time for a friend's consulting company, Goldense Group, and created a series of quarterly seminars that are now the firm's main source of revenue. I'm also a worldwide officer of the Society of Concurrent Product Development and am project managing the annual conference. There are more professional challenges out there than any person has time to explore."

Joseph Wells, E'63, ME'65, returned to the Northeastern campus (as Dr. Joe "Fargo" Wells) to participate in Mayor of Huntington Avenue Day, on March 22. A member of BGE fraternity, Wells was elected mayor in October 1959. He retired from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in 2002 and is running his own technical consulting firm, JMW Associates. He has published papers and presented lectures in Adelaide, Australia; Vancouver, British Columbia; Cocoa Beach, Florida; and Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Ann, live in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

Nelson Wikstrom, LA'63, of Richmond, Virginia, is a professor of political science and public administration in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, at Virginia Commonwealth University. Wikstrom is the coauthor of American Intergovernmental Relations: A Fragmented Federal Polity, published by Oxford University Press. He specializes in the areas of state and local government and politics, federalism, and intergovernmental relations.

Gus Capizzo, LA'65, MA'67, of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, reports that eight former Northeastern hockey players were members of the Boston USA Moby Dicks team, which won the gold medal for the over-sixty age group in April's Massachusetts Senior Olympic Hockey Tournament. It was the team's second consecutive gold medal. Along with Capizzo, who acted as goalie, the former Huskies who helped outscore opponents 24-2 in three games were Paul Bloh, BA'67,of Orleans; George Campbell, BA'67, of Boxford; John Leger, BA'68, of Littleton; Ed LeNormand, E'66, ME'71, of Norwell; Joe MacGillivray, BA'67, of Westwood; Tom Moon, LA'66, of East Sandwich; and Bill Seabury, Ed'67, MEd'69, of Stoneham.

Manuel E. Joaquim, E'65, of Lake Saint Louis, Missouri, is president and chief executive officer at Golconda, a company that assists business owners in the development and implementation of growth options. He writes, "My wife, Erika, and I still haven't found another part of the world that beats living on a beautiful lake in the Midwest. We have six children and five grandchildren who live in various parts of the country." Manuel and Erika attended the 1965 class reunion in 2005. He serves on the Alumni Reunion Committee.

Walt Ordway, E'65, of Palos Verdes, California, served from 2002 to 2005 as the chief technology officer at Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), where he and his staff created the specifications for digital-format movies in theaters. Their focus was establishing and documenting voluntary specifications for a digital-cinema open architecture to ensure a high level of technical performance, reliability, and quality control. Ordway notes the new technology not only maintains the high-quality image of the original movie, it also replaces more than a century of showing movies on film. Ordway, dubbed the "father of digital cinema," worked for Hughes Aircraft in California for thirty years, retiring in 1997. He took over the digital-format specifications task when DCI was created in March 2002 as a joint venture of Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Brothers Studios. This March, Ordway was presented the Ken Mason Award by the Inter-Society for the Enhancement of Cinema Presentation, in recognition of his service to the organization and the motion picture business. Ordway has twice made digital-cinema presentations to Northeastern engineers. His e-mail address is waltordway@juno.com.

Dorothy Veronica White, LA'65, of Braintree, Massachusetts, holds two posts in her town. She is Braintree's representative on the MBTA advisory board and is also a member of the town's historic district commission. In addition, she's a town-meeting member, and a member of the East Braintree Civic Association and the Braintree Historical Society. After serving in administrative posts at the state and the federal levels, White began working at the United Nations in 1977. During her twenty-two years there, she served on six peacekeeping missions, including missions to Cambodia, Haiti, and the Balkans.

Terry (Ayers) Kurdzionak, N'67, and Jack Kurdzionak, Ed'67, of Stoneham, Massachusetts, became grandparents for the first time when John F. Kurdzionak Jr. was born on February 18 to parents John and Christine. Terry and Jack work in their family businesses, the Boston Watch Company and Eckcells Company (a spare-parts distribution business that serves watchmakers nationwide). Terry is involved in the local business community and works as a trustee for the Stoneham Savings Bank. Jack is the secretary of the Education, Library, and Museum Charitable Trust of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute, of Harrison, Ohio, and the secretary of the institute's industry advisory board.

Lester Lefton, LA'69, formerly of New Orleans, has been named the eleventh president at Kent State University, in Ohio. He was previously the provost at Tulane University.