Keith Farris, BA'70, MBA'75, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, is the vice president and chief financial officer at broadband technology company Aware, in Bedford. He previously served as chief financial officer at LoJack Corporation, the vehicle-tracking and -recovery company.

Robert L. McCracken, BA'70, of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, is a partner in the law firm Nash, Spindler, Grimstad & McCracken. In April, he was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of Motorists Mutual Insurance Company, in Columbus, Ohio. McCracken is a member of the Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the Defense Research Institute. In 2005, Milwaukee Magazine named him one of the top hundred lawyers in Wisconsin.

Joseph L. Cipp Jr., BB'71, of Brookhaven, New York, is the head football coach at Bellport High School, in East Patchogue. In June, he was presented the Coach of the Year award by the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club of Long Island. The award goes to one athletics coach from all of Long Island's high schools. In February, he was named New York's Class AA Coach of the Year.

Robert D. Lovett, BA'71, of Naples, Florida, writes, "I own a wealth management firm in Naples. I also serve as the program director of two certified financial planner–certification education programs. One is offered at Barry University, in Miami, and the other at Florida Gulf Coast University, in Fort Myers. Since obtaining my Northeastern degree, I received a master's degree in taxation at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, New Jersey, and a doctorate in accounting from Nova Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale."

Michael J. Soja, PA'71, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, is the vice president of finance and chief financial officer at the Boston office of pSivida, a drug-delivery products company based in Australia.

Anthony Stramondo, LA'71, of Jupiter, Florida, is one of the pioneers of the laser printer industry. After designing laser printers for several companies for fourteen years, he started three laser-printer companies of his own: Office Automation Systems in 1983, Laser's Edge in 1986, and KLE in 1989. He has kept KLE small, with twelve employees. It focuses on color-printer toners.

Howard Weiss, BA'71, of Randolph, Massachusetts, writes, "I became a USA Hockey referee in 1996 and an EMT in 1998. I've been married for more than thirty-three years and have two children. Our son, Ben, BA'99, MBA'06, works at Northeastern's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. Our daughter, Emily, has a bachelor's degree from Hofstra University and a master's from Emerson College."

Albert E. Smith, E'72, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is the chairman of engineering at technical-services company Tetra Tech, in Pasadena, California. He is a former executive vice president and officer at defense contractor Lockheed Martin.

Bill Spillman, MS'72, PHD'77, in February received a lifetime achievement award in the field of smart structures and materials from the International Society for Optical Engineering. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Floyd, Virginia, about ten miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway. His e-mail address is wspillma@yahoo.com.

James D. Wilcox, PA'72, of Bedford, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors for the aircraft manufacturer Mooney Aerospace Group. He is the founder of and principal at Pivotal Strategies, a provider of interim executive-management services.

Toni Wilder, N'72, formerly of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, is the nurse coordinator and case manager for the Good Samaritan Health Clinic at St. Cyprian's Church in St. Augustine, Florida. She worked for a number of years at hospitals in Boston and North Carolina.

Charlie D'Ambrosio, LA'73, of Wayland, Massachusetts, is the chief financial officer at Ember Corporation, a wireless semiconductor company in Boston. Previously, he was vice president and director of finance, administration, and human resources at the IT services company AverStar.

Bernard A. Drew, MA'73, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is the author of The 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Writers: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies, published in 2005 by Libraries Unlimited/Greenwood. The book was included on the New York Public Library's list of best reference books for 2006. His next book, The 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies, will be published in November.

Tom Korbas, E'73, of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, is the president of the Americas division at Samsonite, the luggage and travel-products company. Korbas's e-mail address is tom_korbas@samsonite.com.

Kenneth Graham, MA'74, of Stratford, Connecticut, is a member of the Krewe of Morpheus Mardi Gras parading club in New Orleans, which has contributed funds to that city's recovery effort. He reports his "day job" is working as a trial referee in the Superior Court of Connecticut.

John Hart, E'74, of Rochester, New York, notes he's reconnected with several swim-team and water-polo friends who live and work in Boston. "As Bill O'Connell recounted, several of the 'over the hill' guys as recently as two years ago were competing with college players at MIT and UMass," Hart writes. He'd like to hear from other swimmers or water-polo players by e-mail at jhart001@rochester.rr.com.

Chris Hoffman, MEd'74, of Boulder, Colorado, is the author of Cairns, his first full-length collection of poetry, in four sections. His previous poetry chapbooks are Humming to Lizards, Listening to Trees; Map and Compass Work of the Spirit; and Songs from the Dream Canyon. He also wrote the nonfiction volume The Hoop and the Tree: A Compass for Finding a Deeper Relationship with All Life. He and his wife have a son.

Tom Levesque, LA'74, MS'77, formerly of Lewisville, Texas, is the senior director of global sales at nanotechnology company NanoInk, in Skokie, Illinois. Earlier, he worked in sales and marketing, capital equipment, at SYNOVA.

Dennis L'Heureux, E'74, ME'77, of Rockford, Illinois, was named one of the top hundred IT leaders for 2006 by Computerworld magazine. He is the senior vice president for planning and chief information officer at Rockford Health System, a health-care provider.

Rodney Mott, E'74, formerly of Richfield, Ohio, is the chief executive officer at Stelco, a steel company in Hamilton, Ontario. Linda Walker Bynoe, BA'75, of Chicago, is a member of the board of directors at financial-services firm Northern Trust Corporation. She serves as the principal, president, and chief executive officer at Telemat, a project-management and consulting firm.

Christine M. Cournoyer, MA'75, of South Hamilton, Massachusetts, is the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Picis, a health-care IT company in Wakefield. Formerly, she was managing director of Harte-Hanks, a direct- and targeted-marketing company. Cournoyer is also a member of the boards of directors at Stride Rite and GTECH.

Gabriele Crognale, E'75, of Needham Heights, Massachusetts, is the editor of Environmental Management Strategies: The Twenty-First Century Perspective. The book, published by Prentice Hall, is a compilation of first-hand accounts and case studies of the effect environmental-management issues have on organizations.

Tom Meehan, CJ'75, and Lisa (Giddings) Meehan, N'76, will celebrate their thirtieth wedding anniversary in October. They live in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and have two children, Tim and Amy. Tom worked for health-care products company Johnson & Johnson for twenty-five years. Today, he is the director of supply-chain management at orthopedics company DePuy Spine, in Raynham. Lisa is an oncology nurse manager at Commonwealth Hematology-Oncology, a South Weymouth–based private practice specializing in cancer care.

Richard Darer, ME'76, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is vice president and chief financial officer at Gomez, a web-application performance-management company in Lexington. Formerly, he was vice president and chief financial officer at Unica Corporation, a marketing-management software company.

Robert Ebersole, CJ'76, of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, is the chief financial officer at Pentucket Medical Associates, in Haverhill. The firm is a member of Partners Community HealthCare, which includes Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Ebersole was previously the chief operating officer at Urban Edge, a community-development corporation in Boston.

Robert Radin, BA'76, of Newton, Massachusetts, writes about a notable reunion with three Northeastern roommates. Radin, Greg Mulinare, LA'76, of San Mateo, California; Pedro (Mike) Sarmiento Jr., PAH'76, of Fort Washington, Maryland; and Greg Smith, LA'76, of North Reading, Massachusetts, lived together in apartment 3B at 128 Hemenway Street during college. After graduation, the roomies went in different directions. In 1998, at Mulinare's insistence, the quartet came together for a reunion. They've reconnected every summer since. Radin explains, "While the academic part of college was important to what I've done with my life and who I became, it is a far less interesting story than the relationships and bonds I formed at Northeastern. These years were filled with growth and inspiration, mixed with some of life's epiphanies. Looking back, hindsight has a way of offering clarity to life's lessons, and what has become clear thirty years later is that I shared an important part of my personal evolution at a time when the four of us were unscathed by the realities of adult life. We went to class and worked at our co-op jobs with a camaraderie and level of support that I have since learned is rare in life. With thirty years of reflection to guide me today, it seems reasonable that, just as we came together, we would disperse and slowly lose touch with one another as our careers and lives took over. There was periodic contact over the years but nothing more. In summer 1998, we met for a long weekend at a cottage in Maine and picked up immediately where we had left off over two decades before. It was as though no time had passed. Though we looked older, our personalities and connections to one another were unchanged, and we were able to pick up where we left off. For me, reconnecting offered a lesson best said by Abraham Lincoln: 'The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.'" Today, Radin is an adjunct professor of management at Boston College. Mulinare is a network manager at Cisco Systems in San Jose. Sarmiento is a physician at Pediatric Partners of Southern Maryland. And Smith is manager of technical publications at Newbridge Networks, in Andover. This summer, the boys from 3B planned to reconvene in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, for their ninth reunion.

Emilio Rotondi, UC'76, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, used to watch Boston Marathon runners go past his Wellesley beauty salon back in the 1960s. Now he looks back on nearly four full decades of being a participant, not a spectator. At sixty-eight, Rotondi has run in thirty-eight Boston Marathons, completing thirty-seven of them (he exited one marathon when a runner stepped on the back of his foot, causing a hairline fracture). Rotondi is one of only thirty-nine runners to complete twenty-five or more consecutive Boston Marathons. This April, he crossed the finish line with a time of four hours, twenty-eight minutes.

Evelyn Thomson, FD'76, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, has written her third book, the eighth edition of Essentials of Dental Radiography for Dental Assistants and Hygienists, published in May by Prentice Hall.

Kathleen Brennan, Ed'77, MEd'81, and Colin Little, E'77, of Westminster, Massachusetts, are celebrating their fifteenth year as owners of the C. W. Little Company, a multimillion-dollar commercial construction company. Their oldest daughter, Mary Little, is enrolled in Northeastern's College of Arts and Sciences.

Frank Christmas, LA'77, of Bristol, Rhode Island, is the head of EditorialAdvantage.com, a company that provides such services as proofreading, copy editing, line editing, and rewriting for clients in a variety of fields, including medicine and academia. Christmas is married to Rogeria Hosken Portes, formerly of Brazil, who is a children's book illustrator. They live with their daughter, Nicole. Friends can reach Christmas at fxchristmas@cox.net.

Mark Coleman, CJ'77, of Medway, Massachusetts, is a twenty-eight-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, where he is a detective. He was named Detective of the Year in 2005.

Lorenzo Pitts Jr., E'77, MBA'83, of Sandy Springs, Georgia, earned a doctorate in education from Clark Atlanta University in 2005.

Lorin J. Randall, MBA'77, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, is a member of the board of directors and the chair of the audit committee at Acorda Therapeutics, a biotechnology company in Hawthorne, New York. He serves as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Eximias Pharmaceutical, in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

Andrew John Gill, LA'78, writes, "Living in Skippack, Pennsylvania (near Valley Forge), with Margarita and kids Henry, Chelsea, Laura, and Vanessa, as well as my mom, Eleanor. Margarita is originally from Venezuela and was educated in Barbados and Philadelphia." Gill is the director of business development at Northstar Advisers, a project- management company in Ardmore. He previously served as a partner at Keller Williams Real Estate, in Blue Bell.

Gregory A. Lainas, BA'78, of Plantsville, Connecticut, is the 2006–2007 secretary of the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA). He has served on several CSCPA boards and committees, and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the past president of the Waterbury chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants. Lainas is division director in the Hartford office of Robert Half Management Resources, a financial-consulting company.

Joseph Marinelli, LC'78, LC'84, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, is the president of Solids Handling Technologies, a waste-treatment consulting firm. He lectures on bulk-materials handling, has written several articles, offers seminars at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and is the featured columnist ("Ask Joe!") on the website . Marinelli is a member of the American Society of Testing Materials, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Tim Moore, CJ'78, GB'84, of Willow Spring, North Carolina, received the Certified Workforce Development Professional credential for his work with the Center for Employment Training in Raleigh. This private, accredited nonprofit organization offers postsecondary vocational-training and job-placement programs. "For the past three years, I have been involved in national and corporate initiatives with the center," he writes.

Edmund Y. Ting, E'78, formerly of Kent, Washington, is the senior vice president of engineering at Pressure BioSciences, a biotechnology company in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He was previously the chief research officer at Avure Technologies, a high-pressure processing company in Kent.

Anthony Zuena, ME'78, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the president and chief executive officer at SEA Consultants, a Cambridge-based architectural and civil- and environmental-engineering consulting firm. He has been with the company since 1981.

Morrison Bonpasse, MPA'79, of Newcastle, Maine, is the author of The Single Global Currency: Common Cents for the World, available from the Single Global Currency Association, at www.singleglobalcurrency.org, and Amazon.com. He writes that it's "the world's only book about the solution to many international financial problems."