Danyl Collings, AS'00, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, is a sales associate with Marquis GMAC Real Estate, in Brighton. "After five years in the public relations arena, I decided to better utilize my communication skills assisting buyers and sellers in the real-estate transaction process," he writes. His website is www.danylcollings.com.

Bobby Joe Hill, AS'00, of Leicester, Massachusetts, responded to last year's hurricane emergencies by traveling to Houston to aid Katrina's and Rita's victims. An emergency medical technician, he completed a class with a Red Cross group from Worcester prior to leaving for Texas. Hill has a background in volunteering. He earned an Eagle Scout badge in Leicester more than a decade ago and, since his graduation from Northeastern, has taught English to children at a mountain school in Japan, worked in an AmeriCorps program in Colombia, and is teaching students in short-term placements at the Boston School of English.

Jeffrey Ladino, CS'00, and his wife, Colleen, celebrated the birth of their first child, Brian, on November 7, 2005. The family lives in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Andrew O'Brien, MPA'00, of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, is the deputy chancellor of external relations at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. Formerly state director in the office of U.S. Senator John F. Kerry, O'Brien now heads government relations, economic development, marketing, and master-planning efforts at UMass–Boston.

Mike Reinold, BHS'00, formerly of Birmingham, Alabama, is the new assistant athletic trainer for the Boston Red Sox. Holding a doctorate in physical therapy from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Reinold has been the director of rehabilitation and clinical education at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham for the past two years.

Donald MacDonald, MBA'01, of Dover, Massachusetts, is the vice president of sales executive service at IDC, a Framingham-based market research firm. Prior to joining IDC in 2004, he worked at Xerox, IBM, and EMC.

Venessa Manzano, BB'01, of Randolph, Massachusetts, is the new executive director of Filipino American Human Services in Jamaica, New York.

Joseph P. Corrigan, L'02, of Shirley, Massachusetts, is a member of the real estate department of the Boston law firm Barron & Stadfeld.

Gretchen (Kaplinger) Duford, BA'02, and husband Tom are proud to announce the birth of their son, Benjamin Thomas, on November 12, 2005, in Boston. The baby weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces. The family lives in Raynham, Massachusetts.

Shana (Brunye) Hoch, MBA'02, married Casey Hoch in August 2005. They live in Hudson, New Hampshire. She is an advertising manager at the Nashua Telegraph. Elaine Lippman, L'02, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is an associate at the law firm Spiegal & McDiarmid, in Washington, D.C. She practices energy and environmental law, and litigation. Formerly, Lippman was with Hangley, Aronchik, Segal & Pudlin, in Philadelphia.

Danielle Portal, AS'02, of Concord, New Hampshire, writes, "After graduating, I got my master's degree in social work at Boston College while working as a substance-abuse counselor and a social-work consultant in a legal-services office. I've just started law school in New Hampshire."

Heather Berg, AS'03, and David Harvey are engaged to be married on July 29 in Stow, Massachusetts. They live in Miramar, Florida. Berg is working toward a specialist degree in school psychology at Barry University in Miami and is a full-time teacher of autistic children at a school in North Miami. Harvey works at Hamilton Sundstrand, an aerospace-products company in Miramar.

Karen Bonaduce, AS'03, of Lumberton, New Jersey, and Kevin Scott are engaged. Bonaduce is a proposal coordinator for BAE Systems, a defense and aerospace systems developer. Scott is a U.S. Air Force captain in charge of the network control center at McGuire Air Force Base.

Debra L. Feldman, L'03, of Boca Raton, Florida, is an associate attorney in the corporate department of Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, in Fort Lauderdale.

Jenna Lavery, AS'03, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, earned a master's degree in mental-health counseling from Boston College and works at a community mental-health agency. This news was reported by Katie Femino, AS'03, who adds, "Congrats, Jenna, on all your accomplishments."

Michael McLain, CS'03, and Andrea Kolber, E'04, of Tonawanda, New York, were married on July 16, 2005. They both attend the State University of New York in Buffalo. He is studying law, and she is working toward a master's degree in mechanical engineering.

Jenny Wallner, L'03, of San Francisco, is a member of the health-care group at the Ropes & Gray office in San Francisco.

Linda Weseley, AS'03, writes, "I am now living in sunny San Diego. It is weird to think that over two years have passed since graduation."

Brian P. Rice, L'04, of Stamford, Connecticut, is an associate in the law firm Shipman & Goodwin.

Monica Vantoch, L'04, of Santa Cruz, California, has opened her own law practice. She concentrates on family law, collaborative law, and mediation. Vantoch previously worked at the Walnut Avenue Women's Center. She specializes in child custody, and domestic violence and abuse. Her website is at www.mediate.com/vantoch.

Claire Walker, MPA'04, of Cleveland, is the senior manager of government affairs at the Greater Cleveland Partnership, a metropolitan chamber of commerce.

Donna Decker, PHD'05, of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, is a professor of English and director of the Women in Leadership Certificate Program at Franklin Pierce College, in Rindge, New Hampshire. Her dissertation, titled "Vexatiously Ever After: Marriage in the New Woman Novel," examines how nineteenth-century feminist novels treat the issue of marriage.

Nina Nocciolino, AS'05, of Philadelphia, wrote an op-ed piece published by the Boston Globe in October 2005 that described her postgraduation move to a new city and a subsequent weekend trip to Boston, just to get her college-town bearings back ("I smiled as the T driver announced, 'Next stop, Nahhtheastern,' on my way in from the airport").