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Spring 2006 • Volume 31, No. 3

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1970s

Peter Berenson, BA'70, of Newton, Massachusetts, chairs the board of trustees at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, in Boston. He is president of CPAsset Management, an investment-advisory company, and is also a partner at Forman, Itzkowitz, Berenson & LaGreca, a business-consulting company. He and his wife, Marsha, have a daughter, Marissa.

Kenneth Leger, PAH'70, of Arlington, Washington, writes, "After thirty-four years in retail pharmacy, I have retired. All five children have finished college. I'm now working with Sun City Missions as the director of training. Sun City Missions places young people to work as missionaries all over the world. Last year, we sent over twelve hundred to the field."

Bill Cadogan, E'71, of Naples, Florida, is a member of the board of directors at Ecora, a security-software specialist. Cadogan is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board at Mahi Networks, a telecommunications company, and a senior managing director at Vesbridge Partners, a venture capital firm.

Allan C. Klepper, MBA'71, of Barrington, Rhode Island, is the interim town administrator in Sutton, Massachusetts. Previously, he was town manager in Uxbridge, town coordinator in Hopedale, and executive secretary in Rehoboth.

Steven L. Barbato, E'72, of San Ramon, California, is the vice president of manufacturing and logistics at Health Hero Network, a health-monitoring company. He's the former vice president of operations at medical technology company BD Biosciences.

Phyllis J. Broker, LA'72, L'76, of Somerville, Massachusetts, is the first justice of the Woburn District Court. She had been an associate justice in Woburn since 1999. Broker chairs the District Court Criminal Proceedings Committee.

Jim Casill, E'72, and Patricia (La Rosee) Casill, Ed'73, have moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Jim works at Armstrong World Industries, a manufacturer of floors, ceilings, and cabinets, and Patricia is a master tax adviser at H&R Block.

Steven Summer, BA'72, of Charleston, West Virginia, is a member of the board of directors for the Center for Organ Recovery and Education, a federal agency located in Pittsburgh. He has been the president and chief executive officer of Charleston's West Virginia Hospital Association since 1999.

John J. Bowen, LA'73, of Boston, was named the president of the Animal Rescue League of Boston on December 1, 2005. Previously, he served as vice president for development and external affairs at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Barbara (Indeck) Cowen, Ed'73, of Worcester, Massachusetts, is the marketing manager for the Training Associates, a provider of IT trainers and consultants, in Westborough.

Edward G. Galante, E'73, of Dallas, retired in January from Exxon Mobil as a senior vice president after thirty-four years with the company.

Barry F. Lowenkron, LA'73, works in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor. Previously, he was the State Department's deputy director of policy planning.

Ronald J. Temko, BA'73, of San Diego, is a partner and chief executive officer of Windsor Capital Mortgage Corporation, a mortgage brokerage. His daughter, Perri, is a sophomore at Northeastern.

Martin P. Kress, MPA'74, of Solon, Ohio, is the new executive director of the National Space Science and Technology Center, in Huntsville, Alabama. Formerly, he was vice president and relationship manager of the NASA/Space Group in the National Security Division of Battelle Science and Technology International, in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to joining Battelle, Kress spent more than twenty years in senior-management and staff positions with NASA and the U.S. Senate.

Sue Major, LA'74, MBA'78, of Rancho Santa Fe, California, along with Stacey Davenport, has launched DavenportMajor Executive Search, in San Diego. The company specializes in the placement of senior-level life sciences and technology executives.

John L. Pucci, BA'74, of Barrington, Rhode Island, is a member of the board of directors and treasurer for the Providence Ronald McDonald House. He is the head of emerging business practice for the accounting firm Sansiveri, Kimball & McNamee.

Kenneth Ribeiro, E'74, ME'76, of North Reading, Massachusetts, is the director of research and development for explosives-detection equipment at Implant Sciences Corporation, which manufactures products for national security, medicine, and industry.

Greg Tutunjian, AS'74, of Newton, Massachusetts, is a project manager with Ruckus Network, a digital-entertainment service provider for college students.

Howard R. Appel, BA'75, of Lake Mary, Florida, is the employment coordinator at Wharton-Smith, a construction group. An active member of Toastmasters International, Appel was previously the interim director of ProNet Central Florida, an organization that helps unemployed professionals. Married to Marla for twenty-eight years, he has two children and a grandson.

Anna (Hilton) Gabel, N'75, of Leavenworth, Kansas, writes, "After graduation, I married, and began a nursing career at Ohio State University Hospitals. We moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, and raised two sons while I obtained a bachelor's degree in nursing from Saint Mary College and a master's in nursing education from the University of Kansas. I'm currently the director of education at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. My husband, Christopher, is a military historian at Fort Leavenworth."

Margaret (Peggy) Hannon-Rizza, BB'75, of Billerica, Massachusetts, was inducted into the Burlington (Massachusetts) High School Athletic Hall of Fame on October 6, 2005. A 1971 graduate of Burlington High, she earned four varsity letters in softball and two each in field hockey and basketball, and co-captained the field hockey and softball teams.

Kevin Quinlan, PA'75, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, writes, "I wanted to let NU and my friends know that, after a nice twelve-year run at Boston Biomedica, we sold the company." Quinlan is now the chief financial officer at Anika Therapeutics, a manufacturer of products to heal cartilage and soft tissue. He and his wife have two sons.

Dale Zelony Rhoads, BA'75, of Westborough, Massachusetts, is a senior compliance consultant with Wolf & Company, a certified public accounting and business consulting firm in Boston.

Joseph Trudel, UC'75, of Tucson, reports that he's published Of Seasons Known (available at ), a Cold War thriller that opens with President John F. Kennedy speaking at the Berlin Wall and ends with the wall's collapse in 1989.

Kevin Weeks, CJ'75, formerly of Dearborn, Michigan, is now the head of the Los Angeles Office of Field Operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He had been the head of the agency's Detroit office. Weeks has worked at U.S. Customs for thirty-one years, beginning his career in 1975 as an import specialist in Buffalo, New York.

Frederic Lee Klein, E'76, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, is a member of the Hartford law firm Pullman & Comley. Previously, he worked in the legal department at Northeast Utilities for twenty years, after holding jobs with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and a Washington, D.C., law firm.

Kevin Rhone, MBA'76, of Dedham, Massachusetts, is the senior vice president and general manager of the workforce-management business unit at Workscape, a company based in Marlborough that provides outsourced benefits and human resources programs. He was previously the president and chief executive officer at SmartTime Software, in Framingham.

Thomas Bartel, UC'78, of Scottsdale, Arizona, received a master's in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, in Pasadena, California, in June 2005. Bartel is currently employed as a network administrator for Caremark, one of the largest pharmaceutical-benefits management companies in the United States, in their Scottsdale office.

David C. Lewis, BA'78, and Mary A. Kenney were married on August 27, 2005, in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. They live in Scituate, Massachusetts. Lewis is a sales manager with Pratt-Read Corporation. His wife, an Emmanuel College graduate, is a registered nurse and certified diabetic educator at Harbor Medical, in Weymouth.

Mark M. Little, ME'78, of Niskayuna, New York, is the director of GE Global Research, the research organization of General Electric. He has been with the company for twenty-seven years, most recently as vice president of its power-generation business, in Schenectady.

Michael Higgins, CJ'79, of Montclair, Virginia, is the chief security officer for LexisNexis Group, a provider of legal, business, government, and tax information.

Charles J. McCarthy, UC'79, of Dunstable, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of trustees at Fitchburg State College. He is the chief information officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation, and has held administrative positions with Nexus Communications, Multilink, VideoServer, and Protean Instrument Corporation.