Richard J. Daniels, BA'80, of Hingham, Massachusetts, is the president of Boston Globe Media, which oversees companies owned wholly or in part by the Boston Globe's parent, the New York Times Company. These companies include the Worcester Telegram & Gazette; Globe Specialty Products, a direct-mail service; the Boston Metro, a free commuter newspaper; and New England Sports Ventures, which includes the cable channel NESN and the Boston Red Sox. Daniels was the president and general manager of the Boston Globe prior to his promotion.

Jeffrey J. Fenton, E'80, of Pittsburgh, is a member of the board of directors of IAP Worldwide Services, a government-services contractor in Cape Canaveral, Florida. He is the chief executive and principal of the financial consulting firm Devonshire Advisors and the director of Cerebus Capital Management.

Matthew A. Flynn, BA'80, of Hartsdale, New York, is the chief financial officer at Hanley Wood, a media company in the housing and construction industry. He was formerly senior vice president and chief financial officer at PRIMEDIA, a targeted media company.

Steve Martin, MS'80, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, is the chief financial officer and senior vice president of policy and planning at Airports Council International-North America. He previously served as the chief financial officer at Leigh Fisher Associates, an aviation consulting company.

Maxine Simons Burton, BHD'81, of Papillion, Nebraska, was one of the artists from her state featured in the Home and Garden cable channel series That's Clever! She demonstrated how to make a papier-mâché bowl from newspaper. The Bermuda native met her husband, Jeff Burton, in California, where he was stationed with the U.S. Air Force. The Burtons, who have two sons, moved to Nebraska eleven years ago, when Jeff was transferred to Offutt Air Force Base.

Bruce E. Chadbourne, CJ'81, of Needham, Massachusetts, is the director of the New England Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security. He notes he's responsible for the apprehension, detention, and removal of aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes within the United States. Chadbourne was originally recruited in June 1979 by the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a special agent.

Regina Corbin, N'81, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, received an Excellence in Nursing Award from the New England Regional Black Nurses Association in February. She is a staff nurse at New England Baptist Hospital.

Mark Kreditor, BA'81, of Dallas, finished the New York City Marathon last fall after taking twenty-one years off from running. He notes he ran in the Boston Marathon each year he was at Northeastern. Kreditor is the owner and broker of Get There First Realty, a single-family property management company. He and his wife, Carol, have been married for twenty years and have two teenage daughters.

Edward G. Sullivan, BA'81, of South Windsor, Connecticut, is the 2006 chair of the not-for-profit committee of PKF North American Network, a national accounting association. He is the director of the audit department at accounting and consulting services firm Whittlesey & Hadley, in Hartford. Sullivan's activities include involvement with Saint Joseph College, in West Hartford; the United Way of the Capital Area; the Inter-Community Mental Health Group; and Mercy Housing and Shelter of Hartford, where he was named Trustee of the Year in 1999.

Quincy L. Allen, E'82, of Penfield, New York, has been elected to the board of directors of Gateway, the third-largest personal-computer company in the United States. Allen is a Xerox Corporation vice president and the president of the Xerox production systems group. After joining Xerox in 1982, he has held a number of senior technical and management positions, including vice president of worldwide customer services strategy, and senior vice president of North American services and solutions.

Charlene A. Friedman, L'82, of Menlo Park, California, is vice president, general counsel, and secretary at VNUS Medical Technologies, a medical device company. She served in the same capacities at R2 Technology, another privately held medical-device company. She is a member of the state bars in California and Massachusetts.

Rafael E. Romero, BA'82, of Lima, Peru, is the director of Sienna Gold, a mineral exploration company. Formerly, he was a senior executive and bank officer at Credicorp, Peru's largest financial services holding company.

Leocadia I. Zak, L'82, of Washington, D.C., is the deputy director at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. She joined the agency in 2000 as general counsel after private practice as a partner at the law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

Michael L. Fabbri, L'83, of Ashland, Massachusetts, is the Middlesex County assistant district attorney chosen to prosecute Neil Entwistle, charged with murdering his wife and infant daughter in Hopkinton. Fabbri has been a Middlesex County prosecutor for twenty years.

John E. Johnson, MEd'83, of Portland, Maine, is the executive director of the American Screenwriters Association (ASA). His accomplishments with the organization include establishing the ASA International Screenplay Competition and the Screenwriting Hall of Fame Awards (which include the Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein Award for Screenwriting Excellence, and the Discover Screenwriting Award). Johnson spoke at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 and 2005; has lectured three times at the Days of the Scenario, in Marseille; and has taught at the Baltimore Writers Conference, the Austin Film Festival, the Marco Island Film Festival, the Midwest Music and Film Conference, and the Waterfront Film Festival. Johnson began his film career as a featured extra in Simple Justice, filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. He has written screenplays, stage plays, and radio dramas.

James Murphy, CJ'83, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, became that city's chief of police in early March. He had been the deputy chief since 2004. Murphy began his policing career in the early 1980s, working as a Chelmsford police dispatcher on a co-op.

Leslie Abi-Karam, E'84, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, is the executive vice president and president of document-messaging technologies at Pitney Bowes, a provider of mailstream hardware, software, and services in Stamford. A member of Northeastern's Board of Trustees, she has been with Pitney Bowes more than twenty years.

Kellmis Fernandez, AS'84, of Englewood, Florida, and his wife, Maria, opened the Kema Glass Studio and Gallery in December 2005. Fernandez is an artist who specializes in glass sculpture. His website is at www.members.aol.com/kellmis/glass.html.

Fred Grandinetti, AS'84, of Watertown, Massachusetts, notes that he's an expert in the history of Batwoman, a comic-book character who celebrates her fiftieth anniversary this year. She is, he adds, one of the few women cartoon characters ever to be killed off (in 1979), though a "new" Batwoman is slated to make a comic-book appearance later this year. Grandinetti is the author of Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History.

Suzanne D. Patterson, AP'84, of Scottsdale, Arizona, is the vice president, internal audit, at Coca-Cola Enterprises. She held a similar position with Sun Microsystems.

Abdellah Sentissi, PHD'84, of Dover, Massachusetts, is the vice president of manufacturing and quality systems at TransMolecular, a biotechnology company. He was previously the vice president of quality systems at BioVest International, a subsidiary of biopharmaceutical company Accentia.

Raymond P. Webb, MA'84, of Meriden, New Hampshire, will become headmaster at Foxcroft Academy, in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, this summer. Formerly, he was the dean for academic affairs at Kimball Union Academy, in Meriden.

William H. Burke, BA'85, of Boston, is the chief financial officer and treasurer at SiGe Semiconductor, a producer of wireless systems components

in Ottawa, Canada. Mark DeFrancesco, BA'85, of North Haven, Connecticut, is now a health benefits adviser after running a family business for twenty years. He notes that his twelve-year-old son, Mark, is "living a one hundred percent normal life," having been a bone marrow recipient at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston.

Thomas Todd, PAH'85, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, is a probation officer and member of the Youthful Offender Unit in Boston Municipal Court, Dorchester division. He was one of eight probation employees honored in December 2005 for behind-the-scenes efforts to end gun violence in Boston.

Barry Evans, MBA'86, of Needham, Massachusetts, is a senior vice president and chief fixed-income officer at Boston's Sovereign Asset Management, a part of MFC Global Investment Management, which is the investment management group of Manulife Financial. He lectures at Northeastern's Graduate School of Business Administration.

Jill Kremins, MBA'86, of Boston, is the vice president of circulation marketing at the Boston Globe. Her responsibilities include home delivery, database, and youth marketing. She was formerly vice president of marketing and business development at Sentient Jet.

Tim Burgess, L'87, of Anchorage, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 2005 as a district court judge in Alaska. He had been the U.S. attorney for Alaska since 2001. Burgess and his wife, Joanne Grace, have four children. She is an assistant attorney general for Alaska.

Kellye Davis, AS'87, of Pelham, New York, has published The Bliss Principle, a book that outlines a stress-reduction program. Davis has worked as a yoga instructor for more than ten years and also serves as a stress management counselor. Her articles have been featured in the New York Daily News, Essence, and Black Enterprise magazine. Her yoga and lifestyle seminars are taught in major companies, including Bayer, Philip Morris, and Snapple.

Debra Taylor-Blair, AS'87, of Boston, is the president and founder of LINK, a real-estate listing service. She says she'd like to hear from classmates by e-mail at debra@linkboston.com.

Michael Cascio, E'88, of Medfield, Massachusetts, is a senior mechanical engineer at American Superconductor, in Westborough. He writes that he's "looking forward to taking on new and exciting challenges while continuing my work in the field of power generation."

Michelle L. Bouffard, BA'89, MBA'05, of Lee, New Hampshire, is a tax manager with accounting and management consulting firm Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, in Portland, Maine. Jim Nichols, E'89, of Surprise, Arizona, is the deputy city manager of Goodyear, Arizona. "This is an incredible opportunity for me, and I'm very happy to be taking on this new challenge with a vibrant and growing city," he writes. "Our current population is 45,000, and we're expected to more than double in the next five years. In my new role, I am responsible for public works, engineering, community services, water resources, the fire department, and the city's capital improvement plan." Nichols is the author of the book Public Works Management—Things They Never Taught in School. He can be reached by e-mail at jrn1966@cox.net.