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A sad note to share: Alfred Boch, E’37, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away on August 14, 2006. Boch enjoyed a long career in engineering and research, beginning as a shift supervisor at Tennessee Eastman Corporation, operators of the electromagnetic isotope separation plant for the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb. He then served as assistant director of the electronuclear research division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he worked for more than twenty years in various capacities. In 1983, he retired from his position as a project director at chemical company Union Carbide. Boch was a charter member and fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and received the Significant Achieve­ment Award of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers. He is survived by his wife, Lela; brother, Alex; a son; a daughter; two stepsons; one stepdaughter; thirteen grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

40s
Edward J. Harraghy, LA’40, of Matta­poisett, Massachusetts, writes, “At age eighty-nine, I still look forward to receiving Northeastern University Alumni Magazine.” He says he remembers working “with Sylvia Hall in the Husky Hut when Richards Hall first opened.” Harold A. Huckins, E’45, of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is the president of Princeton Advanced Technology, a chemical-engineering technology consulting firm. He reports his company has received a fourth U.S. patent to produce hydrogen peroxide directly from hydrogen and oxygen. Ben Tongue, E’45, of West Orange, New Jersey, writes, “After graduation, I worked at Federal Telegraph and Telephone, and then Panoramic Radio Company (where I eventually became chief engineer). I earned a master’s degree in 1948 from Brooklyn Poly­technic after attending part-time at night, and in 1950 I launched a new company with Isaac Blonder: Blonder-Tongue Labs. We designed and manufactured products for fringe-area TV reception, master TV systems, and products for CATV. Both Ike and I are inventors, and have each been granted about forty patents. We sold the company in 1989 and retired. I have a lovely wife, three children, and eleven grandchildren. My technical interests for many years have been related to old radio technology. Some results of that interest can be seen at my website, http://www.bentongue.com. The site contains many original articles relating to design, measurement, and improvement of crystal radio sets.”

50s
Eugene Lally, E’57, of Mission Viejo, California, sends in an update: “I’m still interested in photography. I currently write articles related to photography and archaeology in Anthropology News.” He reports that sources have credited him with inventing digital photography through a paper he wrote in 1961 while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena. Friends may view some of his photographs by visiting his website, at http://www.lallyphotography.com. David J. Mauriello, BA’58, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, writes stage plays, one of which, Just Say Love, was presented at the Boston Center for the Arts in June. His plays, which also include But Mostly Because It’s Raining, Ten Minutes, and The First Love Letter, have been produced in New England, California, and New York City. He is the recipient of an Artists Foundation of Massachusetts fellowship, among other honors. Earlier in his career, Mauriello worked as an administrative officer at MIT’s Center of Materials Science and Engineering, a real-estate developer, and the owner and operator of a small motel in Stoneham. E-mail him at djmrllo@aol.com.

60s
Frank Tempesta, E’62, ME’64, of Winchester, Massachusetts, is the president of Textron Systems, a weapons technology company, in Wilmington. Tempesta has been with Textron for more than twenty years, most recently as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Richard M. Gordon, E’64, of Parker, Colorado, retired in January after forty years in the engineering consulting business. In 1985, he formed the engineering-design company Gordon, Gumeson and Associates, in Denver. He sold that business to an engineering company, Smith Seckman Reid, in 2006, then he and his wife, Cindy, took a monthlong vacation in Maui. Gordon is now a management consultant. His company, Advisors to Management, is based in Parker. He and Cindy will celebrate their forty-fourth wedding anniversary this summer. They have two sons, Brian and Doug, and two granddaughters, Erin and Meghan. Edward Balis, BA’65, MBA’67, writes, “After teaching in as many different places as possible, I have now retired and am living in beautiful Brunswick, Georgia.” E-mail him at balise3@iwon.com. Edward Kerns, PAH’67, of Hollywood, Maryland, spent twenty years building St. John’s Pharmacy, where he is the president. He has been a member of the American Diabetes Association for fifteen years. In December 2006, he earned a doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Florida. Richard “Dick” Trust, LA’67, of Scituate, Massachusetts, retired in February 2006 after more than forty-one years as a full-time sports writer for the Patriot Ledger, in Quincy. A former sports editor of the North­eastern News, he continues to write part-time for the Ledger. In addition, he’s using his photography skills to create posters of scenes from Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Scituate, Cohasset, and Braintree, and, he says, “a calendar and a lushly illustrated children’s book are ready to roll off the presses.” He can be reached at rtrust68@comcast.net. Jack Kelly, BA’68, of Irving, Texas, has been named chief organizer of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The eight world equestrian championships that make up these games will likely be the largest sporting event in Kentucky’s history. Kelly’s career has included organizing the 1990 U.S. Olym­­­­­pic Festival in Minneapolis–St. Paul and the Goodwill Games. James Levell, LA’68, of Doylestown, Pennsylva­nia, writes that he spent most of the period from 1974 to 1996 living, working, and traveling in Europe, then moved to Pennsyl­vania in 1997. These days, he says, he and wife Diane “are both working on photographic projects, such as a joint exhibition in New Hope in 2005 that was also shown in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2006. I want to do a visual essay on eastern colonial Indian battlefields next; it is ambitious, but we all need challenges.” He’d enjoy hearing from friends at levell945@yahoo.com. Leonard M. Cohen, E’69, of Waterford, Connecticut, writes, “I retired from the federal government on January 3, after forty-two years working at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. I started right after high school in the co-op program, first in New London, Connecticut, and then in Newport, Rhode Island. I have traveled extensively and had numerous positions with the U.S. Navy. My only plans currently are woodworking, gardening, home repairs, spending more time with my aging parents, and doing more for my family. My wife is still working, and my daughter attends Roger Williams University, in Bristol, Rhode Island, as a dance and secondary-education major.” Cohen can be reached by e-mail at babka25@juno.com. Robert Ferrari, BA’69, of Reading, Massachusetts, is the vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Optiant, a provider of inventory-planning and optimization solutions, located in Boston. He was previously the director of supply-chain strategies at research and advisory firm Manu­facturing Insights. James Jeffrey, LA’69, formerly of Saugus, Massa­chusetts, is the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the U.S. State Department. In his role, he serves as a top adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on U.S. policy toward Iran. Jeffrey served as U.S. ambassador to Albania from 2002 to 2004, and was the deputy chief of mission in Baghdad from June 2004 to March 2005. He later became Rice’s senior adviser on Iraq. After majoring in history at Northeastern, Jeffrey earned a master’s in business from Boston University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1976, with postings to Germany and Vietnam. In March, Boston.com named him one of Twenty-Five New Englanders to Watch in Washington. Lynn Morrill Turcotte, LA’69, of Rutland, Massachusetts, has opened a law office in Worcester. She was an assistant district attorney in Worcester County and most recently supervised the juvenile division of the district attorney’s office. Onnig Zerounian, E’69, of San Juan Capistrano, California, is a vice president at Irvine Electronics, which has manufactured and assembled six power-transfer units, two of which are installed on space shuttle Endeavor. Two others are scheduled to be installed on Discovery. These power-transfer units convert electrical power supplied by the International Space Station and condition it for space-shuttle use. Space shuttle Endeavor launched in August.

70s
William J. McCarthy, MS’70, of Austin, Texas, is a senior vice president and chief actuary at Financial Industries Corporation, which markets and underwrites life insurance products. He was most recently vice president and chief actuary at insurance company Citizens, in Austin. McCarthy is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. Barbara Donley Mitchell, LA’70, of Danbury, New Hampshire, teaches Spanish and foreign-language methodology at Plymouth State University.“Also, I am a Zumba fitness instructor,” she writes.“I’ve lived aboard a twenty-eight-foot sailboat, taught English in Mexico, and taken students on trips to Spain, Costa Rica, and Mexico over the past thirty years.” Herbert Novitsky, E’70, of Laurel, Maryland, writes,“After thirty-seven wonderful years, I have retired from the National Security Agency, ending my career as a senior executive and group-level technical director. During my tenure, I pursued advanced graduate work in computer science, adding to my Northeastern electrical engineering degree.” Novitsky notes that his wife, Barbara, is a realtor with Century 21 H. T. Brown Real Estate, in Columbia. Steven M. Rabinowitz, MS’70, of Boston, is the senior vice president in the national retirement practice at the Segal Com­pany, a benefit, compensation, and human-resources consulting company. He was formerly a senior consultant in the Metro New York retirement practice of the management and human-resources consulting firm Towers Perrin. Before that, he was a partner at consulting firm Kwasha Lipton, a unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Bill Shiner, LC’70, of Millbury, Massachusetts, has been promoted to vice president of industrial markets at IPG Photonics, a fiber-laser manufacturer. He joined Photonics in 2002. Previously, he was chief operating officer at Convergent Lasers, part of Prima North America. Shiner boasts more than thirty-five years of experience with industrial lasers, and serves as president of the Laser Institute of America. Ann Graham, N’71, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is a consultant with King & Spalding, an international law firm. Graham is an anesthetist with twenty-two years of experience at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Maria J. (Glenn) Jacobze, UC’72, of IJssel­muiden, Netherlands, writes,“After my graduation from Northeastern, I moved to New York City, where I obtained a master’s degree in health administration from Baruch/Mt. Sinai. During the following years, I traveled all over the United States. In October 2005, I retired to my native country, the Netherlands, where I visit with old schoolmates, family, and friends. I am busy building a new home and volunteering for the Red Cross and Alzheimer’s Association during vacation weeks. I am always on the go and just love it.” Sarah (Minty) Lawrence, MBA’72, of Village of Nagog Woods, Massachusetts, has been named president and general manager of iRobot’s home robots division. Previously, she was vice president of innovation and growth platforms for the $14 billion consumer group of companies at Johnson & Johnson. Irving Zaks, ME’72, of Holliston, Massachusetts, is the vice president and general manager in the acquisition management and engineering group at Dynamics Research Corporation, a provider of mission-critical technology-management services and solutions for government programs, in Andover. He joined the company in March 2005. Before that, he was a consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s chief information officer. Sara Anderson, BA’73, of Newport Coast, Cali­fornia, has been appointed to the California Board of Accountancy by Cal­ifornia governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has worked for the accounting firm Ernst & Young for over twenty-three years, currently serving as managing partner of its Orange County office. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, she was an accountant with KPMG in Boston. Brian J. Dunn, UC’73, UC’77, of Fort Myers, Florida, has retired from the Raytheon Company after nearly forty years. He most recently served as the company controller. Dunn and his wife, Judy, relocated to Florida, where he is pursuing a second career as an author. His novel Curiosity: A Thriller is available at http://www.iuniverse.com and http://www.barnesandnoble.com. Brian A. Gladue, LA’73, of Fort Worth, Texas, is the director of the Office for the Protection of Human Subjects at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. He is responsible for the ethical management and oversight of all research projects involving human subjects at the campus. Gladue, who has a doctorate from Michigan State University, describes himself as a lifelong science-policy advocate and behavioral-science researcher. He teaches courses on human-subject research and is an active member of the International Academy of Sex Research, a scientific society that promotes high standards of research and scholarship in the field of sexual behavior by fostering communication among researchers in these fields. Pat Lawlor, BA’73, of Berkeley, California, is the vice president of finance at Giga-Tronics, maker of microwave components for the defense and wireless industries, in San Ramon. Previously, he was the vice president and chief financial officer at SaRonix, a manufacturing company. George Quinn, E’73, of Darnestown, Maryland, is a ceramic engineer at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, where he focuses on materials science and engineering, mechanical testing, and fractography. In March, he received the Advanced Ceramic Award from ASTM Interna­tional, a large management system for the development of voluntary standards for materials, products, systems, and services. Mark Conry, Ed’74, of Dedham, Massachusetts, writes to announce his plans for retiring from the Brookline public schools after thirty-three years of teaching the sixth grade. He says he“looks forward to drowning some worms and losing some golf balls.” Murray Fish, BA’74, of Andover, Massa­chusetts, has been named chief financial officer, vice president of finance, treasurer, and assistant secretary at Datawatch, a provider of solutions in enterprise information management. Most recently, Fish served as CFO at Cymfony, a private venture-backed business-intelligence company. Bob Mainones, E’74, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, has been promoted to senior associate at LandDesign, an urban-planning, civil-engineering, and landscape-architecture company, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mainones previously worked at Toomey-Munson & Associ­ates, a civil-engineering and land-surveying company in Norwood, Massachusetts, before joining LandDesign as an associate. He and his wife, Diane, have five children. Joseph McCoy, PA’74, of Houston, has been appointed to the board of directors of Rancher Energy, an oil and gas exploration and development company in Denver. Formerly, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer at Burlington Resources, one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas companies. John L. Pucci, BA’74, of Barrington, Rhode Island, has earned the designation of construction industry technician. He is a certified public accountant and a partner in the Providence accounting and consulting firm Sansiveri, Kimball & McNamee, where he heads the emerging-business practice. His community activities include serving on the board of directors and acting as treasurer for the Providence Ronald McDonald House, and serving on the finance committee for the Gordon School in East Provi­dence. Richard R. Yuse, E’74, ME’76, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, has been named president of Raytheon Technical Services Company (RTSC). Yuse has enjoyed a thirty-one-year career at Raytheon, serving in a variety of leadership roles, principally in the company’s Integrated Defense Systems business. Most recently, he was vice president and deputy general manager at RTSC, which provides technology solutions for defense, federal, and commercial customers worldwide. Edmund DiSanto, Ed’75, of West Hartford, Connecticut, is executive vice president, chief administrative officer, and general counsel at American Tower Corporation, which owns, operates, and develops broadcast and wireless communication sites. Sheryl Nese Nonnenberg, LA’75, writes,“I have been working as an art researcher/writer for a private art collector for the past seven years. Recently, I began doing freelance writing for art magazines and have had pieces published in ArtWorks magazine and Fine Arts Connoisseur. I live in Menlo Park, California, with my husband and two children.” David Robertson, PA’75, of Hollis, New Hamp­shire, in April became the chief financial officer at iParty Corp., a party-goods retailer that operates fifty iParty retail stores. Since 2005, Robertson had been employed as a private consultant, concentrating on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance testing and analysis of financial controls for both public and private companies. From 1999 to 2005, he was the vice president and CFO at Kitchens, Etc. Richard Luciano, E’76, of Nashua, New Hampshire, is the senior director of channels development at Cognos, a company that provides business-intelligence and performance-management solutions. In a recent online interview, Luciano called his father, Salvatore, BA’52, his“most admired businessperson” because of“what I hope he has passed along to me—his business ethics, enthusiasm for business, and inclusion of others in achieving success.” Martin Cohan, CJ’77, of Peabody, Massachusetts, writes that he graduated on March 16 from the FBI National Academy, in Quantico, Virginia. Frank Condella Jr., PAH’77, MBA’84, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the chief executive at SkyePharma, a leading provider of drug-delivery technologies. Formerly, he was the president of European operations at IVAX. Robert DeNormandie, PA’77, of Luxembourg, was appointed in April to the board of directors of Invista European Real Estate Trust as a non-executive director. DeNormandie is a director of the Directors’ Office, an organization he founded in 2004, which offers directorship and related services to investment-management and other fund companies registered in Luxembourg. James A. Muller, BA’77, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the senior vice president of specialty gases and life sciences at Airgas, a U.S. distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, in Radnor, Penn­sylvania. He was formerly the regional company president at Airgas East, a regional branch of Airgas. William Nichols, CJ’77, of Rumford, Rhode Island, is a senior account manager with Pavilion Floors, a floor-coverings vendor. Previously, he had a career in federal government at the U.S. Depart­ments of Defense, Navy, and Treasury. His wife, Laurie (McIntosh), FD’75, worked in dental hygiene for thirty years and then earned a master’s degree in speech pathology. She’s now a speech pathologist in the Attleboro, Massachusetts, public school system. Their eldest child, Adam, works for Fidelity Investments in Boston and is currently studying at night toward a double master’s degree in business administration and finance at Northeastern. Daughter Jenna is a senior at the University of Connecticut. Elissa, her twin, is a senior at Eckerd College, in St. Petersburg, Florida. Maria A. Angelini, PAH’78, UC’84, of Worcester, Massachusetts, is the new general counsel at the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company. She has worked in private practice and also was general counsel to the Worcester Redevelopment Authority. Nonnie S. Burnes, L’78, of Boston, was appointed state insurance commissioner by Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick in February. Burnes, who is Patrick’s former law partner, stepped down from her position as a Superior Court judge to become the head of the division of insurance. Before becoming a judge, Burnes worked at law firm Hill & Barlow.  Nonnie S. Burnes, L’78, of Boston, was appointed state insurance commissioner by Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick in February. Burnes, who is Patrick’s former law partner, stepped down from her position as a Superior Court judge to become the head of the division of insurance. Before becoming a judge, Burnes worked at law firm Hill & Barlow. Bernard Horn Jr., BA’78, of Reading, Massachusetts, was named Mutual Fund Manager of 2006 by MarketWatch. Horn manages Quaint Foreign Value Fund at investment firm Polaris Capital Management. Gregory A. Lainas, BA’78, of Plantsville, Connecticut, is a new member of the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants board of directors. He serves as a division director in the Hartford office of recruiting company Robert Half Management Resources. Edmund Y. Ting, E’78M, formerly of Kent, Washington, has been named the senior vice president of engineering at biotechnology company Pressure BioSciences, in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He was previously the chief research officer at Avure Technologies, a manufacturer of high-pressure presses for sheet-metal formation and high-pressure food pasteurization, in Kent. James Totovian, LA’78, of Watertown, Massachusetts, is head of the inside sales organization at MassMutual Retirement Services. Previously, he was a vice president and manager at Putnam Investments. Jeff Kalowski, BA’79, of Newton, Massachu­setts, is the chief financial officer at Imprivata, an enterprise authentication and access-management company in Lexington. Before joining Imprivata, he was the chief financial officer at ProfitLogic, a provider of enterprise merchandising software. Anthony Pastelis, LA’79, is a professor in the School of Education at Endicott College, in Beverly, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Andrea, live in Rochester, New Hampshire, and Greenwood, Maine. Pastelis serves as a member of the Rochester school board. Michael J. Rybak, PAH’79, of Troy, Michigan, is a member of the scientific advisory board at Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, a Denver biopharmaceutical company focused on infectious disease and dermatology. Rybak serves as the associate dean for research and professor of pharmacy at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, at Wayne State University, in Detroit, and is also an adjunct professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the university’s School of Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists. In addition, he’s a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the scientific field editor of the infectious diseases section in the journal Pharmacotherapy. Ted Woo, CJ’79, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, is the New England chief of public affairs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Following graduation, he worked as a customs agent at Boston’s Logan Airport. After 9/11, Woo turned his attention to antiterrorism. For the past two years, he’s worked in public affairs, giving talks around the region on his agency’s latest techniques for battling terrorists. He and his wife, Sherry, have a son, Alex.

50s
Paul M. Farrell, MBA’80, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is the new vice president for sales and marketing at Lee Enter­prises, a media company in Davenport, Iowa. He was the senior vice president of advertising at the Providence Journal. He and his wife, Cathy, have three children. Bobby Hogle, BA’81, of Sewall’s Point, Florida, is the co-owner of Quill and Pen in Acton, Massachusetts, and a similar business in Stuart, Florida. Both stores specialize in paper goods, office furnishings, and gifts. The Acton store has been in Hogle’s family for forty-one years. He was a financial analyst in London, England, before joining the family business in 1980. Stephen P. Mader, MBA’81, of North Andover, Massachu­setts, has joined executive search company Korn/Ferry International, in Los Angeles, as a senior client partner and managing director of the board-services practice. Mader joined Korn/Ferry from Christian & Timbers, where he served as vice chairman with leadership responsibility for the board-services and CEO practice. Debbi Toohey, BHD’81, of Orlando, Florida, writes,“I have spent our children’s school years actively volunteering and chairing fundraising proj­ects at their school. The past six years have taken me into the community as an adult literacy tutor, on the executive committee as vice president of the board for Orlando Shakespeare Theater, and as a member of Town and Gown for the University of Central Florida. It is busy but fulfilling to know what’s happening in such a vibrant community. Our son is a freshman at Florida State University, in Tallahassee, and our daughter plans to attend Emory University. Last summer, we shared a wonderful family trip to Maui. My husband, Garritt, and I look forward to spending more time between Maine lakes and New Hamp­shire’s coastline in the future, and getting back to bicycling and travels to catch up with acquaintances.” Allen Deary, BA’82, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, is a member of the strategic advisory board for WebLayers, an IT services company in Cambridge. Deary is the founder and co-chief executive officer for ArrAy Incorporated, a software engineering services firm. He also cofounded Peritus Software Services. Leocadia I. Zak, L’82, of Washington, D.C., is the new acting director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). Previously, she served as the agency’s general counsel. Before working at the USTDA, she was in private practice as a partner with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo. Zak teaches international project finance courses as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Joseph Adam, E’83, of Mission Viejo, California, has joined WiSpry as vice president of operations. Headquartered in Irvine, the company designs and markets radio-frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems tunable components and devices for the wireless industry. Previously, Adam was vice president of external manufacturing at Skyworks (formerly Conexant). Gerard Cowie, BA’83, of Nepean, Ontario, writes,“My son, Matt, recently had his hockey sweater number retired and placed on the wall of fame for the Nepean Raiders of the Central Junior Hockey League in Ontario. In addition, Matt, leading his team in scoring, was voted the league’s most valuable defenseman and most sportsmanlike player for 2006–2007. He also served as captain for the second consecutive season.” Marianne (Gregoire) Dryer, FD’83, of Allen, Texas, was presented the Outstanding Professor award in the dental hygiene program at Collin County Community College, where she is a first-year coordinator. She won the award in the health-science division.“Our dental hygiene program ranks in the top 6 percent nationwide out of 244 programs, including those granting baccalaureate degrees,” she writes. Karol LaCroix, MS’83, PHD’88, is this year’s recipient of the Keene State College Outstand­ing Woman of the Year award. The honor recognizes women who have demonstrated leadership or made outstanding contributions to the campus, the community, and the state of New Hampshire. Since 2004, LaCroix has served as president of Granite State College, in Concord, New Hampshire. Before that, she was dean of the University of New Hampshire–Manchester for eight years. Joseph Mullaney, MBA’83, of Medfield, Massachusetts, is the chief financial officer at bcgi, a maker of billing and payment software used by wireless service providers, in Bedford. He oversees the company’s financial and human-resource functions. He previously was president, chief executive officer, and chief financial officer at SofTech, which creates product-lifecycle management software. Kevin Riley, BA’83, recently of Gates Mills, Ohio, is the new chief financial officer at Brkshire Hills Bancorp, the holding company for Berkshire Bank, one of the oldest and largest independent banks in Massa­chusetts. Previously, he was the executive vice president for client information and relationship management, data governance, and facilities at KeyCorp, a banking institution in Cleveland. Riley and his wife, Laurie, and their four children are relocating to the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, area. Christine Golden, BHD’84, of Holbrook, Massachusetts, was elected to the Holbrook school committee in March. She is a library media specialist at St. Joseph’s School. John Murray, AS’84, of Tewksbury, Massa­chusetts, has been named director of human resources at Hallmark Health Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice. He’s responsible for overseeing all human-resource functions within the organization. Murray was previously the HR manager at Saints Medical Center, in Lowell. James Tedesco, MBA’84, of Lake Forest, Illinois, and Paul H. Tedesco, who taught at Northeastern for more than twenty years, have published Portable and Prefabricated Houses of the Thirties: The E. F. Hodg­son Company 1935 and 1939 Catalogs, an Unabridged Reprint. Tedesco writes,“The E. F. Hodgson Company was America’s first prefabricator; Sears and Montgomery Ward entered the market later. Famous families like the Rocke­fellers purchased Hodgson homes. For me, this was a great project because I was able to do it with my dad, who is semiretired but still an active historian in the town of Dover, Massachusetts. My mother was our editor.” Laurie Gold, BA’85, writes,“After seventeen years in Tampa, Florida, I packed up my stuff and my pets and moved to Portland, Oregon. It is a very cool city, similar to Boston. Great vibe! I am job hunting—purchasing, product marketing, and so on.” Glenn Goldman, BA’85, of Acton, Massachusetts, is the senior vice president of compliance and security at the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank. Tom Koncius, AS’85, is the owner of Atlantic Brokerage Group, a residential real-estate sales and appraisal company, in Cohasset, Massachusetts, where he lives. The company website is at www.atlanticbrokeragegroup.com. Dimitris Lois, ME’85, of Athens, Greece, has been named executive adviser to the managing director at Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCHBC). Lois will be responsible for special strategic projects and will serve as a member of CCHBC’s operating committee. Previously, he was managing director and executive member of the board of directors at Frigoglass, a global manufacturer of commercial refrigerators and packaging products for the beverage industry. He and his wife, Mari, have two daughters. Cecile Ross Piverotto, AS’85, of Riviera Beach, Florida, in January founded her own law firm, which specializes in environmental law and water law. She graduated from Northeastern with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Nick Fish, L’86, of Portland, Oregon, is a partner in the law firm Meyer & Wyse and a member of the board for the Oregon Cultural Trust. He hosts Outlook Portland, a public-affairs program on station KRCW-TV. Fish is a member of the dean’s council at Portland State University’s College of Urban and Public Affairs, and has served as a director of Volunteers of America Oregon. Jesse Martin, CJ’86, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, sends in this note about former dean of students Ed Robinson, BA’52, MEd’57:“I first met Ed Robinson in fall 1983. I was a member of the ZBT Fraternity and a recently selected Travelli Scholar. Over the next twenty-three years, Ed and I became good friends. During my college years at Northeastern, he provided me with inspiration, guidance, and advice that truly made my time there enjoyable and fulfilling. Because of my associations with the Inter-Fraternity Council and ZBT (where Ed had been made an honorary member years before), we had quite a bit of interaction while I was a student. Outside the university, we soon discovered that we both loved theater. Ed had seen many New York shows with the original casts, and was often in the audience when productions had their pre-Broadway tryouts in Boston. His collection of playbills and recordings is now part of the Maine State Theater archives. I saw him at the hos pital four days before he passed away. My memories of him will be of that outgoing and spirited individual, who as late as August 2006 walked almost a mile from his house on a summer evening, with a friend and me, to a show at the Ogunquit Playhouse.” Hideya Sakaida, MBA’86, most recently of Furukawa-Cha, Japan, has been appointed president and chief executive officer at Toshiba America Electronic Components, an electronic-parts manufacturer in Tokyo. Scott (Migliorini) Ames, E’87, writes that he’s earned the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Certificate in .NET technology, the top-level certification for advanced developers. He lives with his wife, Lynne, and their two children in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Ames will be attending Harvard University this fall to work toward a master’s in information management systems. Christophe Deslandes, BA’87, MBA’89, is the chief information officer for KapStone Paper and Packaging.“I am responsible for creating their entire IT infrastructure from scratch,” he writes.“Prior to this, I was CIO at Uniscribe Professional Services for five years. My wife, Diane, and I reside in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.” Joseph F. Desmond, BA’87, of Pleasanton, California, is a member of the board of directors for Lime Energy, a maker of energy-saving products in Elk Grove, Illinois. He is the senior vice president for external affairs at NorthernStar Natural Gas. James Holly, E’87, of York, Maine, underwent a bone marrow transplant on May 3 for acute myelogenous leukemia at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a patient of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Holly and his wife, Kate, have been married nineteen years and have five sons and two daughters. He enjoys power boating and camping. A nuclear engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for almost twenty years, he has been on medical leave since being diagnosed with leukemia on November 1, 2006. His progress can be monitored at www.caringbridge.org/visit/jimholly. Thomas O’Brien, MBA’87, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, is the new vice president and product manager at Bank Rhode Island. O’Brien will be responsible for competitive positioning, pricing, profitability, and campaign management for all the bank’s retail, small-business, and commercial products and services. Previously, he served as vice president of product development and emerging opportunities at Citizens Bank. Bryan Siegal, ME’87, of Acton, Massachusetts, is the vice president of operations and customer satisfaction at Mintera, a company that makes optical-networking equipment. He was vice president of operations at Optovia, an Acton-based maker of optical amplifiers. Stewart Stryker, MBA’87, of Windsor, Vermont, writes,“Two weeks after getting my Northeastern MBA, I realized I didn’t want to be a manager. I liked my current job, computer programmer, and didn’t want to get my job satisfaction from other people’s efforts. Fifteen years ago, my wife, two dogs, and I moved to Vermont to enjoy the great outdoors. We also wanted to be closer to the nonprofit where we’ve been volunteering since my NU graduation: Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports, which provides sports and recreational opportunities to people with disabilities. We’ve helped them as ski instructors, camp counselors, fundraisers, and members of their board of directors. By coincidence, we work for colleges only about two miles from each other, both across the Connecticut River in New Hampshire. I’ve been a programmer for Dartmouth College the past six years, working for the development department, and enjoy it very much. I’d love to hear from High-Tech MBA grads from my class to see what they’re up to.” Dennis G. Berger, BA’88, of Hinsdale, Illinois, is a senior vice president of coworker services and chief coworker services officer at CDW, a technology products and services firm in Vernon Hills. He was previously vice president of coworker services there. He came to CDW from PepsiAmericas, where he was vice president of human resources. Willis S. Jenkins Jr., E’88, of Mitchellville, Maryland, is the program executive of the NASA mission known as THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms), which was launched in late February. The program consists of five probes, the most NASA has ever launched on a single rocket. The mission will attempt to discover what triggers geomagnetic substorms, which are atmospheric events visible in the Northern Hemisphere as a brightening of the northern lights, also known as aurora borealis. Substorms can cause blackouts to cell phones, navigational systems, cable television, and other communications. Jenkins oversees NASA’s $1 billion, 500-employee Explorers Program, which includes THEMIS. Gordon Plutsky, MBA’88, formerly of Huntington, New York, is the director of marketing and research at King Fish Media, a marketing company in Salem, Massachusetts. Plutsky was previously the group marketing director of the channel group at CMP Technology, a Manhasset, New York–based trade magazine and online publisher. Michael Silver, BA’88, sends in this note:“I’m living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Write to me!” E-mail him at michael@buenosairesliving.com. Anne Mistivar-Payen, N’89, of Belchertown, Massachusetts, is an assistant professor of nursing at Springfield Technical Community College. She has been a nurse and health-care supervisor in Lynn, and a nursing laboratory instructor at North Shore Community College. R. Edward Novicelli, E’89, of Meriden, Connecticut, writes,“I am back in my hometown after living overseas and in California and Minnesota. Currently working for Olympus in the industrial microscopy division as the eastern regional sales manager. Married to Cheryl, who went to UMass. We have two boys: Max, five, and Thor, three. Hope all the ’89ers are well. Drop me a line at ed.novicelli@olympusindustrial.com.” John Viliesis, MBA’89, of Nashua, New Hampshire, has been appointed chief financial officer at GlobalWare Solu­tions, which advises businesses on supply-chain management. Most recently, he was the CFO at Chem­Design Products, a chemical manufacturing company. He has also worked at Abt Associates, Genzyme, and BAE Systems.

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Sherry S. Handel, BA’90, of Holden, Massachusetts, is the director of the central Massachusetts office of the Center for Women and Enterprise, a nonprofit organization that helps women start and grow businesses. Handel is the founder of Blue Jean magazine, the author of Blue Jean: What Young Women Are Thinking, Saying, and Doing, and the founder of Blue Jean Media and the website bluejeanonline.com. Rosann Ippolito, MPH’90, PHD’06, received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Duke Univer­sity physician assistant program on May 13. She is a senior clinical specialist and the director of the physician assistant program at Northeastern’s School of Health Professions. David T. Lingley, CS’90, of Dunbarton, New Hamp­shire, is the vice president of services at Exalead, a Boston-based engine-search software company. Richard J. Lofgren Jr., E’90, lives in Orchard Park, New York, with his wife, Deborah, and daughter Sloane. He is a territory sales representative selling orthopedic joint devices (hip and knee implants) for Wright Medical Technologies, an orthopedic medical-device company. Lofgren says any Northeastern grads in the Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester areas may contact him at richlofgren@verizon.net. Jonathan Morrone, BA’90, of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, has been appointed to the board of directors for Globex, which develops conversion technologies and methods related to the production of alternative“green” energy. Morrone has spent his career working with such notable securities firms as Dean Witter, Hambrecht Quist, and Gruntal. Richard W. Rose, L’90, of Providence, Rhode Island, is a federal prosecutor on temporary assignment in New Orleans. Best known for prosecuting former Providence mayor Vincent Cianci Jr., Rose is a member of a federal task force of prosecutors and agents from around the United States who will spend six months in New Orleans combating gun violence. He began his assignment in mid-March. Betty St. Sauveur, BA’90, of Allston, Massachusetts, has been named vice president of network products at Viant, a provider of health-care payment and cost-management solutions. Previously, she was vice president of operations at Private Healthcare Systems. Elizabeth (McMillen) Sullivan, L’90, previously of Lake Forest Park, Washington, has been promoted to vice president of partner (human) resources at Starbucks China. She and her family will relocate to Shanghai. After many years in private practice, Sullivan joined Starbucks six years ago, starting in law and corporate affairs as director of corporate counsel/employment. In 2005, she shifted her career to human resources, leading the HR functions for a variety of corporate and field-business units within Starbucks. Before her promotion, she was director of partner (human) resources at Starbucks. Sullivan reports her husband, Scott, and kids Kyle, thirteen, and Rachel, eleven, are very excited about their new adventure in China. Tony Trigilio, MA’90, PHD’97, of Chicago, is the author of The Lama’s English Lessons, a book of poetry published by Three Candles Press. Lois (Pyne) Berkeley, AS’91, and John Berkeley are proud to announce the birth of their twins, Mallory Christine and Zachary Robert, on September 19, 2006. Lois and John were married in July 2005. After working for thirteen years at Compuware, Lois is now a stay-at-home mom. The family lives in Bellingham, Massachusetts. David Iacomini, CJ’91, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, is the first recipient of the Chairman’s Club Award at Target Consulting Group, a permanent placement company that specializes in executive searches for sales, business-development, and senior-management positions. Iacomini was the company’s top recruiter and revenue producer in 2006. He previously worked at Citizens Energy Corporation and RCN Corporation. He is an honorary member of the Boston Police’s Emerald Society and a member of the board of directors for the Capron Park Zoo, in Attleboro. Mark O’Hearne, MBA’91, of Newton, Mass­achusetts, is the vice president of business development and marketing at Millennial Net, a wireless-technology company in Burlington. O’Hearne previously worked at Brooks Automation, a manufacturer of equipment for the semiconductor industry. Stephen Slaner, MEd’91, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, has joined the faculty of the history, government, philosophy, and economics department at Northern Essex Com­munity College. Previously, he taught at Bunker Hill Community College, Salem State College, Boston College, Columbia College, and Northeastern, and served as a visiting lecturer at Wheaton and Tufts. Patrick Gaston, MBA’92>, of Washington, D.C., has been elected to the board of directors of Bed Bath & Beyond. Gaston is the president of Verizon Foundation. He has worked at Verizon since 1984. Lorne Jones, MBA’92, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, runs a company called Root Cellar Preserves. He writes,“This food-products company gives half its proceeds to local community efforts to support the preservation of early American homesteads. These buildings represent our American heritage and are under a lot of pressure to survive, across every town and city in America, due to rural development and abandonment. Root Cellar Preserves re-creates traditional canned products that have become increasingly hard to find. We seek out small family-run food producers who still use traditional ‘slow’ manufacturing methods to make our products. These companies are also under a great deal of pressure to survive because of the consolidation in the food business. Root Cellar provides them with access to larger markets.” The company’s website is at www.rootcellarpreserves.com. Dennis W. Reip, ME’92, of Boxborough, Massachusetts, is an associate and director of structural engineering in the Boston office of Dewberry, a consulting company based in Fairfax, Virginia. He manages and coordinates structural engineering projects, including highway, rail, and pedestrian bridges; tunnels; transportation facilities; buildings; and telecommunications structures. David Wheeler, CJ’92, of Brockton, Massachu­setts, has been named principal at Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School, in Easton. Formerly, he was the director of standards and assessments for career and vocational-technical education at the Massachusetts Department of Education, a post he assumed in 2004. He also serves as a lecturer in the applied computing department at Curry College, in Milton. Rosalyn Garbose, L’93, of West Newton, Massachusetts, has been appointed deputy bureau chief in the state’s Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau by Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley. Garbose has served as an assistant attorney general for nearly a decade and most recently was chief of the attorney general’s central Massachusetts regional office, in Worcester. She also has experience in private practice, having worked as an associate at the Boston law firm Bingham McCutchen. John J. Northrup, AS’93, of Huntington, New York, is the senior manager of online services at the consumer-electronics division of Sirius Satellite Radio, in New York City. Northrup and his wife, Caitlin, celebrated the birth of their first child, Chloe, in May 2006. He sends“best wishes and a hearty hello” to all Northeastern classmates and former ZBT brothers. Miklos Sandorfi, E’93, of Northborough, Massachusetts, serves as chief technology officer at data-protection company Sepaton. At a Data Protection Summit in March, Sandorfi spoke on the topic of removing redundancy in backup data. Sarah Serluco Taggart, AS’93, writes,“My husband, John, and I had twin girls, Anna and Isabel, in October 2003. This year, we will celebrate ten years of marriage. We moved from New York City to Gladstone, New Jersey, just before the twins’ birth and have decided to stay. We are even moving our TV production company’s operations to our home because we love it so much and want to spend more time with our girls. I would love to hear from anyone and get an update on what everyone is doing.” The address is staggart@production920.com. Stephen Whalen, E’93, is an engineer with LandDesign in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he and his wife, Anna, live. LandDesign is an engineering, architectural, and planning firm. Formerly, Whalen was with Mark Thomas and Company, a civil and structural engineering firm in Sacramento, California. Zoran Zvonar, PHD’93, of Boston, has been named an ADI fellow by Analog Devices, a leading manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal-processing applications. He is one of only thirty-three engineers to receive this recognition, the company’s highest technical honor. One of the first system engineers specializing in communications algorithms, Zvonar joined Analog Devices in 1994. Today he is an expert in wireless-system design for communications applications. Sally Curley, MBA’94, of Stow, Massachusetts, has been elected to the board of directors for the National Investor Relations Institute, a professional association of corporate officers and investor-relations consultants responsible for communication among corporate management, the investing public, and the financial community. Curley is the vice president of investor relations at biotechnology giant Genzyme, in Cambridge. Jayme Fishman, BA’94, of North Reading, Massachusetts, is a principal in the Boston office of Ryan & Company, North America’s largest independent state and local tax-consulting firm. Formerly, Fishman was a senior vice president at ADP Taxware. He earned his juris doctor degree at Louisiana State University. Catherine (Anderson) Giles, BA’94, and Kevin Giles, of Salem, New Hampshire, welcomed the birth of twins, Emma Thalia and Aidan Christian, on February 6 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Catherine and Kevin were married on July 19, 2003, in Kennebunkport, Maine. Catherine writes of the twins,“They are doing great and getting bigger every day. We are thrilled with our new family.” Kieran L. Ramsey, CJ’94, and Heather (Graves) Ramsey, BA’96, of Alexandria, Virginia, celebrated the birth of their son, Connor Kieran, in February.“Connor is doing great, but mom and dad are a little sleep-deprived,” writes Kieran, who’s a supervisory special agent at FBI headquarters.“Heather is already back to work, though, and continues to be a highly sought-after life coach in the northern Virginia/Washington,D.C. area.” Heather’s website is www.thecoach4me.com. Satyan Sharma, BA’94, and Monica Kraft, a Philadelphia attorney, were married in dual Catholic and Hindu ceremonies on March 23 and 24. They live in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Josephine Tsui, AS’94, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, is business-development manager at LehmanMillet, a marketing agency that specializes in medical devices and diagnostics. Mark Pinsley, UC’95, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the president of Adaco Services, which develops software for the hospitality industry. Michael Sullivan, MBA’95, of North Reading, Massa­chu­setts, is the chief financial officer at Ecora Software, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Ecora is a developer of network-configuration reporting and patch-management (software security) solutions. Previously, he was the chief financial officer at Segue Software. Mohammad Saleem Taj, MBA’95, of London, England, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Falcon Invest­ment Company. Taj is head of business development for Gulf International Bank (UK), which he joined in October 2006. Prior to that, Taj was the director of business development and client relations at Legg Mason Investments (Europe) for three years. David J. Arthur, MBA’96, of Norwood, Massachusetts, has been appointed to the scientific advisory board for NaturalNano, a materials-science company located in Pittsford, New York. Arthur is the head of the consulting firm Chasm, which specializes in bridging the gap between research and product commercialization. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Materials Research Society, the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, and the Society for Information Display. He has been involved as an inventor on more than twenty-five patents. Michelle Laubin, L’96, of Shelton, Connecticut, writes,“I am now a partner at the law firm Berchem, Moses & Devlin, in Milford, primarily practicing in the area of education law, representing school districts throughout the state.” Jeffrey Megar, MBA’96, of Need­ham, Massachusetts, is a leveraged loan manager at State Street Global Advisors, an investment-management firm. He formerly worked at Fortis Investment Management, where he served as a senior portfolio manager. John Pedreros, BA’96, and his wife, Francine, welcomed the birth of Derek Jeffrey on October 24, 2006. The family lives in Marl­borough, Massachusetts. Kenneth Pickering, L’96, of Worcester, Massa­chusetts, has been made partner in Mirick O’Connell’s litigation group. The law firm has offices in Worcester, Westborough, and Boston. Brian Taylor, MBA’96, of San Francisco, has joined Power Efficiency as vice president of product management. The company develops and markets advanced energy-saving technologies for electric motors. Taylor was previously a business manager of standard drives at Rockwell Automation. Sima Walker, N’96, writes,“I’m living in Manhattan with my husband, Mark, and working per diem at New York Presbyterian Hospital in the outpatient endoscopy suite and recovery room. I welcome e-mail from classmates at simaswalker@hotmail.com. Joanne (Jaucian) Barrett, AS’97, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, married Shawn A. Barrett on April 30, 2005, in Bloomfield. Barrett is a special education–preschool teacher in New York City. She received her master’s degree from New York University in 2003. E-mail her at barrett_74@comcast.net. Kathryn Karakus, AS’97, of Boston, has joined Donald Haack Diamonds as a marketing manager. Karakus has seven years of experience in luxury jewelry marketing. Deidre Fitzpatrick, L’98, of Silver Spring, Maryland, recently accepted a position at Service Employees International Union, a labor union in Washington, D.C., as an assistant general counsel. Fitzpatrick was previously an associate at Woodley & McGillivary, a firm specializing in labor and administrative law. Amy Graver, AS’98, of Branford, Connecticut, was included in Graphic Design USA magazine’s list of People to Watch in 2007. A former Boston Globe photographer, Graver is the founder of Elements, a New Haven company that specializes in graphic and web design, marketing communications, advertising, and public relations. Maura Healy, L’98, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is the head of the civil rights division in the office of Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley. Formerly, Healy was a junior partner in the Boston law firm Wilmer, Pickering, Hale, and Dorr, where she concentrated on commercial litigation, government investigations, and civil rights cases. Jeffrey B. Sodoma, BA’98, of Fort Worth, Texas, is an operations planner at transportation and infrastructure company DMJM Harris, in Dallas. He previously worked at BNSF Railway for eight years. At DMJM Harris, he writes,“I will be helping Dallas Area Rapid Transit design, construct, and test extensions to its light-rail transit system. It is a great project to be involved with. One more piece of news: On New Year’s Eve, at the stroke of midnight, I asked Amanda Lynn Hughes, of Fort Worth, to marry me. She said yes.” June 30 is the couple’s wedding date. Jessica Wagner, AS’98, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, is the first woman on the forty-member Boston Police entry and apprehension team, the equivalent of a SWAT team. A former Northeastern hockey captain, Wagner joined the Boston Police three years ago. She was assigned to patrols in Roxbury and then moved to the motorcycle unit before being recommended for her current post. Robert Andrews, MBA’99, of Syracuse, New York, is part-owner of BioAxxis Development, a startup that specializes in the design and development of biometric security products. In January, the company’s biometric deadbolt lock, which is designed to open after reading a recognized finger­print, won an innovations award at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. Andrews reports that BioAxxis is one of the top five emerging businesses in the upstate New York area. He serves as its director of marketing. Stacey Archfield, AS’99, and Steven Sharobem, AS’97, of Brighton, Massachusetts, proudly announce their marriage. The wedding was on March 15 in Cambridge. Christopher Boyd, AS’99, and Catherine Baker, BHS’01, are happy to announce that they were married on September 16, 2006, in Boston. Boyd is a manager at the Executive Office for Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Baker is a physician assistant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The couple lives in South Boston. Elyse (Unruch) Ganz, BA’99, and her husband, Eric, celebrated the birth of their daughter, Allyson Wendi, on December 29, 2006. The family lives in Middlesex, New York. Dovie Yoana King, L’99, of Elk Grove, California, is the legal director at California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) in Stockton. An advocacy group started in 1965, CRLA represents the rural poor in courtrooms, classrooms, agricultural fields, and before the California legislature. King oversees a staff of attorneys, community workers, and support staff, and is responsible for the daily operations of the Stockton office. Magdalena Pavlak-Chiaradia, AS’99, and Andre Chiaradia are proud to announce the birth of Rafal Mateo on November 18, 2006. Rafal has a five-year-old brother, Felicjan. The family lives in Danvers, Massachusetts. Chris J. Pellegrino, CJ’99, of Spotsylvania, Virginia, is a federal agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Courtney, were married in April 2006. Jeremy Ramsey, MBA’99, is a regional sales manager at the data-storage company Quantum, in Boston. He and his wife, Julie (Sugarman), MBA’00, moved from Austin, Texas, to Boston in April. They can be e-mailed at jeremy.ramsey@quantum.com or ramsey.jeremy@gmail.com. Luis Vargas, MBA’99, of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, writes,“I’ve had the best time of my life in the last eight years. I got married to a great Venezuelan woman, who now works in a bank in Manhattan. I work at Unilever (multicultural marketing foods), in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. After many years of training, I attained the level of third-degree black belt in TaeKwonDo ITF. I also became an experienced skydiver (more than five hundred jumps) and snowboarder (Canada, Austria, Chile, Vermont). Hope to hear from old friends.” His e-mail address is luis@vargas.com.

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Andrew Armata, CJ’00, of North Reading, Massachusetts, is the owner of Unlimited Mortgage Corporation and RE/MAX Prestige, which boasts five offices and more than seventy real-estate agents. Joshua M. Gaffney, CJ’00, has joined Flaster/Greenberg as an associate and member of the law firm’s financial restructuring, bankruptcy, and risk-management practice group in its Philadelphia office. He will focus on bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation. Previously, Gaffney was an associate at Wolff & Samson, in West Orange, New Jersey. He also served as a law clerk for Judge Rosemary Gambardella, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Gaffney holds a JD from Rutgers University School of Law. He and his wife, Cheryl, live in Philadelphia. T. J. Gaylord, MS’00, of Boston, is the new senior high-yield analyst in the Global Fixed Income group at State Street Global Advisors. He’ll research bonds of gaming, environmental, metals, minerals, and aerospace and defense companies. He joined the Boston investment-management organization from Columbia Management, where he served as a vice president and high-yield analyst. Christine (Walsh) McDermott, AS’00, and Michael McDermott, AS’99, of Warwick, Rhode Island, celebrated the birth of their son, Logan John, on February 27, in Providence. Jodi (Marak) Ouellette, BHS’00, and Tim Ouellette, BHS’00, of Shelton, Connecticut, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Jack Ryan, on November 16, 2006. Andy Trincia, MBA’00, of Sacramento, California, is a vice president at MultiState Associ­ates. He is the head of West Coast business for the company, which is based in Alexandria, Virginia, and specializes in state government relations. Salem Rashid Al Nuaimi, BA’01, of Springfield Gardens, New York, has been appointed acting CEO of Oasis International Leasing, an Abu Dhabi­–based financial services company. He will oversee the organization’s investment programs and manage the company’s assets in different sectors. He will also oversee the implementation of new strategic initiatives. He was previously the deputy CEO. Before joining Oasis Lending, Al Nuaimi worked in the investments department of the Dubai Islamic Bank. Tracey Armstrong, MBA’01, is the new chief executive officer at Copyright Clearance Center, in Danvers, Massachusetts. The company provides copyright licensing and com­pliance solutions for the information-content industry. Armstrong joined the organization in 1989 and most recently served as the chief operating officer. She, her husband, and their three children live in Beverly. Armstrong’s community activities include serving as chair of the board of trustees for Harborlight House, a low-income assisted-living facility in Beverly. Anna Crowley, AS’01, is a reporter for WCNC-TV, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lives. In January, she was presented a Southeast Regional Emmy in the spot-news category for her story on a 2005 ice storm. She also earned a first-place award from Associated Press in the breaking-news coverage category for her reportage after she and a photographer were caught in a gang shootout. Jason Hofsess, BA’01, of Walnut Creek, California, founded High Trek Adventure (HTA) in 2005. HTA is a game in which teams of two solve clues to find checkpoints around a city by walking or using public transportation. In May, the organization kicked off a 2007 national race series in Boston. Tyeese Gaines Reid, AS’01, MJ’04, of Jersey City, New Jersey, published The Get a Life Campaign, a pocket guide that takes an upbeat look at ways to insert recreation into busy schedules. Reid holds an MD from Nova Southeast­ern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and plans to begin residency training in emergency medicine this summer. She and her husband, Ellis, AS’03, have one child. Ellis recently cofounded MajorConnexx.com, a website that serves as a primary source on hip-hop news and urban culture, offering an extensive library of news, reviews, multi­media, and more.“Hip-hop connoisseurs don’t always have time to browse dozens of websites for hours looking for the latest music news,” writes Reid.“We make it our mission to provide this service to our users, to keep them as informed as they want to be.” Solomon Thomas, BA’01, of Springfield, Massachu­setts, writes,“I am currently a paid loan coordinator at Capital Crossing, a division of Lehman Brothers Bank. I accepted an entry-level position as a loan processor one day before graduation. I was promoted to supervisor in January 2005. I’ve also published a poetry collection, Breakin’ Thru and Other Poems. I volunteer in Hope Corps, where I teach financial literacy to urban kids.” Alexander Aber, L’02, of West Newton, Massachusetts, and his wife, Livia, announce the birth of daughter Natalie Quan, on May 10 in Boston. The baby joins big brother Jude. Aber writes,“Sorry we missed the class of 2002 five-year reunion, but we had our hands full!” Rita (Uppal) Amin, BHS’02, GB’03, of Princeton, New Jersey, in 2006 received her doctorate in physical therapy from Boston University and became board-certified in orthopedics. In February, she opened her own orthopedic physical-therapy practice, located in Trenton—the fulfillment of a dream, she writes. Rachel (Mosley) Charleston, BA’02, and Delvin Charleston were married on June 17, 2006, in New Covenant Church in Philadelphia, in the presence of 150 guests. The couple honey­mooned on a Bahamas cruise. On April 5, they celebrated the arrival of a baby girl, Raven Alexandria, born in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Hospital. The family lives in Sicklerville, New Jersey. Jennifer (Kilbane) DeFronzo, L’02, of Paxton, Massachusetts, is a partner at Milton, Laurence and Dixon, a Worcester law firm. Her practice focuses on medical malpractice and civil litigation. Laura Rice-Sacco, UC’02, of Lynn, Massachusetts, works as an operations assistant in the undergraduate admissions office at the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, on the Burling­ton campus. She and her husband, Thomas, celebrated the birth of their first child, Chloe Jean, on December 20, 2006. Janel (Colarusso) Capone, BHS’03, and Cory Capone, CS’03, of Brookline, New Hampshire, were married May 20, 2006, at the Fort William Henry Resort, in Lake George, New York. They honey­mooned on St. Lucia. Pavel Cenkl, PHD’03, of Craftsbury Common, Vermont, writes that he recently accepted a position as academic dean at Sterling College, where he has been teaching as a member of the humanities and circumpolar studies faculty. Zhaoxia Lu, MCS’03, is the senior vice president and chief operating officer at Neusoft, an information-technology and software company in Shenyang, China. The company’s name was inspired by North­eastern. Sue Mailman, MBA’03, of Wor­­­­ces­­ter, Massachusetts, was recently included in a Worcester Telegram and Gazette article about individuals who work with their mom or dad. Since 2003, Mailman has been president of Coughlin Elec­trical Contractors, a family business for four generations. Jonathan Martin, MBA’03, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, recently accepted a post as an assistant vice president at Boston-based investment adviser AEW Capital Management. Martin was formerly employed at Fairmont Hotels and Resorts as a director of real estate. He writes,“After spending almost two years getting my real-estate career off the ground in Toronto, my family and I have moved back to Boston. My new position with AEW Capital Management is on their partners fund team, focusing on hospitality asset management and acquisitions/ dispositions.” Kevin O’Keefe, UC’03, of Detroit, appeared in two ice-dancing shows at the Forum in Presque Isle. He holds two national titles at the inter­mediate and novice levels, and has competed in seven national championships. Last winter, O’Keefe also coached figure skating full-time. Elisabeth Rinker, AS’03, of Paris, France, and Gregory McKenna, MS’03, of Rochester, New York, were married in May 2005. They celebrated the birth of their daughter, Emilie, in September 2006. Elisabeth is a teacher. Gregory is a captain and physical therapist in the U.S. Army. They can be e-mailed at gnemckenna@yahoo.com. Hiroko Takeshita, SET’04, is the owner of Hanaya, a shop that specializes in Japanese floral design. The shop is located in Cam­bridge, Massachusetts, where Takeshita also lives. Neil Wadhawan, BA’04, of Danville, California, is the chief executive officer at Heartwood Studios, which has its headquarters in San Ramon, California, and offices in Boston and Orlando. The company’s clients include the Dallas Cowboys and the Whoopi Goldberg radio show, Wake Up with Whoopi. Heartwood Studios is a leading 3-D animation and visual-effects studio. Sara Pic-Harrison, L’05, formerly of Roslindale, Massachusetts, has joined AmeriCorps as an attorney with the Pro Bono Project in New Orleans.“I am thrilled to be home in New Orleans, where I was (as they say here) born and bred,” she writes.“It was a difficult decision to leave Boston and a job I really loved at Health Law Advocates, but it was important to me to return home and use my legal skills to help rebuild. I am working as a legal aid lawyer. I am completely overwhelmed with cases but loving it. I urge any Northeastern law school alums to please come visit. We can certainly use you as a volunteer, but visiting just to experience New Orleans, an incredible city, is important, too. I have an extra bedroom for any NUSL alum, if that extra incentive will get you down here and helping out.” Paula Ries, AS’05, of Mount Vernon, Indiana, writes,“I was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in June 2006. As of March—after two surgeries and twelve cycles of chemo—I was found to have no more cancer in my body. I had been working as a costume designer in California when I started to experience the five major colon-cancer symptoms: change in bowel habits, fatigue, anemia, pain in the abdomen, and rapid weight loss. These days, I’m focusing on my jewelry making, art, and advocacy. One way I’m spreading awareness about colon cancer is by posing as a 2008“Colondar” model. The Colondar is a nationwide calendar put out by the Colon Club. Find out more at http://www.colonclub.com/wipeoutcolorectalcancer.html.” Ries reminds everyone that her story proves even young people can be diagnosed with colon cancer:“Since there are usually no symptoms, everyone should make sure they get screened, especially those who are fifty or older. Colonoscopies do not hurt, and they can save lives. You do not need to go through what I have been through.” Julie-Ann Bauer, AS’06, of Hampton, New Hampshire, is a graphic designer at Mindfire Interactive, a web-design, Internet-marketing, and branding company in Boston. She also designs pamphlets and the website for Kupenda, a nonprofit organization that supports disabled children in Kenya. Bauer’s sister, Cynthia, founded the charity, which aids impoverished kids in communities where the disabled are shunned. Their brother, Andrew, is the vice president. Ryan Ciporkin, L’06, of Boston, writes, “I’m reaching out to my fellow alumni for support as I continue to struggle with my employment search. If you hear about any job opportunities for a first- or second-year associate in the Greater Boston area—or if you have further networking recommendations—please contact me.” His e-mail address is rciporki@hotmail.com. Varda Halidy, CJ’06, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, is a recruiter at Construction Recruiters, a Boston-based executive search and consulting company that specializes in the construction industry. She holds several real-estate, insurance, and securities licenses. Her volunteer efforts include MCAS tutoring in the Boston public schools; Hope for Kids, an organization for disadvantaged children; and answering the telephones at WGBH telethons. She and her husband, Shawn, have three children. Nicole Pham, BA’06, of Watertown, Massa­chusetts, has opened a clothes boutique called Velvet Ribbon in Brookline’s Washington Square. Along with her aunt, Pham left Vietnam in 1984, at age five, settling in Carmel, New York. She was reunited with her parents only three years ago, after she was able to sponsor their move to the United States. Sandeep Sudi, ME’06, recently accepted an electrical-engineer position at United Technologies, in Farmington, Connecticut. Most recently, Sudi worked as a DSP engineer at Cantata Technology. Christina Mulka, AS’07, is the press secretary for U.S. senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illi­nois. Mulka landed the position following a co-op job in the senator’s office.