George Patsourakos, LA’60, MEd’65, of Billerica, Massachusetts, is a retired education specialist for the U.S. government. He recently wrote an article on Christian unity, which briefly explains the reasons for divisions in Christianity and presents a plan for re-establishing one Christian Church. The article may be accessed online, by going to <http://members5.boardhost.com/STANDREWHOUSE> and clicking on the title “Sacrifices Are Necessary for Christian Unity to Flourish.” Stephen G. Rudin, MEd’62, of Margate, Florida, reports, “I have finally retired from over thirty years of private psychological practice and over twenty-eight years of part-time college and university teaching in the Boston area. I am settled in southeastern Florida, where I don’t worry about shoveling snow (or slipping on it, either). My wife, Marsha, and I do as much traveling as we can, but we’re limited by my busy work schedule, as I have two teaching appointments at Nova Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I love it and find it a delightful alternative to that nasty word ‘retirement.’ I also do a ‘fly-in’ doctoral-level course at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, which assures I get back up to Boston at least three times a year. My amateur (‘ham’) radio hobby is a great source of enjoyment. I’m looking forward to perhaps hearing from classmates who took some great courses with me from some great instructors, as we earned our MEd degrees.” John F. Lukas, LA’63, of Las Vegas, Nevada, has retired as chairman and chief executive officer at FAR, a data-capture company. “Now I am pursuing my passion of keeping our environment green, with cleaner air,” writes Lukas, who formerly was an assistant professor at Georgia Tech. “In my spare time, I play high-stakes poker, and I am going after my fourth World Series of Poker bracelet. I’d like to hear from all my poker-playing friends so we can cry over our bad-beat stories.” His e-mail address is <johnl510@earthlink.net>. Paul L. Penney, E’63, ME’65, of Gahanna, Ohio, has been appointed to the Ohio State Bar Association Ethics Committee as a nonlawyer member. Denis Horgan, LA’64, of West Hartford, Connecticut, is a veteran journalist who has worked in Boston; Bangkok; Washington, D.C.; and Connecticut. In 2007, he published a memoir titled Flotsam: A Life in Debris (see details at <www.denishorgan.com>). His new novel, The Dawn of Days,
is scheduled to be published in spring 2008. Roger Mo, ME’64, PHD’67, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, shares the news that his father-in-law, Sze-Hou Chang, died on October 4, 2007, at age ninety-four. A pioneer in speech analysis and coding theory, Chang taught electrical engineering at Northeastern for more than thirty years, from 1948 to 1980. At the time of his death, he was living in a retirement home in Redwood City, California. “He was a dedicated and talented teacher,” Mo writes. “I am sure many of his students have fond memories of his classes.” Thomas A. Sacco, E’65, of Stoneham, Massachusetts, is a member of the newly formed advisory board for Envista Corporation, a software company. He is the principal of TAS Associates, an energy consulting business. Previously, he was vice president of gas supply for Baystate Gas Company. Jason D. Traiger, Ed’65, of Milford, Massachusetts, writes, “After many years as a college history professor and department chairman, a New Hampshire land surveyor, and a technical publications manager, I am now a consultant writer for a computer-based development company. I have been involved with writing technical evidence materials for international IT security certification. I have four grandchildren (two in Kansas, two in New Jersey) and continue to play in a Brookline-area jazz band. At Northeastern, I played in the university band and the Silver Masque orchestra (1960–1965). These are among the best memories of my life. I plan to retire and will continue to play jazz and write technical documents. I also plan to write a novel about a man who led (and survived) three different lives, much like my own.” Alexander M. McLaughlin Jr., Ed’67, of Deltona, Florida, was recognized this past November as the Outstanding Rehabilitation Professional of the Year by the Florida Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired at that group’s annual conference. He writes, “After forty-plus years of service in the rehabilitation field, I will be retiring next June. Looking forward to enjoying our Florida and Maine homes.” Robert L. Norton, UC’67, of Norfolk, Massachusetts, was named the 2007 Professor of the Year in Massachu­setts by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is the Higgins Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Norton joined WPI in 1981, after more than twenty years in industry and academia. As head of the design group in the mechanical engineering department, Norton teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on design kinematics, vibrations, and the dynamics of machinery. His scholarship has resulted in thirteen patents. Virginia Belyea Rowen, MEd’67, of Rye, New York, writes, “I’ve been working at Rye Country Day School for the last nineteen years as director of development and alumni affairs. I’ve been in New York for forty years now and still miss Boston and the Red Sox.” Richard P. Santeusanio, MEd’67, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, has been named an associate professor of the reading certificate program at the Institute of Health Professions at Massachusetts General Hospital. The superintendent of the Danvers public schools for thirteen years, he has coauthored Reading to Learn: A Guide for Content Area Teachers, published by STEPS Professional Development. Thomas Hall, Ed’68, MEd’76, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, writes, “I retired in June 2006 after thirty-eight years in education—twenty-three years in Quincy; twelve in Cold Spring Harbor, New York; and the last three as principal of the Bromfield School, in Harvard. My first novel, Something Else Entirely, was published in May 2007. It’s available online through Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com.” Half the book’s profits have been pledged to charity, he notes. A former Northeastern track captain, Hall says two of his former students are “somewhat famous”: former Celtics forward Wally Szczerbiak and actress Lindsay Lohan (“I’m not sure what’s happened to her; she was a terrific person during the four years I knew her,” he observes). Joseph Heyman, LA’68, of Williamsburg, Virginia, writes that he is enjoying his role as chief scientific officer at Luna Innovations. John McDonough, E’68, retired on July 1, 2007, after thirty-one years as a faculty member, school director, and associate dean at the University of Maine’s College of Engineering, in Orono. McDonough and his wife, Claire, live in Orono. Len Perham, E’68, of Saratoga, California, is the new chief executive officer of MoSys, a Sunnyvale-based semiconductor company. Since retiring from the San Jose chip maker Integrated Device Technology in 2000, Perham has been serving as chairman on several companies’ boards. He has more than thirty years of executive leadership and industry experience. Paul H. Sartori, LA’68, of Charlottesville, Virginia, is the new senior vice president of organizational development and human resources at BioTrove, a drug discovery and genomic research company in Woburn, Massachusetts. Sartori has been an executive at CHM Partners International, CIBA–Corning Diagnostics, CIBA-Geigy, and Novartis. Oliver G. Jakob, LA’69, of Fairlee, Vermont, writes that he married Gloria Mock, of Enterprise, Alabama, on May 25, 2007. Robert Marder, LA’69, has opened a new law office in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he lives. He concentrates in commercial law and bankruptcy. Janet Palmer-Owens, BA’69, MEd’72, of Arlington, Massachusetts, was named acting assistant superintendent of the Boston public schools in June 2007. Palmer-Owens has been principal of the Samuel W. Mason Pilot Elementary School since 1998. In that time, the school has received
the Compass School Award from the Massachusetts Department of Education and the Vanguard Award from Mass. Insight Education, and was named one of the top fifty schools in the Northeast by Boston magazine. Prior to being named principal at the Mason School, she was a guidance counselor at the Thompson Middle School and Brighton High School for fourteen years.