Edward L. Galvin, LA’70, MA’80, of Fayetteville, New York, was named the 2006 Member of the Year by the Central New York chapter of the Professional Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA). Galvin is the director of archives and records management at Syracuse University. An archivist for more than thirty-five years, he is the treasurer, webmaster, newsletter editor, and listserv manager for ARMA in central New York. Alan Neville, BA’70, MBA’73, has joined United Way of Rhode Island as an executive vice president and director of communications. Most recently, he was the vice president of marketing and development at Crossroads RI. Prior to that, he worked in marketing and communications at Fleet Financial Group for twenty-five years. He and his wife, Clara, live in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Nancy Garber, Ed’71, GB’82, of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, has a practice as a psychic/medium. She has been featured in the media many times, including twice being chosen “Boston’s best psychic/medium” by Boston magazine. Previously, she worked as a teacher in the Boston public schools. Thomas P. McDonough, BA’71, of Great Falls, Virginia, has been elected chairman of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), the largest voluntary health organization fighting kidney disease. He is the president of Coventry Health Care, based in Bethesda, Maryland. McDonough has volunteered with NKF for twenty-five years. His wife, Olivia, is a thirty-year kidney-transplant recipient. David Poile, BA’71, of Nashville, Tennessee, has been promoted to president of hockey operations for the National Hockey League’s Nashville Predators. Poile will also retain his previous title, general manager. Andrew M. Streisfeld, PA’71, of Needham, Massachusetts, is the new chief financial officer at Medical Capital Group, in Waltham. Streisfeld was formerly the chief financial officer at a software company and a discount brokerage firm, and the CFO and chief operating officer at Brown & Company Securities for twenty-three years. Richard Tourangeau, LA’71, of Roxbury Crossing, Massachu­setts, presented a talk titled “How Baseball Started in Webster” at the Webster-Dudley Historical Society in October 2007. The Webster native is a recognized baseball expert and statistician. Neal Chamberlain, E’72, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is the director of distribution planning and engineering services at Lexington Engineering, where he provides supply-chain solutions. Chamberlain started a consulting practice in 1985 after senior-management stints at Wang Labs and Xerox. He and his wife, Amy, have two children, Dan (a 2004 Swarthmore College graduate in economics and computer science) and Laura (a 2007 Gettysburg College graduate in psychology). Brian Dealy, BA’72, MBA’79, of Westford, Massachusetts, has been named a senior director at the newly formed Alvarez & Marsal ImPART GROUP, a health-care consulting firm in New York. The new organization is the result of a merger between Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group and ImPART GROUP. Robert A. DeLeo, LA’72, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, was presented the 2007 Distinguished Legislator Award by the Boston Bar Association. DeLeo is a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he chairs the Ways and Means Committee. The award makes special note of DeLeo’s efforts to provide adequate funding for civil legal services to the poor. Edward G. Galante, E’73, of Dallas, joined the board of directors of Praxair, a supplier of atmospheric, process, and specialty gases, in December 2007. A retired vice president of ExxonMobil, Galante has served on the boards of the Council of the Americas, the Council for the United States and Italy, and the U.S. Council for International Business. James Audibert, PAH’74, MPH’82, of Summit, New Jersey, is the new vice president of commercial optimization for Nitec Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. Audibert works in the company’s New Jersey office. James Chaplick, E’74, of Sherborn, Massachu­setts, has been promoted to senior vice president at Woodard & Curran’s Dedham office. A member of the firm since 2001, he acts as the service line leader and lead project manager in the industrial engineering group. Woodard & Curran is an integrated engineering, science, and operations company. Kenneth A. Graham, MA’74, of Stratford, Connecticut, writes that he won the 2007 Greater Bridgeport Bar Association Tennis Championship. He also notes he’s been reappointed a superior court state referee and arbitrator/ fact-finder. Roger B. Kelley, E’74, of East Amherst, New York, has been elected to the board of directors of the Ameri­can Public Power Association. He is president and chief executive officer of the New York Power Authority. Joseph P. McCoy, MBA’74, of Houston, is a new independent member of the board of directors of Linn Energy. He has also been appointed to the board of directors of BPI Energy Holdings, a Cleveland energy company engaged in the exploration, production, and commercial sale of coal-bed methane in the Illinois Basin. McCoy most recently was a senior vice president and chief financial officer at Burlington Resources. Vincent Ratford, E’74, of San Jose, California, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the processing solutions group at Xilinx, a supplier of programmable-logic solutions. He was formerly the group’s vice president of marketing, business development, and silicon architecture. Paul Zapert, Ed’74, and his wife, Patricia Hannigan, recently celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary by vacationing in Lisbon and Travira, Portugal. The couple was joined on the trip by Jane Robinson O’Connor, BB’74, and her husband, John. Zapert is vice president of sales for DrugLogic, a developer of analytical tools for managing risks related to drug-safety issues. He met Patricia during his senior year at Northeastern. The Zaperts, who have a daughter, Katherine, and a son, Brian, reside in Dracut, Massa­chusetts. The O’Connors live in Dover, New Hampshire, where Jane is coordinator of patient development at Frisbie Memorial Hospital, and John is super­intendent of schools. They have two daughters, Meaghan and Lauren. Gary M. Abrams, BA’75, of Reading, Massachusetts, has been appointed to the new position of executive vice president, chief operating officer, and chief financial officer at Leominster Credit Union. Previously, he was the credit union’s senior vice president and chief financial officer. Janet E. Garvey, CJ’75, was sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon in September 2007. A career Foreign Service member, Garvey has worked at U.S. embassies in South Africa, Finland, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia and East Germany. Previously, she was the deputy coordinator at the State Department’s Bureau of International Information programs and the director of the Office of North Central European Affairs at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Among those attending Garvey’s swearing in was Walter White, CJ’77, of Milton, Massachusetts, who is the chief building inspector in Brookline. Jack R. Goldberg, LA’75, of Waterbury, Connecti­cut, was appointed in April 2007 as the state’s workers’ compensation commissioner by Governor M. Jodi Rell and confirmed by the General Assembly. Goldberg, an attorney, previously served for twelve years as commissioner of the Department of Public Utility Control, the last four as vice chairman. David L. McIntyre, E’75, ME’83, of Framingham, Massachusetts, has joined Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) as the firm’s institutional practice leader. VHB provides integrated transportation, land development, and environmental services. McIntyre recently served as the lead strategist during the development of the concept plan for the main host venue at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in Beijing. Melanie Smith, PAH’75, of Dallas, in October 2007 received a Woman of Excellence Award from the University of Dallas, where she earned an MBA in 1986. Smith, a registered pharmacist, is currently the director of product development at Mary Kay, where she is responsible for product and proj­ect planning. John Clayton, AS’76, of Manchester, New Hampshire, received the 2007 Best Local Column award from the New England Associated Press News Executives. It is the third time Clayton, a columnist for the New Hampshire Union Leader, has won the award. He was also named to New Hampshire Public Radio’s “25 in 25” list, which recognizes the most influential men and women in New Hampshire over the past twenty-five years. Larry O’Toole, E’76, of Andover, Massachusetts, is the president of Gentle Giant Moving, which was named one of the Top Small Workplaces for 2007 by the Wall Street Journal. Based in Somerville, Gentle Giant has fifteen offices in six states. Zandra (Washington) Stewart, LA’76, of Chicago, is a school psychologist in Hammond, Indiana. She and her husband visited Boston this past summer, her first visit to the city, and to Northeastern, since graduation. She writes, “My impression of NU after thirty years? My goodness, what a change. The access to campus is still great but even better now that the Orange Line runs by the campus. The dorms . . . I resided in Stetson East. Of course, the room sizes are the same, but the dining hall and the lobby are vastly different. I hear the food is also good. Wasn’t too bad thirty years ago, but, from what I saw and heard, it seems like gourmet compared with when I attended. My husband and I visited the Alumni Center and ate at the faculty café. What a bargain for such good food. The Alumni Center itself was impressive, and the staff more than friendly and helpful. Of course, we took a tour around campus. I was immediately impressed by the Student Center and the large quad behind it. We later drove around campus. I remember attending basketball games at the Cabot Center. Now there’s a rather large recreation center (the Marino Center) across the street. And I can’t forget the residence halls. So many. Thirty years ago, NU was primarily a commuter school. No longer. I did not take advantage of the co-op program thirty years ago. I was from Chicago, and the program had not been developed enough to have options for co-ops in the Midwest. As a result, I completed school in four years. What piqued my interest in returning to visit NU was running into some co-op students in a Chicago store. How surprised I was—a group of NU students completing a co-op in Chicago. Returning to my alma mater turned out to be a nice experience. It was good to see so many changes across the campus. My husband wants to get back sometime in the future so we can cheer on the Sox. Of course, [we cheer for] White when they play Red.” Leslie Winner, L’76, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is the new executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, which promotes community economic development, environmental health, democracy and civic engagement, precollegiate education, and social justice and equity. Winner, a native of Asheville, was formerly vice president and general counsel at the University of North Carolina. Brian D. Bixby, L’77, of Cohasset, Massa­chusetts, has been appointed the chair of the taxation law section of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He is the cochair of the private client group at the Boston firm Burns & Levinson, where he concentrates on estate planning, fiduciary administration, and probate court litigation. Elmer Freeman, UC’77, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a member of the Director’s Council of Public Representatives, a committee that advises the NIH director on important public issues. Freeman is the executive director of the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, and an adjunct assistant professor and director of urban health programs and policy at Northeastern’s Bouvé College. Previously, Freeman was the executive director of the Whittier Street Health Center for seventeen years. He serves as the cochair of Critical MASS, a multi-organizational, multicultural, multi-community coalition to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in Massachusetts. Kathryn Higgins Patisteas, BB’77, of Rochester, Massachusetts, recently became staff director of the Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund at the state’s Department of Public Health. She is married to George, LA’78, who is a design supervisor at the Boston Globe. They have three sons: Evan, who works for State Street Corporation in Quincy; Daniel, who teaches math at Silver Lake Regional High School, in Kingston; and Adam, who is a junior at Northwestern University. Kathy and George may be contacted at <swordfish13@comcast.net>. Lorin J. Randall, MBA’77, of West Chester, Penn­sylvania, has been elected to the board of directors and appointed chair of the audit committee at Athersys, a bio­pharmaceutical company in Cleveland, Ohio. A financial consultant, Randall most recently was senior vice president and chief financial officer at Eximias Pharmaceutical. Catherine Shanahan, CJ’77, is the owner of Shanahan Sound and Electronics in Lowell, Massachusetts, where she lives. Her father started the business in 1951 as a radio and television sales and service shop. Paul Swindlehurst, BB’77, of Stoneham, Massachusetts, has joined the Greater Boston Food Bank as executive vice president of marketing and development. In this position, he will lead the Food Bank’s $35 million capital campaign, funding the construction of a new facility that will double the organization’s capacity to feed hungry people. He is also charged with building and managing the Food Bank’s marketing and development programs. Most recently, Swindlehurst served as chief advancement officer at the Rashi School, in Newton. Earlier in his career, he was the director of alumni development at Northeastern’s College of Business Administration. Paul D. Cordella, CJ’78, of Tierra Verde, Florida, writes that, after twenty years of setting up five start-up biotechnology companies, he recently retired due to Parkinson’s disease. He and Candace, his wife of twenty-four years, have homes in Florida, north Georgia, and Colorado. Their son, Scott, is a freshman at the University of Mississippi. Paul G. Keane, E’78, of East Walpole, Massachusetts, is the new senior project manager in the civil engineering/construction management group at Daylor Consulting, in Brain­tree. Formerly, he was an associate and senior project manager at Toomey-Munson and Associates. Steven Klebe, BA’78, of San Mateo, California, has been appointed vice president of sales and business development at Danal, a mobile-payments service based in San Jose. He was previously the vice president of sales and business development at PassMark Security. Michael Kowolenko, PAH’78, MP’81, PHD’86, of Kingston, Massachusetts, has joined Wyeth Pharmaceuticals as senior vice president, biotech operating unit, technical operations and product supply division. Previously, he worked at Biogen Idec, where he most recently served as senior vice president, pharmaceutical operations and technology. J. Keith Motley, Ed’78, GB’81, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, who became the eighth chancellor of the University of Massachusetts–Boston in July 2007, celebrated his inauguration in November. He has been with the UMass system since 2003, when he assumed the role of vice chancellor of student affairs at UMass–Boston. Motley worked at Northeastern for more than two decades in various roles, including ten years as dean of student services. Milner Reid, BA’78, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, writes, “My wife and I are proud to inform my fellow alumni of the publication of my son’s first book, Look What I Found Underneath the Bed. Information on my son and his book is available at <www.kamauldavid.com>.” Samuel Bertolino, AGS’79, of Bristol, Rhode Island, is the new principal at Donovan Elementary School, in Randolph, Mass­a­chusetts. He was previously the principal at the Hugh Cole School, in Warren, Rhode Island. Morrison Bonpasse, MPA’79, of Newcastle, Maine, is the president of the Single Global Currency Association, which he founded in 2003 with the goal of encouraging the world to adopt one currency by 2024. He published the book The Single Global Currency: Common Cents for the World in 2006; subsequent editions appeared in 2007 and 2008. David Therrien, E’79, of Nashua, New Hampshire, presented as part of a panel at Storage Networking World, an international storage-networking conference held in Dallas in October 2007. His panel discussed data de-duplication, an emerging data-protection technology. Therrien is founder and chief technology officer of ExaGrid Systems, a disk-based data-protection company in Westborough, Massachu­setts. Charlotte Wood-Harrington, AS’79, ME’85, of Chicago, writes, “I am a physics teacher (national board certified) at Proviso Math and Science Academy, in Forest Park, Illinois. I spent the past summer at the International High School Teachers Institute at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. I was one of five U.S. high school teachers chosen to attend. It was wonderful. I enjoy high-energy physics. (Hey, I should have listened to Professor Aaron and been a physics major!) Back home, my students are doing original research on cosmic rays and muons.”