Helen Gordon, E’80, of Norwood, Massachusetts, has been promoted to group leader of the civil and environmental engineering group at Woodard & Curran. Gordon, a senior vice president at the integrated engineering, science, and operations company, is active in the Boston Society of Civil Engineering, the Women’s Environmental Association, and the New England Water Environment Association. Ronald Lee MacNeill, UC’80, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, worked as a government employee of the U.S. Navy during Operation Desert Storm, out of home port Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, located on the coast of the Red Sea. “I enjoyed the Fall edition of Northeastern University Alumni Magazine,” he writes. Paul Mentag, BB’80, of Yarmouth, Maine, has joined the Institute for Civic Leadership as director of consulting services. The organization offers a range of programs to train, support, and engage civic leaders across the state. Earlier in his career, Mentag served as general manager and program director for Northeastern’s corporate conference and training center. John Clark, CJ’81, of Los Angeles, was presented the President’s Award by the Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County at the organization’s annual Centurion Awards banquet. The award recognizes his role in the apprehension of several high-profile violent fugitives, including three wanted for killing police officers. Clark is the commander of the Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force, part of the U.S. Marshals Service. Brenda (Coville) Harrigan, CJ’81, is a partner in the law firm Gunning & LaFazia, in Providence, Rhode Island. Her concentration is in family law, including divorce, custody, and child support, as well as insurance defense litigation. She is licensed to practice law in both Rhode Island and Texas. During her Northeastern days, she was an R.A. at 364 Huntington Avenue. Today she lives in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, with her husband, Ed, and children Dan, Jenny, and Will. Harrigan can be reached at <bharrigan@gunninglafazia.com>. David Klein, E’81, of Sebastopol, California, who endured ulcerative colitis during his years at Northeastern, notes he was able to heal in 1984 by following the natural hygiene self-healthcare system. Because of this recovery, he changed careers from environmental engineering to health education. Klein is now a hygienic doctor, with a doctorate in natural health and healing from the University of Natural Health. He directs the Colitis and Crohn’s Health Recovery Center in Sebastopol, and is the author of Self Healing Colitis and Crohn’s (available on Amazon.com). His website’s URL is <www.colitis-crohns.com>. William H. Ryan, CJ’81, writes, “After surviving the cocaine cowboy days; the Mariel, Cuba, boatlift; too many civil disorders to remember; the papal visit to Miami; the utter and complete destruction of Hurricane Andrew; working too many birthdays, holidays, anniversaries; twenty-four-hour shifts; and lost weekends, I have finally, honorably retired from the Miami–Dade County Police Department after twenty-six years. My wife, Cindy (of Somerville, Massachusetts), and I have relocated to the quiet country town of Deland, Florida, where I’ll be working on my backswing and surfcasting techniques. We also will be near our two sons, Patrick and Sean, who live in the Greater Orlando area. I would like to hear from my old classmates.” His e-mail address is <bcryan112@cfl.rr.com>. Richard M. Altieri, BA’82, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, in September was appointed vice president and chief financial officer at TissueLink, a Dover, New Hampshire, medical-device company. Formerly, he was senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Straumann. Patricia Gosselin, GB’82, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, has joined the Audiology Center of Maine. She has practiced as an audiologist in various settings in the Boston area, including at Children’s Hospital Boston. She was previously a senior audiologist at North Shore Children’s Hospital, in Salem. Lisa Holmes, CJ’82, of Merrimac, Massachusetts, has been appointed acting police chief in West Newbury. A member of the town’s police department for twenty-four years, Holmes is a 2000 graduate of Massachusetts School of Law. Robert J. Kerwin, L’82, of Boston, was appointed cochair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s business law section in September 2007. He practices business litigation with the Boston law firm Tarlow, Breed, Hart & Rogers. Charles M. Weidhas, E’82, MBA’88, of Ballwin, Missouri, is the new president and CEO of ICL Performance Products, a major manufacturer and marketer of specialty phosphates, headquartered in St. Louis. Previously, he was general manager of the specialty products division at Solutia, a St. Louis chemical maker. Kenneth Bero, MBA’83, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, became Datawatch’s president and chief executive officer in December 2007. He previously served as chief operating officer at the intelligence-software maker, which is based in Chelmsford. Bero joined Datawatch in June 2006 as vice president of enterprise sales for North America and became COO in March 2007. He has also taken a position on Datawatch’s board of directors. David Granchelli, AS’83, of West Groton, Massachusetts, writes to let friends know of the death of his father, Felix, LA’48, PHD’72. A research chemist who specialized in organic and medicinal chemistry, Felix Granchelli had earned more than a dozen patents in cancer-therapies research. During his thirty-seven-year career, he worked at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, served as a faculty member and research scientist at Northeastern, then took a research position at DuPont. He retired in 1989. During World War II, Felix was a U.S. Air Force radio operator and gunner who spent nine months as a prisoner in a German stalag after his plane was shot down over Hungary. Gordon Greenfield, AS’83, of Bradenton, Florida, is the new chief marketing officer at the Florida West Coast Symphony. He has held executive positions at Lennar Homes, Acterna, and Global Insight. Denise Hart, MEd’83, of Barrington, New Hampshire, was appointed in October 2007 to the nonprofit environmental organization slot on the state’s Citizens Trade Policy Commission. Hart is a member of the board of directors of Save Our Groundwater, an environmental organization fighting a bottled-water company in New Hampshire. Jim Madden, BA’83, of Cumming, Georgia, has been promoted to senior vice president of global sales at VoiceObjects, a phone application server company in San Mateo, California. He was previously the company’s vice president of sales for the Americas. Before joining VoiceObjects, he was the senior vice president of worldwide sales, services, and business development at Five9, an on-demand telesales and call-center solutions provider. Bruce Moore, BA’83, of Bristow, Virginia, was recognized by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the Joint Staff Civilian Employee of the Year during a recent ceremony at the Pentagon. He retired from the U.S. Army in 2004 after more than twenty-one years as an Army aviation officer and comptroller, and is now a senior financial analyst for strategic plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. Joe Witmer, MA’83, of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, writes that he recently traveled to Azerbaijan and Kosovo through the U.S. Agency for International Development to make presentations on the law of utility regulation and low-income assistance programs. Gil Fronzaglia, E’84, recently of Boulder, Colorado, is the new vice president of operations at FoodShouldTasteGood, an all-natural tortilla-chip company in Needham, Massachusetts. Previously, he served as executive vice president of operations at IZZE Beverage Company. Edward Olkkola, MBA’84, of Southlake, Texas, has been named senior vice president of business development at Belo, a Dallas-based media company. He formerly worked at STARTech Early Ventures, a Richardson-based venture-capital firm specializing in technology-based start-ups. Charles Heineck, BHD’85, of Dunwoody, Georgia, writes to say hello to his classmates. He and his wife, Jill, have been married nine years. Charles, who is in his twenty-third year teaching in the Dunwoody schools, also has a full-time residential painting company, Home Beautiful. Jill runs a residential real-estate practice. Both “are enjoying successful careers,” Charles reports. He adds that he plays in many local hoops leagues and “still kills it on the basketball court.” David A. Murphy, E’85, of Brockton, Massachusetts, is a project manager in the Worcester office of engineering firm Tighe & Bond. Previously, he worked as engineering and construction program manager at Catholic Relief Services. In that position, he worked on tsunami relief and reconstruction efforts in Indonesia. A registered professional engineer, Murphy has more than twenty years of experience managing design and construction, reconstruction, and environmental programs. Patricia A. Vinchesi, MPA’85, of Conway, Massachusetts, is the new deputy director of the Springfield Finance Control Board. Previously, she was the town administrator in South Hadley. Daniel Baker, PA’86, of Newton, Massachusetts, is the new chief financial officer at PlumChoice, an online PC-services provider based in Billerica. Before joining PlumChoice, he served as CFO at Intermute Software, an Internet-security software company. Angela M. Ordoñez, CJ’86, L’89, of Boston, has been named judicial liaison to the Boston Bar Association’s Family Law Section, which considers matters regarding the care and protection of children as well as other family-related legal issues. Ordoñez is an associate justice in the Norfolk Probate and Family Court. Andrew Yablin, BA’86, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, is the vice president of global logistics at Scholastic, where he organized the successful worldwide effort behind the timely distribution of twelve million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to thirty countries last summer. Before joining Scholastic, Yablin worked at Mobil Oil and Pepsi North America. He’s been responsible for hiring co-ops at Scholastic for the past five years. Patricia D’Amore, MBA’87, of Newton, Massachusetts, is a member of the new medical advisory board at TransMolecular, a Cambridge biotechnology company that develops therapies for cancer. D’Amore is a professor in the ophthalmology and pathology department at Harvard Medical School, associate director of research and Ankeny Scholar of Retinal Molecular Biology at Schepens Eye Research Institute, and a research associate in the surgery department at Children’s Hospital Boston. Mark Lewandowski, E’87, of Bolton, Massachusetts, is the new vice president of support and operations at software company Desktone, in Chelmsford. Peter Benton, E’88, formerly of Gladstone, New Jersey, is the new chief operating officer at etrials, a provider of software to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device, and contract-research organizations. Patricia (Cadena) Converse, AS’88, writes, “I am still living in Los Angeles with my husband, Jon, and my two children, Parker, ten, and Kate, six. I started my own company last year: Front & Main, a gift boutique. Front & Main has become more of a hobby now that I have rejoined Selbert Perkins Design as a principal, business development. I was also just elected to the board of directors of the Boojum Institute for Experiential Education, which provides outdoor education, at-risk youth programs, and training for team building and leadership. Recently, I was the president of the Angelic Auxiliary, a branch of the Children’s Bureau of Southern California.” Gerard J. Corcoran, AS’88, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, works at the Essex County Sheriff’s Department. Over the past four years, he has also won two NJCAA championships as the head basketball coach at Dean College, in Franklin. As of mid-October, Corcoran and his wife, Deanne, were awaiting the birth of “spontaneous” triplets, expected to arrive in five to twelve weeks, joining the couple’s elder child, twenty-seven-month-old Connor. Corcoran’s twenty-two-year-old son, Gerry Jr., is a senior at Merrimack College, where he is a scholarship basketball player. “He has had a great basketball run, and it will be sad to see it over,” writes the proud dad. Kevin J. Holley, BA’88, of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, is the managing partner at Gunning & LaFazia, a law firm located in Providence. Holley, who earned his law degree from Georgetown in 1991, practices plaintiff and insurance defense law in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He and his wife, Kay, also a Georgetown law grad, have two daughters, Shannon and Erin. Friends may e-mail him at <kholley@gunninglafazia.com>. Satish Maripuri, ME’88, of Windham, New Hampshire, was named the 2007 Business Person of the Year by the IndUS Business Journal. He is the chief operating officer at Lionbridge Technologies, the world’s largest provider of translation and globalization services. Jane Niederberger, MBA’88, of Carmel, Indiana, is the new chairman of Medical Animatics, an Indianapolis company that produces scientific and medical visualizations. Formerly, she was vice president and general manager of operations at WellPoint. Gary J. Richard, E’88, of Coronado, California, took over as commanding officer of Sea Air Land (SEAL) Team 7 at the U.S. Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, in December 2007. Previously, he served as director of operations for Naval Special Warfare Group 1. SEAL Team 7 recently returned from a six-month deployment in Iraq and the Pacific theater. Barbara Trafton, MBA’88, of Auburn, Maine, is the new chair of the Maine State Housing Authority’s board of commissioners. Trafton works with residential and commercial real-estate clients at Keller Williams Realty Mid-Maine. For six years, she was the campaign chair for the Auburn Public Library. She has served in the Maine legislature, first as a representative, then as a senator, and is the author of Women Winning: How to Run for Office. In 2002, she was named the Auburn Citizen of the Year. David R. Caruso, AS’89, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, has been promoted to vice president and business banking specialist at Citizens Bank in Providence. Claude d’Estree, L’89, of Denver, writes, “Currently, I am a professor of law at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies, director of the Center on Rights Development, chair of the Task Force on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, and senior fellow at the Institute on Globalization and Security. I was recently appointed as the ex officio rapporteur to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, dealing with human trafficking.” Friends may e-mail him at <cdestree@du.edu>. Ken Foster, GB’89, of New Orleans, has been on a book-signing tour for his latest work of nonfiction, Dogs I Have Met, which includes stories of his encounters with dogs and readers around the world. His earlier effort was The Dogs Who Found Me, a memoir about rescuing dogs, which has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, in Newsweek, on WGBH’s Morning Stories, and in Northeastern University Alumni Magazine. “Our dogs connect us,” Foster says, “and books do, too.” His website is at <www.ken-foster.com>. Jodi Murray Gregg, CJ’89, of Stamford, Connecticut, has been nominated to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Committee. Gregg is an attorney who has been in private practice since 2003. She was previously the program director for Fairfield County at Lawyers for Children America. John H. Hill III, BA’89, a commander in the U.S. Navy, assumed command of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 57 (VR-57) at Naval Air Station North Island in November 2007. VR-57 operates three Boeing 737-700 aircraft, designated by the Navy as the C-40A Clipper. Hill lives in Coronado, California, with his wife and three children. Timothy B. Hill, AS’89, of Ellicott City, Maryland, received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive in September 2007, in recognition of his leadership and sustained performance as a career civil-service executive. The award is given to only 5 percent of federal senior executives each year. Hill currently serves as the chief financial officer and the director of the Office of Financial Management at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). At CMS, he is responsible for planning, directing, analyzing, and coordinating the agency’s financial-management functions, including managing an annual budget of more than $600 billion, as well as assuring the program integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Prior to joining CMS, Hill served in the Executive Office of the President, where he was deputy branch chief for the health-financing branch at the Office of Management and Budget, supporting the administration’s policy and budget development process. Eric Holzle, E’89, of Naples, Florida, heads a one-employee company called ScientificMatch.com, a dating service that analyzes DNA samples as one of its means of determining compatibility. Carl LeBel, PHD’89, of Malibu, California, has been appointed to the board of directors of Akesis Pharmaceuticals, a diabetes drug–development company. LeBel has more than seventeen years of experience as a biopharmaceutical industry executive, including fourteen years at Amgen, where he was an executive director for program management and strategic operations. Kevin Mahoney, CJ’89, of Atkinson, New Hampshire, spent more than eight years working in security at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. In December 2007, the town of Candia’s board of selectmen approved his hire as a local police officer. Malcolm S. Medley, AS’89, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, is the new commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Medley is a lawyer whose practice focuses on representing individuals in cases involving discrimination based on age, disability, ethnicity, or race. A trained arbitrator, he is a member of the American Arbitration Association Commercial and Employment Arbitrators roster. Jim Nardozzi, CJ’89, of Waterbury, Connecticut, writes, “I recently retired as deputy chief of police of the Waterbury Police Department, and am now a professor and the head of the criminal justice program at Post University. I remain active in the Connecticut chapters of the FBI National Academy Associates and the International Association for Identification, and look forward to hearing from peers wishing to discuss criminal justice.” His e-mail address is <jnardozzi@post.edu>. Michael Schrader, E’89, of Medway, Massachusetts, was promoted to group manager of the civil and environmental engineering group at Woodard & Curran in Providence, Rhode Island. An employee of the integrated engineering, science, and operations company for five years, he is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Water Works Association. Andy Simon, BA’89, of Warren, New Jersey, is a partner and cofounder of Centerline Partners, a management-consulting firm that specializes in rapid requirements management for the financial-services and pharmaceutical industries. The company has offices in Manhattan and Boston. Simon writes that he started his consulting career as a Northeastern co-op student and he continues to volunteer with the university’s admissions program. He can be reached at <ahsimon@centerline-partners.com>.