Ken Glynn, E’70, of Flemington, New Jersey, was in May appointed chief operating officer at B Green Innovations, which identifies and acquires promising technologies that address environmental issues. Previously, Glynn was an engineer trainee at Arthur D. Little Consulting, division patent counsel at Olin, and senior patent attorney and new-business advisor at Exxon. He is a member of the boards of directors of six corporations. Bill Ryzewic, E’70, of Honolulu, is the deputy chief of staff for U.S. Pacific Fleet maintenance, the highest-ranking civilian in the fleet. Ryzewic has been a member of the U.S. Navy’s senior executive service (SES) since 1987. He has served as first director of the shipyard management division in the Naval Sea Systems Command, executive director of the naval shipyard and supervisors of shipbuilding management, and executive director for fleet maintenance. Starting as a co-op student in the electric boat division at General Dynamics, he spent twenty years in the Navy’s Polaris/Poseidon/TRIDENT submarine program. Ryzewic is a recipient of the Navy’s Civilian Distinguished Service Medal, the Department of Defense Civilian Distinguished Service Medal, the Presidential SES Award for Meritorious Service, and the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service. Jim Spaulding, E’70, of Grafton, New Hampshire, was promoted in April to vice president for civil engineering at the H. L. Turner Group, Concord. He is immediate past president of the New Hampshire section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Michael L. Tushman, E’70, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva, in Switzerland. An expert in the field of organizational change, leadership, organization design, and innovation, he is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Tushman has authored or coauthored numerous books and articles, including Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal (Harvard Business School Press, 1997, 2002); Navigating Change: How CEOs, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation (Harvard Business School Press, 1998); Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architecture (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings (Oxford University Press, 1997, 2004). He teaches MBA, doctoral, and executive education courses at Harvard Business School and is faculty chair of the school’s advanced management program. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management, and received its Distinguished Scholar Award in 1999 and 2003. Kenneth J. Zucker, LA’70, of Apple Valley, Minnesota, was appointed in April to the board of directors of the American Association of Endodontists. He has a private endodontic practice in St. Paul and Eagan. Zucker is also an assistant clinical professor at the University of Minnesota and an endodontic consultant at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Minneapolis. Dierdre Francis-Dickerson, LA’71, of Franklin, Tennessee, is vice president of client strategies, programs, and related policy initiatives at Communications Strategies in Nashville. She retired from Nissan North America as a senior public-relations official. Michael A. McCarthy, LA’71, MA’73, of Westport, Connecticut, has been named vice president of sales for major market services at Paychex, a provider of payroll and human-resource products and services. He has worked at Paychex since 1990. In January 2005, he became vice president of sales for core payroll in the eastern United States. Rich Pieslak, UC’71, of Dracut, Massachusetts, celebrated his fortieth wedding anniversary on September 21. Wife Maureen is a registered nurse. And in May, he marked his fortieth year working for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the Highway Department. Pieslak has a son, Steven; a daughter, Melissa; and two grandchildren, six-year-old Ryan and four-year-old Matthew. Edward Saliba, LA’71, BA’76, of Los Altos, California, joined the board of directors of San Francisco–based JasperSoft in May. A consultant with Tula Technology, Saliba worked at Sun Microsystems for twelve years in several vice-president positions. He is a member of a number of boards of directors of public and private companies. Ted Williams, E’72, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, was in May appointed senior vice president of global operations at Emptoris, which provides supply-management and contract-management software. He was formerly vice president of worldwide field operations at OpenPages, and president and chief executive officer at both Activant and Comac Systems. Kevin Burke, CJ’73, of Methuen, Massachusetts, is a member of the Andover Police Department and a fingerprinting expert. In May, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services division gave him its Assistant Director’s Award. Burke is a member of the Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study, and Technology, a panel developing national standards for fingerprint handling. Keith Choper, E’73, ME’77, of Exton, Pennsylvania, was reelected to a second six-year term on the Board of Supervisors for West Whiteland Township, Chester County. He currently serves as the board’s vice chair. Choper is the president of Keating Environmental Management, an environmental consulting firm in Exton. Carol Corcoran, LA’73, of Boston, has been appointed to the newly created position of chief administrative officer at the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Previously, she was a senior human-resources consultant at Nike. Prior to that, Corcoran held senior-level positions with Tufts Health Plan, Canyon Ranch, Weber Shandwick Worldwide, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire. David DeFillippo, MA’73, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, received the 2008 Distinguished Citizen Award from the Boy Scouts in June. He is the principal of Central Catholic High School in Lawrence—the first school alumnus and the first layperson to hold that job. He started his career at Central Catholic in 1970 as an English teacher. He also taught mathematics, history, psychology, economics, religious studies, and driver education. In addition, he was a guidance counselor, the director of guidance, and the coach of subvarsity baseball and softball. He belongs to the National Catholic Education Association, the Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the Holy Family Hospital Men’s Guild, and St. Patrick’s Church in Lawrence. DeFillippo and his wife, Kathleen, have three children—Kerry Ann, Daniel, and Matthew—and a granddaughter, Sophia Kathleen. Robert Lentz, BA’73, of Wayland, Massachusetts, is a new board member at Monotype Imaging, a provider of text-imaging solutions based in Woburn. Lentz serves as president and chief executive officer of PermissionTV, an online-video platform provider. Larry Moulter, BA’73, of Milton, Massachusetts, was named the head of livery service BostonCoach in July. Moulter, formerly the executive in charge of construction at Boston’s TD Banknorth Garden, worked as an independent consultant before taking the position at BostonCoach. James Ferriter, BA’74, MBA’79, of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, has been named director of physician services and compliance at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Ferriter, who is certified in health-care compliance, has taught part-time at Northeastern for thirty years. Robert A. Goddard, BA’74, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, was in May named to the board of directors of Dynamic Leisure. He is managing director of RHI Executive Search, a division of Robert Half International. He has held executive positions with Jameson Holdings, Magic Lantern Group, and Locate PLUS Holdings. Phillippa “Pippa” Steinhart, N’74, of Naples, Florida, was in July appointed general manager at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of Collier County. She was previously director of market development for VITAS in Philadelphia. Steinhart originally joined VITAS in 1991 as an admission representative in Broward County, Florida, and became director of admissions in Miami-Dade County in 1997. She served as office manager and nurse at Steinhart Medical Associates in Miami before rejoining VITAS in 2006. Liane Summerfield, BB’74, has been promoted to associate vice president for academic affairs at Marymount University, in Arlington, Virginia, where she lives. She and her husband, Barry, BA’73, have been married thirty-five years. William W. Churchill, PAH’75, MPH’83, of Saugus, Massachusetts, has worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, for thirty-two years. He is currently the executive director of pharmacy services. In addition, he is the chair of the drug safety committee, vice chair of the pharmacy and therapeutics committee, and cochair of the eMAR/barcode-scanning project team. Churchill also serves on several pharmaceutical committees outside the hospital. In 2007, he was presented the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Distinguished Leadership Award. Gary W. Neus, BA’75, of Sugar Land, Texas, was in May appointed a member of the board of directors of Transmeridian Exploration. A business consultant, he has been assistant treasurer for project structure and acquisition finance at Unocal, vice president for commercial development at Amoco Power Resources, and managing director for mergers and acquisitions at Central and Southwest Energy. Paula Sline, AGS’75, EdD’81, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is the author of Unveiled, her first novel. Sline describes it as a mystery/ drama. “My reason for writing this book was to break down stereotypes on how people live and love,” she reports. “The story is really two love stories, one between a lesbian writer and a widowed editor, and the other a relationship that develops between a priest and a nun. In my role as a school principal, I continually dealt with children who were abused, and more recently I was outraged by the church scandal.” A former nun, Sline taught in Needham and was a school principal in Methuen and Stoneham. She and a colleague wrote How to Get the Best Public School Education for Your Child, published in 1991. The website for Unveiled is at <www.unveiled-book.com>. Joseph Trudel, AS’75, of Tucson, reports his third book, Feet of Clay, is now available at <orders@xlibris.com>. Michael D. Bessette, E’76, of Chandler, Arizona, was in July appointed vice president of the advanced circuit materials division at Rogers Corporation, a manufacturer of high-performance specialty-material products. Bessette, who has been with the company for thirty-three years, was previously head of global electroluminescent backlighting at its Durel division. He and his wife, Lois, have been married thirty years. Brian E. LeClair, BA’76, of Hingham, Massachusetts, became chief financial officer at MacDougall Biomedical Communications in June. He was formerly chief financial officer and chief executive officer at SOFTPRO Group. Kathy Glennon, BB’77, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, was appointed director of the special-education department at the Amesbury public schools in May. She had previously served as the department’s assistant director. Glennon was the special-education chair in Marblehead for twenty-two years before moving to the Amesbury system in 2006. Ed Green, LC’77, of Westhampton, New York, has returned to Long Island to run a recent GE Aviation acquisition, Aircraft Parts Corporation. He started working at General Electric thirty-eight years ago in Lynn, Massachusetts, while attending Northeastern during the evenings. He was recently elected president of the Long Island Business Aviation Association. John Malloy, MBA’77, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Fitchburg State College during commencement exercises in May. A 1969 Fitchburg graduate, Malloy was a founding partner at Cabot Partners Limited Partnership and first vice president of Sentinel Real Estate in New York City. He has been a director of the Boston Adult Literacy Fund and president of the Fitchburg State College Alumni Association. He currently serves on the college’s board of directors. Paul Proly, CJ’77, of Lake Mary, Florida, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Genesis Communications, which operates five Florida radio stations, including ESPN Florida Radio Network. He and his wife, Janet, have three children: Katy (who teaches school in Hillsborough County), Alex, and Austin. “I am very active in their school and Lake Mary Little League and Flag Football,” Proly writes. His e-mail address is <pproly@cfl.rr.com>. James Casey, LA’78, of Braintree, Massachusetts, in April was named the first clerk of the town council in Braintree’s new form of government. Casey has been a town meeting member and has served on the municipal lighting board in Braintree. Dennis D. Keefe, PAH’78, MBA’86, of Norwood, Massachusetts, received the Lifetime Achievement Award in May from Cambridge Health Alliance, where he is the chief executive officer. Keefe, who is also the commissioner of public health in Cambridge, was a 2005 Alumnus of the Year at Northeastern. He is on the executive committee of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems as well as the board of the National Public Health and Hospital Institute, and serves as an officer of the Massachusetts Hospital Association. Robert Kimball, SET’78, of Braintree, Massachusetts, is a member of the regional district school committee for Blue Hills Regional Technical School, in Canton. He is a registered professional engineer. Kenneth Lavallee, CJ’78, of North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, was promoted to chief of the Lowell Police Department earlier this year. In addition, he is an instructor for the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council. Lavallee, a twenty-two-year veteran of the Lowell department, earned a master of criminal justice from Boston University. He is also a graduate of the Massachusetts Senior Executive Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Police Executive Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute for Police, and the Command Training Program at the New England Institute for Law Enforcement Management at Babson College. Kenneth J. Richard, BA’78, of Medfield, Massachusetts, was in June appointed chief financial officer of the Davis Companies, a real-estate firm in Boston. Formerly, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer at A. D. Makepeace. Richard has also held vice president and CFO positions at Berkshire Realty Holdings, the Beacon Companies, and the Codman Company. Pat Gempel, MBA’79, of Radnor, Pennsylvania, and her husband, Bob, founded HOPE worldwide in 1991. The faith-based relief and development organization began with three programs in the United States, the Ivory Coast, and Mexico, and now serves more than a million of the world’s poor, sick, and suffering every year in more than sixty countries. In May, the Gempels retired from executive leadership roles at the organization. Andrew P. Gully, LA’79, of Andover, Massachusetts, was named senior vice president and managing director of corporate affairs at Sovereign Bank in June. Formerly, he was with Kelley Habib John, where he oversaw communications and public-relations campaigns. Prior to that, he was at the Boston Herald for twenty-one years, the last eleven as managing editor. Deborah K. Redmond, BB’79, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is vice president of ambulatory-care services at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital. Formerly, Redmond was vice president of ambulatory care and rehabilitation services at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City, and a consultant with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in its health-care division. She and her husband, Tim, recently celebrated thirty years of marriage. Their son, Andrew, who graduated from Emory University in 2004, works in mergers and acquisitions in Boston. Their daughter, Sarah, a senior at Baylor University, will graduate with a business degree in 2009. Jerome Strauss, MBA’79, of Annandale, Virginia, was in March named vice president of the federal programs division at Dewberry, which provides services in program management, planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, geographic information services, and the environmental sciences. Previously, he was senior vice president at a construction-management, environmental-sciences, and engineering company.