Felicia Burroughs, AS’00, formerly of Brick, New Jersey, was in June named an assistant coach in the women’s basketball program at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia. As a tri-captain her senior year, she helped the women Huskies earn their first America East hoops championship and first NCAA tournament appearance. She previously spent three seasons at Monmouth University, where she served as recruiting coordinator, a role she will also fill at Radford. Before that, she spent four years as an assistant coach at Towson University. Sara (Splain) Derick, N’00, of Boston, and her husband, Patrick, celebrated the birth of their first child, Maeve, on December 24, 2007. Jarod Forget, AS’00, MA’02, formerly of Mansfield, Massachusetts, was this year named the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent of the Year by the Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents. Forget is currently assigned to the DEA’s New York Joint Task Force. He was chosen from fifty-one candidates representing the pool of more than five thousand men and women who make up the special agent force. Hao Pan, MS’00, of Framingham, Massachusetts, staged the Chinese Earthquake Relief Yoga Series in June to raise funds for those affected by the May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province. Pan, who moved to the United States from China in 1997, is a programmer analyst at Staples and a yoga teacher in Framingham. Doug Stepansky, MBA’00, of Chicago, is working as an independent financial adviser. He and his wife, Molly, celebrated the birth of their first child, Emilia, on July 14, 2007. His e-mail address is <ds4k@yahoo.com>. David Chapman, CJ’01, of Somerset, Massachusetts, is a plant protection supervisor at General Dynamics C4S Systems, in Taunton. He and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Schwensfeir, were married on November 23, 2002, and have two sons, Brendan and Nathan. Chapman spent nine years in the U.S. Army at Camp Fogarty, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, before deciding not to reenlist. He then worked with the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS), helping local police with the CJIS and state firearms laws. “I would be interested in hearing from friends who graduated with me,” he writes. His e-mail address is <chappy18_2004@yahoo.com>. Erin (Butler) Carlson, BA’02, and Doug Carlson, AS’01, celebrated the birth of their first child, Brayden, on May 1. The family lives in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Erin earned a master’s degree in elementary education from Salem State College this spring. Doug works to provide health insurance to those who are self-employed. He also recently opened an Upper Crust Pizzeria in Plymouth. David Grunes, BA’02, of Billerica, Massachusetts, was appointed the fire chief in Bedford in June. He had served as the acting chief since January. Grunes, who grew up in Bedford, has been a member of the community’s Fire Department since 1994. He was a firefighter for six years, a lieutenant for six years, and a captain for two years. Julie Price, AS’02, MBA’05, of Methuen, Massachusetts, joined Fred C. Church Insurance, in Lowell, as a commercial account manager in July. She is a licensed property casualty producer. Sarah E. Roxburgh, AS’02, of Boston, received a law degree from New England School of Law in May. A dean’s list student, she served as a student attorney at the Family Unit of the Greater Boston Legal Services; completed an internship at the Suffolk County Probate and Family Court; acted as copresident of the National Lawyers Guild; and received the Excellence for the Future Award for Wills, Estates and Trusts, and Domestic Violence. Roxburgh was also a member of the Public Service Honor Roll, the Animal Law Society, and the Public Interest Law Association. In addition, she worked at the college’s law library, and was a representative for Kaplan/PMBR and an editor for the National Tax Moot Court Competition. Saj Simon, BA’02, of Garden City Park, New York, married Suthe Pereira on August 30. Dan Walsh, BPH’02, of Norwalk, Connecticut, won a bronze medal as a member of the men’s eight crew on the U.S. rowing team competing in Beijing at the Summer 2008 Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics, Walsh participated as an alternate but didn’t get an opportunity to compete. Brenda P. Wenning, BA’02, has opened Wenning Investments in Newton, Massachusetts, where she lives. Her company provides investment services to individual clients. She has nineteen years of investment-management and security-analysis experience. Wenning was the cofounder of Capital Advisors; vice president and investment officer at First Financial Trust; portfolio manager and analyst at Gannett, Welsh & Kotler; and a registered associate at Kidder Peabody. She is a member of the CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analysts Society, the National Association of Active Investment Managers, Common Wealth Institute of Boston, and the National Association of Women Business Owners. Patricia Anyaeji, BA’03, of Boston, wrote last summer, “I’m just checking in to inform everyone about my exciting trips with my two kids to England, Ireland, Holland, Spain, France, and Germany in August and September. See y’all in the fall.” Jim Caralis, BA’03, of Medford, Massachusetts, is the founder of OpenMass.org, a nonprofit that offers current information on a variety of political topics in Massachusetts. He is a member of the Massachusetts Democratic Party Committee on Public Policy. He and his wife, Karen Hart, have two children. Michael De Paulo, AS’03, MA’04, has switched careers, from architecture to high fashion. From a studio in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he lives, De Paulo creates couture eveningwear that has been featured at New York Fashion Week, on CBS Watch, and in 21 Magazine. His dresses are available at Kleinfeld Bridal, in New York City. His website is at <www.michaeldepaulo.com>. Walt Horner, MBA’03, of Southborough, Massachusetts, was named the director of special programs at Regis College in May. Horner works out of the academic affairs office, developing programs that foster the academic potential and college awareness of Greater Boston’s youth. Formerly, Horner was program officer at the Massachusetts Service Alliance, director of Northeastern’s Massachusetts Promise Fellowship Program, and executive director at the Colorado Outdoor Training Initiative. Mike McDonough, PharmD’03, and Tina Rooney, PharmD’03, of Braintree, Massachusetts, wrote in August of their engagement. The couple planned a beachside wedding in Key West, Florida, in November 2008. Mike is a clinical pharmacist at Quincy Medical Center. Tina is a pharmacy manager at Walgreens Pharmacy in Waltham. Kathryn (Wilson) Panasci, BHS’03, GB’04, of Lubbock, Texas, married Michael Panasci on June 21. The couple honeymooned in Thailand, traveling all over the country for three weeks. Mike is a graduate student at Texas Tech University, and Kate works as a physical therapist at University Medical Center. Jonathan Piro, CS’03, and Sarah Lorimer Piro, MS’03, live in Watertown, Massachusetts, with their children, Sophie and Mason. Jonathan is a senior automation engineer at Phase Forward, in Waltham. The company provides data-collection and data-management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. Michael M. Cullen, MBA’04, of Westborough, Massachusetts, has become a partner in the global technology practice of Heidrick & Struggles, an executive-search and leadership- consulting company based in Chicago. He joined the company’s Boston office in April. Formerly, Cullen was head of the office of executive talent at EMC. Andrew Grannik, L’04, of Anchorage, became the new district attorney for Bethel, Alaska, in July. He has worked with the Alaska Department of Law since 2005. Samir Randolph, AS’04, of Somerville, Massachusetts, served as director of operations for the Barack Obama presidential campaign’s New Hampshire office last summer. Randolph also worked for the Obama campaign in Iowa, Texas, and West Virginia. Prior to that, he worked at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. John Ready, BA’04, of North Quincy, Massachusetts, has been honored with the 2008 National Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, given by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Ready is the cofounder of Ready Seafood, based in Portland, Maine, and Catch a Piece of Maine, a lobster and seafood distribution company that does more than $10 million in annual sales. The SBA award goes to someone under thirty who, for at least three years, has been a majority owner of a business or had principal responsibility for operating a business. Vanessa Tropeano, AS’04, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is a photographic artist who had four large (6-by-8-foot) works from her ongoing series “Myths and Histories/Myths or Histories” displayed in Lincoln’s DeCordova Museum in June. The series is based on interviews, research, and personal memories about her family’s history. Tropeano has had solo exhibitions in Boston’s Chase Gallery and New York City’s AAA Gallery. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Northeastern’s Curry Gallery, as well as at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gallery, Space Other, the Clifford Smith Gallery, and the Mission Hill Foyer Gallery, all in the Boston area, and the Juniper Gallery in New York City. Cyrus Chin, L’05, is a new associate in the law firm Looper Reed & McGraw, in Houston, Texas. Previously, he was a contract attorney at King & Spalding. Meryl Futey, AS’05, of Brookline, Massachusetts, has been promoted to manager of operations and client services at Rampart Investment Services in Boston. Formerly, she was senior client-service representative at the company. Phillip Jackson, CJ’05, and Emily Lovald Jackson, AS’05, were married in the Bahamas in June 2006. They live in Maryland on the Eastern Shore with their dog, Fenway, and are expecting their first child in February. Phillip is the chief technology officer at Chesapeake Medical Imaging, and Emily owns a wedding photography business. Jonathan Koop, AS’05, is co-owner of S&K Valet, a parking company that works with a number of restaurants, nightclubs, and bars in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he lives. He and co-owner Danielle Spring started out parking cars at the now-closed Pearl Oyster Restaurant three years ago. Today, they have thirty accounts, 117 employees, and leases on ten private parking lots throughout Worcester. Meg Heneberry, E’06, of Westwood, Massachusetts, is living with cystic fibrosis. A member of the lacrosse team while at Northeastern, Heneberry underwent a double lung transplant late last fall. In the process, she lost her hearing, as the result of either the medications she was taking or a mini-stroke during the operation. She has since learned to lip-read and is working in an engineering company. She must wear a facemask to protect her lungs from infection whenever she’s in a crowd. Ashley Maagero, AS’06, of Suffield, Connecticut, worked as the New Hampshire director of the John McCain presidential campaign in May. She was also the McCain field coordinator in New Hampshire’s Merrimack and Strafford Counties. Gabriel Cheong, L’07, of Quincy, Massachusetts, opened his own law firm after passing the bar exam in November 2007. He subsequently bought another law firm, Infinity Law Group, and is now its principal attorney and owner. His practice is in family law and estate planning. Dan Lewis, AS’08, of Coventry, Rhode Island, worked on updating the Geographic Information System (GIS) database and system survey on Block Island, a position that ran from June to October 2008. Last summer, he was the community’s GIS intern.