Pasquale S. Canzano, E’65, of Dover, Delaware, became the chief executive officer of the Delaware Solid Waste Authority on January 1. Formerly, he was the authority’s chief operating officer. Canzano is an adjunct professor at Wesley College, in Dover, and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Solid Waste Association of North America.

Dave Kuch, MEd’65, of Manheim, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Sylvia, have traveled extensively over the past fifteen years, averaging three or four trips a year. They’ve been to all fifty states, more than eighty countries, and all the continents (except Antarctica), and they’ve crossed the Atlantic Ocean thirty-nine times. On many trips, they take along two of their fourteen grandchildren (choosing the grandchildren who happen to be between the ages of thirteen and fifteen at the time). When Dave’s at home, he often works as a ticket-taker at the Fulton Opera House, the Hershey Theatre, or the Gretna Playhouse. Both Dave and Sylvia volunteer as ushers. Their friends dedicated a chair to them when the Fulton Opera House was renovated. Dave, who retired as human resources director at Avery Interna­tional, admits the hardest part about being an usher and a tour guide is the “proper spacing of naps.”

Bob Crofts, BA’66, MA’68, of Newburyport, Massachu­setts, has retired from Salem State College after thirty-five years as an associate professor of economics and the director of the Center for Economic Education. He also contributed thirty years of teaching economics at Northeastern’s University College.

Oscar T. Brookins, MA’67, of Boston, is an associate professor of economics at Northeastern. Currently, he is on sabbatical leave in India with his wife, Kathryn. In October 2006, they presented a seminar on population changes in India and political corruption in Asia and the United States to the faculty of the Institute of International Management and Technology, in Gurgaon, India.

Antonio F. Holland, LA’67, MA’69, of Columbia, Missouri, is the author of Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education, published by the University of Missouri Press. Holland chairs the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Lincoln University, in Missouri. He previously authored two other books, The Soldiers’ Dream Continued: A Pictorial History of Lincoln University of Missouri and Missouri’s Black Heritage, Revised Edition.

Gerald Pepe, MS’67, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the dean of the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). Along with President Harry Lester, Pepe has been responsible for changing the financial condition and raising the morale at the school over the past two years after EVMS received only a two-year accrediting approval and warning of loss of accreditation. Pepe is in charge of academics and research at the school.

Paul Bishop, E’68, of Cincinnati, Ohio, received the Distinguished Service Award from the International Water Association (IWA) at the organization’s biennial conference in Beijing in September 2006. The award is presented for consistent and outstanding contributions to the association. Bishop is associate vice president for research at the University of Cincinnati and associate dean for graduate studies and research at Cincinnati’s College of Engineering. He chairs the USA National Council of IWA and represents the United States on the IWA governing board. He’s also a member of the IWA strategic council. After the conference, Bishop presented lectures at the Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute, in Hong Kong, on in-situ environmental monitoring.

Roger Borggaard, BA’68, of Holderness, New Hampshire, was a member of the winning Team Attager boat in the men’s senior master eights at the forty-second annual Head of the Charles Regatta, in October 2006. Borggaard competed in the first Head of the Charles as a member of Northeastern’s crew.

Allan W. Ditchfield, UC’68, of Marion, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors at Bristol West Holdings, which is based in Davie, Florida. Ditchfield is an independent systems consultant who has been chief information officer at a number of companies, including the Progressive Corporation, Progressive Casualty Insurance, and MCI Tele­communica­tions. He is a director of Northeastern’s National Council and a member of the board at Cape and Islands Community Public Radio.

Myron F. Dittmer Jr., BA’68, of Melrose, Massa­chusetts, writes that he started his own pharmaceutical consulting business, MFD & Associates, in 2005. Its website is at http://www.mfdassociates.com.

Anna (Wechsler) Heffron, BB’68, and her husband, Steven Heffron, E’66, live in Marstons Mills, Massachusetts. Anna facilitates a support group for parents who have experienced pregnancy loss. She got involved in a similar group in California when her second child was stillborn, and stayed involved with it for eighteen years. Anna and Steven have two living children, Amy, in Abilene, Texas, and Ari, in Falls Church, Virginia. The couple can be e-mailed at asheffron@verizon.net

Tony Scotto, E’68, of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, is vice president of product development at 170 Systems, in Bedford. Previously, he was vice president of development for merchandise, planning, and optimization products at the Oracle Retail Business Unit. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president of product development at StorageNetworks.

Rick Wilcox, LA’68, of Everett, Massachusetts, retired from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (formerly the Customs Service) after thirty-four years. He notes that his career took him all over the United States and to Thailand, Sri Lanka, Germany, Egypt, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Greece. “After two glorious days of retirement, I began my second career, as vice president of operations for a security company in Boston,” he writes. “I also passed another milestone, my thirty-fourth wedding anniversary. My wife, Nancy, and daughter, Melanie, are both very hard-working schoolteachers, and I adore them both.”

Howard Freeman, BA’69, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, is the president of Financial Aid Consulting, a company that helps families finance college educations.

Harris Gardner, LA’69, of Boston, writes, “Besides running a small real-estate business for the past eighteen years, I host three major Boston poetry venues: Borders Presents a Tapestry of Voices (on the second Thursday of each month), now in its sixth year; the Poetry in the Chapel series, in the Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hills Cemetery, now in its fifth year; and Boston’s annual National Poetry Month Festival, now in its seventh year. I am also the cofounder, with Doug Holder, of a poetry community, Breaking Bagels with the Bards—where eighteen to twenty-four poets gather for community, camaraderie, and networking—which meets at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square in Cambridge every first, third, and fifth Saturday of the month and the Au Bon Pain in Davis Square in Somerville every second and fourth Saturday of the month.” Gardner also reminds everyone that the Seventh Annual Boston National Poetry Month Festival will be held at the Boston Public Library on Saturday, April 14, and Sunday, April 15. Fifty-six major and emerging poets will participate, including four Northeastern professors: Stuart Peterfreund, Frank Blessington, Joseph DeRoche, and professor emeritus Victor Howes. The website http://tapestryofvoices.com has detailed information about festival events, which will include readings by renowned poets, among them a Pulitzer Prize winner; performances by students; and an open mike. Every year, the festival has to raise the $12,000 needed to cover its operation costs. If you would like to contribute or learn more, contact Gardner at the e-mail address tapestryofvoices@yahoo.com or this postal address: Harris Gardner, Executive Director, Tapestry of Voices, 9 Hawthorne Place #4N, Boston, MA 02114. Gardner has coauthored a poetry collection with Lainie Senechal and written a chapbook. His publication credits include the Harvard Review, Midstream Magazine, Ibbetson Street, Main Street Rag, and Pemmican. He was the poet-in-residence at Endicott College, in Beverly, from 1992 to 1995.