Murray Kleimon, MBA’70, of Naples, Florida, is a partner in Tryco, a commercial real-estate firm that represents buyers of health care–related properties and businesses.

Dave Lamore, PAH’70, of Framingham, Massachusetts, has received the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health’s Metro Suburban-Area Stellar Performer Award in recognition of his personal contributions, dedication, and performance. Lamore has worked at the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health as a consumer advocate since 1994. His group serves hundreds of mentally ill citizens living in fourteen communities around greater Framingham.

Herb Novitsky, E’70, of Laurel, Maryland, writes to tell classmates of the recent death of his friend and former roommate, Thomas J. Bunt, E’70. “He is survived by his wife, Sally; daughter, Jennifer; and son, Thomas,” Novitsky writes. “Tom was a retired senior executive with the U.S. Depart­ment of Defense, who served his nation honorably for over thirty years. He was a wonderful husband, father, grand­father, and friend.”

Paul Severance, Ed’70, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was recently appointed to a full professorship at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), in the National Defense University, Washington, D.C. Severance is a professor of military science in the Department of Military Strategy and Logistics at ICAF, one of six senior-service “war” colleges in the U.S. professional military-education system. Severance served on the college’s military faculty from 1993 to 2000. In 2001, following his retirement from the U.S. Army the previous year after thirty years as a helicopter pilot, he returned to the ICAF faculty as a civilian professor. From 2002 to 2004, he also served as the chair of the military strategy and logistics department. He earned his PhD in adult learning from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer­sity in 2005. Currently, Severance is serving as a subject- matter expert on interagency operations, supporting the Project for National Security Reform, in Washington.

William I. Taylor Jr., BA’70, of Southamp­ton, Massachusetts, writes, “My daughter, Karyn M. Taylor, has completed requirements to receive her degree, magna cum laude, in May. She will represent the third generation of our family to graduate from Northeastern, giving my eighty-seven-year-old mother, Mary B. Taylor, the opportunity to attend her third NU graduation ceremony in sixty-five years. My father was William I. Sr., BA’42. In 1965, the magazine printed a group photo of me and a number of other freshmen who were sons and daughters of alums. Northeastern is a great school, located within a fantastic city.”

Virginia Thayer, MEd’70, of Arlington, Massachusetts, is the author of The Journey of a Snail, a picture book published by Xlibris. She has written several short stories and plays. One of the stories, “Dad’s Folly,” was published in Cricket magazine. Her play The Silent Also Speak has been performed at the Arlington Center for the Arts, and her monologue “Missing a Beat” has been performed at several local sites.

Kevin Bratton, BA’71, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, is the chief financial officer at Cytogen Corporation. Formerly, he was the chief financial officer at Metrologic Instruments.

Stephen Doret, E’71, of Westborough, Massachusetts, is a member of his town’s school committee. He won election to fill a vacant seat in a special vote of the board of selectmen and the school committee in September 2006. Doret has served Westborough on a number of boards and committees for more than thirty years. He is a registered professional engineer and construction supervisor with Mill Road Engineering.

Martin, who retired from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts after thirty-two years, is now a graduate of the Maine State Fire Academy as an interior-qualified firefighter and has passed the National Registry emergency medical technician exam. He is also a substitute teacher at Berwick Academy and the Kittery Public Schools, and the controller of the York County Fire Chiefs Association. He says he enjoys his “semi-retirement” by fishing on Ogunquit Beach each morning, from June to October.

Vincent Vitto, MS’71, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors at Mercury Computer Systems in Chelmsford. Vitto is retired, after serving as president and chief executive officer at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory since 1997. Prior to that, he spent thirty-two years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Neal Chamberlain, E’72, of Lexington, Massachusetts, is celebrating his twentieth anniversary as the founder and principal of Lexington Engineering Associates. The company is an industrial engineering consulting firm that specializes in supply-chain and logistics best practices, including facilities planning, materials-handling system design, process improvement, and operational optimization. He formerly was with Wang Laboratories and Xerox Corporation.

James P. Bourdon, BA’73, MBA’84, of Medfield, Massachusetts, is the president of Accounting Management Solutions, in Waltham. In October 2006, the company was named one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States by Inc. magazine.

Pauline (Cloutier) Hamel, BB’73, MEd’76, of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, has returned to Bouvé College of Health Sciences as a senior clinical specialist in the Department of Physical Therapy, where she has been appointed director of clinical education. Prior to returning to Northeastern, she was an associate professor at Boston University for ten years, and an administrator in corporate health care while she completed her doctorate in administration, training, and policy at BU’s School of Education. Hamel’s research interests include health communication and health literacy in clinical education and practice, gerontology, health-care ethics, experiential learning in the workplace, and urban health promotion.

Kevin Smith, BA’73, of Hingham, Massachusetts, has been named Foley Hoag’s first chief financial officer, overseeing all finance, accounting, and treasury operations at the law firm. Previously, Smith spent twenty years at the law firm Ropes & Gray, eventually becoming its CFO.

Robert Goddard, BA’74, of Wakefield, Massachu­setts, reports he was recently named co-chairman of the Boston chapter of the FENG, the Financial Executives Networking Group, which has 2,300 members in Boston and more than 25,000 members nationwide. “If you are a senior financial executive seeking to increase your networking skills,” he writes, “please contact me at bob_goddard@verizon.net.”

Gary Holden, E’74, has been named the vice president of information technology at San Diego–based equipment-leasing firm Five Point Capital. Holden resides in Poway, a suburb of San Diego, with his wife and three children.

Gary E. Mathison, CJ’74, of Melrose, Massa­chusetts, has joined KPMG’s Boston office as a director in the firm’s forensic practice. He will assist organizations in their efforts to achieve the highest levels of business integrity through the detection, prevention, and investigation of fraud and misconduct. In November, Mathison retired from U.S. federal law-enforcement service; he had served as special agent in charge of the Depart­­ment of Education’s Office of Inspector General.

Karen Porter, L’74, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, is the author of The Legal Environment of Insurance, published by the American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters/ Insurance Institute of America, where Porter has worked for fifteen years and is the director of intellectual property. She reports she is writing a textbook on insurance regulation, serves as the director/founder of the Chester County Peace Movement, and is the “proud mother” of a son who’s a freshman at Oberlin College. Her e-mail address is porterk@cpcuiia.org.

Ross Seider, MBA’74, of Needham, Massachusetts, is the president of On-Fire Associates. Formerly, he was the vice president of product development and network operations at Akamai Technologies. Prior to that, he was a cofounder and engineering vice president of two network start­ups and worked with Motorola in several executive positions.

Marguerite Del Giudice, LA’75, reports she has written her first article for National Geographic magazine, a piece on an Arctic adventure trail that appeared in the January 2007 issue. Future articles include a report from Iceland and a story about Buddhist monks in Thailand who are raising tiger cubs. Del Giudice, who also works as a life coach and a writers’ coach, and her husband, Doran Twer, have two sons, Nathaniel and Aden. The family lives in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Her website is at http://www.bigspiritcoaching.com.

Hugh E. Teitelbaum, MJ’75, of Oakmont, Pennsylvania, is vice president and general counsel at St. Barnabas Health System, in Richland. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, he volunteers as legal counsel to the Soldiers & Sailors National Military Museum and for a local search and rescue service. He is the senior reservist to the legal adviser for the Air Force surgeon general. He and his wife, Kimberly, have a daughter, Alexis.

Barbara Hoditschek, MS’76, of Los Alamos, New Mexico, is an environmental scientist at Eberline Services, a provider of radiological and environmental services.

Michael Lane, PA’76, of Emporia, Kansas, is the president of Emporia State University. He came to the college in September 2006 from the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, where he was provost. Prior to that, he was provost at Mansfield University, in Pennsylvania.

Ronald Wasilenko, CJ’76, of Orange Park, Florida, is the special magistrate for code-enforcement meetings in Clay County and a partner in the Jacksonville office of Gobelman, Love, Gavin & Wasilenko. He has worked as the general counsel for the U.S. Navy’s southeast region and a criminal trial lawyer with experience in appellate litigation, medical malpractice, and employment law.

Alice Kurtz, L’77, of Wayland, Massachusetts, is the ERISA compliance officer at Sentinel Benefits, in Wakefield. She was previously a senior manager at Ernst & Young in Boston.

Thomas G. Mackiewicz, BA’77, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, is senior vice president of finance at Celerant Consulting, in Lexington. Formerly, he was vice president, corporate controller, and treasurer at Ascential Software Corporation.

Lorin J. Randall, MBA’77, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, is senior vice president and chief financial officer at Eximias Pharmaceutical. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors at Acorda. Before joining Eximias, Randall was senior vice president and chief financial officer at i-STAT Corporation.

Edward Rhoads, CJ’77, has retired from the Clackamas (Oregon) County sheriff’s office after twenty-six years in law enforcement and is now working in Kosovo as an international police officer with the United Nations.

Roslyn Vexler Uzupis, Ed’77, of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, is an English and communication skills teacher at the Pennington School. Previously, Uzupis taught in Hamilton Township, from 1977 to 2006. In 2002, she took third place in the New Jersey Poetry Society’s poetry contest and was honored with the College of New Jersey Outstanding Educator award.

Bernard R. Horn Jr., BA’78, of Reading, Massachu­setts, was honored as one of five nominees for international-stock manager of 2006; the list was created by Morn­ingstar, a leading provider of independent investment research. Horn is the founder and president of Polaris Capital Management, an equity-management firm based in Boston.

Kenneth Lavallee, CJ’78, of North Chelmsford, Massachu­setts, is the acting police superintendent in Lowell. He has been deputy superintendent in Lowell since 1999 and a member of the force since 1984.

Raymond J. Marshall, ME’78, of Greenville, Rhode Island, has been made the executive director of the Narragansett Bay Commission. He became deputy director of the commission in 1992.

Stephanie Page, L’78, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was named a 2006 Lawyer of the Year by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. In summer 2000, Page, a public defender, began representing Barbara Asher, a fifty-six-year-old dominatrix charged with dismembering and disposing of the body of a client who had died of a heart attack. Asher was ultimately acquitted of the manslaughter charge. “When you have an innocent client, it is never easy,” Page told Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. “Any lawyer’s going to tell you, anything can go wrong in a second in a courtroom.”

Edmund Y. Ting, E’78, is senior vice president of engineering at Pressure BioSciences, in West Bridgewater, Mass­achusetts. Formerly, he was the chief research officer at Avure Technolo­gies.

David Adler, LA’79, of Burke, Virginia, was one of thirty participants selected for the second class of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Executive Leadership Development program, an eighteen-month preparation for individuals who show leadership potential. As part of the program, Adler undertook a four-month detail with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Tsunami Program. He is an information security specialist with the Office of Inspector General in the Commerce department.

Lindsay Cook, PA’79, of Newton, Massachusetts, is a member of the board of directors of Maple Leaf Foundation, which fosters cultural and educational relationships between New England and Canada. She’s also on the boards of the New England–Canada Business Council and MSPCA–Angell, the second-oldest humane society in the United States. Cook is a principal at Kinnen, a strategy consulting company.

Roger Cregg, BA’79, of Oakland Township, Michigan, has been appointed to the Comerica Incorporated board of directors. He is executive vice president and chief financial officer at Pulte Homes, a national home builder that is a Fortune 150 company.

Frank C. Dasaro, CJ’79, of Spring Hill, Florida, retired on January 3 after twenty-nine years with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce­ment (ICE). During his career, Dasaro worked in several ICE field offices, including New York; Boston; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; and Tampa. At the time of his retirement, he was the assistant special agent in charge of the Tampa office. Dasaro began his career with the U.S. Customs Service in January 1978 as a Northeastern co-op student and, he writes, “never looked back while remaining with the same organization my whole career, something I am very proud of.” He and his wife, Vanessa, have three children—Anthony, Melissa, and Eric—and two grandchildren. The couple plans to remain in Florida to enjoy the sunshine and “whatever else life has to offer.”

Mark Greene, UC’79, of Hanover, Massa­chusetts, has formed a new law firm, Mark Greene & Associates. Its staff includes three attorneys and a mental-health professional, “which makes the practice unique,” Greene writes. Previously, he had practiced law with a partner for nearly ten years. In addition, Greene hosts a radio talk show on legal matters, heard Sunday mornings at 10:30 on WATD 95.5 FM and broadcast live over the Internet. His website is at http://www.markgreenelaw.com.

Joseph A. Rotella, GB’79, of Syracuse, New York, has been named the superintendent of the Onondaga Central school district. Previously, he was the principal at Solvay High School. Rotella and his wife, Beth, have a son, Joseph, and a daughter, Sierra.

Anthony Spampinato, E’79, of Auburn, Washington, reports he’s still in the greater Seattle area after ten years, working in commercial aviation services for Boeing. He’s now a provisioning engineer, which allows him to work directly with Boeing customers. Last summer, he and his wife, Kathy, vacationed in Europe with their daughter and son-in-law.