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1960 GEORGIA KANE (HCW) of Boston, Mass., provides art through her gallery to Boston-area corporations and clients by matching the work of area artists to companies seeking art to display. JANYCE ROGERS (HCW) of Bloomfield, Conn., has been teaching in Germany with the U.S. Department of Defense Overseas Schools for 27 years. This fall she expects to move to Osan Air Force Base in Korea. “What a change!” she writes. 1964 INGRID BECKMAN (HCW) of Hagerstown, Md., is currently performing two jobs. She has become a massage therapist, intended as her retirement job, and will continue working as social services program manager for Washington County until her private client list is sufficient. JOHN CLAUDE BAHRENBURG (A&S) of West Simsbury, Conn., has become counsel with the firm of McMillan, Rather, Bennett & Rigano, P.C. The focus of Bahrenburg’s practice will continue to be education law, labor relations, and bankruptcy. 1969 ANDRZEJ ANWEILER (HARTT) of New Britain, Conn., on April 6 performed the first concert in a new series, the Alex and Regina Rudewicz Polish Music Series at Central Connecticut State College. Anweiler, a concert pianist, is on the faculties of Sacred Heart University and Creative Music and Arts, where he is a master teacher of piano. WENDY BRYDEN (HCW) of Boston, Mass., is a production coordinator for “Window on the News” at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. ELAINE CAMPOSEO (HCW) of Bolton, Conn., has been elected to serve a three-year term on the executive committee of the Connecticut Probate Assembly. As probate judge of the Andover district since 1991, Camposeo oversees Andover, Bolton, and Columbia. PATRICIA D’ANGELO REYNOLDS (A&S) of Newington, Conn., has been pitching her songs in Nashville and has several currently under contract. New State New Start New Man, her demo CD, contains 14 songs and is described as “a showcase of songs for country artists.” The title song from the CD is under contract with Castle Records. “You’re Falling in Love Again” was awarded the Connecticut Songwriters Association’s Song of the Year for 1998 and went on to become the Country Music Organizations of America’s Song of the Year for 1999. Reynolds works full time as a psychiatric social worker at the Institute of Living, Hartford, where she developed the creative arts program for the adult psychiatric units.

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1970 LINDA GARCEAU (BARNEY, MPA) of Avon Lake, Ohio, has been appointed dean of the College of Business at East Tennessee State University. Garceau has been interim assistant dean for academic program review and development at Cleveland (Ohio) State University. She is a certified public accountant and previously worked for the Travelers Companies. 1972 MARGOT JONES BROOKS (HCW) of Bethesda, Md., writes that she married Peter Brooks in 1984. Their first child, Sarah, was born in September 1985. With the birth of their son, Adam, in 1987, she resigned from the U.S. Department of Defense after a 10-year career. Daughter Katherine was born in 1989. “I ride herd on these three full time,” she says. 1973 MICHAEL ZAGLOOL (A&S) of Albuquerque, N.Mex., has been named vice president at M&I Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company of Arizona. Zaglool is responsible for business development in the areas of personal trust, investment management, and employee benefit services. 1974 SALLY A. S. BROWN (A&S) of West Hartford, Conn., held a one-woman show of wall hangings and photography titled “Fibers and Photos: An Exploration of Patterns” during April at The Gathering Place, Hartford. MARGO MAINE (A&S, MA ’78) of West Hartford, Conn., has joined forces with another prominent eating disorder expert to form Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group, LLC. Both partners are licensed psychologists specializing in the prevention, identification, and treatment of eating disorders and other developmental issues. Maine is well known for her books Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies and Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and Food. 1976 RICHARD HAGAR (HARTT) of Worcester, Mass., was recently named the Orchestra Director of the Year at the Massachusetts Music Educators All-State Conference. Hager, who has 25 years of experience in music education, is director of orchestras and string specialist with the Westboro Pubic Schools. HECTOR RIVERA (BARNEY, MPA) of Falls Church, Va., has been named executive secretary of the town of Braintree, Mass. Rivera has experience in town, county, and federal government dating back to 1974, most recently as city manager of Falls Church, Va. 1977 NANCY TUCKER (A&S) of Beacon Falls, Conn., is a singer-songwriter, musician, and comedian, who performs a one-woman show for adults called “Everything Reminds Me of My Therapist,” as well as family shows for children. Tucker, who has been in the entertainment business for 22 years, is currently recording an instrumental CD, a new CD of children’s music, and a children’s song on CD-ROM. She is also writing her second one-woman show. 1978 STEPHEN CURYLO (HARTT) has joined the voice faculty at Springfield Community Music School. The Massachusetts baritone sings regularly with Commonwealth Opera and with Arcadia Players Baroque Orchestra and Singers’ Project, a new choral ensemble dedicated to the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Previously on the faculty at Deerfield Academy, Curylo is also a classical music host on public radio station WFCR-FM (88.5) in Amherst. 1979 BRIAN HEALY (HARTT) of New Britain, Conn., has been promoted to systems administration officer of SSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bancorp Connecticut, Inc. Healy’s primary duties include maintenance of the bank’s servers, printers, and personal computers; user training on software; and technical assistance to Web-site customers. SSB serves the greater Southington and Wallingford areas of Connecticut. ANNIE GARCIA KAPLAN (ENHP, MBA ’81, Ed.D. ’97) of Woodbridge, Conn., is the newly elected president of the Yale New Haven Hospital Auxiliary. She has served the auxiliary in a number of positions and is a member of the hospital board of trustees.

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1981 LEROY BANGHAM (BARNEY, MPA) of Unionville, Conn., retired on May 20 as chief of police in Farmington after 42 years in law enforcement, a career that began with 10 years in all three branches of the military. While a member of the air police, he was part of the Cassablanca Police Department in Morocco. Sent by the Coast Guard to New London, he has been in Connecticut since 1962. Bangham worked for the Hartford Police Department for 13 years before going to Farmington in 1978 as chief of police. 1983 ANN (ANDREA) MODLISZEWSKI LUNDELL (HCW) of San Antonio, Texas, a board-certified radiologist for the United States Air Force, was recently promoted to major. Lundell and her husband, an anesthesiologist for the Air Force, are stationed at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Andrea Lundell, whose specialty is trauma radiology, is a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine. The Lundells have a daughter, Madeline, age 2. JEAN MARIE PRADIS (ART) of Whitinsville, Mass., this summer held a solo show of her large abstractions and included the first of her works that could be called representational art. Titled “Reaching for Joy,” the show was displayed at Body and Soul in Uxbridge, Mass. 1984 APO HSU (HARTT, MMus), conductor, of San Francisco, Calif., was one of two women who presented a career development symposium for women composers in November 1999 at the New School University. The purpose of “Composing a Career” was to provide information and inspiration to women composers who want to move to an active professional level. JANET IACOVELLI (HCW) of Smithfield, R.I., is employed by the admissions depart-ment of the New England Institute of Technology and is working toward a graduate degree in counseling and psychology at Cambridge College. DIANE PACITTI (HCW) of West Springfield, Mass., received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and is teaching a course at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. She has two children, Ben and Cara, ages six and four, respectively. 1985 DANIEL SALAZAR (HARTT, MMus) of Elmwood, Conn., is a member and one of the two founders of Sol Sin Fronteras, a group of nine musicians who reproduce authentic Latin music using original instruments and the oldest available transcriptions. Sol Sin Fronteras, Spanish for “Sun without Borders,” was featured in the Sunday Hartford Courant, April 30, 2000. 1987 LINDA BROWN-PROVOST (ENH, MEd ’90, EdD) of Weatogue, Conn., was named assistant principal of East Hampton Middle School in April. She previously had been resource specialist in Simsbury, responsible for budgets, discipline, standardized testing, and staff evaluations. Brown-Provost has also been an adjunct professor at the University, teaching graduate courses in reading and language arts. DANIEL COLLINS (BARNEY, MSPA) of Yarmouth, Mass., has joined Dain Rauscher Incorporated as a senior vice president and controller. He also has been named to the company’s senior management group. Collins has been finance director of consumer banking for U.S. Bank in Minneapolis, Minn. 1988 CHRISTINE COLLINS (HCW) of Meriden, Conn., is working as a histology technician at Yale New Haven Hospital. BERNADETTE GITHIORA (HCW) of Yonkers, N.Y., is management analyst for the Westchester County Health Department. She writes that her daughter, Lorraine, who will be a senior in high school this fall, is considering applying to the University next year. 1989 KI-HONG JOO (BARNEY, MSI) of Charlotte, N.C., has been chosen to run the recently opened Korea Liaison Office of Transamerica Reinsurance, the reinsurance arm of Transamerica and AEGON. The liaison office is located in Seoul, Korea, and is the company’s second office in the Asia Pacific region. Joo previously worked in the Seoul and New York offices of Samsung Life Insurance. CHRISTOPHER PEDORELLA (A&S) of Waipahu, Hawaii, is a military dentist for the 25th Light Infantry Division stationed at Schofield Barracks. He will be on the island until October 2001 and lists his e-mail address as <chrisped@yahoo.com>. AMBER WOLF (ART) of Santa Fe, N.Mex., paints traditional Northern Plains Native American designs on elkskin leather. Her wall hangings, pillows, and clothing are sold in galleries across the United States. Formerly SUE ROSSKOTHEN, Wolf had a legal name change and has been a self-employed artist since 1995.

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1990 MARSHA PELLETIER (HCW, A&S ’92) of Arlington, Mass., was recently promoted to direct marketing manager at WBUR Radio, Boston’s National Public Radio news station, where she has been employed for the past three years. 1991 AYAKO SATO (HCW) of Yokohama, Japan, works for Yokohama International Student House, a dormitory for students from abroad. She writes that she “met a student from Panama there, and we have been happily married for six months.” JANET M. WEST (BARNEY) of Glastonbury, Conn., has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA) board of governors. West is a manager of accounting policy and controls with Aetna U.S. Health Care in Middletown and has served the CPA society as a member or chair of a number of committees. 1992 LORI COHEN ARDAI (ENHP) of Brookline, Mass., writes that she has been employed as a nationally certified senior pharmacy technician for Walgreen’s but is a stay-at-home mother at this time. She married Michael Ardai in 1998. LAURIE IFFLAND (A&S) of Wilton, Conn., has been appointed assistant children’s librarian for the New Canaan Library. Iffland has had previous library experience at the Newfield and Old Mill Green branches of the Bridgeport Library system. 1993 LAURENT HAI (BARNEY) of Paris, France, is working as an artistic agent for the Marc Ferrero Gallery, located close to Monaco on the French Riviera. Hai’s Web site is <www.comitive.com>, and e-mail address is <info@comitive.com>. JENNIFER HURLEY (BARNEY) of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has accepted a position as finance manager with Fort Point Partners, an e-commerce consulting start-up (ftpoint.com). Hurley is working for Kelyn Brannon, previously CFO at Amazon.com, and will be responsible for building a project management finance team from the ground up. She will also be working with Brannon to take the company public. MARGOT TURK (BARNEY, MBA) of New Canaan, Conn., was recently appointed director, information services, for Greenfield Online, an online marketing research firm with headquarters in Wilton. Turk has been director of client services at Information Resources, Inc., Norwalk. 1995 JOHN ADAMSKI (BARNEY, MBA) of Burlington, Conn., has been named chief financial officer for the Dual-Lite and Prescolite Life Safety Products of Lighting Corporation of America in Cheshire. Adamski has been controller of Dual-Lite since 1998 and has nearly two decades of corporate finance experience. CAROLYN J. MILLER BARRINGTON (HCW), previously of Friendswood, Tex., was married on Jan. 2, 1999, and has moved to Spring, Tex. PHILLIP BOYKIN (HARTT) of Twinsburg, Ohio, is playing the role of Joe in the touring-company production of Show Boat. The role of Joe gives Boykin the song “Old Man River.” To secure the role, Boykin “hopped a bus in Cleveland, drove all night to New York, and got there at 9 a.m.” for a 10:30 audition. DAVID FELTON (A&S) of Stamford, Conn., writes that in May he accepted a position as technical marketing manager for a start-up mobile Internet portal, room33.com, Inc., headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Felton says that room33.com, Inc., offers free e-mail, contacts, calendars, news, weather, stocks, and discussion groups to mobile Internet users with a Web-enabled wireless phone or Palm handheld computer. “My position is based in the New York office,” he says. “We will begin rolling out our services in the United States during the fourth quarter of this year, followed by expanding our existing services in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.” ROSEMARY JOHNSON (BARNEY, MSPA) of Bolton, Conn., has been named chief financial officer for the Community Health Network of Connecticut, Inc., Meriden, by the organization’s board of directors. The Network is a not-for-profit managed-care organization of 40,000 members, who are enrolled in the state’s HUSKY A (Medicaid) and HUSKY B managed-care programs. RONALD MAGAS (A&S) of Monroe, Conn., has been named an associate vice president at Kitchen Public Relations of New York, N.Y. ELISA SEDDON (HARTT, A&S) of Bloomington, Ill., has joined the Lubrizol Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, as a research chemist. She writes that ERIC SEDDON (HARTT ’94) is heading into his second season as bass clarinetist in the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. “Please write to us at <eseddon00@alumni.indiana.edu>. 1996 KELLY COLEMAN (ENHP) of Middletown, Conn., was featured in a Hartford Courant article, March 24, recalling the history of the Coleman Brothers Carnival, started in 1916 and still providing carnivals for over two dozen towns in New York and Connecticut. Of the family business, Kelly said, “We’ve got to be close. We spend 24 hours a day with each other.” 1997 AARON BETIT (ENG) of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and PHILIP HACHE (HARTT) of Los Angeles, Calif., are members of the up-and-coming band HINT. Betit is an acoustic engineer in Los Angeles, and Hache is agent for a music management company in Los Angeles. A message from STACEY MICHAELS (’98) asks that alumni support Betit and Hache by registering at ICAST and voting for HINT at <http://icast.com/community/1,1521,611-17,00.html?bands=rating&viewCount=10>. This support will give HINT a chance to be heard by KROQ and the opportunity to be included on the Warped Tour when the band plays in Southern California. JOSEPH MENDES (ENHP) of Swansea, Mass., is pursuing a master’s degree in physician assistant science and medicine at Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore. Mendes has been department clinical specialist at St. Luke’s Hospital, Bedford, Mass., for the past three years, and has been overseeing the pulmonary health and rehabilitation programs for a multi-campus hospital. 1998 JAIME BRADSTREET (HCW) of Astoria, N.Y., is working as coordinator of admissions at the French Culinary Institute and is planning to work toward a degree in anthropology. ANDREW J. HEMMERT (A&S) of Langhorne, Penn., is working as advertising sales representative for The Intelligencer Record, daily newspaper of Harstam, Penn., near Philadephia. Hemmert has had his first byline and hopes to “work my way over to the edito-rial side.” He writes that he enjoyed a trip to Cancun with friends from the University during March. SANDRA LUCIANO (HCW) of West Hartford, Conn., has completed course work at Wesleyan University for a master’s degree and has chosen to write a thesis in anticipation of pursuing a Ph.D.

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2000 ELISHA SCHERMERHORN (BARNEY) of Enfield, Conn., was selected by the Economics/Finance/Insurance/Actuarial Science Department, Barney, to participate in the Anita Benedetti Student Involvement program at the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s annual conference 2000 in San Francisco. Schermerhorn, whose conference expenses were paid by the Student Involvement program, was chosen from students in a North American competition of business schools that offer classes in risk management and insurance. CORRECTION In the June issue of The Observer, Lisa Schaffer-Harris’s hometown and graduation year were listed incorrectly. Lisa Schaffer-Harris graduated in 1989 and is currently living in Midland, Texas. The Alumni Office regrets the error.