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40s
Norman N. Hopmayer (BS40, MA41) of South Orange, N.J., is a management consultant to major corporations and conducts war-gaming seminars and decision research at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. He served in the U.S. Navy until 1972, when he retired with the rank of commander.
Paul E. McNamara (BS41) of Holly Lake Ranch, Tex., is remarried, and he has retired as an instructor for American Airlines.
John A. Howard (BS47, MA49, PhD62) of Rockford, Ill., former president of Rockford College is a senior fellow of the Howard Center. His wife is Janette (WCAS48).
William F. Gustafson (BS48, MA49) of Aptos, Calif., is professor emeritus of human performance at San Jose State University. He is one of 16 founders of the Society for American Baseball Research, which now has 7,000 members.
Leslie D. Park (BS49, MA50) of Dix Hills, N.Y., is chair and founder of the national nonprofit Disabled and Alone/Life Services for the Handicapped. He received the 1997 Northwestern Alumni Association Service to Society Award.
50s
Dolores Sherman Weeda (BS50) of Wyoming, Minn,, has been retired for 10 years after teaching for 40 years in Illinois, Alaska and Minnesota. She taught elementary and special education, junior high history and geography.
Elizabeth Lund Buchholz (BS54) of Maple Grove, Minn., is president of a senior group at Rose Arbor of Chapelwood Lodge.
Robert Louis Herget (MA54) of Aurora, Ill., reports that the West Aurora School District 129 board voted to name its new middle school after him.
Evelyn Ransdell Richer (BS54) of North Barrington, Ill., retired from elementary school teaching in the Barrington School District. She is active in her garden club, the American Association of University Women and bridge clubs. She is the past chair of the Barrington Community Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago and is president of the Chicago Drama League.
Estelle Holzer (G57) of North Barrington, Ill., is one of three generations of Northwestern alumnae, including her two daughters and her granddaughter.
Ken Kraft (BS57, MS59) of Evanston was profiled in the Chicago Tribune on his upcoming retirement from the post of senior associate athletic director at Northwestern. Former SESP Northwestern athletes mentioned or quoted in the article include Mark Massery (BS74, MA75) and Wayne Watson (BS69, MA70, PhD72).
60s
Jane Kirby Smith (MA62) of San Diego, Calif., is assistant vice president for academic services at San Diego State University. In October 2003 she received the Excellence in Advising Award from the honor society Mortar Board for more than 35 years of service to the university. Smith also serves on the Northwestern Alumni Association's Council of One Hundred.
Roberta Harris Boone (BS63) of San Antonio and her husband, Dan, moved, reconstructed and renovated a large Victorian house, now home to the Alamo Street Victorian Inn Bed and Breakfast. They also have a primary residence in Canyon Lake Ranch, where they
raise longhorn cattle.
Peggy Gordon Elliott (BS64) of Brookings, S.D., president of South Dakota State University, was honored by Indiana University as a distinguished alumna.
Joan Ott Nortell (BA66, MA67) of Naperville, Ill., a Spanish instructor at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, was nominated for inclusion in the 2003-2004 edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
70s
Wendy J. Chamberlin (BS70, H03) of McLean, Va., U.S. ambassador and assistant administrator for Asia and the Near East for the U.S. Agency for international Development, was appointed United Nations deputy high commissioner for refugees. She has received several State Department awards.
Jo Hoffman Ellen (MA70) of Williamsburg, Va., is active in the NU Club of Virginia, assisting with membership. She is a Wildcats fan.
Kathryn Barrat Tooredman (BS70, MA76, PhD81) of Palatine, Ill., is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at National-Louis University in Evanston.
Scott A. Anderson (BS71, MA74) of Clearwater, Fla., sports medicine coordinator at Morton Plant Hospital, was inducted into the Athletic Trainers Association of Florida Hall of Fame.
Diane Niedoboski Balin (MA73, PhD74) of Riverside, Ill., is director of the Board of Governors Bachelor of Arts Degree Program, an adult bachelor's degree completion program at Governors State University at University Park, Ill. She also directs prior learning assessment for the degree program at the four Governors State University colleges.
Maria Catela (MS74) of Cascais, Portugal, is engaged in educational research, with a focus on multicultural schools that assist immigrants from Africa, Brazil and Eastern Europe. She has also worked at the Ministry of Education in Portugal.
Galia Tamir Albin (MA75) of Tel-Aviv, Israel, chairs the boards of Gaia Cosmetics and Almedia Ltd. She is a member of the board of governors at the Wingate Sports Institution.
Lamont Change (BS75) of River Forest, Ill., is senior vice president and senior banker in the Wealth Management Group at LaSalle Bank.
Lynn Petronella (BS76) of Scottsdale, Ariz., wrote Know Where to Run: An American Odyssey (www.1stBooks.com, 2003), her drama of how Joan Benoit Samuelson won the first Olympic women's marathon.
Barbara Wright (BS77) of Pound Ridge, N.Y., works with Head Start, conducting teacher workshops in using music and movement and recommending early intervention and preschool services in special education.
80s
Arlene Hirsch (MA83) of Chicago wrote How to Be Happy at Work (Jist Works 2003).
Beverly Otto (PhD84) of Park Ridge, Ill., was appointed associate dean of the College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
Kelly Riordan Horwitz (BS89) of San Diego is a law clerk for the U.S. District Judge John A. Houston in the Southern District of California.
90s
Gina Bokios (BS93, L99) of Athens, Greece, worked as an attorney for the 2004 Olympic Games, arranging contracts and sponsors for the torch relay. She also carried the torch in the opening ceremonies.
Valerie Banks Amster (J94, MS95) of Centreville, Va., is a high school yearbook adviser in northern Virginia. The school's last yearbook was named a Pacemaker finalist by the National Scholastic Press Association. She is married to Michael (WCAS95).
Todd Baczek (BS95) of Green Oaks, Ill., was promoted to assistant vice president and area branch manager for National City Mortgage Co. in July 2003. He covers nine locations in Lake County.
Daphne Photiades Braun (BS95) of Amherst, Mass., is an adjunct professor at Greenfield Community College and a member of the New York State Bar Association.
Sharon Back Padnos (BS95) of Northbrook, Ill., is a second-year student at the Chicago College of Pharmacy. A pharmacy technician at Dominick's Finer Foods, she completed the Dominick's Pharmacy Patient Care Summer Internship Program.
Roxana Mehta Dubash (BS96) of Naperville, Ill., is a manager at Accenture in Chicago.
Diane Brzezinski Malie (BS97, MS02) of Mount Prospect, Ill., is director of assessment at Robert Morris College in Chicago.
Dave St. John-Larkin (BS97) of Denver is associate patent counsel at EchoStar Satellite LLC.
Elizabeth Giley Payne (BS98) of Chicago is a business development specialist at Apple Computer. She is married to Brian (C96).
Joseph Harmsen (BS99) of Dayton, a former Northwestern basketball player, is the graduate manager on the University of Dayton basketball staff.
00s
Gary Kosman (BS00) of Granada Hills, Calif., established America Learns, a nonprofit that is developing an Internet-based management tool to improve literacy tutoring and mentoring. He was named a fellow by the Echoing Green Foundation in 2003.
Kasha Roseta (BS00) of Seattle earned a master's degree in public administration with an emphasis on women's/lesbian studies and political science from the University of Washington in 2003. She is a part-time tutor for student-athletes at the University of Washington and works for a political consulting firm in Seattle.
Demetrius Sajous-Brady (BS00) of Chicago is a third-grade teacher at Lincoln School.
Todd Schirmer (BS00) of Half Moon Bay, Calif., is a case manager for the Mental Health Association of San Mateo County. He earned a master's degree in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii in 2002.
Richard Halverson (PhD01) of Madison, Wis., an assistant professor of educational administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received an Early Career Grant from the National Science Foundation.
Abigail P. Rivenbark (BS01) of Missoula, Mont., is pursuing a master's degree in intercultural youth and family development studies at the University of Montana. She spent two years in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa.
Jennifer R. Smith (BS01) of Dearborn, Mich., is a prevention counselor with HIV positive individuals at Community Health Awareness Group in Detroit and a psychotherapist at the Family Center for Psychological Services in Bloomfield Hills.
Chasda Martin (BS02) of Chicago is interning as a school social worker at Kenwood Academy in Chicago.
Anne House (BS03) of Arlington Heights, Ill., is earning an LLM degree in European Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Afterwards she will enter the University of Nottingham (UK) as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, studying for an MS in international business.
Susan Maloney Meyer (MA03) and Mary P. Nelson (MA03) of Wilmette, Ill., have formed an executive development firm, Arc Leadership Ltd.
Bradley R. Wadle (MS03) of Evanston received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Germany. Prior to going to Germany, Wadle was administrative coordinator for the Master of Science in Education Program at Northwestern.
Steve Frederick (BS04) of White Bear Lake, Minn., spent four weeks in Tanzania, researching educational accessibility for orphans. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, as part of a fundraiser for the Chicago-based Global Alliance for Africa. He raised $5,000 for the nonprofit organization, which provides food, shelter and education to children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Liberia and Tanzania. Frederick, a social policy major, also had received an undergraduate research grant and a grant from the Program of African Studies to support his project during his senior year.
Class Codes
| AF |  |
Air Force Commission |
| C | |
Communication (formerly Speech) |
| CB | |
Chicago Business |
| D | |
Dental |
| EB | |
Evanston Business |
| FSM | |
The Feinberg School of Medicine |
| G | |
Graduate (Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences or University College) |
| GC | |
Graduate Communication |
| GD | |
Graduate Dental |
| GJ | |
Graduate Journalism |
| GL | |
Graduate Law |
| GFSM | |
Graduate Feinberg School of Medicine |
| GMcC | |
Graduate McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science |
| GMu | |
Graduate Music |
| H | |
Honorary |
| J | |
Medill School of Journalism |
| KSM | |
Kellogg School of Management or Graduate Business |
| L | |
Law |
| Mu | |
Music |
| N | |
Nursing |
| Nav | |
Naval Commission |
| SCS | |
School of Continuing Studies (formerly University College), Continuing Education, Evening Divisions |
| Tns | |
Transportation Center |
| Trf | |
Traffic Institute |
| WCAS | |
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts |
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