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		Constantine Lycometros (MS54) of Argos, Greece, a retired elementary school teacher and professor of education at Pedagogical Academies, published Notes on the Interpretation of Dreams, by S. Freud and an Essay.

		Stanley Krippner (BS57, MS61) of San Rafael, Calif., a professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, was an invited speaker at a symposium in Basel, Switzerland. He spoke on the future of religion.

		Henry S. Bangser (MS71, PhD77) of Glenview, Ill., who retired as superintendent of the New Trier Township High School District, is joining Grenzebach Glier & Associates Inc. as executive vice president and chief operating officer.

		Elaine Schuster (MA/MS71) of Chicago has left her post as president and executive director of Chicago's Golden Apple Foundation to write and teach. She will be the Education Fellow at the Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management at Northwestern.

		Gayle Claver Rediker (BS74) of Hampden, Mass., is CFO of Rediker Software, Inc., which was selected as a finalist for the 2006 Mass Technology Leadership Awards.

		Dave Cort (BS78) of Lagunitas, Calif., is celebrating his 15th year as executive director of the San Geronimo Valley Community Center, which provides human services, cultural enrichment and educational programs.

		Mark Kuhl (MS85) of Lake Bluff, Ill., a social studies teacher at Lake Forest High School, was a reader in United States history for the Advanced Placement Examination given by the College Board.

		Stacy Miyamoto Lau, MD (BS88), of Mililani, Hawaii, joined the Kapolei Family Medical Center, Inc. in Kapolei, where she is a board-certified family physician.

		Steven McGee (BS88, PhD96) of Western Springs, Ill., is a research associate professor of learning sciences at SESP and associate director for the Meaningful Science Consortium, which works with Chicago Public Schools high schools to transform their 9th- to 11th-grade science sequence.

		Joseph Hipskind (BS89) of Ballwin, Mo., a partner with Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, serves as a board member of Worldways Children's Museum and was named by St. Louis Business Journal as one of St. Louis's "40 Under 40."

		Aleta Margolis (MS91) of Chevy Chase, Md., executive director of the Center for Artistry in Teaching, was named by Washingtonian magazine as one of the "Women to Watch" in the "Most Powerful Women" section of its June issue.

		Maureen McNicholl (MS92) of Madrid, Spain, is an English and history teacher at the American School of Madrid. For summer 2006 she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the visual culture of Colonial New England in Salem and Boston.

		Dan Montgomery (MS93) of Evanston, Ill., an English teacher at Niles North High School in Skokie, Ill., is president of the North Suburban Teachers Union, vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and a member of the Illinois State Board of Higher Education's Commission on School Leadership Preparation. Recently he was nominated for the Board of Directors of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards..

		Elizabeth ("Betsy") Partoyan (BS93) of Falls Church, Va., changed positions at the National School Boards Association. After two years as program manager for Extended-Day Learning Opportunities, she joined the executive staff as director for Research, Training, and Member Services.

		Kevin Roy (MA95, PhD99) of University Park, Md., was named one of five William T. Grant Scholars for 2006. An assistant professor of family studies at the University of Maryland, he will conduct research on "Intergenerational Influences on Men's Transitions to Adulthood."

		Eboni Howard (MA96, PhD00) of Chicago, who received her doctorate from the Human Development and Social Policy program, accepted the position of Director, Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy and Frances Stott Chair in Early Childhood Policy Research at the Erikson Institute in Chicago.

		Elisa Mandel (BS99) of Seattle recently started working at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation doing microfinance work. Since graduation she has worked with McKinsey & Company and New Leaders for New Schools and taught at a school in Namibia.

		Iris Tabak (PhD99) of Beer Sheva, Israel, won the 2006 Jan Hawkins Award of the American Education Research Association. An assistant professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, she researches cognitive and sociocultural theory and designs advanced tools for learning.

		Gary Kosman (BS00) of Los Angeles is CEO of America Learns. The University of Southern California and the USC Entrepreneur Club recently presented him with an award for Outstanding Entrepreneurial Success at a Young Age for his work on creating America Learns, which grew out of his senior thesis and research apprenticeship at SESP.

		Elissa Koch Moore (BS00) of Chicago is an attorney in the health care group of the Chicago office of McGuireWoods LLP. Her practice focuses on corporate, transactional and regulatory work for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and other health care providers.

		Anna Holster-Ross (BS03) of Philadelphia, who is working on her PhD in public policy at George Washington University School of Public Policy and Public Administration, was selected to receive the Black Men at Penn Combatting American Racism Award.

		Jamie Johnston (BS03) of Washington, D.C., who has been working at American Institutes for Research, received a Fulbright fellowship to do research in Hong Kong on the relationship between parental involvement and student achievement.

		Nicole Speck Vilches (MS03) of Chicago is the assistant dean for admissions at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.

		Ron Adams (BS04) of Philadelphia was named managing partner of WC Financial, a mortgage brokerage. He also opened his own life settlement brokerage, Philadelphia Settlement Brokers.

		Phillip Cooper (BS04) of Crystal Lake, Ill., was awarded a fellowship to teach English in the Fulbright Austrian Teaching Assistantship Program this year. He is also conducting a mini-research project on the Austrian health care system.

		Beth Heneghan Gilfillan (BS04) of Elmhurst, Ill., is starting an internship this fall as a high school counselor at Rolling Meadows High School.

		Julie Maslowsky (BS04) of Ann Arbor is starting a doctoral degree in developmental psychology at the University of Michigan. She is studying the mechanisms of formation of psychopathology in childhood and adolescence.

		Erin Miller (MS04) of Chicago is a campus recruiter and career advisor for entry-level hires at Morningstar, Inc. For two years she had worked as a career advisor at Loyola University Chicago.

		Alanna Rosenberg (BS04) of New York City was one of eight selected for a summer fellowship sponsored by the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation and supported by the U.S. Department of State. For two months she implemented a project in Oswiecim, Poland.

		Tedd Vanadilok (MS04) of Evanston is the director of Asian/Asian American Student Affairs at Northwestern University. After earning his master's in Higher Education Administration and Policy, he worked at Duke University's Multicultural Center.

		Aisha Davis (MS05) of Lansing, N.Y., a graduate of the Higher Education Administration and Policy program, has been the associate director for multicultural affairs at Cornell University since December.

		Nancy Dunham (MS05) of Chicago was promoted to assistant dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago. She coordinates the transfer orientation program, serves as a faculty liaison and assists with academic advising.

		Margaret Cashion Lysy (MS05) of Silver Spring, Md., who graduated from the Higher Education Administration and Policy program, is an assistant director of admissions in Georgetown University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

		Erin Mobley (BS05) of Tustin, Calif., is director of admissions at Cornelia Connelly High School in Anaheim, a private, all-girls Catholic school.

		Carolyn Oldham (MS05) of Sugar Grove, Ill., is the coordinator of leadership and special projects at North Central College.

		Shira Bergstein (BS06) of Silver Spring, Md., was awarded the James H. Dunn Memorial Fellowship, a program that provides experience with Illinois state government for one year.

		Darby Hollinrake and Lauren Parnell (both BS06) received Outstanding Volunteer awards for exceptional work in the Evanston community.

		Jessica Joslin (BS06) received the Alumnae Board of Northwestern University's Senior Woman Award for Volunteer Service. She is currently working toward a master's of divinity degree at Harvard University.

		Jonathan Marino (BS06), winner of the SESP 2006 Alumni Leadership Award, has a one-year fellowship with the Chicago Public Schools to develop service learning programs. Following the success of the International Youth Volunteerism Summit he co-founded, he was invited to speak at the Civicus World Assembly in Glasgow in June.

		Lauren Walker (BS06) gave a presentation at the National Undergraduate Conference on Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.

		Jennifer L. Sime (MS04), a third-grade teacher at Our Lady of the Gardens School in Chicago, was named one of the 10 winners of the 2006 Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence.

		Rebekah (Wrobbel) Stathakis (BS02), a Spanish teacher at Butler Junior High School in Oak Brook, was chosen from more than 75,000 nominees to receive the 2006 Disney Teacher Award.

Patrick Fitzgerald (BS97) is starting his first season as Northwestern University's 29th head football coach. A former assistant coach of the Wildcats and All-American linebacker, Fitzgerald, 31, is the youngest head coach in Division I football. He was named July 7 after the sudden death of former head coach Randy Walker.

Stephanie Erickson (BS98), Northwestern's all-time leading scorer in women's soccer, was named head coach of the women's soccer program. Erickson served as head coach at Harvard University in 2005 and previously had been an assistant coach at Northwestern, Stanford, Harvard and University of California.
(Photo courtesy of Harvard University)

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In Memoriam

Adam Roux (BS01), 27, who had worked for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch in New York and was enrolled in a doctoral program in philosophy at San Diego State University, died suddenly on July 15. Intelligent and creative, he was admired as a model student and a natural leader, according to professor James Spillane. Jean Egmon, former director of the Learning and Organizational Change program that Roux completed, says, "He looked out for many who followed after him to New York. … He found his path and way in life, and helped so many of us find or stay on our path."

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