Alumni News
Compiled by Paula Wagner Apfelbach '83

70s

Cathy Lorber '70 has been elected to the board of directors of the National Association on Alcohol, Drugs, and Disability. She is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Anixter Center, a Chicago-based human services agency for people with disabilities. In 1991, Lorber started the first substance-abuse treatment program for people with disabilities in Illinois, including Addiction Recovery of the Deaf, one of only three such programs in the nation.

The International Sculpture Center presented Joseph Seipel '70, the chair of Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Sculpture, with its 2001 Outstanding Sculpture Educator Award in June.

A profile of Professor of Anthropology Erik Trinkaus '70 that appeared in the Washington University in St. Louis [Missouri] Record in April began, "Erik Trinkaus knows Neanderthals." Why? Because his interest in human behavior and adaptation led him to study anthropology, specialize in human paleontology, and complete his doctoral thesis on Neanderthal feet - which tell a lot about the evolution of human locomotion. A piece in the July 2000 issue of National Geographic called Trinkaus "one of the world's leading experts on Neanderthal anatomy."

Taking the helm in July as the new president of the San Francisco-based International Association of Business Communicators was Julie Freeman '71. In her previous role as the executive director of the Professional Picture Framers Association in Richmond, Virginia, she was credited with leading the four-thousand-member organization through a difficult time to sound financial health.

It's tempting to make a play on words about how Arlington, Virginia, resident Jay Jacob Wind '71 runs like the. . . . He is, after all, a distance runner, race director, and running coach of considerable note. In the 2001 Boston Marathon - his eighty-seventh 26.2-mile finish - he came in 599th among 13,395 total finishers. Wind's nomination to the Washington (D.C.) Jewish Sports Hall of Fame read, "Jay is by far the most prominent Jewish distance runner in Washington, D.C., history. Among American Jewish athletes, he ran six of the fastest ten-mile times ever, seven of the fastest marathon times ever, and two of the fastest fifty-mile times ever."

For Jolene Koester MA'72, April 19 was a big day - the day when she was inaugurated as president of California State University-Northridge and received mountains of praise for the notable progress she had already made since beginning her term in July 2000. Koester served Cal State-Sacramento in positions ranging from professor of communications studies to provost and vice president for academic affairs from 1983 until 2000.

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has selected Holly Mason '72, MS'75, PhD'79 as its 2001 Distinguished Pharmacy Educator. She is an associate dean and professor of pharmacy administration at Purdue University's School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences in West Lafayette, Indiana.

George Stege MA'72 received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Western Illinois University in Macomb during the spring commencement. As the president and CEO of Ford Gum and Machine Company, which sells confectionery and novelty items, he developed the firm into one of the top privately held - and philanthropic - companies in the Buffalo, New York, area.

Among the seven UW-Madison faculty who have earned 2001 Romnes Fellowships is David Mladenoff '73, MS'79, PhD'85. The $50,000 fellowships help faculty members to further their scholarly careers through research, professional travel, or equipment. As an associate professor of forest ecology, Mladenoff's research promotes greater understanding of human influences on managed forest ecosystems.

Ralph Nelson '73, '75 has made quite a career change. He has worked in the field of aerospace electronics development, spending the last ten years in Tucson with Allied Signal, most recently as a program engineer for several systems on the Boeing 737 and 777 aircraft. In July, however, Nelson began his residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Best wishes!

What are some of our Badger attorneys up to? We heard from Jeffery Mandell '74 that he has opened the ERISA Law Group in Boise, Idaho - a law practice dedicated to employee benefit matters that fall under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Emi Uyehara '76, an attorney who specializes in representing school districts in labor and employment matters, joined Liebert Cassidy Whitmore as a partner in its Mountain View, California, office in August. And, the Madison office of Quarles & Brady has promoted Valerie Bailey-Rihn '84 to partner.

Stuart Brotman MA'75 has been appointed to the board of directors of the United States-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, which works to foster long-range collaboration in science and technology between American and Israeli industry. Brotman lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

The new dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law is Steven Willborn MS'76, JD'76, who has also served as the interim dean and the Richard C. and Catherine Stuart Schmoker Professor of Law. He joined the faculty in 1979 and has received the college's Distinguished Teaching Award three times.

Barbara Arnold '77 has been named vice president of public affairs and communications for the Minneapolis-based Citizen's Scholarship Foundation of America, a scholarship and educational support organization. She was most recently a manager of community relations at Motorola in Schaumburg, Illinois.

We applaud Michael Bohn '77, MD'85, who received an Outstanding Professional Award in May at the annual conference of the Wisconsin Association on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse. Bohn serves his field as the medical director of Madison's Gateway Recovery, an addiction treatment service; as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the UW Medical School; and as the host of the monthly teleconferences produced by Wisconsin's Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.

We heard this from Bill Nagler '77: "Just wanted to relay another Badger success story to you. Lorna Gruen Nagler '78 has been promoted to senior vice president and general merchandise manager for apparel with Kmart Corporation. [Kmart management] stated that they are 'extremely proud that Lorna Nagler agreed to take on the monumental responsibility of leading our entire apparel division.' " The couple lives in Troy, Michigan.

Winnetka, Illinois, resident Christopher Brennan '79 was recently inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. He founded One-on-One Sports in 1991 and built its patented, closed-circuit radio product into a top sports talk radio network. In 2000, Vulcan Ventures purchased One-on-One and merged it with Sporting News Radio. Brennan is now the president and CEO of Sporting News Radio, and the executive vice president of Vulcan Print Media. Acclaimed Chicago chef and restaurateur Charlie Trotter '82 is a past inductee.

Congratulations to Margaret Daub PhD'79, who became the head of the Department of Botany at North Carolina State University in Raleigh last October. On the faculty since 1989, she has served as the interim department head since 1999 and has also been the editor-in-chief of Phytopathology. (Thanks to Daub's proud sister, Gretchen Daub Westman '83, for this update. Her spouse, Eric Westman MD'86, is profiled in the Fall 2001 print issue of On Wisconsin.)

Bloomsburg [Pennsylvania] University has welcomed Patrick Schloss PhD'79 as its new provost and vice president for academic affairs. Since joining the university in 1994, he has served as an assistant vice president and dean for graduate studies and research, and most recently, as the interim provost. Schloss has also held positions at Penn State and the University of Missouri, and has authored fifteen books.

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