Alumni News
Compiled by Paula Wagner Apfelbach '83

60s

Writes Thomas Lindahl '60, "Alumni news for you! As of this academic year, I am fully retired from UW-Platteville, where I served as dean from 1991 until 1998. I have been named professor emeritus this year and am enjoying retirement."

Who wants to be a millionaire? If you do, but don't know how to do it, self-made Los Angeles multi-millionaire Wayne Wagner '60 has a plan. He is the co-author, with Al Winnikoff, of Millionaire: The Best Explanation of How an Index Fund Can Turn Your Lunch Money into a Fortune (Renaissance Books), and the founder of the Plexus Group, a financial advisory firm.

The Public Relations Society of America, the governing body of the PR profession, has named Florida International University Associate Professor Bill Adams '62, MA'68 as the year's Outstanding Educator in the U.S. This comes on the heels of another honor: Adams was also named one of the Top Ten PR Educators by PR Week magazine last year. He lives in Plantation, Florida.

Western Illinois University (WIU) biological sciences professor Larry (Lawrence) Jahn '63 has been chosen to be the Distinguished Visiting Professor in Biology at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A specialist in fisheries and aquatic ecology, Jahn has been on WIU's faculty in Macomb, Illinois, for thirty-three years. He is also the chair of the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board.

Edward Lump, Jr. '64, the executive vice president and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association (WRA), is also the new president of the Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists. The Madison-based WRA represents a broad range of more than seven thousand food service operations.

Congratulations to Ron McDougall '64, MBA'65, who has become the new chair of the board at Brinker International, which operates more than 1,100 casual-dining restaurants in forty-seven states and twenty countries. McDougall will also continue his duties as CEO at Brinker's Dallas headquarters.

The latest book by Gerald Henig MA'65, Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict (Stackpole Books), has been chosen as a selection of the History Book Club. The author is a professor of history at California State University-Hayward, where he has received the Outstanding Professor Award.

U.S. Air Force Retired Major General Michael McCarthy '67 has joined the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany, as its American deputy director. Most recently, he was the assistant deputy chief of staff for air and space operations at the air force headquarters at the Pentagon. McCarthy replaces another UW-Madison graduate, Lieutenant General John Otjen MBA'71.

The University of North Carolina Press has recently published three books by UW alumni. Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II is a new work by Mark Stoler MA'67, PhD'71, a professor of history at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Robert Burk MA'78, PhD'82, a professor and chair of the history department at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, has written Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921. And, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt MA'90, PhD'96 is the author of Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. She is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse [New York] University.

Joan Gammell Bahn '68, a registered nurse for more than thirty years, was recently part of the development team for a new endoscopy unit at Memorial Clinic in Olympia, Washington. She is now the unit's nurse manager. Bahn's eldest daughter is a fourth-year medical student at the UW.

Two Madison trial lawyers — Curtis Swanson '68 and Joy Hatch O'Grosky '84, JD'87 — joined the Milwaukee-based law firm of von Briesen, Purtell & Roper as shareholders in December, and together, they opened the firm's Madison office in January. A. (Anthony) Edward Matkom '89 has also joined the practice in the Milwaukee office. The firm's Donald (Del) Laverdure JD'99 participated in a strategic policy-making project called the White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities, created to explore solutions for the "digital divide" faced by many Native Americans. He is also the American Indian liaison to the Wisconsin State Board of Governors for 2000-01.

Best wishes to Tom Waarvik '68 of Indianapolis, who retired in February after thirty-four years as a chemical engineer with Eli Lilly and Company. During his career, he was honored for his work on a culture monitoring system that Lilly patented. (Thank you, Jeannette Werner Waarvik '37 of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, for this update.)

The newly appointed president of Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, is Ann Amore '69, MA'76. Leaving her post as vice president of college relations at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York, she will begin her presidency of Rosemont in July. Early in her career, Amore taught at UW-Madison and served as the director of constituent relations in the Wisconsin governor's office.

Jay Davis PhD'69, the director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, will assume new duties at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, in June as the first national security fellow at the lab's Center for Global Security Research. Davis, a nuclear scientist, was the first director of the DTRA when it was established in 1998 to reduce the threat to this nation and its allies from weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. Secretary of Defense has twice honored Davis with the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the department's highest civilian award.

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