Alumni News
Compiled by Paula Wagner Apfelbach '83

70s

After a short post-doc at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Michael Nee '70, PhD'79 joined the research staff of the Institute for Systemic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. While his research interests focus primarily on Bolivia, Nee has co-authored Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Belize, with Common Names and Uses (New York Botanical Garden Press) — an extensive documentation of the 3,408 species of vascular plants known to the country.

Congratulations to William Kubly '71 of Lincoln, Nebraska, who was recently selected by Ernst and Young as the 2000 National Entrepreneur of the Year in the real estate/construction category. Kubly founded his Landscapes Unlimited Golf Course Development Company in 1976 as a one-person operation. It is now the largest firm of its kind in the nation.

Terrell Rich '72 of Boise, Idaho, is the national coordinator for Partners in Flight (PIF), working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. PIF is an international bird conservation initiative whose focus is migratory land birds, and whose partners include state and federal agencies, conservation organizations, private industry, universities, and individuals throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.

In recognition of his contributions to agricultural research, Peter Johnsen '74, MS'76, PhD'78 was inducted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in January. He is the director of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois, and is only the ninth U.S. citizen to be elected to membership since the academy's founding in 1811. Johnsen received his credentials in the presence of Sweden's Princess Christina, and then attended a banquet in Stockholm's City Hall.

The Marketing and Communications Council of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has chosen Patricia Algiers '76 of Milwaukee as one of two national spokespeople. She will spend the next two years traveling around the nation on a series of media tours, presenting research as part of ASID's new "How Employees Want to Work" task force. A design/brand strategist for KS Consulting, Algiers also received the ASID Presidential Citation in October for her work on the corporate offices of Monster.com.

Mark Hucklebridge MA'76 has joined Scott Broadbent '96 at Easter Seals Central California, which serves a ten-county region from its office in Aptos. Hucklebridge, who previously directed public affairs at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, is the new director of marketing and communications. Broadbent continues as the organization's vice president of development.

Linda Forner Lee MS'76, PhD'79 has become a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and was already a fellow of the Ohio chapter. She is a professor and graduate program director at the University of Cincinnati, where she has earned teaching awards at both the department and college levels.

A February column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel included news that, in January, "ABC newsman Chris Bury [MA'77] became principal back-up anchor to Ted Koppel on 'Nightline,' one of the most honored news series in TV history." Bury has been with ABC for nineteen years, and a "Nightline" correspondent since 1993.

(Stella) Kathryn Jarrell Gutzwiller PhD'77, a professor of classics at the University of Cincinnati, has been awarded the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for her book Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context (University of California Press). The award, given annually by the American Philological Association for an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship, salutes Gutzwiller's book as the first full-length study of Greek literary epigrams.

Among the new fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is Alan Freed '78, MS'80, PhD'85, a materials research engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

The University of Iowa Libraries have hired David McCartney '79 as their new university archivist. His career has included work for the Montgomery [Maryland] County government, the National Public Broadcasting Archives, the Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland, and the International Monetary Fund.

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