Kristi Beall '90 rose above more than 1,400 other Texas applicants this summer to win a 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award from the H-E-B Grocery Company. Beall credits the Wisconsin Union Directorate and the UW journalism school with giving her a solid career foundation. This fall, Beall began a new position at Blanton Elementary in Austin as its bilingual literacy specialist.

Former four-term Congressman and current Madisonian Scott Klug MBA'90 is the director of the public affairs group at the Foley & Lardner law firm. In August, he mediated an Accelerate Madison panel that featured U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin JD'89 and others discussing economic development in Dane County. Madison Foley & Lardner partner Anne Ross '77 is a founding director of Accelerate Madison, an organization of entrepreneurs, educators, and business professionals.

First-time author Todd Berger '91 of St. Paul, Minnesota, has had his work published by Voyageur Press. Berger's Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: Your Guide to the Region's Historic Lighthouses offers readers a tour of — wow! — 312 lighthouses, including color photos, lots of historical facts, and lively stories about the keepers.

From his dual position as a UW alumnus — MA'91, PhD'99 — and UW faculty member — an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction — John Rudolph let us know about his new book, Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education, published by Palgrave/St. Martin's Press.

"I'm sending in my first update," writes Hugh Scallon '91, "so brevity is hard!" After eight years with Chicago's Leo Burnett Advertising, he earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and is now a VP/group account director at D'Arcy Worldwide in the Big Apple. "More importantly," Scallon adds, "this May I married Kelly Simon, who has one UW Homecoming under her belt and is anxious for more visits to Madison — especially the Terrace!"

Can a scientist write suspense fiction? If you're Linda Winston PhD'91, you sure can. A molecular biologist by profession, Winston has also published a novel — under the name L.A. Winston — called THIN (Tarynjennys Publishing), the tale of a greedy pharmaceutical executive who's pushing a diet drug to market, despite its lethal side effects. The author lives in Huntington Beach, California.

Wesley Ringo JD'92 is a director of compliance and a new senior vice president at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago. Jeff Sampson '99, who works in the special assets division, has also become an officer of the company.

"On move-in day at the dorms," began a message from Priscilla Bronstein Goldman '93, "I met and became instant friends with my future husband, (Andrew) Jamie Goldman '94." Fast forward a few years, and you find the Goldmans married and running 4 Elbows, a design and marketing firm they founded in New York City. Priscilla sends thanks for her design skills to UW profs John Rieben and Jim Escalante MFA'81. The Goldmans' "most recent milestone" was the birth of their son, Ethan Madison.

Congratulations to Heather Graham '93, one of thirteen 2002-03 White House Fellows appointed in June to assist senior White House staff members. The nonpartisan fellows program seeks to develop the nation's future leaders through high-level, federal government experience. Graham is a program associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore.

Herb Hess PhD'93, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Idaho in Moscow, has become a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He's also researched battery and mobile generator technologies while on active duty for the last year as a lieutenant colonel with the army reserves in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

What an odd odyssey it must have been for Rodney Hill MA'93 to co-author The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick (Facts on File) — a 432-page tome that the late director's daughter, Katharina Kubrick, has called "the reference work on Stanley Kubrick and his films." Hill's been the head of theatrical marketing at Wellspring Media in New York, but this fall he began work on a PhD in film history at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He calls UW Professor David Bordwell one of his most important mentors.

Patrick Ramsey MD'94 had a rare opportunity on July 7: he helped to deliver sextuplets! An assistant professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Ramsey was one of the lead obstetricians assisting in the delivery of Kiera, Kalynne, Kaleb, Kobe, Kieran, and Kyle Harris — one of only one hundred known sets of sextuplets in the world.

Pioneering a new area of feminist and lesbian study, Stacy Wolf PhD'94's new book, A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (University of Michigan Press), counters ideas that mid-1900s Broadway musicals were full of misogyny and homophobia, and contends instead that they celebrated strong women characters who flouted gender expectations. Wolf is an associate professor of theater at the University of Texas-Austin.

Monique Keller Zhao '94's Chinese major led her to work in China for three years, but her compassion parlayed that experience into a career. After observing the growth in international adoptions while in China, Zhao became the Asian program director for the nonprofit Gift of Love International Adoptions (giftoflove.org) in Des Moines, Iowa. The organization places children from six countries with U.S. families.

What are the frequently overlooked "intangible factors" that are crucial to career success in today's uncertain economy? Dan Kurcz '97 has founded the Chicago-based, motivational speaking business Intangible IQ (IntangibleIQ.com) to help his audiences find out. Kurcz is also a sales account manager at Lucent Technologies in suburban Naperville and is the company's youngest three-time Achievers Club Award winner.

At the annual meeting of 349 PBS affiliates in June, Michael Bridgeman MA'98 of Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) was named the PBS Communicator of the Year. Bridgeman, a twenty-year WPT veteran, is the director of promotion and design for the six-station network. Fellow Badger Malcolm Brett '75 is WPT's director of television.

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