Lincoln Foundation. He serves on the advisory board for Group O, a company in Milan, Ill., and serves on the boards of Old Second College Foundation and Provena Mercy Medical Center. He is a past board member and chair of several Chambers of Commerce in the Aurora/Chicago area. Jerry retired as a vice president at Caterpillar in 2007.
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Chicago actors Renee Matthews (seated) and Gerald Bailey portrayed Molly Picon and Jacob Kalich in Molly Picon’s Return Engagement at the Hartmann Center on March 24. They also spoke to theater and public relations classes. Matthews’ son FRASER ENGERMAN ’85 (left) is public affairs manager for State Farm, and his wife KRISTIE AHLENIUS ENGERMAN ’85 is government affairs director for the Illinois Association of Realtors. The Engermans live in Dunlap with their two daughters.
MONICA SMILEY ’77 is editor
and publisher of Enterprising Women magazine, a national entrepreneurial publication, and president/CEO of Enterprising Women Inc. Monica and her husband John Dancer have two sons and live in Cary, N.C.* ROGER GERSTAD ’79 is president of Gerstad Builders. The company won the AVID Diamond and AVID Cup awards in the category of best customer experience in North America. The awards are presented by AVID Ratings, a customer loyalty management firm, and Professional Builder magazine. Roger and his wife Diane have three children and live in Wonder Lake. They enjoy competitive water skiing. Their daughter LINDSEY GERSTAD ’12 is an industrial engineering major at Bradley. don sidlowski ’79 was recently elected town chairman of Three Lakes, Wis. Don is a managing partner at Oneida Marketing Enterprises. He and his wife Ginny live on a small hobby horse farm in northern Wisconsin.*
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ANDREW HEATON ’82 and his
wife Charity announce the birth of Benjamin Daniel, their fifth child, on February 11. Last June, the Heatons relocated to Gettysburg, Pa., where Andy is principal and associate general counsel for Ernst & Young LLP. He is president of the Bradley Forensics Alumni Network. JIM RICHARDS ’82 is regional director of construction for Sedgebrook, a 96-acre retirement community in Lincolnshire. Jim also oversees
construction at Monarch Landing, a similar community in Naperville. He is employed by Erickson Construction LLC.* DOUG SMITH, MA ’83, athletic director at Naperville North High School, is among eight athletic directors nationwide to receive a 2008 citation from the National Federation of State High School Associations. Citations are presented to outstanding athletic directors in recognition of contributions to interscholastic athletics at the local, state, and national levels. Doug has been an athletic director in Illinois for the last 26 years and joined Naperville North in 2003. He lives in Naperville.
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PETER SIAVELIS ’86 co-edited the book Pathways to Power, published recently by the Penn State Press. He is the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow and associate professor of political science at Wake Forest University. Peter, who holds a doctoral degree from Georgetown University, has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Chile and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He and his wife Colleen Galvan live in WinstonSalem, N.C., and have two children. GREG TEAGUE ’86 is president of the Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce.
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He is a partner in Teague, Knight and Associates, an accounting and tax practice. Greg also is an investment solutions representative with Country Financial. He and his wife Sharon have three children and live in Chicago.*
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monica smiley ’77
don sidlowski ’79
LAURA HEDIEN ’87, a lieuten-
ant with the Waukegan Fire Department for 19 years, has been deployed with the U.S. Navy Reserve to the Middle East, where she is a chief hospitalman attached to the U.S. Marine Combat Logistics Battalion 46. She and her husband Thomas Herrera live in Grayslake. DAVE AWL ’88 is a writer and performer based in Chicago. His book, Facebook Me! How to Have Fun with Your Friends and Promote Your Projects on Facebook, was published last February by Peachpit Press. He also hosts the Partly Dave Show, a cabaret variety show. Later this year, he will perform with the Chicago cast of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
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TAMMY “TC” McCLENNING ’90
greg teague ’86 * see photo
is the author of All in a Day’s Work for Real Estate Agents: Humorous & Heartwarming Stories. Published by Work Like A Dog Books, it includes more than 100 true stories about real estate agents in 44 states. continued on p. 23 Bradley Hilltopics Summer 2009
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