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1994 REUNION YEAR
Jenny Benjamin, Arts ’94, wrote her first novel, This Most Amazing, published by Armida Publications in April 2013. Kristine Cherek, Arts ’94, of Milwaukee’s Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014. Bob Frigo, Arts ’94, was named associate director of the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement at Elon University in Elon, N.C. Cmdr. Brian Hamling, Eng ’94, U.S.N., is chief staff officer of Training Air Wing Four at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married to Renee (Mathieu) Hamling, Comm ’94, and they have four children.
♥ Jennifer Lay-Riske, Comm ’94, is a producer at Chicago’s WMAQ-TV and was nominated for a national Emmy for outstanding regional spot news for coverage of the May 2012
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NATO protest. She and her husband, Michael Riske, Bus Ad ’92, also celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary.
Judith Williams-Killackey, Arts ’94, is chair of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s labor and employment section at Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLP.
1997
Angela Ewald, Comm ’98, was nominated for Outstanding Children’s Series and Outstanding New Approaches, Enhancement to a Daytime Program or Series Emmys for her work on the national PBS children’s program SciGirls. The program already received one Emmy. She was profiled in the spring 2012 issue of Marquette Magazine.
1995 Bernard J. Kearney, III, Arts ’95, Grad ’97, of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLC was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.
Christopher Huffine, Eng ’97, received the Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientist and Engineer of the Year Award.
Jennifer Vega, Eng ’95, Grad ’04, is principal of Queen of Apostles School in Pewaukee, Wis.
Katherine Maloney Perhach, Arts ’97, Law ’00, of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLC, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.
1996 Brian Faherty, Comm ’96, played supporting roles in the films American Hustle and The Business Trip, as well as on the TV shows Blue Bloods and The Knick. Thomas R. Homburg, Law ’96, of Milwaukee’s Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.
CELEBRATING ALUMNI
Happy 100th, John!
He met the love of his life, Ione, and they spent 60 of 16 and great grandfather eight times over. He is a veteran of WWII and the Korean War, a retiree, and civic and philanthropic leader. This year, John Schoonenberg, Bus Ad ’36, celebrated his 100th birthday with family and friends. John lives in West Allis, Wis., and attends every Marquette men’s basketball home game. But the best accolade comes from his sons: “He is a heck of a guy. We’re glad he’s our dad.” Are you celebrating a milestone event? Tell us. Send a picture to marquette.edu/classnotes.
Winter 2014
Centers of America, which has hospitals in Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Tulsa, Okla. He and his family live in Arizona.
Sean O’D Bosack, Law ’97, of Milwaukee’s Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.
years together. He is the father of six, a grandfather
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Xin Zhang, Eng ’96, is a network administrator at Standard Process Inc., a manufacturer of whole food supplements in Palmyra, Wis.
1998 Timothy Blazek, Bus Ad ’98, was named director of national accounts and channel expansion at Millard Refrigerated Services in Omaha. Christopher Downs, Bus Ad ’98, is vice president of information services at the Cancer Treatment
Dave Schuster, Nurs ’98, was promoted to ventricular assist device and heart transplant coordinator at Milwaukee’s Froedtert Hospital. Nicole Truog, Bus Ad ’98, was named director of the Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin– Madison.