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at her company with current sales surpassing $3.5-million. Amy completed the necessary courses to earn the Accredited Buyers Representative designation. She and her husband, Jack, and their three daughters, live in Clarkston. Amy would love hear from fellow Albion alumni and friends and can be reached by e-mail at: amyalbright@direcway.com. Shelagh Smith Luplow, ’84, has a new address: 3075 Snowberry Court, Harbor Springs 49740. She and her husband have three children. The Luplow family can be found taking advantage of the snowy northern Michigan weather by spending their time on the slopes of Boyne Highlands. Friends are always welcome to visit and ski. Shelagh can be reached by e-mail at: Shelagh@chartermi.net.
85-89 Elizabeth Jamieson, ’85, was elected to serve a three-year term on the State Bar of Michigan’s Representative Assembly. The assembly is the policy-making body for the State Bar. Elizabeth has also joined the State Bar Board of Commissioners and will be Assembly chair in 2004-05. An attorney with the Grand Rapids firm of Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, she is also the president of the Women Lawyers Association_western district and is on the Grand Rapids Bar Association Board of Trustees.
Michael, ’88, and Suzi Rein Coghlan, ’87, recently moved back to the Ann Arbor area after eight years in Chicago. Michael was partner and COO of TFM Investment Group, a proprietary derivatives trading firm that was purchased by Goldman Sachs and Co. at the beginning of the year. He has decided to take semi-retirement and enjoy the family. The Coghlans and their three daughters enjoy being back in the area. They would love to hear from classmates and friends by e-mail at: mtcoghlan@aol.com. Tom Smart, ’88, welcomes any fellow Albion graduates to contact him when they are in the Los Angeles area. He works for Comprehensive Media Corp., specializing in the manufacture of CDs and DVDs, in North Hollywood, CA. He can be reached by e-mail at: tsmart@compmediacorp.com. Charles Drier, ’89, relocated with Auto-Owners to their Lima, OH, regional branch office as marketing manager. Friends can reach him at 2295 June Dr., Lima, OH 45805 or by e-mail at: earlsjam@juno.com.
90-94 Catherine Boomer Germic, ’90, and her husband, Steve Germic, ’89, currently live in Harrisonburg, VA. Steve is an assistant professor in the English Department at James Madison University. He is also at work on his second book. His first book, American Green: Class, Crisis and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite and Yellowstone, was published in 2001. Cackie is a stay-at-home mom and enjoys taking care of their daughter. In her free time, she plays tennis, volunteers at her daughter’s school and teaches yoga. They would love to hear from old friends by e-mail at: cackiebg@earthlink.net or germicsa@jmu.edu Doug Armstead, ’91, has been appointed the director of the 55-voice Mikenauk Chorale in Roscommon. Doug is also Roscommon High School’s musical director and the choir director at Good Shepherd Methodist Church. Before moving to Roscommon, Doug spent nine years in the Eaton Rapids community school system and was active with community groups, churches and theatre. Michael Murray, ’91, has joined the Detroit office of the law firm of Clark Hill, as an associate with the litigation practice group. Prior to joining Clark Hill, Michael served as the Marine officer instructor at the University of Michigan. In addition, as an international law instructor, he taught in a joint training program offered by the U.S. Defense Institute of International Legal Studies and the National Law Academy of Ukraine. For the previous seven years, he was an attorney with the U.S. Marine
Corps and achieved the rank of major. He earned a J.D. from University of Detroit-Mercy Law School.
Bloomfield, NJ. Gowri would like to send her love to all her dear friends from Albion.
Todd Prochnow, ’91, an orthopedic surgeon, has recently joined the practice of Anthony E. Melonakos at Frenchtown Orthopedics, and has been granted associate staff privileges at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe. A 1996 graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, Todd did his residency in orthopedics at Mount Clemens General Hospital. He recently completed a fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he specialized in spinal surgery. He and his wife, Shannon, and their son live in Frenchtown Township.
Kathryn Brown Rose, ’92, is a registered nurse in obstetrics and a childbirth educator at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. She is also active in parenting education, and works as a nursing instructor at a local community college. She and her husband, Jim, along with their two children, reside in Traverse City.
Robert Allum, ’92, completed his family practice residency at Mercy General Health Partners in Muskegon in July 1999. A board-certified medical review officer and specialist in family practice, Robert is now a partner and physician at Rogers City Medical Group, PC. He earned his D.O degree from Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, He and his wife, Sheela Welch Allum, ’90, have two children, and the family lives in Rogers City. Kathryn Bernecker, ’92, along with classmates, Nayiri Partamian, ’92, Elizabeth Cooley, ’92, Sonia Vora, ’93, Kasey Clark Malley, ’92, Kathy Omansiek, ’92, Cathy Rodamer Greene, ’92, and Deil Lundin, ’92, all came together Sept. 21, 2002 at the wedding of fellow classmate Meg Sebastian, ’92. She says it was a mini college reunion, without Cascarelli’s. Karen Ossman Dunlavy, ’92, is currently working as a dentist. She and her husband, Kenneth, live in Caroline, WI. Sandra Merriweather, ’92, is a customer service representative for Botsford General Hospital. After receiving her M.A in English from Oakland University in 2000, Sandy worked for Baker College during the 2000-01 fall term as an adjunct English professor. She is also involved in the Tri County Kappa Delta Alumnae Association. She resides in Farmington Hills. George Rendziperis, ’92, has joined the law firm of Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, PLC in Bloomfield Hills as an associate. His practice is concentrated in corporate, tax and real estate law. George is a 1999 graduate of Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law, with an M.S in finance from Walsh College. Gowri Reddy Rocco, ’92, graduated from her residency as chief resident and has become board-certified in family medicine. In July 2002 she started a fellowship specializing in women’s health at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She married Robert Rocco in March 2002. She and her husband reside in
Elizabeth Yates Salsbery, ’92, is employed as a nurse. She lives in Knoxville, TN, with her husband, John. Jonathan Beeton, ’93, was hired by Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin as her press secretary in Washington, DC. Previously he had worked as Al Gore’s press secretary in Kentucky, and for California Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald. He lives in Washington, DC. Bobbie Stumpf Harris, ’93, and her husband, Eric Harris, ’93, have moved to San Diego. Eric is busy flying for the Marine Corps. He is scheduled to deploy to Okinawa, Japan, for the first half of 2003. Bobbie enjoys staying at home with their daughter. The Harrises would love to see their Albion friends if they are ever in the area. They can be reached by e-mail at: harris_bobbie @hotmail.com. Stephanie Reed, ’93, is working on a master’s degree in special education at Oakland University. She recently bought a home in Hazel Park. Chiquita Hamilton, ’94, was hired to teach kindergarten at Mar Lee School in Marshall. She reports that everything is going well, and she is having a fabulous year.
95-99 Scott Casteele, ’95, has recently been appointed the new athletic director for Fowlerville. He previously taught in the Albion Public Schools and was an assistant football coach at Albion College for four years. Scott received his master’s degree in educational leadership from Western Michigan University. Courtney Roeck Essenmacher, ’95, started a business consultant company, Aether Consulting, in Detroit last year with several other colleagues. Courtney and her husband, Tim, continue to travel the world, recently having visited Costa Rica where they went scuba diving and white water rafting through the jungle. The Essenmachers reside in Lathrup Village. Anne Goodwin, ’95, is still working on her Ph.D. in cell biology at Harvard University. In February 2003, Anne will teach a cardiovascular physiology and pathology course at Kathmandu University Medical School in Nepal. Anne lives in Brookline, MA.