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ALUMNI PROFILE
1979 Dan Weinfurter, Bus Ad ’79, Grad ’85, published “The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople” for the Harvard Business Review. He is CEO of Growth Play and teaches at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Neil Wojtal, Law ’79, in-house counsel at QPS Employment Group, was named best corporate counsel in the private company category by the Milwaukee Business Journal.
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William O’Driscoll, Arts ’80, Law ’86, and Katherine (Muhr) O’Driscoll, Bus Ad ’79, were named 2016 Irish Rose and Irish Man by the Greater La Crosse (Wis.) Area Shamrock Club.
Jim Zsebe, Eng ’90, knows flying the
1981
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friendly skies begins before buckling up.
Travelers park their cars, navigate terminals, delegate baggage, find food and entertainment, plug in at business suites, locate gates, and listen for boarding calls long before returning their tray tables to the upright position. And with each step they touch aspects of Zsebe’s work as airport engineer at Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport.
Zsebe leads a team of engineers, construction coordinators and other
personnel in maintaining the airport infrastructure according to FAA standards. He oversees systems from HVAC to water quality to lighting, and he manages critical upkeep from paving to remodeling. For projects that are too big to handle inside, Zsebe works with outside consultants.
Runways and taxiways are built to withstand air carriers that can weigh
up to 750,000 pounds. “Field coordinators inspect each runway three times in a 24-hour period, looking at lighting, pavement conditions and markings,” Zsebe says.
It’s up to the engineering team to design, construct and modify the heavily
used pavement and keep a vigilant eye on modernizing terminal architecture, such as the baggage claim building that was completed last July and was an update on a terminal built in 1984. “It all comes down to customer service,” he says. “Traveling is stressful enough; we do everything we can to make it easier on travelers.”
The diversity the airport offers, Zsebe says, makes for an intense and
interesting job. “Every time I turn around it’s something new.” — Joni Moths Mueller
Doug Reed, Arts ’81, is president of Heathrow Scientific in Vernon Hills, Ill.
1982 Marc Cohn, Dent ’82, was appointed a dental consultant to the Commission on Dental Competency Assessments. Rev. John Puodziunas, O.F.M., Arts ’82, was elected economo general for the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscan Friars) in Rome.
1983 Ted Chapin, Grad ’83, ’84, is celebrating 25 years as a psychologist in private practice and co-authored, with his wife Dr. Lori Russel-Chapin, Neurotherapy and Neurofeedback: Brain-based Treatment for Psychological and Behavioral Problems (Routledge Publishing).
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