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Mo., was voted Ozark 7 Conference Coach of the Year. The Lady Trojans finished the season with a 22–9 record and won a third consecutive conference championship.
1985 REUNION YEAR
Steve Bertrand, Jour ’85, hosts The Saturday Business Lunch on WGN Radio. A WGN news anchor for nearly 30 years, he offers market analysis and features Chicago’s business innovators. Thomas Bode, Bus Ad ’85, Grad ’92, is founder and president of the Bode Financial Group Ltd. He received a 2015 Milwaukee Five Star Wealth Manager Award. John Cracraft, Bus Ad ’85, rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014. John Gosling, Arts ’85, is an educator and youth counselor at CAP Services in Waupaca, Wis., which serves at-risk youth as they work to earn a GED. He has helped develop an ecopark and build a home.
1987 Sheila Bloomquist, Arts ’87, attended the Marquette in Madrid 50th anniversary celebration in Madrid, where she continued her work on a documentary about ex-pats in Spain from the 1950s to the present. John Pudner, Jour ’87, launched the campaign finance reform organization Take Back Our Republic.
1988 Michel Ruppel DeLisle, Sp ’88, was featured in an international blog for humanitarian work.
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1989 Holly Bevsek, Arts ’89, is head of the chemistry department at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina in Charleston. James Casey, Grad ’89, contributed a commissioned biographical essay for the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee project. He lives in Pittsburgh and is president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin. Kim (Parrott) Hoffman, Arts ’89, and Jennifer Parins, Arts ’92, part of the learning team at CESA 7 Alternative High School in Green Bay, Wis., received 2015 Golden Apple Awards. Cheryl Pawelski, Jour ’89, won a Grammy Award for best historical album for the Hank Williams collection The Garden Spot Programs, 1950. For 25 years, she has produced or supervised recordings, reissues and boxed sets for artists and has worked on soundtracks for popular films, including Juno. This was her fourth nomination.
1990 REUNION YEAR
Frank Gumina, Law ’91, is executive vice president of legal services for Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Mark Karau, Arts ’91, Grad ’93, earned tenure in the history department at the University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan. His second book, Germany’s Defeat in the First World War: The Lost Battles and Reckless Gambles That Brought Down the Second Reich, was published in May 2014. His first book on the German Marines in Flanders in World War I will be reissued in paperback. Rick McDermott, Eng ’91, was named Charlottean of the Year by Charlotte (N.C.) Magazine for his volunteer work with the MS Society, for which he has raised $125,000 in 20 years.
1992 Maura (Farrell) Devine, Arts ’92, is managing director at Chicago’s ASGK Public Strategies and considered one of Chicago’s top media relations professionals. She has more than 20 years of public relations and broadcast media experience. She and her family live in Evanston, Ill.
Meghan Kennedy, Arts ’90, is 2015 co-chair of the Inland Empire Disabilities Collaborative, located in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
Tim Jacobson, Law ’92, won an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Achievement for Documentary Programs — Topical category for the documentary Mysteries of the Driftless.
Dr. Paul Stanton, Bus Ad ’90, is superintendent of the Washington Elementary School District, Arizona’s largest elementary district.
John E. Zummo, Arts ’92, of the Chicago office of Howard & Howard was named among Illinois’ 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.
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John Fitzgerald, Arts ’91, and his wife Mickey launched sendacarepackage.com, a company specializing in care packages for college students.
Mike Martin, Arts ’93, is psychologist executive for the Atlanta VA Medical Center, which employs more than 100 psychologists.
Brad Olm, Arts ’93, vice president of human resources for Gordon Flesch Co., was named chairman of the board of directors for the Alliance, a regional health care network headquartered in Madison, Wis. Craig Simpson, Arts ’93, ’96, is a Lilly Library manuscripts archivist and was curator of the spring 2015 exhibition 100 Years of Orson Welles: Master of Stage, Sound and Screen, which commemorates Welles’ theatre, radio and film achievements. He also co-directed the Orson Welles Symposium, held during the spring at Indiana University.
1994 Brian Kissel, Comm ’94, founded Altagii Marcom Career Network Inc., a Jupiter, Fla.-based recruiting firm that places marketing and advertising executives nationally. James Pingel, Grad ’94, published Confidence and Character: The Religious Life of George Washington.
1995 REUNION YEAR
Thomas J. Canale, Bus Ad ’95, was recognized as an outstanding employee at Northwestern Mutual and honored with membership in its 2014 forum group. Donna Hiers, Eng ’95, Grad ’06, is a risk management consultant at Milwaukee’s Northwestern Mutual, for which she helps ensure compliance with the multiple privacy and security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.