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of directors of the Minneapolis law firm Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King and Stageverg, P.A. Ralph Tease, Law ’81, is a member of the Fellows of the Wisconsin Law Foundation.
Thomas D. Veve, Grad ’83, ’90, was promoted to professor of history at Dalton State College in Dalton, Ga.
1984 REUNION YEAR
1982 Mark A. Kircher, Arts ’82, Law ’85, of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLP, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014. William Maksymiec, Arts ’82, was ordained a deacon of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. He is assigned to the Church of the Annunciation. Kristin A. Roeper, Bus Ad ’82, Law ’89, of Milwaukee’s Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.
Mark Brady, Arts ’84, and James Smith-Vandergriff, Eng ’01, competed with their BBQ team, Roadkill BBQ, in this year’s American Royal Barbecue Contest, held in Kansas City, Mo. The contest is the largest barbecue competition in the world. Their team placed 12th out of 170 contestants in the invitational pork contest and fourth out of 562 contestants in the open pork competition.
♥ Michael Brauer, Sp ’84, and
Ken Brown, Jour ’83, is executive director of marketing and communication at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. Previously, he was city editor of the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque.
Margaret (Sankovitz) Brauer, H Sci, ’84, celebrated their 25th anniversary. They have four children, three of whom are Marquette students. The family lives in Greendale, Wis., where she is a physical therapist with the Orthopedic Hospital of Wisconsin and he is a senior consultant at McDonald Schaefer.
John Pickard, Arts ’83, was promoted to police commander in the Lakewood (Colo.) Police Department.
Marcie Eanes, Jour ’84, performed at September’s 100 Thousand Poets for Change in Waco, Texas.
1983
Just ran into the @MarquetteU women’s
soccer team on the streets of #NYC and
yelled “Go Marquette!” Think I scared them. Proud to be an alum. J ENNI FER STO P K A , COM M ’09, ON T W ITTER
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Dave Kucera, Bus Ad ’84, joined Capital One in Chicago as managing director and head of the structured products group, which provides financing to owners and managers of financial assets across the United States. Mark Peterson, Arts ’84, founded Rhino Software Inc. in 1997 when it released its first product, FTP Voyager, for Microsoft Windows. He and his wife, Jane, are retired and enjoy traveling, spending time with friends and helping their children succeed with their academic careers.
1985 Patricia A. Hintz, Bus Ad ’85, of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLP, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.
♥ Brian Hodous, Bus Ad ’85, and Michele (McGuire) Hodous, Sp ’85, celebrated their 25th anniversary. They met at a university sports training facility, where he was wrestling and she was running track. Their relationship began during Father Walsh’s Christian Marriage class, and they got married on Jan. 2, 1988. They have lived in seven states and two countries and currently reside in Los Angeles, where he is the chief customer officer for Activision Blizzard. Tom Huffman, Bus Ad ’85, received the 2013 Small Lender of the Year award from the Small Business Administration. He is senior vice president of SBA lending at Village Bank & Trust in Glenview, Ill. Eugene M. Killeen, Arts ’85, of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLP, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014. Patrick S. Murphy, Bus Ad ’85, Law ’02, of Milwaukee’s Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., was named in
The Best Lawyers in America 2014. Jim Sarafolean, Bus Ad ’85, retired from the U.S. Navy after a 34-year active/reserve duty career. He is a civil servant working for the U.S. Navy in Norfolk, Va. Walter J. Skipper, Bus Ad ’85, of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLP, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.
1986 Paul F. Heaton, Arts ’86, Law ’90, of Milwaukee’s Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014. Dan Young, Bus Ad ’86, was elected to a two-year term on the board of directors of the Minneapolis law firm Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King and Stageverg, P.A.
1987 Anthony Gill, Arts ’87, received a three-year, $1 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation in conjunction with Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He will study the link between religious liberty and social flourishing. Mike Hiestand, Jour ’87, is touring the United States with free speech icon Mary Beth Tinker to promote free speech, press and civics education. He has worked for more than two decades with the nonprofit Student Press Law Center, providing legal help to nearly 15,000 students and teachers.
1989 REUNION YEAR
Michael A. Jaskolski, Eng ’89, of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady LLP, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2014.