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What’s missing? Richard and Judith (Briedis) English were settling into their new retirement home, hanging mementos, including Judith’s diploma, Arts ’58. Then Richard realized he didn’t have a diploma of his own to hang beside it. Wait! Did he graduate? His memory played tricks so he called Marquette for confirmation. Yes, but he left the country for a job in Puerto Rico and didn’t pick up the sheepskin. Could he have it 50-plus years later? Marquette was pleased to comply. “I have it hung now,” says Richard, Arts ’59. “It means a lot from a sentimental point of view.” Send us your two-minute story! Email us at marquette.edu/twominute.
2004 REUNION YEAR
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2005 Jennifer Dienes, Arts ’05, is an associate in the intellectual property practice group at the Chicago office of the law firm K&L Gates LLP. Maureen “Reenie” (Scheuber) Fluyeras, Bus Ad ’05, was promoted to supervisor at RitzHolman CPAs. Maureen Schrock Marienthal, Arts ’05, started her own business with Rodan & Fields, specialists in skin care and anti-aging treatments.
2006 James N. Law, Grad ’06, Law ’12, is an associate in the litigation practice at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. in Milwaukee. Dorota Pruski, Arts ’06, was 38
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ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church after receiving her master in divinity degree from the Virginia Theological Seminary. She is an associate priest at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Madison, Wis. Jim Trexel, Grad ’06, is an investor in and adviser for Flying Mouse Brewery, a startup craft brewer in Troutville, Va. Dominique Jordan Turner, Grad ’06, was appointed president and CEO of the Chicago Scholars Foundation, which helps Chicago-area students attend college.
2008 Patrick Landry, Arts ’08, was appointed principal of Maternity BVM Catholic School in Chicago. Annika Schuller-Rach, Eng ’08, Grad ’13, was promoted to project manager at the Milwaukee office of Opus Design Build LLC.
2009 REUNION YEAR
Scott Astrada, Law ’09, Grad ’13,
is one of eight 2013–14 graduate fellows of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C. He works for the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Chris Cromos, Eng ’09, was promoted to project manager at the Milwaukee office of Opus Design Build LLC.
tiveness at Batzner Services. Amanda Mehr, Arts ’10, Grad ’12, is founding director of curriculum and instruction at the Carmen High School of Science and Technology’s new campus on Milwaukee’s northwest side. She was a 2012 Teach For America corps member at the school’s south campus.
Nick Gregory, Comm ’09, was promoted to Mid-Atlantic territory manager for the Brady Corp., a worldwide company based in Milwaukee.
Henry J. Thomas, Arts ’10, joined Husch Blackwell’s labor and employment group.
Alexander Schmid, Arts ’09, teaches freshman logic and rhetoric, and a law and debate elective class for juniors and seniors at American Heritage Charter Schools in Escondido, Calif.
Lt. j.g. Taylor J. Bootz, Arts ’11, received his wings of gold during a winging ceremony at NAS Whiting Field in Milton, Fla., the culmination of two years of intense flight school training. His duty station is NAB Coronado in San Diego, where he flies the MH-60 Romeo helicopter for the U.S. Navy.
2010 Dr. Marthina Greer, Law ’10, was elected an at-large member of the American Veterinary Medical Association Judicial Council. Melissa (Batzner) Krische, Bus Ad ’10, was promoted to manager of operational effec-
2011
Brian Falk, Bus Ad ’11, was promoted to senior accountant at RitzHolman CPAs. Pinna Rea Katz, Grad ’11, was appointed director of faculty development at the Rosalind