Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Liberal Arts
in Extension Studies
1971 Edith Aldrich (also EdM '73, Harvard Graduate School of Education) retired to Barnstable Village, MA, on Cape Cod. After an active career in education, she is writing a book on "teaching that enables the learner." . . . Carol Avard-Hicks owns her own law office in Cape Coral, FL, and has satellite offices in Naples and Port Charlotte, FL. Her law practice emphasizes personal injury and social security disability issues. Last year she married Robert Hicks, Harvard '72, business manager of the thriving Associates & Avard Law Office, PA.
1979 James Houhoulis is an account executive with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts. . . . Though now semi-retired, Byram Whitney, Jr., keeps busy with his volunteer work, helping those suffering from various addictions in Greater Boston's ethnic communities.
1981 Larissa J. Taylor was named Chairperson of the Department of History at Colby College, Waterville, ME, where she has been teaching for the past five years.
1982 Sarah L. Lambert-Kuehn, (also MPA '84, Kennedy School of Government) is now the Executive Director of the Lesley Foundation in San Mateo, CA. She was formerly the Deputy of New York City's Department of Housing, Preservation and Development. . . . Webb Sussman, formerly with Symantec Corporation and Apple Corporation, took a position with Pixera Corporation, a startup operation. After several promotions he is now Supervisor of Quality Assurance and Interim Product Manager.
1986 David Beckwith is president of the award-winning Charlotte, NC, Internet Society. His creations include websites such as: World Peace Treaty 2000, the Sears Catalogue, Finnegan's Web, Academy of Multimedia Arts and Sciences, Society of Future Trillionaires, Nicotine Addicts Anonymous, and Virtual Bohemia: The Left Bank of Cyberspace. He will be profiled in the forthcoming "Who's Who in Media Communications, '98-'99." . . . Jeffrey Reed is teaching at Grand Valley (MI) State University while completing his dissertation for a PhD in History from Emory University.
1987 Patricia L. F. Barry, formerly with BankBoston, is now an independent consultant. In 1993, she was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. . . . Sarah Buel, (also JD '90, Harvard Law School) is a partner in the newly formed law firm of Tucker, Buel & Associates, Austin, TX. She was formerly an Assistant District Attorney and Supervisor of Domestic Violence Prosecution for Norfolk County, MA, a nationally known advocate for victims of domestic violence, and a member of the faculty of the University of Texas Law School.
1988Now an Assistant Professor of History at Washington University, St. Louis, Dale Edwyna Smith (also PhD '93, Harvard University) will have her first book (a revised version of her doctoral dissertation) published this summer by Garland Publishing Co. The volume, The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, focuses on the lives of the black slave majority in the deep South before and after the Civil War, and emphasizes the role of the church, family life, plantation economics, and gender issues through the use of primary sources.
1988 Kimberly Cupp-Moreno (also JD '91, Yale Law School) was admitted to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, though she's deferring for a year to continue her work as an associate with the New York law firm, Dewey Ballantine. When she receives her MD degree she will be the first Extension School ALB recipient to have completed both law school and medical school.
1993 After receiving his PhD in Education from the University of California, Berkeley, Johnny L. Johnson will join the teaching staff at San Francisco State University this fall. . . . Tomas Napoleon wrote a poem about Ricki Harrington, a friend who died in a car accident. He then read the poem at the memorial service for 16-year-old Ricki, who was killed in Dover, MA. The poem, "A Remembrance of an Unforgotten Vineyard Summer," describes the happy summers Napoleon spent with the Harrington family on Martha's Vineyard before Ricki's untimely and tragic death. "I wrote that poem as a celebration of life," Napoleon said. Now, the concluding lines of that poem--an affirmation of life and happiness--will be engraved on the granite base of the Martha's Vineyard Lighthouse Children's Memorial:
Let the celebration of all our children
and their endless youth
When the world to them was still no
problem,
Always be that unforgotten Vineyard
summer--an everlasting day.
The memorial, built around a restored Edgartown, MA, lighthouse, is dedicated to all children whose lives were cut short, and whose parents and friends have been left to grieve silently; for a child's death is so difficult to talk about. "I feel very fortunate that my poem will be included," Napoleon said. "It is one thing to be published, but to have my words inscribed and memorialized in this way is very exciting and touching."
1995 Kelli Maria Clayton received an AM in East Asian Regional Studies at Harvard's Commencement in June 1997.
1996 Richard Kasperowski recently started Altisimo Computing, a software development consulting firm in Cambridge, MA.
1997 While an undergraduate degree candidate, Edward J. Modestino completed an Independent Study Project on the question of whether some individuals with attention deficit disorder also have a predisposition to develop narcolepsy. That study has been expanded to include the question of whether attention deficit disorder carries a predisposition to many sleep disorders, and his results will form a chapter in a new textbook written by a faculty member at Yale University School of Medicine, and will be published by the American Psychiatric Press. Last September he began the MLA (Master of Liberal Arts) Program at the University of Pennsylvania, with a graduate fellowship (the very first ever awarded in that program) to work at the university's medical school with several clinicians who will help him test a population with attention deficit disorder for narcolepsy. "I will be able to collect scientific data to either support or disprove my undergraduate thesis, which was purely theoretical," Modestino reported. He also noted that he will begin work on an MPhil degree, the next step beyond the MLA at that university, following the completion of his research project.
Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies
1983 Sandra Weintraub, owner of Management Resources of Newton, MA, a training and management consulting firm, has authored her first book, The Hidden Intelligence: Innovation Through Intuition (Butterworth/Heinemann, 1998). It is a comprehensive account of the uses of intuition in the business world. The Hidden Intelligence explores the matter of intuition--what it is (and is not)--features interviews with executives from Fortune 500 companies as well as seat-of-the-pants entrepreneurs, and presents the insights the author has developed based on 20 years of creative problem solving and ideation techniques. Intuition is brought into the mainstream of those skills vital to running successful businesses. The author has provided training seminars for major corporations, as well as nonprofit organizations and government units. She has taught at Brandeis University, and prior to this book, published articles on management and intuition.
1990 Frances D. Katz has moved to Atlanta, GA, where she is working for the prize-winning newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. . . . Daniel J. Mulcahie is teaching courses in medieval and Italian Renaissance at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
1992 Joseph A. D'Amico (also JD '87, Harvard Law School) is now a practicing attorney with the firm, Blair, Conway, Bograd, and Martin, PA, of Charlotte, NC.
1994 Martin Comack is currently completing his thesis for a master of science degree in labor studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. . . . Bernard H. Lee is a student at the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. . . . William D. McCants, now a member of the Harvard Law School Class of 2000, reports that he's "busy and broke, but stoked."
1995 Lona T. Whitley (also AB '88, Radcliffe) is an associate with the Boston law firm, Robinson & Cole, LLP. . . . Lucy D. Phillips is an editor for "Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital," a feature published weekly in the New England Journal of Medicine since 1924. She was also the editor for the Dutch virologist, Jaap Goudsmit, who wrote Viral Sex (Oxford University Press, 1997), a history of AIDS/HIV for scientists and nonscientists alike. "Despite the lurid title," Lucy notes, "the book is a solid update that was very well reviewed by the New York Times and other publications, and led to our working on a sequel, Viral Fitness, to be published shortly."
1996 After working for several years at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Randa J. Tukan (also CSS '93) has returned to her home community of Mississauga, ON, Canada, where she is a designer.
1997 Douglas S. Holder has had his poetry published recently in the American Poetry Journal, the Writer's Journal, STUFF, and the Cambridge Tab, among other publications. He also runs poetry workshops for McLean Hospital (Belmont, MA) patients. . . . Keren R. McCarthy will begin his candidacy for a PhD in history at Brown University in September. . . . Carlos Montero is the Director of Technology for Atreve Software in Cambridge. Deann Elliott is, at the moment, a "stay-at-home" mom for their one-year-old daughter Sara.
Certificate of Special Studies
in Administration and Management
1983 Theresa DiLando is a patient volunteer at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. . . . Luis J. Perez-Lavaud (also MArch '82, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University) has been appointed Professor of Real Estate Development and Head of the Design Studio at Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela. This program features a master's program in urban design that has been affiliated with Harvard's GSD since 1996.
1985 Javier Balloffet was appointed Director of Administration, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
1986 Donald Towns retired from the Facility Group of Smyrna, GA, in June 1997, and moved to Naples, FL. However, by summering on Cape Cod in South Yarmouth, MA, he manages to experience nice weather year round as well as visit his grown children still living in Massachusetts. He admits to doing some consulting work "when needed."
1987 Michael J. Duke (also AMP '94, Harvard Business School), formerly General Manager for the Asian/Pacific region of Kindle Banking Systems, is now the President of TransGlobal Empire, Inc., headquartered in the British Virgin Islands. His home remains in Murroogh County, Galway, Ireland. . . . Christine A. Hood is a senior principal staff member of BDM International in McLean, VA. Formerly she was a member of the technical staff of the Software Productivity Consortium in the same city.
1990 Joseph Travers has earned the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation, following completion of a nationwide competitive and comprehensive examination in accounting and financial management. The CMA examination is given annually by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), the world's largest organization for management accountants and financial management professionals.
1991 Michael McFadden is an executive with the advertising and sales department of Money Magazine, a Time, Inc., publication, at their Boston office. . . . Ali Musalam is Vice President of Subul Commercial of Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, a security and commodity brokerage firm.
1992 David F. Harris received his MBA degree from the University of Massachusetts on Commencement day this year.
1995 Jorge Ahuage is an account executive with Private Portfolia, a money management firm in Chula Vista, CA, that caters to high-income Mexican clients, to whom he offers both securities and real estate. . . . Jose I. Curiel is Vice President of Megasupply, a Florida-based firm that specializes in serving the growing Latin American aquaculture industry with feed, supplies, and equipment. . . . Tiara Josdirdjo married Daniel Budiman, (MBA '95, Harvard Business School). The couple lived first in Singapore, but moved later to Jakarta, Indonesia, where she is a "part-time homemaker and part-time jewelry maker." . . . Vangelis S. Mavridoglou is a senior consultant with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting.
1996 Brian Guthrie was recently named Manager of Promotions for Medisense, a division of Abbot Laboratories in Bedford, MA.
Certificate in Applied Sciences
1989 Robert G. Bradlee, formerly a project leader at Dynamics Research Corporation in Andover, MA, recently accepted a position with Instruction Set Inc., of Natick, MA.
1992 Robert A. Rudie has joined Fidelity Investments at the firm's Boston office.
1997 Ingeborg Endter (also AAE '73, ABE '77, and CSS '90) has begun a master's degree program and research assistantship "down river" at MIT's Media Lab. She reports that she is "mighty proud" of her Extension School education, and grateful for the opportunities open to her through an almost 30-year association with our School.
Certificate in Public Health
1994 Dr. Ross Andrew Shiels is an attending physician in radiation oncology at Palmerston North Hospital, Palmerston, New Zealand.
Certificate in Museum Studies
1993 Susan Ruderman (also EdM '96, Harvard Graduate School of Education) is Vice President of Veritas Information Services, a consulting and fund-raising firm in Arlington, MA.
1997 John H. Page, Jr., is working for the Friends of The Hermitage, Inc., based in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ.
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