Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Liberal Arts
in Extension Studies
1960 Helene Pilibosian recently published At Quarter Past Reality: New and Selected Poems, her second book of poems and the fourth for her micropress, Ohan Press of Watertown.
1968 On May 8, Allan R. Crite shared stories about "Boston Street Scenes" and his life during eight decades in the South End. "Boston Street Scenes," 40 works on paper, were exhibited at the Boston Center for the Arts/Cyclorama in May. Crite then donated these works to local organizations that could not otherwise afford to own art.
1989 Diana Jonas (AM '91) received her PhD in Linguistics from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
1993 Tomas Napoleon is the citizenship coordinator of the North Shore Community Action Programs, Inc., in Peabody. He has just finished his second master's degree in education. . . . Jeffrey Rogers, MD, graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine this past June. He is currently a resident in Emergency Medicine at NYU/Bellevue in New York City.
1995 Marlene Ahmed and Melanie Tardella received their Master's in Education from Harvard's Graduate School of Education in 1997. . . . Bonnie Burrell recently presented a paper at the American Society for Engineering Education titled "How to Initiate Dialogue in Student Research Teams." She is taking courses toward a CSS while applying to PhD programs in organizational behavior. A lecturer at MIT, she teaches interpersonal communication and also gives presentations and conducts seminars on the same subject at The Professional Institute.
1996 Throughout her time at Harvard, Judi Barrett harbored a secret desire to teach--
inspired by professors of such enduring influence as Bob Allison, Matt Dickinson, and Murray Levin. In August 1997 she sent resumes to a small selection of community colleges on the assumption that she was simply exploring teaching options, and incredibly one month later she found herself standing before 18 wide-eyed freshmen comp students at Massasoit Community College. She's been teaching there on a part-time basis ever since. Barrett is also entering her second year in the American Studies Program at UMass-Boston and working on a master's thesis on African-American literature and ideology in the 1920s. Despite the fact that she is about to turn 46, she has also begun to consider pursuing a PhD program. Barrett works full-time for a private consulting company in Boston doing what she likes best--citizen participation, master planning, resolving local political problems--and the combined benefits of her Harvard and UMB educations enable her to bring a "community culture" perspective to her work. In her spare time, she's resurrecting her long-lost French skills by trying to translate French journal articles.
1997 Deborah Brooks is in her second year of a master's program in clinical mental health counseling at Lesley College. . . . Wanda Felder received her Master's in Education from Harvard's Graduate School of Education in 1998. . . . Ilene Feldman is working for the Division of Continuing Education as an academic advisor for the undergraduate degree program. In 1998-99 she was also a teaching assistant for mathematics. . . . Anja Kollmuss is in her second year of a master's program in urban and environmental policy at Tufts University. . . . Sandeep Paul is currently the director of educational services at Oficina Hispana de la Comunidad, Inc., in Dorchester, an office that teaches prevocational English, math, and computer skills to disadvantaged people in the Greater Boston area. In September he started a dual master's program in international relations and in resource management at Boston University.
1998 Norma Costain has been living on Martha's Vineyard since May 1998, and is employed in an administrative capacity for Sheriff's Meadow Foundation, a land trust that monitors shorebirds. She had previously worked for the foundation counting, monitoring, and protecting endangered piping plovers, least terns, and American oyster catchers. She also works at the Gardner Colby Gallery in Edgartown, and she has assisted biologist Sylvia S. Mado, an author of biology textbooks, as librarian/researcher/bookkeeper. . . . Gerry Hennelly has moved to Gahanna, Ohio, and is working as a police officer, where he is forming a computer crime team within the department and has trained as a hostage negotiator. He is pursuing graduate school interests in business and law. . . . Audra James is starting law school in August. She will attend Loyola University and plans to focus on both environmental and criminal law.
Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies
1989 Niels Waller (Psychology) began his first semester this fall as a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. In 1997 he earned both the Cattell Award for Multivariate Experimental Research from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and the Morton Prince Award from the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. This summer, he was in Boston to deliver an address at the American Psychology Association (APA) convention and receive the Distinguished Scientist Early Career Award from the APA.
1990 Richard Fillon (Government) earned an LLM with high honors in June 1997 from Cambridge University.
1996 David P. Curley (History) is working toward his PhD in comparative history at Brandeis University.
1997 Tina Arorash (Psychology) starts her doctoral studies in psychology at Columbia University this fall. . . . Marcia Davis (English and American Literature and Language) has joined the Division of Continuing Education as an
ALM advisor. . . . Keren R. McGinity (History) published an article titled "The Real Mary Antin: Woman on a Mission in the Promised Land" in the September 1998 edition of American Jewish History, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
1998 Heidi Jo Blair (Government) has been accepted as a PhD candidate in the Women in Politics and Government program at the University of Massachusetts. . . . Caswell Nilsen (History) is teaching European and American history
at Chatham Hall School in Chatham, Virginia. . . . Commander Dennis Pricolo (History) became the Commanding Officer, Naval Security Group Activity Denver, at the Buckley Air National Guard Base in Aurora, Colorado, on August 14, 1998.
1999 Chris Harris (History) has been accepted into a PhD program at Northeastern. . . . ALM candidate Kathryn Lee (Government) has been admitted to the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University. . . . Julie Lynch (Psychology) has been accepted into an MBA program at Babson College. . . . Michèle Mondini (Linguistics) has been accepted into a PhD program at Boston University and at Northeastern where they offered her a tuition waiver and stipend. . . . In the fall of 1998, George Selmont (Government) was a White House intern in the Office of the Chief of Staff. Selmont also earned a JD from the Northeastern University School of Law in May 1999. . . . Joel L. Vengco (Biology) has been accepted into the School of Medicine at Boston University and at UC-Davis.
Certificate of Special Studies in Administration
and Management
1987 "My experience at the Extension School has made me more confident in my job and life," wrote Leo Chabot of North Andover. He has changed careers (within the same company) and has found personal challenges beyond work. . . . Jerry Soucy is managing partner of e-mktg associates, a broad-based internet consulting practice providing graphic arts, design, development, hosting, and promotion services. Clients include large and small businesses in healthcare, electronics, family entertainment, and consumer products.
1993 After graduation, Mike Walters went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. He is now an attorney for Ideal Financial Services Corp., a mortgage broker in Brookfield, Wisconsin, after a one-year stint with the Miller Brewing Company, where he assisted with computer hardware/software contract drafting, reviewing, and negotiating.
1994 John M. Clark has been employed by the Oliver Rubber Company of Athens, Georgia, since 1996. He began as commercial salesman for the northeast region and after 15 months was promoted to district sales manager. He credits his experience with the CSS Program for his successes.
1995 Howard H. Atkins is currently working for DuPont Dow Elastomers in Wilmington, Delaware, as global business development manager. His primary job responsibility is to develop the global market for specialty elastomers used in footwear applications. He assists footwear companies and their contracted factories in South America and Asia with use of new DuPont Dow materials in their existing manufacturing process. He writes that he often relies on skills developed while earning his CSS to influence critical decisionmakers at each level of the value chain.
1996 Javier Alonso is working for Sol Meliá, a hotel management company in Spain, as European director of recruitment and development. . . . From Argentina, Sergio Daniel Roth wrote, "I started working in my family business after graduation. Now, I'm doing freelance consulting along with my permanent job and was married in December of 1998."
1998 Torgunn Aas Reggestad recently moved to Singapore, where her husband was transferred. While there, she plans on studying for an MBA at the Graduate School of Business at the National University of Singapore. Prior to this move, Reggestad was senior consultant/management consultant at SKM Energy Consulting in Norway, working on strategy process and change management. "It was a very interesting job," she said, "and I also more than doubled my wage compared to the job I had before I went to the US.". . . . Jonathan C. Spierer is living in Cambridge near Harvard Square. DistanceVision, Inc, his distance collaboration technology company, has a first client, and his strategy consulting business, OtherVision Strategic Services, is now bidding on large projects.
Certificate in Museum Studies
1990 Terry Barkley is currently Archivist/Museum Curator at the Reuel B. Pritchett Museum at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia.
1994 Dianna Doucette is presently a Harvard graduate student working toward a PhD in Archaeology. After completing the CMS Program, she worked at the Peabody Museum at Harvard, where she did her internship.
1995 Katrina Newbury is Paper Conservation Fellow for the Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Art Conservation at the University of Delaware.
1996 Patsy Phillips is interim Executive Director and Program Development Director for Atlatl, Inc., a national service organization for Native American Arts in Phoenix, Arizona. Patsy works in collaboration with Native American Indian museums such as the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Heard Museum, and the Institute of the American Indian Arts.
1997 Nancy M. Gedraitis works at the USS Constitution Museum in Boston as Manager of Volunteer and Group Services. . . . John H. Page is Executive Director of The Hermitage in New Jersey. In the two years since he graduated from the Extension School, he also has been nominated as a grant reviewer for the IMLS, and has been an active member of local, regional, and national museum organizations. . . . Maureen O'Brien Rasmussen is Assistant Director of Development at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Certificate in Publishing and Communications
1996 Barbara Link was recently appointed Vice President for New Media at Philanthropic Research, Inc., where she will provide a leadership role at GuideStar, the internet clearinghouse of information on American charities.
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