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Alumni Notes

Tom Morgan, ’90 Mech Engr, senior mechanical engineer and manager of Stanley Consultant’s Austin office, co-authored "Better Chill, Better Pill" featured in Engineered Systems magazine.

Rick L. Hautekeete, ’91 Mech Engr, is a senior mechanical engineer with the Raleigh, N.C., office of Dewberry & Davis Inc.

Srikanth Padmanabhan, ’91 PhD Mech Engr, is plant manager of the Filtration Business Unit of Cummins Engine Co., Cookeville, Tenn.

Nancy A. Surprenant, ’91 Landscape Arch, has joined Shive-Hattery Inc’s. Des Moines office as a landscape architect.

Jim Pease, ’92 PhD Animal Ecology, extension wildlife specialist and assistant professor in animal ecology, received the Aldo Leopold Environment Education Award from the Iowa Conservation Education Council.

Joseph M. Kasperski, ’96 Aerospace Engr, a Navy Lt. j.g., reported for duty with the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Washington, D.C.

J. Hugo Cota-Sanchez, ’97 PhD Botany, is an assistant professor in the biology department at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and curator of the Herbarium W. P. Fraser.

Danielle Doak, ’97 Jlmc, has joined CMF&Z Marketing Communications’ public relations division as assistant account manager.

Francis "Frank" Dunnick, ’97 Poli Sci, is participating in a year-long intensive Spanish program in Mexico. His e-mail address is: frankd@post.com.

Michael Dosmann, ’98 MS Hort, studied gardening in England for 10 months through the Martin McLaren Fellowship.

Ronnie Fong, ’98 Indus Engr, joined Ariba Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

Theresa Uchytil, ’98 Sp/Com, was crowned Miss Iowa 2000 and will represent Iowa in the 80th Miss America Pageant. As a student, Uchytil was involved in many Alumni Association activities: member of the 1996 Homecoming Central Committee, chairperson for the Student Alumni Association’s Family Weekend, and a member of the 1996 Family of the Year. She served on the Athletic Advisory Committee, was the featured twirler for the Iowa State University Cyclone Varsity Marching Band, Veishea Committee, and was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority.

’80s

Kathryn Carr, ’80 Poli Sci, has joined the board of the Sarasota County Arts Council and its general counsel.

Timothy G. Jury, ’80 Indus Engr, is managing partner of Andersen Consulting’s Communications North America Operating Unit, Kansas City, Mo.

Sue Osier, ’80, ’83 MS Indus Engr, was named executive in charge of Broadcast Communications Division’s Operation and Manufacturing Center of Harris Corporation in Quincy, Ill.

M. Kathleen "Kit" Hansen, ’82 Econ, is manager of tax and escrow analysis at Principal Financial Group in Des Moines.

Scott A. Hansen, ’82 Animal Sci, is regional sales manager with VetLife in West Des Moines.

Hossein Jadvar, ’82 Chem Engr, radiologist, was presented the Marc Tetalman Young Investigator Award at the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s annual meeting.

Ellen Kabat Lensch, ’83 Biology, is the director of the Advanced Technology Environment Education Center at Scott Community College.

Robert B. Mills, ’83 Engr Operations, returned to ISU as communications specialist for Institute for Physical Research and Technology.

Lila A. White, ’83 Bus Admin, owns The Button Boutique in Overland Park, Kan.

Denise Amis Dick, ’84 HDFS, was promoted to assistant regional installed sales with the Home Depot in Dallas.

Paul Gustafson, ’84 Engr Operations, has been named vice president of business development at IQ.COM.

Rhondi Staley Ewing, ’85 Graphic Des, was named president and CEO of Cutee Corporation, Westlake Village, Calif.

Eric Anderson Grau, ’85 Biometry, ’88 MS Stat, is a research statistician with Research Triangle Institute N.C., and resides in Philadelphia, Pa.

Kurt Tjaden, ’85 Acct, joined Gateway as vice president of finance. He and his wife, Kristyn Cassidy Tjaden, ’85 Sp/Com, live in Tokyo, Japan, with their four sons.

Jon Reding, ’86, ’88 MS Mech Engr, a booster systems engineer with the United Space Alliance, was awarded the Silver Snoopy, the astronaut’s award for safety and excellence by NASA’s Astronaut Office.

Barbara Hancock Snyder, ’87 PhD Prof Stds in Ed, was named vice president for student affairs at the University of Utah.

Thomas P. Whetstone, ’87 Architec, has been promoted to senior associate with Brooks Borg Skiles Architecture Engineering LLP, Des Moines.

Scott Kongable, ’89 Math/ Stat, is the director of devel-opment for the Crystal Group Inc. in Hiawatha, Iowa.

Troy Mostaert, ’89 Ag Bus, was promoted to vice president of credit and operations at Farm Credit Leasing, Minneapolis, Minn.

’70s

Richard N. Warvi, ’70 Arch, is the front range representative of the aquatics consulting firm of USAquatics.

Stephen Miller, ’72 Urban Plng, has joined Kadrmas, Lee and Jackson as a senior planner in the Transportation Division, Bismarck.

Albin James "Jim" Nelson, ’72 PhD Chem Tech, has joined Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth P.A. as an intellectual property attorney.

Lynda Payton Schuler, ’73 Home Ec Journalism, is on sabbatical, touring the western United States.

James Stein, ’75 DVM, was named president of the Board of Trustees of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association in West Branch, Iowa.

Kurt Tritchler, ’75 Engr Sci, was promoted to operations center manager at Resource Consultants Inc., San Diego, Calif.

Patricia Beneke, ’76 Poli Sci, joined the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Van Ness Feldman.

Mark Honeyman, ’77, ’83 MS, ’89 PhD Animal Sci, animal scientist and coordinator of ISU’s research and demonstration farms, received the Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award from the Practical Farmers of Iowa.

Ervin G. Mussman, ’77 Mech Engr, has joined the Cedar Rapids office of Shive-Hattery Inc. as a civil engineer.

Wayne Tiffany, ’77 Ag Mech, joined Automatic Systems Inc., Kansas City, Mo., as a design engineer.

Teresa "Tia" Slater Watson, ’77 Jlmc, is a senior writer for Deere & Co. in Moline, Ill.

Stephen W. Bergstrom, ’79 Indus Admin, was named president and chief operating officer of Dynegy Inc.

Jim Plantan, ’79 Indus Admin, has been named vice president of business and development at Prime Response Inc.

James Melsa, ’60 Elec Engr, was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association in West Branch, Iowa.

Joan Axel, ’64 History, was named vice president of the Board of Trustees of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association in West Branch, Iowa.

Linda Campbell, ’67 Child Dev, a public relations consultant, attended the Public Risk Management Association national conference in Charlotte, N.C.

Barbara Brown Oliver, ’67 Food Sci, Public Risk Management Association director of communications, attended the PRIMA national conference in Charlotte, N.C.

Steve Schleisman, ’67 Civil Engr, was named president and chief executive officer of ACE Europe.

James Leuenberger, ’68 Dairy Sci, ’70 MS Animal Sci, vice president of information and public relations for Cooperative Resources

International in Shawno, Wis., received the H.E. Klinefelter Award from the Cooperative Communicators Association.

Philip J. Rovang, ’68 History, has been named director of planning and development in Lake County, Ill.

K. Kirk Jamison, ’69 Animal Sci, has been appointed executive director of the Nebraska 4-H Foundation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

’50s

Kenneth L. McFate, ’50 Ag Engr, received the Special Services Award from the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in St. Joseph, Mo.

Dow Prouty, ’50 Civil Engr, and his wife, Susan, served for two weeks as volunteers in a day care center in Calderon, Ecuador.

Richard H. Stanley, ’55 Elec/Mech Engr, chair and president of The Stanley Foundation, received the Award for Citizen Diplomacy of the National Council for International Visitors at the NCIV National Conference in Washington, D.C.

John Maxheim, ’58 Indus Ed, retired as Piedmont Natural Gas chief executive officer, Charlotte, N.C.

Sharon Lawlor Romano, ’58 Home Ec Ed, has been honored with ISU’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences Career Award for her 30 years as an educator in the field.

Robert M. Peart, ’49 Ag Engr, received the Massey-Ferguson Educational Award during the ASAE Annual International Meeting in Milwaukee, Wis.

J. Virginia Lincoln, ’38 MS Household Equip, was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame for her work in solar terrestrial physics.