The Iowa Stater, May 2001

The Iowa Stater
May 2001

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Alumni Notes

2000
Nathan Schramm, '00 MIS & Transp/Log, is a member the SAP/Logistics team with John Deere & Company, Moline, Ill.

'90s
Tammy Lewis, '90 Finance, is a programmer with Allied Insurance, Des Moines.

Kevin Maack, '90 Mech Engr, has joined the Dow Corning Corporation and is responsible for automation of the Midland, Mich., area corporate research and process engineering laboratories.

Mark Steffen, '90 Indus Engr, has been named director of diagnostic imaging at Advocate Trinity Hospital, Chicago.

Patricia Ades, '91 Chem Engr, is an attorney with Needle & Rosenberg, Atlanta, Ga.

Robert J. Lawton, '91 Phys Ed, was named director of collegiate market development for SwimEx Aquatic Therapy Pools, Warren, R.I.

James McKinstry, '91 Econ, has been promoted to senior technical recruiter at Cisco Systems, San Jose, Calif.

Kevin Bonthius, '92 Mktg, is a direct mail specialist for Dayton's/Marshall Field's/Hudson's, the department store division of Target Corporation, Minneapolis, Minn.

Craig Morris, '92 Animal Sci, ran in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., finishing in under four hours.

Maureen Stockman, '92 Int Des, has joined Hammel, Green and Abrahamson Inc., Rochester, Minn., as an interior designer.

Craig Erickson, '93 Landscape Arch, has joined Shive-Hattery Inc. in Des Moines as a landscape architect.

Jeffrey D. Ewoldt, '93 Journ, has joined the law firm of Pingel & Templer, P.C., Des Moines, as an associate attorney.

Ryan Hollman, '93 Comp Sci, graduated from Euro-Nato Joint Jet Pilot Training, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, in December.

John Kowatch, '93 Psych, graduated with distinction from Troy State University with a Master's of Science in human resource management.

David VanderWiel, '93, '98 PhD Chem Engr, was promoted to principal research scientist with the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio.

Mark Boll, '94 English, is a senior business account consultant with Konica Business Technologies Inc., Manhattan Beach, Calif.

Scott D. Flynn, '94 Ag Engr, has joined the Davis Law Firm in Des Moines as an associate in the business division.

Lana Rushing, '94 Jlmc, joined Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, Los Angeles, Calif. as an account supervisor in the technology/new media group.

Shawn Korns, '95 Indus Tech, is a certified information technology manager with General Motors Corp., Pontiac, Mich.

Bryan Arnold, '96 Chem Engr, has joined the Toyota Technical Center, Ann Arbor, Mich., as an engineer in the material engineering department.

Tanya Keith, '96 Int Des, ran the Rock and Roll Marathon in San Diego and raised $5,100 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; she also ran in the Disney World Marathon in January.

Jeremy Wingerter, '96 Art/Des, is the assistant director of campus activities at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Denise Russell Froehlich, '97 Sp Com, is a marketing specialist with Rosemount Office Systems Inc., Lakeville, Minn.

Michael Boggs, '98 Aero Engr, was awarded a NASA/Johnson Space Center Fellowship to attend Stanford University to study aerospace engineering.

Theresa Uchytil, '98 Sp Com, was the 1st runner up for the Quality of Life Award, a $2,000 scholarship, in the Miss America pageant.

Matthew Gumm

Phillip Espinasse, '99 MS Elec/Comp Engr, is a process development engineer for PolarFab, Bloomington, Minn., an editorial consultant for Photonics Online, and a writer for OE Magazine.

Matthew Gumm, '99 Constr Engr, has joined the firm of Brooks Borg Skiles Architecture Engineering LLP as a mechanical engineer.

Christina Lundeen, '99 Civil Engr, was promoted to senior consultant with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, New York.

Erin Penne, '99 Aero Engr, has joined Honeywell Defense Avionics, Albuquerque, N.M., as a systems engineer II.

'80s

Pat Hansen, '80 Fam Env Cons Svc/Journ, president of Hansen Communications, Kankakee, Ill., has been selected as a judge for its Best of NAMA awards competition by the National Agricultural Marketing Association.

Phillip Bax, '81 Ag Ed, has joined Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Johnston, as a trial operations planning specialists research manager.

Lee Burras, '81, '84 MS Agron, assistant professor of agronomy at ISU, received the Raymond and Mary Baker Agronomic Excellence Award.

Kimberly Cordray, '81 English, has been promoted to human resources director, research and development, with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Johnston.

Ramesh Kanwar, '81 PhD Ag Engr, received an honorary doctorate from the Georgian State Agrarian University, Tbilisi, Ga., for his scientific contributions.

Craig Peterson, '81, '84 MS Civil Engr, was promoted to lead structural engineer on the Defense Satellite Communications System Program at Lockhead Martin Corporation, Sunnyvale, Calif.

Anne Scieszinski, '81 Diet/Food/Nutr, was promoted to payor account executive with Matria Healthcare Inc., St. Louis, Mo.

Daniel Winegarden, '81 Pol Sci, is president of Iowa Agricultural Finance Corporation, Des Moines.

Dan Wendl

Dennis McElroy, '82 Biology, '92 MS Ed, has been named vice president of information services at Graceland University, Lamoni.

Melvin Coleman, '83 Mech Engr, was selected to represent Naval Aviation at the Hornet Support Center.

Dan Wendl, '83 Indus Engr, has been named district manager of The Trane Company.

Ted E. Eischeid, '84 Fish/Wildlife Biol, received the 2000-2001 Wisconsin Middle Level Educator of the Year award.

Kevin Fields, '84 Indus Ed/Tech, was promoted to vice president of purchasing for Grain Processing Corporation, Muscatine.

Katherine Stouffer, '84 Indus Engr, received her MBA from Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., June 2000.

Kevin Fields

Stan Ullerich, '84 MS Econ, served as visiting professor at the ISU Department of Economics, fall 2000, and at Waikato University and Massey University in New Zealand, winter 2001.

Steven W. Churchill, '85 Pol Sci, was promoted to vice president, marketing, of the Mid-America Group Ltd., West Des Moines.

David Jobusch, '85, '89 MS Comp Sci, is a VLSI CAD software engineer for Hewlett-Packard Company's microprocessor design labs, Fort Collins, Colo.

Leonard Sheppard, '85 Bus, is manager of the implementation group with Financial Engines, Palo Alto, Calif.

Nancy Simon, '85 Elec Engr, is a partner with Simon & Koerner LLP, Cupertino, Calif.

Mark Walter, '85 Comp Sci, was promoted to quality assurance manager at AccuDocs LLC, Urbandale.

Timothy Kitchen, '86 Occ Safety, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, is a certified safety professional and a professional member of the American Society of Safety Engineers.

Stephen Nelson, '86 Math, '99 MIS, has joined the PFL Life Insurance Company as a junior actuarial assistant, Bedford, Texas.

Mark Ritter, '86 Leisure Stds, is the director of The Clemente Center for Sports and Recreation at Florida Tech, Melbourne.

Don A. Baldwin, '87 Biology, was appointed assistant professor and director of the microarray facility at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, department of pathology and lab medicine.

Kenneth Hodson, '87 Finance, is an associate partner in the St. Louis office of Accenture's federal government practice.

Timothy Norlin, '87 Transp/Log, was promoted to driver training center administrator with U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc., Medway, Ohio.

Scott Boerth, '88 Chem Engr, joined Medical Associates of Southwest Virginia as a practitioner in internal medicine.

Daniel Kernen, '88 Finance, has joined Bill Graham Presents/SFX Entertainment, Denver, Colo., as a show accountant.

Hal J. Sellers, '88 History, returned to active duty in the Marine Corps as ground liaison officer, San Diego, Calif.

Deaven Yuska, '88 Ag Bus, is a merchandise planner with Gap Inc., San Francisco, Calif.

Keith Meier

Mark Fish, '89 Comp Engr, is a systems engineer with the U.S. Regulatory Affairs Department at Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Keith Meier, '89 Meteorology, has been named by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service Western Region as the meteorologist in charge of the Weather Forecast Office, Billings, Mont.

Michael Peterson, '89 Elec Engr, was promoted to senior business analyst in the corporate strategy and knowledge development group at General Motors, Detroit, Mich.

David Puck, '89 Mech Engr, is a program manager with Ingersoll-Rand Co., Davidson, N.C.

'70s

A. Allison Cambre, '71 Telecom Arts, was appointed pastor of the West University Methodist Church in Texas.

Maurice Russell, '71 Ag Bus, is president of Russell Consulting Group, Panora.

Paul Schmitz, '71 PhD Soc, senior research director with Gartner in McLean, Va., is involved in a joint research project with MIT, studying the future of workplace industries.

Catharine Stiney, '71 Journ, is an attorney with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Atlanta, Ga.

Keith Vegors, '71, '73 MS Ag Ed, was named chairman of Main Street Financial Centre, Southlake, Texas, and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Baylor Medical Center, Grapevine, Texas.

Martin Johnson, '74 Phil, was a volunteer with the Chinese Christian Church in the People's Republic of China, teaching English to Chinese middle-school English teachers for the past two years. He is a video telecommunications engineer with Avaya Communications in Colorado.

Matthew Aten, '76 DVM, '92 Distrib Stds, retired from veterinary medicine and is enjoying a second career teaching in the Clark County School District, Las Vegas, Nev.

Janice Stock, '76 Food Sci, has co-authored two books, Iowa Trivia and A Treasury of Iowa Tales.

Karen Potratz, '77 Ag Journ, was promoted to senior counselor at Morgan & Myers Inc., Jefferson, Wis.

Marie Theobald, '77, '82 MS Indus Ed, was appointed executive director of the Indiana Professional Standards Board.

Bruce Arentson

Mark A. Henthorn, '78 Mech Engr, has joined Stanley Consultants Inc.'s Muscatine office as manager of the plant mechanical department.

Clete Kunce, '78 Arch, is president of Signature Architecture Inc., Indianapolis, and is teaching architectural design at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

Bruce Arentson, '79, '82 MS, '85 PhD Animal Sci, was promoted to nutritionist and regulatory compliance manager with Kent Feeds Inc., Muscatine.

James E. B. Davis, '79 Constr Engr, was promoted to director of business development with Walker Parking Consultants, Elgin, Ill.

Janice Keene

Janice Keene, '79 Dairy Sci, has joined Select Sires, Plain City, Ohio, as its vice president of corporate communications.

Kent D. McNeley, '79 Engr Ops, has been named chief marketing officer for consumer imaging with Eastman Kodak Company.

Cynthia Roggemann, '79 El Ed, is an early learning disabilities teacher (K-3) at Hancock Elementary School, Hancock, Mich.

Dave Ward, '79 Chem Engr, was promoted to president and CEO of Braas Company.

'60s

Maris Rasmussen, '60 Civil Engr, senior engineer, has retired after 39 years with the California Department of Transportation.

Lyle D. Feisel, '61, '63 MS, '64 PhD Elec Engr, dean of the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the State University of New York at Binghamton, has been re-elected by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers to serve a second one-year term as vice president of educational activities.

Ida Shepard Simmons, '61 Home Ec Ed, was appointed chair of the Department of Educational Administration and Counseling at Southeast Missouri State University.

Gary Knox, '62 Math, has retired after 38 years of teaching high school mathematics in Iowa.

Keith Hornbacher, '63 Eng/Sp, was a presenter during the 12th Annual International Integrated Program Management Conference in Washington, D.C., and his materials were published in its training syllabus.

Robert Manders, '63 Aero Engr, is working on the Crusader for the U.S. Army in Minnesota. He is manager of software process improvement.

David C. Johnson, '64, '66 MS Chem Engr, retired from Blandin Paper Co. in 2000.

Keith Rogers, '64 Ag Ed, '66 MS Ag Econ, '71 PhD Econ, retired in January from Arkansas State University.

Virgina Metz

Richard A. Lind, '67 Indus Admin, received the Award of Merit Career Achievement from the Florida Hospital Research and Education Foundation. Lind, president/CEO of Memorial Health Systems for 14 years, retired in September.

Virginia F. Metz, '67 Journ, a director of the Bingham Farms, Mich., firm of Vercruysse Metz & Murry, will be included in Woodward/White's 2000-2001 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the category of labor and employment law.

Dennis Brightwell, '68 Zool, assumed the position of medical director of Horizons Behavioral Health, Crystal Lake, Ill.

Betty Holland, '68 Chem, has joined Tanox Inc., Houston, as director of regulatory affairs.

Kay Runge

Gloria Gray, '69 Soc, has been named director of program services for Children and Families of Iowa, Des Moines.

George Holland, '69 PhD Chem, accepted a position with Texas Biotechnology Corporation.

Kay Kretschmar Runge, '69 History, director of the Davenport Public Library and president of the Public Library Association, received the Member of the Year Award at the annual conference of the Iowa Library Association.

'50s

Richard Taylor, '51 Indus Admin, is a fellow with the Life Office Management Association Institute, and is a consultant, specializing in management programs and business strategies.

Richard Walsh, '51 Mech Engr, retired last April after 20 years with the federal government. He currently is consulting for two D.O.E. Laboratories.

Robert D. Munson, '54 MS, '57 PhD Agron, received the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota.

James Stange, '54 Arch, was named to the Iowa State High School Athletic Association Basketball Hall of Fame, March 17.

Benjamin Bierbaum

Neil Harl, '55 Ag Ed, '65 PhD Econ, professor of economics at ISU, received the Speaker of the Year Award from the National Society of Accountants for his presentation at the group's agricultural conference.

Benjamin E. Bierbaum, '57 Zool, has been appointed chairman of the department of orthopedics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, serves as chairman of the department of orthopedics at the New England Baptist Hospital, and was appointed a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School.

James Miller, '57 Chem Engr, retired from Carus Chemical, LaSalle, Ill., after 32 years.

John J. Veak, '57 Ind Engr, retired Jan. 1, 2000, after nearly 41 years with Square D Company.

Richard Seagrave, '59 MS, '61 PhD Chem Engr, interim president of Iowa State University, has been named the 2000 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Iowa Professor of the Year.

Alan Strong, '59 Civil Engr, is a senior program manager at Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Ore.

40s

Marilyn Jordan George, '44 Food Sci, is the author of Following the Alaskan Dream: My Salmon Trolling Adventures in the Last Frontier 1946 to 1986.

Dean McClatchey, '48 Mech Engr, merged Chance Construction Co., where he served as president, with S. T. Wooten Corp. in October 1999. He is now retired.