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Agricultural and Environmental Sciences / Macdonald campus

PAUL-GUY DUHAMEL, BSc(NutrSc)'91, est le nouveau président du l'Ordre professionel des diététistes du Québec. Il possède une scolarité de maîtrise en sociologie de la santé de l'Université de Montréal. Il détient aussi des certificats en relations publiques et en gestion des services de santé.

RHONDA MACDOUGALL, BSc(Agr)'92, was awarded the Outstanding Young Agrologist Award for 2001 by the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists. The award is in recognition of signal service to the Nova Scotia agriculture industry. Rhonda has been employed with the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Fisheries since her graduation. She is the Regional 4-H Specialist for Cape Breton Island. She and her husband, JACK THOMSON, BSc(Agr)'92, and son, Shamus, own West River Holsteins in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

CYNTHIA BAIRD, BSc'94, and proud father Eric Simard are happy to announce the birth of their son, Dominic Alexandre Simard, in December 2001. Cynthia says her little family is doing well in their new home in Lachine.

Architecture

FRANCES BRONET, BSc(Arch)'77, BArch'78, BEng'79, associate professor of architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been chosen as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York Professor of the Year for 2001. The annual program honours the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the United States who excel as teachers and influence the lives and careers of their students.

KATY (FLUCK) FLAMMIA, MArch'91, was a speaker at the Build Boston Women In Design Conference, presenting on "New Start-up Firms by Women." She opened her own design firm,THEREdesign, in 1997. The company opened a new studio space in Boston last year and is currently engaged in the design of health clubs, cafes and residential projects. The website is www.THEREdesign.com.

HENRY TSANG, BSc(Arch)'00, received the prestigious Monbusho Scholarship offered by the Government of Japan. It will allow him to pursue graduate studies at the University of Tokyo's Department of Architecture for two years. His area of research is Japanese health care architecture. Henry will be studying under the supervision of Professor Yasushi Nagasawa, dean of the University of Tokyo. Henry says he's sure this is going to be an amazing adventure and to wish him luck.

Arts

NORMAN SAMUELS, BA'58, announced his resignation as Provost of the Newark Campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, a position he held for 20 years, effective in June. Norman plans a return to teaching political science at Rutgers-Newark. He has been active for decades with numerous civic and commu-nity organizations, including service on the boards of the Regional Business Partnership, New Newark Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark, the United Jewish Federation of Metropolitan New Jersey, and others.

ERIKA GOTTLIEB, BLS'61, PhD'75, had her third book, Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial, published recently by McGill-Queen's University Press. Her previous book, The Orwell Conundrum (1992), is also available from McGill-Queen's. Having taken early retirement, Erika is now teaching English literature on a part-time basis at Ryerson University in Toronto.

JAMES A. HARRINGTON, BA'66, received the 2001 Paul Davis Award of Merit for life-time achievement from the International Association of Plastics Distributors. Since the early '80s, he has participated in both local and state school boards and has held leadership roles in those organizations. James has spent the last three years chairing the Editorial Committee for The IAPD Magazine, reviewing and writing articles, and providing feedback to ensure the high quality of each issue. James is married with two children.

BARBARA STEINMAN, BA'71, is known for her innovative artwork and sophisticated use of technology. Her formative period was in Vancouver in the late '70s, where she began as a video artist. Barbara's art deals with issues of tolerance and the fragility of boundaries. Day and Night, a series of posed persons seemingly seeking shelter, was created for upper-storey niches of the National Gallery of Canada. She has also produced luminous work in digital photography and recently expanded her practice to include large-scale, permanent outdoor commissions, working with landscape architects to create contemplative green spaces in downtown Toronto and Vancouver.

EDUARDO DEL BUEY, BA'72, is Director of External Relations and Officer in Charge of Public Information at the Organization of American States. He is married to Laura Ramirez Rasgado, a Mexican diplomat. He can be reached at edelbuey@oas.org.

PETER MCDONALD, BA'77, associate university librarian for collection development at Syracuse University Library, was accepted into the two-week intensive Frye Leadership Institute at Emory University in Atlanta this June. Peter received an award from the American Library Association for an article he co-wrote on the Internet and collection development. His writings also includes articles on commercial document delivery, science libraries in the electronic age, and preservation priorities for books and sound archives.

ANAND PATWARDHAN, MA'81, screened his latest documentary film, War and Peace, at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto in May. War and Peace examines the escalating nuclear crisis between India and Pakistan.

MARK WOLFE, BA'84, is a Senior Research Associate with the Canarie and CFI-funded InSite Broadband Collaborative Research Project at the University of Calgary, where he also is writing his PhD dissertation on knowledge management and complex systems. He can be reached at mwolfe@ucalgary.ca.

KERRY MCARTHUR, BA'84, is a Senior Public Affairs Advisor with Shell Canada in Calgary, where she produces an internal employee news intranet and produces and edits Energy Magazine, a leading publication within the Shell Group of companies. She can be reached at kerry.mcarthur@shell.ca. Kerry and MARK WOLFE, BA'84, have three daughters and a white German shepherd.

HÉLÈNA KATZ, BA'87, has been a journalist for the past seven years. She won a bronze medal from the Canadian Council for the Advance-ment of Education in the best writing category for a story that appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of the McGill News. Hélèna is currently pursuing a master's degree in criminology at the Université de Montréal.

INGRID WALDRON, BA'88, is graduating in June with a PhD in Education from the Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

SOPHIE COUSINEAU, BA'91, won the 2001 Merrill Lynch economic and financial journalist ex aqueo prize, awarded by the Association des économistes québécois. Sophie is a columnist and journalist at La Presse in Montreal.

ALICE VON SPEE, BA'91, works at Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne, Germany. Lempertz is Germany's largest and the world's oldest family-owned auction house dealing in the fields of old masters, decorative art, modern art, contemporary art, photography, and East Asian art. Alice is the specialist in charge of modern and old silver.

STEFAN MOLYNEUX, BA'92, published a new book, Revolutions, which is set in Russia in the late nineteenth century. It is the story of Sergei Nachaev, a revolutionary, and his relationship with his spiritual mentor, Alexander Herzen, and Herzen's daughter, Natalie.

JENNIFER ANDREWS, BA'93, and her husband, Chris, welcomed their first child, Alexander Scott Butler, born in March 2002. Jennifer is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick, and her co-authored book on native writer Thomas King will be published by University of Toronto Press this fall. She is currently writing another book, on native North American women poets, also for University of Toronto Press.

DERYN COLLIER, BA'93, and RON SHERMAN, MEd'93, were married in July 1999. They live in the Kootenay region of B.C., where Ron teaches grade 7 and Deryn does part-time contract work. Their son, Graeme Matthew, was born in August 2001.

CHRIS TAYLOR, BA'94, works as a staff writer in New York City with SmartMoney, the Wall Street Journal's personal finance magazine. He was also recently a judge for the Scripps-Howard Foundation's National Journalism Awards.

SIMONE PILON, MA'95, is assistant professor of French at Franklin College in Indiana. She is a technical reviewer and editor for a number of French education books. Simone says she enjoys working on someone else's text, where she can focus on details without getting caught up in the project as a whole.

VANESSA MITCHELL-PINAL, BA'96, is living very happily in London, exploring the world from the great cheap-airfare capital of the world and teaching French and Spanish at the American Community School. She misses the McGill Young Alumni group from Los Angeles and would love to expand her small informal group in London. Any London-based McGill alumni can contact her at mitchellvanessa@hotmail.com and join the group, and maybe get some events organized that appeal to the not-yet-retired and not-available-at-4-pm-in-central-London crowd.

DAVID BASSIOUNI JR., BA'98, lives in New York City, where he heads a business consultancy firm, CuDiCo Consulting, which focuses on the international development/humanitarian sector and aims to bridge the gap between the private and public sectors. CuDiCo utilizes private sector management strategies to develop empowerment programs for international development organizations, humanitarian bodies and NGOs. Outside work, David is busy completing a novel and working on various projects within the New York City arts community. He can be contacted at david@cudico.com or dbassiouni@hotmail.com.

VAHID FOTUHI, BA'99, is about to graduate from Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies) with a master's degree in International Relations. He says he is currently interviewing at a few firms and will let us all know where he lands.

YVONNE HAVLICEK, BA'00, was living in Germany last year, studying German at the Goethe Institute, and passed her Zertifikat Deutsch exam in May 2001. She was teaching English at Handelsblatt. In October 2001, she started a six-month NATO internship with the Atlantic Council of Canada/Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Yvonne is interning at the Centre for Democracy and Free Enterprise, an NGO in Prague, learning about transitional democracies and NATO. She can be reached at yvonne.havlicek@elf.mcgill.ca.

Dentistry

NEWTON C. GORDON, BSc'66, DDS'70, is a clinical professor and chief of dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of California, and San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center. He received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year and Mentorship Award from the UCSF School of Dentistry. Gordon serves as a Consultant to the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation and as a Director of the California Dental Society of Anesthesiology. Since December 2001, he has served as the President of the San Francisco Dental Society.

Education

ANNE JEANNET, BEd'85, recently returned from a mountaineering expedition to the top of the Americas: Mount Aconcagua, 6,962 metres high. More information about the DreamQuest expedition and its goals can be found at the following website: www.geocities.com/aconcaguadreamquest.

Engineering

CLIFFORD CHAMPNESS, PhD'62, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of London in April for published work in the field of characteristics of semiconductors. He is a professor in McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

RON BING, BEng'67, says he needs to have a 35th class reunion in September 2002! He can be reached at rjbing@shaw.ca.

GEOFF GOSS, BEng'70, retired from ADC Telecommunications as President and General Manager in Canada. Geoff says he will do some consulting work in the industry, and perhaps find some time to work on his golf game. Geoff can be reached at geoffgoss@aol.com.

ERIC DUBOIS, BEng'72, MEng'74, is a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering and Vice-Dean of Research and Development in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa.

MOHAMED S. EL-ASSER, PhD'72, is Dean of the P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was chosen to receive the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2002 from the American Chemical Society's Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering.

ANDRES GARCIA-REJON, MEng'77, PhD'80, a senior research officer at the Industrial Materials Institute of NRC/Canada and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McGill, has been elected Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers for his contributions in the field of plastics engineering, science and technology. Out of 30,000 members worldwide, only 183 members have been elected to this prestigious status since it was established in 1984.

NOPHADOL IN-NA, PhD'89, was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of Thammasat University, Thailand, and later was the Director of Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology at Thammasat University. He is now a member of parliament in Thailand. In addition, he is Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment and Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development in the House of Representatives in Thailand, and serves as an advisor to the prime minister.

KA CHEONG (ANDY) WONG, BEng'96, is working at Nortel Networks as a systems engineer in the Wireless Network Engineering department. He obtained a master's degree at City University of Hong Kong. After working two years in the Wireless Technical Support department at Nortel Networks in Hong Kong, he moved back to Montreal in 2000. Andy can be reached by email at andy0wong@yahoo.com.

PAUL YEUNG, BEng'96, and JOICE FUNG, BSc'98, were married in May 1998. They moved to Toronto in October of the same year. Their daughter, Sammi, was born in August 2001. Paul now works at EDS as a consultant specialist and Joice works at Rogers Cable as a network performance specialist. Joice can be reached at joicefung@yahoo.com.

Health Sciences

SHARON A. (O'DONNELL) O'BRIEN, DipNurs(T&S)'61, has been Vice-President of Senior Watch Inc. since its inception in 1987. Senior Watch has now developed the First Nations' Home Care Program, designed to prepare First Nations people to care for their elderly. Senior Watch has 72 training programs in home care management. Sharon was the recipient of the Star of Courage in 1981; Woman Entrepreneur of the Year, Fundy Region, in 1997; the Entrepreneurial Achievement Award by the Saint John Board of Trade in 1999; and a Certificate of Recognition by the Workplace Training for Excellence Awards program in 1999.

JAMES C. M. CHAN, MDCM'64, has joined the Maine Medical Center as director of research at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital and is professor of pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has helped in reactivating the National Kidney Foundation of Virginia, becoming its founding medical director, and was named Richmond Magazine's "Top Doctor" by the community physicians. He has been honoured by his peers as one of the "Best Doctors in America." He has edited several textbooks and served on the editorial board of pediatric and kidney journals. His former trainees now occupy leadership positions in important academic and government health institutions.

SHERRILL CONROY, BN'71, MEd'89, was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University in November 2001. Her thesis was on "Moral Inclinations of Medical, Nursing and Physiotherapy Students." Friends may contact Sherrill at sherrill.conroy@johnabbott.qc.ca.

Law

JIM DOMVILLE, BA'54, BCL'57, says that he and Pat Michel are continuing their lives of sailing. They hang out in the winters on their ketch, "Beau Jeu," enjoying the sailing in the waters of Southeast Asia. They will be doing the 6,000 kilometres of canals available in la douce France on their penichette (small canal barge), "Largo."

DAVID FRANKLIN, BA'56, BCL'59, practises international creditors rights law in Montreal with the firm of Franklin & Franklin. He has been teaching various courses at Concordia since 1962 and in July 2001 was appointed Honorary Consul for Iceland in Montreal. His website is www.franklinlegal.com.

NORM SAIBIL, BCom'66, BCL'69, became one of the founding partners of Blake's new Montreal office in September of 2001. Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP is one of Canada's leading national business law firms and is now providing full business services to the Quebec marketplace. Norm's email address is norm.saibil@blakes.com.

OWEN KURTIN, BA'81, LLB'84, is a partner at Salans Hertzfeld Heilbronn Christy & Viener in New York, where he co-chairs the firm's Information Technologies and Communications Practice Group. Salans is the product of the first transatlantic merger among French, U.S. and U.K. law firms, and has offices in Russia and Eastern Europe as well as Paris, London and New York. Owen's most recent project was leading the $250 million(US) communications satellite merger of TMI Communications of Ottawa, Canada, and Motient Corp. of Reston, Va. Owen is married to Isabelle Housseau of Paris, France, and they have a two-year-old bilingual daughter, Dora.

D. JAMES PAPADIMITRIOU, BCom'83, BCL'87, LLB'87, is a member of the Quebec and Ontario Bars and joined the new Montreal office of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in September 2001 as a partner. James practises in commercial law with an emphasis on financial services. James can be reached at james.papadimitriou@blakes.com.

MICHAEL BANTEY, BSc'84, BCL'88, LLB'88, was named a partner of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in September 2001 and carries on a successful commercial practice in Blake's new Montreal office, with an emphasis on corporate and securities transactions. Blake's other offices are in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, London, England, and Beijing. Michael can be reached at michael.bantey@blakes.com.

JOHN FLOOD, BCL'85, obtained an LLM degree in criminal law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2001.

JORDAN H. WAXMAN, BA'86, LLB'91, BCL'92, was hired as First Vice-President of Merrill Lynch in the New York Wealth Management Services business, after eight years with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. In April, Jordan and his wife, Caren, welcomed the birth of their third child, Jonah Gabriel, brother to Jacob, 3, and Lily, 2. Friends can reach Jordan at jwaxman2@optonline.net.

SONIA STRUTHERS, BCL'87, LLB'87, and her spouse, John Prendergast, welcomed their firstborn, Clara Bridget, in January. Sonia is a partner with the Montreal office of McCarthy Tetrault LLP and a member of the firm's Quebec region executive committee.

MARK VINET, BCL'87, is the author of two new books, entitled Canada and the American Civil War and Québec/Canada et la Guerre de Sécession Américaine, 1861-1865. For more information please visit markvinet.com.

MARKO PAVLIHA, DCL'92, has been elected by the Slovenian parliament as the official candidate for judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg. The ITLOS is an independent judicial body established by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of the Convention.

PAULA CLARKE, LLB'90, MA'95, BCL'00, joined the Criminal Law Policy Section of the Department of Justice in Ottawa. Her practice deals primarily with the international aspects of criminal law policy. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, she clerked at the Federal Court of Canada. In August, Paula will marry Paul Novak in Halifax. She can be reached at paclarke@justice.gc.ca.

FRANÇOIS TANGUAY-RENAUD, BCL'02, was named a 2002 Rhodes Scholar. His varied work experience has included an internship with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. François was named one of "100 Canadians to Watch" by Maclean's magazine in 2000. He has a brown belt in judo and is a swing dance enthusiast.

Library and Information Studies

G. S. TERRANCE CAVANAGH, BLS'51, is Professor Emeritus of Medical Literature at Duke University in North Carolina. He is engaged as a bookseller and most recently as a publisher under a new rubric, the Gazebo Press.

TARJIN RAHMAN, MLIS'01, was a usability engineer at Microsoft shortly before graduating. He now enjoys a fulfilling career in Seattle and Redmond as a member of the Usability and Design Group of the Business Tools Division. The division's products include Visio, Project, MapPoint and related technologies as part of the Microsoft Office product family. Working with small cross-functional teams, Tarjin designs and carries out quantitative and qualitative lab and field studies with end users, and makes design recommendations based on these studies during all phases of the development cycle.

Management

JOHN E. CLEGHORN, BCom'62, is chairman and CEO of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. He retired as chairman and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada last summer.

GERALD LUTERMAN, BCom'65, was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of KeySpan Corporation in March. Previously, Gerald served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Gerald is a member of the Board of Directors for the Houston Exploration Company, the Greater Jamaica Local Development Corpora-tion and FOB Connect. He also became a member of the Society of Gas Lighters in October 2001 and is currently associated with the New York City chapter of the Financial Executive Institute.

PHILIP C. LEVI, BCom'70, was appointed Technology Editor of the White Paper, the magazine of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, which is an international, 25,000-member professional organization dedicated to fighting fraud and white-collar crime. Phil is the partner in charge of litigation support and dispute resolution at the Montreal accounting firm of Bessner Gallay Kreisman. Phil has been practising forensic accounting in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean and is a Regent Emeritus of the Association as well as a member of their teaching faculty. Phil can be reached at philevi@bgsk.com.

DEREK GROUT, MBA'71, published his first book, Empress of Ireland -- The Story of an Edwardian Liner, in December 2001 in England. The book relates the eight-year history of the ill-fated ship, which sank in May 1914 and remains Canada's worst maritime disaster, with more lives lost than perished on the Titanic. Derek currently resides in Montreal.

MICHEL LOZEAU, BCom'74, has recently returned to Montreal from Toronto to take the position of Senior Vice President, E-Commerce, and member of the Executive Committee at the National Bank of Canada. Michel and wife Francine are happy to be back in their home town along with their 20-year-old son, Guillaume. They have left 23-year-old son Mathieu behind in Toronto, where he is completing his Engineering degree.

MICHEL LANCTÔT, BCom'85, joined Saputo in the Bakery Division as Vice-President, Marketing. Before that, he worked for four years for Danone Inc. as Vice-President, Marketing, where he was responsible for the launch of the Danone yogurt brand in Canada. Before joining Saputo, he worked briefly as Vice-President of Business Development for RBA Inc., a Montreal-based computer servicing company.

LUCY RAIKES, BCom'89, CertProfFr'97, and Andrew Sofin are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Emily Elizabeth, in Boston in November 2001. They can be reached at andrewsofin@hotmail.com.

PETER URBANC, BCom'90, joined Barclays Capital in New York as a Director in the Debt Capital Markets Group covering financial institutions. He was previously a Senior Vice President in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers, where he worked for almost seven years in both London and New York.

ORIENTA CAMBONE, BCom'97, DPA'97, has been living in Milan, Italy, since September 2000. She has been employed with PricewaterhouseCoopers since graduation. She is loving "la vita" in Italy and will be staying for awhile yet. She would love to hear from anyone living or visiting in Italy and can be reached at orientac@hotmail.com.

BENJAMIN BERNET, BCom'98, after spending four years in New York City working in the sales and marketing department of a publishing firm and running his own company, says he is going to INSEAD in September to complete his MBA.

DANIEL DORENBUSH, MBA'99, is Vice President in the Equity Finance group of RBC Dominion Securities. He was also recently awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He lives in Toronto and has very fond memories of his time in Montreal. He says the people at McGill make the MBA program among the best in the world. He wishes everyone well.

MATT REYNOLDS, BCom'99, moved to Boston and works with a boutique investment dealer called RCW Mirus, which specializes in merger and acquisition advisory assignments. He can be reached at reynolds@merger.com.

Music

STÉPHANE JOSE, BMus'93, worked as a musician and radio journalist for several years in Montreal. Parallel to his music, Stéphane developed an interest in computers and programming that led him to study Communications and Technology of Informa-tion at Université du Québec à Montréal. He then directed his career towards multimedia development and Internet programming. He says his main objective remains to mix music and technology. Stéphane is now working as a technical director for a major Quebec web portal, Branchez-Vous!, at www.branchez-vous.com. He can be reached by email at sjose@videotron.ca.

MARCI ALEGANT, MMus'96, was appointed Assistant Dean of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in September of 2001. In addition to her administrative duties, she also conducts two choral groups, the Black River Singers of Oberlin and the Choral Arts Society of Cleveland. Marci's son, Jordan, 14, has become a fine cellist, and husband, Brian Alegant, a former faculty member at McGill and current Associate Professor of Music Theory at Oberlin, continues to perform and publish. Marci can be reached at marci.alegant@oberlin.edu.

Science

STANLEY B. MESSER, BSc'62, has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. The School offers master's and doctoral degrees in clinical, organizational and school psychology. For the past nine years, Stanley has been Chairman of the Department of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers. His wife, Donna, is a special education teacher. They have three daughters, two of whom attend Rutgers. The third daughter graduated from Princeton University.

SYED M. SAIFULLAH, PhD'69, is Professor of Botany at Karachi University. He was recently appointed Director of MAHQ (Mohammed Afzal Hussain Quadri) Biological Research Centre.

PATRICIA ZAMBRYSKI, BSc'69, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honours that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. Patricia is a professor at Berkeley and can be reached at sambrysk@nature.berkeley.edu.

WILLIAM FORDE THOMPSON, BSc'79, was appointed a full professor at the University of Toronto and Director of Communication, Culture and Information Technology (CCIT), for a five-year term. Bill's research is in the area of music and he has composed music for five films and a number of plays. He took composition courses in Sweden and Australia.

CHARLES VINCENT, MSc'80, PhD'83, is co-editor with C. Regnault-Roger and B. J. R. PHILOGÈNE, MSc'68, of Biopesticides d'origines végétales, recently published by Lavoisier Tech & Doc in Paris.

JENNYLYND JAMES, BSc'86, PhD'97, was appointed Senior Manager of Corporate Quality Assurance at Dole Food Company's world headquarters in Westlake, California. Her responsibilities involve food safety and quality issues for the fresh fruits division. This will take her to Latin America and many areas of the world where Dole produces tropical fruits for sale in North America and Europe.

DAVID LENZI, BSc'86, completed graduate school in California and lived the nomadic life of a postdoctoral researcher in the biological sciences for a while. He has settled in the San Francisco area and is working for a small biotech firm in the field of drug discovery.

VALÉRIE DES BOIS, MSc'89, and her husband, Aidan, welcomed a baby girl, Maude, in January. Maude and her big brother, Thibaud, 3, are debating which McGill program to enrol in within a few years time.

KIERAN "KERRY" DOWD, BSc'92, is finishing his residency as a Chief Resident in Oral Surgery at University Medical Dental Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Kerry received his dental degree from Tufts University, Boston, in 1996. He married Fabiana Elisa Gomez of Argentina in May 2001. They expect to move back to Massachusetts, where Kerry has accepted an associate position in a private practice. Kerry says he misses Montreal and hopes to visit this year, the tenth anniverary of his graduation!

MICHAEL FOX, PhD'92, has been named Vice-President of Academics and Research at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. Michael was Vice-President of Students at the University of Winnipeg, and he will take office at Mount Allison in July for a five-year term.

STEPHANIE OGURA, BSc'97, graduated from the four-year naturopathic medicine program at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. She is practising naturopathic medicine in Montreal. Stephanie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Naturopathic Association, where she works to increase public awareness of the profession in Quebec. Stephanie can be reached at sogura@sympatico.ca.

MARCIA BEATRIZ CAVALCANTE, MSc'98, is a technology management consultant at Siemens in Brazil. She has published a book called Technology: Strategy for Business Competition, in partnership with the President of Siemens and co-authors from the strategic management field. The book is in Portuguese and will soon be translated into English. She will be moving from Curitiba to São Paulo.

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