H. Peter Oberlander, BArch'45, has been appointed senior advisor of preparations for the Environment Ministerial Meeting of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC'97.

Michael M. Fieldman, BSc'59, BArch'63, was honoured by the American Institute of Architects in February 1997, and admitted to the College of Fellows, the Institute's highest honour.

David Covo, BSc(Arch)'71, BArch'74, has been appointed Director of the McGill School of Architecture.

Roderick Stutt, BSc(Arch)'72, BArch'74, received a PhD from the University of Regina in May 1996. His dissertation concerned government planning policies for the prairie provinces. He is the Head of the Architectural Technology program at the Palliser Institute of Technology in Moose Jaw.

Jill Trower, BSc(Arch)'95, BArch'96, has been working for a small architectural firm in Paris since September 1996.

Harry Mayerovitch, BA'30, BEng(Arch)'33, is the author of How Architecture Speaks and Fashions Our Lives, published last fall. The book is a lighthearted and accessible study of how architecture affects our lives.

William L. Archer, BA'49, was awarded the Civic Award of Merit from the City of Toronto. He has represented residents in Wards 3, 5 and 6 on Toronto City Council and has served actively on various boards. He was also the chair of the Niagara Region Study Review Commission and is presently part of the Toronto Historical Board.

Sarah Weintraub, BA'52, LLD'92, was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Craufurd D. W. Goodwin, BA'55, who is now the James B. Duke professor of economics and the former dean of the graduate school at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, has been named the 15th recipient of the University Scholar/ Teacher Award. He is a specialist in the history of economics and the impact of economics on public policy.

Dale (English) Young, BA'55, was appointed a member of the Board of Governors of Camosun College, in Victoria, B.C., by the British Columbia government where she is serving as chair of the Finance, Facilities and Personnel Committee and as co-chair of the 25th Anniversary Committee. She continues to be active in B.C. politics; she is financial agent for the NDP candidate who won the May 1996 provincial election, and she is still volunteer editor of The Lower Island News, an eight-issue-a-year democratic socialist newspaper distributed to 2,000 readers on the southern part of Vancouver Island.

Glorianne Stromberg, BA'59, is the author of a report on the domestic mutual funds industry which has prompted the setting up of a task force that formed a draft code for selling mutual funds. She works and resides in Toronto, Ontario.

Joan Fraser, BA'65, former editor of The Gazette in Montreal, has been named Research Director of the Council for Canadian Unity, also based in Montreal.

Evelyn Schachter, BA'66, received the Distinguished Leadership Award for her involvement in numerous community causes. She was most recently past chair of the Canadian Jewish Association's Women's Campaign.

Gaylen Duncan, BA'67, is presently chief executive of the Information Technology Association of Canada.

Gordon Garmaise, BA'69, is the architect of Mackenzie Financial Corporation's STAR asset-allocation service, often referred to as the "antithesis of market timing."

Guy Sprung, BA'70, has been appointed Artistic Director of Theatre 1774 in Montreal. He has been closely associated with the company for many years.

Morris Cooper, BA'71, is a civil litigation lawyer in private practice in Toronto and is married with two daughters. He is currently President ('97-'98) of the Holy Blossom Temple, one of Canada's largest synagogues. He is also an avid outdoor enthusiast.

Monica (Keaton) Scheel, BA'72, MSW'74, is the Managing Director of Family Services Employee Assistance Programs in Calgary.

Janis Angela Tomlinson, BA'75, Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University, was appointed as the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History for the spring semester at Williams College in Massachusetts. She specializes the in history of painting and patronage in Spain from the reign of Philip II to the death of Francisco Goya. She is the author of many articles and several books on Goya and Spanish history.

Alan Victor, BA'75, after spending more than 10 years living in the United States and working as an international financial analyst, as a treasurer for an oil equipment manufacturer, and as a financier for major commercial real estate transactions, has returned to Montreal to join his father's menswear firm. He is now president of Jack Victor Ltd., whose products are found across Canada and in the United States.

Vincenzo F. Di Nicola, BA'76, DipPsych'86, will chair the National Scientific Committee for the World Congress for Social Psychiatry to be held in Vancouver August 17-21, 1998. He is presently the Chairman of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Queen's University, Kingston, and the first elected President (1996-1999) of the Canadian Association for Social Psychiatry.

June Wood, BA'77, is moving to Las Vegas to become Director of Human Resources for the Cirque du Soleil.

Gary Kanofsky, BA'78, has been Director of Production for CFCF since July 1996. In this capacity he oversees the production of CFCF's programs. Prior to this he worked with Media Masters in Los Angeles, and before that he was with NBC for 11 years.

Geoffrey Robinson, BA'78, is a professor in the Department of History at UCLA in Los Angeles.

Peter J. Nicholson, BA'81, has been appointed as Senior Public Relations Counsel in the St. John's office of the Bristol Group, one of Atlantic Canada's leading marketing and communications consultancies.

Robert Feigel, BA'81, has opened Ottawa's newest professional bicycle store, Award Cycle and Sports. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Dale Simmons, BA'80, MLS'82, and their two sons.

Leonidas Kaklamanos, MA'82, is the chef and co-owner of Molivos, a Greek restaurant on Guy St. in Montreal. He is also an avid collector of rare books.

Lorraine da Costa, BA'83, is the Administrator and Director of A-Kiddy-Z Nest Daycare Centre in Dorval. She is married and has two children. The licensed centre, which was started by Lorraine in 1992, is attended by more than 60 children and infants, and also offers a pre-kindergarten program and a summer camp for children aged six to eight.

Bruce Hill, BA'83, left the McGill Development Office to assume the role of Associate Director, Campaign Programs, at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.

Angela F. Dunn, BA'84, MA'88, attended Initiative Communication, a public relations academy in Heidelberg, for post-graduate PR training. She became a certified PR consultant and a member of the German PR Association. Recently she accepted a position as consultant at the Frankfurt office of Hill and Knowlton, an international PR agency.

Rocco Rossi, BA'84, has been appointed Vice-President of Strategic Planning and New Media of the Toronto Star. He will have direct responsibility for all of the Star's initiatives in the media, particularly on the Internet.

Dhanayshar Mahabir, MA'86, PhD'95, was appointed an Independent Senator by the President of Trinidad and Tobago in November 1996 - the youngest person ever. In January 1997 he was appointed Chairman of the Regulated Industries Commission and he appears frequently on national television to discuss economic affairs. He was an economist at the Caribbean Development Bank from 1988-90, and taught at the University of the West Indies from 1985-87, and 1992 to the present. He is married and has two daughters.

Vincent Pietracupa, CBIS'87, has accepted a position as information systems director at Henry Birks and Sons Inc., in downtown Montreal.

Chris Bolland, BA'88, is a file analyst. In August 1996 he married Helena Van Ryn, a physiotherapist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. In November 1996, he began work as an analyst on the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia.

Carol Sharpe, BA'88, was appointed Vice-president, Communications, at Pratt & Whitney Canada. Previously, she was an account director with an international firm of communications consultants. She was also president of the International Association of Business Communicators for 1994-95.

Mia Bloom, BA'89, was contributing author and art director of The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, MacMillan Press, 1996. She teaches Middle East history and politics at the City University of New York. She received the Transnational Security Issues and Conflict Resolution Fellowship from Columbia University for 1996-97. She was a Peace Scholar of the United States Institute of Peace for 1995-96, and a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs from 1995-97.

Stefano Ianni, BA'90, has been appointed Vice-President Sales for International Cordage Systems, Ltd. He and his wife recently celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary and they live in Montreal.

Steven Lorber, BA'90, has been appointed director of the Montreal Kaplan Educational Centre.

George Vanberg-Wolff, BA'90, DipMgmtAppl'92, has joined the San Francisco law firm of Kaufman & Logan, specializing in environmental insurance coverage and business litigation. He was a business litigator with Akay & Associates after earning his law degree in 1994. He was also the Chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division, 1996, and belonged to many other prestigious organizations.

Kim Peacock, BA'91, moved to Toronto to take a position as Account Executive at Q107 FM radio.

Amir Haji-Yousefi, MA'92, graduated from Carleton University in 1996 and has since returned to his home country of Iran where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Political Science at Shahid Beheshti University (National University of Iran), Tehran.

Sarah Shaw, BA'92, received an MSW from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1996. She was married to Peter Mann in August 1996, and began a doctoral program in Human Development and Psychology at Harvard in September 1996.

Christopher Hrones, BA'93, is back in New England after spending some time in Germany. He is a Transportation Planner at the Rockingham Planning Commission in Exeter, N.H.

Tristan James Mabry, BA'93, received an MSc in Comparative Politics (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics in 1995. He now works for CNN International in New York where he is the Associate Producer for a daily CNN program: Business Asia.

Kate B. MacDougall, BA'93, will graduate from law school in the spring of 1997. This winter she will intern with the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco.

Mahnaz Mirza, BA'93, is Manager, Sales Promotion, for Caltex Oil (Pakistan) Limited, a subsidiary of Chevron and Texaco.

Simone Philogène, MA'93, has returned to the private sector after three years in the policy section of the Prime Minister's Office. She has joined Glaxo Wellcome, the British pharmaceutical company, at its Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, as Manager, Policy Analysis and Development.

Steve Sansom, BA'93, received his MA in economics from Queen's University in 1994, and will receive his LLB in 1997. He is presently articling at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt in Toronto, Ontario.

Walter Demirci, BA'94, has returned from a two-year sojourn in Argentina, his birthplace, where he was enrolled in a master's program in international relations at the Universidad de Belgrano. He is presently working on his thesis.

Eric Jackson, BA'94, will begin a PhD programme this fall at Columbia's Business School in New York City. The doctorate will be in "Management of Organizations" and he plans to research the impact of top management teams on their companies.

Bryn Williams Jones, BA'94, is at McGill, completing a master's thesis on genetics and ethics. He is hoping to begin a PhD in philosophy in September.

Caitlin M. Leclerc, BA'94, taught English as a second language in Slovakia. She now works for an educational travel company.

Susan Marie Loughman, BA'94, is a Product Administration Representative in W. Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and will be receiving a master's degree in Public Relations and Advertising in May 1997. She will be married in September 1997.

David T. McDonald, BA'94, will complete an LLB at the University of Hong Kong in June 1997.

Panagiotis Panagopoulos, BA'94, has moved from the University of Birmingham, U.K., to Aalborg University, Denmark, where he is continuing his PhD and teaching.

Robert Spakkens, BA'94, BSc'94, is now working towards his doctorate in physics at the University of Toronto.

Megan Stephens, BA'94, has begun an MA in Sociology at Carleton University after living and working in Belgium. Prior to that she spent two years as a research assistant at Health Canada.

Arif Virani, BA'94, is in the second year of a law degree at the University of Toronto. He spent the past summer working at the Quebec Human Rights Commission in Montreal.

Gwyn Wansbrough, BA'94, is in the final year of a master's degree in international affairs at Columbia University.

Rebecca White, BA'94, has been employed as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York for almost two years. This spring she hopes to be accepted to journalism school and to travel to Kenya.

Abdu Yilmaz, BA'94, is now working as a software engineer in the Boston area.

Vanessa Berkling, BA'95, is the editor of Menz magazine, a lifestyle and fashion magazine based in Montreal for Canadian men in the 25-49 age group.

Meredith Fox, BA'95, is pursuing a master's degree at the American University in Washington, D.C.

Julie Picard, BA'95, was married in September 1996 and is working at a hotel in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Kerri-Lynn Strotmann, BA'95, was recently hired as the Project Coordinator for a commercial revitalization project in the city of Dorval, Quebec. The project is guided by a Heritage Canada foundation called "Rues Principales." The programme focuses on physical intervention, marketing, animation, and culture.

Winnehl Tubman, BA'95, spent a year travelling and speaking French in France. She is now working towards an MA in International Education and Development at Teacher's College, Columbia University.

Ira Wagman, BA'95, is enrolled in an MBA program in Art and Media Administration at York University.

Junko Habu, PhD'96, is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Maria Migas, BA'96, is completing a master's degree in Health Services Administration at Dalhousie University.

R. Silverstone, BSc'36, DDS'40, closed his dental practice at the end of December 1996, after 54 years of practice. He was the oldest practicing dentist in Quebec. At 83 years, he still downhill skis daily and pursues his interest in photography. With his wife, Ann, he has seven children; there are now also 16 grandchildren.

Gerald S. Rudick, DDS'66, was elevated to Diplomat status within the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) in February 1997. This is the highest honour the ICOI can bestow on a dental professional in this field, and is granted to those who have significantly contributed to the art and science of implantology through their efforts in education, research and clinical experience.

Howard Stein, BSc'69, DDS'71, has been elected President of the Ontario Association of Dental Specialists. He is a pediatric dentist who practices in Scarborough, Ontario, and teaches part-time at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto.

Minna (Noik) Stein, BSc'67, DDS'71, has been appointed Registrar of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. She is the first female dentist to hold this position.

Tony W. Chu, DDS'93, and his wife are living in Houston, Texas. He has two and a half years left in OMF surgery residency.

Judy Horrath, DDS'95, is now practicing in the Montreal West Island region and recently took a trip to Mexico.

Mark-Ulrich Knoefel, DDS'95, completed a one-year residency at the Montreal Children's Hospital in pediatric dentistry. He is currently specializing in orthodontics at the University of Alberta and will obtain an MSc in December 1998.

Nancy Layton, BEd(PE)'72, MEd'87, was appointed the first female head of Bishop's College School in Lennoxville Que. She and her husband, Joe Stairs, divide their time between the Bishop's campus and their home on Lake Memphremagog.

Penny Angel-Levy, MEd'76, has been living in San Diego since 1978. She is married and has three children. She is manager of an Employee Assistance Program for San Diego County school districts and in private practice, specializing in custody mediation.

Brian R. Mingie, BEd'78, opened his own accounting practice in Ottawa in September.

Bruce Gravel, BEd'79, is an Association Manager. He spearheaded the formation of the Tourism Federation of Ontario, the "umbrella" association of Ontario's 28 individual tourism associations. He is the volunteer secretary of the association. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Motels Ontario Significant Service Award for 12 years of devoted service as Chief Administrator of his association, Motels Ontario, Peterborough.

Pamela Feres, MEd'86, is the founder of the Feres Alternative Learning Centre, which is devoted to preparing disabled children for integration into the regular school system and into the community in general.

Horace I. Goddard, MEd'88, is a director of Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal and has just published a novel, Paradise Revisited. He is also the editor of KOLA, a black literary magazine, author of three collections of poetry and editor of a book of literary interviews.

Bette Chambers, PhD'90, is a Concordia professor of education. Her work was recently featured in an article in the Montreal Gazette, entitled Women to Watch in '97. She has implemented a language arts project called Success For All, whose objective is to increase and improve child literacy. The program, which was created at Johns Hopkins University, is already in use in more than 500 schools around the world.

Leslie Levinson, BEd'88, MA'91, has been teaching at the Mackay Centre for six years. She is currently working part-time, enjoying her time at home with sons Blair (8) and Josh (1).

David Armour, BEd'92, is a professional triathlete and won the Quebec Triathlon Series event in 1991, and the individual provincial championship the next year. He has represented Canada five times internationally and will be competing this year at the World, European and Canadian level. He is also coaching potential triathletes and has recently expanded to the national level in this endeavour.

Laura Kaufman, MEd'92, is an art education professor at Okanagan University College's North Kelowna Campus in British Columbia. She is working on a PhD in art education at McGill, and is also developing her own artistic career.

Leanne Levy, BEd'92, MEd'94, opened Fuzion, which markets the work of painters, illustrators, designers and photographers, in November. The Quebec agency features urban expressionism and its members' works range from billboards and set design to computer graphics and company logos.

Michelle Burak, BEd'93, started teaching grade K-two English at Ecole Maimonide, Quebec, in November.

Bonita Burnham, BEd'93, is substitute teaching in both the English and French school systems in Quebec.

Edgar (Buddy) Clinch, BEd'93, is in his fourth year in the James Bay region and has recently been promoted to Vice-Principal of his elementary school.

Kim McRae Craig, BEd'93, is currently on maternity leave from her junior kindergarten class at Iroquis Public School, Quebec, having given birth to an 8 lb., 6 oz. boy, Alexander Craig, on November 1, 1996.

Julie Edwards, BEd'93, is currently living in Waterloo, Quebec, enjoying teaching grade one at the English elementary school.

Leslie Fenster-Scrit, BEd'93, Married Michael Scrit in July 1995 and has been teaching full time since graduation.

Kendra Griffiths, BEd'93, is presently teaching French kindergarten at Edgewater School in Pincourt, Quebec. She is also back at McGill, working towards a certificate in special education.

Lori Hill, BEd'93, had a second son, Tyler Zane, in September of 1995. She's been working on availability frequently at Lasalle Catholic Comprehensive High, Quebec, teaching all subjects at all levels.

Lisa King-Thordsen, BEd'93, was married on August 3, 1996, and moved to a project in Princeton, N.J., and San Ramon, California, with her husband's company. She is presently enjoying some free time.

Julie Anne Lafleur, BEd '93, has just started a new full time job teaching kindergarten at Lower Canada College. She is working towards her master's degree at night, and often sees many familiar faces.

Wendy Maher, BEd'93, MEd'95, has been a special education teacher at Victoria Park School Teach Kindergarten for the past two years. Last summer she visited England and is planning to return, having been invited to the Royal Ascot.

Deborah Martin, BEd'93, MEd'96, is now in her fourth year of teaching at Hitterfield School in Campville, Ontario. She is planning to move to the Ottawa area.

Yvonne Martin, BEd'93, has been working at Greaves Academy, Quebec, for four years. During the summer, her school board sends her to Alberta for courses to update and train her for future positions. She has also been a cooperating teacher.

Natalie McCarthy, BEd'93, has been working full time as an ESL teacher in an alternative school for high school dropouts. She is now married, has completed her MEd in Teaching English as a Second Language, and is enrolled in a Certificate in Special Education.

Jodi-Anne Frost McKinnon, BEd '93 and '95 (Elem. and PE), has been travelling across the United States, and is in a new city and state every 13 weeks. She has been substituting and teaching swimming and aerobics at the YMCA in each city.

Daryl Ness, BEd'93, has been teaching social studies at H. S. Billings High School in Chateauguay for the past four years. He is planning to begin his master's next fall.

Karin Oram-Pollice, BEd'93, MEd'95, has been working full time as a special education teacher at Summit School, Quebec, since graduation. In October of 1996, she married her boyfriend of seven years, Carmine.

Renée (Roque) Patterson, BEd'93, was married to Provincial Constable Mike Patterson on May 25, 1996, in Killarney, Ontario.

Kevin Philip, BEd '93 (Secondary), is presently enjoying his third year at AGRHS in Lennoxville, Quebec, teaching math, science and moral education. He has also been coaching football and hockey.

Céline Pruneau, BEd'93, has been teaching kindergarten as well as English as a Second Language for the past four years with the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. She recently gave birth to a baby boy, Carl Isaac.

Doris Rainha, BEd'93, is teaching regular secondary two students in L'Assomption, and is happily married to Thomas.

Lisa Romanese, BEd'93, is teaching English as a Second Language in a French high school in Le Grandeur, Quebec.

Linda (Joyce) Rummel, BEd'93, DipAgr'85, was married in October 1996, in a Victorian style wedding in British Columbia. She teaches French immersion and English in elementary school.

Ruth Smolash, BEd'93, Married Ryan Katofsky, BEng'90, in June 1995. She just completed a master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology at Northeastern University, and is beginning employment at a nursing home. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Elaine Welsh, BEd'93, was named Teacher of the Year at Sandy Bay First Nation School. Currently she is taking time off to raise her daughter, Emma. Her husband is with the RCMP.

Tracy Conway, BEd'94, has moved to Whitby, Ontario, where she is a grade 2/3 teacher with the Durham Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board..

Susan Elizabeth Robinson, BEd'95, DipEd'95, will start teaching high school English at Waiopehu College, Levin, New Zealand, in January.

Sunday Soufaras, BEd'95, is presently a teacher of geography and history at Westmount High School. She is also working towards a master's degree in educational studies at Concordia.

Arthur Earle, BEng'49, has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Paul A. Webb, BEng'54, is President of Iroquois Marine Services.

Marceli Wein, BEng'58, MSc'61, PhD'64, was the recipient of a Technical Achievement Award (Academy Certificate), a category of the Scientific and Technology Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 1996 Academy Awards. This award was given him in recognition of his pioneering work in computer animation which "demonstrated the first significant use of the computer in two-dimensional key-frame character animation."

Michael D. Sopko, BEng'60, MEng'61, PhD'64, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Co-Steel Inc. He is also Chairman and CEO of Inco Ltd., a company he has been with since 1964. He is also a director of the Toronto Dominion Bank and Voisey's Bay Nickel Company Limited.

John Carrington, MEng'68, has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Barrick Gold Corp., Based in Toronto.

Jacob D. Eisenwasser, BEng'68, has been appointed Associate Director of R&D for Praxair Inc. He manages all gas applications R&D activities at Praxair's Chicago Technology Centre.

Rob Kearney, BEng'68, MEng'71, PhD'76, Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill, has been chosen as President-Elect of the Biomedical section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Paul R. Van Loan, PhD'68, was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in January 1997. He was also elected Technical Vice-president, International Microelections and Packaging Society, for 1997-98. He lives and works in California.

Claudio F. Bussandri, BEng'69, MBA'76, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Medis Health and Pharmaceutical Services Inc. He is also co-chair of the "Investment Partners: Building our Children's Future" fund-raiser at the Montreal Children's Hospital.

Terry F. Diardichuk, BEng'70, has been appointed Vice-president, National Accounts and Carrier Relations, of MetroNet Communications Corporation. He was Chief Operating Officer at WestComm and has held senior positions at Unitel Communications, Octel Communications and Northern Telecom.

Michael J. Primiani, BEng(Civil)'70, has been retained since August 1996 by Bell Canada International as Director of Civil Works for a joint venture in Andhra Pradesh, India. He is responsible for the design, planning and construction of the infrastructure for a new GSM cellular telephone company.

Sergio De Paoli, BEng'71, MBA'74, has been appointed President of CCL Industries Label Division. He brings 20 years of experience in the printing and packaging industries to the post. Most recently, he held the position of President, Transcontinental Printing, Inc., and he has held a number of leadership positions within the Lawson Mardon Group Ltd.

Ronald Chwang, BEng'72, is president and CEO of Acer America Corporation, one of the top ten manufacturers of PC systems. The company is a supporter of the McGill Graduate Business Conference, at which Chwang delivered the keynote speech last year. This year's conference topic is Hyper-Competition, Unleashing the Forces of Change, Competing in Highly Dynamic Environments. Acer America is based in San Jose, California.

Kwong Ng, BEng(Elec)'79, is a New Mexico State University Electrical Engineering Professor. He is researching the use of the electrical shock to revive the heart after it has stopped. The American Heart Association has given him a $70,000 grant for two years.

John D. Weber, BEng(Chem)'79, is Chief Petroleum Engineer, southern area, for UNOCAL Indonesia Ltd., east Kalimaivtan Division.

Stephen Takacsy, BEng'81, MBA'85, is stepping down as chief financial officer of St. Laurent's Malofilm Communications Inc., and recently stepped down from the company's board of directors.

Elisabeth Conde, BEng'82, is still working with Ontario Hydro in their Nuclear Safety group in Toronto. She is now a specialist in human performance enhancement, a number of techniques to help analyze and prevent human error. She also teaches a course on this subject to staff at Ontario Hydro; she has previously taught this course in Quebec and Argentina.

Marie (Myrt) Power-Jay, BEng(Mech)'87, worked as a consultant in Calgary. She lived in Nepal for two years where she did rural development work with CIDA. Following that, she lived in the Middle East (Qatar), where both daughters, Rosalind (2 1/2) and Hilary (1), were born. She is now the owner/operator of Snow Lizard Bed and Breakfast, located on 10 acres in Fernie, B.C.

Deborah-Anne Baluch, BEng(Chem)'89, works in the business and planning group at Shell Canada's Montreal-East refinery. She was married in September 1996.

Mughis Naqvi, BEng(Chem)'89, is an applications engineer for Lightning, a unit of General Signal Corp. He is also teaching a CEE course on Fluid Mixing Technology at the University of Toronto.

Aminah Fayek, BEng'91, is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management).

Gabriela Simonka, BEng(Civil)'92, was married in September 1995 to Joe Pasztor, a research assistant with the Respiratory Epidemiology Unit at McGill. In December she completed the Maîtrise des sciences appliquées (MScA) program in Civil Engineering, option in Transportation, at École Polytechnique de Montréal. She is now a technical writer for INRO Consultants in Montreal, a company specializing in the development and production of transportation planning software.

Sarah Marx, BEng'93, MEng'96, Married Andrew Shalit in November 1995 and works in Technical Sales at the Montreal office of Imperial Oil.

Patrick Watson, BEng'93, changed jobs and moved to San Francisco, where he now works with Emergent, a management consulting company.

Julie Filion, BEng(Chem)'94, is working on a PhD research project in Chemical Engineering at McGill.

Jennifer Ng, BEng(Elec)'94, is a software designer at DY4 Systems. She is single and is travelling the world on business trips. In 1996 she was in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.

Jean Charles Ouellette, BEng(Elec)'94, is a power and control systems designer with Holderbank, Building cement plants in North and South America.

David Rolston, MEng'94, PhD'96, was awarded le Prix Fondation Desjardins for his work with photonic systems. The award is given by l'Association canadienne de technologie de pointe.

Art Liem, BEng(Civil)'95, is a project engineer for Glaxo Wellcome, a pharmaceutical company. He has just been appointed to the advisory board of the Factory Theatre, Toronto, and is a Leadership Donor with the United Way of Greater Toronto. He also just bought a house in Riverdale.

Patrick Sieb, BEng(Mech)'95, is studying with three other McGill graduates of his year at HEC School of Management in Paris. He will complete a year long internship in a bank in May 1997, and will graduate in June 1998.

Hans Volstad, BEng(Chem)'95, is presently working as a process engineer for Hatch Associates in Montreal. His elder daughter is now six years old and in grade 1, and the younger, Karina, is one-and-a-half years old.

Yves L. Fortier, BCL'58, was appointed to the Board of Directors of Southam Inc. in October. He is a senior partner with the law firm of Ogilvy Renault and has been Chairman since January 1992. In July 1991 he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.

Joyce Borden Reed, BCL'62, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of AGRA Inc. She is Corporate Counsel and Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of Motorola Canada Limited, a director of Altir Enterprises Limited and a member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade. She is also a member of the Barreau du Québec and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Mark M. Rosenstein, BA'60, BCL'63, has been appointed a member of the Quebec Securities Commission by the Quebec Government. He is a founding partner of the law firm Lapointe, Rosenstein. He is also married to Dr. Bluma Litner, BA'69, and they have two sons, Noah and Joshua.

H. Christian Wendlandt, BA'65, BCL'68, was appointed Vice President, Government and Public Affairs, Canadian Pacific Railway. He will direct the railway's government and industry relations and its public affairs activities based in Calgary.

Juli Morrow, BCL'75, LLB'76, of Goodman Phillips and Vineberg in Toronto, was one of 14 Canadian real estate lawyers listed in the Guide to the World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers.

E. Leslie Groszman, BSc'72, BCL'76, LLB'77, Married Sharon G. Druker, BCL'85, LLB'85, on October 27, 1996, and has his own law firm specializing in commercial litigation. He is a member of the Quebec Bar Committee on the Code of Civil Procedure, and is a recipient of the "Mérite du Barreau."

Sarah Pepall, BA'73, LLB'76, is one of two managing partners at McMillan Binch law firm. She recently spoke to 132 lawyers, Many from small firms, about how to promote their practices.

R. B. Cohen, BA'74, BCL'77, LLB'78, has been appointed Vice-president, Law and Administration, of Express Pipeline.

John Nicholl, BCL'78, LLB'79, was elected President of the Board of St. George's School of Montreal at the Annual General Meeting of the Corporation. He specializes in insurance law and professional labour defence and is a founding partner of the law firm Nicholl Paskell-Mede. He has also previously served the school as a member of the finance committee, the Board and the Executive Committee. In his other pursuits, he has lectured at McGill University and Concordia University.

Michael Novak, BSc'76, BCL'80, LLB'81, has been appointed President of SNC-Lavalin International and is a member of the office of the President. He will be responsible for the continued international business development of SNC-Lavalin and brings extensive experience in negotiation of national and international contracts. He joined the Group in 1986 as Legal Counsel, was named Vice-president, Law, in 1989 and Senior Vice-president, Law, in 1995. He is a member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec and also attended Harvard University.

Sharon G. Druker, BCL'85, LLB'85, Married E. Leslie Groszman, BSc'72, BCL'76, LLB'77, on October 27, 1996, and is a partner in the Business Law Section at Martineau Walker. She is also currently the President of the Lord Reading Law Society, Being the youngest member and only the second woman in the Society's forty-nine year history to hold this position.

Sheila Kussner, BA'53, LLD'90, has recently been appointed as a governor of McGill University for a five-year term.

Susan Abramovitch, BCL'91, LLB'91, was made a partner of the entertainment boutique law firm Stohn Henderson in Toronto.

Bram Freedman, BA'87, BCL'91, LLB'91, in-house legal counsel at Concordia University, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of CLSC Metro. The territory of CLSC Metro includes Westmount and much of the western downtown core, Bordered to the east by St. Laurent Blvd.

Marc Weinstein, BA'85, LLB'91, BCL'91, has been appointed director and general counsel of the Jewish General Hospital Foundation. He was previously an attorney with McMaster Meighen in Montreal and spent a year as a legal consultant in the United States. He was also a founding member of Leave Out Violence (L.O.V.E.), and has been active with Combined Jewish Appeal and the Lord Reading Law Society where he acted as co-chair of the Young Bar Division. In addition, he was involved in organizing the Bar of Montreal's Legal Day.

Lisa Shemie, LLB'94, BCL'94, practices with the New York law firm Gilbert Segall and Young. She has been with them since September 1996.

George Sopel, BA'91, LLB'95, BCL'95, is articling with the Montreal law firm of Stikeman Elliot.

Irving Layton, BScAgr'39, MA'46, the poet, was honoured in celebration of his 85th birthday on March 12, 1997, at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal.

Geneviève Faragó, BScAgr'94, has moved from soil to pharmaceuticals. She works in the medical department of Sandoz Canada Inc. In her spare time she takes continuing education courses at McGill.

Anne Laurendeau, BSc(Agr.Env)'94, is as a credit advisor at the Farm Credit Corporation office in St. Hyacinthe.

Colin D'Silva, PhD'95, has been working as a researcher for Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge, Alberta, since April 1995. He was awarded the Japan Science and Technology Agency International Fellowship and will be proceeding to conduct research at the National Institute of Animal Science in Tsukuba (Tokyo) Japan, in March, for two years. He will set up a collaborative research program between the research centre in Japan and the research centre here.

Michael Lawrence Bessner, BCom'48, is a senior financial consultant and lives in Westmount. He is the 1997 recipient of an Honorary Life Membership of Concordia University's Alumni Association. The Honorary Life Membership is awarded to a non-graduate who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to the Association and to the University.

Austin C. Beutel, BCom'53, has been appointed a Director of First Marathon Inc. He is currently President of Oakwest Corporation, a private investment company, and Chairman of Capital Trust Company and Nu-Gro Corporation. First Marathon is a Canadian company that provides a range of financial services.

Robert C. Tedford, BCom'63, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Patheon Inc., one of North America's leading independent providers of manufacturing and drug development services in the pharmaceutical outsourcing sector. He has been with Patheon, Based in Burlington, Ontario, since 1992.

Seymour Schulich, MBA'65, has been elected to the Board of Governors of York University. He is chair and chief executive officer of Franco-Nevada Mines Corp. Ltd. and chair of Euro-Nevada Mining Corp. Ltd. Toronto, two gold royalty companies.

Maqbool H. H. Rahimtoola, BCom'68, has been appointed provincial minister for Industries, Commerce, Mineral Development, Labour, Transport, Housing, Town Planning, Local Government, Katchi Abadies, Rural Development, and Public Health Engineering for Sindh, Pakistan. He is also chairman of Sindh Coal Authority, Lakhra Coal Development Company, Sindh Small Industries and Sindh Social Security Inst. (Sessi).

Jeffrey G. Marshall, MBA'69, was appointed President and CEO of Aluma Enterprises Inc. He is past Chair of the the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction and current Chair of Lakefield College School. Aluma Enterprises Inc. supplies engineered services to the construction industry from 50 locations worldwide.

Jean Gariépy, BCom'70, MBA'73, resigned as president and chief executive of Télé-Métropole Inc. He became president and chief executive of the French language broadcasting company in August 1996.

Leonard Katz, MBA'74, has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice-president, External Affairs, of Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. He will assume responsibility for Corporate Communications, Government and Inter-Carrier Relations and Corporate Development. He has more than 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and most recently held the position of Vice-president, Government and Inter-Carrier Relations, at Cantel.

Ion G. Shore, BCom'76, DipPubAcct'80, is a chartered accountant. He is VP Internal Audit of subsidiary and foreign operations of Tengelmann, which amongst its various activities is the world's largest grocery retailer.

Janice Kussner, BCom'78, was formerly director of Human Resources for the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) of Ontario. She has joined the executive search firm of Herman Smith Executive Initiatives Inc., EMA Partners International, located in downtown Toronto.

Roupen Berberian, BCom'79, has been promoted to Vice-president & Controller of Aurora National Life Assurance Company, a California-based insurance company.

Nadine Gut, DipPubAcct'81, has been appointed President and CEO of Gebro Inc., a private management and investment company located in Montreal.

Manouk Djoukhadjian, MBA'82, was appointed as President and CEO of Stella-Jones Inc., a leading Canadian producer of pressure treated wood products. He has 24 years of experience in the manufacturing industry and has occupied many senior management positions in North America and abroad.

Mitchell Brownstein, BCom'83, BCL'87, LLB'87, has, with his law firm, Brownstein Brownstein and Associates, Been a participant in the Team Canada trade missions to Asia. He was involved particularly with the Philippine part of the trip, during which time he gave seminars on Canadian business opportunities and immigration under the entrepreneurial class.

Debra Hendler, BCom'83, DipPubAcct'84, has been appointed director of annual giving for the Jewish General Hospital Foundation. She joined the firm of Richter Usher & Vineberg as senior supervisor in the audit division. In 1991 she became senior manager at Jewish Family Services of the Baron de Hirsch Institute. She is also involved in Federation CJA and the Israel Cancer Research Fund.

John Koloda, BCom'83, is married to Lise Fraser, BSc'86, and has two children, Karl (2), and Konrad (3 1/2).

Albert Perez, BSc'80, MBA'83, is a Manager, Business Information and Research, at Hoechst Marion Roussel Canada, and lives in Montreal. His daughter, Tamara Beryl Perez, was born September 6, 1995. At only six months old, Tamara earned her first McGill degree: an Honorary Infant Scientist Diploma for her participation in speech research at McGill.

Edward Prorok, BCom'84, DipPubAcct'86, has been appointed an Associate in the company of Fuller Landau, chartered accountants.

Barbara Amsden, MBA'85, has assumed the position of Treasurer and Vice-president, Information, Finance and Services, of the Canadian Bankers' Association. She has been with the CBA for ten years, Most recently as Director, Financial Affairs Division. She previously worked for the Royal Bank of Canada and Chase Manhattan Bank of Canada. She also has a bachelor's degree in French and a teacher's certificate for kindergarten through grade six.

Emilio Imbriglio, MBA'85, has joined the accounting firm of Richter, Usher and Vineberg as a Partner. The firm has offices in Montreal and Toronto.

Anne Macdougall, DipPubAcct'86, has been admitted to partnership at the Montreal Office of BDO Dunworthy.

John Shamash, DipPubAcct'86, has been admitted to partnership of Ruby Stein Wagner, Chartered Accountants. He has over thirteen years of experience with entrepreneurial clientele, and was previously in charge of the information technology department.

Monique Dion, MBA'87, is an Associate Director, Consumer Market, at Bell Canada. She lives in Longueuil, Que.

Salvatore Iacono, MBA'89, joins the Lehndorff Tandem Group Inc. as Vice-president, Operations and Development, Quebec. He has experience in real estate development and management, and will be responsible for the portfolio under management in Quebec. The new Montreal office will be under his direction.

Kathy Megyery, MBA'92, was appointed Senior Director of SECOR, a leading Canadian consulting firm. She has been with SECOR for five years, specializing in the health and pharmaceutical fields.

Jeffrey Weigensberg, GradDipPubAcct'92, was recently admitted to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He has practiced in the Forensic and Investigative Auditing division of Bessner Gallay Shapira Kreisman for several years. The firm is based in Montreal.

Sunil Bhilotra, BCom'93, placed seventh in Canada and second in Quebec at the 1996 Uniform Final Exam at Caron Bélanger Ernst & Young.

Brian Kreisman, GradDipPubAcct'93, was recently admitted to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He has practiced in the Forensic and Investigative Auditing division of Bessner Gallay Shapira Kreisman for several years. The firm is based in Montreal.

Ronald G. Balinsky, BCom'94, returned to Montreal after two years of working in New York and Australia. The family is well!

Allison Cepler, BCom'94, is studying advertising to be an art director. She will graduate in June 1997.

Anouk Dupuis, BCom'94, was appointed Chef de Projet Informatique at Generix, a French company located in Lille, France, specializing in accounting and financial software.

Dominique Hamel, BCom'94, will become a chartered accountant in 1997.

Christopher D. Hansell, BCom'94, is a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in Montreal.

Heidi Hirschberg, BCom'94, has moved to Toronto.

Darlene McLean, BCom'94, has worked at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario as a Marketing Programs Coordinator since May 1996.

Patrice Ouimet, BCom'94, placed first in Quebec and Canada at the 1996 Uniform Final Exam at Caron Bélanger Ernst & Young.

Philippe Tomic, BCom'94, placed fourth in Quebec at the 1996 Uniform Final Exam at Caron Bélanger Ernst & Young.

Marla Greenspoon, BCom'95, works for Richter Systems in Montreal, Quebec. Her position allows her to travel extensively. She also organizes fund raisers and sits on a number of committees for the Combined Jewish Appeal.

Paul Lalonde, BCom'95, works for London Life in the employee benefits division as an associate director; he is working to become a director in 1997.

Stacey R. Leavitt, BCom'96, has moved to Toronto, where she works at an advertising agency called The BrainStorm Group.

Daniel Schiff, BCom'96, is now working for Goldman Sachs, Investment Bankers, in equity sales force.

Gordon Thomas, BA'40, MD'43, passed away on October 17, 1996. He was a member of many medical organizations and received awards too numerous to mention. His last gift to the Iverness County, Cape Breton community, which he loved so much was his house and 220 acres of land. His granddaughter, Jane Simpson, MScA'90, and his great-niece, Rachel Smith, are presently at McGill.

Capt. Robert E. Mitchell, MD'47, was honoured for his outstanding aeromedical career by being the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Naval Aerospace Medicine Award, a new award inaugurated by the Society of U.S. Naval Flight Surgeons. Henceforth the award will be known as the Capt. Robert E. Mitchell Lifetime Achievement in Aerospace Medicine Award. Capt. Mitchell has spent 43 years in active service and 6 years in emeritus service, and has received many awards and honours during those years.

Anthony Dobell, BSc'49, MD'51, was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He is also a professor emeritus at McGill.

Marie-Genevieve Lane, BA'51, MD'55, is a community pediatrician in Farnham, Surrey. She was a 1997 nominee for the U.K. Woman of Europe Award.

Richard Margolese, MD'60, has been named to the Order of Canada. He is a leading expert on breast cancer and is chief of the JGH Department of Oncology, professor of Surgery at McGill and holds the Herbert Black Chair in Surgical Oncology at McGill. In addition he is chairman of the Surgical Committee of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project and a member of numerous other national associations.

Faye Wakeling, Dip P&OT'61, BTh'77, STM'79, was recently featured in an article in the Montreal Gazette entitled Women to Watch in '97. She was noted for her work with St. Columba House, an outreach mission of the United Church of Canada. St. Columba House is home to several groups and programs including head start programs for children and parents, a women's discussion group, a collective kitchen, a community journal, adult education, and welfare rights. The Montreal Council of Women recently honoured her as a Woman of the Year.

Bluma Goldberg, DipOT'63, is a program director with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Alberta North Central Region. She completed an MSc in occupational therapy, psychosocial, at the University of Alberta in November 1996.

Joel Rosen, BSc'64, MD'68, was appointed director of Professional Services at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital, where he is Chief of the Department of Opthalmology.

Mary-Anne (Palmer) Findlay, BScN'71, has been a magistrate (Justice of the Peace) in the county of Dorset, England, since 1992. In 1995 she was appointed to the Dorset Magistrates, Courts Committee. Since graduation she has held various nursing teaching positions in Canada. She has taught anatomy and physiology at the Heretaunga College, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, and is now studying for a Diploma of Homeopathy with the British Institute of Homeopathy.

Peter Small, BSc'67, MD'71, has been appointed associate director of Professional Services at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital, where he is presently chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology.

Peter G. Bernad, BSc'70, MD'74, is a neurologist based in Washington, D.C. His son Daniel now studies at McGill.

Sheldon Elman, BSc'72, MD'74, is the Chairman of TeleMedisys, a company that is developing a device that works through the phone line and computer at the hospital, Monitored by a nurse to keep track of heart disease patients from their homes. The company is also looking into a monitor for asthma patients and for high risk pregnancies.

Ghislaine Prata, B(OT)'74, has been appointed executive director of the Constance Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre in Montreal, Quebec.

Margaret A. Drickamer, MD'81, has received one of VA Connecticut Health Care System's most prestigious awards, the Secretary's "Hands and Heart" Award. This is awarded to the caregiver who demonstrates the most dedicated, professional and compassionate patient care. She is presently the Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics and Extended Care at VA, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine.

G. B. Brock, BSc'81, MD'86, and colleagues garnered the first and second prizes in the basic science section of the Annual Quebec Urological Association Meeting in Montreal.

Liane Philpotts, BSc'84, MD'88, is Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is married to J. Grant Thompson and has two children, Paisley and Cameron.

Christina Echols, BSc(PT)'92, is a physiotherapist in Kenora, Ontario. She is still involved with competitive swimming at the master's level. She will begin the MBA program at the University of Western Ontario next year.

Stella Andonatos, MD'93, Married Dr. Duncan Schellenberg on July 27, 1996. She is working in Waswanipi, Quebec, for the Cree Health Board, doing rural family medicine.

Suzanne Bois, BSc(P&OT)'94, is working on replacement contracts in public system rehabilitation. She lives in Verdun, Quebec.

Johanne Champigny, BSc(P&OT)'94, works at North Country Hospital in Newport, Vermont. She and her husband are building a house.

Marcia Lisa Dennis, BSc(P&OT)'94, is working three jobs while she initiates "Pastoral Animation," a church-based Occupational Therapy program. She has been traveling across Canada and in California, giving talks to teens.

Stephanie Kovacs, BSc(PT)'94, works at Jean-Talon Hospital in Quebec. She travelled to Italy last spring.

Sandra Lee, BSc(OT)'94, is chair of the Alberta Association of Registered Occupational Therapists Promotions Committee. She is also on their marketing committee and is working as an occupational therapist at the Workers' Compensation Board Rehabilitation Centre.

Sally Tong, BScN'94, is doing an MSc in Nursing at the University of British Columbia.

Florian P. Thomas, PhD'95, has received a three-year Veterans Administration Merit Award in the amount of U.S. $300,000 for his study of the neurobiological properties of HIV-1 gene products, using transgenic mouse technology. This study is being conducted at the Institute for Molecular Virology of St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Wanda Kaluzny, BMus'76,MA'85, is conductor of the Montreal Chamber Orchestra. She recently released a new CD, Suites for Strings, on the SNE label.

Michael Maxwell, LMus'88, Concert Dip'90, BMus'95, a clarinetist, performs in Montreal as a solo recitalist and as an orchestra musician. He has appeared in the McGill Alumni Concert Series and also plays regularly with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit. He has toured in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

Daniel Costello, BMus'91, was recently appointed co-principal horn of La Camerata, a chamber orchestra in Athens, Greece.

Maria Anna Harley, PhD'94, was appointed to the dual position of Director of the Polish Music Reference Centre, and Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature at the School of Music, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Tracy Pratt, BMus'94, has moved to Vancouver with her husband and two children, Benjamin, aged 2, and Jonathan, aged 1. She is a member of the B.C. Registered Music Teachers' Association and teaches piano at home.

Sooka Wong, BMus'95, is a pianist and performs in and around the Montreal area.

John Craig Fair, BTh'94, was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry in March 1996. He is serving in Aylmer, Quebec, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.

Jane Webster, BTh'94, is in a doctoral program in religious studies at McMaster University in Hamilton.

Rudolph A. Marcus, BSc'43, PhD'46, DSc'88, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, is a Nobel Laureate Scientist. He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1992. He was interviewed in the current issue of Veery (#6), an exclusive literary journal based in Chicago and distributed around the world.

David Culler, BSc'47, LLD'89, received the Award of Merit from B'nai Brith Canada, which recognizes outstanding individuals "who have played a significant role in shaping our society." He is chairman of CAI Capital Corporation.

John Gareau, BSc'52, has been appointed director to the Board of Saxon Petroleum Inc., which is based in Calgary, Alberta.

Sandra Freedman Witelson, BSc'60, MScAppl'62, PhD'66, Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University, Hamilton, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of her scientific study of brain-behaviour relationships.

John Spiro, PhD'63, received a BSc with High Distinction from the University of Toronto, where he majored in computer science. He works in the U of T Chemistry department as a consultant on numerical analysis and scientific programming.

Paul S. Echenberg, BSc'64, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Schroders & Associates, Canada Inc. He was formerly President and CEO of Twinpak Inc. and Executive Vice-president of CB Pak Inc. Most recently he was involved in investment banking and financial advisory activities through Eckvest Equity Inc., which he founded.

Evelyne Hausen, BSc'65, released Human History at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here? The book argues that to increase the survival chances of the human race we must free ourselves from government, religion, and big business. She is a professor in the department of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Shree Mulay, MSc'66, PhD'69, was recently featured in the Montreal Gazette article titled Women to Watch in '97. She is the director of the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women. She is also a clinical biochemist at the Royal Victoria Hospital and an associate professor in the department of experimental medicine at McGill. She is an expert in the field of health issues in the developing world and is also a member of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.

Albert Rabinovitch, BSc'66, MSc'69, was recently appointed to the College of American Pathologists Commission on Laboratory Accreditation as a checklist commissioner. He previously served as Chair on the College's Hematology and Clinical Microscopy Resource Committee. He received his medical degree from State University of New York, and is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He and his wife, Shelly, and child, Kevin, live in Kinnelon, New Jersey.

David Zussman, BSc'68, PhD'75, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the KPMG Centre for Government Foundation. He is President of the Public Policy Forum, Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the Faculty of Administration, and Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Ottawa. He has held many positions within the federal public service, Most recently serving as the Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Program Review and Machinery of Government.

Norman Pinsky, BSc'73, and Barbara have a sixth child: William was born on January 14, 1997, and is brother to Ian, Andrew, Jonathan, Adam and Tova.

Mike Schofield, BScAgr'74, has accepted a position as European Technology Manager in the newly formed company, BetzDearborn. He and his wife, Sharon, have moved from the Stockholm area to Helsingborg, Sweden, where they expect to stay for the next two or three years.

Maryvonne Bouvry, BSc(Agr)'80, MSc'84, is a marketing manager in France.

Josée Charest, BSc'85, is a research agent with the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, Based in Montreal. She works mainly on statistics and analysis of granted projects.

Alison Sahoo, BSc'85, is Director of Business Development for a manufacturer of medical and aesthetic laser systems. In this position she is responsible for establishing strategic relationships worldwide with providers of medical services. She is currently working with several groups in Canada to establish the country's first laser hair removal clinics.

Andrew Coulson, BSc'89, has been appointed Director, Internet Customer Unit and Regions, Microsoft Canada Inc. He will be responsible for guiding Microsoft Canada's strategy regarding Internet applications and tools, as well as the overall sales efforts in the regional offices located in different locations across Canada. He has more than 12 years experience in the software industry and has been with Microsoft Canada for just over four years.

Valerie Des Bois, MScA'89, is a speech therapist in Montreal.

John Clive Spiegel, BSc'91, received an MD from the Université Laval in Quebec City in June 1996. He married Jacqueline Hattem on May 26, 1996. As of July 1, 1997, he will be in the dual-boarded Residency Training Program in Neurology and Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.

Kieran F. Dowd, BSc'92, graduated from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1996. He is now in an internship/residency program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey, affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Melina (Murray) Thibodeau, BSc'93, was married on July 13, 1996, to Robert Thibodeau. A son, Isaac James, was born on November 6, 1996. She will graduate from Dalhousie University Medical School in May 1997.

Monica Bienefeld, BSc'94, recently completed a master's degree in epidemiology at Queen's University. She is currently enrolled in the epidemiology PhD program at the University of Toronto.

Daniel Kehler, BSc'94, is completing an MSc in spatial ecology and predictive models at Acadia.

Chantale Ménard, BSc(FSc)'94, completed an MSc at the University of Toronto. In October 1996 she married Aaron Nadeau (DipAgr'94). They live in Vermont where, after spending a year farming in New Zealand, Aaron works on the Nadeau family farm.

Andrea Thöni, BSc'94, is completing her studies in undergraduate medicine at McMaster and plans a post graduate specialty in either family medicine or pediatrics.

Heather W. Felton, BSc'95, is a computer specialist and is married to Philippe Felton, BEng'93. They live in Toronto.

Ahal Haddad, BSc'95, completed his McGill MBA in May 1997. He was married in Lebanon on August 10, 1996.

Machamad Arief Soendjoto, MSc'96, is a lecturer in the Faculty of Forestry, Lambung Mangkurat University, Indonesia.

Marion Kerans, BSW'49, has written a biography of Muriel Ball Duckworth, BA'29, LLD'84, published by Fernwood Publishing Co. Ltd., in Halifax. The book has been on the Nova Scotia bestsellers list, and has had successful launches across the country, from Halifax to Vancouver.

Felicia Carmelly, MSW'69, has recently published a book, Shattered! 50 Years of Silence: History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria. The book presents a history of the events in Romania from WWI to the present, and includes previously unpublished government documents, original testimonies, and poetry. She is a psychologist in Toronto.

Penny Shtull, BSW'82, is an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Trinity College in Burlington, Vermont. She has received a PhD in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York.

Sherri-Anne Rennie, BSW'93, was married in September to Robert Everitt. She lives in Montreal and works with Batshaw Youth and Family Centres in the Department of Youth Protection.

Jocelyne Morin, BSW'94, MSW'95, is a missionary. In 1995-96 she was a spiritual studies student at Milltown in Dublin. Since June 1996 she has been an Advisor for women's organizations in Mwanza, Tanzania.