1970-1979
Cindy (Deegan) Cain, Arts ’70, organized a group of
Marquette alumni from Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo, N.Y.,
to make fleece scarves for students from New Orleans’ universities
who were displaced to Marquette due to Hurricane Katrina.
1971 Reunion year
Sister Mary A. Hoope, BVM, Grad ’71, is a member of
a religious community deeply involved with the poor in Ghana.
They teach, nurse, run orphanages, minister to the less fortunate,
and share a special commitment to the development of poor women.
Michael
E. McClure, Grad ’71, was named chief financial
officer of Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. He has worked for
the company for nearly 30 years and served in virtually every
area of the firm.
Prem S. Sharma, Dent ’71, retired associate dean for
academic affairs and a professor at the Marquette University
School of Dentistry, was appointed to the board for Cardinal
Stritch University in Milwaukee.
Kelly H. Twigger, Law ’71, was named partner at Quarles & Brady
LLP in Milwaukee.
Kathleen A. Gray, Arts ’72, Law ’82,
was selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
in America,
2006 edition. She is a trust and estate attorney at the Milwaukee
office of Quarles & Brady LLP.
Daniel B. McGrath, Jour ’72,
is sports editor at the Chicago Tribune. He was featured
in the July 20, 2005 edition
of the Beverly Review, Beverly, Ill., for visiting a fifth-grade
class at St. Cajetan School, his alma mater, to speak about
how his education there helped to form his career choice.
Russell
J. Stepp, Eng ’72, was named president and chief
executive officer of the management consulting and engineering
firm R.W. Beck Inc. He previously was national director of
the water/waste resources practice in the firm’s Seattle
office.
Terry M. Murphy, Grad ’74, joined A.O.
Smith Corp. as senior vice president and chief executive officer.
Murphy joined
A. O. Smith from Quanex Corporation of Houston, a manufacturer
of engineered materials and components for the automotive and
building products industries.
Kathleen S. Roth, Dent ’74,
was named president-elect of the American Dental Association
at the annual meeting in
Philadelphia. She will be installed as president in October
2006.
Dr. John F. Freihaut, Dent ’75, was appointed to the
health strategies council by Georgia Gov. Sonny Purdue. He
has practiced general dentistry for nearly 30 years and specializes
in oral and maxillofacial surgery. He is a fellow with the
American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and
the American College of Dentists, and a member and former president
of the Georgia Dental Association.
John J. Hallagon, Arts ’75, a fourth-grade teacher at
Magee Elementary School in Genesee Depot, Wis., was named Wisconsin’s
History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History and Preserve America. He received an honorarium
and a core archive of history books and materials was donated
to the school library.
1976 Reunion year
John T. Bannen, Law ’76, was certified
as an estate planning law specialist by the Estate Law Specialist
Board
Inc. The
organization is accredited by the American Bar Association
and affiliated with the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.
He also was selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
in America, 2006 edition. He is a partner at the Milwaukee
office of Quarles & Brady LLP.
Joseph M. Fasi, II, Arts ’76,
joined the Wisconsin law firm of Greenhalgh Krueger Hernandez & Fasi
SC as a member and shareholder. He is managing partner of
the firm’s
Milwaukee office.
David B. Kern, Arts ’76, was selected
by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America,
2006 edition. He
is a labor and employment law attorney in the Milwaukee office
of Quarles & Brady LLP.
Thomas P. McElligott, Arts ’76, Law ’83, was
selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in
America,
2006 edition. He is an environmental law attorney in the
Milwaukee office of Quarles & Brady LLP.
Jane (Selinger)
Michaels, Jour ’76, joined the staff
of The Doings newspaper in Hinsdale, Ill., as a staff writer.
She has worked as a freelance writer for the past 12 years
and from 1978-82 was a municipal reporter for the suburban
edition of the Chicago Tribune.
Mary Pat (Koesterer) Ninneman,
Law ’76, was selected
by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America,
2006 edition. She is a labor and employment law attorney
in the Milwaukee office of Quarles & Brady LLP.
John A.
Rothstein, Arts ’76, Law ’79, was selected
by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America,
2006 edition. He is a commercial litigation attorney in the
Milwaukee office of Quarles & Brady LLP.
Eric J. Van Vugt,
Law ’76, was selected by his peers
for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006 edition.
He is a commercial litigation attorney in the Milwaukee office
of Quarles & Brady LLP.
Todd C. Cozzens, Arts ’77, is the chief executive officer
of Picis, a high-acuity care software company that recently
welcomed former Health and Human Services Secretary and Governor
of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson to its board of directors. Cozzens
co-founded Picis in 1994 and has grown it into a 400-person,
$60 million company that has won numerous awards including
those by Inc. 500, Microsoft, Frost & Sullivan and Healthcare
Informatics. Recently he was named Entrepreneur of the Year
by Ernst and Young.
Margaret (Rudolph) Fehrenbach, Dent Hy ’77,
R.D.H., M.S., published a second edition of Illustrated Dental
Embryology,
Histology, Anatomy (Elsevier). Many of the educational components
of the textbook for dental professionals are also found online.
She is also working on online courses for dental professionals
that are linked from her Web page, www.dhed.net, as well
as a third edition of Illustrated Anatomy of the Head and Neck (Elsevier).
Gary M. Ruesch, Sp ’77, Law ’80,
was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
in America, 2006
edition. He is a labor and employment law attorney in the
Milwaukee office of Quarles & Brady LLP.
John T. Whiting,
Law ’77, a partner at Quarles and Brady
LLP in Madison, Wis., was named a 2005 Wisconsin Super Lawyer.
Law & Politics magazine conducts the poll that identifies
lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition
and professional achievement. He focuses his practice in
the areas of municipal and public finance law.
Joan Biskupic, Jour ’78, wrote Sandra
Day O’Connor:
How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became its Most Influential
Justice, chronicling the life of the recently retired U.S.
Supreme Court justice. She works for USA Today, previously
covered the high court for The Washington Post, wrote for the
Congressional Quarterly, and is often a guest on “Washington
Week with Gwen Ifill.”
William F. Banholzer, Arts ’79,
was named chief technology officer of Dow Chemical. Previously,
he was vice president
of global technology at GE Advanced Materials.
John J. Pfeifer, Jour ’79, was named president and publisher
of Northern Lakes Publishing in Rhinelander, Wis. Northern
Lakes publishes the Rhinelander Daily News, the weekly Forest
Republican in Crandon and the monthly Business Watch. He moved
to Rhinelander from La Crosse where he had been employed as
regional advertising director for the River Valley Newspaper
Group since 2000.
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