1980-1989

1980

Bruce A. Spann, Eng ’80, founded Spann & Associates LLC, a civil engineering design and construction management services firm. In September 2007 the firm moved to the Historic King Drive Business Improvement District in Milwaukee.

1981

Thomas P. Bredemann, Bus Ad ’81, was awarded the Graduate Realtor® Institute designation. In his home state of Illinois, less than 10 percent of the 61,000-member Illinois Association of Realtors® has earned this designation.

James M. Daly, III, Bus Ad ’81, was elected president of the Lake Villa District Library Board of Trustees. He was appointed to the board in March 2003 and elected to a full term in April 2003. Since May 2003, he served as treasurer of the library. Under his direction the library foundation more than doubled its net worth. The foundation’s funds support literacy programs in the district.

Richard J. Freeman, Jour ’81, is the pitching coach for the Rutgers University baseball team, which won the 2007 Big East championship and competed in the Division I regional tournament in Charlottesville, Va. The Scarlet Knights tied a school record in 2007 with 42 victories.

Kay Nord Hunt, Law ’81, was elected to the board of directors of Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg PA, a litigation, business and entertainment law firm with offices in Minnesota; Hudson, N.Y.; and New York City.

Ann K. Maher, Arts ’81, Law ’88, was elected to a third term as vice president of the board of directors at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek SC in Milwaukee. She is vice president of the firm’s litigation department.

Brian C. Wensel, Bus Ad ’81, was promoted to senior vice president, production finance, motion picture group at Paramount Pictures Corp. His wife, Emily (Kittler) Wensel, Sp ’82, works at NBC Universal. They reside in Burbank, Calif.

1983

Reunion Year

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1984

Timothy F. Freer, Arts ’84, was appointed by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a superior court judge for Riverside County, Calif. He was a deputy district attorney for the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office from 1987-89.

1985

Colleen (Murray) Boland, Bus Ad ’85, accepted an appointment as a visiting professor of accounting at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich.

James D. Lowder, Arts ’85, is the editor of the recently released Hobby Games: The 100 Best (Green Ronin Publishing), a collection of essays by 100 top game designers and publishers on the most interesting and enjoyable role-playing games, card games, board games and war games of the past 50 years.

1986

Kathleen (Rath) Marr, Ph.D., Grad ’86, Grad ’00, was appointed division chair of natural sciences at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis. She has been at Lakeland for 20 years and is a full professor of biology.

1987

David T. Finigan, Bus Ad ’87, is a controller with Hines, a full-service real estate development and property management firm in Chicago with more than 100 million square feet of office space under management throughout the United States and international locations.

Michael T. Jakubowski, Sp ’87, is in his fourth season as the public address announcer for the Marquette Golden Eagles men’s basketball team. He also taught television production and direction for the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication during the Spring 2007 semester and serves on the board for the Diederich College of Communication Alumni Association. He owns MJ Worldwide, Integrated Sports Marketing, Game and Event Production, and travels around the country to contribute his expertise at various events. In his spare time, he is road manager for Los Straitjackets, musicians who perform wearing Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling masks.

1988

Reunion Year

Timothy R. Low, Arts ’88, was named vice president of marketing at eProject in Seattle. He is in charge of product go-to-market strategy and execution, marketing operations, demand generation, corporate branding, and communications for the rapidly growing company.

Marcia (Smith) Niedringhaus, Arts ’88, was recognized in the St. Louis Business Journal with 24 other women as the Most Influential Business Women in St. Louis, Mo. Winners were selected for their career achievements.