1943
Charles M. Gervig (BS Public Affairs) is president and owner of systems Service, Inc., a data processing-bookkeeping business that he started in 1955. During his 40 years of successful operation, the business has moved from using punch cards for accounting and bookkeeping to mini computers. He has been scaling down the business and now plans to retire fully, after celebrating his 74th birthday in August. Congratulation on both events.1959
John Lassiter (BS Statistical Economics), president and chief executive officer of Financial Designs of Illinois, Inc., and employee benefit consulting firm, has been elected to the Advocate Health Care board of directors. Advocate Health Care was formed when EHS Health Care and Lutheran General Health Systems merged in January, becoming one of the largest health care organizations in the Chicago area. Lassiter served on the former EHS board and has been on Trinity Hospital's (on the Chicago South Side) since 1974. Lassiter is a chartered life underwriter and a chartered financial consultant. He has won several awards from The Prudential and is a Qualifying and Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table. | Lassiter, on his yearly visit to campus as on of the Emerson Cammack Insurance Series lecturers. |
1963
Darrell J. Oyer (BS Accountancy), president of his own consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia, has been appointed to the board of directors of Holston Defense Corporation, a subsidiary of Eastman chemical.1964
Richard A. Romer (BS Accountancy) is president of Romer & Castiglia CPA, P.C. in West Seneca, New York. He started this practice, which specializes in closely held family owned businesses, in 1992 after twenty-seven years with an international CPA firm.1969
Ronald Moonin (BS Finance), president of Gushen & Moonin CPA's in Trenton, New Jersey, was recently elected a member of the American Arbitration Association.1972
Thomas M. Fitgerald (BS Finance) is the regional president of Mark Twain Bancshares. As such he is president of five Mark Twain banks and the Mark Twain Banks of St. Louis and is a member of the corporate planning group. Fitzgerald began his banking career with Mercantile Bancorporation after graduating from college. In 1983 he joined the Mark Twain Bank. Mr. Fitzgerald resides in St. Louis with his wife Deborah and two daughters.1973
Michael W. Babcock (PhD, MA '71 Economics), professor
of economics at Kansas State University, was part of the Governor's
Railroad Working Group appointed by Kansas Governor Bill Graves
to develop a position on the merger of the Burlington Northern
Railroad and the Santa Fe Railroad. Based on the work of the
committee the governor has approved the merger. Babock is nationally
recognized for his research on the railroad industry, specifically,
and the transportation industry , in general.
Behram J. Hansotia (PhD Management Science) was appointed senior
vice president-strategic services for Infoworks, a database marketing
consultancy and agency, this past March. Infoworks is a new division
of Omnicom Inc. And Rapp Collins Worldwide with two offices, in
Chicago and Toronto. Hansotia heads up the strategic analysis
practice in Chicago.
1974
David C. Stranger (BS Finance) is the senior credit manager for Copper and Brass Sales, Inc., in Schaumburg. He began work in this new position in July. Stranger continues to participate in wheelchair basketball as a member of the Chicago Wheelchair Bulls. His interest and participation in this sport began when he was a student on the U of I campus.1977
George Repa (BS business Administration) and his wife Donna announce the birth of identical twin boys, Joseph Gregory and Michael George, on May 12, 1995. Congratulations to the proud and busy parents. George is CEO at Lincoln County Health Facilities in Tennessee, a position he has held since 1991. He earned and MHA from Duke University in 1981. The family resides in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Donna has closed her practice in speech pathology to devote herself to her new career as a mother.1982
Steve Owens (BS Accountancy) was admitted into the partnership at Price Waterhouse in July 1995. He is principal in the Management Consulting Services Group with responsibilities for large systems implementation projects in the products industry.Richard Ruebe (MBA Finance, BS '72 Accountancy) joined Interlake Material Handling Division as vice president, finance, in May 1995. Rich is evaluating several financial processes and invites fellow alumni to call him with information about the benchmarking of processes. His number is 708-719-7020. Rich, his wife Kim, and three daughters live in Arlington Heights.
Jordon S. Zoot (BS Accountancy) is managing partner of Jordan
s. Zoot & Co., CPAs in New York City. He left Arthur Andersen
as a tax partner in September 1995 to establish his own firm,
which will concentrate in taxation, technology applications, and
corporate finance for real estate industry related companies.
1983
Ron Coleman (BS Accountancy) became chief financial officer at the Hitchcock Chair Co., Ltd., in Riverton, Connecticut, this past July.1984
Daniel P. Doheny (BS Accountancy) was promoted to partner at KPMG Peat Marwick LLP in Chicago in July. He is a partner in the Manufacturing, Retailing, and Distribution Group. He is partner-in-charge of transportation in the Midwest. Doheny served two terms on the University of Illinois Alumni Association Board and is a member of the Presidents Council.
Tony Testolin (BS Accountancy) was promoted to controller of the
Ball Seed company and its parent company, the Ball Horticultural
Company, in June. On May 13, 1995, he married Lisa Filippelli.
The couple resides in LaGrange, Illinois.
1985
Jeffery R. Holmquist (BS Accountancy & Organizational Behavior) was appointed strategic initiative manager at Sears Roebuck & Co. This past February. In November 1994, Jeff and his wife Lisa (also and Illini) welcomed a new daughter, Christine Teresa. They also have a son, Benjamin David, who was born in December 1991. The family lives in Chicago.David Von Nirschl (BS Marketing) is an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission in the bureau of Competition, Division of Compliance, in Washing, D.C.
Mark E. Whoar (PhD, MS '82 Economics), professor of economics
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha was appointed the Distinguished
Lucas Professor, effective July 1995. Wohar joined the Nebraska
faculty in 1990. He has also taught at the University of Miami
and spent a year at the Treasury Department in Washington. Wohar
has published widely in scholarly journals in the areas of domestic
and international macroeconomics, international finance, monetary
theory, financial institutions, and applied econometrics. In
1994 he was awarded the university-wide Distinguished Research
and Creative Activity award and was made the business school's
first Research Fellow.
1986
Scott Davis (BS Marketing) has been promoted from principal to
partner at Kucsmarski & Associates, Include, a Chicago-based
consulting firm. Davis specializes in market strategy development,
brad equity strategy and management, and planning new products
and business growth. Davis, who earned an MBA at Northwestern
has lectured at several universities, including Kellogg and Chicago,
and has been consulted by several periodicals, including the Wall
Street Journal, USA Today, and Crain's small Business Advisor.
Deborah Full (BS Marketing) joined the McDonald's Corporation as senior project manager-national marketing in February 1995. She is responsible for promotion campaigns targeted at the adult market. Recent campaigns include the "Batman forever" tie-in and CD/cassette promotion with Garth Books. Before joining McDonald's , Full spent eight years with DDB Needham, most recently as a vice president, accounts supervisors.
Colleen McGarry (BS Business Administration) has been promoted
to associate director at the American Society of Healthcare Materials
Management, effective July 1995. Before this appointment, she
was assistant director for a year and a half. McGarry is also
enrolled in the MBA program at the University of Chicago.
1987
Darrell Butler (BS Finance) and Marci (Ginsberg)Butler (BS Accountancy report the birth of their first child, daughter Rachel Dominique, in March. Darrell is director of mergers and acquisitions at Geneva Capital Markets, and investment bank in Chicago.Alan Dodds (MAS, BA '85 Finance) and his wife are the proud parents of a daughter, Caroline, born on August 13. The couple also have a three year old son Benjamin. Alan is vice president of distribution for American Software & Hardware in Urbana
Alexander Popovich (BS Accountancy) was promoted to controller
at Signode Container Industry, a $60 million division of Illinois
Tool works. He and his wife Betsy (BA Language '87) live in Palatine
and will be celebrating their third anniversary in November.
1990
Gerald D. Callahan (BS Marketing) accepted a position as director of information technology at Davenport College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this past June. Previously he was with AT&T Global Information Solutions and U.S. Signal. In 1993 Callahan earned and MBA from Western Michigan University.
Gregory Kurth (BS Finance) joined the Child Care Association of
Illinois as a policy analyst. This association represents private
child welfare services. Responsibilities include overseeing financial/contractual
relationships with the Illinois DCFS and the state's movement
toward managed care for behavioral health services. Before taking
this position, Kurth was a commercial lending officer at LaSalle
National Bank
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1991
Jeffrey A. Miller (BS Accountancy) is a senior accountant with Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Arlington Heights. In June 1994 he married Pam Matusik, and this fall he will be attending law school at ITT Chicago Kent to study corporate law and tax.
Susan Ridlin (MBA Finance, BS '86 Accountancy) and her husband
Mark became the parents of twin sons in April 1995. The twins
join and older brother. Susan is a treasury manager at Eli Lilly
and Company. The family resides in Carmel, Indiana.
1992
John C. Lee (MS Accountancy) is a senior systems analyst with Ernst & Young LLP in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.1993
Dennis R. Barbeau (MBA) accepted a position as senior program manager in the Technology Department at the General Electric Corporate Headquarters in Cleveland this past spring. His responsibilities include management of high priority, large-budget equipment programs. Barbeau wrote glowingly of the Illinois Executive MBA program with "provided me the resources to obtain the advancement and compensation I desired when I entered the program."1994
Shia Min Liew (MBA Finance & Marketing), a financial analyst for the General Electric Company, married Fangping Chung on June 2nd. Fangping plans to open a coffee house soon. The couple resides in Ottawa, Illinois.
Traci C. Su (MS Taxation, BS '93 Accountancy) started law school
at New York University in August.
1995
Roger Bartos (BS Accountancy) is a specialty consultant with Arthur Andersen in St. Louis. Since joining the company this past winter he has worked with insurance, real estate, mutual funds, and government clients. He writes that he is busy, but very pleased with his work.
Paul Gartner (MBA Finance) began work as a financial analyst for
ISSC, a subsidiary of IBM, this past June. He lives in Marlyand Heights.
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