What’s the news? We are always eager to receive your news at the Magazine, care of the Class News Editor, University of Chicago Magazine, 1313 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, or by e-mail: uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. No engagements, please. Items may be edited for space. As news is published in the order in which it arrives, it may not appear immediately. Please specify the year under which you would like your news to appear. Otherwise, we will list: (1) all former undergraduates (including those who later received graduate degrees) by the year of their undergraduate degree, and (2) all former students who received only graduate degrees by the year of their final degree. .

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70 Barbara Curcic Freeouf, AB'70, MAT'71, of Katonah, NY, was appointed citywide coordinator of teacher education in mathematics, science, and technology. Previously, she was program officer for the Westchester Education Coalition in White Plains. In April, David J. Luban, AB'70, became the Frederick Hass professor of law and philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center, where he moved after 18 years at the University of Maryland. He delivered an inaugural lecture titled "Contrived Ignorance," his reflections on the ethics of deniability. His book Legal Modernism was published in paperback this year, and he was awarded the American Bar Foundation's second annual Keck award and lectureship, honoring his scholarship on legal ethics and professional responsibility. Luban lives in Hyattsville, MD, with his wife, Judith Lichtenberg, a philosopher at the University of Maryland, and children Daniel, 14, and Rachel, 11. He would like to hear from old friends and classmates at luband@law.georgetown.edu. Robert J. Shapiro, AB'70, was recently confirmed by the Senate as under secretary of commerce for economic affairs. He was President Clinton's principal economic adviser in the 1992 campaign and left his position as vice president and cofounder of the Progressive Policy Institute and the Progressive Foundation to join Clinton's administration.

71Henry J. Prevot, MBA'71, is now president and COO for LeSueur Inc. in LeSueur, MN. He has been with the company, which manufactures aluminum castings and does thermoplastic injection molding, since 1987.

72College alumni, please send your news to: Dorthea H. Juul, AB'72, PhD'89, 1115 South Plymouth Court, #302, Chicago, IL 60605. Phone: 847/374-4204 (w). Fax: 847/236-4304. E-mail: djuul@abpn.com.

Other alumni news includes: Randall C. Bailey, AM'72, was recently named to the Andrew W. Mellon chair in biblical studies at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA, where he teaches Old Testament and Hebrew and chairs Area I-Biblical Studies and Languages. Martin Stern, MBA'72, was recently named chair and CEO of FOX Television Stations, Inc. He had been president and COO since 1993.

74 The Class of 1974 celebrates its 25th reunion June 4-6, 1999.

75Stanley W. Biles, AB'75, writes "My B.A. in political science continues to serve me well." He recently celebrated his 20th anniversary in public administration. He is the senior adviser to the commissioner of public lands for Washington. Last year, he was elected to the city council of Olympia, WA. He writes, "Those with political advice may contact me at stanbiles@ aol.com." Robert J. Buford, MBA'75, president and CEO of Planned Realty Group, Inc., has been inducted into the Chicago-area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Law firm Sidley & Austin elected Thomas A. Cole, JD'75, as chair of its executive committee. He is a corporate partner based in Chicago. Centenary College awarded Mark L. Fisch, AM'75, its alumni faculty research grant for student-involved research on the Highland neighborhood in Shreveport, LA. Fisch chairs Centenary's sociology department. Arne J. Selbyg, PhD'75, resigned as professor of sociology at Augustana College in Illinois, and has moved to Chicago to become director for colleges and universities in the division for higher education and schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. John G. Wessel, AB'75, has published his second novel, Pretty Ballerina. (See "Books by Alumni.") Wessel notes that the book features the same characters and settings as his first novel. "There are, however, fewer dead bodies this time around." Charles B. Wolf, JD'75, a partner at Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, was named one of the nation's top 40 employee-benefits attorneys by the National Law Journal.

76Kevin Krisciunas, AM'76, left Hawaii in September 1996 to work on a Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Washington. Having taken two years of course work and passed the qualifying exam and general exam, he is now an official Ph.D. candidate. His research involves the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search. Zarina E. O'Hagin, AB'76, JD'84, was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church on February 7 and serves at the Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer in Hyde Park. She also continues her ministry at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc., by serving as project director of the Lawyers' School Reform Advisory Project and providing pro bono legal services to members of local school councils in the Chicago public schools. In the past three years, she has taken into her household her adolescent nephew and niece, and added a cat to "the household animal contingent," comprised beforehand solely of her dog. E-mail her at zohagin@clccrul.org. Harriet Schwartz Murav, AB'76, AM'77, recently became a full professor of Russian and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis. Her book on Russian law and literature, she says, stemmed from an interest cultivated at the U of C. Married and the mother of four, Murav writes, "Chicago is very much on my mind as my oldest son, Sam, contemplates college applications."

77College alumni-Tony Mayo, AB'77, MBA'78, writes: Karen Spreng Friend, AB'77, of the Arizona Sign Association, earned the certified association executive designation from the American Society of Association Executives. Margaret L. Dudney, AB'77, reports from Atlanta that she earned her J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1985, married Bruce Johnson in 1987, and is now the mother of two children: Moira, 7, and Gregory Thomas, 5. Valerie E. Armstead, AB'77, continues her career as an academic, pediatric anesthesiologist, and basic-science researcher at Thomas Jefferson University. She also mothers two teens and a 9-year-old, massages her husband's ego, and tries to keep up with her hobbies. Armstead has been named to the board of trustees and was voted secretary of the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Burlington County (NJ). This is a private, incorporated, charitable organization of host sites that serve homeless families by giving them living space, food, and counseling with the goal of finding them permanent housing. She now feels closer to being part of the solution.

College alumni, please send your news to: Tony Mayo, AB'77, MBA'78, 10915 Thanlet Lane, Reston, VA 20190-3922. Phone: 703/742-0845 (h). E-mail: tm@mayogenuine.com.

78College alumni, please send your news to: Kent Maynard, AB'78, MBA'81, 2041 W. Dickens Ave., Chicago, IL 60647-4530. E-mail: KMaynard@petersonross.com. Phone: 773/342-5845 (h).

Other alumni news includes: Ann D. Braude, AM'78, associate professor of religious studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, was named director of the women's studies in religion program and senior lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. After three years on the Oregon land-use board of appeals, Peter Livingston, AM'78, returned to Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP, where his practice emphasizes land use, real estate, and administrative law.

79 The Class of 1979 celebrates its 20th reunion June 4-6, 1999. In May, Frederick J. Antczak, AM'76, PhD'79, became an associate dean for academic programs in the liberal-arts college at the University of Iowa. He thanks the people he learned from at Chicago, including David Smiegelskis, Charles Wegner, Robert Streeter, and Wayne Booth. Barbara Epple Schmitter Heisler, AM'76, PhD'79, a sociology professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, was awarded one of the inaugural Berlin Prize fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin. She will live at Hans Arnhold Center, the official residence for Berlin Prize fellows, and do research on local government responses to immigration in Germany. Other fellows include playwright Arthur Miller.