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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 Catherine E. Moritz, AB’70, has spent the past 12 years doing operations-management consulting in public-broadcast organizations and other nonprofits. She would love to hear from anyone who lived at the Quaker Meeting House at 56th and Woodlawn between 1967 and 1970. E-mail her at cathy_moritz@wgbh.org. Reid M. Schwartz, AB’70, AM’74, PhD’81, see 1949, Alfred Schwartz.

71 Gary A. Curtis, AB’71, a senior vice president with the Boston Consulting Group, was named to the company’s executive committee, with worldwide responsibility for BCG’s information technology practice. He and his wife, Rhydonia Ring, live in Orinda, CA.

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

73 John R. Feldman, MBA’73, joined the New York office of Arthur Andersen LLP as managing director in the global structured finance and leasing practice. Georges J. M. Gillet, MBA’73, senior managing partner of Eurofinergy Inc. in Luxembourg, recently moved to Madison, WI, and married Dorothy Yant after a 25-year courtship around the world.

74 John A. Brogan, AB’74, AM’76, heads the outpatient psychiatric services at Palos Community Hospital in suburban Chicago. He lives with his wife, Judith Van Wyk Brogan, AM’76, and three children, Jonathan, 17, Rebecca, 16, and Timothy, 13. Mary S. Knudten, PhD’74, retires June 30 as dean of the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha. Dean since 1981, her accomplishments include the construction of a fine-arts building and increased numbers of female faculty and staff.

75 Drexel University has named Vincent P. Franklin, PhD’75, to a distinguished professorship, recognizing his research on the civil-rights movement. David P. Silverman, PhD’75, curator-in-charge of the Egyptian section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and professor and chair of the Asian and Middle Eastern studies department, received an Athenaeum Literary Award for two books that he organized, edited, and to which he contributed essays—Ancient Egypt and Searching for Ancient Egypt.

76 Mildred L. Culp, AM’74, PhD’76, has developed an Internet presence for “WorkWise,” an audio program about workplace issues syndicated by iSyndicate, Inc. She writes, “You can get a taste of it at workwise.net if you download your RealAudio Player (free) and listen. ‘WorkWise’ is the very first program of its kind launched by iSyndicate, Inc.” Judith Van Wyk Brogan, AM’76, see 1974, John A. Brogan.

77 College alumni, please send your news to: Tony Mayo, AB’77, MBA’78, 10915 Thanlet Lane, Reston, VA 20190-3922. Phone: 703/855-6296 (w). E-mail: tm@mayogenuine.com.

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

Other alumni news includes: John B. Beaty, JD’78, joined Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti as partner. Formerly of counsel, he focuses on advising banks, thrifts, insurance companies, and securities brokers regarding U.S. banking and financial services law.

79 College alumni, please send your news to: James W. Marks, AB’79, Holleb & Coff Ltd., Suite 4000, 55 E. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60603.

Other alumni news includes: The Indianapolis Museum of Art has promoted contemporary art curator Holliday Trentman Day, AM’79, to senior curator of contemporary art. She is now organizing “Crossroads of American Sculpture,” a traveling exhibition that opens in October 2000. Day became the museum’s first curator of contemporary art in 1985; since then, the size of the museum’s contemporary collection has nearly doubled.

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