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December 1999
- Robin Richards, '78, president and CEO of MP3.com,
Inc., one of the largest music providers on the Internet, and also
president and CEO of Lexi International.
- Scott Herron, MD '90, a team physician for the
Orlando Magic professional basketball team and also a reconstructive
knee fellow at the Jewett Clinic, Orlando, FL.
- Paul Peoples, '43, former faculty member and Hall
of Fame member of MSU's School of Packaging, winner of the 1999 MSU
Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
- Greg Kelser, '79, captain of MSU's 1979 NCAA Championship
team and now one of the most prominent "color" announcers
in both college and NBA basketball telecasts.
November 1999
- Anson Carter, '96, star forward for the Boston
Bruins in the National Hockey League and former MSU star, captain
and Hobey Baker candidate.
- Pat Slaven, '78, heads the Chemical & Textiles
department of the Consumers Union national testing lab in Yonker,
NY, which supplies the information reported in Consumers Reports.
- Mark Mazzoleni, '80, is the hockey coach for
the Harvard Crimson, a hockey program that began in 1895 and boasts
16 NCAA tournament appearances.
- Stacey Davis, '93, director of publicity for
NBC Studios in Burbank, CA, is the top publicist for such television
shows as The Roseanne Show and Hollywood Squares.
- Dan Burg, '80, an intellectual property attorney
in Chicago, is the national secretary of America's MENSA, the High
IQ society open only to the top 2 percent of population.
September 1999
- Anthony Heald, '70, longtime actor on Broadway,
in film, and now with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Heald is
best known for portraying Dr. Frederick Chilton in The Silence
of the Lambs (1991) and for his roles in three John Grisham
movies, The Pelican Brief (1993), The Client (1994),
and A Time to Kill (1996).
- Mike Lobell, '62, is one of Hollywood leading
film producers, with hits like Striptease, It Could
Happen To You, Honeymoon in Vegas, and The Freshman
in his extensive filmography.
- Dale Petroskey, '78, a senior executive with
National Geographic and longtime political operative in Washington
DC, is now president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,
NY.
- Chad Everett, who played Dr. Joe Gannon in Medical
Center from 1969-76, starred in more than 36 movies and 22
television shows. He was Raymond Crampton when he attended MSU in
1956.
August 1999
- Martha Cobb-Coates, '67, second grade teacher,
Winans Elementary School, Waverly Community Schools, Lansing, won
the Crystal Apple Award given by MSU's Dept. of Education, their alumni
association and the Richard Lee Featherstone Society.
- Karen Stys Raketich, '90, principal international
marketing analyst for The Timken Co., Canton, OH, has been named market
development manager for Latin America in The Timken Company's North
and South America Bearing Business Group.
- Francine Tompkins, '72, M.A. '79, Ph.D. '89, associate
professor and chair of the education program at University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay, has been named the first director of the Institute for Learning
Partnership at UW-Green Bay.
- Milton Pugsley, '49, retired president of Chrysler
Pentastar Aviation, Detroit, has won the 1998 John P. "Jack"
Doswell Award for lifelong individual achievements in business aviation.
July 1999
- Gregory Hauser, '75, M.A. '77, a member of the
law firm of Walter, Conston, Alexander, and Green, New York City,
was recently elected president of the National Interfraternity Conference,
Indianapolis, IN.
- Arthur Johnson, '72, president and CEO of United
Bank of Michigan, Grand Rapids, was recently elected president of
the Michigan Bankers Association. In 1988, he was named "Financial
Services Advocate of the Year" by the Grand Rapids Area Chamber
of Commerce and "Michigan Financial Services Advocate of the
Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
- Robin Bartlett, M.A. '72, Ph.D. '74, professor
of economics at Denison University, Granville, OH, was named the
1998-99 "Ohio Professor of the Year" by CASE (Council
for the Advancement and Support of Education).
- Lawrence Pobuda, '82, senior vice president of
United Properties Corp., Minneapolis, MN, was recently named one
of the "40 Under 40" top business leaders in the Twin
Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul by CityBusiness Magazine.
May 1999
- Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O. '73, dean of the Ohio
University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, is the first
African American woman to head a medical school in the U.S. She
is also chair of the Ohio Council of Medical School Deans and executive
director of the Institute for National Health Policy and Research.
She is the sister of Diana Ross, lead singer of The Supremes.
- John Kerekes, '73, M.A. '76, is the central region
director for The American Petroleum Institute, Washington D.C. He
was formerly secretary of the MSUAA's National Alumni Board and
president of the MSUAA's Mid-Michigan alumni regional club.
- John Bell, Jr., '67, is head of the FBI's Indianapolis
Division and former chief of the FBI Drug Section, Washington D.C.
In the mid-1990s, he headed the Khobar Towers bombing investigation
in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
- Noelle Schiffer, '90, is director of marketing
for the Original Equipment Supplier Association (OESA), Troy. She
was director of membership for The Engineering Society of Detroit
and she also served as a board member of the Women's Automotive
Association, Detroit Chapter.
- Rodney Armstead, M.D. '82, is the chairman of
the board of L.A. Care Health Plan, a non-profit, publicly-governed
health plan serving the greater Los Angeles, CA, area.
February 1999
- Heather Nabozny, '93, has been named head groundskeeper for
the Detroit Tigers, becoming the first woman to assume that title
in the history of Major League Baseball.
- Morten Andersen, '83, All-Pro kicker with the Atlanta Falcons,
kicked the winning field goal against Minnesota to win the NFC Championship
and lead the Falcons to the 1999 Super Bowl. Andersen holds a half
dozen all-time kicking records in the NFL, as well as the MSU record
for longest field goal (63 yards).
- James Hoffa, '63, son of the legendary Teamsters president,
was elected in December as president of the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters, one of the nation's largest unions with 1.4 million
members. Hoffa played linebacker for Duffy Daugherty in the early
1960s and has been a labor lawyer in Detroit.
- Robert Urich, M.A. '70, stars as the captain in television's
The New Love Boat series on the Fox network. Urich previously
starred in Vegas, Spenser for Hire, Gavilan,
and other television series, as well as many movies.
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