Promod Haque, Dean Julio M. Ottino, and Warren Haug

Dean Julio M. Ottino (center) celebrates at the Northwestern Alumni Association 2006 Alumni Awards Banquet with awardees from the McCormick School. Promod Haque (left) (MS '74, Kellogg '83) received an Alumni Merit Award in recognition of his highly successful career as a venture capitalist. Haque has appeared three times on Forbes magazine's annual "Midas List" of top-10 dealmakers. Warren Haug (right) (MS '63, PhD '65) received an Alumni Service Award in recognition of his service to McCormick and Northwestern. After a distinguished 30-year career at Procter & Gamble, Haug returned to Northwestern as an adjunct professor. He is a life member of the McCormick Advisory Council.

Class Notes

1940s

James H. Pomerene ('42) has received the Eckert-Mauchly Award from the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society for innovations in computer architecture.

Lester Crown ('46), chairman of Material Service Corporation, has sold the company to Hanson PLC for $300 million in cash. Crown was ranked 54th in Chicago magazine's "Annotated Forbes 400" list.

1950s

John Peavey ('57), owner of Flat Top Sheep Ranch in Idaho, was profiled in Range magazine.

H.Perry H. Driggs Jr. ('59) has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Michigan Heritage Bancorp.

1960s

George J. Zanotti ('62) is president and owner of Financial Objectives Group, an investment advising firm in Bloomingdale.

Dennis Chookaszian ('65) has been named to the board of directors of LoopNet.

Michael Moses (MS '65, PhD '68), an associate professor of management at New York University's Stern School of Business, in April was recognized by the Investments Management Consultants Association with the 2006 IMCA Journalism Award.

Dwight Beranek ('68) has been named vice president and operations manager for Michael Baker Jr., an engineering unit of Michael Baker Corporation in Alexandria, Virginia.

John E. Anderson ('69, '74) was recently promoted to technology fellow at CH2M Hill in Oakland , where he serves as global geotechnical and foundation discipline lead. He is also president-elect of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

1970s

Alfred Eckert III ('71) was the subject of an article in the March 6 Pensions and Investments about how he built his private equity and debt investing firm GSC Partners.

Richard Sevcik ('71) has retired as executive vice president and director of Xilinx.

Yoshio Aoki (MS '72, PhD '76), president and chief executive officer of Optware Corporation, has been interviewed by the media about the company's new Holographic Versatile Disc, a single-beam holography system.

Richard W. Gochnauer ('72) chief executive officer of United Stationers, was number 53 on Crain Chicago Business's list of the "Fortunate 100" top-compensated chief executive officers at Chicago-area companies in 2005.

A. Gerson Greenburg (PhD '72) has become vice president of medical affairs at Massachusetts-based Biopure Corporation.

James Cornfeld ('74) has joined the Buckingham Family of Financial Services as an investment adviser.

Promod Haque (MS '74, PhD '76) was number 62 on Forbes magazine's "Midas List" of venture capitalists.

Mary T. Klinefelter ('75) has joined Prairie State College in Chicago Heights as dean of business and technology.

Aristides Patrinos (PhD '75) has been named president of Synthetic Genomics in Rockville, Maryland.

Kevin J. Gross ('77) has joined the Pennsylvania-based hospital management company Universal Health Services as senior vice president and president of the acute care division.

David Speer ('77), chief executive officer of Illinois Tool Works, was number 80 on Crain's Chicago Business's list of the "Fortunate 100" top-compensated chief executive officers at Chicago-area companies in 2005.

John C. Ziegert ('78), president of Tetra Precision, holds the Timken Company Chair in Automotive Design and Development at Clemson University.

Kathleen Flaherty (PhD '79) is a nonexecutive director to the board of Inmarsat.

Larry Schessel ('79) has been appointed chief technology officer for NexTone Communications in Gaithersburg , Maryland.

1980s

Mark R. Jicka ('82) is managing director for North American corporate credit trading for Barclays Bank.

Joseph Rencis ('82), professor and head of mechanical engineering at the University of Arkansas, has received the 2006 James L. Meriam Service Award from the mechanics division of the American Society of Engineering Education. He also serves as vice chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' department heads committee for the United States.

Christian Cabou ('83, L '90) has joined San Diego-based Illumina, a provider of genetic analysis tools, as senior vice president and general counsel.

William Schonberg (MS '83, PhD '87), chair of the civil, architectural, and environmental engineering department at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named the interim dean of UMR's School of Engineering.

James N. White ('85) is the managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures and has joined the board of Shutterfly, an online photo service.

Ajay Bansal ('85) has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer of Tercica, a biopharmaceutical company based in Brisbane, California.

Ruby Chandy ('85) is president of marketing at Thermo Electron Corporation and has been named to the board of directors of Idex Corporation.

Jeffrey M. Summers ('87) has joined Savo Group as a senior vice president of marketing.

1990s

Robert. G. Abboud ('90), president and chief executive officer of RGA Labs, is the village president of Barrington Hills, Illinois.

Michael Maley (MS '90) has joined Connecticut-based Fuel Tech as senior vice president for international business development and project execution.

Matt McCall (MS '92) is a venture capitalist with Portage Venture Partners and has launched a blog, VC Confidential (www.vcconfidential.com).

Tim Noffke ('92), vice president of the life sciences division of the Burr Ridge, Illinois, consulting firm Integrated Project Management, was interviewed by Crain's Chicago Business about the redesign of the company's web site.

James Brailean (PhD '93), cofounder and chief executive officer of Packet Video, was recently honored with the Mobile Entertainment Forum's annual Special Recognition Award for his pioneering work in developing mobile video.

Kok Hoo Yeap (PhD '93), a software designer in Fremont, California, became a U.S. citizen during the Bay Area's largest Independence Day naturalization event.

Eugene Inseok Chong ('94), a principal at Oracle in Nashua, New Hampshire, received the Best Industrial Paper Award at the 22nd Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Data Engineering in April.

Brian Wee (MS '95) has been promoted to project management office administrative director at the National Ecological Observatory Network in Washington, D.C.

Cory Daehn ('96) was recently named director of information technology architecture for Chicago-based Navigant Consulting.

Michael Ellsworth ('96) has been named to the board of directors of Schmitt Industries.

Daryl Morey ('96) has been named assistant general manager of the NBA's Houston Rockets.

Brad Kinsey (MS '98, PhD '01), a University of New Hampshire mechanical engineering professor, was one of 10 people worldwide to receive the Society of Automotive Engineers International's Ralph R. Teetor Education Award this year.

David Smith ('98) was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio , losing to Mike DeWine in the May primary.

2000s

Robert Wolcott (MS '01, PhD '02) was quoted in an article in Crain's Chicago Business about how Motorola's early-stage accelerator teams review three new ideas a day and 1,000 a year.

Charles Goodall ('02) has been promoted to divisional vice president of pharmacy technology services for Walgreen Co.

Jay Goyal ('03) was a Democratic candidate for state representative in Ohio.

David P. Cerra ('04) recently joined Reedsburg, Wisconsin-based Sound Devices, an audio manufacturer, as an electrical engineer.

In memoriam

Paul A.R. Redmann '30

James M. Mitchelhill '34

Jack R. Halvorsen '45

Paul W. Stade Jr. '45

Robert W. Heinze '47

Patrick W. O'Brien '47

Leonard Fergin '48

Robert H. Johnson Jr. '48

Donald W. Dooley '49

Charles S. Houha '49

Kenneth B. Cox '51

William H. Rux '51

John K. Cottingham '54

Endrick Noges '54, MS '56, PhD '59

Price Forsythe '56

Robert E. Hulse '56

Sherman H. Janke '56, '75

Theodore A. Rodgers '57

Arthur M. Schulz '59

Richard N. Daniels '61

Stephen V. Pizzica '62

Michael Elliott '63

Meldon Human '75

Carl E. Grad Jr. '76

William J. Spyhalski '85

Thomas P. Kisala '90