Thomas G. Burish ’72 was named president
of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, the
nation’s ninth-oldest university. He was formerly provost
of Vanderbilt University. . . . James A. Doppke ’57
retired from the presidency of the University of Saint Francis
in Joliet, Illinois. . . . James E. Muller ’65,
Harvard medical researcher and director of clinical cardiology
research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is founder
and president of Voice of the Faithful, a group pushing for reform
of the Catholic church in the wake of the priest sex-abuse scandal.
The organization’s motto is “Keep the faith, change
the church.” . . . Father John Hardin, OFM, ’00MSA
was named executive director of the Saint Anthony Foundation in
San Francisco. The organization is best known for its Free Dining
Room that serves an average of 2,000 meals a day. . . . Michael
N. Bruno ’78MBA died of injuries suffered when
a tornado struck his family’s business in South Bend last
fall. He was 49. . . . Alison Kocoras ’94,
formerly an All-American soccer player for the Irish, was promoted
to general counsel of the U.S. Soccer Federation. . . . John
J. Hargrove ’64, ’67J.D. was appointed chief
judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of
California. . . . Ethna Bennert Cooper ’80J.D.
was appointed judge of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Municipal Court.
. . . Former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Frederick J.
Martone ’72J.D. has become a federal judge in Arizona.
. . . John J. Coyle Jr. ’68J.D. was named
a judge of the New Jersey Superior Court. . . . William
Klatt ’81, former chief legal counsel to Ohio Governor
Bob Taft, was appointed to a vacant seat on the 10th District
Court of Appeals in Franklin County. He plans to run for election
to the judgeship this fall. . . . After being charged with stealing
more than $300,000 from a trust fund, Roland Amundson
’75J.D. resigned as a judge of the Minnesota Appeals
Court. . . . Former ND student and one-time Chicago mayor Michael
A. Bilandic died in January at age 78. Bilandic succeeded
his mentor, the legendary Richard J. Daley, after Daley’s
death in 1976. He was elected six months later to serve out the
remaining two years of Daley’s term. . . . Another former
student, Francis “Gabby” Gabreski,
long regarded as America’s greatest living ace fighter pilot,
died in February at age 83. Gabreski was credited with 31 kills
in World War II and more than six in the Korean War. As a premedical
student at Notre Dame, he began taking flying lessons with the
Army Air Corps. He was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked
and managed to take off but was too late to catch the departing
raiders. . . . Captain Stephen Black ’81
is the new commander of the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in
Washington state’s Puget Sound. . . . Susan T. Muskett
’85J.D., former legislative affairs director of
the Christian Coalition of America, joined the National Council
of Catholic Women as executive director. . . . Jose Reyes
’88LL.M. was appointed interim mayor of Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico, last year after irregularities in the July election
(he was not a candidate) caused the Mexican government to call
for new elections. His father once served as the city’s
mayor. . . . Adriana Trigiani ’81SMC, who
read at last year’s Sophomore Literary Festival, is writing,
directing and producing the movie version of her popular first
novel, Big Stone Gap, set in her real-life Virginia hometown of
the same name. Her family ties to Notre Dame include her father,
Anthony Trigiani ’54, and brother, Carlo
Trigiani ’86. Four of her sisters graduated from
Saint Mary’s. While a senior at Saint Mary’s, she
wrote and directed an original comedy, “Notes from the Nile,”
which played to sold-out houses in Washington Hall. That’s
also where she read for the literary festival. . . . Mike
Cloonan ’95J.D., MBA spent 33 days in Utah working
on NBC’s coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake
City. He produced shorter human-interest segments broadcast throughout
the games. . . . Brian Murray ’97, ’00J.D.
is clerking for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. . . . Leon
F. DeJulius Jr. ’02J.D. has been appointed a Supreme
Court clerkship for the 2003-04 term with Chief Justice William
Rehnquist. . . . Daniel R. Murphy ’94J.D.
stepped down as chief of staff to Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Mel R. Martinez to become senior counsel and director
of federal affairs for lobbyists Barbour Griffith & Rogers
Inc. . . . Eugene Woloshyn ’79 was named
vice president of labor relations at The Boeing Company. His new
duties will include overseeing collective bargaining with Boeing’s
union employees. . . . Patent attorney Charles C. McCloskey
’90 is running as a Republican for state representative
from Missouri’s 66th district, which includes portions of
Saint Louis county and city. . . . Mark Cole ’96J.D.
of Houston is running for the Texas House of Representatives as
a Republican. . . . David M. Finn ’86 is
running for Dallas County district attorney as a Republican. .
. . Robert Sullivan Jr. ’67 was named Oklahoma’s
secretary of energy. . . . Robert M. Bennett ’62
was elected chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents,
which presides over both the State University of New York and
the New York State Education Department. . . . Tobin Finwall
’00 won the title of Miss Dupage at a pageant in
Dupage County, Illinois, west of Chicago. She was earlier Miss
Rockford and finished as runner-up in the Miss Chicago pageant.
. . . Brian Shannon ’60, who entered Notre
Dame at age 16, earned an accounting degree and then retired at
age 44 to concentrate on philanthropy and community service, died
in March at age 62. Among his other activities, he was chairman
of Chicago’s Misericordia Heart of Mercy, a center for people
with mental and physical disabilities. . . . Attorney Joseph
McGlynn ’55, who helped organize Saint Louis’
first Saint Patrick’s Day Parade 33 years ago, is among
the leaders of a project to build an 18-foot-high, 60-foot-long
granite wall on the side of an old Irish Catholic church in the
city that will commemorate Irish immigrants’ contributions
to building Saint Louis. For $350 people can get their family
name inscribed on the wall. . . . John Salveson ’77,
’78M.A. is speaking publically again about seven
years of sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of former
priest Robert D. Huneke ’76M.A. Salveson told Long Island’s
Newsday that the abuse started when Salveson was 13 and attending
Saint Dominic’s High School on Long Island. He said it began
on a weekend trip when he was a freshman and continued during
his time at Notre Dame, where Huneke, who was then still a priest,
was studying toward a graduate degree in psychology. Huneke acknowledged
his responsibility for the incidents in a letter to a bishop,
a copy of which Salveson provided to the paper, but the priest
continued to be assigned parish work, in Florida and later back
on Long Island, the paper reported. Salveson said he supports
legislation that would force clergy to report sexual misconduct
to law enforcement so clerics who have molested children would
be identified on a central sex-abuse registry.
