Matt Schlapp '90 is the new White House deputy
assistant to the president and director of political affairs.
He reports to President Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove. .
. . The Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino '70M.A.
was named bishop of the 267,000-member Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin.
He had been bishop of the Diocese of Helena, Montana. . . . James
V. Strauss '92MBA was named president and publisher of
the Great Falls (Montana) Tribune. He had been
executive editor. The paper won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory
reporting in 2000 under his leadership. . . . Former Michigan
Republican Party Chairman Gerald J. "Rusty" Hills '84M.A.
announced plans to start a four-year Catholic liberal arts college
in the Lansing area to be called Sweetest Heart of Mary Institute.
. . . Philip A. Glotzbach '72, former vice president
of academic affairs at the University of Redlands in California,
is the new president of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs,
New York. . . . Ryan Tucker '03 died in a car
crash not far from his hometown of Buchanan in southwest Michigan
in August. The SUV he was driving crashed head-on into a semi
loaded with cement. Police said he was trying to pass on a two-lane
road. . . . An article in The Hartford Courant that was
picked up by other papers, including the The Washington Post,
followed Ron Mazzoli '54 as he settled into student
housing this fall at Harvard. Mazzoli was starting a year-long
master's degree program in public administration at the Kennedy
School of Government. The 70-year-old former congressman from
Kentucky is the oldest person ever to attend the Kennedy school.
. . . The Post also profiled Casper R. Taylor
Jr. '56, a longtime state representative from rural western
Maryland who was speaker of the Maryland House until defeated
last fall by just 72 votes. . . . Douglas Heisler '68
was sworn in as the U.S. Agency for International Development's
representative to the Republic of Yemen. . . . James J.
McFadden '41, New York City's chief labor negotiator
under Mayor Robert F. Wagner in the 1960s, died in late July at
age 83. A long-time Democrat active in the labor movement, he
was in charge of arrangements for the final stop on President
Harry S Truman's famous whistle-stop campaign in 1948. . . . Bryan
Samuels '89 was named director of the Illinois Department
of Children and Family Services. . . . Josh Fink '89
is the new director of the Alaska Office of Public Advocacy, which
oversees public guardians of adults who cannot take care of themselves
and guardians of abused and neglected children. The office also
oversees public defense lawyers. . . . Attorney Florencio
"Larry" Ramirez '77J.D. was appointed children's court
judge in Las Cruces, New Mexico. . . . Gilbert J. Nadeau
Jr. '73 was appointed first justice of the Fall River
(Massachusetts) District Court The first justice is the administrative
head of the court. He had been an associate justice of the court.
. . . Susan D. Livingston '82 was running for
district judge in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. .
. . William K. Warren '56, chairman of The William
K. Warren Foundation and of Warren American Oil Company, was named
to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, which honors service work . . .
. James F. "Jay" Flaherty III '79 was elected
president and chief executive officer of Health Care Property
Investors, a real estate investment trust that invests in health-care
facilities. . . . Steve Linehan '82 was named
treasurer of Capital One, a subsidiary of Capital One Financial
Corporation. . . . Deborah Derby
'90J.D., MBA was named executive vice president-human
resources of Toys "R" Us Inc. . . . The Philadelphia Inquirer
wrote about how Bob Forgash '70J.D. shot
a hole-in-one on the par-3, 148-yard fifth hole at Little Mill
Country Club and then, four holes later, watched as his son, Bobby
'03, playing in the group behind him, matched the feat
on the par-3, 152-yard ninth. The unlikely double play occurred
on an appropriate occasion, Father's Day 2003. . . . Frederick
W. Dow Jr., former vice president of marketing and sales
for Burger King Corporation, joined Midas Inc. as senior vice
president and chief marketing officer. . . . Michael Burman
'68, '71J.D. was elected a fellow of the International
Society of Barristers, which has about 600 members worldwide.
Members are known to be outstanding in the field of advocacy and
dedicated to excellence and integrity in advocacy and to the preservation
of the adversarial system and the right to trial by jury. . .
. Gregg S. Behr '95 is founding director of the
Content of Our Character Project, a national organization that
promotes social consciousness among young people, and he's managing
director of the Copeland Fund, a nonprofit organization in Pittsburgh.
. . . Former federal prosecutor Walt Brown '85J.D.,
a specialist in white-collar crime, joined the San Francisco office
of the international law firm Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe
LLP. . . . Margaret M. Foran '76, '79J.D., vice
president of corporate governance and secretary of Pfizer Inc.,
was elected to the board of directors of the giant pharmaceutical
company. . . . The South Bend Tribune described how Chris
Martin '03 lived in a South Bend fire station his senior
year for free in return for working 10, 12-hour shifts a month
at the station. . . . Ruben C. Berumen '79 was
appointed president and CEO of power controls within General Electric's
industrial systems division. He had been president and CEO of
GE's medical systems division and general manager of global vascular
and X-ray. . . . Robert H. Kurnick Jr. '86J.D.
was named president and trustee of Penske Corporation, a diversified
transportation firm headed by race-car legend Roger Penske. .
. . The Supreme Court let stand a lower court's ruling that allowed
Potomac Electric Power Company, represented by Jim Gillece
'69J.D., to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations (RICO) Act to sue an electric motor company over
faulty repairs. . . . Dale S. Recinella '77J.D.,
lay Catholic chaplain for Florida's Death Row and Long-Term Solitary
Confinement prisoners, presented the lecture "A Critical Analysis
of the American Death Penalty Based Upon the Jurisprudence of
the Ancient Hebrews Under Torah and Talmud" in Rome, Verona and
Turin, Italy, and in a live radio broadcast on Vatican Radio's
worldwide English-language program. . . . Brian Wenzel
'89, '91MBA is marketing communications manager and Jim
Melvin '83 is director of marketing for Unison Industries,
winner of the Marketing Team of the Year award from Sales
& Marketing Management magazine. The award honored their
introduction of a new general-aviation spark plug with an ad campaign
featuring "Autolite Annie," a buxom blonde character patterned
after the nose art on World War II aircraft. . . . Katie
DeJulius '03 finished second in a research poster competition
at the Cleveland Clinic that culminated an eight-week summer program
for 32 pre-med and medical students. Her presentation was on the
use of new media for testing urinary tract infections. Chad
Short, a junior at ND this year, finished first with
a poster about preserving T-cells in spinal fluid.
(October 2003)
