Tim Feeney '92 appeared on Fox News Channel
escorting one of the Washington, D.C.-area sniper suspects after
the suspect's arrest last October. Feeney is a special agent for
the FBI in Maryland. . . . Joseph Rutledge '01, '02M.S.
won the Elijah Watts Sells Gold Award for attaining the highest
score in the nation on last year's Uniform Certified Public Accountant
Examination. The test is given to more than 120,000 people each
year. . . . In the wake of its accounting scandal WorldCom Inc.
has formed an ethics office staffed by three veteran company employees,
including lawyer Brian Levey '84. . . . Robert
J. Ott '83 was named vice president, corporate audit,
at another company tarnished by financial scandal, Tyco International
Ltd. . . . Jim Nelson '85 was named editor-in-chief
of GQ, the 800,000-circulation monthly men's magazine.
He had been executive editor. . . . The Huntsville Times
profiled Sonnie Hereford IV '79, who personally
ended school segregation in Alabama in 1963 when, at age 6, he
peacefully entered first grade at Fifth Avenue School, an all-white
public school in Huntsville. The article was occasioned by the
demolition of the school building, which had earlier been converted
into a medical clinic. . . . Football great George Connor
'48, a two-time consensus All-American tackle and winner
of the 1946 Outland Trophy as the nation's top interior lineman,
died March 31 at age 78. Connor was inducted into both the college
and professional football halls of fame. . . . Former Irish quarterback
Joe Theismann '71 will be inducted into the college
football hall of fame this December. Theismann becomes the 40th
Notre Dame player and eighth Irish quarterback to enter the hall
since inductions began in 1951. . . . Ryan Shay '02 won
the USA Men's Marathon Championship held in Birmingham, Alabama,
in February and qualified for the World Championships in Paris
in August. His time of 2:14:29 was a personal best. . . . CBS
sportscaster Don Criqui '62 won the 2003 Pete
Rozelle Television and Radio Award from the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. The award recognizes "longtime exceptional contributions"
to pro football broadcasting. . . . Bernard Lechowick
'69 and wife Lynn Latham are co-creators and executive
producers of Wild Card, a new one-hour dramatic series
scheduled to premiere on the Lifetime channel August 2. One of
the show's writers is Linda Gase '86. The show
is about a Vegas blackjack dealer (Joely Fisher; Normal, Ohio;
Inspector Gadget) who returns home to Chicago after her sister
is killed in an auto accident. She assumes custody of her orphaned
nieces and nephew and becomes an insurance-fraud investigator.
. . . The magazine Intellectual Property Today listed
a damage award won last year by Chicago attorney Timothy
J. Malloy '66, '69J.D. on behalf of a client as one of
the top 10 intellectual property damage awards of all time. Malloy
won $166 million for Advanced Cardiovascular Systems Inc. in a
suit against Medtronic Inc. The case dealt with a patent for an
invention related to angioplasty and stent placement. . . . Shawn
Hoban '88 was selected by the Puget Sound Business
Journal as one of the region's Top 40 Under 40, a designation
honoring the area's top 40 executives under the age of 40. Hoban
is president of Coast Real Estate Services Inc., a property management
and investment company. . . . Elizabeth K. Hinchey '93,
an EPA research ecologist, lived underwater
for 10 days last fall in Aquarius, the world's only underwater
research habitat, as part of a team investigating coral bleaching.
Earlier this year she received the 2003 Thatcher Prize for Excellence
in Graduate and Professional Study from the College of William
and Mary, where she earned her Ph.D. in marine science. . . .
Ann E. Merchlewitz '83J.D., vice president and
general counsel at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, became
the first woman elected to the board of directors of Merchants
Bank in the Winona, Minnesota, bank's 126-year history. . . .
Kari Kloos '98M.Th. was appointed to the theology faculty
of Valparaiso University in Indiana as a fellow in the Lilly Fellows
in the Humanities and the Arts program. During a two-year residency,
each fellow teaches seven courses, participates in a weekly colloquium
on Christianity and the academic vocation, and conducts research,
among other activities. . . . Joseph P. Kinneary '28,
who was the oldest active federal judge when he retired
three years ago at age 95, died in February at 98. He served 35
years on the federal bench in Columbus and Cincinnati. . . . Alex
J. Cameron '59, '73Ph.D., who for millions of Americans
was the voice and face of the Scripps Howard National Spelling
Bee, died in February at age 65. . . . Kevin W. Luby '84J.D.
ran unsuccessfully for a judgeship on the Washington County (Oregon)
Circuit Court. . . . William H. Sorrell '70, attorney
general of Vermont, was named treasurer of the board of directors
of the American Legacy Foundation, an anti-tobacco public health
foundation. . . . 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 told about 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. . . . Melinda Henneberger '80
joined Newsweek as a contributing editor. She will write
political profiles and work in the Washington office. . . . Felipe
Merino '01J.D. has established the Community Advocacy
Center of Los Angeles County, California, to train community advocates
to provide assistance with housing, social security benefits and
many other issues. . . . 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. . . . 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. . . . Army Reserve Major
General Michael Dunlavey '67, normally a judge in Erie
County, Pennsylvania, was put on active service shortly after
the September 11 terrorist attacks. Last fall he returned to the
National Security Agency as assistant to the director after a
tour as commanding officer dealing with terror suspects at the
prison compound at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. . .
. 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. . . . Bill Boss '44, a senior manager
of the football team under Frank Leahy, was elected to the Consumer
Electronics Hall of Fame, joining such luminaries as Thomas Edison
and Alexander Graham Bell. As an employee of RCA in the late 1940s
and throughout the 1950s, he helped introduce black-and-white
and later color television to America. He became known as "Mr.
Color Television" within the industry. . . . Mark J. Ferring
'80 is one of 19 flight directors at NASA responsible
for building the international space station.
