In his second year as coach of the Air Force Academy's men's
basketball team, former attorney Joe Scott '90J.D.
led the Falcons to a 9-19 record in 2001-02. The team's six non-conference
Division I wins were its most since joining the Mountain West
Conference in 1980. Before coming to the Air Force Academy, Scott
was an assistant coach at his undergraduate alma mater, Princeton,
from 1993-2000. . . . Leonard
F. Mongeon '48, former budget and programs director of
the National Security Agency, died at the age of 74. . . . The
new system of sanctions against Iraq agreed upon last May by the
U.N. Security Council's five permanent members was influenced
by proposals presented in the book Smart Sanctions: Targeting
Economic Statecraft, by government professor George Lopez
and Kroc Institute visiting fellow David Cortright '68.
. . . Elmer Angsman '46, a reserve for the Irish
who set a postseason rushing record in the 1947 NFL championship
game that still stands, died in April 2002 at age 76. Angsman
was the star of 1947 title game, in which his Chicago Cardinals
beat the Philadelphia Eagles 28-21. His average gain of 15.9 yards
remains the best ever in postseason for 10 or more rushing attempts.
He scored on two 70-yard touchdown runs over a frozen field at
Chicago's original Comiskey Park. In later years Angsman worked
as a commentator on TV and radio football broadcasts. . . . Tom
Bates '60, longtime sports information director at the
U.S. Naval Academy, died of cancer at the age of 64. . . .
John R. Skinner '63 was elected president of Michael
C. Kearney & Associates Inc., which specializes in cleaning
computer rooms and other high-risk spaces. . . . David
Wehner '72 was appointed dean of the California Polytechnic
State University College of Agriculture. He had been serving as
interim dean. . . . The New York Times, Business Week and
other publications have written about Digital Divide Data, a one-of-a-kind
non-profit group founded by Tim Keller '00 and
others. The organization hires disabled Cambodians to do data-entry
typing. Among the organization's customers has been the Harvard
Crimson, which hired it to input 19th century editions of
the student newspaper to make them part of an electronic archive.
. . . John E. Barilich '71 won the Department
of Veterans Affairs' 2001 Social Worker of the Year award. He
is social work executive for the V.A. healthcare system in Pittsburgh.
. . . James L. Knighton '76 was named president
of Caliper Technologies Corporation, which makes computer chips
than can perform laboratory tests. . . . Kevin R. Callahan
'83 was appointed chief executive officer of Allianz
Insurance Company, a member of the Allianz Group, a large financial
services company. . . . Matthew D. Kelly '85 was
named executive vice president of First Financial Bank of Downingtown,
Pennsylvania. . . . . President Bush singled out Ricardo
Rios '95, a teacher in Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic
Education program, during a party fund-raising stop in South Bend
in early September 2002. Rios was teaching math and science to
middle-school students at Saint Adalbert Catholic School in South
Bend. . . . Thomas M. Rohrs '73, senior vice
president of Applied Materials Inc., joined the board of directors
of Ion Systems Inc.
