Sue Reamer (GSM'84) is an enthusiast. Before she became a Graduate School of Management student, her enthusiasm for science and specifically nursing had prompted her to earn three degrees: a Bachelor of Science in microbiology from the University of Chicago in 1963, a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the Columbia Presbyterian School of Nursing two years later, and a Master of Education in public health nursing education from Columbia University's Teachers College two years after that. At Boston University she added, along with an M.B.A. with honors, a lasting enthusiasm for the School of Management. Her work there with marketing professor Kathy Kram-"a fabulous teacher"-led her to earn a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from the Fielding Institute in 1990. But Reamer has never really left BU.

	Among Sue Reamer's (GSM'84) enthusiasms are winter jogging and hiking; she has now added ice climbing. Last year she spent twelve days in Ecuador with a group that climbed six mountains, three of them over 16,000 feet. "It was exciting," she enthuses. "And I met wonderful people."

She hosts a reception at her home every August for women entering the M.B.A. program and is an informal advisor to SMG's Council for Women's Entrepreneurship and Leadership ("because Candy [SMG Associate Professor Candida Brush, its director] is wonderful"). She also holds a dinner for panelists of the council's annual Women's Leadership Forum. She's as modest about that hospitality as she is about her role with the Dean's Advisory Council ("I sit and listen to wonderful Dean Lou Lataif and to the other members. The businessmen are so superb, right on target"), and her other service (an interviewer inquiring about her financial support quickly finds the conversation has moved on). "I love having these events at my home," she says. "If I lived nearer to campus rather than on the other side of Brookline, I'd do more."

Reamer has been, among many things, a member of the Simmons College nursing faculty, host of a Brookline public access television show, and director of the accreditation application process for the Needham, Massachusetts, Senior Center, a complicated undertaking that led to assistant administrative positions with two centers. She sits on the boards of several organizations, including the Women's Union (the newly streamlined name of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union) and the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus. She modestly calls such board membership "showing the world we care about this particular organization."

Whether by heredity or environment, she has passed along some significant qualities. Her daughter, Arden, already held a B.A. from Syracuse University and an M.A. from Seattle University when she called to say, "Mom, I want to go to BU." Her mother recounts that call with pride. "Unbeknownst to me she had gone to an information session," she says. Says Arden, who will receive her M.B.A. in public and nonprofit management in May, "BU has a very important role in my family."

— Natalie Jacobson McCracken