1980
Jan Gambino (SED’80) published Reflux 101: A Parent’s Guide to Gastroesophageal Reflux (Lulu, 2008). The book is based on her experience caring for her children when they were struggling with reflux. Jan is a freelance writer whose blog appears on the HealthCentral Network (www.healthcentral.com/acid-reflux). Visit her Web site at www.refluxmom.com.

Fern Kant Ghauri (GRS’80) of Cherry Hill, N.J., edited and coauthored Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets’ Society (Pearlsong Press, 2009) under her pseudonym Frannie Zellman. “In this book, you will meet us: five fat poets writing about our hopes, despair, happiness, sensuality, dreams, hurts, healing, exhilaration — about what it is to be alive and fat in a world that hates fat people, but in which we somehow persevere to make ourselves heard and ultimately celebrate,” she writes. Fern, who earned a master’s in creative writing at BU, has also written the novel FatLand (Pearlsong Press, 2009).

Margaret Hurst (CAS’80) of New York, N.Y., teaches illustration at Pratt Institute and at Parsons School of Design and has her own art academy, Dalvero Academy. She has published her second book, Frog Sex, an illustrated story of two anthropomorphic frogs cavorting among the lily pads. Visit www.studio1482.com/margaret.

1981
Susan Charles (CFA’81) of Marshfield, Mass., is exhibiting landscape paintings in the show En Plein Air at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Mass., through November 8. The show also features the work of Kimberlee Alemian (CFA’91). E-mail Susan at suecharlesstudio@verizon.net, and visit www.suecharlesstudio.com.

Mitchell R. Creem (SMG’81) of Manhattan Beach, Calif., was appointed chief executive officer of two University of Southern California hospitals in April. Mitchell, who has 25 years of management experience, will oversee USC University Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital.

Susan Chan Egan (GSM’81) of Santa Barbara, Calif., published A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams (Chinese University Press, 2009) with Chih-p’ing Chou.

Ray Gilmer (COM’81) of Washington, D.C., is vice president of communication for the United Fresh Produce Association, which represents the fresh produce industry on Capitol Hill on issues such as nutrition, food safety, and agricultural labor policy. Ray joined the association after more than 10 years in lobbying and communications roles at the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association and at BASF. E-mail him at rgilmer@unitedfresh.org.

1982
Karen Clark (GRS’82, GSM’82) of Weston, Mass., received an alumni career and service achievement award from McDaniel College. Karen developed the first hurricane catastrophe model and founded Applied Insurance Research (AIR) in 1987. In 2007, she launched a second firm, Karen Clark & Company, to help companies use catastrophe models for their risk management decisions. Karen has been honored as Woman of the Year by the Association of Professional Insurance Women and received The Review’s 2007 Worldwide Reinsurance Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Charlie Jerabek (GSM’82) of Beverly, Mass., was named vice chairman of Osram Sylvania, a lighting manufacturer, on June 22, 2009. He began his career at the company as a sales manager in 1973 and held a variety of positions before being named president and CEO in 2001.

David Lawton (CFA’82) of New York, N.Y., was reader and coproducer of “Downtown Does Huncke for His Birthday,” an evening of stories by friend and beat godfather Herbert Huncke, held in January. E-mail David at lawtonium@hotmail.com or check out his poetry at www.myspace.com/lawtonium.

Diogo Moreira-Rato (SMG’82) of Madrid, Spain, has been appointed Johnson & Johnson’s international vice president for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Diogo is responsible for the medical devices and diagnostics business. E-mail him at diogo@moreira-rato.com.

Amy Neustein (GRS’82) of Bronx, N.Y., edited Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals (University Press of New England, 2009).

L. Gordon Sumner, Jr. (SED’82) of Springfield, Va., is president and CEO of OSINT Solutions, Inc., a service disabled veteran–owned small business. In 2007, he was appointed executive director of the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. He writes that President Barack Obama asked him to serve during the transition as advisor to the secretary of defense on “all matters involving employer support programs for all the Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces.”

1983
Robert O. Chase (SSW’83) of Berlin, Conn., is a coauthor of An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers (Yale University, 2009), which is in its third edition. Robert is a social worker and pretrial competency examiner at the Whiting Forensic Institute. He teaches Spanish at Tunxis Community College, the Yale University Center for Language Studies, and local hospitals.

1984
Jonathan Halpern (LAW’84) of New York, N.Y., is a partner at the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani. His litigation practice focuses on white-collar defense work. He is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, where he was also the chief of the major crimes unit.

Debra Lawless (COM’84) of Cranston, R.I., published her first book, Chatham in the Jazz Age (History Press, 2009), a history of the Cape Cod town of Chatham from 1912 to 1939. “In telling the stories of five of the town’s prominent citizens, I trace the rise of the modern tourism economy on Cape Cod,” she writes. E-mail Debra at chathamjazzage@live.com.

1986
Cameron Davis (CGS’84, CAS’86) of Evanston, Ill., was a senior advisor to the Obama presidential campaign on his own time while working as chief executive officer of the Alliance for the Great Lakes. He writes that his international relations major “is coming in handy for work on U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes issues.” He and his wife, Kately, have a son, Sage.

Matthew Hickerson (CAS’86) of Northport, N.Y., published his first children’s chapter book, A Ball in the Woods (CreateSpace, 2009), the story of two sisters and their loyal dog. “They venture into the woods in search of a lost soccer ball and encounter adventures along the way,” he writes. Learn more at www.matthickerson.wordpress.com.

1987
Lloyd Comiter (CAS’87) of Boca Raton, Fla., was appointed to a two-year term on the Committee on Judicial Independence of the Florida Bar. He is president of the Law Offices of Comiter, P.A. E-mail Lloyd at lcomiter@comiterlaw.com.

Keith Thurgood (MET’87) of Plano, Tex., writes, “I tell people I’ve got the funnest job in the United States Army as the commanding general and CEO of the Department of Defense’s $10 billion global retail operation, with stores and activities in 30 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Because we get no congressionally appropriated funding, it is the largest $10 billion company that nobody has heard about: the 40th largest retailer. If we were on the Fortune 500 list, we would be about 237.”

1988
Ellen Harvey (CFA’88) of New York, N.Y., is appearing in Disney’s national tour of Mary Poppins as the evil nanny, Miss Andrew. She also toured for 14 months as Ms. Darbus in Disney’s High School Musical and is the voice of Ms. Darbus for Disney on Ice.

Keith Lyle (COM’88) of Mahwah, N.J., and his wife, Roshanak, announce the birth of their second son, Chase Aziz, on December 11, 2008. “Chase is growing quickly and smiling broadly at the antics of his two-year-old brother, Gavin,” Keith writes. E-mail Keith at keith624@aol.com. 

Michelle (Rosenkranz) Suskauer (COM’88) of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., was installed as president of the Palm Beach County Bar Association in June 2009. She is a board-certified criminal trial attorney and a partner in the Suskauer Law Firm, in West Palm Beach, Fla. E-mail Michelle at suskauerlaw@aol.com.

1989
Jeff Conant (CAS’89) of Berkeley, Calif., wrote A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008) with Pam Fadem. The book is an illustrated guide to help health promoters, development workers, educators, activists, and community leaders take charge of the environmental health of their communities.

Michelle Lougee (CFA’89,’94) of Cambridge, Mass., showed her artwork at the exhibition Gyre at the Boston Sculptors Gallery this past June. The exhibition was a collection of woven sea creatures created from plastic bags. “The labor-intensive process of transforming bags into yarn and then into artwork has produced colorful, whimsical, and lifelike interpretations of sea life.” Learn more about Michelle’s work at www.mlougee.com.

Blair Price (CGS’87, COM’89) of Morristown, N.J., announces the birth of Grant Ryan on March 21, 2009. He has a big sister, Caroline. E-mail Blair at bdprice@optonline.net.

John Tully (CAS’89) of New Britain, Conn., is an associate professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. He earned a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2004. In 2009, the Connecticut State University’s board of trustees honored him with its Trustees Teaching Award. E-mail John at tullyj@ccsu.edu.