John B. Roach '48 and his wife Ethel are retired and living in Woburn, Massachusetts. John's last position before retiring from the Federal Aviation Authority in 1983 was deputy regional director of the New England Region. Prior to attending the College of Engineering at Boston University, John was an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen flying B-25's and retired from the Air Force Reserves at the rank of colonel. He qualified in over 45 different types of aircraft during his flying career.

Dan Tokar '62 was recently elected chairman of SCORE, (Service Corps of Retired Executives), for northern Arizona, "A territory that is about the size of New England," he writes. SCORE is an affiliate of the United States Small Business Administration and is a volunteer group of mostly retired executivesÑboth men and womenÑwho counsel small businesses on various management related subjects. Dan was part of the engineering management program at BU.

Bruce G. Pratt '69 of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, retired from IBM in 1990 and then taught automated manufacturing engineering at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, an affiliate of Penn State. He retired again after ten years of teaching. Bruce writes that he is looking for classmates from the '69 masters of engineering class. E-mail him at bgpratt@hotmail.com.

Babatunde Johnson Akingbade '78 of Houston, Texas, is back in the United States with his family after 20 years in Africa. He writes that he would like to reunite with his former classmates and with his former schoolmates, "Namely Kizito Muliro, Zangar Z. Nnaedegar, Harold St. Louis, and Elmer Johnson, etc.," he writes. E-mail Babatunde at aljohn_12@yahoo.com.

Edward Estabrook '79 of Parker, Colorado, has worked as an engineer for the Boeing Company's Space Division for over 23 years. His first 18 years were in the Seattle area while his current assignments have been in the Denver area. Edward writes that he has avidly followed the Boston University hockey team since their national championship. E-mail Edward at edward.estabrook@boeing.com.

Deborah Cohen Ball '8l of Alta Loma, California, lives with her husband, John, and eight-year-old daughter, Samantha. For the last five years, she has been running a recruiting business from her home. She likes being able to work and help out in school with Samantha, who is starting third grade. "If you think I talked a lot, wait until you see her," Deborah writes. She wonders what happened to Mike Unger and Joe Marucca and the members of the Student Union, and she'd love to hear from her ENG friends. E-mail her at dcball@eee.org.

Ronnie M. Lajoie '84 of Madison, Alabama, is leading the On-Orbit part of architecture trade studies for Boeing on NASA's Space Launch Initiative. E-mail Ronnie at ronnie@lajoie.com.

Rolanda Sylvain '86 of Auburn, New Hampshire, is working part-time as an electrical engineer at BAE Systems and is raising two small children. She writes, "Poo, Tracey, and I are looking for old Warren Towers residents from 1982, 1983, and 1984." E-mail her at rolandab@worldnet.att.net.

Stephen Gervais '87 of Jersey City, New Jersey, is a project manager for financial systems at McKinsey & Company in New York City. He would like to hear from former classmates, particularly those who live in the Tri-State area. E-mail Stephen at stephen_gervais@mckinsey.com.

Wan Chi Lau '87 of Roslindale, Massachusetts, is working as a Senior Manager of Technology Transfer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started a two-year sabbatical in July 2002. Contact Wan Chi at lau@mpi.com.

Alex Konde '88 of Alexandria, Virginia, left life at a big law firm and joined the in-house legal team at NeuStar in Washington, DC. He leads commercial and technology transactions for the company's exclusive operation of the North American Number Portability Administration and several Internet domain registries. E-mail Alex at home at akonde@comcast.net or at work at Alex.Konde@NeuStar.biz.

Ryan Zarfoss '88 of Wheaton, Illinois, has been a special agent with the FBI in Chicago for six years, concentrating in health-care fraud investigations. He and his wife, Pam, have two sons, Paul and Mark. E-mail Ryan at zarfoss@juno.com.

Greg Stanclik '89, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant, is stationed aboard the Polar Class icebreaker Healy as chief engineer. Greg completed a master's degree in engineering management at Northeastern University this year. "To see where the Healy is in the Arctic Ice Pack, go to www.uscg.mil/pacarea/healy," he writes. Contact Greg at gstanclik@earthlink.net.

Brad Levin '91 has recently joined AMICAS, the Web-based PACS company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, as director of strategic marketing. He is maintaining a remote office in Northern Virginia, where he lives with his wife Sandy, and two daughters, Danielle and Rebecca (7 years and 17 months, respectively.) He can be reached in his Boston-based office at blevin@amicas.com.

Kelly Ann (Wehner) Detra '92 of Plainfield, Illinois, and her husband Neil are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Meghan Louise Detra, who was born on February 15. Kelly and Neil are also parents to two-year-old Ryan. Kelly is working as a project engineer on cooling systems for combine harvesters at CNH-Case Corporation in Burr Ridge, Illinois. Contact Kelly by e-mail at kelly-neil_detra@msn.net.

Steven Kentley '92 writes, "Since graduating from BU, I have worked in Boston doing waterjet and laser machining. This experience, coupled with my dislike for cold weather and snowÑplus a stroke of luckÑled to my current position as research fellow at a manufacturing research institute in Singapore, where it is summer all year round. I now specialize in the field of waterjets, useful in a variety of different applications in many different industries." E-mail Steven at stevenk@gintic.gov.sg.

Pankaj Tyagi '92 lives in Winchester, Massachusetts, with his wife Hnin Hnin Ko (MPH '01), and three-year-old son Rohan. In 1992, Pankaj started Waban Software. E-mail Pankaj at ptyagi@wabansoftware.com.

Ian Papautsky '95 received his PhD in BME from the University of Utah in the areas of BioMEMS and microfluidics. For the past two and a half years he has been an assistant professor of Electrical/Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Ian can be reached at ipapauts@ececs.uc.edu.

Dominic Lai '97 writes, "I am with Singapore Aerospace, where I look after the commercial aircraft engine for Pratt and Whitney." He also runs a consultation firm that provides Six Sigma training and implementation to companies in southern Asia.

Abdul Wajid Mohamed '98 of Issaquah, Washington, is working for the XBox Division of Microsoft, Inc. He writes that he "loves working on the XBox games programs." E-mail Abdul at abdulm@microsoft.com.

Pelin Demirel '00 of New York, New York, started her MBA at Columbia this September. She married Alp Muharremoglu. E-mail her at pelindemirel@hotmail.com.

Melissa Michelle Williams DeVeau '01 of Boston, Massachusetts, married Jason DeVeau (ENG '00) in April 2002.

Zoran Kahric '01 of Washington, DC, works for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in a radiation effects and analysis group, investigating and testing the effects of radiation on electronics and photonics. Contact him at zkahric@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Sepideh Baghaii '01 of Boulder, Colorado, writes, "I moved out to Colorado to major in skiing...or to get an MS in electrical engineering. But wasn't I in biomedical engineering? If anyone else is considering turning to the 'dark side,' contact me. I miss you guys, Boston, and sushi." Contact Sepideh via e-mail at altamira16@yahoo.com.

Joseph Kamelgard '84 of Jersey City, New Jersey, was given the National Medical Expert Award by MDTV Medical News Now, America's leading resource for medical news. Joseph was recognized as the leading bariatric surgeon in the Newark area. He is an assistant professor of surgery at the New Jersey Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and director of the obesity treatment center at University Hospital in Newark. Joseph can be seen on MDTV Medical News Now on Comcast of New Jersey Cable System, Channel 74, Tuesday at 9:30 P.M. and Saturday and Sunday at 3 P.M.

Samuel Chung-Kyu Lee '88 of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, received the Chattanooga Research Award from the American Physical Therapy Association for his article "Maximum Voluntary Activation in Nonfatigued and Fatigued Muscle of Young and Elderly Individuals"in Physical Therapy, APTA's scientific journal. His work will help make the most of strength-training programs for the young and elderly.

Farzad Kamalabadi '94, '01 of Champaign, Illinois, was given a National Science Foundation CAREER award, an early career development honor for young faculty. Farzad is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With the CAREER award, Farzad will receive nearly $428,000 over five years to develop sensing and imaging techniques to study space phenomena. Before joining the Illinois faculty, he worked at BU's Center for Space Physics and the Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing Laboratory, where he contributed to space mission development.

William T. Royals '98 of Palm City, Florida, was named the oxygen committee chairman of ASTM International, a standards development organization. His 90-member committee works on test methods for systems subjected to oxygen-rich atmospheres, as in combustion. William has been an ASTM member since 1987. He is the director of Pratt and Whitney Space Propulsion Production Operations in West Palm Beach.

Kevin Finn '84 of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and his Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant received recognition for their handcrafted beers at the prestigious Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver, Colorado. Iron Hill Brewery received a bronze medal for their Pig Iron Porter, which won in the Robust Porter category and a bronze medal for their Triple in the Belgian-Style Abbey Ale category. Iron Hill has received a total of nine medals at the GABF since opening in 1996. Other Iron Hill beers that have won medals at the GABF include: Wee Heavy (Bronze 2001, Bronze 1998), Lodestone Lager (Gold 1997, Bronze 2000), Maibock (Gold 1999, Bronze 2000) and Vienna (Bronze, 1999). The Great American Beer Festival is the oldest and largest beer festival in the United States. This year the festival included 1,900 beers from over 400 breweries in the United States. A complete list of winners is available from the Association of Brewers Web site at www.beertown.org.