Alumni

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2007 Graduates

Jamie Cogar (English/Cinema Studies) has been teaching full time in China since August 2007, through the Culture Gateway program. _{Updated 10/07}

2006 Graduates

Emily Hunt is the Senior Content Development Manager for Casino City Press. _{Updated 11/07}

2005 Graduates

Amanda Collins is currently the Manager of Copyediting and Proofreading at Aptara, an educational publishing services vendor. She is working to earn her Masters in Communication Management at Emerson College. _{Updated 11/07}

2004 Graduates

Julia B. Buonopane taught English at Acton Boxborough Regional High School for two years, after graduating from Northeastern University in 2004 with a BS in English and Secondary Education. In 2006, she took a leave of absence from teaching to pursue a Masters degree in Education Administration at Boston College. _{Updated 11/07}

2003 Graduates

In December 2008, Marcie (Tullio) Kalinowsky left her job with McGraw-Hill publishers after 4 years to embark on a new career in teaching English. She is taking classes full time at Western Connecticut State University._{Updated 11/07}

Brooke L. Witkowski is the Press Coordinator for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. _{Updated 11/07}

2002 Graduates

Jessica (Gorham) Noonan is currently Associate Director in the Department of Career Services at Northeastern University. Previously she was a career counselor at Bridgewater State College, and Admissions and Financial Aid Assistant at Boston College High School. She earned her MS in Higher Education Administration from Boston College. _{Updated 11/07}

Leah (Hickey) Ramsdell is teaching 11th grade theology and working as a Campus Minister at Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, MA. _{Updated 12/07}

2001 Graduates

Shannon Stevens earned a Masters in Social Work from Simmons College and moved to San Francisco, where she currently works as a Clinical Case Manager for Westside Community Services. _{Updated 12/07}

1996 Graduates

Shaun McNamara is currently the Principal Writer and Graphic Designer for Akorri, a leader in the monitoring and management of virtualized data center networks. He is also the Senior Staff Writer for the New England Music magazine, Metronome. _{Updated 11/07}

1994 Graduates

Marissa and Clint Eller are living in Westchester New York. Clint is a VP of sales at JP Morgan Chase, and Marissa is a full-time freelancer as a Photo Editor at The New York Times. Would love to hear from you marissaeller@att.net. _{Updated 2/08}

Angelique Pirozzi has spent the past 13 year in Democratic politics. Her co-op at NU lead to full time employment at the Massachusetts Democratic Party back in 1994. From there she worked on Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election and in the White House's Office of Political Affairs. She worked for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and on Gore2000 (Iowa Caucuses, Nevada Primary, Wisconsin Primary & General). Angelique managed Gore's Wisconsin effort in 2000, a battleground state, where he won by 5000 votes out of 3.2 million. In 2002, Angelique managed Senator John Kerry's re-election campaign in MA, then served as his Caucus Manager in the Iowa Caucuses in 2003/2004, a come from behind victory which propelled him to the nomination.

Angelique then served as Hillary Clinton's Caucus Manager in 2007, at her request, but decided to leave the campaign in September of 2007. Angelique now works as a political consultant splitting time based between Belmont, MA and Washington, DC. _{Updated 4/08}

1985 Graduates

Tom Larned worked with public defenders for five years, the United States Attorney in Miami for one year, and the FBI for 18 years. _{Updated 11/07}

1979 Graduates

John Waggoner went on to earn his MA at Northeastern University in 1981. He is a columnist at USA Today, in the Money section. He also appears monthly on PBS, for the Nightly Business Report. _{Updated 11/07}

1977 Graduates

Sheila Totten reports on rodeo, bull riding, country music, agricultural issues, and American Indian affairs for her news site Indians and Cowboys Rodeo News. _{Updated 11/07}

1971 Graduates

Carol L. Phelan is the Director of Public Relations and Marketing at New England Conservatory. She was previously with the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. _{Updated 11/07}

1969 Graduates

Donna Halper went on to earn her M.Ed in Counseling (1970) and MA in English (1973) at Northeastern University. She is an assistant professor of Communications at Lesley University. Her fourth book, Icons of Talk: The Media Mouths That Made America, will be published by Greenwood Press in January 2009. Donna was featured in The Boston Globe article, "She blazed a trail locally, and now her career comes full circle," October 2008. _{Updated 11/08}

In 2008, Roger Strong retired from his co-op job at The New York Times which he started the day after Christmas, 1965. Roger started out a copy boy and ended up a photo editor and the "technology magician" on the picture desk. _{Updated 11/08}

1968 Graduates

Thomas M. Hall taught English at the high school level for seven years, and then spent the next 31 years as an assistant principal and principal. He was an adjunct instructor at Quincy College for eight years, and recently wrote and published his first novel. _{Updated 11/07}

Stephen M. Wallace received his MS in Journalism from Columbia University after graduating from Northeastern. He's been a newspaper reporter and editor, an Arts editor, and a marketing communications manager. He made 3-D multimedia shows, a bunch of corporate music videos, and a visionary film anticipating the future of publishing technology.

Since 1998, Stephen has been doing freelance marketing, advertising, and public relations projects for a variety of clients. Since 1992, He has also have worked part time on the Copy Desk at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, and is currently finishing the edits on a half-hour documentary about the Tidd Home for senior women. _{Updated 11/07}

1967 Graduates

James E. Bowman taught high school English and coached basketball for two years after graduating. He then coached basketball at NU for three years and was subsequently hired by the FBI. He spent 28 years as a Special Agent, living in different parts of the country. Most of his career was spent in foreign counterintelligence because he was sent to language school my second year in the FBI. At the end of his career, he was a recruiter in the Boston FBI office. _{Updated 11/07}

1966 Graduates

Jack DeWitt's new book of poems Almost Grown has just been published by Paper Kite Press. Nine of the book�s poems are featured in the Nov-Dec 2008 issue of the American Poetry Review. _{Updated 11/08}

1960 Graduates

Christopher H. Jackson has retired from Catholic Memorial High School, West Roxbury, MA where he was an English teacher and administrator. He is presently working (on a part-time basis) as the New England admissions representative for Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. _{Updated 4/08}

1957 Graduates

Jack Driscoll authored Couch Potatoes Sprout: The Rise of Online Community Journalism, a how-to book regarding community group journalism, the field he has been working in the past 15 years, after 39 years at The Boston Globe. _{Updated 11/08}