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Class notes 1986 1991 ozzie Zehner, author of ‘Green Illusions: The Jackie elsayed, associate Marcia Pucci Jacquette was named national dirty secrets of clean energy and the future of vice president for vice president of communications for alpha environmentalism,’ was recently a guest on the academic affairs and sigma alpha. she was elected at the 2012 legion of Reason podcast. professor of Mechanical national Convention and leadership Conference engineering at Kettering, in Virginia beach, Va. Kim Benson was named 1998 received a 2013 Diversity the national vice president of operations for Keith Maddock has joined the board of Champion award from the Race Relations & alpha sigma alpha at the same conference. directors of Project open hand, a non-profit Diversity Task force. she was honored at a organization that provides “meals with love” to ceremony at the Community house in april. Jeff Luke, executive chief engineer, global senior citizens and the critically ill. full-size and midsize trucks, General Motors, was 1987 named on Truck Trend’s 2013 Power list. 2000 raj nair, vice president of engineering for Global Michael turner was elected as a shareholder Product Development for ford Motor 1993 of brooks Kushman P.C. (www.brookskushman. Company, will lead ford into a joint ted Christiansen was com), an intellectual property law firm located in venture to develop fuel cell cars. recently named president Michigan and California. ford will work with Daimler of Intelliserv. Christiansen and Renault-nissan to launch previously worked John Lingl has received a Michigan ‘Rising the world’s first affordable, for Ruf automobile in star’ designation, which recognizes the top mass-market fuel-cell electric car Pfaffenhausen, Germany, up and coming attorneys in the state. he (fCeV) as early as 2017, according and with DaimlerChrysler in focuses his practice on patent, copyright and to a news release. stuttgart, Germany. trademark litigation. In addition, he prosecutes both foreign and domestic patent applications sandra L. Bouckley was named as an at-large terry tweeten has been named director of in numerous areas including semiconductors, executive committee member for the society of specialty vehicles at Winnebago. he has been electrical systems, voice over Internet protocol Manufacturing engineers with the company 25 years, most recently as (VoIP) systems, packet director of strategic planning. switching and routing, 1988 network traffic ron Voight has been Helen Zak has been named president and Coo optimization, Internet named the new president of healthcare Value leaders network. she has search technologies, at X-Rite. Voight is a former 25 years of lean experience, most recently has advertising and executive with Delphi. Coo of leI. behavioral targeting technologies, optical scott Baughman 1995 systems, terahertz radiation systems, x-ray ’87 and amanda baughman ’88 Kelly Dennany married Dean Lewis in systems, automotive interior systems and recently brought their son, eric Davison, Mich., on sept. 22, 2012. both currently automotive powertrain systems. baughman, to campus for a work at Continental automotive in the electronic prospective student tour. eric’s brake systems group. 2001 grandfather, Richard baughman Yin Lu has been named vice president, global ’59, is also an alum. 1996 head of eDiscovery consulting division, by Jeff schumaker has been named managing eTeRa Consulting. lu will be responsible for 1989 director of Cooper europe, headquartered in advising corporate and law firm clients and James sharkey joined Pressure systems Melksham, england. directing consulting teams on matters pertaining International (PsI) as director of strategic to document collection, processing, review, initiatives. sharkey, a Mechanical engineering 1997 hosting, production and leading technologies. grad, has previously worked for the strick Group Wesley e. elsner (1) (son of edward elsner and Meritor. ’97) recently visited with retired Kettering steven Palmgren, director of Patti University Professor thomas elsner at the engineering’s austin, Texas, branch, has earned 1990 latter's home in flushing, Mich. he enjoyed the his professional engineer (P.e.) license from the Jane Boon offered personal commentary trip along with his 4-year-old brother Dylan, who Texas board of Professional engineers. Palmgren in the New York Observer that "Venezuela is attending all day Pre-K in oswego, n.Y. The is Patti engineering’s third engineer to earn the is a spectacularly beautiful country, with boys love Grandpa Tom and talk with him every professional engineer’s license. spectacularly awful leadership." see chance they get. seeing Wesley for the first time her newly published article, on this circuit were aunt amanda and Great 2002 "Two Weeks in Chavez's Grandma elsner (95). Dr. elsner retired this past Henry Louie recently wrote a column entitled, Venezuela," here: http:// December after 40 years teaching mathematics ‘I am a humanitarian’ for Ieee Power and energy observer.com/2013/03/two- at Kettering. society. “one of the great things about today's weeks-in-chavezs-venezuela/. students is they're starting to think globally about power and energy. They consider the Spring 2013 33