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Florida Tech Today Paper
Vol. 15, Issue 2    Fall 2006

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1971
Harold McGinnis ’73 M.S. is vice president, planning and environmental services for CROY-MSE, LLC in Marietta, Ga. He and wife Patricia are parents to daughters Erika, Alicia and Rachael. Harry teaches college part time and serves on dissertation committees in the doctoral studies program at Argosy University-Atlanta. His contact is hkmcginnis@comcast.net.

1972
Lee (Stone) Benner is the coastal impact assistance program coordinator at Minerals Management Service in Herndon, Va.

1973
Fred Henderson is manager of application systems at Ingersoll Rand Climate Control Technologies in Bridgeton, Mo. He has been married to Pamela for 34 years, and they have four daughters and three grandsons. Pam teaches quilting; Fred is an avid NASCAR race fan/die-cast collector with over 300 pieces in his collection.

John Kenney ’78 M.S. is an engineering manager at Northrop Grumman, NASA Johnson Space Center in Nassua Bay, Texas.

1975
Marianne (Grove) Kudrick is now
retired and loving life, her husband, 11 cats and two dogs. She can be reached at maryann@kidrick.com.

1977
Ross Youngs is CEO of Univenture, Inc., and UniKeep, LLC, in Marysville, Ohio. His company has three manufacturing plants located in Ohio, Nevada and Dublin, Ireland.

1978
Gary Petrae, a captain in the NOAA Corps, has assumed command of the Ronald H. Brown, the largest ship in the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) fleet. The vessel carries one of only three ship-mounted Doppler radar systems in
the world.

William Denault is a federal civilian at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N.C. The Jensen Beach campus grad lives with wife Sara and two daughters in Morehead City, N.C. Classmates may contact him at billdenault@hotmail.com.

1979
Dennis Nolan, M.S., is an executive specialist of Aramco, located in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, where he has lived with his family for 13 years. He can be reached at dennis.nolan@aramco.com.

1980
Kevin Jarvis has been promoted to vice president/program manager, Aegis Destroyer program, at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Pascagoula, Miss. He is responsible for managing all aspects of the DDG program for the company, where he has worked for
25 years.

1983
Michael Ramos ’85 M.S. is Prior of the Immaculate Heart of Mary’s Hermitage in West Melbourne, Fla. He can be contacted at mramos5@cfl.rr.com.

Bruce Schwab (Lt. Col. Ret.) is now flying for Southwest Airlines, having spent over 20 years as a U.S. Air Force pilot. He was a combat veteran in Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom prior to retiring in 2003. His contact is f16bs737@earthlink.com.

1984
Constance (Roy) Storer, M.B.A., retired from the U.S. Army Reserve in December 2005 after 27 years of service as help desk lead at the Army Enlisted Records and Evaluation Center in Indianapolis, Ind.

Anders Bergmann is a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Air Force and served in Iraq as director of the Personal Security Coordination Center, Multi-National Force. His duty there was to ensure safety and security of the top five Iraqi government leaders. His wife, Linda, resides in Cocoa Beach, Fla., with sons Colin and Anders Christopher, who attends the University of Florida. An e-mail contact is anders.bergmann@afotec.af.mil.

1986
James Fitzpatrick returned in October 2005 from a four-year assignment at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. He is the deputy commander of the 56th civil engineer squadron at Luke AFB in Arizona, which is the largest F-16 fighter training base in the world. James serves as the squadron’s senior civilian official and staff adviser in support of civil engineering functions and obligations.

1989
Tim Ling was married to Sue Yeo in December 2005. He is the environmental manager for Plaskolite, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, and can be reached at twill@infinet.com. Tim serves as the chair of the Florida Tech civil engineering advisory committee.

1994
Craig Coleman is library media specialist at Mundy’s Mill Middle School in Jonesboro, Ga. He was named the school’s Teacher of the Year in May 2006, where he has been employed for five years. This fall, he begins the specialist degree program at the University of West Georgia.

1995
Ali Saleh Al Rakaf, M.S., is the Defense Attaché for the Royal Embassy of
Saudi Arabia, Armed Forces Office in Washington, D.C.

Marshal Perlman is a project manager with Panasonic Avionics Corporation in Lake Forest, Calif. His responsibilities include development of next-generation cabin electronics and communication systems for many of the world’s airlines.

1996
Jeffrey Jackson, M.S., was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. He serves as a contracting officer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., where he resides with his wife Melanie and their two children.

David Rudy is a software staff engineer for Sun Microsystems in Burlington, Mass. He serves as a lead for the two first eco-responsible servers announced by the company that exceed the performance of competing machines while using a fraction of the power and space.


1999
Vanessa (Greenbaum) DeVary and husband Mark live in Sachse, Texas, with their children Lauren and Evan. She can be reached at mvdevary@verizon.net.

Stan Dobbs, M.B.A., is director, aviation supply chain operations and management for the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, Calif. This is the master jet training base for the U.S. Navy’s F-18 fighter.

Justin and Jill (Seigle) Meyer welcomed Jackson Timothy in July 2005. They reside in Kansas City, Mo., where Justin is manager of air service development for the Kansas City Aviation Department.

2001
Jason Terreri and wife, Cara, announce the birth of their first child, H. Evan, who arrived on June 5. Jason is an airport planner for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Classmates and friends can reach him at Jason.Terreri@atlanta-airport.com.

2002
John MacHarrie is stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany. He recently deployed to Afghanistan, where he was the detachment commander for all U.S. Army fixed wing assets in that country. He may be contacted at jmacharrie@hotmail.com .

2004
Beth McMillan was selected to receive the Captain Harry D. Vernon, Jr. Scholarship and the Circle of Friends Scholarship for research and thesis work at the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. She was a member of the class of 2006, Marine Affairs and Policy.

Noureen (Idrees) Asad and husband Ahsan are parents to Yusuf, born June 2005. She attends Florida Southern University College of Medicine. The family resides in Boca Raton, Fla. Her email is noureenidrees@hotmail.com.

2005
Fernando Garcia Bermudez has been awarded a National Science Foundation research fellowship for his graduate studies.

in memoriam

Robert M. Armstrong ’77 M.S. died of cancer in December 2005. He was retired from a 26-year career with the U.S. Air Force. At that time, he joined Northrop Grumman and worked on the B-2 bomber. He is survived by his widow, Carol, of McAlester, Okla.

John L. Anderson ’73 M.S., ’75 M.B.A., passed away in May 2006 in Pueblo, Colo. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Loretta, his son Thomas ’90 B.S., his daughter Leslie and four grandchildren.

Brook Simmons ’89 passed away in January 2006. He was employed as a mechanical engineer at the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C., for 16 years. His survivors include parents, Col. Robert L. and Gloria Simmons of Arlington, Va., and a sister.


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