This list, culled from college records, is a sampling of alumni who majored in economics and business.
Warren DePrenger ’55 is president of Matman
Wrestling Co., Tacoma, Wash.
Thomas LaMotte ’56, Cleveland, retired from
Fairview Hospital nine years ago and
is now an executive-in-residence in the
graduate program in health care administration
at Cleveland State University
Noel Neu ’57 is on the board of directors for
CAT Scale Company in Walcott, Iowa.
Terry Gibson ’59 is senior vice president of
alumni and college advancement at
Cornell College.
Gary Jorgensen ’60 is chairman of the board
of VJS Construction Services, Pewaukee,
Wis.
William Keck ’60 is president of Parking, Inc.,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Lee Swanson ’60 is chairman and CEO of
State Bank of Cross Plains in Cross
Plains, Wis.; director and audit chair,
ex-commission and compensation
committee of Madison Gas & Electric
Company; and director and chair,
finance committee, Rocky Mountain
Elk Foundation.
Jack W. Sunderlage ’61, Salt Lake City, Utah, is
president and CEO of Content Watch,
Inc. and chairman of the board of the
World Trade Center Utah.
Tom Davies ’62, Milwaukee, retired last year
from Carpenter Brothers, where he
was executive vice president. He still
consults with the company.
John Urheim ’62 was vice chairman and CEO,
Atrix Laboratories, Fort Collins,
Colo., prior to retiring in 1999 following
heart surgery.
Robert M. Jones ’63 retired a little over a year
ago. The company he started, Mimco,
Inc., Troy, Mich., was absorbed by
Magna International, Inc. Prior to his
retirement, he was vice president, pension
investments and administration.
Richard L. Chambers ’65, Chicago, is the
managing principal and founder
of Hart Capital Management, a
registered investment adviser and a
division of Arbor Research & Trading,
Inc., where he manages the bond
portfolios of municipal police and
fire pension funds. He also manages
investment funds at Brookshire Raw
Materials Group.
Jay Pieper ’65 is vice president of corporate
development and treasury affairs, Partners
HealthCare System, Inc., Boston.
Don A. Aripoli ’67 spent most of 2007, at the
request of the president, as the vice
president for university advancement,
Missouri State University, Springfield,
Mo. He is now back in the role he
filled for 13 years as vice president for
student affairs.
Richard J. Glasier ’67, Alton, Ill., retired two
years ago as president and CEO for Argosy
Gaming Corporation. For many
years, he was chief financial officer for
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. He is a
Cornell trustee.
Jim Hunzelman ’67, Fort Worth, Texas, is
president of Hunzelman & Co., an actuarial
consulting firm. He specializes
in pension plans for small- to medium-sized
companies.
Thomas M. Steinberg ’67 owns T. M. Steinberg
& Assoc., a consulting firm that assists
companies in the hospitality business.
He has offices in both Chicago and
Naples, Fla., and has published several
articles in the Hospitality Financial
& Technology Professionals journal
Bottomline. He also served on the
International Board of Directors of
the HFTP.
Thomas Brown ’68 is president of Brown
Nationalease in Des Moines, Iowa
Doug Shuman ’68, Hoffman Estates, Ill.,
retired in 2004 from Sears Roebuck
& Company, where he was vice
president.
Stephen C. Beilke ’69 is an attorney-shareholder
with Murphy Desmond S.C.,
Madison, Wis.
Sydney Smith Hicks ’69 is chief executive officer for SSHICKS Advisors in Plano,
Texas.
Blaine Shaum ’69 is vice president, Wells
Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, Calif. He is a
Cornell trustee.
Gary Dohrn ’70 is president of Dohrn Transfer
Company, Rock Island, Ill.
Andrew Applebee ’71, Jacksonville, Ill., is chairman
of the Jacksonville Savings Bank.
David Johnson ’71 is an attorney and partner
with Johnson and Lane in Knoxville,
Iowa.
William Travis Jr. ’73, Minneapolis, is a CPA
and partner at McGladrey & Pullen.
Mearl Bergeson ’74 is vice president, senior
financial advisor at Merrill Lynch in
Seattle.
Charles Wallman ’75, Madison, Wis., is general
partner for Wellman Investments LP.
Michael K. Carr ’76 is vice president tax and
treasury, AAR CORP and Subsidiaries,
in Wood Dale, Ill.
David Korslund ’76 is an executive vice
president with ABN AMRO Bank NV
based in Amsterdam. He is working on
the integration of the Western Europe
corporate banking portion of ABN
AMRO with Royal Bank of Scotland,
and he is on the board of directors of
ShoreBank Corporation in Chicago.
Samuel Lou ’76, Chicago, is managing director
of TransPacific Capital Funding,
LLC.
Helen Manich ’77 is chief corporate development
officer for Current to Current
Corporation in Burlington, Mass.
Carol Ridder Thompson ’77, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, is director, Marion and Resource
Centers, for Kirkwood Community
College.
Randi Lewis ’78, a Denver attorney, was
a managing principal with Buck
Consultants, a global human resources
consulting firm, for 19 years. She took
early retirement in 2007 and currently
enjoys being a stay-at-home mom for
their 10-year-old son. Her former
career involved equal parts law and
business management.
Mark Robinow ’78 is chief financial officer of
the Kona Grill, Phoenix.
Paul Doxsee ’79 is president and chief operating
officer of Sentry Life Insurance
Company of New York.
Dean Riesen ’79 is the managing partner
for Rimrock Capital Partners, LLC,
Phoenix.
Kevin Riordan ’79 is audit partner, banking
and capital markets for PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP, Chicago.
John Scoville III ’79 owns JSL, SA de CV, a
commodities trading company located
in San Salvador, El Salvador, from
which he handles the exportation of
coffee from Central America. He is
also a broker for Price Futures Group/
LIT in Chicago.
John Young III ’79 is president of Burd & Fletcher
Company, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.
James Dorwaldt ’82, Birmingham, Ala., is senior
vice president, managing director
of Synovus Securities.
Richard Long ’82 is director of private placements
for Principal Global Investors,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Thomas O’Kane ’82 is controller for Michael
Foods in Lenox, Iowa.
Michael J. Burk ’83 is executive director, strategic
development, MBM Corporation,
Rocky Mount, N.C.
Peter Avildsen ’84 is executive vice president
of ImageSpan Inc. in Sausalito, Calif.
Barry Boyer ’84 is president and CEO for
Van Meter Industrial, Inc., in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
Curtis Brown ’84, Detroit, is senior vice president,
global marketing for Comerica
Bank.
Eileen Quigley ’84 is vice president of operations
at Merrill Lynch Capital in
Chicago.
Yves Saad ’85 has been a volunteer firefighter
since 1986 and ex-fire chief since
1998. He is an EMT for North Bergen
Emergency Medical Service and lives
in Stewartsville, N.J.
Thomas Pate ’86 is U.S. Geographic Services
executive director for Accenture
Foundation, Inc., Chicago, where he’s
responsible for the management of
human resources, facilities, and other
back office duties.
Peter Stachow ’86, Eagle, Wis., is principal/
co-owner of Liquid Process Equipment,
Inc. The company has facilities
in Eagle and Little Chute, Wis.
Brett L. Denker ’87, Mt. Prospect, Ill., is senior
vice president of Midwest Bank &
Trust Company.
Thomas Davies Jr. ’88 is regional vice president
of HUB International, Avon, Colo.
David Hanses ’88 is director of major gifts at
Chicago’s Museum of Science and
Industry.
Jeffrey A. Miller ’88, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is
senior vice president, Heartland Investment
Associates.
Gus Pasquale ’88, West Palm Beach, Fla.,
is executive vice president and
co-founder of Element Funding, a
residential mortgage lender licensed
in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina,
and South Carolina.
Diane Sergeant Ramsey ’88 is a commercial
banker and part-time credit manager at
Wells Fargo Bank, Bloomington, Minn.
Thomas Soseman ’88, an attorney, is a
partner at Thiedmann & Edler in
Chicago.
Steven Szpytek ’88, Downers Grove, Ill.,
was executive vice president, chief
operations officer, for Encore
Credit Corporation prior to the
company buyout by Bear Stearns.
Jim Wilmot ’88 is vice president, sales and
lending, at Tucson Old Pueblo
Credit Union, Tucson, Ariz.
Jeffrey Clark ’89, Cedar Falls, Iowa, is a
board certified orthopedic surgeon
at Cedar Valley Medical Specialists
and the team physician at the
University of Northern Iowa.
Carter A. White ’91 is senior vice president,
head of trading, at AWAS (Ireland)
Limited in Dublin, Ireland.
Steven Knier ’91, Milwaukee, is senior vice
president/COO of Red Edge Labs,
an integrated marketing services
agency providing marketing strategy
and consulting, optimization of
marketing operations, and execution
of targeted communication
campaigns.
Martin Morris ’93, Chicago, is director,
Chicago Equity Partners, where he
is one of a team of six quantitative
portfolio managers with responsibility
for managing around $12 billion
in institutional U.S. equities.
Scott Russell ’94 is chief strategy officer
and vice president of sales and
marketing for Cloverdale Foods
Company, Mandan, N.D.
Scott Smiley ’96 is based in Singapore
where he is sales coordinator key
accounts, Asia/Pacific, for JAS
Forwarding Worldwide Asia.
Daniel Timmer ’96, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is
director of strategic marketing for
GreatAmerica Leasing Corporation.
Miguel Zarate ’96 is senior consultant/vice
president of The Marco Consulting
Group, Chicago.
Rogene Pendleton Pejanovic ’97 is vice
president, product management,
for MasterCard Worldwide, Purchase,
N.Y.
Erik Murray ’98 is a financial analyst for
Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
