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Richard M. ]oiner ’75 LAW throughout his career, includ-
has been reappointed by Gov ing store manager, district man-
_ Steve Beshear as an administra- ager and director of loss
  B E   tive law judge in the Depart- prevention.
ment of Workers Claims.
]oiner has served in this capac- ]ames W Gardner ’78 LAW is
l ity since 2001. He lives in vice chairman ofthe Kentucky
~ Madisonville. Public Service Commission.
' S`? He most recently has worked as
I gf?   Thomas W Strohmeier ’76 BE an attorney at Henry Watz
  is Chairman ofthe board of di- Gardner & Sellars PLLC in
  _`_4_ M \°‘&r___. » \ _   rectors ofthe Kentucky Unit of Lexington. He served previ-
    ; T   Recording for the Blind & ously on the Lexington-Fayette
    Ny     ` 3   y  ,7,;,aj7a.1.V.a    gysleilnc, She educagional li- Urban County Council.
  y ‘  »/ 7 y ` A jjj  l ag,}   .   `E     A `_ V//V  Wl  ·  W Z I`’' " ,i`.{>·-T  rary ea quartere in
              In         _ '       Louisville for students who William A. Hayes ’78 LAW
    A         K     l` V \» , A      ' cannot eHAectively read stan- was appointed by Gov. Steve
° _ T4 )!.    g  if   Q   {   T    ‘  [ L dard print because of a learning Beshear to serve as a member
 a v. __ _   r     I  if     disability. Strohmeier also is ofthe Kentucky Board of Tax
je; -3 ll  lf         vice president ofthe Morgan Appeals. He has been an attor-
ce:  :·‘‘ .·°' ¤ *    a a    ' ia Keegan Kentucky Public Fi- ney in private practice in Mid-
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‘?—  ,  .;4_;~_;._   ·   i ,     E  ?   ;e _;.;se - L nance Group. He was president dlesboro. He has previously
A     #°° “   of KingFish Restaurants and worked as commonwealth at-
em 2,7.2 the CFO of Executive & Galt torney for the 44th ]udicial
Ima ine O ur OWU House Hotels before he was Circuit.
g Y the CFO for the jefferson
Privgpg QSLQLQ gipugpgd gn ggrgg County Public Schools from David Kalasky’78 EN is direc-
. . 2001-2006. tor of business development for
Of PMS Uno Bluogfooo‘ NineSigma, aprovider ofopen
Mike Thieneman ’76 ’78 AS innovation solutions. He has
A forty-five thousand square foot mansion. retired recently from more than 20 years ofinnova-
Ten tennis courts. Four swimming pools. Whirlpool Corp. as executive tion and business development
A Staff of Cgtgrgrgr Pgrfy Plgnngrgr and vice president and chieftech- experience and was most re-
an award winning Chef. nology officer. He worked at cently an account development
Whirlpool for 31 years, hold- manager for Sun Microsystems.
Ear, drrnk, and Pray rn grand aryda Sneak away ing leaqlefhip roles in many Kalasky is based in Chicago, Ill.
from the real world to a lace from another time. amos o Y 6 organization in'
Watch your kids diseovefa Storybook Plgygrgundw Cluding acting as president of Delbert L. Lobb ’79 EN is
Hnsr a ban an and [nam ark Whirlpool Compressor Opera- president and chiefexecutive of
tions in Riva di Chieri, Italy. Westmoreland Coal Company
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William B. Stroube ’77 AS Lobb has been group executive
received the Outstanding for two years of Peabody En-
Arumni S mms Teacher ofthe Year Award at ergy Corp. Power River Basin
is not required the University of Evansville in operations in Gillette, Wyo. He
TO End Out how you can Indiana. Stroube, a professor of also has managed Peabody’s
bermg can yodie Massa health services administration, Twentymile Mine near Steam-
also was given a commemora- boat Springs, built and opened
tive plaque and $2,000. a gold mine in Argentina, a
coal mine in Columbia, and
SPINDLETQP HALL Kenneth Amos ’78 CIS is divi- worked as a mining engineer
sional vice president of loss pre- and later a manager at coal
vention for Walgreens. He mines in Alabama, Illinois, In-
® 25 5>277’7 l Snrndrmnnanrnrg started with the company in diana and Kentucky.
iionworks Pike near the Kentucky Horse Park 1973 as a stock clerk while he
was in high school. He contin-
ued working for the company
and received promotions
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