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Naperville, Ill., and later taught New York. She was inducted  
1 in the Department 0f Electrical into the Interior Design Maga-
Engineering at UK. zine Hall of Fame in 1995.
William N. Jeffrey L. Mcwaters ’78 BE is ¥
~ Buggess ’77 EN CEO and chairman of
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  project engi- `  Vx. · based in Virginia Beach, Va.,
1 neer with   which focuses on health care 1
  · Barge A coverage for lower-income and
1 Waggoner uninsured families and people
  0 Sumner & with disabilities. McWaters re-
1 _ Cannon Inc., cently was named to the board
an engineering firm in Hunts- of directors of the American
ville, Ala. He previously was Association of Health Plans.
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A ~ §·‘ g 9 ` CEO and chairman of
{N" 1   7 Juhn W. Hanekamp ’78 is vice PerkinElmer Inc., a company 1
{ K   ' % president of Eastern sales and which focuses on commercial I
_, { r trading for Peabody Coaltrade high technology markets. He
‘ ` 0 Inc., based in St. Louis, Mo. He recently was named to the
o is responsible for domestic board of directors of State
..-. A `A steam coal trading and broker- Street Corporation, a Boston,
i ‘ age activities and development Mass., based investment man-
Q of trading-related value-added agement company with $703
~ _ products and services in the billion under management.
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g Mark Neikirk ’77 AS is managing dean of library services at
` { .:4,   editor of The Cincinnati Post Gonzaga University`s Foley
C   i`“ . V and The Kenruck Post. He Center Libra . She has
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, '.   started rn 1979 with The Ken- worked at the unrversrty for 20
`   IllCky Post 3S 21 I`€pOI`lZ€I`, D6- y€E1I'S.
at, F _  cam? mgm my editor fn 985 Gail Elaine Cohee ’79 AS rs dr-
  _ / and rn 1996 became assrstant
I A managing editor. Neikirk is past rector Of the Sarah Doyle
  gg . _ Women`s Center at Brown
1 president of the Kentucky Asso- . , .
. ·~ . . . . University. She also rs a mem-
\ crated Press Editors Association. . .
g ber of the Governing Council
1 . .
  ,_ Gary Huffman ’78 AS rs an elec- of the National Women’s Stud-
  ° tronics engineer at the Defense ies Association and a long-time
1 Supply Center in Columbus, activist on national and local
1 _ Ohio. He was honored as asso- women’s issues. Cohee has
    I € ciate of the month for May for been a visiting professor in the
1 O ° his work with co-workers to im- Department of English at
prove the quality of integrated Siena College in Loudonville,
Open Game DaYS circuits, transistors, and other N.Y., and is a former tenured
lectronic components that are assitant professor of English at  E
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, supplied to the U.S. mrlrtary. Emporia State University rn
1     Huffman lives in Pickerington, Kansas.
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_ IO Charles Rrcks ’79 AS rs deputy
Shop 0l]lll]€ at Debra Lehman-Smith ’78 HES is a mayor of Lawrence, Ind. He
kb k designer and co—partner at has been economic develop-
WWW•u 00 St0r€•c0m Lehman-Smith & McLeish in ment director for the city since
Washington, D.C. She previ- 1997, and has been involved in
F()f 3   catalog, ously spent 12 years at implementing a city recycling
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in program, developing and pro-
’         Houston, Washington, D.C., and moting the city’s 21-field soc-
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