Class Notes

1965 David O’Brien (PhD) delivered the commencement address at Manhattan College and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the school. David is a professor emeritus of history and Catholic studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

1969 April Anson Dammann (MA) has written a book, Corita Kent: Art and Soul (Angel City Press), a biography of the artist and radical nun, Sister Mary Corita. April is an author and theatrical producer in Los Angeles. She writes predominantly about art, and has also written for radio, television, and motion pictures.

1978 Elizabeth (Lisl) Roth Thaler (MS) (see ’76 College).

1984 Brad Holcomb has won the Institute for Supply Management’s highest award, the J. Shipman Gold Medal Award. Formerly the senior vice president and senior procurement officer for Dean Foods in Dallas, Texas, Brad is chair of the institute’s manufacturing business survey committee.

1986 Doug Criscitello (MS) (see ’84 College).

1987 Robert Amico (PhD), professor of philosophy at St. Bonaventure University, has written a book, Antiracist Teaching (Paradigm Publishers). . . . Allen Earman (MS) has been inducted as a fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. Allen is principal optical engineer at AOptix Technologies, a developer of ultra-high capacity wireless communication networks based near San Jose, California.

1993 Ron Cole (PhD) has been named provost and dean at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

1994 Betsy Huang (PhD) is coeditor of Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Rutgers University Press). She’s an associate professor of English and chief officer of diversity and inclusion at Clark University.

1999 Warren Payne (MS) has joined the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm Mayer Brown. Previously policy director of the House Ways and Means Committee, Warren is senior advisor in Mayer Brown’s tax, government relations, and international trade practices.

2005 Travis Hebden (MS) (see ’01 College).

2007 Ryan Aures (MS) (see ’06 College).

2013 Dave Ewans (MA) has published his first novel. Wages of Sin (Ravenswood Publishing), Dave writes, is an urban fantasy “that couples explorations of identity in modern-day America with the preternatural power struggles of comic book fantasy.”