River Campus Undergraduate: 1970s

1971

Dave Skonieczki sent a photo showing him with John Cogar and Dave Cidale at the August 2006 wedding of John’s daughter, Jennifer.

1974

Cory Amron has been named a 2007 Washington, D.C., “Super Lawyer,” an annual listing that recognizes only 5 percent of D.C. area attorneys. Cory specializes in intellectual property law for the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease.

1975

David Edmunds Jr., special counsel in the Buffalo offices of the Phillips Lytle law firm, was appointed to a two-year term on New York’s Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Eighth Judicial District. The commission will evaluate candidates for judicial office to determine whether they are qualified for the office in which they seek election. David focuses his practice in the areas of ethics and professional responsibility and civil litigation defense.

1977

Debra Ehrlich Brush writes that she is director of Parent-Child Home Programs at Newton Community Service Center in Newton, Mass. She lives in Weston, Mass., with her husband, Alan, a physician, and her three children: Jesse, 24, a second-year law student at Yale; Carly, 21, a University of Pennsylvania senior; and Michele, 18, a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis. Debra regrets that she will be unable to attend the 30th reunion because she will be traveling in Asia. . . . Tony Rafel and two other in his Rafel Manville law firm have collectively been named “Boss of the Year” for 2007 by the National Association of Legal Support Professionals of Greater Seattle.

1979

Steve Gunther was one of nine “philanthropist-candidates” selected by the Minnesota chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to compete in a national fundraising campaign. The philanthropist-candidates spent nine weeks leading efforts to raise money and awareness for the society as part of the 2007 Man & Woman of the Year competition. Steve, a founder of the business consulting company Mosaica Partners, and his wife, Helen Katz Gunther ’78, have two sons and live in Excelsior, Minn. . . . Earl Norman, a faculty member in the Department of Surgery at Michigan State University and Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, was chosen by the graduating class of Michigan State’s College of Human Medicine to receive a faculty teaching award at last spring’s commencement. . . . Navy Capt. Sean Pybus, a commander with Naval Special Warfare Group One in San Diego, was nominated this spring for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. His sister, Nani Pybus, sent a note to recognize her brother’s accomplishments.