John W. Quinn is retired but keeps his hand in the business as the Kansas City correspondent for Variety Magazine, a job he has held since 1933.

Forrest Brown is a retired supermarket operator. He has two sons, one of whom graduated from UNL and the other from Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Charline Dein Nelson retired in 1995 from a secretarial position at W.S. Desch Sons, York. She and her late husband Richard are the parents of two UNL graduates: Linda Nelson and Robert Nelson.

Janet Haggart Trojan, North Webster, Ind., is retired after a career as a writer and broadcaster in Omaha, Hollywood, Calif., and Chicago. She also worked for an advertising agency and as director of public relations for an Illinois senior citizen agency. She now lives near her 10 grandchildren and writes books.

Jack Botts is retired from his position as professor and news-editorial department chairman at UNL. He writes, gardens and builds furniture.

Ramon D. Hansen is editor and publisher of the Carthage Republican Tribune, a small weekly in upstate New York. He has been in newspapering for 50 years.

Marlin Bree, author and book publisher, has been selected to be included in the 1999 Who’s Who in America. He is the author of the nonfiction books, In the Teeth of the Northeaster: A Solo Voyage on Lake Superior and Call of the North Wind. He co-wrote the national best-selling book, Alone Against the Atlantic. He has also been profiled in Who’s Who in the Midwest and Who’s Who in Entertainment. He is publisher for Marlor Press Books, St. Paul, Minn, which has won awards as Publisher of the Year and has been ranked among the Best 101 Publishers in the United States.

Winona Spink Diamantopoulos is the owner of Williams Alexander and Associates, a debt management company, and is an officer of the Pompton Lakes Rotary Club, Pompton Lakes, N.J.

Hal Foster is the Warner Chair visiting professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He earned a master’s degree at Ohio State in 1972 and a Ph.D. at North Carolina two years `ago. Before that he spent 30 years as a reporter, editor or manager at the Omaha World-Herald, Portland Oregonian, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo and the Asahi Evening News in Tokyo.

Judith Mahar Stoia is working on a new children’s program for PBS. PBS aired her film on a homeless couple on Oct. 8.

Dewayne Gahan and his family were helped out by the Nebraska Press Association and its members last summer after Gahan’s son, Greg, was injured in an accident while he was traveling in Mexico. The NPA established a fund to help pay the family’s medical bills. At last report, Greg was recovering well.

Kathy Hall is a communications specialist with the King County Department of Transportation in Seattle, Wash.

Gail Herstead, Redondo Beach, Calif., is a project engineer with Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Linda Robinson Rutz is executive vice president of Union Agency in Lincoln.

Nance Herman Harris is president of Planned Parenthood of Lincoln and vice president of member services for the Nebraska Motor Carriers Association.

Christopher Harper is a professor and holds the Park Distinguished Chair in the department of television-radio at the Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y.

Margaret Mezoff Holman, owner and president of Holman Philanthropic Management Inc. in New York City is co-author of a new book, “The Complete Guide to Careers in Fund Raising.”

Robert Krecklow, publisher of the Grand Island Independent, has taken on additional responsibilities as a regional manager of the newspaper’s parent company, Morris Communications Corp. Krecklow has added supervisory responsibility for the Brainerd (Minn.) Daily Dispatch , the Dodge City ( Kan.) Daily Globe, the Newton (Kan.) Kansan, the Yankton, (S.D.) Publishing Group and the York (Neb.) News-Times.

Stan Linhorst was recently appointed to the newly formed Board of Visitors for Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. The board is responsible for helping the school identify new opportunities and for advising the administration on curriculum issues, strategic planning, development and fund-raising. Linhorst is director of new media for Syracuse Newspapers.

Roxann Rogers Meyer works for Zimmerman Laurent and Richardson Advertising, Omaha, as vice president, account services. Her husband, Dean, is a doctor of optometry. They have two children: Michelle, 16; Max, 10.

Daniel Charleston is the director of national sales for Jacor Communications’ 10 broadcast stations in San Diego, Calif.

Gene Chohon is market manager for Intelligent Network Services, Lucent Technologies, Naperville, Ill. He previously worked for AT&T.

Rusty Cunningham, LaCrosse, Wis., is editor of the LaCrosse Tribune. He is past chairman of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council.

Phil Johnson is president and chief operating officer of Colle & McVoy Inc., Minneapolis.

Susan Leopard Weidner, Omaha, is managing partner of Leopard Inc., a marketing communications firm now 11 years old. She and her husband, Tim Weidner, owner of Homer’s Music, have two children: Sarah, 6, and Matthew, 3.

Mary Jane Bruce is a video producer at UNL public relations, having spent the previous 14 years in TV news. She and her husband, Tom Stephens, have two children: Daniel and Bryan.

Chuck Pool, Jr., is director of advertising for the Houston Astros. He is married, and he and his wife have four children.

Kristen Hansen Gallagher is director of communications for DePaul University in Chicago. She won a Gold Quill Award of Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators for DePaul’s on-line calendar of events, accessible from the home page at www.depaul.edu.

Lori Migliano was married in June 1996 and lives in suburban Milwaukee. She covers the courts for the Waukesha Freeman.

Karen Brokaw has been named a vice president at Ayres Advertising/Marketing, Lincoln. She joined Ayres in 1986 and was promoted to media director in 1989, to account executive in 1992 and to director of client services in 1997.

Linnea Fredrickson is an associate editor at Cliffs Notes Inc., Lincoln.

Dale A. Cox, Sacramento, Calif., is public affairs officer for the California district of the U.S. Geological Survey and co-author of the Groundwater Guardian Program and the USGS Investigative Report on Water Level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer, 1993. He is the father of three children: Katie, Elizabeth and Suzanne.

Perry Stoner has been a videographer/editor at Nebraska ETV for the last seven years. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from UNL in 1996 and married Jessica Carlat in October 1997.

Paul Hogan and his wife, Lori, were named Omaha’s 1998 Small Business Persons of the Year by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and KPMG Peat Marwick LP. The award is presented annually to a small business meeting strict accelerated growth requirements and community involvement criteria. Hogan and his wife founded Home Instead Senior Care in June 1994. The company began franchising in 1995 and is now one of the top 100 fastest growing franchise companies in the nation with 140 franchises in 33 states.

Joel Sartore was featured in the November issue of News Photographer, the monthly magazine of the National Press Photographers Association. One of his photos appeared on the cover.

Stewart and Katherine “Kit” Scheller Price ('88) are the parents of Gwendolyn Celeste, their first child, who was born June 18. The family lives in Louisville, Ky.

Michelle Kubik is managing editor for publications at the Denver Museum of Natural History. She was previously lifestyles editor at the Fort Collins Coloradoan.

Jana Turpin McGuire is a self-employed video producer and writer in Lincoln. She also does voice-over and on-camera work. She and her husband Mick have two boys: Grady, 6, and Will, 4.

David Nuckolls has left his job at Disney World to be an executive producer at CNN. He has been hired to work on a project that will produce 520 segments about the millennium. Beginning Jan. 4, 1999, his work will be seen 24 times each business day around the world.

Lisa Gass Parramore earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa in 1992. She teaches computer desktop publishing at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. Her husband James is chairman of the Walsh University communication department. The couple has twins, born in 1996.

Susan Koziel Suggs, Bellevue, was recently promoted to business development director at DLR Group, one of the top 10 architectural/engineering firms in the nation. She is married to Bobby Suggs.

Dan Levy is marketing/advertising director for Ben Simon’s, Lincoln, and a freelance writer for Raytheon Aircraft.

Kit Scheller Price and her husband Stew are the parents of a daughter, Gwendolyn Celeste, born June 20, 1998. The family lives in Louisville, Ky.

Andrew Pollock has joined the Lincoln law firm of Brooks, Pansing Brooks P.C. as a partner. He specializes in telecommunications, year 2000, copyright and trademark law and was formerly a partner with Knudsen, Berkheimer, Richardson, Endacott and Routh law firm in Lincoln. He graduated from the NU College of Law in 1992. He and his wife, Kris, and their two children live in Wahoo.

Joan Rezac vonKampen is a copy editor for the Omaha World-Herald. Her husband Todd, a 1986 graduate, is a freelance reporter. They have two boys: Jonathan, 7; Joshua, 4.

Amy L. Matz is an assistant manager for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and owns her own catering business. She lives in Nampa, Idaho.

Greg M. Wendell is Denver field trainer for Nielsen Media Research (Nielsen Television Ratings). He lives in Evergreen, Colo.

Emily A. Rosenbaum has been a copy editor at the News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., for seven years.

Tim Siedell has been named a vice president at Ayres Advertising/Marketing, Lincoln. He joined the agency as creative director in 1997.

Kay M. Williams is working as a graphic designer at Action Group Printing in Omaha.

Kristin Karnopp is features page designer at the Detroit News.

Leigh Anne Kuper is an advertising account executive for the Omaha World-Herald.

John Bacon is marketing coordinator for Huntel Systems in Blair. He has been married for five years, and he and his wife have a daughter, Haley, 2.

Jennifer Williams Brinkman was married Mary 24, 1998, to Matthew Brinkman. They are living in Denver.

Dan Henderson is an associate production manager at Swanson Russell Associates, a Nebraska-based marketing communications firm. He purchases and maintains quality control on film, pre-press and printing projects. Before joining SRA, Henderson was with Graphics Plus in Lincoln.

Kay Kubicek, a graduate student, has taken a job as grants coordinator for the BryanLGH Foundation. She was previously a research proposal specialist for the biological systems engineering department at NU.

Melissa Castro works for the Washington, D.C., office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a law firm based in Kansas City. She graduated from Georgetown Law School in 1998. She works on advertising and PR aspects of product liability litigation.

Jennifer McClure Gutierrez is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in political science at UNL. She has received a fellowship to work on her thesis during the summer of 1999.

Mike Lewis is editor of the Nebraska Blue Book and a public information officer for the Nebraska Legislature.

Kari Mathiesen Loseke is assistant director in the Office of Admissions at UNL. She is married to Kurt Loseke.

Dawnn Moeller is the health reporter at WPTZ-TV, an NBC affiliate, in New York state.

Michelle Paulman tied for 5th place in the Region 9 Photographer of the Year contest. Region 9 includes Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho and Utah. Her work was done while she was a photographer for the Grand Island Independent.

Patricia Duggan is a presentation developer in the communications media department of SAP America in Philadelphia.

Tia Trauernicht, Eugene, Ore., has been promoted to key account manager for Revlon Corporation.

Debra Bogstie spent a little more than a year working in Vermont at WNNE-TV (an NBC affiliate) as a reporter/photographer. In July 1998, she took a job as a reporter at R-News, 24-hour cable station in Rochester, N.Y. She says she enjoys her work but does miss living in Nebraska, “especially during football season.”

Jessica Gregory Michaud is an account executive with Heinrich Relationship Marketing, based in Denver, Colo. She works on the Federated Department Stores account and handles marketing programs for eight Federated stores, including Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s. She also works on the Rock Bottom account; Rock Bottom owns Old Chicago, Rock Bottom and Walnut Breweries across the country. Before accepting her current position in March 1998, Michaud worked at Anderson partners in Omaha.

Angie Bring has joined the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ. She is ministering to college students at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Charles Isom has taken a position as press secretary for Rep. Bill Barrett, R.-Neb. He interned with Barrett during college and, from September 1997 through September 1998, was deputy press secretary for U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

Diana L. Konyek is married to Thomas S. Erickson, a 1990 UNL finance graduate.

Jason Nichelson, Omaha, is a media buyer for Envoy Advertising Public Relations, formerly HMJ & Associates.

Natalie Ortlip produces commercials for CableVision in Lincoln.

Gerik Parmele, a photographer at the Grand Island Independent, was one of 100 photojournalists accepted to attend the Eddie Adams Workshop in Jeffersonville, N.Y., in October. The workshop was designed to create a forum in which both new and established photojournalists could share ideas, techniques and philosophies. More than 800 people applied for the workshop, and participants are chosen on the basis of their portfolios and recommendations.

Parmele won 3rd place in feature singles for May in the Region 9 Photographer of the Year contest. He also won 3rd place for general news in April. Region 9 includes Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho and Utah.

Alexis Thomas does public relations work for Padilla Speer Beardsley in New York City.
Cameron Wessel has been promoted to weekend director at KOLN/KGIN-TV in Lincoln. His duties also include associate directing and graphics duties during the week. He joined KOLN/KGIN in December 1993 as a part-time production assistant.

Nurhayata Mohd Yusoff is working for a large broadcasting company, TV3, in Malaysia. She is an executive for its subsidiary company, Grand Brilliance, which produces films and animations locally and internationally. She works primarily in the animation department.

Jeff Fisher is working in Des Moines as a copywriter for an incentive marketing company.

Amy Larkins is a media assistant at Swanson Russell Associates, a marketing communications firm in Lincoln. She previously was a credit coordinator and personnel manager at Montgomery Ward & Co. in Lincoln.

Andy Schadwinkel is a copywriter with Lawrence and Schiller in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Rusty Shepard is doing event marketing and sales for DeWalt Black and Decker in Denver.

Kelly Spreen works in sales and marketing for Standard Registry in Denver.