Profile Category: Author

   Rick Brown served as sports editor of the Northeastern News his middler and junior years and was managing editor as a senior. He went on to work full-time for the (Waltham, Mass.) News-Tribune for 16 years and part-time for the (Attleboro, Mass.) Sun Chronicle for more than 10 years before going into teaching in the...

     For John O’Leary, the decades since graduating from Northeastern bring to mind a well-known Grateful Dead lyric: “What a long, strange trip it’s been.”      A political science major at Northeastern, he never imagined that he would go into the business world. But a job in the administration of Massachusetts Gov. Frank Sargent showed him that...

     Kathy met Marty, her husband of 50 years, when they both worked on the Northeastern News, and married him soon after graduation, with several fellow Newsers in the wedding party.      She attended Teachers’ College, Columbia University, where she earned a master’s degree in Special Education, the start of a more than 40-year career in that...

     Peter Accardi, who served as editor-in-chief of the Northeastern News in 1967-’68, began his journalism career on co-op at the Boston Globe in April 1965, “and never left,” he says. Eventually, he was hired by the sports department and became the slot man/head of the copy desk. Peter transferred to the Living/Arts copy desk, which...

After graduating from Northeastern with a bachelor’s degree, Maxine went to work for her co-op employer, the Social Security Administration, where she spent the first 20 years there in a variety of automation jobs, and then retired after 36 years. She returned to Northeastern after the first 20 years as the first woman instructor in...

“After graduation in 1968, I drove to San Francisco with a boyfriend.  Worked in the bookstore at SF State (a few sightings of S.I. Hayakawa). Boyfriend decamped to ‘find himself’. Taught third grade in a parochial school. Returned east with my cat in 1970. Settled in the Back Bay. Taught adults in a GED program. Northeastern...

Harvey, who served in many academic and administrative roles for almost 40 years at Northeastern University, received a Bachelor of Arts in English-Journalism (1961), a Master of Arts in English and American Literature (1964), a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (C.A.G.S.) in Rehabilitation Administration (1975), and a doctorate in Higher Education Administration (1986). His responsibilities...

Ed has had an outstanding career spanning the journalistic, philanthropic and nonprofit arenas. He was the editor of two weekly newspapers; was an award-winning military editor; and was an adjunct college instructor (English composition, journalism, and public speaking) for over 30 years. He established and directed the Terry Fox 5-k charity run (Bangor, Maine) over...

Immediately before his retirement, Bob was Professor of Communications at Middlesex Community College (Lowell and Bedford, Mass.). Prior to that he held positions as: Dean of Academic Affairs (Massachusetts Communications College), Dean (Northeast Broadcasting School – Boston), Media Technology Department Chair (Bunker Hill Community College), and Media Center Director (Northern Essex Community College). Earlier in...

Len is a philanthropic fundraising consultant and Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). Prior to consulting, he headed institutional fundraising programs for three major hospitals in Ontario and three Canadian national charities (The Royal Conservatory of Music, the Children’s Aid Foundation and Kids Help Phone). He has led and coordinated numerous campaigns that have generated hundreds...