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After graduating, Scott initially worked six years as a copywriter for several insurance companies. In 1979, he and his wife Karen, started Tide-mark, a publishing company. They began making topical calendars and have continued to do so over the past 40 years. Over the years, they’ve engaged fellow Northeastern News colleagues to assist with various calendars,...

Nedda has been a lifelong, dedicated teacher with certifications in special education and assistive technology. After graduating from Northeastern, she taught English at a junior high school in Boston, and also went on to get her master’s degree at Northeastern. Her husband Howie is also a Northeastern alumnus with bachelor and doctorate degrees in chemistry....

Mike is a retired software developer. He has had a highly successful career working for companies such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Arkwright Boston (Factory Mutual System), Interactive Data and Chase Manhattan Bank. He also ran his own company proLAN Systems. Reflecting back, Mike says: “I came to Northeastern as a foreign student from Hong Kong. I...

Mary is a managing director of Gelinas James, Inc., and has more than 40 years of experience as an organization development consultant, process designer, facilitator, educator, thinking partner and author. She has worked with leaders, organizations and boards in all sectors using innovative, collaborative and practical approaches that are based in the behavioral and brain...

Margaret Rhodes leveraged her editing experience on the Northeastern News and newspaper co-op jobs to get an editing job for the energy group at an economic forecasting and information company. Over her 37 years at that company and its successor entities, her job evolved along two parallel tracks: writing articles and consulting projects about a...

John is a Certified Business Economist. He is currently president of Dynamic Economic Strategy, LLC and focused on financial and economic advisory work, writing a weekly newsletter, presenting economic concepts and commenting on economic issues at several conferences. He also serves as economic advisor to Carolinas Investment Consulting headquartered in Charlotte, N.C.  He was managing director...

Joel has as eclectic a resume as anyone could imagine. He is retired and continues living his dream. He expresses it this way:  “On a perfectly gorgeous April day in 1971, I was walking around Fresh Pond in Cambridge with my best friend and roommate, Nick, when suddenly we were both struck by the same...

“Having literally grown up at Northeastern, I knew all along I’d be going there. I graduated in 1974, then worked there for two years.   “Since at the time Northeastern had no music major, I was allowed to create my own. I wrote a proposal to major in ‘Music History and Criticism.’ My ambition was to become the...

Gil served on the Northeastern News for four years, including a stint as editor-in-chief, while his then-and-still wife, Margie, held the managing editor’s post. He has been writing ever since. While at NU, he worked co-op and part-time in the Boston Globe sports department and then on a weekly business paper called  the 128 World, headquartered in the basement of...

Donna was a longtime writer and editor at TENNIS magazine, New York Times-owned back then. She rose from assistant editor in 1979 to become its first female editor and a NYT vice president from 1990 to 1998. She was the only female editor of a major sports publication at the time. She made her own...