Bobcat Tracks

1980s

Phillip Ertel, BS ’80, is clerk of Shaker Heights Municipal Court. He and his wife, Susan Ertel, BSHSS ’80, live in University Heights, Ohio.

Muhammad Umar Jamaal, BBA ’80, is chief executive officer and majority shareholder of Global Consulting Services in Cleveland, a company specializing in e-business strategies and corporate financial management.

Sterling Winn Jr., BSC ’80, of Laurel, Md., is director of sales at PointOne Telecommunications.

Nancy Dinger Aikins, BFA ’81, is a senior graphic designer at Executive Caterers. She and her husband, Gene, live in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

Mary Lynd, BSN ’81, received the Nursing Faculty Recognition Award for Leadership in Nursing Education from the Ohio Nurses Association. Lynd has been a registered nurse for 38 years and a nurse educator for 20. She has taught nursing at Ohio University-Chillicothe for the last four years and before that taught part time on the Athens campus.

Dennis Spisak, BSC ’81, is principal at Southern Local High School in Salineville, Ohio. He and his wife, Molly, have three children, Brittany, Michael and Patrick.

Elizabeth Winkler, BA ’81, MA ’89, of Columbus, Ga., won an award for outstanding contributions to the study, conservation and interpretation of caves by the Cave Research Foundation of Mammoth Cave, Ky.

Gary Wolfe, BSIT ’81, is a commander at the North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego. He and his wife, Susan, have a son, Christopher.

Ed Romaine, BSJ ’82, is director of marketing and e-commerce business development for Remstar International. He and his wife, Lisa Romaine, BSHEC ’81, live in Port Murray, N.J.

Mark Davidson, BSJ ’84, is managing editor of McGraw-Hill’s Energy and Business Newsletters in Washington, D.C.

Kevin Gildow, BBA ’84, is a data entry operator at First National Bank of Waverly, Ohio.

Matt Jenkins, BS ’84, an assistant professor of broadcast production at Cameron University, received an honorable mention for the documentary “Atomic Annie” at the 67th Annual American International Film and Video Festival. The documentary depicts the first nuclear detonation of a projectile fired by cannon.

Steven Rader, BSPE ’84, MSA ’86, PHD ’91, is associate professor of sports management at Shawnee State University, where he is head women’s basketball coach. His wife, Rhoni Maxwell-Rader, BSC ’89, MED ’93, is pursuing a doctorate in counselor education at Ohio University.

K. Brian McKee, BSED ’85, president of the Arabian Horse Association of Ohio, was featured in a front-page story in The Zanesville Times Recorder about his Arabian horse breeding farm in McConnelsville, Ohio. McKee has been a church organist for 21 years.

Kevin Sacket, BBA ’85, is treasurer of Admiralty Bancorp and executive vice president/CEO of Admiralty Bank in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He and his wife, Jennifer Peter Sacket, BSHEC ’87, live in Lake Worth, Fla.

Zhixiong Cai, MS ’86, PHD ’91, an associate professor and chair of the mathematics department at Barton College, received the 2000 Jefferson-Pilot Faculty Member of the Year Award.

Joseph Jablonski, PHD ’86, of Perry, Ohio, is a senior scientist at Ricerca LLC.

Rex Scott, AB ’86, BSED ’88, is assistant principal at Doole Middle School in Tucson, Ariz. He and his wife, Teresa, have twins, Caitlin and Trent.

Ghazali Ismail, BBA ’87, is executive director at ASSAR Asset Management in Malaysia.

Joan Mabee, BSRS ’87, MSPE ’90, is an area supervisor in the Cleveland office of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Watercraft. She married Michael Samsel on Sept. 30.

Shari Peace, BSJ ’87, is president of Peace Talks, a Dayton, Ohio-based professional speaking firm that provides training, consulting and motivational programs to Fortune 500 companies, professional associations and government agencies.

Art Rossin, BBA ’87, of Decatur, Ga., is a systems technician/field engineer at BellSouth. He and his wife, Susan, were married in August 1999.

Christine Cestone Wilson, BSC ’87, a pharmaceutical consultant at Innovex Corp., married Mark Wilson, a senior graphic designer at UTA Inc., in September 1999. They live in Annapolis, Md.

Sarah Redfern Buehler, BS ’88, is the human resources director at Utah State Hospital. Buehler and her husband, Jack, have two sons, Connor Jackson and Christopher.

Matthew Giansante, BSC ’88, is director of sales and e-commerce for Internet services at Mercury Radio Communications Corp., which has four stations in Buffalo, N.Y. He also is president of the upstate New York chapter of the Ohio University Alumni Association. He resides in Clarence Center, N.Y., with his wife, Katherine.

Donna Mattei Johnson, BSC ’88, launched a trade show company in Laurel, Md. She and her husband, Jack, and their daughter, Madeleine, recently moved from Dallas to Annapolis, Md.

Alan Litvak, BSC ’88, developed a television production company called Slice Productions. In addition to doing sports events, corporate videos and commercials, Litvak is the host of a monthly boxing show and produces the Houston Astros baseball pre-game show. He and his wife, Kelly Stewart Litvak, BSVC ’88, have a daughter, Courtney, and live in Katy, Texas.

Michael Buell, BSJ ’89, a marketing director with the architectural firm Brandstetter Carroll Zofcin Inc., has moved to Strongsville, Ohio, to focus on the company’s Cleveland office.

Kelly Francisco, BSC ’89, of Huron, Ohio, is development director at the American Lung Association of Ohio.

Bill Patton, BGS ’89, is managing director of the Beachwood and Dublin, Ohio, offices of Cunningham Group, a national broker of medical malpractice insurance services. He and his wife, Andrea Patton, had their first child, Abby, in May.

Michael Quinlan, BSC ’89, is a district technology coordinator for Upper Scioto Valley Local Schools in Hardin County, Ohio. He received a master’s degree in education from the University of Findlay in May and has a K-8 Ohio teaching certificate. He and his wife, Cathy, have a son, Jonathan.