1975

Pam Snite Kerr will be a Rotary district governor beginning in July. Her district encompasses 70 clubs and 2,800 volunteers in the North and Northwest suburbs of Chicago. She works with other Rotary districts around the world and the Rotary Foundation to initiate projects, grants and scholarships that promote peace and understanding through a global fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Myron Karasik moved with his wife, Miriyam, to Cathedral City, Calif., two years ago. He has been a partner with Tatum for the last four years. Myron most recently served as CFO for two privately held healthcare services companies. He wrote a chapter in a book (forthcoming, by University of Michigan Press) on scientific prediction methods and the human condition. Myron's daughter, Ruth, who lives in Chicago and is a graduate of the School of the Art Insitute of Chicago, has formed her own fashion company. His son, Jacob, is completing studies at Loyola in the history honors program after spending a semester in Rome.

Deanna (Witmer) Doyle hung out her shingle a year ago as an independent marketing research consultant and loves being on her own. She can work either from her home in Cleveland or her home in Ft. Myers, Fla., or any place with Internet access and cell phone reception. Three years ago, Deanna married Roger Fisher, an independent consultant in the lean operations space. They enjoy traveling together throughout the United States, Canada and Great Britain to work with clients or to visit their children.

Bradley Bertoch and his wife, Robyn, recently became grandparents to Zachary.

Rohit Deshpande invites '75ers to call or visit when they are in Boston. He has been elected to the national board of directors of the American Marketing Association, so he finds himself on South Wabash in Chicago every so often. He has also been named Henry B. Arthur Fellow of Business Ethics to supplement his Sebastian S. Kresge Professorship in Marketing at the Harvard Business School and will receive the 2008 Alumnus of the Year award from the University of Pittsburgh, which is where he received his PhD after Northwestern (under the thesis guidance of former professor Jerry Zaltman).