1988 Full-Time
Rep: Steve Langersteve.lang@motorola.com Brad Schneider was elected to the House of Representatives in November, serving the Illinois 10th District.
After 17 years as head of strategy for VHA Inc., Jeff Hayes left to start Koan Health, a healthcare technology company helping hospitals and their physician groups prosper under healthcare reform.
Dennis Sheehan is senior vice president of sales and marketing at Immersion Corp. He enjoyed golf in Ireland with old friends, celebrating his 50th a little late, and went with wife Mary to the Rose Bowl in January. No more teenagers for the Sheehans: their youngest Erin has turned 20.
Heather Donnelly Annaloro and husband Charlie had another year of not sitting still: wine sipping in San Francisco after a long road trip from North Andover, Mass., visiting nieces and nephews at colleges along the way. Never dull with them.
Pat Ciriacks traveled to Swaziland, Africa, spending most of his time in Bulembu. Through his work at Creation Technologies, he hopes to create a self-sustaining community that provides care and education to AIDS orphans. Pat continues to enjoy Creation, and is now in his people and culture leader role full time. Daughter Jenny is in her second year in the physical therapy program at Marquette. Son Kevin is halfway through year two of medical school, and enjoying fatherhood.
Susan Brazer is restarting her LionShare Media Company, a think-tank that does all things mobile and media in creating new products, apps and services.
After 10 years leading the server chipset business at Intel, Tom MacDonald is in charge of solid-state drives.
Diane Collins MacDonald is hustling the brood around, and playing on a tennis team in her spare time. Sarah is 20, Todd 17, Carissa 14 and Kevin 12: busy gang in Oregon, though Sarah, a member of Ballet Austin, is in Texas.
Mark Proudfoot travels a lot, spending half his time in the U.S., but has also taken some exotic trips, including one to India. Hanne Olsen Proudfoot has started a consulting firm, was elected to the local school board and is very involved in improving school health standards. She's a competitive runner these days, and won a prize for Renkert Oil at a conference in Arizona.
Mike Wapner is focusing on energy efficiency in the green building industry. The rest of his time he spends on home projects. The Wapners prefer older homes with charm, so you know what that means. Daughter Julia is 13 and became a bat mitzvah in April. Other daughter Anna is in 11 and tends toward gymnastics. They continue on their quest to visit all 50 states and state capitols, with trips to Louisiana, Mississippi, Maine and New Hampshire.
Amy Wahlert Principi continues to work for her church and school, and she and husband Joe have adjusted to being empty nesters. Daughter Molly is graduating a teacher in 2013, and son Nick is graduating from high school. A family vacation to Europe covered Amsterdam, Paris and Normandy.
Steve Langer's daughter Jamie is a senior at University of Minnesota, where the Langers catch up with Brent Koehler and Becky when dropping off and picking up. Son Michael is a sophomore at St. Olaf, and Matthew is a freshman in high school.
Boris J. Steffen was named managing director in the Washington, D.C., office of Gavin/Solmonese, a new corporate restructuring and public affairs strategy firm.
Antonio Dominguez was appointed by consensus as inspector general of the Panama Canal.
