Alumni Association: Western News: Western Illinois University

1970

Bernie Potter MS ‘71, Avon, is the band director at Christ Lutheran School in Peoria and was awarded the Outstanding Bandmaster Award at the Illinois Music Educators All-State Convention. (bptuba@mchsi.com)

1971

Christine Zelm, Greenwood Village, CO, is the senior vice president of sales for Artistic Studios in San Francisco, CA. (cjzelm@msn.com)

1972

Roger Brown, Bartonville, is a machinist at Cast Technologies in Peoria.
Ronald Lange, Streamwood, serves as president of the Elgin Sports Hall of Fame Foundation.

1973

John Kokoska, Powder Springs, GA, is the managing director at BDO Consulting Corporate Advisors, LLC in Atlanta.
Gail Porter McIntyre MS-ED ’89, Columbia, SC, is the principal of Palmetto Montessori School in Ridgeway. (gail.mcintyre@pmsr.org)
Ronald Nilsson MS, Wheaton, received the Donald Hunt Life Time Achievement Award from the Midwest Cooperative Education and Internship Association.

1975

Robin Burnham Clawson, Boca Raton, FL, is the vice president and associate general counsel for Kaplan Higher Education.
Paul Heady MS ’83, Anderson, CA, is the patrol captain for the U.S. Forest Service.
Steve Kruse, St. Louis, MO, is the chief of police for the Maplewood Police Department. (smkruse223@aol.com)
Rick Pott MA ’77, Downers Grove, retired from the Illinois State Police, is a member of the Medinah Highlanders Bagpipe Band, and is the Chairman of Recruitment for the Medinah Shriners. (rickpott@gmail.com)
Gerald Skarr, Naperville, is the vice president at Benefits Consultants. (g.skarr@yahoo.com)

1976

Frank Caccavallo MA ’77, Boulder, CO, is a Wachovia Securities premier advisor and was named to Barron’s top 1,000 Advisors list.
Julia Crisman McNabb, Fox River Grove, is a senior writer at HIMSS in Chicago. (jamcnabb@comcast.net)

1977

Ronald Lane MA, MA ’87, Brownsville, TX, is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville. (ronald.j.lane@utb.edu)

1978

Charles Bruner, Fairfax, VA, is a research fellow at LMI Government Consulting in McLean. (cbruner@lmi.org)
Joyce Oscar Cross, Roswell, GA, is the co-anchor and co-producer at WDEF-TV in Chattanooga, TN.
Ann Gustafson Elmore, Story City, IA, is an adjunct professor of music at Illinois State University in Ames.

1979

Edy Rudnick Pineless, Longwood, FL, is the president at Advocates for the Florida Osteopathic Medical Association in Tallahassee. (edy@pineless.com)