Bradley L. Tesh, CCAS MA ’84, a senior Smithsonian Institution network engineer from 1999 to 2010 who helped oversee the organization’s computer system affecting more than 7,000 users from New York to Panama, died June 15 at his home in Swansboro, N.C. He was 51. Tesh joined the Smithsonian in 1986 as network manager of […]
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Karl R. Gerlach, SEAS MS ’75, PHD ’81
Karl R. Gerlach, SEAS MS ’75, PHD ’81, was honored June 30 with the 2012 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. IEEE, the world’s largest professional association advancing technology, recognizes the top technological minds from around the globe. The medal recognizes Gerlach for contributions to radar signal processing, clutter modeling and electronic […]
Henry Ozga, CPS CERT ’83
Henry Ozga, CPS CERT ’83, a retired officer in the CIA clandestine service who became a landscape and garden designer after 27 years in espionage, died May 28 at MedStar Washington Hospital Center of complications after a stroke at 85. Ozga served in the Navy during World War II. In 1951 he joined the CIA. Ozga […]
W. Thomas Curtis, CCAS BA ’81, CCAS MS ’95
W. Thomas Curtis, CCAS BA ’81, CCAS MS ’95, was awarded the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award for Service by the Financial Planning Association. He is managing director of FSP and Associates, L.L.C. (FSP), a financial planning and accounting firm located in Gaithersburg, Md. Curtis is a certified financial planner and an enrolled agent with the Internal Revenue […]
Cookie Lea Olshein, GWSB BBA ’89
Cookie Lea Olshein, GWSB BBA ’89, will become the first female rabbi at Temple Israel in West Palm Beach, Fla., in July. Olshein, a former practicing lawyer, was an assistant rabbi for four years at Congregation Beth Israel in Austin.
Emily L. Barr, GWSB MBA ’86
Emily L. Barr, GWSB MBA ’86, was named the next president and CEO of Post–Newsweek Stations, the television broadcasting division of The Washington Post Company, a diversified education and media company. She is to join Post-Newsweek Stations in July. Barr has been president and general manager of WLS–Chicago since 1997. Barr also created Live Well Network, […]
Ann Casey Bukawyn, MVC BA ’80
Ann Casey Bukawyn, MVC BA ’80, was named executive vice president of global licensing for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Bukawyn joins MSLO from Perry Ellis International, Inc., where she was president of licensing. MSLO’s international business encompasses television programming in 86 countries and magazines distributed in more than 20 countries.
Scott Mason, GWSB DPA ’81
Scott Mason, GWSB DPA ’81, joined Cushman & Wakefield as executive managing director and leader of its’s healthcare practice group in the Americas. Mason will lead the team in supporting clients with health and hospital systems, medical/academic institutions, and medical office building owner/operators in the Americas. He has more than 25 years of health care […]
Ilene Johnson, ESIA BA ’80
Ilene Johnson, ESIA BA ’80, was elected to serve as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in September 2012. Johnson represents the 7th Congressional District of Georgia.
International Alumnus Receives 2012 Public Service Award
For more than three decades, Datuk Thomas George, TSPPPA MPA ’86, has lead a distinguished public service career. “Being a public administrator gives you the opportunity to serve, and not to think about yourself but to think about the community that you serve,” says George. “We must translate our goals, and visions and dreams into something […]