Archives: Class Notes
Laura Schneider, BJ ’10
Laura Schneider, BJ ’10, works in mobile-market consulting for OMD, Advertising Age and Adweek’s Media Agency of the year.
Kathleen (Twellman) Haley, BJ ’73
Kathleen (Twellman) Haley, BJ ’73, retired as the news editor of the Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel. She is working as a freelance editor, writer, photographer.
Kristy Siegfried, MA ’04
Kristy Siegfried, MA ’04, has been living in Johannesburg, South Africa since graduating. She works for IRIN, an online humanitarian news service put out by the United Nations. Siegfried covers the southern Africa region with a special focus on migration issues. She is married, with a two-year-old daughter.
Leah (Reiter) Oberjuerge, BJ ’86
Leah (Reiter) Oberjuerge, BJ ’86, is a senior editor at The National, a daily newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Joy E. Buchanan, BJ ’72
Joy E. Buchanan, BJ ’72, was recently named executive director of Michigan’s Great Lakes Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Chris Best, BJ ’97
Chris Best, BJ ’97, has been named assistant news director at KPRC, the NBC television affiliate in Houston, Texas. Chris was previously executive producer at CBS 11 television in Dallas-Fort Worth and has worked at television stations in Orlando, Kansas City, and Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Michelle (Ferrell) Burke, BJ ’86
Michelle (Ferrell) Burke, BJ ’86, is the communications and public relations strategist at Westminster Christian Academy in St. Louis, Mo. She also is a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Movement. She lives in St. Louis with her husband of 23 years and her three children. Her son Landon has … Continued
Jorgen Hesselberg, BJ ’98
Jorgen Hesselberg, BJ ’98, was promoted to senior manager of Agile Enterprise Adoption at Nokia. He will be responsible for alignment and adoption of Agile across Nokia, focusing on Berlin, Boston and Chicago.
Randy Kammerdiener, BJ ’88
Randy Kammerdiener, BJ ’88, of Jacksonville, Fla., is the CEO and co-owner of Majority Strategies, the largest Republican political direct mail firm. Majority Strategies’ current and former clients make up a “Who’s Who” of national Republican politics, including George W. Bush for President, Mitt Romney for President, the Republican National Committee, six sitting governors, eight … Continued
Corky Thacker, BJ ’76
Corky Thacker, BJ ’76, is president of Corky Thacker Communications, Inc., a Cleveland, Ohio-based boutique integrated marketing/corporate communications agency founded in 1999 to serve technical, life sciences, and business-to-business clients.