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Hello from all of us in Athens. Hope all of you are enjoying your summerand are getting some much deserved vacation time.

One person who is getting some much deserved relaxation is Thomas Dunlap,who decided to retire as of June 30th. Tom served Ohio University for over twodecades in a variety of capacities, including Assistant and then Associate Dean of ourCollege. And, from its earliest beginnings, Tom was a major factor in the growth andsuccess of Communication Systems Management.

Tom refused to let anyone have a formal reception for him or to let anyonemake a big fuss about his retirement. We should all, however, make a big fuss abouthis many contributions to the School. Tom served as internship coordinator for over 6years. He worked constantly to find new internship sponsors, to find the best fitbetween student and company, and to encourage students to make the most of theirinternship opportunities.

Tom also taught COMT 214 (formerly 100); data communication, and thesenior seminar. In all of his classes, he worked hard to get students to think critically,to approach the world realistically, and to do their best. Tom was a great friend andasset to this program. His integrity, good sense, dry humor, and concern for studentswill be greatly missed.

Even though he doesn’t want any public displays, Tom Dunlap would valueyour private good wishes. His address is listed later in this WATSLINE if you want tocontact him.

On a happier note, we will be joined in the fall by two new faculty member:Trevor Roycroft, who will be teaching policy and regulatory issues, andVaradharajan Sridhar, who will be teaching data and new technologies. (Detailsfollow.) And the rest of us continue to work and plan. Dennis Fouty passed hiscomprehensive exams (congratulations, Dennis) and now is heavily involved in writinghis thesis. His topic deals with the use of information technologies for education inAfrica (great topic). Hans Kruse is spending the summer working for NASA (moredetails follow). Tony Mele is solidifying plans to wire our two lab locations (lots ofcrawling around in tunnels). Phyllis Bernt co-authored a study on universal telephoneservice for the Wissenschaftliches Institute fur Kommunikationsdienste in Germany.

We all look forward to another productive year, and to hearing from all of youalumni ct there. Keep in tor

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If you are planning to attendHomecoming ‘94 activities theweekend of October 14-16, be sure tostop by the RTVC Building Saturday from 10:30-12:30 for a McClure School Reception.

We enjoy keeping in touch with our alumni, andwe look forward to visiting with you.

He can be reached at:

083 RTVCAthens, OH 45701614-593-4887

Varadharajan Sridhar, Ph.D., will focus onteaching data communications and advancedtechnologies courses. He earned a Ph.D. inManagement Information Systems from theUniversity of Iowa. He was formerly a SystemsAnalyst with Tata Unisys Limited in Bombay,India.

He can be reached at:After years of active involvement with ourprogram, Tom Dunlap retired June 30. We misshis dedication and sense of humor already.

Current students put together a scrap book forTom. If you would like to add a letter, photo, orother memento to this book, just send it to us.We will see that it is added to the collection.

081 RTVC BuildingAthens, OH 45701614-593-4890

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Tom’s home address is:

15 Canterbury DriveAthens, OH 45701

New Faculty

Two faculty members, Trevor Roycroft andVaradharajan Sridhar, will join the School thisfall.

Trevor Roycroft, Ph.D., will focus on teachingregulatory and policy classes. He has a Ph.D. inEconomics from the University of California atDavis. He is moving to Athens from Indianapolis,Indiana, where he was the Acting Chief Economistwith the Indiana Office of Utility ConsumerCounselor.

Hans Kruse was awarded a summer fellowship bythe NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland tocontinue his work on a project involving NASA,the College of Communication and the College ofEngineering. As a principal investigator for theproject, Hans is designing tests and demonstrationsof the communications network of the AdvancedCommunications Technology Satellite, for use inproviding disaster recovery services to theHuntington National Bank’s data communicationnetwork.

The satellite was launched by the Discovery spaceshuttle on September 12, 1993.

Communication Week

Communication Week ‘94 was a great success!The Communication and Health Care themegenerated a good deal of interest from students,

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alumni, and folks from off campus.Telecommunications managers from hospitals inthe Toledo area drove down for the sessions. Oneof the highlights of the day was a presentation byDr. Jay Sanders, from the Medical College ofGeorgia, one of the pioneers in telemedicine.

Another highlight was our alumni panel, whichfeatured some of our alumni who work in thehealth care field: Craig Rice ‘91, who is withMt. Carmel Hospital, Tracy Sheme ‘92, who iswith Vanguard Communications and does a gooddeal of consulting with hospitals on voiceprocessing issues, and Dave Cwikowski ‘90, whois with Community Mutual Blue Cross & BlueShield.

Other alumni who joined us were: AndrewMendelson ‘94, Beth Young ‘84, Dave Guerini‘91, Gale Donelson ‘89, Jeff Chaddock ‘88, LoriRogers-Sternisha ‘89, Scott Cline ‘93, SteveBrescia ‘92 and Tracy Tikos ‘91.

Keith Zellers ‘88 stopped by the booth. He hasrecently been transferred to the Dallas area byDiebold, Inc. And we saw a large number of ouralumni at MCI. We had dinner with KevinFeder ‘94 and Jennifer AlIen ‘94, who bothjoined MCI in April, and with Deborah Cohodas‘93, Kris Keesy ‘92, Dennis Macy ‘91, JenniferMiddleton ‘92, Andrea Schroer ‘91, and LeslieZimmer ‘91. Diane Beyman ‘93 stopped by thebooth to say hello, and Eric Zines ‘91 gave ustours of the MCI exhibit which he works on. Wewere sorry we didn’t get a chance to see RobertoJesi ‘92, but we understand he’s busy withgymnastics and working in MCI’s internationalarea.

Next year’s ICA is scheduled for Chicago. I hopewe see lots of Chicago alumni then.

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Beth Young ‘84, one of the first graduates of theprogram, came all the way from California tocelebrate her 10th reunion. She was recognized atthe awards banquet and presented with a framedphoto of Cutler Hall.

It was good to see so many familiar faces. We’dlove to see lots of “Class of 1985” alumni next

year.

In the winter WATSLINE, we asked you to sendus your e-mail address if you wanted to beincluded in our new e-mail directory. Eighteen ofyou sent addresses. You’ll find our new e-maildirectory on Page 6.

Recent Graduates Who HaveObtained Emlovment

ICA In Dallas

This year’s ICA was fun. We had our usual boothand, as usual, had a great time seeing alumni.Dennis Fouty and Phyllis Bernt wereaccompanied to Dallas by Jodi Kaufman ‘94(who has just joined Anixter) and Ian Carlson(who will be a senior this year). Jodiunfortunately became ill and had to return to Ohio,but Ian worked hard to keep the booth going.

Mike Spinning, Ticket Master. Kevin‘ Feder, Jennifer Allen, Brian Chylik, Lisa

Grubish, Laurie Fischer, VenessaVaughn, Chris Koza, Leslie Gogan, and

Michelle Bauer, MCI. Lisa Lung, Owens Corning.Julie Trent, and Andy Mendelson, BTI. Jon Petz,InVision Systems Corporation. Scott Limanowski,J. C. Penney. Scott Cline, Aetna. Doug Bowie,Cintech Telemanagement Systems. Andrea Dunlop,and Jodi Kaufman, Anixter. Becky Roebuck,Intelligent Electronics. Nicole Baker, CompuServe.Scott Edelman, LCI. James Thomas, AT&T.

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Brian flanimel ae.strow is the moldrowmg in yout c1ost7Eiaria

Bonnie Pritts Do you have any bmders

Tom Dunlap, has anyone misspelled yourname in graffi ig the RTVC elevatorlately? - Paul McLaughlin

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Any alumni in the Greater Bay Area interestedin a “chapter - Linda J. B Lewis

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Moves, Adds, Changes

Thanks to everyone who returned a response formfrom the winter WATSLINE. Here’s what you toldus:

David Langford ‘92 just bought a house inMichigan. He is the first Applications Engineerfor ANS in Ann Arbor, working for the “StrategicBusiness Unit” division. Anne Beltz ‘84 got anew job working with US West’s policies,standards, and procedures group to increase

quality and facilitate process management. LesliePapell-Crete ‘88 got married January 1. On thejob at Wang Laboratories, she is managing aproject to cut over an enhanced, router-based,private line, multiprotocol network in May. VinceBroerman ‘92, Technical Consultant with MCI,recently purchased a house and enrolled in theMSU graduate telecom program.

Leslie Zimmer ‘91, is engaged and planning tomarry Cpt. Michael Firlie September 24, 1994.She will start working July 18 in the NetworkTest & Analysis Department at MCI. Rich Gould

just bought his first home (in the Ann Arborarea). He was recently promoted to TechnicalConsultant (pre-sale technical support)on theGM/EDS account.

Kevin Hogan ‘89 is a Lan Engineer with theCollege of American Pathologists. Bob Freier

is expecting his second child in August. He isexpanding his territory as a Sales Representativewith Wellfleet Communications, Inc. SabrinaWebster ‘86 is working as an Account Consultantwith Sprint. Lance Evans ‘85 is working as aSoftware Engineer for StorageTek. MarshallClark ‘85 is working for Synergy. Inc. inWashington DC; he lives in Dayton.

Eric Zines ‘91 now works in MCI’s tradeshowengineering department engineering all of thetechnical demonstrations for corporate tradeshowsand customer demonstrations. Gale Donelson ‘89recently left MCI to work as a LAN Administratorwith Jackson & Kelly to oversee the day-to-dayoperation of a 250-user Novell LAN. TedHoesman ‘89 just finished his MBA and waspromoted to Telecommunications Manager at theFirst Bancorporation of Ohio. Kevin Hazzard ‘93is working as a Telecommunications Coordinatorat Tufts University. Deserie McCauley ‘86bought her first house. She is now a Trainer withMCI, teaching new sales reps. T-1, CPE, and dataapplications.

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Lynnette Lowmiller-Baughman ‘91 got marriedDecember 31, 1993. As a Product Administratorwith ALLTEL, she is working with OTA/ODLAon a “Distance Learning 101” course for educatorsin Ohio. Linda Lewis ‘88 is enjoying sailing thebay with the Island Yacht Club in Alameda, CA.She is working as a manager in the Bay BusinessMarketing Department of Pacific Bell.

Marc Casseres ‘93 is co-owner of DIGITEQ,Inc., a company that is involved in Novellnetworking, voice mail, computer animation, andmultimedia development for presentations and forin-house hotel videos in Curacao. Lori KristoffQ started working at Ameritech as a SystemsDesign Consultant.

Bryan Ireton ‘90 is now a SeniorCommunicatiions Analyst at Limited CreditServices. Ann Williams-Robinson ‘86,Supervisor at ALLTEL Supply, bought a home inOctober and got married in August of 1990.Sarah Gillhland ‘93 moved to D.C. in January tostart working as an Office Administrator withMWM, Inc., a direct mail marketing company.

Michelle Six Heywood ‘83 had a daughter(Kathryn Carlyle Heywood) September 15, 1992and is taking a sabbatical to spend time at homewith her. Amy Hay ‘90 moved to Washington,DC after graduating from law school. She is nowworking as an attorney with Helein, Waysdorf andMandigo (where Don Manley also works). MollyMaloney-Purdy ‘87 just moved from Chicago toAtlanta. Amoco transferred her to provide supportto clients in the southeast region. She is currentlyinvolved in building an X.25 based point of salenetwork for Amoco gas stations. Julie Dyrdek

is planning on getting married in October1995. She started work on a Master’s Degree inInformation Systems at West Virginia University,while working as a Telecommunications Specialistat the U.S. Department of Treasury Bureau forPublic Debt.

Heather Starr-Vizmeg ‘92, TelecommunicationsAnalyst for Bearings, Inc., got married August 14,1993 (Jada Lee ‘92 was one of her bridesmaidsand Maria Howard ‘85 attended). Randy Risch

started working as the Manager of CustomerProvisioning & Maintenance, Network Services, atAmeritech. Scott Young ‘86, Network Managerfor Computer Sciences Corporation, has twochildren: Brad, 2 years old; and Bryan, 8 weeksold.

Moshood Adesoye ‘85 started working as a TablesAdministrator with Mobile TelecommunicationServices Ltd., which is a company that providesvalue added services and is credited as the firstcompany to introduce cellular mobile phoneservices, trunked radio services, and voice mailand paging services to the Nigerian market. DonWashburn ‘92 recently started working withSouth Central Ohio Computer Associates as aFiscal Service Liaison.

Susan Stolmack Boettcher ‘83 received her MBAand married John Boettcher. She is now workingas a Systems Analyst for Martin MariettaInformation Systems designing and diagrammingcomputer systems.

That’s it for the summer WATSLINE. Our nextissue will go to press in the winter. If you’d liketo make “the news” fill out and return theinformation form.

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MCI donates $132,000 in communications equipment to universityby RACHEL PLANISEKfor the INSIDER

One phone company hasmore than telephone services in itsagenda.

MCI TelecommunicationsCorp. donated nearly $132,000 infiber optic and testing equipment toOUin a presentation late last month.

The lab opened in 1990 whenMCI donated $350,000 in equipmentthat simulates a long-distance telephone terminal environment, saidPhyllis Bernt, School of Comm unications Systems Management director.The testing equipment, totalling

$73,230, will be installed in the MCICommunication Laboratory located onWest Union Street.

Communications SystemsManagement faculty members Hans’Kruse and Tony Mele currently areusing the previously donated equipment to work on a satellite project forNASA and Huntington Bank.

“The 1990 donatIon enablesstudents and faculty to engage in amore in-depth understanding of thetechnology,” Mele said.

MCI Manager of MediaRelations Ed Bergstraesser said thetesting equipment will provide hands-on training for Communications

Systems Management students intesting communication frequenciesand the quality of long-distancetelephone circuits. In 1993, MCIranked as the second-largest providerof long-distance services in thecountry, just behind AT&T.

The donated fiber optic cablewill be used for video surveillancethat is part of the university’s WideArea Network communication dataservice at The Ridges, Bergstraessersaid.

The system”provides forelectronic mail and connections toInterNet, the international form ofelectronic mail, said Bill Estep,

assistant director of University NewsServices and Periodicals.

“The equipment is used inthe labs so students have an opportunity to test and get a sense of howvarious circuits function,” Bernt said,Undergraduates usually are not ableto use this type of equipment because programs of this kind are sorare, she said.

Bernt also said MCI isinvolved with OU because of the largenumber of OU alumni who work forthe company.

OU is the only school in Ohioinvolved with MCI in a program of thiskind, Bergstraesser said.

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