Greg McKinley, '80 BS Business Administration, is vice president of the Las Vegas-based insurance firm of Cragin & Pike, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary of operation this year. He is a past president of the UNLV Alumni Association. While president of the association, he chaired the building committee for the Richard Tam Alumni Center and founded the alumni endowment fund for student scholarships Rudolph Johnson Jr., '82 BS Education, teaches science and physical education at Fairfield High School in California. He and his wife, Diandra, welcomed a new son, Isaac Kevin, on Feb. 6. Isaac's older siblings are Jameina, James, and Isaiah. They live in Fair Oaks. Thomas R. Oates, '85 BA Criminal Justice, is a special agent with the FBI. He joined the agency in 1990 and currently is assigned to the San Juan, Puerto Rico, field office, where he is part of a squad that deals with violent gangs. From 1986 until 1990 he served as a special agent with the Naval Investigative Service.
Mitchell T. Prager, '85 BS Hotel Administration, is president of Hospitality Career Services, a Phoenix-based company that does national employer-paid executive searches exclusively for the hospitality industry. Previously, he worked as general manager of the Phoenix Doubletree Guest Suites. |
He serves on the board of directors for the Arizona Hotel/Motel Association and the Valley Hotel & Resort Association. Terry Drakulich Miller, '87 MS Counseling and Educational Psychology, is in private practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist and a drug and alcohol counselor. She is a co-owner of Compass Counseling. She and her husband, Don, have three children, Emily, Allison, and Andrew. Lori Beth Susman, '87 BA Communication Studies, was one of five young Jewish leaders from the United States, Canada, and Chile, to receive the 1997 Label A. Katz Young Leader award from B'nai B'rith. She traveled to Jerusalem last year for the award presentation ceremony. After moving to Mississippi in 1994, she became president of a B'nai B'rith unit, which under her leadership received the Outstanding Unit of the Year award. She is also credited with organizing successful multi-state conventions and exceptional awareness programs on church burnings in the South and on hate crimes. Additionally, she arranged the organi-zation's holocaust remembrance program, "Unto Every Person There Is A Name." She is executive editor of Jackpot! magazine, an entertainment- and tourism-oriented publication serving Mississippi. She lives in Biloxi. Ike M. Freeman, '88 BA Social Work, has worked at Child Net Youth & Family Services for the past eight years. He is in charge of two programs — the community program and the day treatment program for teen-agers who are currently on probation or have been on probation in the past. He lives in Long Beach, Calif. Brooks Whitmore, 88 BS Hotel Administration, is the hotel manager at Whiskey Pete's Hotel and Casino in Primm. Previously, he was the general manager of the Branson Towers Hotel in Branson, Mo. He is a graduate of the management candidate program at the Arizona Biltmore.
Jennifer P. Togliatti, '89 BS Business Administration, became a justice of the peace in Las Vegas earlier this year, having been elected in November 1998. She received her law degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego in 1993. |
Andrea K. Gerlak, '91 BA Political Science, is chairperson and assistant professor of political science at Guilford College in North Carolina. She teaches American politics and environmental policy courses and serves as co-director of the environmental studies program. She lives in Greensboro. Jenna Meyn, '91 BA Communication Studies, is the founding event coordinator for the New Mexico lottery, which is funding more than 4,000 college scholarships for the state's high school graduates. She lives in Albuquerque.
Cam Usher, '91 Master of Public Administration, has been promoted to director of tourism for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. An 18-year employee of the authority, she previously served as a sales executive. As director of tourism, she oversees a team of sales executives who promote Las Vegas to consumers and travel planners around the world. She is also coordinator of the Academy of Travel and Tourism at Valley High School and teaches part-time at UNLV. In 1998, she was named one of the Top 200 Most Powerful Women in Travel by Travel Agent magazine and also received the Allied Member Award from the American Society of Travel Agents. Greg Simmons, '93 BS Hotel Administration, is vice president and co-owner of Eagle Sentry, a company that provides security systems, intercoms, central vacuums, and audio-video systems to the new residential building industry. Jim Geoffroy, '94 BS Business Administration, is a financial analyst with AirTouch Cellular in Phoenix. Before joining AirTouch, he worked for two years as a staff accountant with Boyd Gaming in Las Vegas. |
James M. Hilz II, '94 BA Political Science, earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1997 and was admitted to the Nevada Bar that year. He then joined the law firm of Spilotro & Kulla. Erik S. Kirschner, '95 BS Business Administration, has been promoted to vice president of investments for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Before his promotion he was a financial adviser. Neil Sullivan, '96 BS Hotel Administration, is a hospitality consultant with PKF Consulting in Washington, D.C. He was previously employed as the food and beverage manager at the city's State Plaza Hotel. Jason Moss, '97 BA Psychology, authored the book The Last Victim: A True Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer, in conjunction with former UNLV counseling professor Jeffrey Kottler. Moss, who confesses a nearly lifelong fascination with serial killers, began during his freshman year at UNLV to correspond with convicted murderer John Wayne Gacy in hopes of reaching a better understanding of the serial killer; he went on to correspond with Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and Richard Ramirez of "Night Stalker" infamy. He used this unusual correspondence as the basis for his undergraduate thesis, as well as his book.
Victoria S. White, '97 BA English, is studying library science at the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science in Bloomington. She is a graduate assistant there. DEATHS Byron Harber Brown, '83 BA English, on Sept. 17, 1998. A writer, poet, and musician, he is survived by his mother, Louise; sister, Beth; brother, Timothy; and nephew, Nathaniel. Stephen M. McKellips, '90 Master of Science in Counseling and Educational Psychology and Foundations, on Nov. 28, 1997.
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