Susan E. Padley has been named to the May/June 2009 issue of “Super Lawyers—Corporate Counsel Edition” by a survey of Law & Politics Media, Inc. She was selected through a process which included peer nominations and evaluations as well as independent research. She is considered one of the top business attorneys in Michigan in the area of Land Use/Zoning Law. Only five percent of the attorneys in Michigan were named to this list. Ms. Padley received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1984.

Mark and I were married in an intimate ceremony at our home last September, followed by a reception at the Michigan League and honeymoon in San Francisco.

Jason L. Duzan, managing director of Chicago-based private equity firm Glencoe Capital, today announced the appointment of Douglas S. Kearney, Class of 1991, as principal of the firm. Kearney will help manage the firm’s latest fund, the Michigan Opportunities Fund, and will work from Glencoe Capital’s new office in Birmingham, Mich.

Before joining Glencoe Capital, Kearney was a principal at Detroit-based Superior Capital Partners, where he sourced and executed special situation portfolio investments in the lower middle market. Previously, he was a managing director for Conway MacKenzie & Dunleavy.

From 2001 through 2006, Kearney served as chief financial officer of Lason Inc., a global provider of business process outsourcing services. Kearney has also held positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers, DaimlerChrysler and IBM.

A CPA, Kearney holds an MBA from Yale University and a BBA from the University of Michigan.

Richard Albright is being featured in a series of articles in the Atlantic City Press dealing with munitions being pumped up on beaches during sand replenishment operations. Dr. Albright’s book, Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions is now being published by Elsevier, a world wide publishing company specializing in technical books. Dr. Albright has also recently completed an article on underwater ordnance including a study of the massive amounts of ordnance dumped in the Great Lakes, some near fresh water intakes.

John & Wendy have two art-driven children’s books out in Spring 2009. The first, released in March, is “Mommy Loves Me” (Penguin/PSS!), a board book featuring illustrations of baby animals with their mothers (Publisher’s Weekly called the illustrations “endearing”). The second, available in May, is a picture book called “Periwinkle Smith and the Twirly, Whirly Tutu” (Penguin/PSS!). In it we meet an imaginative young girl who has a very painterly problem.

John Brinkman and his partner, Wendy Walters, make art and illustration together under the name “John & Wendy.”

I have written a new book entitled “Firm Conviction: A Case Against Private Law Practice,” published by Strategic Books Publishing/Eloquent Books in New York, New York. it is available on www.eloquentbooks.com/FirmConviction.html or amazon.com.

Mark Kaplan’s first novel, A THOUSAND BEAUTIES, is now available through Amazon.com. A THOUSAND BEAUTIES is published by BeWrite Books, a small European press. For more information, please visit my website: www.markadamkaplan.com

I received an email reply from the editor of R&D magazine to an opinion I voiced over what is valid R&D. My solar recharged bass guitar amplifier using recycled cell phones for power caught the chief editor’s attention and may be featured in the next issue.

This is R&D magazine the latest breakthroughs are highlighted. Yet the editor took time to consider my simple device and even may feature it. That is rather cool.

Gina Pensiero has a music blog, One Sweet Song (http://www.onesweetsong.blogpot.com), that has been nominated for a 2009 Bloggie Award. Her Brooklyn-based band, Palmyra (http://www.myspace.com) is also on a short tour of the East Coast.