Greetings, I have moved from MI to San Antonio, TX. I have lived here for two years. I am the Founder and Director of Millio’s Youth Outreach & Motivation Services a non-proit organization. www.millio.org.

We are excited about keeping connections with MI and TX.

Heidi Deaver, AIA, is presently serving as project manager on three elementary school modernizations for Lake Stevens School District in western Washington. Her experience also includes work on West Valley High School in Spokane, Wash., and Spokane Falls Community College’s sn-w’ey’-mn Building. She earned Master of Architecture (1998) and Bachelor of Science in Architecture (1996) degrees from the University of Michigan.

Former Congressman John Porter, has been elected Chairman of PBS. The 346-station member organization is known for providing quality television programs such as American Experience, Sesame Street, Frontline, NOVA, Antiques Road Show, Masterpiece Theater and specials such as Ken Burns “The War.” Prior to his election as chair, Porter served on the Board of Directors of PBS for six years and as vice chair for his last two.

Porter, of Wilmette, served in Congress for 21 years, from 1980-2001 serving eastern Lake County and the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago. In the House of Representatives he served on the Appropriations Committee and as Chairman of the Subcommittee funding the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. He also was vice-chair of the subcommittee on Foreign Operations.

In Congress Porter championed federal funding of medical research and is widely credited with doubling funding for the National Institutes of Health which provides support for peer reviewed medical research to universities and research institutions all across the country from $13.5B to $27B over five years.

Porter, a moderate Republican, resisted his party’s attempt in 1995, to eliminate funding for public broadcasting, and eventually presided over substantial increases for it. He was also known in Congress as a champion for human rights, founding and co chairing for 18 years the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, 250 members of Congress working to end human rights violations worldwide.

In addition to PBS, Porter chairs Research!America, and is Vice-Chair of the Foundation for National Institutes of Health. He serves on the boards of The Brookings Institution, and of the Chicago Botanic Gardens, the J.S. Kemper Foundation and the Population Resource Center. He is a former director of the American Heart Association and trustee emeritus of the RAND Corporation and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee. The John Edward Porter National Neuroscience Research Center, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health is partially constructed and occupied, but awaiting additional funds for completion.

Porter’s wife of four months, Amy McGuire Porter, is Executive Director of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, whose offices are located on John Porter Way on the campus of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology next to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

Porter is a partner in the Washington law firm of Hogan and Hartson and specializing in heath and education strategies.

David E. Hart, a shareholder and member of the Executive Management Committee at Southfield-based Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller P.C., has been named in “Law & Politics” Michigan Super Lawyers 2007 issue. Super Lawyers was created as a resource to aid attorneys and consumers in the search for legal counsel.

Hart earned his Bachelor Degree in Philosophy and Political Science from the University Michigan in 1988 and his Juris Doctor Degree, cum laude, from the Detroit College of Law in 1991. A resident of Huntington Woods, he was listed as a top practitioner in Real Estate, Construction Litigation and General Litigation.

The attorneys featured in Michigan Super Lawyers are first selected though a multi-step process. Candidates are nominated through a survey of more than 30,000 attorneys, direct contact with law firms and by reviewing trade journals, periodicals, databases and online sources. A blue ribbon panel of the top attorneys in each respective practice area evaluates the candidates. The final selection is then made by dividing the candidates by their firm size and selecting the top 5%.

Hayes-Scott’s marketing and publishing company, MarketingNewAuthors.com (MANA) will have the honor of publishing the third children’s book by WE READ (Working to Educate Readers by Encouraging Active Development), a non-profit U-M student group. The new book’s title is “Adventures of Gross Jerome and the Gooey Green Goblins.” The students of WE READ facilitate workshops throughout the year that encourage youngsters’ appreciation of drawing, writing, and reading. Toward the end of the year, the book authored and illustrated by WE READ students is given to the students involved in the workshops. These books are given at no charge to children of urban schools and area hospitals. MANA, owned by alumna Fairy C. Hayes-Scott, provides its premium marketing services to WE READ for free. And so WE READ books have been exhibited at several major tradeshows, e.g. the Bologna (Italy) Children’s Book Fair, the London Book Fair, and BookExpo. This is a keen opportunity for this U-M alumna to give back to the University. WE READ’s books can be purchased on the MANA site. 70% goes back to WE READ to help these U of M students continue their valuable work. Fairy C. Hayes-Scott is proud and honored to serve students of her alma mater who in turn are helping younger students appreciate the arts.

I thought you would find it interesting to know that I came in second in the voting for President of Red Sox Nation this past summer, and the winner (Jerry Remy, the Sox TV announcer) selected me to be VP of Red Sox Nation. You can read more about this at www.imamemberofredsoxnation.mlblogs.com, and if you google this story, there are many articles about it. Just a fun news item for your alumni communications.

retired Detroit Police Sergeant, and UM-D CASL 1976 GRAD is featured in the new documentary about historic Detroit Tiger Stadium, “Stranded at the Corner,” a look at the history of Tiger Stadium with archival footage of the Detroit Lions and Tigers, interviews with prominent Detroiters, and humor as it examines the “demolition by neglect” of this historic and memorable structure, where over 100 million people visited in its 100 years of being.
More info: David L. Malhalab, Detroit, 313-580-2393

was recently hired as senior managing director for First National Investment Banking, headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Most recently, Mr. Vinci was managing director of Newbury Piret & Co., an award-winning Boston investment banking firm. He has also served as senior vice president and private equity group head at Daiwa Sumitomo Mitsui America, Inc. on Wall Street; vice president of Investment Banking for Alex Brown & Sons, Inc. and vice president of a Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. subsidiary.
Mr. Vinci is the recipient of a bachelor of science degree from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and a master’s of business administration from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
Mr. Vinci has been recognized as a finalist by M&A Advisor for its 2005 Financial Services Transaction of the Year and for its 2006 Consumer Services Transaction of the Year. He has also been recognized as a top investment banker by the Boston Business Journal for the past three consecutive years.

My new book: Jessica: The autobiography of an infant. Preface and ch. 1 at www.iuniverse.com. Click On-Line Bookstore, call up book by title,click on title for cover info., or scroll down to Browse and click for Preface and ch. 1. May be ordered from iUniverse or any bookstore.