Andy Blizzard (B.S., ’86) is now classified advertising director at the Dayton Daily News, responsible for managing all automotive, real estate, employment and on-line advertising sales for the daily newspaper. He began working in this new position in September 2004, following two years as the retail advertising director. Blizzard began his career at the News 26 years ago in circulation sales, moving up through sales and account management positions. He is a member of the Newspaper Association of America, Marketing Federation, and the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association. Blizzard and his wife Judy (Schwieterman) Blizzard (B.S., ’86) have four sons and are actively involved in school activities, and cub scouts and boy scouts in Englewood, Ohio.

Charles L. Downard (B.S. ’72) has served as Chief Financial Officer at the Cancer Prevention Institute in Dayton, Ohio since 1996. Previously known as the Hipple Cancer Research Center, the organization recently transitioned from basic science research to a new focus on cancer prevention and early detection, especially among the uninsured and underinsured. The Cancer Prevention Institute conducts population-based research and offers free mammograms and prostate screenings to qualified individuals. Downard's staff is responsible for all financial, administrative and information services activities. Three Wright State School of Medicine faculty members serve on the board of trustees of the Cancer Prevention Institute: Dean Howard Part, M.D., Margaret M. Dunn, M.D. and Robert D. Reece, Ph.D. Prior to joining the Cancer Prevention Institute, Downard worked for NCR for more than 30 years, serving in various financial management positions including CFO of NCR’s subsidiary in Austria and CFO of Worldwide Information Systems.
 

Julie (Mills) Edmonson (B.S., '94) just celebrated her 10th anniversary with LexisNexis in Dayton. During those years she has worked in Royalty Accounting, Public Records Business Management, Content Services Information Analysis and Technology Business Management. For the past two years, Edmonson has served as a senior financial analyst in Shared Services Accounting. Since her oldest child was born in 2000, she has worked part time. Edmonson's younger brother, Joe Mills (M.I.S., '00), also works for LexisNexis. Joe, who has Muscular Dystrophy, works from home using his voice-activated computer. After Edmonson's graduation from WSU, she obtained a masters degree in business administration from the University in Dayton, with a concentration in MIS. She married another WSU alumnus, Chuck Edmonson (B.S., '94), and the couple is expecting their third child in January.
 

Gregory Gordon Lockhart (B.S., ’73) is United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. He was nominated by President Bush on September 4, 2001, confirmed by the Senate on October 11, 2001, and sworn in on October 17, 2001. From 1987 to 2001, Lockhart was an Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting all violations of federal law, including contract fraud, murder, firearms, drugs, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, organized crime, gambling, bank robbery, grand jury investigations and wire intercepts. Additionally, Lockhart has been responsible for the civil defense of all manner of lawsuits brought against the United States and its employees. Lockhart has mentored students while teaching at the University of Dayton's College of Law and Wright State University's Colleges of Political Science and Business. He also has served as an adjunct professor at Wilberforce University, Wilmington College, and Central State University.

Michael P. Holtz (B.S., ’77, M.B.A, ’78) formed a privately held company in early 2003 called MPH Hotels, Inc., which develops, constructs, manages and sells limited service hotels throughout the United States. Holtz has developed over 120 hotels in the U.S. over the past seventeen years as president and CEO of Arlington Hospitality, Inc. During his tenure with Arlington, he developed nearly 100 AmeriHost Inn hotels and was responsible for the creation and growth of the AmeriHost Inn hotel brand. MPH Hotels, Inc., based in North Barrington, Illinois, is designed to continue this same strategy as a private company – develop limited-service hotels, typically 70 to 120 rooms in secondary markets; operate these for a period of time; then sell the hotel and realize the potential gain. In less than two years, Holtz has acquired two hotels, developed, constructed and opened one hotel and has two other hotels under construction that will open shortly.
 

Bill Kintner (B.S., ’85), recently left his position as sales representative for Friedman-Swift Market Research in Cincinnati to write a book, which takes his career full circle as Kintner started out as a writer.  Due for publication in the summer of 2005, his book will rank the nation's top 100 college basketball arenas (see his website at www.cbsportsbeat.com).  Kintner continues to sell market research on a contract basis, and also writes a syndicated on-line college basketball column, carried by www.RaiderRoundball.com.  Kintner officiates high school baseball, volleyball and basketball, and plays for an Over Thirty baseball team.  He is a WSU basketball season-ticket holder and a financial contributor to the WSU basketball program.  He also is an active member of the Crossroads Community Church in Cincinnati.  Following his graduation from Wright State in 1985, Kintner worked for the Louisiana Republican Party. He served as a campaign manager for several congressional campaigns and then he worked in the 1988 Presidential Campaign.  After politics, Kintner took what he had learned as a writer for WSU’s Daily Guardian and wrote for several publications including the Cincinnati Business Courier.  He finally found his way into sales in the early 1990s as a sales representative for Crown Marketing Group.

Kathryn A. Pothier (M.B.A., ’90) just celebrated her first anniversary as a senior vice president of commercial banking at Citizen’s Bank in Oakland County, Michigan. At Citizen’s Bank, Pothier is part of the leadership team for Southeast Michigan, an area in which the bank is experiencing rapid growth, recently opening two offices hubs and 14 new branches. Prior to her move to Citizen’s Bank, Pothier worked in commercial banking at Bank One for 13 years. Her community activities include serving as the chair of the board of directors for the Children’s Leukemia Foundation, and as a mentor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. In 2002, Pothier was named a distinguished nominee for Executive Woman of the Year.
 

Steve Renz (B.S., ’72) is a partner with Creative Dining Services, a regional hospitality management company founded in 1990, which recently won the 2004 Winning Workforce Award (non-commercial category) from the National Restaurant Association’s Educational Foundation. Creative Dining provides services to clients in academics, conference centers, business and industry, retirement and church communities. Renz’s career in the hospitality industry goes back more than 25 years. His employment experience includes three international corporations and one regional company. Prior to co-founding Creative Dining Services, he held positions including cost analyst, director, senior operations director, and district manager. Renz, who resides in Holland, Michigan, is a current member of the Society of Food Service Management and Food Service Purchasing Association.
 

David Rose (B.S., ’77) was recently named 2003-2004 Volunteer of the Year for Junior Achievement in the Michigan Great Lakes region. Rose, a senior vice president and controller at United Bank of Michigan in Grand Rapids, has been a Junior Achievement volunteer for twelve years. He teaches basic economics in elementary grades one through four in both the Wayland Union and Byron Center school districts. Rose tells every class he works with that the skills he learned in elementary school – reading, writing, math and problem solving – are used every day in his job. He also tells students that their most important job today is being the best student that they can be. His most important goal is to make the connection in students’ minds that school will impact their lives as adults.