Carl Birkelbach, a graduate of the class of 1958, is a successful entrepreneur, authoritative investment strategist, and committed environmentalist. He is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Birkelbach Management Corp., a Chicago money manager and registered investment advisor, and of Birkelbach Investment Securities, Inc., a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and a member of NASD, a securities industry self-regulating group. His long record of accurate stock market forecasting stretches from being one of the few who foresaw the ‘80s and ‘90s Bull Market to predicting the 2002 Bear Market bottom and market upsurge to recent record highs. His perceptive commentary appears in Chicago and national business news media, in his 500-plus Birkelbach Investment Strategy Letters, and in his comprehensive handbook, Stock Market Forecasting through Charting. Birkelbach Management Corp. focuses on socially responsible investing, marrying Carl’s business interests with his environmental concerns. He is President and Founder of RIDE Inc. (Recreation for Individuals Dedicated to the Environment), a member of Partners for Parks and Wildlife, a former member of the Cook County Forest Preserve Council and a Board member of Friends of the Forest Preserve. He spearheads Care for You (Corporate America Respecting the Environment). The State of Wisconsin commended him for helping to resolve conflicts over trail usage in natural settings. Carl’s community service includes three year chairman of the Chicago Public Television auction, Old St. Patrick’s Church Board of Stewards, membership in the Union League Club of Chicago and Olympia Fields Country Club. He has found time for alumni service. He chairs the 2008 RB Reunion of the class of 1958. He is a 1962 graduate of Bradley University with membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, business honor society. He has received Bradley’s highest alumni recognition, the Lydia Moss Bradley Award, and serves as a Bradley Trustee.

Ronald M. Milnarik is a graduate and Salutatorian of the class of 1960. He attended Kalamazoo College and the University of Illinois earning his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1967. He then embarked on a 30-year career in the United States Air Force, with more than 11 years of foreign service in Greenland, Germany, and Japan. From 1973-1975 he attended Loyola University’s School of Dentistry and became an Endodontic specialist. For 16 subsequent years, in addition to treating his own patients, he taught residents and young dental officers the intricacies of root canal treatment. Retiring as a Colonel in 1997, he returned home and has since taught Endodontics in the dental school clinics of Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2001 Northwestern students recognized him as the outstanding part-time faculty member and in 2002 UIC students gave him the Golden Apple Award for teaching excellence. In 2007 he was inducted as a faculty member into Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national dental honor society. Adventures and challenges have always called Dr. Milnarik and have been important balancing components of his life. Among these experiences have been: dog sledding and seal hunting with Eskimos; flying over the North Pole; driving sports cars and Formula Ford race cars; downhill skiing and ski touring in Europe; over 2 million vertical feet of helicopter skiing in Canada; mountain climbing and ski mountaineering in California, including 2 trans-Sierra expeditions; scuba diving off Okinawa and Greenland; ballet lessons at age 43; being a supernumerary actor in 3 Lyric Opera productions; canoeing in the Midwest; extreme whitewater rafting in the Appalachians and Sierras; cycling 500 miles across Iowa in the week-long R.A.G.B.R.A.I.; completing 3 marathons and over 70 triathlons, including the 4-day Minnesota Border to Border race and the 1991 Hawaiian Ironman; and cross-country skiing 750 miles across Antarctica, pioneering a new route to the South Pole, with the first party of Americans to reach it under their own power in 1988-1989.

Brackett B. Denniston III is a graduate of the class of 1965. He is Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel for the General Electric Company. He also serves as Chairman of the Company’s Policy Compliance Review Board, the governing compliance board of the company. He is a director of GE Capital Corporation and the GE Foundation, and is a member of GE’s Corporate Executive Council. Previously he served as GE’s Vice President and Senior Counsel for Litigation and Legal Policy from 1996-2004. From 1993 to 1996 he was Chief Legal Counsel to Governor William Weld of Massachusetts. From 1986 to 1993 and from 1974 to 1982 he was a partner and an associate at Goodwin, Procter in Boston where he specialized in complex civil litigation, securities matters, and white collar crime cases throughout the U.S. From 1982 to 1986, he was Chief of the Major Frauds Units of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston. He was awarded the Department of Justice Director’s Award for Superior Performance for his role overseeing numerous successful prosecutions. He served as a law clerk in Honolulu, Hawaii to the Honorable Herbert Y. Choy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1973 to 1974. Mr. Denniston is a summa cum laude graduate of Kenyon College and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has been active in civic and charitable pursuits. He is a Trustee and Secretary of Kenyon College, former Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals of Duxbury, Massachusetts and Trustee and former Chair of the New England Legal Foundation.

Gary Cokins is a graduate of the class of 1967. While at RB, he was class president every year, was awarded top honors as a scholar graduating 5th in class, and excelled as an athlete including co-captain of the varsity football team. Gary earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering/operations research from Cornell University and a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. The first ten years of his career were in industry with a Fortune 100 company. He is a strategist for performance management solutions with SAS, a leading worldwide business intelligence and analytics software corporation. He is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. Gary has spent much of his career as a management consultant with Deloitte, KPMG Peat Marwick and EDS – Electronic Data Systems. Two of Gary’s books, Activity-Based Cost Management Making It Work and Activity-Based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide, continually rank No. 1 and 2 on best selling lists across the nation. Some of his other books include An ABC Manager’s Primer, Activity-Based Cost Management in Government, and Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap. He also participates on committees for many professional societies.