Jonathan Spaner's life could be the stuff of movies.

As a Coast Guard pilot, Spaner, MSM ‘99, has flown “counter-narcotic” missions in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Lately, he’s been hanging out in the West Wing of the White House. All that, and he’s only 32.

Spaner has spent the last year as a White House Fellow, an elite position appointed by President George Bush.

Read between the lines of Regan Scruggs’ resume, and you’ll discover a timeline of U.S. telecommunications history over the last 20 years: AT&T breakup, long-distance and local phone service deregulation, and the explosion of broadband technology.

Of course, Scruggs, BSIM ’84, had no idea when he tossed his graduation cap that he’d witness most of these changes firsthand. But with the help of skills he acquired at Krannert, Scruggs has capitalized on the telecommunications revolution.

Ana McCune van de Velde's teenage infatuation with her father's 1960 muscle car may have helped steer her career toward Detroit and the automotive industry, but her drive for self-sufficiency helped propel her to success.

As executive vice president of Automotive Strategies Inc., McCune van de Velde, MSM '79, works alongside her husband, Gregoire, in performing benchmarking and engineering studies for automotive companies around the world. Jetting between Detroit and Paris is not quite what former high school yearbook editor imagined for herself when she decided to study journalism and foreign language in college.

Amy Huntington's career is all about calibration. From her early days as a Purdue University engineering major to her increasingly responsible positions with a global market leader in the electrical industry, Huntington, BSIM ’88, MSM ’93, has spent the last 20 years measuring, adjusting, and focusing.

”The need to calibrate is always there,” says Huntington, senior vice president for Schneider Global Business Development. ”Perfect planning is something I’ve not yet perfected.”