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6 WORCESTER HOMECOMING 2022 ALUMNI BIOS ALUMNI BIOS SUZANNE ST. PIERRE Suzanne St. Pierre built her career as a producer for 60 Minutes with over 50 segments for correspondents Morley Safer, Diane Sawyer, Lesley Stahl, Meredith Vieira, and Mike Wallace. Her work as a producer led to the creation of several movies and influenced Dustin Hoffman, who was slated for the role played by Tom Cruise in "Rain M" to opt instead to play the savant because of her story "Genius" about savant syndrome. She has received a Peabody, three Columbia-du Pont awards, three Emmys and an award from American Women in Radio and Television. JOHN C. GANNON A Holy Cross graduate, John is a retired Captain of the US Navy and a Vietnam veteran. John served as the CIA's Director of European Analysis, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, and as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. He headed the White House intelligence team standing up the Department of Homeland Security. John moved to BAE Systems in 2005 and began serving as President of the Intelligence and Security Sector in 2010 until his retirement in 2012. In 2004, President George W. Bush awarded him the National Security Medal, the nation's highest intelligence award. WORCESTER HAS OVER 31,000 COLLEGE STUDENTS MAJ. GEN. ROBERT CATALANOTTI Robert is a Senior Member at The Spectrum Group in Alexandria, VA, an international strategic advisory and government relations firm. Recently, he served as Senior Advisor, Senior Executive Service in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) at the Pentagon and is an Honorary Professor/Senior Fellow at Old Dominion University. Robert retired from the United States Army, as a Major General in 2014 after 35 years of service commanding combat and state-side organizations, culminating as Director of Global Strategic Exercises, at U.S. Central Command in Tampa, FL, coordinating 16 middle eastern coalition partner nation military exercises, building multilateral diplomatic relations throughout the region. Commissioned in the U.S. Army from WPI's ROTC program in 1980, he was also the Senior Defense Official in the U.S. Embassy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. An Assumption grad along with his wife Karen, he's a member of WPI's Army ROTC Hall of Honor.