1960s Tom Gaghan, BBA ’67, is the executive director of the Cleveland Furniture Bank.
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1 C. Ellen Connally, JD ’70 and MA ’97, was appointed to the Ohio Historical Society board by Gov. John Kasich. She also serves on the CSU Foundation board of directors.
Bill Eucker, BBA ’71, retired in December 2013 as a park supervisor in Cary, N.C. Dennis Congos, BA ’72, retired in May 2013 as a learning skills specialist and academic advisor at the University of Central Florida. He received the 2013 Commitment to Excellence award from the American College Personnel Association.
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2 Harvey Firestone, MA ’73, is retired and living in Florida. The announcer for the Ghoulardi television show in the 1960s and former Coast Guard officer is an author who has written everything from joke books to books on achieving goals and speech/language.
Bill Goebel, BBA ’75, accepted a two-year assignment as president of the Boy Scouts of America in North Carolina. The Eagle Scout lives in Greensboro, and is the CEO of MPACT Solutions. 3
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4 Robert Cutietta, BEd ’75 and MMusic ’78, joined the board of directors for Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit provider of musical instruments, music lessons and teacher training to public schools. The dean of the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music received CSU’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008.
Catherine Dickman Ragland, MSUS ’76, lives in Pittsboro, N.C., where she is the retired director of the Women’s Center in Chapel Hill. She is the former head of public information for Cuyahoga County and former executive director of Friends of Shaker Square. Bruce Riley, BA ’76, has been a systems analyst in the information technology department of Invacare Corporation in Elyria for 30 years. He lives in Sheffield Lake.
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5 Catherine Koppelman, BSN ’78, was appointed patient experience officer for University Hospitals. She has been with UH since 2007 and will continue to serve as chief nursing officer for both Case Medical Center and the UH system. Koppelman received CSU’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2010.
Thomas H. Craft, BBA ’79, has been certified as an Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. In addition, he is a member of the President’s Cabinet of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation/Sagemark Consulting, a designation reserved for top industry performers.
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1980s 6 Robert McGee, JD ’80, competed in the age 6099 category of the Taekwondo National Championships in Florida. He competed in all eight events and won eight gold medals. He then competed in the 2014 national championships in California and won three gold and five silver medals.
Linda Lehmann Masek, MA ’83, penned her fifth book, Kitty Tails and Horses Hooves: A Spiritual Journey. She lives in Northfield. 7 Linda Heuman, BBA ’84, won three gold medals for swimming in the National Senior Olympics held in Cleveland last summer. She works for Huntington Bank. 8 Sunny Klein Lurie, MEd ’84, is the founder and CEO of Fast Focus Careers in Beachwood and the author of Jolt Your Career from Here to There: 8 Breakthrough Strategies for Career-Change Success. 9 Leonard DiCosimo, BMusic ’87, was elected to his fourth term as president of the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, representing the musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra, Playhouse Square Foundation and several other professional arts organizations in Northeast Ohio. This year, he also was appointed director of music ministries for Pilgrim Congregational Church in Tremont.
Wendy Haddad Scheuring, BA ’88, is the co-owner of Mark and Wendy Write – Henderson Enterprises, a ghostwriting and editing firm. Kathleen Malec, MPA ’89, lives in Mentor and is a current or former member of boards at Lakeland Community College, United Way, Ursuline College, University Hospitals, Richmond Heights and Bedford hospitals, and Immaculate Conception Church.
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