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ing/science from Cal Tech and has a strong personal interest in renewable energy and sustainable technologies.
1988
Sue Rogan has been promoted to the position of assistant treasurer, commercial lending, from commercial lender at the Adirondack Trust Co. She joined the company in 2006 and has 12 years of commercial banking experience. The international engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti has named Michael Pagano as vice president of its Newark office. Pagano has 25 years of electrical engineering experience and is a member of the firm’s MEP team. He will support the building performance and property loss consulting practices. Greeley and Hansen, a national civil and environmental engineering firm, has named Stephen McGowan managing director of the its Midwest operating group. He is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Water Environment Federation.
1989
Darron Cash, a former Free National Movement (FMN) Senator, serves as chairman of the board of the Bahamas Development Bank. He has held a number of
leadership positions in organizations such as the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce, the Bahamian Interest Forum, and the Rutgers University Black MBA Association. Charlene Faison, a Georgia native, is the manager of nuclear licensing programs at Entergy Nuclear Operations. She is responsible for ensuring that the Indian Point Energy Center, located in Buchanan, N.Y., as well as Entergy’s 11 other nuclear plants in the north and south of the country, meet stringent federal regulatory requirements. Don Herbert was recently named sales manager of engineered solutions in the South Central region for Middletown, Ohiobased Contech Construction Products, a civil engineering services company. MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick placed third in the 41st annual Greenburgh Poetry Competition with her poem The Coach Painter (1826, Bridgetown, Barbados), which will be included in the anthology Let the Poets Speak (fall 2012). She was an invited reader at the EMBARK/Peekskill Performing and Literary Arts Festival in October, and two of her collages were included in the traveling art exhibition, Circus Terminal. Her Kindle book, Metropolitan Diary, is now available on Amazon.com. Michael Murray has been appointed managing director of sales at Onix Solutions Ltd.
(OnixS). He will be responsible for continuing the rapid growth of the OnixS direct market access product offerings.
1990
Dennis Romero was appointed as the first regional administrator of the substance abuse and mental health services administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was previously acting director for the office of Indian alcohol and substance abuse, has served on many professional committees and advisory boards, and is now an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Federal Executives.
1991
Professor Kathe Newman was named director of the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
1992
Attorney Julio Gonzalez is running to become Broward County circuit judge. He has been assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y., and an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade County. Cynthia Mento, director of diagnostic imaging at Crystal Run Healthcare in Wallkill,
Matthew of arabia One year ago, if someone had asked Matthew Flood ’12 where he would be in a year, he would not have guessed that he would be abroad, living in one of the richest cities in the world. Nearly 7,000 miles away from New York City, Flood is spending this year working as a global academic fellow in writing at New York University Abu Dhabi. Located in the Persian Gulf on the northeast coast, Abu Dhabi is the capital and largest of the seven United Arab Emirates that lie on the Arabian Peninsula. Learning about this opportunity through the College’s Center for Career Development, Flood, a double major in English and philosophy, read about the fellowship and decided to apply. He is definitely being kept busy at NYU Abu Dhabi, where he teaches a writing class, runs individualized tutorials, staffs the university’s writing center and works on a scholarship project on the side. “I’m doing a lot of teaching, so it has been interest52 N fall 2012
ing to be on the other side of the classroom,” Flood says. “It’s very challenging, but I also have a lot of freedom to try different methods and experiment. It has really made me appreciate all the great teachers I’ve had, seeing how difficult it can be.” While the work is demanding, Flood still has been able to explore the city of Abu Dhabi to its fullest. Living abroad has exposed him to new types of people, new food and new cultures to which he has never had access before. He also travels on weekends and visits other Arabian states on the coast. His most recent venture has been exploring Oman, a place that he had never dreamed he’d one day have the chance to see. With the fellowship ending in May, Flood plans to apply to graduate schools but insists on keeping his options open in case he decides to look for a full-time job or continue to travel. Whatever the case may be, he is thrilled to have this experience.