alumni notes
’50s TEMMA PISTRANG, ’53, who is 80 years old, is substitute teaching in Lake Forest Park, Wash. She writes that she has traveled to Poland, Lithuania, Kenya, and Costa Rica.
’60s LORRAINE BARKER, ’66, and husband, ERNIE, ’68, have opened an art gallery in Bantam called The Artists’ Path. Their combined artistic talents were also displayed at the Newsroom Café in Torrington, Conn. They reside in Goshen, Conn.
BERNARD “BING” BARTICK, ’66, M.A. ’72, 6th Yr. ’84, was inducted into the Groton Connecticut Educators Hall of Fame in 2012. He is semiretired after working 43 years in education and lives in North Stonington with wife, CAROL, ’66.
DR. JOHN FITZGERALD, M.S. ’67, has been inducted into the East Haven High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame, representing the Class of 1957. He was the former principal of Greenwich Junior and Senior High in New York.
WINIFRED HAMILTON, ’69, was appointed superintendent of Stamford Public Schools.
MARC A. RABINOFF, ’69, retired from Metropolitan State University of Denver after 35 years. He resides in Littleton, Colo., with his wife, Diana.
GREG L. SPECK, ’69, has taken up bicycling and completed 15,000 miles in the last six years. His wife, ANGELA SPECK, ’69, has a new career in interior design. They live in Branford, Conn.
’70s OLIVE GIANAKOS, ’71, M.S. ’74, has retired after teaching middle school since 1971. 30 | Southern ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Reunion News
LORI A. CHARETTE, ’85, is the manager of Yale Pathology Tissue Services.
• The Class of 1963 will celebrate its 50th reunion at several events. Members of the class will be recognized at the undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 17, 2013. A Class of 1963 reunion will be held on campus on Oct. 13, 2013, the day after Homecoming. For more information or if you would like to organize a reunion for your class, please contact Alumni Relations at (203) 392-6500.
She lives in Simsbury, Conn.
ANTHONY FUSCO, M.S. ’72, 6th Yr. ’77, was inducted into the Mark T. Sheehan Hall of Fame. Fusco came to Sheehan High School in 1979 as an assistant principal and is now retired and living in North Haven, Conn.
JANET “JAN” DOYLE, ’73, 6th Yr. ’04, has retired after 37 years as a teacher in West Haven. She hosts a Branford community television program called “Classroom Connections.”
JOSEPH GIULIETTI, ’74, completed a road race for his recent 60th birthday. He and wife, REBECCA KRONK GIULIETTI, ’74, M.F.T. ’90, reside in Coral Springs, Fla.
WALTER SCHENCK, M.S. ’74, and wife, GAY, ’76, moved to Hamden in 2012. They had previously retired in 2002 to Cape Cod.
MICHAEL J. FREDA, ’75, was inducted in the Greater New Haven Diamond Club Baseball Hall of Fame and the Notre Dame High School of West Haven Knights of Honor. Freda lives in North Haven, Conn.
HEIDI ROGOL, ’76, works for Edison-Metuchen Orthopaedic Group in East Brunswick, N.J. She and husband, Chuck, celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary.
SUSAN MINER SELVIDIOSTANLEY, ’77, has retired after 35 years with Canterbury Public Schools. She lives in Norwich, Conn.
DOROTHY SHUGRUE, M.S. ’77, was named the executive director of HopeWorks, a mental health and addiction service in West Hartford, Conn.
MARY SKOWRONSKI, M.S. ’77, 6th Yr. ’98, is the interim assistant principal of Redding Elementary School. She served as a reading and language arts teacher with Wilton Public Schools for 34 years before her retirement in 2006.
FRANK “SID” MAIETTO, ’79, will be the master of ceremonies at the 2013 International Association of Facilitators annual convention in Orlando, Fla.
’80s TONY SCAFARIELLO, ’80, is the
at Southeast Missouri State University. He oversees twelve full-time faculty and staff, and degree programs in four areas: broadcasting and film, mass media journalism, advertising, and public relations. Zibluk also supervises the student newspaper, the student radio station, and the annual state student film festival.
JEAN PLUDE BAKES, ’84, is a math and business teacher at Weston High School. She is also a board member and treasurer of the Bakes Family Foundation, whose mission is to provide financial assistance for medical and educational needs of Greek/American youth.
PAUL BERNETSKY, ’85, is the chief development officer for the Westport Weston Family Y. Paul resides in Oxford, Conn., with his family.
M.S. ’96, 6th Yr. ’00, director of pupil services with East Haven Public Schools, is a Killingworth resident and enjoys gardening, working out at the gym, and kayaking.
JOHN B. (JACK) ZIBLUK, ’83, M.S. ’84, is a full time professor and the chair of the Department of Mass Media
GEORGE SINKO, ’87, a lieutenant in the Newtown Police Department, attended a tenweek executive leadership training program at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va.
MARY ELLEN BOLTON, M.S. ’88, principal of Jane Ryan School, joined the board of directors of Trumbull-based St. Vincent’s Special Needs Services. Bolton resides in Stratford, Conn.
MARY B. COLLINS, ’88, has been named the director of religious education at the Unitarian Church in Westport, Conn.
JENNIFER LAW, 6th Yr. ’88, is the interim principal of Lee H. Kellogg School in Falls Village, Conn. She lives in the same town with her husband, Alan Lovejoy, and they have two adult daughters, Hannah and Molly.
’90s works at the Microsoft Store in Danbury and lives in New Milford, Conn.
JANE SIMAO, ’82, a fourth
ROBERTA WEZENSKI, ’83,
’85, doctor of audiology, received the Charles Holland Award for Excellence for superior performance at Sonus Westside in King City, Ore.
JAMES C. MCGEORGE, ’91,
branch manager of the Naugatuck Savings Bank in Wallingford, Conn. grade teacher at Putnam Elementary School, was named the district’s 2013 Teacher of the Year. She lives in Tolland, Conn.
KIMBERLEY W. DOTSON, M.S.
In Print AND On Screen NEWS ON BOOK, TELEVISION, AND FILM RELEASES FROM SOUTHERN ALUMNI
Howard L. Gleichenhaus, ’65, announces that his first novel, “Whisper in the Pines,” is being published by Brighton Publishing. Gleichenhaus resides in Delray Beach, Fla. Janet Maher, ’76, an associate professor at Loyola University Maryland, has written a book entitled, “From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley: Early Irish Catholics in New Haven County, Connecticut.” Maher resides in Baltimore, Md.