CLASS NOTES
Parade magazine listed STEPHANIE ANN ZANER ’13 as one of the nation’s top college commencement speakers. Readers of the magazine, distributed in more than 640 newspapers, voted for the best college and high school graduation addresses from videos posted online.
run ball from Orioles batter Chris Davis on June 16. “I was standing out on Eutaw Street, hoping he would hit one far out there, but I was running for it immediately,” Kopp told Baltimore Sports Report. “I turned back around and looked in my glove to make sure I actually had it.” After the game, Kopp met Davis in order to hand him the ball himself. STEPHANIE DIPIETRO
Miss Maryland CHRISTINA DENNY ’12
placed among the top 10 finalists in the Miss America competition in September. She is a teacher in Olney at Echelon Academy, a school for children with learning disabilities, and hopes to study speech pathology in graduate school. ALEX KOPP ’12 caught
the 100 career hometh
PH.D. ’10, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, received a J. William Fulbright Award for the Spring 2014 semester. The award will allow DiPietro to conduct research complementing her work on the longterm adaptation of Bosnian refugees in St. Louis at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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BETTINA M. STOPFORD M.B.A. ’09 has been appointed vice president of strategic capture and business development at Conceras, which plans and implements complex systems and networks for national security programs. She previously served as vice president and line manager of the Intelligence Training and Services Division of SAIC. She is also the deputy commander for the NJ1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team and a volunteer incident coordinator for the Fairfax County Medical Reserve Corps. JESSICA SAUER ’08
and ADAM CALVERT ’04 were married on Aug. 25 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore. She is a special-education teacher at Public School 811 in the Bronx. She received a master’s in urban education from Mercy College. He is an associate in the Manhattan office of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, a Philadelphia law firm. He received a law degree from Fordham.
Julie McCarthy M.A. ’13 married Christopher Brown on June 8 at Quonquont Farm in Whately, Mass. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Maryland. NATALIE T.J. TINDALL PH.D. ’07 has been
granted tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor at Georgia State University. Also, this summer her co-edited research volume, Coming Out of the Closet: Exploring LGBT Issues in Strategic Communication With Theory and Research, was published by Peter Lang. VERONICA DIANE WEBBER ’06 and Richard Geoffrey Smith are engaged to
marry on March 14. The bride-to-be graduated from Luther Seminary in 2011 and is pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Lutherville, Md. JASON BELL ’08, financial adviser for Northwestern Mutual in Maryland, was recently named a Rising Star by the Living Classrooms Foundation and the Baltimore Business Journal. This award honors up-and-coming young professionals in philanthropy.
MARCUS V.M. DE PAULA ’08, M.B.A. ’13
and Tess Phipps Segal were married June 22 at Oxon Hill Manor in Fort Washington, Md. He owns Washington Creative Consultants, an event production company. RAY GAMACHE PH.D. ’08, assistant professor
of journalism in the Mass Communication Department at King’s College, has published the book Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor. The book provides insight
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