Alumni News
Donna L. Ostrower (M.Ed. ’93) was named chief development officer and director of the Jewish Federation’s Jewish Philanthropy Center. Prior to her appointment, she was the executive director of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Greater Los Angeles Chapter. She also has served as the zone director for the Jewish National Fund, executive director for the American Jewish Committee of Houston and Miami and associate director of development with the Anti-Defamation League. In the course of her extensive career in Jewish communal work, she has traveled to England, France, Germany, Poland and Israel to monitor the condition of Jewish communities, combat anti-Semitism, advance Israel’s diplomatic standing and promote international human rights and interreligious and interethnic understanding. She is a charter member of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and a life member of Hadassah. John R. Vacca (M.Ed. ’91) has been awarded tenure, promoted to associate professor and appointed director of graduate studies in early childhood special
education at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Vacca received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Special Education/Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and post-doctoral fellow from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
LaTonya E. Waller (M.T. ‘01/Post-Master’s Certificate ’06), the 2011 Virginia Teacher of the Year (see The Bridge, Spring 2011), met President Barack Obama at the White House as part of the Council of Chief State School Officers’ National Teacher of the Year Program.
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