1990s ‘90 Steve Kwasnik has owned the Canastota (N.Y.) Community Pharmacy since July 2003. The pharmacy, which currently employs seven, is extremely service-oriented. “We do our best to go the extra mile for the customer,” Steve said in a recent article in the Canastota Bee-Journal.
‘92 Matthew Steed and wife Kristen Brown Steed ’91 opened Steed’s Pharmacy in Southport, N.Y. in June. The drugstore fills the last vacant storefront in Southport Plaza and is a welcome addition to the thriving retail center. For now, the Steeds will handle the pharmacy themselves, hiring additional staff as the business grows. Matt Steed is not the only member of his family to attend ACP. So far, nine Steeds have graduated from the College and two have married ACP alumnae. Several are involved with the Ger-
ould’s pharmacies and health care centers in the Southern Tier of New York and northern Pennsylvania. With a new crop of Steeds waiting in the wings, including Matt and Kristen’s four children, odds are there will continue to be Steeds in ACP’s future!
‘95 Kimberly Tobin and Stephen V. Battaglia were married in November 2005. Kimberly is a pharmacist at Pharmacy Solutions Inc. in Utica, N.Y., where Stephen is employed as director of pharmacy operations. The couple resides in New Hartford, N.Y….C. Michael White, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut, was featured in a June article in the Hartford Courant on the use of humor in the classroom. A former stand-up comedian, Mike regularly sprinkles his lectures on the Storrs campus and during clinical rotations at Hartford Hospital with a few jokes. Proving, once again, that a “spoonful of sugar helps the medicine
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go down.” During his 10 years at UConn, he has hosted retirement parties and roasts and last fall did a stand-up routine at a fundraiser held to benefit a pharmacy school in New Orleans hard hit by Hurricane Katrina. On the more serious side, Mike has published dozens of articles on his work on how to decrease the adverse effects of drugs and procedures on cardiovascular disease. This spring he was inducted as a UConn teaching fellow, an award given to only four professors a year. Mike and his wife, Laura Milch White, reside in Newington, Conn., with their two children.
Sept. 15, 2005, in Barnesville, Md. Jennifer is a pharmacist at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Md., where the couple resides. Her husband is the sales director at Southwest Distribution in Washington, D.C. … Ellen Shiomos Kalaitzidis and husband Anestis welcomed their first son, Dimitrios Constantine, on March 25, 2006. A staff pharmacist at Stop and Shop Pharmacy in Walpole, Mass., Ellen and family reside in North Easton, Mass.
‘96 Martin Kowalsky wed Kristy A. Taylor in October 2005. Martin is a pharmacist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan. The bride and groom make their home in Carmel, N.Y.
‘97 Jennifer Buiva and John O’Rangers were married
Dimitrios Constantine Kalaitzidis
‘98 Air Force Capt. Jason J. Lennen of Ballston Spa has been named the 59th Medical Wing’s Company Grade