REV. MARC A. STOCKTON ’98 is secondary school principal at DuBois Central Catholic School. KEVIN T. BRIGGS ’99 is assistant principal at Bellfonte (Pa.) Area High School. DONNA M. KOZIK ’99M is owner of My Big Business Card and founder of the “Write a Book in a Weekend” club on Facebook.com. She was also an exhibitor at the Self-Publishers Online Conference held in May. BRENDA R. MARTINCIC ’99 is a physician assistant in general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
’00s JENNIFER M. GIONFRIDDO ’00 joined the finance department of Watson Wyatt Worldwide. ERIN R. McCLELLAND ’00 is a cytometry account manager for Beckman Coulter after serving as a cancer scientist at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute for five years. JAMIE C. POTOSNAK ’00M joined Erie advertising agency Route 1A as an account executive. AIMEE L. MOREWOOD ’02M is an assistant professor at West Virginia University. LAUREN M. ANDRYSZAK ’03 was promoted to director of social services at Genesis Healthcare Heritage Center in Baltimore, Md. JENNIFER DOBBS WOODS, MPA ’03M successfully completed United Way of America’s prestigious Resident Fellows Program. She was one of only 25 executive-track leaders to receive accelerated development training. DORIAN R. (WHITE) CALLAHAN ’05 received a master of education degree in clinical mental health counseling and rehabilitation counseling on June 12.
ADAM D. RIEXINGER ’05 is a drug and alcohol counselor at the State Correctional Institute in Pittsburgh. KRISTIN M. (BROSKY) RIEXINGER ’05 is a counselor for UPMC/Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
With nearly 20 different athletic teams, many of Gannon University’s alumni are also former student-athletes, and recent events and activities allowed several of those alumni to reunite. Seventeen lacrosse alumni gathered on May 2 for the first-ever Lacrosse Alumni Game. Former players Margie Adamus ’99, Sarah Belen ’08, Kisa Bushyeager ’06, Jenn Cooke ’03, Melissa (Flynn) Curtis ’04, Molly (Flynn) Schwabenbauer ’00, Joanne Heintz ’07, Amy Lipinski ’07, Nettie Marshall ’06, Laura (Steinke) McCullough ’00, ’02M, Helen Orme ’04, Katey Pavone ’01, Mindy Richmond ’05, Jennifer Westgate ’06, Nikki (Abel) Wiefling ’05, Caitlin Wilcox ’05 and Debra Wood ’99, ’02M squared off against the 2008-09 team. Head Coach Alicia Groveston reported that these alumni haven’t forgotten how to play the game, as it was too close to call a score! Plans are underway to make the game an annual event. Wrestling alumni honored Don Henry for 25 years as head wrestling coach at Gannon at a celebration held April 19. Hired in 1984 to resurrect a Golden Knight wrestling program that had been discontinued since 1971, he has since coached four regional champions and has qualified wrestlers for the national championships 16 times during the last five seasons. During the 2008-09 season, Coach Henry led his squad to 10 dual victories, the secondmost in program history. Former Gannon wrestlers present at the celebration included: Scott Boyd ’94; Thomas M. Boyd, D.C. ’92; Donald Capan ’91; John Carlson ’92; Nicholas Dorsch ’88; Michael Gibson ’93; David Fiore ’00; Jason Fowler ’98, ’07M; Donald Keys ’88; Michael Keys ’94; Dave Kruszewski ’90; Ryan Marovich ’08; Derek Maynard ’01; Lyneil Mitchell ’03, ’05M; Blake Pennock ’07; Todd Proper ’01, ’06M; Jason Radtke ’06; Mark Sallot; Anthony “A.J.” Sayles ’08; Pino Scavella ’08; Lantz Schwabenbauer ’01; Robert Shumaker ’94; Jabob Tazzi ’09; Thomas Tracy ’94; Skyler Waddell ’05; and Eric Witherite ’99.
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JOANNA R. CORSO ’05 passed the New York State Bar Exam and is currently practicing law in Buffalo, N.Y.
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