AlumNotes JONATHAN P. MIHALIC has been named to the Project Management Institute (PMI) Power 50, a list of the top 50 prolific leaders in project management. Jonathan is a senior associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. JOSEPH E. SINNOTT, ESQ. has been elected as the new Mayor for the City of Erie. He was sworn in as Erie’s 47th mayor on January 2, 2006.
1989
JULIA (CHEMBARS) GOODING was named as one of six finalists from Pennsylvania for the 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s highest honor for K-12 teaching in these fields. Julie is a science teacher at Hopewell High School in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.
1990
CHRISTINE A. BANISZEWSKI is the office manager for the General Teamsters Union Local 397 in Erie. STACEY (MCANNALLEN) MCKINNEY is a chemist for Koppers, Inc. in Pittsburgh. Stacey is currently setting up a new section in their HPLC Lab. KENNETH M. OGOREK has published an article in the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s Our Sunday Visitor Publishing’s Catholic Parent Know-How series, entitled “Faith-Filled Summer Activities.”
1991
BENJAMIN E. BULKLEY ’91M has been elected to the California Healthcare Institute’s (CHI) board of directors. Benjamin is president of Commercial Operations for Invitrogen Corporation in Carlsbad, California.
BRETT E. HOLDEN, PH.D. ’93M was named the 2005 Master Teacher by the Student Alumni Association at Bowling Green State University. The award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate special care for their students and is considered the highest honor given to faculty. Brett is an English professor at Bowling Green State University.
1992
LORETTA (WUNCH) BRANDON ’92M has accepted a new position as the assistant director for media relations at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. MALORIE J. KOSHTFEDYSHIN ’94M joined the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville as the new director of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program. THOMAS S. WEETER is a regional field coordinator for the PA House of Representatives Republican Caucus in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1993
VALERY (GRUSKY) KEPLEY had an article published in the Journal of American Association of Physician Assistants titled “Low Back Pain: An Interventional Approach.”
1994
DAVID GONZALEZ ’97M has been appointed to Erie City Council to complete Joe Sinnott’s remaining two-year term. David is the director of Latino services at the HispanicAmerican Council of Erie.
marriages Stephenie Nicole Billig ’02 married Brian Lee Zimmerman ’00 on July 16, 2005. Karen Eileen Chludzinski ’02 married Nicholas Antonio Rueda on June 3, 2005. Kevin D. Dunlavey, D.M.D. ’00 married Ann Mehler on December 17, 2005. Jennifer L. Haun ’99 married Thomas S. Weeter ’92 on September 10, 2005. Deborah M. LaChapelle ’02 married Kevin Foley on October 1, 2005. H. Nicholas Leslie ’04 married Shawn Mae Gledhill on July 30, 2005. Jill Nicole Lugaila ’01 married Ashley Kenneth Orris on May 20, 2005. Julie L. Mandaville ’00 married Michael J. Schmidt on September 24, 2005. Nicole Lynn Martin ’03 married Jared James Holiday on August 13, 2005. Amanda L. McHale ’05 married Mark D. Burke on October 8, 2005. Linda Terese Mientkiewicz ’05M married Mark David Lorei on August 11, 2005. Michael Stephen Neubauer ’02, ’04M married Aimee Danielle McKean on October 15, 2005. Angela Renee Pero ’05M married Philip Joseph Annibale on July 23, 2005. Michele Ann Pyle ’99 married Thomas Jon DiMattio on May 27, 2005. Amy Lynn Reed, O.D. ’98 married Larry Leo Lauer, Jr. on June 26, 2005. John W. Sinclair II ’99 married Nicole Marie Pusateri on August 27, 2005. Christine Marie Stenger ’95, ’01M married Gabriel Joseph Fracassi on September 3, 2005. Brandon Thomas Tolon ’00M married Mary Elizabeth DeSanto on April 24, 2005. Major Craig J. Wagner ’85 married Silvia Ungarelli on December 18, 2004.
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