’10s LISA L. BEAN ’10 and ELIZABETH A. BOCAN ’10 are staff nurses in the cardiovascular intensive care unit at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie. ASHLEY M. BENEDICT ’10 and JUSTINE S. DICKINSON ’10 are staff nurses in the intensive care unit at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie.
KATHERINA D. BIERBOWER ’10 has been hired as a special education teacher at South St. Marys (Pa.) Street Elementary School.
DESTINY M. EGNOT ’10 is a staff nurse in the oncology unit at UPMC Hamot in Erie.
TEAGUE M. BINTRIM ’10 is a staff nurse at UPMC Hamot in Erie.
MOLLY C. EIMER ’10 is a staff nurse in the cardiac/telemetry unit at Buffalo (N.Y.) General Hospital.
REBECCA A. DEWEESE ’10 is a staff nurse in the behavioral medicine division at the Windsor-Laurelwood Center in Willoughby, Ohio.
ALLYSSA M. FERRIELL ’10 and KATELYN (PACANSKY) LUDROF ’10 are staff nurses in the cardiac/telemetry unit at UPMC Hamot in Erie.
in memoriam
Robert J. Falkewitz ’58 Robert J. Falkewitz ’58, age 84, of Erie, died Sept. 1, 2011. He began his career at Gannon in 1964 as an English instructor and retired in 1998, continuing to teach as an adjunct through fall 2007. During his time at Gannon, he taught in the English department and in communication arts. Falkewitz was a graduate of Academy High School and Gannon, also holding a master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Mary Ann (Kania) Muller Mary Ann (Kania) Muller, age 63, of Erie, died July 4, 2011. Muller was a 1966 graduate of St. Benedict Academy and was influential, along with Msgr. Thomas McSweeney, in creating the Gannon television station which would later become Fox 66. She began her more than 30-year Gannon career in 1966 as a cataloging clerk in the library, going on to serve as secretary for the Learning Resource Center, the Diocesan Communications Centre, WETG and athletics, before leaving the University in 2000.
Bruce Morton Wright ’69, ’00M Bruce Morton Wright ’69, ’00M, age 65, of Erie, died July 29, 2011. Following graduation from Strong Vincent High School, Wright received his bachelor of arts degree in music from Gannon and Mercyhurst College in 1969. He continued his education at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, receiving his Kapellmeister degree in 1973. Wright also earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Gannon in 2000. As the music director and instructor of fine arts at Gannon, he was the director/ conductor of the Erie Chamber Orchestra, the successor to the Erie Bayfront Orchestra, which he founded in 1978, and the director/ conductor of the Erie Opera Theatre, which he founded in 1983. He was also the director of the Gannon University Concert Band, the Lake Erie Ballet Orchestra and the Bemus Bay Pops. His funeral service was held at the University’s Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel.
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Alumni Mary Agnes (Feyas) Piotrowicz ’43VMC Bernadine (Gleichsner) Orcutt ’49VMC Richard H. Grumblatt ’50 Frank M. Marucci ’50 Charles A. Balbuza ’51 Robert P. Salisbury ’51 Richard J. Wilson ’51 James J. Yaple ’51 Arthur M. Freeland ’53 Berdellis Dale Monahan ’53 Anthony L. Mancuso ’58 Joseph G. Blinzler ’61 James G. Reiser ’61 David J. Hanlin ’62, ’69M Gertrude (Rettger) Brechtel ’63 Robert N. Renshaw ’63 John H. Schilken ’63 Frank W. Slurkanich ’63 John F. Kucharski ’65 John P. Hartman ’66 Mary Jane (Ward) Deck ’67VMC Susan (Coogan) Forney ’67VMC John D. Kulju, D.D.S. ’67 Ronald L. Maryott ’67 James J. Shoemaker ’68 Patrick E. Morabito ’72 James P. Hewitt ’73 George F. Wachter ’73 Richard L. Flick ’74M Carl G. Bodendorfer ’76 Charlotte Newby Dobbs ’79M Rose Ann (Plonski) Barnett ’85 David J. Pecar ’85 John M. Kreger ’87 Anna Ruth (Burnett) Smith ’88VMC Thomas J. Jares ’92
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