SISTER AUDREY BERDIS, O.S.B. ’94M celebrated her 50th Jubilee. She is service coordinator at Benetwood Apartments in Harborcreek, Pa. CATHLEEN A. FINK ’94 is owner of Creative Fitness in Pittsburgh, where she is also a personal trainer. ANNETTE FRANKLIN, MSW ’94, ’03C was the recipient of the Barbara Jackson Scholar Award and the David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Scholar Award. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and is a faculty member in the social work department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. BRADLEY A. PEGANOFF ’94 joined RTI, one of the world’s leading research institutes, as vice president of government and corporate relations. LEAH M. HILLGROVE ’95 performed the role of Sister Mary Leo in the Spring 2010 Pittsburgh CLO’s production of Nunsense. The CLO is a not-for-profit cultural organization dedicated to the preservation, creation and promotion of the American musical theater art form.
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TEVA M. EILER ’93M was named administrative director of the Hamot Surgery Center in Erie.
Alumni Jeanne M. (Lynch) Alsheimer ’40 Joseph J. Barabas ’49 Jackie Lyn (Zochowski) Barnes ’90 Richard S. Britt ’90 Ernesto J. Caserta ’60 Joseph M. Colavecchi, Esq. ’52 Clyde J. Couse ’02 Judith A. (Madison) Sullivan Cullen ’64VMC William R. Diefenbach ’67 Sister Eugenia Dixon, S.S.J. ’64VMC Msgr. John M. Dollinger ’51 Richard C. DuMond ’49 Alfred T. Ferraro ’49 Margene M. (Schreiber) Gallaway ’50VMC Bruce C. Gilles ’62 Richard J. Glosser ’74 Mary E. (Lynch) Gray ’39VMC Thomas M. Hedderman Jr. ’68 Lt. Col. William L. Hinspeter ’56 Raymond E. Hooper, D.D.S. ’52 Joseph J. Karnes ’72 Jean A. (Kennedy) Keck ’88M David C. Kendall Sr. ’67 Christopher M. Knoll ’77, ’78M Ronald D. Komorek ’70
Tiffany D. Kornacki ’06 Rev. John A. Kuzilla ’60 Sister Lorraine Leannah ’72VMC Mary Kay (Brennen) Lucas ’73VMC Evelyn Herman Manella ’38VMC Vincent J. Marold ’53 Janet E. (Kingsley) Matts ’55 James C. Miller ’50 Edward J. Moskot Jr. ’62 Rita A. Nies ’43VMC Carol J. (Neyman) Olson ’67VMC Thomas E. Patmore ’56 Col. Robert J. Poux Jr. ’70 Martin G. Sandell ’73 Anne R. (Ryan) Scanlan ’36VMC Brian J. Shulkosky ’09 David Stoka ’85M Jerome T. Sullivan ’58 Frederick L. Tomassi ’50 Leonard J. Walkiewicz ’70, ’87M Frank L. Wierzbicki ’72 Robert A. Yadesky ’49
Parents & Friends George A. Baldwin Jerry E. Lojak Bishop Robert D. Rowley Jr.
Alumni Help with Alternative Break Service Trips Some 40 Gannon University students and five staff members spent their spring break in service to others with Alternative Break Service Trips in Florida, New Orleans, New York City and Guatemala. Sponsored by Gannon’s Center for Social Concerns, the program is in its 16th year.
important part of farm worker ministry in the area. In New Orleans, trip members spent four days working with Catholic Charities Operation Helping Hands to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. A generous donation by George P. Schillinger ’75 helped finance the trip.
Students also spent the week in New York City working at Part of the Solution (POTS), a soup kitchen in the Bronx, while a group in San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala, served with the San Lucas Mission, a Catholic mission dedicated to a variety of social concerns projects to improve the lives of impoverished Mayans.
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The trips feature a different focus for each destination. In Immokalee, Fla., students worked with a variety of social service agencies in cooperation with the Coalition for Immokalee Workers, a union that organizes migrant farm workers around issues of fair wages and worker justice. In addition, the Gannon group visited with alumna Evelyn (Prenatt) Madonia ’59VMC and her husband, Batista, owners of East Coast Brokers and Packers. The company, a tomato grower and distributor, is an
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