CHRISTINA M. DYCKES ’09 is a physician assistant at UPMC Hamot Women’s Hospital in Erie.
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DR. BRADLEY J. MEALY, D.C. ’09 is a chiropractor and owner of Gonstead Family Chiropractic of Erie. NIKOLA DROBAC ’09C graduated in December 2011 from Penn State with a master’s degree in education. KAYLEE A. KEBORT ’09 is employed at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. JAIMIE A. PIERCE ’09, ’10M is a physician assistant at Montgomery Cardiology in Rockville, Md. MELISSA (HANELY) SINGH ’09 is director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for three Catholic parishes in St. Marys, Pa.
’10s DANA B. ROUSSEAU ’10 is a registered nurse in the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. TYLER M. BATTS ’11 signed a professional contract to play for the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Titans of the Indoor Football League. Batts was a tailback/returner for the Golden Knights and plays wide receiver for the Titans, whose inaugural season began in February. He still holds the Gannon record for career kickoff return average (21.40). WESLEY C. DAVIS ’11M is a physical therapist at NovaCare Rehabilitation in Meadville, Pa., and Aegis Therapies in Cambridge Springs, Pa. ANTHONY R. PRIBONIC ’11 was among the honorees of the Young Erie Professionals’ 2011 Generation-E Awards. Pribonic is the owner of iRock Fitness, which he founded while attending Gannon. He also founded an annual charity race with proceeds from this year going to Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Pennsylvania and Southern West Virginia.
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Combined, nearly 100 students and guests turned out to hear fall and spring ExecutiveOn-Campus speakers, like Donald Wagner ’68, on Nov. 17. A professional entrepreneur, Wagner spoke during a breakfast and lunch forum. He also visited several business classes, had dinner with members of the University’s Student Government Association and toured the One Green World Café, a student-produced on-campus venture. He’s pictured here with SGA members Lexie Mastro, Kerri Stasiak and Allison Adkins. On March 15, Stephen Nelson, M.A., M.D. ’79 served as the spring Executive-On-Campus speaker. He is the chief medical examiner for Florida’s 10th Judicial Circuit and was the consulting neuropathologist in the 2005 death of Terry Schiavo and the 2007 death of celebrity Anna Nicole Smith. Events during the day included an informal breakfast and lunch, classroom discussions and a student round-table dinner.
The spring Alumni Lunchtime Lecture, sponsored by Liberty Mutual, featured Gannon’s Judy Van Rheenen ’85, director of the International Student Office, and a panel of international students and alumni representing the cultures of India, China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, as well as study abroad participants. The panel’s presentation, “It’s a Small World: International Gannon,” provided insight into foreign cultures, allowed guests to sample ethnic cuisine and offered a sneak preview of the University’s popular International Night. On March 28, former Gannon first lady Mary Lou Scottino ’74 (center), Dr. Sandra Lee, Ph.D. (professor and research associate in the Alberto Institute of Italian Studies at Seton Hall University, at left) and Norma Palandra Webb (an active member of Erie’s Italian American Women’s Association, at right) presented their book, Italian Americans of Greater Erie, during a special evening alumni lecture. The trio presented copies of photos they collected for their work to Gannon Archives following the discussion. You hear footsteps outside your hall or think you saw a shadow out of the corner of your eye as you work late in the labs of Zurn. Was it your imagination, or a spirit haunting the Gannon grounds? Gannon’s own Jeffrey Bloodworth, Ph.D., professor of history, presented the fall Alumni Lunchtime Lecture on Oct. 26 and discussed all of the University’s “haunted” hallways and unexplained phenomena. “Ghosts of Gannon,” which saw a large crowd of 70, was sponsored by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Log on to www.gannonalumni.org to see photos from past events and add upcoming events to your calendar!