IAN S. MCGINNITY ’07 was appointed coordinator of community service and the Smith Chapel within the Division of Student Affairs at Penn State Behrend.
JOANNA M. CULKIN ’07 is in her second year as an assistant coach with Marymount University’s women’s lacrosse team. The university is located in Arlington, Va.
KIMBERLY A. PETROSKY ’07 graduated from the Penn State Dickinson School of Law in May 2010. She is currently employed with Delafield, McGee, Jones & Kauffman, P.C. in State College, Pa.
DAVID W. DITKA ’07 is an inside international sales representative for TruckLite Co.
CHRISTOPHER J. WOLSKI ’07 works for the U.S. Border Patrol. He lives in Del Rio, Texas.
NANCY J. LENGAUER ’08M is a Title I math teacher at Oakview Elementary School in the Lakeview School District in Stoneboro, Pa.
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Eron DeLeon Soto ’50 Dr. Eron DeLeon Soto ’50, age 87, passed away July 5, 2010. A native of Mexico and a Gannon retiree, he served as a professor of foreign languages from September 1950 until August 1987. He flew World War II planes in the South Pacific before coming to Erie. He served on the boards of several Erie-area agencies; in 1975, he co-founded Erie’s Hispanic American Council, now the Multicultural Community Resource Center, and was still a member of its board at the time of his death.
Alumni Olga Parrini Adamus ’50VMC Robert J. Alex ’68 Louis M. Andersen ’50 Patrick J. Andres ’68 Henry W. Badach ’60 Donald F. Bartosik ’63 Charles H. Bendig ’46 Bernard L. Bienio ’74 James M. Birch ’57 Rodney N. Brandon ’57 Vincent J. Cancilla ’52 James J. Cash ’75 Michael B. Cerrie ’75 Angela Benita Cheatham ’88 Charles M. Connell ’49 Rev. Cornelius G. Conti ’54 Christine R. Dibell ’92 Gordon W. Edwards ’69M Harry M. Edwards ’49 James D. Fink ’62 Joseph P. Fischer ’71, ’73M John W. Flanigan ’49 James E. Flynn ’67
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MARIANNA F. GALL ’08, ’09M is employed by Drs. Book, Burke, and Incorvati Surgical Associates.
In addition, Elwell served as NCAA Division II vice president and was chairman of Division II Championships and Steering Committees and was a member of several NCAA committees. Elwell was inducted into the Erie Metropolitan Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1996 and into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997. In June 2010, he was the recipient of the Division II Athletics Directors Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
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ANNE M. CALL ’08 is a social worker for Catholic Charities in Batavia, N.Y.
Howard “Bud” Elwell ’55 Howard “Bud” Elwell ’55, age 76, passed away Nov. 23, 2010. As a Gannon College student, he played basketball from 1951-54 and later returned to Gannon as a coach, then as director of athletics (1966-1996). After retiring, Elwell continued as a consultant in Gannon’s Athletic Department for a number of years. Notably, he guided the Gannon athletics program from NAIA status to a fully competitive NCAA Division II program and increased the number of varsity sports from five to 17.
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JAMIE E. TAYLOR ’06, ’07M was inducted into Laurel School’s Athletic Hall of Fame. She is the golf pro at Shawnee Hills Golf Course in Bedford, Ohio.
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Linda Fotek ’89 Mary S. Galiardi ’78 Nancy Bayhurst Gillespie ’56VMC James K. Harvey ’50 Eva Gustafson Heidecker ’40VMC John N. Hersch ’50 Timothy G. Hoh ’88 Angela Brown Jannuzzi ’91 James R. Jenks, Esq. ’58 William K. Johnston ’95 Martina Davis Jones ’72 Anne McLaughlin Kane ’50VMC Mary A. Klenotic ’94 John F. Kloecker ’43 Robert W. Lawson ’61 Raymond R. Learn ’98 Robert Joseph “Joe” Luckey ’55* Tina L. Maiorana ’98 Shirley L. Markley ’69VMC Casimir T. Marshall ’55 Patrick T. McCarthy ’68 Mary Oboth McConnell ’45VMC, ’73M Janet Boyer McNerney ’42VMC Francis J. Mehall ’61 Sister Denise M. Mosier, O.S.B. ’73 Sister Michele Norcott ’70
Walter F. Pasky Jr. ’50 Khalil G. Rabat ’75M James F. Rancka ’73 William G. Rice, Esq. ’85 William D. Ring ’58 Edward C. Rogala ’48 Andrea Scalise-Gordy, D.O. ’77 Barbara A. Slomski ’82 Rev. Msgr. Lawrence T. Speice ’55* Barbara Ligget Starrett ’69M Arthur L. Stephens Jr. ’47 Charles M. Taft Jr. ’76 Fred J. Villella ’55 Charles L. Weston ’58
Friends Edward B. Babowicz Marilyn Cook Bergquist Joan Nowak English Frank E. Jarecki Paul S. Kim, Ph.D. Florence Kindzora Kostek Kimberly A. Popeski Carl J. Schlemmer James E. Winner Jr.