AlumNotes RACHAEL A. SMITH is working full-time for PUMC-Northwest as an obstetric nurse, and is currently enrolled in a Family Nurse Practitioner program.
STEPHANIE S. SIAR was promoted to metallographic technician at Alcoa Eastalco Works in Frederick, Maryland. She started at Alcoa as a senior technician two years ago.
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2002
SARA E. BROWN joined the Nashville-based advertising agency Gish, Sherwood & Friends as an assistant account executive. BERT A. COPPLE, JR. is currently serving with the 7th Cavalry Squadron at Fort Stewart, Georgia. MICHELLE (HITES) DEROOY is a laboratory analyst in wet chemistry at Microbac Laboratories, Erie.
DEBORAH M. LACHAPELLE is a microbiologist at Arch Chemicals in Rochester, New York.
National Physical Therapy certification exam and are board-eligible. They are therapists at Safe Harbor Behavioral Health in Erie, providing clinical assessment/intervention and individual, family and group therapy.
2003
DANIEL G. CONWELL ’03M has accepted the position of varsity football coach at Norwin High School in Pittsburgh. For the past seven seasons, Daniel was the varsity football coach for Holy Name School, a Catholic school in Parma Heights, Ohio.
and media teacher in Union City, Pennsylvania. TIMOTHY M. FOLEY is a chemist with Mylan Pharmaceuticals. SUSAN (FOX) TIMON ’03M is an elementary teacher in the Iroquois School District in Erie.
BRANDON D. HIGLEY joined Mylan Pharmaceuticals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a chemist.
PAMELA R. RUPPERSBERG works with autistic children as a therapeutic support staff assistant for the Gertrude Barber Center in Erie.
MATTHEW A. KOLAKOWSKI has been named as supervisor for CurranShaffer Funeral Home in Apollo, Pennsylvania.
April Business Ambassadors Breakfast
JENNIFER L. KRIEG is a physician assistant for the Emergency Care Physicians of Northern Kentucky. ANDREW J. RUPPERSBERG is the manager of Champs Sporting Goods Store in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1LT LANTZ P. SCHWABENBAUER is stationed in Kendahar, Afghanistan, with the Army’s 10th Mountain Division from Ft. Drum, New York.
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NICOLE C. KUSS graduated with her MS in Counseling and Human Services from Canisius College. She is now a career counselor for the Army Center and Alumni Program at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Athena K. Ernst ’02M, Susan N.Young ’02M, and Tina L. Askins ’03M passed the
Gannon’s April Business Ambassador Breakfast featured Ralph Pontillo ’85, President, Manufacturers Association of NW PA (left) and Jim Rutkowski, Jr. ’83 (second from right) Treasurer and General Manager, Industrial Sales and Manufacturing, Inc. as guest speakers. Other attendees included Mayor Rick Filippi, Esq. ’89 (second from left); and Chet Giermak, Retired CEO, ERIEZ Magnetics (far right).
BRIAN J. “JUSTIN” FLECKENSTEIN ’03M is a high school English
ERIN (STADLER) WRIGHT is a special education teacher for the Corry Area School District in Corry, Pennsylvania.