AlumNotes
1989
DANIEL R. VARO ‘89M is a partner/operations manager at Team Hardinger Transportation in Erie. JAMES M. ROCCO was inducted into the Penn Hills Sports Hall of Fame. He is the boys basketball head coach at Penn Hills High School in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania.
1990
JUDY A. DUNKLE-STILKE, R.N. ‘90M has been named coordinator for the Ryan White Title III Program at Community Health Net in Erie. JAMES R. FASHANO is a senior partner with Alliance Advisory Group, Inc. in Williamsville, NY. KIMBERLY (WASHOK) JONES has been named science and education director for the Palmetto Bluff Conservancy,
a nonprofit organization in Bluffton, South Carolina, protecting natural resources for the 20,000-acre residential and recreational community being built by Crescent Resources, LLC.
GEORGE KRAMER ‘97M is a financial representative for Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Erie. He has earned the Ruby, Best Year Ever, MDRT and Pacemaker awards, and he holds the Chartered Life Underwriter(CLU) and Chartered Financial Consultant(ChFC) designations. DANIEL J. TEED has been named the director of asset management at HBK Sorce in Erie, an independent investment advisory firm.
1991
TIMOTHY J. LEDONNE has been appointed chief of staff for the State of Kentucky’s Finance and Administration Cabinet.
marriages Megan Rene Buckel ’00 married Demetrios T. Agrafiotis ’00 on July 25, 2004. Tracy M. Backos, LPTA ’92 married Jeff Simerele on September 6, 2003. Sharon Ann Bogacki ’97 ’03M ’03C married Stephen George Markley on July 17, 2004. Jason F. Broad ’97 married Karla M. Daehnke.
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James L. Duncan, Jr. ’98 married Tracy D. Geci on October 16, 2004.
Kevin Patrick Elwell ’81 married Leslie Caroline Butler on December 31, 2004. Karolina Medeksza, Pharm.D ’00 married Robert V. Glentzer, J.D. ’00 on August 28, 2004. Meghan N. Heil ’00 married Brian Plaxe on July 31, 2004. Pamela Hornaman Tronetti, D.O. ’79 married Edmund Kindle on December 3, 2004.
Jim Weber ’62 along with Ann Barnes presented President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., and Vice President for University Advancement Susan Black-Keim with plaques commemorating the Southern California Alumni Barbeque, an event hosted by Weber in April. KIMBERLY (HEATH) THOMPSON, M.D. has joined the internal medicine practice of Freeman, Lamberton, Johns & Mingey in Erie.
and gynecology and is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
LARRY W. THOMPSON, JR., M.D. has joined OB/GYN Associates of Erie. He is board-certified in obstetrics
KELSO BROPHY is in her first year of coaching the women’s softball program at Nazareth High School in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
John D. Huffman ’01 married Dawn Konkol on May 1, 2004. Michelle L. Kline ’91 married William W. Breslin IV on October 19, 2004. Christopher J. Masson ’00 married Brandi M. Henry on September 18, 2004. Jeanette Marie Penquite ’02 married Jason Robert Bennett on June 26, 2004. Jolene Marie Ricci ’04 married Andrew James Armstrong on August 14, 2004. Amy Swanson Strayer ’79 married Troy Kent Schmidt on July 30, 2004.
1992
Carrie J. Tovey ’01M married Ron Leeds on June 4, 2004. Theresa Ann Tssario ’00 married Christopher Conrad Cleaver on August 21, 2004. Daniel Richard Varo ’89M married Susan Mary Garczynski on January 3, 2004. Meaghan E. Washek ’02 married Brendan Nolan in May 2004. Lawrence W. Wickens ’93 married Melissa M. Krupa on November 13, 2004. Michelle H. Wooley ’99 married Joseph Kelly on August 14, 2004.