AlumNotes Education Program in Hershey, Pa. Theresa is the director of cardiac research at Hamot Medical Center.
1989
GREGORY J. CZARNECKI has been named executive director of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Wild Resource Conservation Program. THERESA (BRICKER) HIMES is a first-grade teacher at the Wattsburg Area Elementary Center. Theresa recently obtained her master of education from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
1990
KENNETH M. OGOREK has joined the Archdiocese of Indianapolis as the director of catechesis. SHERRI (GORNALL) SIEGEL, R.N. has joined The Regional Cancer Center as a palliative care nurse.
1991
DIANA L. ZENEWICZ, R.N. ‘91M has been named the director of operations at Community Health Net in Erie. SHAWN F. RYCHCIK was named the America East Coach of the Year for 2007. Shawn is the head softball coach at Boston University.
1992
STEPHEN L. CANFIELD is starting his own company called Robotic Technologies of Tennessee (RTT). Steve is also a mechanical engineering faculty member at Tennessee Technological University. JUDITH F. COLEMAN, R.N. is the registered nurse case manager at Rolling Fields Inc. in Conneautville, Pa.
1993
BRIAN T. FULLER, CAA is the new associate athletic director and director of school advancement for McDowell High School in Erie.
MICHELLE K. LINDEN participated in a professional boxing match against Michelle Garland at the Iceoplex in Southpointe in Canonsburg, Pa. Michelle has a professional record of six wins and four losses. DENISE C. MACKENZIE has been named as treasurer for the Erie Advertising Club’s board of directors. Denise is accounting manager at the Erie Times-News. DEBRA (COLEMAN) STEINER ‘00M was named regional Financial Services Champion of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration in Pittsburgh. Debra is director of the Gannon University Small Business Development Center.
1994
DANIEL V. MENNOW ‘96M was named assistant principal at General McLane High School.
1995
KEITH A. BOECKENHAUER ‘95M has been promoted to chief operations officer for SECO/ Warwick Corporation in Meadville, Pa. BARBARA H. HORNER has been promoted to human resources manager at Morris Coupling Company in Erie. JENNIFER (JACKULA) RZODKIEWICZ is a team leader with Tastefully Simple, Inc., a seller of gourmet foods, where she previously served as a local independent consultant. HOLLY E. SCHLOSSER is a projects manager at Country Insurance and Financial Services. MELANIE (WILLS) WHALEY has joined Scott Enterprises as the director of marketing. ANTOINETTE (TONI) C. HARRISON was promoted to senior engineer of Power Distribution Projects for the Potomac Electric Power Company (PHI) in Washington, D.C.
T. Nick Mitchell ’92
Nick Mitchell ’92 is currently the Business Development Manager at Phenomenex, a chemistry company headquartered in Torrance, Calif., focusing on a variety of separation science technology platforms and techniques. Specifically, Nick is responsible for a global sales team developing the large scale preparative and process chromatography business employed in the manufacturing of a variety of small molecule and biopharmaceutical new drug entities. Nick began his career at Phenomenex in 1999 as an outside technical consultant on the east coast. After achieving the “Rookie of the Year” sales award, he was promoted to National Accounts Manager in 2000. Nick holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from Gannon and an executive master in business administration from Pepperdine University (Malibu, Calif.). Nick visited Gannon on September 28, 2007, and spoke with technical sales, bio-informatics and chemistry students.
DR. RANDY J. KULESZA is an assistant professor of anatomy at LECOM. ANNA (HARTLE) LOLL is the human resources staffing assistant with Blair, LLC. RYAN J. LYNCH, D.O. ‘98M ‘99M has joined HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie as a neurorehabilitation fellow. TALLEY L. SJOBERG is a cultural studies teacher at the International School of Tbilisi, Georgia in Eastern Europe.
1997
JAMES M. GARTNER is vice president of sales with Weber Electric Supply. HARRY P. IZBICKI JR. is currently a physician at Peninsula Family Medicine. He graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his Family Medicine Residency at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie.
1998
DEBRA (BENTZE) BALOS has joined the Hamot Physician Network and will be practicing at Your Family Physicians in Erie. She recently completed her residency at Saint Vincent Health Center. BRETT M. FADGEN has been chosen as Paramedic of the Year for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Service Council. Brett is a Paramedic Rescue Technician with Ross/West View EMS. LAURA (ROGERS) KIERMAIER is a retirement plan administrator at The Vargo Company. DOMINIC M. SCIAMANDA, D.O. has opened a medical practice at Ridgeway Medical Center in Erie.
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