AlumNotes
1999
REBECCA L. MARTIN ‘99M has been hired as the new president/CEO of the Ludington/Scottville Area Chamber of Commerce in Michigan. ROBERT L. CAFARO completed his Master’s degree in health care policy and management at Stony Brook University and is a senior pediatric occupational therapist at New York University Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City. BRADLEY J. COLLINS, M.D. was named assistant professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and is also an internal medicine hospitalist for the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I. JASON R. DYTCHE graduated with his MBA from Penn State University and accepted an executive position with M&T Bank in Buffalo, N.Y. KERRI (SOKOLOWSKI) DYTCHE is a middle school teacher with the Williamsport Area School District, and completed her Master’s of education in May. BRENDA (HAZEN) MARTINCIC is a physician assistant in cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic. JOHN J. RUMCIK has started a real estate business in Northern Virginia.
2000
MICHAEL R. BROWN ‘03M AARON W. HERTEL ‘01 ‘03M have opened Hertel and Brown Physical and Aquatic Therapy. DAVID M. FIORE has been hired as the head wrestling coach for his alma mater, Pine-Richland High School in Gibsonia, Pa. PETER B. GRIPPE JR. is a senior engineer at Lord Corporation.
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NICKOLAUS J. MIEHL, M.S.N. is a lecturer in nursing at Penn State Erie and will coordinate the college’s new Nursing Technology Laboratory and Nursing Simulation Center.
JASON T. MILK, D.O. graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in June and he is completing a residency in emergency medicine at Hamot Medical Center.
2001
MATTHEW P. MADURSKI AMANDA (GROVER) MADURSKI, D.O. ‘03 Matthew is a communications assistant at LECOM; Amanda is an optometrist with Visual FX. She graduated from the Illinois College of Optometry in 2007. JASON S. MAKAY is a photojournalist with WTVH-TV, a CBS affiliate in Syracuse, N.Y. MATTHEW D. SILVER, PT ‘04M is a traveling physical therapist with CompHealth in Fredericksburg,Va. MICHAEL A. VALENTE, D.O. is currently completing his General Surgery Residency training at Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio. JENNIFER R. WILSON ‘06M is a special education teacher at Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit in Edinboro.
2002
ROBERT P. MEISTER ‘02M has been selected to participate in the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program. Robert is a geometry teacher at Varino High School in Virginia. JEANETTE (PENQUITE) BENNETT received her Master of Science in biobehavioral health at Penn State University in May 2007 and will continue as a graduate research assistant to earn her doctorate. KELLY (KENNEDY) COYLE was recently promoted to manager of investigations for the Nashville, Tenn., office of GlobalOptions - Fraud & SIU. WILLIAM T. ELIAS III has been named an account executive with McCarty Printing Corporation.
LAUREN (KROPP) FOLEY is a teacher at Sewanhaka High School in New York. APRIL (WOLFE) RIZZO DAVID J. RIZZO, USA April is a third-grade teacher at Shenandoah Elementary School in Miami, Fla. David is currently an officer in the U.S. Army, stationed at U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Fla. MATTHEW R. SCHRAEDER ‘03 received his Master’s degree in mathematics from West Virginia University in May 2006.
2003
LORREE HOUK ‘03M has been appointed as the principal for the Mohawk Area School District’s junior-senior high school. ERIN (HESLIN) SLATTENGREN, MPA ‘03M is a policy analyst for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. JEREMY D. MCCULLOUGH is attending the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. APRIL M. MENIN, D.O. was awarded the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree
from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in June. She is currently in residency in obstetrics/gynecology at Western Pennsylvania Hospital. MAXIMILIAN K. PAWLOWSKI was ordained a transitional deacon in April 2006. VINCENT B. PROY, M.D. received his Doctor of medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in June and is currently in residency in family medicine at the Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, Calif. BOBBY (LETZO) RAINEY, MPT ‘05M ‘06M TROY P. RAINEY ‘04 Bobby Lee is a physical therapist at Healthsouth in Erie, Pa. Troy is a quality outcome programmer at Hamot Medical Center. ADAM C. RATHFON, D.C. is the owner of Rathfon Family Chiropractic in Cranberry Township. KIMBERLY (HAWKINS) SILVER, PA-C ‘04M is a physician assistant at The Dermatology Center in Fredericksburg,Va.
Gannon Electrical Engineers ‘Meet Up’ in NYC
Three Gannon Electrical Engineering graduates met in New York City for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Traction Power Standards Subcommittee meeting, held at Long Island Railroad on OcLeft to right: James Pepitone ’84, Paul Forquer P.E. ’74 and Ray Strittmatter ’91. tober 25-26, 2007. Paul Forquer P.E. ’74, is Vice President, Traction Group, Powell Electrical Systems in North Canton, Ohio. James Pepitone ’84 is Deputy Director, Power Systems for Metro North Railroad. Ray Strittmatter ’91 is Traction Power Design Engineer for Parsons Transportation Group in Denver, Colo. The subcommittee is writing standards for traction power systems for use by the electrified railways and transit systems in the United States. These three graduates work in different areas of the same field—making electric trains operate.