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1984 continued Founder of Raconteur Interactive Storytelling in Orlando, Fla., CHRIS RODA is dedicated to the production and development of interactive storytelling utilizing technologies of the new millennium.
1985 DENISE CALDWELL CHETTY lives in
Charlotte, N.C., where she is the billing coordinator at the law firm of Hedrick, Gardner, Kincheloe & Garofalo … HOLLY DINSMORE is vice president of business development for Quadrant Health Strategies, Inc. … CHRIS HOWLEY is executive vice president at Republic Parking System, a privately owned professional parking management company based in Chattanooga, Tenn. … Located in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area, MARTIN HOWLEY is the Veterans Affairs, Real-Time Location Systems National BA manager at HewlettPackard … In Flagstaff, Ariz., BONNIE BAKER O’DONNELL is the director of development for the Grand Canyon Association … An attorney at Mansour, Gavin, Gerlack & Manos in Cleveland, MIKE TUCCI practices primarily in the areas of corporate and intellectual property law. He is also an adjunct professor at Ursuline College.
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INGO BURGHARDT is the senior counsel
Working in the greater Chicago area, at The World Bank in Washington, D.C. BEN DUNN is a sales representative … In Cleveland, REMO DIFRANCO is for Stryker Orthopaedics … With an the CFO/director of operations at accounting background, SCOTT NEOLA Murtech Consulting, LLC, a staffing is currently chief financial officer and service for information technology treasurer at CMP, located in Atlanta … and engineering … JIM ROONEY With headquarters in Boston, is a principal at AMTV, LLC, a SEAN O’BRIEN is an operating partner professional services firm in the at Bain Capital … In addition to Pittsburgh area that provides marketowning Brighton Yoga Center in based research and analysis in support Detroit, BRIDGET SHEAHAN of advancing new technologies and PIETROWICZ is also the director of innovative products … The Wright marketing intelligence for Valassis … Transportation, owned by LAMAR University of New Mexico Associate WRIGHT, provides transportation to Professor KATHY POWERS was awarded and from events such as casinos, a three-month research fellowship airports, sporting events, meetings, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial etc. in the Cleveland area. Museum in Washington, D.C. She is working on the legacies of the Holocaust for transitional justice today and comparing it to the AfricanMARIELLEN ANTONELLI HAIRSTON American reparations movement. is a wealth management financial Kathy was also awarded a Woodrow advisor at Morgan Stanley Smith Wilson Center fellowship in the East Barney in Cleveland. European Studies program to study reparations claims for mass human rights violations and war crimes in In Freehold, N.J., TRACY HEMMI the Balkans … In Louisville, Ky., ROWOHLT is president of RowlCrown, PAUL STROPKAY is chief investment a provider of removable crown officer at United Management molding/wire management systems. Company LLC. The firm is an asset Tracy previously worked in finance management arm of The United and banking before joining husband, Company. Todd, in this business … BRYN TUTTLE STOCK is vice president at Spencer Products, located in Twinsburg, Ohio.
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Walt’s brother, Craig Rooney; his sister, Kate Rooney; his parents, Carole and Rich Rooney;Walt; and his sister, Annie Rooney.
It was July 4, 2013. WALT ROONEY, M.D. had just landed in San Francisco when he got the call. It was the kind of call no one wants to receive. Rooney’s younger sister, Annie, had been struck by a drunk driver and was clinging to life at The Ohio State Medical Center. By the time Rooney arrived in Columbus several hours later, Annie had passed away. It was a tragedy that changed the Rooneys’ lives forever. They thought about what Annie would do in their situation, and from her death they are creating positive change. “All our family talked about as we learned about the repeat offender who killed her is how she could have been let off time and again,” Rooney says. “It became apparent that we just couldn’t live with ourselves if we didn’t try to prevent this from happening to other people.” To do that, the Rooneys are working to advance legislation in the Ohio state legislature that would require all convicted drunk drivers – not just repeat offenders – to have an ignition interlock installed on their cars. It would require the driver to blow into a Breathalyzer to ensure sobriety before the car will start. With the Rooneys’ heavy lobbying, Annie’s Law, as the legislation is called, has garnered support from the National Transportation Safety Board, Nationwide Insurance, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Ohio State Medical Association and others. In November, the Ohio House Judiciary Committee will vote on whether or not to send it to the House floor. Annie, a prosecuting attorney who was 36 when she died, long had impressed her family with her advocacy of abused women. “She was always trying to give women a voice, that was her big thing in life,” Rooney says. “I know she would be totally supportive of what we’re doing. She would be leading the charge.”
“Annie’s Law” Ohio House Bill 469
For more information on Annie Rooney and her family’s efforts to get ”Annie’s Law“ passed, go to www.annierooney.com.
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WALT ROONEY Class of 1988
What is your day job? I’m a plastic surgeon. Where do you live? In Cincinnati with my wife and four kids. We moved here to fight for Annie’s Law last year. Before that, we lived in Seattle for 10 years. We had planned to stay there forever. Are you glad you moved? Absolutely. Ohio is behind almost all other states with respect to this public health safety issue. Four hundred Ohioans are killed by drunk drivers annually. When we realized how preventable this is, we were compelled to act. You are attending University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. What impact has it had on you? I have been able to use Wharton’s powerful network to help move this legislation along. I have contacted Wharton alums from San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., and Columbus to help on this issue. What do you want your kids to learn from Annie? I want them to cherish their brief memory of her, to remember that she was selfless and courageous. Above all, I want them to be inspired by their family overcoming deep grief to make our community a safer place.
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