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2003 CAROLYN BENACCI is a media
supervisor at Starcom MediaVest Group, located in Chicago … A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University in Fisheries and Wildlife, JULIA NOVAK COLWELL recently received a Fulbright award to carry out dissertation research in India where she will study the social and environmental impacts of a closed fishing season on different segments of the fishery-dependent population … BRITTANY NASCONE COGAN recently accepted the position of attorney at the United States Patent & Trademark office … TIM FARLEY is a financial advisor at Skylight Financial Group, a Cleveland-based company specializing in personal, special needs and business transition planning … NICOLE ROBERTS LIEBENTRITT lives in Phoenix, Ariz. where she is a teacher at Paradise Valley Unified School District … Congratulations to KELLY MARCEAU and Eric Wohlek who were married this spring … Licensed to conduct insurance investigations in all 50 states, BRIAN McCAMLEY is a SIU investigation II at Liberty Mutual Insurance in New York … For three years, MIKE MCHUGH has worked as a project engineer at TUV Rheinland Japan in Yokohama, Japan. The company is a global provider of technical, safety and certification services … SERA NELSON is working with Robert Half International, a professional staffing services company in the Cleveland area as their director of development and special events. Sera is also director of development for WAGS 4 Kids (Working Animals Giving Service for Kids) … News from RON PARROTT is that he is a FALL 2014
professional services tech lead at Verafin. Located in Newfoundland, Verafin is a leader in fraud detection and AML software … Congratulations to JOE RAVIDA and wife, Crystal, on the birth of their son, Joseph Robert. The family lives in Ocoee, Fla. … In Washington, D.C., CHUCK SCARAVELLI is an account executive at Fortitude Systems, LLC, a staffing and recruiting company … ERIC TOMKO is a senior recruiter at Veris Group, LLC, a cybersecurity company providing a full spectrum of cybersecurity services to public and private organizations.
2004 Congratulations to RAMI AZEM, a recent graduate of NEOCOM Medical School … Cleveland was the destination when ERIC CARABOOLAD and Madeline Weber were married in August. Classmates JOHN PECA, BRENDAN MCCOURT and BRIAN RUDDOCK along with brother, RYAN ’08 were in the wedding party
Celebrating Eric Caraboolad’s wedding
…COLLEEN COBURN teaches at Community Day Charter Public School in the Boston area. She also assists White’s Catering in the planning and executing of large-scale wedding
receptions and formal functions … Based in Chicago, CORY DIETRICH is founder and COO of ElixServe, an innovative labor management system that combines employee scheduling, staff communication and online training tools into one web-based application … Not only is DARLENE EDDY the sales manager at the Houston Hyatt Regency, she is also a real estate agent at Chasestone Realty … JULIE FIORELLI completed her Ph.D. in psychology from Case Western Reserve University and is now in Philadelphia completing a fellowship in primary care and weight management at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Children’s Hospital … A doctor of podiatric medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, CRAIG FREY is also an adjunct faculty member at Kent State University Podiatric Medical School. Craig and Megan Oltmann, also a foot and ankle surgeon/podiatrist, were married on June 14 … THERESE HUMMER is an account supervisor at Roberts + Langer DDB, a marketing and advertising company located in New York. One of her biggest accounts is Neutrogena … Public health and community outreach professional NATALIE HUNT is a program specialist at Big Brothers Big Sisters in Colorado Springs, Colo. … CHRIS KARAKUL is a policy associate at Federal City Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the improvement of the District of Columbia … In Toronto, Canada, DUNCAN KLUWAK is a mechanical engineer at Hatch, an engineering, project and construction management company …
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Most professionals wake up, grab their morning coffee and head to the office. T.J. MISNY prepares for the international premiere of his film “Intimate Semaphores.” The collection of three comedic shorts was the opening night premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival in May. It won for best editing there (Misny was the editor) and will screen at the Stockholm Film Festival this November. It’s the first time Misny’s work will premiere abroad. “I’ve long admired Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, so it’s especially meaningful to be premiering in that country,” Misny says. Misny is a hands-on filmmaker who savors having the creative license to see his work through from beginning to end. As a writer and director, he approaches his projects always with two questions in mind: Why am I doing this and what am I trying to discover? Misny takes that search for answers deeper in his first feature film, currently in the works. He began writing the screenplay in 2008. In 2011, the script was a finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s writing competition. “Being my first feature, this is the one closest to my heart,” says Misny, who funds his own films through his day job as a producer of corporate videos. Such independence shines through in all his decisions. He’s eschewed mentors, instead seeking enlightenment in DVDs. And he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in three years, too inspired by New York City to delay filmmaking any longer. A Gilmour ”lifer,” Misny shot his earliest films as a freshman. His passion for filmmaking was well known among teachers, who allowed him to shoot videos instead of writing some papers. “The fact that Gilmour was so supportive of my efforts consistently was pretty amazing,” Misny says. “I graduated feeling like ‘If I stick to my guns and keep making movies I will find support in the world.’ ”
T.J. MISNY Class of 2005
“Tһe fact tһat Gilmour was so supportive of my efforts consistently was pretty amazing.” What’s one film you never tire of seeing? “Dr. Strangelove” What’s something you could never live without? Music Where do you turn for inspiration? I walk around Manhattan. What do you want to say about your family? I’m thankful that my parents put a high value on education and developing a love of learning. You haven’t seen New York until you’ve ____. Taken the subway at rush hour without headphones
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