Malvern Magazine Winter 2015

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Alumni

NewsNotes Class of 1995

Class of 1999

Jeff Hilliard and his wife,

Dan Kelly, now an infectious

Sheila, welcomed daughter Nicole Eileen on February 10, 2014. She was 7 lbs., 13 oz., and 20 in. at birth. Big brother Kyle and big sister Eve are ecstatic to welcome Nikki to the family!

diseases doctor in San Francisco, spent much of this past fall in West Africa trying to slow the Ebola epidemic. In a September essay for the journal Nature, Kelly argues to make diagnostic testing centers a priority. “Bottlenecks in testing samples for Ebola leave patients stranded for days in isolation wards and raise fears of seeking treatment,” he writes. Kelly began working in Sierra Leone eight years ago, when he cofounded Wellbody Alliance, a non-profit health-care organization in Kono.

Class of 1996 Tom Pizzica owns Big Chef

Tom’s Belly Burgers in San Francisco. Lida Rosle P’96 and her husband visited him on their cross-country trip this fall. Pizzica starred in the Food Network show “Outrageous Food.” Rosle can attest to his skill. “We had the best pork belly burgers!” she writes.

aLUMNI NEWS

Will Hobson ’02 Wins Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting Will Hobson ’02 won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting with the Tampa Bay Times for his series of stories out inhumane treatment in a government homeless recovery program. Hobson and fellow reporter Michael LaForgia’s investigation of Will Hobson ’02 (right) is congratulated Hillsborough county's on his Pulitzer Prize by Tampa Bay Times Homeless Recovery editor and vice president Neil Brown. program revealed that the agency, which was created in 1989 to provide transitional housing for the poor, directed millions of public dollars to slumlords and placed families in unsafe living conditions. LaForgia said in a Times article that Hobson was "fearless in reporting these stories. He went places that scared me." Hobson joined the Washington Post in December as a sports news reporter. Photo reprinted with permission of The Tampa Bay Times.

Class of 2002 James Krueger earned a doctor

of philosophy with a major in historical and systematic theology from Catholic University in May.

Class of 2001 Peter DeLone is living in

South Philadelphia and is the assistant manager at Xfinity Live! Stop by to see him if you are at the Sports Complex. Jerry Reitano, a captain in

the U.S. Army, was greeted with a surprise escort by the Haverford Township Police and volunteers from the Warriors’ Watch and A Hero’s Welcome for his visit home last April.

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Greg Schreiner ’02 added aerial

videography and photography to his business, Photo Booth

Events. Schreiner took some amazing shots of campus using a remote drone, including this one from above the Pellegrini Athletic Complex.


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