a LUMno TeS County Prep in Jersey City, N.J., was one of 19 honorees inducted into the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame. Sean Healy is the owner of Donoghue, Healy & O’Sullivan Travel Agency on Katonah Avenue in the Woodlawn section of the Bronx. 1987 Lawyer Kara Conway Love was honored for her professional achievements and community service in June with the 2009 Women of Excellence Award from the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce. James Keelan was recently honored with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service for his work as team leader in support equipment for the F-35 program at the Naval Air Engineering Station in Lakehurst, N.J., from 2003-2008. Currently, he works as the participating acquisition resource manager and coordinates equipment for aircraft launch and recovery systems on new-construction Navy ships. Joseph Heaney III, P.E., is principal at Walden Associates, an environmental engineering firm with offices in Long Island, N.Y. Steven r igolosi’s third mystery book Androgynous Murder House Party has been published. 1988 Best Textiles named Paul Tantillo as senior vice president, operations and customer service. In this position, he oversees warehousing, logistics, as well as customer service. 1989 Hon. Liliana Dea vila-Silebi is judge of the superior court of New Jersey. She has two sons, 12-year-old George and 5-yearold Christopher. Karen Soika, who recently graduated from medical school, started her residency in general surgery at Lenox Hill HospitalNYU this past July.
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1992 Colleen Tracy has been named managing partner at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, a premier intellectual property law firm. r uss Williams, a former basketball player for Manhattan College who currently works for Jostens Inc., paid $1,200 of his own money to make championship rings for the 10-year-old boys on the CYO basketball team at Vincent Ferrer School in Brooklyn, N.Y. He took action after reading in the New York Daily News that they had been disqualified from the season playoffs because team officials failed to file the correct paperwork, even though the team finished the season with a 10-0 record. William Tobin, radiology director at East Texas Medical Center, celebrates his 25th wedding anniversary to his wife, Stephanie, this year. They have two children: Will, 19, and Melissa, 17. 1993 Michele Walsh has been promoted to vice president in group shared services in the markets group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 1994 r ichard n ewman joined the intellectual property group of Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC this past April. He practices from the firm’s Las Vegas office. r ichard Zapolski, P.E., is senior project manager and site engineering team leader at P.W. Grosser Consulting in Bohemia, N.Y. Kevin McKenna was promoted to managing director, sales trading, in the New York office of financial firm FBR Capital Markets. Brett van Zandt is acting director of the effort to bring a botanical garden to Saratoga Spa State Park as part of the master plan that is currently being designed for the park’s future. 1997 John Wiley and Sons Ltd. has published the new book Fluid
Flow for the Practicing Chemical Engineer by Drs. J. Patrick a bulencia, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Louis Theodore, professor of chemical engineering, at the College. 1999 West Virginia professor Chris Coyne published Media, Development and Institutional Change, a book about the media’s critical role in institutional change and economic development. 2000 Sen. Jeffrey Klein recently chose outstanding educator r oseann Pignatelli Carotenuto to be honored at the New York State Senate’s annual Women of Distinction Awards and Ceremony. In May, Lt. n athan Strang returned from a seven-month deployment with Navy Patrol Squadron FOUR to Ali Air Base in Iraq, where he flew combat missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. He currently lives in Kapolei, Hawaii, with his wife, Katherine (Foster), and their two children, William (3) and Patricia (1). 2004 Michael Dea ngelis, who works for McLaren Engineering in West Nyack, N.Y., has become a fully licensed professional engineer. Stephen Perrotta announced his engagement to Katherine Assante. A July 2010 wedding is planned. a lexandra Skuthan was hired as a social studies teacher for Hillside Avenue School in New Jersey. 2005 Drew Berweger graduated from law school at Syracuse University in 2008 and now practices intellectual property law for a firm in Garden City, N.Y. 2006 Mary Beth Kolakowski, a fifth grade teacher at Maria Regina School in Seaford, N.Y., and Chris Pietrangelo, a product engineer for Turner Construction in Hawthorne, N.Y., are engaged. They plan to wed in February 2010.
2007 Brady Fox, who works in the Foreign Exchange Department at Credit Suisse in New York City, announced his engagement to Jessica Cates, who is employed in human resources at Bayer HealthCare in Montville, N.J. 2008 Genevieve o ’r eilly represented New Jersey in the Rose of Tralee Festival in Ireland this past August. During the festival, she competed with 49 other contestants for the title of 2009 Rose of Tralee in a competition that selects a winner based on personality and social awareness. 2009 emily Plante was hired as a customer service representative at Alliance Relocations Services, a third-party service provider for the relocation industry, in Fayetteville, N.Y. Colleen Schilling is pursuing a graduate degree in the school of education at the University at Albany. Scott DePhillis, who earned a bachelor’s degree in government, has enrolled in law school. Michael Heaton works as a payroll supervisor in a home healthcare agency in White Plains, N.Y. Stephen Collins, who graduated from the school of engineering this past May, served in the New York Police Department for 20 years until his retirement in October 2004.
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