ALUMNI BIRTHS
1992
EVIE TSOLOMYTIS & Dean Kalousis, son, James Peter, 1/29/14
2000
ELIZABETH (DOWD) & Keith Basile, daughter, Virginia, 12/18/12 previously a counselor at Clarkstown North High School in New City, N.Y.
2001
ELIZABETH OMEGNA is vice principal at Eisenhower Middle School in Succasunna, N.J.
2003
SR. SHARON MCCARTHY recently left her position as principal of the Grasmere School in Staten Island to embark on yet another journey as vice provincial of the Sisters of St. Dorothy. She was featured in The Staten Island Sunday Advance, lauding her name as “synonymous with education within the community of Staten Island.”
2004
PATRICE HOLMES was honored with the Golden Apple award at the Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers (TSTT) 2014 recognition breakfast. The award is given to individuals who mentor and train scholars to become effective teachers and committed leaders, who strengthen their schools and communities.
2005
MEGAN MESSMANN and GRAHAM SHARKEY ’06 were “expecting their first born and potential future Jasper in November.”
2008
OSAMA ABDELFATAH is a supervising scheduler in the New York City office of Parsons Brinkerhoff where he oversees scheduling for construction of the 96th Street station of the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan. SR. COLLEEN THERESE SMITH was named principal of St. Rose of Lima School in Newtown, Conn. CASSIE OLESZKIEWICZ joined the child study team at Watching Hills Regional High School in Warren, N.J. She also serves as coach of the junior varsity field hockey team.
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2010
DUSTIN ENGELKEN is the new district manager of Community Board 7 in the Bronx. He was appointed a member of the board in 2012, shortly after moving to Bedford Park with his wife Farah and daughter Ayala. HEATHER (BONE) O’SHAUGHNESSY joined Macdonald & Wood Sotheby’s International Realty in Duxbury, Mass.
2011
ELIZABETH FREDERICK joined The Chazen Companies’ municipal engineering group at their headquarters in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The company is a provider of engineering, land surveying, environmental and safety consulting, planning and landscape architecture services. Prior to working for Chazen, Frederick worked for Malcom Pirnie, Inc. in White Plains, N.Y., where she was involved in the design of several municipal water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades.
2013
CHRIS TODD is a sales associate for the firm NAI James E. Hanson, a Hackensack-based commercial real estate firm. HANNAH TURNBULL joined Norton Insurance Agency as a commercial lines assistant. Prior to this appointment, she served as an investigator for the U.S. Investigations Services.
2014
CHRISTIAN BRIGGS joined the Di Salvo Engineering Group, Structural Engineers, of Ridgefield, Conn. ANDREA LAQUIDARA and ALYSSA VIGADA were among 71 recipients of the Excellence in Accounting Scholarships for the 2014-2015 school year, which were awarded by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and its Foundation for Accounting Education.
2004
NANCY (WICKS) & WALTER MUGAN, son, Henry Walter, 9/4/14
2006
Michelle Sassler & MICHAEL WORDEN, daughter, Annabelle Michelle, 5/7/14
MARRIAGES
2000
KEVIN BOTTI ’03 & Lily Alt, 9/13/14
2001
PETER KOYS & Alyssa Nesci, 5/31/14
2007
MEGAN (ECKERT) & JOSEPH CARPENTIERI ’08, 8/30/14
2010
ANTHONY DEMARTINO & Meaghan Smith, 9/13/14 CAROLINE GALLAGHER & Kevin Finnegan, 10/4/14
ADVANCED DEGREES
1952
ROBERT MURRAY graduated from Drew University with a Doctor of Letters at the age of 89.
2005
LAUREN JOHNSON earned a master’s degree in theological studies from the Episcopal Divinity School in May 2014.
2009
TANYA KHAN graduated with a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School in May 2014 and is a law clerk at the National Labor Relations Board.
2010
ERIC TALLARITA earned an MBA from University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2014.