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Former Pennsylvania governor Dick Thornburgh ’50 (left) and Paul Dickman ’71 at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, in June 2012. Dick was the keynote speaker at a conference about nuclear emergency communication, and Paul spoke on behalf of the American Nuclear Society.
Squash players Laura Rahauser ’12 (Drexel University) and Brendan McClintick ’12 (Connecticut College) at a doubleheader between the two schools’ men’s and women’s teams in November in Philadelphia.
students can use a computer daily! The students and I are very grateful.” Bob Snyder, his wife, Michelle, and their son, Jackson, have moved to Seattle. Bob works for Red Bull North America as a field marketing manager, a role that includes athletic projects, events, partnerships, sampling initiatives, and collegiate marketing programs. He and Michelle are also awaiting the arrival of their second child.
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Virginia Arrisueño continues to run DeNada, an accessories line specializing in handmade knits for women and men. The collection is inspired by the culture and traditions of her Peruvian heritage. Miles Kiger completed a master’s program in economics at the University of Arizona in 2007 and moved to Phoenix to take a job with American Water, an investor-owned water utility. “The parts of my job I liked the most— testifying in rate cases—led me back to Tucson this fall to start the J.D. program at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law,” says Miles, who is still a devoted Pittsburgh Steelers and West Virginia University Mountaineers fan.
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Colleen Corcoran Yates and her husband, Tim, welcomed a son, Brendan William, September 14, 2012. Brendan joins sister Fiona.
Mercersburg roommates John Richey ’09 and Danny Quinn ’09, who are studying at the U.S. Naval Academy (where they are still roommates). John is captain of Navy’s men’s squash team and Danny is captain of the Midshipmen swim team.
Tim Hitchens graduated from Skidmore College in 2003 and spent two years working with the youth group at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia before pursuing a master’s of social work at Temple University. He graduated in 2006 and joined the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services/Child Protective Services. In 2008, Tim was promoted to social work supervisor in ongoing services and to program supervisor in policy and planning in 2012. He married his “dream woman,” Anna Heng, March 17, 2012, in Philadelphia. Erin McCartney Rozniakowski lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Walt, and daughter, Kenley. Erin runs an Amateur Athletic Union girls’ basketball organization in the Philadelphia area. Zoe Tsoukatos is president of Zoe’s Chocolate Co., which was chosen as the official chocolatier to the 2013 Academy Awards Celebrity Lounge in Hollywood. The company, which has stores in Frederick, Maryland, and Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was the official chocolatier to the 2011 Emmy Awards Salon, and won a 2013 Good Food Award for its Sesame Tahini Crunch confection in January.
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Rachel Kagan has launched a video company, Main Line Video Productions, which is based in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Giulio Scarzella ’94 shares this photo of his 5-year-old son, Emmanuel, and 3-year-old daughter, Evangeline, in two of his old Mercersburg T-shirts. Giulio is a senior hydrogeologist with AMEC Environment and Infrastructure in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He and his wife, Erin, celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 2011. “We are living the family life up here,” Giulio says. “Erin stayed home with the kids instead of putting them in daycare and is taking care of some other kids now in addition to Evee. I travel here and there for my job and will be spending time in Panama and Alberta.”
’01 Andrew Fazekas married Teresa Durkin on July 14, 2012, in Annapolis, Maryland. Wesley Harden married Candice Curro July 15, 2012. He received a master’s in intelligence analysis from Johns Hopkins University in December. Hillary Wade is engaged to Charlie Baxtrom. The couple planned an April 2013 wedding.
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Nichole Barbuzanes and Dimitrios Komninos were engaged in September 2012 while vacationing in Santorini, Greece. The couple met while both worked at a Greek restaurant in Baltimore. A 2014 wedding is planned. Alex Keely has opened an alternative medical practice in Germantown, Maryland, which specializes in traditional Chinese medicine, including medical qigong. Alex volunteers as an EMT/firefighter for the Germantown Volunteer Fire Department. He is married to his college sweetheart, Matoli, and they hope to stay connected with Mercersburg alumni in the D.C. metro area. Lauren McCartney lives in Dry Run, Pennsylvania, and works for the family business, McCartney Inc. She is also coowner of MeLa Land & Cattle Inc. and McCartney Holdings LP with her younger
sister, Melissa ’05. Lauren is a 2006 graduate of Washington College and received a master’s in child development and learning in 2008 from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England. Liz Stockdale married former Mercersburg staff member Will Reiners June 2, 2012, at the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia. The couple lives in Houston, Texas. Liz is a history teacher at the Emery/Weiner School and will complete a master’s at Wesleyan University this summer. Will is an assistant administrator at Houston Orthopedic and Spine Hospital and an MBA student at Rice University’s Jones School of Business. Ian Thompson married Elizabeth Horan July 21, 2012, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Other Mercersburg alumni at the wedding included Ian’s sister, Summer Thompson ’04, and groomsman and classmate Seth Greenberg. Ian and Elizabeth moved from New York City to Evanston, Illinois, where Ian is pursuing an MBA at Northwestern University and Elizabeth is working for the Achievement Network, an education not-for-profit.
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Jess Malone visited campus in October to host a brown-bag lunch with current students about her work as a hydrogeologist consultant in Alaska. Sam Miller is an assistant writer for Malibu Country, the ABC sitcom starring Reba McIntire that premiered in the fall. Sam previously worked on Desperate Housewives.