1996 Auste Radzius Joost announces the birth of her son, Nolan Aleksandras, on February 7, 2011.
Vecchione and Frances Vecchione Searle ’79. Kneeling: Lisa Angely Madden ’00, Colleen Breznicky Parfitt ’00, Christina Vecchione ’09, and Madison Searle ’13.
1999 Carolyn DiMaria is still serving in the U.S. Navy and is currently stationed in Misawa, Japan. She is taking an active role in her base’s efforts to provide Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief to the areas hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami in March.
2001 Sue Smith Seman and husband, Steve, are thrilled to announce the birth of their son, Samuel John, born on March 14, 2011 weighing eight pounds, 11 ounces and measuring 22 inches.
2000 Kelly McKeown Adomsky and husband, Jonathan, welcomed a son, Bennett Michael, on April 18, 2010. Corey Ann Raieta Heacock graduated from Wilmington University in January, 2011, with a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Innovation. She defended her dissertation in November, by finding that a high level of self-disclosure on Facebook by teachers had a negative effect on high school students’ opinions of that teacher. Colleen Breznicky Parfitt married David Parfitt on December 18, 2010. The following Mounties were in attendance ( left to right), Erin McClafferty Erfle ’96, Lisa Angely Madden ’00, Jenna Breznicky ’02, Megan Lyons ’01, Lindsay Breznicky
2003 Brittany Terese Fasy, granddaughter of Joan Fasy ’47, is engaged to David L. Millman of Randolph, New Jersey. Dave visited Brittany, who is currently living in Austria, and proposed on the top of the Valluga Mountain in Sankt Anton am Arlberg during a ski trip. It was a fairy tale engagement followed by adventurous (and maybe dangerous) off-piste skiing. Meghan Ann Malone is working in the PACU (Post-Anesthesia Care Unit) at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and will finish graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in December 2011. 2005 Erin E. Hughes is currently enrolled in a Nursing (RN) program. Christine Macolino is thanking the Mount for all of the guidance she received over the years and how much it has meant to her. She would like to share that along with her research team from Thomas Jefferson University an article was published in Nature Medicine for the April 2011 issue. Check it out at http://www. nature.com/nm/jornal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nm.2334.html.
’08, Michele Breznicky Brinkerhoff ’98, Bridget Flanagan Vecchione ’00, Sara Breznicky ’05, Kate Scully ’00, Maureen Scully ’03 and Jen Dolan ’96. Bridget Flanagan Vecchione announced that she was married on May 9, 2009, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. The following Mounties were in attendance: Standing: Rosemary Vecchione Potter ’74, Jennifer Harrington Vogel ’94, Heather Harrington ’89, Barbara Harrington Hladik, Esq. ’85, Bridget Flanagan Vecchione ’00, Maggie Flanagan ’04, Maureen LaNoce ’04, Cristin Harrington ’97, Josephine
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2007 Katie Kirsch is this year’s recipient of the Dr. John P. Karidis Department Head’s Award for Research Achievement in Mechanical Engineering. Katie is a senior pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Engineering Leadership Development. Throughout her time at Penn State, she has been involved in both mechanical and nuclear engineering research, acting as a research assistant on several projects. She is a member of the Engineering Ambassadors Program, The Society of Women Engineers, The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience, the Women in Engineering program and THON. 2008 Jacqueline I. Hain has been elected captain of the University of Pennsylvania Varsity Swimming Team for the 2011-2012 Season. Lawren Kieffer was part of the Brown crew team that won Division I NCAA’s out in Sacramento. Lawren competed in the Varsity 4. Also competing, Nicole Weinrich ’09 (see photo on next page) Stanford coxswain of the V8, to third place in the V8 event and Stanford came in 2nd in the team competition. Sarah Jordan ’10 (see photo on next page) coxed the UVA Varsity 4 to a 2nd place finish in that event and 6th in the team competition. Mary Maginnis ’09, was also competing at the event racing for Radcliffe which finished 14th in the team competition.