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Kevin Janowiak ’98 has moved to Denver and will marry Eleanor Perry-Smith in August. John Walton ’98 is the starting left tackle on the Atlanta Defenders, which belongs to the National Public Safety Football League (NPSFL), a national league of full-contact football teams made up of emergency personnel, fire and police. The Atlanta Defenders won the Division 2 NPSFL Championship in June 2010 and raised more than $10,000 for its designated charity. Daniel Araujo ’99 graduated from the Wharton School of Business of University at Pennsylvania in May with an MBA in the strategic management and an MA in international studies. He volunteered this summer at the Grameen Foundation (an offshoot of Muhammad Yunus’s Grameen Bank) in Colombia. In the fall, he will begin working as a global strategist for the Samsung Global Strategy Group in Seoul, South Korea. Will Hand ’99 accepted a faculty position at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., where his has served as chief resident of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. He and his wife Megan welcomed their second child, William Xavier, who was born in April. (Left to right) Pat Foran ’78, Bill Schmitt ’97 and Greg Meuler ’64.
Jeffrey Ruidl ’99 and his wife Kathleen welcomed their new son John “Jack” Harold Ruidl last October. Jack is named after his great grandfathers, Hon. John L. Coffey ’39 and Harold Ruidl ’39.
2000s Ben Krahn ’00 has accepted a position at Vermont Academy to teach English and history and to coach basketball and tennis. He served as an MUHS English teacher for the past five years. He also coached cross country, basketball, and tennis; moderated Watumishi and Students for Social Responsibility; and was involved in the Somos Amigos program. David Brady ’01 is “travelin’ the seven seas on a cruise ship and lovin’ it!” Alex Choren ’01 earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and his master’s degree in communications engineering from Fachhochschule Lubeck in Germany. He is currently a lead engineer and program manager for Nuclear Security Services Corporation, serving and analyzing the world’s critical infrastructure in military, nuclear, and the petrochemical fields. He led a special assessment team composed of Sandia National Laboratory members in Saudi Arabia in analyzing the country’s terrorism and risk-mitigation posture. He lives in Chicago.
Michael Moscicke ’01 was recently hired as UW-Madison’s first Government Relations Advisor and will advise students on lobbying methods. John Mulcahy ’01 married Elizabeth Abramovich in Des Moines, Iowa ,on July 24, 2010. More than 20 MUHS alumni and/or current students were in attendance. Jonathan Vincent ’01 has finished his preliminary training year in general surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. In July, he began his residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt. He graduated in May 2010 from the Medical College of Wisconsin with a medical degree and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, a national medical honor society. Andrew Zaeske ’02 earned his doctorate in economics from UCLA in June for his thesis Macroeconomic Analysis of Water Use and Efficiency in the United States. He will begin a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics at Umea University in Umea, Sweden, in August. Christopher Chang ’03 graduated in May from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, NY, with an M.D. He received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award for demonstrating empathy while delivering care during medical school. He has started his family medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, Mass.
Rev. Frank Majka, SJ returns to MUHS Rev. Frank Majka, SJ will return to Marquette High on a part-time basis beginning in January 2012. He will provide Ignatian faith formation by serving as an Alumni Service Corps chaplain, assisting in sacramental ministry, and serving as alumni chaplain. Majka authors a spiritual blog, The Bridge, at www.frankmajka.com.
Matthew Hammer ’03 earned his doctorate in medicine in May from the Medical College of Wisconsin and his bachelor’s degrees in the biological sciences and Spanish from Marquette University in 2007. Matt is now completing his residency in anesthesiology at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago.
Matthew Hammer ’03
Ira Sherrod-Madison ’04 earned his master’s degree in fine arts from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in May 2010 and participated in the commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium. Francis Beaumier ’05 graduated from St. Norbert College in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and science. He then spent 11 months as a pioneering member of the Norbertine Volunteer Community, founded by The Premonstratensian Fathers, before returning to St. Norbert College to work as a student support specialist in its technology support services department.
David Sajdak ’03 appeared in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about his family’s business Stan’s Fit For Your Feet. Sajdak, who has a degree in finance and marketing, manages the Brookfield store, after running the Glendale location for more than three years. Joe Piehl ’04 began working for Weber Shandwick, a global public relations firm based in Chicago, after his graduation from St. Louis University in 2008. He has accepted a promotion and now works in the firm’s London office.
Francis Beaumier ’05
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