MARISSA BLAHNIK ’01 was recognized by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences — Upper Midwest Chapter with an Emmy® Award for Magazine Program — Single Story/Feature/Segment for her segment on painter Scott West. The series garnered six awards. Blahnik also contributed a segment to the episode recognized with a Regional Emmy® Award for Magazine — Program/ Special/Series category.
ERIN O’BRIEN ’03 AND ANNE LIBERMAN ’09 designed lights and costumes, respectively, for the production of Ocean Teacup, an original musical staged by Mary Ellen Allison, associate professor of theater, at the Midtown International Theater Festival in Manhattan.
MEREDITH (PISAENO) SCULLY ’03, ’06 and her husband, Erik, announced the birth of their son, Bennett Erik. Bennett was born October 12, 2011.
DR. CAROLINA CABRAL ’04 met with members of Ramapo’s Pre-med Club. She is completing her medical residency in cardiology at NYU and, this past summer, completed a medical fellowship at Robert Wood Johnson. In 2010 she married Dr. Kevin Mangone, whom she met at Ramapo when he was a postbaccalaureate student.
JASON WIENER ’04 is an
JILL (ZUPANCIC) DONOVAN ’00 and Brendan Donovan welcomed their first child, Grace Teaghan, on March 28. She was born at 6:25 p.m. and weighed 8 lbs., 13 oz. and measured 19 inches.
ISABEL SUPPE ’01 has been living in Argentina where she worked as a mountain guide in the Andes and in Africa. After a terrifying accident in which she fell 400 meters from a summit ridge in the Bolivian Andes, landed on a glacier, and was declared dead, Suppe has found a new career in inspirational speaking. ESPN covered her personal ordeal and she’s written a book about it that will be released in Spanish. Suppe plans on doing a U.S. speaking tour.
JENNY DARLINGTON ’01,’08 and husband, Ryan, welcomed a son, Tucker James, on June 1 at 7:27 p.m. He weighed 7 lbs., 9 oz. and measured 20-1/2 inches.
DR. NICHOLAS A. BERNICE ’02 was named principal of the Leonia Middle School for the 2011–2012 academic year. Bernice served as vice principal for the past two years.
ASHLEY (CARBONE) HOWELL ’05 married RYAN HOWELL ’06 on October 1, 2010. Carbone received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Rutgers University in 2009. She is a research scientist at Avon Products. She also is an adjunct professor in TAS. Howell is pursuing his M.B.A. in finance at Fairleigh Dickinson University while working full-time as a senior financial analyst at Medco.
officer of the Manchester, New Jersey, police department. Wiener also served as a part-time dispatcher for the Monmouth University Police and volunteer firefighter in Cheesequake, both in New Jersey. Wiener resides in Old Bridge, New Jersey.
THERESA FOX ’05 married Jeffrey Dunay on September 3. Fox is pursuing a certification in corrections from Passaic Valley Community College. She is a case manager for Homeless Solutions.
AIMEE (BARILLA) KRONMILLER ’05 and her husband, Daniel, welcomed their son Lucas Daniel on July 5, 2010.
JILL HEATHER MYERS ’06 and Benjamin Edward Fuller married in September. Myers holds a master’s degree in educational psychology, magna cum laude, from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and is employed at the Renfrew Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
DANIELLE M. ALBANESE ’07 earned her master’s degree in social work from Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City. Albanese will take her certification exams for the state of New York and New Jersey this fall.
MICHAEL DILLARD, MPA, CALA ’07 has been accepted to Rowan University to pursue a doctorate in educational leadership. He will continue to work in health care administration until he completes his degree.
MELISSA DUFFY ’07 married Michael Whalen on September 18, 2011. Duffy is a product coordinator for a travel corporation in Ramsey, New Jersey.
JOSEPH KUCZMA ’07 married Aja Deodato on August 6, 2011, at the Belvedere Mansion in Staatsburg, New York. Kuczma is an account manager at Vivaki in Manhattan. The couple honeymooned in Turks & Caicos and resides in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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