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KAITLYN ROSE HAITZ ’10 and KENNETH MICHAEL O’DONOHUE ’09 were married June 16, 2012 at St. Paul R.C. Church in Ramsey, NJ. Haitz is an assistant estimator for her family’s business and O’Donohue attends Rutgers’ School of Law. The couple honeymooned in St. John, USVI.
DANIELLE PINOL, ESQ. ’09 graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law May 2012. She was admitted to the North Carolina Bar Association.
JASON M. KOLINSKY ’10 is an investment advisor representative and life and health insurance producer at Kolinsky Wealth Management, LLC. He is a CFP®, Certified Financial Planner™. At KWM, Kolinsky focuses on financial planning strategies and wealth management solutions for businesses and individuals. He is chief compliance officer and maintains a seat on the Investment Committee. Kolinsky is a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Financial Planning Association and the Mahwah Chamber of Commerce. BRIAN SELLA ’10 and band mate/childhood buddy Matt Uychich spent the summer as the opening act at sold-out shows for Motion City Soundtrack.
DR. JUSTIN RABINOWITZ ’09 graduated from New York Chiropractic College in July, 2012. Rabinowitz works for Dr. Danielle Damelio who has two offices, in Montville, NJ within OneHumanPerformance, a fitness, performance and wellness facility and the other is a private practice in Westfield, NJ. He resides in Martinsville, NJ. JORDANNA SURIANI ’09 and SEAMUS MAZIARZ ’09 announced their engagement. A September 2013 wedding is planned. Suriani is an admissions counselor at Ramapo College and Maziarz is a federal auditor for the Department of the Treasury. JENNIFER COHEN ’10 graduated from Rutgers’ Master of Library and Information Science program with a specialization in digital libraries.
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GRACE HELBIG ’07 has been dubbed a YouTube star and was featured in a film, “Please Subscribe: A Documentary About YouTubers.” The documentary was screened in Edgewater, NJ and 300 theaters throughout the country. Helbig was one of eight video bloggers featured. What makes these bloggers noteworthy is that their careers are built on making YouTube videos; subscribers number hundreds of thousands and their page views total in the millions. The Contemporary Arts major describes herself as an actress, comedian, and Internet personality. She is known for creating the My Damn Channel web series, “Daily Grace.” The series boasts 600,000 subscribers and 89 million video views on YouTube. Since the series’ inception in 2008, Helbig has created more than 1,000 videos. The International Academy of Web Television named “Daily Grace” Best Host (taped) and Best Hosted (taped) web series. Helbig is nominated for a Best Writing Award from the organization. She also was a correspondent on “Attack of the Show!” on the G4 Network and played Idol on the web series “MyMusic.” Helbig lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Debra Perry ’85, Esq., vice chair of the Ramapo College Foundation’s Board of Governors, was recognized as one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business by NJBIZ. Her colleagues on the Board were aware of her business acumen years before the distinction was announced. Perry is a partner in the Product Liability Group of McCarter & English, LLP. In celebration of Perry’s accomplishment, McCarter & English took out an advertisement in NJBIZ to congratulate her. Perry’s legal expertise focuses on product liability litigation with an emphasis on the national defense of pharmaceutical products and the coordination of mass tort products liability litigation involving occupational exposures. She has represented multinational companies in the defense of prescription medicines including atypical anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, hormone products, narcotic analgesics, diabetes drugs and over-the-counter medications. Perry has developed and implemented strategies to respond to the issues confronted by bio-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical companies and industrial manufacturers and distributors, including multi-district litigation, defense of medical monitoring claims, product identification and market share liability, punitive damages and epidemiological analysis of causation. Perry enrolled at Ramapo College as a non-traditional student, taking classes while raising a family. She majored in Psychology and continued her education at Rutgers University School of Law where she earned a Juris Doctor. Her involvement with the Foundation includes co-chair of the annual Distinguished Citizens Dinner, serving on the Executive Committee and the Annual Golf Outing Committee. She also participates in the annual Networking Roundtable sponsored by the Anisfield School of Business and was this year’s alumnae speaker at the Scholarship Dinner held April 3.
THE ROOMIES, THEN AND NOW They participated in Study Abroad programs and really took advantage of all that Ramapo offered. The Roomies have brought their husbands into the group too, who very quickly developed a sense of belonging even though they all didn’t attend Ramapo. The Roomies, as the alumnae refer to themselves, hope that students today take advantage of everything that Ramapo has to offer and form their own special friendships that last a lifetime.
Debra Perry ’85, Esq.
KIMBERLY RAIMONDI ’11 and business partner KELLY ALPERSTEIN ’11 have been running a field hockey company helping and fostering youth athletics for two years. The website is njexpressfh.com. MELISSA ZEEVI ’11 and Edward Levy married August 2012. Zeevi is a computer/business teacher at Saddle Brook High School, NJ.
her accident. While Suppe has undergone 10 surgeries and sometimes bed-ridden recovery processes, she never once believed she wouldn’t be able to climb again, and never limited herself because of her new handicap. By the one-year anniversary of Suppe’s fall, she and a friend climbed a new ice route on a mountain that they named “The First Day of the Broken Leg.”
Then: (L-R): Laura Gilpin Gibki ’83, Linda Discenza-Lorras ’83, Jeanne O’Mahoney Meringolo, Kathleen Clarke Englert, Patty King DeJesus ’83, Theresa Conroy LaFrance ’82 and Laurie McConaghie Harvey ’83 (L-R): Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Giovanni Viglino, Regional Campaign Coordinator Purvi Parekh, Constantino Stavrou ’13, Isabel Suppe ’03, Mike Carr ’13, Professor of Physics Daniela Buna, Matt Saur ’14, Dean of the School of Theoretical and Applied Science Edward Saiff
KIMBERLY ISABELLA SCHWABE ’12 and Lt. Ryan Robert Freitag were married June 9, 2012 at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. The couple honeymooned in Antigua and Disney World. They will reside in Fort Benning, GA.
ISABEL SUPPE: ALWAYS AT HER PEAK When Ramapo Alumna, Isabel Suppe ’01, fell over 1,000 feet from the icy mountain face of La Izquierda in Bolivia while rock climbing, all she could think about was surviving so she could climb another day. Suppe did just that. She fought off dehydration, hallucinations, and loss of blood from a severe broken leg before she and her climbing partner Peter, who unfortunately did not make the three-day wait, were discovered and rescued.
HOLLY SORENSON ’12 was accepted to Brown University, RI to pursue a doctorate degree in Chemistry.
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Now: Sitting (L-R): Patty King DeJesus ’83, Jeanne O’Mahoney Meringolo; (middle): Linda Discenz-Lorras ’83 and standing, Theresa Conroy LaFrance ’82, Laura Gilpin Gibki ’83, Kathleen Clarke Englert ’83, Laurie McConaghie Harvey ’83
Most people in Suppe’s condition would have their leg amputated, but that was never an option. Upon arriving at the hospital after her rescue, the doctor tried removing her boot from her broken leg. Suppe told the doctor to be careful of her boot and not to damage it, for she would need it to climb again. This fighting attitude foreshadowed Suppe’s life after
When Suppe’s injured joint began deteriorating, she needed to undergo three surgeries in Spain. Her doctors advised her to bike, saying it would be beneficial. She borrowed her grandmother’s bike and fondly gave it the name Rocinante, after the horse Don Quixote rode during his travels. Thus her journey continued. Suppe started at the German-Swiss border and biked through Switzerland, across the Alps into Northern France, across France, the Pyrenees, and into Northern Spain during the middle of winter for her surgeries. She continued to the Spanish coast, where she took a boat back to Germany then rode a ferry to Morocco. Suppe climbed Morocco’s highest mountain on crutches, and biked through the Sahara Desert. Her next big adventure came when she decided to bike across the U.S. to raise awareness on how organ transplants are life-saving, and to raise money for her next bone transplant surgery that will take place in Baltimore in December. Suppe set off alone and biked from Monteray Bay, CA with her destination being her alma mater, Ramapo College. Suppe left with only $30 in her pocket and survived by spending little to no money, sleeping in poorly-pitched tents, selling books, and presenting speeches. Suppe was welcomed back to Ramapo as she completed her journey at the iconic Ramapo Arch. Suppe stated, “The journey thus continues… Where it may lead me, I don’t know. What I do know for sure though, [is that] having a physical problem does not mean that we cannot do something. It simply means that we have to try harder, that dreams and hope are the most precious things we own. www.ramapo.edu
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