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’50s Justine Herman Butler, ’56, has taught tennis for 32 years for Ridgefield Parks and Recreation in Connecticut. The town courts were recently named in her honor.
JOHN L. CARUSONE, ’57, M.S. ’62, received the Elm City Legend Award, sponsored by the March of Dimes. He and his wife, SYLVIA CARUSONE, M.S. ’71, 6th Yr. ’93, live in Hamden, Conn.
’60s
Reunion News • Alumni of the Crescent Players will perform the musical review “The World Goes Round” at the John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. Directed and choreographed by Larry Nye and presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. Call for tickets: (203) 392-6154. • Members of the Class of 1962 will be recognized in honor of their 50th reunion at the undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 18, 2012. For more information or if you would like to organize a reunion for your class, please contact Alumni Relations at (203) 392-6500.
BRUCE FAITSCH, ’65, retired from his second career as an advanced placement science content specialist after completing 40 years as a biology teacher and science department chair with Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven and Guilford High School in Connecticut.
MARGARET KANGLEY, ’67, the 1997 Connecticut Distinguished Art Educator, had a gallery showing of her paintings at Gallery One in Old Saybrook, Conn.
NEIL T. PROTO, ’67, counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Schnader, Harrison, Segal, and Lewis was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London.
DONNA LOPIANO, ’68, was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and honored during a banquet in Waco, Texas.
’70s PATRICIA LUTKUS MOODY RINCKEL, ’71, M.S. ’75, has retired after teaching in Prospect, Conn., for over 37 years.
CHRIS WEBSTER, ’71, M.S. ’74, with 35 years of teaching experience, has been inducted into the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Webster coaches girls’ basketball at North Branford High School. 30 | Southern ALUMNI MAGAZINE
PATRICIA A. JAMELE, M.S. ’72, M.S. ’85, celebrated her 50th anniversary since taking religious vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity. She has been a guidance counselor at Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, Conn., for more than 30 years.
VICTORIA LAFORTUNE, ’73, retired after 15 years as vice president, production, of ABC Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. She lives in Los Angeles, Calif.
JOSEPH MORRIS, ’73, M.S. ’78, 6th Yr. ’87, is retiring as Putnam Middle School’s principal and plans on moving overseas for several years to continue teaching. Morris began his teaching career overseas.
JOHN W. SULLIVAN, ’73, M.S. ’78, the retired superintendent of Westbrook Public Schools and Unified School District II in Meriden, Conn., also served as interim superintendent for Haddam and Killingworth.
DOLORES ENNICO, ’74, M.S. ’77, vice president of human resources at Olin Corporation, was selected as the fall 2010 Bartels Fellow at the University of New Haven (UNH). The Bartels Fellowship brings people of national stature and prominence in the fields of business or public service to the UNH campus.
FRANK RUSSO, ’74, lives in Las Vegas, Nev., with his wife, Gina, and teaches at Silverado High School.
MARY ELLEN KINGSLANDECKELS, ’76, currently with the Meriden Board of Education developing music therapy curricula, has been honored as a 2011 Distinguished Alumna by the Wallingford Education Foundation.
LYNN SPAGNESI, ’76, M.S. ’81, was an award winner at the Brien McMahon High School Old Timers 48th annual dinner. Spagnesi played basketball at Southern for four years, helping the Owls to a regional championship in her freshman and sophomore years. She previously was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Connecticut Women’s Volleyball Hall of Fame.
ANNETTE R. BRUNO, ’78, is a field application scientist in the California Bay area. She and her husband, EDWARD BRUNO, M.S. ’74, live in Oakland, Calif.
DAVID BRYANT, ’78, M.S. ’82, 6th Yr. ’86, is the principal of Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford, Conn., where he has worked for 33 years.
RACHEL HAMLET HEGGINS, ’78, principal of the High School for Juveniles in Baltimore, Md., is also the pastoral counselor
and assistant minister of music at First Apostolic Faith Church of Jesus Christ.
KEVIN MCMAHON, ’78, M.S. ’82, 6th Yr. ’93, school psychologist at Oswegatchie Elementary School in Waterford, Conn., has published a children’s book about childhood obesity and bullying, “Manny McMoose and his Chubby Caboose.”
WILLIAM F. TURNER, ’78, M.S. ’80, 6th Yr. ’86, has been named by the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut as its 61st Citizen of the Year. Turner serves as a board member on the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce and the Windham Chamber of Commerce.
JOYCE SALTMAN, M.S. ’79, 6th Yr. ’81, has been nominated by the Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce for the 11th annual Athena Award. The award recognizes an individual for professional excellence, service to the community, and assisting women in their attainment of professional goals and leadership skills.
CAROLYN STANWORTH, ’79, chief operating officer and chief financial officer of BL Companies, was named to Moves magazine’s prestigious “2010 Power Women” list. Stanworth is the first woman in the architecture and engineering industry to be named to the list.
’80s ALETA GUDELSKI, ’81, an artist and teacher, held a discussion on the physical properties of color at a Color Therapy Workshop at the Left Bank Gallery in Essex, Conn.
JANET TATE, ’81, received her Sc.D. in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health and is currently working as a freelance statistician for the University of Connecticut and the Veterans Aging Cohort Study at Yale University.
LAURA FERRANTE FERNANDES, ’82, a Woodbridge, Conn., selectman has retired after 22 years in the Monroe Public School System. Her most recent position was as the assistant principal at Jockey Hollow Middle School.
MARK AHERN, ’87, has been promoted to vice president of the Bank of Fairfield and will be responsible for all branch operations.
THOMAS N. ELLIS JR., M.S. ’87, has joined Halsey Associates in New Haven as vice president.
PATRICIA MOTTOLA, ’87, M.S. ’90, a published poet from Cheshire, Conn., read her poems that honor veterans who served in the Vietnam War at an event held at the Plainville Senior Center.
TOM GODEK, ’88, has been named Assistant Coach of the Year by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. Godek is the offensive coordinator for Southern’s football team.
’90s MARYHOPE GOSHEA, ’90, graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in deafness rehabilitation. She earned her master’s in social work in 2010 from Fordham University.
NANCY LINDBERG, ’90, who completed her Master of Divinity from Colgate Rochester Divinity School, attained the distinction of board certified chaplain. She has been a chap-