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Daniel Stetson ’78 is the director of the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN. Formerly, he served as the executive director of the Polk Museum of Art for 15 years. Jeffrey Welcher ’78 finished his first year as the director of “Windjammer,” the vocal jazz ensemble at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. Karen Lerner ’79 lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband, Richard, daughter Katherine and two dogs, Rosie and Petey. She teaches middle, high school and IB music. Lerner also plays chamber music whenever possible.
1980s Kathleen DaBoll-Lavoie ’80 has been appointed by the NYS Board of Regents to serve as a higher education representative on the state Professional Standards and Practices Board. She is department chair of inclusive childhood education at Nazareth College and president of the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Brian Fallis ’80 and Jane Brower Fallis ’81 celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary last summer at their home in Red Hook, NY. Brian teaches middle school band in Arlington Central School District, and Jane teaches special education with Abilities First in Red Hook. Ronald Fishbeck ’80 and his wife, Teresa, have established an endowed scholarship at SUNY Potsdam in support of students pursuing an internship in computer science. In 1990, Ron and a business partner established a computer services company called Systems Made Simple, now headquartered in McLean, VA. The company has been listed on Inc. 500’s List of Fastest Growing Privately
Held Companies for the past three years running. Ron and Teresa live in Aroda, VA. They have two grown children, Jonathan and Nicole. Tedi Marsh ’80 has performed in South America,
Thailand, Costa Rica, Indonesia and India as well as at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra and as a backup vocalist for pop singer Gloria Gaynor. Proceeds from her CD are being donated to a Cambodian orphanage that she visited in her travels to provide new, clean bathrooms. Eric Cioppa ’81 was appointed to the position of superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance by Maine Gov. Paul LePage. Tamara Freeman ’81 is a nationally recognized Holocaust educator and violist.
Recently, Freeman presented a music lecture-recital at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She teaches at Ridgewood, NJ, public schools and instructs students of all ages how to sing beautiful and poignant songs that were composed by children and teens from WWII ghettos and concentration camps. Last year, Freeman received an award from The Crane School of Music for having created and developed the nation’s first and only Holocaust music curriculum for grades K-12.
Joe Carello ’82 and Frank Grosso ’82 are both saxophone artists with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra. Carello has directed the Stan Colello All-Star Band since 2003, worked with Chuck and Gap Mangione, Harry Connick Jr., Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow and Frank Sinatra Jr. He was recently named Jazz Educator of the Year by CNY Jazz Central. Grosso has over 26 years of experience as a music educator and has appeared with many artists, including Cole, Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Hope, Lena Horne, Manhattan Transfer, Johnny Mathis and the Temptations. Ann Martin Carvill ’82 has been a member of the Potsdam Central School Board of Education for over ten years. She previously taught grades 3-12 and was the drama club director for grades 3-6 for six years. Carvill lives in Potsdam, NY, and currently works as a bookkeeper for her husband’s, John Carvill ’74, dental practice. Daniel Clark ’82 recently retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserves with the rank of colonel after serving for 23 years as flight surgeon, and is currently a staff anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. He and his wife, Christine, were blessed with twins, Kailey and Ethan, five years ago.
Oswego Opera Theater. She also teaches at Syracuse University, directs the music ministry at Fairmount Community Church and coaches vocalists in her private studio. Nancy spent 17 years with Syracuse Opera, where she was chorus master, rehearsal pianist, vocal coach and performer. Bradley H. Smith ’83 was appointed director of marketing for Vintage Filings’ investor relations and compliance solutions. Jamie Luckie ’84 was selected by the NCAA to officiate during the Men’s Division I Basketball Championship this year. This was
his third consecutive Final Four and 13th straight NCAA tournament. Luckie credits former soccer coach Jim Rishe and former basketball coach Jerry Welsh (Hon. ’79) for encouraging him to become a college basketball official. Sharon A. Addison ’85 has been named the new city manager in Watertown, NY.
Sandra Fancher-Bastedo ’83 was one of five women honored by the Arts Council for Wyoming County in May, where she received the 2012 Artist of the Year and Patron of the Arts awards in the field of music. Nancy Head James ’83 is the new choral director of
She comes to the job from the U.S. National Security Agency, where she had been the sole source operations manager in charge of intelligence operations, program management and business process improvement since 2006.
Helga Bodner Bogardus ’85 is the director of music ministry at First United Methodist Church in Fuquay Varina, NC. Tom Hull ’85 was named vice president and chief information officer at Pace University in Westchester and New York City. He was previously CIO at Siena College and Virginia Commonwealth University. Darryl Green ’86 and his wife, Mary Rose GiruzziGreen ’87, have published their first children’s book, entitled “Jake and the Buggy Melee.” They plan to write a teacher’s manual to use with the book, covering art, math reading, language arts and science. Amy Braun Sadkin ’86 was appointed the new director of Newbury Town Library by the town’s library trustees. She is a member of the American Library Association, the New England Library Association and the Public Library Association. Martin N. Coppola ’87, a 1997 Master of Health Administration graduate from Baylor University, is the recipient of the 2011 Army-Baylor Distinguished Alumni Award. His textbook, “Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills and Applications,” is currently being used by over 100 U.S. degree programs. He retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 2008 and is currently a program director and associate professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Margaret Johnson ’87 received her Ph.D. in policy analysis and management from Cornell University in May. She spent several years as an aide to Assemblyman Marty Luster and has worked part-time at Cornell. She and her husband, Michael Roman, have two children, Nathan, 16, and Rachael, 13.
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