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Timothy Murray ’99 is a newly transplanted “Western New Yorker” having recently left a ten-year career at Carnegie Hall in NYC to raise his family on an old farmstead in the bucolic village of Honeoye falls. Kevin T. Nograsek ’99 is a senior respiratory sales representative for Merck & Co. He currently resides in Cicero, NY, with his wife of five years, Melissa. Colleen Tvede Roby ’99 and her husband are celebrating owning and operating their own restaurant, Terrafin Station, in Garner, NC, for one year. Colleen celebrated 50 years of sisterhood with Omega Delta Phi in July 2011.
2000s Matthew Johnson ’01 was named Teacher of the Year at Russom Elementary School, Paulding County, GA, where he has taught fourth grade since 2002. The honor is based on letters submitted by parents and students of the school. David ’02 and Kara (Korkus) Klink ’00 bought a home in May, vacationed in Australia in April, and celebrated their second anniversary in October. Jonathan Eldridge ’03 has served as a music teacher at Chenery Middle School in belmont, MA, since 2003 and is the new music teacher for the Weston Middle and High Schools. Lowell Warner ’03 was installed as the 2011-12 president of the Rotary Club of Potsdam, NY. He is owner and president of Gulf Management LLC and Safe Lock Storage LLC and sits on the Canton-Potsdam Hospital foundation board.
Melissa Wegner ’03 has been named associate director of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. John D. Peck ’04 was elected to the Jefferson County Legislature. His goal is to improve conditions for local farmers so that his son, two-year-old John L., can one day be the ninth generation of Pecks to own and operate a farm. Marc Giosi ’05 relocated from New York City to accept the position of executive director for Chatham baroque, an internationally acclaimed early music ensemble based in Pittsburgh, PA, where he oversees all of their operations. formerly, he worked at Chamber Music America as their conference & events manager. Marc also continues to work as a freelance pianist and teacher. Jessica Kleppang ’06 brings her expertise in communications planning and social media management to Adworkshop. She joins the growing interactive and search-marketing teams and spent her first week attending the Search Marketing Expo in New York City. Tiffany (Conn) Soricelli ’06 and her husband, Robert ’06, moved to Troy, NY, where Robert will be teaching seventh-grade chorus at the burnt Hills-ballston Lake Middle School and Tiffany will be the assistant director for annual giving at the Sage Colleges. Malcolm White Elementary School in Woburn, MA, welcomed Eric Stark ’06 as the new principal. He previously spent five years at Downey Elementary School in Westbrook teaching first, second, and third grades and was the assistant to the principal.
Robert Fields ’07 was hired as the assistant director of recreation, intramurals and fitness at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. Nicole Peragine ’07, a teacher and orchestra director at Pinecrest High School, NC, is a professional musician despite having
70 percent hearing loss. She is a section viola player in the fayetteville Symphony Orchestra as well as the Carolina Philharmonic, which performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City in March 2011.
Jared Brickman ’08 was hired at Pinckney Hugo Group, a full-time marketing communications firm as an interactive account manager. Jared was previously a digital specialist at Greteman Group in Wichita, KS. (Bruce) Doug Campbell ’08 has been promoted to managing editor of the newsroom at the Eagle Newspaper in Syracuse, NY, leading a staff of seven editors, one sports editor and several freelancers. He was also the project manager for the consolidation of 24 plus websites across four media partners to a new content management system. Christopher Fleury ’08 and Hannah (McAdam) Fleury ’08 of Lindenhurst have both graduated from Hofstra university School
Cheryl MacFadden ’02 was presented with the Region 5 Art Educator of the Year Award at the 63rd Annual New York State Art Teachers Association Conference in November. She was joined by Potsdam Alumni board member Donnalyn Eaton Shuster ’78, and Cheryl’s daughters, Madeline ’11 and Ricky Phillips ’09. Ms. Macfadden was a studio major with minors in education and psychology and teaches K-12 art in the Keene Central School District.
of Law in Hempstead with their Juris Doctor degrees.
2010s
Andrea Long ’09, a secondyear student at Albany Law School, was part of a two-person team selected as 2011 winners of the Domenick L. Gabrielli Appellate Advocacy Moot Court competition. Thirtysix teams participated in the competition. The annual Gabrielli Competition gives second-year students at Albany Law School the opportunity to practice written and oral advocacy skills. The final arguments are made to a distinguished panel of federal and New York State Appellate judges. The judges on the final panel also awarded Long the prize for best oral argument.
Alexander Lombard ’10 and Roger Kalia ’06 started a non-profit classical music organization in Lake George, NY, called the Lake George Music festival. Andrew Albani ’11 was welcomed by the Stewart and Stratford Schools as the new music teacher. Joseph bernier ’11 moved to New York City and works at an ad agency. “Who knew that an anthropology degree would land me a job like this?!”
Tahirih Lopez ’09 joined Teach for America’s 2011 teaching corps. After one year in healthcare, she is now teaching high school special education at Downtown College Prep in San Jose, CA. As one of 9,300 corps members teaching in high-need public schools in 43 regions around the country, she is thrilled to be working alongside other dedicated educators to give students the educational opportunities they deserve. In their faces, she sees so many future members of the college Class of 2015.
rebecca Kitchin ’11 was accepted into the spring 2012 graduate program at Adelphi university School of Social Work. Joshua Mcgrath ’11 is filming a documentary about water relief in uganda, titled “uganda 23,” with friends benjamin Hull (SLu) and Micah Daby. focusing on the uganda Water Project, the film highlights aspects of and solutions for the water crisis. Kristina traudt ’11 is employed by the Harriet Tubman Center for Justice and Peace as a program associate in charge of writing grants and organizational planning for Auburn’s Community-Wide Dialogue to End Racism program.
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