Alumni News 1950s EDWARD PINCH ’58 was inducted into West Middlesex High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame after 35 years of service as basketball coach and athletic director.
1960s LTC NICHOLAS DIAKIW ’62 is now retired from the U.S. military.
1970s WILLIAM UPTON ’75 is the Director of Business Development for Greenapple Business Services and resides in Pittsburgh. DAVID FOX ’77 earned his Ph.D. in Forest Resource Conservation from The University of Florida where he serves as a lecturer in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation. Fox’s dissertation focused on the ecological importance of Sabal palmett, Florida’s state tree. David hopes that his encore career will focus on teaching and mentoring the next generation of natural resource managers. Fox and his wife, Mary Ann, live in Gainesville, Fla.
1980s GREG RAMSEY ’82 relocated to Raleigh, N.C. from Buffalo. DAVID HUMMEL ’83 is now employed by Your Town Realty as a realtor. He and his wife, Twila, welcomed their first granddaughter, Brinley, in April. LISA (LIPSCOMB) PERRY ’89 was named Associate Executive Director at Jeremiah’s Place, a 24-hour crisis nursery in Pittsburgh.
1990s
2000s RICH HELTZEL ’09 lives in Chicago and is employed by Accurate Group, LLC. Heltzel is the Vice President, Director of GroundWork Operations and Process Management. HEATHER (JOHNSON) VESTER ’05 was published in the fall newsletter of the North Carolina School Counselor Association titled “Start the Year Off Right with an Emphasis on Attendance.” Vester is a school counselor at Bailey Elementary School and lives in Nashville, N.C.
ANYA LOUKIANOVA ’05 received her Ph.D. in Policy Studies (International Security and Economic Policy) from The University of Maryland. She will be a Stanton Fellow at RAND. Anya and her husband, Tim Fink, live in Alexandria, Va. JESSE PROIE ’09 is a sales manager for CarRight and resides in Coraopolis, Pa.
2010s
MELISSA (LEWIS) KEEBLER ’00 is now assistant director of annual giving at Duquesne University. Keebler and her husband, Josh, have two children, Nathalie and August. KATHERINE (KOCES) HELIKER ’00 is an environmental engineer at THG & Associates in Meadville, Pa.
GREG ANDRLE ’10 completed his master’s degree from Chatham University and is now employed by Unit4 Business Software as an implementation consultant. His role is to support, train, and implement ERP software systems for clients. He was recently transferred to the Asia-Pacific region and is living in Singapore.
SYRELL RODRIGUEZ CARRERAS ’08 started her second year of general surgery residency at York Hospital in York, Pa.
BARBARA (HORN) FERGUSON ’12 works at University of Rochester Medical Center Strong Memorial Hospital as a web specialist.
MICHELLE BLASKO ’04 works for Talbott STEAM Innovation School in Colorado as assistant principal.
MEGG ANDREWS ’13 is a senior analyst at Denli Sourcing Solutions.
JAMES DePHILLIPS ’99 has been certified as a Registrant of the National Registry of Certified Microbiologists.
HEATHER (ANDRAKE) BIGGART ’07 is a payroll assistant for Comprehensive Children & Services in Sharon, Pa.
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SIXTO RIVERA ’07 lives in Portland, Ore. and works for The American Red Cross as a manufacturing instructor.
HEATHER SNYDER ’10 is now a technical program manager at Amazon Web Services and resides in Seattle.
ELIZABETH GODFREY ’98 earned her Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma. She is employed by Highmark Health as a business analyst.
Ed Bartko ’72, H’16
CHRISTOPHER KLINE ’01 resides in Forest, Va. where he’s employed at Western Governors University.
KELLY (RHODES) ASTOR ’02 and FLOYD SNYDER ’03 were chosen as Keystone Technology Integrator Stars.
NAKISHA (LOGAN) PEOPLES ’02 is a member of The United States Air Force. She and her husband, James, have a son, James Christopher.
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CHAD BURNHEIMER ’95 completed the Pennsylvania State Superintendent’s Certification Program at Edinboro University in Dec. 2015. Burnheimer is a principal for Woodland Hills School District.
AMANDA PYE ’13 graduated from The University of Findlay (Ohio) with a doctorate of physical therapy and became a licensed physical therapist. She recently accepted a fulltime position with the Crystal Clinic Orthopedic Center in Akron, Ohio.
Home: Charleston, S.C. Professional Experience: I was a
partner (I also hold a license from Virginia as a Certified Public Accountant) with PricewaterhouseCoopers and worked at PwC (Legacy Coopers & Lybrand prior to its merger with PW in 1998) for 30 years in Washington, D.C. Joined FTI Consulting in Washington, D.C. in August 2002 as a senior managing director in its corporate finance segment, where I started FTI’s Transaction Advisory Service group. I retired from FTI in