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Alison Clarke ’10 of East Syracuse, N.Y., is an underwriting associate for the Hanover Insurance Group in North Syracuse, N.Y. Ryan Morrell M’10 is director of the PROSperity mental health program in Auburn, N.Y. He is responsible for direct oversight of six staff and monitoring of all operations for the agency’s Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) program. He was previously the director of Criminal and Family Court Programs at Cayuga Counseling Services Inc. Matthew Slimowicz ’10 of Vestal, N.Y., is a senior assembler for Lockheed Martin in Owego. Katrina Antonucci ’11 of Hilliard, Ohio, is an aviation tax analyst for Satcom Direct in Upper Arlington, Ohio. Maria Martusewicz BonDurant ’11 M’15 of Syracuse, N.Y., is a project manager at Day Automation in East Syracuse, N.Y. She previously served as a project manager at Annese, a ConvergeOne company in Syracuse. She was named to CNY Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty for 2019. Alissa Theleman Clark ’11 of Rochester, N.Y., is the graduate education program director for the Greene Center for Career Education and Connections at the University of Rochester. Marc Copani ’11 M’13 CAS’15 transitioned from his assistant principalship at G. Ray Bodley High School to the new principal at Fulton (N.Y.) Junior High School. The former WWE professional wrestler also has spent time in the high school weight room helping the wrestling team. Steven DiMarzo ’11 M’15 of Clifton Park, N.Y., is the owner and clinical director for Second Nature Counseling in Schenectady. He also holds an MBA from Le Moyne College.
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Jason Checkla ’10 of Queensbury, N.Y., is regional director for Cost Control Associates, overseeing New York and New England. Previously, he served as marketing coordinator and energy specialist at RISE Engineering. He also worked as a morning show host and digital media manager for the Regional Radio Group for stations in New York’s Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties.
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For many Americans, the word Ireland conjures up images of an emerald isle with grassy hillsides, four-leaf clovers, leprechauns and all things green. “On average, they get about 285 days of rain per year, so that green color is well earned!” said Chelsey Hipkens ’13, who had the opportunity to spend some time in Ireland’s countryside during a study abroad trip and then pursuing a graduate degree in archaeological excavation from the University College Cork. “Ireland was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I enjoyed immensely,” Chelsey said. During her time in Ireland, the history major excavated several sites, including her favorite, a 19th-century house in a remote section of Ireland in Keem Bay on Achill Island. Through a very slow and deliberate process, she and her classmates unearthed centimeterby-centimeter the living area of the former home of English Capt. Charles Boycott, after whom the term boycott was named. They found all sorts of tools, broken pieces of pottery and, perhaps, the most interesting discovery, some children’s toys. “According to historical records, he was not a parent, so this means that it is likely other people stayed with him at the house,” she said. Much like her down time at Oswego which she spent along Lake Ontario, she spent her free time along the shores of Keem Bay. In addition to the green landscape, she said she admires Ireland for its green living. “They are great at recycling and reusing, and they just tend to have a lot less waste than we do,” Chelsey said. “When we excavated sites there, we were always careful to minimize our footprint on the earth.”
district attorney in the Cayuga County District Attorney’s office in Auburn, N.Y. “For me, it’s the little things like walking to work or taking public transportation, recycling or reusing an empty container,” said Chelsey, who will graduate with a J.D. from Southern Illinois School of Law this year and hopes to return to Auburn to work full time as an assistant district attorney after passing the New York State Bar Exam. Looking to her future, she said she found a way to tie her passion for archaeology and law together. “There’s a field called cultural heritage law that is a combination of property, international and art law,” she said. “I spent last summer in Siena, Italy, studying it at their law school. Afterwards I worked for a firm in NYC that does work for HARP (the Holocaust Art Restoration Project), which seeks to return art to families who had their property stolen during the Holocaust.” Regardless of where her career takes her, she said she will return to Ireland again soon and throughout her life to stay connected to the people and the land that she came to love. “They’ve never met a stranger,” she said.
Today, she said she tries to incorporate a similar philosophy in her day-to-day living as a legal extern/acting assistant
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