Class Notes her nursing diploma from St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing. She is an emergency nursing specialist at the Ohio State University Medical Center. Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl of Suffolk, Va., ’91 BM in flute performance, recently released a musical CD, titled “Clear Water Reflections, Native American and World Flute Music,” for which she was executive producer. The recording has been getting airplay on NativeRadio.com and the National Public Radio program ECHOES. Joyce-Grendahl is executive director of the International Native American Flute Association. She has a master’s degree from the University of Akron and earned a doctorate from the University of Arizona, both in flute performance.
presents on privacy law, general labor and employment issues. She earned her law degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2001.
Wound Care Centers, he has a master’s degree from Slippery Rock University and is working on an MBA at YSU.
’00s Dawn Hays
James D. Willcock Jr. of Salem, ’97 BSAS in criminal justice and political science, was named Mill Creek MetroParks police chief in August after a nationwide search. He is the former chief of the Goshen Police District in Columbiana County.
Kevin Carpenter of Charlotte, N.C., ’00 MS in industrial engineering, is the new director of research, development and engineering for Nexxus Lighting, a lighting technology company. Carpenter has more than 14 years of experience in the automotive and lighting industries. He holds bachelor’s degrees in engineering from Morehouse College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and he also has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Mary Lynn Jimm of Sean Jones of PittsNew Castle, Pa.,’98 burgh, ’00 BM in Chuck Colucci III of Canfield, ’95 BS BS, was recently classical trumpet in criminal justice, ’01 MS in police named one of Pennperformance, was administration, is the new chief of sylvania’s 50 Best named artistic director police of the Canfield City Police Women in Business of the Cleveland Jazz Department. A 13-year veteran of the for 2009, a program Orchestra, and he department, Colucci formerly served as directed by the Pennrecently released his sergeant and assistant chief. sylvania Department fifth jazz recording, of Community and titled “The Search Sheryl P. Gumino Economic DevelopWithin.” Jones, who Sean Jones Mary Lynn Jimm of Howland, BS ment in association holds a master’s degree ’95 in allied health, with the business journals of Pennsylfrom Rutgers University, also plays has been appointed vania. Jimm is the owner of Diane’s lead trumpet for the Jazz at Lincoln director of radiolBoutique in New Castle. Center Orchestra in New York. ogy services at St. Joseph Health Rod Neill of Elizabeth Nelson of Austintown, ’00 Center in Warren. Boardman,’98 BS in computer science, ’06 MBA in Gumino is also BS, was named management, is pursuing a doctorate a graduate of the director of phyin information science and technolWestern Reserve sician practice ogy at Penn State University. She is a Care System management system analyst in Computer Services Sheryl Gumino School of Radiofor Humility of at YSU and an adjunct faculty member logic Technology and has an MS in Mary Health in Computer Science and Informaorganizational leadership from Geneva Partners. Fortion Systems but is taking a leave of College in Beaver Falls, Pa. Prior merly director of absence from the university to pursue to her recent appointment she was the St. Elizabeth Rod Neill her Ph.D. studies. manager of radiology, non-invasive and St. Joseph cardiology and the stress lab at St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center and St. Elizabeth Emergency and Diagnostic Center in Austintown. H. Marlene Dailey, left, ’87 AAB, ’90 BS, ’96 MBA, and Deborah Liptak, ’78 AAB, both of Josh Lukin of Philadelphia, ’95 BA, Youngstown, were inducted as alumni members assembled a collection of essays for to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, YSU the book Invisible Suburbs: RecoverChapter 143. ing Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States, published by the University Dailey retired from YSU in 2006 as Press of Mississippi. Lukin is an asadministrative assistant to the Provost and earned sistant professor of English at Temple all three of her degrees while working full-time University. at YSU. She was honored for her academic achievement and service to the university. Liptak Dawn R. Hays of Columbus, Ohio, ’96 is development director for the Public Library of BA, was recently elected to a two-year term on the Ohio State Bar Association Youngstown and Mahoning County and she was Council of Delegates. An associate recognized for her extensive record of community in the Columbus law firm of Hahn, service and leadership. Loeser & Parks LLP, Hays focuses her Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest practice in the fields of labor, employand largest collegiate honor society dedicated ment and litigation and frequently to the recognition and promotion of academic excellence in all disciplines. The society inducts students and a select group of YSU faculty, administrative staff and alumni each year.
31