Class Notes master’s degree in organizational leadership from Geneva College in May, and was a 2008 Athena Award nominee. Moorer joined the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity as coordinator of diversity initiatives in March 2006.
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Gary Hall of Youngstown, ’91 BA in
journalism, English, and speech/communications, was promoted in February to assistant vice president, field marketing director for Home Savings and Loan, Youngstown. He joined the bank in 1999, was named assistant vice president in 2004, and received the bank’s Chairman’s Award on three occasions. Hall also serves on the board of Second Chance Animal Rescue in Austintown.
Sheryl P. Gumino
of Howland, ’95 BS, has been appointed manager of radiology for St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center and St. Elizabeth Emergency and Diagnostic Center in Austintown. Sheryl Gumino Gumino also attended the Western Reserve Care System School of Radiologic Technology and earned a master’s degree from Geneva College. She was formerly employed as general manager and national operations trainer for NYDIC Medical Imaging.
Richard Tisone of Liberty Township, ’96
BA in law enforcement administration and business management, was named interim Liberty Township Police Chief in June. A 22-year member of the police department with a 25-year career in law enforcement, Tisone had achieved the rank of captain before the promotion.
Mary Maloney Toepfer of Howland,
’96 MA in English, has earned a doctor of philosophy degree in curriculum and instruction with an English education concentration from Kent State University. Toepfer also holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Hiram College. She started her teaching career at Ursuline High School in Youngstown.
Margaret Baker
of Lisbon, ’97 BS applied science, was appointed director of oncology services for Humility of Mary Health Partners, responsible for the Cancer Centers at St. Elizabeth,
St. Joseph and St. Elizabeth Boardman health centers. Baker also holds an associate degree in radiologic technology from Kent State University and a certificate in radiation therapy from Community College of Allegheny County. Prior to her appointment, she was manager of oncology services for HMHP.
Willis Marshall of Aurora, Col., ’98 BA
in advertising and communication, is now in his eighth season as a wide receiver and defensive back with the Arena Football League, most recently with the Cleveland Gladiators. While at YSU he was a fouryear football letterman for the Penguins and a member of three Division I-AA Championship teams. Marshall also played a running back on the silver screen, participating in the filming of Disney’s “The Game Plan” with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Fran Vitullo of McDonald, ’99 Associate
in Applied Science, office information systems, was named manager of patient advocacy for St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown. She also earned a certificate in respiratory therapy technology from YSU in 1981 and is pursuing a baccalaureate in health administration from Warren National University in Agoura Hills, Calif. She previously was employed as a patient Fran Vitullo representative at St. Elizabeth.
Brett Miller of Silver
Spring, Md., ’99 BM, composed 45 concert etudes based on the works of R. Strauss, Mahler and Brahms which were reviewed recently by Dr. Jeffrey Snedeker, president of the International Horn SociBrett Miller ety. The review was published in the May 2008 issue of Horn Call, the Journal of the IHS. Miller earned a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Maryland in May 2007, and the etudes were composed for his dissertation. He is a hornist with the U.S. Air Force Band in Washington D.C. Fourteen of his original compositions Dan Lowry for various brass instruof Columbiana, ments and ensembles have ’91 BE and ’04 been published, and his MS, electrical Six Moods for Euphonium engineering, and Piano was featured on had a NADanny Helseth’s 2007 CD SCAR race release, “Snapshots.” named after Bonita Starkey of him when he Youngstown, ’99 BA won first place psychology, celebrated the in a marketopening in February of ing promotion her independent insurance by The Crown Royal Co. Lowry, a project engineer for office, Bonita Starkey InsurBechtel Plant Machinery in Monroeville, Pa., and an ance Services LLC, in the avid NASCAR fan, beat out more than 10,000 other National City Bank Buildcontestants. In his honor, the former Richmond 400 was ing, downtown Youngstown. renamed Crown Royal Presents the Dan Lowry 400. She is the first owner-agent Lowry was grand marshal for the race, held in May at in Youngstown for Farmers the Richmond, Va. International Raceway. “It was just a Insurance Group and was blast,” he said. “I got to meet all the drivers, guys who recently awarded the commake millions of dollars a year, and they were just like pany’s Blue Vase Award, anybody else, very polite, very down to earth.” recognizing her successful sales and life insurance awareness efforts.
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