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Ted Pedas of Farrell, Pa., ’62 BA, ’69 MEd, contributed $30,000 to the Farrell Area School District in September, bringing his total giving to the district to $565,132 Ted Pedas in four decades of philanthropy. Pedas is a former teacher, founder and director of the Ted Pedas Planetarium at Farrell High School, which was named in his honor. He also has a master’s degree in planetarium science from Michigan State University.
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Fred Bentfeld of Greer, S.C., ’73 BSBA, has joined Microsoft Corp. as general manager of its U.S. Distribution and Services Group, which encompasses Microsoft’s retail, hospitality, Fred Bentfeld consumer goods and professional services businesses. Bentfeld most recently served as managing partner at Integrys Holdings LLC, and before that he was vice president of sales for IBM Corp.
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William DiMarco of Vernon Hills, Ill., ’75 BSBA, is corporate director of accounting operations for IDEX Corp. in Northbrook, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. DiMarco has a master’s degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Joe Tucciarone of Cocoa, Fla., ’76 BS in physics, ’00 Honorary Ph.D., completed 12 animations for a National Geographic Channel documentary about the terraforming of the planet Mars. Joe Tucciarone The program will air on the channel’s “Expedition Week” series. Tucciarone has a master’s degree in physics from the University of Toledo. His dinosaur paintings have been published in magazines such as Time, Discover, and Science; his illustrations and animation sequences have appeared in TV documentaries on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and the Turner Broadcasting System. Bill Brown Jr. of New Albany, Ohio, ’77 BSN and BSAS, was presented the National Association of Emergency Medi-
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Dr. Stan K. Sujka of Orlando, Fla., ’78 BS in biology, was named “Man of the Year” in 2009 by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Central Florida in recognition of his work to find a cure for blood diseases. A urologic oncologic surgeon with Orlando Urology Associates, he earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine, did his surgery and urology residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a surgical Urologic Oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. David K. Scheetz of Aurora, Ill., ’78 BS in mechanical engineering, was elected president of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, an international not-for-profit technical society of 3,500 lubricaDavid Scheetz tion professionals. Scheetz is an equipment builder engineer for ExxonMobil Lubricants and Specialties and is a certified lubrication specialist, STLE’s highest technical designation.
Matthew C. Kostek of Columbia, S.C., ’97 BS, left, and Jacob M. Haus of Cleveland, ’01 BS, didn’t know each other as students at YSU, but they’ve become friends and colleagues since both earned their master’s degrees in exercise physiology at Ball State University. The alumni scientists were invited back to campus recently to present a research symposium for students in YSU’s Exercise Science Department. Kostek, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and director of USC’s Muscle and Translational Therapeutic Research Laboratory and Division of Applied Physiology, talked about the molecular mechanisms of muscle rehabilitation. Kostek has a doctorate in kinesiology from the University of Maryland and completed postdoctoral training in molecular genetics of skeletal muscle at the Children’s Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Haus, a postdoctoral research fellow working at the Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Pathobiology and at the Physiology Department at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, discussed the physiological mechanisms of diabetes development and how exercise can help to stave off the ill effects of diabetes. Haus also earned a doctorate in human bioenergetics from Ball State.
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cal Technicians 2009 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award, the group’s most prestigious honor. Brown is executive director of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, and the award recognized his role in helping to shape the National EMS and in guiding the National EMS Registry.
Kenneth J. Koran of Tampa, Fla., ’78, BSEET, retired recently as principal software engineer for Diebold Inc. of Canton. Koran had been with the company for 29 years and was named its Inventor of the Year in 2006. He has eight patents registered with the U.S. Patent Office. Dan Linebaugh of Baytown, Texas, ’78 B.A. in speech communications, has been named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Dan Linebaugh Monthly Magazine for the third consecutive year and was inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum as a life member. Linebaugh was featured on CNN’s Airport News as one of America’s