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Vicki Mazurek of Titusville, Fla., ’81 BS in Business Administration, is an information technology manager for The Boeing Company, where she has been employed since 1989. She Vicki Mazurek is responsible for IT infrastructure services for Boeing space exploration employees working at the Kennedy Space Center, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and in Houston, Texas. Justin Dunaway
PT Grad Works to Provide Rehab Care for Haitians Five years after co-founding a non-profit that brought teams of physical therapist volunteers to hurricane-ravaged Haiti, YSU alumnus Justin Dunaway has expanded his mission. Now, as president of a new organization called STAND, The Haiti Project, he is working to create a sustainable system of permanent clinics across the impoverished country, providing orthopedic rehabilitation to the people. The plan is to have the clinics staffed by Haitian clinicians who will be trained by STAND volunteers. Dunaway, ’06 BS in Exercise Science, ’09 DPT, moved to Arizona after completing his YSU doctorate degree in Physical Therapy and is employed as a physical therapist at One Accord Physical Therapy in Phoenix. In 2012 YSU honored him with its prestigious Alumni of the Year award for his work in Haiti, and he continues to work with the university and its department of Physical Therapy. He was on campus to speak and meet with students last fall, and has taken 10 PT student volunteers to Haiti over the past five years. For more information, visit http://www.standhaitiproject. org. Tony Lozzi of Naples, Fla., ’81 MSBA in Marketing Management, ’84 MBA in Finance, relocated to begin a new career working for Florida Home Realty in Naples. He helps customers, Tony Lozzi many of them from the Youngstown area, to locate winter homes, investment rental properties or year-round homes. Previously, Lozzi spent more than 20 years working for Fortune 100 companies in sales and marketing positions on the East Coast. Lozzi’s wife, the former Celeste Corso, is also a YSU graduate with an ’81 BSBA in Retail Marketing.
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Robert Pavlik of Hudson, Ohio, ’82 BS in Advertising and Public Relations, has joined Quez Media Marketing as vice president. Quez is a marketing, strategy and web design advertising agency in Cleveland. Robert Pavlik Previously, Pavlik was vice president of marketing at Bank of America and MBNA Corp., serving there from 1995 to 2013. He has an MBA from John Carroll University’s Boler School of Business. Mary Pat Salomone of Charlotte, N.C., ’82 BS in Civil Engineering, was appointed to the board of directors for Intertape Polymer Group Inc., a developer and manufacturer of Mary Pat Salomone tapes and packaging systems. Salomone, who holds an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College, also serves on the boards of TransCanada Corp. and the YSU Foundation. In 2013 she retired as senior vice president and chief operating officer for the Babcock & Wilcox Co., concluding 31 years of service to the company. Valerie O’Dell of Warren, Ohio, ’85 BS in Nursing, received a $16,684 Nursing Anesthesia Traineeship grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources Valerie O’Dell and Services Administration, Department of Nursing. The grant offers scholarship assistance to nurse anesthetist students who intend to work in health professional shortage areas after completion of the MSN anesthesia program. O’Dell is a professor and MSN director in YSU’s Department of Nursing who joined the YSU faculty in 1985. Besides her YSU degree,
she holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Case Western Reserve University and an MS in Nursing from Kent State University. Ron Bayne of Medina, Ohio, ’87 BSBA in Business Administration, is the owner of The UPS Store in Ashland, Ohio. The store is a radio sponsor of the Cleveland Indians, and Bayne was Ron Bayne chosen to throw out the first pitch at the Cleveland Indians game on May 27. Eric Weis of Alamo, Calif., ’88 BS in Management Information Systems, was named a consulting partner in Armanino LLP, an independent accounting and business consulting firm and one of the largest of its kind in the country. He joined the firm’s Governance, Risk & Compliance practice. Previously, he was a partner at Crowe Horwath and worked with more than 60 companies in the Bay Area.
’90s Dr. Charles P. Sammarone Jr. of Hubbard, Ohio, ’91 BS, has been chosen as a master faculty member by the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. The college bestows the honor on a select number of physicians teaching at its clinical campuses, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the college. A 1995 graduate of Heritage College, Sammarone operates a medical practice in Hubbard and serves as a clinical associate professor with the college’s department of family medicine, affiliated with its clinical campus at St. Joseph Health Center in Warren. Kevin Carlini of Pleasant Gap, Pa., ’93 BSBA in Advertising Art, has joined Penn State University’s Office of Strategic Communications as a visual communications specialist. He provides graphic design and creative expertise for the university's print, Web and new media communications. Previously he was creative director for Woolrich Inc.’s direct-to-consumer division, and before that he was creative manager for Nashbar Direct in Youngstown. Scott R. Schulick of Youngstown,’94 BSBA in Accounting, ’96 MBA, has been named Rotary Club District 6650 Governor for 201819. Previously, he served twice as president of the Scott R. Schulick Youngstown Rotary. Schulick is vice president/investments and an investment advisor for Stifel Financial Corp. He served as a member of the YSU Board of Trustees from 2004-2013.