Class Notes
Christine Kays of Shenango Township, Pa., ’98 AAS, ’07 BSN joined Jameson Health System in New Castle as director of nursing in the transitional care unit at Jameson Hospital. Christine Kays A registered nurse, she earned her BS in nursing from YSU and has experience in progressive cardiac care, critical care, medical intensive care and neuroscience intensive care. Amy Garchar Schuler of Richmond Hill, Ga., ’99 BS in environmental studies and ’05 MS in biology, is employed as a lab manager in the Marsh Vegetation Research Lab at Savannah State Amy Garchar Schuler University & South University and as a research assistant/lab manager in the Department of Natural Sciences. Previously, she was a naturalist at Mill Creek MetroParks in Youngstown, served as a web editor for the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 in San Francisco, Calif., and worked as an environmental scientist for Environmental Services & Consultants in Youngstown. She also taught advanced placement biology at YSU, and now teaches at Central Texas College, at the Savannah campus of the University of Phoenix, at Savannah State University and at the Savannah campus of South University. Jhera L. Bundy Woodard of Columbus, ’99 BS in Nursing, has been named director of quality improvement for Buckeye Community Health Plan. Buckeye is a managed healthcare Jhera L. Bundy Woodard organization serving Medicaid and Medicare members across Ohio. Woodard joined the company at its inception in 2004 and she has more than 10 years experience in the managed healthcare industry. She earned an MS in nursing and an MBA in healthcare management from the University of Phoenix. She also serves on the board of Fountain of Restoration, a nonprofit organization that assists and empowers at-risk young women.
’00s Matthew D. Gurbach of Cleveland, ’00 AB in history and American studies, has been
named a partner in the law firm of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP. Gurbach, who earned his law degree with a concentration in litigation from Matthew Gurbach Case Western Reserve University Law School, is working in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. He has represented clients as first-chair trial counsel in courtrooms across Ohio, as lead counsel in numerous appellate courts and before the American Arbitration Association. Anthony Vross of Canfield, ’01 BSBA in accounting, was appointed to the board of directors for Cortland Bancorp and for the Cortland Savings and Banking Company. Vross is owner of Simon Roofing and has 28 years Anthony Vross of experience in executive administration, manufacturing, operations, distributions and sales and
marketing. He invented the Fume Recovery System, in use nationwide by schools, food processing plants, hospitals, and other odor sensitive environments, has developed many other innovative concepts and technologies for the roofing industry and has authored several articles in national publications. He is also a trustee and president of Glaciers Sports Inc. Leslie Wagner of Fredericktown, Ohio, ’04 BA in American studies, has been hired as staff historian at the Dawes Arboretum Leslie Wagner in Newark, Ohio. Wagner, who earned an MA at Bowling Green State University, previously was employed at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Sara Roth of Austintown, ’05 BA in telecommunications, is a news producer for WEWS NewsChannel 5 in Cleveland, where she was awarded a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 2012 Emmy Award for best evening newscast. She was nominated in the category of best weekend newscast in the Lower Great Lakes Region.
Alumni Authors:
Wendell Harris
Alumni Publish Books for Children Retired from a career working with lowperforming schools in upstate New York, Wendell W. Harris of Albany, N.Y., has published a children’s book, titled Elton’s Shoes, about an inner city boy who struggles with older boys bullying him and peers belittling him. Harris completed his BA in sociology at YSU in 1963 and earned an MA in teaching from Case Western Reserve University and an MA in African and Afro-American studies at SUNY-Albany. He retired from the New York State Education Department in 2003.
YSU alumnus Michael C. Glorioso Jr. of New Castle, Pa., is marketing ClamLand Children’s Books, a series of books he’s written under the pseudonym Michael Holiday. The former owner of Glorioso Builders, he earned his BSBA in 1998 and until recently was employed by Infocision in New Castle. Glorioso said he was forced to retire last year when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He decided to return to working on the book series, which he created in 1987, and plans to donate a portion of book sale proceeds to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The books are available at clamlandbooks.com. Michael Glorioso
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