Alumni Life
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| Mary McTigue '94 M.A. |
40s
Seymour “Swede" Masin '42 was inducted into the JCC MetroWest
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for his outstanding contributions to sports
in New Jersey. The induction ceremony was held at the Crestmont Country
Club in West Orange. Panzer
Frank X. Sutman '49 '52 M.A. was appointed Visiting Scholar
in Science Education at Richard Stockton College in Pomona where he will
help initiate the graduate education program with an emphasis on science
education. Sutman served on the MSU Alumni Board and as vice president
from 1982 to 1988.
50s
William Boyarsky '53 '59 M.A. is enjoying his retirement by
substitute teaching, reading to kindergartners and watching his grandsons
participate in seasonal sports.
Barbara Sydell LeBey '59 had two books published: Family Estrangements:
How they Begin, How to Mend Them, How to Cope with Them in 2001, and
Remarried with Children: Ten Secrets for Successfully Blending and
Extending Your Family in 2004. Both were published by Bantam Books.
60s
Moira McCluney '63 retired after 26 years as professor of French at Wartburg
College in Waverly, Iowa.
Anthony Ranado '64 is serving as interim principal of Hightstown High
School.
Patricia Nachtigal '68 was appointed a trustee member of the Board of
Governors at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Nachtigal serves as
board chair and has played a key role in discussions about the proposed
restructuring of the state's public research universities. She is senior
vice president, general counsel and a member of the board of directors
of Ingersoll-Rand, and also serves as a member of the board of trustees
of Greater North Jersey Chapter of National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Lorraine Robinson-Hilton '68, a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's
(NJSO) Master Teacher Collaborative, was named 2004 Master Teacher and
was honored at an NJSO spring concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts
Center in Newark. Robinson-Hilton works with symphony musicians and the
symphony's educational committee to develop lesson plans and activities
for students.
Jay Gavitt '69 '72 M.A. retired from the South Orange-Maplewood School
District, where he served as chair of the Social Studies Department, and
has become principal of Shepard High School in Morristown. He has taught
and coached in public schools for 35 years. Gavitt received the National
Council for the Social Studies' Advanced Certification and last year was
awarded the New Jersey Academic Alliance's Outstanding High School Teacher
of New Jersey History. He also is a member of the New Jersey Girls' Soccer
Coaches Hall of Fame and the Columbia High School Boys' Soccer Hall of
Fame.
Thomas Heath '69 is coach of the boys' cross country team at Christian
Brothers Academy in Lincroft. The team has the longest national high school
winning streak in boys' cross country.
Michael Mariniello '69 was elected in June to a one-year term as the national
president of UNICO, the Italian-American service organization. Mariniello
was president of the Hackensack Chapter in the early 1990s and was the
national treasurer from 1997 to 2002. He has served for two years as the
national fund-raising chair for UNICO's mental health charity projects
while taking on the national posts of first vice president and executive
vice president.
70s
Nancy Maurer Muddell '70 was awarded the 2003-04 Governor's Teacher Recognition
Award. A first-grade teacher at School 8 in Clifton, she was also the
recipient of a grant from the Clifton Education Foundation for developing
a butterfly studies curriculum and creating a butterfly garden on the
school grounds. She serves on the school's Parent-Teacher Organization
executive board and the district's Language Arts Committee.
Michael Walling '70 had his first book, Bloodstained Sea: The U.S.
Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944, published by
McGraw-Hill.
Elaine Haberberg Citron '71 launched a jewelry design and manufacturing
company, Jewelry By Elaine Citron. Her work was featured in the March
2004 issue of Woman's Day.
Patricia L. Higgins '71 was elected to Visteon Corporation's Board of
Directors. The former president and chief executive officer of Switch
and Data in Tampa, Fla., she now serves on the Board of Directors of SpetraSite
Inc.
Ruth Grabner '71 M.A., former president and current member of the Scotch
Plains-Fanwood Art Association, had her silhouette cutting works shown
at the Trailside Museum Harvest Fest in Watchung.
Georgette Klemchalk Lentz '71 M.A. was accepted into the Indiana University
chapter of Phi Delta Kappa International, an organization dedicated to
promoting high-quality education as essential to the development and maintenance
of a democratic way of life. Lentz also is included in Who's Who Among
America's Teachers, 2004.
Marilou Rochford '73, a family and consumer sciences educator with Rutgers
Cooperative Extension in Cape May Court House, was honored by Parenting
Press as Outstanding Parenting Education Practitioner.
Judith Impell '73 M.A. was hired by the Somerset Hills Regional School
District as director of special services.
Marcella LoCastro '74, Deloitte Consulting's principal, was quoted in
an Associated Press story about women climbing the corporate hierarchy.
The article appeared in The Star-Ledger, Newsday and the
Daily Record and has been posted on more than 15 news Web sites.
Recently, LoCastro was a panelist on News 12 New Jersey's “New Jersey
Business" where she discussed her involvement in the New Jersey Association
of Women Business Owners and the Women's Initiative.
Michael D'Agostino Esq. '75, , a partner of the firm Becker & D'Agostino,
New York, was honored at the annual convention of the American Trial Lawyers
Association in Boston last summer for his volunteer service for the 9/11
Victim Compensation Fund. The Fund was set up under the United States
Department of Justice to provide compensation to the victims of Sept.
11 and to their heirs and dependents. D'Agostino represented the estates
of deceased victims.
Anthony Del Duca '75 M.A. was appointed vice principal and director of
Athletics and Co-Curricular Activities at Watchung Hills Regional High
School, which has 30 athletic teams.
Michael Gabriele '75 hosted a program for the Nutley Historical Society,
“Remembering the Nutley Velodrome; The Last Outpost of the Golden
Era of Cycling," which featured the history of the Nutley Velodrome,
and an analysis and interpretation of its place in the history of the
sport of cycling.
Allyn Gooen '75 '78 M.A., a balloon sculptor who creates sets, props and
costumes from balloons that he twists into various shapes, demonstrated
his creations last summer at the Woodstock Playhouse stage for a presentation
of “Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs," which was part of the
Gooen's Balloowins Family Series.
Judith Barberio Pollachek '76 M.A., a member of the Rutgers School of
Nursing faculty, has written an encyclopedic guidebook for nurses that
lists more than 1,000 commonly used medications. Nurse's Pocket Drug Guide
2005 provides information nurses and advance practice nurses need to know
when administering or prescribing medications. The guidebook is designed
to fit into the pocket of a nurse's lab coat.
Charles Schiapelli '76, a retired Vineland police lieutenant, is director
of Safety and Security for South Jersey Healthcare in Vineland.
Louis J. Schweitzer '78 '92 M.A. a teacher at Vernon Township High School,
had his artwork exhibited at the 10th Pentimento Exhibition of Fine Arts
for the Sussex County Arts and Heritage Council. The exhibition featured
the work of Sussex County's art educators.
Esther Budnick '79 teaches art to fourth, fifth and sixth graders at the
Community Center in Livingston. A certified art teacher in New Jersey
public schools for 13 years, Budnick worked for the Living Art Seminars
Company in Manhattan, which provides educational art workshops at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for elementary and middle school students within
the tri-state area.
Carol Strowbridge '79 M.A. was appointed interim principal of Randolph
High School. Strowbridge has been with the school district for 17 years
and has been the K-12 guidance director for 10 years.
80s
Mike Davino '81 graduated from Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. with
a master's degree in strategic studies. He is chief of the Personnel Readiness
Division at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla.
John Henry '81 '84 M.A., a technology teacher at Woodbury High School,
was awarded the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship and
is spending the school year at NASA in Washington, D.C. In the past Henry
has received the Radio Shack Teacher Award in Math, Science and Technology
in 2002-2003, county and state Technologist of the Year, and the New Jersey
Department of Education Governor's Teacher Recognition Award.
Lynn Zlotnick Schneider '82 is re-broadcasting her WMSC radio shows on
the Web. The shows span from 1979 to 1982 and contain about 50 hours of
programming, featuring new wave, punk, ska, reggae and oldies.
Peter D. Aquino '82 joined the Board of Directors of iBasis, a leading
wholesale carrier of international long-distance telephone calls and a
provider of retail international prepaid calling cards.
Thomas Canavan '84 self-published a book, I Don't Have Time for This:
My Battle with Cancer, which details 13 months of his life as a cancer
patient from the initial diagnoses of lung and brain cancers as well as
subsequent diagnoses. His younger brother was the oncologist whose aggressive
treatment plan led him into remission.
Ellen Lewis Price '84 joined Burgdorff ERA as sales associate in the Morris
Regional office. Price is a licensed New Jersey real estate sales associate
and a member of the New Jersey Association of Realtors, North Central
Jersey Association of Realtors, Garden State Multiple Listing Service
and the National Association of Realtors.
Richard Duriske '85 was promoted to sergeant at the Dover Township Police
Department. Duriske was an evidence and crime-scene technician for 10
years and nine-year member of the Emergency Services Unit while he was
a patrol officer. Duriske is also an emergency medical technician and
served as a field training officer and member of the police color guard.
Mark Griffin '85 is director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation
at Rutgers University-Newark. Previously he was associate director of
Athletics and compliance and eligibility officer at New Jersey City University.
Shirley Ward '86 was named director of Community and Urban Affairs at
Public Service Electric and Gas in Newark, where she previously held a
variety of management positions.
Robert Knoll '87 has joined the Advanstar Medical Economics Division as
vice president for Operations, responsible for developing efficiencies
and best business practices, and creating and launching new products and
services that will meet the changing needs of the company's customer base.
Roselyn Costantino '88 M.A. received the 2004 George W. Atherton Award
for excellence in teaching at Pennsylvania State University. Costantino
was recognized for her leadership in shaping the Foreign Language and
Women's Studies programs at Penn State's Altoona campus, and for combining
teaching, research and service to enhance the educational experience of
her students and colleagues.
90s
Sherry Davis Jenkins '90 was appointed chief financial officer and director
of finance of Mt. Olive Township.
Jill Robertson Richards '90 was an Olympic torch carrier for the 2004
Summer Olympic Games, carrying the torch in Atlanta, Ga.
Salvatore Colatrella '91 M.A., '94 M.A., '01 M.A. was appointed director
of Special Services for the Jackson School District. He previously served
as director of Special Services for the Holmdel Public Schools and assistant
director of Special Services for the South Orange and Maplewood school
districts.
Richard Colloca, Jr. '92 was named director of the Food Services Group
at Amper, Politziner & Mattia, certified public accountants and consultants
firm. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute
of Managerial Accountants.
Carolann Marino '92 '97 M.A. was appointed resource room teacher at Ridgewood
High School.
Jessie Clairvil '93, a pediatric and adult otolaryngologist, has joined
the medical staff at the Memorial Hospital of Salem County. Clairvil is
a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the American Academy
of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, the American Osteopathic College
of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, and the American
Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Marc Fanelli '93 '99 M.A. is vice president of Customer Insight for Experian
Marketing Services. Fanelli previously worked for Hoffman-LaRoche and
InfoUSA.
Stephen Mulhearn '93 received two state-level teaching awards: Outstanding
New Business Education Teacher by the Arizona Business Education Association
and New Teacher of the Year by the Arizona Marketing Educators.
Patricia Hans '94 M.A. is an English teacher at Ridgewood High School.
Mary McTigue '94 M.A. is an associate medical editor
at a pharmaceutical continuing education firm in Livingston.
Robert Terranova '94 M.A. was named vice president of Operations for Zonare
Medical Systems, Inc., a medical device company developing a next-generation
premium ultrasound platform. With more than 20 years' experience in engineering,
program management and manufacturing, Terranova held several management
positions in operations and engineering, most recently as director of
engineering of Datascope's Patient Monitoring Division.
Jason Yudoff '94 was named Unsigned Artist of the Month (August) by Keyboard
magazine. His band, Jason Yudoff & The New Hottness, perform throughout
the New York/New Jersey area.
Christine Sellitti '95 is an associate of the Somerville law firm Norris,
McLaughlin & Marcus P.A. Prior to entering private practice, Sellitti
was law clerk to the Honorable James G. Troiano, J.S.C., Essex Vicinage,
Family Part. Sellitti is admitted to the Bar of New Jersey and the U.S.
District Court, District of New Jersey, and is a member of the New Jersey
State Bar Association.
Carol Benson '96 had her paintings displayed at the Riverdale Public Library
in the fall. Benson teaches art in the New Jersey public school system.
Gwendolyn Hutson Furr '97 M.A. was named Essex County's 2004 Teacher of
the Year. With more than 20 years' teaching experience in New Jersey public
schools, Furr has been featured in Who's Who Among America's Teachers
and has received the Governor's Award from the Irvington Education Association.
Jodi Kastel '97 was promoted to manager of Publications and Web Development
at Somerset Medical Center.
Todd Van Beveren '97 was named director/composer of the New Jersey Intergenerational
Orchestra.
Shana Caulfield '98 teaches health and physical education at Glen Ridge
High School.
Lisa D'Ambola Ventura '98, a fourth-grade teacher at Brookside Place Elementary
School in Cranford, was named 2004-05 Cranford and Union County Teacher
of the Year.
Evan Childs '99 is a senior account executive with NJN Public Television
and Radio. Previously, Childs was director of State and Federal Governmental
Affairs for the New Jersey Credit Union League, a state trade association.
Richard Katz '99 M.A. is principal at Bedwell Elementary School in the
Somerset Hills Regional School District.
Leyda Torres Lukowiak '99 played her first major role as Daphne in the
fall production of Noel Coward's “Present Laughter" on the Nutley
Little Theater stage.
Bryan Rios '99 is a medic and X-ray technician with the Army's 501st Forward
Support Battalion of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq. Rios has been in
Iraq since May 2003. His duties include patient care, X-rays, repairing
and transporting medical equipment, and providing guards and security
for the soldiers under him.
00s
Glen Karpowich '00 is a graphic artist at Disney Adventures magazine.
Joan Ruchelman '00, a professional pottery artist, teaches pottery classes
for beginner, intermediate and advanced students in her home studio. Ruchelman
did postgraduate studies in figurative sculpture at the School of Visual
Arts in New York City and the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.
Kara Vallone '00 celebrated the second anniversary of her Cranford dance
studio, Beyond Dance, which offers children's dance programs for students
from 3 to 7 years old.
Laura Ginenthal '01 teaches French at Ridgewood High School.
Meredith Chance '02 is an academic skills teacher at George Washington
Middle School in Ridgewood.
Katherine Kashmanian '02 M.A. is a unit administrator at George Washington
Middle School in Ridgewood.
Richeall Kennedy '02 is a physical science teacher at Glen Ridge High
School.
Cathy Condon '04 M.A. was named principal at Queen of Peace High School
in North Arlington, where she previously served as vice principal for
Student Affairs. Before joining Queen of Peace, Condon spent 27 years
in education, most of which were at Don Bosco Preparatory School in Paterson.
Rocco Rubino '04 teaches physical education and is assistant football
coach at Whippany Park High School.
Danielle Rusciano '04 teaches health and physical education at Jefferson
Middle School in Morristown.