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1949
George Gehrig is historian of
Trinity Lutheran Church,
Danville, and a member of the
Montour County Historical
Society board of directors.
1960
Dr. Carl L. Stanitski was the N.
Balachandran Visiting Professor
in Singapore and speaker at the
Singapore Orthopaedic
Association. He is an emeritus
professor of Orthopaedic
Surgery at the Medical
University of South Carolina.
1963
Jan Magalengo started a specialized
advertising sales company,
Mag/Net Enterprises, serving
Schuylkill and Berks counties.
1969
Patrick Steinbacher and his
wife, the former Pauline Eck,
Jersey Shore, marked their 40th
wedding anniversary on Nov. 27,
2009.
1973
Alan Dakey is president and
CEO of People’s National Bank,
Hallstead.
1974
Rachel McClellan Kirksey is
assistant principal at
Eisenhower Science and
Technology Leadership
Academy in Norristown Area
School District.
Mike Kopp, coach of the
Allentown Central Catholic
girls’ basketball team, became
the Pennsylvania high school
basketball coach with the most
wins for girls’ or boys’ teams
after scoring his 802nd career
victory in the Lehigh Valley
Conference.
Ron Sheehan,anNCAA
Division II wrestling champion,
was profiled in Amateur Wrestling
News.
1975
Joseph T. DiGiacomo is managing
director and
head of MidCap
Advisors’ transportation
and
logistics specialty
practice group in the investment
banking firm’s Philadelphia
office.
Ginger Farnham McCoy,
speech therapist in the Northern
Cambria School District,
received the Lauretta Woodson
Award from the Pennsylvania
Association of School Retirees.
1979
Karen Yefko Ryan, Forty Fort,
joined the real estate office of
Prudential, Poggi and Jones.
Donald L. Wiest II is vice president
and senior investment officer
for Metro Bank, serving
counties in central Pennsylvania.
1980
Michael L. Mixell is a partner
with the legal firm of Barley
Snyder,
Lancaster. He
holds a juris doctorate
from the
Pennsylvania
State University Dickinson
School of Law.
1981
Laura Coates Kline, chief financial
officer of the civil engineering
firm Bowyer-Singleton &
Associates, was recognized by
the Orlando (Fla.) Business
Journal.
Brian Mahlstedt, South
Abington Township, is vice
president and commercial
relationship manager for
Pennstar Bank.
1982
Rick DiLiberto, an attorney,
was reappointed to a three-year
term as chair of the Delaware
Commission on Italian Heritage
and Culture by Gov. Jack
Markell.
Scott Ahlum, Orefield, is corporate
controller for The Manhattan
Club, New York City.
A scholarship, a remembrance
When longtime teacher JESSIE PROPST WEARNE ’44 died in May
2009, her husband, Leonard, believed the best way for her memory to
live on was through a scholarship. BU students
majoring in elementary education will benefit from
the scholarship he established in her memory
beginning fall 2011.
A 1938 graduate of Scranton Central High
School, Wearne taught students in first through fifth
grades for eight years in the Benton Township
School, Lackawanna County, and 37 years in the
Muhlenberg School District, Berks County.
Susan Mitchell Helwig received
the outstanding fundraising
executive award
from the
Association of
Fundraising
Professionals,
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Chapter. She is vice president of
university advancement at
Misericordia University.
Christine Mentesana Sorrento
is enrollment development specialist
for New Jersey’s Georgian
Court University at Woodbridge
off-site campuses.
Susan Petty Van Horn is local
manager for Frontier
Communications’ Clarks Summit
and Tunkhannock markets.
1984
David B. Gass was appointed to
the Arizona
Superior Court in
January 2009 by
former Gov. Janet
Napolitano.
1985
Louis Lesh is chief anesthetist
for obstetrics at a Jacksonville,
Fla., medical center. A combat
veteran of Operation Desert
Storm, he served in the U.S.
Navy Nurse Corps from 1986 to
1999.
1986
Rev. Chet Snyder, Bloomsburg
University Catholic campus
minister from 1983 to 1994, is
temporarily leading the Catholic
Diocese of Harrisburg until a
new bishop is named.
1987
Elizabeth Pitts Perrong, vice
president of
human resources
for the Greater
Hazleton Health
Alliance, is an
adjunct instructor at Penn State
Hazleton.
1989
Kelly Cuthbert Jameson
released her second novel,
Shards of Summer.
1993
Charles “Chuck” Budris is
director of medical physics and
radiation safety officer at Shore
Point Radiation Oncology
Center, Lakewood, N.J.
Kurt Davidheiser, Boyertown,
is a member of the board of
directors of the Montgomery
County Association of Realtors.
Maj. Ricky L. Huggler is serving
with the Army Reserves in support
of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
1994
Matthew Clavin, assistant professor
of history at the
University of West Florida, is
author of
Toussaint
Louverture and
the American
Civil War,published
by the University of
Pennsylvania Press.
Lynne Wetzel Hausman, medical-surgical
nursing coordinator
at Schuylkill Health School
of Nursing, earned the designation
of certified nurse educator.
She has been a nurse educator
since 1989.
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