Fall 2005 - St. Charles Preparatory School

Future Cardinal alumni?
Mark Gramlich ’94 with wife,
Jennifer and sons: Zachary (8)
and Kyle (2).
address ways of using the electronic
media for scholarly communication
and publication. He
began working in ‘digital libraries’
after grad school, first at the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
then at the Ohio Historical
Society, and now at the University
of Michigan. Martin has an
undergraduate degree from The
Ohio State University, a masters
in history from William and Mary
College in Massachusetts, and
is working on a masters in library
and information science at U of
M.
He reports that he’s traveled
extensively, including a yearlong
back packing trip across
Europe, and has visited Egypt,
Kenya, Tanzania, among other
countries. While finishing his
masters, he’s thinking about pursuing
a Ph. D. and in his few
spare moments is planning trips
to South America and Asia.
Joshua A. Mathis is an art
consultant with Shaffer Fine Art
in Portland Oregon. He has a
degree in international studies
from The Ohio State University.
Christopher S. Marmion lives
in Chicago where he’s a regional
sales assistant with Claymore
Securities covering Eastern
Pennsylvania and Delaware. He
joined the company after earning
an MBA from DePaul University
where he enrolled after
graduating from St. Charles.
While at DePaul, he spent a year
in Sheffield, England for business
school, which ignited a
passion for traveling. After
earning a degree in accounting,
Marmion decided to pursue other
interests and went to work for
Hewitt Associates managing
company 401 plans.
He left Hewitt in June of 2002 to
volunteer in Antigua, Guatemala
tutoring students.
After five months, he “set off
for the rest of Central America,”
visiting every country there and
meeting many interesting people.
He returned to the U.S. in the
summer of 2003 to attend DePaul
for grad school. He has remained
active in athletics, playing
soccer and competing in
triathlons. His next trip is to Thailand
and Cambodia — marking
his fifth continent and more than
30 countries visited.
Marty M. Meyer is working on
his M.D. and is in his final year
of residency in internal medicine
at The Ohio State University Medical
Center. That will be followed
by a three-year fellowship at
OSU in gastroenterology. Meyer
earned a degree in professional
studies from the University of
Notre Dame. He and his wife,
Lisa, have been married three
years and have a four-monthold
daughter, Kaela Rose. The
family resides in Dublin.
Jeffrey G. Park is a project
engineer for Gilbane Building
Company in Tucson, Arizona. He
has a degree in construction
management form the University
of Cincinnati.
Adam P. “Darren” Price is a
police officer with the city of
Gahanna. He earned a degree
from Western State College of
Colorado, where he lived for
eight years and was involved
with the Mountain Rescue program.
He and his wife, Krisitna,
have been married two years.
Neale J. Rath is an intern with
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (financial
due diligence) in Shanghai,
China. He earned a degree
in linguistics from The Ohio State
University, and an MBA with an
emphasis on China from the University
of Hawaii.
Benjamin C. Recchie recently
moved to Chicago where he’s
with the University of Chicago
Press editing manuscripts for
the Astrophysical Journal and
other scientific journals.
Andrew Riederer is a research
scientist in the aerosol
and process technology department
at Battelle Memorial Institute.
He earned a degree in
chemical engineering from the
University of Notre Dame. He
reports the last six years have
been filled with interesting travels.
After graduation from ND,
he worked for Merck & Co., Inc.
for five years and traveled extensively
while leading the technology
transfer of new pharmaceutical
products into manufacturing
facilities. He traveled to
Turkey, England, China, Korea,
Charles R. Porter III ’93
Puerto Rico, and Italy in that order.
He and his wife, Melissa, have
been married for three years and
lived in Singapore for 16 months
starting in April of 2003. Before
returning to the United States,
specifically to Columbus, Ohio,
he and his wife traveled to
Amsterdam, Borneo, Japan,
Thailand, Malaysia, and New
Zealand. They live in Blacklick
and have a six month-old daughter,
Penelope.
Ben Rottman is a lawyer in
New York and applying for admission
to the bar in Washington,
D.C. With Feldesman Tucker
Leifer Fidell in Washington, he
would like to work in international
trade and business transactions.
He has an eye toward
Grad, son of former St. Charles counselor,
has book in works on famed Russian writer
Russian Research
Dr. Fred H. White ’88 during his trip to Russia last
Spring to do research on Leonid Andreev, and to do
a presentation on the early 20 th -century Russian writer
in Berlin. White will soon be releasing a book on
Memoirs and Madness: Leonid Andreev Through the
Prism of the Literary Portrait.
Dr. Fred H. White ’88, son of former
St. Charles guidance counselor, Ruth
White (1981-93), has done original
research on Russian memoir literature
and related psychobiography. His efforts
have led to the publication of several
articles in various journals and a book
that’s soon to be published by McGill-
Queen’s University Press. The book is
entitled Memoirs and Madness: Leonid
Andreev Through the Prism of the
Literary Portrait. It concentrates on the
literary portraits of Leonid Andreev, a
famous early 20 th -century Russian
writer.
White, who earned a Ph.D. at the
University of Southern California, is
with Memorial University in Newfoundland,
Canada. He recently returned from
a two-month research trip to Russia
where he did research in various libraries,
reading pre-revolutionary newspapers
connected to the issue of Leonid
Andreev’s mental health. On his way
home, White gave a paper at a conference
in Berlin entitled: “Leonid Andreev and
his Narratives of Illness.”
During the past several years, White
has taught elementary, beginning,
intermediate, and advanced Russian
language courses. He twice taught an
interdisciplinary course entitled, West to
East: Aspects of the German Cultural
Influence on Russia, which is cross-listed
for students of Russian, history, and
German. Last winter, he taught a new
course on critical theories involved in
reading Russian memoir literature. “The
course was a great success with my
undergraduate students,” White said. “I
have also taught literature courses on the
Russian short story, on the St. Petersburg
myth, and supervised several
independent study projects on Russian
prose.”
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