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Class Notes
master’s degree in organizational leadership
from Geneva College in May, and was
a 2008 Athena Award nominee. Moorer
joined the Office of Equal Opportunity and
Diversity as coordinator of diversity initiatives
in March 2006.
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Gary Hall of Youngstown, ’91 BA in
journalism, English, and speech/communications,
was promoted in February
to assistant vice president, field marketing
director for Home Savings and Loan,
Youngstown. He joined the bank in 1999,
was named assistant vice president in 2004,
and received the bank’s Chairman’s Award
on three occasions. Hall also serves on
the board of Second Chance Animal Rescue
in Austintown.
Sheryl P. Gumino
of Howland, ’95
BS, has been appointed
manager
of radiology for St.
Elizabeth Boardman
Health Center
and St. Elizabeth
Emergency and
Diagnostic Center
in Austintown.
Gumino also attended
the Western
Sheryl Gumino
Reserve Care System School of Radiologic
Technology and earned a master’s degree
from Geneva College. She was formerly
employed as general manager and national
operations trainer for NYDIC Medical
Imaging.
Richard Tisone of Liberty Township, ’96
BA in law enforcement administration and
business management, was named interim
Liberty Township Police Chief in June. A
22-year member of the police department
with a 25-year career in law enforcement,
Tisone had achieved the rank of captain
before the promotion.
Mary Maloney Toepfer of Howland,
’96 MA in English, has earned a doctor
of philosophy degree in curriculum and
instruction with an English education
concentration from Kent State University.
Toepfer also holds a bachelor’s degree in
English from Hiram College. She started
her teaching career at Ursuline High School
in Youngstown.
Margaret Baker
of Lisbon, ’97 BS
applied science,
was appointed
director of oncology
services for
Humility of Mary
Health Partners,
responsible for the
Cancer Centers
at St. Elizabeth,
Margaret Baker
St. Joseph and St. Elizabeth Boardman
health centers. Baker also holds an associate
degree in radiologic technology from
Kent State University and a certificate in
radiation therapy from Community College
of Allegheny County. Prior to her
appointment, she was manager of oncology
services for HMHP.
Willis Marshall of Aurora, Col., ’98 BA
in advertising and communication, is now
in his eighth season as a wide receiver and
defensive back with the Arena Football
League, most recently with the Cleveland
Gladiators. While at YSU he was a fouryear
football letterman for the Penguins
and a member of three Division I-AA
Championship teams. Marshall also played
a running back on the silver screen, participating
in the filming of Disney’s “The
Game Plan” with Dwayne “The Rock”
Johnson.
Brett Miller of Silver
Spring, Md., ’99
BM, composed 45
concert etudes based
on the works of R.
Strauss, Mahler and
Brahms which were
reviewed recently by
Dr. Jeffrey Snedeker,
president of the International
Horn Society.
The review was
published in the May
2008 issue of Horn Call, the Journal of the
IHS. Miller earned a doctorate of musical
arts from the University of Maryland in
May 2007, and the etudes were composed
for his dissertation. He is a hornist with
the U.S. Air Force Band in
Washington D.C. Fourteen
of his original compositions
for various brass instruments
and ensembles have
been published, and his
Six Moods for Euphonium
and Piano was featured on
Danny Helseth’s 2007 CD
release, “Snapshots.”
Bonita Starkey of
Youngstown, ’99 BA
psychology, celebrated the
opening in February of
her independent insurance
office, Bonita Starkey Insurance
Services LLC, in the
National City Bank Building,
downtown Youngstown.
She is the first owner-agent
in Youngstown for Farmers
Insurance Group and was
recently awarded the company’s
Blue Vase Award,
recognizing her successful
sales and life insurance
awareness efforts.
Brett Miller
Fran Vitullo of McDonald, ’99 Associate
in Applied Science, office information
systems, was named manager of patient
advocacy for St. Elizabeth Health Center,
Youngstown. She also
earned a certificate in
respiratory therapy
technology from YSU
in 1981 and is pursuing
a baccalaureate in
health administration
from Warren National
University in Agoura
Hills, Calif. She
previously was
employed as a patient
representative at Fran Vitullo
St. Elizabeth.
Dan Lowry
of Columbiana,
’91 BE and ’04
MS, electrical
engineering,
had a NA-
SCAR race
named after
him when he
won first place
in a marketing
promotion
by The Crown Royal Co. Lowry, a project engineer for
Bechtel Plant Machinery in Monroeville, Pa., and an
avid NASCAR fan, beat out more than 10,000 other
contestants. In his honor, the former Richmond 400 was
renamed Crown Royal Presents the Dan Lowry 400.
Lowry was grand marshal for the race, held in May at
the Richmond, Va. International Raceway. “It was just a
blast,” he said. “I got to meet all the drivers, guys who
make millions of dollars a year, and they were just like
anybody else, very polite, very down to earth.”
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