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CLASSnotes1973Barbara M. Bouchard is the registrar at HerkimerCounty (N.Y.) Community College.Punxsutawney, Pa., resident Rebecca CorthornWeimer is the project manager at Weimer Productions.The mother of five children, she is alsoa quilter and cubmaster.1974Alice Hummel is the office manager at GarlandRadiology Associates, Inc. and lives in Duncanville,Texas.1975A resident of San Clemente, Calif., MaureenSullivan Dempsey is a registered nurse at TheSports Clinic.1976Thomas J. DeLuca has been named a seniorconsultant of business systems at HSBC in Buffalo,N.Y. Formerly, he was employed by CitizensCommunications of Rochester, N.Y., asthe manager of mainframe and AS/400 systemsgroups. Tom and his wife, Cynthia WierzbaDeLuca, ’75, are members of the alumni boardof directors.198OKenmore, N.Y., resident Susan Lynn BundtWebb is a special education teacher at the EnterpriseCharter School.The United States Figure Skating Associationannounced the recent appointments of skatingofficials. Nadine Gumulak Pfeiffer of Raleigh,N.C., was named a judge for bronze-level skatedancing. Nadine went to the Nationals competitionin Washington, D.C., in 2004.Listed in the missing column of the lastD’Mensions, Jacqueline Seeloff Sherman Sashas been found. She earned a second degreefrom D’Youville in health services administrationin 2000, lives in California, is a director ofnursing, and is currently searching for a positionas a nursing home administrator.A full-time instructor at Case Western ReserveUniversity where she earned an MSN degree,Kathleen Sterben Meyer is currently enrolled inthe nurse doctorate program with research emphasison long-term care.1981A resident of East Amherst, N.Y., Michael Pilat isa registered nurse with Kaleida Health Systems.1982Registered nurse Glenda Williams Irving residesin Missouri City, Texas.1983Sandra Schaefer has a BS in business administration.She is the director of education in LosAngeles for the Sylvan Learning Center in SimiValley, Calif.1984An employee in the Kaleida Health system for20 years, Kathleen Powers Guarino, MS, ’99, isthe chief nursing officer at Buffalo General Hospitalwhere she began her career as a staff nursein surgical intensive care. She has served as housesupervisor and the director of ambulatory servicesand is a certified family nurse practitioner.Dr. Joan Murray Brady believes that persistencepays off. She earned degrees at the Unversity atBuffalo/SUNY. She has extensive experience inthe community and has had a private practice.Her teaching career includes St. John Fisher College,Jamestown Community College, and UB.Previously an adjunct professor here, Joan is nowa full-time member of D’Youville’s nursing faculty.“It is so cool to be back!”1987Joan Kurtz Osswald and other ’87 classmatesgathered together to hold the fundraiser, Luke’sChallenge. Luke, the 3-year-old son of LisaBrown Sheehan, required cancer surgery, whichwas not covered by his family’s health insurancepolicy. The extended D’Youville family was able tohelp. The nursing department, residence life, andstudents raised $300 and assembled five baskets,which were raffled off at the event held Nov. 28,2004. Luke had the surgery and is doing well.Maureen Walsh Koricke, BS, ’87, MS, 02, ofCharlotte, N.C., is the director of performanceimprovement for Catholic Health System HomeCare.Kathleen PowersGuarino, ’84, MS, ’991989Dr. M. Ruth Reilly Kelly, associate professor ofhistory at D’Youville, has been appointed by theOrganization of American Historians to a twoyearterm on the Palgrave Editorial Board. Thisgroup selects articles to be included in a volumepublished annually by Palgrave Press. Ruth beganher D’Youville career in 1963 and is marriedto another historian, Dr. David Kelly.199OThe Mount Mercy Academy Alumnae Associationrecently honored Assunta Campanile Ventresca,MSCHN, ’94, with the Catherine McAuleyAward. This presentation recognizes alumnaewho have distinguished themselves in the areas offaith, family, community, and career. Previouslypatient service manager for the Visiting Nurses Associationand director of nursing for the WyomingCounty Public Health Department, Assunta currentlyis the director of health-related services forthe Buffalo (N.Y.) Board of Education.1991Jean Swenton Caples received a master in sciencedegree at Hunter College. The mother offour children under age 10, she relocated withher family to Minnesota where she is involvedwith the early child special education program inthe Rochester Public Schools. Her husband is aphysician at the Mayo Clinic.1996A resident of Lewis Center, Ohio, Timothy N.Heiman is owner and president of EncompassTherapy, LLC, a small contract therapy business.He and Debbie, his wife of eight years, have twosons, Isaac, 5, and Owen, 3.1998A resident of Carmel, N.Y., Joseph R. Kearns is aphysical therapist with Greenwich Physical Therapy.He is married to Molinda Lalsingh-Kearns, ’97.Sara Orton Leddy is a physical therapist at MarcusWhitman Central School in Phelps, N.Y.The recipient of the Outstanding Nurse Practitionerstudent award, Jennifer Weigle Jennings,MS, ’00, was an adjunct faculty member for severalsemesters while her two children were young.3O