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and husband Rich live in Boca Raton, Fla.Lisa’s son, Adam, graduated fromUniversity of Florida and now worksfor a venture capital company inSan Francisco, while son Alex isat University of Central Florida.1983Michael D. Browne935 Park Ave., Apt. 4BNew York, NY 10028(917) 363-0856Michael.D.Browne@baml.comPresident: Jeffrey R. PurdonFund Managers: Cheryl L. Johnson,Ellen Poriles WeilerReunion Chairs: Theresa Heaney Galla,Ellen Poriles Weiler1984Karen Ziegler Kelly4304 Big House RoadNorcross, GA 30092-1357(770) 329-2244Karen.Z.Kelly@wellsfargo.comPresident: Mandy Shane DickerFund Manager: David E. SchwagerReunion Chair: Douglas K. EasterlyIn October, I had the opportunity toattend an O You! event at GeorgiaWorld Congress Center in Atlanta.O Magazine experts Suze Orman,Dr. Oz, Martha Beck, and Nate Berkusspoke. More than 5,000 attended. SallyLou Oaks Loveman introduced eachspeaker and supervised the audience.It was an honor to be a part of this daywith Sally Lou captivating the audience.Jim Benjamin attended an incredible“century party” for Andrea JosephsonSullivan (49 years old) and her husband,Pete Sullivan ’82 (51). Mike ’82and Jen Marshall ’82 Weisburgeralso attended.Lauren Wasserman McLeod wrotethat her daughter decided to go toLehigh. Lauren has yet to purchase aLehigh T-shirt but wants to supporther daughter’s decision. As a result,Lauren drives around with a Lehighbumper sticker.Kevin Hughes is a product managerat CCH Trust Services in Kennesaw, Ga.Rich Howden serves as president ofthe Bucks County (Pa.) Chapter of theLafayette Alumni Association. HeClass Notes1982–1985recently participated in an alumnibasketball game. Rich lives in Princeton,N.J., and occasionally sees Jeff Kirby athis son’s Lawrenceville, N.J., games.Rich also tailgated with Bob Sell andBarbara Strasburg Tucker at theLafayette–Lehigh game.Craig Fox lives in Plymouth Meeting,Pa., with his wife, Mary, and twochildren, Oliver, 16, and Hannah, 13.Craig runs a general practice law firm,Fox and Fox Attorneys at Law P.C. inNorristown, Pa. Craig concentrates hispractice in collections, foreclosures, realestate, and business and banking law.Craig keeps in touch with classmatesJacob Seip (Poconos), Bruce Campbell(New Hampshire), Eric Berndt (NewJersey), and Vijay Rajguru (London).Jenny Keenan was promoted tothe FBI’s National Security Branch(terrorism and counterintelligencematters) in Minneapolis, Minn. Herterritory includes Minnesota and theDakotas. She lives in Uptown, close toEdina. Barb Strasburg Tucker visitedJenny this summer, and together theyhad dinner with Tony and Meg WattersRodriguez at their home in Edina.Christine Mazuryk Zeikel’s eldest,Katie ’15, after a long and exhaustingcollege search, is attending her first yearat Lafayette. Christine has four children;the youngest is in eighth grade. Havingenjoyed a long career at Deloitte,Christine is a partner in the financialadvisory group, focusing on thepharmaceutical industry.Kris Huber Rudisill, NancyBennett Gallagher, Daphne FerencziGalvin, Paula Polgardy Kumpf, andDiane Gaglia Gottschalk met forlunch in May 2011 in Asbury Park, N.J.(see photo online). Paula and Kris havefirst-year college students. Paula’s son,John, attends Christopher NewportCollege in Newport News, Va. Kris’daughter, Jocilyn, attends RensselaerPolytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Coincidently, one of RPI’s chaplainsis Beth Illingworth, so Kris looksforward to seeing her on a visit to RPI.After lunch, the group continued itsget-together at the Ocean Grove, N.J.,home of Diane and her husband, Pat.Maureen Davis Bibeau was notin attendance due to her parents’ 50thwedding anniversary.1985Betsy Hughes Phillips2 Surrey RoadSummit, NJ 07901-2409phillips999@comcast.netPresident: Charles F. Smith Jr.Fund Manager: Anne Harwood MatlackReunion Chair: Geri Landy RagoWeb Page Administrator: OpenChris Abbate is president of Novità(novitapr.com), a public relations andmarketing agency serving the interiordesign and architectural communities.The company is based in Park Slope,Brooklyn, with plans to move toManhattan. Prior to founding Novitàin 1996, Chris, who is fluent in Italian,was director of marketing and promotionfor the Italian Tile Center of the ItalianTrade Commission in New York. Herdesign clients are Italian, German,Belgian, Japanese, Portuguese, andAmerican, so she is living theinternational relations dream. DanielleDeVita McWilliams ’04 is Chris’ mostsenior colleague and has been withNovità since her externship during hersophomore year at Lafayette. Novitàwill have two winter and two summerinterns again this year. Chris has twohigh-school-aged children and sawSally Scheuermann McCraven on acollege search trip to Massachusetts.For 10 years, Sally ScheuermannMcCraven has directed worldwidecorporate and marketing communicationsefforts of Instrumentation Laboratory,a medical diagnostics instrumentationcompany. She lives in Newburyport,Mass., and has two children, Jack, 12,and Paige, 10. Her husband, Bob, isan avid Spanish classical and flamencoguitar player, performing at local gigs,and Sally has taken up flamenco dancing.Sally keeps in touch with Chris Abbateand Colleen Cahill and saw KathrynMcDaniel Nenning while on a businesstrip to Vienna.Kathryn McDaniel Nenning lived inPark Slope, Brooklyn, and Manhattanfrom 1986 to 2004 and now lives inVienna. She is married to an Austrianarchitect, Leopold, and has twochildren, Alexander, 11, and Anna, 6.Kathryn worked for Xerox and Sprintand now has her own business makingand selling baby products. She findsVienna to be a wonderful place to live,72 lafayette • SPRING 2012 For full version and photos, see community.lafayette.edu
Class Notes1985–1989especially with young children. Shekeeps in touch with Chris Abbate, SallyScheuermann, John Pappajohn, andBrad Lewis ’87.1986Paul C. Hackett IIIphackett86@alumni.lafayette.eduPresident: OpenFund Manager: Kristen Gay LewisReunion Chairs: Wynne A. WhitmanMike Elgarten traded careers, fromWall Street to the people-movingbusiness of Main Street. After helpingcreate and expand equity derivativesdepartments at Banc of America andMorgan Stanley, he decided to reducehis commute. Last summer, he exchangeda 90-minute slog for one just 16 minutes(note the precision). He now headsstrategic development for Clever Devices,a company that develops technologysystems for improving mass transit.Diane Jakacki now adds a newsuffix to her moniker: Ph.D. (inRenaissance dramatic literature anddigital humanities from GeorgiaInstitute of Technology). Continuingin Atlanta’s hub of higher education,she teaches composition and mediastudies courses and does research onmodern popular culture as a Marion L.Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow.In spring 2011, KathleenKasperkoski McKenzie was named vicepresident of community and civic affairs atWest Penn Allegheny Health System.After receiving her law degree fromUniversity of Pittsburgh and stints withthe city of Pittsburgh and McKenzie &McKenzie, she has continued her careertrajectory at West Penn. She serves oncommunity boards, such as PittsburghDowntown Partnership, LocalGovernment Academy, and PittsburghRegional Healthcare Initiative.A dramatic ’86 trio, Lisa LacrocePatterson, Bill Bunting, and SallyAnnMoscatiello managed a reunion of theirown Nov. 12, visiting New York City fora revival of Godspell and rememberingtheir own performance of the musicalin Colton Chapel in 1986. Others inthe cast who joined them were TomGibbons ’87; from ’88, KatherinePannell, Dawn Arturi-Reynolds, andDavid Walker; and from ’89, JeanneNaughton Carr, Richard Demarco,Jonathan Keiffer, and Jean Toce-McCauley. Read more: www.lafayette.edu/about/news/2012/01/ 01/lafayette-cast-of-godspell-has-25threunion-at-the-new-york-revival/.Dr. Gayle Spill Ephraim conferredin August with Rep. Paul Brodeur(Mass.) at the state house on BeaconHill. Gayle was there in official capacityfor Massachusetts General Hospital,and Paul spoke for the electorate.Geoff Kany—alternating betweenAnchorage, Alaska, (with BP Exploration)and Arizona—recalls a postgraduationclimbing trip with Jim Hummerstoneand Doug Campbell to the Ring ofKillarney in Ireland.In a different alternating current,Gary Stephenson has spent much ofhis working life in the field of electricity,most recently as a top executive atDayton Power & Light. Returning withhis family from Maui, he commentedthat it had similar terrain to Ireland. Inhis off-hours, he has been visiting peaks,most recently scaling 14,300 feet ofBlanca Peak in Colorado with fellowengineer Rich Drobner.Don Keller sold his firm, KellerConsulting Engineers, to Borton-Lawson Engineers in May 2011. He andwife Carol now split their time betweentheir horse farm in Nazareth, Pa., andtheir winter home in Winter Haven, Fla.Son Michael, a former Marine, remainsemployed by the government, whiledaughter Amy resides in New York City.Don has three grandchildren.Though it was not the easiest hunkof metal to push up Cattell Street whenit ran out of gas, Chris Nolan’s 1976Ford Pinto (vibrant orange, I believe)was a prized, if not glamorous, pieceof transportation back in the day atLafayette. How fitting that after stintsin the oil and grain banking businessof Salomon Smith Barney (now Citi),the chemical engineering graduate iscontinuing his career as managingdirector at Rabobank, global expertsin areas that include sustainable energy.Meanwhile, Glenn Young worksin the clouds, literally, opening a newbusiness that provides managed services,particularly remote database and systemadministration, in the innovative area ofcloud computing.1987 Edward I. Ackerman276 Brookline St.Needham, MA 02492eackerman@photonicsinc.comPresident: John C. Santos Jr.Fund Manager: Lori Garb BlutfieldReunion Chairs: Elise Nappi,Madeline Green SmithWeb Page Administrator:Edward I. AckermanTim Mulligan was named executivedirector of the board of directors forCommunities in Schools of the LehighValley. The organization bringscommunity resources and caring adultsinto schools to give at-risk students thetools they need to learn successfully,stay in school, and prepare for life.Reunion 2012, our 25th, will be heldJune 1–3. Reunion organizers are EliseNappi and Madeline Green Smith.If you have been harboringtreasonous thoughts about unseatingthe guy who has been hogging the classcorrespondent position seeminglyforever, this June might be your luckymonth! Yes, this column is overdue for anew voice, a fresh perspective. Whoeversaid anything is forever?1988Tim Hylan50 Old Tappan RoadGlen Cove, NY 11542hylant66@aol.comPresident: David R. Rose Jr.Fund Manager: Rachel Nelson MoellerReunion Chair: Elizabeth C. Freebairn1989Incoming Correspondent: OpenPresident: Erin Bass-GoldbergFund Manager: John T. DonovanReunion Chairs:M. Katherine Longo Van Cleef,Marguerite Valinoti WhiteWeb Page Administrator:Vincent J. Petitto,petitto@yahoo.comSPRING 2012 • lafayette 73
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