Summer 2016

ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES
1963
Patricia (Guaragno) Pascoli welcomed
twin grandchildren, Hudson and Lucia, in
September 2015.
1992
Jill Ammon was named Account
Executive of the Year for the 2nd
year in a row at Continuum Managed
Services. Jill was also recognized as
the top acquisitions specialist in the
company and received the CEO Circle of
Excellence Award. This past November,
Jill crossed an item off of her bucket list,
when she traveled to Australia with stops
in Melbourne, Sydney & Perth. In her
spare time, Jill enjoys spending time with
her 2 cats (Pickles & Piper), and her dog
(Jaxson Cooper). Jax is a certified therapy
dog and joins Jill on visits to local nursing
homes.
1994
Marti (Riley) Cruver recently accepted
a staff position at the Center for HOPE
in Ambridge, a faith-based community
center serving Ambridge residents.
1996
2001
Michael ‘96 and
Jessica Cerchiaro
welcomed their
second child, Joseph
Paul, on May 16,
2016. Joey joins his
big sister, Anna, who
turned 2 in April.
Emily (Brocks)
Boardman and her
husband, Brian,
welcomed their first
child, Benjamin
Michael, on June 16,
2015. They currently
live in Arlington, VA.
Michael Reilly III
and his wife, Kelly,
welcomed their 2nd
child, James William
on January 1, 2016.
2002
Erin (Rodgers) Behrman and her
husband, Rob, welcomed their second
child, Genevieve Marie, on May 1, 2016.
Genevieve joins her older brother, Victor,
who will be 2 in September.
Amanda (Klein) Gonzalez was
recognized as the EMT/ Paramedic of
the Year for 2016 by VFW Post 3267.
Kevin Logue is completing his second
school year as the assistant principal of
Oak Glen High School in Hancock County,
WV. In March, Kevin was the recipient of
an Award of Heroism from the Cardiac
Survivors Association for saving a man’s
life in August 2015 by performing CPR.
who is 3 years old.
Katie (Sexton)
Yurchak and her
husband, Joe,
welcomed their
second child, Joseph
Francis Yurchak IV,
on September 25,
2015. He joins his
big sister, Natalie,
2003
Clarisse Garcia was named women’s
basketball assistant coach for Auburn
University.
Bethany (Kurina)
Marek and her
husband, Michael,
welcomed their first
child, Abel Rinaldi, on
March 23, 2016.
The family currently
resides in Sewickley,
PA.
2004
Theresa (Valenty)
Buettner and her
husband, Matt,
welcomed their 4th
child, Jonah Pio, on
January 1, 2016.
Jamie (Smith)
Hopkins and her
husband, Spencer,
welcomed their
daughter, Harper
Bailey Hopkins,
on March 17, 2016.
Elijah Kristek and
Mary Catherine
(Bonner) Kristek
welcomed their first
child, Oliver James,
on May 11, 2016.
2005
Lieutenant Dave DiSanto, a member
of Navy Cargo Handling Battalion One,
stationed in Williamsburg, VA, recently
conducted the annual resupply mission
of McMurdo Station, Antarctica, as part
of Operation Deep Freeze 2016.
2006
Donna (DuBois) Heisler and her
husband, John, welcomed their 2nd son,
Maxwell Joseph, on April 16, 2016.
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Amy Greek is currently teaching English
for iTTTi in Japan.
2007
Ashleigh (Kaleugher)
Musick and her
husband, Jeff,
welcome their son,
Wyatt Richard, on
February 9, 2016.
Danielle (Sciulli)
Kacsur and her
husband, Ryan,
welcomed their third
son, Declan
Alexander, on
February 10.
Alex Lardin was nominated as a teacher
of the year by the Hampton City Schools
in Hampton, VA.
Steven Sluzynsky and Alyssa Silvestri
announced their engagement in April
2016.
2008
2009
Sara (Ciesielski)
Stark married Joseph
Stark on January 2,
2016.
AC2 Amanda Taylor
was awarded a Navy
Achievement Medal.
2010
Anne Collier is finishing her second
year at the Cornell School of Veterinary
Medicine with honors. She hopes to
establish a veterinary practice near
Pittsburgh after graduation.
2011
Sandy Cahalan graduated summa cum
laude from the University of Pittsburgh
in April 2015. She currently resides in
College Park, MD, where she works as
a campus missionary at the University
of Maryland on behalf of University
Christian Outreach.
Luke Collier finished his first year in
the Master’s in Psychology program at
Chatham University with honors in May
2016. He also works in the admissions
department at Chatham.
Grace Jancart was named to the Dean’s
List for the fall 2015 semester at Penn
State Erie, The Behrend College.
2012
Jason Hitt was named to the Dean’s List
for the fall 2015 semester at Penn State
Erie, The Behrend College.
Luke Iyengar graduated summa cum
laude from Franciscan University of
Steubenville with a degree in theology.
Vincent Smith graduated from Point
Park College in April 2016. From June
2016 to January 2017, he will be
performing in two shows on the Royal
Caribbean Cruise Lines’ Liberty of the
Seas.
2013
Matthew Haupt
received his “white
coat” in his first year
of pharmacy school
at the University of
Pittsburgh.
Alyssa Pollo, Rachel Rattay, and
Stephanie Ruggiero were named to the
Dean’s List for the fall 2015 semester at
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Rachel Rattay will be working this
summer as a software development
engineer intern at Microsoft.
2014
Angela Kilburg has
won first place in the
Society of Publication
Design’s National
Student Design
Competition. She is
also the Recipient of
the National Mitch
Shostak Award for
outstanding Publication Design. In the
field of Graphic Design this is one of the
most prestigious honors a college
student can be awarded, and it is an
unusual success to win as a sophomore.
Angela was recently offered a summer
internship at Bloomberg Businessweek
in New York City.
The Saint Francis men’s volleyball team
had four of the 16 student-athletes on
the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball
Association 2016 All-Academic team.
Shaughn McDonald carried a 3.943
GPA through 61 sets. He had the second
highest GPA on the All-Academic Team.
2015
Anthony Hugney is
currently enrolled in
the U.S. Navy’s
Nuclear Power
School in Charleston,
SC. He is studying to
be a nuclear
electrical mechanic
and hopes to be
stationed on a Navy submarine.
Heidi Langhorst was named to the
Dean’s List for the fall 2015 semester at
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
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