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September 2009 Class Notes

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1970s

Kathryn Gaspar Going '75 was featured in the "Artist Spotlight" in the Sunday, August 23, edition of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

Sharon Glennon '79 is the new executive director of The Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA, effective September 2009.

1980s

Elliott M. Portman '80 and his wife, Carol Funk Portman '82 celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on June 24th.

Kara T. Murray '85 was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Army Nurse Corps in July 2009.

Vincent  Wenger '85 won the XXX Atomic Chicken Wing Contest at the National Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo on September 6.

Jorge Garcia '87 is the first Hispanic elected official in the state of Texas.  Garcia is a financial consultant and justice of the peace in Hot Springs.

1990s

Mariellen Cupini '93 founded Stepping Stones Learning Center in 1994.  Fifteen years later, the center is serving 500 families through more than a half-dozen different programs and works not only with preschoolers, but also provides family support services to families with children from ages three to 21.  It employs more than 130 early childhood teachers, speech pathologists,physical and occupational therapists, social workers, psychologistsm, autism therapists and more.

Sonja Livingston '93/'97  recently won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Book Award for Nonfiction.  The book, Ghostbread, was written about child poverty in New York state. The memoir is being published this fall from the University of Georgia Press. 

Steve Rosenberg '94 received his commercial pilot's license in June 2009.  Rosenberg is also entering his third year as an assistant principal at Kingwood High School in Kingwood, TX. 

Kevin Crosby '99 started a new position with the Department of Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate as a Correspondence Analyst in Washington, DC.

2000s

Mike Foki '03 recently graduated from Nazareth College with a M.S. in Education and is currently teaching English with the JET Program in Koga, Japan.

Adam Winslow '03 was named Manager of Hockey Operations with the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL).

Todd Cavanaugh '07 graduated with an MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and recently accepted a position as the Executive Director of BASIC College Ministries, a Christian non-profit dedicated to helping college students discover their spirituality and make the most of their lives.

Katie Marcella '07, assistant women's basketball coach at Keuka College last season, has been named Keuka's head men's and women's cross country coach.

Weddings

Melissa Carey '07/'09 married Joseph Kostrzebski on July 25, 2009.

Jason Kozak '97 married Jennifer Ann Dempsey on May 12, 2007.

Births

Jason Kozak '97 and wife, Jennifer, announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, Jacklin Kozak on July 19, 2009.

Deaths

Alumni

George Hunt '46
John R. Pedersen '50
Raymond Woodard '59
John Elmer Boston '62
Kristy Harris '71

Friends

Harry Sentiff (former College Council and Brockport Foundation member)

Arthur Teamerson

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