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NEWS
OF 2003
From Regina Lacombe:
Hey, new grads! I’m going to be your class correspondent,
proud to report jobs and graduate schools, marriages and children.
Let me know what you’re up to!
Almost everyone from our first graduating class of nurses has jobs.
Katie Killian, Erica Miller, Nicole
Spangler, and Jen Wagner are
all at St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem. Allen Smith continues
at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, and Amy Straub is at Milford
Hospital in Connecticut. Lauren Spencer is at Hahnemann University
Hospital in Philadelphia; Sara Walkiewicz and I are at Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia.
News of our education grads: Lauren Roesch is teaching second grade
in Egg Harbor City, N.J., near Atlantic City. Katie DeLong is teaching
first grade at March Elementary School, Easton, and Chris
Marcin is at Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, N.J.
Lisa Gorman is working at Cendant Mortgage. Scott
Zientek is at
Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson
in New Jersey) in the leadership development program. Ryan
Boyle works as an accountant in Bridgewater, N.J. Jenny
Strobel is at
Enterprise Car Rentals in Easton, and Nick Fratini at the same
firm in Philadelphia. Jen Ketz has a job at Paychecks in Allentown.
We can watch for Amanda Wynn on the sidelines this fall, when she’ll
be cheering for the Philadelphia Eagles. Jarrod Pence is an account
representative for a health-care company and will coach high school
football this fall. Jen Tori has a job at RedGo Development, West
Chester.
Jeremy Sawruk is heading for graduate school at North Carolina
School of the Arts, where he’ll work on a master’s
degree in film music composition. Kiley Guyton, a Fulbright alternate,
is a teaching assistant in Spanish at the University of New Mexico,
where she’s earning a master’s degree.
Dina Liberatore is in the master’s program in college counseling
at Kutztown University. Josh Zagorski is a graduate assistant at
LaSalle University, working on a master’s degree in education
and teaching certification. He is also an assistant football coach.
Bill Trüb heads for Cardiff University in Wales to pursue
an M.A. in creative writing.
And Danielle Dest delivered a healthy baby boy, Ethan, on May 16.
From the Alumni House:
Jill Wagner has been awarded a full teaching assistantship at Kutztown
University as a writing center tutor.
Belinda Bast has become a staff accountant with Kuhn, Aldinger
CPA, Allentown.
Jerry Coveney has accepted a position with Larson Allen Weishair & Co.,
a CPA firm outside Philadelphia.
John Lesoine received a fellowship to the Ph.D. program at Rochester
University’s Institute of Optics. Steve Sweeney and Corey
Lowe were awarded a fellowship and an assistantship in physics,
respectively, at Lehigh University.
Aaron Buckner received a fellowship to work on a degree in mechanical
engineering at Notre Dame; and Erica Christian will attend Washington
University, with the help of an impressive financial-aid package,
in the cooperative 3/2 engineering program with Moravian.
Of the biology grads, Alyson Dobracki is off to become a doctor
at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Sarah
Schweitzer is enrolled in a physical therapy program at Columbia University;
and Stephanie Gervasi is in a master’s program in biology
at Boston University.
Kelly McLean is working on a master’s degree in psychology
at Temple University, and Jennifer Burkholder is teaching on a
Native American reservation in Arizona.
All four chemistry grads were accepted into Ph.D. programs and
awarded assistantships as well as waivers of tuition and fees:
John Stanko at Duke University; Nathan
Siegfried and Bernard O’Hare at Penn State; and Heather
Kerstner at the University of Florida.
NEWS
OF 2002
From the Alumni House:
Katie McKee married Tim Moshier July 5 in Albany. Her friend Eva Švilhova,
a former Merrill Scholar who worked last summer as a tour bus driver
on Long Island, was able to get to the wedding, thanks to Phyllis
Walsh, Moravian’s community service coordinator, who picked
her up from the nearest train station. Katie and Tim live in Alabama
but plan to move after Tim finishes flight school for the Army.
Susan Carr is now a sixth- and seventh-grade math teacher at Meadowlawn
Middle School, a multinational, multilingual school in St. Petersburg,
Fla.
NEWS
OF 2001
From the Alumni House:
Joe Fink and his wife, Amy, are expecting their first child in
December.
Torine Pasek and Lyle Lentz moved from California to Greenville,
N.C., last year. They are now graduate students at East Carolina
University: Torine in history and Lyle in underwater archaeology.
Jan Golden has been accepted at Temple University’s School
of Podiatric Medicine. She has been a researcher at Calvert Labs
in Waverly.
Christine Baal runs a high-end jewelry store near her home in Yardley.
The store designs and manufactures all its items and specializes
in custom work. Christine does marketing, graphic design, and jewelry
design. She has traveled to Tucson, Ariz., for the colored gem
show, and will be going to Switzerland for the Basel Fair, a huge
diamond-trade exposition. Besides work-related travel, she has
vacationed in Mexico for two summers with her boyfriend, David
Foster.
Sarah Smith is teaching general and choral music (K-6) in the Collingswood
School District in New Jersey. “I’m having a blast!” she
says.
JoLynn Dentith is working on a degree in music librarianship at
Indiana University, where she also is studying piano with the Chopin
specialist Edward Auer.
NEWS
OF 2000
From Kourtney Parrella ’01:
Ian Shumard and Kate Mackey ’99 have just welcomed Jackson
Edward Shumard into their family. He was born May 22. Ian and Kate
live in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. He works
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the online sales coordinator
and maintains the website. Kate is in her last semester in the
master’s program in psychology at West Chester University
and is a social worker for the City of Philadelphia Prison System.
Ian still paints and draws in his spare time, and he will have
his work in a friend’s gallery during the Philadelphia Fringe
Festival in September. He and Kate plan to marry next summer.
From the Alumni House:
Ellen Blum has relocated to sunny southern California after a two-month
European excursion with classmates Rebecca Shreiber and Marnie
Heller. She is a sales executive for the Coast News in Encinitas.
She enjoys surfing, long runs on the beach, and visits from fellow
grads. She will serve as a bridesmaid in the wedding of Rebecca
Ziegenfuss ’99.
Kaitlyn Kramer and John Bicknell married on May 24. They’ve
bought a home in Bethlehem.
Faithann Cheslock married Timothy Stephey in July. Amy
Learn ’98
and Rebecca Stroup were bridesmaids, Clay
Wagner was best man and
Mike Keysock a groomsman. Rebecca Jackson, Melissa
Keysock ’02,
Erica Landes, Mark Weaver ’93, and Josh
Tirado also were
at the wedding.
Josh is an independent agent for New York Life. Rebecca Jackson
recently built a house in Cape May, N.J., and teaches second grade
there.
NEWS
OF 1999
Reunion
Homecoming 2004
From the Alumni House:
William Schwab graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in
May with a master’s degree in information systems.
Last year, Cortney Bruggink spent six months teaching in Prague.
Hilary Donovan Smith recently married and moved to Connecticut.
She and her husband, Johnathan, have a baby girl named Ava Rose.
Jessica Coughlin was a contestant on the NBC reality show Race
to the Altar, in which eight engaged couples competed in elaborate
physical competitions and games that forced them to work as a team.
She and her fiancé, Scott, were the first couple to leave
the show! Jessica and Scott have set a wedding date: October 2,
2004.
James Bradbury was awarded the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree
from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is an intern
at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown.
NEWS
OF 1998
From Jennie Coughlin Crotty:
Mandi
Kidd, a Spanish and education major, spent
2½ years
in Honduras teaching at an orphanage. She returned last December
and teaches in the Philadelphia school system.
Amy Learn completed her degree at Penn’s School of Veterinary
Medicine and is applying for a surgical residency.
From the Alumni House:
The wedding of Audrey Weaver and Christopher Sparks took place
June 21 in Northampton. Audrey’s father, Harry
E. Weaver Jr. ’66, and her mother, Maryann Weaver, retired administrative
assistant for the Department of Economics and Business, walked
her down the aisle. Her brothers, Mark Weaver ’93 and Brian
Weaver ’95, were groomsmen. Other Moravian alumni in attendance
were Dana Kline Mancini ’97 and her husband, Mike; Jaime
Szulborski Mitchell and her husband, Brian; Louise
Meyer Feher ’90
and her husband, Jim Feher ’90; Alison
Parpagene Long and
her husband, Adam; Lisa Walton; Michelle
Fox ’97; Jarred
Weaver; and Jocelyn Bellew ’99.
Audrey is a senior technical writer with Agilisys Inc. in Malvern,
and her husband is a senior configuration specialist with Siebel
Systems in Wayne. They reside in Downingtown.
NEWS
OF 1997
From the Alumni House:
Joseph Bordieri married Mariclare Cranston ’00 in May in
Kingston, N.Y. Sean Carroll ’98, John
Odrey ’98, and
Vincent Bordieri ’00 were groomsmen. Tanya
Rapp ’00
was maid of honor.
Joe recently won two Union Hospital Awards: family practice resident
of the year and one of the two annual Rudi Wadle Scholarships.
Heather Whary has moved to Baltimore and is an office manager for
an indexing company (with some freelance editing on the side).
She has been with her boyfriend, Dave, for four years, and they
have decided to make it official—probably some time in 2005.
Susan Kilpatrick Petrole has lived in Massachusetts for two years
because of a job change for her husband, Jerry, a computer programmer.
She graduated from West Chester University in 2001 with a master’s
in English and a concentration in creative writing. She has spent
the past two years writing mainly fiction as well as some memoirs
and poetry. Her novel Girl Lessons was accepted by Abbeywood Press,
and she is now an editor there.
NEWS
OF 1996
From Deb Yuengling Ferhat:
Hi, everyone! I heard from Dawn
Golden Matteo, who is living in
Allentown with her husband, Adam. She works for Agere Systems as
accounting policy manager.
Jenna MacDonald is engaged to Troy Valleau. They’re building
a house in Layton, N.J. Jenna has earned her master’s in
education and is working on a second master’s in guidance
counseling.
Diana Auter is a track and cross-country coach in Newton, N.J.,
where she also is a teacher.
Noel Fowler Hedges wrote that she is working with Tracy
Silcox ’90
at Cendant Corp. in Parsippany, N.J. Tracy lives in Denville, N.J.
Jessica Gearhart Wenton and her husband, Jaret, have another girl:
Morgan Lacey, born in April. Tara Pierson White also had a girl,
in May: Alexis Marie, Tara and Marty’s first baby.
I also heard from Michelle Ciambruschini Ritter, who received her
M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and works in Manhattan
for Pfizer as senior manager of business technology. She told me
that a group got together for a 5-mile run in Belmar, N.J. in July,
including: Brian Thomas, Ian Thomas ’97, Jason
Shoenkopf,
Michelle and Tom Ritter ’97, Jenna MacDonald, and Melissa
Manco. Brian came in fastest of the alumni with a time of 38:15.
Afterwards, there was a party at the Thomas residence. They have
considered making the run an annual event. Any alumni interested
in running, let Michelle or Ian know!
Michelle also sent this news: Jeanelle Rogers Mapley is controller
for an accounting firm in Colorado. She lives in Denver with her
husband, Andy, and her daughter Jill, who turned 3 in July. Bob
Hennessy is funeral director for Bell Hennessy funeral home in
Williamstown, N.J. Tom Medich married Michele Keyes, sister of
Lisa Keyes Bratus ’97, in June. In addition to Michelle and
Tom, the following alumni were there: Chris Geck,
Brian Thomas,
Ian Thomas, Eric Gwiazdowski, Fred Amicucci, Marc
Simonetti, Jimmy
McGory, Lisa Keyes Bratus and Chris Bratus, Bob Hennessy, Jason
Pribilla, Matt Enriquez, and Jason Shoenkopf.
Allison Higgins DiCello ’97 had another baby in June. Raeff
is the second boy for Ali and her husband, Kevin.
From the Alumni House:
Jennifer Nolfe married Marc Singer in April 2002. Beth
Dell ’95
was a bridesmaid, James Gold ’98 a groomsman. Tara
O’Neal ’95
and Eric Kniskern attended. This April, Jennifer and Marc welcomed
a daughter, Gabrielle Marie, into their family.
Having completed a master’s in organizational development
at Temple University in 2002, J. P. Orlando began working at Lehigh
Valley Hospital as an internal organizational consultant.
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