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Class correspondent:
Jennie Coughlin Joshi
jenniejoshi@hotmail.com

Posted 5/29/19

Jeanene Stettner Dutt is the principal of North Warren Regional School District in Blairstown, NJ.  The school houses grades 7-12.  Jeanene is currently finishing her second year.  Prior she spent six years as the middle school principal in Lopatcong Township, NJ.  Jeanene has successfully defended her dissertation and will graduate May 11, 2019.  All of her doctoral studies were completed at Centenary University where she was a member of the first cohort of doctoral students. 

Posted 7/29/16

VIELA Jewelry is proud to announce its selection for the Small Business Achievement Award from SCORE of Chester and Delaware Counties.  Angela Colasanti, President and Designer for VIELA commented that “SCORE has been instrumental in guiding me through the process of growing my jewelry business.”  Angela has been designing artisan jewelry for over ten years.  Her collections are featured in galleries, boutiques and fine cultural institutions across the US, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, Winterthur Museum and Gardens, the Calvert Marine Museum and the Fenimore Art Museum.

Posted 8/25/15

Thanos Economopoulos writes that he runs a music school in his hometown Patras (Greece), he teaches piano at local public music schools and also composes electronic music.
Angela Colasanti of Viela, LTD was awarded as a finalist for the prestigious Halstead Grant for emerging artists in silver jewelry design.  Angela provided great business suave, unique market outlook and strong artistic talent convincing the Halstead Team to award her a finalist position.

Posted 5/28/15

Kathyann Finch Winans Tunison writes:  I’ve just completed a two and half year course studying Botanical Art.  Not much botany was included, mostly visual and drawing of plants.  Some plant identification was included.  As a result, my new body of art work will have letters after my signature.  Kathyann Finch, DipSBA!
I did attend graduation in London, UK on April 17, 2015 with my son, Spencer Robert Winans, who himself is a graduate of Northeastern University.  We stayed in London for a few days.
All went well.   All of the work was done at my home studio with my husband Phil present.  The course was mailed to me and I sent in my assignments within the structured time frame for each assignment.  I did score a 92 for a possible 115 points for my assignments (12 in all).  My diploma portfolio consisting of three pieces of work and my assignments and sketchbook work won me a diploma with credit from the Society of Botanical Art, London, UK.  Very exciting for me.

Posted 8/27/14

Jennifer Carrier Dorman and her husband, Rob, moved to Bad Toelz in southern Bavaria in March 2012.  After teaching at a Montessori school in Bad Toelz for several years, they accepted positions at the Integrative Montessori Schule an der Balanstrasse in Munich.  They continue to enjoy traveling throughout Europe and have visited Italy, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Austria and Scotland in the past two years.

Posted 12/20/13

Bob Thear, Freedom High School cross country coach, is named the Express-Times Cross Country Coach of the Year.

Posted 6/24/13

Brian McKee, Mike Folcher and Jack Walls all enjoyed the Phillies Business person special on June 5th. We brought the Phillies good luck as they won 6-1 that day!

Posted 2/29/12

From the Alumni House:

Doug Hawk has been involved in music for about 20 years, singing in various bands, serving as both a songwriter and lyricist.  He released the live album entitled “Eleven Alive.”  The album was recorded at Black & Blue in Easton, and is available on iTunes and CDBaby.com

Posted 1/31/12

From the Alumni House:

Jason P. Negron was promoted to Sergeant of the South Whitehall police department.  This year, he completed all the requirements to become a certified Drug Recognition Expert and is the co-coordinator for the Lehigh County DUI Task Force.

Victoria Scarano Afflitto and her husband Harlan are proud to announce the birth of their son, Jonathan Anthony Afflitto.  They reside in Staten Island, NY.  Victoria is a Chiropractor. 

Posted 11/2/11

Angela Stetler is happy to announce her marriage on September 24 to Benjamin Shepherd.

Jennifer Carrier Dorman and her husband, Rob, moved to Munich, Germany, in December 2010.  After completing her language and qualification program, Jen will join Rob in September 2011 teaching at the Musisch Aktive Montessori Schule in Bad Tölz.

Posted 8/31/11

From the Alumni House:
Angela Colasanti is collaborating with Marshall Warfield, a professor of English at Drexel University, on a linguistic and aesthetic exhibit where visitors write short messages about the arts in their lives, and those messages help to complete the art hanging on the walls. The exhibit arose from a recent, debate-filled school board meeting in her hometown where potential significant cuts to the arts were announced. Angela hopes that the exhibit will provide for people a forum where personal, social, and national views about art can be discussed in a way that actually creates art objects. The exhibit opens August 26th at Studio B in Boyertown, PA and runs through September 11th.

Jeanene Stettner Dutt will become the new principal of Lopatcong Township Middle School. She was formerly a director of social studies, world languages and career and technical education in Phillipsburg before landing the job in Lopatcong. She was also the Phillipsburg High School grand coordinator and an interim principal at the Barber Elementary School in Phillipsburg.

Posted 6/8/11

From the Alumni House:
Angela Stetler and Ben Shepherd are happy to announce their engagement on May 13, 2011.  The wedding ceremony will take place in September 2011 in Philadelphia, PA.

Posted 2/28/11

Audrey Weaver Sparks and her husband Chris are happy to announce the birth of their second child, Megan Elizabeth, who was born on October 17, 2010. Big sister Natalie and their greyhound Sadie welcomed Megan home.

Posted 1/26/11

From the Alumni House:
James Hillary ’99 and wife Rebecca Page Hillary participated in the Portland Doggie Dash races with their dog, Max. James was a two-time East Penn Conference and two-time District 11 Class AAA cross country champion in 1993-94. Max is a two-time defending champion of the Portland Doggie Dash. James admits that Max is the clear star of the Hilary household.


Christy Danko Graybeal and husband Ben are happy to announce to birth of their third child, Charles Allen, on December 13, 2010.

Posted 10/6/10

From the Alumni House:
Meg Thomsen Katsumi was recently accepted into the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service.  For her first assignment, she’ll be posted as a Political/Economic Officer reporting from Belfast, N. Ireland.  She and her husband, Yash, will be living there for two years and would like to see any Moravian friends that would like to visit!

          Andrea Dow is happy to announce her marriage to James Bird on September 25, 2010. She and James reside in Douglas, Mass.

 

Posted 2/5/10

From the Alumni House:
Daniela Grillo Egidi and Enzo Egidi are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Massimo Domenico, on May 19, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Posted 1/7/10

From the Alumni House:

Tara Wartman McClimon and Tyler McClimon ’99 welcomed their second son on December 9, 2009. His name is Mason Peter and he weighed 8lbs 5oz and was 20 ¼ inches long. Their first son, Corey Robert, is 2 ½ years old.

After graduating with her Bachelors in Economics and Sociology, Valerie Rhoe received her Masters in Economics at the University of Notre Dame in 2000.  Since graduation, she has been working for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), which is headquartered in Washington DC.  IFPRI is 1 of the 15 international agriculture research centers and falls under the umbrella of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR).   If you are interested in IFPRI’s research on climate change, you can view the climate change page of its website (http://www.ifpri.org/book-775/ourwork/researcharea/climate-change).

 

Posted 12/1/09

From the Alumni House:
Jeffrey Cary and his wife Greta live in Lansdale, Pa. They share the joy of parenting, 2 ½ year old Owen. Jeffrey teaches sixth grade math at Pennridge Central Middle School.

Posted 11/2/09

From the Alumni House:
Meg Thomsen was married in May of 2009 to Yash Katsumi at the Glynwood Center in Cold Spring, NY. Yash's brother, Atsushi Katsumi, conducted the ceremony. Yash and Meg both work at Harvard Medical School, where Yash is the Data Coordinator for the Office of Resource Development and Meg is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Health and the Global Environment. In 2006, they met on the sidewalk outside their office building thanks to the happy accident of a faulty fire alarm. They currently live in Cambridge, Mass.
Jim Coupe and Laura Coupe welcomed a new addition to their family on September 15, 2009. Their daughter’s name is Mary Louise Coupe and she weighed in at exactly 8 pounds.

Posted 10/5/09

From the Alumni House:

Laura Dombrosky Miller ’98 and husband David are proud to announce the birth of their first child, Mason Robert Miller. He was born on August 5, 2009 at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, PA. Laura is a special education teacher in the Wallenpaupack Area School District.
Andrew Jenkins ’98 is currently teaching History, and coaching wrestling in the North Penn School district.

Posted 6/29/09

From the Alumni House:

Jennifer Carrier Dorman recently accepted a position at Discovery Communications. Inc., also known as Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, located in Silver Springs, MD, as a Discovery Educator Network Account Manager.

Angela Stetler was named Vice President/President Elect of the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association.  She will serve as the association’s Vice President for the year of 2009-2010, and then transition to the role of President for 2010-2011.

Doug Hawk has formed a band, the Doug Hawk Propostion, which includes a fellow Moravian alum, Nick Krolak ’08, bassist, and saxophonist Tony Gairo, a teacher at Moravian. The band’s style is hard to define; it has many different influences from soul, jazz and funk. The band not only plays in the Lehigh Valley, but also in Philadelphia and New York City. They hope to release a CD soon.

Posted 4/20/09

From the Alumni House:

Melissa Hege Ayala and husband are pleased to welcome their second daughter, Anna Sofia.  She was born November 18, 2008.

Frank J. Conforti has been married for 7½ years and has two children, 2-year-old Matthew and Kathryn Grace, a newborn. He is the controller for Urban Outfitters, Inc.