IN THE MOMENT ... HISTORIC FIRST As champions of the NCAA Mideast Region, the La Roche baseball team advanced to the College World Series for the first time in school history. FROM THE PRESIDENT

early every time you see or hear something about La Roche College, it is Nfollowed by the phrase: Engaging Minds. Embracing the World. Three years ago, every segment of the College community offered input on what La Roche stands for — and what we hope our more than 1,500 students and 13,000 alumni personify. Again and again, three strengths were mentioned: • The quality and rigor of our career-focused academic programs. • Our vibrant campus experience, resulting from a diverse student population — this year from 24 states, two U.S territories and 35 nations. • And our unwavering commitment to service, first envisioned by our founding sisters 53 years ago, and still a key component of the College’s mission and core values.

The stories and photos in this issue of Connected prove that Engaging Minds. Embracing the World. is much more than a marketing tagline. It is the driving force behind La Roche College. It defines the commitment of our faculty and staff. It guides our students through their years on campus. And, we hope, it inspires our alumni to be forces for positive change in their careers and in their communities.

Study Abroad+Study USA is a signature program at La Roche. Its trips are designed to PHOTO: BECKY THURNER BRADDOCK broaden students’ understanding of different lifestyles and beliefs, whether here or abroad. The program prepares students to embrace — rather than be threatened by — diversity and multiculturalism. So far, our students have visited 19 countries and two U.S. cities.

A well-balanced college experience also includes time away from the classroom. La Roche athletes (and their coaches) continue to draw praise for their contributions both on and off the field and court. We are proud of our baseball team, which won its way to the NCAA College World Series last summer; and of our women’s basketball team, which has won six straight AMCC Conference Championships and played in six straight NCAA tournaments. An especially proud moment occurred in October, when our athletic complex was officially named the Baierl Athletic Complex, thanks to the support and extraordinary generosity of Baierl Automotive and La Roche Trustee Lee Baierl. We look forward to many more winning seasons at that complex, and we are happy to offer those facilities to the broader community whenever our athletic schedules allow.

In this season of thanks and celebration, our thoughts naturally turn to our donors, whose loyalty and support allow us to live the mission of La Roche. We are happy to acknowledge those donors in this issue, and we assure them of our gratitude, good wishes and continued prayers. Because of them, we look forward to the new year, and enthusiastically re-affirm our pledge of Engaging Minds. Embracing the World.

Blessings,

Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D. President La Roche College the LA ROCHE COLLEGE Magazine 10 FALL | WINTER 2016

ACADEMICS 2 La Roche Honors 51st Graduating Class 3 Shriver Pays Tribute to Pope Francis 3 ACBSP Reaffirms Accreditation of Business Programs 4 AAUW North Hills Pittsburgh Tech Savvy Program 5 English Professor Releases Second Young Adult Novel 5 Students Inspired by Design Dialogue Presentation 6 Charleroi Elementary Center Redesigned 6 ASN Program Earns 92% NCLEX Pass Rate 8 Chemistry Major Making Waves COVER STORY 10 Study Abroad + Study USA Program CAMPUS NEWS 18 La Roche Receives Three National Accolades 18 Enhancements Made Across Campus 19 Baierl Athletic Complex Named 8 19 La Roche Joins Initiative 20 La Roche and Pirates Continue Successful Partnership 21 Enrollment Numbers Highest Since 2005

MISSION & SERVICE 22 Five Alumnae Elected to Leadership Positions 23 Q&A with Sister Ella Jane Bruen, CDP 24 La Roche Soccer Team Rallies Around Superstar Fan 27 Cuddles for Kids Making a Difference ATHLETICS 28 Deuces are Wild in Women’s Sports 30 Women’s Basketball Coach Named AAE Coach of the Year 31 La Roche Baseball Team Makes it to College World Series 32 Sports Update 30 ALUMNI 34 Distinguished Alumni 49 Alumni Update HONOR ROLL OF DONORS 40 Listing of La Roche College donors during the 2015-16 fiscal year CLASS NOTES 50 Alumni Celebrate Achievements FROM THE ARCHIVES 24 52 Campus Throughout the Years

CONNECTED MAGAZINE COLLEGE OFFICERS ADDRESS CHANGES TALK TO US! CONTRIBUTORS Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D. Please report all address changes to: Send your comments and suggestions to: President Editor Gina Miller ’77 Office of Marketing & Media Relations Brady Butler, M.S. HRM ’16 Howard J. Ishiyama, Ph.D. Director of Alumni Relations La Roche College Creative Director Vice President for Academic Affairs [email protected] 9000 Babcock Blvd. Greg Kemper ’99 and Chief Academic Officer 412-536-1085 Pittsburgh, PA 15237 Michael Andreola, MBA, CFRE Phone: 412-536-1300 Writers The La Roche College magazine, Connected, Madelyn Dinnerstein Vice President for Email: [email protected] Institutional Advancement is published twice a year by the Office of Jimmy Dunn Marketing & Media Relations and provided free Jimmy Finley Colleen Ruefle, M.A. to alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and Natasha Garrett ’96, Ph.D. Vice President for Student Life friends of the College. The contents are selected Kurt Hackimer ’12 and Dean of Students to demonstrate the interests and pursuits of Becky Jeskey ’11 Robert A. Vogel, M.S. the La Roche College community and to provide Vanessa Orr news about the College. Megan Poland Vice President for Business & Finance/CFO Graphic Designer La Roche College does not discriminate on the Sue Mazur ’84 James E. (Chip) Weisgerber, Ph.D. basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or religion in its programs and activities. Online Magazine Production Vice President for Dave Siroki Enrollment Management Mel Latal ACADEMICS

La Roche College Honors 51st Graduating Class

PHOTOS: PHIL PAVELY

a Roche College conferred 44 similar message in his commencement CDP, whose life of service, as part of the master’s degrees and 313 address. mission of the Congregation of Divine undergraduate degrees at its Providence, is a compelling example of L “Over and over again, you will be face- God’s Providence made visible. Sister annual commencement ceremony on to-face with circumstances in which Joan is a former member of the College Saturday, May 7. freedom and opportunity for others Board of Trustees. Mr. Shriver was are being denied or compromised,” presented with an Honorary Doctor of “Don’t ever lose faith in your ability to said Mr. Shriver. “Individualism and Humane Letters from the College in make a difference,” President Sister consumerism will invite you to look recognition of his life of service fighting Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D., told the away, to focus exclusively on your for social justice in advocacy and service graduates. “It is all too easy in today’s needs and desires. Will you accept that organizations, as well as elected office. technologically oriented world to lose invitation? Or will you accept the vision sight of the human factor — how we that La Roche College has presented to Two undergraduate students received relate to each other, what we mean to you to have a deep, personal relationship the President’s Awards for Leadership each other, and the gifts that we can be to with God — to have faith — and to put and Scholarship, given to those who each other. Make a point to ask yourself that faith into action serving others?” exemplify the values and characteristics every day, ‘What have I given to others?’” of the College’s mission, who have During the ceremony, the La Roche exemplary academic records, and who Mark K. Shriver, president of Save the College Woman of Providence Award was are effective leaders on campus, in the Children Action Network, relayed a presented to Sister Joan Marie Harper, workplace or in the community.

2 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Shriver Pays Tribute to Pope Francis in New Book

arly in the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected E Pope Francis stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and did something remarkable: Before he imparted his blessing to the crowd, he asked the crowd to explores how that commitment bless him, then bowed low to receive has struck a chord in the hearts of this grace. millions who long to make faith, hope, love and mercy a part of their In the days that followed, Mark lives as they go out into the world Shriver, nephew of President John to serve and learn from the most F. Kennedy and New York Times marginalized. Called funny, wise, bestselling author of “A Good Man: insightful and skillfully penned, Rediscovering My Father, Sargent the book retraces Francis’s personal Shriver” — along with the rest of the journey. It starts in his native world — was astonished to see a pope Argentina, and includes visits to who paid his own hotel bill, eschewed the confessional where the former limos, and made his home in a Cardinal Bergoglio first felt called to suite of austere rooms in a Vatican a faith-based life, and the humble guesthouse, rather than the grand parish where the future pontiff’s papal apartment in the Apostolic pastoral career began: a church Palace. By setting an example of created from a converted vegetable humility and accessibility, Francis shed in an area just outside the city of breathed new life into the Catholic Buenos Aires. Top center: President Sister Candace Introcaso, Church, attracting the admiration of CDP, Ph.D., and Chair of the Board of Trustees Kathryn Jolley ’81, confer an honorary degree Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Published by Random House, upon Mark Shriver. Top right: Vice President “PILGRIMAGE: My Search for the for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic In “PILGRIMAGE: My Search for Real Pope Francis” went on sale in Officer Howard Ishiyama, Ph.D. addresses the the Real Pope Francis,” Mr. Shriver hardcover at the end of November. graduating class.

ACBSP Reaffirms Accreditation 2016 of Business Programs Traditional Recipient he Accreditation Council Lynn Archer, Ed.D., co-chair of the Ana Paula De Marco Teixeira Management Division, said. Belo Horizonte, Brazil for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Bachelor of Arts Established in 1988, ACBSP is the International Affairs T Baccalaureate/Graduate Degree only organization offering specialized Board of Commissioners has business accreditation for all degree 2016 reaffirmed accreditation of the levels. La Roche was first accredited business programs at La Roche by ACBSP in 1995 and is required to Nontraditional Recipient complete a reaffirmation process College. Greer Reed every 10 years. The Business Group Verona, Pennsylvania of La Roche’s Management Division “As a College that highly values Bachelor of Arts includes programs in management, continuous improvement and Performing Arts | Dance Performance finance, international management, academic quality, we are pleased to be accounting, marketing and continuing the tradition of excellence management information systems. that ACBSP reaccreditation affirms,”

FALL | WINTER 2016 3 ACADEMICS

AAUW North Hills Pittsburgh Program Encourages Girls to Become Tech Savvy

PHOTOS: ANGELA MOSQUEDA, E.G. PHOTOGRAPHY

lthough women hold close Dr. Don Fujito’s session, “Exploring the to half of all jobs in the U.S. “We know that girls want to make a Uses and Properties of (Not Necessarily) economy, they hold less difference, so we give them hands-on, Dry Ice,” taught girls how to construct A real-world problem-solving activities to a simple device to use crushed dry ice than 25 percent of science, technology, show them that STEM is relevant and to extract limonene from orange rinds. engineering and math (STEM) jobs. fun,” said Dr. Susan Banerjee, president Current and former students Victoria American Association of University of the AAUW North Hills Pittsburgh Danko ’16, Rachael Dufalla ’16, Maria Women (AAUW) North Hills Pittsburgh branch and event chair. “Another very Setchenska and Nonhlanhla (Lucky) important piece of our programming is Kies demonstrated an app they designed Branch is one of 23 AAUW National exposing the girls to outstanding women and engineered under the direction Tech Savvy sites working to improve mentors, so they, in turn, will mentor of Management Department Chair those numbers. other girls.” Michaela Noakes.

In May the AAUW North Hills Pittsburgh Four La Roche professors provided Created in 2006 by Tamara Brown, Branch hosted a Tech Savvy program at workshops during the event. Computer former president of the AAUW Buffalo, La Roche College to show girls firsthand Science Department Chair Jane Arnold N.Y. branch, Tech Savvy has reached how STEM fields can lead to exciting and Associate Professor of Computer more than 5,000 girls. La Roche is one careers. The event, part of the AAUW Science Jeff Perdue presented Hour of of more than 800 college and university National Tech Savvy Pilot Program and Code, which focused on how technology partners that collaborate with the funded in part by Alcoa Foundation, was works. Chemistry Department Chair nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. attended by 91 sixth- through ninth- grade girls from 25 school districts and their families.

“Middle school is a critical time when girls start to make decisions about their future, and Tech Savvy shows the girls how to prepare for amazing STEM careers right here in Pittsburgh,” said La Roche’s Assistant Director of Admissions Peggy Schmiedecke, AAUW representative and grant co-writer, event co-curriculum chair, and marketing and media chair.

The students participated in workshops where they performed hands-on STEM activities, and also learned about “savvy skills” such as college planning, STEM career paths and financial literacy. A complementary program for adults showcased research regarding why there are so few women in STEM fields, and how girls benefit from spending time with women STEM role models. The students and their parents also broke into groups to complete a design and engineering challenge. Students participate in faculty-led workshops in computer science and chemistry.

4 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE English Professor Releases Second Young Adult Novel

BY MEGAN POLAND | PHOTO: MEL LATAL

oshua David Bellin, Ph.D., are that way. Probably everybody professor of English at La Roche is a little that way,” Dr. Bellin said. College, has released his second “The question for the book is if J people can be redeemed from the young adult novel, “Scavenger things they’ve done wrong.” of Souls.” Although it is a sequel, Dr. Bellin “Scavenger of Souls,” the sequel to said the novel could be read as a “Survival Colony 9,” is a science fiction standalone. “Scavenger of Souls” novel set in a future post-apocalyptic is the final installment in the Earth. Querry Genn and his colony series, but there is a possibility for have defeated the Skaldi, creatures who a prequel if there is a high enough can mimic humans, but many lives demand. were lost and supplies are low during the battle. After discovering another compound of humans, Querry soon “The question for the book realizes that nothing around him is as it seems. Querry, guilt-ridden from past is if people can be redeemed actions, struggles to regain his forgotten from the things they’ve memories and discover what happened in the past in order to save the future. done wrong.” — Joshua David Bellin, Ph.D. Only then will he discover who he really is.

“A lot of people in this book have done “Scavenger of Souls” can be a lot of bad things, including Querry— purchased through Amazon, some things he’s not even aware that he’s Barnes and Noble and local, done. People are carrying the things that independent booksellers. The they did wrong with them. Some of the novel is available as a hardcover villains are that way; some of the heroes book and an e-book.

Students Inspired by Mission Behind Design Dialogue Presentation

he Interior Design Advisory Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the labor of dedicated volunteers and Board (IDAB) at La Roche the Interior Design Department at through the generosity of donors, College presented “Inspiring La Roche College. “Students told me that including designers and showrooms, and T they found her presentation inspiring has helped more than 70 families since Lives with Design: Influencing Interiors and empowering — especially when she its inception. Last summer Ms. Robison through Purpose,” at the Pittsburgh told them to discover what they were received the Design for Humanity Award Opera House in October. most passionate about so that they could from the American Society of Interior communicate the meaning of who they Designers. Speaker Lisa Robison, founder of the are through their designs. nonprofit Dwell with Dignity, discussed The Design Dialogue Speakers Series is the value of interior design and proposed “Using visuals from James Mollison’s now in its 14th year. The annual event, that when interior designers designed book, ‘Where Children Sleep,’ to illustrate sponsored by the La Roche College with purpose, the results were life- her points, Lisa really captured the IDAB, brings an internationally known changing. emotional experience of working with designer to Pittsburgh every October these clients,” added Dr. Kreidler. to speak to the professional design “Lisa spoke about how she created Dwell community and students. Featured with Dignity to help families escape Ms. Robison founded Dwell with Dignity designers also visit the La Roche campus poverty and homelessness through the in 2009. The nonprofit organization for an informal discussion with interior creates inspiring home interiors with design and graphic design students. Students participate in faculty-led workshops in computer science and chemistry. power of design,” said Nicole Kreidler,

FALL | WINTER 2016 5 ACADEMICS Associate of Science in Nursing Program Charleroi Elementary Center Earns 92% NCLEX Redesigned by Interior Design Students Pass Rate

he 2015-2016 pass rate for the Associate of Science in T Nursing (ASN) program is 92.31 percent on the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX).

Department Chair of Nursing Terri Liberto, Ph.D., RN, said, “The Nursing Department at La Roche is thrilled with this report and so proud of our ASN graduates. Dedicated faculty, small classes, determined students and excellent clinical settings are responsible for this outstanding pass rate.” Center inviting and interesting for tudents from La Roche The NCLEX is a nationwide examination visitors, faculty, staff and students,” La College’s Interior Design for registered nurses. After graduating Roche Associate Professor of Interior program partnered from nursing school, potential registered Design Maria Ripepi Diven, MFA, said. S nurses take the NCLEX to receive their with Charleroi School District to “It’s important for our students to have nursing licenses from the state in which transform the main entrance of the a real-world client; they need to meet they plan to practice nursing. Charleroi Elementary Center. the client’s needs, budget, timeline, etc., and they receive valuable In addition to the ASN program, feedback on how their design ideas Mikayla Ambler of Elizabeth, Pa.; La Roche offers an online RN to BSN can be carried out.” Brittany Craig of Mill Run, Pa.; Clara with an RN to MSN option, an online

Grandy of Lewisburg, Pa.; Kelsey Lewis MSN program with specializations in The group developed renderings of Coraopolis, Pa.; Andrea Luciano Nursing Administration and Nursing incorporating custom-designed Education, and a School Nurse furniture, new color palettes and certification program. La Roche has materials, interactive spaces for “It’s important for our students articulation agreements with several students, a reception area for to have a real-world client... area community colleges and diploma the school’s security officer and programs for the RN to BSN degree they receive valuable feedback receptionist, and a lounge area for completion program. on how their design ideas can be parents. The redesign was completed during the summer. carried out.” — Maria Ripepi Diven, MFA Associate Professor of Interior Design “La Roche interior design students exemplified the endless possibilities that a passion for design and student of Altoona, Pa.; and Jennifer Velette success can achieve,” said Charleroi of Tarentum, Pa., participated in the Superintendent Edward Zelich. project as part of the College’s Interior Design II (B) course. The course is an La Roche is one of only two colleges investigation of the design process, in the Pittsburgh area to be fully basic programming tools, concept accredited by the National Association development and the relationship of Schools of Art & Design, and has between form, function and place- the distinction of achieving and making. holding CIDA accreditation longer than any other Pittsburgh interior “The goal of this project was to make design program. Nicole Hart ’16, RN, receives her nursing pin the space at Charleroi Elementary from Department Chair of Nursing Terri Liberto, Ph.D., RN.

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Chemistry Major

with models of RMS Titanic

Makingt is not surprising that as a is almost six feetWaves long, was built from projects about the ship, and thought chemistry major, La Roche College scratch in Mr. Koehler’s basement from that it would “be cool” to have a radio- senior Michael Koehler excels blueprints for the real ship. controlled model of the vessel. “I’ve been I interested in the Titanic for as long as I in math and science. What he does “I drafted my own plans for this model can remember, and my ongoing interest with those skills when not hitting the using those blueprints, then built the finally accumulated to the point where I books, however, has attracted attention model from insulation foam board and wanted to build a large scale model of the outside the classroom. paper,” Mr. Koehler said of the ship that ship,” he explained. was finished in May 2015. “When I take

it to North Park, it gets a lot of attention; But his obsession didn’t stop there. Mr. Koehler is a gifted model builder people are fascinated by it. It really draws Mr. Koehler is currently in the process who has used these talents, as well a crowd.” of building a much larger, museum- as a passion for research, to create a quality RMS Titanic, which he expects to historically accurate 1:152 scale radio- Mr. Koehler, who lives in Hampton complete in about four years. controlled RMS Titanic model that he Township, isn’t exactly sure when his sails on North Park Lake in the North own fascination with the Titanic began; “I learned a lot and refined my model- Hills of Pittsburgh. The craft, which he worked on a couple of middle school building skills on the first ship, so I

8 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE is approximately 3,000 feet, which is of the Western Pennsylvania Model basically as far as you can see it.” Railroad Museum. “My mom used to take me to the railroad museum when I Mr. Koehler is building the model from was young, and I spent hours looking at scratch using the traditional plank-on- the 4,000 square foot, 1:87 scale railroad frame construction method. He will display,” he said, adding that the railroad build a wood structural framework first, is the same scale as his Titanic model. followed by the addition of thin, lateral “I think that spiked my interest in wooden planks glued around the frame building models.” Chemistry Major to flesh-out the hull shape. The hull will then be sealed, sanded and covered with Mr. Koehler also is a member of the fiberglass cloth. Allegheny Parkflyers Club and has been building and flying radio controlled “After glassing the hull, a layer of scale airplanes since 2007. hull plates made of polystyrene plastic will be glued on to simulate the real In addition to finishing his last year at ship’s iron plating,” Mr. Koehler said. La Roche, Mr. Koehler is employed “I’m using the dimensions of the real through Lab Support at Kop-Coat, a BY VANESSA ORR | PHOTOS: JULIE KOEHLER ship to build the model, but the internal wood protection products company, and structure is my own design.” has a side business restoring antique gramophones and phonographs. Mr. Koehler has been teaching himself to build the ship with the aid of online “I’ve always liked old music from the tutorials, and has spent hours poring early 1900s, and listening to the music decided to build one that’s twice the size over details — and new revelations — made me want to seek out the original and has a much higher level of detail,” about the ship’s construction. “About equipment on which it was played,” he he said. “This model will be much more eight years ago, new evidence revealed said. “I built up a collection of antique impressive than my first one.” that the Titanic’s center propeller phonographs and had to learn to repair actually had three blades rather than them myself. I started helping out Mr. Koehler’s 1:87 scale RMS Titanic the commonly depicted four blades,” he antique stores that buy old phonographs model, which he started this past May, said, adding that all known photographs and need to get them in working will be slightly over 10 feet (121.64 inches) supposedly showing the Titanic’s center condition, and it turned into a small long, more than a foot (12.68 inches) propeller are actually of the Olympic, business.” across, and have a displacement weight which did have a four-blade propeller. “I of 173 pounds. analyzed the evidence, and most likely Because he is so busy with school, work the reality is that there were only three, and other projects, Mr. Koehler only “The model will be radio-controlled, so that’s how I’m building my model.” works on his Titanic model a couple of and have working smoke, a horn and hours each weekend. “I’m still in the lights, as well as a speaker that softly In addition to building model ships, early stages of this build, but expect to plays Edwardian-era music,” he said. Mr. Koehler enjoys model aviation have it finished and sailing by 2020,” “The operational range of the model and model railroading, and is a member he said.

FALL | WINTER 2016 9 COVER STORY

10 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Study Abroad+Study USA Program Provides Students with Global Experiences

BY VANESSA ORR & MEGAN POLAND

magine using a camera to them the opportunity to do something change that much in nine days, but capture the essence of life in that they’ve never been able to do.” it happens.” Cuba; studying sustainability I La Roche College makes these trips “I went with the students to Cuba this while removing invasive plants in the accessible by including the program’s past year, and it was amazing to watch Galápagos Islands; rehabbing a home cost in the cost of tuition, which means them grow and to become more involved for female students in Guatemala; that the only things students need to in the world around them—to increase meeting with digital media experts pay for are passports, if necessary, and their level of engagement,” Father Tom some meals while on their trips. “We’ll added. “They are transformed by their in Los Angeles or studying how even help a student apply for a passport experiences.” democratic socialism works in Denmark. if they’ve never done it before,” Ms. Gable For La Roche College students, these said. “Our number one goal is to get as In fact, in a follow-up survey a year are just a few of the opportunities that many students traveling as possible.” after the 2014-15 trips, 95.4 percent of come from participating in the Study the students said that they were better Approximately 54 percent of the 2015 able to adapt to new and different Abroad+Study USA program, which is graduating class took advantage of this environments, and the same percentage designed to expose them to different program, traveling to Morocco, Trinidad/ said that they were more confident in global experiences. Tobago, China and Italy, among other new or unfamiliar situations. Upwards destinations. Students earn academic of 95 percent said that they were now “The whole idea behind Study credit for the trips and many involve a more aware of cultural differences, and Abroad+Study USA is to allow students service-learning component in which 72.7 percent said that they now felt more to immerse themselves in another they give of themselves while gaining interconnected with the international culture, either overseas or in the U.S.,” insight into other cultures. community. explained program founder Father Tom Schaefer, Ph.D., associate vice What is most unique, however, is what “This program will have an impact on president for academic affairs. “Being students bring back from their travels. students’ lives for a long time to come,” a global college means more than just “What we’ve found is that students Father Tom said. “It not only makes bringing international students here come back more confident and with a our students more globally aware to study; it also means giving students sense of determination that they didn’t and appreciative of other cultures, the opportunity to have an academic have when they left,” Ms. Gable said. but it makes them look at themselves experience outside of our walls.” “It doesn’t seem possible that they can differently.”

Study Abroad+Study USA trips are short-term, faculty-led trips designed to broaden students’ understanding of different lifestyles and beliefs, and to prepare them to embrace diversity and multiculturalism. To date students have traveled to 19 countries and two U.S. states, and this year’s trips include journeys to Russia, Germany, Greece, Peru, Japan, the Netherlands and South Dakota.

“My goal is to make these trips as accessible as possible to students, and to include as many activities as possible,” said Nicole Gable, assistant director of the Study Abroad+Study USA program. “In many cases, this is a student’s first trip abroad or out of the area, and even if they never travel again, we want to give

FALL | WINTER 2016 11 Guatemala

hile students often read about the difficulties that people face in developing countries, there’s nothing quite like experiencing it firsthand. As part of the College’s signature W La Roche Experience program, students took a service-learning trip to Guatemala to help out at an orphanage, school and clinic. The students assisted teachers in the classroom and rehabbed a home where female students stayed at night.

Led by Associate Professor and Computer Science Department Chair Jane Arnold, M.S., and Adjunct Professor Philip Miller, the experience took students far beyond their comfort zones.

“It was a real eye-opener for students to see people in a developing country living in immense poverty with such a lack of amenities,” explained Sister Elena Almendarez, CDP, director of mission and ministry for La Roche, who participated in the trip. “To see children in the orphanage who had no one to care for them but the Franciscan Sisters was a pretty sobering experience.”

The fact that the nights were far colder than anyone expected also was a shock, as was the half-mile walk back and forth up a steep hill for meals. “It was a little challenging,” Sister Elena said, adding that the female students pushed all of their beds together to share blankets during the night.

“Some of the students had never been outside the U.S., and it was an incredible experience for them to see another culture and a place beyond the three rivers,” Ms. Arnold said. “Seeing the different level of prosperity, they came to realize that just because you aren’t wealthy doesn’t mean that you’re not happy.”

Ms. Arnold said one of the most poignant memories from the trip was helping a young boy with cerebral palsy and his mother, who were hoping to get a larger wheelchair for the boy. “Every day, his mother pushed him miles across cobblestone roads up the hill to school in this wheelchair that he’d outgrown,” she explained. “It was incredible what she did for her son.”

While Ms. Arnold, an engineer, took measurements of the boy, senior Eric Miller, a photographer, took pictures to send to the company making the wheelchair, and Sister Elena talked with the mother about how the wheelchair would be used. “He couldn’t go to get fitted for the chair, so we did the best we could do to provide all of the information they would need,” Sister Elena said. “It was an unplanned, special ministry, and we really felt like we had made a difference.”

The mission didn’t end with the trip, however. Students who traveled to Guatemala went back to La Roche and formed One Youth, a club still in existence today, which raises money to help the orphanage and to provide scholarships for schoolchildren.

“The trip had a long-lasting, transformative effect on the students,” Ms. Arnold said. “Even though the students and the children they met didn’t share the same language, it didn’t matter.

12 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL | WINTER 2016 13 GalApagos Islands

n 2016 biology professor Gail Rowe, Ph.D., took students to the Galápagos Islands to understand the importance of natural I communities. “Communities are not just about people; natural communities include all of the living organisms — plants, animals, microbes — and their natural non-living environments,” Dr. Rowe said, adding that the Galápagos Islands are fascinating because there are plants and animals there, such as marine iguanas and flightless cormorants, that exist nowhere else on earth.

The citizens of the Galápagos Islands are mindful of sustainability and have respect for the island, which is a concept that Dr. Rowe worked to instill in her students.

“Besides seeing these precious animals and plants, the students had a service project that involved replacing introduced species, like blackberries that don’t belong there but are taking over and choking other plants, with a native species,” Dr. Rowe said. “They got to see the value of preservation.”

For Jess Seng, a biology major with a concentration in forensics, going to the Galápagos Islands was her first experience going abroad.

“My favorite aspect of the trip was all of the different animals we saw. To see amazing creatures out and about every day like we see squirrels or robins was too cool,” she said. “There were literally lizards and sea lions just lazing about on benches and in pathways.”

“I think it enchanted the students to see nature in this way, and to see the preservation efforts that the people on the island are making,” Dr. Rowe said. “They still need to make a living, but they’re trying to balance that with something sustainable that doesn’t destroy the beauty and uniqueness of the island.”

14 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Cuba

ssistant Professor Andy Schwanbeck took graphic design students to Cuba to create a photo-narrative, less than one year after the United States restored diplomatic relations A with the Caribbean country.

“We have quite a unique connection and history with Cuba, and many of us were interested in exploring that relationship firsthand,” Mr. Schwanbeck said. “The real Cuba is found within the people we encountered — warm smiles, open invitations, long tableside discussions about life. I’ve never felt more welcome and at home in such a short amount of time.”

The students made unique connections of their own as well. “I was watching one of the students taking pictures of everything she ate, and I asked her about it,” said Father Tom Schaefer, Ph.D., associate vice president for academic affairs. “She said that she was sending pictures back to her mom of things she’d never eaten at home — even things like pork chops! Being in a different place made her more willing to try, and enjoy, different things.”

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zlan Tajuddin, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Sociology Department, took students to Denmark in May 2016 to study the country’s culture, education A and health care. With a population of more than 5 million people, the country is a strong proponent of equality and provides free health care, college education, and daycare services to every citizen. Approximately 90 percent of the country is powered by wind and solar power.

“This trip was very appropriate because this was at a time when Bernie Sanders was coming out with his proposal of democratic socialism, and Denmark was a model that he upheld as a perfect society,” explained Dr. Tajuddin, who designed a multidisciplinary theme for the trip since it involved students in a variety of majors, including criminal justice, education, health science, interior design and political science.

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dministration and management adjunct met, including top-level executives. “We were faculty member Rosemary Martinelli took introduced to some very well-respected people in A a group of students to Los Angeles to study the entertainment and media industry whom I never media, politics and entertainment. thought I would meet, including a member of the Buzzfeed team, which is a website and brand that I “One of the things I always try to explain to students see every day,” she said. is to meet people, talk to them, and be able to communicate and start a network so that they can In addition to meetings, the students got to see the learn from others outside of their own spheres of Jimmy Kimmel Show live, visit Hollywood Boulevard, influence and understanding,” said Ms. Martinelli. and hike to the famous Hollywood sign. They kept “Having strong communication skills is important no journals during the trip, which Ms. Martinelli said matter what field you are in.” detailed some thought-provoking, enlightening and enriching experiences. Students majoring in communication, graphic design, health and social services, human resources, “This trip taught me a lot about outreach and and psychology participated in the trip. presentation, and as a designer, I need to know how to reach audiences both large and small,” Ms. Smith Charleigh Smith, a graphic design major, was said. “Having taken this trip and having seen some impressed by the caliber of the people they really amazing presenters has helped me to become a better presenter.”

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La Roche Receives Three National Accolades

a Roche College has received must demonstrate results across national recognition from four distinctions: engaged students, not one, but three different great teaching, vibrant community L and successful outcomes. High organizations. school counselors and educators make nominations, and each school The Princeton Review, a nationally For 13 consecutive years, The Princeton is evaluated on key indicators renowned education services company, Review has ranked La Roche as one of including student engagement, lists La Roche in the Best in the the region’s best colleges for students student empowerment and curricular Northeast section of its 2017 Best to earn undergraduate degrees. Editors innovation. Colleges: Region by Region website base their selections on data collected feature. Earlier this year La Roche earned from its survey of administrators at Schools listed as Best Regional Colleges recognition among the nation’s Colleges several hundred colleges in each region, in U.S. News & World Report focus of Distinction for the fifth consecutive as well as staff visits to schools and the almost entirely on the undergraduate year, being named a Pennsylvania perspectives of college counselors and experience and offer a wide range of College of Distinction and Catholic advisors. The ranking also is based liberal arts programs and the fields of College of Distinction. on what La Roche students reported business, nursing and education. This about their campus experience in an year’s list of Best Regional Colleges Additionally, U.S. News & World Report 80-question student survey. includes 334 colleges and features ranked La Roche 23rd on its list of Best institutional data for categories such Regional Colleges in the North and Colleges of Distinction is a website and as peer assessment, graduation and second on its 2017 list of Regional corresponding e-guidebook dedicated retention rates, class sizes, student- Colleges in the North with the Most to honoring schools nationwide for faculty ratio, student selectivity, International Students. their excellence in undergraduate- acceptance rates and alumni giving. focused higher education. Schools Enhancements Made Across Campus

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a Roche has continued to enhance its facilities to meet the growing Lstudent demand.

This past summer the College made renovations to the Zappala College Center, Ryan Room and Cantellops Art Gallery, with a focus of creating social space for the campus community.

These improvements followed the renovation of the Zappala College Center Square in summer 2015; the renovation of the outdoor athletic complex in 2014; and the modernization of a lecture hall in the Palumbo Science Center in 2015.

Additional upgrades are planned for the Science Center, including new laboratories and office space.

18 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Baierl Athletic Complex Named at October Ceremony

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n Tuesday, Oct. 11, La Roche President Sister O Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D., named the Baierl Athletic Complex and thanked Lee Baierl and Baierl Automotive for all of their encouragement and assistance.

“The support and extraordinary generosity of Baierl Automotive and La Roche College Trustee Mr. Lee Baierl President Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D., and La Roche Trustee Lee Baierl. played a significant role in making our ‘Field of Dreams’ a reality for our student athletes, coaches and loyal La Roche Township also attended, including coaches and the College as a whole, as Redhawk fans,” Sister Candace said. President Gerard Aufman Jr. of Ward 2; well as serving as a resource for local Vice President William McKim of Ward 7 organizations. The ceremony, held at Varischetti and Kim Zachary of Ward 1. Pavilion, was attended by students, Sister Candace also thanked the College’s faculty and staff, members of “We’re proud to have the Baierl name Board of Trustees for its leadership and the College’s Board of Trustees, associated with an organization expertise, along with Chair of the Board representatives from Baierl Automotive, that places as much value on our Kathryn Jolley ’81 and Greg Madej of and public officials, including neighborhoods as it does its students,” DRS Architects, La Roche Trustee Steven U.S. Congressman Keith Rothfus, Baierl Automotive President and CEO Massaro of Massaro Corporation, and Pennsylvania State Representative and and La Roche Trustee Lee Baierl said. other major donors S&T Bank, La Roche Speaker of the House Mike Turzai, and He added that the College’s investment Trustee Nicholas Varischetti and the State Senator Randy Vulakovich. Several in the athletic complex will provide Massaro Family. council members from McCandless tremendous benefits to student athletes,

La Roche Joins Initiative to Increase Awareness, Implement Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault

a Roche College has received Task Force on Campus Sexual Assault La Roche will work with national and a national grant from the campaigns, Not Alone and It’s On Us. The school partners to implement a targeted U.S. Department of Health College is one of nine grantees. policy and practice change strategy. L School partners include the University of and Human Services, Office on “La Roche College is honored to join Pittsburgh; Tufts University; University Women’s Health (OWH) that enables with partner organizations to increase of California, Berkeley; University of it to join an initiative to increase awareness of sexual assault on college San Francisco; Kirkwood Community awareness of sexual assault on college campuses,” said Title IX Coordinator College; Point Park University and the and Vice President for Student Life University of Mary Washington. National campuses and implement successful and Dean of Students Colleen Ruefle. partners include NASPA: Student Affairs prevention policies. “This program will help us in our efforts Administrators in Higher Education, to prevent violence against women, Association of Fraternity/Sorority The College Sexual Assault Policy and and it will provide the resources for us Advisors, Futures Without Violence, Prevention Initiative provides three to implement successful prevention Green Dot and the National Campus years of funding and supports the strategies.” Leadership Council. recommendations of the White House

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La Roche and the Pirates Continue Successful Partnership

BY KURT HACKIMER ’12 | PHOTOS: BRADY BUTLER & PHIL PAVELY

ver the past several years, While these segments are frequently dollars so that they will have the greatest the Pittsburgh Pirates have changed so that the content stays impact.” offered plenty of excitement fresh, La Roche College has remained a constant supporter of the Pittsburgh PNC Park has sponsors’ logos plastered Oto their loyal supporters at PNC Pirates since 2002. That partnership has onto nearly every imaginable surface, but Park. But baseball, in its essence, is manifested in many different ways, from Aaron Cohn, the Pirates’ vice president a leisurely sport. There is no time radio ads to television spots to logos of corporate sponsorships, said that the limit, no play clock and, as a result, no on the backs of t-shirts. Former Pirates team considers its involvement with pitcher Kris Benson even served on La Roche to be a partnership. shortage of downtime. La Roche’s Board of Trustees for three years. “From our end, we love the partnership For decades Major League Baseball because it’s a local institution,” Mr. Cohn teams have contrived different ways to La Roche’s agreement with the Pirates said. “It’s very easy for a company to keep fans entertained while the game has evolved throughout Sister Candace purchase a sign and some tickets, but is paused. During inning breaks, fans at Introcaso’s tenure as College president, PNC Park can attempt to catch balled-up which began in 2004. t-shirts that are launched from a cannon, Left: Department Chair of Performing Arts listen to Pirates catcher Francisco “Smaller schools have to take a risk and Maria Caruso, M.S., films downtown for La Cervelli give dating advice, and cheer on Roche’s in-game feature, “Know the Burgh.” be more creative,” Sister Candace said. a group of costumed pierogies as they Right: President Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, “We don’t take anything for granted and race along the outfield warning track. Ph.D., watches video playback for “Know the we have to plan to use our advertising Burgh” at Station Square.

20 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Left: Olivia Gerace, Carly Wilson and Ryan we’re really encouraging our partners to emcee Joe Klimchak that allows a Norkus earned their way into the social media do something more meaningful to help member of the audience to answer a suite at PNC Park through a Twitter contest for as many people as possible within the multiple choice question for prizes. La Roche students. Before the game, students community.” Once the contestant has answered the had a meet-and-greet with representatives question, he or she is able to choose from the Pirates’ marketing office. Right: Alumni enjoy the game during La Roche College Night at The Pirates have sent multiple members between two treasure chests: one PNC Park. of their organization to speak to featuring an extravagant prize – usually La Roche students on campus, have autographed memorabilia – and one invited students to their social media featuring a comically unimpressive suite, and have offered opportunities for prize such as a slinky or a copy of Terry real-life experience with their internship Bradshaw’s country music record. simultaneously entertaining and program. La Roche also has partnered educational, all while showcasing with Pirates Charities, the club’s Brady Butler, La Roche’s associate vice La Roche as well as the city. The result philanthropic arm that was developed president for marketing and media of the brainstorming was to jettison a in 2006 to further solidify relationships relations, said that while similar quiz collection of faculty, staff and students with Pittsburgh’s many nonprofit shows are a staple at PNC Park, both the dressed in throwback La Roche organizations, in their annual Pirates College and the Pirates wanted to shake Redhawks baseball jerseys, to notable Care-A-Van food drive. things up and offer something a little locations around the city and film them more innovative. reading the multiple choice questions “We want to partner with organizations that the contestants would have to that are mission driven,” Sister Candace “We didn’t want to just attach our name answer. said. “The Pirates, with their emphasis to a t-shirt that’s being shot from a on charity work, is a family-oriented cannon,” Mr. Butler said. “We easily “The average fan comes to three or four organization that we are proud to be could have sponsored ‘Know the Burgh’ games a year, and we want to make sure involved with.” with only our logo on the screen, but we that they’re not going to get bored with took it to another level.” what they’re seeing,” Mr. Cohn said. “We This past season, La Roche embarked wanted to come out with something new upon its most ambitious advertising Mr. Butler brainstormed with Pirates and Pittsburgh centric. La Roche wanted endeavor to date: “Know the Burgh,” an executives to determine how to to find ways to engage its community, so in-game quiz show hosted by Pirates uniquely present a segment that was it worked out well.”

Enrollment Numbers Highest Since 2005

otal enrollment at La Roche and an additional 82 part-time adult and hard work of the staff and faculty College has increased two undergraduate and 60 graduate students college-wide. percent this academic year, also began their studies during the fall semester. Internal strategies that contributed Tresulting in the College’s largest overall to this year’s enrollment increase enrollment since 2005. “The number of new students is a great include the College’s efforts to expand accomplishment for a college the size its footprint across multiple types of Total enrollment for 2016-17 peaked of La Roche,” said Vice President for students; creating more transfer-friendly at 1,555 students — an increase of 32 Academic Affairs and Chief Academic policies; and assertively recruiting students over last year’s final enrollment Officer Howard Ishiyama, Ph.D., who international students in countries that number of 1,523. This year 397 first-year credited the increase to a number of new value a U.S. education. full-time students enrolled at La Roche, creative initiatives, and the dedication

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Five Alumnae Elected to Leadership Positions for the Sisters of Divine Providence

BY MADELYN DINNERSTEIN PHOTO: JIM JUDKIS

a Roche College alumnae serve in prominent roles on the L new leadership teams elected this summer by the Sisters of Divine Providence, the College’s founding and sponsoring community.

Sister Maria Fest, CDP, B.S. ’65, D.A., a member of the College’s first graduating class, will serve as Congregational Leader for the Sisters’ international congregation. Joining her on the Congregational Team is Sister Eun Soon Left to right: Sister Michele Bisbey, CDP, B.A. ’71, Ph.D., Sister Maria Fest, CDP, B.S. ’65, D.A. (Rosa) Kim, CDP, B.S. ’04 of the St. Joseph (seated), Sister Mary Traupman, CDP, B.S. ’69, MBA, J.D., and Sister Donna Marie Gribschaw, CDP, Province in South Korea. B.S. ’74, M.A.

Sister Michele Bisbey, CDP, B.A. ’71, respecting the individuality of various trafficking and assisting documented Ph.D., was elected Provincial Director cultures,” she said. refugees. for the Marie de La Roche Province, which covers the United States and the Sister Michele said she and others of the Sister Michele, 67, has served as Caribbean. Joining her on the Provincial Provincial Leadership Team will work professor of religious studies at La Leadership Team are two additional La to promote the sisters’ priority of “right Roche and has held the Ketteler Roche graduates elected as Provincial relationships” within their community Endowed Chair of Theology. She said Councillors, Sister Mary Traupman, CDP, and with the rest of the world and the that her 50 years as a Sister of Divine B.S. ’69, MBA, J.D., and Sister Donna church. Providence will help her serve the Marie Gribschaw, CDP, B.S. ’74, M.A. Province, along with her listening,

Sister Maria, 73, said attending La Roche in its early years “was kind of an “I think the call at this time is to really deepen our internationality entrepreneurial experience” because … while still respecting the individuality of various cultures. seven students in her graduating class — Sister Maria Fest, CDP, B.S. ’65, D.A. were creating something new. “It was a brand new college,” she said. “We were part of charting a new path, in a sense.” “We’ve always been a group interested critical thinking and relationship in social-justice issues,” she said, adding skills. While the Congregation now has that “life” issues don’t stop at birth. “If about 400 members, compared to a we’re supportive of new life, we have She also has been a foster parent 25 high of 1,600 in the 1960s, Sister Maria to make sure we have the resources to years, caring for 28 children. said her priority will be to deepen the support new life.” connections among sisters around the “I think that has given me a unique world. She said sisters in the Province will insight into real-life situations and the continue their work on issues related importance of having balance. Foster “I think the call at this time is to really to operating schools, supporting single parenting brings issues of the street to deepen our internationality … while still mothers and families, fighting human your living room,” she said.

22 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE cranberries...you get the idea. At the end of the day, I asked the boys to wash the big pots in the sink. The next day, Tony the custodian told me that the boys used the toilet brushes to scrub the pots and pans. SISTER ELLA Thankfully, Tony thought it was funny. But I felt bad, so JANE BRUEN, CDP I got him a carton of Lucky Strikes the next day. BY NATASHA GARRETT ’96, PH.D. PHOTO: JAMES KNOX I have great memories of running the summer camp for girls. They were funny. If one ister Ella Jane Bruen, CDP, of them had a stomach ache, serves as residence hall all of them would say they had director for Bold Hall. She stomach aches. I would empty S a box of tic tacs in my hand and joined La Roche College in 2007, solemnly administer two per in Boston, but I have made many good when she arrived in Pittsburgh from girl. After they took “the medicine,” they friends here at La Roche. the Sisters of Divine Providence all miraculously felt better.

Motherhouse in Kingston, Mass. You just celebrated your 50th jubilee as Once, I ended up inadvertently driving Though she may deny that she would a Sister of Divine Providence. How did a bus full of school children in the ever become a true Pittsburgher, she you decide to become a Sister? International Shriners Parade in Boston. It wasn’t an overnight decision. It was has developed close relationships I drove right past the grandstand with the on my mind for a long time. I decided to with the students and has become Mayor, the Cardinal and the Governor. spend a weekend at the convent and see an integral part of the La Roche The only reason why I didn’t get arrested if this quiet push I had carried in me for a community. This year Sister Ella Jane was because the police saw the Sisters of long time was genuine. Fifty years later, I is celebrating her 50th jubilee as a Divine Providence Sacred Heart School am still with the Sisters, so it looks like I Sister. sign on the side of the bus. Of course, made the right decision. God won! there were cameras everywhere. When we got back home, the Provincial, a Sister What brought you to Being a Sister and being a teacher have with a very dry sense of humor, told me La Roche College? been the greatest experiences in my life she saw me on TV. The Sisters invited me to come to and have brought me the greatest joy. Pittsburgh. At first I didn’t think I wanted to move, and I certainly never You are an editor of a book on the thought I would be here this long. I What do you enjoy most about Civil War, “Through Ordinary Eyes.” thought I would only last for a few La Roche? What do you like to read? I love the closeness of the community weeks. But once I joined La Roche, I As you may guess, I read mostly history here. The students are so full of life, and I fell in love with the community here. or historical fiction. I throw in a mystery enjoy their senses of humor. I am happy Boston will always be my home, but I here and there. I really enjoy historical to be a part of their support system, along definitely feel at home here, too. biographies. At the moment, I am with all the faculty and staff. It is very reading “Elephant Company,” a book gratifying to see them grow during their about elephants during the war in What did you do prior years at La Roche, and it is especially Burma. I also am reading “A Gentleman to joining La Roche? touching to see them graduate. in Moscow.” I was a junior high and high school teacher in Boston. For years, I also ran an international summer You are a great storyteller. Tell us What are your favorite activities, besides camp for girls. I have worked with about some memorable moments from reading? prisoners affected with AIDS. I am a your teaching career. Traveling. I have taken groups of Where do I start? I have so many member of the Plymouth Historical students to several fascinating places: stories, I could go for days. One story Society and serve on several South Africa, Russia, Japan... I enjoyed that comes to mind is from when I was education boards. all of them, but I just love Paris. Who teaching sixth grade. I did a whole unit doesn’t? on cranberries, and I got crates of dried What do you miss most? cranberries that the classroom then I miss the ocean — I think it’s my used to make cranberry bread, cranberry Celtic soul. I miss the Sisters back sauce, cranberry jelly, chocolate covered

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24 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE La Roche Soccer Team Rallies Around Superstar Fan e i BYL VANESSA ORR | PHOTOS:o PHIL PAVELY Zambor very day for three weeks, Leo at a recent soccer match against Bethany Zambori, 5, asked his mom College, where Leo proudly sat in the how many more days it would stands watching his favorite players, E who wore “I Wear Gold for Leo” T-shirts be until he could attend the La Roche during warm-ups. “Captain Aaron College soccer game where he would Lagnese gave him his captain’s arm band, serve as honorary captain and get to and he walked out with Leo on the field,” sit beside his friends on the bench. said Ms. Zambori. “Leo was so excited!” Instead of being exasperated by his At the game at La Roche College against endless questioning, his mother, Natalie Penn State Behrend on Saturday, Oct. 22, Zambori, was thrilled that Leo was Leo again got special attention, getting to so excited. meet up with the players before the game and having his name announced along “When you have a child who is sick, they with the other players on the roster. don’t have a lot to look forward to,” said Ms. Zambori of her son’s battle with “He sat on the bench with the team the acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), whole game — I didn’t think that would and all of the tests and treatments that happen; I mean, he’s 5!” Ms. Zambori come with it. “For weeks, he kept asking said, laughing. “The fact that it was chilly when he’d get to see Conner and the rest and rainy didn’t faze him at all; he was of the players — he was so excited! At just so excited to see everyone and to a time when all of our lives have been get to sit beside Conner. It was so cute to turned upside down, this brought some see his little blue shoes dangling off the normalcy to a rough situation, and bench — he was just one big smile all day the support that we’ve received from long!” La Roche and the team has simply been amazing.” Both the men’s and women’s teams are supporting Leo in his fight, and are Conner Hagins, a La Roche sophomore finding ways to help the family, too. and soccer player, met Leo in April Before October’s game, both teams sold when Mr. Hagins visited the oncology game day shirts with the proceeds going ward at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to help Leo’s family, and sold tickets of UPMC during the Cuddles for Kids for a Pittsburgh Steelers’ merchandise second Kicking It with the Kids event. basket as another fundraiser. They also Since then Leo and Mr. Hagins have donated the proceeds from a 50/50 raffle bonded, and the men’s soccer team has toward Leo’s care, raising $690 that they made a special effort to include their presented to the Zambori family during a biggest fan in everything they do. Mr. half-time ceremony. Hagins started the Cuddles for Kids charity in 2006 when he was just 10 “It was a really wonderful surprise, but years old. what they’re doing to make him happy is worth more than anything,” said Ms. The team named Leo honorary captain Zambori, adding that the team also

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The Zambori family is presented with gifts and a monetary donation from the soccer teams’ fundraising efforts. Left to right: Chad Zambori, Natalie Zambori, Nolan Zambori, Conner Hagins, Honorary Soccer Captain Leo Zambori and Téa Miksch. presented Leo’s brother, 8-year-old family is really right up our alley,” said lot of videos for motivation before every Nolan, with a gift bag and sweatshirt. “It’s Coach Day, who has consulted with the game, in between, and after the games — so sweet that they recognized Nolan, too, opposing teams as well as the NCAA to he’s got a lot of energy,” he said, laughing. because this has been just as hard on him make sure that everyone knows about “It’s really sweet of him to do, and it’s — he’s a great big brother. the team’s commitment to Leo. really nice to see when you’re feeling stressed out trying to do everything “They are really special guys,” she added “This is really good for the guys on the between sports and school. He’s not of the team. “They treat both boys so well, team because many of them may not just our biggest fan; he’s a member of and I’m glad that my boys have those have thought about how they are going our team at this point. He’s really a little young men to look up to.” to make an impact on the community superstar to us.” when they are finished going to school,” According to men’s soccer coach David he added. “When Leo’s mom talked to us Leo also is a big supporter when he’s Day, helping Leo is benefitting the after the game and shared what it meant not in the stands, wearing La Roche team as well. “Students who play sports to him, and what it feels like to have a sweatshirts everywhere he goes. “We live in college have it tough — it’s hard child who is sick, our guys understood in Ohio, so people aren’t as familiar with to find a balance between doing well how really special it was to be able to put the College, but Leo’s more than happy to academically and understanding your a smile on his face.” tell them all about it,” Ms. Zambori said. role as a leader and an athlete in the “He’s a walking billboard for La Roche community, so supporting Leo and his According to Mr. Hagins, Leo does his — he tells people, ‘My friends are on the best to return the favor. “Leo sends us a soccer team.’”

26 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Cuddles for Kids Making a Difference in Children’s Lives

t the age of 10, Conner Hagins decided that he A wanted to help children in the hospital after his father, who was having double bypass surgery, received a stuffed animal and Conner realized that not every patient received that kind of comfort.

He founded Cuddles for Kids in Johnstown, Pa., in 2006 with the goal of delivering stuffed animals to children to help ease their minds during hospital stays. Since then, the charity has grown to include crayons, coloring books, toys and more, and has donated more than PHOTO PROVIDED BY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH OF UPMC. 100,000 items, or roughly $430,000 Leo Zambori and Conner Hagins meet for the first time at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC worth of goods, to children’s agencies during the Kicking It with the Kids event on April 8, 2016. in Pennsylvania and around the world. The charity also has issued more than Ms. Hagins is especially touched by her “I think the family was still in shock, $16,000 in grants to agencies to be used son’s relationship with Leo and the fact and Leo was having a really bad day; for programs benefitting children. that the whole La Roche soccer team has it wasn’t until Conner handed him a rallied behind the little boy’s recovery. soccer ball that his eyes lit up, and they “Every year the charity has grown bigger,” “We love that Conner is at a college that started talking about being goalies,” Mr. Hagins said. “I never dreamed that it cares as much about the things he does said Ms. Hagins. “His mom Natalie just would grow this large, but the idea just out of school as what he does while he’s broke down and hugged me — we were sparked so quickly.” in school,” she said. “We know that he’s complete strangers at the time. Since in the right place.” then, our families have become great Mr. Hagins’ mom, Robin, helps to run the friends.” charity, and was just as surprised at its Both Mr. Hagins and his mother were in success. “It started as something so small the right place when they met Leo, who “Leo still has the photo that was taken and innocent, and now it’s grown into had been diagnosed with leukemia just that day by his bed at home,” added Ms. something we do year-round. It’s really two days before they visited the oncology Zambori. “While I don’t believe that humbling for Charlie, Conner’s dad, and floor at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh there’s any good reason why any child me to see how many people support of UPMC as part of the Kicking It with the gets cancer, I do believe that they were Conner’s vision. We’re so proud of the Kids event. there for us that day because we needed difference that he’s making in other it to happen; at our darkest time, they people’s lives.” were there to make it better.”

Cuddles for Kids is continuing to make it better for children all over the world, and has sent toys to children affected by hurricanes in Haiti and to those living in a Mexican orphanage. They’ve had local soldiers transport toys to children in Afghanistan, and they sponsor a toy drive every year before Christmas to help those living locally.

In November Cuddles for Kids held its third annual Kicking It with the Kids event at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and they have a 5K run/walk PHOTO: TRACY GIBSON planned for this coming May. For more The La Roche soccer teams partner with Cuddles for Kids for the third annual Kicking It with the Kids information or to donate, visit www. event at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC on Nov. 18, 2016. cuddlesforkids.net.

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28 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Deuces Are Wild in Women’s Sports BY JIMMY DUNN | PHOTO: JIM JUDKIS

here’s a unique situation taking Volleyball Championship team from long, we almost always know where the place in women’s sports at Bishop Canevin High School in 2015. other one is on the field.” La Roche College. Doubles are T “Our older sister graduated from A hint of sibling competitiveness quite evident with two sets of twins on La Roche. It’s a Catholic school and surfaced when Mara said, “I’m one the women’s volleyball team, plus one playing volleyball is a bonus,” Christina minute older that Kacey, and I let set of twins and two scoring sisters on said. her know it.” The remark ignited a the women’s soccer team. spontaneous burst of laughter from the Janet said she appreciates the welcoming two look-a-likes from DuBois, where Carley Knobeloch, an outside hitter and feeling she gets from the team. “Our five they were members of a graduating class her twin sister, Courtney, a setter, fresh upperclassmen are fantastic. Hopefully of 30 students in June. out of North Allegheny High School, took we can add to the team’s chemistry.” a short trip down the road to begin their Amanda and Vanessa Ceravolo are college careers at La Roche. Coach Bajuszak enters her 10th year at La not twins, but they are sharp-shooting Roche coaching volleyball (five years as sisters. “We’ve played volleyball together for seven years,” Courtney said. “Our older sister played for Carlow University against La Roche and AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) ball for Coach Nicole “We have a great group of girls, both returnees and new Bajuszak.” players on the team. We focus on developing versatility, The Knobeloch twins said their sister with consistent and mentally strong, young women.” admired the sense of family and — Nicole Bajuszak ’06 community she witnessed when La Roche Head Volleyball Coach competing against La Roche and playing for Coach Bajuszak. “That gave us a couple of reasons to stay close to home while continuing our education,” head coach and five years as assistant). Vanessa, a junior, led the team in scoring Courtney said. She is a 2006 graduate of the College. last season with 15 goals. She was named AMCC Player of the Week twice “We are working out the kinks,” said twin “We have a great group of girls, both this season. She is a two-time AMCC sister Carley, one of a dozen freshmen on returnees and new players on the team. All-Conference performer and the the roster. We focus on developing versatility, with 2014 AMCC Newcomer of the Year. She consistent and mentally strong, young currently ranks fifth all-time in goals at Courtney pointed out the almost women,” Coach Bajuszak said. La Roche and last year led the country in instinctive play between the twins when shots-on-goal per game. she noted, “I trust Carley 100 percent Coach Miguel Lozano begins his 18th to get me the sets,” and continued by year as head coach of the women’s soccer Amanda, a freshman, has been a saying, “I think I can help this team.” team. He welcomes the addition of the valuable part of the Redhawks’ attack. Baronick twins, Kasey and Mara, to the She is one of the top forwards in the The Knobeloch twins are supported team. “They will give us depth. We are AMCC and was the La Roche Athlete of by the other set of twins on the team, picked to place fourth in the conference. the Week earlier this season. Christina and Janet Aland, who were I think we can do better,” Coach Lozano members of the WPIAL and State said. While the 2016 season ended on a frustrating note for both teams, a Kasey Baronick said, “We can add to the glimmer of hope surfaces in the old team’s success.” Her twin sister Mara adage: Wait ’til next year! Clockwise from top: Amanda and Vanessa Ceravolo, Christine and Janet Aland, Mara agreed, saying, “Playing together for so and Kasey Baronick, and Courtney and Carley Knobeloch.

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Women’s Basketball Coach Named AAE Coach of The Year

PHOTO: JIM JUDKIS

amela Gissendanner, head coach the selection. “We were honored and excited Coach Gissendanner has been La Roche’s of La Roche College women’s to present Coach Gissendanner and La Roche head coach since the 2012-13 season. Under basketball team, has been named College the award,” she said. “Her team had Coach Gissendanner, La Roche has won four the Advocates for Athletic Equity an outstanding year, capped by the winning straight AMCC Conference Championships K (AAE) Div. III Coach of the Year. of this award.” and played in four straight NCAA Tournaments. She has coached two AMCC “It is such an honor and a humble moment The AAE’s (originally Black Coaches Players of the Year, four AMCC Defensive in my young career,” Coach Gissendanner Association) mission is to advocate for and Players of the Year, three All-Region said. “The award says Coach of the Year, promote ethnic minority coaches. performers and seven AMCC All-Conference but I truly believe this is a staff and team performers. She also was the 2012-13 AMCC award. Without great people surrounding me Coach of the Year. this would not be possible. I want to send a big thank you to the AAE for recognizing In August Coach Gissendanner took on the all of our hard efforts and for all they do for role of student athlete success coordinator our game.” for the College. In this position she ensures that all student athletes are afforded every Monica Maxwell, AAE’s manager of events opportunity to achieve academic success. and membership, was equally thrilled with

Left to right: Darrian Johnson, Coach Kamela Gissendanner and Mackenzie O’Donnell.

30 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE La Roche Baseball Team Makes it to College World Series

BY JIMMY FINLEY

he La Roche College baseball team had just one goal heading T into the 2016 season: to play in the College World Series.

The Redhawks were just one win shy of that dream in 2015, but in 2016, they made it a reality. La Roche won the NCAA Mideast Regional Championship and advanced to Appleton, Wis., for the right to hoist the national championship trophy. La Roche went 2-2 in the eight- team field and made it all the way to the national semifinals before falling to Keystone College.

“The 2016 squad was a group of extremely hardworking, passionate La Roche student athletes who were proud to represent the College at the highest level of NCAA athletics,” said Coach Chase Rowe, who was named Regional Coach of the Year. “We’re excited about what this national run can do for our program and for the La Roche community in the future. We are looking forward to continuing to add student athletes who are exceptional on and off the field.”

La Roche ran through its competition in the regular season, racking up a 15-1 record against Allegheny Mountain La Roche responded with a 13-0 victory three RBIs from Tyler Craig helped carry Collegiate Conference (AMCC) over Wooster College and then staved the Redhawks through to the semifinals. competition, and winning its fifth AMCC off elimination in a 12-inning thriller regular season title. The Redhawks against Randolph-Macon that saw the The national semifinal was a back-and- opened the AMCC tournament with Redhawks twice down to their last out. forth game. Ben Herstine and David a heartbreaking extra-inning loss La Roche then overcame a 3-1 hole Lemley each hit home runs and Nick to Mt. Aloysius College, but they to defeat Randolph-Macon 4-3 in the Tunstall pitched a gem. La Roche held a fought their way through the double winner-take-all NCAA Mideast Regional one-run lead in the ninth inning but was elimination tournament and defeated Championship. unable to hold on as Keystone advanced. Penn State Behrend in a snowy AMCC championship game. It was their third The Redhawks drew national power La Roche’s offense was the driving force straight AMCC title and their fourth in Wisconsin-Whitewater in its opening behind a successful 2016 campaign. the past five years. game of the World Series, where Luis The Redhawks set a school record and Navedo belted a two-run homer and ranked second nationally, with 59 home La Roche’s reputation as a burgeoning Tanner Wilt tossed a complete game to runs. Luis Navedo and Tanner Wilt power earned them the top seed in the earn La Roche the milestone win. were named All-Americans while Ben NCAA Mideast Regional in Washington, Herstine, Corey Lazor, Regis Sauer and Pa. The team opened with victories over La Roche dropped a 6-1 game to David Lemley were All-Region. Trey Widener University and the College of Keystone but rebounded with a 9-6 win Claar, Ian Velez and Joe Professori were New Jersey before falling to second- over St. John Fisher to advance to the All-Conference performers. Tyler Craig ranked Randolph-Macon with a score semifinals. An Ian Velez home run and was named to the College World Series of 19-6. All-Tournament Team.

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Men’s Golf Takes Second at AMCC Championships

Cross Country Concludes Season at AMCC Championships he La Roche men’s golf team capped a successful 2016 campaign with he men’s and women’s cross country teams capped their 2016 season at the AMCC T a second place finish at the AMCC Championships in Johnstown, Pa. The men’s team placed fifth and the women’s team Championships in Warren, Ohio. Ben Mullins T placed eighth. BASKETBALL led the Redhawks with a third place finish at It was a homecoming for men’s cross country coach Jeff Dailey ’13 and freshman runner Patrick the Championships while Drake Hoberek JUNE 13 - 16 | 9 - 11:30 A.M. Dailey who grew up in the Johnstown area. Both helped the Redhawks to their best conference tied for fourth. The second place finish finish in 14 years. Brandon Hartz led La Roche with a 27th place finish and helped pace Hemang followed three straight matches that saw For information, email [email protected] Sharma and Patrick Dailey, who finished in the next two spots. La Roche bringing home a runner-up trophy. Mr. Mullins’ win at the Penn State Altoona The women’s cross country team remained in the hunt throughout the race but ultimately Invitational and David Wilson’s win at dropped into eighth place. Despite the finish, every returning Redhawk had their best placing the Westminster Invitational highlighted finish at an AMCC race. Andrea Luciano crossed the finish line in 24th place to lead La Roche’s individual performances. Mr. the Redhawks. Mullins and Mr. Wilson also were named SOCCER AMCC Players of the Week. Women’s Tennis Has One JUNE 26 - 30 | JULY 10 - 14 | JULY 24 - 28 of Best Seasons in School Lacrosse Team Victorious OR AUGUST 7 - 11 History in Season Finale his year the La Roche women’s tennis 9 A.M. - 3 P.M. (with lunch included) he men’s lacrosse team overcame a team combined a senior-laden squad five goal, third-quarter deficit to come T with a rookie coach, and it resulted in BOYS & GIRLS AGES 4 - 16 T back and defeat Westminster 13-12 in the team enjoying one of their best seasons its season finale. The Redhawks capped their For information, email [email protected] in school history. Just a week before the AMCC quarterfinals before bowing out in the 3-11 season by sending seniors Isaiah Wilson, season, La Roche welcomed Head Coach AMCC semifinals against Penn State Behrend. Jim McKee and Dom Deltondo off with a Kevin Girard and things gelled quickly. The Chardai Guthrie and Monique Cooper were remarkable victory. La Roche also hosted its team earned a spot in the AMCC Conference named to the AMCC All-Conference Second first-ever alumni game, welcoming back more playoffs for just the third time, and the Team while Emily Huwe was an AMCC Player than 20 Redhawks who attended the College Redhawks defeated Mt. Aloysius in the of the Week. between 2010 and 2015. VOLLEYBALL

Softball Team Falls to Familiar Foe JULY 5 - 7 (position specific camp, all ages) or the third season in a row, the La Roche softball team met a familiar foe in the AMCC JULY 10 - 12 (middle school only) Tournament quarterfinal when they faced Mt. Aloysius in an elimination game. The F Mounties ended La Roche’s run in the AMCC semifinals two years ago, and last year the (high school only) Redhawks ended Mt. Aloysius’ in the quarterfinal round. Unfortunately, Mt. Aloysius came away JULY 24 - 26 with a 6-4 win in the rubber match to advance to the semifinals and end the Redhawks’ season. For information, email [email protected] Four Redhawks received AMCC All-Conference recognition including outfielder Andie Lippman and first baseman Aubrie Martin who made the First Team, and third baseman Kara Sainato and outfielder/pitcher Hayley Lashinsky, who made the Third Team.

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BASKETBALL JUNE 13 - 16 | 9 - 11:30 A.M. For information, email [email protected] SOCCER JUNE 26 - 30 | JULY 10 - 14 | JULY 24 - 28 OR AUGUST 7 - 11 9 A.M. - 3 P.M. (with lunch included) BOYS & GIRLS AGES 4 - 16 For information, email [email protected] VOLLEYBALL JULY 5 - 7 (position specific camp, all ages) JULY 10 - 12 (middle school only) JULY 24 - 26 (high school only) For information, email [email protected] DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI 2016

CHE COL O LE R G A E L

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI CIRCLE 2016

Established during La Roche College’s 50th anniversary year, the Distinguished Alumni Circle honors La Roche graduates for their outstanding professional contributions and service to others. In April 2016, La Roche inducted 11 additional alumni who exemplify the College’s mission of faith and service.

Riley B. Folds ’97 In June 2013, Mr. Folds released his first book, “Your Queer Career: The Ultimate Career Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Diversity & Inclusion Manager and Transgender Job Seekers.” Published by Riverdale Avenue, Disney Consumer Products the book capsulated his decade of work in the area of LGBTQ After graduating from La Roche workplace equality. College with a bachelor’s degree “Giving back in a meaningful way has always been a in international business component of my life,” said Mr. Folds, who also served as a management, Riley B. Folds Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador from January 1999 to June continued his education, 2001. established a career and became a leading figure in the LGBTQ community.

Currently Mr. Folds works as the Diversity and Inclusion Manager for Disney Consumer Products. In this Dione L. (Alsing) position, he ensures that diversity and inclusion are integrated into strategies around the workforce, workplace Graswick ’93 and marketplace for Disney’s Consumer Products/ Assurance Leader – Pittsburgh Office Interactive Segments. Assurance Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP “My La Roche experience provided me with the education, tools, resources and relationships that prepared me for Dione L. Graswick is the success in my career,” he stated. Assurance Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Mr. Folds, who earned his master’s degree in career practice in Pittsburgh. She counseling at Capella University in 2014, founded OUT for is responsible for leading Work, a nonprofit organization that focuses on preparing the overall strategy and operations of the audit practice in LGBTQ college students for the transition from academia Pittsburgh, ensuring that the practice is providing quality to the workplace. In 2013 he received the American College services to its clients, marketplace and the community, while Personnel Association’s Standing Committee for Lesbian, Gay, also serving as the lead partner on both public and private Bisexual and Transgender Public Service Award. companies.

34 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI 2016 In addition, Ms. Graswick serves as the Assurance Diversity Currently Mrs. Harris serves on the National Adoption Center Leader for the Lake Erie Market where she helps foster Board of Directors and is chair of the Trustee Board at St. an environment of inclusion. In this role, she champions Paul’s Baptist Church. Previously she was board president diversity initiatives and mentors business professionals to of Pennsylvania Organization of Women in Early Recovery use their unique backgrounds and experience to enhance (POWER); vice chair of Goodwill Industries Board of Directors; the knowledge and culture of PwC’s engagement teams and board member of the African American Chamber of throughout Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Rochester. Commerce Foundation.

Ms. Graswick, who started her career as an associate with the In 2008 Mrs. Harris was named Health Care Business Women’s former Coopers & Lybrand in 1993, said, “Leading a group Rising Star and a Woman of Excellence by the Pittsburgh of talented and diverse individuals to work as a team with Courier. She has received four Multicultural Marketing the common goal of bringing the best quality services to our Diversity Awards throughout her tenure at GlaxoSmithKline. clients, the marketplace and the community is a rewarding experience. Every day is a different day with new challenges and experiences that provide growth and opportunity for a rewarding future.”

In 2006, she received the Chairman’s Award, PwC’s highest honor that recognizes employees making important David J. Kasievich ’98 contributions in their communities and in the marketplace. Head of School Ms. Graswick serves as a board member of the Pittsburgh St. James School Technology Council, a finance council member of All Saints Church and a member of both the Pennsylvania and American As a community leader and Institutes of Certified Public Accountants. an advocate for equal access to education, David Kasievich has Ms. Graswick graduated summa cum laude from La Roche devoted his life and career to with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and is a Certified Public serving others. Accountant. She lives in Glenshaw, Pa., with her husband, Russ and their two children, Jake and Jena. Mr. Kasievich and his spouse, Rev. Andrew Kellner, were invited by Dr. Audrey Evans, founder of the country’s first Ronald McDonald House, and Rev. Sean Mullen, Rector of Saint Mark’s Church, to cofound St. James School, a tuition-free school for children living in an under- resourced neighborhood of North Philadelphia.

Ernestine Harris ’03, As head of the Episcopal middle school, Mr. Kasievich’s M.S. ’10 responsibilities include: serving as the academic community leader; managing the administrative team; developing and Human Resource Director Research & Development UK/U.S. retaining first-rate faculty and staff; serving as the chief and Employee Relations Center U.S. advancement officer; and overseeing the annual $1.8 million GlaxoSmithKline fundraising effort.

Throughout her career, Ernestine “Equal access to education is the civil rights issue of today, and Harris has had the opportunity to it’s something that needs more attention in our country,” Mr. work for a variety of businesses Kasievich said. “I believe that education is the equalizer.” such as: PPG Industries, Carnegie Previously Mr. Kasievich worked as the director of Mellon University, Digital development for Community Partnership School; director Equipment Corporation and PNC. of development and strategic planning for Young Scholars As Human Resource Director for GlaxoSmithKline, Charter School; director of Lasaillian volunteers; and as a Mrs. Harris leads the delivery of HR interventions for research teacher of La Salle College High School and West Philadelphia and development, both in the UK and U.S. She also leads the Catholic High School. delivery of employee relations across all business segments in Mr. Kasievich received his bachelor’s degree in human the U.S. and contributes to the attainment of business goals. services from La Roche College in 1998, and a master’s degree “I was able to immediately apply the skills and education I in theological and pastoral studies from La Salle University in received as a business and human resources professional in 2001. He began a Doctor of Ministry program in educational both my career and in support of nonprofits,” said Mrs. Harris, leadership at Virginia Seminary this past summer. who earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration “La Roche’s robust student-life program provided me with the and a master’s degree in human resources management from La Roche College.

FALL | WINTER 2016 35 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI social capital needed to prepare me for my career as a teacher, Mary E. Michalek ’82 fundraiser, nonprofit leader and person of faith,” he said. Retired — Staff Nurse, “La Roche and its people remain an important part of my life.” Infectious Diseases Allegheny County Health In addition to his responsibilities at St. James, Mr. Kasievich is Department the founding board member of the Nativity Miguel Coalition of Schools; an active member of Saint Mark’s Episcopal In retirement Mary E. Michalek Church; former board member of the Catholic Network of continues to care for others Volunteer Services; a delegate of Lasaillian International after more than 40 years as a Assembly; and former board member of Tree House Books. registered nurse.

After graduating from Independence and Sanitarium School of Nursing in 1956, Ms. Michalek worked as a nurse in pediatric, medical surgery, geriatric, trial medicine and infectious disease settings.

In 1982, she achieved her lifelong goal of obtaining a college Kristen Kruszewski ’08, degree and received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ph.D. La Roche College. “My special memory of La Roche would Senior Research Chemist be that the young students accepted me an as an equal,” she Automotive OEM Coatings | PPG stated. Industries Inc. From 1989 to 1998, Ms. Michalek worked as a staff nurse Kristen Kruszewski is an award- for infectious diseases for the Allegheny County Health winning scientist, innovator Department, providing both children and adults with flu and and leader within the Pittsburgh vaccine shots for infectious diseases, collecting specimens, community. and visiting the homes of individuals who had food-borne illnesses. Currently Dr. Kruszewski works for PPG Industries as a Senior Research Chemist, where she identifies new growth Ms. Michalek’s volunteer experience, which spans five opportunities that align with the Automotive Coatings decades, includes service to the Girl Scouts; Mt. Oliver School business and designs experiments to show proof of concept District; Orchestra Parents of North Allegheny; and Pittsburgh capabilities. Council for International Visitors, currently known as Global Pittsburgh. Today she is a volunteer for UPMC Passavant, “The best part is collaboration,” Dr. Kruszewski said of her where she has accumulated more than 5,500 volunteer hours role at PPG. “I get to connect with many different people, both transporting patients to x-ray imaging, working as a patient in the company and outside, about a number of different greeter and delivering mail to patient rooms. research areas. I’m always learning about new technology or figuring out how existing technology in one area could solve challenges in a different area.”

Dr. Kruszewski’s career in industry began when she served as an intern in the Polymer Physics Lab at Bayer Material Science. Her experience there set the stage for continuing Tara Kay Race ’98 her education; she later obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Advanced Educator Duquesne University. UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing

In addition to her professional responsibilities at PPG, Dr. For more than 20 years, the Kruszewski leads the Research and Development Diversity desire to learn helped Tara Council (RDDC), which focuses on helping associates find Kay Race launch and expand a opportunities for career development, facilitates networking successful nursing career. across the organization and provides resources for achieving As a staff nurse in the critical work-life balance. care unit of Heritage Valley “My experience at La Roche taught me to value diversity of Sewickley, Ms. Race obtained a thought and seek to be a mentor to others,” she said. “It also bachelor’s degree in nursing from La Roche College in 1998. showed me that if you put your heart into something and are She later pursued a master’s degree from the University of patient, people will notice your work.” Pittsburgh and became a clinical nurse specialist for Allegheny General Hospital’s medical intensive care unit.

36 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE “I essentially ‘grew up’ in nursing as a critical care nurse,” “I left the country to pursue this career,” said Dr. Stewart, who she explained. “My hospital family helped me acquire the is now a family physician at Licking Memorial Hospital Health knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to be a competent Partners in Johnstown, Ohio. “I took a risk of leaving a steady nurse, and they afforded the opportunity to learn valuable job, cashed in my pension and sold most of my belongings to lessons regarding relationships, life, death, ethics, faith and relocate in a foreign country to go to medical school.” spirituality.” In addition to traditional family medicine, Dr. Stewart also After completing her graduate degree, she returned to worked in comprehensive wound care, hyperbaric medicine, Heritage Valley as a nurse educator and pursued a doctor of and clinical and classroom teaching. Presently she precepts nursing practice degree from Waynesburg University. medical students and physician assistant students in her office. “I can honestly say I have never stopped learning and have always had somewhat of an addiction when it comes to “Family medicine is unique in that we treat the entire patient pursuing higher education,” she said. — physically, mentally and psychosocially,” she said. “When I teach clinical medicine, I instill the characteristics of the Ms. Race’s doctoral education eventually led to a faculty social worker I became as a result of my degree from La Roche: position with UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing, where she a keen knowledge of the community resources that so many currently works as an advanced nurse educator, providing patients need in their lives, and the ability to communicate theory and clinical instruction to diploma nursing students. with a patient for both medical and emotional issues.”

“It is very rewarding to witness young graduates moving Dr. Stewart is the immediate past president of the Ohio into successful nursing careers and experiencing the joy and Academy of Family Medicine (OAFP), serving on the board satisfaction of caring for others,” she stated. since 2007 and as president from 2014 to 2015. She also served on the OAFP Executive Committee and Advocacy Committee, Ms. Race said she considers her doctoral capstone her greatest and as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. She is vice professional achievement. The project, which focused on chair of the OAFP Family Medicine Foundation and serves recognizing the early changes of a patient’s condition, is in on the CORE Review Board that publishes the CORE Content the process of being implemented into the electronic health Review of Family Medicine. record at UPMC Shadyside.

Outside of work, Ms. Race volunteers as a nurse for Camporee, an annual event for 200 Girl Scouts at Camp Redwing near Evans City, Pa. In addition, she recently served as chairperson of the Outreach Ministry at Montours’ Presbyterian Church in Robinson Township, where she also serves as an elder and Janice M. Talerico ’81 member of the session. She and her husband, Harold, have two daughters, Autumn and Taylor. Vice President, Total Rewards and Chief Diversity Officer Giant Eagle Inc.

Janice Talerico has more than 34 years of experience in various industries and service providers Suellywn Stewart ’77, in the Pittsburgh area. M.D. After graduating from La Roche Family Physician Licking Memorial Hospital College, Ms. Talerico began her Health Partners financial career as an auditor for Ernst and Young, became a Certified Public Accountant and spent 10 years in various auditing and financial positions at Pitt-Des Moines Inc., an For Suellywn Stewart, becoming engineering and construction company. a physician required hard work, sacrifice and the courage to take For the past 21 years, Ms. Talerico has worked for Giant Eagle a risk. Inc., a $10 billion retail and wholesale grocery chain. She has held various high-level positions in the areas of finance, Dr. Stewart earned her undergraduate degree in sociology human resources and store operations, negotiating deals with from La Roche College, spent 15 years as a social worker in independent owners of both Giant Eagle stores and other Western Pennsylvania and was a practicing physician assistant wholesale independent operators. Recently she was named before she decided to embark on a new career path. At age Vice President of Total Rewards and Chief Diversity Officer of 42, she was accepted to Saba University School of Medicine in Giant Eagle. She also recently received the 2015 Progressive the Netherlands Antilles and went onto residency at the Ohio Grocers Top Women in Grocery Award. State University Family Medicine Residency Program.

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Ms. Talerico stated, “My accounting degree has been the Maurita J. Wisniewski basis for success in all of my positions. Good, solid business and accounting knowledge can help in any position within ’84, MSN ’88 Nurse Educator an organization.” Ohio Valley Hospital School of Nursing A lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Ms. Talerico resides with her partner, Christine, and enjoys spending time with her family Maurita J. Wisniewski found her and friends. calling when she became a nurse educator.

Throughout her career, Ms. Wisniewski worked as a staff nurse in the critical care units throughout the Pittsburgh area. While working toward her master’s degree in nursing, she became the director of the Dawnita J. Wilson coronary care unit at Allegheny General Hospital. M.S. ’03 Director, Global Diversity “There is no question that education makes a nurse a better and Inclusion nurse. With education, one begins to teach, educate, mentor Sodexo and support, whether they are nursing staff or nursing students. Sharing knowledge makes it better for the nurse and Dawnita Wilson has more improves outcomes for the patients we care for.” than 15 years of professional experience in the areas of After deciding that nurse education was her career goal, Ms. diversity and inclusion, human Wisniewski began teaching both didactic and clinical nursing resources, talent acquisition, at UPMC Shadyside Hospital’s School of Nursing, and later she and management, having worked for companies such as served as the course coordinator for critical care at Ohio Valley Highmark, UPMC, KMART Corporation, IKON Office Solutions Hospital School of Nursing. and MARC USA. Currently Ms. Wisniewski is a nurse educator at Ohio Valley, Currently she is the Director of Global Diversity and Inclusion providing didactic and clinical education to first and second- at Sodexo, an $8.9 billion organization serving 15 million year nursing students. She also provides basic cardiac rhythm consumers at 8,000 client sites in North America. The classes as a critical care educator. company provides food service and facilities management for educational, health care, government and corporate entities, “During the last eight years, working at Ohio Valley Hospital plus in-home care, corporate concierge services and more. School of Nursing has been a wonderful experience, allowing me to develop the course and teach young nursing students Ms. Wilson is responsible for leading and developing entering the profession,” she said. “I continue to work at Ohio diversity and inclusion strategies focused on competency Valley in a casual position during my retirement, loving the and awareness, employee engagement, marketing and work that I do to educate the next generation of nurses.” communications, community involvement and global initiatives. She also has oversight of nine Employee Business Ms. Wisniewski has served on the board of La Roche’s Theta Resource Groups, which continue to play a significant role in Mu chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, the nursing ensuring that diversity and inclusion remains a top priority at honor society. Since Theta Mu’s founding, she has served Sodexo. Under Ms. Wilson’s leadership, Sodexo was named to in a variety of positions from treasurer to president. Ms. Diversity Inc.’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity list for the sixth Wisniewski also has served on the board of the Three Rivers consecutive year in 2015. Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the Greater Pittsburgh Nursing Research Conference. A graduate of La Roche College’s Master of Science in Human Resources Management program, Ms. Wilson said, “La Roche For the past 20 years, she has volunteered as La Roche’s Theta was instrumental in helping me to build relationships and Mu Craft Show coordinator to raise funds. understand the importance of team work.” “When you give up your time so that an organization can be Ms. Wilson’s community involvement and board affiliations successful, that is reward in itself,” she said. “At Theta Mu we in the Pittsburgh area have included: YWCA of Greater have given thousands of dollars for both nursing research and Pittsburgh; the Workforce Development Global Alliance; the scholarships to deserving recipients. In addition, we are able Pittsburgh Association of Human Resources Professional; the to assist La Roche College and its Department of Nursing with Pittsburgh National Black MBA Association; the Pennsylvania educational material when they are in need.” Diversity Council; the Josh Gibson Foundation; the Allegheny County Juvenile Justice Board of Directors; the Adonai Center Board of Directors; and the Presby SeniorCare Network Board of Directors.

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FALL | WINTER 2016 39 2016 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

The following is a listing of La Roche College donors during the 2015-16 fiscal year (July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016).

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE Tatjana Grgich Family Foundation PIMCO The President’s Circle is a giving level which Corrine & William F. Gruber Jr. ’83 • Pittsburgh Pirates recognizes donors whose monetary and in-kind Mary Anne & Howard W. Hanna III • Stephanie & Steven E. Pohl ’81 • * gifts total $1,000 or more each fiscal year. Anne & Jeffrey K. Haus ’82 Marylynn Powell Hefren-Tillotson Inc. PPG Industries Inc. AAA East Central Honeywell Inc. Print Tech of Western PA LLC Allied Barton Security Services Houston Harbaugh P.C. Ambassador Anthony C. E. Quainton • Sister Elena Almendarez, CDP Lee Ann & Robert J. Howard • Susan Long Quainton • Eileen & Michael Andreola Howl at the Moon Robert P. Randall Anonymous Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D. • Mary E. Rodgers Marian A. Auld ’73 Howard Ishiyama, Ph.D. Michael A. Romano Baierl Automotive Inc. & Shannon Smithey, Ph.D. RSH Interiors Lee Baierl • Kathryn A. Jolley ’81 • * & Gregory P. Madej Colleen Ruefle & Jim Shields Cynthia & Joseph Balestrino Adria Kelleher, Ph.D. Ruthrauff Services LLC Judith & Marvin L. Bellin, M.D. Knoll S&T Bank Godfrey Biravanga ’01 • * Christine L. Kotarba Teresa L. Sackett, SPHR ’93 Sister Michele Bisbey, CDP, ’71, Ph.D. * Kathy Kozdemba SAGE Dining Services Inc. Donna & Edward T. Brett, Ph.D. Claudia Kropf ’97 The Reverend Thomas G. Schaefer, Ph.D. Comcast Cable Lamar Advertising Company Schwab Charitable Fund Congregation of the Ellen & Craig Liberatore Scott Electric Foundation Inc. Sisters of Divine Providence • Michael A. Liberto ’97 Maxine Senge Laine & Philip P. Conti Jr. Patricia A Liebman ’82 * Lisa M. ’00 & Gregory K. Simakas • Coyne for Congress Angela J. Longo ’89 • * Christine & James E. Sorbara Anne L. Crawford ’85 * Rose Marie ’90 • * & Jack Manley Patricia A. Stover ’85 D. L. Couch Wallcovering Inc. Carol Marsiglio ’75 * Harry B. Strickland, Ph.D. Lois & James Delligatti ◊ Carol & Joe Massaro Family Fund Janice M. Talerico ’81 * Deloitte Foundation of The Pittsburgh Foundation Tucker Johnston & Smelzer Janet Dennis Massaro Corporation The Benevity Community Impact Fund Desmone & Associates Architects Stephanie & Steven M. Massaro • Michael Tomera DRS Architects Inc. Janice L. ’02 & The Honorable Michael McCarthy TriState Capital Bank DTI Development Inc. Dr. Rosemary & Richard D. McCarthy Dennis G. Troy D’Youville College Robert W. McCutcheon University of Pittsburgh

Lottie & Earnest J. Edwards ◊ Mary E. Michalek ’82 • * UPMC Health Plan Inc. Dr. Amr M. Elrifai • Lisa & Michael A. Mlinac ’77 • * UPMC Passavant EQT Foundation Mlinac Family Charitable Gift Fund Anne ’86 & Richard L. Vareha ’84 * Federated Investors Inc. Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc. Nicholas D. Varischetti, Esq. • Jill L. Ferguson ’92 * National Science Foundation Joanie & Robert Vogel ’14 Richard B. Fisher ◊ NCAA Walmart Stores Inc. Barbara Fisher † Innocent M. Ndimubanzi ’04 Waste Management Follett College Stores Vernon C. & Alvina B. Neal Fund Karen D. Watson, CFA, AIF® • Fragasso Financial Advisors Inc. New York Life Mainstay Mary Weixel Janine & Robert Fragasso • Elizabeth K. O’Grady ’79 Willis Towers Watson Carol & Bradley J. Franc, Esq. • Ohio Valley General Hospital Jill & Rod Wilt Mark C. Gahagen ’91 PepsiCo Maurita J. Wisniewski ’84, ’88 * James F. Getz Evelyn D. Perrett • Sister Rita Marie Yeasted, SFCC ’68, Ph.D. * Kristin & James F. Getz Jr. ’96 • * Donald C. & Twila Peters Fund Karen Yoshino, Ph.D.• Giant Eagle Inc. of The Pittsburgh Foundation Nancy & Richard Zappala ◊ Dottie & Ralph W. Gilbert Jr. • Mary Lou & David C. Peters • Zappala Family Foundation Dione L. Graswick ’93 * Teresa G. • & Dr. David Petrick

40 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE ALUMNI Class of ’77 Carol P. Berkman Maura A. MacDonald Class of ’65 Bill Horvath Evelyn R. Bunja Annette (Jackson) McPeek Sister Marilyn Bergt, CDP Suzanne D. McGinley Annetta M. Fedor Elsie M. Murray Judith Masucci Patricia A. McKenna Darlene Foster Sidney Oliver Rose M. Tomko Gina Miller Anne & Jeffrey K. Haus ’82 Debra A. Ries, CPA Lisa & Michael A. Mlinac ’77 • * Paula A. Lacher William J. Schafer Class of ’66 Ronald Radwanski * Patricia A. Liebman * Sharon J. Scheidemantle * Patricia Barrett Daube Dr. Suellywn Stewart * Cheryl L. Loesch William D. Stanonik Mary H. Winek Mary E. Michalek * Catherine M. Steigerwald Class of ’68 Joseph Onajide Robert W. Suchanek Sister Rita Marie Class of ’78 Edward J. Slack Jr. Anne ’86 & Yeasted, SFCC, Ph.D.* Anonymous Richard L. Vareha ’84 * Donna Brosky Class of ’83 Joanne M. Watterson Class of ’69 Martie Hornbake Chaplin Anonymous Anonymous Carole N. Clarke Joan M. Capezzuto Class of ’87 Janet J. Brink Debbie & Emil Kuhar ’78 * B. L. Dawson, RN Maryann D. Balish Altemus Mary Clayton Susan M. Lanasa, RN Joan C. Dori Karen M. Buratti, RN Judith L. Montgomery Linda Maydak Joanne Verardi Dougherty Linda D. Harvey Burkley * Edward J. McLean Debra Frantz, CRNA Diane D. Cox * Class of ’70 Theresa A. Orlando Betty J. Greer Peggy H. Eddens * Amelia C. Guentner Virginia N. Penezic, RN Corrine & Marjorie Jacobs * Richard A. Pitschke William F. Gruber Jr. ’83 • Laura Kalchthaler Class of ’71 Patricia Zurawski, RN Rufino L. Guntang Andrew F. Kaminsky Sister Michele Bisbey, CDP, Ph.D.* Marina L. Lockerman, RN Mary Ann Lawry Mary Dieter Class of ’79 Diana M. Perko Georgiann C. Marshall Sister Maura A. Dunn, CDP Karen M. Kersting Ellen Pomerantz Peggy & Harlan Pust Elizabeth W. Leland Elizabeth K. O’Grady Kayann H. Slack Eleanor G. Siebert Nancy Mongelluzzo Jeanne M. Pittavino Marie L. Spehar Scott Sieg, Ph.D. Mary Stanek Pullin Karen M. Schneider Cindy Vellano Antoinette Snyder Lois M. Schenker Janice Wirth Ann E. Stockert Class of ’72 Judith Searles-Miller Marian M. Sutton Cindy & David Getty Christine J. Spadafor * Class of ’84 James L. Tanavage Stephen Martini Bernadette R. Dailey Debra K. Thomas, RN David Nicholls Class of ’80 John C. Drotos Rose B. Stegman Anonymous Donald J. Huber, CEBS CMS Class of ’88 Gabrielle Yingling Mary M. Cole Ruth A. Kenaan Anonymous Robert Doerge Anita M. Ottobre Steven Bonant Class of ’73 Mary E. Hawthorne Karen M. Schneider Karen Ibinson Carlin Anonymous Joyce R. Johnson Lavonne Z. Tesone Charlene Geyer Marian A. Auld Michael D. Kenitz Anne ’86 & Deborah A. O’Connor Marjorie Z. Bryner Marina L. Lockerman, RN Richard L. Vareha ’84 * Edward G. Reeping Mary Ann Nicholls Maritza Mercader-Hughes Dana J. Winterhalter Julia K. Richmond Barbara J. O’Connor Maurita J. Wisniewski * Bruce G. Shearer Class of ’74 Donna Reuss Mary A. Shepard Clara Lamela Rosemary Rice Class of ’85 Charlotte J. Stahl JoAnne S. Trees Anonymous Maurita J. Wisniewski * Class of ’81 Anne L. Crawford * Class of ’75 Anonymous Stacy A. Dickos Class of ’89 Sister Diane T. Dunn, CDP Gere L. Brown Edward C. Falenski Marilyn A. Brusca Rebecca Hohol Damon L. Hardt Bill Horvath Patricia L. Conte Carol Marsiglio * Kathryn A. Jolley ’81 • * Vesta Johns Mary Beth & Robert Davison Richard D. McConnell & Gregory P. Madej Joanne Kornides Holly B. Gardner-Frank Kurt Mulzet * Gloria J. Kocher Michelle L. Leive Douglas A. Heusey Joanne M. Vogel Joyce E. McAleer Debby Lesniak Angela J. Longo • * John E. Napolitano Thomas E. Solomon II Martha A. Taylor Class of ’76 Ralph J. Perko Connie A. Stemm Linda M. Uhernik, CRNP, Ed.D. Anonymous Stephanie & Steven E. Pohl ’81 • * Patricia A. Stover Joseph Brosky Teresa Karlo Richards Julia M. Vaday, RN Class of ’90 Dorlaine J. Burgess Dwight L. Solomon Anonymous Linda Ling Yee Cheng Janice M. Talerico * Class of ’86 Louise Bacchus Patricia Engstrom Jeanne A. Weideman Raymond C. Amelio * Jean C. Callovini Bernice B. Gibson Betty L. Frankovich Kimberly Cannon Robert J. Seman Class of ’82 Denise Gniewkowski Deborah A. Davison * Robert R. Yerg Anonymous Fr. James Holland, RN, CNS Laura A. Froese Mary Jo K. Benedetti, CPA Christine Knezevich

La Roche College has made every effort to verify the names listed. If an error or omission has occurred, please accept our apology and contact us at 412-536-1150. • Board of Trustees ◊ Emeritus Trustee † Deceased * Distinguished Alumni Circle FALL | WINTER 2016 41 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Karen A. Gaertner Class of ’94 Class of ’98 Class of ’03 Phyllis G. Hartman * Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Sharon A. Holdcroft Julie E. Abraham Rev. Michele Askerneese Feras Abu-Amra Gregory S. Kornick Jacqueline A. Bolte Rebecca Bidinotto Ignace Baziga Rose Marie ’90 • * & Jack Manley Karen A. Gaertner Leroy Crawford Joshua J. Haas Mary T. McGinley Timothy S. Hunter David Kasievich * Telesphore Kamatali Janet Oliver Gerald S. Johnson Pamala L. Kuchta Lehmeier Family Monica B. Porter Ruth A. Kenaan Paul Liszewski, CRNA, DNP Eileen M. Petrone Lois J. Slocum, RN Jennifer L. Kopar * Clare J. Lynch Jean-Pierre M. Rwigema * Nancy Banyay Stoehr Maureen K. Martin Craig Polacek Yaman W. Saqqa Patricia A. Vaccarello Anthony J. Mastellino Tara K. Race * Steven N. Sokoloski Joan M. Mitsch Hope Schiffgens Mestewat M. Sugebo Class of ’91 Rebecca Rosswog Kristi R. Schmitt Jodie Steegman Tabano Patricia J. Andrasik John L. Sharpe Kelly Skeehan Stephen M. Ferber Leslie L. Stearns Class of ’04 Reverend Ronald E. Fleming Elaine Watson Class of ’99 Anonymous Susan M. Froedtert Anonymous Ameen Al-Sayyed Ahmad Mark C. Gahagen Class of ’95 Lisa Vera Mikolajek Barton Ihab Alshwaiki Nancy S. Hamilton Anonymous LouAnn Brindle Ahmed Arafat Anne F. Kaufman Rosemary J. Cain John & Laura (Checca ’99) Burns Allison & Joe Egan Margaret A. Laird Diana L. DeToma Paula M. Chelko Nicole L. Flaherty Kristine M. Metro, RN Richard A. Dummer Carol L. Hendershot Claire Huebner, CRNA Father David M. Misbrener Kelly J. Hale Susan A. Jordan Amy R. Jackson Susan Marie Murray Christine Lubimir Michele Nicholls Kevin A. Kerestes Jane A. Neidig April Pergl-Lanotte * Anthony B. Reda Debra Ann Labuda Jean E. Neidig, RN Adele A. Washington Maureen R. Swartz Derek Macieski Carrie A. Rangeen Sue A. Unterholzner Adam and Sherry (Tucker ’04) Leslie Salinetro Class of ’96 Patricia L. Warren McMurray Gayle L. Sarver-Volz Tammy Ann Beier Susan Marie Murray Ruth A. Stauffer Teresa M. DeSousa Class of ’00 Innocent M. Ndimubanzi Kathleen M. Stipanovich Natasha Garrett, Ph.D. * Anonymous Emmanuel Niyibizi Kristin & James F. Getz Jr. ’96 • * Marilynn Berner Jean-Pierre Nsanzabera Class of ’92 Dolly Hakanen Mary Ann M. Coon Sylvain Shimamana Anonymous Paula M. Hiteshew The Fazio Family Milena Stepanovic Tammy Ann Beier Jim Holtzman * Nancy A. Fugh Sally E. Dauer Heather (Friedline) Kabala Kathryn E. Green Class of ’05 Reverend Andrew J. Deskevich * Barbara Lowrie Lisa M. Liptak Thomas P. Feightner Mary G. Eury John G. Petrigac Courtney J. Lynch-Crawford Yvonne Gasigwa Jill L. Ferguson * Robert C. Rogers Lisa R. McDougal Rosalind K. Hare June R. Fischerkeller Pat Stuebgen Way Patricia Meyer William Hogle Debra Frantz, CRNA Cari Velt Lisa M. ’00 Kushtrim Kuqi Susan M. Kelly Joseph R. Winterhalter II & Gregory K. Simakas • Annamae Lenkey Lori Klingman, RN Elaine H. Wolford Joanna Lewis-Creegan Paul Lukitsch Jane C. York Class of ’01 Joyce M. McAneny Todd M. McKeever Esther Zufall Anonymous Sandra Ortman Ardyce Gustafson Rigg Tammy A. Andreyko, Ed.D * Amber L. Raimondo Thomas T. Walton Class of ’97 Godfrey Biravanga • * Joselyne M. Rosenberg Jeffrey A. Witte Anonymous Pamala L. Kuchta Miodrag Stamenkovic Rose M. Woolley Susan Sujansky Cardenas Jami-Rae McGovern Thierry Uwamahoro Francis X. Feld Monica R. Merrell Class of ’93 Riley Folds * Kenneth M. Stankus Class of ’06 Joan I. Bischoff Kathleen Gavlak Lois A. Stanton Ashley Evans Rebecca L. Byrd Maureen Golden Eric Ewald Janice M. Crosley, RN Mary J. Hoover Class of ’02 Kathryn J. Faulkner Margaret R. Folino Lindsay Johnson Brenda F. Acri Jane Graham Dione L. Graswick * Claudia Kropf Sally E. Dauer Kayla Hannan Karen L. Hartman MacArthur H. Larosiliere Sean Frank Helene Mukankusi Robert J. Koehler Kimberly A. Lewis Damas D. Kizenga Van Nguyen Teresa L. Sackett Michael A. Liberto Ursula R. Lesic Erin Pottgen Gerald Sever Patricia Meyer Janice L. ’02 & The Honorable Melisa Salihagic Jenna G. Stevenson Scott Schiffgens Michael McCarthy Astrit Salihu Miriam Wilps Lejla Uzicanin * Kenneth M. Saucedo Arita Sheremeti Cathy R. Zamba Vlora Snyder

42 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Class of ’07 Libby Powers Marian A. Auld ’73 Gabriella & Brady Butler ’16 Matthew P. Coy John J. Tougher Louise Bacchus ’90 Rebecca L. Byrd ’93 Judith M. Dvorsky Rachel Bachri ’14 Rosemary J. Cain ’95 Rebekah Kennedy Class of ’14 Lee Baierl • Jean C. Callovini ’90 Christine A. King Anonymous Patricia & Joseph Bajuszik Jr. Steve Calva ’10 Adam Kostewicz Rachel Bachri Concetta R. Balestreire Kimberly Cannon ’90 Melody Morrissey Jamal A. Blackwell Cynthia & Joseph Balestrino Joan M. Capezzuto ’83 Lynne A. Schubert Brian J. Finnerty Maryann D. Balish Altemus ’87 Susan Sujansky Cardenas ’97 Diane Shaeffer Andre D. Flanigan Terri Ballard Karen Ibinson Carlin ’88 Thomas Haugh Michael Ban, D.M.D. Maria Caruso Class of ’08 William Hawk Janet P. Banaszak James Cassidy James R. Atwell Michael Lust Betsy Barkich Andrea & Edward Cavalier Elizabeth Dobin David Mack Robert E. Barnes Donna L. Ceney Jacqueline Foster Jonathan Mancuso Kenneth Barth Ceravolo Family Stephen Frein Bryan Rieder Betina & Kevin Bartlett Hazel & Ronald Cernick Kevin M. Gyke * Gayle L. Sarver-Volz Lisa Vera Mikolajek Barton ’99 Martie Hornbake Chaplin ’78 Damond Knight Joanie & Robert Vogel ’14 Michele & Glenn Battle Paula M. Chelko ’99 Holly M. Kreisel Jones Patricia J. Baughman Linda Ling Yee Cheng ’76 Massimo Lista Class of ’15 Janine Bayer, Ph.D. Rose Cheriton Anastasiya Maksakova Christopher Adesso Ignace Baziga ’03 Robert P. Churchill Ashley L. Martin Katrina Forrester Margaret & William Begley Norma & Francis Churilla Jr. Jessica Pilarski Jessica N. Frank Tammy Ann Beier ’92, ’96 Carole N. Clarke ’78 Diane Sims Shane Joseph Healey Robert L. Bell Mary Clayton ’69 Kelly Monk Judith & Marvin L. Bellin, M.D. Jon G. Colburn Class of ’09 Rachel J. Morrissey Barbara J. Bencsics Mary M. Cole ’80 Anonymous Heather P. Nicotra Mary Jo K. Benedetti, CPA ’82 LaVerne Collins Elizabeth Fazzini Robert A. Patterson Michael R. Beran Kevin Conley Martha A. Koller J.M. Vianney Rutebuka Daniel Berardelli Patricia A. Connolly Malinda E. Miller Sister Marilyn Bergt, CDP ’65 Elisa Conte Helene Mukankusi Class of ’16 Carol P. Berkman ’82 Patricia L. Conte ’89 Lonnie Nolker Eva ’10 & Andrew Anderson ’16 Marilynn Berner ’00 Laine & Philip P. Conti, Jr. Gabriella & Brady Butler ’16 Audrey & Charles Bezilla Mary Ann M. Coon ’00 Class of ’10 Kathryn J. Faulkner Rebecca Bidinotto ’98 Rosemary L. Corsetti Anonymous Holly N. Yurek Shawn Billings Diane D. Cox ’87 * Eva ’10 & Andrew Anderson ’16 Godfrey Biravanga ’01 • * Matthew P. Coy ’07 Steve Calva INDIVIDUALS James Birmingham Scott W. Coy David R. Culp Anonymous Sister Michele Francis S. Coyle Kevin M. Gyke * Christine M. Abbott, Ph.D. Bisbey, CDP, ’71, Ph.D. * Elizabeth R. Coyne Ashley L. Martin Julie E. Abraham ’94 Joan I. Bischoff ’93 Renee Crandell Natalie Maria Mitchell Feras Abu-Amra ’03 Jamal A. Blackwell ’14 Anne L. Crawford ’85 * Christopher Titterington Noreen Ackerman Edward J. Bobinchock Leroy Crawford ’98 Andrew Tressler Brenda F. Acri ’02 Wendy & Todd Bodner Janice M. Crosley, RN ’93 Michael Williams Mary E. Adams Jacqueline A. Bolte ’94 David R. Culp ’10 Sister Rita Adams, CDP Steven Bonant ’88 Joan Cutone Class of ’11 Christopher Adesso ’15 August A. Bondi Bernadette R. Dailey ’84 Catelyn E Herman Ameen Al-Sayyed Ahmad ’04 Frank Bork Mary & Ronald Daly Alexandra M. Nuccetelli Mary & Lyle Albaugh Daniel E. Bozym Patricia Barrett Daube ’66 Diane Shaeffer Sister Elena Almendarez, CDP Donna & Edward T. Brett, Ph.D. Sally E. Dauer ’92, ’02 Gretchen Speicher Ihab Alshwaiki ’04 Denise & Jack Breznak Deborah A. Davison ’90 * Kathryn Timko Darlene Alsing LouAnn Brindle ’99 Mary Beth ’89 & Nathan J. Wojciechowski Raymond C. Amelio ’86 * Janet J. Brink ’69 Robert Davison ’89 Eva ’10 & Andrew Anderson ’16 Marie Britsch B. L. Dawson, RN ’83 Class of ’12 Patricia J. Andrasik ’91 Donna Brosky ’78 David Day Gregorio A. Ceravolo Eileen & Michael Andreola Joseph Brosky ’76 Kathy & Ken DeCrane Marissa R. Lazzaro Colleen & William Andrews Gere L. Brown ’81 Craig D. Dedes Raelene Mack Tammy Andreyko M.S. ’01, Ed.D. * Sister Ella J. Bruen, CDP Lois & James Delligatti ◊ Megan McKay Juliana Anthony Craig Bruno Eleanor & Michael Delligatti Heather P. Nicotra Ahmed Arafat ’04 Marilyn A. Brusca ’89 Twilley & Michael Delligatti Jennifer M. Ramus Lorenzo Archer III Marjorie Z. Bryner ’73 Carol & Joseph Delvecchio Peggy Schmiedecke Dr. Lynn K. Archer Evelyn R. Bunja ’82 Lisa & Rocco DeMaiolo Stephanie L. Wickwire Dorothy Arnold Karen M. Buratti, RN ’87 Janet Dennis Jane & John Arnold Bernadette J. Burgess Patricia & John Derry Class of ’13 Rev. Michele Askerneese ’98 Dorlaine J. Burgess ’76 Reverend Andrew J. Edward C. Falenski Diana Atkinson Linda D. Harvey Burkley ’87 * Deskevich ’92 * Cathy Jacobs James R. Atwell ’08 John & Laura (Checca ’99) Burns Teresa M. DeSousa ’96

La Roche College has made every effort to verify the names listed. If an error or omission has occurred, please accept our apology and contact us at 412-536-1150. • Board of Trustees ◊ Emeritus Trustee † Deceased * Distinguished Alumni Circle FALL | WINTER 2016 43 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Diana L. DeToma ’95 Jessica N. Frank ’15 Ellen K. Hasbrouck Michael D. Kenitz ’80 Debra Dian Sean Frank ’02 Thomas Haugh ’14 Rebekah Kennedy ’07 Joseph Dice Betty L. Frankovich ’86 Anne & Jeffrey K. Haus ’82 Kevin A. Kerestes ’04 William A. Dice Debra Frantz, C.R.N.A. ’83, ’92 William Hawk ’14 Ruth & Francis Kerr Stacy A. Dickos ’85 Stephen Frein ’08 Mary E. Hawthorne ’80 Astrid L. Kersten, Ph.D. Mary Ellen & Robert Dickson Susan M. Froedtert ’91 Shane Joseph Healey ’15 Karen M. Kersting ’79 Roberta A. DiDomenico Laura A. Froese ’90 Carol L. Hendershot ’99 Christine A. King ’07 Mary Dieter ’71 Nancy A. Fugh ’00 Susan & William J. Hergenroeder Kristin D. Kipke Joseph F. DiMario ◊ Nicole Gable Catelyn E Herman ’11 Peggy & Dr. William H. Kipp Debra Dinnocenzo Karen A. Gaertner ’90, ’94 Robert E. Herman Damas D. Kizenga ’02 Maureen & Charles Dippold Mark C. Gahagen ’91 Renee D. Herstine Terrance Kizina Joyceann Ditka Edward M. Gallagher III Greg Heukeshoven Jennifer & Michael Kline Elizabeth Dobin ’08 Stephanie Gangloff Douglas A. Heusey ’89 Lori Klingman, RN ’92 Kim & James Dobson David L. Gardner Roberta Higinbotham Christine Knezevich ’86 Robert Doerge ’80 Diane Gardner David Hilke Damond Knight ’08 Pamela & Keith Donahue Holly B. Gardner-Frank ’89 Paula M. Hiteshew ’96 Sandy Knobeloch Dolores & James Doonan Natasha Garrett ’96, Ph.D. * Cheryl A. Hofbauer Christie Knott Joan C. Dori ’83 Yvonne Gasigwa ’05 Catherine & Kevin J. Hoffmann Jennifer L. Kopar ’94 * Erin H. Dorsch Lawrence R. Gaus William Hogle ’05 Gloria J. Kocher ’81 Joanne Verardi Dougherty ’83 Eric J. Gavita Carl Hohnbaum Robert J. Koehler ’93 Shirley & James Dougherty Kathleen Gavlak ’97 Rebecca Hohol ’75 Martha A. Koller ’09 John C. Drotos ’84 Diane & George Gazzam Sharon A. Holdcroft ’90 Gregory S. Kornick ’90 Richard A. Dummer ’95 Robert Geiselhart Fr. James Holland, RN, CNS ’86 Joanne Kornides ’85 Mary L. Dunlop Erica Germanoski Jim Holtzman ’96 * Adam Kostewicz ’07 Sister Diane T. Dunn, CDP ’75 Cindy ’72 & David Getty ’72 Mary J. Hoover ’97 Christine L. Kotarba Sister Maura A. Dunn, CDP ’71 James F. Getz Caroline A. Horgan Barbara & Judith M. Dvorsky ’07 Kristin & James F. Getz Jr. ’96 • * Reverend William P. Horton Richard G. Kotarba, Esq. ◊ Peggy H. Eddens ’87 * Charlene Geyer ’88 Bill Horvath ’77, ’85 Christine Kovac Lottie & Earnest J. Edwards ◊ Bernice B. Gibson ’76 Lee Ann & Robert J. Howard • Robert S. Kovac Allison ’04 & Joe Egan ’04 Dr. Ron Gilardi Donald J. Huber, CEBS CMS ’84 Kathy Kozdemba Harry M. Elder Dottie & Ralph W. Gilbert Jr. • Claire Huebner, CRNA ’04 Holly M. Kreisel Jones ’08 Dr. Amr M. Elrifai • Mary & Kurt Gingrich Beth & Phillip Hunkele Claudia Kropf ’97 Patricia Engstrom ’76 Cathy & Michael Ginsberg Timothy S. Hunter ’94 Philip A. Krut Mary G. Eury ’92 Jonathan Glance Cheryl Hyatt Rosemarie Kuban Ashley Evans ’06 Marianne & Steven Glover Joseph R. Iannuzzi Pamala L. Kuchta ’98, ’01 Eric Ewald ’06 Denise Gniewkowski ’86 Sister Candace Debbie & Emil Kuhar ’78 * Edward C. Falenski ’85, ’13 Maureen Golden ’97 Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D. • Kushtrim Kuqi ’05 Kathryn J. Faulkner ’06, ’16 Jane Graham ’06 Howard Ishiyama, Ph.D. & Dr. Robert A. Labriola Frank E. Fazio ’00 Kathleen & James Graham Shannon Smithey, Ph.D. Debra Ann Labuda ’04 Elizabeth Fazzini ’09 Kathleen & Robert Graham Amy R. Jackson ’04 Paula A. Lacher ’82 Eileen Fearnley Dione L. Graswick ’93 * Cathy Jacobs ’13 Margaret A. Laird ’91 Annetta M. Fedor ’82 Betty J. Greer ’83 Marjorie Jacobs ’87 * Jane Lambesis Thomas P. Feightner ’05 Kathryn E. Green ’00 Bridget K. James Clara Lamela ’74 Francis X. Feld ’97 Tatjana Grgich Vesta Johns ’85 Susan M. Lanasa, RN ’78 Stephen M. Ferber ’91 Deborah Grippaldi Gerald S. Johnson ’94 Jayne & Gordon Lang Jill L. Ferguson ’92 * Corrine & Glen R. Johnson MacArthur H. Larosiliere ’97 Mary Beth & Michael Fetchko William F. Gruber Jr. ’83 • Joyce R. Johnson ’80 Thomas LaVelle Brian J. Finnerty ’14 Betty Gsell Lindsay Johnson ’97 Ronald Lawrence June R. Fischerkeller ’92 Amelia C. Guentner ’70 Kathryn A. Jolley ’81 • * Mary Ann Lawry ’87 Richard B. Fisher ◊ Rufino L. Guntang ’83 & Gregory P. Madej Marissa R. Lazzaro ’12 Barbara Fisher † Nancy & Mark Guzan Brian and Irene Joos Clifford L. Lechwar Nicole L. Flaherty ’04 Kevin M. Gyke ’08, ’10 * Susan A. Jordan ’99 Alliene & James Lees Andre D. Flanigan ’14 Joshua J. Haas ’03 Jonette S. Joseph Lehmeier Family Reverend Ronald E. Fleming ’91 Dolly Hakanen ’96 Heather (Friedline ’96) Kabala Robert R. Leight Riley Folds ’97 * Kelly J. Hale ’95 Laura Kalchthaler ’87 Michelle L. Leive ’85 Margaret R. Folino ’93 Nancy S. Hamilton ’91 Telesphore Kamatali ’03 Elizabeth W. Leland ’71 Joshua B. Forrest Mary Anne & Andrew F. Kaminsky ’87 Annamae Lenkey ’05 Katrina Forrester ’15 Howard W. Hanna III • David Kasievich ’98 * Ursula R. Lesic ’02 Diana W. Forsythe Kayla Hannan ’06 Walter Kasievich III Debby Lesniak ’85 Dr. Jean Forti Damon L. Hardt ’81 Anne F. Kaufman ’91 Joanna Lewis-Creegan ’05 Darlene Foster ’82 Rosalind K. Hare ’05 Adria Kelleher, Ph.D. Kimberly A. Lewis ’97 Jacqueline Foster ’08 Tawnya & Thomas Hartberger Kathleen & Christopher Kelly Ellen & Craig Liberatore Janine & Robert Fragasso • Karen L. Hartman ’93 Susan M. Kelly ’92 Michael A. Liberto ’97 Carol & Bradley J. Franc, Esq. • Phyllis G. Hartman ’90 * Ruth A. Kenaan ’84, ’94 Patricia A. Liebman ’82 *

44 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Lawrence Likar, J.D. Edward J. McLean ’78 Phil Oliveri Debra A. Ries, C.P.A. ’86 Lisa M. Liptak ’00 Adam and Sherry Joseph Onajide ’82 Ardyce Gustafson Rigg ’92 Dave Lis (Tucker ’04) McMurray Theresa A. Orlando ’78 Joan & Gregory Ringeling Sherryl Lisco Annette (Jackson ’86) McPeek Mary & James Orr Brian Riordan Massimo Lista ’08 Marie D. Melendez Sandra Ortman ’05 Linda L. Robertson Paul Liszewski, CRNA, DNP ’98 Joelle Mellon Mary & Robert Ott Mary E. Rodgers Marina L. Maritza Mercader-Hughes ’80 Anita M. Ottobre ’84 Robert C. Rogers ’96 Lockerman, RN ’80, ’83 Maureen Merolillo Sister Lisa Paffrath, CDP Michael A. Romano Cheryl L. Loesch ’82 Monica R. Merrell ’01 Nick Palazzetti Lois H. Roos Angela J. Longo ’89 • * Kristine M. Metro, RN ’91 Rozanne & Richard Palmieri Joselyne M. Rosenberg ’05 Barbara Lowrie ’96 Patricia Meyer ’97, ’00 Robert A. Patterson ’15 Dr. Stanford H. Rosenberg Miguel A. Lozano Martha & Gregory Michalek Janice & Victor Peischl Rebecca Rosswog ’94 Christine Lubimir ’95 Mary E. Michalek ’82 * Virginia N. Penezic, RN ’78 Colleen Ruefle & Jim Shields Paul Lukitsch ’92 Irene A. Milasincic April Pergl-Lanotte ’95 * Dr. Natalie C. Rugg Michael Lust ’14 Gina Miller ’77 Diana M. Perko ’83 J.M. Vianney Rutebuka ’15 Clare J. Lynch ’98 Malinda E. Miller ’09 Ralph J. Perko ’81 Jean-Pierre M. Rwigema ’03 * Courtney J. Lynch-Crawford ’00 Mary P. Miller Evelyn D. Perrett • Andrea R. Ryan Maura A. MacDonald ’86 Miller Family Mary Lou & David C. Peters • Teresa L. Sackett ’93 Derek Macieski ’04 Father David M. Misbrener ’91 Teresa G. • & Dr. David Petrick Melisa Salihagic ’06 David Mack ’14 Adam J. Mitchell John G. Petrigac ’96 Astrit Salihu ’06 Raelene Mack ’12 Natalie Maria Mitchell ’10 Eileen M. Petrone ’03 Leslie Salinetro ’91 Michelle B. Maher, Ph.D. Patricia V. Mitchell John J. Petrus Yaman W. Saqqa ’03 Darcey Mains Joan M. Mitsch ’94 Mark T. Phillis Gayle L. Sarver-Volz ’91, ’14 Anastasiya Maksakova ’08 Lisa & Michael A. Mlinac ’77 • * Jessica Pilarski ’08 Kenneth M. Saucedo ’02 Julie Makuta Mary Ann & Terry Mohr Patricia S. Pilarski The Reverend Lois & Milan Malivuk Nate Money Marilu Piotrowski Thomas G. Schaefer, Ph.D. Cathy J. Mall Nancy Mongelluzzo ’71 Richard A. Pitschke ’78 William J. Schafer ’86 Paul G. Malone Kelly ’15 & Daniel Monk Jeanne M. Pittavino ’79 Michelle & Kenneth Schaper Marcia & James C. Maloni Judith L. Montgomery ’69 Stephanie & Steven E. Pohl ’81 • * Sharon J. Scheidemantle ’86 * Jonathan Mancuso ’14 Sandra & Robert Morgan Jr. Craig Polacek ’98 Lois M. Schenker ’79 Rose Marie ’90 • * & Jack Manley Melody Morrissey ’07 Theresa A. Polizzano Donna Schiemer Lee J. Markowitz, Ph.D. Rachel J. Morrissey ’15 Ellen Pomerantz ’83 Dr. and Mrs. Melvin M. Schiff Georgiann C. Marshall ’87 Tammy & Mark Morrissey Heather & Joseph Pontoli Jr. Hope ’98 & Scott Schiffgens ’97 Carol Marsiglio ’75 * Sheila & Fredrick Mueller Simon C. Pope Peggy Schmiedecke ’12 Ashley L. Martin ’08, ’10 Helene Mukankusi ’06, ’09 Monica B. Porter ’90 Kristi R. Schmitt ’98 Maureen K. Martin ’94 Kurt Mulzet ’75 * Erin Pottgen ’06 Edward R. Schneider Rosemary Martinelli Yvonne C. Mulzet Marylynn Powell Karen M. Schneider ’79, ’84 Stephen Martini ’72 Elsie M. Murray ’86 Libby Powers ’13 Josephine Schomburger Dolores & Richard Marusic Susan Marie Murray ’91, ’04 Christine Pozar Lynne A. Schubert ’07 Mary Lou & Dennis Mascari Jon Mussitsch Barbara & Robert Pritchard Anna & Robert Schwerer Marcie Mason John E. Napolitano ’81 Sharon Pritchard Judith Searles-Miller ’79 Stephanie & Steven M. Massaro • Innocent M. Ndimubanzi ’04 Jane & Hugh Prytherch Colleen & Edward Seidl Anthony J. Mastellino ’94 Stuart Neft Joseph J. Puglisi Mary R. Seljak Judith Masucci ’65 Jane A. Neidig ’91 Mary Stanek Pullin ’71 Robert J. Seman ’76 Linda Maydak ’78 Jean E. Neidig, RN ’91 Peggy ’87 & Harlan Pust ’87 Maxine Senge Joyce E. McAleer ’81 Rebecca J. Nelson Ambassador Anthony Gerald Sever ’93 Joyce M. McAneny ’05 Van Nguyen ’06 C. E. Quainton • Diane Shaeffer ’07, ’11 Dr. and Mrs. Robert K. McBride Susan M. Niaros Susan Long Quainton • John L. Sharpe ’94 Janice L. ’02 & The Honorable David Nicholls ’72 Tara K. Race ’98 * Bruce G. Shearer ’88 Michael McCarthy Mary Ann Nicholls ’73 Ronald Radwanski ’77 * Mary A. Shepard ’88 Dr. Rosemary & Michele Nicholls ’99 Amber L. Raimondo ’05 Arita Sheremeti ’06 Richard D. McCarthy Connie & James Nicotero, M.D. Jennifer M. Ramus ’12 Sylvain Shimamana ’04 Richard D. McConnell ’75 Heather P. Nicotra ’12, ’15 Robert P. Randall Emily Shimko Mary & John McCourt Sr. Emmanuel Niyibizi ’04 Robin Randall • Eleanor G. Siebert ’87 Robert W. McCutcheon Michaela A. Noakes Carrie A. Rangeen ’91 Dr. Scott Sieg ’87 Lisa R. McDougal ’00 Lonnie Nolker ’09 Anthony B. Reda ’99 Dr. Kate Silvis Mary T. McGinley ’90 Jean-Pierre Nsanzabera ’04 Carly Reed Lisa M. ’00 & Suzanne D. McGinley ’77 Alexandra M. Nuccetelli ’11 Edward G. Reeping ’88 Gregory K. Simakas • Jami-Rae McGovern ’01 Barbara J. O’Connor ’80 Laurie & Charles Reese William Simon Shirley & Howard McIlvried Deborah A. O’Connor ’88 Donna Reuss ’80 Diane Sims ’08 Megan McKay ’12 Nathan B. Offutt Rosemary Rice ’80 Dave Siroki Todd M. McKeever ’92 Elizabeth K. O’Grady ’79 Teresa Karlo Richards ’81 Kelly Skeehan ’98 Patricia A. McKenna ’77 Laura A. Oknefski Julia K. Richmond ’88 Edward J. Slack Jr. ’82 Barbara K. McKernan Janet Oliver ’90 Bryan Rieder ’14 Kayann H. Slack ’83 Rosemary & William McLaughlin Sidney Oliver ’86 Carolyn & Kenneth Rieder Lois J. Slocum, RN ’90

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Michael Smith Steven Swartz Karen D. Watson, CFA, AIF® • CORPORATIONS Josephine & Robert Smith Jessica M. Sweitzer Joanne M. Watterson ’86 ORGANIZATIONS Larry G. Smitley Jodie Steegman Tabano ’03 Nancy Wehrheim FOUNDATIONS Antoinette Snyder ’87 Azlan Tajuddin, Ph.D. Virginia Weida AAA East Central Norman W. Snyder Janice M. Talerico ’81 * Jeanne A. Weideman ’81 Above All Grand Salon & Spa Vlora Snyder ’06 James L. Tanavage ’87 Weinman Family African American Chamber of Steven N. Sokoloski ’03 Martha A. Taylor ’89 Mary Weixel Commerce of WPA Dwight L. Solomon ’81 Lavonne Z. Tesone ’84 Anita J. Wendell Aladdin’s Eatery Thomas E. Solomon II ’85 Debra K. Thomas, RN ’87 Kerry Werner Allied Barton Security Services Christine & James E. Sorbara Marlene & John Thomas Sarah White Amazon Smile Foundation Meredith Sortwell Cathy Thompson Laura Whitman American Eagle Outfitters Christine J. Spadafor ’79 * Kathryn Timko ’11 Stephanie L. Wickwire ’12 Andy Warhol Museum Marie L. Spehar ’83 Christopher Titterington ’10 Michael Williams ’10 ARC-Com Fabrics Gretchen Speicher ’11 Michael Tomera Miriam Wilps ’93 Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Charlotte J. Stahl ’88 Rose M. Tomko ’65 Jill & Rod Wilt AVI FoodSystems Inc. Miodrag Stamenkovic ’05 Brian W. Tougher Mary H. Winek ’77 Awards & More Inc. Edward Stankowski John J. Tougher ’13 Dana J. Winterhalter ’84 Baierl Automotive Inc. Kenneth M. Stankus ’01 JoAnne S. Trees ’74 Joseph R. Winterhalter II ’96 Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP William D. Stanonik ’86 Andrew Tressler ’10 Janice Wirth ’83 Beecher’s Gelato & Lois A. Stanton ’01 Cheryl Trischler Maurita J. Wisniewski ’84, ’88 * Gourmet Coffee Tina & Mike Stanz Michael A. Trosan Jeffrey A. Witte ’92 Blue North Ruth A. Stauffer ’91 Dennis G. Troy Nathan J. Wojciechowski ’11 The Blue Sky Idea Factory LTD Leslie L. Stearns ’94 Arlene N. Tucek Elaine H. Wolford ’96 BNY Mellon Foundation Rose B. Stegman ’72 Shawn W. Tunstall Rose & Kevin Wolosik Bob O’Connor Golf Course Catherine M. Steigerwald ’86 Linda M. Uhernik, CRNP ’89 Rose M. Woolley ’92 at Schenley Park Connie A. Stemm ’85 Sue A. Unterholzner ’99 Gina M. Work Bodytech Milena Stepanovic ’04 Thierry Uwamahoro ’05 Christine Yaklich-Miller BounceU Rick Stern Lejla Uzicanin ’97 * Sister Rita Marie Brintons Jenna G. Stevenson ’93 Patricia A. Vaccarello ’90 Yeasted, SFCC ’68, Ph.D. * Buckhead Saloon Dr. Suellywn Stewart ’77 * Julia M. Vaday, RN ’85 Robert R. Yerg ’76 Butler Cranberry Kathleen M. Stipanovich ’91 Michael Vahl Elisabeth R. Yesko Lock Safe & Door Ann E. Stockert ’87 Paula Valliant Gabrielle Yingling ’72 C P Group Nancy Banyay Stoehr ’90 Anne ’86 & Cheryl & Robert Yohn Cambiar Investors Marita & Timothy Storino Richard L. Vareha ’84 * Jane C. York ’96 Cambria Patricia A. Stover ’85 Nicholas D. Varischetti, Esq. • Karen Yoshino, Ph.D • Camp Bow Wow Kristina Straub Cindy Vellano ’83 Jonathan Young Carnegie Museum Harry B. Strickland, Ph.D. Cari Velt ’96 Holly N. Yurek ’16 of Natural History Mary C. Stuart, Ph.D. Pamela & Albert Vernacchio Shirley Zalakar Carnegie Science Center Pat Stuebgen Way ’96 Eileen & Kent Vogel Cathy R. Zamba ’93 Caruso + Cumberledge Jennifer & Gary Stutz Joanie & Robert Vogel ’14 Nancy & Richard Zappala ◊ Catherina Robert W. Suchanek ’86 Joanne M. Vogel ’75 SueAnn Zippi Catholic Charities Mestewat M. Sugebo ’03 Thomas T. Walton ’92 Susan Zitelli CBS Radio Kathleen & Francis Sullivan Patricia L. Warren ’99 Esther Zufall ’96 CBS Television/KDKA -TV Marian M. Sutton ’87 Adele A. Washington ’95 Patricia Zurawski, R.N. ’78 Certified Carpet Distributors Inc. Maureen R. Swartz ’99 Elaine Watson ’94 The Cheesecake Factory

46 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Children’s Museum Pittsburgh General Electric Foundation Maureen Rothman Associates Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium The Church Brew Works Giant Eagle Inc. Max’s Allegheny Tavern Pizza Man’s Pizza John & Mary Clayton Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream Mayer Fabrics PNC Foundation Educational Fund Heffner Outdoor Advertising Meyer Unkovic & Scott PPG Industries of The Pittsburgh Foundation Hefren-Tillotson Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Prantl’s Bakery Cogley Flooring Inc The Home Depot Foundation Miller Mats Print Tech of Western PA LLC Color Me Mine Home Mortgage Mlinac Family Charitable Gift Fund Professional Tax & Comcast Home2 Suites The Morgan Stanley Accounting Seminars Inc. Congregation of the Sisters Honeywell, Inc. Global Impact Funding Trust R and R Rose Construction LLC of Divine Providence • Houston Harbaugh P.C. Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack Redstone Candies COMPUCOM Howl at the Moon & Resort Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel Costco Wholesale Humanscale Nakama Japanese Steakhouse Rivers Club Coyne For Congress Hyatt-Fennell and Sushi Bar Rohland, Pratt, CrossFit RITE iHeart Media Pittsburgh Nath Chiropractic Clinic Rohland Associates CRS Sales Rental Services ilumeGALLERIE National Pike Chiropractic Romp n’ Roll Curioso Cuff, LLC International Poetry Forum National Science Foundation RSH Interiors D.L. Couch Wallcovering, Inc. Invesco NCAA Ruthrauff Services LLC Daltile J and D Lounge New York Life Mainstay S&T Bank Dan Binford & Associates J&S Transmission Specialists Inc Nine on Nine Sage Dining Services Inc. Dave & Buster’s J.E.T. Salon North Hills-McKnight AAUW Saint Bonaventure Parish School Dean of Shadyside Salon Jeet Enterprises Inc. Ohio Valley General Hospital Schneider’s Dairy Deloitte Foundation Jerome Bettis Grille 36 The Original Oyster House Scott Electric Foundation Inc. DeMaiolo Investigative Jimmy Wan’s Restaurant PacketViper LLC Segway Pittsburgh Services LLC Ken Altiero Associates Passavant Hospital Foundation Seven Springs Mountain Resort Desmone & Associates Architects Keytex Energy Peace Dental, PC Shadyside Inn Divine Providence The Kitchen Studio Peoples TWP LLC Shamrock Limousine Alumna Association KMA & Associates Inc. PepsiCo Shaw Floors Dominion Foundation Knoll Perfido Weiskopf Society for Analytical Chemists DRS Architects KQV Radio-1410 AM Wagstaff + Goettel of Pittsburgh DTI Development Inc KSD Real Estate Inc. Donald C. & Twila Peters Fund Society for Contemporary Craft Duquesne University Ladies Philoptochos Omonia of The Pittsburgh Foundation Sognatore Salon & Spa D’Youville College Lamar Advertising Company Phipps Conservatory Spectra Development Co. Eaton Corporation Larrimor’s and Botanical Gardens Spokane Orthodontics Charitable Fund LeMont Restaurant Pietragallo Gordon Alfano St. Paul’s United Environ Contract Licking Memorial Health System Pimco Methodist Church Women EQT Foundation Lighthouse Chiropractic & Pittsburgh Catholic State Farm Etched in Glass Wellness Center, PLC Publishing Associates Companies Foundation Eyetique Lindy Paving Inc Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Stewart Marketing LLC Federated Investors Luciano’s Pizza Pittsburgh Film Office Sunbury Controls, Inc. First Niagara Foundation Lucor Inc. The Pittsburgh Foundation SunTrust Foundation Follett College Stores Mad Mex Restaurant Pittsburgh Improv Comedy Club Matching Gift Program Forbo Flooring Systems Mary Beth’s Nails and More Pittsburgh Magazine Susan Dunn & Associates Forms+Surfaces Massaro Corporation Pittsburgh Opera Tandus Centiva Fragasso Financial Advisors Carol & Joe Massaro Family Fund Pittsburgh Pirates Tatjana Grgich Family Foundation Fun Fest Entertainment Center of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Steak Company The Benevity Community Fun Fore All Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Impact Fund

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Trib Total Media Up-N-Running Waste Management Wilson Lawler Engineering TriState Capital Bank Varischetti Holdings, LP Weber Insurance Agency Workrite Tucker Johnston & Smelzer Verizon Foundation Wendy & Companies Workscape Inc. United Way of Southwestern PA Vernon C. & Alvina B. Neal Fund WESA Radio WTAE-TV University of Pittsburgh VYGOR Fitness + Nutrition Wesbanco Bank X Shadyside UPMC Health Plan Inc. Walmart Wildwood Golf Club Zappala Family Foundation UPMC Passavant Washington Wild Things Willis Towers Watson

MEMORIAL GIFTS In Memory of Norman Hasbrouck In Memory of Raul H. Saucedo In Memory of Dick Battaglia Ellen K. Hasbrouck Kenneth M. Saucedo ’02 Gina Miller ’77 In Memory of Helen Introcaso In Memory of Marge Schaeffer In Memory of Jack Bisbey Sister Candace Michael Ban, D.M.D. Anonymous Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D. • Eileen & Michael Andreola In Memory of Lance Shaeffer ’00 In Memory of Janet Dennis Mary Jackline ’82 Diane Shaeffer ’11 Carol Marsiglio ’75 June R. Fischerkeller ’92 * In Memory of Sandy Knobeloch William Torp In Memory of Edmond C. Jacquel Dolores & Richard Marusic Kathy Kozdemba Noreen Ackerman Gina Miller ’77 In Memory of Donald Treser In Memory of Monsignor William A. Kerr Anonymous In Memory of Carol Pray Churchill ’81 Ruth & Francis Kerr Robert P. Churchill Emmanuel Niyibizi ’04 In Memory of Lisa Vernacchio Sister Rita Marie Pamela & Albert Vernacchio In Memory of William J. Coyne Yeasted, SFCC ’68, Ph.D. Coyne For Congress * In Memory of Ann Zeager Kathy Kozdemba In Memory of Jean-Nepomucene Komezamahoro Thomas Haugh ’14 Thierry Uwamahoro ’05 In Memory of Joaquin DeSousa Teresa M. DeSousa ’96 TRIBUTE GIFTS In Memory of Joseph and Anna Kosatka In Honor of Hugo Churchill Marjorie Jacobs ’87 In Memory of Charles Eperthener ’00 * Robert P. Churchill Sandra & Robert Morgan Jr. In Memory of Scott M. Lang In Honor of the Class of 1972 Joshua B. Forrest In Memory of David John Faingnaert Cindy ’72 & David Getty ’72 Dr. Jean Forti Bryan Rieder ’14 In Honor of Carolyn & Kenneth J. Rieder Mr. & Mrs. James Delligatti In Memory of Sam A. Liberto Eleanor & Michael Delligatti In Memory of Dr. MariJean Ferguson Michael A. Liberto ’97 In Honor of Joseph R. Winterhalter II ’96 Robert G. & Claire V. Dorsch ’94 In Memory of Joseph A. Massaro Jr. Erin H. Dorsch In Memory of Barbara Fisher Angela J. Longo ’89 • * In Honor of Cynthia & Joseph Balestrino Alice Green In Memory of Anonymous Kristin & James F. Getz Jr. ’96 • Erica McArdle Kubler-Johnston * Donna Schiemer Carl Hohnbaum In Honor of Louise Hall ’78 International Poetry Forum In Memory of Robert & Anna Middendorf Ronald Radwanski ’77 * Glen R. Johnson Annamae Lenkey ’05 Jane Lambesis In Honor of Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D. • Larrimor’s In Memory of Ruth Mlinac Anne L. Crawford ’85 * Angela J. Longo ’89 • * Angela J. Longo ’89 • * Sister Lisa Paffrath, CDP Rebecca J. Nelson Lisa ’00 & Gregory K. Simakas • In Memory of Charles Mulzet In Honor of Christy Joyce-Schmieler William Simon Kurt Mulzet ’75 * Jessica M. Sweitzer Michael Vahl In Memory of Georgia Nolker In Honor of Dorothy Saladiak In Memory of John Foley Lonnie Nolker ’06 Karen Ibinson Carlin ’88 Debra Dian In Memory of Stanley M. Pittavino ’78 Debbie & Emil Kuhar ’78 *

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DONORS MEET SCHOLARSHIP NEW BOOK CLUB RECIPIENTS AT DINNER PHOTO: JOHN SCHISLER The John J. Wright Library at La Roche has started a book club, and alumni, faculty, staff and students are invited to participate. In November the club discussed Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Future book club meetings will be held on Jan. 17 and Feb. 21 at noon. All are welcome to join.

The President’s Circle Dinner was hosted by the Office of Institutional Advancement in October to thank donors at the President’s Circle level. Students receiving scholarships had the opportunity to meet the people who had made their scholarships possible. INFO SESSIONS FOR OLDER ALUMNI

NEW LEGACY INDUCTEES The Alumni Office has started a series of informational In September seven new sessions with older alumni in multigenerational alumni families mind. In September alumnus were inducted into the Legacy James Holtzman ’96 presented Society during a dinner at “What You Need to Know About La Roche President Sister Candace Medicare.” In October Megan King, Introcaso’s home. There are now RN, CHPN, program manager of more than 50 families in the ALUMNI GATHER AT UPMC Hospital Based Palliative Legacy Society. FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Care, spoke about the differences between palliative care and The Alumni Holiday Reception at hospice care. the Festival of Lights was held in early December with more than ALUMNI MEET 400 people in attendance. IN NEW YORK CITY

An alumni reception was held in New York City in November. La Roche President Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D., Vice President for Institutional GOLF OUTING CELEBRATES Advancement Michael Andreola, 25TH ANNIVERSARY and Director of Alumni Relations FIRST HAPPY HOUR Gina Miller attended the alumni IN BUTLER A SUCCESS The Office of Institutional reception held in Times Square, Advancement hosted the where they had the opportunity to In November the Alumni Office Annual Scott Lang Memorial meet, in many cases for the very hosted its first Alumni Happy Golf Classic to benefit La Roche first time, alumni residing and Hour in Butler, Pa., at the 11th College athletics in September at working in The Big Apple. Frame Bar and Grille. Wildwood Golf Club.

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Olivia L. Baylor ’06, LCPC, NCC, DCC has Awards by AI Global Media. A Seattle U.S., Germany, South Korea, Peru, Puerto opened Life Revisions Counseling, LLC at resident for 16 years, she performs Rico and the Dominican Republic to deeper 1009 Frederick Road, Suite 1, Catonsville, throughout the Pacific Northwest and unity while honoring the diversity of the MD 21228. For information, visit beyond with Kabuki Academy as a various cultures. Sister Maria hopes to liferevisions.com or call 410-870-5615. Nihon Buyoo dancer, and has appeared connect this goal with La Roche’s Global in the chorus of a “Madame Butterfly” Development and Humanitarian Aid Training Bill Best ’95 began working at rue21 as performance in return for helping to dress Program. its IT service desk lead, and was recently the Seattle Opera’s cast. Ms. Dowling promoted to IT service desk manager at the will celebrate 15 years of marriage in Bryce F. Harper ’02 has been working for company’s Warrendale location. December. the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Northwest Office of Sister Michele Bisbey ’71, CDP, Ph.D. was Native American Programs, in Seattle, elected to a five-year term as the Provincial Wash., for the past five years. In July 2016 Director of the Sisters of Divine Providence he was promoted to the role of grants of the American/Caribbean Province. evaluation specialist where he will be part of a team that oversees grant reporting and Lynn Brockman ’79, CPC, CPB was named monitoring. Employee of the Month for October by Ohio Valley Hospital in McKees Rocks, Pa. Ms. Phyllis Hartman ’90 welcomed a Brockman is a senior certified coder with granddaughter, Penelope Grace Hartman, Ohio Valley Physician Services. on June 19, 2016.

Ashley Hartung ’14 was recently hired by the Shuman Center in Allegheny County. Tim Devine ’14 and Sarah Leslie ’14 married on Oct. 4, 2015 at her family farm in Enon Valley, Pa.

Francis Feld ’97 DNP, CRNA, LAT, NRP was recently deployed by the Department of Health and Human Services as a member of the PA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team for Hurricane Matthew. PA-1 staged in Georgia and then moved to Melbourne, Fla., where the team’s mission was to support Eva Ciccotelli ’10 and Andrew Anderson a hospital emergency department that ’10, BSN ’16, RN married on Sept. 2, was overwhelmed with patients due to the 2016. closure of some small hospitals in the area Jeannie Joseph ’06 welcomed her because of flooding. Dr. Feld is a staff CRNA second son, Levi Sainvil, on Aug. 5, 2016 at UPMC Passavant. at 9:12 a.m. Levi weighed 8 lbs., 4 oz. Jennifer Dowling ’96 is celebrating 20 and was 19" long. years of being employed in the graphic Ashley Ferrari ’12 married Todd Zunic on design industry, and 10 years’ tenure at Sept. 27, 2016 in San Diego, Calif. Northern Lights Inc. in Seattle, Wash., Amanda Kunkle ’09 and John Stern were where she is the sole in-house graphic Sister Maria Fest ’65, CDP, Ph.D. has been married on Oct. 15, 2016 in Hortense, designer and webmaster. In October she elected as the Congregational Leader of her Ga. Dr. Howard Pendtley officiated at the received a plaque commemorating this international congregation, the Sisters of ceremony. The bride is the daughter of achievement and the “Best in Corporate Divine Providence. Her primary goal for the Linda and Arnold Kunkle of Apollo, Pa., Marketing 2016–Washington” award at congregational team is to bring the various and the groom is the son of Lisa Marie the 2016 Marketing, PR & Communications areas of the congregation, including the and Robert Stern of Hortense, Ga. The

50 LA ROCHE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Cheryl Vierheilig ’12 has become an IN MEMORIAM independent business operator (IBO) for James Adamczyk ’93 on Aug. 13, 2016 ACN and has her own website at www. Joseph Breznican ’92 on May 5, 2016 eliteservices2017.acndirect.com. She also runs Elite Nannies and Caregivers Inc., Denise (Ramaley) Doliveira ’94 and is an independent Sabika Jewelry on Jan. 17, 2016 representative. Jeff Farbacher ’90 on Feb. 29, 2016 Brandon Holly ’99 on Sept. 16, 2016 Kris Wilder ’16, RN, MSN, CLNC married Jason Mullin on Oct. 8, 2016. She is the Mary (Miller) Jackline ’82 manager of workers’ compensation & on Jan. 26, 2016 occupational health services for PPG Richard Kohl ’82 on July 21, 2016 Architectural Coatings. Elizabeth (Betty) Kost ’75 Stephanie Krakowski ’12 and Gopal on Feb. 20, 2016 Nepali ’11 were married at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Sandra Nigut ’85 on Feb. 20, 2016 on Sept. 24, 2016 with many La Roche Anthony Ranalli ’05 on Aug. 3, 2016 alumni in attendance. Mallory (Burns) Ries ’84 on Aug. 5, 2016 Beth Rothermund ’99 on July 20, 2015 bride is a research assistant at San Diego Dolores (Dolly) Schano ’81 State University and a published author. on March 24, 2016 The groom is an aerospace and systems engineer for the United States Navy. The Derek Schindler ’15 on April 16, 2016 couple honeymooned in Savannah, Ga., and Tariq (Alain) Shabaz ’14 on April 8, 2016 will continue to live in San Diego, Calif. William Stewart ’76 on Feb. 15, 2015 Michael W. Neft, ’86 DNP, MHA, RN, Elizabeth Williams ’07 and her Tracy Casper Yeager ’96 CRNA, FNAP was inducted as a Fellow of husband, Andrew Herrman, welcomed on March 12, 2016 the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) their first child, Linda Marie Herrman, on Oct. 22, 2016. Mr. Neft is currently an on April 26, 2016. associate professor and vice chair for the Department of Nurse Anesthesia at the SUBMIT YOUR Christopher Wise ’14 took a position with University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Stryker in its Endoscopy Division after CLASS NOTES! earning his medical imaging degree in 2014, Dawna (McDanel) Poole MSN ’14, RN and was promoted to its Robotics Division recently accepted a job as a nursing within Orthopedics in January of 2016. As instructor/faculty at UPMC Shadyside a Stryker Mako representative, Mr. Wise Hospital School of Nursing. provided support for surgeons who used the company’s robotic assisted arm to Yaman Saqqa ’03 recently received the help restore patient function with partial University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School knee and total hip surgeries. On Sept. 1 Mr. Foundation Scholarship-Middle East and Wise took a position with Medtronic in its has moved to Oxford, UK, to pursue his full- Minimally Invasive Therapies Group working time MBA with the class of 2016/2017. with its Interventional Lung Solutions Share your news with La Roche Division. He married on July 18, 2015. Diane Shaeffer ’11 recently moved to College and fellow alumni. He and his wife bought their first home EHResearch Data Services, LLC, to work together this past May. as their compensation survey manager. Send announcements regarding Prior to this new position, Ms. Shaeffer career changes, promotions, Sister Rita Yeasted ’68, SFCC, Ph.D. is was working as the human resources marriages, births, volunteer service writing the history of La Roche College’s coordinator for Providence Connections. and other major life events to Pacem in Terris program in preparation for its 25th anniversary and would be happy to [email protected] Michael Tarquinio ’90 was awarded hear from any graduates of the program. five Certificates of Excellence in the Submissions may be edited for length To be interviewed for the history, contact 2016 American Graphic Design Awards and content. Sister Rita at [email protected]. competition, marking 49 awards that he has won over the past 19 years.

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3. Cheerleaders in the 1980s.

4. Commencement in the Motherhouse.

5. Student Dining Room in the basement of Academic Hall on the West Campus in the 1970s.

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- MEREDITH STEPHENSON ’16 MSHRM Vice President of Human Resources Howard Hanna Real Estate Services

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Join more than 300 alumni, faculty and staff to remember and celebrate SATURDAY, APRIL 22 what you all have in common: memories of La Roche College. COCKTAIL PARTY: 5 P.M. | DINNER: 6:30 P.M. | SUGGESTED DRESS: BUSINESS CASUAL ZAPPALA COLLEGE CENTER ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR: 8 P.M., NORTH PARK LOUNGE | CLASS OF ’67 50TH ANNIVERSARY

LA ROCHE COLLEGE MISSION STATEMENT La Roche College, a Catholic institution of higher learning, founded and sponsored by the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence, fosters global citizenship and creates a community of scholars from the region, the nation and around the world. STAY CONNECTED! The College integrates liberal arts and professional education in creative ways, empowering all members of our community to become lifelong learners, achieve success in their chosen careers and promote justice and peace in a constantly changing global society.

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