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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: NEW ERA FOR RIDGE COLLEGE P. 2 21ST CENTURY ALUMNI ON THE MOVE P. 6 REMEMBERING SISTER ANGELICA P. 12 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS P. 30 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Innovative, action-oriented, committed: these are key characteristics of our cyber and data science people who are engaged in the world around them. Throughout this programs and, in time we issue of Mercyhurst Magazine, we highlight examples of our students, hope, segue into local jobs and faculty, staf and alumni who epitomize engagement as they infuence a future investment in our city. better world through education, leadership and service. In this issue, we’ve taken a In the 24 months since I assumed the Mercyhurst presidency, I have look at some of our young been witness to a highly engaged community—individuals who, alumni, who have parlayed through their discretionary efort, contribute in diverse ways to the their Mercyhurst education well-being and success of our university. into successful careers in short order. You’ll also read Our people are the common denominator in the health of our about signifcant changes institution and, clearly, our alumni are reaping the rewards and in the way we manage our delivering on them. Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture, intended to bring in top names while, at the same time, making Our cover story casts the spotlight on Christina Carbone Marsh ‘88, chief performances accessible to broader audiences. community and economic development ofcer at Erie Insurance, who is part of a growing network of business, community and academic And, speaking of accessibility, please see a series of vignettes on how leaders intent on transforming downtown Erie into a vibrant and Mercyhurst North East provides life-altering opportunities to a diverse thriving region. and engaged student body.

What resonated with me more than anything else was Marsh saying I am so grateful to all the people of Mercyhurst for their commitment that the Mercy charism isn’t far from her thoughts when doing the work to our mission, and I would like to take this opportunity to particularly she does. “I do feel, when we do this work in the community, that we are thank our alumni. Through your engagement with your alma mater, we keeping a compassionate eye on our community members,” she said. yield global perspectives that infuence our curriculum, internships, jobs “I think that is something I learned from being at Mercyhurst. Having a and robust learning experiences. servant heart guides me in the diverse experiences I’ve had in my career and in life.” Pride in our afliation with Mercyhurst drives our forward progress, innovation and success. Your engagement in our future is essential. In her role with Erie Insurance, Christina supports her alma mater in its leadership of the Downtown Erie Innovation District, which you’ll be hearing more about in the near future. Clearly, in creating opportunities Until next time, Carpe Diem. for the growth and vitality of our university, we are further empowering our town-and-gown relationship. Together, we hope to do great things.

As you peruse your magazine, do check out the story on new developments in our Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Sciences. Not only have we hired three high-profle faculty leaders, President, Mercyhurst University but we have received a $1 million investment from Cleveland-based national technology company MCPc to build a cybersecurity lab and operations center in Hammermill Library, a move intended to accelerate

ON THE COVER: Christina Carbone Marsh ’88 is pictured in her ofce at the Erie Insurance Group. Now the company’s chief community and economic development ofcer, she draws inspiration for her work from the Don W. Lord oil painting of the City of Erie that hangs behind her. Photo by Jeremy Hewitt ’07. Read more about Marsh on page 14. The Ofce of Marketing and Public Relations publishes Mercyhurst Magazine twice a year.

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Design Jeremy C. Hewitt ’07 [email protected] 814-824-3022

Contributing Writers Susan Hurley Corbran ’73 Deborah W. Morton INSIDE THIS ISSUE Jennifer Smith 2 MCPc INVESTS $1 MILLION IN MERCYHURST CYBER PROGRAM 3 NEW LEADERSHIP NAMED FOR RIDGE COLLEGE Contributing Photographers 4 SOPHOMORE RESIDENCE HALL UNDER CONSTRUCTION Jeremy C. Hewitt ’07 Curtis Waidley ’19 ST 6 21 -CENTURY HURST ALUMNI ALREADY MAKING IMPACT Angela Zanaglio ’16 JENNIFER MOBILIA ‘03 ANNIE DEMEO REZNIK ’02 Printing THOMAS REZNIK, M.D. ‘01 Leader Graphics, Erie, Pennsylvania SARAH KEENE ‘08 ANNA PATRICK ‘07 Director of Alumni Engagement PATRICK LYNCH ‘07M Lindsay Cox Frank ’12 ’14M RYAN KERR ‘10 [email protected] 814-824-2330 NICK ROBERTS ‘10 BRITTANY MCCRACKEN SHAFFER ‘08 Class Notes Editor ADAM OLSZEWSKI, M.D. ‘10 Courtney F. Olevnik ’08 ’13M ANDREA HASHIM HANSEN ‘04 [email protected] 12 REMEMBERING SISTER ANGELICA CUMMINGS 814-824-2246 14 CHRISTINA MARSH ’88 HELPING TO TRANSFORM ERIE 15 RETIRED PRESIDENT WILLIAM P. GARVEY DIES Send changes of address to: 16 MNE’S UNIQUE OFFERINGS ATTRACT VARIETY OF STUDENTS Alumni Relations Mercyhurst University 18 LEGENDARY ENTERTAINERS HEADLINE MIAC LIVE SEASON 501 East 38th Street 20 6 HONORED AS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Erie, PA 16546 21 4 JOIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES [email protected] 21 WHEATON HONORED FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE 21 HYLAND APPOINTED TO LEAD MNE 22 COACH, 8 ATHLETES INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME 23 NEW SCOREBOARD ENHANCES TULLIO FIELD If you haven’t been receiving the bi-monthly 24 LAKERS, SAINTS SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Alumni eNewsletter, Mercyhurst does not have an active email address for you. Visit 26 THE CHANGING FACE OF CAMPUS hurstalumni.org/get-involved to update 28 CLASS NOTES your information and reconnect. 29 IN MEMORIAM: DR. KEN SCHIFF 29 ALUMNI OFFICE PLANS EUROPEAN RIVER CRUISE We’d love to hear from you. Send your 30 YEAR IN REVIEW: MERCYHURST REPORTS RECORD FUNDRAISING YEAR story ideas, suggestions and comments to 32 HONOR ROLL OF 2016-2017 DONORS [email protected].

1 MERCYHURST ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION INVESTMENT IN CYBER PROGRAM MCPc TO BUILD HIGH-TECH CYBER LAB, NETWORK OPERATIONS CENTER ON ERIE CAMPUS

A $1 million investment by national technology company MCPc will student outcomes. The construction of new cyber training facilities take the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences and today’s introduction of three new leaders make for a potent to the next level by accelerating the expansion of its innovative combination that will ensure Mercyhurst remains the vanguard of the cybersecurity program. feld.”

The Cleveland-based company, with ofces in Erie, will create a cyber Mercyhurst Provost David Dausey said MCPc’s expertise in cybersecurity lab in Hammermill Library that will be used by the Ridge College to “will build upon Mercyhurst’s strengths as a leader in the feld of educate students in the high-tech cyber feld. Adjacent to the lab, MCPc intelligence studies, and develop a pipeline of work-ready talent to will create and manage a high-security Network Operations Center that meet the nation’s cyber needs.” will employ Mercyhurst students. Today, Mercyhurst Intelligence Studies graduates are employed in all MCPc CEO Andy Jones joined President Michael Victor in making the 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, scores of law enforcement organizations announcement on July 25. At the same time, Victor announced the and a broad cross-section of corporate America, including a number of naming of a new dean for the Ridge College, and two other faculty Fortune 500 companies. leaders, charged with taking the Intelligence Studies program into a new era of growth and innovation. (See story at right.) “From terrorism, to the world of cybersecurity and big data, to corporate risk management, we continue to up our game to ensure that Former Pennsylvania Governor and the nation’s frst U.S. Secretary of our Intelligence Studies majors emerge as the best-equipped graduates Homeland Security Tom Ridge, after whom the Ridge College is named, in the feld,” President Victor said. said, “Mercyhurst University’s Intelligence Studies program enjoys a global reputation for world-class research, exceptional teaching and He added, “We all recognize the widespread incidence of cyber threats

2 around the world. We understand the seriousness of these threats and the need to guard against them. We also know that jobs in cybersecurity are growing at a robust pace.”

Noting that a recent report from Cisco puts the global fgure of cybersecurity job openings at 1 million, with demand expected to rise to 6 million by 2019, Victor pledged, “Mercyhurst will be ready.”

The cyber lab will include 20 work stations and be used as a teaching facility by Mercyhurst Intelligence Studies faculty and students. The operations center will accommodate at least 16 student-employees. An MCPc associate will oversee the students, whose customers will be actual MCPc clients.

Victor said the commitment from MCPc is closely aligned with Mercyhurst’s goal of preparing students for real-world job experiences. About a third of the fve-year commitment from MCPc includes stipends that will pay students at industry rates for their services in the center.

“What better way to prepare students for the workforce of tomorrow than placing them in those very jobs while they are students?” asked Jones in his remarks during the announcement. Clockwise from top left: McGill, Upal, Danzell, Grifn Added President Victor, “The operations center will provide a hands-on learning opportunity second to none, and will put Mercyhurst in the fortunate position of being one of a handful NEW LEADERSHIP NAMED of universities in the country to have this kind of capability on campus.“ FOR RIDGE COLLEGE Victor credited Dausey for his role in facilitating the MCPc Following a national search, Mercyhurst has chosen Lt. Col. U.S. Army partnership, and Cal Pifer, vice president for external relations (Retired) Duncan E. McGill, Ph.D., of Manassas, Virginia, as dean of the Ridge and advancement, for his part in bringing the project to fruition. College. McGill has spent more than a decade in various academic and administrative leadership capacities at the National Intelligence University Kidder Wachter Architecture & Design of Erie has done the (NIU). Most recently, he served as associate dean of the NIU’s College of architectural work, with construction beginning this fall. The Strategic Intelligence. He replaces James Breckenridge, Ph.D., who recently cyber lab and Network Operations Center are expected to be became provost of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) in Carlisle. ready by spring semester 2018. Tapped to lead the college’s cyber initiatives, including the new MCPc Creation of the cyber lab will require relocation of other Cyber Lab, is U.S. Navy Cyber Analyst Chad Grifn, whose expertise included resources that had occupied that space, including the university providing IT, cybersecurity and intelligence analysis to the U.S. Navy and U.S. archives, which will move to Hammermill’s third foor. Pacifc Command.

These changes are all part of a major reshaping of the library Charged with heading the college’s data science program is M. Afzal Upal, made possible by a pair of generous gifts. A $500,000 gift from Ph.D., a former senior data scientist for Canada’s Department of National alumna and retired trustee Ellen Ryan and her husband, David, Defence. He combines many years of experience as a data scientist will allow for a complete redesign of the library’s main foor, supporting intelligence analysts with a proven track record in scholarship intended to increase efciency and create more learning spaces. and peer-reviewed publications. Among the renovations are an updated library circulation desk and technology assistance area, state-of-the-art computers, Also new this year to the intel team is Benjamin Baughman, Ph.D., a tables and seating for study spaces, and much more. Also former detective and crime analyst with the Raleigh, North Carolina, Police underway is the Ridge Reading Room, made possible by a Department, and an instructor in disciplines blending psychology and $250,000 gift from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation.The space criminal justice. augments the library’s collection of the Thomas J. and Michele Ridge archives. Orlandrew Danzell, Ph.D., was promoted last spring to chair the undergraduate Department of Intelligence Studies. 3 RYAN HALL TO OFFER SUITE-STYLE RESIDENCE FOR SOPHOMORES IN FALL 2018

Students had barely moved out When President Michael Victor residential, academic and social experience. “Everything about after graduation in May before announced a new housing policy aspects of students’ lives.” Warde’s design encourages crews moved in to demolish that will require out-of-town interaction,” explained Dr. Laura six apartment buildings at the students to live on campus, While most colleges still mix all Zirkle, vice president for student south end of the upperclassman he said he was committed to students in large residence halls, life. “That’s what you want for housing area between Briggs and reimagining the university’s Mercyhurst takes a diferent freshmen, to draw them out of Lewis avenues. residence halls to better meet approach, ofering a variety of their rooms and help them get to the needs of today’s students. options to meet the needs of know each other, to make friends By fall 2018, a brand-new This project—the second major students of diferent ages. and to feel comfortable in their residence hall for sophomores capital project during his tenure new environment.” will rise on the site. Built in a following renovation of the Freshmen live in traditional U-shape opening toward 38th campus dining hall—shows residence halls right in the heart So, while Warde features spacious Street, it will house about 350 how serious he was about that of campus, with staf members rooms with private baths, it also students. The 148,000-square-foot promise. living on each foor to help includes lots of common areas building will be four stories high, students adjust to college life. The including lounges, a media room, set into the natural grade of the “It’s all about the experience,” staf also ofer frequent programs a kitchen, an exercise facility, and hill below East 41st Street. It will Victor said. “Mercyhurst is a addressing freshman concerns. even a small convenience store. be named Ryan Hall, recognizing beautiful residential college and the longstanding philanthropy we believe strongly that living Warde Hall, the last residence hall The new building project is being of Ellen Hammond Ryan ’64 and on campus promotes health and built on campus, opened in 2009 overseen by the Westminster her husband, David, of Naples, safety, facilitates diversity and and was designed specifcally Group, the same developer that Florida, and Petoskey, Michigan. inclusion, and integrates the to enhance the freshman constructed Warde Hall. Just

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This time they’re using a suite-style model. Each suite will accommodate four students in two bedrooms with two full baths, a common living room and a snack prep area.

The needs of sophomores are slightly diferent, Zirkle pointed out. “By their second year, students have usually established a network of friends,” she said. While they still need support, they also need more freedom as they begin exploring majors and getting involved with clubs and organizations.

A sense of community remains important, though, so the frst foor of Ryan Hall will feature a large common space, including a new dining facility. Students are helping to decide what options should be available in that facility, the frst on the east side of campus. Gathering most sophomores in a single building allows hall staf to target programming to that class.

Upperclassmen live in apartments and townhouses on the outskirts of campus, which ofer greater privacy. “By the time they reach their junior year, most students are starting to look forward to life after college,” according to Zirkle. “The responsibility of living independently really helps them prepare for that transition.”

Ryan Hall will cost an estimated $25 million, but the project is made possible by the unique economics of college housing. The building is being fnanced through bonds, and revenue generated from the students who live in the building will be used to retire the bonds.

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5 ‘CARPE DIEM’ SPIRIT INSPIRES YOUNG ALUMNI FROM MEDIA TO MEDICINE, FROM DANCE ADVOCACY TO DATA ANALYTICS, RECENT GRADS ARE MAKING AN IMPACT

If you need proof that Mercyhurst students take to heart the constant exhortation to “Seize the Day,” you’ll fnd it in the pages that follow.

In this issue, we profle a handful of 21st-century Mercyhurst graduates who’ve wasted no time making their marks on the world. We could have written dozens of similar stories.

While this issue focuses on post-2000 graduates, Mercyhurst Magazine will continue to feature alums of all generations who are doing interesting things, on the job or in their communities. If you have a story to suggest, email editor Sue Corbran at [email protected]. JENNIFER MOBILIA ’03 Jennifer Mobilia ’03 distinctly remembers on social media, and then investigates to fnd being glued to the TV—at age 6—watching out where the story falls on her “news to noise” coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger meter. disaster. She’s covered major stories like New York’s “At that moment I realized the importance frst same-sex marriage, Hurricane Sandy, the and power of journalism and the great shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, responsibility journalists have,” she says. “I the Boston Marathon bombing, the arrest as well. Her grandfather, father and uncle knew there was nothing else in this world I of New England Patriots tight end Aaron planted and maintained the vineyards on the wanted to do more.” Hernandez, and countless blizzards and snow Redemptorist Seminary property for many storms. But, Jennifer adds, “The work I’m most decades. Her parents, who now operate Jennifer got her wish. After getting her start at proud of is my coverage of Erie’s Pizza Bomber Arrowhead Wine Cellars, were also among the Erie’s WJET-TV, she moved on to larger markets bank robbery. I’ve always had an interest in original donors who raised $500,000 to help in Fort Myers, Florida; Bufalo, New York; and criminal cases, but this bizarre case was full of Mercyhurst turn the seminary property into a Providence, Rhode Island. Today she anchors twists and turns that were just fascinating to college campus. the 7 and 11 p.m. news on News10NBC in me.” Rochester, New York, and anchors breaking After receiving an associate degree in Business news at 5 and 6. “I love working in local news because it gives Administration at North East, Jennifer headed you an opportunity to become a part of the to the communication department at the Erie Social media and 24-hour news channels have community you live and work in,” she says. campus. changed the way TV stations deliver news, “Network reporters are always on an airplane, she notes. “Our focus used to be our on-air sleeping in hotels and away from their families. “Nothing can prepare you for some of the newscasts. While our newscasts are still very That’s defnitely not for me.” horrifc things you’ll see, the stories you’ll cover important, we also now focus on getting or the stress of working in television news,” breaking news and new information to viewers A North East native, she bucked her family’s she says. “However, Mercyhurst taught me through our website, social media and push Penn State tradition to enroll at Alabama the importance of compassion for all, fairness, notifcations through our mobile app.” She but she wasn’t happy in Tuscaloosa and accuracy and honesty.” regularly hosts “Jen at 10,” a Facebook Live quickly returned home. She took some show. business courses at Mercyhurst North East. Outside the TV world, Jennifer is the proud “I unexpectedly fell in love with the school, mother of a white standard poodle named Journalists also face the challenge of fake the professors, the Catholic values and the Anna and operates a small online jewelry store, news, particularly on social media, Jennifer beautiful campus. Mercyhurst instantly felt like TVGirlBling.com. In her free time, she enjoys says. She’s doing her part in that battle with home—that’s why I stayed to get two degrees.” running, spending too much money in New a new segment called “News or Noise.” She York City, cheering on the struggling Bufalo invites viewers to submit stories circulating She had a family connection at North East Bills and being with her family. 6 THOMAS REZNIK, M.D., MPH ’01

Thom Reznik ’01 has a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins, a medical degree from the University of Maryland, and a specialty that marries both felds: primary care internal medicine.

After earning his Biology degree at Mercyhurst, Thom began his career as a research assistant and earned his MPH in 2006 while working on campus. He continued on to the University of Maryland to complete his M.D. in 2010. Thom completed his internal medicine residency at Brown University.

With an eye toward broadening his impact, Thom stayed in Rhode Island to work in primary care for the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Providence. This ofered opportunities to blend his passion for patient care with broader interests in public health. ANNIE DEMEO REZNIK ’02 “I like building relationships and taking care of people one on one,” he explains. “But public health is a feld that can make a diference on Annie DeMeo grew up on college campuses, including Mercyhurst an enormous level. Public health can afect thousands or millions of where her dad, Tony, started the football program. When she visited people.” Mercyhurst in April of her senior year, it felt like home though it had been years since her family moved from Erie. Thom immersed himself in the VA patient culture and immediately recognized the burden of chronic pain and overreliance on pain Now, as the frst executive director of the Coalition for Access, medication for treatment. Though the opioid epidemic hadn’t Afordability, and Success, Annie is working with a group of the yet become well-known, the VA was evaluating and reforming country’s leading colleges and universities encouraging lower- pain treatment and prescription practices. Thom’s dedication income, frst-generation, and other under-served students to aim for and background led him to be named co-chair of the hospital college. The coalition’s members serve students from low-income pain committee, Primary Care Pain Champion and the Providence backgrounds, ofer responsible fnancial aid packages, and ensure representative in opioid safety and pain management within the New positive graduation outcomes for students from all backgrounds. England VA Health Care System.

“Through the coalition, colleges are working together to eliminate Leading pain initiatives now flls as much as half of Thom’s time. He barriers to college for lower-income and frst-generation college developed and launched an Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic in which students in an unprecedented manner,” Annie explains. primary care internists, acupuncturists, pharmacists, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, and nurses all meet to listen to The coalition ofers free college-planning tools, including a private a patient’s pain story. This collaborative approach ofers patients a online storage space for students to begin assembling materials they’ll personalized comprehensive plan. need as they apply to college. “The colleges developed resources for students who don’t have support. The tools are for students like my Thom also became a Medical Acupuncturist last year and opened husband, or father, and many of my college friends, who were the frst the Providence VA’s frst acupuncture clinic. Thom notes the VA in their family to go to college,” says Annie. has deployed a primary-care-based acupuncture procedure called “battlefeld acupuncture”—which places fve needles in each ear to An English major and Religious Studies minor, she credits mentors like control pain—as another tool available for pain treatment. Dr. Heidi Hosey and Dr. David Livingston for teaching her how to think through complicated ideas and analyze problems from many diferent “In the early 1990s, physicians became very aggressive in using angles—skills she uses daily at the helm of a brand-new organization. opioids to treat pain,” he notes. “Today the pendulum has swung too far the other way suggesting opioids have no place in chronic pain Annie says she can’t imagine a place where she could have become management. My experience in primary care has shown that patients as immersed in the community as she was at Mercyhurst. She was live somewhere in the middle, where things aren’t so black and white.” an Ambassador, Merciad editor, student government ofcer, and a lead student fundraiser for the annual phone-a-thon. At graduation, Beyond the VA, Thom lends his experience to Rhode Island state she was honored with the Sister Carolyn Herrmann Service Award, initiatives, including the Department of Health’s work to improve celebrating Annie “selfessly giving her time, energy, loyalty and primary-care-based pain management and as part of the Rhode talent to the campus community.” Annie is once again giving her Island Governor’s Opioid Overdose Task Force. time, energy, loyalty and talent, only this time to the many college communities of the coalition. “The VA is at the forefront of rewriting the playbook for chronic pain management by focusing on the complex causes of chronic pain Annie and Thom Reznik were married in 2004 and have four children: and partnering with veterans on what works for them, relying less on Caroline, 10; Anthony, 8; Catherine, 4; and Grace, 3. (Read Thom’s story medications and procedures.” at right.) “We’re flling a gap, and I hope it will grow so we can change things Learn more about the coalition at coalitionforcollegeaccess.org. for as many people as we can,” he says. 7 ANNA PATRICK ’07

A Kentucky native, Anna recalls visiting campus as a child with her parents, Peggy and Guy Patrick, who had both worked in Campus Ministry at Mercyhurst during the 1970s. “I can always SARAH KEENE ’08 remember loving the feel of the campus,” she says. It was during her senior Social Ethics class that Sarah Keene connected the When she enrolled, she chose a Political Science major and a dots and realized what she wanted to do with her life: to use her languages Spanish minor. to help others fnd their voices. About two years after her Mercyhurst graduation, Anna A French major and Russian Studies minor, she worked frst helping headed to the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at newly resettled refugee and immigrant families in Pittsburgh toward self- the University of Denver. Then, with an M.A. in international sufciency. It was rewarding, but immensely challenging work, she says, development in hand, she moved to the nation’s capital. adding, “I learned more about resiliency from these families than from any other previous experience.”Then she managed a food pantry for needy She’s held a number of jobs in Washington, but for the past families in the South Hills. four-and-a-half years has been a public afairs specialist in the Ofce to Monitor and Combat Trafcking in Persons at the U.S. In 2013, she signed on for the Peace Corps and headed to the Central Department of State. African nation of Cameroon. Her primary project was teaching English to more than 400 students aged 10-22, but she also cultivated friendships The ofce leads diplomatic engagement on human trafcking between more than 30 American students and her Cameroonian students and produces the annual Trafcking in Persons Report. She through a pen-pal program. She’s particularly proud of a weeklong youth works with the private sector, NGOs and others to look at how empowerment camp she ran for 35 girls aged 10-14, which included a panel human trafcking intersects with global supply chains and of positive female role models from the community. afects the products we all buy. She also does research, drafts fact sheets, writes speeches and gives presentations to raise Returning to America when her two-year assignment ended, Sarah public awareness about human trafcking. remained with the Peace Corps and now works at its Washington headquarters as a program analyst for recruitment and diversity. A soccer player during her frst two years, Anna cut her athletic Along the way, Sarah’s passion for languages and cross-cultural exchanges career short in order to study abroad in Costa Rica. Living in has led her to learn Mandarin Chinese, Bamvele, Fulfulde, Swahili, Kirundi, a foreign country and experiencing a diferent language and Burmese—and her newest language, SQL coding. culture was just one of the Mercyhurst experiences that she says expanded her world view. Eventually, she’d love to get back into the feld. She hopes the combination of her foreign languages and newly developed data science skills will lead “In attending speaker series and events at Mercyhurst I heard her to a long life of working in international development agencies in D.C. from a variety of academics with diferent, and sometimes and abroad. opposite, ideas from my own. In taking courses with professors who challenged what I thought to be true, I learned to see Sarah says she spends most of her time trying to conquer new languages things from another perspective. It would be hard to move and building up her savings and vacation days so she can travel to new through the world today without these experiences; they places. She also enjoys playing on a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) prepared me well and I continue to carry them with me today.” community softball team, learning guitar, and taking advantage of all the fun, free events that happen every day in Washington. On a practical level, the hours and hours she spent at the library researching, reading, writing, analyzing and preparing for She says Mercyhurst provided the foundation on which she has continued presentations proved excellent preparation for her work today. to build and she’s grateful for “the friends I made, experiences I had, and the classes that exposed me to new perspectives and challenges.” This summer Anna married Sherilyn Fraser ’08 in a ceremony performed by Karen Eade ’07. Sherilyn is a director of fnancial Best memories? Her study-abroad term in Aix-en-Provence, France; her 2005 analysis at the University of Maryland, University College. They alternative spring break trip with Habitat for Humanity (“a great group of both love to travel, including an excursion to Machu Picchu and people working together for social good”); and her service as a Mercyhurst a sailing trip in the Greek islands. Closer to home they enjoy Ambassador, sharing her passion and love for Mercyhurst. rock climbing, exploring farmers’ markets, and discovering what 8 Washington, D.C., has to ofer. PATRICK D. LYNCH ’07M Patrick Lynch’s master’s degree in Applied Intelligence has propelled him began in 1992, Pat was part of the frst to the front lines of the efort to improve the security of nuclear power cohort once a full-fedged master’s program programs around the world. was launched. He says the “applied” part of the title is what made it valuable to him. During Professor Kris Wheaton’s class in Advanced Analytical Techniques, Pat became fascinated by what analysts could learn from commercial He points, in particular, to the 10 weeks he satellite imagery. Hired by the International Atomic Energy Agency and his classmates spent identifying trends (IAEA) as soon as he fnished his coursework, he spent a year in Vienna, in criminal activity and policing within Austria, using satellite data to monitor nuclear programs. the European Union. The research was commissioned by European Parliament member Bill Newton Dunn, who few to America He then moved to the IAEA’s Nuclear Power and Engineering Section. to be briefed on what they found. The frst non-nuclear scientist hired by that section, he helped evaluate potential nuclear power programs—using open source data to “I’d never had the opportunity to supply something tangible to a review everything from political and fnancial stability to power grid decision-maker in a classroom setting,” he recalls. “After that I was connectivity. prepared on my frst job to provide whatever my management would ask of me.” He says Mercyhurst also provided invaluable training in Returning to the States in 2009, he joined the Global Security writing and presenting for decision-makers. Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he’s responsible for a $12 million portfolio of U.S. State Department programs that help “This Mercyhurst program has a tremendous reputation in Washington technical staf, academic leaders and governments around the world and other areas,” Pat notes. He himself has been a powerful ambassador improve the safety and security of Chemical, Biological, Radiological for Mercyhurst, bringing Mercyhurst students to ORNL for internships and Nuclear (CBRN) facilities. He focuses particularly on the human and briefngs, and encouraging his coworkers to pursue online element, ensuring that individuals with access to sensitive information intelligence certifcates. and materials aren’t vulnerable to being exploited, reducing the risk of insider threat. He’s currently working with about a dozen nations and Pat and his wife, Mary, live in Knoxville, Tennessee, with their daughters, spends much of his time traveling. Autumn and Nora. His mom, Mary Lee McGraw Lynch is a 1970 graduate, and his uncle, Joseph McGraw, graduated in 1985. Though the Research/Intelligence Analyst Program (RIAP) at Mercyhurst RYAN KERR ’10 With no immediate job prospects after graduation, Strategic save historic New York City from Communication major Ryan Kerr took the proceeds from a summer ruthless redevelopment in the spent waiting tables and jumped on a MegaBus to New York City. The 1960s, and a talkback session gamble paid of big time. with director Matt Tyranuer. Other panels discussed what “Since moving here, I have done everything from selling T-shirts at cuts in federal funding could mean for nonprofts; the current heroin Mamma Mia to being an Upper East Side nanny,” he laughs. But he epidemic; and how food halls can help revive city neighborhoods. soon got his foot in the door with a temp job at Forbes Media, which led to a full-time job managing conferences and events for the global In May, college presidents, provosts, deans and chancellors took part in media giant. “I’ve been pretty fortunate to see the country and meet the Higher Ed Leaders Forum, and earlier he headed to the West Coast many inspiring people along the way.” for “Get with the Times,” an efort to connect with college students and show them how to use their political voices, featuring an interview and Today, as conference manager for The New York Times, his work focuses performance by Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. on the UCLA campus. on “Live Journalism,” conferences that bring Times journalists together on stage with decision-makers in a given feld. There’s a live audience, “The purpose of these events is to engage in a new and exciting way but the presentations are also streamed online and covered in print in a time where factual news and action couldn’t be more important,” editions. Ryan says.

In July, he organized a “Cities for Tomorrow” conference in New York, He says his well-rounded communication education gives him inviting government ofcials, architects and others to discuss how fexibility to grow and change with his career, adding, “I don’t really cities are dealing with today’s pressing issues. have a long-range career goal other than to keep growing and learning. I try to mix things up often and will always gravitate toward The conference featured a screening of the documentary Citizen doing something new.” Along those lines, he says he tries to explore a Jane: Battle for the City, a chronicle of activist Jane Jacobs’ fght to diferent city for a long weekend somewhere every couple of weeks. 9 BRITTANY NICK ROBERTS ’10 MCCRACKEN Nick Roberts has been drawn to the sciences SHAFFER ’08 since his high school days in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. While attending community college Brittany McCracken once thought she might follow her dad’s footsteps into a science there, he zeroed in on a specialty: toxicology. feld, perhaps pharmacy school. But after completing her Mercyhurst degree in Business Marketing/Chemistry, she turned her full attention to business and never looked back. An internet search for schools with good forensic toxicology programs led him almost 1,900 Today she’s president of FirstLink Research and Analytics, which helps clients explore miles north to Mercyhurst, where he majored in the potential of new products and technologies they hope to bring to market. Applied Forensic Sciences with a concentration in chemistry/toxicology. Not surprisingly, his Brittany enrolled in the MBA program at Penn State Behrend right after graduation. favorite course was Instrumental Analysis with Exempt from many classes because of the courses she’d completed at Mercyhurst, Dr. Clint Jones, but he says the Mercyhurst she fnished in just a year. She enjoyed a co-op assignment with General Electric in program introduced him to other forensic felds international feet program management, acting as liaison between international as well. That well-rounded education earned him customers and GE engineers. acceptance to a respected master’s program in forensic toxicology at the University of Glasgow Once she had her degree, the economy was in a tailspin and jobs weren’t easy to in Scotland. come by. But she soon landed a position as a market research analyst with FirstLink in Pittsburgh. She became a team leader within months, and general manager just a year He returned briefy to the Virgin Islands after later. earning that degree and taught physics and chemistry at the community college, all the while For several years, she and boyfriend Jay Shafer had a long-distance romance. When searching for a job that would get him back into they became engaged in 2012 and decided to settle near Jay’s job in Erie, she fgured the laboratory. He found it as a forensic scientist she’d have to look for a new position. Instead, FirstLink’s owners named her president with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, and encouraged her to move the operation to Erie. Today she oversees a staf of about where he tests samples submitted by police 10 people, mostly analysts located in Erie, including two graduates of Intelligence departments around the state for the presence Studies programs at Mercyhurst. They provide business case analysis and competitive of drugs and alcohol. Most of the cases deal with landscape analysis to clients, primarily so far to the U.S. Departments of Defense and sexual assault, poisonings and driving-under-the- Homeland Security. infuence cases, so he’s called frequently as an expert witness in criminal trials. Before leaving Pittsburgh, Brittany completed the Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program at Pitt. “I already had an MBA when I entered the program,” she explains. “However, the Is his work anything at all like what’s seen on TV? Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program took the MBA-type concepts that are relevant to “I honestly don’t watch those TV crime shows,” the large corporate world and made them more applicable for rapid, entrepreneurial he says. “But from what I have heard about them growth settings.” – no. Not at all. This is actually one of the frst things you learn in the Intro to Forensics course That certainly describes her company, which has been adding about one new person at Mercyhurst.” a year and showing revenue growth in the low double digits for several years. Going forward she hopes to diversify the company’s service oferings and client base to work Eventually he’d like to manage his own lab, more with universities, medical research centers and others in the private sector. perhaps back in the Virgin Islands once more. “I love the fexibility I have to drive the strategy of this company,” she says, “but there are Nick’s free time tends to focus on his love for cars, also downsides, things I’ve had to give up along the way – like free time!” including attending car shows and track events. He’s also working on a car in his garage that he She and Jay have a bichon frise named Zoey, and she has a passion for cooking and plans to enter in drag racing events. wines. 10 ADAM OLSZEWSKI, M.D. ’10

Adam Olszewski chose Mercyhurst for his Pre-Med studies because he he landed a second-year spot in the thought a small school with a liberal arts orientation would best prepare neurosurgery residency at Vermont Medical him for a future medical career. The best part, he says, was that classes Center. He’s about a third of the way were relatively small, all were taught by actual professors, and those through the seven-year program now. teachers were always accessible and approachable. Though his preferences for a specialty are For example, he wanted to get involved in research. “It was as easy as still evolving, he’s leaning toward skull base surgery, a asking my advisor, Dr. (David) Hyland, to point me toward someone who minimally invasive surgical technique for evaluating, diagnosing and was doing research,” he says. Hyland put him in touch with Dr. Steve treating benign or cancerous growths located on the underside of the Mauro and soon Adam was sampling Lake Erie waters to help with brain, the base of the skull and the upper vertebrae of the spinal column. Mauro’s research on E. coli bacteria. He says he can picture himself pursuing a fellowship after that and eventually teaching at an academic neurosurgery center. Their work led to a paper that was published during his sophomore year, as well as an Environmental Protection Agency grant to continue the In May, Adam proposed to fellow Hurst alum Haley Bradstreet atop the project. The prestigious grant, targeted to smaller universities without Liberty One building in Philadelphia; they’re planning an October 2018 large research budgets, came with a scholarship and stipend for Adam. wedding in Vermont, an area they’ve both grown to love. They especially enjoy snowboarding, hiking and paddleboarding on Lake Champlain. He spent his frst year after Mercyhurst in a pre-master’s program at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, sort of a primer for med school. The A 2012 dance graduate, Haley has an administrative day job with the following year he entered Thomas Jeferson University Medical School, neuroscience grad program at Vermont, but she also teaches dance at earning his M.D. in 2015. four studios in the area and recently became involved with a start-up dance company. After completing a yearlong general surgery internship at Jeferson,

ANDREA HASHIM HANSEN ’04

Andrea Hashim Hansen is using both her Dance major and her Political Science minor these days as founder and executive director of Kern Dance Alliance, a nonproft advocacy organization that promotes dance and the arts in her hometown of Bakersfeld, California.

Her long-range goal is to build a vibrant and fourishing arts scene in central California’s Kern County, where just 10 arts organizations now serve close to 1 million residents. She says her next project will be implementing a bachelor’s degree program in dance at the Bakersfeld campus of California State University. She headed to grad school at the University of Arizona after graduation, Some might fnd her combination of academic programs at Mercyhurst intending to become a college professor. She’s done some college odd, but she says it was one of the best academic choices she ever made. teaching, including directing the dance department at Glendale “The arts and politics often go hand in hand,” she notes. “Through my Community College and teaching online dance humanities courses political science courses, I learned how to write persuasively, navigate (including some for Mercyhurst). political channels, write grants, and garner the confdence to speak to large crowds about my interests and passions.” Today she’s focusing on Kern Dance Alliance and serving as vice president of the Fox Theater Foundation in Bakersfeld, but her most A profle of the Mercyhurst dance program in Dance Teacher magazine important role is as mom to Alexander (who’s about 2) and Hannah (four frst put Mercyhurst on Andrea’s radar. The brutally cold temperatures months). She and husband Michael Hansen are celebrating their fourth that greeted her on her frst visit to Erie proved quite a shock to the anniversary this fall. California native, but Mercyhurst ofered a warm welcome. Andrea says she maintains relationships with many of her professors “The endless hours I spent in the danceSpace and the Mary D’Angelo from Mercyhurst, noting that her dance teachers are still an excellent Performing Arts Center are some of my fondest memories,” she says. source of support and that her roommates and fellow dance majors During her time here, she also did a summer internship with Ballet remain her closest friends to this day. “We are all scattered across the Concerto in Fort Worth, Texas; got professional performing experience country, but when we see each other it’s like we are living in Egan Hall all during two seasons with Lake Erie Ballet; and taught open classes for over again!” non-majors. 11 MERCYHURST’S ‘FIRST LADY OF THE ARTS’ Sister Angelica Cummings found two founded its fne arts department. She would and launched Mercyhurst’s Junior Year Abroad vocations when she joined the Sisters of Mercy remain at its helm for nearly 50 years. program in Florence, Italy, she remarked, “I in 1922. like to see a painting take form, coming to life While guiding hundreds of art majors during from blank canvas, but at the same time I think With the opening of Mercyhurst College those years, she never stopped creating her I am primarily a teacher; there is something just four years in the future, Mother Borgia own art, a body of work that earned her to taking a student and seeing her blossom in Egan was already beginning to assemble her recognition across the country and even front of you.” pioneer faculty. in Europe. She strongly believed that art professors should also be artists. When it came Sister Eustace Taylor, the longtime English The young nun had taken secretarial courses time to design the art facilities in Zurn Hall, professor and former Mercyhurst president in high school and was doing ofce work she ensured that faculty ofces could double who was a close friend, noted, “For those who in Washington, D.C., when she recognized as studios, large spaces with lighting from the knew her well, Sister M. Angelica’s religious life her calling to religious life. Surprisingly, her north and west—and their own sinks. and her career as an artist blended happily. aptitude tests detected notable talent in art, No matter what the subject of her painting, it so Mother Borgia sent her to the Carnegie Sister Angelica clearly loved being both artist spoke clearly of beauty, truth and goodness.” Institute in Pittsburgh to study. When and teacher. In 1974, shortly after she stepped Mercyhurst opened in 1926, Sister Angelica away from the department she had created 12 SISTER ANGELICA REMEMBERING HIS MENTOR EXHIBIT PLANNED

Dan Burke was Mercyhurst’s frst male Sister Angelica studied art all her life, graduate and he’s now been on the refning her techniques at workshops FOR SUMMER 2018 Hurst art faculty for just about as long as around the country and on trips to In the summer of 2018, works by Sister Angelica will Sister Angelica was. He started taking art Europe. She worked primarily in oils, fll the Mercyhurst art gallery that was dedicated classes at Mercyhurst in 1966 through a applied with a palette knife, though she in her honor just 12 days before she died in 1984. Gannon University co-op program, and used watercolors to depict New England The gallery, originally on the third foor of Old Main, graduated soon after coeducation was coastal scenes during a workshop at the was then located in Hammermill Library. In 1995, approved in 1969. Starr School of Painting in Gloucester, when the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center was Massachusetts. developed, a larger Cummings Gallery was created in “Sister Angelica was the frst person I the new building’s lobby. met here,” he recalls. She was his teacher, Her subject matter was traditional, a his faculty colleague, and his friend and mix of fgures, landscapes and still lifes. About a dozen Sister Angelica paintings from confdante from his senior year until her Fittingly, she also painted religious Mercyhurst’s permanent art collection now fll death in 1984. works, from a set of 15 paintings an alcove on the frst foor of Old Main. They’ll be illustrating the Mysteries of the Rosary to included in next summer’s show, but we’d like to “In a selfsh way, I like to think she looked a depiction of the Last Supper that still include as many of her works as possible. at me as someone who could carry out hangs in Egan Hall. her legacy,” he says. “She ofered me a job If you’re the lucky owner of an Angelica original that here as soon as I graduated.” In the late ‘60s, she began to explore you’d be willing to loan for the duration of the show abstract expressionism. Sister Angelica (May 21-Aug. 10, 2018), please contact Cummings Hers are big shoes to fll. What set Sister was never educated in abstracts, and Gallery Director Heather Dana (814-824-2092, Angelica apart, Burke believes, is that she taught only realism to her students, [email protected]) to make arrangements. she was professionally trained, not just in Burke says. “She simply came to the style college classrooms but also in art studios on her own.” around the country. Burke’s favorite Sister Angelica work Bruce and Rochelle Bavol recently donated a pair of Sister Angelica Burke owns several of his mentor’s works, comes from this period: an oil titled paintings to Mercyhurst in memory of Bruce’s parents, Doris M. including more than a dozen charcoal “Storm Clouds.” It perfectly captures the and Michael J. Bavol. Doris Bavol was the niece of Sister Loretta McHale, a former president and professor at Mercyhurst, who fgure drawings from her days at the essence of thunderclouds over Lake Erie received the works from her friend Sister Angelica. Art Students League in New York City, in a somber palette of ochres, browns, one of the best-known art studios in blacks and whites. the country. One is dated March 1931. “Can you picture it?” he asks. “This little Burke says Sister Angelica continued fve-foot nun in full habit sketching live painting in a “garret” on Egan’s fourth models?” foor—with its wonderful lake views— through the late ‘70s, before worsening health forced her to move up the hill to the Mercy Motherhouse. 13 CHRISTINA MARSH: ‘SERVANT HEART’ GUIDES FAMILY, CAREER, COMMUNITY LIFE By Deborah W. Morton

When Christina Carbone Marsh was a As of press time, the innovation district was Mercyhurst senior in 1988, she used her on the threshold of announcing a CEO, and accounting skills as part of a service project the EDDC was not far behind in announcing to help revive a downtown Erie business that its chief executive, both of whom will lead had fallen on hard times. their respective initiatives and take advantage of this historic window of opportunity. A fre had wreaked havoc on the business’s data systems and she remembers going “This is an exciting time for Erie; you can feel downtown twice a week to help build an the momentum building,” said Marsh. “I think online accounting system and a point-of-sale everyone has come to realize that doing platform on the company computer. nothing leads to inertia. We need leadership and resources and that’s why we have taken Today, Marsh fnds herself once again in the these steps.” revival business, but on a far grander scale than she had ever anticipated. She is part of As part of her work, Marsh is studying a growing network of business, community similar cities that have reaped the rewards of and academic leaders intent on transforming downtown revitalization eforts. She recently downtown Erie into a vibrant and thriving witnessed Cincinnati’s rejuvenated center region, complete with family-sustaining city, and earlier this year she and Mercyhurst jobs, appealing housing, local shops, Provost David Dausey were among an entertainment and other amenities, all within entourage that traveled to Chattanooga, a walkable environment. Tennessee, to see frsthand its downtown innovation district. As chief community and economic development ofcer at Erie Insurance, “When you see what other cities have done, Marsh works with the recently formed Erie you can just imagine what we can do in Erie,” Downtown Development Corp. (EDDC), led Marsh said. “We have so much to capitalize by Erie Insurance CEO Tim NeCastro, to build on. We don’t want to be Anywhere, USA. We a coalition of private businesses interested want local retail, local cofee houses; we want in investing in downtown through public- what makes Erie Erie. And it starts with us, private partnerships, real estate development the residents. The visitors will come, and our and favorable fnancing opportunities. children will want to stay.”

As a newly minted Mercyhurst trustee, Yes, she admits to being personally invested. she sees the nexus between the EDDC’s Born and raised in Long Island, Marsh came mission and that of the Mercyhurst-led to Mercyhurst after an admissions counselor Downtown Erie Innovation District, which inspired her with pictures of the campus also partners with Erie Insurance, along with during a college fair at her high school. Velocity Network and McManis & Monsalve Associates. The goal of the innovation “It was so beautiful and there was so much district is to combine the talent from anchor greenery and open spaces,” she said. “You institutions to build partnerships across don’t often see that in Long Island.” sectors, transforming Erie into an innovation hub that attracts new business, funding and After earning her accounting degree at investment. Mercyhurst, she stayed in Erie, taking her frst job at Ernst & Young and working on projects 14 RETIRED PRESIDENT WILLIAM P. GARVEY DIES

Mercyhurst University’s ninth and longest-serving president, Dr. William P. Garvey, 81, died Aug. 9. Dr. Garvey had been sufering from ill health in recent years.

Mercyhurst President Michael T. Victor described Dr. Garvey as a “visionary leader whose 25-year tenure (1980-2005) as Mercyhurst president was marked by a period of tremendous growth and dynamism.”

Widely regarded as an educator, historian and civic leader, Dr. Garvey strengthened the college’s commitment to academic distinction while overseeing more than $45 million in new buildings and renovations to the Erie campus. He also was largely responsible for the opening of Mercyhurst North East 25 years ago.

He founded the Research Intelligence Analyst Program (RIAP), which later emerged as the university’s premier academic program in Intelligence Studies. He also instituted the D’Angelo Young Artist with—of all people—Tim NeCastro. Since 1994, she has Competition, which ran for 25 years, and was responsible for the worked at Erie Insurance, working her way up from corporate construction of the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center as a regional accountant to the vital community position she holds today. arts and culture asset for the Erie area.

Erie is her forever home, and she wants it to be home to her During his early years at Mercyhurst, he was chair of the social sciences sons as well. She and husband Robert have three boys, RJ, 20, and education departments. He was then named dean of the college Noah, 19, and Luke, 14. Like most parents, they want to keep and later vice president of academic services, both appointments under their family close, but that means creating an Erie that their the administration of Sister Carolyn Herrmann. children will want to return to after college.

“What we are trying to do for the millennial, or entrepreneurial He put his scholarship as a historian to practice as an unpaid consultant generation, is to give them what they want: walkability, shared when Erie County pursued adoption of a Home Rule Charter, and he ideas in shared spaces, housing and entertainment all within took a leave of absence from Mercyhurst in 1977 to serve as director reach,” she said. “We are building for the future, but also for the of administration for Russell Robison, the frst Erie County executive. needs of today.” He returned to the college as director of Mercyhurst’s frst graduate program in criminal justice before being elected president in July 1980. Marsh said the Mercy charism isn’t far from her thoughts when doing the work she does. “I do feel, when we do this work in In his later years, Dr. Garvey founded the Jeferson Educational Society, the community, that we are keeping a compassionate eye on a think tank devoted to civic enlightenment and community progress our community members,” she said. “I think that is something for the Erie region. His crowning achievement as a historian and writer I learned from being at Mercyhurst. Having a servant heart guides me in the diverse experiences I’ve had in my career, and came just this year with the publishing in April of his book, “Erie, in life.” Pennsylvania MAYORS: 150 Years of Political History.” 15 MADE AT MNE FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS, STUDENTS HAVE BEGUN NEW CAREERS, OPPORTUNITIES OF A LIFETIME AT MERCYHURST NORTH EAST By Jennifer Smith

BIG-LEAGUE BEGINNING Most would say Cameron Balego got his big And play he did. In 2017 Balego had a standout break when the Chicago Cubs called him up senior campaign with the Lakers as he helped during the 2017 MLB First Year Player Draft. Mercyhurst to a 38-8 overall record. He hit .367 He says it all started with the Saints. (51-for-139) in 46 games with 14 doubles, 10 home runs, and 48 RBI. He also scored 57 runs Growing up in Pittsburgh, he just didn’t ft and had a .698 slugging percentage. the body type or mold that Division I schools wanted. Balego received multiple postseason awards for his senior season, including First Team “In high school I was always overlooked,” said All-Atlantic Region by the American Baseball Balego, 22, who graduated from Mercyhurst Coaches' Association (ABCA) and the National University in May and is currently in Arizona Collegiate Baseball Writers Association playing rookie ball with the Cubs. “Starting my (NCBWA). life not having any teams interested in me… Cameron Balego got his start as an infelder with the Mercyhurst North East Saints. He fnished his career there was a purpose in that. It instilled a work But it’s the brotherhood of playing at with the Lakers this spring and was drafted in June by ethic in me. Mercyhurst that will stick with him. the Chicago Cubs.

“Every day I had a purpose,” said Balego, “The relationships I made with the guys…they who put in extra time in the weight room at played a huge role and helped me become “I’m grateful Mercyhurst and the coaches took Mercyhurst North East and on the feld that who I am today,” said Balego, who still wakes a chance on me,” he said. “I’m forever in debt frst year, attracting the attention of MU’s up in awe of playing in the organization of the for the opportunity to work hard and make baseball program. “I knew what I wanted to do 2016 World Series Champions. “I play for these my family, my university and my community in life. I saw myself playing baseball.” guys, my family and the man upstairs. proud.”

CULTURE FOR GROWTH What does George Custard see when he peers “I wanted to work behind the scenes and help through the microscope? His future. people,” said Custard, who is fascinated with the work, which involves examining cells, The 33-year-old Meadville resident is a student the abnormalities that can occur within and in the Medical Laboratory Technician program coming up with a diagnosis that can help a at Mercyhurst North East. He began the patient. “I’m constantly going over my material program in 2016 after being laid of from his and trying to give it the best I can.” position as a welder at GE. Custard is already looking beyond graduation Initially he was just looking for an education in May 2018 to a bachelor’s degree in cyto that would lead to an in-demand, well-paying technology and then a master’s to become a job to support his wife and three children. But pathology assistant. George Custard is congratulated by Laurie Baker for his passion for pathology is multiplying with making the Dean’s List. His goal is to get a 4.0 in the each semester. “I think this program is going to lead to a lot Medical Lab Technician program and go on to earn a more opportunities to move upwards,” he said. bachelor’s degree in cyto technology. 16 BEAT OF A NEW DRUM Chris Freeman played drums in his frst The father of fve children ages 2-11, who band at 13 and spent the next decade plans to pursue a position as a police ofcer dedicated to that dream, dropping out of in South Carolina, found the attention a high school and practicing four hours per little embarrassing. day, fve days a week. “Just do it,” he said. “There’s people that But by age 27, Freeman and his wife, Kim, make excuses and there are people who knew it was time for a change. He entered make their future.” Mercyhurst interested in a military career, but because of his age decided on criminal Julie McBryar will play for the Saints basketball team while justice. studying to be a respiratory therapist. Suddenly the student who wasn’t engaged in high school was getting straight A’s and staying after class to chat with professors.

3-POINTER “I didn’t get good grades in high school, but For Julie McBryar, an incoming freshman and I didn’t care,” said Freeman, who graduated women’s basketball player, Mercyhurst North East in May 2017 with a 4.0, earning the was a swish for three important reasons. Criminal Justice program award for overall achievement and the Sister Catherine Chris Freeman (right) says he channeled the same determination he used to practice for hours as a Academics. “The Respiratory Therapy program has McAuley Award, the highest academic drummer to achieve a 4.0 at Mercyhurst North East. a proven track record of job placement and allows honor given at MNE. me to go to school fast, efectively, and learn what I need to learn to go out into the workforce and help people,” said McBryar, 18. POSITIVE PATH AFTER LAYOFF Campus. McBryar knew MNE was for her the It was hard for Jasmina Hadzavdic to “One of the things that was so appealing moment she stepped foot on the grounds. imagine that getting laid of could be a was how small the program and classes positive. But now after spending a year in were,” said Hadzavdic. “I didn’t want to get “I got to campus and thought: I have to go here,” the Physical Therapist Assistant program at lost in a big program.” said McBryar, who graduated in a class of 72 from Mercyhurst North East, she’s excited about Cochranton High School in Crawford County, where her life is heading. Here she has the support, she said, with Pennsylvania. Prior to the visit, she had planned to professors who set you up for success, go to college in Pittsburgh and was worried about “This has been one of the best things I and go above and beyond, running study the size of the city and campus. have done with my life,” said Hadzavdic, sessions and getting to know their students. 31, who qualifed to receive the full cost “I loved how small the MNE campus was,” she said. of tuition through the Trade Adjustment “Being laid of was like a reality shock not “It was really welcoming. I didn’t want to just be a Assistance program funded through the to have a full-time job,” she said. “It was number.” U.S. Department of Labor. “It’s going to get scary to think I didn’t have the skills to get my life in a better direction.” another job at the amount I’d like to make.” Athletics. McBryar was a three-sport athlete in high school, playing basketball, softball and Hadzavdic, who as a girl moved to Erie with Now with a 4.0 for the spring semester, volleyball. So being able to fnd a campus that her family from Croatia, has always had an that initial fear of failure from the shock of allowed her to combine both her academic and interest in therapy. getting laid of is just a distant memory. athletic passions was important. “I always saw physical and occupational “I’m excited to play,” said McBryar, who led the therapy as a very uplifting and positive step Cochranton basketball team in rebounds and toward recovery,” said Hadzavdic, who has with an average of 15 points per game helped observed family members during therapy contribute to the team’s going undefeated and sessions and would like to work with older taking the region champ title. “I knew it would be patients in a skilled nursing setting. hard to do sports because respiratory therapy is an advanced program. But I’ve always used sports Just as she was immediately drawn to the to make sure I’m on top of things. It helps me be occupation, Hadzavdic knew Mercyhurst After a job layof, Jasmina Hadzavdic is on her way an all-around better person and student.” North East was the right place for her. to a new career as a physical therapist assistant. 17 LEGENDARY ENTERTAINERS HEADLINE MIAC LIVE SEASON Dr. Brett D. Johnson is confdently predicting a sold-out season for MIAC Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D. Live, the signature performance series from the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture.

In his frst full season as director of programming for the institute, he’s assembled an impressive lineup of eight world-class performers he hopes will inspire and energize Erie audiences.

As President Michael Victor works to revitalize the university as a whole, he’s challenged Johnson to do the same with its performing arts program, which he views as Mercyhurst’s gift to the community.

“Our mission is to bring world-class performers to the Erie region, and to make them available to the broadest possible audience,” Johnson says.

He’s focusing on quality over quantity, trimming this year’s MIAC Live series to eight shows, but securing high-profle names and ofering tickets at markedly lower prices.

The season opens Sept. 28 with Broadway legend Bernadette Peters performing songs from her long and celebrated career. “I’ve seen her on Broadway and in concert and her performances simply lift the spirit,” Johnson says.

The decision to book Peters was an easy one, given the popularity of musical theatre in Erie.

“Musical theatre lovers can see Bernadette Peters right here, without driving hundreds of miles to New York City and paying $125 for their tickets,” he says. Top price for Peters’ concert in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center is just $30.

The MIAC Live season continues with iconic entertainers including comedienne Lily Tomlin and master storyteller Garrison Keillor, as well 18 as award-winning performers from contemporary dance, jazz, folk music For the ffth year in a row, the institute will ofer an artist-in-residence and children’s theatre. Making return visits to the performing arts center program. Before Grammy Award-winning jazz ensemble Turtle Island are two groups that packed the venue last time they were here: dance Quartet performs at Mercyhurst, the musicians will spend three days troupe Pilobolus and Irish ensemble Dan. Dan’s Christmas concert on in the Erie community, visiting organizations like the Barber National Dec. 6 will also feature the Mercyhurst Concert Choir and guest dancers. Institute, the ExpERIEnce Children’s Museum and the Mercy Center of the Arts. The season concludes in April with a performance by Grammy Award- winning folk artist Judy Collins. In a new twist this season, each MIAC Live performance will also welcome a community partner chosen to complement the star’s While they’re the most prominent, the eight MIAC Live events represent interests. For Bernadette Peters, the Humane Society of NWPA will be on only a fraction of the 40 or so performances that the institute presents hand to provide information to concertgoers about adoption of shelter each year. animals. It’s a cause close to the heart of Peters, an animal activist who teamed up with Mary Tyler Moore to found “Broadway Barks.” Mercyhurst also plays host to high-defnition broadcasts from New York’s Metropolitan Opera and London’s National Theatre Live To help keep tickets as afordable as possible, the institute relies on throughout the year. many funding sources, including corporate sponsorships and grants from the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority. To encourage Even more exciting are the performances dubbed the Emerging Artists contributions by individuals, Johnson this year launched The 501 (a Series. nod to Mercyhurst’s address on East 38th Street). Donors who contribute $501 receive premium seats at several events, plus invitations to pre- “We have phenomenal academic programs in music, dance and theatre,” show receptions. Johnson said, “and the title ‘Emerging Artists’ truly refects the caliber of work our audiences will see.” For more information about MIAC’s 2017-2018 season or Oferings this year range from a D’Angelo Department of Music to reserve tickets, visit miac.mercyhurst.edu. If you’d like production of Verdi’s Rigoletto to a staging of the classic musical to be added to the institute’s mailing list, email box ofce comedy Guys and Dolls, a joint efort by Mercyhurst’s dance and theatre programs. manager Annette Gardner, [email protected].

Besides ofering top-notch entertainment, the institute reaches out into the community in many ways.

Visiting artists stage workshops, mini-performances and master classes both on campus and in the community.

19 MERCYHURST HONORS 6 AS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Mercyhurst University honored six also later studied nursing and developed president to sit on the college’s Board of outstanding graduates as Distinguished Wellsprings, a program for the older sisters Trustees and served on the search committee Alumni during Reunion Weekend 2017, held residing at the motherhouse. She worked in that named President Tom Gamble. June 9-11 on the Erie campus. both ministries until retiring in 2013. Sister Patricia Whalen joined the Mercyhurst The Award for Outstanding Achievement Gray taught English and French for 21 years, education faculty in 1970, developing and in a Chosen Field went to John Saxon and then retrained for a second career as teaching courses in elementary curriculum ’89, chief executive ofcer and director of an investment counselor, but she is best and methods. She also oversaw the Cadet dlhBOWLES, the leading supplier of air and known for her work to better her community. Teaching Program and pre-teaching internship fuid management products to the automotive Gray has served on the boards of many experiences, even after she gave up her industry. Saxon had been President and organizations, including Girls, Inc., Worcester regular teaching load to join the Sisters of CEO of DLH Industries since 2004, leading Junior League, Seven Hills Foundation and the Mercy leadership team. Returning to campus the company to record growth. When DLH Women’s Initiative of United Way of Central in 1997, she served as assistant academic dean merged with Bowles Fluidics Corporation Massachusetts. United Way gave her its Lois and later as registrar, retiring in 2016. in 2015, he was chosen to lead the new B. Green Leadership Award, recognizing in company, which employs more than 2,200 particular her work promoting teen fnancial The Outstanding Young Alumnus Award went people at manufacturing and distribution literacy. The Bancroft School gave her its to Simon Arias ’05. locations in Ohio, Maryland, Texas, Mexico and Robert W. Stoddard Award for Outstanding Italy. A certifed public accountant, he earned Community Service, calling her “someone who Arias joined the sales force with American an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He works behind the scenes connecting people Income Life right after graduation. Today, serves on Mercyhurst’s Board of Trustees. to organizations to help make our community at just 33, he’s an agency owner with 12 thrive.” locations in fve states and sits on the Awards for Outstanding Service to the company’s executive council. In 2011 and Community went to Sister Catherine Edward Awards for Outstanding Service to Mercyhurst 2012 he was named AIL’s agency owner of Delaney, RSM ’66 and Maureen Aleci Gray ’65. were presented to Michael Malpiedi ’81 and the year internationally. He is also active Sister Patricia Whalen, RSM ’63. in community service, helping establish a Sister Catherine Edward Delaney taught piano branch of “Inspiring Minds” in his hometown and choral music in diocesan schools, and Malpiedi joined the sales force for Rocket of Youngstown, Ohio, to inspire at-risk earned a master’s degree in music education 101 radio in Erie in 1991 and today is general youth to reach their full potential. His video from Duquesne. Early in her teaching career, manager for Connoisseur Media’s cluster of blog—called The GRIND, for Get Ready It’s she and Patricia Daley developed a preschool six stations in Erie. He joined the Mercyhurst a New Day—ofers daily motivational and curriculum to encourage creativity and Alumni Board in the 1990s, serving for 16 educational messages. A Laker football player, learning through art and music. Forty-seven years while the board’s role expanded to Arias has led groups of alumni to develop years later, the Mercy Center of the Arts is still serving as a voice for alumni with the college the Alumni Hill area and the new video going strong with the addition of science and administration. The board’s president from scoreboard at Tullio Field. dramatic movement to the curriculum. Sister 2002 to 2010, he was the frst alumni board

LEFT: Seated, Sister Catherine Edward Delaney, RSM ’66 and Sister Patricia Whalen, RSM ’63; standing, Michael Malpiedi ’81, Simon Arias ’05 and John Saxon ’89. RIGHT: Maureen Aleci Gray ’65 with President Michael T. Victor and Melanie Titzel, Ph.D. ’80, president of Mercyhurst ’s National Alumni Association.

20 WHEATON HONORED FOR 4 JOIN MERCYHURST TEACHING EXCELLENCE Games, crowdfunding, social BOARD OF TRUSTEES media campaigns, blogging, entrepreneurship … perhaps Four new members were elected to the Mercyhurst University Board of Trustees no faculty member is more adept at during the annual meeting of the board in June. blending his own personal interests with the academic needs of his students than Kristan J. Wheaton, J.D., Susan K. Furr of Erie, a retired registered nurse, graduated professor of intelligence studies. from The Ohio State University and from the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing in Boston. She was employed for That unique merger creates an unparalleled 13 years at Hamot Medical Center in the surgical ICU and educational experience for his students, and has earned cardiopulmonary department and then served as director of him the coveted Teaching Excellence Award for 2017. cardiac education at Hamot, where she met her husband, Erie cardiologist Dr. Charles M. Furr. He successfully uses games to teach intelligence concepts, including several of his own design. In the An active community volunteer, she also serves on the past, Wheaton has successfully used crowdfunding advisory board of the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture and is a former board to fnance construction of his games. He went on to member of the Erie Civic Ballet, the Erie Philharmonic and Temple Anshe Hesed. craft his own crowdfunding strategy, Quickstarter, to help other entrepreneurs accomplish similar results, Paula Garzon of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of particularly on the world’s largest crowdfunding Harvard University and the New York University School of platform, Kickstarter, which recently named Wheaton Law. Currently president of Knowledge for Professionals an “expert” in crowdfunding strategy. Inc., she has previously served as director of business development for Regulatory DataCorp, group counsel for Wheaton is well known for sharing insightful stories American Express Bank, and an associate lawyer with Hahn & about his experiences in the intelligence community Hessen. as a former Foreign Area Ofcer with the U.S. Army specializing in national security. Always willing to Her business roles have included negotiating and documenting transactions, share his ideas with students, faculty, entrepreneurs participating in product developments, and creating educational and training and others in the intelligence community, Wheaton is programs and materials. Married to Dr. Ian Storper, she is the stepmother of a current also author of the popular blog, Sources & Methods Mercyhurst student. (sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com).

Christina Marsh ’88 is a Mercyhurst accounting graduate. A CPA since 1993, she began her career with Ernst & Young and has been with Erie Insurance Group in a variety of positions HYLAND LEADS MNE since 2004. Her experiences include fnance, audit, talent Dr. David C. Hyland has been named vice management, compensation, crisis management/business president for Mercyhurst North East. continuity, innovation and program management. She Previously, he served as associate vice currently serves as the frm’s chief community and economic president for academic afairs and chief development ofcer. academic ofcer of MNE.

Married to Robert Marsh and the mother of three sons, she is active with Erie First In the new role, which he assumed in April, Hyland Assembly of God and has previously served on the board of the Montessori Regional oversees the North East campus as well as its satellite Charter School. See page 14 for a story about her work. campuses at Corry and the Booker T. Washington Center in Erie. He is responsible not only for academics, Daniel J. Moran ’88 also earned his Mercyhurst degree in but also for administrative operations, including accounting and is a Certifed Public Accountant. A senior level Admissions and Financial Aid, IT, Police and Safety, executive with more than 28 years’ experience in the public, Student Life, Athletics, Campus Ministry, Bookstore, private and not-for-proft sectors, he is chief fnancial ofcer Parkhurst Dining and Aramark. and partner with System One. He has helped grow System One, which provides human capital solutions, from $100 Hyland began his career at Mercyhurst in 1995, million frst-year revenue in 2008 to a projected $1 billion holding a joint appointment in the departments of organization in 2017. anthropology/archaeology and biology, and was promoted to full professor in 2008. He has taught 3,500 He and his wife, Nichelle, have two children and live in McMurray, Pennsylvania. students and published or presented more than 100 articles, book chapters, papers, reviews and reports. 21 2017 inductees include (seated, from left) Coach Tony DeMeo, Christie Turak Foster ’11, Danielle Poole Piser ’03 and Amy Lacey-Plumley ’03. Standing: Joshua Helm ’04, Timothy Latimer ’85, Joshua Shields ’11, Martin Sturgess ’77 and Keith Swanson ’99. ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTS FOOTBALL COACH, 8 ATHLETES Mercyhurst University inducted nine members into its Athletics Hall of Fame during Reunion Weekend festivities on June 10. TONY DEMEO JOSHUA HELM TIMOTHY LATIMER she had 106 goals, 15 assists, 106 Head Football Coach, 1981-1987 Men’s Basketball, 2000-04 Football, 1981-84 groundballs, 92 caused turnovers and 29 draw controls. A business- The frst head coach in Mercyhurst A 6-foot-6 forward from Grove A linebacker on Mercyhurst’s sport marketing major, she works football history, Tony compiled City, Ohio, Josh is among the top inaugural football team, Tim still in product marketing for high- a record of 41-21-2 during his performers in team history. He led ranks seventh all-time with 313 growth technology companies that tenure on the Hill and was named the Lakers in scoring during each career tackles and second all-time are building toward acquisition or EIAA Coach of the Year in 1985. He of his fnal three seasons and was with 260 assisted tackles. He’s tied IPO, a career that has allowed her began his head coaching career at named to the All-GLIAC South for 19th in career interceptions to travel extensively in America and his alma mater, Iona College, which First Team as a senior, after two (7) and led the Lakers in tackles in abroad. Now based in Washington, also inducted him into its Hall of earlier Second Team selections. He 1982 with the second-highest total D.C., she took a sabbatical in 2016 Fame. He was a head coach for is ranked fourth all-time in career in program history (111). to solo thru-hike the Appalachian more than 25 years, retiring in 2010 points and career rebounds, third Trail (2189.1 miles). She married after six years at the University in made free throws and fourth in her wife in 2014. of Charleston. A proven teacher total feld goals. After graduation, AMY LACEY-PLUMLEY of the game, he has published he played professional basketball Women’s Lacrosse, 2000-03 numerous books and DVDs and in Europe for four years, earning Amy made an immediate impact DANIELLE POOLE PISER is a popular speaker on the clinic MVP honors in Iceland and frst on the young lacrosse program, Field Hockey, 1999-02 circuit. His most recent book is team All-Netherlands. Now living playing at both midfeld and Women’s Lacrosse, 2000-03 forward positions. She was a Commonsense Rules for Everyday in Charlotte, North Carolina, Danielle was a key defender for Second Team All-American as a Leaders, published by Coaches he’s regional sales manager for both feld hockey and lacrosse. sophomore and First Team All- Choice. Learn more at American Seating. Her biggest athletic accolade was American as a junior. In 60 games, tonydemeo.com. a 2002 First Team All-America 22 selection in women’s lacrosse; she KEITH SWANSON was also honored for her classroom Football, 1994-98 performance. She earned her Keith, a linebacker and key piece doctorate of optometry from The of the Laker defense, was named Ohio State University College of First Team All-American by the Optometry in 2007, did a residency Don Hansen Football Gazette in ocular disease and low vision, in his junior year and followed and is a Fellow of the American that season with a Second Team Academy of Optometry. Today she’s performance in the Midwest a clinical attending to fourth-year Intercollegiate Football Conference. optometry students at the Illinois Keith ranks 11th all-time in career College of Optometry, teaching tackles-for-loss and 19th in total low vision, ocular disease and tackles. Keith now lives in the geriatric optometry. She lives in Cleveland area, where he works for Chicago with her husband, Adam the Bay Village Fire Department Piser; daughter Charlie, 4; and son and is a tactical paramedic with Jackson, 3. the regional SWAT team. He served with the Army Reserves for eight JOSHUA SHIELDS years, including deployment with Wrestling, 2007-11 Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004- In 2009, Josh became the Laker 2005, leaving the military as an E-8/ wrestling program’s frst individual Staf Sergeant. national champion when he won the title at 165 pounds. He was CHRISTIE TURAK FOSTER a three-time All-American and Women’s Cross Country, 2007-09 four-time National All-Academic Christie still holds Mercyhurst honoree and was twice a Super records in both the 5K (17:32) and Region One champion. His winning 6K (20:58) races. She became the percentage (.828) is the second Lakers’ frst women’s cross country highest in program history. Josh All-American in 2009. She was lives in the Pittsburgh area and already a two-time All-Region works as a global category manager runner and two-time All-PSAC NEW SCOREBOARD for Polyconcept North America, competitor, and won numerous which gives him the opportunity academic awards. Christie and ENHANCES TULLIO FIELD to travel the world. He’s also been her husband, Kenny, met on the head wrestling coach at Burrell Hurst cross country team; they Fans attending football, men’s and women’s lacrosse and High School for four years. His frst live in Monument, Colorado, feld hockey games at Tullio Field this fall can look forward state champion, Dakota Deslauriers, with their 2-year-old daughter, to an even better game-day experience thanks to a new LED graduated from Mercyhurst this Makenna. Christie attended the video display and audio system. year. University of Colorado to become

a physician assistant, and works The new scoreboard installed in May features a 15-by-25 MARTIN STURGESS as a pediatric PA. She continued foot video screen that can show everything from live in- Men’s Tennis, 1973-76 running competitively after college; game action and player profles to fan prompts and sponsor A team captain of the Lakers’ 1976 her personal bests of 1:14 for the messages. The new audio technology will ofer higher NAIA National Championship team, half-marathon and 2:44 for the quality sound to fans inside the feld and less “spilled” sound Martin was honored as both a marathon are both Olympic Trial reaching areas outside the stadium. Singles All-American and Doubles qualifying times. All-American. He was also named Student interns are already at work creating graphics to be a Singles All-American in 1975. used during games for all four sports and learning how to Martin was a national champion operate the board. in doubles play in 1976; in singles play, he reached the 1975 national Major donors who helped make the $240,000 project semifnals and 1976 national a reality include John Saxon ’89, Marc McAndrew ’88, quarterfnals. He was a three- Leader Graphics (Pat Ott ’93), Burger King (Patterson Erie time Pennsylvania State College Corporation), Arias Agencies (Simon Arias ’05, Aaron Parks Champion and three-time NAIA ’07, Justin Adams ’05, Christopher Williams ’06, Aaron District 18 champion in singles play. Haynes ’09) and Velocity Network. 23 MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY LAKERS Laker student-athletes excelled this year both in competition and in the classroom – from a 25th-place fnish among 268 schools in the 2016-17 Learfeld Sports Directors’ Cup standings to a third straight year producing the most Scholar-Athletes in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. Read below for a sampling of highlights from winter and spring sports, and visit hurstathletics.com to read more. MEN’S GOLF The Lakers swept all three major PSAC awards: Chris Kupniewski was named Athlete of the Year, Adrian Larsen Freshman of the Year and Ron Coleman Coach of the Year. Kupniewski and Harison Laskey were named All-PSAC First Team and All-Region. Kupniewski tied for 45th at the NCAA Championships in Reunion, Florida. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S LACROSSE The Lakers enjoyed a historic season, matching the program record for In the Lakers’ frst year in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, Keyan wins in a season (24) and making the program’s frst appearance in the McQueen was Ofensive Player of the Year, Greg Weyl was Defensive NCAA Tournament since 1994-95. The team placed third in the PSAC Player of the Year and Chris Ryan was Coach of the Year. Weyl and West for its highest-ever fnish in the division. Angela Heintz and Natalie Benjamin Brooks were Second Team All-Americans, while James Crowe Piaggesi were named to the All-PSAC West First Team, while Alex Artise was a Third Team All-American and McQueen was an Honorable Mention was named PSAC West Defensive Player of the Year. Heintz eclipsed the All-American. All-GMAC honorees included Weyl, Crowe and McQueen 1,000-point mark while Jalin Steel passed 1,000 points for her time at on the First Team; Matt Wells, Derek Richards, Brandon May and Kurtis both Erie and North East. Heintz now holds school records for career Woodland on the Second Team; and Will Agate, Joe Cerio and Evan assists (400) and assists in one season (211), while Piaggesi has records Hollfelder on the All-Freshman Team. for career blocks (180), blocks in one season (64) and career games played (115). WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Lakers rode a fve-game winning streak into the PSAC Tournament MEN’S BASKETBALL fnals before falling to East Stroudsburg. Carly Zimmerman was named Durrell McDonald was named to the All-PSAC West Second Team. The to the All-PSAC First Team while being named Third Team All-American. Lakers fnished with a 14-14 record and fell in the PSAC quarterfnals. Kristin Anderson, Taylor Izzo and Kira Kolb were recognized on the All- MEN’S ICE HOCKEY PSAC Second Team, and Janelle Williams on the All-PSAC Third Team. The Lakers swept American International in the opening round of the WOMEN’S ROWING Atlantic Hockey tournament, but fell in a three-game series to Army The Mercyhurst women placed third at the NCAA Championships as the West Point in the quarterfnals, fnishing 15-20-4. Les Lancaster was an Varsity Four boat won silver medals and the Varsity Eights took fourth. Atlantic Hockey Co-Defenseman of the Year while claiming All-Atlantic During the spring, the Varsity Four squad won gold at the MACRA Hockey First Team honors; Derek Barach was named to the Second Championships. Team. Kyle Dutra signed a contract with the Norfolk Admirals (East Coast Hockey League) and Stephen Hrehoriak joined the Pensacola Ice Flyers (Southern Professional Hockey League). MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING The Lakers fnished their year in the Visitors’ Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in Oxfordshire, England, falling to Edinburgh University. WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY During the spring, the team claimed gold medals in the Lightweight Jillian Skinner and Brooke Hartwick were named All-CHA Second Team Four and Varsity Eight events at MACRA and in the Varsity Eight at the while freshman Maggie Knott made the CHA All-Rookie Team. Kelley Knecht Cup. Steadman ’12 returns to the Hurst as assistant coach this fall. COMING NEXT YEAR: MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING WRESTLING A men’s heavyweight team is being added to the Hurst rowing program. Willie Bohince was runner-up in the 125-pound class at Nationals and A small number of rowers will enroll this fall and recruiting in the coming became the program’s first four-time All-American. Francis Mizia placed year should bring the team up to full strength, with a Men’s 8 ready to third at 165 at the NCAA Championships, helping the Lakers place th compete by fall 2018. Coach Adrian Spracklen says there hasn’t been a 10 as a team. Mizia is now a three-time All-American. Andrew Welton heavyweight team at Mercyhurst since the ‘90s, adding, “It’s exciting to (285), Logan Grass (149) and Wes Phipps (197) also competed at NCAAs. see the program grow and expand its exposure across the country.” Welton was the Super Region One champion in his class as the Lakers placed fourth at the Regional. WOMEN’S TENNIS The Lakers qualifed for the NCAA Round of 16 for the frst time in WOMEN’S GOLF program history with Atlantic Region wins against Shaw and Charleston, Bridget Merten became the frst Mercyhurst women’s golfer to be before ultimately falling to Columbus State. Saioa Gomez de Segura named PSAC Freshman of the Year. 24 was an All-American and PSAC West Athlete of the Year while earning BASEBALL PSAC Champion Scholar, PSAC Spring Top 10 and NCAA Elite 90 academic The Lakers swept the major PSAC West awards as Chris Gonzalez (second awards. Gomez de Segura and Kayla Frost were selected to the All-PSAC base/center feld) claimed Athlete of the Year honors, Russell Lamovec was First Team as singles; Gomez de Segura/Annie Baich and Frost/Adrianna Pitcher of the Year, Vincenzo Lucente (also a pitcher) was Freshman of the Jefress were All-PSAC First Team for doubles. Annie Baich was All-PSAC Year and Joe Spano was Coach of the Year. Gonzalez and Lamovec were Second Team and the Atlantic Region’s Most Improved Player. also Atlantic Region Athlete and Pitcher of the Year. Spano was NCBWA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. Gonzalez, Jimmy Latona and Lamovec MEN’S TENNIS were Third Team All-Americans. All-PSAC West First Team and All-Region The Lakers won their first PSAC championship with a dramatic 5-4 victory honors were claimed by Latona, Lamovec, Gonzalez, Lucente, Cameron over Edinboro. They topped Edinboro again at the NCAA Atlantic Regional Balego, Drew Delsignore and Chris Vallimont. Lucente was All-PSAC West before falling to Bluefeld State. Nenad Terzic and Cormac McCooey were Second Team. The Lakers fnished 38-8 and were ranked No. 1 in NCAA named All-PSAC First Team in both singles and doubles. Terzic was the Division II late in the season. Mercyhurst fell in the PSAC Tournament fnals Atlantic Region Player to Watch and McCooey was the Atlantic Region and then went 1-2 at the Atlantic Regional, which it hosted in Jamestown, Rookie of the Year. Conor McCooey and Sebastian Pardo were honored on New York. Following the season, Balego, a shortstop, was drafted by the the All-PSAC Second Team, and Conor McCooey was the PSAC Champion Chicago Cubs in the 30th round of the MLB Draft. Scholar. SOFTBALL Jolene Teller was named to the All-PSAC West and Atlantic All-Region Teams. Rachel DiBartolomeo was named to the All-PSAC West team and Emily Hair was Atlantic All-Region. WOMEN’S WATER POLO Becky Insalaco was a Second Team All-American and was named to the All-WWPA Second Team. Cristal Maldonado was an All-WWPA Honorable Mention and Jennifer Moshinsky made the WWPA All-Freshman Team.

MERCYHURST NORTH EAST SAINTS WRESTLING BASKETBALL Wrestlers Aaron Erhgott, Derrick Ridgeway, Sam Colbert, Devin Simpson Omar Little was named to the All-Region Second Team, and Peyton and Cornell Wilson qualifed for Nationals, while Simpson was a district McLaurin to the Third Team. champion. LACROSSE BASEBALL In the frst season for lacrosse after a four-year hiatus at North East, The Saints won the Region III Championship and were honored with a Donavan Brown was named to the All-WNYAC First Team and Jacob variety of Region awards, including Coach of the Year Brandon Crum, Norton to the Second Team. Pitcher of the Year Dalton Donachie and Most Valuable Player Josh Anderson. Zach Barrett, Tommy Cannon, Blaze Chamberlain, Donachie, SOFTBALL Kenny Robinson, Jason Swope and Austin Tisch were named to the All- The Saints won their Conference, Region and District titles, and advanced Region Team. Dalton Donachie was named Male Athlete of the Year for to Nationals for the 8th consecutive year, fnishing with a 42-10 record. Mercyhurst North East. Named to the All-WNYAC Team were Lei Guthrie, Mackenzie Hawley, Hannah Larkin, Aren Schwab, Kaelyn Shea and Ashlyn Slusher. Guthrie, Schwab and Slusher made the All-Region Team, while Guthrie, Hawley and Slusher were NFCA All-Americans. Mackenzie Hawley was named Female Athlete of the Year for Mercyhurst North East.

25 THE CHANGING FACE OF CAMPUS The iconic view of Old Main and the O’Neil classes. Or perhaps it was just an attempt to photo from the 1970s, and the large deck at Tower hasn’t changed much over the years. solve drainage problems. In any case, a small the west end of Old Main. Pressed for space, Except for the Mary Garden created in 2012, island in the middle of the pond became a Mercyhurst at one time installed a pair of pre- front campus looks pretty much as it has for popular smoking spot for students. fabricated “deck houses” there. decades. The pond was apparently flled in when Preston Around 1985 the park began to take on its The same can’t be said of the view from the Hall was built near its banks in the early 1950s. present-day look, with thousands of red bricks southwest showing the rear of Old Main. The former pond area served as a parking interspersed with slate walkways. Benches, lot for a while, but that became impractical the landmark Canterbury Clock and the Sister When the photo below was taken back in as buildings started going up around Old Damien Spirit Bell (a gift of the Class of 2005) 1935, Christ the King Chapel and the tower Main and pedestrian trafc through the area complete the look. You can see other changes were recent additions. A large pond (dubbed increased. So in 1973 Sister Maura Smith set in the current photo, as well. Preston Hall has Lake William) flled the area now known as about creating the frst park on the space, added a third foor (home to the Walker College Garvey Park. Legend has it that Chaplain Father adding trees and fowers amid a geometric of Business). And Sullivan Hall has risen where William Sullivan built the pond so that Sister spiderweb design. Notice the two foors of the original deck stood. Pierre Wilbert could breed frogs for her biology Preston stretching south from Old Main in the

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TODAY 27 CLASS NOTES

Mike Pruzinsky ’03 has been ’86. Narda Gatgen LCSW-R has worked Ryan Gibson ’05 and Jaclyn CAREERS AND named sales ofce manager at Reed at New Directions Youth and Family Kerper Gibson ’05 had a Manufacturing Company in Erie. With Services for 25 years and is the clinical daughter, Quinn Marilyn EDUCATION Reed since 2003, Mike previously served director. Narda and Christopher reside Gibson, on Jan. 26, 2017. as assistant sales ofce manager for the in Jamestown, New York. Ryan and Jaclyn, who met Alicia King Redfern ’70 was elected past nine years. He will also continue as on the rowing team at Pennsylvania state organizer of Reed’s account specialist for Afliated Kate Riley ’03 married Cory Palmer on Mercyhurst, celebrate their P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Distributors. Nov. 6, 2016, in a 10th wedding anniversary Organization) at its annual convention small ceremony this September. in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, on Corinne Pitts ’06 graduated in July at the Hermitage Kate Lynch Knecht ’05 June 4, 2017. She was previously the 2016 with an MBA from Virginia Hotel in Nashville, state treasurer of P.E.O. Polytechnic Institute & State University and husband Jef had a son, Tennessee. She in Blacksburg, Virginia. Corinne, who Aedan Michael, on Jan. 20, Tony Pol ’79 retired earned her bachelor’s degree in was walked 2017. Aedan joins big sister as fre chief of the City intelligence studies at Mercyhurst, is down the aisle Addison. of Erie, a position he a workforce engagement manager by her parents, Jack Riley ’74 and Gina held for more than for Accenture in the Washington, D.C., Luzzi Riley ’76. A larger party was held Eileen McGoun Law ’05 10 years. He was a metro area. at Riley’s Pour House (owned by her and husband Adam had their frst child, member of the Fire uncle, James Riley ’79) in Carnegie, Natalie Therese, on April 10, 2016, in Department for more Emily McGuirk ’07, Emily Paskert ’06 Pennsylvania, on Aug. 14, 2016. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. than 33 years. He and Leah Kozlowski ’07 received and his wife, Chris, live in Erie. “25 Under 35” awards from their Katherine Good Graeca high school, Saint Joseph Academy ’06 and husband Ryan Mary Kaliszak ’86 is the aquatics in Cleveland, Ohio, for displaying had a daughter, Emilia coordinator at the Barber National outstanding leadership and having a BIRTHS AND Louise, on Feb. 16, 2017, Institute and recently helped oversee positive impact on their communities. in Erie, Pennsylvania. a revamp of the Barber Institute pool McGuirk is a mental health technician ADOPTIONS area. Artists painted a 32-by-8-foot at Akron Children’s Hospital, where she Carrie ocean-themed mural to ofer swimmers works with adolescents with mental John David ’94 and Karsznia Strickland a calming, beautiful scene. Kaliszak, a and behavioral health issues. Paskert wife Jocelynn had ’06 and husband swimmer at Mercyhurst, was inducted is an intervention specialist at Metro their second child, Brandan had their into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996. Catholic School, the only Cleveland daughter Sullivan frst child, Lucy Catholic elementary school with Hannah David, Louise Strickland, on Chicaga Parson Bauer ’98 has extensive programs to assist refugee on July 15, 2016. Dec. 15, 2016. launched her frst children’s book, students and those with cognitive Sullivan joins big the beginning of a series learning disabilities. Kozlowski is brother Finn. Jeremy Hewitt ’07 designed to “inspire and the assistant head of school and and Kristin Leonard equip our youth with a International Baccalaureate Diploma Jennifer Smolinski Hewitt ’08 had a fre of confdence and Programme coordinator at Montessori Boufard ’02 and Chris son, Cameron Leo, moral conviction of heart High School. Boufard ’02 had a on May 3, 2017. to fully live out their son, Kevin Christopher, life purpose; therefore, Caitlin Ewing ’14 was appointed on Dec. 30, 2015. He Katie Jarocki positively impacting the creative lead at Speakeasy Content joins sister Kathryn and Streets ’07 and husband world in which we all live and share Marketing, owned by the Dallas brother Ryan. Nathan had their frst responsibility.” For more information, Morning News. child together, Sophie visit RaisingInTruth.com. The book Kelly Froelich Irene Streets, on Dec. 22, is available at BarnesandNoble.com, Trent Frey ’14 has accepted a position McColgan 2016. Sophie joins big Amazon.com and WestBowPress.com. as football assistant strength and ’02 and brother Levi. conditioning coach for the UCLA Bruins. husband Victor Laurenza ’02 joined Key Michael had Alicia Santoliquido Private Bank as vice Lauren Kenny ’17 will play Division I a daughter, McCraw ’08M and president, wealth Volleyball at Florida Southern where Moira, in husband Jason had a advisor. His role August 2016. she will study for an MBA and work as a son, Joshua Graham, on focuses on further Jan. 16, 2017. Joshua graduate assistant. development of the Kristen joins big brother region’s high net- McCaskey Robert. worth investment Rice ’02 and management and MARRIAGES AND husband Seth Emily Neder fduciary portfolio. ENGAGEMENTS had their third Roueche ’11 child, Quinn and husband Marie Watt Palano ’02 was promoted Elyse, on Dec. 29, James had a son, to supervisor of data and federal Narda Gatgen ’87 2016. She joins Theodore James, programs within the Seneca Valley married Christopher sister Jillian and School District. Oberg on Oct. 8, brother Collin. on Feb. 22, 2017. 2016, on Longboat Sarah Hinsdale Schnarrs ’02 has been Key, Florida. Maid named chief accounting ofcer/director of honor was of Patterson-Erie Corporation in Erie. Anne Janosko 28 CLASS NOTES Ken Schif, Ph.D., left, with Breaking Bad costar RJ Mitte and ALUMNI DEATHS faculty colleagues Tina Margaret McMahon ’37 Fielding Fryling, J.D., Janet Klempay, Ph.D. ’48 and Clint Jones, Ph.D. Ruth Morey Griswold ’48 Mary Bohrer McDevitt ’48 Jane Kelly McCrone ’50 Lydia Ann Davey Asplund ’52 Therese Strobel Raven ’52 IN MEMORIAM: DR. KEN SCHIFF Mary C. Turner ’52 Mareanne Cole Simmons ’53 Dr. Ken Schif, a member of Mercyhurst’s He was also instrumental in the Sister Michele Leehan, RSM ’55 English faculty for 28 years, died May 26 at development of the Asperger Support Bobbie Kinsinger ’63 the age of 74. Program, which has evolved into the Anne Froehlich Metzger ’64 highly successful AIM (Autism Initiative at Sister M. Stephen Calvin, RSM ’69 Though he retired in the spring of 2015, he Mercyhurst) program. Carmine Sciancalepre Rieder ’73 returned to the classroom in fall 2016 to Mike Emick ’75 teach his all-time favorite course, “Breaking Dr. Schif earned his master’s degree from Curtis J. Brooks ’76 Down Breaking Bad,” one last time. Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of Denver. He is the author Paul Gorniak ’77 A renowned teacher, Dr. Schif was the of two full-length novels, Passing Go, Stephen Joyce ’79 director of the Creative Writing Program and which was nominated for the National Sharon O’Connell McDermott ’79 the annual Mercyhurst Literary Festival and Book Award, and Bender’s Loop, which was Denise Beard ’83 the faculty advisor to Lumen, the literary published by Philanthropy Press in 2013. Christopher Brigham ’91 and fne arts journal. Mary Ellen Bujnoski ’92 Dolores Krainock Dzeskewicz ’92 Neal Hammill Jr. ’93 Yvonne Costelloe ’94 Cynthia Drew ’96 Patricia Kirsch Francis ’96 Kristin A. Schmidtfrerick ’97 Joseph Hauser ’98 Robert J. Vereb ’99 ALUMNI Franklin Fisher ’02 Mari N. Doyle ’04 Amy Shafer Gerrish ’07 CRUISE Gordon Walker II ’08 John J. Groszkiewicz Jr. ’10

MOTHER OF: Linda First Frisina ’81 (Marilyn First) Mary Griswold Garofalo ’74 (Ruth Morey Griswold ’48) MAGICAL RHINE HUSBAND OF: AND MOSELLE Rita S. Schifhauer ’53 (Robert J. Schifhauer)

SON OF: SEPTEMBER 5–14, 2018 Rita S. Schifhauer ’53 (Daniel J. Schifhauer)

FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY: Virginia Edwards William P. Garvey, Ph.D., former president HURSTALUMNI.ORG/CRUISE Thomas Monaghan Robert Rudolph, former music professor Ken Schif, Ph.D., longtime English faculty member 29 Dear Alumni and Friends of Mercyhurst,

We truly appreciate your ongoing support in what has been another momentous year for Mercyhurst. The following pages highlight the names of individuals and organizations who helped us achieve our shared goal of growing our strong and vibrant university. Thank you for helping to make such a positive diference in the lives of the more than 3,500 students across our two campuses. You embody the spirit of Mercy through both your generosity and commitment.

In addition to the second strongest Annual Fund performance in Mercyhurst history, we also saw record-breaking gift pledge activity—more than $6.5 million in a single year. Further, the university secured 23 major gifts in the areas of academics, athletics and capital improvements. The largest of these gifts include:

• The $4 million transformational community economic development project known as the Downtown Erie Innovation District.

• Our new $1.25 million risk management program in partnership with Erie Insurance known as the F.W. Hirt—Erie Insurance Risk Management Program, funded by alumna Betsy Hirt Vorsheck ’77.

• The $1 million investment by Cleveland-based technology company MCPc to fund our new Cyber Security Lab and Network Operations Center.

• A $500,000 donation from alumna Ellen Ryan ’64 and her husband, David, to help fund main foor renovations in Hammermill Library.

A complete list of major gifts and other Department of University Advancement fgures can be found on the following page. These gifts represent far more, however, than simple dollar fgures. Each contribution from the smallest to largest is an investment in the future of Mercyhurst, and the leaders of tomorrow.

Our university community is made special because of the incredible individuals like you who are engaged and active participants in Mercyhurst’s successful future. Again, we sincerely thank you for your support, and look forward to seeing you at a university event soon.

Sincerely yours,

Caleb M. Pifer Vice President External Relations and Advancement Mercyhurst University

30 YEAR IN REVIEW

• Record-Breaking Pledge Activity: $6,520,000 • Record-Breaking Giving Day: $57,773.34 • 28% Annual Fund Increase Over Previous Year: $580,016 NEW MAJOR GIFTS AND PLEDGES SCHOLARSHIPS/ACADEMICS

• Hanchin-Wells Endowed Scholarship: $50,000 • Coletta Irish Study Program: $25,000 This Mercyhurst University Donor Report recognizes • Dream Partnership Oasis Program: $25,000 individuals, businesses and organizations that made • AIM Program Endowed Scholarship: $25,000 gifts from June 1, 2016, through May 31, 2017. • F.W. Hirt – Erie Insurance Risk Management Program: $1.25 million Is your name missing? The reason may be: • Downtown Erie Innovation District: $4 million • Edith L. Trees AIM Program: $22,000 • You made your gift prior to June 1, 2016, or • Patricia Yahn ’50 Art Show: $57,000 after May 31, 2017; • A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust for AIM: $60,000 • You made a pledge instead of a gift. The • New Estate Gifts: $150,000 donor listing includes only gifts received. • Class of 1967 Endowed Scholarship: $37,350 Please note that if you made a pledge during our 2016-2017 annual fund campaign and elected to begin payment after May 31, 2017, you will be listed in next ATHLETICS year ’s donor report; or • Sorry, we made a mistake! Great care has • Velocity Net for Scoreboard: $50,000 been taken to ensure the accuracy of this report. We regret any errors or omissions. • Weight Room Renovations: $35,000 • MAC Scorers Table: $50,000 If your name is missing, misspelled or misplaced, • Anonymous for Scoreboard: $20,000 please feel free to call 814-824-2246 or email [email protected]. We continue to update last • Burger King for Scoreboard: $50,000 name changes as provided. • Anonymous for Hockey Renovation: $50,000 CAPITAL DONOR ROLL KEY: • Henry L. Hillman Foundation for Library: $250,000 • Ellen and David Ryan for Library: $500,000 * Deceased • Patrick Delaney for Mercy Heritage Room: $50,000 • Kern Family Foundation for MNE Kitchen Renovation: $13,000 • Chris Johnson Wine Room: $25,000 + Denotes those who have • Phillips Trust for Zurn 114 Teaching Theater: $30,000 helped Mercyhurst secure a matching gift

~ Emeritus Trustee 31 LEADERSHIP GIVING SOCIETY RECOGNIZES GENEROUS ANNUAL DONORS LEADERSHIP SOCIETY

In the spring of 2016, Mercyhurst University launched the Leadership Giving Society—a society Leadership Giving Circles that provides special recognition and opportunities for those who contribute $1,000 or more on a yearly basis. The name of the Society is deliberate: it highlights the leadership and commitment of its membership toward the institution that they love. The Society is composed of alumni, parents, Catherine’ s Circle $25,000+ trustees and friends who support Mercyhurst on a leadership level each year. Frances’ Circle $10,000 - $24,999

Society members receive various perks throughout the year, including discounts at university- Borgia’ s Circle $5,000 - $9,999 sponsored events as well as at the Bookstore, presidential pre-reception events during Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, and special invitations to dinners hosted by President and Mrs. Victor. Carolyn’ s Circle $2,500 - $4,999

To learn more about the Leadership Giving Society and to become a member, please contact Ryan J. Damien’ s Circle $1,000 - $2,499 Palm ’07, associate vice president for advancement, at 814-824-3320 or [email protected].

Catherine’s Circle Stephen J. Fiedler ’85 Samuel A. McCullough Thomas and Lindsay Frank ’12 ’13 Anthony and Elizabeth Terrence Cavanaugh Marilyn Gunther ’62 Donald F. Mennel ’02 A. James Freeman Paradiso ’83 ’86 Thomas A. Hanchin ’85 Joseph A. Hardy III Anthony Minunni * Richard and Susan Galen Aaron J. Parks ’07 Mrs. Martha M. Hilbert ’59 Margaret A. Heetmann ’65 Elizabeth Piotrowski Philip and Kathleen Gallagher Caleb M. Pifer Mary Ellen Ryan ’64 William and Andrea Jefress Martin and Margret Rychley Dr. Daryl and Michele Georger ’85 James Pluskey Mary Anne Springer ’63 Scott and Amy Cuzzola Kern ’03 ’03 Maureen Gray ’65 Mark H. Raimy Elizabeth Vorsheck ’77 Lev J. Kubiak ’88 Dr. Roy and Rosanna Strausbaugh Robert and Elizabeth Guelcher ’58 Bruce H. Raimy Patricia S. Yahn ’50 Mary E. Lillis Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Thomas B. Hagen Susan K. Reddinger Paul and Judy Little Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ’78 Janis B. Hall ’65 Timothy Reeves Frances’ Circle Robert and Stephanie Suzanne J. Heher ’67 Linda M. Rhodes ’70 Anonymous MacKinlay Jr. ’99 ’99 Damien’s Circle S D. High Eric C. Ridgley ’94 Thomas and Teresa Bone Yvonne J. Maher ’93 Anonymous Helen K. Holliday ’56 Laura M. Rifkin ’92 Mark Stookey & Lisa Chismire Edward Maier Justin H. Adams ’05 Joseph E. Howard ’03 Jack C. Riley ’74 Marc Cipriani ’83 Desmond J. McDonald James M. Adovasio, Ph.D. Peter S. Howard Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Robert and Margaret Coletta Donald and Linda McKeever Renee Amoore Sara E. Jaecks ’05 Shawn and Sharon Rooney Luigi and Nancy Damasceno Leigh P. Middleton David and Leslie Armstrong Joyce A. Jolin ’89 Teresa L. Sackett ’85 Patrick and Candyce Delaney Susan Molinaro ’86 ’90 Dyan L. Jones, Ph.D. Jay and Darby Scalise ’76 ’81 John H. Langer ’95 Joseph O’Donnell Vickiann Atkins Robert A. Judge Gretchen Schmidt ’70 Richard and Jo -Ann Israel Lanzillo Patrick M. and Lucy Ott ’93 ’95 Lynda Barness Elaine A. Kavanagh ’69 Camille R. Schroeck ’68 ’83 ’86 Margaret M. Pietraszek ’68 John and Suzanne Bonamo Gregory and Julie Kessler Karin A. Socha ’03 William G. Lewis Judith A. Pitney, Ph.D ’67 Stacie L. Bortz ’05 Patricia Kirk ’60 Jason R. Staley ’05 Brian Lilly Patricia Poprik Barbara Brairton ’65 Charles G. Knight Ken Stepherson Marc McAndrew ’88 Sec. Thomas J. and Michele Ridge Preston M. Briggs ’06 Scott A. Koskoski ’00 Gerald and Kathleen Stock Owen J. McCormick Mark J. Salvia ’82 Jeanette C. Britt ’94 Patrick and Alesia Kotek ’93 ’94 Susan N. Sutto ’68 John A. Munch ’91 John and Patricia Saxon ’89 ’91 Douglas and Amy Brooks Dr. David and Joan Livingston Frederick C. Tecce Joseph G. NeCastro ’78 P. Kelly Tompkins ’78 Johnny J. Butler Laurel Lockhart ’60 Carrie A. Teodori Jef and Rhonda Plyler Megan L. Verbanick ’02 Donald R. Caldwell Christina M. Marsh ’87 Patricia A. Triandifou ’62 William C. Sennett, Esq. J. Duncan Campbell III Dale and Lynn McBrier Paul and Christine Tufano Gregory Sorce Carolyn’s Circle Doris T. Cipolla James E. McErlane Jane Vacca ’79 Christopher Sorce Mary Ann Baldauf ’85 Emily Costigan ’64 Timothy and Sally McNulty George L. Venuto Jr. ’78 Mary Kay Vona, Ed.D. ’83 Patricia M. Bluemle ’58 Christopher J. Cuzzola ’88 * Gregg Melinson Frank B. Victor ’87 Kyle A. Bogucki ’08 Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ’73 Robert and Emily Merski ’99 ’04 Matthew Whelan ’86 Borgia’s Circle Dario Cipriani ’74 Walter Dalessio Christopher W. Miller Christine Whitman Veronica A. Mitchell ’64 James and Teresa Wild Anonymous Dr. David and Nichole Christina D. Difonzo, Ph.D. ’87 John M. Mizia Jr. Teresa B. Wild Judith M. Alstadt ’53 Dausey ’96 ’97 Todd Dinner Marco and Elizabeth Monsalve Fedor P. Zakusilo Simon A. Arias ’05 Joseph M. Harenza Mary F. Downey, Esq. ’67 Joel Montminy ’95 Barry and Patty Zembower Robert B. Asher Mark A. Holman Michael A. Elnitsky, Ph.D. Joseph Morris, Ph.D. Laura M. Zirkle, Ph.D. Nancy Baldwin Sturtevant David C. Hyland, Ph.D Phil and Christine English Carole Napolitano ’66 Barbara A. Chambers, Ed.D. Reinette B. Jackovic ’63 Pamela J. Farrell, Ph.D. ’89 Lawrence L. New Jefrey Best and Rosemary D. Myron Jones Michael A. Fedele III ’04 Ryan and Sarah Palm ’06 ’07 Durkin ’77 ’77 Robert Y. Kopf Jr. Mary Lou Ferralli ’67 Robert Kopf III Catherine M. Franck ’92

32 O’NEIL SOCIETY HONORS THOSE MAKING PLANNED GIFTS

The O’Neil Society is named for James and Orva O’Neil, whose gifts to Mercyhurst during the 1930s funded not only Christ the King Chapel, but also the adjoining Queen’s Chapel and the tower where it resides, now an iconic landmark on the campus. Their generosity in making the frst planned gift to the university has inspired dozens to follow with gifts of their own. Individuals who have included Mercyhurst in some sort of planned gift are provided membership in this special society.

Planned gifts to Mercyhurst can help grow a number of key areas at Mercyhurst, and can be made with no impact to one’s quality of life. There are a variety of vehicles used to help fund planned gifts, including estate gifts, retirement plans, life insurance policies, charitable trusts, and more. Oftentimes planned gifts can be arranged in a very simple manner with one’s estate attorney or even retirement fund administrator.

Members of the O’Neil Society are invited annually to a series of special events on the campus, and often work closely with members of the Advancement staf to help identify how they want their future gift to be used by the school. The list below includes friends whose planned giving is known to the university, while others wish to remain anonymous. For more information on making a planned gift, please contact Ryan J. Palm ’07, associate vice president for advancement, at 814-824-3320.

Virginia Adair ’61 Margaret Clark Filson ’34 * Deborah O’Keefe ’70 Sandra Adams, ACFRE ’69 Thomas M. Frank ’73 Jane C. Olson ’51 * Dorothy Bryan Adema ’34 * Charles M. Furr, M.D. Ryan and Sarah Palm ’06 ’07 Marjorie M. Alge ’37 * Collette Stegelske Gabreski ’40 * Barbara A. Perry, Ph.D. ’57 Elizabeth H. Ashton ’47 * William P. Garvey, Ph.D. * Josephine Pezzich Warren Baer Jeanette Gerace ’57 Jennifer E. Piccirillo ’03 Michael R. Ball ’01 Coletta C. Ginnard ’49 * Judith Pitney, Ph.D. ’67 Jane Barr * Maurice W. Gjertsen * Norman W. Plumb * Loretta Crowley Bauer ’45 * Catherine Ryan Gray ’33 * Richard J. Porter ’89 Corrine Beck * Herbert and Catherine Hafenmaier Roderick I. Power ’90 Florence O’Neil Bernard ’38 * Adelaide M. Hagar ’38 * Bruce H. Raimy J. Boyd and Joan Bert Jr. Doris M. Haley * Josephine Rakow, D.O. Margene Betts * Martha M. Haley ’43 * Virginia Rathbun ’61 Barbara Brairton ’65 Mary M. Hanlin * Janette E. Regner ’47 Ruth M. Braunger ’36 * Margaret A. Heetmann ’65 Mary Robaskiewiez Robie ’29 * Mary Rita Brennan ’38 * Marilyn Heibel ’61 Carolyn Ruth ’63 Alice Martin Brugger ’36 * Homer P. Herman * David and Harriett Schaper ’43 * Ruth D. Brugger ’41 * Elizabeth A. Hilbert ’58 William M. and Frances Schuster * Gary L. Bukowski ’73 and Roberta Donley Bukowski ’78 F. William and Audrey Sitter Hirt ’49 * Pauline Scott * Noel J. Burgoyne ’57 Georgia M. Hitchcock * William C. Sennett, Esq. Donald and Frances Q. Buseck John F. Jageman * Mary Jane Walsh Seubert ’44 * Daniel E. Cabanillas ’97 Doug and Jean James * Gary J. Shapira, Esq. Del* and Jean Caryl Mary Louise Kaufman ’53 Frank P. Sirotnak ’76 Barbara A. Chambers, Ed.D. ’60 Rosemary Kaveney ’54 The Rev. Eldon K. Somers * Josephine Ciancaglini ’56 Teresa A. Kelly ’49 * Martha Soroka ’70 Dario Cipriani ’74 Jane E. Kerstetter ’78 James B. Spiegel Diane Wawrejko Cochran ’78 Martha Mary Kessler ’37 * Laraine E. Stewart ’82 John and Emily Costigan ’64 Bonnie Kinsinger ’63 Dr. Roy and Rosanna Strausbaugh James K. Crawford ’87 * H. Vira Holish * Jane Theuerkauf Judith Young Crews ’64 Scott A. Koskoski ’00 Gloria Corrado Thompson ’44 * H. Patricia Curran ’52 Ambrose Kronenwetter * Raymond L. Tipton, M.D. ’77 Dr. George* and Mary D’Angelo Barbara Lacinak ’73 Arloween Zurn Todd * Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ’73 Cecilia S. Leandro ’04 Louis J. Tullio * William Dehouske Gary and Jeanne Q. Lillis ’76 Marguerite A. Urban * Louis and Rose Marie Laskey Disorbo ’60 Mary E. Lillis ’56 * Lynn Varricchio ’69 Msgr. John Dollinger * Frances Malaney ’37 * Holly A. Villella ’79 Jean J. Donovan Margaret J. McMahon ’37 * Barrett C. Walker, D.D.S. Joan Dori ’50 Mary Michener ’74 * Mary Daley Wallace ’33 * Brian M. Dougherty, Ed.D. ’83 Frances Mientkiewicz ’43 * Rita A. Weiss ’57 Margaret Dupre ’61 Anthony Minunni * Evan R. Wernecke ’05 Kathryn Barber Durkin * Marco and Elizabeth Monsalve Thomas R. Weschler * Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ’77 and Jefrey Best ’77 Adaline B. Morelli ’37 * Judith A. Wieczorek ’61 Albert* and Mary Duval Helen Fabian Mullen, Ed.D. ’47 * Mary B. Wiedel ’84 Kathleen A. Dwyer ’62 Robert B. Munson ’94 * Terry Wilson Judith Emling ’66 M. Katherine Murray ’77 Mary Winston ’41 * Michael Eugene Falk ’89 James* and Elinor D. Nally Patricia S. Yahn ’50 May Lou Ferralli ’67 Ingeborg Loesch Nelson ’54 * Mary E. Yonkers ’69 Patricia J. Fessler ’50 * Nancy J. Norberg ’64 Eileen Zinchiak ’80 33 MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY 2016-2017 DONORS

TRUSTEES ALUMNI Margaret Phelan O’Connell Joan Coyle Clark CLASS OF 1960 Sister Mary Ann Bader, RSM ’73 CLASS OF 1943 Edith Harris Reichert Donna Nashwinter Kellick Participation 35% Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ’73 Participation 50% Patricia Kuharsky Kreger Total Giving $10,690 David J. Dausey, Ph.D. ’97 Total Giving $40 CLASS OF 1952 Mary Skelly McIlwee Leadership Giving Society Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ’77 Mary Kloecker Featherstone Participation 17% Marcia Meagher Barbara Chambers, Ed.D. Stephen J. Fiedler ’85 Total Giving $185 Ann McGinnis Minnium Patricia Cavanaugh Kirk Mary Ann Fahey Boulet Mary Bacon O’Brien Laurel Lockhart A. James Freeman ~ CLASS OF 1945 Elizabeth Slater Cooper Barbara Stone Perry, Ph.D. Shannon B. Holley ’17 Participation 25% Arlene Murphy Nuckton Sylvia Podbielski Stewart Constance Frank Alexandre Joanne M. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Total Giving $175 Marilyn Garden Seach Rose Marie Zinni Szadek Elizabeth Dorsogna Cano Andrea T. Jefress, M.D. Alvina McDermott Johnston Kristin Herskind Trainham Joan O’Malley Ciucevich Myron Jones ~ Rita Rittenhouse Wiesner B. Scott Kern CLASS OF 1953 Barbara Story Walk Patricia Green Conner + Lev J. Kubiak ’88 Participation 32% Rita Walter Weiss Joan Bye Dengler CLASS OF 1946 John H. Langer ’95 Total Giving $5,900 Carolyn Golanka Euliano Participation 13% Richard A. Lanzillo, Esq. ’83 Leadership Giving Society CLASS OF 1958 Patricia Walsh Hills Total Giving $300 William G. Lewis Judith Carlow Alstadt Participation 35% Karol Clayton Hutton Rebecca Sullivan Chevalier Brian Lilly Total Giving $5,315 Mary Bescher Johnson Robert D. MacKinlay Jr. ’99 Janet Davis Aroh Leadership Giving Society Mary Lou Kelly CLASS OF 1947 Yvonne J. Maher ’93 Joann Weaver Johnson Patricia Murphy Bluemle Margaret McGaughey Keough Participation 36% Desmond J. McDonald Mary Dwyer Kaufman Elizabeth Schnatter Guelcher Gayle Cummings Martin Total Giving $450 John A. Munch ’91 Mary Anne Rawa Kingsley Mary Stark Miller Geraldine Meahl Baron Joseph G. NeCastro ’78 Patricia Liebel Audrey Havunen Burns Carolyn Heyl Mraz Mary Mohr Lamp Margaret Meagher Norma Schaberl Skrypzak Sylvia Haise Colson Mary Anne Schubert Obmann Viola Schwabenbauer Pietraszek ’68 Marilyn Harkins Tripp Barbara Jakubowski Costello Adele Ontko Maryellen Knauer Sullivan Bruce H. Raimy ~ Catherine Misfeldt Dickey Marlane Franco Paruso Mary Ellen Ryan ’64 CLASS OF 1954 Ruth Friel Doyle Joan Kostolansky Santangelo CLASS OF 1948 Mark J. Salvia ’82 Participation 29% Elizabeth Wahl Hilbert Wanda Toth Snyder Participation 24% John W. Saxon ’89 Total Giving $1,410 Alberta Hain Jobczynski Total Giving $385 William C. Sennett Esq. ~ Vija O’Deiko Liepa Mary Hayes Schulz CLASS OF 1961 Doris Wright Atkinson Melanie R. Titzel ’80 Ann Kennedy McMahon Kathleen Kurucz Simonyi Participation 27% Rachel Brown Daub P. Kelly Tompkins ’78 Dorothy Negro Marguerite McLaughlin Weibel Total Giving $2,495 Elizabeth Rock Kirby Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ’78 Harriet Downing Sala Jean Criswell White Leadership Giving Society Margaret Mischick Mikolay Mary O’Donnell Schultheis Anonymous Theresa Sabella Palumbo PRESIDENT’S Janet Bremmer Willis CLASS OF 1959 ASSOCIATES Participation 31% Virginia Rossoni Adair CLASS OF 1949 Total Giving $42,705 Mary Connell Simon A. Arias ’05 CLASS OF 1955 Participation 19% Leadership Giving Society Marilyn Heibel Jefrey M. Best ’77 Participation 20% Total Giving $615 Martha Wurst Hilbert Rita Hinman Lohan Dario Cipriani ’74 Total Giving $690 Alice Feehley Crotty Mary Alice Rodgers Morga Marc Cipriani ’83 Patricia Egan Langmyer Jean Brauch Scott Carol Bocan, Ph.D. Maureen Schedlin Nickel Amy Cuzzola-Kern Joanne Harlovich Potlas Helen McDonough Sennett Eleanor Cavanaugh Eileen Quinn Nill + Thomas D. Falasca, D.O. Mary Ree Theuerkauf Travers Patricia Vanderveldt Wood Patricia Hooper Connolly Virginia Accetta Rathbun Thomas M. Frank ’13 Caroline O’Connor Weber Yvonne Antill Donovan Susan Avery Royer Elizabeth A. Guelcher ’58 CLASS OF 1950 Nancy Plunkett Evans Patricia Pepper Shevchuk Kyle J. Hinsdale ’00 CLASS OF 1956 Participation 25% Mary Ellen McGovern Carol Sullivan Scott A. Koskoski ’00 Participation 14% Total Giving $57,802.62 Higley, Ph.D. Ann Titus Marc McAndrew ’88 Total Giving $2,025 Leadership Giving Society Barbara Matts Kolstee Robert E. Merski ’99 Leadership Giving Society Patricia Sontheimer Yahn Rosalie Bablak Lariccia Christopher W. Miller Helen Kennedy Holliday CLASS OF 1962 Emma Newby Mason, Esq. + Lawrence L. New Participation 41% Joan Riley Dori Nancy Hendershot Prenatt Jared E. Oakes ’00 Martha McNulty Cuddy Total Giving $8,360 Mary Slater Dowling Frances Reynolds Quadri Jack C. Riley ’74 Carole Roberson Dyne Leadership Giving Society Miriam Gemperle Cynthia Ryan Reardon Jay Scalise ’76 Marilyn Genck Newsham Marilyn Millard Gunther Elaine Schwab Jason R. Staley ’05 Margaret Hirsch Whyte Patricia McMullen Triandifou CLASS OF 1951 Lois Vosmus Susan N. Sutto ’68 Participation 44% Joan Hotchkiss Welch Barry C. Zembower CLASS OF 1957 Rosemary Asher Total Giving $1,300 Helen Zimmerman, Ph.D. Participation 41% Shirley Banic Jane Shapp Comerford Total Giving $1,736.71 Elizabeth Filicky Begalla Ann Deckop Dorothea Morell Brown Mary Bresnan Bukta Joan Oster Harf Noel Jaeger Burgoyne Susan Bye Cain Aileen Yueh Huang Patricia Klein Burton Margaret Lynch Cammarata Sally Carlow Kohler Joyce White Caruso 34 Mary Costello CLASS OF 1964 CLASS OF 1965 CLASS OF 1966 Kathleen LaCamera DeSante Patricia Sullivan Crowley Participation 30% Participation 31% Participation 23% Kristine Monroe Fapore Denise Dwyer, Ph.D. Total Giving $126,058.82 Total Giving $19,701 Total Giving $2,200 Diane McKeon Friske Kathleen Dwyer Leadership Giving Society Leadership Giving Society Leadership Giving Society Mary Mehl George Anastasia Konkoly Eckstein Emily Lincoln Costigan Barbara Brairton Carole Stoiber Napolitano Mary Grace Rocco Goosev Judith Jones Herber Veronica Sikora Mitchell Maureen Aleci Gray + Constance Fuhrman Haibach Carolyn Schehrer Kervin Mary Ellen Hammond Ryan Janis Bodnar Hall Sandra Selva Belfore Mary Bernas Heiges Jeannie Jackson McGinley Margaret Hock Heetmann Christine Czapleski Barbara Kosciolek Rita Quinn McGowan Delores Waida Bargielski Mary Magnotto Wood Mary Daly Divina Barbush Leitch Jean Reynolds Miller Mary Daschbach Bittner Susan Heutsche Dunn Donna Gemma Nolf Julia Ahern Nelson Mary Nash Butke Ann Kleindinst Abbate Judith Emling Mary Jane Prosser Parrish Patricia Richards Ogilvie Carol Weber Collis Phyllis Aiello Mary Graham Fatica Judith Bauer Salcedo Mary Stadter Rinderle Judith Young Crews Julie Hettish Baranich Dorothy Delaney Glover Judith Oliver Samson Jeanette Borczon Shannon Mary Joyce Demetter Mary Mahaney Baumeister Nancy Way Landis Marikae Sorvelli Moraski Wendy Beezub Devarieux Mary Blum Gail Wozniak McMahon Patricia Gloekler Sulkowski CLASS OF 1963 Sister Mary Felice Duska, RSM Mariann Daniello Budas Kathleen Keim Meko Sigma Stacey Toth Participation 23% Maureen Fiedler Marcine Chmielewski Antoinette Cuneo Pavlik Patricia Swaney Wellington Total Giving $43,085 Ellen Becker Finn Maryce Jaeger Cunningham Ann Mikluscak Schmidt Barbara Brown White Leadership Giving Society Marilyn Smith Grasso Virginia Gorsak DeGironimo M. Suzanne Sontag, Ph.D. Marion Hughes Young Reinette Boling Jackovic Joan Kreutter Jarzomski Patricia Hodgkiss Elder Mary Hull Stiles Mary Anne Kern Springer Ilona Suto Klein Anne Ledoux Erwin Mary Berlofa Temple CLASS OF 1968 Maryann Cuneo Komazec Bonnie Morris Gerace Sabina Wells Participation 24% Rita Strobel Bajura Carol Mueller Lyons, Ph.D. Janice Horvath Gies Genevieve Mastrian Wiesen Total Giving $14,540 Nancy Ryby Delp Theresa Donohue Medlock M. Celia Coletta Hoke Marylouise Young Leadership Giving Society Mary Wernet Eichelsdorfer Josephine Fiorvanti Pelham Carol Klein Jeanne Keim Phillips Judith Spaeder Kendziora Harriet Kantor Raia Ann Sheridan Kreider CLASS OF 1967 Margaret Meagher Pietraszek + Alice Welte Krause Jane Reed Patricia Lawlor Participation 43% Camille Tyczkowski Schroeck + Dorothy Smith Kuzneski Mary Carlow Schlaudecker Marcia Rzepka Mestrits Total Giving $17,756.67 Susan Sutto Judith Stark MacMillan Donna Gottry Trautman Elaine Berchtold Migchelbrink Leadership Giving Society Patricia Linn Maggi Marilyn Schreiner Wagner Mary Dunn Moore Mary Kelly Downey, Esq. Carole Borkowski Margaret Glembocki Mango Marlene Reich Wagner-Bartak Mary Naegle Mary Lou Gonda Ferralli Linda Salem Burtis Gail Gleason Milgram, Ed.D. Barbara Heibel Nason Susanne Geltch Heller Kathleen Deger Byrnes Kathleen Lynch Murphy, Ph.D. Katherine Scott Judith Pitney, Ph.D. Jane Carney Judith Wozniak Rainsberger Velma Cloyd Shipley Maureen Milan Carroll Carolyn Anderson Ruth Susan Smith-Beidler Mary Auth + Cheryl Kremp Carver Amy Skinner Sargent Camilla Kane Stadtmueller Rosalie Barsotti Maureen Good Dalton Sister Patricia Whalen, RSM Ann Langmyer Ward Jeanne Bricher Bender Susan Donahue Deet Susan Wurzbach Monica Lopushansky Boscarino Elaine Wilson Dullea Katherine McCarthy Cantoni Rita Guenther 50-YEAR CLASS CELEBRATES Members of the Class of 1967 gathered at Mercyhurst in June to celebrate their golden reunion. Reunion Weekend allowed plenty of time for sharing memories, but the women also learned how the campus has expanded and changed.

The group enjoyed dinner at a local favorite, Mi Scuzi Restaurant, a wine tour at Mazza Vineyards, and a downtown excursion with Erie Food Tours. Along with the of-campus activities, classmates were honored during a special 50th anniversary dinner at which they received ceremonial golden Mercyhurst University diplomas and gold roses. Many spent the weekend in Warde Hall.

A highlight of the weekend was presentation of a check for $37,350 to President Victor. The generous gift made possible by the support of many class members will create an endowed scholarship.

Members of the Class of 1967 who celebrated their 50th anniversary during Reunion Weekend included: (Row 1, from left) Kathy LaCamera DeSante, Mary Mehl George, Jane Prosser Parrish, Mary Bernas Heiges; (Row 2) Donna Gemma Nolf, Suzanne Geltch Heher, Kathy McCarthy Cantoni; (Row 3) Marikae Sorvelli Moraski, Judy Oliver Samson, Kristine Monroe Fapore, Mary Kelley Downey, Shirley Miller Schilling; (Row 4) Judy Bauer Salcedo, Diane McKeon Friske, Mary Lou Gonda Ferralli; (Row 5) Connie Fuhrman 35 Haibach, Patty Wellington, Jeanne Bricher Bender, Silvia King, Rosalie Barsotti. Anne Canali Hermann Susan Gardner DeCarlo Barbara Baum Rendos Peter Quell Richard Streich Elizabeth Barczak Horrigan Christa Vaughen Duvon Juanita Stein Ried Georgette Urgo Schriefer Cynthia Kowalewsky Way Christine Keim Iwig A. Staynof Gigliotti Elizabeth Blood Sammartino Jane Scura Sheila Holquist Kenyon Valerie Mangin Goossens Susan Dieteman Schmitt Claudia Karl Tiberi CLASS OF 1977 Sylvia King Cullingford Christine Bojt Greene Patricia Schramm Frances Daniels Tucker Participation 16% Sharon Labosky Kirk Barbara Liedtke Hutzelman Jean Shirley Paul West Total Giving $261,477 Patricia Nicolette Loncto Eileen Kraus-Dobratz Kathleen Slavin John Wojdyla Leadership Giving Society Judith Sandrock Long Sharon Malizia, Ph.D. Ann Willems Ann Capoccia Zieno Jefrey Best Suzanne Metzo Metzo Diane Molvin Myers Linda Ruddy Zaycosky Rosemary Durkin, Esq. Mary Pacileo Paulitz Mary Cerk O’Connell CLASS OF 1975 Elizabeth Hirt Vorsheck Carole Kaminski Petrungar Pamela Kline Parenti CLASS OF 1973 Participation 11% Janet Boling Powers Ellen Wilson Paulucci Participation 16% Total Giving $3,085 Kathleen Martz Althof Rita Banic Pyrdek Alicia King Redfern Total Giving $3,930.08 Veronica Arata Kerrin Benson Bloomquist Judith Porter Rosenbaum Elizabeth Zimmerman Leadership Giving Society Mary Klescz Baker Eva Procopio Blutinger Mary Patalon Schaaf Schessler Mary Ellen Dahlkemper Edward Bury Patricia Mullaugh Burch, R.N. Shirley Miller Schilling + Jeannie Delucia Stang Daniel Cannon Valorie McIntyre Catalano Barbara Kahl Shutes Cynthia Slavin Stanley Sister Mary Ann Bader, RSM Mary Waida Coan Ann Condon Clark Karen Markgraf Turner Karen Burke Traskey Allan Belovarac, Ph.D. John Crupi Denis Coan Juliann Gillespie Uritus Kathleen Bennett Burgett John Daley Donald Douglas CLASS OF 1969 Rose Mary Hanson Weber William Chiodo Evelyn Bogdanski Depalma Dan Foley Participation 21% Lori Weiner Wellman Susan Hurley Corbran Russell Franklin Mark Folland Total Giving $3,615 Patricia Flanagan Stella Matusak Gillick Maryann Lynett Frontino Leadership Giving Society CLASS OF 1971 Patricia Jurewicz Flynn Geraldine Sica Guyton Deborah Duda Gale Elaine Kolat Kavanagh Participation 14% Gail Gerono Diane Snee Hofman Robert Gaughan Total Giving $1,996 Martha Tech Kosiorek Daniel Kathman Mary Horvath Sandra Adams Julia Bandecca, Esq. Barbara Lyon Lacinak Patricia Campbell Kubicek Thomas Hubert Judith Lynch Allison Susan Quadri Blecki Linda Marsh Loesch Kristina Reichenbach Lee Paula O’Polka Klinger Christine Syguda Bailey Jean Bojalad Jay Marcinowski Catherine Riehl McMillin Anne Summerville Koch Jeannette Little Barczynski Rebecca Smith Christopher Mary Martin Cynthia Kern Miller Joan Mohr Krist Maureen Walsh Brennan Joann Smith D’Ambrosio Maureen Sullivan Maus Beverly Welsh Pini Mark Long Denise Madden Campedel Candace Kilbourne Filios Carol White Mohamed Jon Sedelmyer Olivia Longo Martin Paula Semrau Coats Mary Zampogna Frank Joan Page Moore Laura Grotzinger Thomforde Linda Storer Meier Rita Adams Daub Sue Luttrell Hollandsworth Marie Oliveri Olczak Marsha Turos Richard Miller Rosanna Pilarski Deniro Lee Martell-Bearse Christine Patalita Pardini Kathleen Loughney Vaughan Mary Murray Marcella Mikulec Galitsky Sister Lisa Mary Linda Thanos Parks Sam Veneziano James Perfetto Barbara Gutoski Johnson McCartney, RSM Robert Parks Deborah Zera-Laughlin Sheila Walsh Richter Mary Delaney Jackson Anne Meyer-Wilber Thomas Richter, Sr. Eileen Delsordo Ritchie Belle Anderson Koncewicz Frances Jurewicz Moyles Marlene Palmer Rupp CLASS OF 1976 H. Charles Schmidt Mary Lipani Nancy Ryan, M.D. Mary Beth Jawdy Santucci Participation 10% Judith Mahoney Streich Judith Meseck Claudia Weeks Seegraber Barbara Luttrell Siers Total Giving $3,410 John Strickland Irene Ryan Mortko Gloria Leon Sertzen Victoria Yurcovic Wyten Leadership Giving Society Debra Stumpf Mary Morton-Bliley Dorothea Volzer Skowron Vickiann Limoggio Atkins Jolyda Sanchez Swaim, Esq. Diane Zareski Piper Wendy McCabe Weber CLASS OF 1974 Jay Scalise Raymond Tipton, M.D. Therese Zupsic Reese Participation 13% Gregory Vogelman Ann Brugger Schoeller CLASS OF 1972 Total Giving $5,603.00 David Abbott Kenneth White Emily Fatica Sertz Participation 23% Leadership Giving Society Valerie Sherrange Crofoot Kathleen Kelley Smith Total Giving $2,356.08 Dario Cipriani Patty Malloy Crupi CLASS OF 1978 Rosalie Hodas Tellers Dennis Andres Jack Riley Roseanne Quain Daley Participation 11% Lorraine Tucker Wellington Mary Cosgrove Andres, Esq. Michael Dougan Total Giving $36,441 Mary Fisher Yonkers Thomas Becht Eleanore Grelewicz Anderson Terry Frontino Leadership Giving Society Michele Rucinski Burke Mary Ambron Baldwin Frank GarwolII Joseph NeCastro CLASS OF 1970 Sheila Sullivan Coon Gerard Barron Elisa Guida P. Kelly Tompkins Participation 19% Darlene Hilfker Cushman Shelle Lichtenwalter Barron William Guyton George Venuto, Jr. Total Giving $4,225.08 Mary Lou DeLuca Lee Pitonyak Belovarac Robert Hofman Patrick Weschler, Esq. Leadership Giving Society William Dopierala, Esq. Deborah Humphreys Byars Michael Lattanzio Patricia Bailey Zembower + Linda Colvin Rhodes, Ph.D. Deborah Doucett Russell Felix Jeanne Quinn Lillis Gretchen Schmidt Mary Federici, Ph.D. Phyllis Alberia Herbstritt Andrew Martin Judith Skrzypczak Bekeny + Stephanie Leon Fragle Maureen Hunt Hinkle Daun Miller Diane Blake Gertrude Bayer Ben Greishaw Maria Kanicki Johnson Ruth Gleisner Oligeri Cynthia Byham-Perfett Rosemary Blieszner, Ph.D. Karen Amon Hafey Cecilia Kelly Ladd Debi D’Alessandris Parisi Patrick Dunn Sylvia Kengersky Bosner Betty Frank Jones Peter Maynard, Esq. Mary Raferty Valarie Ferro Sheila Boss Deborah Benson Kathman Jon Myrick Nancy Borowski Recker John Gable Elaine Marsh Britton Beverly Skrobacz Kostek Arthur Oligeri III Thomas Ritchie Rodger Gregorich Sharon Parlock Brunkow Jane Brown Olowin Christine Dodd Pettinelli Patricia Kazy Rotar Sue Berardinelli Koester Mary Grace Cross Brustrom Janet Adams Phillips Robert Pettinelli Frank Sirotnak Lisa Manendo

36 Photo: Curtis Waidley ‘19

Kathleen Megnin Millay, R.N. Gerard Mills G. Frederick Null Edwin Negron Sharyn Hurst Nutter Mary Jo Cancilla Pittock Q. Gregory Orlando + Jeanne Sabol Victoria Reider, Esq. Melanie Titzel, Ph.D. John Robertson Robert Tobin James Scarpitti Gerard Waidley Mary Bundy Urash Arthur Weindorf Darlene Keith Weber Charlotte Williams Witosky Eileen Zinchiak CLASS OF 1979 Participation 13% CLASS OF 1981 Total Giving $3,441.69 Participation 17% Leadership Giving Society Total Giving $2,335 Jane Ryan Vacca Leadership Giving Society Darby Patton Scalise Richard Bachmaier Mary Leone Baniszewski Kimberly Amon Joann Desantis Barnes Thomas Chybrzynski Gregory Bires C. Michael Conroy Scott Brechbuehl Mary Lou Canan Conroy David Cherico James Daley PATRICIA S. YAHN Ronald Coleman Patricia Stolar Demharter Timothy Cooney Barbara Carlin Disanti Philip Dubsky Christine McCloskey Eacho Shelagh Murphy Dubsky Paula Miller Eller ENDOWS JURIED John Gregory Andrew Findlay Raymond Gruss, Esq. Betsy Herzog Frank Cynthia Haines Linda First Frisina Cynthia Casali Hawthorne Katherine Funari Geisaka Colleen Heher Kerr Lisa Dufy Gundel STUDENT SHOW Rosella Bender Kwitowski Mary Beth Barrett Habel Susan Wike Laurie Carol Farrelly Hopper Walk through the halls of Mercyhurst University and you’d be hard pressed not Diane Masterson John Leisering to see the subtle infuences of alumna Patricia Sontheimer Yahn ‘50. A student of Barbara Matlak Michael Malpiedi the late Sister Angelica Cummings, after whom Cummings Art Gallery is named, Lynn McMasters Alice Buzzy Maxim Yahn’s youthful passion for watercolors found its early cultivation at Mercyhurst. Andrew Miller Kathleen Wilson Monroe Anthony Pol Karen Bowlby Nasca During the ensuing years, Yahn, who is now 88, contributed to many art shows Richard Porris Maureen Connelly Negron and supported numerous exhibits on the Hill. Her painting of a quiet beach Robert Respecki Mary Roche Neubert landscape with an almost spiritual pull, which adorns President Michael Victor’s Kevin Rozich, Esq. Elaine Loftus Oliver Christine McGraw Shofestall Pierre Priestley ofce, is one of several she donated to the university. Phyllis Piefer Tomayko + Sandra Kronenwetter Quiggle Holly Chiappazzi Villella Diane Parsons Scott Her legacy will continue through her gift to endow the Patricia S. Yahn Juried Charles Wolfram Anne-Marie Dixon Shields Student Art Show, to be held each year in Cummings Gallery. The frst show was Judith Kenny Zewe Catherine Vilardo Strobl held in February and March; the 2018 edition is set for Feb. 19-March 16. Diane Witherup CLASS OF 1980 Ernest Zmyslinski As a young girl, Yahn wanted to attend Mercyhurst to study art, but her father was Participation 11% averse, saying that girls did not need to go to college. She took it upon herself Total Giving $1,780 CLASS OF 1982 to seek out Mother Borgia Egan and request “special student” status so that she Howard Anderson Jr. Participation 15% could take art classes; Sister Angelica became her mentor and, ultimately, Yahn Judith Gluvna Bitters Total Giving $8,011 earned her degree. Kelly Conaway Leadership Giving Society James Disanti Mark Salvia After her Mercyhurst studies, she went to work as a window display artist at Trask’s Corrine Halperin Egan department store in downtown Erie. Years before mannequins became the norm, Robin Fahey James Borowicz she created life-size drawings of models wearing merchandise on sale at the store. Regina O’Connor Ferguson Denise Mall Chybrzynski Richard Fischer Rebecca Fairchild Costello Later she would focus on interior design, operating her own business, Interiors of Stephen Frisina Gary Dagan Erie. She was also well known for creating scenery for the Junior League’s popular Susan Fuss Peter Damico follies held annually at then-Tech Memorial High School. Walter Green Elizabeth Hajduk Dobes Linda Ravenstahl Gruss Barbara Johnson All the while, she never lost touch with Mercyhurst and was a longtime member Anna Hurley Laurie Kinnear-Diaz of the Carpe Diem Society, including a stint as its chair. She also participated in Mark Kwitowski David Kist and attended many of the university’s art exhibits with her late husband, Walter. Susan McFarland McGill Kathleen Eckenrode Kist

37 Lani Krantz Marshall Lillie Rebecca Baldauf Kerrigan Marilyn Guelcher CLASS OF 1990 Jennifer Larsen Robert Orris Carol Bailey Kosslow Mary Sullivan Hathaway Participation 14% Valerie Kaminski Laufenberg Jerome Sullivan Nina Serrins Krats Karen MacKenna Hessel Total Giving $4,560 Laurie Mahnken-John Sandra Solle Thomas Mary Tripp Laduca John McKenna Leadership Giving Society Michael Pizzat Beth Westfall Timothy Latimer Daniel Moran Leslie Hafenmaier Armstrong Dawn Day Quinn Kimberly Schade Whalen Patricia Barrett Mayo Keith Morris Paul Quinn Mary Baldauf Wiedel Suzanne Falkner Mulhall Elizabeth Altilio Nalbach Richard Andrejchak Jr. Ravinder Sabherwal, O.D. Jack Wyland, USN Timothy Mulhall Stephanie Proukou Cynthia Bohun Steven Spies Gerri Bruno Piecuch Randall Rinke Philip Carrone Laraine Stewart CLASS OF 1985 Marian Saxon Rhodes, Ph.D. Matthew Robaszkiewicz Eric Chase Teresa Borowski Taylor Participation 13% Timothy Ruth Michelle Hondal Scurfeld Karen Cascio Chow Mary Gausman Teufel Total Giving $43,157 Susan Sambrotto James Sherrod Karen Mallow Cook Patricia Clark Thornton Leadership Giving Society Katherine Wardi Zonna Alicia Dejulia Sosnowski, Esq. Nancy Glotzbach Degenhardt+ Raymond Wolf Mary Ann Mead Baldauf Janell Harrington Denise Berdis Wilkerson Thomas Filipkowski Rose Marie Forget Stephen Fiedler + Wienczkowski Christopher Gordon Zmyslinski, R.N. Michele Duval Georger Richard Wienczkowski CLASS OF 1989 Scott Graham Thomas Hanchin Craig Zonna, Esq. Participation 15% Annemarie Donofrio CLASS OF 1983 Teresa Thompson Sackett Total Giving $15,541 Harrington Participation 13% CLASS OF 1987 Leadership Giving Society Brian Harrington Total Giving $34,285 Robert Anderson Participation 12% Pamela Woodring Farrell, Ph.D. Jennifer Hayes Leadership Giving Society Kevin Armstrong Total Giving $6,765 Joyce Jolin Bonnie Dale Janiuk Marc Cipriani Anne Wolf Cable Leadership Giving Society Christina Carbone Marsh + Joseph Janiuk Richard Lanzillo, Esq. Mary Fugo Colclaser Christina Difonzo, Ph.D. John Saxon Julie Kemling Anthony Paradiso, Esq. Nicholas Felice Frank Victor Tina King Mary Kay Vona, Ed.D. + Regina Ryniak Felice Danielle Rocheleau Bogan Dorothy Konyha Bernadine Tomczak Habursky Heidi Beezub Cheryl Johnson Cavendish Stephen Mahnken Gina Frisina Adams Thomas Hanna, USN Barbara Sayers Bensink Lori Barone Dornberger Mary McKenna Patricia Herring Benekos Jack Holland Jr. Scott Bensink Brian Durbin John Melody Guadalupe Billingsley Patricia Presutti Leuschen Donald Beveridge Michael Falk Kerry Vietmeier Mindach Carolyn Gray Colicchio Mary Beth Lombardi Jennifer Mauthe Bond Kyle Foust, Ed.D. Jefery Morey David Curtis Jean Moniewski Malthaner Carolyn Witt Dittbrenner Leeann Cook Fraser Donald Morrison Maureen Doyle Jane Mullaney Judy Brown Dyer Dana Martin Gebauer Thomas Pakulski Leann Felmlee-Brown Maureen O’Hara Nies Nancy Emmi Scott Gorring Todd Piendel Mary Finn, Ph.D. Robert Nies Loretta Layer Frankovitch Susan Heltzel Lynn Shefer Platteborze Mary Frankiewicz Fitch Theresa Sanders, Ph.D. Donald Fuhrmann Ian Hessel Christine Kindlin Roper Elaine Zasada Flick Stephen Seymour David Hewett Brian Hines Adrian Spracklen Marsha Fronzaglia Beth Scalise Sivak Jodi Abbey Hines Dennis Hogan Matthew Triola Gregory Halvacs Christine Stark Slattery Joseph Hines Jodi Staniunas Hopper Kimberly Tufs Cynthia Jarzab Kiskaddon Jerry Spetz Jr. Catherine Hornick John Hufman Kenneth Walker Suzanne Chilcott Mack Deborah Myers Strong Margaret Weir Manchik Michael Jenkins Maureen Hanlin Webster Joseph Mangano James Sturm Kathleen Schmidt Mariani Sean Kennedy Charles Wertz Jr. Nancy Mantell Joseph Tarasovitch Michelle Matheron Christopher Mindach Richard Yarosz Bruce Miller Tina Andrako Tomczak Cynthia Lochner Miceli Paul Mocho Marygrace Yakovac Miller Pamela Henry Vrenna George Morrell Sr. Amy Pavlik Monteparte CLASS OF 1991 Kevin Murphy William Wheeler II Tracy Tridico Passaro Victor Morini Participation 9% Robert Radclife Kimberly Torrelli Zacherl Mary Portzer Julie Grippi Musbach Total Giving $19,156 Jamie Samilio Susan Marcy Rizza Timothy Musbach Leadership Giving Society Patricia Marchwinski Tobin CLASS OF 1986 Brian Sheridan Christine Densmore Phelps John Munch Paulette Vaccaro Vaccaro Participation 12% Cheryl Burgard Skywark Sheila Carone Rodgers Patricia Kaliszak Saxon Total Giving $15,325 Barbara Bronakoski Wood Eric Seggi CLASS OF 1984 Leadership Giving Society James Zank Louise Chirillo Shearon Maureen Connolly Barrett Participation 10% David Armstrong, Esq. Paul Smith Daniel Crotty Total Giving $1,787 Jo-Ann Israel Lanzillo CLASS OF 1988 Shelley Ferguson Triola Connie Bisbe Crum Patricia Balinski Elizabeth Burkhart Paradiso Participation 9% Susan Vogelman Sean Fadale Julie Bissell Bozich Matthew Whelan Total Giving $30,053 Wiesen Walsh Stephanie Donahue Fadale Robert Dumeyer Leadership Giving Society Douglas Webster Edward Feeney Suzanne Daley Esposito Therese Bertsch Blumenthal Lev Kubiak + Jane Mohr White Joanne Ravenstahl Feeney Ann Gilligan Richard Boesch Marc McAndrew Paul White Gregory Fitzgerald Patricia Schuschu Gool Amy Rowand Dennen Roberta Wittes Nancy Dilallo Fitzgerald Beth Pasquale Hill Kenneth Dyer David Andres Kimberly Lohse Yonko Rosalina Fyke Kathleen O’Connor Holland Kathleen Favo Finke Jennifer Froehlich Andres Staci Billings Grasky Gary Keenan James Fisher Richard Bentley Theresa Koviak Hall Brenda Sullivan Knapp Joanne Leister Fisher Janice Bindeman Jennifer Hart Douglas Kramer Donald Gibbon D.O. Renee Hamilton Finnecy Leanne Riley Heiple Patricia Clark Lightner Mary Kaliszak Shawn Falcone Gorring Elaine Stolarski Hewett Steven Ipri, Esq. 38 Nancy DiLoreto Lambert CLASS OF 1993 Kelly Kingsland Rankin David Donnell Sally Hawkinson Charise Moore-Scharfeld Participation 6% Mary Grifth Rinke Jeanine Robinson Duda Penny Davison Heeter Andrea Papale Morini Total Giving $13,150 Mia Urycki Spracklen J. Eric Ehrman Erik Hoolahan Patricia Sebald Munz Leadership Giving Society Jakub Svoboda, M.D. Amy Fistek Fistek Stephen Horn Kathleen Munch Oros Alesia Miller Kotek Renee Upperman Triana Christa Hanlan Gilmore Lisa Staford Kaveney Jill Prichard Rathburn Yvonne Maher + Janice Kesselring Hill Julie Bliss Kiehl Mark Simpson Patrick Ott CLASS OF 1995 James Kaveney Thomas Kitchen Jill Smith Karin Bennett Socha Participation 7% Allison Kaverman Margaret Kloecker Sharon Biss Varischetti Total Giving $13,125 Amelia Kitchen-Berardi Kevin Kosco + Jefrey Veitch, Esq. Brian Burton Leadership Giving Society Faith Epstein Lifshen Amy Johnston Kuzma Pamela Cammarata John Langer Amy Lombardo Donald Leclair CLASS OF 1992 Denise Veshecco Cox Joel Montminy Tamara Valovich McLeod, Ph.D. Susan Lah Lewis Participation 8% Peter Eaglen David Meyer Jennifer Matts Total Giving $4,074 Catharine Bestwick Ellis Nancy Figurski Agostine Kathleen Fedele North Mindi McDowell Leadership Giving Society Mark Fearey Eric Anibaldi Antoinette Platte Payner John Murphy, Esq. Catherine Maloney Franck Kurt Johnson Frank Basco Kerry Erwin Roland Betsy Sauers Laura Bennett Rifkin Kevin Kunik + Jennifer Munch Dilks Rahsaah Roland Rodney Miller Cindi Fluhrer Karen Rudler CLASS OF 1998 Brian Aarons Glenn Novak David Gianoni Theresa Ressler Sabolich Participation 5% Jenifer McDonald Albaugh Deborah Lang Redlin Jennifer Oesch Gruebner Vikki Mitch Safran Total Giving $1,962 Julie Theiss Boam Anthony San George III Brita Hampton Theresa Schroeck Smith Leadership Giving Society Amanda Moser Burton Karen Trapolsi Annmarie Heim Ipri Melissa Festa Sosnowski Stacie Bortz Michael Chase Michael Walsh Norma Telega Johnson Jefrey Spitler Jill Horvath Crable Toby Johnson Robert Taylor Heather Barron-Sons Nicholas DeGennaro CLASS OF 1994 Joyce Kannenberg James Travarca Timothy Brediger Mark Dukovich Participation 7% Michael Koziara Robert Vescio Karen Milinovich Brennan Mary Falk Total Giving $4,788 Stella Granahan Lapaglia Ronald Yarosz Christie Brown Jefrey Fink Leadership Giving Society Jason Lewis Michael Zacios Melissa Watts Daniele Tasha Corey Fink Jeanette Britt Anne McNelis Michelle Oakley Fakler Tina Fielding Fryling, Esq. Patrick Kotek Sr. Cheryl Sibble Moore CLASS OF 1997 Janet Oldach Fuller George Gazzam Jr. Eric Ridgley Beth Hurrianko Murphy Participation 8% Lori Dennison Gibbens Craig Gehm Kristine Demarinis Petersen Total Giving $5,290 Erin Lloyd Hromada Jill Marquis Grant Jennifer Kraus Bach Karen Universal Schrader Leadership Giving Society Michael Martin James Grasky Amy Kindling Basco William Steen David Dausey, Ph.D. William Meyer Jr. Tracy Doty Heutsche Viki Darko Davis Maurice Proft Michael Holyk Phyllis Dinicola CLASS OF 1996 Misty Smith Baird James Thomas Randall Kimmel James Doherty Participation 10% Colleen Burbules Jody Washington Beth Miller Keith Gilbert Total Giving $6,090 Julianne Laskos Clouthier Kenneth Wilson Jr. Robert Morrison Patricia Kaczmarek Hanlin Leadership Giving Society Harley Ellenberger Lori Cooney Sheridan Mary Beth Mallon Hengelbrok Nichole Putt Dausey Lynn Savidge Ellenberger Michael Sicheri Cynthia George Kuhn Mark Erie Dionne Veitch Meghan Williams Mehler Kelly Bauman Frances Foltz Manus Walsh Jennifer Swick Morrison Kelly Sceusa Bowden Vanessa Pappalardo Giancola Krista Lewis Westfall Amy Zorzi Neubert Scott Clark Trisha Greathouse Christiane Puz, R.N. Jillian Demarco Courtney Nicolai Guzy MERCYHURST DEDICATES COMMUNICATIONS CREATIVE SUITE The Mercyhurst University Communication producing physical objects made from plastic. Department is home to a new creative suite, The new facility is situated in the Myron Jones thanks to the generosity of Robert and Margaret Center for Media Convergence in the Audrey Hirt Coletta of Akron, Ohio. Their daughter, Marina, Academic Center. graduated in May with an English degree and communication minor. “The walls have been painted a neutral blue color that adjusts the eyes of students in the classroom Communication Department Chair Brian to see actual colors on the computer monitors,” In thanking the Colettas for their gift, President Sheridan said the creative suite is ideal for Sheridan added. “If they want sound while they Michael Victor said, “Using the most up-to-date teaching editing, writing and social media work, students can connect their smartphones to equipment in the feld, this new creative suite classes. It is equipped with the latest Adobe the audio system to stream music from services contributes to the overarching goal of building editing and scriptwriting software that allows like Spotify or Pandora. Streaming video from all a collaborative environment where print meets students to edit videos for projects. A state-of- digital video services can also be shown on the video meets web. We are grateful to the Coletta the-art 3-D printer also has been installed, giving large wall-mounted smart TV.” family for making this happen for our students.” students the ability to express their creativity by 39 CLASS OF 1999 Jesse Wakeman Jessica Long Heinz Participation 6% Robert Yurkovich Elizabeth Hagan Kanche Total Giving $11,889 Autumn Potter Klimek Leadership Giving Society CLASS OF 2001 Victor Laurenza Jr. Robert MacKinlay Jr. Participation 8% Ellen Learn Stephanie Balint MacKinlay Total Giving $2,090 Anne Sitter Markowitz Robert Merski Heather Adams Kelly Froelich McColgan Susan Kozlow Adams Michelle Newton Robert Brickley Gregory Beato, D.O. Leah O’Donnell Douglas Brinkley Susan Gonnam Beato Alex Ogeka Allison Byrnes Megan Obernesser Bogert Garrett Patty Mary Jane Nosko Clark Nicole Bolash Brooke Sampson Perkins Michael Conrow Scott Byerly Steven Pickard Timothy Conway-Hay Amanda Crowner Fazakas Emily Surrena Pincek Erin Corbett John Gaydos Joseph Ratajczak Kim Seaman Creese Molly Rogalski Gaydos Anne DeMeo Reznik Joseph Daniele Jefrey Gould Kristen McCaskey Rice 3RD GIVING DAY Paula Donnelly Livia Siebert Greenberg Kimberly Russo Oto Hlincik Jessica Hance Julie Lindsay Schultz ATTRACTS RECORD Kathryn Shafer Klus Edward Jolie, Ph.D. Patricia Schulz Lisa Marrero-Soto Ruth Burgett Jolie, Ph.D. Holly Faulhaber Shelly James Masters Jennifer Kelley Kaferlin Sarah DiMatteo Sikora GIFTS Patty Moyer Crystal Kiray Michael Sliker Thomas Nies III David McCoy Jason Stefanick Mercyhurst’s Giving Day set a new record in 2017, Jonathan Rees Laura Chrulski McCoy Kimberly Szmyd Thomas attracting $57,773.34 in contributions from 422 L. Brown Rees Cynthia Grygier McMillen Paul Valenti individual donors. David Roth Scott Platz Danielle Kutrufs Rudolph Kate Reavey CLASS OF 2003 Those gifts enabled Mercyhurst to claim the full Christina Schlee Thomas Reznik, M.D. Participation 6% $40,000 matching gift ofered by an anonymous donor. Tina McMahon Spano Jody Robinson Total Giving $11,301 All Giving Day donations beneft Mercyhurst’s Annual Megan Bullotta Thomas Lesley Rockwell Leadership Giving Society Lori Winger Wehr James Rosswog Margret Cosari Rychley Fund. Julie Weems Salas Joseph Howard CLASS OF 2000 Stephen Salas Martin Rychley Reaching out to alumni, the Ofce of University Participation 7% David Slisz Advancement encouraged them to think about all they Total Giving $7,750 Bruce-Leon Snead Katherine Hammer Antus had received from Mercyhurst and to consider making Leadership Giving Society Brent Swain Dominic Aratari gifts back to the university to help ensure that future Brynne Sorensen Hinsdale Bryan Timm Katherine Kimple Bennett Lakers can enjoy the same kind of experience. Kyle Hinsdale Christopher Valvano, Ph.D. Rebecca Kovacs Bentley Allison Oberle Wakeman Kristen Brown Scott Koskoski Thanks in particular to fve graduates who refected on Fedor Zakusilo Nathan Wallace Shannon Leehan Craig Eric Wilkosz Peter Cuneo their time at Mercyhurst in a series of videos used to Deborah Mattison Atkins Anthony D’Abruzzo promote Giving Day. Helen Parker Berquist Richard Glavan Laura Bilak CLASS OF 2002 Jennifer Alexander Grosch Alex Vinesky ’14 and Kaleigh Hubert ’13—who are Kevin Brubaker Participation 8% Stephanie Peck Gummerson marrying in September 2017 in Christ the King Megan Laverty Bruno Total Giving $11,104 Justin Hapeman Chapel—talked about falling in love at Mercyhurst. Brian Carey Leadership Giving Society Richard Johns They met while working atop a roof on the 2012 “House James Coletta Donald Mennel Casey Kilroy That Hurst Built” project for Habitat for Humanity. Anne Hunt D’Albora Megan Verbanick Lisa Jepson Kimmel Brian Dewey Anna Signs Lindahl Bridget Lane Dolak Elizabeth Watkins Anibaldi Judith Long Barb Brairton ’65 spoke of the lifelong friendships Amy Kosmack Izbicki Michele Luke Astor Mariann MacDougall she made here, noting that members of her class still Travis Lindahl Ryan Bogert Heather Pease Morally get together regularly for summer weekends. “My life Anne Onofrey McClendon William Byrnes Danielle Poole Piser, O.D. changed because I came to Mercyhurst,” she said. Maureen McMahon Sylvia Bluhm Cagle Jo Ann Hanes Rosebrock Jared Oakes John Campbell Bradley Sage Cariel Lewis ’14 ’16M talked about traveling the 1,667 Cara Paglia Bethanne Bauer Crane Elizabeth Dewey Stanford miles to Mercyhurst from her home in Kingston, Kimberly Falvo Quimby Danielle Hensler Davis Carrie Frank Swain Jamaica, adding, “Mercyhurst has made me into the Bridget Raferty Anthony Tomaino Patrick Fore woman I am today.” Nicole Mangine Rosswog Carrie Greene Fuhrer David Vitale Maria Billingsley Sanflippo Brandon Gabler Jodi Prichard Waldron Eric Schultz Paul Gambill Laraine Shellito Wilson Sean Fedorko ’11 discussed his career and noted, “I Catherine Harrison Shuhart + Lydia Garver attribute a great deal of my success to Mercyhurst.” Joy Koceski Spicer Sandra Grance Jennifer Troutman Stinson Giving Day 2018 is set for Tuesday, May 1. 40 CLASS OF 2004 Blake Gority Mark Donlin Elizabeth Butterfeld Anthony Dorchak Participation 7% Katie Hamilton Ronald Dorchak Caitlin Champlin Andres Fernandez Total Giving $4,350 Stephanie Hancock Stephanie Hilewick Duddy Kathryn Collins Ashley Gabriel Leadership Giving Society Parris Hobbs Anna Dunin Craig Dechurch Jr. Nicholas Giallourakis Michael Fedele III Kristen Hudak Robert Englert Ferki Ferati Adam Grady Emily Mosco Merski, Esq. Bryan Hurley Sarah Fedenets Lauren Cohick Forrest Christie Haibach Daniel James Annette Gardner Nathaniel Gennaro Kelly Oldach Hardner Kathryn Krupa Agen Alan Johnson Elishia Gnage Kyle Gourgon Scott Hofman Jeanette Kistler Andrawes Thomas Kemp Kyle Goodroe Andrea Grady Melanie Asay Jaroszewicz Christian Beyer Amanda Williams Kollman Erin Lenz Grammer Jefrey Haft Bryan Kelly Cheryl Kinnear Bilski + Devin Kowalski Elizabeth Testrake Hafey Patrick Henk Ellen Koenig Michael Brandt Dana Hyland Krishland Kathryn Hansen Jeremy Hewitt Kristin Leonard Hewitt Brian Cagle, Esq. Timothy Krysiek + Margaret Harold Maria Amicone Holmes + Abagail Letson Jennifer Blakeslee Calabretta Jessica Lecastre Kathleen Chew Haslett Zachary Huber Deanna Fletcher Manbeck Michael Carr Adam Lobotsky Kristen Hoag Jameson Hunt Thomas McKinnon Elizabeth Donner Carubba Shaun Lux Roberts Jansons Carlin Kelly Sandra Newell Michael Cikra Brian Maurelli Kevin Johnson Amy Todd Kennerknecht Jessica Nulph Jason Colbert Aaron May Darlene Tate Jones Denis Kirstein Courtney Olevnik Jill Gloekler Curry John McIlroy Kelly Dombrowski Karns Jessica Lamb Mitchell Phillis Willie Edmondson Dana McMillin Kim Kezlarian Christopher Lang Steven Puskar Timothy Fox Leanne Ostrowski Melody John Kingston Andrew Lapiska Tamara Putney Ashley Gardner James Mikulec Jr. Lindsey Kole Michael Lyden IV Patricia Myers Retchlof Andrea Arbuckle Hoovler Karen Freeman Miller + Katelyn Kurpiewski Lynn McBride Amanda Riccardi Christopher Hopper Caroline Millikin Michael Lamm Michael Miele Phyllis Roman Justin Izbicki Ted Nagorsen Christina Machesney Sarah Miskell Maureen Loftus Roth Johnathan Kowalczuk Edison Nicholson III Lori Letender Marecic Allison Moore Colleen Rush Kristin Kriegbaum Daniel Oberdorf Christopher Martin Lucille Murphy Josh Schmidt Christa Mancini Kuhl Thera Gaston Reams Katie Cieslewicz McIlroy Katie Schneck Myers Michelle Schrimper Douglas Morally Nicholas Reichel Megan Passinger Carrie Naccarato Kyle Scully Amanda Mountain Melissa Newell Reynolds Elizabeth Patnode Meghan Pascuzzi Brittany McCracken Shafer Christa Wilson Penner Alyse Robertson Michelle Peelman Mary Phelan Shaun Spencer Matthew Pesti Erin Fleming Ross Ramona Ramos Olga Polishchuk Julie Stone Emily Reiser Scott Runkel Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. Abby Brennan Power Dru Sturgess Rebecca Ross Ryan Zachary Smith Michele Stack Reed Gerald Power Nicholas Testa Bethany Shafer Catrina Spano Scott Reynolds Jason Sabol, Esq. Michael Thomas Anne Siegel Jennifer Ferranti Stanicki Brenda Steib Rohm Megan Ostromecki Stadler Ryan Toomey Kyla Smith Tamra Strohmeyer Christie St. George Kathryn Jarocki Streets Martin Wallenhorst Emily Watkins Tomaino Vanessa Swickline Stefanie Steinmetz Dennis Teculver Matthew Warren Mary Kate Demeo Wallace Erin Henneman Szentesy Gregory Stelter Mathew Wise John Wayner Cynthia Barthole Wasco Rebecca Turner Delight Stevens Elise Yablonsky Marissa Starin Wayner Lindsey Weber Keljo Albert Veverka Maryam Tatavosian John Zanetta III Breanne Scully Whalen Sarah Wagner Andrea Taylor Zachary Wild CLASS OF 2005 Jessica Wakelee Kristin Turcsanyi CLASS OF 2008 Participation 11% Katrina Walker Sean Underwood Participation 9% CLASS OF 2009 Total Giving $16,591 Michele Kutz Wheaton Pamela Swaney Vouri Total Giving $6,334 Participation 5% Leadership Giving Society Ashley Wickert Meghan Waskiewicz Leadership Giving Society Total Giving $2,734 Justin Adams Matt Zinna William Welch Kyle Bogucki Elizabeth Clain-Stefanelli Simon Arias Edward Winslow Darren Conway Sara Jaecks CLASS OF 2006 Frank Zatta Ciara Carr Acton Christina Coovert Jason Staley Participation 10% Amy Butler Banko Eric Delio Total Giving $7,268 CLASS OF 2007 Mark Blair Alexandria Bogart Dorchak Emilee Ballaro Leadership Giving Society Participation 8% Kenneth Bluska Manda Double Autumn Hamady Beyer Preston Briggs Total Giving $5,133 Kerry Bowman Sara Driscoll James Borelli Sarah Williams Palm Leadership Giving Society Daniel Brigham Brian Espersen Kerri Kanaley Brace Ryan Palm Leanne Wzontek Chapin Kevin Flanagan Jamie Stubenhofer Breneman April Clark Adamczyk Aaron Parks Kelly Cofrancisco Adam Glass Robyn Mast Colbert Michael Albritton Jamie Coghlan Adam Hammer Hannah Cox Matthew Beck Alicia Abbey Rhiana Conley Sarah Holecek Brendan Doran Daniel Benoit Felicia Adamus Kathryn Connelly Mihailo Jovanovic Suzanne Griswold Dunahue David Borrelli Michael Allen Kyle Craig Timothy Kalivoda Lisa Trocki Emerson Mindi Lauterbach Borrelli Dina Bastianini Stephanie Prohaska Craig Lauren Kelly Michael Foglio Kathleen Cain Sarah Beercheck Donald Cummings Amy Kuhnlein Stephanie Schnacke Fox Diane Chido Rebecca Bliss Shaun Dailey Sarah Maxim Hugh Gallagher Carol Clark-Osuch Edward BoldenIII Christopher Davis Ryan McCartney Jefrey Garcia Brian Defrancesco Amy Pfefer Bolla Daniel Dennehy Rodriguez Jefrey McIntyre Lindsay Dellow Glavan Mark Dombrowski + Heather Brown Lauren Brant DePalma Marley McKenzie 41 Patricia McMahon Christopher Risi Joseph Weidenboerner Vicki Waite Isaac Smith Daniel Mudd Dinorah Sanchez Matthew Weiss Ian Wild Joseph Spano Stephanie Oliver Patricia Sanders Katie Wellman Philip Wilson Aldyn Stewart Matthew Platz Joshua Shields Christine Wilbur David Zacherl Jefrey Thiede II Brian Reddan Kirk Shoemaker Sara Wowkowych Nicole Zeak Danielle Vaccaro Chelsey Nikithser Rhodes Kathi Edes Staaf Todd Willis Zachary Rhodes Abby Sullivan CLASS OF 2012 CLASS OF 2013 Brian Sanders Michael Sullivan Participation 6% Participation 8% CLASS OF 2014 Ryan Schreiber Devon Swanson Total Giving $3,468 Total Giving $3,340 Participation 10% Brandy Signor Nathan Torok Leadership Giving Society Leadership Giving Society Total Giving $2,201 Marie Skidmore Stephanie Pugh Tucker Lindsay Cox Frank Thomas Frank Bryan Ambrogi Lindy-Jo Smart Christopher Ulrich Patrick Behm Jefrey Stoll Karleen Vogt Alyssa Andrews April Alferi Emily Belfore Jessica Whalen Mary Vuono-Lamancusa Rachel Brown Andrews Ryan Bartizal Tyler Berger Rachel Wheeler Emily Warren Lyudmila Belousov Michael Baxter Deirdre Best Elizabeth Watson Steven Boehm Lindsey Bostwick Gabriel Borrero CLASS OF 2010 Kaitlyn Bossard Rhona Boyle Lindsay Boyer Participation 6% CLASS OF 2011 Elizabeth Brick Emily Carrier Katie Pizzuti Bryan Total Giving $2,155 Participation 5% Miana Campbell Joseph Coyne Terence Bush Nicole Ambrogi Total Giving $1,319 Emily Carlins Luis De Carvalho Leao Nicholas Cianci Katelyn Balconi Mattison Baker Patrick Carter Jeremy Dickey Rebecca Cratty Kimberly Clarke Katie Ingalls Bish Eric Clark Anthony Durso Caitlin Doyle Santos Cruz Jr. Allison Hapeman Boehm Paul Duckworth Laura Fiegelist Matthew Durisko Mark Erdeljac Jay Breneman Rachel Torgesen Duzen Lauren Geary Caitlin Ewing Amanda Ehrbar Flanagan Bethany Brun Elizabeth Eidnier Michael Gigliotti James Gibson II Adam Gray Courtney Clark Keven Gregg Brad Gleason Kelsey Graf Justin Hall Allison Dobbs Steven Gregg Jefrey Hammer Jr. Jacob Grifn Erica Handley Hailey Glover Danielle Hanna Grooms Kaleigh Hubert Amanda Harris Katrina Herring Fred Hale Jr. Kara Hesch Rachel Huefner Elspeth Heiss-Moses Sherryl Jordano Casey Harvilla Alex HopmannII Colin Hurley Kenji Kawano Julia King Eve Klajbor Hatkof Matthew Jimenez Zachary Kowalewski Andrew Klobuchar Sara Rish Kitchen Thomas Hermanowski Elizabeth Julius Adrianne LaGruth Joseph LaGruth Andrew Lamancusa Sarah Heuer Andrew Kopcienski Chad Los Schumacher Andrea Lankester Marc Larson Leah Kroll Holly Kreiner Hannah Micsky Cariel Lewis Sandra Larson John Krugh Jr. Patrick Leahy Andrew Miller Vincent Lombardi III Elizabeth Maier Kerri Maselko Megan Macko Elizabeth Neil Rebeka Melber Jillian Marshall Jessica Mathew Melora Whalen Ode Mary Newara Wayne Mertens Karla Mayorga Kathleen Wise May Hope-Anne Parks Nicholas Nicholl Steven Messina Emily McGorry Kevin May Jr. Jefrey Pollard Sarah Noe Katharine Michaelis Leanna Michnik Charity Moore Jaasiel Rivera Marcin Osajda Joseph Miller Carl Miley Bryan Prindle Rebecca Roberts Ivan Palikuca Maria Nemeth Andrea Conlon Nelson Emily Neder Roueche Rachel Sluberski Steven Reinhardt Alexander Neri Rebekah O’Connor Katelyn Schulmeister Charles Spano Abigail Robinson Shauna Novobilsky Sara Hofstetter Picone Megan Shields Alexandra Stacey Matthew Sanflippo Caitlin O’Neill Angelica Prestigomo E. Shawn Waskiewicz Kathleen Vogtle Jordan Shields Deanna Paternostro ATHLETES TO ENJOY IMPROVED TRAINING FACILITY

The weight room on the lower level of Baldwin Hall is getting a major upgrade thanks to university donors, including a generous matching lead gift from Trustee John Langer ’95.

The facility, used by a variety of athletic teams including football, lacrosse, feld hockey, softball and wrestling, hasn’t been renovated since 2004. fooring with built-in racks and platforms to create a more spacious feel, along with enhanced ventilation and aesthetic improvements. Nearly all the equipment will be replaced with legendary Hammer Strength products, adding machines and functionality to which Laker athletes never The project is intended to improve athletic performance and injury previously had access. In addition, the project calls for installation of new prevention, and will also be a major recruiting asset for Laker athletics.

42 Jessica Pepe Ashley Nelson Jason Huang Maria Alvergue Bridget Ellert Sarah Piasecki Rachel Novario Meaghan Hubert Anthony Amroski Elizabeth Ellis Laura Poweski Lauren Pacileo Andrew Innes Hayley Andres Jacob Eneix Kayla Rehar Geof Paschke Lyndsy Justice Danitza Arce Tyler Ennis Austin Roland Nicole Popielarz Daniel Karstedt Alyssa Archer John Eskind Clint Schaefer Juan Quevedo Ryan Kaufmann Kevin Arnold Christina Eusanio Alex Schneider Timothy Reed Kiersten Kerr Alexandrea Artise Daniel Evangelista Charles Sheafer Douglas Riethmuller Sarah Klobuchar Madelyn Atendido Sara Fatula Samantha Siegferth Nicole Rochon Catherine Kuhnheim Alyssa Augustyniak Kelly Fergus Jessica Tarasovitch Cady Schneible Molly Kurzanski Annie Baich Jack Finch Jr. Anthony Tomasone Jason Sciarrotta Tyler Landfried Kathleen Ballas Taylor Foster Rachel Turoski Alicia Stoklosa Jeremy Landowski Susan Baltes Andrea Freed Chelsea Ulrich Alexander Testa Katherine Mason Mason Beaudry Markae Fries Alexander Vinesky Nathan Turner Rachel Maykut Nicholas Beckel Christian Gamboa Ameliarose Wagner Kimberly Urban Kelly McCall Jessica Bell Michaela Gerace Evan Watkins Cory Vinborg Rose McDonnell Rachel Betzner Samantha Giardina Kelsea Wemett Kristine Wright Elizabeth Meier Noel Blackhall Elizabeth Goldberg Kellie Wendell Joseph Miller III Derek Blanchard Mariah Gonzalez Brittany Werner CLASS OF 2016 Shannon Minihane Casey Bleuel William Good Alexander Wheaton Participation 16% Caitlin Mininger Connor Bodlak Devan Gowdy Mark Wilson Total Giving $1,944 Elisabeth Montemorano Jacqueline Bokisa Michael Green Emily Yaple Savanna Alfanos Amanda Moore Taylor Bookmiller Naomi Greenstein Erica Andrews Mary Catherine Nemecek Gina Borelli Samuel Grifn CLASS OF 2015 Juan Avila Caitlin O’Donnell Katherine Boyle Raquel Guedes-Almeida Participation 10% Luke Ballantyne Roxanne Oglesby Justin Brahim Lauren Haas Total Giving $1,345 Jonathan Bayer Caitlyn Padovano Nicholas Brancaccio Liam Hagan Lauren Agnoli Travis Beck Dominic Paolucci Kelsey Branch Matthew Haisch Erica Albornoz Samantha Beckas Kathryn Papas Kyle Briggs Kristen Hamilton Diego Alvarez Colin Berger Daniel Quinn Alexander Burke Angela Heintz Ryan Bohince Allison Bilak Dylan Radtke Emily Burns Aaron Henry Brianna Carle Dalma Bordon Kaleigh Ruggiero Bryce Burrell Erin Herschelman Gaelin Carrig Angelo Bortoluzzi Taylor Santiago Danielle Butera Nicholas Hiltz Grant Chase Salina Bowe Taylor Schafron Gerardo Calvo Diego Himede Rachel Clark Courtney Brothers Rebecca Schratz Richard Cammisa Matthew Hodge Matthew Cote Brandon Brown-Dukes Ashley Shade Alexis Canfeld Anthony Hofman Erin Cox Lindsay Burkland Emily Sherman Nicole Caranci Shannon Holley Will DeFeo Dominic Candela Eva Solomon Michael Card Karah Hollis Damir Demirovic Jordan Cargill Sabrina Sosa Molly Card Dakota Holmes Nathan Duda Leena Clint Allison Stacy Ryan Carroll Bridget Holvey Kayley Dunn Joseph Cofrancesco Megan Steele Jose Chicas Paige Horton Calvin Eichhorn Kelsey Connely Clara Summa Jonathan Clark Matthew Huefner Caitlin English Carly Contraguerro Lauren Testa Jena Clinch Katherine Hutchinson Emily Francis Nicholas Cooper Jeremy Thomas Brian Comey Rebecca Insalaco Dustin French Sarah Creighton Molly Thvedt Jonah Cook Mathew Jury Joseph GaglianoIII Karla Curran Maggie Trott Jordanna Covel Taylor Kasavage Kelsey Gorcica Kelsi Curtis Andrew Vargas Michael Crafey Katherine Kayes Alex Guerriero Russell Curtis Michael Wakefeld Sean Crowley Nicole Kelly Nicholas Hannan Samantha De Salle Autumn Walter Brendan Crowther Lauren Kenny John Herrmann Jr. Alyssa Dean Adrian Washington Halle Culbertson Cassandra Kern Julia Hosack Garrett Erwin Lauren Watson Kelsey Davies Caitlin Kilcoyne Alexandra Iaquinto Erica Evans Kennethea Wilson Sierra DeCola Kristen Koch Kiersten Krolikowski Ashley Favata Kody Young Evan DeMayo Shelby Kolar Ryan Kuntz Carly Fenton Benjamin Youngman Joshua Deragon Dylan Kondis Patrick Lafey Kayla Larson Flynn Angela Zanaglio Cailey Dewaine Zifang Kong Rachel Lane Joseph Gargano Paul Zanardi Rachel DiBartolomeo Haylie Kromer David Lea Shannon Gilmore Sarah Ziccardi Analynn DiFilippo Julia Lang Matthew Lechtner Janelle Gleim Daniel Dooley Jr. Erica Lanzillo Rachel Lewis Michael Grifth CLASS OF 2017 Alexander Dorado Marissa Lechene Amanda Marley Alexander Guido Participation 65% Philippe Drouin Paul LeckerIII Ryan Martini Jared Hancock Total Giving $12,016 Ellen Duddy Sarah Levin Beatriz Mateos Molly Harrald Natalie Abbate Lisa Dunbar Christopher Liatti Mikayla McNamara Alicia Harrison Shannon Abernathy James Duncan Samuel Lioi Nathan Mead Holly Hebebrand Taylor Accursi Kyle Dutra Deanna MacMurdo Jacob Middlestetter Austin Hembree Haley Adams Max Dwyer Meghan Maranto August Mizia Kyle Hill Alexandra Albright Geof Ebbert Jose Martinez Anika Moody Meghan Hogan D’Artanyn Alonge Haley Echelmeier Derek Mattson 43 Carly Mazur Haley Thon Nicole McAlpin Shannon Tichenor Conor McCooey Jr. Melanie Todd Durrell McDonald Hannah Tombaugh Maggie McGouldrick Cody Traber Traber Marissa McKnight Maria Trigueros Ryan Mehnert Jessika Turner Laura Mejia Sarah Uglow Rachel Mergenthaler Jesse Valasek Ryan Michaels Thomas Valerio Ross Molinaro IV Joseph Waidl Dayana Moncada Daniel Ward Adrian Monty Jacob Washabaugh Sky Moody Rebecca Watts Victoria Morris Sarah Wegrzyn Kayley Morrison Erica Weis Alexis Nale Megan Whiddon Senior Sam Lioi, left, joins President Michael Victor with Senior Class Gift committee Riley Norton Janelle Williams members, from left, Alyssa Archer, Jimmy Duncan, Kelly Fergus and Mathew Jury. Frances O’Neil Jaquan Williams Ruthanne Oakes Nicholas Wnek Fanny Perstrom Amanda Wolterink Ryan Petrossi Josephine Wright SENIORS ANNOUNCE GIFT Natalie Piaggesi Lawrence Yurick Veronica Plys Kaitlin Zapolski OF AFTER-HOURS COFFEE BAR Natalie Popielski Alejandra Zarate Garcia Collin Popson Carly Zimmerman Catherine Pozum The Class of 2017 hopes to keep Mercyhurst Lakers up at night starting this fall Sarah Puckett with its senior class gift: an after-hours cofee bar in the 24/7 Student Study Sonia Puerta PARENTS Lounge in Hammermill Library. Isaac Rader Leadership Giving Society Catherine Rainey Anonymous The Senior Class Gift Committee presented Mercyhurst President Michael T. Emily Raker Mary Ann Baldauf ’85 Victor with a check for $12,015.55, representing contributions from more than 65 Jefrey M. Best ’77 Caitlin Reddington percent of class members. The project is estimated to cost $9,000, which includes John F. Bonamo Benjamin Reinert the installation of a custom-built cofee bar, purchase and licensing of a cash Jacob Rice Suzanne C. Bonamo Theresa Bone + register, and new cofee-making equipment, utensils, cofee and accoutrements. Taylor Rider The countertop will feature a collage of student photos to add a personal touch. Joseph Rieger Thomas Bone + Kelsey Riggs Amy Brooks While the project was kept under wraps for much of fall semester, fundraising Drew Robinson Douglas Brooks Matthew Rogers Lisa E. Chismire began as early as October 2016 when the committee hosted a Halloween party Michael Rowe Margaret S. Coletta and social media costume contest at the Cornerstone Bar & Grill, and later Sarah Ruesch Robert D. Coletta Christmas festivities in early December. Nicholas Rump Mary Ellen Dahlkemper Conall Ryan Luigi Damasceno To amass more support for the class gift, the committee spilled the beans in Beatriz Safe Nancy Damasceno early December with a video featuring a “sleepy” President Victor in need of a Ainars Safonovs Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ’77 cofee break. Spring semester fundraisers included a Senior Week Launch Party, a Laurie Enns Amanda Salasek Senior Date Auction, a 100 Days Party, a Senior vs. Faculty/Staf basketball game, Thomas Enns Richard Sanders Jr. and annual end-of-year activities. Jenny Santiago Kathleen G. Gallagher Hayleigh Schmidt Philip M. Gallagher Ellen L. Gordon “We truly could not have done this without the support and generous donations Celina Schroer of the senior class,” said dance major Alyssa Archer ’17, committee chair. Mitchell Seelinger Andrea T. Jefress, M.D. Michael SeifertJr. William Jefress “Mercyhurst has been very good to us in providing an excellent education and Heather Shadle Gregory T. Kessler home away from home, and this gift is a small way to show our gratitude.” Ashlyn Shafer Julie A. Kessler Emily Shanahan Robert Kopf III The Senior Class Gift is an annual tradition that gives the graduating class Danielle Silva Judy Little an opportunity to leave its mark on campus with a permanent gift of their Jillian Skinner Paul Little choosing. Under the supervision of Alumni Relations, the Senior Class Gift Michal Smid Henryka Makowski campaign is the frst opportunity for soon-to-be alumni to learn the value of Janusz Makowski Rachel Sobina fundraising and giving back to their alma mater. Hannah Somich Marc McAndrew ’88 Patrick Spizarny Donald R. McKeever “I encourage the senior class to always remember their time here at Mercyhurst Andrew Starry Linda T. McKeever and to cherish their memories and their friendships,” said Lindsay Cox Frank ’12 Eric Steinwachs John M. Mizia Jr. ’14M, director of alumni engagement. “My wish is that no matter how near or far Rachel Stucke Susan Molinaro they go, they know they always have a home here at Mercyhurst and they always Anthony J. Paradiso, Esq. ’83 Heather Swede remember and appreciate all they have received at Mercyhurst.” 44 Elizabeth Paradiso ’86 Kevin M. Blanchard Jef Contraguerro James P. Duddy Linda R. Gruss ’80 Darby A. Scalise ’81 Kimberly S. Blanchard Jill A. Contraguerro Patrick M. Dunn ’78 Raymond S. Gruss, Esq. ’79 Jay Scalise ’76 Kerrin Bloomquist ’77 Brian P. Convery Daniel Ealy Helen Guagliardo Camille R. Schroeck ’68 Brian L. Bohince Jacqueline A. Convery Jill Ealy Manny Guagliardo Gerald A. Stock Mary S. Bohince Mark J. Cook Edward Echan June Guida Mark E. Stookey Charles Bonvissuto Malcolm Coon Lea Echan Michael Guida Carrie A. Teodori Donna Bonvissuto Sheila S. Coon ’72 Alan Edmiston Lisa M. Guidice Frank B. Victor ’87 Karl Borgman Albert Copper Marcy Edmiston Julia Guttman + James J. Wild Lawrie Borgman Marsha Copper Kimberly A. Edwards-Swanson George W. Haas Jr. Teresa B. Wild Richard Borowski Susan M. Corbran ’73 Mark Ellis Karen S. Haas Kathleen M. Yeatman-Stock Marcia Bowers Denise M. Cox ’93 Nancy Ellis Barbara Haft Scott Bowers Valerie A. Crofoot ’76 Lisa M. Emerson ’05 Martin E. Haft Dawn M. Abbate Nancy J. Boylan Daniel J. Crotty ’91 Delvin L. Ergott III Bryan S. Hagerdon Scott A. Abbate Terrence J. Boylan James J. Crowe Jr. Beth Fantaskey Raegan E. Hagerdon Raymond Abplanalp Craig J. Brandetsas Joslin S. Crowe Todd Fantaskey Richal Hair Ruth Abplanalp Terri L. Brandetsas Connie L. Crum ’91 Charlene Farkasovsky William Hair Karen Accursi Coleen Brennen Joseph Crusciel Paul Farkasovsky Linda M. Hall + Tim Accursi Scott Brennen Charles Crusha John P. Farrell Robert C. Hall + Michael Agate Corienthia Briggs Lisa Crusha Michelle J. Farrell Janice E. Haltigan Sheri Agate Albert Brone Daniel T. Cullen Joseph D. Ferraro John B. Haltigan James Alexander III Maria Brone Anne D’Albora ’00 Wayne D. Festa Doris Handzel Judith Allen Candy C. Brown Linda G. Dalsin Colleen B. Fink Richard J. Handzel Lisa Aloe Ludlow L. Brown, Ph.D Mark A. Dalsin Thomas C. Fink Thomas Hanna, U.S.N. ’85 Robert Aloe Luciano Bucci Carolyn Danaher Lisa Finnegan Lynne S. Hapeman Douglas J. Altavilla Sr. Marie Bucci William Danaher Matthew Finnegan Annemarie K. Harrington ’90 Kelly L. Altavilla Marci L. Buckiso Cathy A. Davison Janet Fiorina Brian P. Harrington ’90 Gerald A. Altilio Jr. Michael J. Buckiso Thomas D. Davison Steven Fiorina Jefrey M. Harrison Michelle R. Altilio Kathleen B. Burgett ’73 Christy DeLullo James M. Fisher ’86 Keith Hartwick Maryann Anderson Frank Burke James DeLullo Joanne M. Fisher ’86 Natalie Hartwick Robert Anderson Karen Burke David L. Denz Mary J. Fitch ’83 Ken Herbaugh David M. Andres ’88 Carol J. Burns Debra Denz Alice M. Flanagan Nancy Herbaugh Dennis J. Andres ’72 Michael J. Burns Charlene A. DeRonda James Flinn Hiram P. Hershey Jr. Jennifer A. Andres ’88 Lauretta M. Bushar Chris M. DeRonda Michelle Flinn Beth Ann M. Hess Mary Catherine Andres, Esq. ’72 Raymond Buyce, Ph.D Sara L. Derushia-Bruzda Mark T. Folland ’77 David G. Hess Paula Ball Elisabeth A. Campin Glynda I. Devanney Stephanie C. Fragle ’72 Janice M. Higgins + Thomas Ball Maria T. Cappuccio John A. Devanney John J. Frappolli William J. Higgins + Mary J. Baniszewski ’79 William R. Cappuccio Cynthia J. Dickinson Kristin S. Frappolli Gerald M. Hilfker Anne Bardusch Daniel Carlins Louis R. Dickinson II Curtis Froebel Karen A. Hilfker David Bardusch Eileen Carlins Debra K. Dillner Michelle Froebel Diana R. Hill Christina J. Barletta John T. Castele Doug Dillner Marsha S. Fronzaglia ’83 Janice E. Hill ’96 William M. Barletta Maureen L. Castele Maria C. Dinella Janet C. Fuller ’98 Dan Hine Carolyn Beck Gina Cecere Paul J. Dinella Dawn R. Gabriel Rhonda Hine Melvyn D. Beck William CecereIII Phyllis M. Dinicola ’94 Douglas A. Gabriel Charles A. Hite Kim K. Behm John Chiarenza Christine Dion Aimee L. Galloway Bryan R. Hodge Michael J. Behm Maria Chiarenza Dominic Dionisio Michael J. Galloway Susan E. Hodge Phillip J. Belfore, Ph.D. Craig R. Chormann Gaetano Dipietro Melanie A. Gavin Kathleen A. Hofman Sandra L. Belfore ’66 Joe Cianciosa Mark Dombrowski ’06 Thomas E. Gavin Robert E. Hofman ’76 Kathleen Bellitto Joy Cianciosa Timothy Dommermuth Dana M. Gebauer ’89 David Hollfelder Paul Bellitto Kornelijus G. Cieminis Daniel P. Dooley Sr. Gary M. Glass Lynn Hollfelder Gary Bendus Linda C. Cieminis Susan F. Dooley Tricia C. Glass Dawn Holman Patricia Bendus Jennifer Ciolli Mark Doran Dorothy E. Glover ’66 Robert Holman Jane Bentley Vince Ciolli Mary Lou Doran Emily O. Goldman Gary Holt John Bentley Ann Clark ’77 Nancy E. Doran-Hite Scott A. Gorring ’89 Jane Holt Charles J. Benzinger Nancy Clark Lori A. Dornberger ’89 Shawn M. Gorring ’88 Earl K. Horton Jennifer Berndt Robert Clark Diane Dougan Earle P. Graham Jr. Tracy L. Horton Timothy Berndt LeRoy Clevenger + Michael P. Dougan ’76 Ernell E. Graham Maureen J. Hubert April R. Betzner Suzanne Clevenger + David Dowd Dari J. Grass Michele M. Hubert Eric P. Betzner Timothy Cochis Natalie Dowd Todd A. Grass Thomas P. Hubert ’77 Jennifer L. Bielanin Toni Cochis John P. Duane Jr. Sandra L. Gregg John C. Hufman ’89 Barbara A. Bilinsky Benedict Cohen + Katherine S. Duane Walter E. Gregg Anne E. Hummel William J. Bilinsky Anthony P. Cole David Dubois Betsy Greggs Matthew M. Hummel Guadalupe M. Billingsley ’83 Cathy Collier Liza Dubois Scott Greggs Mary Beth R. Hutchinson Alex L. Bilski + Ian Collier Philip A. Dubsky ’79 Diane E. Grifn Scott E. Hutchinson Cheryl A. Bilski ’04 + Robert Collins Shelagh Dubsky ’79 Joseph G. Grifn Robert Isbell Diane M. Blanchard Carol Connelly Danielle M. Duchini, D.O. Mark Grimes Ruthann Isbell Jonathan R. Blanchard William L. Connelly Gina M. Duddy Tracy Grimes David W. James 45 Gary A. Jaskiewicz Cynthia Lioi Richard Minnick Mary G. Rinke ’94 Susan M. Smith Patricia M. Jaskiewicz Frank Lioi David A. Minsk Randall W. Rinke ’88 Deborah Sobina John M. Jimenez Patricia M. Loncto ’68 Laura A. Minsk Kristen M. Robillard Raymond Sobina Kim M. Jimenez Patricia Looney Grace M. Mistretta Paul J. Robillard Jr. John J. Solano Amy Johnson Vincent Looney Joseph A. Mistretta Daniel R. Rogers Karen Solano Daniel Johnson Tonya Lucente Beth Mitchell Dianne D. Rogers Gregory Sorce John M. Johnson Frederick W. Lumb John Mitchell John P. Roland Susan Sorce Maria J. Johnson ’74 Lauren Lundgren Patricia L. Mogenhan Kerry A. Roland ’96 Mark D. Stacey Daniel V. Judy Barb MacAskill Robert A. Monti Margaret C. Roland James E. Standohar Martha M. Judy Kevin MacAskill Silvia Monti Rahsaah J. Roland ’96 Marie D. Standohar Michael H. Jula Julie Mader Mary Jane P. Mulcahey-Hershey Amy Romano Leslie A. Stauss Patricia B. Jula Robert F. Mader Anne Mullin Bill Romano Richard N. Stauss Corinne A. Kaufmann Lawrence M. Magguilli Daniel Mullin Mark Rose Jamie L. Steinwachs James Kaufmann Lisa R. Magguilli Daniel J. Mullinger Valerie Rose Joseph P. Steinwachs Kathleen Keating Chris J. Magoc, Ph.D. Kathryn A. Mullinger Darrell Ross Gina B. Strong Michael Keating Mary E. Magoc Blynn Nelson Jane Ross John Z. Strong Peter D. Keisler Elaine J. Maier Chantel Nicolella James M. Ruchala Karin A. Strumbel Susan G. Keisler James T. Maier Eric Nicolella Nora G. Ruchala Mark Strumbel Martin Kennedy Beth A. Mann Kathleen A. Niebauer Anne Ryan John Struna Maureen Kennedy Timothy H. Mann Mark J. Niebauer Charles J. Ryan Vilija Struna Colleen M. Kerr ’79 Laurie Maranto Glenn F. Novak ’93 Christine Ryan Dan Stuck James Kibbie Albert Markijohn Kevin Nye John J. Ryan Sr. Janice M. Stuck Maureen Kibbie Kimberly Markijohn Susan Nye Sarah B. Ryan Patricia Swaller Joseph E. Kimball Richard L. Mast Marie O’Connor Thomas Ryan Ronald Swaller Julia King ’10 Yvonne F. Mast Timothy O’Connor Gregory Sale Philip L. Swanson Donna Knott Lori A. Masters Bonnie O’Hara Irene Sale Andrew N. Switzer Richard Knott Thomas J. Masters John O’Hara Mark Santillano Michele M. Tapajna Candy A. Kole Alice M. Maxim ’81 Deborah B. O’Neil Solveig R. Santillano Debra A. Tarasovitch Jef Kondis Georgianna May James P. O’Neil Mary Beth Santucci ’73 Joseph A. Tarasovitch ’85 Pat Kondis James May III Stan Olevnik Olaf Schadowsky Jefrey Thomas Keith M. Konyk Edward O. McAdams Jr. Larry Owens Suzanne M. Scheuer-Leone Linda Thomas Leslie J. Konyk Maureen McAdams Antoinette C. Pavlik ’66 Marc H. Schlessel Lynne M. Thornton Dennis J. Kowalski, Ed.D. Maureen B. Mcardle-Cole Dana A. Perna Pamela J. Schlessel William J. Thornton Jr. Teresa L. Kowalski George M. McCarthy Mark Perna David A. Schmitz Lorraine Torgesen Cathy Krahe Jayne M. McCarthy Brian J. Pierce Roseann M. Schmitz Thomas Torgesen John Krahe Cathy A. McCloskey Kathleen A. Pierce Larry L. Schneider Paul Tretinik Jennifer L. Kramer James I. McCormick Nancy L. Pierce Laura J. Schneider Shauna Tretinik Robert W. Kramer Mary Beth McCormick Deirdre Piggott Mary B. Schneider Kathleen Turak Anthony Kritkausky James McDonnell Anthony M. Piglowski Sr. Robert Schneider Ronald Turak Linnea Kronmiller Tara McDonnell Pamela S. Piglowski Kirk L. Schwab Karen A. Urban William Kronmiller Kirstie M. McGouldrick Donald M. Platte, Ph.D. Maureen P. Schwab William Urban Mary C. Kuhnlein William D. McGouldrick Rita L. Platte Karen Shadle Michael Vaccaro Robert L. Kuhnlein Charles McKee Kathi Plumley Keith Shadle Paulette M. Vaccaro ’83 Colleen A. Kullen John P. McKenna ’88 Lanny G. Plumley Jacqueline A. Shanahan Susan Vaccaro Girard A. Kullen Mary L. McMellon David Podrasky Jr. Michael R. Shanahan Edward R. Vargo Jr. Jennifer Kuracina Ermin R. Melle Elizabeth Podrasky Charles L. Sheafer Kelly L. Vargo James Lammon Patricia M. Melle James P. Podyma Louise A. Shearon ’89 Christos Vasakiris Kimberly Lammon Donald L. Mennel Martha K. Podyma Kerry A. Sheneman Paula Vasakiris Bill Lang Louise M. Mennel Lori A. Poe Richard L. Sheneman Belinda Vasbinder William J. Lang Lisa A. Mercando Tom R. Poe James R. Shields Steven Vasbinder Dennis Larimore Paul Mercando Marcia S. Pohl Luann Shields Mary Vaughn Viola Larimore Lynne Merritt Matthew J. Pohl Edward Siciliano Steve Vaughn Karen Latona William Merritt Chrisann Poole Sharon Siciliano Leonard Veshecco Lisa M. Lawless Patricia Messenger James H. Poole Gregory W. Simson Nancy Veshecco Richard J. Lawless Timothy Messenger Rita V. Pyrdek ’68 Kathleen S. Simson Gordon Vietmeier Christine LeGendre Brian Meyer Michele Racutt Amy Skarzenski Jill Vietmeier Paul LeGendre Craig Meyer Steven Racutt Andrew J. Skinner Cynthia Vitale John M. Leisering ’81 Karen L. Meyer Jill P. Rathburn ’91 Elaine Skorupski Robert Vitale Katy L. Leisering Kristina Meyer Howard K. Reinert Marlene Skovenski Ann Vogan Deborah A. Leonard Richard E. Michaels Teresa A. Renaud Michael L. Sliker ’02 George R. Voulgarakis Dennis J. Leonard Sandra L. Michaels Pamela P. Retzlaf Tamra A. Smail Mariam A. Voulgarakis Charles M. Leone Alan M. Miltich Paul R. Retzlaf Timothy E. Smail Jason S. Wahl Abby N. Lewandowski Amanda K. Miltich Debra A. Richards Clark W. Smith Patricia Wahl Phillip J. Lewandowski John F. Milz Doug Richards Jefery J. Smith Cynthia A. Waidley John Liddy Sheryl A. Milz Mark Riethmuller Paul B. Smith ’89 Gerard J. Waidley ’80 Nancy Liddy Maureen Minnick Ruthie Riethmuller Sandra K. Smith Bernadette Walsh 46 MAJOR GIFTS FUND LIBRARY UPGRADES Hammermill Library will be a center and tutoring services area, busy place this academic year. In upgraded ofces and much more. addition to construction of a new cybersecurity lab and operations All of this is made possible by a center, courtesy of a $1 million $500,000 gift from alumna and investment by national technology retired trustee Ellen Ryan and her company MCPc, a comprehensive husband, David. Also, a gift of renovation of the main foor is also $250,000 from the Henry L. Hillman planned. Foundation will make possible construction of the Ridge Reading The main foor design includes Room to enhance the Thomas J. and efciency initiatives and more Michele Ridge Collection. (Rendering learning spaces, a modernized courtesy of Kidder Wachter circulation desk, technology Architecture and Design) assistance area, updated writing

Patrick Walsh EMPLOYEES Allison Byrnes ’99 Heidi K. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Matthew D. Platz ’09 Sean Walsh Leadership Giving Society Keith D. Cammidge Thomas P. Hubert ’77 Brian D. Reed, Ph.D. Donna Ward Jeanette C. Britt ’94 Gary W. Cardot Michele M. Hubert Steven J. Reinhardt ’13 Kurt Ward David J. Dausey, Ph.D. ’97 David J. Cherico ’79 Tauna Hunter Sheila W. Richter ’77 David W. Warner Michael A. Elnitsky, Ph.D. Nicholas J. Cianci ’14 Colin Hurley ’13 Roy A. Ridondelli Judith Warner Lindsay A. Frank ’12 Randy S. Clemons, Ph.D. Patricia M. Jaskiewicz Sheryl Rieder Cynthia M. Way ’76 Daryl V. Georger, Ph.D. James M. Coletta ’00 Holly K. Jodon Christina Riley-Brown, Ph.D. Carol Webster Joseph E. Howard ’03 Susan M. Corbran ’73 Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D. Randall W. Rinke ’88 William Webster David C. Hyland, Ph.D. Hannah R. Cox ’05 Ruth B. Jolie, Ph.D. ’01 Justin M. Ross, Ph.D. Maryann Weiss Dyan L. Jones, Ph.D. Suzanne M. Csop Edward A. Jolie, Ph.D. ’01 Msgr. David Rubino, Ph.D., Margaret M. Wells Sister Lisa M. McCartney, Robert D. Cullen Darci R. Jones Ph.D. Todd R. Wells RSM ’71 Daniel T. Cullen Joseph E. Kimball Rebecca Ruch Craig Werynski Ryan J. Palm ’07 Mary A. Daly ’66 Thomas P. Kitchen ’97 Matthew J. Sanflippo ’13 Kristen Werynski Caleb M. Pifer Brian T. Dewey ’00 Lori A. Krause Solveig R. Santillano Garvin Weyl Susan K. Reddinger Gaetano Dipietro Charles F. Kuntz Mark Santillano Michele M. Wheaton ’05 Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Karen M. Donnelly Jean Langer Martin A. Schaetzle Deb Whelchel + Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Alice A. Edwards, Ph.D. Laura Lewis, Ph.D. Allison A. Seib Christopher J. Widdifeld Laura M. Zirkle, Ph.D. Verna M. Ehret, Ph.D. Travis M. Lindahl ’00 Brian R. Sheridan ’87 Lizabeth J. Widdifeld Jonathan Finke Valerie R. Luebke Jerome F. Simon Amy S. Wiedeman Alice M. Agnew Alice M. Flanagan Christopher Lyons Sharon L. Sisco Chariss B. Williams Sarah A. Allen Thomas A. Forsthoefel, Ph.D. Chris J. Magoc, Ph.D. Michael A. Sisti Barbara A. 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Kleiner Stephen M. Leonardo Dominick R. Marendo Robert H. Hagle Dennis Hurley Patricia Klenk Jim Leslie Gina M. Marinelli Sue Hagle Emily Hursh Marc Kloszewski Derek Lettich Robert T. Markes William Hair Beverly B. Ingram J. P. Klus Kevin J. Licker Ashley Markiewicz Veronica C. Halovich Antoine Jack Louise Knapp Thomas A. Lieb Deborah R. Martin Vincent F. Halupczynski Anne Jackson Candis W. Knepper + Barbara J. Liebel Gregory F. Martin Thomas R. Hammel Carolyn Jackson Donald E. Knepper Robert J. Liebel Mark Martin Susan Hammond Andrea Jacoby Robert A. Knepper + Joseph I. Lieberman Michelene Martin John B. Hansen Seth R. Jafee Tracy Knight Ka-Ren Lipchik Joyce Maselli Paul A. Hansen + Kristy Jamison Nathan W. Koble Kristen Livering Lee Mason Joan S. Harf Danielle Janke Michael C. Kolar Andrew C. Lo Tempio Mary H. Matincheck Walter O. Harf Jim Januck Aaron J. Kowalczk Tyler Lobdell Julia P. Matthews Hudson D. Harrison George E. Jerman Roseann Kowalczk Patrick J. Loftus Margaret R. Matthews Linda J. Harrison Cathy Johnson Angela Kozlowski Clarence W. Lorei P. Barry McAndrew John Hartel Kim Johnson Jefrey D. Krajnik Brady Louis Blossom P. McBrier Donna J. Hatfeld Kurt A. Johnson, D.M.D. Ronald J. Krajnik Harry Love Robert J. McCammon Marie Hawks Nancy Johnson Sheila R. Krajnik Carrie L. Lowther Terry B. McCammon Jeanette Heaver Timothy L. Johnson Thomas J. Krajnik Robert J. Lowther Jr. Colleen McCarthy Keith A. Heckler Eileen Jolls Ken Kraut Gabriel E. Lutwin Lori McCauley Mary Ann Hedderick Donna M. Jurewicz Michael R. Krawczel Gary S. Maas Michael McCauley Marie E. Hedrick Adam Jury Daniel G. Kress Ben MacAskill Lucas McConnell Mary Beth Herberger Stephen J. Kachur Gary Kress Frances A. Machuga Tim McConnell Kara R. Herman Kirk R. Kaczmarek Denis W. Krill Joseph W. Mack Todd C. McConnell Susan Herman Bonnie Kaliszewski Frank L. Kroto Jr., Esq. Frances Macrino Carol A. McCool William Herman Sr. Mary Karounos Michael S. Ksczanowicz Carol MacWhirter Marilyn A. McCormick William L. Herman II Wayne Kastner Mark J. Kuhar Anthony Maddox Cheryl A. McDermott Valentine Hernandez Jr. Lee R. Katchen Jr. Mitchell S. Kyser Camille Maddox Meghan M. McDermott GOLF TOURNEY RAISES FUNDS FOR HURST STUDENTS The 24th Annual Joe B’s Golf Classic, held July 19 at Peek ‘n Peak, raised more than $25,000 to beneft the Patty Baumann Hopsecger Scholarship Fund, which provides fnancial support to students at both the Erie and North East campuses.

Since its inaugural tournament in 1994, Joe B’s Carpets has raised more than $500,000 in scholarship money. Thirteen scholarship recipients from Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Pictured following the Joe B’s Golf Classic are scholarship York were honored during the post-tournament awards picnic held at Paderewski Park. recipients Kelsie Mleczko ’18, Emma Rastatter ’21 and Georgia Capotis ‘18, Cale Baumann, Joe Baumann, and The 2017 event attracted more than 50 sponsors and 160 golfers, with top prizes scholarship recipients Kelsey Soom ’18, Amelia Kanonczyk ranging from a 48-inch Vizio TV and a Hoover Power Max carpet cleaner to several ’19, Stephany Oemcke ’20 and Veronica Sacco ’20. professional-grade golf clubs. 49 Cynthia T. McDonald Dolores H. Paluch John E. McHale Penny L. Palutro Luanne Mcintosh Steven R. Pantano Mary Mcintosh Brian Pardini Gloria M. McKeever James P. Parent Steven C. McKeever Sally Parese Patricia M. Mckim Joseph Paris Elizabeth R. McLaren Susan B. Parry Daniel McMahon Kristi Parsons Henry Mcmahon Renee M. Patterson James McManus William C. Patterson YOUNG ALUM ENDOWS Sue McNally John Pearson IV Kathleen M. McNamara Deborah M. Pecchia STUDY-ABROAD Christina M. McNulty Elizabeth A. Pellnat Matt McVay Jean C. Pepper SCHOLARSHIP Michael Mead Barbara Perino Joanne A. Mendiola Laura L. Petrella Jane G. Merkel Richard W. Petrella, M.D. Megan Verbanick ’02 didn’t study abroad during her time at Mercyhurst. It would Joseph Metzinger Nancy J. Petrof have been awesome, she says, but she just couldn’t work out the scheduling and the Kathleen M. Miazga Paul T. Petrof fnancing. Donald W. Michlin Carmen J. Phillips Gregory S. Miele Edward L. Phipps A computer systems major, she’s a sales engineer with Microstrategy, based James Miller Sandra H. Phipps in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Now well-established in her career, she’s become Tifany Miller Stephen J. Pierangeli something of a world traveler. For the last several years, she’s managed at least one Patricia A. Miskulin Michael J. Pilewski international trip annually. This year she traveled abroad twice, once to Morocco and Christine M. Mitchell Bob Pillar once to Ireland. Jack Mitchell Glorine B. Pizzo John M. Mizia Sr. Mark Platteter Nancy L. Mizia Diana A. Plitt And she’s created an endowed scholarship to help Mercyhurst students get what Herm Moats Mary Ploszkiewicz she considers a life-changing experience. Raymond A. Mohr Dale R. Podlas Florence Montalbano Laura K. Polacek “I think it’s incredibly important for people, especially students, to experience more Kimberly J. Montalbano Martha C. Popio of the world,” she says. “I’ve learned so much about myself, and about other cultures, Caesar A. Montevecchio Joseph D. Porpiglia by visiting diferent countries. I think travel really expands your worldview and can Lucia Monti Carol A. Post give you a better understanding of where someone else may be coming from, when Joyce M. Moore Dom Pozzuto they ofer opinions that are drastically diferent from your own.” Laurie Moore Hope M. Price Scott Moore Holli Pulice-Lewis Wayne Morris Ruth Quinlan It costs $25,000 to endow a scholarship at Mercyhurst, a big undertaking for a young William T. Morton Patricia D. Racz professional, though the total can be contributed over a period of several years. Susan Moyer Margie J. Ragosta Terrance L. Muresan Vincent A. Ragosta “It wasn’t hard to say I’m not going to buy a cofee every day, $5 a day,” she says. Timothy A. Murray Kathleen A. Ramirez “Little things like that add up and you can make it work.” Gary Natter Cliford N. Rankin Stephanie A. Nelson James Ratino Megan named the scholarship in honor of her grandmother, Anne Yeschenko Pamela J. Nemenz Denise S. Raymond Verbanick, whom she describes as “an amazing person who would have loved to Rose M. Niedzwiecki Paul M. Reed Mark Noce Marcia K. Reese travel more but didn’t have the means to do so.” Leo V. Noe Barbara K. Reistad Robert J. Nordin Krista T. Rektorik She cites a parable from Luke’s gospel to explain why she felt inspired to create a Shelly Norris Elaine Renz scholarship: “From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required.” Denise A. Norton Erin Reuscher Andrew M. Novotney Keith Reynolds “I truly believe I’ve been blessed and I feel very strongly that I can’t just sit back Virginia J. Nowak Brenda L. Rhoades and do nothing with that. Even before creating the scholarship, I’ve always tried to Kathleen Nye Albert S. Richardson Jr. contribute in ways to help others. I take great joy and pride in being a vehicle to Michael A. Nye Peggy Richardson help someone else go along their path.” Susan M. Nye Adam Riggle Missy Obrien Rudolph T. Rinke Catherine O’Bryan Sayeh M. Rivazfar The same spirit motivated this year’s recipient of the Anne Yeschenko Verbanick Karen O’Connell Frank J. Rizzo, D.D.S. Scholarship. Cassandra Kern used the funds to make an FSAT (Faculty-Student Kevin O’Connell Donna J. Roberts Academic Travel) trip to the Dominican Republic in January 2017. She and fellow Jessica O’Kell Nicole Roberts students helped rebuild a home destroyed by Hurricane William, working with the Geraldine Oligeri Audrey V. Romito Mariposa Foundation, which educates and empowers girls to create sustainable Mary J. O’Malley Donna Romito solutions to end generational poverty. Brandon Owens Lewis W. Rosselli Larry L. Owens Kathie Rothrock 50 Christina S. Rowane Jessica Spitzer Jill C. Weber Foundation Neubauer Family Foundation David Rubbico Eleanor L. Standohar Judith A. Webster Buehler & Associates, Inc. North East Community Michael Ruggiero Mary Ann Starkey Leonard J. Weise Burger King Fast Food Foundation Jefrey Ruhland David Stayduhar Kathy Weisman Enterprises #3 Northwest Commission Charles Rumbold Jane H. Steineck Patricia M. Welch CCX Corporation Our Own Candle Company Merry Rumbold James F. 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Walters Foundation McLane Church Andrews, Bernstein, Maranto & Debra Slusarz Aaron Wartner Aqua Charitable Trust Medical Associates of Erie Nicotra, P.L.L.C. Lee R. Slusher Kathryn M. Wartner AT&T Foundation Methods Machine Tools, Inc. Aramark Global Business Kyle Smith Philip C. Waser Atlas Car Care & Tire Center Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Services Carissa Snarski Judith A. Washington BKD LLP Mill Creek Capital Advisors, LLC Auto Club Enterprises Wanetta K. Sockman Gary Wassel Boeing Company Gift Match Moe’s Southwest Grill B.F.Fields David L. Solano Nancy Way Brevillier Village Navigator Lacrosse Balloon’s Restaurant Catherine E. Spano Jefrey P. Weaver Bruce E & Robbi S Toll Netlink Bank of America 51 Bayfront Eye Care George’s Automotive Pro Waste Services Inc. VOLUNTEERS Sister Jane Gerety, RSM. Beach 944 Enterprises LLC Electric Inc. Professional Skills Center April M. Adamczyk ’06 Andrew J. Greathouse ’06 Bella Pizza Gibi Inc. Quinn Buseck Leemhuis Kathleen Q. 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Haslett ’06 Burhenn’s Pharmacy IBM Corporation SafeNet Julie E. Boam ’92 Mersadees D. Henry Business Product Center Inc. Illinois Tool Works Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund Paige K. Bosnyak ’13 Amee A. Herdzik ’88 BWP Bats LLC Industrial Safety Training Shaw & Shaw, P.C. Barbara Brairton ’65 Patricia Hersch ’66 Carpeting by D L M Information Techologies Sheetz Inc. Melissa Brasco Kyle J. Hinsdale ’00 Christenson Investment Services Inc. Silbert Optical Inc. Mary B. Breckenridge, Ed.D. Carol A. Hirsch ’84 Partners Iron Empire Clothing SL Bensink & Associates Inc. Jay A. Breneman ’11 Mary K. Hofman ’74 Christmas Garage Door Co. J.W. & Sons Inc. Society of Holy Trinity Group Sean F. Brennan ’08 Megan B. Hollern ’08 Coach Tony’s Gourmet Johnson & Johnson Properties Solenoid Solutions Inc. Ronald J. Bryant ’90 Catherine E. Hornick ’87 Hot Sauce JSL Plumbing South Bay Abrams Kathleen T. Bukowski, Ph.D. ’75 Mary R. Horvath ’77 Coast to Coast Circuits Inc. KA&S Construction, LLC Sparks Electric Co. Jordan D. Bukowski ’11 Joanne M. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Commercial Refrigeration Kirila Fire Training Facilities SRB Pressure Washing Lee A. Burch ’89 Kaleigh Hubert ’13 Service Lancer Wrestling Parents St. Louis Community Noel J. Burgoyne ’57 John C. Hufman ’89 Community of Young Lasca’s Inc. Foundation Paul J. Cahill ’88 Anthony L. Hugar ’11 Staroobria Lindner Dental Standard Pattern Works Inc. Louis A. Cannarozzi ’75 Colin Hurley ’13 Connecto Electric Inc. Logistics Plus State Farm Companies David Chrzanowski Charles Ingram ConocoPhillips Longstretch Sporting Goods Foundation Nicholas J. Cianci ’14 Andrea T. Jefress, M.D. Corcom Partners Inc. Lubrizol Foundation Swiss Village Mobile Home Park Dario Cipriani ’74 Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D. Cornerstone Bar & Grill Lunden’s Financial Services Inc. Target Freight Management Marc Cipriani ’83 Laura L. Jones ’12 Cuddy & Ward LLP, CPA’s Macek’s Garage Inc. Kimberly A. Clear ’98 Myron Jones Curtze Food Service Mannino’s Grand Slam USA Teodori Enterprises Kelly M. Cofrancisco ’08 Laura L. Junker ’03 Dailey Tire and Automotive Marsh Spaeder Baur Spaeder & Thayer Power and Robyn Mast Colbert ’05 Steven R. Kaczerski ’08 Dan Kuzma Taxidermy Schaaf LLP Communication Line Jason N. Colbert ’04 Kelly M. Karns ’06 Dan Steen Golf Pro Marsha Marsh Real Estate Construction Darren A. Conway ’09 Sarah E. Keene ’08 Delfn Design & MFG Services The Allstate Foundation Gail J. Cook ’80 Victor T. Kelley ’88 Deluxe Corporation Mary Alferi Richmond, Esquire The Barn Door Hardware Sheila S. Coon ’72 Carlin S. Kelly ’07 Foundation Mercyhurst Student Store, LLC Sister JoAnne Courneen, Kayla M. Kelly ’14 Design Center Inc. Government The Crystal Restaurant RSM. ’64 B. Scott Kern Dick Deutsch Auto Body Mike Zimmer Electric Inc. The Glove Doctor, LLC Grifn M. Currie Kiersten M. Kerr ’16 Dinos Greensburg Inc. Mitchell Price The Misquamicut Club Amy Cuzzola-Kern Casey J. 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Frank ’12 Brian Lilly Gatherings Pub & Grill PM Roofng and WQLN Public Media Thomas M. Frank ’13 Travis M. Lindahl ’00 GE Foundation Construction Inc. Yaple’s Vacuum Cleaner Center A. James Freeman Amy C. Lombardo ’96 General Partitions Polish Falcons Susan Furr Shaun M. Lux ’05 Manufacturing Corp. Premier Transportation Paula Garzon Shaun J. Lux Genoa Bank Pro Build Gary S. Maas 52 Suzanne C. Mack ’83 William C. Sennett, Esq. Robert D. MacKinlay Jr. ’99 Stephen M. Seymour ’85 Yvonne J. Maher ’93 Brittany M. Shafer ’08 Margaret T. Manchik ’87 Anne T. Siegel ’04 Lisa M. Manendo ’78 Michael L. Sliker ’02 Constance L. Manus Rev. Tom Snyderwine Christina M. Marsh ’89 Jason R. Staley ’05 Heather L. Martin ’16 Richard S. Steele Brianna Massari Heather C. Steiner ’89 Marc McAndrew ’88 Gregory J. Stelter ’06 Kimberly McCormick ’84 Patricia Sulkowski ’67 Frances McCormick Susan N. Sutto ’68 Desmond J. McDonald Jane Theuerkauf Victoria D. McKee ’14 Melanie R. Titzel ’80 Anne M. McKinney ’12 P. Kelly Tompkins ’78 Elizabeth A. Meier ’16 Ann M. Tredway ’00 Donald F. Mennel ’02 Anthony P. Tupek ’05 Robert E. Merski ’99 Rebecca L. Turner ’05 Emily M. Merski, Esq. ’04 Paulette M. Vaccaro ’83 George R. Metcalf III Dionne N. Veitch ’92 Christopher W. Miller Cheryl Vicary Daniel J. Moran ’88 Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. John A. Munch ’91 Alex Vinesky ’14 Mary K. Murray ’77 Loan K. Vu ’13 Joseph G. NeCastro ’78 Jane A. Wagner ’99 Maria A. Nemeth ’14 Christopher M. Walker ’10 Lawrence L. New Barrett C. Walker, D.D.S. Donna J. Nolf ’67 Tamara L. Walters Jared E. Oakes ’00 Marissa L. Wayner ’08 Kerry A. O’Connor ’09 Wendy M. Weber ’71 Left to right: Courtney Olevnik, Cal Pifer, Susan Reddinger, Matthew Sanflippo, Lindsay Frank Courtney F. Olevnik ’08 Adam J. Welsh and Ryan Palm Lisa A. Olinger ’11 Kelsea J. Wemett ’14 Caitlin M. O’Neill ’14 Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ’78 Eric G. Opron ’88 Kenneth J. Wilson Jr. ’98 Joseph A. Pacinelli ’78 Perry N. Wood III ’01 DEPARTMENT OF Ryan J. 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