For Immediate Release Contact: Leigh E. Knopf, APR, Director of Marketing and Public Relations 16 June 2006 Tele.: 860.255.3775; Fax: 255.3417; e-mail: [email protected]
TUNXIS CC FOUNDATION & ADVISORY BOARD ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERS
With its origins dating back to 1970, Tunxis Community College Foundation & Advisory Board, Inc. supports and enhances College programs not funded through state or federal appropriations. The Foundation is dedicated to developing resources in support of the College in the areas of student scholarships, curriculum and program enrichment, faculty and staff professional development, equipment and facilities acquisitions, and other areas arising from the demands of a dynamic, growing, community- centered higher education institution. Members serve as liaisons to business and industry in the Central Connecticut Region. Tunxis Foundation functions as an external organization dedicated to the preservation and enrichment of the College as a vital and responsive community asset. For more information, contact Waldemar Kostrzewa, director of development, 860.255.3604; [email protected]. Visit Tunxis on the Internet at tunxis.commnet.edu.
Tunxis Community College Foundation & Advisory Board, Inc. announces the following new members:
David M. Brantner joined Pratt & Whitney Division of United Technologies Corporation in East Hartford in 1993. Since June 2005 he has served as Director, Group Strategy and Development, responsible for lead strategic planning, and mergers and acquisition activity for the $2 billion Commercial MRO business segment. Among his previous positions at Pratt & Whitney were Director, Information Service Programs, Large Commercial Engines; Director, e-Business; and Executive Assistant to the President. Prior to Pratt & Whitney, Brantner worked in corporate operations at General Electric, GE Aerospace in Delaware Valley/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in marketing and health care management at Astra Pharmaceutical Products in Westborough, Massachusetts. Brantner earned his bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University, and his MBA from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management.
Meg-Anne K. Staubley of Bristol is the Community Relations Manager at The Hartford Financial Services Group—Personal Lines Division in Southington, where she is the point of contact for community activities. These include student/professional mentoring programs with school systems, the AARP Social Impact Agenda, Junior Achievement, and employee volunteer opportunities and financial donations. She has worked at The Hartford since 1990 in positions centering on sales, claims adjustment, new business, project supervision, Six Sigma process management and operations project lead. Staubley earned an Associate of Arts degree from Bay Path College and attended Southern Connecticut State University. She holds a Connecticut Property & Casualty Agents and Connecticut All Lines Adjusters license.
Robert Pazdziorko is Vice President/General Manager of Step Saver/Observer Publications, published by Maitland Publishing, LLC. In this position, he launched two new redesigned products within a year, has recruited and trained new key managers and sales people, and redesigned a new sales commission plan.
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Before coming to Step Saver/Observer Publications in 2004, he was Marketing Director/Publisher with The Register Citizen/Foothills Trader in Torrington, where he also served as Publisher/Sales Director, leading a staff of 40 to publish five weekly newspapers, two weekly magazines, and two monthly magazines. From 1995- 2000, he worked as Sales Director for Public Opinion, Gannett Company, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He was also a previous Sales Manager for Press & Sun Bulletin, Gannett Company, in Binghamton, New York. Pazdziorko earned his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University.
Christopher T. Elliot of Southington is Senior Tax and Accounting Manager for Adams Samartino & Company in Bristol where since June 2005 he has managed both corporate and individual accounts, including tax and strategic planning for clients. Prior to joining the firm, he worked at Meyers, Harrison, & Pia, LLC in New Haven/Wallingford, S. Grove & Associates in Hamden, and other accounting firms. Elliot earned a B.S. degree from University of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Connecticut Society of CPAs and a QuickBooks’ Professional Advisor.
Kristin Kasabucki of Cromwell is Executive Director of the Connecticut Chiropractic Association headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT. Kasabucki previously held fund-raising positions at Cheshire Academy, University of Connecticut Health Center, and MidState Medical Center. She has also taught fundraising management classes at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. Kasabucki earned a B.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, has taken graduate courses in organizational management at College Misericordia in Pennsylvania, and has completed continuing education supervisory management classes at Tunxis Community College.
New ex-officio members are:
Richard F. Anderson of Southington is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Tunxis Community College, where he has taught since 2002. At the College, he has developed online courses, revitalized the Criminal Justice Program Advisory Committee, and attracted an array of expert speakers from the field. Anderson was previously a sergeant with the Hartford Police Department (1970-1981), a Colonel with the U.S. Army at the Pentagon (1990-2002), and paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division. He retired from the military in 2002. During the 1980s, he ran his own business and engaged in real estate development, work that he continues to this day. Anderson earned his bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State University and earned master’s degrees from Trinity College and University of Hartford. Before joining the faculty of Tunxis Community College, Anderson taught at the University of Connecticut.
Lynn Laskowski of Bristol is Associate Professor of Biology at Tunxis Community College. She joined the Tunxis faculty as part-time instructor in the 1980s, and has been a full-time faculty member for eight years. Laskowski previously worked at the University of Connecticut Health Center in laboratory research and field research. Prior to that, she worked in hospital consulting at Oberfest Associates in Philadelphia, and at HealthMarket, a firm specializing in marketing for skilled nursing facilities.
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Sally Terrell of Burlington is Associate Professor of English at Tunxis Community College. She joined Tunxis in 1990 as a part-time instructor, becoming a full-time instructor in 1998. Terrell has helped organize the College’s annual Writer’s Conference and has participated in the systemwide Center for Teaching. She has published numerous articles about writing pedagogy, and is currently working on a rhetoric textbook and a memoir. Terrell worked for six years in executive search and has been an editor and writing consultant to area businesses. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Manhattanville College, and her master of arts degree from Trinity College. She also studied at St. Clare’s Hall in Oxford, England.
Lynn Riley of Burlington is a full-time student majoring in Human Services at Tunxis Community College. At Tunxis, she is secretary to the Student Government Association, secretary to the DARC Club, and student representative to the Professional Staff Organization. Riley was chosen to take part in a unique independent !study project offered by Tunxis in December 2005, in which she interviewed and recorded the oral histories of !Lakota elders from the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe on their reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. She is a 2004 graduate of Lewis S. Mills Regional High School in Burlington.
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