Mercyhurst Magazine - Aug. 2017

FALL 2017

REIMAGINING DOWNTOWN ERIE CHRISTINA CARBONE MARSH ’88 P. 14

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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 people who are engaged in the world around them. Throughout this issue of Mercyhurst Magazine, we highlight examples of our students, faculty, staff and alumni who epitomize engagement as they influence a better world through education, leadership and service.

In the 24 months since I assumed the Mercyhurst presidency, I have been witness to a highly engaged community—individuals who, through their discretionary effort, contribute in diverse ways to the well-being and success of our university.

Our people are the common denominator in the health of our institution and, clearly, our alumni are reaping the rewards and delivering on them.

Our cover story casts the spotlight on Christina Carbone Marsh ‘88, chief community and economic development officer at Erie Insurance, who is part of a growing network of business, community and academic leaders intent on transforming downtown Erie into a vibrant and thriving region.

What resonated with me more than anything else was Marsh saying that the Mercy charism isn’t far from her thoughts when doing the work she does. “I do feel, when we do this work in the community, that we are keeping a compassionate eye on our community members,” she said.

“I think that is something I learned from being at Mercyhurst. Having a servant heart guides me in the diverse experiences I’ve had in my career and in life.”

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 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 Sciences. Not only have we hired three high-profile faculty leaders, 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

our cyber and data science programs and, in time we hope, segue into local jobs and future investment in our city.

In this issue, we’ve taken a look at some of our young alumni, who have parlayed their Mercyhurst education into successful careers in short order. You’ll also read about significant changes in the way we manage our Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture, intended to bring in top names while, at the same time, making performances accessible to broader audiences.

And, speaking of accessibility, please see a series of vignettes on how Mercyhurst North East provides life-altering opportunities to a diverse and engaged student body.

I am so grateful to all the people of Mercyhurst for their commitment to our mission, and I would like to take this opportunity to particularly thank our alumni. Through your engagement with your alma mater, we yield global perspectives that influence our curriculum, internships, jobs and robust learning experiences.

Pride in our affiliation with Mercyhurst drives our forward progress, innovation and success. Your engagement in our future is essential.

Until next time, Carpe Diem.

Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. President, Mercyhurst University

ON THE COVER: Christina Carbone Marsh ’88 is pictured in her office at the Erie Insurance Group. Now the company’s chief community and economic development officer, 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.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2 MCPc INVESTS $1 MILLION IN MERCYHURST CYBER PROGRAM 3 NEW LEADERSHIP NAMED FOR RIDGE COLLEGE 4 SOPHOMORE RESIDENCE HALL UNDER CONSTRUCTION 6 21ST-CENTURY HURST ALUMNI ALREADY MAKING IMPACT JENNIFER MOBILIA ‘03 ANNIE DEMEO REZNIK ’02 THOMAS REZNIK, M.D. ‘01 SARAH KEENE ‘08 ANNA PATRICK ‘07 PATRICK LYNCH ‘07M RYAN KERR ‘10 NICK ROBERTS ‘10 BRITTANY MCCRACKEN SHAFFER ‘08 ADAM OLSZEWSKI, M.D. ‘10 ANDREA HASHIM HANSEN ‘04 12 REMEMBERING SISTER ANGELICA CUMMINGS 14 CHRISTINA MARSH ’88 HELPING TO TRANSFORM ERIE 15 RETIRED PRESIDENT WILLIAM P. GARVEY DIES 16 MNE’S UNIQUE OFFERINGS ATTRACT VARIETY OF STUDENTS 18 LEGENDARY ENTERTAINERS HEADLINE MIAC LIVE SEASON 20 6 HONORED AS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI 21 4 JOIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES 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 24 LAKERS, SAINTS SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS 26 THE CHANGING FACE OF CAMPUS 28 CLASS NOTES 29 IN MEMORIAM: DR. KEN SCHIFF 29 ALUMNI OFFICE PLANS EUROPEAN RIVER CRUISE 30 YEAR IN REVIEW: MERCYHURST REPORTS RECORD FUNDRAISING YEAR 32 HONOR ROLL OF 2016-2017 DONORS

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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 take the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences to the next level by accelerating the expansion of its innovative cybersecurity program.

student outcomes. The construction of new cyber training facilities and today’s introduction of three new leaders make for a potent combination that will ensure Mercyhurst remains the vanguard of the field.”

The Cleveland-based company, with offices in Erie, will create a cyber lab in Hammermill Library that will be used by the Ridge College to educate students in the high-tech cyber field. Adjacent to the lab, MCPc will create and manage a high-security Network Operations Center that will employ Mercyhurst students.

Mercyhurst Provost David Dausey said MCPc’s expertise in cybersecurity “will build upon Mercyhurst’s strengths as a leader in the field of intelligence studies, and develop a pipeline of work-ready talent to meet the nation’s cyber needs.”

MCPc CEO Andy Jones joined President Michael Victor in making the announcement on July 25. At the same time, Victor announced the naming of a new dean for the Ridge College, and two other faculty leaders, charged with taking the Intelligence Studies program into a new era of growth and innovation. (See story at right.)

Former Pennsylvania Governor and the nation’s first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, after whom the Ridge College is named, said, “Mercyhurst University’s Intelligence Studies program enjoys a global reputation for world-class research, exceptional teaching and 2

Today, Mercyhurst Intelligence Studies graduates are employed in all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, scores of law enforcement organizations and a broad cross-section of corporate America, including a number of Fortune 500 companies.

“From terrorism, to the world of cybersecurity and big data, to corporate risk management, we continue to up our game to ensure that our Intelligence Studies majors emerge as the best-equipped graduates in the field,” President Victor said.

He added, “We all recognize the widespread incidence of cyber threats

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 figure 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 five-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.

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 of universities in the country to have this kind of capability on campus.“ Victor credited Dausey for his role in facilitating the MCPc partnership, and Cal Pifer, vice president for external relations and advancement, for his part in bringing the project to fruition.

Kidder Wachter Architecture & Design of Erie has done the architectural work, with construction beginning this fall. The cyber lab and Network Operations Center are expected to be ready by spring semester 2018.

Creation of the cyber lab will require relocation of other resources that had occupied that space, including the university archives, which will move to Hammermill’s third floor.

These changes are all part of a major reshaping of the library made possible by a pair of generous gifts. A $500,000 gift from alumna and retired trustee Ellen Ryan and her husband, David, will allow for a complete redesign of the library’s main floor, intended to increase efficiency and create more learning spaces.

Among the renovations are an updated library circulation desk and technology assistance area, state-of-the-art computers, tables and seating for study spaces, and much more. Also underway is the Ridge Reading Room, made possible by a $250,000 gift from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation.The space augments the library’s collection of the Thomas J. and Michele Ridge archives.

Clockwise from top left: McGill, Upal, Danzell, Griffin

NEW LEADERSHIP NAMED FOR RIDGE COLLEGE Following a national search, Mercyhurst has chosen Lt. Col. U.S. Army (Retired) Duncan E. McGill, Ph.D., of Manassas, Virginia, as dean of the Ridge College. McGill has spent more than a decade in various academic and administrative leadership capacities at the National Intelligence University (NIU). Most recently, he served as associate dean of the NIU’s College of Strategic Intelligence. He replaces James Breckenridge, Ph.D., who recently became provost of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) in Carlisle.

Tapped to lead the college’s cyber initiatives, including the new MCPc Cyber Lab, is U.S. Navy Cyber Analyst Chad Griffin, whose expertise included providing IT, cybersecurity and intelligence analysis to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Pacific Command.

Charged with heading the college’s data science program is M. Afzal Upal, Ph.D., a former senior data scientist for Canada’s Department of National Defence. He combines many years of experience as a data scientist supporting intelligence analysts with a proven track record in scholarship and peer-reviewed publications.

Also new this year to the intel team is Benjamin Baughman, Ph.D., a former detective and crime analyst with the Raleigh, North Carolina, Police Department, and an instructor in disciplines blending psychology and criminal justice.

Orlandrew Danzell, Ph.D., was promoted last spring to chair the undergraduate Department of Intelligence Studies.

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RYAN HALL TO OFFER SUITE-STYLE RESIDENCE FOR SOPHOMORES IN FALL 2018 Students had barely moved out after graduation in May before crews moved in to demolish six apartment buildings at the south end of the upperclassman housing area between Briggs and Lewis avenues.

By fall 2018, a brand-new residence hall for sophomores will rise on the site. Built in a U-shape opening toward 38th Street, it will house about 350 students. The 148,000-square-foot building will be four stories high, set into the natural grade of the hill below East 41st Street. It will be named Ryan Hall, recognizing the longstanding philanthropy of Ellen Hammond Ryan ’64 and her husband, David, of Naples, Florida, and Petoskey, Michigan.

When President Michael Victor announced a new housing policy that will require out-of-town students to live on campus, he said he was committed to reimagining the university’s residence halls to better meet the needs of today’s students.

This project—the second major capital project during his tenure following renovation of the campus dining hall—shows how serious he was about that promise.

“It’s all about the experience,” Victor said. “Mercyhurst is a beautiful residential college and we believe strongly that living on campus promotes health and safety, facilitates diversity and inclusion, and integrates the

residential, academic and social aspects of students’ lives.”

While most colleges still mix all students in large residence halls, Mercyhurst takes a different approach, offering a variety of options to meet the needs of students of different ages.

Freshmen live in traditional residence halls right in the heart of campus, with staff members living on each floor to help students adjust to college life. The staff also offer frequent programs addressing freshman concerns.

Warde Hall, the last residence hall built on campus, opened in 2009 and was designed specifically to enhance the freshman

experience. “Everything about Warde’s design encourages interaction,” explained Dr. Laura Zirkle, vice president for student life. “That’s what you want for freshmen, to draw them out of their rooms and help them get to know each other, to make friends and to feel comfortable in their new environment.”

So, while Warde features spacious rooms with private baths, it also includes lots of common areas including lounges, a media room, a kitchen, an exercise facility, and even a small convenience store.

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as it did with Warde, Mercyhurst opted for durable steel and concrete construction and a traditional brick look that coordinates with other campus structures.

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 different, 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 first floor 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 first on the east side of campus. Gathering most sophomores in a single building allows hall staff to target programming to that class.

Upperclassmen live in apartments and townhouses on the outskirts of campus, which offer 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 financed through bonds, and revenue generated from the students who live in the building will be used to retire the bonds.

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‘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 find it in the pages that follow.

In this issue, we profile 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 scorbran@mercyhurst.edu.

JENNIFER MOBILIA ’03 Jennifer Mobilia ’03 distinctly remembers being glued to the TV—at age 6—watching coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

“At that moment I realized the importance and power of journalism and the great responsibility journalists have,” she says. “I knew there was nothing else in this world I wanted to do more.”

Jennifer got her wish. After getting her start at Erie’s WJET-TV, she moved on to larger markets in Fort Myers, Florida; Buffalo, New York; and Providence, Rhode Island. Today she anchors the 7 and 11 p.m. news on News10NBC in Rochester, New York, and anchors breaking news at 5 and 6.

Social media and 24-hour news channels have changed the way TV stations deliver news, she notes. “Our focus used to be our on-air newscasts. While our newscasts are still very important, we also now focus on getting breaking news and new information to viewers through our website, social media and push notifications through our mobile app.” She regularly hosts “Jen at 10,” a Facebook Live show.

Journalists also face the challenge of fake news, particularly on social media, Jennifer says. She’s doing her part in that battle with a new segment called “News or Noise.” She invites viewers to submit stories circulating 6

on social media, and then investigates to find out where the story falls on her “news to noise” meter.

She’s covered major stories like New York’s first same-sex marriage, Hurricane Sandy, the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Boston Marathon bombing, the arrest of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, and countless blizzards and snow storms. But, Jennifer adds, “The work I’m most proud of is my coverage of Erie’s Pizza Bomber bank robbery. I’ve always had an interest in criminal cases, but this bizarre case was full of twists and turns that were just fascinating to me.”

“I love working in local news because it gives you an opportunity to become a part of the community you live and work in,” she says.

“Network reporters are always on an airplane, sleeping in hotels and away from their families.

That’s definitely not for me.”

A North East native, she bucked her family’s Penn State tradition to enroll at Alabama but she wasn’t happy in Tuscaloosa and quickly returned home. She took some business courses at Mercyhurst North East.

“I unexpectedly fell in love with the school, the professors, the Catholic values and the beautiful campus. Mercyhurst instantly felt like home—that’s why I stayed to get two degrees.”

She had a family connection at North East

as well. Her grandfather, father and uncle planted and maintained the vineyards on the Redemptorist Seminary property for many decades. Her parents, who now operate Arrowhead Wine Cellars, were also among the original donors who raised $500,000 to help Mercyhurst turn the seminary property into a college campus.

After receiving an associate degree in Business Administration at North East, Jennifer headed to the communication department at the Erie campus.

“Nothing can prepare you for some of the horrific things you’ll see, the stories you’ll cover or the stress of working in television news,” she says. “However, Mercyhurst taught me the importance of compassion for all, fairness, accuracy and honesty.”

Outside the TV world, Jennifer is the proud mother of a white standard poodle named Anna and operates a small online jewelry store, TVGirlBling.com. In her free time, she enjoys running, spending too much money in New York City, cheering on the struggling Buffalo Bills and being with her family.

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 fields: 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.

ANNIE DEMEO REZNIK ’02 Annie DeMeo grew up on college campuses, including Mercyhurst where her dad, Tony, started the football program. When she visited Mercyhurst in April of her senior year, it felt like home though it had been years since her family moved from Erie.

Now, as the first executive director of the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success, Annie is working with a group of the country’s leading colleges and universities encouraging lowerincome, first-generation, and other under-served students to aim for college. The coalition’s members serve students from low-income backgrounds, offer responsible financial aid packages, and ensure positive graduation outcomes for students from all backgrounds.

“Through the coalition, colleges are working together to eliminate barriers to college for lower-income and first-generation college students in an unprecedented manner,” Annie explains.

The coalition offers free college-planning tools, including a private online storage space for students to begin assembling materials they’ll need as they apply to college. “The colleges developed resources for students who don’t have support. The tools are for students like my husband, or father, and many of my college friends, who were the first in their family to go to college,” says Annie.

An English major and Religious Studies minor, she credits mentors like Dr. Heidi Hosey and Dr. David Livingston for teaching her how to think through complicated ideas and analyze problems from many different angles—skills she uses daily at the helm of a brand-new organization.

Annie says she can’t imagine a place where she could have become as immersed in the community as she was at Mercyhurst. She was an Ambassador, Merciad editor, student government officer, and a lead student fundraiser for the annual phone-a-thon. At graduation, she was honored with the Sister Carolyn Herrmann Service Award, celebrating Annie “selflessly giving her time, energy, loyalty and talent to the campus community.” Annie is once again giving her time, energy, loyalty and talent, only this time to the many college communities of the coalition.

Annie and Thom Reznik were married in 2004 and have four children: Caroline, 10; Anthony, 8; Catherine, 4; and Grace, 3. (Read Thom’s story at right.)

Learn more about the coalition at coalitionforcollegeaccess.org.

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 offered opportunities to blend his passion for patient care with broader interests in public health.

“I like building relationships and taking care of people one on one,” he explains. “But public health is a field that can make a difference on an enormous level. Public health can affect thousands or millions of people.”

Thom immersed himself in the VA patient culture and immediately recognized the burden of chronic pain and overreliance on pain medication for treatment. Though the opioid epidemic hadn’t yet become well-known, the VA was evaluating and reforming pain treatment and prescription practices. Thom’s dedication and background led him to be named co-chair of the hospital pain committee, Primary Care Pain Champion and the Providence representative in opioid safety and pain management within the New England VA Health Care System.

Leading pain initiatives now fills as much as half of Thom’s time. He developed and launched an Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic in which primary care internists, acupuncturists, pharmacists, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, and nurses all meet to listen to a patient’s pain story. This collaborative approach offers patients a personalized comprehensive plan.

Thom also became a Medical Acupuncturist last year and opened the Providence VA’s first acupuncture clinic. Thom notes the VA has deployed a primary-care-based acupuncture procedure called “battlefield acupuncture”—which places five needles in each ear to control pain—as another tool available for pain treatment.

“In the early 1990s, physicians became very aggressive in using opioids to treat pain,” he notes. “Today the pendulum has swung too far the other way suggesting opioids have no place in chronic pain management. My experience in primary care has shown that patients live somewhere in the middle, where things aren’t so black and white.”

Beyond the VA, Thom lends his experience to Rhode Island state initiatives, including the Department of Health’s work to improve primary-care-based pain management and as part of the Rhode Island Governor’s Opioid Overdose Task Force.

“The VA is at the forefront of rewriting the playbook for chronic pain management by focusing on the complex causes of chronic pain and partnering with veterans on what works for them, relying less on medications and procedures.”

“We’re filling a gap, and I hope it will grow so we can change things for as many people as we can,” he says.

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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 remember loving the feel of the campus,” she says.

It was during her senior Social Ethics class that Sarah Keene connected the dots and realized what she wanted to do with her life: to use her languages to help others find their voices.

When she enrolled, she chose a Political Science major and a Spanish minor.

A French major and Russian Studies minor, she worked first helping newly resettled refugee and immigrant families in Pittsburgh toward selfsufficiency. It was rewarding, but immensely challenging work, she says, adding, “I learned more about resiliency from these families than from any other previous experience.” Then she managed a food pantry for needy families in the South Hills.

In 2013, she signed on for the Peace Corps and headed to the Central African nation of Cameroon. Her primary project was teaching English to more than 400 students aged 10-22, but she also cultivated friendships between more than 30 American students and her Cameroonian students through a pen-pal program. She’s particularly proud of a weeklong youth empowerment camp she ran for 35 girls aged 10-14, which included a panel of positive female role models from the community.

Returning to America when her two-year assignment ended, Sarah remained with the Peace Corps and now works at its Washington headquarters as a program analyst for recruitment and diversity.

Along the way, Sarah’s passion for languages and cross-cultural exchanges has led her to learn Mandarin Chinese, Bamvele, Fulfulde, Swahili, Kirundi, Burmese—and her newest language, SQL coding.

Eventually, she’d love to get back into the field. She hopes the combination of her foreign languages and newly developed data science skills will lead her to a long life of working in international development agencies in D.C. and abroad.

Sarah says she spends most of her time trying to conquer new languages and building up her savings and vacation days so she can travel to new places. She also enjoys playing on a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) community softball team, learning guitar, and taking advantage of all the fun, free events that happen every day in Washington.

She says Mercyhurst provided the foundation on which she has continued 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.”

Best memories? Her study-abroad term in Aix-en-Provence, France; her 2005 alternative spring break trip with Habitat for Humanity (“a great group of people working together for social good”); and her service as a Mercyhurst Ambassador, sharing her passion and love for Mercyhurst.

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About two years after her Mercyhurst graduation, Anna headed to the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Then, with an M.A. in international development in hand, she moved to the nation’s capital.

She’s held a number of jobs in Washington, but for the past four-and-a-half years has been a public affairs specialist in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State.

The office leads diplomatic engagement on human trafficking and produces the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. She works with the private sector, NGOs and others to look at how human trafficking intersects with global supply chains and affects the products we all buy. She also does research, drafts fact sheets, writes speeches and gives presentations to raise public awareness about human trafficking.

A soccer player during her first two years, Anna cut her athletic career short in order to study abroad in Costa Rica. Living in a foreign country and experiencing a different language and culture was just one of the Mercyhurst experiences that she says expanded her world view.

“In attending speaker series and events at Mercyhurst I heard from a variety of academics with different, and sometimes opposite, ideas from my own. In taking courses with professors who challenged what I thought to be true, I learned to see things from another perspective. It would be hard to move through the world today without these experiences; they prepared me well and I continue to carry them with me today.”

On a practical level, the hours and hours she spent at the library researching, reading, writing, analyzing and preparing for presentations proved excellent preparation for her work today.

This summer Anna married Sherilyn Fraser ’08 in a ceremony performed by Karen Eade ’07. Sherilyn is a director of financial analysis at the University of Maryland, University College. They both love to travel, including an excursion to Machu Picchu and a sailing trip in the Greek islands. Closer to home they enjoy rock climbing, exploring farmers’ markets, and discovering what Washington, D.C., has to offer.

PATRICK D. LYNCH ’07M Patrick Lynch’s master’s degree in Applied Intelligence has propelled him to the front lines of the effort to improve the security of nuclear power programs around the world.

During Professor Kris Wheaton’s class in Advanced Analytical Techniques, Pat became fascinated by what analysts could learn from commercial satellite imagery. Hired by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as soon as he finished his coursework, he spent a year in Vienna, Austria, using satellite data to monitor nuclear programs.

He then moved to the IAEA’s Nuclear Power and Engineering Section.

The first non-nuclear scientist hired by that section, he helped evaluate potential nuclear power programs—using open source data to review everything from political and financial stability to power grid connectivity.

Returning to the States in 2009, he joined the Global Security Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he’s responsible for a $12 million portfolio of U.S. State Department programs that help technical staff, academic leaders and governments around the world improve the safety and security of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) facilities. He focuses particularly on the human element, ensuring that individuals with access to sensitive information and materials aren’t vulnerable to being exploited, reducing the risk of insider threat. He’s currently working with about a dozen nations and spends much of his time traveling.

Though the Research/Intelligence Analyst Program (RIAP) at Mercyhurst

began in 1992, Pat was part of the first cohort once a full-fledged master’s program was launched. He says the “applied” part of the title is what made it valuable to him.

He points, in particular, to the 10 weeks he and his classmates spent identifying trends in criminal activity and policing within the European Union. The research was commissioned by European Parliament member Bill Newton Dunn, who flew to America to be briefed on what they found.

“I’d never had the opportunity to supply something tangible to a decision-maker in a classroom setting,” he recalls. “After that I was prepared on my first job to provide whatever my management would ask of me.” He says Mercyhurst also provided invaluable training in writing and presenting for decision-makers.

“This Mercyhurst program has a tremendous reputation in Washington and other areas,” Pat notes. He himself has been a powerful ambassador for Mercyhurst, bringing Mercyhurst students to ORNL for internships and briefings, and encouraging his coworkers to pursue online intelligence certificates.

Pat and his wife, Mary, live in Knoxville, Tennessee, with their daughters, Autumn and Nora. His mom, Mary Lee McGraw Lynch is a 1970 graduate, and his uncle, Joseph McGraw, graduated in 1985.

RYAN KERR ’10 With no immediate job prospects after graduation, Strategic Communication major Ryan Kerr took the proceeds from a summer spent waiting tables and jumped on a MegaBus to New York City. The gamble paid off big time.

“Since moving here, I have done everything from selling T-shirts at Mamma Mia to being an Upper East Side nanny,” he laughs. But he 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 media giant. “I’ve been pretty fortunate to see the country and meet many inspiring people along the way.”

Today, as conference manager for The New York Times, his work focuses on “Live Journalism,” conferences that bring Times journalists together on stage with decision-makers in a given field. There’s a live audience, but the presentations are also streamed online and covered in print editions.

In July, he organized a “Cities for Tomorrow” conference in New York, inviting government officials, architects and others to discuss how cities are dealing with today’s pressing issues.

The conference featured a screening of the documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a chronicle of activist Jane Jacobs’ fight to

save historic New York City from ruthless redevelopment in the 1960s, and a talkback session with director Matt Tyranuer.

Other panels discussed what cuts in federal funding could mean for nonprofits; the current heroin epidemic; and how food halls can help revive city neighborhoods.

In May, college presidents, provosts, deans and chancellors took part in the Higher Ed Leaders Forum, and earlier he headed to the West Coast for “Get with the Times,” an effort to connect with college students and show them how to use their political voices, featuring an interview and performance by Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. on the UCLA campus.

“The purpose of these events is to engage in a new and exciting way in a time where factual news and action couldn’t be more important,” Ryan says.

He says his well-rounded communication education gives him flexibility to grow and change with his career, adding, “I don’t really 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 doing something new.” Along those lines, he says he tries to explore a different city for a long weekend somewhere every couple of weeks.

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BRITTANY MCCRACKEN NICK ROBERTS ’10 SHAFFER ’08 Nick Roberts has been drawn to the sciences since his high school days in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. While attending community college there, he zeroed in on a specialty: toxicology.

An internet search for schools with good forensic toxicology programs led him almost 1,900 miles north to Mercyhurst, where he majored in Applied Forensic Sciences with a concentration in chemistry/toxicology. Not surprisingly, his favorite course was Instrumental Analysis with Dr. Clint Jones, but he says the Mercyhurst program introduced him to other forensic fields as well. That well-rounded education earned him acceptance to a respected master’s program in forensic toxicology at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

He returned briefly to the Virgin Islands after earning that degree and taught physics and chemistry at the community college, all the while searching for a job that would get him back into the laboratory. He found it as a forensic scientist with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, where he tests samples submitted by police departments around the state for the presence of drugs and alcohol. Most of the cases deal with sexual assault, poisonings and driving-under-theinfluence cases, so he’s called frequently as an expert witness in criminal trials.

Is his work anything at all like what’s seen on TV? “I honestly don’t watch those TV crime shows,” he says. “But from what I have heard about them – no. Not at all. This is actually one of the first things you learn in the Intro to Forensics course at Mercyhurst.”

Eventually he’d like to manage his own lab, perhaps back in the Virgin Islands once more.

Nick’s free time tends to focus on his love for cars, including attending car shows and track events.

He’s also working on a car in his garage that he plans to enter in drag racing events.

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Brittany McCracken once thought she might follow her dad’s footsteps into a science field, perhaps pharmacy school. But after completing her Mercyhurst degree in Business Marketing/Chemistry, she turned her full attention to business and never looked back.

Today she’s president of FirstLink Research and Analytics, which helps clients explore the potential of new products and technologies they hope to bring to market.

Brittany enrolled in the MBA program at Penn State Behrend right after graduation.

Exempt from many classes because of the courses she’d completed at Mercyhurst, she finished in just a year. She enjoyed a co-op assignment with General Electric in international fleet program management, acting as liaison between international customers and GE engineers.

Once she had her degree, the economy was in a tailspin and jobs weren’t easy to 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 later.

For several years, she and boyfriend Jay Shaffer had a long-distance romance. When they became engaged in 2012 and decided to settle near Jay’s job in Erie, she figured she’d have to look for a new position. Instead, FirstLink’s owners named her president and encouraged her to move the operation to Erie. Today she oversees a staff of about 10 people, mostly analysts located in Erie, including two graduates of Intelligence Studies programs at Mercyhurst. They provide business case analysis and competitive landscape analysis to clients, primarily so far to the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.

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 Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program took the MBA-type concepts that are relevant to the large corporate world and made them more applicable for rapid, entrepreneurial growth settings.”

That certainly describes her company, which has been adding about one new person a year and showing revenue growth in the low double digits for several years. Going forward she hopes to diversify the company’s service offerings and client base to work more with universities, medical research centers and others in the private sector.

“I love the flexibility I have to drive the strategy of this company,” she says, “but there are also downsides, things I’ve had to give up along the way – like free time!”

She and Jay have a bichon frise named Zoey, and she has a passion for cooking and wines.

ADAM OLSZEWSKI, M.D. ’10 Adam Olszewski chose Mercyhurst for his Pre-Med studies because he thought a small school with a liberal arts orientation would best prepare him for a future medical career. The best part, he says, was that classes were relatively small, all were taught by actual professors, and those teachers were always accessible and approachable.

For example, he wanted to get involved in research. “It was as easy as asking my advisor, Dr. (David) Hyland, to point me toward someone who was doing research,” he says. Hyland put him in touch with Dr. Steve Mauro and soon Adam was sampling Lake Erie waters to help with Mauro’s research on E. coli bacteria.

Their work led to a paper that was published during his sophomore year, as well as an Environmental Protection Agency grant to continue the project. The prestigious grant, targeted to smaller universities without large research budgets, came with a scholarship and stipend for Adam.

He spent his first year after Mercyhurst in a pre-master’s program at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, sort of a primer for med school. The following year he entered Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, earning his M.D. in 2015.

After completing a yearlong general surgery internship at Jefferson,

he landed a second-year spot in the neurosurgery residency at Vermont Medical Center. He’s about a third of the way through the seven-year program now.

Though his preferences for a specialty are still evolving, he’s leaning toward skull base surgery, a minimally invasive surgical technique for evaluating, diagnosing and treating benign or cancerous growths located on the underside of the brain, the base of the skull and the upper vertebrae of the spinal column.

He says he can picture himself pursuing a fellowship after that and eventually teaching at an academic neurosurgery center.

In May, Adam proposed to fellow Hurst alum Haley Bradstreet atop the Liberty One building in Philadelphia; they’re planning an October 2018 wedding in Vermont, an area they’ve both grown to love. They especially enjoy snowboarding, hiking and paddleboarding on Lake Champlain.

A 2012 dance graduate, Haley has an administrative day job with the neuroscience grad program at Vermont, but she also teaches dance at four studios in the area and recently became involved with a start-up dance company.

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 nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes dance and the arts in her hometown of Bakersfield, California.

Her long-range goal is to build a vibrant and flourishing 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 Bakersfield campus of California State University.

Some might find her combination of academic programs at Mercyhurst odd, but she says it was one of the best academic choices she ever made.

“The arts and politics often go hand in hand,” she notes. “Through my political science courses, I learned how to write persuasively, navigate political channels, write grants, and garner the confidence to speak to large crowds about my interests and passions.”

A profile of the Mercyhurst dance program in Dance Teacher magazine first put Mercyhurst on Andrea’s radar. The brutally cold temperatures that greeted her on her first visit to Erie proved quite a shock to the California native, but Mercyhurst offered a warm welcome.

“The endless hours I spent in the danceSpace and the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center are some of my fondest memories,” she says.

During her time here, she also did a summer internship with Ballet Concerto in Fort Worth, Texas; got professional performing experience during two seasons with Lake Erie Ballet; and taught open classes for non-majors.

She headed to grad school at the University of Arizona after graduation, intending to become a college professor. She’s done some college teaching, including directing the dance department at Glendale Community College and teaching online dance humanities courses (including some for Mercyhurst).

Today she’s focusing on Kern Dance Alliance and serving as vice president of the Fox Theater Foundation in Bakersfield, but her most important role is as mom to Alexander (who’s about 2) and Hannah (four months). She and husband Michael Hansen are celebrating their fourth anniversary this fall.

Andrea says she maintains relationships with many of her professors from Mercyhurst, noting that her dance teachers are still an excellent source of support and that her roommates and fellow dance majors remain her closest friends to this day. “We are all scattered across the country, but when we see each other it’s like we are living in Egan Hall all over again!”

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MERCYHURST’S ‘FIRST LADY OF THE ARTS’ Sister Angelica Cummings found two vocations when she joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1922.

With the opening of Mercyhurst College just four years in the future, Mother Borgia Egan was already beginning to assemble her pioneer faculty.

The young nun had taken secretarial courses in high school and was doing office work in Washington, D.C., when she recognized her calling to religious life. Surprisingly, her aptitude tests detected notable talent in art, so Mother Borgia sent her to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh to study. When Mercyhurst opened in 1926, Sister Angelica 12

founded its fine arts department. She would remain at its helm for nearly 50 years.

While guiding hundreds of art majors during those years, she never stopped creating her own art, a body of work that earned her recognition across the country and even in Europe. She strongly believed that art professors should also be artists. When it came time to design the art facilities in Zurn Hall, she ensured that faculty offices could double as studios, large spaces with lighting from the north and west—and their own sinks.

Sister Angelica clearly loved being both artist and teacher. In 1974, shortly after she stepped away from the department she had created

and launched Mercyhurst’s Junior Year Abroad program in Florence, Italy, she remarked, “I like to see a painting take form, coming to life from blank canvas, but at the same time I think I am primarily a teacher; there is something to taking a student and seeing her blossom in front of you.”

Sister Eustace Taylor, the longtime English professor and former Mercyhurst president who was a close friend, noted, “For those who knew her well, Sister M. Angelica’s religious life and her career as an artist blended happily.

No matter what the subject of her painting, it spoke clearly of beauty, truth and goodness.”

REMEMBERING HIS MENTOR Dan Burke was Mercyhurst’s first male graduate and he’s now been on the Hurst art faculty for just about as long as Sister Angelica was. He started taking art classes at Mercyhurst in 1966 through a Gannon University co-op program, and graduated soon after coeducation was approved in 1969.

“Sister Angelica was the first person I met here,” he recalls. She was his teacher, his faculty colleague, and his friend and confidante from his senior year until her death in 1984.

“In a selfish way, I like to think she looked at me as someone who could carry out her legacy,” he says. “She offered me a job here as soon as I graduated.”

Hers are big shoes to fill. What set Sister Angelica apart, Burke believes, is that she was professionally trained, not just in college classrooms but also in art studios around the country.

Burke owns several of his mentor’s works, including more than a dozen charcoal figure drawings from her days at the Art Students League in New York City, one of the best-known art studios in the country. One is dated March 1931.

“Can you picture it?” he asks. “This little five-foot nun in full habit sketching live models?”

Sister Angelica studied art all her life, refining her techniques at workshops around the country and on trips to Europe. She worked primarily in oils, applied with a palette knife, though she used watercolors to depict New England coastal scenes during a workshop at the Starr School of Painting in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Her subject matter was traditional, a mix of figures, landscapes and still lifes.

Fittingly, she also painted religious works, from a set of 15 paintings illustrating the Mysteries of the Rosary to a depiction of the Last Supper that still hangs in Egan Hall.

In the late ‘60s, she began to explore abstract expressionism. Sister Angelica was never educated in abstracts, and she taught only realism to her students, Burke says. “She simply came to the style on her own.”

Burke’s favorite Sister Angelica work comes from this period: an oil titled “Storm Clouds.” It perfectly captures the essence of thunderclouds over Lake Erie in a somber palette of ochres, browns, blacks and whites.

Burke says Sister Angelica continued painting in a “garret” on Egan’s fourth floor—with its wonderful lake views— through the late ‘70s, before worsening health forced her to move up the hill to the Mercy Motherhouse.

SISTER ANGELICA EXHIBIT PLANNED FOR SUMMER 2018 In the summer of 2018, works by Sister Angelica will fill the Mercyhurst art gallery that was dedicated in her honor just 12 days before she died in 1984.

The gallery, originally on the third floor of Old Main, was then located in Hammermill Library. In 1995, when the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center was developed, a larger Cummings Gallery was created in the new building’s lobby.

About a dozen Sister Angelica paintings from Mercyhurst’s permanent art collection now fill an alcove on the first floor of Old Main. They’ll be included in next summer’s show, but we’d like to include as many of her works as possible.

If you’re the lucky owner of an Angelica original that you’d be willing to loan for the duration of the show (May 21-Aug. 10, 2018), please contact Cummings Gallery Director Heather Dana (814-824-2092, hdana@mercyhurst.edu) to make arrangements.

Bruce and Rochelle Bavol recently donated a pair of Sister Angelica paintings to Mercyhurst in memory of Bruce’s parents, Doris M. and Michael J. Bavol. Doris Bavol was the niece of Sister Loretta McHale, a former president and professor at Mercyhurst, who received the works from her friend Sister Angelica.

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CHRISTINA MARSH: ‘SERVANT HEART’ GUIDES FAMILY, CAREER, COMMUNITY LIFE

By Deborah W. Morton

When Christina Carbone Marsh was a Mercyhurst senior in 1988, she used her accounting skills as part of a service project to help revive a downtown Erie business that had fallen on hard times.

A fire had wreaked havoc on the business’s data systems and she remembers going downtown twice a week to help build an online accounting system and a point-of-sale platform on the company computer.

Today, Marsh finds herself once again in the revival business, but on a far grander scale than she had ever anticipated. She is part of a growing network of business, community and academic leaders intent on transforming downtown Erie into a vibrant and thriving region, complete with family-sustaining jobs, appealing housing, local shops, entertainment and other amenities, all within a walkable environment.

As chief community and economic development officer at Erie Insurance, Marsh works with the recently formed Erie Downtown Development Corp. (EDDC), led

by Erie Insurance CEO Tim NeCastro, to build a coalition of private businesses interested in investing in downtown through publicprivate partnerships, real estate development and favorable financing opportunities.

As a newly minted Mercyhurst trustee, she sees the nexus between the EDDC’s mission and that of the Mercyhurst-led Downtown Erie Innovation District, which also partners with Erie Insurance, along with Velocity Network and McManis & Monsalve Associates. The goal of the innovation district is to combine the talent from anchor institutions to build partnerships across sectors, transforming Erie into an innovation hub that attracts new business, funding and investment.

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As of press time, the innovation district was on the threshold of announcing a CEO, and the EDDC was not far behind in announcing its chief executive, both of whom will lead their respective initiatives and take advantage of this historic window of opportunity.

“This is an exciting time for Erie; you can feel the momentum building,” said Marsh. “I think everyone has come to realize that doing nothing leads to inertia. We need leadership and resources and that’s why we have taken these steps.”

As part of her work, Marsh is studying similar cities that have reaped the rewards of downtown revitalization efforts. She recently witnessed Cincinnati’s rejuvenated center city, and earlier this year she and Mercyhurst Provost David Dausey were among an entourage that traveled to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to see firsthand its downtown innovation district.

“When you see what other cities have done, you can just imagine what we can do in Erie,” Marsh said. “We have so much to capitalize on. We don’t want to be Anywhere, USA. We want local retail, local coffee houses; we want what makes Erie Erie. And it starts with us, the residents. The visitors will come, and our children will want to stay.”

Yes, she admits to being personally invested.

Born and raised in Long Island, Marsh came to Mercyhurst after an admissions counselor inspired her with pictures of the campus during a college fair at her high school.

“It was so beautiful and there was so much greenery and open spaces,” she said. “You don’t often see that in Long Island.”

After earning her accounting degree at Mercyhurst, she stayed in Erie, taking her first job at Ernst & Young and working on projects

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 suffering 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.

with—of all people—Tim NeCastro. Since 1994, she has worked at Erie Insurance, working her way up from corporate accountant to the vital community position she holds today.

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 Competition, which ran for 25 years, and was responsible for the construction of the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center as a regional arts and culture asset for the Erie area.

Erie is her forever home, and she wants it to be home to her sons as well. She and husband Robert have three boys, RJ, 20, Noah, 19, and Luke, 14. Like most parents, they want to keep their family close, but that means creating an Erie that their children will want to return to after college.

During his early years at Mercyhurst, he was chair of the social sciences and education departments. He was then named dean of the college and later vice president of academic services, both appointments under the administration of Sister Carolyn Herrmann.

“What we are trying to do for the millennial, or entrepreneurial generation, is to give them what they want: walkability, shared ideas in shared spaces, housing and entertainment all within reach,” she said. “We are building for the future, but also for the needs of today.”

He put his scholarship as a historian to practice as an unpaid consultant when Erie County pursued adoption of a Home Rule Charter, and he took a leave of absence from Mercyhurst in 1977 to serve as director of administration for Russell Robison, the first Erie County executive.

He returned to the college as director of Mercyhurst’s first 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 the community, that we are keeping a compassionate eye on our community members,” she said. “I think that is something I learned from being at Mercyhurst. Having a servant heart guides me in the diverse experiences I’ve had in my career, and in life.”

In his later years, Dr. Garvey founded the Jefferson Educational Society, a think tank devoted to civic enlightenment and community progress for the Erie region. His crowning achievement as a historian and writer came just this year with the publishing in April of his book, “Erie, Pennsylvania MAYORS: 150 Years of Political History.”

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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 break when the Chicago Cubs called him up during the 2017 MLB First Year Player Draft.

He says it all started with the Saints.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, he just didn’t fit the body type or mold that Division I schools wanted.

“In high school I was always overlooked,” said Balego, 22, who graduated from Mercyhurst University in May and is currently in Arizona playing rookie ball with the Cubs. “Starting my life not having any teams interested in me… there was a purpose in that. It instilled a work ethic in me.

“Every day I had a purpose,” said Balego, who put in extra time in the weight room at Mercyhurst North East and on the field that first year, attracting the attention of MU’s baseball program. “I knew what I wanted to do in life. I saw myself playing baseball.”

And play he did. In 2017 Balego had a standout senior campaign with the Lakers as he helped Mercyhurst to a 38-8 overall record. He hit .367 (51-for-139) in 46 games with 14 doubles, 10 home runs, and 48 RBI. He also scored 57 runs and had a .698 slugging percentage.

Balego received multiple postseason awards for his senior season, including First Team All-Atlantic Region by the American Baseball Coaches' Association (ABCA) and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).

But it’s the brotherhood of playing at Mercyhurst that will stick with him.

Cameron Balego got his start as an infielder with the Mercyhurst North East Saints. He finished his career with the Lakers this spring and was drafted in June by the Chicago Cubs.

“The relationships I made with the guys…they played a huge role and helped me become who I am today,” said Balego, who still wakes up in awe of playing in the organization of the 2016 World Series Champions. “I play for these guys, my family and the man upstairs.

“I’m grateful Mercyhurst and the coaches took a chance on me,” he said. “I’m forever in debt for the opportunity to work hard and make my family, my university and my community proud.”

CULTURE FOR GROWTH What does George Custard see when he peers through the microscope? His future.

The 33-year-old Meadville resident is a student in the Medical Laboratory Technician program at Mercyhurst North East. He began the program in 2016 after being laid off from his position as a welder at GE. Initially he was just looking for an education that would lead to an in-demand, well-paying job to support his wife and three children. But his passion for pathology is multiplying with each semester.

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“I wanted to work behind the scenes and help people,” said Custard, who is fascinated with the work, which involves examining cells, the abnormalities that can occur within and coming up with a diagnosis that can help a patient. “I’m constantly going over my material and trying to give it the best I can.”

Custard is already looking beyond graduation in May 2018 to a bachelor’s degree in cyto technology and then a master’s to become a pathology assistant.

“I think this program is going to lead to a lot more opportunities to move upwards,” he said.

George Custard is congratulated by Laurie Baker for making the Dean’s List. His goal is to get a 4.0 in the Medical Lab Technician program and go on to earn a bachelor’s degree in cyto technology.

BEAT OF A NEW DRUM Chris Freeman played drums in his first band at 13 and spent the next decade dedicated to that dream, dropping out of high school and practicing four hours per day, five days a week.

Julie McBryar will play for the Saints basketball team while studying to be a respiratory therapist.

3-POINTER For Julie McBryar, an incoming freshman and women’s basketball player, Mercyhurst North East was a swish for three important reasons.

Academics. “The Respiratory Therapy program has a proven track record of job placement and allows me to go to school fast, effectively, and learn what I need to learn to go out into the workforce and help people,” said McBryar, 18.

Campus. McBryar knew MNE was for her the moment she stepped foot on the grounds.

“I got to campus and thought: I have to go here,” said McBryar, who graduated in a class of 72 from Cochranton High School in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Prior to the visit, she had planned to go to college in Pittsburgh and was worried about the size of the city and campus.

“I loved how small the MNE campus was,” she said.

“It was really welcoming. I didn’t want to just be a number.”

Athletics. McBryar was a three-sport athlete in high school, playing basketball, softball and volleyball. So being able to find a campus that allowed her to combine both her academic and athletic passions was important.

“I’m excited to play,” said McBryar, who led the Cochranton basketball team in rebounds and with an average of 15 points per game helped contribute to the team’s going undefeated and taking the region champ title. “I knew it would be hard to do sports because respiratory therapy is an advanced program. But I’ve always used sports to make sure I’m on top of things. It helps me be an all-around better person and student.”

But by age 27, Freeman and his wife, Kim, knew it was time for a change. He entered Mercyhurst interested in a military career, but because of his age decided on criminal justice.

The father of five children ages 2-11, who plans to pursue a position as a police officer in South Carolina, found the attention a little embarrassing.

“Just do it,” he said. “There’s people that make excuses and there are people who make their future.”

Suddenly the student who wasn’t engaged in high school was getting straight A’s and staying after class to chat with professors.

“I didn’t get good grades in high school, but I didn’t care,” said Freeman, who graduated in May 2017 with a 4.0, earning the Criminal Justice program award for overall Chris Freeman (right) says he channeled the same achievement and the Sister Catherine determination he used to practice for hours as a McAuley Award, the highest academic drummer to achieve a 4.0 at Mercyhurst North East. honor given at MNE.

POSITIVE PATH AFTER LAYOFF It was hard for Jasmina Hadzavdic to imagine that getting laid off could be a positive. But now after spending a year in the Physical Therapist Assistant program at Mercyhurst North East, she’s excited about where her life is heading.

“This has been one of the best things I have done with my life,” said Hadzavdic, 31, who qualified to receive the full cost of tuition through the Trade Adjustment Assistance program funded through the U.S. Department of Labor. “It’s going to get my life in a better direction.”

Hadzavdic, who as a girl moved to Erie with her family from Croatia, has always had an interest in therapy.

“One of the things that was so appealing was how small the program and classes were,” said Hadzavdic. “I didn’t want to get lost in a big program.”

Here she has the support, she said, with professors who set you up for success, and go above and beyond, running study sessions and getting to know their students.

“Being laid off was like a reality shock not to have a full-time job,” she said. “It was scary to think I didn’t have the skills to get another job at the amount I’d like to make.”

Now with a 4.0 for the spring semester, that initial fear of failure from the shock of getting laid off is just a distant memory.

“I always saw physical and occupational therapy as a very uplifting and positive step toward recovery,” said Hadzavdic, who has observed family members during therapy sessions and would like to work with older patients in a skilled nursing setting.

Just as she was immediately drawn to the occupation, Hadzavdic knew Mercyhurst North East was the right place for her.

After a job layoff, Jasmina Hadzavdic is on her way to a new career as a physical therapist assistant.

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LEGENDARY ENTERTAINERS HEADLINE MIAC LIVE SEASON Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D.

Dr. Brett D. Johnson is confidently predicting a sold-out season for MIAC Live, the signature performance series from the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture.

In his first 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-profile names and offering 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

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as award-winning performers from contemporary dance, jazz, folk music and children’s theatre. Making return visits to the performing arts center are two groups that packed the venue last time they were here: dance troupe Pilobolus and Irish ensemble Danú. Danú’s Christmas concert on Dec. 6 will also feature the Mercyhurst Concert Choir and guest dancers.

The season concludes in April with a performance by Grammy Awardwinning folk artist Judy Collins.

While they’re the most prominent, the eight MIAC Live events represent only a fraction of the 40 or so performances that the institute presents each year.

Mercyhurst also plays host to high-definition broadcasts from New York’s Metropolitan Opera and London’s National Theatre Live throughout the year.

Even more exciting are the performances dubbed the Emerging Artists Series.

“We have phenomenal academic programs in music, dance and theatre,” Johnson said, “and the title ‘Emerging Artists’ truly reflects the caliber of work our audiences will see.”

Offerings this year range from a D’Angelo Department of Music production of Verdi’s Rigoletto to a staging of the classic musical comedy Guys and Dolls, a joint effort by Mercyhurst’s dance and theatre programs.

For the fifth year in a row, the institute will offer an artist-in-residence program. Before Grammy Award-winning jazz ensemble Turtle Island Quartet performs at Mercyhurst, the musicians will spend three days in the Erie community, visiting organizations like the Barber National Institute, the ExpERIEnce Children’s Museum and the Mercy Center of the Arts.

In a new twist this season, each MIAC Live performance will also welcome a community partner chosen to complement the star’s interests. For Bernadette Peters, the Humane Society of NWPA will be on hand to provide information to concertgoers about adoption of shelter 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.”

To help keep tickets as affordable as possible, the institute relies on many funding sources, including corporate sponsorships and grants from the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority. To encourage contributions by individuals, Johnson this year launched The 501 (a nod to Mercyhurst’s address on East 38th Street). Donors who contribute $501 receive premium seats at several events, plus invitations to preshow receptions.

For more information about MIAC’s 2017-2018 season or to reserve tickets, visit miac.mercyhurst.edu. If you’d like to be added to the institute’s mailing list, email box office manager Annette Gardner, agardner@mercyhurst.edu.

Besides offering 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.

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MERCYHURST HONORS 6 AS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Mercyhurst University honored six outstanding graduates as Distinguished Alumni during Reunion Weekend 2017, held June 9-11 on the Erie campus.

also later studied nursing and developed Wellsprings, a program for the older sisters residing at the motherhouse. She worked in both ministries until retiring in 2013.

The Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Chosen Field went to John Saxon ’89, chief executive officer and director of dlhBOWLES, the leading supplier of air and fluid management products to the automotive industry. Saxon had been President and CEO of DLH Industries since 2004, leading the company to record growth. When DLH merged with Bowles Fluidics Corporation in 2015, he was chosen to lead the new company, which employs more than 2,200 people at manufacturing and distribution locations in Ohio, Maryland, Texas, Mexico and Italy. A certified public accountant, he earned an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He serves on Mercyhurst’s Board of Trustees.

Gray taught English and French for 21 years, and then retrained for a second career as an investment counselor, but she is best known for her work to better her community.

Gray has served on the boards of many organizations, including Girls, Inc., Worcester Junior League, Seven Hills Foundation and the Women’s Initiative of United Way of Central Massachusetts. United Way gave her its Lois B. Green Leadership Award, recognizing in particular her work promoting teen financial literacy. The Bancroft School gave her its Robert W. Stoddard Award for Outstanding Community Service, calling her “someone who works behind the scenes connecting people to organizations to help make our community thrive.”

Awards for Outstanding Service to the Community went to Sister Catherine Edward Delaney, RSM ’66 and Maureen Aleci Gray ’65.

Sister Catherine Edward Delaney taught piano and choral music in diocesan schools, and earned a master’s degree in music education from Duquesne. Early in her teaching career, she and Patricia Daley developed a preschool curriculum to encourage creativity and learning through art and music. Forty-seven years later, the Mercy Center of the Arts is still going strong with the addition of science and dramatic movement to the curriculum. Sister

Awards for Outstanding Service to Mercyhurst were presented to Michael Malpiedi ’81 and Sister Patricia Whalen, RSM ’63.

Malpiedi joined the sales force for Rocket 101 radio in Erie in 1991 and today is general manager for Connoisseur Media’s cluster of six stations in Erie. He joined the Mercyhurst Alumni Board in the 1990s, serving for 16 years while the board’s role expanded to serving as a voice for alumni with the college administration. The board’s president from 2002 to 2010, he was the first alumni board

president to sit on the college’s Board of Trustees and served on the search committee that named President Tom Gamble.

Sister Patricia Whalen joined the Mercyhurst education faculty in 1970, developing and teaching courses in elementary curriculum and methods. She also oversaw the Cadet Teaching Program and pre-teaching internship experiences, even after she gave up her regular teaching load to join the Sisters of Mercy leadership team. Returning to campus in 1997, she served as assistant academic dean and later as registrar, retiring in 2016.

The Outstanding Young Alumnus Award went to Simon Arias ’05.

Arias joined the sales force with American Income Life right after graduation. Today, at just 33, he’s an agency owner with 12 locations in five states and sits on the company’s executive council. In 2011 and 2012 he was named AIL’s agency owner of the year internationally. He is also active in community service, helping establish a branch of “Inspiring Minds” in his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, to inspire at-risk youth to reach their full potential. His video blog—called The GRIND, for Get Ready It’s a New Day—offers daily motivational and educational messages. A Laker football player, Arias has led groups of alumni to develop the Alumni Hill area and the new video scoreboard at Tullio Field.

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.

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4 JOIN MERCYHURST BOARD OF TRUSTEES Four new members were elected to the Mercyhurst University Board of Trustees during the annual meeting of the board in June.

Susan K. Furr of Erie, a retired registered nurse, graduated from The Ohio State University and from the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing in Boston. She was employed for 13 years at Hamot Medical Center in the surgical ICU and cardiopulmonary department and then served as director of cardiac education at Hamot, where she met her husband, Erie cardiologist Dr. Charles M. Furr.

An active community volunteer, she also serves on the advisory board of the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture and is a former board member of the Erie Civic Ballet, the Erie Philharmonic and Temple Anshe Hesed.

Paula Garzon of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Harvard University and the New York University School of Law. Currently president of Knowledge for Professionals Inc., she has previously served as director of business development for Regulatory DataCorp, group counsel for American Express Bank, and an associate lawyer with Hahn & Hessen.

Her business roles have included negotiating and documenting transactions, participating in product developments, and creating educational and training programs and materials. Married to Dr. Ian Storper, she is the stepmother of a current Mercyhurst student.

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 since 2004. Her experiences include finance, audit, talent management, compensation, crisis management/business continuity, innovation and program management. She currently serves as the firm’s chief community and economic development officer.

Married to Robert Marsh and the mother of three sons, she is active with Erie First Assembly of God and has previously served on the board of the Montessori Regional Charter School. See page 14 for a story about her work.

Daniel J. Moran ’88 also earned his Mercyhurst degree in accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant. A senior level executive with more than 28 years’ experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, he is chief financial officer and partner with System One. He has helped grow System One, which provides human capital solutions, from $100 million first-year revenue in 2008 to a projected $1 billion organization in 2017.

He and his wife, Nichelle, have two children and live in McMurray, Pennsylvania.

WHEATON HONORED FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE Games, crowdfunding, social media campaigns, blogging, entrepreneurship … perhaps no faculty member is more adept at blending his own personal interests with the academic needs of his students than Kristan J. Wheaton, J.D., professor of intelligence studies.

That unique merger creates an unparalleled educational experience for his students, and has earned him the coveted Teaching Excellence Award for 2017.

He successfully uses games to teach intelligence concepts, including several of his own design. In the past, Wheaton has successfully used crowdfunding to finance construction of his games. He went on to craft his own crowdfunding strategy, Quickstarter, to help other entrepreneurs accomplish similar results, particularly on the world’s largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, which recently named Wheaton an “expert” in crowdfunding strategy.

Wheaton is well known for sharing insightful stories about his experiences in the intelligence community as a former Foreign Area Officer with the U.S. Army specializing in national security. Always willing to share his ideas with students, faculty, entrepreneurs and others in the intelligence community, Wheaton is also author of the popular blog, Sources & Methods (sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com).

HYLAND LEADS MNE Dr. David C. Hyland has been named vice president for Mercyhurst North East.

Previously, he served as associate vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer of MNE. In the new role, which he assumed in April, Hyland oversees the North East campus as well as its satellite campuses at Corry and the Booker T. Washington Center in Erie. He is responsible not only for academics, but also for administrative operations, including Admissions and Financial Aid, IT, Police and Safety, Student Life, Athletics, Campus Ministry, Bookstore, Parkhurst Dining and Aramark.

Hyland began his career at Mercyhurst in 1995, holding a joint appointment in the departments of anthropology/archaeology and biology, and was promoted to full professor in 2008. He has taught 3,500 students and published or presented more than 100 articles, book chapters, papers, reviews and reports.

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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.

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TONY DEMEO Head Football Coach, 1981-1987

JOSHUA HELM Men’s Basketball, 2000-04

TIMOTHY LATIMER Football, 1981-84

The first head coach in Mercyhurst football history, Tony compiled a record of 41-21-2 during his tenure on the Hill and was named EIAA Coach of the Year in 1985. He began his head coaching career at his alma mater, Iona College, which also inducted him into its Hall of Fame. He was a head coach for more than 25 years, retiring in 2010 after six years at the University of Charleston. A proven teacher of the game, he has published numerous books and DVDs and is a popular speaker on the clinic circuit. His most recent book is Commonsense Rules for Everyday Leaders, published by Coaches Choice. Learn more at tonydemeo.com.

A 6-foot-6 forward from Grove City, Ohio, Josh is among the top performers in team history. He led the Lakers in scoring during each of his final three seasons and was named to the All-GLIAC South First Team as a senior, after two earlier Second Team selections. He is ranked fourth all-time in career points and career rebounds, third in made free throws and fourth in total field goals. After graduation, he played professional basketball in Europe for four years, earning MVP honors in Iceland and first team All-Netherlands. Now living in Charlotte, North Carolina, he’s regional sales manager for American Seating.

A linebacker on Mercyhurst’s inaugural football team, Tim still ranks seventh all-time with 313 career tackles and second all-time with 260 assisted tackles. He’s tied for 19th in career interceptions (7) and led the Lakers in tackles in 1982 with the second-highest total in program history (111).

AMY LACEY-PLUMLEY Women’s Lacrosse, 2000-03 Amy made an immediate impact on the young lacrosse program, playing at both midfield and forward positions. She was a Second Team All-American as a sophomore and First Team AllAmerican as a junior. In 60 games,

she had 106 goals, 15 assists, 106 groundballs, 92 caused turnovers and 29 draw controls. A businesssport marketing major, she works in product marketing for highgrowth technology companies that are building toward acquisition or IPO, a career that has allowed her to travel extensively in America and abroad. Now based in Washington, D.C., she took a sabbatical in 2016 to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail (2189.1 miles). She married her wife in 2014.

DANIELLE POOLE PISER Field Hockey, 1999-02 Women’s Lacrosse, 2000-03

Danielle was a key defender for both field hockey and lacrosse.

Her biggest athletic accolade was a 2002 First Team All-America

selection in women’s lacrosse; she was also honored for her classroom performance. She earned her doctorate of optometry from The Ohio State University College of Optometry in 2007, did a residency in ocular disease and low vision, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. Today she’s a clinical attending to fourth-year optometry students at the Illinois College of Optometry, teaching low vision, ocular disease and geriatric optometry. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Adam Piser; daughter Charlie, 4; and son Jackson, 3.

JOSHUA SHIELDS Wrestling, 2007-11 In 2009, Josh became the Laker wrestling program’s first individual national champion when he won the title at 165 pounds. He was a three-time All-American and four-time National All-Academic honoree and was twice a Super Region One champion. His winning percentage (.828) is the second highest in program history. Josh lives in the Pittsburgh area and works as a global category manager for Polyconcept North America, which gives him the opportunity to travel the world. He’s also been head wrestling coach at Burrell High School for four years. His first state champion, Dakota Deslauriers, graduated from Mercyhurst this year.

MARTIN STURGESS Men’s Tennis, 1973-76 A team captain of the Lakers’ 1976 NAIA National Championship team, Martin was honored as both a Singles All-American and Doubles All-American. He was also named a Singles All-American in 1975.

Martin was a national champion in doubles play in 1976; in singles play, he reached the 1975 national semifinals and 1976 national quarterfinals. He was a threetime Pennsylvania State College Champion and three-time NAIA District 18 champion in singles play.

KEITH SWANSON Football, 1994-98 Keith, a linebacker and key piece of the Laker defense, was named First Team All-American by the Don Hansen Football Gazette in his junior year and followed that season with a Second Team performance in the Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference.

Keith ranks 11th all-time in career tackles-for-loss and 19th in total tackles. Keith now lives in the Cleveland area, where he works for the Bay Village Fire Department and is a tactical paramedic with the regional SWAT team. He served with the Army Reserves for eight years, including deployment with Operation Iraqi Freedom in 20042005, leaving the military as an E-8/ Staff Sergeant.

CHRISTIE TURAK FOSTER Women’s Cross Country, 2007-09 Christie still holds Mercyhurst records in both the 5K (17:32) and 6K (20:58) races. She became the Lakers’ first women’s cross country All-American in 2009. She was already a two-time All-Region runner and two-time All-PSAC competitor, and won numerous academic awards. Christie and her husband, Kenny, met on the Hurst cross country team; they live in Monument, Colorado, with their 2-year-old daughter, Makenna. Christie attended the University of Colorado to become a physician assistant, and works as a pediatric PA. She continued running competitively after college; her personal bests of 1:14 for the half-marathon and 2:44 for the marathon are both Olympic Trial qualifying times.

NEW SCOREBOARD ENHANCES TULLIO FIELD Fans attending football, men’s and women’s lacrosse and field hockey games at Tullio Field this fall can look forward to an even better game-day experience thanks to a new LED video display and audio system.

The new scoreboard installed in May features a 15-by-25 foot video screen that can show everything from live ingame action and player profiles to fan prompts and sponsor messages. The new audio technology will offer higher quality sound to fans inside the field and less “spilled” sound reaching areas outside the stadium.

Student interns are already at work creating graphics to be used during games for all four sports and learning how to operate the board.

Major donors who helped make the $240,000 project a reality include John Saxon ’89, Marc McAndrew ’88, Leader Graphics (Pat Ott ’93), Burger King (Patterson Erie Corporation), Arias Agencies (Simon Arias ’05, Aaron Parks ’07, Justin Adams ’05, Christopher Williams ’06, Aaron Haynes ’09) and Velocity Network.

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MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY

LAKERS

Laker student-athletes excelled this year both in competition and in the classroom – from a 25th-place finish among 268 schools in the 2016-17 Learfield 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

The Lakers enjoyed a historic season, matching the program record for wins in a season (24) and making the program’s first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1994-95. The team placed third in the PSAC West for its highest-ever finish in the division. Angela Heintz and Natalie Piaggesi were named to the All-PSAC West First Team, while Alex Artise was named PSAC West Defensive Player of the Year. Heintz eclipsed the 1,000-point mark while Jalin Steel passed 1,000 points for her time at both Erie and North East. Heintz now holds school records for career assists (400) and assists in one season (211), while Piaggesi has records for career blocks (180), blocks in one season (64) and career games played (115).

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Durrell McDonald was named to the All-PSAC West Second Team. The Lakers finished with a 14-14 record and fell in the PSAC quarterfinals.

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

The Lakers swept American International in the opening round of the Atlantic Hockey tournament, but fell in a three-game series to Army West Point in the quarterfinals, finishing 15-20-4. Les Lancaster was an Atlantic Hockey Co-Defenseman of the Year while claiming All-Atlantic Hockey First Team honors; Derek Barach was named to the Second 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).

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Jillian Skinner and Brooke Hartwick were named All-CHA Second Team while freshman Maggie Knott made the CHA All-Rookie Team. Kelley Steadman ’12 returns to the Hurst as assistant coach this fall.

WRESTLING

Willie Bohince was runner-up in the 125-pound class at Nationals and became the program’s first four-time All-American. Francis Mizia placed third at 165 at the NCAA Championships, helping the Lakers place 10th as a team. Mizia is now a three-time All-American. Andrew Welton (285), Logan Grass (149) and Wes Phipps (197) also competed at NCAAs. Welton was the Super Region One champion in his class as the Lakers placed fourth at the Regional.

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Bridget Merten became the first Mercyhurst women’s golfer to be named PSAC Freshman of the Year.

MEN’S LACROSSE

In the Lakers’ first year in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, Keyan McQueen was Offensive Player of the Year, Greg Weyl was Defensive Player of the Year and Chris Ryan was Coach of the Year. Weyl and Benjamin Brooks were Second Team All-Americans, while James Crowe was a Third Team All-American and McQueen was an Honorable Mention All-American. All-GMAC honorees included Weyl, Crowe and McQueen on the First Team; Matt Wells, Derek Richards, Brandon May and Kurtis Woodland on the Second Team; and Will Agate, Joe Cerio and Evan Hollfelder on the All-Freshman Team.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

The Lakers rode a five-game winning streak into the PSAC Tournament finals before falling to East Stroudsburg. Carly Zimmerman was named to the All-PSAC First Team while being named Third Team All-American.

Kristin Anderson, Taylor Izzo and Kira Kolb were recognized on the AllPSAC Second Team, and Janelle Williams on the All-PSAC Third Team.

WOMEN’S ROWING

The Mercyhurst women placed third at the NCAA Championships as the Varsity Four boat won silver medals and the Varsity Eights took fourth.

During the spring, the Varsity Four squad won gold at the MACRA Championships.

MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING

The Lakers finished their year in the Visitors’ Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in Oxfordshire, England, falling to Edinburgh University.

During the spring, the team claimed gold medals in the Lightweight Four and Varsity Eight events at MACRA and in the Varsity Eight at the Knecht Cup.

COMING NEXT YEAR: MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING

A men’s heavyweight team is being added to the Hurst rowing program.

A small number of rowers will enroll this fall and recruiting in the coming year should bring the team up to full strength, with a Men’s 8 ready to compete by fall 2018. Coach Adrian Spracklen says there hasn’t been a heavyweight team at Mercyhurst since the ‘90s, adding, “It’s exciting to see the program grow and expand its exposure across the country.”

WOMEN’S TENNIS

The Lakers qualified for the NCAA Round of 16 for the first time in program history with Atlantic Region wins against Shaw and Charleston, before ultimately falling to Columbus State. Saioa Gomez de Segura

was an All-American and PSAC West Athlete of the Year while earning PSAC Champion Scholar, PSAC Spring Top 10 and NCAA Elite 90 academic awards. Gomez de Segura and Kayla Frost were selected to the All-PSAC First Team as singles; Gomez de Segura/Annie Baich and Frost/Adrianna Jeffress were All-PSAC First Team for doubles. Annie Baich was All-PSAC Second Team and the Atlantic Region’s Most Improved Player.

MEN’S TENNIS

The Lakers won their first PSAC championship with a dramatic 5-4 victory over Edinboro. They topped Edinboro again at the NCAA Atlantic Regional before falling to Bluefield State. Nenad Terzic and Cormac McCooey were named All-PSAC First Team in both singles and doubles. Terzic was the Atlantic Region Player to Watch and McCooey was the Atlantic Region Rookie of the Year. Conor McCooey and Sebastian Pardo were honored on the All-PSAC Second Team, and Conor McCooey was the PSAC Champion Scholar.

BASEBALL

The Lakers swept the major PSAC West awards as Chris Gonzalez (second base/center field) claimed Athlete of the Year honors, Russell Lamovec was Pitcher of the Year, Vincenzo Lucente (also a pitcher) was Freshman of the Year and Joe Spano was Coach of the Year. Gonzalez and Lamovec were also Atlantic Region Athlete and Pitcher of the Year. Spano was NCBWA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. Gonzalez, Jimmy Latona and Lamovec were Third Team All-Americans. All-PSAC West First Team and All-Region honors were claimed by Latona, Lamovec, Gonzalez, Lucente, Cameron Balego, Drew Delsignore and Chris Vallimont. Lucente was All-PSAC West Second Team. The Lakers finished 38-8 and were ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division II late in the season. Mercyhurst fell in the PSAC Tournament finals and then went 1-2 at the Atlantic Regional, which it hosted in Jamestown, New York. Following the season, Balego, a shortstop, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 30th round of the MLB Draft.

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

Wrestlers Aaron Erhgott, Derrick Ridgeway, Sam Colbert, Devin Simpson and Cornell Wilson qualified for Nationals, while Simpson was a district champion.

BASEBALL

The Saints won the Region III Championship and were honored with a variety of Region awards, including Coach of the Year Brandon Crum, Pitcher of the Year Dalton Donachie and Most Valuable Player Josh Anderson. Zach Barrett, Tommy Cannon, Blaze Chamberlain, Donachie, Kenny Robinson, Jason Swope and Austin Tisch were named to the AllRegion Team. Dalton Donachie was named Male Athlete of the Year for Mercyhurst North East.

BASKETBALL

Omar Little was named to the All-Region Second Team, and Peyton McLaurin to the Third Team.

LACROSSE

In the first season for lacrosse after a four-year hiatus at North East, Donavan Brown was named to the All-WNYAC First Team and Jacob Norton to the Second Team.

SOFTBALL

The Saints won their Conference, Region and District titles, and advanced to Nationals for the 8th consecutive year, finishing with a 42-10 record.

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.

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THE CHANGING FACE OF CAMPUS The iconic view of Old Main and the O’Neil Tower hasn’t changed much over the years.

Except for the Mary Garden created in 2012, front campus looks pretty much as it has for decades.

The same can’t be said of the view from the southwest showing the rear of Old Main.

When the photo below was taken back in 1935, Christ the King Chapel and the tower were recent additions. A large pond (dubbed Lake William) filled the area now known as Garvey Park. Legend has it that Chaplain Father William Sullivan built the pond so that Sister Pierre Wilbert could breed frogs for her biology

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classes. Or perhaps it was just an attempt to solve drainage problems. In any case, a small island in the middle of the pond became a popular smoking spot for students.

photo from the 1970s, and the large deck at the west end of Old Main. Pressed for space, Mercyhurst at one time installed a pair of prefabricated “deck houses” there.

The pond was apparently filled in when Preston Hall was built near its banks in the early 1950s.

The former pond area served as a parking lot for a while, but that became impractical as buildings started going up around Old Main and pedestrian traffic through the area increased. So in 1973 Sister Maura Smith set about creating the first park on the space, adding trees and flowers amid a geometric spiderweb design. Notice the two floors of Preston stretching south from Old Main in the

Around 1985 the park began to take on its present-day look, with thousands of red bricks interspersed with slate walkways. Benches, the landmark Canterbury Clock and the Sister Damien Spirit Bell (a gift of the Class of 2005) complete the look. You can see other changes in the current photo, as well. Preston Hall has added a third floor (home to the Walker College of Business). And Sullivan Hall has risen where the original deck stood.

1970s

TODAY

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CLASS NOTES CAREERS AND EDUCATION Alicia King Redfern ’70 was elected Pennsylvania state organizer of P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) at its annual convention in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, on June 4, 2017. She was previously the state treasurer of P.E.O. Tony Pol ’79 retired as fire chief of the City of Erie, a position he held for more than 10 years. He was a member of the Fire Department for more than 33 years. He and his wife, Chris, live in Erie.

Mary Kaliszak ’86 is the aquatics coordinator at the Barber National Institute and recently helped oversee a revamp of the Barber Institute pool area. Artists painted a 32-by-8-foot ocean-themed mural to offer swimmers a calming, beautiful scene. Kaliszak, a swimmer at Mercyhurst, was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996.

Chicaga Parson Bauer ’98 has launched her first children’s book, the beginning of a series designed to “inspire and equip our youth with a fire of confidence and moral conviction of heart to fully live out their life purpose; therefore, positively impacting the world in which we all live and share responsibility.” For more information, visit RaisingInTruth.com. The book is available at BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com and WestBowPress.com.

Victor Laurenza ’02 joined Key Private Bank as vice president, wealth advisor. His role focuses on further development of the region’s high networth investment management and fiduciary portfolio.

Marie Watt Palano ’02 was promoted to supervisor of data and federal programs within the Seneca Valley School District.

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Sarah Hinsdale Schnarrs ’02 has been named chief accounting officer/director of Patterson-Erie Corporation in Erie.

Mike Pruzinsky ’03 has been named sales office manager at Reed Manufacturing Company in Erie. With Reed since 2003, Mike previously served as assistant sales office manager for the past nine years. He will also continue as Reed’s account specialist for Affiliated Distributors.

Corinne Pitts ’06 graduated in July 2016 with an MBA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Corinne, who earned her bachelor’s degree in intelligence studies at Mercyhurst, is a workforce engagement manager for Accenture in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Emily McGuirk ’07, Emily Paskert ’06 and Leah Kozlowski ’07 received “25 Under 35” awards from their high school, Saint Joseph Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, for displaying outstanding leadership and having a positive impact on their communities.

McGuirk is a mental health technician at Akron Children’s Hospital, where she works with adolescents with mental and behavioral health issues. Paskert is an intervention specialist at Metro Catholic School, the only Cleveland Catholic elementary school with extensive programs to assist refugee students and those with cognitive learning disabilities. Kozlowski is the assistant head of school and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme coordinator at Montessori High School.

’86. Narda Gatgen LCSW-R has worked at New Directions Youth and Family Services for 25 years and is the clinical director. Narda and Christopher reside in Jamestown, New York.

Kate Riley ’03 married Cory Palmer on Nov. 6, 2016, in a small ceremony at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. She was walked down the aisle by her parents, Jack Riley ’74 and Gina Luzzi Riley ’76. A larger party was held at Riley’s Pour House (owned by her uncle, James Riley ’79) in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 14, 2016.

BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS John David ’94 and wife Jocelynn had their second child, daughter Sullivan Hannah David, on July 15, 2016.

Sullivan joins big brother Finn.

Jennifer Smolinski Bouffard ’02 and Chris Bouffard ’02 had a son, Kevin Christopher, on Dec. 30, 2015. He joins sister Kathryn and brother Ryan.

Caitlin Ewing ’14 was appointed creative lead at Speakeasy Content Marketing, owned by the Dallas Morning News.

Trent Frey ’14 has accepted a position as football assistant strength and conditioning coach for the UCLA Bruins.

Lauren Kenny ’17 will play Division I Volleyball at Florida Southern where she will study for an MBA and work as a graduate assistant.

MARRIAGES AND ENGAGEMENTS Narda Gatgen ’87 married Christopher Oberg on Oct. 8, 2016, on Longboat Key, Florida. Maid of honor was Anne Janosko

Kelly Froelich McColgan ’02 and husband Michael had a daughter, Moira, in August 2016.

Kristen McCaskey Rice ’02 and husband Seth had their third child, Quinn Elyse, on Dec. 29, 2016. She joins sister Jillian and brother Collin.

Ryan Gibson ’05 and Jaclyn Kerper Gibson ’05 had a daughter, Quinn Marilyn Gibson, on Jan. 26, 2017.

Ryan and Jaclyn, who met on the rowing team at Mercyhurst, celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary this September.

Kate Lynch Knecht ’05 and husband Jeff had a son, Aedan Michael, on Jan. 20, 2017. Aedan joins big sister Addison.

Eileen McGoun Law ’05 and husband Adam had their first child, Natalie Therese, on April 10, 2016, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Katherine Good Graeca ’06 and husband Ryan had a daughter, Emilia Louise, on Feb. 16, 2017, in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Carrie Karsznia Strickland ’06 and husband Brandan had their first child, Lucy Louise Strickland, on Dec. 15, 2016.

Jeremy Hewitt ’07 and Kristin Leonard Hewitt ’08 had a son, Cameron Leo, on May 3, 2017.

Katie Jarocki Streets ’07 and husband Nathan had their first child together, Sophie Irene Streets, on Dec. 22, 2016. Sophie joins big brother Levi.

Alicia Santoliquido McCraw ’08M and husband Jason had a son, Joshua Graham, on Jan. 16, 2017. Joshua joins big brother Robert.

Emily Neder Roueche ’11 and husband James had a son, Theodore James, on Feb. 22, 2017.

CLASS NOTES

Ken Schiff, Ph.D., left, with Breaking Bad costar RJ Mitte and faculty colleagues Tina Fielding Fryling, J.D., and Clint Jones, Ph.D.

ALUMNI DEATHS Margaret McMahon ’37 Janet Klempay, Ph.D. ’48 Ruth Morey Griswold ’48 Mary Bohrer McDevitt ’48 Jane Kelly McCrone ’50 Lydia Ann Davey Asplund ’52 Therese Strobel Raven ’52 Mary C. Turner ’52 Mareanne Cole Simmons ’53 Sister Michele Leehan, RSM ’55 Bobbie Kinsinger ’63 Anne Froehlich Metzger ’64 Sister M. Stephen Calvin, RSM ’69 Carmine Sciancalepre Rieder ’73 Mike Emick ’75 Curtis J. Brooks ’76 Paul Gorniak ’77 Stephen Joyce ’79 Sharon O’Connell McDermott ’79 Denise Beard ’83 Christopher Brigham ’91

IN MEMORIAM: DR. KEN SCHIFF Dr. Ken Schiff, a member of Mercyhurst’s English faculty for 28 years, died May 26 at the age of 74.

Though he retired in the spring of 2015, he returned to the classroom in fall 2016 to teach his all-time favorite course, “Breaking Down Breaking Bad,” one last time.

He was also instrumental in the development of the Asperger Support Program, which has evolved into the highly successful AIM (Autism Initiative at Mercyhurst) program.

Dr. Schiff earned his master’s degree from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of Denver. He is the author A renowned teacher, Dr. Schiff was the of two full-length novels, Passing Go, director of the Creative Writing Program and which was nominated for the National the annual Mercyhurst Literary Festival and Book Award, and Bender’s Loop, which was the faculty advisor to Lumen, the literary published by Philanthropy Press in 2013. and fine 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 Franklin Fisher ’02 Mari N. Doyle ’04 Amy Shafer Gerrish ’07 Gordon Walker II ’08

ALUMNI CRUISE

John J. Groszkiewicz Jr. ’10 MOTHER OF: Linda First Frisina ’81 (Marilyn First) Mary Griswold Garofalo ’74 (Ruth Morey Griswold ’48) HUSBAND OF: Rita S. Schiffhauer ’53 (Robert J. Schiffhauer) SON OF: Rita S. Schiffhauer ’53 (Daniel J. Schiffhauer) FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY: Virginia Edwards William P. Garvey, Ph.D., former president Thomas Monaghan Robert Rudolph, former music professor Ken Schiff, Ph.D., longtime English faculty member

MAGICAL RHINE AND MOSELLE SEPTEMBER 5–14, 2018 HURSTALUMNI.ORG/CRUISE 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 difference 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.

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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.

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

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

A complete list of major gifts and other Department of University Advancement figures can be found on the following page. These gifts represent far more, however, than simple dollar figures. 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

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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 Dream Partnership Oasis Program: $25,000 AIM Program Endowed Scholarship: $25,000 F.W. Hirt – Erie Insurance Risk Management Program: $1.25 million Downtown Erie Innovation District: $4 million Edith L. Trees AIM Program: $22,000 Patricia Yahn ’50 Art Show: $57,000 A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust for AIM: $60,000 New Estate Gifts: $150,000 Class of 1967 Endowed Scholarship: $37,350

ATHLETICS • • • • • •

Velocity Net for Scoreboard: $50,000 Weight Room Renovations: $35,000 MAC Scorers Table: $50,000 Anonymous for Scoreboard: $20,000 Burger King for Scoreboard: $50,000 Anonymous for Hockey Renovation: $50,000

CAPITAL • • • • • •

Henry L. Hillman Foundation for Library: $250,000 Ellen and David Ryan for Library: $500,000 Patrick Delaney for Mercy Heritage Room: $50,000 Kern Family Foundation for MNE Kitchen Renovation: $13,000 Chris Johnson Wine Room: $25,000 Phillips Trust for Zurn 114 Teaching Theater: $30,000

This Mercyhurst University Donor Report recognizes individuals, businesses and organizations that made gifts from June 1, 2016, through May 31, 2017.

Is your name missing? The reason may be: •

You made your gift prior to June 1, 2016, or after May 31, 2017;

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You made a pledge instead of a gift. The donor listing includes only gifts received.

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 year’s donor report; or

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Sorry, we made a mistake! Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this report. We regret any errors or omissions.

If your name is missing, misspelled or misplaced, please feel free to call 814-824-2246 or email colevnik@mercyhurst.edu. We continue to update last name changes as provided.

DONOR ROLL KEY: * Deceased + Denotes those who have helped Mercyhurst secure a matching gift ~ Emeritus Trustee 31

LEADERSHIP GIVING SOCIETY RECOGNIZES GENEROUS ANNUAL DONORS In the spring of 2016, Mercyhurst University launched the Leadership Giving Society—a society 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, trustees and friends who support Mercyhurst on a leadership level each year.

Society members receive various perks throughout the year, including discounts at universitysponsored 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.

To learn more about the Leadership Giving Society and to become a member, please contact Ryan J. Palm ’07, associate vice president for advancement, at 814-824-3320 or rpalm@mercyhurst.edu.

Catherine’s Circle

Terrence Cavanaugh Thomas A. Hanchin ’85 Mrs. Martha M. Hilbert ’59 Mary Ellen Ryan ’64 Mary Anne Springer ’63 Elizabeth Vorsheck ’77 Patricia S. Yahn ’50

Frances’ Circle

Anonymous Thomas and Teresa Bone Mark Stookey & Lisa Chismire Marc Cipriani ’83 Robert and Margaret Coletta Luigi and Nancy Damasceno Patrick and Candyce Delaney John H. Langer ’95 Richard and Jo-Ann Israel Lanzillo ’83 ’86 William G. Lewis Brian Lilly Marc McAndrew ’88 Owen J. McCormick John A. Munch ’91 Joseph G. NeCastro ’78 Jeff and Rhonda Plyler William C. Sennett, Esq. Gregory Sorce Christopher Sorce Mary Kay Vona, Ed.D. ’83

Borgia’s Circle

Anonymous Judith M. Alstadt ’53 Simon A. Arias ’05 Robert B. Asher Nancy Baldwin Sturtevant Barbara A. Chambers, Ed.D. Jeffrey Best and Rosemary D. Durkin ’77 ’77

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Stephen J. Fiedler ’85 Marilyn Gunther ’62 Joseph A. Hardy III Margaret A. Heetmann ’65 William and Andrea Jeffress Scott and Amy Cuzzola Kern Lev J. Kubiak ’88 Mary E. Lillis Paul and Judy Little Robert and Stephanie MacKinlay Jr. ’99 ’99 Yvonne J. Maher ’93 Edward Maier Desmond J. McDonald Donald and Linda McKeever Leigh P. Middleton Susan Molinaro Joseph O’Donnell Patrick M. and Lucy Ott ’93 ’95 Margaret M. Pietraszek ’68 Judith A. Pitney, Ph.D ’67 Patricia Poprik Sec. Thomas J. and Michele Ridge Mark J. Salvia ’82 John and Patricia Saxon ’89 ’91 P. Kelly Tompkins ’78 Megan L. Verbanick ’02

Carolyn’s Circle

Mary Ann Baldauf ’85 Patricia M. Bluemle ’58 Kyle A. Bogucki ’08 Dario Cipriani ’74 Dr. David and Nichole Dausey ’96 ’97 Joseph M. Harenza Mark A. Holman David C. Hyland, Ph.D Reinette B. Jackovic ’63 Myron Jones Robert Y. Kopf Jr. Robert Kopf III

Samuel A. McCullough Donald F. Mennel ’02 Anthony Minunni * Elizabeth Piotrowski Martin and Margret Rychley ’03 ’03 Dr. Roy and Rosanna Strausbaugh Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ’78

Damien’s Circle

Anonymous Justin H. Adams ’05 James M. Adovasio, Ph.D. Renee Amoore David and Leslie Armstrong ’86 ’90 Vickiann Atkins Lynda Barness John and Suzanne Bonamo Stacie L. Bortz ’05 Barbara Brairton ’65 Preston M. Briggs ’06 Jeanette C. Britt ’94 Douglas and Amy Brooks Johnny J. Butler Donald R. Caldwell J. Duncan Campbell III Doris T. Cipolla Emily Costigan ’64 Christopher J. Cuzzola ’88 * Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ’73 Walter Dalessio Christina D. Difonzo, Ph.D. ’87 Todd Dinner Mary F. Downey, Esq. ’67 Michael A. Elnitsky, Ph.D. Phil and Christine English Pamela J. Farrell, Ph.D. ’89 Michael A. Fedele III ’04 Mary Lou Ferralli ’67 Catherine M. Franck ’92

LEADERSHIP SOCIETY

Leadership Giving Circles Catherine’s Circle

$25,000+

Frances’ Circle

$10,000 - $24,999

Borgia’s Circle

$5,000 - $9,999

Carolyn’s Circle

$2,500 - $4,999

Damien’s Circle

$1,000 - $2,499

Thomas and Lindsay Frank ’12 ’13 A. James Freeman Richard and Susan Galen Philip and Kathleen Gallagher Dr. Daryl and Michele Georger ’85 Maureen Gray ’65 Robert and Elizabeth Guelcher ’58 Thomas B. Hagen Janis B. Hall ’65 Suzanne J. Heher ’67 S D. High Helen K. Holliday ’56 Joseph E. Howard ’03 Peter S. Howard Sara E. Jaecks ’05 Joyce A. Jolin ’89 Dyan L. Jones, Ph.D. Robert A. Judge Elaine A. Kavanagh ’69 Gregory and Julie Kessler Patricia Kirk ’60 Charles G. Knight Scott A. Koskoski ’00 Patrick and Alesia Kotek ’93 ’94 Dr. David and Joan Livingston Laurel Lockhart ’60 Christina M. Marsh ’87 Dale and Lynn McBrier James E. McErlane Timothy and Sally McNulty Gregg Melinson Robert and Emily Merski ’99 ’04 Christopher W. Miller Veronica A. Mitchell ’64 John M. Mizia Jr. Marco and Elizabeth Monsalve Joel Montminy ’95 Joseph Morris, Ph.D. Carole Napolitano ’66 Lawrence L. New Ryan and Sarah Palm ’06 ’07

Anthony and Elizabeth Paradiso ’83 ’86 Aaron J. Parks ’07 Caleb M. Pifer James Pluskey Mark H. Raimy Bruce H. Raimy Susan K. Reddinger Timothy Reeves Linda M. Rhodes ’70 Eric C. Ridgley ’94 Laura M. Rifkin ’92 Jack C. Riley ’74 Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Shawn and Sharon Rooney Teresa L. Sackett ’85 Jay and Darby Scalise ’76 ’81 Gretchen Schmidt ’70 Camille R. Schroeck ’68 Karin A. Socha ’03 Jason R. Staley ’05 Ken Stepherson Gerald and Kathleen Stock Susan N. Sutto ’68 Frederick C. Tecce Carrie A. Teodori Patricia A. Triandiflou ’62 Paul and Christine Tufano Jane Vacca ’79 George L. Venuto Jr. ’78 Frank B. Victor ’87 Matthew Whelan ’86 Christine Whitman James and Teresa Wild Teresa B. Wild Fedor P. Zakusilo Barry and Patty Zembower Laura M. Zirkle, Ph.D.

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 first 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 staff 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 Sandra Adams, ACFRE ’69 Dorothy Bryan Adema ’34 * Marjorie M. Alge ’37 * Elizabeth H. Ashton ’47 * Warren Baer Michael R. Ball ’01 Jane Barr * Loretta Crowley Bauer ’45 * Corrine Beck * Florence O’Neil Bernard ’38 * J. Boyd and Joan Bert Jr. Margene Betts * Barbara Brairton ’65 Ruth M. Braunger ’36 * Mary Rita Brennan ’38 * Alice Martin Brugger ’36 * Ruth D. Brugger ’41 * Gary L. Bukowski ’73 and Roberta Donley Bukowski ’78 Noel J. Burgoyne ’57 Donald and Frances Q. Buseck Daniel E. Cabanillas ’97 Del* and Jean Caryl Barbara A. Chambers, Ed.D. ’60 Josephine Ciancaglini ’56 Dario Cipriani ’74 Diane Wawrejko Cochran ’78 John and Emily Costigan ’64 James K. Crawford ’87 * Judith Young Crews ’64 H. Patricia Curran ’52 Dr. George* and Mary D’Angelo Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ’73 William Dehouske Louis and Rose Marie Laskey Disorbo ’60 Msgr. John Dollinger * Jean J. Donovan Joan Dori ’50 Brian M. Dougherty, Ed.D. ’83 Margaret Dupre ’61 Kathryn Barber Durkin * Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ’77 and Jeffrey Best ’77 Albert* and Mary Duval Kathleen A. Dwyer ’62 Judith Emling ’66 Michael Eugene Falk ’89 May Lou Ferralli ’67 Patricia J. Fessler ’50 *

Margaret Clark Filson ’34 * Thomas M. Frank ’73 Charles M. Furr, M.D. Collette Stegelske Gabreski ’40 * William P. Garvey, Ph.D. * Jeanette Gerace ’57 Coletta C. Ginnard ’49 * Maurice W. Gjertsen * Catherine Ryan Gray ’33 * Herbert and Catherine Hafenmaier Adelaide M. Hagar ’38 * Doris M. Haley * Martha M. Haley ’43 * Mary M. Hanlin * Margaret A. Heetmann ’65 Marilyn Heibel ’61 Homer P. Herman * Elizabeth A. Hilbert ’58 F. William and Audrey Sitter Hirt ’49 * Georgia M. Hitchcock * John F. Jageman * Doug and Jean James * Mary Louise Kaufman ’53 Rosemary Kaveney ’54 Teresa A. Kelly ’49 * Jane E. Kerstetter ’78 Martha Mary Kessler ’37 * Bonnie Kinsinger ’63 H. Vira Holish * Scott A. Koskoski ’00 Ambrose Kronenwetter * Barbara Lacinak ’73 Cecilia S. Leandro ’04 Gary and Jeanne Q. Lillis ’76 Mary E. Lillis ’56 * Frances Malaney ’37 * Margaret J. McMahon ’37 * Mary Michener ’74 * Frances Mientkiewicz ’43 * Anthony Minunni * Marco and Elizabeth Monsalve Adaline B. Morelli ’37 * Helen Fabian Mullen, Ed.D. ’47 * Robert B. Munson ’94 * M. Katherine Murray ’77 James* and Elinor D. Nally Ingeborg Loesch Nelson ’54 * Nancy J. Norberg ’64

Deborah O’Keefe ’70 Jane C. Olson ’51 * Ryan and Sarah Palm ’06 ’07 Barbara A. Perry, Ph.D. ’57 Josephine Pezzich Jennifer E. Piccirillo ’03 Judith Pitney, Ph.D. ’67 Norman W. Plumb * Richard J. Porter ’89 Roderick I. Power ’90 Bruce H. Raimy Josephine Rakow, D.O. Virginia Rathbun ’61 Janette E. Regner ’47 Mary Robaskiewiez Robie ’29 * Carolyn Ruth ’63 David and Harriett Schaper ’43 * William M. and Frances Schuster * Pauline Scott * William C. Sennett, Esq. Mary Jane Walsh Seubert ’44 * Gary J. Shapira, Esq. Frank P. Sirotnak ’76 The Rev. Eldon K. Somers * Martha Soroka ’70 James B. Spiegel Laraine E. Stewart ’82 Dr. Roy and Rosanna Strausbaugh Jane Theuerkauf Gloria Corrado Thompson ’44 * Raymond L. Tipton, M.D. ’77 Arloween Zurn Todd * Louis J. Tullio * Marguerite A. Urban * Lynn Varricchio ’69 Holly A. Villella ’79 Barrett C. Walker, D.D.S. Mary Daley Wallace ’33 * Rita A. Weiss ’57 Evan R. Wernecke ’05 Thomas R. Weschler * Judith A. Wieczorek ’61 Mary B. Wiedel ’84 Terry Wilson Mary Winston ’41 * Patricia S. Yahn ’50 Mary E. Yonkers ’69 Eileen Zinchiak ’80

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MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY 2016-2017 DONORS TRUSTEES

Sister Mary Ann Bader, RSM ’73 Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ’73 David J. Dausey, Ph.D. ’97 Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ’77 Stephen J. Fiedler ’85 A. James Freeman ~ Shannon B. Holley ’17 Joanne M. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Andrea T. Jeffress, M.D. Myron Jones ~ B. Scott Kern Lev J. Kubiak ’88 John H. Langer ’95 Richard A. Lanzillo, Esq. ’83 William G. Lewis Brian Lilly Robert D. MacKinlay Jr. ’99 Yvonne J. Maher ’93 Desmond J. McDonald John A. Munch ’91 Joseph G. NeCastro ’78 Margaret Meagher Pietraszek ’68 Bruce H. Raimy ~ Mary Ellen Ryan ’64 Mark J. Salvia ’82 John W. Saxon ’89 William C. Sennett Esq. ~ Melanie R. Titzel ’80 P. Kelly Tompkins ’78 Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ’78

PRESIDENT’S ASSOCIATES

Simon A. Arias ’05 Jeffrey M. Best ’77 Dario Cipriani ’74 Marc Cipriani ’83 Amy Cuzzola-Kern Thomas D. Falasca, D.O. Thomas M. Frank ’13 Elizabeth A. Guelcher ’58 Kyle J. Hinsdale ’00 Scott A. Koskoski ’00 Marc McAndrew ’88 Robert E. Merski ’99 Christopher W. Miller Lawrence L. New Jared E. Oakes ’00 Jack C. Riley ’74 Jay Scalise ’76 Jason R. Staley ’05 Susan N. Sutto ’68 Barry C. Zembower

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ALUMNI

Margaret Phelan O’Connell Edith Harris Reichert

Participation 50% Total Giving $40 Mary Kloecker Featherstone

CLASS OF 1952

CLASS OF 1943

CLASS OF 1945

Participation 25% Total Giving $175 Alvina McDermott Johnston Rita Rittenhouse Wiesner

CLASS OF 1946

Participation 13% Total Giving $300 Rebecca Sullivan Chevalier

CLASS OF 1947

Participation 36% Total Giving $450 Geraldine Meahl Baron Mary Mohr Lamp Viola Schwabenbauer Maryellen Knauer Sullivan

CLASS OF 1948

Participation 24% Total Giving $385 Doris Wright Atkinson Rachel Brown Daub Elizabeth Rock Kirby Margaret Mischick Mikolay Theresa Sabella Palumbo

CLASS OF 1949

Participation 19% Total Giving $615 Alice Feehley Crotty Jean Brauch Scott Helen McDonough Sennett Patricia Vanderveldt Wood

CLASS OF 1950

Participation 25% Total Giving $57,802.62 Leadership Giving Society Patricia Sontheimer Yahn Joan Riley Dori Mary Slater Dowling Miriam Gemperle

CLASS OF 1951

Participation 44% Total Giving $1,300 Jane Shapp Comerford Ann Deckop Joan Oster Harf Aileen Yueh Huang Sally Carlow Kohler

Participation 17% Total Giving $185 Mary Ann Fahey Boulet Elizabeth Slater Cooper Arlene Murphy Nuckton Marilyn Garden Seach

CLASS OF 1953

Participation 32% Total Giving $5,900 Leadership Giving Society Judith Carlow Alstadt Janet Davis Aroh Joann Weaver Johnson Mary Dwyer Kaufman Mary Anne Rawa Kingsley Patricia Liebel Norma Schaberl Skrypzak Marilyn Harkins Tripp

CLASS OF 1954

Participation 29% Total Giving $1,410 Vija O’Deiko Liepa Ann Kennedy McMahon Dorothy Negro Harriet Downing Sala Mary O’Donnell Schultheis Janet Bremmer Willis

CLASS OF 1955

Participation 20% Total Giving $690 Patricia Egan Langmyer Joanne Harlovich Potlas Mary Ree Theuerkauf Travers Caroline O’Connor Weber

CLASS OF 1956

Participation 14% Total Giving $2,025 Leadership Giving Society Helen Kennedy Holliday Martha McNulty Cuddy Carole Roberson Dyne Marilyn Genck Newsham Margaret Hirsch Whyte

CLASS OF 1957

Participation 41% Total Giving $1,736.71 Dorothea Morell Brown Noel Jaeger Burgoyne Patricia Klein Burton

Joan Coyle Clark Donna Nashwinter Kellick Patricia Kuharsky Kreger Mary Skelly McIlwee Marcia Meagher Ann McGinnis Minnium Mary Bacon O’Brien Barbara Stone Perry, Ph.D. Sylvia Podbielski Stewart Rose Marie Zinni Szadek Kristin Herskind Trainham Barbara Story Walk Rita Walter Weiss

CLASS OF 1958

Participation 35% Total Giving $5,315 Leadership Giving Society Patricia Murphy Bluemle Elizabeth Schnatter Guelcher Audrey Havunen Burns Sylvia Haise Colson Barbara Jakubowski Costello Catherine Misfeldt Dickey Ruth Friel Doyle Elizabeth Wahl Hilbert Alberta Hain Jobczynski Mary Hayes Schulz Kathleen Kurucz Simonyi Marguerite McLaughlin Weibel Jean Criswell White

CLASS OF 1959

Participation 31% Total Giving $42,705 Leadership Giving Society Martha Wurst Hilbert Carol Bocan, Ph.D. Eleanor Cavanaugh Patricia Hooper Connolly Yvonne Antill Donovan Nancy Plunkett Evans Mary Ellen McGovern Higley, Ph.D. Barbara Matts Kolstee Rosalie Bablak Lariccia Emma Newby Mason, Esq. + Nancy Hendershot Prenatt Frances Reynolds Quadri Cynthia Ryan Reardon Elaine Schwab Lois Vosmus Joan Hotchkiss Welch Helen Zimmerman, Ph.D.

CLASS OF 1960

Participation 35% Total Giving $10,690 Leadership Giving Society Barbara Chambers, Ed.D. Patricia Cavanaugh Kirk Laurel Lockhart Constance Frank Alexandre Elizabeth Dorsogna Cano Joan O’Malley Ciucevich Patricia Green Conner + Joan Bye Dengler Carolyn Golanka Euliano Patricia Walsh Hills Karol Clayton Hutton Mary Bescher Johnson Mary Lou Kelly Margaret McGaughey Keough Gayle Cummings Martin Mary Stark Miller Carolyn Heyl Mraz Mary Anne Schubert Obmann Adele Ontko Marlane Franco Paruso Joan Kostolansky Santangelo Wanda Toth Snyder

CLASS OF 1961

Participation 27% Total Giving $2,495 Leadership Giving Society Anonymous Virginia Rossoni Adair Mary Connell Marilyn Heibel Rita Hinman Lohan Mary Alice Rodgers Morga Maureen Schedlin Nickel Eileen Quinn Nill + Virginia Accetta Rathbun Susan Avery Royer Patricia Pepper Shevchuk Carol Sullivan Ann Titus

CLASS OF 1962

Participation 41% Total Giving $8,360 Leadership Giving Society Marilyn Millard Gunther Patricia McMullen Triandiflou Rosemary Asher Shirley Banic Elizabeth Filicky Begalla Mary Bresnan Bukta Susan Bye Cain Margaret Lynch Cammarata Joyce White Caruso

Mary Costello Patricia Sullivan Crowley Denise Dwyer, Ph.D. Kathleen Dwyer Anastasia Konkoly Eckstein Judith Jones Herber Carolyn Schehrer Kervin Jeannie Jackson McGinley Rita Quinn McGowan Jean Reynolds Miller Julia Ahern Nelson Patricia Richards Ogilvie Mary Stadter Rinderle Jeanette Borczon Shannon

CLASS OF 1963

Participation 23% Total Giving $43,085 Leadership Giving Society Reinette Boling Jackovic Mary Anne Kern Springer Rita Strobel Bajura Nancy Ryby Delp Mary Wernet Eichelsdorfer Judith Spaeder Kendziora Alice Welte Krause Dorothy Smith Kuzneski Judith Stark MacMillan Patricia Linn Maggi Margaret Glembocki Mango Gail Gleason Milgram, Ed.D. Kathleen Lynch Murphy, Ph.D. Judith Wozniak Rainsberger Carolyn Anderson Ruth Amy Skinner Sargent Sister Patricia Whalen, RSM

CLASS OF 1964

Participation 30% Total Giving $126,058.82 Leadership Giving Society Emily Lincoln Costigan Veronica Sikora Mitchell Mary Ellen Hammond Ryan Delores Waida Bargielski Mary Daschbach Bittner Mary Nash Butke Carol Weber Collis Judith Young Crews Mary Joyce Demetter Wendy Beezub Devarieux Sister Mary Felice Duska, RSM Maureen Fiedler Ellen Becker Finn Marilyn Smith Grasso Joan Kreutter Jarzomski Ilona Suto Klein Maryann Cuneo Komazec Carol Mueller Lyons, Ph.D. Theresa Donohue Medlock Josephine Fiorvanti Pelham Harriet Kantor Raia Jane Reed Mary Carlow Schlaudecker Donna Gottry Trautman Marilyn Schreiner Wagner Marlene Reich Wagner-Bartak

CLASS OF 1965

Participation 31% Total Giving $19,701 Leadership Giving Society Barbara Brairton Maureen Aleci Gray + Janis Bodnar Hall Margaret Hock Heetmann Mary Magnotto Wood Ann Kleindinst Abbate Phyllis Aiello Julie Hettish Baranich Mary Mahaney Baumeister Mary Blum Mariann Daniello Budas Marcine Chmielewski Maryce Jaeger Cunningham Virginia Gorsak DeGironimo Patricia Hodgkiss Elder Anne Ledoux Erwin Bonnie Morris Gerace Janice Horvath Gies M. Celia Coletta Hoke Carol Klein Ann Sheridan Kreider Patricia Lawlor Marcia Rzepka Mestrits Elaine Berchtold Migchelbrink Mary Dunn Moore Mary Naegle Barbara Heibel Nason Katherine Scott Velma Cloyd Shipley Susan Smith-Beidler Camilla Kane Stadtmueller Ann Langmyer Ward Susan Wurzbach

CLASS OF 1966

Participation 23% Total Giving $2,200 Leadership Giving Society Carole Stoiber Napolitano Sandra Selva Belfiore Christine Czapleski Mary Daly Susan Heutsche Dunn Judith Emling Mary Graham Fatica Dorothy Delaney Glover Nancy Way Landis Gail Wozniak McMahon Kathleen Keim Meko Antoinette Cuneo Pavlik Ann Mikluscak Schmidt M. Suzanne Sontag, Ph.D. Mary Hull Stiles Mary Berloffa Temple Sabina Wells Genevieve Mastrian Wiesen Marylouise Young

CLASS OF 1967

Participation 43% Total Giving $17,756.67 Leadership Giving Society Mary Kelly Downey, Esq. Mary Lou Gonda Ferralli Susanne Geltch Heller Judith Pitney, Ph.D. Mary Auth + Rosalie Barsotti Jeanne Bricher Bender Monica Lopushansky Boscarino Katherine McCarthy Cantoni

Kathleen LaCamera DeSante Kristine Monroe Fapore Diane McKeon Friske Mary Mehl George Mary Grace Rocco Goosev Constance Fuhrman Haibach Mary Bernas Heiges Barbara Kosciolek Divina Barbush Leitch Donna Gemma Nolfi Mary Jane Prosser Parrish Judith Bauer Salcedo Judith Oliver Samson Marikae Sorvelli Moraski Patricia Gloekler Sulkowski Sigma Stacey Toth Patricia Swaney Wellington Barbara Brown White Marion Hughes Young

CLASS OF 1968

Participation 24% Total Giving $14,540 Leadership Giving Society Jeanne Keim Phillips Margaret Meagher Pietraszek + Camille Tyczkowski Schroeck + Susan Sutto Carole Borkowski Linda Salem Burtis Kathleen Deger Byrnes Jane Carney Maureen Milan Carroll Cheryl Kremp Carver Maureen Good Dalton Susan Donahue Deet Elaine Wilson Dullea 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 off-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 Nolfi, 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 Haibach, Patty Wellington, Jeanne Bricher Bender, Silvia King, Rosalie Barsotti.

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Anne Canali Hermann Elizabeth Barczak Horrigan Christine Keim Iwig Sheila Holquist Kenyon Sylvia King Cullingford Sharon Labosky Kirk Patricia Nicolette Loncto Judith Sandrock Long Suzanne Metzo Metzo Mary Pacileo Paulitz Carole Kaminski Petrungar Janet Boling Powers Rita Banic Pyrdek Judith Porter Rosenbaum Mary Patalon Schaaf Shirley Miller Schilling + Barbara Kahl Shutes Karen Markgraf Turner

CLASS OF 1969

Participation 21% Total Giving $3,615 Leadership Giving Society Elaine Kolat Kavanagh Sandra Adams Judith Lynch Allison Christine Syguda Bailey Jeannette Little Barczynski Maureen Walsh Brennan Denise Madden Campedel Paula Semrau Coats Rita Adams Daub Rosanna Pilarski Deniro Marcella Mikulec Galitsky Barbara Gutoski Johnson Mary Delaney Jackson Belle Anderson Koncewicz Mary Lipani Judith Meseck Irene Ryan Mortko Mary Morton-Bliley Diane Zareski Piper Therese Zupsic Reese Ann Brugger Schoeller Emily Fatica Sertz Kathleen Kelley Smith Rosalie Hodas Tellers Lorraine Tucker Wellington Mary Fisher Yonkers

CLASS OF 1970

Participation 19% Total Giving $4,225.08 Leadership Giving Society Linda Colvin Rhodes, Ph.D. Gretchen Schmidt Gertrude Bayer Rosemary Blieszner, Ph.D. Sylvia Kengersky Bosner Sheila Boss Elaine Marsh Britton Sharon Parlock Brunkow Mary Grace Cross Brustrom

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Susan Gardner DeCarlo Christa Vaughen Duvon A. Staynoff Gigliotti Valerie Mangin Goossens Christine Bojt Greene Barbara Liedtke Hutzelman Eileen Kraus-Dobratz Sharon Malizia, Ph.D. Diane Molvin Myers Mary Cerk O’Connell Pamela Kline Parenti Ellen Wilson Paulucci Alicia King Redfern Elizabeth Zimmerman Schessler Jeannie Delucia Stang Cynthia Slavin Stanley Karen Burke Traskey Juliann Gillespie Uritus Rose Mary Hanson Weber Lori Weiner Wellman

CLASS OF 1971

Participation 14% Total Giving $1,996 Julia Bandecca, Esq. Susan Quadri Blecki Jean Bojalad Rebecca Smith Christopher Joann Smith D’Ambrosio Candace Kilbourne Filios Mary Zampogna Frank Sue Luttrell Hollandsworth Lee Martell-Bearse Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, RSM Anne Meyer-Wilber Frances Jurewicz Moyles Nancy Ryan, M.D. Claudia Weeks Seegraber Gloria Leon Sertzen Dorothea Volzer Skowron Wendy McCabe Weber

CLASS OF 1972

Participation 23% Total Giving $2,356.08 Dennis Andres Mary Cosgrove Andres, Esq. Thomas Becht Michele Rucinski Burke Sheila Sullivan Coon Darlene Hilfiker Cushman Mary Lou DeLuca William Dopierala, Esq. Deborah Doucett Mary Federici, Ph.D. Stephanie Leon Fragle Ben Greishaw Karen Amon Haffley Betty Frank Jones Deborah Benson Kathman Beverly Skrobacz Kostek Jane Brown Olowin Janet Adams Phillips

Barbara Baum Rendos Juanita Stein Ried Elizabeth Blood Sammartino Susan Dieteman Schmitt Patricia Schramm Jean Shirley Kathleen Slavin Ann Willems Linda Ruddy Zaycosky

Peter Quell Georgette Urgo Schriefer Jane Scura Claudia Karl Tiberi Frances Daniels Tucker Paul West John Wojdyla Ann Capoccia Zieno

CLASS OF 1973

Participation 11% Total Giving $3,085 Veronica Arata Mary Klescz Baker Edward Bury Daniel Cannon Mary Waida Coan John Crupi John Daley Evelyn Bogdanski Depalma Russell Franklin Stella Matusak Gillick Geraldine Sica Guyton Diane Snee Hoffman Daniel Kathman Patricia Campbell Kubicek Kristina Reichenbach Lee Catherine Riehl McMillin Cynthia Kern Miller Beverly Welsh Pini Jon Sedelmyer Laura Grotzinger Thomforde Marsha Turos Kathleen Loughney Vaughan Sam Veneziano Deborah Zera-Laughlin

Participation 16% Total Giving $3,930.08 Leadership Giving Society Mary Ellen Dahlkemper Sister Mary Ann Bader, RSM Allan Belovarac, Ph.D. Kathleen Bennett Burgett William Chiodo Susan Hurley Corbran Patricia Flanagan Patricia Jurewicz Flynn Gail Gerono Martha Tech Kosiorek Barbara Lyon Lacinak Linda Marsh Loesch Jay Marcinowski Mary Martin Maureen Sullivan Maus Carol White Mohamed Joan Page Moore Marie Oliveri Olczak Christine Patalita Pardini Linda Thanos Parks Robert Parks Thomas Richter, Sr. Marlene Palmer Rupp Mary Beth Jawdy Santucci Barbara Luttrell Siers Victoria Yurcovic Wyten

CLASS OF 1975

CLASS OF 1976

CLASS OF 1974

Participation 10% Total Giving $3,410 Leadership Giving Society Vickiann Limoggio Atkins Jay Scalise

Eleanore Grelewicz Anderson Mary Ambron Baldwin Gerard Barron Shelle Lichtenwalter Barron Lee Pitonyak Belovarac Deborah Humphreys Byars Russell Felix Phyllis Alberia Herbstritt Maureen Hunt Hinkle Maria Kanicki Johnson Cecilia Kelly Ladd Peter Maynard, Esq. Jon Myrick Arthur Oligeri III Christine Dodd Pettinelli Robert Pettinelli

David Abbott Valerie Sherrange Crofoot Patty Malloy Crupi Roseanne Quain Daley Michael Dougan Terry Frontino Frank GarwolII Elisa Guida William Guyton Robert Hoffman Michael Lattanzio Jeanne Quinn Lillis Andrew Martin Daun Miller Ruth Gleisner Oligeri Debi D’Alessandris Parisi Mary Rafferty Nancy Borowski Recker Thomas Ritchie Patricia Kazy Rotar Frank Sirotnak

Participation 13% Total Giving $5,603.00 Leadership Giving Society Dario Cipriani Jack Riley

Richard Streich Cynthia Kowalewsky Way

CLASS OF 1977

Participation 16% Total Giving $261,477 Leadership Giving Society Jeffrey Best Rosemary Durkin, Esq. Elizabeth Hirt Vorsheck Kathleen Martz Althof Kerrin Benson Bloomquist Eva Procopio Blutinger Patricia Mullaugh Burch, R.N. Valorie McIntyre Catalano Ann Condon Clark Denis Coan Donald Douglas Dan Foley Mark Folland Maryann Lynett Frontino Deborah Duda Gale Robert Gaughan Mary Horvath Thomas Hubert Paula O’Polka Klinger Anne Summerville Koch Joan Mohr Krist Mark Long Olivia Longo Martin Linda Storer Meier Richard Miller Mary Murray James Perfetto Sheila Walsh Richter Eileen Delsordo Ritchie H. Charles Schmidt Judith Mahoney Streich John Strickland Debra Stumpf Jolyda Sanchez Swaim, Esq. Raymond Tipton, M.D. Gregory Vogelman Kenneth White

CLASS OF 1978

Participation 11% Total Giving $36,441 Leadership Giving Society Joseph NeCastro P. Kelly Tompkins George Venuto, Jr. Patrick Weschler, Esq. Patricia Bailey Zembower + Judith Skrzypczak Bekeny + Diane Blake Cynthia Byham-Perfett Patrick Dunn Valarie Ferro John Gable Rodger Gregorich Sue Berardinelli Koester Lisa Manendo

Photo: Curtis Waidley ‘19

Kathleen Megnin Millay, R.N. G. Frederick Null Sharyn Hurst Nutter Q. Gregory Orlando + Victoria Reider, Esq. John Robertson James Scarpitti Mary Bundy Urash Darlene Keith Weber

CLASS OF 1979

Participation 13% Total Giving $3,441.69 Leadership Giving Society Jane Ryan Vacca

PATRICIA S. YAHN ENDOWS JURIED STUDENT SHOW Walk through the halls of Mercyhurst University and you’d be hard pressed not to see the subtle influences of alumna Patricia Sontheimer Yahn ‘50. A student of the late Sister Angelica Cummings, after whom Cummings Art Gallery is named, Yahn’s youthful passion for watercolors found its early cultivation at Mercyhurst.

During the ensuing years, Yahn, who is now 88, contributed to many art shows and supported numerous exhibits on the Hill. Her painting of a quiet beach landscape with an almost spiritual pull, which adorns President Michael Victor’s office, is one of several she donated to the university.

Her legacy will continue through her gift to endow the Patricia S. Yahn Juried Student Art Show, to be held each year in Cummings Gallery. The first show was held in February and March; the 2018 edition is set for Feb. 19-March 16.

As a young girl, Yahn wanted to attend Mercyhurst to study art, but her father was averse, saying that girls did not need to go to college. She took it upon herself to seek out Mother Borgia Egan and request “special student” status so that she could take art classes; Sister Angelica became her mentor and, ultimately, Yahn earned her degree.

After her Mercyhurst studies, she went to work as a window display artist at Trask’s department store in downtown Erie. Years before mannequins became the norm, she created life-size drawings of models wearing merchandise on sale at the store.

Later she would focus on interior design, operating her own business, Interiors of Erie. She was also well known for creating scenery for the Junior League’s popular follies held annually at then-Tech Memorial High School.

All the while, she never lost touch with Mercyhurst and was a longtime member of the Carpe Diem Society, including a stint as its chair. She also participated in and attended many of the university’s art exhibits with her late husband, Walter.

Richard Bachmaier Mary Leone Baniszewski Joann Desantis Barnes Gregory Bires Scott Brechbuehl David Cherico Ronald Coleman Timothy Cooney Philip Dubsky Shelagh Murphy Dubsky John Gregory Raymond Gruss, Esq. Cynthia Haines Cynthia Casali Hawthorne Colleen Heher Kerr Rosella Bender Kwitowski Susan Wike Laurie Diane Masterson Barbara Matlak Lynn McMasters Andrew Miller Anthony Pol Richard Porris Robert Respecki Kevin Rozich, Esq. Christine McGraw Shofestall Phyllis Pieffer Tomayko + Holly Chiappazzi Villella Charles Wolfram Judith Kenny Zewe

CLASS OF 1980

Participation 11% Total Giving $1,780 Howard Anderson Jr. Judith Gluvna Bitters Kelly Conaway James Disanti Corrine Halperin Egan Robin Fahey Regina O’Connor Ferguson Richard Fischer Stephen Frisina Susan Fuss Walter Green Linda Ravenstahl Gruss Anna Hurley Mark Kwitowski Susan McFarland McGill

Gerard Mills Edwin Negron Mary Jo Cancilla Pittock Jeanne Sabol Melanie Titzel, Ph.D. Robert Tobin Gerard Waidley Arthur Weindorf Charlotte Williams Witosky Eileen Zinchiak

CLASS OF 1981

Participation 17% Total Giving $2,335 Leadership Giving Society Darby Patton Scalise Kimberly Amon Thomas Chybrzynski C. Michael Conroy Mary Lou Canan Conroy James Daley Patricia Stolar Demharter Barbara Carlin Disanti Christine McCloskey Eacho Paula Miller Eller Andrew Findlay Betsy Herzog Frank Linda First Frisina Katherine Funari Geisaka Lisa Duffy Gundel Mary Beth Barrett Habel Carol Farrelly Hopper John Leisering Michael Malpiedi Alice Buzzy Maxim Kathleen Wilson Monroe Karen Bowlby Nasca Maureen Connelly Negron Mary Roche Neubert Elaine Loftus Oliver Pierre Priestley Sandra Kronenwetter Quiggle Diane Parsons Scott Anne-Marie Dixon Shields Catherine Vilardo Strobl Diane Witherup Ernest Zmyslinski

CLASS OF 1982

Participation 15% Total Giving $8,011 Leadership Giving Society Mark Salvia James Borowicz Denise Mall Chybrzynski Rebecca Fairchild Costello Gary Dagan Peter Damico Elizabeth Hajduk Dobes Barbara Johnson Laurie Kinnear-Diaz David Kist Kathleen Eckenrode Kist

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Lani Krantz Jennifer Larsen Valerie Kaminski Laufenberg Laurie Mahnken-John Michael Pizzat Dawn Day Quinn Paul Quinn Ravinder Sabherwal, O.D. Steven Spies Laraine Stewart Teresa Borowski Taylor Mary Gausman Teufel Patricia Clark Thornton Raymond Wolf Rose Marie Forget Zmyslinski, R.N.

CLASS OF 1983

Participation 13% Total Giving $34,285 Leadership Giving Society Marc Cipriani Richard Lanzillo, Esq. Anthony Paradiso, Esq. Mary Kay Vona, Ed.D. + Gina Frisina Adams Patricia Herring Benekos Guadalupe Billingsley Carolyn Gray Colicchio David Curtis Maureen Doyle Leann Felmlee-Brown Mary Finn, Ph.D. Mary Frankiewicz Fitch Elaine Zasada Flick Marsha Fronzaglia Gregory Halvacs Cynthia Jarzab Kiskaddon Suzanne Chilcott Mack Joseph Mangano Nancy Mantell Bruce Miller Marygrace Yakovac Miller Kevin Murphy Robert Radcliffe Jamie Samilio Patricia Marchwinski Tobin Paulette Vaccaro Vaccaro

CLASS OF 1984

Participation 10% Total Giving $1,787 Patricia Balinski Julie Bissell Bozich Robert Dumeyer Suzanne Daley Esposito Ann Gilligan Patricia Schuschu Gool Beth Pasquale Hill Kathleen O’Connor Holland Gary Keenan Brenda Sullivan Knapp Douglas Kramer Patricia Clark Lightner

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Marshall Lillie Robert Orris Jerome Sullivan Sandra Solle Thomas Beth Westfall Kimberly Schade Whalen Mary Baldauf Wiedel Jack Wyland, USN

CLASS OF 1985

Participation 13% Total Giving $43,157 Leadership Giving Society Mary Ann Mead Baldauf Stephen Fiedler + Michele Duval Georger Thomas Hanchin Teresa Thompson Sackett Robert Anderson Kevin Armstrong Anne Wolf Cable Mary Fugo Colclaser Nicholas Felice Regina Ryniak Felice Bernadine Tomczak Habursky Thomas Hanna, USN Jack Holland Jr. Patricia Presutti Leuschen Mary Beth Lombardi Jean Moniewski Malthaner Jane Mullaney Maureen O’Hara Nies Robert Nies Theresa Sanders, Ph.D. Stephen Seymour Beth Scalise Sivak Christine Stark Slattery Jerry Spetz Jr. Deborah Myers Strong James Sturm Joseph Tarasovitch Tina Andrako Tomczak Pamela Henry Vrenna William Wheeler II Kimberly Torrelli Zacherl

CLASS OF 1986

Participation 12% Total Giving $15,325 Leadership Giving Society David Armstrong, Esq. Jo-Ann Israel Lanzillo Elizabeth Burkhart Paradiso Matthew Whelan Therese Bertsch Blumenthal Richard Boesch Amy Rowand Dennen Kenneth Dyer Kathleen Favo Finke James Fisher Joanne Leister Fisher Donald Gibbon D.O. Mary Kaliszak

Rebecca Baldauf Kerrigan Carol Bailey Kosslow Nina Serrins Krats Mary Tripp Laduca Timothy Latimer Patricia Barrett Mayo Suzanne Falkner Mulhall Timothy Mulhall Gerri Bruno Piecuch Marian Saxon Rhodes, Ph.D. Timothy Ruth Susan Sambrotto Katherine Wardi Zonna Janell Harrington Wienczkowski Richard Wienczkowski Craig Zonna, Esq.

CLASS OF 1987

Participation 12% Total Giving $6,765 Leadership Giving Society Christina Difonzo, Ph.D. Frank Victor Heidi Beezub Barbara Sayers Bensink Scott Bensink Donald Beveridge Jennifer Mauthe Bond Carolyn Witt Dittbrenner Judy Brown Dyer Nancy Emmi Loretta Layer Frankovitch Donald Fuhrmann David Hewett Jodi Abbey Hines Joseph Hines Catherine Hornick Margaret Weir Manchik Kathleen Schmidt Mariani Michelle Matheron Cynthia Lochner Miceli George Morrell Sr. Tracy Tridico Passaro Mary Portzer Susan Marcy Rizza Brian Sheridan Cheryl Burgard Skywark Barbara Bronakoski Wood James Zank

CLASS OF 1988

Participation 9% Total Giving $30,053 Leadership Giving Society Lev Kubiak + Marc McAndrew David Andres Jennifer Froehlich Andres Richard Bentley Janice Bindeman Renee Hamilton Finnecy Shawn Falcone Gorring

Marilyn Guelcher Mary Sullivan Hathaway Karen MacKenna Hessel John McKenna Daniel Moran Keith Morris Elizabeth Altilio Nalbach Stephanie Proukou Randall Rinke Matthew Robaszkiewicz Michelle Hondal Scurfield James Sherrod Alicia Dejulia Sosnowski, Esq. Denise Berdis Wilkerson

CLASS OF 1989

Participation 15% Total Giving $15,541 Leadership Giving Society Pamela Woodring Farrell, Ph.D. Joyce Jolin Christina Carbone Marsh + John Saxon Danielle Rocheleau Bogan Cheryl Johnson Cavendish Lori Barone Dornberger Brian Durbin Michael Falk Kyle Foust, Ed.D. Leeann Cook Fraser Dana Martin Gebauer Scott Gorring Susan Heltzel Ian Hessel Brian Hines Dennis Hogan Jodi Staniunas Hopper John Huffman Michael Jenkins Sean Kennedy Christopher Mindach Paul Mocho Amy Pavlik Monteparte Victor Morini Julie Grippi Musbach Timothy Musbach Christine Densmore Phelps Sheila Carone Rodgers Eric Seggi Louise Chirillo Shearon Paul Smith Shelley Ferguson Triola Susan Vogelman Wiesen Walsh Douglas Webster Jane Mohr White Paul White Roberta Wittes Kimberly Lohse Yonko

CLASS OF 1990

Participation 14% Total Giving $4,560 Leadership Giving Society Leslie Hafenmaier Armstrong Richard Andrejchak Jr. Cynthia Bohun Philip Carrone Eric Chase Karen Cascio Chow Karen Mallow Cook Nancy Glotzbach Degenhardt+ Thomas Filipkowski Christopher Gordon Scott Graham Annemarie Donofrio Harrington Brian Harrington Jennifer Hayes Bonnie Dale Janiuk Joseph Janiuk Julie Kemling Tina King Dorothy Konyha Stephen Mahnken Mary McKenna John Melody Kerry Vietmeier Mindach Jeffery Morey Donald Morrison Thomas Pakulski Todd Piendel Lynn Sheffler Platteborze Christine Kindlin Roper Adrian Spracklen Matthew Triola Kimberly Tuffs Kenneth Walker Maureen Hanlin Webster Charles Wertz Jr. Richard Yarosz

CLASS OF 1991

Participation 9% Total Giving $19,156 Leadership Giving Society John Munch Patricia Kaliszak Saxon Maureen Connolly Barrett Daniel Crotty Connie Bisbe Crum Sean Fadale Stephanie Donahue Fadale Edward Feeney Joanne Ravenstahl Feeney Gregory Fitzgerald Nancy Dilallo Fitzgerald Rosalina Fyke Staci Billings Grasky Theresa Koviak Hall Jennifer Hart Leanne Riley Heiple Elaine Stolarski Hewett Steven Ipri, Esq.

Nancy DiLoreto Lambert Charise Moore-Scharfeld Andrea Papale Morini Patricia Sebald Munz Kathleen Munch Oros Jill Prichard Rathburn Mark Simpson Jill Smith Sharon Biss Varischetti Jeffrey Veitch, Esq.

CLASS OF 1992

Participation 8% Total Giving $4,074 Leadership Giving Society Catherine Maloney Franck Laura Bennett Rifkin Brian Aarons Jenifer McDonald Albaugh Julie Theiss Boam Amanda Moser Burton Michael Chase Jill Horvath Crable Nicholas DeGennaro Mark Dukovich Mary Falk Jeffrey Fink Tasha Corey Fink Tina Fielding Fryling, Esq. George Gazzam Jr. Craig Gehm Jill Marquis Grant James Grasky Tracy Doty Heutsche Michael Holyk Randall Kimmel Beth Miller Robert Morrison Lori Cooney Sheridan Michael Sicheri Dionne Veitch Manus Walsh Krista Lewis Westfall

CLASS OF 1993

Participation 6% Total Giving $13,150 Leadership Giving Society Alesia Miller Kotek Yvonne Maher + Patrick Ott Karin Bennett Socha Brian Burton Pamela Cammarata Denise Veshecco Cox Peter Eaglen Catharine Bestwick Ellis Mark Fearey Kurt Johnson Kevin Kunik + Rodney Miller Glenn Novak Deborah Lang Redlin Anthony San George III Karen Trapolsi Michael Walsh

CLASS OF 1994

Participation 7% Total Giving $4,788 Leadership Giving Society Jeanette Britt Patrick Kotek Sr. Eric Ridgley Jennifer Kraus Bach Amy Kindling Basco Viki Darko Davis Phyllis Dinicola James Doherty Keith Gilbert Patricia Kaczmarek Hanlin Mary Beth Mallon Hengelbrok Cynthia George Kuhn Meghan Williams Mehler Jennifer Swick Morrison Amy Zorzi Neubert Christiane Puz, R.N.

Kelly Kingsland Rankin Mary Griffith Rinke Mia Urycki Spracklen Jakub Svoboda, M.D. Renee Upperman Triana

CLASS OF 1995

Participation 7% Total Giving $13,125 Leadership Giving Society John Langer Joel Montminy Nancy Figurski Agostine Eric Anibaldi Frank Basco Jennifer Munch Dilks Cindi Fluhrer David Gianoni Jennifer Oesch Gruebner Brita Hampton Annmarie Heim Ipri Norma Telega Johnson Toby Johnson Joyce Kannenberg Michael Koziara Stella Granahan Lapaglia Jason Lewis Anne McNelis Cheryl Sibble Moore Beth Hurrianko Murphy Kristine Demarinis Petersen Karen Universal Schrader William Steen

CLASS OF 1996

Participation 10% Total Giving $6,090 Leadership Giving Society Nichole Putt Dausey Kelly Bauman Kelly Sceusa Bowden Scott Clark Jillian Demarco

David Donnell Jeanine Robinson Duda J. Eric Ehrman Amy Fistek Fistek Christa Hanlan Gilmore Janice Kesselring Hill James Kaveney Allison Kaverman Amelia Kitchen-Berardi Faith Epstein Lifshen Amy Lombardo Tamara Valovich McLeod, Ph.D. David Meyer Kathleen Fedele North Antoinette Platte Payner Kerry Erwin Roland Rahsaah Roland Karen Rudler Theresa Ressler Sabolich Vikki Mitch Safran Theresa Schroeck Smith Melissa Festa Sosnowski Jeffrey Spitler Robert Taylor James Travarca Robert Vescio Ronald Yarosz Michael Zacios

CLASS OF 1997

Participation 8% Total Giving $5,290 Leadership Giving Society David Dausey, Ph.D. Misty Smith Baird Colleen Burbules Julianne Laskos Clouthier Harley Ellenberger Lynn Savidge Ellenberger Mark Erie Frances Foltz Vanessa Pappalardo Giancola Trisha Greathouse Courtney Nicolai Guzy

Sally Hawkinson Penny Davison Heeter Erik Hoolahan Stephen Horn Lisa Stafford Kaveney Julie Bliss Kiehl Thomas Kitchen Margaret Kloecker Kevin Kosco + Amy Johnston Kuzma Donald Leclair Susan Lah Lewis Jennifer Matts Mindi McDowell John Murphy, Esq. Betsy Sauers

CLASS OF 1998

Participation 5% Total Giving $1,962 Leadership Giving Society Stacie Bortz Heather Barron-Sons Timothy Brediger Karen Milinovich Brennan Christie Brown Melissa Watts Daniele Michelle Oakley Fakler Janet Oldach Fuller Lori Dennison Gibbens Erin Lloyd Hromada Michael Martin William Meyer Jr. Maurice Profit James Thomas Jody Washington Kenneth Wilson Jr.

MERCYHURST DEDICATES COMMUNICATIONS CREATIVE SUITE The Mercyhurst University Communication Department is home to a new creative suite, thanks to the generosity of Robert and Margaret Coletta of Akron, Ohio. Their daughter, Marina, graduated in May with an English degree and communication minor.

Communication Department Chair Brian Sheridan said the creative suite is ideal for teaching editing, writing and social media classes. It is equipped with the latest Adobe editing and scriptwriting software that allows students to edit videos for projects. A state-ofthe-art 3-D printer also has been installed, giving students the ability to express their creativity by

producing physical objects made from plastic.

The new facility is situated in the Myron Jones Center for Media Convergence in the Audrey Hirt Academic Center.

“The walls have been painted a neutral blue color that adjusts the eyes of students in the classroom to see actual colors on the computer monitors,” Sheridan added. “If they want sound while they work, students can connect their smartphones to the audio system to stream music from services like Spotify or Pandora. Streaming video from all digital video services can also be shown on the large wall-mounted smart TV.”

In thanking the Colettas for their gift, President Michael Victor said, “Using the most up-to-date equipment in the field, this new creative suite contributes to the overarching goal of building a collaborative environment where print meets video meets web. We are grateful to the Coletta family for making this happen for our students.”

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CLASS OF 1999

Participation 6% Total Giving $11,889 Leadership Giving Society Robert MacKinlay Jr. Stephanie Balint MacKinlay Robert Merski Robert Brickley Douglas Brinkley Allison Byrnes Mary Jane Nosko Clark Michael Conrow Timothy Conway-Hay Erin Corbett Kim Seaman Creese Joseph Daniele Paula Donnelly Oto Hlincik Kathryn Shaffer Klus Lisa Marrero-Soto James Masters Patty Moyer Thomas Nies III Jonathan Rees L. Brown Rees David Roth Danielle Kutrufis Rudolph Christina Schlee Tina McMahon Spano Megan Bullotta Thomas Lori Winger Wehr

CLASS OF 2000

Participation 7% Total Giving $7,750 Leadership Giving Society Brynne Sorensen Hinsdale Kyle Hinsdale Scott Koskoski Fedor Zakusilo Deborah Mattison Atkins Helen Parker Berquist Laura Bilak Kevin Brubaker Megan Laverty Bruno Brian Carey James Coletta Anne Hunt D’Albora Brian Dewey Bridget Lane Dolak Amy Kosmack Izbicki Travis Lindahl Anne Onofrey McClendon Maureen McMahon Jared Oakes Cara Paglia Kimberly Falvo Quimby Bridget Rafferty Nicole Mangine Rosswog Maria Billingsley Sanfilippo Eric Schultz Catherine Harrison Shuhart + Joy Koceski Spicer Jennifer Troutman Stinson 40

Jesse Wakeman Robert Yurkovich

CLASS OF 2001

Participation 8% Total Giving $2,090 Heather Adams Susan Kozlow Adams Gregory Beato, D.O. Susan Gonnam Beato Megan Obernesser Bogert Nicole Bolash Scott Byerly Amanda Crowner Fazakas John Gaydos Molly Rogalski Gaydos Jeffrey Gould Livia Siebert Greenberg Jessica Hance Edward Jolie, Ph.D. Ruth Burgett Jolie, Ph.D. Jennifer Kelley Kafferlin Crystal Kiray David McCoy Laura Chrulski McCoy Cynthia Grygier McMillen Scott Platz Kate Reavey Thomas Reznik, M.D. Jody Robinson Lesley Rockwell James Rosswog Julie Weems Salas Stephen Salas David Slisz Bruce-Leon Snead Brent Swain Bryan Timm Christopher Valvano, Ph.D. Allison Oberle Wakeman Nathan Wallace Eric Wilkosz

CLASS OF 2002

Participation 8% Total Giving $11,104 Leadership Giving Society Donald Mennel Megan Verbanick Elizabeth Watkins Anibaldi Michele Luke Astor Ryan Bogert William Byrnes Sylvia Bluhm Cagle John Campbell Bethanne Bauer Crane Danielle Hensler Davis Patrick Fore Carrie Greene Fuhrer Brandon Gabler Paul Gambill Lydia Garver Sandra Grance

Jessica Long Heinz Elizabeth Hagan Kanche Autumn Potter Klimek Victor Laurenza Jr. Ellen Learn Anne Sitter Markowitz Kelly Froelich McColgan Michelle Newton Leah O’Donnell Alex Ogeka Garrett Patty Brooke Sampson Perkins Steven Pickard Emily Surrena Pincek Joseph Ratajczak Anne DeMeo Reznik Kristen McCaskey Rice Kimberly Russo Julie Lindsay Schultz Patricia Schulz Holly Faulhaber Shelly Sarah DiMatteo Sikora Michael Sliker Jason Stefanick Kimberly Szmyd Thomas Paul Valenti

CLASS OF 2003

Participation 6% Total Giving $11,301 Leadership Giving Society Margret Cosari Rychley Joseph Howard Martin Rychley Katherine Hammer Antus Dominic Aratari Katherine Kimple Bennett Rebecca Kovacs Bentley Kristen Brown Shannon Leehan Craig Peter Cuneo Anthony D’Abruzzo Richard Glavan Jennifer Alexander Grosch Stephanie Peck Gummerson Justin Hapeman Richard Johns Casey Kilroy Lisa Jepson Kimmel Anna Signs Lindahl Judith Long Mariann MacDougall Heather Pease Morally Danielle Poole Piser, O.D. Jo Ann Hanes Rosebrock Bradley Sage Elizabeth Dewey Stanford Carrie Frank Swain Anthony Tomaino David Vitale Jodi Prichard Waldron Laraine Shellito Wilson

3RD GIVING DAY ATTRACTS RECORD GIFTS Mercyhurst’s Giving Day set a new record in 2017, attracting $57,773.34 in contributions from 422 individual donors.

Those gifts enabled Mercyhurst to claim the full $40,000 matching gift offered by an anonymous donor.

All Giving Day donations benefit Mercyhurst’s Annual Fund.

Reaching out to alumni, the Office of University Advancement encouraged them to think about all they had received from Mercyhurst and to consider making gifts back to the university to help ensure that future Lakers can enjoy the same kind of experience.

Thanks in particular to five graduates who reflected on their time at Mercyhurst in a series of videos used to promote Giving Day. Alex Vinesky ’14 and Kaleigh Hubert ’13—who are marrying in September 2017 in Christ the King Chapel—talked about falling in love at Mercyhurst.

They met while working atop a roof on the 2012 “House That Hurst Built” project for Habitat for Humanity.

Barb Brairton ’65 spoke of the lifelong friendships she made here, noting that members of her class still get together regularly for summer weekends. “My life changed because I came to Mercyhurst,” she said.

Cariel Lewis ’14 ’16M talked about traveling the 1,667 miles to Mercyhurst from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, adding, “Mercyhurst has made me into the woman I am today.”

Sean Fedorko ’11 discussed his career and noted, “I attribute a great deal of my success to Mercyhurst.”

Giving Day 2018 is set for Tuesday, May 1.

CLASS OF 2004

Participation 7% Total Giving $4,350 Leadership Giving Society Michael Fedele III Emily Mosco Merski, Esq. Kathryn Krupa Agen Jeanette Kistler Andrawes Christian Beyer Cheryl Kinnear Bilski + Michael Brandt Brian Cagle, Esq. Jennifer Blakeslee Calabretta Michael Carr Elizabeth Donner Carubba Michael Cikra Jason Colbert Jill Gloekler Curry Willie Edmondson Timothy Fox Ashley Gardner Andrea Arbuckle Hoovler Christopher Hopper Justin Izbicki Johnathan Kowalczuk Kristin Kriegbaum Christa Mancini Kuhl Douglas Morally Amanda Mountain Christa Wilson Penner Matthew Pesti Emily Reiser Rebecca Ross Ryan Bethany Shaffer Anne Siegel Kyla Smith Emily Watkins Tomaino Mary Kate Demeo Wallace Cynthia Barthole Wasco Lindsey Weber Keljo

CLASS OF 2005

Participation 11% Total Giving $16,591 Leadership Giving Society Justin Adams Simon Arias Sara Jaecks Jason Staley Emilee Ballaro Autumn Hamady Beyer James Borelli Kerri Kanaley Brace Jamie Stubenhofer Breneman Robyn Mast Colbert Hannah Cox Brendan Doran Suzanne Griswold Dunahue Lisa Trocki Emerson Michael Foglio Stephanie Schnacke Fox Hugh Gallagher Jeffrey Garcia Lindsay Dellow Glavan

Blake Gority Katie Hamilton Stephanie Hancock Parris Hobbs Kristen Hudak Bryan Hurley Daniel James Alan Johnson Thomas Kemp Amanda Williams Kollman Devin Kowalski Dana Hyland Krishland Timothy Krysiek + Jessica Lecastre Adam Lobotsky Shaun Lux Brian Maurelli Aaron May John McIlroy Dana McMillin Leanne Ostrowski Melody James Mikulec Jr. Karen Freeman Miller + Caroline Millikin Ted Nagorsen Edison Nicholson III Daniel Oberdorf Thera Gaston Reams Nicholas Reichel Melissa Newell Reynolds Alyse Robertson Erin Fleming Ross Scott Runkel Zachary Smith Catrina Spano Jennifer Ferranti Stanicki Tamra Strohmeyer Vanessa Swickline Erin Henneman Szentesy Rebecca Turner Albert Veverka Sarah Wagner Jessica Wakelee Katrina Walker Michele Kutz Wheaton Ashley Wickert Matt Zinna

CLASS OF 2006

Participation 10% Total Giving $7,268 Leadership Giving Society Preston Briggs Sarah Williams Palm April Clark Adamczyk Michael Albritton Matthew Beck Daniel Benoit David Borrelli Mindi Lauterbach Borrelli Kathleen Cain Diane Chido Carol Clark-Osuch Brian Defrancesco Mark Dombrowski +

Mark Donlin Ronald Dorchak Stephanie Hilewick Duddy Anna Dunin Robert Englert Sarah Fedenets Annette Gardner Elishia Gnage Kyle Goodroe Erin Lenz Grammer Elizabeth Testrake Haffley Kathryn Hansen Margaret Harold Kathleen Chew Haslett Kristen Hoag Roberts Jansons Kevin Johnson Darlene Tate Jones Kelly Dombrowski Karns Kim Kezlarian John Kingston Lindsey Kole Katelyn Kurpiewski Michael Lamm Christina Machesney Lori Letender Marecic Christopher Martin Katie Cieslewicz McIlroy Megan Passinger Elizabeth Patnode Michelle Peelman Ramona Ramos Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. Michele Stack Reed Scott Reynolds Brenda Steib Rohm Christie St. George Stefanie Steinmetz Gregory Stelter Delight Stevens Maryam Tatavosian Andrea Taylor Kristin Turcsanyi Sean Underwood Pamela Swaney Vouri Meghan Waskiewicz William Welch Edward Winslow Frank Zatta

CLASS OF 2007

Participation 8% Total Giving $5,133 Leadership Giving Society Ryan Palm Aaron Parks Alicia Abbey Felicia Adamus Michael Allen Dina Bastianini Sarah Beercheck Rebecca Bliss Edward BoldenIII Amy Pfeffer Bolla Heather Brown

Elizabeth Butterfield Caitlin Champlin Kathryn Collins Craig Dechurch Jr. Ferki Ferati Lauren Cohick Forrest Nathaniel Gennaro Kyle Gourgon Andrea Grady Jeffrey Haft Patrick Henk Jeremy Hewitt Maria Amicone Holmes + Zachary Huber Jameson Hunt Carlin Kelly Amy Todd Kennerknecht Denis Kirstein Jessica Lamb Christopher Lang Andrew Lapiska Michael Lyden IV Lynn McBride Michael Miele Sarah Miskell Allison Moore Lucille Murphy Katie Schneck Myers Carrie Naccarato Meghan Pascuzzi Mary Phelan Olga Polishchuk Abby Brennan Power Gerald Power Jason Sabol, Esq. Megan Ostromecki Stadler Kathryn Jarocki Streets Dennis Teculver Mathew Wise Elise Yablonsky John Zanetta III

CLASS OF 2008

Participation 9% Total Giving $6,334 Leadership Giving Society Kyle Bogucki Ciara Carr Acton Amy Butler Banko Mark Blair Kenneth Bluska Kerry Bowman Daniel Brigham Leanne Wzontek Chapin Kelly Cofrancisco Jamie Coghlan Rhiana Conley Kathryn Connelly Kyle Craig Stephanie Prohaska Craig Donald Cummings Shaun Dailey Christopher Davis Daniel Dennehy Rodriguez Lauren Brant DePalma

Anthony Dorchak Andres Fernandez Ashley Gabriel Nicholas Giallourakis Adam Grady Christie Haibach Kelly Oldach Hardner Scott Hoffman Melanie Asay Jaroszewicz Bryan Kelly Ellen Koenig Kristin Leonard Hewitt Abagail Letson Deanna Fletcher Manbeck Thomas McKinnon Sandra Newell Jessica Nulph Courtney Olevnik Mitchell Phillis Steven Puskar Tamara Putney Patricia Myers Retchloff Amanda Riccardi Phyllis Roman Maureen Loftus Roth Colleen Rush Josh Schmidt Michelle Schrimper Kyle Scully Brittany McCracken Shaffer Shaun Spencer Julie Stone Dru Sturgess Nicholas Testa Michael Thomas Ryan Toomey Martin Wallenhorst Matthew Warren John Wayner Marissa Starin Wayner Breanne Scully Whalen Zachary Wild

CLASS OF 2009

Participation 5% Total Giving $2,734 Elizabeth Clain-Stefanelli Darren Conway Christina Coovert Eric Delio Alexandria Bogart Dorchak Manda Double Sara Driscoll Brian Espersen Kevin Flanagan Adam Glass Adam Hammer Sarah Holecek Mihailo Jovanovic Timothy Kalivoda Lauren Kelly Amy Kuhnlein Sarah Maxim Ryan McCartney Jeffrey McIntyre Marley McKenzie

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Patricia McMahon Daniel Mudd Stephanie Oliver Matthew Platz Brian Reddan Chelsey Nikithser Rhodes Zachary Rhodes Brian Sanders Ryan Schreiber Brandy Signor Marie Skidmore Lindy-Jo Smart Jeffrey Stoll Jessica Whalen Rachel Wheeler

CLASS OF 2010

Participation 6% Total Giving $2,155 Nicole Ambrogi Katelyn Balconi Kimberly Clarke Santos Cruz Jr. Mark Erdeljac Amanda Ehrbar Flanagan Adam Gray Justin Hall Erica Handley Katrina Herring Sherryl Jordano Julia King Sara Rish Kitchen Andrew Lamancusa Marc Larson Sandra Larson Elizabeth Maier Jillian Marshall Karla Mayorga Emily McGorry Leanna Michnik Carl Miley Andrea Conlon Nelson Rebekah O’Connor Sara Hoffstetter Picone Angelica Prestigomo

Christopher Risi Dinorah Sanchez Patricia Sanders Joshua Shields Kirk Shoemaker Kathi Edes Staaf Abby Sullivan Michael Sullivan Devon Swanson Nathan Torok Stephanie Pugh Tucker Christopher Ulrich Karleen Vogt Mary Vuono-Lamancusa Emily Warren Elizabeth Watson

CLASS OF 2011

Participation 5% Total Giving $1,319 Mattison Baker Katie Ingalls Bish Allison Hapeman Boehm Jay Breneman Bethany Brun Courtney Clark Allison Dobbs Hailey Glover Fred Hale Jr. Casey Harvilla Eve Klajbor Hatkoff Thomas Hermanowski Sarah Heuer Leah Kroll John Krugh Jr. Kerri Maselko Jessica Mathew Kathleen Wise May Kevin May Jr. Charity Moore Bryan Prindle Emily Neder Roueche Katelyn Schulmeister Megan Shields E. Shawn Waskiewicz

Joseph Weidenboerner Matthew Weiss Katie Wellman Christine Wilbur Sara Wowkowych

Vicki Waite Ian Wild Philip Wilson David Zacherl Nicole Zeak

CLASS OF 2012

CLASS OF 2013

Participation 6% Total Giving $3,468 Leadership Giving Society Lindsay Cox Frank Alyssa Andrews Rachel Brown Andrews Lyudmila Belousov Steven Boehm Kaitlyn Bossard Elizabeth Brick Miana Campbell Emily Carlins Patrick Carter Eric Clark Paul Duckworth Rachel Torgesen Duzen Elizabeth Eidnier Keven Gregg Steven Gregg Danielle Hanna Grooms Kara Hesch Alex HopmannII Matthew Jimenez Elizabeth Julius Andrew Kopcienski Holly Kreiner Patrick Leahy Megan Macko Melora Whalen Ode Hope-Anne Parks Jeffrey Pollard Jaasiel Rivera Rebecca Roberts Rachel Sluberski Charles Spano Alexandra Stacey Kathleen Vogtle

Participation 8% Total Giving $3,340 Leadership Giving Society Thomas Frank April Alfieri Ryan Bartizal Michael Baxter Lindsey Bostwick Rhona Boyle Emily Carrier Joseph Coyne Luis De Carvalho Leao Jeremy Dickey Anthony Durso Laura Fiegelist Lauren Geary Michael Gigliotti Brad Gleason Jeffrey Hammer Jr. Kaleigh Hubert Rachel Huefner Colin Hurley Zachary Kowalewski Adrianne LaGruth Chad Los Schumacher Hannah Micsky Andrew Miller Elizabeth Neil Mary Newara Nicholas Nicholl Sarah Noe Marcin Osajda Ivan Palikuca Steven Reinhardt Abigail Robinson Matthew Sanfilippo Jordan Shields

Isaac Smith Joseph Spano Aldyn Stewart Jeffrey Thiede II Danielle Vaccaro Todd Willis

CLASS OF 2014

Participation 10% Total Giving $2,201 Bryan Ambrogi Patrick Behm Emily Belfiore Tyler Berger Deirdre Best Gabriel Borrero Lindsay Boyer Katie Pizzuti Bryan Terence Bush Nicholas Cianci Rebecca Cratty Caitlin Doyle Matthew Durisko Caitlin Ewing James Gibson II Kelsey Graf Jacob Griffin Amanda Harris Elspeth Heiss-Moses Kenji Kawano Andrew Klobuchar Joseph LaGruth Andrea Lankester Cariel Lewis Vincent Lombardi III Rebeka Melber Wayne Mertens Steven Messina Katharine Michaelis Joseph Miller Maria Nemeth Alexander Neri Shauna Novobilsky Caitlin O’Neill 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, field hockey, softball and wrestling, hasn’t been renovated since 2004.

Nearly all the equipment will be replaced with legendary Hammer Strength products, adding machines and functionality to which Laker athletes never previously had access. In addition, the project calls for installation of new 42

flooring with built-in racks and platforms to create a more spacious feel, along with enhanced ventilation and aesthetic improvements.

The project is intended to improve athletic performance and injury prevention, and will also be a major recruiting asset for Laker athletics.

Jessica Pepe Sarah Piasecki Laura Poweski Kayla Rehar Austin Roland Clint Schaefer Alex Schneider Charles Sheaffer Samantha Siegferth Jessica Tarasovitch Anthony Tomasone Rachel Turoski Chelsea Ulrich Alexander Vinesky Ameliarose Wagner Evan Watkins Kelsea Wemett Kellie Wendell Brittany Werner Alexander Wheaton Mark Wilson Emily Yaple

CLASS OF 2015

Participation 10% Total Giving $1,345 Lauren Agnoli Erica Albornoz Diego Alvarez Ryan Bohince Brianna Carle Gaelin Carrig Grant Chase Rachel Clark Matthew Cote Erin Cox Will DeFeo Damir Demirovic Nathan Duda Kayley Dunn Calvin Eichhorn Caitlin English Emily Francis Dustin French Joseph GaglianoIII Kelsey Gorcica Alex Guerriero Nicholas Hannan John Herrmann Jr. Julia Hosack Alexandra Iaquinto Kiersten Krolikowski Ryan Kuntz Patrick Laffey Rachel Lane David Lea Matthew Lechtner Rachel Lewis Amanda Marley Ryan Martini Beatriz Mateos Mikayla McNamara Nathan Mead Jacob Middlestetter August Mizia Anika Moody

Ashley Nelson Rachel Novario Lauren Pacileo Geoff Paschke Nicole Popielarz Juan Quevedo Timothy Reed Douglas Riethmuller Nicole Rochon Cady Schneible Jason Sciarrotta Alicia Stoklosa Alexander Testa Nathan Turner Kimberly Urban Cory Vinborg Kristine Wright

CLASS OF 2016

Participation 16% Total Giving $1,944 Savanna Alfanos Erica Andrews Juan Avila Luke Ballantyne Jonathan Bayer Travis Beck Samantha Beckas Colin Berger Allison Bilak Dalma Bordon Angelo Bortoluzzi Salina Bowe Courtney Brothers Brandon Brown-Dukes Lindsay Burkland Dominic Candela Jordan Cargill Leena Clint Joseph Cofrancesco Kelsey Connely Carly Contraguerro Nicholas Cooper Sarah Creighton Karla Curran Kelsi Curtis Russell Curtis Samantha De Salle Alyssa Dean Garrett Erwin Erica Evans Ashley Favata Carly Fenton Kayla Larson Flynn Joseph Gargano Shannon Gilmore Janelle Gleim Michael Griffith Alexander Guido Jared Hancock Molly Harrald Alicia Harrison Holly Hebebrand Austin Hembree Kyle Hill Meghan Hogan

Jason Huang Meaghan Hubert Andrew Innes Lyndsy Justice Daniel Karstedt Ryan Kaufmann Kiersten Kerr Sarah Klobuchar Catherine Kuhnheim Molly Kurzanski Tyler Landfried Jeremy Landowski Katherine Mason Rachel Maykut Kelly McCall Rose McDonnell Elizabeth Meier Joseph Miller III Shannon Minihane Caitlin Mininger Elisabeth Montemorano Amanda Moore Mary Catherine Nemecek Caitlin O’Donnell Roxanne Oglesby Caitlyn Padovano Dominic Paolucci Kathryn Papas Daniel Quinn Dylan Radtke Kaleigh Ruggiero Taylor Santiago Taylor Schaffron Rebecca Schratz Ashley Shade Emily Sherman Eva Solomon Sabrina Sosa Allison Stacy Megan Steele Clara Summa Lauren Testa Jeremy Thomas Molly Thvedt Maggie Trott Andrew Vargas Michael Wakefield Autumn Walter Adrian Washington Lauren Watson Kennethea Wilson Kody Young Benjamin Youngman Angela Zanaglio Paul Zanardi Sarah Ziccardi

CLASS OF 2017

Participation 65% Total Giving $12,016 Natalie Abbate Shannon Abernathy Taylor Accursi Haley Adams Alexandra Albright D’Artanyn Alonge

Maria Alvergue Anthony Amroski Hayley Andres Danitza Arce Alyssa Archer Kevin Arnold Alexandrea Artise Madelyn Atendido Alyssa Augustyniak Annie Baich Kathleen Ballas Susan Baltes Mason Beaudry Nicholas Beckel Jessica Bell Rachel Betzner Noel Blackhall Derek Blanchard Casey Bleuel Connor Bodlak Jacqueline Bokisa Taylor Bookmiller Gina Borelli Katherine Boyle Justin Brahim Nicholas Brancaccio Kelsey Branch Kyle Briggs Alexander Burke Emily Burns Bryce Burrell Danielle Butera Gerardo Calvo Richard Cammisa Alexis Canfield Nicole Caranci Michael Card Molly Card Ryan Carroll Jose Chicas Jonathan Clark Jena Clinch Brian Comey Jonah Cook Jordanna Covel Michael Craffey Sean Crowley Brendan Crowther Halle Culbertson Kelsey Davies Sierra DeCola Evan DeMayo Joshua Deragon Cailey Dewaine Rachel DiBartolomeo Analynn DiFilippo Daniel Dooley Jr. Alexander Dorado Philippe Drouin Ellen Duddy Lisa Dunbar James Duncan Kyle Dutra Max Dwyer Geoff Ebbert Haley Echelmeier

Bridget Ellert Elizabeth Ellis Jacob Eneix Tyler Ennis John Eskind Christina Eusanio Daniel Evangelista Sara Fatula Kelly Fergus Jack Finch Jr. Taylor Foster Andrea Freed Markae Fries Christian Gamboa Michaela Gerace Samantha Giardina Elizabeth Goldberg Mariah Gonzalez William Good Devan Gowdy Michael Green Naomi Greenstein Samuel Griffin Raquel Guedes-Almeida Lauren Haas Liam Hagan Matthew Haisch Kristen Hamilton Angela Heintz Aaron Henry Erin Herschelman Nicholas Hiltz Diego Himede Matthew Hodge Anthony Hoffman Shannon Holley Karah Hollis Dakota Holmes Bridget Holvey Paige Horton Matthew Huefner Katherine Hutchinson Rebecca Insalaco Mathew Jury Taylor Kasavage Katherine Kayes Nicole Kelly Lauren Kenny Cassandra Kern Caitlin Kilcoyne Kristen Koch Shelby Kolar Dylan Kondis Zifang Kong Haylie Kromer Julia Lang Erica Lanzillo Marissa Lechene Paul LeckerIII Sarah Levin Christopher Liatti Samuel Lioi Deanna MacMurdo Meghan Maranto Jose Martinez Derek Mattson

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Carly Mazur Nicole McAlpin Conor McCooey Jr. Durrell McDonald Maggie McGouldrick Marissa McKnight Ryan Mehnert Laura Mejia Rachel Mergenthaler Ryan Michaels Ross Molinaro IV Dayana Moncada Adrian Monty Sky Moody Victoria Morris Kayley Morrison Alexis Nale Riley Norton Frances O’Neil Ruthanne Oakes Fanny Perstrom Ryan Petrossi Natalie Piaggesi Veronica Plys Natalie Popielski Collin Popson Catherine Pozum Sarah Puckett Sonia Puerta Isaac Rader Catherine Rainey Emily Raker Caitlin Reddington Benjamin Reinert Jacob Rice Taylor Rider Joseph Rieger Kelsey Riggs Drew Robinson Matthew Rogers Michael Rowe Sarah Ruesch Nicholas Rump Conall Ryan Beatriz Safie Ainars Safonovs Amanda Salasek Richard Sanders Jr. Jenny Santiago Hayleigh Schmidt Celina Schroer Mitchell Seelinger Michael SeifertJr. Heather Shadle Ashlyn Shaffer Emily Shanahan Danielle Silva Jillian Skinner Michal Smid Rachel Sobina Hannah Somich Patrick Spizarny Andrew Starry Eric Steinwachs Rachel Stucke Heather Swede

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Haley Thon Shannon Tichenor Melanie Todd Hannah Tombaugh Cody Traber Traber Maria Trigueros Jessika Turner Sarah Uglow Jesse Valasek Thomas Valerio Joseph Waidl Daniel Ward Jacob Washabaugh Rebecca Watts Sarah Wegrzyn Erica Weis Megan Whiddon Janelle Williams Jaquan Williams Nicholas Wnek Amanda Wolterink Josephine Wright Lawrence Yurick Kaitlin Zapolski Alejandra Zarate Garcia Carly Zimmerman

PARENTS

Leadership Giving Society Anonymous Mary Ann Baldauf ’85 Jeffrey M. Best ’77 John F. Bonamo Suzanne C. Bonamo Theresa Bone + Thomas Bone + Amy Brooks Douglas Brooks Lisa E. Chismire Margaret S. Coletta Robert D. Coletta Mary Ellen Dahlkemper Luigi Damasceno Nancy Damasceno Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ’77 Laurie Enns Thomas Enns Kathleen G. Gallagher Philip M. Gallagher Ellen L. Gordon Andrea T. Jeffress, M.D. William Jeffress Gregory T. Kessler Julie A. Kessler Robert Kopf III Judy Little Paul Little Henryka Makowski Janusz Makowski Marc McAndrew ’88 Donald R. McKeever Linda T. McKeever John M. Mizia Jr. Susan Molinaro Anthony J. Paradiso, Esq. ’83

Senior Sam Lioi, left, joins President Michael Victor with Senior Class Gift committee members, from left, Alyssa Archer, Jimmy Duncan, Kelly Fergus and Mathew Jury.

SENIORS ANNOUNCE GIFT OF AFTER-HOURS COFFEE BAR The Class of 2017 hopes to keep Mercyhurst Lakers up at night starting this fall with its senior class gift: an after-hours coffee bar in the 24/7 Student Study Lounge in Hammermill Library.

The Senior Class Gift Committee presented Mercyhurst President Michael T. Victor with a check for $12,015.55, representing contributions from more than 65 percent of class members. The project is estimated to cost $9,000, which includes the installation of a custom-built coffee bar, purchase and licensing of a cash register, and new coffee-making equipment, utensils, coffee and accoutrements.

The countertop will feature a collage of student photos to add a personal touch.

While the project was kept under wraps for much of fall semester, fundraising began as early as October 2016 when the committee hosted a Halloween party and social media costume contest at the Cornerstone Bar & Grill, and later Christmas festivities in early December.

To amass more support for the class gift, the committee spilled the beans in early December with a video featuring a “sleepy” President Victor in need of a coffee break. Spring semester fundraisers included a Senior Week Launch Party, a Senior Date Auction, a 100 Days Party, a Senior vs. Faculty/Staff basketball game, and annual end-of-year activities.

“We truly could not have done this without the support and generous donations of the senior class,” said dance major Alyssa Archer ’17, committee chair.

“Mercyhurst has been very good to us in providing an excellent education and home away from home, and this gift is a small way to show our gratitude.”

The Senior Class Gift is an annual tradition that gives the graduating class an opportunity to leave its mark on campus with a permanent gift of their choosing. Under the supervision of Alumni Relations, the Senior Class Gift campaign is the first opportunity for soon-to-be alumni to learn the value of fundraising and giving back to their alma mater.

“I encourage the senior class to always remember their time here at Mercyhurst and to cherish their memories and their friendships,” said Lindsay Cox Frank ’12 ’14M, director of alumni engagement. “My wish is that no matter how near or far they go, they know they always have a home here at Mercyhurst and they always remember and appreciate all they have received at Mercyhurst.”

Elizabeth Paradiso ’86 Darby A. Scalise ’81 Jay Scalise ’76 Camille R. Schroeck ’68 Gerald A. Stock Mark E. Stookey Carrie A. Teodori Frank B. Victor ’87 James J. Wild Teresa B. Wild Kathleen M. Yeatman-Stock Dawn M. Abbate Scott A. Abbate Raymond Abplanalp Ruth Abplanalp Karen Accursi Tim Accursi Michael Agate Sheri Agate James Alexander III Judith Allen Lisa Aloe Robert Aloe Douglas J. Altavilla Sr. Kelly L. Altavilla Gerald A. Altilio Jr. Michelle R. Altilio Maryann Anderson Robert Anderson David M. Andres ’88 Dennis J. Andres ’72 Jennifer A. Andres ’88 Mary Catherine Andres, Esq. ’72 Paula Ball Thomas Ball Mary J. Baniszewski ’79 Anne Bardusch David Bardusch Christina J. Barletta William M. Barletta Carolyn Beck Melvyn D. Beck Kim K. Behm Michael J. Behm Phillip J. Belfiore, Ph.D. Sandra L. Belfiore ’66 Kathleen Bellitto Paul Bellitto Gary Bendus Patricia Bendus Jane Bentley John Bentley Charles J. Benzinger Jennifer Berndt Timothy Berndt April R. Betzner Eric P. Betzner Jennifer L. Bielanin Barbara A. Bilinsky William J. Bilinsky Guadalupe M. Billingsley ’83 Alex L. Bilski + Cheryl A. Bilski ’04 + Diane M. Blanchard Jonathan R. Blanchard

Kevin M. Blanchard Kimberly S. Blanchard Kerrin Bloomquist ’77 Brian L. Bohince Mary S. Bohince Charles Bonvissuto Donna Bonvissuto Karl Borgman Lawrie Borgman Richard Borowski Marcia Bowers Scott Bowers Nancy J. Boylan Terrence J. Boylan Craig J. Brandetsas Terri L. Brandetsas Coleen Brennen Scott Brennen Corienthia Briggs Albert Brone Maria Brone Candy C. Brown Ludlow L. Brown, Ph.D Luciano Bucci Marie Bucci Marci L. Buckiso Michael J. Buckiso Kathleen B. Burgett ’73 Frank Burke Karen Burke Carol J. Burns Michael J. Burns Lauretta M. Bushar Raymond Buyce, Ph.D Elisabeth A. Campin Maria T. Cappuccio William R. Cappuccio Daniel Carlins Eileen Carlins John T. Castele Maureen L. Castele Gina Cecere William CecereIII John Chiarenza Maria Chiarenza Craig R. Chormann Joe Cianciosa Joy Cianciosa Kornelijus G. Cieminis Linda C. Cieminis Jennifer Ciolli Vince Ciolli Ann Clark ’77 Nancy Clark Robert Clark LeRoy Clevenger + Suzanne Clevenger + Timothy Cochis Toni Cochis Benedict Cohen + Anthony P. Cole Cathy Collier Ian Collier Robert Collins Carol Connelly William L. Connelly

Jeff Contraguerro Jill A. Contraguerro Brian P. Convery Jacqueline A. Convery Mark J. Cook Malcolm Coon Sheila S. Coon ’72 Albert Copper Marsha Copper Susan M. Corbran ’73 Denise M. Cox ’93 Valerie A. Crofoot ’76 Daniel J. Crotty ’91 James J. Crowe Jr. Joslin S. Crowe Connie L. Crum ’91 Joseph Crusciel Charles Crusha Lisa Crusha Daniel T. Cullen Anne D’Albora ’00 Linda G. Dalsin Mark A. Dalsin Carolyn Danaher William Danaher Cathy A. Davison Thomas D. Davison Christy DeLullo James DeLullo David L. Denz Debra Denz Charlene A. DeRonda Chris M. DeRonda Sara L. Derushia-Bruzda Glynda I. Devanney John A. Devanney Cynthia J. Dickinson Louis R. Dickinson II Debra K. Dillner Doug Dillner Maria C. Dinella Paul J. Dinella Phyllis M. Dinicola ’94 Christine Dion Dominic Dionisio Gaetano Dipietro Mark Dombrowski ’06 Timothy Dommermuth Daniel P. Dooley Sr. Susan F. Dooley Mark Doran Mary Lou Doran Nancy E. Doran-Hite Lori A. Dornberger ’89 Diane Dougan Michael P. Dougan ’76 David Dowd Natalie Dowd John P. Duane Jr. Katherine S. Duane David Dubois Liza Dubois Philip A. Dubsky ’79 Shelagh Dubsky ’79 Danielle M. Duchini, D.O. Gina M. Duddy

James P. Duddy Patrick M. Dunn ’78 Daniel Ealy Jill Ealy Edward Echan Lea Echan Alan Edmiston Marcy Edmiston Kimberly A. Edwards-Swanson Mark Ellis Nancy Ellis Lisa M. Emerson ’05 Delvin L. Ergott III Beth Fantaskey Todd Fantaskey Charlene Farkasovsky Paul Farkasovsky John P. Farrell Michelle J. Farrell Joseph D. Ferraro Wayne D. Festa Colleen B. Fink Thomas C. Fink Lisa Finnegan Matthew Finnegan Janet Fiorina Steven Fiorina James M. Fisher ’86 Joanne M. Fisher ’86 Mary J. Fitch ’83 Alice M. Flanagan James Flinn Michelle Flinn Mark T. Folland ’77 Stephanie C. Fragle ’72 John J. Frappolli Kristin S. Frappolli Curtis Froebel Michelle Froebel Marsha S. Fronzaglia ’83 Janet C. Fuller ’98 Dawn R. Gabriel Douglas A. Gabriel Aimee L. Galloway Michael J. Galloway Melanie A. Gavin Thomas E. Gavin Dana M. Gebauer ’89 Gary M. Glass Tricia C. Glass Dorothy E. Glover ’66 Emily O. Goldman Scott A. Gorring ’89 Shawn M. Gorring ’88 Earle P. Graham Jr. Ernell E. Graham Dari J. Grass Todd A. Grass Sandra L. Gregg Walter E. Gregg Betsy Greggs Scott Greggs Diane E. Griffin Joseph G. Griffin Mark Grimes Tracy Grimes

Linda R. Gruss ’80 Raymond S. Gruss, Esq. ’79 Helen Guagliardo Manny Guagliardo June Guida Michael Guida Lisa M. Guidice Julia Guttman + George W. Haas Jr. Karen S. Haas Barbara Haft Martin E. Haft Bryan S. Hagerdon Raegan E. Hagerdon Richal Hair William Hair Linda M. Hall + Robert C. Hall + Janice E. Haltigan John B. Haltigan Doris Handzel Richard J. Handzel Thomas Hanna, U.S.N. ’85 Lynne S. Hapeman Annemarie K. Harrington ’90 Brian P. Harrington ’90 Jeffrey M. Harrison Keith Hartwick Natalie Hartwick Ken Herbaugh Nancy Herbaugh Hiram P. Hershey Jr. Beth Ann M. Hess David G. Hess Janice M. Higgins + William J. Higgins + Gerald M. Hilfiker Karen A. Hilfiker Diana R. Hill Janice E. Hill ’96 Dan Hine Rhonda Hine Charles A. Hite Bryan R. Hodge Susan E. Hodge Kathleen A. Hoffman Robert E. Hoffman ’76 David Hollfelder Lynn Hollfelder Dawn Holman Robert Holman Gary Holt Jane Holt Earl K. Horton Tracy L. Horton Maureen J. Hubert Michele M. Hubert Thomas P. Hubert ’77 John C. Huffman ’89 Anne E. Hummel Matthew M. Hummel Mary Beth R. Hutchinson Scott E. Hutchinson Robert Isbell Ruthann Isbell David W. James

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Gary A. Jaskiewicz Patricia M. Jaskiewicz John M. Jimenez Kim M. Jimenez Amy Johnson Daniel Johnson John M. Johnson Maria J. Johnson ’74 Daniel V. Judy Martha M. Judy Michael H. Jula Patricia B. Jula Corinne A. Kaufmann James Kaufmann Kathleen Keating Michael Keating Peter D. Keisler Susan G. Keisler Martin Kennedy Maureen Kennedy Colleen M. Kerr ’79 James Kibbie Maureen Kibbie Joseph E. Kimball Julia King ’10 Donna Knott Richard Knott Candy A. Kole Jeff Kondis Pat Kondis Keith M. Konyk Leslie J. Konyk Dennis J. Kowalski, Ed.D. Teresa L. Kowalski Cathy Krahe John Krahe Jennifer L. Kramer Robert W. Kramer Anthony Kritkausky Linnea Kronmiller William Kronmiller Mary C. Kuhnlein Robert L. Kuhnlein Colleen A. Kullen Girard A. Kullen Jennifer Kuracina James Lammon Kimberly Lammon Bill Lang William J. Lang Dennis Larimore Viola Larimore Karen Latona Lisa M. Lawless Richard J. Lawless Christine LeGendre Paul LeGendre John M. Leisering ’81 Katy L. Leisering Deborah A. Leonard Dennis J. Leonard Charles M. Leone Abby N. Lewandowski Phillip J. Lewandowski John Liddy Nancy Liddy

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Cynthia Lioi Frank Lioi Patricia M. Loncto ’68 Patricia Looney Vincent Looney Tonya Lucente Frederick W. Lumb Lauren Lundgren Barb MacAskill Kevin MacAskill Julie Mader Robert F. Mader Lawrence M. Magguilli Lisa R. Magguilli Chris J. Magoc, Ph.D. Mary E. Magoc Elaine J. Maier James T. Maier Beth A. Mann Timothy H. Mann Laurie Maranto Albert Markijohn Kimberly Markijohn Richard L. Mast Yvonne F. Mast Lori A. Masters Thomas J. Masters Alice M. Maxim ’81 Georgianna May James May III Edward O. McAdams Jr. Maureen McAdams Maureen B. Mcardle-Cole George M. McCarthy Jayne M. McCarthy Cathy A. McCloskey James I. McCormick Mary Beth McCormick James McDonnell Tara McDonnell Kirstie M. McGouldrick William D. McGouldrick Charles McKee John P. McKenna ’88 Mary L. McMellon Ermin R. Melle Patricia M. Melle Donald L. Mennel Louise M. Mennel Lisa A. Mercando Paul Mercando Lynne Merritt William Merritt Patricia Messenger Timothy Messenger Brian Meyer Craig Meyer Karen L. Meyer Kristina Meyer Richard E. Michaels Sandra L. Michaels Alan M. Miltich Amanda K. Miltich John F. Milz Sheryl A. Milz Maureen Minnick

Richard Minnick David A. Minsk Laura A. Minsk Grace M. Mistretta Joseph A. Mistretta Beth Mitchell John Mitchell Patricia L. Mogenhan Robert A. Monti Silvia Monti Mary Jane P. Mulcahey-Hershey Anne Mullin Daniel Mullin Daniel J. Mullinger Kathryn A. Mullinger Blynn Nelson Chantel Nicolella Eric Nicolella Kathleen A. Niebauer Mark J. Niebauer Glenn F. Novak ’93 Kevin Nye Susan Nye Marie O’Connor Timothy O’Connor Bonnie O’Hara John O’Hara Deborah B. O’Neil James P. O’Neil Stan Olevnik Larry Owens Antoinette C. Pavlik ’66 Dana A. Perna Mark Perna Brian J. Pierce Kathleen A. Pierce Nancy L. Pierce Deirdre Piggott Anthony M. Piglowski Sr. Pamela S. Piglowski Donald M. Platte, Ph.D. Rita L. Platte Kathi Plumley Lanny G. Plumley David Podrasky Jr. Elizabeth Podrasky James P. Podyma Martha K. Podyma Lori A. Poe Tom R. Poe Marcia S. Pohl Matthew J. Pohl Chrisann Poole James H. Poole Rita V. Pyrdek ’68 Michele Racutt Steven Racutt Jill P. Rathburn ’91 Howard K. Reinert Teresa A. Renaud Pamela P. Retzlaff Paul R. Retzlaff Debra A. Richards Doug Richards Mark Riethmuller Ruthie Riethmuller

Mary G. Rinke ’94 Randall W. Rinke ’88 Kristen M. Robillard Paul J. Robillard Jr. Daniel R. Rogers Dianne D. Rogers John P. Roland Kerry A. Roland ’96 Margaret C. Roland Rahsaah J. Roland ’96 Amy Romano Bill Romano Mark Rose Valerie Rose Darrell Ross Jane Ross James M. Ruchala Nora G. Ruchala Anne Ryan Charles J. Ryan Christine Ryan John J. Ryan Sr. Sarah B. Ryan Thomas Ryan Gregory Sale Irene Sale Mark Santillano Solveig R. Santillano Mary Beth Santucci ’73 Olaf Schadowsky Suzanne M. Scheuer-Leone Marc H. Schlessel Pamela J. Schlessel David A. Schmitz Roseann M. Schmitz Larry L. Schneider Laura J. Schneider Mary B. Schneider Robert Schneider Kirk L. Schwab Maureen P. Schwab Karen Shadle Keith Shadle Jacqueline A. Shanahan Michael R. Shanahan Charles L. Sheaffer Louise A. Shearon ’89 Kerry A. Sheneman Richard L. Sheneman James R. Shields Luann Shields Edward Siciliano Sharon Siciliano Gregory W. Simson Kathleen S. Simson Amy Skarzenski Andrew J. Skinner Elaine Skorupski Marlene Skovenski Michael L. Sliker ’02 Tamra A. Smail Timothy E. Smail Clark W. Smith Jeffery J. Smith Paul B. Smith ’89 Sandra K. Smith

Susan M. Smith Deborah Sobina Raymond Sobina John J. Solano Karen Solano Gregory Sorce Susan Sorce Mark D. Stacey James E. Standohar Marie D. Standohar Leslie A. Stauss Richard N. Stauss Jamie L. Steinwachs Joseph P. Steinwachs Gina B. Strong John Z. Strong Karin A. Strumbel Mark Strumbel John Struna Vilija Struna Dan Stuck Janice M. Stuck Patricia Swaller Ronald Swaller Philip L. Swanson Andrew N. Switzer Michele M. Tapajna Debra A. Tarasovitch Joseph A. Tarasovitch ’85 Jeffrey Thomas Linda Thomas Lynne M. Thornton William J. Thornton Jr. Lorraine Torgesen Thomas Torgesen Paul Tretinik Shauna Tretinik Kathleen Turak Ronald Turak Karen A. Urban William Urban Michael Vaccaro Paulette M. Vaccaro ’83 Susan Vaccaro Edward R. Vargo Jr. Kelly L. Vargo Christos Vasakiris Paula Vasakiris Belinda Vasbinder Steven Vasbinder Mary Vaughn Steve Vaughn Leonard Veshecco Nancy Veshecco Gordon Vietmeier Jill Vietmeier Cynthia Vitale Robert Vitale Ann Vogan George R. Voulgarakis Mariam A. Voulgarakis Jason S. Wahl Patricia Wahl Cynthia A. Waidley Gerard J. Waidley ’80 Bernadette Walsh

MAJOR GIFTS FUND LIBRARY UPGRADES Hammermill Library will be a busy place this academic year. In addition to construction of a new cybersecurity lab and operations center, courtesy of a $1 million investment by national technology company MCPc, a comprehensive renovation of the main floor is also planned.

The main floor design includes efficiency initiatives and more learning spaces, a modernized circulation desk, technology assistance area, updated writing Patrick Walsh Sean Walsh Donna Ward Kurt Ward David W. Warner Judith Warner Cynthia M. Way ’76 Carol Webster William Webster Maryann Weiss Margaret M. Wells Todd R. Wells Craig Werynski Kristen Werynski Garvin Weyl Michele M. Wheaton ’05 Deb Whelchel + Christopher J. Widdifield Lizabeth J. Widdifield Amy S. Wiedeman Chariss B. Williams Barbara A. Wood ’87 Michael Wright Matthew J. Wroblewski Laura M. Wtulich Barrie E. Yochim II Julie L. Yochim Sandra Yonko Thomas Yonko John H. Zaczkiewicz Debbie Zapolski Martin J. Zapolski Jill R. Zernechel Scott D. Zernechel Anthony G. Zusinas Jr. Patricia Zusinas

center and tutoring services area, upgraded offices and much more.

All of this is made possible by a $500,000 gift from alumna and retired trustee Ellen Ryan and her husband, David. Also, a gift of $250,000 from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation will make possible construction of the Ridge Reading Room to enhance the Thomas J. and Michele Ridge Collection. (Rendering courtesy of Kidder Wachter Architecture and Design)

EMPLOYEES

Leadership Giving Society Jeanette C. Britt ’94 David J. Dausey, Ph.D. ’97 Michael A. Elnitsky, Ph.D. Lindsay A. Frank ’12 Daryl V. Georger, Ph.D. Joseph E. Howard ’03 David C. Hyland, Ph.D. Dyan L. Jones, Ph.D. Sister Lisa M. McCartney, RSM ’71 Ryan J. Palm ’07 Caleb M. Pifer Susan K. Reddinger Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Laura M. Zirkle, Ph.D. Alice M. Agnew Sarah A. Allen Paul Ashcraft Jennifer Bach ’94 Gregory J. Baker Andrea Barnett Gerard Barron ’74 Patricia D. Bedell-Pulito Phillip J. Belfiore, Ph.D. Lee A. Belovarac ’74 Peter J. Benekos, Ph.D. Helen A. Berquist ’00 Christian T. Beyer ’04 Meredith Bollheimer, J.D. Douglas L. Boudreau, Ph.D. Mary B. Breckenridge, Ed.D. James G. Breckenridge, Ph.D. Jamie M. Breneman ’05 Ronald A. Bretz Audrey G. Bretz Ludlow L. Brown, Ph.D. Gregory P. Brown Bethany M. Brun ’11 Raymond Buyce, Ph.D.

Allison Byrnes ’99 Keith D. Cammidge Gary W. Cardot David J. Cherico ’79 Nicholas J. Cianci ’14 Randy S. Clemons, Ph.D. James M. Coletta ’00 Susan M. Corbran ’73 Hannah R. Cox ’05 Suzanne M. Csop Robert D. Cullen Daniel T. Cullen Mary A. Daly ’66 Brian T. Dewey ’00 Gaetano Dipietro Karen M. Donnelly Alice A. Edwards, Ph.D. Verna M. Ehret, Ph.D. Jonathan Finke Alice M. Flanagan Thomas A. Forsthoefel, Ph.D. Kyle W. Foust ’89 Betsy A. Frank ’81 Timothy J. Frawley Tina M. Fryling, Esq. ’92 Annette M. Gardner ’06 Joan S. Giannelli Douglas J. Gifford Adam A. Glass ’09 Brad K. Gleason ’13 Andrea E. Grady ’07 Adam P. Grady ’08 Michael P. Grasso Steven R. Gregg ’12 Penny A. Hanes Mary Hembrow Snyder, Ph.D. Thomas J. Herman Nathan Hess, D.M.A. David O. Hewett ’87 Jeremy C. Hewitt ’07 Janice E. Hill ’96 Jodi Staniunas Hopper ’89 Joanne M. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D.

Heidi K. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Thomas P. Hubert ’77 Michele M. Hubert Tauna Hunter Colin Hurley ’13 Patricia M. Jaskiewicz Holly K. Jodon Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D. Ruth B. Jolie, Ph.D. ’01 Edward A. Jolie, Ph.D. ’01 Darci R. Jones Joseph E. Kimball Thomas P. Kitchen ’97 Lori A. Krause Charles F. Kuntz Jean Langer Laura Lewis, Ph.D. Travis M. Lindahl ’00 Valerie R. Luebke Christopher Lyons Chris J. Magoc, Ph.D. Bradley L. McGarry Megan C. McKenna Thomas McKinnon ’08 Dana K. McMillin ’05 Thomas A. Merlino Jr. Karen L. Meyer Debbie W. Morton David P. Myron Karen E. Niemla Christopher Norris Barry K. Nuhfer Rebekah N. O’Connor ’10 Courtney F. Olevnik ’08 ’13 Mary Ann Owoc, Ph.D. Ivan Palikuca ’13 John M. Parente Jr., Ed.D. Amy D. Parente, Ph.D. Corenna N. Partusch Elizabeth J. Patnode ’06 Jenell Patton Rita L. Platte Donald M. Platte, Ph.D.

Matthew D. Platz ’09 Brian D. Reed, Ph.D. Steven J. Reinhardt ’13 Sheila W. Richter ’77 Roy A. Ridondelli Sheryl Rieder Christina Riley-Brown, Ph.D. Randall W. Rinke ’88 Justin M. Ross, Ph.D. Msgr. David Rubino, Ph.D., Ph.D. Rebecca Ruch Matthew J. Sanfilippo ’13 Solveig R. Santillano Mark Santillano Martin A. Schaetzle Allison A. Seib Brian R. Sheridan ’87 Jerome F. Simon Sharon L. Sisco Michael A. Sisti Amy Skarzenski Raymond Sobina Joseph C. Spano ’13 Charles M. Spano ’12 Adrian M. Spracklen ’90 Kathi M. Staaf ’10 Peter J. Stadtmueller Judith Stanley Jane K. Stepherson Marnie M. Sullivan, Ph.D. Debra A. Tarasovitch Danielle V. Vaccaro ’13 Dionne N. Veitch ’92 Cynthia A. Waidley Matthew T. Weaver, Ph.D. Steven M. Weber Michael G. Wehler William J. Welch ’06 Michele M. Wheaton ’05 Penelope M. Wise Kolleen E. Woodcock Peter A. Yaksick, D.Ed.

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Selin Yalcindag, Ph.D. Kimberly J. Zacherl ’85 Eileen Zinchiak ’80

FRIENDS

Leadership Giving Society James M. Adovasio, Ph.D. Renee Amoore Robert B. Asher James A. Baldauf Nancy Baldwin Sturtevant Lynda Barness Johnny J. Butler Donald R. Caldwell J. Duncan Campbell III Doris T. Cipolla Walter Dalessio Candyce L. Delaney W. Patrick Delaney Todd Dinner Phil English Richard Galen Susan C. Galen Robert T. Guelcher, M.D. Thomas B. Hagen Joseph A. Hardy III Joseph M. Harenza S D. High William M. Hilbert Mark A. Holman Peter S. Howard Robert A. Judge Thomas E. Kavanagh Charles G. Knight Robert Y. Kopf Jr. David J. Livingston, Ph.D. Edward Maier + Dale R. McBrier Lynn McBrier Owen J. McCormick Samuel A. McCullough James E. McErlane Sally McNulty Timothy McNulty Gregg Melinson Leigh P. Middleton Anthony Minunni* Elizabeth Monsalve Marco Monsalve Joseph O’Donnell Henry T. Pietraszek Elizabeth Piotrowski + James Pluskey Jeff Plyler Rhonda Plyler Patricia Poprik Mark H. Raimy Timothy Reeves Sec. Thomas J. Ridge Sharon Rooney Shawn Rooney Lisa Salvia William Springer Ken Stepherson Roger G. Sturtevant

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Frederick C. Tecce Christine M. Tufano Paul A. Tufano William Vorsheck Kathleen G. Whelan Anonymous Deborah Abramczyk Cheryl A. Achille Barry D. Agostine Richard P. Albreski Thomas M. Aleksa Dennis Allen Scott D. Allen Harold Allison Jean L. Allison Jennie L. Allison William G. Allison Catherine Anderson Patricia S. Angrisano-Ossa Heather L. Anspach Mary Jane L. Antoon Robert D. Archer Beverly J. Ashton Brianna Askew Sandra Aureli Clemont Austin III Sandra J. Avery Jeannine M. Bacher Michelle Bacher Wendy Bahm Patty Baldwin Alice Ballentine Pamela J. Bansidhar George J. Baran James M. Barnes Craig S. Barnett Eric L. Barton Bruce Baumann Carolyn M. Beck Norm Beecher Tricia Bell Kathlyeen Benes Jennifer Bennett Paula Benvenuti Nicole L. Berdine John C. Berg Gunnar Bergqvist, M.D. Joseph P. Berley, M.D. Frank D. Bernard Ronald A. Berquist John L. Bestwick Judi Bick Del Birch Judith E. Bissonett Mary D. Blackett Zakari Blair Frederick A. Blass Jr. Maureen Blatt Thomas R. Blecki Carol Z. Bloomstine William C. Bloomstine Elizabeth Boccelli Tracey Boeye Sandra L. Bohince Meg Bojarski

Kathryn A. Booth Ann F. Boquard Thomas E. Boudreau Devera Bowers Chris Boyd Sarah Boyd Elise Bozzo Philomena Bragg Susan M. Bratton Paul A. Bretz Christopher Brocious Candace C. Brooks Stephen Brooks Ainslie Brosig Bradley J. Brown, D.D.S. Karen L. Brown Mary L. Brown Adam Brozeski Leo J. Brugger Jr. Eileen W. Buermann Jack L. Burns Kurt Buseck Lesley Butina Samuel A. Cammilleri Jr. Tamara L. Campbell Catherine Cardoso James L. Carino Gino J. Carlotti Robert Carnevale Marie L. Caron Rebecca A. Carroll Gayle W. Caruso Heather Cash Ginny M. Cashore Mark Causgrove Thomas C. Cavanagh David J. Cecere William L. Cecere William L. Cecere III Barbara Cherico Linda S. Chiarenza Erin P. Chludzinski Mary Lisa Chormann Trisha Christmas Roland Ciacchini Anthony J. Cicero Mark J. Cicero Frank Ciliberto Jr. Joseph S. Cilladi Jennifer M. Ciotti Kathleen A. Ciprich Almitra Clerkin Shawn J. Clerkin Barbara Coates Robert Cochran Valerie Colatarci Diana Collins Jodie Collins Mae Collins Raymond E. Collins Michael Conlan Mark Connelly Joseph P. Conroy Patrick J. Conroy Sheila A. Conroy Joshua Constable

Michael Convery John M. Cook Christopher Coons Jennifer Coons Thomas W. Corbett Mary J. Corbi Alan Corbitt Stella L. Costanzo Karen Cottrell Patricia J. Coyne-Potesta Beth Crescimanno Patrick T. Crowe James Cunningham James P. Curtin Karen Curtis Peter G. Dagretzikos James A. Dammeyer Kathleen Dammeyer Sharon A. Damore Kathy Danch Jack Daneri Michael Dannar Bill Darr Daniel J. Dausey Elijah J. Dausey Mary Ann Davis Jon DeCapua Anna M. Deleo William R. Delsignore Dennis G. DeMichele Janet Dennen Martin DePalma Kathryn N. Depp Terre Desantis David Deter Anthony Devola Anthony DiFranco Nicholas Digilio Linda L. Dirienzo Karen Dirkmaat Kathie J. Ditch Joseph DiTullio Bartolomeo Divieste Eileen Dobyns Patrick A. Donovan Chris Downey James M. Draxler Kevin Drayer Christina Drzewiecki Joanne C. Dugo Joan A. Duke Robert W. Dunlap Scott J. Dunn Sr. Michael Durkin III Maureen F. Durrell Brian Dustin Susan Earl Sen. Jane Earll Cheryl Easly Carl P. Eberhard Emily Eberhard Michael Eberhard Cathy S. Edwards Margaret A. Edwards William Egelston Elliott J. Ehrenreich

Ann Elliott Clorinda Elliott Amelia M. Erickson Janet Esser Diane M. Etzel Harry L. Evanoff JoAnne Evanoff Frank Fabin Mary Ann Fabin Jerry Farkasovsky David M. Farr William R. Farr Ruben F. Fechner III Michael B. Fein James Felice Bonnie L. Felshaw Edda L. Feneziani Robert G. Ferrier Stephanie Fiely Perry Fieseler Felicia M. Fiocchi Terry Fischer William Fischer Pamela J. Fish Beau Fisher Antonia Fitz Brian Flanagan Anne G. Flickinger Glenn B. Flickinger Margaret Flynn James E. Forehand William Foresman Ruth A. Fortney Christopher D. French Vernon Frye Sharon L. Fudalik Holly Fuhrmann Davorka Fulurija Susan J. Funk Joseph M. Galanti Edward J. Gallagher Esther M. Gallagher Susan Gannon William P. Garvey, Ph.D. Kathryn Gates Jennifer Geertson Michael J. Gerberry Matthew G. Giambattista David Gibbons Jeffrey A. Gilley Brian Giordano Elaine A. Glad Karen A. Glasgow, M.D. John S. Glaspell Frederic Gleach Bethann Glew Cynde Goldberg Catherine L. Good Scott Gordon Patrick Gormley Harry G. Gorton Joel Granny Kathleen Gray Krista Gray Nora Green Theresa Greenfield

James J. Gregg Jr. John J. Greggs Mary P. Gregorich Paul J. Grennon Julie M. Grey Olivia Griffin Nicole M. Gross Timothy Gross Diane Grzelak Edward J. Grzelak John Guhl Colleen M. Gullo John M. Guthrie Lisa M. Guthrie Paul R. Guthrie Sr. Holly Guyton Siobhan A. Hacker Robert H. Hagle Sue Hagle William Hair Veronica C. Halovich Vincent F. Halupczynski Thomas R. Hammel Susan Hammond John B. Hansen Paul A. Hansen + Joan S. Harf Walter O. Harf Hudson D. Harrison Linda J. Harrison John Hartel Donna J. Hatfield Marie Hawks Jeanette Heaver Keith A. Heckler Mary Ann Hedderick Marie E. Hedrick Mary Beth Herberger Kara R. Herman Susan Herman William Herman Sr. William L. Herman II Valentine Hernandez Jr.

Robert Hessinger Chris Hine Kimberly A. Hlas Darielle Hoden Don Hoderny Colleen Holmes Heidi E. Hoogwerf Derf N. Hopsecger Rita W. Hopsecger Peter K. Horn Jeff Horner John C. Howell Linda M. Howell Margery A. Hreno Michael A. Hreno Janet S. Hubler Linda M. Hunsberger Dennis Hurley Emily Hursh Beverly B. Ingram Antoine Jack Anne Jackson Carolyn Jackson Andrea Jacoby Seth R. Jaffee Kristy Jamison Danielle Janke Jim Januck George E. Jerman Cathy Johnson Kim Johnson Kurt A. Johnson, D.M.D. Nancy Johnson Timothy L. Johnson Eileen Jolls Donna M. Jurewicz Adam Jury Stephen J. Kachur Kirk R. Kaczmarek Bonnie Kaliszewski Mary Karounos Wayne Kastner Lee R. Katchen Jr.

Karen Kavulick Lorraine Keating John Kennell Jr. James Kennerknecht Daniel G. Keopka Katherine E. Keopka Alma Q. Kern Nancy R. Kern Constance L. Kessler Crystal A. Kibbie Kelly S. Kibbie Jan Kidder Ellen M. Kiger Alan J. Kilbury James Kindle Linda L. King Michaelene K. Kleiner Patricia Klenk Marc Kloszewski J. P. Klus Louise Knapp Candis W. Knepper + Donald E. Knepper Robert A. Knepper + Tracy Knight Nathan W. Koble Michael C. Kolar Aaron J. Kowalczk Roseann Kowalczk Angela Kozlowski Jeffrey D. Krajnik Ronald J. Krajnik Sheila R. Krajnik Thomas J. Krajnik Ken Kraut Michael R. Krawczel Daniel G. Kress Gary Kress Denis W. Krill Frank L. Kroto Jr., Esq. Michael S. Ksczanowicz Mark J. Kuhar Mitchell S. Kyser

Carol LaCovey Edmund Lada Patricia A. Laird Andrew J. Lamancusa Jacqueline Lamphear Robert Lang Jen LaPaglia Zoey Larson Robert LaSalvia John H. Lates Jr. Susan Laun Timothy J. Leber Kristen Lecomte Joseph Ledford Kathi K. Lenart Carol Leonard Stephen M. Leonardo Jim Leslie Derek Lettich Kevin J. Licker Thomas A. Lieb Barbara J. Liebel Robert J. Liebel Joseph I. Lieberman Ka-Ren Lipchik Kristen Livering Andrew C. Lo Tempio Tyler Lobdell Patrick J. Loftus Clarence W. Lorei Brady Louis Harry Love Carrie L. Lowther Robert J. Lowther Jr. Gabriel E. Lutwin Gary S. Maas Ben MacAskill Frances A. Machuga Joseph W. Mack Frances Macrino Carol MacWhirter Anthony Maddox Camille Maddox

Mary R. Madlen Mitchel J. Madlen Ann M. Maher Thomas J. Maher Jr. Maureen A. Mahoney David A. Malarik Jr. Connie S. Malito Mark R. Malito Thomas B. Malito Sandra Malone Cathleen G. Mankosa Donna Mann Constance L. Manus Luther R. Manus Jr. Joanna E. Marangi Gino Marcello Dominick R. Marendo Gina M. Marinelli Robert T. Markes Ashley Markiewicz Deborah R. Martin Gregory F. Martin Mark Martin Michelene Martin Joyce Maselli Lee Mason Mary H. Matincheck Julia P. Matthews Margaret R. Matthews P. Barry McAndrew Blossom P. McBrier Robert J. McCammon Terry B. McCammon Colleen McCarthy Lori McCauley Michael McCauley Lucas McConnell Tim McConnell Todd C. McConnell Carol A. McCool Marilyn A. McCormick Cheryl A. McDermott 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 benefit the Patty Baumann Hopsecger Scholarship Fund, which provides financial support to students at both the Erie and North East campuses.

Pictured following the Joe B’s Golf Classic are scholarship recipients Kelsie Mleczko ’18, Emma Rastatter ’21 and Georgia Capotis ‘18, Cale Baumann, Joe Baumann, and scholarship recipients Kelsey Soom ’18, Amelia Kanonczyk ’19, Stephany Oemcke ’20 and Veronica Sacco ’20.

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 York were honored during the post-tournament awards picnic held at Paderewski Park.

The 2017 event attracted more than 50 sponsors and 160 golfers, with top prizes ranging from a 48-inch Vizio TV and a Hoover Power Max carpet cleaner to several professional-grade golf clubs.

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YOUNG ALUM ENDOWS STUDY-ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP Megan Verbanick ’02 didn’t study abroad during her time at Mercyhurst. It would have been awesome, she says, but she just couldn’t work out the scheduling and the financing.

A computer systems major, she’s a sales engineer with Microstrategy, based in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Now well-established in her career, she’s become something of a world traveler. For the last several years, she’s managed at least one international trip annually. This year she traveled abroad twice, once to Morocco and once to Ireland.

And she’s created an endowed scholarship to help Mercyhurst students get what she considers a life-changing experience.

“I think it’s incredibly important for people, especially students, to experience more of the world,” she says. “I’ve learned so much about myself, and about other cultures, by visiting different countries. I think travel really expands your worldview and can give you a better understanding of where someone else may be coming from, when they offer opinions that are drastically different from your own.”

It costs $25,000 to endow a scholarship at Mercyhurst, a big undertaking for a young professional, though the total can be contributed over a period of several years.

“It wasn’t hard to say I’m not going to buy a coffee every day, $5 a day,” she says.

“Little things like that add up and you can make it work.”

Megan named the scholarship in honor of her grandmother, Anne Yeschenko Verbanick, whom she describes as “an amazing person who would have loved to travel more but didn’t have the means to do so.”

She cites a parable from Luke’s gospel to explain why she felt inspired to create a scholarship: “From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required.”

“I truly believe I’ve been blessed and I feel very strongly that I can’t just sit back and do nothing with that. Even before creating the scholarship, I’ve always tried to contribute in ways to help others. I take great joy and pride in being a vehicle to help someone else go along their path.”

The same spirit motivated this year’s recipient of the Anne Yeschenko Verbanick Scholarship. Cassandra Kern used the funds to make an FSAT (Faculty-Student Academic Travel) trip to the Dominican Republic in January 2017. She and fellow students helped rebuild a home destroyed by Hurricane William, working with the Mariposa Foundation, which educates and empowers girls to create sustainable solutions to end generational poverty.

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Cynthia T. McDonald John E. McHale Luanne Mcintosh Mary Mcintosh Gloria M. McKeever Steven C. McKeever Patricia M. Mckim Elizabeth R. McLaren Daniel McMahon Henry Mcmahon James McManus Sue McNally Kathleen M. McNamara Christina M. McNulty Matt McVay Michael Mead Joanne A. Mendiola Jane G. Merkel Joseph Metzinger Kathleen M. Miazga Donald W. Michlin Gregory S. Miele James Miller Tiffany Miller Patricia A. Miskulin Christine M. Mitchell Jack Mitchell John M. Mizia Sr. Nancy L. Mizia Herm Moats Raymond A. Mohr Florence Montalbano Kimberly J. Montalbano Caesar A. Montevecchio Lucia Monti Joyce M. Moore Laurie Moore Scott Moore Wayne Morris William T. Morton Susan Moyer Terrance L. Muresan Timothy A. Murray Gary Natter Stephanie A. Nelson Pamela J. Nemenz Rose M. Niedzwiecki Mark Noce Leo V. Noe Robert J. Nordin Shelly Norris Denise A. Norton Andrew M. Novotney Virginia J. Nowak Kathleen Nye Michael A. Nye Susan M. Nye Missy Obrien Catherine O’Bryan Karen O’Connell Kevin O’Connell Jessica O’Kell Geraldine Oligeri Mary J. O’Malley Brandon Owens Larry L. Owens

Dolores H. Paluch Penny L. Palutro Steven R. Pantano Brian Pardini James P. Parent Sally Parese Joseph Paris Susan B. Parry Kristi Parsons Renee M. Patterson William C. Patterson John Pearson IV Deborah M. Pecchia Elizabeth A. Pellnat Jean C. Pepper Barbara Perino Laura L. Petrella Richard W. Petrella, M.D. Nancy J. Petroff Paul T. Petroff Carmen J. Phillips Edward L. Phipps Sandra H. Phipps Stephen J. Pierangeli Michael J. Pilewski Bob Pillar Glorine B. Pizzo Mark Platteter Diana A. Plitt Mary Ploszkiewicz Dale R. Podlas Laura K. Polacek Martha C. Popio Joseph D. Porpiglia Carol A. Post Dom Pozzuto Hope M. Price Holli Pulice-Lewis Ruth Quinlan Patricia D. Racz Margie J. Ragosta Vincent A. Ragosta Kathleen A. Ramirez Clifford N. Rankin James Ratino Denise S. Raymond Paul M. Reed Marcia K. Reese Barbara K. Reistad Krista T. Rektorik Elaine Renz Erin Reuscher Keith Reynolds Brenda L. Rhoades Albert S. Richardson Jr. Peggy Richardson Adam Riggle Rudolph T. Rinke Sayeh M. Rivazfar Frank J. Rizzo, D.D.S. Donna J. Roberts Nicole Roberts Audrey V. Romito Donna Romito Lewis W. Rosselli Kathie Rothrock

Christina S. Rowane David Rubbico Michael Ruggiero Jeffrey Ruhland Charles Rumbold Merry Rumbold Ken Ruppert Lawrence B. Russell Marcia M. Russell Olivia Rutkowski Raymond Rutkowski William J. Ryan Leonard Rzodkiewicz Maria Saia Benjamin T. Sando Thomas P. Scanlon Jennifer Schade Jean A. Schaetzle Clint M. Schaffer Melissa Scheetz Robin Scheppner Robert Schilling Carl A. Schleelein Mark Schlehr Charles Schneider Joann M. Schneider Patrick J. Schneider Brian Schoendorf Kimberly Scholl Diane L. Schrantz Leonard F. Schrantz Paul R. Schrantz Norman Schruers Nancy J. Schuyler Steven J. Scutella James F. Semple, D.O. Beth Seymour Jean Ann Shaffer Marian L. Shaffer Rey Beth Sharp Robert A. Shaw Carlton Shea Sheila M. Sheaffer Karl Shell Susan S. Shell Valerie A. Shelter Judy Shuey Daniel L. Shumate Judith A. Siegel Rabecca Signoriello Andrew Sikora Lois Simon Spencer L. Simon Christine L. Sindler Jeffrey A. Sindler Gregory M. Sisti Mark D. Sisti Kimberly R. Skovenski Julie Slomski Debra Slusarz Lee R. Slusher Kyle Smith Carissa Snarski Wanetta K. Sockman David L. Solano Catherine E. Spano

Jessica Spitzer Eleanor L. Standohar Mary Ann Starkey David Stayduhar Jane H. Steineck James F. Stevenson + Sarah Strauss Tom Stringfellow Leanne Stuck Rebecca Stumpf Rachel Sturdevant Leonard P. Summers Anne A. Surdam Carla L. Swaney Peter M. Sweltz Robert A. Swertfager Katie Swope Kathleen M. Szewczyk Roger H. Taft Bruce M. Tarquino Paul Tate Chris Teagarden James A. Tedesco Mary Ann Tempestini Linda J. Terella Thomas E. Terella William Thacker Steven Thompson Delores J. Tiberio Vincent Timpano Michael Tkach Patricia L. Tofel Tracy Tokarczyk Imogean Tolliver Jamie R. Tolliver Johnna R. Tolliver Jeanine M. Tome Richard J. Tome Patricia Tomotchko Darlene M. Treharn Robert L. Treser Rochelle K. Trotta Carol J. Tupitza Thomas A. Tupitza, Esq. Linda Turner James M. Tuszynski Phyllis M. Ulmer Tamara Utley David J. Vaccaro Courtney R. Van Osten Richard Vantassel Joann Vecchio Sloane Victor Phyllis Volk Donald W. Vrenna Ronald J. Vulgris Jr. James Wakeman Daniel P. Walsh Tamara L. Walters Aaron Wartner Kathryn M. Wartner Philip C. Waser Judith A. Washington Gary Wassel Nancy Way Jeffrey P. Weaver

Jill C. Weber Judith A. Webster Leonard J. Weise Kathy Weisman Patricia M. Welch Mark P. Wereski James Wheatley Patrick M. Whitehead Brian Wieczorek David Wiener Sara Wilcox Patrick Wilczynski Mary S. Wiles Kathryn Wilkosz Debbie Williams Johnny L. Williams Gary Wilson Joseph F. Wilson Patricia Winslow Elizabeth Wise Kathleen J. Wisniewski Pearl A. Wisniewski Joan M. Witosky Marian Wolford Robert C. Wonderling Joshua Wood Paul W. Wood David Wright Mack M. Wright Jr. Leonard J. Wrobel Elias A. Yurick Tamara Zadell Frank J. ZambitoIII Daniel J. Zanotti Salena D. Zanotti Elizabeth F. Zaranek Robert Zawadzki Michael Zehner Christian B. Ziesenheim Robert Zill William Zill Jr. Coral Zimmer Donna L. Zimmer Jeffrey A. Zoller Barbara Zupko David M. Zurn

CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS

Leadership Giving Society AJ & Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust Abbott Fund Matching Grant Plan AICUP American Hotel & Lodging Foundation Aqua Charitable Trust AT&T Foundation Atlas Car Care & Tire Center BKD LLP Boeing Company Gift Match Brevillier Village Bruce E & Robbi S Toll

Foundation Buehler & Associates, Inc. Burger King Fast Food Enterprises #3 CCX Corporation Charles I Blake Family Foundation Comcast Corporation Concordia Lutheran Ministries Conway and O’Malley Inc. Crotty Insurance Agency Deprince, Race, & Zollo, Inc. Dilworth Paxson LLP Engel O’Neill Advertising EQT Foundation Erie Civic Ballet Company Erie Community Foundation Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority Erie Insurance Group Erie Sport Store Ernst & Young Foundation Estate of Loretta C. Bauer Estate of Mary E. Lillis Estate of Ruth M Braunger Estate of Thomas R. Weschler Frontier General Contracting, Inc. H. Jack Langer Plumbing & Heating Harrington Industrial Laundry Highmark Howard & Associates Hubbard Bert Karle Weber Inc. Humes Chrysler Dodge Ignite Erie J J Wild Construction Inc. Joe B’s Carpet Connection Joseph McCormick Construction Jr’s Last Laugh Inc. Kern Family Foundation Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett Larry and Gloria New Foundation Law Building Company LLC LECOM Lewis Eckert Robb & Co. Lewis Education Consultancy Liberty Mutual Insurance Group Liberty Tools LLC Lilliput Foundation Marquette Savings Bank Maruka U.S.A. Inc. Maxwell Strawbridge Charitable Trust McLane Church Medical Associates of Erie Methods Machine Tools, Inc. Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Mill Creek Capital Advisors, LLC Moe’s Southwest Grill Navigator Lacrosse Netlink

Neubauer Family Foundation North East Community Foundation Northwest Commission Our Own Candle Company Peco Energy Company Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Philadelphia Eagles Plyler Enterprises Inc. Polish Falcons of America Nest Quinton Insurance Ricoh USA Inc. Riley Riper Hollin & Colagreco Ronald and Marilyn Gunther Family Foundation Sand and Saidel, P.C. Scholarship Foundation of Rotary Club of Erie Scott’s Apple, Inc. Scott’s Splash Lagoon Inc. Servicemaster Contract by Uveges Star Athletic Club Stevens & Lee/Griffin Summit Footwear LLC T James Kavanagh Foundation The AYCO Charitable Foundation The Castele Family Foundation The Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust The Fidelio Foundation The Kinser Group, Inc. The Xerox Foundation Turner Dairy Farms U Pick 6 Tap House Visiterie Wells Fargo Foundation Westminster Place Partnership WICU-TV-12 William Blair & Co. William J. and A. Haskell McMannis Educational Trust Wolves Club of Erie YourCause A&M Total Restoration LLC Aag Properties LLC Adirandack Express Lube Advanced Caulking Systems Inc. Alleb Inc. Allegheny West Eyecare Allstate American Alarm Systems Andrews, Bernstein, Maranto & Nicotra, P.L.L.C. Aramark Global Business Services Auto Club Enterprises B.F.Fields Balloon’s Restaurant Bank of America

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Bayfront Eye Care Beach 944 Enterprises LLC Bella Pizza Benevity Community Impact Fund BMG TV Corp Bort Insurance Services Broad Channel American Legion BTA Buchanan Brothers Pharmacy Inc. Building Systems Inc. Burhenn’s Pharmacy Business Product Center Inc. BWP Bats LLC Carpeting by D L M Christenson Investment Partners Christmas Garage Door Co. Coach Tony’s Gourmet Hot Sauce Coast to Coast Circuits Inc. Commercial Refrigeration Service Community of Young Staroobria Connecto Electric Inc. ConocoPhillips Corcom Partners Inc. Cornerstone Bar & Grill Cuddy & Ward LLP, CPA’s Curtze Food Service Dailey Tire and Automotive Dan Kuzma Taxidermy Dan Steen Golf Pro Delfin Design & MFG Deluxe Corporation Foundation Design Center Inc. Dick Deutsch Auto Body Dinos Greensburg Inc. Dollar Bank Foundation Duthie Orthodontics Eastern Automated Piping Inc. ECCA Payroll + Edinboro Youth Wrestling Club Egelston Energy Company Emerald Asset Management Inc. English Funeral Home & Cremation Services Erie Beer Company Erie Hard Chrome Inc. Erie Steelheads Fifth Third Bank First Energy Foundation Fisher Flooring Supply Flagship Niagara League Frank’s Vacuum Truck Service Inc. Gatherings Pub & Grill GE Foundation General Partitions Manufacturing Corp.

Genoa Bank

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George’s Automotive Electric Inc. Gibi Inc. Gray Family Foundation Graziano Construction Inc. Greater Erie Alliance for Equality Griffin Ranches Inc. Holman Candies Howards Inc. Howard’s Photography Hudson Group Inc. Huzar Club IBM Corporation Illinois Tool Works Foundation Industrial Safety Training Information Techologies Services Inc. Iron Empire Clothing J.W. & Sons Inc. Johnson & Johnson Properties JSL Plumbing KA&S Construction, LLC Kirila Fire Training Facilities Lancer Wrestling Parents Lasca’s Inc. Lindner Dental Logistics Plus Longstretch Sporting Goods Lubrizol Foundation Lunden’s Financial Services Inc. Macek’s Garage Mannino’s Grand Slam USA Marsh Spaeder Baur Spaeder & Schaaf LLP Marsha Marsh Real Estate Services Mary Alfieri Richmond, Esquire Mercyhurst Student Government Mike Zimmer Electric Inc. Mitchell Price Mizianet Inc. Mostoller’s Inc. Mutual of Omaha Foundation Nartker, Grunewald, Eschleman, Cooper, LLC National Investment Services Inc. New York Life Foundation Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. Nord Family Foundation Nordson Corp.

Northwestern Youth Wrestling Omega Plastics LLC O’Rourke-Nye State Farm Insurance Palone Family Chiropractic Performance Cable Contracting Pitney Bowes Playing Surface Solutions Inc. PM Roofing and Construction Inc. Polish Falcons Premier Transportation Pro Build

Pro Waste Services Inc. Professional Skills Center Quinn Buseck Leemhuis Toohey & Kroto R.F.S.J. Inc. R.J. Contracting Richard Pitts Agency Rick’s Prime Rib House Roar on the Shore Ross Notary Service Rotogravure LLC Ruby & Quiri Sacandaga Advertising LLC SafeNet Schwab Charitable Fund Shaw & Shaw, P.C. Sheetz Inc. Silbert Optical Inc. SL Bensink & Associates Inc. Society of Holy Trinity Group Solenoid Solutions Inc. South Bay Abrams Sparks Electric Co. SRB Pressure Washing St. Louis Community Foundation Standard Pattern Works Inc. State Farm Companies Foundation Swiss Village Mobile Home Park Target Freight Management Inc. Teodori Enterprises Thayer Power and Communication Line Construction The Allstate Foundation The Barn Door Hardware Store, LLC The Crystal Restaurant The Glove Doctor, LLC The Misquamicut Club The Other Place The Pittsburgh Foundation Tim Deluca’s Auto Service Time Warner TLC Green, LLC Travaglini Enterprises Inc. TWIN Capital Management, Inc. UBS Financial Urban Valet Dry Cleaners Inc. VanAmburg Group Inc. Vencorex U.S. Inc. Verizon Foundation Village Auto Vonda’s Hair Salon Inc. Walmart Westminster Figure Skating Club of Erie Whitney East Inc. WHMB, P.C. WQLN Public Media Yaple’s Vacuum Cleaner Center

VOLUNTEERS

April M. Adamczyk ’06 Kathleen Q. Amatuzzo ’07 Eric M. Anibaldi ’95 Simon A. Arias ’05 Sr. Mary Ann Bader RSM. ’73 Katelyn M. Balconi ’10 Emilee K. Ballaro ’05 Rosalie E. Barsotti ’67 Jeanne B. Bender ’67 Brandie L. Bernatowicz ’09 Jeffrey M. Best ’77 Lori B. Blakeslee ’05 Julie E. Boam ’92 Paige K. Bosnyak ’13 Barbara Brairton ’65 Melissa Brasco Mary B. Breckenridge, Ed.D. Jay A. Breneman ’11 Sean F. Brennan ’08 Ronald J. Bryant ’90 Kathleen T. Bukowski, Ph.D. ’75 Jordan D. Bukowski ’11 Lee A. Burch ’89 Noel J. Burgoyne ’57 Paul J. Cahill ’88 Louis A. Cannarozzi ’75 David Chrzanowski Nicholas J. Cianci ’14 Dario Cipriani ’74 Marc Cipriani ’83 Kimberly A. Clear ’98 Kelly M. Cofrancisco ’08 Robyn Mast Colbert ’05 Jason N. Colbert ’04 Darren A. Conway ’09 Gail J. Cook ’80 Sheila S. Coon ’72 Sister JoAnne Courneen, RSM. ’64 Griffin M. Currie Amy Cuzzola-Kern Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ’73 Kimberly A. Damcott ’04 David J. Dausey, Ph.D. Kelly A. Dempsey ’13 Kathleen A. DeSante ’67 Jeremy D. Dickey ’13 Caitlin M. Doyle ’14 Patrick M. Dunn ’78 Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ’77 Constance M. Evaniak ’14 Thomas D. Falasca, D.O. Mary Farallo James D. Faulkner Sean J. Fedorko ’11 Mary Lou Ferralli ’67 Stephen J. Fiedler ’85 Devon M. Firestone ’16 Catherine M. Franck ’92 Lindsay A. Frank ’12 Thomas M. Frank ’13 A. James Freeman Susan Furr Paula Garzon

Sister Jane Gerety, RSM. Andrew J. Greathouse ’06 Elizabeth Greenleaf ’52 Jacob S. Griffin ’14 Rick Griffith Natalie J. Gruver ’11 Elizabeth A. Guelcher ’58 Elizabeth J. Haffley ’06 Jaslyne R. Halter ’15 Thomas A. Hanchin ’85 Walter O. Harf Casey L. Harvilla ’11 Kathleen R. Haslett ’06 Mersadees D. Henry Amee A. Herdzik ’88 Patricia Hersch ’66 Kyle J. Hinsdale ’00 Carol A. Hirsch ’84 Mary K. Hoffman ’74 Megan B. Hollern ’08 Catherine E. Hornick ’87 Mary R. Horvath ’77 Joanne M. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Kaleigh Hubert ’13 John C. Huffman ’89 Anthony L. Hugar ’11 Colin Hurley ’13 Charles Ingram Andrea T. Jeffress, M.D. Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D. Laura L. Jones ’12 Myron Jones Laura L. Junker ’03 Steven R. Kaczerski ’08 Kelly M. Karns ’06 Sarah E. Keene ’08 Victor T. Kelley ’88 Carlin S. Kelly ’07 Kayla M. Kelly ’14 B. Scott Kern Kiersten M. Kerr ’16 Casey J. Kilroy ’03 Julia King ’10 Sally C. Kohler ’51 Barbara A. Kosciolek ’67 Scott A. Koskoski ’00 Shane R. Krige ’91 Kerry T. Kruise ’02 Jamie M. Krusewicz ’07 Lev J. Kubiak ’88 Adrianne M. LaGruth ’13 John H. Langer ’96 Richard A. Lanzillo, Esq. ’83 Stella M. Lapaglia ’95 Joseph R. Large ’01 Cariel Lewis ’14 William G. Lewis Camille T. Licate ’96 Mary Ellen Lieb Patricia L. Lightner ’84 Brian Lilly Travis M. Lindahl ’00 Amy C. Lombardo ’96 Shaun M. Lux ’05 Shaun J. Lux Gary S. Maas

Suzanne C. Mack ’83 Robert D. MacKinlay Jr. ’99 Yvonne J. Maher ’93 Margaret T. Manchik ’87 Lisa M. Manendo ’78 Constance L. Manus Christina M. Marsh ’89 Heather L. Martin ’16 Brianna Massari Marc McAndrew ’88 Kimberly McCormick ’84 Frances McCormick Desmond J. McDonald Victoria D. McKee ’14 Anne M. McKinney ’12 Elizabeth A. Meier ’16 Donald F. Mennel ’02 Robert E. Merski ’99 Emily M. Merski, Esq. ’04 George R. Metcalf III Christopher W. Miller Daniel J. Moran ’88 John A. Munch ’91 Mary K. Murray ’77 Joseph G. NeCastro ’78 Maria A. Nemeth ’14 Lawrence L. New Donna J. Nolfi ’67 Jared E. Oakes ’00 Kerry A. O’Connor ’09 Courtney F. Olevnik ’08 Lisa A. Olinger ’11 Caitlin M. O’Neill ’14 Eric G. Opron ’88 Joseph A. Pacinelli ’78 Ryan J. Palm ’07 Mary Jane Parrish ’67 Craige Pepper Victor Jeanne K. Phillips ’68 Sarah J. Piasecki ’14 Margaret M. Pietraszek ’68 Anthony Pishotti Jodie D. Polk ’99 Daniel A. Pora ’96 Benjamin C. Pratt ’09 Brittany L. Prischak ’09 Anthony P. Prusak ’90 Bruce H. Raimy Marian S. Rhodes, Ph.D. ’86 Paul Rich Eric C. Ridgley ’94 Jack C. Riley ’74 Thomas M. Rinke ’89 Matthew J. Robaszkiewicz ’88 Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Pedro L. Rodriguez ’11 Kathleen C. Rohm Kaleigh A. Ruggiero ’16 Ashley L. Russell ’12 Mary J. Rutkowski ’77 Mary Ellen Ryan ’64 Mark J. Salvia ’82 Dinorah G. Sanchez ’10 John W. Saxon ’89 Jay Scalise ’76 Nicholas C. Scott Sr.

William C. Sennett, Esq. Stephen M. Seymour ’85 Brittany M. Shaffer ’08 Anne T. Siegel ’04 Michael L. Sliker ’02 Rev. Tom Snyderwine Jason R. Staley ’05 Richard S. Steele Heather C. Steiner ’89 Gregory J. Stelter ’06 Patricia Sulkowski ’67 Susan N. Sutto ’68 Jane Theuerkauf Melanie R. Titzel ’80 P. Kelly Tompkins ’78 Ann M. Tredway ’00 Anthony P. Tupek ’05 Rebecca L. Turner ’05 Paulette M. Vaccaro ’83 Dionne N. Veitch ’92 Cheryl Vicary Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Alex Vinesky ’14 Loan K. Vu ’13 Jane A. Wagner ’99 Christopher M. Walker ’10 Barrett C. Walker, D.D.S. Tamara L. Walters Marissa L. Wayner ’08 Wendy M. Weber ’71 Adam J. Welsh Kelsea J. Wemett ’14 Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ’78 Kenneth J. Wilson Jr. ’98 Perry N. Wood III ’01 Elise M. Yablonsky ’07 Peter J. Zaphiris Cynthia M. Zelenak ’01 Barry C. Zembower Matt C. Zinna ’05 Peter B. Zohos ’97

Left to right: Courtney Olevnik, Cal Pifer, Susan Reddinger, Matthew Sanfilippo, Lindsay Frank and Ryan Palm

DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT MEET OUR STAFF Caleb M. Pifer Vice President for External Relations and Advancement 814-824-3850 cpifer@mercyhurst.edu

Members of the Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter marked St. Patrick’s Day by serving an Irish meal at St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality in Pittsburgh.

In front: Casey Kilroy `03, Caitlin Doyle `14, Caitlin O’Neil `14 and Jason Staley `05. Center: St. Joseph’s House representative and Robyn Mast Colbert `05. Rear: Scott Koskoski `00 and Jason Colbert.

Ryan J. Palm ‘07 Associate Vice President for Advancement 814-824-3320 rpalm@mercyhurst.edu Lindsay Cox Frank ‘12 ‘14M Director of Alumni Engagement 814-824-2330 lfrank@mercyhurst.edu

Courtney F. Olevnik ‘08 ‘13M Director of Donor Relations 814-824-2246 colevnik@mercyhurst.edu Susan K. Reddinger Office Manager 814-824-2241 sreddinger@mercyhurst.edu Matthew J. Sanfilippo ‘13 Director of Grants 814-824-2102 msanfilippo@mercyhurst.edu

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