Notes

Bonnie Graniero. Retired from the construction industry, enjoying a Southern California semi-rural life while restoring my almost 100 year old house, my 1960 Ford truck, and also growing water lilies commercially and for pleasure. Busy training my formerly feral German Shepherd dog Schatzi, and caring for my elderly Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Corki. Keeping out of trouble.

1977

Barbara “Linky” Strassman. My spiritual practice has deepened since my recent trip to sacred South India. Visions and messages were received in sacred sites and have lead me to writing a book on self-healing through aligning with Source/ God. This brings me back to my happy days at Rocky Hill when brought new classes to the students, such as Religion and Psychology. Thank you to Mr. Willoughby! In those days I played a lot of tennis. Now I play pickleball.

1979

Jeff Clark. My partner, Terry and are enjoying retirement (semi, in my case), traveling a bit, hoping to welcome a new pup, seeing to family obligations and engaging in community service and interests. Several of the ‘79 classmates regularly get together keeping RHS friendships alive for a lifetime.

1982

Diane Mouradian. Greetings from Monterey, CA! Updates include working as a bilingual trauma-focused psychotherapist and feeling so grateful for the early start I got into language study at Rocky Hill. Shout-out to Mr. Leighton for sparking my love of Spanish! In my free time, enjoy creating mixed media collage and spending time at the beach. No snowy winters here!

1987

1986

David Crocker. I’ve been in the sales training space now since 2005 and it’s been the best professional decision of my life. I get to impact the lives and livelihoods of so many people, helping them achieve their dreams and wishes. Happily married, three kids (one graduating from Texas A&M in the spring and two step kids at home continuing their education). I stay in touch with my close friends from Rocky Hill on an almost daily basis. Still playing music often (thanks Mr Duclos for showing me how vital the love of music can be).

1988

Colleen Smith. After 10 years as an administrator with the South Kingstown Schools, I transitioned to Barrington and am the proud principal of the students at Primrose Hill Elementary School. When I am not working I enjoy time with the family and visiting our daughter at school in South Carolina.

Richard Prager. Papa Richie is enjoying retirement and recently welcomed my 5th grandchild! While not a frequent visitor to RHS, I have always stayed emotionally engaged and have kept an eye on RHS’s progress via various communications. am most impressed with Diane Rich’s leadership, specifically throughout the pandemic. am so happy for RHS students, they are truly lucky not to be part of the lost generation of zoom school. Well done RHS!!

Dave Gannon and Sally Kenyon Grant, enjoying our historic Hopelands living room during June’s Alumni Reunion!

Kristin Urbach. was recently chosen to participate in the U.S Chamber of Commerce Foundation Education and Workforce Fellowship Program. I am looking forward to working with fellow executive leaders nationwide to address the most pressing education and workforce issues in our country and to heighten my knowledge of successful programs in other states to advocate true quality policy making in Rhode Island.

Alicia Cook. I have been working in education for the past 15 years first as a substitute teacher, then for the past 10 years as a full-time teacher. I earned my Teaching Certificate in Secondary English as well as my Master of Education in Special Education from Providence College. In addition, received my English as a Second Language (ESL) Teaching Certificate from Roger Williams University for grades PK-12. For the past three years, I have been teaching ESL students in grades 6-8 as well as teaching core English at West Broadway Middle School in Providence.

Michaela Kelly. 2022 was a whirlwind for me! Travel for work and pleasure sent me south & north of the US borders, and all across the US. I love my role at Alloy (fighting fraud!) and pulled off Salesperson of the Year after struggling through the banking economic dip in Q1. In September, joined the board for Gerda’s Equine Rescue, which is a place I hold dear to my heart ... so much so, that I was a foster fail: I adopted an old Amish workhorse (Hazel) who will live out her days with my herd on our hobby farm in VT.

W. Matthew Sullivan. After 11 years at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, I made an exciting move into Big Pharma...I’m now part of the Genomic Medicine Unit at Sanofi. I help run the nextgeneration sequencing lab that assesses how well our nascent gene-editing treatments work. At home, my wife and I are hoping to adopt a younger sibling to our son Isaac, who is now 5 and will start kindergarten this fall. We would love to network with anyone in the adoption community!

2011

Sam Jedrey. After living on the West Coast for a while, returned to Rhode Island, via Vermont. Allie Aponik and I were married on September 25, 2021, and recently moved into our first house in Cowesett. Check out alexandrajedreyart.com

1998

Abraham Murray. Life has been good and fun - I have 3 healthy boys (Levi - 9, Gabe - 14, Isa - 16) and an amazing partner (Francesca, pictured with me). I live in Cohasset MA and launched my own venture fund a year ago investing in robotics after a career in tech including Google and startups. If anyone wants to say hiI’m super accessible via email and/or LinkedIn.

2008

Sarah Knowles. In July 2022, I was named the Director of Admission and Enrollment Management at Falmouth Academy, a grade 7 through 12 day school in Falmouth, MA. I have been at Falmouth Academy for over 10 years and was previously the Assistant Director and Associate Director of Admission.

2017

Sara Gasrow. I got engaged to Tyler Gates ‘16 on October 23, 2022 during a trip to Bermuda. was also promoted to Social Media Specialist at RDW Group!

2013

Anna Yoshie Yamada has accomplished quite a bit since graduating from RHCD and University of Colorado. Anna was just promoted to Snowboard Program Director at Gould Academy.

2019

Xuan Guo. I am getting my Master’s of Medical Science in Immunology at Harvard Medical School!

2021

Ben Malin. I live in Virginia and work in web development. I am getting married in the Fall and I’m excited for everything life has to offer after our wedding- especially international hiking!

Yamada is a six-time national champion in Boardercross, Giant Slalom, and Slalom. She was the starter at PSL from 2016 to 2019. Yamada competed as part of Team USA at the University World Games in 2015 on the Snowboardcross Team. Yamada then stepped into the role of the Traveling FIS Snowboardcross Coach in the 2022/2023 season that had her coaching primarily on the North American Cup Tour throughout the US and Canada, plus Europa Cups in Austria and France, and regional and national events hosted by USASA. Yamada capped her 3rd season of coaching with an invite from the US Snowboard Team to coach Team USA at the 2023 Junior World Championships in Passo San Pellegrino, Italy.

2022

Denzel Correia. In February, Rocky Hill welcomed back Denzel Correia ’22 to unveil his banner and celebrate being named the Gatorade Rhode Island Boys Basketball Player of the Year for 2021-2022. Correia led the Mariners to a SENE regular season and tournament championship and a trip to the NEPSAC Class D Tournament Final last year. This year, he has spent his time at Canterbury School in Connecticut.

Sarah Cunningham. After graduating from Rocky Hill, I moved to Asheville, North Carolina with my family. I am a fulltime student, pursuing a double-major in photography and education and a minor in Chinese with the goal of becoming a high school photography teacher. My interest in the arts is really enhanced by the local Asheville art scene since there are a lot of local artists and galleries. am also gaining lots of experience in my role as the photographer of a small nearby school. In my spare time, I volunteer at a local food bank by helping prepare food boxes for local families as well as learning about the wonderful world of plant propagation.