Debbie Witkowski Krupa (N) is a Family Nurse Practitioner with Care Center of Family Practice and Pediatrics of Hamilton. She has been happily married to her husband, Andy, for eight years.

Daniel Posluszny (AS) has been appointed to the newly created position of deputy chief of police in Lawrence Township. Having joined the force in 1985, he graduated with a major in law and justice from TCNJ and went on to earn a master’s in education from Seton Hall, where he now is pursing a doctorate in education. He and his wife have two children.

From phlebotomy to rheumatology After the successful completion of her medical training and residency, Dr. Amy Evangelisto ’93 (AS) has won a three-year fellowship allowing her to focus exclusively on rheumatology. Following a competitive application and interview process, Evangelisto landed the prestigious position at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. As a fellow in rheumatology, she treats patients and does research in arthritis medicine and autoimmune disease. The complexity of the subject is what attracted her. “A lot of rheumatic diseases are not easily understood,” she said. “I like the challenge.” Evangelisto decided on a medical career while studying at Trenton State College and working off campus as a phlebotomist, a state-certified person who draws blood in a medical facility. After she learned the trade at a blood-sampling lab and obtained her certification, she took a job at a Pennsylvania hospital. “Working in the hospital helped me figure out that I wanted to become a doctor,” she said. Following graduation, Evangelisto attended Temple University Medical School from 1993 to 1997 and then did a three-year residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital. During that demanding residency, she had occasional thoughts of giving up. “There are nights when you’re working a 34-hour shift and you sometimes think you can’t make it,” she said. It was her patients, however, who always brought her back to reality and kept her focused. She advises aspiring doctors to “keep the positive aspects and benefits that go along with being a doctor in mind during the difficult times.” Completing her residency in 2000, Evangelisto stayed on to be a chief resident at the hospital, teaching both medical students and residents and caring for patients. It was then that she became more interested in the challenge of rheumatology. Her fellowship allows her to do what she enjoys most about medicine. “I love working with people, being able to interact with them to help them overcome problems and diseases,” she said. Based on her positive experience thus far, she’s considering an academic career in rheumatology. “I would like to work in an academic setting so I can keep teaching, conducting research, and seeing patients,”she said. —Meredith Edwards ’02

’93
Richard P. D’Alessandro (E) earned his master’s in educational administration from Temple University in August with a GPA of 3.96. He continues to teach and coach at Carusi Middle School in Cherry Hill.

Jennifer A. Harnett (AS) has been appointed head coach of women’s swimming at The College of New Jersey. She fills a vacancy created by the retirement last year of Brenda Campbell, who coached the team for 31 years.

Maryanne Kehoe (AS) is a liability claim representative for Merchants Insurance Group. She recently attained the insurance industry’s Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation. She lives and works in Mount Laurel.

Meghan Carmody Kinsey (AS) became a sixth-grade teacher in an urban district outside Boston, after completing her master’s in teaching at TCNJ. She and her husband live in the North End of Boston.

Kelly Sullivan Ruta (AS) graduated from Rutgers University School of Social Work in 1996 with a master’s in social work. She has gone on to become a Licensed Student Assistance counselor, and plans to enter private practice in psychotherapy.

’94
Franklin A. Cole (AS) was recently promoted to Staff Sergeant, and is a recent graduate of the U.S. Army’s basic noncommissioned officers course at the School of Music at Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk, VA. He is stationed at Fort Wainwright, near Fairbanks, AK, with the 9th Army Band, known as the Arctic Warrior Band, where he plays the trombone.

Robert Eleuteri (AS) has begun work toward a PhD in mathematics at Indiana University, where he will be an associate instructor in the mathematics department.

Michael Fiure (AS) has been made a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Schillberg, Seems, and Fiure in Red Bank.

Dr. Stephen Halpert (AS) completed his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley in June and is a psychotherapist assistant in a private practice in Berkeley, CA. He specializes in cognitive/behavioral therapy and is working with students at UC Berkeley and studying domestic violence, gay and lesbian issues, and cybernet addiction. He lives in Oakland and plans on pursuing his license for private practice.

Cindy LaGreca (AS) is coordinator for the Humanitarian Grants Cadre of Technical Advisors for the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International in Chicago. After graduation from The College, she received her master’s in linguistics from Ohio University, and taught English for 18 months in both Mexico and Croatia. She moved to Chicago in 1997, and has been with Rotary since September 1999.

Chris Matthews (E) teaches in Burlington.

Sarah E. Miller (AS) became the founding president in 1996 of Set Now Solutions, a Mercer County Internet development firm, specializing in custom Web site design, Flash multimedia, and streaming video. Her husband, Michael, is vice president and creative director of the company.

Debra Wallin (B) has taken a position as an associate with the Morristown law firm of Traflet, Fabian, and Shea. In March 2001 she married Anthony Albanese. The couple lives in Bedminster.

’95
Christine Laskey Furey (E) is a speech-language pathologist with the Lower Township School District and has started her own private practice for speech therapy services in Cape May County.

Jennifer Keyes (AS) earned a master’s in business administration from Rutgers University.

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Gina Gensone Long (E) received her master’s in technology education from Long Island University in May 1999.

Patrick T. Mitchell (AS) has been hired in the Department of Mathematics at Ocean County College.

Deborah Louise Mohrdieck (AS) is communications coordinator for the new stadium being constructed for the Philadelphia Phillies. Her Phillies New Ballpark Project office is a few blocks away from Veterans Stadium, the present home of the team. She does marketing and event planning for the new ballpark.

Dawn Marie Schlepko (AS) moved to Tanzania last August to teach at the International School of Tanganyika.

Stephenie Ross Weinstein (E) teaches Spanish at Moorestown High School. She and her husband, Seth, live in Moorestown.

’96
Jenny Cooley (AS) is an associate with the law firm of Kaufman, Borgeest, and Ryan, in Westchester, N.Y. The firm specializes in director and officer liability and employment practices liability. She lives in Cresskill, NJ.

Jennifer L. Kirkwood (AS) is a software quality assurance engineer at Telcordia Technologies in Piscataway.

Amber Mushinske (AS) earned a master’s in criminal justice and urban studies from Michigan State University in 1998.

Christine Taylor Nicholson (E) is a speech-language pathologist at Children’s Specialized Hospital in Toms River.

Danielle McAloney Petrelli (AS) is an underwriting operations supervisor with State Farm Insurance in Concordville, PA.

Vincent Petrelli (AS) is a chiropractor with Health Bridge Chiropractic in Philadelphia.

Robin Sydorowycz Smalley (B) was promoted to manager of assurance and advisory business services at Ernst & Young in Iselin.

Jennifer Lampmann Tomaskovic (E) teaches middle school mathematics in Paramus. She earned her master’s in education from William Paterson University.

Sandy Weeks (MSN) lives in Advance, NC, and is an associate director of nursing at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.

Kerri Redmond Akers (N) is an RN in the labor and delivery unit at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and lives with her husband in Red Bank.

In August 2000, Lori J. Caruso (AS) earned a master’s from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Her degree is in human-computer interaction, a discipline that combines computer science, cognitive psychology, and graphic design.

Sheila K. Cheese (E) is pursuing a master’s in education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison. Last summer she had a grant to volunteer at a hippopotamus sanctuary in Ghana.

Marcie Jannetti (N) is an operating room nurse at Community Medical Center in Toms River. Last June she spent three weeks with a medical mission in Thailand.

Kimberly Coughlin Layton (E) earned her master’s in reading/reading specialist at Rowan University in May 2001.

Tara Fochesato (AS) married Glenn Lovrich (B) in April 2001. She received a master’s in public administration from George Washington University, and is now assistant borough administrator for Waldwick. He received his MBA from Rider University, and is a financial analyst for Copeland Companies in East Brunswick.

’98
Jerilyn Stryker Anuario (E) teaches sixth-grade at the South Brunswick Upper Elementary School and was Teacher of the Year for the school year of 1999–2000.

Erik Daniels (E) is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mercer County Association for Retarded Citizens and lives in East Windsor.

Nicole Susan Green (AS) was promoted to account executive with Mullen/LHC (formerly Long Haymes Carr Advertising) where she works in new business development.

Catherine Leidemer (AS) has left Baltimore Magazine, where for two years she was research director and calendar editor, and has taken a position as senior communications associate at the University of Baltimore. Now she does all sorts of writing, editing, and public relations work in an eight-person office at the state university, which enrolls some 2,000 undergraduates in the junior and senior years and about 2,500 in graduate programs.

Craig T. Moran (B) is an associate with the Morristown law firm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland, and Perretti, in the firm’s litigation group.

Chris Richardson (AS) passed both the New Jersey and Maryland bar exams, and is a legal honors intern at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC.

’99
Corey Evan Bienstock (AS) received a master’s in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Connecticut in June, and has taken a research position with Neogenesis, a biotech company in Cambridge, MA.

Eric Chernikovich (AS) has turned his considerable athletic abilities from the track to the pool. He’s now director of aquatics at the Newtown Athletic Club, a commercial enterprise in nearby Pennsylvania that has two pools and thoughts of expansion. Chernikovich writes, “we’ve maxed out our two pools, so I’m looking elsewhere to either run other pools or lease space to teach swim lessons in.” That could involve either starting up a new company or a new department of the existing one. He lives in Newtown.

Danielle Churlin (E) teaches the deaf and hard of hearing at the Summit Speech School in New Providence.

Ron Durso (AS) has taught biology at Hackensack High School since 1999 and in November was awarded the “Outstanding New Biology Teacher Achievement Award,” by the National Association of Biology Teachers. Durso was chosen from a pool of candidates of first-, second-, and third-year teachers from the U.S. and Canada. Now living in Maywood, he is pursuing a master’s in biology education at Montclair State University. He is the professional development officer of the Biology Teachers Association of NJ and a regional vice president of the NJ Science Teachers Association. He also participates in the Waksman Institute at Rutgers, which seeks to expose high school students to real scientific research and scientific facilities.

Hope Suzanne Freeman (E) moved to Nagano, Japan, in October to teach conversational English.

Gina Beth El Koury (AS) graduated from the American University
Washington College of Law, where she specialized in international human
rights law. Just now, she's studying for the New Jersey and New York bar
exams, and in September plans to relocate to a new post with a United
Nations non-governmental organization based in the port city of Merka.
She spent the summer of 2001 in Somalia and in March of this year, with
a grant from the Public International Law and Policy Group, revisited
the area and prepared a report on conditions there. The full text of her
report may be found here. Gina has agreed to write an article for the fall issue of TCNJ magazine about her experiences in Somalia.

Julie Ann Thompson Luyber (E) is in her second year of teaching fourth grade at Hainesport Elementary School in Hainesport, NJ, where she is also a cheerleading coach. She and her husband, Tony, live in Mount Laurel.

Pawel G. Ochalski (AS) has taken a year off from his medical studies at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick to do a one-year neuroscience research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholars Program. He will return to begin his third year of medical school in June.

Sarah Scott (E) graduated from Harvard in 2000 with an MEd in Language and Literacy. She began teaching at the American School of Milan in Milan, Italy, in August. The school accepts students in kindergarten through grade five and enrolls children from America, Italy, Korea, Russia, Sweden, The Netherlands, Iceland, and Brazil. When she finishes in June, she plans to work toward a doctorate in cognitive science.

Upon graduation, Chris Silvern (AS) was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and immediately was assigned to a six-month Basic School, Quantico, VA. After learning the tenets of leading a rifle platoon, he was sent to his military occupational specialty school in Camp Lejeune, NC.
In September 2000, Silvern was assigned to an infantry battalion at Camp Pendleton, CA, where he took up the vacant billet of battalion adjutant (the administrative assistant to the commander). Months later he, a law and justice major in college, attended Naval Justice School in San Diego to become a legal officer. In May 2001, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and in September he attended an anti-terrorism instructor course and individual terrorism awareness course at Fort Bragg, NC.
In early January, Silvern wrote: “The attacks on September 11 gave us an opportunity to demonstrate our patriotism, generosity, and resolve. It also fundamentally changed the way we live and work. Two months after the attacks, my battalion was given orders to deploy early with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) to support Operation Enduring Freedom. I am presently deployed in the Western Pacific and I am confident as we head toward unknown lands to face America’s newest enemy we will prevail in every endeavor we undertake—not only because we have had the best training and leadership, but also because we are doing the right thing for our country and the world.”

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