Alumni Class Notes, July 2019

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Suzanne Flanagan ’87, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, was awarded the role of senior account executive with CE Tech (Cutting Edge Technologies), a New Jersey based IT consulting firm. Flanagan, the mother of a brain cancer survivor, is the founder of the Luke Forward Pediatric Brain Cancer Fund and a member of the Bernard’s Parents with Exceptional Children (PEC) group, which raises funds to help children with Special needs.

Paul L. D’Andrea, M.D., USAF ’90, Hampton, Virginia, was promoted to colonel in the United States Air Force while deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan, June 1.

Carl Thorsen ’90, Bethesda, Maryland, was named for the sixth consecutive year as one of Washington’s 25 “top lobbyists.” Thorsen is a founding partner of Thorsen French Advocacy, a boutique government relations firm.

Patricia Miller McEnery ’91, Line Lexington, and Cheryl Ruddock Leatherbarrow ’91, Pipersville, best friends since their University of Scranton days, both completed their doctoral degrees in Educational Leadership and Administration at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Sharon Holmes Hartranft, M.Ed. ’95, Chalfont, has been appointed Science Department chair, starting in the 2019-2020 school year, at Archbishop Wood High School, where she teachers AP Environmental Science, Honors Forensic Science and Biology.

Daniel M. Stanislawczyk ’97, Lake Worth, Florida, was named president and CEO of Seagull Services, Inc.

Jonathan Miknis ’06, Dillsburg, graduated from Penn State University with a Master’s Degree in Nursing with the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Option in May 2019.

Adam Z. Rosinski, S.J. ’07, Raleigh, North Carolina, a Jesuit in the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, was ordained to the priesthood on Saturday, June 8 at the Fordham University Church in the Bronx, New York. Father Rosinski’s first assignment as an ordained priest is to serve as parochial vicar at St. Raphael Catholic Church in Raleigh.

Dana M. Poloni ’11, Nazareth, was awarded the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2019.

Christopher H. Nebzydoski ’12, Pleasant Mount, was awarded the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2019.

Nicholas J. Minissale ’13, Neptune, New Jersey, was awarded the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2019.

Deaths

Irving Cader ’39, Clarks Summit
Gerald P. Nolan, M.D. ’50, New Albany, Ohio
Edwin Utan ’50, Scranton
Perry L. Billington ’69, ’78, G’84, Flemington, New Jersey
Peter Loftus ’69, Waverly
Alex J. Poplawsky, Ph.D. ’70, Danville
Chris J. Fedele ’71, Covington Township
Timothy H. Gilroy ’78, Philadelphia
Lori Lewis Esposito ’86, Binghamton, New York
Sarah E. Fabricatore ’10, Dunmore

Births    

 A son, Peter Jia, to Na Na and Jonathan Miknis ’06, Dillsburg

Marriages

Susan Chrusciel ’04 to Nikitas Marangos