Class Notes
Name: Dr. Kara Calandrelli
Class Year(s): 1999
Note: Kara Calandrelli ’99 (CIAS) obtained a Doctorate in Healthcare Administration from the University of Lynchburg in 2023.
Submitted on: September 6, 2024
Name: Michael Bradbury
Class Year(s): 1976
Note: After retiring as a Professor of Biochemistry at ATSU-KCOM, Michael Bradbury BS ’76 has moved to the Orlando area and started a one-man consultant operation to provide faculty development for medical schools, along with advice on basic science curricular change and active learning strategies. You can find out more about it at www.bradmeded.com.
Submitted on: September 6, 2024
Name: Michael Lynch
Class Year(s): 2018
Note: Michael Lynch BS ’18 and Sara (Jacobus) Lynch BS ’18 announced their marriage surrounded by RIT alumni and friends in August 2024.
Submitted on: September 4, 2024
Name: Alicia Stenglein
Class Year(s): 2018
Note: Alicia (Wyble) Stenglein ’18 (CLA) and her husband Zack welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Harper, in April 2024!
Submitted on: August 29, 2024
Name: Rick Colson
Class Year(s): 1971
Note: After careers in business, consulting, owning a marketing agency and sustainable real estate development, Rick Colson AAS ’71 is excited to announce the formation of a new not-for-profit art resource in the Pioneer Valley of central Massachusetts. Human Scale Art Space, Inc. is a revolutionary non-profit with both an educational and exhibition mission. Different from most galleries, Human Scale Art Space focuses on educational workshops that expand the definition of “art” to encompass a far wider range of art forms. They hold educational and experiential programs at affordable rates (free for those who can’t afford our suggested contribution), at various venues in the Pioneer Valley. Their fall 2024 programs related to photography include: Workshop: Rock & Roll and Stage Photography - Improve your photography! How to take better performance photos and make high quality images at concerts and stage venues under complex stage lighting. Workshop: Polaroid 20x24 Instant Images - Dedicated to the legendary Polaroid 20x24 camera and the opportunity to make your own 20x24 images. Instructor, John Reuter, October 26th. Workshop: From Personal Trauma to Public Stage - Mining personal experience to use as source material for monologues, storytelling, and solo shows. Ideas transformed into action and silence into voice. Taught by playwright Jay Sefton Workshop: From Analog to Digital and Back - film negative scans, digital negatives, paper negatives, digital positives and digital negatives that can be printed in a darkroom, plus new papers, films and specialty surfaces – vellum, rice paper, translucent papers, backlit mediums, adhesive papers. Workshop: Build a Large Format Camera That Makes Digital Files That Look Like Film! - We will take you through the necessary materials, sourcin everything you need, and we’ll actually build a large format “digital” camera that captures approximately 11×14 inch original images. Same shallow depth of field, same fall off at the edges! Not Photoshop effects. And you will be able to use it to make your own photographs! Workshop: Think Big - Creating large-scale art installations, for indoor and outdoor, private, public and institutional/corporate settings, from ideas to funding to installation. For more information on any of our programs, or suggestions for programs you would like to see offered, please visit www.humanscaleartspace.org.
Submitted on: August 23, 2024
Name: Joshua Myers
Class Year(s): 2010
Note: Joshua Myers MS ’10 (CLA) was named sr. director of development and foundation relations at Barry University in Miami, FL. Myers is responsible for collaborating across the university and with foundations to identify resources that support student success and university initiatives.
Submitted on: August 22, 2024
Name: Dan Szabo
Class Year(s): 1979
Note: Dan Szabo BS ’ 79 retired after 10 years at Apollo Computer and 30 years at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Dan’s whole career(s), have been motivated and succeeded thanks to a degree from RIT/Computer Engineering (and later studies at RPI and MICA). Dan’s most recent career, 20 years as an academic advisor at MassArt, was so much inspired and informed by Dr. Roy Czernikowski. As an innovator, teacher, mentor, and friend from 1976 until now, Roy has been a constant influence on Dan and family.
Submitted on: June 17, 2024
Name: Jonathan Gippe
Class Year(s): 1996
Note: completed his MBA as a Welch Scholar; and began a new role as Associate Director of Network Construction with Verizon’s Global Network & Technology organization, addressing all Verizon Business Wireline facilities for the Eastern U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Submitted on: May 31, 2024
Name: Lou Iannone
Class Year(s): 90,92
Note: Lou Iannone 92’ FADU has been working as an independent museum exhibit designer/fabricator for the last 20 years as dba ASAGEDesign. His latest projects and clients include a flexible, multipurpose museum for the Centro Culturale Italiano Di Buffalo, a 3-8 year old hands-on space called SENSErie at the Buffalo Museum of Science and a full bar/ green room and shop rebuild for the theatre company, a Road Less Traveled Productions.
Submitted on: May 15, 2024
Name: Michael Saffran
Class Year(s): 2008
Note: Michael Saffran ’08 (CLA) is the editor and a columnist for The WEDGE newspaper (swpc.org/issues), in Rochester, and a part-time DJ and traffic reporter for Stephens Media Group (WRMM-FM, WFKL-FM, WZNE-FM), in Rochester. In 2023, he retired as communication lecturer emeritus from SUNY Geneseo (following 11 years); he now considers himself “semi-retired.”
Submitted on: May 15, 2024