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: 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: 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

Name: Edgar Praus

Class Year(s): 1971, 1972

Note: I have been photographing in Mississippi for the past 20+ years and now my work is in the permeant collections of both the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Odgen Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. MFA Still Photography

Submitted on: May 15, 2024

Name: Mike Janssen

Class Year(s): 1994

Note: On September 1, 2023, Mike Janssen ’94 (CAST) was promoted to the city manager of the City of Las Vegas. In this role, I function as the CEO and oversee 3800 staff and an annual budget of $2.2B for the 24th largest city in the US. Previously, I was the Executive Director of Infrastructure and Director of Public Works. As a Civil Engineering Technology graduate in 1994, I never could have imagined the career in local government that my RIT degree would help me achieve!

Submitted on: May 10, 2024

Name: Megan Detwiler

Class Year(s): 2019

Note: I was recently honored by the Manufacturing Institute as a recipient of their Emerging Leader award- given to 30 women under 30 who have achieved unique accomplishments at the start of their careers in the manufacturing industry. This recognition underscores my dedication to championing equality and accessibility in semiconductor manufacturing, alongside my unwavering commitment to maintaining exceptional chip quality.

Submitted on: May 6, 2024