Class Notes
Name: Joshua Myers
Class Year(s): 2010
Note: Joshua Myers MS ’10 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
Name: Jim Hamilton
Class Year(s): 88
Note: Jim Hamilton (MS Printing Technology, 1988) has written and illustrated a new book, “Falling: Amazing Survival Stories,” which recounts true stories of individuals who survived extremely long falls without the benefit of a working parachute.
Submitted on: May 4, 2024
Name: Audrey (Lallier) Braun
Class Year(s): 2005
Note: Alumni Audrey (Lallier) Braun 2005 and her husband Jordan welcomed their second child, a baby girl named Sydney, in February.
Submitted on: April 30, 2024