Class Notes

Name: Michael J Miconi

Class Year(s): 80,84

Note: Michael Miconi ’84 (FAA) has been working at MWI Inc. for 13 years as a manufacturing process engineer.

Submitted on: July 24, 2021

Name: Eugene Rusiecki

Class Year(s): 1975, 1978

Note: Eugene Rusiecki ’78 (CAST) is an electrical engineer and project manager for Veteran Affairs Medical Centers in Gainesville and Lake City, F.L.

Submitted on: July 24, 2021

Name: Laura Moran Cavanaugh

Class Year(s): 1983

Note: Laura (Moran) Cavanaugh ’83 (CAST) is currently employed as a Business Development Analyst for TTM Technologies in East Syracuse, N.Y. She is also the Cemetery Director for St. Mary of the Assumption Cemetery in Minoa, N.Y.

Submitted on: July 24, 2021

Name: Robert Finucane

Class Year(s): 1980

Note: Bob Finucane ’80 (GAP) is spending his retirement teaching for a year or more in various places around the world, including Thailand, Vietnam. Portugal and then on to South and Central America.

Submitted on: July 24, 2021

Name: David Loshin

Class Year(s): 1971

Note: David S. Loshin OD, Ph.D ’71 (GAP) retired from his position of Dean at Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry, a position he has held for the last 24 years. He was named Dean Emeritus in 2020 and will complete a one year sabbatical at the end of July 2021.

Submitted on: July 23, 2021

Arrival in Detroit on retirement airline flight.

Name: Douglas Schenk

Class Year(s): 1981

Note: Doug Schenk, ’81 (CAST) retired as Airbus A321 Captain at Delta Air Lines in September 2020. Future plans include aerobatic competition in a Pitts S-2C biplane.

Submitted on: July 23, 2021

Swearing In Ceremony January 2021

Name: John Letteney

Class Year(s): 1983

Note: John Letteney ’83 (CLA) retired in January 2021 after 24-year career in New York law enforcement and 15 years as Chief of Police in North Carolina. He has recently accepted a position as Chief of Police for the Thomasville, G.A. Police Department.

Submitted on: July 23, 2021

Photo Credit Anna Schmidt Photography

Name: Danica Zielinski-Natter

Class Year(s): 2016

Note: Danica Zielinski-Natter MS ’16 (NTID) and Evan Natter ’16 (GCCIS) were married on April 3, 2021 in Baltimore, M.D.

Submitted on: July 23, 2021

Name: Bill Truran

Class Year(s): 1975

Note: Bill Truran ’75 (GAP) has been a paid photographer since 1972 and a food photographer since 1989, with studios in New York City from 1975 until 1989. He moved onto Nabisco Foods in New Jersey from 1989 - 2002 and Kraft Foods from 2002 - 2004. He has been a freelance photographer since 2004, and recently obtained a new client through word of mouth.

Submitted on: July 23, 2021

Retired

Name: BARBARA-ANN MAttle MATTLE

Class Year(s): 1980

Note: Barbara-Ann Mattle ’80 (CCE) retired as CEO of Child Care Council after a 32-year career, during which the agency grew from a 1.5 person staff to a staff of 60 and a budget of $20,000 to $7 million. She gives thanks to RIT for the education and confidence to make this a reality.

Submitted on: July 23, 2021