Class Notes
Name: Deborah Marcuccilli
Class Year(s): 1978
Note: Deb Marcuccilli BS/ME ’78 (KGCOE) and daughter Alyxandra Sherwood MS ’15 (CLA) both completed the Oct.2019 Detroit Marathon with Personal Best finish times!
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: David Stern
Class Year(s): 1996
Note: David Stern ’96 (KGCOE) received two notices of allowance for his first two patents from the United States Patent Office (both within the Cyber domain). https://patents.justia.com/inventor/david-j-stern
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Thomas Newberry
Class Year(s): 1982
Note: In addition to operations management and helping companies present to investors, Thomas Newberry ’82 (KGCOE) has the honor of coaching a great bunch of boys in the Westborough (MA) varsity soccer program. They created a Cinderella season in earning a berth in the district semi-finals game. He's proud of their accomplishments. It’s like having a second family.
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Kyle Bates
Class Year(s): 1997
Note: An alumnus of RIT Ambulance and a graduate of the Biomedical Photographic Communications Program, Kyle Bates ’97 (CIAS) assumed the position of Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County this past August (2019). Here he has taken on the role of Paramedic Program Director, which is 1 of 13 accredited bachelor degree programs in the United States. Prior to this, Kyle was an educational designer and developer for the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, University of Maryland, College Park. Here he brought a different approach to the development and delivery of continuing education to paramedics as well as instructors. Kyle hopes to utilize this opportunity at UMBC to further his desire to create, develop, deliver, and research educational delivery models for EMS students.
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Stacy Lake
Class Year(s): 2005
Note: In September 2019, Stacy Lake ’05 (SCB), MBA ’07 (SCB) started in a new role as Corporate Communications Manager for Bergmann, a full-service architecture, engineering, and planning firm headquartered in Rochester. Bergmann’s CEO, Pietro Giovenco ’89 (SCB) MBA ’12 (SCB), is also an RIT/Saunders graduate. Stacy has enjoyed continuing to meet fellow RIT alumni during her first months with the firm.
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Chester Shellman, Jr.
Class Year(s): 2004
Note: Chester "CJ" Shellman ’04 (COLA) is the author of a new book series that focuses on divorce and attempts to help children dealing with it. CJ says he was inspired by his own relationship with his daughter in his new book “A Day in the Life of MiMi and Ty: The Graduation Dilemma." The book is currently available on Amazon.
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Robert Dawley
Class Year(s): 1975
Note: Robert (Bob) Dawley ’75 (SCB) retired from the industry then retired from teaching, recently retired as Code Enforcement Officer. So on the third retirement. He is a published author of book one in a series of three titled "Pink isn’t the only Cancer" a personal story on his Cancer odyssey most recently with prostate cancer - good things and not so good things. The second book is about how other cancer patients were interacted with, good and bad.
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Sarah Bicsak
Class Year(s): 2011
Note: Sarah Bicsak ’11 (COS) recently celebrated her one year anniversary as a Chemist at Paragon Laboratories (Livonia, Michigan).
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Catherine Lane
Class Year(s): 1985
Note: Catherine Spilman Lane ’85 (FAA) and Brett Lane ’82 (CAST) are proud to have a double legacy student son: Cody T Lane ’20 attending RIT in the College of Art and Design Industrial Design BFA program, following his mom’s footsteps in the Booth Building at RIT. They are very excited and proud of Cody’s accomplishments!
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Anna Craig
Class Year(s): 2014
Note: William Craig BS/MS ’14 (KGCOE) successfully completed his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland in June of 2019. During his Ph.D. program, his wife, Anna (Guthrie) Craig ’13 (CHST) worked as a hospital physician assistant at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. They moved to Boston this summer where Dr. Craig began work at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Mrs. Craig has just started her new job at Boston Medical Center’s gastroenterology clinic and has been appointed faculty at Boston University School of Medicine.
Submitted on: September 18, 2020