Class Notes
Name: Andrew` Crane
Class Year(s): 2007
Note: Andrew (AJ) Crane ’07 (CAST) is the owner of A. Crane Construction, LLC and the company recently celebrated the 30th year in business and also moved into a new facility. In recent years, A. Crane Construction has moved from purely residential construction to a full service private commercial contracting firm and has tripled in size in the last 5 years alone. AJ credits his Civil Engineering Technology degree and his diploma is proudly hanging in his office for all to see that a small home building firm can morph into a substantial force in the commercial market with a little bit of training and discipline. AJ credits RIT for bringing him the skills to take his small family-operated business to the next level, and extends a thank you to the CAST faculty.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Harvey Levenson
Class Year(s): 1967
Note: Harvey R. Levenson Ph.D. ’67 (GAP) is the editor of the Ben Franklin Honor Society "Book of Wisdom." The book is comprised of 47 success stories from some of the most accomplished leaders in the graphic communication industry spanning the latter half of the 20th century to the present.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Roy Peterson
Class Year(s): 2012
Note: Officer Roy Peterson ’12 (COLA) started a new position at the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Peterson left his previous position with the University of Pittsburgh Police Department in order to expand his career opportunities.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Jessica Liverman
Class Year(s): 2018
Note: Jessica Liverman ’18 (COLA) and Gautam Jagannathan MS ’14 (GCCIS) had two wedding ceremonies this past fall on August 25, 2019 in Chennai, India and on October 5, 2019 in Penn Yan, NY. The two met at RIT at Building M in the spring of 2012 and now live in Fairport, NY. Family, friends and many RIT alumni attended the wedding, including Lilia Pikulyak ’12 (CIAS), Karthik Vaidyanathan MS ’13 (GCCIS), Rahul Navinchand MS ’13 (GCCIS), Sree Anirudh Bhandaram MS ’15 (GCCIS), Robert Staunton ’84 (KGCOE) MS ’96 (KGCOE), Egzona Imeri ’14 (COLA), Michael Buonaccorso ’11 (KGCOE), Swati Agarwal MS ’15 (GCCIS), Shitij Kumar MS ’14 (KGCOE), Ph.D. ’19 (KGCOE) , Kinesh Satiya MS ’13 (GCCIS), Rujul Shah MS ’14 (KGCOE), Theresa Neidermeyer ’14 (CIAS), Srikant Ayengar MS ’15 (GCCIS), Shannon Bean ’10 (COS), and Nick Wyble ’19 (KGCOE).
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Erin Malone
Class Year(s): 1994
Note: Erin Malone MFA ’94 (CIAS) has been promoted to Chair of the Interaction Design BFA program at California College of the Arts (January 2020). She has been teaching as an Associate Professor at the College in the program since 2016 in addition to her consulting practice.
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Victor Santiago
Class Year(s): 2013
Note: Victor Santiago ’13 (CIAS) was one of thirty men honored in this year’s awardees of the Thirty Under 30, an award presented by his fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi. He was honored for his work in the LGBTQIA+ community and his dedication to developing the undergraduate men of the fraternity and Greek life.
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Leslie Figueroa
Class Year(s): 1991
Note: Leslie Figueroa ’91 (KGCOE) visited campus in September 2019 after being away for 28 years. She was a little disoriented until she found the tiger. Wow, how the campus has changed!
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Christine Holtz
Class Year(s): 2002
Note: Christine Holtz ’02 (CIAS) and Lauren S. Zadikow ’02 (CIAS) have photographic works on exhibit in "Counterpressures", the 83rd installment of Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum series presenting a thematic group exhibition that addresses the present urgency of global warming. The title, taken from a quotation in Pittsburgh environmentalist Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), identifies the show’s specific focus on the fraught relationship between human impact and environmental response. The exhibition opens at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh PA on February 20, 2020 and will be on view until July 12, 2020
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Nancy Weigle
Class Year(s): 1994
Note: Twenty-five years after graduation, Nancy Weigle ’94 (CIAS) and her friends still get together. Their Photo House friendship is as strong as ever!
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Nancy Weigle
Class Year(s): 1994
Note: Nancy Weigle ’94 (CIAS) and her husband celebrated their 20th anniversary in the fall of 2019. They also celebrated his 50th birthday by attending an RIT Women’s Hockey game at Penn State!
Submitted on: September 20, 2020