ALUMNI RESOURCES
Getting through career transitions
A
t a time when the need to re-evaluate, alter or develop careers is greater than
ever, your alma mater welcomes you to explore a broad array of alumni career resources. Whether it’s coping after a reduction in an employer’s workforce, switching careers, finding employment after graduation, or moving to a new city, many find that keeping a positive attitude, utilizing creative approaches, and tapping into Loyola’s Alumni Career Resources have helped in the process. Resource highlights:
• Job postings: Search or post (for free) job openings within Loyola’s online career databases.
• Loyola alumni group on
LinkedIn.com: Are you LinkedIn? Connect with 6,200+ members (with new members added daily) through this dynamic online professional networking tool.
• Lunch, network, and learn! Join fellow alums during informative brownbag lunch sessions, which focus on career transition and professional development-related topics. Post networking time is also incorporated.
• Loyola’s Alumni Sharing Knowledge network: Connect with fellow alums in the LUC-ASK network for advice during your career transition. LUC-ASK Advisors can be valuable resources during these types of transitions. We also continue to seek “Alumni Advisors” to share their knowledge by actively answering questions, mentoring, and/or offering shadowing opportunities to students and alumni.
• Loyola partnerships with alumni discounts: Loyola has partnered with select organizations to offer special discounts on events/resources to assist during career transitions.
For details on all your Alumni Career Resources, click the links under “Career Resources” at
LUC.edu/alumni/career.
Richard F. Pellegrino (BA ‘75, MA ‘86), a trial lawyer in Chicago for more than 30 years, is of counsel at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC.
Raymond D. Kim (BBA ‘76) was elected president of the Chicago Korean-American Chamber of Commerce for the 2010–2011 term.
John J. Callaghan (MD ’78) has been elected president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) by the Academy Board of Directors.
Kentucky. She has ministered in Kentucky, Nebraska, and New Mexico, and has served as the librarian at the Motherhouse in Maple Mount since 2006.
Julie Piepenkotter (BA ‘84) has been named senior vice president of research for FX Networks. She will oversee all facets of day-to-day audience research for FX and Fox Movie Channel, including audience analysis, program testing, brand and marketing research, and consumer behavior studies.
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Joseph S. Paprocki (BA ‘81, MPS ‘85) is the national consultant for faith formation for Loyola Press, a Jesuit ministry in Chicago. He has published five books with Loyola Press, including the best-selling The Catechist’s Toolbox, A Well-Built Faith, and The Bible Blueprint. Paprocki is working on his next book, The Practicing Catholic: Moving from a Learned Faith to a Lived Faith, due out in 2011. Over the past five years, he has given faith formation presentations for over 50 dioceses in the United States and Canada.
Orest Dachniwsky (BBA ‘82, MBA ‘99) has been promoted to associate general counsel of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company in Fort Worth, Texas.
Sister Mary Angela Matthews (MPS ‘83) is celebrating her 60th year of religious life. She is an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph in Maple Mount,
Lynn E. Rzonca (BS ‘84), managing partner of Ballard Spahr’s Philadelphia office, has been named the recipient of the Lynnette Norton Award in recognition of her litigation skills and her mentoring and encouragement of female lawyers. She is a partner in Ballard Spahr’s litigation and intellectual property departments and one of only a handful of women to serve as managing partner at an AmLaw 100 firm.
Robert A. Vitas (BA ‘84, PhD ‘89) is executive director of the American Academy of Periodontology Foundation in Chicago. The foundation is the nation’s largest research and education foundation devoted to periodontology and periodontal disease.
Thomas M. Purcell (BA ’85) has been promoted to executive producer of The Colbert Report. Previously, he was co-executive producer.
Janice Rashid (BS ‘85, MED ‘03, EdD ‘08) is the assistant superintendent for instructional services at Des Plaines District 62.
Joseph Maliekel (BBA ‘86) is chief accounting officer for Columbus McKinnon Corporation, a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of material handling products. The company is based in Amherst, New York.
Fr. Martin T. Connell, S.J., (BA ‘87) and Christiane Connors have edited Whatsoever You Do: Helping Students Think Deeply About Service Experiences and address foundational and practical challenges of Christian service programs through essays by practitioners who have demonstrated skill in the field. Fr. Connell serves as the headmaster of St. Peter Claver High School and Our Lady Queen of Peace Educational Center in Dodoma, Tanzania, and as province assistant for education in the Eastern Africa Province of the Jesuits.
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Amy A. Plavak (BA ‘92, JFRC ‘90) won a national award for her work as an Earth Team volunteer for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The award was presented in Washington DC in April.
Luke Szymanski (BA ‘94) is senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Centene Corporation’s pharmacy benefit management division, US Script.
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