alumni Class Notes
EMU Alumni Association Board of Directors
President: Gregory A. Sheldon (BBA96)
President-elect: Katrina VanderWoude (MA91, EDD08)
Parliamentarian: Don Reichert (BS09)
Secretary: Ryan Buck (BS02)
Treasurer: Thomas Wells (BBA84)
Past president: Gerald Gemignani (BS94)
Directors: Trudy Adler (BS01) Patricia Andrewes (BA66) Patrick J. Barry, Jr. (BS71, MA73) Mary E. Batcheller (BS56) Robin Baun (BS75) James J. Beasley, Jr. (BBA77) Amanda Bennett (BS05) Tom Borg (BS79, MA09) Len Capelli (BBA68, MBA73) Cynthia Flaugher (BBA84) George Harrison (BS67, MA72) Robert E. Murkowski (BS06) Jerome Rush (BS72) Caroline Sanders (BS97, MLS02) A’ndrea Shipp (MA05) Mauricio Silva (MS03) Marques Thomey (BS00) David Wanko (BS95)
Emeritus Directors: William Malcolm (BS76) Vicki Reaume (BS91, MA96) W. Fred Roberts (BA56, MA68) H.F. (Bud) Schimmelpfenneg (BS68)
Kathleen McCann (BBA87) has been named president of United Road Services Inc. of Romulus.
AnnMarie Sanders (BS87) has been named commercial market manager of Monarch Community Bank at the Hillsdale Branch.
Robert Shimmin (BFA89) had his ambrotype, tintype and albumen photography print collection exhibited at the Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Gallery at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek.
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Jennifer Lee (MA90, SPA97) is the recipient of the 2010 Regional Honors award from the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association.
Patricia Majher (MS90) has had her fi rst book, “Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S.
Lighthouse Service,” published by the University of Michigan.
Thomas O’Sullivan (BBA90), a certifi ed public accountant, has been promoted to senior manager for the Ann Arbor offi ce of Yeo & Yeo P.C.
Walter Bolt (BS91, MS95) serves as vice president of Mannik & Smith Group, Inc., for the Michigan geoenvironmental operations.
David Gardzella (BS91) was promoted to the rank of sergeant within the Grosse Pointe Woods Police Department.
Nancy Overly-Roberts (MA91) and her husband have been appointed as national commanders for the Salvation Army in the USA.
David Behen (BS92, MPA96) has joined the Michigan Department of Technology as chief information offi cer for the State of Michigan.
Lisa Bender (BBA92) is the co- owner of My Stronger Self women’s fi tness center in Livingston County, which off ers a free program known as the Fit for Life Challenge to 10 women each year.
Scott Tait (BS92), a U.S. Navy Commander, is taking command of the USS Mustin, one of fewer than 100 Aegis destroyer battleships in the world.
Kamran Qadeer (MBA92) has been promoted to associate at Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber at the Farmington Hills location.
Andie Sproule (BS92) is a new program director for the childcare program of South Sound YMCA, based in Olympia, Wash.
Jill Miller (BBA93) has been appointed to the Government Relations Committee of the Electronic Transactions Association, based in Washington, D.C., and has
no toilets, no hand-washing stations, no soap and no toilet paper. Instead, the children had to use a hole dug in the ground and lacked any means of washing their hands. The group brought in the
village’s fi rst-ever fl ush toilets and two sinks, supplied by a water tank on top of the building. The water is drawn from a waterline near the local street, runs into the tank and through a cistern, is used for the toilets and sinks, and fl ows back out into a large rock-fi lled hole. According to the Haiti Water
Project, which operates through Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, one cistern or well provides clean, fresh water for about 1,000 people. DeNapoli says the only option
Mission Accomplished T
wenty-fi ve percent of the world’s population has no access to clean water for bathing, farming or even drinking. This number includes
about four million citizens of Haiti—almost half the country’s inhabitants. But one village of Haitians, thanks in part to Paul DeNapoli (BS77),
now enjoys all the benefi ts of clean, safe water. He and six other missionaries from churches around Michigan recently took a trip to Gommier, Haiti, to construct a bathroom for the local school, which accommodates 200 children. When the team arrived, the school’s crude bathroom facility looked like a concrete outhouse with three stalls. This “outhouse,” however, had
for Gommier’s citizens before the bathroom was to purchase water from privately owned clean water committee stations and carry it for miles back to the village. “There is only so much you can
do. And because of the language barriers, you have to be careful about doing it,” says DeNapoli, who stayed for nine days. “The hardest thing about the mission was that we couldn’t do more for those kids.” —Leah Shutes
30 Eastern | SUMMER 2011
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