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)


Dawn Balestrieri-Glossa (BS94) is the recipient of the Inspiring Leader Award from the Association Forum of Chicagoland in recognition of her admirable efforts as the director of marketing and communications for the American Society of Anesthesiologists.


Emmanuel Glover (BBA94) has been named senior vice president and director of community development for Fifth Third Bank of Northeastern Ohio.


Eugene Market (BS94) has been appointed as the CEO of East Hartford Community HealthCare of East Hartford, Conn.


Cinnamon Rice (BS94) has joined Zausmer, Kaufman, August, Caldwell & Taylor, P.C., of Farmington Hills as an associate.


James Carnes (BS95) has joined the Toledo office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, as a litigation practice group partner.


Thomas Denney (BS95) was inducted into the Westerville North High School, of Westerville, Ohio, Alumni Hall of Fame.


Sean Dykhouse (BS95) is part of a Wall Street global IT platform solutions provider, eBusinessware, Inc.,


as director of sales.


Richard Gray (BA95) is the co-author of “The 21st


Century


Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film” published through McFarland Publishing.


Michael Armour (BS96) is the offensive coordinator for the University of Northern Colorado football team.


Karmiko Burton (BS96) has been given a Woman of the Year Award by The National Association of Professional Women for her work in the training and development field.


Derek Delacourt (BS96) holds the administrative position of community and economic development director for Ferndale.


David Korff (MA96) was the 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award winner at St. Clair County Community College of Port Huron.


Jeff LaFerney (MA96) has self- published his second book, “Skeleton Key”.


Michael Tucker (BS96, MA11) is the new assistant principal of Brandon High School in the Brandon School District of Brandon Township.


Kimber Smail (BBA97) is now a partner with Southfield West office of Plante & Moran, PLLC.


Sylvia Bull (BS98) has graduated from Texas A&M University of San Antonio with a masters of science in reading.


Melanie Caughey (BBA98) is now a secretary at the University of Michigan College of Engineering in Ann Arbor.


Chad Double (BS98) was chosen as ‘Policeman of the Year’ by the Farmington Hills Optimist Club.


Rosemary Johnson (BS98, MA02) was selected to participate in an American Industrial Revolution workshop at the Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village in Dearborn.


Adnan Mirza (BS98) is a program manager at the Columbus Housing Partnership’s Homeowner Advisory Center of Columbus, Ohio.


Nicole Van Bloem (BS98) has been promoted to park supervisor of Maybury State Park in Northville by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.


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Richard Duffany (BS99) is the new chief of the Hamburg Township police department.


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Lauren Caris (MBA00) has been promoted to marketing director at Humantech, Inc., a workplace


ergonomics consulting firm in Ann Arbor.


Jennifer Dunneback (BBA00) has graduated with honors from DePaul University of Chicago, Ill., and now manages a commercial banking credit team at JPMorgan there.


Joel Erby (BS00, MA05, MA08) has accepted the position of assistant director for Neuse Charter School K-12 in Smithfield, N.C.


Karen Kuhn (MS00) has been appointed as the director of the Albion District Library.


Karen Sterzik (BBA00, MS10) is an accounting, business, and internet and design teacher at Milan High School in the Milan Area School District.


Margaret Acker (MSN01) is the administrator of Southwest Surgical Center in Grand Rapids.


Catherine Broadbent (MS01) has received SPHR certification and was promoted to senior human resource generalist at Michigan First Credit Union.


Monica Jones (BS01) has had her fifth book “Sweet Soliloquy” published by The Literary Loft.


Brad Kuntz (BA01) was named as one of only two 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award winners nationwide by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.


ll Class Notes submissions should include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, degree(s) and year of graduation.


Mail to: Eastern Michigan University Office for Alumni Relations, 1349 S.


Huron St., Suite 2, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, or use our online submission form at emich.edu/alumni.


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