CLASS NOTES AND NEWS


Melissa (Wilcox) Mancilla spoke at Michelle Obama’s “Partnership for a Healthier America” summit meeting in Washington, D.C., in March. Emerson School in Phoenix, Ariz., where Mancilla is a physi- cal education teacher, was spotlighted for their participa- tion in the My Healthy World program, which is a digital education program geared toward health and wellness for education elementary and middle school aged children.


1997


Susan Robbins (G’00) was selected as Maine’s 2013 Athletic Administrator of the Year at the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association convention. Robbins is the athletic director at Yarmouth High School and Frank Harrison Middle School, in Yarmouth, Maine.


1998


Johnny D. Jones (G) has been named the president of Little Priest Tribal College in


Winnebago, Neb. Jones was appointed on May 31, 2013, and began his term on June 20, 2013.


1999


Mike Gaydos (G’01) is the assis- tant principal at Newington (Conn.) High School. He’s in good company with some other Springfield College alumni who work at the school—Tom Righi ’98, John Concannon ’76, and Megan Olson ’10.


Lisa Eatough (G) is the founder of College Beyond Cancer, an online fund-raising platform for individuals who have survived cancer as a child or young adult. The website allows students to proactively raise funds for their college expenses as a complement to traditional higher education financing options.


1999 From left: Mike Gaydos, Tom Righi, John Concannon, Megan Olson


Aaron Polansky (G) was named the Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association Assistant Principal of the Year for Massachusetts.


2000


Joshua T. Acker (G) was appointed the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in Delaware. NAMI is the largest grassroots organization serving individuals living with mental illness.


Eatough started the organiza- tion after her own son was diagnosed with pediatric cancer. With an understanding of the financial implications of pediatric cancer and a lifelong commitment to the value of education, she was motivated to take action to help other young people who had faced cancer. She felt the best way to do this was to actively partici- pate in the empowerment of young survivors by providing them with a resource that could help them to achieve their educational goals. College Beyond Cancer was the result.


To learn more about the organization, visit collegebeyondcancer.org.


2002


Dan Nichol joined the football staff at Western Michigan University as the new strength and conditioning coach.


Greg Goral (G) has accepted the head volleyball coach posi- tion at Campbell University.


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Rhys Gardiner and her family celebrated the formal adoption of her 21-year-old daughter, Jessica, in 2011, and her 18- year-old son, Dhameer, in 2013. Rhys and Jessica spoke at the Senate Caucus on Foster Care in Washington, D.C., in June 2012. Dhameer joined them in co- representing at the National Resource Center for Youth Services’ Convening on Youth in Transition in July 2012, in New Orleans, La.


2003


Jack Larson Segerdahl is the tournament director for the Valero Texas Open, a PGA tour event.


Matthew Breen (G) recently started his new position teach- ing physical education at MIT in August 2012. His wife Liza Nascembeni G’05, began work- ing as the director of MBA community standards adminis- tration at Harvard Business School in December 2012. They are both now living in Watertown, Mass.


Tim Mayo (G’05) created his own company, Dream Bats, that specializes in making high quality bats customized to the needs to the clients.


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