ALUMNI NEWS Class Notes
Mr. President
Alumnus named student body president of Harvard Law School
Nino Monea (BS14) has been elected
student body president of Harvard Law School. He and his running mate received 63% of the 1,176 votes cast in the election, a record turnout for the 1,800-student school. Monea, who will begin his third year at Harvard in the fall, was involved in student government throughout his Eastern career, serving as student body vice president his senior year, and also participated in Model United Nations and with the Moot Court and Mock Trial teams. “What I think we did differently is we
really tried hard to make sure our platform was realistic and based on things we actually were confident could be done,” says Monea. His administration hit the ground running, and is already “trying to create a student housing option for low-income folks for their visit aſter they’ve been admitted.”
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George H. Eason (BS89), a newly elected board member for Homeless Action Network of Detroit, recently won the Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness Community Champion Award.
Jason S. Thomas (BS06) has been designated a Master Teacher by the Ohio Department of Education.
Christopher R. Schaedig (BS11) is now an attorney at Collins Einhorn Farrel PC. He is part of the firm’s Asbestos and Toxic Tort practice group.
Sharon (Gibson) Heilmann, Ph.D. (BS88), is a retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel and professor and program director of the M.S. in Leadership Development at Wright State University. She is also currently the president of the Midwest Academy of Management.
Eric W. Fulcomer, Ph.D. (BS93) has been named president of Rockford University, Ill.
Jeffrey (Doc) M. Fletcher (BBA76) has published eight books about canoeing and kayaking. His most recent title, “Canoeing & Kayaking College Campuses in Michigan,” was released this year.
Joel D. Erby Sr. (BS00, MA05, MA08) is now principal of Visible Men Academy in Bradenton, Fla. He was also recently accepted into the University of Southern California’s Organizational Leadership and Change doctoral program.
Ruth A. Rashid Kaleniecki (MSW05) is now a program officer for the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Daniel J. McClory (BS81, MA82, HON10) has joined Bonwick Capital Partners LLC as Managing Director.
He has also been named Bonwick’s Head of Equity Capital Markets - West Coast, and Head of China.
Rose A. Di Nardo (BA14) recently attended the Milledgeville Film Festival where her film, “Aspects,” won for Best Editing and was nominated for Best Student Film. She has moved to Los Angeles, where she has been pursuing her acting career including acting in a James Franco feature film entitled, “The Mad Whale.”
Kevin D. Robertson (MS06), a former Eastern Echo writer, recently published his first novel, “A Love Like Blood.” The novel is a finalist for LGBT Debut Fiction for the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards. He penned this story under the name Victor Yates.
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EASTERN MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2016 | 37 He says his Eastern experience “absolutely
shaped me as a person, not just my ability to think, but to be with people comfortably, speak publicly, and manage an organization. Tat was absolutely crucial to my getting into Harvard. My leadership in groups really allowed me to make my application stand out.” Monea’s path, which has already led
from 10 years of home schooling to a public university to an elite private law school, is likely to remain unconventional. “Te school likes to talk about how people are going to be leaders in the country and we’re not preparing them to do the kind of public service work we hope our leaders are prepared for,” he says. “Consumer protection and civil rights are both important causes that really need people. Tere are a lot of consumer protection and civil rights cases
that aren’t going forward because there aren’t enough people going into that field. I feel it’s important and rewarding, and I could see myself being really happy in a career in those fields for many years.” He’ll be spending a year aſter graduation
clerking on the Michigan Supreme Court, “which will give me some time to figure it out,” Monea says.
–Jeff Mortimer
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