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st. lawrence university magazine | fall 2014
while working at Legg Mason
in Baltimore.
As a dual citizen of both the U.S.
and Sweden,Leslie Stratton had
the privilege to play on the Swed-
ish National Softball Team for the
summer. Not only does Leslie plan
to return to SLU as a part-time
interviewer for the Admissions
Office and a volunteer assistant
coach for the softball team; she
will be enrolling at SLU in the fall
of 2015 for her master’s as well.
Recently finishing the New York
City Teaching Fellows Summer
Training Program, Tiara Davis
is teaching 9th grade history at
Clara Barton High School. In
addition, Tiara plans to attend
graduate school and coach var-
sity and junior varsity cheerlead-
ing with fellow Laurentian Feiona
Maxwell '13.
Oren Shafir has started a job at
Northwestern Mutual as a finan-
cial representative. He specializes
in financial security and planning
anything from insurance planning,
to retirement savings/invest-
ments, to children's education,
to opening up a restaurant in the
most tax-efficient manner.
Iyi Okunlola has accepted the
Great Oaks Charter School Tutor
Corps Urban Fellowship Program.
She is tutoring at Great Oaks
Charter School in Newark, N.J.,
for this school year, while also
assisting teachers, performing
administrative duties, and helping
students in small cohorts where
they can receive very focused
attention. Afterward, she plans
to enroll in a graduate program
where she can combine her Peace
Corps service with a graduate-
level education through a Master's
International program.
Marissa Traver has moved to
Rochester, N.Y., and is working in
the Performance and Reconcil-
ing Department as an operations
associate for Manning & Napier
Advisors, LLC in Fairport.
Employed by Citizen Schools,
Regina Rogers plans to be a
resource room and enrichment
teacher at Orchard Garden Middle
School in Roxbury, Mass.
Alexander Hoimes trained in
New York for technology
Hey 2013! It’s officially been
almost a year and a half since we
graduated. Can you believe it?
Let's keep the good news rolling!
If you've got any updates that for
next edition of the St. Lawrence
magazine (new jobs, relocations,
engagements, marriages, etc.),
send me a brief update of what's
new with you!
2014
Stephanie Eldon
266 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-380-4641
Next Reunion: 5th, 2019
Greetings to the newest
St. Lawrence graduating class!
There’s been lots of moving and
settling in:
Kelsey Leder moved to Burl-
ington, Vt., and is working as a
clinician at the Howard Center,
a mental illness hospital, to gain
direct patient care experience for
physician assistant school.
Nik Busharis is working in sales
at TechTarget in Newton, Mass.
He says, “Everything is going re-
ally well so far and I am enjoying
my time here, although I do miss
St. Lawrence a lot!”
Hannah Kinsey has been
accepted into the Peace Corps!
She will be departing for Vanuatu
in January.
She moved to Bethesda, Md.,
without a job. Now Elena Ruiz
is a bartender by night and
an educational counseling as-
sociate for PrepMatters by day,
working in educational planning
by helping high school students
strategize test prep and higher
education options.
Marieme Diallo works at the
Harvard School of Public Health
as a lab technician, researching
mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Down the road, Obinna “Obi”
Nwaigwe is analyst at Bain Capi-
tal in Boston.
Alex Almy was accepted into
Johns Hopkins’s MBA program.
He will be doing that part-time
Nancy Farrand Bailey '86 and
Hanne Bailey '13. She’s the Shipley
Center program coordinator and
two-sport coach at the Dana Hall
School in Wellesley, Mass.
Corey Parent is running for
Vermont state representative for
the St. Albans area. Motivated
by his desire to bring balance to
the Vermont legislature, and to
work toward finding a solution to
a growing drug epidemic in his
hometown of St. Albans, Corey
will campaign until elections are
held on November 4.
Matthew Saulter wrote, “I have
recently started a new career as
the content curator for Wayfair
in downtown Boston, Mass. I am
loving living right by Fenway Park
with my beautiful roommate, Mia
O'Donnell '13!”
Matt and Mia aren’t far from me; I
am the manager of development
and student recruitment at Excel
Academy Charter Schools in
East Boston.
Andre Weeks wrote to SLU
that he has created “a docu-
mentary on Alzheimer's disease
called ‘Alzheimer's: The Disease
We Shouldn't Forget.’" It later
became fully supported by the
Western New York Chapter of
the Alzheimer's Association and
was publicized on their Facebook
page and also the June edition
of their e-newsletter. It can be
viewed at
com/watch?v=yP_5e3D5vaE . He
said some of his work during last
summer's internship was pub-
lished in the American Journal of
Neuroradiology. “I was working
on statistical analysis of the Iron
and Volume in the Deep Gray
Matter: Association with Cognitive
Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis
project,” he reported. “I started
working as a research associate
at Dent Neurologic Institute in
Buffalo, N.Y., and ran my first half-
marathon in 1:49:59.”
2013
Brittany Moten
536 East 79th Street, Apt #5E
New York, NY 10075
858-444-7298
Next Reunion: 5th , 2017
(Cluster with '11, '12)
Andrew Leiser and Haley
Feickert were married on
June 28 in Peterson-Kermani
Performance Hall on campus,
and welcomed many alumni for
the ceremony. There’s a picture
on the Weddings pages. It was
certainly great to see so many
familiar faces! Among them
were Emily Blanchard and
her fiancée Tom Phalon, who
got engaged in June. They’ll be
moving from Boston to Syracuse
in the fall.
Amanda Mooney graduated
from Albany Law School in May
and spent the summer preparing
for the Bar exam. She had plans
to move to Switzerland with boy-
friend Jeremy Wick ’14 in August.
And finally, there is new future
Saint in the mix! Samantha
Deon Morehouse and Corey
welcomed a baby girl, Rory Eliza-
beth, on May 16. Weighing more
than eight pounds, she joins big
brother Reed in the family.
Please continue to send updates
my way, via email or direct mes-
sage on Twitter @spadaccinib or
Facebook. Hope to see many of
you around Canton for Home-
coming in the fall!
2012
Lauren Liebhaber
510 East Broadway
Boston, MA 02127
315-527-8452 (cell)
Next Reunion: 5th, 2017
(Cluster with '11, '13)
Margie Bailey graduated from
Regis College in Weston, Mass.,
in May with her master’s in health
administration. While earning her
degree, Margie was the assistant
coach for both the women’s soc-
cer and lacrosse teams. She grad-
uated in the company of Cam
Lownie, Meredith Wilkes,
I got a chance to catch up
with Rachel Benjamin at the
wedding. She was planning a
September wedding in Vermont
to Neil Solis.
Charlie Haydock is in his final
year of law school at Northeast-
ern. He was a summer associate
at Ropes & Gray this year.
Samantha Lovell is engaged to
Andrew Marsallo ’08, and plan-
ning a July 2015 wedding. The
couple lives in Charlestown, Mass.
Other engagements to report are
Sam Levitan and Rob Wort-
mann ’06, and Lindsay Abramo
and Max Davis ’08.
I hope to receive some additional
news from more of you in the
coming months – email me with
any Class of 2009 news!
2010
Joshua Johnson
1110 8th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
716-499-3016 (cell)
joshua.david.johnson16@
gmail.com
Next Reunion: 5th, 2017
(Cluster with '08, '09)
Rebecca Klar has received a
grant from Autism Speaks to
fund her pre-doctoral studies; for
details, go to .
org/science/science-news/
autism-speaks-announces-
2014-weatherstone-predoctoral-
fellowships. Becca was a neuro-
science major and completed her
honors thesis working with Karin
Heckman of biology, studying
the use of antioxidants to treat
mouse models of multiple sclero-
sis. She is now a Ph.D. student at
Vanderbilt University.
2011
Beth Spadaccini
17 Stevens Street, Apt. B1
Canton, NY 13617
315-323-0650
Next Reunion: 5th, 2017
(Cluster with '12, '13)
A few new congratulations to
pass on since the last time I
updated you:
planning ahead and the wedding
next June, but are really looking
forward to life after that.
Don’t wait for me to email you for
news! Pass it along any time.
2008
Justin Lynch
217 Woodlawn Terrace
Syracuse, NY 13203
585-506-5592
Next Reunion: 10 th, 2018
(Cluster with '09, '10)
2009
Cassie Coughlin
4 Prince St. Apt 5
Boston MA 02113
802-779-3623
com
Next Reunion: 10 th, 2018
(Cluster with '08, '10)
Reunion was a great event, and
it was a beautiful weekend in
Canton. It was great to recon-
nect with old friends and also
meet some new ones! Thanks to
everyone who made the trip, and
to the staff/volunteers who made
it possible!
Lauren Sischo is teaching and
coaching at St. Mark’s School in
Southborough, Mass. She is the
associate director of athletics and
also teaches chemistry, as well as
coaching varsity basketball and
varsity soccer.
I saw Dan Tukey at Reunion.
He has been working for IBM in
Burlington, Vt. I also saw Beth
Osman , who is working in Wash-
ington, D.C., in human resources.
Stephanie Resavage was mar-
ried in Geneseo, N.Y., on June 14
to Jimmy Balben ’07. I attended
the wedding, as did several other
classmates, including Annie
Massie, Zoe Bludevich and
Cameron Bruns as well as
fellow Laurentians Marygrace
Balben ’04 and Kevin Balben ’10,
the groom’s siblings.
of New Hampshire. They are plan-
ning a summer 2015 wedding in
central New York.
Avery Scoville married Haver-
ford College graduate Sarah
Graves on June 14 at their family
house in Grafton, Vt. Laurentians
from the Class of 1990 through
2014 attended the event, and his
best man was Chris Farden.
Two weeks later, Tim LeRoy mar-
ried Kristen Leatherbee at Groton
School in Groton, Mass. Tim’s
hockey teammates, classmates
and many others ranging from the
Class of 2000 through 2008 made
the journey. Tim’s brother, Josh
LeRoy '01, was best man.
Caroline Foster McKibben
and Sean were married at the
Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes,
Vt., back on June 29, 2013. In
attendance were many alumni,
including Lindsay Arthurs,
Caitlyn Cimikoski, Jeff Haislet
’08, Lizzie Conolly, Mary
Rogers Manion, Tom Manion
’06, Sam Morrow ’06, Melissa
Epstein, George Barbieri,
Victoria McLaughlin Morrow
and Esther Deming.
Last, I have some news of my
own! Joe Keniston ’05, M’07
proposed to me just outside
Richardson Hall in June. We’re
both excited about the months of
Michael Kaplan got in touch
and let me know that he and
Sarah had celebrated their five-
year wedding anniversary. (As if
I didn’t feel old enough thinking
about turning 30 next year!). They
both still live and work in Boston.
Sarah is an assistant manager in
the travel operations department
for Go Ahead Tours and he’s a fi-
nancial advisor at Morgan Stanley.
They are gearing up to welcome
their first child in December.
Danni Weaver wrote to let me
know that Tracy Dana recently
became a member of the Alumni
Executive Council and they both
enjoyed a great weekend at
Canaras. “If you're interested in
being nominated for the council
or in getting involved with the
University now that you are a few
years out, we can get in touch
with you about opportunities!”
Danni said.
Kat Bagley Maher and Colin
welcomed Ronan Patrick Maher
on April 17, 2014. She wrote that
time is already flying by!
A St. Lawrence wedding is on the
horizon for Meghan Howard,
who got engaged over Memorial
Day Weekend to Adam Benson
'08. He popped the question
while they were hiking up Mt.
Madison in the White Mountains
The third annual Gold Gala: An Evening for St. Jude was held on February 22, 2014,
at the Bowery Hotel in New York City. The event was founded by Christina Strong
’09and Samantha Levitan ’09. More than 500 guests attended the sold-out event,
which celebrated the generosity of New York's young professional community and,
most important, the mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Strong says “The
evening was a remarkable success, raising $108,000”; hospital personnel reported in
August that the gala is the leading young professionals event nationwide benefiting St.
Jude’s. The event organizing committee consists of St. Lawrence alumnae (from left)
Alexandra Burchfield '12, Tracy Dana '07, Alanna Sutherland '10,Strong and Levitan,
Natalie Sawyer '10, Julie Wooters '10, Sydney Millyard '11, Martha Civitillo '11and
Tersey Regan '11.