| ’00 | Louis
Alloro sends this update: “I have accepted a partnership
in my family’s business, a 25-year-old family basement waterproofing
company that my parents built. I’m expanding a New Jersey-, New
York- and Pennsylvania-based business into Connecticut and Rhode Island.
I’m also ‘milleniumizing’ systems and processes that
haven’t been tampered with since the mid-80s! Working on non-fiction
writing projects and looking into graduate schools as well.”
Erin Frawley, who has been teaching Spanish in the
Parkland School District for four years, writes that she is engaged
to Noel Mahmood, a science teacher. The couple is planning a spring
wedding. Erin lives in Allentown.
Megan Reaser recently graduated from Villanova Law
School. She is awaiting Pennsylvania bar exam results and looking for
a job with a small firm or private practice.
Dana L. Yannuzzi graduated from Syracuse University
College of Law in May 2003. In her final year of law school, she worked
as a student attorney in the Low Income Taxpayer’s Clinic, sponsored
by the Internal Revenue Service. She has been admitted to practice law
in the state of New Jersey, and is awaiting admission to the state of
New York after passing both bar examinations in July 2003. Currently
she is working as Independent Corporate Counsel for VTech in Parsippany,
N.J.

Alumni in attendance at the wedding of Kristin (George) ’01
and Steven Faella ’98
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| ’01 | Rebecca
Berg and Ralph C. Grimaldi, III of New Orleans, La., are planning
a June 2004 wedding. Many ’01 grads and members of Rebecca’s
sorority will attend!
Frank Elchert is pursuing an M.B.A. in international
business at Lehigh University.
Many alumni were in attendance at the wedding of Kristin (George)
and Steve Faella ’98, June 20, 2003, in Willow
Grove, Pa. Honor attendants included Kerry Lambert, Kelly Milo,
Cheryl Taft, Brad Collins ’98 and James Tulli
’98. Steve and Kristin live in King of Prussia, Pa. Steve
is a newsroom supervisor for BusinessWire in Bala Cynwyd, and Kristin
is a senior auditor with Deloitte & Touche in Philadelphia.
After recently completing her master’s degree in education, Cheryl
Galaga is now teaching eighth-grade English at Merrick Avenue
Middle School on Long Island. She is also the theater and dance director
for the school.
Jonathan Levin completed his master’s degree
in urban childhood education at Adelphi University in May of 2003. After
working for two years as a first-grade teacher in the Bronx, he teaches
first grade in West Nyack, N.Y.
After spending a year in Madrid, Spain, researching women’s history,
Katie McCleary has returned to the Lehigh Valley and
is now the study abroad advisor at Lehigh University.
Lauren Kefalonitis is the social studies department
head and serves on the board of directors at the Wilmington Academy
of Arts and Sciences in Wilmington, N.C. She plans to begin graduate
school at UNC in the spring.
Annie McCormick is a freelance photojournalist working
primarily for The New York Times, Associated Press and The Star Ledger.
Since graduation, she has covered the attacks of anthrax, congressional
and gubernatorial campaigns, the Rabbi Neulander trial, NFL, NHL and
the Miss America pageant. She lives in Philadelphia.
Jennifer Morgan Smith writes that she and her fiancé,
Bob Levy, are planning an August 14, 2004, wedding. Bob is an attorney
for the Department of Homeland Security and Jennifer is a student at
the University of Buffalo School of Law. They met while working in the
office of judicial affairs at the University at Buffalo, where Jennifer
is a university advisor in charge of prosecuting violations of University
rules and regulations.
Joy Strauss has been working as a move-in coordinator
for Sunrise Assisted Living for a little over a year. It was at work
that she met her fiancé, Dave Oborne, who works for Verizon.
Joy and Dave are planning an August 2004 wedding.
At press time, Laura E. (Gathman) Taylor and her husband,
Aaron, were planning to move from Honolulu to Boston, where Aaron will
teach at MIT and Laura will pursue a master’s degree in education
at the University of Massachusetts. “We will certainly miss the
beautiful weather but are looking forward to being back on the east
coast,” says Laura.
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