Reflections Magazine Issue #61 - Spring 2004 | Page 19
Class Notes
Battle Creek
SHU @ KCC & Kalamazoo
Benton Harbor Monroe
SHU @ LMC
Bobby Hopewell ’96 was elected to the
Kalamazoo City Commission in November 2003. He is manager of community
relations and the switchboard staff
at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo. He is active in the Kalamazoo
community and is past board president
of Pretty Lake Camp, which focuses on
inner city children.
Terry Doolen ’86 is the owner and
operator of Shaheen’s Motel, open year
round in Tupper Lake in the Adirondack
Mountains of northern New York. For
anyone driving the scenic route on Highway 3 between Watertown and Plattsburgh, or heading to the Big Tupper Ski
Area, Pat McDonald, OP ’69 (associate
professor and director of graduate studies at Siena’s Metro Detroit Program)
Donald Seitler ’99 of Portage is
reports that Shaheen’s Motel is “a very
employed by Exfil Corp.
fine place” offering continental breakfast,
Kit Danke ’01 married Chris Allen on pool, etc. Pat happened upon the motel
June 7, 2003. Kit is a retail field sales by accident last summer.
representative for Kellogg Co. and Chris
Lisa Kendzora Walters ’95 lives in
is an engineering manager at Eaton
Saint Joseph and is a demand manager
Corp. The Allens live in Battle Creek.
for Sears.
Bonnie Timbs Eyre ’03/MA is a clerk at
Maria Kras ’99 married Timothy Williams
Pfizer and lives in Battle Creek. She has
in August 2003 in St. Joseph. Maria is
one daughter.
an administrative assistant at the D.C.
Cook Nuclear Plant in Bridgeman where
Timothy is an equipment operator. They
Mark Your Calendar!
live in Stevensville.
For further information about
any of the events listed below,
contact the Alumni Office at
(517) 264-7143 or by email at:
[email protected].
May 1: Alumni Association Board
of Directors meeting.
May 1: Torch Night ceremony –
Reception hosted by the
Alumni Board.
May 2: Commencement –
(main campus).
May 15: Commencement –
SHU @ KCC
(Battle Creek center).
May 16: Commencement –
SHU @ LMC
(Benton Harbor center).
August 5: Take Me Out to the
Ballgame! Toledo Mud Hens at
Fifth Third Field. Alumni event
with honorary host Bruce Lee
’85, president, Fifth Third Bank.
Sept. 24–26: “Vintage Years!”
Alumni Weekend ’04 celebrating
Siena’s 85th anniversary. For
more information, see inside
front and back covers.
Kimberly Ashley ’03 of Coloma is a
radiologic technologist at Borgess Lee
Memorial Hospital in Dowagiac.
Douglas Kraemer ’03 of Coloma works
at Whirlpool in Benton Harbor and is a
reserve firefighter in Benton Township.
He married Beth Rogers last June.
Alumni, faculty, current students and
friends of SHU @ LMC gathered at
Tosi’s Restaurant in Stevensville in early
December for the sixth annual Alumni
Holiday Gathering. About 60 people
attended the after-work event, enjoying
prizes, beverages and Tosi’s famous
hors d’oeuvres, along with quick updates
from several Siena administrators. This
annual social activity has become a notto-be-missed event—so if you missed it
this year, plan to make it in 2004!
Jackson
SHU @ JCC
Emily Robb Stebing ’01 is employed
with Bond and Company and writes: “Jeff
and I were married in September 2001
and our son Ethan was born in August
2002. Our second child, son Logan, was
born in November 2003.” The family lives
in Jackson.
SHU@MCCC
From the Sites
Southfield
Metro Detroit Program
Ignazio Cuccia ’96 is an insurance
agent with Nationwide Insurance. He
recently moved his offices into Elite
Commons, a two-building commercial/
office complex in Monroe that he developed with a partner. Before starting his
insurance agency, he operated Holiday
Pizza for about 11 years.
Edgar Norment ’80 of Lozano, Texas, is
retired from the Department of Defense
and writes: “I worked in the engineering
field from 1958-1990, first with Military
School Training, followed by a two-year
RETS technical school certificate, and
then with the Siena Heights College
diploma. I am grateful for the opportunity
Siena Heights provided and making it
C. Dean Bodine ’96, a licensed builder
possible for me to earn the BAS degree
with years of residential and commercial
in electrical engineering. Thank you.”
remodeling and interior finishing experience, has opened Dean Construction Joyce Brown ‘85 lives in Southfield and
Co. in Monroe.
is executive director for Metro Healthcare Services, Inc.
Jennifer Pauli ’99 married Sean
Langenderfer on May 17, 2003. Jennifer Diane Geiger-Brandon ’94 was remarworks for Standard Federal Bank in ried in October 2003. She and her
Temperance. The Langenderfers are husband, Wilbur Brandon, live in Burnsliving in Erie.
ville, MN. Diane works in South St. Paul
as a dispatcher for Securion. She has
Amanda Finley ’01 is a marketing
two children, Whitney, 17, and Wyatt,
administrator for Monroe Bank and Trust.
7, Geiger.
She lives in Monroe.
Marilynn Mazur ’95 recently moved to
Justin Green ’03 of Erie is employed by
Birch Run.
ABN AMRO in Ann Arbor.
Angela Stanley Ivory ’98 reports from
Jill McCormick, a student in Siena’s
Plymouth that she has a new baby.
MCCC Center, is this year’s Miss Monroe
Daughter Mia Loring Ivory was born in
County. An education major at Siena,
October 2003.
she kicked off her “Ready to Read: Conquering Illiteracy” platform with appear- Daniel Niebrzydowski ’99 is a project
ances at libraries and schools around engineer for Blackhawk Automotive
the county to read to children. She will Plastics. He lives in Canton and has two
represent Monroe County in the Miss daughters.
Michigan Pageant in June.
Jean Kearney ’00 of Canton is a department supervisor for Wayne County Airport Authority. She writes: “I now have
We Want To
two grandsons and I’m enjoying them
Hear From You!
tremendously!”
Class Notes are compiled from letters,
cards and emails from alumni, as well
as news clippings from our news service.
We want to hear from you—however,
please note that we do not announce
engagements or pregnancies, but will
gladly report marriages and births after
they have occurred.
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