Alumni News—Class Notes
Leslie Love was
elected to the
Michigan House
of Representatives in November 2014. She
represents the
10th District,
which serves a portion of northwest
Detroit and Redford Township. Previously, she was an adjunct professor
for Wayne County Community College and Marygrove College, as
well as a community activist. She
also is a former SHU Alumni Association board member.
2002
1996
2006
Terri Hamad
MA was named
the corporate director of housing
of The Cedars of
Dexter and Rivertown Assisted
Living in January
2015. She has more than 20 years
of experience in working with senior
programming, strategic planning
and long-term care options. She
previously served as the director
of Monroe County Commission on
Aging before becoming the Michigan director/ patient advocate for
Friends of the Family Home Health
Care, LLC in Monroe.
Michael Lueck
was named a
new partner in
the KPMG Detroit
office. Lueck
joined KPMG
from a senior
attorney position
at the IRS chief counsel’s office,
where he had national roles for
income tax accounting for inventories. Upon joining KPMG, he led
the Tax Controversy Services practice
in the Mid-America business unit
and then transferred to Washington
to lead the firm’s inventory practice.
1999
Lloyd Eddy had his artwork featured at the Lake Superior St. University Arts Center gallery last winter.
Eddy (below) was hired full-time by
LSSU as an assistant professor of
arts and humanities in fall 2014.
The practicing artist has been exhibiting nationally and teaching college
art courses for almost 12 years.
Amanda Gildea
Kakoczki was
recently promoted to accounting
manager for the
CSM Group, a
construction management company. She is responsible for project
cost accounting, payroll and highlevel financial analysis. She will help
CSM’s CFO with overhead and margin measurement, budgeting and
profitability models and manage the
firm’s accounting coordinators.
Sarah Mellon
Kowalski was
named as the
veteran resource
representative for
the Veterans Resource Center at
Michigan State
University in February 2015. According to the university, Mellon will
assist service members, veterans,
their spouses and dependents with
infor-mation and resources necessary to meet their academic, professional and personal goals. She will
also provide them with networking
op-portunities with local, state and
federal agencies/activities. In addition, she’ll refer veterans to health
services through VA medical centers
and coordinate service provision
with campus admissions, as well
as activities with the Student Veterans of America.
2007
Laura Panozzo ’10/MA was
promoted to assistant director of
Admissions at the University of
Baltimore (Md.) School of Law in
October 2014.
2008
Sarah Beaubien
joined the Gallagher Sharp law
firm, as an associate in February
2015. She represents businesses,
insurance companies and individuals in a wide
variety of civil litigation in the Toledo
office. Her experience includes general liability, insurance coverage
issues, and bad faith litigation.
She received her law degree from
the University of Toledo College of
Law in 2011.
David Kallsen MA is employed
as an assistant project leader at
Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio.
2009
Tim Ruple and his wife, Stephanie,
announced the birth of their son,
Connor, on Jan. 27, 2015. Tim is
employed as a social worker for the
Lenawee County Mission in Adrian.
The family resides in Adrian.
Jennifer Forrest Kavan completed
training to become a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP)
through the Nutritional Therapy
Association. She is employed as a
project applications analyst with
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. She
resides in Bismarck, N.D.
2010
Mary Szczepanski Balliet works
as a human resources coordinator
with Benchmark Hospitality in
Orlando, Fla.
2011
Kimberly VanCamp Blaska is
employed as an finance manager
with the Lenawee United Way. She
lives in Tecumseh, Mich.
Andrew Fork and his wife, Jennifer,
announced the birth of a daughter,
Ellianna Mai, Oct. 3, 2014 (above).
She weighed 7 lbs., 13 oz. and was
21 inches in length. Andrew is currently teaching fifth grade math and
science. They live in Cypress, Texas.
2012
Kara Prielipp works as a technology specialist/librarian with the Way
Public Library in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Rashontae Wawrzyniak was
crowned Miss Michigan USA during
the pageant in October 2014 in
Port Huron, Mich (right). She was
runner-up at last year’s pageant,
and will represent Michigan at the
2015 Miss USA pageant later this
year. The psychology major also has
a career in modeling, working as a
spokesmodel for the Chrysler Corp.
DEATHS
Alumni
Sister Jean Agnes Klemm, OP ’44
Sister Jane Schutz, OP ’45
Sister Paul Therese Kraus, OP ’47
Sister Agnes Stechschulte, OP ’47
Evelyn Capoun ’48
Sister Lucian Dusseau, OP ’50
Sister Marilyn Foster, OP ’51
Sister Therese Groulx, OP ’51
Sister Joan Loeffler, OP ’51 )M