Class Notes

1965 Patricia Wager Wheeler (EdM) (see ’62 College).

1970 Richard Kellogg (EdD), a professor emeritus of psychology at Alfred State College, has written the seventh installment of his mystery series for young readers featuring boy detective Barry Baskerville. Barry Baskerville’s Christmas Mystery (Airship 27) was published in September. In this story, young Barry must use all his skills of observation and deduction to identify who is stealing Christmas trees from Watsonville’s lawns.

1973 Joseph Citro (EdD) (see ’62 College).

1989 Theresa Canada (EdD) (see ’76 College).

1992 Ray Grosshans (PhD) was elected to a two-year term on the board of directors of the Artist Blacksmith’s Association of North America. Founded more than 45 years ago, the association focuses on preserving the blacksmithing legacy and on educating future blacksmiths.

1993 Lesli Meyers-Small (MS) (see ’92 College).

1994 Kate Smith (MS), the interim president of Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona, was one of 40 leaders selected for the 2020–21 class of the Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship, a leadership program for community college presidents delivered by the Aspen Institute. Kate moved to Arizona in 2016 to serve as Rio Salado’s vice president of academic affairs and chief academic officer and has served as interim president since 2018. Before her tenure at Rio Salado, she served Monroe Community College in Rochester for 21 years, first as an instructor, then as a full professor, and later as the dean of the academic foundations division.

2000 Julie Peck Swanson (MS) (see ’99 College).

2008 Pietro Sasso (MS), an assistant professor and a program director at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and Mónica Miranda, the director of the Center for Student Involvement at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a Warner School PhD candidate, along with J. Patrick Biddix, a professor of higher education and an associate director at the University of Tennessee, have edited two textbooks: Supporting Fraternities and Sororities in the Contemporary Era and Foundations, Research, and Assessment of Fraternities and Sororities. Both texts were published by Myers Education Press and released in January 2020 as part of a new book series, Culture and Society in Higher Education, which analyzes the role of higher education as an incubator, transmitter, and transformer of culture.

2013 Liz Daniele (MS) (see ’18 Graduate.)

2017 Lori Birrell (EdD), the associate dean for Special Collections at the University of Arkansas, has published Developing the Next Generation of Library Leaders (Association of College and Research Libraries), with a foreword by Mary Ann Mavrinac, vice provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the University of Rochester Libraries. Through the stories of 22 assistant and associate deans, Lori examines how the library profession can systematically cultivate leadership skill development in new leaders and help prepare them for the challenges of the changing academic library.

2018 AnneMarie Cucci (EdD), a former assistant director of alumni relations at Rochester, writes about her wedding with Luke Haumesser in November 2019 in Buffalo. She writes that classmates and people she was close to during her years on the job posed with her, including Brian Magee ’09, ’19 (EdD), associate director of Wilson Commons Student Activities; Jennifer Linton ’98, executive director of Alumni Relations; Alvin Lomibao ’09, ’13 (MS), assistant director for undergraduate programs in the Hajim School; Lauren Bradley White ’11 (MS), director of student and young alumni engagement; Jason Rice ’02, ’03S (MBA); Jeremy Hairfield-Schimdt ’14 (MS); Tyler Bauer, former assistant director of Alumni Relations; John DiSarro ’09 (MS), director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs; Dan Warren, assistant director in Advancement; Ben Nissan ’14 (MS), former resident director; Heather Maclin, former assistant director of Student Activities; Kayla Virts, former CARE staff member; Stacy Mohr, program assistant in Alumni Relations; Michaela Salvo ’17M (MD); Michael Dedes, former assistant director of Wilson Commons Student Activities; Kimberly Harvey ’16 (EdD); Danielle Warren, assistant director in Advancement; Alyssa Bell Burtchin ’15 (MS), Bianca DeJesus, former assistant director for Residential Life (Eastman); Lacey Fox-Smith, ’13N (MS); Lisa Bonnlander Cardamone ’19N; Cristin Monahan ’11, former assistant director of alumni relations; Nicee Gonzalez ’14 (MS); Angela Cucci Rice ’03; and Kathleen Brucato, a PhD student at the Warner School. AnneMarie is the associate vice president for philanthropy and engagement at D’Youville College in Buffalo.