Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 2000s

2000
Laurie Griesinger ’04M (MPH) and Jon Ewing were married on October 2, 2004, in Binghamton, N.Y. Laurie writes, “Julie Chen was a bridesmaid, and fellow alumni David Nagel ’01, Marissa Scalia ’01, Beth Slotman ’99, and Marianne Witgert ’01 joined the festivities.” Laurie and Jon live in Chicago. . . . Melinda Kline has joined the Cleveland law firm Baker & Hostetler as an associate. . . . Joseph Lanning’s nonprofit World Education Fund has sponsored 30 one-year scholarships for AIDS orphans from Africa since he founded the organization in 1999. Joseph is assistant director of admissions at Rochester and his wife, Alexis Spilman Lanning, is a doctoral student in optics. . . . Joshua Woodard has joined the Peace Corps. He will work as a community-based organizational development volunteer in Thailand.

2001
Scott Goldman married Michelle Levitt on July 4, 2004, in Providence, R.I. They live in Newton, Mass. . . . Melissa Kucinski and Daniel Berlin announce their engagement. A June 2006 wedding is planned. . . . David Nagel and Angela Zaccari were married on October 16, 2004, in Rochester. David is a process development technician at Bausch & Lomb, and Angela is a clinical staff pharmacist at the Medical Center. . . . Matthew Samuelson and Meredith Kaplan were married on December 18, 2004. They both are studying for master’s degrees at Brooklyn College. Matthew teaches English at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Brooklyn, where he also is a debate coach.

2002
Megan Sesma ’02E was a soloist with the U.S. Coast Guard Chamber Players in the concert series New Horizons III: Music for Brass and Harp last February. . . . Jonathan Watson ’03 (MS) and Tracy Collier were married on July 24, 2004, in Pultneyville, N.Y. Jonathan works at Optimax Systems in Ontario, N.Y., and Tracy is a physical education teacher at Ontario Primary School.

2004
Randy Erb was a 2004 finalist in the undergraduate category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. His invention, an armband that uses ultrasound to help visually impaired people detect and avoid obstacles in their path, was his senior project at Rochester. Randy is an electrical engineer in Denver.