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Melissa Tomich ‘75 ‘04
presented her
photography exhibit, “As Long as There Are
Humans,” at the hpgrp Gallery in New York
City and the Hamilton Street Gallery in Bound
Brook, NJ.
Karen Narusiewicz Monaco ’75 ’87 MA
retired
from the Passaic Board of Education in July 2015
after 38 years of service.
Lucy Andrus ’75,
art education professor, was
featured in the May 2015 edition of The Buffalo
News for her work on the Art Partners Program,
which marked its 20th anniversary this year.
Andrus and her SUNY Buffalo State students
bring the Program to local schools as a form of
art therapy.
Gene Sutch ’75
retired after 37 years as
Manager of Capital Investments and Business
Analysis at the USPS national headquarters for
the United States Postal Service.
Frank Cuesta ’76 ’87 MA,
city councilman-
at-large and Elizabeth’s Democratic chairman,
was hired as Elizabeth’s Acting Assistant
Superintendent for Human Resources.
Tara Brunt ’77
became the principal of St.
Mary High School in Rutherford. Ms. Brunt
has nearly four decades of experience in
secondary education and administration in
the Newark Archdiocese, and previously held
the role of Director of Development for the
Academy of the Holy Angels.
Zende L. Clark ’77 ’83
was named interim
Superintendent of Schools in Hillside,
N.J., becoming the first African-American
Superintendent in the district’s history.
Ms. Clark shared her happiness with the
appointment, stating, “I was here through the
state-mandated desegregation. To know that
we have come this far, to know that at one
point the state had to come in and integrate
the community, and now the board appoints
their first African-American to the position, I
think that shows the community has come a
long way.”
Pam Cornelio ’77
has joined TTR Sotheby’s
International Realty in its Old Town location in
Alexandria, Virginia.
Tom Coyne ’77,
Grammy award winning
mastering engineer, was profiled on NJ.com
for over four decades of his work with musical
artists including Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Adele,
and Kool & the Gang, among others.
John Doran ‘77
of Toms River, was nominated
by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to the
Supreme Court bench in Ocean County, NJ.
Doran, admitted to the bar in 1981, has been
a deputy public defender with the Office of
Law Guardian since 2003, and is currently
the managing attorney for its Atlantic City
regional office.
Bruce Peragallo ’77 ’90 MA
has been
appointed as chairman of the board for the
YMCA of Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge &
South Amboy. Peragallo is also the principal at
Metuchen High School.
Steve Shohfi ’77
was inducted into the Arthur
L. Johnson High School Hall of Fame. Shohfi
is also a member of both the Lavallette and
Point Pleasant Beach Boards of Education
(BOE), currently serving as the president of the
Lavallette BOE.
Helen M. Stummer ’77,
recipient of the 2012
Distinguished Alumni Award, announced the
publishing of her next book, Risking Life and
Lens: a Photographic Memoir. It has been
accepted by Temple University Press and is
slated for release in early 2017.
Frank Hall ’78
was named Saginaw Valley State
University’s Dean of the College of Science,
Engineering and Technology.
Kevin Kutcher ’78
was named chief financial
officer at Salem Community College.
Richard Carbone ’79,
vice president of sales
for Egenera, was recognized as a 2016 CRN
Channel Chief.
1980s
Nancy Benz ’80 MA
received the 2016 Woman
of Excellence Award in the Category of Mental
Health from the Union County Commission on
the Status of Women.
Barbara Dahlberg ’80,
art quilter, designed
“Sometimes Friendship Can Be Sticky” which
was selected as a finalist for the International
Quilt Festival’s main show, “A World of Beauty,”
and featured from October 29–November 1,
2015 at the Houston Convention Center. She
also designed a second fiber art piece, titled
“Mask,” which was exhibited at an art show in
the Anne Arundel Medical Center’s Clatanoff
Pavilion in Annapolis, Maryland in February of
2016. Dahlberg was later featured in the April/
May edition of Quilters Newsletter Magazine
for another original piece, “Someone Left the
Guitar Out in the Rain.”
Craig A. Garner ’80,
who recently published
his eighth book, has retired from the Jersey
City Board of Education.
James J. Drylie ’80 Ph.D.,
executive director of
the Kean University School of Criminal Justice and
Public Administration, has received the Fulbright-
Police Research and Criminal Justice Scholar
Award, enabling him to conduct research with
the Metropolitan Police Service in London and
the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.
Ronald Lusk ’80
is General Store Manager in
Training of RoNetco Supermarkets, Inc.
Anna B. Scott ’81 MA
of Irvington was honored
by the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders
during its annual “Women’s History Month
Celebration” at the Hall of Records in March of
2015. Scott’s commendation was sponsored and
presented by Freeholder at large Lebby C. Jones,
who nominated her for her tireless volunteerism
within the district.
Joseph Bevilacqua ’82,
award-winning radio
theater producer and Kean Distinguished
Alumnus, designed his own course during his
final semester at Kean in which he produced
and directed a radio version of Shakespeare’s
Hamlet. After graduation, Bevilacqua saw his
production of Hamlet picked up and distributed
by the National Federation of Community
Broadcasters (NFCB), and aired on public radio
stations nationwide before the master reels were
lost in the 1980s. Some 33 years later, he traced
the NFCB collection to the University of Maryland
Libraries and has re-released the production
through Blackstone Audio and on Amazon.
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