RAMAPO MAGAZINE Fall 2000   •   Volume 1, Issue 2
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	Class Notes 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 00 Births | Weddings | In Memoriam Are you a Ramapo alumnus or aluma with a great story ? You could be featured in the next issue of Ramapo Magazine! E-mail jdengel@ramapo.edu to share your accomplishments. Weddings     Ann Elise Rubin '78 to William Elliot Wort     Priscilla Kenney '86 to Stephen W. Gutkin     Rick Alnor '89 to Heather Murphy     Lawrence Shinder '89 to Rebecca Pomerantz     Carol Ann Ayers '91 to John B. Tesoriero, Jr.     Vanessa DeLeon '92 to Glen Brand     Thomas Scannicchio '92 to Kristen Petersen     Daniel Batelli '93 to Tracy Crane     Nicole Bloom '95 to William White     Angela Calavano '95 to Sean Robert Henderson     Jennifer Diane Courtad '95 to Jonathan Mark Edwards     Caryn Pisani '97 to Darin Vogt     Adrienne Thompson '97 to Gary Roetman     Laura Castell '98 to Curtis Linnartz     Tina DiDolci '99 to Steven Runtak Births     Kenneth Remo '76 and Christine, twins, Eric John and Marilyn Renee.     Jennifer (Turnbull) Sullivan '84 and William, a daughter, Katherine Kelly.     Kimberly (Vaspol) Jakubowski '90 and Edwin, a son, Brian.     Anthony Spera '90 and Jane, a son, Jacob Anthony. In Memoriam     Jean Grasso '76     Joseph Vonhatten '76     Scott Allen Miller '90 75 Estelle Rogol worked at Ramapo College from September 1969 until her retirement in 1985. Although enjoying her retirement, she still misses Ramapo. 76 Phillip Sohn has been named financial services officer at the Columbia Savings Bank in Pompton Lakes. Prior to joining Columbia in 1999 as a branch manager, Sohn served in a variety of banking positions at Valley National Bank. Active in business, civic and community organizations, he is presently a member of the Pompton Lakes Chamber of Commerce and Pompton Lakes Rotary Club. Return to Top 77 Randall Kirkpatrick is vice president for Eagle Public Relations. He is an active volunteer for the American Diabetes Association, Eastern Region, serving for several years on the New Jersey chapter's board of directors and as a founding member of the executive committee for the Rainbow Gala. He resides in South Brunswick. Mark Nelson has recently been named Superior Court judge. He will most likely be serving at the Jersey City Courthouse location in the civil division 78 Lilian Essex has retired to Tucson, AZ, where she is discovering cultural diversity, intellectual fulfillment, mountain hiking, and an exciting new lifestyle. Joseph Gearo is director of the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground in Dugway, UT. He will direct and lead four key operational areas, and supervise the work of approximately forty-five federal technical staff and thirty-five professional support contractors along with other responsibilities. He is the father of four children. Peter Marks is president of Vanguard International District. Cheryl Ringelheim is employed as a paralegal for Allstate Insurance. Return to Top 79 Anna Morrone is self-employed as an event specialist working with Rutgers University, a Desert Song Wellness Center in Phoenix, AZ, and Botanical Balance Natural Way in Los Angeles, CA. Russel Walther moved to Seattle, WA. He is enjoying the mountains, lakes, and rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Walther continues to write poetry which still remains highly rewarding for him. 80 Stewart Stumper has been appointed by the Vernon Township Board of Education as assistant principal of Glen Meadow Middle School in Vernon. Robert A. Vandenbergh, president of the National Bank of Sussex County, was appointed president of Lakeland Bancorp, Oak Ridge. He is active in the Sussex County Chamber of Commerce, serves as chairman of the Sussex County Community College and is a Karen Ann Quinlan Foundation trustee. Robert '80 and Rita Seay-Veca '75 met while students at Ramapo and have been married for twenty years. Their daughter, Vanessa, will be starting Syracuse University this fall. Todd Siben is happily employed as a portfolio advisor for Thomas Edison State College in Trenton. Return to Top 81 Janet Campbell is a senior therapist at Community Counseling in Goshen, NY. She is also a partner at Center for Solutions, a training center for solution focused therapy. In 1986, Campbell graduated from the NYU School of Social Work. Thomas Greff is the new national sales manager of Audio Video Plus International, Northvale. Christine Moore Gabriel is a physical therapist assistant in a nursing home rehabilitory facility. She has been married five years to Mickey Gabriel and is enjoying an active life in South Jersey. Marcia A. Hoffman is employed at Catholic Social Services of Gloucester County. Leonard J. Guardino is currently state director of the National Society of Accountants, president of NJ Association of Public Accountants, and treasurer of the Bergen-Passaic chapter of NJ Association of Public Accountants. Return to Top 82 Paul Dannenfelser is employed at the University of Temple, School of Social Work, in Philadelphia, PA. He is married and has two sons. Jaco B. ten Hove is now a co-minister along with his wife Barbara Wells at Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Church in Adelphi, MD. They reside in Green Belt, MD. Jeff Kristol has completed his MBA at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, CA. He is employed in the International Logistic business and has spent several years traveling for business throughout Asia. Kristol expresses the love for his wife and living in Huntington Beach, CA. Alexis Lee Rinaldi is a registered sanitarian for the QUHO. She resides with her husband Frank, and son Zachary, in Connecticut. Return to Top 83 Babette Varano '83, associate director of research and plamming at Ramapo, was selected to receive the Honey and Maurice Axelrod Award for ourstanding efforts in education in the field of bias, bigotory, and prejudice. She works closely with the College's Holocaust Center in presenting educational workshops. Award winners are selected by the State of New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and the award is presente through the Anti-Defamation League. Dr. Barbara Klemt's photographs of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, including Hall of Fame member Juli Inkster, and of the Stars on Ice, including Olympic gold medalists Kristi Yamaguchi and Tara Lipinski, appear in the Spring/Summer 2000 issue of SPORTSfront magazine. Klemt's features about spring training baseball have been published in the Hartsville, S.C., Messenger and the Sumter, S.C., Item. Klemt is the starting second baseman for Paine Webber's coed softball team, which won its first lower division postseason championship this spring. 84 Kenneth Klondike is employed in the sales department at Dawn Brite, Inc. in Englewood. 85 Nancy Post is currently employed at Lucent Technologies in Middletown. 86 Jim O'Connell and Kari Cane are happily married and are the parents of seven-year-old twin daughters. Jim is a financial director at AT&T. Kari is a math/computer science teacher at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge. Cynthia Cappell merged her law practice to form New Jersey's largest women's law firm in Hackensack concentrating in employment discrimination, estate litigation, and family law. 87 Sarah Ann LoFaso is a paralegal specialist for the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs, FBI, in Washington, DC. She now has six grandchildren, three boys and three girls. Janet Dengel is the director of publications at Ramapo College. She is happy to "come home" to Ramapo and looks forward to seeing faculty members and staff, who helped her so much during her college career, and meeting new ones. She and her husband, John, of twenty-six years have three children and live in New Milford. Return to Top 88 Sharon Kachele is currently employed in the I.T. department of Assurant Group. In addition, she and her husband Gene, have a home business that deals with computers and Web development called MPA consulting. The couple just celebrated their twelfth wedding anniversary. 89 James Gibson has been named chief financial officer at the Research Triangle Institute, in Research Triangle Park, NC. Edna Pajela thanks the School of Administration and Business for preparing her to operate an independent travel agency. She is now able to create priceless vacation memories. Kenneth Ward is married and has a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. He is a sales representative for a pipe and valve fitting company in central New Jersey. Cindy Diaz has been appointed corporate events manager for the Greater North Jersey Chapter of National Multiple Sclerosis Society. She is a founding member and current president of TCF Young Associates Group, an organization that coorinates innovative volunteer programs to support families of children with serious blood disorders Return to Top 90 Kimberly F. Jakubowski is an inter-carrier service coordinator for Montana Wireless. She moved from New Jersey to Montana in April 1998. She and her family reside on a ranchette with several horses and a small apple orchard. Jonathan Wiener is currently working in the toy business. 91 Andrew Adams is in his seventh year as a quality assurance director for a New Jersey-based educational software company. 92 Kathleen Ritter is a graduate assistant in the career services office at Millersville University, Millersville, PA. She is completing an M.E.D. in counseling. Return to Top 93 Jennifer Houle recieved a master's degree in public relations from Rowan University. Her master's thesis, titled "How to Promote Parental Involvement in the Education of the At-Risk Child," uncovered methods of communication with parents of underprivilegede youth using public relations channels. Houle has worked as program director of two non-profit organizatons, and was a freelance marketing consultant for Prudential Securities, Inc. She is currently employed at Princeton University as office specialist in the Department of English. Houle also oversees public relations functions for the film studies program. In her free time, she enjoys writing, theater production, and travel. She resides in New Hope, PA. 94 Jason Barry was elected to the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Chester Fire District, New York. He is in his second year as owner of a lawn care franchise in Orange County, NY. Return to Top 95 Julie Greco is currently employed by Becton Dickinson in Franklin Lakes, as an engineering technician. She is pursuing a master's of industrial design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Johann Grimm is a Spanish instructor/course developer at ACS Defense, Inc. in Columbia, MD. After graduating from Ramapo, he joined the Army's military intelligence corps as a Spanish and Portuguese linguist. After finishing first in his class at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, he served in Missouri, California, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, New York, and Spain. He ended his enlistment with an honorable discharge in February 2000. He and his wife, Mary Ann Steinacker '96, have one daughter, Marie Carmen Johanna Grimm. Maria Miceli is the director of university center at Widener University in Chester, PA. 96 Dave Benjamin is now the traffic director for 99.1 WHFS in Lanham, MD. Return to Top 97 Charles Flannery has recently received his M.A. in counseling from Montclair State University. Caryn Pisani is a house manager for a group home in Bergen County. Edward Santorella '97 is now the bussiness director for Degaussa-Huls Corporation in Springfield. He resides in Cornwall with his wife and two children. 00 Lauren Randolph is employed at Active International, one of the largest barter trading companies. She is a radio broadcast coordinator in their media department. Ava Frotton received a scholarship to New York University Graduate School for a masters in social work. She attained advanced standing status in the program and will intern at Nutley Family Therapy. Return to Top In this Issue