Ramapo Magazine

Class of 2000: Where Are They Now ?

Successful jobs, challenging graduate programs, rewarding volunteer opportunities — the Class of 2000 is already taking on the world and winning. Here are just a few of the answers when we asked Class of 2000 alumni — Where Are You Now?

Gregory DeLaura — B.A., fine arts, School of Contemporary Arts
DeLaura is attending the graduate program in sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He received a fellowship and will be a studio technician/teaching assistant at the university.
Timothy A. Rapuano — B.S., biology, School of Theoretical and Applied Science
Rapuano accepted a Pre-Intramural Research Training Award Fellowship at the Laboratory of Immunoregulation of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease in Bethesda, Maryland. His team will be observing the evolution of strains of HIV.

Vivian E. Nilsson — B.A., political science and international studies, School of American and International Studies
Nilsson interned at UNESCO in Paris, France at the International Year for the Culture of Peace (IYCP) Department. She is currently working at Congresswoman Marge Roukema's campaign headquarters in Ridgewood.

Melvin A. Carrillo — B.S., nursing, School of Theoretical and Applied Science Carrillo completed the Student Nurse Externship at Hackensack University Medical Center and accepted a position as a BSN-RN on the hospital's surgical intensive care unit.

Darryl Harris — M.S., educational technology, School of Theoretical and Applied Science Graduate Program
Harris taught the biology course during the Upward Bound/College Bound summer program at Ramapo. He is now in the process of developing a biotechnology course for high school students.
Claire Doyle — B.A., communications, School of Contemporary Arts
A Ramapo internship led Doyle to a permanent position at Z100/WHTZ New York radio station and subsequently a promotion. She is now the assistant to the senior vice president of Eastern Programming for AMFM Inc.

Steven Engravalle — B.A., literature/teacher education certification, School of American and International Studies
Engravalle is teaching writing lab, a language arts/technology course, for which he co-wrote and developed the curriculum, at Roy W. Brown Middle School in Bergenfield. He is also in his third year as assistant football coach at Bergenfield High School.

Jane Langeveld — B.S.W., School of Social Science and Human Services
Langeveld entered the Shirley Ehrenkranz School of Social Work at New York University where she will finish her masters in one year through the advanced standing program. She will perform 600 hours of field placement at Children's Aid and Family Services in Paramus.

"I come from England where five generations live in the same small town and there are no differences in ethnic or religious backgrounds. At Ramapo I learned social work from different cultural perspectives and what people bring from their different countries."

Kathryn Davenport — B.S., accounting, School of Administration and Business
Davenport is preparing night and day for the CPA exam in November. She accepted a position with Flackman, Goodman and Potter, a public accounting firm in Ridgewood. "My education at Ramapo made me realize that I never want to stop learning!"

Elizabeth Muroski — B.S., business administration/finance, School of Administration and Business
Muroski is now an associate credit analyst at the National Insurance Commissioners Securities Valuation Office at the World Trade Center in New York City.

Noreen Ahmed — B.A., law and society, School of Social Science and Human Services
Ahmed is attending the Widener School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. She is interested in criminal/juvenile law.