Class Notes
Battle Creek
SHU @ KCC & Kalamazoo
Benton Harbor Monroe
SHU @ LMC
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SHU@MCCC
Thomas Martin ’95 is deputy chief of Kimberly Powers ’03 is a registered
police for South Haven.
therapist at Pulmonary Partners in St.
Joseph.
Richard Ives ’97, a veteran Kalamazoo
police officer who rose through the ranks Andrea Rose O’Brien ’04 works at
to captain, is the new director of the Lakeland Hospital in Niles.
police academy at Kalamazoo Valley
Community College. The Kalamazoo
Law Enforcement Training Center, or
police academy, trains about 50 officers SHU @ JCC
and prospective officers each year. “Law Sandra Walker Dandrow ’04 of Grass
enforcement is a very demanding and Lake earned her Siena Heights degree
complex profession requiring highly this spring through Siena’s Jackson
trained personnel,” he told the Kal- Community College center 31 years
amazoo Gazette. “I am looking forward after she came to the main campus as a
to delivering officers with the highest freshman, fresh out of Cody High School
degree of integrity, ethics and skills to in Detroit. She completed three semestheir communities.” Richard is past com- ters at Siena in the early 1970s before
mander of the Kalamazoo Department of leaving her studies for family reasons.
Public Safety’s service division, and has The journey to her degree ultimately
been an instructor of vehicle and occu- took her to six different colleges and two
pant control, civil disorder, and tactical states, and included marriage, raising a
operations in KVCC’s police academy family and assorted part-time jobs. While
since 1996.
her new bachelor’s degree offers her
Timothy Bourgeois ’98 is chief of police the opportunity to move up at Republic
Bank, Sandra already is considering
for Kalamazoo Township.
going on for a master’s degree. “I almost
Mark Honeysett ’98 is chief of police for think this was destined to happen,” she
Constantine.
told the Jackson Citizen Patriot.
Jason McCarty ’98 was promoted to
the rank of captain in the Air Force this
past spring. He is stationed at Robins Air
Force Base in Georgia where he is a pilot
on the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target
Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. In the course of flying 250 combat
hours in Operation Iraqi Freedom and
Operation Enduring Freedom, Jason has
earned both the Air Medal and the Aerial
Achievement Medal.
Ronald Ivey ’98 is assistant director of
the Criminal Justice Program at Kellogg
Community College.
SHU@MCCC
Adrian Suzanne Brown ’04 of Temperance works for Hylant Health Strategies
as a health and wellness administrator.
She also is a member of the National
Women’s Health Network. Future plans
include pursuing certified personal
trainer certification and earning a
master’s degree in exercise physiology.
She already is certified as a nutrition
specialist.
Jackson
Monroe
Kassie Hamaker ’02 is a licensed insurance agent with Mindy Deno’s State
Farm Agency. She also owns and operates Happy Tails Training Center.
David C. Northrop II ’02 was named
chief of police in Sturgis in July. A veteran of 16 years with the Sturgis Police
Department, he is a five-time winner of
meritorious service and unit awards, and
was Sturgis Officer of the Year in 1993.
He also has experience on St. Joseph
County raid and narcotics teams.
Amanda Miller ’04 of East Leroy is a
full-time registered dental hygienist in
Hastings.
Zachary Schurig ’04 works with Systex
Products Corporation in Battle Creek. He
lives in Marshall.
Tiffany Wilson ’04 is a cost engineer in
Battle Creek.
Mark Durivage ’98 of Oregon, OH, is
the new dean of the Industrial and Engineering Technologies Division at Owens
Community College (OCC) in Toledo; he
previously served as interim dean. In the
position, he oversees all academic progr