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CLASS NOTES 1962 Our condolences to Frances “Fran” Flannery Gunshol on the passing of her husband, Lou, on Nov. 19, 2018. for women’s lacrosse; Steve Montalvo ’02 for men’s soccer; Dan Velez ’03 for men’s lacrosse; Anthony DeFrancisco ’05 for baseball; Cara Hill ’07 ’10M for women’s basketball; and Tonia Cristino Ramsel ’08 ’10M for women’s soccer and basketball. Jeb Barber ’02 was inducted as a contributor, and the 2006 women’s soccer team was recognized as a Team of Tradition. 1974 2002 Our condolences to Jo-anna Salemi Conrey ’62 ’86 ’92 on the passing of her husband, John, on March 27. 1967 Shirley Will Matlock and her husband, Gary, enjoyed a two week safari in Kenya and Tanzania, seeing beautiful landscapes and a variety of wild animals. 1989 Our condolences to Michele Hopkins on the passing of her father, John, on Jan. 27. 1994 Tim Richardson was promoted to Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering in Dec. 2018. He’s been at JHU for more than five years, spending the last three at the Whiting School as the associate director for corporate and foundation relations. His efforts have been central in Hopkins Engineering creating partnerships with the likes of Amazon, Lockheed Martin, and Johnson & Johnson. 1998 Our condolences to Ricky Sanchez on the passing of his father, Dr. Joseph Manuel Sanchez, on Oct. 26, 2018. 2000 Angela Meola Lippy is in her third year of teaching at Liberty Christian Academy in Richlands, N.C. She began her career as a pre-K teacher and is now teaching fifth grade. At the end of January, after being nominated by a parent, she was named “Teacher of the Week” by local television station WITN. 2001 Congratulations to the following alumni who were inducted into the Dick Watts Athletics Hall of Fame for 2018: Jamie Hershner Elwood ’01 Blake Ulam was recently promoted to Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Weyrich, Cronin and Sorra, a local accounting firm. He has over 18 years of experience in public accounting, technology, and managing operations. Blake joined the firm in 2000 as an intern while studying at SU and was hired full time in the spring of 2002 after graduation. He obtained his CPA license in June 2007. 2006 Renee Rubeor Cummings is working as a registered nurse at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Ore. Ebony Hypolite has been honored by the Maryland Association of CPAs as one of Maryland’s “Women to Watch” for 2018. She received the award in the “Emerging Leader” category in September. She is a Senior Manager in SC&H’s Business Performance Management practice where she oversees the implementation of Oracle- Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions for clients across all industries, including Fortune 1000 enterprises. Stacey Klima joined Harford Mutual Insurance Company as a marketing communication specialist with a focus on employee relations and community outreach. She will oversee Harford Mutual’s community activities in support of its corporate social responsibility mission, as well as developing and fostering employee engagement and volunteer efforts for the company’s 160 employees. Prior to joining Harford Mutual, Stacey spent more than five years in marketing and event coordination roles for Baltimore area accounting firms. Congratulations to Amy Hollomon Rogers ’06 and Ashley Nelson- Raut ’13 who were both recognized as 2018 Daily Record Leading Women honorees. The Leading Women Award celebrates extremely accomplished successful women who are 40 years and younger for accomplishments they have made thus far in their career. They were judged on professional experience, community involvement and a commitment to inspiring change. Amy is employed as the Development Team Director at Havas Helia. Ashley is an associate in the Wealth Preservation Group at Pessin Katz Law. 2007 Marc Grossblatt recently traveled to Key West, Fla., and Havana, Cuba. He plans to apply for a service trip to return to Cuba this year and hopes to see more of Havana as well as Santiago de Cuba. Christina Kramer is a Program Analyst at the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, Md., where she has been employed for eleven years. Andrew Levy ’07 ’18M and his wife Kelly Dukes Levy ’18M welcomed their second child in 2018, a son named Jax born on May 30, 2018. Andrew works at Ripken Baseball as the National Sales Manager for youth baseball programming between Aberdeen, Md., Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Kelly is a radiation therapist at The Kaufman Cancer Center at Upper Chesapeake Hospital. Colleen Stafford was promoted in August 2018 to Director of Finance at Oak Crest, an Erickson Living retirement community. In her new role she is responsible for day to day supervision of strategic financial management and budgeting. Stafford joined Erickson Living as senior internal auditor in Nov. 2011 and transitioned to senior financial analyst in a regional role. Since 2017, she has served as Assistant Finance Director at Charlestown, a sister Erickson Living community. She previously worked for RSM (formerly McGladrey) as a financial statement auditor, specializing in the nonprofit and health care sectors, and is licensed as a certified public accountant by the State of Maryland. STEVENSON.EDU/GIVING | 33