CLASS NOTES
Chris Warren traveled with Steph
Curry on the basketball superstar’s
seven-day Under Armour tour of Asia,
including stops in the Philippines,
China, and Japan. Chris is an Under
Armour employee and is part of the
team that works to brand and market
the Steph Curry name and line of
apparel. He also works with other
athletes such as Bryce Harper, Cam
Newton, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson,
and Anthony Joshua.
2008
In January Robert Carter was
promoted to partner at Hertzbach, an
independent, full-service accounting
firm. He joined the firm in 2007 and
manages the Litigation, Forensic, and
Valuation Department. His areas of
expertise include business valuations,
litigation consulting, forensic
accounting, fraud investigation and exit
planning.
Jessica Hoffman Murphy is working
at The Johns Hopkins Hospital as a
Pediatric Oncology/Bone Marrow
Transplant Nurse Practitioner.
2010
Our condolences to Alix Sandler on
the passing of her father, Dave, on
March 14.
2012
Ronnie Lordi is making a name
for himself in the world of stand-up
comedy in New York City where he
performs at clubs six or seven nights a
week. For the past three years he has
been producing and hosting “Live at
the Barbershop,” an offbeat comedy
club in the East Village. During the day
it is a traditional site for a shave and
haircut but is transformed into a small
club for evening events. Ronnie usually
performs a quick opening set before
introducing five or six comics a night.
Lynn Walters and Justin Roberts ’12
are engaged and planning a June 29,
2019 wedding.
Kayla Wilson passed the Maryland
bar exam after graduating from the
Michigan State School of Law in May
2018, and was sworn in as an attorney
on Dec. 12.
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2013
Abbey Degitz and Adam Bosse ’12 are
engaged and plan to be married on June
1, 2019.
School of Education alumnae Kelsie
Rites ’13, Sally Dawson ’18, Becca
Jenkins ’18 and Megan Madigan ’18
returned to campus recently to meet
with current senior interns to provide
job interviewing practice and advice.
Maura Kovalcik Winebrenner is
the digital media specialist for the
Girl Scouts of Central Maryland. She
designed the graphics and content for
an email marketing and social media
campaign that earned an Award of
Excellence from the Public Relations
Society of America, Maryland Chapter.
The campaign supported the 25th
anniversary of the Girl Scouts Beyond
Bars program.
2014
Linda Goodman is the co-founder
of ReaLifeSim, a small women-owned
business that was named a 2018 Top
10 Healthcare Simulation Solution
Provider by Healthcare Tech Outlook.
The company’s products provide safe,
repeated skills practice on a live person,
allowing the learner to interact as they
would in a real life situation, creating
a “train the way you treat” learning
experience.
Morgan Leepa began a new job at
the Community College of Baltimore
County as Marketing Coordinator,
Enrollment Communications.
Previously she served as Acquisitions
Creative Manager at NewMarket
Group, an Agora company. Morgan is
engaged to Brian Hushour ’14 and the
couple is planning to marry on Nov. 9.
Joseph Leif Lott is working as an
MDS Coordinator in Seattle. MDS
Coordinators, also known as nurse
assessment coordinators, use results
from the Minimum Data Set as a
key tool in assessing the functional
capabilities of residents of certified
nursing facilities to formulate and
implement individual care plans for
residents.
Ricky Ruszin has completed his second
novel entitled Showtime, a suspense
thriller available on inkshares.com.
Dan Scotten is the Director of
Museum Education at the National
Electronics Museum in Linthicum, Md.
He is also enrolled in the Master’s in
Public History program at the University
of Maryland Baltimore County.
2015
Chris Ambrose is a residential life
professional at The Johns Hopkins
University, and in November he was
honored as the Outstanding New
Student Affairs Professional of the
Year. He is the President-Elect for
the Maryland College Personnel
Association, which brings together
student affairs professionals from
across the state.
Andrew McGregor ’15 ’16M recently
collaborated on an article published
in the Journal of Forensic Science
International: Synergy. The article
was a result of his thesis work under
Dr. David Rivers of Loyola University
Maryland.
Kathryn Merrick married longtime
boyfriend Casey Jendras on Sept. 1,
2018. She also completed her doctorate
of physical therapy degree at the
University of Maryland at Baltimore
and is now a practicing physical
therapist at Mt. Washington Pediatric
Hospital. She has also served on alumni
panels for Stevenson Future Scholars
Day.
In July 2018 Gail V. Tucker was
appointed Executive Director of the
Maryland Board of Morticians and
Funeral Directors for the Maryland
Department of Health. In addition to
ensuring high quality standards and
best practices in the death care industry
for Maryland consumers, Gail is also in
the final phase of writing a book.
2016
Safietou Monica Dao is a pharmacy
technician at a CVS Pharmacy in
Baltimore. She writes that she misses
being at SU and wishes she could come
back as a freshman.