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46 The College of New Jersey Magazine Matthew Kasperavicius '08, Jennifer Vasquez '17, Hillary Spadaccini '08, Eric Brokaw '17, Kyle Orr '13, Kyle Grant '12, Brian Wahl '08, and Joseph Heitmann '08 all serve with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. They gathered for a photo at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in November 2017. The Law Library Association of Greater New York elected Taryn Rucinski '99 to a three-year term as vice president/ president-elect. Rucinski is also a supervisory librarian of the U.S. Court of International Trade. '00s and '10s Laura Desai '01 is the head of school at YingHua International School in Kingston, New Jersey. YingHua is a nonprofit, private day school with a Chinese-English dual-language immersion and international baccalau- reate curriculum for preschool through eighth grade. John DiValentino '02 is vice president and director of strategic operations of Urban Engineers, a Philadelphia-based design and construction support services firm. He has been there for 18 years, and his most recent responsibilities included overseeing the firm's special inspections of the iconic Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia. Kate McQueeney Julyan '03 was promoted to associate at DIGSAU, a Philadelphia architecture firm. Priscilla Taylor '03 won the 2018 Teacher of the Year Award from the New Jersey History Day program. History Day is a yearlong history project for sixth to 12th graders that culminates in a national contest every June. Dennis Township school district (Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey) named Amanda Unkle '05 Teacher of the Year. She has taught middle school English language arts for 12 years. Kelly Meisberger Depsee '06 was named director of communications and external relations at Berkeley College in New York and New Jersey. Mark Antioquia '09 competed in the Philadelphia city qualifiers on the television show American Ninja Warrior. Audrey Baricko '12 was a 2018 honoree of the YWCA Tribute to Women & Industry for her contributions to PSE&G and the nuclear industry. Melissa Zrada '12 earned her PhD from Teachers College, Columbia University and will be joining the full-time faculty of TCNJ's integrative STEM education department. Alessandra Pieraccini '13 received her PsyD from La Salle University and works as referrals coordinator and a staff psycho- logist at Towson University's Counseling Center in Maryland. Allison Baricko '14 was the 2017 Teacher of the Year at Dr. Gerald H. Woehr Elementary School in New Egypt, New Jersey, and is working on her graduate degree in educational leadership at Georgian Court University in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. Jeffrey Himelson '14 is a corporate attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2017 and was sworn in to the New Jersey and New York State bars. Caitlin Kolczynski '14 became a certified financial planner with the Mercadien Group in Hamilton, New Jersey. Tamara Fuentes '17 joined Seventeen.com as an assistant entertainment editor. Joseph Guerriero '17 is serving with FEMA Corps and stationed in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He is a media representative for his team. And our newest alumni … KPMG hired Patrick Anderson '18 as an audit associate. Rachel Fury '18 earned an internship at Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., where she studies archival preservation techniques in preparation for a career in museum science and conservation. William King '18 headed to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a front-office position with the Carolina Hurricanes NHL hockey team. Sophia Kurlandski '18 joined the Peace Corps to teach English as a second language in Madagascar. Kate Neary '18 works at the Ralph Lauren headquarters in New York City. Brittany Reedman '18 is making friends in Seattle as a software engineer at Facebook. U.S. NAVY Victoria Russell '18 secured a spot saving lives as an emer- gency department nurse at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware. Gaby Sabony '18 will teach English to Israeli students in Rishon LeZion, Israel, through the Masa Israel Teaching Fellows program for the 2018–19 school year. Warren Seto '18 is off to Cupertino, California, to work at Apple Inc. as a human interface devices engineer. Kelly Sibree '18 will serve as a mechanical engineer for the United States Naval Air Systems Command. Ursula Widocki '18 is on her way to Harvard University for a master's in computational biology and quantitative genetics. Editor's note: Our apologies to Rebecca Bushby '93 for getting her title wrong (Class Notes, Spring 2018). She is the Education Librarian at the R. Barbara Gitenstein Library. Class notes and Family Album photos are available only in the print edition. To submit your news and photos, visit alumni.tcnj.edu or write us at alumni@tcnj.edu. CLASS N O T E S W I N T E R 2 0 1 8 CLASS N O T E S F A L L 2 0 1 8

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