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45 Class Notes FALL 2022 Emily Myhren '12, a children's librarian at Midland Park Memorial Library, won the New Jersey Library Association/New Jersey Association of School Librarians Amy Job Partnership Award for her community work in collaboration with the media center at Highland Elementary School. Seiichi Villalona '14, Eileen Hu '17, Dylan Nguyen '16, Ranjitha Vasa '17, Dale Oommen '17, and Katie Dickson '17 became doctors together upon graduating from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Amy Brehm MEd '15 teaches high school history and special education at Churchill Junior High School in East Brunswick, New Jersey, and is enrolled in the master's in school counseling program at TCNJ. Jonathan Edmondson '17 founded The Strides Collective, a Philadelphia-based theater company that produces work by queer playwrights. The company will produce Edmondson's play The Pigeon at The Christ Church Neighborhood House in October. Christopher Gearhart '17 is the bio- mechanics analyst for the Chicago White Sox. Dillon McNamara '18 joined the State Higher Education Executive Officers Associa- tion as a policy intern to create issue briefs for higher education affordability and finance. Alexandra Parisi '18 was selected as a Rising Star in the 2022 Delaware Valley (Pennsylvania) Human Resource Person of the Year awards. Eric Van Eck '18, a graduate of TCNJ's Collegiate Recovery Program, was hired as the recovery and prevention coordinator for the college in January. Rebecca Conn '19 graduated from the Naval Acquisition Developmental Program at NAVAIR in Lakehurst, New Jersey, and will continue her work there as a data analyst. Peter Ricco '19 works as a registered nurse at Duke University Hospital while also pursuing a master of management degree in clinical informatics at the university. Liam Abujawdeh '21 completed a master of engineering degree in structural engineering from the University of Notre Dame in May. He then joined DLB Associates as an engineering associate. Joely Torres '21, MAT '22 is diversity and inclusion programming coordinator at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Autumn Vossler '21 attends Rowan University's PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry program. TCNJ LEGACY L to R: Brian Moraca '00, Matthew Moraca '26, Lexy Brede '26, Bob Brede '99 First-year students Lexy Brede '26 and Matthew Moraca '26 moved into their rooms in Travers and Wolfe Hall in August. But TCNJ has felt like home to them since they were infants. Their dads, Bob Brede '99 and Brian Moraca '00, who lived in Wolfe Hall, proudly held them in the Brower Student Center at Homecoming in 2005. To show your pride in your legacy family, send photos and notes to alumni.tcnj.edu/class-note and choose the legacy option. "We always joked that it would be great if our firstborn children went to the same school," says Brian Moraca '00. "It is surreal that it came to fruition." 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. SEND US YOUR NEWS! Wedding, birth, promotion, anniversary, award, or retirement? Submit news of your major life events to alumni.tcnj.edu/class-note or Office of Alumni Engagement, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718.

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