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9 A proud legacy: Our Accomplished ALUMNI Music industry veteran Mark DiDia '80 has weathered 30 years of tumult—MTV's arrival, the convenience of digital music, and the record industry's collapse. Now an artist manager at Red Light Management, DiDia is learning a new angle of the business. As a college freshman, DiDia was majoring, he thinks, in chemistry so he could become a pharmacist. A 1976 trip to explore Kendall Hall, though, led him to the basement home of TCNJ radio station WTSR. Angels sang—or spun records—and a career in the sciences slipped and slid away. DiDia's change of path led to an unimagined career. Instead of raving about Hall & Oates while filling prescriptions, he hung out with Daryl Hall. Instead of listening to Rick Rubin's albums on his ride to CVS, he was the legendary producer's longtime colleague. Now, after stints at K-Rock, Geffen Records, Def American, Disney's Hollywood Records, and Island Records, DiDia has switched sides and is managing artists like American Idol darlings Pia Toscano, Haley Reinhart, and James Durbin as well as Grammy-nominated chanteuse Corrine Bailey Rae. Esther Tetruashvily '11 received a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in the amount of up to $45,000 per year to support her graduate studies in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia next year at Harvard University. The Soros Fellowship honors and supports the graduate educations of 30 New Americans each year. Fellows are selected on the basis of merit—the specific criteria emphasize creativity, originality, initiative and sustained accomplishment— in annual national competitions. A member of both the Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies, Tetruashvily is also the recipient of a Fulbright Award. Maria Falca-Dodson '75 retired from her position as the assistant adjutant general-air for the New Jersey National Guard on September 15, 2012. She also served as commander of the New Jersey Air National Guard, including the 108th Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and the 177th Fighter Wing in Egg Harbor Township. General Falca-Dodson maintained responsibility for New Jersey Air National Guard full-time operations. Michael Movsovich '86 is a senior partner in the New York office of law firm Kirkland & Ellis. Movsovich's practice focuses on structuring, negotiating, and managing the legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity investments. He has been a partner of the firm since 1998 and was a panelist at the inaugural TCNJ Student Finance Forum held at JPMorganChase in New York City during 2011. Dr. Ellen Deibert '85 directs the traumatic brain injury clinic at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, MA. Following medical school at Temple University, she completed her residency in neurology at Johns Hopkins, a leading research institution that gave her a bedside view of such rare disorders as ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. She then completed successive fellowships in neurological intensive care and neurorehabilitation at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, one of the few clinical schools at the time to offer these programs. She worked in the neurointensive care unit and was in charge of the brain injury program at the rehabilitation center. She also taught medical school students.

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