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Florida Tech Today Paper
Vol. 15, Issue 3    Winter 2007

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1975
Tony Kioussis has been named vice president, strategic marketing, at GE Capital Solutions, Corporate Aircraft. He also has his own consulting firm specializing in business development support for organizations that offer aviation-related products and services.

1976
Rick Kottler has been re-appointed by Florida Governor Jeb Bush to serve on the Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing for a four-year term. He was elected vice chairman of the council for the 2006–2007 fiscal year. Rick is executive director of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of the Treasure Coast, Inc., in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

1979
Steve Luzkow, M.S., is an environmental risk manager for LaSalle Bank, Midwest in Troy, Mich. He and wife Terri enjoy their 21 show horses. They have three daughters in college, as well as two teens and a three-year-old at home.

1981
Megan Davis ’92 M.S., ’98 Ph.D., serves as aquaculture director for the Center for Coastal Research at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Ft. Pierce, Fla.

1984
Dave Vensel ’95 M.S. is a senior consultant at On Demand Environmental in Birmingham, Ala. He married Mary Jo on the beach in the Dominican Republic in May 2006.
Dave would like to hear from Jensen Beach alums and can be reached at davensel165@yahoo.com.

1985
Joni Johnston and husband Alex Tsakiris reside in Del Mar, Calif., with their four children. She is president and CEO of WorkRelationships, a corporate training and consulting company.

1986
Jack Wierengo is a lead database architect for Starwood Hotels and Resorts in Colorado Springs, Col. He and wife Rebecca have two children, Richard, 16 and Ashley, 10.

1988
Jeffrey Rombach and Tammi Purks ’89 B.S. are living in Richmond, Va., with their three children Katy, 14, A.J., 11, and Grace, 5. He is teaching high school math at Highland Spring High School.

Francis Hallenstein currently attends Florida Atlantic University as a full-time MBA-accounting student. He served over nine years in the U.S. Army prior to moving to Boca Raton, Fla., to pursue further education.

1989
Jay Chrostowski is the coordinator for internship training with Aurora Behavioral Health Services located in the Milwaukee area. Wife Sandy is completing her doctorate in ministry program and will be formally known as the Reverend Doctor Sandy Chrostowski. They are parents to Rachel, 16, and Sarah, 11.

1991
Timothy Taylor is the business development manager in the engineering divisions at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Ala.

1992
Silvano Reynoso is a major in the U.S. Air Force, currently an aircraft commander in the RC-135 Rivet Joint at Offutt AFB in Nebraska. He may be reached at sreynoso2@cox.net.

1993
Charles Mangum was named Arizona airport manager of the year. He serves as manager of Marana Regional Airport in Marana, Ariz.

1994
Amanda McGhee and husband Michael became parents for the third time in January 2006. Hayley joined her brother Logan, 3, and sister Breana, 6. Amanda is a manager
and associate actuary at NCCI in Boca Raton, Fla.

1995
Karen Oldham Pestyk, Psy.D., married Sean Barnett in 2005. She is in private practice, and he works in information technology at the University of North Carolina. Children Morgan and Ethan are doing
well. The family may be reached at Koldham@Carolina.rr.com.

Natalie (Martin) DiMisa is a psychologist with Geriatric Psychology Specialists in Tampa, Fla. She and husband Joe have two boys, William, 5, and Andrew, 3. She can be contacted at ndimisa@verizon.net.

1996
Jessica (Schauer) Clark was a National Weather Service Pacific Region Fellow and received her M.S. in meteorology from the University of Hawaii in 1999. She is employed by NOAA at the National Weather Service’s Hydro Meteorological Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., focusing on forecasting and model diagnostics.

Mark Bowen (right) and wife Katie own Meadowdale Farm in Putney, Vt., where they enjoy life with son James, 1. They can be reached through www.meadowdalefarm.com.

1997
Warren Mitchell has received the 2006 Marine Fisheries Fellowship from North Carolina Sea Grant and the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF). He has earned his M.S. from North Carolina State University and will do research with NCDMF. Warren resides in Beaufort, N.C., with Jenny, his wife of two years.

1998
Daniel Deppen ’02 M.S., is a mechanical engineer at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Broomfield, Col. He and wife Jennifer (Kohloff) ’98 M.S. are parents to Emma Claire, born June 2006.

Deborah Russo currently lives in Marietta, Ga., with husband, Jeff. She practices with Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders, as well as two area outpatient offices. Jeff is the band director at St. Jude’s Catholic School, made his first jazz CD and is scheduled to perform at the Atlanta Jazz Festival.

1999
Sudi Dannenberg Randoing has joined a private practice in Allen, Texas, working with a married Florida Tech couple, Susan Blandino ’97 Psy.D. and Erik Gonzalez ’98 Psy.D. Sudi is working part time so she can have time at home with children, Jason, 9, and Benjamin, 6.

Michele (Rutan) Conner, Psy.D., continues as the clinic director of Astor Counseling Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She and husband Bill are parents of Billy, 3, and Emma, 1.


2001
Jane (Irby) Allen, Psy.D., works with the child and family team at Linn County Mental Health. She lives in Albany, Ore., with her husband James. Their son Ned lives in St. Augustine, Fla., and daughter Alicia is a humanities major at college.

2002
Cori Calkins, Psy.D., is in group private practice in Fort Myers, Fla. Her husband Rich is a technical trainer for Optimi Corporation. The couple welcomed Alayna Shea in May 2005.

Stacy (Larson) Baron, Psy.D., and husband Tim announce the birth of Holden Larson, born April 2006.

2004
Beth McMillan recently received her master’s degree from UM RSMAS in Marine Affairs and Policy. She works for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in Miami, Fla., as an environmental
specialist II.

Stephen MacLeod, M.S., works for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Protection in Tallahassee, Fla., as an environmental specialist II.

Patrick Fava recently received his Master of Aviation Management from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He resides in Russange, France, and is employed by Virgin Blue. His e-mail is wisepat26@hotmail.com.

2005
Jeremy Harrison, Psy.D., and wife Melanie live in London, Ontario, Canada, where he is a psychologist at Regional Mental Health Care London. Melanie is a special education teacher in Woodstock.

Anita Sahgal, Psy.D., will be returning to Florida from Georgia, once she completes her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Georgia. She is planning a March 2007 wedding.

Jason Mandly works for the Orange County Department of Education Outdoor Science School in Southern California, teaching ecology, geology, wildlife biology, astronomy, environmental science and outdoor sciences to fifth and sixth grade students.

2006
Heather Holberger, M.S., is a research assistant in charge of an oyster restoration project in the St. Lucie Estuary with the Florida Oceanographic Society in
Stuart, Fla.

in memoriam

Wayne Petersen ’73, of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed away suddenly in June 2006 in Illinois. He was principal of the W.C. Andrew Elementary School in Portland, Texas, having retired from the U.S. Army as a major. His survivors include his wife of 25 years, Isabel, five children and six grandchildren.

Robert Pierce ’80, of Palm City, Fla., lost his battle with cancer in September 2006. For 17 years, he served as a Martin County sheriff’s deputy and had been promoted to sergeant in the detective bureau one week before his death. He had helped establish the Living Seas exhibit at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center. As part of his love of the underwater world, Bob searched the world for the best scuba diving and was a master dive instructor. Survivors include his parents and two sisters.

 


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