Class Notes

Name: Dr. Kara Calandrelli

Class Year(s): 1999

Note: Kara Calandrelli ’99 (CIAS) obtained a Doctorate in Healthcare Administration from the University of Lynchburg in 2023.

Submitted on: September 6, 2024

Name: Michael Bradbury

Class Year(s): 1976

Note: After retiring as a Professor of Biochemistry at ATSU-KCOM, Michael Bradbury BS ’76 has moved to the Orlando area and started a one-man consultant operation to provide faculty development for medical schools, along with advice on basic science curricular change and active learning strategies. You can find out more about it at www.bradmeded.com.

Submitted on: September 6, 2024

Name: Michael Lynch

Class Year(s): 2018

Note: Michael Lynch BS ’18 and Sara (Jacobus) Lynch BS ’18 announced their marriage surrounded by RIT alumni and friends in August 2024.

Submitted on: September 4, 2024

Name: Alicia Stenglein

Class Year(s): 2018

Note: Alicia (Wyble) Stenglein ’18 (CLA) and her husband Zack welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Harper, in April 2024!

Submitted on: August 29, 2024

Name: Joshua Myers

Class Year(s): 2010

Note: Joshua Myers MS ’10 (CLA) was named sr. director of development and foundation relations at Barry University in Miami, FL. Myers is responsible for collaborating across the university and with foundations to identify resources that support student success and university initiatives.

Submitted on: August 22, 2024

Name: Dan Szabo

Class Year(s): 1979

Note: Dan Szabo BS ’ 79 retired after 10 years at Apollo Computer and 30 years at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Dan’s whole career(s), have been motivated and succeeded thanks to a degree from RIT/Computer Engineering (and later studies at RPI and MICA). Dan’s most recent career, 20 years as an academic advisor at MassArt, was so much inspired and informed by Dr. Roy Czernikowski. As an innovator, teacher, mentor, and friend from 1976 until now, Roy has been a constant influence on Dan and family.

Submitted on: June 17, 2024

Name: Jonathan Gippe

Class Year(s): 1996

Note: completed his MBA as a Welch Scholar; and began a new role as Associate Director of Network Construction with Verizon’s Global Network & Technology organization, addressing all Verizon Business Wireline facilities for the Eastern U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Submitted on: May 31, 2024

Name: Lou Iannone

Class Year(s): 90,92

Note: Lou Iannone 92’ FADU has been working as an independent museum exhibit designer/fabricator for the last 20 years as dba ASAGEDesign. His latest projects and clients include a flexible, multipurpose museum for the Centro Culturale Italiano Di Buffalo, a 3-8 year old hands-on space called SENSErie at the Buffalo Museum of Science and a full bar/ green room and shop rebuild for the theatre company, a Road Less Traveled Productions.

Submitted on: May 15, 2024

Name: Michael Saffran

Class Year(s): 2008

Note: Michael Saffran ’08 (CLA) is the editor and a columnist for The WEDGE newspaper (swpc.org/issues), in Rochester, and a part-time DJ and traffic reporter for Stephens Media Group (WRMM-FM, WFKL-FM, WZNE-FM), in Rochester. In 2023, he retired as communication lecturer emeritus from SUNY Geneseo (following 11 years); he now considers himself “semi-retired.”

Submitted on: May 15, 2024

Name: Edgar Praus

Class Year(s): 1971, 1972

Note: I have been photographing in Mississippi for the past 20+ years and now my work is in the permeant collections of both the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Odgen Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. MFA Still Photography

Submitted on: May 15, 2024