Class Notes
Name: Lorenny Mota Morla
Class Year(s): 2016
Note: Lorenny Mota MS ’16 (SOIS) and Michael Berrios ’14 (GCCIS) are celebrating their two year wedding anniversary.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Gene Sniatecki
Class Year(s): 1995
Note: Jeremy Sniatecki ’95 (CIAS) recently worked with Acme Archives and Lucasfilm/Disney to create a series of retro-style location posters based on the Star Wars series "The Mandalorian." Visit www.AcmeArchivesDirect.com for more information. Image copyright Lucasflim Ltd, Disney and Acme Archives. Used with permission.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Gene Salerno
Class Year(s): 1979
Note: Gene Salerno ’79 (FAA) shares his most recent work, "The American Series Art", a book of 5 historical paintings with other Tiger alumni. These five, beautiful oil paintings were created during the 1976 American Bicentennial and are as relevant today as they were then. Further details may be found at the americanseriesart.com. Gene’s wife, Daryl Elizabeth Salerno, edited this book and the two also partnered on her recent book, "Cape Cod: A Spiritual Journey of Surf and Sand", which Daryl Elizabeth authored and Gene provided the photography.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Marc Turkel
Class Year(s): 1980
Note: Marc Turkel ’80 (GAP) begins a Masters degree program at Seattle University in Existential Phenomenology- Psychology (MAP) in September, 2020 with an eye towards clinical psychotherapy. After leading seminars and coaching for 10 years, this degree is a logical step (while always the photographer, a haven on Instagram.) Marc also plays guitar for relaxation.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: John Morrison
Class Year(s): 1969
Note: John Morrison ’69 (SCB) has accepted a second three-year appointment to the Board of Trustees of Keystone College, LaPlume, P.A. and to the Board of Directors for the Outreach-Center for Community Services, Scranton, P.A.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Robert Bruschini
Class Year(s): 1985
Note: Robert Bruschini ’85 (GAP) re-joined the Corporate Brand Creative team at Bristol Myers Squibb as Director, Corporate Brand Photography and Video. He is responsible for leading the visual identity of the new global corporate brand through photography and video across all platforms and communication channels. His experience in photography has been a part of the corporate creative team since 1992 through 2012, where he helped bring to life their first corporate campaign and photographed their leadership teams, patients, and products for the Annual Report and captured many corporate events. Before re-joining BMS, Robert owned his own photography business, Robert Bruschini Images, LLC. While running this photography business, he brought passion not only for photography but for many companies and continued to a part of BMS as a freelance photographer. He has been a consistent source of photograph inspiration for the corporate creative team, creating a clear artistic vision for the company. Given his experience and vision for the corporate brand, Robert works across the company to convey and enhance consistent execution in order to set the standard for the new company. He will be responsible for both photography and video in the new brand style that will appear in internal and external communications, including corporate events and meetings, websites, brochures and reports, and on social media helping to tell the company story through compelling visual detail. Robert’s role will require working across the entire organization along with agency partners to develop highly engaging, impactful content that supports employee communications, as well as building and managing an image and video library.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Jerlyn Thomas
Class Year(s): 2007
Note: Jerlyn Thomas ’07 (CIAS) and Michael O’Donnell were married on May 26, 2019. Both are marathoners and triathlon (half ironman) athletes who met each other on OkCupid. They got married on their favorite running path in New Paltz, officiated by Michael’s sister, and went for a run proceeding the ceremony. They currently live in NYC.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Jerlyn Thomas
Class Year(s): 2007
Note: Jerlyn (Thomas) Donnell ’07 (CIAS) and her husband, Michael, are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Mattis Joan, on February 20, 2020.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Samuel Giannavola
Class Year(s): 1979
Note: Sam Giannavola ’79 (CIAS) has retired from a 34 year career at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science in Little Rock, Arkansas. He held a number of staff and administrative positions over the years including Director of the 40 person department that included photographers, graphic designers, videographers and a print shop. He was very active in the Biological Photographic Association for many years and held many elected positions including Executive Secretary of the Board of Registry and as a member of the House of Delegates. His photography earned many awards and he was an active presenter giving over forty podium presentations at local, national and international meetings. He became a Registered Biological Photographer (RBP) in 1980, was awarded Fellowship (FBPA) for meritorious contributions to the biological sciences in 1998 and a lifetime services award, the Louis Schmidt Laurite award in 2005 by the Biological Photographic Association. Throughout his career he enjoyed teaching photography and presentation graphics to healthcare professionals. He is the proud father of Alexander Russell Giannavola and Madeline Rose Giannavola. Alex is his hero and he is in awe of Rosie.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020
Name: Ryan Vogt
Class Year(s): 2015
Note: Ryan Vogt ’15 (GCCIS) successfully defended his Ph.D thesis "Interface Problems and Binary Electromagnetic Cloaking Designs in Computational Electromagnetics";. Ryan is currently a mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory working on partial-differential equation optimization theory and optimal control of partial-differential equations. He is starting a new role at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Quantum Computing group, focusing on the optimal control of quantum systems to construct the next generation quantum computers.
Submitted on: September 22, 2020