Class Notes
Name: Chester Shellman, Jr.
Class Year(s): 2004
Note: Chester "CJ" Shellman ’04 (COLA) is the author of a new book series that focuses on divorce and attempts to help children dealing with it. CJ says he was inspired by his own relationship with his daughter in his new book “A Day in the Life of MiMi and Ty: The Graduation Dilemma." The book is currently available on Amazon.
Submitted on: September 20, 2020
Name: Robert Dawley
Class Year(s): 1975
Note: Robert (Bob) Dawley ’75 (SCB) retired from the industry then retired from teaching, recently retired as Code Enforcement Officer. So on the third retirement. He is a published author of book one in a series of three titled "Pink isn’t the only Cancer" a personal story on his Cancer odyssey most recently with prostate cancer - good things and not so good things. The second book is about how other cancer patients were interacted with, good and bad.
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Sarah Bicsak
Class Year(s): 2011
Note: Sarah Bicsak ’11 (COS) recently celebrated her one year anniversary as a Chemist at Paragon Laboratories (Livonia, Michigan).
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Catherine Lane
Class Year(s): 1985
Note: Catherine Spilman Lane ’85 (FAA) and Brett Lane ’82 (CAST) are proud to have a double legacy student son: Cody T Lane ’20 attending RIT in the College of Art and Design Industrial Design BFA program, following his mom’s footsteps in the Booth Building at RIT. They are very excited and proud of Cody’s accomplishments!
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Anna Craig
Class Year(s): 2014
Note: William Craig BS/MS ’14 (KGCOE) successfully completed his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland in June of 2019. During his Ph.D. program, his wife, Anna (Guthrie) Craig ’13 (CHST) worked as a hospital physician assistant at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. They moved to Boston this summer where Dr. Craig began work at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Mrs. Craig has just started her new job at Boston Medical Center’s gastroenterology clinic and has been appointed faculty at Boston University School of Medicine.
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Jeffery Wilkins
Class Year(s): 1990
Note: On November 18 2019, Jeffrey Wilkins ’90 (KGCOE) will start a new segment of my career with Collins Aerospace in Fairfield, CA as the Site Senior Quality Manager. This is after spending 19 years in the semiconductor industry with Lam Research and then Comet Technologies.
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Sherry Miller
Class Year(s): 1977
Note: After completing a BS in Printing Management in 1977, Sherry Miller ’77 (GAP) worked for 26 years at Moore Business Forms Research Center Grand Island, NY where she project managed print quality testing, product development, government standards and launched the company’s first intranet. Sherry retooled her skills by achieving a Certification in Project Management (PMP) in 2003 and joined HSBC Bank Information Technology Services. Between 2004 and 2018, she managed projects, refreshing online banking services and mobile devices for the bank. Sherry retired at the end of a big software launch in 2018 to volunteering. She is President-Elect to the Grand Island Rotary Club and launched a 4-H Club to service children in the community, which includes my granddaughter, Kinsey. Her husband, Dennis B. Miller ’76 (GAP), MS ’77 (GAP) (BS-Photo 76, MS-Print Tech 77), whom she married in 1998 passed away in 2017. Sherry writes "Thank you to RIT for helping me obtain the foundation for her career!"
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Sophie Phillips
Class Year(s): 2016
Note: Patrick Seypura ’16 (SCB) and Sophie Phillips ’16 (CIAS) were married on June 22nd, 2019 in Tarrytown, N.Y. After meeting during their freshmen orientation, Sophie and Patrick quickly became best friends, and later, fell in love. Their celebration was made even more special by those of their RIT family in their wedding party- Christina Rizzetta ’16 (SOIS), Kelly Jo Hill ’17 (SCB), Alex Saunders ’17 (CHST), Justin Simmons ’17 (CAST), & Matt Ballerini ’16(KGCOE) - and all those who surrounded them and came all the way they did!
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Matthew De Persis
Class Year(s): 2007
Note: Matt DePersis MBA ’07 (SCB) recently started a new opportunity at BounceX as Director, Strategy Consulting. BounceX is an international marketing technology solution helping brands drive revenue through identification, personalization and retargeting.
Submitted on: September 18, 2020
Name: Timothy Cosgriff
Class Year(s): 1996
Note: Timothy J. Cosgriff MS ’96 (CAST) has work in the Sweet Creations Exhibition at the George Eastman Museum. His work, "Le Voyage Dans la Lun, Possible!" ss a celebration of the work of Georges M’s and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. The work further celebrates the Museum’s work in film preservation. The gingerbread creation features French explorers with spats, top hats, and umbrellas. Lunar inhabitants, the Selenites, join the explorers. The moon landscape features falling snow and pyrotechnics. Umbrellas that turn into magic mushrooms join the space ship. For the background, Cosgriff features his photographic work, a Lomography Fish Eye image shot on Black and White Film. The free shot image is the Canandaigua Sky taken off a dock in the lake. The exhibit runs until December 15, 2019. Cosgriff’s work is one that will remain on display until January 1, 2020, at the request of Kathy Connor at the Museum. Cosgriff has exhibited in Sweet Creations Exhibit for more than ten years. Cosgriff also has work in the International Art of the Book at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County. His work, Young Frankenstein Steampunk Bookends is an altered book creation. Discarded books, found objects and discarded hardware are the mediums used in this creation. The exhibit will run from 12/4/2019-02/01/2020. This is the third time Cosgriff has exhibited in the International Art of the Book. Previously, Cosgriff was a judge of the exhibit.
Submitted on: September 18, 2020