Past Class Notes
Submission Date:
First Name: Rachelle
Last Name: (Danno) Latona
Class Year: 2009
Photo:
London & Levi
Note: Rachelle (Danno) Latona '09 (CAST) and Lawrence Latona welcomed a son into the world in May 2021. Big sister, London Rose, and little brother, Levi Theodore, are adjusting well to being lifelong best friends.
Submission Date:
First Name: Natalia
Last Name: Dempsey
Class Year: 2017
Photo:
Dempsey + Nagawiecki Wedding
Note: Natalia Dempsey '17 (COLA) and Szymon Nagawiecki '18 (CAST) were married on September 18, 2021. Natalia and Szymon met on Natalia's first day at RIT as a transfer student. They were surrounded by friends, family and fellow tigers at their wedding.
Submission Date:
First Name: Sara
Last Name: Pilson
Class Year: 2017
Photo:
Note: Sara Pilson ’17 (COS) joined the Garden City office of Goldberg Segalla, a national civil litigation firm. Sara focuses her practice on intellectual property, trademark registration and litigation, helping to protect her clients’ business-related ideas, inventions, imagery, and creative compositions. She has drafted and submitted claims for semiconductor and mechanical patents to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and responded to actions in trademark, copyright, and patent prosecution matters. She has also composed legal memoranda for a variety of intellectual property issues, including fair use. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at RIT, Sara earned her juris doctor at the Fordham University School of Law. Her clients often benefit from her background in science, which includes experience as an advanced undergraduate research assistant at the Rochester Institute of Technology as well as a National Science Foundation fellowship at the University of Cincinnati.
Submission Date:
First Name: Megan
Last Name: Fritts
Class Year: 2008, 2018
Photo:
Couple surrounded by RIT Tiger Family (Alums and employees)
Note: Megan Fritts '08 (CIAS) MS '18 (SOIS) and Anthony Critelli BS '14 (GCCIS) MS '19 (GCCIS) were married on May 29, 2021. Megan and Anthony met at RIT and started dating a few years later. They were surrounded by many RIT alums and current staff at their wedding.
Submission Date:
First Name: Kelly
Last Name: Vanderwerff
Class Year: 2019
Photo:
Kelly Vanderwerff, Senior Research Engineer, at Raven Industries in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Photo courtesy of Raven Industries.
Note: Kelly Vanderwerff (CIAS) has worked at Raven Industries for four years. She is a Senior Research Engineer and the company recently wrote a feature story about her career at the leading autonomous agricultural technology company. Kellys says it's an amazing opportunity to shape the technology that farmers of the future are implementing in their operations across the country, and that Raven is developing autonomous technology faster than most companies in the field. Raven Industries is investing in recruiting engineering excellence to build the path forward. Kelly would love to see more RIT graduates join the company!
The feature article is available online here: https://ravenind.com/careers/engineers/finding-connection-collaboration-through-data-at-raven
Raven would be happy to share publishing permissions to reach the RIT alumni network! Feel free to email Kelly's colleague Lisa McElrath at lisa.mcelrath@ravenind.com or (605) 336-2750 and she can send you the copy and more images.
The feature article is available online here: https://ravenind.com/careers/engineers/finding-connection-collaboration-through-data-at-raven
Raven would be happy to share publishing permissions to reach the RIT alumni network! Feel free to email Kelly's colleague Lisa McElrath at lisa.mcelrath@ravenind.com or (605) 336-2750 and she can send you the copy and more images.