Past Class Notes

Submission Date:
First Name: Dr. Kara
Last Name: Calandrelli
Class Year: 1999
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Dr. Calandrelli DHA 2023
Note: Kara Calandrelli BFA ’99 obtained her Doctorate in Healthcare Administration from the University of Lynchburg in 2023. She is in healthcare administration in Western New York.
Submission Date:
First Name: Jonathan
Last Name: Gippe
Class Year: 1996
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Jonathan (Jon) D. Gippe, Sr., MBA, PMP '96 (CAST
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.
Submission Date:
First Name: Lou
Last Name: Iannone
Class Year: 90,92
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Lou Iannone
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.
Submission Date:
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Saffran
Class Year: 2008
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Michael Saffran ’08 (CLA)
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.”
Submission Date:
First Name: Edgar
Last Name: Praus
Class Year: 1971, 1972
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The price of film is driving me over the falls
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