2011 Summer—Alumni News and Notes 1990s

  James Czapiga ’90 (BUS) is vice president and Connecticut and Rhode Island agency services manager at Stewart Title Guaranty Company. He has served for 15 years in the title insurance industry. Lawrence H. Davis ’90 M.A., ’01 Ph.D. is a professor of history and was awarded tenure at North Shore Community College in Danvers, […]

 

James Czapiga ’90 (BUS) is vice president and Connecticut and Rhode Island agency services manager at Stewart Title Guaranty Company. He has served for 15 years in the title insurance industry.

Lawrence H. Davis ’90 M.A., ’01 Ph.D. is a professor of history and was awarded tenure at North Shore Community College in Danvers, Mass., where he teaches world and European history. He lives with his wife, Donna, and 9-year-old son, Harrison, in Middleton, Mass.

Lisa Ellin ’90 (CLAS) opened a Boston branch of her information technology consulting and staffing company, Safari Technical Staffing. She volunteers at the Suffolk County House of Corrections in South Boston and teaches job-searching strategies to incarcerated males who want to make changes in their lives.

Christine Higgins ’90 (BUS), ’92 M.B.A. is vice president of underwriting at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut. She previously was director of sales for the public  sector sales team and has been with the company since 1992.  She is involved with the company’s employee culture team, which  provides volunteer and financial support to various nonprofit  agencies. She lives with her husband, John, and children, Connor and Tyler, in Stratford, Conn.

Donald J. Costello ’91 (CLAS) is director of the Eye Clinic at St. Thomas Community Health Care Center in New Orleans. He has lived in New Orleans since 1996, residing there with his wife and two sons.

Walter Ellison ’91 M.S. is the  editor of Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Maryland and  the District of Columbia, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in December 2010.

Christine Shaw ’91 (CLAS), ’96 J.D. is chief of staff for Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier, overseeing the operating divisions of the Treasury, including the pension fund, and cash and debt management.

Klarn DePalma ’92 (BUS), vice president and general manager  at WFSB Hartford, was named “General Manager of the Year” by Broadcasting & Cable magazine. He began his career with WFSB as an entry-level salesperson shortly after graduating from UConn.

Traci Mayette ’92 (BUS) is assistant principal at Plainville Middle School. She recently taught seventh and eighth grade at Sedgwick Middle School in West Hartford, Conn., and has held teaching positions in the public and private sectors.

Robert W. Clark ’93 (CLAS), ’97 J.D. is special counsel for legislative affairs for the Connecticut attorney general’s office, where he represents the attorney general before the General Assembly and the constitutional offices. He previously was assistant attorney general in the office’s special litigation department, where he litigated significant and high-profile lawsuits.

Kenneth Wales II ’94 (BUS), ’01 M.B.A. is vice president and relationship manager at RBS Business Capital in Stamford, Conn. He has extensive portfolio, relationship management and credit underwriting experience.

Bill Brough ’95 (CLAS), president of the government affairs firm Brough Consulting, Inc., is serving a four-year term on the Dana Point, Calif., City Council. He is a former presidential appointee, congressional aide and U.S.  Army veteran.

Zygmunt Dembek ’95 Ph.D., ’05 M.P.H., a mobilized Army reservist, presented at the NATO Weapons of Mass Destruction Forensics Conference on the “Discernment between deliberate and natural infectious disease outbreaks,” which is also the title of a review article he published in Epidemiology and Infection in 2007.

Danielle P. Ferrucci ’95 (CLAS), ’99  M.P.A., ’99 J.D. is a partner at law firm Shipman & Goodwin LLP in Hartford, Conn., where she practices in the  areas of estate planning, estate  settlement and trust administration. She lives with her two children in  West Hartford.

Gerald Starsia ’95 M.B.A. defended his dissertation and received a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. He is senior  associate dean for administration and finance at the University  of Virginia.

Michael Carlon ’96 (CLAS) wrote his first novel, One Last Round, published by eBookIt.com in  March and available through  online booksellers.

Diann Nicole (Grammer) Tuck ’96 (CLAS) and Josh Tuck announce the birth of a son, Braden Zachary, on Oct. 13, 2010, in Charlotte, N.C.

Brett Buchheit ’97 (CLAS) started his own law firm, Buchheit & Associates, LLC, in Littleton, Colo. He previously volunteered for the Peace Corps in Morocco before being admitted  to the Colorado Bar. He was  recently honored by the Allen P. Wilson Society for his contributions to at-risk youth.

Abigail (Carreno) Miller ’98 (CANR) and her husband, Rick, announce the birth of a daughter, Nora Dickinson, on July 18, 2010,  in Durham, N.C.

Robert A. Phillips ’98 (CANR), ’01 M.S., is the town planner for Ellington, Conn. He and his wife, Kim, announce the birth of their second child, a daughter, Kayleigh

Jane, on Nov. 4, 2010, who joins  an older brother, Bretton Alan.

Christopher G. Codeanne ’99 M.B.A. is chief financial officer at Premier Research Group Limited, an international pharmaceutical and medical device services company. He previously was chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Oncology Development Partners, LLC. He has more than 20 years of management, operational, finance and accounting experience.

Eugene V. Gartlan ’99 M.B.A. is assistant vice president of Toll Brothers’ Florida West Division.  He previously was senior project manager, responsible for leading sales, marketing, project administration and production.

Timothy Shanahan ’99 (CLAS) is human resources information system manager at Firth Rixson Ltd. in East Hartford, Conn. He previously worked with Valassis Communications, Inc.