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Christopher A. Bleck ’80 (PHR),’88 MBA, chief commercial officer of the life sciences company OvaScience in Cambridge, Mass., was appointed to the Product Advisory Board of Alcresta, a company that creates enzyme-based products to help those battling diseases or chronic conditions.
William Hagist ’80 MBA is the president and CEO of the Enfield (Conn.) Community Federal Credit Union. He also served on the Enfield Community Federal Credit Union Board of Directors.
Lee Schweninger ’80 MA is author of Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film, published in May by the University of Georgia Press. He is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, N.C.
Julia (DiCorleto) Gibson ’81 (ENG), general manager of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics in Aurora, Ohio, was one of 122 women honored nationally by the Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte, University of Phoenix, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers with the Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Production) Award for achieving excellence in manufacturing.
Deborah Hubbell ’81 (PHR), assistant director and coordinator of clinical support services at UConn Student Health Services, is a board member-at-large of the American College Health Association.
Kerri Mansberg ’81 (CANR), ’86 MBA founded KLM Vendor Solutions, a consulting firm based in Ashford, Conn., which works with health plans and employer groups.
Isabel (Munat) Cole ’82 (CLAS) graduated cum laude from Seattle University School of Law after being an air traffic controller for 22 years.
James Cotter ’82 (BUS) is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Naugatuck Valley Financial Corp. in Naugatuck, Conn.
Wayne Patenaude ’82 (BUS) is president and CEO of Cambridge (Mass.) Savings Bank and Cambridge Financial Group Inc. He has held several executive positions in Connecticut and Massachusetts banks.
Lee Schlesinger ’82 (BUS), associate director for Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury, received the Mary H. Connolly Community Caring Award in April for outstanding service to the United Way and the entire community.
Robert DeAngelis ’83 (BUS) is the executive managing director at Tiger Group in Boston, an asset management company. His responsibilities include corporate development and strategies, special projects, and debt capital opportunities.
Donna Johnson ’83 MA was one of six poets selected by the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series to publish a collection of her poems titled Selvage.
Stephen Kolenda ’83 MBA, professor of business administration and accounting at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., presented his paper titled “China’s Economic Incursion into Laos” at the annual conference of the ASIANetwork, a network of 160 U.S. colleges and universities that foster Asian studies, in Nashville, Tenn.
Thomas P. Parrino ’83 (CLAS), attorney at law and principal of Nusbaum & Parrino P.C., a family law firm based in Westport, Conn., was selected as the 2013 Lawyer of the Year in the field of family law by Best Lawyers.
Catherine (Nettles) Cutter ’84 (CANR),’87 MS is a professor and food safety extension specialist in the Department of Food Science at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa. She previously worked for the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Clay Center, Neb.
Robert L. Hough ’84 MS was recognized as the Penn State Department of Animal Science’s Animal Science Distinguished Alumnus for 2013. He previously served as CEO of Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) and has published more than 300 scientific articles.
Paul Kauffman ’84 (BUS) is managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle in Stamford, Conn. He has 28 years of experience in real estate.
Anthony C. Pecci ’84 MS is senior vice president of Dewberry’s Bloomfield, N.J., office, an architecture, engineering, and management and consulting services company. He has worked with Dewberry for 27 years.
Scott Lewis ’85 (BUS) is senior vice president and controller of The Hartford, where he is responsible for accounting operations.
Mark Rubino ’85 (BUS) was admitted into the partnership at KPMG LLP. He has been with KPMG since 2008, working in the general counsel’s office as the firm’s chief investigative counsel.
Barry Bernabe ’86 (BUS), ’90 MBA is senior vice president, Government Banking Group, at Webster Bank in Hartford, Conn.
Nicholas Giardina ’86 (ENG) is a senior project manager and the manager for the Transportation and Infrastructure Group at BL Companies, an architecture, engineering, environmental, and land surveying firm based in Connecticut. He previously served as the deputy civil department manager for a national consulting firm in Rocky Hill, Conn.
Edward F. Lange ’86 MBA is CEO of Holiday Retirement, a senior-living community with more than 300 locations throughout the United States and Canada.
Geraldine “Geri” (Fitapelli) Armalavage ’87 (BUS), managing member of Armalavage Valuation, LLC in Naples, Fla., is chairman of the board of Valbridge Property Advisors, a national organization with headquarters in Naples that provides independent valuation and advisory services to clients.
Emilio F. Grillo ’87 (CLAS) is an attorney at Goldberg Segalla LLP in Manhattan. He has been an attorney for 20 years, serving people and companies in the Connecticut and New York areas.
Todd A. Krygier ’87 (BUS) is the coach of the Muskegon Lumberjacks, a Tier 1 junior hockey team in Michigan.
James Towey ’87 (ENG), ’96 MBA is the director of engineering at Onset Computer Corporation Inc. in Bourne, Mass. He has a background in product development, engineering R&D, design, manufacturing, and support.
David L. Albrycht ’89 MBA, CFA, president, and chief investment officer of Newfleet Asset Management LLC in Hartford, Conn., was inducted into the Central Connecticut State University Business Hall of Honors.
Paul R. Ballasy ’89 (BUS) is serving a three-year term on the board of directors of the Connecticut Association of Nonprofits, where he also serves on the Finance Committee.
Deborah Gordon ’89 MBA is chief learning and development officer at Boyden World Corp. in Purchase, N.Y.
Donald White ’89 (BUS), ’00 MBA is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Salisbury Bank and Trust Co. in Lakeville, Conn.
