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James Czapiga \u201990 (BUS)<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n Lawrence H. Davis \u201990 M.A.<\/strong>, \u201901 Ph.D.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n Lisa Ellin \u201990 (CLAS)<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n Christine Higgins \u201990 (BUS)<\/strong>, \u201992 M.B.A.<\/strong> is vice president of underwriting at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut. She previously was director of sales for the public \u00a0sector sales team and has been with the company since 1992. \u00a0She is involved with the company\u2019s employee culture team, which \u00a0provides volunteer and financial support to various nonprofit \u00a0agencies. She lives with her husband, John, and children, Connor and Tyler, in Stratford, Conn.<\/p>\n Donald J. Costello \u201991 (CLAS)<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n Walter Ellison \u201991 M.S.<\/strong> is the \u00a0editor of Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Maryland and \u00a0the District of Columbia<\/em>, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in December 2010.<\/p>\n Christine Shaw \u201991 (CLAS)<\/strong>, \u201996 J.D.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n Klarn DePalma \u201992 (BUS)<\/strong>, vice president and general manager \u00a0at WFSB Hartford, was named \u201cGeneral Manager of the Year\u201d by Broadcasting & Cable <\/em>magazine. He began his career with WFSB as an entry-level salesperson shortly after graduating from UConn.<\/p>\n Traci Mayette \u201992 (BUS)<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n Robert W. Clark \u201993 (CLAS)<\/strong>, \u201997 J.D.<\/strong> is special counsel for legislative affairs for the Connecticut attorney general\u2019s office, where he represents the attorney general before the General Assembly and the constitutional offices. He previously was assistant attorney general in the office\u2019s special litigation department, where he litigated significant and high-profile lawsuits.<\/p>\n Kenneth Wales II \u201994 (BUS)<\/strong>, \u201901 M.B.A.<\/strong> is vice president and relationship manager at RBS Business Capital in Stamford, Conn. He has extensive portfolio, relationship management and credit underwriting experience.<\/p>\n Bill Brough \u201995 (CLAS)<\/strong>, 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. \u00a0Army veteran.<\/p>\n Zygmunt Dembek \u201995 Ph.D.<\/strong>, \u201905 M.P.H.<\/strong>, a mobilized Army reservist, presented at the NATO Weapons of Mass Destruction Forensics Conference on the \u201cDiscernment between deliberate and natural infectious disease outbreaks,\u201d which is also the title of a review article he published in Epidemiology and Infection<\/em> in 2007.<\/p>\n Danielle P. Ferrucci \u201995 (CLAS)<\/strong>, \u201999 \u00a0M.P.A.<\/strong>, \u201999 J.D.<\/strong> is a partner at law firm Shipman & Goodwin LLP in Hartford, Conn., where she practices in the \u00a0areas of estate planning, estate \u00a0settlement and trust administration. She lives with her two children in \u00a0West Hartford.<\/p>\n Gerald Starsia \u201995 M.B.A.<\/strong> 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 \u00a0associate dean for administration and finance at the University \u00a0of Virginia.<\/p>\n Michael Carlon \u201996 (CLAS)<\/strong> wrote his first novel, One Last Round<\/em>, published by eBookIt.com in \u00a0March and available through \u00a0online booksellers.<\/p>\n Diann Nicole (Grammer) Tuck \u201996 (CLAS)<\/strong> and Josh Tuck announce the birth of a son, Braden Zachary, on Oct. 13, 2010, in Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n Brett Buchheit \u201997 (CLAS)<\/strong> started his own law firm, Buchheit & Associates, LLC, in Littleton, Colo. He previously volunteered for the Peace Corps in Morocco before being admitted \u00a0to the Colorado Bar. He was \u00a0recently honored by the Allen P. Wilson Society for his contributions to at-risk youth.<\/p>\n Abigail (Carreno) Miller \u201998 (CANR)<\/strong> and her husband, Rick, announce the birth of a daughter, Nora Dickinson, on July 18, 2010, \u00a0in Durham, N.C.<\/p>\n Robert A. Phillips \u201998 (CANR)<\/strong>, \u201901 M.S.<\/strong>, is the town planner for Ellington, Conn. He and his wife, Kim, announce the birth of their second child, a daughter, Kayleigh<\/p>\n Jane, on Nov. 4, 2010, who joins \u00a0an older brother, Bretton Alan.<\/p>\n Christopher G. Codeanne \u201999 M.B.A.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n Eugene V. 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