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1990-99Updated: 09 May 2008. Katy (Mulderig) Hemme, BJ '98, is an account manager with Momentum in St. Louis, where she works on the Busch Entertainment business. Her clients include Busch Gardens Europe, Water Country USA and Kingsmill Resort & Spa in Williamsburg, Va. She and her husband, Nathan, have a 23-month-old daughter, Maria, and a son, Ethan, born Feb. 17, 2008. Added: May 9, 2008Bill Davis, BJ '94, is director of marketing and corporate communications at Perficient, one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the country according to Fortune, Forbes and Business 2.0 magazines. Added: May 8, 2008 Nick Iannitto, BJ '94, recently joined SOS Video Communications in Columbus, Ohio, as the company's director of business development. Updated: May 6, 2008 Joanie (Higham) Straub, BJ '94, is a marketing communications consultant in Denver. She is married and has two boys. Added: May 5, 2008 Rebecca Taylor, BJ '98, is associate creative director at Kochan & Company Advertising Agency in St. Louis. Added: April 29, 2008 Amy (Bannister) DiGiacomo, BJ '97, married Carlo DiGiacomo on Oct. 20, 2007. Amy is the public relations and marketing manager for Olathe Medical Center and Miami County Medical Center in metropolitan Kansas City, Mo. Updated: April 29, 2008
The photography of Jennifer Loomis, MA '97, will be featured in the April 14 issue of TIME magazine. She specializes in pregnancy photography and has studios in Seattle, San Francisco, New York and Atlanta. Loomis' work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Pregnancy Magazine, Fit Pregnancy, Inside Edition, CBS's Early Show and NPR, among other outlets. Added: April 10, 2008 A magazine story written by Kate Schofield Beem, BJ '91, of Independence, Mo., won second place in the regional and local magazine category of the National Awards of Education Reporting, given by the National Education Writers Association. The award was for "A Higher Education," which ran in October 2007 in The Kansas City Star Magazine. The story was about Dalton (Mo.) Vocational High School, which educated black students during the first half of the 20th century. Added: April 8, 2008 Angie Gaddy, BJ '97, BA '99, has been appointed regional communications manager for the British Columbia & Yukon Region of Canadian Blood Services. The not-for-profit organization manages Canada's blood supply system in all provinces and territories outside of Quebec and oversees the country's OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network. Gaddy lives in the greater Vancouver area with her husband and young son. Updated: April 7, 2008 Dave Burgess, BJ '96, is the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Eufaula, Ala. Prior to accepting this call, Burgess served for four and a half years as the associate pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Oceanside, Calif. Added: March 31, 2008
Victoria (Stokes) Knapp, BJ '92, is the manager of the Division of Continuing Education Office of Marketing and Information at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Added: March 19, 2008 Melanie Coffee, BJ '99, and Jorgen Hesselberg, BJ '98, proudly announce the birth of their first child, Logan Arne Hesselberg, on Aug. 17, 2007. Added: March 19, 2008 Audrey (Finkel) Esposito, BJ '90, is a firefighter/paramedic in suburban Chicago. Added: March 10, 2008 Daniel Pack, BJ '90, is an elementary school teacher at the Shanghai Community International School in Shanghai, China. Added: March 4, 2008 Erin (O'Neill) Koenig, BJ '94, is the media relations coordinator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass. Added: March 3, 2008
Dan Pierce, BJ '99, was promoted to director of international communications at Anheuser-Busch. In his new position, Pierce oversees brand launches and media relations campaigns in new and growing beer markets such as China, India and Russia. He also manages the public relations programs for Budweiser's 2008 Olympic Games and 2010 FIFA World Cup sponsorships. Added: Feb. 26, 2008 Amy Marcus, BJ '93, has been appointed to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the Kansas City office. Added: Feb. 22, 2008 Ursula (Muecke) Fagerstrom, BJ '92, had twin girls, Sela and Sarah, on Nov. 26, 2007. They weighed 5 lbs., 13 oz., and 5 lbs., 15 oz., respectively. The healthy girls join 2-year-old brother Zachary. Added: Feb. 14, 2008
Julie (Finkelstein) Cameron, BJ '91, resides in Lakeland, Tenn., with her husband, Jason, and two dogs, Howie and Petie. She is the director of service operations for American Home Shield. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Krista Kennell, BJ '94, is a freelance photojournalist in Los Angeles. She covers news and Hollywood red carpet. Regularly published in national and international magazines, Kennell got her first cover and a two-page photograph from the 2007 California fires in Time's Annual Year in Review. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Kristin Baird Rattini, BJ '94, is a freelance writer who lives in Howell, N.J., with her husband, Tom, BS '94, and 19-month-old daughter, Emily. They returned to the United States last year after five years in Shanghai, China. Rattini frequently writes about China, travel, arts and culture for in-flight magazines such as American Way and Continental. Added: Feb. 13, 2008
Raegan Rinchiuso, BJ '98, is the marketing and public information specialist at Heartland Community College in Normal, Ill. Updated: Jan. 17, 2008
Amy Lamb, BJ '93, is a senior manager for corporate communications for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. She writes, coordinates and distributes internal announcements for Wal-Mart employees throughout the world. She also reports internally on the company's vast environmental sustainability initiatives. Added: Dec. 18, 2007 Steve Gardberg, BJ '94, is the director of customer relationship management and business systems for The Deal LLC in New York. He will graduate in January 2008 from the Rutgers School of Business with an MBA. After MU, Gardberg worked at Marketing & Technology Group in Chicago and Edgell Communications in New Jersey. He lives with his wife, Amy, and son, Jonah, in Morristown, N.J. Updated: Dec. 13, 2007 John Holloway, BJ '90, is a sales associate with Reece & Nichols Realtors in Prairie Village, Kan. Holloway recently left a 15-year career in newspapers - the last 10 years writing about real estate for The Kansas City Star - to pursue a career in sales. In April, he married Amy Merkel in Kansas City, Mo. They live in Leawood, Kan. This is Holloway's second marriage. His first wife, Colleen, died of ovarian cancer in 2004. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Sherry (Morris) Wohlgemuth, BJ '94, is the director of communications for the Columbia (Mo.) Chamber of Commerce, a position she has held since 1998. Wohlgemuth is a graduate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organizational Management and serves on the board of directors for the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Missouri. She is married to Marty Wohlgemuth, BJ '94, and they have three children, Natalie, Max and Ella. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 David Kligman, BJ '92, is a senior publications manager at AAA in San Francisco. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Jennifer (Sheffield) Freel, BJ '99, married Michael Freel on March 24, 2007. Freel works as an attorney for Vinson & Elkins, LLP, where she is a litigator specializing in First Amendment law. The Freels reside in Austin, Texas. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Jennifer Plunkett Skibins, BJ '96, completed her Master of Social Work in May 2007 and now works in the Intensive Care Unit of North Shore University Hospital in Glen Cove, N.Y. Plunkett Skibins also married fiancée Andrew Skibins in a small ceremony at The Jedediah Hawkins Inn in Jamesport, N.Y. They honeymooned in Belize. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Cathy Senderling-McDonald, BJ '93, is a senior legislative advocate for the County Welfare Directors Association of California. She and her husband, Aaron McDonald, live in Sacramento, Calif. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Dan Spellerberg, BJ '97, and his wife, Michelle, announce the birth of the world's cutest Chicago Cubs fan, Maddox Cameron Spellerberg. Maddox was born March 15, 2007, just in time for the baseball season. Added: Dec. 13, 2007 Dan Migala, BJ '96, was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., with a lifetime pass and membership for advising the Chicago White Sox to change their game times to 7:11 p.m. to appease new sponsor 7-Eleven. Added: Nov. 24, 2007 Jamie (Horn) Collins, BJ '98, recently accepted a brand marketing position at Maritz Inc. Formerly, she was the manager of European communications for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Added: Nov. 19, 2007 T.J. Quinn, BJ '91, has taken a job at ESPN in the 15-person enterprise unit. A former sportswriter for the New York Daily News, Quinn has exposed elements of the sports steroid scandal in recent years. Added: Nov. 15, 2007 Alison Rosenwasser, BJ '99, married Grant Barrick in Minneapolis on Oct. 20, 2007. Several Missouri Journalism alumni attended and/or were involved: matron of honor Lynette (Meachum) Baisch, BJ '99; bridesmaid Rebecca (Sapakie) Charbauski, BJ '99; Jim Charbauski, BJ '98; and Ellie Blankenship, BJ '99. Added: Nov. 15, 2007 Robert Sanchez, BJ '99, and his wife, Kristen, celebrated the birth of their second child, Michael Christian Sanchez, on Feb. 9, 2007. They also have a daughter, Alexandra. Sanchez, formerly a sports enterprise and sports projects writer for The Denver Post, is now a staff writer at 5280 magazine in Denver. Updated: Nov. 14, 2007
Brian Storm, MA '97, won a 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Documentary as co-producer of Kingsley's Crossing, a documentary by Olivier Jobard that details an African immigrant's journey to Europe. Storm is president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio that aims to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism, interactivity, animation, audio and video for distribution across multiple media. Added: Oct. 8, 2007 Nancy (Pasternak) Cunneen, BJ '92, is a freelance anchor/reporter for the Higher Education Channel and producer for Ivanhoe Broadcast News. She also does on-camera and voiceover work through Talent Plus Talent Agency in St. Louis. Cunneen left her position as weekend anchor/reporter at KTVI Fox 2 News after 10 years so she could spend more time with her husband and two children. Added: Oct. 1, 2007 Rebecca (Rausch) Miner, BJ '98, is the deputy director of communications for Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich. Miner began her career as an anchor and political reporter for KQTV in St. Joseph, Mo. In 2001, she became the chief political reporter at WICS-TV in Springfield, Ill., where she covered the governor's 2002 campaign. Blagojevich was the first Democrat elected governor in Illinois in 26 years, and Miner joined his team as press secretary after his first year in office. The administration won a second term in November 2006. Added: Sept. 17, 2007 Dan Gordon, BJ '99, is the managing editor for Dana Press, the publishing branch of a nonprofit, philanthropic foundation. Added: Sept. 7, 2007 Chris Clayton, BJ '93, won the Story of the Year and Writer of the Year awards at the American Agricultural Editors' Association’s annual convention in July. He won for a series of articles on rural Louisiana and Mississippi a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Clayton is an agricultural reporter in Omaha, Neb., for DTN, an online and satellite news provider. Updated: Aug. 28, 2007
Katie Burns, BJ '99, won a silver award at the Society of National Association Publications awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., in June. Burns is a news reporter for the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Her article, "Not enough hours in the day," won second place in the feature magazine category and detailed the growing trend of part-time practice in veterinary medicine. Added: Aug. 6, 2007 Laurie Van Horn, BJ '90, is the communications director for the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park and Winter Park, Colo. Added: July 24, 2007
Kara Choquette, MA '96, has been named corporate communications manager at CH2M HILL OMI, a water and wastewater systems management company based in Englewood, Colo. It is part of CH2M HILL, a $5 billion global firm providing engineering, construction, operations and related technical services to public and private clients. Choquette manages external and internal communications, including media relations, newsletters, Web sites and events. She joined CH2M HILL OMI after nine years in corporate public relations at Xerox Corporation in Rochester, N.Y., and Stamford, Conn. Added: July 23, 2007 Michelle (Corcoran) Baumstark, BJ '98, is the communications coordinator for Columbia (Mo.) Public Schools. She was recently named one of Columbia's Top 20 Under 40 leaders by the Columbia Business Times. Baumstark joined the school district in 2005 after seven years with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in communications and information technology project management. She and her husband, Frank Baumstark, BSN '98, reside in Columbia and are expecting their second daughter in October. Added: July 23, 2007 Craig Potaracke, BJ '96, is a financial services consultant with Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. He is consulting at a leading capital markets firm in New York City but resides in Columbus, Ohio. Added: July 23, 2007 Rick Dunn, BJ '98, is an associate creative director with Barkley, an advertising agency in Kansas City, Mo. Added: July 23, 2007
Elizabeth "Liz" (House) Reckker, BJ '95, M.Ed. '97, and her husband, Chris (BSME '95) had their second son, Tycen Robert, on Feb. 27, 2007. They also have a 3-year-old, Caden Finn. Liz is the admissions facilitator for Special School District of St. Louis (Mo.) County. Added: July 23, 2007 Benjamin Lesser, BJ '99, joined the investigative reporting team at the New York Daily News after six years with The Bergen Record in Bergen County, New Jersey. Added: July 23, 2007 Julie (Kimble) Leenders, BJ '98, is the executive producer for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service's Multi-media Marketing group. She created an in-store television network for the military retailer. Only three other national retailers operate such a network. Added: July 23, 2007 Gordon Young, MA '90, is a former staff writer at alternative newsweeklies in Little Rock, Ark., San Jose, Calif., and San Francisco, Calif. In addition to freelancing, he teaches journalism and advises the student newspaper at Santa Clara University. Young lives in San Francisco. Added: July 23, 2007 Jill (Palucci) Pauly, BJ '97, is a publishing consultant with Wimmer Cookbooks in Memphis, Tenn. She was the 5 p.m. producer for WREG-TV in Memphis for seven years before switching careers. Pauly and her husband, Jonathan, live with their daughter, Olivia, on Memphis' Mud Island. Added: July 23, 2007 Andale Gross, BJ '93, is a reporter with The Associated Press in Kansas City, Mo. Gross started with the AP in October. Before that, he spent nine years as a reporter with the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal. Added: July 23, 2007 Melissa Cuttone, BJ '98, is a senior account executive with the global public relations firm GolinHarris in Chicago, Ill. She previously worked as a writer at FOX Chicago and producer with the HGTV series, "Designed to Sell." Added: July 23, 2007 Suzanne Prather, BJ '91, JD '94, practiced law in the Kansas City area for several years and is in the process of changing careers by enrolling in St. Paul's School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo., to become a Methodist minister. Added: July 23, 2007
Beth Malicki, BJ '99, has been promoted to 5, 6 and 10 p.m. anchor at KCRG-TV9 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Malicki joined KCRG in March of 2005 after spending six years as the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. co-anchor at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo. She was also an adjunct instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism and head of the Target 8 investigative unit at KOMU. Added: July 18, 2007
Jorgen Hesselberg, BJ '98, graduated in June with a Master of Science in Information Technology from Northwestern University. He is a senior project manager for a boutique information technology consultancy in Chicago, Ill. Hesselberg's wife Melanie Coffee, BJ '99, is a supervisor at the Associated Press. Added: July 18, 2007 Tisha Calabrese-Benton, BJ '97, has been promoted to communications director for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Calabrese-Benton has served as the department's deputy communications director since 2004, and she previously worked as the senior executive producer at WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tenn. Added: July 17, 2007 Melissa Nagy Deegan, BJ '94, recently moved her family from downtown Chicago to Naperville, Ill., located in Chicago's western suburbs. Her second son, Jay, was born in November 2006. Nagy Deegan stepped down from her position at the Chicago Tribune following the birth of her first son, Seth, in 2004. She said she would like to start reporting, editing and designing publications and information graphics on a freelance and voluntary basis. Added: July 11, 2007 Brian Timpone, BJ '95, is a co-founder of BlockShopper.com, a new online-only St. Louis, Mo., newspaper that pieces together an array of public records to create an insider look at real estate transactions. Timpone and his partner hope to expand the concept to 40 markets. Added: July 11, 2007 Rachel Cohen, BJ '98, is a director of multi-media marketing at SVP Worldwide in New York. The company owns Singer, Pfaff and Husqvarna Viking sewing machines. Added: June 29, 2007 Carolyn (King) Brinkers, BJ '91, has been promoted to corporate communications supervisor at CH2M HILL OMI, a water and wastewater systems management company based in Englewood, Colo. She is responsible for overseeing the company's internal communications program. Added: June 18, 2007 Allison Girvin, BJ '99, is a writer/producer for Good Morning America. Added: June 13, 2007 Beverly Kitchens Crowell, BJ '91, is the manager of professional development at United Space Alliance in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Added: May 25, 2007 Valon Beasley, BJ '98, owns YNTS: You Need To Succeed, a promotional business in New York City. Added: April 16, 2007 Jennifer (Helfgot) Mandel, BJ '99, is the director of public relations for Infotech Strategies in Washington, D.C., whose clients include LeapFrog SchoolHouse, DELL and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Added: March 26, 2007 Kristyn Dunlap, BJ '99, is the management supervisor on the Miller High Life account at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder, Colo. Updated: March 22, 2007 Denise Rehrig, BJ '98, is a senior producer for Good Morning America in New York, N.Y. Added: March 21, 2007 Cindy Monticue, BJ '91, is the director of marketing communications at the University of Southern California's School of Social Work. In December 2006, she received a gold medal for best student recruitment publication from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) regional competition for educational publications. Monticue also received a silver medal for best print advertisement. Added: March 5, 2007
Kevin Worley, BJ '94, is a producer, writer and publicist for Wide Awake Films in Kansas City, Mo. Added: March 2, 2007
Jennifer (Osborne) Loheac, BJ '96, is an attorney specializing in common interest community law. Loheac is the former head of broadcast television for the American Stock Exchange in New York, N.Y. She and her husband have three children. Added: Feb. 20, 2007 Nate Trela, BJ '98, is an assistant metro editor at the Detroit (Mich.) Free Press. Trela first served as Macomb County bureau chief for the Free Press and is now overseeing education coverage. He and his wife, Michelle (McGraw) Trela, BA '97, have a four-year-old daughter, Mairead Kelly-McGraw Trela, and a son, August Joseph-McGraw Trela, born Oct. 11, 2006. Added: Feb. 20, 2007
Donna Pitman, BJ '97, is a morning anchor at KMBC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Kansas City, Mo. She said she enjoys her job, despite the early morning hours: "I go to sleep before most anyone between the ages of 4 and 84, but it's a great job and I still feel lucky I get to do it!" Added: Feb. 15, 2007
Stuart Goldman, BJ '96, is the new managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine, a publication that brings news, trends, analysis and ideas to those involved in the health and fitness industry. Most recently, Goldman was the sports editor at The Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, where he worked for four years. Goldman won numerous awards in the annual Kansas Newspaper Association contest, including best sports feature, sports story and sports column. He also served as a sportswriter at The Kansas City Star and continues to contribute as a freelancer there. In 2000, Goldman published a book about Kansas City's Ban Johnson Amateur Baseball League. Added: Feb. 15, 2007 Ron Sammons, BJ '95, has been promoted to client reference manager at Cerner Corporation (Kansas City, Mo.) and relocated to Chicago, Ill., in December 2006. Added: Feb. 14, 2007 Laura Howe, BJ '95, is the director of disaster public affairs for the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Howe, who was recently appointed, oversees all public affairs, media relations and crisis communication efforts for Red Cross disaster relief operations across the United States. Added: Feb. 14, 2007
Shalini Choudhary, MA '97, has worked as a Web producer and project manager in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Calif., area for the last 10 years. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Scott Serio, BJ '94, is a detective sergeant for the Baltimore (Md.) Police Department assigned to the Citywide Robbery Unit. Scott currently resides in Cecil County, Md., and is married with two daughters. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Kimberly (Speight) Nordyke, MA '99, is a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter, a daily trade magazine for the entertainment industry based in Los Angeles, Calif. Nordyke covers the television industry, including news related to programming, ratings and executives, as well as industry events such as the Emmys and Golden Globes. On Feb. 11, 2006, she married Brett Nordyke. They reside in Tarzana, Calif. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Jennie Coughlin, BJ '99, has been promoted to data/delivery editor at The (Staunton, Va.) News Leader. She had been the assistant city editor. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Tracey Parker, BJ '94, is working on her doctorate in South Asian literature at the University of Arkansas. She received a master's degree in English at Missouri State University in 2002 after working for a number of years as a paralegal. Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Lynn (Weddle) Judkins, BJ '93, practices law in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Judkins left the marketing world in non-for-profit management in 1996 to pursue a law degree, which she received in 1999. She is licensed in Missouri and Kansas, specializing in construction litigation, real estate and contracts, product liability and personal injury law. Added: Feb. 12, 2007
Meredith Artley, BJ '95, Paris-based digital development director of the New York Times Co.'s International Herald Tribune and former associate editor of NYTimes.com, will lead The Los Angeles Times' online newsroom and manage the day-to-day editorial operations in the newly-created position of executive editor, latimes.com. She will oversee an expansion of the staff and redesign of the Web site as well as play a key role in integrating The Times' print and online resources. Added: Feb. 7, 2007 Ianthe Jackson Zabel, BJ '98, is the new director of external affairs for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Previously she served as the communications director for the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, working with Committee Chairman Bill Thomas on media strategy, coordination and interview preparation. Added: Jan. 22, 2007 Kelly Flynn, BJ '91, and husband Navy Cmdr. Michael Dargel of Bellevue, Neb., announce the birth of Ava Marie Dargel on July 12, 2006. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Craig Wojcik, BJ '94, is vice president of operations and communications at .decimal, Inc., in Sanford, Fla. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Amie Stein, BJ '95, has been named associate publisher at the Germantown and Collierville Appeal, a suburban affiliate of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. Previously, she was with the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis (Mo.) as an associate publisher for three of its weekly newspapers. Added: Jan. 3, 2007 Rie Woodward, MA '99, will be an assistant professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the director of photography for the Columbia Missourian, effective January 2007. She has served as a photo editor for The New York Times and The New York Times on the Web and as a teaching professional at New York University's Department of Journalism and the International Center of Photography, also in New York. Added: Dec. 6, 2006 Chris Best, BJ '97, is the assistant news director at WKMG, the Orlando (Fla.) CBS affiliate. Prior to working for WKMG, Best was the executive producer for both KCTV in Kansas City and KFVS in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Added: Nov. 20, 2006
Denise Vickers, BJ '90, is news director for WHNT-TV Channel 19 in Huntsville, Ala. Mary Byrne, BJ '91, is the deputy sports editor of The Associated Press. Mitchell Jay Lazar, BJ '92, is vice president, Business Development Europe with Yahoo, Inc., in London. Stephanie C. Luntsford, BJ '91, has purchased the law practice of Karl L. Madden, Jr., in Moberly, Mo. She is also a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law.
Kelsey Cothern Gonzalez, BJ '94, is a freelance writer in Chicago. Dottie Snyder Martin, BJ '94, is a Web copy editor at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. She works with content related to movies, music and television for MSN Entertainment. Aaron Lyons, BJ '94, is partner with Hamburg & Lyons, L.L.C. in Springfield, Mo. Mark Mollenkamp, BJ '94, writer and director of the short film, "Lure," was accepted as one of 39 narrative short film directors in the Tribeca Film festival's official competition. More than 2,200 short films were submitted for consideration. "I was thrilled to be accepted to such a prestigious festival. The level of support for independent film is amazing in New York, so you're playing to full houses, even if your film isn't a mainstream Hollywood flick," Mollenkamp explained. "The highlight of the festival for me was the directors' brunch. (Robert) DeNiro himself was there." Executive producer on the film, Kimberly (Koehly) LaVasseur, BJ '94, is an advertising-sequence classmate of Mollenkamp. Denis Storey, BJ '94, is editor of Wiesner Publishing in Centennial, Colo. Tisha Bardin, BJ '95, lives in Franklin, Tenn. Elsiyah (Elsie) Susanto, BJ '95, is the deputy managing director of Cakram, the leading journal in Indonesia for advertising, public relations, marketing and brand managers. She recently led the team that revamped the entire magazine. Justin Antoniotti, BJ '96, is assistant news director with WISN-TV12 in Milwaukee, Wis. Cassandra Sweet, MA '96, is news editor with Dow Jones Newswires in Jersey City, N.J. Andriana Thro, BJ '96, is a marketing specialist with Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis. Steve Hurlbert, BJ '97, is director of media relations with the Albuquerque Isotopes Baseball Club, in Albuquerque, N.M.
Jill Palucci Pauly, BJ '97, and husband Jonathan are parents of Olivia Marie Pauly, born, May 17, 2006. Olivia weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz. They live in Memphis, Tenn. Katie Kelley, BJ '98, and Raegan Rinchiuso, BJ '98, teamed up with their fathers for the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati in May. Their team, nicknamed "The Boars and Piglets," finished in 4:12:23. When not racing, Kelley is the content editor of CiN Weekly, and Rinchuiso is the marketing and public information specialist for Heartland Community College in Normal, Ill. Nekisha Williams, BJ '98, is marketing manager with Twentieth Century Fox in Los Angeles. Stacy Rutter, BJ '99, is director, marketing and communications, at Life University in Marietta, Ga. 
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