Malcolm Aalders, ('02), is in graduate school in the Netherlands, in Wester University's media communication program, where he is focusing on marketing and advertising. According to Malcolm, the Department prepared him well for his work there.

Laura Andrews, ('05), won a Regents Scholarship upon graduation and started graduate school in the communication studies program at Kent State University, where she is focusing on mass communication. Because of her record, Laura also won a graduate assistantship that paid for all of her tuition and provided her with a stipend. In exchange, Laura served as an adviser for undergraduate students. In one of her graduate classes her first semester, the instructor told the other students that since Laura wrote a major research project her last year in college that anyone with questions about research should ask her! In her "free" time, Laura was also working at two radio stations in the area.

Crystal Antonace, ('06), did a marketing internship in the summer of 2005 in New York City for a company called Symrise that specializes in fragrances such as Estee Lauder and Chanel. Crystal began the master's program in sociology/anthropology at the University of Chicago, Loyola, in the fall of 2006.

Marissa Bambrey Wolfe, ('05), married in the summer of 2005 and completed the master's program at the University of Illinois' Department of Communication, where she focused on rhetorical studies. She taught two sections of Communication 111 in the fall and had a research assistantship in the spring. Upon her degree completion, Marissa began the job search process.

Andrew Beltz, ('04), went to Japan after graduation to visit his Aunt Barbara and Uncle Joe in Kyoto. After spending a night with his 6 foot-plus frame cramped inside one of the available "capsule hotels" (6 ft. X 3 ft. X 3 ft. boxes that are stacked in rows on top of each other for people to sleep in), Andrew declared that "Japan is not for tall people." Upon his return, he worked for the Office of Medicaid in Ohio. Andrew relocated this past year to Boston where-just coincidentally, we're sure-his girlfriend had moved and his sister and her family live. Andrew is now working as an administrative assistant with Boston Medical Center's Commonwealth Care Department. "The Commonwealth is promising universal healthcare, and I get to see it up close. I've been thrown into a world of confusion and excitement and I really got what I was asking for: a job where I will learn tons!"

Brian ('02) and Beth Carlisle wed in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in November 2004 and have relocated to the Midwest.

Ming Chang, ('93), is living in Copley, Ohio and is project manager for Sunrise Medical.

Jeff Clapacs, ('07), will attend Miami University in the fall to earn a master's in the Physical Education Department as a step toward his dream of coaching basketball.

Aqueelah Collier, ('99), is the Director of Youth Ministries at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica (Queens, New York). In April 2005, she took 34 teens from the church to England on a trip.

Cort Cunningham, ('00), recently left Gotham, Inc., in the Big Apple to work as Director of Advertising & Brand Development for Priceline.com.

Katherine Dugan, ('00), is working as a corporate communication assistant for the Carlisle Group in Washington, D.C.

Paul Elliott, ('97), left Things Remembered in June 2004 to launch his own company, Emergent Marketing.

When we last heard, Allison Erk, ('00), was headed toward the completion of her master's degree in elementary education and continued to coach and substitute teach. She wed Jon Edwards in the summer of 2005, and they now reside in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Lisa Fellows, ('06), finally had that knee surgery she was putting off and is healing nicely. Best of all, she got the good news in June that she's been named a program director for City Year Cleveland, a position she very much wanted. In 2006, she worked for Upward Bound.

Mindy Fichter, ('04), spent the summer of 2004 working in San Diego and then moved to Greenwich Village where, at last word, she was interning with the publishing house of Farrar, Straus, & Giroux and working other jobs to help make ends meet. Nonetheless, she has still found time to volunteer at an animal shelter called Mighty Mutts.

Updated 3/27/08: Mindy is living in Brooklyn, NY and is a Publicist for Penguin Book Publishing

Jim Gilchrist, ('04), graduated with his law degree from West Virginia State University in the spring of 2007. He and his fiancee, Jessica, were making wedding plans for this summer.

Ryan Gorman, ('99), is a sales manager at Tri*Source Title Agency in Columbus, Ohio, and also is working on his Masters of Science in Marketing and Communication at Franklin University. "Believe it or not," he said, but he was doing extremely well in all his classes. (Hey Ryan, don't sound so surprised! :). He adds, "I take back all of the cursing under my breath at 4 a.m. in Kenarden Hall while working on my IS." In addition, he's been doing some work for Franklin University in their TV commercials and billboards.

Shazia Habib married Michael Dalichau, whom she originally met at Wooster while a student here, and they have moved to Dayton, Ohio.

Suzanne (Roberts) Herbek, ('99), got married to Mark Herbek in July 2005. "I had to go as far as the state of Nebraska to find a man that would put up with me!" In 2006, her father retired, and Suzanne purchased his manufacturer's representative business, where she had worked for over six years, and is now running the business herself. In her last email, Suzanne also reported that she and Mark were expecting their first child in July 2007. She warned, "Anyway, beware of anyone in the 2025 first year class at Wooster with the last name Herbek. . . ."

Paul Hiller, ('05),is working for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. The Center provides programs for academically talented pre-K through 12th grade students. He also adds that he is living near Wrigley Field (go Cubs!).

Christian Hunter, ('00), has left Hospice of the Western Reserve to start his own company, Wintergreen Marketing, which focuses on creating custom multimedia Flash and Powerpoint presentations for companies.

Tricia (Smith) James, ('97), and husband, Peter James, are the proud parents of Emily Keene, born in July 2005. After Emily's birth, Tricia left her position as Director of Development at Wooster to take care of her "most important project to date," but has also been doing part-time consulting work with the Wooster Community Hospital.

Jen Jenkins, ('04), has been working as a financial planner for a dental implant center and is considering graduate school.

Nick Jones, ('05), is working for the Children's Hunger Alliance in Columbus, Ohio, as an Americorps for Healthy Kids Member. He reports that he is "teaching underprivileged kids lessons on the importance of nutrition and physical activity. I can't tell you how much CCG has helped."

Isaac O. Kidd and Estella Anku, both ('02), wed in 2005 in Ghana. In March 2006, they became the proud parents of Peyton, a beautiful baby girl, and currently reside in Cleveland. Isaac delivered the keynote address at the Men of Harambee Formal in April 2006. His speech was entitled, "Past, Present, and Future: Our Continued Development on an Ever-Changing Campus."

Bethany King, ('07), will begin her master's degree in social work at Case Western this fall.

Leah Koontz, ('05), is a sales representative for W.W. Norton and Company. Anyone who knows Leah can somehow imagine her selling books!

Ian Leister, ('01), is working in medical sales in the West Cleveland area.

Carly Loehrke, ('07), was The College of Wooster's female nominee for an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. In July, she left-on her birthday-for Benin in West Africa where she will spend two years in the Peace Corps.

Dave Lohr, ('01), after completing his law degree and working in the "lawyering business," decided that he'd like to become a high school teacher. To meet that end, he has begun to take classes toward his master's degree and certification. In addition, he is volunteering for Street Sense (streetsense.org), a homeless newspaper in DC, by covering legislation that affects the homeless community. Dave has also taken up running marathons since his graduation from Woo.

Corey Maras, ('06), came through Wooster on a quick visit this summer. Corey is working at M&T Bank where he does a variety of things, from basic data entry dealing with commercial loans to larger project management activities, which he finds particularly interesting and challenging. Corey also reports that he is thinking of beginning part-time work on a M.S. degree in a communication and leadership program that is _ communication and _ MBA courses. "I enjoyed school a lot more than I think I ever let on." He recently relocated to Buffalo to be closer to work.

Wade Martin, ('05), has completed his MBA at Ohio University this past year and his masters in sports administration in 2007.

Karl Mawhinney, ('01), worked at Penn State in the Athletic Department for two years and then moved to the Atlantic 10 Conference for another two years. In 2005, he accepted a new job as Assistant Commissioner for Marketing and Sales at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, where he oversees all corporate sponsorships, sales, marketing, and promotions for the conference, including negotiating TV deals with ESPN.

Julie (Woods) McFarland, ('02), accepted a new position in February 2005 as the Public Education/Outreach Coordinator for the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in the Department of Migration and Refugee Services. She was hired to work on a national campaign to influence comprehensive immigration reform in favor of immigrants. (We suspect she has been rather busy lately!)

Dresden McIntosh, ('02), married Clinton Farrand in 2005 and also entered the Master of Public Administration Program in the Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she currently is finishing her degree. In the summer before starting at Truman, she landed a job in the Office of Undergraduate Research and said "thank the IS again on that one!". Best of all, Dresden learned this spring that she had been offered full funding for the public policy analysis doctoral program at St. Louis University that was her top choice-a particularly outstanding feat since the school only gives a handful of such awards each year. Prior to entering graduate school, Dresden worked in Field Operations for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Public Policy Division in Washington, DC.

Deval Mehta, ('05), settled in Washington, DC, where he worked as the network administrator who provided technical support for 100 users in the investment group of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). At the end of July, he accepted a new position as a technical writer and was making plans to apply for graduate school in management information systems.

Jen Metzger, ('07), just took a full-time position with DeVry University as their center support coordinator at the Rockside branch in Seven Hills, Ohio. Best of all, DeVry is covering the costs of sending Jen to school to get her MBA with a concentration in marketing.

Emily Moore, ('05), is studying in the Accelerated BSN Nursing Program at Akron University. She reports that her acceptance into the program hung heavily on her Communication Studies Senior IS that examined nurses' communication with the families of terminally ill children. When her advisor at Akron called to tell her that she had been admitted, he said that everyone on the admissions committee had been very impressed with her IS and that the Dean of the Nursing School took it home and read it. In fact, as a result of the school's experience with Emily and her IS, it is changing its entire application process. Emily wrote Professor Bostdorff that this news "may help motivate your students" through the IS process.

Amy (Tsacoumangos) Mulligan ('00) and Guy Mulligan ('01) married in '04 just welcomed a baby boy, Grayson Thomas Mulligan in July '07. Guy will be finishing up his internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan this summer and will be working on an endocrinology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. Amy finished her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Toledo in '07 and works as a part-time pharmacist and a full-time mom.

David Murray, ('05), worked at basketball camps during the summer of 2005 and was preparing to take classes to become a firefighter.

Michael O'Neil, ('03), is the Midwest Finance Director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Prior to this position, he worked with the Howard Dean campaign and then the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. During the fall 2006 Ohio senatorial campaign, Michael was the Finance Director for Sherrod Brown and, after the election, even found time to come down to Wooster to talk to Professor Bostdorff's Political Rhetoric class.

Jeff Pacini, ('02), married Megan Kotis, another Wooster grad, in June 2005. He also completed graduate school at Ohio University, where he earned his MBA and his masters of sports administration. He then moved to New York City where he was working with the National Basketball Association's league office in the Global Marketing Partnerships division. Jeff works with NBA marketing partners like McDonald's, Nike, Reebok, and Nokia. According to Jeff, "The NBA is extremely popular internationally, so I will spend time in China and other parts of the world working with companies on marketing initiatives. It is a fast-paced environment, so I am doing my best to keep up. Each day I find myself learning so much, which makes it quite rewarding."

Stacie Packard, ('01), completed a master's degree in psychology and recently "finished up my 4th thesis (counting junior and senior ones at Wooster)" to complete her Ed.S at Miami University of Ohio. She's currently looking for a position that still has ties back to her Senior IS: working with students at Learning Centers to help them do well in school.

Amit Pandya, ('97), assumed the role of Senior Marketing Manager for Community Development Banking and Multicultural Marketing at Key Bank in Cleveland, Ohio, a position that he was extremely excited to assume. And although he was unable to continue with his restaurant, Amit was deeply touched when subscribers to Cleveland Magazine named Indigo the best Indian restaurant in the 2005 Silver Spoon Awards.

Ryan Pedon, ('00), is Director of Basketball Operations at Kent State University.

Cory Phillips, ('03), is hard at work in law school at Capital University.

Jenn Pock, ('01), is teaching a combination third/fourth grade class in Denver, Colorado, and is the proud adoptive parent of a Yorkshire terrier, Harvey.

Andrew Prusinski, ('06), is working in college admissions for Marietta College and enjoying his work there.

Adam and Amanda (Newman) Pushkas, ('00), are still living and working in Budapest. They both completed graduate school there and, Amanda says, IS made writing their graduate school theses a breeze. In the spring of 2006, they were awaiting the birth of their first child.

Ravinder Rai, ('02), has been working for the Department of Homeland Security.

Katherine Randall, ('01), married her Wooster sweetheart, Muluso Shamapande, in Maine in 2005. Katherine is working at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Alexandria, Virginia, while Muluso works as a LPN at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and is working on his RN.

Ann Raymond, ('02), finished her master's degree in journalism at Temple University and then began her job as a communication assistant with the Big East Athletic Conference. In June 2004, she married Rotimi Sofoluwe-and is now Ann Sofoluwe (Show-Fo-Lou-Wet). Rotimi, who hails from Nigeria, is working on his master's degree in electrical engineering. At last word, Ann and Rotimi had just moved to Detroit.

Antwyan Reynolds, ('02), is working with young people at a residential drug treatment center in Mansfield, Ohio.

Katherine (Varney) Ritchie, ('00), and Brian Ritchie became the proud parents of Jack Nicholas in June 2005, and Katherine even made it back for a visit to Woo with Mr. Jack in the fall of 2005. After leaving her admissions position at Wittenberg, Katherine is now staying home with Jack and working part-time processing undergraduate applications for Ohio State University.

Khisekh Salaam, ('06), worked for a year at a bookstore in New York City where she did web design, planned events, produced the newsletter, and worked in sales. As of this spring, she was in the process of relocating to Baltimore.

Christian Saulnier, ('00), won $500,000 as a contestant on the game show, Identity, this past spring, in which he had to use largely nonverbal cues to guess individuals' professions and/or experiences-just putting that nonverbal communication knowledge to work!

Kim Schaefer, ('97), taught English in Estonia for two years. During her time there, she both braved the dark, bitterly cold Estonian winters and enjoyed the warmth of many new friends. Kim took a new position in August 2006 as an ESL instructor at Terre Haute, Indiana's Interlink Language Center, a private language school located on the Indiana State University campus.

Eric Seling, ('05), was one of 25 college graduates across the country hired by Sprint for its management development program. After working as a manager for Sprint and then considering business school, Eric decided that his heart lay elsewhere, and he applied for Teach for America. He was selected and began teaching in St. Louis in the fall of 2006. While at Wooster, Eric was a participant in the Department's Communicating Common Ground (CCG) Program and, in 2005, won the Dorothy Reid Dalzell Award for the student who has contributed most to the life of The College of Wooster community in the area of extracurricular activities.

Kristen Senior, ('05), began the master's program in communication studies at Purdue University in the fall of 2006.

Amy Sheldon, ('97), married Todd Bainbridge in Sedona, Arizona, in March 2005. A teacher, Amy began having trouble with her eyesight a few years ago due to her diabetes. She took a year off from teaching during the 2003-2004 school year and returned "as a visually impaired teacher." Although her impaired eyesight has made life challenging, Amy continues to excel in the classroom and won the local NBC Affiliate's Teacher Who Cares Award. No wonder one of her elementary students said Amy was his hero. . . .

Jane Shull, ('04), is living in Spanish Harlem and working as an account executive at the New York Press, an "independently owned newspaper in Manhattan that has a lot of political commentary as well as entertainment reviews 'n' such."

Diana Smith, ('02), completed two years with Teach for America. During that time, she taught special education to children in the Bronx. Diana then assumed a position as a ³special education coach² for other teachers in New York City.

Erik Sosa-Kibby, ('97), and his partner are the proud parents of one-year-old boys adopted from Guatemala.

Nicole Speece, ('05), spent two years in Americorps. She worked in the Literacy Across Columbus Elementary Schools (LACES) program in Columbus, Ohio, the first year and then with the Notre Dame Mission Volunteer Program in Phoenix the second year. As part of her work in Phoenix, Nicole subbed in a third grade classroom and loved it so much that she has decided to earn a master's degree in education.

Chad Spurgeon, ('02), finished two years with Teach for America in rural southern Louisiana and, at last word, was finishing his master's degree in the LBJ School of Public Policy at the University of Texas. Chad also returned to Wooster in the fall of 2005 to recruit for Teach for America.

Katie Stainbrook, ('04), is living in the Big Apple where she works in marketing for Pfizer Animal Health and, no doubt, has already finished the last installment of Harry Potter.

Christi Stern, ('00), finished her master's degree in advertising at the University of Texas and is now back in the Cleveland area.

Sarah Strickler, ('01), completed her master's degree in communication at Emerson and currently is working at the Harvard Extension School in Boston. During the fall 2005 National Communication Association conference in Boston, she and Professor Bostdorff had lunch and a great time catching up.

Laura Tompkins, ('06), will begin law school part-time at Cleveland Marshall this fall and will continue at the law firm of Duvin, Cahn, and Hutton, where she has worked for the past year.

Holly Welsh, ('04), finished law school at Cleveland Marshall and recently married.

Ann Wenzel, ('06), did her student teaching in Italy in the fall of 2006 and then went back to Michigan to work at a Montessori school. She recently wrote to say she landed a job teaching Head Start in the Washington, DC, public schools. Barnard Elementary School follows "the Reggio Emilia philosophy of early childhood education which is project-oriented and has a lot of basis in arts." Ann says she is excitedly making plans to move, but if you know anyone who needs a roommate to let her know.

Jordan Williams, ('02), left a note during a quick visit to Woo that reported he and Kate are now engaged and that dental school is going well.