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FALL 2022 | TOWER 29 Comcast Spectator and an audio engineer for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Abby Gifford ’17 is a teacher of the blind and visually impaired at Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Riverside, N.J. AdamBeidler ’18 has served as a Pennsylvania State Trooper since June 2019. Prior to that, he was a deputy sheriff for the Berks County Sheriff’s Office. Jacob Boyer ’18 is an editor and director at PBS39, where he has worked since September 2019. He was part of the team that won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy for his work on the show Counter Culture, hosted by Grover Silcox. In December 2021, Craig Reynolds ’18 returned to the Detroit Lions active roster for their Week 15 game, rushing for a career-high 112 yards as the Lions upset the NFCWestleading Arizona Cardinals, 30-12. He will play for the Detroit Lions again in the 2022 season. Reynolds became the first Kutztown Golden Bear to rush for 100 yards in a National Football League game since Bruce Harper put up 118 for the New York Jets nearly four decades ago in 1983. McKenzie Browne ’19 competed at the USA Olympic Trials for long track speed skating in January in Wisconsin, where she placed sixth in the 500m and eighth in the 1,000m. She grew up as an inline speed skater and won 13 national titles. She was inspired to switch to the ice when she saw several of her inline skating friends make the Olympic Team in 2018. Browne currently lives in Salt Lake City, and her goal is to make the 2026 Olympic Team. AmandaMeck ’19 is a senior fiduciary specialist at Wells Fargo in Philadelphia. She earned her MBA from The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., in 2021. BradMyhre ’19 was promoted to deputy county administrator of Hunterdon County, N.J. Benjamin P. Skoronski ’19 teaches music appreciation at the University of Arizona and serves as a program annotator to the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. He is the recipient of the Medici Scholar Award (2020) and the Distinguished Graduate Student Award (2021-22). He began work on a doctorate in musicology at Cornell University. Jacob Farrara ’20 received a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for his work on “FTW Philly – Autisarians” and was nominated for “Eat Your Way to Wellness by Jessica DeLuise MHS PA-C CCMS.” Giovanni Negron-Garcia ’21 authored the book, “Passion, Purpose, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” which was released in February. He is CEO and owner of GioEffect Life Coaching and Public Speaking, LLC. DO YOU HAVE EXCITING NEWS TO SHARE WITH FELLOW ALUMNI? Email us at alumni@kuf.org IN MEMORY EMERITI FACULTY NOTES Professor Emeritus JamesMalenda, who taught in the Department of Art Education and Crafts for 27 years, has recently had nine of his metal and enamel works placed in the permanent collection of five major museums throughout the U.S. The Enamel Arts Foundation in Los Angeles, which is dedicated to the promotion, awareness, understanding and appreciation of modern enameling as a vibrant art form, has placed these works in: The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; The Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, Little Rock; and The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Dr. Carl F. Constein ’42 Kathleen C. Brown ’46 Florence E. Schaaf ’46 Audrey H. Grim ’49 Janice J. Webb ’51 William J. McHale ’52 Dr. Irene Mitchel ’54 Eleanor J. Offenderlein ’54 Jean R. Boyer ’56 Hazel M. Jasiewicz ’56 Henry M. Diener ’57 Shirley M. Youse ’57 Dorothy L. Badders ’58 Edward Bruchak ’58 Marcia A. Maurer ’58 Matthew J. Spence ’58 Brenda M. Decker ’60 William P. Orr ’60 Harold S. Huber ’61 John R. Skinkus ’61 Mary L. Mancuso ’62 M. T. Boorse ’64 Virginia F. Boucher ’64 Patricia A. DiStefano ’64, M ’67 Philip E. Schaltenbrand ’64 Christopher T. Jones ’65 Deborah A. Barrett ’66 Margaret Newman ’66 Harold R. Holzer ’69 Richard G. Lyons ’69 Robert W. Smith ’69 Earl F. Davis ’70 Thomas Maxwell ’70 Francis A. Orlando ’70 Stuart W. Goldman ’71 Annmarie Scholl ’71 Susan E. Amante ’72 Kathleen F. Molnar ’72 Patricia A. Todora ’72 Pamela P. Purcell ’73 David S. Kenney ’74 Anthony R. Maiatico ’76 Jeanne B. Partel ’76 Calvin L. Tate ’82 Michael R. Moyer ’85 Kate F. Maiolo ’89 Hether L. Quillman ’91 Scott S. Richardson ’92 Linda Easter ’94 William S. Watson ’97 Kathryn L. Newcomer ’04 Kate E. Cogan ’06 Danielle N. Reinhard ’08 EMERITI FACULTY/STAFF Dr. Gordon Goldberg Dr. Ann T. Gundry M ’81 Frank P. Muzopappa Girma Zelleke

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