28 TOWER | FALL 2024 CLASS NOTES 1970s Guido Pichini ’74 was named to the Reading Hospital Board of Trustees in January for a three-year term. Pichini is a retired businessman, community leader, and philanthropist. He was the President/ CEO of Security Guards, Inc. and WSK and Associates of Wyomissing, Pa., served two terms as a councilman in the Borough of Wyomissing Hills, and four terms as mayor. He has been appointed by five Pennsylvania governors to various state positions, including serving 27 years as a trustee at KU. Pichini served 12 years on the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board, five years as chair. He received two honorary doctorate degrees, one from Kutztown University and another from Millersville University. Bob Holden III ’75 donated a large collection of books about Abraham Lincoln to KU’s Rohrbach Library. He taught for 31 years in Ocean City, N.J., and was an adjunct professor of history for Atlantic Cape Community College. 1980s Tim Masluk ’80 serves as a senior security advisor to a number of private clients after an outstanding professional career that included senior management positions with organizations such as the U.S Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, Peshing LLC and BNY Mellon. A resident of Bushkill Township, Pa., Masluk joined the KU Foundation Board in summer 2020. John Meza ’81 is a professor of art and the gallery director at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa. Earl Lehman ’77 is a practicing professional studio artist living in Susquehanna County. In January, Meza curated and installed a retrospective exhibition of Lehman’s paintings in the Mahady Gallery at Marywood. “Looking Back and Looking Forward" includes 60 small, medium and large paintings, mixed media and drawings. The work includes landscapes and abstractions. Chris R. Prescott ’85, M’02 was named director of public safety and chief of police at Commonwealth University-Lock Haven, December 2023. For the majority of his 35-year career, he was employed by the Mahoning Township Police Department in Montour County, serving as a criminal investigator and retiring in 2015 at the rank of sergeant. In addition, he was a Bucknell University public safety officer and a Blooms- burg University police officer. Following his retirement, Prescott served as a Columbia County sheriff’s deputy, a school resource officer for the Millville Area School District, and most recently as chief of police for the Luzerne Borough Police Department. Good Shepherd Rehabilitation vice president of Strategic Planning & Operating Services, Cindy Buchman ’89, MHA, has been named the recipient of the Lee/Haney Award for Senior Leadership by ACHE of Eastern Pennsylvania. Buchman joined Good Shep- herd in 2013 as division administrator for Good Shepherd Physician Group. Prior to Good Shepherd, Buchman assumed roles of increasing operational responsibility with Community Health Systems (formerly Easton Hospital) as well as Health Management Associates. 1990s Heather Zimmerman ’92 succeeded Crystal Seitz ’81 as Pennsylvania’s Americana Region’s president and CEO. In this role, she will oversee the bureau’s day-to-day operations and work to advance the role of tourism in Berks County. Zimmerman has a background in hospitality and tourism — her most recent position as executive director of the Kutztown Folk Festival which she revitalized to become one of North America’s top cultural festivals in 2023 and 2024 (as ranked by USA Today’s 10Best). Zimmerman sits on the board of Pennsylvania’s Americana Region, she is the former board chair of Penn State Berks’ Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Management Advisory Committee, and a former board member of the Northeast Berks Chamber of Commerce. Kimberly (Manderacchi) Burkert ’94 is president and CEO of Bala Consulting Engineers based in Wayne, Pa. She was recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal on their 2023 Most Admired CEOs list. As Bala’s first female CFO and now CEO, she has been a driving force behind Bala’s 400% growth over the past 20 years. Burkert is a sought-after speaker: she was a panelist at Morrissey Goodale’s Southeast M&A Strategy and Innovation Symposium, the Union League Real Estate Club, and the Women in Residential + Construction Conference. In September 2023, Burkert received the Philadelphia Titan 100 award. Scott A. Dimovitz, Ph.D., ’95 has been a professor of English at Regis University since 2006. His debut novel, “The Joy Divisions” from Tailwinds Press, takes place in Allentown and Philadelphia in the early 1990s, and it is in many ways a love letter to eastern Pennsylvania, including KU, where two of the characters go to school. It is a broadsweeping narrative that reimagines 1994’s sinkhole collapse of Allentown’s downtown Corporate Plaza. But the central plot recreates the 1993 Greif union strike in the lead-up to the passage of NAFTA. There are chapters that discuss the history of Hess’s department store and Phoenix Clothes’ Adelaide Silk Mill, among other local stories. Dimovitz’s master’s and doctoral degrees in English and American Literature are from NYU. Lynne Hernandez ’96 is the executive director for the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation. Her work experience spans many sectors and industries including federal government, retail, dotcom, large nonprofits, small nonprofits, and small business. Yamil Sanchez Rivera M’98 is the assistant superintendent of Operations at Reading School District l. Previously, he was the Chief Administrative Officer for the district. Sanchez Rivera has an MBA and Ed.D. from Lehigh University. Joseph Wehlski ’99 is an award-winning NYC director, writer, producer, acting coach and SAG-AFTRA and Equity actor. He is the founder of secretstationfilms.com and has won many awards for his direction of Indie films, web series, and commercials. Wehlski
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