2009 Graduates - to be included on this page, e-mail information about your future plans to lisa.eikenburg@fredonia.edu
2009 Graduates: Where are they now?
Christine Abbatiello (B.S. Business Administration - Marketing) has been hired as a customer service representative at HSBC.
Beth Abbey (B.S.Ed. Speech and Language Disabilities) will attend Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., in the fall to pursue a master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology.
Ashley Atwater (B.S.Ed. Speech and Language Disabilities) will also attend Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., in the fall to pursue a master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology.
Dana Barrett (Mus.B. Music Education/Performer's Certificate) will attend the Ithaca College School of Music, where she has received a two-year horn assistantship and will major in Music Performance.
Ashley Barron (B.S. Communication - Public Relations) will attend the State University at Buffalo in the fall to study in its Higher Education Administration master's degree program.
Rhonda Brinkman (B.S. Accounting) has accepted a Tax Auditor Trainee I position with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.
Christina E. Butera (B.S.Ed. Childhood Education - Earth Science) will attend St. Bonaventure University to pursue a master's degree in Childhood Literacy.
Lindsay Coffta (B.A. English - Adolescence Education) will be attending the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Sabrina DeFilippis (B.A. Psychology) will attend the State University at Buffalo in the fall for graduate studies in its Master of Science in Social Work program.
Michael DiGiacomo (B.S. Business Administration - Marketing) has been hired as a mortgage customer service representative with J.P. Morgan/Chase Bank in Rochester, N.Y.
Sarah Dunlap (M.A. English) has a fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. at The Ohio State University.
Melissa A. Eberle (B.S.Ed. Childhood Inclusive Education - Biology) will attend St. Bonaventure University beginning this summer to pursue a master's degree in Inclusive Education.
Kellie Fox (Communication - Public Relations) has accepted a position at Classifieds Plus, Inc. of Williamsville, N.Y. Kellie also served as student manager of the phonothon this spring.
Jenny M. Glaser (B.S. Accounting) has accepted a position with Bahgat & Laurito-Bahgat, CPAs of Fredonia, N.Y.
Shawna Halas (B.S. Business Administration - Marketing) will attend Niagara University in the fall to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree in Strategic Marketing Management.
Kathleen M. "Katie" Hite (B.S. Biology) who will receive the Lanford Presidential Prize at Commencement, has been accepted into SUNY Fredonia's Master of Arts in Teaching Adolescence Science program and will begin her studies at the end of May. She hopes to become a high school biology teacher and continue to do summer research. Read more about Katie
Ryan Hollamby (B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies - Environmental Sciences) will attend the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs for graduate school in its Geography program, studying conservation/management of natural resources.
Julia Hyman (Early Childhood Education - Math.) will attend Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., to pursue a Master of Science degree in Early Childhood Inclusive Education.
Sarah Johnson (B.A. English - Adolescence Education) will attend SUNY Fredonia in the fall to pursue a Master of Science in Education degree in Literacy Education.
Alan Keegan (B.S. Computer Information Systems) was accepted as a graduate student at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Ill., majoring in Information Technology and Management.
Elizabeth Koehler (B.A. English - Adolescence Education) will be attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a Master of Science in Library Science degree in its School Library Media Coordinator program. She also has a full scholarship and will be the research assistant to the director of the program.
Molly Kubic (B.S. Communication - Public Relations) has been hired as the Travel Coordinator in the Program Office at Chautauqua Institution.
Samantha Lape (B.S. Communication - Public Relations) is an Account Executive for The Maytum Company of Dunkirk, N.Y.
Maryanne Long (B.S. Business Administration - Finance) will be attending the State University of New York at Buffalo full-time in the fall to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree.
Jason Mellen (B.A. English - Adolescence Education) will be attending Columbia Teachers College.
Sarah J. Midgley (Mus.B. Music Education, Music Performance) will attend Florida State University in the fall to pursue a Master of Music degree in saxophone performance.
Brian Moe (B.F.A. Dance, B.A. Psychology), SUNY Fredonia's first graduate of its Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance program, will pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography at California State University, Long Beach, in Fall 2009.
Laura Noack (Mus.B. Music Education) will attend Arizona State University in the fall to pursue a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance.
Lauren O'Neill (B.S. Biology - Adolescence Education) will pursue her Master of Science degree in Biology at SUNY Fredonia.
Ciara O'Neill-Mendoza (Mus.B. Music Performance) will leave for Logan, Utah, immediately following graduation to serve as a company management intern with the Utah Festival Opera Company for the summer.
Alexandra Pattison (B.A. Visual Arts and New Media) will attend Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., to pursue a Master of Science degree in Creative Arts Therapy/Art Therapy.
Matthew Pawlowski (B.S. Business Administration - Finance) has been hired as an retirement specialist by First Investors Corporation.
Nicole M. Pensgen (B.S.Ed. Childhood Education: Mathematics 7-9 Ext.) has been accepted by SUNY Brockport to pursue her Master of Science in Education degree in Childhood Literacy.
David Raymond (B.F.A. Graphic Design) will enter the Master of Graphic Design degree program at North Carolina State University in August. While at SUNY Fredonia, he was an assistant in three different courses with three different design faculty members.
Molly Riordan (B.A. Psychology) will attend Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.) to study School Psychology.
Gretchen Schneider (December 2008 B.S. Ed. Childhood Education: Spanish 7-9 Ext.) has been hired as a capital project assistant in the Office of Facilities Planning at SUNY Fredonia.
Joshua Schneider (B.S. Accounting) accepted a position in November 2008 as a staff accountant with Mengel Metzger Barr & Co., a CPA firm in Rochester, N.Y.
Kelsey Sherwood (B.S. Sport Management) will pursue a Master of Business Administration degree in Marketing at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
Justin Staebell (Mus.B. Music Performance) will attend Arizona State University to pursue a Master of Music degree in Opera Performance and has been granted a full scholarship. Read more about Justin
Sarah Stryker (B.S. Geophysics) has been selected to participate in the Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (S.A.G.E.) in New Mexico for four weeks in a program hosted by the Los Alamos National Laboratory branch of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the University of California. In the fall she will attend Texas A & M University to study Physical Oceanography funded by a research assistantship and fellowship.
Eteri Svanidze (B.S. Physics, Mathematics) will enter a Ph.D. program in Applied Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Her poster on Rydberg Adam Spectroscopy recently won second prize in the undergraduate division at the American Physical Society New York State Section Meeting held in Rochester, N.Y.
Chad Swanson (B.A. Psychology) will attend Alfred University in its Master of Arts/Certificate of Advanced Study School Psychology program, a two-year program with a third year internship with a licensed school psychologist in a school district.
Allison Thomas (B.S. Ed. Childhood Inclusive Education: Mathematics 7-9 Extension) will begin working in August on a Master of Science in Education degree at SUNY Brockport.
Laura Tromanhauser (B.A. Psychology) will attend Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., to pursue an advanced degree in Mental Health Counseling.
Kyle Turner (B.F.A. Visual Arts and New Media - Drawing and Painting) was accepted in to the Master of Fine Arts program in Printmaking at the University of Northern Illinois.
Jeffery Utter (Mus.B. Music Education) has been accepted to Western Michigan University in its Master of Music degree program in Performance/Jazz.
Lori Ana Valentin (B.S. Biochemistry) will pursue her Ph.D. at SUNY Binghamton.
Kim Waite (December 2008, B.F.A. Visual Arts and New Media - Animation/Illustration and Photography) was accepted into the Master of Fine Arts in Photography program at Indiana University at Bloomington.