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Spotlight Stories
In his near century of life, Harold Katz ’50 (PHARM) has been a soldier in World War II for two years (pictured far left), a pharmacist with Eli Lilly and Company for 32 years, and a devoted family man for 74 years and counting. After graduating from Connecticut College of Pharmacy (now UConn’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), Katz, who turns 100 on Aug. 15, started his career at Rexall drugstores, then took the Eli Lilly job as a medical representative after getting married to Doris Pomerance and starting a family. They raised three children in New Britain, then West Hartford, and, after the nest emptied, spent summers on Cape Cod and winters in Boca Raton, Florida, where Katz stays abreast of pharmaceutical news and is head of recycling at his senior living center (pictured there in February). Doris Katz died in 2019.
Alumni from the Omicron Eta chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. gathered in Storrs last November to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their chapter. They raised over $6,000 for the H. Fred Simons African American Cultural Center.
A group of UConn alumni and friends pose at Claustro de la basílica de San Isidoro de León, part of their adventure along Spain’s legendary Camino de Santiago with Fresco Tours — an alumni-owned company founded by Alex Chang ’94 (BUS), which was featured in the Spring 2023 UConn Magazine (“All Roads Lead Home”). A number hope to travel with Fresco to Menorca in fall 2027. Back row, from left: Robert Clifford, Gerald Dupont ’76 (BUS), William Solis ’67 (CLAS), Diane Guendel, Debra Crary, Chang, and Gary Vermette ’80 (BUS); front row, from left: Debora Emmert, Rosemarie Dupont, Bonnie Zahner, LeeAnne Wambolt, Julie Ciucias ’78 (CAHNR), and Pamela Rehak.
Joe LaPuma ’05 (CLAS), everyone’s favorite sneaker guru, detoured from his Complex show “Sneaker Shopping” to voice Sneaky — the shoe-store-owning, shoe-sniffing vulture in the animated movie “GOAT,” produced by NBA star and 2023 “Sneaker Shopping” guest Stephen Curry.
Back in 2007, Richard Shok ’08 (NUR) and Allison Shok ’10 (NUR) founded a business in their UConn dorm rooms. This year, Code One opened its 100th location — in Apex, North Carolina. Code One makes the CPR and life support certification required for most healthcare workers easier to schedule around their 12-hour shifts and on-call rotations. It pairs adaptive online learning with by-appointment CPR skills testing on mannequins high-tech enough to give real-time performance feedback so that more people get certified — more reliably — and closer to where they live and work. Nearly 20 years from that dorm room inspiration, Code One trains more than 20,000 medical professionals, emergency responders, and community members every year. Above, the Shoks return to where it all started with their two sons.
When Violet Lumani ’10 MBA answers the phone, she admits she’s “mombossing,” since her two kids are home from school on a snow day. “They’re hooked up to X-Men, their electronic babysitter,” she jokes.
Juggling multiple things is nothing new to Lumani, who navigates a high-powered marketing career by day and moonlights as a novelist. Her latest romantic comedy, “Not Good Neighbors,” was just published by Entangled Publishing, which released global romantasy phenomenon “Fourth Wing” and helped send romance sales surging nationally. Lumani’s enemies-to-lovers rom-com features plenty of witticisms, simmering tension, and inadvertent eavesdropping through the “tragically thin” New York City apartment wall shared by two neighbors, resulting in a disastrous DIY renovation saga, begrudging cohabitation, prank wars … and a chance at love. One of the memorable side characters is inspired by her own Albanian American community, a group she jokes “cornered the market” on New York–area apartment supers.
Ideas for her novels strike in the in-between moments: She dictates snippets of dialogue to her phone while driving to school pickups or when decompressing after a long day leading events for the tech giant Salesforce. “I probably owe UConn my dream day job,” Lumani says. Earning a UConn Stamford MBA enabled her to pivot from law to marketing, thanks to retired professor Kevin McEvoy, whose marketing course sparked a passion in all things customer strategy. Lumani speaks in punchy taglines: Of the creative process, she says, “An imperfect something is better than a perfect nothing.”
Her first novel, “Foretold,” was deeply cathartic, she says, heavy and personal, and when it was published, it demanded that this polished corporate leader accept the messy vulnerability inherent in sharing the contents of her innermost self with the public. When the pandemic hit, the world felt especially heavy, and she yearned for escapism — hence her shift to rom-com writing. “It was a spark of joy and silliness in the midst of a dark time,” she says. “It’s important to make small, joyful things to maintain our humanity, especially when the world seems heavy. Storytelling isn’t frivolous. Joy still matters.” —SIOBHAN MURRAY
UConn is everything to Haley (Roberts) Smith ’17 (NUR) and her family. Even after moving 1,000 miles away to Florida after her graduation, the family didn’t miss a single women’s basketball game on television. When they found out in 2025 that the team would play in the Final Four in Tampa, Florida, Smith knew that attending would be a special opportunity to pass her family’s Husky love on to her nephew, Talen. They spent the entire day at Final Four events — a tough sell for a nap-needing 3-year-old, but you wouldn’t have known it from the top-of-his-lungs shouts for “Geno,” “Paige,” and “KK!” “Then something unforgettable happened,” writes Smith. KK Arnold ’27 (CLAS) “came over to us, gently scooped Talen out of my arms, and kindly took a photo with him. She was warm, genuine, and so gracious with her time.” Arnold continued to share her time with little Talen, reconnecting with him and the family on subsequent games in Florida and Connecticut. Smith predicts that “those simple moments of kindness and connection instilled a lifelong love for UConn basketball in Talen. He still talks about the experiences and cheers on the Huskies. UConn has always meant family, tradition, and pride to me. Watching that same passion come alive in the next generation reminded me why this community is so special.”
1950s
At 101, Norma (Spector) Wedner ’55 Ph.D. reflects on her days of teaching psychology at the Fort Trumbull branch of UConn to veterans returning from World War II on the GI Bill. UConn opened the Fort Trumbull campus in 1945 in New London to accommodate a student enrollment that had quadrupled from pre-war levels. There, returning servicemen received two years’ instruction before transferring to Storrs. “Those were remarkable years to teach, full of purpose and possibility,” Wedner writes.
She remembers the thousand or so all-male students as “by and large more mature than prewar freshmen, but of course virtually all of them were older than the typical 18-year-olds. They were eager to complete their degrees as quickly as possible to proceed to their careers. Some were already married. ... I’m sure they never wanted to see their uniforms again.”
After the campus closed in 1950, Wedner became — to her knowledge — UConn’s first female psychology doctoral candidate. She taught at the University of Maryland, raised a family, then worked at a private research organization in Baltimore until her retirement in 1997. She adds that she is “still very much engaged with the world.”
1960s
Ronald R. Smith ’61 (CLAS) and Janice (Green) Smith ’61 (CLAS) will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary this year. The two were married at St. Thomas Aquinas church on the Storrs campus on November 18, 1961.
Jason Traiger ’67 MA reports that he has retired from a dual career in college teaching and high-tech documentation writing and is now living in Sarasota, Florida. For the past six years, he has participated in the Venice Camera Club and played in the woodwind section of the Manatee Community Concert Band, which performs at the Neel Performing Arts Center of the State College of Florida. Traiger also volunteers at Sarasota Orchestra concerts.
Arno B. Zimmer ’68 (CLAS) recently released his eighth mystery novel. “The Chained Library Conspiracy” follows the search for a thief who stole a manuscript from a medieval chained library (where books are chained to the shelves). There’s no shortage of mobs, distinguished English family lineages, and globe—spanning clues. Zimmer’s literary predilections go back to his UConn days, when he graduated cum laude as an English major.
Multiple Neag alum Perry Zirkel ’68 MA, ’72 Ph.D., ’76 JD received the inaugural Excellence in Special Education Research Award from the Council of Administrators of Special Education. A nationally recognized authority on special education law, Zirkel served as dean of Lehigh University’s College of Education and as Iacocca Chair in Education, and co-directed the Special Education Law Symposium there. He was recognized by the council for making legal concepts accessible for educators, policymakers, attorneys, and officers through his 1,700-plus publications, open-access repository of resources, and trainings — leading to improved outcomes for students with disabilities.
While many see their 70s as a time to slow down, Natalie Segal ’69 (ED) has done the opposite — she published her first novel at the age of 77. Described by the author as part fantasy, part thriller, and fully female forward, “Heroes of the Middle Ages” follows three middle-aged cousins whose hot flashes awaken incredible powers that the women must harness to face a mysterious killer who has begun terrorizing their family. “Women in midlife are often overlooked or reduced to a punchline,” says Segal. “I wanted to flip the script and write a story where older women are the ones saving the day.” Segal, a West Hartford resident, started pursuing fiction writing seriously after retiring from a career in education and technical writing. Besides doting on her four grandchildren, she birds, dances, crochets, and is hard at work on her second novel.
1970s
Bruce J. Berger ’72 (CLAS) recently published the fourth novel in his Covo Family Saga: “Forgiven: A Novel,” from Black Rose Publishing. Following a 40-year career as an attorney, he pivoted and is now teaching college writing and creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth “Liz” Scotta ’72 (CLAS) earned an associate of science degree in fashion design from City College of San Francisco. This bachelor’s and master’s degree holder retired from her career as a bilingual 5th grade teacher with the San Francisco Unified School District before embarking on her fashion design education journey. Scotta never took her eyes off the prize throughout the seven years she worked toward this degree. Brava!
In fall 2025, Joe Wocoski ’73 (CLAS) published two books, merging the macabre with Japanese poetic form in “Halloween Horror Haiku” and crafting language as compact and to the point as a Wakizashi sword in “Wakizashi Haiku.” He writes that through the literary adventures he pursues under the name, JB Wocoski, “there’s life and fun after retirement.”
David Fetterman ’76 (CLAS, ED) recently received the International Association of Top Professionals Visionary Award for “his many contributions to artificial intelligence, evaluation, and social justice,” including his book “Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice: Confronting the Culture” and a chapter on artificial intelligence, healthcare, and evaluation — co-written with son David Fetterman II — in “Handbook of Health Services Evaluation.”
Mercer University Press recently published “American Proteus: Narrative Self-Making in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown” by John Wenke ’76 MA, ’81 Ph.D.
Cheers to a prolific alum! Cynthia C. Chernecky ’77 (NUR) just published her 30th nursing book with Cognella called “Clinical Care Expert in Nursing.” It’s an online learning tool that provides students with clinical, on-the-job training from experts.
Humor writer Bob Lorentson ’77 MS has released his third book, “The Carousel of Beliefs,” from Stillwater River Publications. A “satire for our times,” the novel follows a protagonist searching for something to believe in. Lorentson is a retired environmental scientist.
Vicki (Wollkind) Tesoro ’77 (CLAS) was reelected to her fifth term as first selectman of Trumbull, Connecticut. Tesoro is tied for the second-longest tenure as first selectman since 1900 and is the longest-serving woman in that position.
After a long career in healthcare information technology sales, Peter W. Comeau ’79 (BUS) is enjoying his retirement with his wife of nearly 38 years in Kennebunk, Maine. A lifetime history buff, he is now a part-time tour guide, leading both walking and motor coach tours that educate visitors on the rich shipbuilding and maritime trade heritage of southern Maine.
A. C. “Dean” Macris ’79 MS has released his second book in the Moral Revenge Trilogy. “The Means to Revenge: A Prequel to Moral Revenge” focuses on the submarining community.
1980s
Isabel (Munat) Cole ’82 (CLAS) was recently reappointed by Gov. Bob Ferguson to the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals for the State of Washington. The board hears workplace-related appeals, from workers’ compensation cases to safety violations. Cole has been a board member since 2019 and will continue serving through 2031.
In March, Jeff Denman ’82 MA released his third book, “Philadelphia Quakers and the American Revolution,” about the plight of the Quakers during the anti-Redcoat resistance and how the Quakers’ neutrality caused problems for Loyalists and Patriots alike.
From left, Kathy (Natusch) Martin ’83 (CLAS); Lisa (Rylander) Barbiero ’83 (CLAS), ’01 6th Year, ’17 Cert.; and Sheila (Rowe) Gerber ’83 (CAHNR) reconnected with one another — and Jonathan — on a visit to Storrs last year.
Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti ’81 (BUS) has joined the infrastructure design firm HNTB in Nashville, Tennessee, as national practice consultant and senior vice president, bringing more than 40 years of transportation leadership experience. She previously served as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
Nancy Kerns Sobanik ’84 (NUR) retired this year from a career spanning intensive care, emergency department, and high school nursing. The Pushcart and Best of the Net–nominated poet, whose work can be found in many journals and anthologies, is living in Maine, where she is a manuscript screener for Alice James Books. She is active in the Maine Poets Society and the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Her poetry book, “The Unfolding,” was published by Finishing Line Press this May.
James Benini ’86 MA used his special education degree to lead off a 37-year career in technology education. After retiring, he became the site manager for the Connecticut Renaissance Faire in 2018. He bids hearty well wishes and cheer to all his sprightly classmates of yore!
David Schless ’87 (CLAS) received the Alzheimer’s Association Lifetime Achievement Award in Washington, D.C., in March. Longtime president and CEO of the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), Schless writes, “One of the great privileges of my professional life has been the opportunity to work side by side with ASHA members to raise awareness and funds to support the outstanding, multifaceted efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association.” He launched ASHA at age 25 under the National Multifamily Housing Council and has since helped shape national policy, research, and investment perspectives on senior living. His background spans gerontology, public policy, and long-term care research. Since the early 1990s, he and his wife, Susan Martino-Schless ’88 (CLAS), have lived in Rockville, Maryland, where they raised two children and numerous cats.
Biopharmaceutical company DBV Technologies recently appointed Kevin Trapp ’88 (BUS) as chief commercial officer.
1990s
Jim Stoppani ’90 (ED), ’00 Ph.D. turned his UConn training in exercise physiology and biochemistry into a career training stars like Dr. Dre, LL Cool J, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson; building a fitness community of 127,000-plus members; and founding a line of supplements called JYM Supplement Science.
For many years, alum pals from Chi Phi fraternity have gathered in Washington, D.C., to cheer the UConn men’s basketball teams to victory over the Georgetown Hoyas. From left: Ken Keefe ’91 (CLAS); Raj Ghosh ’90 (ENG); Scott Miller ’88 (ENG), ’98 MBA; Marty Burns ’90 (BUS); Chris Markelon ’89 (BUS); Joel Greene ’89 (CLAS), ’91 (CLAS); and Bill Hunniford ’89 (CLAS).
Charles M. “Charlie” Pickett ’91 (CLAS) was inducted into the Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame by Gov. Ned Lamont last January. A veteran of combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pickett teaches English at New Haven’s Sound School and is the Connecticut state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In November 2025, UConn School of Business Hall of Fame member Mary Laschinger ’92 MBA joined the board of directors of Stanley Black & Decker, the world’s largest tool company. Laschinger has decades of global manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain leadership — most notably as chair and CEO of Veritiv Corporation.
Chenyang Li ’92 Ph.D. retired recently from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where he founded the philosophy department. A leading scholar in Chinese and comparative philosophy, Li has authored several books, including “Reshaping Confucianism,” as well as 100-plus journal articles and book chapters.
He has held prestigious fellowships, including at Stanford University, and leadership roles in international philosophical societies. He co-founded the Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America and served as its first president. The Stanford/Elsevier “Top 2% Scientists” list has recognized him as among the world’s most impactful philosophy and theology researchers. Li and his wife, Hong Xiao ’89 MA, ’98 Ph.D., now live in Dallas, Texas.
Kelly A. O’Connor- Salomon ’92 (CLAS) and David A. Salomon ’99 Ph.D. have co-written “Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural Beings in Story and on Screen,” published by Bloomsbury Press.
Tom Rizzi ’92 (BUS) was recently named CEO of Magneto & Diesel, a leading distributor and remanufacturer of diesel engine parts and components.
Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, New Hampshire, recently selected Richard Scheinblum ’92 (BUS) as its newest president and CEO. Scheinblum, who holds an MBA from Plymouth State, brings more than 31 years of healthcare experience, including over 25 years at the full-service nonprofit hospital, including as chief financial officer. He is pictured with the outgoing CEO, Cyndee McGuire.
Tara (Curtis) Mead ’94 (CLAS) was recently promoted to vice president of marketing and communications at the Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers. She oversees and directs all internal and external communications and promotion for the organization, which is composed of more than 100 community banks across Pennsylvania. Mead lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with her husband and children.
Big congrats to Marc Weston ’96 (RHSA), who has been elected vice president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. Weston has put his UConn horticulture education and UMass turfgrass studies to work as a golf course leader; he currently serves as superintendent and director of agronomy at Indian Hill Country Club in Newington, Connecticut.
Lynn Patarini ’97 (BGS) recently released “Maximum Panic,” under the pseudonym L.M. Pampuro. It is her ninth book and the final installment in her “Maximum” series. A previous version of “Maximum Panic” served as her thesis project to earn a master of fine arts in creative and professional writing from Western Connecticut State University.
Julie Rancourt ’98 (CLAS) has begun a new role at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) as a grant writer for the CCSU Foundation. In this position, she says she will draw on the skills she developed at UConn through her journalism studies and graduate-level grant writing work to help campus organizations secure vital funding.
Congrats to Adawna M. Bell ’99 (CLAS), a marriage and family therapist licensed in Florida, Alabama, and Connecticut, who won a September 2025 International Impact Book Award in the Female Empowerment — Spiritual and Emotional Growth category for her book, “Heal Sister Heal: A Sister’s Guide to Wholeness.”
Jared Vichengrad ’99 (BUS) was appointed senior vice president and general manager of Axonius Federal Systems, the government-focused subsidiary of cybersecurity company Axonius.
2000s
Toni Boucher ’02 MBA, ’26 H published her memoir, “Stone Doll,” in March. Wrote Mentus founder and CEO Guy Iannuzzi, “Boucher’s journey from a dirt-floor farmhouse to Wall Street boardrooms and political power stopped me cold — this is what real American grit looks like.”
Shanika Lavi Wilson ’03 (CLAS) is pleased to announce the publication of her new textbook, “Reel Assessments: From Screens to Clinical Practice,” from Kendall Hunt. After studying psychology as an undergraduate at UConn, Wilson earned a master of science in social work from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a doctor of social work from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a master of science in education degree specializing in global higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania. She now serves as associate chair and associate professor at North Carolina Central University, where her work uses visual media and culturally responsive frameworks to train graduate students in social work, counseling, and psychology to conduct bias-aware clinical assessments.
Congratulations to Heather N. Harris ’08 (BUS, CLAS), who was elevated to partner at Day Pitney in January. Harris works out of the law firm’s Boston office, advising individuals and families on all aspects of estate and tax planning.
2010s
United Metal Fabricators Medical, a global manufacturer of exam room medical equipment, recently announced the appointment of Dan Cheever ’11 (BUS) as president and CEO.
Roberto Henry ’11 (CLAS), ’14 MPH completed his doctoral degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research focused on the operation of U.S. public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and preparedness considerations for future public health emergencies.
Major kudos to Katherine “Katie” Lane ’11 (BUS), who earned the 2025 American Banker Most Powerful Women in Banking NEXT Award, which honors rising stars under the age of 40 in banking and finance. Lane is a senior managing director, transformation lead, and finance frontline controls officer at the Connecticut-based Webster Bank.
Justin Raymond ’11 (CLAS) and Michelle Raymond ’12 (CLAS) welcomed their third son, Quinn Kennedy Raymond, on Oct. 7, 2025. He is quickly acclimating to the life of a Husky superfan.
Congrats to Mac Cerullo ’12 (BUS), who ran the Boston Marathon on April 20 in support of Boston Children’s Hospital and, as of press time this year, had raised more than $18,000 for the hospital. Cerullo ran for his 4-year-old son, Anthony, who has overcome numerous health battles throughout his life thanks in large part to the lifesaving care he’s received from Boston Children’s. Cerullo, who works as Red Sox beat writer for the Boston Herald, ran the 2010 Boston Marathon as a sophomore at UConn.
After seeing the news about septuagenarian skydiver Craig Stevens ’69 (BUS) in the spring issue, Jana Duffy ’83 (CLAS) wrote to tell us about more high-flying, record-breaking alumni in our midst. Her son, Jesse Jaber ’13 (CAHNR); his former UConn roommate, Cameron Haley ’12 (CLAS); and 174 other skydivers broke the world record for the most people jumping in upside-down formation together in August 2025 over Chicago. “It’s remarkable the amount of coordination, practice, and skill involved,” says the proud mom. “Nine airplanes dropping off about 180 skydivers!” Haley originally turned Jaber on to skydiving during their Connecticut days, before he continued on to air traffic control school, while Jaber teaches skydiving and has placed in multiple domestic and international skydiving championships.
David Thibodeau ’12 (ED), ’13 (CLAS, MA) is proud to have earned a doctorate in educational practice and innovation with a concentration in STEM education from the University of South Carolina in January.
Krystyna Gancoss ’14 (CLAS) has been appointed to the Associate Board of Filling in the Blanks, a Connecticut nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting childhood hunger by providing weekend meals to children in need. Krystyna is an attorney at Silver Golub & Teitell, where she represents plaintiffs in class actions involving consumer protection, environmental contamination, data privacy, and other matters.
Pavan Kunchala ’15 MS has been contributing leadership to our society’s artificial intelligence (AI) transformation through his day job, advisory work, and academic authorship. He is an associate director at Tiger Analytics, helping Fortune 500 companies decide where and how AI can most effectively improve customer insights, marketing spending, and growth strategy. Recent projects include an AI-based system that helps guide how a national retailer allocates over $500 million in marketing resources and an AI platform for a major rewards app that studies the shopping behaviors of millions. Kunchala is also an advisor to state government in India on responsible AI standards across healthcare, agriculture, and public services, and serves as a National Science Foundation industry mentor at the University of California, Berkeley for AI startups. “A recurring theme in my work is the tension between automated optimization and human judgment,” Kunchala says. “There’s enormous pressure right now to adopt AI everywhere, and the risk is that organizations hand over consequential decisions to systems that are optimizing for narrow objectives without understanding the broader implications. What society needs is a class of AI practitioners who can bridge the technical and the strategic — people who understand the math behind the models but also understand the business context, the ethical stakes, and the human consequences.”
Introducing our newest (and possibly cutest) UConn basketball fan — Amelia! This mini Husky was born to Matilda (Story) DeNardo ’15 (CAHNR) and Nicholas DeNardo ’15 (CLAS) on Jan. 12, 2026. The parents met during their first year at UConn; Nicholas lived in the Buckley Hall quad below Matilda.
Best wishes to Kristina Barakov ’17 (PHARM), ’19 Pharm.D. and Curtland Brown ’17 (PHARM), ’19 Pharm.D., who tied the knot in September 2025 in Massachusetts, surrounded by friends and family — many of them fellow Huskies. The couple met in 2015 during their first year at UConn. They continue to remember their UConn roots and proudly cheer on UConn basketball from their home in Massachusetts. Go Huskies!
Rachel (Forte) Smith ’17 (CLAS, ED), ’18 MA and Joseph Smith ’17 (CLAS, ED), ’18 MA were married in June 2025. They met and became friends while taking classes in the Neag School of Education’s secondary history/social studies program, which took them both to study abroad in Nottingham, England. They started dating after graduation and both teach in Connecticut.
The hotel company Dovetail + Co has named Shawn Cioto ’17 (BUS) their vice president of operations. Cioto has worked for over 15 years in hotel and restaurant management.
Meg Ennis ’18 (CLAS) and Joe Stickles ’19 (CLAS) got married last September. The couple met in the UConn Marching Band Drumline and celebrated surrounded by many Marching Band friends and UConn alumni from both families — including Meg’s mother, Noreen Ennis ’85 (ED), ’94 MA; Joe’s mother, Margaret Stickles ’86 (BUS); and Joe’s father, Jeffrey Stickles ’86 (BUS).
Robert Glassman ’19 (CLAS) and Kelly-Anne Moffa ’21 (CLAS) married last May in West Hartford, surrounded by generations of Huskies — including Jonathan XIV himself, who made a special appearance for Moffa, his former student handler. Glassman and Moffa met about eight years ago doing the alternative spring break program Honors Across State Borders. They remain avid UConn basketball fans.
Congratulations are in order for Anna Simos ’19 (BUS) and Matthew Tonn ’19 (BUS), who married last October. The School of Business alumni met during their freshman year more than 10 years ago.
Another UConn love story made official! Samantha (Mason) Angel ’20 (CLAS) and Jordan Angel ’18 (BUS) recently tied the knot at the Palmer House Hotel in downtown Chicago last October.
2020s
Three generations of Greiners don their blue-and-white gear for a Husky family photo! From left: grandfather Allen Greiner, who taught electrical engineering classes at UConn in the ’60s; grandson Zachary Greiner ’22 (BUS), ’23 MS; grandmother Anne Greiner ’70 (Home Ec.), who designed and created the UConn hats featured in the photo; and son Neil Greiner ’93 MS.
In April, Dorka Juhasz, ’22 MA, ’23 (BGS) became, at age 26, the youngest player ever to be named EuroLeague MVP. The former UConn star is a current member of EuroLeague’s Galatasaray Cagdas Faktoring and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx. The EuroLeague’s 2026 Defensive Player of the Year (for the third time) is fellow former Husky Gabby Williams ’18 (CLAS), now with EuroLeague’s Fenerbahce Opet and the WNBA’s Golden State Valkyries (having recently been traded from the Seattle Storm).