Class Notes for June 2021

Find out which of our alums is celebrating a promotion, a new career, or their start-up business in Class Notes. See who is making news, and take a moment to remember those who have passed on.

Every month, we find ourselves short on news from classes before the 1990s. We want to share all of our alumni’s accomplishments, but we don’t know what you’re up to if you don’t tell us. Please email us at alumni@strose.edu with your job changes, retirement news, promotions, or wedding and baby announcements, and write “class notes” in the subject line.

2020s

Tyler Warren ’20 has joined Horizon Media in New York, New York, as assistant video investor.

2010s

Thomas Yorke G’19 is the new superintendent of the Sharon Springs school district in Sharon Springs, New York. He joined the district in 2004 as a teacher, and for the past two years has been the district’s K-12 building principal.

Sara Bayliss DeLuke ’18 and Xavier DeLuke ’19, G’19 married in 2020. Sara works for the Schenectady County Department of Health and Xavier is a special education teacher at Glens Falls City Schools. “We love Saint Rose and how well it prepared us for the future,” they wrote.

Ryan Milkiewicz ’17 has become a software developer for Hoffman Development in the Albany, New York, metropolitan area.

Sarah Kleffke ’15 is a speech-language pathologist at Woodfords Family Services Preschool in Portland, Maine.

Frank Lombardi ’14 has joined Syneos Health, in the greater Boston metropolitan area, as talent acquisition manager.

Alayna Shaw ’13 has been promoted to senior AmeriCorps Program Manager at Colorado Youth for A Change.

Kali Bradford ’12 was the Featured Executive for the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). According to the article, “Currently the Director of Business Development at SyncVault, her main responsibility is to cultivate relationships with artists, record labels, distributors and other artist development companies to help create a new international solution to the traditional marketing mix.”

Jacob Quesnell ’12 was promoted to senior quality investigator for Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health in Red Hook, New York. He is married to Caitlin (Nolan) Quesnell, an alum who works as a special education teacher. They celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary on May 21, 2021.

Rachelle (Mokay) Rogers ’11 has become general manager at Lindener’s Cider.

Dan Danbusky G’10 has been appointed principal of Cold Spring Harbor Junior/Senior High School (Cold Spring Harbor, New York). Before this appointment, he had worked at Northport High School (Northport, New York) as assistant principal (2012-2015) and then as principal (2015-2021). He collaborated with administrators and department chairs to develop and integrate innovative initiatives and course pathways, including the growth and expansion of Advanced Placement courses and offerings from the International Baccalaureate program. Prior to Northport, he worked at the Brentwood School District (2009-2012) as a teacher and dean of students.

2000s

Michael Esposito ’09, G’09 has joined Facebook as a communications manager supporting their diversity, equity, and inclusion recruiting.

Steve Dagostino ’08, Saint Rose Hall of Famer and innovative sports entrepreneur, was featured in CW Albany.

Matt Toporowski ’08 has become senior assistant corporation counsel for the City of Albany. In this role, he will focus on police accountability.

Bill Fenner G’07 has become director of sales at Taza Chocolate in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Sarah Allen-Meyers ’06 is now the director of news and programming for Spectrum News Upstate New York.

Jeremy Bogan ’00 has become director of application services – system delivery at MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Washington.

1990s

Meredith Rivet ’99, G’03 has become the new principal of New Turnpike Elementary School in the Lansingburgh Central School, District, Lansingburgh, New York. She has been the instructional supervisor for Howe Elementary School in the Schenectady City School District, and previously was the multi-tiered support specialist coordinator for Brunswick Central School District. She has also taught at Chatham Elementary School in Chatham, New York.

Allen Phelps ’95 is the new artistic director of The Theater Barn, a nonprofit dramatic company and venue in New Lebanon, New York. He is taking on the mantle from his parents, who established the theater in 1984 and are retiring after running it for 37 years.

Kirsten Voege ’91 and Jo Carroll Voege ’63 sent greetings from Dublin, Ireland, where they raised a pint to celebrate Saint Rose’s centennial. Jo, who earned a BS in elementary education at the College, went on to teach in Bay Shore, New York, went on to earn a master’s degree in geriatrics and ran her own geriatrics-care management business until retirement. She currently lives in Bedford Hills, New York. Kirsten, who majored in public communications, worked at Ogilvy and Mather Direct in New York City and went on to executive advertising agencies such as Draft Direct, Draft Worldwide, and ID Media, and currently lives in Albany, New York.

1980s

Brian Foley ’87 has become a senior professional liability claim specialist with Sedgwick in Leeds, New York.

In memorial

Mary Josephine (Persico) G’88
Dawn T. Haggart ’87
Paul N. Bernard G’86
Michael J. Sheridan G’76
Mary R. Clancy G’74
Marjorie Silliman Rose Becker G’67
Jane E. Costanzo ’66
Sister Teresa Walsh CSJ ’66
Eleonore Maria Pauly G’64
Kathryn (Cundiff) Stratman ’60
Norma B. Schug ’49