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Beth Bloom: Beth is currently living in Annapolis, MD, teaching Early Childhood and Lower School Music, Drama, and Chorus. She is getting married June 24, 2006.
Karen Christian : Karen has been raising children for 12 years.
Rebecca (Dowsley) Barry : Rebecca finished her music therapy internship at the Kilmer Center in March, and then started her first music therapy position immediately after that. Now she works as the music therapist at the Key Center in Springfield, VA, which is a school for children ages 5-22 with severe developmental disabilities. In fact, she started the program from scratch (there never was music therapy program there), and having lots of fun! In other news, she married Kevin Barry on April 29, 2006. SAI alumnae Susan Lischner ('02) was her maid of honor, and Laura Armstrong ('01) played clarinet. She and Kevin went on their honeymoon in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic :)
Glennis (Flint) Patterson : Glennis (Flint) Patterson teaches grades k-5 general music and chorus in Rockaway Township Public Schools. She is the director of music at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Mendham, NJ. Glennis is an adjunct faculty member at Delbarton School in Morristown, NJ, where she teaches private low brass lessons and assists with ensembles. She has studied Kodaly methodology at New York University. Glennis married Gordon Patterson on August 23, 2003 in New Milford, PA with Sigma Omega sisters Elina (Simpson) Matthews, Susie (Burd) Hill, and Karen Jury in attendance. Glennis and Gordon live in Randolph, NJ.
Michelle (Wooding) Gilyeat: Michelle (Wooding) Gilyeat
Heather (Hafer) Claus: Heather is now living in Douglassville, PA with her husband Tim (they were married June 10, 2006). She also has a new job teaching 5th and 6th chorus and general music. She is very excited about it becuase it is in her home school district of Exeter Township!
Jennifer Jester
: Jennifer lives in Newark, DE and is a senior accountant at PFPC worldwide in
Wilmington. She is also pursuing a masters in Business Administration at
Wilmington College. Musically, Jennifer is actively involved in her church
choir, and is helping to start a gospel group there as well.
Rebecca King
: Becca is currently teaching Elementary Instrumental Music in Delaware County,
PA, which is just outside Philadelphia.
Susanna Lamey: Susanna is
currently living in Boston and working at an independent bookstore for a year
before she goes to graduate school.
Amy LeBrun: She has started her
own business called Box-o-Music (www.box-o-music.com)
giving voice and theory lessons to all ages and abilities, but primarily to
adult beginners. She is also in the studio recoding her first cd (www.bluegoddessfolk.com
). Address: 73 Winchester Street Medford, MA 02155
Kristy Montalbano
: Kristy is living on Long Island teaching elementary school instrumnetal music, band and strings, in Baldwin.
She received her tenure in 2004. She finished up her master's degree in December 2004 in Reading and Literacy from Long Island University.
In addition to school, she has a moderately-sized private woodwind studio where she teaches private lessons to students in grades 5-12.
She also plays oboe and English horn at local colleges as well as in a community band in the summers.
Charlotte (Murray) Reemts
: Charlotte is living in Killeen, Texas (having moved there last November), where she is working as a vegetation ecologist for The Nature Conservancy.
She, along with her husband Adam (a middle school choir teacher), sings in a church choir.
Suzie (Pisaniello) Ramsdell: Suzie is living in South Jersey (Delran, to be precise),
married to another SU alum (Steev Ramsdell - yes, it's spelled STEEV), and they have a 2-year-old daughter, Anastasia Rose.
She's working for Comcast IP Services and is very active in community theatre in my spare time.
Melanie Truckenbrod
: Melanie is currently living in Fort Worth, TX and working as the HR Analyst
for the Labor Relations Department of LSG Sky Chefs in Arlington, Tx. She has
also been doing technical work for Circle Theatre in downtown Fort Worth.
Melanie gave birth to her daughter Emma Victoria on Jan. 12, 2001.
Christy (Graham) Willard
: Christy has been working at an educational video production company called
Fabian-Baber for a year and a half as a production manager/producer and she
lives in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Christy and her husband Adam Willard are
expecting their first child in April of 2002.
Amanda Zentz: Amanda is
currently living in Medford, OR and is now the Associate Pastor at Ascension Lutheran Church.
She may be affiliating with the East Bay Alumnae Chapter. Her current email address is zentz@hotmail.com.
Angela Zurlo: Angela is going for her Masters degree in Publishing at Pace University, New York City. She will be going into book publishing after graduating in August 2007. She is also engaged and does not have any concrete plans, but is looking at a wedding date in potentially September 2008.
Address: 1066 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
If you are a Sigma Omega alumna and would like your current information posted
or updated, don't hesitate to contact us!
Last reviewed by Mickey McGrath
Karen Davis, President, Sigma Alpha Iota
Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 17870