Alumni Class Notes for January 2016
Catch up on professional and personal milestones from the King's alumni community.
Wesley Shand (NBC ’74) was awarded a Ph.D. in Pulpit Communication and Expository Preaching in the summer of 2015.
Michael Wojcik (’83) received a PhD in Information Technology with an emphasis in cybersecurity, and graduated with distinction.
Alma Ramos-McDermott (’84) writes that after 21 years of teaching elementary school and being a school librarian in Brooklyn, she married and relocated to Boston, where she worked as a middle school and then a high school librarian for four years. In 2013, she moved to Naples, FL and taught for two more years. In mid-September 2015, she was hired as the Schools Coordinator for the Blue Zones Project in Southwest Florida.
Ardith (Townsend) Cardenas (’88) married José Cardenas at a winery in Warwick, NY. José is an executive chef. Ardith opened and managed a Starbucks store in Midland Park, NJ before moving to Burberry, where she works in operations.
Mark Fleisher (’90) will be leaving in January 2016 to serve with the U.S. State Department in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Rick Millham Jr. (’90) and Lori (Straton) Millham (’90) write that their daughter Katelyn is a senior at Plumstead Christian School and has decided to attend Liberty University in the fall.
Chelsea (Miller) Schofield (PPE ’08) finished her MA in Cultural Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. She is now a research assistant within KU Leuven’s theology department.
Daniel Leiva (PPE ’09) married Brittany Leiva (nee Middleton) on March 28, 2015.
Jane (Clark) (PPE ’12) and Scott Scharl (Hillsdale ’12) celebrated their first anniversary on December 20, 2015.
Josh Craddock (PPE ’13) welcomed a son, Winston, in January 2015; started Harvard Law School (Class of 2018) in August 2015; and celebrated his second anniversary with Caroline Schuemann Craddock (PPE ’14).
Maggie (O’Leary) Hernandez (MCA ’14) was married to Evan Hernandez on September 26, 2015 at St. Paul’s German Church in Manhattan.
Pawel Wieprzowski (BUS ’14) is working as a medical claims analyst at McKesson. The company has been voted “Best Place to Work” for three years in a row by the Human Rights Foundation and is in the top 20 in the Fortune 500 list.