Class Notes – 1990-1999
Thomas Schott '90 was recognized by College Sports Communicators with their Lifetime Achievement Award. Thomas worked for the Purdue Boilermakers from 1990-2019, rising from a graduate intern to senior associate athletics director for communications, and now serving as director of executive communications. (7/24)
Mike Gebremedhin '91, Laura Gosling '90, Heather Robinson '94, and Pierre Tchetgen '00 (from left) enjoyed a full OWU reunion in Accra, Ghana. They all work at the U.S. Embassy in Accra. (12/23)
Matthew Crowley '92 was recognized by the Massachusetts Partnership for Youth with the 14th annual Dr. Patrick A. Schettini Jr. Memorial Award. This award's nominees exemplify a commitment to the health and safety of students. After working in a variety of roles at schools, Matthew has served as the superintendent of Woburn Public Schools since 2018. (7/24)
Kimberly DiPaola LaPointe '92 was hired by Macquarie Asset Management as senior managing director and head of wealth distribution. She joins the New York team from Cohen & Steers, where she was head of wealth. Her three decades of global industry experience includes senior roles at PGIM, where she headed up PGIM Investments International in London. (7/24)
Amanda Irene Hoyt Rush '94 published her debut memoir, The Gathering Girl, in March. Pulling from her background in humanities and classics, and guided by family artifacts, Amanda strives to make meaning of the cumulative and relatively quiet damage wrought by her parents' divorce, her mother's mental illness, and a childhood in which she was generally left to fend for herself. The book is for anyone who has been impacted by adverse childhood events and family dysfunction. Amanda is a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Columbus, OH. Her other published writings are available at amandairush.com. (12/23)
Tara Peacock Scarlett '95 was elected to Frist Art Museum Board in Nashville, TN. Tara serves as president and CEO of the Scarlett Family Foundation, a Tennessee-based foundation working to ensure all students have access to a high-quality education. She has been an active advocate for education reform for 20 years and has served as a foundation board member since its founding in 2005. (7/24)
Terree Stevenson '95 was appointed dean of students at Fresno State (CA). She will oversee several departments, including Services for Students with Disabilities, Student Involvement, and more. Terree has more than 25 years of experience in higher education. She was most recently the dean of students at Central State University (OH). (7/24)
Matthew MacArthur '96 was named senior vice president of training and marketing at Business Development Resources, a provider of business coaching and training services for the HVAC, plumbing, and electrical industries. He has been with BDR since 2001, most recently as director of training. (7/24)
Koritha Mitchell '96 was named an honoree for the 2023 Women's Media Awards. Women's Media Center cofounders Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem made the announcement honoring game-changers for women in media. Koritha received the WMC Progressive Women's Voices IMPACT Award for her work as an awardwinning author, cultural critic, literary historian, and professor of English. In February, Koritha also delivered the Katherine Kearney Carpenter Lecture at OWU, where she shared insights from editing Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved African American woman, while witnessing the Supreme Court's commitment to ending abortion access and limiting the right to vote. (7/24)
Erin Ardale Koeppel '97 was promoted to managing director of government relations and public policy at CFP Board, a professional body for personal financial planners. She has served as deputy general counsel at CFP Board since 2018, previously working as partner at K&L Gates LLP in Washington, D.C. (7/24)
Karla McCain '98 was hired as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Cottey College (MO). Prior to joining Cottey, she served as the provost of Blackburn College and was a faculty member at Austin College (TX). (12/23)
Heather Torok Funk '99 is the cofounder of HH Science, a family-owned performance-based skincare, haircare, and beauty company. She secured a patent for her Clear Skin Vitamins, a product to possibly help those struggling with acne. She developed the product with board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Helen Torok. (7/24)
Kristin Kelling '99 (right) and Melody Maxwell '10 (left) discovered their OWU connection during a country team meeting in Brazil, where they both work at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia. Kristin is a diplomat serving as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Attaché. She works at the intersection of global health and diplomacy, focusing on the bilateral relationship between the United States and Brazil. She has more than 20 years of federal management and leadership experience, including a long history of engagement and collaboration with Latin America through her work at the U.S. Department of State and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She earned a Master of Health Science degree in International Health from Johns Hopkins University and is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Melody is a veterinarian and diplomat for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. In her current location, she is the APHIS Area Director and Agricultural Attaché for seven countries in South America. She focuses on facilitating agricultural trade and safeguarding U.S. agriculture by strengthening host countries' local capacity to identify and control plant and animal pests and diseases. She was previously posted in Dakar, Senegal, covering 24 West and Central African countries and is looking forward to her next posting in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2024. She completed Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees at Ohio State University. (12/23)
Tomiquia Moss '99 was named secretary of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Her background includes being founder and CEO of All Home, CEO of Hamilton Families, chief of staff in the Oakland mayor's office, and executive director of HOPE SF in San Francisco. "The housing and homelessness crisis is the number one issue facing our state, and Secretary Moss brings decades of deep knowledge and experience working to move the needle on this challenge in the public and nonprofit sectors," said Newsom. (7/24)
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