Alumni News

Check out Alumni News to see what some of your fellow classmates are doing in their professional and personal lives.

'80
  • Iya Labunka, executive production manager for Walt Disney Films, has announced her engagement to Wes Craven, director of neo-classic horror movies such as Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 3.


    • '85
  • Bill Barrett has moved from Inside Edition to ABC's Good Morning America. He will be the writer/producer of the background film piece shown during the first hour of the programs.
  • Ralph Garman is continuing he drive-time comedy stints on a number one Anglo station in Los Angeles, KROQ-FM. He will be taking off one month and going to Vancouver to join the cast of Two for the Money, a movie starring Al Pacino. Ralph has had cameo appearances in the NYPD Blue series and twice hosted a "reality" program called Joe Schmoe for the Spike network. This will be his first performance for the big screen and in each of his scenes he will play opposite the award-winning Pacino.
  • Dennie Owens, a reporter at WHTM-TV Harrisburg, was nominated in two categories for the Mid Atlantic Region Emmys. He was up for Outstanding News Feature and Outstanding Sports News Feature/Story.


    • '92
  • Don Stanton, a writer/producer at KYW-TV CBS Philadelphia, won a Mid Atlantic Region Emmy for Outstanding Promotional Announcement.


    • '93
  • Duane Swierczynski was recently named the editor-in-chief of Philadelphia's City Paper.


    • '95
  • Chris Keating is now a general assignment TV reporter with News 12 New Jersey.


    • '96
  • Erin Flynn is in charge of special projects for Channel 39 (PBS) in Allentown/Bethlehem, PA. She recently wrote and produced an hour documentary of the Lehigh/Lafayette football rivalry, which was narrated by Harry Kalas.


    • '98
  • Mike Kimmel had been a writer/reporter/anchor for WPAA-AM in Pottsville, PA. He is now employed by Metronetworks, a broadcasting company that supplies news for several affiliates in the Philadelphia area. His boss, Paul Perrello '79, is the local bureau chief.


    • '99
  • Roger Hoyle will begin working as assistant director on a horror film being shot in Jersey City, NJ.
  • Kevin Burkitt was married on June 5th in New York state. He recently started working as a freelance Grip, Gaffer, and Shooter.


    • '00
  • Annie Blackson was hired at CBS 3 Philadelphia as a news writer.
  • Kristy Kane is the External Communication Manager/Spokesperson for the American Red Cross.


    • '01
  • Mike Garafolo was hired by The Newark Star Ledger as their New York Giants reporter.


    • '02
  • Lenora Thrower was promoted to Associate Editor of Orthopedics Today and Orthopedics Today International, 2 medical newspapers published by SLACK Incorporated.
  • Edward Beitz was named to Rutgers University School of Law's Law Review. His specialization is "Religion and the Law."


    • '04
  • Nickki DuBan is the Communications Coordinator for the Office of Property Services at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. She also has had several photographs published in the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs magazine, Size Up, and their 2004 Fire Industry, Rescue & EMS Expo Conference booklet - - jumpstarting her freelance photography career.
  • Neal Tyler is working for Starline Films. He is writing the script for their next project 4 Chosen, now in the pre-production phase. As an undergraduate, Neal won two Charlie Awards for Best Film. Off campus, he held various jobs as assistant director, actor, and production assistant on three independent movie projects.
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