Slavic Alumni
Bachelor of Arts
S. Joseph Cerniglia 1963
Jerilyn K. Lappin Koskan
Ms. Jerilyn Lappin Koskan raised five children and now has five
grandchildren. She and her husband have traveled Europe and Asia. They plan on
traveling Russia soon.
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Irene J. Jaroma Zaluski 1964
Joy C. Bullis 1965
Donna M. Hanneman Kerr 1965
William C. Lusk 1965
John C. Malony 1965
Letha M. Schwiesow 1965
Dan E. Davidson 1966
Dr. Dan Davidson earned his MA (1971) and PhD (1972) in Slavic at Harvard and
taught at Amherst College before going to Bryn Mawr as an associate
professor in 1976 and full professor since 1983. He has also served as
executive director of ACTR since 1980, and as president of American
Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, since 1998.
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Kenneth E. Henson 1966
David J. Hutchins 1966
James Hyland 1966
Neil Johnson 1966
Donna J. Buckmaster Webb 1966
Byron L. Costley 1967
Rick A. Harrington 1967
Kay Orth Kendall 1967
Brown Forrest Walworth 1967
Kenneth R. Gray 1968
Mr. Kenneth Gray left the Department of Agriculture's Economic Research
Service in 1997 to return to academia, in Kiev. At ERS, he headed research on
agriculture in centrally planned economies and often worked on technical assistance
programs in the FSU, serving 2 years as USDA consultant to the Kazakh Ministry of
Agriculture. Since leaving USDA, He served as interim resident director of MA in
economics program at Kiev Mohyla Academy for the Eurais Foundation. Kent Lewis
was administrator and Professor Bob Campbell was founding director (both KU grads)
were his colleagues. It is amazing how many KU graduates there are out here. For
two years, his wife Kristina and he were Fulbrighters in Kiev and this year he is
academic dean of a new private college here in Kiev. He is having the time of his
life.
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Anne M. Sigmund 1968
Gregory P. Agderian 1969
William R. Haxton 1969
James L. Hohnbaum 1969
J. Russell Mills, Jr. 1969
John H. Westerhoff 1969
Nancy Richey Williams 1969
Thomas W. Black 1970
Jon P. Hauxwell 1970
Edward N. Higgins 1970
John J. Mason 1970
Dwight G Rickman 1970
James A. Rose 1970
David Michael Cover 1971
Philip C. Lacey 1971
Richard R. Pine 1971
Dennis Reynolds 1972
Stephen L. McFarland 1973
Robert T. Burkhart 1974
Anne M. Gorham 1974
Daniel J. McGovern 1974
Christine M. (Davis) Ege 1975
Mary Mulfich-Vezilich 1975
Craig Barto 1976
Craig Barto wrote to us in February 2005: "After retiring from a career as a
cryptologic and intelligence officer in the United States Navy, a field where my degree
obviously served me well, I am now a professor of English at Charleston Southern University
in Charleston SC. The courses which I found most valuable and applicable in my career in the
intelligence community were Prof. Stammler's Main Currents of Russian Thought." (3/05)
Guy B. Hardesty 1976
Kurt A. Harper 1976
Judith D. Dziedzic 1978
After completing her BA at KU, she attended
Jagizicllonian University in Krakow for one year and then the summer studies
program in teaching Polish at Maria Sktodowska Curie University in Lublin.
Her seven-year-old daughter, Julianna, is in her 2nd year of performing with
Baltimore’s Polish National Alliance Krakowiski Dance Troupe and began studying
Polish language in January 2001. (3/01)
Cassandra J. Neff 1978
Nicholas I. Novosel 1978
Robert E. Boyd 1979
Annette L. Booker Grogan 1979
Mary Orazem Martins 1979
Douglas W. Sims 1979
Terry J. West 1979
Nancy A. Budimlija Cora 1980
Michael T. Fein 1980
Mr. Michael T. Fein bought his first home and enjoys being the
coordinator of Library Services at Central Virginia Community College in
Lynchburg, Virginia. His children, Gordon (11) and Irina (9) are growing fast.
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Marc Jones 1980
Cynthia J. Kleinsorge 1980
Beverly Hougland Krueger 1980
Rachel MacFarlane 1980
Patricia Cain Rodewald 1980
Roseanne Smith 1980
Leah McCartor Batty 1981
Kitty L. Holland 1981
Brandon D. Hunt 1981
Bradley M. Bauman 1982
Anne E. Harrison 1982
Victoria S. Wigglesworth Mitchell 1982
Linda K. Mufich-Knopp 1982
Michael Donald Anderson 1983
Susan Warman Bridges 1983
Marina Khait Gross 1983
David Michael Hall 1983
Charles J. Kulp 1983
Lawrence J. Metzer 1983
Michael A. Nugent 1983
Kristina E. Paquette 1983
Kathleen Marie Wood 1983
Rebecca M. Alexander 1984
Neal Duncanson 1984
Stana Lee Chucovich 1985
Barbara Decker-Lindsey 1985
Robert P. Kisling 1985
Kathryn E. Lancaster 1985
Robert DeBauge McMullen 1985
William B. Throne 1985
Larry Wahl 1985
Michael Birger 1986
Paulette K. Falk 1986
Eric W. Fisher 1986
Carol A. Gartland 1986
Tom Skrljac 1986
Brian James Adams 1987
Teresa A. Black 1987
Denise D. Krause 1987
Louis H. Kreuzer 1987
Alexandra M. Becker Sieflaff 1987
Johnathan M. Slusher 1987
Candan Crawford Spellman 1987
Jane Alane Ungerman 1987
Karen K. Cathcart Bronshteyn 1988
Andrew D. Hutton 1988
Paul F. Joern 1988
Laurie Hanson Phillips 1988
Gabriel Al-Salem 1989
Paul B. Anderson 1989
Sean E. Crews 1989
Stephen M. Dickey 1989
Amy S. Garwood 1989
Amy M. Humphrey Hays 1989
Jill F. Lally 1989
Stephanie Bonnett Rebein 1989
Laura Eversole Rolander 1989
Ashley McMullen Shaw 1989
Steven M. Boruckyj 1990
William I. Katz 1990
Philip A. Mason 1990
Kevin L. Ritchie 1990
Mark S. Rush 1990
Mark D. Sheeks 1990
Emily P. Leonard Tock 1990
Lisa G. Bushnell 1991
Annemarie Sydney Chilton 1991
Andria Lynn Dibbern 1991
Peter A. Genet 1991
Juliet L. Messmer 1991
Max M. Miller 1991
Bryan P. Montgomery 1991
Dan R. Neice 1991
Erik T. Ostermeuller 1991
Claude R. Sasso 1991
Andrew J. Smith 1991
Scott J. Stephens 1991
Michael T. Thibault 1991
Timothy S. Thompson 1991
Donovan J. Anderson 1992
Jeannie M. Sampson Deveney 1992
Kevin M. Faherty 1992
Sharon R. Goldstein 1992
Kerrianne Monahan 1992
She has been working at the American Embassy
in Moscow since July 1998 for the Department of Immigration and Naturalization
as a contract worker through Pacific Architects and Engineers. She deals with
the public when it comes to submitting immigration applications (this can be
anyone from a refugee from Baku to a granny from a small Ukrainian village to
the occasional U.S. citizen wanting to bring over “Svetlana,” his new Internet
bride.). It’s fun, easy, and she gets to use Russian all day long. It also
enables her to travel all over the former Soviet Union. Last year she went
hiking in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. This year she hopes to go to the Altai
region or Lake Baikal.
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Breven C. Parsons 1992
John C. Pfister 1992
Eric J. Roedel 1992
Richard A. Sexton 1992
Brian A. Armstrong 1993
Richard B. Cass 1993
Julie L. Denesha 1993
Patrick J. Harshany 1993
Jason Hines 1993
Jean E. Hix 1993
Karin Hosenfeld 1993
Katrina L. Culp Ladopoulos 1993
Ms. Katrina L. Culp Ladopoulos received a MA in 1997 from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison in Scandinavian Linguistics and married in Scotland in July
1999. She is starting a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Program at California
Polytechnic State University. She plans to finish in two years and teach math.
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James D. Nine 1993
Stacey Kathleen Cooper Scott 1993
Bethany Keidel Smart 1993
Ms. Bethany Keidel Smart gave birth to a daughter, Ksenia Signe Smart,
on December 9, 2000. (3/01)
Darla L. Brandt Stencavage 1993
Michael L. Utchell 1993
C. Michelle Vierow 1993
Mary E. Walker 1993
Deborah Holly Briggs 1994
Timothy J. Coffman 1994
After graduating from KU, he fulfilled his
obligation to the U.S. Army 10th Special Forces Group (Airborn) at Fort Carson,
Colorado. He spent 33 months involved in the Bosnian war/reconstruction for
IFOR and SFOR and learned first hand the brutal nature of the Balkans. Because
of Prof. March’s classes, he went into the region prepared for the terrible
onslaught of civil/ethnic war based from a historical perspective. He used
his language training extensively as he served with the Spetsnaz platoon, 1st
Independent Russian Airborne Brigade in Bosnia for a period of eight months.
He also became quite adept at Serbian/Croatian in his dealings with local
leaders. He is currently a Physician Assistant in the U.S. Army in stationed
in Korea and recently passed his medical boards and received his Masters in
Medicine from the University of Nebraska.
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Eric D. Costlow 1994
Amy S. Dudeck 1994
Kim Ross Frichter 1994
Travis C. Hermstein 1994
Valorie Workman Huynh 1994
Christopher T. Johnson 1994
Jack R.T. Jordan 1994
Michelle Myers Ledford 1994
Scott E. McIntosh 1994
Brian Patrick Mize 1994
Laura J. Mullins 1994
Shannon Peters Talbott 1994
Peter B. Berendzen 1995
Jamie McCall Hopkins 1995
Thomas M. Kirk 1995
James R. Silver 1995
Natalia Vukshich 1995
Dana M. Engel Wade 1995
Evan C. Watson 1995
Elisa D. Day 1996
Simica L. Dodig 1996
Thomas R. Field 1996
Jason T. Hatfield 1996
Alex Kolb 1996
Travis M. McMillan 1996
Lam T. Nguyen 1996
Michelle Deily Parsons 1996
William W. Radcliffe 1996
Lewis A. Rusk 1996
Johannah M. White 1996
Sarah K. Phillips Fleming 1997
Ms. Sarah K. Phillips Fleming is working as a marketing manager at
DeStefano & Partners of one of Chicago’s largest architectural firms. She
primarily writes promotional texts for brochures and coordinates all responses
to requests for Qualifications/Proposals. She likes it a lot. She also just
got married on November 4 to Ken Fleming who is also a KU graduate. They live
in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.
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1997
She is currently working as a Program Analyst at the American International Health Alliance in
Washington, DC. AIHA is a non-profit formed in 1992 to improve healthcare in Eastern Europe
and Eurasia. She received a Master of Arts in Russian Area Studies from the School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University in May 1999. She married Matt Hood on Sept. 23, 2000. She
and Matt met in beginning Russian class at KU in 1993 and again in 1997 in Washington, DC. (3/01)
Marijana Juric 1997
Alexander C. Kipp 1997
Kathleen M. Kraehenbuehl 1997
James T. Rexford 1997
Amy Slotemaker 1997
Amanda R. Wellborn 1997
Roger Embree 1998
David A. Hennessy 1998
Jeffory D. Lonard 1998
Anastasia E. Nagy 1998
Michele L. Johnston 1999
Sarah E. Spence 1999
Robin Bongers 2000
Ms. Robin Bongers (BA 2000) currently attends the University of Arizona, where
she hopes to finish the MA program in Russian Language & Literature in spring 2006.
She was recently awarded the FLAS fellowship through Duke University to spend May
and June in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the meantime, she is job hunting. She
previously attended Ohio University for an MA in Music History and Literature.
Her thesis topic pertained to the development of Russian opera, discussing two
settings of Gogol's play "Zhenit'ba" (The Wedding).
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Blythe R. Bradley 2000
Robert L. Chromanski 2000
Mr. Robert Choromanski ran for the KS state house of representatives in
fall of 2000 in Johnson County against Lisa Benlon (R) and lost to her w/ only 22%
of the vote. He ran as a democrat but the KC star said I as more like a Republican
and the Republican incumbent acted more like a Democrat. He is currently a 1st year
law student at Washburn University Law School, with environmental law emphasis and
interns for Kansas State Senator Chris Steineger (D-Kansas City).
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Erik G. Emro 2000
Matthew W. Howard 2000
Elizabeth J. King 2000
Christopher V. McGee 2000
Cynthia L. Schiffelbein 2000
