Class of 1985
Keith Hanigan ’85 Is Senior Technical Adviser for New U.S. Embassy in London
By Kate Helm In midst of an intense spring and early summer with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and preparations for the Summer Olympics, Keith Hanigan ’85, facility manager for the U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom, representing the Embassy in London, has also been playing a key role in planning for the new U.S. Embassy [...]
Joseph Heaney ’85 Has Hosted More Than 45 Student Interns
By Kevin Gray An avid scuba diver and successful businessman, Joseph Heaney ’85 draws comparisons between his two passions. Both start, he says, with a plan. Founder and principal of Walden Associates, Oyster Bay, N.Y., an environmental consulting firm, he has designed soil and groundwater remediation systems, water and wastewater treatment systems, and corrective action for [...]
Kristian Smith ’13 Explores Economic Development with Pete Reinke ’85
“This externship gave me a new perspective on architecture because it exposed me to the processes that take place in the relocation of a business to the Lehigh Valley, incentives to encourage businesses to locate to brownfield sites, and the various other steps that foster the environment for businesses long before the architect comes into [...]
World Citizen Bill Bull ’85 Has Led Peace Corps Effort in Many Parts of Africa
By Matt Sinclair ’90 Early in his travels with the Peace Corps, Bill Bull ’85 was crossing an African river with another Peace Corp volunteer and some American visitors on a raft connected to the shore by cables. “We were halfway across when the cable snapped,” he recalls. As the raft slowly drifted, the visitors [...]
Locust Capital Partner Bill Casey III ’85 Builds New Philadelphia Alumni Council
By Dan Edelen “Hometown Boy Makes Good” is the classic feel-good story. For Philadelphia native son William F. Casey III ’85, his success in the financial world and networking is not only a personal triumph but also a boon to his city and Lafayette. Casey, managing partner since 2009 of the boutique Philadelphia investment firm [...]
Thriving in a Man’s World
Sherry Welsh ’85 brings unique perspective to global auto supplier By Nora Isaacs ’94 When Sherry Welsh ’85 walked into her first meeting of the North American Sales Team at automotive supply giant ArvinMeritor, she discovered only one other woman among the 40 team members. But that didn’t faze her. As she’s moved up the [...]
‘Another Great Lafayette Experience’
Hosting a summer internship for Natalie Cothren ’09. By Danielle De Vita ’04 Danielle De Vita ’04 is a senior account executive for Novita Communications, a public relations firm specializing in architectural design in Brooklyn, N.Y. This summer, she hosted an internship for English major Natalie Cothren ’09 (Akron, Ohio). During my sophomore year at [...]
How Engineering and Medicine Mesh
My externship with Charles Gatt Jr. ’85, an orthopedic surgeon at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. By Carolyn Stolfi ’09 During the interim-session, Carolyn Stolfi ’09 (Chatham, N.J.) spent a week shadowing Charles Gatt Jr. ’85, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (UMDNJ-RWJ) [...]
Council of Lafayette Women Conference Hits the Mark
By Carrie Pasternak ’08, Lesley Kline ’09, and Danielle Ward ’08 This weekend the Council of Lafayette Women held its biennial conference. Well over 100 alumni, staff, students, and visitors celebrated a weekend of “Broadening Horizons Deepening Understanding.” One of the highlights for many was the keynote address Friday evening by Mary Stengel Austen ’86. [...]
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