Weddings featured in the summer 2009 issue include, Gina Aldridge ‘99, Jeannette Messich ‘00, Cary Brown ‘01 and Jon Simon ‘02, Andi Kramer ’02 and Brad Zitzner ’02, Jessica Stor Paumier ’03 and Rebecca Barry ’03 and John Arsena ’04.

Campus Events, July – November 2009.

Earns Top Rankings As A Fund Manager

Michelle E. Stevens says “it felt great, but was kind of surprising” when she was named the No. 2 fund manager out of 8,000 by Forbes Magazine last fall. Perhaps she should not have been so surprised; after all, one of the mutual funds she had been managing at Transamerica Investment Management LLC had been ranked No. 7 out of 100 by Barron’s earlier in the year.

Finds Success On The Big Screen

For Cindy Lentol, the opportunity to work alongside such stars as Matthew McConaughey and Tommy Lee Jones probably never entered her mind while at Wittenberg. Although interested in acting, Lentol never pursued the field during her college days, preferring instead to play field hockey, work in the sociology department and immerse herself in college life.

Chronicles Education Under The Lights Of Las Vegas

The birth and growth of a county school district might not sound like the stuff of books – unless that school district is the nation’s fifth largest and includes Las Vegas, “the entertainment capital of the world.” P. Kay Carl ’59 thought it was a story worth telling, and she would know. For 30 years, Carl worked in the Clark County School District in Nevada and presided over its phenomenal growth.

Blazes His Own Trail As Entrepreneur

When Mike Markson graduated from Wittenberg with a degree in economics, he surely didn’t know that 20 years later he would be on the brink of launching his third Internet start-up company. In fact, as he says, “I had no idea what I was going to do then.”

Shares Microsoft’s Story

Originally intent on pursuing a career in foreign policy in Washington, D.C., Kevin Kutz became a bit sidetracked while earning his master’s degree at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. With the energy and excitement of Boston beckoning at their back door, he and his wife, Karen Kirchhoff Kutz ’83, decided to stay there, and Kutz’s rewarding career in public relations began.

Throughout her youth, Alicia Sweet Hupp ’82 watched her father contribute his time, talent and treasure to his company and his community. Yet, she never envisioned being a part of his career until the day her father’s manufacturing company came calling.

The phrase “kid at heart” may describe Matthew J. Smith, but it’s what he does in the classroom that truly defines him. Since joining the faculty in 2001, he has turned his own childhood interests into powerful teaching tools that help demystify media messages.

A class on a cup ‘o joe connected students to another culture, but the accompanying field experience changed their perspectives forever.

High in the mountains of Guatemala during the early evening hours, eight first-year students sit under the fading sun with two professors listening to the story of Rigoberto, an ex-guerilla-fighter-turned-organic-coffee-and-banana farmer. A short time later, the students gather under the stars in the Santa Anita Cooperative’s coffee-drying patio after a home-cooked meal and cold showers to reflect on Rigoberto’s words.