1980
TERESA VETTORETTI FIAMENGO (A&S) of New Fairfield, Conn., was recently featured in a Danbury News-Times "Cook Book" column, to which she contributed a half-dozen recipes. Teresa and her husband, RICHARD FIAMENGO (WARD '82), who works for Intel Corp. in Danbury, Conn., designed the house and gardens of their Candlewood Lake home. They met while at the University. She studied art history and previously worked at Dansk headquarters in Mount Kisco, N.Y., and as assistant to the director of the Roy Neuberger Museum at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is co-chairman of an art appreciation program in the local schools and does photography and occasional crafts. Theresa and Rick have three children, Tavia, 10, Andrew, 7, and Robert, 4.
JAMES T. MAHONEY (BARNEY, MAEc) of Kensington, Conn., is the new part-time economic director for the town of Berlin, Conn. James, who is also executive director of a nonprofit development corporation for the city of New London, Conn., has been instrumental in developing plans for the Fort Trumbull area, Ocean Beach Park, and New London's downtown waterfront.
ELLEN PELIZZA (BARNEY, MSPA) of Buena Park, Calif., has been appointed president of the Times Mirror Resource Management Company, where she had been general manager. Times Mirror newspapers include the Los Angeles Times and The Hartford Courant. Ellen oversees a variety of cost reduction areas, including computer leasing, travel, newsprint purchasing, supply procurement, and national contracts. She joined Times Mirror in 1983 as audit supervisor and received a number of promotions prior to her present appointment.
JANET ROBINSON (A&S) of Middletown, Conn., has been promoted from account executive to local sales manager at Fox 61 WTIC-TV in Hartford, Conn.
THOMAS WOODMAN (HARTT) of Fairfield, Conn., was the featured baritone at this year's spring concert of the Greenwich Choral Society. The concert, "The Voice of Heaven," included works by Mozart and Haydn. Thomas was an apprentice at Central City Opera House Association and a fellow with the San Francisco Opera.
1981
ROBERT BLUM (BARNEY, MSPA) of Southington, Conn., has won the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Follmer Bronze Merit Award. Robert is director of underwriting/contracting at MedSpan Inc.
LAWRENCE DILLON (HARTT) of Winston Salem, N.C., is the new composer-in-residence for the Louisville Orchestra. Lawrence is assistant dean and chairman of the composition department at the North Carolina School of the Arts and is the artistic director of the Manteo Music Festival, a summer festival of opera, orchestral and chamber music. His Symphony No. 1 received its European premiere in Aix-en-Provence, France, in July.
BLAIR MACLACHLAN (A&S) of Marlborough, Conn., has been named director of the health care consulting group at Whittlesey & Hadley P.C. in Hartford, Conn.
RICK SHAPIRO (HARTT; BARNEY, MST '91) of Avon, Conn., was the subject of a Hartford Courant feature story by Patricia Seremet, detailing the stressful life of a CPA at tax time in April. Rick has an accounting and financial planning business in West Hartford, and his wife, ROBIN SHAPIRO (BARNEY '89), manages the office. They have a son, Sammy.
1982
MICHAEL ITALIAANDER (BARNEY, MBA) of Redding, Conn., is in the growth business of garden tours. When Michael started Expo Garden Tours 11 years ago, he offered two tours. This year he is offering 20 programs, moving with the seasons around the globe, including trips to Holland, England, France, China and New Zealand. The Hartford Courant featured Expo Garden Tours in a February travel section story.
1983
DENIS Y. DESAULNIERS (BARNEY) of Wolcott, Conn., has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing at Devon Precision Industries, Inc. in Wolcott, a specialist in manufacturing Swiss screw machine products.
RONALD E. PAYNE (ENG) of Urayasu, Chiba-ken, Japan, has been named senior manager of architecture and engineering for Walt Disney Attractions, Japan.
RANDALL G. SMITH (ART, MAEd) of Torrington, Conn., is a photography instructor at North Haven High School. He previously taught photography to children ages 10 to 16 and adults at the Farmington Valley Arts Center in Avon, Conn. Randall is active with the Warner Theater in Torrington as an actor and photographer, and he helps with the theater's summer arts program. He writes that he has been married for over 19 years and has two sons aged 12 and 14.
1984
PAUL HENAULT (BARNEY, MBA) of Simsbury, Conn., is the newly elected chairman of the Simsbury finance board. Paul is assistant vice president for reinsurance at the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. and has served on the town's board of finance for four years.
KAREN HENDERSON JANSEN (A&S) of West Point, N.Y., has completed a PhD in management at Texas A&M University. She will join the faculty at Pennsylvania State University this fall.
CHARLES "CHUCK" PAGANO (ENG) of Waterbury, Conn., has been promoted to senior vice president, technology, engineering and operations, for ESPN, Inc. Chuck joined ESPN before its debut in 1979 as a technical director, was promoted to vice president, and later, as senior vice president, engineering and technology, spearheaded ESPN's technology-related strategic planning.
1985
THOMAS MASSELLA, JR. (HARTT, MMus) of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been on tour with the New Century Saxophone Quartet, performing Three Lyrics for Saxophone Quartet, a work composed by him last year under commission from the quartet. The piece was recorded in Amsterdam on the ensemble's third compact disc on Channel Classic Recordings. Thomas' music is available through Dorn Publications in Medfield, Mass.
MITCHELL SKLAR (A&S) of Voorhees, N.J., has been named executive director of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police. Mitchell has also been chosen as an alternate member to the New Jersey Police Training Commission and to the board of directors of D.A.R.E. New Jersey.
HILLARY HIRSCHHORN SPRUNG (A&S) of Paramus, N.J., writes that her husband, Eric, was transferred to London during the summer of 1996, and, while there, she gave birth to their second child, Carter. Their daughter, Lindsay, is 4. Last summer they returned to the United States. Hillary is now at home with the children and planning to start a new career next year as a social worker.
1986
MICHAEL FORTUNA (ART) of Orting, Wash., and his wife, Erin, are announcing the birth of their daughter, Gabriella Alexa, born in December. She joins her 3-year-old brother, Keeghan Michael. Michael writes that he and Erin have started another business, doing Corian countertop fabrication for hotels and restaurants in the Seattle, Wash., area.
1987
LAURA R. CLOUD (ART) of Haslett, Mich., has been promoted to associate professor at Michigan State University in the College of Arts and Letters. She teaches experimental methods with a focus on sculpture.
1988
RENÉE (VEILLEUX) POWELL (A&S) of Covington, Ga., writes that she earned her master's degree in health care policy and administration in 1995 and married Michael Powell, an investigator/extradition officer with the DeKalb County Sheriff Department in 1998. She is supervisor of the microbiology laboratory at a county hospital.
JOANNE MASSO (BARNEY) of New York, N.Y., recently assumed the position of marketing manager for PowerBar. She is in charge of sports marketing for the New York and New Jersey markets. Joanne spent the past eight years working for the National Basketball Association in the consumer products group.
1989
RICHARD ROSOW (BARNEY) of Bloomfield, Conn., has been named sales representative for the Danbury/Waterbury area for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He previously worked on nonprofit sales accounts for the paper and currently also handles accounts for All Things Jewish magazine, At Home magazine, and the Connecticut Antiques Guide.
