Alumni

A sampling of our alumni includes:

Ralph Bennett ’63, assistant managing editor, Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.

Anne Swanson ’68, supervising editor, Houghton Mifflin Company

Cris Groenendaal ’70, actor/singer (Phantom of the Opera, revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); RCA recording artist

Richard Murphy ’71, Pulitzer Prize–winning photo editor, Anchorage Daily News

Marie Rama ’72, teacher, Edgemont High School

John Hillkirk III ’78, executive editor, USA Today; coauthor, A Better Idea: Redefining the Way Americans Work, published by Houghton Mifflin

Tom O’Boyle ’78, circulation marketing manager,  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Liza Koon ’83, sports layout chief, USA Today

Chris Shipley ’84, vice president, editorial, IDG Conference Management Co., San Francisco

Allan Burns ’89, director of publications, American Birding Association

Max Potter ’93, senior editor, writer, 5280 Magazine

John Barrett ’97, senior marketing communications specialist, Federated Investors

Matthew Jacobson ’98, editorial director, Medknowledge

Nicole Micco ’98, freelance writer and editor

Michael Geertson ’99, senior associate, Cassals & Associates (firm implementing democracy and  governance projects in Latin America)

Anthony Ranii ’99, teacher, Fairwood Elementary

Melissa Zagidulin ’01, marketing manager/web design, Data Basics

Eric Reinagel ’02, reporter/copy editor, Meadville Tribune

Amanda Reynolds, ’02, English professor, author of Heinz 56, a book of poems

Cam Terwilliger, ’04, teacher of fiction at Grub Street, a creative writing center in Boston, author of “Man & Machine”

Keith Montesano ’05, author of the poetry collection Ghost Lights; Ph.D. candidate, Binghampton University