1975
Linda Fagan Squires has retired after 35 years of service from the Dutchess County Health Department Communicable Disease Control Division. Since her retirement in 2016, Linda has assisted Sullivan County Health Department with the 2019 measles outbreak response and 2020 COVID pandemic response. She has been a Community Health Nursing clinical instructor at the Mount since 2015. Linda has been married to her husband, Harry, for 44 years. They have six children and five grandchildren.
Joan Conway Sternitzke has retired and is living in upstate New York on Lake Schenevus. She enjoys kayaking and volunteering at her church and food pantry for her community.
Barbara Stevens is now retired and spent seven years in bedside nursing before going to a career in the pharmaceutical industry. “My years of nursing were the best,” she notes.
1977
Michael Vega retired from teaching after 32 years (26 years with NYC Dept. of Ed. and 6 years. with International School of Stockholm, Sweden). He achieved two master’s degrees, one in Special Education and one in International Education/Administration. He now lives in the Bronx with his wife of 35 years, Gunilla. They have two daughters, Sarah and Anna.
1982
Michael J. Fraser continues to work as a sports psychology consultant with various teams and athletes throughout the country.
1987
Susan Croteau Kindley has worked as an RN for 33 years, 30 of them as an Oncology nurse. Susan has been married to a wonderful man for 11 years and is soon to be a grandma again. Her oldest stepdaughter is having a baby girl in February!
1990
John DiChristina would like to give a big thank you to all the frontline workers. Thank you for keeping us safe and healthy. John gives a big shout out to the Class of 1990 nurses and the others that he knows well. Stay safe, and you are the best!
1996
Stephanie Betti Jackob has fully enjoyed the flexibility of the profession of nursing. While enjoying a career, she feels that she has also been able to enjoy motherhood and married life. Stephanie has worked in med-surg, stepdown, and critical care on the night shift for more than 20 years. For 15 years, she was a critical care float RN and has been in the Cardiac ICU for 5 years. She enjoys precepting new nurses, getting CCRN certified, and now starting her master’s degree. Thank you MSMC! Stephanie is grateful to be a nurse and cannot imagine any other profession!
2000
Joseph Polvere completed a master’s degree in History from the University of Nebraska. It is his third master’s degree. He is entering his 20th year of teaching.
2004
Lori Kasprzak is working for Round Point Mortgage Servicing Corporation and received a promotion to the triage department from customer service that began on July 20th. She has been there for three and a half years.
2009
Ashley Lombardi Carr is an adjunct clinical instructor at Mount Saint Mary College. Ashley has been an RN for 8 years and now NP for 3.5 years.
2010
Marissa (Stolz) Tamburi was one of the nurses honored as Hudson Valley Magazine’s Excellence in Nursing 2020.
2014
Gretchen Hafner’s paid summer program in the operating room between junior and senior year at the Mount helped develop her mission to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist. After three years of working in stepdown and critical care units as a registered nurse, she was accepted into the Rutgers CRNA program. Although the program is extremely rigorous, she knows every day that it is what she is meant to do! She is thankful to the Mount for providing her with such a strong undergraduate foundation and feels that she was adequately prepared to succeed in such a difficult graduate program.
2015
Brianne Smith recently received her degree as an adult geriatric acute care nurse practitioner. She has accepted a job at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Brianne is super excited to begin her career as an NP!
2016
Alvin Mann has been in a voluntary quarantine since mid-February. So far, so good! He is getting to appreciate his peace and quiet.
2017
Clarissa Espinosa has worked in plastic surgery at Crystal Run for a year. She now works at Garner Health on a medical telemetry/medical surgical unit and has been there for two years. Clarissa is currently working on getting her med-surg certification.
Malaina Hynes has been working for the last three years as an elementary substitute teacher on Long Island with the determination to earn a position as a full-time teacher with her own classroom. In December 2019, Malaina graduated from Adelphi University, receiving a master’s degree in Literacy Education. In her spare time, she has been creating custom creations for her small business.
2020
Jessica Koch is happy to announce that she has been offered a full-time position in a hospital.
Caitlyn Venditti passed the NCLEX in July after graduation on the first try. Caitlyn has been hired to start at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. She is very excited to begin her career as a nurse after four years of nursing school.
