Vestal High School Class of 1988 - 20 Year Reunion

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Updated contact information for Vestal High School Class of 1988 alumni.
 

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Dan Abashain                           dabashain at gmail dot com                   Apalachin, NY

Past 20 years?  Besides going to school and working... Being the greatest Dad I can be to my two kids, Peter and Elizabeth. Writing checks to Butler for my divorce.

                                                Attending reunion? Too ashamed to

 

Tina Alt                                    tlalt at windstream dot net                      Matthews, NC

Past 20 years?  I graduated from Associated Schools, Inc. located in N. Miami Beach, FL with a travel and tourism

degree and started in the airline industry. I worked as a ticket agent/ramp agent with Delta Connection airlines out of

Syracuse, NY for a year and then became a flight attendant

for Delta Airlines based in Boston,MA shortly after. I married in

1992 and quit flying to move back to Syracuse and worked as

a agent once again. I divorced in 1995 and relocated to

Virginia Beach, VA to work for USAirways Express as a flight attendant with whom I'm still currently flying for. After living in Virginia for 8 yrs, I then moved to Charlotte, NC about 3 yrs ago. I just recently got engaged to a man named Scott who I

met while we were both flying for USairways Express out of Norfolk, VA.

                                                Attending reunion? If I can get time off

 

Lisa Cooper (Arnone)               lcooper at Binghamton dot edu              Vestal, NY

Past 20 years?  I am a Special Education Teacher at a private school on BU's campus for children with Autism, have worked there for 15 years. Married Jamey Cooper in 1993. Daughter Victoria- 11, Son Anthony- 8.

                                                Attending reunion? Maybe

 

Steve Ayers                              sayers1 at stny dot rr dot com               Owego, NY

Past 20 years?  Air Force '88-92. Boom Operator on KC-135's in Gulf War. Married Mary-Lou Igo in '89. Became NY State Trooper in '96 and am presently a Field Training Officer at SP Owego. Daughter Leah (16) and Decker (8).

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

 

Stephanie Reese (Ballock)        stephanie.reese at wachovia com           Charlotte, NC

Past 20 years?  Moved to Charlotte, NC in 1994. Currently working as a Finance Manager for Wachovia Bank. Have been married for 7 years and have a 10 month old daughter (Ericah).

                                                Attending reunion? Maybe

 

Grey Bartholomew                   greyb93 at hotmail dot com                   Ithaca, NY

Past 20 years?  Graduated from SUNY ESF with a BS in Biology. Spent 2 years in Steamboat Springs, Colorado skiing and kayaking. Moved to Denver, for a "real" job, and worked in the IT field for 9 years. Recently returned to upstate NY (Ithaca) with my wife, Kristin, and our 2 boys, Eli (6) & Asa (3.5). I continue to work in IT, but hope to become independently wealthly after I sell my high school memoirs to a publisher. :)

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

 

Brian Bates                              briancclcs at yahoo dot com                  Orleans, MA

Past 20 years?  Graduated from the University of Colorado,Boulder. Moved to Cape Cod and have been teaching 6th grade science for 12 years. I got married 6 years ago in Maui to my beautiful wife Erin. We have a 13 year old girl Autumn,

and we have 4 year old twins. Boy Sky and girl Zoe.

Attending reunion? Yes, unless the club championship is that weekend.

 

Renee Beach                            rbeach7557 at stny dot rr dot com          Endicott, NY

Past 20 years?  Hi- It's hard to believe we're preparing to celebrate our twenty year reunion! Following graduation, I completed a BA in elementary education, MS in school psychology, and most recently a post graduate degree in school district administration. I hope everyone is doing well and I look forward to catching up with old friends at the reunion.

Attending reunion? Yes

 

Karen Marino (Bell)                  kmarino at comcast dot net                    Nashua, NH

Attending reunion? Possibly, not sure yet.

 

Tricia Roberto (Bell)                 sasha6870 at AOL dot com                    Vestal, NY

Past 20 years?  Completed B.A. in Russian Lang. and Lit. from University of Leningrad, Russia and Binghamton University. Received TESOL Cert. from LeMoyne College, Masters Degree in Teaching Reading. Taught ESL for 11 years at J.C. Middle School. Now stay at home mom for Lexi (3), J.T. (7 months).

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

 

Kristin Harris (Bergeman)         kharris503 at verizon dot net                   Newark, DE

Past 20 years?  Graduated from Ithaca College May 1992. Married my husband Chris in June 1992. Husband's job transferred us to Delaware (why else would anyone move to DE?) where we still live almost 15 years later. I worked in public accounting and internal audit until recently. Currently am at home raising our two kids, Kathryn (11) and Michael (10).

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

           

Ray Berube                              Rayberubeny at yahoo dot com             Apalachin, NY

Past 20 years?  I live in the Tioga Terrace with my wife Melissa (Gabriel) and my two daughters Sarah(8) and Samantha(5). I'm a pharmaceutical sales rep and Melissa is a travel agent.

                                                Attending reunion? Definitely yes

 

Darcia Black                             d_black at newhomesandideas dot com Raleigh, NC

Past 20 years?  I have been working hard and playing hard for the last 20 years... I am a publisher for a magazine in North Carolina. I love to travel and took my first trip to Italy this past year! I also finally decided to settle down - I got engaged this past Christmas! See you all at the reunion! (how's my southern?)

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

 

Alex Bloom                              alex at alexbloom dot com                    Baltimore, MD

                                                Past 20 years?  www.verano.com

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

 

Christine Borelli                       cgrout at comcast dot net                      Naples, FL

 

Leanne Cain (Broadbent)          leanne70 at comcast dot com                Harrisonburg, VA

Past 20 years?  been married twice,currently separated, have 2

kids, Son-Corey 17, daughter-Cassidy 15. Graduated from

Dominion business school and have been working for the state

of Virginia at a local Health Department for 8 1/2 years. Also

worked 13 seasons on the beautiful Skyline Drive in the

Shenandoah Valley.

Attending reunion? Will try

 

Martin Brooks                          martinpbrooks at yahoo dot com                       Montgomery Village, MD

Past 20 years?  Graduated from Cornell with Human Services

degree, and from Wesley Theological Seminary with an M.Div.

in DC in 2007! Working as a youth minister in DC and in MD, and

loving it! Did 2 and a half years in the Army. Started a non-profit

called The ARCH - www.theArch.org

Attending reunion? Unlikely - I'll be getting back from New Orleans (doing Katrina recovery) - I'll try to see if I can get back earlier to join you!

 

Amy Ploutz (Brown)                 asploutz at hotmail dot com                   Kirkwood, NY

Past 20 years?  I have been married for 12 years to jim ploutz,dc, we have a son named matthew who is starting 7th grade at windsor middle school. Matthew is an up and coming golfer so be sure to look for him in the paper under sports of course. i have worked for SNY neurosurgical group for 4 + years as a surgical secretary. Not to much more exciting to say. I hope everyone had a good time at the reunion and is well.

Attending reunion? Was unaware until this past weekend sorry I missed it!!

 

Matt Butler                               mbutler at stny dot rr dot com                Vestal, NY

Past 20 years?  Graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and

Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Attorney in Broome County.

Married Miyoung Yuh and have two kids- Ally age 8 and

Jared age 6.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Joe Bulman                              jdbulman at yahoo dot com                   Gansevoort, NY

Past 20 years? After graduating from BCC I moved to Florida and lived there for a few years and then moved back to New York. I have been selling medical rehab supply through my own business for the last fifteen years. I got married to Luann eleven years ago and have two kids, Jack (5 years old) and Leo (two and half years old).

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Michele Pauley (Cahill) gyrafe1970 at aol dot com                     Ellenville, NY

Past 20 years?  Graduated B.S.Ed SUNY Oneonta 1991. First

teaching job outside of Rochester, NY (through 1995).

Graduated M.S.Ed (Reading) Binghamton University 1998.

Relocated outside of Providence, R.I. as a behavior specialist

with HeadStart (through 2000). Met my husband, Brian Pauley.

Relocated outside of Atlanta, GA as a Kindergarten teacher in

private academy (through 2002). Relocated to Hudson Valley

area in upstate NY as a K-4 Reading teacher (trained in

Reading Recovery through NYU same year). Married May 2003.

Purchased our first "fixer-upper" September 2003. Alexander

James (3) born September 1, 2004. Madison Danielle

(21 months) born April 21, 2006. Still a full-time reading

specialist with the Rondout Valley Central School District.

Living the American dream!

My website is http://gyrafe1970-ivil.tripod.com.

My e-mail is gyrafe1970@aol.com. Would love to hear from

old friends and classmates!

                                                Attending reunion? Hope so! 

 

Erin Heggelke (Callahan)          eheggelke at aol dot com                      Vestal, NY

Past 20 years?  Living in Vestal with husband Keith and 2

daughters Paige and Mallory. Working at UHS as a vascular

sonographer.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Julie Callahan                          julesimages at aol dot com                    Kirkwood, NY

Past 20 years?  I received my associates degree in accounting and have been working for the past 16 years at a local Vending company. And I am the proud aunt to 3 nephews and 3 nieces!

                                                Attending reunion? See you there! 

 

David Capwell                          ckcmoving at yahoo dot com                 Portland, OR

Past 20 years?  Graduated from Clarkson U and SUNY

Potsdam in 93. Went back and got my MS from Clarkson in 99.

Married to Cheryl Knott in 93 and lived in western NY for 4

years. Moved to FL for 3 years and then Massachusetts for 2

before ending up in Portland OR. Currently managing an

engineering team at Intel. Spending most of my time raising

my three boys Jarrett (8), Tevin (5) and Colby (1.5) or at a

race track driving.

                                                Attending reunion? Possibly 

 

Cheryl Van Gee (Caragher)       avg at frontiernet dot net                       Webster, NY

Past 20 years?  Graduated with AS in Sociology from SUNY

Morrisville, BA in Public Relations from West Virginia University.

Met husband Adam freshman year of college, were friends for a

year or two until he couldn't resist me any longer. Got married in

1994 and enjoyed the honeymoon period for seven years with

our yellow lab, Peyton, having lots of fun, traveling and starting

my career. Had twins, Carter and Grace, in 2000 then Stella in

2003. Work with international company Sedgwick CMS since

1999. In 2003 made best professional and personal decision of

my life to pick up the family and move to sunny so-cal

(Altadena CA) for 16 months before returning to Rochester for

my current position as operations manager to our NY offices,

providing risk management guidance to my clients. Living in

Webster NY since 2006. Adam and I have our 20 year reunions

on back to back weekends so summer '08 should be a blast

(from the past!) See you soon.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Heather Shannon (Carasea)      shannonh at upstate dot edu                  Baldwinsville, NY

Past 20 years?  I graduated from St. Joseph's College of

Nursing (1990), Nazareth College(1992), and University of

Rochester (1997) with MS in Midwifery. I was in a private MD

practice for ten years. During that time, I taught at LeMoyne

college in the PA program and precepted residents in the Family

Practice Program @ SJH. I have been happily married to my

husband Jim since 1997. We have two beautiful children, a son

Riley (9) and a daughter Lilli (5). After delivering 1000 babies

and countless hours of worrying/lost sleep, it was time to spend

time with my family. I recently left practice and took a position

at Upstate Medical University at Syracuse's Regional Perinatal

Program as a Perinatal Quality/Educational Specialist. I review

fetal, neonatal, infant and maternal deaths in the CNY region for

Quality Assurance and appropriateness of care. I am also the

Co-Director of the MIRACLE Continuity Elective and teach first

year med students. Having a recent health crisis, I have realized

life is what we make it and no need to sweat the small stuff! It

has been nice to see what everyone has been up to.

                                                Attending reunion? Unsure 

 

Heidi Persons (Carey)               hppersons at yahoo dot com                 Newark Valley, NY

Past 20 years?  Hard to sum up 20 years of experience in a

few sentences. Have been married for 10 yrs to Jeremy, have a

15 yr old daughter, Breeanne, from a previous learning

experience. Jeremy & I also have 2 girls: Samantha (9) &

Elizabeth (7). We are also foster parents & currently have 3

wonderful foster children that we are planning on adopting:

Alaina (11), Dakota (10) & Kaitlyn (9). Over the last 20 years I

have worked in daycare, retail, hotels, have had my own

business & also stayed at home with the kids several years. I

went back to school last year & recently reentered the workforce

as a Phlebotomist with Lourdes hospital.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Craig Casper                            cazdog52 at hotmail dot com                 Corning, NY

Past 20 years?  Graduated from LeMoyne College in 1992

and lived in Syracuse for a few years. Moved to Corning in

1996 to work for J&J and have been here ever since. Married

my beautiful wife Nicole in 2002 and were blessed by the

additions of Daniel Vincent (4) and Jack Devin (20 mo.). Still

stay in touch with Beemer, Nig and Collin on a routine basis

and look forward to seeing everyone in August.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Dave Chapman             dchapman14 at stny dot rr dot com        Vestal, NY

Past 20 years?  Living here in Vestal & working everyday. I play on a few different softball leagues and love to hunt and fish. I married Gina Darcangelo and we have two kids, Alyssa age 9 and Robbie age 7.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Pinka Chatterji                         pchatterji at albany dot edu                    Albany, NY

Past 20 years?  I recently moved to Albany NY after living near

Worcester MA for 5 years. I am an Assistant Professor in the

economics department at SUNY Albany. I am married and have

two wonderful sons, Rohan (5) and Avi (3). Still in touch with

several close friends from high school and looking forward to

the reunion.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

 

Julie Chiu Robert                     juliechiurobert at gmail dot com             Encinitas, CA

Past 20 years?  Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in

1993 with a Bachelor of Architecture...moved to Switzerland and

received my Master of Architecture from the Ecole

Polytechnique Federale (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1996...married Dimitri in the summer

of 1996...worked as an architect in Switzerland until 2000 and

then we moved to San Diego...bought our house in 2004...

currently working for a downtown San Diego architectural firm

and enjoying life in sunny SoCal!

                                                Attending reunion? Probably not

 

Diane Clifford                           dcliffo1 at netscape dot net                   Dearborn, MI

Past 20 years?  I graduated from Marywood University then

went on to grad school at University of Baltimore for an MBA. I

have been working for a non profit credit counseling agency for

11 years as a financial counselor.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes, I plan to. 

 

Jon Cohn                                                                                             Exton, PA

Past 20 years?  Living in Phila area, married with 2 kids (2 and 5 now), working as principal consultant managing mid to large size custom application development projects and packaged software integration.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes

 

Margaret Collins                       mgc4056 at aol dot com                                    Johnson City, NY

Past 20 years?  The last 20 years I have been in and out

rehab. I was prostituting for awhile but then decided to

employ my gainfully by stripping. I piss away every dollar

I earn and live as a pauper. Just kidding. . . I teach 7th

grade English at Susquehanna Valley. I am not married,

nor do I have children.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes 

 

Patrick Creeden                        fdnyemt5330 at msn dot com                Staten Island, NY

Past 20 years?  I worked at a variety of jobs around the area.

I moved to Albany in 1999. In September of 2000, I was hired as

an Emergency Medical Technician by the FDNY. I moved to

Staten Island, and have been here ever since. Currently I'm not

married ( although I always have my eyes open if you know what

I mean ;) ) and have no kids.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes, definitely. 

 

Larry Crosley                           Longisland_ny_213 at yahoo dot com    Northport, NY

Past 20 years?  Graduated from SUNY Oneonta in 1992.

Started grad school at University of Albany, but never finished.

Instead, I attended the New School of Television & Radio and

stayed in Albany for about 5 years, primarily working in

broadcasting and news media at WTRY/Pyx106 radio stations

and the Albany Times Union. In 1997, I moved to NYC (Forest

Hills) and ended up working in managed healthcare. I moved out

to Long Island in 2004 and just bought a new home this past year.

I presently work for Empire BlueCross BlueShield (WellPoint) in

Brooklyn, NY, as a Sr. Provider Network Manager. I met my wife

(Lisa) in college and we married in 1996. We have a 4-year old

daughter (Alison Elisabeth) and a yellow lab (Zoe).

                                                Attending reunion? Likely 

 

Jennifer Cutler Cohodas           jcohodas at hanover dot k12 dot va dot us         Richmond, VA  

Past 20 years?  I graduated from Cornell with a degree in

English. I then moved to Virginia to teach high school English

and earn my Master's degree in Education at Virginia Tech.

Now I work as an assistant principal in Hanover County, Virginia

while I complete a PhD in Curriculum Leadership through The

College of William and Mary. I have two beautiful daughters –

Samantha (8) and Rebekah (5).

                                                Attending reunion? Maybe.

 

Jim Colton                               jamescolton at bellsouth dot net           

                                                West Palm Beach FL / Cali Colombia

Past 20 years?  I spent the first eigth years in college (RIT, Univ of Washington, and Ohio State) studying statistics. I briefly worked at Kellogg's and Pratt & Whitney before getting married to my wife Alexa in Cali Colombia and starting a family. We have two boys: Nicholas (5) and Joseph (3). We live in Cali during the summer and West Palm Beach during the school year. I've been a statistical consultant / poker player for the past 5 years.

                                                Attending reunion? Unfortunately not this time.

 

Jena Kaveney (Cutter)               jenakave at comcast dot net                  Murrysville, PA 

Past 20 years?  Graduated from Russell Sage College, BA

Psychology and received Masters in Social Work from Marywood

College in '93. Met husband first week in college. Moved all

around New England, Ohio, and then spent 8 years in Atlanta,

and now in PA last 4 years. Married in 1997 and have two kids

Chris (7) and Kathryn (4).

                                                Attending reunion? Maybe.

 

Jeannie Washburn                   jwashburn at bellsouth dot net                Raleigh, NC

(Dacanay)                                 Past 20 years?  Graduated from Binghamton University with a

degree in Computer Science. Married in 1995 to Charles, and

moved to Raleigh that same year. We have four children:

Danny (20), Grace (almost 7), Jack (4) and Carly (2 months).

Currently working part-time as a computer consultant for the

State of NC.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes  

 

Chris Dahm                              cdahm1 at nc dot rr dot com                  Holly Springs, NC

Past 20 years?  Graduated from Wilkes Univ. in 1992 with BA

in Psych, 1995 Thomas Jefferson Univ. with Masters in Physical

Therapy. Have been in NC since 1998. Met my beautiful wife

Linda,and have been married since 2000. Now have 2

wonderful daughters, McKenna 4 and Alyssa 2.

                                                Attending reunion? Probably not  

 

Brett Demetros                         BrettLoves2fly at aol dot com                Syracuse, NY

Past 20 years?  After high school I attended BCC, Criminal

Justice Degree, then I went to SUNY Farmingdale, BS in

Aeronautical Science, became a flight instructor building time to

get into the airlines. Just before the resumes starting going out

September 11th happened and killed the airlines and

extensively  delaying any employment opportunities. So,

Christine (wife) and I decided to move to Albany NY and I

opened a Nathan's Famous Hotdog restaurant in the Colonie

Center mall food court. Closed Nathan's in Oct 06 and currently

live in Syracuse NY where my full time job is watching my

2 boys, Logan 5 and Owen 3 while working part-time at Loomis

working as an Armed Service Tech. Planning on getting a

masters degree at Syracuse University in something, not sure

what, its free so why not....

                                                Attending reunion?  No

 

Anita Black (Dikhofer)               03b441 at dfa dot state dot ny dot us    Endicott, NY

Past 20 years?  Graduated from BCC with a degree in Criminal

Justice. Have been working for Broome County for the past 6

years. Married to Tom Black since August 2000. Have two girls,

Kelsey Age 8 and Kaylin Age 7.

                                                Attending reunion? Yes  

 

Tina Gowe (DiRienzo)               tinam2517 at aol dot com                      Vestal, NY

                                                Attending reunion? Not sure yet

 

Nick DiTondo                           lightsandthunder7 at yahoo dot com      Ft. Walton Beach, FL

Past 20 years?  Graduated BA in Communications from York College of Pennsylvania in 1992. Currently serving in the US Air Force as a Systems Training Instructor, Air Force Combat Weather Center on Hurlburt Field, Florida. Currently Married with one child (Joshua). Have done extensive traveling throughout Europe ...and the Middle East. ;) Enjoy playing guitar, cooking, Listening to 'classic rock', enjoying the beach and spending quality time with my family.

                                                Attending reunion? No