Archive: Alumni News

Building a New Life in Armenia

If Suzy Daghlian’s new life were a children’s book like the ones she used to market, the lesson would be obvious: Sometimes the hardest challenges lead to the sweetest changes.

Power Player

Mike Ford ’98, operations director at Oyster Creek Generating Station, talks about the training required to keep a nuclear plant running safely.

Girls, rising

Alumna Kelsey Martin started a women’s empowerment group for an unlikely group: her 8-year-old students.

Alumnus goes all in on a poker career. It was a good bet.

Six months after turning pro, Connor Berkowitz ’12 won nearly half a million dollars in the World Series of Poker’s Lucky Sevens Texas Hold ’Em tournament.

Remembrances

Alumni remember Bob Cole, founder of TCNJ’s journalism program, and Patrick Donohue, retired assistant provost for community engaged learning programs and partnerships.

Nursing alumna is playing a key role in fixing the Veterans Health Administration

Three days before Donna Hart Gage ’81 was set to start her new job as the Veterans Health Administration’s chief nursing officer, she learned from the evening news that the man who hired her—former Under Secretary for Health Robert A. Petzel, MD—had been fired and that her new employer faced a mounting scandal. It was […]

His first career: Hotelier in Macedonia. Beach included.

Less than a year after graduating from TCNJ with a degree in international business, Alexander Necovski ’11, a native New Jerseyan, found himself running a hotel in Macedonia.

Remembering Rosa Lee Eickhoff

If there was one lesson that Rosa Lee tried to impart on the thousands of TCNJ students she interacted with, it was this: That they had an obligation to leave the college a better place than it was when they came here. Exactly what you would expect from someone who led by example.

Big Adventure Down Under

Rooney and Ziegler complete a 3,000-mile bike trek that took them from MacKay to Melbourne along Australia’s east coast, and then along the spine of New Zealand, from Dunedin to Auckland.