CLASS NOTES | FALL/WINTER 2025 | 57 homa to work for CP Kelco (now part of Tate and Lyle), married girlfriend Stephanie after several years of long-distance dating and is now pleased to announce their first child, Orson! Samantha (Petner) Ribaudo and husband Alex welcomed their second son, Madden Ribaudo, in December of 2024. He is joining his big brother Camden! Kimberly Osborn—now Dr. Osborn—successfully defended her dissertation in April 2025 and earned her doctorate. She graduated in May with a doctorate of education in educational leadership, making this her third degree from Lehigh! Latoya (Josephs) Alexander welcomed her third child, Kinari, on April 10. He joins siblings Elani (7) and Mari (4). Latoya also recently accepted a part-time position with her local township to introduce and teach dance to the younger generation. Brittany Russell’s business merged into Armanino in July 2025 and is happy to help with all accounting needs. Congratulations on all the life updates, Class of 2011! If you have news to share—whether it’s a new job, a move, a milestone or just a fun life update— we’d love to hear from you! Send your updates to sridevi211@ gmail.com and be a part of the next column. ’12 Mary (Haynie) Reardon, 215687-1624, maryhaynie12@gmail.com Jeff Hoeber lives in Hoboken, N.J., with wife Nicole, energetic pup Lucy and daughter Haylee, born in May. Jeff works at Spotify, which he says got him through lots of long training runs. He completed three marathons (two in NYC and one in Chicago), but since having his daughter, he says he has hung up the cleats to focus on building his dad bod. Go, Jeff! Elizabeth Shannon participated in UMass Amherst’s 155th commencement this May to celebrate earning her MBA! A. William Henkel has been elevated to partner in the litigation department at Fox Rothschild and is based in the Princeton, N.J., office. He and wife Rose Martin have three kids under 5! Madeline (Schatzman) Faris and Andrew Faris joined the three-kid club with their son Ronan in April, as did Leigh Ann (Torcivia) Fantoni and Dante Fantoni ’13 with their daughter in June! I thought Lehigh was the wildest, best time, but it turns out having three young kids takes the cake! ’13 Nicholas Graber, (201) 602-6603 (C) graber.nich olas@gmail.com Lucy Zhang, (978) 460-2394 (C); zhang.lucyw@alum.lehigh.edu ’14 Leah (Paulson) Dunmire, leahpaulson22@gmail.com Leah (Paulson) Dunmire here with exciting updates from two of our classmates. As always, I’d love to hear from you, so please email me (leahpaulson22@ gmail.com) or message me on LinkedIn if you have any updates you’d like to share! Hannah Rettoun Scheck was thrilled to join the standards and practices team for Nickelodeon this January! During the nine years prior, she worked on the adult ad standards team for CBS and Paramount cable networks, reviewing commercials and bleeping live events like the Grammys, the Tony Awards and the Super Bowl halftime show. This was also where she met her officemate and future husband Ethan Scheck. They were married in the fall of 2023 and adopted their dog Marzipan shortly thereafter. Hannah attributes any social skills she has left to Lehigh’s Orientation Leader training. I’m excited to highlight Stephanie Jacques, whose life is a beautiful reflection of purpose, confidence and community impact. Stephanie earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and Africana studies and now is putting that to use as she lives and works in Tulsa, Okla., a city still healing from the tragic legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. With a deep passion for justice, restoration and generational change, Stephanie is committed to helping reverse cycles of brokenness and bring spiritual and economic revitalization to the region through her work. She currently serves on staff at Transformation Church and is the founder of Crowned Sisterhood, a nonprofit empowering girls and women to walk boldly in their God-given identity and purpose. Through community events, mentorship and leadership programming, Crowned is creating safe, empowering spaces where confidence is cultivated and crowns are reclaimed. This summer, Stephanie represented Oklahoma as Ms. Oklahoma 2025 at the Royal International Miss International Pageant in Orlando, Fla., and placed in the top three while also taking home the international spokesmodel title. Her reign has been about more than titles—it’s about making a meaningful impact and inspiring others to rise. Stephanie is a gifted speaker, who loves connecting with women, youth, teams and both faith-based and non-faithbased nonprofit organizations around the topics of confidence, identity, strategy and purpose. If you’re looking for a speaker, want to support the vision of Crowned Sisterhood or simply want to connect, she’d love to hear from you. You can reach her at stephaniejacques14@ gmail.com. ’15 Kerry Mallett, kerryamallett@ gmail.com It was amazing to see so many classmates back at the Reunion in June to celebrate our 10-year milestone—and we had the best 10-year reunion turnout in six years! It was fun not only seeing so many old friends, but also meeting classmates I didn’t know while we were at Lehigh. If you were not able to make it back to campus, I hope that you can for our 15-year reunion— or a Lehigh-Lafayette game before that. For class updates, Dana Gallant and her husband, Taylor, welcomed a baby boy, Samuel, in May. I look forward to hopefully meeting Samuel this winter on a visit to Dana and Taylor’s new home in New Jersey. Also, Rachel Mayer married Jeff in June. Their wedding was at a gorgeous flower farm in New York, and it was very fun to celebrate with Lehigh friends. If you have life celebrations or achievements to announce, please make sure to reach out to me through my email above or DM the @lehigh15reunion Instagram account—we’ll share updates there between reunion celebrations. ’16 EDITOR’S NOTE: Our many thanks to Rachel Sholder, who has filled this space for nine years, sharing stories from across the class and letting us live vicariously through her adventures with classmates. Please welcome Brendan McCullagh as the new correspondent. He can be reached at brendan.p.mccullagh@gmail. com. ’17 Robert Hillman, robert.j.hillman1@ gmail.com ’18 Megan Olivola, meolivola@gmail. com; Dana Pierce, dpierce1011@gmail.com Juliana DeMaria and Peter Gormley wed on Sept. 20 in New York. Their story began during their freshman year at Lehigh, when they met through mutual friends in Rathbone. Their friendship grew stronger as they took on leadership roles within their respective Greek organizations: Juliana as president of Gamma Phi Beta and Peter as president of Kappa Sigma. This friendship eventually grew into a relationship junior year. After graduation, the couple moved to NYC to pursue their careers and have lived there since. The wedding was celebrated in the presence of cherished friends, family and generations of Lehigh alumni (including the bride’s father, Peter DeMaria ’84). The festivities concluded with an after-party
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