79 Lynda (Woolever) Brandenburg is retired after a 40+ year career in three diverse industries. Her positions included vice president of finance in banking, controller at Canada Dry Bottling of Williamsport, and director of operations/finance for surgical services at a healthcare system of six hospitals (Susquehanna Health, now UPMC). Lynda landed her first professional job upon graduation as finance officer at a bank based on her knowledge gained from specific courses she took at Lycoming, namely Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions, Money and Banking, and Federal Income Tax Preparation. She offered a Lycoming College internship and hosted one Lycoming College business study group while working at Susquehanna Health. Sam Schiccatano ’76, Ken Holdren ’79, and Joe Klebon ’76 were classmates and football team members. The three alumni have served as county commissioners in Pennsylvania — Schiccatano and Klebon in Northumberland County, and Holdren in Montour County. Lynda worked directly for the surgical services division at UPMC for 15 years. There she completed the most impactful project of her career — overseeing the implementation of electronic medical record (EMR) software for all phases of surgery and for anesthesia for multiple hospitals. Surgical Information Systems (software company) chose Lynda and her staff as the host site for the eastern U.S. states for potential clients to demonstrate the optimal use of the EMR and named her team as Perioperative Leader of the Year in two different years for innovative use of software. Her team was the first in the U.S. to use the software to develop a few new processes to enhance workflow in the surgery department. Lynda has been a volunteer team coach for Odyssey of the Mind in the Loyalsock School District since 2008, as well as a competition judge, board member, and treasurer. She is also a fundraising committee member for the local Horsepower Harley Owners Group for their annual benefit ride for the Ralston Marine Corp League to raise money for underprivileged families. Lynda and her husband split their time between the Williamsport area where their son lives and Florida where their daughter lives. 81 In August, Kathryn Minick, Ph.D., retired from Prairie View Inc. in Newton, Kas., after serving for 35 years as a licensed psychologist. In 1988, she completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Kansas and began working at Prairie View, a regional mental health center in southcentral Kansas that provides a full range of outpatient and inpatient services. Prairie View is also a member organization of the APA-Accredited Wichita Collaborative Psychology Internship Program (L to R) Ty Bornman ’79, Dave Overholt ’79, Tim VanSyckle ’79, Bill Campbell ’79, Steve Hovey ’79, Rick Cangialosi ’79, Dave Brown ’81, Dave Shickel ’79, John Alberti ’79, Jim Hovey, and Dave Pinter (WCPIP) and as such, takes two pre-doctoral interns every year. Kathryn coordinated the internship program and supervised and mentored 60+ psychology interns during her tenure at Prairie View. Upon retirement, she was honored with the Albert Bandura Lifetime Achievement Award in Psychology. She explains that Bandura was a well-known Stanford psychologist who was in the first class of WCPIP interns, graduating in 1953. KDR brothers from the late 1970s met in June 2023 at their annual get-together in Northeast PA. Any brother interested in next year’s meeting to be held June 8, 2024, should contact Cang at lowride@ptd.net or Ty at tbornman@comcast.net. 84 Jack Clarke recently met fellow alumnus and KDR brother, Bob Ronca ’67, through their men’s group at Grace Community Church, shown here playing golf. Carol Johnson was recently ordained as pastor of Redeemer and Saint Michael Lutheran Churches. Carol retired from teaching mathematics at Loyalsock High School. Newly ordained Reverend Carol Johnson and Bishop Craig Miller of the Upper Susquehanna Synod 29 www.lycoming.edu
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