YSU has a rich tradition of family attendance and graduation. The legacy of a child following in the footsteps of a parent/guardian toward attaining a degree from the same alma mater is indeed a cherished tradition.
The Office of Alumni Engagement is proud to offer five $1000 Legacy Scholarships to children of YSU alumni. The application can be downloaded here and must be submitted no later than March 1, 2022. Email alumni@ysu.edu for more information.
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The YSU Office of Alumni Engagement is releasing a series of Alumni Spotlight videos featuring interesting graduates doing interesting things in interesting places around the world. Watch the videos and stay tuned for more on Alumni Engagement’s new website or on AE’s Facebook page.
Here are the videos so far:
Angel Rivera is a bridal gown designer and owner of Angel Rivera Couture. After earning his YSU degree, Rivera moved to New York and worked with the industry’s top fashion houses, including the world-famous Kleinfeld. He also continued his studies in pattern making at the Parsons School of Design. “A wedding dress is the most important garment a woman will ever wear, and one that she will always remember and treasure,” he says.
William Hartman, who also holds a master’s degree in Industrial Administration from the University of Michigan, is now president and chief executive of Halberd Corp., whose patented extracorporeal treatment is applicable to many hard-to-cure blood-borne and neurologic diseases, including Covid-19, other viruses, PTSD, cancer, etc. Hartman previously held executive leadership positions with Premier Biomedical and Nanologix, as well as TRW Automotive. He also was manager of Quality at Ford Motor Co., Transmission and Chassis Division, overseeing eight domestic production plants and three plans in Europe and Asia. At TRW, he founded and headed a separate business group with plants in the United States, Mexico and Europe with combined annual sales of $1.3 billion.
Heather Moran teaches Advanced Biology at Boardman High School. Moran, who has taught Biology and Environmental Science in public schools for more than 25 years, was named Environmental Teacher of the Year by the Ohio Federation of Soil and Water Conservation in 2020. She has led student groups to study science in Iceland, the Bahamas and across the United States.
Noëlly Longi Nsimba had an amazing tennis career at YSU and professionally, which led to travel all over the world. Now she’s working on her first jazz album and is auditioning for “The Voice UK.”
Steve Bartolin is chairman of the Broadmoor Resort Hotel in Colorado Springs, Col., and president of the Broadmoor Sea Island Co. The Broadmoor is the longest-running 5-star resort in America.
Dexter Caffey founded an alternative investment firm in 1998 at the age of 25, and for the past 20 years has been working with major publicly traded U.S. companies through his firm, Caffey Investment Group. Caffey now lives in Atlanta, is a volunteer at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the non-profit organization Conexx, the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce. He also is a board member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust.