12 CORDECHO SPIRIT. MIND. BODY. ClassNotes Class Notes-where you’ll find updates on your fellow alumnae. Please share your news! Send information, including pictures, to classnotes@sacredheartacademy.org. THIS ISSUE OF CLASS NOTES CONTAINS UPDATES RECEIVED SINCE SPRING 2023 70s Ann Marie Kardas Gaik ’76 is retired and enjoying doing things like knitting, exercising and going out to lunch with her friends and cousins. 80s Rachel Riggio ’87 has started a new position as Senior Customer Success Manager for KidKare by Minute Menu as well as starting her own health coaching business called Fit and Flourishing. Kimberly Schweitzer Evering ’89, also known as the Gal on the Go, was recognized at the 2023 Signal Awards, which celebrates the world’s best podcasts, for her podcast, Gal on the Go Unplugged: Signal Award, gold, general interview | talk show; W3 Award, gold, diversity, equity & inclusion, W3 Award, silver, interview; W3 Award, silver, best use of writing; Davey Award, silver, interview | talk show; Davey Award, silver, diversity, equity, & inclusion; and Davey Award, silver, general interview | talk show. 90s Kari Ann Kasmier ‘92 married Christopher M. Sodaro on March 10 at The Reach Resort in beautiful Key West, Florida. The couple resides in Newfane, New York. Kathy Piech-Lukas ’94 won gold medals in the 45-49 women’s age group at the YMCA Masters Nationals Swimming Championships this past spring in the 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, and 200 medley relay. She also won silver medals in the 200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke, and a bronze in the 100 IM. This summer, she won the silver medal in the 200 meter backstroke, the bronze in the 50 meter backstroke and fourth place in the 100 backstroke at the United States Masters National Long Course Championships. She is currently ranked in the USMS Top Ten nationally in all the backstroke events for the women’s 45-49 age division. Kathy took 27 years off from competitive swimming and started training and competing again in 2022. Dr. Jennifer Korzen O’Toole ’95 is the vice chair for faculty affairs in the Department of Internal Medicine and a professor in the departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where more than half (51.3%) of students admitted to the college’s doctor of medicine program during the last 10 years have been women. Sixty-two percent of the 573 students in the college’s 26 graduate programs are women and 69% of the 502 students in the prestigious medical sciences undergraduate program are women. She was recently featured in an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer saying, “Women are stepping into bigger and more prestigious leadership roles and are making a tremendous impact on the lives of our students, residents, faculty and, most importantly, patients.” Heather Thompson ’95 was recognized as this year’s Woman of Achievement at the Morris County Chamber of Commerce Women in Business event. Julie McHugh Gajewski ’97 is employed by the Diocese of Buffalo Catholic Schools in Western New York as the Assistant Superintendent of Academics. Molly Hayden Saper ’99 sang the Canadian National Anthem and the American National Anthem at a Buffalo Bisons game. She started singing at Sacred Heart her senior year in Chamber Singers. She went on to join Chamber Singers at SUNY Geneseo and they toured Europe. Now, she is the lead singer of her five piece band, Hello Molly, and have played all over Western New York. She credits SHA for fostering her love of music! SHA basketball teammates reconnect as New Hampshire residents twenty years after graduation! Lynn Zlotkowski ’99 and Kristy LaPlante-Jodoin ’00 compete in a women’s golf league every week in Goffstown, NH. 00s Kristin LaPlante ’00 married Eric Jodoin on October 8, 2023. Theresa Spada Yacobozzi ’00 and her husband Chris welcomed their first baby William Christopher in August 2023. Dr. Beverly Schaefer, MD ’02 was named Medical Director of WNY BloodCare, a nonprofit providing diagnosis and treatment to persons with bleeding and clotting disorders. Dr. Schaefer will work with her team in the development and implementation of a vision and strategic plan to advance care for patients and research in the field of bleeding disorders. Ashley Janiszewski May ’03 and her husband welcomed a baby girl Whitney Rose in October 2023. Annie Stoll ’03 is now VP, Creative at Republic Records in New York City. Pictured L to R: Mary Sinnot ‘70, Madeleine Tardif ‘70, Barbara Heine ‘70, Carol Zimmerman LaPlante ‘70, Jane Geis Rasmussen ‘70, Kristy LaPlante-Jodoin ‘00, Kelly LaPlante Strutz ‘98, Shannon Steinmiller Malinowski ‘00, Gina LaPlante ‘95, Bridget Saviola ‘00, Becky Zak Loy ‘00, Victoria Wagner ‘00, Dr. Michelle Haslinger ‘00, Sara Alpsan Johnson ‘00
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