Personnel Moves
ACCOUNTING
• Louis Longo was hired as an accounting & auditing shareholder and director of the comprehensive risk services group at Alpern Rosenthal.
• Kotzan CPA & Associates welcomed Teresa L. Shanta as manager.
• Nathanial Thomas and Maureen O'Sullivan joined Parente Randolph as junior accountants in the Pittsburgh office.
LEGAL
Kimberly Rossman joined O'Brien, Rulis & Bochicchio LLC, Pittsburgh office, in the firm's workers' compensation practice group.
HEALTH CARE
• Certified massage therapist Laura Hranica joined Phoenix Rehabilitation and Health Services in Natrona Heights.
• Dr. Benjamin Miller accepted the position of physician leader for the diagnostic referral group at The Children's Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center.
• Excela Health laboratory technologist Toni Roney is now credentialed in molecular laboratory diagnostics.
• UPMC Passavant and University of Pittsburgh department of surgery division of plastic surgery added Dr. Steven C. Bonawitz. He offers a full range of plastic surgery services, specializing in head and neck surgery. His areas of interest include cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery, and microsurgery.
NONPROFITS
Sharon F. DiPaolo, an attorney with the law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP, was appointed chair of the board of directors of Holy Family Learning, a division of Holy Family Institute.
OTHER
• The Pittsburgh American Marketing Association elected to its board of directors: president, Kim Butler, marketing mananger at Bank of New York Mellon; executive vice president, Julianne Trichtinger, marketing specialist, Nova Chemicals; and vice president of programming, Diana Engelmeyers, owner, Email Equation.
• Harold W. Foertsch of Jefferson Township, Butler County, is completing his 31st year of service as a member of the Farm Service Agency county commitee. He has represented Local Administrative Area #3.
• Comcast Spotlight, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, named Timothy Divito area sales manager for Wheeling, Youngstown/Cleveland and Pittsburgh South.
• Calgon Carbon Corp. elected to its board of directors J. Rich Alexander, senior vice president, performance coatings, PPG Industries.
AWARDS
• Harold R. Sandberg, chairman emeritus of Alfred Benesch & Co., won the John A Roebling Medal presented by the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania.
• Senior volunteers of Canonsburg General Hospital honored for their hours of service: Dolly Messina, 3,299.25 hours; Dorothy Davis, 2,402 hours; Jo Lentz, 290.5 hours; Barbara Snarey, 3,127 hours; Kay Aquilino, 4,201 hours; Stella Power, 1,874 hours; Edith Shadler, 385 hours; Mary Suleski, 6,019.5; Rose Marie Colussi, 2,604.25 hours; and JoAnn Mikus, 2,896 hours.
• Dawn Webb Turner received the Promise Award from the Young Preservation Association of Pittsburgh for her commitment to Homewood. Webb Turner is a third grade teacher at the Pittsburgh Faison Arts Academy. She operates Our House Development and is developing the George A. Webb Sr. Learning Institute.
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