Spring 2002

Patty Mount Stefanelli, a math teacher, is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Administration. She and her husband, Joe, a vice-president at Merrill Lynch, have two children: Joseph, a freshman at Muhlenburg College and Sarah, a 6th grader at St. Joseph's School in Toms River. Patty volunteers at Brick Community Theater, where her children perform. The Stefanellis live in Brick, NJ. Josiane Bongiovanni Wagner, who lives in Punta Gorda, FL, is a physician. She moved to southwest Florida from the Jersey shore in September, and invites any EOCHers in the area to get in touch with her. Her hobbies include sailing, fiction reading, theater, piano playing and attending concerts. Josiane writes that her sister, Lisa, now serves as personal vet to Lisa's "nephew", Clifford, the Great Dane who shares a home with Josiane and her husband, Stephen. Roseann Ingianni Orme and her husband, John, have been married for 19 years and have two sons, John (13) and Nicholas (9). Roseann is a Project Manager specializing in technology and financial systems. Leslie Caggiano Pucci writes, "I have loved being home raising my two beautiful children adopted from Kazalstan in the summer of 2000." She would love to hear from other international adoptive families in Monmouth/Ocean counties. Leslie and her family live in Brick, NJ. Maria Vicente Passerini, who lives in West Orange, NJ, loves her work as an ESL teacher at Pleasantdale School. She also has been teaching CCD for 10 years and was voted Catechist of 2001 in Our Lady of the Lake, Verona, NJ. She writes, "I have been happily married to my husband Richard for 21 years and we have two great kids: Adriana, 18 and Dante, 15. I truly miss all my EOCH friends and I truly hope one day we can all meet again." Martha Weiss Sivertson writes that she changed jobs last year, moving from the Cleveland Museum of Art to Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, OH. Martha lives in Shaker Heights, OH.

Fall 2002

Mary Ellen Gonzalez Jorgensen, who lives in Caldwell, NJ, has been married to her husband, Ken, for 25 years. The Jorgensens have three children: Lauren (18), Christopher (16) and Matthew (13). Mary Ellen enjoys fitness exercising, reading, keyboarding, music and computers.  She is the practice administrator for a group of four orthopedic surgeons in Livingston, NJ and the team leader for Pre- Cana classes at St. Aloysius Parish.