Alumni Updates


Gregory R. Niblett ('76) chaired the Innovations in Social Marketing (ISM) Conference in Baltimore, MD in April, 2007.  Mr. Niblett has been the chairman of the ISM steering committee since 2004 and also chaired the 2005 conference held in Leesburg, Virginia.  The ISM Conference is an invitation-only conference for senior academics and practitioners of social marketing, a field of practice that uses marketing techniques to address behavior change in environment, public health, and other areas for the benefit of society.  He is also Executive Editor for the Social Marketing Quarterly which is published quarterly.

Mr. Niblett also recently finished two years as the Chairman of the annual fundraising drive for St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill and has concluded his 14th year with AED, a non-profit organization that addresses human and social development issues in the areas of environment, public health, democracy, and education in developing countries around the world and in the U.S.  He is the Senior Vice President and Director for the AED Social Change Group.

Keith Campbell ('91) and his wife Kimberly live in Oklahoma City.  Keith is the principal of Oklahoma Christian School, in Edmond, OK, the largest ACSI Christian school in the state. He is working on his PhD dissertation in British history from the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Campbells have adopted three children.

Carrie Brown Ludovico ('93) is Distance Education Librarian at the University of Richmond. She provides research and information literacy support for a number of degree completion programs.

Tracy Fannin ('94) is an editor and writer for Zaner-Bloser Publishers, a division of Highlights for Children. Her principal duties are writing and editing children's books. She also has some interesting writing projects for television.

Paul Willis ('96) has answered the call to full time ministry. He is a member of the Raleigh First Church of the Nazarene and is currently in the process of becoming ordained as an Elder in the Church of the Nazarene. His study and interest areas include biblical archaeology, church history, exegesis, Greek and Hebrew. He will be pursuing an MDiv degree with a concentration in pastoral theology from either Northwest Nazarene University or Nazarene Theological Seminary. Paul has a passion for leading spiritual formation and assisting Senior Pastor Brian Powell with the growth and development of the church. He works to provide the church with Culturally Relevant, Word-Based, Spirit-Led messages that speak to our missional call to make Christlike Disciplines in the Nations.

Scot Patriquin ('99) left a promising position at a major Toronto law firm in 2004 to establish Patriquin Law, specializing in entrepreneurial solutions for small businesses. “I looked around that environment, and I didn't see anyone else's life that I wanted." Scot’s firm has done phenomenally well and was profiled in the Toronto Globe and Mail (February 2007).

Christi (Lamb) Reed ('99) graduated from Boston College Law School in 2002.  She practiced as a corporate attorney for Sulloway & Hollis, PLLC in Concord, New Hampshire from 2002 until February of 2007.  She now practices corporate and franchise law at the law firm of Kaufmann, Feiner, Yamin, Gildin & Robbins LLP in Manhattan, New York.

Jason McCabe ('00) has taken a teaching position at Cohasset Middle School, Cohasset, MA. He had been teaching middle school literature, history and composition at the American English Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Eric Skidmore ('00) will begin a MA program in history at Northeastern University in the fall of 2007. He was awarded an assistantship.

Trish Lightcap Hendon ('01) just started working as an attorney at the Georgia Public Defender in Polk County (west of Atlanta). She completed her J.D. at William & Mary in May 2004 and passed her bar exams in July. At William & Mary she worked as an intern 
at the Federal Public Defender in Richmond, VA, and knew she had found her calling. She is married to Nate Hendon, a patent attorney for Kimberly Clark, whom she met at a Christian Legal Society Bible study. They reside northwest of Atlanta.

Neal Estey ('02) received his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in May 2006. The following July, he passed the bar exam and was then sworn in as an attorney in Massachusetts. In May 2007, he received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law.

Zach Miller ('03) will begin in MPA studies in the fall of 2007 at the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.  Prior to his graduate work, Zack took a position with Public Citizen (www.citizen.org), a national non-profit public interest organization. He is working to preserve citizen access to the courts to redress corporate harm and negligence. He and his wife Kelly live in Arlington, VA.

Aaron Zimmerman
('03) "After graduating from ENC, I returned to Clayton, CA where I run my father's landscaping business. I'm also coaching basketball for a local Christian high school and helping with my church's children's ministry. I'm the proud parent of two American Staffordshire terriers, Quincy and Stella, and am about to close on my first house. But the big news is that I am, getting married in March 2005!"

Michele Prevost ('04) will begin a MLS program in the fall of 2007 at Simmons College.

Jonathan Kim ('04) is a student at Calvary Bible College & Theological Seminary.

Jocelyn Darcy ('04) graduated from Simmons College in May 2007 with a MS in Library Science. She has accepted the position of Head of Technical Services at Lancaster Bible College and will have the chance to coach and be involved with campus ministries. She will be marrying ENC alum Tyler Abel on September 1st. They plan to live in York, PA.

Heather Smith Ciras ('04) received her MA in journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

Jen Ibanez ('05) is at Northeastern University School of Law with a three-quarter tuition Public Interest Scholarship.

Heather Warmuth ('06) is teaching history and grammar to 7th and 8th graders at the Armenian Sisters Academy in Concord, MA, in fall 2007.

John Reid ('06) is at Suffolk University Law School.

Matt Swartzlander ('06) After graduation Matt lived in Boston for a short time before returning home to Jackson, Michigan to take a job. Since March ‘08 he has been working as a District Executive with the Boy Scouts of America, serving over 3,000 youth and 1,300 adult volunteers in a 3 ½ county district of South Central Michigan.




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