GCU Today April Digital Issue 2018

GCU MAGAZ I NE • 29 CLASS NOTES Send your class notes and a high-resolution photo to www.gcu.edu/classnotes. What’s newwith you? 1990s Mike Irving, B.S. in Physical Education, ’99, is the founder of Canada’s largest baseball school, Batter Up Baseball, which focuses on kids having fun as they learn to play. The school offers summer and winter camps, team camps, private training, coaching clinics, employment for student-athletes and more. 2000s Kathy Loscheider, B.S. in Applied Management, ’02, andMBAwith an Emphasis in Health Systems Management, ’07, has been appointed to the role of executive director of fellowship at Square Surprise, a not-for-profit assisted living senior community set to open its doors this spring in Surprise, Ariz. Loscheider is also a state-licensed skilled nursing administrator and assisted living manager and is a certified HUD assisted housing manager. Dr. KimNeal, M.Ed. in Education Administration, ’07, is an instructor and department head for mathematics at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) in Greenwood, S.C., and recently was honored as an Outstanding Educator for the 2017-2018 academic year at the annual South Carolina Technical Education Association Convention. 2010s Angel McNeil, M. Ed. in Elementary Education, ’10, and M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction: Reading — Emphasis in Elementary Education, ’12, is the founding principal of Rocketship Public Schools’ Ward 5 school in Washington, D.C. McNeil first joined Rocketship as an assistant principal at Rocketship Fuerza Community Prep, then served as a founding assistant principal at Rocketship Rise Academy, the first Rocketship school in Washington. Julie Stephens, M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction: Reading — Emphasis is Elementary Education ’11, is an interrelated special education teacher at Lakeside Middle School in Cumming, Ga., and has been named Middle School Instructor of the Year in Forsyth County Schools. Stephens has taught in the district since 2011. Tracey Gilbert, M.S. in Addiction Counseling, ’12, is a therapist at Pathways, one of the largest providers of behavioral andmental health services in Arizona. Gilbert started at Pathways as the young adult team lead, then transitioned to a case-management supervisor position. Samuel Hindi, B.S. in Secondary Education with an Emphasis inMath, ’12, and M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction: Technology, ’15, teaches science classes to grades 7 through 12 at Corona (N.M.) High School. Hindi uses model wind turbines built by students to teach them about renewable energy. Christine Marsh, M.Ed. in Educational Administration, ’15, is an English honors/international baccalaureate teacher at Cactus Shadows High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., and was named the 2016 Arizona Teacher of the Year. Marsh has been awarded one of two Lopes for Literacy Grants and a one-year free membership in the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in education at GCU. Connor Piche, B.S. in Finance and Economics, ’15, was recently hired as a sales recruiter for SkyWater Search Partners, rated by Forbes as the No. 1 recruiting firm in Minnesota.