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On Jan. 15, the Food Network aired an episode of the Barefoot Contessa featuring Amber Waves Farm, a not-for-profit organic and educational farm in Amagansett, New York co-founded by Amanda Merrow '07. The show "Going Local!" included Amber Waves farmers and their free-range chickens, whose eggs host Ina Garten used in cooking a meal entirely of local ingredients.

Lisa Hoskey '95 has been named director of Student Financial Services at Itacha College. Her responsibilities will include directing and managing state, federal and college financial aid programs, student account services and financial services for students and families. The appointment is effective March 7.

Greg Mancusi-Ungaro '80 has been appointed vice president of marketing at SEPATON, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class disk-based data protection platforms. He will be responsible for all marketing on a global basis, including strategy development, messaging and positioning, lead generation, public relations, partner programs and product marketing. Mancusi-Ungaro said he is "very excited about joining the SEPATON team, and developing and implementing marketing strategies to take our business to the next level."

Michael Signorelli '05 participated as an editor faculty member in the 2010 Words & Music arts festival sponsored by The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society. The festival offers unpublished authors manuscript critiques and consultations with literary agents and editors. Signorelli has been with HarperCollins since 2005.

Kevin McCarthy '07 and Chase Garbarino '07, after graduation from Hamilton, started Streetwise Media, a new media startup out of Boston. Their first product was Pinyadda, an online news aggregation and curation platform. In 2009, Pinyadda was selected as one of seven recipients of a DEMOgod Award at the DEMO conference in California.

Allie Pohl '07 is continuing to attract attention with her artwork and her ideals. This November/ December edition of the Orlando Arts Magazine features her "Ideal Woman" work, which began as a series of sculptures that had chia growing out of where unwanted hair is. Pohl then transformed the shape into a pendant of a female torso.

Hancock Estabrook, LLP has proudly announced that Cora A. Alsante '85 and John L. Murad, Jr. '80 have been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for 2011.

Rotary International has named John Hewko '79, an attorney with extensive international experience in both the private and public sectors, to be the global humanitarian service organization's new top executive, serving as its general secretary. The appointment is effective on July 1.

Brenda Austin '02 has published a Chinese to English translation of the Cultural Revolution era play "The Red Lantern." The play, a Beijing opera, is included in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, released by Columbia University Press. John B. Weinstein co-authored the translation. Xiaomei Chen edited the anthology, which is comprised of twenty-two Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000.

The Defense Research Institute (DRI) - The Voice of the Defense Bar, an international organization of 22,000 civil defense trial counsel, commercial litigation attorneys and corporate counsel, has named Henry Sneath '80 president-elect. Sneath previously served as both second and first vice-president of DRI, as a member of the Board of Directors, and as chair of the Commercial Litigation and Public Policy Committees. He received the DRI Most Outstanding Committee Chair Award. He will automatically be elevated to president of DRI in Oct. 2011.