Our Stories

For Alisha Espinosa ’12, a love for acting and the theater can be attributed in part to “efficiency.”  As a child, she loved stories and singing more than anything, There was a period in her life when she wanted to be the next Whitney Houston - and the next great American novelist. She found her way to Le Moyne, where she majored in theatre arts and English and was in Le Moyne’s Integral Honors Program. Today she serves as producing artistic director of the Latinx Playwrights Circle.

Lindsey Bush ’23 and Nicholas Carinci ’23 became absorbed in physics and engineering as high school students. Both plan to dedicate their professional lives to these fields. As they imagine what their futures will look like, it is important to them to perform their jobs not just with great technical skill, but with the utmost integrity. Bush and Carinci recently participated in the sixth-annual Lockheed Martin “Ethics in Engineering Competition,” where they put those ideals into action.

Walker Goodemote ’23 grew up in Mayfield, N.Y., along the shores of the Great Sacandaga Lake. The 29-mile-long body of water was a constant presence in Walker’s life. Not surprisingly, he learned a lot about it. But he still wanted to discover more it. Walker made the Sacandaga the centerpiece of his thesis for the College’s Integral Honors Program (IHP). He is in the process of creating a website dedicated to sharing the story of the lake and the communities surrounding it.

As a child growing up in Roanoke, Va., Katherine McGrath ’23 was fascinated by wildlife. She is longtime fan of Animal Planet’s Big Cat Diaries. Today she is working on a project her younger self would have loved. She is creating an animation to raise awareness of the challenges facing the world’s tiger population, including poaching and habitat loss as part of her thesis project for the College's Integral Honors Program.

When Dawn Penson ’22 and Kathryn LaPaglia ’23 arrived at Le Moyne as transfer students, they knew that they wanted to become involved on campus, excel academically, and lay the path for their professional success. It is safe to say that they succeeded. Both took on leadership roles in the College’s chapter of Tau Sigma (the National Honor Society for Transfer Students) and flourished in their classes. They received Tau Sigma's highest scholarship in recognition of their academic accomplishments ...

Kali (Webber) Hicks, M.S.  ’20 has transformed her passion for education, art, development and community engagement into a career that in many ways seems destined for her. Hicks is the audience development and engagement specialist at Proctors Collaborative, a theater in New York’s capital region. She used to visit Proctors as a child with her family. Today her work there as an allows her to inspire, educate and connect people in the community she calls home.

Carol ’79 and Tom ’79 Fletcher founded CR Fletcher Associates nearly 34 years ago guided by professionalism, integrity and passion. When the time came for the Fletchers to select a new generation of professionals to guide the company toward the future, they knew they wanted to find people who were as committed to those values as they were. They did not have to look far. The couple recently transferred ownership of CR Fletcher to two longtime employees who are also fellow Dolphins, Joanne Rauch ’...