MILESTONES
MILESTONES
FOREIGN SERVICE
Canfield native serves in State Department
Kimberly M. Strollo, formerly of Canfield and daughter of Marlene Menaldi Strollo and the late Dominic M. Strollo, is serving as a foreign service consular officer at the State Department in Washington, D.C.
Her responsibilities include serving as an advocate for the U.S. government, leading the embassy’s public- diplomacy program in the host country, managing the government’s disaster management and relief program in the host country and handling and safeguarding classified material. She reports to the host country’s ambassador.
Her first post was Papua, New Guinea, where she served two years. She then returned to Washington, where she received intensive training in the Italian language and culture at the State Department.
Strollo was then posted to the American Embassy in Rome, where she serves as vice consul. She was involved in the rescue of American citizens from Libya in February 2011 and the rescue of passengers from the Costa Concordia disaster in January. Next month, she returns to the State Department in Washington for a third post.
Strollo is a graduate of Canfield High School, has a bachelor’s degree in communications from the College of Wooster and a master’s degree in information systems from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
DOCTORS
Canfield doctor ends Case Western residency
Dr. Gregory Harkey, a Youngstown State University graduate, has completed his five-year residency in diagnostic radiology at Case Western Reserve MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland.
Dr. Harkey graduated cum laude from YSU and attended Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown. He is a 2000 graduate of Canfield High School.
He will pursue a one-year fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging at The Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Harkey is the son of Paul and Florence Harkey of Canfield and the grandson of Lorenzo DeSantis and the late Velia DeSantis and the late Peter and Josephine Harkey.
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