Carol Lashnits and Kevin Coughlin are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Erin Lashnits Coughlin to Daniel Herman. Erin and Daniel are currently living in New Haven, Conn., where Erin is studying to become a family nurse practitioner at Yale’s School of Nursing. Daniel, who recently received his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, is employed as a professor of American literature. They plan to marry in Septembers 2012 at Pilot Hill Farm in Vineyard Haven.
Leigh Jennings Anderson and Michael Stewart Morgan were married on Oct. 9, 2011 at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Edgartown. Deacon Karl G. Buder officiated the ceremony. A reception followed at Farm Neck Golf Club.
Roy and Jeannie Gionfriddo recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their son, Mark, at their home on Vineyard avenue extension in Oak Bluffs. The Gionfriddos spend part of the year at their home in Holyoke. Their son is head of the jazz department at Mt. Holyoke College.
Dr. Yvonne Hines-Bruce of Providence, R.I., and Vineyard Haven and Carl Joseph McCarthy of Worcester, formerly of Jamaica, W.I., were married on Feb. 12 at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester.
The ceremony was performed by the Hon. Mel Greenberg.
Dr. Hines-Bruce is medical director of Hines Dermatology Associates Inc., with offices in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Mr. McCarthy is community development manager for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families central region.
Victoria Dryfoos and Craig Arnold were married on Saturday, May 21 at the home of Dorothea Arnold of Makonikey. The bridegroom’s brother, Derek Arnold, performed the ceremony on the scenic bluff overlooking Vineyard Sound.
In attendance for the bride were Shari Geistfeld, Marie Larsen and Lynn Ditchfield. The groomsmen, sons of Craig and Victoria, were Kylund Arnold, Conner Arnold and Tau Rios-Dryfoos.
Susan Foster Oliver and Douglas Campbell Kerridge were married on August 27. The Rev. Dr. Timothy B. Cogan performed the ceremony at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
Susan, 34, is vice president of strategy for TONIX Pharmaceuticals in New York city. She attended the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., and graduated from Bowdoin College with an AB in classics and archaeology. She also received an MPhil in fine and decorative arts from Christie’s in London and an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Michael and Judith O’Donoghue of Oak Bluffs are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ellen Hughes O’Donoghue, of Oak Bluffs, to Ryan Daniel Rossi, son of Daniel and Jane Rossi, of West Tisbury.
Kathryn and John Salamone of Kinnelon, N.J., happily announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer, to Joseph K. Tierney 3rd, the son of Amy and Joseph K. Tierney Jr. of Vineyard Haven.
A 2007 graduate of Merrimack College in North Andover, Jennifer also holds a master’s degree in information and library sciences from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is currently assistant manager of the Andover Bookstore in Andover.
Laura Marie Tilghman, daughter of Frank and Jeanne Tilghman of Newbury, Vt., and Ludovic Chan Razafindramazana, son of Kherounnissa Tombosoa and Chan Chong Tsiu of Maroantsetra, Madagascar, were married in October 2010 in Toamasina, Madagascar.