“Award/Recognition” Class Notes

Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 L/M) of Baltimore Mediation has been invited into and named a distinguished fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a international provider of commercial mediation services. The induction ceremony will take place in Edinburg, Scotland, in May. Additionally, Ms. Phipps Senft received the the 2018 Chief Judge Robert M. Bell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Alternative Dispute Resolution in Maryland, which is given annually by the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Maryland State Bar Association.

Frederick L. Greene (Col ’66, Med ’70 L/M) was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the Southeastern Surgical Congress. Dr. Greene is a surgical oncologist in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is also a medical director at the Levine Cancer Institute. Dr. Greene currently serves as president of the UVA Medical School Foundation.

Gregory S. Williams (Col ’87) of Carruthers & Roth in Greensboro, North Carolina, was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 in the practice area of trusts and estates.

Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena (Arch ’89 L/M) was selected as one of 46 Top Latino Lawyers of 2017 in the country by Latino Leaders Magazine. Mr. Zahralddin-Aravena founded the Elliott Greenleaf Delaware office in 2007 and currently serves as director, shareholder and chair of the commercial bankruptcy and restructuring practice. The office specializes in business law.

George Morrison (Col ’98), a shareholder at the law firm McNair, received a 2018 Leadership in Law award by South Carolina Lawyers Weekly. Mr. Morrison leads the firm’s Business and Real Estate Practice Group and is involved in all areas of corporate practice.

C. Dean Furman, Jr. (Law ’93) was elected president of the Louisville Bar Association, a 3,000 member voluntary local bar association. He continues to practice commercial litigation, personal injury, whistleblower and federal criminal healthcare defense in Louisville, Kentucky.

Matthew Galati (Col ’07), a U.S. senior associate for the law firm Green and Spiegel, was selected as one of the industry’s Top 5 Rising Stars for 2017 by EB-5 Investors Magazine. The award recognizes Mr. Galati’s reputation in the EB-5 realm. He is a regular contributor to the magazine which specializes in providing information to investors and industry stakeholders.

J. Catesby Ware (Col ’69 L/M) was honored by the Virginia Academy of Sleep Medicine, who named the newly established Distinguished Service Award after him. The Academy presented the award to Dr. Ware at its November 2017 conference. He is the chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School where he holds the John and Lillian Norfleet Professorship in Internal Medicine. Publication topics include obesity and sleep, heart rate variability in sleep apnea patients, treatment of narcolepsy with gamma hydroxybutyric acid, driving performance in medical residents and elderly patients, and the effects of high school start times on student crashes. He is a contributing author and one of three editors on the book Sleep and Gastrointestinal Health and Disease (2018). He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with his wife, Carolyn; a daughter Catherine Kilduff (Law ’07); her husband; and two grandchildren.

Melanie Schroeder Patterson (Grad ’05) was featured by AbbVie in their monthly series penned by scientists who share interesting research in their field and why it matters. Ms. Patterson, who received her doctorate from the University, highlighted her area of expertise, protein mass spectrometry, and how she and her team use the tool to decode the messages that cancer cells try to hide. Melanie is a senior scientist at AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company.

Frank A. Johnson (Col ’73 L/M) was appointed to the Mason School of Business Foundation Emeritus Board at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The board is organized for charitable and educational purposes to promote the advancement and further the aims and purposes of the Mason School of Business at The College of William and Mary. Mr. Johnson received his MBA degree from the school in 1984, and previously served as president of the William and Mary MBA Alumni Association and what is now known as the Mason School of Business Foundation Board. Mr. Johnson and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Deltaville, Virginia, and have two sons, Grayson Johnson (Col ’16, Grad ’23 L/M) and Cullen Johnson (Com ’17 L/M).

Richard E. McDorman (Col ’94 L/M) has been named chair-elect of the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation, a national accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education for the accreditation of post-secondary English language programs and institutions. He will serve as chair-elect in 2018 and as chair of the commission in 2019.

Bob Gardner (Engr ’79, ’80) was elected vice chairman of the Environmental Research & Education Foundation’s Research Council, which provides technical expertise and guidance to the organization’s board of directors. Mr. Gardner was also re-elected to the board of directors at SCS Engineers, an environmental consulting and contracting firm where Mr. Gardner has been since 1980. He currently serves as senior vice president at the firm, which works to prevent, mitigate and remediate environmental events and helps promote sustainable waste management practices enhancing efficiency and ecological well-being. Mr. Gardner oversees the company’s nationwide solid waste management practice.