“Job” Class Notes

Serena Fill (Col ’97) founded the Musicians Against Gun Violence Super PAC. The organization empowers musicians and fans to advance sensible gun reform by financially supporting candidates who will further policy to keeps schools and communities safe from gun violence. The organization joins the final Vans Warped Tour on select dates this summer, and will carry on fundraisers leading up to the midterm elections in November.  

Robert Scearce (Engr ’13) was promoted to group operations manager of Monogram Foods in Martinsville, Virginia. He is responsible for all production operations.

Kate Heilpern (Col ’82) has accepted the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Heilpern recently served as the Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. 

Ben Butler (Engr ’99 L/M) is the global manager of the cloud innovation center and accelerator program for Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector. He evangelizes the culture of innovation at Amazon as well as work with governments, schools, cities, startups, and other public sector entities to solve innovation challenges with cloud computing technologies.  

Marlene Hall (Col ’96), a real estate agent licensed in Virginia and Washington, D.C., joined eXp Realty. An Air Force veteran, Hall promotes entrepreneurship and veterans’ causes and also enjoys freelance journalism. She recently interviewed “Sex in the City” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star John Corbett for the PBS National Memorial Day Concert. She is a member of the reunion committee for the class of 1996.

Barbara Olcott Malone (Nurs ’77 L/M) is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing.

Brian Eley (Col ’93) has joined NBCUniversal as vice president of communications for USA, SYFY and Universal Cable Productions, serving as press lead for the networks’ and studio’s marketing, digital, ad sales, distribution, international and business development/ventures divisions. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Discovery, Inc. in senior roles at Discovery Networks International, Animal Planet and TLC.  Eley is based in New York City.

Ben Webne (Arch ’03) was promoted to associate vice president with the Washington, D.C. office of architecture and engineering firm HGA. Mr. Webne is a project manager working with public and corporate clients.

Robert Griffin (Col ’02 L/M) was promoted to associate professor in the department of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he leads interdisciplinary NASA Applied Sciences research programs. Griffin is the son of Gordon Griffin (Arch ’72 L/M).

Dina Huml Hyde (Col ’85 L/M) became the director of civil and international space business development at Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems business unit in El Segundo, California. Her husband David C. Hyde (Engr ’84 L/M) is a senior flight test engineer and test director at Kitty Hawk in Mountain View, California, and Tekapo, New Zealand. In October 2017, they opened North Shore Lookout on Maui, a boutique bed and breakfast.

C. David Hein (Col ’76, Grad ’82 L/M) has joined the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia, as a senior fellow. He was previously a professor at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. His books include Noble Powell and the Episocopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century, the account of a beloved figure at the University of Virginia.