“Other” Class Notes
E. Chappell (Engr ’67 CM)
E. Chappell (Engr ’67 CM) and Charles S. Mason Jr. were married Dec. 27, 2014, in West Springfield, Virginia. The couple lives in Springfield, Virginia; both are retired.
Marvin Phaup (Grad ’64, Grad ’66)
Marvin Phaup (Grad ’64, Grad ’66) has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He recently served on an international technical assistance mission to the Philippines and co-authored an article with Imtiaz Bhatti, “Budgeting for Fiscal Uncertainty and Bias: A Federal Process Proposal,” published in Public Budgeting & Finance. A professorial lecturer and research scholar at the George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, Mr. Phaup is currently working on the use of behavioral research to improve performance of federal budgeting.
Clay Moldenhauer (Col ’63)
Clay Moldenhauer (Col ’63) had his poem “The Flower Sutra” delivered as a part of dramatic readings by Prasanna Ramaswamy at the January 2015 annual Hindu Lit for Life conference in Chennai, India, which included works by Ramaswamy, Cheran, Kashinath Singh, Diane Ackerman, Rainer Maria Rilke, P. Sainath, Thanjai Nalvar and John F. Kennedy.
St. Leger Joynes (Col ’63 CM)
St. Leger Joynes (Col ’63 CM) has published his 22nd book, For Love and Treasure: The Life and Times of the World’s Most Successful Treasure Hunting Family. His libretto for the oratorio “The Awakening of Humanity,” written in collaboration with composer Edmund Barton Bullock, premiered in France in January 2015 and received a third performance at a French classical music festival in July 2015.
Howard Bonham (Col ’52 CM)
Howard Bonham (Col ’52 CM) has published A Sooner Solicits the Nation, a revised edition of his father’s memoir, The Red Cross Rainmaker. The new edition includes additional text and images that further highlight the adventures of Howard Bryan Bonham Sr., a Native American who grew up in the Cherokee Nation and became vice chair for public information and fundraising for the American Red Cross.
Claudia Kousoulas (Arch ’83)
Claudia Kousoulas (Arch ’83) created three lectures on plan writing, editing and document production for Planetizen, a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design and development community. The lectures are intended to help students and professionals better develop and present urban planning and design concepts.
Allison Boulais (Col ’03 CM)
Allison Boulais (Col ’03 CM) and Ryan Walter Boulais (Engr ’04 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Lillian Belle, on Sept. 2, 2015. Lillian joins brother Andrew Ryan and is the niece of David Allen Wiley (Col ’00). The family lives in Richmond, Virginia. Both Mr. and Ms. Boulais work for General Electric, where he has been named an executive director of IT security.
Charles Arensberg (Col ’99 CM)
Charles Arensberg (Col ’99 CM) and Joanna Howard Jones were married Oct. 31, 2015, at Grace Winery at Sweetwater Farm near Philadelphia. The couple lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where Dr. Arensberg is an equine sports medicine veterinarian and Ms. Arensberg is a chief corporate controller working in the health services field.
Laurie Lindsay (Col ’78 CM)
Laurie Lindsay (Col ’78 CM) has retired after 36 years of service with the federal government. She was the human resources director for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at the time of her retirement and had worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Secret Service. Ms. Lindsay and her husband, Greg, now live in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Jennifer Fogle (Engr ’04 CM)
Jennifer Fogle (Engr ’04 CM) and Jace L. Fogle (Engr ’05, ’06) welcomed a son, Jackson Luke, on Sept. 9, 2015. Jackson joins sister Alexis Lea, 4. The family lives in Zionsville, Indiana.
Trevor Merrion (Col ’10)
Trevor Merrion (Col ’10) and Michelle Wagner (Col ’10) were married June 12, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia. Ms. Wagner-Merrion is in her second year of medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Mr. Merrion works as an assistant to the curator of Asian cultural history at the Smithsonian Institution.
Richard McDorman (Col ’94 CM)
Richard McDorman (Col ’94 CM) has been elected to a three-year term on the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA), a national agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for the accreditation of post-secondary intensive English language programs and institutions. The 13-member commission is responsible for governing CEA, setting CEA policy and making accreditation decisions.
Alexander Cole (Col ’04)
Alexander Cole (Col ’04) and Kate Jerde Cole (Col ’05) welcomed a daughter, Dylan Hayes, on Sept. 18, 2015. Dylan is the granddaughter of John E. Cole (Arch ’72) and the niece of Elizabeth Cole Cram (Col ’01 L/M). The Coles live in Brooklyn, New York.
Kathleen O’Brien (Col ’07, Educ ’08)
Kathleen O’Brien (Col ’07, Educ ’08) is a comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. A former high school teacher, she recently released her debut comedy album, The Important Thing Is That I’m Pretty, under the name Kat Radley. She performs at clubs and colleges across the country and made her first television appearance on Laughs on Fox.
Corinne Whisler (Col ’06 CM)
Corinne Whisler (Col ’06 CM) and her husband, Brant, welcomed a son, Tripton “Trip” Fenwick, on Oct. 14, 2015. Ms. Whisler has worked for QVC for eight years and recently accepted a position there as senior manager of global merchandise financial planning. In that role she leads the creation and training of financial planning teams in two Asian and four European markets, and leads the global consolidation of merchandise plans and forecasts.
John Bumpus (Col ’71 CM)
John Bumpus (Col ’71 CM) has retired from the full-time practice of law in Shelbyville, Tennessee. Throughout his legal career, he was active in Tennessee Republican politics and government. He continues to be active in Baptist denominational work, presently serving as a member of the board of trustees of the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes.
Leland Vickers (Grad ’76 CM)
Leland Vickers (Grad ’76 CM) received the 2015 Research & Development Excellence Award from Bayer Animal Health GmbH for his accomplishments in innovative regulatory strategy. He recently completed a one-year term as chair of the Animal Health Institute’s veterinary biologics section, the industry organization for developers and manufacturers of animal medicinal and biological products.
Lynda Tang (Col ’02 CM)
Lynda Tang (Col ’02 CM) has joined the Vancouver Clinic as primary physician of palliative medicine, a new practice area for the clinic. Dr. Tang completed her residency in family medicine at UHS Wilson Medical Center in upstate New York and went on to fellowship training in hospice and palliative medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. She lives in Vancouver, Washington, with her husband, who is also a physician.
Ryan Halferty (Engr ’08 CM)
Ryan Halferty (Engr ’08 CM) and Alisa Barrett (Col ’09) were married Oct. 17, 2015, in Gordonsville, Virginia. The couple lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Will Melton (Col ’82, Engr ’84 CM)
Will Melton (Col ’82, Engr ’84 CM) was recently appointed deputy chief financial executive for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. In this role, Mr. Melton is a principal authority for NGA and assists the chief financial executive with programming, budgeting, finance, accounting, manpower and management analysis. As a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the intelligence community, the NGA provides geospatial intelligence in support of U.S. national security, defense and disaster relief.
Marvin Heinze (Arch ’79 CM)
Marvin Heinze (Arch ’79 CM) has received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the Department of the Navy for improving policy guidance, training and interagency preparation for underwater threats to United States ports and harbors. As the assistant for homeland defense for the commander, Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command, Mr. Heinze helped both the U.S. Coast Guard and Department of Defense with improved awareness and planning for mining prevention and mine countermeasures throughout the United States.
Neil Bleakley (Col ’64)
Neil Bleakley (Col ’64) has retired after a long career as an optometrist. He served as a munitions line officer with the U.S. Air Force in Colorado, Maine and Vietnam, and after completing optometry school, served in Turkey and Maryland. In 1977, he opened a private optometry practice in Reston, Virginia, and served in the Washington, D.C., Air National Guard.
Lauren Bingham (Law ’13)
Lauren Bingham (Law ’13) and Christopher Hatfield (Law ’13) were married April 18, 2015, at Veritas Vineyard & Winery in Afton, Virginia. The couple lives in Washington, D.C., where Ms. Bingham works at the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation and Mr. Hatfield is an associate at Trout Cacheris & Janis litigation firm.
Devon Winkles (Col ’07)
Devon Winkles (Col ’07) and David Glaser were married on Oct. 3, 2015, at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Ms. Winkles is the daughter of Jeffrey Winkles (Grad ’83). The bride’s sister, Jessica Winkles (Col ’05 L/M), served as matron of honor. The couple lives in Washington, D.C., where Ms. Winkles is an attorney at Kelley Drye & Warren and Mr. Glaser is a senior manager at Uber.
Elizabeth Ryan (Col ’98)
Elizabeth Ryan (Col ’98) has been elected partner at Squire Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C., where she specializes in international policy and regulatory law matters. She was selected as a 2015 “Rising Star” by the National Law Journal.
Kelly Clifton (Col ’12 CM)
Kelly Clifton (CLAS ’12) and Scott Wallace (Commerce ’11) got engaged March of 2015 and will marry April of 2016 at the University of Virginia Chapel. They began dating March 2009 while students at the University.
Debra Manion-Coyle (Col ’86)
Debra Manion-Coyle (Col ’86) has published Dead Sisters: The Thunder: Perfect Mind, a novel grounded in her research on the Nag Hammadi tractate archived in her master’s thesis, She Who Stole the Thunder. She lives in the desert with her husband.
George Morrow (Engr ’83 CM)
George Morrow (Engr ’83 CM) was named deputy director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on April 1, 2015. He was previously director of flight projects at Goddard. In 2014, Mr. Morrow received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive, the second-highest annual award given to career federal government executive service members.
Emily Garrahan (Com ’04, Law ’10 CM)
Emily Garrahan (Com ’04, Law ’10 CM) and Andrew Duffield Garrahan (Col ’05, Law ’13) welcomed a son, Henry Francis, on March 26, 2015. Henry joins big brother George. The boys are the nephews of Kevin Joseph Garrahan (Col ’11 L/M), Grace Catharine Garrahan (Col ’16) and the grandsons of Theresa Stivaletti Garrahan (Educ ’79 L/M) and William Francis Garrahan (Col ’79, Darden ’85 L/M).
N. Janine Dickey (Col ’79 CM)
N. Janine Dickey (Col ’79 CM) has been named the 2015 James B. Boskey Practitioner of the Year in the area of alternative dispute resolution. She is accredited in business mediation and recognized by the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. Ms. Dickey is past chair of the New Jersey State Bar dispute resolution section and former co-chair of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators employment mediation interest group. She serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee for Complementary Dispute Resolution and is a certified attorney-mediator with the U.S. federal courts as well as the district of New Jersey and New Jersey state courts. She often speaks and presents on her experience in training others in conflict resolution and negotiation techniques. Ms. Dickey lives in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with her husband, Trent S. Dickey (Col ’77 L/M), a senior litigation partner in the Newark/New York City law firm of Sills Cummis & Gross.
Richard Mathieu (Engr ’86, Engr ’91)
Richard Mathieu (Engr ’86, Engr ’91) has been appointed dean of the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. He previously served as associate dean for academic affairs in the James Madison University College of Business.
Richard Ridge (Nurs ’01)
Richard Ridge (Nurs ’01) has been named director of nursing innovation and outcomes for Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Among other things, he is responsible for efforts on nursing outcomes improvement, facilitating the design and implementation of innovative patient care programs, and guiding the development and dissemination of nursing inquiry and research. He is an assistant professor in academic general pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and has also been appointed adjunct clinical professor in the department of family health at the University of Texas Health School of Nursing.
Alec Solotorovsky (Col ’04, Law ’08 CM)
Alec Solotorovsky (Col ’04, Law ’08 CM) and Christa Kolb Solotorovsky (Arch ’04, ’08 L/M) welcomed a son, Theodore, in July 2015. He joins big siblings Anna and Samuel. The family lives in Evanston, Illinois.
James McDiarmid (Col ’66 CM)
James McDiarmid (Col ’66 CM) teaches full time in the psychology department at the University of California, Merced. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and for the past 30 years has taught resident physicians in training at the Merced Family Medicine Residency Program. He and his wife, Karen, lived abroad for 12 years before returning to the U.S. and settling in California. They have five grandchildren.
Eric Schmidt (Engr ’01 CM)
Eric Schmidt (Engr ’01 CM) has been named operations director for the Atlanta division of the Williams Gas Pipeline Transco, an interstate natural gas pipeline. The Atlanta division includes all Transco facilities in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Mr. Schmidt and his wife, Rose-Anne McGrail Schmidt (Arch ’00 L/M) live in Johns Creek, Georgia, with their three children.
Daniel Stillwell (Col ’06)
Daniel Stillwell (Col ’06) earned a doctorate in family therapy from St. Louis University in the spring of 2015. He wrote his dissertation on the ability of marriage and family therapists from around the U.S. to meet the spiritual needs of their clients. He is an associate professor at Hope International University in Anaheim, California, where his teaching focuses on blending mental health, science, faith and education.
Desiree Stolar (Col ’07 CM)
Desiree Stolar (Col ’07 CM) has earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. While at Harvard, she was part of a team that created Unshrinkit, a patent-pending product that helps unshrink wool clothing that has shrunk in the dryer.
Farrell Jaskot (Col ’03 CM)
Farrell Jaskot (Col ’03 CM) and David Jaskot (Engr ’04 L/M) welcomed a son, Whitt Kingsley, on July 15, 2015. Whitt joins big brother Sutton, 3. The boys are the nephews of Erin Kitchen Jaskot (Col ’01 L/M), Kirk Grigsby Scifres (Col ’07) and Ashley Kautter Scifres (Educ ’07). The Jaskots live in Charlottesville.
Rebekah O’Dell (Col ’04, Educ ’05)
Rebekah O’Dell (Col ’04, Educ ’05) and Allison Hoover Marchetti (Col ’07, Educ ’08 L/M) have published Writing with Mentors: How to Reach Every Writer in the Room Using Current, Engaging Mentor Texts with Heinemann Publishing. The book draws on the writing workshop framework for teaching writing to secondary school students and focuses on the use of up-to-date mentor texts throughout all phases of writing. Ms. O’Dell and Ms. Marchetti both teach English at Trinity Episcopal School in Richmond, Virginia.
Ryan Mooney (Educ ’04 CM)
Ryan Mooney (Educ ’04 CM) and Susan Woessner were married on June 6, 2015, in Arcadia, Michigan. The couple lives in Denver.
Stacia Ryan (Engr ’98 CM)
Stacia Schlosser Ryan (Eng ’98) and her husband, Michael Ryan, welcomed a son, Lachlan Michael, on August 21, 2015. Lachlan joins big sister, Isla Madeleine, 15 months. The family lives in Hinsdale, Illinois.
Heather Holleman (Col ’97 CM)
Heather Holleman (Col ’97 CM) has published Seated with Christ: Living Freely in a Culture of Comparison (Moody Publishers, 2015), a book that outlines how one can stop measuring himself or herself against others and leap free from cycles of shame. Ms. Holleman, who earned a doctorate from the University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School, is a lecturer in the English department at Pennsylvania State University, where she helps direct the graduate student ministry of Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ).
Adam Matthews (Engr ’07 CM)
Adam Matthews (Engr ’07 CM) and Blair Reilly Matthews (Com ’07 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Kathryn “Kate” Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2015. Kate is the granddaughter of Melanie Miller Reilly (Col ’79, Law ’82 L/M) and Craig Reilly (Law ’81 L/M). The family lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Patricia Gallant (Col ’86 CM)
Patricia Gallant (Col ’86 CM) earned her Certified Business Analysis Professional designation from the International Institute of Business Analysis in February 2015. She is associate director of business systems analysis at Sun Life Financial in Windsor, Connecticut.
Hayden Lee (Col ’04 CM)
Hayden Lee (Col ’04 CM) and Van-Anh “Pouy” Tran (Col ’04 L/M) were married on June 6, 2015. Ms. Tran is a senior editor at PR Newswire in Washington, D.C., and Mr. Lee is an attorney with ShounBach in Fairfax, Virginia.
Stacy Hines-Bentley (Nurs ’97)
Stacy Hines-Bentley (Nurs ’97) and her husband, Forrest, welcomed a daughter, Carlee Elizabeth, on July 13, 2015. The family lives in Nathalie, Virginia, where Ms. Hines-Bentley is director of the practical nursing program for Southside Virginia Community College, Farmville.
Kelly Bassett (Col ’02 CM)
Kelly Bassett (Col ’02 CM) and her husband, Will, welcomed a daughter, Emily Grace, on Sept. 25, 2014. Emily joins big sister Lucy, 4. The girls are the granddaughters of Patrick R. Wyatt (Col ’71). The family lives in Charlottesville.
Tracy Parfitt (Educ ’00 CM)
Tracy Parfitt (Educ ’00 CM) and her husband, Joseph, welcomed a son, Jameson Leonard, on July 20, 2015. Jameson joins big brother Gavin Joseph, 6; and big sister Ryleigh Suzanne, 4.
Lesia Scholey (Col ’91)
Lesia Scholey (Col ’91) has written her debut novel, Forty One (Matador, 2015). Before writing full time, she was a journalist in the U.S. and overseas, reporting for the Financial Times, among other publications. She completed a master’s degree at the London School of Economics in 1999 and has two children, Sophia, 12; and Konstantin, 10; as well as three college-age stepchildren. She is married to Michael Scholey and lives outside of London.
Sarah Bruss (Com ’04 CM)
Sarah Bruss (Com ’04 CM) and Matthew Walsh were married at the UVA Chapel on June 20, 2015. The couple lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, and both earned MBA degrees from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
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