“Other” Class Notes

Meade Grandis (Com ’01 CM) and David Grandis (Col ’95) welcomed a son, Cardwell Turner, on Sept. 7, 2014. Cardwell joins big sister Eleanor, 2. The family resides in Richmond, Va.

David Grandis (Col ’95) and Meade Prillaman Grandis (Com ’01 L/M) welcomed a son, Cardwell Turner, on Sept. 7, 2014. Cardwell joins big sister Eleanor, 2. The family resides in Richmond, Va.

Amelia Fogleman (Law ’94) was named “Lawyer of the Year” for 2015 by Best Lawyers in America for antitrust litigation in Tulsa, Okla. Ms. Fogleman is an attorney with Gable Gotwals, where she has represented a number of large publicly traded companies as well as privately held businesses. She currently serves as an adjunct settlement judge for the court-ordered dispute resolution program in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

Paula Anderson (Col ’94 CM) received the 2014 Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award, which acknowledges outstanding women and minority business owners in the mid-Atlantic region. Ms. Anderson, a licensed clinical and professional counselor, is president and CEO of PACE Consulting, which provides consulting services, direct counseling services, educational support services, temporary clinical staffing and workshops/training across the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metro area. Ms. Anderson has more than 14 years of experience providing individual, group, marriage and family therapy to children, adolescents, adults and families.

Karen Lillis (Col ’92 CM) received the 2014 Acker Award for avant garde excellence in fiction for her body of work, with special recognition of her four experimental novels and novellas published between 2000 and 2012. Her latest publications include a chapbook of poems called The Paul Simon Project and inclusion in an anthology of contemporary experimental women writers, Wreckage of Reason II. Ms. Lillis resides in Pittsburgh.

Sandra Chinn-Gilstrap (Col ’92) was appointed to the faculty of the Virginia State Bar’s Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course. Her three-year term began in October 2014. As a member of the faculty, she is recognized for her commitment to upholding the standards of honor, integrity and courtesy in the legal profession. Ms. Chinn-Gilstrap is an attorney with Woods Rogers, where she focuses her practice in the areas of domestic relations, personal injuries, guardian- and conservatorships for adults, wills and estate planning, corporate law and real estate.

Dorothy Shea (Col ’88 CM) has recently moved to Jerusalem, where she serves as deputy principal officer of the U.S. Consulate.

Tim Reardon (Col ’86) was recently named vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Defense & Intelligence Solutions, which delivers advanced systems, solutions and services to the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Defense and international customers worldwide. Since joining Lockheed Martin in 1998, Mr. Reardon has served in a variety of technical, program management and executive leadership positions, most recently as vice president of Lockheed Martin’s national security portfolio. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he served 10 years as a staff officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Greg Johnson (Com ’86) has been appointed assistant general auditor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He joined the bank in 1993 as an operations system programmer, then transferred to the audit department in 1995, where he held a variety of positions before being named assistant vice president of the bank in 2004 and vice president in 2010.

Courtney Harris (Engr ’86, Grad ’94, Grad ’99 CM) was promoted to the rank of professor in the School of Marine Sciences of the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences and the College of William and Mary. She has taught and conducted research in the department of physical sciences at VIMS since 2001.

Peter Beer (Law ’86) is one of six federal judges who successfully challenged Congress’s denial of cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) raises to the judiciary. In Beer vs. United States, the judges claimed that Congress violated the Constitution’s compensation clause and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 by failing to honor promised judicial salary increases in five separate years. In 2012, the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of the judges, finding that Congress’s withholding of the COLA raises was illegal, and ordered the Court of Federal Claims to calculate the damages and additional compensation to which all federal judges, bankruptcy judges and U.S. magistrates are entitled. Nominated by President Carter in 1979, Judge Beer is an Article III federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Michael Bentley (Educ ’85) published Connecting Children to Nature: Ideas and Activities for Parents and Educators, co-edited with Michael Mueller and Bruce Martin (Educ ’00). The book offers a compendium of fresh ideas and resources for parents and teachers to use with infants, children and teens. Mr. Bentley is an education associate at the Virginia Museum of Natural History and directs the Elementary Science Institute for Teachers at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va. Among his two dozen published books are An Educator’s Field Guide and Teaching Constructivist Science.

Deborah Hammond (Arch ’82 CM) recently published her first novel, In the Eye of the Storm. The book chronicles the adventures of a heroine in the post-Civil War era as she travels from her home in Wilmington, N.C., to London for the resolution of her father’s estate. Her mission to obtain her inheritance leads to threats on her life and the lives of others she comes to hold dear. Ms. Hammond worked for 31 years in local government prior to her retirement in March 2014. She currently resides in Falling Waters, W.Va., with her husband, Bill.

Christopher Kniesler (Col ’78 CM) was recently appointed communications specialist for the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, which issues tax-exempt and low-interest bonds for hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, visiting nurse associations and blood banks. The bonds are used for hospital acquisitions, building expansions and equipment purchases.

Donald Wright (Law ’76 CM) was elected by his peers for inclusion in the 2015 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of “Best Lawyers.” An attorney with Rogers Towers in Jacksonville, Fla., Mr. Wright was recognized for his expertise in trusts and estates.

Eston Melton (Col ’76 CM) has been elected secretary of the first national board of directors of Scouts for Equality, the nonprofit organization that spearheaded the successful effort to allow openly gay youth to be members of the Boy Scouts of America. The organization is currently leading the campaign to end the Boy Scouts of America’s ban against adult volunteers who are openly not heterosexual. Mr. Melton, former chief political writer for the Miami Herald, is chairman of Global Projects Inc., a Miami-based political consulting and lobbying firm.

John Eversole (Engr ’74 CM) formed Eversole & Associates, a firm specializing in all aspects of aviation law and products liability, maritime and professional negligence litigation. He was recently reappointed to the Aviation Law Committee of the Florida Bar and is board certified in both civil trial law and aviation law.

Oscar Carr (Col ’73) was recently appointed a judge in Tennessee’s Shelby County Chancery Court by Gov. Bill Haslam. Mr. Carr has been an attorney with Glankler Brown since 1976, with a practice in litigation and an emphasis on business, construction, environmental and other civil matters.

Gerald Barnes (Col ’73 CM) wrote Unde Venisti, a historical novel that connects 21st-century America to first century Rome through the book’s central characters and political themes.

Eugene Facey (Engr ’70 CM) received the 2014 Exemplary Service Award from the International Association of Drilling Contractors in recognition of his work on the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee, and for his contributions to the drilling industry and the IADC. Mr. Facey has served on the NOSAC since 2003, serving as chair from 2008 until 2014. He retired from Ensco plc, a global provider of offshore drilling services to the petroleum industry, in 2003. Since retiring, Mr. Facey has spent his time volunteering in local and federal government positions, for charities, and as an elementary school mentor. When he’s not traveling, he and his wife, Dianna, reside at their ranch in central Texas.

Richard DeScherer (Col ’66 CM) and his wife, Jennie, received the 2014 Distinguished Community Service Award from the United Hospital Fund, which recognizes volunteer leadership that improves health care in New York City. They were honored for their outstanding leadership of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and the Lupus Research Institute. The DeScherers are founding members of the Lupus Research Institute, and Mr. DeScherer serves as president of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation’s board.

Lyle Smith (Educ ’67) received an honorary associate degree of humane letters from Germanna Community College at the school’s commencement ceremony on May 14, 2014, in recognition of his significant contributions to the progress and development of the college. He served for a decade as a member of the school’s local college board. Mr. Smith is a retired teacher and elementary school principal.

Kraig Cummings (Com ’65) retired in 2005 as president and chief executive officer of CCI Financial Consultants, where he had worked for 20 years. Since retiring, he and his wife have been traveling internationally, volunteering and spending time with their grandchildren.

Alan Perzley (Col ’77 CM) was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Best Lawyers of America in the practice area of real estate. He is a partner in the firm of Garfunkel Wild in Hackensack, New Jersey, where he represents hospitals, long-term care facilities and other health care providers in real estate acquisitions, sales, commercial leasing and financial transactions.

Dana Dunn (Grad ’84, Grad ’87 CM) recently published The Social Psychology of Disability with Oxford University Press. Mr. Dunn is a professor of psychology and assistant dean for special projects at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Allison’s first collection of poetry, Write Home, will be published in January 2015! The chapbook is being released by Finishing Line Press and includes blurbs by UVA poetry professors Lisa Russ Spaar and Paul Guest. Pre-order until November 28th, 2014!

James Carlson (SEAS ’03 ) and his wife, Laura, welcomed their second child, a son, Robins Bennett, on Sept. 10, 2014. The family resides in Mount Pleasant, SC.

R. Austin Hicklin (Col ’86) was named by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Justice to the Forensic Science Standards Board, which provides oversight in the development of standards of practice for 24 forensic science disciplines across the U.S.; he serves as the Chair of the Scientific Area Committee for Physics and Pattern Evidence. Mr. Hicklin is a Fellow at Noblis, where he has been employed since 1995.

Edward Real (Col ’64) and his partner of 34 years, David Faust, were married on Oct. 25, 2014, in a ceremony officiated by the mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Meg Williams Jamison (Arch ’06) and Chris Jamison (Col ’06) welcomed their first son, Hatton Thomas Jamison, on August 24, 2014 in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Ellen Bisnath (Col ’96 CM) and her husband, David, welcomed their first child, Catherine Emily Meera, on Feb. 5, 2014. The family currently resides outside of London, U.K., where Ms. Bisnath is a manager of international affairs at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Mr. Bisnath is a Chartered Accountant and both are Freemen of the City of London.

Elizabeth Williams (Nurs ’07) and Doug Williams (Com ’07 L/M) were married on Sept. 6, 2014, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale, Va. The couple resides in Arlington, Va., where Ms. Williams works in communications for a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., and Mr. Williams works as a senior consultant in nearby Vienna, Va.

Benjamin Rubenstein (Col ’07) had Secrets of the Cancer-Slaying Super Man, an illustrated book for teens and preteens, published by Woodley Books in October 2014. The book chronicles Mr. Rubenstein’s own journey with bone cancer and leukemia, showing how he created the delusion that he was superhuman as his survival technique. He wrote Secrets following his memoir, Twice: How I Became a Cancer-Slaying Super Man Before I Turned 21, so that young readers could hear his story of survival.

Sarah McKay (Col ’96) and Chris McKay (Col ’95 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Daphne Kate, on Nov. 20, 2013. Daphne joins big brothers Brooks, 8; and Trevor, 5. The family resides in San Francisco.

Christopher Glass (Col ’01 CM) and Hartley Jeffries (Col ’06 L/M) were married on Oct. 4, 2014, in Atlanta. The couple currently resides in Atlanta, where Ms. Glass is a teacher at The Westminster Schools and Mr. Glass is an attorney at Troutman Sanders.

Rudene Haynes (Col ’96) is a partner in the law firm of Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va., where she focuses her practice on corporate finance and represents the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae. She volunteers at the William Byrd Community House, which offers Head Start classes for children younger than 5, and belongs to the Midlothian chapter of Jack and Jill, a group of mothers working to create the next generation of African-American leaders. A member of the inaugural class of fellows named to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity for the 2011-12 term, Ms. Haynes has also mentored minority law students.

Patrick Riccards (Col ’95 CM) published his first book, Dadprovement, with Turning Stone Press. The book chronicles the adoption of his two children from Guatemala. He was also recently named director of the communications team at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, where he will spearhead media relations and strategy.

Eric Meade (Col ’96 CM) was elected chairman of the board of the World Future Society on Sept. 18, 2014. Founded in 1966, the society is the world’s longest-running membership organization dedicated to empowering futurists and igniting public dialogue about the future. Eric is an executive coach and futurist at Expotential Consulting in Alexandria, Va.