“Other” Class Notes
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.
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