“Other” Class Notes
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.
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