“Other” Class Notes

John Warburton (Col ’00) and Kimberly Bareford Warburton (Educ ’01, ’03 L/M) welcomed a son, William Holden, on Oct. 18, 2013. Will joins big brothers Ben, 5, and Max, 3.

Sarah Wallman (Col ’00 CM) was recently named one of the winners of Prada’s 2013 international literary contest. Her winning short story, “One Car Hooks into the Next and Pulls,” was featured in Prada Journal. Ms. Wallman is an assistant professor of English and associate director of the master of fine arts in writing program at Albertus Magnus College.

Scott Matthews (Grad ’00, Law ’00) recently joined the law firm of Tarabicos Grosso in New Castle, Del., where he practices in the areas of corporate, commercial, alternative entity and commercial real estate law. He previously practiced with the Wilmington, Del., firms of Richards Layton & Finger and The Delaware Counsel Group.

Jane Maschka (Col ’99 CM) has been promoted to partnership at Faegre Baker Daniels. She is a trial lawyer in the firm’s finance litigation team, specializing in pursuing and defending claims of fraud, fraudulent transfer and breach of fiduciary duty. Her pro bono work focuses on asylum and refugee assistance and criminal appeals. Prior to joining Faegre Baker Daniels in 2010, she was a litigator with WilmerHale in Washington, D.C.

Leah Friedman (Col ’99 CM) has founded Raleigh Green Gables, a professional organizing business, where she helps clients throughout the Triangle region in North Carolina clear space in their homes and corporate offices. Ms. Friedman lives in Raleigh, N.C., with her husband, Stephen; and their two children: Tova, 6, and Jordan, 4.

Meredith Correia (Col ’99 CM) earned certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and was recognized in a pin ceremony held by the Southeastern Virginia National Board Certified Teachers Regional Network on Feb. 28, 2014. Ms. Correia currently works for Norfolk Public Schools, teaching reading to gifted and talented students in the second through fifth grades.

Carrie Balsam (Col ’99) and her husband, Ethan, welcomed a daughter, Maris Bryn, on Nov. 10, 2013. Maris joins big sister Lila, age 4; the girls are the granddaughters of Carl S. Markowitz (Com ’67 L/M). The Balsams reside in Gaithersburg, Md.

Donald McColl (Grad ’96) and his wife, Ann, welcomed a daughter, Charlotte Marie Alexandra, on Nov. 26, 2013. The family resides in Chestertown, Md., where Mr. McColl is Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History at Washington College.

William Feagans (Col ’96 CM) and his wife, Katie, welcomed their third child, Betsy Louise, on Oct. 23, 2013. Betsy is the niece of Thomas M. Gresham (Col ’98 L/M) and joins sister Quinn Rose, 5; and brother Wilder, 4. The family resides in Gordonsville, Va.

Anastasia Allain (Col ’95 CM) and Ryan Ansley Posner were married June 8, 2013, in Harrisonburg, Va. The couple resides in Atlanta, where Ms. Posner is a sales support manager with Travelport and Mr. Posner is an enterprise resource planning technology consultant with McGladrey.

Tracey Schaefer (Col ’94 CM) and her husband, John, welcomed their second child, Wyatt John, on Oct. 30, 2013. Wyatt joins big brother Luke, 2. Wyatt and Luke are the nephews of Darrell Zemitis (Col ’90 L/M) and W. Scott Zemitis (Engr ’94).

Bryan Goodwin (Grad ’94) has co-authored a book, The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day, with Elizabeth Ross Hubbell. Mr. Goodwin is chief operating officer at McREL, a Denver-based nonprofit education research and development organization. A former teacher and journalist, he writes a monthly research column for Educational Leadership magazine.

Roger Ritchie (Col ’91 CM) has established Orphan Adoption and Reconciliation/Restoration Services, a charity to help orphaned and vulnerable children. Through family tracing, the charity seeks to reunite Zimbabwe’s orphans with their parents or family members who might have been unaware a child was in an orphanage. The group also trains couples to serve as foster parents or to adopt. Mr. Ritchie, a Social Security disability lawyer, practices law in Virginia and West Virginia. He and his wife, Keary, have five children.

Robert Honig (Col ’89) has been promoted to principal in the New York City office of the structural engineering consulting firm of Thornton Tomasetti. He joined the firm as general counsel in 2012. Mr. Honig has more than 20 years of legal experience, including 15 years in architecture, engineering and construction law, and manages a range of legal issues such as contract negotiation, litigation support, risk management, transactional-related activities and ethics.

P. David Tarter (Col ’87, Law ’91) has been elected mayor of the city of Falls Church, Va. He began his two-year term in January 2014.

Justine Griffin (Col ’87 CM) has been named managing director and shareholder of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications in Boston, where she will head the firm’s issues management practice. Prior to joining RBSC, Ms. Griffin was the Massachusetts communications director for the Kerry-Edwards 2004 presidential campaign.

Lee Goodman (Col ’86, Law ’90 CM) was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, the independent agency responsible for the administration of federal campaign finance laws. He was sworn into office on Oct. 22, 2013, by Judge Thomas Griffith (Law ’85) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was elected chairman of the agency in December 2013. Mr. Goodman previously served in a number of governmental and political posts, including legal counsel and policy adviser to former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore (Col ’71, Law ’77) and general counsel to the Republican Party of Virginia. He resides in Keswick, Va., with his wife, Paige Pippin (Col ’88 L/M); and their two children.

Ann Gaffey (Nurs ’85 CM) has been named to the board of the National Perinatal Information Center/Quality Analytic Services for the 2014 term. Ms. Gaffey has more than 25 years of experience in the health care field. She currently serves as senior vice president of health care risk management and patient safety for the professional liability division at Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc., where she is responsible for overseeing and providing consulting services to improve and enhance both risk management and patient safety programs. She is also an adjunct faculty member at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Renee Catacalos (Col ’85 CM) has been named executive director of the Potomac Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects and executive vice president of the Potomac Valley Architecture Foundation. Ms. Catacalos previously served as deputy director of Future Harvest – A Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture.

C. Setliff (Col ’83 CM) has been selected for inclusion in the 2014 edition of Best Lawyers in America in the categories of transportation law, railroad law, mass tort litigation/class action-defendants, and personal injury litigation-defendants. He is a founding partner of the firm Setliff & Holland.

Eric Paltell (Col ’83, Law ’87 CM) received recognition from his peers as the 2014 “Management Labor Lawyer of the Year” for the Baltimore area. Mr. Paltell is a partner in the labor and employment law group at Kollman & Saucier. He and his wife, Kristina Auth Paltell (Col ’83 L/M), have two daughters: Skyler, a junior at the College of William and Mary; and K.C. Paltell (Col ’17 L/M).

Teri Lovelace (Col ’82 CM) has been named vice president of community investments and impact at Virginia Community Capital, a social enterprise based in Richmond, Va., that focuses on access to capital for community and economic development projects in Virginia. In this role, Ms. Lovelace is responsible for developing and overseeing all mission-related investment and community-impact programs.

Ida Hill (Educ ’81 CM) has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of the Altrusa International Foundation, where she will be responsible for assisting in the management of funds and projects. Ms. Hill is a retired educator who, until recently, was an adjunct faculty member in the Commonwealth Educational Policy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University. She retired in 1997 from the Virginia Department of Education after 10 years of service as deputy superintendent and assistant superintendent. Prior to her tenure at the state level, she worked in a number of educational positions, including as director of technology for Henrico County Public Schools; vice president for programming at WCVE/WCVW-TV; a television utilization specialist; and a language arts specialist with Richmond Public Schools.

Hayden Saunier (Col ’79 CM) received the 2013 Gell Poetry Prize for her second book of poetry, Say Luck, published by Writers and Books/Big Pencil Press. In addition to Say Luck, she is the author of Tips for Domestic Travel and a chapbook, Field Trip to the Underworld. Ms. Saunier’s work appears widely in journals and periodicals and her poetry has been awarded the 2011 Pablo Neruda Prize, the 2011 Rattle Poetry Prize, the Keystone Award and the 2005 Robert Fraser Award.

John Whitfield (Col ’77, Law ’81) has been appointed co-chair of the Virginia Access to Justice Commission by Chief Justice Cynthia Kinser. The commission seeks to promote equal access to justice in Virginia, with particular emphasis on the civil legal needs of Virginia residents, and expand access to civil justice for low-income and disadvantaged persons. Whitfield is the executive director of Blue Ridge Legal Services, a nonprofit legal aid society that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income residents of the Shenandoah and Roanoke valleys of Virginia.

Jim Sencindiver (Col ’77 CM) retired from the federal government June 3, 2013, after 31 years of service. He began his career as a U.S. Navy submarine officer, graduating from the Naval Nuclear Power School (now the Nuclear Power Program) and Basic Enlisted Submarine School, where he qualified on submarines, earning the “gold dolphins” of the Submarine Warfare Insignia before reporting to the USS James Monroe. Mr. Sencindiver was later assigned to Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic staff as the ballistic missile submarine maintenance and new construction officer. At the end of his shore tour in 1983, he resigned from active duty and joined the Naval Reserve, where he rose to the rank of commander before retiring in 2000. He worked for five years with two defense contractors before beginning work as a civil service general engineer in 1989, supporting various offices in the Naval Sea Systems Command and NAVSEA-related program executive offices in Crystal City, Va., and later, the Washington Navy Yard. In 2008, Mr. Sencindiver transferred to the Marine Corps Systems Command at Quantico, Va., to work as a “system of systems” systems engineer. He currently resides with his wife, Sheila, in a 102-year-old house in Fredericksburg, Va., that will keep him busy in his retirement.  

James Hammersley (Com ’75 CM) retired after 36 years at the U.S. Small Business Administration. He spent his career working in financial assistance programs, specializing in loan making and loan securitization policy. He currently works as a consultant with the International Finance Corp., a subsidiary of the World Bank, where he helps with the bank’s efforts to increase the availability of capital for small businesses in the Middle East. He was invited to address the G-20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2013 on the subject of securitization of small business loan assets.

James Eyler (Col ’75 CM) is the 2014 chair of the American Hospital Association’s constituency section for psychiatric and substance abuse services. During his one-year term, Mr. Eyler and the governing council will work with the AHA to identify and focus AHA policy, advocacy and member resources to improve the quality, efficiency and delivery of psychiatric and substance abuse services. He is also CEO of Coliseum Center for Behavioral Health, a freestanding psychiatric hospital in Georgia. He resides in the Macon, Ga., area with his wife, Kel-Ann Sheldon Eyler (Com ’77 L/M); and family.

Christopher D’Angelo (Col ’75, Law ’78) served as president of session of the program “Collective and Other Forms of Multiple/Mass Actions: How Far Are We in the EU Member States and the EU and How Far Do We Want to Go? Alternative Ways to Deal with Multiple or Mass Claims?” presented at the International Association of Defense Counsel European meeting in Brussels in May 2013. A member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, Mr. D’Angelo is chairman of the products liability, mass claims and risk management section and chairman of the international practice group at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads based out of Philadelphia and New York City. He is also a member of the American Law Institute and a contributing author to The Attorney-Client Privilege in Civil Litigation, fifth edition, published by the American Bar Association.

Charles Surber (Col ’74) and Mark Lawrence Troen were married Oct. 13, 2013, in Warwick, N.Y.

Samuel Crosby (Col ’73 CM) received the 2013 Howell T. Heflin Award from the Mobile and Baldwin County, Alabama, Bar Associations. The award is given annually in recognition of an Alabama judge or attorney who has brought honor and integrity to the legal profession during his or her years of service to the citizens of Mobile and Baldwin counties.

George Rooney (Engr ’71) has been recognized as a 2014 Ohio Super Lawyer by Ohio Super Lawyers Magazine. Mr. Rooney is a partner with Roetzel & Andress in Akron, Ohio, where he focuses his practice in the areas of business tort, contract litigation and arbitration, internal litigation, product liability litigation, intellectual property and technology law litigation.

Thomas Morris (Law ’71) received a community service plaque from the Grayslake, Ill., village board for 15 years of public service with the village’s planning commission and zoning board of appeals. During his time on the commission, he participated in rezoning 42 properties, granted 34 zoning ordinance variances, helped create 10 new Grayslake subdivisions and recommended 49 special-use permits for major projects. Mr. Morris is not retiring from village service, but was recently appointed by the mayor and approved by the village board to serve on the board of trustees of the police pension fund, which manages pension fund investments and approves all investment decisions. A retired U.S. Army colonel and former commissioner of the Grayslake Historical Preservation Commission, Mr. Morris has practiced law for more than 40 years.

Joseph Maiolo (Grad ’68) published a book of stories, An Arch of Birches and Other Stories, in December 2013. The book completes the four-volume set of Mr. Maiolo’s short fiction that includes Boy Youth Man: A Triptych of Novellas, Three Frays from Mallorca: And Four Stories and Saint Matthew in Appalachia: And Other Stories. Several of the tales in the new collection are set in northern Minnesota, where Maiolo has taught fiction writing and literature since 1976.

Richard Erickson (Grad ’71 CM) has been named 2013-14 commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 96 in Montgomery, Ala.

Steven Linas (Col ’70 CM) was appointed by then Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell to a four-year term beginning Dec. 6, 2013, as a doctor member of the Virginia State Board of Examiners in Optometry. Dr. Linas lives with his family in Richmond, Va., where he is a practicing partner with the Virginia Eye Institute.

Elizabeth McCrea (Educ ’69) has been named president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, beginning her yearlong post on Jan. 1, 2014. Ms. McCrea has held multiple volunteer roles within ASHA and is an ASHA fellow. She is a clinical professor emerita of the department of speech and hearing services at Indiana University, where she was both a didactic and clinical educator and served as the director of the department’s R.L. Milisen Speech and Hearing Center for nearly a decade. She continues to work in the clinical education field in support of the externship program of Nova Southeastern University.

I have just published a fictional picture book for children who have lost someone important as a result of incomprehensible violence. Told from the point on view of a preschool child, it is based on the Twin Towers attacks on 9/11. The book has been praised by Helen Fitzgerald, author of “The Grieving Child,” and considered the foremost authority in the nation on childhood grief. The book is based on my work as a children’s grief counselor with Mrs. Fitzgerald for three age-specific groups. It is my hope to get the book into the hands of any child who may need it; there seem to be any number of uses for it when we see some mass shooting that affects child survivors in the news every few weeks in this nation. Please let me know if you would like a press release or review copy. A book trailer may be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDLZmyN3XE. Thank you.

Lionel Rowe (Educ ’56 CM) and his grandson, Charley Rowe, competed in the 2013 United States Tennis Association’s Grandfather and Grandson Hard Court Doubles tournament in held at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club in La Jolla, California. Attaining the final round, they received silver trays. They competed in the finals and received silver trays. Mr. Rowe competed in the 2012 tournament with Charley’s twin, Billy, and the pair won the title. Each year, Mr. Rowe alternates between the twins as partners.

Shannon Van Vleet Patterson (College 1999) and Timothy R. Patterson (College 1999) welcomed a son, Thomas Joseph, on December 4, 2013. Thomas joins his big brother, William James, who was born April 1, 2011. The family lives in Moseley, Virginia.

David Storm (Col ’91 CM) and his wife, Audrey, welcomed a son, Alexander, on Nov. 29, 2013. Alexander joins big brother Zachary. The family resides in Charlottesville, where Mr. Storm is an analyst at LexisNexis and a partner in The Wine Guild of Charlottesville and Mrs. Storm is the senior project manager at Artisan Construction.

Jason Maras (Com ’01 CM) and his wife, Maria, welcomed a daughter, Violet Anne, on June 18, 2013. Violet joins big sister Eleanor, 3. The family resides in Chicago.

Phillip Neuberg (Arch ’81 CM) delivered an illustrated presentation on the 20-year Bethesda, Md., campus master plan for the National Institutes of Health during DesignDC, the American Institute of Architects’ Washington chapter’s annual meeting, in September 2013; he gave the presentation again in January 2014 at the AIA Washington chapter’s public architect’s committee meeting. He also presented on the Bethesda campus historic preservation program at ArchEx2013, the Virginia Society AIA annual meeting, in November 2013. Mr. Neuberg is the facilities planning and programming branch chief at the NIH, where he also serves as the agency’s designated federal preservation officer.

Matthew Diehl (Col ’08 CM) and Elizabeth Manley Diehl (Col ’10) welcomed their first daugher, Reagan Jane, on Sept. 25, 2013. Reagan was delivered by Dr. David Berry (Col ’83).

Judy Coutts (Arch ’79) received a Best of Houzz 2014 award for customer satisfaction from Houzz, an online platform for home remodeling and design. Ms. Coutts, an architect in Altoona, Pa., was selected for the award by the Houzz community.