“Other” Class Notes

Jeanette Peabody (Col ’99) is now head chef at the Oakhurst Inn, a boutique hotel and café next to the University’s South Lawn. She had been chef de cuisine at Hamiltons’ at First & Main in downtown Charlottesville.

Mark Angle-Hobson (Educ ’98, Educ ’02) was appointed superintendent of Douglas County School District 15 in Days Creek, Oregon.

Stephanie Scherpf (Col ’97) is co-founder and executive director of Jean Appolon Expressions, a Haitian dance nonprofit based in Boston. Each summer, she travels to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help conduct the Jean Appolon Summer Dance Institute, a free intensive dance program for 60 young Haitian dancers without financial resources. JAE also has a Haitian contemporary dance company in Boston.

Andrew McCoy (Arch ’97) , associate professor and assistant director of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech, has been reappointed a Preston and Catherine White Fellow. Mr. McCoy also directs the Virginia Center for Housing Research, a center in Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies that is the official housing research center for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Ian McGuire (Grad ’96) has published Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism (University of Iowa Press), which examines the work of American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford. He argues that Ford’s work is best understood as a form of pragmatic realism and that Ford is part of a deeply rooted and ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism. Mr. McGuire is the co-director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. He writes both fiction and literary criticism and has published essays and short stories in the Paris Review, the Chicago Review and other publications. He lives in Manchester, England, with his wife and two daughters.

Kirsten Kahle (Col ’95) and R. Neal Kahle (Engr ’96 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Elsbeth Mattea, on Feb. 26, 2014. Elsbeth joins siblings Maxwell Murphy, 8; Annika Marie, 7; and Theodore Neal, 4. The family lives in Indianapolis, where Dr. Kahle is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and Mr. Kahle is a software engineer.

Penny Evins (Col ’94, Educ ’96 CM) is head of St. Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore. Previously, she was an administrator at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, the Lovett School in Atlanta and the Webb School of Knoxville. She is proud that many of her students have gone on to attend the University.

Thomas Peistrup (Col ’92) has joined the Los Angeles office of Leech Tishman as counsel in the intellectual property and litigation practice groups, where he will maintain a wide-ranging practice balanced among complex business litigation, intellectual property and corporate counseling. He has represented a number of intellectual property rights holders, including film studios, film and television production companies, broadcasters, music publishers, record labels and print publishers; he also provides strategically driven, interdisciplinary counseling in areas such as privacy, data security, advertising clearance, government regulation and risk management.

Weiman Seid (Col ’91 CM) has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscar-granting organization. Seid, a publicist, is the founder of boutique consultancy FAT DOT. He previously was senior vice president of marketing and public relations at Miramax Films.

Lisa Brook (Col ’90 CM) has joined the Charlottesville law firm of MichieHamlett, where she will practice in the personal injury group. Over the course of a 20-year career in civil litigation, Ms. Brook has helped clients in a wide variety of cases, including motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, wrongful death, permanent disability, and slip and fall.

Allen Clark (Col ’90 CM) and his wife, Elena, welcomed twin boys, Allen Culling IV and Henry Woodman IV, on April 3, 2015. The family lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where Mr. Clark is executive director of budget and finance for Maryland’s judicial branch.

Lori Overholt (Com ’88 CM) has received the Virginia Business 2015 CFO of the Year Award in the small private company division. She is president and CFO of VSA Resorts, a three-property hospitality and vacation ownership company in Virginia Beach.

Kurt Gingrich (Col ’87 CM) and Marsha Taylor (Col ’87 L/M) were married June 22, 2014, in Chesterfield, Virginia. The couple lives in Blacksburg, Virginia; Ms. Taylor teaches French in nearby Salem and at Radford University, and Mr. Gingrich is an associate professor of history at Radford. Two of their children, Taylor Nicole Trumble (Col ’18) and Jared Gingrich (Col ’19 L/M), attend UVA.

Lisa Tucker (Arch ’86, Arch ’90 CM) has received three national honors from the American Society of Interior Designers: the Nancy Vincent McClelland Merit Award; the Joel Polsky Prize; and the Educator Medalist Award. As chair of the interior design program at Virginia Tech, Ms. Tucker has organized the curriculum around sustainable and socially responsible design as a foundation of practice, and a number of interior design programs across the country have adopted her methods. She has published three major textbooks for interior design students: Sustainable Building Systems and Construction for Designers; Designing Sustainable Residential and Commercial Interiors; and Cradle to Cradle Home Design: Process and Experience, co-written with Anna Marshall Baker. She has served as national president of the Interior Design Educators Council and has held leadership positions in a number of interior design organizations.

Lindsay Robertson (Grad ’97, Law ’86) has been named Chickasaw Nation Native American Law Chair at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He has taught at OU since 1997 and teaches classes in federal Indian law, comparative and international indigenous peoples law, constitutional law and legal history. Mr. Robertson also received the first David L. Boren Award for Outstanding Global Engagement in 2014.

Laura DeLuca (Col ’85 CM) and Leah Bassoff won the 2015 Colorado Book Award for young adult literature for their book, Lost Girl Found, published by the Groundwood Books imprint of House of Anansi Press.

Eliza Pennypacker (Arch ’82) has written Artful Rainwater Design: Creative Ways to Manage Stormwater with fellow landscape architect Stuart Echols. The book shows how to manage runoff, save money and mitigate flood damage while creating inviting and attractive landscapes.

Kevan McCarten-Gibbs (Col ’81 CM) has been appointed director of the department of emergency medicine at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California.