“Other” Class Notes
Richard Forsten (Com ’85, Law ’88 CM)
Richard Forsten (Com ’85, Law ’88 CM) has been elected president of the Delaware State Bar Association and president of the Appoquinimink School District Board of Education, both for 2015-16. He is a partner in the Wilmington office of Saul Ewing, where he focuses on commercial real estate, business transactions and related litigation. Mr. Forsten also is chairman of the board for the Everett Theatre, a historic venue in Middletown, Delaware, and serves on the boards of Goodwill of Delaware and the Home Builders Association of Delaware.
Sarah Meadows (Col ’07 CM)
Sarah Meadows (Col ’07 CM) and Scott F. Meadows (Engr ’08, Darden ’15 L/M) welcomed a son, Avery Thomas, on June 9, 2015. The family has moved from Charlottesville to New York City, where Mr. Meadows works for Goldman Sachs.
George Drake (Educ ’93)
George Drake (Educ ’93) has been appointed founding dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania. He was associate dean of the College of Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Lois Lea (Col ’83 CM)
Lois Lea (Col ’83 CM) and Thomas Edward Paalman were married Nov. 1, 2014, at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The couple lives in Santa Fe, where Ms. Paalman serves on the liturgical arts committee and the 150th anniversary task force at First Presbyterian Church and is involved with many community charities.
Jerold Freier (Col ’67 CM)
Jerold Freier (Col ’67 CM) has begun teaching college- and graduate-level business courses at Montclair State University and Rutgers University. He retired in 2014 after 22 years at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, where he directed more than 90 bank examinations and taught examiner training courses.
Eric Lent (Col ’00)
Eric Lent (Col ’00) has been named vice president, general counsel and secretary of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, headquartered in the Seattle area. Ste. Michelle is Washington’s largest wine producer; it owns and operates wineries in Napa Valley, Oregon and Washington and imports wines from the premier wine regions of the world, including Italy, France, Chile, New Zealand and Spain.
Cyndee Moore (Col ’85, Educ ’02 CM)
Cyndee Moore (Col ’85, Educ ’02 CM) received a doctor of education degree in higher education leadership and policy from the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University in May 2015. Ms. Moore is the regional vice president of operations for American National University in Indiana and Virginia, and for National College in Tennessee.
Thomas McKee (Col ’01 CM)
Thomas McKee (Col ’01 CM) and Alison Cunnane McKee (Col ’02 L/M) welcomed a son, Tucker William, on May 18, 2015. Tucker joins big brother Tommy, 6, and big sister Charlotte, 3. The family lives in Vienna, Virginia.
Michael Guthrie (Educ ’75, Educ ’76 CM)
Michael Guthrie (Educ ’75, Educ ’76 CM) has received the first-place award for best documentary or public affairs program from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters for “Conversation on Aging,” a segment that aired on his weekly Real Estate Matters radio show on 1070-WINA. On the show, Mr. Guthrie, who is a broker for and chief executive officer of Roy Wheeler Realty Co. in Charlottesville, and his guests discuss matters influencing the real estate market in the area.
Steven Cholewiak (Col ’06)
Steven Cholewiak (Col ’06) and his wife, Sara, welcomed a daughter, Cora Anne, on June 16, 2015. Mr. Cholewiak is a postdoctoral scholar in the department of psychology at Justus Liebig University Giessen in Giessen, Germany, where he works in vision science. He will begin a second postdoctoral position in the department of optometry at the University of California, Berkeley, in October.
Carl Markowitz (Com ’67 CM)
Carl Markowitz (Com ’67 CM) has retired after 45 years as an attorney specializing in residential and commercial real estate. Throughout his career, he conducted more than 20,000 real estate settlements. Formerly a resident of Virginia Beach, he now lives in Naples, Florida.
Julie Hummer (Col ’90 CM)
Julie Hummer (Col ’90 CM) has been appointed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to serve a five-year term on the board of education for Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Ms. Hummer brings a background in special education to the board, as well as experience parenting her own five students now in the county’s public schools.
Bert Brandenburg (Col ’85, Law ’88)
Bert Brandenburg (Col ’85, Law ’88) has been named president of Appleseed, a network of public interest justice centers across North America. For more than a decade before that, he was executive director of Justice at Stake, a partnership of more than 50 organizations working to keep courts fair and impartial. In the 1990s, he ran the U.S. Department of Justice’s office of public affairs and was chief spokesman for Attorney General Janet Reno.
Mitch Pascal (Educ ’96, Educ ’03)
Mitch Pascal (Educ ’96, Educ ’03) has been named principal of Tuckahoe Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia. Previously, he was the school’s assistant principal for five years as well as a classroom teacher and curriculum specialist for the district.
Richard Miller (Col ’75 CM)
Richard Miller (Col ’75 CM) has been appointed Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Stephanie Sharer (Col ’04 CM)
Stephanie Sharer (Col ’04 CM) and Garrett Traub were married May 24, 2015, at the Carlyle Club in Alexandria, Virginia. The couple lives in Washington, D.C., where both are attorneys.
Megan McNulty (Col ’99, Educ ’00)
Megan McNulty (Col ’99, Educ ’00) is a writer and producer based in Los Angeles. She recently sold a half-hour scripted comedy to a major cable network.
Kathryn Chamberlin (Nurs ’64)
Kathryn Chamberlin (Nurs ’64) has published From Shame to Glory: Your Pathway to Freedom (Xulon Press), a practical discussion of the negative impact that shame can have on relationships, joy and creativity. Ms. Chamberlin is a clinical social worker in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland, where she counsels clients toward freedom and healing through private sessions and seminars.
Aaron West (Arch ’98 CM)
Aaron West (Arch ’98 CM) and his wife, Meredith Davis West, welcomed a daughter, Julianne Claire, on Jan. 15, 2015. Julianne joins big brother Davis, 4. The family lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Rebekah Shapiro (Law ’08)
Rebekah Shapiro (Law ’08) is an associate attorney in the insurance coverage group in the San Francisco office of Selman Breitman. She is also a contributing editor to the Rutter Group’s California Practice Guide Civil Procedure Before Trial (Claims and Defenses), authored by Justice Rebecca A. Wiseman (Law ’01) and Sara Church Reese. Ms. Shapiro has been appointed to the board of reference of Alma Heights Christian Schools, and this year she will complete a three-year term as a vestry member of St. Joseph Parish in San Mateo, California. She and her husband, Alexander Gorelik, live in Redwood City, California.
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