“Other” Class Notes

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) 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) is a writer and producer based in Los Angeles. She recently sold a half-hour scripted comedy to a major cable network.

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) 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.

Elizabeth Hirko (Col ’98 CM) and David B. Hirko (Engr ’98 L/M) welcomed a son, William Andrew, on May 23, 2015. Will joins big brothers John, 8, and James, 5. The boys are the nephews of Karen E. Hirko (Com ’00 L/M). The family lives in Arlington, Virginia.

William Teale (Educ ’73, Educ ’77) has been elected president of the International Literacy Association (formerly the International Reading Association), a professional organization of 300,000 literacy educators worldwide. He is a professor of education, a University Scholar and director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

David Beers (Col ’75 CM) has been a consultant and adviser to the international directorate at the Bank of England since August 2014. In 2012-13, he was special adviser to the governor at the Bank of Canada. He worked at Standard & Poor’s in New York and London between 1990 and 2011 in various roles, most recently as global head of sovereign and international public finance ratings.

Andrew Gutowski (Arch ’75) leads the East Coast hospitality project management group for Cumming Corp., where he directs teams managing the renovation and new construction of major hotel and resort projects in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Before joining Cumming, Mr. Gutowski spent 10 years developing major urban vertical mixed-use projects in the Washington, D.C., area. Throughout the 1990s, he worked in Poland, managing real estate investment and development companies. In 1995, he and Pioneer Mutual Funds (now Pioneer Investments) founded a private real estate investment company, Pioneer Real Estate Poland, now Pioneer Polish Real Estate Fund. Before his career in real estate investment management, Mr. Gutowski, who is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a master’s degree in real estate from MIT, was an architect with Benjamin Thompson and Associates in Massachusetts. He and his wife, Francesca Lupica Gutowski (Arch ’74), live in the Washington, D.C., area and have three daughters: Elisabeth Gutowski Munder (Col ’02 L/M), Gabriela A. Gutowski (Arch ’05 L/M) and Juliana T. Gutowski (Arch ’12 L/M).

Benjamin Brawley (Com ’11) has been promoted to associate director, senior client lead, in the Cincinnati office of dunnhumby USA. In this new role, he will be responsible for new business development among retail suppliers. Previously, he served as capability lead, responsible for supporting retail pricing and promotions.

Kelly Underwood (Col ’10) received a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech in May 2015 and was valedictorian of her class. Outside her studies, she was one of three founding student co-chairs of Virginia Tech Helping PAWS (Pet Assisted Wellness Service), a community program that provides stress relief and animal-assisted therapy to nursing homes, assisted-living centers, schools, libraries and other community locations. Dr. Underwood currently works at a small animal general practice in Gaithersburg, Maryland.