“Other” Class Notes

Deidre Connelly (Educ ’84, Educ ’86) has been designated a certified consultant by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Ms. Connelly is a sport psychology consultant and life skills coordinator in the department of intercollegiate athletics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., as well as a member of the college’s counseling center, where she provides consultation and support to athletes and coaches in mental training skills and resilience building. She teaches sport psychology courses and regularly presents on stress and energy management and life balance.

W. Scott (Com ’83 CM) was named a top attorney in Pennsylvania by the 2013 edition of Super Lawyers. He has been named to the list annually since 2007. He is the chair of the real estate and lending group for the Pittsburgh law firm of Meyer Unkovic & Scott, where his practice focuses on counseling clients on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of sophisticated real estate transactions. Mr. Scott resides in Sewickley, Pa.

Lance Olsen (Grad ’82, Grad ’85) received both a Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction and the 2013 Berlin Prize in Fiction from the American Academy in Berlin. Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, has invited him as a Mellon Visiting Scholar for the month of October 2013, during which time he will help set up an innovative creative writing program. The university will use Mr. Olsen’s anti-textbook, Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing, as a foundation for the program. Mr. Olsen, who has written numerous novels, critical studies and short story collections, is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Susan Klobuchar (Col ’96 CM) and her husband, Tim, welcomed their third child, a daughter, Cecily Catherine, on July 29, 2013. Cecily joins brother Jack, 5; and sister Lise, 2. The family resides in Plymouth, Minn., where Ms. Klobuchar is a marketing communications manager at General Mills in nearby Minneapolis.

Nancy White (Col ’81) has recently joined the Ann Arbor, Mich., office of Quinn Evans Architects as director of marketing. Her duties include overseeing a broad range of strategic planning, communications and business-development activities for the office, which designs civic, cultural, higher education and restoration projects throughout the Midwest. Ms. White, an experienced marketing and business development specialist, is also a professional photographer. In addition to publishing Majesty of Beaufort, a book about architecture in Beaufort, S.C., she has contributed photographs to a number of magazines, such as Coastal Living, Inform, Cottage Living, Old House Interiors and others.

G. Shell (Law ’81) has published his fourth book, Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, with Portfolio, the business book imprint of Penguin Group USA. According to Shell, it is up to each individual to define his or her own measure of success, and Springboard helps readers discover the most viable, individualized ways to pursue the success they seek. His other titles include Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People and, with Mario Moussa, The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. Mr. Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics and Management at the Wharton School of Business, where he teaches as a senior member of the faculty and serves as director of the Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop and the Wharton Strategic Persuasion Workshop. Taken together, his books have been published in more than 14 languages.

Alfred Paliani (Col ’79, Law ’83 CM) has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of the International Association of Defense Counsel, a professional association for defense lawyers around the world. He is general counsel of Quality King Distributors and its group of affiliated companies, headquartered in Bellport, N.Y. As general counsel, he is responsible for all legal affairs for the conglomerate, operating in numerous facilities throughout the country, including overseeing all compliance issues and litigation matters in all jurisdictions.

Mary Witt (Med ’78, Res ’80) was named the 2012 Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association at the 47th annual meeting of the U.Va. Medical School Foundation in Williamsburg, Va., in February 2013. Dr. Witt is the first woman to receive the award, which recognizes leadership and loyalty to the alumni association and foundation. She is a board-certified endocrinologist and former medical director with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia and currently holds a position with United Health Care. Dr. Witt resides in Richmond, Va., with her husband, Fritz Will IV (Com ’76 L/M), where she volunteers as a clinician at CrossOver Health Care Ministry. She has served with the Medical Alumni Association in various capacities, including as the association’s first female president in 2009, and is an appointed trustee to the Medical School Foundation.

Cornelius Reid (Arch ’78) is a principal in Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s Philadelphia office and has been project director and architect for a wide range of projects since joining the firm in 1979. His experience includes programming, master planning, new buildings, additions and renovations for a broad range of project types, contexts, scales and clients.

Evan Cantor (Col ’78) has published a novel, Rogues’ Gallery: My 27 Years at Rocky Mountain University, under the pen name T. Winston Mojo. The book, based on Mr. Cantor’s experiences as a bureaucrat at the University of Colorado at Boulder, explores the challenges of the academic world and looks at how small the stakes can be in campus life. Mr. Cantor recently retired after working for 30 years at the University of Colorado.

Paul Lauritzen (Col ’77, Grad ’80 CM) published The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in the Age of Terror with Georgetown University Press. The book examines how doctors, lawyers, psychologists, military officers and other professionals addressed the issue of appropriate limits in interrogating detainees and debated the interrogation policy developed by the Bush administration. Mr. Lauritzen is a professor of religious ethics and former director of the program of applied ethics at John Carroll University in Cleveland. He is the author of four books, including Medicine and the Ethics of Care, and has published extensively on issues in bioethics, human rights and religious ethics.

C. Sherbeck (Arch ’74 CM) is a principal in the Pittsburgh office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Her current and past projects include the Environmental Education Center at Frick Park; the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University; and the Dartmouth Life Sciences Center, one of the most energy efficient and sustainable laboratories in the country.

Thomas Armstrong (Grad ’74 CM) has retired after 39 years as a history professor and higher education administrator. His long career included positions in Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and overseas. Most recently, he served as commissioner and associate director for the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, from 2010 to 2013. Mr. Armstrong, now retired to North Carolina, divides his time between Davidson and Maggie Valley.

Theodore Freeman (Col ’73 CM) has been elected president of the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, a statewide organization of more than 700 attorneys who defend the interests of businesses and individuals in civil litigation. Mr. Freeman is a partner at Freeman Mathis & Gary in Atlanta, where he manages the governmental law and commercial and complex litigation practice groups.

Robert McKee (Arch ’78, Engr ’70 CM) is the founding principal of Field Sport Concepts (FSC), an affiliation of highly trained specialists in field sport and land conservation with a portfolio of projects across the United States. Originally established in Virginia, FSC has also opened a branch office in Austin, Texas. Mr. McKee, who has more than 25 years of experience in implementing low-impact development strategy and integrated land management practices, focuses on projects for both private and public sector clients.

Scott Slankard (Com ’96 CM) and his wife, Alissa, welcomed their second child, a daughter, Brielle Rylan, “Elle,” on Aug. 26, 2013. Elle joins big brother Xander, 4. Mr. Slankard was promoted to assistant vice president at LPL Financial in San Diego in May 2013.

Shana Wrobel (Col ’09 CM) and Nicholas Olson (Engr ’10 L/M) were married on Aug. 2, 2013, at the Belmont Country Club in Ashburn, Va. The couple resides in Washington, D.C., where Ms. Wrobel works as a paralegal at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox while pursuing a J.D. degree at George Washington University Law School, and Mr. Olson is a consultant at Deloitte.

Thomas Neale (Col ’74 CM) is a managing partner of Patriot Capital in Baltimore, a source of junior growth capital for middle-market companies seeking to finance business expansion, acquisitions, management buyouts or recapitalizations. Mr. Neale and his wife of 33 years, Barbara, have three daughters, Barrett, who was recently married; Carroll Neale (Col ’14 L/M); and Hooper Neale (Col ’17 L/M).

Matt Mooney (CLAS 2010) and Hiba Hashmi (SEAS 2010) were married on August 25, 2013. They both completed professional degrees at Duke University in May and currently reside in Jacksonville, Florida.

Norman Raiford (Grad ’69, Grad ’74 CM) has retired as a professor of history and leadership studies from Greenville Technical College in Greenville, S.C., where he has taught since 1974. The college honored him by establishing the Dr. Norman G. Raiford Endowed Scholarship Fund, dedicated to assisting students who are single parents. The school also recognized him as the longest-serving faculty member in its history. In 1989, Mr. Raiford was named Outstanding Educator of the Year for Greenville Technical College and for the entire South Carolina Technical College system. From 1970 to 1974, he was a professor of history at Spartanburg Methodist College. He and his wife, Alice Swartzentruber Raiford (Nurs ’63 L/M), live in Spartanburg, S.C.

Phil Leventis (Engr ’69 CM) has retired from the South Carolina Senate after serving continually from 1980 to 2012. In 1999, he retired from the South Carolina Air National Guard as the assistant adjutant general for air with the rank of brigadier general. During his nearly 30 years of service, spent primarily as a fighter pilot in the F-16, among many other aircraft, he served a tour in the Persian Gulf flying combat missions in 1991. He and his wife, Ellen Venable Locker Leventis (Nurs ’68 L/M), have three sons and a daughter.

Howard Gordon (Col ’69, Law ’72 CM) has been recognized as a leading U.S. attorney in real estate by the 2013 edition of Chambers USA. Mr. Gordon, an attorney at Williams Mullen in Norfolk, Va., focuses his practice on commercial and multifamily real estate, commercial leases, ground leases, land use planning and permits, and traditional urban developments.

Read McCaffrey (Col ’65 CM) has been recognized by his peers as one of the “Top Attorneys in the D.C. Metro Area” in the field of business litigation as reported in the Washington Post Magazine. He recently concluded a three-year term as a member of the council of St. George’s House, Windsor Castle, founded by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1966. Mr. McCaffrey served with Sir Claude Hankes on the council’s Global Interaction Committee.

Erica Folk (Engr ’02 CM) and her husband, Michael, welcomed their second child, a daughter, Clara Michelle, on June 27, 2013. The family resides outside of Baltimore.

Dana Dunn (Grad ’84, Grad ’87 CM) received the Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. Mr. Dunn is currently a professor of psychology and assistant dean for special projects at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa.

Benjamin Tisdell (Com ’97 CM) has accepted a position as senior special operations officer of the International Finance Corp. of the World Bank Group. In this role, he will oversee workouts of troubled loans throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Tisdell was formerly a vice president in the restructuring group of Lazard Frères & Co., based in New York. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife, Alexis Siggers (Col ’99 L/M); and their daughter, Nora

Christopher Pond (Com ’00, Darden ’07 CM) and his wife, Leigh, welcomed their first child, a daughter, Emma Amelia, on June 12, 2013. The family resides in Alexandria, Va.

Lara Bjorkquist Gehl (Col ’01) and Matthew Gehl (Engr ’02), welcomed their first child, Adelaide Larkin, on Oct. 25, 2012. The family is in the process of moving from Thousand Oaks, CA to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Yevonne Chandler (Com ’02 CM) has been named a member of the board of directors for the Junior League of Atlanta for the 2013-2014 league year. The Junior League of Atlanta is a not-for-profit organization of 4,000 women committed to making a difference in the lives of women and children in the Atlanta community.

Thomas Kraemer (Col ’83 CM) is working as counsel at Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somalia.

Laura DeLuca (Col ’85 CM) recently completed a novel, Lost Girl Found, to be published by Groundwood Books in March 2014.

Catherine Shnaider Frank (CLAS’99) and Mitch Frank (CLAS ’96) welcomed their second child, William Marshall Frank, on April 18, 2013. William joins big brother Spencer and is the grandson of Irving Shnaider (CLAS ’68) and nephew of Adam Shnaider (COMM ’95). Mitch is an Associate Editor at Wine Spectator Magazine and Catherine is the owner of Catherine Frank Editorial Services. The Franks live in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Scott Ellison (Col ’89 CM) and Ted Hollifield (Com ’89, Grad ’90, Law ’97, Darden ’97 L/M) were married at San Francisco City Hall on June 30, 2013. They originally met as first-years at the University and then ran into each other in California 21 years after graduation. The couple resides in Palo Alto, Calif., where Mr. Ellison is senior director of strategy at eBay/PayPal and Mr. Hollifield is a tech corporate law partner at Alston & Bird.

Laura Albritton (Col ’02 CM) and Jeremy Albritton (Com ’02 L/M) welcomed their second child, Brady Jeremiah Albritton, on May 10, 2013. Brady joins older brother Luke, 2. The family resides in Ashburn, VA.

Atima Omara-Alwala was elected to serve as President of the Young Democrats of America at their biannual convention August 8-11, 2013 in San Antonio, TX. Atima also became the 1st African American and 1st Virginian to serve in this position in YDA’s 81 year history

Ramona Rice (SCPS ’12) has joined Rose and Womble Realty in Virginia Beach as the company’s special projects marketing manager. She is responsible for corporate-level marketing projects, social media and publicity.

Allison Doughty (Col ’05 CM) recently accepted a position as director of events and hospitality services for the Atlantic Coast Conference College Football Playoff. For the past seven years, she served as the director of football operations and event management for the ACC. During her tenure with the ACC, Ms. Doughty has managed events such as the ACC Football Championship Game, the ACC Football Kickoff and the ACC Legends program for both football and basketball. She received a master’s degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 2012.

Bianca Spinosa (Col ’08 CM) is a television journalist for WNCN, the NBC affiliate in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area. She previously worked at LEX18 in Lexington, Ky., where her breaking news coverage of a deadly tornado in March 2012 led a newscast that won two 2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for best newscast and best breaking news.