“Other” Class Notes
Darrin Witt (Com ’98 CM)
Darrin Witt (Com ’98 CM) was promoted to general partner at WEDGE Capital Management in 2014. He also serves on the board of directors at Bless Back Worldwide, a nonprofit organization serving communities in Haiti and Nicaragua. Mr. Witt lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Heather, and their three children, Charlie, 10; Emma, 9; and Jake, 6.
Matthew Baer (Col ’07 CM)
Matthew Baer (Col ’07 CM) and Elizaveta Budko (Col ’10) were married on March 29, 2015, in Morris Township, New Jersey. Jonathan Falk (Col ’07) officiated. The couple lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Kirsten Francis (Col ’03 CM)
Kirsten Francis (Col ’03 CM) and Spencer Francis (Engr ’03 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Adry Virginia, on April 25, 2014. Adry joins sisters Lane Margaret, 5; and Nora Mackenzie, 3.
Kalin Kanov (Col ’06 CM)
Kalin Kanov (Col ’06 CM) and Teodora Mihaylova (Col ’09 L/M) were married on May 24, 2014, in Charlottesville. Mr. Kanov is completing his doctorate in computer science at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the couple plans to relocate to New York City, where he will work for Bloomberg as a software engineer.
Wilmah Getchell (Col ’67)
Wilmah Getchell (Col ’67) has been named honorary whipper-in for the Nantucket-Treweryn Beagles, a subscription pack kenneled in Berryville, Virginia.
Laura Sweeny (Col ’85 CM)
Laura Sweeny (Col ’85 CM) is an information technology solutions engineer for the Ahold USA grocery chain. She lives in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Chris Durant, and daughter, Dasha. Ms. Sweeny is also active in mission work with her church.
John Warburton (Col ’00)
John Warburton (Col ’00) and Kimberly Bareford Warburton (Col ’01, Educ ’01, ’03 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Katherine “Kate” August, on March 26, 2015. Kate joins brothers Ben, 6; Max, 4; and Will, 1.
Sean Dwyer (Col ’78 CM)
Sean Dwyer (Col ’78 CM) has been named founding director of the Center for Executive and Professional Development at Louisiana Tech University. An associate professor of marketing, he teaches classes at the undergraduate, M.B.A. and Ph.D. levels, and previously founded and served as director of Louisiana Tech’s executive M.B.A. program. Mr. Dwyer is also active in his community, having served on the executive boards of the local chamber of commerce and the Cedar Creek School. He has lived in Ruston, Louisiana, with his wife, Linda, and their sons, Connor, Ryan and Sean, since 1996.
Matthew Madden (Col ’01, Law ’07 CM)
Matthew Madden (Col ’01, Law ’07 CM) argued Harris v. Viegelahn, a bankruptcy case, before the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2015. Mr. Madden is an attorney in the Washington, D.C., trial and appellate litigation boutique firm Robbins Russell Englert Orseck Untereiner & Sauber. He and his wife, Trisha Morrow Madden (Col ’02, Educ ’03 L/M), reside in Arlington, Virginia, with their children Colin Michael, 8; Peter Robert, 6; James Matthew, 4; and Annie Margaret, 1.
Erin Liss (Col ’05, Educ ’06)
Erin Liss (Col ’05, Educ ’06) and her husband, Casey, welcomed a son, Declan James, on Oct. 29, 2014. The family resides in Richmond, Virginia.
Paul Grabb (Col ’84, Med ’88 CM)
Paul Grabb (Col ’84, Med ’88 CM) has been named chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, effective summer 2015. He and his wife, Brenda Costello Grabb (Col ’86, Med ’90 L/M), recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They have two sons, Declan, a junior at Vanderbilt; and Gavin, a freshman at the University of Alabama.
Ravi Shankar (Col ’96 CM)
Ravi Shankar (Col ’96 CM) has published a new book of poetry, What Else Could it Be. Mr. Shankar is a professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and in the master of fine arts program at City University of Hong Kong. He has received a number of awards for his work, among them a Pushcart Prize. A founding editor of electronic arts journal Drunken Boat, one of the first electronic arts journals on the web, he also served as co-editor for W.W. Norton & Co.’s Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. Mr. Shankar’s other books include Instrumentality, a 2005 Connecticut Book Award finalist; and Deepening Groove, winner of the 2011 National Poetry Review Prize. His work, which he has performed around the world, has been featured in the New York Times and the Paris Review. Mr. Shankar has appeared on PBS, BBC and NPR, and has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Jentel Foundation and the Blue Mountain Center.
David Vitto (Col ’05 CM)
David Vitto (Col ’05 CM) and Dawn Page Vitto (Col ’10 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Charlotte Deanna, on Jan. 28, 2015. The family resides in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Krystal Clemons (Col ’05 CM)
Krystal Clemons (Col ’05 CM) received a doctorate in counselor education from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 9, 2015. Her dissertation title is African-American Pastors and their Perceptions of Professional School Counseling. In addition to serving as a professional school counselor in Norfolk, Ms. Freeman travels throughout the U.S. and abroad, giving presentations and guest lectures regarding school counseling and African Americans.
Christie Rears (Col ’97 CM)
Christie Rears (Col ’97 CM) and Christopher Charles Andrew Ashlee were married Dec. 31, 2014, in Denver. The couple splits their time between homes in Seattle, Washington, and Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
Amy Rosenberg (Col ’95 CM)
Amy Rosenberg (Col ’95 CM) and her husband, Marshal Allshouse, welcomed a son, Jacob Rosenberg Allshouse, in May 2013.
Jessica Dunne (Engr ’00, Engr ’03)
Mandy Moore (Col ’95 CM)
Mandy Moore (Col ’95 CM) and her husband, David Burnie, welcomed a son, Hayden Regnier Burnie, in July 2014. Hayden joins big sister Adele, 7; and big brother Zach, 3. Hayden is the nephew of Ryan Moore (Col ’93). The family currently resides in Toronto.
Brittany Williams (Engr ’10 CM)
Brittany Williams (Engr ’10 CM) is an associate on Goldman Sachs’s credit risk management and ratings advisory team based out of London, United Kingdom, where she has lived since 2012. In this role, she is responsible for managing the firm’s lending and overall credit risk to more than 150 clients within the consumer retail and diversified industrials sectors. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling throughout Europe.
Melissa Richards (Col ’93 CM)
Melissa Richards (Col ’93 CM) has been named vice president for communications at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where she oversees all aspects of university communications.
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