“Other” Class Notes

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.

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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) and her husband, Marshal Allshouse, welcomed a son, Jacob Rosenberg Allshouse, in May 2013.

Jessica Dunne (Engr ’00, Engr ’03) and Christopher Washburn (Grad ’04) welcomed a son, Bryson Richard Washburn, on Feb. 27, 2015. Bryson joins big brother Logan, 6; and big sister Ivy Rose, 3.

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) has been named vice president for communications at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where she oversees all aspects of university communications.

Jason McDougall (Com ’03 CM) and Juliana Stein McDougall (Col ’04, Educ ’04 L/M) welcomed a son, Ryan William, on Nov. 7, 2013. Ryan joins big sister Madison Lily, 4. Ryan and Madison are the grandchildren of Joseph Stein (Col ’77 L/M). The family currently resides in New York City.

Jennifer Geoghegan (Col ’94 CM) has joined The Colony Group as the firm’s first chief marketing officer and advisor coach. She will lead growth efforts for The Colony Group’s Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Florida offices.

Aaron Parker (Engr ’99) was named a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the world. His practice focuses on patent litigation before U.S. district courts and counseling clients on global patent litigation strategies. Much of Mr. Parker’s work relates to medical device technology and technology related to the sports and fitness industry.

Katherine Greiling (Col ’01 CM) and Eric Greiling (Col ’99, Educ ’00 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Stella, in July 2014. Stella joins big sister Katie, 2, and is the niece of Chris Holbert (Col ’95). The Greilings live in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Eric Greiling (Col ’99 CM) and Katherine Griffin Greiling (Col ’01 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Stella, in July 2014. Stella joins big sister Katie, 2, and is the niece of Chris Holbert (Col ’95). The Greilings live in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Deborah Gramiccioni (Law ’97) has resigned from her position as deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a position she has held since 2013, to make way for a single chief executive to lead the agency. She had shared day-to-day leadership responsibilities with executive director Patrick Foye. Ms. Gramiccioni, former chief of the commercial crimes unit for the U.S. Attorney’s Office under then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie and former director of the Division of Criminal Justice for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, will head the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University Law School.