“Other” Class Notes

Christopher D’Angelo (Col ’75, Law ’78) recently served as moderator and speaker for the 2014 International Corporate Counsel College, organized and presented in Europe each year by the International Association of Defense Counsel. The “Data: The Gold of the XXI Century” conference was held in Milan, Italy, and explored the legal and practical challenges faced by multinational companies in the creation, use and protection of data as a corporate asset, privacy issues, information governance and asset protection, cybersecurity, crisis management, the “butterfly effect” and cyber risk and insurance. Mr. D’Angelo is chair of Montgomery McCracken’s international practice and co-chair of the firm’s product liability, toxic torts and catastrophic events practice. He serves as national counsel for several major U.S. clients and represents foreign concerns in the U.S. and U.S. concerns abroad.

Herbert Slatery (Col ’74 CM) was sworn in as the 27th attorney general and reporter of the state of Tennessee on Oct. 1, 2014. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. David Bowen (Col ’74), Mr. Slatery’s close friend and former UVA roommate. Previously, Mr. Slatery served for four years as chief legal counsel to Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee and before that worked as an attorney for 30 years in the Knoxville, Tennessee, law firm of Egerton McAfee Armistead & Davis.

David Rojohn (Engr ’74) recently retired after providing more than 40 years of civil engineering, construction and maintenance services to Gulf Oil and Bettis Atomic Power Laboratories near Pittsburgh. Interested in future endeavors, he retains his Professional Engineer designation. He recently collaborated with his sister, his son and a friend on a published short story, “Journey of the Piggyback Flight Pilot,” which tells of his father’s heroic aviation efforts during the “Piggyback Flight” of World War II. Mr. Rojohn plans to continue writing and publishing with his wife, Sharon, while in the meantime polishing a rusty golf game.

Frank Riggs (Law ’74 CM) was named “Lawyer of the Year” 2015 by Best Lawyers in America for litigation in construction law in Atlanta. A partner in the construction group of Troutman Sanders, he focuses his practice on construction law matters, including the counseling of public and private owners, general contractors, construction managers, equipment suppliers and more. Mr. Riggs is also a fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers.

Susan Schmidt (Grad ’73) published a coming-of-age novel, Song of Moving Water, set in 1970s Virginia. The book tests whether new environmental laws can save a river from a proposed dam. She also published a new collection of poems, Salt Runs in My Blood, which tells her personal journey: she recalls bright parrots, big trout, sea gales, Celtic ancestry, old loves, traveling the world, learning to navigate and more. Ms. Schmidt currently works as a book editor, but previously worked as a science policy analyst, sailboat captain and professor of literature and environmental decision-making.

David Lavine (Med ’72) was recently honored by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Association of Plastic Surgeons for his proposal for the “ICON Project,” a video project that will honor living pioneers in the field of plastic surgery. Among the subjects Dr. Lavine has interviewed for the project is Dr. Milton Edgerton, who in 1970 established the department of plastic surgery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and went on to break new ground in many areas of plastic surgery, including craniofacial surgery, head and neck tumor and reconstruction surgery, and gender reassignment surgery. Gerard Grau (Med ’72) and Mark Constantian (Med ’72 L/M) provided research assistance and support for the project.

David Kuney (Col ’67, Law ’73 CM) joined the Washington, D.C., office of Whiteford Taylor & Preston. A nationally recognized bankruptcy attorney who has represented many prominent clients, Mr. Kuney joins the firm after working for 13 years as a partner and senior counsel at Sidley Austin. He has taught at American University Washington College of Law, Georgetown Law and New York Law School. He currently works with law students at Georgetown in drafting and preparing amicus curiae briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court and is the lead author of The Single Asset Real Estate Case, published in 2012 by the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Lionel Rowe (Educ ’56 CM) and his grandson, Billy Rowe, competed in the 2014 United States Tennis Association’s Grandfather and Grandson Hard Court Doubles tournament held at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club in La Jolla, California. Attaining the final round and placing second in the tournament, they each received a silver miniature tennis ball in a wooden case. In 2012, the pair won the finals and each received a gold tennis ball. Billy Rowe is currently a junior at Coronado High School in Coronado, California, where he is a member of the varsity tennis team. Rebel Rowe continues to play on the Coronado Men’s Tennis Ladder.

Winifred Schumann (Educ ’49) published her eleventh book, Winifred’s Memories, Vol. 11, for family and friends. Other published books also focus on the history and works of family members, and include Hope McNevin Family 1736-2007; Short Stories for Children by Euphemia Dean MacNiven O’Connor; and Poems by Ernst Friedrich Schumann, a selection of poetry written by Ms. Schumann’s husband’s great uncle and translated by Ms. Schumann from German to English. She has also published a three-volume poetry series, Miscellany of Poems, a collection of poems composed by several of her ancestors and relatives.

Marney White (Com ’91) has been named “Teacher of the Year” by the Yale School of Public Health class of 2014. She considers this to be her greatest honor since being elected “Biggest Loafer” by the McIntire School of Commerce class of 1991. Professor White is an associate professor of psychiatry and chronic disease epidemiology at Yale University, where she also serves as associate director of the Yale Center for Anxiety and Mood Disorders. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her spouse and children.

Kristin Romesburg (Col ’02 CM) and Jason Romesburg (Col ’02 L/M) welcomed a son, Owen Maxwell, on Nov. 3, 2014. He joins big sister Anne Katherine, 3. The family currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Yevonne Chandler (Com ’02 CM) and Yevonne Simms Chandler (Com ’02 L/M) welcomed a son, Bennett Rooke, on Oct. 16, 2014. Bennett is the nephew of Peyton Chandler (Col ’01 L/M), Kristy Thomas Chandler (Col ’01) and Elizabeth “Carter” Chandler Clements (Col ’99); and the grandson of Wanda Rooke Chandler (Educ ’02). The Chandlers currently reside in Atlanta.

Christopher Kimbel (Col ’06 CM) and Stephanie Kirk Kimbel (Col ’06 L/M) welcomed their first child, a daughter, Elliott Katherine, on Sept. 15, 2014. The family currently resides in Atlanta.

Jerome Magat (Col ’95 CM) is a seminary professor at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, effective July 2015. Previously, he was a seminary professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California, where he taught liturgy and homiletics.

John Cooney (Engr ’85 CM) and his wife, Kelly, have launched a start-up apparel company, Après-Swim Inc., headquartered in Plano, Texas. Après-Swim manufactures and sells fast-drying SPF 40+ after-swim cover-up dresses.

John Pullen (Com ’95 CM) and Brandy L. Wilson (Col ’01) were married on Nov. 21, 2014, in Playa Del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The couple resides in Smyrna, Georgia, where Mr. Pullen is a strategic accounts director for Salesforce Inc., and Ms. Wilson is a team leader for Randstad Engineering.