“Other” Class Notes

Ellen Klemm Feeney (Col ’87 L/M) has spent her career at Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Virginia. She started in employee relations and is currently the functional lead for the consumer servicing branch. Feeney earned her master’s degree from George Washington University and lives with her family in Vienna. Her daughter is Jane Quinlan Feeney (Col ’23).   

Guy Sterling (Col ’70) spent nearly 35 years as a daily newspaper reporter before retiring in 2009. He was a reporter on the staff of The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2005 for its coverage of the sudden and unexpected resignation of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey. Four years earlier, Sterling had been a lead reporter in the coverage of the deadly dormitory fire at Seton Hall University that earned the paper its first-ever selection as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2007, he won an ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award given nationally for excellence in music writing. He has also written two books.

Matt Coleman (Col ’03, Darden ’11 L/M) and his wife, Christine, welcomed their second child, Matthew Kais, on Jan. 9, 2020. Matt, Christine, big sister Alessia, and Kais live in Oakland, California, where Mr. Coleman is a director at investment manager Nephila Climate, and Mrs. Coleman is the executive director of Sol Sisters, Inc.

Bendukai Bouey (Law ’97) regrets to inform that his wife of 18 years, Theresa Wing Kay Mann Bouey, died Feb. 3, 2020 after a long and painful 8 year battle with cancer. A homemaker and anchor in her community, Theresa, by the grace and strength of the Lord Jesus, made Ranchos Palos Verdes CA, where the family resided, better, more close knit, and a greater reflection of the love of God. She is survived by her husband Bendukai, three children, Kaiya, Caeleb and Chelsea, parents William and Caria Mann and sister Margaret.

Elizabeth “Liz” Bower (Nurs ’06) and her fiancé, Franklin, welcomed a son, Silas Amos Luke Freeman, on Nov. 24, 2019. Silas joins older brother Trace, age 8. The family lives in Chesapeake, Virginia. Elizabeth and Franklin are planning a wedding and will wed later in 2020. 

Joe Morrissey (Col ’79), a former commonwealth’s attorney for the Richmond, Virginia, and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, was elected to the Virginia State Senate in November 2019. Morrissey stated that during the upcoming 2020 General Assembly Session, he will focus on both criminal justice reform issues as well as establishing a Clean Energy Standard in the commonwealth. 

Elizabeth Marcon (Col ’99 L/M) and her husband, Joshua Hauck, welcomed their fourth child, Marlowe Elizabeth Marcon, on May 27, 2019. Marlowe joins brothers Jed Hauck, 7, Lawton Hauck, 5, and sister Eve Marcon, 2. The family resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Marcon is an attorney in the Bethlehem law firm of Florio, Perrucci, Steinhardt & Cappelli.

Kim Tuten Gallagher (Col ’84 L/M) founded Blue Book Essays, a national college essay coaching business for university and graduate school applicants. Helping “students excel, parents exhale,” Blue Book Essays works with public, private, parochial and boarding schools across the country. Gallagher is an advertising creative director and copywriter who builds brands including Catholic Relief Services, Charter Communications, Royal Mystic Soft Drinks and Juices, The Maryland Lottery, Paper & Packaging Board, National Archives, American Psychological Association and Britches of Georgetown. 

Justin Woodruff (Col ’07) and Martha Gray Woodruff (Col ’06, Darden ’11 L/M) welcomed their second child, Gray Somerville, on Oct. 23, 2019. Gray joins big sister Virginia, and the family lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Nelson Neal (Educ ’85) gave presentations on Hemsley Winfield, the first African American modern dancer, to the students and faculty in the dance departments at Hofstra University, SUNY Purchase, and Marymount Manhattan College in November 2019. Neal is the author of Hemsley Winfield: The Forgotten Pioneer of Modern Dance, An Annotated Bibliography and the authority on the career of Hemsley Winfield. Neal lives in San Diego, California, and is an assistant coach for track and field at La Jolla Country Day School. 

Austin Diduch (Col ’16 L/M) and Alex Ern (Col ’17) DJ and produce music as a duo called CHOVA (combining the Charlottesville airport moniker and Virginia). They say that the name, which combines the Charlottesville airport moniker and their home state, is about giving back to the people who helped us all along the way and it is also a tribute to all the ’Hoos. They will be on tour this year and would love to hear from fellow alumni.

Gary S. Henley (Arch ’81 L/M) was appointed to the Architectural Review Board for Hanover County, Virginia. He has served on the Hanover Historic Commission as representative for the Montpelier Center for Arts & Education since 2012.

Lawrence Hyman (Col ’89 L/M) is an exhibition officer for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He previously served as manager of exhibition and curatorial planning at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 

William Clark (Col ’80 L/M) was appointed to the board of the education nonprofit Breakthrough New York, which works to provide comprehensive support to talented kids from low-income backgrounds from middle school through college and into careers. Clark is vice chairman of Global Corporate Banking at J.P. Morgan. 

Robert Muckenfuss (Col ’93 L/M) has been appointed chair of the Complex Commercial Litigation Department at the law firm of McGuireWoods. Robert lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has a national practice focused on financial services litigation. Muckenfuss is married to Heather Browne Muckenfuss (Col ’93 L/M) and they have three children, Parker, 20, Malin, 17, and Jack, 15. 

John McCarthy (Col ’85) is spending a year in Tokyo as a visiting faculty member of the English Communication Department of Showa Women’s University. He is joined by his wife and two daughters. John is director of Curriculum of Showa Boston, the university’s study abroad campus.

Bob Dundervill (Col ’86 L/M) and Ian McKenna (Col ’86 L/M), both members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, competed as a team in the annual Swiss Epic mountain bike stage race held from August 20-24, 2019. The 5-day race was 350 kilometers in total with 12000 meters of climbing. Dundervill is an ophthalmologist practicing in Charleston, West Virginia, and McKenna is an emergency medicine physician in Portland, Oregon. 

Will Trinkle (Col ’80 L/M) was elected in June 2019 to a second term on the board of directors of Charlottesville’s Paramount Theatre. He also serves on the boards of Virginia Humanities and Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Theatre, and he is serving for the 18th and final year on the board of trustees of Hollins University. 

Jonathan C. Hamilton (Law ’98) has spent the past two decades with global law firm White & Case, resident in Washington, D.C.  As the firm’s head of Latin American arbitration, he has handled a range of key disputes of the era across Latin America, ranging from sovereign debt disputes, to the recuperation of the artifacts of Machu Picchu. He also is the distinguished faculty chair of the International Arbitration Institute at the University of Miami School of Law.

Mark Dahl (Col ’72) focuses his energies on the game of bridge after spending 28 years in the securities industry. Since first learning from Lem Marshall (Col ’72), Dahl has won four National Championships, attaining the rank of Grand Life Master. He says, “Unbelievably, my wife, Catherine Collard Dahl (Grad ’77) hasn’t seen fit to leave yet!”

Nash Boney (Grad ’60, ’63), Emory Thomas (Col ’62 L/M), John Comolli (Col ’64), Cliff Pannell (Grad ’62 L/M) and Ed Perkins (Engr ’71 L/M) are members of the Folio Book Club in Athens, Georgia.  

Nick Deygoo (Col ’05 L/M) was elected president of the Georgetown, Guyana, Chamber of Commerce and Industry and, in March, launched the 2019 edition of the chamber’s Business Guyana magazine. The magazine is a resource for investors looking at the Guyanese market.

Ed Offley (Col ’69) won first prize for a print publication under 100,000 circulation) in the Military Reporters & Editors 2018 journalism competition. Offley’s winning article was an investigative piece revealing new details about the sinking of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion and its 99-man crew on May 22, 1968. His article in MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History revealed previously undisclosed eyewitness accounts confirming that U.S. Navy officials knew at the time of its loss—and immediately covered up—hard evidence that the nuclear attack submarine and its 99-man crew had been attacked and sunk by the Soviets.

Jean Gleason White (Col ’69 L/M), a Silver Owl member of the National Press Club, met CNN’s Wolf Blitzer at a Washington, D.C., event for the club in May 2019.  She is the immediate past president of the American News Women’s Club.

Carole Kirkland Ramser (Col ’85, Educ ’89 L/M) is a speech-language pathologist for Hanover County Public Schools. She is married to Scott E. Ramser, who is a CPA. 

Paul Hurdle (Col ’70, Law ’73 L/M) is looking forward to the Class of 1970’s reunion!

Sunny DiSoco (Engr ’95) looks forward to seeing old friends, reminiscing, and catching up!

Interestingly, Sandy, whom I met on the 1st day at UVA, married me, and we had a boy and a girl together. To date, we’re very happy, and remain married. 🙂  I evolved into a professional salesperson, specializing in information technology sales, holding almost all roles between field sales rep to VP within companies that included local dealerships to major technology manufacturers, such as Canon, Xerox, EFi and Ricoh.  I currently work for Ricoh as a District Business Manager supporting dealerships in the mid-Atlantic area.  Socio-cultural anthropology became a useful template for recognizing cultures, power hierarchies, exchange systems and helping companies understand and choose technology that fits.  I’m still playing computer games, foosball, pool, golf, snow ski and attempt to surf on a log when both time and waves are available.  I travel for work, extensively, mostly windshield time, and I’ve built up a lot of points to explore new locations in moments of spare time.  A good microbrew and fresh exotic scenery still freezes time in my head, and this is very good.  Someday, I’m sure Sandy and I will have time to use the points and travel for fun.  As a 35 year reunion note, I really appreciate and thank UVA for introducing me to so many good lifelong friends over the years.  I also miss friends I made so many years ago, yet drifted away, and write this message to you, should you remember me.  Reading class notes is a non-facebook way of checking in on the past with a tidbit from the present. I also greatly appreciate the flavoring mix UVA and Charlottesville contributed to my continuously evolving perspective of life, work, love, friends and family since graduation.  C’ville hooked me, if only mentally.  Carpe Diem, caveat emptor and Go Hoos!

Luis G. Pedraja (Grad ’94) was named one of the 50 most influential persons in Central Massachusetts by the Worcester Business Journal.

Walter “Casey” King (Engr ’89) recently organized the 12th annual HGTC Addiction and Recovery lecture series.  As a person in long term recovery, King created this event as a way to give back to the local recovery community.  Over the last 12 years, he has been able to work with celebrities in recovery, such as Meredith Baxter, Louis Gossett, Danny Trejo and Mackenzie Phillips to deliver the message of recovery at the college level. All events are free and open to the public. 

Lawrence Familant (Col ’67) made a contribution to the UVA Health Foundation for stem cell research concerning multiple sclerosis in memory of Lloyd A. Godlin.

On Jan. 29, 2019, Delta 468 was crewed by four pilots from New York JFK to Tel Aviv, Israel. Included in the crew were pilots Capt. Doug Ray (Engr ’80), not pictured, First Officer Scott Repass (Col ’00) pictured left, and First Officer Lance Rush (right), whose daughter Emma Rush (Col ’21) is a current student.

Wishing our fellow ’Hoos a joyful holiday season and a happy new year! from Shawn (Col ’01) and Meghan Carroll White (Col ’01 L/M), Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. 

Marcus Holmes (Col ’02 L/M) has been awarded the William & Mary Alumni Association’s 2018 Alumni Fellowship Award for excellence in teaching, research and mentorship.

Doug Smith (Col ’86 L/M) will be serving as the “seeing-eye Doug” to a blind sailor as they sail across the Pacific non-stop from San Diego to Fukushima, Japan, starting Feb. 24, 2019. They hope this Voyage of Inspiration will inspire others to overcome adversity and work to achieve their dreams. They also aim to draw attention to charities that they support and which they hope others will as well. 

Lucy English Gentilhomme (Educ ’77) and her siblings, Ellen English, Lloyd English, Margaret McLewin and cousin, Otis Douglas, commissioned and donated to the University a portrait of their great-grandfather, former Board of Visitors Rector, Sen. C. Harding Walker (Col 1882). The portrait by Bradley Stevens hangs in the board wing of the Rotunda. 

Walker was a member of the BOV from 1917 to 1934 and served in the Virginia Senate for 22 years, during which time he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1901-02 and president pro tempore.

In 1930, a resolution penned by Dr. Alderman on behalf of the BOV officially stated a “permanent acknowledgement of their obligation to Cyrus Harding Walker for his efficient services as rector, his unfailing courtesy, his sense of justice, his high-minded and unselfish devotion to the interest of the University and his far-seeing vision of the duty and dignity of his Alma Mater.” At the time of Walker’s death in 1934, the board noted that he was “deeply religious and profoundly a Christian” and “broadminded in his tolerance of others who differed from him.” “A man of well developed and firmly held convictions yet he agreed with Thomas Jefferson that the freedom of the mind of every man should be protected. He believed in a popular education that trained men to be trusted, and in a democracy that gave opportunity to all such men to be fairly heard. On his personal side, Walker cultivated and radiated a genial charm. He possessed a benevolent countenance and the light of kindliness shown in his eyes. His spirit was gentle; his heart was pure and he lived a life of good service and died with honor.”

Jaime Wisegarver (Col ’05 L/M), Webb Moore (Engr ’80), Terrence Graves (Law ’91), Jim Cluverius (Col ’64) and Carolyn White (Col ’89) were among many Wahoos who heard Athletics Director Carla Williams speak at the Richmond Bar Association’s luncheon on Sept. 27, 2018. They were thrilled to meet Ms. Williams and hear more about her background and her plans for the future of UVA athletics.  

Jill Orlove (Arch ’91) is exhibiting her artwork in Richmond’s upcoming Craft + Design Show at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Virginia. The show runs Nov. 16-18. Her art has been shown in the National Building Museum and Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum. 

Maggie Moriarty (Col ’13) and her husband, Jackson Cox, opened On Point Pupcakes, which makes gourmet treat mixes for dogs. Products are available online and central North Carolina retailers.

Edmund Potter (Arch ’95) traveled with his parents, Clifton W. Potter Jr. (Grad ’64, ’70 L/M) and Dorothy Turner Potter (Grad ’66, ’00 L/M), and his son Landon to the grave of James McConnell at the Lafayette Escadrille Monument in Paris. Most famous for the Icarus sculpture created in his honor on Grounds, McConnell was shot down March 19, 1917. They were on a trip organized by the 116th Infantry Regiment Foundation (Virginia National Guard) to visit World War I sites in France and Belgium as part of the 100th anniversary of the end of the conflict.   

Doug Williams (Com ’07) and Libby Muldoon Williams (Nurs ’07) welcomed their first child, Virginia Grace, on Aug. 29, 2018. The family lives in Arlington, Virginia. Her aunts, Kathryn Muldoon Griffin (Com ’02) and Courtney Muldoon Nazareno (Col ’03), are looking forward to encouraging their niece to be a future Wahoo!