“Other” Class Notes
Robert Graboyes (Col ’76 CM)
Robert Graboyes (Col ’76 CM) received the 2014 Bastiat Prize for Journalism from the Reason Foundation. The international competition honors “writing that best demonstrates the importance of individual liberty and free markets with originality, wit and eloquence.” His recent monograph, Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care, offers a new paradigm for analyzing American health care policy. Mr. Graboyes is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an adjunct professor of health economics at the University of Virginia School of Nursing and at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Health Administration. In his spare time, he writes and records music.
Robert Hicklin (Col ’86)
R. Austin Hicklin (Col ’86) was named by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Justice to the Forensic Science Standards Board, which provides oversight in the development of standards of practice for 24 forensic science disciplines across the U.S.; he serves as the Chair of the Scientific Area Committee for Physics and Pattern Evidence. Mr. Hicklin is a Fellow at Noblis, where he has been employed since 1995.
Jeff Kloetzel (Educ ’87 CM)
Jeff Kloetzel (Educ ’87 CM) released Long Time Coming, an album of 12 original songs. A guitarist and vocalist, Mr. Kloetzel has recently transitioned from the corporate world to the creative world. He currently works in the music business and wine industry in Oregon.
Edward Real (Col ’64)
Edward Real (Col ’64) and his partner of 34 years, David Faust, were married on Oct. 25, 2014, in a ceremony officiated by the mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Megan Jamison (Arch ’06)
Meg Williams Jamison (Arch ’06) and Chris Jamison (Col ’06) welcomed their first son, Hatton Thomas Jamison, on August 24, 2014 in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Ellen Bisnath (Col ’96 CM)
Ellen Bisnath (Col ’96 CM) and her husband, David, welcomed their first child, Catherine Emily Meera, on Feb. 5, 2014. The family currently resides outside of London, U.K., where Ms. Bisnath is a manager of international affairs at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Mr. Bisnath is a Chartered Accountant and both are Freemen of the City of London.
Trent Brown (Grad ’89)
Trent Brown (Grad ’89) published his third book, Ed King’s Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer, with the University Press of Mississippi. Mr. Watts co-authored the book with civil rights activist the Rev. Ed King.
Elizabeth Williams (Nurs ’07)
Elizabeth Williams (Nurs ’07) and Doug Williams (Com ’07 L/M) were married on Sept. 6, 2014, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale, Va. The couple resides in Arlington, Va., where Ms. Williams works in communications for a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., and Mr. Williams works as a senior consultant in nearby Vienna, Va.
Benjamin Rubenstein (Col ’07)
Benjamin Rubenstein (Col ’07) had Secrets of the Cancer-Slaying Super Man, an illustrated book for teens and preteens, published by Woodley Books in October 2014. The book chronicles Mr. Rubenstein’s own journey with bone cancer and leukemia, showing how he created the delusion that he was superhuman as his survival technique. He wrote Secrets following his memoir, Twice: How I Became a Cancer-Slaying Super Man Before I Turned 21, so that young readers could hear his story of survival.
Jessica Heald (Col ’03)
Jessica Heald (Col ’03) and her husband, Darrin, welcomed a daughter, Charlotte Anna, on July 21, 2014. The family resides in Mirror Lake, N.H.
Sarah McKay (Col ’96)
Sarah McKay (Col ’96) and Chris McKay (Col ’95 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Daphne Kate, on Nov. 20, 2013. Daphne joins big brothers Brooks, 8; and Trevor, 5. The family resides in San Francisco.
Christopher Glass (Col ’01 CM)
Christopher Glass (Col ’01 CM) and Hartley Jeffries (Col ’06 L/M) were married on Oct. 4, 2014, in Atlanta. The couple currently resides in Atlanta, where Ms. Glass is a teacher at The Westminster Schools and Mr. Glass is an attorney at Troutman Sanders.
Rudene Haynes (Col ’96)
Rudene Haynes (Col ’96) is a partner in the law firm of Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va., where she focuses her practice on corporate finance and represents the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae. She volunteers at the William Byrd Community House, which offers Head Start classes for children younger than 5, and belongs to the Midlothian chapter of Jack and Jill, a group of mothers working to create the next generation of African-American leaders. A member of the inaugural class of fellows named to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity for the 2011-12 term, Ms. Haynes has also mentored minority law students.
Patrick Riccards (Col ’95 CM)
Patrick Riccards (Col ’95 CM) published his first book, Dadprovement, with Turning Stone Press. The book chronicles the adoption of his two children from Guatemala. He was also recently named director of the communications team at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, where he will spearhead media relations and strategy.
Eric Meade (Col ’96 CM)
Eric Meade (Col ’96 CM) was elected chairman of the board of the World Future Society on Sept. 18, 2014. Founded in 1966, the society is the world’s longest-running membership organization dedicated to empowering futurists and igniting public dialogue about the future. Eric is an executive coach and futurist at Expotential Consulting in Alexandria, Va.
Katie Shaw (Col ’00 CM)
Katie Shaw (Col ’00 CM) was named portfolio manager for Fidelity Investments’ select leisure fund. She joined Fidelity as an equity research analyst intern in 2007, covering energy stocks, and in 2008 became a research analyst in the equity research division, first responsible for coverage of health care and later covering consumer discretionary. Prior to joining Fidelity, Ms. Shaw served as a private equity associate for TA Associates from 2002 to 2006. She began her finance career in 2000 as an investment banking analyst for Salomon Smith Barney. She and her husband, Larry Schack (Grad ’00), live in Wellesley, Mass., with their family.
Richard Rogers (Col ’95 CM)
Richard Rogers (Col ’95 CM) wrote Bloomberg BNA’s Litigation Practice Portfolio Series No. 604, “Judgments,” in May 2014. He practices law in Northern Virginia and is at work on a second piece for BNA.
Susan Warner (Col ’00 CM)
Susan Warner (Col ’00 CM) recently joined the Jacksonville, Fla., office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as of counsel, where she focuses her practice in the areas of employment litigation, commercial litigation, education law and appeals.
Ryann Laden (Educ ’14)
Ryann Laden (Educ ’14) and her husband, Kevin, welcomed a daughter, Jane Violet, on April 3, 2014. Jane joins big sister Ruby Colleen, 6; and big brother Sam Michael, 3.
Ryann Laden (Educ ’14)
Ryann McKinley Laden and Kevin Laden welcomed a daughter, Jane Violet, on April 3, 2014. She joins a sister, Ruby Colleen, 6; and a brother, Sam Michael, 3.
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