“Other” Class Notes

Daniel J. Hoffheimer (Law ’76) is chairman of the board of the Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts in Cincinnati. The festival features more than a dozen musical and theatrical performances and showcases the visual arts. Mr. Hoffheimer has also joined the board of concert:nova, an exploratory chamber music ensemble, which presents classical music, often with cross-disciplinary artistic partners, in off-beat venues.

Randal M. “Randy” Shavis (Col ’75) married Linda Molloy on August 5, 2012. Mr. Shavis has worked at ManTech International for 15 years and will retire as a senior software analyst in September 2012.

Steven McCracken (Law ’75) has joined the San Diego office of the international law firm of Fish & Richardson as of counsel. He is the former senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer of San Diego-based Callaway Golf Co.

R. Michael Wells Sr. (Col ’71) was sworn in as the 118th president of the North Carolina Bar Association at the association’s annual meeting in June 2012.

Carolyn Brady (Educ ’72) received the Professional Staff Excellence Award from Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pa., where she is director of counseling and support services.

Helen R. “Jean” White (Col ’69 L/M) serves on the board of governors and the gala committee of the American News Women’s Club. She is also a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Ryan C. Amacher (Grad ’71 L/M) published A Baby Boomer’s Guide to Their Second Sixties with Sunstone Press. The book addresses baby boomer issues in the context of boomer culture and takes a humorous look at the aging experience.

James B. Pettit Jr. (Arch ’69) has recently left his position as senior associate with Penza Bailey Architects in Baltimore to devote time to watercolor painting and accessibility design consulting. He practiced architecture in Baltimore for 43 years. At Penza Bailey, Mr. Pettit conducted accessibility design audits for the Washington Hospital Center, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, M&T Bank and numerous other clients. A former officer and board member of the American Institute of Architects Baltimore chapter, he remains active with the chapter’s historic resources committee. Mr. Pettit has led workshops on preservation and the Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility design standards.

Philip Chen (Engr ’68 L/M) is a cartoonist and writer. He is the author of Scenes of Strangeness, an Amazon.com-exclusive cartoon collection, and Falling Star, a science fiction thriller that has found success in both print and digital formats. Mr. Chen is currently working on a sequel to Falling Star.

Robert T. Balmer (Engr ’68), dean of engineering and computer science at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., has been elected to emeritus status. He recently published an engineering textbook, Modern Engineering Thermodynamics. He is also the co-author of a freshman engineering textbook, Exploring Engineering, now in its third edition.

G. Gordon Davis (Law ’67) published a memoir, Everything Has a Life, with Amazon Kindle. The book tells of his law practice on Wall Street and in the Adirondacks of New York, as well as his two decades of work promoting the rule of law and democratic institutions in Asia.

Roger L. Simpson (Engr ’64) received the title of professor emeritus from the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. He retired from Virginia Tech after 29 years of service to the College of Engineering, where he served as the Jack E. Cowling Chaired Professor of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering. Mr. Simpson served as the national president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 2005 to 2007 and on the AIAA board of directors for 16 years. His academic work focuses on experimental fluid mechanics and state-of-the-art instrumentation development, and he has co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and reviews.

Anne Hughes Bishop (Nurs ’58, Educ ’80 L/M) published a book, Yes and Thanks: Seeking the Spiritual World, written with John R. Scudder Jr. The book describes a positive transformative way of being in the world that Bishop and Scudder discovered while seeking a spiritual life in the “postmodern” secular world.

Erica Elvey Folk (Engr ’02 L/M) and her husband, Michael, welcomed their first child, Adele Christine, on Jan. 3, 2012. The family lives in Baltimore.

Timothy J. Moran (Col ’89) is a partner in the project finance area of Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Moran’s practice focuses on infrastructure project development and finance.

Calvert S. Whatley (Col ’00 L/M) was named to Alabama’s Rising Stars 2012 list. He specializes in the business and corporate practice area at Burr & Forman’s Birmingham office.

Ronald W. Flowers Jr. (Com ’99 L/M) was named to Alabama’s Rising Stars 2012 list. He specializes in employment and labor at Burr & Forman’s Birmingham office.

William Lee Thuston (Col ’71) was recognized in the 2012 edition of Alabama Super Lawyers. He specializes in the business and corporate practice area at Burr & Forman’s Birmingham office.

David A. Elliott (Col ’85 L/M) was recognized in the 2012 edition of Alabama Super Lawyers. He specializes in business litigation at Burr & Forman’s Birmingham office.

Daniel F. Lindley (Law ’75) is managing director of the global family and private investment offices group of Northern Trust. He previously served as president of The Northern Trust Company of Delaware, a position he held since 2005.

Lisa Manley (Col ’91, Educ ’93 L/M) is executive vice president of business and social purpose at Edelman, a public relations firm, in Chicago. Ms. Manley joins Edelman from Coca-Cola, where she was responsible for global corporate responsibility and sustainability strategy.

Al Berkeley (Col ’66 L/M) is the moderator of Wall Street Week. He is a former president and vice-chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market and is currently chairman of Pipeline Financial Group.

Micha Berman (Col ’90) published a book, Permanent Passenger: My Life on a Cruise Ship. Mr. Berman is a voiceover artist in San Francisco.

Gerard Carisio (Grad ’10) is an instructor in the department of English and fine arts at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. In May 2012, he received USAFA’s Outstanding Academy Educator Award for his work in composition and rhetoric courses.

L. William Edgar (Col ’93 L/M) and his wife, Cary, welcomed their son, Harrison Brown, on Dec. 25, 2011. Harrison joins a sister, Sarah Nolen, 2. The family resides in Raleigh, N.C. Harrison is the nephew of Elizabeth Edgar Bole (Col ’89 L/M), C. Ernest Edgar IV (Law ’94) and Mary Ann Dominy Edgar (Law ’94).

Jeannie J. Hong (Col ’88 L/M) was appointed on Oct. 19, 2012 to be a Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley.  Previously, she was a Baltimore City District Court Judge.

Deanna M. Becker (Col ’10, Educ ’11) married Benjamin P. Faust (Col ’10, Com ’11 L/M) at the University Chapel on July 17, 2011. Mr. Faust is the son of Scott A. Faust (Col ’82 L/M). The couple resides in Herndon, Va. They both work in Reston, Va., where Ms. Faust is a special education teacher at Armstrong Elementary School and Mr. Faust is a data analyst with comScore.

John G. Hagopian (Col ’80, Engr ’82 L/M) is an optical physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center doing research on carbon nanotubes for a variety of space applications. He received the NASA Goddard Innovator of the Year Award and NASA GSFC Applied Engineering and Science Directorate Science and Technology Award for his work.

Reuben P. Jacob (Col ’08) received his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. He will be an internal medicine resident physician at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Caroline D’Angelo (Col ’07 L/M) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Environmental Studies program with a concentration in policy, business and sustainability. For her capstone, she started an open-access academic journal on global gender and water issues.

Andrew Duffield Garrahan (Col ’05, Law ’13 L/M) and Emily Jane Wang Garrahan (Com ’04, GSBA ’10 L/M) welcomed a son, George Duffield, on Jan. 28, 2012.

Claire Anne Leduc (Engr ’03 L/M) received a master’s degree in statistics from Columbia University in December 2011. She is a statistician for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Md.

Ross Goldstein (Com ’01) and Catherine Hess Goldstein (Engr ’01) welcomed a son, Oscar Zero Goldstein on March 19, 2012.

Louis Fierro II (Col ’01 L/M) and Maura McEwan Fierro (Engr ’08, ’10 L/M) welcomed their first child, Anne Rosaleen, on April 13, 2012. The family resides in Richmond, Va.

Ashleigh Oakes Hart (Com ’00 L/M) and her husband, Jamie, welcomed their second child, Saxon Peter, on April 20, 2012. Saxon joins a sister, Sadie. Ms. Hart is a managing director at JPMorgan Chase in the global emerging markets area. The family lives in New York City.

Amit Mathuria (Com ’97) and his wife, Adhuna, welcomed their two sons, Kavi and Krish, on Oct. 31, 2011. They are the couple’s first children. The family resides in Fairfax, Va., where Amit works for SAP America and Adhuna is an allergist and clinical immunologist.

Eric Perkins (Col ’93, Law ’96 L/M) coauthored a book, Richmond – One of America’s Best Tennis Towns, that chronicles the modern history of tennis in Richmond, Va. The book features a foreword by John McEnroe.

JoAnne Mancini (Col ’90 L/M) received the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for her article “Pedro Cambon’s Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to 18th-Century California.” Ms. Mancini is a historian at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two sons.

Nathan Finch (Col ’89, Law ’92) was selected for inclusion in the 2012 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers in the areas of Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products; Personal Injury Plaintiff: General; and Securities Litigation. Mr. Finch practices with Motley Rice.

Cristopher Andrew Meyer (Engr ’83 L/M) is a fellow in the American College of Radiology. Dr. Meyer is a professor of cardiothoracic imaging and vice chair of finance in the department of radiology at the University of Wisconsin.

Lewis Shepherd (Col ’82 L/M) is the director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, an international research-and-development arm of Microsoft Corp. He joined Microsoft in 2008 after several years running R&D at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Alison R. Litty Pack (Com ’02 L/M) and Michael L. Pack (Engr ’02) welcomed a son, Linsey Emmett, on May 2, 2012. Linsey is their first child.

Douglas Golden (Col ’72, Grad ’73 L/M) is president of Main Line Rail Management, a firm providing consulting services to various rail industry clients. He is also owner and president of Carolina Coastal Railway, a shortline freight railroad operating nearly 200 miles in North Carolina. He lives with his wife, Mary, in Bensalem, Pa.

Christa Diakun (Col ’09) received a juris doctor degree from Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach on May 5, 2012.

Margaret “Moggie” Bolton (Col ’07) married Michael Baudinet (Col ’04 L/M) on Sept. 18, 2011, in Charlottesville. The ceremony took place at the University Chapel with a reception following at Veritas Vineyard in Afton, Va. The wedding party included Mairi Kincaid (Col ’07 L/M), Marissa Kessler (Col ’07 L/M), Allison Murphy (Col ’07, Grad ’08 L/M), Elizabeth Oswald (Col ’07 L/M), Eric Gama (Col ’05, Educ ’05 L/M), Nick Redmond (Col ’00, Educ ’02), Cade Lemcke (Com ’02 L/M) and Matt Smyth (Col ’98 L/M).  The couple lives in Charlottesville, where Ms. Baudinet works at the U.Va. Alumni Association as the assistant director of the admission liaison program and Mr. Baudinet will start with McGuireWoods in the fall.