“Other” Class Notes

Robert Shaughnessy (Col ’10, Com ’11 CM) and Noella Overbey (Col ’11 L/M) welcomed their first child, a daughter, Maya Grace, on June 19, 2014. The family resides in Plainsboro, N.J.

Zachary Shapiro (Engr ’09 CM) and Susan Jane Grayden Bowden (Col ’10 L/M) were married on May 24, 2014, in Asheville, N.C. The couple resides in Raleigh, N.C., where Ms. Shapiro is a combined veterinary/Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University and Mr. Shapiro is an M.B.A. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Andrew Durfor (Grad ’09) is a chemist for the Office of Compliance in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He recently began his one-year Mike Mansfield Fellowship in Ishikawa prefecture in Japan, where he will participate in a homestay and intensive language training before working for 10 months in a Japanese government agency or ministry in Tokyo. During his practical training, Mr. Durfor will seek to gain insight into the pressures and priorities that influence medical device regulation in Japan with attention to the risk management elements used for foreign manufacturers.

Nicole Davila (Col ’08 CM) and Johnny McCarthy were married on March 8, 2014. The couple resides in Honolulu, where Ms. McCarthy works for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Mr. McCarthy is a third-year medical resident with the U.S. Army.

Katherine Calogero (Col ’08 CM) was named to the 2014 list of Washington, D.C., Rising Stars. She is an attorney in the government contracts and investigations practice group at Jackson Kelly. Her practice focuses on government contracts, including all aspects of contract formation, administration and dispute resolution.

Lindsey Smith (Col ’07) and Bryan A. Smith (Col ’07) welcomed a daughter, Emory Davis, on April 24, 2014. The family resides in Louisville, Ky.

Caleb Ballew (Col ’07) is an attorney with the law firm of Martinson & Beason in Huntsville, Ala., where he focuses his practice on criminal law, family law, torts, and trusts and estates.

Sarah Styf (Grad ’06) was selected by the National Association of Independent Schools as a 2014-15 Teacher of the Future. As one of 35 teachers selected for the program, Ms. Styf will participate in a variety of initiatives to strengthen learning and teaching at independent schools, as well as grow her own personal and professional leadership capacity. She teaches 7th-grade science at Marist School in Atlanta, where she uses many leading-edge technologies, including social media and TED talks, as effective teaching tools.

Ryan Yanovich (Col ’05 CM) and Charles Matthew Herbek (Col ’06 L/M) were married on June 14, 2014, in Tarrytown, N.Y. The couple resides in New York City, where Mr. Yanovich is an associate at O’Melveny & Myers and Mr. Herbek is assistant director of annual giving at the Juilliard School.

Margaret Rankovic (Col ’04, Educ ’05) is associate director for educational initiatives for good clinical practice and human subject research at the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program at the University of Miami in Florida. CITI Program is a leading provider of research education content and its Web-based training materials serve learners in the U.S. and around the world.

Shane Fleenor (Col ’03) joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as an associate in the firm’s corporate and business department. His practice focuses on corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, asset divestitures, financings, reorganizations and joint ventures. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Fleenor was founder and chief legal officer of Grofolio (formerly Funding Launchpad), an accredited crowdfunding platform.

Page Moore (Col ’02) and Richard Moore (Col ’02, Educ ’06 L/M) welcomed a son, Mason Malmsjo, on April 17, 2014. Mason joins big sister Grace, 3. The family resides in Columbia, S.C., where Ms. Moore is an instructor of clinical pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Mr. Moore is a high school special education teacher.

Ryan Griswold (Engr ’02 CM) and Caitlin S. McBeth were married on June 28, 2014, in Watch Hill, R.I. The couple resides in New York City, where Mr. Griswold works in leveraged finance for J.P. Morgan.

Matthew Axtell (Law ’02) has been selected by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as the 2014-15 Supreme Court fellow assigned to the Federal Judicial Center. He will spend his fellowship year, which begins this fall, in the history division of the Federal Judicial Center. Previously, Mr. Axtell worked as an assistant counsel for environmental law for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and as an environmental law associate for Vinson & Elkins in Washington, D.C. He is a doctoral candidate in the history department at Princeton University, where he studies how legal concepts and actors have shaped, and have been shaped by, markets, property relations, geography and economic reasoning. He served as the Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University’s School of Law for the 2013-14 academic year.

Michelle Perrin-Steinberg (Col ’01 CM) and her husband, Brian Marc Steinberg, welcomed their first child, a son, Brandon Perrin Steinberg, on Dec. 21, 2013. Brandon is the grandson of Michael T. Perrin (Com ’75 L/M). The family resides in San Antonio.

David Decosimo (Com ’01) published Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue, with Stanford University Press. The book offers an analysis of Thomas Aquinas’ views on pagan virtue and reinterprets Aquinas’ ethics while providing a model for current efforts to articulate a truthful hospitality and do ethics in a pluralist, globalized world. Mr. Decosimo is an assistant professor of theology at Loyola University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Lauren Brown (Col ’00) and Henric Persson (Com ’00 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Hannah Persson, on June 10, 2014. Hannah joins big sister Anabelle, 5; and big brother Cole, 3. The family resides in Old Greenwich, Conn.