“Other” Class Notes

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.

Lisa Kelley (Nurs ’99 CM) and Joe Miller (Darden ’05) welcomed a son, John Richard “Jack” Miller, on May 5, 2014. Jack joins big sisters Anna Elizabeth, 4; and Alyssa Claire, 2. The family resides in Charlotte, N.C., where Ms. Kelley is an oncology nurse practitioner at Oncology Specialists of Charlotte and Mr. Miller is an investment banker with SunTrust.

Heather Freeland (Col ’92 CM) and her husband, David, welcomed their first child, a son, Benjamin Hopkins Freeland, in June 2014. The family lives in Palo Alto, Calif., where Ms. Freeland runs global marketing communications at Facebook in nearby Menlo Park.

Jennifer Conway (Col ’99, Educ ’02 CM) and her husband, Brendan, welcomed a daughter, Charlotte Anne, on April 3, 2014. Charlotte joins big sister Caroline, age 2. Charlotte is the granddaughter of Walter H. Schumacher (Col ’70) and the niece of David A. Schumacher (Col ’03 L/M). Ms. Conway currently serves as a chief of staff at the New York City Department of Education. The family resides in Hoboken, N.J.Jennifer A. Schumacher Conway

Theodore Stimson (Com ’98 CM) and Katherine M. Yontz were married on March 29, 2014. The couple resides in Columbus, Ohio, where Mr. Stimson works for a private equity firm investing in hotels.

Sarah Roth (Grad ’97, Grad ’02) published Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture with Cambridge University Press. The book examines how white women played a critical role in shifting how African American men were perceived in the decades leading to the Civil War through their contributions to popular culture and literature. Ms. Roth is an associate professor of history at Widener University.

Sue Feuerstein (Educ ’97 CM) published Children’s Bodies in Schools: Corporeal Performances of Social Class, a book that explores how teachers read children’s body language for their social class implications and examines the possible consequences of those interpretations. Ms. Henry is an associate professor of education at Bucknell University, where she also serves as director of the school’s teaching and learning center.

Liliana Esposito (Col ’97) has been named chief communications officer for The Wendy’s Co., the world’s third-largest quick-service hamburger company. Previously, she was vice president of corporate communications and public affairs for Dean Foods, where she also served as president of the company’s philanthropic foundation and spearheaded communications on critical topics such as environmental sustainability, animal welfare and nutrition.