“Other” Class Notes
Jeffrey Ayres (Col ’87 CM)
Jeffrey Ayres (Col ’87 CM) has been appointed dean of the college at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. Mr. Ayres has been a faculty member of the department of political science since 1998 and has served as department chair since 2006. His latest book, Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food, was recently published by the University of Toronto Press.
Heather Reid (Col ’86)
Heather Reid (Col ’86) received the 2014-15 National Endowment for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She is currently a professor in and chair of the department of philosophy at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa.
Lori Day (Col ’85 CM)
Lori Day (Col ’85 CM) has published a book, Her Next Chapter: How Mother-Daughter Book Clubs Can Help Girls Navigate Malicious Media, Risky Relationships, Girl Gossip, and So Much More, with Chicago Review Press. It was named to Publishers Weekly’s list of best parenting books for 2014 and has received endorsements from the general manager of PBS Kids, the executive producer of TED Media and other media entrepreneurs.
Stephen Jackson (Col ’84 CM)
Stephen Jackson (Col ’84 CM) joined the law firm of Pretlow & Pretlow as a partner. He also serves as general counsel to the Federal Bar Association and as president of the Historical Society for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. In 2010, he was recognized as a member of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business Magazine and as a Virginia Super Lawyer in 2013 and 2014. Mr. Jackson practices in the areas of product liability litigation and general litigation.
Ellen McBride (Col ’83 CM)
Ellen McBride (Col ’83 CM) has been elected chief of the Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad. She is the first female squad commander in 31 years and only the second in the squad’s 62-year history. Ms. McBride was also named Public Safety Volunteer of the Year by the Cape Henry Rotary Club. She lives with her husband in Virginia Beach, where she is a creative director, writer and producer for an ad agency in nearby Hampton, Va.
Bob Kolvoord (Col ’83, Engr ’85 CM)
Bob Kolvoord (Col ’83, Engr ’85 CM) was named founding dean of the College of Integrated Science and Engineering at James Madison University.
David Hertz (Col ’83 CM)
David Hertz (Col ’83 CM) was promoted to managing director of Dix & Eaton, an integrated communications and public relations consultancy, where he also serves on the firm’s leadership committee. Mr. Hertz is a former journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning editor at the Akron Beacon Journal.
Christopher Cole (Col ’83 CM)
Christopher Cole (Col ’83 CM) was named director of threat intervention services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The appointment follows his retirement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he served as a special agent for 26 years. He is married to Kerry Miller Cole (Col ’85 L/M) and is the son of Frederick P. Cole (Engr ’50 L/M).
Marc Rodwin (Law ’82)
Marc Rodwin (Law ’82) is a professor of health law and policy at Suffolk University Law School and a summer 2014 resident research scholar at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva. For the last three years, he has also been a research lab fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Mr. Rodwin’s most recent book, Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France, and Japan, published by Oxford University Press in 2011, was recently published in French as Les conflits d’intérêts en médecine: Quel avenir pour la santé? France, États-Unis, Japon and released this year. His current research focuses on institutional corruption in pharmaceutical policy.
Edward MacMahon (Col ’82)
Edward MacMahon (Col ’82) has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has a solo practice in Middleburg, Va.; and Washington, D.C., specializing in complex criminal and civil cases in state and federal court, including national security cases.
Mary Barrazotto (Col ’82 CM)
Mary Barrazotto (Col ’82 CM) was promoted to senior vice president and general counsel of the North America and Latin America regions for Brown-Forman Corp. In this role, she assumes responsibility for commercial matters in Latin America while continuing to advise the North American region on production and human resources, and managing the company’s litigation. During her 23 years at Brown-Forman, Ms. Barrazotto has made significant contributions to the organization, among them the recruiting and integration of lawyers in Mexico, Asia and Europe; corporate production and marketing; and the development of a revised code of conduct that is available in 13 languages and coupled with custom online training modules.
Donald Thomason (Col ’80 CM)
Donald Thomason (Col ’80 CM), dean of the College of Graduate Health Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, has been elected president of the Tennessee Conference of Graduate Schools for 2014-15.
Paul Donnelly (Col ’78 CM)
Paul Donnelly (Col ’78 CM) and Frank Yuan Wong were married on March 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C. The couple resides in Decatur, Ga.
Margaret Nichols (Educ ’77, Educ ’78)
Margaret Nichols (Educ ’77, Educ ’78) has received the Special Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee STAR Award in recognition of her work with special education students in Anne Arundel County, Md. Ms. Nichols resides in Annapolis, Md., where she is a speech-language pathologist in the Anne Arundel County school system.
Diana Solymossy (Col ’75 CM)
Diana Solymossy (Col ’75 CM) received a Master of Arts degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security in December 2013. She earned the outstanding thesis award for her thesis, High-Tech, Low-Tech, No-Tech: Communications Strategies During Blackouts. Ms. Solymossy is assistant county manager and director of communications for Arlington County, Va.
Andrea Kuhn (Col ’75 CM)
Andrea Kuhn (Col ’75 CM) was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Currently a senior planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ms. Kuhn was honored for her contributions to the planning profession, which include serving as chair of the federal planning division of the American Planning Association and integrating sustainability into the fabric of federal planning. She has educated a diverse audience in planning, from entry-level civilians to high-ranking military officers, most recently through the Department of Defense Master Planning Institute.
Barnett Jackson (Engr ’75 CM)
Barnett Jackson (Engr ’75 CM) has retired after 37 years with the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. At the FCC, he was responsible for developing regulations and technical policy governing radio station and operator licensing in the private land mobile, amateur, commercial operator, broadcast and wireless radio services. He most recently served as the senior engineering advisor in the mobility division of the wireless telecommunications bureau. In 1992, Mr. Jackson derived a mathematical formula to set the administrative coverage areas of all cellular telephone systems in the U.S., resolving boundary disputes between adjacent systems. In retirement, he plans to spend more time with his family and pursue his hobbies.
Dean Hasseman (Darden ’78, Law ’71 CM)
Dean Hasseman (Darden ’78, Law ’71 CM) has retired after a 42-year career as an attorney serving all aspects of the downstream business of the oil industry. Most recently, he was general counsel and chief compliance officer of Citgo Petroleum Corp., where he worked for 23 years. Before joining Citgo, he worked for Sun Oil Company (Sunoco) and Williams Pipeline Company.
Robert Centor (Col ’71 CM)
Robert Centor (Col ’71 CM) has been named the 2014-2015 chair of the board of regents of the American College of Physicians. He has been a member of ACP since 1978, a fellow of ACP since 1985 and a member of the board of regents since 2008. Dr. Centor is currently a professor of medicine and regional dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Huntsville Regional Medical Campus. Previously, he held numerous positions at the Medical College of Virginia. He is a reviewer for several medical journals and his areas of interest include the diagnosis and treatment of adult pharyngitis, and the clinical diagnostic process.
Steven Platt (Col ’69 CM)
Steven Platt (Col ’69 CM) retired as a full-time judge of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Md., in January 2007. He is now a founding member, CEO, a mediator, arbitrator, neutral case evaluator and consultant with The Platt Group. Judge Platt also writes a regular blog column, “A Pursuit of Justice,” for the Maryland Daily Record, a business and legal newspaper published in Baltimore.
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