“Other” Class Notes

Erin Oakley Knape (Col ’03 L/M) and Robert M. Knape (Col ’03, Med ’07 L/M) welcomed their first child, Mark Oakley, on Oct. 17, 2010. Ms. Knape earned her doctorate in counselor education from the University of Florida in December 2010, and Dr. Knape accepted a one year glaucoma fellowship at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami beginning in July 2011.The family currently resides in Gainesville, Fla.

Kevin King (Col ’98 L/M) and Sarah Foster King (Col ’98 L/M) welcomed their third child, Jonathan Foster, on Dec. 8, 2010. He joins brother, Taylor, 4; and sister, Kathryn, 2. The family resides in Springfield, Va.

Scott Boltwood (Grad ’96) was awarded an All Disciplines Fulbright Scholar Award to pursue research at the Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland from August 2011 through July 2012. Mr. Boltwood has been an associate professor of English at Emory & Henry since 1997. He began laying the groundwork for his Fulbright project as a Visiting Professor at Queen’s during the spring of 2008. Belfast’s Lagan Press has named him a series editor in drama, allowing him to publish many of the group’s plays in the future.

Michelle Vaniels Pendleton (Com ’95 L/M) and her husband, Mike, welcomed a son, Charles Michael, on March 29, 2011. Michael is the grandson of Wally Vaniels (Educ ’69).

Jane E. Tower (Col ’93) is executive vice president of Waypoint Advisors, a Norfolk-based wealth management firm providing customized, interdisciplinary wealth advisory services to high-net-worth families, foundations and organizations. Jane joined Waypoint Advisors in 2001 and most recently served as the firm’s vice president of client services. Ms. Tower serves on the leadership board of Monarch Bank, the board of Reading Enriches All Children and was named by Inside Business as one of Hampton Roads’ Top 40 Under 40 in 2006.

Debbie Eade Howe (Com ’91 L/M) and her husband, Ben, welcomed a daughter, Amelia Claire, on March 4, 2011. She joins a sister, Alexandria, 4.

R.P. “Bob” Grimesey (Educ ’91) is superintendent of Orange County public schools and was named the 2010 Child Advocate of the Year by the Virginia PTA.

Eduardo Ramos-Gomez (Law ’85) spoke at “Pacific Rim Markets and Opportunities,” a symposium hosted by the Holy Family University School of Business Administration in Philadelphia. He is a partner at Duane Morris and is based in Singapore.

Michelle Vaniels Pendleton (Com ’95 L/M) and her husband, Mike, welcomed a son, Charles Michael, on March 29, 2011. Michael is the grandson of Wally Vaniels (Educ ’69).

Christopher C. Fennel (Grad ’00, ’03) received the 2010 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities at the 50th annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools. Mr. Fennell became the award’s 39th recipient based on the outstanding scholarly contributions of his book Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World.

Miguel Mora (Engr ’99) and Emily Jewell Mora (Educ ’02) welcomed a daughter, Rachel Brynn, Jan. 15, 2011. She joins a brother, Brandon.

John Casteen IV (Col ’93) had his second collection of poetry, For the Mountain Laurel, published by the University of Georgia Press. Mr. Casteen teaches at Sweet Briar College and serves on the editorial staff of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has contributed poems to the Paris Review, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, and other journals. His first book, Free Union, was published in the VQR Poetry Series in 2009.

Todd Baker (Engr ’93) was named one of the Washington Metropolitan region’s “Top 25 Minority Business Leaders for 2011” by the Washington Business Journal. He is a partner at Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt. Mr. Baker is the first African-American partner at Oblon, Spivak and is the co-chair of the firm’s patent interferences practice group and a team leader in the patent reexamination/reissue group.

Jay Miles (Col ’92) had a book, Conquering YouTube, published by Michael Wiese Productions.

Rosemarie L. Bryan (Law ’84) is a shareholder in the law firm of Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel. Ms. Bryan is a member of the firm’s labor and employment law and litigation practice groups. She serves on the Tennessee Bar Association Litigation Section’s executive council and is president of the Governance Board for the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy.

Terence M. Donnelly (Law ’72) was named a lawyer of the year by Best Lawyers, which identified Mr. Donnelly as the leading practitioner in public finance law in Detroit.

Ed Offley (Col ’69) had a book, Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Conquered the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, published by Basic Books.

Jim Kluttz (Col ’66, GSBA ’74 L/M) and Dottie Lewis Kluttz (Nurs ’66 L/M) received the One Small Voice award from the Savannah Children’s Choir. In 2009, the Kluttzes developed a program for the Savannah Children’s Choir called “Letty’s Purse.” Named in honor of Mr. Kluttz’s mother, this non-needs-based grant fund is open to all members of the Savannah Children’s Choir for SCC-related expenses, such as tuition, costuming or travel. Mr. Kluttz is president of the Tybee Island Historical Society and Ms. Kluttz is a pediatric nurse and retired pediatric nursing professor.

Ed Offley (Col ’69) had a book, Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Conquered the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, published by Basic Books.

Jim Kluttz (Col ’66, GSBA ’74 L/M) and Dottie Lewis Kluttz (Nurs ’66 L/M) received the One Small Voice award from the Savannah Children’s Choir. In 2009, the Kluttzes developed a program for the Savannah Children’s Choir called “Letty’s Purse.” Named in honor of Mr. Kluttz’s mother, this non-needs-based grant fund is open to all members of the Savannah Children’s Choir for SCC-related expenses, such as tuition, costuming or travel. Mr. Kluttz is president of the Tybee Island Historical Society and Ms. Kluttz is a pediatric nurse and retired pediatric nursing professor.

Monica Lea Scott (Nurs ’10) and Jason Michael Tucker-Schwartz (Engr ’08, ’10 L/M) were married March 5, 2011 at Veritas Vineyard in Afton, Va. They live in Nashville, Tenn., where Ms. Scott is pursuing a master’s degree in exercise science at Middle Tennessee State University and Mr. Tucker-Schwartz is pursuing a doctorate in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University.

William Barratt (Col ’07) is a corporate relations manager at SMIC, a major semiconductor foundry based in Shanghai.

Sarah Hartley (Law ’05) joined the law and government relations firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as an associate in its litigation group. Her practice will focus on general commercial litigation.

Lindsey Magerkurth Cote (Col ’03) and her husband, Tyler Cote, welcomed their first child, Dylan Everett, on Jan. 11, 2011. They live in Raleigh, N.C.

Carrie Melvin Domnitch (Col ’01) and Aaron Domnitch (Engr ’03) welcomed a daughter, Cameron Dale, born on Nov. 5, 2010. The family resides in Arlington, Va. Cameron is the granddaughter of Walter Melvin (Com ’68) and the niece of Elizabeth Melvin Heise (Col ’94).

Justin Bagby (Engr ’01 L/M) and his wife, Molly, welcomed their first daughter, Keely Kathleen, on Jan. 18, 2011. The family resides in Durham, N.C.

Anne Jensen Chitkara (Col ’01 L/M) and her husband, Vikram, welcomed their first son, Taran Carl, on Nov. 18, 2010.

Jennifer Hoberg Scott (Col ’98 L/M) and her husband, Robert Scott, welcomed their son, Collin Davis on April 12, 2010. Collin joins his older sister, Courtney, 3. The family resides in Oak Harbor, Wash.

Karl J. Ottmar (Engr ’98, ’10) married Erin R. McCracken on May 15, 2010.

Rosalie Fenwick Tilghman (Arch ’96 L/M) and her husband, Myres, welcomed twin boys, Desmond Bruce and Patrick Clarke, on Feb. 20, 2011. They join a brother, Granville Myres, 2. They live in Maryland, outside Baltimore.

Elizabeth Rogers (Col ’91) had an essay published in Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education, edited by Sam Chaltain. She leads a learning stories effort with Maine Public Broadcasting Network and The Telling Room. She is also vice president of a non-profit organization, Oral Health America, headquartered in Chicago.

K. Layne Mottola (Col ’90) and Robert S. Taylor (Col ’91 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Lia Wolhee, on March 3, 2009. She joins sisters, Maeve, 11; and Olwen, 6. The family lives outside of Chapel Hill, N.C.

Jodi Kelner Chu (Com ’88 L/M) is vice president, broker dealer development, for AMG, a wholly owned company of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.

David J. Mott (Col ’84 L/M) is the Catholic chaplain to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The Rev. Mott had served three years as the Catholic chaplain to American University in Washington, D.C.

Jane Simoni Cooke (Com ’84 L/M) is the U.S. representative for Wirtz International, a Belgian landscape architecture firm.

Lois Lea (Col ’83) is on the faculty of Epiphany Episcopal School, where she teaches math, science and French. She resides in Danville, Va. In January 2011, she was ordained as a deacon at First Presbyterian Church and serves on its missions committee, where she corresponds with missionaries in France.

G. Daniel Lassiter (Grad ’81, ’84 L/M) is the recipient of the 2010 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy. His 2010 co-edited volume, Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Current Research, Practice, and Policy Recommendations, received the 2010 Outstanding Book in Law and Psychology Award from the American Psychology-Law Society and was the recipient of the 2010 Prose Award in Psychology from the Association of American Publishers. In 2009, the Royal Police Cadet Academy in Thailand awarded him a certificate of appreciation.

Michael Woodford (Engr ’76) has been promoted to vice president, standards, of the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute in Arlington, Va. Mr. Woodford is a fellow of the Standards Engineering Society, serving as its certification committee chairman. He is a recipient of the American National Standards Institute’s Meritorious Service Award and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineering Exceptional Service Award.

Thomas Barden (Col ’68, Grad ’71, ’75 L/M), a professor of English at the University of Toledo, has been appointed dean of that university’s Honors College. He previous served as director of graduate studies in English and associate dean for the humanities in the University of Toledo College of Arts and Sciences.

Rosalie Fenwick Tilghman (Arch ’96 L/M) and her husband, Myres, welcomed twin boys, Desmond Bruce and Patrick Clarke, on Feb. 20, 2011. They join a brother, Granville Myres, 2. They live in Maryland, outside Baltimore.

Jason Saul (Law ’96) had his third book, The End of Fundraising, released by Jossey-Bass Press on March 7, 2011. The book hit No. 1 on Amazon’s nonprofit books list the first week of its release. Based on 15 years of experience advising the world’s leading nonprofits, foundations and corporations, the book reveals the formula for how nonprofits transcend the paradigm of charitable fundraising and reach true financial sustainability.

Dan Vick (Col ’84) is vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer of Oneida Healthcare in Oneida, N.Y. He serves as medical director for the organization’s 101-bed hospital and 160-bed extended-care facility. Dr. Vick was most recently a partner with St. Joseph’s Pathology Group in Syracuse, N.Y., where he also served as medical director for clinical chemistry and point-of-care testing at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center and medical advisor for microbiology for Laboratory Alliance of Central New York.

Gail Starling Marshall (Law ’68) is the 2011 recipient of the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Pro Bono Award from the Virginia State Bar. From her platforms as a teacher at the University of Virginia School of Law; as a big-firm lawyer in Washington, D.C.; as a Virginia deputy attorney general under Mary Sue Terry; as town attorney for the town of Orange; and as a solo practitioner in the Orange County town of Rapidan, she has represented paying clients at the highest levels of the private and public sectors.