“Other” Class Notes

Sarah Wallman (Col ’00 CM) was recently named one of the winners of Prada’s 2013 international literary contest. Her winning short story, “One Car Hooks into the Next and Pulls,” was featured in Prada Journal. Ms. Wallman is an assistant professor of English and associate director of the master of fine arts in writing program at Albertus Magnus College.

Scott Matthews (Grad ’00, Law ’00) recently joined the law firm of Tarabicos Grosso in New Castle, Del., where he practices in the areas of corporate, commercial, alternative entity and commercial real estate law. He previously practiced with the Wilmington, Del., firms of Richards Layton & Finger and The Delaware Counsel Group.

Jane Maschka (Col ’99 CM) has been promoted to partnership at Faegre Baker Daniels. She is a trial lawyer in the firm’s finance litigation team, specializing in pursuing and defending claims of fraud, fraudulent transfer and breach of fiduciary duty. Her pro bono work focuses on asylum and refugee assistance and criminal appeals. Prior to joining Faegre Baker Daniels in 2010, she was a litigator with WilmerHale in Washington, D.C.

Leah Friedman (Col ’99 CM) has founded Raleigh Green Gables, a professional organizing business, where she helps clients throughout the Triangle region in North Carolina clear space in their homes and corporate offices. Ms. Friedman lives in Raleigh, N.C., with her husband, Stephen; and their two children: Tova, 6, and Jordan, 4.

Meredith Correia (Col ’99 CM) earned certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and was recognized in a pin ceremony held by the Southeastern Virginia National Board Certified Teachers Regional Network on Feb. 28, 2014. Ms. Correia currently works for Norfolk Public Schools, teaching reading to gifted and talented students in the second through fifth grades.

Carrie Balsam (Col ’99) and her husband, Ethan, welcomed a daughter, Maris Bryn, on Nov. 10, 2013. Maris joins big sister Lila, age 4; the girls are the granddaughters of Carl S. Markowitz (Com ’67 L/M). The Balsams reside in Gaithersburg, Md.

Donald McColl (Grad ’96) and his wife, Ann, welcomed a daughter, Charlotte Marie Alexandra, on Nov. 26, 2013. The family resides in Chestertown, Md., where Mr. McColl is Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History at Washington College.

William Feagans (Col ’96 CM) and his wife, Katie, welcomed their third child, Betsy Louise, on Oct. 23, 2013. Betsy is the niece of Thomas M. Gresham (Col ’98 L/M) and joins sister Quinn Rose, 5; and brother Wilder, 4. The family resides in Gordonsville, Va.

Anastasia Allain (Col ’95 CM) and Ryan Ansley Posner were married June 8, 2013, in Harrisonburg, Va. The couple resides in Atlanta, where Ms. Posner is a sales support manager with Travelport and Mr. Posner is an enterprise resource planning technology consultant with McGladrey.

Tracey Schaefer (Col ’94 CM) and her husband, John, welcomed their second child, Wyatt John, on Oct. 30, 2013. Wyatt joins big brother Luke, 2. Wyatt and Luke are the nephews of Darrell Zemitis (Col ’90 L/M) and W. Scott Zemitis (Engr ’94).

Bryan Goodwin (Grad ’94) has co-authored a book, The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day, with Elizabeth Ross Hubbell. Mr. Goodwin is chief operating officer at McREL, a Denver-based nonprofit education research and development organization. A former teacher and journalist, he writes a monthly research column for Educational Leadership magazine.

Roger Ritchie (Col ’91 CM) has established Orphan Adoption and Reconciliation/Restoration Services, a charity to help orphaned and vulnerable children. Through family tracing, the charity seeks to reunite Zimbabwe’s orphans with their parents or family members who might have been unaware a child was in an orphanage. The group also trains couples to serve as foster parents or to adopt. Mr. Ritchie, a Social Security disability lawyer, practices law in Virginia and West Virginia. He and his wife, Keary, have five children.

Robert Honig (Col ’89) has been promoted to principal in the New York City office of the structural engineering consulting firm of Thornton Tomasetti. He joined the firm as general counsel in 2012. Mr. Honig has more than 20 years of legal experience, including 15 years in architecture, engineering and construction law, and manages a range of legal issues such as contract negotiation, litigation support, risk management, transactional-related activities and ethics.

P. David Tarter (Col ’87, Law ’91) has been elected mayor of the city of Falls Church, Va. He began his two-year term in January 2014.

Justine Griffin (Col ’87 CM) has been named managing director and shareholder of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications in Boston, where she will head the firm’s issues management practice. Prior to joining RBSC, Ms. Griffin was the Massachusetts communications director for the Kerry-Edwards 2004 presidential campaign.

Lee Goodman (Col ’86, Law ’90 CM) was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, the independent agency responsible for the administration of federal campaign finance laws. He was sworn into office on Oct. 22, 2013, by Judge Thomas Griffith (Law ’85) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was elected chairman of the agency in December 2013. Mr. Goodman previously served in a number of governmental and political posts, including legal counsel and policy adviser to former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore (Col ’71, Law ’77) and general counsel to the Republican Party of Virginia. He resides in Keswick, Va., with his wife, Paige Pippin (Col ’88 L/M); and their two children.

Ann Gaffey (Nurs ’85 CM) has been named to the board of the National Perinatal Information Center/Quality Analytic Services for the 2014 term. Ms. Gaffey has more than 25 years of experience in the health care field. She currently serves as senior vice president of health care risk management and patient safety for the professional liability division at Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc., where she is responsible for overseeing and providing consulting services to improve and enhance both risk management and patient safety programs. She is also an adjunct faculty member at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Renee Catacalos (Col ’85 CM) has been named executive director of the Potomac Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects and executive vice president of the Potomac Valley Architecture Foundation. Ms. Catacalos previously served as deputy director of Future Harvest – A Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture.

C. Setliff (Col ’83 CM) has been selected for inclusion in the 2014 edition of Best Lawyers in America in the categories of transportation law, railroad law, mass tort litigation/class action-defendants, and personal injury litigation-defendants. He is a founding partner of the firm Setliff & Holland.

Eric Paltell (Col ’83, Law ’87 CM) received recognition from his peers as the 2014 “Management Labor Lawyer of the Year” for the Baltimore area. Mr. Paltell is a partner in the labor and employment law group at Kollman & Saucier. He and his wife, Kristina Auth Paltell (Col ’83 L/M), have two daughters: Skyler, a junior at the College of William and Mary; and K.C. Paltell (Col ’17 L/M).