“Other” Class Notes
Kelly Harris (Col ’02 CM)
Kelly Harris (Col ’02 CM) received a master of business administration degree with a focus in marketing and international business from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in December 2012. She is currently a senior business development specialist in the Washington, D.C., office of Venable. Ms. Harris resides in Arlington, Va., with her husband, Adam L. Hudes, a partner at Mayer Brown.
Mitch Frank (Col ’96 CM)
Mitch Frank (Col ’96 CM) and Catherine Shnaider Frank (Col ’99 L/M) welcomed their second child, William Marshall, on April 18, 2013. William, who joins big brother Spencer, is the grandson of Irving Shnaider (Col ’68 L/M) and the nephew of Adam Shnaider (Com ’95 L/M). The family resides in New Orleans, where Mr. Frank is an associate editor at Wine Spectator magazine and Ms. Frank is the owner of Catherine Frank Editorial Services.
David Kurtz (Col ’95 CM)
David Kurtz (Col ’95 CM) has been selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of Massachusetts Super Lawyers as a rising star in employment and labor and business litigation law. He is an attorney in the Boston office of Constangy Brooks & Smith.
Jason George (Col ’94 CM)
Jason George (Col ’94 CM) played the role of Juror Eight in a fall 2013 production of Twelve Angry Men, directed by Sheldon Epps, at The Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, Calif.
Nicole Price (Col ’93 CM)
Nicole Price (Col ’93 CM) has been appointed chief diversity and inclusion officer for Suffolk University in Boston. An attorney with a demonstrated record of leadership in diversity, cultural understanding and multicultural affairs, Ms. Price was previously director of diversity, inclusion and affinity relations for Suffolk University Law School and served as interim dean of law admissions. Prior to joining Suffolk University Law School, she served as associate director for academic and multicultural affairs at Boston University School of Law.
Pamela Smith (Com ’92 CM)
Pamela Smith (Com ’92 CM) received the College of Business Dean’s Distinguished Fellow Award from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is a professor in the department of accounting at the College of Business and is very active as a faculty mentor for The PhD Project, a national organization that recruits minority professionals from business into doctoral programs in all business disciplines.
James Wall (Law ’89 CM)
James Wall (Law ’89 CM) has been selected for inclusion in the 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. He is a founding member of Wall Esleeck Babcock, where he is an attorney in the firm’s corporate law and health care groups.
Michael Steger (Col ’89, Grad ’93, Law ’93 CM)
Michael Steger (Col ’89, Grad ’93, Law ’93 CM) recently formed Steger Krane, a business law firm in New York City. He handles property, entertainment, corporate and litigation matters.
Helen Hwang (Col ’89, Grad ’81 CM)
Helen Hwang (Col ’89, Grad ’81 CM) received the U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for outstanding supervisor or manager of the year in 2012 for her foreign service work overseas with the International Trade Administration. Her receipt of the Timothy J. Hauser Award, which singles out the best of the Bronze Medal winners for extraordinary performance that brings singular distinction to the career service, also recognized her efforts abroad.
Gregory Williams (Col ’87 CM)
Gregory Williams (Col ’87 CM) was recently installed as president of the Kiwanis Club of Greensboro in Greensboro, N.C. Mr. Williams, a director and shareholder with Carruthers & Roth, focuses his law practice on estate planning and business law, counsels clients on preserving assets for family members and charitable organizations, and all aspects of forming, operating and transitioning family and closely held businesses.
Ralph Rogers (Engr ’87)
Ralph Rogers (Engr ’87) has been appointed provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Prior to joining the administration at NSU, he served as vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Purdue University, Calumet. Previously, he held administrative positions as founding dean and professor in the College of Technology and Computer Science at East Carolina University and chair and professor in the department of engineering management and systems engineering at Old Dominion University.
Tom Kelly (Com ’86)
Tom Kelly (Com ’86) has joined the class of 2014 of Leadership South Carolina, a statewide leadership program that provides gifted and highly motivated South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership qualities while broadening their understanding of issues facing the state. Col. Kelly is a senior Army adviser to the South Carolina Army National Guard in Columbia, S.C.
Chris FitzGerald (Engr ’86 CM)
Chris FitzGerald (Engr ’86 CM) has been appointed chief executive officer for Control Devices, a manufacturer of engineered valves and other flow control products for industry segments and applications, in St. Louis. Mr. FitzGerald and his wife, Joanne Donohue FitzGerald (Nurs ’88 L/M), plan to relocate their family to St. Louis.
Peter Belden (Com ’86 CM)
Peter Belden (Com ’86 CM) has been named general manager of Packaging Coordinators Inc.’s Rockford, Ill., facilities. The site supports pharmaceutical and biotech packaging services for clinical and commercial medicines, as well as medical device and consumer health care products. Mr. Belden has worked in the packaging industry for more than 25 years, and has previously headed PCI operations in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, and served as senior vice president of sales and marketing for PCI in Rockford.
Renee Gutiérrez (Col ’84, Grad ’97, Grad ’08 CM)
Renee Gutiérrez (Col ’84, Grad ’97, Grad ’08 CM) has joined the Longwood University faculty as an assistant professor of Spanish. Previously, she taught at Hiram College in Ohio. Ms. Gutiérrez plans to continue focusing on dual areas of research: she has recently published articles on 18th-century Spanish epic poetry and on the qualitative studies of student learning processes during immersed study abroad.
J. Walker (Col ’83 CM)
J. Walker (Col ’83 CM) has been elected firm chair of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in Atlanta. He has served as the firm’s managing partner since June 2012 and focuses his legal practice on large complex litigation matters, including class actions, technology and telecommunications cases.
Amy Feldman (Nurs ’83, Nurs ’84)
Amy Feldman (Nurs ’83, Nurs ’84) authored the chapter “Guidelines for Breastfeeding” in the 2013 edition of the textbook Pediatric Primary Care Practice Guidelines for Nurses.
Julia Walton (Col ’08)
Julia Walton (Col ’08) and Jordan Brock Kaericher (Law ’09) were married July 6, 2013, in Lyme, N.H. The couple resides in Santa Monica, Calif., where Mr. Kaericher is a lawyer at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Ms. Kaericher works in advertising for Rubin Postaer and Associates.
John Thompson (Col ’81)
John Thompson (Col ’81) published his second novel, Love and Lament, in August 2013.
William Horbaly (Col ’81 CM)
William Horbaly (Col ’81 CM) has been elected to serve as the president of the Virginia Association of Orthodontists. Dr. Horbaly has practiced orthodontics in Charlottesville since 1996. He also serves as a part-time assistant professor in the department of dentistry at the U.Va. School of Medicine.
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