“Other” Class Notes

Lee Brittle (Col ’97) is the U.S. Coast Guard’s International Ice Patrol’s Enlisted Person of the Year for 2009. Marine Science Technician First Class Petty Officer Brittle was instrumental in the completion of IIP’s 2009 Ice Season. The Ice Patrol monitors the iceberg danger near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and provides warnings to mariners to eliminate the risk of iceberg collision in the North Atlantic Ocean. He coordinated and executed two historic aerial deployments of World Ocean Circulation Experiment drifting buoys, including the first deployment from a USCG HC-130J airframe and the first deployment in the Arctic Ocean. Petty Officer Brittle ensured a successful deployment by personnel who were unfamiliar with the deployment procedures in a high profile environment with the Commandant of the Coast Guard and the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on board the aircraft.

Meghan O’Leary (Col ’07, Educ ’08) lives in West Hartford, Conn. She works for ESPN as a programming coordinator primarily on college sports and the ESPNU network.

Serena Bolliger (Col ’07) and five other U.Va. alumnae: Allison Murphy (Col ’07, Grad ’08 L/M), Amanda Huffman (Col ’06), Emily Archambeault (Col ’07 L/M), Katie Appel (Col ’07 L/M) and Payal Maheshwari (Com ’06 L/M), founded a non-profit, Socialize Better, to raise awareness and inspire service in young professionals in Washington, D.C., by providing social opportunities. Their November kick-off event welcomed more than 200 people, mostly U.Va. alumni.

Ross Baird (Col ’07 L/M) lives in Atlanta and works for Gray Ghost Ventures, an idea lab that invests in innovative early-stage enterprises that contribute to the well-being of low-income communities in emerging markets.

Megan Clark (Col ’08) is business operations manager for a financial planning company in the Washington, D.C. area. She also volunteers with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue as an EMT, works at the VA Hospital Center as an emergency room technician and is attending graduate school at George Mason University.

Alison Tramba (Engr ’07 L/M) is completing her third year at Bain & Company in Boston after spending nine months working in business development with TechnoServe in Swaziland.

Eric Ast (Engr ’07) and Sean McVey (Com ’07) launched a new web-based marketing firm, Rising Lynx Marketing at www.risinglynx.com. They are working to apply the diversity of their marketing and engineering backgrounds to help businesses grow a well-rounded, meaningful online presence.

Erin Levin (Col ’07 L/M) is producing a documentary about the African Children’s Choir and Music for Life. She made a 30-minute version that aired on CNN. Also, she is helping with the global telethon to help Haiti and is hosting a music and arts festival for Uganda in Atlanta in March.

Elizabeth “Oz” Oswald (Col ’07 L/M) is the development manager for St. Martin’s Episcopal School, a pre-K through 8th grade institution in Atlanta. She lives with fellow U.Va. graduate, Marissa Kessler (Col ’07 L/M) in Inman Park in downtown Atlanta. Since graduating from U.Va., Ms. Oswald has become an avid salsa dancer. She travels throughout the Southeast and East Coast performing at and attending salsa events.

Mark Alan Hudson (Col ’75 L/M) is president of HTMH Consulting, based in Shelby, N.C. He completed service as the 2009 chairman of the board of the Cleveland County Chamber of Commerce. He was also named as editor of Foothills Spotlight Magazine, also based in Shelby.

Kathryn Peacock (Engr ’04) married Anthony Russo on Sept. 18, 2009. The couple resides in Collingswood, N.J., where Mr. Russo works as an HVAC technician and Ms. Russo works as a civil engineer.

Haley Burton (Col ’08) received a master’s of science degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and works as a multi-media journalist at WBNG-TV in Binghamton, N.Y.

John D. Allis Jr. (Col ’75) is principal engineer for the water planning and design section of Colorado Springs Utilities. He lives in Black Forest, Colo., with his wife, Catherine. They have been married for 36 years and have three children, Emily, Ben and Daniel.

Cynthia McKay (Col ’93 L/M) married Benjamin Abalos on Dec. 31, 2009. Ms. Abalos is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, and the couple resides in Alexandria, Va.

Tania Jovanovic Grant (Com ’98 L/M) and her husband, Mike, launched Pure Play Kids, which offers healthy alternatives to mainstream children’s products to encourage and enrich creative childhoods. The couple has two children: Rodger, 3; and Roland, 17 months.

Laura Scott (Col ’08) is finishing her master’s degree of design from Carnegie Mellon University in May.

Jared Goss (Arch ’88 L/M) is an associate curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art in New York City. Mr. Goss arranged “Masterpieces of French Art Deco”, a large gallery dense with French Art Deco furnishings from the museum’s design collection. The selection is nearly 150 objects, which is about 75 percent of the Met’s French Art Deco collection and is the most it has ever exhibited at one time. The show was featured in The New York Times Art Review section on December 11, 2009.

Frank Michael Muñoz (Col ’07) received a master’s degree of education in higher education and student affairs in May from the University of Vermont, where he is the event coordinator for the Dudley H. Davis Center, the nation’s first LEED Gold Certified student center. He resides in Burlington, Vt.

Judy Coutts (Arch ’79) completed two projects for the Pennsylvania State University Altoona campus: its new Communications Center and its Advisory Board Suite. Both projects were published in the Pennsylvania Business Central “2009 Regional Showcase of New Buildings”. Ms. Coutts lives in Altoona, Pa., with her husband and son.

Sally Tusa (Col ’94 L/M) and Jason Abbey (Col ’94, Arch ’98) were married on May 16, 2009, in Greenwich, Conn. Approximately 50 U.Va. alumni attended. The couple resides in New York City.

Amita Rao (Col ’99 L/M) and her husband, Sujay, welcomed their first son, Roshan Sujay, on May 26, 2009. The family resides in Herndon, Va.

Richard “Rick” O. White Jr. (Com ’78) is a certified public accountant and works as a tax principal at Keiter Stephens, a Richmond, Va.-based CPA firm. Mr. White’s practice includes tax services to individuals and rapidly growing privately-held businesses in the real estate development and construction, early-stage biotechnology, medical equipment, pharmaceutical and winery industries. Prior to merging his practice with Keiter Stephens, Mr. White was co-founder of Hoffman, White & Company, P.C.

Anna Cuccio (Col ’00 L/M) spent nine years at Morgan Stanley in both New York and London, and is now pursuing further graduate studies. She is at Oxford University studying for a master’s degree in economic and social history with a focus on the history and financing of the welfare state. While at Morgan Stanley, Ms. Cuccio worked in equity research and sales, most recently as a vice president of client strategy.

Nicolas Scribner (Engr ’03 L/M) started his own engineering business, Continuum Engineering, in Chesapeake, Va.

David Stolle (Col ’95) and Ashley Zlatoper Stolle (Col ’95, Med ’00 L/M) welcomed their third child and first boy, Alexander “Lex”, on April 16. 2009. He joins sisters, Livi and Kate. They reside in Norcross, Ga., where Mr. Stolle heads Universal Tennis Academy and Ms. Stolle is a pediatrician with Gwinnett Pediatrics.

Meredith Logsdon Yoder (Engr ’01 L/M) and Ben Yoder (Engr ’01) announce the birth of their twins, Caroline Elizabeth and Max Henry, on Oct. 15, 2009. The family resides outside of Boston.

Daniel M. Chichester (Col ’65, Law ’68 L/M) is a Stafford Commonwealth attorney in Stafford, Va., and serves as vice president of the National District Attorney’s Association. The association represents 7,000 criminal prosecutors, including district attorneys, state’s attorneys, attorneys general and county and city prosecutors who are responsible for prosecuting criminal violations in the U.S. It seeks to improve and facilitate the administration of justice through involvement with various legislation and the promotion of public service and education. As vice president, Mr. Chichester is involved in the legislative and educational functions of the association. He is serving a three-year term. He has been a Stafford’s Commonwealth’s attorney since 1971. His office has grown from one attorney to an organization of 13 attorneys. He previously served on the NDAA’s board of directors as Virginia’s state director. He also serves as president of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorneys.

Keith S. Robbins (Arch ’95 L/M) relocated to Shanghai. He is a director of Ager Environmental Design, a Sino-American design firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Boston.

William R. Cogswell (Com ’95 L/M) left United Bank to join State Farm Insurance as an auto underwriter in their Mid-Atlantic Operations Center in Charlottesville.

Katie Berschback Cooper (Nurs ’00) and Carlos Cooper (Col ’99) welcomed their second child and son, Beckett Andrew, born on April 30, 2009. He joins sister, Juliet Elizabeth, 2. Ms. Cooper is a nurse anesthetist in Nashville, Tenn., and Mr. Cooper owns Oxford Property Management.

Alec Solotorovsky (Col ’04, Law ’08 L/M) and Christa Kolb Solotorovsky (Arch ’04, ’08 L/M) welcomed their first child, Anna, on Jan. 11, 2010. The family lives in Evanston, Ill.

Jesimiel R. Jenkins (Col ’07 L/M) is pursuing his dreams of being an accomplished stage and film actor. Running after projects that satisfy the soul, he’s been involved in two acting apprentice companies, the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky and the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. He is in Philadelphia applying to graduate acting programs in hopes of sharpening his skills before moving to New York.

Jennifer Morgan Gray (Col ’97 L/M) and her husband, Doug, traveled to Seoul, South Korea, in August to meet and welcome their son, Keon Morgan Gray, born on Nov. 6, 2008. Keon arrived at his new home in Rockville, Md., on Sept. 3, 2009. Ms. Gray is the director of editorial services at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Jeremy S. Pollock (Col ’07) lives in Baltimore and is a third-year medical student at the University of Maryland. He is pursuing a career in cardiology and hopes to move to San Diego next year to start his training.

Anne Bennett Pullen (Com ’91, Grad ’92 L/M) married Stephen Ray Alexander on Sept. 13, 2009, in Dallas. Her brother is John David Pullen (Com ’95 L/M), who officiated the ceremony. Ms. Pullen also became stepmother to Christopher Cole Ray Alexander.

C. Stephen Setliff (Col ’83 L/M) was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 list in the field of transportation law. Including the 2008 and 2009 listings, this makes three consecutive years that Mr. Setliff has appeared in the list. Mr. Setliff was also named in the 2009 Virginia Super Lawyers publication in the field of transportation law. He, along with another attorney, opened the law firm of Setliff & Holland in Glen Allen, Va., in June of 2006, and two years later, opened a second office in Baltimore. This January, the firm added a third location in Huntington, W.Va., creating the expanded law firm of Setliff Turner and Holland.

Leah Friedman (Col ’99 L/M) and her husband, Stephen Feldman, were blessed with the birth of their son, Jordan Nadav, on Sept. 25, 2009. Jordan joins his sister Tova, 2, who refused to say her brother’s name for the first three months. The family lives in Raleigh, N.C., where Leah is a reporter for The News & Observer.

Dean Hasseman (Law ’71 L/M) is general counsel of CITGO Petroleum Corp. He received the 2009 Houston Business Journal/Association of Corporate Counsel Outstanding Counsel with an Attorney Staff of 11-30 Award. He also received the 2009 HBJ/ACC Champion of Diversity Award. This February, he will receive the 2010 Minority Corporate Counsel Association Employer of Choice – South/Southwest Region – award from the CITGO Legal Department.

Glenn Williamson (Col ’85 L/M) and Dr. Kurtis Charles Birusingh were married Sept. 19, 2009, at Mr. Birusingh’s parent’s farm in Crescent, Iowa. Mr. Williamson is an independent film producer in Los Angeles. His films include “Sunshine Cleaning” and “Push,” which were released earlier this year, and “Hollywoodland,” which was released in 2006. He was an executive producer of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” released in 2004. Mr. Williamson and is co-chairing his 25th U.Va. reunion and he showed his latest film, “Wonderful World,” at the 2009 Virginia Film Festival. He is also a board member for the Film Festival.