“Other” Class Notes

Nelson Neal (Educ ’85) gave presentations on Hemsley Winfield, the first African American modern dancer, to the students and faculty in the dance departments at Hofstra University, SUNY Purchase, and Marymount Manhattan College in November 2019. Neal is the author of Hemsley Winfield: The Forgotten Pioneer of Modern Dance, An Annotated Bibliography and the authority on the career of Hemsley Winfield. Neal lives in San Diego, California, and is an assistant coach for track and field at La Jolla Country Day School. 

Austin Diduch (Col ’16 L/M) and Alex Ern (Col ’17) DJ and produce music as a duo called CHOVA (combining the Charlottesville airport moniker and Virginia). They say that the name, which combines the Charlottesville airport moniker and their home state, is about giving back to the people who helped us all along the way and it is also a tribute to all the ’Hoos. They will be on tour this year and would love to hear from fellow alumni.

Gary S. Henley (Arch ’81 L/M) was appointed to the Architectural Review Board for Hanover County, Virginia. He has served on the Hanover Historic Commission as representative for the Montpelier Center for Arts & Education since 2012.

Lawrence Hyman (Col ’89 L/M) is an exhibition officer for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He previously served as manager of exhibition and curatorial planning at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 

William Clark (Col ’80 L/M) was appointed to the board of the education nonprofit Breakthrough New York, which works to provide comprehensive support to talented kids from low-income backgrounds from middle school through college and into careers. Clark is vice chairman of Global Corporate Banking at J.P. Morgan. 

Robert Muckenfuss (Col ’93 L/M) has been appointed chair of the Complex Commercial Litigation Department at the law firm of McGuireWoods. Robert lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has a national practice focused on financial services litigation. Muckenfuss is married to Heather Browne Muckenfuss (Col ’93 L/M) and they have three children, Parker, 20, Malin, 17, and Jack, 15. 

John McCarthy (Col ’85) is spending a year in Tokyo as a visiting faculty member of the English Communication Department of Showa Women’s University. He is joined by his wife and two daughters. John is director of Curriculum of Showa Boston, the university’s study abroad campus.

Bob Dundervill (Col ’86 L/M) and Ian McKenna (Col ’86 L/M), both members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, competed as a team in the annual Swiss Epic mountain bike stage race held from August 20-24, 2019. The 5-day race was 350 kilometers in total with 12000 meters of climbing. Dundervill is an ophthalmologist practicing in Charleston, West Virginia, and McKenna is an emergency medicine physician in Portland, Oregon. 

Will Trinkle (Col ’80 L/M) was elected in June 2019 to a second term on the board of directors of Charlottesville’s Paramount Theatre. He also serves on the boards of Virginia Humanities and Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Theatre, and he is serving for the 18th and final year on the board of trustees of Hollins University. 

Jonathan C. Hamilton (Law ’98) has spent the past two decades with global law firm White & Case, resident in Washington, D.C.  As the firm’s head of Latin American arbitration, he has handled a range of key disputes of the era across Latin America, ranging from sovereign debt disputes, to the recuperation of the artifacts of Machu Picchu. He also is the distinguished faculty chair of the International Arbitration Institute at the University of Miami School of Law.

Mark Dahl (Col ’72) focuses his energies on the game of bridge after spending 28 years in the securities industry. Since first learning from Lem Marshall (Col ’72), Dahl has won four National Championships, attaining the rank of Grand Life Master. He says, “Unbelievably, my wife, Catherine Collard Dahl (Grad ’77) hasn’t seen fit to leave yet!”

Nash Boney (Grad ’60, ’63), Emory Thomas (Col ’62 L/M), John Comolli (Col ’64), Cliff Pannell (Grad ’62 L/M) and Ed Perkins (Engr ’71 L/M) are members of the Folio Book Club in Athens, Georgia.  

Nick Deygoo (Col ’05 L/M) was elected president of the Georgetown, Guyana, Chamber of Commerce and Industry and, in March, launched the 2019 edition of the chamber’s Business Guyana magazine. The magazine is a resource for investors looking at the Guyanese market.

Ed Offley (Col ’69) won first prize for a print publication under 100,000 circulation) in the Military Reporters & Editors 2018 journalism competition. Offley’s winning article was an investigative piece revealing new details about the sinking of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion and its 99-man crew on May 22, 1968. His article in MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History revealed previously undisclosed eyewitness accounts confirming that U.S. Navy officials knew at the time of its loss—and immediately covered up—hard evidence that the nuclear attack submarine and its 99-man crew had been attacked and sunk by the Soviets.

Jean Gleason White (Col ’69 L/M), a Silver Owl member of the National Press Club, met CNN’s Wolf Blitzer at a Washington, D.C., event for the club in May 2019.  She is the immediate past president of the American News Women’s Club.