“Other” Class Notes

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.

Carole Kirkland Ramser (Col ’85, Educ ’89 L/M) is a speech-language pathologist for Hanover County Public Schools. She is married to Scott E. Ramser, who is a CPA. 

Paul Hurdle (Col ’70, Law ’73 L/M) is looking forward to the Class of 1970’s reunion!

Sunny DiSoco (Engr ’95) looks forward to seeing old friends, reminiscing, and catching up!

Interestingly, Sandy, whom I met on the 1st day at UVA, married me, and we had a boy and a girl together. To date, we’re very happy, and remain married. 🙂  I evolved into a professional salesperson, specializing in information technology sales, holding almost all roles between field sales rep to VP within companies that included local dealerships to major technology manufacturers, such as Canon, Xerox, EFi and Ricoh.  I currently work for Ricoh as a District Business Manager supporting dealerships in the mid-Atlantic area.  Socio-cultural anthropology became a useful template for recognizing cultures, power hierarchies, exchange systems and helping companies understand and choose technology that fits.  I’m still playing computer games, foosball, pool, golf, snow ski and attempt to surf on a log when both time and waves are available.  I travel for work, extensively, mostly windshield time, and I’ve built up a lot of points to explore new locations in moments of spare time.  A good microbrew and fresh exotic scenery still freezes time in my head, and this is very good.  Someday, I’m sure Sandy and I will have time to use the points and travel for fun.  As a 35 year reunion note, I really appreciate and thank UVA for introducing me to so many good lifelong friends over the years.  I also miss friends I made so many years ago, yet drifted away, and write this message to you, should you remember me.  Reading class notes is a non-facebook way of checking in on the past with a tidbit from the present. I also greatly appreciate the flavoring mix UVA and Charlottesville contributed to my continuously evolving perspective of life, work, love, friends and family since graduation.  C’ville hooked me, if only mentally.  Carpe Diem, caveat emptor and Go Hoos!