“Other” Class Notes

Bendukai Bouey (Law ’97) regrets to inform that his wife of 18 years, Theresa Wing Kay Mann Bouey, died Feb. 3, 2020 after a long and painful 8 year battle with cancer. A homemaker and anchor in her community, Theresa, by the grace and strength of the Lord Jesus, made Ranchos Palos Verdes CA, where the family resided, better, more close knit, and a greater reflection of the love of God. She is survived by her husband Bendukai, three children, Kaiya, Caeleb and Chelsea, parents William and Caria Mann and sister Margaret.

Elizabeth “Liz” Bower (Nurs ’06) and her fiancé, Franklin, welcomed a son, Silas Amos Luke Freeman, on Nov. 24, 2019. Silas joins older brother Trace, age 8. The family lives in Chesapeake, Virginia. Elizabeth and Franklin are planning a wedding and will wed later in 2020. 

Joe Morrissey (Col ’79), a former commonwealth’s attorney for the Richmond, Virginia, and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, was elected to the Virginia State Senate in November 2019. Morrissey stated that during the upcoming 2020 General Assembly Session, he will focus on both criminal justice reform issues as well as establishing a Clean Energy Standard in the commonwealth. 

Elizabeth Marcon (Col ’99 L/M) and her husband, Joshua Hauck, welcomed their fourth child, Marlowe Elizabeth Marcon, on May 27, 2019. Marlowe joins brothers Jed Hauck, 7, Lawton Hauck, 5, and sister Eve Marcon, 2. The family resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Marcon is an attorney in the Bethlehem law firm of Florio, Perrucci, Steinhardt & Cappelli.

Kim Tuten Gallagher (Col ’84 L/M) founded Blue Book Essays, a national college essay coaching business for university and graduate school applicants. Helping “students excel, parents exhale,” Blue Book Essays works with public, private, parochial and boarding schools across the country. Gallagher is an advertising creative director and copywriter who builds brands including Catholic Relief Services, Charter Communications, Royal Mystic Soft Drinks and Juices, The Maryland Lottery, Paper & Packaging Board, National Archives, American Psychological Association and Britches of Georgetown. 

Justin Woodruff (Col ’07) and Martha Gray Woodruff (Col ’06, Darden ’11 L/M) welcomed their second child, Gray Somerville, on Oct. 23, 2019. Gray joins big sister Virginia, and the family lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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!”