“Other” Class Notes

Kathryn Morrison Sneade (Col ’01, Law ’04 L/M) and Brad Sneade are excited to announce the birth of their first child, Cayley Ann, on July 13, 2009.

Michael L. Smith (Col ’96, Med ’00 L/M) is assistant professor of neurosurgery at NYU School of Medicine, subspecializing in spinal surgery. Dr. Smith lives in Manhattan.

Stephanie Bird Yates (Col ’91) and her husband, Whit, welcomed the arrival of their third child, Iris Lillian, on Oct. 25, 2009. Iris joins a sister, Julia, 5; and a brother, Sam, 3. The family resides in Atlanta.

Whitney Lawson Belt (Educ ’99 L/M) and her husband, Randy Belt, are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Riley Lynn, born June 29, 2009. Riley is the niece of Amanda Lawson Pillion (Educ ’97, ’99). The family resides in Johnson City, Tenn.

Lane Thomasson DeGregory (Col ’89, Grad ’95) received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for her narrative feature, “A Girl in the Window”, cited as a “moving, richly detailed story of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing.” A former editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily, Ms. DeGregory has been a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times since 2000. Her stories have appeared in the Best Newspaper Writing editions of 2000, 2004 and 2006. She has been a speaker at the Nieman Narrative Conference at Harvard and has received more than a dozen national awards, including the 2008 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for non-deadline writing and the 2007 Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation for human-interest writing.

Lisa M. Kelley (Nurs ’99 L/M) and Joseph A. Miller (GSBA ’05) welcomed a daughter, Anna Elizabeth Miller, on Oct. 26, 2009. The family resides in Charlotte, N.C.

Richard S. Glasser (Col ’62, Law ’65 L/M) is an attorney with the law firm of Glasser and Glasser, P.L.C., where he has practiced since graduation from the University of Virginia School of Law. He was selected to appear in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America in the area of personal injury litigation, where he has been listed annually since 1987. Mr. Glasser has specialized in trial work, primarily in asbestos injury litigation since 1976.

Swayne Latham (Col ’94 L/M) and his wife, Sara, are proud to announce the birth of Christopher Steele on Sept. 2, 2009. Christopher joins brothers: Nicholas, 5; and Andrew, 2. The family resides in Chicago, where Mr. Latham is a commodities trader on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Amy Startt Rogstad (Col ’00 L/M) and her husband, Erik, welcomed their first child, Jack Edmund Rogstad, on April 4, 2009. The family lives in Potomac, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C., where Dr. Amy Rogstad is practicing as an endocrinologist.

Molly Pringle Harris (Col ’07 L/M) and Dan Laufer (Engr ’06) were married on Sept. 12, 2009, at King Family Vineyard in Crozet, Va. The couple resides in San Diego. Mr. Laufer is a product manager for Mitchell International. Ms. Laufer is a lieutenant junior grade in the U.S. Navy, assigned to Destroyer Squadron 23 and is currently deployed with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group to the Arabian Gulf.

Christian Francis Pineno (Col ’90 L/M) and Denise Campbell Pineno (Col ’92, Educ ’92 L/M) welcomed their second child, Zachary Christian, on July 6, 2009. Zachary joins sister, Sarah Kathryn, 1. The family lives in Charlotte, N.C.

David Cicero (Col ’03 L/M) and Anne Colmery Cicero (Col ’03 L/M) welcomed their first child, Lucia Grace, on Nov. 1, 2009. Ms. Cicero received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in December. The couple resides in Columbia, Missouri.

Angie Widener Harvey (Col ’98 L/M) and Matthew Steven Harvey (Col ’95 L/M) proudly announce the birth of a son, Owen Steven, on Nov. 3, 2009. The family resides in Wise, Va.

Katherine Burgess Wise (Col ’06 L/M) and Michael James Jungers were married Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009, at Rye Presbyterian Church in Rye, N.Y. The couple resides in Chicago, where Ms. Wise is a graduate student at the University of Chicago. The wedding party included Jaime Davis (Nurs ’06), Jacquelyn Mikalson Haney (Col ’06 L/M), Laura Higginbotham (Col ’06, Med ’12) and Robert Wise (Col ’10).

Toni Irving (Col ’92) is deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to Governor Patrick Quinn of Illinois. Ms. Irving was previously on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame. She resides in Chicago.

Mackenzie Brown Bartlett (Col ’97) and her husband, Stephen Bartlett, welcomed their daughter, Georgia Clementine, on Sept. 3, 2009. The Bartletts also have a three year-old son, Walker. Ms. Bartlett is the daughter of the late George Brown IV (Col ’70).

John B. Gillis (Col ’82 L/M) graduated from the United States Army War College in July 2009, receiving a master’s of strategic studies degree. The Army War College is the Army’s most senior professional development institution which prepares selected military, civilian and international leaders for the responsibilities of strategic leadership in joint, interagency, intergovernmental and multinational environments. Mr. Gillis is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and is assigned to the 4th Brigade, 75th Division in Birmingham, Ala. He practices law in Water Valley, Miss.

Priya Sazawal Koul (Com ’95 L/M) and Sharat Koul (Col ’96) welcomed their son, Avinash, on June 19, 2009. Avinash joins sister Kiran, 3. The family resides in Lexington, Ky. Avinash is the nephew of Vibha Sazawal (Engr ’98), Vijay Ravindran (Engr ’96), and Suraj K. Sazawal (Col ’01).

Wendy Jacobs Armstrong (Col ’91) and Jason Denis Armstrong welcomed a daughter, Josephine Ruby Lee, on Sept. 24, 2009. The couple also has a son, Ezekiel, 2.

Howard J. Scherry (Col ’60 A/M) founded the organization Remembering Saint-Exupéry. In July, his organization, in conjunction with Middlebury College’s French School, inaugurated a 70th anniversary plaque at the site of Middlebury College’s Chateau in memory of the legendary author-aviator’s visit to Middlebury College, Vt., in August 1939. The plaque reads: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Poet Novelist Aviator 1900-1944. There is only one true luxury, and that is the luxury of human relationships.” In 1939 the French School welcomed the legendary author-aviator. His visit coincided with the translation of his acclaimed work, Wind, Sand and Stars. The declaration of WWII hastened his return to French military service.

John L. Nau III (Col ’68 L/M) is chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. In October, he and former First Lady Laura Bush received the John H. Chafee Trustees Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Policy from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for their leadership in developing and promoting the Preserve America program. The National Trust presented the award at its 2009 National Preservation Conference in Nashville, Tenn. The former longtime chairman of the Texas Historical Commission, Mr. Nau was appointed chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation by President George W. Bush in 2001. Along with Mrs. Bush, Mr. Nau is credited with guiding the widespread and influential preservation initiative with the Preserve America program.

Rose Bunch (Col ’93) received the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for her essay Norman Mailer is Coming to Dinner. The award was announced in October by New Letters magazine, an international magazine of writing and art published at the University of Missouri-Kansas City that gives this award annually for excellence in essay writing. Ms. Bunch has also been published in Fugue and Gulf Coast, who nominated her story for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. She also received third prize in the Playboy College Fiction Contest and was an honorable mention in The Atlantic Monthly for their 2005 student contest in nonfiction. Ms. Bunch is pursuing a doctorate in creative writing at Florida State University.

Sarath Ravella (Engr ’00 L/M) and his wife, Soumya Sathya (Col ’00, Educ ’06 L/M), are pleased to announce the birth of their first child and son, Khush Sathya Ravella, born July 12, 2009. The family resides in Annandale, Va., where Mr. Ravella is a managing consultant with Excella Consulting and Ms. Sathya is a management and program analyst with the U.S. Department of Education. She is also pursuing a master’s of public administration degree from George Washington University, which she will complete in December 2009.

Tom Johnson (Col ’91 L/M) translated the book, La Fessée, by Olivier Maurel (La Plage, 2005), into English. His translation was authorized for publication on the Web site of Parents and Teachers against Violence in Education. It can be read at http://www.nospank.net/sp-qadv.htm.

John Luessenhop (Col ’81 L/M) directed “TAKERS”, a movie starring Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, Paul Walker, Hayden Christiansen, T.I., Chris Brown and Michael Ealy. The movie was produced by Sony/Screen Gems and opens in theatres Feb. 26, 2010.

In this photo: Elizabeth Bullington Carlton (Col ’81), Ashley Lickle O’Neil (Col ’82), John Luessenhop (Col ’80) and Margaret Izard Valentine (Col ’81). Elizabeth, Ashley and Margaret join director John Luessenhop at Sony Pictures in Hollywood while he was editing “TAKERS”.

Stella Dickerson Hazen (Nurs ’70) lives in Raleigh, N.C. with her husband, Richard Hazen. She worked in public health until 1977, when they moved to Raleigh. Except for a short stint in a private pediatric practice, Ms. Hazen concentrated on caring for her family. She has two sons, Jim and Bob. Bob is a 2001 graduate of the College.

Christina Argeris (Col ’00 L/M) married Mark Thigpen on Aug. 1, 2009. The couple resides in Charlotte, N.C.

Jessica Meehan (Col ’06 L/M) is co-founder of the Web site Locallectual, an online directory to find locally and domestically made goods, local retailers and local restaurants that use locally sourced ingredients. Locallectual was featured on the Today Show as one of Daily Candy’s “9 Web sites That Are Truly Useful”.

Trent Stevenson Dickey (Col ’77 L/M) is included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in his specialty of commercial litigation. Mr. Dickey was elected chairperson of the operations committee of Easter Seals New Jersey’s board of directors as well as its executive committee. Mr. Dickey was also elected to the board of Permanent and Advocacy Support Systems, Inc., a non-profit corporation providing professionally supported community residences for adult mental health consumers. Mr. Dickey is a member of the national law firm Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. with offices in New York City, Newark, N.J., and Princeton, N.J.

Linn Allee Donaldson (Col ’78 L/M) and Jeffrey Deavers (Col ’78) were married June 13, 2009, in Louisa, Va. The couple resides in Arlington, Va.,where Ms. Deavers is an associate dean at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and Mr. Deavers is a sales professional. The couple met at their 25th U.Va. reunion in 2003.

Brian James Woodall (Com ’00) married Dana Leigh Progar on May 24, 2009, in Gettysburg, Pa. The couple resides in Davis, Calif., where Mr. Woodall is an associate with the Central Valley Fund.

Ed Prior (Grad ’72) retired from NASA Langley in 2005 after a 40-year career there. 36 years after he first published research showing high altitude hydrogen levels to be three times greater than cited in national standards, the U.S. Air Force accepted his results in 2008 for their new atmospheric model. The results will also be incorporated into the 2009 COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere. Mr. Prior was the NASA principal investigator for PAGEOS, the second largest satellite by volume to be injected into earth orbit. His U.Va. thesis was on orbital drag measurements at altitudes above 2000 kilometers, from observations of the balloon satellite’s orbital decay. Eventually published by Byrd Press in 1972 in The Use of Artificial Satellites for Geodesy, the thesis found hydrogen levels to be 200 percent greater than given in the U.S. Standard Atmosphere. Mr. Prior’s research has been variously cited in The Stratosphere: Past and Present, the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere, the U.S. National Report on Geodesy and the various U.S. Standard Atmosphere publications. There are a total of six references to his research in three different annual editions of Significant Achievements in Space Science.

Charles Wormald (Col ’83 L/M) and Ellen Colter (Educ ’85 L/M) of Springfield, Va., were married on Oct. 3, 2009. Mr Wormald is a vendor manager at Freddie Mac and Ms. Colter is an assistant principal at Clifton Elementary in Clifton, Va.