“Other” Class Notes

Susan Klobuchar (Col ’96 CM) and her husband, Tim, welcomed their third child, a daughter, Cecily Catherine, on July 29, 2013. Cecily joins brother Jack, 5; and sister Lise, 2. The family resides in Plymouth, Minn., where Ms. Klobuchar is a marketing communications manager at General Mills in nearby Minneapolis.

Nancy White (Col ’81) has recently joined the Ann Arbor, Mich., office of Quinn Evans Architects as director of marketing. Her duties include overseeing a broad range of strategic planning, communications and business-development activities for the office, which designs civic, cultural, higher education and restoration projects throughout the Midwest. Ms. White, an experienced marketing and business development specialist, is also a professional photographer. In addition to publishing Majesty of Beaufort, a book about architecture in Beaufort, S.C., she has contributed photographs to a number of magazines, such as Coastal Living, Inform, Cottage Living, Old House Interiors and others.

G. Shell (Law ’81) has published his fourth book, Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, with Portfolio, the business book imprint of Penguin Group USA. According to Shell, it is up to each individual to define his or her own measure of success, and Springboard helps readers discover the most viable, individualized ways to pursue the success they seek. His other titles include Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People and, with Mario Moussa, The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. Mr. Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics and Management at the Wharton School of Business, where he teaches as a senior member of the faculty and serves as director of the Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop and the Wharton Strategic Persuasion Workshop. Taken together, his books have been published in more than 14 languages.

Alfred Paliani (Col ’79, Law ’83 CM) has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of the International Association of Defense Counsel, a professional association for defense lawyers around the world. He is general counsel of Quality King Distributors and its group of affiliated companies, headquartered in Bellport, N.Y. As general counsel, he is responsible for all legal affairs for the conglomerate, operating in numerous facilities throughout the country, including overseeing all compliance issues and litigation matters in all jurisdictions.

Mary Witt (Med ’78, Res ’80) was named the 2012 Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association at the 47th annual meeting of the U.Va. Medical School Foundation in Williamsburg, Va., in February 2013. Dr. Witt is the first woman to receive the award, which recognizes leadership and loyalty to the alumni association and foundation. She is a board-certified endocrinologist and former medical director with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia and currently holds a position with United Health Care. Dr. Witt resides in Richmond, Va., with her husband, Fritz Will IV (Com ’76 L/M), where she volunteers as a clinician at CrossOver Health Care Ministry. She has served with the Medical Alumni Association in various capacities, including as the association’s first female president in 2009, and is an appointed trustee to the Medical School Foundation.

Cornelius Reid (Arch ’78) is a principal in Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s Philadelphia office and has been project director and architect for a wide range of projects since joining the firm in 1979. His experience includes programming, master planning, new buildings, additions and renovations for a broad range of project types, contexts, scales and clients.

Evan Cantor (Col ’78) has published a novel, Rogues’ Gallery: My 27 Years at Rocky Mountain University, under the pen name T. Winston Mojo. The book, based on Mr. Cantor’s experiences as a bureaucrat at the University of Colorado at Boulder, explores the challenges of the academic world and looks at how small the stakes can be in campus life. Mr. Cantor recently retired after working for 30 years at the University of Colorado.

Paul Lauritzen (Col ’77, Grad ’80 CM) published The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in the Age of Terror with Georgetown University Press. The book examines how doctors, lawyers, psychologists, military officers and other professionals addressed the issue of appropriate limits in interrogating detainees and debated the interrogation policy developed by the Bush administration. Mr. Lauritzen is a professor of religious ethics and former director of the program of applied ethics at John Carroll University in Cleveland. He is the author of four books, including Medicine and the Ethics of Care, and has published extensively on issues in bioethics, human rights and religious ethics.

C. Sherbeck (Arch ’74 CM) is a principal in the Pittsburgh office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Her current and past projects include the Environmental Education Center at Frick Park; the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University; and the Dartmouth Life Sciences Center, one of the most energy efficient and sustainable laboratories in the country.

Thomas Armstrong (Grad ’74 CM) has retired after 39 years as a history professor and higher education administrator. His long career included positions in Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and overseas. Most recently, he served as commissioner and associate director for the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, from 2010 to 2013. Mr. Armstrong, now retired to North Carolina, divides his time between Davidson and Maggie Valley.

Theodore Freeman (Col ’73 CM) has been elected president of the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, a statewide organization of more than 700 attorneys who defend the interests of businesses and individuals in civil litigation. Mr. Freeman is a partner at Freeman Mathis & Gary in Atlanta, where he manages the governmental law and commercial and complex litigation practice groups.

Robert McKee (Arch ’78, Engr ’70 CM) is the founding principal of Field Sport Concepts (FSC), an affiliation of highly trained specialists in field sport and land conservation with a portfolio of projects across the United States. Originally established in Virginia, FSC has also opened a branch office in Austin, Texas. Mr. McKee, who has more than 25 years of experience in implementing low-impact development strategy and integrated land management practices, focuses on projects for both private and public sector clients.

Scott Slankard (Com ’96 CM) and his wife, Alissa, welcomed their second child, a daughter, Brielle Rylan, “Elle,” on Aug. 26, 2013. Elle joins big brother Xander, 4. Mr. Slankard was promoted to assistant vice president at LPL Financial in San Diego in May 2013.

Shana Wrobel (Col ’09 CM) and Nicholas Olson (Engr ’10 L/M) were married on Aug. 2, 2013, at the Belmont Country Club in Ashburn, Va. The couple resides in Washington, D.C., where Ms. Wrobel works as a paralegal at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox while pursuing a J.D. degree at George Washington University Law School, and Mr. Olson is a consultant at Deloitte.

Thomas Neale (Col ’74 CM) is a managing partner of Patriot Capital in Baltimore, a source of junior growth capital for middle-market companies seeking to finance business expansion, acquisitions, management buyouts or recapitalizations. Mr. Neale and his wife of 33 years, Barbara, have three daughters, Barrett, who was recently married; Carroll Neale (Col ’14 L/M); and Hooper Neale (Col ’17 L/M).

Matt Mooney (CLAS 2010) and Hiba Hashmi (SEAS 2010) were married on August 25, 2013. They both completed professional degrees at Duke University in May and currently reside in Jacksonville, Florida.

Norman Raiford (Grad ’69, Grad ’74 CM) has retired as a professor of history and leadership studies from Greenville Technical College in Greenville, S.C., where he has taught since 1974. The college honored him by establishing the Dr. Norman G. Raiford Endowed Scholarship Fund, dedicated to assisting students who are single parents. The school also recognized him as the longest-serving faculty member in its history. In 1989, Mr. Raiford was named Outstanding Educator of the Year for Greenville Technical College and for the entire South Carolina Technical College system. From 1970 to 1974, he was a professor of history at Spartanburg Methodist College. He and his wife, Alice Swartzentruber Raiford (Nurs ’63 L/M), live in Spartanburg, S.C.