“Other” Class Notes
Phil Leventis (Engr ’69 CM)
Phil Leventis (Engr ’69 CM) has retired from the South Carolina Senate after serving continually from 1980 to 2012. In 1999, he retired from the South Carolina Air National Guard as the assistant adjutant general for air with the rank of brigadier general. During his nearly 30 years of service, spent primarily as a fighter pilot in the F-16, among many other aircraft, he served a tour in the Persian Gulf flying combat missions in 1991. He and his wife, Ellen Venable Locker Leventis (Nurs ’68 L/M), have three sons and a daughter.
Howard Gordon (Col ’69, Law ’72 CM)
Howard Gordon (Col ’69, Law ’72 CM) has been recognized as a leading U.S. attorney in real estate by the 2013 edition of Chambers USA. Mr. Gordon, an attorney at Williams Mullen in Norfolk, Va., focuses his practice on commercial and multifamily real estate, commercial leases, ground leases, land use planning and permits, and traditional urban developments.
Read McCaffrey (Col ’65 CM)
Read McCaffrey (Col ’65 CM) has been recognized by his peers as one of the “Top Attorneys in the D.C. Metro Area” in the field of business litigation as reported in the Washington Post Magazine. He recently concluded a three-year term as a member of the council of St. George’s House, Windsor Castle, founded by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1966. Mr. McCaffrey served with Sir Claude Hankes on the council’s Global Interaction Committee.
Erica Folk (Engr ’02 CM)
Erica Folk (Engr ’02 CM) and her husband, Michael, welcomed their second child, a daughter, Clara Michelle, on June 27, 2013. The family resides outside of Baltimore.
Natalie Oschrin (Col ’11)
Farrell Christine Newman (COL ’11) married Daniel Jeffery Milstein (Col ’99) in Alexandria, Virginia on September 1, 2013. Attendants included fellow UVA graduates Natalie Oschrin (Col ’11) as Maid of Honor, Dhayal Jayaseelan (Col ’00) as Best Man, and Katelynn McFarland (Col ’11, Curry ’12), Phoebe Morris (Curry ’12), Tory Altman (Col ’11), Bob Bass (SEAS ’97), John Bass (SEAS ’00), and Cahlan Mazur (Col ’01). Music was provided in part by Shankar Srinivasan (Col ’11).
Dana Dunn (Grad ’84, Grad ’87 CM)
Dana Dunn (Grad ’84, Grad ’87 CM) received the Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. Mr. Dunn is currently a professor of psychology and assistant dean for special projects at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa.
Dan Payne (Col ’00 CM)
Dan Payne and his wife Katie welcomed their son, McAllister John, on June 3, 2013. The family resides in Minneapolis, MN, where Mr. Payne was recently elected Partner at his law firm, Meagher & Geer, PLLP.
Jack Gallagher (Educ ’68)
Jack Gallagher (Educ ’68), a former faculty member in the Curry School of Education and the School of Medicine, has published findings from studies that he directed in the U.S. and Europe on non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. He co-authored two papers on his research, “The use of immediate postoperative instillations of intravesical chemotherapy after TURBT of NMIBC among European countries,” which appears in the August 2013 issue of World Journal of Urology; and “National practice patterns for immediate postoperative instillation of chemotherapy in nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer,” published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of Urology. Mr. Gallagher currently serves as president of Clarity Pharma Research.
Benjamin Tisdell (Com ’97 CM)
Benjamin Tisdell (Com ’97 CM) has accepted a position as senior special operations officer of the International Finance Corp. of the World Bank Group. In this role, he will oversee workouts of troubled loans throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Tisdell was formerly a vice president in the restructuring group of Lazard Frères & Co., based in New York. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife, Alexis Siggers (Col ’99 L/M); and their daughter, Nora
Christopher Pond (Com ’00, Darden ’07 CM)
Christopher Pond (Com ’00, Darden ’07 CM) and his wife, Leigh, welcomed their first child, a daughter, Emma Amelia, on June 12, 2013. The family resides in Alexandria, Va.
Doran Gresham (Col ’94 CM)
Doran Gresham (Col ’94 CM) is a master educator for special education with District of Columbia Public Schools in Washington, D.C. He earned a doctorate in special education and emotional disturbance from George Washington University, where he was a Holmes Scholar and a member of Phi Delta Kappa. Mr. Gresham is the co-founder of Why The Sun Rises, an international initiative to showcase the faces and stories of women in education.
Lara Gehl (Col ’01)
Lara Bjorkquist Gehl (Col ’01) and Matthew Gehl (Engr ’02), welcomed their first child, Adelaide Larkin, on Oct. 25, 2012. The family is in the process of moving from Thousand Oaks, CA to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Yevonne Chandler (Com ’02 CM)
Yevonne Chandler (Com ’02 CM) has been named a member of the board of directors for the Junior League of Atlanta for the 2013-2014 league year. The Junior League of Atlanta is a not-for-profit organization of 4,000 women committed to making a difference in the lives of women and children in the Atlanta community.
Thomas Kraemer (Col ’83 CM)
Thomas Kraemer (Col ’83 CM) is working as counsel at Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somalia.
Laura DeLuca (Col ’85 CM)
Laura DeLuca (Col ’85 CM) recently completed a novel, Lost Girl Found, to be published by Groundwood Books in March 2014.
Catherine Frank (Col ’99 CM)
Catherine Shnaider Frank (CLAS’99) and Mitch Frank (CLAS ’96) welcomed their second child, William Marshall Frank, on April 18, 2013. William joins big brother Spencer and is the grandson of Irving Shnaider (CLAS ’68) and nephew of Adam Shnaider (COMM ’95). Mitch is an Associate Editor at Wine Spectator Magazine and Catherine is the owner of Catherine Frank Editorial Services. The Franks live in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Scott Ellison (Col ’89 CM)
Scott Ellison (Col ’89 CM) and Ted Hollifield (Com ’89, Grad ’90, Law ’97, Darden ’97 L/M) were married at San Francisco City Hall on June 30, 2013. They originally met as first-years at the University and then ran into each other in California 21 years after graduation. The couple resides in Palo Alto, Calif., where Mr. Ellison is senior director of strategy at eBay/PayPal and Mr. Hollifield is a tech corporate law partner at Alston & Bird.
Adrianne Webb (Col ’03 CM)
Adrianne Webb (Col ’03 CM) has been selected one of the 2013 “Lawyers on the Fast Track” by the Legal Intelligencer. The award recognizes outstanding lawyers under the age of 40 in Pennsylvania. Ms. Webb is an attorney in the Philadelphia office of Anapol Schwartz, where she is a member of the firm’s unsafe drug and medical device group.
Judith Baroody (Grad ’85 CM)
Judith Baroody (Grad ’85 CM) has been named the U.S. State Department’s foreign policy adviser to the Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of Defense’s largest logistics combat support agency. The DLA, based out of headquarters at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, provides worldwide support to the military services as well as several civilian agencies and foreign countries.
Laura Albritton (Col ’02 CM)
Laura Albritton (Col ’02 CM) and Jeremy Albritton (Com ’02 L/M) welcomed their second child, Brady Jeremiah Albritton, on May 10, 2013. Brady joins older brother Luke, 2. The family resides in Ashburn, VA.
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