“Other” Class Notes

Bianca Spinosa (Col ’08 CM) is a television journalist for WNCN, the NBC affiliate in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area. She previously worked at LEX18 in Lexington, Ky., where her breaking news coverage of a deadly tornado in March 2012 led a newscast that won two 2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for best newscast and best breaking news.

Dear UVA Members and Alumni,

I am enclosing the following announcement, as an invitation for you to participate in my next mediation and conflict transformation training program, coming up this October.

Hope to see some of you again, soon!

Sincerely,

Louise

BALTIMORE MEDIATION
20-HOUR MEDIATION AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION PROFESSIONAL SKILLS TRAINING

Focused on Sources of Conflict and Systems Approach

We have opened the registration process for our basic 20-hour basic mediation training, happening every year in October. This year, we are bringing together professionals from a wide variety of fields, from attorneys, educators, social workers, and managers, to government employees and managers, while also harnessing the knowledge and experience of some of our newest team members, Judge Ron Karasic and mediator Ann Crowley.

The program will focus mainly on a system approach of conflict transformation, trying to integrate the components of the mediation process in a more holistic view of conflict resolution and its day to day applicability.

Call us today at (443) 524-0833 and register to participate!

Dates: Wednesday, October 23, (5pm-9pm), Thursday, October 24, (9am-5:30pm), Friday, October 25, (9am-5:30pm)
Location: The Inn at the Colonnade, 4 W University Pkwy., Baltimore, MD 21218
Cost: $795

Our interactive three-day training will focus on assisting participants with understanding the mediation process in relation to their own personality preferences and beliefs, understanding the relational approach to conflict and working with basic conflict transformation principles of mediation, learning and applying communication and intervention skills, and integrating these skills in practical applications of mediation, through role-plays, group demonstrations and fish-bowl discussions. Each participant will also receive individual feedback from highly trained, experienced mediators and coaches, and will also learn how to give feedback to their colleagues in training.

Our founder and lead trainer, Louise Phipps Senft has over 30 years of mediation practice, is the former President of the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution, a former faculty member at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Insight Initiative and currently an adjunct Professor teaching Mediation at University of Maryland School of Law.

At the end of the training will be provided with a certificate, which is approved by the Association for Conflict Resolution, recognized by the Federal Shared Neutrals Program, and may satisfy the requirements of state entities such as the Maryland Circuit Courts and MACRO. It may be used to apply for state circuit court rosters of approved mediators and for continuing education credits from the participant’s accrediting institution.

For more information and to register, please visit www.baltimoremediation.com/basic-mediation-skills-ii.

Additional information can be obtained by calling our office at (443) 524-0833 or emailing us at office@baltimoremediation.com

Baltimore Mediation
4502 Schenley Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21210
(443) 524-0833
www.baltimoremediation.com
office@baltimoremediation.com

Samuel Leven (CLAS ’07; LAW ’10) married Jennifer Clifton (COMM ’08; GRAD COMM ’09) on May 16, 2010 and the couple welcomed their first child, Noah Robert Leven on February 12, 2013. The coupel reside in Fairfax, Virginia where Mr. Leven works as an attorney for The Baldwin Law Firm, LLC and Ms. Clifton works as an accountant for KPMG, LLP.

Ben Aylor (Engr ’99 CM) and Erin Rupprecht Aylor (Col ’99 L/M) welcomed their first child, Gwendolyn Rupprecht, on March 14, 2013. Gwen is the granddaughter of Franklin Aylor (Col ’71 L/M) and the niece of Kendal Aylor Sibley (Com ’96, Law ’02 L/M) and Trey Sibley (Law ’02), and Cameron Ballinger Rupprecht (Col ’04 L/M) and Kurt Rupprecht (Col ’04 L/M). The Aylors reside in New York City, where Mr. Aylor is a partner at the Boston Consulting Group and Ms. Aylor is a program manager for The Economist Group.

Amelia Sitler (Col ’10, Educ ’13) and Solomon Tat (Col ’10) were married on July 5, 2013, in Charlottesville. The couple resides in Lynchburg, Va.

William Phillips (Col ’82) was honored as the Cleveland Clinic’s 2013 Critical Care Medicine Teacher of the Year and the Critical Care Medicine Anesthesiologist of the Year.

Kelly Woodham (Com ’05, Darden ’10 CM) and Ian Shields (Darden ’10) were married on Oct. 6, 2012, in Charlottesville. The couple, who met on their first day of business school, resides in Arlington, Va.

Eston Melton (Col ’02, Educ ’04 CM) and Rosalyn Mary Metz were married May 25, 2013, at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Previously residents of Alexandria, Va., the couple has recently relocated to Mountain View, Calif., where Mr. Melton is an assistant principal for the Palo Alto Unified School District and Ms. Metz is the operations manager for the Stanford Digital Repository.

Fatimah Castro (Col ’02 CM) received the Community Service Award from the Johnson & Johnson Helping Our Neighbors with Our Resources Committee. Presented annually, the award recognizes a community member who has demonstrated exemplary service and caring for others. She and her husband, Carlos, are the founders of Life Soccer. Ms. Williams Castro has served as chair of the New Brunswick Ciclovia Advisory Committee, operations chair for the New Brunswick Community Food Alliance and as a volunteer English instructor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She received a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Rutgers University in 2011.

Lyndsey Lawrence (Col ’10, Com ’11) and Tyler Christian Padden (Engr ’10) were married on April 13, 2013, at the University Chapel. The couple resides in Cincinnati, where Ms. Padden is employed by dunnhumbyUSA, a data analytics firm, and Mr. Padden works for PSARA Technologies, an environmental engineering group.

Jeffrey Neuman (Col ’90 CM) has joined GMK Associates Inc. as director of marketing. GMK Associates is a multidisciplinary planning, design and construction project management firm based in Columbia, S.C. Previously, Mr. Neuman served as director of marketing for Genesis Consulting Group, a startup civil engineering and economic development firm also based in Columbia.

Dauria D’Orsi (Educ ’73) has retired from the Department of Defense after serving in Bamberg, Germany, for 22 years. She continues to promote preventative and proper care of athletes throughout Europe, having recently worked with the military’s Wounded Warrior Project. She received a doctorate in health science from the University of Primorska in Slovenia in July 2013.

Benjamin Sydnor (Col ’07 CM) and Holly Turner (Col ’08 L/M) were married on July 5, 2013, at the U.Va. Chapel. The couple resides in Falls Church, Va., where Mr. Sydnor is a senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton and Ms. Sydnor is a health communications specialist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The wedding party included the bride’s sister, Alyssa Turner (Arch ’10 L/M); the groom’s sister, Laura Lee Oliva (Col ’09 L/M); Rebecca Tinger (Col ’08) and Alex Hannagan (Col ’07 L/M).

Roy Ruhling (Col ’04 CM) and his wife, Tanya, welcomed a son, Micah Alexander, on Dec. 16, 2012. Micah joins big brothers Desmond, 3; and Gabriel, 2. The Ruhlings reside in Lawrence, Mass.

Kelly Morgan (Col ’04 CM) received a doctorate in health communication from George Mason University in May 2013.