“Other” Class Notes

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.

Lindsay Rosti (Arch ’06 CM) and Andrew Rosti (Col ’06 L/M) welcomed a daughter, London Mackenzie, on April 29, 2013. The family resides in Arlington, Va., where Mr. and Ms. Rosti both work in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Megan Cave (Col ’00 CM) and her husband, Robert “Payne” Cave Jr., welcomed a daughter, Grace Katherine, on June 7, 2013. The family resides in Charlotte, N.C., where Ms. Cave is a commercial insurance broker and Mr. Cave is an attorney.

Christina Argeris Thigpen (Col ’00 L/M) and her husband, Mark, welcomed a son, Rhodes Bonner, on June 15, 2013. Rhodes is the grandson of Dana Argeris (Col ’71 L/M) and the nephew of Stephen Argeris (Col ’01 L/M), Elizabeth Argeris (Col ’04 L/M) and Meredith Argeris (Col ’04 L/M). The family resides in Charlotte, N.C.

Beau Horner (Col ’07 CM) and Camille Donovan (Engr ’09) were married on May 21, 2013, in Puerto Morales, Mexico. The couple resides in Los Angeles, where Mr. Horner is a technical support specialist at Discovery Communications and Ms. Donovan is a process engineer at Amgen.

Laurie Lindsay (Col ’78 CM) is the human resources director for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the commission, she worked for 28 years at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she last served as the deputy chief human capital officer. Ms. Lindsay resides in Fairfax, Va., with her husband and their two sons.

William Hosp (Col ’72) has been elected president of the Prince William Federation of Teachers. He will lead Prince William County, Va.’s Local 2402 of the American Federation of Teachers, an AFL-CIO affiliate.

Graduated with MD from Drexel University College of Medicine May, 2013. Starting Pathology residency training, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, July, 2013

Brandi Sharp (Col ’08, Grad ’13 CM) received a Ph.D. in biology from the University. Her doctoral research focused on circadian transcriptional regulation in the fruit fly. She currently works as a research technician at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus.

Jennifer Walkowski (Arch ’08) recently accepted a position as a Survey and National Register Unit program analyst at the New York State Historic Preservation Office at Peebles Island, located outside of Albany, N.Y. Previously, Ms. Walkowski worked as an architectural historian at Clinton Brown Company Architecture in Buffalo, N.Y.

Katie Cooper (Nurs ’00 CM) and Carlos Cooper (Col ’99 L/M) welcomed a son, Deacon Erik, on May 3, 2013. Deacon joins big sister Juliet Elizabeth, 5, and big brother Beckett Andrew, 4. The children are the niece and nephews of Daniel Cooper (Col ’07 L/M), Katherine Krueger Cooper (Educ ’07 L/M) and Andrew Cooper (Col ’09 L/M). The family resides in Franklin, Tenn., where Ms. Cooper is a nurse anesthetist for Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Mr. Cooper is a writer whose titles include Benjamin Dragon—Awakening, the first book in The Chronicles of Benjamin Dragon series, and The Corps Justice series.