“Other” Class Notes
Frank Macgill (Com ’91)
Frank S. Macgill (Com ’91), a lawyer with HunterMaclean was selected as Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America© 2020 for tax law.
John Hewson (Col ’65 CM)
John M. Hewson III (Col ’65 L/M) a partner at business law firm HunterMaclean was recently selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2020 under the category of corporate law.
Nash Boney (Grad ’60, Grad ’63)
Nash Boney (Grad ’60, ’63), Emory Thomas (Col ’62 L/M), John Comolli (Col ’64), Cliff Pannell (Grad ’62 L/M) and Ed Perkins (Engr ’71 L/M) are members of the Folio Book Club in Athens, Georgia.
Nicholas Deygoo (Col ’05 CM)
Nick Deygoo (Col ’05 L/M) was elected president of the Georgetown, Guyana, Chamber of Commerce and Industry and, in March, launched the 2019 edition of the chamber’s Business Guyana magazine. The magazine is a resource for investors looking at the Guyanese market.
John Houser (Col ’01, Darden ’08)
John Houser (Col ’01, Darden ’08) and his wife, Eve, launched Eve’s website, The Bedlam Street Company, which makes the embroidery process more efficient and more affordable and more expressive.
He says, “Eve and I started to discuss the idea of her business a few years ago when we were looking for customized embroidery on womens, childrens, and home products that celebrated either special events in our life or in the lives of our friends and family. We felt that quality embroidery was not priced reasonably, not easily available across many designs and too slow to be manufactured and delivered. We’re so excited that The Bedlam Street Company website is now live to make this process faster, more affordable and expressive. Eve is also personalizing items customers already own with monograms and motifs found on the website.
Eve and I would love to reconnect with you on the website, so please leave comments, and if you’d like to have the latest updates on our business, please follow Eve on Instagram: bedlamstreetco!”
Ed Offley (Col ’69)
Ed Offley (Col ’69) won first prize for a print publication under 100,000 circulation) in the Military Reporters & Editors 2018 journalism competition. Offley’s winning article was an investigative piece revealing new details about the sinking of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion and its 99-man crew on May 22, 1968. His article in MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History revealed previously undisclosed eyewitness accounts confirming that U.S. Navy officials knew at the time of its loss—and immediately covered up—hard evidence that the nuclear attack submarine and its 99-man crew had been attacked and sunk by the Soviets.
Jean White (Col ’69 CM)
Jean Gleason White (Col ’69 L/M), a Silver Owl member of the National Press Club, met CNN’s Wolf Blitzer at a Washington, D.C., event for the club in May 2019. She is the immediate past president of the American News Women’s Club.
Ann Gaffey (Nurs ’85 CM)
Ann Duffey Gaffey (Nurs ’85 L/M) was selected to be a visiting expert to the Ministry of Health in Singapore, where she will spend two weeks visiting multiple hospitals and clinics, focusing on health care risk management and clinical governance. She served as the 2016 president of the American Society for Health Care Risk Management, a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association. Gaffey serves on the technical expert panel for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Making Healthcare Safer 3 Patient Safety Practices, and she is vice chair of NCC MERP, chairman of the board of the National Perinatal Information Center, and on the advisory council for the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband.
Carole Ramser (Col ’85, Educ ’88 CM)
Carole Kirkland Ramser (Col ’85, Educ ’89 L/M) is a speech-language pathologist for Hanover County Public Schools. She is married to Scott E. Ramser, who is a CPA.
Paul Hurdle (Col ’70, Law ’73 CM)
Paul Hurdle (Col ’70, Law ’73 L/M) is looking forward to the Class of 1970’s reunion!
Sunny DiSoco (Engr ’95)
Sunny DiSoco (Engr ’95) looks forward to seeing old friends, reminiscing, and catching up!
John Whitehead (Col ’85 CM)
Interestingly, Sandy, whom I met on the 1st day at UVA, married me, and we had a boy and a girl together. To date, we’re very happy, and remain married. 🙂 I evolved into a professional salesperson, specializing in information technology sales, holding almost all roles between field sales rep to VP within companies that included local dealerships to major technology manufacturers, such as Canon, Xerox, EFi and Ricoh. I currently work for Ricoh as a District Business Manager supporting dealerships in the mid-Atlantic area. Socio-cultural anthropology became a useful template for recognizing cultures, power hierarchies, exchange systems and helping companies understand and choose technology that fits. I’m still playing computer games, foosball, pool, golf, snow ski and attempt to surf on a log when both time and waves are available. I travel for work, extensively, mostly windshield time, and I’ve built up a lot of points to explore new locations in moments of spare time. A good microbrew and fresh exotic scenery still freezes time in my head, and this is very good. Someday, I’m sure Sandy and I will have time to use the points and travel for fun. As a 35 year reunion note, I really appreciate and thank UVA for introducing me to so many good lifelong friends over the years. I also miss friends I made so many years ago, yet drifted away, and write this message to you, should you remember me. Reading class notes is a non-facebook way of checking in on the past with a tidbit from the present. I also greatly appreciate the flavoring mix UVA and Charlottesville contributed to my continuously evolving perspective of life, work, love, friends and family since graduation. C’ville hooked me, if only mentally. Carpe Diem, caveat emptor and Go Hoos!
Doug Smith (Col ’93)
A group of former men’s basketball players reunited from the Jeff Jones years in the 1990’s.
Luis Pedraja (Grad ’94)
Luis G. Pedraja (Grad ’94) was named one of the 50 most influential persons in Central Massachusetts by the Worcester Business Journal.
Casey King (Engr ’89)
Walter “Casey” King (Engr ’89) recently organized the 12th annual HGTC Addiction and Recovery lecture series. As a person in long term recovery, King created this event as a way to give back to the local recovery community. Over the last 12 years, he has been able to work with celebrities in recovery, such as Meredith Baxter, Louis Gossett, Danny Trejo and Mackenzie Phillips to deliver the message of recovery at the college level. All events are free and open to the public.
Lawrence Familant (Col ’67 CM)
Lawrence Familant (Col ’67) made a contribution to the UVA Health Foundation for stem cell research concerning multiple sclerosis in memory of Lloyd A. Godlin.
Scott Repass (Col ’00 CM)
On Jan. 29, 2019, Delta 468 was crewed by four pilots from New York JFK to Tel Aviv, Israel. Included in the crew were pilots Capt. Doug Ray (Engr ’80), not pictured, First Officer Scott Repass (Col ’00) pictured left, and First Officer Lance Rush (right), whose daughter Emma Rush (Col ’21) is a current student.
Meghan White (Col ’01 CM)
Wishing our fellow ’Hoos a joyful holiday season and a happy new year! from Shawn (Col ’01) and Meghan Carroll White (Col ’01 L/M), Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.
Marcus Holmes (Col ’02 CM)
Marcus Holmes (Col ’02 L/M) has been awarded the William & Mary Alumni Association’s 2018 Alumni Fellowship Award for excellence in teaching, research and mentorship.
Doug Smith (Col ’86 CM)
Doug Smith (Col ’86 L/M) will be serving as the “seeing-eye Doug” to a blind sailor as they sail across the Pacific non-stop from San Diego to Fukushima, Japan, starting Feb. 24, 2019. They hope this Voyage of Inspiration will inspire others to overcome adversity and work to achieve their dreams. They also aim to draw attention to charities that they support and which they hope others will as well.
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