“Other” Class Notes

Henry Chambers (Col ’88, Law ’91 CM) received the 2012 Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond. The award recognizes excellence in teaching at the university. Mr. Chambers teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, law and religion, employment discrimination, evidence and sexual harassment. He has taught law at the University of Richmond since 2004.

Frank Williams (Com ’87 CM) was selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. He is an attorney with Smith Moore Leatherwood in Greenville, S.C., where his practice focuses on corporate matters, including compliance, governance, and mergers and acquisitions.

J. Tinkham (Law ’87) has formed the Tinkham Law Group in Norfolk, Va. His practice focuses on commercial mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate transactions and business succession matters. His oldest son, Spencer, is a sophomore at Baylor University in Texas, and his youngest son, Clay, is a junior in high school.

Marty Hanifin (Grad ’87, Law ’93) is vice president for finance and administration at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He previously served as director of administrative services for campus operations at the University of Oregon, where he oversaw the units of budget and finance, purchasing, contracting and payroll.

Marshall Twinam (Col ’86 CM) has started his own advertising agency based in Asbury Park, N.J. He previously worked for more than 20 years at some of the country’s leading creative advertising agencies in Texas and New York City.

Rebecca Rovit (Grad ’85) published The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin with the University of Iowa Press. Through primary documents—correspondence between the Berlin Kulturbund’s theatre and the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment; play scripts and role books; production reviews and photographs; letters and memoirs; and interviews with artists who survived World War II—to show how increasingly restrictive German reality forced Jewish artists to define and redefine their identity and culture. Ms. Rovit is an assistant professor of theatre at the University of Kansas.

Henry Frey (Engr ’85) , Distinguished University Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University, received the 2012 Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award from the Air & Waste Management Association at the association’s annual meeting in San Antonio. The award is given each year to an influential educator in some field of air pollution control.

Beatriz Hardy (Grad ’84) is Salisbury University’s dean of libraries. She will be instrumental in developing the university’s new academic commons, a facility that will combine the library, special collections and academic support services. Previously, Ms. Hardy served in several administrative positions for the library system at the College of William and Mary and worked for the Maryland Historical Society, where she revamped the society’s imaging services and established its Student Research Center for History.

George Collins (Col ’84, Darden ’92, Grad ’87, Law ’92 CM) and his wife, Marketa, welcomed a daughter, Julie Marie, on Aug. 1, 2012. The family lives in Prague.

Mark Beale (Col ’84) won the National Park Service 2012 “Paint the Parks” Top 100 award. He won in two regional categories and is one of only three artists to do so. Two of his works will be part of a two-year traveling exhibit of paintings depicting U.S. national parks. American Art Collector Magazine featured his work in three issues this year.

Richard Wood (Engr ’83 CM) is professor of naval science and commanding officer of the Oregon State University Navy ROTC unit. Capt. Wood and his wife, Betsy, recently returned from a two-year tour in Guam, where Capt. Wood served as the commanding officer of Naval Base Guam. The Woods live in Corvallis, Ore.

Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 CM) is the founder and lead trainer of Baltimore Mediation. In 2012, Ms. Senft, a mediator and facilitator for various federal agencies and corporate boards, received the Brava! Award from Baltimore SmartCEO magazine in recognition of her work combining entrepreneurship and philanthropy. She serves on the boards of the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office, the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO), and the international nonprofit organizations Mediators Beyond Borders and Convergence. She previously taught at the Harvard Law School and is currently an adjunct professor teaching mediation and alternative dispute resolution at the University of Maryland School of Law.

W. Scott (Com ’83 CM) has been selected for the Best Lawyers in America 2013 in the field of real estate law. He is an attorney in the real estate group of Meyer, Unkovic & Scott in Pittsburgh.

Dan Miley (Com ’82) and his older daughter, Erin, visited Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico, and understood why the Mayans ended their long form calendar in 2012: the oppressive humidity.

Daniel Mendelsohn (Col ’82) was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2012. The American Academy, founded in 1780, is an independent research center that draws from its members’ expertise to conduct studies in science and technology policy, global security, the humanities and culture, social policy and education. Mr. Mendelsohn, an author and critic, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College. He is the author of seven books and has published numerous review essays in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine and Newsweek, among others.

Mark Hunter (Com ’82 CM) has been recommended to the diplomatic class of counselor in the Senior Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State, subject to presidential nomination, Senate confirmation and presidential attestation. Mr. Hunter was recently named director of finance for the U.S. economic development program in Pakistan.

David Dallas (Com ’82, Law ’87) has been named a 2013 Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Dallas is a corporate law attorney with Williams Mullen in Charlottesville and serves as general counsel for many area companies. He regularly advises clients about commercial transactions and disputes, venture capital financings, business purchases and sales and owner disagreements. Mr. Dallas serves on the board of directors of the Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development and on the board of trustees of the Shenandoah National Park Trust.

Peter MacKeith (Col ’81 CM) was appointed Finland’s honorary consul for Missouri on June 22, 2012, in an inauguration ceremony led by Ambassador Ritva Jolkkonen, Finnish consul general to the United States. Mr. MacKeith curated the Nordic Pavilion exhibition of architecture from Finland, Sweden and Norway at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy, which opened on August 27, 2012. He is currently associate dean, associate professor of architecture and adjunct associate curator of architecture and design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Zia Ahmed (Grad ’82 CM) is the founder and managing director of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds Bangladesh Ventures, which invests in small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh. He is also the founder and chairman of the board of directors for Venture Investment Partners Bangladesh Limited, which invests in micro and small enterprises in Bangladesh. His elder son, Zuhayr N. Ahmed (Engr ’16) began his first year at U.Va. this fall.

Patricia Bremer (Col ’81 CM) received the 2012 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service. Ms. Bremer is the sociology department administrator at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y. She also serves as chair of the arts and sciences academic judiciary committee, is a member of the arts and sciences senate and its executive committee, and is secretary of the professional employees governing board. She and her husband, John Buchner, live in Ridge, N.Y.