“Publication” Class Notes
Stephanie Standerfer (Educ ’00, Educ ’03)
Stephanie Standerfer (Educ ’00, ’03) published Line by Line: Progressive Staff Method Arrangements for Elementary Music Literacy. The text provides an early elementary music curriculum based on brain-friendly music pedagogy. Standerfer was recently named professor and director of the music education program at Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
James Brett (Col ’62)
James Richard Brett (Col ’62) published the sixth book, Waterhole, in The Few Series, in late 2019. The series is a near-future history centered on what might (have) come to be, given the materials uncovered at UCLA during Brett’s dissertation research on the beginnings of modern western epistemology in Russia. The materials were about third quarter 20th C. parapsychology research in Russia and the U.S. The series’ story begins in a small liberal arts college in southern Virginia where a young psychology professor discovers that telesentience is much more common than Dr. Rhine had shown at Duke many years before. The series builds into AI and now first contact. Brett began writing the series after his retirement in 2003 as director of the Office of University Research (Sponsored Programs) at California State University, Long Beach. He served in that position, in addition to teaching courses in Russian history, after teaching at UCLA and the University of Southern California.
Thomas Rouse (Engr ’75 CM)
Thomas L. Rouse (Engr ’75 L/M) was awarded the Community Service Awards by the Northern Kentucky Bar Association and the University of Kentucky Law Alumni Association. He is a past president of the Kentucky Bar Association and has been a practicing attorney since 1978. He is an adjunct professor of Law at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. He recently wrote Applied Ethics: Because Your Law License is Too Valuable to Lose and loves gathering with the Virginia Football Alumni Club before games at Scott Stadium. His daughter and son-in-law are Hillary Rouse Billingsley (Col ’05) and Jamie Billingsley (Com ’05).
Benjamin Lee (Col ’03)
Tyler Hoffman (Grad ’90, ’95) coedited “This Mighty Convulsion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War.
Karen Roarty-Dansfield (Engr ’79 CM)
Karen Roarty-Dansfield (Engr ’79 L/M), who retired after 33 years in materials development for the U.S. Navy, published The God of Choice under the pen name Kaye Byrd. The story centers around two families, the descendants of poor Irish immigrants and the descendants of privileged English ones whose sons cross paths during World War II. This is the first of three planned volumes that will follow the characters through the 1950’s and 1960’s.
John Knapp (Grad ’04)
John Knapp (Grad ’04) has published an academic monograph, Fiddled out of Reason, which treats the hymnic mode in British verse at the turn of the eighteenth century, focusing on works by Dryden, Pope and, especially, Joseph Addison. He teaches in New Mexico.
Luvelle Brown (Educ ’97)
Luvelle Brown (Educ ’97, ’01, ’05), the New York State Superintendent of the Year, published his second book, Culture of Love: Cultivating a Transformative and Positive Organizational Culture. The book highlights Brown’s personal and professional experiences and anecdotes as well as a process to transform culture in public and private organizations.
Vladimir Wozniuk (Grad ’80, Grad ’84 CM)
Vladimir Wozniuk (Grad ’80, ’84 L/M) edited and translated The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev. The book represents the first fully annotated and chronologically arranged collection of the Russian philosopher-poet’s most important letters, the vast majority of which have never before been translated into English. Soloviev was widely known for his close association with Fyodor M. Dostoevsky in the final years of the novelist’s life, and these letters reflect many of the qualities and contradictions that also personify the title characters of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The selected letters cover all aspects of Soloviev’s life, ranging from vital concerns about human rights and the political and religious turmoil of his day to matters related to family and friends, his love life, and early drafts of his works, including poetic endeavors.
D. Dones (Educ ’04)
D. Darell Dones (Educ ’04) is retired supervisory special agent and FBI Academy instructor with the FBI Behavioral Science Unit and current owner and senior consultant for Dones Global Solutions. Dones recently published Terrorist Recruitment of U.S. Gangs: Global Alliances and Biological Weapons.
Katherine Gekker (Col ’72, Grad ’73 CM)
Katherine Gekker (Col ’72, Grad ’73 L/M) published a poetry collection, In Search of Warm Breathing Things. Her poems have appeared in Little Patuxent Review, Delmarva Review, Broadkill Review, Apple Valley Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net. Gekker’s poems, collectively called “…to Cast a Shadow Again,” have been set to music by composer Eric Ewazen. Composer Carson Cooman has set a seasonal cycle of her poems, “Chasing the Moon Down,” to music.
Kathleen George (Col ’05)
Kathleen Gehring George (Col ’05), has published her first book Chester Chipmunk Will Not Sleep, which will be officially released in January 2020. Join Chester and his mom on a whimsical journey as Chester uncovers all the wondrous adventures that await him in his dreams. Pre-order on Amazon.
J. William Lewis (Law ’68)
J. William Lewis (Law ’68) has published a genealogy of the Lewis family, Anthony Lewis of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. If others in the UVA family are descendants of Anthony Lewis (b. 1664), William would like to hear from you at jwl@seamancapital.com. Among the other Wahoos in Anthony Lewis’ line of descent are Deirdre Lewis Mason (Col ’98), M. Scott Lewis (Col ’98 L/M) and Logan Wilson Mercer (Col ’23).
Dave Lavinsky (Darden ’92 CM)
Dave Lavinsky (Com ’92 L/M), president of management consulting firm Growthink Inc., shared his expertise on global financial comparison site Finder.com. Growthink aims to help executives and entrepreneurs grow their businesses so they can create jobs, offer customers better products and services, realize personal satisfaction and wealth, and fund programs that make the world a better place.
David Colton (Educ ’97)
David Colton (Educ ’97) published his second book, The Case for Universal Health Care. His first, Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation, was written with retired Curry School of Education professor Robert Covert.
Christopher Wigren (Arch ’89, Col ’79 CM)
Christopher Wigren (Col ’79, Arch ’89 L/M) published Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places, which recently received a Connecticut Book Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book. Wigren is deputy director of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.
Peter Kline (Grad ’06)
Peter Kline (Grad ’06) will published his second collection of poems in November 2019. Mirrorforms is described as “a daring, experimental collection of poems in which language reaches its most pressurized state. Kline has invented a new poetic form, the mirrorform, which he uses with musical verve to essentialize thought and intensify feeling. The result is that these poems achieve jewel-like precision: each darkly glinting facet reveals the nuances and ambiguities of longing, transgression, and faith. These poems are sharply ironic, darkly funny, and ferocious, and mark out a unique place in contemporary American poetry.”
Harrison Tisdale (Col ’16 CM)
Harrison A. Tisdale (Col ’16 L/M) published The Geode King in July 2019. The book can be found on Amazon.
Trent Dickey (Col ’77 CM)
Trent S. Dickey (Col ’77 L/M) published two articles in the PR Daily in China, United States Patent Disputes and The Asian LED Industry and Chinese Companies Asserting Patents in the United States. He practices commercial and IP litigation nationally with Sills Cummis & Gross and lives in New Jersey with his wife of 38 years, N. Janine Plauka Dickey (Col ’79 L/M). She is an attorney/business mediator. Owing to his IP legal work for both U.S. companies working with Chinese companies and directly with large Chinese entities, Mr. Dickey will speak at the World Lawyers Conference hosted by the All China Lawyer’s Association in Guangzhou on Dec. 10, 2019.
Jack Sutor (Col ’69)
Jack Sutor Jr. (Col ’69) published The Ice Meadows, a novel set in and around Virginia, under the pen name Edmund Burwell.
Patrick McCreesh (Col ’02 CM)
Patrick McCreesh (Col ’02 L/M) is a lecturer at the George Mason University School of Business. He recently coauthored a book, Workplace Attachments: Managing Beneath the Surface, which was published by Routledge as part of its series on employment relations. McCreesh is the cofounder of Simatree, a data analytics and strategy consultancy. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Courtney Lodge McCreesh (Col ’03 L/M) and their four daughters.
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