“Publication” Class Notes
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.
David Beers (Col ’75 CM)
David T. Beers (Col ’75 L/M) and his coauthor, Patrisha de Leon-Manlagnit, published their latest joint staff working paper on the BoC-BoE sovereign default database. Covering the period 1960-2018, it’s the only data set that quantifies and tracks all types of defaulted debt owed to official and private creditors. The paper is available for download and the 2019 version of the database is available here.
Chad Cole (Engr ’06)
Chad Cole (Engr ’06) published his first book on Amazon, My 93 Year Old Roommate, which documents the two years he spent living with his grandfather.
Elizabeth Cornetta (Educ ’02 CM)
Elizabeth “Liz” Martinez Cornetta (Educ ’02 L/M) published The Argyle Crocodile Learns About Being Different, a children’s book that will make you feel good about yourself and inspire you to help others feel good about themselves. Available for purchase at MascotBooks.com
Deborah Hammond (Arch ’82 CM)
Deborah E. Sheetenhelm Hammond (Arch ’82 L/M) has published her 20th novel, Both Sides Now. Set in 2019 and 1861, the novel explores the first summer of the Civil War in the town of Martinsburg, West Virginia, then Martinsburg, Virginia. Focusing on the historical facts of that summer, the novel explores the experience from the eyes of a 21st century woman who has time traveled to her own hometown during the first perilous weeks of the war. She knows what is coming, but can do nothing to change it. This and all novels are available on Amazon.com and at local book signing events.
Betty Roberts (Nurs ’53)
Betty Phipps Roberts’ (Nurs ’53) book about Alzheimer’s, Midnight Chronicles, will be entered in the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, the largest and oldest book fair in the world, founded in 500, after the invention of the printing press. Roberts says, “My ‘advanced age’ never bothers me until I pick up the Virginia Magazine, turn to Class Notes and find the first listing as the ’60s. Where are the ’50s folks? Surely I’m not the only one still doing ‘stuff.’”
Spalding Manson (Com ’68)
Ken Manson (Com ’68) published Bring Me Back Alive: A Memoir of Adventure, Luck, and Terror in the Air. Manson’s first book covers his harrowing flying experiences as a U.S. Air Force pilot during the Vietnam War years. The book starts in 1967 with his initial training at he the UVA Airport (Milton Field) and concludes with his experiences as a Jolly Green Giant rescue pilot in 1973. Among the many unforgettable characters in the book is CMSGT Duane Hackney (the most decorated airman in the history of the Air Force) who flew with then-Capt. Manson during his time in the Air Rescue & Recovery Service. Flip Viles (Col ’68) served as an editor to make the book a reality. Mr. Manson is the father of Ashley Manson Marratt (Col 94) and William Manson (Col ’99), who is a doctor at the UVA Hospital.
Sarah Matalone (Col ’11)
Lee Matalone (Col ’11) will publish Home Making, her first novel, in February 2020. The novel is about the intersection of three people as they come to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home. Matalone writes about death and loss for The Rumpus. She lives in South Carolina, where she is a lecturer at Clemson University.
Cybil is a war child—the result of a brief affair between a young Japanese woman and a French
soldier—who at a young age is transplanted to Tucson, Arizona, and raised by an American
officer and his rigid wife. An outsider in a white neighborhood, Cybil rebels in adolescence and
grows up to become a successful ob-gyn.
Chloe, Cybil’s daughter, is adrift in an empty house in the hills of Virginia. Her marriage has
fallen apart, and her estranged husband is dying of cancer. Room by room, Chloe makes her new
house into a home, grappling with the stories she has inherited from her mother and eventually
uncovering a deep betrayal.
Beau, Chloe’s closest friend, remains in love with a man he knew from his youth in Lake
Charles, Louisiana. Shepherding Chloe through her grief, he is often called back to his loud,
humid, chaotic childhood in Southwest Louisiana, where he first reckoned with the intricate ties
between queerness, loneliness, and place.
Charles Snyder (Grad ’79)
Charles W. Snyder (Grad ’73, ’79) published an article, “The Economics of Plenty: Glenn Frank and the Great Depression,” in Summer 2018 issue of The Historian.
Manja Rodriguez (Col ’03)
Maya Lazarevic Rodriguez (Col ’03) published her first book, Grenades as Lullabies, which tells the inspirational true story of a thrilling escape from a harrowing civil war in Bosnia.
Catherine Brown (Col ’97)
Catherine Keller Brown (Col ’97) co-edited Hope for Recovery: Stories of Healing from Eating Disorders with Christina Tinke. The book’s diverse essays emphasize each writer’s journey to recovery, providing hope for individuals suffering from an eating disorder and their loved ones. In addition to these highly personal, vulnerable essays, the book includes informative sections with insights from mental health professionals on topics such as how families can help loved ones affected by eating disorders. A portion of the book’s proceeds will be donated to local and national eating disorder organizations.
Pamela Lawton (Col ’81)
Pamela Harris Lawton (Col ’81), associate professor in art education at Virginia Commonwealth University, just completed a distinguished chair Fulbright at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and a Tate Modern Exchange Artist Associateship in London. She published Community-based Art Education Across the Lifespan: Finding Common Ground based on 18 years of research in community-based art.
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