“Publication” Class Notes
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.
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.’”
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