“Publication” Class Notes
Pete Hardesty (Col ’97 CM)
Pete Hardesty (Col ’97 L/M) finally figured out how to be an adult (barely) and published a book, Adulting 101, in March 2018. It became an Amazon #1 bestseller within a week. The book covers topics like the purpose of life, money, time management, how to interview and get a job, how to become a millionaire, relationships, sex and dating, professionalism, how to be wildly successful at work, and much, much more.
Vivian Lerner (Col ’74)
Vivian Lerner (Col ’74) published Stories of My Aunt Greta: A True Survivor. The book tells a series of stories about Greta, who grew up in pre-Nazi Austria before her family had to leave suddenly. Ending up in Lima, Peru, she found herself in a strange new world of new language and new customs. Her attempt at adapting is told with honesty and humor. The story then follows her move, at age 21, to New York. The book tells a survivor’s story of a life well-lived. It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and local bookstores.
Richard Fowler (Col ’56, Educ ’60 CM)
Richard Fowler (Col ’56, Educ ’60 L/M) recently completed the third volume of the previously unpublished history of Laurens County, South Carolina through 1900 as chief writer and editor. He served as president of the South Carolina Education Association in 1973 and served as editor of the Virginia Literary Magazine in 1958.
Deborah Hammond (Arch ’82 CM)
Deborah Sheetenhelm Hammond (Arch ’82) has released her nineteenth novel. Scotland for the Summer, it is a contemporary story about second chances set primarily in the Highlands of Scotland and in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Scotland for the Summer is available on Amazon.
JoAnne Mancini (Col ’90 CM)
JoAnne Mancini (Col ’90 L/M) published Art and War in the Pacific World: Making, Breaking, and Taking from Anson’s Voyage to the Philippine-American War. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children.
Kate Thomas (Col ’02 CM)
Kate Hendricks Thomas (Col ’02) published an anthology, Bulletproofing the Psyche: Preventing Mental Health Problems in Our Military and Veterans. An assistant professor of public health at Charleston Southern University, Thomas’s anthology pulls together a team of leaders in the fields of security studies, social work, public health, and veterans’ health practice to outline the case for such skills-building. Mental fitness training methods include body-based protocols long used in the treatment sector to rewire brains after trauma. Weaving together personal stories from military veterans and the latest in holistic behavioral medicine research, this book offers a call to action and health for those interested in peak performance. Watch the book trailer at www.bulletproofingthepsyche.com.
John Kennard (Col ’68, Darden ’73)
John V.O. Kennard (Col ’68, Darden ’73) has published a book, D-Day Journal: The Untold Story of a U.S. Ranger on Omaha Beach (Koehler Books). In anticipation of the 75th anniversary of D-day (June 6, 2019), the book is based on previously unpublished letters written by the author’s father, Frank L. Kennard, a 22-year-old Lieutenant fresh out of Yale University who volunteered and trained in England with the newly formed 2nd Ranger Battalion. Landing under intense fire in the first hours of D-Day, Kennard’s Ranger cannon platoon lost their equipment and half the men. He and his seven remaining men overcame enormous odds to help achieve the Rangers’ objective at Pointe du Hoc: to take out the big German guns overlooking Normandy beaches and hold the ground. Lt. Kennard soon became battalion adjutant and served through every Ranger battle to the end of the war. After 75 years, his journal of the battalion is the first published record of vivid wartime experiences written by a Ranger with Kennard’s perspective.
Peter Lovie (Engr ’64 CM)
Peter Lovie (Engr ’64 L/M) published a book, ETA and Its Jackups: Pioneering, Engineering and Making it in America, which tells the story of his company, Engineering Technology Analysts, and its innovative designs for jackups, elevated rigs used in offshore oil drilling. Learn more here.
Denise Tucker (Grad ’93)
Denise A. Tucker (Grad ’93), a professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, has published her second mystery novel, On The House (Bluewater Press), which takes place at the Palace of Versailles. The book is the second in The House Mystery series, which is set in famous residences around the world. Book one, Keeping House, takes place in the White House. Seven books are planned in the series, and Thomas Jefferson makes a cameo appearance in each one as he sets the stage for the story. Tucker’s books are available on Amazon, Kindle, and Bluewater Press website.
Donald Jenkins (Col ’71)
Don Jenkins (Col ’71) published a book, The Lost Civil War Diary of John Rigdon King (Arcadia Publishing/The History Press) on Oct. 29, 2018. Jenkins wrote the book, a biography of a 17-year-old civilian from Hagerstown, Maryland, alongside the transcription of the civilian’s diary, after retiring from a lengthy career in public service.
David Rojohn (Engr ’74)
David G. Rojohn (Engr ’74) contributed to a book by his sister, The Piggyback Flight Pilot’s Journey, which is about their father’s landing of two B17s simultaneously after a mid-air collision over the North Sea in World War II. The book, which chronicles Glenn Rojohn’s journey as a pilot, life as POW and the aftermath, was the result of several years of work and research and comes out a year before the event’s 75th anniversary.
Michael Widener (Col ’72 CM)
Michael N. Widener (Col ’72 L/M) is adjunct professor of business law and ethics in the School of Business at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. His paper, “Populist Placemaking: Grounds for Open Government-Citizen Spatial Regulation Discourse,” will be published in Vol. 119 of the West Virginia Law Review in early 2019.
Mark Scharf (Col ’84 CM)
Mark Scharf (Grad ’84 L/M) had three of his new plays recently published: The Quickening, his adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and his play Fortune’s Child. Visit his website for more information.
Michael Ross (Col ’70, Law ’77 CM)
Mike Ross (Col ’70, Law ’77 L/M) published two more collections of quotations. Ross’s Thoughtful Discoveries was published in Dec. 2017 and Ross’s Personal Discoveries in Nov. 2018, both by Rare Bird Press. The books are available on Amazon.
Betty Roberts (Nurs ’53)
Betty Roberts (Nurs ’53) published Midnight Chronicles, which tells the story of a strong man’s journey as he deals with Alzheimer’s day after day. Told through the eyes of his nurse/caregiver/wife, it relates the effect on his life and on the lives of his family from the early, undiagnosed stage one to the disability of stage seven. A member of the Apollo Team who helped put the man on the moon, he now forgets how to live like a man on earth.
Andrew Graciano (Grad ’97, Grad ’02)
Andrew Graciano (Grad ’97, ’02) a professor of European art history and the director of graduate studies at the University of South Carolina’s School of Visual Art and Design, will publish his fourth book—an edited volume called Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine since 1800: Models and Modeling (Routledge)—in March 2019. His most recent article is forthcoming in the Dutch journal, Oud Holland, in Dec. 2018. He is married with two children.
Lisa Childress (Col ’96)
Lisa Wechsler Childress (Col ’96) published the second edition of her book, The Twenty-First Century University: Developing Faculty Engagement in Internationalization (Peter Lang Publishers). The book identifies what successful universities have done to overcome endogenous challenges and successfully engage faculty in the internationalization process. Lisa’s husband, Trey Childress (Col ’97), is on sabbatical from Pepperdine University School of Law, where he has served as dean of faculty and professor of law, to serve as counselor on international law at the U.S. Department of State. Trey recently argued before the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
John Quale (Arch ’93 CM)
John Quale (Arch ’93 L/M) is chair and professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico. He recently coedited and coauthored a book, Offisite Architecture: Constructing the Future (Routledge), which addresses theoretical and practical applications of prefabricated design and construction. Quale was on the UVA architecture faculty for 15 years.
Lloyd Stamy (Col ’73 CM)
Lloyd Stamy (Col ’73 CM) has published a novel, Reunion of Strangers. The tale chronicles the lifelong relationship of an investment manager (and occasional CIA operative), and his former high school classmate, a world renowned psychologist, after they reconnect in surprising, rewarding and frightening ways. The story is one of unbridled, abiding passion for love and life itself. Stamy, an English major who lives in Pittsburgh, began writing full-time after retiring in 2013 following a decades-long career in the institutional investment business. Visit his author page for more information: www.amazon.com/author/lloyd.stamy
Cheryl Bragg (Col ’78)
Cheryl Fuller-Bragg (Col ’78) co-authored a book, Maine Colonist, Nathaniel Fuller and Descendants: Including the Russ Family of Oxford County (GreenKids Press).
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