“Publication” Class Notes
Barbara Garrity-Blake (Grad ’88, Grad ’91)
Barbara J. Garrity-Blake (Grad ’88, ’91) will publish Living at the Water’s Edge (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) in April. The book is a heritage guide to the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway with four full-color maps as well as many color and black-and-white photographs. It shares the stories of people who have shaped their lives out of the region’s saltwater and sand, giving cultural dimension to the beach experience that many visitors never see. Ms. Garrity-Blake is a cultural anthropologist and lives in Gloucester, North Carolina.
Anne Mottola (Col ’86 CM)
Anne Mottola (Col ’86 L/M) has written her first children’s book, What Grows in the Garden? (New York Botanical Garden Press, 2016). The book is the first of three, with the sequels (What Lives in the Garden? and What Do You Sense in the Garden?) due in early 2017. From broccoli to tomatoes, this book offers full-color illustrations, drawn by the author’s sister, and is intended for children ages four to eight. Readers learn where these 12 types of vegetables are grown, how they grow and what parts of the plants are edible.
Holly Eger (Grad ’84)
Holly Hodder Eger (Grad ’84) has published Split Rock: A Novel (Conzett Verlag, 2016). Set on Martha’s Vineyard, it is the story of a young mother forced to confront her past when tempted by an unresolved love.
Harriet Schloss (Grad ’83)
Harriet Pollack Schloss (Grad ’83) has published Eudora Welty’s Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman (University of Georgia Press, 2016). The book includes significant reading of 62 visual images and works extensively with the unpublished manuscripts of Eudora Welty from the civil rights era of the 1960s-80s. Ms. Pollack is a professor of English at Bucknell University.
Aaron Margosis (Col ’83, Engr ’88 CM)
Aaron J. Margosis (Col ’83, Engr ’88 L/M) co-authored his second book, Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools (Microsoft Press, 2016), with Microsoft Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich. Mr. Margosis is a principal consultant with Microsoft Cybersecurity Services.
Deborah Hammond (Arch ’82 CM)
Deborah E. Sheetenhelm Hammond (Arch ’82 L/M) has released her 11th novel, Storm Chaser. The second book in the Storm series, Storm Chaser follows Inspector Hugh Flynn of Scotland Yard as he works undercover to solve the death of a duke’s brother and an earl’s son and to catch the man responsible.
Alfred Shackelford (Col ’78, Law ’83 CM)
Alfred C. “Fred” Shackelford III (Col ’78, Law ’83 L/M) of Keswick, Virginia, has published his first novel, The Ticket (Black Opal Books, 2016). The story features Channing Booker, a compulsive gambler, drug abuser and philanderer whose marriage is failing, who finally gets lucky and wins the Mega Millions lottery. The plot unfolds as Booker attempts to hide the winning ticket from his soon-to-be ex-wife, who flees with all her possessions, including the rare book in which the ticket was hidden. Mr. Shackelford, an attorney with the National Legal Research Group, is the son of A. Colquitt Shackelford Jr. (Col ’51 L/M) and Mary L. Shackelford (Educ ’53 L/M), husband of Anne R. Shackelford (Educ ’82), father of Charles A. Shackelford (Engr ’09) and brother of Lilian Shackelford Murray (Com ’80 L/M) and Mary Shackelford Tise (Col ’76 L/M).
Debbie Levy (Col ’78 CM)
Debbie Levy (Col ’78 L/M) has published her latest children’s picture book, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark (Simon & Schuster, 2016). The book tells the story of the Supreme Court justice’s life through the lens of her many dissents; it shares the message that disagreeing doesn’t have to make you disagreeable and that important change happens one disagreement at a time. I Dissent has received an Orbis Pictus Honor award from the National Council of Teachers of English and a Eureka! Gold Award from the California Reading Association.
Leigh Grossman (Fellow ’81, Res ’78)
Leigh B. Grossman (Res ’78, Fellow ’81) has published The Parent’s Survival Guide to Daycare Infections (Marigold Books, 2016). A collaborative effort between 37 accomplished authors and edited by Dr. Grossman, a professor of pediatrics at the UVA School of Medicine, fellow UVA faculty contributors included Susan M. Anderson (Res ’83, Med ’85), Michael F. Rein (Res ’73), Karen S. Rheuban (Res ’78, Fellow ’80), Theresa A. Schlager (Fellow ’90), Tania A. Thomas (Fellow ’12), Ronald B. Turner (Res ’79) and Linda A. Waggoner-Fountain (Res ’92, ’93, Fellow ’96).
Alma Gottlieb (Grad ’78, Grad ’83)
Alma J. Gottlieb (Grad ’78, ’83) has published a new book called A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2017) along with co-writer Judy DeLoache, who is professor emerita of psychology at the University. Ms. Gottlieb is professor emerita of anthropology and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-founder of the Beng Community Fund, a nongovernmental organization that funds locally requested development projects in Côte d’Ivoire Beng villages.
Frank Price (Col ’76, Med ’80 CM)
Frank M. Price (Col ’76, Med ’80 L/M) of Phoenix, Arizona, has published Bypass This Book: How to Avoid or Survive Cardiac Bypass Surgery (Amazon, 2016). A former Echols Scholar, Dr. Price combines medical fiction with factual information on the history; prevention; risk factors and treatment options of heart disease, and autobiographical stories about coronary disease and its complications.
Richard Miller (Col ’75 CM)
Richard B. Miller (Col ’75 L/M) has published Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia University Press, 2016). Mr. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Michael Ross (Col ’70, Law ’77 CM)
Michael C. “Mike” Ross (Col ’70, Law ’77 L/M) has published the second volume of quotes collected from decades of his reading of literary fiction, titled Ross’s Timely Discoveries (Rare Bird Books, 2016). The two volumes contain favorite literary quotations from more than 1,500 well-read books on his shelves; the quotes in this volume are about time, past/present/future, age and memory. Mr. Ross, who practiced corporate law until his retirement in 2004, lives in Orinda, California, with his wife and two children.
Charles Woody (Col ’69)
Charles L. Woody (Col ’69 L/M), an adjunct professor of law at Washington and Lee University’s law school, has published an article, “An Argument for Use of Stock Options with Forfeiture Clauses for Breach of Duty of Loyalty” in the West Virginia Law Review Online. He is also counsel in the Charleston, West Virginia, office of Spilman Thomas & Battle.
Charles Cox (Col ’66 CM)
Charles C. Cox III (Col ’66 L/M) has published My Trip Abroad, 1902–03, by Ruth Kent (CreateSpace, 2016). It is the transcribed travelogue of the Kent family of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and their yearlong travels through Europe, beginning in 1902, the year Ms. Kent graduated from Smith College. Many of the locations the family visited were destroyed in World War II—including St. Nicholas Cathedral in Hamburg, the Reichstag building in Berlin and the New Synagogue in Berlin, which seated more than 3,000. Mr. Cox’s next volume will follow the family’s travels through England, France and Italy. Mr. Cox has been an adjunct lecturer in history at Boston’s Northeastern University since 1970. He has also been a businessman in Providence, Rhode Island, for much of his life since graduating from the University.
Kennneth Ringle (Col ’61)
Kenneth A. Ringle (Col ’61) published his first novel, Squeeze Play, through Amazon in September 2016. He has devoted much of his life to sailing since he retired as a writer and critic for the Washington Post in 2004. He has voyaged more than 10,000 miles offshore, much of it as a tall-ship crewman, including one transatlantic passage in a 40-foot sloop from Lisbon to West Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Ringle is also a recognized authority on noted historical author Patrick O’Brian, on whose maritime work he has organized and led seminars at the Smithsonian Institution, Mystic Seaport and other venues.
Jacob Towery (Med ’06)
Jacob Towery MD (Med ’06) is an adolescent and adult psychiatrist in Palo Alto, CA. I also teach on the Adjunct Clinical Faculty at Stanford. I graduated from UVA Med in 2006 and loved my time in Charlottesville. I recently published my first book, titled The Anti-Depressant Book. It is a self-help book for teenagers and adults who are struggling with depression. It offers a drug-free, step-by-step solution to feeling happier quickly and developing healthy habits that will prevent relapse. This book covers the basics of cognitive behavioral therapy for emerging from depression and staying well. There are also brief sections for parents who are struggling with a depressed child. The book was written as a response to the suicide clusters in Palo Alto to help prevent as many suicides as possible. The Anti-Depressant Book can be used as an adjunct to traditional therapy, or by itself, particularly for those with mild to moderate depression. It is irreverent, fun to read, and practical. The book is written in a straightforward, conversational style that works particularly well for teenagers and young adults, but adults who follow all the steps will also see dramatic improvement in their moods and lives. It can be purchased on Amazon here: http://tinyurl.com/Anti-DepressantBook
Guy St. Clair (Col ’63 CM)
Guy St. Clair’s latest book, Knowledge Services: A Strategic Framework for the 21st Century Organization (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016) was published in November, 2016. In the book, Guy defines knowledge services as “…an approach to the management of intellectual capital that converges information management, knowledge management, and strategic learning into a single enterprise-wide discipline. The purpose of knowledge services is to ensure the highest levels of knowledge sharing within the organization in which it is practiced, with leadership in knowledge sharing the responsibility of the knowledge strategist. This book is written to provide guidance for the knowledge strategist and to serve as a reference for that management employee.”
Sarah Schweig (Col ’07)
Sarah V. Schweig’s (Col ’07) book of poems, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2016. She currently lives and works as a writer in New York City.
Nelson Neal (Educ ’85)
Nelson D. Neal (Educ ’85) has just published an annotated bibliography on Hemsley Winfield: The Forgotten Modern Dance Pioneer. He started his research on Winfield in 1991 when he was one of 25 faculty members nationwide chosen to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities “Black Tradition in American Modern Dance” project which was held at Duke University during the American Dance Festival. Having researched Winfield’s career for 25 years later, the book will be available for purchase in February 2017. The book has 126 pages with 423 annotations and 15 images, is softcover, glossy, and 6×9. Nelson started his dance training at SUNY Cortland under Bess Koval. At the University of Wisconsin, he studied under Mary Fee and earned his M.S. in dance. At Virginia, he earned his degree in Motor Learning and Control.
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