“Publication” Class Notes

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

Elah Murphy (Grad ’99) has published The Art of Survival: France and the Great War Picaresque (Yale University Press, August 2016). The book shows how French soldiers in World War I drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves as survivors, rather than heroes or victims. Ms. Murphy is chair and associate professor of French at Oberlin College.

Stuart Smith (Grad ’93 CM) has written a book, Finding Your Financial Path: A Guide for Women Through Life’s Twists and Turns (Amazon Digital Services, October 2016). The book serves as a practical guide for women to gain control of their finances when going through life’s major transitions, like divorce, death of a spouse, retirement or marriage. Ms. Smith, a professional wealth adviser, is giving away her book to young women looking to launch their independent lives; she is also selling the Kindle edition online. She and her husband, Stephen T. Smith (Grad ’94 L/M), live in Austin, Texas.

Deborah Hammond (Arch ’82 CM) has released the second edition of her ninth novel, In the Eye of the Storm, and her 10th, As Time Goes By. Two of the main characters in As Time Goes By are based on fellow graduates of the University’s class of 1982.

Daryl Dance (Grad ’71) has published In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mother and Muse (University of Virginia Press). This is her ninth book. Ms. Dance is professor emerita of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond.

Dennis Unkovic (Col ’70) has published a new book, Face: How Saving Face Changes Everything (Amazon Kindle Single, August 2016). Condensing more than three decades of experience from traveling to 59 countries, Mr. Unkovic provides anecdotes and practical advice to describe the pitfalls of conversation, showing that how you express yourself can be more critical than what you say.

Rei Magosaki (Grad ’08) has published Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production (Fordham University Press, 2016). This book is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian-American writers and their non-Asian-American editors and publishers.

John Ragosta (Col ’08 CM) has published his third book, Patrick Henry: Proclaiming a Revolution (Routledge Historical Americans, August 2016). Mr. Ragosta is a visiting assistant professor of history at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.