“Retirement” Class Notes

Thomas R. Bagby (Col ’72, Law ’75 L/M) retired from practicing law at Woods Rogers in Roanoke, Virginia. He was the longtime chair of the firm’s labor and employment practice and was formerly the chair and president of the firm. He was president of the Virginia Bar Association in 2013. Bagby and his wife, Kathleen, will continue to live in Roanoke and plan to spend winters in their home in the historic center of Merida, Mexico. They have two sons, Matthew Bagby (Col ’08), and David Bagby (Col ’09), who live and work in Singapore and Dubai, respectively.

Bill “Philly” Reeside (Engr ’77 L/M) retired from the nuclear power industry in March 2019. Highlights include 10 years as a licensed senior reactor operator and seven trips to North Korea in support of the Korean Peninsula Economic Development Organization. KEDO was a cooperative effort among North Korea, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. to substitute commercial nuclear power for nuclear weapon development. Reeside now works part-time with Habitat for Humanity in York County, South Carolina, after more than 40 years as a volunteer. He and his wife, Sandy, will represent Habitat at a Big Build in Romania this fall.

Peter Clarke (Engr ’85 L/M), a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, is retiring from military service after a 34-year-career. After a career on submarines, he most recently served as the director of strategic plans, policy and logistics for the U.S. Transportation Command, where he led efforts to transform the joint force’s understanding of strategic mobility and was instrumental in shifting the command’s mindset from business to warfighting.

Lisa Smith Arbelaez (Col ’79 L/M) retired in January 2019 following a 39-year career at the National Security Agency. She now spends time traveling, gardening, relaxing, and continuing to support the agency a couple days a week. She and husband, Bill, live in Columbia, Maryland. 

Curtis Tomlin (Col ’70) served as the first director of personnel for (then) Virginia Telephone & Telegraph in Charlottesville. He later served 10 years as director of development for Athens Collegem, now Athens State University, in Athens, Alabama. Beginning in 1980, he served in the hotel industry in Florida until his retirement in 1999.

Bob Goodrich (Col ’78 L/M), Billy Bolton (Com ’78 L/M), and others hosted an April 2019 retirement party outside of Charlottesville for their classmate Charlie Blair (Col ’78, Educ ’91 L/M), who retired this spring after a 40-year career as teacher, coach and administrator at Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia. Blair received a letter of congratulations from UVA President James Ryan. Goodrich retired in 2018 after practicing law for 33 years. An ongoing battle with acute myeloid leukemia is taking him and his wife, Sally Tanner Goodrich (Col ’78, Educ ’79 L/M), to Duke Medical Center for a second stem cell transplant.  

Cathy Carrell Teague (Educ ’80 L/M) retired Feb. 1, 2019 after 30 years with State Farm Life Insurance Company. She and Joe Teague (Col ’84 L/M) have been married 27 years and live in Bloomington, Illinois.

Arthur “Tucker” Miller (Educ ’74) retired from the University of Montana after 33 years as a professor and former chair of the Health and Human Performance Department. Miller spent 40 years in public and higher education, including positions in Crozet, Virginia, at Idaho State University and at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.  

Ronald S. Warren Jr. (Col ’71 L/M) retired in July 2017 from the University of Georgia as professor of economics after 32 years of service. He was previously assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia, economic policy fellow at The Brookings Institution, and economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. During his career, Warren published more than 40 articles in scholarly journals and served in numerous administrative positions at the department, college and university levels. He lives in Athens, Georgia, with his wife, Joanna. Their daughter, Rebecca Rainbow (Col ’16 L/M), lives in Charlottesville.

Irwin Shur (Col ’80, Law ’83) has retired after 35 years of law practice, the last 10 as vice president, general counsel and secretary for Snap-on Inc. In his last few years in practice, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Milwaukee Business Journal in 2014, and served as a member of the US Department of Commerce Manufacturing Council from 2015-2016. In addition to keeping a hand in the business world in some capacity, he intends to spend more time on his music, as well as that of his daughter, who recently released her first album, Ceasefire, recorded with her father in the fall of 2018.

Melissa Drisko (Col ’81 L/M) retired as deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency on Oct. 1, 2018, following 37 years in the intelligence community. She began her career as a Naval Intelligence officer, followed by assignments at the CIA and as the deputy director of Naval Intelligence.

Diane McCool Foos (Nurs ’74 L/M) retired from her career as a certified registered nurse anesthetist.  She enjoys returning to Charlottesville to watch her niece, Meghan McCool (Col ’20), play on the UVA women’s soccer team. Go Hoos!

Tom Corrigan (Col ’75) retired as executive vice president and CFO of Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware. He previously worked for Anheuser-Busch Companies and Automatic Data Processing.

Clyde E. “Sonny” Ellis (Col ’75 L/M) retired as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Parsons Corp., an international design and engineering solutions provider. Prior to joining Parsons in 2006, Ellis was an in-house counsel to General Electric and before that was a partner in the firm of Bryan Cave, where he spent seven years as the head of the firm’s office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2016, Ellis was recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the year’s “Attorneys Who Matter” in the field of corporate compliance and ethics.

Charlie F. Sutton (Col ’69 L/M) retired from ministry in the Episcopal Church in 2009 after 27 years. He was received into the Anglican Church in North America shortly afterwards. He now serves in the Anglican Diocese in New England as one of three bishop’s chaplains for clergy care and, after serving for a time as interim rector, is an assisting priest at All Saints Anglican Church in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He celebrates 43 years of marriage to Mary Meade Sutton in August 2018. They have two children, five grandchildren, and one on the way. They enjoy walking, biking, camping, and small boat sailing.

Byron S. Shenk (Grad ’90) retired after 28 years at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, where he taught health and human performance and athletic training. Over the course of his career, he taught at Goshen College, Woodstock School in India and Eastern Mennonite University, where he also coached soccer, wrestling, and track and field.

Christopher Goff (Col ’74 L/M) has retired as senior vice president and general counsel of HarperCollins Publishers in New York after 28 years. After graduating from the University, he received his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Tom Riley (Col ’72) retired in March 2018 from the University of Mary Washington, where he served as the director of student health and university physician for 11 years. Previously, he was a board-certified family physician in private practice at Midlothian Family Practice for 23 years. He and his son, Morgan Riley (Law ’12), live in Midlothian Virginia.