Class Notes

Rita M. Barksdale (Engr ’93 L/M) is general manger at GE Appliances for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in Brussels, Belgium.

Donald A. Johnston III (Col ’66 L/M) is chief judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit court in Grand Rapids, Mi., for 2010-2011.

Ian M. Toner (Arch ’99 L/M), is a LEED-accredited architect and founder of Toner Architects. He and his wife, Becky, live in Philadelphia, Pa., where Becky is a language specialist at the University of Pennsylvania. They have a 3-year-old daughter, Lily Grace.

Tara Goserud Smith (Col ’99 L/M) and her husband, Todd, welcomed their second child, Jackson Robert, on June 28, 2010. Jackson joins sister Molly, 2. The family resides in West Linn, Or.

Ashley Wallace Borders (Com ’93 L/M) and her husband, Keith Borders, celebrated the birth of their daughter, Esmé Cecily, on April 12, 2010. Esmé joins big brother Colin, 2. The family resides near Richmond, Va.

Michael Cairo (Grad ’94, ’99) is associate professor of political science at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. He leaves Georgetown College, where he was a member of the political science department for nearly ten years.

Margaret Howard (Col ’05 L/M) and Eric Hill were married on May 29, 2010, in Lynchburg, Va. Bridesmaids included Bre diGiammarino (Col ’05), Elizabeth Howard (Nurs ’11), and Julie Hudson (Com ’06). The couple resides in Charlottesville.

Sara Hester (Col ’07) has joined the Darden class of 2012 after three years at Deloitte Consulting in Washington, D.C.

Erika Harvey Nichols (Educ ’94, ’95 L/M) and her husband, Richard D. Nichols, welcomed their first child, Richard John (RJ),on October 11, 2009. The family resides in Gainesville, Va.

Brian Scott Plautz (Educ ’98) and his wife, Julie, welcomed their first child, Brady Scott, on March 25, 2010. The family resides in Littleton, Colo.

Elizabeth Tayloe Courts (Nurs ’72 A/M) received a doctorate in nursing practice from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., on May 9, 2010. Ms. Courts is an assistant professor at Shenandoah University and family nurse practitioner at Corporate Health Center in Sterling, Va.

Deborah L. Stroman (Educ ’82 L/M) is chair of the University of North Carolina’s Black Faculty and Staff Caucus.

Elizabeth Whittecar (Arch ’07 L/M) and Luke Roloff (Col ’07 L/M) were married on May 1, 2010 at King Family Vineyards in Crozet, Va.  Mr. Roloff is a police officer and Ms. Whittecar works as an architect for SmithGroup in Washington, D.C.  The couple resides in Alexandria, Va.

Frank Maloney (Col ’82 CM) + Frank C. Maloney IV (Col ’82 L/M) and Jim Hobgood (Col ’73, Grad ’75) produce and host HOOS TALKING, a weekly radio program promoting U.Va. athletics.

Christopher Scott D’Angelo (Col ’75, Law ’78 L/M) was a speaker on the program “Collective Redress / Class Action in the European Union—Blessing or Curse? Newest Developments and the Green Paper of the EU Commission: Evaluation and Comments” that was presented at the International Association of Defense Counsel’s Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic on May 8, 2009. Mr. D’angelo was also the moderator for the program “Ethics: The Erosion of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, and Its Effect On In-House Counsel,” which was presented at the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel’s Corporate Counsel Symposium, held in Philadelphia, Penn., in September 2010. Mr. D’Angelo is a partner in the litigation department at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP and is chairman of its products liability & mass torts section and vice chairman of its sports, entertainment & amusements law practice.

Charles Margetta (Darden ’65) is a member of the not-for-profit resource group formed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets rules affecting how business, banks and the financial industries measure and report their financial health and profitability or losses. Mr. Margetta is a member of Plum & Company, CPAs in Sarasota, Fla.

Deborah Austin Armstrong (Col ’88 L/M) completed her residency in family medicine June 26, 2010 at Wake Forest Family and Community Medicine.

Peter Beer (Law ’86 A/M) retired in December after 30 years as United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

James Tysse (Col ’02, Law ’06 L/M) is the 2010-2011 Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the United States Sentencing Commission. He is a law clerk for Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Khari Grant (Col ’98 L/M) and Chantel Fitzgerald Grant (Col ’99) celebrated the birth of their second child, Niara-Avani, on March 31, 2010.

Chip Woodard (Col ’00, Med ’10 L/M) welcomed son, Weston Charles, on Oct. 3, 2009. Weston joins sisters Larkin Anna and Ainsley Claire. Mr. Woodard completed his residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the U.Va. Health System in June and is completing a fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at Stanford University.

Leslie Parpart (Col ’95, Educ ’95 L/M) and her husband, Kurt Friday, welcomed their son, William Bennett, and their daughter, Mary Claire Conoly, on March 17, 2010. The family resides in Richmond, Va. Bennett and Mary Claire are the nephew and neice of Andy Parker (Col ’84, Law ’90 L/M) and Susan Friday Parker (Educ ’96).

Emily Lauren Greene (Arch ’06) received a master of architecture degree from Princeton University. She also received the American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Medal for 2010. Each year the AIA awards the Henry Adams Medal to the graduating student with the highest cumulative grade-point average in each professional degree program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Rose-Anne McGrail Schmidt (Arch ’00) and Eric Schmidt (Engr ’01) are proud to announce the birth of their second child, Anson Bruce, on May 18, 2010. He joins his brother Grady, 3. The family resides in South Carolina.

Katherine Womack (Col ’07 L/M) is the senior notes and comments editor for the University of Richmond Law Review. Her comment, Please Check One—Male or Female?: Confronting Gender Identity Discrimination in Collegiate Residential Life, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1365 (2010), was published in the May issue of the Law Review.

Cara Carroccia (Arch ’83, ’86 L/M) received a design award from the Delaware chapter of the American Institute of Architects for a residential project in northern Delaware. Ms. Carroccia is part of the faculty of Philadelphia University and the Moore College of Art and Design.

David Fiore (Col ’81, Med ’85 L/M) is full professor and vice chair at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and is also program director for the family medicine residency in Reno, Nev.

Todd L. Shirley (Col ’95 A/M) and his wife, Meade Shirley, welcomed the birth of their second child and son, Crawford Hugh, born on May 14, 2010. Crawford joins his sister, Holland Mae, born on March 29, 2008. The Shirley family resides in Atlanta, Ga.

John Adam Moreau (Grad ’64) and others revived the historic Mirror Lake Racquet Club in Mobile, Ala.,, a tournament where only wooden racquets are used and players wear old timey tennis clothes, followed by an exhibition doubles match by pros, raised money for charity.

Elizabeth Lang (Grad ’04, Law ’04) and David Dadurka (Col ’99) welcomed their first child, William Michael, on May 4, 2010.

Jill Pickard (Engr ’98 L/M) and her partner, Claire Wilkinson, welcomed their first son, Eliot John, on May 1, 2010. The family resides in Maplewood, N.J.

Juan Esteves (Col ’05) became a United States citizen on July 4, 2010. He took the oath of citizenship at Monticello at the Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony.

Marliese Dion Nist (Col ’00) and her husband, Todd, welcomed their second child, Ian Patrick, on May 4, 2009. Ian joins brother, Everett Thomast, 4.

Andrew Su (Col ’95) and his wife, Piper, welcomed a son, Elliot Thomas, into the family in Feb. They reside in Alexandria, Va.

Christa Hartch (Nurs ’97 L/M) and her husband, Greg Hartch (Law ’95 L/M) and their three children; Christian, Annabelle and Caroline, have been living in Paris, France, for almost 1 year. Mr. Hartch’s work at General Electric brought them to France and they plan to return when the assignment is finished.

Sarah Lynn Starke Roley (Nurs ’70) retired in 2005 after working as a certified rehabilitation registered nurse in rehabilitation/orthopedic nursing for 18 yrs in Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a supervisor of pediatric rehabilitation at Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center as well as a public health nurse in Virginia. Her son and daughter live in Pennsylvania and she is a grandmother to a 22-month old grandson, Gavin.

Andrea Ortiz Gabor (Col ’99, Educ ’01) and her husband, Erin Gabor, happily announce the birth of their daughter, Isabel Josefine. Izzy is welcomed by her brother, Alexander Robert.

Theodore W. Woods Sr. (Engr ’66) received a master’s degree in information systems in May from Virginia Commonwealth University. As a member of the fast track executive MS class of 2010, he was a Dean’s Scholar. He also has an M.B.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, class of 1967, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor society. He is the IT director for Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

Carin Smilk Beaubien (Col ’89 L/M) won first place in headline writing in the weekly newspaper division at the Pennsylvania Press Association’s Keystone Awards ceremony in Harrisburg in May. She has been managing editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia for the past 12 years. She lives outside the city with her husband and three sons.

Emily Dunn (Col ’05) was ordained from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in June. During rabbinical school, Ms. Dunn held student pulpits at Bnai Zion Congregation in Shreveport, La., and at Temple Beth Shalom in Cincinnati. She has been involved with her HUC-JIR community serving as the summer intern at the Jerusalem campus, as co-chair of HUC-JIR Year in Israel’s Former Soviet Union Passover Project 2005-2006 and serving for three years on the Rabbinic Student Association board as the women’s rabbinic network liaison, secretary and president. Her thesis, Telling and Retelling: The Women’s Seder and Ritual Innovation, explored the history of the women’s Seder and the development of its liturgy and rituals as a primary example of feminist ritual and liturgical innovation.

Guy O. Farmer II (Law ’66 L/M) is an attorney with the firm of GrayRobinson Attorneys at Law. He was listed among this year’s Florida Super Lawyers by Florida Super Lawyers magazine.