Class Notes

Allison Kirkner (Nurs ’07) is a clinical III registered nurse at Duke University in Durham, N.C. She is in her second year of the master’s of science in nursing program at Duke and is studying to become an acute care nurse practitioner and an adult primary care nurse practitioner. She plans to start the doctorate of nursing program at Duke this fall.

John Jordan (Engr ’00) and Michelle Jordan welcomed their first child and son, Matthew Endo, on Dec. 12th, 2009. Mr. Jordan is a U.S. Marine Captain who is earning his master’s of science at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, Calif.

Keith O’Brien Gregory (Col ’88) was appointed to the District Court Bench for Wake County, N.C. A former prosecutor, private practitioner and senior partner in the legal firm of Gregory and McClinton in Raleigh, Mr. Gregory began his career as an assistant District Attorney and serves on several boards and committees in the community, including the Wake County 10th District Bar Board of Directors, Wake County Fire Commission, N.C. Rules Review Commission and The N.C. General Statutes Commission.

William Todd Feagans (Col ’96 L/M) and his wife, Katie, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Francis Wilder, on Jan. 16, 2010. Wilder was welcomed home by his sister, Quinn, 1. The family resides in Gum Spring, Va.

John “Mike” Walker (Col ’89 L/M) founded Beacon Consultants Network Inc., a consulting firm specializing in effecting human behavior change, in 2002. He helps clients create programs, products and services that change the way groups of people act. Mr. Walker lives in Hingham, Mass., with his wife, Debra, and his daughter, Lauren.

Leigh Hughes (Col ’99) and his wife, Kelly Cush Hughes (Col ’00, Educ ’05 L/M), welcomed their first child, Henry Quinn, on June 20, 2009. The family resides in Charlottesville.

Nykia Jordan Wilson (Col ’97, Law ’02 L/M) and Rai Wilson (Grad ’01, Law ’02, Grad ’08) welcomed their second son, Joshua Jordan Wilson, on Dec. 28, 2009. Joshua joins his brother, Jack Freeman, 3.  The family resides in the San Diego, Calif., area.

Leslie Atchley (Col ’05) and Mark Kavanaugh were married on April 10, 2010, in Athens, Ga. The couple resides in Austin, Texas. Ms. Kavanaugh is the assessment coordinator for the School of Undergraduate Studies at UT Austin.

John David Massengill (Com ’01, GSBA ’08 L/M) and Julia Kremer (Com ’03 L/M) were married on Oct. 10, 2009, at Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y., where more than 20 graduates of the University were in attendance. The couple resides in New York, N.Y.

Atima Omara-Alwala (Col ’03 L/M) was accepted into the 2010 Sorensen Political Leadership Program. The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership is considered the flagship non-partisan leadership development program for Virginians interested in becoming community leaders or elected officials.

Nancy Haberkorn Kumar (Com ’91 L/M) and her husband, Rich, welcomed their son, Grant Andreas Harrison, on Dec. 31, 2009. The family resides in Atlanta.

Alicia Glekas Everett (Col ’87 L/M) is a business affairs attorney at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. She lives in New York City with her son, Peter, 10.

Henry Gould (Col ’54, Grad ’56 L/M) retired in 2007 as professor emeritus of mathematics after a 49-year full-time faculty position at West Virginia University. He has published 200 research papers in nearly 20 countries and is co-authoring six books. Mr. Gould is continuing working and serves as an editor for math journals in China, Serbia, Canada, India and the U.S. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin made him an “Honorary Mountaineer”. He lives with his wife, Jean.

Monty Harris (Col ’96 L/M) and his wife, Bryce, welcomed their third child, Leila Bendall, on April 3, 2009. Leila joins brother, Bode, 6; and sister, Kaki, 4. Mr. Harris is a senior managing director at Newmark Knight Frank in Atlanta. Their family is looking forward to moving to Charlottesville later this summer.

Megan Smith Kamon (Engr ’01 L/M) and Jacob John Kamon (Engr ’01 L/M) celebrated the birth of a daughter, Abigail Elizabeth, on June 8, 2009. Abby joins brother, Matthew, 2. The family resides in Fairfax, Va.

Anna Jane Boriack Martin (Col ’01) and her husband, Michael Martin, had their first child, Story Jane, on Jan. 28, 2010. They live in Richmond, Va., where Ms. Martin is a stay at home mom.

Cheryl Cina (Col ’99 L/M) and Reza Wrathall (Com ’97) are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Caroline Yasmine, born on Feb. 13, 2010.

John D. Pullen (Com ’95 L/M) is principal sales engineer at salesforce.com, where he covers the southeast and select enterprise accounts nationwide. Mr. Pullen resides outside of Atlanta.

Sarah Elizabeth Beall (Col ’01 L/M) and Paul Joseph Zelinke IV (Engr ’07 L/M) were married on Aug. 15, 2009, at the U.Va. Chapel. The couple resides in Annapolis, Md., where Ms. Beall is pursuing her doctorate in reading at the University of Maryland and Mr. Zelinke is an engineer with Northrop Grumman. Ms. Beall is the daughter of John Joseph Beall Jr. (Law ’67 L/M).

Anna Riggle Palmer (Col ’95, Law ’00 L/M) and William Allison Palmer III (Law ’99 L/M) announce the birth of their son, Graham Alexander, born on Nov. 10, 2009. Graham joins brother, William, 6; and sister, Caroline, 3. The family resides in Atlanta.

Bob O’Hern (Com ’85 L/M) is vice president of logistics and information technology for Ritz Camera and Image, a nationwide retailer of cameras and imaging products. He has been with Ritz for 17 years. Mr. O’Hern resides in Alexandria, Va., with his wife and two children.

Sharon Y. Bowen (Col ’78 L/M) was nominated by President Obama to the post of Vice-Chair, Board of Directors of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in November. Ms. Bowen is a corporate partner in the New York office of the law firm of Latham & Watkins. She has counseled clients and handled transactions in a wide range of industries and has represented some of the leading investment banks, corporations and private equity firms. Ms. Bowen serves as co-chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee and chair of the Diversity Hiring Subcommittee.  She serves on the boards of Northwestern Law School (chair), the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and PENCIL, and was selected to the DirectWomen Board Institute. She has also served on various city, state and national bar association committees and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Katie Crews Baiocco (Col ’00) and her husband, Joe, reside in Fairfield, Conn., with their two daughters, Samantha, 4; and Amy, 3. Ms. Baiocco is enjoying staying at home with the girls, pursuing a license in interior design at Fairfield University and working part-time in the interior design industry.

Michael S. Hooker (Col ’76, Law ’81) is a shareholder in the commercial litigation practice group of Glenn Rasmussen Fogarty & Hooker and has been elected to The Florida Bar Board of Governors, representing the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 4. He will serve a two-year term.

Kurt Mueller (Col ’97) and his wife, Jennifer, welcomed their second son, Mason Gregory, on Nov. 18, 2009. Mason’s brother, Max Davis, 1, is excited to have a baby brother. They reside in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C.

Mark Leffers (Com ’85) presented embedded derivative accounting in a webinar for finance and accounting professionals sponsored by Stafford Publications on Feb. 17, 2010. He also co-founded a new home air filter delivery company, On Time Air Filters, to help people remember to replace their HVAC filters.

Cari Wyatt Brown (Col ’00 L/M) and Nathan K. Brown (Engr ’00, ’05) welcomed their first child and son, Sean Wyatt Brown, on April 3, 2009.

Catherine E. P. Furrow (Nurs ’99 L/M) and J. Bradley Furrow (Engr ’97, ’03 L/M) announce the birth of their third daughter, Susannah Catherine, on Sept. 3, 2009. Annie joins her twin sisters, Libbie and Bekah, 2. Annie and her sisters are the nieces of Nancy R. Peterson (Col ’00 L/M) and Katie Sullivan Peterson (Col ’00) and the granddaughters of James A. Furrow (Engr ’69). Mr. Furrow works for the Defense Department in Dahlgren, Va., and Ms. Furrow works for MWHC in Fredericksburg, Va. The family resides in Fredericksburg.

Dabney Gough (Col ’99) and Tyler McMahon (Col ’98) were married Jan. 2, 2010, in San Francisco. Matt Chayt (Col ’99) officiated the ceremony. The couple resides in Honolulu, where Mr. McMahon is on faculty in the English department at Hawai’i Pacific University. Ms. Gough is a food writer and is working on her first cookbook.

Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Grad ’90, ’95 L/M) is chair of the History Department at Freie Universität Berlin and serves as director of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the university. She published Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920 with University of Chicago Press in 2009. The book is a transnational scholarly study of the “emotional elective affinity” between Germany and America that came about through German musical culture between 1850 and 1920.

Ivey Glendon (Col ’07) is the 2010 recipient of the Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship awarded by the North American Serials Interest Group. The award, which includes a $3,000 scholarship and a travel grant to the NASIG annual conference in Palm Springs, Calif., is conferred to a library and information science graduate student who demonstrates excellence in scholarship and potential for accomplishment in a serials career. Ms. Glendon is a digital conversion specialist in the serial and government publications division at the Library of Congress and is pursuing a Master of Science in Library and Information Studies through the distance education program at Florida State University.

Andrew Sugermeyer (Engr ’98 L/M) and Evelyn Sugermeyer welcomed their first child, Sophie Isabella, on Oct. 16, 2009. Sophie is the couple’s first child. The family resides in Alexandria, Va.

Ivy Wafford Duke (Col ’90, Law ’93 L/M) is deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer (advisor and distributor) at Calvert Group, Ltd., an investment management firm specializing in sustainable and socially responsible mutual funds. After graduating from U.Va., Ms. Duke earned her LL.M. degree in financial and securities regulation from Georgetown University Law Center in 2001. Ms Duke lives in Sandy Spring, Md, with her husband, Robey Duke (Arch ’87, ’89), and their six-year-old son, Ian.

Michael Taylor (Engr ’01) and Amy Ellis Taylor welcomed their first child, Caroline Grace, on Nov. 23, 2009. They reside in sunny Arcata, Calif., where Mr. Taylor founded ATLAS Engineering, a civil/consulting firm.

Ann Gibson (Col ’89 L/M) joined the office of public affairs at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet in Frankfort, Ky. She lives in Shelbyville, outside Louisville, with her son, Jefferson Baker, 3; and her husband, Dave Baker. Ms. Gibson previously worked for The Associated Press as Kentucky news editor.

Sarah E. Glendon (Col ’09) and Aaron P. Sayers were married on Oct. 3, 2009 in Virginia Beach. Ivey M. Glendon (Col ’07) is the sister of the bride and served as maid of honor. Ms. Glendon works as an environmental scientist for Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc., in Norfolk, Va. Mr. Sayers is a 2009 graduate of Virginia Military Institute and is currently a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. The couple resides in Virginia Beach.