Class Notes

Frances Bazaz Duran (Col ’97 L/M) and her husband, Jon Duran (Col ’97), welcomed their first child, Natalie, on Dec. 19, 2009. The family resides in Alexandria, Va.

Kelly Krock Parsons (Col ’00) and her husband, Chris, announce the births of their second and third children, Chase Dennis and Reece George, on Feb. 8, 2010. They join their sister, Sydney Alexandra, who was born on Jan. 24, 2008. The family resides in Durham, N.C.

Caroline Reynolds Marshall (Col ’96 L/M) and Alexander Tevis Marshall (Col ’98) welcomed their second son, William Tate, on Oct. 17, 2009. Tate joins brother, Bradford “Ford”, 3. The family resides in Richmond, Va. Tate is the grandson of Robert Bradford Marshall (Com ’74 L/M) and Heman Alexander Marshall III (Col ’72, Law ’75).

David Alan Gibb (Col ’65) was re-elected as president of The Opera Buffs Inc., a California nonprofit that provides grants and performance opportunities to young singers building careers in opera. Mr. Gibb also serves on the board of Long Beach Opera, a 31-year-old company. Based in Los Angeles, Mr. Gibb consults on marketing and communications to law and accounting firms, law schools and nonprofits through his company, Practicable Marketing.

Susan Gordon Lawson (Arch ’99 L/M) and her husband, Shawn, welcomed their first child, Andrew Ryan, on Dec. 7, 2009. The family lives in Troy, N.Y., where Ms. Lawson is a registered architect and LEED accredited professional specializing in historic preservation.

Lori Dodson Richardson (Col ’01 L/M) and her husband, Tyler Brant Richardson, welcomed their first child, William “Brant” Richardson, into the world on Jan. 7, 2010.

Steven Bremer (Engr ’99, ’00) and his wife Heather Johnston Bremer (Col ’00) welcomed their third child, Abigail Anne, on Feb. 12, 2010. She joins brothers Sean and Matthew. The family resides in New York City.

Scott Curtis (Col ’93 L/M) is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at East Carolina University. Dr. Curtis will receive a 5-Year Achievement Award for Excellence in Research/Creative Activity on April 7, 2010. This is one of only 2 awards given annually at ECU.

Lisa Stephens Garriott (Col ’91 L/M) and Richard Ellis Garriott Jr., welcomed their first daughter, Rachel Elizabeth, on Oct. 6, 2008. She joins older sisters: Madison,14; Meredith,11; and Annellise, 8. She is the granddaughter of Richard Ellis Garriott (Engr ’67, ’72 L/M) and the niece of Bethanne Garriott Campbell (Col ’95). The family resides in Virginia Beach, where Ms. Garriott is a pediatrician.

James E. Harris Jr. (Col ’66 L/M) retired November 1 as chairman of the Escape/Apprehension Committee at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County, Va. Mr. Harris served 36 years with the criminal justice system with both the state and regional planning commissions in Farmville and Front Royal, Va. Mr. Smith was the first tactical coordinator for SWAT in Chesterfield County. Mr. Harris was a member of the 1962 U.Va. football team and played “A Team” U.Va. rugby (wing and fullback positions).

G. Timothy Hardin (Col ’69 L/M) is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. The College was organized by real estate practitioners active in various other professional groups who perceived a need for an organization with a selective membership comprised of lawyers recognized for their legal acumen and proven leadership which could speak effectively to issues of real estate law, regulation and practice. Mr. Hardin is vice president of Fidelity National Title Insurance Company in Dallas, where he manages the Dallas operation of its national title services division.

Lee Brittle (Col ’97) is the U.S. Coast Guard’s International Ice Patrol’s Enlisted Person of the Year for 2009. Marine Science Technician First Class Petty Officer Brittle was instrumental in the completion of IIP’s 2009 Ice Season. The Ice Patrol monitors the iceberg danger near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and provides warnings to mariners to eliminate the risk of iceberg collision in the North Atlantic Ocean. He coordinated and executed two historic aerial deployments of World Ocean Circulation Experiment drifting buoys, including the first deployment from a USCG HC-130J airframe and the first deployment in the Arctic Ocean. Petty Officer Brittle ensured a successful deployment by personnel who were unfamiliar with the deployment procedures in a high profile environment with the Commandant of the Coast Guard and the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on board the aircraft.

Meghan O’Leary (Col ’07, Educ ’08) lives in West Hartford, Conn. She works for ESPN as a programming coordinator primarily on college sports and the ESPNU network.

Serena Bolliger (Col ’07) and five other U.Va. alumnae: Allison Murphy (Col ’07, Grad ’08 L/M), Amanda Huffman (Col ’06), Emily Archambeault (Col ’07 L/M), Katie Appel (Col ’07 L/M) and Payal Maheshwari (Com ’06 L/M), founded a non-profit, Socialize Better, to raise awareness and inspire service in young professionals in Washington, D.C., by providing social opportunities. Their November kick-off event welcomed more than 200 people, mostly U.Va. alumni.

Ross Baird (Col ’07 L/M) lives in Atlanta and works for Gray Ghost Ventures, an idea lab that invests in innovative early-stage enterprises that contribute to the well-being of low-income communities in emerging markets.

Megan Clark (Col ’08) is business operations manager for a financial planning company in the Washington, D.C. area. She also volunteers with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue as an EMT, works at the VA Hospital Center as an emergency room technician and is attending graduate school at George Mason University.

Alison Tramba (Engr ’07 L/M) is completing her third year at Bain & Company in Boston after spending nine months working in business development with TechnoServe in Swaziland.

Eric Ast (Engr ’07) and Sean McVey (Com ’07) launched a new web-based marketing firm, Rising Lynx Marketing at www.risinglynx.com. They are working to apply the diversity of their marketing and engineering backgrounds to help businesses grow a well-rounded, meaningful online presence.

Erin Levin (Col ’07 L/M) is producing a documentary about the African Children’s Choir and Music for Life. She made a 30-minute version that aired on CNN. Also, she is helping with the global telethon to help Haiti and is hosting a music and arts festival for Uganda in Atlanta in March.

Elizabeth “Oz” Oswald (Col ’07 L/M) is the development manager for St. Martin’s Episcopal School, a pre-K through 8th grade institution in Atlanta. She lives with fellow U.Va. graduate, Marissa Kessler (Col ’07 L/M) in Inman Park in downtown Atlanta. Since graduating from U.Va., Ms. Oswald has become an avid salsa dancer. She travels throughout the Southeast and East Coast performing at and attending salsa events.

Mark Alan Hudson (Col ’75 L/M) is president of HTMH Consulting, based in Shelby, N.C. He completed service as the 2009 chairman of the board of the Cleveland County Chamber of Commerce. He was also named as editor of Foothills Spotlight Magazine, also based in Shelby.

Kathryn Peacock (Engr ’04) married Anthony Russo on Sept. 18, 2009. The couple resides in Collingswood, N.J., where Mr. Russo works as an HVAC technician and Ms. Russo works as a civil engineer.

Haley Burton (Col ’08) received a master’s of science degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and works as a multi-media journalist at WBNG-TV in Binghamton, N.Y.

John D. Allis Jr. (Col ’75) is principal engineer for the water planning and design section of Colorado Springs Utilities. He lives in Black Forest, Colo., with his wife, Catherine. They have been married for 36 years and have three children, Emily, Ben and Daniel.

Cynthia McKay (Col ’93 L/M) married Benjamin Abalos on Dec. 31, 2009. Ms. Abalos is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, and the couple resides in Alexandria, Va.

Tania Jovanovic Grant (Com ’98 L/M) and her husband, Mike, launched Pure Play Kids, which offers healthy alternatives to mainstream children’s products to encourage and enrich creative childhoods. The couple has two children: Rodger, 3; and Roland, 17 months.

Laura Scott (Col ’08) is finishing her master’s degree of design from Carnegie Mellon University in May.

Jared Goss (Arch ’88 L/M) is an associate curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art in New York City. Mr. Goss arranged “Masterpieces of French Art Deco”, a large gallery dense with French Art Deco furnishings from the museum’s design collection. The selection is nearly 150 objects, which is about 75 percent of the Met’s French Art Deco collection and is the most it has ever exhibited at one time. The show was featured in The New York Times Art Review section on December 11, 2009.

Frank Michael Muñoz (Col ’07) received a master’s degree of education in higher education and student affairs in May from the University of Vermont, where he is the event coordinator for the Dudley H. Davis Center, the nation’s first LEED Gold Certified student center. He resides in Burlington, Vt.

Judy Coutts (Arch ’79) completed two projects for the Pennsylvania State University Altoona campus: its new Communications Center and its Advisory Board Suite. Both projects were published in the Pennsylvania Business Central “2009 Regional Showcase of New Buildings”. Ms. Coutts lives in Altoona, Pa., with her husband and son.

Sally Tusa (Col ’94 L/M) and Jason Abbey (Col ’94, Arch ’98) were married on May 16, 2009, in Greenwich, Conn. Approximately 50 U.Va. alumni attended. The couple resides in New York City.

Amita Rao (Col ’99 L/M) and her husband, Sujay, welcomed their first son, Roshan Sujay, on May 26, 2009. The family resides in Herndon, Va.

Richard “Rick” O. White Jr. (Com ’78) is a certified public accountant and works as a tax principal at Keiter Stephens, a Richmond, Va.-based CPA firm. Mr. White’s practice includes tax services to individuals and rapidly growing privately-held businesses in the real estate development and construction, early-stage biotechnology, medical equipment, pharmaceutical and winery industries. Prior to merging his practice with Keiter Stephens, Mr. White was co-founder of Hoffman, White & Company, P.C.

Anna Cuccio (Col ’00 L/M) spent nine years at Morgan Stanley in both New York and London, and is now pursuing further graduate studies. She is at Oxford University studying for a master’s degree in economic and social history with a focus on the history and financing of the welfare state. While at Morgan Stanley, Ms. Cuccio worked in equity research and sales, most recently as a vice president of client strategy.

Nicolas Scribner (Engr ’03 L/M) started his own engineering business, Continuum Engineering, in Chesapeake, Va.

David Stolle (Col ’95) and Ashley Zlatoper Stolle (Col ’95, Med ’00 L/M) welcomed their third child and first boy, Alexander “Lex”, on April 16. 2009. He joins sisters, Livi and Kate. They reside in Norcross, Ga., where Mr. Stolle heads Universal Tennis Academy and Ms. Stolle is a pediatrician with Gwinnett Pediatrics.

Meredith Logsdon Yoder (Engr ’01 L/M) and Ben Yoder (Engr ’01) announce the birth of their twins, Caroline Elizabeth and Max Henry, on Oct. 15, 2009. The family resides outside of Boston.