Class Notes

G. Andrew Mickley Jr. (Grad ’72, ’78) is professor of neuroscience at Baldwin-Wallace College and was named 2008 Ohio Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The program salutes outstanding undergraduate instructors who excel in teaching and positively influence the lives and careers of students. Mr. Mickley started in 1993 at Baldwin-Wallace College, where he established the neuroscience program. He has received support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He and his students currently conduct research concerning the neural substrate of learning, extinction and spontaneous recovery of defensive reactions to fear. Mr. Mickley was recognized as the 2007 Educator of the Year by the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience. Through that organization, he led the development of Nu Rho Psi, the national honor society in neuroscience, for which he is the executive director. He also has twice been elected by his peers as a national councilor on the Council on Undergraduate Research.

John Lumpkin (Col ’71 L/M) will become director of the Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University in June. The school is named for Bob Schieffer, CBS correspondent and moderator of “Face The Nation.”  Mr.  Lumpkin is a vice president and former bureau chief of the Associated Press,  responsible for newspaper markets in the U.S. and Latin America and for AP revenue from newspaper companies in the hemisphere as well as the U.S. domestic bureau chief system. He has held company positions in strategic planning and has been involved in AP’s shift to multimedia news distribution. He previously worked with the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before joining AP. Mr. Lumpkin has received many professional awards and is a member of the Inter-American Press Association and a former director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. He co-wrote West Texas: A Portrait of Its People and Their Raw and Wondrous Land.

Donald F. Norris (Grad ’68, ’71), a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is chair of its Department of Public Policy and director of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research.  Mr. Norris is a specialist in public management; urban politics; and the application, uses and impacts of information technology, including e-government, in public organizations. He has authored, edited or co-edited seven books, contributed chapters to 22 others, published 27 articles and four book reviews in journals in the fields of public administration and urban affairs, authored and co-authored more than 60 research reports and monographs and over 50 scholarly papers. He has consulted with local and state governments for more than 30 years in a range of areas, including public policy and management and has also produced and directed two films for local government officials on the adoption of advanced technologies. Mr. Norris lives in Columbia, Md.

Roy C. Young (Law ’66 L/M) was elected president of Capital City Country Club and chairman of Big Bend Hospice in his hometown of Tallahassee, Fla. He was re-elected president and chief executive officer of his law firm, Young van Assenderp, for the 38th consecutive year. Mr. Young’s wife, Rose Marie; and their two children and four grandchildren live in Tallahassee.

Charles A. Veatch II (Com ’64 L/M) is the chairman of the board of trustees of Shenandoah University, where he is responsible for governing the board’s oversight of the institution’s strategic direction,  financial decisions and advancement initiatives. He is also the chairman of the board’s executive committee. Mr. Veatch serves on the endowment board of the National Wildlife Federation and is a real estate fellow at the McIntire School of Commerce at U.Va.