Class Notes
Leo Weinberg (Arch ’90)
Ted Weinberg (Arch ’90) was elected to the Mercer Island, Washington City Council seat 4 on November 2, 2021 and sworn in on January 4, 2022. He previously served four years on the Mercer Island Planning Commission, most recently as vice-chair. Ted also works full-time as the Information Technology Portfolio Manager for the City of Seattle. Prior to his years of public service, Ted worked at Microsoft and Avanade as well as some early-stage companies. In his spare time, Ted loves plein air landscape painting, touring historic architecture, and volunteering for organizations that advance civil civic discourse and affordable housing.
Ted and his wife Florence live on Mercer Island and have two adult children. They also have two Siamese cats who have a penchant for getting between Ted and the video conference camera during live city council meetings.
Bridget Mahoney (Col ’05)
Bridget Mahoney (Col ’05 CM) and her husband, J.P. Nogues, have welcomed their first child, Ollivier ‘Ollie’ Daniel Nogues, on October 8, 2021. The family resides in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands where Ms. Mahoney is a psycho-therapist for the Department of Veteran Affairs and Mr. Nogues is a public defender.
Bob Grossman (Col ’68)
Dr. Bob Grossman (Col ’68 CM) with a push from the pandemic has retired from a very active practice of teaching Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Monmouth County, New Jersey. His plan is to reside in Stuart, Florida, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, and Beaver Creek Colorado, where he hopes to golf, fish, ski, travel, read and enjoy more time with his partner of 41 years, Gale; his five sons, two daughters and their partners and eight grandchildren.
Justin Lollman (Law ’14)
Justin Lollman (Law ’14) has been named a shareholder at GableGotwals, a full-service law firm with more than 100 attorneys and more than 60 professionals with offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla. Justin has a diverse civil litigation practice, focusing on appeals, complex commercial litigation, employment law, governmental liability, and civil rights defense. Justin regularly practices before state and federal courts across Oklahoma and throughout the country. Having clerked for federal judges at both the trial and appellate levels, Justin is well-versed in federal practice and procedure and draws on that experience to counsel clients at all phases of the litigation process, from the pleadings up through appeal.
Andrew Joyner (Col ’97 CM)
Andrew William Joyner (Col ’97 CM) and his wife, Elizabeth, welcomed a daughter, Sadie Carolyn Holland, on December 20, 2021. Sadie joins brothers, Thomas, 7, and William, 5. The children are the grandchildren of William H. Joyner Jr. (Engr ’68 CM) and the nephews and niece of John T.R. Terry (Grad ’10, ’14) and Caitlin Terry (Col ’12 CM). Andrew is the assistant director of development for the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development Foundation while Elizabeth is the assistant director for scholarships and endowments at the University of Virginia Alumni Association. The family resides in Crozet.
Richard Miller (Col ’75 CM)
Richard B. Miller (Col ’75 CM) published Why Study Religion? with Oxford University Press. Miller’s book argues that scholarship in religious studies, especially work in “theory and method,” is preoccupied with matters of value-neutral procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that can justify scholarship in the field. The book assesses six methodologies that symptomatize this inarticulacy and then offers an alternative framework for thinking about the purposes of the discipline. Miller’s framework, Critical Humanism, rests on four values toward which work in the study of religion can aim: Post-critical Reasoning, Social Criticism, Cross-cultural Fluency, and Environmental Responsibility. Mr. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religion, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and in the College. He is the author of five other books and numerous articles on matters of religion, ethics, and public life.
Tamara Bedic (Law ’98)
Tamara Bedic (Law ’98 CM) is president of the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. A feminist, activist, immigrant and animal advocate, Tamara began volunteering for the country’s most progressive lawyers’ association in 2009 as a legal observer. Since then, Tamara has assisted members of Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion; defended the right to protest; resuscitated the Guild’s Animal Rights Committee and served as vice president. Tamara has been interviewed by Law and Disorder and organizes webinars on local, national and international animal rights issues.
Richard Willetts (Educ ’06)
Neal Willetts (Educ ’06) is delighted to announce his engagement to Elijah Thomas Lee Akers, an IT Specialist in the US Navy currently serving on the USS George Washington. The couple met in February 2020 when Neal was bartending an event for Eli’s ship, and as people say, the rest is history! They are tentatively planning a spring 2023 wedding. As Eli will have just gotten out of the Navy, the couple plans to reside in Eli’s native Columbus, Ohio after the wedding. The couple have three cats: Augustus, Sulla and Pip.
Andrew Levine (Engr ’13)
Andrew Levine (Engr ’13 CM) and Mary Ortiz Levine (Col ’11 CM) welcomed a daughter, Abigail Mattea Levine, on May 3, 2021 in Falls Church, Virginia.
Kyrsta Scully (Com ’90)
Kyrsta Small Scully (COM ’90 CM) has been named controller of the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group in Yountville, California, which runs the French Laundry, Bouchon, Ad Hoc and other fine restaurants in multiple locations across the country. She supervises accounting and financial matters for all the restaurants and related companies. After a 25-year career in food and beverage at luxury hotels, she turned to the accounting side and earned her California CPA license in 2020 and her CMA in 2017.
Sean Scully (Col ’89)
Sean Scully (COL, ’89 CM) has been named Western National Editor for States Newsroom, a national nonprofit focusing on news coverage of state government. In this position, he coordinates coverage and assists editors in seven western states. Previously, he was editor and director of news content for the Napa Valley Register in California. He and his family will continue to live in the Napa Valley, where they have been for a decade.
Bryan Thomas (Col ’10)
Bryan Thomas (COL ’10 CM) married his college sweetheart, Lisa Hamilton (COL ’11, EDUC ’11 CM), on Juneteenth, June 19, 2021. The couple wed in Washington, D.C. surrounded by family and fellow ‘Hoos.
Herbert Slatery (Col ’74)
Herbert H. Slatery III (Col ’74 CM), the current attorney general for the State of Tennessee, was presented with the Kelley-Wyman Award at the recent National Association of Attorneys General Capital Forum in Washington, D.C. The Kelley-Wyman Award is an annual award given to the attorney general who has done the most to advance the objectives of the Association, and the honoree is selected by fellow attorneys general. General Slatery was completely surprised and was quick to give credit to the cooperation among the many attorneys general and to his own dedicated, hardworking staff in Tennessee.
Benjamin Rubenstein (Col ’07)
Benjamin Rubenstein (Col ’07) married Stefanie Cohen, a University of Maryland alumna, on Nov. 7, 2021. Though he happily moved to Maryland to live with her, he was pleased they wedded in The Better State.
Yvener Petit (Com ’09)
Yvener J. Petit (Com ’09) joined Live Nation as a Director of Strategic Initiatives and Operations this fall. In his role, he partners with key stakeholders across the Concerts, Ticketmaster, and Media and Sponsorship divisions to outline and implement key company strategies. In addition, Yvener has recently been elected to serve as an Executive Committee and Board Member of Communities In Schools of Los Angeles—a non-profit that focuses on providing one-on-one case management for nearly 1,000 at-risk Los Angeles Unified School District students, helping them stay in school and achieve in life.
Matthew Kelley (Col ’00)
Matthew Kelley (Col ’00 CM) has established a Hereford-Angus beef cattle operation on his farm in Madison, Virginia. The cows join his wife, three children, and career in fulfilling his lifelong goals in pursuit of happiness.
Helm Dobbins (Col ’16)
H. MacNeil “Mac” Dobbins (Col ’16 CM) has joined the Bridge Investment Group as Vice President of its Industrial Net Lease Group. He is responsible for acquisitions and asset management for the division’s Private Equity Funds. He previously served as Principal, and earlier as Senior Associate at Gladstone Commercial Corporation, a publicly traded real estate investment trust. He began his financial career and served as a Senior Credit Analyst at United Bank after graduating from UVA in 2016. His office is in Arlington, Virginia.
Jonathan Elliott (Engr ’11)
Jonathan Elliott (Engr ’11 CM) and Ellen Zagrobelny Elliott (Engr ’13 CM) started Living Pastures Farm in Marshall, Virginia. They raise 100% grass-fed beef and pasture-raised chicken using regenerative farming practices to build soil health, sequester carbon in the soil, and produce nutrient-dense and delicious food. They also recently started a community farm co-op where neighboring farms collaborate and sell produce together. They are excited to welcome their second child in December.
Mosby Perrow (Col ’63)
Mosby Garland Perrow III (Col ’63 CM) has completely retired after 17 years practicing law and over 23 years as Circuit Judge in Virginia. Mosby has been married to his wife Holly for 56 years, and two of his daughters, Hellen Perrow Carrington (Col ’91 CM) and Alexandra Perrow Wood (Com ’93) are UVA graduates. Four of Mosby’s grandsons, Will Carrington (Com ’22), Sackett Wood (Col ’22 CM), Hugh Wood (Col ’24), and Woody Carrington (Col ’25), are current UVA students, and his granddaughter Holly Carrington (Col ’20 CM) is a UVA graduate. Mosby also has five grandchildren, two in Virginia and three in Texas, that are yet to enroll in college.
Anne Hampford (Col ’83 CM)
Anne Hampford (COL ’83 CM) published a poetry chapbook Everywhere Is North in October 2021. The poems of Everywhere Is North are both self-portraits and portraits of the Antarctic continent—its ice, its creatures, and the ocean that surrounds it. They are meditations on home and rootedness in a most inhospitable but alluring place.
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