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SERVICE Build It volunteers tackle Habitat home The Univcrsiry is partnering with three local organirnrions ro build a Habitat for Humanity home in Richmond's H ighland Park neighborhood. Students, faculty, and staff are building the house from the ground up in just eight weeks with a dedication planned for April 19. They arc partnering with Richmond Menopoliran Habitat for Humanity, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, and Boaz and Ruth-an
Engagement. To complement the house-building projecr, rhc Bonner Ccmer is providing educational progra ms on affordable housing, access t0 credit, and related community issues. Build It ~is a powerful opportunity for srudems, faculty, and staff to work together with our commu nity partner agencies and our
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Richmond neighbors," says President Edward Ayers. For the past two years, Build It volunteers have worked in Highland Park, tutoring students in two schools, reading to childn:n in pediatricians' waiting rooms, serving meals, and coaching youth athletic teams. Their sustained e!Tons ~develop long-term reciprocal community partnerships that create experiential learning opponunities for students while helping to fulfill unmet needs in the community," says Cassie Price, community initiatives and program coordinator for the Bonner Center. The University has a long history of raising money for and building Habitat for Humanity homes. In 2003 and 2005, students, faculty, and staff built homes in one week.
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CAMPUS Ayers inauguration slated for April 11 The University will inaugurate President Edward Ayers on April 11 in the Robins Cemer.TheentireUnive rsity community-i ncluding all alumni-are invited, and the event will be webcast live. Ayers became Richmond's ninth president on July I, 2007, and has spent the past nine months meeting with and listening to all of the University's constituencies while developing a vision of Richmond's future. He will begin to outline that vision in his inaugural address . The keynote speaker for the event will be Dr. Drew G ilpin Faust, who became president of Harvard University on the same day chat Ayers became president of Richmond. Both Faust and Ayers are
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prominent historians of the American South. They will kick off the inaugural events on April 10 with a symposium titled ~New Perspecrives on the American Civil War." For more information about the inaugu ration, visit inauguration.richmond .edu.
New residence hall opens on the lake L1keview Residence H all opened in Januar y overlooking Westhampton Lake adjacent to Marsh, Wood, and Thomas halls. i..;ikeviewisthefirstnew residence hall to be built on camps in more than 25 years, the first phase of a campus -wide upgrade of student housing. During the next five or six years, Freeman, Jeter, North Court, Thomas, and Robins halls will be renovated. Lakeview is a four-story building that can accommodate 141 students in three-person and four-person suites and some single rooms. Special features on
the first floor include a multipurpos e room , kitchen , group-study room, and com puter room. The University followed srriet design and construction guidelines to make the bui lding environmentally friendly, and has registered Lakeview for (LEED) certification. LEED stands for leadership in energy and environmental design, the national standard for designing , erecting, and operating green buildings.
RESEARCH Wright collects artifacts from black inventors When Jam es Wright assigned a research project to his students 35 years ago, he had no idea it would lead to a life-long passion. "The assignment was to find and re~earch a black scientist,~ says Wright, director of MS!: Richmond , the Unive rsity's summe r program for rising ninth-graders in Richmond Public Schools. " It just seemed tome
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Queallysboost B-school ThePau!andAnne-MarieQueaUyFamilyFoundation has contributed $6miUiontohe\pei,;pandtheRobinsSchool buildingandestablishnewprogramsfocusingonfinance. The33,ooo-square-footadditiontotheRobinsSchoo1 is scheduled for completion by the end of201oandwillbe namedQueallyHallinhonorofformerTrusteePaulQueal!y, R'86, and Anne-Marie Flinn Queally, W'86. AlongwithconstructionofQueallyHaH,lheRobinsSchool planstocreatenewelectivecoursesinfinancethatwill beteam-taughtbyfacultymembersandfinanclalservices executives. Theschoola!sowillofferseminarsonthe latest financial trends, aselectivefast-trackprogramofinternships atsponsoringfirms,a lecture series designed to bring national businessfigurestocampus,andanintensiveweekend programtohelpstudentslearncareerskills. "Asastudent,alumnus,andtrustee,1 have always valued theemphasisthattheUniversityofRichmond places on its students,"PaulQueallysays. "Anne-Marie and I wanted to give backtotheUniversityinawaythatenab!edittoprovidemore value to its students. TheQueallys'giftwiHmakeamajordifference,says President EdwardAyers. "PaulandAnne¡Marie'sgi~provides uswiththespace,opportunity,andi ncentivetobui!donthe wonderfu!legacyoftheRobinsSchool." PaulQueally,whoearnedhisundergraduatedegreecum laude in economics and an M.B.A. from Columbia University, is co-president of the investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe,which he joined in 1996asgeneralpartner.Heserved ontheUniversity'sBoardofTrusteesfrom 2000-07andonthe BusinessSchoolExecutiveAdvisoryCoundlfrom2002-03. Anne-Marie Queally, who graduated from Richmond sum ma cumlaudewithaneconomicsandFrenchdoublemajor, workedasamarketingrepresentativeforlBMandasabudget andfinancialanalystforMorgan GuarantyTrust before leaving thecorporateworldtoraisethecouple'sthreechildren.
Jame s Wright , director of MSI : Richmond , co llect s artifa ct s- such as the Super Soaker-related to black invento rs.
that if you wanted more kids involved in the subjects of math and science, you needed to present them with images of themselves in those disciplines," he explains. He began learning about Africrn-American inventors and years later began collecring their artifacts . ~A lot of the time, I could nor get the original invention - rather, I have second, third, or even fourth generat ion versions of the original piece," he says. P;m of\',:;rright's collection will he displayed at the Black History Museum in Richmond through July. I-le also has shown his collection at The Science Museum of Virginia and Shippensburg (Pa.) University. His research has led him lO rare treasures, such as Temple's Toggle, a harpoon mo<lification made by Richmond native Lewis frmple in 1845, and ubiquitous toys, such as the Super Soaker, a high-powe red squirt gun invented by Lonnie Johnson. "There are just so many opporrunities for that 'a-ha' momen t during this exhibit," Wright says.
moments himselr as his collection grows.
Choosing the best (wo)man for the job When Hillary Clinton showed emotion during a campaign in New I bmpshire, caught in a "double bind" rhat women leaders often encounter, says Or. Crysta l Hoyt, assistant professor of leadership slUdics. "This double bind results from the need for women to demonsuate masculine, leader-like characteristics to be perceived as effective/ she says, "but they can't be too masculine or people won't like them ." A new study by Hoyt finds that <luring times of war or rerrorist threats, people of both genders arc more likely to support leaders with masculine traits. Ir also notes rhar female leaders who don't display femin ine anribu tcs arc not particularly well-received. T he study, "C hoosing the Best (Wo)Man for die Job :
The Eff~cts of Mortality Salience, Sex, and Gender Stereotypes on Leader Evaluations," was written by Hoyt an<l two form~r Students, Stefanie Simon, '07, and Lindsey Reid, 'OG. Ir will be published later this year in l.eadershipQuarterly.
KUDOS BusinessWeek ranks MBA program 14th iJusinessWeekmagazine has ranked the Robins School of Business M .B.A. program 14th in the country on its new list of"The Best ParrTime MRA Programs." "Th is ranking confirms that a d1allenging curricu lum can make a difference in the lives and careers of rhe region's most ambitious professionals," says D r. Richard Coughla n, associate dean for graduate and executive programs at the Robins Schoo l. "At a time when so many
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M.13.A. programs are promoting instant grarifi.cation through rapid completion of the degree, our students have found real value in the opportunities we provide for rich conversation and deep rhinking rhroughout an extended period of study." To generate the rankings, BusinessWeek identified 11.naliscsfrom among more than 300 programs and surveyed students who were preparing lO graduate . It also considered rhe impact their M.13.A.s had on their salaries, rhe importance of the degree in achieving their goals, and a variety of measures of academic quality. uWesharethescaccolades with die business commu nity of central Virginia," says Dr. Jorge Haddock, dean of the Robins Schoo!. "We're proud of the rebtionships we've builc with the area's best employers, who have strengthened the Robins School in so many ways."
B OOKS Strategic Leadership Chancellor Richard Morrill, president of UR from 1988- 98, has wrinen a book ahout strategy and leadership in higher education. The book is "a mustn:;1dfor presidents, aspiring presidenL\, senior institutional leaders, board members, and for students of higher education." says Dr. Thomas Longin, executiw
editor of Planning.forHigher &lucation. "For some time now, strategy has been seen as one of the major disciplines of management," says Morrill, who served as president of Centre College and Salem College before coming ro Richmond. "I make the claim that it also can be practiced as a systematic process ... hence the term 'strategic leadership .'"
More faculty books CreatingGlobalB11siness Leaders:Businers Education at the Intersection of Innovation, Tech11ology. and Globaliwtion (2007). Dr. Jorge Haddock, dean of the Rohins School of Business. A harbinger of unparalleled challenges and opportunities for business schools and corporations. In the Unlikelyfi,em ofa Wrurr(2007). Brian Henry, associate professor of English and creative writing . Poems char deal with human interaction-compassion, love, and language-in a "surveil1:mcesociely." Mt1nt1gingfar Stakeholders:
S11rvival,Rrp11tt1tion, and Success(2007). Dr. Edward Freeman, Dr. Andrew Wicks, and Dr. Jeffrey Harrison, professor of management. Ten concrete principles and seven practical techniques for managing stakeholder relationships. A New Genert1tionin
lnternario,111/Strategic Mrmagemmt (2007).
Robinsgrant completes campusstadiumfunding TheRobinsfoundationhasawardeda$5milliongranttohetp e11pandtheUniversity'se11istingon-campusstadiumintoa multisportvenueforfootbaU,lacrosse,soccer,andtrack.First Market Stadium currentlyhostsRichmond'stacrosse,soccer, and track programs. WiththeRobinsFoundationgrant,donationsandpledges forthestadiume11ceed$25miUion,enoughtocompletethe project in 2010. MlamdeeplygratefulfortheRobinsfamily'sextraordioary leadershipandsupport,whichhastouchedeveryareaofthe University,"saysPresidentEdwardAyers. Mlnthisinstance,it willfostercontinuede11cellenceinintercollegiateathletics." The e11pandedstadium will hold a ma11imumof 8,700 spectators,appro11imatelythesameseatingcapacityasthe Robins Center, home of Richmond's men's and women's basketballteams.TheUniversityisworkingwiththecityof Richmondtosewreaspecial-usepermittoproceedwith constrt1ctionofthestadium.Universityofficialse11pectittobe completedintimeforthefootba!lteam's201ohomeopener. ln addition to more seating, stadium improvements will includeupgradedlandscaping,anewscoreboard,astate¡of¡ theartlightingsystem,and asoundsystemthatwillreduce the"splash"ofsoundoutsidethestadium . "TheRobinsfamilyissynonymouswiththeUniversityof RichmondandSpiderathletics,"says)imMiller,director of intercollegiate athletics. ~This grant from the Robins Foundationcompletesourfundraisingeffortsforthe on-campusstadiumandwi!lhaveasignificantpositlveimpact on the University of Richmond.The on-campus stadium will notonlyenhanceourathleticprograms,butalsoprovidea venueforstudents,alumni,faculty,staff,andmembersofthe localcommunitytogathertocelebratetheirassociationwith theUniversity.WearegratefultotheRobinsFoundationfor investing in Spider athletics." The Robins Foundation olso awarded $3 million to fund the new Westhampton Center. (See slo,y on page 17.)
Dr. Stephen 1:--illman(editor), professor of management. Emerging scholaN provide fresh perspectives on international business strategies. New Deal Theater: The Vernaculm Tradition in American Political nJeater (2007). Or. ilk.aSaal, ,mistant professor of English. How American political theater appealed to a broader audience by employing the everyday language of ordinary people.
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The Valuesof Presidential Leadership (2007). Dr. Terry Price, associate professor of leadership studies, and Dr. Thomas Wren, associate professor of leadership studies. (editors). Presidential scholars from communication, history, law, philosophy, political science, and psychology explore the broader phenomenon of leadership. Sprout, the Jolly Green
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CULTURE Lora Robins Gallery shows delectable art
marketing, and mass production in "Eati ng Wonderland~ on display at the Lora Robins Gallery of Design From Nalllre through June 15.
The exhibit features paintings, collages, and ceramic castin~ of dinnerware and popular foodstuffs. It also includes "Incredible Edibles," cera mic castings of nostalgic objects and figures related to eating, such as the Pillsbury Ooughboy and Sprout, the young companion of the Jolly Green Giant. "Eating Wonderland" was curated by Elizabt:th Schlatter, deputy director and curator of exhibitions for University Museums, with assistance from the artist.
Grammy nominators tap UR ensemble "Strange Imaginary Animals," a CD by ensemble-in-residence eighth blackbird, has gent:rated Grammy Award nominations for besr chamber music performance, classical contemporary composition, and classical producer of che year. Th e sextet earned one of five nominations for best
chamber music performance for rhe entire CD. Composer Jennifer Higdon received the classical contemporary composition nomination for "Zaka/ one of tht: CD's six trach And Judith Sherman was nominared for classical producer of the year for "Strange Imaginary Animals" and four other CDs. 'fhc group rakes its name from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' poem 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." The group organized in 1996 while its members were students at Oberlin Conservawry. They became UR's ensemble-inrt:sidence in 2005.
Afro-funk fusion hits Camp Concert Hall Five-rime Grammy nominee Angelique Kidjo will bring her "rhythmic Afro-funk fusion" to Camp Concert Hall on March 28. Born in the We~c African nation of Benin, Kidjo start-
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ed singing professionally at age six. She moved to Paris to escape political turmoil and is currently based in New York. Her latest release, "Djin Djin," was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best contemporary world album . For more information about Kidjo's upcoming performance and orher Modlin Center events, visit modlin . richmond.edu.
FACULTY Hoyle named Virginia's Professor of the Year Joe Hoyle, associate professor of accounting in die Robins School of Business, has been selected the Virginia winner in the U.S. Professors of the Year competition, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching and the Counc il for Advancement and Support of Education. Hoyle was selected for the honor from more than 300 top professors in the country, nominated by their colleges and universiries. Winners were chosen from 40 states and the District of Columbia.
DONORS Honor Roll update The winter issue of Richmond Alumni Magazine mistakenly omiued the names of 31 contributors in its "Honor Roll of Donors.~ The list of donors from
July I, 2006, w June 30, 2007, should have included the following alumni: Deborah Gruhler Harris, W'80, Andrea Keane-Myers, W'91, Trevor I~ Myers, R'91, W.JosephOwen 111, 8'72, Ralph M. Reahard IV, '04, John Dale Terry, 8'67, Carlton M . Yowell, B'76, and Joel Byrd Yowell, R'49, (deceased). The honor roll should have including the following parents of current studentsDr. and Mrs. Michael A. Englert and Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Hosking-and rhe following parents of alumni: Ms. Rebecca S. Breed, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Capps Sr., Dr. Larry S. Cohen and Dr. Jayne Cohen, Mr. Marty P.Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cunis, Mr. and Mrs. James J. Hawk, and Mrs . Nvin Lee Sheffield. The list also should have included the following friends of the University : Ms. Roberta Cha, Ms. Janis Pannepacker, Dr. and Mrs. Christian H. Sachs, Ms . Joan Todd, and Mr . and Mrs. John M. Vittone II. Finally, the honor roll should have included Dr. Richard A. Mateer, the former dean of Richmond College. "We apologize for these omissions," says Molly Dean Bittner, the University's assistant vice president for advancement. "Each donor is important to us, and we wam to take every opportunity to thank them for their gifts."
UR'sAquaman 0r.ChristopherStevenson,associateprofessorofchemistry, set three world recordsinthe40-44agegroupattheVirginia Masters swim meet in December.He set backstroke records for 50,100,and2oometers. Stevenson started swimming when he was 6 and competing when he was 8. HeattendedtheUniversityofNorthCarolina on a swimming scholarship. 0uringhisjuniorandsenior years, he won all¡American honors, and he was named the most outstanding swimmer in the Atlantic CoastConference in his senior year. Whileincollege,StevensoncompetedforGreeceatthe 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. "My mom is Greek, and I lived inGreeceforthreeyears,"heexplains. "I could competebecauseofmyGreekheritage." He placed 12th in the 10o¡meterbutterfly. Stevenson joined the Florida Masters Swim Teamwhite attendinggraduateschoolattheUniversityofF!orida.He became a member of the Virginia Masters Swlm Teamafter joining Richmond's faculty in 1993. Masters swimming is organized by U.S. Masters Swimming, a nonprofit organization with more than 42,000 members. "Chris's swimming has been impressive," says Matt Barany, Richmond'sswimmingcoach."Hisfitnesslevelisincredible, yetthethingthatthecurrentRichmondswimmersandlrespect aboutChris'sswimmingisthatherecognizeshisstrengthsand continues to work on them. Eventhe best swimmers can fear workinghardunderwaterbecausethereisn'tairdownthere. Chrisislikeado!phinwhenheisunderwater." Brian BorteU, who bikes and swims with Stevenson, agrees withBarany'sunderwateranalysis."Chrishasanamazing abi!itytoswimunderwaterbyjustkicking.lnfact,hecankick 50 yards faster than most competitive swimmers can swim it." "Chris is a poolrat,"Bortelladds. "Hecan'tgetenoughof it.He'smorecomfortab!einthewaterthan heisondrytand."
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School record 11 wins? Check. Conference cham pionship? Check. NCAA Division 1-AA final four/ Check . The football team filled its 2007 season with one great accomplishment after another. Senior tailback Tim Hightower rewrote the UR rushing record books, but Richmond's youth move rnem was perhaps che team's biggest story. The quarterback, Eric W.1r<l,was a sophomore, and his favorite target, Kevin Grayson, was a freshman, as was electrifying kickoff return specialist Justin Rogers. The team's top duce tacklers were freshman Eric Md\ride and
Spiders celebrate another CAA championship after beating William and Mary.
lead late in the game, but Towson drove the length of the field in 29 seconds to score the game -winning touchdown as time expired. After the game, coach Dave Clawson mid the team what he had been telling them all along: "Treat each week like a one-game season ." His players responded by beating Stony Brook, Rhode Island, James Madison, and Villanova . Then they traveled to Delaware to face the No . 6 team in Division 1-M. The amaz ing game featured l O lead changes, six ties, and 118 combined points in five overtimes. The Spiders won, 62-56, and :idv:mced ro the NCAA playoff~. ln the first two rounds, the Spiders beat Eastern Kenrucky at home and WolTord on the road . Then they traveled to Boone, N .C., to face Appalachian State, the defending national champion that had beaten Michigan in ""l'he Big House" to kickoff the 2007 season.
Appalachian State sprinred co a 28 -7 lead, blll Richmond tied the game 35-35 in the second half. But the Mountaineers ended the Spiders ' season by scoring the game 's final 20 points. Appalachian State advanced to the champion ,hip game and won its thirdconsecutive national title. The young Spiders arc regrouping under a new head coach and adding one more goal to their 2008 list- a national championship.
UR hires London to coach football Mike London, R'83, has been hired to succeed Dave C:b.wson as head football coach . Clawson left UR to become offensive coordi nator at the University of Tennessee. London is the first alu mnus to lead the Spider football program since the late Ed Merrick. R'40, coached the team from 1951- 65. Richmond will be London's
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first head-coaching position, following successful stinrs as an assistant coach at Richmond, William and Mary, Boston College, and Virginia . He also was an assistant coach for one year with the NFL Houston Texans. He spent six of the past seven seasons mold ing one of the nation's top defenses at Virginia. "The University of Richmond is a special place," London says. "I chose Richmond as a player, started my collegiate coaching career here, and am honored to be ... its head coach." In his first remarks as Richmond's head coach, London addressed his players. "I am a gradua[C of this school," he said. ~I've bled on the practice tlelds and the football field. I know what it takes to be a smdent-athlete at this university. It's important to know your education is paramount to any success you might have larer in life. This is my university. When you graduate, it'll be your university, too. There's something special about that."
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HONOREES UR Hall of Fame inducts Burdette The UR Athletics Hall of Fame has inducted the late Lew Burdette, R'49, six decades after he lefr the University to pursue a professional baseball career. Burdette won 203 games in 18 major league seasons. In 1957, he pitched the Milwaukee Braves past the New York Yankees in the World Series, holding the Yankees scoreless for 24 consecutive innings. Other Hall of Fame inductees include: • Curtis Blair, R'92, who led the men's basketball team to a 73-69 triumph over Syracuse in the NCAA cournamem. Blair scored 1,630 poinrs in his career. • Bi!lJordan, R'53, who was a driving force behind Richmond's track and field and cross-country programs for 40 years. • Matt Joyce, '94, a defensive lineman who never missed a game in his UR career. He also played 11 years in the NFL. • Jaclyn Raveia Schmitt, '01, who was named first team all-American following her senior season on the women's soccer team. The year's "team of distinction" is the 2000 women's soccer team. Coached by Peter Albright, the team defeated West Virginia, 5-1, in the NCAA tournament.
Petillon plays in Sweden AmberPetillon , '06, knowshowtoadjust.Shebeganher collegebasketballcareeratRutgers,thentransferred toRichmondforherfinaltwoseasons . Nowsheplays professionally in Sweden. "TheEuropeangameingeneralisabitdifferent,"shesays. ~Thebiggestdifferenceformewasthephysicalplayallowed hereinSweden .... !haveadjustedandknownowjusthow muchlcanbumpsomeoneinthepaint." Lastseason,the6·4centermadetheSwedishall•starteam afteraveraging2opointsand n.5reboundsagameforthe Visbyladies . Thisseason , theNewJerseynativeplaysfor Stockholm,aEuroCupteamthatcompetesinternationally. Petillonhasmadesomeadjustmentsoffthecourt,aswell. "ldon'thaveallthesameluxurieslamusedtohavinginthe States,butontheflipsidethereareperkshereinSwedenthat aren'tintheStatestshesays . "ldolikeallthemom·and·pop stores, but I'm not going to lie-sometimes I really want a venti whitemochawithanextrashot ." TheURgraduatealsomissesherfamily,butshenotesthe lnternetandSkypemakeiteasiertostayincontactwithher parentsinNewJersey.ShealsohastraveledtoDenmark, France, Spain, ltaly,Mallorca,andPortugal. "Playing in Sweden, I miss warm weather, because I only gettheco!dwintermonths,butl'velearnedtobundleup," she says. "The!eastthingl misswouldbedrivingeverywhere intheStates.lenjoywalkingaroundalotmoreandusingthe good public transportation." OtherformerSpidersplayingforwomen'sprofessional teamsinEuropeincludeAnnaGrabias,anativeof Poland who began this season with EKAAELLimassol in Cyprus, and Mirna Mazie, who began the 2007-08 season with a team in her native Croatia.
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of the most important events in the University's history. The coordinate college system was born. later, it graduated its firstwoman Lulie Gaines Winston, RI 899. "She stands first in all her classes," the yearbook admitted. "It makes die rest of us fed a little bad to say chis, but the truth must [come] our." Dr. Frederic Boatwright, Rl888, president of Richmond College at the time, was a strong advocate of women's education. He initially favored coeducation over coordinate educ:nion, bur he encountered opposition to the college's new policy of admitting women. Meanwhile, the Virginia Baptists proposed building a separate college "for the highest education of women." They asked John D. Rockefeller's General Education Board for seed money, but Boatwright already had approached Rockefeller's organiLation for money 10 expand Richmond College. So F.T. Gates, president of the General Education Board, invited both groups to New York 10 consider a compromise. "If you arc to have rwo institutions, one for men and one for women, located in the same city and depending for financial support on the same constituency, the situation would not appeal to us," Gates stared. "If instead of two boards of management, you will commit both of these enterprises 10 one hoard ... the situation would grcadyintcrcstus." Gates' words were recorded by R.H. Pitt, Rl876, champion of a separate women's college. During the 100th anniversary celebration of the University of Richmond, Pier and Boatwright agreed that their meeting with Gares was one
MAY KELLER The General &lucation Board agreed ro contribute $150,000 if the Virginia Baptists would match it with $350,000. Even though Boatwright originally favored coeducation, he worked diligently to raise the money to open a coordinate college for women. le took seven years 10 scrape together the funds. In the meantime, Boatwright found a site for both colleges in the \X'esthamprnn area west of Richmond. Then he looked fora dean. "Boatwright was instructed to find a woman who held a doctorate and was a Baptist," wrote Pauline
four feet, 10 inches call, but she was armed with keen intellect, high expeetations, and indomitable spirit. "On Sept. 17, 1914, Westhampton College welcomed her first student, and Dr. Boarwright's dream became Miss Keller's responsibility, " wrote Claire Millhiser Rosenbaum, W'54 and G'73, in A Gem ofa College."Miss Keller knew exactly what she wanted." She established exceptionally high standards that forced students to "stretch mentally and physically to achieve their maximum potential." Keller was equally demanding of Boatwright and the University's Board of Trustees. She advocated equal pay for female professors, and she decried disparities between the colleges, such as the lack of a librar)' and gymnasium on the Westhamp-
"I do not consider the criticism of the trustees just in any particular , but recognize the fact that they have never considered women as having a right to express an opinion of their own ." Turnbull in her biography of Dr. May Keller. That left only two qualified candidates south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Keller was the obvious choice. She was an English professor at Goucher College and the immediate past president of the Southern Association of College \X'omen. Keller had earned a Ph.D. in Germanic philology from the University of Heidelberg, where she completed her doctoral dissertation in "AngloSaxon \X'eapons." She stood just
ton sideofrhe lake. During salary negotiations in I 920, Boatwright warned Keller that the trustees did not like her "tendency to make demands rather than to state needs." They also accused her of stirring up the alumnae whenever she disagreed wirh rhe board's decisions. Keller stood her ground. "l do not consider the criticism of the trustees just in any particular, but recognize the fact that they have never considered women as having a right
Thecampuswa san amu sem entparkin1904, theyearMayKellerreceivedherPh.D.fromthe University of Heidelberg.
to express an opinion of their own," she shot back. One day later, the board raised her salary . Dltring her 32 -year tenure as dean, Keller created a college that instilled a progressive spirit in its students. She viewed women's education as the foundation that would em power women to compete on an e,1ual footing with men. Currem Dean Juliene Landphair tries to infuse a little biL of May Keller into all Westhampton College srudents. The history of the college is vital, she says. '"Recogni¡,ing the progressive nature of the Westhampton experience since 1914 helps us shape what we want for our srudents today."
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brought me to Westhampton College in 1951 to sec the May Day celebrat ion, and afn:r that, I changed my mind." Brooks was mesmerized by the traditions she witnessed-the May Pole Dance, the May Court, and the Daisy Chain. 'The whole \X1esthampton campus wa.~dedicated to this event, and everyone was involved," she says. , During her four years at West hampton, Brooks enjoyed rhe camaraderie that developed among her classmates . "We were a cohesive group, a small class, the last of the Depression babies/ she re.:alls. To gether with their big sisters from the Class of 1953, they competed against the sophomores and seniors in everything from arh letic events to
herself-as .:urrent \Vesthampron students do--but she clearly remembers signing the honor pledge. "I felt very proud to be in a system where you had to not on ly look oul for yourse lf but for cveryoneclscaswell." Westhampton's tradition of selfgovernment was espe<.:iallyimpor rant to Brooks . "It taught me to rake responsibility then and as an adult," she says. "Jc helped me become aware of who I am and accept who I am ." (See Vantage Point by Ellen Bradley, W'91, on page 48.) As for the coordinate college system, Brooks says it was the best of both worlds. "'\'1/esthampton was like going to a women's college with the benefit of having rhc men across the lake."
no solo voices in our class," she notes, "and I think that's why we did so well in the song con tests . Our voices blenJed together." They won the event three years in
WILLPOWER
As a teenager, Jackie Kilby Brooks, W'55, was determined not to follow in her mother's foorsn:ps. Her modier, Eva Ellis Kilby, graduated from Westhampton College in 1921, so Brooks would have to attend college elsewher e- perhaps Duke, she fama:,ized. "But my mother was a very smart woman," Brooks recalls. "She
Prodamation Night was another tradition that impr esseJ Brooks. She docs not recall writing a letter to
Brooks majored in math - taking many courses on the "men's side" of the l~ke. Her first job was with the National Advisory Comminee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA, working with first-generarion IBM computers. IBM hired her in 1956, and she
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embarkt:d upon a 31-year career with Big Blue, advancing steadily from consulting ro managing to strategic planning. '' l was among the hrst women to hold some of those po~irions," she says. 'The training I received at Westhampton College gave me the ability to hold my own in a maledominated world. " Even without May Keller in charge, courses at West hampton College were more demanding than classes at Richmond College. So when th e colleges completed their academic merger in 1978, Brooks was disappointed. Bur she viewed the change as a tough bus iness decision. "I rry to see why things are done, and hn;mces are usually rhe bottom point in most decisions ," she says. "I suppose they had to do chat." Soon after the merge r, Brooks helped Westhampton College secure funding from I !3M to start a program called WILL (\X'omen Involved in Living and U:arning). Westhampton esrablished the program to preserve single-sex academic opportunities for women and to
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help studems build self-confidence. "WILL students tend to graduate, as one alumna said, with the perspective of a 40-year-old woman," Landphair notes. "That means that you are more sure of yourself, you are more conhdent, you understand
co-curricular activities that delve into issues related to women, gender, and diversity. Promoting inclusive divers ity is an overarching priority for Westhampton College and Richmond College.
GENDER MATTERS
that you have strong relationships, but you realize you h,we to pay attemion co yourself a little bit.~ The program currently serves about 100 women and has been replicated by Duke and other universities nationwide. It indudes coursework for a minor in women, gender, and sexuality stud ies plus
Today the coordinate college system helps each student realize his or her highest potential in an environment that is attentive to gender differences. The wlleges maintain separate dean's offices, student governments, traditions, gender-based programming, and residen<.:elife offices. "You gel a lot of personal attention from the diflCrent deans' offices," says Drew Howell, ' I 0, a Richmond College senalor. "The people in the deans' offices really know you ." The same is true of the resident assistants, says Howell, who is an RA in Dennis H all. Residem assistants in each college arc attuned to gender-related issues. "Men have more policy problems, su..:h as discipline or alcoho l," he says. "\Xlomen have more emotional problems, such
as eating disorders." Each college's professional staff also is specially trained w recognize and respond w gender-related problems. "The argument you hear increasingly is: 'Women don't need this sm!T anymore. They are doing better than the guys. They make better grades,'" Landphair says. "The reality is gender still matters for rhings like self-confidence. Gender still matters in terms of relationsh ip violence and sexual assault. Gender still matters in terms of women going into traditional and nontraditional fields." Westhampton responds to evolving developmental needs, L1ndphair notes, and it "continues to promote studems' intellecmal and leadership skills in ways conceptualized by Dean Keller decades ago." Bridget Needham, '08, says Westhampton Co llege has had a profound impact on her life. "le is empowering to be in an organization wmposed entirely of women," she says. "We talk a lot about being strong women and standing up for what we really fed is important."
As president of the Westhampton College Government Association, Needham has benefitted from the extra leadership opportunities of separate student governments. For other students, the most empowering aspects of the coordinate college
system might be a gender-related program, a strong role model in die dean's office, a single-sex discussion group, or all of the above. Student development varies by student, but common themes emerge. "Men and women mature differently," says Joe Boehman, dean of Richmond Co!lege. "First-
year women tend to mme in more focused on what they want to do in life. Most men aren't there yet, but they catch up quickly - usually by their junior or senior year. ... What I try w do is connect them with their passion and then connect that passion to a career path or at lease an avocation." Boehman also cha!lenges Richmond College students to consider the developmental aspects of whal it means to be a man . "That's a tougher sell to the men," he laughs. "They lhink we're going t0 run around in the woods lighting fires and sharpening sticks .n The RC Xtreme program offers rugged, oULdoor experiences to firsr-year men, but students also may choose a more academic approach. Howell, for example, helped organize a program called "Men in the Media: Examining Masculinity.n He and 30 fellow residents of Dennis Hall studied how movies such as the The Matrix and television shows such as Lost use various stereotypes to portray men.
Westhampton Coll ege's Proclamation
Night and Ric hmond Colle ge's Investiture are amon g the most vital tradition s of the two colleges .
LAKE EFFECT Five years ago, the Universiry began housing men and women on both sides of rhe lake, and alumni expressed concern that Westhampton College and Richmond College were losing their identities. The University was responding to consistenr complaints - mostly from female s1udems- that the men 's residence halls were closer to rhc
"We are not losing the coordinate college system even though we now have men and women living on the same side of the lake." library, the Robins Cemcr, and the majoriry of classrooms and professors' offices. Their complaints were remarkably similar ro those filed by May Keller in the 1920s, but the 21st century solurion was not to replicate facilities on both sides of the lake. Instead , the University gave male and fem:1lesrudents more housing options on either side. "Until then, many students blamed the coordinate college sys-
tem for limiting social opportunities with the opposite sex,Âť Landphair says. "Now they arc more willing to embrace the coordinate college system- not as two residential colleges- but as a way to connect and enhance their curricular and cocurricular experiences." Single-sex residence halls remain prevalent, bur the University now offers coed housing options. That pleases students and prospective students, bur it concerns many alumni. "As a student, I probably wouldn't have cared one way or the other," says John Moreau, R'64 and G'7I. "Bur now, as a father and grandfarher, it worries me.Âť Sharing similar concerns, the University requires first-year students to live in single-sex dorms, and it promotes single-sex housing for oldersmdems as well. "There is a bencfir to having your own space, where you can be you," says Boehman in defense of all-male residence halls. "If you need coed housing rn meet women, then you seriously need to work on your game." Boehman, however, reminds students and alumni that the coordinate college system is nol about bricks and mortar. It's about helping students mature into strong men
and strong women. "The coordinate college system is changing and adapting to meet the challenge,~of 21st ~;ntury college students, hesays. Wearenot losing the coordinate college system even though we now have men and women living on the same side of the lake."
RC TRADITIONS Students and alumni may disagree about housing arrangements, but rhey share a deep appreciation for the coordinate college system. "It is part of the University that people don't know about coming in, bur it's a big part of our idenrity," Howell says. "h's more 1han just a tradition ." The unique traditions of each college, however, are vital to passing on the coordinate college system t0 each new generation. "One of the University's most enduring traditions is Richmond College itself," Boehman says. "Our alumni express this uadition as fellowship among a handful of lifelong friends or a connection with a faculty member or an administrator." For Moreau, rhc best Richmond College tradition has been the strength of its deans over the
y.:;irs. Formt:r Ot:an Clart:nct: Gray taken about an hour before the imroduced Moreau to his current ceremony, and you get a s.:nse that wife, and the deans who followed we are all part of the Westhampron him- Dr. Richard Mateer, Dr. Steve community.' Bisese, and Dr. Jot:Boehman- are Another important tradition is "so special," he says. "They are caring Ring Dance, a rite of passage for people and strong male role models." Westhampton juniors, who :Ht: New traditions include Richescorted down the grand staircase of mond College's Living and Learnthe Jefferson Hotel to form a giant ing programs . These programs give Won the rotunda floor. freshmen rhe opportunity to live Each Westhampton class puts with fellow first-year men who share its stamp on the college's uadicommon interests such as leadertions, but some Westhampton ship (Spinning Your Web), outdoor traditions - such as "ratting" firstadventure (RC Xtrerne), imernayear studt:nts - are gone for good. tional culture (Ratting was (Explore UR generally goodWorld),and natured hazing lhearts (RC perpetrated by ArtStart) . sophomor.:s.) "And I haven't Men are inductt:d into heard anything Richmond Colrecently about lege during a panty raids at ceremony called Westharnpron Investiture. College," laughs The Richmond Moreau."We College Student had a locoffun Government with that- until Signing the honor pledge. Association they brought in president carries tht: University's the police dogs.n mace in a procession that leads co Otht:r Westhampton traditions the chapel, where freshmen sign the such :1sthe daisy chain - have bttn honor pledge and listen to speeches incorporated into Ring Dance and by represenutives of the sophomore, Proclamation Night. junior, and senior classes. "I know chat May Day has really changed," says Brooks of the WC TRADITIONS tradition that first anracted her to Women are inducred into \X'.:stWesthampton College. The spring hampton College during Proclamacelebration is now called Bellisfesr. tion Night. They sign the honor (Bellis is the larin word for daisy.) plt:dgt: and write letters to themAnd instead of the May Coun selves about ch.:ir exp.:crations for which was one-part beauty contestrhe next three years. They return at studt:nts elt:ct a Leadership Court. the beginning of their senior year to That is good news to Mort:au. read those letters and to initiate the "What a wonderful way to keep the incoming class. tradicion,n he says, "by doing some"Students feel varying degrees of th ing bemr with ir.~ ~ affinity for Westhampton College, bur it really sinks in for seniors at Send comments about this story to Proclamation Night," Needham krhodes@richmond.edu. says. "Wehaveou r classpiccure
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Westhampton Center The Robins foundation recently awarded a $3 million grant to help construct a new building adjacent to the existing Westhampton College Deanery that wi!lserveasthefoundationforthe Westhampton Center project. Theprojectincludestheexisting Deanery, the newbuilding,and
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range of new programs and resources specially designed to meet the needs of women students. The gift will allow the University to move forward with the new building, while it continues to raisefundstosupportthe
new
services. "For nearly 40 years, the Robins family has stepped forward with remarkable generosity at pivotal moments in the University's history," saysPresidentEdwardl.Ayers."lam deeplygratefulfortheRobinsfamily's extraordinary leadership and support, whichwillfosterthecontinuedvitality ofWesthampton College." The total cost of constructing the Westhampton Center and offering new programs is $10 million. With the Robins Foundation grant, the total raised for the project now exceeds $4.5 million in gifts from nearly 150 donors, including both Westhampton alumnae and students. The new building is scheduled for completion in 2010.
Teaching the Teachers Richmond alumni make a big difference in K-12 classrooms.
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amal, a lhird-gradcr at Glen Lea Elementary School, loved coming to the Youth Life Learning Center, an after-school program for children from Delmont Plaza, a subsidized apartment complex on Richmond's north side. He dearly benefine<l from the tutoring and men-
toring program, but his attendance was sporadic, and when he did show up, he often fell asleep. The learning center's founder, Heather Brown Goodlett, '94, had quit her job as a reading specialist at Glen Lea so she could work more closely with children like Jamal. His family life was so chaotic that no one woke him each morning or sent him to bed at an appropriate
By Pamela Babcock time. After missing sd10ol, he sometimes tried to sneak into the after-school program, but only students who went to school that day could attend. So che learning center bouglu Jamal an alarm clock, showed him how to use it, and told him he would have to be responsible for going robed earlier. From that day on, he starred making it to school-and to the Youth Life Learning Center. Goodlett is one among thousands of K-12 teachers UR has trained over the years. Richmond graduates good teachers, but more importantly the University produces passionate educators who strive to make a big difference in children's lives.
UR's Depanmem of Education was on die chopping block IO years ago, but the Unive rsity's faculty and alumni rallied ro s;1veit. They sent a cle:i.r message "that pan of the undergraduate mission should be to prepare teachers," recalls Dr. Patricia Stohr-Hunt, who chairs the department. The results have been overwhe!tning!y positive. K-12 teachers educated at Richmond are in high demand, and several have won prestigious local and national teaching awards in recent years. !n :1ddition to the traditional undergraduate approach, the Univer sity's School of Continuing Studies launched a teacher licensure program in 2000 for people with undergradu ate degrees who want LO become K-12 teachers. In the past five years, 256 students have graduated from the lie.ensure program, and 125 studenL~ have graduated from the traditional program. One of the strengths of the undergraduate program is that nearly 70 percem ofits studems swdy abroad for a foll semester or a whole summer, Stohr-Hunt says. "The srudenrs are much more grounded and
have a better sense of their place in their world .... I think that helps a lot when they are teaching." The program also prepares students for the diversity they will encounter in the real world and how it will affect their teaching.
THE K-12 CALLING At Richmond, Goodlett majored in speech communication and specialized in early childhood education. She always wanted to be a teacher, but she was not sure where ex:acrly that desire would lead. Like many of Richmond's alumni teachers, she
Goodlett says. "The children are smart, but they've just been beaten down and w!d Lhey're not going to amounL Lo much . .. . Our thing is to figure out, for each of them, what makes their heart beat an<l gets them excited and plug them imo that." Shaphana, a sixth -grader, had a "what's-the-point-of-school" attitude and a passion for nursing, so the learning cemer put her in a sum mer program where she shadowed nurses for a week. Shaphana is now a hard-working ninth-grader with "a purpose and a vision," Goodlett says. The program's long-term approach
"Instead of facilitating a mere teacherstudent relationship, the faculty works with students to become colleagues in the field of teaching." views K-12 education as more of a calling than a career. (~oodlett opened die Youth Life Learning Center in 2003, and her nonprofit organilation plans to open a second center this year in Richmond's north side. The mission is to develop leaders by making long-term investments in at-risk ch ildren in kindergarten through ninth grade. l 'he learning center works closely with Glen l.ea Elementary School. Unlike many after -school programs, it hires certified teachers or sends them to school to get cercitled. The center currently has 28 srndenrs and rwofu!l-rimeteachers. Ahom 50 mentors volunteer at the center during any given month. Some are educators, while others are college students o r bus iness peop le. The center requires mentors w commit for at least one year. "You can't just come in and out of these kids lives, because they've had so much loss and insecurity,"
is critical to its success, she emphasizes. "If you wam to see a quick fi.x, this is nor the program to be in. It rakes years co undo some of the [negative] thought processes, bur it's worth it when I sec our ninth -graders who have come through all that."
BORN TO TEACH? Kenny Graves, '09, is majoring in English with minors in secondary educat ion and Span ish. He has wamed to he a teacher as long as he can remember. "My mom still has pictures of me in our basement at a chalkboard," Graves says. "I have teachers on both sides of my family, so my parents were not surprised when I developed a passion for ir." UR's education department was one of the most important factors that attracted Graves to Richmond. Faculty members are always available and willing to help students become the best teachers they can be, he says.
Jsn -__ .....; .,.•Kenny Gr.ives, '09 , tac klesa projecti n his Tec tmologyi nTea ch ingcl a ss.
"Instead of facilitating a mere teacher-student relationship, the faculty worh with students to become colleagues in the field of teaching. I feel very prepared to enter the classroom, not only as an instructor, but also as a role model." The Upper Marlboro, Md ., native initially planned to become an elementary school reacher, bur as he grew older, he says, "the secondary level really intrigued me." After graduation, Graves plans to head straight t0 the classroom ro gain experience. His ultimate goal, however, is to become a college professor and prepare other teachers to reach in K-l 2classroorns. Erin McCracken, '05, also hopes to teach in a university education deparrmt:nt or psychology department someday . She is pursuing a Ph.D. in risk and prevention in education sciences at the University of Virginia. The research-based program concentrates on "at-risk children and policies that affect diem," says
McCracken, who is focusing her research on mass instruc tion and teacher quality. A native of Paxton, Mass ., McCracken majored in psychology with minors in education and studio an at UR . She also taught at a free alternative school for studems from low-income families in Ecuador during her undergraduate experience. After graduating from Richmond, McCracken declined a Fulbright grant to teach in Malaysia and accepted a position with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme, where she taught elementary and middle school English for two and a half years. Growing up in a small New England town, she was unaware of some of the issues facing at-risk students. Her experience teaching around the world made her realize there are similar problems everywhere, particularly when it comes to poverty and motivation. McCracken did not know she
wanted to be a teacher until she took an introduction to education dass at Richmond. "The teacher education program is very strong, and almost everyone who graduates is in high demand," she says. "Even though the program is really small, it is \'el)' rigorous."
EXPERIENCE COUNTS Time is a great te;icher, and teachers wirh more life experiences have better answers to the inevitable K-12 question of"Why do we have to learn this?" Life experiences abound among students in Richmond's teacher licensure program. It has attracted everyone from a classical guitarist to a seaweed farmer. "Our preparation centers on teaching how to teach, or pedagogical skills," says Dr. Catherine Fisher, director of the program. "Our students already have the passion to teach because they have made this decision after having experiences in
Erin McCracken, '05, (to p ce nter and far right ) taught middle school and elementary school students in Japan for two and a half years.
life that help them understand the need to contribute to society." Cmdidares must have a bachelor's degree, but many have master's degrees, and three or four have doctorates. Thty need 33 credit hours for elementary school cenificarion or 30 credit hours for secondary school certification. Most people in the program are in the ir late 20s to mid-40s.
"As a classroom teacher ... I can make a difference in how kids view the world and humanity." Richmond native Ben Allred completed the program in 2004. He always wanted robe a reacher, but in this 20s and 30s, he worried that reaching would not pay well enough. So he spent seven years as a fundraiser for non -profit organizations and three years as a rrust accountant. Finally, he was ready to pursue his dream of teaching. He rook night classes in UR's liccnsure prognm for two and a half years while being a sray-ar-home dad to his two daugh ters. The program was rigorous, bur Allred says professors were sensitive to the fact that most of the participants were not traditional students. " [ was 40 at the time and was ap-
prehensive," he recalls. "Could I still handle the rigors of schoolwork?" Allred also was concerned about competing against experienced educarors for a job. His first interview was at Pocahontas Middle School in Henrico County, Va. He says Richmond's reputation for developing outstand ing teachers made the difference. "\X'hen I sat down with the principal, I explained what the UR licensure program was all about, how rigorous it was, and gave him examples of my work," Allred says. "That's what pushed me over the top." Allred is now in his fourth year teaching seventh-grade social studies at the school. When he tells people he reaches middle school, their first response is ofren, "Oh ... I'm sorry. Middle school kids drive most adult~ crazy, Allred concedes. Bur "they're intelligent and energetic , and there 's never a dull moment. ... These kids are watching CNN, C-SPAN, the Hisrory Channel, and Discovery Channel," he says. " It's like carrying on a conversation with little :1dulrs- who don 't behave particularly well." Allred won the school's first-year teacher award. ''I've never enjoyed a job as much as chis one," he says. "I work harder at this than any other job I've had before, but I'm doing what I love."
LEAD TEACHER Other Richmond alumni teachers have completed licensure programs elsewhere. Christopher Poulos, '97, a graduate of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, earned his teaching credentials from Connecti cut's Alternate Route to Certification Program. Last year, he was selected from a field of 48,000 teachers as Connecti cut Teacher of the Year. Poulos reaches Spanish at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Conn. He encourages students t0 immerse themselves in Spanish language and culture by volunteer ing for organizations where Spanish is spoken. During the summer, he takes student groups to Costa R.ica tO work on community service projects. His first year on rhe job, Poulos also completed a master's degree in Spanish from Columbia University. At Richmond, Poulos minored in Spanish and business, and he pur a lot of thought into what he wanted tO do in the real world. "I could go t0 work in Washington as a bureau crat, I could get a joh at a bank .. or I could do something different," he reasoned. His liberal arts education pointed him toward community service, so he joined the Peace Corps and worked for two years in GuanjaTalgua, Honduras, where he did everything from helping children
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with science projects to train ing farmers . The rural village had about 400 residents , 40 houses, and no electricity . "They made $800 a year for a family , and when I walked by their houses, they'd invite me in/ Poulos recalls. "They were poor people, but very sincere and genuine ." Today, Poulos brings chat experience into the classroom. "As a classroom teacher, you have that ability to promote that culture in the classroom," he says. "! can make a difference in how kids view the world and humanity ."
RISKS AND REWARD S In February 2008, Goodlett steppctl down as executive director of the Youth Life Learning Center to spend more time with her growing family. She plans to remain active on the board and as a voluntee r, and she expects to be at Delmont Plaza more often, now that she will not be as busy with admin istration and fundraising . Over the years, many Delmont residents have become like fam ily to her. They auended her wedding two years ago to Raymond Goodle tt , a campus minister with Every Nation Campus M inistries at U R. Shaphana was Lheguest book attendant, and Miguel - a boy everyone once wrote off as "too difficult~ - handed out programs.
Things have improved somewhat at Delmont Plaza. Its new managers have spruced up the apartment s, but it's still a dangerous place for a child, ora teacher for that matter. "We just had a bullet come through a window at the learning cemer during the holiday season," Goodlett says. ~Thankfully we were out for the holidays. ~ Teaching is tough enough in affluent school districts . In disadvan taged neighborhoods , the risks are greater, but so are the rewards. "If I had known how d ifficult the past five years would be, I don ' t know if I would have signed up for it," Goodlett admits. "But I'm glad I did, because in the past five years, I've seen so man y positive things happen in people's lives [includingJ my own. And what about Jamal, the lit dc boy who had to set his ow n alarm clock? He moved to Terrnessee and is succeed ing in the seventh grade. " H e's athlelic and he's thriving," Goodle tt says. "His teachers say he's brilliant."::f't
between the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the School of Continuing Stud ies, has formed two programstoenhanceK-12 leadershipintheRichmondarea. Fifty assistant princ ipals from local public schools are enrolled in the center's Next Generation Leadership Academy, which opened in 2004 . Sessions feature University facultymembers andotherexperts speaking on group dynam ics and leadersh ip, ethics and leadership, commun ication and leadership, and equity and race in schools. The National Association of Counties recently recognized the academy with an award for crossing jur isdictional boundar ies. The academy's current class comes from schoo ls in Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico count ies, andthecityofRichmond. More recently, the Center for Leadership in Education formed a partne rship with Virginia Commonwealth University called Eduleadto prov ide additiona l leadership-de•
Editor's notes:Heather Goodlettasked the magazine to omit Jamal's real name in this story. Pamela Babcock is a freelance writer basedin the New York City area. Send commentsabout this story to krhodes@richmond.edu.
velopmentopportunitiesto
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school systems in the Richmond area. In December 2007, Edulead received a $273,486 contract to help develop leaders for the Louisiana School Turnaround Speciali st Program.
SEAN CASEY 'THE NICEST GUY BASEBALL-EVER'
A
ivotal point i'n the life of Scan CaM:y, '95, came ar age 13, when he an<la friend were caught shoplifting baseball cards. His father handed him a dictionary and ordered him to look up ~greed," "selfish," and "chief." Casey still recalls the lecture: "It's because of pwple like you- who steal-that people don't ha11ejobs. Taxes go up. Companies go out of business . ... Your actions aflCct so many other people." The experience changed Casty. He began to realize chat one person's anions really could make a difference. Resolved co do better, he grew up to become widely known as the nicest guy in baseball. The veteran firstbastman is ;in outstanding role modd . He gives generous amoums of rime and money to people in need. He even bear-hugs sportswriters. "I think the world of the guy," says Hal McCoy, a spomwrirer for the DaytonDaily News who covered Ca.~eyduring his days with the Cincinnati Reds. Even after Casey was traded to Pittsburgh and then to Detroit, he would seek out McCoy whenever he was in town with one of his new reams. He always gave McCoy a big hug. "I have never heard him say a bad word about anybody," says McCoy . "The world is his friend."
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By Bill Lohmann, R'79 McCoy has written that Casey is "the nicest guy in baseba!l--ever.n His assessment comes from firsthand experience, bur it has become the consensus throughout the game. Other sportswriters and sportscasters concur, and his fellow players share the sentiment. In May 2007, he wa.\ vored the "friendliest player in ba...eba.11" by a wide margin in a Sportsillustratedpoll of 464 players. He received 46 percent of the votes. The first runner-up got 7 percent. Casey also is known a._\ "the mayor" hec.m~e of his chattiness at first base when runners srnp there. What does he ra.lk about? "I have so many different conversations about so many different things, it's just unbelievable," Casey says. "How's the family? How a.reyou swinging?"
GROWING HEART \X!hen the Detroit Tigers chose not to re-sign Caseyafter the 2007 season, he responded by publicly thanking the club for bringing him to Detroit and giving him the opportunity to play in the 2006 World Serie.s. In an era of prima donna profossional athletes, Casey operates in :1 higher realm of deceni.,y In Lawrence, Mass., for example, he helped create and finance Cor Unum Meal Center, a $1.5 million facility that serves GOOmeals every day to impoverished people. The meal
cenrer, wh ich opened in 2006, is the brainchild of Rev. Paul O'Brien, a longtime friend . O'Brie n and Casey met through Jamie Cappetta, '97, a college teammate who knew O'Brien while growing up in Concord, Mass. Caseyand O'Brien got to know each other better during the summer Cisey played in the Gipe Cod League for college players. "We keep very up-to -date," O'Brien says. "So he knew from the time I started in Lawrence that, among all of the social issues we've got here, hunger was an ob11iousone." When O'Brien pro posed a meal center, Casey wrote one of the first checks. Much of the resc of the money came from Labels Arc for Jars, a project that combines the
He wrote letters to 30 Oi11isionI coaches, asking for a chance. Only Richmond re~ponded. Mark McQueen, now Richmond's head baseball coach, drove six hours to Pittsburgh to scout Casey, who responded with four doubles and eight RBI. As good as Casey's hitting wa..~, meeting him after the game was even better, McQucen recalls. "He wa..\genuinely grateful for the effort we had made lO come watch him ." C1scy came to Richmond on a $1,000 scholarship. He hit .405 during his college career, d ri11ingin 158 runs in 158 games. In 1995, he led the Spiders to the NCAA East Regional and the program's first win in the NCAA tournament. He earned second team all-American honors
"Getting Sean to come to Richmond was one of the best things that ever happened for our baseball program." sale of rhoug ht-provoking'T-shirts packaged in jars later used to collect donations to feed the hungry . Casey is active in that organization , too . Last season, during a Tigers road trip to Boston, Cisey spent a morning at the meal center serving breakfast and greeting diners. "It is so cool," Casey says. "It's liter:i.llylike :l nice restaurant. People who don't have food can go there and feelat home and be served." Enthusiasm and generosity seem to come narurally to Casey. He credits his Christian faith and the idea that when much is gi11en,much is expected."When you gi11cback to people," he says, "that's when your heart really grows."
A SPECW., PERSON Casey was a good baseball player in high school, but by his senior year, his hopes of playing big-lime college baseball were fading.
that year and won die NCAA baning title with an average of .461. "Getting Sean to come to Richmond was one of the best things that ever happened for our baseball program and our University," McQuccn says. "He's truly a special person." The admiration is mutual. "Looking back, Richmond was such a steppingstone for me, not just for my career bur for my life," Casc.-y says. He majored in speech communications, which has come in handy during media interviews and speaking engagements. Casey was three semesters shy ¡of graduating when the Cleveland Indians selected him in the second round of the Major League Baseball draft. To complete his degree requirements, he returned to UR during three different off-seasons, including the spring following his first season in the big leagues. He graduated in 1998.
"I owe a lot to the University of Richmond," he says. "I don't ever take for granted how privileged and honored I was to have graduated from diere ."
WHAT'S NEXT? Casey has lived his dream of playing major league ba.~eball.He is a career .300 hitter. He has played in chree all-star games and one World Series (baning above .500 and hitting two home runs in Detroit 's loss to Sr. Louis). And in 1999, he won the Hutch Award for honor, courage, and dedication to baseball. After 11 seasons, he knows he is nearing the end of his career. He figures he has another year, maybe rwo. He recently signed a one-year comracl with the Boston Red Sox. "I still love the game. I just don't love the travclt he admits. Casey and his wife, Mandi, have three young children. He wants to coach his kids when they start playing sports and generally be home as rhey grow up. After he is done playing, he says he might try to stay in baseball as an instructor or a broadcaster. He has even considered venturing into politics. Would 'the mayor' really run for public office? "Maybe/ he says, but "I wouldn't munlon lt Either way, his friend the priest, Paul O'Brien, has a hunch about his old buddy: "Sean's commitment to young people is real ... as is his commitment to the economically poor. People should stay tuned. Sean Casey may turn out to be a much more interesting person once he retires from baseball."~
Bill Lohmann, R79, U a writer and columnistfar the Richmond TimesDispatch. Send comments 11bou1 this s10ryto krhodes@richmond.edu
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.ALUMNI B OOKS The Middle Place There was sunding room only in the Brown-Alley Room when Kelly Corrigan, W'89, brought her national book tour to the Richmond campus. One week off the press, her first book, The
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Kelly Corrigan, W'89,and da11ghterClalresharea middle•plaeemoment.
7imesBcsrSdlcrslisr. The memoir hit stores in January under Hyperion's Voice label. Barnes and Noble is featuring the book in its Discover Great New Writers Program, and the January issue of 0, The Oprah Magazine called it ''funny, scary and irresistibly exuberant" in a full-page plug. The Middle Place also was rcCommcndcd by Elle, Good Howekeeping,and Glamour m;iga:rim;:s. Corrigan was diagnosed with stage-duce breast cancer in 2004, an experience that altered her perception of what it means to be a dauglncr and a mother at chesametime. Feeling mon: like a child than an adult. she instinctively called home to her parents. The plot thickened when her father was diagnosed with his second rccurrCncc of cancer. Richmond Alumni Magazine published portions of Corrigan's story in the spring 2006 issue in a fea-
Sarah Mergenthaler, '01 , (right )an dAmandaClarkwinthe U.S.Olympiclrialsfor470 -classsalling.
ture called "The Circus of Cancer ." (Sec magazine. richmond.edu/spring200G.) Other
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Ambassadorto the Kingdom of Wal-Mart. Richard Gottlieb, R'G9. A strategic look at the changing landscape of sales.
A Field Guide to Office Technology.Ed Sobey, R'69. Trivia and background on everything from water coolers to laser printers. Dffldriseand Cross-planked. Lmy Chowning, R'72. A history of wooden deadrise boat building and its role in Chesapeake Bay culture.
Haunted Richmond, The ShadowsofShockoe. Scott Bergman, R'88, and Sandi Bergman. A compilation of the Bergman's ghost tour tales. The L,mdings r1tSuvk1 Bdy, 1915. Michael Mortlock, G'94. An in-depth analysis of British failure in the
Gallipoli Campaign during World War!.
Luci,1:Where YouAre. Daniel S. Keenan, R'78 . A trans -Atlamic, trans-cultural love story set during World War 11. State Fair a/Virginia: More Thrm a Midway. Wayne Oemcnti, 8'66, and Lou Ann Meadows Ladin. An illustrated history of the Stale Fair of Virginia.
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NOTABLES Spider sailor bound for summer Olympics Sarah Mergenthaler, '01, of New York and Amanda Clark will Rpresem the United States in 470 -dass sailing at the summer Olympics in Reijing afrt:r winning rhe U.S. Olympic Trials in Long Beach, Calif. The trials were a tight competition through the first 12 races, but Mergenthaler and Clark turned it up a notch in their final three races to win the women's division by 14 points. They also finished three poims ahead of the top men's team. The trials were the first to combine men's and women 's 470-class teams in the same races. Mergenthaler and Clark finished first overall in four of 15races and placed first among the women's teams in nine of them. Qualifying for the Olympic\ was their fim goal. Now they arc focused on winning a medal. During the next three months. rhey plan to train and compele in Spain, Italy, France, and Germany, followed by one month of preparation in China leading up lo the Olympic Games Aug. 8- 21. They post progress reports at teamgosail.org. While al Richmond, Mergenthaler played soccer and was a rn:o-time conference champion in the javelin. She also won the Fannie
Crenshaw Scholarship for excellence in the classroom and in ad1lctics. She graduated with a double major in business administration and sport management.
Times-Dispatch honors Howard's achievements Tl-ie Richmond TimesDispatch recemly recognized A.E. Dick Howard, R'54 and H'84, among its "Virginians of Achievement in the 20th Century." Howard was executive director of the commission that wrote VirginiJs current constitution and direncd the rdCrcndum campaign to ratify it. He is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Llw and Public AfTairsat die Unive rsity of Virginia and one of five Rhodes Scholars who are graduates of Richmond. "A legendary professor in Charlottesville, Howard has also spent much time advising emerging democracies around the globe about how to write their own constitutions," wrote Brent Tarter in the Times-Dispt1tch. uThese countries include Brazil, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Albania, Malawi, and South Africa. The structure of democracy was invented by Orange County's Jan1es Madison, and it is fining that neighboring A!bemarle's Howard continues the tradition.~
Connectwith classmates Reunion Weekend April I 1-!3 If your class year ends in 3 or 8, make a special effort to reconriect with your classmates on campus in April. This year's reunion will coincide with the inauguration of President Edward Ayers ori April 11in the Robins Center. To register for your reunion, go to UROnline.net or call the alumni office at (804) 289·8030 or (800) 480·4774, option 8. For more iriformation about Reunion Weekend go to UROnline.net.
Homecoming 2008 0a.14-16 This year's homecoming will feature classroom lectures, departmental operi houses, football against Georgetown, a pre·game picnic , zero•year reunion for the Class of 2008 and a young grad reunion for classes 1999-2008. For more information, visit UROnline.net or contact the alumni office at homecomlngweekend@richmond .edu or (804) 289·8030 or (800) 480•4774, option 8.
Regional chapter events Year-Round For information about alumni chapter events in your area, visit UROnline.net and click on "Regional Alumni Chapters," or call Sarah Shear in the alumni office at (804) 289 ·8473 .
UROnline.net Any1ime This password•protec t ed Web site connects alumni to the University and each other . UROnline.net carries the latest news from the University of Richmond Alumni Association, and it allows members to search an on! ine atumni directory. It also pro~ides on!ine registration for alumni events, career networking features, and permanent e-mail forwarding.
Lees wins top prize for steeplechase photo
Douglas Lees. R.72, won a 2007 Media Eclipse Award with this photo.
Douglas Lees. R'72. of Warn:nton, V.1.,won the 2007 Media Eclipse Award for Photography with a picture of jockey Will Haynes and his horse, Nave.sink View. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association presents Media Eclipse Awards each year to recognize ouL~tanding media coverage of thoroughbred racing. Lees previously won the association's top photography award in 1978. "I'm just blown away to win again," Lees says. "The most important thing about chis photo is that hmh the horse and the rider were al! right after the spill." The photograph was first published in the Fauquier
Times-Democrat.
Patsy Garrett Koklnacls, W'41, (center) played Mary Gruber in Benji movies.
'Cat chow lady' wins founders award Patsy Garrett Kokinacis, W'41, ofll1ncho Mirage, Calif., receiveJ the 2007 Foun<lers Award from the California Desert Chorale in Palm Desert, Calif. Known professionally as Patsy Garrell, Kokinacis has enjoyed a long and prolific career as a comedic actress. For many years, she danced the cha-cha -cha with various cam in Purina's classic cat chow commercials. People still ask her if she is ''the car chow lady." In addition to acting in commercials, Kokinacis has appeareJ in dozens of movies and television shows. She scarred as Mary Gruber in the first two l3enji movies and played Mrs. Fowler, the nosy neighbor in Nanny and
the Professor. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for a guest-star appearance on Sanford and Son, and she appeared briefly in many other TV shows
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Casry,Maude, Columbo, The Waltons,All in the Family, and Room 222.
Loving receives medal for Vietnam mission John Loving, H.'67 and Gl3'71, of Raleigh, N.C., has received a Silver Srar for gallanrry in action during a covert military operation near the Vietnam-Cambodia border in 1969. Loving accompanied a group of South Vietnamese soldiers with orders to attack a Viet Cong outpost in Cambo<lia. Thq were greeted at the horder by heavy gunfire and mortar attacks, and the South Vietnamese troops ran for cover while Loving anJ another American, Mack Rice, helped evacuate four injured soldiers. ~ Loving got three medals from the South Vietnamese, induJing one for the operation in Camhodia, bur for years heard nothing about
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the Silver Slar," according to a recent story in the Raleigh News & Ob,erver.The subject came up a few years ago when Loving interviewed Rice for a book. (Rice had received a Bron1.,eStar.) Loving inquired about his medal, and received it in January after getting support from members of Congress and a statement from a lieutenant colonel who was familiar with the mission.
Schuler lands role on CBS soap opera Actress Chauntce Schuler, '03, is back in the spotlight as Bonnie McKechnie, convicted killer turned helpful lawyer, in As the World Turns. Schuler and Joshua Walker, '03, were Lherunners -up in the wedding competition on NBC's Todayshow in 2006. Afrer a quiet wedding in UR's Perkinson Recital Hall, Schuler remrned to playing the lead role of Nala in Disney's touring production of The Lion King. Previously, she had srarred in an interna tional tour of The Producerr. Now she is a regular on a CBS soap opera that has aired since 1956. "Some people look down on soap operas, but they have a great tradition on television," she told The Free Lance-Star in her hometown of Fredericksburg. «These stories following families through time are a tradition daring back to Shakespeare."
AlumniAdventures Join fell ow Spiders on intern ational excursions Ul<raine and Romania • April29-May12 Fromabour$1,795perperson Steeped in tradition but driven by a vibrant modern spirit,Ukraineisrapidlyforginga newEuropeanidentity.CruisetheOnieper RiverthroughtheheartofUkratne . Explore themagnificentcapitalofKiev.EnjoyOdessa ontheBtackSea,andexperienceBucharestin nelghboringRomania. TourProvider:Alumni Holidayslntematiano!
Tuscan Villages • Sept,13 - 21 Fromabout$2,495perperson Discover the beauty, history , andcultural legaciesofoneofltaly'smostfabledregions . StayatHo telChiusarelliintheheartofthe medieval town of Siena, a UNESCOWorld Heritagesite . EnjoyexcursionstoFlorence, SanGimignano,andMontalcino . Standin Siena'sPiaz2adelCarnpo,whereTuscany's greatestfestival,thePalio,hasbeenheldsince 1283. Admire Michelangelo 's masterpiece, the David,in Florence. Sampletheworld·renowned winesofChianti,andsavorthesumptuous delightsofoneofltaly 'smostfamouscuisines . YourappreciationforTuscany'shistoryand
culturewillbeenhancedthroughlectures,a performanceofGregorianchantsbymonksat theAbbeyofSant'Antimo,andavillageforum withtocalresidentswhoprovideinsightin tolife inprovincialTuscany. TourProvjder;Thomos PGohagan & Co
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Manha Beam de Vos found a l 946 Alumnil/ul!Hinwithaclass noressec tion title<l "The Wa t is Over and the ~oys an:! !ome." Jc contained news of weddings, new johs, and homecom ings with husbands Sarajane "Sally'' Payne Arkedis ha., six grandch ildren who make her life intercst;ng,y,d wonderfu l. She lives in Riverside, Conn. Josephine Moncu re He:rner moved 10 Goodw\fl HrnLse Alexandria after her husband, Kun , pasScx!away in July 2006. She loves hn oc·w home and rhe fuct thai her younger son. Pc·tn, and his family live nearby. Her older son , To m, and hi, family live in Manhanan Naomi Lewis PolkofT continues showingandscllinghnprimsat shows in Berkeley,Calif. Bettie Woodson Weaver and her daughter, Bc11ie Weaver Brandt , W 7 4. completed a revise<!'versior, of 1he Revolutionary War book The Cominmtaf Training Depot and
Gmeral Rentkz-Vnus at Chesterfield Courr/wust.Theyen joyed10uringthcncwcxhibitsatJarncscown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown during Jamestown's 400th anniversary celebration last year. Anna Marie Rue Stringfellow
hLishand, Dan, traveled extens ively and spem ""u ,y years in \Vashing1on. D.C., whm: he work<·d for tlw govern• ment. Now that he i, limited hy health problems, Winnifred kecpsbusytak ingcarcoftheir house and proJX'rty. Dorothy I !all Schenck and hn l1t1sband, Dovid, enjoy activ iries o r their A1la111a «1ircr11cnt home. She particularly enjoys the poetry rcadinis programshesrarred,andheplayshi., recorder in a group Continuinis her long -time work wi1h underprivileged children, Alice Gray Simpson Newcomb gives swim m ing lessons to high schoo l childtm who are hused every Friday to the Y. HerEnglishshecp,iogisherbeloved compamon. Virginia Sauer was employ· menr manager for Miller & Rhoads for many year,. Later she formed a personnel agency with Ca rolyn O. Marsh, W '47, G'48 , and V90 Virginiahas1ravcledex1ensively. Always a dog lovn, ,he continues to enjoy rhe compa nionship of a fourkggcx! friend I was ddightcd to hear that Lucy Burke Allen Meyer is feeling better. Sheenjoysmectingsofherwomen's club, which hosted UR President Edward L Ayers, who spoke ahout Southern histor y. l .ucy no longer writes novdsbuti,anav idreadcr.Shc
andhersistcr ,Pa1riciaAll enW1m ers, W '49. spenr a few plea.sanr days la.st s,unrner at their brother's condo in Virginia Beach. She· and Ann Pan,y Garrcn gettogetheroccasionallyfor illnch. Lusy has ll grandchi ldren Also mud, improwxl from her fall la.st spring wa.s frances Cali.sch Roth enherg. She and her hllsband, William Ruthenb erg, R'39, were planning to attend a luncheon of l'homasJcfferson High School friends, some of whom wac in otor class From Laura Jenkin s Corne ll came the sad newstharherlongrimefri end, Ann e Frank Patt erson, die<l las1Jun e Ann<.'shusband, Harvey.had pKdc · cea.se<lher.
Jean Grant Andrews, W, lives in aretiremwtcommunity inScminole, F!a. lkrson , Richard Grant.is an atmrney,andhiswife,Mary,i.shead of a girls' schoo l in l'imhurgh. Jean has two grandchildren and one great• grandson,
CLASSOf '43 Reunion Reminder April l 1- 13, 200 8 'Tg·s· C yourun'on. · .,t w,, umnrne.ne1orcal l thealumn · office a1 (804) 189-80.~0 or (800) 480•4774 . option 8. I. Ray I.laker, R, is mired and lives in Poquoson, Va.,wirh his wife, Norma. He voltontt<·r:stwic,: a week at a local dementary schoo l and plays piano ar several a.ssis1ed-living facilit ies
CLASS Of '44 When I last called Molly Warner Stephenson , she had gone to a Chris1ma.s l\a7.aar,andherhu.shand, Jim,brought meup10datcon iheir activitic,.Tbat alicrnoon Molly planned to artend an AAU\X 1 meeting. Since my own memkrship in AAUW spansmorcthan55ycars, I was plea.sedtohearthat.Theystill play dup licate and rubber bridge on a regu-
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lar basis. Last fall's fires in C1liforn io c:arrn, wi1hina rnilc of 1hcir<laugh tcr's hou.sea nd hadthc mvcryconcemc<l. !h ad a deligh rfulsur prisewhen I s:iw Aron Burch er Stan sbur y and her husb and,War n:nA.Stansbnry,R , when I wen110 Pa1riot's Co lonyfo r 1he funcral.They bo1h lookg reat and enjoyl ivingthne.Warrcn tookpridc i11showing me then ewlibraryestablishcdby1 he residen1s.he--en hasa S<·ctionforg cncalogiG,l R"scard , BillyJane C ro sbyBaker found sheco uldnol o nger copew;rh North crnVir gini acraffi c, norwctchcr att emp ts totrav d by tr ain,atis!) ·ing N owh erso n, l\ill,b ringshi s familyto Richm on d to visit. ! hadth e pkas oreo fmcetin g and hearingo ur new presidenr, Dr . Aycrs, on 1worecen t occasions. T lw firstwas at a Univn sityrcccption in l'or1smouth and1h e nextwa .satan Access Co llege luncheon i11Nor folk 1\t<·ach.-vcm,lwas,'Cryirn prcsscd withDr.Ayers'v isionandvital ity. Ann e Ma cElroy MacKcm.i c rcpor1st hachcrsoni s rc1iringfrom hispos itio n asd irector ofreligious act ivjriesa r O leMi ss. Her husband , Willi am A. " Mac" Mackenzie, R'43, cont inueswithhis lawpractic:eand says t heh un grydeer have rnrrai ledhi s gardeninge ffons . Hestillf1 ndst in,c for golft wicea w<,:k. Ann<·stillh"-' someeffects fromhe r strok e, hma ll in all. does well. Th ey wen1 tovi sit1hei r daug htcr, Ann e Sccwan , inTcr asov c-r 'l 'hank.sgiving Nan cy DeJam eue Han.1,en is still living int heh ou se ,h c andhcr ho.sband shared hcfore hisdeat h !7 yearsago .A rrhritis has forced her10 give updrivinga 11J thcl, ri<lg,·du b, sheenjoyed so moch.lkrson livcsi n Freder ickshurg,h m wor k.sin Bowling Gtcena11J lunches with her several times a week. H crdau ghccr!ivcs in C hesterfield. Nancy is very proudof herfour grandchildren , all ofwhom havcfin is!wdorarcs1ill inco lkgc. Anne GreenSheaffi.r (our" May Qu een")is 1he proudgre,1r -grand morhcto fa girlanda boybo rn thispas1 ~ar .l! erd aughtcr, Lcs!ie, andherh ushand live dme by. Anne wem to Peoria, Ill.. forTh arik.sgiv;nga .,dp lann cdto spendFeb roaryand March in Plorida ! am,ri ll rryingto loca teor gera n up<la1co11 Barbar a C layt on Gra y, Ruth Van Nes, Brust , Peggy Lee Stephens Purcell . and Arone Howard Suggs .Cananyofyouoffe r anyh elp? Wc wcrea smalldas , , an<l it's a sham, ·
Making up the difference Paul Atwell,R'51 Sixtyyl:!arsago, Pau!Atwell's high school football coach told Richmondrecruiters that Atwell weighed 180 pounds and was still growing. He tried to gain weight during the summer, but he stayed at175,sohemadeupthedifferencewithtwothicksweatersand weights in this pockets. Atwellplayedfourseasonsatcenterandservedaspresident ofhisSigmaAlphaEpsilonfraternity,butwhengraduationroUed around,hewasafewcreditsshortofabuslnessdegree.Heintended tomakeupthatdifferencl:!,too,buthegotmarriedandwascalledup from the Army Reserves. After his military service in Hawaii, Atwell went into the furniture bl!siness. Eventllally,he becamepresidentoftwofurnilllrecompan iesinhis nativeNorthCarolina.Hissecondwife,Rebl:!cca,hadakeeneyefor color.style,anddlmension,andprovedinvaluableastheytraveled extensively throughout Emopeand SoutheastAsia developing new products fortheirimportfirm. ''Wesawalotofdustyfactories.alongwithhistorlcandexotic places,Mhe recalls. Mlt'sbeen a good life and a happy\ife, and much ofthatisattributabletothecityofRichmondandtheUniversityof Richmond.M Soonafterheretiredin2005 , Atwellreceiveda letterfromt he Universitysayingi! wasofferinghonorarybache lor'sdeg reesto studentswhoseeducationswereinterrl!ptedbymil itaryservicedm ing theKoreanWarorVietnamWar.Heacceptedthathonorarydegree last yearandaskedwhatitwol!!dtaketofinishhisacademicdegree . After reviewing his records, the University allowed him to make upthedifferencebytakingtwocol!rsesattheUniversityofNorth Carolina-Greensboronear his home. He enjoyed the experience somuchthatheisnowal!ditingthreemorecourses,and he planstowalkacross thestagewithRichmond'sClassof2008at commencementin May. -BettyVonlerse/
SS million cachy ear. J. Ralph Noo nk e..ier , R, served as presidcm of W.llian, C:m'y University for mor<:than30y<·arsunti l his retire• mentin 1989. Heandhiswif e were honoredb y 1he universjtyl astfo llwi1h tht namingof thcR al ph andNaomi Noonkcst erSchoolo f Artsand Letters T hey live inHw iesburg , Miss JohnP.Oliv cr, R,isam im.! ministc r andaformerchairmano f the school boa rdinWarr enC ou nt y.Va Las1sp ring hc wasinvi 1c<lws f'<'ak at thcb st baccalaurcatcscrvic e to be held at Warren Conm y Hig h Schoo l John andhisw ifc, Margar<:t,li vc in Richmond
CLASS OF'46 l haveralkedwi th several ofrn1rclass mares in1h e pas1fewd ays. On c of th em was Peggy Clark Bowdler , who sayss heandhcrhu shand , Willian, G . Bowdl er, R'48 , are "chugg;ng along" ii, Sharp s, V:,.Peggy ',mothcr andfu thcr livcdtherewhil es he was ar We.srham prnn. You may remember that Pq;gy'sh usbandwa s an, un bas• sador in th<· D iplomatic Corp .,. Th eir rrnvels haveind 11ded Gua1emala. Fl Salvado r,SomhAfrica , an<lCub. Som <·tim e ago,t hqdona ted their collectionofCuatemala n lndian C osuun estoVCUanJrrccnt! y haJ thc pkasurco fs u:ingt hcmonexh ibit . AnneSk.inn erNoningham and lierh ,1sbandh ave rnoved ;ntoa beau1ifulcond oat Harl>or'sE<lge, a retirc• mcntco mmunity onthe Eliz.abeth Riveri n dnwnro w n No rfolk Na ncy Toddl. cw ;sr cmainsac1i ,·c inhntownofGa tcsvilk,N .C. She haso rganizedahingoduh,agroup of widows who meet onc e a momh Sh<:also goes rcguL rly to exn~is c das.s
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hcrhusband.Jack,wasdiagnosed with LouGehr ig's<liseas..·in February 2007.BeforeJack'sillness,byespent timeresearchinggene;i]ogya11d pbyingbridgc,an<lshcwasactivcinthcir church.NowshcisJack'sfull-time caregjver.Theyhavenursinghelpscvcraltimesawcck,andthdrchildrcn comeoften.Faycsai<lrhcywou ld apprec1a1eourprayers In November. Calley Goode Jack.son, Frances Anne Beale Goode. andlme1inWilliamshurga11helovely Kingsmill home of F.-~nccs Carter Bleight Elliottfora<ldightfullunch. Calleyisworkingfromherhomeso doesno11ra,·elwandfroinMCVas oftrn.Shcstillhasakcturcsch,·<lulc. frnncesAnnevoluntecr.sasatcacher's aide once a week AtOystctFcscivaltimc,lvisitc<l J ean~i teRob eson andh erhusband.Andy,inUrbanna.Werodein 1hcparadcinA11dy's 1910Stanky Stcamer.Wewercarealhit Ihopeyouareenjoyingahappy, healthy new year. Wmhampton Clm Secretary Alta Ay,,r1 Bower !0546th5t. Virginia Beach. VA 23451 bou.,rrl977@mm.com
CLASSOF'48 Reunion Remind er April 11- 13, 2008 "!oregi.terforyourreunion,visir www.uronline.net orcall chcalurnni officrat(804)289-8030or(800) 480-4774,op1ion8. Thereismt1chhappyamicipation ofour60 -ycarrcunion.W,·arclook-
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ingforwardtorheinaugurarionof l'residen1Ayersandofha,·ingasense ofthefutu«·ofourUnivcrsity! Ann Clark Little is «dning something new. imeresdng, and uscful at S0!"Aftercornpktingaa,urscto teachEnglishasaSecond Language, sheisworkingwich 1hreepeoplefro1n 1hehousckc,:pingstaffof\Vyndm1cre, whcreshcandherhushand, Randd Q. Litt.le, R, live, Two are from Mc,icoand one is from India . They arcofimcrmc<lia1<·1lucncyhmundcrstandtheneedtoimprovethcircommun icationskills FrancesOrrellLineberrycxpresS<.-s howweallfeclaboutthatorigina l Wes1hampwnlogo.Af1ergeninga newcarthisycar,shcwashappyshe conldreplacetheoldstick erwithone jus1likei1!Shep lanswanendour reunion in April. Elizabeth Kolruk.ianCowles spent a week in Ho1Springs,Ark., inNovemberwithafricnd.Bc,idcs
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Franciscoforthewedd ing ofChuck"s grandso11.Maggic'shmband,thc Rev. Chark-s Schwartz, performed 1hewedding.Other1ripsindudeda week at Nags Head with lwr <laughtcrs an<l thcir fumilics and a rnmmcr uiptocentral andups1areNcv.·York, where1heyusedcolive.InOctober thcyattcndcdthc55-ycarrrnnionof Chuck's(andjackllr izendine's)dass at Yale Divinity School Josephine Huuver Piuman cnjoye<lfivc<laysinCharleston,S.C.. wi1hdaughterVicki.Sheisdelighted 1hathcrdauglncr,Annc,andson -inlawBrianarcrcmrningtotheStatcs, whereAnn e hasajnhreachingin HaycsvilkN.C. Judi1h Barnett Sedhom traveled 900milesin oneweek endtoanend grandchildren'sevems.Withonlyone fumilylivingdosc,theysc illmanage10attcndh1skerhallgames.band appearances,andconcens. Theirbal krinagrnnddaughtnhadarokinthe
Didyou know? The Paul and Anne-Marie Queally Family Foundation has contributed $6 million to help expand the Robins School building and establish new programs . Read more about their gift on page 3. enjoyingrheminera lha rhs,she visi1edtheClin10nPresi<lcmial CcntcrinLlttk Rock.She celebrated Thanksgiving in SanAntonio,Texas, wi1hherdaugh1er,Mary,who1,·aches spccialc<lucation. FrancesStuan Bailey and Rolen C. Bailey, R'49, had a pleasant trip to MynkBcach,S .C.,inO,toberand attended the Virginia Baptist General Association meeting in Richmond inNovcmbc:-r.lnsp itc ofkgandhip pains,shchcadcdtoNewYorkwith herda11gh1erandafriendforafun Christmas trip. Virginia Herndon !'ugh was to havesurgeryagaininDanvillein December with a coupk of weeks of rehabtofollow.Aftcradiffirnltsix mo111hs,shehoped1hiswouldbed1e f1nalproceduretoimpro,·chcrwalk ingability.Wcsupponherwithour love and prayers Margaret Sabine Brizendin e wrotcofafour-daytriptoSan
CLASSOF '50 ln August, l...tt Reeves Childress had awonderfti l visii in London wirhher son, Eatl,hiswifr, Kacc,andJ -ycarolddaughter, Lucia. l...ttnotesthat li1rleLucia"evencharmed1hevicara, Wes1mins1erAbbey." Marjorie Parson Owen enjoyed a 10-dayhustournfNewEngland. bmthefallfoliagewasdisappoiming, shcsaid.Shcvov,rstokeeptravcling aslong1sshcisahleandconrinuesto anendasmanygamesaspossibleat ourUnivcr,ity. Margaret Alexand er Anderson joined Doris Balderso n Burbank, G'77,andDavtatarLucptionfor theUniversityofllichmond'snew president, Dr. EdwardAyers,at the Jepson Alumni Ccmtr. Other class memberswhoattcndedwcrcl...tt Reeves Childress and Maryanne Bugg Lambert Barbara Coleman Augusiine and J im, Libby Givens l'ierce and Bucky. and Doris Balderson Burbank and Da,·chadagrcat<linncratthehomc of JeanTinsleyManin .andherhusband,lloy. Je an Ttnslcy Manin and Ro)" cook atriptoCa liforniainOctober.Thcy went to San Diegoandauendeda NavyLcaguecon,·cntiuninDcscn Palms.ThcyalsodrovetoGard en Grovetovi.sittheCrysralCa1hedral Please send rneyourncws. h'strne wcarcscattcrL-<lalla roundthccountry, hutinthi.swayw,,cankeepinmuch
Wmhampton C/.,mSecretary Marianne Beck Duty 2956 llarhaway Road, #1108 Richmond, VA 23225-1 735
James R. "Ji mm y'' Sease, R, was thesubjec,nfa recem anidein the Harrisonburg (Va.) Daily News Rrrord, whichdcscribedhissixthtripacross thecountry,a4,400 -mileroundrrip fromVirgin iatoArizonaona HarleyDavidson. Hcabohassai leddown thcbstC01standtothel\ahamashy him.elf. He~nd hiswife,AliceJulias , liwinHarri,onburg,whcrchcisa retiredsorgeon
CLASSOF '51 CLASSOF'49 JulieC.MollerSanford,W.isa retiredphysician.Shean<llwrhus band,John,liveinDuluch,Minn.
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Houchins Decker and Henry J. "Hank'' Decker, R'S0 , ;n Greensboro, N.C., and Ja m, Lawson Willis in Virgilina, Va Bobbie Brown Yagd sent me an update on hc-rWesthampton friend s' bridge dub. including Norma Strecvcr Craig, Gwen Priddy Donohue, Sue Pitts Hodder, Patty Smith Kelley, and Mary Franc:c,s Arrigh i Tonacci. They starred playing tognhcr in 1947 in the Keller Hall student lounge, and now they gather once a month . Thcyaregrareful for their lung-term friendships.
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CLASSOF'53 Reunion Reminder April 11~13, 2008 Torrgisrerforyuurrcun ion, vi,it w ironl"ne.net or call' , alumn· office ar (804) 289-8030 or (800) 480-1774, option 8. Eliz.a.beth Williams Roberson, W ,isretiredbutcontinuesroteach psychology as an adjunct professor at Lincoln Land Community Collq;e in Springfield. Ill. She also doc.s comulting~nd volunrccr work. She has seven grandd,ildrcn inco lkge,an<lh,r oldest grandchild recently completed law school
CLASS Of '54 It is with sadness that I inform you that on Oct. 29, 2007, th e husband of Jane Beu,, Schmiu , Dr. Irvin H. "Ro1" Schmiu Jr., passed away. A graduate of ch,· University of Virginia and the Medical College of Virginia, he had p racticed dent istry in Rid,mond for more than 50 yt:ars Buz and Jane, who were married 51 yeors, have two sons, a dallghrer, and six grandchildren SaraCowher<l,<laughterof Sara Shennan Cowherd and her husband, Rusl,, was fearnre<lin the Richmond Times•Di,parch.Sara an<l her parnwr, WendyHenley , ownl'MSolutions, which helpscomponiesmakerheir workspaces mot{· df,d,·m ln Sep,ember, lflewtoAthrn, , Greece, and boarded the Stm Hyer fora"-"'cn •<laycruisetotheGreek Islands. Jc was a marvelous trip, but oftendemanding,and I was glad my knees funcciontd well after surgery.
As you may have seen in the full 2007 issue oft he alumn i magaUne, Claire Milhiser Rosenbaum , G73, hasupdatedherchronicleof Weschampton College t itled A Gem of a Cultrge.I or<lem.!the book and find iris appropria tely tided. Claire gets no money from the book; all proceeds go to scholarships After Thanksgiving, Jane Gill Tombes and Averell S. "fombes, R, were planning a trip to AshevHle. N.C. , tovi,itJanc'sbrothcr.Thcy ho~mmakeastopinWin .stonSalcm, N.C, for lunch wirh Sue Perry Downing. Averett rcmaim ac(v e asa, r"nterandhwon awards in local andsrarecomperitions Edith Burnett Grim es and 'Whitey enjoy living in Raleigh, N .C., near 1heir grandchi ldren Ola Hill Krucg er• Rou~.ie's daughter, Cathy Krueger Weber, W'B0, earned a Ph.D. from Texas A&M Ann Hanbury Callis wrote in Novemberthac,hchadjustreturncd from rhe Northern Neck where she liadgreat fun with the Dorseys. She planned IO spm<l Chrimna:, in Costa H.icawith family. Billie Brya n Macke y a1rended the fortcscuefamilyrcunion in Atlantic ileach, N.C., in Nnvembn and had a grca1 rime. Billie's house in Belhaven, N.C., has been raised about two fee( to meet FEMA ffquiffmcnt,, and she ho1 . ,s,arr renova(onn
'X'mhamp1011 Cl.m Srcrelilry Beverlry Frend, Dunn 33-2 W. lock Lane Richmond, VA 23226 bfilunn33@ao!.,om Charles r. Anderson Jr. , R, and his wifr, Betty Jane Wilder Anderson, W, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversarynnOcr. 12,2007.They li,cin Madison H~igh1s, Va. Duane H. Brown, B, fftired a.schiefaccountingolficerfrom rhe lnternJrional Monetary Fund in Washington. H,· and his wife. Barbara. live in Stone Mountain , Ga. L. Edgar Whillock, R, is a rerired minister and lives in Clemmons, N.C ., with hi, wife, Clara.
CLASS Of '55 Ir would be grea, if more members ofd,eClassof1955 lived in the Richmond arra. Meeting for lunch regularly i.s a special treat. In Oc10ber, I droveroRichmond10
join Jean Crittenden Kauffman, Shirlee Garrell Manon, Marty Glenn Taylor, Ruth Gou ldin Kelley, Nancy Johnson White, Jackie Kilby Brooks , Emily Menefee Johnston, Grace Phillips Webb, Barbara Turner Willis, Burrell Williams Smitz , and Jo y Winstead Also in rhe fall, a reunion of Onancock High Schoo! classes from the 1950s was fun for Polly Bnndick. Dize and her h1isband, Colburn S.:eing Lovey Jan e Long, W' 57, at the reun·on was a F' Lre. Virginia "S un,hine" Murden enjoyed the 56th reunion of her high school da.ss in Portsmouth , Va. Sunshinehelpedplanago<lchilJ'swedd ingand hos1ed her29rh annua l Ch ristmas luncheon for Polly Bundick Di:re and me In Wes1 l'oin1, Va., high school students from 1938 to 1966 had a reunion in October. J ,va.shappyto sec Henry G. Drudge, R. Henry is retired and divides his time between Virginia and California. lnrhemids1ofh ersorrow, Jean Criucndcn Kauffman has had occa• sions to "'Joice. In November , NanLJ' Johnson White , Alia, McCarty Haggerty , Barbara Turner Willis , and her husband , Joy Winstead, and 1 attended the dedi cat ion of the Hume.Kauffman Transplantacion Library and Archives at the United Network for Organ Sharing. Thi, was a cirne 1ocelebra1e1helifeandwork ofJean'sfiusband,thtlateDr. H Myron Kauffman Jr. Jean'sdanghter, Lynn Kauffman Price, is a<leputy group leader ;,, the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrencelkrkeley National Laboratory. She coni,jbute<l to a ffport published b)" tht lnrergm·ernmental Panel on Climate Chang e, wh icli shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prit.<. · with Al Gore. In September. Myra Embrey Wormald and her hu.shand roured Provence, the french Riviera, and Paris. In October, th,· Wormal<ls joinedLeadingtheWay,aministiyof Michael Yot1ssef,for a Hip 10 Dubai and Ahli Dhabi in the Unite-clArab Emirates Shirlee Garren Maxson and hn husband took their da ugluers, sons-in-law,andgran dchi ldren to see "Crampa's" caricature on the back of Torgersen Hall on the Virginia Tech campus Ruth Gooldin Kelley is busy
wrapping up a srnall propcny •rnatr• ag ~enc bus"r rheChrisrmasspiritwascaprored by Nancy Johnson White and her husband during a December stay at 1he Orryland Hotel in Nashville. Nancy planned 10 ,·isit Ru1h Owen Ban in flori<lain february. Jacki e Kilby Brooks continues to enjoy her new horne at Lakewood Manor . She took an autumn bus trip to the Urhanna Oyster l'e.stival,where she enjoyed friedoysrersand rhe parade Ja~ki,· spcm Thanksgiving with friends and fumi!yinLakeland,fla. , andshece lebratedChrisrma.swith friends and family in Charleston, S.C. Alice McCarty Haggerty took a full rrip to England focused on rhe British pcr,,pcctive of Jamestown's 400th anniversary. The tom wa.s in 1heeast ernpartofth e coumry,wh ere there arc lovdyscet1c."Swith churches, cathedra l,, and castles. Coming back torhelJniredStatesonrhcQ_"u" Mary 2 was the uhimatc ending for hcrjoum,·y . Grae:,, Phillips Webb and Newton traveled by padd leboat down the Ohio an<l Mississippi rivers from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Memphis, Tenn Ethel"Smitty''Sm ith iellsuschat she is still im·olv,-<lwith the Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic. Through her church, she also continues to beacciv,•with the prison fellowship min istry and angel tree at Chris tmas Smit'}·celebrated,heho lidayswi tb. her three daughters. their httsbands, and her nine grandchildren. Ginnie Swain Sau nders is excited 1ha1therewillbeadedicac;onofrhe mnnorial sculpture that her husband did for Doylestown "fownsh ip, Pa. Jc is an imprcssivcpiece,andAsh isheing «x:ognizcdas an outsran<linganist in ,he area Burrell Williams Stultz and John L Stuhz, 8 '58, are often at ball games or on the UR campus for other funciions. Burrell teaches at Collegiate School,cominuestotakeclasscs, and is part icularly enjoying <lance dasS<-;. Joy Winuead reside.sin an attrac1ive condominium in rhe Bon Air area ofRid,mon<l . She graciously in,·;tcs classmates to visit when in thear,-a. Joywaselecredtorheboardofdirecrorsforhcrcondominium association, and she is a mw member of the Richmond Chapter of the U.S. Navy le-Jgue. She joined Gra ce Phillips Webb and her husband an<l me on a Navy League bus trip IO W:1.'ihington,
tookaJ\.-kditerran,·ancru i><. ·. He and his w ik Sharon, live in Virginia lkach Reny Lou Kendall West, W, and hn husband, Harn-y, Jive in Brighton, C,olo. Th ey have .sevengrandchildren and two grea1-grandchildren
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In October, l'at McElroy Smith graciously arranged for nine of Lisfrom tlw Richmond area w have lund, at the UI{ dining hall. Th,· food was grea, and ir wassomL1ch fun F..dnaWagstalTWamckc, G'65, will er· :hewe,,ernCsr·b 1 'nJanua; :md vi.1i1 !'ranee in April. Diane l.lrown Higgins is still tC".!Chingafc.,.,.-piano ,mdemsandcon tinuc·stosu bstitutc·in two(:hesrerfield ( :Ounryelemenraty ,choobasaJ1as,istan1 in .1pt·dal educ1• tion. l kr husband, Charlie still works ·n ,he he)~ ·, ,nnceh 1L<nes.s Janet Knobel Jones had a wonder• ful trip to I lawaii in Sc·pmnOCr,with srops in San Franci.sco and Las Vegas. She pbuncd to b,: in New York Ci1y forfourdaysnc·arChristmaswith children and grandchildren. She still pb) ·sgoh'. bridge.and M;ihJongg Ann Peery Oppenheimer ar,d her husband went toafo lkanconference in India in l\"o,-ember, where 1hey presernc·dpapcrsor,t\mnicananiscs and worked in ,he Kock Garden of Ch:u,d igarh. Theyspenr rwnweeksin l' rance<luringch,·sum"Kt Anne !'ope Ki1chen showed up for lunch a1 1hc dining h~II bur con ldn'r find us or a parking ,pan-! Anne Smar1 Harn Gamel!, Chadoue Har! Simpson, and Ann Shirlee Garn:11 Mauon, W'55. all made it to ,hed iningl1.11llu11ch Mary Moore Mullin Mowery undcrwcn1cancnsurgny , buthct prognos is is good. She plans to move
Tl,is ismvfir:stw lu mnasclasssccre • ta ry. \Ve owe Katherine "Kak.ie" Parr Jenkin• manythanksforfive-pli1s ycarsof><.n·ie"e,,sdasssecrctary. Our50-yca rd a.ssffunionwasa loc offun,and l w.rntrorhankrhosewho rcspo11d,..Jto ,nye•mai l requcs1 for additional news. Kakic writes that sh,· wa ,n rnmr · , Novemlx, to anend 1he Volunteer 1-eadership Dinner wi1h her son, Scon G. Jenkins , B'82 . He and cla.ssmate Larry C. Marsh, 8'82 and GB'94, shar~ rhe award for Educ-:,tiona l fundraiscroftheYcar. h wa rare rreat, Kak·e wr·t,. to hear Ollr new pre.sidem, Dr. Edw.ird Ayers, ,pc·ak and to h,"·c the chance to speak with him. Kakic·', siSier-in"law, Judy Barnhart l'arr, W'64 , was with them also Joyc e Garrett Tid~y an<l George F. Tidey , 1.1 '55 and L'63, are among the 50d, wedding anni,·ersary crowd They had a dinner party with friends and fomily, and George .surpri.sed Joyc,•with acru iseroF.nglar,d on 1he QueenM11ry2. Nancy Bertsch Ratchfoni and William S. Ratchford, R'54 , celcbrat,·d chd r 50cb anniversary in October. 'I 'heir family surpr ised ,hem wid, a crL1ise10 Bermuda. Bill arnd Nancy hTp busy in Arn,apolis, Md., hdping theirr,vo daughters with carpoo ling and enjoying ,heir three grandsons, age,~- 5, and 2. The grandch il<lrenliveabout lO minute, ~way and enjoysv,-·immjngin their pool. Ti,, two older boys en;oy kayak• ingon th ecreek Carolyn Naumann Roheruon ai,d Jim ,ckbr.uc<l their 501h ann i. versaryinNovcmbc r.Thc )"Sf"'nla week in :-Sev,rYork Cir;•, where they enjoy,-<lvisitsfromfam ilyandfriends. !was privilcg,·Jtolx·orK"Ofthc friendswhohdpedrhemcelehra,e in Manhattan. C.1rol)'na11dJim li,·e in Williamsburg, Va., where other friends hadachampagneteapartyfor them. Lee Feild Griffi1hs was among the guests. l.eeal.sohad new.sofherfamil1-· She has 10 grandchildren, ir,cluding two new grandsons. Charb 'w'illiarn
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MaryJeanSimpsonGarteU and Harry W. Garrett, R and L:61, spem lOdaystoLlringNewF.ngbndin thefal l. Theyenjoyedch,·fallrnlors thcmouncains , thefurms, thesmall
rowns,andgo ingou,onalobsrcr boat. Thq went w a town mt~ting in New I lampshire and met Grover C!eveland'sgrandson My)'oungcs1so11.Will iarnWa lkn Yarbrough. marr ied Melissa Anne Do.scher inNovcmberarGrace Episcopa l Church;11charlcston . S.C. SatahAshbumllolder,GeneL. Holder , R'59, and Donie Good.man Lewis and Davidjoinedusfordw frnivit ies. Hopemseeallo f you in April a1 Oltrreunio n
WesthamptonC!,m Secmnry Cnroly11Smith Yarbrough 810CreeltsideDrivr Moum P/ms,mr, SC 29461 crynrbrough@ ,wlrom Luther I. Dickens, R, is chairman and CEO of Radva Corp., which producespro1cc1ivepacbginga nd foam products. His sons, Docoald and Stcphcn.area lsoact iveinthebusi" ness.Hi.sdaughter. l leidi.isacom pu1er1cchnician with F,1irfax County Schools. His twin granddaugh ters attendedGoverno r'sSchoolatthe Un iversity of Richmond lase summer. Lucherandhiswifr,Hden,l ivein Radford, Va. JamesE. l-lofTman, R, recendy rnadeasolotr iptoArgcminaarid Chile , wherehewasab lctouset he Spani,hhelearnedasam,demat Richmond Colkgc. He li,·es in Fair J laven.N. J E Lincoln Marx, R, is enjoying m im11e111.Ht and his wife. Janee, li,·e inSarasota, l;la_ 1-iarveyJ.Michelman,Rand I.:6L is an mornt)" in Do,·er. N.J AnneneM3.'itersSched , W, andherhusband,Eugene,livein
W.uerford, Va. T heyen joycdaski vaGuion in Austria last ycar wi1hrv,·o dtheirsixg randch ildren Robert L. "Bob"Scward 111, B.and hiswifr, Elizal>cth.li,·cin Richmond.Theirfirstgrandchi ldwas bornlasrMav . Carol Bric Williams, W, d rove hcrRVlastwi nt erfrom north ern California, hrough Arizona inro Mcxko.Sheli vesinStockton,Ca!if.
CLASSOF '60 Robert K. " Bob"' Harnsberger , R, is retired from Union Camp Corp. He and hiswife.Judid,, move<l roAthnta afrv.•ycarsagotol>cdoscrtotheir chi ldren.
CLASSOF'59 !tiswithgreatsadnessthat J repon rhe dea1hsofbo1h GaryMoon: Coleman a11dSandra Dew Perry onScpt.13.2007.Gary'sobicuary appeared in 111rNeu~Jmm,,,/in Wilmington,De l.,an<lSandrn"sol,ituarywasin TheVirgi11ii111-Pilo1. ! am alsosadto reporr1hedearhof Emily TockcrMoorc oriNov.3 . 2007 Sylvia"Sibby'' Haddock Young e-mailcdmsayshewas inspired{o:;c,: how much thesedassma 1esconcril, wc<l tothe livcsofothns. In November, Bonnie Lewis Haynie . Gerald Haynie, B, &,·crly Eubank Er.tm and Thomas R. Evan,, B'6! ,alongw ith rn·oothercoup les, enjoycdvi,i1ingPinehurs1. N.C. Wl, ile thehus bands!,,ol(ed,thcwivescxplorc<l the"'po tteryhighway"and,heshops andcafcsinSou1heml' ines Shirlc y Saucrlidd Flynn remindcdmeof thefunwehadour firs,yearomofcollegewhenwe li,·ed across t he hall from each other in Suburban Apartments.S h irley and herhusband, Lesliel'. Flynn, R'6] , wereinV irginia las(fal l toam·n <l Shirky's50th rcuniona t Alb.:mark l !ighSchoolinCharlottesville. l..asr spring.on 1heir1hird El<lcrhosccltrip roth,West,t hl'ywentto1hel>cau t iful southcrn UrahCanyonlands . They were joined in L-is Vegasforchreedays bv her former Somh Coun roommate , Jeani e Chuul.ee,W'60, andh er hushand , "Jim,w hodrovcfromrheir homcnearl.osAngcles . Theymurned from a 10-dayEastcrnC ariblx-an crnise intimetoen joyTha nksgi,·ing with1heir1hreesonsandt heirfamilies, ir1dudir1gthrcegtandchildren Sibby and Paige A. Young, R.enjoycd having3 1 folks for Thanksgivingd i1111tr.Acorrection tom)· lenerint hewinterissue:T he Rdigiow Hemldhad a bea111ifularricle about Paige,and l'redAndersond,.JicatedhisBoolto/Records1ohim l'atricia"Pacsy' ' MacDonald
CLASSOF '61 DonaSpencerl .ink,W ,andher husban d. Walter,cn joyedat ripto the western United States lasrspr ing, where d1eyvisi1cdYellowsront Nat ionalPark,Mount Rushmore , the .lt'tons,and t hella<lland.\.Their oldes1grandson,Ca leb Routhier. isa first-rearstudmtattheUnivcrsityof Richmond RaoulL.Wcinst cin, R.isre1ired andcravdingthcworldasagcntk man ballroom dance host. l !elivesin l~1kel;rnd, Fla
CLASSOF'63 commnmenrs JchancFlintTaylor spc:ncashort holiday inNovember inBuenosAires visitingherbrorherandfriendsfrom heryouch. Elizabe1hRamosDunkum and Elli, M. Dunkum, B'59 , had a nicerri p roMaui . Ellish,i<l hisfina l meeting on the NASBA Board of D irectors. E!izabeth'sbestnewsis,har shehasrccuperarcdfro m abroken ankle,afteralongsumrncrinaboot cast andonawa lh·r Last June. Eleanor Dickson Campbcll wcntwi t hherdaug ht er, MaryScon.onhergra nddaughter Lindsay'ssevent h-gradetr iptoCree« -1nd Cre(e. Eleanor's lugg,ige went ro Russia,sosheha d vcryfewdot hes for t he entire trip! Jn November she vi,i1edhersi,1erinProvence,a long wi1hdaught,rsSallyandMarySrntt TheycdebratedEleanor",«certainage» hi rthdava , acaf,iinl'aris \Vi1h 1woo f mybcsthighschool fricnds .l went inSe ptember toan E!derhosrd in NewYorkandv isiced sixh isroricmansionsonthcHudson Rivcr.Wccnjoredluncha tt he Cul inary lnstirnreofAmericaand lecmresabou11hea rchi1ectureandmusic
Reunion Reminder April ll - 13,2008 l"oregisterforyour reunion,visi, www.uronlinc.net orcall the alumni offic,·a t (804)289-80J0or{800) 480-4774,o ptionS lfyouare likeme,d1efirs1pagc )'OU turn to in each rKwissucofthc alumn · magaz·ne ·1 heonew ·1hnews from1heClassofl96 _',.T herehasnot lx"enauynewsla tdyl>ccauscnoonc hasscntmeany.l' leasetakethet ime tostayinto,1ch \'1/ewilldefin itdylx in touch with eachothntheweekcndofApril l 1- l3,whichiso,cr45threunion Pleaseplansroattenddweve11tson FridayandSatordayni!!:hts. ltw illbe fun to catchup
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CLASSOf '65 rhis is the year when mos1of 1he Clas.sof1965tums65.Thisrnay rn~-Jnt hat many of you are experiencing life changes. hopefu lly for rhe good.Wri 1eand1ellusabomthem. BarbaraC. Vaugh an has crossed intot hewonderfulworldofrer iremenr. Shewasformerly1hecontingencypbnningadmin istratorfor Virginia's Department of Information IC:chnology. lhrOOranowhasmore 1irnetotravdandvisitdas.smaces. Barbara Gardner Cook writes tha r sheand herh 11sband. Richard B. Cook, R. traveled to Ch ile lasc fall. whereshcscrvedasmcd ical director ofacollahorat iveagreemenrbetv.,een oneofd,elocalhospitalsandJohns Hopkins. The Cooks also were able todosomcsighr.see inginChile'sL.ake Distr ict Jo Ellen Ripley Moore is delighcedtoannouncethatherson, James M . Moore II, was married to Kristina Weber on Oct.6.2007. T ht" ceremonywasperformedbyJoEllen"s husband,and chegroom'sfarher, Rc-v. MicbadMoorc
U?mhamptonCftruSrcmary Margan,r Britt k Brown 4 &1/dwinRoad Ch,fm,ford, MA 01824 margarrtbbrown2@j1.111o.com
Rachel Norman Graves , W , and herhusband,James,liveinSyr ia,Va l.as1summersheenjoyedavisic from Mary Ellen Kyle Philen, W, who wasintownfor t heGravesMoumaio Fes1ivalofMusic
CLASSOf '66 Jon W. Hunt, R, is retired from tht" U.S.FoodandDrngAdministration anddoesvo lunreer,,:orkforhis church and Habitat for Human ity. He and hiswifc , JoyceAnn,livein Walkersville.Md. LynneGriffithMarks , W ,andher husband ,RichardH.Marks,R '65 , retiredlasryearfromEasrCarol ina Universicy.She,,,asaccingd irector offiddcducat ionintheSchooluf Socia! Work,andhewasaprofessorof biochemisrryandmolecularbiology in theBrodySchoo l ofMe<licinc . They enjoyvis iting th eirchi !drenandgrand childreninlndianaandNebrnska Rob ert M. Miskimon, R, is the author of Uncovrred:Barr Fam aOOut NW Recrration. He lives in Vashon Jsland,Wash. JoyOavisSmith,W ,staysbusy wirh,ennis,hridge,vnlunteerwork, gardening.and wri1ingacooking column for the local n~;vspapcr.Shc andherhusband,Marvin , liveinfort M ill,S.C
CLASSOF'67 Margar etCridlinMoor e,W .teaches musicatanelcmentaryschoolin Charlottesville.Va.Her husband, Dona ld,isastaffchap lainat the University of Virginia Medical Center Theyhavefivechildrenandtwo grandchildren Keith L Tinkham , R, is a licensed agent with United American Insurance Co. He lives in Charlone, N.C David W. Tull , B, retired from the U.S. Customs Service in 1998 but was rehiredlasryear in1hespecia l scrvices division. He and hisw ifr. Hckn. live inSahuar ita,Ar iz.
CLASSOf '68 Reun io n Remind er April 11- 13, 2008 Toregisccrforyourreunion , visit www.uron !ine.netnrca!l,healumni officea1(804)289-8030or(800} 480-4774 , option8 SallyFelvc y Gu ynn , W ,v,,as name<lexecmivedirectorofthe
Nat ionalC.onserva,ionl.eadersh ip lnscirute. which offers professional devclopmcntforcmerg inglca<lcrs "nconservat"onorgan ·za(ons.She andher husband,Dwigh1,livejn Shepherdstown,W.Va. Ronald A. Snell, R, and his wife, Margaret , ha,·ereloca1edr0Seanle10 be near family. He isapro jeccmanagemcntcon,ul tant.
CLASS OF'69 DianeMossAndrews , W, soldher retail business in Farmville, Va.,to spen<lmorccimewith herhusband , Andy,whohas mult iple sclerosis. Kath erin e Shapiro Wootton , W .andhcrhusband , Bill, livcin Tucson,Ariz. Last winter they spent a monrh ;., A11strnlia and New Zealand. They also rnadeauipto Richmondlastyear,whcretheyvisited wi1h Margi e Romm Cohen , W '68, MarilynLipsit ·t Flax,W ,and Cathy Whitlock Englishman , W . JudithWhite\Vyatt , W ,lives in 1heShenandoahVal leybucspends afrwmonthsinRichmondcach year,workingasa legislativeaideto DelegaceS1eveLandes.Sheandher husband,Char!es,haw twochildren and two grandsons. JohnZsenaiJr., B,and his wife, Cindy, he in Clayton, Calif., wlwre heismanagcrofintcrnalcontrolsfor the('.-aliforniaNev,-spaperl'artnersh ip Theiroldescdaughter,Amy.graduated fromDrakeUn iwrsi ty, andyoungcr daughterSaraisastudema, Nonhern Arizona Universicv.
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Acourreunionin2005,afr.,__.ofus talkc<labouchavingacommiserat ion celebrat ionofour(,Orhbirthdays Wedecide<ltoga1herthisspringin Richmond. Sally Andrews Gudas has heen garheringa liscofdassmaces. The plannjogcommim:c,consistingof Ann Marie Pearson Wood, Sharon Morris.sett Caldwell , Donna Boone , JoAnn Russell Nicholson,Susan Cosb y Frazier ,and me, hasmetsev era l 1imes10makesurerhiswil l bea weekend to remember. We<lecidedtoma kethisa"girls on l(eventbegjnningonSamr<lay afcernoon,April5.andendingaftt"r abrunchonSunday,April 6. lfyou needfurrherinformarion.p leasesend rneane-rna il. Sttyou in April!
JamesC.Dunning,R ,rerired in 2005after.l5yearsofgovernmentservi«·. Lastycarheandhiswife , Kathy, rdocate<l1o ·liic,son.Ari1..,where Jamesisv icechairof1heSomhern Ariwna Clay Artists.
CLASS OF '71 llel lo toeveryone! I firstwanttoask for :;ome new e-mail addresses. Yvonne hashade-mailsremrne<lfrornanumberofdassmates.Wewoul<lapprec iateirif ,hefollowingpeoplewoul<l senduscheirnewe-mailaddresses: MargaretS.Douglas,VickieMarks Bowman, Judy G. Strau,er, Jane P. Alphin , Bev English Dalton , Cheryl Carlson Wood, Mary Galloway Bo-,h,BeckyMillsReichlin,Jane Houston WQtbrook, Gen a D. Shadw ell, Ann G. Hodges, Dorothy S. Boland , Maryann Makowsky Robert.son, Anita Walbeck Edmunds , and AnncM.AJlport . ! a.lsohav(" wrongtekphoncnumbersfor Shirle y A. Bartley, Beryl Bean,erRankin , Ollie Weaver Hudgins, Rosalie Ryan Johanson, and Sharon R.Gulliksen . lfanyoneelse inourdasshaschanged l,s:rphonenumber.address,ore-rnail addrcssduringchepastycar,pl= let Y,·onne or me know. And now for Lind a Noell Harris li,es in M idlothianan<l hasrerire<lafte r 36 yearsofteaching.Sheworkspartdme ascheadvance<lplacernem English instructota t MonacanHighSchool Sheandherhusha nd, Roben H. "Bob~ Harris , GB'86 . ljke 10 go boating,andthcya rcraisingoym:rs. Thcirdaug hter,Lauren,isajuniorat Virginia"Ji:ch. Janice Spangler McCormick lives inEllicottCiry,Md. , andrides horses twiceaweekatanearhybarn . Sheand herhusbandtookatriptoScotland last y~-ar.She and Ro,alie Ryan Johansonh ad lunchtogerherrecen dy Margare t D. W.lliams works at 1heCulpepc-rCountyL ibrary. Lase summersheattendedt heAmerican LibraryAs.sociacion mee1ingin Washingcon,D.C.Marprctan <l l havefondmemoriesofourmomh longiripto Europe in 1972. Patrici a Burron Temples and Gale Burrow
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abowcr<·panofthistourgroup Margaret read in th,· Richmond 'fi'mes-/Jiipmch that Meg Gilm an King,G7 3 ,andhcrhusbandadopte<l fourchi ldrenfromUzlx:kistanand Viernam,threeofthem infant.s.They nowha,·e20ch;ldren, rang;ngin age from l 102 1.Torcadt h,·,,nidtc , titled "Twenty is Enough,» visit www. inrich.comandtype "Kingfa mily"in th,· s,:archbox. Anne Leigh Hawk.es i., retiring from Charleston Sotuhern University, whctcshctcachesEn!;l ishan<lovnsccs aprogramfurcond irionallyadmitte<l ML1dents . Sheplans10wrire~ novel an<lchil<lren'sbooks.Lastfal L Rick andlwcrcinCharlestononvacation, roAnneandl metforavisir . We cnjoye<lrnlkingaboutourfrcshman y<earat Westhampton. Wtcremcmhered wcaring Sunday dre.sse.sand hats to a let with the Richmond College boysdutingor iemationwcck . Wcabo recalled rat week! Maryl...eeWatsonBrazell livesin Davidson,N.C.,andworba,acol lcgecounseloratalocalhighschoo l Shehasthreegrandchildrenl.asrJuly, Maryl.eeandhcrhusban<l1ooka cruise to Alaska Lind a Niemann Evans works in 1he Universicy'scommunicat ;ons officc.Sincehahusban<lpassc<l awayin2005,shcisadjusting tonew challenges, making new friends, and polishinghergo lfgame.Sh,hascr:wck <lreccntlytol<laho, Ycllowsrone Na,iona l l'ark,andFlori da Pleasesendnews l WmhamptonC/assSecretmie s Fran u s Fowln- Wbitenn-
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Robert N. Friedman , R, i, a photographcran d tcacher in Brov,,ard Counry, Fla. Hewasoneoffivear1is1sco rcceivea2007SomhFlori <la Cultural Consortium Fellowship, His work was included inanexhi bi1ion!asc foJl at 1heM,1seumof Comcmporary Art in Miami Bruce F. Herndon , R, andhi.sw ifc, Terri, have relocated from rhe Omer BankstothcFloridaKcys,wh cr<ehcis aseniorbrokerassociatewithl'referred PropcniesCoasrnl Realty.
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Helping the Celtics win Kevin Eastman, R'78 and G'89 Somebasketballteamsnurtureyoungtalentandhopetowina championshipafewyearsdowntheroad-nottheBostonCeltics. Theyrecentlytradedsomeoftheirpromisingyoungplayersfor three veteran stars: RayAllen, Kevin"BigTlcket"Garnett,andPaulPierce. "Wehavethreea!l•starplayers,andwehavesomeotherveterans coming off the bench. So we have the opportunity to go deep into postseasonplay,"saysassistantcoachKevinEastman,R'78and G'89, "lt'sverydifficulttowinwithyoungplayersatthislevel.~ AsayoungplayeratRichmond,Eastmanscored1,162 points butwasbetterknownforthesmart,scrappywayheplayedthe game. (TheSpiders occasionallygive the Kevin EastmanAward to aplayerwhodemonstratesexemplaryhustleandleadersh ip.)He also majored in sociology and met his future wife, WendyHaynes Eastman,B'76,whilea t Richmond. KevinwasanassistantcoachatVCUandUR(underOickTar rant) beforebecomingtheheadcoachatBelmontAbby . He then served as an assistant at Tulsabefore becoming head coach at UNC·Wilmington andthenWashingtonState,Morerecently,hewasNike!nc,'snationa\ directorofplayerdeve!opment,andnowheisenteringhisfourthyear asaCelticsassistantcoach, "ThegameisdifferenrintheNBA,Eastmansays."You'vegot thebestofthebestuphere.Soasacoach , it's24hoursofpu re basketball:'Hefocuseshisworkonplayerimprovement , player development,gamestr ategy, practices,andgames. Hea!sodealswithbiggeregos,and "youhavetok noww hat motivatesthem,"Eastmansays."Whatyouhaveatour level isadults coachingadults,The thingsthatkeepusuplatea t nightke ep them up,too." ButtheCeltlcsuhaveguyswithlevelheads,"Eastmansays , "They'realittlebitpas t theegogratification,They'veearnedthe bigcontract.They'vescoredaUthepoints.They' vegottenthe recognition,andnowit'saboutwinningchampionships." Atpresstime,theCelticshadthebestrecord intheNBA.
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NancyMacCaffrayChurch 'sdaugh" ter,Amy.hadababygirl,A<laJane, onNov,2,2007,atexacdymidnight, Nancy's grandson isolmost four. She semadorablepicmres.soassoonasl canfig urcootanonli nephotoalbom, l'llshare ' SusanCl arke Schaar rcturne<lin OctoberfromaNatio nalConference ofStatel.eg islaturestouro f the European Union,T hetourinduded stops inBrussds , Slovmia(furmcrly partofYugos lavia},andDublin. Her husband,Bil l,ret ired lastyear,bll! Sosan<locsn'tsccrctitcmcminher fotoreanyt imesoon, Nancy Clcvingc,r Ca rpenler wrote tosayhowwon<lcrfolitwastosec Marilib Henry Tomb, Judy Johnson Mawyer, Rachel Pierce Newell, and J eanMcfaUSimaro n ·r thcpast months.Shealsoe njoye<lStting Ellen Hoffmann Cunningham before she movedfromA rlingtoncoRichmon<l lnJan uaryNa ncy'sda ughter, Kristin, beganascconddegrceprogramin nursing, Fa~ PaltesonGreen hasabt.4.utiful new granddaugh ter, Amaya Green Hamihon,borntoherdaughter, Kristen, an<lherhusban<l.Jason, in Camhridgc , Mass.F ayewa.stherefur 1hedel ivery.SheandC huckspcn1 Thanksg ivingw iththencwfamily.A.1 1 thtecofthcirson, arc <loingwelL Rachd Pierce Newell ha., a new grandson, Jake Newd[ Andrews, Rachclmayw in thcprizcfurmost grandchildrenwithll, Harri eltcTumerE vans andher husband, Timoth y J. Evaru, R, welcome<lanewgrandson.Herson, Jon athanT. Evans, '98, andhiswife, Ashley, had a son, Caner Thomas Evans,o n Nov,2, Ann e Too1elian Norris and herhusband ,Rober1M.Norris, B74, ,·isitc<lthcir youngerda ughter, Katherine, in Scotland and Belgium,where shewasstudyi ng atthtUnivers iryofAntwerp . Their older daughter, Kara E. Norris , '02 , works fora Richmond lobbyist and is pursuingamas1er'sdegreeinschool gui<lanceandcounsd ing,Annerctired fromChesterfieldC'.,oumyPublic Schoolslas1Ju ly.Sheworkspandme asthc!ibrarian in the new school on thecampusoftheVirginiaHomefur Boys and Girls. JudyJohnsonMawyer isstaying bu,y with home improvements. Judy
,mcndedcheu nveilir,gof JimF.rb's portraitintheMOOJinG:merfortlie Arts.'J'herewa.sagreatmrnoutof alumnae and Symphony Chonts members. Shcs.aw SallyAndr<.'WSGudas, W' 70, Carolyn Hall Tinsley, W7;, Nancy Jonei; Trimble, W'73, Barbara Baker, W73 , BiU Roper, R, and manyothns.Thcportraitwasdonc byJ im'sgnJt1ddaugh1er,Emil y,who isthcda uglncrofM an inand Hop<: Armstrong Erb, W74 and G'80 . One of Tricia Ma.son Prillaman '.s twins, Emily, was pbnning co marry Arthur Athm, on [kc 29 in Cannon Memorial Chapel. They will live in G<·rinanyforthe,1ext two years. whcrcArthuri,,ca1ioncdwi1h1hc milirary. Emily graduated early from JMU,justafcwwceksbeforethc wedding. Her sister, Erin. will graduate from William and Mary in May. Maryl.eeWe averJohnson and her husband, Paul.plac ed first in one of seven eventsata bridgetourna ment in Virginia Beach Mysirnultaneousthanksto Judy SamudsonShapleigh andapologies to Barbara Crews Speece. I momentarilymisplam.l Barbara'sc-mail address.Judyquicklyfoundmyerror (asdidsome01hereagle--eyesou1 thcre).Thcre'srcallyno1hing!ikchav ingthedeputychiefofthenewsdesk at U.S. New1 &Wor!d Reporl as my copycdi 1or. All is well with my family. Ple1se remcmberrowr ireondat rnchrictu res Wnthamptou ClassSNret.iry jenlludsonMollen 2609 Sc,mborough lJririe
ftal.twin Hall, '02, ,.,1.,nu rricd la, t Mll10AltunderMutin. JohaN.H.dia,R ,i1anadjudicarion,officer••i1b r• c US Deputment of Homeland Security J!eandhi,-.,ifr,Mar ia,livcia l.,:wi1ville,'lhu.TheiroldH t dau1hter, Hilluy , ,,..., mur itd lut 1prin& Shci11nudyin1php i<•lthcr apy 1ndkine1iolo&rat'l~n,Won1an', Uni,er1iir Racl1•l l"iuc• N•-11, W , i• an clementarr<ehO<'!ltcacherin Loudoun Councr, Va. Herolde1 1 daugluer. M•!Juet , euncd " m• t<·i, dq,;ttT inp,tblicpolicyfror-.Geor8eto•n Uni,er1it)'lu1May.andheryounger d•up!tcr,Mur . •·umatr icdiaJutw. Barbara Cr-• ~p-, a, W, retired from Halif.xCouncyP11blicSc•ooh IMt reu and • ·orU u • wmultuu Liada Clui1top er ~_.tt, W ,•nd herh 1t1b1nd, Ned, live in Richmond.Thtirda ui!n cr,Laurn, wu married lutycar.
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Reunion Reminder April II 13, 2008 T,, .. ': , urun·on, ... www.uronlinc.net orcallthea lumni office at (804) 289-80 .~0 or (800) 480-4774.oprion8. l'lan':ourrcun ·onareunderwa)',Ourlastmttt ing indudcd Nancy Martin Jen, Martha Poston Turner, Nancy Bendal l Emerson, Donna StrotherDcckcns,andDickStone, R Betry Rodman Harris joined us hyphonefromRoanoke lb pids, N.C. NancyEmersonconr i1rnes1omn hercat,·tingbw, inc&sinRidunoud Her older son is in graduat e school at Georgia·lech,and heryo,rngerson ancndsthcColkg,·ofCharlcston Donnahastakenanewposiiion wi1h Spccrmm of Richmond, acompan)' tha1put,10gc1hcrhigh schoolbandandchoralcompc ti• 1ions.Shesri ll owns·le, por5,Treots,
GwenFle1eherDunun,W,1ravck<lcoAustriatw ic<·las1ycaraspart ofherjobwithDSMl'ha rmaceuticals. Shcandherhusband ,GregoryL Duncan, R75, live in Gt<.:nvilk, N.C. Carolee Dyke• Hall, W an<l G'76 has retired from teaching in Henrico CountyPul,licSchoolsan<li,an adjunc,instructoratthcUn ivnsiry ', SchoolofCominuingStudies,where shcworkswithstudcnttcachcrs.Shc alsoserwsassecretaryofth<·boar<l ofdireccorsforrhe University of Richmon<lAlumniAssoci,uio".Hcr hushand,Fre derickH.Hall,8'71. re1ire<.lfromWachovial\ank'sWeolth ManagcmeotDivisiooand hastakena positionasviceprc, i<lcntfornewbusi nessd,,velopmentwi1h E.C. Robin., lnt,·rnational.Theirdaughter, Kristcn
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1nd 'Ihd irion1an d doc11caparrie1 for children and women'1group1on weekend, . Donna', hu,b•nd , Bill, i1avicepre1 ident •ith St1n'lfu<1 Mon&•ge.Their1on , ~n:nt, tran1krrcdfror-.Vir1iai1T,-d1to Sh~nandoah Univcuiry,whcrchei1 m1joringin1c1ing1nd1heater.Gn:gi1 •jun iora t Junc,Rin-rHip!School. Jca • ieNic e l1en¼itl,.',hu,b and, Jon,1r,vel,froq uen1lrroprovide cornputer -bucdtr1iningto1heArmy. Older,onJo,,i,api!otforoncof Germany'1com1rnrerairl ine,.Younger 10nJcromeiipurou i11gaPb.O . at B011onColk1e.Jeanir'1job•·id1the Airforcerr-.nl1gencyk.,.,p1herb111r a11d1tti11gtfie,..,orld UndaWi!ld .. M• irli.nd and herhu1h1nd,Ccorge,rookat11i,1ion trip to Haiti i .. Jurnar)'todo con,truct ion•·o rkatam< ·diul d inic andaCh ri<tiu,c hoo l.Thcir,on, l'cml, ...,upreparingki r ACl . ll1r~ry in D,·ccmbcr, •·hik l::c¥in a,mpktcl
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r<" quirnnrnu~ranEnJ!i,hd,'lrrr from Colorado Chri11ian Uninnity. Sam•ndl lud1,..onderfu l 1rip toHa,,.a,i ii nSeptcmb...r.PorSunit •• huior,. , but for n1e it•• jut plainfLln W'mh,m,,t,,J Cl.u, Sn,..Ulry
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Robert G, F,pstc;n, 8, is first vicepK-sidcmforinn-scm,·ntsand aweahhmanagementadvisorwith Merrill l .ynch in Dallas.He serves on thcnationalboardo f th,·Rcpublican JewishCoal itionandisacaptain in the Civil Air Pa1rol. He and his wife, Robh<.· , hawfiv,·<h ildrcn. Vinccn1H.Witcherlll,R.vi site<lhisda11ghier, MicheleWitcher Hauan,W'90 ,andhcrhusl,and. Den · ,arrhe-rhome·n5•1rrey
Englud,lut1u n1mer.Theyvi1ited Wind10rCutleandPuliamentand attm d<·dch,·Brit i,hOpo:nPolo Chaa1piot11hip1
CLASSOF'75 JeanPankoMorgan,W ,andher ht1slJa1ld,Frank, havc rclocuc"<.lfrom RichmondtoSouthCarolina,where he was named snperintendenro f the Kershaw County Sc/100!District. Mary Kirchman Wharmn, W, wasnamedo ropogcnt in the Virginia/ WestVirginiaDi,· isio.,ofLong& Fo,terR,· al &ratcShcandhcrhus band, Steph cnB.Whar1on,C '7 4 , li.einfairfoxStation.Va.,andhave rv,•oson,. Ed i,acapta ininthcArmy andha.scompletedrn·otoursofduty in lraq.\VillworksforCapita l One
CLASSOF'76 Margaret "Peggy" Lum Watson, W , ·s a1 1 n·, · rratv e c0< l"nator ~ · CTE Resource Cenrer in Richmond Sheen joysscm i-annualgct -togcthcrs with Westhampton classmates Bonnie Ritchi e DeHaven, Charloue Houchins Leslie, Karen "Cassie~ Kennedy, Cindy Peake, and Kay Lamber1King
CLASSOF '77 LeoM.Donahoc, R, isnat ionalsa les managcr forW JFK.aradiostat ionin h irfax, Va.lleandhiswife,Margaret McGovern , live;n Arlington with theirson,Owcn, l.
CLASSOF'78 Reunion Reminder April 11-13,2008 Toreg is1erforyourret1nion , visit wv,w.utonlimc.nctorcalld"·a lumni officeat(804) 289-8 030or(800) 480-4774 , oprion8 P.,1t1idaMead Wiltshire Delfino, W,andherhush and, Alan, liveonthe cenrral coa.st ofC~l ifornia. Herolde.s1 songradt1a 1edftorntheUni.-ersityof Califomia-SanraCrnzlastycar. EricS. Yaffe, B,andhiswife, Risa, liveinRockville,Md.Theyhavecwo children,Dara,23 , andErhan , 2l.
CLASSOF'79 Demitri Korncgay,R,i sadeputy cornmandtrfort htfif(hdimiccofrhe Montgome ry Cuumy {~1<l.) Police
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Dcparimcnr. He was honored in 2007 astlwRdigious Lead,roftheYearl,y the Gamma Pi Chapin of the Omq;a Psi Phi Fr:ircrniry. Hewasre<:ognized formmtoringyoungadulis Anne Johnson Archamb.,auh, W,lef1herreachingpo.sitionwiththe LynchburgPublicSchoo lsfouryears agotobcginafauxfioishingbu,in,·ss
CLASS OF'81 Karr i O'IJo n nell, W, i, employed by USAA lnsur:rnceasaspe<:ial investigations manager. Herhusba.,d,Eric IJ.enson,isabusincssdndopmcnt officer for American Express. They live in Davis, Calif.,wid, d,eirchildren, Kelly, 17, Ryan, 16,and Katdyn Margaret,2. Wi lliam S. "Bill" Paueuon ll l,B.an<lhiswifr..Su:,;inncScilcr l'auerson,W'82.cnjoyedatrip w Alasb bs1 ye.u. They live near Atlanca,wbtrcBill is,·icepresidcrnof salesforSunGar<llnsuranceSystem,. Thevhaverwosons, Rohert,asrndent at Clemson University.and Brendan, a,cu<lentatGcorgiaTech.
CLASS OF '82 CharlesT.AlbutJr.,R,isanaccount exeouivewirh RJ!'+ Associates in HlllnValky,Md. Lastycarhcandhis <laughter. Kds..-y,pcrformc·J in a com" nurnityd1eaterproducrionofG,r; Elaine D·,.iemian-Shoudy, B, cnjoye<larcunioninAdamalast spring wirh Westhampton das.smates CathyShclgmve--Magoon, Laura Cowell Mamsck, and Ellen Gemilc Schreiber Renee Trump Hensler, W, reaches thir<lgradcatapriv:u,·sd,oolinSt. l'etersburg,Fla.Sh,·andhcrhusban<l, l(ichard.enjoyedatriproadude rand1 inT,·xaslastsummer. SaraFarrarSargcnt,W.i,<lir<"Gor ofglobalproces.sesan<l.systemsfor WynhPharmaceu1icakShel ivesin Mcchanicsville,Va.,withh,·rhusband, Malcome,an<lthc·irchi l<lrrn, Austin, 17,andSavannah,15 JamcsW.Scriba, R, isasystcn1s engineerwithCoyotc·PointSym·ms. Heis;1memherof1heNationalSki P"trol,uHo,newoodMo.,n1ainReson an<lisadoghan<lktfott!wCalifomia Re.scueDogAs.sociation. Jlcandhis wifr,Dcbora h Ford-Scr iha,W'll l , livcinSunnyvak.Ca lif.
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CLASS Of '83 Reunion Reminder April 11-13,2008 Toregiqerforyonrreunion,visi, www.uronline.net orcall the alumni officea,(804)289"8030or(800} 480-4774,optionS WJ liamK.E lbin , R,isdirec1or of communications for Th" !'GA of America. liean<lhiswife , Li.sa.live in Jupiter. Fla., wirh rheirchj ldren. .\kgan, 12,an<lRy,m , 7 Mda nieLi ddle l-lealey,B ,wa.s namcdoneofthe50Mosrl'owerful Women in BusinessLy fommf mag-a1.ineand was incln<l,,Jin TheWid/Srreer Jrmn1t1!s lis1of SOWomen to Warch. Shcisgroupprcsi<leruforGloWI l!ealthan<lFeminineCareatProc,1n& GambleinCincinnati,Ohio EricH. H ughes, B , isac,p1ain intheNava!Rcscrwan<lt,u:mly completedasix-monthtourof duty in Falhijah, Iraq. He lives in Cumberland . .'vl<l.,with hi, wile, GreerRaetz llu ghes,W'84,an<l rheirchi ldren.Lrdia,16,(:aroline, 15, and Garren, ll.Ericisaplammanagerforl-lydac/Schronkrln<lustric,. HeandGreeralsoownaLiherry'l'1x Service franchise. Donald R.he nbu rg, B,i,managingdirectoran<lC:!'O,Globa l T,..:hnology,forJl'MorganChasein New York. He and bi; wifr. Jo,uuK. live in Long Valley, :--J.J.,withtheir rhreesons DcbraGiffinSc hl mer,W,i, associatedirectorforbusinessd,-vdopment at ICON Clinical Research.She and!wrhusL,wd,Joseph,l i,·einfoir Jlaven,N.J.
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Neil J. Goerzman , R, was named one orVirginia'sTopWealthAdvisorsby Vi,gi11iaBusi11essmai,;azinc l!eisa firsrvicepresidentwithM errillLynch an<llivcs inA lc;,;andria,Va Lau ri DiEn no Hogge , B and L:90.isajudgeon thejuve nilean<l Domestic Relations District Court in N'orfolk,Va.Sh,·an<lhcthusban<l, Raymo ndLHo ggc,,L:88 ,have three children, Katie, 13, l.ee, 10.and Christophcr,<J.
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wife.Sandi,co-amhoredabooktitled Htiumed Richmond: The Shtidowsoj Shodwe.Thecollectionofghosrstories isbasedon1hepopu lar"Shadowsof Shockocnwalkingtoutof<lowntown Richmond. Ch ris1opher B. McKenn a, R, GB'9 3a nd L'93, ba,formc<lthc McKenna Law Group, which represcnis horel owncrs and 01her busincsses inthehospital ity in<lustry.Hc lives inF re<lerick,M<l. Deborah Inlow Reed , W , is co-ow11erof1heFloridaCcncerfor Advocacy, Research and Education, which hdpscompaniesprovidc opponuni1icsforpeoplewithdisabiliticstoobtaincarccr-orientcdjob,. Shc livesinJack.sonvillc, Ha
Kiera G. Hynninen, B, was named hcadofmarketingfortheNa rional GcographicCha,n,d inWash ington. Debor ah l'laskow Brenn an , B, CarolynCava.llaroLlndell , W,li vcs enjoyc<lattiptoMiamilastyear inl'owell.O hio,with herh ushand, with JenniferFreimarkDeSalvo, Michael.andtheirchildren,Michae l, B, Jennifer Casey Hin es,W ,and 13,Trcvor, 10, an<lGabtida , 7. Pamcl a Wdk es Lacy, W . William H. "C harli e" Lind.s~y, R, Kelly Corrigan , B, is a writer and isaplastics,1rgeonwi 1hrheNorthern newspaper columni,r. Her memoir, VirginiaCcntcrforfocialP lastic The MiddlePlaa. was published Surgery.llehaspu hlishedthree inJam,ary.Shcan<lherhusband, papersonfacialrcconsrmct ionand Edward Lichty, live in Piedmont. Calif..with theirrwodaughrers tcachesacoursconu,..:ksurgcty.He isablackbdt in Tac Kwan Do. J enniferFrcimarkDeSalvo , B, is Grego ry T. Lynam , R, is a plasric afitnessinstructo r arVi taliry hmess surgeon with Ridirnond SurgiC:1]Ans. ;., Hawrhorne, N.J lleandhi,w ifr.Michdk , havctwo Timoth y L. Gardner, R, an<lJuli a children BrealuGardner, B'90, and theirrwo FarahM .Sa rshar, W. earneda childrenhavemovedro JohnsonCity, Tenn.,whereTim has juine<.ia<l,·rmanursing<lcgrcefromGcorg< · Mason Universityandwork.sinthemi litary tologypractia:. hcalchsvqem.Shelives in Alexandria. Cynthi a M. Kennedy, G, earned a Ph.D.fromtheUniversityofMaryland Vs. an<lisanassociatcprofessorofhistory at Clarion Universityofl'enn.sylvania She is the amhor of Rmikd R.elatiow, ll arr ',V m'shan e,R, isn"or · Enrwinedli,ie,: The Womenof RickMoore,B.an<lhiswif<e, CIMrfnron'sUrbanSlaveSociety. Michele.hadad.111ghrer,Megan, president with hdeliry lnve,srmems in onAug.22,2007.Sli,·joins,im·rs Boston. He and his wife, 1,wren . have SusanBuggPaullin , W ,and hcrhusban<l,RoL,h ada<laug!m·r. Ma<ldcinc, 14,andErin,12.Thq fourchi l<lrm. li,·cinCockeysvi lle,Md.,whereRick Lin<lsayElaine, onAp ri! 18,2007 isan anorncypr"cc1c ,ngrn11111gra(ton l"hey livein Rich mond andcsratelaw. J . JasonPoulis , R,ispresidentof Mark A. O'Br ien, B, is vice Reunion Reminder JJPSa lcsinHunt ingtonStation,N.Y . prc.si<lcmors.alesandmarke1ingfor April 11- 13,2008 Heandhi.swife,Marina,havetwo Gemino I kalthc:ue finann-. He· !i,·c.s Torcgisterforyourrcunion,visit children. Madeline.SOphiJ.3,and in Mariella. Ga .. with his wife, Lynne, www.uronline.net or call the alumni Jacqueline Zina. I. ,md 1heir children, Kris1en, Mm hew, offLceat(804)289 -80J0or(800) Rober1 A. Shapiro , B,an<lhis <l80-4774,op1ion8. wife.Jodi, hadason,JeremyRos.s, an<lGracc. Brem R.S1am bury, R,i,vicc Ch risw ph crA. Ashley, R, traveled on&pt.7,2007.Hejoinsbrother ··,. · presiden1andregional medicall iaito Kenya last year on a Chr istian mis-- Darren,2.R' sonhca<lorU.S. McdiC:llAITairsfor sion irip. Heandhisw ife,Be1sy,live agerintheFinanc ia!Operationsan<l Sanofi-Avcntispharman-utic: ,kHc · in Sterling, Va. PolicyGrouparLockheedMan in in livesincentra l :--Jev.·Jerseywi thhis J. Scon Bergman, R, and his Bctlu:s<la,M<l.
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hcrhusband , Dcnis,livcinSurrq, England.Sheenjoyedahorseback
safari in SomhAfric.. lastfall JohnM.Vick,B,an<lbiswifr, S1ephanie Dunerer Vici<, 8'92 , had
ason,ConnorS1ephen.on May 1, 2007.HcjoinssisterAmy,3.Tbcy livcinMidlorhian
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CLASS Of '91 Kathryn A. Good, W, had a daugh-
tcr, Alo:andra Claire, on April 24, 2007. Kathryn lives in Providen~, R.1., whercsheisdirectorofimer oationalsrndentsand progranua1 Brown University. Joli Hur.ii Rc:a.vis,W, and David Woo<lweremarriedonJulyl5,2007.
T heylivcioFloyd,Va. SarahHardisonReisncr,W,is an auorney with Manier & Herod in Nasll\'ilkTcnn.Shcandherhusband, hederic,haverwosons,Frederick,4, and Hardy, l. Molly Brooks Sapienza, 8, is senior managerforcorporotespon sorships with RBC Cemura Bank in Raleigh, N.C.Shcwa.srcccntlynamed lo Bminm Leader magazine's Movers &Shakerslisl,whichrecogniics up -an<l-comingprofcssionalsinthc Raleigh area Louise Kay Childs Woodside, W, an<lhcrhu,band , Nc vin,havctwo dallghlers,Lowrie,4,andSara, 1 Theyli, ·einPiusborgh.
CLASS Of '92 Collette Manin Drake, W, and her hushand,David,hada.son,William "Liam" David, on Aug. 15, 2007. T hcylivcinDurham , N.C. AmyLee1eLeonc,W,andher husband,Chriswpher,ha<lason,Jack Vinccnt , onMayl4 , 2007.Hcjoins hrother.sAndrew,5,andBen,3.They liveinGrea1 Falls.V a Hayley Damn O'Brien, W, and herhushand , Daniel,hadason,John Pa1rick,onJan. ll,2007.Hejoins sistcrsCaitlinGracc,5,andMcgban Elizaheth,3.Theyliv,,inWcstfield.
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CLASS Of '93 Reunion Reminder April I 1- 13, 2008 Torcgistcrforyourrcunion,visit www.uronlinc.netorcallthealumni ofliceat(804)289 -8030or(800) 480 -4774,option8. Ellen Bjorkholm Losch and William C. "B.J." Losch Ill , 8'92 , live in Charlone, N.C., with thdr child ren ,Jch William,4,andAmelia Ellen,1, Pamela Erickson Sakaloskyan<l Mark E Sakal05ky, R'91, had a son, Kyle Andrew, on Feb. 2, 200 7. He joinsMadison,5,an<lErick,J.lliey liveinTampa,Fla.
viccprni<lcntforstrategicplanning, markcting,andcommunicationsa1S1 Vincent Rcgion,J M~Jical Center in SantaFc,N.M.Sheandherhushand , Glenn,haverwochildr,:n, Ellie,? , andGavin,5. TracyTaylorHaguean<lhcrhusband, 'lh,_vis,hadadaughrer,Emily Lynn,onAug.2,2007.Thcylivein Chc,tcrfid<l,Va. MiaMnta,icioHerock andWe ndi C.Massaro,formercross -country tcammatcs , tctorn<·<ltoRi,hmon<l lastfalltorunahalfmarathonatthe McDonald's X-Country Festival at MaymontPark.MialivcsinDePerc, Wi.s.,andWendilivesinStamford, Conn Christine Natale Pe1cno11 and Randall II. l'ct erson , R'92, had a son, Narhan;d aNate" H,1ben, on Aug. 27 , 2007.Hcjoinssistcr:sRiky,5 , an<l Alcx,3 .. lheyliv,,inSim.sbury,l.onn C heryl S.Schouand herhllsband, Rolx-n Zidkow,ki, ha<l a <laughter, AlexaOaire , onNov. 10,2006 Shejoinssisrerl,ena,2.Theylivein Howell,Micl,.
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CLASS Of '94 Wesley Bowman Brady and her ht1sband,JefT,hadaso11,Harris"Bo" Bowman , on Nov. 7, 2007. He joins brotherSamandsisterSavannah They live in Dallas Meli,saA.Leshcr ovcrsecs human resources communications for Acccnmrc in New York. James W. "D usty'' Rhodes is vice presidentforh1Lsines.sdo,vdopmem forSmartbo~ Portable Self Storage in Richmond Lauren Reams McCormick and Craig D. McCormick , '93, wekorned a son, Cale R,:am, , on Oct. 16, 2007. They live in Richmond
V:isthampto11 Cl,m Srcretmy Aliua Mancuso Pook 3704 Mihhire Place Richmond,VA 232.B a/ir,ampoofe@nrizon.net
NJ Dan D.Lncas, R, hostcdS tevc:R. Rogers,R,S1evc:R. Fitzgerald,R ,and JonVanH0<>7 ..er, R andtheirspouses andchildrmforawcckmdlastfulla1 his ho,iseinlkthanylkach,Dd Pa1rick H.F. Roberts, R, is head
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.,tu<lentind in iealnei!ropsychologya1 chcUniversityofAriwna. David Colavitaandhiswife, Renee,hadadaught er,AriaGrace,on April12 , 2007.Shejoi11ssis1e r Allegra Rosc,5.Thcyli,·cinMadison , N.J. Dara McNew Geoffroy and Raymond F Gcoffroyha<l adaugh tcr, Bry,·rL::igh . onOct. 17, 2006. Shcjoinssistersl-lannah, 7, an<lEllie , 3.Theylive inW ichica,Kan JcnnifcrMinarczikGuyi sanasso ciarc with McGuire Woods. She and herhushand,Adam, li,·einAlexandria, Va., with their son, Cadm Mason, 2 JenniferGomezJacobelli, and S1evc:nT.Jacohellishadason,Nooh Steven,onSept.7,2006.Hejoins brothcrLukcThomas.Thefamily livesinAtlanta,whcreSteveisdire cwrofforeigne.xchanb,ctra<lingfor SunTrustRohinsonl!umphrey. l'auicia "Tr ish" Flatley Lagrant andherhusband,Jim,ha<lason, AlcxandcrJam,·s,inApri l 2007.He join.ssistcrsSophi e,4,andGenevieve, 1.Thc y l;veinWarc,Mass. Erin M. Neary and Erdal Dcrc wcremarrie<lonMay\9 , 2007,in New York. Erin is a senior manager at Pfo,:r,andErdali,viccprcsi<lcmof Fortuna fine Arm Na1han C. Reid and his wife, Kara, ha<l a sun, Bmjamin To<ld, onOec.27,2006.llejoinshrother Carrer , 3. Tho,v live in Alexandria, V~ Owen Thoma s Ro<lgen and Jerilyn"Lyn"CvjemicaninRodgers , '98,hadadaughrer,Meghan Ka1herine, Marci, 26, 2007. She joinshroth,·rGraham , 4,and,istcr Elizaheth,2.Theyliv e inApex , N.C
CLASS Of '96 Don't miss the profile of Sean Casey, '95, on page 24. He is "the nicest guy in baseball-ever." Suneda «Suni " Aras an<l Ajit J. Vaidya were married on Sept. 30, 2006,inl'hi ladelphia.lndudedin the wcxl<lingparty was Rosemary Broderick Spicer. They live in Washington,whereSun;is senior viccpffsi<lmtofsalesforDisrributive Netv,.-ork.s , amohil e rechnologycnmpany, andAjit isapateru atwrney andparmcrinthefirmofCcrmak Kenealy& Vaidya ChristineM.Bumsisadocwral
Kelly I ~ Bccland and Bradley Canel wcrcmarrie<lonJunc3,2007,inFalls Church, Va.Th eyl iveinA lexandria, whereKellyisaseniormanag erfor Accenture JenniferJ. lkrhachandJerryN HcfnerJr.weremar,;eJonOcc7, 2006,inEstcsPark,Colo . lndude<l inthewed<l ingpartywi,re Diana Cichewic,. McKinn ey, Kerry Law Kaufman, '98,an<lJeffreyA. Kanfman,'98.Thernuplelivesin Sandy Hook, Va., where Jen is m~rhting dirntor for Fdlow ship Travel Rebecca Charles Bowman and her husband, D~,·id, had a son, Henry Russell, OH Mardi 26, 2007. He joins C'.onnerStoart, 10,andMac,8. They live in l'owharan, Va
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Meliu aA.Kasp ,,rn and Mark C. Smith , '9 5. hadadaughter,Autumn Kaspcrn,o nAug.10,2007.Sli<·jo ins brothers Harrison, 7,and Robert Aidan,3,andsisterMichaela,5.They liveinHolliston , Mass Matthew 'I'. K.ingston and Clai re, Van Parys Kin gston , '97, had a son, A<lam, onAprj ] J0,2007.Hcjoim brotherGray , 3.They livein Lititz, Pa.,whereMaupracticesden tis1ry. KerithDubil<Massengill an<lhcr ht~sband.lOOd, hadtwin<la ughters, JoonnaFaithandNatal ieSierra,onJan 22,2007.17,eylivcinArlingcon,Va. Jam es R. Vercollon eandhis wife, Alexis,badadaugbr er, Daniela Rachd , onMay17 , 2007.Tfieylivc in San Diego. Erin C, Wclshi sarealesrnreageni with Coldwell Banker Residemi,d BrokcrageioBaltimorc.
CLASSOF'97 Kevin L. Baron and his wife, Dawn. hadason,SidneyMan in.onJuly6. 2007.l-lcjoirnbrorbnFrcd<li,· , 2. l"beylive in Annandale, Va.,wbere Kevinisacorrespondemforthe &won Globe. Erin McDermott Colonna an<l Michael V.Co lonn ahada.son,James Joscph,onJuly25,2007.J-lcjoim hrotherMichad,4.an<lsistcrAi<lcn, 2.Theylivein Ex1on, l'a.. whereM ike isa,aks execmiveforVaugoard. l-leatherKisd erCrone andher husban<l,Brady.hadadaughrer,El la Clair.on Aug. 28, 2007.ShejoinssisterSophic.2.ThcylivcinRi , hmond, wbereHeatheri.sahighschool English teacher. TeTri Meadow s Holland and her busband , Tbomas,bada.son,Jacob Thomas, on Aug. 15, 2007 . They li,·e inTarz.ana,Calif. Rita S. Kovach andberbusband , Zolian Lajko, had a son, Mark Alexander,onScpc.4,2007. J-le joinsbrothcrErik.J.They livci n Doha,Qarar . wbereH.itaworksfor Georgetown University. Amy Mill ard Radley and h~r husband, Daniel, bad a son, !Jedan Michad,onJuly l9,2007.Thcylive inMarietta , Ga Ja..onT.Sbull i.sseniordataba.se administrator in the Nashville,·l~nn .. office of Willis Nonb America NiooleThompsooStrea1er aod Rahmaan R. Strcat er, '98 , had a daughte r, AllaircLandyn,011Xpc.29, 2007.Theyl ive inSo urhO range, N.J.
Kalherine E. Townshend and Robert W Stockton were married on Aug.4.2007, in Waitsfield. Ve Kacherineisdllefmarkcttcchnician forMKMPartoers , asecoritiestrading and research firmin(;n:enwich,Conn Rohen is a panner and managing director ofTayior Investment Advisors. Brianj.Westfield isana.ssociare inchebusinessandfiilancepractice groupoftbc lawfir m ofMorgan , Lewis&. Rockiusinl'hiladelphia
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Helping Tsunamisurvivors Christie Getman, '97 Richmond'sinternatlonaleducationprograminspiredherwanderlust, andtheJepsonSchoolofleadershipStudiessolid ifled her commitment to international service. A decade later, Christie Getman, '97,continuestoexp!orethewor!d,helpingpeoplewhoneeditmost. Shemanagesseveralrecoveryanddevelopmentprogramsforthe AmericanRedCrossinSrilankaandtheMaldives,achallengeshe acceptedninemonthsafteratsunamidevastatedlndonesia,Thailand, and Sri Lanka in December 2004. "I cannot fathom what it must have beenliketohavebeenherewhenithappened,"shesays.Evennow, ''thescopeofthedisasterissohardtounderstand." Duringhersophomoreyeara!UR,thelansda!e,Pa .,native studiedabroadinMartinlque,anexperiencethat"openedthedoor" totherestoftheworld. Aftergraduation,GetmanworkedfortheVlrginiaSenateand thentheChristianChildren'sFundinSenegal.Shereturnedto theUnitedStatestoearna master'sdegreeinanthropologyfrom George Washington University before heading to West Africawith Winrocklnternational,anonprofitorganiiationthatdoessustainable economicdevelopmentprojects.SheagalnreturnedtotheUnited StatestoworkinWinrock'sWashingtonofflcebeforejoiningthe AmericanRedCrossinSrilanka. PoliticalstrifemakesSrilankaadangerousplace.Bombshave explodedtwicewithinblocksoftheAmericanRedCrossofficein Colombo. Americans are not the targets, but she acknowledges the possibilityofbeinginthewrongp\aceatthewrongtime. Herlifeotherwlseis"remarkablynormal,"butshemisses celebrating milestones with family and friends. Even so, Getman expectstostayinSrilankauntilatleastSeptemberandplansto continueworkingininternationaldevelopment. Morethan10yearsaftergraduating,sheattributesmuchof hersuccesstoherundergraduateeducation."lowealottomy education," she says. "My whole world opened up at Richmond.~ -Melanie Mayhew, 'as
Reunion Reminder April 11-13, 2008 Toregiscerforyourrcunion,visi, www.uronlin,·.necorcallthcalumni officeat{804)289 -80JOor(800) 480-4774,o ptionS, Rhod a B. Brophy is a personal trainer at Verve Gym in Nev.· York. Cabell P. Childres5a nd bisw;fe, Molly,hadason,LawsonFranklin, onNov.18 , 2006.They livein Richmond Beth C. Feldpush and Rajiv Verma were marri~xl io Angu,c 2006 TheyliveinWa.,hington,wher e Beth isaseniorassociacedireccoratthe AmericanHosp italA.ssodation L.eighMicucciJ ablonsk.i andher husband.Jeff, hadadaughrcr, Hannah Kealy, onApril2, 2007.Lc.-ighis an occopationaltherapi st at Jersey ShoreUnjversityMedi cal 0: nrer in Nepcune, N.J Bevedy ConnoUyKeegan livcs in Norrh Wales, l'a., wirh herhusband, Brian.andthe irdau ghter.Molly Clairc,2.Bcvcrlyiscurrrntlyinrcmis sionfromcanceranddoingwd l Mcudith McCan .se is a professional modcm <lanu·t and Fddcnkrais practitioner in New York. Jo.sephJ.Schneider isa13-year cancersurvivorandRttntlycornplet<:d aseven -<lav,477-milcbiker ideacross lov..,asparto f Team l.ivesrrong. He raise<lnearly$15 ,000,m ak.inghim ooeoft hctopfi vcfi.mdrni,crsfor1he event. He lives in Chicago HeatherA.Scolt livesin E.<:oVillat,'Catlthaca , aco-housing community in upstate New York. SheceachcshiologyatlthacaHigh School.Sberecentlyraninco Oarb y K. Wallace,who livcsncarby. MichelleO'Doooghu c Walra1h and Mich aelP.Walrath ,' 97,livein l'ortWashington,N.Y.,withtheir three children.
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inDickerson , Md.ln cluded inthe wedd ing pany were Kim Kukulski Doyle, Kris1i11 E. La.kc, and Scou A. Annctl , '03 . Nancy earned a master's degree in professional com munication Dani elle Bun Anmuong, '00 , li,·e in from Clemson Univcrsi1y, and Doug Richmondwi1h1heirtwoch il<lrm. passcdkvelchrccofth<·chartcred Beth Cou,,.dman Carpenler an d financialanalysrexam.T hecoup le herhu.shand,Wil l,had a son,l\rady lives in Vien na, V,1. C,irrcH,onJu ly26,2007.Hcjo ins Jeremy A. Blackman earned a mastcr' d ,;ree ·n hus ·n, adm ·n· · .,.( on brothcrsMauhcwandColin.Thcy live in Ridgefidd,Conn.,where Bed, from ,he Uni,·crsity ofTe~as a1 Austin. is.1psycho,hern1, is1 inpriva 1epracdcc. He is a vice p«csidmc at Hester Cap ital C hris1y Yarnell Hogan isanaca Management in Austin ' ,·ccour lo, rirwomen' l'r Elizabeth Sara Bray and Jeffrey ba llarVanderb ilr Un ;vcrsiwSheand Richard !'onc r, wr, · rnarri,.Jon hcrhusbnd,Rcx,li,ei11Nasl1vil k, Scpt. 30,2006 , inMidd lehurg , Va. Trnn., with their daughter, McKenna lncludedint hewcdd ingpar1ywere Jayme .s, 2 Susannah Nearing Baxley, Alecia Ur sula K. Hunt and herhus Fox Dalcssio,Pa1riciaE.Manc11M1, ba11d, Marc C. Mculener ,!ivein and Kirsi Cronk Mendoza. The cou Bridgewater, N.J. UrsL1iaearnedadoc - 1>le lives in Arlington. V,1.• whcreSara roraldegrceand isa physical 1herc1pist. isacons ultamwi t hAcccnturc Marcgraduatcdfromch,·Uni,·ersity Su:zanneMoenssensEtherington ofl'cnnsylvaniawithM.IJ.andl'h.D andherh ..sband,Sa ndy,hadadaugh• degrees 1cr,Gracc , inOctol>c r 2006.Thcy livc Sar::ohM::oura: nKinncy and in Richmond. Manhew Roberts Ga,·cnta were mar ChristyThorpCuilfoyle and ried nn June 8, 2007, in Greenwood, herhusbao d, Matt,hadason, Jack Va, Included in 1hcw(\lding party Hcnry,onMay9 , 1007.Theylivein w<TeMaryFi sherDavila , '98 ,and Lorton, Va Marianne E. Kinne y,' 03 . Sarahisan Jo anF., ..Joni " l,indenstrmh and Fpiscop,1lpriest,andMa1 hewismt:<lia lsaoYag i wcremarr iedonAp ril21, editor for the Virginia Encycloped ia 2007,inSanFranci.sco.Sheisacom projectof 1heVirgin ia Fournbrionfor m nnicarionsconsu han1w i1hT. Rowe rhc Hum,mides. Thtcy live in Crmc,, Price Gro up. Va. JuscinK.Lindquisi i.saneuro !ogy llrockA . l'::o rk er andhiswife. residemarrheUni,·ers icyofFlorida Wcndy,hada,bug luer,Averyl'aigc, andacap1ain in the,\irForccRcscrve. onM,1rch2,2007.TheyliveinApex, Eli:zabe1hC."lle1sy''Ma y11eand N.C. ThomasBurkeweremarricdonSepc JoshW ::o lton andhiswife,l.;icy. 2,2006,inWi lmington,Dd.Sh,·is hadtwins,Ja,mcsScou,mdClaite asalcs«-prcscnta t i,·ewi 1hl'fize r and Eliialx·ch, onAug.14 , 2007.They opera tes a bridal, marern iry,andbaby live in Charlouesville, Va., where clo1hingWebsiie JoshisassistancpriocipalofMadison MkhaclK.Navarroh asrcturned County Higli School. from ayear inSpain,where he Meg anGrahamWa1son andher helpedop.:nandoperaieLaanCafCy hmband,Sc<>1r,hadaso1,,James RcscaurJnte,a «·staurant in Madrid. la11,011April 10,1007.Theylivcin Stefanie R. Shapiro is pursuing a Fort 1'>1il l, S.C.,whcre Megan isan master's(kgree in pub lic health from associ,uepaqorar Uni1yl'resbytcrian HarvardUnivcr,ity Churd1.Ja111,csisthegrandsonof Loui s ll. G raham, R7 l Lind ~ay Woodworth has rdocaa,d from"lexa,,tothtW<>h ington, D .C. , Pe1er Emesl 8almtis and hi, wife. area.where' · frectorofcorporate Leannc,hadadaughrer,Hannah devdopmencforl'ro,eus,amobile Gabriclle,onjunc27,2007. Peter earn,\lmas tcr',dcgrecs inh istory markt1ingproductscorn1ian)' a11dtheo logya11disp,irsL1 ingadoc10raldegreeat the University of 5, Michad's Colkg,· in Toronto. Na ncy K. An11e11and Doug Peters PatriciaChu and Soeun l'etenen wcremarrie<lon&pt.29,2007, wercmarriedonOc1.20,2007.i1,
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BuenosA ir.:s, Mari a dclMarPu andhcrhus• band,Gon,aloDom ingue:z,hada daughter,Laural'atricia,on Feb.27, 2007. They live in Reston, v:~. NicoleLDcFlumere and Manhew DiVirgilio were married on AL1g . 11, 2007. lndudcd in the wed• Jing party were Erica R. Galinski andf:li:z.abe1h '[ Parker. Nico le earned an M.11.A. from Boston Un iwrsityandworksfo r Bankof Arnerica.Mattisanindependenr financial advisor. Thcylive in Woburn.Mass. MauuenjenGladden andher husband,Ja:,on, hadason,W illiam Noble.on May 12,2007.Thcyliv,·in Beaverdam.Va. HaideeElizabeth Hender5on and Mmhew William Cline were marrit:<l onJum·l6 , 2007,inChar!ot tesvilk, Va. Jndudcd in thewcddingpany were Robert C. Cockrill, Kale Hickok Stark, Brook e Berryhill Spears, '00, Carrie M. Kenady, '99 ,and JenniferE.Cline , '04 Ha idec carnt:<l an M.B.A. from the UnivcrsityofVirginiaand isascnior mcdiaanalyscacSNLhnancial.Marr praccicesdencisrrya 1 C larkt.Farmer, Stat,cs&Clinc. Thecoupk li,·esin Charlo,ccsvil le Hila ry B. MacDonald lives in At lama,whercshc·worksfora markct ingfirm.Shefrequenclysees Meghan A. Smrgei;, Amr L S1ep1oe, Katie B. Ribbcntrop,LaurenTravisWalsh, and WhitneyF arnum,'02 Lauun M. McGovern earned amasrer'sdegrct: ind iplomacyand incemationa l rdacionsfromScton Hal l Universiry. She li,'CSin New York, where she works inthecmtrg · ingmarkccsdivisionofC«\licSoissc. SarahJ.Mergenthaler isamembcrof,he U.S. Sailing Team and will cornpctc in t hcl008O lympi<· Gamcs in Beijing Jonath anZ. Petm isanassociaieauorncywicliCarluccio, Leone, Dimon , Doyle & Sacks in lOms River, N.J Stacy L Ponichtera andW,lliam KeichClarkweT<" marr ied on July 7, 2007. Jncludcd in ,hewe<lding pJrry were Christin a t. Mi·~elle and Kristin E.Johnron. Thccou pklives inEugcne , Ore. VictoriaSchneider andChristopher Lukachikwercrnat ricdonAug. 18, 1007,inAustin , ·lexa.s.Jncludcdin the weddingp.1rtywere Kathlecn F_ Roth, Jennifer Bradky McCullam, '00,
LyndaCavinMcDonald,Caroli11e SavageScon,ErikaSchmierer Winden , .1nd Kelly F_ Sku ra , '02 . TI,c coupk·liwsinAustin. MaruiJ.Shah isacrimina l defense attornevwirhScherrler&Onoratoin ~'ash ingtori.Sheandhcrhusband, Keyur,livcinSilverSpring,Md
CLASS Of '02 Erin CollinsAbouzaid earne<ladoc torare in physicsfrom the Uni,·crs;ty ofChicagoand isernploycdbyStatc Stm :t Bank in Boston. ! !er husband, Mohammed.Abou:zaid ,earne<la doctorateinmathcrnacicsfromth,· UnivcrsityofChicagoandiscomplet jngapost -doctoralfdlowshiparrhe Massachuseuslnsii1ut<"ofTochr1ology. JenniferLGriffin andDanidC. MacloncwcremarricdonMay27, 2007. lndL1de<lin1hewcdd ingparry was Laura Osterman Burk e. The cou plelivcsinEastl'almou th,Ma.ss., whereJennifer,,:orksarWoodsHole Occanogr.iphic lnscitutionandDanid ownsaresidemialrcmOOclingcompany. Drew M. Grifo and Anne L Hun1ingto11 wcremarriedonJu ly28, 2007,W'innctka , lll.ln cludedinthe weddingpartywere llrenJ. Grifo, Bren M. Hopkins , W. McKr,ight Brown , AlisonM.Traunet ,and Holly Jewett Hopkins . The couple livesinW.1yne,Pa Jo shuaMartinllgc11 andChrisc ina Mar· Romand r were mart"cd on Oct.13,2007,in Kenneb"nkporr, Maine. lndudedinthcwedJingpany werc T. Keith Ro:y11olds,' 0J ,and Andrew W. Cormier , '00 . The cou ple livesinF.:1g leville,l'a Kristen E. Loehr earn,...! a master's degreeindevelopmemmanagementandpolicyfrom George1own Universit)'a11d iscmp loy~...!by Google. She lives in Atlanta LaTonyaJ. Reed earned a law degree from the University of Mary landandisana,;.sociatcinthe worl 'comperc"onpract"cea, Sands Anderson Marks& Miller in Riduno11d Elisabeth M. Regan and Ryan Donovan weremarricdonSep,.8, 2007,inWeschampton&ach.N.Y. Included in the wedding party were Renee C. Aldrich and lle1han y Davis La ubcr, '03 Robyn L. Romer and Jason "Jack " Tomasino , '01 ,weremarr ied onJu ly21.2007.inWashing1011 lndudedinchcweddingpartywcrc
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K,uhl«n M. Whttler, Jennifer SchiavcttiStockburgcr,'0l, MauhewW.Stockburger,'01. and Jordan]. Knapp ,' 01 .Theconple lives i11McLean, Va., whcr(· Robyn is arealesta teagentandJasonisafinan cialanalyi;r
CLASSOF'03 Reunion Remind er April 11- 13,2008 T reg·srer f" ,ir reun ·on,, · ·r ww·w.uro nline.netorcall rhea lumoi officc,u(804}289 -80J0or(800) 480-4774.optionS. Allen M. Farnham, C , earned an M.B.A . from Averett University. H,· comp letedthe programa longwith hisson,Scott. Both are employed by Philip Morris USA in Richmon d JenniferL. Hopkin and James "Jay' ' Aldridge, '02 ,weremarried on Sept. 8, 2007, inStr:uhrnere, N.Y. lndudc <l in the wedd ing party were Erika L. Derro, Kristin C. DeYonker, Kad1erine E. Hanson, Brooke Livesay Pray, Betsen Philip, '02,MichadM.St.John,'02,Brian W. Thoms, '02 . and Daniel H. Vena, '02 .Thecouplelivcs inWa shi ngton. AllisonHoushowerMay and her husband,Chrismpher,hada danghrer, Kerrigan Abigail.on July 3, 2007 ThcyliveinAmdia , Va. KristinAlannaRice eameda medical degreefromrheUniversi1y ofVirginiaa n<liscompktingap<.-<li atricresi dencya tt he University of Nebraskaan d CreighmnUniversity.
CLASSOF'04 J.Aislinn Bohren isp"rs"inga doctoratcinttonomicsat theUni ,·crsity ofCaliforn ia.SanDiego. AhbyBardenCarrico ispursuinga<loctoratcin Frcnch litcramrcat Emory University. Sheandhe r hus band.Tommy, live in Decawr.(;a Emily Car-vcth and Nath an Verilla,'03 ,wc rcmarriedonOct . 20, 2007,atthcgazeboonWest hamp ton Lake . Included in the wedd ing party was EricFleming,'0J .Thecou ple lives in Richmo nd, where Em ily isemployedbyWe llesleyA ni mal HospitalandNa t hanisthcstatc publicat ionslibrarianattheLibrary of Virginia Martin A. Hewett earned a bw dq;rn· from Geo rgetown Unin-rsity andisanassoc iarewi thD avis,l'ol k & Wardwell in New York
Securing Virginia's Capitol Kimberly lettner, G'o6 Judgingbythedisplayonherofficewall , Kimlettner'srisethrough theranksoflawenforcements tartedinelementaryschool.Hersafety patrolbadgesprogressfrompatrolmantosergeanttol ieutenant. "Weactualtyhadtwolevelsoflieutenant,"shesayswithagrin . "I was a two-bar lieutenant." After graduating from BridgewaterStateCollegeln1983,she workedbrieflyinsportsmedicineasanassistanttrainer."Whenlwas growing up I wanted to be a police officer. but at the time, women weren'tpoliceofficers,"sheexpla!ns . Lettnerbecameanexceptionto thatrulewhensheentered the Virginia State PoliceAcademy in 1985, beginning a career that spanned22yearsand manypartsofVirginia . TheSpotsy!vanianative particularlyrelishedherdaysinthemotorcycleunit. " !nlawenforc ement,youlookatyourdayontheroadas90 percentboredomand1opercentsheer terror,"shesays.Butridinga motorcyc!ereplacedtheboredomwithexhilaration. ln2005,Lettnerwaspromotedtocaptainwhileshewas working on her master's degree in human resource managementat Richmond'sSchoolofContinuingStudies . Thefotlowingyear , she heardthatthechiefoftheVirginiaCapitolPolicewasretiringa nd decidedtoapplyforthejob . "lthoughtlongand hardaboutitbecausellovetheStatePolice, " she recalls. MTheState Po!icehadgiven me so many opportunities, but thiswasanaddi tiona!opportunityforme." !nherfirstyearaschief,shehasbeenresponsibleforproviding securityforhigh-profileeventsrangingfromthevisitofEngland's Queen Ellzabethllto thecourtappearanceofMichaelVick. lettneralsogatnedrecogni tionasthefirstfema lechiefofthe Capitol Police. MThestateofVirginiahasonlythreefemalepolice chiefs,"sheobserves. "Al!threearefirstsinthestate.Yourecognize thosekindsofthings,butyouhopeyouarebeinggivenserious considerationbecauseofyourleadershipabilityandnotbecauseo f gender." - JoanTupponce
Laura Anne Liefer and Stan l'atric k Dillonwcr<·marriedon Sept. 2.2007, in Washing roo lndu dedint!wwcddingpanywm: EmilyE. Rinner and Casey Seidel Fleischmann, '05 . Laura earned a m~ster'sdegreefrom 1he Uni,·crsityof Maryla11dan di sascicncificprogram analyst for theNational lns,; t mesof Healrh . Sean isa ponfo liorra dtrfor Pinnacle Advisory Group. Thccoupk live, inSilverSpr ing,Md. Emily J. Rigg, earned a master's dq;K-e in music from Wcsm ,imter Cho irCo llegean di spursuinga doctorare in musical artsfromrhe Un iversity of Maryland. Laura Slifkin and Ma11hew M. Venos were marrie,J on Aug. 4, Pcnnsylvan ia.Thql i,·tin
CLASSOf 'OS Tyler B. Evans lives in Los Angdes, wherehewo rksina television and rnovicpropshopand ispursuingan acnng carL~ Meredith l ~ Mick aliger earne<.I amas ter'sdcgm,fromO hioStatc Universitvand isa residentdirectora, Loyola Marymoun 1 University in l.os Angeles LadiF.Mosa<lomi earnedam:isrer'sdq;reefrom1hel.BJSchoolof l'ub licAJfairsa 1 thcUnivocrsityo f Texas at Austin. He is emp loyed by MTG Management C.on,ulta n,s in A,111in
CLASSOF'06 J~1in R. Burk is pursu ing an M.11.A atT, ·xasChr istianUnivcrsity. Jessica L. l'arC and Gregoryl'. Holhauer, '04 .wcremarriedon Sept.22 . 2007, inNewHavm, Conn. Included in the wedding party were Thomas B. Lawrenee Ill , '02 , Mauhew D. Huk. and Robert John "R.J."McGrath , '05 .Thccoupl,· lives in Brookline, M1ss.. whercjess ica istradccommissio nerassisranrar theCana<lianConsulateGeneralof Boston,a ndGrego ryisscn iorwcb managerforCapitalOneUniversity. 1hejn 1ern,u ional1raininggroupat Capita l One. LeithiaS.Robinson an<lJammic Williamswere marrie<lonJuly22, 200 7, inC hcstcrfield,Va.Jndudo:d int hcwe<ldingpartywcrc ElisaM, Benneu , Daniel D. McNair, '03 . and S1ephanieR.Ch andler. Leithiais pursuingalaw <lcgrrcatRichmon<l.
@IN MEMORIAM ALUMNI 1932 / Hugh Douglas Reams, R of Richmond,May2, 1998. 1932 /Mary LucileSaunders,
W ,ofCulpeper,Va.,formerlyor Richmond, Aug. 2, 2007. She served asaSouthernBaptisrm
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China in 1939.Dur ingW orldWarl!, shewasconfinc<lbyJapanc.scforccs
andlarerpnrinpro,ect ivecus tody byChineseforces.Af1erd1cwar . she tookmissionarya.s,ignmcntstoJapan and rhel'hilippincs. Upon retirement, sheremainedactive,especial lywith youthmissiom.Shcwasamcmberof Second Bap1is1Church in Richmond
1933/ AshbyE. Hunter , R. of Richmond,Fcb.22,2005.Hcworkcd arComellElectronic.sCorp.andvoluntttre<lwithTheShepherd'sCenter. an organization thathdpsscn iorciti1,ens mainrnin rheirindepi,ndence
1934/GcorgcH.Anderson, R, ofTulsa, Okla. , Aug. 15, 2007. He served in the Army Air Corps <luringWorl<lWarl!,auain ingthc rankofcaptain.Hewasrnpervisorof traffic management for Mapco . He hddrnanyolTicesinthcOilCapital Optimis1Clubandwa.sactiveinothcr civicassocia,ion s.Hewa_samember ofJohn Knox Presbyterian Church. 1934 / G. Durwood Nuckolls, R, of Richmond, Ang. 20, 2007. He workedasasalesmanforGeneraJ Me<licalSurgicalSupp lya ndGuy Smirh Hardw3re. He was a member of St.Stephen's Episcopal Church 1936 / Marie Harwell Ander5on, W,ofDanvill e, Va., Sept. 1, 2007. Shc:-wasactive in the Garden Club, DanvilleMuseumofFineArts,and Danville Golf Club. She was a member of First Baptist Church 1936 / JacquelinWarnerWarren, W,ofAlexandria,Va .,Aug .23,200 7. Shewasapioneerpsyd,otherapist andlicenseddinica lso cialwo rker. Shehelpe<lbringaho ,nlegislationro license clinical social workers and was anadvocateformenrallyillpeople. Shereciredfromherprivacepr:ictice inpsychothcrapya t agc89. 1938 / William A. l'owdl, R, of Newpon News, Va., March 13, 2007 He worked at Newport News Shipyard andatJohnJ.Mullen &A~sociates Helovedsporrsandcoachedliule l..eagueandPonyL:agoebascbal[ teams. He was a member of Norrh Riverside Baptist Church 1939 / Walter A. 8owry Jr. , R, of Richmond, Sepr. 26,2007 . He served
asacommunication,ofllccrin1he Navydu ringWorldWarll.Afcerthe war,hewasinsm,menralinescab lishing WTVR Channel 6 in Ridunond, thefirsttelevisinnstatinnintheSouth. Hevolunrecredfor25vearsa1Sr. Mary'sHospitaland""""lifdong memberofTJ.berna clefuptistChurch. 1939/ ElizahethAshhrooke Jackson,W,o fRidunond,Oct.6. 2006.Shewa.samemherofhrst Presbyterian Chu rch 19391 Corbin B. White, R. of Norfolk, Va.. Sept. 23,2007. ln WorldWarll,heservedasalieurenan1 command<·tondi<·U.S.S.Alabama. Laterheheade<lthefumilybusiness , C.B.WhiieandBrorher.ahome heating-fud comp,my. He also owned ·1owmendBm 1hersFuelandOil. He was a lifelong member ofGhenr United Methodist Church. 1940/HenryL.Booker,R, of Sulphur Springs, Texas.July 2. 2007. Hcwasan(·x{'.<.'utivcw ithSup<:t Handy Inc. 1940/Clairr: Francis Enright, W , of Mcchanicsvilk-, Va., Mardi 7,2007.Shewa.samemberof Norchmins1erBaptisr Church 1940 / Willi~m V. Farley, R, of Highland Springs, Va., Sept. !8, 2007. HeservedintheArm ydur ing World War II. He worked at Western Electric.Hewa.sal ifelonglloyScout and lifetime member of New Bridge Bap1is1Cho rd1. 1940 /William E. Grigg Jr., R, of Richmond, Oct. 12, 2007. He served asap ilotandinstru no rin\'('otld Warll.l-leworkeda.safedera l bank appraiser,voluntecreda1S1.Mary"s Hospical, andwasam<·mberofRi,·er Road l'resh}'lerian Church. 1940 / Katherinel.yleJordan , W,ofRichmond,&pt.12 ,2007. Sheworkedforthel-'oreignMission Boardofd1eSot11hern 1:¼ptist Convcntionand latnfor Southcm Brick Contractors . She wa., a member ofThrr:eChopl Presb)"terianChurch, GintcrParkWoma n'sClu b,and WomeninConstruction.Shelivedfor somc:-yearsinBerkdcy,Calif. 1940 I Monon ToWllSCnd, R, ofl..ancasrer, Va.,(kr . I , 2007. He servcdasachaplain inWor!dWar Jlandcontinue<lhisserviceinthe VirginiaNariona l Guardandas chapla inwiththcrankoflirntrnant colonelfortheOfficerCandidate School. He was an Episcopal pricstscrvingVirginiachurch<·sin l'owha1an, Amelia, L1ncaster, King
George, and Hanover coumi~-s. He foundcdthcCburchofth<·Crcator in Mechanic.sville, Va., and was a mcmberofTrinityEpiscopaJChurch "nl...a:cr. 1941 / WilliamM . RaneySr., R, ofChar loltes,·ilk, Va., Aug. 7, 2007.l-lcwasministnatanumbcr ofMe,hodistchu rchesinVirginia.At Scon Memoria l Mcd10dis1 Church;,, Oe<:ana.hc<·stablishcd on<·ofthcfim dr"ve-·nchurcl,·ncourag ·ngvacatio11erswlwlackc<l "cl,u rchdoi hes" to worship in th<·ir swimsuits. !-!is l.uerchurchesincludedChrisrChorch andSk ipwithUnitcd/,.kthod isi in Richmond. 1942 1 Frances Hood Deyerle, W . ofRichrnond,Ju l)"26,2006 1942 / Wt!liam N. Heflin, R, of LakeWylie,N.C.,Octoher24.2007. Hc:-wasaMarineavja1orin1heSouth PacificduringWorldWarll,rct iring as a major. Heworkeda.samanagerin thegroceryindustry.Hcvolumecred withtherescucsquadandwa.samcm berofrhel.io nsCl ub 1942/ AJvinH.MiUcr,R ,of lrvington,Va.,formcrlyofUrbanna, Va.,Aug.8,2007.Heservedinthe ArmyduringWorldWarllandlaier worked for Urbanna Lumber Co., becoming owner and president. He was a nic:-mberofChristChur ch, Episcopal, M idd!es<·xCounty. He chairedthe(:hristchurchSchool's BoardofGo,·c:-rnors,andservedasa tmstecofthcChurchSchoolsinthc Episcopal Diocese of Virginia 1944/Ka1hlccnSandcrson Culpepper, W, of Richmond, Oct. 4,2007.Sheandherhushandserve<l for30yearsasSouthcrn Baptise mis• · nar·,-nJaf,.lnrc1:"rcmcnt,she remainedactive in1 heBaptistchurch. 1945/CarrkTradcrDr;nkard, W, ofBristo l,Va ., June8,2006 1946/NorineCa.mphell Gregory, W , of Hanover County, Va., Oct.2,2007.S hewa.s alifemcmber ofrhejamesrow neSocietyand the APVA. Scotchtown Brandt. She wrote Some Ancient l,mdoumers in St. Martini /}1rish, Hanover Cmmry, Va., whid, wa, publi,h~xl in 2001. She was amemberofi'or k EpiscopalChurch 1948 / AlexandcrHughesW are Jr.,R ,ofRid1mon<l,&pt.24,2007. HeservedintheNaryduringWorld Warll.HewaspresidentofCiliiens Homclnsurane<:,miringinl982 , andwasafo,rnderandboard member of!nvestorsSa, ·ingsandloanand WestwoodRacquerCluh.
l 949 / Florence Crute Batiuk, W,ofColoradoSprings,Colo.,July 4,2004. 1949/ ltalo N. Ferramos ca, R, of Richmond,S,:pt.8.2007.Hcscrvtd in the Army Air C.orps in World Warll,pilotingrr:insportplanes(hai nacuat<xlthcwoundcd,droppe<l paratroopers,andflewoverenemy terrirory. He also new over Hiroshima immtdiatcl)"afi,·rthcatornicbornb wasdropped. llev,a.saNev,·York l.ifeinsur:inccagcnrwith 57yearsof saviccandamcmlx·rofS1.Bri<lget's Catho lic Church l 949 I George A. Froorn, R, of Richmond,formcrlyofWinchester. Va.,Oa. 19,2006. J lewasregional presidentofFirsr American Bank of Virginia,u,dwasactiveinmanycivic andprofo.ssionalgroups l 949 I Martha Moseley Hall , W . ofSouthHill , Va., 5<:pt.29,2007 Sheownedandopera tedManha's Dress Shop from 1959 ro 2000 . She d,aircdtbcSoutbH illPcrforming Art.sC.ouncil and.servedastheflrst femalepresidenrofrheSotuhHill Chamlx:-r of Commerce. She was a memberandlongtimeorganistat Sou1h Hill Presbyterian Church 1950 / Arnold P. Fleshood, R, ofRichmond , Jan . 29.2007. He w:isrhefirsrdeanoftheVirginia Commonw csdth University School of Education.whichhejoineda.safaculty member in 1965. He later served as a5sociatcv i~cpr<-sidcmforaGldemic affaiLSatV CU. 19501 Richard A. Ford, R,of Riehmond,Fcb.19 , 2007.Heserwd intheNary<luringWorldWarll.parlicipatinginrheD-Dayinvasion . He wotkcdasbu«amd1icfin the City of Richmond Department of Recreation and l'arks,wherehe beannea familiar figurcbymakinghisrcgular"round s" of the city's parks 1950/ClaiborneD.Grr:gory, R, ofHanovn County , Va., Dec. 20,2006. He.served in the Navy from 194.310 1956,auain ingche rankoflicutenantcommandcr.Hc was a member of the Virginia Hou.se ofDe legatesforoncyearand was dircctoroftheVirginiaPecro lcum Industries. He w;,.sa member of fork Episcopal Church 1950 / Johnl'.Smith , R,of Warsaw, Va., June 27, 2005. He was ministcrof<·<lucat ionandpastorof severnl llapti.srcongregations.He alsowaspres idcmofRichmond\v'estmorelandC,mntyl!abitatfor
Daniel R. Woolley, '05, (left) diedOct.14,2007,of complications from kidney failure. Hesufferedfromnephrotic syndrome,adiseasethat llmitedhisheighttofivefeet, buthewasagiantwhenit cametoSpidersbasketball.As managerofthemen'steam, Woolley'sresponsibilities included arranging road trips, managingpractice,anddoi11g laundry,buthisro1eonthe teamwasfargreaterthanthe sumofthoseparts. "Hewouldkeepusin lineinthelockerroom,"said formerplayerPatrickO'Malley, '05,(aboveright). "He had this ki11dofauthorityeve11though hewasthesmallestguy." Basketball was his passion. "You11evergotbetwee11Da11 a11dbasketba!l,"hismother said.
The athletic department has established the Dan WoolleyEducatlona!Fu11d, whichwillhelppayeducational e11pensesforthesenior managersofthemen'sand women's basketball teams.
Abridgedfrom a sraryby Ernie Siciliano, '08, that appeared in The Collegian on Nov.8. To readrhefullstory,gotothe "BonusContent"section of magazine.richmond.edu.
Humanity and served on the Warsaw Plann"ngComn · · ,ni' ·x;e, 1951 / LawrenceG.Al exander, 8 , of Flowery Branch, Ga., Aug. 27, 2007. In World War II, he served in the Army Air C.orp.s.On D- Day, his squa<lronpanicipamlinOpcrntion Overlor<l, droppingparat roopers into occupiedFranceandreturningt he same day pulling gliders. He later workedasapilotforEastcrnAirlines He was an elder of Trinity l'reshyterian ChurchofGainesvilk,Ga 1951 f l'orre st N. Parker , B,of Cape Cora l. Ha.,Jan.27, 2005. He worh-<l for Blue Cross of Virginia 1953/ Jacquel ynGustin Boeh, W ,ofl'awleyslsland,S.C.,formerly ofRoonoke, Va., 0cc. 10, 2007. She taughtl..atininRuanoh',pul, lic schools.ShewasamemherofFirst Baptist Church, Roanoke 1953/ Clisb y B. Hart, B, of Sandsron, Va., Nov. G, 200G. He S<."f\'cd in the Army during World War 11, receivingrhePurplcl-lc art.l·kwas amemberofSandsro n lhptistChurch 1953 f Philip L Oglesby , R and G'5 8.ofFallsChurch,Va .,Aug.2l, 2007.Hewasarcscarchphysicisrfor the Nat ional BurcauofStan<laM. 1955/ J ames S, "N unylludd y'' Alexander , R.ofKnoxvillc,·1cnn., July22,2007. Hewasprcsidcman<l chairman of Kay's kc Cream. J le w:,s pas1 president of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce and the "f<enncssceand SouthcrnD air)' Associations . He served on rhcboard oftheWebbSchoolofKnoxvillc and was a member of Sequoyah Hills l'resby1erian Church 1955/ AnnC-OhcnSchiff , B, of Richmond,July28,2007. 1956 / Virgini a JonesMiller,W , of Newport News, Ya., Aug. 7, 2007. Shewasactive inthejuniorl.eague ofHampmn Roads and the Virginia LivingMuS<.curn.Shcwasamc·mberof St.Andrew's Episcopal Church. 1957 f H . Wayne Gibson, R, of Sandston,Va ., Oct.J l, 2002.l kwas a school administrator in Henrico Couniy,Va. 1958 / Georg e M.Mills , R, of DeerfieldBeach,Fla.,formcrlyof Richmond, Aug. 8, 2007. He sen·c<l inthcCoa;tGuardandAirForcc. He wasvicepresidentandpaperhrokerof Millslncernationall'aper. 1959 / Sherwood C.ButlerJr., R,ofRich mond, Sepr.18, 2007. He wasthepastorofseveralchurches, rhcnhecamcacouns do rwi ththc
VirginiaRehabilirat ionC.enterforthe Blind. He wa., a mcmherofWood land J-ldghtsBap1is1Church 1959/ PhilisGaryMoo tt Co lem an, W , of Wilmington , Del., &pt.1),2007 1959 / SandraDewPerry,W ,o f Virginia Beach, Va.,Sept.13,2007. Shcser,·edashead librn.rianof theJanaf branchofNotfolkPul,licLi braty. 1960 / Jack E Ingram, B, of RidgcManor . Fla.,Sc pt.26 , 2007. 1960 / John T. "Ttmmy" Moss Jr., B,ofRichmon d ,July 4, 200G. He was an Army veteran andworkc<las an independent CPA. 1962 / MclvinJ.Rideom,R ,of Richmond, June 18, 2007. He was a srandoutinl>othbascbal l andfootball at Richmondandwa.sd rafi:edbythc Baliimore Cohs. He served for many ycarsasacoad,andofficial inthc Richmond area. 1963 I Claudi a L. Dodson, W. of Richmond,A ug. 18, 2007 .S hcjo incd the Virginia High School L,aguein 197 1, 1hefot1nh woman in thecountrytobcbirOOasasta tcassocia tion administrator.Shespear hcadedt he developmenrandc-xpansionofgirls spominVirginiahighschoo ls. Shc 1a11ghthealth,physicaledu cation,and driver'seducar;ona1Meadowbrook HighSchoo l whileooad ,ingS<..,,cral spom.Shewa.sinducred into th e H;ghSchoo l Hall of Fame in 2004 1963 f David R. Rutherford , B, ofBradenton,F la., Sept. 20, 2007. He wasaninsura ncead j t1srerfor4 0 years 1967 / DouglasW.Davis, R,o f Richmond,Oct.27,2007 . Heserved as a captain in1hcAirForce,siationed inBctlin.J-lcbccamcalawycran<l partner a, Hunton & Williams, working on i1s litigadon 1eam. He was involvc<linthcimpkmc nt ationand defenseofthel998'!ohaccoMa.,ter Seulemen1Agrecmcm,d1clarges1civil settlement in U.S. history. He· was a memherofFirstl' resbyterianChu rch 1967 / HruceE.Welch,Band l:7 3,ofRuanokc , Va., 5<:pt.2,2007 Hepracticedlaw,mostrecently in Roanoke. Hcscrvcdasprcs idcntof thefranklinCoumyChambcrof C.ommerccandthefra nklinCounty Uni1edFundandasatmsrecofthe VoiccoftheBlueR.idgc. He was a memheranddeaconofCa,·cSpring Bap1is1Church 1969 / PaulR,Nelson , R,of Norwalk , Conn., Aug. 24, 2007. H e served :,sanArmyca ptain int he VicmamWaran dl atcr workedasan
advertisingc-xccmivc 1973/ MargaretWtlson Jdfcrson , G ,ofRichmond,Aug 26, 2007. Shcuughc in Ches1erfidd CoumyPublicSchoo !,andwa.s a member of Saint Edward the Confessor Cat holic Church 197 5 / Luther S. Ream s, G, of Richmond.Sept. 16,2 007.Heserved dur ingWo rldWarll in theArmy Coast Artillery and later in the Army Air Co rps as a B-17nav igator inlraly. Hcroscto the ranko f capt ain.He was employed by Du l'onr :is an eleccrical enginecr, and hc was a mcmbcr of Bon Ait Baptist Ch urch. 19n I Margie Ann Brown Snyder,GB ,ofR.ichmon<l,Aug.30, 2007.Shcwotkcdasafinancialofficcr in Richmondbank.s, includingSovnln and BankofAme rica.Shcalsowas rnanagingdi rcctorof theJamesRiver Cert ified Development Corp 1978/ Ca rcyM.LeSicur,W , ofSalvo,N.C.,Aug . 30,2007.S he worked as a nurs,, in New York, Hawaii, and Delaware before moving toSalvo,N.C.S heearnedhermaster's degreeinnursingfromthcUniversiiy ofNorthCarolina,ChapelHi!l.Shc wasadedica tcd nursepractitioner. 1978 I James M. Orhen , R, of Richmond,Scpt.5,2007.Anavid boatcr, hco wncdClipperMarine in West Point, Va. He was a member of S1.Pe1er'sEpiscopalChurch 1983/ James 0. Popp , R, of Jacksonville, Fla.,A ug. 25, 2007. He wasa rheumatolo gista ndamernher ofS t.Paul'sCa tholic Church. 1983 / BryanW.Ri cc, B, of Richmond.Sept. 18,2007. Rccired ftornGcncra!E!octtic,hcscrvcdon theboardsoftheUni tedVirg inia Hemop hiliaChaprcrofEas1ern J-lenricoandtbeB let:dingDisordcrs Program at Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems 2004 / Marqu es A, William ~, of Washington , D. C. , Oct . 8, 2007.
STA FF Charl es M. Browder , of Richmond, diedJu lyl3,2007.J-lejoinc<l1he University in 1957:isabookkccpct intherrc:isurer'soffi ce.Jnl984,he mo,·c<lto che Robins Ccnccr :is a cicket managcr and rctircd in l986 . J-lc wasaveteranofWorldWarll,serv ing in the Pacific in the Army Air Corps. J-lcalsowasam cmbcro fTr initr Uni,ed Metho dist Chur ch.
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RING, A LEGACY, AND A FUTURE
By Ellen Bradley, W '9 I I first noticed Mrs . Thompson's ring when I was about 10 years old. Gay Frith Thompson, W'64, was my mother's best friend, and she wore her Wesd1ampt0n College ring with enor mous pride . Her husband was pastor of Co lonial Avenue Baptist Church in Roanoke, where my family attended, so I saw that ring almost every Sunday. I had never seen anything like it- a fairytale tower surrounded by a big curvy W. By the rime I applied to college, I knew the W stood for Westhampron, die women's college at die University of Richmond . I knew that Mrs. Thompson loved Westhampton College, but I was more interested in attending Washington & Lee, which was smaller and closer to home-closer to my comfort zone. W&L accepted my application but offered little financial aid. In contrast, UR offered a Vi rginia Baptist Scholarship-a full ride for four years. Mrs . Thompson had enco uraged me to apply for the scholarship, and her husband had written a letter of recommendation . My parents were thrilled, and I knew that if I chose another school, they would have to borrow money for tuition. Reluctantly, I enrolled at U R. I was homesick from day one. I missed my family terribly. Most weekends I went home to Roanoke or to Williamsbu rg to visit my high school boyfriend, who was a student at William and Mary. A few weeks into my first semeste r, I took part in the annual trad ition of Proclamation Night. As I wrote a letter to myself-to be opened during my senior year- I thought about Mrs .
Thompson's ring . Although I began to feel connected to a community of special women, I lacked confidence. The University seemed so much bigger than my hometown high school, and I was intimidated by classmates who were more confident, articulate, and outs poken. I was miserable until halhvay through my sophomore year, and dien something changed deep inside me. I stopped going home every weekend, and I began to take advantage of the myriad academic and social oppor-
"Lo\'e and appreciation to Westhampton College grcm stronger ,, 1th time." tunities on campus. My confidence began to grow. I found wonderful role models in Dr. Patricia Harwood, \Vesthampton's dean at the time, and Dr. Stephanie Micas, who was director of the WILL program (Women Involved in Living and Learning). Those women were feminists who embodied the values of the college and displayed a strong commitment to women's education. With their encouragement, ! became a leader in student government. My homesickness evaporated, and my confidence soared. At Ring Dance, I felt like a new pe rson as my father escorted me down the grand
staircase ofThe Jefferson Hotel. Mrs. Thompson was the re to sec me take rny place in the giant Won the rotunda floor. She was dicre! Bm of course she was thcrc----not just for me, but for all that Westhampton College had meant to her over the years. Another of my mmhcr's closest friends, Jane Bowles Hurt , W'5G, also made the trip to Richmond to be a part of that special tradition. They knew then what I know now- that love and appreciation for Westhampton College grow stronger with time. I am glad that when the time came for me to leave my comfort zone, I found myself in a supportive learning environment tailored to the needs of young women. I am forever grateful that Westhampton instilled in me a deep appreciation for women's education and the sacrifices that remarkable women like Dr. May Keller have made over the years. And I am most gratified chat the opportunities available ro Westhampron students remain as valuable and relevant today as they were during my time on campus. Mrs. Thompson and I eventually compared our \X'esrhampwn rings. A generation had passed since she received her ring, but the design was nearly identical. I don't wear my ring every day anymore, b111when I put it on, I give thanks for May Kel!er, Pat Harwood, and Stephanie Micas-and for Mrs. Thompson, whose pride in her ring !ed me to discover Westhampton College for myself.
Bien Bradley,W'91, is directorof communicatiow for the School of Government at the Universityof North Carolinant Chapel Hill.
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"The Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) is a unique opportunity for seniors concentrating in finance . Worki'ng with Robins School faculty, student managers invest approximately $300,000 of the University's endowment in equities, which requires the practical application of the financ ia l skills developed in the classroom. This hands-on experience includes an annual trip to New York City, where student managers meet with alumni at numerous investment banks and attend an evening networking recept ion.
Thanks for making it all possible."
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