John W. Bates III (Law ’66) is the recipient of the 2011 William H. Ruffner Medal in recognition of his support of Virginia Tech. Mr. Bates served on the Virginia Tech Foundation Board of Directors, is co-chair of the Richmond Regional Campaign Committee within The Campaign for Virginia Tech: Invent the Future, and member of the university’s National Campaign Steering Committee. He is managing partner with law firm McGuire Woods.
Posted 05/18/2011
James W. Osborne (Com ’66 L/M) has received an appointment to the faculty of the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where he will teach advanced business law. Formerly of Lexington, Va., he served there as an adjunct professor on Washington and Lee’s law faculty while in private practice. Later he served 16 years with the Virginia attorney general’s office. He now resides in Augusta County, Va., and part time in Italy.
Posted 05/18/2011
Jim Kluttz (Col ’66, GSBA ’74 L/M) and Dottie Lewis Kluttz (Nurs ’66 L/M) received the One Small Voice award from the Savannah Children’s Choir. In 2009, the Kluttzes developed a program for the Savannah Children’s Choir called “Letty’s Purse.” Named in honor of Mr. Kluttz’s mother, this non-needs-based grant fund is open to all members of the Savannah Children’s Choir for SCC-related expenses, such as tuition, costuming or travel. Mr. Kluttz is president of the Tybee Island Historical Society and Ms. Kluttz is a pediatric nurse and retired pediatric nursing professor.
Posted 04/05/2011
J. B. Birdsall (Col ’66 L/M) received the 2011 Masters of Foxhounds Association’s Conservation of Habitat Award in New York at the Union Club on Jan. 28, 2011, at the MFHA annual meeting.
Posted 02/11/2011
Donald A. Johnston III (Col ’66 L/M) is chief judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit court in Grand Rapids, Mi., for 2010-2011.
Posted 08/30/2010
Theodore W. Woods Sr. (Engr ’66) received a master’s degree in information systems in May from Virginia Commonwealth University. As a member of the fast track executive MS class of 2010, he was a Dean’s Scholar. He also has an M.B.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, class of 1967, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor society. He is the IT director for Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
Posted 07/08/2010
Guy O. Farmer II (Law ’66 L/M) is an attorney with the firm of GrayRobinson Attorneys at Law. He was listed among this year’s Florida Super Lawyers by Florida Super Lawyers magazine.
Posted 07/08/2010
James E. Harris Jr. (Col ’66 L/M) retired November 1 as chairman of the Escape/Apprehension Committee at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County, Va. Mr. Harris served 36 years with the criminal justice system with both the state and regional planning commissions in Farmville and Front Royal, Va. Mr. Smith was the first tactical coordinator for SWAT in Chesterfield County. Mr. Harris was a member of the 1962 U.Va. football team and played “A Team” U.Va. rugby (wing and fullback positions).
Posted 01/29/2010
Carolyn Krauch Braudaway (Nurs ’66) retired from the Washington Adventist University Department of Nursing after a 33-year career, culminating as as a baccalaureate nurse educator in psychiatric nursing and community health nursing. During her tenure at WAU, Mr. Braudaway received the Zapara Award for Excellence in Teaching and a Lifetime Achievement Award. She received a master’s degree in nursing from California State University in psychiatric nursing and nursing education in 1976 and had previously retired as a colonel from the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserves after serving 30 active duty and reserve years as a military nurse. She started as a U.S. Navy nurse during the Vietnam War era. Her awards included a Meritorious Service Medal for 30 years as an outstanding military nurse and leader and for excellence during the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
Posted 12/17/2009
Winifred M. Phillips (Engr ’66, ’68 L/M) is vice president for research, director and professor of mechanical engineering, and Don and Ruth Eckis professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He received an honorary membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in recognition of his contributions to mechanical engineering and engineering education through service and leadership in organizations including ASME, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering. Since 1988, Mr. Phillips has been on the faculty at the University of Florida, Gainesville, serving as professor of mechanical engineering, research professor of biomedical engineering (1988-99), associate vice president for engineering and industrial experiment station (1990-99) at the College of Engineering and dean of the Graduate School (1999-2004). He previously was head of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Perdue University from 1980 to 1988. He also held positions at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, the University of Paris and U.Va. Mr. Phillips has taught a wide range of fluid mechanics course related to aerodynamics and biological fluid flow. His teaching and research contributions to fluid mechanics in living systems helped pave the way for biomedical engineering to be a highly respected activity within mechanical engineering. He has authored and co-authored nearly 200 technical publications and is frequently sought as a seminar speaker and consultant. As an ASME Fellow, he has served the society in many positions, including president, chair of the steering committee for ASME’s Global Summit on the Future of Mechanical Engineering, trustee of the ASME Foundation. Mr. Phillips is a fellow of nine other societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Astronautical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the New York Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society for Arts (UK) among many others.
Posted 12/14/2009
Joseph S. Renzulli (Educ ’66) is a distinguished professor at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, the Neag Chair in gifted education and talent development, and director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Mr. Renzulli received the 2009 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education for his guiding work in gifted and talented enrichment. The honorees were recognized at a dinner at the New York Public Library. The Prize was established in 1988 to honor Mr. McGraw’s lifelong commitment to education and to mark the McGraw-Hill Corporation’s 100th anniversary. Mr. Renzulli’s research has focused on the identification and development of creativity and giftedness in young people, and on organizational models and curricular strategies for differentiated learning environments that contribute to total school improvement. For more than thirty years, his Schoolwide Enrichment Model has been used in more than 2,500 schools nationwide. Researchers have found the program improved attitudes among students, teachers, parents and administrators toward gifted education and produced positive results in achievement. Mr. Renzulli began his career as a math, reading and science teacher in Ocean Township, N.J.
Posted 09/29/2009
Roy C. Young (Law ’66 L/M) was elected president of Capital City Country Club and chairman of Big Bend Hospice in his hometown of Tallahassee, Fla. He was re-elected president and chief executive officer of his law firm, Young van Assenderp, for the 38th consecutive year. Mr. Young’s wife, Rose Marie; and their two children and four grandchildren live in Tallahassee.
Posted 02/12/2009
T. Jackson Bedford Jr. (Col ’66 L/M) received a Leadership Award from the Atlanta Bar Association during its first Leadership Awards Luncheon Honoring Veterans, recognizing his background in both the military and the law.
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I regret to inform you that Bob passed away October 6, 2010.
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