Charles H. Romine (Col ’79, Engr ’86 L/M) was named director of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. NIST is a bureau of the Department of Commerce.
Posted 01/03/2012
Melanie Howard (Col ’79) won a 2011 Folio magazine Eddie award at the gold level for her article in SELF magazine, “Get Smarter Every Day.”
Posted 01/03/2012
Robert Schwab (Col ’79, Med ’83 L/M) is a physician executive in Dallas who lectures, writes and sings about the convergence of the humanities and medicine. He recently published his first novel, Holy Water, a medical coming-of-age story about the impact of the French Quarter on a physician in training.
Posted 12/06/2011
Barbara Shrut (Com ’79 L/M) is vice president of international market services for Royal Caribbean Cruises. She oversees marketing, technology and business development for all international markets. She has been with Royal Caribbean for 20 years and lives in Miami.
Posted 09/15/2011
Gary W. Nickerson (Col ’79 L/M) is president of the West Virginia State Bar. Mr. Nickerson has practiced in the field of labor and employment law with the firm of Steptoe & Johnson since 1984. He is the managing partner of the Bridgeport-Clarksburg office. He lives with his wife, Karen Lawrence Nickerson (Com ’79 L/M); and three children in Bridgeport, W.Va.
Posted 09/15/2011
Michael Pillow (Col ’79 L/M) has re-established his contract consulting business as MFP Ventures, located in Winter Springs, Fla. Mr. Pillow has been teaching law as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, and other schools. He recently published his first novel, Neighbors, and has been president of the UVaClub of Greater Orlando since 2009.
Posted 08/12/2011
P. Russell Hardin (Col ’79 L/M) was appointed to the board of trustees of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance. Mr. Hardin serves as president of the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, Lettie Pate Evans Foundation and Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation.
Posted 08/12/2011
Bruce W. Morrow (Col ’79 L/M) is chief creative officer at Access TCA, a corporate communications company based in Boston. His new book, The Outcome Model, describes the company’s approach to communicating effectively in myriad channels. Mr. Morrow works out of the Atlanta office of the company and lives in Athens, Ga.
Posted 05/02/2011
Katie Couric (Col ’79 L/M) had a book, The Best Advice I Ever Got, published by Random House.
Posted 05/02/2011
John E. Schiller (Col ’79 L/M) a partner with the Cleveland, Ohio law firm of Walter & Haverfield, was honored for his professional rectitude by entrepreneur David H. Jacobs Jr., who donated $1.5 Million dollars to the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University at Bloomington to endow the “John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics.” Professor Hannah Buxbaum has been selected as the first professor to hold the John E. Schiller Chair.
Posted 01/27/2011
Dr. Barbara Rose (Col ’79, Nurs ’82 L/M) has taken a position in the Department of Veterans Affairs central office in Washington, DC. Dr. Rose will be working in the office of quality and performance, division of risk management. Dr. Rose earned a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of San Diego, and a master’s of science from the University of Maryland. Dr. Rose was previously a faculty member at the University of San Diego, San Diego State University, and Medical University of South Carolina.
Posted 09/28/2010
Michael Haaren (Law ’79) published his second book Work at Home Now (Career Press, November 2009). Coauthored by Christine Durst, the book is based on job-finding programs Mr. Haaren and Ms. Durst developed for the U.S. State Department and Armed Forces.
Posted 09/16/2010
Tom Fitch (Educ ’79, ’81 L/M) has joined Academic Search, Inc., which specializes in searches for college and university presidents and senior administrators. Mr. Fitch holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and lives in Atlanta, Ga.
Posted 09/09/2010
Judy Coutts (Arch ’79) completed two projects for the Pennsylvania State University Altoona campus: its new Communications Center and its Advisory Board Suite. Both projects were published in the Pennsylvania Business Central “2009 Regional Showcase of New Buildings”. Ms. Coutts lives in Altoona, Pa., with her husband and son.
Posted 01/18/2010
Hayden Saunier (Col ’79 L/M) published a collection of poems, Tips for Domestic Travel, with Black Lawrence Press in September. The book was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award . Her poetry has appeared in 5 A.M., Mad Poets Review, Margie, Nimrod, Philadelphia Stories and Rattle, among others. Ms. Saunier received the 2005 Robert Fraser Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Liam Rector First Book Prize selected by David Wojahn. An actress and voice-over artist, her film and television credits include The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary and Hack.
Posted 12/15/2009
Ellen Prewitt (Col ’79 L/M) lives in Memphis, Tenn., where she facilitates a writing group of men and women who live on the street. Paraclete Press recently published her first book, Making Crosses: A Creative Connection to God. The book introduces the spiritual practice of making crosses from broken and found objects. One of Ms. Prewitt’s essays is included in Sue Silverman’s instructional book, Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir, released in June.
Posted 07/28/2009
Jonathan Young (Col ’79) is senior vice president and chief claims officer of Harleysville Insurance. Mr. Young previously served as managing partner of the New York office of the law firm of Sills Cummis & Gross, where he was also a member of the litigation practice group. Prior to that, he was the managing partner of Reed Smiths’ New York office.
Posted 07/13/2009
Mark D. Bateman (Col ’79, Engr ’86 L/M) received a division award from Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors for his leadership, coordination and ability to bring teams together on the Virginia Class Submarine program. Mr. Bateman is a senior staff systems engineer with Lockheed Martin, based out of the Undersea Systems facility at Manassas, Va., and has worked offsite at the Electric Boat Corporation shipyard in Groton, Conn., since the start of the Virginia Class submarine program in 1996. He serves as the engineering liaison to the shipyard and supports development and test of the sonar, architecture and combat control subsystems. He resides in Ledyard, Conn., with his wife Paula. They have two children.
Posted 07/09/2009
Robert H. Melton (Col ’79) was inducted into the inaugural class of the Virginia Capitol Correspondents Association Hall of Fame in February. He was honored for reporting on Virginia politics while he was at the Washington Post. He started working at the newspaper in 1982 and, for 20 years, served as a reporter and editor for the newspaper’s national and metro desks. His specialty was reporting on state and local government in Maryland; Washington, D.C.; and particularly Virginia. Mr. Melton retired after a brain injury in September 2003. He is married to Page Boinest Melton (Col ’83 L/M). They have two daughters and live in Richmond, Va.
Posted 05/12/2009
John D. McGavin (Col ’79 L/M) is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers as of February. Mr. McGavin is a partner in the firm of Trichilo, Bancroft, McGavin, Horvath & Judkins in Fairfax, Va., where he has been practicing for 27 years.
Posted 05/12/2009
John B. “Jack” Catlett (Col ’79 L/M) serves on the board of trustees of St. Joseph’s Villa, a nonprofit organization in Virginia serving the needs of children by providing educational, residential and day services to more than 600 children with special needs and their families. He is a shareholder/principal with the law firm of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller.
Posted 05/12/2009
Amy Breitenbach Pollok (Col ’79) and Brian A. Pollok (Col ’79) reside in Carlsbad, Calif., after living for the past four years in Madison, Wis. Mr. Pollok is chief scientific officer and head of global research and development for Life Technologies, a Fortune 600 company formed by the merger of Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen Corp. Ms. Pollok serves as a reference librarian for the Carlsbad city and San Diego county library systems. Their sons, Christopher and Benjamin, are students at Gnomon School of Visual Arts and Colgate University, respectively.
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