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Cristopher Andrew Meyer (Engr ’83 L/M) is a fellow in the American College of Radiology. Dr. Meyer is a professor of cardiothoracic imaging and vice chair of finance in the department of radiology at the University of Wisconsin.

Posted 05/18/2012

Robert F. Redmond Jr. (Col ’83 L/M) received the Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Pro Bono Award from the Virginia State Bar on March 26, 2012. In 2005, Mr. Redmond established a monthly legal clinic to assist with the specific legal needs of Hispanic immigrants. The clinic now takes place twice a month, in conjunction with the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and serves about 360 clients per year. Mr. Redmond’s efforts also extend to the legislative area. He helped form the Virginia Employers for Sensible Immigration Policy, which works to ensure that legislation aimed at illegal immigration does not harm the state’s business reputation. Mr. Redmond is a partner at Williams Mullen and is the chair of its products liability and mass tort group.

Posted 04/30/2012

Bob Latham (Law ’83 L/M) serves on the International Rugby Board’s executive committee. He is the past chairman and current vice chairman of the United States of America Rugby Football Union and is president of the North America Caribbean Rugby Association.

Posted 01/23/2012

Wilson B. Rumble Jr. (Engr ’83 L/M) is a regional manager with Oracle Corp. After successfully generating more than $6 million as a federal account manager for the past four years, he will manage a team covering half of the federal civilian government for Oracle’s public sector team. Mr. Wilson was also president of Oracle’s Toastmasters organization and served recently as a Toastmasters area governor.

Posted 01/18/2012

Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 L/M) received the “Spirited Woman of Baltimore” award from the American Red Cross of Central Maryland. The award celebrates an accomplished, spirited woman who acts as an example, leader and mentor in her community and profession. Ms. Senft is the founder of Safe Haven, a community initiative designed to protect children, and of Baltimore City Circuit Court Family Mediation Services.

Posted 08/29/2011

Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 L/M) received the “Spirited Woman of Baltimore” award from the American Red Cross of Central Maryland. The award celebrates an accomplished, spirited woman who acts as an example, leader and mentor in her community and profession. Ms. Senft is the founder of Safe Haven, a community initiative designed to protect children, and of Baltimore City Circuit Court Family Mediation Services.

Posted 08/29/2011

Brian Kenney (Law ’83) has been appointed a judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Kenney will be sitting in the Alexandria division of the court. He has practiced bankruptcy law for the last 22 years with Miles & Stockbridge in Tysons Corner, Va. Mr. Kenney married Maria del Carmen (Canen) de Palacios last summer.

Posted 08/17/2011

Lois Lea (Col ’83) is on the faculty of Epiphany Episcopal School, where she teaches math, science and French. She resides in Danville, Va. In January 2011, she was ordained as a deacon at First Presbyterian Church and serves on its missions committee, where she corresponds with missionaries in France.

Posted 04/05/2011

Beth Rilee Kelley (Col ’83) is chief operating officer at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Va.

Posted 03/28/2011

Leslie McMillan Kline (Engr ’83 L/M) graduated in August 2010 from a four-year training program conducted by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and is now a guild-certified Feldenkrais practitioner. She has started a practice in northern Maryland.

Posted 03/10/2011

Rich says

"If I sell a million of them, I plan to quit my environmental job in Washington, D.C., and pursue a full-fledged writing career at the beach."

Rich Barnett (Col ’83 L/M) has published a travel application for the iPhone: “Rehomo Beach,” a gay and lesbian guide to Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Posted 03/10/2011

Leslie McMillan Kline (Engr ’83 L/M) graduated in August 2010 from a four-year training program conducted by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and is now a guild-certified Feldenkrais practitioner. She has started a practice in northern Maryland.

Posted 03/10/2011

Rick McGuire (Grad ’83) is a fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, the international professional organization of sport and exercise psychology. Mr. McGuire is the former head coach of men’s and women’s track and field at the University of Missouri.

Posted 02/24/2011

Rick McGuire (Grad ’83) is a fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, the international professional organization of sport and exercise psychology. Mr. McGuire is the former head coach of men’s and women’s track and field at the University of Missouri.

Posted 02/24/2011

E. Ford Stephens (Col ’83, Law ’86 L/M), a partner at Christian & Barton in Richmond, Va., is a fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation.

Posted 02/11/2011

E. Ford Stephens (Col ’83, Law ’86 L/M), a partner at Christian & Barton in Richmond, Va., is a fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation.

Posted 02/11/2011

Thomas R. Kraemer (Col ’83 L/M) has been selected to the Super Lawyers list in the 2011 edition of Ohio Super Lawyers magazine.

Posted 01/27/2011

Thomas R. Kraemer (Col ’83 L/M) has been selected to the Super Lawyers list in the 2011 edition of Ohio Super Lawyers magazine.

Posted 01/27/2011

Mary Wayne Watson (Grad ’83) is chair of the Knightdale, N.C., branch of the State Employees Credit Union advisory board. She also serves on the board of directors of the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society, located in Wagram, N.C. She is a Road Scholar for the North Carolina Humanities Council. In this role, she gives talks throughout the state on the following subjects: “John Charles McNeill: Poet Laureate’s Home Songs” and “The Sandhills: The Comfort of Tradition and Ritual.” Ms. Watson is a professor of English at Nash Community College in Rocky Mount, N.C.

Posted 12/02/2010

Kristina Auth (Col ’83 L/M) opened a yoga and massage studio in Baltimore on Nov. 8, 2010. Yoga on York specializes in yoga for athletes, conventional yoga, aerial yoga and sports massage. Kristina is married to Eric Paltell (Col ’83 L/M), who continues to practice labor and employment law in Baltimore. They have two daughters, Skyler, 17; and K.C., 15.

Posted 12/02/2010

Mary Wayne Watson (Grad ’83) is chair of the Knightdale, N.C., branch of the State Employees Credit Union advisory board. She also serves on the board of directors of the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society, located in Wagram, N.C. She is a Road Scholar for the North Carolina Humanities Council. In this role, she gives talks throughout the state on the following subjects: “John Charles McNeill: Poet Laureate’s Home Songs” and “The Sandhills: The Comfort of Tradition and Ritual.” Ms. Watson is a professor of English at Nash Community College in Rocky Mount, N.C.

Posted 12/02/2010

Captain Richard K. Wood II, USN (Engr ’83 L/M) relieved Captain Scott Galbreaith, USN (Col’83 L/M) as the commanding officer of Naval Base Guam on July 8, 2010. Also attending was Captain Tom Sparks, USCG (Law ’93) who is commander, Coast Guard Sector Guam. Rich, his wife, Betsy, and their son, Chip, will be in Guam for at least two years while their daughters, Caroline and Catherine, attend college in the states.

Posted 09/08/2010

Cara says

"Flabbergasted and quite happy are several words to describe the euphoria. Typically, design awards go to large projects of a public or institutional nature, so this “celebration of the design accomplishments of architects in Delaware” for a modest residential project is particularly surprising and welcome. "

Cara Carroccia (Arch ’83, ’86 L/M) received a design award from the Delaware chapter of the American Institute of Architects for a residential project in northern Delaware. Ms. Carroccia is part of the faculty of Philadelphia University and the Moore College of Art and Design.

Posted 07/08/2010

Tim Whalen (Engr ’83 L/M) and Janelle Whalen (Engr ’83 L/M) proudly welcome their son, Jake Whalen (Engr ’14) to Grounds this fall, when he joins his sister, Savannah Whalen (Engr ’12 L/M), and cousin, Katelyn Zimmerman (Col ’11).

Posted 06/29/2010

Dave Trinkle (Col ’83, Med ’87 L/M) won re-election as vice-mayor for the City of Roanoke in May and began his four-year term in July. He has served on Roanoke City council, including as vice-mayor, from 2006-2010 and previously on the Roanoke City school board. He is also the associate dean of community and culture with the new Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, opening in August. He and his wife, Ann, have three children: Clay, 17; Ella, 15; and Owen, 10.

Posted 06/22/2010

David T. Haas (Engr ’83 L/M) is licensed to practice as a professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. Haas is the director, commercial for Encon Group, Inc., an engineering, planning and management firm located in Kensington, Md.

Posted 01/28/2010

C. Stephen Setliff (Col ’83 L/M) was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 list in the field of transportation law. Including the 2008 and 2009 listings, this makes three consecutive years that Mr. Setliff has appeared in the list. Mr. Setliff was also named in the 2009 Virginia Super Lawyers publication in the field of transportation law. He, along with another attorney, opened the law firm of Setliff & Holland in Glen Allen, Va., in June of 2006, and two years later, opened a second office in Baltimore. This January, the firm added a third location in Huntington, W.Va., creating the expanded law firm of Setliff Turner and Holland.

Posted 01/12/2010

Elizabeth McColl (Col ’83 L/M) is publishing a novel, Opening Arteries, in April. The book attempts to mollify the chaos of five primary characters that undergo varying blood ruptures. Although the book is pure fiction, Ms. McColl personally experienced a head injury in 1986 after graduating from Duke Law and a wedding.

Posted 12/17/2009

Charles Wormald (Col ’83 L/M) and Ellen Colter (Educ ’85 L/M) of Springfield, Va., were married on Oct. 3, 2009. Mr Wormald is a vendor manager at Freddie Mac and Ms. Colter is an assistant principal at Clifton Elementary in Clifton, Va.

Posted 10/06/2009

Alex Audilet (Col ’83 L/M) is a partner in the law firm of Smith Moore Leatherwood in its Greensboro, N.C., office. In September, Business Leader magazine named Mr. Audilet a “Mover & Shaker.” Mr. Audilet is a leader in the firm’s corporate group and has extensive experience handling legal issues related to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, private placements, business counseling and finance. He was recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America in Woodward/White’s listing of Corporate Law attorneys for 2010.

Posted 09/29/2009

Jonathan L. Snare (Col ’83 L/M) joined the Washington, D.C., office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as a partner in the labor and employment section. Mr. Snare previously served from 2003 to 2009 in the U.S. Department of Labor in several positions including deputy assistant secretary and acting assistant secretary with the occupational safety and health administration, and deputy solicitor of labor and acting solicitor of labor with the solicitor’s office.

Posted 07/06/2009

James Moore (Engr ’83).  Jim’s budding career as a motorcycle roadracer suffered a severe setback last year. He lost the front end in a sharp right hand turn and tumbled off the racetrack in a shower of dirt, broken plastic and colorful language.  Luckily, Jim was unhurt and the bike suffered largely cosmetic damage.  Mrs. Moore was not amused. Mr. Moore recently retired after a 22-year career as an AV-8B Harrier pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps. He now spends his time caring for his two young daughters and occasionally sneaks out to race his motorcycle (poorly).

Posted 06/29/2009

Carol Brani (Col ’83) is a member with the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC. Ms. Brani advises a wide range of clients in connection with online and offline advertising and promotions, information technology, franchising and biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry licensing transactions. She assists clients in a variety of industries with agency of record, co-branding and sponsorship, promotional, cause marketing, trademark and technology licensing, joint development, clinical research, manufacturing, supply, commercialization, software licensing, consulting and other commercial agreements. Ms. Brani also advises clients in all aspects of privacy laws applicable to e-commerce and e-communications.

Posted 06/29/2009

Sursa, Charles

Charles Sursa (GSBA ’83 L/M) is on the board of directors of the Indiana Youth Institute. Mr. Sursa is a certified financial planner and serves as senior vice president, investments, for Raymond James & Associates in Muncie, Indiana.

Posted 05/12/2009

Senft, Louise Phipps

Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 L/M) is president and chief executive officer of Louise Phipps Senft and Associates/Baltimore Mediation. She was named one of Maryland’s “Top 100 Women” by the Daily Record and was selected as an inductee into the 2009 Circle of Excellence for sustained achievement. Ms. Senft is also an attorney and is on the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law and Harvard Law School’s Global Negotiation Insight Institute. She also serves as vice president of the Roland Park Civic League and treasurer on the executive board of Network 2000, whose mission is to place women on corporate boards and mentor rising female executives. In addition, Ms. Senft is a board member for the Coalition of Geriatric Services in Maryland and is a founding member of the Tuesday Girls, whose mission is to provide peer-to-peer networking opportunities for women executives and business owners. She will be part of the 2009 class for Leadership Maryland. Ms. Senft is an alumnae member and past president of the Delta Chi chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta.

Posted 05/12/2009

Christopher Peters Cole (Col ’83 L/M) is a supervisory special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and heads the FBI’s Madison, Wis., office. He was named to this position in May after completing an assignment to the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs, where he was detailed to the staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Mr. Cole and his wife, Kerry Miller Cole (Col ’85 L/M), reside in Waunakee, Wis.

Posted 05/12/2009

Cudahy, John B.

John B. Cudahy (Col ’83 L/M) is president of the International Council of Air Shows, a trade association representing individuals and organizations working in the air show industry. The organization is based in Leesburg, Va., and held its annual convention in Las Vegas in December. Attendees of the convention included Cmdr. Sean Drumheller (Col ’92 L/M), who now serves as the F/A-18 Super Hornet Readiness for the U.S. Navy, and Lt. Page Felini (Engr ’00 L/M), who finished a one-year tour as the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet demonstration pilot while assigned to VFA-106 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach.  Lt. Felini was the U.S. Navy’s first female demonstration pilot. Also attending was John Piggott (Com ’70), a civilian air show pilot and president of Wilanco, a commercial real estate company based in Berkeley, Calif.

Posted 02/12/2009

Reese Campbell (Com ’83 L/M) received a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant, a full two-year scholarship, to pursue the professional master’s degree at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as director of the F.O.R. Sto-Rox Library in McKees Rocks,  Pa., and currently works at the Warren (Pa.) Public Library and heads up a band, The American People.

Posted 02/12/2009

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