http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes Find out about the lives of your classmates en uvamag-web@virginia.edu Copyright 2012 2012-01-05T16:34:41+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ John D. Allis Jr. (Col ’75) is principal engineer for the water planning and design section of Colorado Springs Utilities. He lives in Black Forest, Colo., with his wife, Catherine. They have been married for 36 years and have three children, Emily, Ben and Daniel. 2010-01-27T19:04:14+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Bob Barry (Col ’75, Law ’78 L/M) is a management employment lawyer at Kaufman & Canoles in Norfolk, Va. He is chairing the Virginia Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law section for two years. He has a daughter who is a third year at U.Va. 2010-04-08T19:24:38+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Ed Baxa (Col ’75, Law ’78) is the recipient of the 2011 Judge J.C. “Jake” Stone Distinguished Service Award, bestowed by the Legal Aid Society of Florida’s Orange County Bar Association. 2011-05-24T15:18:23+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ David T. Beers (Col ’75 L/M) is special adviser to the governor of the Bank of Canada. Previously, Mr. Beers worked for 21 years at Standard & Poor’s, based in New York and, since 1997, in London. His most recent position at S&P was as global head of sovereign and international public ratings. 2012-01-23T15:41:25+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ William Bowron (Col ’75 L/M) is president and chief executive officer of Red Diamond, Inc. He is also chairman of the Tea Association of the USA. This is his second term as chairman. Red Diamond is a family-run coffee and tea company, the first in the U.S. to manufacture completely sealed tea bags and the first in the country to offer gallon-sized tea bags. In addition, Red Diamond was the first company in the U.S. to produce decaffeinated tea. Today, it is the nation’s number one seller of ready-to-drink gallon tea in dairy case. Mr. Bowron was named 2009 CEO of the Year by the Birmingham Business Journal. He serves on the board of directors f rRed Diamond and has served on the boards of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Museum, St. Vincent’s Foundation and the Birmingham United Soccer Association. He serves as a trustee of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce and on the advisory board of PreSchool Partners. Mr. Bowron is a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham and the World Presidents’ Organization. 2010-01-19T18:45:19+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ James R. Chapman (Educ ’75 L/M) is campus college chair for the College of Arts and Sciences at the Dallas/Fort Worth campus of the University of Phoenix, where he has served as an associate faculty member and facilitator since 2000 and as area chair/lead faculty in math since 2003. Students recognized his contributions to the campus by naming him Faculty Member of the Year at the 2003 and 2007 graduation ceremonies. 2009-05-12T14:23:14+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Jay H. Cookingham (Col ’75 L/M) received the ConocoPhillips Outstanding Service Award from Gulf Swimming, the USA Swimming unit governing competitive swimming in southeastern Texas. Mr. Cookingham is finishing his second two-year term as chairman of the board of Gulf Swimming. 2009-05-12T14:23:59+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Tom Corrigan (Col ’75 L/M) is chairman of the 2011 Board of Directors for Easter Seals Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore, an organization providing services for children and adults with disabilities. He is senior vice president and chief financial officer of Christiana Care Health System in Delaware. Mr. Corrigan and his wife, Leigh, reside in Greenville, Del. They have been married for 30 years and have three daughters. 2011-04-20T16:29:58+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Elizabeth Coughter (Col ’75) joined the Madison House board of directors. Ms. Coughter is an attorney at MichieHamlett in Charlottesville who focuses her practice on family law matters, including litigated divorce and custody cases, as well as collaborative law. 2011-07-13T15:21:06+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Ronald Cox (Engr ’75, ’79 L/M) graduated from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary with a master’s degree of divinity. He is an ordained pastor serving at Christ Lutheran Church in Goleta, Calif. Mr. Cox retired from Northrop Grumman after 33 years at Sperry, Honeywell, Litton & Northrop Grumman in research and corporate management. 2009-10-15T15:25:35+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Craig S. Coker (Col ’75 L/M) received the 2010 Hi Kellogg Award from the U.S. Composting Council at its annual conference and trade show. The U.S. Composting Council bestows the Kellogg Award on an individual who has displayed outstanding service to the U.S. composting industry over a period of many years. Mr. Coker is a principal at Coker Composting & Consulting, a firm near Roanoke, Va., and has been active in the organic recycling and composting industries for more than 30 years. 2011-03-04T20:00:32+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Christopher Scott D’Angelo (Col ’75, Law ’78 L/M) was a speaker on the program “Collective Redress / Class Action in the European Union—Blessing or Curse? Newest Developments and the Green Paper of the EU Commission: Evaluation and Comments” that was presented at the International Association of Defense Counsel’s Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic on May 8, 2009. Mr. D’angelo was also the moderator for the program “Ethics: The Erosion of the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, and Its Effect On In-House Counsel,” which was presented at the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel’s Corporate Counsel Symposium, held in Philadelphia, Penn., in September 2010. Mr. D’Angelo is a partner in the litigation department at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP and is chairman of its products liability & mass torts section and vice chairman of its sports, entertainment & amusements law practice. 2010-08-25T19:10:24+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Kenneth P. Davis (Grad ’75) received the John L. Wolfgang Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boy Scouts of America’s National Capital Area Council for his outstanding leadership in Scouting. Mr. Davis is a Scouter of 55 years. 2011-02-11T19:26:22+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Randy DeHoff (Col ’75 L/M) received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) at their national conference on Oct. 15, 2010. The NASBE gives the national award annually to a state board of education member in recognition of outstanding service to public education. Mr. DeHoff is completing his 12th and final year as an elected member of the Colorado State Board of Education. He has served as vice chairman and chairman of the state board of education, on the board of directors of NASBE and on several national education committees. 2011-01-10T16:31:08+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Burton F. Dodd (Col ’75 L/M) was named in the Best Lawyers in America 2012. Mr. Dodd is a partner in the Atlanta office of Fisher & Phillips. 2011-09-23T20:08:40+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Jeffrey G. Edmunds (Col ’75) was ordained to the priesthood April 2, 2011, and has served since May 26, 2011, as rector of St. Luke’s Anglican Catholic Church, Fredericksburg, Va. 2012-01-03T20:48:58+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ John D. Epps (Col ’75 L/M) is the 109th president of the Virginia Bar Association. Mr. Epps is a partner in the litigation and intellectual property practice at Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va. He is a past president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys and is a fellow of the VBA’s Young Lawyers Division. He was appointed by the governor to a blue ribbon commission charged with studying the future of the Commonwealth, including state and local taxation, economic development, transportation and race relations. 2009-05-12T14:31:40+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Neil Gilmour III (Com ’75 L/M) is managing director in the reorganization/bankruptcy practice of Invotex Group, a consulting firm providing insolvency, intellectual property, dispute, investigation, insurance and valuation services. He will serve both the Philadelphia and Wilmington bankruptcy markets. Mr. Gilmour has more than 30 years of consulting and financial advisory experience providing services to owners, managers and creditors of financially troubled businesses, frequently stepping in as CFO or president in crisis management situations. He was the founder of the Wilmington office and a managing director with Executive Sounding Board Associates for more than 15 years. He also was a director in the business reorganization services unit for Cooper & Lybrand (now Pricewaterhouse Coopers.) 2010-03-25T15:20:00+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Michael Guthrie (Educ ’75, ’76) is the 2011 Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Person of the Year. Mr. Guthrie is the chief executive officer of Roy Wheeler Realty. He lives with his wife, Dottie McCreary Guthrie (Col ’79 L/M), in Charlottesville. 2011-06-10T14:57:15+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Mark Alan Hudson (Col ’75 L/M) is president of HTMH Consulting, based in Shelby, N.C. He completed service as the 2009 chairman of the board of the Cleveland County Chamber of Commerce. He was also named as editor of Foothills Spotlight Magazine, also based in Shelby. 2010-01-27T19:21:20+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ James T.R. Jones (Col ’75) is a professor of law at the University of Louisville, where he has been a faculty member in the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law since 1986. Mr. Jones published a memoir, A Hidden Madness, about his experiences with bipolar disorder. 2012-01-23T15:43:32+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ William W. Lasher (Col ’75 L/M) is senior counsel in the New York City office of the law firm of Nixon Peabody and is a member of both the corporate trust and securitization and structure finance teams. Mr. Lasher’s practice focuses in the area of corporate trust and structured finance. 2010-04-01T20:16:22+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Judy Pandy MacFarland (Nurs ’75) received the Susan J. Kramer Excellence in School Nursing Award from the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland. She has been a school nurse for 16 years, and has worked at Brady Middle School for 12 years. 2011-05-24T15:21:36+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ George Keith Martin (Col ’75 L/M) is managing partner of the Richmond, Va., office of McGuireWoods, a full service law firm with over 900 lawyers in 19 offices worldwide. The Richmond office is the firm’s largest office. Mr. Martin is a partner in the real estate transactions department. His practice focuses on construction, commercial real estate and public private partnerships. 2009-09-09T15:37:14+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ John T. Midgett (Col ’75) is an attorney and founder of the law firm of Midgett & Preti in Virginia Beach. He was listed in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. His practice is in the areas of estate planning and taxation, estate administration, estate litigation and small business planning. Mr. Midgett also received a peer-review rating of “AV” in Martindale-Hubbell legal directory, recognizing his qualifications and ethical standards. He is the immediate past chairman of the trusts and estates section of the Virginia State Bar Association, serves as vice president of the Hampton Roads Estate Planning Council, is a past president of the Hampton Roads Gift Planning Council and is involved with the Duke University Estate Planning Council. 2009-09-30T19:28:26+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Richard B. Miller (Col ’75 L/M) recently had his fourth book , Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought, published by the Columbia University Press in the Columbia Series on Religion and Politics. He is currently a professor in the department of religious studies at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1985. Mr. Miller also serves as director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana. 2010-12-02T20:49:14+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Ashton Nichols (Col ’75, Grad ’84) had a book, Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Mr. Nichols holds the Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair in Sustainability Studies and is a professor of English language and literature at Dickinson College, where he has taught since 1988. 2011-06-02T20:11:21+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1975 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Joel Rubin (Col ’75 L/M) was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame on April 2 in Richmond, Va. The Hall of Fame is a program of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Mass Communications that recognizes individuals, principally Virginians, who have made significant contributions in the field of communications. Mr. Rubin worked for WNOR Radio in Norfolk, Va., and as political and features reporter for WAVY TV (NBC) in Hampton Roads for 15 years before starting his own public relations firm, Rubin Communications Group, which is headquartered in Virginia Beach. From 1992-2008, in a part-time role, he was executive producer and host of “On the Record with Joel Rubin”, a weekly news interview program on WVEC TV (ABC) in Hampton Roads. Mr. Rubin’s son, Danny Rubin (Col ’06 L/M), is a TV news reporter for WTKR TV (CBS) in Hampton Roads. His daughter is Molly Rubin (Col ’09). 2009-06-29T16:10:45+00:00