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/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Peter Andrews (Grad ’80) co-authored his first book, Innovation Passport: The IBM First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Journey From Research to Reality, published in October by IBM Press. Mr. Andrews is an independent executive consultant and writer, having coauthored this book when he was the innovation strategist for IBM’s Executive Business Institute. While at IBM, he participated in corporation-wide studies into ad hoc innovation, innovation partnering and the use of collaboration tools for virtual teaming. He has trained hundreds of IBM researchers in techniques for realizing the value of their inventions. He was honored by IBM as one of its “Pioneers of the Web.” He is a popular speaker at conferences and has authored dozens of Executive Tech Reports, which explore innovation and emerging technologies. 2009-12-02T19:52:03+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Andrea L. Bridgeman (Law ’80) was named a Local Bar Leader of the Year by the Virginia State Bar’s Conference of Local Bar Associations. Ms. Bridgeman is associate general counsel at Freddie Mac in McLean, Va. 2011-08-12T19:28:21+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Clinton E. Brown (Arch ’80) was invested into the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows at the AIA 2011 National Convention. Mr. Brown is president and principal of Clinton Brown Company Architecture in Buffalo, N.Y. 2011-06-22T19:18:00+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Mark E. Ezell (Law ’80) was recognized in the 2012 edition of the Best Lawyers in America in public finance law. Mr. Ezell is an attorney at Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker. 2011-09-15T19:45:04+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Ron Friedman (Col ’80 A/M) served as a federal prosecutor in Seattle for 20 years, receiving numerous awards from the U.S. Department of Justice. He left government service and is now a partner at the Seattle law firm of Lane, Powell, where he will be concentrating on criminal defense, health care and regulatory compliance matters. 2009-12-16T21:53:07+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Dorinda G. Grasty (Educ ’80, ’01 L/M) was appointed division superintendent of Appomattox County Public Schools in Appomattox, Va., on July 8, 2009. Ms. Grasty began her teaching career in 1980 in Smithfield, Va., and has been with Appomattox County Public Schools since 1982. She was a special education teacher and held the position of director of special education for the past seven years. Ms. Grasty is married to Guy M. Hargrave and they are the parents of six children. 2009-09-11T19:41:27+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ David S. Greber (Col ’80 L/M) wrote The Lost Commandment: Have We Missed What Jesus Really Wants?, published by Kregel Publications in June 2009, a book that was endorsed by theologian J.I. Packer, Pastor Tony Evans, and U.Va. professor Ken Elzinga, among others. The book concerns why and how Christians should obey the commandment that Jesus gave at the Last Supper: “A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another” (John 13:34). Mr. Greber spoke on his book at the University on Nov., 2, at Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship’s Monday Night Alive meeting. A study guide on the book is available at www.davegreber.com. 2009-12-01T19:17:26+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Marvin Heinze (Arch ’80) is the assistant for homeland defense for the Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command in San Diego. Mr. Heinze also serves as the vice chairman of the USO of San Diego and on the Pacific Advisory Council of the National Parks Conservation Association. 2011-06-10T15:01:34+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Victoria G. Hines (Col ’80 L/M) received the Ruth F. Wilson Award at the 2011 Home Care Association of New York State annual conference. Ms. Hines is the president and chief executive officer of Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County. 2011-06-10T15:02:42+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Patricia Maggio Homa (Col ’80 L/M) retired as a special agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in September, 2008, and has opened her own law practice focusing on estate planning and administration, business contracts law, and elder law. She resides in Hampstead, Nc., with her husband and two children. 2010-09-07T20:17:54+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Mark Kelly (Col ’80 L/M) is vice president for marketing and public relations at Furman University. 2010-09-23T20:57:21+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Edward R. Koch (Law ’80 L/M) published his novel, Relay, with Dog Ear Publishing. The book is for young adults about high school track and field. Mr. Koch is a partner at the CPA firm of Paul Scherer & Company in New York City and he lives in New Jersey with his wife, Cora, and two sons. 2010-01-15T16:07:55+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Michael Lesher (Col ’80, Grad ’82) received the 2010 Pro Humanitate Literary Award from the Center for Child Welfare Policy of the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare. The award is conferred annually to authors from the U.S. and Canada whose articles best “exemplify the intellectual integrity and moral courage required to transcend political and social barriers to champion best practice in the field of child welfare.” Mr. Lesher co-authored A single-case of Rabbinic sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community, an article in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. Mr. Lesher is an author, columnist, investigative reporter, lawyer and legal editor who has published in the peer reviewed literature and in the popular press on the many facets of child sex abuse and institutional cover ups. He serves as a child advocate and has appeared on ABC Nightline and ABC Eyewitness News. He has been quoted in the New York Times, Associated Press, New York Newsday, New York Jewish Week and Forward. He has also argued these issues before the Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit. 2010-04-09T20:19:34+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Alexander H. Margulies (Col ’80, Law ’84 A/M) transferred to the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he serves as the counselor for Political and Economic Affairs.  He is accompanied by his spouse, Norma Maria Margulies, and their two children, Sophia and Philip. 2009-09-28T18:20:33+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ John T. McCormick (Col ’80, Law ’83 L/M) had his first book, Dad, Tell Me a Story: How to Revive the Tradition of Storytelling with Your Children published with Nicasio Press in December 2010. The book contains a collection of stories that Mr. McCormick created and illustrated with his two children. Mr. McCormick is an attorney in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife, Danna; and their two sons, William and Connor. 2011-02-11T19:26:26+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Wayne Moore (Col ’80, Law ’83) is associate professor of political science in the College of Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech and received the 2009 Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising from the Virginia Tech Alumni Association. Mr. Moore has served as a pre-law advisor for the Department of Political Science since joining the Virginia Tech faculty in 1992 and has been the university’s sole pre-law advisor since 2003. He also teaches constitutional law. 2009-06-30T14:29:31+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ John P. Mugler III (Engr ’80, ’88 L/M) received the 2009 “Inventor of the Year” award from the U.Va. Patent Foundation. The award recognizes inventors whose technology has proven to be of notable value to society. Mr. Mugler, along with James Brookeman, are both professors of radiology and biomedical engineering at U.Va., and were honored for their groundbreaking work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques over the past two decades. The researches’ lead technology is a fast, 3-D pulse sequencing technique referred to as MP-RAGE. Considered a primary standard in 3-D MRI, the technique allows clinicians to acquire high-resolution 3-D images on the order of five minutes. These highly detailed images are capable of revealing more subtle abnormalities than could previously be detected through MRI, providing for earlier and more accurate diagnoses, and can be viewed from any orientation on modern computer workstations. The U.Va. Patent Foundation received an issued patent on this technology in 1993 and has licensed the patent rights to Siemens AG and Philips electronics. As a result, MP-RAGE is now implemented in MRI scanners in hospitals and research institutions worldwide. Professors Mugler and Brookeman are now working with hyperpolarized noble gases as MRI contrast agents for the lungs, work that is being explored with colleagues at U.Va. and is in clinical trials by a major manufacturer. 2009-10-01T15:22:11+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Blair Nelsen (Col ’80 L/M) is serving his second four-year term on the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers. At its July organizational meeting, Nelsen was elected Secretary Treasurer for Fiscal 2011. 2010-09-08T19:25:26+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Blair Nelsen (Col ’80 L/M) was appointed to the Virginia Board of Health Professions by Governor Bob McDonnell. 2011-09-30T18:39:27+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Nancy G. Parr (Col ’80 L/M) is commonwealth’s attorney for the City of Chesapeake, Va. The women’s division of the Chesapeake Chamber of Commerce named her its 2008 Woman of the Year. 2009-02-12T15:12:17+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Virginia A. Stallings (Med ’80, ’83) received the 2011 David Rall Medal from the Institute of Medicine. She is a nutrition expert from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 2012-01-03T20:56:20+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Ted Staples (Col ’80 L/M) is a director of the law firm of Council, Baradel, Kosmerl & Noland in Annapolis, Md. He is on the board of trustees of the Calverton School for a three-year term that started in September. Calverton is an independent, co-ed college preparatory school for grades preschool through 12, located in Huntingtown, Md. Mr. Staples is also chairman of the the school’s development committee. Both of Mr. Staples’ sons attend Calverton and his wife is a graduate. 2009-10-01T16:42:25+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ David Thurlow (Col ’80) is a civilian employee of the U.S. Department of the Air Force, assigned to Joint Task Force-Alaska, at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. He and his wife, Kathryn, live in Eagle River, Alaska. 2010-06-28T20:01:50+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Will Trinkle (Col ’80 L/M) was named a board member of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, in March. Mr. Trinkle is chief executive officer of C.W. Francis and Son, a real estate development and management firm specializing in industrial, commercial and residential projects. He is a member of the Empire State Pride Agenda political board and has served as co-chair of their foundation board. He is also on the board of trustees at Hollins University and is a commissioner on the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Mr. Trinkle resides with his partner in New York City and Roanoke, Va. 2009-12-17T16:15:00+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Sherrie Rollins Westin (Col ’80 L/M) is executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Sesame Workshop, where she oversees the Global Marketing, Consumer Products, Communications and Public Affairs divisions. In April, she was honored with a Matrix Award for Marketing in New York City, presented by New York Women in Communications. Westin’s career includes public policy and communications positions in the public and private sectors, including executive vice president of ABC’s network communications. She served as assistant to the President for Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs during the first Bush White House and, in 1989, Ms. Westin was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She also served as senior vice president for U.S. News and World Report and The Atlantic Monthly and executive producer of the U.S. News Debate Series on CNBC. Ms. Westin serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the board of directors of Communities in Schools and is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations. 2009-06-30T20:21:03+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Ronald D. Wiley Jr. (Col ’80 L/M) presented “Much Ado About Nothing? The Foreclosure ‘Crisis’ of 2010-11 (And Beyond?)” at the 15th Annual Advanced Real Estate Seminar cosponsored by the Real Property Section of the Virginia State Bar and Virginia CLE held at Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg March 4. Mr. Wiley, of counsel with the MartinWren Law Firm in Charlottesville, is a frequent and popular continuing education teacher for real estate professionals.  He is the husband of Gail Hyder Wiley (Col ’80 LM), father of Paul M. Wiley (Col ’10), son of Ronald D. Wiley Sr. (Col ’58 LM) and brother of Mollie Catherine Pawlowski (Educ ’88). 2011-03-28T18:06:59+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Tom Williamson (Com ’80) retired from working as a public defender after 25 years of trial and appellate work in Colorado. 2011-02-24T21:23:12+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1980 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ F. Blair Wimbush (Law ’80 L/M) is chairman of the board of directors of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, where he has served on the board executive committee since 2005 and chaired the development committee since 2006. Mr. Wimbush is vice president, real estate and corporate sustainability officer for Norfolk Southern and serves on the University of Virginia School of Law’s Alumni Council and Business Advisory Council. 2009-02-12T15:13:42+00:00