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/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Jennifer Amster (Arch ’88 L/M) and her husband, Kevin Tiroly, welcomed their first child and son, Otto Amster Tiroly, on Oct. 2, 2009. The family resides in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ms. Amster is a partner and leads the higher education studio at BJAC, an architecture firm in Raleigh, N.C. 2009-12-07T17:41:47+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Deborah Austin Armstrong (Col ’88 L/M) completed her residency in family medicine June 26, 2010 at Wake Forest Family and Community Medicine. 2010-08-25T16:20:36+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Meredith Hickey Barclay (Engr ’88 L/M) and husband, Albie, welcomed their third child and third son, Robert King, on July 24, 2010.  Robert joins older brothers Lain and Carter.  Meredith and family reside in Atlanta, Ga. 2010-08-31T19:26:09+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Kimberley Schrader Beatty (Col ’88) and her husband, Ned, left their four children in San Diego, Calif., to run the Boston Marathon on April 19, 2010. 2010-05-20T15:43:33+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Thomas Beck (Col ’88, Law ’92) and his wife, Amanda, welcomed their second child, Bruce Riley, on Jan. 7, 2011. On Jan. 5, 2011, President Obama nominated Mr. Beck to be a member of the National Mediation Board. In December 2010, Mr. Beck published Constitutional Separation of Powers, a book that surveys the powers of the federal government and how those powers are allocated among governmental institutions. 2011-03-10T20:36:25+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Joyce Blandino (Engr ’88, ’92 L/M) has been appointed to the mechanical engineering faculty at the Virginia Military Institute. She is the first female engineering faculty member in the 171-year history of VMI. Her husband Joseph R. Blandino (Engr ’91, ’99 L/M) has received the Benjamin H. Powell, Jr., ‘36 Institute Professorship in Engineering at VMI. He also serves on the mechanical engineering faculty. 2010-09-29T15:06:40+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Jodi Kelner Chu (Com ’88 L/M) is vice president, broker dealer development, for AMG, a wholly owned company of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. 2011-04-05T16:11:56+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Kathleen O’Connor Conway (Col ’88 L/M) and her husband, KC, welcomed their first son, Luke Broderick, on July 9, 2010. Luke joins sisters Katie and Grace. Kathleen and her family reside in Lilburn, Ga. 2010-10-28T20:30:26+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Ritt Deitz (Col ’88 L/M) is executive director of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professional French Masters Program, which he helped launch in 2000. He lives in Madison with his wife and three children. 2009-02-12T15:54:54+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Matthew Figgie (Com ’88 L/M) was appointed to the Board of Directors for University Hospitals. Mr. Figgie is the chairman of Clark-Reliance Corporation and founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Figgie Capital. 2011-07-14T19:01:32+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Michael Fordham (Law ’88) was named “Public Law and Human Rights QC of the Year 2008” at the Chambers UK awards in London and has published the fifth edition of his acclaimed Judicial Review Handbook. He has appeared in some 25 cases in the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, formerly known as the House of Lords. He continues as a college lecturer at Hertford College,  Oxford University. 2009-02-12T15:54:47+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Serita Frey (Col ’88, Grad ’92) is a professor in the department of natural resources and the environment at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. She lives with her husband and daughter on a small farm in Deerfield, N.H. 2012-01-04T16:24:07+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Drew Gaffney (Col ’88 L/M) is president and chief executive officer of Parent Outdoor. Based in Boston, the company is a bricks-and-mortar retailer of fine outdoor buildings and furnishings. Mr. Gaffney and his wife, Pamela, live in Hingham, Mass. 2011-09-23T20:13:34+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Peter C. Gerszten (Col ’88 L/M) is the Peter E. Sheptak Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is married to Kristina Gerszten, a physician at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital of Pittsburgh. They have two children, Jacob, 13; and Marcella, 11. 2011-05-24T15:25:00+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Jared Goss (Arch ’88 L/M) is an associate curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art in New York City. Mr. Goss arranged “Masterpieces of French Art Deco”, a large gallery dense with French Art Deco furnishings from the museum’s design collection. The selection is nearly 150 objects, which is about 75 percent of the Met’s French Art Deco collection and is the most it has ever exhibited at one time. The show was featured in The New York Times Art Review section on December 11, 2009. 2010-01-19T21:18:15+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Allen Harrison (Engr ’88) is the chief executive officer of St. David’s North Austin Medical Center in Austin, Texas. Most recently he served as chief operating officer of Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver. 2011-08-30T15:35:01+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Patricia A. Leonard (Col ’88 L/M) has joined the Greenberg Traurig law firm as a shareholder in the firm’s Palm Beach North office, where she will continue her practice in commercial litigation, real estate litigation and probate and trust litigation. 2011-02-17T17:41:12+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Patricia A. Steenberg Leonard (Col ’88 L/M) received appointment to the 4th District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission from Florida Gov. Rick Scott. Ms. Leonard’s term began on October 14, 2011, and will end on July 1, 2015. Ms. Leonard is an attorney and shareholder at Greenberg Traurig in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she practices commercial litigation. 2011-11-15T14:38:24+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Carolyn Reynolds Mandell (Col ’88 L/M) and her husband, Joshua, welcomed their second child, Sylvia Perry, on Dec. 18, 2009. Sylvia joins her older sister, Eleanor Reynolds, 5. Ms. Mandell is an adviser at the World Bank. The family resides in Washington, D.C. 2010-11-23T17:26:24+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Tim Porea (Col ’88 L/M) is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. Capt. Porea also serves as the pediatric residency program director at the medical center, which is located in Portsmouth, Va. 2011-06-27T15:27:41+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Jeff Stredler (Col ’88, Law ’91) is president of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association. Mr. Stredler is the litigation counsel for Amerigroup Corporation in Virginia Beach. 2010-09-14T17:20:02+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ William C. Thomas (Col ’88 L/M) completed a visiting fellowship as a Fulbright Scholar at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Mr. Thomas taught a course on U.S. national security policy and American strategic culture in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies’ master’s degree program. After finishing the fellowship, he returned to his duties at the Pentagon, where he is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and serves as an international affairs specialist. 2009-07-07T19:46:52+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ John R. Wheeler (Col ’88 L/M) and his brother, Bill, started the Veteran Corps of America. Created in 2005, the corps is a means to employ and support military veterans and their families.  Inc. magazine recently ranked Veteran Corps #8 in government services and 30th overall on their 2010 list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the US. John and his wife, Jennifer Kiess Wheeler (Col ’89 L/M), live in Fairfax, Va. 2010-10-28T20:48:04+00:00 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/1988 http://uvamagazine.org/classnotes/ Harold York (Grad ’88, ’92 L/M) works at Wood Mackenzie as vice president, Downstream Consulting - Americas. The energy research and consulting firm is headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is privately held. He previously served as a principal for Charles River Associates. 2009-07-13T18:24:39+00:00