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Deep
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The University’s Trees
The Power of Normal
Elephant Speak
Baseball’s Ryan Zimmerman
Photo Contest: The Top 15
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VIRGINIA
THE UNIVERSITY OF
WINteR
MAGAZINE
20 ThE PoWER oF NoRMAl
U.Va. changing misperceptions, behavior
with social norms campaign
All U.Va. students are heavy drinkers, right? That’s what
many first years believe, but they’re wrong. The National
Social Norms Institute at U.Va. leads a campaign that
combines research and education to address such
common misperceptions.
bY lEE GRAVES
26 DEEP RooTED
A look at the University’s shady side
What makes U.Va. such a special setting? The bricks and
columns are nice, to be sure. but the trees around
Grounds also deserve their due for the life, color and
character they bring to the University.
bY EMMA RAThboNE
2008
PublIshed by the
uNIVeRsIty of VIRGINIA
AlumNI AssocIAtIoN
Volume XcVII, No. 4
30 ElEPhANT SPEAk
What the 2004 tsunami can tell us about
animal communications
The Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake resulted in a human
death toll of a quarter million people, but few animals
perished. Drawing on his pioneering research about
elephant behavior, Michael Garstang, an emeritus
professor of environmental sciences at U.Va., is on the
hunt to find out why.
bY DAVID A. MAURER
34 ToUGh SEASoN, ToUGhER GUY
Ryan Zimmerman does the work it takes
to keep playing
Fans don’t see the long hours of practice that go into being
a Major league baseball star, but attitude and discipline
proved crucial for Zimmerman (col ’06) in facing adversity
with the Washington Nationals this season.
bY PAUl WooDY
38 PIcTURE ThIS
The Virginia Magazine Photo Contest
The contest sought photographs that captured the
spirit of the University. Pictures from alumni, faculty
and students rolled in, and the judges have picked the
best of the bunch.
DEPARTMENTS
6 lETTERS
10 UNIVERSITY DIGEST
18 STUDENT lIFE
46 RESEARch & DIScoVERY
49 SPoRTS
54 AlUMNI NEWS
57 FIRST PERSoN
59 ShoRT coURSE
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62 ARTS
67 PRESIDENT’S lETTER
70 clASS NoTES
106 lIFE MEMbERS
109 IN MEMoRIAM
118 RETRoSPEcT
Goodnight moon
Students enjoy the lawn on a clear,
moonlit evening.
Submitted to Virginia Magazine Photo
contest by Pamela Marcantel (U.Va. Staff)
On the Cover:
The Pratt Ginkgo
Photo by Robert llewellyn

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LETTERS
Pretty Picture
My Fall 2008 copy of the University of
Virginia Magazine just arrived and I am
blown away by the stunning cover. “View
from an archway beneath the Rotunda” is
simply beautiful. Thank you for such a
memorable photograph. When I first saw
it, I said to myself, “That has to be a
Llewellyn.” It evokes the spirit of the University
and fond memories of my experiences
as one of the first woman students in
the College of Arts & Sciences.
Marjorie Sargent (Col ’58, Educ ’63)
Williamsburg, Va.
understanding china
My wife and I were in China during the
uprising in Tibet last March and were very interested
in Ed Crews’ well-written article,
“The Tibetan Connection” in the Fall ’08 issue.
The TV in our hotel room went blank
every time any news about Tibet began broadcasting.
We looked for other sources of information,
but to no avail. Like the Tiananmen
Square massacre of the previous decade, the
true number of deaths from these two demonstrations
will probably never be known to
us. This sad situation is very indicative of the
complexity of the times concerning our relationship
with China and, in turn, its relationship
with Tibet. U.Va.’s newly established Tibetan
Center can only help everyone to better
understand the continuing situation. We wish
the center well in its endeavors.
Martin E. LeBeau (Educ ’66)
New London, N.H.
required reading
In the Fall 2008 issue, I noticed when
reading the interview with Marcia Day
Childress that she is recommending a lost
classic by Henry Beston, The Outermost
House. I “found” that book two years ago
and agree with her recommendation, especially
for people who enjoy vacationing on
the beach in the summer. It was a different
experience for Mr. Beston when he spent
an entire year at Cape Cod, especially surviving
the winter. Please continue to include
this section in the alumni magazine.
It is a wonderful way to stay in touch with
the U.Va. community.
Karen Hopke (Educ ’72)
Annandale, Va.
engaged on grounds
I am writing in response to the letter in
the Fall 2008 issue by Caroline Thomson
(Arch ’05). She may be interested in the fact
that I proposed to my wife, Carol Myers
(Arch ’44), in the photographic darkroom in
the basement of Thornton Hall. We had 55
wonderful years together until she died in
1999, at least partially, as a result of an auto
accident she had while attending the 50th
reunion of her Sweet Briar class.
Paul A. Hunter (Engr ’44)
Newport News, Va.
Anatomically incorrect
In the Fall 2008 “Retrospect,” you show
a photograph that is identified as the interior
of Jefferson’s Anatomical Theatre. I am
sorry to say that the photo is actually of the
operating theater in the first building of the
University Hospital. As you can see in the
scan of Jefferson’s original drawing for the
Anatomical Theatre (below), the theatre itself
was square and the windows were demilunes.
The operating room shown in the
photograph is half-round and the windows
are rectangular.
We, too, had those photographs misidentified
for quite some time. We only got
it sorted in the late ’90s.
Edward Gaynor
Head of Collection Development and Description
University of Virginia Library
More on iraq
I am not a graduate of the University of Virginia,
however I do have a daughter who attends the University.
I would like to respond to the letter written by
Tim Cunningham (Nurs ’11).
I hope that Mr. Cunningham, although not proud
of the University he attends, is in fact proud to live in
a country where he can voice his opinion without
concern of serious retaliation. It certainly appears, at
least from the other letters, he is in the minority, despite
his last sentence.
I also hope Mr. Cunningham can rest easy and
sleep well knowing that men and women in the U.S.
military continue to stand watch all over this world
in order for him to have his rights.
Cmdr. C. Woodyard
Battalion Surgeon, 4th CEB Medical
When I received the Fall 2008 magazine I was curious
to see how many negative responses you printed in
response to your article on the U.Va alumni serving in
Iraq. There was one, by a Tim Cunningham. I want to
say that I could not agree more with what Mr. Cunningham
wrote. The war in Iraq is illegal; it is based on lies; it
has nothing to do with democracy; it’s all about money,
oil and control. While I can respect the bravery of those
who serve and perhaps their good intentions, I too was
rather outraged that your article had not one honest, critical
comment to make about this outrageous and unbelievably
expensive war (murderous, too), which has surely
lined the pockets of those who deliberately started it
and their cronies as much as anything else. The article reminded
me of how conservative Virginia is and how selfassured
Virginians can be in their conservatism. I am so
glad I moved to the West Coast!
Sandy Felton (Col ’75)
Ashland, Ore.
Congratulations on publishing Tim Cunningham’s
letter in your Fall 2008 edition. It proves you
don’t edit out even the most outlandish opinions,
granting all an equal right to freedom of speech. Assuming
your editors did not apply bias in publishing
the letters congratulating you on your “Iraq Stories”
article (congratulations that are well deserved), the
volume of them shows the ridiculous nature of Mr.
Cunningham’s claim that “the majority of the alumni
and student body” would agree with him.
To avoid “embarrassment and perhaps disgust,”
the two Iraqis in the picture Mr. Cunningham cites
had only to turn around, were those the feelings
they held. I believe they were glad to be associated
with the American efforts. Or perhaps Mr. Cunningham
feels our soldiers held guns to their families’
heads, forcing them to be part of the picture?
Mr. Cunningham did use one word correctly:
“ashamed.” I am ashamed any U.Va. grad would
look at your article as a political statement instead of
the justified recognition of loyal Americans, U.Va.
grads, doing their duty with pride.
Ken Hopke (Engr ’73)
Annandale, Va.
I graduated from the University in 1996 and
was commissioned an Air Force officer the day
before graduation. You see, I had attended U.Va.
on an AFROTC scholarship. While at U.Va., I
was less interested in the military than I was in
my college experience and threw myself into the
University. The result was that my fourth year I
had earned myself a room on the Lawn. Then I
graduated, and the real world, the messy real
world, beckoned.
There is a tradition in the military called the
“Silver Dollar Salute.” When a newly commissioned
officer receives his or her first salute from
an enlisted service member, the officer gives that
enlisted member a silver dollar. My brother came
all the way from the missile fields of North Dakota
to get that silver dollar on the day I was commissioned.
We are a military family, not because
we like war, but because we believe in our country.
We believe that to be a strong nation we must
have a strong military; we must have the capability
to protect our people, our government and
our interests. I left the Air Force after four years
because I became physically disabled, but my
brother and his wife have made the Air Force
their careers.
My brother and his wife have both been deployed
multiple times since 9/11. Each time one of them
leaves, left behind is family who loves them beyond
measure, but neither one would change their career
choice because they believe in what they are doing.
The morality of the war is not the question. The
morality of protecting the First Amendment rights
of men like Tim Cunningham, whose letter you
published in this fall’s issue, is what they consider
worthy of protecting.
In his letter to the editor, Mr. Cunningham decries
the war in Iraq and states that he feels confident
speaking for the majority of the student
body and the alumni when he says that he is embarrassed
to be associated with a school that “publishes
such an article that clearly supports the illegal
war our nation provoked on Iraq.” Julie
Sloane’s article, “Stories from Iraq,” was beautifully
sensitive, neither taking a stand for or against
the war. Instead, she chose only to relay stories
about alumni who had served in Iraq. If Mr. Cunningham
had truly read the article, he could not
have helped but understand that. Furthermore, as
the military is currently an all-volunteer force,
with the number of alumni currently serving or
having served, Mr. Cunningham’s position as
voice of the masses falls short.
While I understand the job of an editor is to publish
the opinions of the various readers, I can’t help
but think that you had to have received other letters
that were neither so offensive nor off-base. Mr. Cunningham’s
letter was an attack not just on Ms. Sloane
but also on all those who continue to provide his
freedom.
Rachael Trudeau (Nurs ’96)
Phoenix, Ariz.
Chair
Lisa O. Gardner ’79
Charlotte, North Carolina
vice Chair
Stephen A. Riddick ’85
Silver Spring, Maryland
Alexandra Arriaga ’87
Arlington, Virginia
Atiim K. Barber ’97
New York, New York
William F. Blue Jr. ’81, ’86
Charlotte, North Carolina
Teresa A. Bryce ’81
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Donna L. Byrd ’92
Alexandria, Virginia
Margaret H. Chang ’90
Los Angeles, California
G. Moffett Cochran ’73, ’76
New Canaan, Connecticut
Stephen S. Crawford ’86
Bronxville, New York
Elizabeth P. Foster ’82
Norfolk, Virginia
Peter M. Grant ’78, ’86
Long Lake, Minnesota
Christine P. Gustafson ’82
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Victoria Dux Harker ’86
McLean, Virginia
Alexander B. Hume ’65
Hume, Virginia
Richard C. Kellogg Jr. ’74
Houston, Texas
Valerie S. Kirkman ’75
Charlottesville, Virginia
Sandra W. Lewis ’72
Suffolk, Virginia
Julie G. Lynn ’88, ’92
Los Angeles, California
David B. MacFarlane ’84
Greenwich, Connecticut
Byron F. Marchant ’87
Arlington, Virginia
L. White Matthews III ’70
Charlottesville, Virginia
Deanne E. Maynard ’87
Alexandria, Virginia
Daniel H. Mudd ’80
Washington, D.C.
Timothy G. O’Shea ’81, ’85
Richmond, Virginia
Noreen L. Poulson ’78
New Canaan, Connecticut
Allen B. Rider III ’76, ’83
Manakin-Sabot, Virginia
Alan Y. Roberts ’64
Charlottesville, Virginia
Reginald E. Rutledge Jr. ’55, ’59
Rye Brook, New York
Todd R. Schnuck ’81
St. Louis, Missouri
D. French Slaughter III ’77, ’80
Charlottesville, Virginia
Bryant L. Stith ’92
Lawrenceville, Virginia
E. Armistead Talman, M.D., ’54, ’58
Richmond, Virginia
Michele T. Tarbet ’74
Rancho Santa Fe, California
Ann H. Taylor ’80, ’85
Keswick, Virginia
Mary M. Watson ’78
Atlanta, Georgia
Phoebe L. Yang ’91
Washington, D.C.
ex-officio
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University President
Glynn D. Key ’86, ’89
Board of Visitors
Young Alumni council
Vishal M. Patel ’00, ’04
President
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Vice President
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LETTERS
There is another group of alumni who
also serve, on the homefront. I don’t know
this for a fact, but I expect there are other
U.Va. alumni who are married to members
of the military besides myself. Many of
them are holding down full- or part-time
jobs or businesses and acting as “single” parents
while their spouses are deployed to Iraq
or Afghanistan, often for the second or
third 12- or 18-month tour. Some may be
married to Marines who are doing their
fourth or fifth six-month tour.
My husband did not go to Iraq, as he
was nearing retirement after a 28-year career
with the Army. He did deploy in other
world situations.
I’ve done workshops and writing for military
spouses across the world since 1993.
Military life has always been challenging,
with constant moves, living in some remote
places and dealing with frequent shorter deployments.
The past seven years have been
that much harder. These spouses serve their
country (as do their children).
Kathie Hotter Hightower (Col ’75)
Nehalem, Ore.
fear of snakes
Since having the good fortune to spot
and follow the long-running debate on intelligent
design in my daughters’ issues of
your great magazine, I have become an avid
reader. I thank you for reporting on the
findings of Drs. LoBue and DeLoache in
“What Makes Snakes Scary?” (Summer
2008). I agree completely with their stated
conclusion, “We have an inborn predisposition
to develop that fear [of snakes].” I
know that the God who created snakes and
us said to His own creation (one of the subjects
of their study), in His own words,
“Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals! You will crawl on
your belly and you will eat dust all the
days of your life. And I will put enmity between
you and the woman, and between
your offspring and hers; he will crush your
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Science and scientific study confirm the
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Ralph R. Polachek (parent)
Chantilly, Va.
the Pep band lives
I read an article about the Virginia
marching band, titled “A Sound for all Seasons,”
and was shocked at how the article
completely bypassed the Virginia Pep Band.
Recently, I had to explain to not only my
father but to several alums that the Pep
Band was not dead (as the article portrayed),
but still an active part of the U.Va.
community. I know this because even as a
recent alum, I still participate with the Virginia
Pep Band.
It’s a shame that they had all assumed the
Virginia Pep Band was dead, in part because
they read the article on the marching
band. It would be great if there was an article
talking about the Pep Band and its
many contributions to the University community.
The Virginia Pep Band still plays
for club sports (hockey and rugby), community
events such as the Charlottesville
Ten Miler, United Way Day of Caring,
Pancakes for Parkinson’s, and for professional
teams such as the Washington Nationals
and Washington Capitals.
Matthew Dreher (Arch ’07)
Charlottesville, Va.
A note of gratitude
Thank you, Dean Blackburn, for your
outstanding years of service to our University.
You are one of the classiest gentlemen
to have graced Mr. Jefferson’s Grounds. We
are all grateful for the many “golden tickets”
you have bestowed over the last 23 years.
We wish you all the best in your upcoming
retirement.
Michelle Lodge (Col ’91)
Herndon, Va.
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View the complete gallery
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alumni entries to the first
Virginia Magazine photo contest.
Visit the annual Student
Activities Fair and learn
about some of the ways
that undergraduates are
spending their time.
Stroll through Grounds
and enjoy the splendor
of fall foliage at the
University.
Learn about elephant
communications from
eclectic researcher
Michael Garstang.
Ride along with students
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University aboard the
UVaExpress.
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buildings
around Grounds with
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ready for game day.
Meet David Sligh (Col
’82), the man who
watches over the health
of the upper James River.
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UNIVERSITY DIGEST
Residents call it “the O-Hilton.”
It’s still dormitory-style housing,
but given its many amenities
and commanding views of
Grounds, the new $18.8 million
Kellogg House feels more like a hotel,
according to its denizens.
Built into the slope of Observatory
Hill, Kellogg House opened in August
for 192 first-year students and nine
resident advisers. It’s the first of seven
new dorms planned to replace 11 residence
halls in the O-Hill area that date
from the 1960s and 1970s.
The five-story building provides a
glimpse of what’s to come in student housing:
wired and wireless Internet access; airconditioning
and elevators; individual heating
and cooling controls in each room. On
the ground floor, multipurpose rooms provide
social and classroom space and quiet
study areas. Each of the four residential floors
also has lounges and study areas equipped
with flat-screen TVs and DVD players.
“Students can set up classes, bring in speakers,
watch the big game or enhance their social
lives,” says Patricia Romer, director of
plans and programs for University Housing.
“This is a living and learning environment.”
Something for everyone
Navigating the carnival-like
atmosphere of the Student
Activities Fair is an annual rite
of passage for newly arrived
first years. The McIntire
Amphitheater hosted nearly
300 student organizations this
year, all vying for new members.
To watch a video about
the fair, visit uvamagazine.org.
uvamagazine.org
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Home Sweet Home
Kellogg House signals next wave of first-year residence halls
Kellogg House
But what’s gotten arguably the most
press is the laundry alert system. Gone are
the days of schlepping a dirty hamper
down innumerable flights of stairs to the
basement laundry room, only to find all
the machines in use (and the only available
one out of order). At the Kellogg
House, residents can monitor a Web site
from the comfort of their rooms that tells
them how many machines are available or
how soon those in use will become free.
They can also program the washing machines
to notify them, via computer, when
their load is done.
jack looNEY
The design of Kellogg House incorporated
input from student groups and
surveys of what other schools were doing
to enhance dormitory living. The
building will be used as a model for future
residence halls, but they won’t be
exact replicas of each other, officials say.
The whole construction project is expected
to be completed by 2017. As a
new dorm rises, an old one will fall under
the wrecking ball; Dobie House, the
first to go, will be demolished next summer.
Its replacement should open in
2011. “Frankly, some of the planning we
did a generation ago did not hold up
very well,” U.Va. President John T. Casteen
III said during the Kellogg House dedication
ceremony in September.
The dorm is named in honor of Robert L.
Kellogg, a former dean of the College of Arts
& Sciences, chair of the English department
and the founding principal of Brown
Residential College. He died in 2004.
Although not a “green” building according
to the U.S. Green Building Council’s
LEED standards, Kellogg House does have
some sustainable features, including light
motion sensors, recyclable carpet tiles and
drought-resistant plants in its landscaping.
lUca DIcEcco
Troubling Signs
Protests lead to repeal of policy
A
short-lived ban on signs at Scott Stadium this fall
raised the hackles of fans—particularly among
students—and drew darts from pundits across
the nation.
The announcement came in an e-mail to students from
the athletics department before the season’s opening game:
“Beginning this year, signs are not permitted inside athletics
facilities. Thank you for your cooperation.”
Though many attributed the ban to an incident at last
year’s Duke football game involving a student’s signs calling
for the firing of head football coach Al Groh (Com ’66),
the policy was actually triggered by the proliferation of
signs at a variety of athletic events that blocked sight lines
and were often in poor taste.
The policy was intended to “promote sportsmanship
and a positive game-day environment for all fans in attendance,”
said Rich Murray, a spokesman for U.Va.’s athletics
department. Instead, the prohibition drew a hailstorm
of protest, with most citing issues related to free expression
and student self-governance.
“Here’s what Virginia students should do for every home
game from now on,” wrote ESPN columnist Rick Reilly. “Bring signs
that say nothing. Bring signs that say, ‘This Is Not a Sign.’”
Students did just that. At the Richmond game on Sept. 6, the student
section was filled with blank sheets of paper, held aloft in protest.
Students devised yet another show of discontent. Instead of
the “Sea of Orange” advocated by Groh and the athletics department,
they would wear blue T-shirts at the televised home game
against Maryland on Oct. 4.
VERBaTIM
“In my purse.
I’ve only left
home without
it once
or twice,
and I felt
completely
naked.”
—Lindsay Shoop (Col ’03), when asked by a Board of Visitors member
where she keeps the gold medal she won as a member of the U.S.
rowing team at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
The ban was repealed before they got a chance to turn the stadium
blue. In an Oct. 2 announcement, athletics director Craig
Littlepage wrote, “The policy … has become a distraction and has
taken the focus away from supporting our student-athletes. Our
football team needs our support right now and that should be our
collective focus.”
That Saturday, the stadium flowed with orange, students waved
signs and the Cavaliers blanked Maryland 31-0.
Holding Steady
Still ranked second
In the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, the University
of Virginia’s standing remains the same as last year’s: second
among national public universities and 23rd among all
American colleges and universities.
The 2009 rankings mark the fifth straight year that U.Va. has
been second among public universities, behind the University of
California, Berkeley. The University has been first or second in
each of the 12 years since the magazine began publishing a separate
ranking of national
public universities.
U.Va.’s standing
among all universities,
public and private,
has also remained remarkably stable. It has been ranked between
20th and 24th every year since 1997, and has appeared in
the top 24 every year since the magazine’s rankings first appeared
in 1988.
DaVID PETkofSkY
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Q&a
UNIVERSITY DIGEST
literary Tribute
Rita Dove, professor of English, once wrote a poem paying
tribute to a library she used when she was young. To her,
the stacks of books represented a whole world waiting to
be discovered.
Now, a library has returned the favor by paying tribute to the
world of Dove’s writing. In September, the
Library of Virginia honored Dove—whose
distinctions range from receiving a Pulitzer
Prize to being the former Poet Laureate of
Virginia and the United States—with a lifetime
achievement award.
The honor is particularly meaningful
because after nearly two decades in the
state, Dove says, she views herself as a
Virginian and because it encompasses her
entire body of work. “That tells me that
these people have followed my literary career
and found it worthy. Not just one
book, not a flash in the pan.”
With another book of poems, Sonata
Mulattica, scheduled for publication
this spring, Dove recently talked about
elements of her life and her art.
Rita
Dove
You’re a poet, primarily, but have written in other genres.
What specifically about the nature of poetry draws you as
an artist?
To me, poetry is the bones and the music of the language. It’s the
real heart of literature. Once you’ve dealt with every syllable and
every breath of a word and the history of that word and how that
will be referenced or how it will echo in a specific syntactical context—well,
that to me is getting down to the absolute core of language.
I think I’ve always been drawn to that kind of intensity.
a Bug Before a Bang
Glitch doesn’t diminish proton collider’s promise
Though the launch of the world’s most powerful
particle accelerator was marked by a ding instead
of a bang, the Large Hadron Collider still holds
the promise of unlocking secrets about the essence of
matter and insights into the Big Bang.
“Soon we may shed light on dark matter and many
other mysteries of the universe, such as the Higgs particle,
which we believe gives mass to every other particle
in nature,” says Brad Cox, professor of physics at U.Va.
Principal investigator with the University’s High Energy
Brad
Cox
Physics Group, Cox has been involved with the planning and instrument
design for the collider since its inception in 1993.
The collider, a 17-mile-round underground facility near Geneva,
is designed to send opposing beams of protons around the accelerator
to cause high-energy collisions that will shatter the protons and
produce new particles.
The first beam of protons moving at nearly the speed of light
circulated the collider in early September. Shortly after that launch,
Given the breadth of your work, what would you like
people to think of when they think of your writing?
I have to leave it up to them. I try not to think of myself as a
writer or what a poem might mean to other people, because that’s the
critics’ angle. I just have to keep writing and hope. If something I’ve
written causes someone to stop for a moment, consider what they’ve
read and be changed by it—that’s enough.
ToM coGIll
You have a number of videos on YouTube.
How has the role of literature in our lives
changed in the digital age?
The role of literature has changed so drastically,
we don’t know yet how drastic it is. Our
attention span has been shortened dramatically.
Translation: We want our thrills quick. So literary
pacing has gotten faster.
I resist e-books because I firmly believe the
pleasure of reading is also wrapped up in the
pleasure of holding the book and seeing the text
on a page you can feel.
One positive thing about the whole digital age
is that it has made literature much more accessible
to many people. You can actually see your favorite
author on YouTube or hear them read.
You have been at U.Va. nearly two decades. What is it that
makes this community a good place to live, teach and write?
The sheer physical beauty of the area, for one. And
Charlottesville is really a charming, kicking kind of town.
The intellectual energy generated by the University is fairly
amazing. It’s not harsh, driven—rather, it’s intellectualism born
out of curiosity. Teaching here also has been very rewarding. The
students are topnotch; they’re ready to work, they’re ready to be
curious, they’re ready to be scared, they’re ready to push themselves—what
more can one ask for?
though, a fault in an electrical connection between two magnets
caused a helium leak, leading to a shutdown. The collider is scheduled
to be back on line in the spring.
Scientists hope that experiments at the $3.2 billion collider will
bring better understanding of the most basic structure of matter,
how the universe formed and evolved, and possibly how it will
change. They are searching for evidence of the existence of the Higgs
particle, which is theorized to be the essence of all matter.
MaxIMIlIEN BRIcE/cERN
BookMaRkED
A Sampler of U.Va. Blogs
UVaToday Blog
A lively look at what’s going on around the University, drawn
from U.Va. news sources and the mainstream media.
uvatoday.org/blog
Notes from Peabody: The U.Va. Application
Process
“Dean K” maintains this blog for “undergraduate applicants,
their parents and anyone else interested in
the admission process at University of Virginia.”
uvaapplication.blogspot.com
Up Close and Personal with U.Va. Students
Written by a current student, this blog bills itself as
“uncut, uncensored—an in-depth look at the U.Va.
experience.”
uvalife.blogspot.com
Green Thumbs Up
University making strides in sustainability
It’s not easy being green, but U.Va. is getting higher marks for its environmentally
friendly programs.
After receiving a D+ in 2007 on the College Sustainability Report Card, the
University raised its grade to a B- in the 2008 report, then got a solid B in the 2009
edition. That places U.Va. at the top of the class among the schools in the Old
Dominion that participate in the rankings.
The largest strides came in the food and recycling category, for which U.Va. received
a D in 2007 and an A this year.
Dining halls have eliminated trays, thanks to a student-led initiative aimed at reducing
trash and conserving water. Menus also emphasize more local foods.
“You need less energy to transport [local food]. It protects the environment, and it
gives money to local farmers,” Andrew Greene, the sustainability planner in the U.Va.
architect’s office, said at a community briefing on sustainability in September.
Greene explained that sustainability is measured in terms of equity, economics and
the environment. “It is sustainable if it satisfies all three,” he said.
U.Va. transportation officials have implemented a system designed to reduce the
number of single-occupant cars at the University. Ridership has increased on
University buses, and car and van pools as well as bicycling are being encouraged,
Rebecca White, U.Va.’s director of parking and transportation, said at the briefing.
At the Darden School of Business, students got down and dirty in their first
“trash audit,” or Dumpster Dive, on Oct. 2. They climbed into a bin, removed
garbage, then sorted the recyclable material by categories. About half the waste
proved to be recyclable.
The trash audit was part of an effort by Darden to become a zero-waste school by
2020. Another “dive” is planned this spring.
Press Pass
If you’ve ever wondered what goes into producing the
Cavalier Daily, this blog’s for you.
cd-presspass.blogspot.com
Whatever Happened to Thrift?
Darden professor Ronald Wilcox blogs about the importance
of saving money.
usthrift.wordpress.com
Dean Bruner’s Blog
Robert Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business,
weighs in on a variety of business-related topics.
www.darden.virginia.edu/html/
deansblog.aspx
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jack looNEY
During a “trash audit” of a
Sponsor’s Hall dumpster,
Darden students discovered
that nearly half of its
contents were recyclable.

UNIVERSITY DIGEST
In the 101 years since U.Va.
President Edwin A. Alderman
charged the Raven Society
with the upkeep of the Edgar
Allan Poe Room, a Raven Society
member has swept its wooden
floors and dusted its antique furniture.
This year, the humble
task falls to Lawson Anderson
(Col ’09).
He wipes the fingerprints
from the glass door of Poe’s old
dorm room, the ever-unlucky
No. 13, on the West Range.
“People smudge the glass when
they look in,” Anderson says.
Indeed, if one looks closely, the
door is mottled with the imprints
of the cheeks and chins of
the curious. If the audio recording
that narrates the story of
Poe’s time at the University
won’t play, it falls to Anderson
to make sure it’s fixed. During
Family Weekend in the fall and
Garden Week in the spring, he is
there to open the glass door for
visitors.
It’s a job that most people
don’t know exists, and it certainly
isn’t a post that Anderson ever
expected to have. But a few years
ago, he was tapped to become a
Raven member and received a
cryptic letter inviting him to attend
a midnight initiation. Fewer
than 30 members are invited to join the
Ravens each year. Last year, Anderson was
elected vice president.
The Raven Society was founded in
1904 to recognize academic excellence—
taking its name from Poe’s most famous
poem. Under the care of the Raven Society,
the Poe room has been renovated twice. In
1924, architecture professor Edmund S.
Campbell attempted to restore the room
to its original condition during Poe’s tenure
at the University in 1826. However, he
did not remove the closets and a mantel,
so the University eliminated them in the
1950s. Around the same time, A. Churchill
Young III (Col ’50) donated Poe’s childhood
bed from the Allan family home in
Richmond, Va. A small plaque in Latin
The caretaker of No. 13
Student fulfills charge of Raven Society
was affixed to the brick over the door; it
reads “A small room for a giant poet.”
A New York Times article about the Poe
Room from 1912 claimed that during
Poe’s residency the room’s walls were decorated
in crayon drawing. Now the walls
are white and the leather-bound books on
the desk and windowsill aren’t the Latin
or French texts that Poe might have studied,
but collections of his macabre stories
and poems.
The Raven Society uses the room for its
annual initiation ceremonies, during which
there is a reading from Poe’s work and new
members sign with a quill pen in a book of
names. They also take an oath of selfless service.
Anderson’s service includes battling the
dust that eddies around the sharp angles of
DaN aDDISoN
Lawson
Anderson
the wooden washstand and memorizing
the book of Poe history
and mythology that is kept hidden
behind the Poe Room’s door.
“Poe was a mystical, introverted,
lonely genius,” says Anderson.
He studied at U.Va. for just one
year before leaving due to insufficient
support from his benefactor,
John Allan. At the time, he
was debt-ridden and had resorted
to gambling. “It’s my personal
opinion that the Raven Society
would have catered to a student
like Poe,” says Anderson. “Maybe
it would have helped someone as
brilliant and troubled as him.”
On the windowsill of the Poe
Room sits a stuffed raven posed
by a taxidermist to look demurely
over its shoulder. It serves as a
visual reminder of the Raven
Society and it namesake, the romantic
poem about the mystery
of mortality. “There is certainly
something mystical about Poe’s
work,” says Anderson. “There is
also something enchanting about
these antique objects and the traditions
they stand for.” Beneath
the window is a wooden chest fastened
with a brass lock. “Only Raven presidents
and vice presidents have seen the contents
of the chest, and we each take an oath of
secrecy,” Anderson says and smiles coyly.
“A little mystery is good for you.”
In 2009, U.Va.’s Special Collections
Library will mount an exhibit to mark the
bicentennial of Poe’s birth. —Sierra Bellows
In the first admission cycle since the
University eliminated its binding early-decision
program, the staff of the
Office of Admission received a pleasant
surprise. Although they expected to see a
significant decrease in overall yield—the
percentage of students who accept their
offers of admission—the rate was down
less than three percentage points from the
previous year’s yield of 51 percent.
This result was surprising for two reasons.
First, because a student who applied in U.Va.’s previous
early-decision program was required to enroll if accepted, a
yield of 100 percent was essentially guaranteed for a third of
the incoming class. Second, Harvard and Princeton—also in
their first year without binding early decision—saw a significant
decrease in yields and were forced to dip deep into their
waiting lists to fill their entering classes.
“What happened is that within the applicant pool there were
NEwS BRIEfS
Ruffin Ready
Just a few days before the start of the
fall semester, Ruffin Hall, the new home
of the McIntire Department of Art’s studio
art program, opened its doors. The
building is designed not only for making
art, but also for displaying it. Faculty in
each area of study—drawing, painting,
sculpture, printmaking, photography,
new media and film, installation and performance
art—worked with Schwartz/
Silver Architects of Boston to create the
three-story, 42,000-square-foot facility.
“We have been dreaming about this
for a long time,” said Dean Dass, associate
chairman of studio art and professor
of printmaking. “It’s historic—all studio
art programs are together in one building
for the first time.”
Funny Woman
Tina Fey (Col ’92) and her television
show, 30 Rock, made a big splash at the
catching Up on Getting In
U.Va.’s first year without early admission
Emmy awards in September, winning a
trio of Emmy Awards for outstanding
comedy writing, comedy series and lead
actress in a comedy. Those prestigious
awards were quickly overshadowed by the
attention generated by her Saturday Night
Live parodies of vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin in the weeks leading up
to the Nov. 4 election. When Fey and
Palin appeared together on SNL the show
was watched by 15 million viewers, earning
its highest rating since 1994.
Top Teachers
For the second consecutive year, the
Princeton Review has ranked the faculty at
the University of Virginia’s Darden
School of Business No. 1. in the “Best
Professors” category. “We select schools
for this book based on our high regard for
their academic programs
and offerings,
institutional data we
collect from the
schools, and the candid
opinions of students
attending them
who rate and report
on their campus experiences
at the schools,” says Robert
Franek, Princeton Review’s vice president
for publishing. “We are pleased to recommend
Darden to readers of our books
lots of students who really wanted to go to
U.Va. and would have applied through early
decision if we had it,” says John A. Blackburn,
dean of admission.
Of the 18,598 total applications received,
offers were made to 6,735. Of that group,
3,256 students actually enrolled, slightly
more than the targeted class size of 3,170.
That compares with 3,248 first years last fall.
Other admission numbers of note for the
Class of 2012:
• Median SAT scores were slightly higher, from 1,307 to 1,322.
• About 57 percent of first years are female, 43 percent male (the
same as last year).
• About 67 percent of first years are Virginia residents (down
from 69 percent in 2007).
• About 14 percent of first years are children of alumni, which is
slightly higher than in recent years.
and users of our Web site as one of the
best institutions they could attend to earn
an MBA.”
Good Company
University of Virginia
history professor
and nationally
recognized civil rights
leader Julian Bond received
a Library of
Congress Living Legend
award this fall.
Bond was one of a
group of seven honorees
that included
race car driver Mario
Andretti, musician
Herbie Hancock, historian David Mc-
Cullough, former baseball player and
manager Frank Robinson, and journalists
Cokie Roberts and Bob Schieffer.
Bond, chairman of the board of the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, received the award for
the legacy of his lifetime work. In March
of this year, Bond donated his personal
papers to the University of Virginia
Library. The collection holds 47,000
items, including photographs, recordings,
drafts of more than 300 speeches,
Bond’s correspondence with civil rights
activists and memorabilia.
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Julian
Bond

UNIVERSITY DIGEST
South Lawn Takes Shape
Above: South Lawn buildings and structural
steel beams spanning Jefferson Park Avenue,
which will form a 95-foot-wide grassy terrace
that connects the complex to Central Grounds.
Construction of the $105 million project, designed
by architects Moore Ruble Yudell, has
reached the halfway point and is slated for
completion in November 2010. The complex of
buildings will provide the College of Arts &
Sciences with more than 100,000 square feet
of additional academic space and will house
the departments of history, politics and religious
studies.
Right: A 1948 photograph shows the same
area, before construction of New Cabell Hall in
the early 1950s. The building with the large
chimney below Old Cabell is the Boiler House,
built during the same period as Cocke, Rouss
and Cabell halls (1896-98). Steam generated
in the Boiler House heated the three new
buildings. The facility also originally housed
forges and foundries for mechanical engineering
instruction.
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DaN GRoGaN ED RoSEBERRY
winter 2008 17

STUDENT LIFE
Secret Society
Students share their innermost fears and desires
In October, students packed Old Cabell Hall to hear
from Frank Warren, who’s been described as “the
most trusted stranger in America.” Warren collects
secrets by the truckload, sent to him by people he’s
never met.
A community art project he calls PostSecret—which began
in 2005 when Warren passed out self-addressed postcards
and asked people to anonymously mail their secrets to
him—has evolved into something of a cultural phenomenon.
Approximately 1,000 secrets per week arrive at his
home in Germantown, Md., adding to his grand total of
more than 200,000, many of which he’s published in four
PostSecret books.
In a National Public Radio interview earlier this year,
Warren explained the postcards reveal a reality that’s hidden
“beneath the surface that really shows us how frail and heroic
our everyday lives really are, although they often go
unseen.”
The project caught the attention of two students, Courtney
Mallow (Col ’10) and James Burney (Col ’09), who are the
co-directors of the Arts & Enrichment Committee, a part of
the University Programs Council. After inviting Warren to
visit the University, they solicited secrets from their fellow
students and created an exhibit of the cards they’d collected
to coincide with his appearance.
“The exhibit serves as a forum for students to share
their deepest, darkest secret with the world, without telling
anyone at all,” says Mallow. “People are able to connect
anonymously and realize that other people may be
feeling the same way they do.”
Mallow adds that the exhibit included information about
U.Va.’s health and counseling resources because the “secrets
raise very intense feelings and issues.” The exhibit featured
hundreds of secrets, nearly covering the walls of the
Newcomb Hall Art Gallery. The cards ranged from humorous
to heartbreaking. Here are just a few.
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0.05
is the average Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of U.Va.
students while drinking.
90%
of U.Va. students who drink have NOT been injured or hurt due to drinking.
95.6%
of U.Va. students who drink have NOT gotten into a fight due to their drinking.
Every month or so, hundreds of copies of a unique
publication arrive in first-year dorms around U.Va.
Volunteers post the one-page journal, bubbling with
a lively array of news and information, in places
where it can’t be ignored.
It’s called the Stall Seat Journal for a reason, and
Marisa Mutty (Engr ’12) looks forward to reading it when she
heeds Mother Nature’s call in Bonnycastle House.
“I love the Stall Seat Journal. I memorize the whole thing,” says
Mutty. “It gives you good tips.”
Such as this quotation, playfully attributed to Thomas Jefferson
in the October edition: “Hey, Buddy. What’s up? Check this out—
89 percent of U.Va. first years usually or always make sure they
don’t leave a friend who has been drinking alone with a stranger.”
There’s more, including bus routes, the phone number for a tobacco
“quit line,” details about “safe” events around town and more
alcohol-related statistics.
The facts are the tip of an iceberg of data used in social norms
marketing, a field slightly more than two decades old and growing in
acceptance and prominence. With the move of the National Social
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74.6%
of U.Va. students usually stay in a group if they drink.
the Power of normal
U.Va. changing misperceptions, behavior with social norms campaign
by Lee Graves
66.5%
of U.Va. students students who are drinking usually take precau-
1500
tions not to inconvenience non-drinking peers.
fewer students drove under the influence of alcohol in 2008 compared to 2001.
Norms Institute to U.Va. in 2006, the University has became a central
player in social norms research, resources and education.
The approach revolves around identifying what’s normal among
peers in a certain population, such as the U.Va. student body,
through anonymous surveys and other research. This information
is used to combat common misperceptions—such as first years believing
that U.Va. students in general are heavy drinkers—that can
feed negative behavior.
“The idea of social norms is that there is a gap between what
they think their peers are doing and what they’re actually doing.
And it’s in that gap that there is movement,” says Dr. James Turner,
executive director both of NSNI and of U.Va.’s Department of
Student Health.
“It’s a paradigm shift,” says Jennifer Bauerle (Educ ’00, ’03), director
of the institute. “It’s really shifting people’s thought patterns
about how they look at health.”
A six-year study released this summer documents how that shift is
taking place at U.Va. Students exposed to social norms marketing
showed dramatic decreases in the negative consequences of alcohol-related
behavior—driving under the influence, injuries, unprotected sex.
lUCA diCeCCO
83.5%
of U.Va. students always call 911 if someone they’re with is showing
signs of alcohol poisoning.
38%
of U.Va. first years typically don’t drink.
84%
of U.Va. first years don’t use tobacco.
60%
of U.Va. students have an average of zero to five drinks
SOUrCeS: SOCiAl NOrmS prOgrAm ANd The U.VA. CeNTer fOr AlCOhOl ANd SUBSTANCe edUCATiON
75.6%
of U.Va. students usually intervene to stop friends from drinking and driving.
per week (15.4 percent have zero drinks per week).
2000
fewer U.Va. students suffered injuries related to alcohol in 2008 compared to 2001.
Replacing “health terrorism”
Social norms marketing does away with the draconian images of
“health terrorism”—images of crumpled cars shown to scare people into
being safer drivers. Instead, statistics compiled through painstaking research
are presented in carefully designed marketing campaigns.
“Social norms is simply about telling the truth about what people
are doing,” Bauerle says.
So, what are U.Va. students doing? According to HooKnew? (the
U.Va. social norms marketing program):
60 percent have an average of zero to five drinks per week (15.4
percent have zero drinks per week).
75.6 percent usually intervene to stop friends from drinking and driving.
83.5 percent always call 911 if someone they’re with is showing
signs of alcohol poisoning.
The point is that it’s normal to call 911, normal to intervene, normal
not to be a heavy drinker. That last bit gains significance when
considering that first years who were surveyed
overestimated by more than doub
l e the amount they believed students
were drinking at U.Va.
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Of taxes and hotel linens
While alcohol consumption holds center stage in many social
norms campaigns, research has explored a vast landscape of topics—
tax compliance, seatbelt use, gambling, even reusing hotel linens.
Perceptions, whether right or wrong, are one of the strongest
predictors of behavior. As Turner put it to a group of fourth years
taking a class at the Curry School of Education, “What you think
your friends and peers do is very important in motivating you to do
that. False perceptions are just as powerful as true perceptions,” he
said, using a presentation chocked with numbers, graphs and, yes,
even quotations from Thomas Jefferson.
Does social norms marketing work? The approach has its critics,
most prominently Henry Wechsler of the Harvard School of Public
Health College Alcohol Study. In the 2002 book Dying to Drink:
Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses, Wechsler and coauthor
Bernice Wuethrich argue that the basic assumptions of social
norms programs are unproven, that statistics don’t reflect behavior
in smaller peer groups (which have greater influence on a
person’s choices), that norms tend to encourage abstainers to drink,
and that funding for research comes largely through the alcohol industry,
thus compromising the data.
Indeed, Anheuser-Busch in particular has provided significant
funding. It helped finance the opening of the National Social
Norms Resource Center at Northern Illinois University in 2000.
When the institute moved to U.Va., Anheuser-Busch supplied a
$2.5 million five-year gift to continue research.
Turner and Bauerle stress that Anheuser-Busch, recently purchased
by InBev, has a completely hands-off approach to the research.
And they credit John Nau (Col ’68), who is president and
CEO of a Texas beer distributorship, with helping to secure funding
at U.Va. that dates to 1999.
Turner remembers a talk he gave at Alumni Hall that year. The U.
Va. community was still grieving the alcohol-related death of a 21-yearold
student two years earlier. After the presentation, Nau asked Turner,
“You want more funding to do your social norms marketing?”
That year the Stall Seat Journal was born, and with it an effort
that has grown in scope and sophistication. NSNI (“Nisney” to insiders)
now partners with eight other universities in its research,
and it coordinates a national conference each year that provides researchers
a forum to share information.
“The institute has an extremely important role in the advancement
of the field,” says Alan Berkowitz, a New York psychologist
and a founding father of the social norms field. “In addition to the
national conference, the institute can serve as a catalyst to sense the
state of the field, stimulate research and technical assistance, and
help the field evolve in a positive direction. I am extremely pleased
with the work that U.Va. has done in all of these areas.”
Social norms marketing materials depend on
a combination of eye-catching graphics and
carefully researched data to address misperceptions
about behavior. The Stall Seat
Journal, which dates to 1999, is designed by
students and distributed in first-year dorms.
The institute’s efforts extend beyond the hallowed grounds of
higher education. Bauerle is consulting with Albemarle County
about campaigns in its schools, and this spring she heads to Belgium
for a European Union forum.
“Social norms is in its infancy in Europe, and there’s an interest
in using more social norms methodology,” Bauerle says.
That methodology is framing inquiry in far-flung fields. One
Australian researcher looked into perceptions of tax compliance—
do people cheat on their taxes because they perceive others do? He
found that in many cases people overestimated how much others
fudged on their taxes and reduced their personal tax deduction
claims when they learned the norm. To a large degree, though, a
person’s moral beliefs dictated compliance.
Another study looked at the impact of using social norms marketing
to encourage people to reuse hotel linens. Researchers found
that a social norms message—“Almost 75 percent of guests who are
asked to participate in our new resource savings program do help
by using their towels more than once”—placed in hotel rooms led
to increased linen reuse rates.
Watershed study at U.Va.
Though research is exploring other fields, alcohol abuse among
young adults remains a primary focus.
A watershed event in that regard occurred this summer for
NSNI. Turner and Bauerle co-authored, with H. Wesley Perkins of
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, an article in the peer-reviewed
Journal of American College Health detailing results of a
campus survey involving thousands of U.Va. students from 2001 to
2006. The researchers asked students who had been exposed to so-
Dr. James Turner
cial norms marketing efforts to respond anonymously about 10
alcohol-related consequences, from having unprotected sex to driving
after drinking.
The results: Over the six years of the study, odds of experiencing
none of the 10 alcohol-related consequences nearly doubled, and
multiple consequences decreased by more than half for all undergrads.
Turner has added data from the past two years to come up
with numbers that compare 2008 to 2001:
• 2,000 fewer U.Va. students suffered injuries related to alcohol in
2008 compared to 2001.
• 1,500 fewer students drove under the influence of alcohol.
• 2,500 more students had none of 10 serious alcohol-related consequences.
“We believe that the social norms marketing campaign has really
had a fairly dramatic impact on the students at our university,”
Turner says.
The institute isn’t alone in its efforts at U.Va. The Center for
Alcohol and Substance Education, under the Office of the Dean of
Students, is a vigorous partner in coordinating University-wide
prevention efforts and spreading the word about behavior regarding
alcohol, tobacco use and sexual activity.
Unlike NSNI, the center’s funding comes from U.Va. and is
supplemented by grants from the National Collegiate Athletic
Association, the U.S. Department of Education and the National
Institutes of Health, says director Susie Bruce (Col ’89, Educ ’91).
Smaller groups—athletic teams, fraternities and sororities—are
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Jennifer
Bauerle

While the term and the concept of social
norms date at least to the early 1900s, modern
application among students began with
a 1986 article by Alan Berkowitz and H.
Wesley Perkins. It detailed the implications of social
norms in alcohol education programs.
“Following [that] article, a number of independent
investigations consistently revealed that college
students overestimated the drinking of their peers,
and overestimation was associated with heavier
drinking,” Clayton Neighbors of the University of
Washington said in a presentation at this year’s annual
social norms conference.
Social norms marketing gained steam but lacked so-
the targets of their social norms efforts, and, like NSNI, the focus
is on helping students make safe choices.
Bruce has been using a social norms approach for years, and
she’s seen changes on several fronts. Students are less skeptical of
the statistics, and the University’s approach has matured. The Stall
Seat Journal’s message goes beyond alcohol. “The campaign now, I
believe, has a nice balance,” she says.
Protective behavior gets prime emphasis, and it’s not just in a
do-good fashion. Small cards showing blood alcohol concentration
levels for men and women have found their way into many students’
pockets.
“I actually think that’s really cool,” says fourth-year James Anderson,
a resident adviser at Bonnycastle House. “It’s really effective.”
The cards plot blood alcohol concentration levels over time, factoring
in a person’s weight and the number of drinks consumed.
Do you know your BAC?
Turner and Bruce hope the cards convey two central points.
First, not all drinks are equal. Blood alcohol levels jump dramatically
at a certain point. Second, the potential for negative consequences—drunken
driving, blackouts, unprotected sex, violence—
increases just as dramatically.
“We really do focus on negative consequences, and that’s where
we get the student buy-in,” says Bruce. “If you’re having 12 drinks,
you’re more likely to have a fight and other problems than if you’re
having three or four drinks.”
Such information goes a long way, Anderson says, but he says the
best lesson comes when someone has a bad experience themselves.
“My experience as an RA is that that’s where I see the change,”
he says. “That said, I think the Stall Seat Journal actually does gen-
Social norms evolution
phistication and consistency. While some researchers presented
evidence the approach worked, others, particularly
Harvard’s Henry Wechsler, attacked it. A debate
over—and redefinition of—what constitutes binge drinking
ensued, and Wechsler’s research methods have been
questioned.
A prominent study in 2006 of social norms marketing
on 18 campuses concluded that “social norms marketing
[is] associated with reduced misperceptions and less
heavy drinking” than on other campuses.
While consensus is building about the effectiveness of
social norms marketing, the approach still has its critics
and even advocates know it has limits. “It is not a magic
bullet, and it doesn’t always work,” Neighbors said.
“by oft repeating an
untruth, men come to
believe it themselves.”
- Correspondence From Thomas Jefferson to John Melish, 1813
erate conversation. People talk about it, and that’s one of the most
effective things you can do.”
Bauerle agrees. “It [the Stall Seat Journal] is really a conversation
with our population,” she says.
Anderson also sees a flip side to the social norms approach. He
cited a poster saying that 91 percent of U.Va. students usually stop
their friends who have been drinking from harming others.
“I can see what they’re getting at, but to me that means that one
in 10 wouldn’t step in to intervene,” says Anderson, who is from
Australia. “If you’re looking at the effectiveness of social norms,
that means that out of every 10 people, one won’t stop their mates
from trying to bash somebody else.”
No one, including Turner, claims that the approach constitutes
a panacea. “That’s like saying chemotherapy does or does not work
for treating cancer.”
A specialist in internal medicine, Turner likens the method to a
clinical setting, where a doctor lays out information for a patient,
describing the possibilities and potential consequences.
There’s evidence beyond U.Va., though, that the approach is
good medicine. In an article this summer about the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, the Boston Globe reported, “Two years
after launching the so-called social norms campaign, health officials
say they are seeing striking results, with recent student surveys
indicating a sharp decline in binge drinking. The university has
coupled the marketing with tighter regulations and enforcement,
as well as expanded prevention services.”
Laura Nix, a fourth-year who listened to Turner’s presentation at
Curry, says the concept of addressing misperceptions is effective. She
remembers the impact of reading the Stall Seat Journal her first year.
“The whole social norms thing—people are blown away by it.”
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Deep
RooteD
A look at the University’s
shady side
If the University of Virginia’s landscape
were to represent the human mind, with
the Rotunda and pavilions being our most
sophisticated thoughts, what better to represent
our imaginations, where we ponder and
dream, than the trees? Vibrant in the light of a
spring afternoon, blazing with color in the fall, the
trees at U.Va. compose a major part of the University’s
personality. They’re woven into our memories of spending
time on Grounds (who hasn’t marveled at the
changing leaves while marching to the library?) and
with their chapel-like peace, add to the meditative
atmosphere of the University.
While it seems like the trees have been here forever,
their health and layout is no accident. Like everything,
they take management and care and can be threatened
by factors that seem beyond our control. Also, as the
Grounds continue to evolve with major additions such
as the South Lawn Project, how will the landscape, the
trees, evolve with it?
First, a little history. “The land the University was
built on was an old farm,” says Mary Hughes, landscape
architect for U.Va. since 1996. “The ground was relatively
infertile, which made the land available at an affordable
price … so there were no trees except for at
O-Hill.” Whether trees were actually meant to be
planted on the Lawn has sparked some controversy.
Some claim that the trees block views of the pavilions
and interfere with Jefferson’s neoclassical architectural
plan for the Academical Village.
However, an 1817 letter in which Jefferson
sketched the village and in the middle of it
by emma Rathbone
wrote, “grass and trees,” seems to settle the debate.
“We do know that the first trees were black locust
trees,” says Hughes. “The first pictures of the Lawn show
dead or dying black locust trees.” The intention was to interplant
them with longer-living hardwoods such as the
maple and ash, which now make up the predominant species
on the Lawn. The oldest trees are believed to be the
sycamores on the north side of the Rotunda. “We believe
they were planted before the Civil War,” says Hughes.
It’s not surprising that Jefferson included trees in his
plans for the University. According to the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation, he distributed seeds of North
American trees to European friends during his time as
minister to France and, later, his white pine and hemlock
plantings earned him the distinction of being “the father
of American forestry.”
With such a long history, there are trees at U.Va. that
hold a sentimental value—those that took root in the
hearts of their stewards. The McGuffey Ash is one such
tree. Planted in the garden of Pavilion IX in 1826 (just one
year after the University opened for classes), the tree is said
to have been protected by the wife of professor William E.
Peters, who lived in the pavilion from 1874-1903.
According to legend, she sat at the base of the tree and
told workers who threatened to cut it down (to lay sewer
pipe) that they would have to cut through her first.
The tree had to be removed in 1990 due to old age;
however, feelings ran so deep that plans for perpetuating
it in some way already existed. In the late 1980s,
when the McGuffey Ash was still living, branch cuttings
were grafted onto ash rootstocks. Of the
eight that survived, one of the saplings was
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planted where the original tree
stood in 1996.
“Another really fabulous
tree is on the west side of the
Rotunda: the Pratt Ginkgo,”
says Hughes. This was the
University’s first memorial
tree and was planted in honor
of William Pratt, superintendent
of buildings and grounds
just before the Civil War. “As
fall goes on, the tree turns
bright yellow. The leaves fall
practically overnight, and in
the morning, the ground is
covered with gold.”
In conjunction with the University’s
Arboretum and Landscape Committee,
the memorial and commemorative tree
program allows individuals to plant a tree
in honor of deceased alumni and faculty.
Official trees are also planted in remembrance
of those who made a significant and
lasting contribution to the landscape.
The Pratt Ginkgo is but one of the
University’s standout cast of trees. “We
have inherited a remarkable collection of
beautiful old trees that lend great character
to the Grounds that people identify with
U.Va.,” says Hughes. “They’re a treasured
part of our heritage.”
But what about when something goes
wrong? For instance, when a branch gets
too long or a tree nears the end of its life?
Behind the Seeds
“I see people getting their wedding pictures
taken under the trees, I see students sitting
there. I don’t think they realize how much
work is involved in maintaining the trees’
health. They do have a caretaker,” says Jerry
Brown, an arborist at U.Va. for 14 years.
If you think of trees as the other population
at U.Va., you get a picture of what
can go wrong. “Trees are like people,” says
Brown, “every day there could be a problem.”
Trees that hollow out from the inside,
limbs that die back (rot
so much that they could fall)
and storms that leave branches
in the road are just some
of the issues that have to be
dealt with. Just like students,
trees change as they get older.
“Through the stress of the
seasons, there could be soil
deficiencies,” says Brown.
And there are those trees
that have special problems.
There’s the ginkgo tree, for
instance. Though a beautiful
tree, the female of the species
produces a fruit that when
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Hughes
Jerry Brown
fallen and decomposing emits
a smell that isn’t exactly floral.
“If you were to step in it,
you’d probably think you’d
stepped in something else,”
says Brown.
Then there are dangers that
have nothing to do with the internal
nature of the tree or the
caprice of the weather, but that
are shiny and green and probably
came on a ship from Asia.
The emerald ash borer is an insect
that has killed at least 25
million ash trees, many of
which have been in Northern
Virginia. “It’ll probably be in this area soon
and will put a pretty bad hurting on the ash
trees around here,” says Brown. The adult
beetles eat the ash foliage, causing little harm.
The danger lies in the larvae that feed on the
inner bark, interfering with the trees’ ability
to transport water and
nutrients. “It’s scary
because the pest is so
devastating. Insects
come here from other
countries, and they
have no predators.”
Insecticide can be used
—injected into the tree
or employed in a soil
drench. However, there are
no guarantees. “The emerald ash
borer will definitely change the tree scene.”
But what of threats that don’t fly or carry
larvae? It’s possible that a more immediate
danger to the trees on Grounds is expansion.
“Probably our biggest pest is construction areas,”
says Brown. It’s a fact that new building
projects and renovations are a part of the
evolution of any university. But when trees
dot much of the landscape, unpopular decisions
have to be made. “They only give a little
bit of space to keep that tree alive,” says
Brown, referring to the barrier put around
designated trees on a construction site. “The
next thing you know, there’s a
mystery pipeline that means
the tree needs to be taken
down. We deal a lot with construction
damage.”
As trees grow, weather
changes and unforeseen factors
come into play, the maintenance
of trees on Grounds
is a demanding, ongoing job
that’s not for everyone. But it
has its perks; for instance,
take the office view. “Where
else can you sit up top of a tree
and watch the sun come up a
little?” asks Brown. And when
The Pratt Ginkgo
it comes to favorites, he would have to pick
the white oak. “They’re strong trees during
storms; they don’t seem to get pest problems;
they get a lot of acorns; and just to
look at it, it’s a beautiful tree.”
Branching Out
The South Lawn Project, slated for
completion in 2010, will change the face
of the University. With such a huge addition
to the Central Grounds area, the
landscape is a major initiative and provides
a blank canvas to be painted with
trees. A spectrum of species will be planted,
including white, red and willow oaks;
paperbark, red and sugar maples; river
birches; European beeches; green ashes;
sweet and black gums; and tulip poplars,
to name a few. Through clever placement,
the trees will provide benefits far beyond
their aesthetic value.
“Trees are critically important to the
landscape plan for the South Lawn Project
for several reasons,” says Cheryl Barton,
landscape architect for the project. “The
large scale and height of the building complex
(four to five stories) required large trees
to mediate its size for pedestrians as well as
for adjacent neighbors.” Not only that, but
shade provided by the trees creates cooler,
“micro-climate” zones in the summer. In
the winter, branches slow down cold winds.
Other considerations include placing deciduous
trees on the south and west sides of the
building that will allow sunlight in the winter
and prevent overheating in the summer,
thereby enhancing energy efficiency. Also,
“Large street trees are placed along Jefferson
Park Avenue to create an urban streetscape
edge,” says Barton.
Another main feature of the South Lawn
Project will be the Catherine Foster burial
Discovering Virginia’s trees
site. Catherine Foster was a free black woman
who lived there in the 19th century. The
memorial, made up of two parts (the family
burial ground and the original homesite),
will include Virginia flowering dogwoods
and white oaks. “It appears that the original
home was in a circle of white oaks,” says
Mary Hughes. “We’ve gone to great pains to
try to preserve trees and incorporate them as
part of the cultural landscape.”
The young trees of the South Lawn
Project will help usher in a new era for
U.Va. If the past is any indication, they will
be embraced and appreciated as a part of
the community of nature that surrounds
and suffuses Charlottesville. They’ll grow
with the University, anchoring us in time
as we reach toward the future.
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For sumptuous photographs portraying a wide range of Virginia trees, check out
Remarkable Trees of Virginia, published by the University of Virginia Press.
Combining the photography of Robert Llewellyn (Engr ’69) and the prose of
Nancy Ross Hugo and Jeff Kirwin, the book offers scientific insights as well as the
history of some of our state’s finest trees. Of the 1,000 trees that were originally
nominated for inclusion in the book, the authors selected a lively sample of Virginia’s
myriad species, from the oldest to the largest to the truly unique, such as a willow oak
in which you can find an embedded tricycle. From an American beech in front of
Sleepy Hollow Methodist Church in Falls Church to a bur oak in Elkton, you’ll also
learn about trees that are part of Virginia’s history. Far from a textbook, Remarkable
Trees instills a fresh appreciation for a part of nature that’s often taken for granted.
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Elephant Speak
What the 2004 tsunami can tell us about animal communications
By DaviD a. Maurer
On the day after Christmas 2004, two massive tectonic plates gave way
deep beneath the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra,
Indonesia. The catastrophic adjustment was so powerful that it made
the entire planet vibrate; the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake
was the second largest earthquake ever recorded.
The earthquake occurred nearly 20 miles beneath the seabed. The
horrific destruction that occurred was the result of towering waves, some estimated to
have been 100 feet high, that inundated coastlines. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and
Thailand were the hardest hit. Nearly a quarter million people perished, but surprisingly
few animals were killed.
Even more curious, not one elephant was reported lost, even though many were in
danger zones.
Michael Garstang, an emeritus research professor of environmental sciences at U.Va.,
is on the hunt to find out why. His theory, as yet unproven, is that the elephants somehow
detected the onrushing tidal waves and reacted accordingly.
“One of the reports I read tells about some elephants in Thailand that give rides to
tourists,” says Garstang. “They had just come back from a ride and were secured to stakes
in the ground. Before the tsunami hit, some of the elephants pulled the stakes out of the
ground, and in a few cases actually broke the chains.
“In Sri Lanka, there were reports of elephants crying. That must have been a distress
call of some kind. There’s a lot of anecdotal information, but no hard scientific data. I’m
trying to put that together and offer a theory as to what the elephants actually sensed.”
Much of Garstang’s long professional career has been as a meteorologist studying the
global effects that the sun, oceans, wind and atmospheric conditions have on the planet
and the life forms that populate it. His fascination with such things dates from his childhood;
he grew up in the small village of Utrecht on the northern plains of KwaZulu-
Natal, South Africa.
“My father was an engineer at a high-grade coal mine near the village where I grew
up,” Garstang says. “I’d often go exploring and hunting with my dog and Zulu friend. I
remember looking far out across the plains and seeing moving dust clouds or the purple
haze of an escarpment far off in the distance. I think it was that whole experience of
growing up in the wild and open spaces that led me to become a meteorologist working
with the atmosphere.”
His expertise as a meteorologist, combined with his curiosity about the natural world,
has led him down less-traveled avenues of inquiry, such as how weather and sound are
linked. Add in a fondness for elephants and it is not surprising that he is a pioneer in an
unexplored field: the effect of the atmosphere on elephant communications.
It was while working on a large NASA project in the early 1990s involving the Amazon
Basin that Garstang found his way back to his old stomping grounds in southern Africa.
He and a small team were in Namibia, where they proved that a percentage of the
Amazon Basin’s nutrients arrives in dust from the Kalahari Desert, thousands of miles
away. The National Science Foundation, which funded the research, gave Garstang permission
to piggyback his other work with elephant communications while he was there.
The professor had first heard about the subject in the late 1980s. Katy Payne, an acoustic
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Garstang recently sent out for peer review
his first research paper on the subject,
“Precursor Tsunami Signals Detected by
Elephants.” In the paper he cites the Feb. 4, Calling Long-Distance
1975, earthquake that destroyed 90 percent
of the city of Haicheng, China.
More than a month before the quake
struck, unusual movements were observed
in ground water levels and land elevations.
We’re all familiar with an elephant’s trumpeting and roaring, but a whole lot is
going on beneath the threshold of human hearing. In the low-frequency infrasound
range, these highly social animals send messages both short and
long distances to keep in touch with one another.
But the most unsettling sight in the city was
Long-distance communication is crucial to an elephant’s survival. Michael
the bizarre animal behavior. Rats and snakes
Garstang’s research into their acoustic world suggests that elephants have adapted
were seen wandering around as if dazed, or
their behavior according to patterns of atmospheric change—timing their calls for
lying motionless on roads and sidewalks. As
when they can be best heard.
the date of the 7.3-magnitude earthquake
Garstang conducted his research in Etosha National Park in Namibia, home
neared, cattle and horses became agitated
to more than 2,000 elephants. In all, they collected and analyzed more than
for no apparent reason.
1,300 elephant calls. “We don’t know what they’re talking about in detail,” he
Then rats started to move erratically as
says, “but we’re going to get there. We know the meaning of about 70 different
though intoxicated, and chickens stopped
calls or phrases, such as ‘Let’s go,’ and ‘Are you doing all right?’”
going into their coops. About six hours be-
Garstang found that 96 percent of their infrasonic calls, which can travel
fore the quake struck, officials made the de-
long distances, occurred during the hours of dusk and dawn. The atmocision
to evacuate the city.
spheric conditions during those times are optimal—it’s cooler and the winds
The action saved an estimated 90,000
are quiet—and calls can be heard up to six miles away. At other times of the
lives. It was the first time an earthquake was
day, wind gusts and heat waves tend to break up sound waves.
accurately predicted, but there are many
Hearing capabilities in mammals are generally not well understood, but
more cases in which animals have not re-
an elephant’s sensitivity to low frequencies is connected to the size of its body,
acted at all.
head and distance between the ears.
Garstang’s firsthand study of
Nonetheless, Garstang theorizes that elephants
utilize their acute hearing, smell
During Namibia’s dry season from April to September, elephants have to
range over a wide area to find food; it’s critical for them to know where other
elephant behavior has made him
realize that their uncanny
survival abilities are still far
beyond human understanding.
and other senses to enhance their chances of
survival in dangerous situations.
“What I think the elephants in Thailand
were reacting to was the sound of the actual
waves striking the cost of Sumatra from a
long ways away,” Garstang says. “They
heard that unusual sound of the long-transmitted
breaking wave. At the same time,
herds are feeding so they don’t waste energy traveling to an area that already has
been grazed. “When there’s more than one herd in an area, the elephants talk to the
other herds,” says Garstang, who was an adviser for the 2001 National Geographic
film Elephants: Giants of Etosha. “We’ve followed a herd by satellite and they never cross
paths with other herds, because of this communication between them.”
Long-distance communication is also essential to signal a female’s readiness to mate. Male elephants, who get pushed out of
a herd when they reach maturity, wander alone or in small groups and may be many miles away. “She puts out a call that she is
in estrus, and it can extend over a range of a hundred square miles,” Garstang explains. “She’s going to attract several males and
they heard a strange local sound of the water
they’ll fight, sometimes to the death, for the right to mate with her, so you have all kinds of critical elements that have to come
biologist at Cornell University, discovered out that meteorological conditions really receding along the coastline about 20 min-
together, and it depends on long-range communications.”
that humpback whales communicate with impact the distances over which animals are utes before the tsunami struck. They would
one another by using ever-changing songs in touch with each other. That was huge.” also detect the strange smell of the exposed
they compose. In 1984, her focus moved to The work Garstang is doing on the tsu- seabed, which is normally under water.
know what a land mine is, and if it’s gate, opened it, stood aside and let all director of the National Hurricane Center.
elephants after spending a few days with nami phenomenon could prove just as “I think they put all this together, real-
moved to another location, they know the these nyalas out. The whole lot. Now, “In my more than six decades of varied ex-
some at the Portland Zoo in Oregon. groundbreaking. But determining if and ized it was bad news, reacted to it and got
danger is still there.”
why? I’m reasoning they were able to pick ploration in meteorology and other sciences,
While near the elephants, Payne felt a vi- how elephants can somehow detect impend- out of the way.”
An incident that was front-page news in up the distress calls of these nyalas, and I can recall few if any acquaintances, much
bration in her stomach similar to the sensaing danger presents a daunting challenge. Garstang’s firsthand study of elephant be-
South African newspapers makes Garstang they went to their aid. It would have been less close friends, with the breadth of intertion
she felt when she had been in a church “The extreme view of scientists is that if havior has made him realize that their uncan-
suspect that elephants have a range of feelings purely altruistic, because this was a differests and diversity of exposures, as well as un-
choir and was close to the organ when it was you can’t prove it, it doesn’t exist,” says ny survival abilities are still far beyond human
and emotions we have yet to comprehend. The ent species. They even had something to derstanding of both the natural and physi-
being played. Her research concluded that Garstang. “I take the view that, if it exists, understanding. As one example, he cited their
remarkable event occurred in a game preserve lose, because they eat some of the same cal sciences, as Mike.”
elephants use infrasound—a low-frequency I’m going to try to prove it. Owners of cats, mysterious ability to detect buried land mines
in KwaZulu-Natal, where he grew up. food. I think it was done because these Garstang, who is 78, gives no indication
rumble below 20 hertz and the range of hu- dogs and other domesticated animals know left over from the war between Angola and
“There’s a beautiful animal called a ny- animals have emotions. And they react to that his curiosity is waning. “I was at a lecman
hearing—to communicate with one they react to geophysical phenomena. We South Africa that ended in 1989.
ala that is relatively rare,” Garstang says of emotions, and they even react to the emoture this morning on a bird they call a skim-
another across vast distances.
had a dog that would go hide in the bath- “They don’t know how many land mines
the deerlike creature. “A capture team had tions of others.”
mer. It got me thinking about how it search-
After reading Payne’s research, Garstang room long before we could hear the ap- were buried all over the place during that
been rounding up nyalas for a week on a Garstang is financing his tsunami elees for food. Does it search randomly? They’ll
realized that the atmosphere from the proach of a thunderstorm.
war,” Garstang says. “In the beginning, there
private reserve and were holding them in a phant study with personal funds. What mo- make a low pass over the water, and then
ground up to about 14 feet would have a lot “I don’t think we’re crediting animals for were elephants that were lost. They had
large enclosure with a big gate. On the fitivates him is his curiosity and love for ani- they’ll fly back over the same area.
to do with how far their vocalizations travel. the amount of intelligence or sense that they trunks blown off, feet blown off; they were
nal night before they were to load the animals, especially elephants. His drive and “I’m thinking the first pass is to create
The more he looked into it, the more fasci- have. The elephant in particular has a big killed. But since then, elephants have develmals
up and transport them to another lo- discipline have led to fascinating interdisci- bubbles that attract fish, and the second
nated he became.
brain, even in comparison to its size, and the oped the capability—one really doesn’t know
cation, they realized a herd of elephants plinary explorations, colleagues say. pass is to get the fish. When I’m finished
“The contribution Mike made that I memory portion of its brain is large. how—to avoid these mines. This is true to
was around their camp. They thought the “Even in semiretirement, he is gaining re- with this tsunami project, I’d like to look
consider very important is linking the field Elephants also have the capability of assimi- the extent that some of the local people are
elephants were probably after the alfalfa newed international recognition,” says U. into that.”
of meteorology with the field of animal lating multiple sources of information, digging up mines and putting them around
they had been feeding the nyalas.
Va. environmental sciences professor Robert
communications,” says Payne, reached at drawing a conclusion and then carrying out their fields as a deterrent to the elephants.
“But the female matriarch of the herd Simpson, a founding director of the National
her home in New York. “Also in pointing an action that allows them to survive.” “That tells us that these elephants
came in and with her trunk unlatched the Hurricane Research Project and a former
uvamagazine.org
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34 University of virginia Magazine
Tough Season, Tougher Guy
Ryan Zimmerman stands
next to third base in his
home away from home,
Nationals Stadium in
Washington, D.C.
Behind him is the
green expanse of the outfield. Over his right
shoulder, several miles away, is the Capitol
dome. Zimmerman (Col ’06) can’t see it
from where he stands, but fans in the upper
deck can gaze at it the entire game.
Across the field, about a quarter of the
way up the first-base line, a Nationals coach
stands, holding a long fungo bat.
Whack.
He sends a steaming ground ball to
Zimmerman’s backhand side.
Zimmerman fields it cleanly and smoothly,
then lobs the ball back to the coach.
Whack. Another ground ball goes to
Zimmerman’s backhand side. Again, he
fields it cleanly, smoothly, and lobs it back to
the coach.
Whack. Whack. Whack. Eventually,
20 ground balls go to Zimmerman’s backhand
side.
Then 15 to 20 go to his left, followed by
another set straight at him.
Day after day, week after week, from early
March through the end of September,
Zimmerman stands next to third base in
Nationals Stadium or Wrigley Field or Shea
Stadium or any of the National League stadiums
and fields those ground balls in the
late afternoon.
To him, the pregame routine is never
dull. It’s part of not taking your talent for
granted, and Zimmerman has plenty of talent
to keep sharp.
“I’d say he’s one of the top 10 young players
in the major leagues right now,” says
U.Va. head baseball coach Brian O’Connor.
Sports Illustrated magazine agrees, featuring
Zimmerman among young stars on the
Ryan Zimmerman does the work it takes to keep playing
by Paul Woody
foldout cover of its 2008 baseball preview in
March.
“He has a good chance to be a Gold
Glove-type player with a chance to be an
All-Star,” O’Connor says.
The coach watched Zimmerman blossom
after coming to the program from Virginia
Beach largely unheralded. During three years
at U.Va., Zimmerman began turning heads,
and in the 2005 draft he was the Nationals’
first-round pick, the fourth player selected
overall. He soon won the starting job and
joined two modern greats—Mike Piazza and
Albert Pujols—as the only National League
rookies since 1954 to drive in more than 100
runs.
“It’s really, really rare for a player to get to
the big leagues that quickly, and not only
get there but to perform at such a high level,”
O’Connor says. “Now, he’s the face of
the franchise in Washington.”
But a serious shoulder injury, followed by
a minor hand injury, limited Zimmerman’s
playing time this season. To make matters
worse, the Nationals endured loss after loss,
ending the year in the NL cellar.
A tough season. But Zimmerman is a
tough guy. A few bumps haven’t diminished
his appreciation for the big picture.
“Not too many people get to play in the
big leagues at the age of 23,” Zimmerman
says. “I love it. It’s a pretty good job.”
To the casual observer, it’s a glamorous
job, requiring minimal effort. He “works”
about three hours a night, four if the game
goes into extra innings or if the pitchers
think each throw needs to be considered
with all the gravity of Plato’s Republic. Then,
he heads into the night and all that it implies.
The next day, he does it all over again.
The mistake, though, is thinking that
Zimmerman’s life is all play and no work.
He had a realization early in his career,
one that some players never quite grasp:
Playing Major League Baseball is a job. It
takes an enormous amount of talent to get
to “the show,” but any player who thinks talent
is all it takes to stay there won’t have a
long career.
And Zimmerman wants to play baseball
for a long, long time.
On the surface, Zimmerman’s schedule
is the stuff of dreams. He sleeps until
11 a.m., goes to the stadium, takes a little
batting practice, trots out to his position,
removes his hat for the national anthem,
bats four or five times, then fades
into the night. He arrives home and hits
the sack.
What’s not to like?
But there’s more to it than that.
Zimmerman’s day begins at 11 a.m. because
his work day doesn’t end until 2 a.m. He’s
not barhopping. He’s going over how he just
spent the previous three hours, analyzing
mistakes and savoring successes.
“It’s such a long season, and the things
you do off the field are almost more important
than the things you do on the field,”
Zimmerman says. “We play 162 games in
185 days. If you want to go out after, say, a
Friday night game, you can. But if you’re
doing that four nights a week, it’s going to
wear on you. You have to really take care of
yourself. I know what I can do at night and
what I can’t do. I know how I need to eat.”
He does not eat whatever he wants whenever
he wants.
“We have a team nutritionist,” Zimmerman
says. “They [the Nationals] have a
cook who works with the team and will
come to your house and help you with
Mark GorMuS
what to eat and how to prepare it.
“Eating right is one of the biggest parts.
I eat at home quite a bit. I can cook some.”
Zimmerman, who turned 24 in
September, lives in the Clarendon neighborhood
of Arlington. It’s an area filled
with condominiums, restaurants and bars.
Zimmerman moves around the area freely.
He’s recognized, but that’s as much because
he’s a neighborhood resident as it is he’s a
Major League Baseball player.
At one of his favorite neighborhood
spots one afternoon this summer,
he was able to sit quietly
and enjoy his lunch—a cup of
soup, Caesar salad with chicken
and a glass of water.
He had a game against the
Colorado Rockies in six hours.
He needed a good meal, not a
heavy meal.
Zimmerman’s home in
Northern Virginia is just 15 minutes
from his “office,” depending
on traffic. The roads seldom are crowded
when he heads out in the early afternoon,
so he drives instead of taking the Metro.
Zimmerman arrives at Nationals Stadium
by 2 p.m., 2:30 at the latest, for a 7
p.m. game. He then begins an afternoon of
preparation that involves little down time.
“You get treatment, if you need it,” he
says.
From late May until the middle of July,
Zimmerman needed a lot of treatment. He
suffered a small tear in the labrum of his
“He’s serious about
what he does, but he
still maintains a
good attitude and
has fun with it.”
Ryan Zimmerman
left shoulder while sliding into second base.
He had to go on the disabled list for the
first time in his career—high school, college
or professional.
Instead of fielding those 60 ground
balls before each game, Zimmerman
worked on strengthening his shoulder.
Instead of taking batting practice and
stretching with his teammates, he headed
to the training room.
“The first thing we had to do was force
him to rest,” says Nationals head athletic
trainer Lee Kuntz. “He’s so active, and he
wanted to keep playing. As he progressed,
his daily activities would increase.
“He was a model patient, and he’s a model
player,” Kuntz says. “Some guys, when
they get hurt, want to hide. They don’t want
to be around their teammates because they
feel like they’re letting them down.
“Ryan was very supportive of his teammates,
and they of him. He’s hard not to
like. He’s serious about what he does, but
he still maintains a good attitude and has
fun with it.”
No sooner had Zimmerman returned
to action than he was hurt again. This
time, he was at bat, with two strikes,
when the pitch, a sinker, caught him
squarely on his right hand. The injury
kept him out for a week. When he came
back, he rarely missed a game and finished
the season strong.
One reason for that is what he goes
through every day to get ready to play.
With the opening of Nationals Park this
season, he could hardly ask for a better
place to prepare.
The clubhouse is luxurious, with
thick, dark blue carpeting. The dressing
stalls are large enough to fit two players,
and posts shaped like baseball bats separate
the stalls. Several big-screen televisions
dominate the center of the room,
which sports a large “Nationals” emblem
on the carpet.
And that’s just the dressing area. The
hallways lead to a dining area, weight
rooms, trainer’s rooms, massage rooms
and video rooms with computers offering
every pitch and every at-bat of every player
in the league.
The video room is a regular stop for
Zimmerman. “I’ll watch the pitcher’s last
start. You can adjust it so you see only what
he does against right-handed pitchers. You
can see what he does with runners in scoring
position,” he says
After he’s reviewed as much footage as
he wants, Zimmerman heads to the indoor
batting cage. He’ll spend 20 to 30
minutes there, working with the batting
tee. He swings and swings and swings his
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Ryan Zimmerman plays for the
Washington Nationals now,
but he began his baseball career
like everyone else—playing in the
backyard. From there, he moved on to
Little League, then to his middle school
and high school teams.
When he reached his senior year at
Kellam High School in Virginia Beach,
coaches from three colleges expressed an
interest in having him join their programs:
James Madison University, the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
and the University of North Carolina
at Wilmington. It wasn’t until late in
34-inch, 32-ounce bat, working to keep
his swing pattern smooth and consistent.
He breaks a good sweat, which helps him
loosen up for the pregame warmups on
the field.
For all his talk about the serious nature
of his job, Zimmerman finds plenty of
opportunities to keep loose. The Nationals
stretch before each game. It’s a low-key,
laugh-filled session, and Zimmerman
keeps a steady banter going.
“All these guys are kids anyway,” Zimmerman
says. “I have fun. That’s the way
I look at it.”
Pregame batting practice, though, is no
laughing matter. It’s 15 minutes of a threeman
rotation. Each man takes several sets
of five swings, then four, then three.
After the pregame work is done,
Zimmerman changes into his game uniform
for nine innings of thrills, spills and,
occasionally, mundane innings where no
ground balls come his way.
Then, there are nights when the ball al-
The base path to the big league
the year that Virginia approached him.
“Virginia was the only major conference
school to offer me any kind of
scholarship money,” he says.
Charlottesville and the Atlantic Coast
Conference won out over the
other schools.
“I was serious about baseball,
but I never thought I had a serious
chance to play in the majors
until I got to college and had a
good year,” Zimmerman says.
He switched from shortstop
to third base and played
well as a freshman and
ways seems to come his way. In an August
game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, he
started four double plays (one was unassisted)
and just missed on a fifth.
“If you’re having a bad game or a bad
streak offensively, you can’t let it carry
over to the field and affect you defensively,”
Zimmerman says. “You have to do
whatever you can to help the team win.
You have to be a complete player.”
The Nationals won that game, something
that happened with little frequency
this season.
On the mid-August night they play the
Rockies, the Nationals suffer another loss.
The Nationals lead early, forging ahead
after the game is tied, but a three-run
fifth inning by the Rockies is too much to
overcome.
Afterward, the Nationals clubhouse is quiet
and all but deserted when the sports writers
enter. Outfielder Lastings Milledge walks in
and is surrounded by writers looking for a
quick quote to plug into their game stories.
sophomore. After his sophomore season,
he played on Team USA and had
an outstanding summer. Agents began
talking to him, and he knew he was on
to something big.
“I realized if I worked hard and continued
to get better my last [third] year,” Zimmerman
says, “I had a chance to do this.”
Now, the test is to stay healthy and
bounce back from the Nationals’ losing
season. “He’s a tough kid, and he’ll
figure it out,” says U.Va. head baseball
coach Brian O’Connor. “He’s
shown glimpses of what he’s capable
of doing.”
Zimmerman comes in a few moments
later. He is cordial, as always, but subdued.
His evening has not been a total loss.
He drove in a run. At this point of the season,
he’s still shaking off some of the rust
from his two-months-plus layoff.
“I’m feeling better at the plate, and I’m
making progress every day,” Zimmerman
says. “But I wish we would have won.”
In a few moments, he’ll be in a large
tub filled with ice-cold water. Several
teammates might join him, and as they
chill their muscles, they’ll go over what
just took place on the field.
After that, Zimmerman will shower
and head for home. Nine hours later, he’s
at it again. And no matter what happened
the night before, he’s always eager to get
to the stadium, where 20 ground balls to
his right, 20 to his left and 20 straight at
him await.
“I wouldn’t want to do anything else,”
he says.
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• The 9th Civil War Conference: Petersburg to Appomattox
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Picture this
The virginia Magazine Photo Contest
38 University of virginia Magazine
More than 100 entries from students, alumni and faculty
poured in for the virginia Magazine Photo Contest, which
sought pictures that captured the spirit of the University.
The Judges
The contest was judged
by professional photographers
Robert
Llewellyn and Luca
DiCecco, U.Va. photography
professor William Wylie and
members of the magazine staff.
Although students captured first,
second and third places, alumni
and faculty are well represented in
the pages that follow the prize
winners (the table of contents
image is also a contest submission).
For more pictures, an
online gallery of entries is at
uvamagazine.org.
First Place ($200 prize)
M. Sean Peach (Col ’04)
The pond near the Curry
School is one of Sean
Peach’s favorite places on
Grounds because he says it
“has become a place where
students meet, where
friendships grow and couples
find comfort in each
other.” The star trails in the night sky resulted
from the earth’s rotation during the hour
of combined exposure that produced this
picture, taken with a Canon 5D. “I decided
to try to picture the pond at night because
that usually brings out more vivid colors
than what we can see with our eyes,” says
Peach, who is currently pursuing an M.D./
Ph.D. at U.Va. “I almost gave up on the shot
because it got extremely cold that night and
my toes toward the end were freezing. But
once I got home and viewed it on the computer,
it was well worth it.”
winTer 2008 39

the Best of the rest
Second Place ($150 prize)
Daniel L. Garner (Col ’11)
While taking photos with his Nikon D50
during an early morning last fall, Garner says he
was suddenly taken by the red row of trees beside
Sarah Pergolizzi (Col ’10) • Beta Bridge, “Every Messy Layer”
the brick path to the Corner, framed between
the pillars. “I had never seen the pillars like this
before,” says Garner, who is majoring in English
and religion. “It is hard to believe things we look
at every day can be so much more if we see them
under the right light.”
Leslie Atchley (Col ’05) • Beta Bridge, two days after Sept. 11, 2001
Third Place ($100 prize)
David Sawchak (Col ’11)
“The clouds, backlit by the moon, presented a stunning
backdrop for the Rotunda, and I wanted to capture
that in an image,” says Sawchak, who is majoring in com-
puter science. “The students meeting on the steps shows
that even the most historic of the University’s buildings
are still popular meeting places.” This photograph was
taken with a Canon Digital Rebel XTi. Sawchak, who
particularly enjoys photographing theatrical performances,
is the darkroom manager for the Virginia Photo Club.
Sue Kell (Educ ’79, ’03, ’07) • U.Va. Chapel in a wet morning snow
Anna K. Samaha (Arch ’07)
• A view from a Rotunda keyhole in late fall
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Kirk Martini (Faculty) • A gathering of architecture faculty at the Eric Goodwin Memorial
Jim Sullivan (Grad ’70) • The Darden School quadrangle
Adam Meurer (Grad ’06) • Pavilion I door
Bob Schroedter (Engr ’96)
• Seven Society sundial
Michael Ellis (Engr ’09) • Brooks Hall at dawn
Chris Park (Col ’97)
• First football game
For more pictures, an
online gallery of entries
is at uvamagazine.org.
Tom Bass (Col ’96) • Reflection of Rotunda in Pavilion I window
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Bicycling in Holland April 17-25
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Poland, Hungary, Austria and
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Golfi ng in Ireland August 14-22
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RESEARCH&DISCOVERY
A
switching mechanism in the eye plays
a key role in regulating the sleep
and wake cycles in mammals,
U.Va. biologists have found.
Light receptor cells in the eye are
central to setting the rhythms of the
brain’s primary timekeeper, the suprachiasmatic
nuclei, which regulates
activity and rest cycles. “The finding is
significant because it changes our understanding
of how light input from the eye can affect activity and
sleep patterns,” says Susan Doyle, the study’s lead investigator.
The findings were recently published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers discovered that they could reverse the temporal
niche of mice—in other words, they were able to switch the animals’
activity phase from their normal night activity to being diurnal,
or day active. They accomplished this by reducing the intensity
of light given to normal mice and by creating a mutated
line of mice with reduced light sensitivity in their eyes. The mutated
mice were fully active in the day but inactive at night, a
complete reversal of their usual cycle.
46 University of virginia Magazine
Breaking the Law and Battling Demons
U.Va. engineers aim to solve burning computer problem
are very hot now, so hot that they are not ‘lap’
tops anymore,” says Avik Ghosh, a U.Va. assistant profes-
“Laptops
sor of engineering. He’s referring to the intense heat generated
by computers, a byproduct of ever-increasing processing
speeds. Unfortunately, that heat has to go somewhere—in this case,
into your lap.
“The prediction is that if we continue at our current pace of
miniaturization, these devices will be as hot as the sun in 10 or 20
years,” Ghosh adds.
To head off this problem, Ghosh and fellow
U.Va. engineering professor Mircea Stan
are re-examining no less than the Second Law
of Thermodynamics. The law states that, left
to itself, heat will transfer from a hotter unit
to a cooler one—in this case between electrical
computer components—until both have
roughly the same temperature, a state known
as thermal equilibrium.
The possibility of breaking this law will require
the researchers to solve a scientifically
controversial theory called Maxwell’s Demon.
According to this theory, the energy flow from
hot to cold could be disrupted if there were a
way to control the transfer of energy between
the two units. One component could take the
Setting the Biological Clock
Study shows eye cells help regulate our wake and sleep cycles
heat while the other worked at a lower temperature, but such a scenario
could only be accomplished if the degree of natural disorder,
or entropy, were reduced. Such is the “demon” in Maxwell’s
Demon.
“Device engineering is typically based on operating near thermal
equilibrium,” Ghosh says. But, he adds, there are examples in nature
of biological cells that operate outside thermal equilibrium.
“Chlorophyll, for example, can convert photons into energy in highly
efficient ways that seem to violate traditional
thermodynamic expectations,” he says.
Ghosh and Stan also are re-examining a
closely related concept, Brownian “ratchets,”
which proposes that devices could be engineered
to convert nonequilibrium electrical
activity into directed motion, allowing energy
to be harvested from a heat source.
If computers could be made with components
that operate outside thermal equilibrium,
it could mean better computer performance.
Laptops wouldn’t scald their operators as they
process larger amounts of information at faster
speeds. Also, they could operate at extremely
low power levels and have the ability to harness
power dissipated by other functions—
increasing battery life.
“The significance of this research for
humans is that it could ultimately lead
to new treatments for sleep disorders,
perhaps even eye drops that
would target neural pathways to
the brain’s central timekeeper,”
says Doyle.
Biological clocks are the body’s
complex network of internal oscillators
that regulate daily activity and rest cycles and other important
aspects of physiology, including body temperature, heart
rate and food intake. In addition to sleep disorders, research in
this field may eventually help treat the negative effects of shift
work, aging and jet lag.
As the U.S. population ages, a growing number of people are
developing visual impairments that can result in sleep disorders.
“Currently, one in 28 Americans age 40 and over suffer from
blindness or low vision, and this number is estimated to double
in the next 15 years,” Doyle says. “Our discovery of the switching
mechanism in the eye has direct relevance with respect to the
eventual development of therapies to treat circadian and sleep
disorders in the visually impaired.”
In the world of alternative fuels, there may be nothing greener
than pond scum.
An interdisciplinary team of U.Va. researchers is now investigating
algae and other potential sources of energy—including black
solar cells and nanotech fuel cells—with support from U.Va.’s new
Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant.
Algae, for instance, are tiny biological factories
that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide
and sunlight into energy so efficiently that
they can double their weight several times a day. A
research team is now trying to determine exactly
how promising algae biofuel production can be by
experimenting with the levels of carbon dioxide
and organic matter fed to algae to increase algae
oil yields.
Elsewhere on Grounds, chemical engineering
professor Steven McIntosh is working with a team
on fuel cell technology that doesn’t rely on hydrogen
as the fuel. Hydrogen is both difficult and
dangerous to store and distribute, and most of it
derives from oil and gas, which does little to reduce
fossil fuel use.
“There’s not going to be a silver bullet to solve
the problem, so we’ve got to pursue multiple approaches,”
says McIntosh.
R&D in Brief
Fuel for Thought
Interdisciplinary teams investigate different types of alternative energy
Taste test
In a study published in the American Journal of Human
Genetics, U.Va. Health System researchers reported that two interacting
genes related to bitter taste sensitivity play an important
role in a person’s development of nicotine dependence and smoking
behavior. They found that people with higher taste sensitivity
aren’t as likely to become dependent on nicotine as those with
decreased taste sensitivity. Previous studies have suggested a link
between so-called taster status and nicotine dependence, but genetic
evidence underlying such a link has been lacking.
Taste sensitivity varies widely among individuals and between
ethnic groups. For this study, researchers examined genetic data of
more than 2,000 participants.
“We’re laying an important foundation for addressing nicotine
dependence,” says Ming Li, a U.Va. professor of psychiatry and behavioral
neurosciences. “First we need to establish a comprehensive
understanding of how all associated genes work together to affect
smoking behaviors and addiction; that’s what we’re doing now.”
A lab in the palm of your hand
Using new “lab on a chip” technology, U.Va. professor of
chemistry and mechanical engineering James Landers aims to create
a hand-held device that will allow physicians, crime scene investigators,
pharmacists and even the general public to quickly
conduct DNA tests without the need for a laboratory.
One project involves applying new nanoscale structures to try to
create a new type of solar cell that will gather the energy of sunlight
to electrochemically split water into its molecular components of
oxygen and hydrogen, which could provide a renewable source of
hydrogen. Another project uses similar nanoscale structures to bypass
hydrogen and create a new type of fuel cell that can
transform renewable biofuels like biodiesel directly into
electricity.
Increasing the efficiency of solar cells is the focus of
another U.Va. research team. Solar cells reflect 5 percent
to 10 percent of the light energy reaching their
surface. Using lasers, researchers will create tiny
nanoscale surface textures, called nanospikes, that
reduce the energy loss to less than 1 percent.
The gain in light absorption from nanospikes
may enable the creation of solar cells that are 2 percent
to 3 percent more efficient than the current
technology. That may not sound like much, but
“in the solar industry, a 1 percent efficiency improvement
is a big deal,” says Mool Gupta, a
professor of electrical and chemical engineering
who developed this laser texturing process.
Such gains in efficiency and reduced manufacturing
costs are helping drive the rapid growth
of solar energy, Gupta says.
“We are simplifying and miniaturizing the analytical processes
so we can do this work in the field, away from traditional
laboratories, with very fast analysis times, and at a greatly reduced
cost,” says Landers, who is also an associate professor of
pathology. He recently published a review of his team’s research
and the emerging field of lab-on-a-chip technology in the journal
Analytical Chemistry.
Such a device could be used in a doctor’s office, for example, to
quickly test for an array of infectious diseases, as well as for cancer
or genetic defects. Because of the quick turnaround time, patients
would be able get a diagnosis while they waited.
Advancing cancer treatment
U.Va. researchers Kevin R. Lynch and Timothy L.
MacDonald have developed novel therapeutic compounds
that could aid in the fight against cancer. The compounds affect
the signaling molecule lysophosphatidic acid, blocking
the growth of new blood vessels that are key to the spread and
survival of tumors. These compounds could serve as effective
treatments for patients with solid tumors, breast cancer and
ovarian cancer.
“Solid tumors, as they grow, must attract new blood vessels,”
says Lynch, a professor of pharmacology and biochemistry and
molecular genetics. “If they don’t, they die. The idea of treating
cancer with a drug that blocks the growth of new blood vessels
has been around for several decades. Reducing that concept to
practice, however, has proven extremely difficult.”
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SPORTS
The Women
Two veterans—Lyndra Littles (Col ’09) and Aisha Mohammed
(Col ’08)—provide savvy, strength and a wealth of experience for the
women’s team this year. Littles, a 6-1 forward, has high expectations
after last season’s 24-10 run.
“I will be livid if we don’t win an ACC championship and if we
don’t contend for a national championship,” she says.
“My own goal is to get to the Final Four,” says Mohammed, a 6-3 center.
Cavalier fans can expect the same fast-paced, smart attack, although
Littles says, “We may not have the prettiest system like we did last year
with Sharneé.” Third-year guard Monica Wright, an All-American honorable
mention last season, will provide the backcourt leadership.
Mohammed, from Nigeria, brings extensive international experience
to an already seasoned squad. She also brings tenacity and strength.
“It’s basically like you have a brick wall down there,” Littles says of
Mohammed.
Losing to Old Dominion in overtime in the NCAA Tournament
last year still stings. “That was the kind of experience and lesson that
we learned from,” says Mohammed.
Tall Order
Teams look to front court for
balance, leadership
With Sean Singletary
and Sharneé Zoll providing
leadership and
fireworks for U.Va.’s basketball
teams, last season could easily
have been characterized as the
Year of the Guards.
Both players have gone on to
the ranks of professional basketball,
so now the Cavaliers will
look to the front court for more
points and power this season.
It’s a tall order—but bring it
on, the players say.
The Men
Jamil Tucker (Col ’10) and Mike Scott (Col ’11) make no
bones about the departure of Singletary. He will be missed, but
there won’t be a void.
“Now you can look forward to seeing more input from a different
variety of players,” says Tucker, a third-year forward listed
at 6-9 and 241 pounds. “It will be a more team-based season.”
“We all know that Sean is gone,” says Scott, a second-year
forward at 6-8 and 233 pounds. “I think we’re working extra
hard. The season relies on confidence. If everyone is confident
in their play, if everyone is confident in every shot they
take and the defensive positions they take, then I think we’ll
do well.”
Defense—always a focus for Coach Dave Leitao’s teams—
will again be key. Tucker also wants to improve his shot-blocking
ability and his ball handling. Scott has been working on
better consistency from game to game and expanded leadership
in Singletary’s wake. “It’s kind of hard, but I’m trying to learn
how to be the leader. I’ve never really been in that position.”
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Lyndra Littles
Aisha
Mohammed
Jamil Tucker
Mike Scott
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SPORTS
Pitched Battle
Midfielder Tony Tchani traps the ball during the Cavaliers’ 1-0 victory
over Clemson at Klöckner Stadium Oct. 10. A header by Tchani (Col ’12)
led to the game-winning score by Chase Neinken (Col ’10).
From PKs to FGs
Soccer skills help Cavalier placekicker
Yannick Reyering (Col ’09) grew up
in Germany kicking a round ball
into a net.
When he came to U.Va., he had the
same focus—and he put the ball into the
net 39 times in a three-year career that included
multiple All-ACC honors.
This spring, Reyering stepped into a different
world and began kicking an oblong
ball through uprights.
His friends in Germany don’t know what
to make of it. “They see me kicking in a
football uniform, and they’re like, ‘Hey,
you’ve got to call me and tell me the rules.
What are you doing? Why are you not playing
soccer?’”
He’s not playing soccer because his eligibility
ran out and he injured his left knee.
Reyering spoke recently about his radical
shift in sports.
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When did you first kick an
American football?
Yannick
Reyering
In April. The first time I did it,
I was out with [former U.Va. placekicker]
Chris Gould. I tried to imitate
him, but I soon realized that
every kicker has his own style.
Soccer is constant motion. Do
you get frustrated having to wait
on the sidelines?
Absolutely. The kickers are most
of the time doing their own thing
and watching the other guys out
there running as hard as they can
and getting really exhausted, and
we’re just standing on the sidelines.
What appeals to you about
football?
I took all the penalty kicks in soccer, so
that’s kind of a high-pressure moment.
Kicking field goals obviously is a high-pressure
job, too. I like being under pressure, in
the spotlight.
JiM DaveS
You had a bright future
in soccer—drafted
by FC Dallas—
before injuring your
knee. Are your soccer
days over?
In some ways, yes. I
had a bunch of tryouts
when I went home over
the summer, but I just
had really bad tendinitis
that kept me from
going out there every
day playing soccer—
running, cutting, spinning
and stuff. The
doctors said it’s a mat-
ter of time, so hopefully it will get better.
Do you have a favorite pro football team?
I like the Cowboys, for whatever reason
that is (laughs). I’ve always liked Dallas as a
city, and Tony Romo and TO [Terrell
Owens] have always been fun to watch.
Short Game Gold
Birdwood facility a gem for golfers
Drive for show, putt for dough.
That sums up the importance
of the short game for most golfers,
and members of U.Va.’s men’s and women’s
golf teams would be hard pressed to find
better facilities to practice pitching, chipping
and putting.
“This is, I would have to bet, as good as
any university golf course practice facility in
the country,” says Martin Winters (Col
’95), director of golf operations at Birdwood
Golf Course. “It’s phenomenal.”
Kim Lewellen, head coach of the U.Va.
women’s golf team, appreciates the benefit for
her players. “The short game, 100 yards and
in, makes up 70 percent of one’s round of
golf,” she says. “We are fortunate to have such
an outstanding practice short-game facility at
Birdwood to hone those scoring shots.”
Designers carved out the tees, greens and
Jack lOOney
Surprise of a Lifetime
Val Ackerman (Col ’81) honored
for achievements in basketball
Val Ackerman’s trip to China for
the 2008 Olympics will be memorable
for several reasons.
For one, both the men’s and women’s
teams won gold medals, which was gratifying
for Ackerman (Col ’81) in her role
as president of USA Basketball.
For another, she learned she had been
tapped to receive a lifetime achievement
award from the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame.
“It was a huge surprise,” Ackerman recalls.
“The night of the award, I was not
even going to be in the country.”
She changed her travel plans and
was on hand in September to receive
the 2008 John W. Bunn Lifetime
Achievement Award.
“It was something I’m very humbled
about. For me, just being able to work in
basketball for the past 20 years has been
its own reward,” Ackerman says.
Those two decades include being the
founding president of the WNBA, a
league that has grown from eight to 14
teams since starting in 1996. She also became
the first woman president of USA
Basketball in 2005.
bunkers on 4½ acres that once served as a
sort of natural nursery. The greens meet
USGA specifications, and one is used solely
for putting.
“We built it relatively flat so you can
work on mechanics,” Winters says.
Different grasses—Bermuda and some
rye—combine with varied slopes to give
golfers all kinds of challenges—downhill
She credits her time at the University,
where she was a two-time Academic All-
American, with laying the groundwork
for her success. “I had a rigorous academic
program,” she says. “The educational
and social experience was amazing, and
to be a student-athlete there was a unique
experience.”
Now, in addition to fostering the
growth of a sport that is becoming increasingly
global, Ackerman is watching
developments in her own family. Sally,
the younger of her two daughters, is
keeping the hoops tradition alive.
“It’s great just to see her out there,”
Ackerman says. “She’s got a great shot.”
flops, uphill lobs, digging out of deep sand
or thick rough, hitting from steep slopes.
Though the facility is not open to the
public, players in the Birdwood Golf
Academy and various junior golf camps
also use it. “It’s a real asset for all of us, to be
able to practice the short game,” Winters
says. “And that’s really what golf is all
about.”
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SPORTS
Master of the Madhouse
Sports Shorts
Dan Bonner calls the action
at college hoops’ premier event
Winter is Dan Bonner’s busy season.
As a color analyst for men’s college
basketball, he will crisscross the
country throughout the regular season, calling
games night after night for several television
outlets.
But the real thrill comes in March, when
Bonner (Col ’75) will be in the thick of things,
seated at the epicenter of the sports universe.
That’s when he takes a courtside chair at a first- Dan Bonner
weekend site of the NCAA Tournament—the
madhouse that is college basketball’s premier
event.
“It’s a good madhouse,” says Bonner. “It’s
fun—it’s the kind of thing someone in my line
of work wants to do.”
Bonner played for Virginia from 1971 to 1975, then headed up
the Cavaliers’ women’s basketball program for two seasons, where he
met his wife, Terry, the team’s captain and most valuable player on
the 1975-76 team. After leaving coaching, Bonner entered the
broadcasting world as a radio color analyst in Charlottesville.
Once the NCAA brackets are selected and released, Bonner goes
Olympic Gold
Rower Lindsay Shoop and
soccer player Angela Hucles have
something in common, in addition
to being former studentathletes
at U.Va.
Each brought home gold
medals from the Olympics in
Beijing this summer. Hucles (Col ’00) led the
U.S. soccer team in scoring on the way to her
second Olympic gold medal. Shoop (Col ’03)
won as a member of the women’s eight-person
rowing team.
Two other rowers won bronze medals—
Wyatt Allen (Col ’01) in the men’s eight squad
and Melanie Kok (Col ’07) rowing for Canada in
the women’s lightweight double sculls team.
Pro Picks
When the Women’s Professional Soccer
league held its first general draft this fall, two
former Cavalier stars went in the first round.
Former All-Americans Sarah Huffman (Educ
’07, Grad ’07) and Becky Sauerbrunn (Col ’09)
were picked first and third, respectively, by the
Washington Freedom. Fellow Cavalier Lori
Lindsey (Col ’03), also an All-American while
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at U.Va., was picked in the third round, 17th
overall, by the Freedom.
The WPS will field seven teams when play
begins in April.
Living Legend
Football standout
Tiki Barber, the all-time
leading rusher for the
Cavaliers, was selected
this fall to join 11 other
athletes as ACC Football
Championship
Game Legends.
Barber (Com ’97)
rushed for 3,389 yards
in his career, including
19 games of 100 yards or more, still a school
record. He went on to lead the New York Giants
in rushing as well during a 10-season
career that ended with his retirement in 2006.
In the Pool
Second-year Scot Robison will join an elite
group of U.S. swimmers headed to Serbia in July.
Robison (Col ’11) was one of 26 swimmers
named to the 2009 World University Games
roster based on his performance at the U.S.
Open Championships in Minneapolis this sum-
to work immediately, learning tidbits about the teams at his opening
weekend site in order to provide America’s armchair point guards
with as much information as humanly possible. After almost two
decades at the event, Bonner is a veteran of the tournament’s grind
and has mastered the strenuous preparation process.
“I don’t know that it gets easier, but you understand
how to do it,” says Bonner. “I’ve done
it 19 times now, and once you’ve done it you
have a very thorough understanding of it.”
Bonner no longer coaches high school girls’
basketball when he’s not calling games because
the Virginia High School League changed the
season for the sport from fall to winter, so
down time for Bonner is strictly down time.
During the offseason, you’ll likely find him
visiting one of his three college-age children,
or you’ll find him at home in quiet Staunton,
completing a home improvement project.
“I’ve never been a big ‘bright lights, big
city’ kind of guy,” says Bonner. “I’ve always
been one of those do-it-yourself guys.”
Still, when March rolls around, Bonner is back, explaining a
small conference squad’s fast-break style or an ACC juggernaut’s
ability to feed its post players.
“I’m fortunate to have a job that I love,” says Bonner. “The reason
I enjoy it so much is that I enjoy the whole atmosphere. As long
as people want me to do it, I’ll keep doing it.” —Robert Isley
mer. At that meet, he finished third in both the
100-meter free and the 200-meter free, as well
as 11th in the 100-meter butterfly.
Honoring Dr. McCue
Jeff Jones (Col ’82), former U.Va. men’s basketball
player and coach, and current head coach
at American University, was the keynote speaker
at this year’s McCue Society meeting in June.
Named in honor of Dr. Frank C. McCue III (Col
’52, Med ’56), professor emeritus of orthopaedic
surgery and longtime director of sports medicine
and team physician at U.Va., the society provides
a forum for sports medicine research and provides
scholarships for students in the field.
Jeff Jones and Frank McCue

ALUMNI NEWS
First-year student Yun Cheng arrived at U.Va. in August after a
30-hour plane trip from Beijing to Northern Virginia that
included a 10-hour layover in San Francisco.
So when she was met at Dulles Airport by volunteers, whisked to
Charlottesville in an air-conditioned bus with other students and
greeted with fruit, bagels, cookies, banners and more volunteers at
Tuttle Hall, she was appreciative.
“It’s nice to have a welcome like this,” Cheng says.
Cheng was among 100 students who began life at the University
Admission FAQs
Does my child need to be the president of the class,
play three varsity sports, walk dogs at the SPCA
and spend part of her summer at a leadership conference
in Amsterdam to be competitive at U.Va.?
No. “Quantity does not always mean quality,” says Jack
Blackburn, dean of admission. When students spread
themselves across too many activities, they can lose the
ability to be invested in any organization or club.
Secondly, there is no specific activity, trip or experience the admission
counselors are looking for on a college application. “Our
advice is to commit yourself to endeavors that are meaningful to
you,” he says. “This way you and the people or entity or critters you
serve will benefit.”
There is a common misconception that colleges look for stu-
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welcome wagon
UVaExpress provides bus rides, greetings for international students
with a warm welcome by UVaExpress. The program provides free
transportation and helpful hands for international students whose
entrée into the U.S. might otherwise be less than auspicious.
Such was the case of a student traveling from Singapore who had
to spend the night in a D.C. bus station in 2006. That was the last
straw for Gordon Kirtland (Col ’77, GSBA ’81), president of the
UVaClub of Singapore. He’d heard about similar travails in the past,
so he contacted the Office of Engagement and now provides funding
for the two-year-old program.
“They do all the work, and they do a great job at it, I must say,”
Kirtland says.
This year, he and his wife, Chew-Mee (GSBA ’81), accompanied
daughter Katie, a first-year student. One important part of the experience,
says Chew-Mee, is that it allows students to meet others in
similar circumstances. “They don’t feel so lonely.”
This year’s group included students from 23 countries and five
continents. With eight buses
and volunteers from 14 University
departments, UVaExpress
requires considerable
coordination. “That our volunteers
represent groups
from radiology at the U.Va.
Hospital to the Bolivar Network
in Washington, D.C.,
reflects a global awareness among University of Virginia faculty,
staff and alumni for the difficulty of acclimation to life in the U.S.
today,” says Kate Malay (Col ’05), a former assistant director of regional
engagement at the University.
The bus ride from Dulles to Charlottesville helps with that adjustment,
giving students a chance to bond and ask questions.
“One girl was very interested in seeing cows,” Kirtland says.
“Another was surprised at the number of churches.”
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dents involved in activities that require travel and money. Instead,
U.Va. admission counselors look for students involved in activities
that allow them to grow, to be stretched and to serve. These
opportunities are just as likely to be available in a student’s community
as they are to be offered thousands of miles away. While
some will travel to faraway lands to develop leadership, service
and responsibility, students can build the same skills while
spending a summer working at the local swimming pool.
“First and foremost, participate in activities you find meaningful.
Then let the Office of Admission know about them,” Blackburn
says. “We look forward to all you can bring to the University, in
and outside of the classroom.”
For details, visit virginia.edu/undergradadmission/transfer.html
and the Alumni Association’s Admission Liaison Program at
alumni.virginia.edu/admission.
the times, they Are A-Changin’
Flextime, telecommuting gain popularity
by Carter Hunter Hopkins
Director, Alumni Career Services
Are you a baby boomer, looking at work responsibilities in relation to retirement?
Are you a new graduate interested in a career that allows balance in your life?
Are you an employer wanting to achieve a stronger bottom line while retaining
the best employees?
More workers are making choices that contribute to greater professional and personal
success. On the flip side, businesses are examining innovative ways to increase
production and satisfy employees.
Flextime as a benefit has been growing in popularity within companies for more
than 20 years. Having the freedom to schedule work around personal matters is considered
a win-win situation by both employees and employers. New workers and seasoned
professionals alike expect organizations to provide flextime options, and the
most successful companies view it as a primary criterion for worker satisfaction. When
the job offer is extended and the benefits package is presented, having flextime as an
option can be the factor that seals the deal.
Telecommuting also is increasing in acceptance as traditional hierarchical corporate
structures evolve into forms that are more organic. Some jobs are more conducive than
others to independent work away from the traditional office setting, but workers in a
growing number of fields find that they can produce better results if they work from
home one to three days a week. High gas prices make this an even greater benefit.
To approach your employer about a flextime or telecommuting option, consider
these steps:
Assess your organization’s flex culture
• Talk with people in human resources
• Consider upper management’s commitment to flex options
• See if there are policies/procedures in place and a history regarding flextime
and telecommuting
Identify work elements that cannot be changed
• Clarify that these elements will remain unchanged
Determine where and when
• What types of flexible work arrangement(s) are you interested in proposing?
• How long do you plan to work this arrangement? Will it be short-term or a
permanent adjustment?
• What hours and days are you proposing to work away from the office and
from what location?
List responsibilities that can be accomplished away from the office
• Prime candidates are tasks that require uninterrupted time for accuracy or
completion
• Focus on ways to sustain or enhance the organization’s business objectives
List what equipment or services you will need to work from home
• The fewer on this list, the better
• Determine how you will deal with technical problems
Specify how you would handle emergencies and important in-house or client
meetings
• What backup plans do you have for child care or other outside responsibilities?
• Can you be flexible about when you work away from the office?
Determine how your work away from the office will be recorded and evaluated
• How often will you meet with your supervisor to discuss your performance?
winning Palette
Student’s eye for color earns prize
A
painting that began with bare tree
limbs and winter weather evolved
into a majestic mix of colors—and
a prize for one student.
Alli McKee (Col ’09) used techniques
learned in an Italian art class to bring complexities
of color to her painting of Pavilion
IX’s garden.
“My painting professor, Megan Marlatt,
taught me to put every color out on my palette
and to use each color in unexpected
ways,” McKee says. “When you look at a
scene in this way, red bricks become greens,
purples, yellows and pinks.”
Alli McKee’s award-winning painting
A double major in American studies
and studio art with a minor in English,
McKee was the winner of the U.Va.
Alumni Association’s 2009 student art
contest. McKee used funds from the
Alumni Association’s Leslie Baltz Fellowship
for her Italian art studies, as well as
classes in London.
“Art has always been one of my passions,”
says McKee, a Virginia Beach native.
“As much as I love to make art, I also enjoy
art education as a docent at the U.Va. Art
Museum and as a student in the art history
department. Sharing my love of art is one
of the most rewarding experiences I have
had at U.Va.”
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by Yixiao (Yolanda) Min (Col ’12)
When we think about the 2008 Beijing Olympics, what
comes to mind?
You might first shout out “Michael Phelps” and cite the
swimming legend’s eight gold medals. Or you may say hooray for
American gymnast Nastia Liukin’s marvelous performance. My Chinese
friends probably will cheer for the wonderful culture that was
clearly expressed during the opening ceremony.
But my memory of this summer goes beyond these. I not only
watched the Olympics in my home
country and my city, but I also
marched more than 50 meters through
the streets of Beijing with the Olympic
torch held aloft in my hand. And
that distance, short but precious, was
the most meaningful run of my life.
Thousands of my friends have
asked me one question: How did I get
that special honor as a torch bearer?
That’s a long story to tell.
First, some background. I graduated
from Chaoyang Foreign Language
School in Beijing and came to the
University of Virginia in August as a
first-year student. During my high
school years, I participated in many
student activities and devoted myself
in particular to lots of environmental
sciences studies. For example, my interest
in environmental awareness
helped me conduct a field study in the
Inner Mongolia area (northwestern
part of China) about grassland degradation
and its influence on social and
ecological development.
I felt particular interest in this
topic because we cannot make better
living conditions with the current
environmental crisis, nor can we expect
true economic development unless
we figure out how to find balance
between that development and protecting
the environment. I’m not a
policy maker—just an ordinary student—but
I can still use my knowledge
to do something for the community
around us.
My participation in environmental studies also links to my involvement
with the “Green Olympics,” which later became a significant factor
in my selection as a torch bearer. The Green Olympics was one of
the three themes for the Beijing Olympics, along with humanistic and
high-tech Olympics. According to the official Web site of the Beijing
2008 games, Green Olympics was designed to help China “prepare
A run to remember
Beijing native bears Olympic torch in China
Olympic Games in accordance with the principle of sustainable development,
which calls for the protection of environment, conservation of
resources and maintenance of ecological balance,” as well as to “raise
public awareness and leave a rich environmental heritage for both China
and the world.” My understanding of this theme is that Green
Olympics means building a greener city and a more environmentally
friendly society to welcome the Games.
I was first nominated in the summer of 2007 to be a torch bearer by
the Beijing Educational Committee.
After that, I submitted an essay to the
Beijing Olympics Committee and explained
my interests and efforts in
Green Olympics. That fall, I was informed
that I had been selected as a
torch bearer. I was almost crazy when I
got the notification from the Olympics
Committee because I suddenly realized
that’s such a huge honor for me.
As the Games grew near, I underwent
some simple but important training,
including how to carry the torch
in the correct manner and how to pass
it to the next torch bearer.
On Aug. 6, two days before the official
opening ceremony of the Games,
I joined the longest torch relay since
the tradition started in Berlin in 1936.
Under the theme “Journey of Harmony,”
the torch traveled for 129 days
across more than 137,000 kilometers
on six continents. I never imagined
that I would be carrying a flame that
originated at the ancient temple in
Athens and has the ability to bring the
world’s attention together. That’s a
magical power.
In addition to carrying the torch, I
attended many of the Olympic events
in Beijing. I saw tennis, swimming,
gymnastics and diving, and fell in love
with all of them.
I loved the 2008 Olympics. People
in China, especially in Beijing, did a really
wonderful job, and I’m really proud
of my country and my city now.
My experience as an Olympic torch bearer was like a dream come
true. The most important thing I took away from this experience was
the passion and friendship that this event encompasses. It’s something
about building a brighter world with the passion we have and walking
together toward our shared dream.
Min is a Jefferson Scholar who plans to study environmental sciences and
economics.
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Look, Listen and Speak Up
Keys to getting good health care
While health policy is a matter of national debate, making
sure you get good health care sometimes requires
little more than common sense—and speaking up.
Many of the communication skills that we use in our daily
lives apply to the health care setting as well. Getting to know
your doctors and nurses, reading about your care and keeping a
watchful eye can make a real difference in ensuring quality care,
according to Dorrie Fontaine, the new dean of the U.Va. School
of Nursing.
Fontaine’s approach to providing—and obtaining—good
health care revolves around the notion of healthy work environments.
While many of us were raised with the idea of the sacrosanct
and solitary doctor, Fontaine believes that good care these
days involves being actively engaged in the process, communicating
well and partnering with practitioners.
Depending on the severity of a patient’s condition, one person
may have a team of nurses, nurse practitioners, primary
care physicians and specialists. Add to this the different nurses
and doctors that a patient may see during shift rotations, and it’s clear
why continuity of care can become an issue if there is a communication
breakdown.
“In looking for a health care provider, you really want someone who
is a skilled communicator, who will partner with you and who seems
like a good listener,” Fontaine says.
She also recommends trying to observe how doctors, nurses and
staff treat each other. In an article in Nursing Management magazine
about creating healthier hospitals,
Fontaine makes the point that “unhealthy
work environments with
poor communication and collaboration
can harm patients and nurses,
leading to needless errors.”
In other words, Fontaine says, “If
someone doesn’t treat others in their
office well, there’s a chance they will
do the same to you.” Most people
have experienced the frustration and
hampered productivity that can result
from a dysfunctional workplace. The
same set of rules applies to the medical
workplace.
A patient’s family and friends are a
critical part of the health care team.
Many patients come into the office
having done some checking on the
Internet or having heard about a
medication on television. Fontaine
emphasizes that patients or family
members should do research and
make a list of questions ahead of time
to get the most out of their conference
with a doctor or nurse. “People
should speak up, definitely,” Fontaine
says. “Be polite and friendly, of course,
but don’t be afraid to ask questions.”
For friends and family members facing an extended stay in the hospital
with a patient, Fontaine suggests, “Give yourself a job—rub your
loved one’s back or feet, or sit close and read to them.” This will help ward
off feeling overwhelmed and provide a positive way to occupy the time.
Fontaine also recommends introducing yourself and the patient to
all the different nurses and doctors that come in, even coming up with
an “elevator speech” about their condition or care. “Get to know the
receptionist and managing nurse at the front desk. If you notice the
nurses doing something different
from shift to shift—one wearing
gloves while another does not, for
instance—go ahead and ask about
it.” Fontaine does not cite this example
randomly. “After all these
years, there all still issues with handwashing
compliance,” she says,
adding that this is particularly im-
portant in neonatal wards and intensive
care units.
Fontaine admits that interviewing
different doctors to find the
best care is a luxury that many
people don’t have. “I would suggest
talking to several different
practitioners and taking a trusted
friend or family member along,”
she says. Patients facing a major
crisis may be too nervous to take
notes or readily absorb what is being
said to them. A friend or family
member can help by writing
down the doctor’s points and sharing
impressions with the patient.
The more statistically minded can
check credentials, references and
even patient reviews online.
—Sarah Estes Graham
58 University of virginia Magazine winter 2008 59
Dorrie Fontaine
What does this bill mean?
Medical billing errors are a common problem in the
increasingly complex area of health care. Here are a
few navigation tips.
Review your explanation of benefits and always request
itemized paperwork.
Insurance companies often use an array of codes that
can be confusing. Make sure the bill has the correct
code, otherwise you might be charged for the wrong
procedure.
If you have multiple forms of insurance, know the allowed
amount (the contracted rate between the provider
and insurance company) for each form of insurance.
Review how the deductibles are being applied to
make sure that you are not being double-billed.
As with all things medical, when in doubt, ask. Get a
second opinion, talk to your insurance company and be
an active partner in your own health care.
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ARTS
In a tiny black lacquer box, Caroline
Lindemann keeps one of her favorite
miniature books, a 120-year-old Japanese
fortune-telling book called an omikuji. The
inch-thick book, printed on the thinnest rice
paper, miraculously survived World War II
to find its way to a Tokyo book dealer, where
Lindemann eventually discovered it.
“I can hold it up as tall as I am and let
the pages fall to the floor,” she says.
Attached at the seams, the pages cascade
down in a delicate accordion, more than
five feet in length.
The omikuji is one of just a few miniature
books that Lindemann has kept for
herself from her singular collection. The
rest, some 11,000 tiny tomes, she donated
in 2005 to the Albert and Shirley Small
Special Collections Library. As she continues
to collect, the number continues to
grow; at last count, the McGehee
Lindemann Miniature Book Collection
had inched up to 13,000. Accumulated
over 40 years, the collection spans six centuries
and a great number of countries, with
volumes in more than 30 languages.
The Miniature Book Society defines a
miniature book as any book less than three
inches on each side. Historically, such tiny
books served a purpose. Some were made
miniature for portability; some to be tucked
into packages as advertisements; some to
accommodate the small hands of children.
Others were made small because their content
was controversial, and they needed to
be easily concealed. The primary motive
62 University of virginia Magazine
Miniature Literature
The Small Library’s big collection of little books
printers have to produce miniature books
today is one that has persisted through
time: artisanship.
The earliest miniature books are thought
to be devotionals, handprinted by monks
on vellum paper. With the advent of moveable
type, printers produced all kinds of
books in miniature: almanacs, calendars,
thumb bibles and works of literature. These
tiny volumes found their way into the
hands of some very large figures in history:
President Abraham Lincoln carried a miniature
prayer book with him when he was a
young lawyer; Queen Anne Boleyn carried
a gold-bound miniature book of psalms to
her execution.
Lindemann gave U.Va. her collection in
memory of her first husband, C. Coleman
McGehee (Com ’47). It contains a breathtaking
variety of miniature books, currently
undergoing cataloguing by a librarian hired
specifically to manage the inventory. There
are tiny albums of family photographs,
leather-bound sets of Shakespeare’s plays,
Victorian pop-up books and paper dolls,
and shelves and shelves of bibles and
prayer books.
“I like the fact that they’re real books,”
she says. “A great many of them I’ve read,
and I’ve learned many amazing things. The
work involved is flabbergasting.”
There are profiles of Civil War generals
printed in 1888, intended to be tucked into
packs of Duke’s cigarettes. There is one of
the first printed copies of the Emancipation
Proclamation, printed in miniature for dis-
tribution to slaves and Union soldiers.
Inside a box done in tartan plaid are several
books of Robert Burns’ poetry, arranged
around a magnifying glass fit snugly over a
tiny portrait of the poet himself. A commemorative
book from the 1904 St. Louis
World’s Fair contains pictures of all the expositions
and pavilions, the first and last of
its accordioned pages glued to the twin
halves of a walnut shell.
Lindemann’s interest in miniature books
dates to her childhood. Her family lived in
France for three years, and her parents encouraged
her to keep only miniature things
because they were easier to carry. But her
book collection did not begin in earnest
until she befriended a Richmond woman
who was a collector herself with connections
to miniature book printers all over the
world. When the woman died, Lindemann
purchased her collection.
How the Small Library plans to present
the McGehee Lindemann collection has yet
to be determined. “It’s a challenge for us to
house these and to present them to the
public,” says Heather Riser, head of the library’s
public services. “They’re very small
and not uniform.” But Riser says she is glad
to have the challenge. “It’s certainly a diversion
from our normal scholarly thing.”
Meanwhile, Lindemann is still buying
miniature books. She has her eye on the
first book published about contraception;
its printer was briefly jailed for having produced
it. “I can’t seem to stop,” she says.
“It’s been the joy of my life.”—Gina Welch
lucA Dicecco
JAne HAley
Aerial balletics were on display in
one of the many arrestingly choreographed
pieces in “Strands in
Motion,” a fall dance concert that showcased
original work by both faculty and students.
Encompassing two styles, modern
and belly dance, the event explored a
variety of themes. In her aerial
composition, dance lecturer
Rose P. Beauchamp
explored flow and flight, using fabric hung
from the ceiling to aid the dancers’ motion.
Dance instructor Keira Hart’s “To Have and
To Hold” was a meditation on men and
So Modern
Dance students take the stage
women and their constant searching and
wanting—to be seen, held and loved. Using
the language of movement, students created
pieces that explored concepts as various as
the fall of man, the passage of time and the
power of conforming to standards. Colleen
Shendow (Col ’10), who is minoring in
dance, created a modern composition about
the property of cells, using blue and green
squishy balls. The fall concert at Culbreth
Theatre was the second such performance
since the University created a dance program
within the College of Arts & Sciences in
2004, at the urging of students.
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ARTS
RequiRed Reading
Vanessa L. Ochs is a U.Va. associate
professor of religious studies and author
most recently of Sarah Laughed and Inventing
Jewish Ritual, which won the
2007 National Jewish Book Award in
the category of contemporary Jewish
life and practice.
new&notable
Who Killed the Constitution?
The Fate of
American Liberty from
World War I to George
W. Bush
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
and Kevin R.C. Gutzman
(Grad ’94, ’99)
The Crown Publishing
Group
The authors go beyond
complaints about judicial activism to
expose the guilt of Democrats and Republicans,
presidents, congresses and judges
alike. They reveal just how widespread the
attacks on the Constitution are and expose
the “dirty dozen”—the 12 assaults that have
destroyed the government the Founding
Fathers designed.
Dragon Wishes
Stacy A. Nyikos
(Grad ’00)
Blooming Tree Press
Intended for readers
in middle grades,
this novel follows the
journey of two girls,
Shin Wa and Alex,
both struggling with
enormous loss. Their
What book have you read the most
times?
There are a few books I keep reading,
and I occasionally assign them to my
students, so as to justify the inordinate
amount of time I spend with them.
One is the heartbreaking The Interrupted
Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum and
the other is the ever-delightful collected
food writings of M.F.K. Fisher.
What neglected or lost classic would
you recommend to readers?
If you’ve seen Fiddler on the Roof as
a play or movie, you may think you
know the stories by Shalom Aleichem,
usually translated from the Yiddish as
“Tevye the Dairyman.” But the stories,
written in Yiddish, are far richer,
smarter and more ironic and heartbreaking
than the dramatic versions,
which render the story of life in a period
of social and political change far
too simplistic and sentimental.
quest takes them from war-torn ancient
China to northern California. They find
the last surviving dragons, only to discover
an even greater mystery, the pearl of wisdom.
Best Little Stories
from the Life and
Times of Winston
Churchill
C. Brian Kelly (faculty)
and Ingrid Smyer-
Kelly (Col ’81)
Cumberland House
An anecdotal biography,
this book
contains more than
100 stories about England’s legendary
World War II leader, plus a 45-page biography
of Churchill’s colorful American-born
mother, Jennie Jerome Churchill. An appendix
provides the text and setting of
Churchill’s most famous quotes.
Uses of Literature
Rita Felski (faculty)
Wiley-Blackwell
A professor of comparative literature, the
author talks about literary theorists and everyday
readers—usually galaxies apart—
and attempts to bridge the gap between lit-
What are you reading now?
The poetry of Yehuda Amichai and
Yosef Yerushalmi’s history of the Passover
Haggadah.
Is there a particular book that you
can say changed your life?
That would be Number Our Days
by Barbara Myerhoff. From her writing
about elderly Jews in Venice, California,
I learned I could be an ethnographer
of the community I inhabited,
and learned that fine journalism and
engaged anthropology might be one
and the same thing.
Where is your favorite place to read?
Early in the morning, on my living
room couch (provided my cat makes
space for me), under a super-bright
halogen lamp.
erary theory and
common-sense beliefs
about literature.
She challenges
many timeworn
homilies and theories
put forth in
contemporary literary
criticism, offering
new insights
into the purpose
and value of reading
literature.
Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda
and the Cold War
Laura A. Belmonte (Grad ’91, ’96)
University of Pennsylvania Press
During the Cold War, determined to
protect democratic capitalism and undercut
communism,
U.S. information experts
defined the national
interest not
only in geopolitical,
economic and military
terms. Through
radio shows, films
and publications,
they also created a
carefully constructed
narrative of freedom, progress and abundance
as a means of protecting national security.
The book investigates how this propaganda
was received at home and abroad.
The Loveliest
Woman in America:
A Tragic Actress,
Her Lost Diaries,
and Her Granddaughter’s
Search
for Home
Bibi Gaston
(Arch ’86)
William Morrow
In 2001, the author
received a box
filled with the diaries
of her late grandmother, Rosamond Pinchot,
an acclaimed actress, socialite and
sportswoman, dubbed “the loveliest woman
in America” at age 23. In this memoir, Gaston
tries to uncover the truth about her forgotten
grandmother, her divided family and
her enigmatic father, telling a story of how a
family of wealth and prestige hid behind decades
of deeply painful family secrets.
Dementia Blog
Susan M. Schultz
(Grad ’89)
Singing Horse Press
Taking the form of
the blog, this volume
of poetry charts the
fragmented and disorienting
progression
of the author’s mother’s
dementia. Schultz
also looks beyond her family’s personal tragedy
to the social and philosophical implications
of this unraveling.
Websterisms: A Collection of Words and
Definitions Set Forth by the Founding Father
of American English
Compiled by Arthur Shulman (faculty)
Free Press
In 1800, the
irascible patriot
Noah Webster set
out to answer the
question of what
makes American
English American.
His magnum opus,
American Dictionary
of the English
Language, took 28
years to compile and helped define the
American character. Shulman, a retired
cognitive psychologist and longtime crossword
puzzle creator for the New York
Times, culled 1,500 of Webster’s entries
for this book to reveal his interpretive
powers as well as his pervasive moralism.
Annotated and illustrated with quotations
from contemporary American sources, the
book also includes an introduction by
Harvard historian and New Yorker contributor
Jill Lepore.
Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A
Practical Guide for Teachers, by Teachers
Justin Reich (Col ’99, Grad ’01) and Thomas
Daccord
M. E. Sharpe
Taking an informal,
workshop approach,
this guide is
intended to make it
easy for teachers to
incorporate the latest
technology in
their classrooms,
with special attention
given to the
needs of teachers who are expanding the use
of computers. The book includes extensive
illustrated tutorials for a wide variety of software,
online tools and teaching techniques.
The authors run EdTechTeacher.org, a consulting
service that publishes a series of Web
sites for teachers.
Stealing From Each Other: How the Welfare
State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit
Edgar K. Browning (Col ’65)
Greenwood Publishing Group
An economics expert,
the author insists
that Americans
would be better off
if none of the federal
welfare-state policies
of the last century—
including Social Security—had
been
enacted. In 1900,
there was no income
tax, no minimumwage
laws, no federal involvement in education,
and government spending was less
than 10 percent of our incomes. Currently,
the government spends more than 33
percent of our incomes, and Browning explains
why the effects are so devastating to
our economy.
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3. Watchmen
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4. The Shack
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5. Through the Cracks
by Carolyn Sollman
6. On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan
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1. A More Perfect Constitution
by Larry Sabato (Col ’74, Faculty)
2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
3 America 1908 by Jim Rasenberger
4. The Divine Nine: The History of
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5. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s
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Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer
10. The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama
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Doing Our Share
Thomas Jefferson’s identities as statesman,
author, architect and founder
of our Republic and our University
lead many to overlook his lifetime preoccupation
with the environment as a naturalist,
botanist, horticulturist and incessantly
inquisitive student of nature. In
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grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
Jefferson’s interests assert themselves in
our consciousness cyclically as now one and
then another becomes important in our
time. Few of these reassertions have been
more important than our fairly recent discovery
that his commitment to understanding
and preserving the natural environment
has to do with sustaining life itself on our
planet. The contemporary environment today
is in every measurable way more seriously
damaged than its predecessor was in
Jefferson’s time. Manifestations have
changed. The London gloom described by
19th-century writers has evolved to smog
and emissions that threaten the protective
elemental shell within which the earth’s atmosphere
supports life. Problems that once
belonged only to large cities now belong to
everyone because environmental damage
recognizes no political or geographic
boundaries. The accelerating degradation
of air and water supplies, global warming
and the loss of sustainable space and conditions
for agriculture are in our time global
issues—similar to Jefferson’s concerns, but
now everyone’s problem. Teaching and
practicing sustainability, therefore, now
permeates every academic program and essentially
every discipline.
In recent years, the University has worked
to reduce hostile impacts on the environment
and to conserve energy. Over the past
decade, we have reduced water consumption
by about 100 million gallons a year,
despite growth. We have upgraded more
than four million square feet of our facilities
with energy-efficient lighting systems, resulting
in significant energy savings and reduction
of greenhouse gases. We now recycle
more than 40 percent of our trash. Biodiesel
now fuels the University’s bus fleet, and we
pay the City of Charlottesville to allow all
faculty, staff and students to ride city buses
for free. Dining Services now seeks out and
purchases locally grown produce, and the
supply is growing because of this effort.
Responding to a proposal from students,
the dining halls have gone “tray-less” to con-
serve water and energy. The Rector and
Visitors have visibly supported these sustainability
efforts: the Board has endorsed
Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) certification for major
building renovations and for new construction
such as the South Lawn Project.
This concern for sustainability extends to
teaching and research. Faculty members and
students from Architecture, Engineering,
Commerce, and the College and Graduate
School design and build ecological and affordable
modular housing in the ecoMOD
project—recently named as a finalist in the
2009 World Habitat Awards Program.
Students and faculty members developed the
Learning Barge, a floating field station powered
by solar and wind energy used to pro-
President
Casteen
mote environmental education on the
Elizabeth River near Norfolk. Another faculty-student
team is working to restore seagrasses
critical to the ecosystem of the Chesapeake
Bay and Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
We support this work and celebrate these
accomplishments. Yet we recognize that
this task is only beginning. To make sustainability
a core consideration in all decisions
on how we occupy the land, we have
teams to monitor compliance with policy.
These groups monitor sustainability planning
in new and remodeled or recycled
buildings, direct consolidation of energy
and utility initiatives (energy, water conservation,
storm water stewardship and recycling),
and manage a sustainability outreach
program to teach what we do and how we
do it. A new Grounds Plan defines policy
principles for sustainability and effective
land-use practices. It appears at www.virginia.edu/architectoffice/masterplan.html.
PEggy HaRRISON
And a new presidential committee advises
me and others on the quality, diligence and
progress of our sustainability programs. To
follow this work, visit www.virginia.edu/
sustainability.
These points of progress noted, controversy
exists also. As student activists have
from time to time pressed endowments to
sell certain securities and buy others for political
or social reasons and labor groups buy
shares in public companies whose board
composition and policies they want to influence,
some activist groups have plans to influence
endowments. Generally, they advocate
portfolio divestment of shares in companies
they consider anti-environmental.
Others, backed by brokers who sell “green”
stocks or futures, want endowments to buy
stocks that they like and promote. A few,
perhaps less knowledgeable about investment
strategies, want endowments to disclose
proprietary information on investment
managers and private equity holdings and
even to appoint student monitoring committees
to judge which stocks are green and
which are not. UVIMCO has not agreed to
these demands, and in my view cannot.
Consequently, we receive high marks on actions
that I see as important and valid ways
to build sustainability into the curriculum
and into our physical actions, and from
some activist groups, low marks on measures
that reward investment actions that
we, along with most major endowments, do
not accept as appropriate and lawful. Within
the scope of its duty to optimize investment
returns, UVIMCO is currently invested in
funds that make renewable energy and clean
technology investments. At least in current
circumstances, that strikes me as the appropriate
posture for UVIMCO.
As we continue to teach and practice
sustainability, we do so with the sobering
knowledge that we are probably a generation
late recognizing the seriousness of the
threats to our environment. We have some
catching up to do, and we must work together
to get the job done. In a 1785 letter
to James Madison, Mr. Jefferson wrote,
“The earth is given as a common stock for
man to labour and live on.” Like our founder,
the members of our University community
see the natural environment as our
shared treasure, and we share a commitment
to sustaining and preserving it for our
time and for future generations.
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CLASS NOTES
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’40s
Austin Cunningham (Law ’40 A/M) has
long been a contributor to the Times and
Democrat in Orangeburg, S.C., and other
publications, writing on topics including
politics, world travel, race relations and
about his time working in the Supreme
Court. His editorials were collected and
published as Community of Character,
Orangeburg County: The Writer.
Warren Pace (Col ’48, Educ ’54 L/M) and
his wife, Mary Hall Pace (Educ ’56), celebrated
their 60th wedding anniversary on
July 17, 2008. Mr. Pace retired from Falls
Church City Public Schools in 1991, having
served 20 years as superintendent. He
served 10 years on the board of visitors for
George Mason University. Ms. Pace retired
as a school principal from Fairfax County.
She previously served on the U.Va.’s Curry
School Education Foundation. Their two
sons, W. Joseph Pace Jr. (Col ’80) and
John Hall Pace (Col ’87), both reside and
work in Fairfax County, Va. Their daughter,
Mary Pace Sciba, resides in Roanoke, Va.
The couple lives in Falls Church, Va., where
they remain active in community and
church life.
’50s
Marion Edwyn Harrison (Col ’51 L/M)
completed his 12th lecture abroad with
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Mr.
Harrison continues as president of the Free
Congress Research and Education Foundation
and as a Washington, D.C., and Virginia lawyer,
having moved his office to Alexandria, Va.
He and his wife reside in Arlington, Va., and
have a second home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Thomas F. Pettigrew (Col ’52) is a research
professor of social psychology at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. He
received an honorary doctorate in psychology
from Philipps University, Marburg,
Germany. His work in intergroup relations
and intergroup contact theory was also honored
in a new volume, Improving Intergroup
Relations: Building on the Legacy of Thomas F.
Pettigrew, edited by Ulrich Wagner and his
colleagues and published by Blackwell
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Publishing in July. In 2009, Mr. Pettigrew
will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award
from the International Academy for
Intercultural Research.
Bennett Cole (Col ’54) published two novels,
The Artemas Link with Red Lead Press,
and Footsteps in the Treetops, to be released in
March 2009, from Whiskey Creek Press.
Both books are available in e-book format
and paperback.
White McKenzie Wallenborn (Med ’55
L/M) and Edward A. Leake Jr. (Col ’51
L/M) were among a group of people invited
to attend a White House program on April
14 to celebrate the 265th birthday of
Thomas Jefferson. Dr. Wallenborn is the
president of the Thomas Jefferson Heritage
Society, and Mr. Leake serves on the board
of directors of the Thomas Jefferson Heritage
Society. President and Mrs. Bush gave short
talks, followed by Richard Guy Wilson, the
Commonwealth Professor of Architectural
History at the University, as well as chair of
the Department of Architectural History.
Also in attendance were Governor and Mrs.
Tim Kaine, Sen. John Warner (Law ’53),
Congressman Virgil Goode (Law ’73), U.
Va. President John T. Casteen III (Col ’65,
Grad ’66, ’70 L/M) and Mrs. Casteen, and
professor emeritus Henry J. Abraham
(L/M). The Virginia Gentlemen performed
three selections.
Stafford E. Thornton (Engr ’59, ’62 L/M)
retired in 2000. He served as president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers in
1995 and on the faculty of West Virginia
University Institute of Technology (WVU
Tech) for 36 years. In April, the West
Virginia section of the American Society of
Civil Engineers announced that the best civil
engineering graduates from West Virginia
University, WVU Tech and Fairmont State
University would receive the Stafford E.
Thornton Outstanding Civil Engineering
Graduate Award. Mr. Thornton lives in
North Carolina.
’60s
J. Everette “Ebo” Fauber III (Arch ’63 L/M)
is on the board of directors for the National
Council of Architectural Registration
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In Southern Albemarle lies Bundoran Farm, a place where the traditions
of peaceful, sustainable country life still exist. Located fi fteen minutes from
Charlottesville, Bundoran Farm is a preservation development where over 90
percent of the 2,300 acres will remain as protected landscape. Reserve your
place among the limited number of carefully selected homesites.
To request a tour, telephone Steve McLean
of McLean Faulconer, Inc. (434.295.1131)
www.bundoranfarm.com/uva
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Boards. He was elected the director for
Region 2 (Middle-Atlantic Conference) in
June and represents the U.S. jurisdictions of
Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and West Virginia. Mr. Fauber is the sole
proprietor of Fauber Architects and serves as
co-chair of the University’s Historic
Preservation committee.
Harold C. Hollenbeck (Law ’64 L/M) retired
from the New Jersey Supreme Court on
Aug. 1, 2008.
William R. Forrester Jr. (Col ’65 A/M) was
re-elected chairman of the New Orleans Civil
Service Commission, which is in charge of
municipal employment in New Orleans.
Dave DeWitt (Col ’66) is chair of the governing
board of the New Mexico Farm and
Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. In
2009, Timber Press will publish his 36th
book, The Complete Chile Pepper Book, cowritten
with Paul Bosland of New Mexico
State University.
Carlysle C. Crank (Educ ’67) published a
book, Combat Infantryman Badge: Salute, an
examination of the Korean War based on his
experiences as an enlisted infantryman with
the 25th Infantry Division. The book is a
tribute to the men and women since the
Revolutionary War who were awarded the
CIB for long-time service under enemy fire.
J. J. Wheelbarger (Educ ’67, ’71) completed
a training program sponsored by the Pastoral
Counseling Centers of Tennessee. The program
is part of the American Association of
Pastoral Counselors’ approved training programs
and is affiliated with the Doctor of
Ministry degree program in pastoral care at
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
Darden Asbury Pyron (Grad ’68, ’75) received
the Outstanding Faculty Award on
Sept. 19 from Florida International
University, where he is a founding member
and chair of the Department of History and a
fellow in the Honors College. His teaching
interests include Greek and Roman history,
the American South, the Civil War, and contemporary
American history and culture. He
has received numerous teaching and research
awards from FIU. His books include
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret
Mitchell and Liberace: An American Boy. Mr.
Pyron is completing I Am a Soldier: William
Tecumseh Sherman’s Civil War.
Allen E. Wolven Jr. (Col ’68 L/M) retired
after 37 years of federal government service,
managing foreign military sales and training
programs for the U.S. Navy.
’70s
Ron Szpatura (Com ’70 L/M) founded
Landmarks Marketing in 1988 in Annapolis,
Md. The company is celebrating the 20thanniversary
edition of Landmarks of the
Chesapeake. It also publishes Landmarks of
Charlottesville, which is distributed to hotels
in the Charlottesville area. All Landmarks
books are hardbound guides that provide
visitor information for each of the 12 cities
in which the company publishes. Landmarks
also produces the in-room Visitors Channel
in Charlottesville, Chesapeake and four
other cities.
Lee Saunders Barks (Nurs ’71 L/M) is a
2008 Veterans Administration postdoctoral
fellow in nursing research, supported by the
Office of Academic Affairs and the James A.
Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, Fla.
She is based at the VA Patient Safety Center
of Inquiry in Tampa. Ms. Barks’ research is
in postural management of persons with
severe disabilities; her postdoctoral research
will focus on strategic wheelchair positioning
and patient outcomes in elderly veterans.
In 2007, Ms. Barks received a doctorate
in nursing from the University of South
Florida, where she was awarded the first
Patricia A. Burns Scholarship in Nursing.
For the past 24 years, she has consulted on
federal litigation regarding long-term care of
persons with disabilities and has been qualified
as an expert by the U.S. Department of
Justice. She has extensive experience with
interdisciplinary teams and has written numerous
publications, including chapters in
several textbooks. Ms. Barks is the daughter
of Charles G. Saunders Jr. (Engr ’50 L/M)
and Page Long Saunders (Nurs ’48 L/M),
and mother of Campbell Barks Vogel (Col
’01 L/M).
Richard J. Erickson (Grad ’71 L/M) received
the Military Service Medal from the
General Richard Montgomery Chapter of the
National Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution for his career in the U.S. Air
Force. He spent the month of September in
Thailand for the birth of his granddaughter,
Esther Elizabeth Michael, who was born on
Sept. 10, 2008, to Crispin P. Michael and
Karen Erickson Michael (Col ’96).
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Mark E. Sullivan (Law ’71) was a guest
speaker at the annual meeting of the Iowa
State Bar Association in June, where he spoke
about re-employment rights for reservists and
the formation of a military committee for the
bar association. Later that month, he spent
three days at the Air Force JAG School in
Alabama, teaching 150 Air Force JAG officers
and paralegals from the U.S., Italy, Japan,
Germany, Korea and the United Kingdom
about family law and military personnel. In
July, Mr. Sullivan visited Capitol Hill to confer
with U.S. Senate and House staffers for
the Armed Services Committee and the
Veterans Affairs Committee on legislation
involving custody of children for service
members who are deployed overseas.
Noel D. Cary (Grad ’73) is associate professor
of European history at the College of the
Holy Cross, a Catholic liberal arts college.
Professor Cary received the college’s
Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008.
Beat U. Steiner (Col ’73, Law ’80 L/M) and
Edyn Jessup (Law ’03) published Commercial
Leasing in Colorado: A Practical Guide with
Bradford Publishing this year. Mr. Steiner is a
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Boulder, Colo., office of Holland & Hart, a
firm of 450 lawyers with offices throughout
the Rocky Mountain region. Mr. Steiner
heads the firm’s resorts, lodging and leisure
industry group and is recognized in Chambers
USA, Best Lawyers in America and Colorado
Super Lawyers.
Stuart Rochester (Grad ’73) was named chief
historian of the U.S. Department of Defense.
A resident of Burtonsville, Md., Mr.
Rochester has served in senior historian positions
at the Defense Department since 1987.
He is chief editor of the multivolume series
History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Among his own published works is Honor
Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast
Asia, 1961-1973, a book he co-wrote with
Frederick Kiley and that was nominated for
the National Book Award and the Pulitzer
Prize in History.
Christopher Morris (Arch ’75 L/M) was
featured in June’s Architectural Record for his
graphic depiction of the crossroads of architecture
and the expanding universe at Times
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Becky Ryder (Col ’75 L/M) received the
inaugural Library Binding Institute George
Cunha and Susan Swartzburg Preservation
Award from the American Library
Association’s Preservation and Reformatting
Section in recognition of her service to the
field of library preservation. Her national
reputation and grants in the field of preservation
have been recognized with millions of
dollars for preservation projects from the
National Endowment for the Humanities,
the Institute for the Museum and Library
Services and the Keeneland Association. Ms.
Ryder is the head of Preservation Services in
the University of Kentucky Libraries, where
she oversees the conservation of library and
archival materials and the microfilming and
digitization of current and historic Kentucky
newspapers. She serves as the principal investigator
of the Daily Racing Form
Preservation Project, which is developing a
plan to preserve more than 11 million pages
of the horse racing industry’s signal publication.
She has also served as an adjunct professor
at the UK School of Library and
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Lexington, Ky., with her husband, Gordon
Hogg (Col ’73 L/M). Her son, Jesse Dukes
(Col ’99), lives in Charlottesville.
Peter E. Broadbent Jr. (Law ’76 L/M) was
recognized in Virginia’s 2008 Super Lawyers
magazine as being in the top 5 percent of
lawyers in Virginia for his practice in utilities
law. He was also appointed by the Virginia
General Assembly as one of two citizen
members of the Virginia Bicentennial of the
American War of 1812 Commission. Mr.
Broadbent practices business, intellectual
property, governmental and communications
law as a partner with Christian &
Barton in Richmond, Va.
Jeff Mayer (Arch ’76 L/M) is chair of the
Orange County District Council of the Urban
Land Institute and is a principal with MVE &
Partners, a national architecture, planning and
interiors firm. Mr. Mayer has more than 30
years of accomplishments in the architectural
field. His career has included planning and
architectural services across a wide range of
product types and he has worked with development
industry clients throughout the U.S.
and abroad. He is leading several professional
panels at conferences this fall, including a panel
of worldwide experts addressing “Experience
Design & Placemaking” at TEA’s 2008 SATE
Conference, and one titled “New Life in the
City” at the California chapter of the American
Planning Association’s 2008 conference.
Michael W. Woodford (Engr ’76) received
an Exceptional Service Award from the
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Mr.
Woodford is assistant vice president of standards
with the Air-Conditioning, Heating
and Refrigeration Institute in Arlington, Va.
He is a fellow with the Standards
Engineering Society.
Thomas L. Andrews III (Com ’77 L/M)
retired from the U.S. Navy on Oct. 1 after
31.5 years of service. Rear Adm. Andrews’
retirement ceremony was held onboard the
USS Hornet at Alameda Point with more
than 200 family members, friends and shipmates
in attendance. The Chief of the
Supply Corps and the Chief of Navy Reserve
spoke at his retirement. During his career,
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Trent Stevenson Dickey (Col ’77 L/M)
was elected to the board of directors of
Easter Seals New Jersey and serves on its
Technology Task Force Committee. He was
also elected to the board of directors of
Quality Independent Living Corp., a New
Jersey nonprofit corporation providing lowincome
housing to the elderly and people
with disabilities. He was re-elected chair of
the House Committee of the Metropolitan
Club, New York, where he serves as a member
of the board of governors and the law
and admissions committees. Mr. Dickey is a
litigation partner with the law firm of Sills
Cummis & Gross in its New York City and
New Jersey offices.
Ella C. Emswiller (Educ ’78 L/M) and
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Brian Kane (Com ’78) is chief financial
officer of Pacer International. Mr. Kane has
held key operations and finance positions
with the company over the past decade. In
June, he was named senior vice president of
corporate finance, having served as executive
vice president and chief operating officer
of Pacer’s intermodal segment since
October 2006.
Robert Doyle Prevatt (Col ’78 L/M) and
Bethany Jane Wenger were married on Nov.
20, 2007. They reside in Charlottesville.
Edmund J. Fogels (Col ’79 A/M) is director
of the Office of Project Management and
Permitting within the Alaska Department of
Natural Resources. 366 C 467 CThis 297 C 302 C 188 C 135 C agency is responsible
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projects in Alaska.
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Patricia Maggio Homa (Col ’80 L/M) retired
as a special agent from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation’s Wilmington
Resident Agency, Charlotte Division, on
Sept. 26, 2008. During her career with the
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assigned as a supervisory special agent at FBI
Headquarters in Washington, D.C., from
1990 through 1994, and in the Buffalo and
New York divisions. An attorney, Ms. Homa
now practices law with the firm of Robert W.
Kilroy in Surf City, N.C. She and her family
reside in Hampstead, N.C.
Robert K. Krout (Engr ’80, ’84 L/M)
passed the Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design Accredited
Professional exam. He is a senior commissioning
authority and a partner in the firm
CPM Scheduling of Northern Virginia.
Laura Loomer Moylan (Col ’81, Med ’86
L/M) has moved her solo gynecology practice
to Salem, Va. She and her husband, Robert
Daniel Moylan (Col ’73, Grad ’81, Med ’85
L/M), welcome their eldest son, Daniel
James Moylan, to the University’s Echols
Scholars Class of 2012. Danny is studying
biology and plays snare drum in the Cavalier
Marching Band Drum Line.
Jeff Kerper (Col ’82 L/M) is vice president,
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firm in White Plains, N.Y. Mr. Kerper lives
in Pleasantville, N.Y., with his wife, Barrie;
and daughter, Alyssa.
Daniel Childers (Col ’83 L/M) is the associate
director for research at the Global
Institute of Sustainability and a professor
in the School of Sustainability at Arizona
State University. Prior to this move, Mr.
Childers was a program director at the
National Science Foundation (NSF) in
Washington, D.C. He also served 15 years
as professor in the biology department at
Florida International University in Miami
and director of the Florida Coastal
Everglades Long Term Ecological Research
Program, funded by the NSF. Mr. Childers
resides with his partner, Barry Sparkman,
in Phoenix.
Isabella Marie Firth (Col ’83) and Barbara
Lynne Shycoff were married on Sept. 27,
2008. The couple resides in Chevy Chase,
Md. Ms. Firth is the president of LifeSpan
Network, a senior care provider association
in Maryland. Ms. Firth’s parents are John
Firth (Col ’60, Grad ’61, ’65) and Edith
Bromwell Firth (Educ ’54, ’74 L/M).
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Timothy Grendell (Law ’83) is an Ohio
state senator and ran for re-election to the
18th Ohio Senate District. Sen. Grendell
chairs the Ohio Senate Judiciary Criminal
Justice Committee.
Louis J. Licata (Law ’83 L/M) is president
of Licata & Toerek, a firm specializing in
employment, labor, workers’ compensation,
intellectual property, Internet trial and appellate
litigation and real estate law. Mr. Licata
was elected to the Entrepreneurs’ Organization
board as learning chair for the Cleveland
chapter. He also serves on the finance committee
for the organization.
Gary H. Fuller (Arch ’84 A/M) traveled this
past summer to the Machu Picchu ruins in
the mountains of Peru. He is acting general
manager of development services and planning
director for the City of Falls Church, Va.
John Kersh (Col ’84 L/M) is a captain in
the U.S. Navy and commander of
Destroyer Squadron 24, based in Mayport,
Fla. Capt. Kersh assumed command on
May 2, 2008. In this role, he is responsible
for four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
Capt. Kersh; his wife, Pamela; and son,
Ethan, reside in Jacksonville, Fla.
Nelson Neal (Educ ’85) is an associate professor
of physical education at Lane College
in Jackson, Tenn. In 1999, Mr. Neal retired as
professor of dance from the Department of
Health, Physical Education, Recreation and
Dance at Longwood University in Farmville,
Va. He previously taught at the University of
Mississippi, the University of Wisconsin and
Lynn Junior High School in Las Cruces,
N.M. During his nine years away from academia,
Mr. Neal was a realtor in Sarasota,
Fla., and a real estate broker in Flat Rock,
N.C. Mr. Neal holds degrees in motor learning,
dance and physical education.
Steve Williamson (Com ’86 L/M) was promoted
to colonel in the U.S. Army on Aug.
1, 2008, after returning from Afghanistan
and a year serving as the executive officer for
the engineer brigade overseeing military construction,
infrastructure development and
counter-IED operations. Col. Williamson is
attending the U.S. Army War College at
Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
Kurt Helfrich (Arch ’87, ’93, Grad ’97
A/M) will be relocating to London to join
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the British Architectural Library. Mr.
Helfrich served for 11 years as curator of the
Architecture & Design Collection at the
University Art Museum, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Brian K. Matney (Col ’87) participated as a
member of the invitation-only Oxford
Roundtable at Oxford University’s Harris
Manchester College. Mr. Matney, principal of
Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach,
joined a group of three dozen educators from
18 states and six foreign nations in England to
discuss “Achieving Excellence in Education.”
Peggy Mitchell Norwood (Educ ’87, Grad
’91 L/M) lives in Denver with her teenage
twins. She is a psychology professor at
Community College of Aurora and released
her first book, Do Something Different...For a
Change: An Insider’s Guide to What Your
Therapist Knows (But May Not Tell You). She
also offers podcasts on her Web site,
www.drpegonline.com.
Jennifer Grenzebach Cornell (Com ’88 L/M)
is executive director of the Powell Center for
Economic Literacy in Richmond, Va. The
center is a resource for teachers and students,
K-12, with lesson plans, curricula and training
opportunities in the field of economics and
financial literacy. Ms. Cornell is also editor
of Econ-Exchange, an online magazine featuring
current economic issues and themes, and
including practical lessons and activities for
the classroom. She and her husband, Todd,
have three children, Drew, 11; Brad, 8; and
Grace, 5.
Steve Daily (Law ’88) is owner and chief executive
officer of LawServer.com, a legal research
and legal news site. He founded
LawServer.com after 20 years practicing law,
most recently at Morgan Stanley and Discover
Financial Services.
Christopher Dinsmore (Col ’89 L/M) is the
business editor of the Virginian-Pilot in
Norfolk, Va. He had worked as a business
reporter and assistant business editor at the
Pilot since 1993. He and his wife, Michele,
have three daughters, Eleanor, 11; Amelia, 5;
and Audrey, 4. The family resides in Norfolk.
Lisette Luton (Grad ’89, Grad ’97 A/M)
married John Travers on June 11, 2005. On
Oct. 1, 2007, they welcomed their first child,
Michelle Chantal Travers. The family resides
in the Charleston, S.C., area, where Ms.
Luton is an associate professor of French.
Sarah McLeod Wilbur (Col ’89 A/M)
received a master of public health degree
from BRAC University in Bangladesh in
December. She and her husband will transfer
to Lilongwe, Malawi, in January 2009, following
the birth of their first child.
’90s
Julie Winebriner Bauer (Col ’90 L/M) and
David Bauer welcomed their second son, Joshua
Christian, on Sept. 25, 2007. Josh joins brother
Davis, 2. The family resides in Alexandria, Va.
Timothy C. Call (Col ’90 L/M) is a chartered
financial analyst, working as the chief investment
officer of the Capital Management
Corp. of Richmond, Va., where he oversees
core, growth and income and quantitative
stock portfolios.
Winfield Curry (Col ’90 L/M) is the archivist
for the United Negro College Fund. He
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was acknowledged in Marybeth Gasman’s
book Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of
the United Negro College Fund, which received
the 2008 Outstanding Publication
Award from the American Educational
Research Association. Mr. Curry resides with
his wife, Estefania; and sons, Juan Pablo and
Javier, in Ashburn, Va.
William J. Decker (Col ’90, Engr ’95, ’96
L/M) is the associate director, technology
transfer, at the University of California,
San Diego. His responsibilities include
oversight of disclosure management, outreach,
managing licensing executives and a
portfolio of inventions.
Lesley Anne Field (Com ’90 L/M) has
been appointed to the Senior Executive
Service of the federal government and is the
deputy administrator for federal procurement
policy in the Office of Management
and Budget, Executive Office of the
President. She is a graduate of the Senior
Executive Fellows program at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University, and is a 2008 recipient of the
Federal 100 Award.
Lori Bealle Hanton (Nurs ’90 L/M) and her
husband, Earl, were blessed with the arrival of
their second child, Jeremy Alexander, on Aug.
3, 2007. Jeremy joins his sister, Naomi, 7. The
family resides in Bristow, Va.
David Pinkowitz (Col ’90 L/M) is development
manager at the Edison, N.J., office of
Numara Software.
James Morel Symons (Col ’90 L/M) and his
wife, Dr. Mia Papas, welcomed their second
child, Ella Marie, on Feb. 25, 2008. Ella joins
sister Zoe, 2. The family resides in Newark, Del.,
where Dr. James Symons supervises the epidemiology
program for the DuPont Company.
Bob Zura (Col ’90 L/M) and Marianne
Gerard Zura (Col ’92, Med ’97) welcomed
their third child, Adrianne Price, on Aug. 2,
2007. They reside in Durham, N.C., where
Dr. Bob Zura is on the faculty at Duke
University in orthopedic trauma surgery.
Anne Scharff Bacon (Col ’91 L/M) and her
husband, Mark, welcomed a daughter, Melissa
Ashlyn, on Aug. 1, 2008. The family resides
in Raleigh, N.C.
Elaine Miller (Nurs ’91 L/M) is a nurse case
manager for cardiology/pulmonary critical
care services at University Hospital and received
the Award of Service Excellence from
the Case Management Society of America in
June. Her nomination came from the case
management staff with Brooke Army Medical
Center in San Antonio. Ms. Miller serves as a
clinical preceptor and skills-lab instructor and
developed and facilitated nursing, nutrition,
ethics and home health courses. She has also
written several nationally published articles on
subjects ranging from obesity and home
health to diabetes nutritional support and
wound healing.
Paul Marshall Purves (Col ’91, Educ ’94
L/M) and his wife, Tammy, welcomed their
second child and first daughter, Mary Reese,
on July 17, 2008. Reese joins brother Ryan, 4.
The family resides in Atlanta, where Mr.
Purves is a senior manager with the North
Highland Co.
Derek Green (Col ’92 L/M) is the special
counsel to the majority leader of the city council
in Philadelphia. He was selected as one of
“10 under 40 rising political stars” by the
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SOUTHWIND MANOR
King of the Mountain. Majestic private mountaintop estate of 115
acres with the most spectacular panoramic Blue Ridge Mountain
views in Albemarle County. Luxurious 7,000 square foot Georgian
of finest quality with in-ground pool and 4-car garage all in perfect
condition. $4,250,000.
Always a fine selection of outstanding country properties
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GRAND CHATEAU DE COURTOMER
Historic and most impressive chateau c.1789 of 365 acres west of
Paris in the French countryside. Entire 17,500 square foot structure
completely renovated preserving all of its 18th century architectural
integrity. Includes stables, guardienne’s home, and an ancient
Protestant Temple. Offered at $12,000,000.
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AQUA MARINA
Perched high on a bluff, “Aqua Marina” has one of the grandest
views of the turquoise blue Caribbean Sea in the islands. This two
bedroom, two bath tropical villa is perfectly positioned and features a
terrace, wrap around deck and pool overlooking the sea. Rare approval
for additional dwelling on property. $2,700,000.
REALTOR ®
THE LAND OFFICE
SAVANNAH
The newest addition to the Farms of Turkey Run is privately
situated on 21 rolling acres. This 5,200 square foot Greek
Revival brick residence with full walk out lower level and wine
cellar is offered at $1,050,000. October 2008 completion. Please
call for additional information.
GLENDOWER, C. 1808
Classic Albemarle estate of nearly 600 acres with charming brick
guest cottage c.1745. The handsome brick and slate main residence
of over 8,500 square feet was expanded in the 20th century with the
help of noted architect, Floyd Johnson. Extraordinary landscaping.
A rare offering. Recently reduced to $7,950,000.
LOCUST GROVE FARM
20 acre riverfront farm located 4 miles east of Scottsville on the
Hardware River. Beautiful new 3,400 square foot 4 bedroom,
3 1/2 bath farmhouse with wraparound porch on historic site
overlooking pond and board fenced pastures. Offered for $899,000.
JIM BONNER
“The Top Producing Agent 17 Consecutive Years”
STILL POND FARM
Located in Culpeper County this 41 acre equestrian estate features
two professional show barns (17 stalls), new equipment barn, riding
ring and board fenced pastures. 4 bedroom, 4 bath home of nearly
6,000 square feet with full finished basement. Perfect Virginia horse
farm. $1,495,000.
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FOSTER’S BRANCH
There comes a time…to purchase the property you’ve been waiting for.
238 acres off Route 20N, just eight miles to Pantops. Private
mountain top with spectacular Blue Ridge views to the west, easy
access, and Foster’s Branch traversing. This is the time. $1,695,000
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RIVER RIDGE BUILDING PARCELS
Spectacular 10+/- acre building parcels (2) on the South River
in Greene County, minutes from Rt. 29 North. Dramatic
mountain views, gently rolling pasture, hayland and privacy.
Each offered at $395,000.
LAND FOR SALE
We presently have 1,433 parcels of
undeveloped land for sale in Albemarle and
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the surrounding counties from 1 acre to over
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University Circle
Completely renovated 2-story home
with basement. The classic brick residence
has 3 Bedrooms, 3 full Baths,
Breakfast Nook, Living Room,
Dining Room, Rec. Room, re�nished
wood �oors, Corian countertops,
and a lovely brick patio. One of two
�replaces is located in the master
bedroom. Property is located in the
sought-after UVA neighborhood off
Rugby Road and includes ample
off-street parking.
Margie Burris
Associate Broker
Office (434) 296-6104
Mobile (434) 960-2847
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Philadelphia Daily News and as one of the region’s
top leaders and connectors by Leadership
Philadelphia. He and his wife, Sheila; and son,
Julian, live in Mt. Airy, Pa., where they co-own
the shoe store Soles, A Shoe Experience.
J. Kate Harris Hatcher (Col ’92 L/M) and
her husband, Greg, announce the birth of
their son, James Harris, on Aug. 15, 2008.
Michael B. Kusic (Com ’92 L/M) and Amy
Smitherman Kusic (Col ’93 L/M) welcomed
their fourth son, Hayden Cecilius, on July 25,
2008. Hayden joins brothers Reid, 5; Nate, 4;
and Grayson, 2. Dr. Michael Kusic is an obstetrician/gynecologist
practicing at INOVA
Fairfax Hospital. The family resides in Falls
Church, Va.
Jill Nolan Westgard (Col ’92 L/M) is deputy
director for museum resources and
stewardship at the Yale University Art
Gallery, where she oversees development,
membership, visitor services, events and
public relations. This year, she is serving as
co-president of the Art Museum
Development Association. Ms. Westgard
lives with her husband and two children in
Orange, Conn.
Ron Eliasek (Engr ’93 L/M) and Courtney
Caskey Eliasek (Col ’96 L/M) had their third
child and first son, Davis Harrison, on Aug.
29, 2008. He joins 6-year-old sister Alexandra
Katherine and 3-year-old sister Shelby
Elizabeth. Alexandra, Shelby and Davis are
the nieces and nephew, respectively, of
Meredith Caskey Parker (Col ’99, Law ’02
L/M), Andrew Parker (Engr ’95, ’96 L/M),
Grier Eliasek (Engr ’95 L/M) and Katherine
Eliasek Wigginton (Col ’98 L/M). The family
resides in Charlotte, N.C.
Heather Evans (Col ’93, Grad ’04, Res ’07 L/M)
is assistant professor of surgery at the University of
Washington and director of surgical infectious
disease at Harborview Medical Center, the only
Level-1 trauma center serving the states of
Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Dr.
Evans completed a surgical critical care fellowship
at Harborview Medical Center after graduating
last June from the general surgery residency training
program at the University of Virginia. She
resides in Seattle with her husband, Chris; and
sons Nash, 5; and Miles, 1.
Debra Allbery (Grad ’94) is director of the
Warren Wilson College MFA Program for
Writers. Ms. Allbery joined the program’s
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Glenmore
Coveted Bermerton cottage in the gated
community of Glenmore. The 2066/1484
SF brick home offers the ease of one-level
living in large light-filled rooms. Great
open flow for entertaining and privacy for
the bedroom suites. Everyone will enjoy
the sunroom, family room with French
doors leading to the deck, and formal
spaces. Property also includes a 2-car garage
and 30’x40’ floored attic. Short drive to
shopping, entertainment venues and I-64.
CLASS NOTES
Castlewood Farm
One of the oldest houses in Albemarle
County sits on 100 acres of beautiful
farmland with mountain views and is
traversed by Stockton Creek. Restored,
circa 1790, home includes heart pine
floors and handcrafted mantles. A 2-story
annex, tenant house, barn and misc.
sheds are included.
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Garth Road
This beautiful 3809/908 SF, stone and
frame country home includes a first
floor master with huge walk-in closet
and dressing area, formal dining room,
spacious living room with fireplace at
either end, and French doors from
several rooms leading to the soapstone
terrace. Enjoy wonderful formal and
informal gardens on over 8 meticulously
maintained acres.
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Introducing Green Homes at The Greenbrier. The first premium luxury homes that strike the perfect
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CLASS NOTES
poetry faculty in 1995, has served the program
in various administrative capacities and
was appointed to its academic board last
year. She lives in Amarillo, Texas, with her
husband, Matthew Gildea; and son, Wyatt.
The family will move to the Asheville, N.C.,
area in the spring. Her new poetry collection,
Fimbul-Winter, will be published by Four
Way Books in 2010.
Bruce Bigger (Com ’94) and his wife,
Tami, welcomed their second child and
daughter, Natalie Lynn, on April 25, 2008.
Natalie’s sister, Carly, will soon be 3 years
old. Mr. Bigger and his family live in
Richmond, Va., where he practices commercial
real estate for Thalhimer/Cushman
& Wakefield.
Michael Ellis (Engr ’94, Law ’97 L/M) and
his wife, Nicole, welcomed their first child,
Asher Cole, on Oct. 5, 2008. The family
resides in San Francisco, where Mr. Ellis is
associate general counsel at Blue Shield of
California.
Timothy Fox (Col ’94 L/M) and Virginia
White Fox (Col ’94, Educ ’94 L/M) welcomed
their twin daughters, Anna Dolman
and Evelyn Drinker, on July 31, 2008. The
girls join brothers Patrick and Charles. The
family resides in San Mateo, Calif.
Livy Haskell (Com ’94 L/M) and Katy
Gaffney Haskell (Col ’95 L/M) welcomed
their second child, Timothy MacFarlane, on
Dec. 30, 2007. “Tee” joins a brother,
Henry, 4. The family lives in Richmond,
Va., where Livy is general counsel for
Lumber Liquidators Inc.
David Lessen (Col ’94 L/M) and Nicole
Pearl Lessen (Col ’95 L/M) welcomed the
birth of their second child, Alexander
Jordan, on May 31, 2008. The family resides
in Lighthouse Point, Fla.
Happy Cara Marino (Col ’94 L/M) and
her husband, Paul, welcomed a daughter,
Scarlett Rosalie, on Aug. 1, 2008. Scarlett
joins brothers Teddy and Alex, who are
both 2. The family resides in Connecticut.
Kelly Waltman McAdams (Nurs ’94, ’99
L/M), had her second child and first daughter,
Ruby Lynn, on Sept. 3, 2008. Ruby
joins a brother, Milo. Ms. McAdams and
her husband, Rob, live in Richmond, Va.,
where Ms. McAdams works in cardiovascular
services at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital.
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CLASS NOTES
Philip Pyles (Col ’94 L/M) and Elizabeth
Fletcher Pyles (Nurs ’95 L/M) welcomed
their first child and son, Fletcher William,
on Nov. 25, 2007. Mr. Pyles works in
marketing at Procter & Gamble and Ms.
Pyles is taking time off from labor and
delivery nursing and lactation consulting
to stay home with Fletcher. The couple
resides in Cincinnati.
Susan Harkness Regli (Grad ’94) received
an Award of Distinction for superior performance
from Lockheed Martin Advanced
Technology Laboratories in Cherry Hill,
N.J. The award recognized Ms. Regli’s outstanding
technical development and leadership
in user interfaces bridging from internal
research innovation to a multiyear contract
award with the Office of Naval Research.
Ms. Regli lives in Philadelphia with her husband,
William; and their children,
Dominique and Anthony.
Leslie Parpart (Col ’95, Educ ’95 L/M)
married Kurt Friday on May 17, 2008. The
couple resides in Richmond, Va., where
Ms. Parpart works for the Virginia
Economic Development Partnership as
manager of the Virginia Leaders in Export
Trade Program.
Kara Tisdale Romano (Col ’95) and John
Romano (Com ’75 L/M) are blessed with
two new children, Taylor Grace and Benjamin
Thomas, born on July 12, 2008. Taylor and
Benjamin join four older sisters. Mr. Romano
is a real estate developer with two current
projects: Noah’s Landing on Lake Anna, Va.;
and Patriot Hills, a workforce housing community
near Lewisburg, W.Va.
Holly Fork
Katie Located Severin in Scholtz the heart (Educ of Keswick, ’95 L/M) between and
her husband, Castle Hill Eric, and welcomed Merifields, their Holly second Fork is
child, comprised William Daniel, of 116 on acres July 5, of 2008. rolling
William countryside. joins his sister, Beautiful Emma, Oak 2. tree The lined family
resides driveway, in Baltimore. main residence, pool, guest
cottage, storage building, farm facilities
Seth and Aaron 2.4 Corazzini acre lake.
(Col ’96) and Alison
Trumbower Corazzini (Col ’96 L/M) welcomed
a daughter, Kate Isabella, on Sept. 5,
2008. Kate joins brother Jack, 2. The family
resides in New York City.
Tyler J. Hodges (Col ’96 L/M) and his wife,
Tristan, welcomed their second daughter,
Hannah Elizabeth, on Aug. 19, 2008. Hannah
is the second niece of Todd N. Hodges (Educ
’02 L/M). The family resides in Alexandria,
Va., where Mr. Tyler Hodges is a history instructor
and dean at Episcopal High School.
David J. Kepniss (Engr ’96 L/M) and his
wife, Marla Barrese Kepniss (Col ’96 L/M),
celebrate the birth of their fourth child, Joel
Jefferson, on Oct. 10, 2008. The family resides
in Maple Glen, Pa. Joel joins older sister
Talia Charlotte, 7; and brothers Emmett
Samuel, 4; and Max Grady, 2. Ms. Kepniss
is taking time off from her social work position
with Keystone Home Health. Mr.
Kepniss is a marketing manager for Acuity, a
maker of industrial laser sensors, and owner
of Aurum Exchange, a business that buys
precious metals.
Susan Stuelpner Klobuchar (Col ’96
L/M) and Tim Klobuchar welcomed their
first child, John Brenner, on Aug. 14,
2008. Ms. Klobuchar is a marketing manager
with General Mills. The family resides
in Minneapolis.
Damian Lipani (Com ’96) and his wife,
Christen, announce the birth of their second
son, Ignatius David “Nate,” born on July 2,
2008. Nate joins brother Xavier Vincent, 2.
The family resides in Chicago.
Margaret Delacruz Murphy (Col ’96 L/M)
and her husband, Thomas Murphy, celebrate
the birth of their first child, Abigail Virginia,
on June 13, 2008. The family lives in
Mahwah, N.J.
Stephen Rubin (Col ’96) is a filmmaker and
program director of the Santa Fe Film
Festival. Mr. Rubin completed, with a team
of more than 40 New Mexicans, a 47-minute
SAG featurette, The Lives of Angels. The film
was named Best Short Comedy at the New
York Film and Video Festival and has been
shown at numerous film festivals and screenings.
Mr. Rubin’s company, Julesworks, is
working on more feature films and, possibly,
television. Mr. Rubin serves as president of
the UVaClub of Santa Fe, in its first year.
William L. DeLong III (Engr ’97 L/M) and
Julianna Pavlakovic DeLong (Col ’97, Educ
’98 L/M) welcomed a daughter, Liliana
Nicole, on Sept. 1, 2008. She joins her sister,
Alexandra Lynn, 2. The family resides in Oak
Hill, Va., where Mr. DeLong is a project executive
at Clark Construction Group and Ms.
DeLong is an assistant vice president for Wells
Fargo Multifamily Capital.
Dan Entin (Col ’97, GSBA ’04 L/M) and his
wife, Tracy, welcomed a baby boy, Max
Benjamin, on Feb. 15, 2008. Max joins a
brother, Joseph.
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Gregory Hughes (Engr ’97) and Susan
Lindquist were married on Aug. 9, 2008,
in La Jolla, Calif. The couple resides in
Scottsdale, Ariz., where Mr. Hughes is
employed as design center manager for
Linear Technology.
Lee J. Snyder (Arch ’97) and his wife, Una,
announce the birth of their first child, Sarah
Eileen, on May 16, 2008. Sarah is the
granddaughter of James D. Snyder (Law
’62 L/M) and Sara Lu Persinger Snyder
(Educ ’60), niece of R. Meade Snyder (Col
’93, Law ’98 L/M) and grandniece of
Nancy Jane Snyder Feuerstein (Educ ’60).
The family lives in Marietta, Ga., where
Mr. Snyder is a project manager with
Chapman Coyle Chapman Architects.
Diane Takata (Com ’97 L/M) and Ben
Powell were married on June 21, 2008, in
Charlotte, N.C. The couple resides in
Charlotte, where Ms. Takata works for
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools as a middle
school instructional specialist.
Jim Campbell (Col ’98 L/M) and Kristen
Bova Campbell (Col ’98 L/M) announce
the birth of their second son, Benjamin
Holden, on July 4, 2008. Benjamin joins
older brother Nathan, 3.
David Consolla (Com ’98 L/M) and his
wife, Stefanie, welcomed their first child,
Andrew James, on Aug. 18, 2008. Mr.
Consolla is a senior internal auditor for the
Clark Construction Group in Bethesda, Md.
The family resides in Germantown, Md.
Patrycja Doniewski (Arch ’98) is a partner
at Qb, an architecture and graphics studio in
Philadelphia. The company received the
2008 Philadelphia Emerging Architecture
Prize and will have an exhibition on display
at the Center for Architecture in November.
Amanda Schultz Lonergan (Col ’98 L/M)
and her husband, Sam Lonergan, welcomed
their second child on June 12, 2008. Scarlett
Mae joins brother Caden. The family resides
in Glen Ridge, N.J.
Rebecca Signer Roche (Col ’98 L/M) is an
associate in the labor and employment practice
in the Tysons Corner, Va., office of the
law firm of McGuireWoods.
Rachel Reeves Settle (Col ’98 L/M) and her
husband, Will Ed Settle, welcomed their
second child and daughter, Rebecca Delaney,
on July 3, 2008. She joins a brother, Edwards,
3. The family resides in Nashville, Tenn.
W. Ronnie Shaw (Engr ’98) and his wife,
Beth, announce the arrival of their first child
and daughter, Fiona Maisie, on July 7, 2008.
Mr. Shaw is a software product manager for
Noblis Inc. in Falls Church, Va.
Emily Marlow Beck (Col ’99 L/M) is a partner
in the law firm of Hudson Cook. She
frequently writes and lectures on compliance
issues and is an editor and author of the
CARLAW F&I Legal Desk Book: The Answer
Book for Finance and Insurance Professionals,
the leading automobile dealer-oriented reference
on F&I legal compliance matters. Ms.
Beck and her husband live in Washington,
D.C. Ms. Beck is the daughter of John K.
Marlow (Com ’61 L/M).
Matt Charles (Col ’99 L/M) and his wife,
Melissa Bryant Charles (Col ’98 L/M), were
blessed with their first child and son, Cooper
Bryant Charles, on June 25, 2008.
Stefano Marino Grace (Col ’99 L/M) and
Rachel Jerusha Kinbar Grace (Col ’03) are
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proud to announce the birth of their first
child and son, Massimo Eli, on May 14,
2008. The family resides in Tallinn, Estonia,
where Mr. Grace is a senior associate at the
Sorainen law firm. Ms. Grace is working as a
freelance copyeditor and is the Web marketing
associate for Unbridled Books.
Sameer Narula (Engr ’99) married Krittika
Sharma on April 27, 2008. Mr. Narula is the
director of corporate strategy at Indigo
Design and Engineering Associates. The couple
lives in New Delhi, India.
Lisa M. Regelman (Com ’99 L/M) and Eric
K. Weingarten (Col ’96) were married on
Sept. 14, 2008. The couple resides in
Washington, D.C., where Ms. Regelman is a
marketing program manager at SIRIUS XM
Radio and Mr. Weingarten is a senior associate
in the Energy, Infrastructure, Climate and
Technology Group at the law firm of Alston + Bird.
LaThell A. Sebastian-Smith (Col ’99 L/M)
is a doctoral candidate in education at
Columbia University’s Teachers College and
plans to graduate in May 2010. Her dissertation
is titled A Deeper Look into the
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Leadership of an Urban Public School
Principal of High Achieving Children of
Color. Ms. Sebastian-Smith is on the board
of directors of The Guidance Center, a
Westchester, N.Y.,-based nonprofit mental
health and human services agency. Ms.
Sebastian-Smith has spent the past 10 years
teaching high school and middle school
Spanish, taking leadership roles in her
school district and working as an afterschool
program director in Ossining,
Mount Vernon, New York City and, currently,
Yonkers. She is also the immediate
past president of the Mercy College chapter
of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional association;
a member of the Mercy College
Education Department Professional
Advisory Board and a member of other
community-based organizations.
Melissa Neale Schmidt-Bremer (Nurs ’99)
and her husband, Martin, welcomed their
first child and son, Patrick Martin, on March
31, 2008. Patrick was born with a midwife.
Ms. Schmidt-Bremer works as a high-risk
antepartum/postpartum nurse at Washington
Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. The
family resides in Springfield, Va.
Drew Sheehan (Com ’99 L/M) and his
wife, Karen, welcomed their second daughter,
Allison Blake, on July 23, 2008. Allison
joins a sister, Anna, 2. The family resides in
Fairfax, Va.
Emily Halayko Carmody (Educ ’99) and her
husband, Roderick, welcomed their second
child, Matthew Hanlon, on Oct. 12, 2008.
Matthew joins sister Caroline, 2. The family
resides in Boston.
Seth Rose (Col ’99 L/M) married Carolyn
Pykosz on June 14, 2008. The couple resides
in Chicago, where Mr. Rose practices intellectual
property and advertising law with the
firm of Loeb & Loeb.
Gwendolyn Forthman Wilson (Col ’99
L/M) married Michael Jordan Osborn on
April 12, 2008. Both Mr. and Ms. Osborn
work with Wine.com and reside in
Oakland, Calif.
’00s
Amanda Crocker Ash (Col ’00 L/M) was
named the 2009 Virginia Beach Citywide
Teacher of the Year. She chairs the English
department at Open Campus High School.
Matt Foster (Col ’00 L/M) and Polly
Nissly Foster (Col ’00, Nurs ’00 L/M) welcomed
their first child, Kaitlyn Anne, into
the world on June 17, 2008. The family
resides in Chesapeake, Va., where Mr.
Foster is an attorney for Bangel, Bangel,
and Bangel and Ms. Foster is an intensive
care unit nurse at Children’s Hospital of
The King’s Daughters.
Jay Gyuricza (Engr ’00 L/M) and Julie
Kemerer Gyuricza (Engr ’99 L/M) welcomed
the birth of their son, Jack James, on
Aug. 25, 2008, in Atlanta.
Heather Thomasen Hurd (Col ’00) and
her husband, Andrew Hurd, welcomed
their first child and son, Thomas Joseph, on
Feb. 21, 2008. The family resides in
Wilmington, N.C.
Jeffrey Mark Quinlivan (Engr ’00) and
Leslie Nanna Quinlivan (Col ’01, Educ ’01
L/M) welcomed their first child, Kathleen
Nanna Quinlivan. Kate was born on July 9,
2008. She is the niece of Christopher
William Nanna (Col ’96 L/M) and Lauren
Ashley Nanna (Engr ’04 L/M).
A. Todd Sprinkle (Col ’00 L/M) and his
wife, Nina Goradia Sprinkle (Com ’00
L/M), welcomed their first child, Charles
Allen, on Sept. 29, 2008. Charlie is the
nephew of Brian W. Sprinkle (Col ’98
L/M) and the grandson of C. Allen
Sprinkle (Educ ’68, ’80) and Elizabeth
Cauwenberg Sprinkle (Educ ’70). The
family resides in Charlotte, N.C.
John Benjamin Warburton (Col ’00) and
Kimberly Bareford Warburton (Col ’01,
Educ ’01, Grad ’03 L/M) celebrated the
birth of their first child, John Benjamin
Warburton Jr., on Aug. 24, 2008. Capt.
Warburton is an active-duty clinical psychologist
in the U.S. Air Force. The couple
resides in Spring Lake, N.C., where he is
stationed at Pope Air Force Base.
Susan Warner (Col ’00 L/M) joined the firm
of Isicoff, Ragatz & Koenigsberg in Miami as
a commercial litigation associate, having completed
a federal judicial clerkship with the
Honorable Virginia M. Hernandez
Covington in Jacksonville, Fla.
Brigette Andrews (Nurs ’01, ’07 L/M) and
Benjamin Cameron (Engr ’01, ’07) were
married at the University of Virginia Chapel
on April 13, 2008.
Katherine Leigh Baggett (Col ’01 L/M)
married Clarkson Wells Thornburgh on
March 29, 2008. The couple resides in
Manhattan.
Matthew Boyce (Col ’01 L/M) and
Heather Fowkes Boyce (Col ’01 L/M) are
proud to announce the birth of their first
child and daughter, Meridian Victoria, on
June 10, 2008. Meridian is the niece of
Erin Boyce Herndon (Col ’02) and
Andrew Barry Herndon (Grad ’02). The
family resides in Durham, N.C.
Justin Humphreys (Col ’01) was interviewed
on-camera for the Starz Channel
documentary The Face Is Familiar, which
features interviews with actors Samuel L.
Jackson, Michael Madsen and Joan Cusack.
He is also under contract to write his second
book, Interviews Too Shocking to Print!
Carrie Melvin (Col ’01 L/M) and Aaron
Domnitch (Engr ’03) were married on
Sept. 2, 2007. Ms. Domnitch is the
daughter of Walter Melvin (Com ’68
L/M) and the sister of Elizabeth Melvin
(Col ’94 L/M) and is director of federal
affairs for the American Chemistry
Council. Mr. Domnitch is a sonar engineer
for Adaptive Methods. The couple
resides in Arlington, Va., with their yellow
lab, Ginny.
Paul Nolde (Col ’01 L/M) and his wife,
Tatum, welcomed their first child and son,
Connor Paul, on May 7, 2008. The family
lives in Richmond, Va., where Mr. Nolde is
an assistant vice president in wealth management
at Bank of America.
Andy Oldham (Col ’01 L/M) began his
clerkship for U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Alito Jr. in August. He previously
served as a clerk for David B. Sentelle of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit and in the Office of
Legal Counsel at the United States
Department of Justice. Mr. Oldham received
his master of philosophy degree from
Cambridge University and his law degree
from Harvard Law School in 2005. He was
a Jefferson Scholar while attending U.Va.
Karen Nabholz Stemerman (Col ’01 L/M)
received a law degree from Villanova
University School of Law in 2004. She and
her husband, Jonathan, welcomed their first
child, Michael Vincent, on June 13, 2008.
The family resides in Philadelphia.
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CLASS NOTES
R. Kennon Poteat III (Com ’01 L/M) is an
associate with the law firm of Williams &
Connolly in Washington, D.C. His practice
focuses on civil and criminal trial litigation.
Tom Schamp (Engr ’01, ’06 L/M) and his
wife, Camm, welcomed their second son,
Benjamin Scott, on May 15, 2008. Ben joins
brother Zach, 4. The family resides in
Austin, Texas.
Steven Shepard (Col ’01) began his clerkship
with the U.S. Supreme Court in
August, clerking for Justice Anthony
Kennedy, who chose him as one of only four
clerks. Mr. Shepard was a Jefferson Scholar
while attending U.Va.
Deborah Heishman Eshenour (Col ’02)
published a short story in the January 2007
issue of Fourteen Hills, “Luke John,” which
has been nominated for a 2008 Pushcart
Prize. “Stories,” an excerpt from her novel
The Thousandth Man, is featured in the current
issue of Puerto del Sol. Ms. Eshenour
received her master of fine arts degree in
creative writing from Queens University of
Charlotte in 2004.
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Laura Gnoffo (Engr ’02 L/M) married David
Green on Sept. 13, 2008. The couple resides
in Sykesville, Md.
K. Brook Green (Engr ’02) and Stephen
N. Fonzone (Engr ’02) were married on
July 19, 2008. The couple resides in New
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construction quality assurance engineer for
FIGG Bridge Engineers. He transferred to
the I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge construction
site in Minneapolis. The new
bridge, designed by FIGG, has replaced the
bridge that collapsed on Aug. 1, 2007. Mr.
Jenkins began working on the project in
mid-August 2007, helping to write the response
to the request for proposals. The
$240 million design-build project was
opened to traffic on Sept. 18, 2008, approximately
three months ahead of schedule.
Mr. Jenkins lives with his wife, Bonnie;
and son, Kevin, in Tallahassee, Fla. He is
the son of Thomas E. Jenkins Sr. (Engr
’70 L/M) of Franklin, Va., and brother of
Jeffrey M. Jenkins (Col ’94 L/M) of San
Jacinto, Calif.
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Adam Spanberger (Engr ’02) and Abigail
Davis Spanberger (Col ’01) welcomed their
first child and daughter, Claire Lucille, on
Sept. 10, 2008. The family lives in
Alexandria, Va.
Rory Weyble Williamson (Grad ’02) and
Mark Jay Williamson (Engr ’98, ’02)
proudly announce the birth of their son,
Jay Peter, on March 26, 2008. Jay joins his
sister, Louise, 2. The family resides in
South Carolina.
Ashley Anderson (Col ’03 L/M) received
her medical degree from the Chicago
Medical School at Rosalind Franklin
University of Medicine and Science on June
6, 2008. During medical school, Dr.
Anderson served as publicity chair and secretary
for the New Life Volunteering Society
Free Health Clinic, participated in the
RFUMS Summer Research Fellowship and
served on the lottery committee. She will
begin her residency in general surgery at the
University of Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y.
Kristi Laurenz (Com ’03 L/M) married
Bobby Smith (Engr ’03 L/M) on Sept. 6,
2008. The couple resides in Evanston, Ill.,
where both are pursuing M.B.A. degrees at
the Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University.
Kari Lynn Teagno (Col ’03 L/M) married
J. Heath Hyman on June 28, 2008. The
couple resides in the Fan district of
Richmond, Va.
Ashley Agular Angelico (Com ’04) and
Blaise Matthew Angelico (Col ’04) were
married on March 31, 2007. Ms. Angelico
serves as program operations manager for
teachNOLA, a teacher recruitment, selection
and referral program charged with recruiting
outstanding individuals to teach in New
Orleans public schools. After working in
corporate turnaround and restructuring, Mr.
Angelico is pursuing an M.B.A. degree at
Tulane University.
Katie Campbell (Col ’04 L/M) and Bill
Newell were married on April 20, 2008, in
Amelia Island, Fla. The couple resides in
Jefferson, Ga.
Tom Caruso (Col ’04) received a medical
degree from Stanford University in the
spring. He will continue his training in the
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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Steven “Burr” Farrar (Com ’04 L/M)
married Anne Marie Ziegelmeyer on Sept.
15, 2007.
Bradley Harrison (Col ’04 L/M) graduated
from Vanderbilt University Law
School in Nashville, Tenn., with a law degree.
He lives in Atlanta, where he works
as a law clerk for Chief Judge Jack T.
Camp of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia. After his
clerkship, Mr. Harrison will begin working
as a litigation associate attorney with the
firm of Troutman Sanders in Atlanta.
Caroline Harvey (Col ’04) and Bradley
Turner (Com ’04 L/M) were married
on Aug. 30, 2008. Ms. Harvey is a human
resources generalist with MeadWestvaco
Corp., and Mr. Turner is a financial
analyst with Preferred Outlets in
Williamsburg, Va.
Christa Kolb (Arch ’04, ’08 L/M) and
Alec Solotorovsky (Col ’04, Law ’08 L/M)
were married on Aug. 9, 2008. The couple
resides in Chicago.
Varun Soni (Col ’04 L/M) is applying his
background in economics on Wall Street at
Forex.com, a division of GAIN Capital
Group, where he is director of client development.
He also received his Series 3 license
from the National Futures
Association. Mr. Soni resides in
Manhattan, N.Y.
Kristen Klement (Engr ’05 L/M) married
Kevin Hudak (Engr ’05) on Aug. 2,
2008. Ms. Hudak is a fourth-year medical
student at Georgetown University
and Mr. Hudak is a second-year medical
student at Eastern Virginia Medical
School.
Amanda Lewis (Col ’05) married Will
Tate (Col ’05 L/M) on Sept. 27, 2008.
They reside in Washington, D.C., where
Ms. Lewis is the manager of corporate relations
for the National Building Museum
and Mr. Tate is a consultant specializing in
customer relationship management at
BearingPoint Inc.
Shannon Montague (Col ’05 L/M) began
her fourth year teaching at the Bullis
School in Potomac, Md. She received the
David S. Stone Foundation Excellence in
Teaching Award and, in addition to her
teaching and extracurricular responsibili-
ties, will serve as the coordinator of the
sixth-grade team.
Elizabeth Masci (Col ’06 L/M) married
Brian Busch on Aug. 30, 2008. The couple
resides in Great Falls, Mont., where Ms.
Masci is an admissions counselor at the
University of Great Falls, and where she is
also pursuing a master of science degree in
counseling.
Elizabeth Downing Taylor (Com ’06
L/M) and Colin Thomas Dove (Com ’00,
GSBA ’09) were married on May 31, 2008.
Mr. Dove is a second-year at the Darden
School of Business and Ms. Taylor is an
analyst at Citi in New York.
Laura Wells Terry (Col ’06) received a
master of social work degree from Virginia
Commonwealth University in August. She
and her husband, Jonathan Terry (Col
’06), celebrated their second wedding anniversary
in June, as well as Mr. Terry’s
acceptance into U.Va. Law School. The
couple moved back to Charlottesville in
August and Ms. Terry works as an in-home
therapist with the Augusta League of
Therapists.
HADRIAN’S WALL
& THE LAKE DISTRICT
In the footsteps of the Roman Legions and the great poets. Britannia was an outpost of
the Roman Empire when the Emperor Hadrian built a wall to keep out the barbarous
Caledonians. Much of the wall he built along the northern frontier still stands, as do Roman
aqueducts, baths, and the Housesteads Fort, where Roman soldiers were posted to patrol
the borders. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey fell under the spell of the Lake District.
This exquisite landscape still inspires poets and artists today. The works of many of Britain’s
finest artists, past and present, can be found in the region’s museums and galleries.
Scott Friski (Col ’07 A/M) graduated as an
honor graduate from basic training at
Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio on
Aug. 14 after enlisting in the U.S. Air Force
on July 1. He was promoted to Airman 1st
Class and is now at Keesler Air Force Base
in Biloxi, Miss., for his technical training.
Sarah Wigfall (Law ’07) married
Bedford Cash II on Aug. 8, 2008. The
couple resides in Atlanta, where Ms.
Cash is an attorney with the firm of
Arnall Golden Gregory.
Emily K. Hesaltine (Engr ’08 L/M) married
Matthew Walker on Aug. 8, 2008. She
was escorted down the aisle by her father,
Scott C. Hesaltine (Com ’78 L/M), and is
the granddaughter of Charles H. Smith Jr.
(Col ’46 L/M). The couple resides in
Arlington, Va., where Ms. Walker is a business
analyst for McKinsey & Company.
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Providing a Strong Foundation: The Charitable Gift Annuity
Couple Creates Track Scholarship with Retirement Funds
Roger Calvert (right) and his wife, Barbara, have established a
deferred charitable gift annuity that will provide them with
retirement income and eventually create a track and field
scholarship for a student-athlete.
www.virginia.edu/giftplanning
For native Washingtonian Roger L. Calvert (McIntire ’72), the
University of Virginia was the only place for him, due to the
relationships he had established through his brother, Gordon
(College ’69). “My brother had a close-knit group of friends,
including track team captain Jim Creekman, who was aware of
my successes in track and encouraged me to consider U.Va.,”
Roger Calvert said.
An All-Metropolitan track team member, Calvert had received
scholarship offers from several top universities. He was excited,
however, to receive an invitation from U.Va. track coach Lou
Onesty to join the team and a welcome letter from his future
teammates. “Even before I arrived in Charlottesville, it was clear
to me that I was going to be warmly received by the track team
at Virginia,” Calvert said. “It was the best.”
Calvert’s track team experience was so significant that he and
his wife, Barbara, have established a deferred charitable gift
annuity that will eventually fund the Roger L. and Barbara C.
Calvert Endowed Track and Field Scholarship. “Barbara and I
want to provide qualified student-athletes with the opportunity
to enjoy the competitive benefits and the camaraderie of being
a track team member while experiencing all the University has
to offer,” said Calvert.
Following his graduation from the McIntire School of
Commerce, Calvert attended business school at the College of
William & Mary, receiving his MBA degree in 1974. He joined
what is now Ferris, Baker Watts Inc., as a municipal financial
advisor and has remained with the firm for 35 years, moving up
in the ranks to become the company’s president and CEO.
Calvert attributes his professional success to his espousal of
U.Va.’s Honor System. “In my line of work, your level of success
is a function of whether you’re trusted or not. I left U.Va. with a
belief in the value of honor and integrity.” Additionally, he
credits Larry Pettit, McIntire School professor emeritus, with
teaching him the importance of combining creativity with
diligence and discipline to develop innovative financial solutions.
The Calverts’ dream for the future of the University? “That it
always provide a diverse range of students with the opportunity to
develop their values, aptitudes and skills in a challenging and
stimulating environment,” he said.
The Charitable Gift Annuity
The concept of the charitable gift annuity was introduced in the United
States more than a century ago. It is a simple contract between a donor
and the University of Virginia Foundation and can be funded with as little
as $5,000 in cash, marketable securities, or, in some situations, real estate.
The payment rate is based on the age of the donor (who must be at least
55) and is locked in at the time the gift annuity is funded, which means
that it will not rise or fall with the economy. Annuity obligations are backed
by the full financial assets of the Foundation, guaranteeing that payments
will continue for the donor’s lifetime. If a two-life gift annuity is
established, when one person dies, the other will continue to receive the
full annuity payment for the rest of his or her life.
Donors who establish a charitable gift annuity are eligible for an income tax
deduction for a portion of the contribution. With deferred gift annuities,
donors pick a date a year or more in the future to begin receiving
payments. By deferring payments, they receive a larger income payment
and a larger charitable deduction. At the end of the contract term, the
funds remaining in the annuity are distributed to the school or program of
the donors’ choice.
The Cornerstone Society
On October 6, 1817, President James
Monroe and former Presidents
Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison gathered at a ceremony to
lay the cornerstone of Pavilion VII,
the first structure at the University
of Virginia. Just as this cornerstone
provided the foundation for the
University’s first building, the
Cornerstone Society is laying the
groundwork for the University’s
achievements in the decades ahead.
The Cornerstone Society comprises
alumni, parents, and friends who
have made planned gifts to the
University or its related foundations,
through wills, living trusts, or
retirement plan assets; gifts of life
insurance; charitable gift annuities;
and charitable remainder trusts or
lead trusts.
For More Information
To learn more about giving to the
University through a charitable gift
annuity, or making other planned gifts,
please call us at 434-924-7306
or toll-free at 800-688-9882,
e-mail us at giftplanning@virginia.edu,
or visit our Web site at
www.virginia.edu/giftplanning.
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LIFE MEMBERS
The following alumni
recently demonstrated
their commitment to the
University of Virginia
Alumni Association
and its important
programs and activities
by becoming life
members of the
association.
To join the Alumni
Association, call
(434) 243-9000, visit
www.alumni.virginia.edu
or write to Alumni Hall,
P.O. Box 400314,
Charlottesville,
VA 22904
O. Sami Aassar (Col ’86, Fel ’04)
Sharon E. Adams (Educ ’97, ’00)
Dmitri Adler (Com ’08)
Kevin H. Albrecht (Col ’08)
Janie Anderson-Kimble (Assoc. Member)
Melanie R. Arthur (Educ ’04)
Bruce A. Atkins (Law ’76)
Shannon N. Bagshaw (Col ’08)
Keith A. Bare (Col ’83)
Megan E. Beaver (Educ ’06)
Matthew Best (Engr ’05, ’07)
April C. Bingham (Med ’98)
Jonathan B. Bingham (Assoc. Member)
Victoria K. Blackford (GSBA ’78)
William S. Blackford (Assoc. Member)
Daniel S. Breeden (Assoc. Member)
Diane W. Breeden (Educ ’07)
Donovan P. Brown Jr. (Col ’75)
Diana S. Chau (Col ’06, Educ ’06)
Laura E. Clapp (Col ’08)
Gerald A. Coles (Col ’81, Educ ’85)
Betsy H. Coons (Col ’78)
James E. Couch (Law ’83)
Margie M. Couch (Assoc. Member)
Jason R. Dalton (Col ’93, Engr ’00)
Melissa G. Dalton (Col ’03)
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Sannette L. Dillard-Coles (Nurs ’84)
Rebecca F. Elliott (Col ’08)
James P. Etzel (Col ’06)
Katherine R. Forscey (Col ’08)
Scott K. Foster (Col ’83)
Robert L. Gabler (Com ’82)
Kathleen B. Gilchrist (Col ’08)
Ann S. Goodson (Nurs ’94)
Laura G. Green (Grad ’87)
Daniel R. Hagan (Col ’73)
Thomas J. Hagan (Engr ’06)
Ryan D. Hayes (Col ’93)
Vicki Hayes (Assoc. Member)
Bryan W. Heath (Col ’94)
Paul N. Homer (Grad ’84)
John M. Hopper Jr. (Col ’76)
Thomas A. Houlihan (Col ’71, Grad ’89)
Allen A. Hughes (Engr ’75)
Lisa M. Ingerski (Col ’03)
Donna M. Jacobs (Grad ’71)
Jay C. Jacquin (Com ’98)
Alexa T. Jahrsdoerfer (Nurs ’87)
Matthew C. Jakobovits (Engr ’08)
Afiya E. Jones (Col ’03)
Sheryl W. Jones (Col ’87)
Helen B. Jureidini (Assoc. Member)
Paul A. Jureidini (Grad ’61)
Jeffrey P. Jury (GSBA ’88)
Agya Karki (Com ’02)
Jessica L. Kerns (Col ’03)
Edward B. Kidd (Law ’78)
Jeffrey G. Kidd (Com ’08)
Glenn A. Kimble (Col ’83)
Jefferson C. Knighton (Col ’08)
Ravi M. Krishnamurthy (Engr ’91)
Kolawole B. Kuti (Col ’94)
Jangwon J. Lee (Engr ’03)
Jennifer J. Lee (Col ’05, Educ ’05)
Aaron E. Lenhart (Col ’07)
Ilona H. Letmanyi (Col ’99)
Cheryl A. Lindeman (Educ ’84)
Henry P. Long Jr. (Col ’73)
Hilary H. Long (Educ ’75)
Vincenzo P. Lucibello (Col ’02, Law ’05)
Pamela L. Martin (Grad ’96)
Jean A. Mays (Educ ’67)
Marylan T. Mays (Nurs ’59)
Emily R. McCarthy (Col ’98)
William K. McCarthy (Engr ’98)
John S. McCleary (Col ’60)
Elizabeth R. McDermott (Col ’97)
Denise R. McKittrick (Col ’89)
Terence R. McKittrick (Col ’88)
William R. Mertens (Com ’08)
Alyson D. Miller (Engr ’03)
Andrew J. Miller (Col ’02)
Bryan W. Miller (Col ’02)
Marilyn E. Mutchler (Engr ’82)
Robert K. Mutchler (Col ’79, Engr ’81)
Robert G. Myers (Educ ’83)
Michael D. Naeve (Col ’06)
John R. Nordlund (Engr ’77, Grad ’81)
Vanessa P. Nordlund (GSBA ’83)
Len W. Ogden Jr. (Col ’71)
Michael M. Ordonez (Engr ’07)
Andrew M. Orsi (Engr ’02)
David A. Pelfrey (Med ’88)
Chu Viet Pham (Col ’95)
William C. Prillaman (Col ’89, Grad ’98)
Stephen K. Pudner (Col ’03)
Brian A. Robertson (Col ’06)
Raymond C. Robertson (Law ’68)
Wilkes C. Robinson (Law ’51)
Rebecca C. Rodgers (Com ’03)
Angad S. Sachdeva (Engr ’08)
Andrea L. Sarate (Grad ’05)
Debapriya Sarkar (Engr ’95)
Valerie E. Schultz (Com ’08)
Gail L. Seiken (Col ’81)
Manish H. Shah (Med ’97)
Shekar R. Sidarth (Engr ’07)
Steven S. Skiena (Engr ’83)
Anna Maria H. Smeds (Nurs ’96)
Christopher J. Smeds (Engr ’96)
Marcia M. Smith (Com ’87)
Thomas W. Smith (Educ ’86)
Benjamin C. Smoot II (Col ’08)
Christopher L. Snead (Col ’86)
Diane S. Sockwell (Assoc. Member)
W. Stephen Sockwell (Col ’72)
Andrew M. Steel (Engr ’08)
Regina D. Stiles (Assoc. Member)
William H. Stiles (Nurs ’75)
Emily L. Swafford (Col ’04)
Robert L. Swedenburg (Engr ’70)
Albert A. Tappe (Arch ’52)
Detra C. Taylor (Col ’87)
James E. Taylor (Col ’86)
Elizabeth W. Thomson (Col ’05)
Alexandra I. Toma (Col ’01)
Dongphuong Nhu Truong (Col ’94)
Jori F. Tulkki (Col ’98)
Robert C. Vidaver (Col ’87)
Emily E. Wade (Col ’08)
Jenna M. Wandres (Col ’08)
C. Christopher Williams (Col ’96)
Francis D. Williams III (Col ’73)
Imani N. Williams-Vaughn (Col ’95)
Melissa R. Williams (Col ’93)
Brian R. Wilson (Col ’00)
Daniel W. Wilson Jr. (Assoc. Member)
Neil K. Winchester (Col ’81)
Catherine P. Wood (GSBA ’91)
James V. Woodson (Med ’03)
Lea A. Shannon Wright (Col ’97)
Robert C. Zizza (Col ’08)
Keeping the
LIFETIME CONNECTION
LISA GARDNER, Lifetime Member
Even though it has been more than three decades since Lisa Gardner
entered the University of Virginia, her ties to U.Va. remain strong.
A member of one of the first classes admitting females—she began
in 1975 and the first class of undergraduate women entered the
University in 1970—she continues to make a difference on Grounds.
As a student, she was actively involved in many organizations,
including Delta Delta Delta Sorority. As an alumna and lifetime
member of the Alumni Association she has kept her connection.
A 1979 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, Lisa is the chair
of the Alumni Association Board of Managers, becoming the second
female to hold this position.
She has also served as a Reunions volunteer (this summer her class
will celebrate its 30th Class Reunion) and was vice chair of the
University’s Annual Giving Advisory Board and has been involved
with the Charlotte, N.C., Regional Selection Committee of the
Jefferson Scholars Program.
Thank you to the 60,000-plus Alumni Association members like Lisa Gardner
who are keeping the lifetime connection. Your support keeps our University
strong. Member dues help fund programs such as Admission Liaison Program,
Reunions, Parents Committee, Ridley Scholarship Fund, Class Councils, Alumni
Interest Groups, grants, scholarships and endowments.
Join Today
Members of the Alumni Association enjoy a number of benefits, including discounts
on Alumni Association events, career services, hotel accommodations, insurance and,
car rentals. They also enjoy discounts at the U.Va. Bookstores and Jefferson Vineyards.
For a complete list of benefits visit www.alumni.virginia.edu/membership.
Visit www.alumni.virginia.edu or call (434) 243-9000
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1930s
Odessa McAlexander Homel (Nurs ’30) of
Martinez, Ga., died July 24, 2008. Ms.
Homel worked at the University Hospital as
a registered nurse and retired from the Eye
Clinic in 1976 after nearly 26 years.
Charlotte Kohler (Grad ’33, ’36 L/M) of
Charlottesville died Sept. 15, 2008. Ms.
Kohler was one of the University’s first
female doctorate recipients and was the
University’s first female Phi Beta Kappa
member in 1936. She was also a member of
the Raven Society and Omicron Delta
Kappa leadership honor society. An associate
professor of English, Ms. Kohler retired from
the University as professor emeritus in 1979,
and was the sixth and longest-tenured editor
of the Virginia Quarterly Review, editing the
journal from 1946 to 1975. Her last issue
was the journal’s 50th-anniversary issue.
During her time with VQR, she brought
literary heavyweights and controversial
figures to the pages, including Robert Frost,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Eudora Welty, Nadine
Gordimer, Diego Rivera, Albert Camus,
Pablo Neruda and Ezra Pound. A National
Endowment for the Arts award recipient,
Ms. Kohler presided over the Balch Awards
for poetry, received an honorary doctorate
from Smith College in 1971 and published
her own collection of poems in the VQR.
G. Cameron Hunter (Arch ’35) of Princeton,
W.Va., died May 7, 2008. He was a retired
architect who designed many commercial
buildings in the Princeton, Bluefield and
Charleston areas. He started his career with
the National Park Service to develop West
Virginia state parks, eventually moving to
Charleston to join its central design office.
He worked with the Defense Plant
Corporation as supervising engineer on
rubber plant projects, and with various
architecture firms before becoming a partner
with Zando, Martin & Milstead. In 1973, he
became owner of the firm Hunter & Associates.
Mr. Hunter was member emeritus of the
American Institute of Architects and
formerly served as president of its West
Virginia chapter. He was also past president
of the West Virginia Board of Architects and,
in 1985, received the Outstanding Citizen
Award from the Princeton Jaycees.
Melvin R. Watson (Col ’35) of Indianapolis
died April 10, 2008. He was managing editor
of College Topics in his fourth year and was a
member of the Glee Club and Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Watson held faculty positions at Queens
College in Charlotte, N.C.; Wayne University;
Mary Washington College of the University
of Virginia; Louisiana State University and
Chapman College, from which he retired in
1977. He published a monograph and many
essays on English literature. In his retirement,
Mr. Watson was a volunteer in Lynchburg
and Indianapolis in several hospitals and
with the Meals on Wheels program.
Edward L. Ryan Jr. (Law ’36 L/M) of
Norfolk, Va., died Sept. 18, 2008. He was a
U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, attaining
the rank of lieutenant commander. Judge
Ryan practiced law with the firm of White,
Ryan and Reynolds, was a past president of
the Norfolk and Portsmouth bar associations,
a member of the Council and Executive
Committee of the Virginia State Bar, a fellow
of the American College of Trial Lawyers and
a government appeals agent with the Selective
Service System. Judge Ryan served as general
counsel for the Planning Council of the United
Community Fund and judge of the Court of
Law and Chancery of the City of Norfolk.
Vivian B. Warr (Grad ’37 L/M) of
Memphis, Tenn., died March 27, 2008. Ms.
Warr taught briefly in Richmond and for
Hutchison School in Tennessee before working
for many years as an auditor for the Internal
Revenue Service. She was a member of the
American Association of University Women.
Randolph M. Valz Jr. (Col ’37 A/M) of
Washington, D.C., died April 21, 2008. He
was a member of the swim team and Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity and the Thomas
Jefferson Society of Alumni. He worked with
E. I. DuPont de Nemours in the company’s
Belle, W.Va., plant until 1926. He also
worked in sales with Socony-Vacuum Oil
Co., later Mobil Oil Co., retiring in 1984 as
area manager with 38 years of service.
Richard L. DeSaussure Jr. (Col ’39, Med
’42 L/M) of Memphis, Tenn., died Sept. 24,
2008. He retired from the U.S. Army with
the rank of major, was awarded three battle
stars and the Bronze Star, and was assigned
to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington,
D.C. Dr. DeSaussure began his career at the
Kennedy Veteran’s Hospital in Memphis and
joined the Semmes-Murphey Clinic. He was
director of the intern-resident training
program of the Baptist Memorial Hospital
and coordinated this training program with
the University of Tennessee, where he was
professor of neurosurgery and assistant dean.
He was also a leader of many professional
organizations. In 1973, he formed the Mid-
South Foundation for Medical Care. He
wrote and taught on numerous medical
topics and became professor emeritus at the
University of Tennessee Health Science
Center. His distinguished career was recognized
by several awards. In 2002, the DeSaussure
Resident Scholarship was established by the
Semmes-Murphey Clinic and, in 2003, the
DeSaussure Excellence in Neurosurgery
Award was established by the Baptist
Memorial Health Care Foundation. Both of
these funds support the ongoing education
and training of residents in neurosurgery. In
2007, the Baptist Memorial Health Care
Foundation presented Dr. DeSaussure with
its Award of Distinction for Emeritus Physicians.
Frank L. Watson (Law ’39) of Jacksonville,
Fla., died March 28, 2008. He was a
member of the Raven Society, St. Anthony
Hall fraternity, and Lambda Pi and PK
honor societies. After serving as a special
agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
during World War II, he co-founded the law
firm of Freeman, Richardson and Watson,
practicing bond law until his retirement. He
served as president of the Jacksonville Bar
Association, the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
the former Children’s Museum of Jacksonville,
the Visiting Nurses Association and was a
board member of the Florida Bar Association.
Survivors include a nephew, Thomas B.
Slade III (Col ’53, Law ’54 L/M).
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Otto C. Grant (Col ’41) of New London,
Conn., died March 27, 2008. He participated
in intramural boxing at the University. He
worked in the family business, Shetucket Coal
and Lumber, and later for a cash-and-carry
operation. Mr. Grant was a self-taught sailor
and made two crossings of the Atlantic Ocean
with his wife, Edith G. Grant (Educ ’41).
Roger Hall (Col ’41 A/M) of Brandywine
Hundred, Del., died July 20, 2008. Mr. Hall
served as a captain in the U.S. Army in the
parachute infantry and was assigned to the
Office of Strategic Services, the World War II
predecessor of Special Forces and the Central
Intelligence Agency. As a member of the
OSS, he parachuted behind enemy lines in
Europe. With his friend and future CIA
director, William Colby, he accepted the
surrender of 10,000 German troops in
Norway in 1945. Mr. Hall was the author of
the books You’re Stepping on My Cloak and
Dagger, a humorous account of his
adventures in the OSS that is considered a
classic in espionage literature; All My Pretty
Ones; and 19, a spy novel. He was also the
author of articles in the New York Times and
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television scripts, magazine articles, and was
cartoon editor of True magazine. He was the
press box announcer/commentator for the
Baltimore Colts from 1948 through 1950 and
hosted his own television and radio music
programs in Baltimore and New York City.
Yves Maroni (Grad ’41) of Falls Church, Va.,
died March 20, 2008. An international
economist who worked more than 42 years
for the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, Mr. Maroni specialized in
Latin American economic and financial
affairs, retiring in 1994 as a senior economist.
He traveled extensively in Latin America to
gather firsthand information and develop
relationships with financial officials and
private analysts. Mr. Maroni was a member of
the Federal Reserve delegation to many inter-
American meetings of central banks and
helped organize these conferences when they
were held in the U.S. He lectured at the
Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies,
a training school for Latin American central
bank economists in Mexico City, and
participated in technical assistance missions in
Chile and Central America. Before joining the
Federal Reserve, he was assistant professor of
economics at Brown University and the
University of Buffalo. Mr. Maroni was a former
president of the Fairfax County (Va.) Federation
of Citizens Associations. He sang with the
Harvard Glee Club and with the Metropolitan
Chorus of Arlington, Va., and coordinated his
church’s budget for more than 30 years.
E. Eugene Mullen (Med ’41) of Glen Cove,
N.Y., died Sept. 16, 2008. Memorial
contributions can be made to the University
of Virginia Medical School Foundation, P.O.
Box 800776, Charlottesville, VA 22908.
Survivors include a son, Edward E.
Mullen Jr. (Col ’77, Med ’86 L/M).
Graham Benton Patterson (Com ’41 L/M) of
Charlottesville died Feb. 17, 2008. He was a
member of the Honor Committee at the
University and was a past president of the
Virginia Student Aid Foundation. Mr. Patterson
was a veteran of World War II, part of combat
landing forces in the North Atlantic. He was a
founder of the Benton Patterson Insurance
Agency and committed many hours to the
improvement of Charlottesville, Albemarle
County and the University of Virginia through
his membership in and leadership of numerous
civic groups and organizations.
Dennis L. Robertson (Col ’41) of
Petersburg, Va., died March 31, 2008. He
served in the U.S. Army.
Howard B. Josias (Col ’42 L/M) of
Southport, N.C., died April 16, 2008. He was
on the boxing and tennis teams at the
University. Dr. Josias served in World War II
in the U.S. Navy Dental Corps, and was
reactivated during the Korean War. He then
practiced dentistry in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for
55 years before retiring to Southport.
Walter Nelson Munster (Grad ’42) of The
Plains, Va., died April 3, 2008. He worked at
Standard Oil extracting aromatic fractions and
began work on his doctorate in nuclear
engineering at the University, but the day after
Pearl Harbor was called to work for the synthetic
rubber program. After World War II, when the
program was placed into civilian hands, he was
called to join the Atomic Energy Commission.
He worked helping countries such as Finland
and Australia to establish their own nuclear
energy programs. In 1964, Mr. Munster became
one of the first directors of the American Society
for Cybernetics. After retiring, he served as a
planning commissioner for Fauquier County
for 23 years and sang with local choirs and
with the Berkshire Choral Institute. He
established the Walter N. Munster Professorship
for Research in Intelligence Enhancement in
U.Va.’s School of Engineering.
James E. Travis (Arch ’42 L/M) of
Charlottesville died April 9, 2008. He
served in the U.S. Navy’s Seabees during
World War II.
Anne J. Chelf (Nurs ’43 L/M) of Manassas,
Va., died April 23, 2008. She was a retired
U.S. Navy commander and served as a nurse
during World War II, the Korean War and the
Vietnam War.
William F. Fuller (Col ’43) of Fort Pierce,
Fla., died March 11, 2008. Mr. Fuller served
in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a pilot. He was
a flying instructor in many locations, including
Sebring, Fla. He owned a restaurant and later
became an insurance agent.
Alonzo C. Goodrich III (Col ’43) of
Winnetka, Ill., died Jan. 26, 2008. Mr.
Goodrich served in the U.S. Army during
World War II, then worked in the sawmill of
Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company and with
Japan Airlines as a ticket agent. He later became
a high school English teacher in Ohio and Illinois.
Matthew Lawman Jr. (Engr ’43) of
Richmond, Va., died July 14, 2008. A native
of Charlottesville, Mr. Lawman retired in
1982 from General Motors after a 35-year
career. Survivors include a daughter, Alene
Dawn Lawman (Nurs ’73 L/M).
Robert E. Stinson (Col ’43 A/M) of Newport
News, Va., died April 12, 2008. He was a U.S.
Marine veteran of World War II. He worked
in the athletics department at the University
and was a safety director with Wolf Contracting.
James E. Voorhees Jr. (Col ’43) of Delmar,
N.Y., died June 28, 2008. A veteran of World
War II, Mr. Voorhees was employed by L.R.
Mack, Albany Felt Company and retired as
vice president of Key Bank in 1978. He was a
former board member of a hospital and aided
many Community Chest drives as well as the
American Heart Association of the Albany area.
John M. Buchanan (Engr ’44 A/M) of
Cambridge, Mass., died March 10, 2008. He
was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.
Charles L. Clark (Grad ’44) of Sonora, Calif.,
died Feb. 22, 2008.
Willys H. Anderson (Nurs ’45) of Lexington,
Ky., died Sept. 22, 2008. She was a retired
director of the psychiatric unit at the former
Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington. For
three years in a row, she won her age group in
the Thanksgiving Thoroughbred Classic 5K.
For the past four years, she was employed by
Keeneland during the spring and fall races.
Donald E. Cummings (Col ’46) of The
Woodlands, Texas, died July 7, 2008. He was
a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and
the University’s championship boxing team.
Mr. Cummings served in the U.S. Navy from
1946 until 1969 as a fighter pilot. While in
the Navy, he boxed in the finals of the
Olympic trials. His last assignment was as air
boss on the USS Shangri-la aircraft carrier
stationed in the Mediterranean. After retiring
from the Navy, he was the corporate pilot for
Campbell-Ewald Advertising Corp.
Allan Denslow (Col ’46) of Salt Lake City
died Sept. 8, 2008. Mr. Denslow served in
World War II in the U.S. Army Air Forces.
He was a member of the Salt Lake City Police
Department for 30 years and retired with the
rank of sergeant.
Frederick Edenharter (Col ’46, Law ’49 L/M)
of Shillington, Pa., died March 27, 2008. In
World War II, he was a U.S. Marine Corps
rifleman and was awarded the Silver Star. He
served as a judge in the Berks County Court
of Common Pleas, becoming president judge
and senior judge in 1982. He was admitted to
practice before the Pennsylvania Superior and
Supreme courts and the U.S. District and
Supreme courts. He was a former assistant
district attorney; a former partner in the law
firm of Rhoda Stoudt & Bradley and a former
associate in the law firm of Snyder, Balmer &
Kershner. Admitted to the Berks County Bar
in 1950, he was a founding member and the
first president of the Berks County Junior Bar
Association. He retired in 1999.
Douglas W. Gibb (Com ’46 L/M) of Delray
Beach, Fla., died Aug. 3, 2008. Mr. Gibb
served as a U.S. Navy officer during World
War II and worked in his family business,
Thomas & George Stone Engraving Co., in
Newark, N.J., until its closing in 1959. He
then worked as a stock analyst for Kidder Peabody
& Co. in New York until retiring in 1969.
Malcolm Lester (Grad ’46, ’54 L/M) of
Mooresville, N.C., died March 8, 2008. He
was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at the
University. He was professor and dean of the
faculty at Mercer University before joining
Davidson College, where he was chair of the
history department until his retirement in
1989 as the Charles E. Dana Professor of
History Emeritus. He was also director of the
Davidson College program at Cambridge
University. He was a senator for Phi Beta Kappa
and was the secretary of the Davidson College
chapter of many years. He was a member of
the Royal Historical Society and wrote extensively
for historical journals. In 2004, Davidson
College Presbyterian Church presented him
with a plaque to honor his service to the local
and larger church. As church archivist, Mr.
Lester was able to recover church records that
dated from 1837, many of which had been lost
and which now reside in the archives of the
Davidson College library. He also worked to
preserve the Davidson College cemetery and
wrote a history of its site. Memorial contributions
can be made to the Davidson College
Malcolm Lester Fund, Davidson College, P.O.
Box 7174, Davidson, NC 28035.
John K. Rogers (Med ’46) of Bristol, Va., died
Sept. 21, 2008. Mr. Rogers served four decades
in the U.S. Air Force and was in World War II,
the Korean War and the Vietnam War,
receiving numerous medals for his service. He
retired in 1981 as a lieutenant colonel and
briefly taught economics at the University. Mr.
Rogers worked on St. John, the U.S. Virgin
Islands, with the National Park Service and the
St. John Historical Society, and with Central
Warehouse Co. and Holston Builders Supply in
Bristol. Mr. Rogers helped to draft Virginia’s
safety standards for motorcycles and helmet
requirements. He was also instrumental in the
building of the Veterans’ Memorial in
downtown Bristol.
Geraldine Akard Andrews (Grad ’47) of
Bethesda, Md., died May 6, 2008.
Michael Bat (Com ’47) of Severna Park, Md.,
died Sept. 27, 2008. Mr. Bat served in the
U.S. Navy during World War II and retired as
a logistics manager from Raytheon Co.
Robert Gray Carrington (Engr ’47 L/M) of
Charlotte, N.C., died Sept. 24, 2008. He
took part in the U.S. Navy’s V-12 program
during World War II. He formed the Carrington
Electrical and Carrington Engineering sales
companies, from which he retired in 2003. In
his spare time, Mr. Carrington volunteered
and coached pole vaulting for 13 seasons at
Charlotte Latin School, where his teams won
numerous state championships.
Louise M. Cooper (Nurs ’47) of Raleigh,
N.C., died April 1, 2008.
Harry M. Murray Jr. (Col ’47) of Bridgeport,
W.Va., died March 21, 2008. He was a World
War II veteran of the U.S. Navy. Mr. Murray
practiced optometry for 55 years in the
Bridgeport community. In 1949, he
established Harry Murray Optometry, later
Murray, Murray & Groves. In 1968, he was
recognized as West Virginia Optometrist of
the Year. He was past president of the West
Virginia Optometric Association and a past
president and board member of the West
Virginia Board of Optometry. Mr. Murray
also held many civic leadership positions. His
business provided eye-care services for the
local Lions Clubs for many years. Mr. Murray
was honored by the Lions Club with the
Melvin Jones Fellow Award.
Paul L. Chodosh (Med ’48 L/M) of
Oquossoc, Maine, died Sept. 5, 2008. Dr.
Chodosh served in the U.S. Army during
World War II and was a physician in the U.S.
Air Force during the Korean War. He was a
member of the teaching faculty of the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary and was one of its
surgeon directors. He also maintained a
private practice in ear, nose and throat surgery
in Hillside, N.J. During his long career, Dr.
Chodosh published various articles and held
many leadership positions in professional
organizations. He was one of three doctors to
receive the 2003 Physician of the Year Award
for excellence in medicine from the New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary’s Department of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. The
Paul L. Chodosh Professorship honors his
service to the infirmary. He and his wife
became owners of Mingo Springs Golf Course
in Rangeley, Maine, where Dr. Chodosh
continued to give back to the community
through service and participation in local
groups. Memorial contributions can be made
to the Paul L. Chodosh Professorship Fund,
c/o The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 310
East 14th St., New York, NY 10003.
Survivors include cousins Bruce T. Chodosh
(Med ’65 L/M), H. Louis Chodosh (Col ’46
L/M), Herbert P. Chodosh (Col ’53), Lance
I. Chodosh (Col ’68 L/M) and Sanford
Chodosh (Col ’48 L/M).
Benjamin P. Davidson (Engr ’48 L/M) of
Iowa Park, Texas, died March 15, 2008.
William C. Mayer Jr. (Engr ’48 L/M) of
Birmingham, Ala., died Aug. 12, 2008. Mr.
Mayer was a professional engineer and
metallurgical engineering consultant. He
retired from United States Steel Corp. in
1983. Survivors include his son, W. Charles
Mayer III (GSBA ’79 L/M); and granddaughter,
Jane Carlisle Mayer (Col ’05).
James W. Ransone (Col ’48, Med ’52) of San
Antonio died March 27, 2008.
Harry A. Batty (Engr ’49 L/M) of
Charlottesville died June 20, 2008. Mr. Batty
was a member of the Theta Tau engineering
fraternity and the Thomas Jefferson Society of
Alumni. He served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II and worked in the hydraulic
department of the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock Co. in Virginia, where he
helped design the hydraulic turbine system for
the Hoover Dam. In 1951, he joined Lees
Carpets, later Burlington Industries, in
Glasgow, Va., where he developed many
patents, helped build plants from Georgia to
Japan and became the engineering division
head for the Carpet Group. He retired in
1987. Survivors include a brother, Frank
Batty (Engr ’52 L/M); a son, Harry A. Batty
Jr. (Com ’77 L/M); and a nephew, Scott
Sandridge (Col ’85, Grad ’87 L/M).
Donald H. Beall (Arch ’49) of Tampa, Fla.,
died Nov. 26, 2007. He served in the U.S. Air
Force during the Korean War. He worked as
an architect for three firms during his more
than 30-year career. He was a former member
of the Panama Canal Society.
Richard C. Cowles (Col ’49) of Lanexa,
Va., died Sept. 22, 2008. Mr. Cowles spent
most of his career in the construction
business and his last 20 years traveling.
Emilio Louis “Mimi” Fanjul (Col ’49 L/M)
of Haddonfield, N.J., died June 2, 2008.
Originally from Havana, Cuba, Mr. Fanjul
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II
and the Korean War. He became a U.S.
citizen in 1945. He served as mayor of
Gibbsboro in the 1950s and worked in
pharmaceutical sales for 20 years with Ortho
Pharmaceutical Corp., a division of Johnson
& Johnson. Mr. Fanjul founded the
Community Blood Bank of Southern New
Jersey in 1970 and served as its executive
director. He was past president of the
Camden County chapter of the American
Cancer Society and the New Jersey Blood
Bank Association. Survivors include
daughters Susan F. Larcamp (Com ’74) and
Katherine F. Downey (Col ’80).
Joseph E. Godridge Jr. (Com ’49 L/M) of
Chevy Chase, Md., died April 26, 2008. He
was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, the
Cornerstone Society and the Thomas Jefferson
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Society of Alumni. During World War II, Mr.
Godridge served in the U.S. Navy. A securities
broker and lecturer and a member of the New
York Stock Exchange, he held leadership
positions in several professional organizations.
He was a delegate to China with the People to
People International Securities Management
Delegation in 1987. Memorial contributions
can be made to the Joseph Edward Godridge
Jr. Memorial Fund at the Chevy Chase Fire
Department, 8001 Connecticut Avenue,
Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Survivors include a
daughter, Victoria G. Warner (Col ’82 L/M).
David D. Harlan (Col ’49) of Mount
Pleasant, S.C., died March 21, 2008. Mr.
Harlan was a member of Beta Theta Phi
fraternity and was a U.S. Navy veteran of
World War II and the Korean War, serving as
a lieutenant. An industrial engineer, Mr.
Harlan was employed with various
manufacturing companies including Joy
Manufacturing and Reynolds Metals, where
he held several patents, and Cummins, where
he was instrumental in locating the Cummins
Engine Plant in Charleston in 1973. He also
worked as a management consultant for
companies in Canada and the United States.
He volunteered as a poll manager for the
South Carolina Election Committee for many
years. As his church’s graveyard curator, Mr.
Harlan helped expand the funding and
restoration of its historic cemetery. A pathway
in the cemetery is named for him and he was
honored with a permanent plaque describing
his memorable service to the church.
Wayne Kendrick Jr. (Col ’49 L/M) of Lake
Monticello, Va., died April 4, 2008. Mr.
Kendrick served in the U.S. Army. He was a
life member of Sigma Nu fraternity and a
member of the Thomas Jefferson Society of
Alumni. Survivors include a son, Wayne
Kendrick III (Com ’81 L/M).
Warren Lewis Soden (Col ’49, Educ ’51
A/M) of Richmond, Va., died Aug. 11, 2008.
Mr. Soden served in the U.S. Army Air Forces
during World War II and retired from
Dominion Power after 35 years of service.
William A. Thomas (Arch ’49) of Chattanooga,
Tenn., died March 17, 2008. During World
War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air
Forces. Mr. Thomas was a principal in the
architectural firm of Thomas, Ross and
Stanfill of Jackson, Tenn., for nearly 50 years.
The firm designed commercial and residential
buildings in the West Tennessee area and in
many other states.
Dorsey B. Tisdale III (Col ’49) of Norfolk,
Va., died May 3, 2008. He served in the U.S.
Army as a medic and worked for the Norfolk
Health Department as director of housing until
his retirement in 1984, after which he worked
for the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing
Authority as a rehab specialist until 1993.
1950s
Theodore D. Blake Jr. (Col ’50) of Siesta
Key, Fla., died Sept. 10, 2008. He was a
lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces during
World War II and a flight instructor. Mr.
Blake was an investment adviser for 43 years,
26 years with Hornblower Weeks in Newark,
N.J., and 17 years with UBS Paine Webber in
Morristown, N.J.
Norman B. Filmer (Educ ’50) of Danbury,
Conn., died April 30, 2008. He received a
Bronze Star for his service in World War II.
He was an optometrist before joining Clairol
in Stamford, where he worked for 30 years.
He was active in the Springdale Little League,
where he coached the Clairol team from 1958
until 2001. He was honored by the league in
2002 with a plaque that reads “Norm’s
Corner” and hangs in the first-base dugout at
the Springdale Little League field.
Henry Fraser Gurley (Engr ’50) of Durham,
N.C., died April 15, 2008. He served in the
U.S. Army during World War II and received
the Purple Heart for injuries sustained at the
Battle of the Bulge. Mr. Gurley retired from
Sperry Rand Corp. in 1987.
John M. Hoskins (Col ’50 A/M) of
Norristown, Pa., died Sept. 26, 2008. He was
a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Mr.
Hoskins served in the U.S. Army in World
War II and received four Bronze Stars and one
Bronze Arrowhead for serving in D-Day. He
worked as a title officer for TA Insurance Co.
in Media, Pa., for more than 40 years.
Phyllis Moler Johnson (Nurs ’50) of
Charlottesville died Aug. 21, 2008. She
worked for most of her nursing career as a
pediatric nurse with Pediatric Associates of
Charlottesville. In her later years there, she
worked at Martha Jefferson Hospital with new
mothers and newborn babies. A member of
the U.Va. Nursing Alumni Association, Ms.
Johnson created replicas of nursing uniforms
from past eras of the Nursing School.
Survivors include daughters Patricia L.
Johnson (Law ’84) and Holly Johnson
Neavear (Col ’95, Educ ’95).
Amelia C. Lipchak (Nurs ’50, ’53) of
Petersburg, Va., died April 27, 2008. Ms.
Lipchak was a member of the Lychnos Society,
Kappa Delta sorority and Pi Lambda Theta
honor society. She served in the U.S. Army
during World War II and was a faculty
member of several universities, including the
University of Virginia and the Medical
University of South Carolina, where she
worked until her retirement in 1982. She was
a specialist in pediatric nursing and in
maternal child health. She also held certificates
in intensive care nursing, pediatric nurse
practitioner, and advanced training in the care
of premature infants. After her retirement, she
volunteered at St. Joseph Catholic Church
Outreach and Crater Community Hospice.
Andrew C. Marinos (Col ’50 L/M) of Glen
Allen, Va., died Aug. 3, 2008. A World War II
veteran of the U.S. Army, Mr. Marinos served
in intelligence reconnaissance in Switzerland
and Germany. He was a member of Delta
Upsilon fraternity and the Thomas Jefferson
Society of Alumni. A Charlottesville native, he
worked as a young man with his father, Chris
Marinos, the founder of CK Restaurant, in
their family business. Mr. Marinos served on
several local boards, including the board of
directors of the Charlottesville Greek Orthodox
Church. He worked in sales for men’s retail
clothing. An avid U.Va. sports fan, Mr.
Marinos served as an usher during U.Va.
sporting events and also during Final Exercises.
Earley M. “Lee” Miller (Engr ’50 L/M) of
Richmond, Va., died April 6, 2008. Mr.
Miller was a member of the Thomas Jefferson
Society of Alumni. He served in World War II
in the U.S. Navy as an aviation radioman and
aerial gunner. He retired from the U.S. Geological
Survey, where he worked for 30 years. Survivors
include his wife, Rosalie W. Miller (Nurs ’48).
Thurman B. Reynolds (Col ’50) of Fresno,
Calif., died May 7, 2008. Mr. Reynolds served
in the U.S. Navy and was employed by Fresno
County, retiring in 1979 from the assessor’s
office as a senior appraiser.
John Earl Nielsen (Com ’51) of Ventura,
Calif., died Nov. 9, 2006. He was on the
varsity swim team at the University. Mr.
Nielsen served in the U.S. Coast Guard
during the Korean War. Most of his career was
spent with the Department of the Navy at
Point Mugu Naval Base in Oxnard, where he
worked in information technology.
Thomas A. Smith (Engr ’51) of Pittsford,
N.Y., died June 4, 2008. He was a World War
II U.S. Army veteran.
Jane M. Ward (Educ ’51 L/M) of Boulder,
Colo., died March 12, 2008. She was associate
dean at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of
Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta;
associate dean at the University of Tennessee
College of Nursing; director of research at the
University of Colorado School of Nursing;
and professor and associate dean at the
University of Oklahoma School of Nursing.
She also held research appointments at the
National Institutes of Health in Washington,
D.C., and at the Western Interstate Commission
for Higher Education in Boulder. Ms. Ward
was a member of numerous professional and
civic organizations, including the American
Academy of Nursing, the American Nurses
Association and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
James H. Crewdson (Law ’52) of Charleston,
W.Va., died March 28, 2008. He was a member
of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He opened a law
practice in Charleston in 1952 and practiced
until his death. He served as special judge in
Kanawha County courts, as a domestic
relations judge in Charleston and as a judge in
Nitro City. He was a member of the American
Bar Association. Mr. Crewdson was
instrumental in getting the sewer system and
sidewalks installed for the Cross Lanes area.
Alexander C. Culbertson Jr. (Col ’52 L/M)
of Louisville, Ky., died April 28, 2008. He was
a financial adviser with W. L. Lyons and later
with Walston & Co. He retired from Stifel
Nicolaus & Co. Mr. Culbertson was a U.S.
Army veteran of the Korean War.
James M. Jordan (Col ’52, Grad ’59) of
Winston-Salem, N.C., died April 3, 2008. He
served with an intelligence unit of the U.S.
Army before joining the faculty at Salem
College in 1960. Mr. Jordan taught English
literature at Salem College for 36 years.
Stanley S. Needell (Col ’52, Med ’56 L/M) of
Miami died Sept. 20, 2008. Dr. Needell was a
psychoanalyst in Miami from 1971 until his
death. He was on the faculty of Duke
University, the New Orleans Psychoanalytic
Institute and Louisiana State University
Medical Center. Dr. Needell was a clinical
professor at the University of Miami in
psychiatry; a teaching analyst at the Baltimore
Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis; and
training and supervising analyst and former
president of the Florida Psychoanalytic
Institute. He was a member of the Center of
Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies and the
Study Group for Contemporary Psychoanalytic
Process in Princeton, N.J.
Charles L. Shuford Jr. (Engr ’52) of Arden,
N.C., died Dec. 5, 2007. His career as an
aeronautical engineer included designing parts
of the space shuttle.
Wesley A. Ballenger (Com ’53 L/M) of
Carolina Shores, S.C., died Jan. 9, 2008. He
was a U.S. Army veteran and a president of
First Virginia Bank in Augusta County, Va.,
from 1968 to 1975. As a 20-year resident of
North Carolina, he was director of the Coastal
Carolina Museum and taught GED classes for
Brunswick Community College for several
years. Survivors include his wife, Marguerite
Jones Ballenger (Educ ’53 L/M); a son,
Wesley A. Ballenger Jr. (Engr ’80 L/M); and
a daughter, Kathryn B. Reid (Nurs ’84, ’88).
Churchill J. Gibson (Col ’53) of Alexandria,
Va., died April 9, 2008. Rev. Gibson’s ministry
spanned more than five decades in schools
and churches primarily in Northern Virginia.
Dedicated to social justice, he served as a
peacekeeper at Resurrection City on the Mall
in 1968 and was arrested at the South African
Embassy in 1989. He ministered to inmates
in Virginia prisons and to death-row inmates
from 1996 to 2007. He served as associate
rector at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in
Alexandria for 33 years and as chaplain at St.
Stephen’s School in Alexandria for 11 years.
Rev. Gibson was chaplain and associate dean
of students at Virginia Theological Seminary
for 18 years and was named professor
emeritus. Rev. Gibson also served as chaplain
at the Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration
in Orkney Springs, Va., for 20 years. After
retirement, Rev. Gibson served as interim
rector in many parishes and was priest
associate at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in
Alexandria. He served on the board of trustees
for Goodwin House in Alexandria.
Noah Hughes Palmer Jr. (Col ’53) of
Virginia Beach died April 9, 2008. He was a
member of Sigma Chi fraternity. For many
years Mr. Palmer served as executive vice
president of Addington Beaman Lumber Co.,
where he specialized in purchasing lumber in
the commodities market, before retiring in
1989. He was a founding member and past
president of the Agape Sunday school class
and former member of the Virginia Beach
United Methodist Church administrative
board. He served as president of the Cerebral
Palsy Training Center of Tidewater and
participated in the Tidewater Association of
Homebuilders and the National Association
of Homebuilders.
Faye Hill (Educ ’54 L/M) of Richmond, Va.,
died March 4, 2008.
Henry V. Winn Jr. (Grad ’54) of Midlothian,
Va., died April 15, 2008. He served as a
second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces
during World War II and later flew with the
Virginia Air National Guard out of Richmond,
Va. For 30 years, Mr. Winn was a building
contractor, having designed and built many
of the homes in the Salisbury subdivision of
Midlothian as well as others in the
Richmond area.
Houston R. Wood (Col ’54) of Vero Beach,
Fla., died March 21, 2008. He was a member
of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and served in
the U.S. Army during the Korean War as a
paratrooper. Mr. Wood worked for Weirton
Steel for 20 years and was the director of
environmental control and governmental
affairs when he retired in 1988. He served on
the boards of the West Virginia Chamber of
Commerce and the West Virginia Manufacturers
Association and was a member of the West
Virginia Water Pollution Control Association.
Phyllis M. Gates (Nurs ’55) of Mount Airy,
N.C., died April 30, 2008. She taught at the
Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing
and Northwestern State College of Louisiana
before serving in Vietnam in 1966 and again
in 1970. She was a graduate of Air Command
and Staff College and National Defense
College. Ms. Gates worked with Mobile
Meals, Helping Hands, the Food Closet and
Hospice of Surfside.
Earl W. Johnson (Educ ’55) of Gretna, Va.,
died March 17, 2008. He served in the U.S.
Army during World War II and was a teacher
and principal in the Lynchburg and Pittsylvania
County school systems. He was superintendent
of schools for Pittsylvania County from 1975
until his retirement in 1986.
Shirley Cannon McIntire (Nurs ’55) of
Falmouth, Mass., died March 23, 2008. She
moved to Falmouth 25 years ago to start a
practice of medical oncology with her
husband. Ms. McIntire was a founding
member of the Montgomery Hospice in
Maryland and served on the boards of
Penikese Island School and Overnights of
Hospitality for the homeless. She also was a
volunteer chaplain at Falmouth Hospital and
a mentor in the Falmouth schools.
Jack K. Bentley (Med ’56) of Richmond, Va.,
died April 5, 2008. He was a retired
radiologist for the Hunter Holmes McGuire
Richmond VA Medical Center.
Frank Edward Dines (Grad ’56) of San
Francisco died Oct. 30, 2007. Mr. Dines was
a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and worked for
37 years for the Asia Foundation, a nonprofit
organization that assists Asian social and
economic development and promotes U.S.-
Asia relations. In 1996, he was appointed vice
president of administration and later vice
president of programs. Mr. Dines received
numerous medals and citations from
government and private agencies in Vietnam
and Korea and held many memberships in
professional societies. He retired in 1995.
John Peter Holmgren (Col ’56) of Loveland,
Colo., died on July 19, 2008. Mr. Holmgren
was a member of the U.Va. swim team. He
served in the U.S. Army in Korea. In the early
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1970s, he established a health insurance
company in Colorado and operated it until he
retired in the late 1990s. Mr. Holmgren
worked after retirement for McKee Medical
Center in Loveland, Colo.
Floyd Russell Mason (Educ ’56) of
Bridgewater, Va., died Jan. 8, 2008. Mr.
Mason served in the Civilian Public Service
during World War II and retired in 1980 after
teaching 20 years in the Alexandria City
Public Schools and 10 years in the Roanoke
County Public Schools.
Robert L. McCarty III (Col ’56 L/M) of Los
Angeles died April 16, 2008. Mr. McCarty
was a scholar-athlete at the University and
played in the first ACC basketball tournament
in 1954. He still holds the second highest
points per game average in Virginia basketball
history. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a
pilot and worked for 35 years as director of
human resources for Weber Aircraft in
Burbank, Calif.
George Preston Osborn (Law ’56) of Wilson,
N.C., died May 19, 2008. Mr. Osborn was
notes editor of the Virginia Law Review and a
member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the
Order of the Coif and the Raven Society. He
practiced law in Marion, Ind., for 50 years.
Mr. Osborn was past president of the Grant
County Bar Association and past chairman of
the legal ethics committee of the Indiana State
Bar Association. He served on many
community and company boards, and was
past president and chief executive officer of
Central Indiana Gas, which later merged with
Indiana Gas Company. Survivors include a
son, Mark Osborn (Col ’81).
Joseph L. Conboy (Engr ’57) of Lake Worth,
Fla., died March 22, 2008.
George E. Thompson (Com ’57) of
Woodlake Village, S.C., died June 28, 2008.
Mr. Thompson worked for Longwood
Gardens for 37 years with only an interruption
to serve the U.S. Army as an intelligence
agent. He followed in his father’s footsteps as a
longtime business administrator and resident
on the grounds.
Ricardo N. Zapata (Engr ’57, ’60 L/M) of
Newark, N.J., died May 10, 2008. A native of
Chile, Mr. Zapata was a professor of aerospace
and systems engineering at the University of
Virginia, joined Bell Labs in 1978, and retired
from Telcordia Technologies in 2000. After
retirement, he volunteered for Habitat for
Humanity, the New York City Opera and was
the newsletter editor for the New York Silver
Society and the Millburn/Short Hills
Historical Society. Survivors include a
daughter, Maria Z. Deets (Col ’79 L/M).
Eric R. Bowden (Col ’58) of Virginia Beach
died May 7, 2008. Mr. Bowden spent his
career with the Lincoln National Life
Insurance Co., having served as a local
manager in Jacksonville, Fla., for 15 years.
Dean E. Lewis (Law ’58 L/M) of Charleston,
W.Va., died May 8, 2008. He served in the
U.S. Army during the Korean War and
received a Purple Heart. A lawyer, businessman
and entrepreneur, Mr. Lewis founded a law
firm and owned Pioneer Construction Co.,
specializing in highways and infrastructure
in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and
Washington, D.C. He retired after many years
in the contracting business.
Charles Owen Meiburg (Grad ’58, ’60 L/M)
of Charlottesville died Sept. 13, 2008. Mr.
Meiburg served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps
and at the University was a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa leadership
honor society and the Raven Society. He began
his teaching career at Ohio University and was
a research associate and assistant professor at
the Food Research Institute at Stanford
University, conducting research into
agricultural productivity in the U.S. In 1964,
he returned to U.Va. as an associate professor
in the Darden School of Business and as
director of the Bureau of Population and
Economic Research, which in 1972 became
the Tayloe Murphy Institute. Mr. Meiburg
served as director from 1972 until 1983 and
taught economics and finance for 35 years at
Darden, serving as the school’s associate dean
for academic affairs from 1983 to 1989. He
was named the J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr.,
Professor of Business Administration in 1982
and held that chair until he retired as professor
emeritus in 1999. Mr. Meiburg shared his
expertise and talents in many ways in academia
and in the community. Survivors include his
children, Charles O. Meiburg Jr. (Engr ’78
L/M), Glenn Meiburg (Col ’82, GSBA ’87)
and Elizabeth Bastian (Engr ’90 L/M).
Albert F. Lilley III (Law ’59) of Raleigh, N.C.,
died April 17, 2008. He served as a first
lieutenant in the U.S. Army. At the University,
he was articles editor of the Virginia Law
Review, and later served on the Alumni
Council and as the Alumni Fund class
manager for the Law School. He spent his
36-year law career with the firm of Milbank,
Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York City.
He also served on the board of education of a
regional high school in Allendale, N.J., and as
former president and member of the board of
trustees of Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J.,
for 12 years. Mr. Lilley was a director of the
Valley Care Corp. and of Valley Home and
Community Health Care. He was a life
member of the American Law Institute. After
retiring in 1997, Mr. Lilley continued his
community service as president of the board of
trustees of The ArtsCenter of Carrboro,
Chapel Hill and Orange County and as a
board member of the West Triangle United
Nations Association.
Benjamin Huger Rutledge Moore (Col ’59
L/M) of Gillisonville, S.C., died July 12, 2008.
Mr. Moore was a member of the University of
Virginia Lawn Society and served as a board
member for the U.Va. Alumni Association and
the Jefferson Scholars Foundation. He endowed
a Jefferson Scholarship, which enables a deserving
student from Savannah or the South Carolina
Lowcountry to attend the University. Mr.
Moore worked in the investment and securities
industry as executive vice president of Johnson
Lane and, in 1988, joined J. C. Bradford &
Company as a partner and established its
Savannah office. He retired in 1999 after
serving in leadership positions with many
professional organizations. Mr. Moore was also
a member of many nonprofit organizations in
both South Carolina and Georgia and donated
a conservation easement to permanently
preserve the wildlife habitat and wetlands of
Davant Plantation, his family home. He served
on the board of the South Carolina chapter of
The Nature Conservancy and received Jasper
County’s Conservationist of the Year award in
2007. Survivors include brother Benjamin
Allston Moore Jr. (Law ’57), daughter
Eleanor M. Kuhl (Col ’93 L/M) and cousin
Edward Rutledge Moore (Law ’66).
1960s
Constantine Condoulis (Col ’60) of Palm
Springs, Calif., died Sept. 18, 2008. He served
in the U.S. Army. He was involved in social
work with numerous agencies, including the
Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City,
the Southeast Nassau Guidance Center and
Florida State Health and Rehabilitation
Services. In 1976, Mr. Condoulis became an
active member of Alcoholics Anonymous and,
after confronting and overcoming his own
addiction, counseled others through their
addictions, continuing to serve as a volunteer
social worker at the San Diego LGBT
Community Center and at Being Alive San
Diego. In 1998, Dean moved to Palm Springs
and worked at the Desert AIDS Project and at
the Desert Regional Hospital, volunteering in
the AIDS/Hospice wing.
Robert B. Jennings Jr. (Col ’60, Law ’63
L/M) of New Orleans died Sept. 6, 2008. He
was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity,
Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity and the varsity
track team. He was senior vice president and
trust counsel at Louisiana National Bank and
was a member of the Connecticut, Louisiana
and American bar associations. He held the
position of special lecturer in law at Southern
University and Louisiana State University law
schools. Mr. Jennings sang baritone for many
years in the Baton Rouge Symphony Chorus
and acted with the Baton Rouge Little Theater.
He wrote short stories and poems and
participated in writers groups and poetry
readings in Baton Rouge.
David Gray Hawkins (Engr ’60 L/M) of
Covington, Va., died Sept. 5, 2008. A Korean
War veteran, Mr. Hawkins served in the U.S.
Army and was employed with the federal
government for more than 30 years in North
Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and
Washington, D.C. He later worked with the
Arlington County Financial Service program
and with the Prince William Victim/Witness
Assistance Program. He was a master gardener
and market master at the Dale City and
Manassas farmers’ markets.
George Plavritis (Educ ’60) of Pembroke
Pines, Fla., died Feb. 6, 2008.
Robert I. Ash (Col ’61 A/M) of Plymouth,
Mass., died Sept. 15, 2008. He was a member
of Sigma Chi fraternity and a U.S. Navy
veteran. He directed the technical recruiting
program for Foxboro Co., was a manager on
the consulting staff of Arthur Young & Co.
(Ernst & Young) and was a vice president at
Heffelfinger Associates before establishing
Ashworth Consultants, a management
consulting and executive search firm, in
1982, and serving as its president. Mr. Ash
was a frequent speaker and wrote articles on
career planning and compensation. He was a
certified public accountant, serving on the
editorial board of the Massachusetts CPA
Review. He was a former adjunct professor at
several universities and colleges. Memorial
contributions can be made to the Dr. I. O.
Ash Memorial Scholarship, Shepherd
University Foundation, P.O. Box 5000,
Shepherdstown, WV 25443.
Allen L. Dahl (Engr ’61) of Danville, Va.,
died April 7, 2008. He was a member of
Theta Chi fraternity and the National
Honorary Literary Society. After his
retirement from a pharmacy career, Mr.
Dahl became a local independent
representative for Appalachian Log
Structures Inc., of Ripley, W.Va.
Cecile W. Aylor (Educ ’62 L/M) of Tiffin,
Ohio, died Nov. 28, 2007. Ms. Aylor was the
secretary to the dean of the medical school at
the University and later taught business at
high schools in Madison and Orange counties
in Virginia for more than 28 years. She wrote
poetry and the “Brightwood News” column
for the Madison Eagle.
Lila J. Esleeck (Educ ’62) of Norfolk, Va.,
died April 7, 2007. She was a veteran of the
U.S. Navy, having served during World War II.
Thomas L. Moore (Engr ’62) of Winchester,
Tenn., died March 31, 2008. He was a past
member of the Jaycees and Alpha Chi Sigma
professional fraternity. He served in the U.S.
Army during the Korean War.
Robert L. Streeter (Educ ’62) of North
Bethesda, Md., died March 6, 2008. Mr.
Streeter was a Merchant Marine engineering
officer during World War II and a U.S. Navy
officer in the Korean War. He taught
mechanical engineering at the University of
Kentucky and at the University of Virginia.
His engineering career spanned 48 years,
during which time he and his family lived in
Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, New York
and Pennsylvania before he retired in 1994.
Larry R. Mills (Col ’63 L/M) of Columbia,
S.C., died April 29, 2008. He was in trust
banking for more than 30 years and retired as
head trust officer from South Carolina Bank
and Trust. Mr. Mills coached girls’ basketball
at Our Lady of Mercy in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Michael William Maupin (Law ’64 L/M) of
Richmond, Va., died May 5, 2008. Mr. Maupin
joined the firm of Hunton & Williams in 1965,
where he practiced law until his retirement.
Among his civic activities, Mr. Maupin was a
member of the board of the Richmond
Symphony and past president of the Virginia
chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Robert M. Siuzdak (Law ’64 L/M) of
Naugatuck, Conn., died March 13, 2008. He
was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and
the longest-serving probate judge in
Connecticut’s history. He was the borough
attorney for Naugatuck and maintained a
private law practice.
Jane Alrich Graube (Educ ’65) of
Spotsylvania County, Va., died Sept. 21,
2008. Ms. Graube was a church organist for
17 years for Spotsylvania Presbyterian Church
and for 29 years for Fredericksburg Baptist
Church. She retired from Spotsylvania
County High School, where she taught
English for many years and later served as the
school’s director of guidance.
Arthur W. Herbert Jr. (Col ’65) of Hoboken,
N.J., died May 21, 2008. He was a second
lieutenant during the Vietnam War and
received a Silver Star and a Bronze Star with
two oak leaf clusters. Mr. Herbert was a
director and salesman for Rodman &
Renshaw in New York City. He volunteered
with the Boys & Girls Club of Hudson
County in Jersey City.
William C. Sprott Jr. (Grad ’66) of Augusta,
Ga., died April 16, 2008. A member of Phi Beta
Kappa, Mr. Sprott also was a U.S. Army veteran.
James F. Gay (Law ’68) of Chesapeake, Va.,
died April 20, 2008. Mr. Gay spoke before
Norfolk City Council on issues such as civil
rights and discrimination and, by 1965, was a
spokesman for young blacks in the community.
He worked for Allied Chemical Corp., the
Minority Business League and for Coastal
Pharmaceutical, becoming its president. In
1982, he ran for a seat on the Norfolk City
Council. He was instrumental in laying the
groundwork for the landmark case of Collins
v. City of Norfolk in 1989.
Jay A. Hobbs (Educ ’68 L/M) of Dallas died
Feb. 8, 2008. Rev. Hobbs was a former rector
at the Episcopal Church of the Good
Shepherd in Asheboro, Texas.
Antonia D. Lazana (Educ ’68) of
Williamsburg, Va., died April 23, 2008. She
was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and several
professional teaching associations. She taught
elementary education for 17 years in Chicago,
served as an adjunct professor at the University
of Virginia and was director of the Reading
Clinic at the College of William and Mary.
Ms. Lazana also served as associate professor at
East Texas State University and was a special
education teacher in the Hampton school
system until her retirement.
Pamela K. Roch (Grad ’68 L/M) of New Port
Richey, Fla., died Jan. 27, 2008.
Kent J. Gooch (Col ’69 L/M) of Plant City,
Fla., died March 22, 2008. Mr. Gooch served
in the Florida National Guard and was a citrus
farmer and cattle rancher in Florida. He had a
master’s level of education in citrus management
and was recognized by many at the University
of Florida as an expert in the citrus industry.
He was elected president of the Institute of
Food and Agricultural Sciences.
John R. Miles Jr. (Col ’69, Med ’73 L/M) of
Gastonia, N.C., died May 11, 2008. Dr.
Miles was a general and vascular surgeon in
Pittsburgh and had a private practice as a
vascular and general surgeon in Gastonia. He
developed the first mobile coronary care
service and wrote the first cardiology primer
for emergency medical technicians. Dr. Miles
founded and directed Phoenix Air Medical
Services, a charitable organization that flew
almost 100 mercy flights, for which he was
named the North Carolina Volunteer of the
Year in Newsweek magazine in 1989. Dr. Miles
also held a private pilot’s license.
Anita E. Minter (Educ ’69) of Roanoke,
Va., died May 2, 2008. She served as vice
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president of a national educational
consulting firm in Washington, D.C., and as
executive director of magnet schools in
Durham, N.C. For 40 years, she worked in
various capacities for Roanoke City Schools,
including director of magnet schools,
principal, assistant principal and teacher.
She was most recently president of Tanner
Associates in Education, a national
consulting firm for magnet school programs.
Dennis F. Mintz (Col ’69 L/M) of Jasper,
Ga., died March 14, 2008. He was a retired
real estate agent.
Calvin T. West (GSBA ’69) of
Richmond, Va., died April 24, 2008. Mr.
West was a partner in Wilson West
Livesay, an advertising and marketing
firm in Richmond.
1970s
Roger Q. Beckstead (Educ ’70) of Vernal,
Utah, died March 31, 2008. He taught
science and English at Vernal Junior High
School for many years, later becoming the
school’s vice principal. He also served as
principal of Central Elementary and Davis
Elementary schools, concluding his career in
education as assistant superintendent of
elementary schools in the Uintah School
District. A pilot, he taught flying and served
on the Vernal Airport Board for many years.
Mr. Beckstead also trained horses to drive
and pull vintage carriages and sleighs that he
had restored.
Pat White (Grad ’70) of Lexington, Ky.,
died Aug. 20, 2008. Mr. White was a
graduate teaching assistant at the University
and taught at the Blue Ridge School in
Albemarle County before moving to
Kentucky, where he was a University of
Kentucky English teacher and co-owner of
the furniture restoration business Unfinished
Universe, named after his book. The
unpublished book, Unfinished Universe, is
about learning, teaching, education, culture
and thought processes.
Bonnie M. Grimsley (Educ ’71 L/M) of
Warrenton, Va., died March 19, 2008. Ms.
Grimsley was a teacher for 26 years in
Fauquier County, having taught at both
Central and Bradley elementary schools.
Memorial contributions can be made to the
University of Virginia Oncology
Department, c/o Peyton Taylor, U.Va.
Health System, P.O. Box 800712,
Charlottesville, VA 22908. Survivors
include a daughter, Heather G.
Hendrickson (Col ’86 L/M).
Madeline A. McLaughlin (Educ ’71) of
Hartford, Conn., died Dec. 25, 2007. Ms.
McLaughlin worked for Aetna, retiring in 1981.
Karl M. Tamburr (Grad ’71, ’74) of Sweet
Briar, Va., died Sept. 20, 2008. Mr. Tamburr
was a professor of English for 33 years at
Sweet Briar College and was the author of The
Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England.
Allen Tyler (Grad ’71 L/M) of Lexington,
Va., died Dec. 31, 2007. Mr. Tyler served with
an anti-aircraft unit until the end of World
War II in Europe. In the doctoral program in
French at the University, his dissertation was
the computer-generated Concordance to the
Fables and Tales of Jean de la Fontaine, later
published by Cornell University Press in 1974.
He taught French at the College of William
and Mary for seven years and was involved in
many volunteer and charitable activities.
C. James Bishop (Grad ’72) of Fort Wayne,
Ind., died April 29, 2008. He was a research
fellow at the University of Virginia and a
Fulbright Scholar, studying in Patna, India, in
1967. Mr. Bishop was a professor emeritus of
Manchester College, where he taught for 31
years. He was chair of Manchester’s Department
of History and Political Science and developed
its January Term Abroad Program. He also
taught at the University of Wisconsin and the
University of Ohio. Memorial contributions
can be made to the Dr. C. James Bishop
Scholarship Fund, Office of College
Advancement, Manchester College, 604 E.
College Ave., North Manchester, IN 46962.
James F. McCorkindale (Educ ’73) of
Roanoke, Va., died April 26, 2008. He worked
for Roanoke city schools for 30 years, serving
as an elementary school principal for 25 years.
John W. Scott Jr. (Law ’73) of Fredericksburg,
Va., died April 16, 2008. He was a managing
partner with the law firm of Hill, Tucker &
Marsh. In 1990, he was appointed general
district court judge in Stafford County and, in
1996, was appointed to the circuit court
judgeship in the city of Fredericksburg.
Among his many community activities, Judge
Scott was an active member of the NAACP
and the Old Dominion Bar Association.
Nancy Coopper Kaspick (Nurs ’74 L/M) of
Charlottesville died April 7, 2008. Ms.
Kaspick worked as a nurse at the University of
Virginia Medical Center and later at the Student
Health Department and the Eye Clinic. Most
recently, she was employed by Humagen.
Chester Bradley Holsinger (Engr ’74, ’76
L/M) of Luray, Va., died Sept. 7, 2008. Mr.
Holsinger served on boards of various civic
organizations, including the Luray Volunteer
Rescue Squad, Performing Arts of Luray, the
Economic Development Authority and the
Page Public Library. He was also a member of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor
society. Mr. Holsinger was an Emergency
Vehicle Operations Course instructor and an
emergency medical technician. Survivors
include a daughter, Virginia Holsinger
Jeffries (Col ’00 L/M).
James W. Fox (Grad ’75) of Richmond, Ky.,
died March 23, 2008. He served in the U.S. Air
Force as a staff sergeant. Mr. Fox was a professor
and administrator at the University of Akron
and Kent State University and a professor and
dean of students at Madison College, now
James Madison University. From 1973 until his
retirement in 1997, he was a professor of
criminal justice at Eastern Kentucky University.
He conducted research under grants from the
states of Kentucky and Tennessee and the U.S.
Department of Justice on probation, parole and
juvenile justice. He also published extensively
on these topics. Mr. Fox served on the Citizen
Foster Care Review Board, the Governor’s Task
Force on Crime and with the American Cancer
Society. Memorial contributions can be made to
the Dr. James W. Fox Student Research Award,
Department of Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Studies, Stratton 105, Eastern Kentucky
University, Richmond, KY 40475.
Dodson R. Marrs (Col ’75) of Albuquerque,
N.M., died Jan. 19, 2008.
Robert W. Higgins (Col ’76 L/M) of
Amarillo, Texas, died March 27, 2008. He
was one of several physicians who traveled
with the U.S. Ski Team. Dr. Higgins joined
the Mississippi Sports Medicine Orthopedic
Group in Jackson and, in 1990, became a
partner in Panhandle Sports Medicine in
Amarillo. He was instrumental in establishing
the Panhandle Surgical Hospital and
Physicians Surgical Hospital at Quail Creek.
In 2005, Dr. Higgins co-founded Amarillo
Sports Medicine, where he practiced until
2007. He helped establish and was on the
board of Amarillo Elite Volleyball.
Wendy Z. Ritter (Col ’76) of Dayton, Ohio,
died April 26, 2008. She was a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and was a Fulbright Scholar. She
was a fashion consultant in New York for many
years and most recently worked for Michael
Kors. Memorial contributions may be made to
The Wendy Zuckerwise Ritter Endometrial
Cancer Research Fund at the OSU Foundation,
Fund #480945, Ohio State University, P.O. Box
183112, Columbus, OH 43218-3112.
James W. Doyle (Col ’77 L/M) of Gainesville,
Fla., died Sept. 24, 2008. Dr. Doyle was on
the faculty of the Department of
Ophthalmology at the University of Florida
School of Medicine and practiced surgery
there for 15 years. He was the recipient of
many awards and honors, including numerous
invited guest lectureships, the national Honor
Award from the American Academy of
Ophthalmology, and selection by the resident
trainees as best faculty educator of the year.
Robert J. Tucci (Engr ’77, ’79) of Bryant
Pond, Maine, died Sept. 19, 2008. He was
employed as a nuclear physicist at the
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery for 25
years, retiring in 2008.
Susan Ann Kiser (Educ ’78) of Wake Forest,
N.C., died Dec. 9, 2007.
Harold R. Morse (Col ’78) of Fredericksburg,
Va., died Sept. 18, 2008. He was a member of
the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society.
Rev. Morse was ordained as a minister in 1981
at Hampton Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) and served as pastor for churches in
Kentucky, Virginia, Texas and, most recently,
Vero Beach, Fla.
Barbara Jean Hopkins (Grad ’79) of
Anchorage, Alaska, died April 23, 2008. She
worked internationally in various executive
positions as a civilian with the U.S.
Department of the Army. After retirement,
she volunteered in Anchorage and with
disabled veterans in the National Wheelchair
Games and National Golden Age Games.
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1980s
William Ray Lucas Jr. (Law ’80 L/M) of
Mountain Brook, Ala., died Sept. 26, 2008.
He practiced law with Bradley Arant Rose &
White, where he became a partner. Later,
he was a founding partner of Lightfoot
Franklin White & Lucas. He continued his
professional career as executive vice president
and general counsel at Birmingham Steel and
later with the Hackney Group. Most recently,
Mr. Lucas was the executive vice president
and general counsel of Harbert Management
Corp. Survivors include his wife, Janet Smith
Lucas (Col ’81 L/M); and a daughter,
Marguerite L. Lucas (Col ’09 L/M).
Janet M. Gwaltney (Col ’82 L/M) of
Portland, Ore., died April 19, 2008. She was
a manager for Xerox.
Robert M. Hoover (Nurs ’82) of Toledo,
Ohio, died April 2, 2008. He was
employed at St. Vincent, Mercy and
Riverside hospitals as a psychiatric-mental
health nurse. Survivors include his wife,
Patricia S. Hoover (Nurs ’83).
Clifton F. Martin (Educ ’85) of Tallahassee,
Fla., died Feb. 15, 2008. He helped establish
the elementary program at the Websterville
Christian School in Websterville, Vt. He
went on to work in Christian education and
retired from Windsor Christian School in
Windsor, Conn., in 2003.
Hugh W. Bryant (Engr ’86 L/M) of
Bradenton, Fla., died Dec. 9, 2007.
Margaret Rogers Drumright (Educ ’86
A/M) of Knoxville, Tenn., died April 23,
2008. She spent her career in education with
Lynchburg City Schools, where she taught at
R. S. Payne Elementary School and directed
the Parent Center, which provided help to
parents whose children needed additional
assistance with early learning. She retired
from the school system in 2001.
Robert A. Freeman (Law ’88) of Dover,
Mass., died Sept. 22, 2008. He was an
attorney with Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar in
Boston and in-house counsel for Blue Cross/
Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Since 2004, he
had been chief compliance officer and
compliance counsel for EMD Serono of
Rockland, Mass.
1990s
Louis Elmer Conner Jr. (Col ’95 L/M) of
Virginia Beach died March 18, 2008. He was
an attorney with the Chris Falk Law Firm in
Chesapeake and Southside Utility Co.
2000s
Michael L. Jordan (Engr ’05) of Richmond,
Va., died Sept. 25, 2008.
Hayden William Rolando (Engr ’06) of
Vienna, Va., died July 1, 2008. U.S. Air Force
2nd Lt. Rolando was stationed at Goodfellow
Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas, where he
was in training to become an Air Force
intelligence officer.
Brittany E. McGrath (Col ’08) of
Charlottesville died April 22, 2008. Ms.
McGrath was a fourth-year student at the
University.
Friends & Faculty
William L. Duren Jr., former math professor
and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences,
died April 4, 2008. During his 21 years at the
University, Mr. Duren negotiated new
admissions policies that led to a dramatic
improvement in the graduation rate; helped
create the first undergraduate library; and
founded the Echols Scholars program for
academically gifted students. He fought for
racial integration at the University and later
championed the admission of women. He
also established a professorship of creative
writing in the English department. In 1962,
Mr. Duren was appointed the school’s first
University Professor, an interdisciplinary post
that allowed him to move to the School of
Engineering. There he formed the Department
of Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science. He retired in 1976.
David D. Newsom, the first professor to
hold the Hugh S. and Winifred B. Cumming
Memorial Chair in International Affairs in
the politics department, from 1991 through
1998, died March 30, 2008, in Charlottesville.
Professor Newsom retired from the State
Department in 1981 as a career minister, the
highest regular Senior Foreign Service rank.
The author of six books, a regular columnist
for the Christian Science Monitor and
founder-editor of the Diplomatic Record
annual, he had recently completed his
memoirs. Memorial contributions can be
made to the Institute for the Study of
Diplomacy, Newsom Junior Fellowship in
Diplomacy, 1316 36th St. NW, Washington,
DC 20007.
Margaret G. Tyson (L/M), former professor
and dean of nursing at the University, died
April 25, 2008, in Annapolis, Md. In 1958,
Ms. Tyson joined the University. She was a
member of the American Nurses Association
and the National League for Nursing.
Douglas P. Wagner, former professor of
biostatistics and epidemiology in the
Department of Public Health Sciences at the
University, died March 23, 2008. Professor
Wagner helped create APACHE while
teaching at Georgetown University; a
prognostic scoring system for critically ill
hospitalized patients, it has become the
international standard for evaluating and
predicting outcomes of patients treated
within intensive care units. He also was
instrumental in founding APACHE Medical
Systems Inc., one of the first commercial
clinical decision-support software and
outcomes management companies. In 1995,
Professor Wagner joined the University and
helped establish the Public Health Sciences
clinical department at the School of
Medicine, where he taught until his death.
Memorial contributions can be made to the
University of Virginia Medical School
Foundation, P.O. Box 800776, Health
System, 1111 W. Main Street, Charlottesville,

1983
RETROSPECT
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The ’Hoo
A
temporary ban on signs at athletic events (see page
11) rankled many this past fall, but the unfortunate
debut of a new mascot 25 years ago nearly brought
Scott Stadium to the boiling point.
From Sports Illustrated, November 21, 1983
Hooting Down the ’Hoo
The University of Virginia has had a variety of
sports mascots over the years. In the 1930s the
mascot was a beloved mongrel dog named Beta,
who is buried in hallowed ground in the university
cemetery alongside a later mascot mutt, Seal, who
achieved immortality by irrigating a Penn cheerleader’s
megaphone during a big upset of the
Quakers in 1949. In recent years a student dressed
as a Cavalier, the school’s official nickname, has
served as the mascot.
But Virginia students and Old Grads have drawn
the line with the ’Hoo, a furry, orange-costumed
character that replaced the Cavalier as mascot at the
start of this football season. The brainchild of Sports
Promotion Director Todd Turner, who described it
as “an entertainment device,” the ’Hoo … debuted
at Virginia’s home opener against Duke on Sept. 3
and promptly 1) was showered with ice cubes from
detractors in the stands and 2) suffered the forced
removal of its tongue by pie-eyed fraternity boys.
Because of fear of further violence, the ’Hoo (with a
student inside) appeared only briefly on the sidelines
during the Navy game on Sept. 10. As objections
to the ’Hoo mounted, Athletic Director Dick
Schultz invited the school’s student council to come
up with an alternative. The council settled on a redesigned
Cavalier. He’s scheduled to swing into action
during the basketball season, and next football
season he’ll have a dog as a sidekick.
And what of the ’Hoo? The ill-fated creature …
is now only an unhappy memory. An editorial in the
Cavalier Daily described it as “a video game reject
who tried out for Ms. Pac-Man and didn’t make the
cut.” A letter to the paper was rougher still. It called
the ’Hoo “a bastard child born out of the incestuous
relationship between the athletic department and
the cash register.”
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Alderman Rd., furnished, $550s
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