Wake Forest Magazine December 2002 - Past Issues - Wake Forest ...

1985
Deryl Davis has received the Religion
Newswriters Association’s 2002 national
award for television reporting on religion.
Deryl is a correspondent for the
PBS program “Religion Ethics
NewsWeekly,” based in Washington,
DC. He double-majored in English and
history and has reported on subjects such
as the Sept. 11 tragedies, Muslims in
America, and debates on cloning and
President Bush’s faith-based initiative.
His outside interests include acting in
local productions, free-lance writing and
radio reporting (for NPR affiliates in
DC), hiking and biking. His wife,
Whitney Warren (MAEd ’97), teaches
English and rhetoric at Banneker
Academic High School, an inner-city DC
public school for advanced students. Her
outside interests include furniture
restoration, biking and hiking.
1987
David Blick is a historic preservation
specialist for the U.S. Department of
Housing & Urban Development (HUD).
He works in HUD's Environmental
Office, reviewing projects all across the
country. David and his wife, Patricia,
live in Annapolis, MD, where they are
busy fixing up their 1924 bungalow.
Since 1997, David has served under
three mayors as chairman of the
Annapolis Historic Preservation
Commission. He holds a master’s degree
in public history from the University of
South Carolina.
Jenny Kletzin DiBiase and Tad
DiBiase happily completed their 11th
year of living in Washington, DC. They
have two daughters, Joanna (5) and
Sophie (2 1/2). Jenny is a stay-at-home
mom and a part-time free-lance editor.
Tad was recently promoted to chief of
the Third District Homicide/Major
Crimes Section for the U.S. Attorney’s
Office for the District of Columbia. The
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whole family got together with Rob
Duckwall, Kevin Krause, Chris Ingalls
and Thomas Hudspeth (all class of
1987) and their families at Smith
Mountain Lake, VA, in June.
Tiffany Glass and Jeff Jeter (’81) are
the sole WFU-ers at Manugistics, a software
company specializing in supply
chain management, pricing and revenue
optimization, and service parts management
solutions. Tiffany participated in
several study-abroad programs and went
on to two tours as a Peace Corps
Volunteer. She served in the Central
African Republic from 1989 to 1991
and in the Russian far east from 1994-
1996. Today she combines that Peace
Corps/public sector experience in small
business with a career in the private sector,
with a largely global focus.
1988
Scott Rembold has been appointed director
of development at the Johns Hopkins
University Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies. He was director of
development for the graduate school of
education at George Washington
University, from which he earned a master’s
degree in 2000.
1990
D C D e a c s
Dave Dresser is a sales manager for
Neopost in Washington, DC. He plays
in a band with Melanie Privette
Caudron (’89) and friends, performing a
mix of traditional and modern Irish
music and rock ‘n’ roll. Their Web site is
www.40Thieves.info. He and his wife,
Tracy, had their first baby, Milly Helen,
on 4/30/02.
Ray Gurganus is in his fourth year
working with Community IT
Innovators, a technology consulting
company working with social service,
advocacy and other non-profit organizations
in the DC metro area. He special-
izes in developing and maintaining
Web-based databases to help clients
manage their information effectively.
Outside of work, he enjoys hiking and
walking the DC area, as well as enjoying
the nightlife.
1991
Wendy Holmes Nugent and her husband,
Jeff, have moved to Charlottesville, VA,
after living in Shanghai, China for five
years. In China she taught English as a
Second Language (ESL) to the children of
international business families at
Shanghai American School. Jeff taught
middle grades science. They loved living
in Asia and enjoyed the fabulous travel
opportunities to see China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand,
Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and
New Zealand. In Charlottesville, Wendy
teaches ESL with the Charlottesville City
Schools. Jeff is in the doctoral program
in Instructional Technology at UVA.
After living in one of the world's largest
cities, they are enjoying life among the
Shenandoah Mountains. They got the
golden retriever they had been dreaming
of for five years and are living out in the
country.
1993
Amy Lynne King Furches is pursuing
her Ph.D. in national security public
policy at George Washington University.
She was married 8/24/02 to Lee
Thornton Furches.
Mark Hilpert works for the U.S. State
Department’s Counterterrorism Office
and is finishing a master’s in
International Affairs at George
Washington University. He will enter
the U.S. Navy’s Officer Candidate School
following graduation in 2003. Long-lost
classmates are welcome to send an e-mail
to Mark_Hilpert@hotmail.com.