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CLASS NOTES
IN MEMORIAM
[Remembering]
Benno Fritz
Benno Fritz, director and founder of the George
Washington University’s band program, died Feb. 4 in
Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 54. Dr. Fritz, a trombonist
who joined GW’s faculty in 1990, was also an associate
professor of music as well as director of bands. He
conducted the University Symphonic Band, University
Symphony Orchestra, University Wind Ensemble and the
award-winning Colonial Brass, which plays at basketball
games and university functions.
Laura Eleanor Holmes, BA ’35
Sept. 14, 2015
Rockville, Md.
Alfred W. Tate, JD ’40
July 4, 2011
Martha Singleton, AA ’41
July 31, 2013
Mary Dexter Jones, AA ’42
Mary W. Renfro, MA ’42
Sept. 28, 2015
Lebanon, Ill.
Elise Whalley, AA ’42
May 26, 2015
Nashville, Tenn.
Archibald Lane, AA ’48, BA ’49
Sept. 17, 2015
Fort Worth, Texas
Joseph B. Taphorn, BS ’49,
BL ’50
Sept. 21, 2015
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Irving Fleishman, BA ’50, BL ’51
Nov. 6, 2015
Silver Spring, Md.
James B. George, MA ’50
Aug. 18, 2015
George S. Jordan, BL ’50
Nov. 12, 2015
Walter Kiechel, LLM ’50,
SJD ’52
Aug. 28, 2011
Fort Belvoir, Va.
Frederick J. Bellamah, BA ’51,
BL ’51
Nov. 11, 2015
Washington, D.C.
Ellen Eagan Earnest, BA ’51
Aug. 24, 2015
Fredericksburg, Va.
Selwyn C. Jackson, LLM ’51
October 1979
Marion G. Lawrence, BS ’51
Sept. 28, 2015
R.C. “Dick” Donnelly, BL ’52
Dec. 3, 2015
Washington, D.C.
Don S. Harmer, BS ’52
Aug. 31, 2015
Atlanta
John D. Eaton, JD ’53, MS ’66
Sept. 23, 2015
John W. Follin, JD ’53
Oct. 9, 2015
Falls Church, Va.
Shakotko is a program manager and
executive assistant at the Order of Malta
Federal Association. The couple resides in
Silver Spring, Md.
Kathryn Martin, MA ’12, received the
2015 Potomac Art Therapy Association
Distinguished Service Award for her
commitment to art therapy. At PATA, she
has served as president, president-elect,
secretary and student representative. Ms.
Martin also is a board member.
Caitlin Pedati, MPH ’12, MD ’12, was
selected by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention as an epidemic
intelligence service officer—also known
as a “disease detective”—for the Nebraska
State Health Department. About 60 EIS
officers are picked each year.
Alexandra Kassirer, BA ’13, published
an article in the U.S. Military Academy’s
Combating Terrorism Center Sentinel, a
periodical, in August. She is also an on-air
terrorism analyst for NBCUniversal.
Shaun Khalfan, MBA ’13, was selected
as the chief systems security officer and
senior cyber security executive for U.S.
Customs and Border Protection.
Dakota Lee Hadley, MS ’14, CERT ’14, and
Tinsley Simonds Iselin were married on
April 11, 2015, on the banks of the Ashley
River at Lowndes Grove Plantation in
Charleston, S.C.
Michelle Manikkam, BS ’15, was selected
by the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases to receive a National
Institutes of Health Intramural Research
Training Award Post-baccalaureate
Traineeship. She will be working at the
tuberculosis research section in the
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases,
training on the high throughput screening
team.
Oluwafemi Masha, JD ’15, joined the
Chicago office of the intellectual property
law firm Brinks Gilson & Lione as an
associate.
John Pani, JD ’15, joined the Washington,
D.C., office of the intellectual property law
firm Brinks Gilson & Lione as an associate.
Jane Woo, MA ’15, received the 2015
Potomac Art Therapy Association Nancy
Schoebel Scholarship Award for her essay
“Life Stage Personal Reflection.” The
award is given to an art therapy graduate
student who demonstrates excellence in
writing on the topic of art therapy.
FRITZ: GW DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC / KOÇ: GW OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS
Mustafa Koç
Mustafa Koç, BBA ’84, chairman of Koç Holding, a group
of companies that account for approximately 5 percent
of Turkey’s gross domestic product, and an active GW
alumni volunteer leader, died of a heart attack in Istanbul
on Jan. 21. He was 55. Mr. Koç previously served as
president of the GW Alumni Chapter in Turkey and was a
member of the Rolls Royce International Advisory Board,
the JP Morgan International Council and the Global
Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Adrianna Vorderbruggen
Air Force Maj. Adrianna Vorderbruggen, MS ’10, was
killed Dec. 21 during a Taliban attack in Afghanistan,
when a motorcycle exploded near a group of U.S. troops
in Bagram. Maj. Vorderbruggen, 36, and her partner,
Heather Lamb, had been advocates for abolishing the
ban on gays in the military, commonly known as “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.” It was repealed in 2011.
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