Philip M. Chen (Engr ’68 L/M) has his cartoons featured in the New York Times’ neighborhood blog, “The Local,” as a cartoon caption contest. His cartoon blog is strangenessinuniverse.blogspot.com. Mr. Chen has also helped establish a Facebook group called “The Lawn, Chowder, and Marching Society of the University of Virginia”, a social networking group for those who have lived on the Lawn and the Range.
Posted 05/12/2009
Doug Everhart (Col ’68 L/M) is president of Greenpoint Metals, a steel service center in the Cincinnati/Dayton area. Active in the Association of Steel Distributors, Mr. Everhart previously served the organization as its president. He resides in Eaton, Ohio, with Cheryl, his wife of 40 years. While at U.Va., Mr. Everhart was active in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Posted 02/12/2009
John L. Nau III (Col ’68 L/M) is chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. In October, he and former First Lady Laura Bush received the John H. Chafee Trustees Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Policy from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for their leadership in developing and promoting the Preserve America program. The National Trust presented the award at its 2009 National Preservation Conference in Nashville, Tenn. The former longtime chairman of the Texas Historical Commission, Mr. Nau was appointed chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation by President George W. Bush in 2001. Along with Mrs. Bush, Mr. Nau is credited with guiding the widespread and influential preservation initiative with the Preserve America program.
Posted 10/22/2009
Donald F. Norris (Grad ’68, ’71), a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is chair of its Department of Public Policy and director of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research. Mr. Norris is a specialist in public management; urban politics; and the application, uses and impacts of information technology, including e-government, in public organizations. He has authored, edited or co-edited seven books, contributed chapters to 22 others, published 27 articles and four book reviews in journals in the fields of public administration and urban affairs, authored and co-authored more than 60 research reports and monographs and over 50 scholarly papers. He has consulted with local and state governments for more than 30 years in a range of areas, including public policy and management and has also produced and directed two films for local government officials on the adoption of advanced technologies. Mr. Norris lives in Columbia, Md.
Posted 02/12/2009
Nancy M. Watson (Nurs ’68 L/M) received the 2008 Geriatric Nursing Faculty Champion for Excellence in Gerontological Nursing Education Award in October from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Ms. Watson is the founding director of the Elaine C. Hubbard Center for Nursing Research on Aging at the University of Rochester School of Nursing, in Rochester, N.Y. She is recognized internationally for her work and has driven gerontological curricular change at the University of Rochester, creating new solutions to prepare nurses at all levels to improve care for geriatric patients across the care continuum.
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