Candace Cummings (Law ’72) received the Athena Award from the Greensboro (N.C.) Partnership in recognition of her professional excellence and commitment to the advancement of women. Ms. Cummings serves as vice president of administration, general counsel and secretary for VF Corp., a global apparel company. She has been an advocate for women interested in advancing their careers and a mentor for rising female executives since joining the company in 1995. She is a member of Greensboro’s Professional Women’s Forum, serves on the board of advisers for the North Carolina Conference for Women and volunteers at a number of Greensboro’s community organizations.
Posted 05/12/2009
Bill Jones (Col ’72 L/M) is vice chairman of O’Neal Industries of Birmingham, Ala., and was elected chairman of the Metals Service Center Institute. Mr. Jones has worked at O’Neal Steel in 1976, serving in various positions. In his current position with O’Neal, he oversees the company’s Industrial Metals Group, which includes O’Neal Steel, Leeco Steel, Metalwest, TAD Metals and Timberline Steel. Mr. Jones has also served MSCI’s board of directors since 1993 and has been vice chairman since 2000. He was named Service Center Executive of the Year for 2005.
Posted 07/13/2009
J. Fredrick Kelly Jr. (Col ’72 L/M) retired after a 32-year career with Aeroglide Corp. in Raleigh, N.C. He was president for the last 17 years. Aeroglide designed and built industrial driers used in the food, feed, and industrial markets. Mr. Kelly stepped down with the sale of his company to the Buhler Group, a Swiss-based industrial conglomerate. He remains active in civic endeavors and is searching for a “second phase” career.
Posted 12/15/2009
G. Andrew Mickley Jr. (Grad ’72, ’78) is professor of neuroscience at Baldwin-Wallace College and was named 2008 Ohio Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The program salutes outstanding undergraduate instructors who excel in teaching and positively influence the lives and careers of students. Mr. Mickley started in 1993 at Baldwin-Wallace College, where he established the neuroscience program. He has received support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He and his students currently conduct research concerning the neural substrate of learning, extinction and spontaneous recovery of defensive reactions to fear. Mr. Mickley was recognized as the 2007 Educator of the Year by the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience. Through that organization, he led the development of Nu Rho Psi, the national honor society in neuroscience, for which he is the executive director. He also has twice been elected by his peers as a national councilor on the Council on Undergraduate Research.
Posted 02/12/2009
James W. Miller (Col ’72, Med ’77) was named to the Sports Medicine Committee for FINA, the federation that governs aquatic sports worldwide, including at the Olympics. Dr. Miller was named at the recent FINA World Championships in Rome. The appointment makes him one of eight physicians worldwide on the committee and the only one from the United States. He is the first American on the committee in a decade. He has a four-year appointment, which runs through the London Olympics in 2012. Dr. Miller is one of the National Team physicians for USA Swimming and is the former president of United States Masters Swimming. He has traveled to competitions internationally, both with USA Swimming and as a doping control delegate for FINA. Locally, Dr. Miller treats swimmers in his medical practice, where he specializes in family practice and sports medicine, and he also coaches Masters swimming and is a competitive Masters swimmer himself. His practice is in Midlothian, Va., at Family Practice Specialists of Richmond, a business he founded 15 years ago. Dr. Miller has associate clinical professor positions with both VCU and U.Va.
Posted 09/03/2009
Ed Prior (Grad ’72) retired from NASA Langley in 2005 after a 40-year career there. 36 years after he first published research showing high altitude hydrogen levels to be three times greater than cited in national standards, the U.S. Air Force accepted his results in 2008 for their new atmospheric model. The results will also be incorporated into the 2009 COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere. Mr. Prior was the NASA principal investigator for PAGEOS, the second largest satellite by volume to be injected into earth orbit. His U.Va. thesis was on orbital drag measurements at altitudes above 2000 kilometers, from observations of the balloon satellite’s orbital decay. Eventually published by Byrd Press in 1972 in The Use of Artificial Satellites for Geodesy, the thesis found hydrogen levels to be 200 percent greater than given in the U.S. Standard Atmosphere. Mr. Prior’s research has been variously cited in The Stratosphere: Past and Present, the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere, the U.S. National Report on Geodesy and the various U.S. Standard Atmosphere publications. There are a total of six references to his research in three different annual editions of Significant Achievements in Space Science.
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