John D. Allis Jr. (Col ’75) is principal engineer for the water planning and design section of Colorado Springs Utilities. He lives in Black Forest, Colo., with his wife, Catherine. They have been married for 36 years and have three children, Emily, Ben and Daniel.
Posted 01/27/2010
William Bowron (Col ’75 L/M) is president and chief executive officer of Red Diamond, Inc. He is also chairman of the Tea Association of the USA. This is his second term as chairman. Red Diamond is a family-run coffee and tea company, the first in the U.S. to manufacture completely sealed tea bags and the first in the country to offer gallon-sized tea bags. In addition, Red Diamond was the first company in the U.S. to produce decaffeinated tea. Today, it is the nation’s number one seller of ready-to-drink gallon tea in dairy case. Mr. Bowron was named 2009 CEO of the Year by the Birmingham Business Journal. He serves on the board of directors f rRed Diamond and has served on the boards of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Museum, St. Vincent’s Foundation and the Birmingham United Soccer Association. He serves as a trustee of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce and on the advisory board of PreSchool Partners. Mr. Bowron is a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham and the World Presidents’ Organization.
Posted 01/19/2010
James R. Chapman (Educ ’75 L/M) is campus college chair for the College of Arts and Sciences at the Dallas/Fort Worth campus of the University of Phoenix, where he has served as an associate faculty member and facilitator since 2000 and as area chair/lead faculty in math since 2003. Students recognized his contributions to the campus by naming him Faculty Member of the Year at the 2003 and 2007 graduation ceremonies.
Posted 05/12/2009
Jay H. Cookingham (Col ’75 L/M) received the ConocoPhillips Outstanding Service Award from Gulf Swimming, the USA Swimming unit governing competitive swimming in southeastern Texas. Mr. Cookingham is finishing his second two-year term as chairman of the board of Gulf Swimming.
Posted 05/12/2009
Ronald Cox (Engr ’75, ’79 L/M) graduated from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary with a master’s degree of divinity. He is an ordained pastor serving at Christ Lutheran Church in Goleta, Calif. Mr. Cox retired from Northrop Grumman after 33 years at Sperry, Honeywell, Litton & Northrop Grumman in research and corporate management.
Posted 10/15/2009
Christopher Scott D’Angelo (Col ’75, Law ’78 L/M) was a speaker on the program, The Times They Are a’ Changin’, presented at the Product Liability Advisory Council’s 2009 Spring Conference in Boston. Mr. D’Angelo’s presentations were on his work consulting with and providing input to the European Parliament and the EU Commission with regard to the proposals for class actions (“collective redress”) across Europe and what the consumer rights movements in Europe and Australia mean for the U.S. and multinational companies. The Product Liability Advisory Council is a nonprofit association with 120 corporate members representing a cross-section of American and international product manufacturers. Mr. D’Angelo is a partner in the litigation department at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, and is chairman of its products liability and risk management section and vice chairman of its sports, entertainment and amusements law practice. His practice emphasizes litigation and preventive counseling in the fields of business and business torts, intellectual property, class actions and products liability, including in his role as national counsel for several major U.S. clients and his representation of foreign concerns in the United States and United States concerns abroad, as well as litigation and other matters in the probate courts. Mr. D’Angelo is a member of the American Law Institute and several of its members consultative groups; a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, where he served on the board of directors and is a past chairman; a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council, where he served on its executive committee; a member of the Defense Research Institute, where he served as the chairman of its International Law Committee and as co-chairman of its European Corporate Outreach Committee; the International Bar Association, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel and of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations. He is a frequent speaker and author on a range of law-related matters.
Posted 01/07/2010
John D. Epps (Col ’75 L/M) is the 109th president of the Virginia Bar Association. Mr. Epps is a partner in the litigation and intellectual property practice at Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va. He is a past president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys and is a fellow of the VBA’s Young Lawyers Division. He was appointed by the governor to a blue ribbon commission charged with studying the future of the Commonwealth, including state and local taxation, economic development, transportation and race relations.
Posted 05/12/2009
"I was the first chairman in the history of the Chamber to have a pony tail. "
Mark Alan Hudson (Col ’75 L/M) is president of HTMH Consulting, based in Shelby, N.C. He completed service as the 2009 chairman of the board of the Cleveland County Chamber of Commerce. He was also named as editor of Foothills Spotlight Magazine, also based in Shelby.
Posted 01/27/2010
George Keith Martin (Col ’75 L/M) is managing partner of the Richmond, Va., office of McGuireWoods, a full service law firm with over 900 lawyers in 19 offices worldwide. The Richmond office is the firm’s largest office. Mr. Martin is a partner in the real estate transactions department. His practice focuses on construction, commercial real estate and public private partnerships.
Posted 09/09/2009
John T. Midgett (Col ’75) is an attorney and founder of the law firm of Midgett & Preti in Virginia Beach. He was listed in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. His practice is in the areas of estate planning and taxation, estate administration, estate litigation and small business planning. Mr. Midgett also received a peer-review rating of “AV” in Martindale-Hubbell legal directory, recognizing his qualifications and ethical standards. He is the immediate past chairman of the trusts and estates section of the Virginia State Bar Association, serves as vice president of the Hampton Roads Estate Planning Council, is a past president of the Hampton Roads Gift Planning Council and is involved with the Duke University Estate Planning Council.
Posted 09/30/2009
Joel Rubin (Col ’75 L/M) was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame on April 2 in Richmond, Va. The Hall of Fame is a program of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Mass Communications that recognizes individuals, principally Virginians, who have made significant contributions in the field of communications. Mr. Rubin worked for WNOR Radio in Norfolk, Va., and as political and features reporter for WAVY TV (NBC) in Hampton Roads for 15 years before starting his own public relations firm, Rubin Communications Group, which is headquartered in Virginia Beach. From 1992-2008, in a part-time role, he was executive producer and host of “On the Record with Joel Rubin”, a weekly news interview program on WVEC TV (ABC) in Hampton Roads. Mr. Rubin’s son, Danny Rubin (Col ’06 L/M), is a TV news reporter for WTKR TV (CBS) in Hampton Roads. His daughter is Molly Rubin (Col ’09).
1975 CLASS NOTES FEED
Class Discussion
Albeit our 35th, 40 years ago we were all studying hard for UVa admissions. And look how things have changed: 40 years after the FIRST moonwalk, our BEST moonwalker OD’s; 40 years after Woodstock, Albany’s in its OWN mudslide; 40 years after the Amazin’METS, THEIR slide’s still better than DC’s Nationals; 40 years—to the day—after Mary Jo Kopechne drowned @ Chappaquiddick, Teddy’s winning a Presidential Medal of Freedom; and 40 years after SDS protests, Harvard nonconformists are drinking free beer in the Rose Garden! [But we sure woulda beat W&M had we played them in Football!!!]
Have a good reunion, all you fellow ‘Hoos - I am too far away in Indonesia. Just spoke to a group of 15 McIntyre School of Commerce students passing through SE Asia, learning about varying economic systems and cultures. Their eyes have been opened big time. Everyone should travel internationally at least once - you will not believe how good it is for you.
Steve Jacobs
SEAS CE ‘75
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