Jennifer Amster (Arch ’88 L/M) and her husband, Kevin Tiroly, welcomed their first child and son, Otto Amster Tiroly, on Oct. 2, 2009. The family resides in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ms. Amster is a partner and leads the higher education studio at BJAC, an architecture firm in Raleigh, N.C.
Posted 12/07/2009
Thomas Beck (Col ’88, Law ’92) was sworn in as the ninth chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority on Oct. 16, 2008, after being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. His term will last until July 1, 2010. On Nov. 20, 2008, Mr. Beck and his wife, Amanda, celebrated the birth of their first child, a daughter, Frances Ellen. The family lives in Falls Church, Va.
Posted 02/12/2009
Ritt Deitz (Col ’88 L/M) is executive director of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professional French Masters Program, which he helped launch in 2000. He lives in Madison with his wife and three children.
Posted 02/12/2009
Michael Fordham (Law ’88) was named “Public Law and Human Rights QC of the Year 2008” at the Chambers UK awards in London and has published the fifth edition of his acclaimed Judicial Review Handbook. He has appeared in some 25 cases in the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, formerly known as the House of Lords. He continues as a college lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford University.
Posted 02/12/2009
Jared Goss (Arch ’88 L/M) is an associate curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art in New York City. Mr. Goss arranged “Masterpieces of French Art Deco”, a large gallery dense with French Art Deco furnishings from the museum’s design collection. The selection is nearly 150 objects, which is about 75 percent of the Met’s French Art Deco collection and is the most it has ever exhibited at one time. The show was featured in The New York Times Art Review section on December 11, 2009.
Posted 01/19/2010
William C. Thomas (Col ’88 L/M) completed a visiting fellowship as a Fulbright Scholar at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Mr. Thomas taught a course on U.S. national security policy and American strategic culture in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies’ master’s degree program. After finishing the fellowship, he returned to his duties at the Pentagon, where he is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and serves as an international affairs specialist.
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