Chris Bickford (Col ’89) is a photographer in New York City and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. His work on the Venetian Carnival was featured in the New York Times in February and in the December 2008 issue of China’s Vision magazine. His photo of hang gliders at Jockey’s Ridge ran as a double-page spread in National Geographic Traveler’s January 2009 “Then and Now” photo annual, along with a brief write-up. Mr. Bickford’s project “After the Storm: A Life of Surf on the Outer Banks” is featured in burn magazine, an online showcase for up-and-coming photographers curated by David Alan Harvey, and will also be featured this year at Charlottesville’s Look3 Festival of the Photograph in June. His project “In the Night,” a mood piece on hipster culture on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was chosen last year as a finalist in the inaugural Emerging Photographer Fund, sponsored by the Magnum Foundation. Mr. Bickford’s project “Night Dance,” an abstract treatment of a modern dance performance, is on exhibit at the Outer Banks Forum and other venues. He will have a solo exhibition at Ferris State University in Michigan in November. Mr. Bickford’s photography is located at chrisbickford.com.
Posted 05/12/2009
Beverly R. Carter IV (Col ’89 L/M) is executive vice president at Nielsen IAG, a division of The Nielsen Co., which provides audience ratings and advertising performance data to TV networks and advertisers.
Posted 05/12/2009
Tien H. Chu (Engr ’89) is vice president, chief information officer of Nicklaus Companies, a privately held company that is involved in various products and services that mirror the high standards established in the career and life of Jack Nicklaus.
Posted 09/09/2009
Dawn Bryant Crim (Col ’89) is special assistant to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, chancellor for community relations, an office that oversees downtown economic development, relationships with campus-area neighborhoods and campus planning and works closely with the Madison Metropolitan School District. The office also works on policy issues related to curbing high-risk drinking and assists in representing the university on planning teams for major events. Ms. Crim had served as acting director since March 2007.
Posted 05/12/2009
Jennifer Murray Davis (Col ’89 L/M) and her husband, Kirkland W. Davis (Engr ’90 L/M), welcomed their fourth child, Margaret Walsh, on Sept. 5, 2008. Margaret joins Katherine, 11; Tom, 8; and Emily, 5. The family lives in Madison, Wis., where Mr. Davis is a professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Posted 02/12/2009
Lane Thomasson DeGregory (Col ’89, Grad ’95) received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for her narrative feature, “A Girl in the Window”, cited as a “moving, richly detailed story of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing.” A former editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily, Ms. DeGregory has been a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times since 2000. Her stories have appeared in the Best Newspaper Writing editions of 2000, 2004 and 2006. She has been a speaker at the Nieman Narrative Conference at Harvard and has received more than a dozen national awards, including the 2008 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for non-deadline writing and the 2007 Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation for human-interest writing.
Posted 12/03/2009
Ann Gibson (Col ’89 L/M) joined the office of public affairs at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet in Frankfort, Ky. She lives in Shelbyville, outside Louisville, with her son, Jefferson Baker, 3; and her husband, Dave Baker. Ms. Gibson previously worked for The Associated Press as Kentucky news editor.
Posted 03/09/2010
William L. Glahn (Col ’89, GSBA ’95 L/M) was named by Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty as director of the state’s Office of Energy Security and a deputy commissioner of the state’s Department of Commerce. Mr. Glahn lives with his wife and daughter in Edina, Minn.
Posted 05/12/2009
Michael L. Goodove (Com ’89) is a partner with the Norfolk, Va., law firm of Rabinowitz, Swartz, Taliaferro, Swartz & Goodove, P.C. Mr. Goodove specializes in personal injury law and was recognized as a Virginia Super Lawyer in the area of personal injury law in 2009 by Law and Politics Magazine.
Posted 07/10/2009
Nira Marsh Guare (Col ’89 L/M) and Tim Guare (Col ’88 L/M) welcomed daughter, Harper Ellen, on Jan. 27, 2009. Harper joins big sisters Madison, 13, Schuyler, 11, and Bailey, 7. The Guares reside in Richmond, Va.
Posted 07/07/2009
Sam Haisley (Com ’89 L/M) is a director with the law firm of McCandlish Holton in Richmond, Va. His practice focuses on business law and commercial real estate, with an emphasis on medical campus development.
Posted 05/12/2009
Catherine Haley (Arch ’89 L/M) is director of interior design in the Washington, D.C., office of global architectural design and services firm HOK. She is currently overseeing the interior design for the Abu Dhabi Marina 5-Star Residences, Crystal Tower in Kuwait and Wake County Courthouse. Ms. Haley was formerly an associate partner at SOM in New York and was a managing director at Lehman Smith McLeish in Washington, D.C. She received the 2007 Business Week/Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Award of Excellence and the 2007 U.S. General Services Administration Sustainability/Workplace Environment Citation for the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Posted 02/12/2009
Peter A. Johnson (Col ’89 L/M) and his wife, Beth M. Richardson Johnson (Com ’03 L/M), welcomed their first child and son, Benton August, on March 14, 2009. The family resides in Virginia Beach.
Posted 09/11/2009
Maureen McCarthy (Col ’89 L/M) married Christopher Chapman Graham on Dec. 27, 2007. On Sept. 12, 2008, they had their first daughter, Margaret Ellen Washington Graham. She is the granddaughter of Mary Washington Bergin (Grad ’86, Educ ’92) and Thomas Bergin, a former professor at the Law School, as well as the late John Graham, a former associate professor at U.Va. Her cousins are Elizabeth Culp (GSBA ’10) and Sarah Ann Hald (Col ’09).
Posted 02/12/2009
Dodge N. McCord (Com ’89 L/M) and Wendy Rockafellow McCord (Com ’90, Law ’00 L/M) welcomed their third child and first daughter, Amelia Lindsey, on Feb. 13, 2009. Amelia joins brothers Maxwell Ryan, 6; and Lucas Elijah, 3. The McCord family lives in Evergreen, Colo., where Mr. McCord works in real estate finance for AIMCO and Ms. McCord is in-house counsel for Black Hills Corp.
Posted 05/12/2009
Karen Hancke Owens (Com ’89 L/M) and her husband, Mike, welcomed their second child and first son, Soren Canice, on Jan. 26, 2008. Soren joins a sister, Sonja, 4. The family resides in Harpers Ferry, W.Va.
Posted 05/12/2009
Austin Lindsay Pearre (Col ’89 L/M) is a business banker with PNC Bank in Frederick, Md. He lives in Jefferson, Md., with his wife, Lisa Tourjee Hill Pearre, a principal of Love & Company, an agency specializing in marketing to seniors; sons Forrest Reed Pearre, 15, and Colin Alexander Pearre, 3; and daughter Lindsay Tourjee Pearre, born July 21, 2009. Mr. Pearre is the son of Dr. Albert Austin Pearre Jr. (Col ’56), who practices internal medicine in Frederick, Md.; and brother of Insley Pearre (Col ’84), who is a screenwriter in Los Angeles.
Posted 07/30/2009
Edward Rockwell (Col ’89 L/M) relocated from Milan, Italy, and is vice president and associate general counsel for Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif.
Posted 05/12/2009
Brenton Sadauskas (Engr ’89 L/M) and Rachel Sadauskas (Educ ’00 L/M) welcomed a son, Johnas Christian on May 19, 2009.
Posted 07/28/2009
Chris T. Schools (Com ’89 L/M) is chief financial officer of Intelliject, a developmental stage pharmaceutical and medical device company. Chris lives in Richmond, Va., with his wife, Susan, and their 2 daughters.
Posted 07/01/2009
Jennifer K. Wall Smetek (Col ’89 L/M) and her husband, Ronald, welcomed their fourth child and first daughter, Alexandra Gladwell Smetek, on Dec. 3, 2008. “Alexa” joins brothers Jack, 6; Owen, 5; and Connor, 1. She is also the granddaughter of John Russell Wall (Col ’68) and Brenda Gladwell Wall (Educ ’66), and the niece of Bruce R. Wall (Col ’93 L/M) and Timothy E. Smetek (Engr ’91). The family resides in Fairfax Station, Va.
Posted 05/12/2009
Carin M. Smilk (Col ’89 L/M) and Michael P. Beaubien welcomed their third child and son, Avner Henri, on Sept. 24, 2008. “Avi” joins brothers Ezra Alain, 9; and Eli Maurice, 6. The family resides in Wayne, Pa.
Posted 02/12/2009
Anne Stone (Col ’89 L/M) and her husband, Eric Hiser, welcomed their first child, Eleanor Suzanne Hiser, on Dec. 26, 2008. The family resides in Phoenix.
Posted 07/01/2009
Terry Hecht Swartz (Engr ’89 L/M) and her husband, Jeff Swartz, welcomed their second child, Penny Irene, on Nov. 2, 2008. Penny joins a brother, Mitchell, 3. The family resides in Clifton, Va. Ms. Swartz is an engineering manager with Raytheon.
Posted 02/12/2009
Cynthia Shepherd Torg (Col ’89, Law ’92 L/M) and her husband, Jay, welcomed their third child and daughter, Carrie Sullivan, on May 23, 2008. Carrie joins brothers Will, 4; and Daniel, 2. She is the great-granddaughter of Maurice Shapero (Col ’23, Law ’23), granddaughter of George Baer Shepherd (Col ’56, Med ’60 L/M), and the niece of George B. Shepherd Jr. (Com ’88 L/M), Celia Shepherd Glennon (Nurs ’89 L/M) and Stephen Shepherd (Col ’00). The family resides in Arlington, Va. Ms. Torg practices law in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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