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Stephen Johnston, EE 48, MS EE 49, of Huntsville, Ala., has been sifting through radar systems, equipment and resource materials he accumulated during his tenure at the Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command at Redstone Arsenal and donating it to the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Johnston is retired from the Army.
Darryl C. Aubrey, ChE 55, was elected mayor of North Palm Beach, Fla., in March. He served on the village council for five years as president pro tem and vice mayor prior to his election. After retiring from Exxon Chemical Co. after 31 years of service in technical and management roles, he was a tenured faculty member and department chair at Sacred Heart University for 11 years.
Donald B. Bivens, MS ChE 63, PhD ChE 66, was a recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers at the society’s annual conference in June 2010. Bivens retired from DuPont Fluoroproducts in Wilmington, Del., as senior technology fellow and now works as an independent refrigerant applications consultant. He lives in Kennett Square, Pa.
Donald Bozeman, EE 61, has published two novels. The Spelling Bee was published in March. His earlier book, Cassiopeia: Flight from Savannah, was published in 2009. He lives in Aiken, S.C.
Thomas F. Christian Jr., AE 68, MS AE 70, PhD AE 74, was appointed director of the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Bruce Cook, IE 67, is leading The One-Cent Solution campaign as chairman and CEO of Citizens for Restoring America’s Financial Future Inc., a nonpartisan effort to balance the federal budget and reduce the nation’s debt. The campaign proposes to reduce total government spending by 1 percent each year for five years in the hopes of reducing the national debt by $2.6 trillion. Cook, founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Choosing the Best Publishing LLC, has served as chairman of the board of the Georgia Department of Human Resources as well as chairman of the Commission for a New Georgia Taskforce on Community Care for Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
M. Stephen “Steve” Hart, IM 69, of Marietta, Ga., sold his business, Schlotzsky’s Deli, and retired for a second time in January. He retired from IBM in 1999.
George Scott McCoy Jr., IM 66, of Sandersville, Ga., was appointed to the Herty Foundation board of trustees by Gov. Nathan Deal. McCoy is a retired grain merchandising specialist for the White Commercial Corp.
Martin P. Teem, IM 69, received the Individual Award for Excellence in Human Resources for the state of Georgia at the 2010 meeting of the Council for State Personnel Administration. Teem, a senior human resources professional, has worked for the state since 2002. As the employee relations coordinator for the Georgia Department of Public Safety, he led a peer support program for 1,500 officers and employees to minimize the likelihood of psychological or stress disorders developing after traumatic or stressful incidents. Teem and his wife, Faith Farris Teem, live in Marietta, and they have three sons.
Stephen P. Zelnak Jr., IM 69, received the 2011 Corning Award for Distinguished Citizenship at the North Carolina Chamber’s annual meeting in March in Durham, N.C. Zelnak is the chairman and former CEO of Martin Marietta Materials.
Louis Alderman, EE 77, has co-authored a five-CD audio book, Conversations on the PMP Exam, which was published by Velociteach Press. Alderman, a project management instructional designer, works for Velociteach in Kennesaw, Ga. He develops curriculum, e-learning and class presentation methods to better facilitate clear delivery of project management concepts and best practices.
Steven R. Baldwin, IM 71, has joined the Atlanta-based law firm Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson LLP as chief operating officer. Baldwin, who earned an MBA from Georgia State University, previously was the CEO at Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen LLP, an accounting and advisory firm.
Monte Bruner, Cls 78, of Smyrna, Ga., is the owner of The Dentist’s Choice, a dental tool repair company that is serving dentists throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area.
William S. Bulpitt, ME 70, MS ME 72, is principal mechanical engineer at URS Corp. in Sandy Springs, Ga.
Janet Campbell, Arch 75, M Arch 77, has been spearheading efforts over the past 14 years in California to eliminate restrictive proprietary specifications in construction bidding documents. On June 30, 2010, the California legislature’s committee on accountability and administrative review held the first hearing in the United States regarding the use of sole-sourced product specifications, specifically addressing their cost to state taxpayers in school projects. An emergency bill, AB 635, passed in August. Campbell later assisted the Georgia Department of Education in its efforts to eliminate the problem in the state.
Dennis C. Corn, IM 79, a resident of Kingsport, Tenn., was promoted to vice president of business development for the USA region of Rentech Inc., a provider of clean energy solutions based on their proprietary Fischer-Tropsch and SilvaGas biomass gasification technologies.
James Hamilton, CE 77, was named the Georgia Engineer of the Year by the Georgia Engineering Alliance at a February gala. Hamilton is president and CEO of Southern Civil Engineers, which he founded in 1983.
Scott Whitmer, IM 77, was the 2010 inductee of the International Reciprocal Trade Association Barter Hall of Fame. The president of Florida Barter, he has been a member of IRTA since 1982. He served on the association’s global board of directors for more than 20 years and was president for two terms. He currently serves as chairman of the universal currency committee. Whitmer is a three-time recipient of the association’s Paul St. Martin Distinguished Service Award, its highest honor.
Sam Bracken, IM 86, won an American Society of Journalists and Authors 2011 Outstanding Book Award in the children’s and young adult category for a book he co-wrote about his life, My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change. The book also was featured in the March issue of HOW as a merit award winner in the editorial category of the magazine’s 2011 international design competition. My Orange Duffel Bag is available for download on the iPad. Bracken is the co-founder of the nonprofit Orange Duffel Bag Foundation, which offers coaching, training and mentoring to at-risk youth and support to their guardians.
Herbert V. Congdon II, EE 86, was honored as a 2010 recipient of the Harry J. Pfister Award for Excellence in the Telecommunications Industry by the University of South Florida College of Engineering. Congdon has worked in the optical fiber cable and components industry since 1992. He is president of Professional Engineers of North Carolina.
Chris Curtin, IM 80, has been appointed to the board of directors of Child and Family Connections Inc., the lead agency for child welfare in Palm Beach County, Fla. Curtin is the founder of Bankers Advocate, a sales, mergers and acquisitions firm, which designs successful exit strategies for entrepreneurs. Curtin also mentors a teenage boy living at Place of Hope, a CFC provider agency.
Michael R. Dill, Mgt 88, has been named the vice president of business development and strategy for CIRCOR Aerospace, a global engineering and manufacturing company. Dill is based in Naples, Fla., and has offices in southern California and New York.
John Duddy, IE 80, is the vice president and managing director of Boeing Defence Australia, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company that has about 1,500 employees. The organization has designed and implemented backup communications systems for the Australian Defence Force as well the Royal Australian Air Force and has support contracts for the maintenance and repair of various aircraft. Duddy has lived in Brisbane, Australia, since November 2008. Before that, he was Boeing program director for the global positioning satellites business.
Marc Egort, Mgt 89, and his wife, Jennifer, announce the birth of Jackson Hawke Egort on Jan. 24. Egort, a certified public accountant, has his own firm in Hollywood, Fla.
Benjamin W. Elliott, Arch 88, M Arch 91, has been promoted to principal in the science studio of the architecture firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent. Elliott is a specialist in the planning, programming and design of science facilities, including academic, government and corporate research laboratories.
Amir Ghannad, ME 82, MS ME 85, of College Park, Ga., was promoted to director of North America lean and workplace excellence and Atlanta plant operations at Sunny Delight Beverages Co.
Mike McCarthy, IE 83, has been designated a certified systems engineering professional by the International Council on Systems Engineering. He is in his fifth year as an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton after 23 years in the Air Force. He lives in O’Fallon, Ill., with his wife and two children.
Lesley McClure, IM 81, has been named the vice president and regional executive for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s branch located in Birmingham, Ala. McClure oversees the branch’s board of directors and Birmingham’s economic and financial education programs. She joined the bank in 1989 in human resources.
Kamy Molavi, CE 80, MS CE 81, is included in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Molavi, an attorney with Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, was recognized for construction law. He also was included in Georgia Super Lawyers.
Stephen V. Musolino, PhD HPhys 89, is a member of the scientific staff at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. He earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering in 1981 from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Certified by the American Board of Health Physics, he is a fellow of the Health Physics Society and a member of the editorial board of the journal Health Physics. He was elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements in 2008. His current research interests are in the area of nonproliferation and radiological emergency response.
Valerie Montgomery Rice, Chem 83, has been named dean and executive vice president of Morehouse School of Medicine, effective June 1. A reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist, Rice is a professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. She also is the founder and director of the college’s Center for Women’s Health Research, one of the nation’s first research centers devoted to studying diseases that disproportionately affect women of color. A native of Georgia, Rice received her medical degree from Harvard University Medical School. She is the 2011 recipient of the American Medical Women’s Association Elizabeth Blackwell Award.
R. Cooper Shattuck, Econ 87, has been named Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s senior legal adviser. Shattuck takes the position after 20 years in private practice, most recently with the Tuscaloosa law firm of Rosen Harwood PA.
Brian T. Singleton, EE 88, was promoted to deputy director of the Public Buildings Service, Design & Construction Division at the U.S. General Services Administration. He oversees the planning and execution of nearly $2 billion of projects for eight states in the Southeast, providing new buildings and renovated space for federal agencies. Brian, his wife, Crissie, and sons Mark and Matthew reside in Newnan, Ga.
Jim Winer, Arch 82, M Arch 86, principal of Menefee+Winer in Atlanta, has been assisting Tennessee Wesleyan College in its campus improvement and beautification projects over the past few years. As the campus architect, he has created a campus master plan and managed the design and development of various facilities. He was named chairman of the college’s board of trustees in 2010.
Todd Butler, ME 91, is receiving an executive MBA from the University of Central Florida in May. Butler is program manager and office lead for Jacobs ASG in Orlando.
Matthew Cohen, Psy 99, graduated magna cum laude from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles in May 2010. After passing the California bar exam and traveling throughout Scotland with his wife of 10 years, he now is an associate in the corporate transactions department at the Los Angeles office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Cohen also is the author of “If ‘I Do,’ Then So Should You: An Analysis of State Constitutional Bans on Same-Sex Marriage,” Southwestern Law Review, 2009. Cohen is a member of the Georgia Tech Bar Association as well as the executive board of JNFuture, the young leadership organization within the Jewish National Fund.
Joe DeLisle, CE 93, was named to Georgia Trend magazine’s 2010 Legal Elite list. He is an attorney with Miller & Martin PLLC.
Watson Lee Dorn III, Arch 92, and his wife, Alice, announce the birth of a daughter, Margaret Calhoun, on July 2. Margaret joins Caroline, Robert and Ruthanna at the family’s home in Greenwood, S.C. Dorn is a partner with Furman Architects, at which he practices health care, industrial, religious and educational architecture.
Tamara Lindell Garbett, ME 99, and Neal Garbett, CS 98, announce the birth of son Ethan Thomas Garbett on July 29. Ethan joins his sister, Allison, at the family’s home in San Diego. Tammy is a quality engineering consultant at NuVasive, a spine implant company. Neal is a department head at HSM-75, flying SH-60R helicopters.
Glenn Gaudette, MS ME 92, was promoted to associate professor of biomedical engineering and granted tenure at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. With funding from the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association, Gaudette established an active research program in cardiac tissue regeneration. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Edward L. Lowe, M CP 94, and his wife, Tammie, announce the birth of son Coy Gregory on Feb. 28. Coy joins brother Edward Reece, 3, at the family’s home in suburban Detroit.
Anne Bracken McGraw, Mgt 99, and her sister, Ali, have created the website savingsmultiplied.com, which helps parents of multiples, including twins, triplets and quadruplets, buy and sell sets of children’s gently used clothing. McGraw, who has two young daughters, serves as president of the Nashville, Tenn., Georgia Tech Club.
Myra Monreal, CE 96, MS CE 05, has been appointed planning commissioner of the city of Orlando, Fla.
Craig Mueller, MS AE 94, has been elected a shareholder of Sheridan Ross, the largest Denver-based intellectual property law firm. A patent attorney, Mueller specializes in preparation and prosecution of patent applications based on mechanical devices and related processes. He also practices in aerospace, electro-mechanical and civil areas of technology.
Dan Prudhomme, Mgt 96, was promoted to digital sales director within Cox Media Group Orlando, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, in November. Prudhomme lives in Maitland, Fla.
Victoria Selfridge, IE 96, was recognized as a 2011 Rising Star by The Colorado Springs Business Journal. The Rising Star awards program recognizes 40 business leaders under age 40 who have made significant contributions to their chosen industries and the community.
Simit Shah, CmpE 99, has been named the vice president of web content for Atlanta-based eRollover. Shah is the former head of web operations and development at CNN.com. He serves as board chair for Vox Teen Communication, a nonprofit organization serving youth in Atlanta.
Ernest G. Strauss IV, Mgt 99, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief compliance officer of Triad Advisors Inc. His responsibilities include oversight of daily compliance functions and ensuring compliance with state, federal and self-regulatory agency regulations. He previously served as vice president and deputy chief compliance officer.
Christine Valle, MS ME 96, PhD ME 99, was appointed director of the Women in Engineering program in the dean’s office of Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering. The program is dedicated to recruiting top female students into engineering majors at Tech and ensuring they graduate. Tech is ranked No. 1 by the American Society for Engineering Education for the number of degrees awarded to women. In addition to her Tech degrees, Valle has a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from EPF, the first engineering school in France to admit only women. Since joining the Institute faculty in 2004, she has taught civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering.
Hunter Yancey, EE 99, and his wife, Martha, celebrated their son Jackson Wyatt Yancey’s first birthday on April 8. The family recently moved to San Diego, where Yancey continues his intellectual property law practice as patent counsel for Qualcomm Inc. He previously worked with Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta.
Nathalie Andrae, PTCh 03, married Stewart Curry on May 8, 2010, in Greenville, S.C. Following the wedding, the couple lived in northern Ireland for five months for an international work assignment. Andrae is a tire designer for Michelin. The couple live in Greenville.
Troy Baumgarten, CmpE 00, and his wife, Amanda Levine, announce the birth of a daughter, Katie Elizabeth, on Nov. 4. Katie joins her sister, Maggie, 1, at the family’s home in Coral Springs, Fla. Baumgarten is a database administrator with RevChain Solutions.
Sarah Beckenhauer Lightner, IE 01, and her husband, Chris, announce the birth of Victoria Leigh Lightner on March 1. She joined sisters Catherine, 1, and Caroline, 3, at the family’s home in Marietta, Ga. Beckenhauer Lightner is a full-time mother.
Meredith Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa, Arch 01, has joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP’s New York office as a specialty lab planner and designer in the health and science studio. She will be involved in the design and planning of the firm’s health and science projects and assist in its business development efforts. She previously was an associate principal at RMJM.
Kahlillah Dotson Mosley, M Arch 04, and her husband, Keith Mosley, announce the birth of daughter Kielle Elaine Mosley on Jan. 13. She joins her brother, Khyri, 2, at the family’s home in Smyrna, Ga. Dotson Mosley blogs about her family at mosley-moments.blogspot.com.
Jean Marie Flexer, Mgt 02, and Hap Richardson, Biol 02, were married in a private ceremony at Project Canaan in Swaziland, Africa, on July 21. The two met while students at Georgia Tech but lost touch after graduation. After reconnecting eight years later at a Tech game against Florida State, they made two trips together to Africa to participate in service projects through the Heart for Africa organization, the first to Kenya and the second to Swaziland, where they helped build a children’s home, hatchery and trade school at Project Canaan. A Peace Corps veteran, Hap had served in Africa following graduation from Tech. “When we got engaged, we chose to begin our lives together on Project Canaan because Africa is a special place to us, but also because Project Canaan represents a place of hope and sustaining solutions for vulnerable children and orphans,” Jean Marie says. The Richardsons now live in the Brookhaven area of Atlanta. Jean Marie is a senior marketing manager at Movius Interactive Corp. Hap is a real estate broker with Keller Williams and a partner in Round Here Ventures.
Denise R. Grabowski, M CP 00, is the owner and principal of Symbioscity, an urban planning firm based in Savannah, Ga., that offers services in community planning, sustainability consulting, public involvement and consensus building. She previously was the director of community planning at Lott + Barber. Grabowski is a certified professional planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners. Grabowski chairs the board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Georgia chapter and serves as a representative for the business community on the Chatham Environmental Forum, which developed the county’s plan to become the greenest county in Georgia.
Bronwen Halstead-Nussloch Garner, IntA 03, will be joining the internal medicine residency program at Duke University after graduating from the Medical College of Georgia in May. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society as well as the Pathology Honor Society. She was awarded a master of public health in epidemiology degree from the University of Michigan in 2007. She will live in Durham, N.C., with her husband, David Garner, who is a PhD candidate in music composition at Duke University.
Rebecca Law, CE 03, and her husband, Frank, announce the birth of son Tyler Law on Aug. 27. Law is a Georgia and Alabama security and fire branch manager with Johnson Controls Inc. The family lives in the greater metro Atlanta area.
Olivia T. Luk, Chem 00, received the first Linn Inn Alliance Distinguished Service Medal in March. Luk was recognized for her “outstanding leadership in bringing the American Inns of Court experience to the IP community.” The award was presented by Federal Circuit Judge Richard Linn. Luk is a co-founder of the Linn Inn Alliance, which helps to unite the 13 intellectual property law American Inns of Court around the country. She also co-founded the Richard Linn American Inn of Court in Chicago and currently serves as president-elect. Luk is an associate at Jenner & Block in Chicago.
Liz Roellig Manning, ChE 01, and her husband, Mike, announce the birth of son Logan Andrew Manning on Jan. 28. Manning is a process engineer at LyondellBasell Houston Refining. The family lives in Friendswood, Texas.
Shalini Rao Nilakantan, ChE 01, and her husband, Nikhil, announce the birth of Manisha Nilakantan was on Aug. 26. The family lives in Dallas.
Ashley Melvin Powell, CE 03, and her husband, Scott, announce the birth of Noah Mathias Powell on Feb. 1. He joins his brother, William, 2, at the family’s home in Fernandina Beach, Fla. Powell is a program manager/construction administrator for RS&H, an architectural and engineering firm in Jacksonville.
Michael Ryan Price, CmpE 07, MS ECE 08, married Catherine Lee Edenfield on Dec. 27 in Statesboro, Ga. Price is an electronics engineer at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Ga.
Bert Reeves, Mgt 00, has joined the private sector and is practicing law as an associate attorney with the Marietta, Ga., firm Turner, Bachman & Garrett LLC following five years as an assistant district attorney in Cobb County. Reeves, who was the Buzz mascot at Georgia Tech from 1997 to 2000, is a graduate of the Stetson University College of Law. Reeves’ practice areas include probate law, criminal defense and civil litigation.
Tricia Venema Swan, Mgt 01, and Steve Swan, ME 01, MS BC 05, announce the birth of Henry Robert Swan on Jan. 18. Tricia is a senior financial analyst in supply chain finance at PepsiCo in Chicago. Steve is an engineering design manager at Grainger in Lake Forest, Ill.
Stephen Watts, IE 01, MS IE 02, and his wife, Stephanie Hawkins Watts, announce the birth of daughter Elizabeth Margaret Watts on March 11. The family lives in Marietta, Ga.
Matt Williamson, M CP 06, and his wife, Becky, announce the birth of Abigail Grace Williamson on March 9. Williamson works as the master planner at the Army’s Yuma Proving Ground. The family lives in southwest Arizona.
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Robert Gordon Alderman was my father, married to Elizabeth (Bette) Booth; they divorced shortly after my birth in 1953, my mother moving back to Groton, NY. Please, if you knew my father, I would cherish any remembrances of him that could be shared with me, no matter how insignificant they might seem to you- they will be all that I will ever know of him.
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