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1950s
Marvin Mixon, MS AE 51, published a novel, Chrysanthemum, which follows a business executive framed for murder.
Ray Pettit, EE 54, MS EE 59, published a memoir, Mill-Village Boy, which includes passages on his time at Georgia Tech.
1960s
Norman Askins, Arch 66, received the A. Hays Town Award from Southern Living. He operates his own architecture firm in Atlanta that specializes in historic restoration.
Mel Bost, Phys 69, MS NE 70, published a book, Lessons Learned: Taking Project Management to a New Level in a Continuous Process Improvement Framework.
Frank Sexton, IE 64, MS IM 67, published a book, Old-School Football and Faith: Played Out on the Flats, a memoir of his academic and athletic experiences at Tech.
Ira Silberman, ID 61, was inducted into the Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame. He retired as senior vice president of Diversified Products.
John C. Sutherland, Phys 62, MS Phys 64, PhD Phys 67, was appointed interim dean of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. He is a senior biophysicist emeritus in the Bioscience Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.
1970s
Milton “Frank” Arthur, AE 71, MS AE 74, of Viera, Fla., retired as a senior scientist after 37 years with Harris Corporation.
D. Albert Brannen, Psy 78, was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2014. He is a partner in the Atlanta office of Fisher & Phillips.
Dr. Joseph B. Cofer, IE 72, was appointed chair of the American Board of Surgery. He is professor of surgery and surgery residency program director at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga.
Douglas Cornish, Econ 74, created a music-composing algorithm called “megloid transmigration” (JazzAssistant.com).
Barry Flink, BM 73, co-founded Flex HR Inc., recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the country. This year marks the third time in 10 years that Flex HR has won this award. Flink lives in Atlanta.
Jack Hartigan, M CP 74, was named a vice president of Arcadis, a global engineering and consultancy firm.
Manuel Mergal, Arch 79, M Arch 81, is leading the construction of a 35,000-square-foot athletic facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y. He is a partner of Cooper Robertson & Partners and lives in New York.
Mike Neal, IM 75, retired after 34 years with GE Capitol and Industrial businesses. He was GE vice chairman for eight years. He lives in Wesport, Conn.
Ed Putnam, IM 74, published a novel, The Final Season, which follows a group of high school seniors through their last baseball season.
Bruce Roth, IM 71, published a book, No Time To Kill, a study of weapons of mass destruction. He is the founder of Roth & Associates, a financial services firm.
Don H. Stafford, CE 70, was elected as a fellow of SAVE International. He is president of Robinson, Stafford & Rude, an international value management and facilitation firm in Gulfport, Fla.
Stefan V. Stein, EE 77, was recognized by Super Lawyers as a 2013 Florida Super Lawyer. He is an attorney at GrayRobinson in Tampa, Fla.
Tash Van Dora, IM 70, founded the Van Dora law firm in Hartwell, Ga.
1980s
Sherman Banks, EE 87, started the Georgia Tech Alumni Amateur Radio Club and serves as its president. A group for alumni ham radio operators and past members of the student-run Georgia Tech Radio Club, the organization uses call sign AA4XG.
Angeline E. Benham, MS Psy 83, PhD Psy 85, was inducted into the Van Buren High School’s Hall of Honor, in Van Buren, Ark., in November. She is a practicing psychologist in Rogers, Ark.
Mark Clinard, EE 85, MS Mgt 92, was named an engineering fellow with Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems of El Segundo, Calif. He is a radar systems engineer and lives with his family in Warrenton, Va.
Capt. Dana R. Gordon, EE 89, assumed the position of executive officer of the USS Iwo Jima, a naval amphibious assault aircraft carrier.
Thomas Richardson, MS CE 83, joined HNTB Corporation as a tunnel construction manager. He lives in Arlington, Va.
Tom Rollbuhler, ChE 85, was awarded the District Award of Merit for the Cherokee Pickens District of the Atlanta Area Council Boy Scouts of America. He is a Boy Scouts assistant district commissioner and works as a senior engineering specialist with AkzoNobel.
Mark Samuelian, IE 85, published an article in The Atlantic about the brain-training benefits of playing chess daily. He is a public policy advocate and lives in Miami Beach, Fla.
Samuel Vincent Tidwell, ME 80, received professional certification as a residential building inspector. He works at Champia Real Estate Inspections in Alpharetta, Ga.
1990s
Robert D. Brown III, ME 92, published a book, Business Case Analysis with R: A Simulation Tutorial to Support Complex Business Decisions. He is president of Incite! Decision Technologies.
Jeff Chamberlain, PhD Chem 93, is the director of development of demonstration for the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Labs in Lemont, Ill.
Tara D. Elliott, CmpE 98, was named among the 2013 Nation’s Best Advocates: 40 Lawyers Under 40 by the National Bar Association and IMPACT and was named to the Women Worth Watching list in Profiles in Diversity Journal. She was selected for the Fellows program of the Legal Council on Legal Diversity and appointed special master by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. She is an attorney for Fish & Richardson and lives in Wilmington, Del.
Ed Flachbarth, IE 90, started Procurri, a data center supply company.
Rand Haley, Phys 97, joined Berkeley Research Group as a principal in the firm’s higher education consulting practice.
Jonathan E. Hawkins, IE 98, joined Atlanta law firm Krevolin & Horst as a partner after seven years as an associate with Foltz Martin.
Wab Kadaba, ME 92, received the Cornerstone Award at the 2013 North American South Asian Bar Association in June. He is the managing partner of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton’s Atlanta firm.
Sandy P. Knight, EE 93, joined the Khan Academy as a math content creator. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Tywanda Harris Lord, IE 96, was named to the 2013 On the Rise class by the Daily Report. Lord is an attorney at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. She was recognized in 2013 as a Georgia Rising Star in intellectual property litigation by SuperLawyers magazine.
Cassandra Johnson, IE 92, cofounded Team Couture, which designs high-end collegiate fashion.
Sanjay Parekh, EE 96, was named to the 2014 class of Leadership Atlanta. He is the founder of Startup Riot, a showcase for startup companies.
W. Jud Ready, MatE 94, MetE 97, MatSci 00, a principal research engineer and adjunct professor at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, was recently awarded two U.S. patents: No. 8,474,805, “Microalloyed Spring,” and No. 8,350,146, “Three Dimensional Multi-junction Photovoltaic Device.”
Robert Rivers, HTS 95, earned a doctor of ministry degree from Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C. He works in education and ministry in Atlanta.
Cdr. John Saccomando, AM 94, assumed command of VR-56 at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va.
Matt Samuelson, CE 96, was named to the 2014 class of Leadership Atlanta. He is the president of IntegralGude Program Management.
Jane Snowdon, PhD IE 94, was promoted to director and chief innovation officer of IBM Federal and was awarded Best of IBM 2013 for her leadership and collaboration skills. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Scott Steinberg, Mgt 99, is the CEO and lead analyst at TechSavvy Global and a bestselling author and professional speaker.
Tammy Taylor, MS EnvE 98, PhD EnvE 99, was named chief operating officer at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Alex Thomas, EE 94, was promoted to vice president of Southwire Company. He lives in Carrollton, Ga., with his wife and children.
Shane Thomason, CE 93, was named chief engineer of program maintenance for Norfolk Southern in Atlanta.
Audrey Tolson, Econ 91, cofounded Team Couture, which designs high-end collegiate fashion.
Amanda Upper, IE 99, is the director of learning development at Duke Energy in Charlotte, N.C. She recently became the 7,459th owner of an all-electric Tesla Model S sedan.
Lee Welborn, Arch 94, was promoted to executive director of the Ernst & Young Orange County, Calif., office. She is a member of Ernst & Young’s tax practice, working with engineers, contractors and architects.
2000s
Dmitri Alperovitch, CS 01, MS IS 03, made the Technology Review TR35 list of influential people in technology under age 35. He cofounded the security company CrowdStrike.
Vijay Balasubramaniyan, MS IS 08, PhD CS 11, made the Technology Review TR35 list of influential people in technology under age 35. He cofounded Pindrop Security.
Justin L. Burns, Bio 05, PhD Bio 10, received certificates of completion for an exclusive business leadership program.
Rebecca J. Clay, ME 04, joined Burns & McDonnell Southeast as a project manager and process engineer in its Water Practice department.
Teman H. Cooke, PhD Phys 02, wrote a physics textbook, First Semester Physics Survival Guide: A Lifeline for the Reluctant Physics Student.
John Michael Doyle, IE 05, finished as the top amateur in the open division in the Professional Disc Golf Association’s Prodiscus Dutch Open in Amsterdam. He lives in the Netherlands on a two-year work assignment.
Nayan Jain, CM 09, founded Audax Health, which has offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and recently secured $21 million in funding. In July he was named a Presidential Innovation Fellow.
Julie Kientz, PhD CS 08, made the Technology Review TR35 list of influential people in technology under age 35. She works at the University of Washington, where she directs the Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab.
Catie Newell, Arch 03, was selected to attend the American Academy in Rome. Newell is a former President’s Scholar.
Adrian Smith, EE 02, is the director of administrative and enrollment systems at Metropolitan College of New York. He lives in Jersey City, N.J.
Holly Webster, BC 08, is project coordinator for RA Nelson in Vail, Colo.
2010s
Michael Flanigan, ChBE 10, joined Hypepotamus as operations manager.
Sean Gibel, AM 12, represented Team USA in the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, South Korea. As stroke seat of the men’s lightweight eight-plus, he led the boat to a bronze medal finish.
Erika Tyburski, BME 12, was recognized by the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Atlanta Business Chronicle as a Business Person of the Year award winner for her device AnemoCheck, an at-home anemia test.
Weddings
David Berta, PFE 07, and Brandi Wiltse on May 25 in West Fork, Ark. David is a process engineer. They live in West Fork.
Rob Griffin, Mgt 12, and Mary Courtney Delvin, Bio 11, on Dec. 29, 2012 in Newnan, Ga. Mary Courtney is a student at the University of Georgia Veterinary School. Rob is a project manager for SteelFab Inc. They live in Athens, Ga.
Emily Hortenstine, Bio 08, and Matthew McDowell, MSE 08, on June 29 in Atlanta. Emily is a physician’s assistant and Matt is a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
Raschel Mead, CM 11, and Steve Iarocci, Mgt 11, on July 6. Raschel is a user experience designer at EchoStar Technologies. Steve is a senior operations analyst for Dish Network. They live in Highlands Ranch, Colo.
Thomas Park, EE 13, and Julienne Kung, EE 11, on Aug. 9 in Chicago. Julienne is a QA engineer at Applied Global Technologies. Thomas is a product group project manager at Sidel Incorporated. They live in Kennesaw, Ga.
Mihir Pathak, ME 08, MS ME 10, PhD ME 13, and Praachi Jani, ME 10, on July 7, 2012. Mihir is a Presidential Management Fellowship recipient and is serving as a legislative affairs specialist for NASA. Praachi is a product/project engineer at Kids II. They live in Washington, D.C.
Georgina Schaefer, ChBE 11, and Christopher Waites on June 2. Georgina is a process engineer and quality assurance manager at a Kemira oil and mining plant. They live in Atlanta.
Elizabeth Serafine, IA 08, and Alex Donnelly, Mgt 08, on March 30. Lizzie works for Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Office of Development. Alex works for Javlin as a sales manager. They live in Arlington, Va.
Natalie-Claire Woods, CM 03, and Erik Lyda on Nov. 10, 2011. Natalie-Claire is a senior associate with The Hackett Group.
Births
Rebekah Martin Arnson, Arch 02, and Barry Arnson, Psy 02, welcomed daughter Audrey on Feb. 5. They live in East Point, Ga.
Amanda Baskett, PP 07, and Kenny Baskett, AE 08, welcomed daughter Evelynne Dyann on July 14. Amanda is a research coordinator and Kenny is a software developer. They live in Covington, Ga.
Angela Dunn Cartledge, Mgt 97, and her husband, Brian, welcomed daughter Brynton Elyse, son Henry Nathan and son Charles Benjamin on Feb. 5. Angela is a full-time mom. They live in Asheville, N.C.
Jonathan Cochran, Mgt 05, and his wife, Brigid, welcomed son Davis Benjamin on Oct. 17, 2012.
Luke Haag, IE 06, MBA 12, and his wife, Brita, welcomed daughter Alana Monét in June 19. Luke is a product-marketing manager at AGCO Corporation. They live in Brookhaven, Ga.
David Horwath Jr., CE 05, and his wife, Lisa, welcomed son David Austin on March 7. David is the international business development manager for Lend Lease. They live in Nashville.
Shane Joiner, IE 97, and Regina Smith Joiner, CS 99, welcomed son William Allen on June 4. He joins siblings Zach, 7, Mallory, 4, and Caroline, 2. Shane works for Cisco Systems. They live in Jacksonville, Fla.
Erin Kennedy, IE 03, MS IE 04, and her husband, Greg, welcomed son Carter on June 7. He joins brother James. Erin is a systems engineer at NAVAIR. They live in Lexington Park, Md.
Clinton Kurtz, BC 06, and his wife, Tara, welcomed daughter Caden on April 26. Clinton is a project manager at Choate Construction. They live in Alpharetta, Ga.
Holly Hoenes Larrick, IE 00, and her husband, Kevin, welcomed daughter Sophia Jacqueline on July 19. Holly is a pediatric neurologist in Forsyth, Ga.
Rebecca Law, CE 03, and her husband, Frank, welcomed daughter Anna Margaret on May 15. She joins brother Tyler, 2. Rebecca is the vice president of Sales for AMAG Technology.
Sara Ouzts Lindsay, ChE 04, and Ian A. Lindsay, ChE 02, welcomed daughter Piper Elizabeth on May 2. Ian and Sara both work for Chevron North America Exploration and Production. They live in Covington, La.
Liz Roellig Manning, ChE 01, and her husband, Mike, welcomed son Luke Michael on April 2. He joins brother Logan. Liz is a process engineering team lead at LyondellBasell Houston Refining. They live in Houston.
David McNicoll, ME 10, and his wife, Chelsey, welcomed son John Turner on July 16. They live in Aiken, S.C.
Michael Scott Meuleners, CmpE 04, and his wife, Melissa, welcomed son Michael Simon on Jan. 30.
Geoffery Roe, BC 09, and Nicole Erickson Roe, BC 09, welcomed son Harper Glen on April 22. They live in Eagle Lake, Fla. Grandfather: Robert Erickson, IE 79.
Jonathan Sims, Mgt 03, and Lisa Sims, IE 01, welcomed son Jacob and daughter Julie on March 1.
Ellen True, CS 05, MS CS 07, and Aaron True, CE 07, MS CE 19. 11, PhD CEE 13, welcomed daughter Ada Louise on April 25. The family recently moved to Boulder, Colo., where Aaron is conducting post-doc research at the University of Colorado.
Katie Appleyard Varner, CS 02, and Jeremy Varner, CE 06, MS CE 09, welcomed son Atticus on April 24. They live in Atlanta.
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