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Charles E. McMurdo (EE '29)

1920s
Charles E. McMurdo (EE ’29) was featured in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article, “What It Takes to Live Independent: How to Live Independently as Long as Possible.” The interview was given on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

1950s
Robert Rockwell (BME ’58) retired from General Motors Corp. in 1999 after 36 years of service. He is enjoying fine cars and boats in his retirement.

1960s
William K. Kincaid Jr. (Aero ’63, ’66) was elected to the International Academy of Astronautics, an organization that exists to foster international cooperation in the advancement of astronautics. Kincaid’s career with Lockheed Martin Corp. began in Sunnyvale, Calif., where he worked on civilian and military aerospace programs. He is currently vice president of corporate development for Lockheed Martin Orincon Corp. in La Jolla, Calif.

Roger L. Simpson (ME ’64) is serving the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as president from 2005 through 2007. He also currently holds the Jack E. Cowling Professorship of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech.

Thomas “Ned” Locke Jr. (Engr Undeclared ’68) has been a member of the Charlotte County (Va.) School Board since 1985, serving as vice chair for the past several years. He has spent 37 years in the industrial engineering profession and is currently employed as plant industrial engineer for Dan River Inc.

1970s
G. Steve Gardner (CE ’72) was appointed executive director for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. He will be responsible for both Orlando International Airport and Orlando Executive Airport, and he will oversee an annual budget of more than $300 million and more than 700 employees.

Peter Couchman (MS ’72, ’76) was appointed to the board of the Mental Health Association of Morris County, N.J., and serves as secretary/treasurer.

Russell D. Jamison (Engr Physics ’72) was named dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering in May 2006. Previously he was a professor of bioengineering and materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

James J. Rooney (ChE ’75) is a senior risk/reliability engineer at ABSG Consulting Inc. and was part of a project team that received the Joel Magnussen Innovation Award from the U.S. Coast Guard for the creation of the Maritime Security Risk Analysis Model (MSRAM). The Joel Magnussen award recognizes significant contributions made in knowledge management, information sharing, decision making and measurement systems/tools throughout the U.S. Coast Guard.

Thomas C. Schievelbein (Nuc Engr ’76) was elected to the New York Life Insurance Company board of directors.

Jill Stein Tietjen (Applied Math ’76) was re-elected to a three-year term as outside director for the Georgia Transmission Corporation Board of Directors. She is president and CEO of Technically Speaking Inc.

Kenneth R. Lutchen (Engr Sci ’77) was named dean of Boston University’s College of Engineering. “I am kind of a kid in a candy store,” he said in a story covered in Massachusetts High Tech Online magazine.

Frank C. Zirnkilton Jr. (Aero ’77) was named chief administrative officer for Metrologic Instruments Inc.

T. Patrick Kelly (CS ’79) joined Vignette Corp., a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, as chief financial officer.

1980s
Allen Julian (ChE ’80) joined Chemtura Corp. as general manager for urethanes business.

Rebecca L. Johnson Kirk (ChE ’80) is a flight controller for NASA.

Kathy Robertson Green (CS ’82) is a professional consultant with Jefferson Wells International Inc., a manpower company in the technology risk management group, where she performs IT audit and IT management services.

Edward G. L. Henifin (CE ’82) was named director of the Hampton Roads, Va., sewage agency.Gregory S. Merritt (SE ’82) was appointed director of corporate marking for Cree Inc., a developer and supplier of LED semiconductors and devices in Durham, N.C.

Daniel M. Sorkowitz (CS ’83) is a field engineer for Cupic Corp. in Taidong, Taiwan, and recently married Jennifer Chang, who is a dolphin trainer.

Eric Ullman (EE ’83) has joined Alvarez and Marsal Business Consulting LLC as director of IT solutions in their Chicago practice. Previously, he was a senior manager at Accenture.

Paul B. Najarian (EE ’85) and Philomena Burke (Law ’87) had their first child, Emma, on April 24, 2006.

John B. Muleta (SE ’86), a former director for the FCC and partner with Venable LLP, has founded M2Z Networks Inc., a telecommunications company striving to develop and sell low-cost, secure broadband services to families across the country.

John T. “Hap” Arnold (EE ’88), a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, assumed command of the 36th Electronic Warfare Squadron on May 5, 2006. The ceremony was held at the Air Armament Museum in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.

David J. Naffin (EE ’88) earned a Ph.D. in computer science, specializing in robotics, at the University of Southern California.

Bruce K. Sadler (ME ’88) is a partner in Austin Brockenbrough & Associates LLP. The company was featured in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article, “Building Relationships with Clients, Community: Fifty-Year-Old Engineering Firm, Austin Brockenbrough, Grows to Work on Large-Scale Projects.”

Thomas K. Scott (SE ’89) and Katherine Stallings Scott (CS ’90) had twin boys, Carter Richard and Thomas Kennerly III, on April 25, 2006. The boys join older brother Christopher, age 3.The children are grandsons of Thomas D. Scott (Col ’57); nephews of James F.H. Scott (Col ’91 L/M) and Kimberly Stallings Suringa (Col ’92 L/M); and cousins of Anna Deane Scott (Educ ’67).

1990s
Jennie Lintz Koss (Aero ’90) and Stephen M. Koss (ME ’91) had a daughter, Noelle Christine, on Feb. 23, 2005. Noelle joins an older brother, Sean, age 4. The family resides in Springfield, Va.

Daniel T. Leary (SE ’90) joined ConSentry Networks Corporation as vice president of marketing.

Jeffery J. Shirer (Aero ’90) and Katherine Hubbard (Col ’90) had a daughter, Natasha Wright, on Jan. 12, 2006. Natasha joins an older brother, Nathan, age 4. The family lives in Vermont.

Patricia Tiernan Waugh (Aero ’90) and her husband, Steven, had their second child, Michael Paul, on Aug. 22, 2005. He joins older brother Robert, age 2.

Leland D. Melvin (MSE ’91), a member of the Astronaut Corps, was recently assigned to a mission that will deliver the European Space Agency’s Columbus Laboratory to the International Space Station, possibly as early as September 2007.

John D. Hamann (EE ’92) joined the law firm of Fish & Richardson PC as an associate focusing on patent litigation. He works in the firm’s Atlanta office.

Leland C. Keller (ME ’92) and his wife, Darlene Rooney-Keller, had their first child, Rowan Thomas Keller, on June 27, 2006. Keller is a senior associate at E Source COS. LLC, a syndicated research and publishing firm for the electric and gas utility industry in Boulder, Colo. The family resides in Longmont, Colo.

Scott M. Krushinski (CE ’92) is a contract employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division/Project and Contracting Office in the Facilities and Transportation Sector. He and his wife, Blanca, reside in Iraq.

Simone L. Pollard (ChE ’94) is associate director of the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management.

Joseph E. Lenzi (ME ’95), an employee of Chesterfield County, Va., arranged for the county to donate a combustion turbine to the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In exchange, over the next three years, up to 20 students from the county per year will be invited to tour the department and listen to a presentation on Professor Harsha Chelliah’s research using the microturbine.

Eric C. Anderson (Aero ’96), president and CEO of Space Adventures Ltd., has partnered with Anoushed Ansari’s investment firm, Prodea Systems Inc., to contract with the Russian Space Agency to build a fleet of suborbital spacecraft. The spacecraft would enable humans around the world to fly more than 100 kilometers into space as tourists beginning in late 2008 at a cost of less than $200,000.

Stephen Leroy Garrison (CS ’97, ChE ’99) received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 2005. He is employed by NIST in Gaithersburg, Md., and recently presented his paper, “The Spin State of Linear Atomic Chains of Gold,” at the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience (ICON) in Choroní, Venezuela. He and his wife, Caroline, had a son, Peter DuVal, in October 2005.

Eric Jason Cline (CS ’99) and Robert D. Ericsson (Grad ’93, Com ’03) recently published SQL Server 2005 for Developers. SQL Server 2005, the latest version of Microsoft’s enterprise database product, has many enhanced tools involving data management, developer tools and business intelligence. SQL Server 2005 for Developers teaches software developers how to leverage these new tools and incorporate SQL Server 2005 into their IT projects. Charles River Media published the book.

Ritchie Eppink (CS ’99) graduated from the University of Idaho College of Law in May and received the Faculty Award of Legal Achievement, presented to the graduating law student with the highest cumulative grade point average. He is now researching public legal education in Canada as a Fulbright scholar.

Benjamin Clark Gathright (CE ’93) is a principal at Daggett & Grigg Architects PC in Charlottesville, Va. He is a civil engineer, in charge of engineering services at the firm.

Stephanie L. Moll Springate (SE ’93) and her husband, Kevin, had their first child, Dylan Matthew, on Feb. 5, 2006. The family resides in Fayetteville, Ark.

Todd D. Wood (CE ’93) began working as a land development manager for Pulte Homes Inc./Del Webb in its Ocala, Fla., division in October 2005. He and his wife, Joan, reside in Ocala with their two children, Rebecca and Kelley.

Jonathon D. Frieden (SE, Philosophy ’94), a partner in the Fairfax, Va., law firm of Odin, Feldman & Pittleman PC, started a public e-commerce law blog in April 2006 to discuss news, trends and legal issues affecting businesses that sell, purchase or transact business over the Internet.

Catherine Leigh Graham (BME ’94) married Robyn Lee Martin on April 22, 2006. Graham is a rehabilitation engineer with the University of South Carolina’s School of Medicine. Martin is a business analyst with Palmetto Health hospital system. The couple resides in Columbia, S.C.

Matthew Leonard (BME ’95) and his wife, Siobhan, recently moved to Oslo, Norway, where she serves the U.S. Embassy as assistant regional security officer. Leonard is a senior product manager with Savvis Inc.

Melissa Lisowski Hockstad (Engr Sci ’96) joined the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., the major trade association of the plastics industry, as senior technical director of new and existing technologies.

Tung Dao (SE, Economics ’97) was promoted to assistant vice president at BB&T. He is a business services officer in BB&T’s commercial loans department, based in Northern Virginia.

James S. Tybur (SE ’97) was promoted to principal with Trinity Ventures, a leading investor in early-stage information technology companies. His focus is on investments in Trinity’s Internet and software sectors.

C. Mark Davis (ME ’99) and Sophie Ostrovsky Davis (Col ’98) welcomed their second child, Benjamin Evan, on Jan. 20, 2006. Ben joins older brother Tyler, age 2. The family resides in Yorktown, Va.

Jason N. Memering (Aero ’99) and Christine Ingersoll Memering (Col ’98, Nurs ’02) had their first child, Elizabeth “Zabby” Nicole, on Oct. 31, 2005. The couple was married in 2002. Jason is an aerospace engineer working with the U.S. Marine Corps on the V-22 Osprey aircraft.

Miguel A. Mora (CS ’99) and his wife, Emily Newman Mora (Educ ’99), recently moved back to Charlottesville, Va. Mora telecommutes for Adaptive Methods, located in Centreville, Va.

Brad C. Pantuck (ME ’99) married Stacy Smith on May 27, 2006. The couple resides in Alexandria, Va. Anthony Hoang (SE ’98) and Taylor Rowlett (ChE ’99) were members of the wedding party.

2000s
Sean M. Bias (EE ’01, SE ’05) married Mary Lyman on May 6, 2006, in Somerset, Va.

Jason S. Bias (EE ’02) recently served as best man in the wedding of his brother, Sean M. Bias (EE ’01, SE ’05). Jason currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Adam J. Spanberger (CpE ’02) and Abigail A. Davis (Col ’01) were married on April 1, 2006, at the U.Va. Chapel. Alumni sharing in the celebration included Michael S. Abernathy (EE ’96), Brian A. Dofflemyer (CE ’02) and Allison Esclapez Stacy (CS ’02). The couple resides in Alexandria, Va.

Sarah J. Amelon (ME ’04), a mechanical engineer with Hayes, Seay, Mattern and Mattern Inc., earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accreditation through the U.S. Green Building Council, a coalition of building industry leaders promoting environmentally responsible buildings.

Douglas S. Watson (BME ’04) and Misty East (Col ’04) were married on March 26, 2006. The wedding party included Calvin J. Chan (SE ’04). Douglas is pursuing a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Misty is a personal banker with Bank of America Corp. The couple resides in San Francisco.

Jeremy P. Schubert (ChE ’05) received his master’s degree in engineering management from Duke University.