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CHAIR Meredith B. Jenkins, ’93 New York, New York VICE CHAIR Julious P. Smith Jr., ’68 Richmond, Virginia MEMBERS James G. Alidige IV, ’03 Charlottesville Cory L. Alexander, ’95 Crozier, Virginia E. Ross Baird, ’07 Washington, D.C. Susan K. Blank, M.D., ’95 Charlottesville Susan P. Campbell, ’70 Austin, Texas Jocelyn E. Diaz, ’99 Los Angeles, California Raj R. Doshi, ’99 New York, New York Jennifer S. Draper, ’91 Kansas City, Kansas Zena K. Howard, ’88 Cary, North Carolina N. William Jarvis, ’81, ’84 Washington, D.C. J. Brady Lum, ’89 Atlanta, Georgia Thomas B. Mangas, ’90 New Canaan, Connecticut Ashley Thompson Manning, ’98 Denver, Colorado Charles W. McDaniel, ’86 Fredericksburg, Virginia Maurie D. McInnis, ’88 Austin, Texas Richard T. McKinless, ’79 Arlington, Virginia Carolyn P. Meade, ’94, ’01 Charlotte, North Carolina Courtney Byrd Metz, ’04 Washington, D.C. Katherine A. Moore, ’99 New York, New York Marc B. Moyers, ’77 Manakin Sabot, Virginia Mathias J. Paco, ’95 Nashville, Tennessee Shannon O. Pierce, ’98, ’01 Atlanta, Georgia Frank J. Quayle III, ’69 Charlottesville Clyde W. Robinson, ’89 McLean, Virginia Charles Rotgin Jr., ’66 Charlottesville Louis A. Sarkes Jr., ’80, ’85 Baltimore, Maryland Puja Seam, ’00 Free Union, Virginia Christian D. Searcy, ’69 North Palm Beach, Florida Paul R. Shin, ’93, ’97, ’02 Washington, D.C. Elizabeth A. Smith, ’85 St. Petersburg, Florida Karen R. Stokes, ’82, ’85 Bethesda, Maryland Bang H. Trinh, ’94 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Patricia B. Woodard, ’69 Charlottesville EX OFFICIO Teresa A. Sullivan University President Whittington W. Clement, ’70, ’74 Richmond, Virginia Timothy J. Ingrassia, ’86 Brooklyn, New York YOUNG ALUMNI COUNCIL Tulips in Shikha Gupta ’10 President Garden II in Christine Pajewski, ’14 mid-April Vice President

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STEVEN LEWIS The National Museum of African American Music Beyond recently named Steven Lewis, the Edgar Shannon Jefferson Fellow, as its inaugural curator. Steven will earn his Grounds Ph.D. from the University in May. Planning and procuring EXCELLENCE IN EVERY SECTOR all exhibitions, he will play an integral role in building a world-class organization. ARTS & CULTURE Every year a new class of outstanding students is invited to the University of Virginia as Jefferson Scholars and Fellows. Each joins a legacy based not just on scholarship but on citizenship, on a shared commitment to making a difference in the world. That commitment lasts far beyond their years on Grounds. Jefferson Scholars and Fellows have stepped forward in fields ranging from the law to the arts, from education to technology, from the media to the military. Every journey varies, but they share the same destination: leadership. www.jeffersonscholars.org

BRAD BRAXTON This year, Brad Braxton, the Joseph R. Daniel Jefferson Scholar from the class of 1991, was named director of the Center for the Study of African American Religious Life and the supervisory curator of religion at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. FROM THE PUBLISHER THE POWER OF THE UVA NETWORK: SHARE IT FORWARD

I recently had the opportunity to spend an evening exploring .org Magazine THE UVA MAGAZINE UVA SMILE MAKERS how alumni can use their net- FAMILIAR FACES AT UVA LettersTRUE COLORS works to empower UVA students. THE COLONNADE CONUNDRUM The event, which the Alumni SPRING the Virginia Piedmont in these Association co-sponsored (see same years and limits the Page 64), featured a group of concepts of “construction” and students who participated in a global-investing Jan- GROUNDSWELLMAY DAYS, 1970 “builder” to things of a purely uary-term class, created by two alumni, David Burke static, domestic scale. (Com ’88, Law ’93, Col ‘94) and Mark Brzezinski (Law Consider that during the ‘91). It was an evocative evening of experience-sharing. same time frame, 1816-1825, Traveling with the students across Africa, the New York built from scratch

Middle East, and Asia, Dave and Mark transcended the SEVEN DAYS THATPUBLISHED BY THE UVA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION the Erie Canal, 363 miles long 2/22/2018 9:07:46 AM boundaries of the traditional classroom and provided SHOOK THE U. and costing about $7 million, a 01_Cover_final_118.indd 1 a transformative learning experience. The students (EDITOR'S LETTER) project that Jefferson thought spoke of how the class changed their perspectives could not be attempted until and, for several, the trajectory of their post-UVA lives. I was quite disturbed to see the 1920s instead of the During the class, they had the chance to connect with the editor’s referral in the 1820s. Philadelphians built the people and businesses that would have otherwise been fifth paragraph to “Shannon.” Schuylkill Canal, 90 miles and inaccessible at this point in their lives, and they did so During my time at the Univer- $2.3 million. Philadelphians with guidance from alumni who were invested in their sity the name reference would also built the Fairmount Dam success. They spoke of learning how to network and always be “Mr. Shannon.” As I and a water-powered pumping talk with business leaders about challenges and oppor- recall that was tradition. Never station for their Fairmount tunities and how Dave and Mark helped them to think was Mr. Shannon referred to Water Works. Without leaving big—really big. They described how meaningful it was as “President Shannon” or Virginia, one would find Fort for Dave and Mark to open their networks to students “Dr. Shannon” unless away Monroe at Hampton Roads, the who only a few weeks earlier had been strangers. Those from the Grounds. I think Mr. largest masonry fort built in introductions opened a world of possibility—with four Shannon still deserves the the U.S. students receiving job offers as a result. respect. Of course, we are in very At the end the evening’s discussion, the students’ Richmond dePeyster Talbot Jr. un-Jeffersonian country here, gratitude was palpable and powerful. Yet what struck (Col ’66) which is the point. me most was not the profound difference the class Boca Grande, Florida All of these construc- made for the students, but its undeniable impact on tion projects were not only the alumni who led it. When speaking with Mark and TOM THE BUILDER substantially larger and Dave about the experience, I can hear their passion more costly, they demanded for the students and see how this experience has made While “Tom the Builder” illus- technical and organizational their connection to the University deeply personal trates a lesser-known aspect skills that were beyond both and meaningful. of the construction of the Ac- Jefferson and his crew of en- I left the evening with a renewed belief in the ademical Village, to call it “the slaved traditional carpenters, potential for alumni to open doors and new vistas monumental task of supervis- brickmakers and masons. for UVA students. I’m excited to pursue paths for the ing one of the country’s largest Nor were engineers simply Alumni Association to support those efforts. While I construction projects” ignores copying and adapting static realize the model of a globe-trotting course may not what was going on outside of architectural elements from → be scalable to the entire student population, I know there is opportunity to create similarly transformative experiences for a much larger group of students. Opening our personal networks to UVA students is The Next 200 Years within the power of each of us and is one of the most UVA’s bicentennial celebration culminates in 2019, as we meaningful gifts we can give to the University. mark the signing of the University charter. That’s 200 years I look forward to sharing more about these efforts of growth and change. But please tell us: What do you hope along with the results of our all-alumni survey with doesn’t change over the next 200 years? Let us know the top you in our next edition of Virginia Magazine. three aspects of the University that matter most to you. Jenifer G. Andrasko Send your responses to Senior Editor Diane J. McDougall at President & Ceo [email protected] by June 25, 2018.

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FROM THE EDITOR books. They required at least constructed an account based ON MY HONORIFIC some measure of hands-on in part on their responses. The AS AN EDITOR … familiarity with successful mystery was who actually examples in the realm of called the cops onto the UVA While writing about departing University of hydraulics and mechanics. Grounds on Friday night May Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan, I heard the voice Nothing in the Academical 8? If I recall correctly, my of Richmond dePeyster Talbot Jr. (Col ’66) in my head. Village has the mechanical conclusion (which really was He had written to call out last issue’s column for complexity needed to fight not much more than specu- addressing former UVA President Edgar Shannon as off a bombardment by the lation) was that it was Frank “Shannon” on second reference. Royal Navy or deliver cleaner Hereford, then the provost He points out that Mr. Shannon water to a city of thousands and later president of the was always “Mr. Shannon,” not or maintain reliable communi- University. There was still, in “Dr.,” not “President” and cer- cation on a continental scale. 1978, some hostility toward tainly not “Shannon.” Compared to the skill and Hereford among the gradu- Says Mr. Talbot’s letter (re- labor needed to build the deep ates who had responded to printed nearby): “Mr. Shannon rock cut and flight of com- my questions. still deserves the respect.” bined locks at Lockport, N.Y., Rory K. Little (Col ’78) I heard the echo of those or carry a canal across the San Francisco, California words each time I wrote “Sullivan” for Sullivan. It glacial bog of the Montezuma Joseph W. Cotchett was the guilt of having knowingly committed an Marshes, Jefferson’s work is Professor of Law honorific offense. little more than a very inter- U.C. Hastings College of the Law My reflexive defense is AP Style, the magazine’s esting assemblage of Legos. longstanding usage manual, which dispenses with Of course, the Academ- By the time antiwar fever had courtesy titles. The last time we recapped a just-ended ical Village is an esthetic swept campuses across the presidential term, second reference reduced John T. tour-de-force, but it is still country, I was in the service. Casteen III (Col ’65, Grad ’66, ’70) to “Casteen,” then of a domestic scale; its very I had not heard the details of as now intending no disrespect. name indicates an assem- the William Kunstler/Jerry Still, to Mr. Talbot’s point, I’m old enough to know blage of residential buildings. Rubin rally at University Hall better. I do still cock an ear when I hear students refer And it is still also a provin- and their call to “liberate the to a professor as “Professor” and the president as cial knock-off, replicating in president’s house” because “President,” not the “Mr.” or “Ms.” used in earlier times. native brick, wood and daub President Shannon would The change began at least 10 or 15 years ago. what the Romans and later not close the University as a Casteen, president from 1990 to 2010, says that toward Italians, French and British war protest, or the march to the end of his run, he noticed people addressing him would have built of cut stone. Carr’s Hill, with some yelling more as “President” and less as “Mr.” That, of course, is part of its “burn it down” as defenders The tipping point likely occurred in the summer charm and American-ness. linked arms in front to protect of 2010, with the arrival of UVA’s first female chief And Jefferson was, in fact, a Shannon, his wife and five executive, always “President Sullivan,” never “Ms. gentleman-amateur, a very children, and the house with Sullivan.” No one circulated a memo. The community well-read and intellectually Kunstler still goading them on. just spontaneously took to a gender-neutral form of active one, but an amateur Fortunately, it ended well, respect. Further along was the evolution from “Mr.” nonetheless. but I am wondering why or “Ms.” to “Professor,” Casteen recalls. Maybe one So, with so much about Kunstler and Rubin weren’t or both of those milestones belong on our timeline Jefferson being rethought charged with inciting to riot of the Sullivan years, part of our cover story, which and qualified, shouldn’t we be for the mindlessly dangerous begins on Page 42. doing the same with his ar- situation they created. I am A brief word on the improvements to our print chitectural accomplishments reminded of last summer, edition. As you can see, and feel, we’ve traded up to and shortcomings? when other outsiders of both brighter paper stock and the crisp edges of perfect Christopher T. Baer (Arch ’70) extremes came to our com- binding. Inside, Art Director Steve Hedberg has Haverford, Pennsylvania munity and wreaked havoc introduced a suite of unifying refinements: more Hagley Museum and Library with not enough accountabili- captivating display type; a calmer, more confident ty. People not from a commu- use of white space; fewer color accents, thus letting ANTIWAR STORIES nity don’t really care about words and art deliver most of the impact; and a more it, only about getting their versatile design grid. I wrote my Political and message out. There’s more. The true test is whether we’ve Social Thought major thesis Robert Myers enhanced your overall experience of paging through on this same topic in 1978. Charlottesville the book. Let us know what you think. As mentioned, The title was “Strike!” In the your comments don't just collect in an inbox; they fall of 1977, I had sent (by As a participant in the events also echo in our heads. snail mail) questionnaires to [Ernie Gates] describes, I every member of the 1970 can confirm the accuracy S. Richard Gard Jr. fourth-year class. My thesis of his account. Gates lumps

8 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 Kunstler and Rubin together hair and anti-war buttons and in encouraging students to flashed those peace signs engage in violent protests. I to the crowd. It probably May Days, 1970: The week that would change UVA forever have a different memory of enhanced our credibility and By Ernie Gates As midnight neared activists surged up Carr’s Hill to the steps of their roles. I recall Kunstler as helped keep the simmer from the University president’s darkened, 2,000 mansion. antiwar The radical lawyer William Kunstler spurred them forward, shouting, ﬁ st in the air. Thirty students locked arms to block the entry. Between using every available oppor- coming to a boil. We’re also the agitated crowd and the defiant cordon, a ANTI lone activist tried to reason with the mob of his fellow students, using a megaphone through the din. Beyond the locked door, President Edgar tunity to encourage violence. two of the students in the WAR STORIESShannon spoke urgently with student leaders who had run ahead to warn him. From upstairs, where

I recall Rubin as injecting a lot photo of President Shannon she waited with their fi ve young daughters, Eleanor Thousands protested Shannon called, “Edgar, at UVA during the fi rst they’re coming!” of humor into his statements, getting a real-time intro- week of May in 1970. For one intense moment, University of Virginia. It was theWednesday, antiwar fervor May 6, of 1970, the 1960s and a movement to shut down theconverged University on was Carr’s about Hill to atboil the over. During that tumultuous week remembered as May Days, many classes were canceled, antiwar rallies swelled to thereby relieving some of the duction to reality at its most the thousands, protesters occupied the Navy ROTC building, student marshals stood sentry against arson around the Academical Village, and billy club–wielding police stormed UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA • the Lawn and some fraternity houses, hauling dozens of fl eeing students to jail. SPRING 2018 Through it all, Edgar Shannon walked a pressure toward violence. raucous. I wish Rich were still protest_118.indd 44 high wire: angering the governor, his board and many alumni by siding with the students against the war, but never bending in his determination to keep the University open.By Ernie Gates “It was a tense confrontation,” recalls Jim Roebuck (Grad ’69, ’77), who was Student Council president and one of the We owe President with us. He’d have enjoyed leaders who had hurried to Carr’s Hill to alert Shannon. “You didn’t know what was going to happen.” Student activism had been building at the University, slowly, for years. It began alongside African Americans in the fight for civil rights in Charlottesville, in Virginia’s rural Southside, and in the Deep South with Martin Luther Shannon our gratitude for im- this time trip. 2/21/2018 3:43:28 PM King Jr. and John Lewis. Later, activists and traditionalist protest_118.indd 45 RECORDS OF THE VIRGINIA LAWstudents WEEKLY ARTHUR J. MORRIS LAW LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS rebelled against rules that restricted their social plementing a carefully crafted Andrew Sussman (Col ’71) UVAMAGAZINE.ORG response that minimized the Rancho Santa Margarita, I WILL NEVER FORGET those last weeks 2/21/2018 3:43:32 PM adverse effects of a situation California prior to graduation and was never prouder that could have had devas- of the way the University responded to the tating consequences for the I noticed that the cover of the University. Spring 2018 issue “Ground- Kent State shootings. Having Kunstler/Rubin Richard J. Pierce Jr. (Law ’72) swell May Days 1970” con- speak during that volatile period was incred- Washington, D.C. tained multiple members of the 1974 Med School class, ible and showed tremendous confidence in I was one of the 1,974 people including me. Not sure how the student body. During the time period of who graduated on June 7, we found the time. 1966-70, UVA became much more socially 1970. I was also commis- Marvin Roberts sioned as an officer in the (Col ’70, Med ’74) aware, finally breaking away from the white U.S. Air Force the day before Versailles, Kentucky frat boy, coat-and-tie mentality that had per- through ROTC. Several weeks sisted for way too long. All of my professors before, during one of the mass When are you gutless anti-war demonstrations wonders going to write an canceled classes and exams as there were on the Lawn, I was walking article about the UVA alumni greater lessons to be learned. Their support across the area in my ROTC who fought and some died for uniform. I was approached our country? was greatly appreciated. At graduation, by a protester; he spit on me Patrick Kelly (Wise ’73) there was a small group who did not wear and called me “baby killer.” He Charlottesville their cap and gown in continuing protest was filled with so much hate! I remember thinking, “What As the reporter for the Daily against the Vietnam War. I think Jefferson did I ever do to you?” I did Progress assigned to cover would have been proud as well. nothing and continued along UVA at the time, I was there FRED A. WILLIAMS JR. (COL ’70) my way. Maybe he helped for all of it. Gates did a great Harpers Ferry, West Virginia strengthen my resolve to con- job recounting. tinue to be a commissioned I was there for all the officer in the USAF for the Vietnam War protests on next 26 years. Good things do the Grounds. My news nose come from bad acts. sent me rushing to the top Hall, brandishing night sticks, from sleep by his pastor, Craig R. Jones (Engr ’70, ’75) of Edgar Shannon’s front and faced a larger army of bailed them out. Thanks for Melbourne, Florida porch because it was clear students across the street the memories. By the time Kunstler’s speech inspired the brandishing idealism. Martial you’re 81, no cup is large Thanks for the memories. My audience to amass on Carr’s law had been proclaimed via enough to hold them. friend and fraternity brother Hill and demand confronta- bullhorn. The students were Rey Barry (Col ’59) Rich Hafter and I were two of tion or else. I sat in a porch told to go home. They didn’t. Charlottesville the 30 linked-armed students glider and took notes. I was there when 68 people, in front of Carr’s Hill—as I was there when UVA most of them students, were A DAY IN THE anti-war as anyone else at the went through the upheavals loaded into a Mayflower (BUSY) LIFE Kunstler/Rubin rally earlier of court-ordered undergradu- moving van provided by a that evening—but determined ate coeducation and integra- sympathetic Lloyd Wood for Jocelyn, you make me proud. not to allow anyone’s righ- tion. Delicate times. transportation to the city As a double ’Hoo, I have teous outrage translate into I was there in the thick police station. It was there always loved my school and physical destruction of Uni- of it the night the army of that the area’s major real have followed its sports and versity landmarks. Good thing shield-bearing state troopers estate developer, Dr. Charles athletes for decades. You are that all of us there had long massed in front of Madison Hurt (Med ’54), awakened exactly the epitome of the

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all it the “Preservationist’s Dilemma”: To restore the ancient and authentic, is it necessary to destroy the modern and memorable? CMore particularly, when the twin colonnades that line the Lawn of the Academical Village are restored, should the columns be the well-known white of the→ modern Wahoo student-athlete—a era, or the unpainted, oatmeal-tan they were in Jefferson’s original? term that has lost a lot of its original meaning, relative

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LACKING DOCUMENTARY SPRING 2018 EVIDENCE FROM THE FOUNDER, it is IN MEMORIAM 32 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA • hard to understandpreservation_118.indd 32 how the forensic examination of some of the I rarely dwell on the In Memo- Lawn’s columns, revealing sand/tan surfaces with a level of undated riam section but the entry for Melanie Crotty caught my eye. white wash right above them, is a conclusive Jeffersonian argument “As an engineering major, she for propagation of the sandy shade. What does seem definitive is the was exceedingly proud of her C in Physics and would not aesthetic testimony against it. As instantiated by the “restored” Pavil- let it deter her.” I didn’t know ion X, the sand/tan color looks dingy in most lights and even worse Melanie but we are kindred in damp conditions, when it takes on the chromatic character of a spirits in having some struggles in the Tool School. dirty tooth. Under the prevailing and at least century-long presence Arriving at UVA after of white colonnades, it is possible to walk down the Lawn and have being a top student in my the magical experience of a radiant and enduring Age of Reason rural high school, it was a rude awakening to now be studying smile—until one encounters Pavilion X, which seems now to require with the top students in the a hygienist more than a preservationist. country and from around PAGE NELSON (COL ’76) the world. Charlottesville Reading the previous articles about the Jefferson and Echols Scholars and other top graduates and then seeing This was almost three years the large side windows looked With Ethel firmly in control the passage from Melanie’s ago, and he was being treated straight onto a blank brick at the front end, Elwood memoriam, I am glad I was by multiple doctors who, ap- wall of the neighboring build- Breeden, soft-spoken and not the only one to feel the parently, each were ignorant ing. The booths and tables mild-mannered, worked as thrill of passing a class that of the medications from the were a pinkish Formica, the chef (he is named in your you just didn’t get! And not other doctors. harsh lighting softened by article but unidentified in the letting it deter you! Richard Fredenburg (Engr ’71) cigarette smoke. photo with Mr. Shiflett). He God bless you, Melanie; Garner, North Carolina Ethel Booker in a rare serenely cooked order after you lifted the spirit of this free moment would smoke order—one side of the grill proud E-School graduate! GRIDDLE ME THIS a cigarette while standing for Grillswiths, the other for sentinel at the cash register. one-eyed bacon cheeseburg- Paul T. Garrison (Engr ’83) Donuts redux. My apologies She was a born disciplinarian, ers. He often had a cigarette Virginia Beach, Virginia for such a late reply to your and when she approached in his mouth—for that matter, excellent article on the Uni- your table, woe to you if you we all did. OPIOIDS versity Diner (“U.D.”) in your didn’t have your order ready. The Grillswith in its 1969 Fall 2017 issue. I was a late- “What’ll it be, young man?” manifestation was one donut My father nearly died from night regular in the 1960s, she’d ask in a voice that only with one scoop of vanilla ice some opioids prescribed for along with my fraternity the reckless would gainsay. cream. To get two scoops him for some back pain. He brothers from Pi Lambda Phi. I have never forgotten her you had to enunciate clearly, was affected to the point that Your photo of the front reproving look (she even “double order.” (Ethel scolded we expect he will never regain exterior of the U.D. captured appeared some 40 years later me in my dream for not ex- his former mental capabilities. its modest simplicity. Inside, in a dream to chide me). pressing myself clearly.) I savor memories as sweet as ice cream on a grilled STAY CONNECTED SOCIAL MEDIA donut or two. Thank you, Social icon Circle

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ore than a decade after “the last ball in ented and student-focused,” University architect Alice U-Hall,” University Hall is coming down. Raucher said. “There are significant safety considerations In late April, the Board of Visitors Ex- when pedestrians come in contact with moving vehicles, ecutive Committee approved funding as and that traffic pattern now has pedestrians and students part of the capital projects plan that will bisecting. So part of the master plan is to come up with a Minclude tearing down the hall, which was home to Cavalier rational set of paths and movement through the site, and a men’s and women’s basketball teams (and other sports, vision for making the area more integrated with Grounds.” intermittently) for more than 40 years. That area includes the numerous athletic facilities, includ- The cost of documenting the building, removing asbes- ing John Paul Jones Arena, Davenport Field at Disharoon tos, constructing modular unit facilities to support sports Park, the George Welsh Indoor Football Practice Facility, medicine and strength-training functions, and demolishing the McCue Center, Klöckner Stadium and Lannigan Field. the building as well as several other nearby structures, is The plan also includes the construction of a new softball estimated to be between $12 million and $14 million. If the stadium at the corner of Massie and Copeley roads, currently work follows the projected timeline, facility demolition will the site of a grass practice field (the site for this construction be completed by 2020. was approved by the BOV in March). “The intent [of this plan] is not only to accommodate Initially, once treated and cleared, the U-Hall land will FADIN the vision of the department of athletics and their need for be maintained as a grass field, which will likely also be used growth, but to make that whole area more pedestrian-ori- for additional practice space for athletics teams. KEVIN M c KEVIN

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 15 UDigest UVA TIGHTENS SPEECH POLICY ON GROUNDS Olympian, All-Star he University has tightened able to protect speakers on all sides is new coach of its policy for outsiders who of an issue.” women’s basketball want to make a speech, Goluboff notes that University protest, hand out leaflets or policies already prohibit violence, Tina Thompson, a two-time Olympic Totherwise exercise free-speech rights and the First Amendment protects gold medalist who played 17 seasons on Grounds. only nonviolent expression. in the WNBA, is UVA’s new head wom- To meet constitutional tests, the Current students and University new rules focus on the time, place and employees acting within the scope en’s basketball coach. Athletic Director manner of the speech, not its content. of their jobs are considered affiliat- Carla Williams announced her appoint- Unaffiliated groups, capped at ed parties. Alumni are considered ment in April, after head coach Joanne 25 to 50 people, must now apply unaffiliated, as they were under the Boyle announced she was retiring (see one to four weeks in related story, Page 57). advance for permission Thompson, a Los Angeles native, to stage a speech event. They are allowed no played basketball at the University of more than one two- Southern California before being se- hour block per week, lected as the first pick of the inaugural occurring weekdays WNBA draft in 1997. She was a mem- between 9 a.m. and ber of the Houston Comets team that 6 p.m. won four consecutive championships, The policy desig- nates nine outdoor and she retired in 2013 as a nine-time speech zones: Name- WNBA All-Star and the league’s all-time less Field, the west side leading scorer. This March, she was of Brooks Hall, in front named to the 2018 class of inductees of Brown Residential for the Naismith Memorial Basketball College, Mad Bowl, Hall of Fame. Thompson, 43, arrives in a field near O-Hill Dining Hall, Newcomb Charlottesville after three seasons as Plaza, McIntire Am- an assistant coach (most recently as an phitheatre, in front of associate head coach) with the Texas University Hall, and the Park complex on

Longhorns women’s basketball team. IMAGES ISTOCK “In everything that I do, I North Grounds. Space want to be the absolute assignments are limited, with student previous policy. groups and other insiders getting pri- The revisions, which the deans best, and I want to lead ority. (See https://uvapolicy.virginia. group crafted in consultation with from the front,” Thompson edu/policy/PRM-017.) the Office of the University Counsel said at an April 18 news “The basic idea is that people who and law faculty First Amendment conference at John aren’t affiliated with the University, experts, are based on the policy at Paul Jones Arena. who want to come and engage in non- the University of Maryland, which “It’s where I enjoy violent speaking and expression here, has been upheld by the Fourth U.S. will sign up in advance,” says Risa Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal being, in the front Goluboff, Dean of the UVA School of circuit that also covers Virginia. UVA and leading and Law and chairwoman of the Deans President Teresa A. Sullivan formed teaching.” Working Group. “That enables the the working group after neo-Nazis University to protect their speech marched through Grounds wielding by knowing they’re coming, to tiki torches the night before the deadly ensure safety and protection [on Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Grounds], to be on notice of any —Anna Katherine Clemmons potential counter-speech and to be and Judy Le MATT RILEY MATT

16 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MICAH WATSON WINS KENNEDY CENTER HONOR Graduate Schools Rank High

Four UVA graduate schools ranked in the top 20 of their respective fields In U.S. News & World DAN ADDISON DAN Report’s 2019 graduate icah Watson (Col ’18) began writing plays in 1968—10 minutes before the Kennedy Center school rankings. The when she was a little girl. That love of deadline. A few weeks later, she learned that she’d highest was the School of Law, which tied for playwriting has become her career path, won the award, which she formally accepted at the 9th. Darden School of which is off to a promising start after the Kennedy Center in late April. Business tied for 13th, MRidley Scholar received a Kennedy Center National “The play deals with ambiguity—there’s no answer while the Curry School Undergraduate Playwriting Award—$1,000 and I’m trying to give, but instead telling stories about of Education ranked a theater residency placement this summer—for these very real people who are experiencing the 16th. The School of her play, Canaan. events we read about in history books,” says Watson, Nursing rounded out Under the guidance of playwriting associate a double-major in theater and African-American UVA’s top 20 rankings, professor Doug Grissom, Watson says she submit- studies. “But we typically don’t see the people in the with the doctor of ted Canaan—a coming-of-age story about Louie, periphery. These characters come from the stories nursing practice a teenager wrestling with political aspirations, I’ve heard over and over, of people living during that program tying for 16th generational divides and love in Washington, D.C., time.” —Anna Katherine Clemmons and the master’s program tying for 20th. The annual rankings are determined by factors Ryan begins shaping his team such as academic reputation surveys, MOVING UP HIS START to August 1, Ryan, who studied and later admissions data and two months earlier than originally taught law here, appointed proportion employed planned, UVA President-elect former UVA Law School Dean at graduation. James E. Ryan (Law ’92) has John Jeffries (Law ’73) as senior charged two search committees vice president for advancement, with identifying candidates to be a three-year position, to oversee the University’s next provost and UVA’s next capital campaign. next chief operating officer, both In May, Gloria S. Graham executive vice president-level started as associate vice pres- positions. They will succeed Tom ident for safety and security, a Katsouleas and Pat Hogan, who post created in response to last SANJAY SUCHAK SANJAY both agreed to stay in their current summer’s violence. She held a roles until successors are selected. “Tom and Pat have served the similar position at Northwest- Each committee is composed of University with distinction, and ern University. University Police members of the University com- I remain grateful to each of them Chief Michael Gibson has an- munity, including deans, students, for their continued service to the nounced his retirement, ending professors and Board of Visitors University,” Ryan said in his an- his 36 years with UPD, 11 as chief. members. nouncement about the transition. —Anna Katherine Clemmons

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 17 Jennifer Cirenza Bell (Nurs ’89) and Edward Bell (Darden ’89) understand the importance of caring for things they’re passionate about. The parents of four children, they’ve devoted their lives to building a family. Over Live for Today, Plan for Tomorrow the years, the couple have also been loyal supporters of the School of Nursing, creating a To learn more about estate gifts, visit giving.virginia.edu/estate-gifts scholarship that benefits students facing family difficulties. Now they’ve made provisions or contact the Office of Gift Planning. in their estate plans to provide the school with future support. Thanks to the Bell family, Erin Hughey-Commers, Associate Director aspiring nurses will continue to learn in one of the nation’s finest programs. 800-688-9882 | [email protected] Jennifer Cirenza Bell (Nurs ’89) and Edward Bell (Darden ’89) understand the importance of caring for things they’re passionate about. The parents of four children, they’ve devoted their lives to building a family. Over Live for Today, Plan for Tomorrow the years, the couple have also been loyal supporters of the School of Nursing, creating a To learn more about estate gifts, visit giving.virginia.edu/estate-gifts scholarship that benefits students facing family difficulties. Now they’ve made provisions or contact the Office of Gift Planning. in their estate plans to provide the school with future support. Thanks to the Bell family, Erin Hughey-Commers, Associate Director aspiring nurses will continue to learn in one of the nation’s finest programs. 800-688-9882 | [email protected] Research clear preference for what the researchers call “prominent numbers”—a specific and repeating subset of round numbers. The Pick a number, researchers theorize that these prominent numbers—1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 and so on—provide an easy not just any number mental “zooming” tool, a cognitive shortcut for narrowing the choice of numbers Even the pros gravitate to a predictable when making numerical judgments in pattern of numbers, professors find the absence of specific criteria. In other words, when life asks us to pick a number,

B Y CAROLINE KETTLEWELL any number, these prominent numbers function for users of base-10/decimal all it another blow to our faith numbering systems “like landmarks on a in rational decision-making. In map,” says Converse, helping us to quickly a new paper, UVA professors and easily refine our selection. Patrick Dennis and Benjamin Dennis, an associate professor in the Converse present strong evi- McIntire School of Commerce, works in Cdence to argue that all numbers are not the field of “market microstructure”—the equal in our minds. Instead, when choosing detailed study of stock trades and prices. from an infinite range of possible numbers, In a previous study, he noticed a dispro-

even professional stock traders show a portionately frequent pattern of trades in CHRIS GASH

20 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 Discovery this subset of numbers, even quickly” in the hours before the markets compared with other round close for the day. They compared these Professors Converse numbers. trades with a sample of trades from 24 “It was wildly significant,” hours later. The result? “It pops out very and Dennis studied says Dennis, explaining that, strongly that when people are rushed, they billions of stock according to the “rational choose prominent numbers,” Dennis says. economic man theory,” a Finally, the two sought further con- trades and found stock purchaser should firmation of their findings through a decide how much was going to series of studies conducted via Amazon’s that they cluster be spent on a particular stock, Mechanical Turk service, which pays around certain then divide that amount by a small sum to individuals to perform the share price to determine “human intelligence tasks” (such as iden- numbers. how many shares would tifying objects in a photo), and which is be bought. The pattern of proving an increasingly popular tool for thus the pattern of 2, 5, 10 and so forth. “It trades Dennis was observing, conducting research. is 100-percent speculative,” Converse says. however, startlingly contra- These studies demonstrated similar More practically, how might we apply dicted that theory. clustering on prominent numbers, the prominent numbers theory to real- Intrigued, Dennis col- which decreased “when judges are able world situations? One use might be as a laborated with Converse to or willing to invest more cognitive effort,” new tool for forensic analysis, says Dennis, investigate further. Converse the authors write, providing further ev- with a pattern of prominent numbers is an associate professor with idence that prominent numbers offer perhaps suggesting fudged data. appointments in both the a quick cognitive shortcut in numbers Another possibility is one you could psychology department in the judgments. experiment with when buying College of Arts and Sciences Converse and Dennis or selling a used car. As Dennis and in the Batten School of agree that neither could outlines, if you are a buyer, and Leadership and Public Policy. have completed this re- the selling price is set at a prom- In the first study in their search without the other’s inent number, it’s possible the paper, which will be published in an upcom- expertise. They agree, too, seller hasn’t put a lot of careful ing edition of the journal Organizational that the cross-disciplinary thought into the pricing, and Behavior and Human Decision Processes, nature of this research, start- “it may give you more leeway Dennis and Converse studied more than ing with the hard data from to negotiate a harder price,” 3 billion stock trades. Stocks, Dennis stock trades and buttress- he says. On the other hand, if notes, are bought and sold in quanti- ing that with the additional you’re a seller, offering your ties that range from zero to very large experiments, gives them item for a more exact, non- numbers. Yet despite such a potentially particular confidence in the prominent-number price could wide range of possible numbers, those prominent-numbers effect. serve as a subtle advantage, more than 3 billion trades nevertheless They also note observing a signaling of confidence in clearly clustered on the prominent round the pattern in other areas as pricing that would discourage numbers—500 or 1000, for example— well, such as currency de- Ben Converse (top) negotiating. significantly more than even on adjacent nominations (the quarter, and Patrick Dennis Dennis and Converse ac- nonprominent round numbers such as they acknowledge, is an knowledge that these possi- 400 or 600. anomaly) or the zooming scale that you bilities are at this point theoretical; their In a second study, the authors ex- might never have noticed on Google Maps. paper simply serves to establish a strong amined a subset of trades conducted But why are these particular numbers, argument on behalf of the existence of under time-pressured conditions—in boldfaced in our brains and represented prominent numbers. “This paper is a the hour following the monthly midaft- more strongly than other round numbers? kind of fundamental result,” Dennis says. ernoon release of the Federal Reserve One theory Dennis and Converse suggest “Hopefully more people will pile on and Open Market Committee statement, is evolutionary: Most of us have two hands, see applications in marketing or forensic which “temporarily forces traders to move with five fingers each, adding up to 10, and science.”

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We’re putting skin in the game, ‘‘ showing faith and confidence in the technology and the people, and we can attract outside funds because of that.” —Bob Creeden Startups

vetting is done by Darden School of Business students in Creeden’s Due Diligence in Seed MORE THAN MONEY Funds course, providing a real-life learning Seed fund also provides expertise opportunity. In January Carleen Bowers (Col to UVA-related startups ’07) joined the fund to assist Creeden with managing the growing portfolio. “The goal is to accelerate UVA-developed he Grounds are rich soil for in- former COO of Bausch + Lomb, and the technologies,” Creeden says. “At the time novation, made richer by a seed former chairman, CEO and president of we invest, the financing for many of these fund that helps University- VISX, which introduced the technology for companies is often too small or too risky for affiliated ideas grow until LASIK surgery. traditional venture capital, so we’re trying they are successful enough Laurie studies the problem of dry eye, to be the catalyst by saying that we, the Tto attract other funding. which affects 7 percent of the world’s pop- University, are committing to this. We’re The UVA Licensing & Ventures Group ulation and up to 30 percent of the elderly. putting skin in the game, showing faith Seed Fund, begun in 2016 with $10 million Laurie developed Lacripep, a commercial and confidence in the technology and the from the UVA Health System and unre- form of the protein lacritin, which restores people, and we can attract outside funds stricted private funds, provides more than health to the surface of the eye. because of that.” money, though. It also has the potential to The LVG Seed Fund invested $350,000 The fund’s first investment was in connect people with ideas to a vast network of last year to help move it from mouse models TypeZero, a digital and personalized med- alumni talent—people who could advise and to testing on humans. If all goes well in the icine company that helps patients manage invest, open doors, lend industry expertise, current Phase 2 trial, Laurie and Logan diabetes. But the fund’s interest isn’t only and serve as board members. expect to trigger a transaction with a major in medicine. Last September it invested in “The UVA network is phenomenal,” says pharmaceutical company. Mission Secure, which fights cyber attacks the fund’s managing director, Bob Creeden. “Bob got deeply involved right away with within software systems in the oil and gas, “We hope to leverage [its] experience, knowl- the science we were doing,” Laurie says. power, transportation, and defense industries. edge and networks to help us bring UVA “He provides a fantastic education on what “It’s pretty amazing to see what research- innovations toward the marketplace.” elements you need to start up a company.” ers are developing and thinking about,” TearSolutions Inc. is one of the fund’s The fund works like any venture firm, Creeden says. “It’s exciting to see how the early recipients. The startup was co-founded except that the five board members are ideas grow, and we welcome the opportu- by Gordon Laurie, UVA professor of cell high-powered UVA alumni working in nity to engage with alumni who want to be

biology and ophthalmology, and Mark Logan, venture capital, and much of the early involved.”—Janine Latus ADDISON DAN

22 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 public attention in particular Review: Female on concussions in football players—much still remains athletes have higher uncertain about these injuries, rates of concussion including how they occur, how best to diagnose them, what the than male athletes do physiological consequences are and how full clinical recovery can be determined. Most important, of concussion than did male the study’s authors stressed, athletes. Similarly, the female any one athlete may not fit the athletes also reported more “average” profile, so concussion IN A LITERATURE REVIEW symptoms than male athletes. management always needs to be OF 160 PAPERS, published in However, “we don’t know why,” individualized to each athlete. October in the journal Clinics notes lead author Jacob Resch of While there is evidence that in Sports Medicine, UVA the Curry School’s kinesiology female athletes are more likely researchers studied data from program. Nor is it known whether to experience concussion and to a range of sports played by female athletes take longer to report more symptoms than male male and female high school recover from concussions than athletes, or may take longer to and college athletes—including their male counterparts. In fact, recover, the authors caution that soccer, basketball and ice hockey. despite increasing attention to studies have shown a wide range They found that female athletes and concern about concussions of variability among individual had, on average, higher rates in all athletes—and major athletes. —Caroline Kettlewell

OPIOID AVAILABILITY, MORE THAN ECONOMIC DESPAIR, DRIVES DEATHS, RESEARCH SUGGESTS Understanding the major drivers of the U.S. opioid epidemic is considered essential to fighting the crisis. One theory widely reported in the news media holds that job loss and depressed economic conditions have fueled overdose “deaths of despair” in certain regions. However, in a recent working paper, UVA researcher Christopher Ruhm presents evidence that macroeconomic conditions are not, in fact, a major driver of opioid overdose deaths. Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, compared mortality data from counties across the U.S. from 1999 to 2015 with data about local economic conditions and argued that the availability (and, in some cases, low cost) of opioids has been a far more significant driver of the crisis. Thus, Ruhm’s research suggests, public policy responses focusing on improving economic conditions for distressed regions may prove ineffective in combating opioid use and overdose deaths. Ruhm’s research is presented in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper titled “Deaths of Despair or Drug Problems?” issued in January 2018. —Caroline Kettlewell ISTOCK

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GIVING.VIRGINIA.EDU/BPF that it lacks the care or capacity to give second chances to students who learn from Honor Allows their mistakes. As a result, notes Owen Gallogly (Col ’13, Law ’19), who helped a Fuller Confession draft the original Informed Retraction provision as an undergraduate and the NOW, EVEN UNRELATED OFFENSES CAN FIND GRACE latest revision as a law student, the single sanction created a retrograde incentive. It forced offenders, who might otherwise B Y S. RICHARD GARD JR. be repentant, to compound their original offense by lying their way through Honor nformed Retraction, the most sweep- entire bundle, it has no practical effect. trials to stay in school. ing modification to the University of That, in turn, had prompted a running While a system of lesser penalties Virginia Honor System in decades, four-year debate over the definition might mitigate that effect, it still doesn’t now sweeps more broadly. By an of related offenses. The new revision promote personal growth, at odds with 18-5 vote, the Honor Committee cuts through that knot by allowing an institution of higher learning. Idecided in February to allow the provi- accused students to fess up to all Honor On the other hand, allowing a blanket sion’s protection from expulsion to cover crimes—related or unrelated, discovered confession would seem to grant impunity Honor violators who admit to multiple, or undiscovered, committed this year to the career Honor criminal, someone unrelated offenses when confronted about or in a previous one—in one sufficiently who may have cheated throughout the at least one. detailed admission. first three-and-a-half years on Grounds, The move resolves a complication only to be caught in the final semester. that has dogged the confess-when-caught Gallogly, a single-sanction proponent, option since it became part of the Honor says he considers that an unlikely System in 2013. Informed Retraction pro- scenario, based on the 40 Honor cases he’s vides a heavily conditioned pathway for Lack of seen over his years on Grounds. He notes, accused students to take a two-semester forgiveness too, that the rule’s copious demands for leave to avoid an Honor hearing, where the making amends, including surrendering only available punishment is permanent has been an your academic fate to each affected pro- expulsion, known as the single sanction. increasing fessor, make it impractical to remain at Once formally accused, a student has the University. seven days to make an Informed Retrac- criticism of As he puts it, “Yes, you could’ve cheated tion. The student then must make a series the single in seven classes, but seven Fs is going to be of prescribed amends with each affected very challenging for you to recover from.” party, including the dean of students and sanction. Since inception, Informed Retraction his or her academic dean, take the year’s has complicated Honor’s bedrock principle leave, and then return with a clean slate. of maintaining “the community of trust,” A student can invoke Informed Re- It’s a procedural decluttering intend- the traditional justification for the single traction only once in an academic career, ed to let Informed Retraction fulfill its sanction—why someone who lies, cheats a rule that raised procedural questions original objectives of atonement and or steals cannot remain here. Allowing about the breadth of its coverage. That forgiveness. The new rule says, in effect: someone who has committed several restriction becomes an issue in cases Confess all sins, follow a litany of require- unrelated Honor offenses to find a way where a single incident entails multiple ments for doing right by each person back to the University complicates the violations, such as lying to your professor you’ve wronged, agree to suspend your concept even further. about cheating, or the compounding theft UVA education for two semesters, and The community-of-trust principle of stealing your roommate’s credit card we’ll allow you dispensation to return. drew the special attention of an Honor and then using it for several purchases. If Err again, and you’re expelled. System study commission that presented the Informed Retraction covers only one Lack of forgiveness has been an in- its findings to the Board of Visitors in of the component violations, but not the creasing criticism of the single sanction— March. Empaneled in 2016 after a student

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vote to change the single sanction fell The commission was particularly at the spring Board of Visitors meeting, just one percentage point shy of a needed mindful of the single sanction when it Whitt Clement (Col ’70, Law ’74), a former supermajority, the committee of alumni, encouraged Honor System proponents Honor chair himself, asked Honor Chair students, faculty and others undertook an “to reframe the discussion around the Devin Rossin (Col ’18) whether it’s “a little audit of the system. Their report avoids community of trust.” The concept should disingenuous” to refer to the UVA Honor specific recommendations in deference no longer be used as the primary justifi- System as single sanction. Rossin pointed to students’ having the ultimate authority cation for the single sanction, the report out that expulsion is still the only penalty for Honor self-governance. Instead, it says, because “Honor now facilitates a at trial. It’s before things get that far that makes a series of suggestions, including process by which those who have violated students have some options, including new approaches for improving student the Code can return to the community.” Informed Retraction. Rossin said, “It is representation and engagement as well Hearing the commission’s report along- still technically a single sanction, if phil-

JON KRAUSE JON as faculty engagement. side the update on Informed Retraction osophically it isn’t a single sanction.”

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 27 Short Course

Staking a Position IN ARGUMENT LAB, STUDENTS CHALLENGE THEMSELVES, EACH OTHER Global Ethics B Y SARAH POOLE & Climate Change

INSTRUCTOR: Willis Jenkins (Grad ’06) STRUCTURE: Sixty students are divided question your thought,” Hong into groups of six that work together for says, “until you blurt out what it the entire semester, is you’re really thinking.” presenting every two The critiques, however, serve weeks. The class is a specific purpose. open to all undergrad- Jenkins wants students to uates and meets twice a week. take their own positions seriously, to take others’ positions ON THE SYLLABUS: seriously as well, and to consider The extensive reading list ranges the “prospects for argument in from the National pluralist conditions.” Climate Assessment Even a small presenting group, and Creating where students of dif- Capabilities: The Human Development ake your seats but Jenkins awards no points A student ferent backgrounds Approach by Martha C. presents her don’t get comfortable. for style, and there is no and majors must Nussbaum, to Laudato Welcome to Global Ethics winner. team’s findings come to a consensus, Si by Pope Francis. & Climate Change, which An experienced debater, to Professor might present such Individual grades are Jenkins and the Tis essentially an argument lab. Michelle Hong (Col ’19) conditions. based one-third on your rest of the class. group’s cumulative Professor Willis Jenkins (Grad says she finds this class The class style performance; one- ’06) inverts convention by teach- challenging in a different has helped Ashley third on your individual ing the class using what’s known way. In debate, she says, she builds Youssef (Col ’19) wrestle with a participation, including as a flipped classroom. Students a case to the particulars of her subject that’s relatively new to your presentations learn the underlying subject- position. “But for this class, we’re her. Being forced to take a position and responses to the readings; and one-third matter on their own (rather than trying to apply this to the real on climate change has given her on two 2,000-word in class) and then use class time world, so we can’t limit ourselves reason to ask questions, especially papers. (rather than homework) to engage too much to the philosophical about the inequalities surrounding in practical exercises, in this case realm. That’s way too idealistic.” those affected by climate change. TAKEAWAYS: > Choose an argument staking and defending positions. Jenkins explains, “We really With biweekly presentations, you believe in. It For each session, two or three want people to make a considered weekly reading responses and matters. of the class’s 10 small groups (six judgment about particular posi- two 2,000-word papers over > Prepare for counter- students each), respond to the tions and then focus on defending the semester, the class is labor- arguments. issue of the day. Today’s question: the grounds for the judgment and intensive. > Consider the reasons behind your argument Are individuals responsible for less on winning.” Although initially intimidat- and prepare to accept climate change? Though student back-and- ed by the workload, Hong says the plausibility of A representative presents the forth consumes the bulk of the she’s been thoroughly engaged. another’s. group’s position and then takes class, the professor gets first crack “People are actually surprised at questions, first from Jenkins at each argument. Quick on his how much work they’re putting and then from the class. Group feet, he challenges positions and into it but learning a lot more than members must answer the ques- clarifies arguments with pointed they would in a lecture format tions in accord with their position. but constructive questions. class or discussion,” she says. “It

Still, it’s not a debate class. “[Jenkins] will continually puts people on their toes.” SHURTLEFF ANDREW

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PHOTOS BY STACEY EVANS

32 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 had Wellmon has done a fair bit of dream- ing and analyzing over the past four years. Blame it on the fact that he professes an equal love of math and poetry, of science and philosophy. Although he’s now an associate professor of German, Wellmon always assumed he’d grow up to be a physicist. Most recently, his unique temperament and interests Chave been put to work upending the undergraduate requirements for the College of Arts and Sciences, under direct orders from Dean Ian Baucom himself. Why change something that’s working? Both Wellmon and Baucom would say that undergraduate education wasn’t working as well as it could. Like many universities, UVA incorporates BRUCE HOLSINGER / English a “distribution model” for its undergraduate curriculum—requiring students to choose from ART INSIDE/OUT a smorgasbord of choices across various broad Interact with art, areas, in addition to basic requirements in artists and artistic writing and foreign language, before they critique to explore step into their major. how each shapes human experience Unfortunately, Wellmon and others say, and culture. this can devolve into a checkbox mentality— I’m looking for an afternoon class on this topic to fulfill this requirement—rather SARAH BETZER / Art History than a love of learning. Wellmon saw that ingrained pattern as an indictment of the faculty, himself included. So he began pondering: What if he and his colleagues could instead create a compelling interdisciplinary experience, one that models how to pose sweeping intellectual questions that cut across academic fields— questions such as: What is beauty? What is data? What is a good life? What are the demands of justice? Wellmon describes these as questions that students “are going to spend the rest of their lives, whether explicitly or implicitly, struggling with. Whether that’s trying to gather data to figure out which insurance plan they want, trying to model a good life for the children they’re going to have or being a member of their neighborhood or citizen of the nation. All of those questions are questions that afford no immediate answer, and they’re actually a joy but also a great challenge.” →

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 33 SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN / Media Studies

KNOWLEDGE YOU CAN TRUST Examine how leaders and institutions create and share knowledge, and how we determine whether they are indeed trustworthy.

CHAD WELLMON / Germanic Languages & Literature

No easy task most, fewer than 300 students would be able to participate, Curriculum reform is a common consideration in higher educa- according to Baucom. While applauding Woo’s creative cur- tion in order to adapt to changing culture and student needs or ricular reform, Baucom (who stepped in as dean in summer to budget or enrollment concerns. Most universities start with 2014) says he wants to do more for all undergraduates who go their general education requirements in an effort to reshape through the College. the learning environment—and the graduates they produce. Deeper, broader thinkers, perhaps. Experienced researchers An emerging model or cross-culturally competent leaders. When it came time to start rethinking the curriculum, Baucom Others address the majors they offer. At Plymouth State promised his support for whatever Wellmon and the existing University in New Hampshire, the president is looking at faculty committee created and their colleagues wholeheartedly eliminating even departments and colleges. approved—“as long as it was ambitious enough,” Wellmon But regardless of the model or the reason, enacting significant remembers. change takes time, with no guarantees. Duke University finally For a full year, the group brainstormed, adding a healthy tabled its plans for a curriculum overhaul after three years of component of measurement and constant assessment from planning. “We underestimated the lack of appetite for change,” curriculum experts in the Curry School of Education. says Suzanne Shanahan, associate research professor in Duke’s Unlike at Plymouth State University, the College’s curricu- department of sociology and previous chair of the curriculum lum committee determined early on that it wouldn’t touch the review committee. “We have something that works. … Not majors. After all, faculty members are scholars of a particular enough people dislike it enough to do something different.” discipline, and such expertise is crucial to actually answering In addition, a new dean stepped in who had other priorities. the big questions in any depth. Instead, the proposed alternative And so the planned overhaul eventually came to a halt. curriculum would allow students to explore broadly and make Without a doubt, curriculum reform is universally hard. One connections across disciplines to help choose their major and small change here affects budgets and prerequisites there, so shape a lifetime of learning. faculty and departments can’t always be faulted for deferring Eventually, a curriculum model emerged. The next step, to the status quo over a compelling vision—tabling the great Wellmon says, was to refine that model with extensive feedback ideas for another day, another year, another dean’s passion. from College faculty and advisers and from peer educational At UVA, the College of Arts and Sciences took a step toward institutions, before launching a pilot with a limited number reform with its new Forums Curriculum in fall 2016, birthed of students. Leadership from Stanford University, Harvard under the leadership of the former dean, Meredith Woo. In University, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Dartmouth this alternative to the traditional curriculum, students focus College, Barnard College and the College of William and Mary the majority of classes outside their major on one overarch- offered feedback in a combination of personal conversations ing theme such as Food, Society and Sustainability; or Space, and an on-Grounds symposium in January 2017. Knowledge and Power. Bo Odom (Educ ’12, ’15) serves as manager for curricular The challenge, however, lies in the Forums’ scalability. At implementation in the College. With his curriculum design

34 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 We ran dozens and dozens and dozens of models and just revised and revised and revised.” – Chad Wellmon, co-director, College Fellows

experience, he was tasked with ensuring feasibility from be- broader exposure to types of knowledge. ginning to end. If successful, the pilot program would become To create the Engagement courses, faculty cohorts would the standard curriculum for all undergraduates going forward work together, across subject areas, to create syllabi (in some (with the Forums Curriculum always an option). cases also co-teaching)—modeling what it means to tackle significant questions from more than one perspective. No more box-checking “We have a lot of very successful students at the University The New College Curriculum, as the model came to be called, of Virginia who approach school in a linear way,” says Woolfork. would replace all current general-education requirements and “But this [curriculum] requires something much more organic, aim to deconstruct the checkbox mentality. The area of greatest where the boundaries are more fluid, where you think about change? A series of interdisciplinary courses for first-year stu- … learning in ways that are broad and interconnected. That’s dents called the Engagements (see “New College Curriculum something that an ideal college learning experience should Framework” on Page 36), comprising eight of the 30 credits be about.” required their first year. Students would choose one class (two After sharing the proposed curriculum model with faculty credits) in each of four categories: at the end of 2015, Wellmon and others working on it entered Engaging Aesthetics—thinking critically about how into a second year of critique and refinement. “I had coffees and we are shaped by art and aesthetic experiences beers and lunches and breakfasts and dinners with anywhere Empirical and Scientific Engagement—exploring the from one to five faculty at a time the whole year,” Wellmon says. hypotheses we form (and questions we need to ask) “Every single one of those was a kind of data-collection point based on evidence for us, and then we would reassemble … and revise according Engaging Differences—recognizing the complexities to the feedback.” of the human experience and resulting inequalities The committee also considered feasibility for faculty and Ethical Engagement—reflecting on questions of students. If it’s crucial to have the full range of disciplines rep- justice, democracy, liberty and more resented in the Engagements, how does that affect a biologist, “We’re asking people to stop worrying about checking the who has a lab to run? Can any student navigate the curriculum boxes,” says Lisa Woolfork, English professor. “And instead start options—even someone who wants to major in, say, physics and applying all that energy—[which] they used to apply to meeting studio art? That, according to Wellmon, would be one of the this list of standards—to actual intellectual labor, to thinking, to critiquing, to adopting a set of ideas and thinking through them and then changing their mind. Thinking in expansive ways, in ways that connect beyond the checkbox model of learning.” Central to the success of the Engagements is a rotating team of faculty members such as Woolfork, known as College Fellows, who are invited to teach within specific Engagements. These individuals leave many of their departmental responsibilities for four semesters. The plan was for an initial cohort of 12 faculty to teach in fall 2017, with a second cohort to begin teaching in the spring. A third would rotate in for the spring 2019 semester. At the same time, the number of students in the pilot was BEAUTY AND MATH IN THE COSMOS planned to grow from an initial 500 first-years in fall 2017 to Explore the intertwining 800-1,200 in fall 2018 (out of the usual first-year enrollment of math and geometries as of about 3,000). found in nature and how Even at full implementation, Wellmon estimates, less than they are represented in art 10 percent of the College faculty would need to be teaching from different cultures. Engagements. KELSEY JOHNSON / Astronomy Measure twice, cut once The model’s remaining requirements (called Literacies and Disciplines) would be met by current classes and faculty. Literacies focus on fluency in rhetoric, world languages and quantitative skills. Disciplines are current general education classes that have been reclassified to ensure that students gain

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 35 [The new curriculum] exposed me to fields of studying and ways of thinking– Peyton Baylous that I had (Col never ’21) encountered before.”

most difficult combinations, just to get all the classes needed. understanding of empirical approaches. “So we ran dozens and dozens and dozens of models and just “This broad education creates a better citizen to be able to revised and revised and revised.” contribute to future advances. It’s just very exciting.” When presented with the refined model in May 2016, the For example, an associate professor of social neuroscience College faculty overwhelming approved—voting 210 to 41 for in the department of psychology offers a class called Thinking a two- to three-year pilot. Like a Scientist. A professor of government and foreign affairs teaches What Is Inequality and Why Should We Worry About Cross-disciplinary depth It? And a second professor of biology discusses ethical dilemmas With a green light, the committee began inviting faculty to in Genetics: Solutions for Life! become College Fellows and to create the Engagements courses. Sarah Betzer was, as she put it, “absolutely thrilled” to be asked “I could not be happier with my choice” to help craft an Engaging Aesthetics course (which she teaches The first classes of the New College Curriculum kicked off in fall with Bruce Holsinger, professor of English). Betzer is associate 2017, with about 600 first-year students enrolled, Wellmon says. professor of art history and now co-director, with Wellmon, of And College Fellows soon began hearing encouraging reports. the College Fellows. Wellmon speaks of first-years confiding in him that they’d “For as much as we value teaching at UVA,” Betzer says, “it planned all along to major in English (“all I loved was reading is extremely rare to sit down with a colleague even in one’s own novels”) until they fell in love with the ethics of data—jointly department and talk about syllabus design. … That’s not for the taught by Wellmon and Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of faint of heart. It really is sleeves-rolled-up, group workshopping.” media studies. “So I had a whole section of them enroll, in “We are giving students a broad perspective intellectually,” their second semester, in statistics courses.” says biology professor and College Fellow Debbie Roach, “so Betzer and Roach have heard the same: students newly dis- that, for example, someone who goes into the sciences isn’t covering poetry or biology and signing up for additional classes. just thinking, ‘How do I get my degree in science?’ but also has Caroline Kirk (Col ’21) says she was so impressed by an exposure to the arts, has an exposure to ethical questions. Woolfork and her class Race, Racism, Colony, and Nation that And vice versa: a student who’s going into the arts has an she’s considering adding a minor in African-American Studies.

NEW COLLEGE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

MAJOR: ALL FOUR YEARS No recommended changes FIRST YEAR (30+ credits) LITERACIES DISCIPLINES Variable credits 21 credits, with 3 credits each in at least six

ENGAGEMENTS different categories (current courses recon- 8 credits spread across four categories World Languages figured from departmental categories) Engaging Aesthetics (classes such as The Rhetoric for the Artistic, Historical Aesthetics of Trauma, and Extinction in 21st Century Interpretive & Perspectives Art and Literature) Philosophical Quantification, Inquiry Living Systems Empirical & Scientific Engagement Computation & (classes such as Doing Fieldwork, and Data The Chemical, Social & Poverty Counts—Understanding Measure- Mathematical & Economic ment and Meaning Through Poverty) Analysis Physical Systems Universe Engaging Differences (classes such Science & as The Individual and Society, and Cultures & Society Debating Islams) Societies of the World Ethical Engagement (classes such as Can a Text Be Ethical? and Mortality & Morality—The Ethics of Death)

36 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 LISA WOOLFORK / English

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE Consider what cultural artifacts such as monuments, songs, books and paintings reveal about us and our human differences.

LAURA GOLDBLATT / English

“I could not be happier with my choice to join the curriculum,” example, “has been judged by a standing faculty committee to be Kirk wrote in an email. “The Engagements courses have been a science.” And students must take three courses from science- my favorite classes each semester. ... While most first-years sit in related Disciplines categories, including Living Systems. large lectures, we have had the opportunity to stake claim in our Wellmon also points out that undergraduates who know first-year education and participate. I need that in the classroom.” what they want to study have always been able to navigate Peyton Baylous (Col ’21) says she changed her major as a the requirements and bypass (or heavily emphasize) certain result of her Engagements classes—switching from biology to departments. The Disciplines put classes under broader cate- global public health. “If I had done the traditional curriculum, gories than in the past. And while students must take credits I think I might have just focused on premed requirements,” she under each of the seven Disciplines, those credits must also said in an email. “These classes seemed to offer a more abstract range across six different departments. and complicated approach which didn’t just apply to a career, but Apart from specific course questions to work through, the a life. … [The new curriculum] also exposed me to fields of study- proposed changes also introduce financial ramifications. But a ing and ways of thinking that I had never encountered before.” $40 million gift earmarked for curricular innovation efforts—from Thompson Dean (Col ’79)—is helping compensate departments Smoothing out the rough spots for the temporary loss of a faculty member and compensate But the new curriculum hasn’t resonated with all students or College Fellows for their additional hours in curriculum creation. faculty. About one-tenth of the initial new curriculum students A late-spring comprehensive assessment will help Dean chose to return to the traditional curriculum because of varying Baucom and the curriculum committee determine the future issues, Odom reports. He says he worked to learn their concerns of the New College Curriculum: whether the planned second and suggest adjustments to the curriculum or the process. pilot year will be sufficient for launching it as the standard Stefan Baessler, associate physics professor, was one who curriculum for all undergraduates, or whether a third pilot year voiced concerns and found the curriculum team receptive to is needed for more refining. addressing them. He still worries, though, that the changes will Not every question is yet answered, but as Duke’s Shanahan be especially challenging for physics majors, with their heavy points out, “You have to be able to take a leap of faith.” load of core courses. He also expressed that the new configura- Wellmon and his colleagues contend that the leap will be worth tions in the Disciplines classes seemingly make it possible for it if students are exposed to “an intellectual way of living that’s students to avoid the sciences altogether. not something you only do in a class, but [that] provides great It depends on how narrowly you define “science,” Wellmon joy, love, beauty and challenges over the course of your life.” counters. Any course categorized under “Living Systems,” for Diane J. McDougall is Virginia Magazine’s senior editor.

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 37 A look at springtime in the pavilion gardens Bud BY JUDY LE / PHOTOS BY STEVE HEDBERG

38 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 A variety of flowering quince blooms in early April in lower Garden VI. Behind are Pavilion VI and the Merton Spire.

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 39 ach year, as the cold loosens its grip on the air, daffodils announce the arrival of spring in the pavilion gardens. Soon come the brightly colored hyacinths and tulips, the whistle Eof the tufted titmice, and the cheery Top: daffodils sounds of robins, cardinals and blue jays. in Garden VIII; But it was not always this way. When center: Garden Thomas Jefferson drew up plans for the Week visitors Academical Village (see Retrospect, Page in Garden VI; 86), he left the gardens blank, for private bottom: the Japanese use by the faculty members living in each camellia in pavilion. According to UVA landscape Garden VIII architect Mary Hughes (Arch ’87), “They did anything they wanted in the back there. If they were gardeners, they could have a garden. If they weren’t gardeners, in most cases they ultimately filled up with outbuildings and smokehouses, slave quarters, utility buildings.” It wasn’t until the 1950s and 1960s, when the Garden Club of Virginia undertook to reinvent them, that the pavilion gardens became the colonial revival gardens that generations have known. The group brought in renowned landscape architects from Colonial Williamsburg to reimagine gardens Jefferson might recognize, using landscape fashion and plants from his time. They also opened the gardens to the public—though that’s not always clear, says Zach Root, a landscaper who works in the east gardens. Sometimes students and tourists “don’t really get that they’re public, because they don’t look it—gates and walls and things.” Still, thousands make their way to the gardens each spring. Landscaper Shannon Adams says she sees gardeners from all over the country who come to talk about plants; others come to celebrate weddings or the end of the school year; locals come to walk their dogs; and students come to sling up hammocks. Adams says she loves working in the heart of Grounds, hearing and seeing a bit of everything that goes on. Here, we offer our readers farther afield a look at what she and others saw this spring.

40 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 Above: cherry blossoms in Garden V; left: the wisteria vine hanging over the wall in Garden V; right: fritillaria blossoms in Garden V above two varieties of tulips

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 41 THE EXIT

INTERVIEWOUR CONVERSATION WITH TERESA A. SULLIVAN DURING HER FINAL SEMESTER AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

BY S. RICHARD GARD JR.

OU CAN’T OUTWORK TERESA A. SULLIVAN. For our interview with the departing University of Virginia president, we managed to snag an 8 a.m. slot, and we weren’t her first appointment. She had already completed a 7 a.m. meeting to discuss the upcoming capital campaign. After our conversation, she took a three-hour meeting with her Ysenior staff. That afternoon, Sullivan hopped a flight to visit with the Atlanta UVA Club. By nightfall, she had arrived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a conference the next day. All in a day’s work, where workdays run from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and workweeks run into weekends. That work ethic helps explain why Sullivan hardly, if ever, missed a Saturday meeting of the Alumni Association’s Board of Managers, even though she could have designated someone else for ex officio weekend duty. → TODD WRIGHT TODD 42 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 43 Sullivan’s inauguration procession, April 2011

So it was, in tribute to Sullivan at an awards dinner in better together.” March, that UVA School of Nursing Dean Dorrie Fontaine Sullivan’s most stunning accomplishment is the newly could get a knowing laugh by asking, “Who attends every restored Rotunda. Plans had been in the works prior to her event, including wrestling?” August 2010 arrival, and the Board of Visitors greenlighted Hard work defines the Sullivan presidency, both her the project during her first several weeks of getting settled. dedication to the job and the reality that it hasn’t always Where Sullivan made a difference was in legislative bridge been easy. building and helping UVA secure some $25 million in state “She’s the most responsible person I know,” said funds for the estimated $58 million undertaking. Larry Sabato (Col ’74), head of UVA’s Center for Politics, in Those are just a few examples from an extensive list (see his remarks for that dinner. “Just look at the news. Whenever President’s Letter, Page 65). Even so, and as alluded, the anything goes wrong, somehow Teresa Sullivan is Sullivan years haven’t been all ribbon-cuttings and bows. responsible.” Fortune magazine in spring 2015 famously dubbed She’s rightly responsible for a lot else. Several people we Sullivan “the unluckiest president in America.” The profile, interviewed say Sullivan’s greatest legacy will come from written by Pattie Sellers (Col ’82), recited a familiar litany her efforts to reconcile UVA with its racial past. She formed of unhappy, sometimes tragic, UVA events: the murders of the President’s Commission on Slavery to uncover a hidden fourth-year lacrosse player Yeardley Love (Col ’10) a few history, including restoration of an unmarked slave cemetery. months before Sullivan’s arrival and of second-year Hannah She put forward plans for the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Graham (Col ’17) four years later; Rolling Stone’s discredited on the green between the Rotunda and the Corner. Earlier “A Rape on Campus” story; the violent white-on-black arrest this year, she announced plans for a second president’s com- of Honor Committee member Martese Johnson (Col ’16) mission, this one to address the fresher history of UVA during on the Corner; and, of course, Sullivan’s goodbye-and-hello the segregation era. ordeal in June 2012. Sullivan accomplished a cultural shift of a different kind. Later, post-Fortune, would come last summer’s Hitlerite She has fostered genuine collaboration among UVA’s differ- torch rally around the Rotunda (see timeline, nearby). ent schools. Increasing UVA’s focus on research, Sullivan When we sat down with Sullivan one morning in April, we created a series of interschool collaboratives (“pan-Univer- talked about the highlights of her tenure, both the achieve- sity institutes,” in administration parlance), starting with ments and the challenges, not so much to catalog them as to Data Science in 2013. get a more personal sense of what it has been like to be the Earlier this year, the schools of undergraduate commerce woman in the arena. and graduate business, McIntire and Darden, announced In fact, we talked about gender. In the Q&A edited and something once unthinkable: that they’d team up and offer a condensed below, Sullivan took the question in a different joint master’s degree. Says former Alumni Association CEO direction, away from the nature of bias and focused more on Tom Faulders (Col ’71), who served on Sullivan’s cabinet credentials. Then she shared more personal insights.

for seven of her eight years: “She made the University work Sullivan is an interview subject who prefers not to be the HALEY JANE

44 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 subject of the interview. She’s more comfortable sharing credit Q:Several people credit as your foremost or assigning it in entirety to others. In our discussion of racial achievement the way you’ve led UVA reconciliation, for example, she says any other president would to confront its complicated racial past. have done the same. On establishing those “pan-University” I lived in Little Rock in 1957. We moved to initiatives, she wants to make clear the idea came from the Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963. I saw a lot of faculty up, not from Madison Hall down. the civil rights movement, and the reaction Sullivan’s style favors nuts-and-bolts and nuance over bold to it, pretty much up close and personal. strokes and bold pronouncements. During the June 2012 And I had to make a decision in my own contretemps, defending against a charge of strategic slow-foot- mind about where I thought the right lay. edness, Sullivan proclaimed, “I have been described as an And because I’m a sociologist, I also under- incrementalist. It is true.” stand the kind of resistance to dealing with Senior reporter Jack Stripling, who covers leadership that, and the sense of shame. for The Chronicle of Higher Education, calls that “probably the It makes you a stronger institution to most telling line of any college presidency.” Says Stripling, who be able to look at something in your past has reported on Sullivan throughout her tenure: “She branded and say, but we have turned away from that herself as the slow, sober, risk-averse academician, and she now. Instead of it being something that seized upon that as an identity.” made people ashamed of the University of (Fittingly, though not fitted in below, when we asked Virginia, in the world of universities it has Sullivan to name that one big thing she most wishes she had added to our luster, because we were willing achieved, if only she had had a little more time, she didn’t wait a to look at it and talk about it. beat to answer: improved financial reports for the deans.) Frank M. “Rusty” Conner III (Col ’78, Law ’81), the UVA Is this a case in which it almost had to be rector, offers: “Success really is dependent upon, for the most a president from the outside [Sullivan, part, day-to-day execution, putting one foot in front of the next. the eighth president, is one of only three She’s had the perseverance and the energy to do that. She has without previous UVA ties]? done that on so many different fronts at the University. It’s I’m inclined to think it is more a matter of not glamorous. It doesn’t catch the headlines, but that is what the century in which we live. If somebody builds the foundation for future greatness.” else had been president here, I think the same thing could have happened. I don’t think it’s particularly me.

SULLIVAN’S STYLE FAVORS Another area that people cite is what NUTS-AND-BOLTS AND NUANCE you’ve done with the financial operations of UVA, starting with the budget- OVER BOLD STROKES AND BOLD ing process. It’s not the most glamorous PRONOUNCEMENTS. achievement to talk about. I think it will have a big impact. It’s not quite zero-based budgeting, but it’s a little bit like Another Sullivan trademark is civility, an ethic to which she that. But no, it’s not glamorous. Who wants has remained true even as civic discourse has steadily coars- to talk about budgeting? ened in more recent years. It’s why, in addition to her significant accomplishments, she will always be remembered for the poise When I first came here and met all with which she overcame the voteless coup that briefly deposed the different deans, each of them, un- her from office in 2012. prompted and independent of one Sullivan recalled for us what it was like that moment in another, talked about collaboration University history when she, as the just-reinstated president, with other schools within the University. emerged from the Lawn side of the Rotunda to address the cheer- That was a major cultural change, yes? ing community. She focused on her text, not the crowd, she told I think so. The idea actually was born us, and on the job that lay ahead, not the intrigues just past. among the faculty. The Data Science Insti- That day, June 26, 2012, she offered remarks of gratitude, tute was born in part from this grassroots humility and moving forward. She struck similar notes in our effort by faculty members. And actually conversation, but she also allowed us a look back and, in the in every one of the pan-University insti- Q&A that follows, some personal reflections. tutes [newly created interschool research

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 45 collaboratives], there is at its heart a grass- ways a tougher environment than here. roots effort by faculty. I WAS THE People load expectations on you of what you will be like and what kind of leader you’ll What other major achievements should FIRST WOMAN be. And women come in as many different we note? IN LOTS OF leadership styles as men do. That’s a mistake, On the academic side, the most important to think that women have one particular achievement is sustaining and replenishing POSITIONS AT style, for example, that they always seek the faculty at a time of generational turn- TEXAS. THAT consensus. That’s a kind of stereotype of over. Thinking about how to deal with retire- women leaders. And it’s probably true of ment and rejuvenation is a big institutional WAS IN SOME some women leaders, not necessarily true issue. And instead of forcing each dean and WAYS A of all of them. And so you do have a certain department chair to face it individually, we number of stereotypical expectations that tried to talk about facing it together. TOUGHER you end up trying to escape. On the clinical side, I believe the reor- ENVIRONMENT One of them was that I wouldn’t like foot- ganization of the health affairs under a new ball. I actually do like football. executive vice president for health affairs THAN HERE.” [Richard Shannon], and then the deploy- Everyone we’ve talked to admires your ment of the Be Safe [patient and work- grace during the June 2012 presidential place safety initiative] in the hospital, have concern that I might not appreciate the crisis, through what had to be so per- far-ranging and important consequences. University of Virginia tradition. And I do. sonally traumatic. The health system needed to move ahead. My father was a criminal attorney, and he Has it made you consciously act tougher once told me about another lawyer who Do you think, at least in your early years in the role to discourage gender com- was going to have dinner at our house that here as UVA’s first female president, parisons or biases? evening, about what a bitter battle they’d there was some gender bias in how I think I was always pretty tough. had in front of a judge that week. And I said, people responded to you? Women pioneers in whatever field you know, how can we have him to dinner? I think that there was some skepticism. But they’re in in the academy had to have pretty My father said, no, that’s what lawyers do. I did come here from the No. 2 position at a tough skins to make it through tenure, to That’s advocacy, but outside the courtroom, very large public university [as University become a department chair, basically to take we can still be friends. of Michigan provost], where I was also the any role in administration. So you know, I That made a deep impression on me, chief budget officer and we were running was the first woman in lots of positions at that you could disagree with people, but a budget of $7 billion. I think there was [the University of] Texas. That was in some the disagreement didn’t have to carry over

June Led by Rector Helen Dragas (Col ’84, Darden ’88) and without a formal vote, the Board of Visitors forces Sullivan to resign. Amid a growing outcry, it reinstates Sullivan 17 days later. THE SULLIVAN PRESIDENCY

2010 2011 2012

May August Sullivan lays the Reviving a tragic story groundwork for a new from before Sullivan’s budget model that arrival, George Huguely will give deans more (Col ’10) draws 23 direct influence in years for the May 2010 their operating units. murder of ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love (Col ’10). August Both were fourth-year Sullivan takes office as varsity lacrosse players. UVA’s eighth—and first female—president.

46 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 long are you willing to stay? I said, seven to 10 years, and I had served two years then. I felt I had at least five years of a promise left to fulfill. And so if the board wanted me to fulfill that promise, I was going to do it.

So what was it like on June 26, 2012, after the Board reinstated you, and you appeared on the south steps of the Rotunda to the cheers of students and faculty? What was going through your mind? Well, in some ways, of course, it was pretty overwhelming. But the idea uppermost in my mind was, this is the moment to bring us all together, that ultimately this isn’t about me. It’s about the institution. These are people who want the University of Virginia

NORM SHAFER to be strong. I might be the emblem of that at the moment, but somebody into everything else about your life. I think anything to foster that. But Sullivan speaks to else will be the emblem of it we’ve forgotten that in a lot of American that made me more deter- supporters on the day she someday. And the message I public life. mined that the University is reinstated in June 2012. have to give now is one of, let’s What was foremost in my mind was, had to come out of this on come together. I suppose it’s whatever happened to me, good or bad, I the other side in good shape and without trite to say forgive and forget, but that’s wanted the University of Virginia to come long-lasting bitter disputes about things basically the attitude I wanted to convey to out in good shape on the other side of this. going on. people. Let’s go forward. And therefore I was determined not to do anything that made it worse, or that made it Why didn’t you just say, “Adios folks, I’m More personally, was it hard to focus about me, because frankly, the media atten- out of here,” with what you had been and get through the remarks? tion and so on, it floored me. I had no idea it through? I was laser focused. In fact, in some ways, I was going to get the kind of attention it got. Well, basically I’d made a promise. At the probably was not attending as much to the I certainly didn’t intend it to, and I didn’t do time the board hired me, they said, how crowd as you might think, because I was

September Data Science becomes September May the first of four “pan- Second-year student Hannah UVA announces University” institutes. Graham (Col ’17) is abducted completion of the Later will come inter- downtown, her body discovered $3 billion capital school collaboratives for five weeks later. A local taxi campaign begun the brain, the environ- driver will plead guilty in 2016 in 2006. ment and disease. and receive life without parole.

2013 2014

September November November Sullivan creates BOV approves in principle Rolling Stone the President’s Sullivan’s Cornerstone Plan, magazine publishes Commission on a strategy that will put new an account of a Slavery. emphasis on student advis- fraternity gang ing, research, interschool rape in a quickly collaboration, faculty discredited story. recruiting, affordability and Sullivan has Greek operational efficiencies. organizations temporarily suspend parties.

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UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 47 really focused on what I thought needed to be done and what needed to be said. I was I’M NOT A PARTICULARLY STRIDENT pretty conscious that my family was there, PERSON. I’M AN ACADEMIC, AND and as much as anything, I regretted what they had been going through. It was very WE TEND TO BE NUANCED.” tough on them, and I hope they felt that was the moment that made it worth it for them. I was conscious of the board members who were there, who had done something was Thanksgiving weekend; no one was here. I’m not a particularly strident person. I’m an remarkable. They had reversed themselves, And the weekend after that was the middle of academic, and we tend to be nuanced. I also and that’s not easy to do. exams. Just, let’s let this die down a little bit. think the notion now that if your discourse And I said, but I do think this is an oppor- is not outraged it is somehow not righteous, When we send out our quarterly reader tunity for you to go and look at the agree- is not true and not necessarily good for the surveys, no matter what questions we ment you have with the University in terms country. I think that we’ve had plenty of ask, we often get a comment back that of, are guests safe in your houses and what outrage expressed, but sometimes that’s says something to the effect that Terry about alcohol use? In fact, the IFC had been not the only way to go forward. Sullivan is anti-Greek and her first talking about these very issues. And the IFC But you’re right. In both those cases I reaction to Rolling Stone was to shut officers came back with a draft of changes did try to come out with fairly nuanced but down the fraternity system. Correct the that they proposed to [Dean of Students] principled statements, and the criticism record for us. Allen Groves and me. We talked about it on was, principally, there weren’t enough adjec- The night the Rolling Stone story came out, several occasions with them. We didn’t write tives and adverbs in there. Really, that was it. there was an attack on the Phi [Kappa] Psi it. We didn’t force it on them. But we sug- You know, I work with a communication house. … The [Inter-Fraternity Council] gested that this was a good time to do that. team on doing this. I know what I want to decided to shut down their social events that say. They may help me with the phrasing of coming weekend, which was the weekend Some of the criticism during the Rolling it, but basically, the message you’re getting of the last football game. And there was a Stone crisis was that you weren’t stri- is my message. And so if it’s not strident protest march that evening, but there was dent enough when you initially respond- enough, well, that’s kind of who I am. no physical attack on any house. ed in condemning sexual assault. Some- But I was concerned about the safety of thing similar happened with the hate During the June 2012 events you famous- the houses and so I said to the Greek system, rallies last summer, where the messag- ly called yourself “an incrementalist.” I’d like you not to have social events for the ing was considered a little too careful, When you think about how change is made next two weekends. Well, the next weekend maybe a little too nuanced. in a lasting way, it can be disruptive or

January With prompting from the administration, June leaders of the Greek The baseball team system come up with wins the College World September a set of stricter safety Series, one of at least The restored and alcohol rules. 10 national titles UVA Rotunda reopens A few initially balk, teams have won during with the help and Sullivan draws Sullivan’s tenure, of $25 million criticism from some including men’s tennis, Sullivan raised in fraternity alumni. lacrosse and soccer. state funding.

2015 2016

March February White ABC agents on the The BOV approves the Corner arrest and bloody Strategic Investment Martese Johnson (Col ’16), Fund, a plan to put income an African-American member from $2.2 billion in pooled of the Honor Committee, reserves toward research, prompting student protests the student experience and in the wake of a series of college affordability. white-on-black police inci- dents around the country.

48 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 revolutionary. That leaves a lot of hurt feel- great people to leadership positions here at nothing scheduled. That gives me a chance to ings which come back eventually in other the University? You know, all those things, go to church and catch up with my husband ways and disrupt the institution on their I think, are the really lasting achievements. [UVA law professor Douglas Laycock]. But own. Whereas change that is made a little Nothing is worse than losing students, yeah, pretty much, Sundays are work days, bit more slowly, maybe less visibly and with no matter how it is they die. You never get too, at least in the afternoon and the evening. a little less attention drawn to it, in the long over that, whether it’s an accidental death or But for me, going to athletic events is not run creates less pain and therefore, I think, in the case of Yeardley [Love] and Hannah work. If I spend the afternoon at a baseball becomes more effective. [Graham], a murder. That’s not something game, that’s relaxing. That doesn’t mean that there’s not you’ll ever get over. change happening. But it may mean I’m not But to balance that, there’s the joy at They say the greatest job in any organi- bragging about it all the time. That is what every final exercises of so many students. zation is past president. What are you incrementalism means. I have my first group of advisees graduat- most looking forward to in being a past Now in the case of sexual assault, that’s ing this year and had dinner with them last president? not something that you’re incremental about. week, and talking with them about where A lot of things have happened in my field, Sexual assault is not something you tolerate. they’re going and seeing how they have which is demography. I’m looking forward I don’t think there’s anybody out there who changed since they were 18. That’s the to having a chance to actually audit some really thinks I’m OK with sexual assault. reason you go into the academy, because classes [at the University of Texas] and you’re making a bet on the next generation. getting my own courses back into shape to In their farewell tributes, many And I was happy to make that bet on the next teach [at UVA]. well-wishers have made reference to all generation of UVA alumni, and I think that the crises you’ve had to deal with over bet’s going to pay off pretty well. What part of your job will you miss the your term. We’ve talked about a few most? of them. When you look back at these We started at 8 a.m., and we’re not even Oh, the people, I think. Yes. I’m very proud eight years, how do you put things in your first appointment. Give us an idea of my leadership team. I think they’ve done perspective? of your day, the crazy hours you work. a great job through thick and thin. I’ll miss Those obviously have been difficult. Crises Seven in the morning until maybe 9 o’clock the daily interaction with them. come in any leadership position. What’s at night. At 9 o’clock, I have to start winding more important is, are you still able to get down or I won’t go to sleep. So I essentially And what part will you miss not at all? done the things that have to get done? Did unplug, except obviously for emergencies. Some of the angry emails that are written we restore the Rotunda? Did we get ready at two in the morning after an athletic team for the bicentennial celebration? Did we Do you get a day of rest? has suffered a loss. finish the capital campaign? Did we hire You know, Sunday morning there’s usually S. Richard Gard Jr. is the editor of Virginia Magazine.

August Aug. 11, the night before deadly downtown demonstrations, July January neo-Nazis march up the The end of Sullivan’s Citing the accom- Lawn colonnade carrying February presidency. After her term, plishment of much of lighted torches and October Sullivan announces Sullivan, a sociologist, her Cornerstone Plan, shouting anti-Semitic UVA kicks off its bicentennial plans for a Presi- plans to spend a few se- Sullivan announces slogans, then scuffle with celebration with a celebrity- dent’s Commission mesters at the University she will step down in counterprotesters on the filled, multimedia extrava- on UVA during the of Texas and then return to July 2018. Rotunda’s north terrace. ganza on the Lawn. segregation era. teaching at UVA.

2017 2018

June September The BOV approves The Deans Working Group, a March the design for the task force Sullivan appointed Top-ranked men’s Enslaved Laborers to address issues related basketball team wins memorial between to the previous month’s both the ACC regular the Rotunda and violence, releases a report season title and the Corner. showing shortcomings in the tournament, as had administration’s handling of the 2014 team, though events. An outside study for this time suffers a the city will later do the same historic NCAA tourna- in greater detail. ment loss.

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ason George (Com ’94) makes his living by getting into someone else’s skin: Since 2009, he’s played the Jrole of Dr. Ben Warren on ABC’s hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. “I’ve never been attached to a character as long as I’ve been attached to Ben Warren,” says the 46-year-old actor. → BENJO ARWAS BENJO

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Actor Jason George brings his character to the new show Station 19. Both George and Warren are facing some changes, however, with the Grey’s spin-off Station 19, where Warren becomes a firefighter. Warren traded in his scalpel for a firehose, George explains, “to be closer to the source of the problem.” “How much time passes [between] when somebody’s injured in a car crash or a fire and when they actually arrive at the hospital?” George asks. “How can [Warren] make a difference on the scene and improve their odds of survival? “He’s an adrenaline junkie in the [operating room], which has gotten him in trouble. Now that he’s a firefighter, that’s actually a tool you need: fuel to get the job done. “It’s a pretty good gig. Ben Warren and I have had a good ride together, and the next chapter’s just getting started.” But getting into someone else’s skin is far more than an acting gig for George: A recipient of several scholarships Much to his surprise, George was It’s leading him to speak up on behalf while at UVA, George was also a resident neither killed off nor written out ofGrey’s . of others. adviser in Courtenay House. He earned He kept getting asked back. Eventually, he a degree in rhetoric and communica- was promoted to a series regular in 2012. WHERE IT BEGAN tion studies in 1994. At UVA he also met “I was blessed enough to fall into Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, George Vandana Khanna (Col ’94), his wife since the ABC creative circle and, from there, was a military kid on the fast track to law 1999. They have three children. deeper into Shondaland. I’m not trying school. So fast, in fact, that his mentor was During his grad school days at Temple to fall out any time soon,” George says. the late Leroy R. Hassell Sr. (Col ’77), the University, George tried out for the soap first African-American chief justice of the Sunset Beach on a lark. The producers USING HIS VOICE Virginia Supreme Court. were holding a contest at a local mall George’s career developed a new di- “The plan was to get the grades, he’d and George participated, not expecting mension more than 15 years ago. During write me a great recommendation, I’d go anything to come of it. “The next thing I negotiations for the 2002 action filmThe to a great law school, then I’d clerk for knew, I was moving to [LA].” Climb, the issue of “paint-down” arose. That’s when a Caucasian stunt man wears makeup to double for someone of color— in this case, George. Ben Warren and I have had a good “The producers were lovely people ride together, and the next chapter’s whom I adore,” George recalls, “but just getting started.” —Jason George they didn’t think as thoroughly [as] ‘‘ they should have about the issue. ... In that moment, I got them to rethink that and find a[n African-American] stunt- him, and I’d be a ‘made’ man in the state of George says he was “dying” to work double for me, who turned out to be the Virginia,” George recalls. “In the second with Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey’s, best climber in the show.” semester of my first year, I took an acting Scandal and How to Get Away With That left quite an impression on him. class and it was a wrap. It all kept going Murder. He did a pilot for Rhimes that “I don’t need to understand every downhill from there. wasn’t picked up but led to his role on last piece of nuance of the contract or “I minored in drama. [Hassell] was Grey’s, where he initially did only several the laws, but I do know my own personal not crazy about it when I told him that I episodes. He then starred in Off the Map, experience,” George says. “And if I speak was changing the plan and becoming an where Rhimes was the executive produc- up, I’ve got translators in the room to help

actor. Eventually, he was down with that.” er, but it was canceled after one season. protect me and performers like me. So I IMAGES VIA GETTY HAASETH/ABC MITCH

52 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 kept showing up and opening my mouth.” George began advocating for performers of color, as well as women, senior citizens and performers with disabilities. For the past 15 years, he’s been involved in the Diversity Advi- sory Committee for the Screen Actors Guild-American Feder- ation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and he’s currently its chair. The group, which he calls the United Nations of tradi- tionally under-represented news groups, comes together to praise best practices, talk about common issues and trade ideas.

“I was watching an episode PHOTO COURTESY of Scandal,” George says, “and a [camera panned] across the White House. BRENNAN TAKES FACE THE NATION There goes a woman in a hijab, there goes a REINS FROM FELLOW ALUM person in a wheelchair, there’s tons of people of color with all different shades and hues. … WHEN MARGARET BRENNAN anchor and correspondent It’s never commented on; it’s just that’s the (COL ’02) TOOK OVER AS THE in financial journalism. She’s world. That sends a very strong message MODERATOR FOR CBS’ FACE also the senior foreign affairs without having to get up on a soapbox. That’s THE NATION in February, she correspondent for CBS News. what I’ve been advocating for. was excited by the challenge. “She’s very good at TV,” “Part of the success of [Rhimes’] shows “Trying to keep the tradition Dickerson says of Brennan. is that’s how she saw the world. She saw and the integrity of the “It’s one thing to ask questions; that was the reality before other people program is something I take it’s another to do so in a small saw it. Up until then, people were wearing very seriously,” Brennan said. room with someone talking in Caucasian-colored glasses; now they’re “I was so excited to have the your earpiece with the clock taking them off and realizing the world is opportunity, but I also feel very ticking and the lights on.” a lot more multihued than that. And that’s humbled and very well aware Brennan takes over the a good thing. … Nobody should feel threat- that this is a tradition that is Sunday morning roundtable at ened; if anything, everybody gets to come long-standing and one I need a critical time, Hager says. to the party.” to uphold.” “In this age of fake news Grey’s co-star James Pickens Jr. (Dr. Brennan took the reins and Twitter, you don’t really Richard Webber) has high praise for George. from another alumnus, John know what to make of things, “What’s impressed me the most has been Dickerson (Col ’91), who left so Sunday shows are more his commitment to social causes,” Pickens to host CBS This Morning. important now than ever,” says. “He truly is ‘his brother’s keeper,’ Other UVA alumni working Hager says. “It’s truly the only whether it’s a political candidate that he on the show include longtime opportunity where we have feels strongly about, supporting the rights executive producer Mary an hour at the end/beginning of women and minorities, or just helping Hager (Col ’87) and frequent of the week to sit down and out a friend.” panelist Jamelle Bouie say, ‘OK, here’s what we think George is thrilled to remain deep in (Col ’09). are the most important things Shondaland—both portraying those as fa- Brennan joined CBS happening this week, and miliar as Ben Warren (“this guy who, in a lot in 2012 after working for here’s why you need to care of ways, is like me”) and making sure there’s Bloomberg Television and about them.’” CNBC for 10 years as an —Anna Katherine Clemmons

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Coach Boyle speaks with her team at a November game.

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earned her master’s degree in health FAMILY MATTERS policy and administration at University After 25 years of coaching, the highly regarded Boyle of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She played retires to focus on her daughter professionally overseas for three seasons then planned to enter the Peace Corps or B Y ANNA KATHERINE CLEMMONS work for the World Health Organization. But Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors his March, the UVA women’s years old, from a Senegalese orphanage in asked Boyle to join her staff as an assistant. basketball team advanced to 2014. Federal regulations have mandated “What spoke to me was Gail’s passion the second round of the NCAA that Boyle and Ngoty return to Senegal to and energy for her vision,” Boyle says. Tournament. It was the first finalize Ngoty’s adoption process, which “Really being able to be a mentor and Ttime in her seven-year tenure that head could take months or even years. help guide a program, and to help these coach Joanne Boyle had led them to the For Boyle, realizing she might need to young women attain and leave a legacy.” Big Dance. spend significant time away from Char- Six months in, she knew she had found Two days later, the 54-year-old coach lottesville meant retiring from a career her calling. Boyle spent nine years as announced her retirement due to a family she has loved at four schools for almost an assistant at Duke before accepting matter. half her life. the head-coaching job at the University A story in The Washington Post report- After playing basketball as a four-year of Richmond. She led the Spiders for ed that the family matter was related to the letterman at Duke University, where three seasons before becoming the head adoption of Boyle’s daughter, Ngoty, now 6 she earned a degree in economics, Boyle coach at the University of California, → MATT RILEY MATT

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“I’ve grown to know Jenny as a talented She basketball coach with a keen mind for the game,” said Sacramento Kings head coach Coaches Dave Joerger, when Boucek was hired in mid- → October. “Her ability to teach fundamentals Berkeley, where she guided the Bears and develop talent will serve as an asset for to the NCAA Tournament four times Kings our core of young players.” in six seasons. JENNY BOUCEK IS BLAZING At UVA, Boucek earned All-ACC second In 2011, Boyle arrived in Charlot- A TRAIL IN THE NBA team honors while helping lead the Wahoos tesville. In her first season, she led the to back-to-back regular season and tourna- team to a 25-11 record—their best one ment ACC championships and Elite Eight during her seven years at the helm. appearances in 1992 and 1993. But Boyle does not concentrate solely “She was a very intelligent player, very on records. intense, and she fueled our offense with “We’ve had great games, beating her defense,” says former UVA women’s top-five, top-ten teams in the country,” basketball coach Debbie Ryan. When Boucek Boyle says of her UVA tenure. “But for graduated in 1997, the WNBA had just begun. me, it has always been about the rela- She played one season for the Cleveland tionships with your players and staff.” Rockers before retiring because of a back Boyle’s players and fellow coaches injury. She became an assistant coach for highlighted the same qualities when the Washington Mystics, then the Miami talking about Boyle, describing how Sol. In 2007, she became head coach for the she carried herself on and off the court Sacramento Monarchs, becoming the first rather than the X’s and O’s. That in- person in WNBA history to serve as a player, cludes setting the example that family assistant coach and head coach. should come first. Boyle is a single Boucek then moved to the Seattle Storm, parent, and her devotion to her daughter and took over as head coach in 2015, a po- is clear. Despite her own health setbacks sition she held for two years before being over the years, and a strong coaching fired in August 2017. SACRAMENTO KINGS SACRAMENTO career, Boyle didn’t hesitate when de- Joerger called less than a week later and ciding what was best for her family. hen Jenny Boucek travels with hired her as a player development coach for “She’s really taught me the impor- the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, she the Kings, an evolving role that includes a tance of getting back up and brushing sometimes draws questions or variety of duties, from meeting with him yourself off after adversity,” player confusion. “I get asked a lot in to discuss leadership and player roles, to Aliyah Huland El (Educ ’18) says. “That Wthe elevator if I am on the training staff. And working with the assistants in practice on it’s not always how you got there or what when I say ‘coach’—and this is just general drills, particularly focusing on the Kings’ your particular circumstances are, but fans—it’s definitely a surprise,” says the offense. how you respond to them. She helped player development coach. “In the beginning she sat back and just me stay grounded in understanding Occasionally the questions lead to some- observed,” Kings All-Star forward Vince that everything is temporary, nothing thing positive, says Boucek, who is just one Carter says. “By the middle of the year, we lasts forever.” of two women coaching in the NBA—and one felt her opinion mattered. I’ve worked out And for Boyle, that also means a new of only three to have ever done it. with her, and she’s as qualified as any other path after coaching. She’s talked about Boucek (Educ ’97), who started working coach, any player development coach in this the possibility of doing work with her with the team in late September, says she league. She’s definitely showing and proving daughter in Africa and of finding ways knows the risks involved in breaking barriers. her worth.” to give back to the communities around “Any time you go outside of status quo, Boucek says she’s enjoying the process her, wherever that may be. it’s controversial and perceived as a risk,” she and focusing on the skills she brings to the “I know when I walk in the room and says. However, “as women get involved in team. “Most of these guys were raised by Joanne is there, I act better,” Miami different areas of business, of sports or areas women and not men, so there’s a different women’s basketball head coach Katie known to be taboo or risky, the fears that dynamic there that I think can be very Meier says. “You’re so impressed by were there start to go away and it becomes valuable and bring out a really noble side her that you’re more generous, you’re a more objective conversation.” of these young men. more patient. You feel like, ‘I’m with a Especially when those women are as “It’s been such a joy working with them; high-level person, I need to bring it!’ She experienced as Boucek, 44, who spent 18 they’ve been such gentlemen, above and wants to help others and do the most years as an assistant and head coach in the beyond what I would’ve expected.” she can with her time on this Earth.” WNBA before joining the NBA. —Anna Katherine Clemmons

58 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 When DeSorbo arrived in Charlottesville last August with his staff, they immediately worked to get to know the athletes and learn about their interests outside the pool. “We trusted him 100 percent from the beginning,” fourth-year swimmer CeCe Williams (Col ’18) says. DeSorbo’s style emphasizes fun, relationship building and being true to yourself, and he frequently has his team loose and laughing. Simultaneously, he commands dedication to all aspects of student-athlete life. While he and his staff have continued UVA swimming’s traditions, including jumping into the hot tub if they win and singing “The

MATT RILEY MATT Good Old Song,” they’ve also established their own. Before each home meet, the men’s and women’s teams gather in a large room Happy Swimmers, adjacent to the pool. Turning the lights off and using speakers with attached strobe Fast Swimmers lights, the swimmers and coaches blast upbeat music, dancing and singing together. NEW COACH EMPHASIZES HARD WORK Then the coaches give a motivational speech. —AND FUN—AND BRINGS SUCCESS “[Those speeches] definitely make us swim fast,” Williams says. “In the past, it’s arly this season, new UVA swim- The team adopted that mantra—and been very stressful, but now it’s just fun.” ming and diving head coach Todd several of DeSorbo’s other phrases of inspi- That environment has produced not DeSorbo summed up the commitment ration, including “reckless abandon”—and only great team results but also individual he desired from his athletes in a two- has achieved impressive results. records this season. Caitlin Cooper (Col Eword mantra: “All day.” This was DeSorbo’s first season at Virginia ’18) also won the 50m freestyle at the ACC “If they want to be elite and perform at and first as a head coach, having spent six Championships, setting a meet record, and a certain level, they have to think about it seasons as an associate head coach at N.C. was a member of the first-place 200m free- all day, not just during those two hours in State. Still, he led the UVA women’s team style relay team at the tournament. the pool,” DeSorbo says. “They have to eat to its 10th ACC Championship in 11 years “A happy swimmer is a fast swimmer, they right, hydrate, recover, do well in school, (redemption for last year’s conference title always say, and that’s been really evident this make good decisions. You have to act like a loss to the Wolfpack) and to an impressive year,” Cooper says. “I know I’ve had the most champion in life before you can be a cham- 9th-place finish at the NCAAs in mid-March, fun I’ve had in my past four years at UVA.” pion in the pool.” besting a 12th-place finish last year. —Anna Katherine Clemmons

“When I started at UVA, we in 2014 and helped her team didn’t have nearly the success win the ACC regular season and TOP SINGLE that the men did,” Collins says. conference tournament titles. DANIELLE COLLINS IS HAVING “I’d go to Chipotle after a She underwent surgery that June A TREMENDOUS YEAR. match and I’d be in my tennis and earned a wildcard entry into After defeating top-ranked outfit, and someone would say to the U.S. Open two months later, players such as Venus Williams, me, ‘You know, the men’s team where she took Simona Halep— CoCo Vandeweghe and Madison is really good! They’ve won a then ranked No. 2 in the world—to Keys in major tournaments, as national championship!’ three sets before losing. well as winning the biggest title “So it feels pretty nice to be In her last year at UVA, Collins of her career at the WTA 125K the highest-ranked alum, male reclaimed the national champion- in January, Collins (Col ’16) or female.” ship singles title, becoming achieved her highest-ever ranking Collins had plenty to boast the seventh woman in NCAA in March: 45th in the world. about during her time in Char- history to win two national cham- It’s the highest singles ranking lottesville. Despite a wrist injury, pionship titles.

MATT RILEY MATT of any former UVA player. she won the NCAA singles title —Anna Katherine Clemmons

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Mike Leinbach (Arch ’76, Engr ’81) was a launch director at the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA ike Leinbach stood on the runway at 9 a.m., waiting for his crew to return. This was the best part of being a NASA launch director at the Kennedy LOOKING BACK Space Center. Days earlier, he’d been Mthe one to give the “Go!” that shot the space shuttle ON TRAGEDY Columbia and its seven-member crew into orbit. On this Saturday morning, Feb. 1, 2003, his only In new book, alum details the job was to welcome them home. immense work of bringing space An hour earlier, he’d listened as the Columbia shuttle Columbia home re-entered the earth’s atmosphere on time with no problems. It should be bursting through the BY DENISE M. WATSON Florida sky around 9:12 with two thunderous → BILL INGALLS/GETTY

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Mike Leinbach (far left) inspects a piece of the Columbia’s wreckage alongside veteran astronauts Jim Lovell and Wally Schirra.

claps—the telltale double sonic booms. during its descent. He’d also help examine at NASA in 1984. He worked as a struc- Leinbach listened. No thunder. Over the wreckage to determine what caused tural engineer and became a NASA test loudspeakers, he could hear Mission the fatal ending. director after the explosion of the shuttle Control in Houston repeatedly call Leinbach and others at NASA would Challenger in 1986. Columbia’s crew: also witness the best of the human spirit In his position, Leinbach got to know “Columbia, Houston. Comm check. during the process. More than 25,000 the astronauts; it was by design. After the Columbia, Houston. Comm check.” people—paid workers and volunteers— Challenger explosion, NASA mandated The runway countdown clock ticked would work on the recovery mission. Two more training in Florida for the astro- off its last seconds. My God, Leinbach men died when their helicopter crashed nauts. Leinbach and his wife, Charlotte, thought. What happened to the Columbia during one of their searches. entertained them at their house. and his friends? Leinbach always knew he had a book He became particularly close with Ilan about NASA’s work with the Columbia, Ramon, the son of a Holocaust survivor and einbach (Arch ’76, Engr ’81) and but “it was obvious that when we started the first Israeli in space. They joked about writer Jonathan Ward this January to write the book, there was a huge story the “anything-but-kosher” barbecued L released the book Bringing Colum- out in Texas, frankly, and its people.” smoked sausages at one of their dinners. bia Home to mark the 15th anniversary Leinbach grew up wanting to design But Leinbach couldn’t think about of the loss of the Columbia and its seven and build things, but he was always in- those memories on that February astronauts. terested in space. When he was 8, his morning. He raced to a meeting to figure That February morning and the family was on a road trip from its home in out what had happened to Ramon and the months that followed would be some Northern Virginia to Pennsylvania. Near rest of the crew. of the most tense, most heartbreaking Gettysburg, Leinbach’s dad stopped on and most fulfilling of Leinbach’s 27-year the roadside and cranked up the radio. hile Leinbach and his career with NASA. He would help run They listened to the broadcast as America staff met, residents of east the mammoth effort to find the crew’s launched its first man into space, Alan W Texas—in another time remains and collect the tens of thousands Shepard, in the Mercury spacecraft. zone—were hit by sound waves. of pieces of the shuttle that rained on Leinbach studied architecture and Houses shook, waking people from Texas and Louisiana as it broke apart engineering at UVA and started working their sleep. One person thought a nuclear

62 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 We had a group of people wanting to be ‘‘ a part of this [tragedy].” —Larry Ostarly bomb had hit New Orleans, five hours That Sunday, he helped Leinbach or- s parts of the shuttle were found away. Maybe the war was coming to the ganize the chaos. and brought in, they were reas- U.S.; America was just weeks away from A special team had the task of recov- A sembled in a hangar at Barks- invading Iraq. ering the crew. Mango and NASA consid- dale. The NASA team tried to fit the pieces One man swore it was the end of time. ered the safety of people on the ground. together as much as possible to solve the Few knew that Columbia had been Remarkably, no one had been hit by the mystery of the disaster. About 38 percent flying 230,000 feet above at 15,500 miles debris. But some of Columbia’s tanks of the shuttle was eventually recovered. per hour. contained dangerous propellants. The Ostarly would walk through the hangar Because of the shuttle’s speed, every shuttle contained small explosives that every couple of days. piece of debris produced a sonic bomb as could be used, for example, to blow open “Some pieces were round and shiny, it fell over Texas—a constant rumble for doors in an emergency. and then you’d look at the landing gear 20 minutes as more than 84,000 pieces NASA and the Environmental Protec- and it looked like it had been rusting in fell along a 250-mile-long, 20-mile-wide tion Agency needed to find them before the swamp for 200 years,” he said. “The swath. the public touched them. most emotional I got was looking at all Local law enforcement posted officers Larry Ostarly was also part of the debris at Barksdale.” by each piece of debris, not knowing what Leinbach’s team. He was the civilian Leinbach headed back to Florida after else to do as news networks looped footage component, deputy program manager a couple of weeks to help figure out what of fireballs screaming through the sky. for United Space Alliance, which handled had happened to Columbia. Months of Leinbach and his crew scrambled to the contractors for the shuttle program. investigation revealed that a piece of foam get to the scene as quickly as possible. Ostarly’s job in Texas was logistics. about the size of a briefcase had broken Treasure hunters grabbed some of the That Sunday morning, organizers realized off one of the fuel tanks. The lightweight shuttle’s shards and posted them on eBay. that search parties needed handheld GPS material flying at high speed knocked off As the FBI converged on the scene, they systems to electronically tag each piece of a protective tile on the shuttle’s wing. shut down the hawkers. Meanwhile, one debris before it was moved. The coordi- Hot air then whooshed into a hole in family found an astronaut’s helmet in its nates were translated into push pins on a the wing, melting it from the inside out. yard. It would take 10 days to find remains map; Leinbach and others could see pat- The shuttle went into a spin and started of all of the crew. terns of what parts of Columbia fell where. to disintegrate. It is believed that the More than 100 federal and state agen- Ostarly’s people swarmed Walmarts and astronauts lost consciousness quickly. cies would swoop into the area. The small sporting goods stores to buy every portable towns had few motels and people were GPS system they could find. n 2004, Leinbach was awarded the sleeping in their cars. The Florida guys who’d flown in were prestigious Presidential Rank award, Leinbach and his NASA team arrived at not used to the cold and drizzly weather I which recognizes senior professionals Barksdale Air Force base in Louisiana late of an east Texas winter. Ostarly had to who demonstrate strength, integrity and Saturday night, checked into a rundown think about foul-weather gear. a commitment to public service. hotel and agreed to gather before sunrise. Then the community came through NASA flew successful shuttle missions He walked into his room that night in ways they never expected. until 2011, when the agency retired the and, out of habit, cut on the TV. The news A cellular phone company established program. Leinbach retired too. anchors were discussing the disaster. additional towers so that the search- Over the years, other books came out In the silence of the room, Leinbach ers would have better reception. The about the Columbia—most within a year recalls, he wept. Hemphill, Texas, VFW handled food: of the accident. Leinbach says he’d worked Residents of the town of 1,100 brought on an outline but admits he didn’t have d Mango, the assistant launch in chicken, cakes and salad and supplied the discipline to pull a book together. director, had flown into Barks- up to 60,000 meals for the first 12 days, Then he met the author Jonathan E dale with Leinbach and started at no cost to the government. Ward, who had written two books on on the debris recovery effort. He was And throughout the search, locals pro- NASA and its space programs. With numb. Mango had been at Kennedy and vided free bedrooms and washed search- him, Leinbach felt he could write a book monitoring Columbia’s approach. He saw ers’ clothes after a long day of tramping that would provide more context and the sensors in the left wing going haywire. through the woods. research—and tell a crucial part of Co- When he heard Houston resort to “It was a tragic thing, but it’s interesting lumbia’s story. an emergency channel to try to reach to see how people responded,” Ostarly “This was the opportunity to honor the Columbia crew, “I knew something said. “We had a group of people wanting those 25,000 people who worked to bring catastrophic had happened.” to be a part of this.” the Columbia and her crew home.”

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The Alumni Association co-sponsored a A Tom Tom Founders Festival event co- Tom Tom Founders Festival event April 13 sponsored by the Alumni Association, in downtown Charlottesville. The question- “From Today’s Alumni to Tomorrow’s and-answer format was introduced by the association’s president and CEO, Jenifer Leaders,” sought to inspire invited alumni Andrasko, and moderated by alumnus to share with the University their most Mark Brzezinski. From left are Andrasko, valuable gifts: their professional experience Brzezinski, Adib Choudhury (Com ’18), Josh Jaspers (Col ’18) and Kate McGinn and networks. (Com ’19). Student panelists described how they Mark Brzezinski, former U.S. ambassador to had benefited from World of Investing and Sweden, led the panel. International Relations, a J-term course designed by alumni. The course was conceived and taught by David Burke (Com ’88, Law ’93, Grad ’94), a founder and CEO of Makena Capital Management, with fellow Makena executives Mark Brzezinski (Law ’91) and Kia Ghorashi (Col ’09). These alumni took 12 students around the world to learn from billionaire investors, journalists, policymakers and portfolio managers. During the panel, students answered questions from Brzezinski—a former ambassador and National Security Council staffer—about the course’s transformational impact on their lives and career plans. Alumni Association President and CEO “We did learn a lot about finance, “[I learned] the importance of getting policy and government, but we also Jenifer Andrasko (Darden ’10) introduced to know people who will not only learned how to enter the workforce Brzezinski and concluded the program by inspire you to achieve great things and in the most positive way possible, encouraging attendees to find their own take risks with your career, but also which is with an open mind and understand what you can accomplish looking for the right people,” said ways to open their networks to young in life [by] not thinking small,” said panelist Adib Choudhury. alumni and students.—Jennifer McManamay panelist Kate McGinn.

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President’s Letter

population grew by 9.5 percent, while the number of minority undergraduates REFLECTIONS grew by 22.4 percent. These increases in diversity are important for all of our ON OUR UNIVERSITY students, because a more diverse UVA is a stronger UVA. Just as the UVA student experience has become more distinctive in recent years, the University has become more his will be my finalVirginia ring in a seamless way to give students a global. We have done this by sending Magazine column as pres- comprehensive, total advising experience. more of our students into the world and ident of the University of We recently opened the Dathel and by bringing more of the world to UVA. Virginia. My term will con- John Georges Student Center at UVA We launched a major in global studies clude on July 31, and UVA’s as a home for our advising program. that now allows students to choose one of ninth president, Jim Ryan Located on the second floor of Clemons four concentrations: global development; T(Law ’92), will take office the next day. Library, this center allows students to global public health; environments and Leadership transitions are natural ele- find academic, professional and personal sustainability; and security and justice. ments in the evolution of universities, advising resources together in one central We increased UVA’s offerings in global- and this reminds us that our University location. We have also enhanced the UVA and service-learning activities, which is stronger and more permanent than Career Center and created an Internship include study-abroad, J-term, embed- any individual leader. Over the years, Center to help students find their way to ded semesters, internships, research leaders will come and go; the University of meaningful vocations. and service. Virginia will endure. In another effort to further enhance For the first time ever, in the 2016-17 Just as the transition occurring this the student experience, four years ago we academic year, UVA had more than 3,000 summer is natural, it’s also natural for launched the Meriwether Lewis Institute students involved in education-abroad us, as a connected community of alumni, for Citizen Leadership, and today the activities around the world. faculty, staff, students and parents, to institute is going strong, with about 25 We created a Global Internships reflect on our years of collaboration and students enrolled each year. program to place UVA students in in- the many things that we have accom- In recent years, Lewis Fellows have ternships overseas, and we launched UVA plished together. made lasting marks on UVA. They de- London First and UVA Shanghai First In today’s hypercompetitive higher veloped the structure for an Honor Audit programs that allow first-year students to education environment, universities that Commission; they increased mentorship begin their undergraduate careers over- are timid in the face of change will wither opportunities for African-American stu- seas. We opened the UVA China Office in and die. UVA has changed in many ways dents; and they designed a new student Shanghai, and in recent years I have led since I took office in 2010, evolving and in- space at 1515 University Ave. major UVA delegations on two visits to novating over the years to better meet the As a result of our efforts to attract Asia and another visit to India. needs of our students, faculty, and staff. more underrepresented minority stu- In recognition of these and other UVA’s student experience—which was dents to UVA, our student population efforts, UVA received a 2015 Senator already recognized as one of the nation’s has grown more diverse. From 2012 to Paul Simon Award for Campus best, long before I arrived—has become 2017, enrollment of first-year minority Internationalization. UVA was one of more robust and distinctive than ever. In students increased by 38 percent; en- only five universities nationwide to win one example, we have wholly rejuvenat- rollment of first-year African-American the award. ed UVA’s student-advising program. We students increased by 41.5 percent; and UVA’s faculty has grown stronger call our new approach “Total Advising” enrollment of first-generation students in recent years. Facing a generational because it blends academic advising, increased by 42 percent. Between 2012 turnover as the baby boomer generation career counseling and personal mento- and 2017, the overall undergraduate steps down, we established a four-year →

UVAMAGAZINE.ORG 65 Your support has provided ‘‘ the margin schedule and funding methodology to of excellence This spring, we launched a recruit and retain talented faculty. Last that enables second commission—the President’s fall, UVA hired 103 new tenured and UVA to thrive. Commission on the University in the Age tenure-track faculty members, and this of Segregation. This new commission was one of the most diverse groups of will explore the period of segregation new faculty ever hired; 31 percent are between 1865 and 1965, and it will be part members of underrepresented minorities safest place in the country to work and of our ongoing effort to tell the full story and 32 percent are women. Aggressive to receive care. As a result of these and of the University’s history over the past hiring is continuing this year. other efforts, UVA’s hospital was named 200 years. To enhance faculty diversity and to the No. 1 hospital in Virginia by US News Perhaps the finest physical symbol supplement schools’ hiring activities, & World Report each of the past two years. of UVA’s recent enhancements is the re- we launched two strategic faculty hiring In the most recent rankings, six special- stored Rotunda. We began work to restore initiatives: cluster hires, and target-of- ties (ear, nose and throat; cancer; diabetes the Rotunda in 2012 and completed the opportunity searches, or TOPS. In a and endocrinology; cardiology and heart $50 million project in 2016. More than cluster hire, we recruit multiple faculty surgery; orthopedics; and urology) were a quarter-million visitors have passed members from across disciplines who rated among the top 50 nationally. Four through the Rotunda since its reopen- are working in an interdisciplinary field additional specialties (gastroenterology ing in September of that year. And the that has the potential for broad socie- and GI surgery; neurology and neuro- Rotunda is now serving as a center of tal impact. For example, we’ve made surgery; nephrology; and pulmonology) University activity, as Thomas Jefferson cluster hires in key areas such as global were rated among the top 10 percent na- intended when he created it. Students markets; biomedical data science; edu- tionally. Key factors in these rankings are come to the Rotunda to study, attend cation policy; youth violence prevention; quality and safety. classes, defend their dissertations, par- autism spectrum disorder; neuroscience; In 2016, we announced that UVA ticipate in meetings and lectures and hold and traumatic brain injury. would launch a research and education social events. The Rotunda, once again, is With TOPS searches, we focus on partnership with Inova Health System in the heart of the University. high-profile researchers and scholars Northern Virginia. The relationship in- None of the achievements that I have whom we would like to recruit to UVA, cludes a research partnership to develop described here could have occurred even if faculty openings are not available at a Global Genomics and Bioinformatics without the commitment of our faculty that moment in that particular field.TOPS Research Institute at the Inova Center and staff, without the excellent work of hires have brought us new star faculty, in- for Personalized Health; a cancer- our students and without the dedication cluding, for example, Jayakrishna Ambati, research partnership; and a regional of alumni, parents and friends—those one of the world’s leading researchers in campus of the UVA School of Medicine of you who support the University with macular degeneration. on the Inova campus. your time, your talents and your gifts. As the faculty has grown stronger and As UVA has evolved in so many ways, Your support has grown stronger year by more diverse, UVA has enhanced its re- and as we began to celebrate the school’s year: Philanthropic cash flow increased search enterprise. Since fiscal year 2013, bicentennial in 2017, as a community we from $203.8 million in fiscal year 2010 UVA’s sponsored research has grown have become more open to exploring the to $283.4 million in fiscal year 2017. We more than 31 percent, with total awards University’s past, including the uncom- live in a period of constrained financial of $372 million in fiscal year 2017; this fortable parts of our history. In 2013, I support for public universities, and in represents 10 percent growth from the formed the President’s Commission on this context of constraint, your support prior year. We reshaped our Licensing Slavery and the University. As a result of has provided the margin of excellence and Ventures Group to accelerate com- the commission’s diligent work, we estab- that enables UVA to thrive. mercialization of faculty research. In lished a nationwide consortium named So my final words, in this final column, 2017, the LVG executed 204 invention Universities Studying Slavery, which now in the final months of my presidency, are disclosures and 81 commercial transac- has 35 institutions working together on thank you. For your steadfast support tions and was awarded 43 U.S. patents— research and commemoration projects. over the years, for your many acts of kind- the highest numbers in UVA history. The Board of Visitors has approved plans ness and friendship, and for your commit- UVA Health System has seen remark- for a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers to ment to the University that we cherish able improvements in recent years. We be built at UVA, and two of our buildings, so dearly, I will always remain grateful. introduced the Be Safe initiative with the Gibbons Hall and Skipwith Hall, are now goal of making UVA Health System the named for enslaved laborers.

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JUNE 7-9 CLASSES OF 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 AND 2014 SAVE THE DATE UVA REUNIONS ClassNotes At UVA Reunions, you’ll reconnect with your friends and the University through class events, seminars, receptions, tours and much more! Visit virginiareunions.com for more ’60s Frederick L. Greene (Col ’66, Med information about your reunion! ’70 L/M) was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the Southeastern Surgical Congress. Greene is a surgical oncologist in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is also a medical director at the Levine Cancer Institute, and he currently serves as 2019 president of the UVA Medical School MAY 30-JUNE 2 Foundation. CLASSES OF 1959, Suzanne Smith Henley (Grad ’68) published Bead by Bead: The Ancient Way SOUTH BY 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, of Praying Made New (Paraclete Press). 1984 AND TJ SOCIETY Aimed at all faith traditions, the book SOUTHWAHOOS presents a creative way to pray for those BURKARDT SAMANTHA who seek a more intimate experience with God. or music and film aficionados and lovers of all things techy, Austin, Texas, is the go-to location each spring—home of the South by Southwest Conference. JUNE 7-9 Better known as “South by” or (in writing) SXSW, this year’s weeklong CLASSES OF 1989, series of overlapping festivals featured more than 24 tracks of programming Fand almost 200 speakers. Keynotes ranged from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and writer 1994, 1999, 2004, ’70s Ta-Nehisi Coates to philanthropist Melinda Gates and Sadiq Khan, mayor of London. 2009 AND 2014 Frank B. Connolly (Arch ’72) has pub- Several UVA alumni joined the workshop lineup, including Dominique Oliver lished a second book, Hidden Agendas (Col ’08), speaking on “Data-Driven Fashion Design in Brazil.” Oliver is CEO and Inside Town Hall. The novel follows the founder of Amaro, which he calls a “digitally native direct-to-consumer” fashion fighting and political shenanigans that brand launched in Brazil in 2012. take place in an imaginary Connecticut Other alumni who were to speak at SXSW 2018 included: community as it struggles with a proposed land development. Connolly’s > Caroline Barton (Com ’17 L/M), > Domenic Puzio book Local Government in Connecticut, on “Think Like a Startup: How (Col ’15) on “Become a Machine 3rd Edition, was published in 2013 by Innovation Gets Done” Learning Expert in Under an Wesleyan University Press and won the > Peter Davidson Hour” press’s 2013 Driftless Award for an out- (Law ’90) on “Discussing > Colin Rushing (Law ’99) on standing book on a Connecticut topic or Today’s Evolving Data Policy” “The Future of Mechanical written by a Connecticut author. > Imani Gandy (Law ’01) on Licensing in the U.S.” “Handmaid’s Tale IRL, What If > Jennifer Sanders (Col ’04 L/M) Tom Riley (Col ’72 L/M) retired in Roe Were to Go?” on “Smart Cities, Experiences, March 2018 from the University of Mary > Tom Goetz (Grad ’94) on Solutions and Plans” Washington, where he served as director “Default=Health: How Tech Can > Perry Tarrant, who earned a of student health and as university Refactor Modern Life” graduate certificate in criminal physician for 11 years. Previously, he > Ivana Kirkbride (Com ’98) on justice from the School of Con- was a board-certified family physician “New Formats in Streaming for tinuing and Professional Studies, in private practice at Midlothian Family Mobile-First Generation” on “Using Tech to Improve Practice. He and his son Morgan Riley Police-Community Relations” (Law ’12), live in Midlothian, Virginia. → —Diane J. McDougall

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Mike Widener (Col ’72 L/M) published Joint Tenancies: Property Leasing in Cannabis Commerce (ABA Book Publishing), an analytical look at the landlord-tenant relationship in regard to Creating more the marijuana industry. Widener published two dozen articles in academic and trade journals while adjunct profes- confidence in your future… sor at Arizona Summit Law School and Because you have aspirations that are important, we can while serving as of counsel at Bonnett, Fairbourn, Friedman & Balint. This is his help devise a personal plan toward a brilliant life. second book. Widener is a member of the Arizona State Liquor Board and Specializing in a zoning adjustment hearing officer University of Virginia benefits: in Phoenix.

OakHeart Financial Group Don Zillman (Law ’73) published two A private wealth advisory practice of books. He co-wrote Living the World War, Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Vol. Two (Vandeplas Publishers), which 941 Glenwood Station Lane, Suite 203 Charlottesville, VA 22901 is a week-by-week study of America’s 434.220.4671 participation in World War I using [email protected] sources like The New York Times and the Congressional Record. He was also an The Compass is a trademark of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. editor of Innovation in Energy Law and Investment advisory products and services are made available through Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., a registered investment adviser. Technology (Oxford University Press), Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., Member FINRA and SIPC. in which 37 legal scholars examine the © 2017 Ameriprise Financial, Inc., All rights reserved. technological and legal changes that are driving the world economy.

Christopher Goff (Col ’74 L/M) retired as senior vice president and general counsel of HarperCollins Publishers in New York after 28 years. After graduating from the University, he The Mystic Order of Eli Banana received his law degree from Harvard welcomes its new members for 2017-18 Law School.

Trevor Adams – Cleveland, OH Will Lincoln – McLean, VA Jason H. Silverman (Col ’74 L/M) re- Grant Anhorn – Houston, TX Quinn Lyerly – Arlington, VA ceived the Order of the Silver Crescent, Jake Bak – Tampa, FL Carter McGhee – Richmond, VA the state’s highest civilian award, Andrew Bell – Austin, TX Peter Millspaugh – Bethesda, MD from the governor of South Carolina. Drew Butler – Alexandria, VA Brendan Reilly – New York, NY Silverman retired in December 2017 as Charlie Caravati – Richmond, VA William Rodriguez – Atlanta, GA the Ellison Capers Palmer Jr. Professor Chester Collins – Washington, D.C. Jack Royer – Villanova, PA of History at Winthrop University Jack Cooke – Richmond, VA John Ruppert – Birmingham, AL after teaching there for more than 33 Tim Crosby – Nashville, TN Alexander Silliman – Atlanta, GA years. Prior to that he taught at Yale Nathan Cross – Richmond, VA Sam Sobell – Houston, TX University. His recent book, Lincoln and Doak Dozier – Fort Worth, TX Will Trotter – Lafayette, LA the Immigrant (Concise Lincoln Library), James Dudzik – Greenwich, CT Nic Tuzinkiewicz – Darrien, CT received the Immigrants’ Civil War Griffin Forsyth Virginia– Beach, VA Robert Weiner – Tampa, FL Award. Jack Furr – Norfolk, VA Lazare Zoungrana – New Rochelle, NY Reid Harris – Richmond, VA Michael Guthrie (Educ ’75, ’76 L/M) Kris Jain – Richmond, VA received the President’s Award from the Leading Real Estate Companies of Peyton Thomasson – Lynchburg, VA the World, a global community of more 2017-18 Grand Banana than 565 independent real estate firms, on Feb. 16, 2018. The award is given to individuals who consistently serve the organization. Guthrie is the CEO of Roy Wheeler Realty in Charlottesville.

72 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 Sharon Pywell (Col ’75) published The received the Georgetown University has also been re-elected to serve a third Romance Reader’s Guide to Life (Flatiron Silver Vicennial Medal on April 5, 2018, term as a trustee of Oak Park Township. Press)—a novel about romances and in recognition of his 20 years of service what they can do to you if you’re not to Georgetown University as an adjunct careful—in April 2018. professor of law. He has taught courses Bunny Camp Gibbons (Col ’83 L/M) on such topics as global cybercrime law, has joined Virginia Real Estate Partners, C. David Hein (Col ’76, Grad ’82 L/M) trial practice and the questioning of wit- the Charlottesville real estate firm of joined the George C. Marshall Foundation nesses. Rusch continues to work at Wells Sally Peters Du Bose (Educ ’81 L/M). in Lexington, Virginia, as a senior fellow. Fargo in Washington, D.C., as senior vice A Charlottesville native, Gibbons is a He was previously a professor at Hood president and head of antibribery and member of the Reunion Networking College in Frederick, Maryland. His books corruption governance. Committee for the class of 1983 and include Noble Powell and the Episcopal rarely misses a home basketball game. Establishment in the Twentieth Century Drew Krecicki (Arch ’79 L/M) received (University of Illinois Press), the account Florida’s 2018 Citizen Architect Award in Shawn Rayder (Col ’83 L/M) was named of a beloved figure at the University Tallahassee on Jan. 17, 2018. The award, a top doctor in New Hampshire by New of Virginia. which recognized his contributions to Hampshire Magazine for the fourth con- both the community and the architec- secutive year. Rayder is chief of radiology Lawrence “Larry” Roberts (Col ’78 L/M) tural profession, was made more special at Seacoast Radiology in Rochester, New is serving as chief of staff to Virginia Lt. by the inclusion of a portrait of Thomas Hampshire. He specializes in pediatric Gov. Justin Fairfax. He chaired Fairfax’s Jefferson and the Rotunda. and interventional radiology and has successful 2017 campaign while also worked on the coast of New Hampshire serving as a partner at the law firm for 12 years. He and his wife, Holly, live in Venable. In 2017, Roberts received Hampton, New Hampshire, with their two Venable’s Pro Bono Attorney of the Year children and three dogs. and the Federal Communications Bar ’80s Association’s Distinguished Service Eric Davis (Arch ’83 L/M) has been Louise Phipps Senft (Col ’83 L/M) of Award, and he was named a 2017 Virginia appointed deputy director of the Cook Baltimore Mediation has been invited Leader in the Law by Virginia Lawyers County Department of Capital Planning into and named a distinguished fellow of Weekly. He splits his time between and Policy. He oversees the county’s the International Academy of Mediators, Richmond and Tysons Corner. public safety facilities portfolio, including a provider of commercial mediation the nation’s largest single-site jail and its services. The induction ceremony took Jonathan Rusch (Grad ’78, Law ’80) second-largest unified court system. He place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May.

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Additionally, Phipps Senft received (Engr ’84 L/M), is a senior flight test Maria Leonard Olsen (Law ’88) will the 2018 Chief Judge Robert M. Bell engineer and test director at Kitty publish 50 After 50—Reframing the Award for Outstanding Contribution Hawk in Mountain View, California, and Next Chapter of Your Life (Rowman to Alternative Dispute Resolution in Tekapo, New Zealand. In October 2017 & Littlefield) in June 2018. The book Maryland, which is given annually by they opened North Shore Lookout on follows 50 new things Olsen tried after the Alternative Dispute Resolution Maui, a boutique bed-and-breakfast. turning 50, from physical challenges to Section of the Maryland State Bar lifestyle changes, and shows readers in Association. Rob Buchsbaum (Col ’86 L/M) has that same chapter of life how to make been appointed by the engineering firm their own action lists. Olsen practices David Mott (Col ’84 L/M) returned AECOM as principal for real estate law in the Washington, D.C., area, where to Charlottesville after 20 years as a economics for the Northeast U.S. His re- she is a WPFW radio show host, writing- Dominican friar and now serves as a sponsibilities include advising clients on retreat leader and mentor to women in parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas “brownfields” (environmentally contam- recovery. University Parish, serving the UVA inated sites), special-use facilities and Catholic community. the repositioning of corporate portfolios. Sonja Hoel Perkins (Com ’88 L/M) In this new role, Buchsbaum will provide was honored by Legal Momentum Mark Scharf (Grad ’84 L/M) received strategic oversight and direction for with the Women of Achievement a 2018 Maryland State Arts Council clients’ real estate redevelopment and Award. Formerly the Women’s Legal Individual Artist Award in Playwriting positioning activities in the region. Defense Fund, Legal Momentum is a for his play The Monroe Doctrine. nonprofit that protects the legal rights Another play, The Quickening, has its Leslie Gillin Bohner (Col ’87) has been of woman and girls. Perkins is manag- world premiere in Baltimore on June promoted to executive vice president at ing director of The Perkins Fund and 8, 2018, as a co-production of The Pennsylvania Trust. She remains chief founded both the investment group Collaborative Theatre Company and fiduciary officer and is assuming the Broadway Angels and the nonprofit Fells Point Corner Theatre. title of general counsel. In her new role, Project Glimmer. Bohner is responsible for managing all Jon R. Wiener (Grad ’84 L/M) has fiduciary and legal matters across the Neva Bryan (Col ’89 L/M) is among been appointed dean of Allied Health company, coordinating with outside the poets, essayists and fiction writers at Asheville-Buncombe Technical counsel, reviewing legal agreements, published in the 2018 volume of the Community College in Asheville, North and providing legal advice to the Anthology of Appalachian Writers. This Carolina, where he previously served as management team. She has been with year’s volume includes the work of two associate dean. In this position, he will Pennsylvania Trust since 2011. state poet laureates. Bryan is the author oversee 11 programs, more than 800 of three novels and a collection of short students and 120 faculty in a variety of T.J. Cawley (Com ’87 L/M) was stories and poems. programs. Wiener teaches microbiology elected mayor of Morrisville, North and also teaches martial arts, having Carolina, for a four-year term that Christina Villafaña Dalcher (Col ’89) earned a 5th-degree black belt in karate began in December 2017. He served as will publish her first novel, VOX (Berkley and senior tai chi instructor status. Prior a Morrisville Town Council member for Books, Penguin Random House), in to his time at the community college, four years. Cawley and his wife, Kathy August. VOX imagines a world where Wiener was an associate professor at Sheehan Cawley (Col ’86 L/M), and women are allowed to speak only 100 the University of Texas M.D. Anderson their three children enjoy supporting words a day. It also examines lan- Cancer Center, as well as assistant dean Virginia athletic teams when they guage as the basis of our humanity and of academic affairs at the University of compete against the many ACC rivals in freedom of speech as a right to Texas Graduate School of Biomedical the Triangle area. be treasured. Sciences in Houston. Brian K. Matney (Col ’87 L/M) was John Gill (Col ’85 L/M) was recognized recently named director of secondary by Forbes, Barron’s and the Financial education for the Mecklenburg County ’90s Times for his expertise as a financial Public Schools and to the board of adviser working with individuals, high directors for the Virginia Foundation Ashley Ellington Brown (Col ’90) net worth families and institutions. Gill for Educational Leadership. Through published her first book, A Beautiful is a financial adviser with BB&T Scott & June 30, 2018, he also continues his Morning: How a Morning Ritual Can Feed Stringfellow. work in a second two-year term on Your Soul and Transform Your Life (Leo the Governor’s Standards of Learning Press), on Feb. 22, 2018. Brown inter- Dina Huml Hyde (Col ’85 L/M) became Reform and Innovation Committee. He viewed more than 20 successful women, the director of civil and interna- and his wife, Kathryn, have two sons: including New York Times best-selling tional space business development Will, a college sophomore, and J.T., a author and life coach Martha Beck. at Raytheon’s Space and Airborne high-school junior. The women discuss how their morning Systems business unit in El Segundo, routines enable them to steer their lives California. Her husband, David C. Hyde with purpose and experience more joy,

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76 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 negotiator on state budget matters with John Kraljevich (Col ’99 L/M) is running the state Senate and Gov. Jerry Brown’s as the Democratic nominee for the South administration. Previously, Jason served Carolina House District 26, which includes ’00s for 12 years at the California Legislative his town of Fort Mill. He is the owner of Heather Wood (Grad ’00 L/M) joined Analyst’s Office, most recently as chief John Kraljevich Americana, specializing in the Virginia Beach office of Dewberry as deputy legislative analyst. early American historical artifacts, and is a business development director for the a consultant to the Newman Numismatic firm’s ports and intermodal division in Chris W. Altenbernd (Law ’98) has Portal at Washington University of St. the southeast and mid-Atlantic regions. joined the firm Banker Lopez Gassler, Louis. He previously served on the senior In her new role, she is responsible for the returning to practice with many of the staff of a congressional campaign for growth and development of the firm’s attorneys with whom he started his South Carolina’s 5th District. ports and intermodal clients across the career in 1975. After starting and running two regions. one of Florida’s first appellate groups, Jillian Adler Thomadsen (Com ’99) he was appointed by Gov. Bob Martinez published her first book, All the Hidden Caitlin L. Ryan (Col ’01 L/M) has pub- to an appellate judgeship on Florida’s Pieces, on April 21, 2018. The book is lished Reading the Rainbow: LGBTQ- Second District Court of Appeal in 1989, a suspense novel about a family that Inclusive Literacy Instruction in the on which he served until 2016, including receives a mysterious phone call and Elementary Classroom (Teachers College some terms as chief judge. Having written suddenly disappears. Thomadsen has Press). Drawing on several years of more than 1,000 judicial opinions on a written for Sophisticated Living St. Louis, research by Ryan and her co-author, the wide array of legal issues, Altenbernd ADDitude Magazine, The Today Show book uses examples of teaching from a now handles a broad spectrum of Parenting, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and wide range of elementary classrooms to civil appeals, including complex torts, ScaryMommy. explain why and how LGBTQ-inclusive commercial and construction claims, literacy instruction is possible, relevant insurance coverage issues, domestic and necessary in grades K–5. Ryan is relations, and real estate. He is involved in associate professor of reading educa- the Tampa Bay community, where he has tion in the College of Education at East lived since 1975. Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

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Robert Griffin (Col ’02 L/M) was Jill Ackermann Dennehy (Col ’06) was Jennifer Bates Heath (Nurs ’08) and promoted to associate professor in the promoted to partner with the law firm Aaron Justin Heath welcomed their third department of atmospheric science at Kennedys (known as Kennedys CMK in child, Matilda Mae, on Dec. 20, 2017. the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the U.S.). Based in the firm’s Basking She joins two older brothers, Jackson where he leads interdisciplinary NASA Ridge, New Jersey, office, Dennehy Scott, 8, and Oliver Cage, 6. Though still applied sciences research programs. focuses on a broad range of insurance Virginians at heart, the family lives in Griffin is the son ofGordon Griffin (Arch coverage issues. She has been lead Denver, where Aaron is a supervisor in ’72 L/M). counsel on several significant insur- federal law enforcement and Jennifer ance coverage matters. A graduate of enjoys her job as a full-time mother of Molly Minturn (Col ’02) won the 2017 Villanova University School of Law, three. Fool for Poetry chapbook competition Dennehy is admitted to practice in both from the Munster Literature Centre New Jersey and New York and has been Rawleigh Taylor (Col ’08 L/M) has in Cork, Ireland. In February 2018 she with Kennedys since 2011. been named vice president of sales and traveled to Ireland and read at the Cork marketing for CSC Leasing Company International Poetry Festival, where Knetta Jones (Col ’06 L/M) married in Richmond, Virginia. He has been her chapbook of poems, Not in Heaven Timothy Adkins (Engr ’06 L/M) on April with CSC for seven years, before which (Southward Editions), was launched. 9, 2017, in Charlottesville. The Adkinses he worked as a business analyst for live in Birmingham, Alabama. Johnston Mclamb Case Solutions. He Matt Coleman (Col ’03, Darden ’11 L/M) is married to Polly Marshall Taylor (Col and his wife, Christine, had their first Catherine Donnellan Sanders (Col ’06 ’08); they have a son, Bruce, age 1. child, Alessia Raquel, on Nov. 8, 2017. L/M) and her husband, Kevin, welcomed The family lives in Bermuda, where Mr. their first child, George Donnellan M. James Faison (Law ’09) launched Coleman is a director at investment Sanders, on April 10, 2018. The family Milton’s Local, a brand of all-natural manager Nephila Climate, and Ms. lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where bacon and sausages, in Charlottesville- Coleman is the executive director of Sol Sanders is a pediatric pulmonologist. area Food Lion stores. Faison originally Sisters, Inc. pitched the idea for the company at Amie Seymour (Com ’06) has joined Charlottesville’s Tom Tom Founders Betsy Philpott (Col ’03) married Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida Festival in 2013. Milton’s Local was Rachel Mendelson on Sept. 30, 2017, as executive vice president and chief named for Faison’s grandfather, who was in Washington, D.C. Philpott was also technology officer. In these positions, a Virginia farmer. The brand has won promoted to deputy general counsel for she supports the company’s growing several awards, including some from the the Washington Nationals Baseball Club business by implementing its future Specialty Food Association, the Natural in January. state operating and digital distribution Products Association and Garden & Gun model across all business units. She also magazine. Ben Webne (Arch ’03) was promoted is responsible for the development and to associate vice president with the execution of the bank’s overall technolo- Ryan McEnroe (Arch ’09), an associate Washington, D.C., office of the architec- gy road map. with Quinn Evans Architects, has been ture and engineering firm HGA. Webne honored with the 2018 Young Architects is a project manager working with public Patrick Edwards (Col ’07) earned his Award, given by the American Institute and corporate clients. doctorate in systematic theology in of Architects. The award honors individ- December 2017. He lives with his wife, uals who have demonstrated exceptional Patricia Cooper (Col ’05, Law ’10 L/M) Teresa, and their two children, Aiden leadership and made significant contri- donated the right lobe of her liver to and Charlotte, in Warrensburg, Missouri, butions to the architecture profession her father, Dr. Wayne D. Cooper, at the where he serves as lead elder of First early in their careers. University of Maryland Medical Center Baptist Church. on Dec. 5, 2017. Dr. Cooper was suffering Brittney McClain Powell (Col ’09) has from end-stage liver disease, and Ms. Marissa Heigle Moore (Col ’07) and joined the Washington, D.C., office of Fox Cooper volunteered to serve as a donor, Jerome Moore (Engr ’07) welcomed a Rothschild as an associate in the firm’s as there was a low chance that he would third son on March 12, 2018. Donovan corporate department. She focuses on ever receive a cadaver donor from the Joseph Moore joins brothers Ashton, age international trade law and represents transplant list. They were hospitalized for 4, and Aidan, age 2. The family lives in clients in anti-dumping and countervail- one week and have recovered well. Ms. Dallas. ing duty proceedings such as investiga- Cooper lives in Miami, Florida, where she tions, scope-ruling requests and various is an immigration attorney at Gerstein Hayley Soltesz Blunden (Col ’08 L/M) reviews before the U.S. Department of & Gerstein Attorneys. Dr. Cooper lives and Karl Blunden (Col ’08 L/M) wel- Commerce and U.S. International Trade in McLean, Virginia. The Washington comed their second son, Truett Thomas, Commission. Post wrote about them. Dr. Cooper is the on March 30, 2018. His brother, Everett, father of two other UVA graduates, Ryan 20 months, is intrigued by his new Cooper (Col ’07) and Becky Cooper playmate. McDannel (Com ’11 L/M).

78 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 ’10s Joe Bailey (Law ’11) has been promoted to counsel at Perkins Coie, a law firm based in Seattle. He assists clients with complex transactions that advance a company’s strategic objectives. His practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities compliance for companies at all stages of the growth cycle, ranging from startups to large public companies.

Jennifer Ohashi (Col ’11 L/M) married David Goldberg (Col ’11 L/M) on Nov. 4, 2017, in Norfolk, Virginia. Ms. Goldberg is the interim director of health data an- alytics at the Office of Health Innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Dr. Goldberg is an internal medicine resident at VCU Health.

Alison Chin Travis (Col ’12, Educ ’16) has been selected by the National Geographic Society and Lindblad Expeditions as a 2018 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. In recognition of her commitment to geographic education, Travis will sail on a field expedition to the Galapagos Islands in September 2018. She hopes to return to her school with knowledge and media to connect classroom learning to real-world experiences. She teaches first grade and lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, Ben Travis (Com ’12).

Kelly Susan Whelan (Col ’13 L/M) married Bradley David Larkin (Col ’13) on Sept. 3, 2017, at the Church of the Resurrection in Rye, New York. The wedding party included many UVA alumni. The couple prayed with Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square and received his “sposi novelli” (newlywed) blessing on Oct. 11, 2017. The couple lives in New York City, where Ms. Larkin is an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Mr. Larkin is a student at Fordham University School of Law.

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& Gas Association. He also tients included notable figures Sampson’s final home game in served as the chairman of around Baltimore. Outside 1983. She was known to bake ’40s the Public Lands Committee of work, Dr. Wilson enjoyed especially good Christmas Thomas S. Yancey (Col ’40 of the Western Oil & Gas swimming in the Severn River cookies. Survivors include two L/M) of Denver, Colorado, Association from 1975 to and Chesapeake Bay, and children, five grandchildren died March 4, 2018. While at 1976, testifying twice before spending summers at Bembe and one great-grandchild. the University, Mr. Yancey was congressional committees in Beach. He also liked to sail a member of Phi Gamma Delta Washington, D.C. Mr. Yancey Hamptons and Mobjacks and Frances L. Yancey Robison fraternity and Sigma Delta was a director of the Denver was a member of the Severn (Nurs ’47) of Indian Harbour Phi, a national athletic frater- Petroleum Club from 1971 Sailing Association. A member Beach, Florida, died Feb. 20, nity. He lettered in both swim- to 1974. After his retirement of Baltimore Bibliophiles, he 2018. Born in Tallahassee, she ming and track and, in 1940, from Amoco in 1978, he owned some 40,000 volumes lived most of her life there won the gold medal in the became a petroleum consul- that encompassed his interest before moving to Indian javelin throw at the state track tant and was instrumental in in Maryland and Baltimore Harbour Beach in 2011. She meet in Richmond, where he negotiating a number of large- history, as well as Alaska, enjoyed hooking, sewing, also placed third in the discus scale sales of production. He Canada, Iceland, art, chil- arranging flowers and most of throw. He entered the U.S. was an avid golfer and fly fish- dren’s literature and medical all being a wife and mother. Army in February 1941, rising erman and a longtime member books. Interested in the arts, She belonged to the garden to the rank of captain in the of the Denver Country Club. he attended the Baltimore club and a sewing club. She field artillery while serving Survivors include a daughter, Symphony Orchestra, Center was known for her loyalty to in the European Theater a son, five grandchildren and Stage and the Lyric, and family and service to others. during World War II. He was eight great-grandchildren. he studied painting at the Survivors include six siblings, honorably discharged in 1946. Renaissance Institute at Notre four children, five grandchil- While working for Amoco and Henry B. “Harry” Wilson Dame of Maryland University. dren and six great grandchil- living in Casper, Wyoming, (Col ’43 L/M) of Parkville, He was an avid college and dren. Mr. Yancey was very active Maryland, died Jan. 28, 2018. professional sports fan. He in the community. He served At the University, where he was also known for his support Robert H. “Bob” Schade on various committees of the was known as Zeke, he was of local institutions like the (Com ’47 L/M) of Jacksonville, Chamber of Commerce, as a member of the Jefferson Baltimore Museum of Art, the Florida, died Jan. 16, 2018. chairman of the United Fund Literary and Debating Chesapeake Bay Foundation, After entering the University Drive twice, and as president Society and Phi Beta Kappa. the Boy and Girl Scouts, and in 1940, he enlisted in the U.S. of both the Kiwanis Club and He attended Johns Hopkins the Maryland Historical Army in 1943. He served in the the Casper Country Club. He University Medical School, Society. Survivors include five South Pacific during World was elected president of his where he also completed his daughters, two sons, 13 grand- War II and returned to the class when he graduated from internship and residency in children and five great-grand- University to finish his degree the Dale Carnegie Institute in ophthalmology. He enlisted children. before joining the Graybar 1962. Mr. Yancey was a charter in the U.S. Air Force, prac- Electric Co. There, he enjoyed member of the American ticing ophthalmology at Maxine Keck Leveque a rewarding career, moving Association of Professional Elmendorf Air Force Base (Nurs ’47) of Mechanicsville, into senior management in Landmen and served on its and Fort Richardson Army Virginia, died March 2, 2018. the late 1960s and leading board for four years, becom- Hospital in Anchorage, As a nurse, she worked at the company’s international ing its president in 1969. He Alaska, before he and his numerous hospitals, includ- expansion. His great love in was a dedicated landman, and wife returned to Baltimore ing Richmond Memorial life, after his family, was the the Denver Association of to establish a practice there. and those at UVA and Duke University of Virginia, and Professional Landmen named Dr. Wilson joined the staff University. She was an avid he served as a class agent for him Landman of the Year in of the old Maryland General reader, enjoyed displaying her the McIntire School for many 1969 before electing him to its Hospital and Church Home skills in bridge and in garden- years. Donations can be made Hall of Fame in 1984. He was and Hospital. He was known ing, the bounty of which she in his memory to the Robert active in oil industry affairs for providing free and low- shared with friends and family. H. Schade Bicentennial and served on the board of cost services and for visiting She was a garden volunteer Professorship at UVA. He is directors of both the North the local prison several days at the Lewis Ginter Botanical survived by his wife, Patricia; Dakota Oil & Gas Association a week. He retired in 1988. Garden. She was an avid UVA four children, including Curt and the Rocky Mountain Oil Through the years, his pa- basketball fan, attending Ralph Schade (Com ’80 L/M) and

80 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 community, participating in local politics and community | FEB. 26, 1928—DEC. 18, 2017 DAVID W. WEISS affairs. He served two terms on the board of education for Brewster Central School District and as a board Drama chair member of Putnam County Cooperative Extension. He built legacy, was a devoted member of the Rotary Club of Brewster guided students and a past governor for his district. His was one of the avid W. Weiss, longtime professor and founding families of Temple chair of the University’s drama depart- Beth Elohim in Brewster. In ment, died Dec. 18, 2017. addition to his wife, survivors A Wisconsin native, Weiss earned include two children and two Dhis bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the grandchildren. University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined the UVA faculty in 1954 and served for 37 years, including 16 as department chair. COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY At the helm during a significant period for the department, Weiss initiated several changes As a professor, he was known for his kindness ’50s that have made for a visible legacy on Grounds, and passion for theater. Mark Johnson (Col ’71) Robert R. Fair (Engr ’50 including the construction of the Drama Building met Weiss when Johnson joined the Virginia L/M) of Charlottesville died on Culbreth Road. Players as a first-year student. He realized he Feb. 9, 2018. He served in the “That building wouldn’t be standing there was not cut out for acting, but Weiss was there to U.S. Army during World War without David’s tenaciousness,” says Professor guide him toward other roles within production. II and received his Combat Emeritus LaVahn Hoh, who notes that the building “I’m not even sure what talents I showed at Infantry Badge, a Purple allowed for the creation of other programs, such that stage, but he knew … that theater was some- Heart for wounds sustained as the Heritage Repertory Theater, where Weiss thing I was really interested in, and he pointed me in the Alsace region of France served as founding producing director for 10 years. in the right direction,” says Johnson, who went on and two Bronze Stars. At the Heritage "helped put us on the map,” Hoh says. to win an Academy Award for producing Rain Man University, he was president of “People were saying we had the best theater in and also produced shows such as Breaking Bad. Sigma Chi fraternity and vice the Southeast.” That guidance has influenced Johnson to president of the senior class. Weiss, who also initiated the Master of Fine mentor others in the industry. “He went well above He was also a member of the Arts in Drama degree program, was known as a and beyond what was required" as a professor, Raven Society, Tau Beta Pi en- talented set and lighting designer. He designed Johnson says, “and I try to take that with me.” gineering society and Omicron or directed more than 200 productions at the Survivors include a daughter; a son, David Delta Kappa. He earned an University and also designed 18 outdoor dramas Weiss Jr. (Col ’82); two granddaughters; a MBA from Harvard Business around the country. great-granddaughter; and a sister. —Sarah Poole School in 1952. He worked for Westinghouse in western Pennsylvania and in 1964 returned to Charlottesville to Meredith Schade (Med ’84 administration from Union Chimneys: Connecting Children direct management pro- L/M); 13 grandchildren, in- Institute & University in and Animals to Create Hope, grams at the Darden School cluding Christopher Schade Vermont. At age 19, Mr. Ross chronicles the origins of Green of Business. While at UVA, (Com ’15 L/M), Emily Schade founded Green Chimneys, Chimneys. Mr. Ross held an he served as president of (Com ’16 L/M) and Harlan which began as a small private honorary doctorate from the Colonnade Club, faculty Schade (Com ’20 L/M); and school and developed into a Salem College and countless adviser to the Sigma Chi fra- one great-grandchild. nonprofit school and multi- honors and accolades from ternity and associate dean for service agency for children national and international MBA education at the Darden Samuel B. “Rollo” Ross Jr. and adolescents with special humanitarian, advocacy and School. After his retirement (Col ’48 L/M) of Brewster, needs. He and his wife, Myra, education organizations for in 1996, he served as president New York, died Feb. 28, 2018. were married in 1954 and his work in children’s services, of the 100th Infantry Division At the University, he was a worked very closely together. humane education and public Association, president of the member of the track and field Mr. Ross was recognized as a service. He also served on the Retired Faculty Association team. He went on to earn leader and innovator in thera- board of the Hole in the Wall and a member of Sigma Chi’s his master’s degree in early peutic education and treat- Gang Camp, the first of Paul house corporation. He was childhood education from ment for children with special Newman’s camps for children proudest to receive the Order New York University and his needs. His memoir, The with life-threatening illness- of Constantine, awarded to doctorate in human services Extraordinary Spirit of Green es. Mr. Ross was active in the Sigma Chi alumni for long and

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distinguished service to the Korean War. At the University, he produced scholarly work Virginia, for 34 years. Dr. Neal fraternity. He enthusiastically he was a member of Sigma on the U.S. Supreme Court. was a member of the American supported the Cavaliers in Phi Epsilon fraternity, and he While serving as Democratic Academy of Dermatology, football and basketball until later served for many years county chair, he agreed to run Medical Society of Virginia his death. Survivors include on the Jefferson Scholars for a seat in the U.S. Congress and Newport News Medical his wife, Camilla; a daugh- Committee. Mr. Lewis often in the 1964 election and Society. In the community, ter, Ann Rutherford Fair spoke of Seal, the unofficial won in an upset victory. Mr. he served on the boards of Burns (Arch ’82 L/M); a son; mascot of the University’s Schmidhauser was partic- the Peninsula YMCA and two granddaughters; and a football team, and of driving ularly proud of sponsoring the Virginia Living Museum. great-grandson. Seal to his final resting place bills to improve worker safety He was passionate about his in his antique hearse. He was and for passage of Great medical practice, gardening, Evan H. “Doc” Ashby (Med a stockbroker for more than Society legislation. He served traveling, reading and taking ’51) of Fancy Gap, Virginia, 50 years and lived in Berwyn, in Congress until January long walks at the Outer Banks. died Feb. 14, 2018. He served Pennsylvania, for 42. Mr. 1967, when he returned to the A master gardener, he sowed in the U.S. Army during Lewis loved sailing on the University of Iowa. In 1973, the seeds of brilliant yellow World War II. He attended Chesapeake and restoring he began a 19-year career as coreopsis along the Noland Randolph Macon College antique cars and boats, and he chair of the political science Trail at the Mariners’ Museum before attending medical was a founder and member of department at the University and Park to brighten the walk school at the University. Dr. several antique automobile of Southern California, for many years. He was known Ashby then practiced family and boating clubs. Survivors where he won several faculty as a kind, patient and loving medicine in Remington, include his wife, Nancy; and and research awards. After husband, father and grand- Virginia, where he attended five children. retiring from USC in 1992, Mr. father. Survivors include his the births of more than 1,600 Schmidhauser taught political wife, Frances; two children, babies. He also served on the Marianna Howard Parrish science at the University of Georgeanna Jennett Neal Remington Town Council and (Educ ’52 L/M) of Fairfax, California, Santa Barbara. (Col ’87 L/M) and Randolph as the town’s mayor, and he Virginia, died March 9, 2018. He remained active in local Voss Neal (Col ’88 L/M); and was elected to the Fauquier She earned her undergraduate causes, writing editorials five grandchildren, including County Board of Supervisors. degree from James Madison for the local newspaper Lillie Jennett Neal (Educ ’19) He served as chief of staff of University before earning and working to preserve and Voss Marion Neal (Engr the Fauquier Hospital in 1968 her master’s degree from the Carpinteria’s coastal bluffs. He ’22). and as medical adviser for University. She had a distin- also enjoyed gardening, swim- Fauquier High School athletic guished teaching career with ming in the ocean, playing Robert Pogue (Com ’56 L/M) teams from 1963 to 1969. In Fairfax County and Arlington French horn in the communi- of Richmond, Virginia, died 1969, Dr. Ashby was named County Public Schools. ty orchestra, volunteering for Feb. 17, 2018. At the University, director of medical services at the town library and having he played for the varsity foot- Appalachian State University John Richard family gatherings. Survivors ball team and was a member in North Carolina, where Schmidhauser (Grad ’52, include his wife, Thelma of Sigma Alpha Epsilon he never missed a football ’54 L/M) of Santa Barbara, Ficker Schmidhauser (Grad fraternity and Eli Banana. He game. He remained a profes- California, died Feb. 21, 2018. ’54); seven children; five served as a lieutenant in sor emeritus there after his He served in the U.S. Navy grandchildren; and one great- the U.S. Army in Korea retirement in 1991, then was during World War II and was grandchild. before spending 39 years a medical examiner in North a member of the occupying with Northwestern Mutual Carolina and Virginia until his force in Japan following Berryman Voss Neal (Med Life Insurance Co. He was a 85th birthday. He served on V-J Day. He later attended ’55, Res ’61) of Williamsburg, general agent of Virginia and the rescue squads of several the University of Delaware Virginia, died Jan. 4, 2018. served as president of many communities and, after retir- before earning his master’s He attended Washington and professional associations and ing to Fancy Gap, became a and doctoral degrees from Lee University before earning boards; he also co-founded a member of the local volunteer UVA, where he was a DuPont his medical degree from the men’s support group within fire department. Dr. Ashby Fellow and served as a visiting University and completing the industry. He purchased the was an avid photographer and professor of government his internship at Cincinnati Branch House for his offices a member of the N.C. HIV/ in 1982-83. As a graduate General Hospital. He served and restored it, gaining a place AIDS task force. Survivors student, he played the French in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant on state and national historic include three children, eight horn in the University and was stationed in Okinawa, registries. The building has grandchildren and seven Symphony Orchestra and Japan, and Charleston, South since become the Branch great-grandchildren. was a member of the Raven Carolina. Following his dis- Museum of Architecture and Society. He received the UVA charge, he served on the Grace Design. Mr. Pogue enjoyed Thomas C. Lewis (Col Sesquicentennial Award Line as a ship’s surgeon. After music, art, movies, reading, ’52 L/M) of Limerick, for Public Service in 1969. completing his dermatology gardening, dancing and golf. Pennsylvania, died Jan. 4, After graduate school, Mr. residency at UVA, he practiced In retirement, he and his wife, 2018. He served in the U.S. Schmidhauser taught at the as a board-certified derma- Jacquelyn, traveled world- Navy in World War II and the University of Iowa, where tologist in Newport News, wide. They provided college

82 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 scholarships and funding Chrysler Corp., McKinsey community, he was involved Plant until his retirement for a Tibetan art school in and Co., Transamerica Corp. with the local Little League in 1997. Mr. Frothingham Dharamsala, India, and sup- and Commercial Credit and Larchmont Yacht Club’s was an avid model airplane ported independent and public Corp., primarily in the field of Junior Sailing Program. He enthusiast from childhood, television documentary films. equipment leasing. He and his served on the board of trustees and he built models to fly at family moved to Boca Raton and executive committee competitions. He enjoyed Marjorie Frame Sunflower in 1977, where he became of Hampton University in passing on his hobby to his Sargent (Educ ’58, ’63) of president of Commonwealth 1984-2003, as a member of grandsons. He loved ballroom Charlottesville died March Leasing Corp. He later became the board of governors of the dancing, music, singing in the 14, 2018. One of the first few involved in oil discovery and Ramapo College Foundation church choir and local chorus women at the University, she recovery in Russia. He enjoyed as well as several of its groups, and playing piano. He was a member of Kappa Delta traveling with his family, committees, and the Dillard will be remembered for his sorority. She became a defend- both in the United States Scholarship Committee integrity, sense of duty and his er of Native American rights and abroad. He loved visit- at the UVA School of Law. devotion to family, country early in her life, successfully ing museums and attending An alumnus of Deerfield and God. Survivors include suing the Canadian govern- concerts and lifelong learning Academy, he served as class his wife, Rhonda; three ment at age 16 for the Baker lectures, and he entertained agent and on alumni commit- daughters; a brother, George Lake Indians to have complete many friends in his home. tees there. In retirement, Mr. Frothingham (Col ’63); two rights to their artwork. Later He was an avid reader and Hiden served as vice president grandsons; a stepdaughter; in life, she was adopted by the knowledgeable about many and later as a board member of and a nephew. late Mattaponi Chief Webster subjects. Survivors include his the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Little Eagle Custalow, who wife; four children, including Local Summit, a volunteer or- William T. “Bill” Kendrick gave her the name Sunflower. Tucker Grinnan IV (Col ’88 ganization. He was a longtime (Engr ’62) of Vienna, Virginia, She co-founded the Mattaponi L/M), Tom Grinnan (Col ’90 board member of At Home on died Oct. 10, 1980. After his Healing Eagle Clinic, a health L/M) and Sarah Grinnan the Sound, an aging-at-home time at UVA, Mr. Kendrick clinic on the Mattaponi Ehlers (Col ’92, Grad ’99); and initiative, where he mod- earned a master’s degree Reservation serving Native 12 grandchildren. erated the popular Current in mechanical engineering American families in Virginia. Events Forum and was an on a scholarship from Duke She served as the volunteer honoree at its 2015 gala. Mr. University. He then worked administrative director of Hiden is survived by his wife, for two years with the Vitro the clinic for nearly 15 years. Ann; three children; and three Corp., in Silver Spring, Survivors include her partner, ’60s grandchildren. Maryland, before being Angela Silverstar Daniel; a Robert B. Hiden Jr. (Law ’60 hired by the Johns Hopkins nephew; and a niece. L/M) of Rye, New York, died John Carey Frothingham University Applied Physics Feb. 12, 2018. After attend- (Engr ’61) of Exeter, New Laboratory. There, he was a St. George “Tucker” ing Princeton University, Hampshire, died Jan. 26, 2018. senior engineer and systems Grinnan III (Col ’59 L/M) he served two years in the He entered the Navy through analyst, studying the equip- of Boca Raton, Florida, died U.S. Navy. At UVA, he was the NROTC program at UVA, ment and techniques used to Sept. 2, 2017. At the University, elected to the Order of the where he was a member of evaluate submarine-based he was elected to the judi- Coif and the Raven Society. the Glee Club and Trigon missile systems such as the ciary committee and was a After graduation, he joined Engineering Society. He also Polaris and Poseidon. He was member of numerous clubs Sullivan & Cromwell in New played clarinet and tenor a member of the American and societies, including the York City, where he practiced saxophone in the marching Society of Mechanical Z Society, T.I.L.K.A., Phi securities, corporate, and and swing bands. He attend- Engineers. Mr. Kendrick is Kappa Sigma fraternity, the mergers and acquisitions law ed Nuclear Power School in remembered for his happy-go- Jefferson Society, ROTC and until his retirement in 2000. 1964 as part of a 23-year naval lucky personality, and his easy the varsity swim team. He He established the firm’s career. He served on multiple smile and laugh. was also class president in his commodities, futures and assignments in the submarine fourth year, when he received derivatives practice, and he service during the height of André Harvey (Col ’63 the Algernon Sydney Sullivan served as chairman of the New the Cold War, including as L/M) of Rockland, Delaware, Award for his contributions to York State Bar Association’s commander of the USS James died Feb. 6, 2018. At the University life. After gradua- Committee on Commodities Monroe, a ballistic missile University, he was a member tion, he served two years in the and Futures Law from 1991 to nuclear submarine; on the of Phi Kappa Sigma frater- U.S. Army, stationed primarily 1995. Mr. Hiden also served on USS Blue Ridge 7th Fleet nity. After graduation, he in Germany, during which various committees on futures command ship; and at the worked as a journalist in New time he and his wife, Betty, law for legal publications and Pentagon. After he retired as York City and as an educator traveled extensively. Upon was a frequent panelist at a captain in 1984, his family in Wilmington, Delaware, release from Army active duty, conferences and symposiums. moved to Maine, where he before he and his wife, Bobbie, Mr. Grinnan attended Harvard Mr. Hiden was an enthusiastic held management roles in op- traveled throughout Europe Business School before going yachtsman, skier, golfer and erations and quality control at and Morocco in 1969. While in on to hold positions with tennis player. Active in the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power France, he apprenticed under

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the abstract sculptor Michel She earned her teaching and was one of the original members of the Virginia Air Anasse. Upon his return home, certificate from Mary Baldwin he began creating realistic College in Staunton, Virginia, Pollution Control Board under ’70s sculptures, drawing inspira- before working for 10 years the Virginia Department of Arthur H. “Art” Friedman tion from the fields and woods at Virginia Military Institute Environmental Quality. After (Col ’70 L/M) of Richmond, of his beloved Brandywine Infirmary. She continued in retirement, he was involved Virginia, died March 18, 2018. Valley, Pennsylvania. He nursing until her retirement with the Science Museum of At the University, he was a was known for his bronze in 2008. Active in the com- Virginia, which awarded him a member of the Z Society, sculptures, intricate sculpted munity, Ms. Anfin served lifetime achievement award in T.I.L.K.A., Omicron Delta gold jewelry, found object on the board of the former April 2017. Survivors include Kappa and Phi Epsilon Pi. collages and works in granite. Rockbridge Mental Health his wife, Mary Kay O’Keeffe He also served as a senior Noteworthy exposure first Clinic and started a classroom Beasley (Nurs ’74); a daugh- dormitory counselor, resident came with an exhibition of volunteer program at Fairfield ter; a son; and a grandson. adviser and vice chair of the five sculptures for windows Elementary School. Having Inter-Fraternity Council. at Tiffany & Co. in New grown up watching airplanes Brooke Spotswood (Col He went on to earn graduate York City, and his work was at Woodrum Field in Roanoke ’69, Educ ’72 L/M) of Crozet, degrees from the University of featured in private and public with her father, a former B-17 Virginia, died Jan. 30, 2018. Richmond and The College of collections and in national and pilot, she always dreamed of Like his father before him, Mr. William & Mary. Mr. Friedman international exhibitions over being a jet pilot. Among many Spotswood earned his bach- worked at the Life Insurance the course of his 40-plus-year other things, she enjoyed elor’s and master’s degrees at Company of Virginia before career. Notably, Mr. Harvey her small book club, reading the University. He was also a spending 10 years as an created Sounding the Alarm, history, oil painting, traveling, member of Sigma Phi frater- associate professor at John the crow sculpture that stands writing, playing beginner’s nity and a passionate Wahoo. Tyler Community College and in Edgar Allan Poe’s room on bridge and movies. She was He valued the relationships as a professor and division UVA’s Grounds and the sculp- happiest, though, when caring he made through his frater- chair at J. Sargeant Reynolds ture Gamecock: Floyd’s Finest for her grandchildren and nity and through Alcoholics Community College. He then displayed in the Law School. being with her family and Anonymous. He was a leader spent 22 years with Dominion He was a fellow and former friends. Survivors include her and mentor in both commu- Virginia Power, serving in a board member of the National husband, John Anfin (Educ nities and touched the lives variety of training manage- Sculpture Society and received ’71, ’75); two sons; two step- of many. He earned his law ment positions. He retired in the society’s Joel Meisner sons; six grandchildren; and degree from the University of 2006 as director of nuclear Award and the Tallix Foundry three sisters. Richmond and practiced law training before spending five Award. Survivors include in Virginia for more than 40 years with Exelon Generation, his wife, three brothers and James W. Jobes (Grad ’67) of years. Mr. Spotswood was a a nuclear power plant operator, a sister. Beverly, Massachusetts, died voracious reader and eloquent where he was vice president of Jan. 27, 2018. He earned his writer who loved learning nuclear training. Mr. Friedman Dana Slusher Anfin (Nurs doctorate at the University about American history. In was active in many commer- ’67) of Lexington, Virginia, before teaching Greek and his most recent project, he cial nuclear power industry died March 19, 2018. She medieval philosophy and and his daughters traced the organizations and in 2010 graduated from UVA’s School aesthetics for 32 years at Spotswood family history received the Robert L. Long of Nursing after beginning Rhodes College in Memphis, back to before Alexander Training Excellence Award her education at Longwood Tennessee. He continued to Spotswood, who became a from the American Nuclear College. She worked as a teach part time at Hendrix colonial lieutenant governor Society for his career contribu- nurse in the Virginia cities of College and University of of Virginia in 1710 after sailing tions to the industry. In retire- Radford and Roanoke before Arkansas, Little Rock, as his from Scotland to Jamestown. ment, he established Arthur teaching at Jefferson High wife developed her ministry in They followed the history H. Friedman Consulting, School in Roanoke, where she the Episcopal church in that through the stories of ances- which provided leadership wrote and implemented the area. They moved to Beverly in tors who lived through the and training. He was also program that continues today 2004 to be near their daugh- American Civil War. This ad- involved in the Richmond and as the Health Occupations ter and spent their winters venture took Mr. Spotswood to Williamsburg communities program in Virginia high in Atlanta, near their son. county courthouses in Virginia and served on the boards of schools. She then worked as Survivors include two broth- and Tennessee and then took directors of Temple Beth-El in a nurse in Roanoke before ers, two children and three him and his wife to Scotland Richmond and Temple Beth transferring to the Staunton- grandchildren. to explore the pre-Virginia El in Williamsburg. Upon re- Augusta Health Department Spotswood roots in person. He turning to Richmond in 2011, in Staunton, Virginia, where Robert Lyons Beasley (Col had hidden talents for making he enjoyed membership in she described her position as ’68) of Richmond, Virginia, witty comebacks and coming several civic groups. Survivors her “best job ever.” Later, she died July 11, 2017. At the up with nicknames for his girls. include his wife, Teresa; two assisted in the administration University, he was an Echols Survivors include his wife, Lu; sons; two granddaughters; of all nursing programs in the scholar. He worked in the and two daughters, including and his brother, Edward central Shenandoah district. sciences throughout his career Joanna Spotswood (Col ’16). Friedman (Col ’70).

84 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SUMMER 2018 Rebecca “Becky” Cook as a commanding officer in John Millar (Com ’85 L/M) addiction psychiatry research Locke (Educ ’75) of Roanoke, the University’s Naval ROTC of Oxshott, Surrey, England, program at State University Virginia, died Saturday, Jan. unit, which he considered to died Oct. 12, 2017. At the of New York Upstate Medical 13, 2018. After graduating Phi be one of his most fulfilling University, he was a member University. Survivors include Beta Kappa from Randolph- jobs. After retiring from the of Sigma Chi fraternity. He her parents and two sisters. Macon Woman’s College, she Navy in 1979, he worked for worked for the investment served as a social worker in Ernest Ern in the University’s bank Kidder Peabody after Byron Cocke (Com ’98 Roanoke and Charlottesville Student Affairs Office, where graduation and opened the L/M) of Savannah, Georgia, during the 1940s and ’50s. he spent 14 years. In both the company’s Sydney office in died Aug. 28, 2017. At the In the 1970s, she returned Navy and at the University, he the 1980s. After earning an University, he was a member to school and earned her was passionate about shaping MBA at Stanford, he worked of Sigma Alpha Epsilon master’s degree at UVA. She young men and women into for Merrill Lynch in New fraternity. After graduation, worked for many years as an leaders. After retirement, York City for a year before he eventually started his own elementary guidance counsel- Mr. Stark volunteered at moving to London, where he real estate business in Atlanta. or in the Roanoke City Schools the Albemarle Housing switched from investment He was a loving father and and was instrumental in Improvement Program. He banking to equity capital devoted husband who enjoyed advocating for guidance coun- also enjoyed golf and wood- markets. He spent a decade adventure and traveling; he selors in elementary schools working, traveling with his as head of equity syndicate took his family around the throughout Virginia. She was wife, Barbara, and spending in Europe beginning in 1995. globe, living for a time in Paris. active in civic affairs and at time with his granddaughters. Mr. Millar retired in 2005 to Survivors include five chil- the Brandon Oaks retirement One of his proudest moments spend time with his family, dren; his parents, including community after she and her was when he and his son Jeff including children Cameron Charles Cocke (Com ’65); and husband, John, moved there received UVA degrees on the and Patrick, and to perfect two brothers, Charles Cocke in 1993. For 25 years, she made same day and walked the Lawn his woodworking skills, but Jr. (Com ’00 L/M) and John her home on the land adjoin- together in the pouring rain. he rejoined Merrill Lynch 15 H. Cocke (Com ’03, ’04 L/M). ing her birthplace. Survivors Donations can be made to the months later. He spent two include three daughters, Capt. Stark Memorial Fund stints with Noble, now known including Rebecca Locke at UVA, which will recognize as Espirito Santo Investment Leonard (Com ’82 L/M) and the top NROTC midshipman Bank, spending time with Nancy Locke Curlee (Educ each year. Survivors include Citigroup in between, but he ’10s ’76); and six grandchildren, three sons, including Jeffrey was most recently the global Ryan J. Turner (Engr ’10) including Abigail Leonard Stark (Arch ’83 L/M) and head of primary markets with of South Jordan, Utah, died (Engr ’18). Christopher Stark (Engr the London Stock Exchange Feb. 25, 2018. He served ’87); four granddaughters; and Group. Mr. Millar was known in the Australia Adelaide two brothers. in the industry for his integ- Mission with the Church of rity, humility and sense of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Lisa Kay Blake (Col ’85 humor. In his free time, he Saints before attending the ’80s L/M) of Raleigh, North enjoyed shooting and hiking. University, where he com- Helen Pendleton Leavy Carolina, died Jan. 14, 2018. Survivors include his wife, pleted a triple major. He (Grad ’80) of Albuquerque, After working for WUVA as a Gretchen; a daughter; and went on to graduate school in New Mexico, died March student, Ms. Blake went on to a son. engineering and public policy 13, 2018. She was a creative, spend more than 30 years in in a program shared between caring and energetic nurse, the radio business as an on-air Carnegie Mellon University and she loved the outdoors. personality and executive. and the University of Lisbon, Survivors include her She rose to vice president of where he learned Portuguese husband, Brian; and programming for Curtis Media ’90s and met his wife. After Mr. two sisters. in Raleigh, where she earned Alyson Whitman Turner earned his doctor- three CMA Awards for best Manoukian (Col ’91) of ate, they moved to Salt Lake Peter A. Stark (Educ ’83 country music station in a Upper Arlington, Ohio, City, where he worked for the L/M) of Charlottesville died major market. She was posthu- died Jan. 24, 2018. At the LDS church. He was known Oct. 10, 2017. After graduating mously elected to the Country University, she was a member as a servant who loved being from the U.S. Naval Academy Radio Hall of Fame. To her of the University Journal around people. He especially in 1952, Mr. Stark embarked many fans she was known as staff. Survivors include her loved being a father to his on a 27-year career, during Lisa McKay of Richmond’s husband, Mark; two daugh- daughter, Esther. Survivors which time he command- WRVQ and later the Raleigh ters; her mother; a sister; a include his wife, Ana Patrícia; ed the USS Julius A. Furer, station WQDR. Survivors nephew; and a niece. his daughter; his parents; and aided the Mercury astronaut include her longtime compan- two brothers. recovery teams, and served ion, William Campbell; her Jacqueline Dimmock (Educ in the Korean and Vietnam sister; and her father. ’93, Grad ’98) of Syracuse, New wars. His time in the Navy York, died April 7, 2017. She culminated with four years was associate director of the

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