Carolina Alumni Review - July/August 2008

Ramsey Raji Qubein (’02 ABJM, ’04 MA) of High Point has published a series of articles in Business Traveler about Mumbai, Dubai and Bangalore. Qubein is an account executive with McNeill Lehman and a travel correspondent for Northstar Travel Media and Professional TravelGuide.com. Brooke Langford Roper (’02 AB) of Columbia, S.C., has been named associate director of the office of pre-professional advising at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Heather Ann Todd (’02 AB) of Iowa City, Iowa, is the new club leader for the Iowa Carolina Club. ■ marriage Lori Jean Van Orden (’02 BSCH) and Brian Douglas Patterson of San Francisco. ■ obituary Mary Claire Satterly (’02 ABJM), 27, of San Francisco; April 7, 2008. Satterly was an account manager with Goodby, Silverstein and Partners. She previously worked in New York with the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund and with Deutsch Advertising. At UNC, she belonged to Chi Omega.

’03 Stephanie Begy Vanos (’03 JD) of Orlando, Fla., has been promoted to senior associate with

Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed PA, where she practices general and commercial litigation. ■ marriages Jonathan Charles Broyles (’03 AB) and Mary Elizabeth Powell (’04 MAC) of Raleigh. Chelsea Ruth Russell (’03 AB) and Christian Kiely Winicki of St. Augustine, Fla.

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■ family addition Rachel Altstaetter Efird (’03 ABEd) and Matthew B. Efird of Charlotte; a son, Reece Wilson Efird, on Jan. 31, 2008.

’04 Capt. John Connor Lafferty (’04 AB) of Anchorage, Alaska, has returned from a 15-month deployment to Iraq and promoted to captain from first lieutenant. He is assigned to the Army’s 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, a unit of the 4th Brigade Combat

Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division at Fort Richardson. ■ marriages Aiyana Nicole Joseph (’04 BSPH) and Marcel Luis Cottman (’04 BSBA, ’05 MAC) of Atlanta. Mary Elizabeth Powell (’04 MAC) and Jonathan Charles Broyles (’03 AB) of Raleigh.

’05 Will Brinkley Beam (’05 BSBA) of Chicago is the new club leader for the Chicago Carolina Club. George Edwin “Eddie” Gray Jr. (’05 MEd) of Raleigh has been named 2007-08 Teacher of the Year at Garner Magnet High School. Gray also was honored with the Citizen Choice Award for Education by The Garner Citizen News & Times. Robert Kyle McKeever (’05 AB) of Chapel Hill has been selected to present a paper, Facebooked: Groupthink in the Era of Computer Mediated Social Networking, at the sixth annual American Political Science Association Conference on Political Communication in Boston in August. William Valentine Mel-ega (’05 MEd) of Hillsborough has received a Chapel Hill Historical Society Student Enrichment Grant in support of his project teaching Chapel Hill High School students about Pearl Harbor through teleconferencing,