office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae with a
practice focusing on health, safety, and insurance
regulatory and compliance matters. David Jarvis
Fillippeli Jr. (’ 85 JD) of Kinston has been elected
chair of the Lenoir County Board of Education. Fillippeli practices law with White & Allen PA, concentrating in litigation with an emphasis on criminal, domestic and personal injury law.
■ family addition
Mary Jane Cotter (’ 85 BSIR) and Patrick Lynch
Kearon of Arlington, Va.; a daughter, Jane Cotter
Kearon, born Dec. 29, 2006, in Gansu, China, and
adopted Nov. 17, 2008.
’ 86 Melody Charisse Barnes (’ 86 AB) has
been appointed director of the White
House Domestic Policy Council by President Barack Obama. Story, page 64. Connie Cope
Bonebrake (’ 86 MSW) of Fort Mill, S.C., has been
named executive in residence and vice president,
post-acute care services with Carolinas HealthCare
System. J. Montgomery Cook (’ 86 AB) of Towson,
Md., has been named editor of the Baltimore Sun,
moving from director of content development for the
paper, where he was responsible for the launch of b,
a free daily aimed at young adults. Peyton Tucker
Reed (’ 86 AB) of Los Angeles has released a new
film, Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey. Yes Man, directed
by Reed, is an adaptation of Danny Wallace’s autobiography about his decision to say “yes” to whatever
offer, invitation, challenge and opportunity were presented to him. Bradly Steven Torgan (’ 86 MRP,
’ 92 JD) of West Hollywood, Calif., has been named of
counsel for the land-use and environmental law firm
of Truman & Elliott LLP. In addition to issues before
the court, Torgan represents clients before local government, special districts, and state and federal
agencies.
■ marriage
Lawrence Reiner Katzin (’ 86 AB) and James M.
Grimes of San Francisco.
■ obituaries
Lisa Bowen Campo (’ 86 MPH), 48, of Poulsbo,
Wash.; Nov. 13, 2008. Campo was a nutritionist and
health educator, working with the Odessa Brown
Children’s Clinic and the Suquamish tribe of the
Makah Indian nation, among others. Christopher
Henry Spivey (’ 86 AB), 46, of Ellerbe; Nov. 16, 2008.
Spivey worked in hotel management.
’ 87 Cassandra Quin Butts (’ 87 AB) has
been appointed by President Barack
Obama to be deputy White House counsel with a focus on domestic policy and ethics. Story,
page 64. Daniel Lyndon Deuterman (’ 87 AB, ’ 91
JD) of Greensboro is the founding lawyer for the
Deuterman Law Group, which has been selected as
the winner of the 2008 Torch Award for Marketplace
Ethics in the small employer category by the Better
Business Bureau of Central North Carolina.
Kenneth Richard Hoyle Jr. (’ 87 AB) of Sanford has been
promoted to vice president of student services at
Central Carolina Community College. William John
Warden (’ 87 AB) of Raleigh has opened a communications business, Billy Warden Communications &
Imagination Group, focusing on the economic development, public health, consumer and sustainability
arenas.
■ obituary
Joan P. Phillips-Trimmer (’ 87 MPH), 49, of Chapel
Hill; Dec. 7, 2008. Phillips-Trimmer worked for the
Chatham County Health Department. She previously
was health educator at West Point Academy and the
Coast Guard. She was active in her church choir and
in many musicals and performances.
’88 Laura Ware Doerre (’88 BSBA) of Klein,
Texas, has been promoted to vice president and general counsel at Nabors
Industries, an owner and operator of land-drilling,
land-workover and well-servicing rigs in North America. William Edward “Ned” Manning Jr. (’88
BSBA, ’ 91 JD) of Kinston has been selected as the
lawyer section representative for the N.C. Land Title
Association. Manning is a member of White & Allen
PA, practicing in residential and commercial real
estate, claims litigation, foreclosures, creditors’ rights
and business law. Robert Sidney Martin (’88 PhD)
of Dallas, Texas, has received the Presidential Citizens Medal in recognition of his work as a librarian,
archivist and educator, including appointment by
then-President George W. Bush in 2001 to a four-year term as director of the Institute of Museum and
Library Services. Martin is retired as professor and
Lillian Bradshaw Endowed chair, School of Library and
Information Sciences, at Texas Woman’s University.
■ family addition
Anna Wells Moore (’88 BSPHR) and P. Allstatt Moore
Jr. of Raleigh; a daughter, Anna Elisabeth Moore, on
Nov. 17, 2008.
’ 89 David Burton Fountain (’ 89 AB, ’ 94
MBA, ’ 94 JD) of Raleigh has been promoted to vice president of the legal
department at Progress Energy, where he also is
assistant secretary to the board.
’ 90 R. Frank Andrews IV (’ 90 ABJO, ’ 95
MBA) of Washington, D.C., delivered the
December commencement address at
the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Andrews is the president and CEO of August
Jackson Co., an audience engagement agency.
Peter A. Frandano (’ 90 BSBA) of Southport has
been awarded the Certified Commercial Investment
Member designation by the CCIM Institute. A commercial real estate agent with Southport Realty, he is
on the board of directors of the Brunswick County
Association of Realtors. Kevin Michael Sisson
(’ 90 BSBA) of Glen Head, N. Y., has been named a
partner at Cyan Partners LP, a middle-market direct-lending fund in New York.
■ marriage
Leslie Ann Beck (’ 90 AB) and D. Chris Craver of
Thomasville.
’ 91 Elizabeth Laws Folger (’ 91 ABEd) of
Kernersville has been named chief academic officer for the Guilford County
school system. Jimmie Banks Hicks Jr. (’ 91 JD) of
New Bern has been elected second vice president of
the N.C. Association of County Attorneys. Hicks is a
member of the law firm Sumrell, Sugg, Carmichael,
Hicks & Hart. He represents Craven, Pamlico and
Jones counties. Sarah McDonald Kirkman (’ 91
ABJM) of Statesville has been elected district attor-
ney of District 22-A, which includes Iredell and
Alexander counties.
■ marriages
Christopher Paul Briggs (’ 91 AB) and Kristin Lynn
Stoltenberg of Brooklyn, N. Y. Kristine Havey
McCord (’ 91 BSADJ) and Darrell Duane Jackson of
Broomfield, Colo.
’ 92 John Charles Bircher III (’ 92 BSADJ) of
New Bern served on the panel Intersection of State Law and Bankruptcy at the
31st annual Bankruptcy Institute sponsored by the
N.C. Bar Association. Bircher heads the New Bern
office of White & Allen. J.D. Lester (’ 92, ’ 97 AB) of
Lexington, Ky., has published a children’s book,
Mommy Calls Me Monkeypants. Lester is president
and owner of Garden Properties LLC. John Preston
Lindsay (’ 92 AB) of Clemmons has been called as
pastor to the New Hope Presbyterian Church.
Dana Kevin Trytten (’ 92 AB) of Savusavu, Fiji, and
his wife, Becky Trytten, are serving in the Peace
Corps. The Tryttens are on Vanua Levu Island, where
Dana Trytten is a business volunteer focusing on
financial literacy and micro-finance in rural villages
and other development projects. George Clark
Wright (’ 92 AB) of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, has been promoted to commander by the Navy. Wright is completing his master’s degree in oceanography, concentrating in undersea warfare.
■ family addition
James Dillard Burroughs Jr. (’ 92 AB) and Elizabeth
Scott Burroughs (’ 93, ’ 92 AB) of Bozeman, Mont.; a
son, John Hayden Burroughs, on Oct. 3, 2008.
’ 93 Angie Brady-Andrew (’ 93 ABEd) of Pittsboro has been named 2008-09
Chatham County Principal of the Year.
Brady-Andrew is principal of Siler City Elementary
School. Paula Dianne Dickerson (’ 93 AB, ’ 95 MA)
of Cary has been named public affairs and advocacy
officer at the Consulate of Canada in Raleigh.
Thomas W. Hanchett (’ 93 PhD) of Charlotte has
been appointed to the board of the N.C. Humanities
Council. Hanchett is the staff historian at the Levine
Museum of the New South and has written on North
Carolina music traditions and Rosenwald Schools for
African-Americans. Nicole Bensch Seitz (’ 93
ABJM) of Mount Pleasant, S.C., led a discussion
about her writing and painting at the Circa Gallery in
Asheboro. Seitz’s second novel, Trouble the Water,
was an editor’s pick in the May 2008 issue of
Charleston Magazine.
■ family additions
Caroline Whitley Askew (’ 93 AB) and Michael David
Askew (’ 93 BSPHR) of Brown Summit; a son, Carter
Michael Askew, on Nov. 19, 2008. Elizabeth Scott
Burroughs (’ 93, ’ 92 AB) and James Dillard Burroughs
Jr. (’ 92 AB) of Bozeman, Mont.; a son, John Hayden
Burroughs, on Oct. 3, 2008. Nathan Drake Kline
(’ 93 ABJM) and Caroline Brooke Kline of Charlotte; a
son, Morgan McKelvy Kline, on Nov. 6, 2008.
■ obituaries
Gina Selepak Martin (’ 93 MA), 39, of Orlando, Fla.;
Dec. 16, 2008. Martin established and for 15 years
ran the sports medicine program at Lake Highland
Preparatory School. Sandra Mary Schlueter (’ 93
MSLS), 61, of Provo, Utah; Nov. 15, 2008. Schlueter
