office of Manning Selvage & Lee, a global public rela- Palm Beach, Fla., has published his first novel, Time
tions and communications company. Roy McDowell Gone By, a romance set in the pharmacy school at
Greene (’ 86 ABJO) of Cambridge, Mass., has been UNC. Glover is an associate professor of pharmacy
named online editor for the metro desk at The practice and director of the West Palm Beach program
Boston Globe. Barbara Rand Morgenstern (’ 86 JD) at Nova Southeastern University’s College of Pharmacy.
of Greensboro has been named an adjunct profes- Joseph Christopher Haj (’ 88 MFA) of Chapel Hill
sor of family law at Elon University School of Law for has been named by American Theater magazine one
the 2008-09 academic year. Morgenstern was named of 25 theater artists who will have a significant
Best Lawyers’ Greensboro Family Lawyer of the Year impact on the American theater scene over the next
for 2009. She is a partner in Morgenstern & Bonuomo. quarter century. Haj is the producing artistic director
■ of the PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC. family additions Bob Keefe (’ 88 ABJO) of Washington, D.C., has been
Leesa Thomas Clardy (’ 86 BSN) and James Felix promoted to Washington correspondent at The
Clardy Jr. (’ 83 AB) of Charlotte; a son, James Felix Atlanta Constitution-Journal. For the past nine years,
Clardy III, on Dec. 31, 2008. E. Jones Doughton (’ 86 Keefe has been covering the West Coast for Cox
AB) and Mary Lee Ward Doughton of Columbus, Ga.; a Newspapers/Cox News Service. Will Sneden (’ 88
daughter, Mary St. Claire Doughton, on Jan. 11, 2009. BSMS) of Charlotte has been named senior vice
president and health and benefits practice leader for
the Carolinas at Aon Consulting Worldwide, a global
human capital consulting organization. Sneden also
will serve as a member of the practice’s large-market
steering committee. Scott Frederick Sternberg
(’ 88 AB) of Greenwich, Conn., has joined ESPN as
vice president, international digital media. Sternberg
is based in the New York office. Andrew Todd Trin-
cia (’ 88 ABJO) of Roseville, Calif., has been promoted
to senior vice president and principal at MultiState
Associates, a 50-state government-relations firm.
■ family addition
Neal Andrew Zamore (’ 88 AB) and Jemela Bajrovic
Zamore of Short Hills, N.J.; a daughter, Lorelei
Alexandra Zamore, on Sept. 14, 2008.
’ 87 Zina Bradshaw Almers (’ 87 AB) of Hillsborough has been promoted to president and general manager of radio station News Talk 1360 WCHL. Asli Aden Ashkir (’ 87
MPH) of St. Paul, Minn., has joined the Cedar Riverside People’s Center Medical Clinic, in Minneapolis.
Ashkir has clinical responsibilities and works on diabetes and women’s health education programs for
Somali immigrants. David Paul Gwyn (’ 87 AB) of
Raleigh has been named president and principal of
the firm of French/West/Vaughan, an independent
public relations agency. C. Thomas Steele Jr. (’ 87
JD) of Burlington has earned the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation. Steele, an
equity member of Wishart, Norris, Henninger &
Pittman PA and a specialist in real property law, has
been appointed to the strategic planning and emerging trends committee of the N.C. Bar Association and
the N.C. Bar Foundation.
■ obituaries
David Avetriss Griffin (’ 87 AB), 45, of Mount Rainier,
Md.; Aug. 10, 2008. Griffin was vice president of
MasterMind Marketing Group and Promotions Inc., an
events-management service. Kathleen Gay Lee-Stevens (’ 87, ’ 86 JD), 57, of Matthews; Jan. 3, 2009. A
lawyer, Lee-Stevens was licensed to practice in North
and South Carolina and Washington, D.C. She worked
as a risk manager for Piedmont Natural Gas. She
served on the Matthews Board of Adjustment and was
its chairman for a year. Diane McLaughlin
Niedzwiecki (’ 87, ’ 86 PhD), 53, of Lakewood, Colo.;
Dec. 24, 2008. Niedzwiecki’s most recent position
was as an environmental protection assistant with the
U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of
Environmental Protection and Compliance.
Previously, she was a toxicologist with the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment, working on clean-up of the former Rocky Flats nuclear
weapons production site.
Charlotte. Hinshaw is a partner with Hinshaw Properties. William Harrison Ulfelder II (’ 90 AB) of New
York has been named state director for The Nature
Conservancy of New York. Ulfelder began his career
with the conservancy 14 years ago and most
recently served as director of the Eastern Colorado
program.
■ marriage
Andrew William Markham (’ 90 BSMS) and Deidre
Elizabeth Sabow of San Francisco.
■ family addition
Suzanne Marie Purdy (’ 90 BSBA) and David Michael
Purdy of Charlotte; a daughter, Ashton Grace Purdy,
on Aug. 19, 2008.
■ obituaries
Natalie Anne Edmund (’ 90 AB), 41, of Graham; Dec.
10, 2008. Edmund was a research technician at
UNC. Ruth Elizabeth Mitchell-Pitts (’ 90, ’ 91 PhD),
57, of Raleigh; Feb. 1, 2009. Mitchell-Pitts was executive director of three European studies programs at
UNC that she helped create. When she began at
UNC in 1992 as a part-time coordinator of the new
Center for European Studies, she helped guide the
center to what is generally considered one of the top
European studies centers in the U.S. In April, she
received the European Union Studies Association’s
public service award posthumously. Earlier in her
career, she taught political science at UNC, NCSU,
East Carolina University and UNC-Greensboro.
’ 91 Dr. Raymond McKay Carroll (’ 91 BSBIO,
’ 96 MD) of Cary has received the subspecialty certificate in orthopedic
sports medicine. Carroll is an orthopedic surgeon
with Garner/Cary Orthopedic Sports Medicine Specialists.
■ family additions
Dr. Edward Raymond Altherr (’ 91 BSBIO, ’ 92 BSPH,
’02 MS) and Elizabeth Helms Altherr of Chapel Hill; a
son, Benjamin Edward Altherr, on Dec. 18, 2008.
Daniel Gerald Tubaugh (’ 91 BSBA) and Leigh Ann
Faulkner Tubaugh of Waxhaw; a daughter, Madeline
Lorelei Tubaugh, on Sept. 22, 2008.
’ 88 Katherine Yates Gadway (’ 88 AB) of
Springfield, Va., has received a master’s
degree in organizational management
from Bellevue University, in Bellevue, Neb. Gadway is
a government source-selection consultant with CACI
Dynamic Systems, providing IT solutions for the security industry. Glenn Gillen (’ 88 AB) of Durham has
received the Marvin L. Poythress Service Award for
outstanding service as a volunteer usher at UNC
football games. Gillen is an account manager with
Smith & Associates and Cherokee Publishing.
Mark Lee Glover (’ 88 BSPHR, ’ 94 DPHAR) of West
’ 89 G. Wayne Goodwin (’ 89 AB, ’ 92 JD) of
Rockingham has been named president
of the N.C. Center for Voter Education,
a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization. Goodwin
is the state insurance commissioner for North Carolina. Karen James Jarvis (’ 89, ’ 88 AB) of Lewisville
has been promoted to senior vice president of
Annese Public Relations Inc. Donna Claire
Leinwand (’ 89 ABJO) of Washington, D.C., has been
named president of the National Press Club. Leinwand has been with USA Today since 2000, covering
crime, justice and disasters, reporting from the U.S.,
Germany, South Asia and the Middle East. Kevin
Jeffrey Martin (’ 89 AB) of Washington, D.C., has
joined the Aspen Institute as a senior fellow with
the Communications and Society Program in the
Washington, D.C., office, after leaving office as the
chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As student body president in 1988-89, Martin
was an ex officio member of the GAA Board of
Directors. Michael Kendrick Reiter (’ 89 BSMS)
of Chapel Hill has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Reiter, the
Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor of computer science at UNC, focuses his work on the
development of critical computer security protocols
and defenses. Edward Lee Willingham IV (’ 89
MBA) of Raleigh has been elected president of First
Citizens BancShares and First Citizens Bank.
■ marriage
David Alan Weaver (’ 89 AB) and Traci Lynn Monroe
of Wake Forest.
’ 90 Michael Worth Hinshaw Jr. (’ 90 AB) of
Charlotte has been chosen as president
of The Home Builders Association of
’ 92 John Charles Bircher III (’ 92 BSADJ) of
New Bern has been certified as a specialist in both consumer and business
bankruptcy law by the American Board of Certification. Bircher, a principal at White & Allen, is a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee for the Eastern District of
North Carolina. L. Taylor Harrell III (’ 92 BSBA) of
Ahoskie has been selected as Banker of the Year by
Southern Bank. Harrell is senior vice president and
regional business development officer for the bank.
Ann Battle Macheras (’ 92 PhD) of Richmond, Va.,
has been named vice president of the regional division of the research department for the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond. Khuan Ng (’ 92 MBA)
of Hillsborough has been named to the board of
directors for the Alamance Community College Foundation. Ng is senior vice president of strategic planning at LabCorp. Louis H. Rogers III (’ 92 AB) of
Raleigh has completed the Rotary Leadership Institute for Zone 33. Rogers is the director of business
development for Self-Help Ventures Fund and serves
as secretary of the Rotary Club of Raleigh. Jules
Dowler Shepard (’ 92 AB) of Catonsville, Md., has
