00s
Karasek, on Aug. 17, 2009. u Brian Duncan
Meacham (’00 BSBA, ’03 JD) and Sarah Brown
Meacham (’ 99 AB, ’03 BSN) of Raleigh; a daughter,
Claire Elizabeth Meacham, on July 5, 2009.
; obituary
Anne Lussmyer Wolthusen (’00 MS), 56, of Graham;
Oct. 3, 2009. Wolthusen was an administrative lab
manager and research specialist at UNC.
’01 Emily Blankenbeckler Bivins (’01 EdD, ’03 MSA) of Swepsonville has been amed Principal of the Year by Chapel
Hill-Carrboro city schools. Bivens is principal of Carrboro
Elementary School. u Page Crawford Fehling (’01
ABJM) of Raleigh has been named director of professional development for Greenroom Communications
LLC, a media coaching firm in Raleigh. u William
Lee Kimmey Jr. (’01 ABJM, ’09 JD) of Durham has
been named an associate in the commercial real
estate and development section of Wyrick Robbins
Yates & Ponton LLP. u Courtney Jones Mitchell (’01
ABJM) of Chapel Hill joined Sarah Elizabeth Dessen
(’ 93 AB) and Jill Collins McCorkle (’ 80 AB) on the
panel A Mentor’s Influence at the 2009 N.C. Literary
Festival at UNC. Mitchell’s most recent work, How to
Roll, appeared in Marianne Gingher’s Long Story
Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina’s
Finest Writers. u Karen Glidewell Robertson (’01
AB) of Macon, Ga., is the club leader for the newly
formed Macon Carolina Club.
; marriage
John Emmett Perdue (’01 BSENS) and Sara
Gaynelle Thomas (’02 AB) of Raleigh.
; family additions
Haley Yates Childers (’01 ABJM) and Michael
William Childers of Boone; a daughter, Caroline Yates
Childers, on Sept. 23, 2009. u Melissa McMurray
Dixon (’01 AB) and David Bailey Dixon (’ 95 AB) of
Vienna, Va.; a daughter, Adelaide Elizabeth Dixon, on
June 18, 2009. u Louis Charles Schacht (’01 BSBA)
and Kelly Jean Brown (’ 99 BSBA) of Vero Beach,
Fla.; a daughter, Hannah Brown Schacht, on July 16,
2009. u David Yu (’01 MBA) and Jennifer Pan of
Plymouth, Minn.; a daughter, Felice Yu, on June 16,
2009.
’02 Stephen Thomas Brower (’02 AB) of Santa Monica, Calif., has been promoted to vice president, marketing, and artist
and recording development, with Welk Music Group/
Vanguard Records. u Dr. Bradford Lee Picot (’02
BSBA, ’06 DDS) of Charlotte has opened SouthEnd
Dentistry, a family and cosmetic dental practice. Picot
founded the UNC Malawi Dental Project to provide
free dental care and education on HIV/AIDS in Malawi.
He participates in Give Kids a Smile and bus den-
tistry and delivers free dentistry on a monthly basis at
the Charlotte Uptown Men’s Shelter. u Amanda Joy
Visek (’02 AB) of Alexandria, Va., has been elected
public relations and outreach division head for the
Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Visek is an
assistant professor in the department of exercise sci-
ence at the School of Public Health and Health Serv-
ices, George Washington University Medical Center.
; marriages
William Allen Aldridge II (’02 AB, ’06 MA) and
Martha O’Byrne Goldfinch of Columbia, S.C. u
Timothy Harold Schwantes (’02 AB, ’07 MSW, ’09
MPH) and Joanna “Anna” Ellen McCullough (’03
AB, ’07 MSW, ’08 MSPH) of Carrboro. u Sara
Gaynelle Thomas (’02 AB) and John Emmett Perdue
(’01 BSENS) of Raleigh.
; obituary
Laura Caryne Dunlop (’02 MHA), 31, of Atlanta; Oct.
5, 2009. Dunlop was a lawyer who specialized in
health-care issues. Prior to earning her law degree,
she completed a two-year postgraduate fellowship in
health-care administration at Massachusetts General
Hospital.
’03 Amanda Greene Balwah (’03 AB) of Winston-Salem has received a master of arts degree in nonprofit management
from High Point University. Balwah is the administrative manager at the Kenan Institute for the Arts, UNC
School of the Arts. u Benji P. Cauthren (’03 ABJM)
of New York has left his position as assistant to the
director of development at the UNC School of Journalism to attend Cardozo School of Law. u Briana
Marie Corke (’03 ABEd) of Chapel Hill has received
the Outstanding Young Alumna Award from the UNC
School of Education. Corke, a fourth-grade teacher
and grade-level chair at Carrboro Elementary, was
2008-09 Teacher of the Year in the Carrboro-Chapel
Hill city schools. u Sarabeth Derrick (’03 AB) of
Asheboro has joined the meeting planning division of
Aladdin Travel and Meeting Planners as a senior
event and meeting planner. u Atinuke Oluwatoyin
Diver (’03 AB, ’06 JD) of Boston has received the
Secretary’s Award for Equal Employment Opportunity
