M. Timothy Corbett (’ 82 BSMAT) of Farmington,
Conn., has been named executive vice president
and CIO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Co. ◆ Patricia Dallas Horoho (’ 82 BSN) of Clifton,
Va., has been nominated to be Army surgeon general. Once confirmed, Horoho will serve as commanding general of the Army Medical Command at
Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. She would be the
first woman and the first nurse to serve as surgeon
general. Story, page 57. ◆ Marlene Youmans (’ 82,
’ 81 PhD) of Cooperstown, N. Y., has published her
second collection of poetry, The Throne of Psyche.
Youmans’ novel A Death at the White Camellia
Orphanage won the 2010 Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction by Mercer University Press.
2011 International Founder’s Day speaker for the
Delta Xi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha in Salisbury. ◆ James Grady Jones Jr. (’ 83 BSZOO) of
Pittsboro has been named pastor at Mount Pleasant
United Methodist Church. Jones received a master’s
in divinity from Duke Divinity School in May.
’ 83 James Leon Conner II (’ 83 JD) of Durham has been selected for mem- bership in the National Academy of
Distinguished Neutrals, a professional association
of lawyers experienced in the field of civil and commercial conflict resolution and committed to alternative dispute resolution methods. Conner, a partner
at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, was the featured speaker
at the N.C. Bar Association’s Environmental Law
Section annual meeting. ◆ James William “Beau”
Hays (’ 83 AB, ’ 86 JD) of Tucker, Ga., has been chosen as the 2011-12 president of the board of the
Commercial Law League of America. Hays is a
lawyer at Hays and Potter PC, a commercial and construction law practice. ◆ Ophelia Davis Johnson (’ 83
ABJO) of Cary has been named editor of the Baptist
Informer, the official newspaper of the N.C. General
Baptist State Convention. Johnson, an adjunct English instructor at ITT-Technical Institute, was the
’84 R. Daniel Boyce (’84 JD) of Raleigh as joined the firm of Nexsen Pruet. Boyce is a board-certified specialist in
state and federal criminal law, a former assistant
U.S. attorney and a licensed private investigator. ◆
John Samuel Inman (’84 AB) of Durham has
stepped down as coach of the UNC men’s golf team
after 13 years. His successor is Andrew Sapp (’ 93
BSBA, ’ 96 MA), formerly head men’s golf coach at
the University of Michigan. Inman continues to consult on renovations to the facilities on the UNC Finley Golf Course. ◆ Ward Russell III (’84 AB) of
Asheboro has been named president and COO of
Strategic Employee Benefit Services, a nationwide
marketing program providing employee benefit services through Northwestern Mutual. ◆ Rory Alan
Young (’84 AB) of Roswell, Ga., has been named
senior vice president, life, accident and health, for
the reinsurance intermediary firm AuclairRe International Inc. Young will be based in Atlanta, leading the
company’s expansion and serving existing customers in the area.
’ 86 Frank Anthony Bruni Jr. (’ 86 AB) of New York has been named an op-ed columnist at The New York Times. Bruni
writes an anchor feature for the redesigned Sunday
op-ed pages that takes an unexpected look at a big
with Stefan Litwin, piano
with UNC Music Faculty
– Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet
event of the week past. ◆ Christopher Wayne
Bragg (’ 86 JD) of Monroe is the new club leader for
the GAA’s Sweet Union Carolina Club, covering Union
County, N.C. ◆ James Richard Rogers (’ 86 AB) of
Lexington, Ky., is the new club leader for the GAA’s
Lexington Carolina Club.
■ marriage
Susan Annette Carroll (’ 86 ABEd) and Layne Barber
of Raleigh.
’ 87 Beth Flye (’ 87 AB) of Chapel Hill has been named admissions director of MBA@UNC, the new online MBA program offered by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
◆ Samantha B. “Mandy” Joye (’ 87 BSBIO; ’ 90, ’ 89
MS; ’ 93 PhD) of Athens, Ga., has been named the
Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences
at the University of Georgia. Joye, a professor of
marine sciences and an expert in the natural seepage of oil and gas, was recognized for her research
and leadership in response to the BP oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico. ◆ Brandon N. Uttley (’ 87 ABJO) of
Huntersville has co-founded and serves as CEO of a
new social media and Web marketing firm, Command Partners, in Charlotte.
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’ 88 Bobby Gray Blakley Jr. (’ 88 BSBA) of Fayetteville, Ga., has been named a member/director of the Buckhead
Coalition, an umbrella civic group. Blakley is president, North Atlanta region, of BB&T Corp. ◆ Dr.
Thomas Ballard Cole (’ 88 MPH) of Carrboro joins
Charles Franklin Blackburn Jr. (’ 73) of Raleigh,
T. James Dickerson Jr. (’ 73 AB, ’ 80 MSLS) and
Steven William Esthimer (’ 73 AB) of Chapel Hill
and Spence Foscue in a new release, Midnight Golf,
the second recording for their band, When Cousins
Marry. Cole plays trombone, with Blackburn and
Esthimer on guitar, Dickerson on bass and Foscue
on drums. ◆ Elizabeth Diane Heineman (’ 88 MA;
’ 94, ’ 93 PhD) of Iowa City, Iowa, has published
Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient
World to the Era of Human Rights. Heineman is
director of graduate studies and an associate professor of history and gender, women’s and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa. ◆ John
Eldridge Parham Jr. (’ 88 AB) of Raleigh has been
named senior vice president of the national division
of AXA Advisors. Eldridge, the founder of Legacy
Wealth Strategies, has been with AXA Advisors
since 1988. ◆ Barron LeGrant Stroud Jr. (’ 88
BSBA, ’ 91 JD) of Baltimore has been named managing partner for the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore offices of Wong Fleming PC. Stroud focuses
on business litigation, IP, and entertainment and
sports matters.
■ family addition
Matthew B. Slotkin (’ 88 AB, ’ 94 MSW, ’ 94 JD) and
Ellen Pizer of Durham; a son, Levi Carroll Slotkin, on
April 24, 2011.
General Alumni Association
’ 89 Dr. David Rudolf Lach (’ 89 DDS) of Oviedo, Fla., has created The Smiles for Hope Foundation, an organization
that provides orthodontic services for children from
struggling families. ◆ Heather Newton (’ 89 JD), a
lawyer with a practice in Asheville, has published
Under the Mercy Trees. Newton’s novel was
selected as a spring 2011 Okra Pick by the South-
