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Alumni News 2006-7 (please sent updates to louden@wfu.edu, Also love to receive photographs) Alumni Entries through Oct 1, 2005 can be found at Alumni News 2004-5
"Mackie" Boone Cabada Sings Gerald Chanler, 1950 Chris DeVault & Ann Mistuhiro and Family 2005 Emily Grace Grant & Family Jack and Ryan Hughes Kathy Kellermann Bella Adrienne Kimball- 15 Mos Brian with Rachel Susan Prestes Carrol Winkler's New Book: In the Name of Terrorism Judd & Sammi Renken Rae Lynn at NDT 2006 Sue Darnell Rector Mike Ridge's New Book, Principled Ethics Kanke and Yoshi, Dec 2005 The Truett Family Wyan Washburn Billy Windes, 1940 Gene Worrell, 1940	Elmore Alexander ('74) is Dean and Professor of Management at the School of Business Administration, Philadelphia University, PA. His expertise include: manager-subordinate communication, The effect of gender on communication within organizations, sexual harassment, verbal harassment, listening, conflict management, and negotiation.
	Lindsay Littlefield Allen ('03) graduated from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT-Austin spring '06 and is now with MAXIMUS, Inc., a public-sector oriented consulting firm. She is one of eleven in the Maximus Management Development Program, a program created to allow new hires to rotate around the company's divisions for a year before securing a permanent placement.
	Thomas Allen ('00) will receive his MBA from the McCombs School of Business at University of Texas in December '06. He continues to be the Director of Software Development at Opus Healthcare Solutions.
	Jay Beddow ('92) has lived in Tokyo for the past 11 years. Since 2001, he has worked at JP Morgan where he is head of Operations & Middle Office for the Japan Equities business. He oversees a team of 60 people managing client service, settlements, risk management, daily P&L calculation and other support processes. He married his wife Itsuko 8 years ago.
	Edgar ""Lon"" Boggs, 68, residing in South Bend, passed away July 9, 2006. He was a retired Presbyterian minister. A Wake Forest grad he also received his bachelor's and master's of divinity in theology from Union Theological Seminary, and a doctor of ministry from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA.
	Robbie Boone ('95) and wife Sarah welcomed new daughter Rosalind McKeithan Boone to their family June 26, 2006. Robbie works as Legislative Counsel with Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) in Washington, D.C..
	Robert Julian Braxton (’66) joined novice debate at the encouragement of his Baptist pastor John Phillips at Moore's Chapel Church in Saxapahaw, NC, who encouraged me to take advantage of the fact that Dr. Franklin R. Shirley coached debating at Wake Forest University. He is married to Beth Pirkle (’66) and they have spent many summers working with the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. Stateside, he provides technical support at Virginia Theological Seminary (Episcopal). After attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City he begin working with computers, including a stint with the submarine directorate of the U.S. Navy. Robert and is wife are parents to son Peter Braxton of “Jeopardy” and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" fame.
	Adrienne Brovero ('95, MA '97) is the new Associate Debate Coach at the Univ. of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. She will work with alum Tim O'Donnell, Dir of Debate at UMW. Judd Kimball ('90) continues to provide top notch child care for Bella, now 16 Months.
	Scott Burton ('82, JD '86) is Sr. Vice President and Corporate General Counsel for ING Americas in Atlanta, GA. He also serves on Wake's Law School's Alumni Council.
	Gerald Reid Chandler ('51) passed away November 19, 2005 at the age of 76 in Albermarle, NC. .
	David Cheshier ('85) is the new chair of the Department of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
	John Cooper ('72, MA '73) is a professor at Wentworth Inst. of Technology in Boston, MA.
	LTC Rob Croskery ('78) is Executive Agreements Officer at the Special Operations Command at MacDill AFB in Tampa FL. He also practices law in Cincinnati, OH with his wife. Rob writes "I have no doubt that what success we have enjoyed is due, in large part, to the wonderful experiences at Wake Forest and West Point in debate."
	Chris DeVault ('02) is at the Univ. of Miami for his Ph.D. but the important news is that Chris and Ann were engaged in October and are aiming for a 2007 wedding.
	Barry Dorsey ('65) recently left his post as president of the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College, OH (for 14+ years) to become the Executive Director of the New College of Virginia Planning Commission in Martinsville, VA.
	Trevor Ferger ('75) is president of Ferger & Associates in Columbus, OH. He recalled in correspondence that "Merwyn [Hayes] was a great person with a positive impact on all he came to touch . . . ."
	Emma Filstrup (02) is an associate in the corporate group at Winston and Strawn in Washington DC.
	Brian Flagler ('92) launched the Flagler Law Group, a Christian law firm in Sisters, Oregon in May. FLG represents companies in the publishing and technology sectors across the United States, and counsels other companies regarding trademark, copyright, libel/defamation, licensing, contracts, assets sales and acquisitions, antitrust, and general corporate matters.
	Mitsuhiro Fujimaki (MA, '95) teaches communication studies Bunkyo University. It is a small private outside of Tokyo. Pictured with wife and 3 year old son.
	David Gainey ('90) lives in Richmond with his wife. He is acting Director of Finance, US Card Division, Capital One Financial Services Inc. His team translates business goals/strategies into financial forecasts and then works with our business partners to make sure that the financial goals are met.
	Anjali Garg ('05) is working at the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy in the US Department of Health and Human Services. She does research for various reports to the Secretary, working on grant reviews and reports, and helps plan conferences.
	Brian Garrett ('90) graduated from Denver University Law School in 1996 and worked as a prosecutor in various offices in Colorado since. He currently is working as a prosecutor in a Special Victims Unit in Arapahoe County, Colorado. Brian writes that debate "definitely had an impact on my courtroom skills: I still get yelled at by Court reporters for talking too fast. Seriously, the skills I learned . . . have proven invaluable in litigation."
	John Graham ('78) has left his post as Director of the Federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in February 2006 and is now Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, CA.
	Mark ('93, MA '95) and Kara Grant (MA) and Sam welcomed a new sister, Emily, into their family Oct 6, 2005 in Atlanta. Kara works with the Urban Debate League and Mark is now working as in-house council for Earthlink. Sam is approaching two years.
	Clyde D. Hardin (’48) Charlotte, NC passed away on May 24, 2006. Mr. Hardin spent 40 years as a civilian scientist and executive working in Defense Electronics. Starting as an ""on-the-bench"" experimental researcher developing radar and fuzing applications, he rose through technical an managerial ranks to become Technical Director of the U.S. Army Electronics Research and Development Command, responsible for all Army electronics R&D. He co-founded a grass-roots civic/political organization in Rockville, Md., and was a founding member of the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Rockville. He was active in the Rockville Little Theater and was an officer of the Savannah, Ga., chapter of IEEE. He was a regular volunteer for Habitat for Humanity in Savannah and sang in barbershop choruses in Savannah and Charlotte.
	Clairbourne (Clay) Harrison ('99) has moved from the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP to the London Office of the firm.
	Vickie (Leonard) Henderson ('80) is starting a new job as Director of Development for the Welfare Law Center, (Economic Justice) in New York.
	Robert Hoover (attended '80) lives with his now almost grown family in Winston-Salem. He is the supervisor of financial analysis with Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
	John Hughes ('96) finished clerking for the Honorable Clarence Thomas on the Supreme court, with Amy ('96) welcomed Ryan McCaskill Hughes, who joined older brother Jack, December 30, 2005. (pictured on the Left) The family now resides in Denver Colorado where John works for Bartlit Beck, a law firm specializing in litigation. .
	Audrey (Young) Johnson ('00, MA '02) has left her position as Planned Giving Accounts Manager with Wachovia to start her second graduate degree at UNC-Greensboro.
	Lucie Jenkins Johnson ('49) wrote a very nice note. She was part of the second team when Henry Huff and a superior squad was winning numerous national honors. She graduated with an MSW from Tulane. She is the Class Agent for the Class of 53 and was able to do some networking for colleagues trying to support our friends of long ago in their crisis of relocating. after Hurricane Katrina. I practiced for 43 years in KY, TN, LA, VA, MI. Along the way she was on the faculties at Wayne State University and Virginia Commonwealth. She was married for over 50 years to Glenn Johnson, an automotive engineer specializing in design, had four children; a son, an environmentalist, and three daughters, an archivist, an editor and an artist. She now lives in a retirement center but hardly retired, doing many study groups, is an elder and deacon in her church, and hold a variety of offices in genealogical research and historical associations. A member of her DAR chapter said: "'You really missed your calling. You could be a minister' Guess where I got that training? Dear ole Wake Forest, and its debate team."
	Khalid Jones ('00) is an attorney with Crowell & Moring LLP in Charlotte, NC. He graduated law from Stanford where he was Senior Editor, Stanford Law and Policy Review. He then worked with firms in NY and DC (Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington, D.C.).
	Kathy Kellermann (MA '79) has opened her own trial consulting firm ComCon in Marina del Rey, CA. Be sure to check out http://www.kkcomcon.com/.
	Beccy Kidder ('91) is a lawyer (Yale Law School) in South Dakota in Eagle Butte working for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe for the last 9 years. Her work includes housing discrimination, lobbying the house and senate, litigating to enforce tribal treaties and federal trust responsibilities to the tribes. She and her husband have 6 children, the 2 little ones, Connor and Madisyn, 4 and 6, are theirs together. The oldest 2 in the are a junior at University of Minnesota - Morris (Stevi) and a Marine who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq with a purple heart and several service medals at the ripe age of 19 years old (Karlyle). Also there is 13 yo (Kordell) is a state silver gloves boxing champ and a fast point guard in basketball who wants to go to UNC - Chapel Hill, and the 14yo daughter who lives with her mother is also a crack shot in basketball (Tully).
	Paul Leader (MA) is a debate coach at Eastern New Mexico Univ.
	Gloria Cabada Leman ('85) has been singing a lot recently, including professional gigs with a quartet called Isabella. she has been in a number of concerts and in June will be performing at the Piccolo Spoleto festival in Charleston . Along with her husband (Greg Leman, '84) is running their own business (www.carolinasauce.com).
	Wes Lotz ('01 ) joined Wilson Fulkerson LLD in September, a litigation boutique founded in Houston TX in 2005. His practice focus on complex business litigation and arbitration. Wes is a member of the Houston Bar Association, the Texas Young Lawyers Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the Houston Young Lawyers Association. Link Wes' wife Liz Ellis ('02) works in Houston.
	Jim Lyle (MA '01) is working a Ph.D. program at Duequene Univ. in Pittsburgh along with his position as director of debate at Clarion Univ.
	Sam Maurer (MA '06) is the new director of Debate at Emporia State University in KS. He worked for the previous two years as Asst. debate coach at Gonzaga Univ. in Spokane.
	Patrick McMullen (MA, '97) finished Law School in May at Northwestern University and works with the firm O'Melveny & Myers in Washington D.C. He is also finishing a Ph.D. in Communication at Northwestern.
	Wiley Mitchell ('53) retired from Norfolk Southern three years ago then realized that fully enjoy than practice law. He then joined a law firm in Norfolk. He also serves on the state board of the Nature Conservancy; the state board of the Sorensen Institute of Politics of the University of Virginia, the board of the Virginia Aquarium, the Executive Committee of the Virginia Railroad Policy Institute, the Virginia Railroad Advisory Board, and the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Virginia Senate, and the Executive Committee of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel. A very busy "retirement." Wiley told the story of how in the 50s "the debate team was given a college "letter' that was designed to be worn on sweaters, similar to those given athletes. It consisted of a gold gavel with the letters 'WF'. Believe it or not, I still have mine."
	Ann (Wood) Mische ('72) works with the law firm Joseph & Mische, P.C. in Fairfax, VA and still is a darn good debater as demonstrated at the April Reunion.
	Janette Kenner Muir (MA '83) is the new editor of Communication Quarterly, the association journal of the ECA. Star Muir ('80) is the Senior director in the communication department. Both teach at George Mason University. Their best time is spent with kids, Kaitlin and Alex.
	Cecyle Arnold O'Bryant ('51) sent greetings. She resides in Graner, NC.
	David A. Pickler ('33) passed away on January 20 th of 2006 in California. Mr. Pickler was a member of the varsity debate team in the1930-31 season. He graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in chemistry and the earned his Master's degree from the University of North Carolina. He joined the Navy in 1940 and fought in WWII in the Atlantic arena. In 1942 he received a Commendation for Gallant Action as an Officer in Charge on the SS George Clymer. After a long and distinguished career in the Navy he worked at Lockheed, and in 1960 received a commendation from the Department of Navy for his work on the Polaris Missile Re-entry Body Coordinating Committee. His last job was in Sacramento as a health physicist, licensing the nuclear reactors for the State of California. With his wife, Marylyn, traveled d the world, talking special pleasure in sites of ancient cities and famous military events. He was a keen tennis, ping pong and shuffleboard player.
	Larry Penley (BA '71, MA '72) is Chancellor of the Colorado State University system and President of Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Larry recently wrote, Merwyn Hayes "is one of those very special people to whom I - and many others - owe so very much for whatever we have achieved. Thanks for what . . . debate coaches [and other Wake Forest faculty] give to young people."
	Michael Perry ('02) complete his second year at Stanford Law School. He spent summer 2005 at the Justice Department in Washington DC, Antitrust Division, and is working at a firm in San Francisco this summer.
	Laura Abernathy Poe ('70) is Dir. of Communication at the Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA
	Brian Prestes ('97) and wife, Amy, welcomed Rachel Susan Prestes into their family May 16. Brian is a lawyer in Chicago, IL with Bartlit Beck, a law firm specializing in litigation..
	Steve Rainey ('72) is Associate Pastor with Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem. He lives with wife Leslie (Counselor Middle School) in Kernersville, NC
	Sue Darnell Rector ('81) is a partner at Schottenstein Zox & Dunn in Columbus Ohio, practicing business law. She chair the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice group. She is also active in the community and is Board Chair for the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. http://www.szd.com/people.php?PeopleID=79&full=true
	Judd Renken (MA '01) is has a new teaching position at Oakton College in Illinois teaching philosophy and logic. Judd pictured with his wife Sammi, Texas Longhorns (see picture).
	Mike Ridge ('92) and Robin (Flaig) ('93) reside with 2 year old son, Ben in Edinburgh Scotland. Mike latest book, Principled Ethics: Generalism as a Regulative Ideal is now available.
	Mark Schulte ('79) Spent 24 years in Banking, sixteen at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, five at National City as a Product Manager and two at Fifth Third Bank in Treasury Management Sales. Since April 2004he has worked construction, home renovation, and taught a semester of economics at Cuyahoga Community College and is now teaching Business and Economics courses at Notre Dame College of Ohio. He enjoys his family, Lauren 18 who is at Bowling Green State Un iv and son Andrew 13. They reside in Lakewood, OH
	Barry Schuster ('71) is the president of Universal Seating Company in Jacksonville, FL. He fondly remembered is debate career at Wake as "an exhilarating time."
	Rae Lynn Schwartz (' MA) is finishing her Ph. D. at the Univ of Iowa. She will be teaching rhetoric at Western Washington Univ. in the fall. And there are marriage plans in the works.
	Patrick Speice ('03) has finished his law degree at the College of William and Mary. He now resides in Washington DC and is joining the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
	Sue Pester-Terrin (MA '93) lives in Switzerland with her husband of three years, Stephanie. They have recently moved into a town called Crans, about 15 miles from Geneva. Sue works for a company based in Geneva, consulting in private banks.
	Marcia Timmel ('77, MA) is living in Raleigh. She finished up the NC Teach program in August '05, earning commendation of excellence on her Praxis exams. She is teaching 7th Grade Social Studies at North Garner Magnet Middle School.
	Kanke Tomohiro (MA '03) married Yosi in September 2005. He teaches debate and english in Japan at Tokai University in Kanagawa. He teaches english related subjects and debate.
	Josh Traeger ('06) was recently an Admissions Counselor at Wake Forest and recently took a finance job up north.
	Eric Truett (MA '99) finished law school at Chicago is clerking for Judge Mark Filip in the Northern District of Illinois. He and his wife Sarah just welcomed daughter Ada Wallis Truett into their lives in March.
	Ted Tyson ('92) lives in Boston with his wife Donna and their Bernese Mountain dog, Sadie. Ted is Executive Director, Client Services for Software Secure, Inc.
	Sara (Traigle)van Geertruyden ('95) had a baby boy in Sept. 2005. She and her husband live in Washington, DC.
Fritz Vaughan ('04) has just finished a stint as a writer with the Office of Presidential Correspondence. He is continuing in the White House complex with the Federal Procurement Policy Office. Before this he was an intern in Sen. Elizabeth Dole's office.
Dr. W. Wyan Washburn ('34) of Boiling Springs died Monday, Oct. 23, 2006, at age 94. He was on the Wake debate team in 1933-34. He served as news editor for The Shelby Star in the 1930s before earning his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in 1943. He saw active duty in Europe as a chief medical officer in the Army Medical Corps from 1943 to 1946. He served as Attending Physician for Gardner-Webb College and later as administrator of Royster Memorial Hospital. For more than 35 years, he delivered more than 3,000 babies. A popular public speaker and writer, he wrote a column on health for “The Progressive Farmer” from 1955 to 1965 and authored a book, “Canaan in Carolina,” in 1958. As president of the Cleveland County Historical Association, he helped found the Cleveland County Historical Museum in 1976.
Clint Watson ('01) graduated from the Univ. of Michigan Law School in May 2004. He currently is working as an Associate for Frost Brown Todd LLC in Cincinnati, OH.
Brad White ('84) is teaching math at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado. Brad wrote "The education I received at Wake was outstanding. . .. At Wake I learned what I was capable of accomplishing through hard work and dedication. The small classes gave me a chance to get to know my professors, and communicate with them in an extremely meaningful way. Most of my professors demanded my best, and I tried my hardest to deliver. In my job, and in my life I am constantly reminded of the lessons learned at Wake. Some of those lessons are academic in nature, some of them I would call "life lessons". Many of those lessons shape my own approach to teaching."
William Windes ('42) was 84 when he passed away Jan. 28, 2006 in Laguna Hills, CA. He was retired Air Force.
Carol Winkler (MA '84), is the communication chair at Georgia State University. Her new book In The Name Of Terrorism: Presidents On Political Violence In The Post-world War II Era was published in Nov 2005.
John Wood ('79) lives in Charlotte, NC. He is Vice President and Senior Diversity Consultant with the Office of Diversity Integration with Wachovia Bank. He leads efforts focused on institutionalization and integration of diversity awareness, accountability & competency into Wachovia’s corporate culture.
Gene Worrell (’40) former owner of the Bristol Herald Courier and Charlottesville Daily Progress, died April 20, 2006. He was 86. Worrell's newspaper empire, which once included more than 30 newspapers, began when he founded the Bristol Virginia-Tennessean in 1949. At Wake Forest he debated and won the national Oratory championship in 1940. He provided Wake Forest University the Worrell House in London and the Worrell Professional Center for Law and Management. He received Wake highest award for service, Medallion of Merit, this spring. Worrell served on the university's board of trustees, and was eventually named a life trustee. He also served on the boards of visitors for the School of Law and School of Medicine. In 1979, Wake Forest awarded him an honorary doctorate degree. WFU Magazine Remembrance
Brian Yeazel ('89) is general council for Stock Building Supply Holdings, Inc. in Raleigh NC.
Mark Yopp (2001) will finish his last year of Emory Law School in 2006-7. For the summer of 2006 he worked for Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan in New York.
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