Marc Davis (J80) of Virginia Beach, Va., was named city editor of the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk in May. He oversees the newspaper’s metro staff, covering Virginia Beach. During his 23-year reporting career he has won many awards. He and his wife, Sharon, have two sons, Andrew and Evan.

Clayton LeFevre (WCAS80) of Brooklyn, an artist and painter of celebrities, is working on paintings to benefit the Cougar Fund, co-founded by Jane Goodall, and on a public arts project called “The New York Twelve.”

G. Ray Warner (L80) of Queens, N.Y., is a professor of law and director of the bankruptcy LLM program at St. John’s University. He taught at the University of Missouri for 17 years.

Joseph A. Grande (GJ81) of Dalton, Mass., is the editorial director for Omnexus.com, an electronic marketplace for the global plastics industry.

Michael Hampton (WCAS81) of Long Beach, N.Y., is CEO of Mesa Financial Partners in Greenwich, Conn. He and his wife, Joanne Zeller (SESP81), celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary this year.

Bruce Rheins (J81) of Los Angeles returned from serving as co-bureau chief of CBS’s Kuwait operation for the Iraq war.

Edward C. Rosenthal (G81, GMcC85) of Philadelphia, a professor of management science and operations management at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University, received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in April.

Andrea L. Saia (KSM81) of Alpharetta, Ga., this year was named president of Ciba Vision, a global vision care company in Atlanta.

Carole Shure (C81) of New York City is senior producer of As the World Turns, a CBS daytime television series. It received the 2003 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, which it also won in 2001.

Robert J. Uhlar (GJ81) of Hollywood, Fla., and his wife, Carla, are co-ministers at Unity Church of Hollywood. They earned master’s of divinity degrees at Unity School of Religious Studies in Missouri and were ordained in June 2002.

Eric Unruh (GMu81, 90) of Casper, Wyo., chair of the music department at Casper College, was named 2003 Educator of the Year by the Wyoming Music Educators Association. He chairs the Commission on Community/Junior College Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Music.

Karen Stone Kaplan (L82) of Lake Forest, Ill., is on the alumni board of North Shore Country Day School and is a founding member of the auxiliary board of Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. She completed a six-year term as trustee of Lake Forest Country Day School. While on vacation in Wyoming, she ran into classmate Ross Buchanan (L82), whom she had not seen in 21 years.

Kathy Kellermann (G82, GC84) of Santa Barbara, Calif., in July became a senior consultant at Trial Behavior Consulting in Los Angeles. She specializes in courtroom persuasion, mock trials, jury selection and related areas.

Randi L’Hommedieu (GMu82, 92) of Mount Pleasant, Mich., director and professor of music education at Central Michigan University’s School of Music, was named 2003 administrator of the year by ArtServe Michigan.

Alan S. Lipson (McC82) of Raleigh, N.C., is a senior marketing manager for strategy and new business development in IBM’s local retail store solutions division. He is also president of the Raleigh Civic Symphony Association and a sponsor of the symphony and the Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra.

Victoria Rebeck (J82) of Minneapolis in April was elected president of Associated Church Press, an international professional organization of publishers of church-related periodicals.

Justin Skala (WCAS82) relocated to Lawrence, Kan., after spending eight years in London. He is president of Hill’s Pet Nutrition International, a division of the Colgate-Palmolive Co. in Topeka. He has two sons.

Gregory Barrett (Mu83) of DeKalb, Ill., performed Clarinet Quintet by Robert Fuchs and En Saga Septet by Sibelius/Barrett with members of the Lahti (Finland) Sinfonia Chamber Ensemble at Vienna’s Musikverein in June.

David Cunningham (C83) of Holland, Mich., became professor of religion and director of a new program on the theological exploration of vocation at Hope College in August. He had been a professor of theology and ethics at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston.

Kerri Howland-Kruse (C83, L90) of Upper Montclair, N.J., in July was named an assistant vice president at Broadcast Music in New York City, where she had been a senior attorney. She oversees legal matters for more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers.

Michael Markowitz (C83) of Los Angeles is a writer and producer of the new ABC-TV comedy It’s All Relative for Touchstone and Paramount. He also is writing and developing an interactive project for Microsoft.

Jim Nunan (WCAS83) of Loudonville, N.Y., is director of sales and marketing at Meridian Capital Partners in Albany, N.Y.

John P. Reed (WCAS83) of Hagerstown, Md., is a primary care physician at Smithsburg (Md.) Family Medical Center. He serves on the board of the Washington County Health System and as a volunteer medical director of its free clinic.

Leesa Sklover-Filgate (C83) of Brookfield, Conn., is a psychotherapist, lecturer and musical performer at Canyon Ranch Spa in Newtown, Conn. She also opened Optiself Center for Counseling and Alternative Healing in Newtown.

Mark C. Stevens (L83) of Saratoga, Calif., a partner at Fenwick & West in Mountain View, Calif., rejoined the firm this year after being executive vice president of business development at Excite@Home and partner at Granite Global Ventures.

Mark Dobrzycki (WCAS84) of Harwood Heights, Ill., was elected a village trustee in April and is serving a four-year term.

Lawrence Isaacson (Mu84) of West Newton, Mass., is assistant director of the music division at the Boston Conservatory and was appointed music director for the Parkway Concert Orchestra in 2002 and the Metropolitan Wind Symphony last summer.

Gary Lynn (KSM84) of Hoboken, N.J., professor of marketing and innovation at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, was named one of nine leading management gurus in the United States by Business 2.0 Magazine. He co-authored Blockbusters: The Five Keys to Developing Great New Products (Harper Business Publishers, 2002), which was selected as one of the most important publications in management this year by Manageris Executive Book Summaries of France.

Katharyn Howd Machan (GC84) of Ithaca, N.Y., associate professor of writing and women’s stories at Ithaca College and director of Feminist Women’s Writing Workshops, was named the first poet laureate of Tompkins County, N.Y., in 2002. She wrote two new poetry books, Dreaming How the House of Love Begins (Pudding House Publications, 2002) and Wise Woman (Anabiosis Press, 2003).

Edward T. Maney (J84, KSM91) of Western Springs, Ill., is senior manager for marketing and communications at Accenture in Chicago. His wife, Ann Bourjaily-Maney (GMu84), plays both piano and organ and is a church accompanist.

Lorri L. Platek (C84, GJ87) of Skokie, Ill., is a third-grade teacher at Pope John XXIII School in Evanston after working in pharmaceutical marketing for 14 years. She earned a master’s degree in teaching from National-Louis University in Evanston in 2002.

Christina Rainville (C84, L88) of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., district trial counsel in the Philadelphia office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is responsible for managing litigation in five states and the District of Columbia.

John P. Rompon (WCAS84) of Evanston, vice president of Brigade Corp., was elected president of the Literacy Volunteers of America–Illinois board in 2002. He and his wife, Marian, have twins, Audrey and Matthew.

Steven Wrigley (G84, 86) of Atlanta, senior vice president for external affairs at the University of Georgia, was named chair of the Georgia Humanities Council in June. He is a former chief of staff for Gov. Zell Miller.

Alexander J. Albanese (C85) of New York City, a filmmaker, produced a documentary, Carnauba, A Son’s Memoir, which aired on the Hallmark Channel on Father’s Day.

Peter Friederici (WCAS85) of Flagstaff, Ariz., associate editor at the Ecological Restoration Institute, edited Ecological Restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests (Island Press, 2003) and wrote The Suburban Wild (University of Georgia Press, 1999). His articles have appeared in various publications, including Audubon and High Country News.

Scott Halstead (McC85) of San Francisco was named chief financial officer at WageWorks in San Mateo, Calif., in May. He oversees the financial operations of the company, a national provider of employer-sponsored health care benefits and services.

Mary Sue Barrett (C86) of Chicago, president of the Metropolitan Planning Council, was a panelist at Transport Chicago, an annual mobility conference, in June.

Daryl Newell (WCAS86) of Chicago was named senior vice president of retail banking at ShoreBank in Chicago in July. He manages the day-to-day operations of the retail lending unit. He had been vice president and client advisory officer at Harris Trust and Savings Bank.

Laura Cole Rossidivito (C86) of Decatur, Ga., is education director and apprentice company director for the Atlanta Shakespeare Company. She is also a senior acting company member and has starred as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Viola in Twelfth Night.

Robert Simonson (WCAS86) of Brooklyn, a journalist in New York City, edits for Playbill-Online, writes for the Village Voice and reviews theater for Time Out–New York. His first produced play, Café Society, was performed at the Conservatory in Chicago in April.

David Taffel (C86) of Woodbridge, Conn., managing editor of The Conversationalist, an online daily news and culture briefing, wrote his first book, Nietzsche Unbound: The Struggle for Spirit in the Age of Science (Paragon House, 2003).

Jennifer Houlihan Warwick (C86) of Los Angeles became assistant vice president of university relations at Loyola Marymount University in February.

James Grant (WCAS87, GJ90) of Fort Worth is a senior director for investor relations at RadioShack.

William D. Hawkins (WCAS, Mu87) of New York City became a products liability litigation associate at Ross & Hardies in February. He joined Cantori New York, a 40-voice chamber choir that performs recent choral music, and serves on its board. The group presented the American premiere of Requiem by the Estonian composer Erki-Sven Tüür.

Amanda Grove Holmén (J87) of New York City is an anchorwoman for Court TV in New York.

Sharon Coggan McBride (C87) of Fairfax, Va., is public policy manager at eBay Inc.’s government affairs office in Washington, D.C.

J. Evan Price (WCAS87) of Chicago is a software engineer at trading brokerage Essex-Radez.

Randall E. Allsup (Mu88) of New York City is assistant professor of music and music education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Last summer he was a visiting professor of music at the Chinese Cultural University, teaching courses on conducting and creativity.

Barbara Barrett (WCAS88) of Kirkwood, Mo., is senior counsel for litigation at Express Scripts in Maryland Heights, Mo., a company that manages pharmaceutical benefits for clients.

James P. Bozikis (J88) of Glenview, Ill., is senior marketing manager at RMS Disease Management. He writes a monthly column, “The View from Aisle 429,” for the Chicago Cubs’ Vine Line, a magazine giving a fan’s view from the upper deck at Wrigley Field.

Michael Brothers (GMu88) of Kansas City, Mo., became orchestra conductor for the national tour of Phantom of the Opera in January. He recently completed 4,000 performances with the production.

Richard J. Chwedyk (G88) of Chicago received the prestigious Nebula Award in the novella category in 2002 for Bronte’s Egg, which was also nominated for a 2003 Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Society.

Lee Cohen (WCAS88) of Washington, D.C., became press secretary to U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart (R-S.D.) this fall.

Thomas G. Halvorson (WCAS88) of Virginia Beach, Va., a commander in the U.S. Navy, returned home from Operation Iraqi Freedom in time for daughter Reilly’s second birthday. He has been assigned to the Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group staff. He completed a tour as executive officer of USS Arleigh Burke in December 2002.

Lisa Kazmier (J88) of St. Louis is completing a doctorate in modern British history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She began a one-year teaching position at Washington University in 2003–04.

Connie Garner-Cohen (SCS89) of Wilmette, Ill., head of the liberal arts department at Harrington Institute of Interior Design in Chicago, teaches English composition and literature. She received a master’s degree in written communications in 1995 and a teaching certificate in adult education with a writing specialization from National-Louis University in 1997.

Mohammad Hamed (GMcC89) of Amman, Jordan, is director general of the Public Transport Regulatory Commission in Jordan and professor of transportation planning at Jordan University of Science and Technology.

Stephanie Rogers (C89) of Chicago, a singer, guitarist and keyboardist, released the CD Your New Life on her label, Hipchick Records, with songs intended for every mood and age.

Kris Falzone Scott (J89) of Schererville, Ind., is director of corporate affairs at NiSource, an energy holding company in Merrillville, Ind.

Michael Sprengelmeyer (J89) of Washington, D.C., is a correspondent for Scripps Howard News Service. He covered the war in Iraq for Scripps Howard and for Rocky Mountain News of Denver, traveling with the 101st Airborne Division.