ALUMNI UPDATES
Martin ’01 Turner Seydel ’86 & White, Jr. ’88
Duncan ’90 Brown ’99
Callaway ’07 (seated center)
Albert Sheppard ’58 retired from university life after working at Georgia Tech, George Mason and Florida Southern. He is now golfing and traveling a lot. He’d love to hear from some of his classmates from the 1950s and early 1960s. See his ePetrel profile on www.alumni.oglethorpe.edu.
Lisa Duncan ’90, aka Archen, has opened
Nancy Calhoun ’60 and her husband
of the Christopher A. Ballar, PC, law firm in Buford, Georgia. His practice concentrates in the areas of wills, trusts, estates, probate, guardianship, special needs and elder law issues.
Ed have recently retired. Nancy worked at The Walker School for 35 years. She was the founding principal of Walker’s Middle School, and she directed the middle school for the past 23 years. Ed retired from the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs. Randall N. Lee ’72 announced his retire-
ment from the DeKalb County School System effective July 1, 2007. Randall began his employment with DeKalb County Schools after graduation in 1972. He served as a teacher/coach, high school principal, and central office administrator in his 35 years. He received his master’s and specialist degrees from Georgia State University. He was elected to Oglethorpe’s Athletic Hall of Fame for basketball in 2000. In 2006, he received Oglethorpe’s School Bell Award for outstanding contributions as an educator. Randall is currently working with the Georgia Department of Education as a program specialist.
Ellen Heckler O’Herlihy ’82 and her family moved to Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, after her husband Mike accepted a position as a review appraiser at Citi. Her daughter Kiernan is both excited and apprehensive about her new fourth grade class, but Ellen knows that she will be fine once she adjusts. Johnny Cubert White, Jr. ’88 attended
a VIP event for the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival honoring Ted Turner who received the Jules Verne Nature Award. At a private reception before the event, he spoke with Laura Turner Seydel ’86. The Turners run the Captain Planet Foundation, an organization helping kids help the environment, so Captain Planet was there.
her own private art studio in Marietta, located in the Artist’s Resource Center. She does original art, as well as portraits, landscapes and abstracts. Visit www.artbyarchen.com.
Chris Ballar ’93 announces the opening
Chris McDuffie ’94 is currently in his last
year of supervision for the LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) credential. Chris was promoted to assistant director of the foster care agency he has worked at for five years. He also does mental health assessments in local emergency rooms for Peachford Behavioral Health.
Derek Hambrick ’97 is freelance writing,
editing and proofreading for companies such as JWT and BBDO Atlanta. This was spurred by his earning another degree from OU, this time in Communications and Rhetoric Studies. His writing can be found online at www.townloafer.com, which posts the Cumming, Georgia, magazine of the same name. Derek serves as writer and associate editor. Derek shares his experiences simplifying his life in the book Get Satisfied: How Twenty People Like You Found the Satisfaction of Enough. Randy Roberson ’97 joined the staff
of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland as a Development Officer in December 2007. The Smith School is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One of 14 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School offers undergraduate, full-time and part-time MBA, executive MBA, executive MS, PhD and executive education programs, as well as outreach services to the corporate community. The school offers its degree, custom and certification programs in learning locations on three continents — North America, Europe and Asia.
Allison M. McDonald ’98 announces the
opening of the Law Office of Allison M. McDonald, PC, Decatur, Georgia.
Dan Brown ’99 completed his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Miami this spring and is now doing an internship in New York City. Next year he will return to the beautiful environs of Georgia, which he’s missed so much, to complete his residency in radiology. He’ll be just down the road in Savannah. Amanda Regnier ’99 received her Ph.D. in anthropology with a specialization in archaeology from the University of Alabama in December 2006. She began a faculty appointment in the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey at the University of Oklahoma in July 2007. Christopher Jackson ’01 recently began a job with the healthcare section of Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C. Kevin Martin ’01 and Heather Martin ’01 recently relocated to Mt. Juliet, Ten-
nessee, where Kevin has accepted a call as pastor of Celebration Lutheran Church. He was ordained by the ELCA in August after completing his master’s of divinity at Southern Lutheran Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. The whole family is enjoying the Nashville area and looking forward to this new step.
Christopher Scott ’01 was a Smithsonian pre-doctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History from August 2007 through January 2008. He is currently ABD in the doctoral program in history at the University of South Carolina. Daniel Sobczak ’01 recently left Gwinnett County Schools to teach social studies (economics and history) at Southwest DeKalb High School in Decatur. Jesse De Maria Giordano ’02 is now
working as the young adult (teen) librarian for the Roswell Regional Public Library.
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