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Dr. Richard H. Dillard ’58 professor of English at Hollins University, was among winners of the 2012 Perry F. Kendig Award for Outstanding Support of the Arts, presented by the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge. Dillard is a highly regarded poet and writer of fiction and critical essays. He has taught creative writing, literature and film studies at Hollins since 1964 and has won numerous awards for his writing. The Perry F. Kendig Award, named for the late Roanoke College president and Roanoke Valley arts patron, was established in 1985 to recognize examples of support, involvement, and accomplishment in the arts, and to inform the community about significant contributions to the arts in the Roanoke Valley region.
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1960s Mary Moses Rieger ’62 retired from James City County after 29 years as a legal technician in the county attorney’s office. She resides in Williamsburg, Va., and enjoys ballroom dancing, reading, music and theater. Mary Beth Kershner Cox ’66 owns and operates Ship’s Hatch Inc., an upscale military gift store in Crystal City, near the Pentagon. She and her husband, Tom, live in Lorton, Va., and have two children and two grandchildren.
His daughter, Carolyn ’14, is a student at Roanoke College. Frank Stapleton ’73 has practiced dentistry in Pleasantville, N.Y., for more than 30 years. He is developing a computer program for an integrated dental health scoring system that should improve dental management and patient care. He says that Roanoke College greatly helped him in making important developments in his project. He and his wife, Maureen, have been married for 30 years and have two sons, Francis, a graduate of Duke University School of Law, and Colin, who will start law school in the fall. Karen Sohl ’74 is corporate risk manager and manager of training and development for Chemetall US Inc., in New Providence, N.J. She is secretary of the board of trustees of the New Jersey Chapter of the Risk and Insurance Man-
agement Society. Kim Hupfeldt ’75 lives in Palmetto, Fla., where she has a handmade jewelry business and participates in art festivals around the state. Lindsey Porter Jones ’75 retired from Roanoke County Schools after a 33-year career. She celebrated her marriage to Larry Bowman in March 2011, and they reside in Blacksburg.
1980s The Rev. Dr. William W. Boldin ’83 earned his doctor of ministry from Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond. His final project was “Theologia Crucis: Luther’s Theology of the Cross as a Tool for Coping with Traumatic Stress.” William is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and serves as chaplain/director of pastoral care for Retreat Doctor’s Hospital in Richmond. He and his wife, Brenda Morris Boldin ’82, live in Mechanicsville. continued on page 36
1970s Nicholas A. Boccella ’71 was appointed to serve a three-year term as chairman of the board of trustees of Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation. He and his wife, Fran, have been active volunteers with the hospital, a provider of rehabilitation services for children with special needs. Nicholas is senior vice president and portfolio manager with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Florham Park, N.J. Wayne Miesen ’71 is the command master chief for a combined Coast Guard and Navy task group, performing maritime security operations in Kuwait.
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Elizabeth Douglas Medcalf ’82, of Frostburg, Md., and a group of her classmates realized that they would not be able to attend their 30th reunion at the 2012 Alumni Weekend, so they planned one of their own. Themed “Still Spiffy After all These Years,” they met in Northern Virginia. Pictured from left are: Jennifer Riley Means ‘82, of Atlanta; Sheila Dambroski ‘82, of Springfield, Va.; Karen Olson ‘82, of North Haven, Conn.; Holly Smith Beck ‘82, of Carnation, Wash.; Medcalf; Larry Beck, of Carnation; Lee Keely (Sheila’s husband), of Springfield; James Kelly ‘82, of Park Ridge, N.J.; Travis Medcalf, of Frostburg; and Sally Glass, of Arlington, Va., who was part of the Class of 1982, but transferred in her junior year. Earlier in the evening, the group also Skyped with Brenda Morris Boldin ‘82 and the Rev. Dr. William Boldin ‘83 of Mechanicsville, Va., who were unable to attend in person.
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