ALUMNI NEWS
Barry Miller, ’81, has joined the law firm of Mazanec, Raskin & Ryder as a partner who focuses his practice on insurance coverage opinions and litigation, including coverage issues related to municipal liability, bad faith and extra-contractual damages. He also has considerable experience handling technology issues involving data breach defense and electronic discovery and provides instruction to a variety of groups, including attorneys and business owners, regarding preservation of digital evidence and insurance aspects of cyber liability. He has also taught mass communications law at EKU, is a Kentucky Super Lawyer (2013-15) and is AV Preeminent®, as rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He and wife Donna Bunch Miller,’81, reside in Nicholasville. Debra Revell, ’82, Winchester, Kentucky, retired from Lexmark International in 2009. She won numerous awards from the Society of Technical Communications for her technical writing skills during her 22-year career in Lexington for three companies.
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Irving Schoenacker, ’82, coaches chess in rural upstate New York. His elementary school chess team won the Livingston County Chess Championship for the fourth consecutive year, and his middle school chess team recently captured its fifth straight title. Lisa Holt-Taylor, ’84, of Cincinnati, participated in Miami University’s Earth Expeditions global field course in Guyana. During the summer of 2015, she studied traditional ecological knowledge of the Makushi and the potential of local wisdom to guide conservation initiatives in the South American country. Holt-Taylor, a third-grade teacher at Boyd E. Smith Elementary in Cincinnati, took the graduate course in pursuit of her master’s degree from Miami University’s Global Field Program. Dwayne Pettit, ’84, retired from the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, in June 2015 after 30 years. He and wife Cynthia Pettit reside in Lexington, Kentucky. Barry Cox, ’85, of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, is a retired Civil Service employee, working part time in the mental health field. He is a veteran of Desert Storm/Desert Shield and coaches football at Aliquippa High School. Charles Taylor, ’88, retired as a captain with the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Police Department and is enjoying golf and motorcycle riding with the Blue Knights. Suzie Hackmiller, ’90, is the new principal at Harmony Elementary in Oldham County, Kentucky, where she began her career as a middle school special education teacher. For the past eight years, she was principal of Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School in Oak Park, Illinois. She had also worked in Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public Schools for 13 years.
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1. Granddaughter Audrey Mae Tincher to Michael Herschel Rachford, ’65, and Bonnie Sue Rachford, of Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
Addison Rena to Angela Messamore Carter, ’07, and Keil Carter, of Madisonville, Kentucky, on August 31, 2014.
2. Evan Andrew to Kim Kiser Brumbaugh, ’01, and Derick Brumbaugh, ’06, of Richmond, Kentucky, on Jan. 22, 2014.
Grant Bradley to Katherine Westrick Russell, ’07, and Brad Russell, of Louisville, Kentucky, on June 7, 2015.
3. Silas Turner to Jessica Turner Canterbury, ’01, and Jason Canterbury, ’03, of Bellevue, Kentucky, on Feb. 15, 2013.
Jackson William to Steven Kenneth Riley, ’07, and Charissa Marie (Foster) Riley, ’09, of Lexington, Kentucky, on June 3, 2015.
John Paul to Jonathan Brian Hartman, ’05, and Holly Dawn (Bayes) Hartman, ’02, of New Albany, Indiana, on June 18, 2015.
5. Weston to Paul Henry, ’12, and Jessica Arterburn Henry, ’12 in June 2015. Paul is employed by Southern States Cooperative and Jessica as an RN at the Medical Center at Bowling Green (Kentucky).
4. Kynzee Denise to Jason Perry Rector, ’06’08, and Lisa Kneisley Rector, ’08, of Champaign, Illinois, on Sept. 27, 2014. Lake Andre Hayes to Jeremy Andrew Hayes, ’06, and Lindsay Michelle (Bramlage) Hayes, ’12, of Leesville, Louisiana, on July 12, 2015.
6. Bailey Olivia to Scot Wiles, ’10, and Ashley Hollar, ’11. Scot is a TSA employee at Bluegrass Airport. Ashley is employed by Path Forward of Kentucky.
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