register Thomas G. Stokes Jr. 79OX 81C of Atlanta is president of EpiCity Real Estate Services, a family company that has been owned and operated by four generations.
W ORK I NG I T: COL LE GE Linda Davis Taylor 74C is CEO and chair of Clifford Swan Investment Counsel in Pasadena, Calif., the nation’s oldest investment advisory firm. A frequent speaker on wealth transition, family governance, and philanthropy, Taylor’s recently published first book, The Family of Business: How to Stay Rich for Generations, has garnered critical and popular acclaim. In addition to her investment counsel career, Taylor has more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions at Claremont McKenna College, Amherst College, Scripps College, and Emory University. Taylor has served as a trustee for numerous educational and nonprofit organizations and is a cofounder of a private foundation.
interim Fulton County attorney in June 2015. Farrari joined the county attorney’s office in 2009 as a senior attorney in the Risk Management and Revenue Enhancement Division. Joseph B. Fejes 88BBA of Gainesville, a corporate lawyer, is an ultramarathoner who holds the American record among six-day racers. He broke his own record at a competition in Hungary in May 2015 when he ran 606 miles during a six-day race. Terry P. Finnerty 89L of Atlanta is an attorney with the law firm of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard, and Smith where his practice focuses on labor and employment law. Mark H. Manassee 89T of Culver City, Calif., who has served as senior minister at Culver Palms Church of Christ for 10 years, received a doctor of ministry degree in missional leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. Manassee is an adjunct professor of religion at Pepperdine University in Malibu. Thomas H. Prol 89OX 91C 97PH of Franklin, N.J., is president-elect of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Stephen G. Ray 89OX 93C of Vacaville, Calif., who was promoted to major and PCS in the US Air Force, is assigned to Travis Air Force Base as a clinical nurse specialist in the Emergency Department.
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Angela Walker Franklin 83G 86PHD of West Des Moines, Iowa, is the author of new e-book also available in softcover entitled An Unconventional Journey… An Unlikely Choice. Franklin is the first woman and first black to serve as president and chief executive officer of Des Moines University. Richard A. Hunter 83T of Owens Cross Roads, Ala., was appointed the executive director of new church development for the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. Mark A. Weinberger 83C of Potomac, Md., global chairman and chief executive officer of EY, received the Joseph C. Donchess Distinguished Service Award from the Wyoming Seminary College preparatory school from which he graduated in 1979. Weinberger is a member of the board of trustees of Emory University. Elihugh J. Kilgore Jr. 84T of Pulaski, Va., was appointed on July 1 to serve as the Cleveland District superintendent in the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. Reuben A. Guttman 85L of Bethesda, Md., is a partner of the law firm Guttman, Bushchner and Brooks in Washington, D.C. Wayde J. Washburn 85T of LaGrange is pastor of Sandy Creek United Church of Christ in Lafayette, Ala. George H. Cate III 87L of Nashville, Tenn., joined the law firm of Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings as a partner in June 2015 after practicing for 28 years with Neal and Harwell. Cate specializes in civil litigation, crisis management and civil and criminal government investigations. Katherine Arn Clark 87G 92PHD of Pensacola, Fla., announces the publication of her first novel, The Headmaster’s Darlings, with a forward by Pat Conroy. It was published in August 2015 by Pat Conroy’s Story River Books imprint at the University of South Carolina. Mitchell H. Fein 87C of Port Washington, N.Y., president of Courageous Group, launched Orcatex Design, an online store that manufactures and distributes surf, resort, and lifestyle footwear for men and women. Laine R. Kline 87C 90L of Beverly Hills, Calif., is the executive vice president of business affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Jerolyn Webb Farrari 88L of Tucker was appointed
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As executive director of the Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI), one of Harvard University’s scientific institutes, Karen Lachmayr 95OX 97C promotes interdisciplinary research among scientists across the Boston area. In leading the MSI, one of Harvard’s first interfaculty initiatives, Lachmayr helps foster collaborations among microbial scientists within Harvard and beyond. Involved in the MSI since its earliest days, Lachmayr has been at this post since earning her doctorate in environmental microbiology from Harvard in 2007. The author of numerous publications, she has focused her research on antibiotic resistance in wastewater and marine ecosystems and serves on a science advisory board to the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority.
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Mayo M. Woodward Sr. 90OX 92C of Birmingham, Ala., is managing director and producing complex manager of BB&T Scott and Stringfellow. Bernard C. Acoca 91C of Seattle, Wash., is the chief marketing officer of L’Oreal Americas. Charles D. McDonald III 91L of Brentwood, Tenn., a certified financial planner, leads the Trust and Financial Management Department as the senior trust executive for First Farmers and Merchants Bank. Jefferson B. Prince 91M 92MR of South Hamilton, Mass., received the Dr. E. Augustus Holyoke Memorial Award from the North Shore Medical Center’s medical staff in May 2015. Prince serves as vice chairman of the department of psychiatry at North Shore Medical Center, is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and is on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital in the child psychiatry and pediatric psychopharmacology clinics. Sonia A. Smith 91MN of Foley, Ala., opened Emerald Coast Pediatric Sleep Consultants, a nurse practitionerowned practice specializing in pediatric sleep disorders and treatment. Kirsten T. White 91MN of Tulsa, Okla., is a neonatal nurse practitioner at St. John Clinic.
Lawrence E. Cooper 92MBA of Wilton, Conn., is director of marketing for Blue Buffalo, a pet food company. Lisa M. Carlson 93PH of Decatur is associate director of management and operations for the CHAMPS Network at Emory’s Global Health Institute. CHAMPS Network is a new international program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that seeks to impact causes of childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming 93L of Ashburn, Va., is the principal legal adviser for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Chris Young 93T of Philadelphia, Miss., is pastor of the Philadelphia First United Methodist Church. Alan Paul Roy Gregory 94PHD of Austin, Texas, principal at the South East Institute for Theological Education, is the author of Science Fiction Theology: Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime in which he investigates the troubled relationship between science fiction and Christianity. David Jolly 94C of Indian Rocks Beach, Fla., is a member of the US House of Representatives who was elected to a two-year term in November 2014. Lajune Elder Oliver 94C 03MR of Atlanta is the ambulatory medicine assistant program director for quality at the Southeast Permanente Medical Group and the lead physician for the comprehensive weight management program at Kaiser Permanente Georgia. Sanford A. Wallack 94L of Brookhaven represented the one defendant in the Atlanta Public School cheating trial who was acquitted of all charges. Jeffrey E. Friedman 95C of Gainesville, Fla., is director of bariatric surgery at the University of Florida Shands Hospital. Robert C. Goeltz II 95BBA of Hillsborough, Calif., is chief financial officer of CytomX Therapeutics. Jeffrey S. Reznick 95G 99PHD of Derwood, Md., chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, received the 2015 Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences best article award for “Embracing the Future as Stewards of the Past: Charting a Course Forward for Historical Medical Libraries and Archives.” The article appeared in the fall 2014 volume of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. Abby Hope Spatz 95C 00MBA of New York, N.Y., is the chief marketing officer for NYC and Company, New York City’s marketing, tourism, and partnership organization.
W O R K I N G I T: B USI N ESS Dan Gordon 99BA 05MBA was appointed chief operating officer for the city of Atlanta by Mayor Kasim Reed in August. Gordon is responsible for oversight and executive management of the city’s operating departments, including aviation, fire, police, corrections, parks, recreation and cultural affairs, planning and community development, public works, and watershed management. Previously Gordon was senior operating executive at a Roark Capital portfolio company, where he led a national team in optimizing operations. He also held senior operating positions at the Arthur M. Blank Family of Businesses and The Home Depot. He also volunteers in leadership capacities at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Grady Hospital.