Ramblin' Roll Marley Ellen on May 18. She joins her sister, Ellery, 3, at the family's home in Arlington, Mass. Klatka is employed as a product manager with Teradyne. M i c h a e l David Knight, AE 96, was presented a General Dynamics Innovation Award in April in Washington, D.C. A preliminary design systems specialist with Gulfstream, Knight led the external vision system team, in collaboration with NASA, to design, develop and coordinate the testing of a concept for replacing natural forward pilot vision with video imagery. Knight lives in Savannah, Ga., with his wife, Clarissa Cochran Knight, ME 96, and their children, Jake, 4, and Suzanna, 7. Suzanne Dickerson Krpata, Mgt 99, and her husband, Lance, announce the birth of a son, Zachary, on April 3. Krpata works as an account executive for supply chain sales for RedPrairie. The Krpata family lives in Cumming, Ga. B r a n d o n Lockhart, Mgt 98, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, earned a PhD in finance from the Uni-
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Amy McLean Penka, IE 95, MS Stat 97, and Adrian P e n k a , IE 97, announce the birth of a son, Finn Anderson, on March 24. Finn joins his brother, Aiden, 2, at the family's home in Sandy Springs, Ga. Amy is a full-time mother, and Adrian is a senior manager with CapGemini Consulting. Matt S i l v e s t o n , CE 94, was elected to serve on the board of directors of WPC Inc., an environmental and geotechnical engineering and construction materials testing firm headquartered in Charleston, S.C. He continues to serve as the firm's senior geotechnical engineer and director of business development. Silveston, who has been with WPC for 12 years, received a master's degree in geotechnical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He lives in Charleston with his wife and two children. Robert Alexander "Alex" Susor, hit A 99, has been named a 2009 co-recipient of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Case of the Year Award in recognition of his work as co-author of the appellant's brief in the Georgia Supreme Court case Garza v. State of Georgia. The case overturned 40 years of lower court precedent and adopted a new legal standard for interpreting Georgia's kidnapping statute. Following the court's decision, Susor was invited to testify as an expert witness on the issue before the judiciary committees of both the Georgia Senate and Georgia House of Representatives. Susor, who graduated from the Georgia State University College of Law in 2006, is an associate attorney at L. David Wolfe PC in Atlanta. C a n d y c e Morgan Taylor, IE 99, and J i m Taylor, IE 99, announce the birth of a daughter, Mia Ansley, on May 15. Mia joins her brother, Trey, 2, at the family's home in Alpharetta, Ga. Candyce is a release manager for Radiant Systems, and Jim is a technical architect with Accenture.
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versity of Florida. He has presented his research at conferences in Dallas; Prague, Czech Republic; San Diego; Chicago; and Reno, Nev. A paper from his dissertation won the Western Finance Association's 2009 Trefftzs Award for best student paper. He and wife Kristy Payant Lockhart, CE 98, a full-time mother, live in Lincoln with their children, Nate, 5, and Mari Cagle, 7.
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Brian C. T h o m a s , Mgt 98, has been sworn in as president of the Black Lawyers Association of Cincinnati and has become a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association board of directors. An associate with Graydon Head, he practices in the area of employment litigation. Prior to joining the human services industry group, he gained experience as a litigator in the workers' compensation field. Thomas graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2001. Tyler T o w n s e n d , IE 98, of Columbus, Ga., was nominated and selected as one of "5 Under 40" recognized in the July / August issue of Columbus and the Valley Magazine. He is an associate planner with Townsend Financial. Greg Willis, ChE 94, has relocated to Singapore, where he is the merchandising director for the consumer division in Dell's Asia-Pacific region. Since joining Dell in 2000, Willis has worked in various marketing and sales management leadership roles in the company's U.S. consumer division in Austin, Texas. He worked for Andersen Consulting from 1994 to 1998 and received an MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden Business School in 2000. Richard W i n g a t e ABiol 99, announces the formation of Hallman & Wingate LLC in Marietta, Ga. The firm specializes in resolving complex environmental legal issues. Wingate and his wife, Kelly Dadson Wingate, ME 02, MS MedPhys 07, live in Smyrna with their sons, Ben, 3, and Gray, 5. R. S c o t t Winstead, Phys 92, received a doctorate in pharmacy, cum laude, from the University of Florida in May. Winstead began a postgraduate hospital practice residency in the summer with the Veterans Affairs hospital in Lake City, Fla. J a s o n Witt, CerE 95, MS CerE 97, and wife Gretchen, of Atlanta, amrounce the birth of Abraham Thomas on June 10. Witt is a senior manufacturing engineer with EMS Technologies. D a v e Zielinski, EE 98, and his wife, Lindsay Raymond Zielinski, announce the birth of son Bennett David on April 9. The couple's first son, Scoville, is 2 years old. Zielinski, a lieutenant commander in the Navy, is a student at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.