tired from the Navy in 1991 and from the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, in 2007. He now works as director of the operations and maintenance division of the Army at Fort A.P. Hill, Va. Annie Hunt Burriss, M CP 79, of Augusta, Ga., has been appointed to the Georgia Medical Center Authority by Gov. Sonny Perdue. Burriss serves as special assistant to the president of the Medical College of Georgia. She previously was the executive director of Perdue's Commission for a New Georgia, the governor's deputy chief of staff and the University System of Georgia's associate vice chancellor for economic development. She now is pursuing a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband, Wood, have two children. Lauralee Cromarty, IM 78, has been named to the advisory board committee for the University of New Haven's newly reorganized industrial, system and multidisciplinary department. She will serve a three-year term. Gregory G. Dess, IE 71, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in Switzerland in December. He is the Andrew R. Cecil endowed chair in applied ethics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He and his wife, Margie, and daughter, Taylor, live in Frisco, Texas. Kurt Hoge, Psy 79, earned a master of divinity degree from Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, Pa. Hoge is an IT manager for New York Life Insurance Co. in Lebanon, N.J. Craig Jones, MS AE 71, is the senior structures engineer at the Missile Defense Agency's airborne laser test bed program office at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Jones spent 20 years at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., and retired as a lieutenant colonel after 26 years in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve.
1980s E. S t e v e DeWeese, IE 84, of Vienna, Va., led a team that wrote "Capability of the People's Republic of China To Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation." The report has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post. It was written for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and is available at uscc.gov. As program director at the Prospective Group in Washington, D.C., DeWeese advises State Department executives of the Bureau of Informa-
After 34 years working for his alma mater, Tom Aklns, IE 74, retired March 31. Akins, who participated in the co-op program while a student at Tech, headed the program for the past 20 years as executive director of the Division of Professional Practice. With Akins at its helm, the division expanded its services to include undergraduate internships and study-abroad opportunities for students. Retirement won't take Akins far from campus. He will be back on a part-time basis starting in July to oversee planning for the co-op program's centennial in 2012-13. Former co-op students with ideas for the celebration or interest in volunteering may e-mail Akins at tom.akins@dopp.gatech.edu.
tion Resource Management. His son, Jack, attends Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and his daughter, Kate, attends Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Eugene "Gene" C. Dunwody Jr., Arch 85, of Macon, Ga., has been appointed to the state licensing board for residential and general contractors as an architect representative by Gov. Sonny Perdue. Dunwody is an architect and partner at Dunwody/Beeland Architects Inc He is married to B.J. Dunwody and has three children and three stepchildren. Frank Fuerst, MS M 83, of Atlanta, is in training for a cross-country cycling tour in June as part of the Place Across America. He has teamed up with three friends to raise $200,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Fuerst is the cofounder and CEO of B2B Technologies, an IT professional services company. Donate at gachaingang.org. Kenn Gardner, Arch 80, M Arch 83, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. He will be recognized at the organization's national convention in June. Gardner practices in Raleigh, N.C. He and his wife, Betty Brinkley Gardner, Biol 80, who teaches genetics at North Carolina State University, have three daughters. S t e v e n J u s t i c e , AE 80, has been named director of Georgia's Center of Innovation for Aerospace. Justice is the founder of Aviation Science & Commerce and Advanced Aviation Products LLC and most recently was vice president of engineering for the Ginn Group in Peachtree City. Stanton Lanier, Chem 86, a pianist released
his sixth CD in December. December Peace was named the 2009 Best Holiday Album by the ZMR Music Awards. Marcus Lewis, ChE 83, was named industrial vice president for Rhtodia, North America, in Cranbury N.J., in January. He is responsible for health, safety, environmental and security programs for the North American zone and oversees the manufacturing services activities, including the North American engineering and reliability functions. He has been with Rhodia for more than 12 years, most recently as plant manager for the Baton Rouge, La., site. He and his wife, Lauri Miller Lewis, ISyE 83, have two children, Erica, a junior at Davidson College, and Matt, a freshman at Elon University. Theresa Maldonado, EE 81, MS EE 82, PhD EE 90, was named director of the Energy Engineering Institute in the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and selected as associate vice chancellor for research for the Texas A&M University System. Maldonado has been at Texas A&M since 2003. Gary Miller, MS Mgt 85, of Sheridan, Wyo., is the founder and chief investment officer of Frontier Asset Management LLC, which outperformed its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, for the Uth consecutive year. Kevin H. Posey, IM 86, of Alexandria, Va., was appointed to the citizens advisory committee of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' transportation planning board. Posey, who recently completed the board's leadership training institute, also is a member of the Alexandria traffic and parking board and the city's new transportation com-
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