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community-based services to children and adults with physical and development disabilities. He also serves as partner and director of communications at investment advisement group Balentine. Alfred E. Thesmar, Mgt 91, competed in the 103rd running of the Chicago Race to Mackinac on Lake Michigan this summer. It is the longest annual freshwater sailing race in the world. This was Thesmar’s ninth “Mac,” and he crewed with friends aboard Archimedes II, which won their section of 19 boats. Alfred works for Air Liquide and lives in Falls Church, Va., with his wife, Hilary, their daughter, Elizabeth, 6, and son, Cooper 3. Kari Edison Watkins, CE 98, and Akwetee Watkins, ME 98, have returned to Atlanta along with their two young daughters. Kari has moved to the other side of the podium, taking an assistant professor position with Tech’s civil and environmental engineering department at Georgia Tech. After a 15-year career in aerospace, Akwetee now teaches physics at Westminster Schools. Both are thrilled to be back “home” amongst the Jackets. Tina Foxx Whitfield, CE 97, and her husband, Ed, announce the birth of their first child, daughter Sophie Alice, on Dec. 16, 2010. Tina is the water section manager for HDR in Billings, Mont.
2000s Shane Bailey, IE 02, joined Home Depot’s supply chain team in August after eight years with Shaw Industries. He will serve as logistics manager of process and performance engineering. Suzanne Whitfield Clark, ID 08, and Matthew Ryan Lane, EE 09, were married in February in Jasper, Ga. They reside in Marietta, Ga., where Suzanne is a product designer at Rehrig Pacific Company and Matthew is an electrical engineer at ENERCON Services, Inc. Jarrett P. Dunn, ME 03, lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, graduated in September from Surface Warfare Officer Department Head School in Newport, R.I., and was assigned as 66
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Patrick Whaley, ME 10, stopped by Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson’s office this fall to drop off a gift. Whaley gave a set of his Titin weighted sportswear to Peterson, who joked that the gear would make him look “like Batman.” The Titin shirt, which weighs eight pounds, allows athletes to train with added resistance, building more muscle. The weight is incorporated throughout the shirt. Whaley’s invention earned him Tech’s InVenture Prize in 2010. Whaley has inked distribution deals in four countries and partnered with several collegiate and professional sports teams. In August alone, Titin had $20,000 in sales. Whaley did note with regret that so far his biggest customer is the University of Georgia, which bought a Titin training shirt for each member of its football team. More information on Titin is available at titintech.com. chief engineer of the USS Forrest Sherman, an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer out of Norfolk, Va. He previously earned a master’s degree in systems engineering and analysis from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a master’s in defense technology and systems from the National University of Singapore. Guillaume-Jean Herbiet, MS CS 07, and Claire Ghibaudo, a former GTRI research intern, celebrated the birth of their first son, Valentin, on Aug. 19. Herbiet was recently appointed technical manager at HotCity S.A., Luxembourg’s most prominent wireless Internet access provider. The family resides
in Thionville, Lorraine, France. Samuel Wren Fowler, NRE 05, has joined NAC International as a licensing engineer. He and his wife, Suzanne Fulcher Fowler, Mgt 03, reside in Alpharetta, Ga. Hannah Kasulka, Mgt 09, after moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, will appear as a cheerleader in the new NBC series Game Time: Tackling the Past this fall. Ewelina Kieley, Biol 08, will open Swit Bakery and Cafe, a European-style bakery, in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood in December, in partnership with fiance Stephan Prockow, CS 09, and his family.
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