✱ Tricia McGoldrick Sheehan launched a new business venture, shades of green, providing residential eco-consulting services. Through green home makeovers, the business helps people create healthier home environments and save money. Learn more at http:// mygreenhomemakeover.com. Jack Martin Brandt 06 was appointed by President Barack obama in
a zoning inspector since 2006 and started with arlington on March 28, 2011. ✱ after graduation from the College of Business, Cory Suter launched a part-time venture, Bioneighbors sustainable Homes. once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. This summer, suter is launching his next entrepreneurial initiative — direct Congress, a lawmaking forum on american Principles. suter’s concept is simple — develop a grassroots movement in which americans create and vote on laws themselves. Learn how the program works at http:// directcongress.org. suter paid his way through JMU working as a brick mason and and says, JMU’s “Venture Creation class gave me lots of tools that have ended up working successfully for me.”
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Professor Emeritus of History Sidney Bland delivered the annual state of the Field address at the 2012 advanced Placement Reading in United states History in Louisville, Ky. The lecture series features a scholar who has published in a particular field of history. The scholar gives a presentation aimed at high-school teachers and covers important ideas, recommendable books and recent scholarship in his or her field. Bland’s expertise is american Women’s History and the Progressive era. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science Gordon M. Fisher and Associate Professor Emerita of Mathematics Dawn S. Fisher wish everyone in the JMU community well in 2012. “does anyone remember us?” writes gordon Fisher. “We are doing well in Westchester County, n.Y. We live near our daughter, Jennifer i. Fisher Berger (’83), and her family. our other daughter, andrea M. Fisher Rowland (’78), visits us from Charlottesville, Va. after a half century of research and perseverance, Professor Emeritus of History Henry Myers has completed the first english translation of the Book of Emperors, which will be published by West Virginia University Press as part of its ongoing Medieval european series later this year. “The Book of Emperors is the first history of the Roman empire of any sort written in the West since antiquity and the first attempt at a world or universal history in any Western vernacular language,” Myers says in his introduction. “its author was an anonymous monk in Regensburg, Bavaria, who sometime between 1152 and 1165 took up the monumental task of setting down in german the whole story of the Roman empire, including a bit of Biblical and ancient greek background, as he thought it worthwhile for laymen to know. More than eight centuries later,” Myers explains, “we are quite familiar with the genre called ‘popular history.’” Myers’ scholarly endeavor has been marked by unparalleled opportunity, like an extended stay in an austrian monastery, where he examined the oldest-surviving parchment manuscript. it was also marked by catastrophe, including loss of his own book manuscript in a fire that also destroyed his house, causing him to have to rebuild both. Myers and his wife, nancy, live on their horse farm, called elk Run stables, in Churchville, Va. He was the subject of a popular Curio feature in 2005.
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January to the President’s Committee for People with intellectual disabilities. Brandt is the disability policy specialist for the Partnership for People with disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University, a position he has held since 2010. His work focuses on developing and promoting evidence-based and person-centered practices to improve outcomes in self-advocacy for people with Daniel O’Keefe of intellectual and developmental Buckeye, ariz., is a disabilities. The political sciborder patrol agent at arizona’s ence major serves on the Virajo station. He appeared on the ginia Community integration discovery channel show Cops advisory Commission and the and Coyotes, which premiered in Virginia statewide indepennovember 2011. dent Living Council. ✱ Corey Schwartz launched a Rachel college health promoDay, a cum tion in 2010 called laude, double major RemixYourHealth. in art and english, is RemixYourHealth serving in the Peace disseminates health Corps on the island education information, of Fogo in Cape materials and resources Verde, africa. The to college students Christiansburg, Va., across the country via native writes, “Three social media includof my JMU friends, ing a blog, Facebook, including Emily Twitter, Foursquare Hamilton (’08), a and a website. schwartz Cory Suter (’06) former JMU admissays, “RemixYoursions recruiter, came to visit me Health is designed to be a in Fogo. The island is a volcano, peer-to-peer health promotion with a smaller volcano within the initiative that allows college crater. We climbed the smaller students and young professionvolcano and trekked into the als to write for our blog and crater, where people write their help educate and collaborate names in rocks to be seen from with our peers, friends and the rim. We wrote “JMU” in the classmates at colleges and comrocks and hope to see the photo panies across the country.” Visit in the magazine! Fika dretu, stay www.RemixYourHealth.com. well.” ✱ David Gottlieb was ✱ Aaron Shura (‘06M) is the promoted to senior accountant new site plan/zoning inspecat Pennsylvania accounting firm tor for arlington County, Va. shechtman Marks devor PC. He recently left Washington gottlieb provides audit services County, Md. where he served as
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