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career and was very involved in Alpha Epsilon Pi. Eve was a founding mother of Alpha Delta Pi. We could not be prouder to represent JMU at our wedding with the two best colors: purple and gold. Our wedding date is set for Sept. 3, 2017, and we can’t wait to start our lives together.”
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Cory Speicher (’13) and Eve Rodrigues (’13)
at Success Academy Charter Schools, the largest and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City.
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“Eve Rodrigues and I got engaged on Nov. 21, 2015, in New York City,” says Cory Speicher. “I was a proud member of the Marching Royal Dukes for all four years of my college
Calleigh Fangmeyer has joined the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets as a certified athletic trainer. Fangmeyer is an employee of Carilion Clinic’s sports medicine program and a donated service provider to the corps. She will provide consulting and assistance to cadets, work with the cadet emergency medical technician group and advise the staff.
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Abigail Dorman is a fourth-grade teacher in Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools.
Class of 2015 Dukes Aaron Humphreys, Joe Barletta and Kyle Blackburn were spotted at Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FutureDukes 2000s Jenny Hill Buffa (’01) and Matt, a daughter, Madeline Jane, 2/22/16 ✱ Elizabeth Sibert (’02) and Chadd, a daughter, Clara Margaret, 11/01/15 ✱ Heather Yeager (’01) and Kyle (’03), a son, Graham Thomas,
8/07/16 ✱ Jessica Steinhoff Sorem (’04) and Justin (’03), a daughter, Amelia Kate, 7/12/16 ✱ Diane Wetzel Mahoney (’05) and Tom (’03), a daughter, Olivia Grace, 3/18/16 ✱ Meredith Collins McDonald (’07) and Paul (’05), a daughter, Eleanor Mae, 4/11/16.
FACULTY EMERITI NOTES AND FORMER FACULTY NEWS The JMU Faculty Emeriti Association is a multifaceted organization open to all faculty and administrative personnel who have been granted emerita or emeritus status by the JMU Board of Visitors. The organization provides an opportunity for retired faculty to continue association with colleagues and to maintain ties to the university community. More than 200 retired faculty and administrative professional staff members are actively involved with the JMU Faculty Emeriti Association through meetings, special interest groups and cultural-themed trips. For more information, please contact Faculty Emeriti President Violet Allain at allainvl@jmu.edu or Sherry King, director of parent and faculty emeriti relations, at kingsf@jmu.edu or by phone at 540–568–8064.
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Faculty Emeriti Association treasurer William H. Ingham, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, donated his professional papers to JMU Special Collections in October 2013 after retiring in 2010. On Nov. 9, Ingham was on campus as part of JMU’s Special Collections Speaker Series. During his lecture, “Please Don’t Vanish Without a Trace,” he discussed the process of placing his papers in Special Collections. “To thoroughly research the history of James Madison University and tell its story, institutional historians need access to information that is only available
through papers donated by JMU faculty members,” he said. Sidney Bland, professor emeritus of history, was a major consultant and “talking head” on a recently completed video by the South Carolina Educational Television Network. The program honored Susan Pringle Frost, one of two persons recently named to the South Carolina Hall of Fame and subject of Bland’s earlier biography. CONNECT All former professors are encouraged to submit an “Emeriti Note” at madisonmag@jmu.edu.
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