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Virginia. Ranghelli is responsible for overseeing technology initiatives and operations.
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Jessica Roma nelli David, director of marketing at SeventySix Capital, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2020 and Cynopsis Best of the Best Rising Stars of 2020.
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Xavia Gary, former JMU Engagement Fellow,
Anthony Ranghelli (’10)
is athletic director of Carver Academy in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Gary, the only African American male instructor at Carver, teaches Introduction to Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Introduction to Accounting.
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Gabrielle Lewis was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to study biology in Nigeria.
Alumnus represents JMU at university presidential inauguration in 2019 Drew Mills (’81), an alumnus of the College of Arts and Letters, represented President Jonathan R. Alger and JMU at the inauguration of Andrew T. Hsu as the 23rd president of the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, on Oct. 25, 2019. (Mills is pictured with his daughter, Brooke, a student at the College of Charleston.)
Faculty Emeriti Association news John William Hanlon, 82, former dean of the College of Business, died Nov. 7, 2019. As dean, he was instrumental in securing the college’s first accreditation from the AACSB. George W. Marrah, 81, associate professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics, died Jan. 25. Marrah retired in 2004 after teaching for more than 30 years at JMU. His wife, Janet W. Gloeckner, professor emerita of health professions, survives. Thomas R. Martin, 70, former men’s soccer coach, lecturer of sport and recreation management, and interim director of athletics, died Oct. 4, 2019. As soccer coach from 1986 to 2014, Martin compiled a 359-164-58 record and five Colonial Athletic Association championships. He was inducted into the JMU Athletics Hall of Fame in September 2019. Kevin G. Miller Sr. (’57, ’59M), 89, associate professor emeritus of accounting, died Nov. 8, 2019. Miller joined the Madison College faculty in 1969 as the first accounting teacher and retired in 1995. He served two terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and five terms in the Virginia Senate before retiring in 2003. Robert Leslie Scott, 80, retired vice president for student affairs, died Nov. 4, 2019. Scott worked in student affairs at JMU for more than 20 years before retiring in 2002. Carl George Krieger Weaver, 81, professor emeritus of finance, died Oct. 7, 2019. Weaver served as director of the Master of Business Administration degree program at JMU before retiring in 1998. For more information about the faculty emeriti organization, contact Sherry King, director of parent and faculty emeriti relations, at kingsf@jmu.edu or by phone at 540–568–8064.
The Xi Delta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity celebrated its 40th anniversary during Homecoming 2019. As part of its celebration, Xi Delta successfully concluded a $50,000 campaign to fully endow the Walter W. Jackson II Memorial Scholarship Endeavor. The scholarship will bestow two annual awards: one to an underrepresented student who demonstrates financial need and the other to a member of Xi Delta who demonstrates financial need. 62
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