Class Notes Rao S. Govindaraju ’85 EN is the Bowen Engineering Head of Civil Engineering and Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He resides in West Lafayette, Ind. Deborah Harbison Wilkins ’86 LAW is chief of staff and general counsel of Western Kentucky University. She was named the treasurer of the Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Association. Melody Kelley Trimble ’87 NUR is group president of the Southern and Western division of Health Management Associates, parent company of Sparks Health System and Summit Medical Center. She was previously the vice president and market chief executive for the two health systems. She lives in Naples, Fla. Frank C. Kopas ’88 EN is general manager of North America for Aconex, provider of online project collaboration solutions for the construction, infrastructure, power, mining, oil and gas industries. Kopas had been senior vice president of sales at Trilogy. He resides in Belmont, Calif. Michael A. Flannery ’89 CI is an author or co-editor of eight books. He is also the book review editor for the Journal of Medicine and Allied Sciences. He serves as a professor and associate director for historical collections at the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama – Birmingham.
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1990s Jennifer Lynn Yunt ’90 AG is the Jack Daniel’s associate sales promotion manager for the Brown-Forman Corp. In this role, she coordinates the execution of the processes related to development and delivery of consumer promotional materials for the Jack Daniel’s family of brands. She lives in Louisville. Brent M. Cooper ’91 AS is president/owner of C-Forward Information Technologies. He was selected as the 2012 recipient of the Kenton Public Library Foundation Mary Ann Mongan Literacy Award. is award is given to an individual who has shown outstanding service to literacy in Northern Kentucky. Cooper lives in Fort omas. Elizabeth Ann Johnson ’91 AS is an attorney at Stites & Harbison PLLC in Lexington. She is a member of the firm’s Health Care Service Group. Immediately prior to joining the firm, she was the Medicaid commissioner for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Laura Murdock Stillion ’91 HS, ’00 PH is director of the comprehensive transplant center at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Stillion was elected treasurer of the board of directors of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing.
Linda Johnson Vitale ’91 BE is a managing partner at Manchester Capital, a private equity investment firm in Bowling Green. She was elected to serve on the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Woodford Webb ’91 BE is president of e Webb Companies, where he oversees the legal and financial management of a large portfolio of residential and commercial investment properties. He was recently named chairman of the 2013 board for Hospice of the Bluegrass. He resides in Lexington. George “Chip” Atkins ’92 CI is chief executive officer at RH Clarkson Insurance Group. He has been with the company for 19 years and recently served as the chief operating officer. He lives in Prospect. Ram S. Mohan ’92 ’96 EN is a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Tulsa and was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow Award. is is the highest elected grade of membership within ASME, honoring exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to engineering. He lives in Broken Arrow, Okla. Mark D. Prince ’92 AS, ’96 MED is a gastroenterologist on the staff of Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. He resides in Knoxville, Tenn.
Amy Froehlich Mercer ’93 AS, ’96 CI is a serials librarian at the William G. Squires Library at Lee University. She lives in Cleveland, Tenn. Elias C. Chemaly ’94 EN is on the board of directors of Chemaly & Chemaly Printing Press in Beirut, Lebanon. J. Wade Jenkins ’94 AG is market president and corporate relationship manager for the Owensboro Old National Bank. He has worked at the bank since 1996 and most recently was a commercial relationship manager for the Evansville region. He lives in Owensboro. Temba T. Maqubela ’94 AS is the headmaster of the Groton School in Groton, Mass. He previously was assistant head for academics and dean of faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Matthew T. Sanders ’94 EN is manager of the Balance of Plan Process Area at the American Centrifuge Plant and has 13 years of experience at the plant site. He resides in South Shore. James C. Woolery ’94 LAW is deputy chairman and cochairman of the corporate department of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York, N.Y. Woolery previously was the co-head of North American mergers and acquisitions for JPMorgan Chase & Co. Prior to JPMorgan, he spent his career at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.