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and the nephew of Heidi Hammond O’Connor ’79. Lindley Peterson Fleury’s father, Norman, passed away December 26, 2013. He was also the son-in-law of the late George Kelly ’20 and the grandfather of Ashley Doughty ’04.
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Tom Motheral ’67 (center) with faculty members Matt Geeza, Karl Reisner, Dan Walker, and Peter Kempe. Tom was on campus in October to hear the Ammerman Family Lecture.
Molly Jones Mancini is appearing as a guest judge on a new Food Network program. She is proud to represent Utz Quality Foods on a pretzel-themed episode of the show.
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Jenny Lepley Mullins has been the main employee and manager of the Leavenworth Mosquito Control District in Washington state since 2003 with occasional forestry work as well. She and her husband, Rob, are proud to share that their 14-year-old daughter, Erin, won the 2013 Washington state 1A high school cross country championship. Barrett Burns ’63 and Scott Christopher ’72 at Scott’s art studio in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Barrett and his wife, Patricia, dropped by the studio last fall to see a series of Scott’s paintings.
Mark Talbott ’78 (left) with Mac Williams ’13 at the 2014 Men’s College Squash Association National Team Championships in February. Mac plays for Georgetown University and Mark (an eight-time world professional squash player of the year and an inaugural member of the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame) is the head coach and director of squash at Stanford University.
ports; and training and equipping the Iraqi military. I was also part of a small team that developed the plan to withdraw forces from Iraq. Following my return to the States in 2009, I went to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to run the Army’s Command and General Staff College. Just as I was being selected for brigadier general, my wife of 35 years (and childhood sweetheart), Chris, was diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer. I retired to take care of her, and when she passed away in November 2011, the Secretary of the Army hired me to become a senior executive in the Department of the Army. I moved recently to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to become the deputy of U.S. Army North (U.S. Fifth Army). We provide military support for Homeland Security and disaster assistance for the entire U.S. My three children are all doing well, and I am blessed with two young grandkids. If you are ever in the San Antonio area, look me up; I love visitors and cook a mean steak!”
’75 Rebecca Peace was named the Pennsyl-
vania Bar Association’s 2013 Government Lawyer of the Year. Rebecca has served as chief counsel for the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency since 1989. Tony Tito’s father, Ralph, passed away September 20, 2013. Billy Jarrett ’91 joined the private bank at Wells Fargo in Miami, Florida. He has also been elected by the Republican National Committee as committeeman of MiamiDade County. (Pictured: Billy, left, with Florida Governor Rick Scott.)
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Frederic “Fritz” Hammond’s son, George, died November 15, 2013. George was also the grandson of former faculty member James Hammond
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Karen Craig married John Ryland ’82 September 14, 2013, in Cooperstown, New York. Mercersburg School Minister Larry Jones officiated.
J.D. Koch and his wife, Barbara Lillafuredi-Koch, welcomed a son, Walter Tobias “Tobi” Koch, November 20, 2013, in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. J.D. and his family live in Grafenwoehr-Ochsenhut, Germany, where he is deputy director of the Simulations Center for the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command. Mark Montgomery and the USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group, which he commands, were sent to the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan as part of relief efforts by the U.S. military.
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Brian Wagner accepted the position of chief commercial officer at CAS Medical Systems. He previously was senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Philips Imaging Systems.
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Grammy-nominated music producer and songwriter Luke Ebbin has been chosen to receive the Denison University Alumni Citation. Luke has worked with Bon Jovi, Melissa Etheridge, The All-American Rejects, and will.i.am. Theodore Lichtenstein has returned from Bahrain, where he was working as the fuels officer at a U.S. Navy air base.
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Lucy Harrington Floyd owns her own business, Voice Maven, and is doing voiceover work and teaching improv to children and adults.
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John Brubaker, a performance consultant, speaker, and author, was the featured speaker at a Mercersburg school meeting in December. John, who is based in Lewiston, Maine, is author of The Coach Approach: Success Strategies from the Locker Room to the Board Room, and Seeds of Success: A Leader, His Legacy, and the Lessons Learned. Michael McGinn’s father, John, died June 21, 2013. Thomas Stauffer is the owner of Seaworthy Marine Services in Exmore, Virginia.
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J.J. Fabrega lives in Panama City, Panama, with his wife Mariana and their three children—9-year-old Luciana, 6-year-old Paula, and 1-year-old Julio José. J.J. is running his own consulting firm, FS Consultores S.A., specializing in business advising, public relations, and government affairs. He has also partnered with Marcelo Tenza in a branch office of SOLSEGUR to bring specialty products for the hotel industry to Panama, and serves as chairman of the board of the National Bureau of Science Technology and Innovation and the National Research System. “I have kept in touch with a number of fellow classmates from Mercersburg, mainly through email and other social networks,” J.J. says. “I do see Ruben Acoca on occasion, and we hope to make the 25th reunion in 2015.” Marty Whalen has been named to the Special Olympics Texas 2014 Board of Directors. Marty is vice president of managed care in the United States for Essilor of America.
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Erik Needham appeared in a story in the September 29, 2013, business section of The New York Times. The article featured an Internet service that Erik co-founded called Rabbl, which is a type of crowdfunding site that allows users to recruit favorite bands to play in one’s own town.
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Kimball Prentiss married Gerald Downes August 17, 2013, in Industry, Maine, near the Prentiss family homestead.
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Robert Hanvey is commanding officer of the Navy Operational Support Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. His command directly supports 13 reserve units and about 300 Navy reservists as well as 300 Marines and 250 Army personnel. “I never thought I would be stationed in the middle of a state instead of on the coast for a Navy job,” Robert says. “Shannon is back ‘home’ in the South, and I have much more time at