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I was truly honored. It’s wonderful when your peers look at your work and find that it was noteworthy. Personally, I really work hard and try to do my job the right way, and to be honored in that way was just tremendous.” –Pierre Thomas (communication ’84), ABC News senior justice department correspondent, on being named the 2012 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists
Meagan M. Flood (COMM) and Zachary S. Jones (HIST ’08), Charlotte, N.C., married 5/25/12. Crystal M. Lacey-Thompson (IDST) and William R. Thompson IV, White Post, Va., married 5/26/12. Aaron P. Myhr (CS, HIST) and Eileen McCaffrey Myhr (IDST ’08), Centreville, Va., married 6/18/11. Nicholas R. Nelson (HIST), Fort Knox, Ky., a son, 5/3/12.
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Ashley N. Clark (APSC, EDCT ’10), Pulaski, Va., achieved certification as a Professional Animal Scientist in the Equine American Registry. Karisa A. Moore (EDCT), Christiansburg, Va., is interim executive director for equity and access at Virginia Tech. Nathan B. Roberts (FIN), New Bedford, Mass., completed the U.S. Marine Corps’ Basic School in March as a second lieutenant. Brandon J. Divers (HIST) and Jennifer Hedrick Divers (COMM ’10), Littleton, Colo., married 5/19/12. Bradley M. Shoemaker (FORS) and Jillian P. Massari (ENGL ’10), Waldorf, Md., married 5/5/12. Benjamin C. Strause (CEM) and Megan Lyons Strause (PSYC), Alexandria, Va., married 8/6/11.
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David Mishkel (BIOL), Yorktown, Va., 11/3/11.
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Klayton L. Shaw (CPE), Carrollton Va., is a software engineer for Northrop Grumman. Michelle Anonick Banks (FST, CHEM) and Samuel B. Banks (ACIS, FIN ’10), Midlothian, Va., married 2/19/11. Erik B. Ostergaard (ME) and Lindsey Eubank Ostergaard (ME), Springfield, Va., married 3/24/12.
friends
Ruth Horton died June 18. Horton and her late husband, Miles C. Horton Jr., were steadfast supporters of Virginia Tech. In addition to the Miles and Ruth Horton Collection of artwork, the couple also gave their house, an art studio, and the Miles C. Horton Sr.
Research Center (including the Martin Observatory and Vorticella Lab— which essentially amounts to the top of Salt Pond Mountain near Mountain Lake in Giles County, Va. To read more about the couple’s legacy, visit www. vtmag.vt.edu/sum04/feature1.html.
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Adam C. Terminella (BAD), Henrico, Va., is an attorney and counselor at law with Golightly Mulligan PLC in Richmond, Va. Michael H. Tsutagawa (ISE) Centreville, Va., retired from the U.S. Navy after 20 years of honorable service. Patrick W. Bates (CHEM) and Elizabeth Payne Bates, Pensacola, Fla., married 11/10/11.
obituaries students
Ragaei Abdelfattah, a former graduate student, was killed Aug. 9 while serving as a USAID foreign service officer in Afghanistan.
faculty/staff
Bonnie Lee Appleton, professor emerita of horticulture and retired Virginia Cooperative Extension horticulture specialist, 7/21/12. Don Allen Garst, former teacher in the Department of Civil Engineering, 6/7/12. Mary H. Ross, professor emerita of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 7/6/12. C.W. “Bill” Smith, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science and Mechanics and a member of the Academy of Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech, died July 30. Smith became one of the first engineering faculty members to transition from a strictly teaching role to assuming a teaching and research responsibility in the college. In 1977, the university recognized Smith with its Alumni Award for Excellence in Research. Over the course of his career, he received numerous honors for both teaching and research. In addition to recognition as a Fellow in the Society for Experimental Mechanics, the American Academy of the Mechanics, and American Association of Mechanical Engineers, he was awarded NASA’s Langley Research Center Scientific Achievement Award and the statewide Dan Pletta Engineering Educator of the Year Award.
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