VMI FOUNDATION, INC. Two New Trustees Join VMI Foundation Board On July 1, 2012, the VMI Foundation’s Board of Trustees welcomed two new members: M. David Gibbons ’68, M.D., and Hugh M. Fain III ’80. Dr. Gibbons matriculated in 1964 from Stamford, Connecticut. As a cadet, he participated in intercollegiate wrestling as well as intramural wrestling and football. He held rank in his third-, second- and first-class years and was cadet lieutenant in his first-class year. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Gibbons ’68 biology, Gibbons attended the Medical College of Virginia (MCV), from which he graduated in 1972. His residency in surgery and urology at MCV and a fellowship in pediatric urology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia were completed in 1977 and 1978, respectively. He served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1978-81, entering the Army with the rank of major. For the past 29 years, he has practiced as an attending pediatric urologist at the Children’s National Medical Center, the Fairfax Hospital for Children and the Georgetown University Fain ’80 Hospital. He is a professor of urology and pediatrics at both George Washington University and the Georgetown University Schools of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He serves as director of urology at Georgetown University Hospital and head of pediatric urology at the Fairfax Hospital for Children. His areas of clinical expertise include antenatal evaluation and postnatal management of infants with complex urological anomalies, the surgical management of infants with disorders of sexual differentiation, and complex reconstruction of a variety of congenital anomalies of the genitalia and urinary tract in children. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the European Society for Pediatric Urology. His work has earned him acknowledgement in Washingtonian magazine’s “Top Doctors” edition nine times and three times in Northern Virginia magazine’s Top Doctors” edition. He has lectured extensively in his specialty locally, regionally and nationally. He lives in northwest Washington, D.C., with his wife of 35 years, Dr. Martha Blechar Gibbons, who is a Ph.D. nurse psychotherapist in private practice. Gibbons is not entirely new to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees and its work. He served as an alternate in the last fiscal year and attended all of the board’s meetings during that time. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Hugh Fain is the son of the late Hugh M. Fain Jr. ’49C. As a cadet, he was a prosecutor on the Honor Court and the vice president of his class. He was also a member of the VMI Lacrosse Club and the international economics honor society, Omicron Delta Epsilon. He graduated with Distinction from VMI, earning a bachelor’s degree in economics. After graduation, he earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Journal of Natural Resources Law and was a member of the Raven
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Society, the University’s oldest and most prestigious honorary society. In 1988, he co-founded Spotts Fain, a law firm focused on advising, counseling and representing businesses with interests in Virginia and beyond. He is the firm’s managing director. Fain’s practice emphasizes commercial and business litigation, including contract disputes, business torts, employment law, intellectual property, construction litigation, and shareholder and partnership disputes. Fain is a past president of the Richmond Bar Association, and he currently serves as president of the Virginia Bar Association. He has been named by his peers in two categories in Best Lawyers in America, Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation. The magazine, Virginia Business, has placed him on its “Legal Elite” list each year since 2003, and the Virginia Super Lawyers list has included his name each year since its inception. Fain’s service to VMI is extensive. He is a past president of the VMI Club of Richmond and was the president of The VMI Alumni Association from July 2000 to July 2002. This appointment to the VMI Foundation Board of Trustees is his second; he served previously from July 2005 to June 2011. His colleagues voted him to be the Foundation’s vice president-fundraising. In this position, he succeeds J. Battle Haslam II ’61. He and his wife, Renee, live with their three children in Richmond. On the Foundation Board, Gibbons will be a member of the Finance Committee and the Annual and Reunion Giving Subcommittee of the Development Committee. Fain will serve on the board’s Executive Committee and as the chairman of its Development Committee, as well as an ex-officio member of the Strategic Planning Committee. “It is such an honor to welcome these two accomplished alumni to our board,” said VMI Foundation President Walton M. Jeffress Jr. ’68. “Hugh and Dave bring decades of experience in their respective professions and a deep-seated commitment to ensuring the long-term success of the Foundation in its critical work on behalf of the Institute and its cadets.”
VMI Foundation Board of Trustees The volunteer leaders of the VMI Foundation are dedicated to the advancement of VMI and to improving the already extraordinary education that VMI provides its cadets. Giving selflessly of their talents and time, they contribute immensely to the VMI Foundation’s work and, therefore, to the Institute’s many successes. The following people are on the board for Fiscal Year 2013 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013): Walton M. Jeffress Jr. ’68, President Hugh M. Fain III ’80, Vice President-Fundraising Stephen H. Sewell Jr. ’60, Vice President-Administration T. Bryan Barton ’68 Charles F. Bryan Jr. ’69 Kathleen D. Bulger-Barnett** Kim Y. “Danny” Chu ’83 Richard E. Collier ’57 Luther C. “Dan” Daniels Jr. ’75 Darryl L. Deke ’82** Robert Evans ’80 Paul D. Fraim ’71** John F. Fick III ’72 M. David Gibbons ’68 John R. Gibney Jr. ’80 * ex-officio member
Richard L. Goodall ’66 Conrad M. Hall ’65 Robert A. Heely ’69** Richard K. Hines V ’66 James R. Hobbs ’75 Stephen E. Hupp ’84 Graham O. King ’61 Scot W. Marsh ’81 John C. Miller ’61 P. William Moore Jr. ’63 William A. Paulette ’69* J.H. Binford Peay III ’62** Walter C. Perrin ’62 George M. Rapport ’64 C.M.A. Rogers IV ’83 Robert C. Troxler ’63 William E. Welsh ’64 Thomas H. Zarges ’70
**ex-officio member, non-voting
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