CLASS NOTES
Class of 2008: Dennis Harbin with wife Jessica and children Charlotte and Henry after his graduation from Penn State Law May 17, 2014.
Class of 2008: Ryan Corcoran with children Beau and Claire.
Seth Berkowitz and Glyn Phillips. Congrats to both the Corcorans and Messinas. Chris Bass and wife Sarah welcomed a daughter, Emma Callaway, June 2, 2014. She arrived at 4:33 p.m., weighing 6 pounds, 7 ounces and measuring 19.5 inches in length. Dennis Harbin and wife Jessica are her godparents. Chris and family moved into their first house in Richmond prior to Emma’s birth. Congrats to Chris and Sarah. Capt. Matt Payne checked in with several other VMI alumni. Matt is assigned to the 1-116th Infantry Battalion. From June 14 to June 28 his brigade held their combat team evaluation. The Brigade Combat Team features several VMI graduates including 2nd Lt. Kippur Taylor ’12, Capt. Aaron Wallace ’05, Capt. Cory Lindsey ’02, Matt, Maj. Eddie Lewis ’02 and Capt. Neal Sutliff ’07. Matt Mitchell and I have been keeping in contact. Matt is serving in Afghanistan, helping to “turn out the lights.” Dave Jacobs is also deployed to Afghanistan. Lauren and I recently hosted a Rat Send-off. Three pre-strains from the central Pennsylvania area, including as far away as Williamsport, Class of 2008: Chris and Sarah Bass’ attended the function, along with about daughter, Emma Callaway Bass, born June 25 alumni and families. Lauren recent2, 2014. ly started a new job as a middle school
family are in Newport, Rhode Island, for Naval Justice School and will be moving to Norfolk, Virginia, for his first Judge Advocate General’s Corps tour in October. Joe Prinzinger checked in from Afghanistan. He is serving with the 877th Engineer Battalion from the Alabama National Guard. The Prinzinger family is awaiting the arrival of their second son, Michael Obediah. Their first son, Joey Malachi, is about to be 3. Ryan Corcoran and wife Amanda added Beau Wendell Phillips Corcoran to the family May 30, 2014. Ryan and Amanda attended the wedding of Jeb Messina and the former Ms. Jennie Bisset July 12. Also in attendance were Nate Brown,
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health and physical education teacher at a school right down the road from our new house. We’ve added a small dog to the family, Brady, a mix between Jack Russell and a pug, but he looks like a miniature boxer to us. Thank you again to all of those who responded with notes. I look forward to hearing from more of you in November. Remember, all photographs should be a minimum size of 1 megabyte. Beat Citadel!
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Brother Rats: I hope this edition of the Review finds you and your families well. It has been a good couple of months catching up with everyone who has sent me notes for this issue. It is really great hearing what everyone is doing across all parts of this crazy world. Michael Harvey got the chance to take his son, Christopher, to the reenactment of the battle of New Market. This reenactment was in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the battle. The reenactment had a good showing of cadets from all classes. Joel Barnes and David Adams participated in the
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