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1987 Christopher R. Carter earned a doctor of ministry in educational leadership from the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. Chris serves as head of school at St. Mark’s Cathedral School in Shreveport, La., which his children, Isabel and Colin, also attend. The family live in Shreveport.
1988 John H. Starks Jr. was named the Carl Blegen Research Fellow at Vassar College for 2010-11. He is an assistant professor in classical and near eastern studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is working on two books, contracted with Cambridge University Press, on actresses in the Greek and Roman worlds. He also received the 2010 Women’s Classical Caucus Award for best article, “Pantomime Actresses in Latin Inscriptions,” in New Directions in Ancient Pantomime.
1991 Carol Dannelly O’Kelley is executive vice president and chief marketing officer of RedPrairie Corp., a global leader in supply-chain management solutions. The O’Kelley family live in Atlanta.
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Blair Hixson Davis ’94 attended Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, Calif., and graduated from W&L with a B.A. in public policy. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, the Student Activities Board, Student Conduct Committee and Pi Sigma Alpha, and was elected vice president of her first-year class. Blair received her M.A. in art history in 2002 and her Ph.D. in 2009, both from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her Ph.D. dissertation was entitled “The Roman Drawings of Charles Percier.” She teaches art history at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Her husband, Marty Davis, is a sculptor and animator.
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Jay W. Gabbard was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor of social work at Western Kentucky University. He also serves as associate secretary general of the International Consortium for Social Development and will travel to Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2011 to present research on violence against homeless individuals.
Amy Myers Bersett, her husband, Jeff, and their children, Nat, 5, and Lizzie, 2, live in New Wilmington, a one-squaremile college town in western Pennsylvania. Amy works part time as a development officer and serves on the board of the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County.
Chadwick F. Delp is chief financial officer for Purchasing Power, an Atlantabased employee purchasing company. T. Chad Hamilton is the chief flag officer for Lone Star Flags & Golf, a custom golfflag and course-accessory business that has been in his family for over 25 years. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife of six years, Kelly, and their son, Fletcher. Lt. Col. William N. Hannah Jr. is the program director for the largest internal medicine residency training program in the Department of Defense. He and his wife, Bonnie, have two sons, William, 6, and Harry, 5. They live in San Antonio, Texas. Christin N. Harvey works for the Center for American Progress think tank in Washington and lives in Anchorage, Alaska, with her fiancé. She writes, “Yes, it’s a very, very long commute.” Dr. R. Chandler Harvey practices anesthesiology in Wichita Falls, Texas. He and his wife have two children.
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Music & Philanthropy Music-loving alumni who have followed the career of Scott, who lives in Brattleboro, Vt., when he’s not playing blues guitarist Scott Ainslie ’74 won’t be surprised that music all over the country, has also produced a CD, “Care for he recently played a stellar All,” which benefits the gig with the famed saxoVermont Workers’ Center phonist Branford Marsalis Healthcare Is a Human and the jazz pianist Joey Right campaign. And Calderazzo. What they he’s working with Gulf may not know is Scott’s Aid Acadiana, a Louisiana philanthropic side. The charity that is helping Branford Marsalis & communities affected by Friends concert benethe catastrophic oil spill in fited the North Carolina the Gulf of Mexico. “In Symphony, which is the short term, we will After the concert to benefit the North Carolina Symphony, facing $8 million in concentrate on assisting Scott Ainslie (second from right) and Branford Marsalis budget cuts. Symphony impacted fishermen and (third from right) relaxed with other participants. President and CEO their families,” says Scott. David Worters called the concert “an amazing array of music “In the long term, our mission is to assist in the restoration of performed by some of the most brilliant artists in the world,” the ecological vitality of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.” including “our new best friend, Scott Ainslie.” As far as Scott For more about Scott, his music, his philanthropy and other is concerned, “it was a great night,” he tells us. interests, see his website, cattailmusic.com.
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