Class Notes

1960s

Winston E. Miller ’67 BE,

’70 LAW lives in Louisville and is executive director of the Kentucky Housing Corp. He previously was appointed deputy secretary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and was a partner with the firm Frost Brown Todd LLC.

Robert C. Sparks ’68 BE

lives in Clarkson, Michigan, and is a business and management instructor with the University of Phoenix. His research paper was based on 23 online classes he instructed over 2 ½ years. “The Faculty-Student Connection in the Online Classroom and Its Impact on Student Evaluations of Teaching,” was published in the winter 2020 edition of Transformative Dialogues, a peer-reviewed, Canadian teaching and learning journal.

1970s

Deborah Larkin-Carney

’75 NUR is senior vice president, quality and patient safety and patient experience at RWJBarnabas Health in West Orange, New Jersey.

Kay Kirkpatrick Haltom

’76 AS lives in Marietta, Georgia, and was appointed to the Georgia Joint Defense Commission by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, representing Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Haltom is a retired orthopedic hand surgeon and a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 32nd District, which includes portions of Cobb and Fulton counties.

Steven B. Angelucci ’76

AS, ’79 DE is assistant to the president at Transylvania University in Lexington, focusing on developing an immersive entrepreneurship program for students. He had been the university’s vice president for advancement.

Lee Weber ’77 AS is the founder and CEO of The Lee Weber Group in Lexington. After serving at the senior leadership level with Johnson & Johnson and Smith & Nephew, he created a healthcare recruiting firm specializing in the medical device and orthopedics industry. Weber has been acknowledged for several achievements made within the recruiting industry.

Kathleen M. Flynn ’79

AFE is state veterinarian at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture in Frankfort. She has been the deputy state veterinarian and was previously the veterinary specialist for the California Department of Food and Agriculture Animal Health Branch.

Holly Harbage Gallion ’79 MED is a professor of

The 1908-1909 women’s basketball team looked focused on winning while posing for this photo. The first University of Kentucky women’s basketball team was organized in 1902 and competed for the first time in 1903. However, in 1924, the University Senate passed a bill to abolish women’s basketball in part because, according to state politicians, “basketball had proven to be a strenuous sport for boys and therefore was too strenuous for girls.” After 50 years, women’s basketball was granted varsity status in 1974 and today is led by Head Coach Kyra Elzy.

obstetrics and gynecology at the UK College of Medicine and a member of the gynecological cancer team at the UK Markey Cancer Center Division of Gynecologic Oncology.

Robert M. Stone ’79

’84 AFE lives in Georgetown and is the owner of Elmwood Stock Farm, an organic farming operation. He was named to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corp., representing horticulture farmers across the Commonwealth.

1980s

Augustine M.K. Choi ’80

AS is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Choi earned his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Mark C. Johnson ’80 MED

lives in Savannah, Georgia, and is CEO of the Gateway Community Service Board. He was appointed to the Georgia Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Johnson was previously medical director for BJC Behavioral Health.

Paula M. Anderson ’81 CI

is president and CEO of the YMCA of Central Kentucky. She was previously the YMCA’s chief administrative officer and vice president of human resources.

Charles W. Rice ’81 AFE

is professor of soil microbiology and holds the Vanier University Professorship in the Kansas State University Department of Agronomy in Manhattan. He received the Mid America CropLife Association Educator of the Year Award. Rice won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Gerald L. Smith ’81 AS is a professor of African American and Africana Studies in the UK College of Arts & Sciences and pastor of the Pilgrim Baptist Church. He was appointed co-chairman of the Commission for Racial Justice and Equality by Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton.

Debra Ralston Sowell

’82 MED is a pediatrician in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She was appointed president of the University of Kentucky Medical Alumni Association.

Zindell Richardson ’83 DE

is chairman of the Department of Oral Health Science in the UK College of Dentistry. He was previously commander of the 59th Dental Training Squadron at Lackland Air Force Base.

Eric J. Cremers ’84 EN

is president and CEO of PotlatchDeltic Corp., a real estate investment trust in Spokane, Washington. He had been the company’s president and chief operating officer.

Mary L. Harville ’84 AS,

’88 LAW lives in Louisville and was appointed president and CEO of the Kentucky Lottery Corp. by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. She had been senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for the Kentucky Lottery Corp.

Allyson True Cook ’86 BE,

’89 LAW is president and CEO of Erigo Employer Solutions in Fort Mitchell. She was previously an attorney at Stites & Harbison PLLC.

Anthony M. Nolte ’86 BE

is chief financial officer and general counsel for Open Mortgage LLC in Austin, Texas. He was named to the Sollensys Corp. Business Advisory Board. Nolte earned his law degree from the South Texas College of Law Houston.

Winston R. Griffin ’87 BE

lives in London, Kentucky, and is CEO and chairman of Laurel Grocery Co., a family-owned grocery wholesaler that supplies several states, including Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia. He was elected chairman of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce for the 2021 term.

Dale E. Toney ’87 MED

is interim chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Women’s Health at the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital and associate professor at the UK College of Medicine. He was elected president of the Kentucky Medical Association.

Cathy King Dodd ’88 BE

is senior vice president, president of distribution, for Avient Corp., a provider of specialized polymer materials and services headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio. She was previously the company’s chief commercial officer.

Quita Beeler Highsmith

’88 CI lives in Brisbane, California, and is vice president and chief diversity officer at Genentech, a biotechnology company. She had been the company’s head of alliance and advocacy relations.

Marguerite McLaughlin taught journalism at UK, where she also earned her degree in 1903. She was the first woman teacher of journalism in the United States and trained many well-known journalists, including the late Joe Creason. A 40-year veteran reporter and a charter member of Theta Sigma Phi, she was executive secretary of the UK Alumni Association during each World War; served 20 years (1920-1940) as president of the Lexington Alumni Club, and 30 years (1920-1950) as a member of the association’s Executive Committee. During World War II, McLaughlin endeared herself to military alumni by having the Kentucky Kernel sent to them wherever they were stationed.

In 1950, McLaughlin received the UK Alumni Association’s Alma Magna Mater Award. She retired from UK and became president of Welsh Printing Co. McLaughlin was named to the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 1980.

Class Notes

David T. Susman ’88 ’92

AS lives in Lexington and is a licensed psychologist, an assistant professor of psychology and director of the Department of Psychology Jesse G. Harris, Jr. Psychological Services Center in the UK College of Arts and Sciences.

Michael L. Westendorf ’88

’91 AFE is an Extension specialist and professor in the Department of Animal Sciences in the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

1990s

Thomas P. Williams ’00

GS is an environmental product line leader for Markel Corp., a holding company for insurance, reinsurance and investment operations headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. He was the environmental practice group leader at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty.

Brent M. Cooper ’91 AS

lives in Fort Thomas and is president and CEO of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. He is also the founder of C-Forward, an information technology company.

James K. Drennen ’91

PHA is interim dean of the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy in Pittsburgh. He had been the school’s associate dean of research and graduate programs.

Brian C. Evans ’91 BE is chief information officer for Shoppa’s Material Handling in Fort Worth, Texas. He was previously international director of Briggs Construction Equipment Inc.

Marjorie A. Farris ’92 AS

lives in Louisville and is an attorney, partner and the first chairwoman at Stites & Harbison PLLC. She was previously the firm’s co-chairwoman of the class action and multi-district litigation group and a member of the torts and insurance practice service group.

Ronya A. Corey ’93 AS is managing director of The Corey Group of Washington, a woman led and run financial services firm affiliated with Bank of America Merrill. She was named to Working Mother magazine’s list of Top Wealth Advisor Moms.

Skip McGaw ’93 ED is president of Riddle Insurance in Madisonville. He was appointed to the board of directors of First United Bancorp Inc. and First United Bank and Trust Co.

David E. Voelker ’93 EN

lives in Ft. Mitchell and is senior vice president of transformation office for Ameritas Mutual Holding Co. He had been the company’s vice president, information technology.

Angie M. Evans ’94 LAW

is vice president of corporate responsibility and community affairs at LG&E and KU Energy in Louisville. She was previously vice president of community leadership at the Community Foundation of Louisville.

Rebecca L. Garcia ’94

NUR lives in Hollywood, Florida, and is an advanced practice registered nurse at Active Life Wellness Center.

Arthur E. Walker ‘94 EN

is president of Walker Construction and Materials LLC, a highway construction and materials company. He was appointed to the Morehead State University Board of Regents by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. Walker lives in Mount Sterling.

Katherine Sadler Stickel

’95 BE lives in Smyrna, Tennessee, and is director of state audit for the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, responsible for conducting financial and performance audits of all state departments, agencies and institutions. She was previously director of the Comptroller Office of Management Services.

Melinda F. Caldwell ’96

ED, ’07 CI is the library media specialist at Northside Elementary School in Midway. Previously, she had been the librarian at Northern Elementary School in Georgetown.

David L. DeRemer ’96 AS,

’02 PHA is a clinical associate professor of pharmacotherapy and translational research at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and serves as the assistant director of the experimental therapeutics incubator program at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center in Gainesville. He is also president of the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association.

Stephen T. Jones ’96 BE

lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and is senior executive vice president and chief financial officer for ScanSource Inc. He was previously international chief financial officer for Blackbaud Inc.

Elizabeth A. Murphy ’96

BE lives in Chicago and received the Illinois Certified Public Accountant Society 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award. She is professor emerita at the DePaul University Driehaus College of Business & Kellstadt Graduate School of Business School of Accountancy & MIS.

Jacqueline R. Nichols ’96

SW is vice president of the Owensboro Chamber of Commerce. She was previously civic engagement for the Public Life Foundation of Owensboro and is a former chamber membership development manager.

Class Notes

Amy Adams Schirmer ’96

LAW is managing director, senior wealth advisor at MAI Capital Management LLC in the company’s Weston, Virginia, office. She had been a wealth and estate planning strategist at SunTrust Wealth Management.

Aaron Z. Tobin ’96 BE is an attorney and partner at Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC in Dallas. He was elected president of the Dallas Bar Association for 2021. Tobin earned his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law.

Bridget M. Cohee ’97 ED,

’00 LAW lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and is a judge for the West Virginia 23rd Judicial Circuit representing Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties.

Jeffery L. Larkin ’97

’01 AFE is a professor of biology in the Department of Biology in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Paula Boggs Muething

’97 AS, ’98 CI is the city manager for Cincinnati. She had been Cincinnati’s city solicitor and interim city manager. Muething earned her law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Clint Overby ’97 ED is vice president of ESPN’s Events Division in the company’s Charlotte, North Carolina, office. He was previously senior director of events at ESPN.

Joseph Lester ’98 LAW

is associate director of advocacy training and competitions in the American University Washington College of Law Stephen S. Weinstein Advocacy Program in Washington. He had been the Southern Illinois University Hiram H. Lazar Distinguished Professor of Law.

Kelly Pigman Stephens

’98 AS, ’02 LAW lives in Georgetown and is clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky. She was the interim clerk and governmental affairs liaison for the Administrative Office of the Courts.

Vivian A. Lasley-Bibbs ’99

PH lives in Lexington and is director of the Kentucky Department for Public Health Office of Health Equity. She was elected 2021 chairwoman of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Board of Directors.

William C. Cox ’99 FA is an artist and sculptor living in Lexington.

Kwane M. Watson ’99

DE lives in Prospect and is the founder and operator of Kare Mobile, a mobile dental care practice.

2000s

Mari Chinn ’00 ’03 AFE is chairwoman of the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering in the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture and the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology in Stillwater. She was previously a professor at North Carolina State University.

Nicholas C. Proffitt ’00

EN lives in Erlanger and is business development executive for Messer Construction Co., leading the company’s higher education market segment.

Amy Dix Rock ’00 MED

lives in Simpsonville and is vice president of clinical development and regulatory affairs at Altor BioScience. She was senior director-regulatory and scientific affairs at Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Rock is also a member of the American Saddlebred Horse Association Honorary Board of Directors.

Shannon Mathews ’01 AS,

’05 PH is dean of the University of La Verne College of Arts and Sciences in La Verne, California. She had been dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and professor of social and behavioral sciences at Savannah State University.

Eric B. Propes ’01 AFE

is chief operating officer for EDSA Inc., a planning, landscape architecture and urban design firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Beth E. Sweeney ’01 CI

is morning news anchor for WFIE-TV in Evansville, Indiana.

Shannon Bishop Arvin ’02

LAW is president and CEO of Keeneland Association Inc. in Lexington. She was a partner at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, where she was corporate counsel to Keeneland and secretary and advisory member of the Keeneland Board of Directors.

Jennifer J. Bales ’02 MED

is an Emergency Department physician at Reid Health in Richmond, Indiana. She was the hospital’s first female chief of staff in 2019-2020 and received the Reid Health 2020 Paul S. Rhoads Humanity in Medicine Award.

Cinnamon L. Butler ’02

AFE is an attorney and examiner with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Division of Civil Rights in Washington. She earned her law degree from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.

Although the photograph is not identified as such, this certainly looks like our own Helen G. King, director of the UK Alumni Association (1946-1969), possibly telling Head Coach Adolph Rupp how to execute a three-man weave! You can listen to an interview with King that was recorded in 1977 and archived in the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History: www.ukalumni.net/kinginterview

April Barnes Deener ’02

ED is an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School in Lexington. She was one of five winners of a contest sponsored by American Success through Purposeful Instruction and Rigorous Education. This is a history and civics program funded through the U.S. Department of Education and the Kentucky Educational Development Corp., with a document-based questioning lesson using a six-step process for engaging students. Deener was the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Kentucky History Teacher of the Year.

Joe D. Luck ’02 ’07

’12 EN is an associate professor and precision agriculture engineer with an Extension and research appointment in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agricultural and Natural Resources.

Kenan G. Stratman ’02 EN

is the public works director and assistant city engineer for the City of St. Matthews. He was previously a project manager for HDR Inc.

Mollie E. Aleshire ’03

’10 NUR is an assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Nursing Education in the University of Louisville School of Nursing.

Diane Arnold ’03 CI is reference and outreach coordinator for Delaware County Libraries in Media, Pennsylvania. She was previously librarian at Chestnut Hill College.

Jeremy L. Hall ’04 ’05

GS is a professor of public administration and doctoral program director in the University of Central Florida School of Public Administration in Orlando. He was selected to the National Academy of Public Administration 2020 Class of Academy Fellows.

Breeanna R. Bergman ’05

CI is director of vertical and field marketing practice lead at Zebra Technologies Corp. in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Katherine G. Jenner ’05

’09 ED lives in Madison, Indiana, and was appointed Indiana Secretary of Education by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb. She was previously the governor’s senior education advisor.

Kerry D. Kemp ’05 ED

is recreation director for Fairview Park, Ohio. He had been athletic director for the Middleburg Heights Recreation Department.

Katherine Dunagan Os-

borne ’05 ’07 ’10 AS is a professor of English and chairwoman of the Davis & Elkins College Department of English, Communication and Foreign Language in Elkins, West Virginia. She received the Lois Latham Award for Teaching Excellence.

Natalie A. Ruppert ’05

CI is the workforce development manager for the Kenton County Public Library in Erlanger. She was the reference librarian and circulation manager for the library system.

Jessica Lainge Siegel ’05

BE is an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Michelle Bishop Allen ’06

’10 BE is vice president of sales, DIY for Valvoline Inc. in Versailles. She was previously senior director of marketing for DIY.

Richard A. Bailey ’06 is the Fitzpatrick Professor of History and chairman of the Department of History in the Canisius College of Arts and Sciences in Buffalo, New York.

Ryan D. Cater ’06 AFE

lives in Naples, Florida, and is executive vice president and co-founder of Scotlynn USA Division Inc., a logistics and transportation company. He was named the U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year for 2020 in Florida.

Harold D. Dillow ’06 EN

is director of supply chain at University of Cincinnati Health. He was previously director of supply chain operations and logistics at University of Chicago Medical Center.

by Amanda Schagane Career Corner Career Corner

HONE YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS AT LEADERSHIP WEEK SERIES

Gallup research shows managers account for at least 70 percent of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units. We asked our fellow Wildcat leaders what skills they thought were essential for today’s supervisors and managers.

Sylvester Miller ’08 AFE, senior strategic account manager for Indigo Ag, US Biologicals said, “There is a long list of skills I think are essential for supervisors and managers. I will just narrow it down to a few key ones … leadership, communication, critical thinking. I would put being a people person top of list, but that depends on if your role requires direct reports or not.”

Tonya Bumm Parsons ’90 A&S, small business coach for the Kentucky Small Business Development Center and UK Women & Philanthropy Network co-chairwoman replied, “Essential skills include effective communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and ability to lead and delegate. I think the pursuit of learning, growth and the ability to listen are the most important because engaging your team is the tricky part.”

The impact of COVID-19 in the workplace has made team management and engagement a unique challenge. In response, and hoping to make it an annual event, UK Alumni Career Services is announcing its Leadership Week Series for managers, supervisors and aspiring leaders April 26-29. The virtual conference sessions will be hosted on a combination of Zoom Meeting and Facebook Livestream platforms.

The kickoff session, Wildcats Take the Lead: Best Practices from Today’s Leaders, will feature UK alumni in a variety of leadership roles and industries discussing the impact of COVID-19 in the workplace. Submit your questions in advance to ukalumnicareer@uky.edu. This session will be hosted in Zoom Webinar and also streamed on the UK Alumni Association Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ukalumni. Roundtable sessions will be hosted in Zoom Meeting and are limited to the first 300 registrants. Examples of topics are Leading Remote Teams: Practical Tips for Supervising Teams via Distance, What’s My Management Style? and 8 Behaviors of the World’s Best Managers.

Parsons said she was drawn to the WWYD – Manager Edition: Ally Development for Leadership topic. “Achieving an inclusive work environment is an on-going struggle when managing a team, especially if you have high turnover. Also, leading remote teams is a new focus as a result of the pandemic, and I have been looking to improve my skills in this area,” she said.

Miller, also interested in that conference session, said, “I never thought to look into what Alumni Career Services was offering unless I was looking for a new opportunity. Now with the offering of programs that can assist with career development and skill sets, I am fully engaged throughout my career path.”

Many alumni engage with Alumni Career Services during the job search or career change process, but services are available throughout your career progression regardless of career stage. Offering this new Leadership Week Series is just one of the many ways our nationally certified career counselors are expanding program and career counseling services to better meet your career development needs.

“Expanding Alumni Career Services offerings to assist alums upon graduation, and well after, strengthens the value of a UK degree,” said Parsons.

UK Alumni Association Active and Life Members are eligible for two complimentary appointments per year with a certified career counselor. Call 859-257-8905 or 800-269 ALUM (2586) to schedule an appointment. Visit www.ukalumni.net/career to learn more about resume critiques, networking events, Central Kentucky Job Club and other Alumni Career Services. To post a job opening, employers may visit www.ukalumni.net/employers and email job leads to ukalumnicareer@uky.edu. 48

Class Notes

Keisha Mabry Haymore

’06 AFE lives in St. Louis and is director of entrepreneurship with WePower, a nonprofit designed to help Black and Latinx people. She is also the digital coach with the Grow with Google initiative, where she facilitates free workshops to help Black and Brown entrepreneurs with digital skills training.

Christopher A. Taylor ’06

BE is the long-range planning administrative officer for the Lexington LongRange Planning Section.

Juan F. Yepes ’07 ’11 PH,

’12 DE is professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in the Indiana University School of Dentistry and an attending dentist at Riley Children Hospital in Indianapolis.

Jenifer E. Alonson ’08 AS,

’13 NUR is a nurse in the medical intensive care unit at the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital.

Miranda J. Clubb ’08 PHA

is the owner of Clubb Pharmacy in New Castle.

Joshua R. Hendrix ’08 CI

lives in Mount Sterling and is CEO of BestBall CBD and chairman of Hendrix Holdings. He is a founding member of the U.S. Hemp Growers Association Board of Directors. Hendrix also founded the Kentucky Hemp Industries Association and has served as president and on the board of directors for the group.

Stephanie J. Lay ’08 ED

is a seventh-grade math teacher at Cocoa High School in Cocoa, Florida.

Michael P. Sama ’08 ’13

EN is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the UK College of Engineering.

Xiaowei N. Dong ’09 PHA

is an associate professor and P1 curriculum director in the University of North Texas Health Science Center College of Pharmacy in Fort Worth. She was awarded the Maximizing Investigators’ Resource Award, a five-year, $1.8 million grant from National Institutes of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.

Robert A. Fleming ’09

LAW is president and CEO for the Breeders’ Cup Ltd. In Lexington. He had been the company’s chief operating officer.

Jill A. Massey ’09 BE is an attorney and litigation partner at Cordell & Cordell in the firm’s Atlanta office. She earned her law degree from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.

Carroll VanHook Weaver

’09 AFE is executive director of Kenect Nashville, a division of Alkara Partners LLC, a data-driven direct real estate investment, development and operating platform based in Chicago. She is also director of leasing and marketing for all Kenect properties.

Vincent L. Williams ’09

AS lives in Union and is co-founder of Orchestrate Technologies. athletes located in Orlando, Florida.

James B. Woodward

’12 ’16 GS is a research analyst for Ohio Southeast Economic Development in Nelsonville. He was previously an economic research analyst at the Buckeye Institute Economic Research Center.

Austin J. Edwards ’13

AFE is an inside sales representative for Affinity Technology Partners in the firm’s Brentwood, Tennessee, office. He was a business development representative with MedArchon.

Lisa N. Fioretti ’13 AS is a resident in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Anne E. Harman-Ware ’13

AS is a researcher at the Renewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

2010s

Christopher M. McCurry ’10 AS, ’11 ED

is an English teacher at Lafayette High School in Lexington. He was named the Kentucky Department of Education and Valvoline Inc. Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year.

Connie Porter Fillman ’12

AFE lives in Owensboro and is director of food services for Daviess County schools.

Stephen H. Shelman ’12

BE, ’16 LAW is an attorney at Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry in the firm’s tax controversy and litigation practice in Atlanta. He had been international specialty tax services senior associate for BDO USA LLP.

Johnny L. Williams ’12

AFE is a founder of Player Epic Inc., a gaming platform for aspiring eSports

In 1926, UK Professor of Engineering Louis Edward Nollau took this bucolic photo of the Old Agriculture Building, now known as the Mathews Building. It is thanks to Nollau’s skills as a photographer that the University of Kentucky Archives has so many images of early life on campus. Nollau received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the then State College of Kentucky, now the University of Kentucky, and later a master’s degree from the university. From 1904 to 1908 he served as an instructor and later assistant professor in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department, teaching wood shop and engineering drawing. In 1908, he was appointed a full professor of engineering drawing and served as department head from 1916 to 1939. Though his academic work was involved primarily with teaching mechanical engineering, Nollau took thousands of pictures of campus. As a speaker at the Lexington Camera Club, he lectured on the history of photography, from the discovery of the action of light on silver compounds to the current state of the art at that time. Retired in 1953, he was placed on special assignment until his death in 1955.

Kellie R. Lynch ’13 ’16 AS

is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Mohammad Razaee ’13

’15 EN is an assistant professor of mining engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, He holds the Thomas V. and Jean C. Falkie Mining Engineering Faculty Fellowship in the Penn State University College of Earth and Mineral Sciences in University Park. He received the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration’s Mineral and Metallurgical Processing Division.

Bryan T. Ingoglia ’14 AS is an assistant professor of organometallic chemistry at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Colby J. Hall ’15 AS is executive director of Shaping Our Appalachian Region, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization located in Pikeville working on expanding job creation, enhancing regional opportunities and innovation, and improving quality of life for Appalachia Kentucky.

Class Notes

Rachel M. Martell ’15 BE

is operations manager for Equine Analysis Systems in Midway. She had been a senior technician at the company.

Jamie Michael McWilliams

’16 AS, ’20 DE is a dentist at Howard Family Dental in the practice’s Bluffton and Beaufort, South Carolina, locations.

Michaela Rogers ’16 AFE

lives in Louisville and is an environmental scientist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. She was a biological technician for Bat Conservation International.

Caitlyn M. Barnes ’17 CI,

’20 LAW is an associate at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group in Louisville.

Danielle Galyer Day ’17

AS is an attorney at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office. She earned her law degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Robert B. Hartley ’17 BE is an applied microeconomist and an assistant professor of social work in the Columbia University School of Social Work in New York.

Ameena R. Khan ’17 AS,

’20 LAW is an associate at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s Business Litigation Service Group in Louisville.

Matthew T. Marshall ’17

MED is an oral surgeon at Marshall Oral, Facial & Implant Surgery Center in Akron, Ohio. He earned his dental degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.

Alexis A. Mathews ’17

CI is a reporter for WLKYTV in Louisville. She was previously a reporter and weekend anchor at WTAPTV in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Emily Bertram Pence ’17

AS, ’20 LAW is an attorney at Sturgill Turner Barker & Moloney PLLC in Lexington in the firm’s Torts & Insurance Practice Group.

Yisrael M. Safeek ’17 AS,

’20 LAW lives in Lexington and was named to the SafeCare Group Board of Directors. He was previously chief of operations for the company.

Olivia K. Desch ’18 AFE is a member of the WinStar Farms Stallion Season Sales team based in Versailles. She had been a bloodstock assistant at the horse farm.

Toni C. Hobbs ’18 FA

is director of creative and branding services at Morehead State University in Morehead. She received the MSU Distinguished Staff Service Award.

Lamon T. Hubbs ’18 BE

lives in Albany and is a project manager and estimator for Schiller Architectural Hardware, headquartered in Lexington. He also owns Cumberland Marine Wash & Wax and co-owns LT’s Fireworks and Displays.

Timothy W. Mullett ’18

BE is medical director of the UK Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network in Lexington. He was named chairman of the Commission on Cancer, a program of the American College of Surgeons. Mullett earned his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine.

Kylie P. Carrico ’19 CI is the AmeriCorps VISTA hire (Volunteers in Service to America) for 2020-2021 for Park Place Outreach in Savannah, Georgia. She was previously a development intern for the Savannah Music Festival.

Samantha R. Geller ’19

AFE, ’20 BE is a special programs manager for the American Saddlebred Horse Association in Lexington.

2020s

Megan S. Barker ’20 LAW

is an associate at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s Health Care and Insurance Regulatory Service Group in Lexington.

Kelly Ball Broadbent ’20

LAW is an attorney at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office.

Ashley E. Steuer ’20 AFE

is an assistant professor of parasitology in the Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine in Lubbock, focusing her research on equine and large animal parasitology.

Information in Class Notes is compiled from previously published items in newspapers and other media outlets, as well as items submitted by individual alumni.

Send us your class note by emailing ukalumni@uky.edu or submitting your information in the online community at www.ukalumni.net/class.

COLLEGE INDEX

Agriculture, Food & Environment — AFE

Arts & Sciences — AS Business & Economics — BE

Communication & Information — CI Dentistry — DE Design — DES Education — ED

Engineering — EN Fine Arts — FA The Graduate School — GS Health Sciences — HS Law — LAW Medicine — MED Nursing — NUR Pharmacy — PHA Public Health — PH Social Work — SW