Class Notes

Donna Clawson has been promoted to finance manager for the information technology department at Dignity Healthcare, a faith-based health care system now part of CommonSpirit Health, which provides health care across the United States.

Anna M. Parrill has been named the new principal of the Clark-Wilkins School in Amherst, New Hampshire. She previously served as principal of Barron Elementary School in Salem, New Hampshire.

The Rev. Dr. Jon Doolittle, senior pastor at Clairemont Lutheran Church in San Diego, California, was interviewed by KPBS on June 5, 2019, about his congregation’s advocacy for affordable housing on church property.

According to The New York Times, Scott K. Sanders married Peter S. Wilson on Dec. 17, 2018, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau in New York.

Loralynn Kadell, farm operations director at Learning Tree Farm located in Dayton, Ohio, was named Daytonian of the Week by dayton.com in September 2016.

Brian Henderson has joined Harris Products Group as national sales manager – wholesale and will work to execute the company’s expansion in the North American plumbing wholesale market. Previously, he served as director of managed inventory solutions for Winsupply.

Mary Jo Kehl Barkaszi has been appointed to lead the Offshore Wind and Ocean Energy unit of CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA), a marine environmental consulting firm in Stuart, Florida.

Lew Klatt, professor of English at Calvin College, received the Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching, the highest honor given to a faculty member by the college. The author of several poetry collections, he is a past recipient of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Juniper Prize and served as the poet laureate for Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 2014-2017.

Michelle Bores Cook, a realtor in Santa Barbara, California, since 2004, has been recognized for the third straight year for being in the top one percent of all Berkshire Hathaway agents worldwide. She is married to Mark Kraus and has one son, Ryan Cook, and a stepson, Dillon Kraus. She has resided in Santa Barbara since 1985.

Jeff Rudolph, a founding partner of the CFO Advisory Group, has joined the Board of Directors for Leafbuyer Technologies Inc.

Crescent Electric Supply Company announced in June 2019 the appointment of Jeff Buxton to the position of vice president of supply chain.

Columbus CEO magazine featured Chris Bosca, CEO of Bosca, a high-end leather company based in Springfield, Ohio, in its January 2019 issue.

Joseph Beckett, director of the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) at Marshall University, was inducted in May 2019 into the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainers’ Association (MAATA) Hall of Fame.

Elizabeth Schultz Ayers, executive director of gift planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, served on the national board of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners from 2015-17, chaired the national conference in 2017, and presented at the 2018 national conference. Active in charitable presentations at the national and state level, she was the keynote speaker for the Crescendo Practical Planned Giving Conference in September 2018.

Jeffery Orner retired from the federal government in 2018 after 35 years of service, including senior executive service positions in the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, and the Navy. He received Presidential Rank Awards from two U.S. presidents. He is now president of Arlington Ridge Consulting LLC and helped plan the class of 1979's 40th reunion

Ann Rudi has retired after 40 years working as the CT scan manager in the imaging department at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. She has returned to her hometown outside of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Gary Garfield has joined the Nashville School of Law’s Board of Trust. He retired as CEO and president in 2016 from Bridgestone Americas.

Ellie Gillespie Elmore, Sue Dando Weed, Leslie Sherman Cooke, Virginia Macali, Cheryl Davis, Jan Ebsary Fairhurst, Barb Braun Bafundo, Jean Sherman Sabean, Laura Johe Grodrian, Cindy Reynolds Overly, Linda Cappelino Donohue, Jan Defenbaugh Dailey, Nancy Netschke Werbach, Tina Viohl Minehart, Janet Brown Bush, Jean Jenkins Peck, and Nancy Winters Botti, all members of Delta Gamma, have met approximately every other year for the past 20 years. They have visited Skaneateles, New York; Anna Marie Island, Florida; The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; Hocking Hills, Ohio; North Scottsdale, Arizona; Boston, Massachusetts; and most recently, Asheville, North Carolina, to tour the Biltmore Estate

Jennifer S. Vanica, former president and CEO of the Jacobs Family Foundation in San Diego, California, has published Courageous Philanthropy: Going Public in a Closely Held World, described as “an up-close look at power, risk-taking, and shared decision-making in community change.”

Robert L. Moseley has published his second young adult sports novel, Choker (BQB Publishing, May 2019), a story of perseverance and summoning the courage to be different. The novel is a follow-up to his national award winner, Out of Bounds (Outskirts Press, 2012).