URAA
Alumni association elects new president
On July 1, Tripp Perrin, ’95, will become president of the University of Richmond Alumni Association (URAA).
Perrin has been a member of the URAA board since its inception in 2003. He serves on several other University boards and committees, including Richmond Council and the Annual Fund steering committee.
He is chief operating officer of Care Advantage, a regional home health care and medical staffing company based in Richmond.
Other members of the URAA executive committee for 2008–09 are: Patty Dann Loyde, B’92 and GB’97, immediate past president; Jasmonn Coleman, ’98, president-elect; Carla DeLuca, ’93, vice president for communications; Sam Kaufman, ’99, vice president for finance; Kelly Gribbin, ’02, vice president for membership; Betty Ann Dillon, W’48 and G’49, vice president for programs; Ken Kraper, ’05, vice president for university relations; Nancy Heilman Cale, W’75 and G’77, secretary; and Ryan FitzSimons, ’01, treasurer.
New members elected to the URAA Board of Directors include Craig Flinn, R’87, and Brandt Portugal, ’02.
Reunion
Alumni receive service awards
The alumni association honored four of the University’s most outstanding graduates during Reunion Weekend.
Recipients of Awards for Distinguished Service included Melanie Liddle Healey, W’83, William Long, B’50, Leland Melvin, R’86, and Carole Weinstein, W’75, G’77, and H’04.
Healey is president of the feminine and health care group of Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. Last year, Fortune magazine listed her among the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business.”
Long retired from Douglas Southall Freeman High School in Richmond, where he was an assistant principal and coach. He is a member of the Virginia High School League Hall of Fame.
Melvin is a NASA astronaut in Houston. In February, he served as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle Atlantis. (See “First Spider in Space.")
Weinstein is vice chair of Weinstein Properties in Richmond. Last year, she pledged $9 million toward construction of the Carole Weinstein International Center, a new building to accommodate the University’s rapidly growing international programs.
Also during Reunion Weekend, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies presented its 10th Year Reunion Recognition Award to Maia Carter Hallward, ’98, of Acworth, Ga., an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at Kennesaw State University.
Notables
Alumni earn national K–12 teaching awards
John Edmondson, R’78, has won an American Stars of Teaching Award.
Each year, the U.S. Department of Education gives the prestigious prize to one K–12 teacher in every state. Edmondson won for New Hampshire, where he teaches sixth-grade language arts and social studies.
In a separate K–12 teacher recognition program, Kimberly Colbert, ’01, received a Milken Educator Award, which comes with a $25,000 check. Colbert chairs the science department at Thompson Middle School in Richmond.
Crawford’s company among fastest-growing
Inc. magazine has ranked TCMPi the eighth fastest-growing software company and the 73rd fastest-growing private company in the United States.
Chris Crawford, R’78, is founder and CEO of TCMPi, headquartered in Kingstown, R.I. The company runs The Corporate Marketplace, a Web site that links companies to manufacturers of motivational gifts and prizes.
Alum’s Hokie cartoon nominated for Pulitzer
Following the Virginia Tech tragedy, Ben Lansing, ’05 created a cartoon of mourning mascots from Virginia universities. “Today, we are all Hokies,” the caption said.
The image was nominated for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning by John Seigenthaler Sr., the founding editorial director of USA Today.
Lansing is a self-syndicated editorial cartoonist, so his cartoon originally appeared in several Virginia newspapers. It also appeared online and was forwarded to people all over the country.
