Email Address: christopher_deighan@yahoo.com
Pre-WLU Hometown: Pennsauken, NJ
Current Hometown: Pennsauken, NJ

On the day we graduated from W&L, I bought my one and only car (a Ford Escort) from our late classmate Doug Turrell.  I drove the car around Lexington for five years, initially as assistant to Dick Sessoms in the Alumni Office and later as the Office of Development’s liaison to the Computer Center.  W&L was in the throes of a $126 million campaign then.  In 1992, I left Lexington for Northern Virginia to join a software development company in the role of marketing but quickly transitioned to traveling consultant/trainer for higher education clients implementing new software.  I moved to San Francisco in 1996, and in 1999 two clients convinced me to leave the security of a paycheck to join their startup consulting firm as a partner.  We had a better than good run of it, but in 2004 I left the work force and moved back East to help my mother care for my father, who later died of Alzheimer Disease.  That journey led me to nursing school at Thomas Jefferson Univers!

ity in Philadelphia, and I’m now a bedside nurse in the neurosurgical intermediate ICU at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience.  I had always been asking myself what I would be when I grew up; now I know.  I’ve never felt more useful.

I cannot get enough of traveling.  I have seven more states to explore but have recently been focusing on international travels.  Highlights have included discovering the artwork of Caravaggio in Rome and being in the presence of Michelangelo’s “David” in Florence; examining statues on Charles Bridge in Prague and drinking the local beer in Český Krumlov; soaring over Cappadocia’s Fairy Chimneys in a hot-air balloon; floating down the Seine at midnight in Paris, skiing the French Alps, and exploring 13,000-year-old etchings of mammoths in Rouffignac cave in southern France;  observing sharks while snorkeling off the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica; riding the Peak Tram in Hong Kong; hiking past shrines and temples through the hills of Kyoto; standing next to a 4,500-year-old boat in Cairo at the base of the Great Pyramids; walking past tulip bed after tulip bed at the world’s largest flower garden (Keukenhof) near Lisse, the Netherlands.

My wish list is even longer.

Each year, I look forward to receiving notes of gratitude from current W&L students who have been recipients of the Todd D. Jones ’85 Memorial Scholarship.  Honoring the memory of my late partner, this fund – supported by Todd’s generous family and friends – has provided the opportunity for students to compose and produce their own music; study Italian, Latin and Russian works at the Sonoma Bach Chanticleer Choral Workshop;  study aerial fabric and instigate a new dance course at W&L; take a clarinet lesson with New York Philharmonic legend Stanley Drucker; attend a conference sponsored by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology; study Brazilian music and dance in the California redwood forest.

I still sing when a willing accompanist is nearby and have even learned a few tap routines in the past five years.  An avid amateur photographer, I am constantly exploring ways to share my images.

Email Address: michael-beatty@hotmail.com
Pre-WLU Hometown: Williamsburg, Virginia
Current Hometown: Williamsburg, Virginia

I served on active duty in the U.S. Army following graduation as a Medical Service Corps officer through December 2009 when I retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. I am currently employed as a civilian in the the US Air Force as a member of the DoD Physical Disability Board of Review. After 22 years moving around the nation world to include Hawaii and Germany we returned to Williamsburg where we now live. I have been married to my wife Elizabeth Beatty for 21 years and we have three children, Zac (20), Tyler (18) and Matthew (13).

Email Address: tom.hurlbut@cox.net
Pre-WLU Hometown: Holmes Beach, FL
Current Hometown: Virginia Beach, VA

My wife, Elaine, and I live in Virginia Beach with our two sons (Ben, 15 and Alex, 11).  Career-wise, after almost 5 years with what is now KPMG, I jumped to an audit client, Norfolk Southern Corporation, where I am currently Vice President Audit and Compliance.

I enjoy playing golf with my sons (both of whom can beat me–but they are even better than the low bar I set!).  We also enjoy spending time together enjoying activities on the water and beaches around our home.

Like most, I have many good memories from my years at W&L.  Some of the fondest come from times spent with fraternity brothers and friends at Lambda Chi.

Washington and Lee’s Frank Miriello has announced his retirement as the school’s head football coach effective immediately. Miriello will remain as an instructor of physical education through the remainder of the current term.

“A few weeks ago I celebrated my 67th birthday and on that day I found myself pausing and reflecting on my life’s journey,” said Miriello. “I have been coaching for 45 years and it feels like it is the right time to retire. It has been a privilege and an honor to serve this great University and the outstanding student-athletes I have worked with for the last 26 years. It has been a wonderful journey. I will be forever grateful to former Head Coach Gary Fallon, former Athletic Directors Bill McHenry and Mike Walsh and former President John Elrod. It is difficult to express the magnitude of my appreciation to those gentlemen for providing me the opportunity to coach at the collegiate level at such a prestigious University.”

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Email Address: sandler@crosswindcapital.com
Pre-WLU Hometown: Miami, Florida
Current Hometown: London, England

Married with 2 children, boys ages 9 and 4.  I run an investment management firm based in London and New York, and spend as much time as I can skiing in Austria.

A 1992 issue of the Alumni Magazine has a fascinating story on the W&L Coat of Arms and the accompanying Latin motto: “Non In Cautus Futuri.” Go to the head of the class if you know that it was adopted from the Lee family coat of arms, based on a quotation from the writings of Horace! We are instructed to be neither greedy nor a spendthrift, and thus ‘not unmindful of the future.’

The W&L Alumni Board Meets during Young Alumni Weekend 2011

More than 100 years after its adoption, the Alumni Association is in step with this motto. It has been almost ten years since the Association conducted a broad survey. Since then, some 4,000 younger alumni have joined our ranks. Increasingly, our students arrive from different places and backgrounds and leave us to become world citizens, still imbued with the bedrock principles on which W&L has been built.

We hope to seek direct input from alumni later this year as a predicate to our 2012-2013 effort to develop a long range plan, loosely termed ‘Alumni 2020.’ Who will our alumni be? How should W&L connect with our increasingly global family? What will they want and expect from us electronically, in their locales, and when they return to campus? How can we more effectively connect alumni with each other and with our students?

This will be a stimulating and important exercise. We welcome your active involvement as we move forward with confidence and discipline, mindful of a W&L future full of challenges and promise.

Beau Dudley, ’74, 79L

Executive Director, Alumni Affairs

Email Address: CaruthersA@aol.com
Pre-WLU Hometown: Shreveport, LA
Current Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif

Live in Los Angeles which has been home for 21 years.

Email Address: pwingert@legacy92.com
Pre-WLU Hometown   : Hanover, PA
Current Hometown: Hanover, PA

After W&L, I attended law school at the Dickinson School of Law (now part of Penn State).  There’s a funny saying about law school: the first year they scare you to death, the second year they work you to death, and the third year they bore you to death.  Well, there must be some truth to that saying because during my third year, my roommate and I came up with the idea to sell vintage baseball caps to colleges.  We decided to call our start-up “Legacy”.  I practiced law for a few years before deciding that what I really wanted to do is make Legacy my full time gig.  Following my heart was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made and the business has thrived as we now sell to more than 1000 colleges as well as to the resort and corporate markets.  I’m proud to say that our caps and other products can be found in the W&L Bookstore, who has been a long time customer.

On the personal side, my wife, Amy, and I have a daughter, Lindsay (19), and a son, Grayson (11).

Like most kids, they have a natural talent for keeping life quite interesting.  We all enjoy our family vacations, movie nights by the fireplace and get togethers with our extended family.  Gray & I are football addicts and love the Ravens and (ahem) Penn State as well as fly fishing and hunting.

My fondest memories by far are the friends I made at W&L, afternoons at Goshen Pass, Wednesday nights at the Cock Pit, and of course the time I got to spend with my brother, Jay (’85), who passed away shortly after graduation.  Regrettably, I’ve been really lame as far as staying in touch with Charles, Bo, Adam, Amy, Steve and others.  Where does the time go?

Email Address: ldubuque@advantagecap.com
Current Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri

Married 19 years to wife Mary.  We reside in St. Louis and we have 4 children.

Career

I joined Advantage Capital Partners in 2006 where he is currently a Managing Director.  Advantage Capital is a private equity firm which has raised $1.8 billion over the last 20 years. I work on formulating investment policy, identifying and closing new investments, and portfolio management. Prior to Advantage Capital, I worked nine years at US Bank in the Capital Management Group. I also spent 6 years at JP Morgan Chase (formerly First Chicago/NBD Bank) in Detroit, Michigan.

Hobbies

Golf and coaching my kids.

Email Address: bpartington@cphlaw.com
Pre-WLU Hometown: Pensacola, Florida
Current Hometown: Pensacola, Florida

After graduation, I attended the Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, graduating in 1990.  While there, I met my bride, Beth, who graduated a year behind me.  We have two children, a son, Gorham, age 11, and a daughter, Graybill, age 8 (both family names).

I have practiced law with the Clark Partington firm since graduation.  We have grown from 16 lawyers in a single office in 1990 to now 36 lawyers in three offices across the Northwest Florida region.  My practice has, for the last 12-15 years consisted principally of construction related litigation and disputes.

My current interests and hobbies revolve around my family and children.  My son has developed a love for competitive sailing which has always been a favorite activity of mine.  My daughter loves music and dance and is simply a joyful personality.

My wife practiced law for about seven years, then opened a “Paint your own pottery” studio which did well until we closed it shortly before our daughter was born.  She now describes herself as a “room mom with a kiln.”

My fondest W&L memories revolve around my fraternity brothers — both those with whom I was very close, but also others whom I have grown to appreciate more over time.

The perspective of time has also helped me to appreciate just how special my years at W&L were.