Class Notes
Before 1960
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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

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Summer 2015

Alfred L. Barr ’57 AFE is the
retired associate director of
the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment
Station at West Virginia University-Morgantown. Barr was
presented the Alumni
Achievement Award at
WVU-Potomac State College.

William F. Schweri II ’69 ’78
AS retired from UK aer
more than 40 years. He spent
the last two decades as the director of Federal Relations for
UK, serving as liaison between the university and its
faculty and executive and legislative branches of state and
federal government.

Jerry T. Miller ’73 BE is a
state representative for the
36th House
District. He
serves on the
Transportation
Committee. Miller was previously a Louisville Metro
councilman.

1960s

1970s

Shelby R. Clark Jr. ’60 EN is
a retired engineer in Bluon,
South Carolina. Clark had a
45-year career as a rocket engineer at e Martin Co., Bell
Labs, General Dynamics,
AIRNC and NAVAIR and
helped design the Tomahawk
missile in the 1970s that is still
used by the military today.

Paul J. Fissell ’70 AS is a sales
associate with Downing-Frye
Realty in the Bonita Springs,
Florida, office. Fissell previously worked in the banking
industry for 40 years.

G. Nicholas Casey Jr. ’74 BE
is a managing partner at the
firm Lewis Glasser Casey and
Rollins PLLC in Charleston,
West Virginia, and is the
treasurer of the American Bar
Association. He is also former
chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party, past
president and current member of the West Virginia State
Bar Association, past president of Kanawha County Bar
Association, past president
and past board member of
the West Virginia Bar Foundation and member of the
Energy & Mineral Law Foundation.

Ted G. Wood ’60 BE is the
retired president and vice
chairman of e United Co.
and has had a long career in
the pharmaceutical industry.
Wood is also on the board of
directors of Wellmont Health
System, which is based in
Kingsport, Tennessee.
Robert R. Wallace ’61 PHA is
a pharmacist in Williamstown
and is the co-owner of Grant
County Drugs with his son
Jason Wallace ’99 PHA.
Jesse Drew Harrington ’63
’70 AS is the president of the
Kentucky Konnection Club
of the Villages in e Villages, Florida.
William R. Garmer ’68 AS,
’75 LAW is an attorney in
Lexington and
a partner in the
firm Garmer &
Prather PLLC.
Garmer has
been elected
vice president of the Kentucky Bar Association.

J. David Richardson ’70
MED is a professor of surgery and vice
chairman in
the Department of Surgery at the University of
Louisville School of Medicine. Richardson was elected
president-elect of the American College of Surgeons. He
has also authored more than
345 articles in peer-reviewed
publications, 50 book chapters and currently has 10 publications in press.
Roger C. White ’71 ED is a
professional tennis umpire
living in Belleair Beach,
Florida. White was appointed
a Gold Badge Chief Umpire
by the International Tennis
Federation and was the chief
umpire for the Davis Cup
match in Chicago, Illinois, in
September 2014.
John L. Carr ’72 ’75 EN is a
retired senior transportation
engineer from CDM Smith
Inc., an engineering and construction firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

David R. King ’74 AFE is
the program manager within
the Indiana State Department
of Agriculture Division of
Economic Development.
King was previously the president and co-owner of Triple
Crown Marketing Inc., the
managing director for the
Kentucky Proud branding
program, chief executive officer and co-owner of Rebekah
Grace Food & Supplements
for Life LLC and Kentucky
Proud Producers.
Garth D. Bobrowski ’75 AS,
’80 DE is the owner of Bobrowski Family Dentistry in
Greensburg. He is also the
current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.

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