Tech Topics - Summer 2008 - (Page 11) AlumniHouse Alumni Association Board of Trustees students. After her graduation from Georgia Tech, her father, Pat Epps, ME 56, encouraged her to obtain experience elsewhere before joining the family business. She spent the next 10 years working in the securities industry for such leading financial services firms as Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney and earning Series 7, Series 63 and certified financial planner designation. She returned to Atlanta to join Epps Aviation in a marketing role. She was promoted to the position of CFO in 1995 and elected to the board of directors in 2007. She manages accounting operations and information technology, oversees aircraft management and sales and builds relationships with key customers, vendors and suppliers. Epps is a member of the Atlanta Aero Club and National Business Aviation Association and serves on the 25th reunion committee for Tech’s class of 1983. She is married to John C. Lentini II, EE 83; has a daughter, Hailey, who is graduating from Riverwood High School in late May; and an adult stepson, Jacob Lentini. ANGELA FOX, EE 91, was hired as the first president and CEO of the Crystal City Business Improvement District in November 2006. She previously was the executive director and chief executive officer for Cultural Tourism DC, a grassroots nonprofit she expanded in membership and funding. Graduating from Tech with highest honors, Fox was recruited into the executive development program at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon). She launched BellAtlantic.net, was the chief information officer for the company’s first e-commerce application for its consumer base, appeared in two Bell Atlantic commercials and facilitated diversity management training throughout the organization. Fox also has worked as the vice president of strategic development for Simplexity and run her own consulting firm, providing business strategy, marketing and executive coaching services to such clients as ESPN, Bank of America and the Association for Education Development. She chairs the Capitol Fringe Festival board, is secretary of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival board and is immediate past chair of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company board, which raised more than $9 million and built a new theater during her tenure. She recently chaired the 35th anniversary gala for N Street Village, an organization serving homeless women, and helped raise nearly $600,000. Fox also serves on the boards of the National Shakespeare Council and PeaceXPeace. She and her husband, Jim Oliver, ME 90, MS NE 92, live in Arlington, Va., with their 4-year-old son, Tatton. JOHN LEWIS JR., IM 79, is president and owner of the Capital Lighting Fixture Co., which designs, manufactures and imports residential lighting fixtures for wholesale distribution to retail outlets in the United States and Canada. From 1981 to 1996, Lewis was employed by Porex Technologies Corp. When he left the manufacturer of porous plastics for medical, industrial and consumer applications, Lewis was vice president of operations. Following graduation from Tech, he worked as a production supervisor for the plastics division of Chesebrough Ponds Inc. Lewis earned an executive master’s in business administration at Emory University in 1992. He and his wife, Mary Lou, live in Suwanee, Ga., and have two adult children, Leslie and John. WANDA BETHUNE MURRAY, HS 82, moved to St. Louis after graduating from Tech to work as a management engineer for Christian Hospital NE-NW. In 1987, she earned an MBA from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and was promoted to the Christian Hospital corporation’s director of management engineering. She left the corporate world to work as a full-time mother, and the family relocated to suburban Richmond, Va. She is married to Tyrone Murray, ME 82. They are the parents of two current Tech students, Nichole and Danielle. Murray has kept her engineering skills sharp by doing periodic consulting work within the health care and auto industries. She also has worked with the Girl Scouts and mentored teen girls. Murray served on the Richmond Georgia Tech Club board in 1997 and was president in 2000-01. TROY RICE, IE 01, was the recipient of the Alumni Association’s Outstanding Young Alumnus Award in February and the Ramblin’ Wreck Volunteer of the Year honor in 2005. He is president of the Georgia Tech Club of the Palm Beaches and the Young Alumni Council. Rice is the manager of Supplier Performance for Florida Power & Light and is responsible for monitoring and improving the performance of suppliers constituting a $2 billion annual spend. He also is a Six Sigma black belt counselor and has trained 18 candidates for certification. As a Tech student, he was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity and the Student Foundation and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. As president of the Georgia Tech Club of the Palm Beaches, Rice established a local golf tournament that has raised $10,000 for scholarships in two years. He also is active with the American Heart Association, serving as a team captain for the Heart Walk and generating more than $25,000 in contributions over two years. He and his wife, Tracy, live in Juno Beach, Fla. VICTORIA SELFRIDGE, IE 96, is the director of marketing and e-commerce for Ent Federal Credit Union in Colorado Springs, Colo. The largest credit union in Colorado, Ent has assets of $2.4 billion and a membership of more than 180,000. An adjunct lecturer faculty member at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Selfridge is an active supporter of the Pikes Peak United Way and the Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado. As an alumna, she has served as the Roll Call chair for the Colorado Georgia Tech Club and is a member of the Leadership Circle of Roll Call donors. While a Tech student, she was president of the Student Alumni Association, a trustee for the Student Foundation, a Georgia Tech Student Ambassador and a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority and the Anak Society. She and her husband, Brian Blankenship, ME 98, live in Colorado Springs. RUSH SMITH JR., Phys 72, of Atlanta, is a partner in Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, where he chairs the firm’s professional liability practice group. He has been listed as one of Georgia’s super lawyers for the past three years by Atlanta magazine. He is a frequent speaker assisting the Georgia Bar’s Institute for Continuing Legal Education, state and national professional associations’ continuing education programs and risk management seminars. He served as a lobbyist for the Georgia Hospital Association in its successful effort to get a comprehensive tort reform package enacted in 2005. He received his law degree from Emory University. He served a three-year term on the Alumni Association board from 1982 to 1985 and served as chair of the Committee of Twenty, which was a young alumni organization of the Association. At Tech, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Anak and Omicron Delta Kappa and was editor of the Technique. BOB STARGEL, EE 83, is vice president of Global Nonwovens, a more than $1 billion sector internal to the Kimberly-Clark Corp. He is responsible for the development, commercialization and supply of materials used to support KimberlyClark’s branded personal health and hygiene products. The sector consists of six manufacturing facilities, a centralized research and engineering team, as well as planning, finance and staff manufacturing operations. Since joining Kimberly-Clark in 1984, Stargel has worked in positions in engineering, research, manufacturing and marketing. Stargel was instrumental in the development of patented machines; served as manager of a KimberlyClark soap plant in San Antonio; and was vice president of research, engineering and global growth in the corporation’s professional sector. Stargel serves on the board of the Peachtree Regional FIRST Robotics Division and the finance committee for the Georgia Council of Economics Education. Stargel was inducted into the College of Engineering’s Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni in 1996. He and his wife, Jocelyn Cooper Stargel, IE 82, MS IE 86, are the parents of two children, Sean, 18, and Chloe, 13. JEB STEWART , Cls 91, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of SciHealth Holdings Inc., a health care decision support and information technology solutions company. He is also manager of Chenocetah Ventures LLC, a venture capital investment fund; Xana Management LLC, an investment management firm; and Pinelog Heritage LLC, an organic farm and timber property. Stewart invests in and manages real estate and timber properties and has been involved as an adviser and investor with several early-stage technology companies. He has served on the boards of directors for more than 20 companies, ventures and civic organizations. He is involved locally in youth sports and church, as well as multiple angel investment groups, professional associations and philanthropic causes. He and his wife, Stephanie, have two sons, J.J. and Jack, and live in Atlanta. His father, H. Milton Stewart, IE 61, for whom the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is named, served as president of the Alumni Association in 1995. Ballot for Election of Trustees I approve the nominees listed. The nominating committee comprised of the current Alumni Association chair and chairs from the previous three years selected the final list of candidates for the board of trustees. Mail ballot to: Georgia Tech Alumni Association 190 North Ave. N.W., Atlanta, GA 30313 Ballots must be received by June 2. TECHTOPICS | SUMMER 2008
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