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BURDELL & FRIENDS Tywanda “Ty” Lord, IE 96, an attorney, has been elected to Kilpatrick Stockton’s partnership effective Jan. 1. Lord practices in the intellectual property department in the Kilpatrick Stockton Atlanta office. Her practice focuses on patent and trademark litigation, licensing and prosecution. Brian Love, EE 97, and his wife, Amye, announce the birth of a daughter, Ainsley Rose, on July 2. She joins brothers Parker, 4, and Bennett, 6, at the family’s home in Potomac Falls, Va. Love is a senior associate with Booz Allen Hamilton. Catherine Moseley Matos, AE 94, MS AE 95, PhD AE 01, and David Matos, ChE 94, announce the birth of a son, Sean Christopher, on July 11. Sean joins brother Marc, 4, at the family’s home in Lake Spivey, Ga. Catherine is an assistant professor of mathematics at Clayton State University, and David is an environmental permitting manager for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Jennifer Smart Merritt, ISyE 97, was promoted to principal at The North Highland Company, a management and technology consulting firm. She and her husband, Glen Merritt, EE 95, a certified financial planner at Raymond James & Associates Inc., live in Cartersville, Ga., with their children, Grace, 4, and Jack, 6. Amy Beckenhauer Mollohan, Mgt 95, and Stacey Mollohan, APhys 96, live in Orange County, Calif., with their children: Maxwell James, 1; Ava Catherine, 3; Jack, 6; and Elizabeth, 7. Pam Tucker Mount, ME 95, and Steve Mount, ME 94, announce the birth of a son, Stephen Tucker Mount, on Aug. 26. Tucker joins sister Sarah, 5, at the family’s home in Darlington, S.C. Pam is a full-time mother. Steve is a site manager for Arvin-Meritor. B.J. Olejnik, AE 97, and his wife, Michele, announce the birth of a son, Daniel Anthony, on Aug. 22. He joins siblings Rob and Katie at the family’s home. Olejnik is a structural design engineer with the Boeing Co. in Huntsville, Ala. Ingrid Beatriz Jimenez Redmon, ChE 99, and Todd Redmon, PTCh 97, both work at Shaw Industries, where Todd has been promoted to materials resources manager. The MRM group supports Shaw’s green edge sustainability commitment through development and management of collection, sale and disposal of all post-industrial and postconsumer waste streams generated internally. Ingrid was named a 2008 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference Luminary honoree for her contributions to the Hispanic technical community. The Redmons live in Atlanta. Dan Smith, ME 92, and his wife, Sage, announce the birth of a son, Garrity Daniel, on April 20. Smith, who received an MBA from Georgia State University in 1999, is a product category director for Attwood Corp. During his 11 years with Attwood, he has served as manufacturing engineer and plant manager. The Smiths live in Smyrna, Ga. James Stevens, IntA 98, an attorney, has been elected to partnership at Kilpatrick Stockton effective Jan. 1. Stevens practices in the corporate department in the firm’s Atlanta office, providing general corporate and bank regulatory advice to clients. Stevens has substantial experience in the representation of public and private companies and financial institutions in mergers and acquisitions and public offerings as well as securities reporting and compliance. He and his wife Melanie, Mgt 00, are residents of Smyrna, Ga. Richard Tyler, IE 90, served as a special adviser to the International Olympic Committee on the Olympic Villages for the Beijing Olympics auditing, photo documenting and troubleshooting. A real estate director, Tyler lives in Alpharetta, Ga. Rickshaw Wreck During an Alumni Travel tour to China this fall, program director Martin Ludwig captured this image of a rickshaw driver in Beijing catching up on his reading while waiting for a fare. Keep TECH TOPICS readers around the world posted on career achievements, family additions and noteworthy accomplishments by e-mailing news to ramblinroll@gtalumni.org. And be sure to send in any photographs you take of people reading TECH TOPICS or the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine around the world. Ramblin’ Roll Snowbound in Greenland for Science B 34 rad Whelchel, ME 03, arrived at Greenland’s Summit Station in early November as part of a four-person team that will maintain the facility and conduct atmospheric and climate experiments through mid-February. “The station is the highest point in the Arctic Circle, the sun sets and does not rise for two months, temperatures can reach minus 75 degrees Fahrenheit and snow accumulation will constantly try to bury the station,” Whelchel said. Before they embarked on the mission, the team members had to undergo survival training as the closest assistance is 700 miles away. “All of the polar workers I’ve talked to said they cannot describe the temperature, it must be felt to be believed,” Whelchel said. “Apparently there are fun things one can do in minus 75 degrees, like take a cup of boiling water, throw it outside and watch it freeze into ice crystals before hitting the ground.” TechTopics | Winter 2008

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