Former Photo Editor and Business Manager Lauren Adler (‘89) headed to Seattle six years ago for a job at Amazon.com. After three-and-a-half years managing inventory and supply chain teams, she left Amazon and took some time off to do things she’d always wanted to do, including photography. She is now the Director of Client Services for ShipLogix, an internet company that has a web-based transportation management system. She purchased a house in Seattle and has adopted a very talkative black-lab/greyhound mutt named Toby.

Tengku Bahar (CD photo editor, ’00) is still doing photography, living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, working full-time with MERCY Malaysia, a humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization. He just got back from North Korea where he did some documentary photography. “As hard as it was doing work there,” Bahar writes, “it was an awesome experience—not many foreigners get to go there and to do photography.” Prior to that he was in the Indian Himalayas, working on a self-funded and self-assigned documentary photography project in Dharamsala, the exile home of the Dalai Lama and several thousand Tibetan refugees.

Andrew Baroch (‘77) is a reporter with Voice of America in Washington, D.C.

Christine Buurma (online editor, nation/world editor and associate news editor, ‘03) writes that she is a reporter for Institutional Investor News in Manhattan, “covering various dry financial topics.”

Former CD sports editor and editorial page editor Jeff Carlton (‘93) is now covering UNC and North Carolina A&T sports for the Greensboro News & Record. Last year he covered A&T, getting to see football and men’s basketball coaches fired on his watch, and the Greensboro Generals of the ECHL, who, Jeff reports, “did great on the ice but nearly went bankrupt.” He’s entering his seventh year at the N&R, along with his wife, Suzanne, who’s a senior copy editor (not a U.Va. grad, though; she’s a product of the University of Texas J school).

Former Business Manager Derwood Chase (‘52) still works full-time as the founder and CEO at Chase Investment Counsel Corporation in Charlottesville, which manages $2.6 billion for 101 institutions and high-net worth individuals in 32 states. He is also the president and trustee of Chase Foundation of Virginia, which supports 501-C-3 libertarian policy think tanks.

On June 5, 2004, Amy Clarke (production staff, ‘87) married Paul D. Greene from Fall River, Mass. Paul is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Currently, Amy is an editor with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The couple resides in Alexandria, Va.

Chuck Coates (‘51) has retired to the Outer Banks of North Carolina after many years in journalism. In his career he served as a reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville, a writer-editor-producer for NBC News in New York (Huntley-Brinkley, Nightly News, Today) and a member of the faculty at the University of New Mexico.

Former Operations Manager Andrew Csontos (‘95) and Jennifer Csontos (‘97) are pleased to announce the birth of their twin children, Andrew Jr. (a.k.a. AC2) and Ashley Csontos on Sept. 2, 2003. Andrew Senior still works at Outtask, enhancing “Cliqbook,” Outtask’s business travel offering.

Former Spotlight Editor Mike Guanzon (‘91) has returned to his hometown of Danville, Va., and is practicing corporate health law.

Former news and life editor Trey Hanbury (‘92) has moved from the FCC to Nextel Communications.

Patrick Hofer (shop manager, ’82), was appointed deputy assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, on June 30, 2003.

Former sports editor Allen Irish (‘75) was deployed to Kuwait in mid-March 2003 as an Army Colonel in a civil affairs assignment (Chief, Economics and Commerce) and moved forward to Baghdad in mid-April in support of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, later the Coalition Provisional Authority. He was later appointed the first CPA senior adviser to the newly established Ministry of Environment, where he worked to help develop the ministry’s budget, infrastructure, and overall capacity, until he redeployed to the states in January 2004.

Diane DeBerry Krehmeyer (editor-in-chief, ’91) had her second child and first girl, Anne Wingfield, on June 8. Anne joins big brother William, age 2. The family has moved from Alexandria, Va., to Charlottesville, and can’t wait to move into their new house in early October.

After leaving the University, George Morison (news, sports, editorial, ‘66) taught for many years and is now president of a medical company, Patient First, in Richmond. He has a son who is about to enter his fourth year on the Grounds. “It has been wonderful vicariously reliving my college days through him,” he writes.

Former Graphics Editor and Opinion Associate LT Gregory Morris (‘96) married Yuka Sugiura of Nagano, Japan, in Waikiki, Hawaii, on March 7. The couple currently resides in Yokohama, Japan. Returning to Japan after graduate study at the Naval Postgraduate School and Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, Calif., Greg is the chief engineer on the USS VANDEGRIFT (FFG 48), a frigate based in Yokosuka, Japan.

Will Morton (news editor, ‘95) happily quit an editing job at Dow Jones Newswires to move to Baltimore, where his wife Kim got a job as a fund raiser for Johns Hopkins Hospital. Will is now an at-home dad for 17-month-old son Elliott and is pursuing freelancing—in the 2-1/2 hours a day Elliott naps. After eight years in New York City, Will says “Baltimore’s waaaay different.”

Former CD sports editor Robert J. Pauly, Jr., Ph.D. (‘89) recently published his first book, “Islam in Europe: Integration or Marginalization?”

In December 1972, six months after graduating U.Va., Rick Pearson (‘72) married the Sweet Briar girl he’d been dating through college (thanks to the free 1-800 phone lines in the CD office). He graduated from law school in 1975, and has been practicing law in the Washington-Baltimore area ever since. For the most part, his specialty has been labor relations law, and he has represented both corporations and labor unions. Since 2000, he has been an Administrative Law Judge with the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Rick and his wife Liz have four children. The family lives just outside Baltimore.

In March, former Editor-in-Chief Dan Restrepo (‘93) joined the staff of The Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., as director of outreach.

Since graduating, Mark Stehle (associate and senior photo editor, ‘97) has freelanced for the Associated Press in Philadelphia as well as the Philadelphia Daily News. His work has appeared in Time and Newsweek, as well as newspapers in the states and abroad including the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today. Since graduating, Mark has made trips to Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Portugal, Spain, and Morocco. Most of his work is digital now, and he writes, “I still remember when the CD got its negative scanner and how exciting that was!”

Former Editor-in-Chief Greg Trevor (‘86) recently began a new position as Director of Media Relations at Rutgers University.

Pete Williams (sports editor, ’90) is working on a business motivational book with minor league baseball marketer Mike Veeck. “Fun is Good: How to Inject Joy and Passion into Your Workplace and Career” will be published in early 2005. Pete teamed up with fitness guru Mark Verstegen to produce “Core Performance,” which was released earlier this year. Pete, wife Suzy and son Luke (18 months) live in Safety Harbor, Fla.