Latest News About the C of C Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni


WES ADAMS ('97) is working on a masters degree at UNC-Wilmington.
JOSEPH B. ANDERSON ('86) is Chief, Flight Medicine Safety and Evaluation, USAF Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, VA.
JEREMY AUSTIN ('95) received his M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina on May 21, 1999. RONALD BARTH ('97) is a pediatric genetics technician at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
JAMES BARTON ('93) is the High School Director at St. Pual's Country Day School and owns a private busineees, Barton International. He and his wife Kristie reside in North Charleston.
WILBUR BARWICK ('97) and his wife Anna reside in Tuscaloosa, AL.
HONOR SAWYER BONDS ('91) and her husband Phil proudly announce the arrival of Benjamin Bonds, born December 1, 1998. They reside in Florence, SC.
DENISE EVERING BRODERICK ('90) is completing her OB/GYN residency at the Greenville Hospital System and plans to practice in Greenville. She recently received an award and grant for research on migraine headaches and estrogen from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Merck.
RONALD BURCH ('77) is with Purdue Frederick Pharmaceuticals in Norwalk, CT as Vice-President, Discovery Research. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology in '81 and MD in '85 from MUSC.
JOANNA FREEMAN CARTRETTE ('91) is a chemist with the Site Technology Group of Allied Signal in Columbia, SC.
CHRISTI KILLEN CHARD ('90) and husband Dana had their second child, Elizabeth "Beth" Rae, born January 13, 1998. She joins older brother William. Christi is finishing her pediatric residency at the University Medical Center in Jackson, MS.
GEORGE COBB ('82) is now Division leader for the Division of Environmental Health and Toxicology within the Institute of Environmental Helath at Texas Tech University.
EBRU CRAFT ('93) made a presentation as part of our fall seminar program. She is a cement chemist with LaFarge and resides in Reston, VA.
ADAM W. DARCY ('96) is currently attending the Temple University School of Podiatry.
ROGER W. DAY ('77) serves on the American Chemical Society's Committee on Corporation Associates. He is affiliated with Praxair, Inc.
LAUREN DUFFEY-DEMOSTHENES ('77) practices OB-GYN in Greenville, SC.
BARRY C. DUNCAN ('82) served as a dentist in the US Navy from 1986-95. He is now in private practice in the Asheville, NC area. He married his wife Amy in 1997.
APRIL PINKSTON DUPREE ('96) was married May 9, 1998 in Lancaster, SC to Timothy DuPree. She is an assistant project manager at General Engineering Labs in Charleston.
DEBORAH J. FARAG ('90) has accepted a position with he Clinical Department of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, CA as their contract specialist negotiating clinical trial study agreements worldwide. Gilead is an antiviral drug development company.
ALLEN GUSTIN ('92) is in a surgical residency at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. and is involved with a research project with the divisions of Gene Therapy and Radiation Biology at the U.A.B. Wallace Lamar Institute. He graduated from MUSC in 1996 with his M.D.
HOWARD HALL ('85) is Deputy Division Leader for Operations at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. JENNIFER HARMON-FETCHO ('93) is a support chemist for the USDA Environmental Lab in Baltimore. She married Paul Fetcho in May '98.
THOMAS HENSON ('70) lives in Baton Rouge, LA.
JASON HOBBS ('96) is an environmental chemist with Shealy Envirnomental and lives in Lexington, SC.
DOUGLAS R. HURST (Dec '98) has begun work in the lab of Dr. Amy Sang at Florida State University. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in biochemistry.
MAHMOUD KARIMIPOUR ('89) received his D.D.S. from the Medical University of South Carolina on May 21, 1999.
CAMILLE KASSIS ('92) and MICHAEL STEBBINS ('92) were married November 28, 1998 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Charleston, SC.
CHRIS KENNEDY ('88) is in the last year of a cardiology fellowship at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida.
SCOTT KELLNER ('85) and his wife Libba have three children, Ben (9), Annie (7), and Haley (2). He practices at the Family Healthcare Center in Clinton, SC.
TIM KENNY ('96) has relocated to Hawaii.
BOBBY KADKHODAYAN ('88) had his picture in the March 1999 Journal of Chemical Education showing him at work in the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
BRANDY DRAKE KIM ('94) is a OB-GYN resident at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
LISA KOSIC ('95) received her Pharm.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina on May 21, 1999.
JACQUELINE LACKEY ('87) is marketing manager for Clinimetrics Research in Redwood City, CA.
CARMEN LEIGH ALVERSON LEDFORD ('92) has joined in a dental practice on Folly Road on James Island. She received her DMD from the Medical University of South Carolina.
FREDERICK THOMAS LENSE ('38) ,81, of Mauldin, SC, retired Vice President of Scientific Affairs of the Texize Division of Morton International, died Saturday September 12, 1998 in Greenville. Mr. Lense was born in Philadelphia, a son of Frederick Thomas and Cecilia Agatha Quinn Lense. He was a graduate of the College of Charleston and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a member of the Mauldin City Council, Board of Adjustment and Zoning Commission and Greenville County Study Commission, the American Chemical Society, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, Soap and Detergent Association, Chemical Specialties Manufacturing Association, and Chemical Specialist Manufacturing Associates. He was awarded the College of Charleston's Founders' Medal in 1993. He was a Roman Catholic. Surviving are his wife, Carolyn Elizabeth Brant Lense; three daughters, Ann Dolge of Greenville, Marie Barnett of Hanahan and Catherine Buchanan of Kennesaw, Ga.; and four grandchildren.
ANGELA STEPHENSON LINDNER ('83) is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Flordia. On April 9, 1999 she presented a seminar entitled "Transformation of Substituted Aromatic Compounds by Methanotrophic Bacteria: A Mechanistic Approach to Bioremediation" at the Department of Chemistyry and Biochemistry of the College of Charleston.
THOMAS MANNING ('85) is an associate professor at Valdosta State University. On March 2 he was the speaker at the Southwest Georgia Section of the American Chemcial Society where he spoke on nanotechnology.
MARYT MARTINEZ ('88) and his wife Shannon Studer Martinez welcomed Parker WIlliam Martinez into the world on February 9, 1999. Parker weighed in at 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 20.5 inces long. Marty is an ophthalmology resident at UNC-Chapel Hill.
P. STANLEY MAY ('82) is an assistant professor at the University Of South Dakota. He presented a seminar entitled "Energy Transfer within Isolated Pairs of Metal Ions" as part of our fall program.
LAURA WORKMAN-MCCONNELL ('87) is working with Jennifer Harmon-Fetcho and earned the Rhone-Pounec Agro Environmental Poster prize at this year's IUPAC meeting in London.
MELISSA MERLAU ('97 ) has successfully completed her Ph.D. qualifying exams at Northwestern University. JANET OHORODNYK ('91) is employed as a Senior Associate Quality Assurance Technologist by Albright and Wilson in Charleston and resides in Goose Creek.
DENA PANOS ('73) has completed the Physician's Assistant program at MUSC.
DANA PORTENIER ('95) received his M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina on May 21, 1999. DEBRA WITTKOPF PETIPAIN ('96) is a chemist at General Engineering Labs in Charleston.
CHARLEY PEYTON ('91) is currently a graduate assistant in the mathematics department at the University of Alabama-Huntville working towards a Ph.D. in applied mathematics.
CAROLINE PRUITT ('98) is currently studying physician assisting at the Medical University of South Carolina.
DANA REDICK ('93) is currently an OB/GYN intern at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
MATTHEW REILLY ('97) is at the Oregon Health Sciences University in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscince in their Ph.D. Program.
WENDELL L. RICHARDSON ('89) received his M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina on May 21, 1999.
SONJA VOSS RIVERS ('96) is working in Atlanta with Pread Pharmaceuticals.
DONALD D. SAMS, Jr. ('49) has retired from 22 years service in the US Army and now teaches elementary German to military families in Germany. He was with the Stars and Stripes, the Soldiers' Newspaper for 20 years and also taught military chemistry at the Army Chemical Corp School in Alabama for four years.
SABRINA CANNON SARTIN ('90) is a senior research chemist at Sequa Chemicals in Rock Hilll, SC. She married Jim Sartin on June 13, 1998.
IVAN SHERMAN('78) is a board-certified emergency physician in New Orleans.
MICHAEL STEBBINS ('92) and CAMILLE KASSIS ('92) were married November 28, 1998 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Charleston, SC.
RENEE BETHEA THOMAS ('86) finished a Laboratory Medicine Residency Program at MUSC in 1995. Since then, she has been in solo practice at Kershaw County Medical Center in Camden, S.C., where she lives with her husband John L. Thomas.
ELIZABETH STREETT TYSON ('95) received her M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina on May 21, 1999.
KIMBERLY RUTAN WORSENCROFT ('94) was a recipient of a Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Fellowship for the 1998-99 year. She has recently completed her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Emory University and will be a post-doctoral fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina.
SARAH ZENG ('97) received her Masters of International Business from the University of South Carolina in May 1999 and is now employed by Merck.

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