Campus & Community

On May 20, 2011, Washington University celebrated its 150th Commencement exercises.

Throughout his lengthy career in hotel management, Bill Shaw, MBA ’72, has taken hospitality, as well as giving back to the community, to a whole new level.

Charles Cohn, BSBA ’08, founded Varsity Tutors, an award-winning tutoring company he started as an undergraduate student at Olin Business School.

Lauren Simon, AB ’06, coordinates the product development and approvals process for Sesame Street-branded toys, games and more.

As founder of Cheree Berry Paper, Cheree Berry, BFA ’00, focuses on the wedding industry, and her invitations regularly appear in Martha Stewart Weddings.

Washington University alumni and students are key players on the staff of the St. Louis Beacon.

Reunion weekends provide a time for reconnecting to friends and to the university; Avigail Goldgraber, AB ’06, stays involved, serving as co-chair of her 5th Reunion Executive Committee.

Junior Dan Davis captured the 110-meter hurdle national championship May 28 to highlight the final day of competition for the men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams at the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Other updates: Claire Voris named academic all-American and men’s tennis finishes third in national tournament.

Gustav Schonfeld, MD, has died in New York City while on vacation visiting his children. The pioneering lipid researcher and former head of the Department of Medicine passed away due to complications from myelofibrosis.

In the graphics art world, Natalie Sklobovskaya is that rare commodity — a triple threat. Sklobovskaya is not only a driven illustrator, but she also enjoys computer programing, writing and playing music, and creating websites. Those talents enable a nice collision of creativity that have allowed her to draw comics, animate them, score a soundtrack and upload them to a website she designed.She’ll graduate May 20 with a double major in communication design and computer science.