Donald E. Burdett
Donald E. Burdett, UC82, self-published No Greater Love and Other Stories (May 2021) under the name D.E. Burdett as he’d done for his earlier book, Sometimes with Malice: Years Before the Civil War, the Conflict Had Already Begun (2011).
Cynthia (Scott) Treece
Cynthia (Scott) Treece, LA82, SW83, after 35 years as a professional fundraiser in Dallas, retired as the vice president of development for Parkland Foundation, the fundraising entity affiliated with Parkland Health, Dallas County’s public health system. Treece helped lead fundraising for the construction of a new Parkland hospital and a new breast-imaging center. In April, she and her husband, Alan, moved to a lakefront home in east Texas.
Dana Regan
Dana Regan, FA83, wrote The Duck Is Stuck, the second book in the Mike Delivers beginning reader series (Simon & Schuster, December 2021). Regan’s inspiration for her book — about a trash truck that spews garbage because a rubber duck is stuck in the door — was a news item on National Public Radio about the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, whose door wouldn’t close because a rock was stuck in the frame.
Eric Heist
Eric Heist, EN91, GB92, a colonel in the U.S. Army, retired after 30 years of service. He led and cared for soldiers, civilians and families in units from platoon to brigade, and served as a staff officer in various Army and NATO headquarters. His career included deployments to Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was inducted into the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps Hall of Fame representing Washington University. He and his wife of 27 years, Amy (Chapline) Heist, LA92, reside in Northern Virginia.
Frank Gilbert
Frank Gilbert, LA87, TI90, HA90, is a project executive with Erdman, based in Madison, Wis., where he manages consulting, planning, design and construction projects for health-care and senior living facilities. Previously, he was with Proliance Surgeons for more than 14 years. Gilbert also operates his own company, H.O.P.E. Healthcare Consulting, working in the areas of health-care operations, facilities and real estate development.
Chuck Munson
Chuck Munson, BU88, GB95, GB98, co-authored the 14th edition of a textbook, Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (Pearson, January 2022).
Jeffrey Woodruff
Jeffrey Woodruff, LA90, completed a master’s degree in architecture at the University of Colorado and an apprenticeship with Harry Teague Architects in Basalt. Woodruff launched Cloud Hill Design in Snowmass, Colo., which focuses on a healthy built environment and biodiversity, with both the shelter and the land complementing mountain living and nature.
Lauren H. Kerstein
Lauren H. Kerstein, LA93, SW95, has earned plaudits for her latest picture book, Home for A While (Magination Press, February 2021), which offers a realistic depiction of a child entering a foster home. The book, illustrated by Natalia Moore, was nominated for the 2022–23 South Carolina Book Awards, a division of the South Carolina Association of School Librarians. The book is also included on Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices 2022, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s annual best-of-the-year list.
Chris Kunard
Chris Kunard, EN93, EN93, was promoted to senior director, open innovation customer collaboration, at Illumina. His team works with a strategic set of Illumina’s customers, helping them achieve novel end-to-end solutions in the genomic space using next-generation sequencing instruments and bioinformatics tools. An example of this work was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine in collaboration with Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, where Kunard lives with his wife, Amanda.
Virginia Wasiuk Lay
Virginia Wasiuk Lay, LW93, in November was appointed judge for Division 16 of the 21st Judicial Circuit in St. Louis County by Gov. Mike Parson. Lay previously served as an associate judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit.