Class Notes

Kathryn Porter, LA22, a member of the ­Gateway Battalion Army ROTC, was named a Distinguished Military Graduate. Porter achieved this honor by ranking in the top 20% of Army ROTC graduates nationwide, ­maintaining high scholastic standards and ­successfully completing ROTC Advanced Camp at Fort Knox, Ky. 

Zac Styka, BU22, a member of the ­Gateway Battalion Army ROTC, was named a ­Distinguished Military Graduate. Styka achieved this honor by ranking in the top 20% of Army ROTC graduates nationwide, ­maintaining high ­scholastic standards and ­successfully completing ROTC Advanced Camp at Fort Knox, Ky. Styka exceeded these ­requirements, finishing in the top 10% of Army ROTC graduates nationally.

Dalia Oppenheimer, GR11,recently ­received the David N. and Roselin Grosberg Young Leadership Award from the Jewish ­Federation of St. Louis. A board member of the ­federation and co-chair of its Community Impact ­Assessment and Planning Committee, ­Oppenheimer has also served on the executive boards of Bais Abraham Congregation and Epstein Hebrew Academy.

Peng Lin, GM11, was recently named principal at Fish & Richardson, P.C., a global intellectual property law firm in Dallas. Lin ­concentrates his practice on patent prosecution and ­counseling, opinion work, due diligence studies, and patent portfolio development and management.

Aaron Cohn, GR02, GR03, competed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in couple and family therapy at the Family Institute at ­Northwestern University, where he is now a staff therapist and clinical supervising faculty for the master of science in marriage and ­family therapy program. Cohn is also an ­associate ­editor of the Encyclopedia of ­Couple and Family Therapy (Springer, 2018).

Bridget Richardson, BU95, was elected to the board of directors of the Women’s Bar ­Association of the District of Columbia, one of the oldest and largest voluntary bar associations in metropolitan Washington, D.C. She continues her work as a regulatory and government affairs attorney in the food industry and her streak as the slowest runner in Georgetown.

Sandra (Fullerton) Joireman, LA89, who studies post-conflict property restitution, interviewed people in Oman whose families had lost property in the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964. One of the interviewees for her research project was a WashU grad, and the two had an enjoyable conversation about their great experiences at the university. Joireman is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies and professor of political science at the University of Richmond.

Gary Feder, LA70, LW74, GL80, retired from the St. Louis office of Husch Blackwell Dec. 31, 2021, after a 48-year career in the law. He was elected to the Clayton, Mo., Board of ­Aldermen in August 2021. An adjunct professor at WashU’s School of Law since 2013, Feder served as chairman of the Washington University Law Eliot Society from 2016–19. His wife, Robin Feder, LA72, GR74, recently retired after 50 years at Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, where she had been executive director for 18 years.

Byron Roe, LA54, and his wife, Alice, ­celebrated their 60th wedding ­anniversary last August and moved to Acadia Creek Retirement Community in Union City, Calif. The third edition of his textbook, Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences, was released in October 2020 (Springer). Roe has been involved in a neutrino (MiniBooNE) experiment run by a former graduate student since 2000.

Abby McGuire, LA21, is a first-year graduate student at San Diego State University, pursuing studies to become a speech-language pathologist.