Class Notes

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.

Daniel Hebert, GL20, coauthored an article that appeared in The CPA Journal (October 2021): “Twenty Questions on the Challenges of Maintaining the Quality of Accounting Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The peer-refereed journal is published by the New York Society of CPAs for accounting practitioners, educators and other financial professionals across the globe.

Asheley Ashittey, LA20, who studied African and African-American studies, earned a Fulbright Scholar Award to pursue gender studies in Lesotho, South Africa. Her work will include documenting the oral histories of the Lesotho National Council of Women.

Tiffany Yao, FA19, walked away with the first runner-up title at the 2021 Miss Asian Pageant in Support of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yao also won the pageant’s Champion of Speech contest and was elected an advocate of the UN 17 SDGs.

Rebecca Williams, LA19, began a doctoral program in medical/clinical psychology in August at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research is in the field of behavioral sleep medicine.