Michaella Anne (Hammond) Thornton, BJ ’00, participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute fellowship in Providence, Rhode Island, for two weeks – July 20-July 31 – studying early American women’s history and archival research methods. She also was a finalist, for 2014 and 2015, for The Southeast Review’s World’s Best Short-Short Story … Continued

Katherine (Kerr) Kubatzky, BJ ’80, and Tim Kubatzky, BJ ’80, founded Polaris Non-Profit Solutions LLC, based in Georgetown, Texas, offering communications and fundraising consulting services to nonprofit organizations.

Jim Harnar, BJ ’75, retired from the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership in Portland, Maine, after heading the nonprofit organization for the past decade. After three years as a newspaper reporter in Colorado in the late 1970’s, Harnar joined the Navy, subsequently serving 25 years of active duty and in the Naval Reserve. He … Continued

Susan Mays, BJ ’87, has been named vice president of brand, marketing and communications for CH2M, a $5.5 billion global engineering, construction and operations firm headquartered in Colorado. Mays previously led marketing for the firm’s operations and maintenance business.

Thomas Michael Eschen, BJ ’75, was named president of the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis in January. Eschen is the vice president for institutional advancement at Maryville University in St. Louis.

Seth Hamblin, MA ’12, died May 31, 2015. He worked in the graphics department of the Wall Street Journal for almost a decade. Hamblin joined the Journal in 2007 as a News Editor for the graphics team and rose to become Graphics Chief in 2010 and Deputy Global Head of Visuals in 2014. Before joining … Continued

Tayo Oyedeji, PhD ’08, is the managing director/CEO of Starcom Media Perspectives, Nigeria’s No. 1 media advertising agency.