Class Notes

Paul Walsh, who was JRB President during the 2006–2007 academic year, was recently married to Erika Rose Bartholomew on August 29, 2015, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Paul and Erika met at Merck & Co., where Paul is currently employed as an Associate Principal Scientist in the Drug Product Analytical Sciences group. Paul graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 2012.

Megan Martinez Thoen has been appointed the Director of Forensic Mental Health Services and has accepted the position of Research Assistant Professor at the Texas Tech University Institute for Forensic Science beginning in the fall of 2015. She and her husband, Eric, welcomed their first child, Parker, in December 2014.

Stephanie Bowen Preshlock and her husband, Bob, welcomed their first baby boy two days before Easter on April 3, 2015. They have named him Robert Paul Preshlock III after Stephanie’s husband, and have had fun with various nicknames from RP3 to Baby Bobby. Stephanie has had the luxury of staying home with him and taking time off work from her role as an Intelligence Analyst with the federal government.

Robert Hughes and Erin Keegan Hughes welcomed son Benjamin Thomas on February 21 to join his big sister, Claire.

Caitlin Young earned a master’s degree in library and information science from Louisiana State University in May.