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Review, in the rearview: At UD’s most recent Homecoming, Dalton, a former editor of The Review, revisited the old newspaper stomping grounds. “We cracked ourselves up going through old clips we wrote in college.”
Julie Carrick Dalton, AS92, far left, has published more than a thosand articles in The Boston Globe, Business Week, The Hollywood Reporter and other publications.
VANESSA LOGAN PEOPLES, BE92,
of Haw River, N.C., welcomed grandson Kai Peoples, pictured
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DENISE STOUT HOLCOMB, AS89, of Bel Air, Md., has been published for the fifth time. Her story, “The Cottage on Washington Street,” was featured in the anthology, Beach Holidays: Rehoboth Beach Reads.
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TONY MAKOWSKI, AS91, of Lansdale, Pa., has been awarded the Gould Award for Teaching Excellence, the most prestigious teaching award at Delaware County Community College.
JULIE CARRICK DALTON, AS92, of Boston, has written the novel The Last Beekeeper. Inspired by the sudden death of her own beehives in Massachusetts, the author paints a mesmerizing portrait of a world without bees.
ANTHONY VARALLO, AS92, of Charleston, S.C., won the 2023 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction for his forthcoming short story collection, What Did You Do Today?
DARRYL CONWAY, HS93, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was promoted to executive senior associate athletic director at the University of Michigan.
GREGORY R. BABOWAL, AS94,
of Dover, Del., was appointed commissioner for the Kent County Court of Common Pleas. Babowal previously worked as a criminal prosecutor for the Delaware Department of Justice for more than 22 years.
SHAWN VREELAND, AS95, of Fredericksburg, Va., was named head of the publishing and website branch for the Naval History and Heritage Command, the U.S. Navy’s official history
THE FAST AND THE LITIGIOUS
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but the wheels of a race car? DONALD DICKSON, an Austin-based litigator who moonlights as a race official for Formula 1 and IndyCar events, once experienced a car coming at him—on fire—at 125 miles per hour. (It managed a miraculous stop before careening into his stand.)
“I spent half my life wondering if I would ever get to even see a Formula 1 race, now I’m 6 feet from the track,” says Dickson, AS81. “It’s been the most fun, exciting and unlikely thing I’ve ever done.”
To fellow Blue Hens who might be interested in taking up this horsepowered hustle, the lawyer’s pro bono advice is to go for it. He fell into the sport accidentally, when car trouble led him to the backseat of a ride-share. The driver’s husband happened to be a flag chief at Austin’s iconic track, Circuit of the Americas. They got to talking, and the rest is high-octane history.
“If you’ve ever wondered if the marshals are imported from Italy or something, they’re not,” Dickson says. “Anyone can experience this wild ride.”
program. He previously served as senior editor for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, for which he received the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award.
SCOTT HIPPENSTEEL, EOE96M, EOE00PHD of Charlotte, N.C., published his third book on material he studied at UD.
Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat acknowledges the contributions of UD Profs. John Wehmiller and James Pizzuto.
Donald Dickson, AS81, (right) with three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart at the 2020 United States Grand Prix.
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