Sightings | Class Notes p.2

Cheryl Astey Greene MEM’88 has been promoted to Hydrologist III at Saint John’s Water Management District in Palatka, Fla. Her husband, William Greene, is self-employed at Tri-County Supply.

Brent A. Fewell MEM’91 and his wife, Sheara (BS’91), recently celebrated birthday #1 of their second daughter, Macy Carolyn, who was baptized in Duke Chapel this past Christmas. Brent, Sheara and big sister, Ragan (age 3), are doing great. Brent is still practicing environmental law at the firm Jones Day in their Pittsburgh, Pa. office, focusing on transactional work, compliance counseling and environmental litigation. Sheara was recently promoted to faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh where she completed her post-doctoral fellowship in 2002. Brent serves on a number of civic and charitableboards and was recently appointed co-chair of the wetlands and endangered species committee for The Environmental Law Group of the Federalist Society. Brent can be reached by e-mail at bafewell@jonesday.com.

Kevin Smith MEM’96 and his wife, Carla, recently welcomed the newest Duke fan, Owen Charles Smith, on June 19. They are living in Sacramento, Calif., where Smith works for Ducks Unlimited, Inc. His work is mainly in Canada, where he does large-scale mapping/modeling of Boreal wetlands. His e-mail is ksmith@ducks.org “if any of my classmates want to drop a line sometime.”

Mary A. Jacques MEM ‘97, T’95 married Matthew C. Bouchard (T’94) in April 2002. They live in Boston where she works for MIT as the environmental health and safety coordinator for the Division of Student Life. Jacques can be reached by email at mjacques@mit.edu.

Thomas Grant MEM ‘97 and Julia Kertz Grant MEM & MF ‘98 are proud to announce the birth of their son, Edward Corcoran Grant. The Grant family lives in Boise, Idaho, where Julia works for Boise Corp. and Thomas for the state of Idaho.

Charlotte Gray Hudson MEM’99 is a marine wildlife scientist at Oceana Inc. She and her new husband, Cameron Hudson, are living in Cambridge, Mass.

Jeremy Schreifels MEM’99 recently published Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Designing and Operating a Cap and Trade Program for Pollution Control, and SO2 Emissions Trading Program: A Feasibility Study for China. He also co-authored several chapters for an upcoming OECD publication, Sustainable Development: Emissions Trading. He and his family live in Washington, D.C.

In March 2003, David Shurna MEM’99 and his colleague, Julie Ivkers Dubin MEM’99, received a grant of nearly $300,000 from the Walton Family Foundation to launch a new educational nonprofit organization called Global Explorers (GEx). GEx brings rich, eye-opening and transformative international immersion experiences to middle and high school students from around the world. Students can visit five locations through the GEx Program: the Arctic; Oaxaca; Baja, Calif.; the Yucatan; and the Peruvian Amazon. Shurna has worked with such diverse organizations as The Nature Conservancy, the World Wildlife Fund, Island Press, Explore! Magazine and the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center. After leaving the Nicholas School in 1999, he became the first executive director of The Catamount Institute, a mid-sized Colorado-based environmental nonprofit organization.

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