Class Note 1997
Jay Lavender just published Roy: The 78-Year-Old Champion, a timeless underdog story about Dr. Roy Vomastek’s love for golf and his lifetime of luck, hard work, miracles, fatherhood and friendship that came together one magical summer weekend in 2010 at the club championship at the legendary Crystal Downs Country Club.
Co-written with Brian Mulvaney, the book takes the reader on a journey from Roy’s humble Great Depression upbringing to serving in the U.S. Army and raising his family while running his solo medical practice for 40 years in his home state of Michigan to his improbable run at Crystal Downs.
A member of the College’s varsity golf team his sophomore through senior years, Jay writes that “the book’s a thank-you to golf and the incredible friendships and experiences it has given me.”
Jay, who has been a screenwriter for 16 years, directed and produced the short documentary film Wounded Warriors’ Resilience that premiered at the 9/11 10th Anniversary Summit at The Newseum in Washington, D.C., and won the Audience Favorite Award for Best Documentary Short at the 2011 Virginia Film Festival.
Roy is available as an eBook at Amazon. And you can check out Roy’s swing at www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9LNZhOVQZw.
Matt Ellis recently was quoted extensively in a Law360 article about Ralph Lauren Corp.’s cooperation agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) case. An expert in international anti-corruption compliance and enforcement, Matt has a solo law practice in Austin, Texas, and serves as special counsel at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C. He also maintains the FCPAméricas blog, which explores corruption issues throughout Latin America and speaks to the companies and businesspeople in the region seeking to comply with international anti-corruption norms. Check it out at http://mattesonellislaw.com/fcpamericas.
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—Jason Casell, 6426 Needle Leaf Drive, Rockville, MD 20852; jhcasell@gmail.com
