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Learning how to build the world you want to see: That’s the essence of the maker mindset

at St. Mary’s. It can mean anything from

constructing a cardboard castle for your

Early Childhood Center classmates

to mixing up Turkey-blue slime to

designing and printing a 3D solution

to an Upper School robotics problem.

It all starts with empathy: Learning to

listen — really listen — to someone

else’s problem, and then figuring out

ways to solve it.

What could be more exciting than

building the world you want to see?

What could be more St. Mary’s?

For more on the maker mindset,

see page 4.

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ways to solve it.





see page 4.

Winter 2015

The magazine of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is published twice a year as a service to all alumnae, students,

parents, faculty, staff, and friends of the school.

Head of SchoolAlbert L. Throckmorton

Director of Admission & Financial AidNicole Hernandez

Director of AdvancementLeanne Kleinmann

Assistant Director of AdvancementAlumnae & Special Events

Gigi Gould ’70

Director of Communication / EditorSally Walker Davies

PhotographyLisa Buser

ContributorsCaroline Ciaramitaro ’18, Maggie Glaser, Lee Davidson Holt ’95,

Leanne Kleinmann, Anna Ranson, Courtney Shove ’96.

Copy EditorCourtney Taylor Humphreys ’01

Letters to the Editor:Please address all correspondence to:

Sally Walker DaviesSt. Mary’s Episcopal School

60 Perkins ExtendedMemphis, TN 38117

[email protected]

Unless otherwise noted, all photos, with the exception of select photos in Class Notes, are by Lisa Buser.

On the Cover:A look at the many maker projects and faces across the school.

Inside the cover, Sydney Dale ’25 and her brushbot, and Juliana Arbelaez ’17 watches the 3D printer in action.

Parents of Alumnae: If your daughter no longer maintains an address at your home, please notify Alumnae Coordinator

Gigi Gould at 901.537.1424 or [email protected].

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The mission of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is to provide a superior educational experience for girls which will encourage and

enable each student to reach her individual potential.

St. Mary’s Episcopal School does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or national origin in the administration of its admission, financial

aid, educational, athletic, extracurricular, or other policies.

In This Issue

4-7 The Maker Mindset At St. Mary’s, this new way of learning can mean everything from designing a robot to figuring out a problem to building a cardboard castle. The maker mindset is taking hold throughout the school, from the Early Childhood Center to the Senior class. Watch it change the world.

8-12 From Gaelic Tunes to SlimeInspiring makers visit St. Mary’s, thanks to two endowed funds: The Joseph Orgill III Speakers Fund and the Louise T. Archer Artist-in-Residence Fund.

13 Making Connections: Tech Consultant Jana Fletcher Markowitz ’75

14 Making Memories: Wedding Planner Calder Britt Clark ‘95

16 Campus News

20 Fall Sports Wrap-Up

Alumnae

22 Maker AlumnaeSt. Mary’s has always taught girls to be creative and take risks. Here, four alums share their maker career stories, including Valentina Shands-Puppione Cochran ’97, Meredith Robinson ’06, Ashley Bellet ’98, and Georgina Okerson ’96

24 Why I Give: Catherine Robilio Womack ’82This mom, wife and physician has included St. Mary’s in her estate plans.

28 Class Notes

51 Milestones

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A box becomes a playhouse for Elin Shea ’30 during the Cardboard Challenge build at the Early Childhood Center. For more about makers of all ages, see page 4.

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A maker moment of his own: Albert Throckmorton as Daddy

Warbucks sings with Annie, Sophie Younker ’23, in the Lower

School production of Annie, Jr.

I hope the innovative cover of this magazine has caused you to ask, “What is a maker mindset”? It might

sound like a trendy distraction – education is full of those right now – but let me explain.

You’ve probably heard a lot about makerspaces, and the maker movement – these are hot

topics in education right now, and usually involve dedicated spaces for making ‘stuff’ (that’s a

word our 3rd grade team will not be happy to see me use). But at St. Mary’s, we view the maker

mindset as an important, evolving component of the educational foundation taught here – the

knowledge and skills we impart to girls, and the value set that is at the heart of our community.

In the pages and even on the cover of this magazine, we illustrate this fourth component of a

St. Mary’s education: mindset. It’s another way for us to think about how we approach teaching

and learning, and it’s what sets St. Mary’s apart. The most frequently discussed mindset is the

“growth mindset” defined by author Carol Dweck. When you meet an alumna who is undeterred

by obstacles, confident, and still learning, that is a growth mindset at work.

The “maker mindset” is the newest facet of that St. Mary’s experience. Learning a maker

mindset prepares girls to shape the world they live in, using technology, writing, even sewing

and painting. The maker mindset is about seeing a problem or challenge, trying a solution, then

trying again.

At St. Mary’s, the maker mindset starts with empathy. If we listen carefully to someone’s

problem, we might just be able to solve it. In other words, the knowledge set, skill set, and

mindset are motivated and informed by the value set. That is the interconnected experience

that makes St. Mary’s unique.

Are you a maker? What kind of world would you like to see? Those are the questions our

students have begun to ponder, along with their teachers and the leaders of the school, including

the Board of Trustees.

I hope you’ll join us. The world needs

all the makers it can get!

Sincerely,

Head of School

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THE MAKER MINDSET: A New Way of Learning at St. Mary’s

Here was the problem: The serrated ends of the surgical forceps were good at hold-

ing firm to tiny sutures, but bad because they injured the

surrounding tissue. The doctors turned to the engineers at

Medtronic for a solution. Enter St. Mary’s Senior Pooja Mool-

chandani, maker extraordinaire, whose Honors Science Semi-

nar this summer at Medtronic was all about building better

forceps.

Yes, she ended up with a design that the surgeons ap-

proved, but that’s not the most interesting part of this story.

The most important part — and the part that illustrates the

maker mindset that is taking hold all over St. Mary’s — is the

process Moolchandani went through to get to the final forceps

design.

It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t obvious. It involved asking for

help, trying something, trying something else, and — let’s admit

it — failing. But it also involved learning, new ideas, and fun.

By Leanne Kleinmann

Pooja Moolchandani ’15 explains her redesigned forceps to Natalie Dean ’15.

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“The most frustrating part was learning how to use Creo,

the design software (which we also have at St. Mary’s). Using

the software to make the forceps took countless hours and a

ton of help from Ms. Brinkman, my Medtronic mentor,” says

Moolchandani. “Tapering the tips can be done in many ways,

but I had to find the way that would work with my specific

project design.”

As Moolchandani gave her final presentation, with

Medtronic engineer Jennifer Brinkman in the room, her sense

of accomplishment, and her excitement about what she’d

figured out was palpable. “The most satisfying part was hold-

ing the final product in my hands, knowing I created that,” she

said. “Finally, I knew that all my hard work had a purpose.”

Leading a Culture

In many ways, St. Mary’s has

always been a maker culture.

St. Mary’s girls are taught to keep

trying, to look at problems from

different directions, and to ask for

help. But the maker mindset that is

working its way through the school

today is a little different. Based in

technology but not limited to it, this

movement is being led at St. Mary’s

by two teachers and makers in their

own right: Dr. Laura Jaggar and

Jessica Lancaster, working along

with willing and adventurous teach-

ers all over the school. Collaboration

is what makes the maker movement

work, after all.

Dr. Jaggar, a tinkerer who is

proud to say that she has replaced

her own broken washing machine

motor (“I found a $42 motor and watched a YouTube video at

least three times” to guide her repair), is the St. Mary’s STEM

outreach coordinator and coordinator of the Honors Science

Seminar. Jaggar teaches a Modeling and 3D Design class in the

south campus maker space, located where two computer labs

used to be in the Barksdale Technology Center in the Smith

Library. Making is about the process, not just the end product,

she says, which means the learning might be different for each

girl, and the end result isn’t always clear at the beginning.

“At the end of a class or workshop, not

everyone’s going to be leaving with the

same thing,” she says. This kind of learning

can also unlock success for girls who have

struggled with more traditional methods,

she said.

In the Middle School, Shannon Bettis

built her 6th grade math class around

sewing pillowcases, and all of the calcula-

tions and measurements they involve. It

sounds a little like a throwback, but with

a maker edge. As Bettis said, “If they made

a mistake cutting, they had real-world

experience in trying to fix it.”

Who Can Be a Maker?

“Our idea is that every girl is a maker,”

said Assistant Head of School Leigh Mansberg. “They don’t

know what they’ll have a passion for unless they are exposed

to it.” She tells of a 2nd grader who has fallen in love with ro-

botics, something she’d never tried before. “She said, ‘I’ve been

waiting for this my whole life!’”

Collaboration is an important element of the maker mind-

set, along with empathy for someone else’s problem. Jaggar

Dr. Laura Jaggar

Shannon Bettis gives her 6th grade math class pointers in sewing pillowcases that provide hands-on lessons in measuring and calculating.

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Makers in the makerspace: Sophomores (from left) Anna Clay Panetta, Elizabeth Caradonna, Julia Greenstein, and Caroline Culpepper design and build a thermos.

Jessica Lancaster, integrated curriculum and technology coordinator, helps Sophie Wallace ’25 (left) and Sophie Jordan ’24 turn modeling clay into a keyboard.

purposefully scheduled

her 3D modeling class

at the same time Josh

Hughes’s Upper School

Robotics class meets in

the makerspace, hoping

the two classes would

collaborate, and that’s

what happened. Seems

the robot had a problem

with a particular circuit

and needed a part to

separate two pieces of

metal. The 3D modeling

class came to the rescue

with a part for the ro-

bot’s Samantha module

(“I have no idea why they

call it that,” Jaggar says)

that solved the problem.

There’s a new mak-

erspace on the north

campus, too, though

Lancaster, integrated curriculum and technology coordinator,

who spends most of her time in the Lower School and Early

Childhood Center, says makerspaces can be anywhere: “We are

tinkering and building in lots of different spaces.”

For example, the court-

yard behind Moss Hall has

become a maker target, with

Lower School Science Teacher

Julie Binder and Lower School

Art Teacher Kathleen McElroy

working with Lancaster to help

1st graders make rain chains,

or alternative downspouts, as

a combination art and science

project. Binder and Lancaster

and some 4th graders have

collaborated to build chairs

for that space as well, learning

about force.

“That’s ‘true maker,’” says

Lancaster, “the idea of improv-

ing things, making them better,

sharing” your work with the

wider world. “Although we’ll

probably never (make chairs)

again, it’s an example of the

types of activities I wanted the

girls to experience.”

Lancaster traveled to Denmark this past summer on a pro-

fessional development grant to attend a conference on inter-

active design and children, then spent a day at LEgO, helping

the toy behemoth figure out how their products

fit into the maker movement, and what would be

helpful in the classroom. “They were so excited

to meet an actual teacher,” Lancaster said.

Back at St. Mary’s, this fall saw a full menu

of maker-themed Pursuits after school classes,

which Lancaster said were meant to see what

was possible and who was interested. Lower

School girls could build their own computers

with a circuit board called Raspberry Pi, and

turn bananas into keyboards with a circuit set

called Makey Makey. Middle School girls learned

coding to build video games from Assistant

Director of Libraries Jeanine Akers. More classes

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are planned; check the St. Mary’s website (stmarysschool.org/

pursuits) for details.

Even the smallest St. Mary’s girls became makers this

fall as they turned piles of cardboard boxes and cartons into

castles and playhouses during a daylong build called Card-

board Challenge. Big girls came across the street to help their

little friends, as a soccer

field become a village.

As Mansberg points

out, “This mindset em-

braces everything we have

always been in terms of

content. But this can be a

much better way to frame

the learning.”

A plastic garbage bag becomes a kite for Emily Weatherly ’21 (left). A sunny day and a pile of cardboard becomes an enchanted castle during the Early Childhood Cardboard Challenge (below).

What could be more fun than turning a banana into a piano in the Lower School makerspace? Just ask 4th graders Erika Ross (left) and Lily Becker.


Hawaiian Shirts, Gaelic Tunes and Slime: Inspiring Makers Visit St. Mary’s

Listening to Mark Frauenfelder talk is a little like hear-

ing your grandfather tell you about some of the cool

things he invented in his workshop over the years. If your

grandfather

were a maker

movement

trailblazer,

journalist,

author and

blogger who

wore punky

hair and an orange Hawaiian shirt, that is.

Frauenfelder, former Editor-in-Chief of Make maga-

zine, founder of the tech blog Boing Boing, author, dad,

and innovator, was one of the leaders of the 2014 Joseph

Orgill III Speaker Series, which focused on the maker

mindset, held in early October. Other headliners included

Alexis Jones, founder of the I am That Girl movement that

helps girls develop the skills and insight to support each

other and empower themselves (see a story on Jones,

page 12). Julie Fowlis, Gaelic singer and historian (and

composer and singer of the theme song of the movie

By Leanne Kleinmann


Mark Frauenfelder

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Brave), came to St. Mary’s as the Louise T. Archer

Artist-in-Residence. Other visitors included artist Carla

Lobmeir and St. Mary’s own Sylvia Brookoff ’09, who

chose St. Mary’s as the venue to reveal her very own

Nickelodeon invention: the Slimebrella.

Frauenfelder made a convincing case that Americans,

and particularly students, have lost the ability to under-

stand how things work, and when you don’t know that,

you lose the ability to fix things, improve things, and

improve your life.

He is all about solutions, both big and small. For ex-

ample, he was frustrated that the natural peanut

butter he and his family loves wouldn’t stay mixed; the

oil kept floating to the top of the jar. So he made a solu-

tion: a gadget that holds the peanut butter jar and stirs

it up at the push of a button.

In an after-school workshop for 30 or so 3rd and

4th graders and their parents led by Frauenfelder, tricks

and toys were on the agenda; making doesn’t have to be

about fancy technology. Frauenfelder showed the girls

and their parents how to rig a jar that made it look like a

paper clip was floating, make a card trick and a kite from

a plastic bag. He was impressed by the spirit in the room.

“Usually when I do these workshops, kids get frustrated,

sometimes there are tears, and there’s lots of asking

me questions,” he said. The St. Mary’s girls and their

parents kept working away, he said, eager to figure out

the next step.

Making can be fun: Frauenfelder shows 4th graders Maggie Akers, Grace Day and Allie Burkhart and their parents the fine points of building a card trick.

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Julie Fowlis is a maker of a different sort — a scholar

of Scottish Gaelic language and music, who sings with

traditional Scottish instruments to make a sound that is

uniquely her own. Best known for her inspiring anthem

“Touch the Sky” from the movie Brave, Fowlis sang with

the girls in Lower School Chapel, and conducted a mas-

ter class with Upper School choir members. A highlight

was when she got out her pipes and played along with

the song she’d just taught.

Artist Carla Lobmeir, too, took our Lower School

makers through an exercise that combined maker

sensibility with calm, relaxed creation. She worked on

Asian-inspired watercolors with the Lower School, and

spent time with the Upper School AP Studio Art students

as well.

Then there was Sylvia Brookoff ’09, whom many of

today’s seniors remember clearly from her time as Pep

Club president when she was a Senior. Brookoff has long

been into combining fun and technology with a side of

empathy — she was a maker before maker was cool. In

high school, for example, she played gigs as DJ Syl, and

inspiration from her Global Issues class led her to found

DJ for the Displaced, where she gave the profits from her

gigs to schools in Uganda. Brookoff’s video talents, hard

work and willingness to figure out all kinds of jobs led

her from American University to jobs with NBC and Via-

com, where she is now a production coordinator for the

kids network Nickelodeon, a brand she loves.

One day she decided that nickshop.com — the net-

work’s online shopping site

that sells all things related

to its shows — needed an

umbrella, and knew exactly

what it should look like:

clear, with the famous lime

green Nickelodeon slime

printed on the top. Her

creative activism, learned

at St. Mary’s, led her to

pitch the Nick e-commerce

department, and, one year

later, we were honored

when she unveiled the

Slimebrella in a visit to

St. Mary’s. (See a hilarious

video of Brookoff’s Chapel

talk on the St. Mary’s

Julie Fowlis sings to the girls in Lower School Chapel.

Artist Carla Lobmeir works with a Lower School art class.

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YouTube channel at youtube.com/stmarystv.)

Later that afternoon, the new Slimebrella

was tested for real, when Upper School phys-

ics students dumped buckets of St. Mary’s-blue

slime they’d made with their Lower School

friends on Head of School Albert Throckmorton

and Lower School Head Peggy Stephens. Turns

out the Slimebrella wasn’t necessary after all

— the slime (more or less) missed its target. A

great time was had by all, though, and it was a

true St. Mary’s maker moment.

Slimed! Lower School Head Peggy Stephens and Head of School Albert Throckmorton get slimed by senior physics students, including Pooja Moolchandani (behind Slimebrella), Lynley Matthews, Carmen Saab, and Natalie Dean.

Sylvia Brookoff ’09 with her Slimebrella and her classmates, from left, Caitlin Quigley, Jordan Reeve, Gracie Gelfand, Ruthie Morrison, Bailey Bethell, and Wallis Tosi.

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Alexis Jones is a maker. How-ever, not the kind of maker that invents things, but the

kind of maker who changes lives through making a difference in the lives of young women. Jones is the founder of the movement I Am That Girl, which uses meetups and online connections to empower young women with the skills to better support one another.

Jones was part of this year’s Joseph Orgill III Speaker Series in October as an example of how thought leaders are fundamental components of the maker movement. “We thought that our students would be very energized by her ability to take an idea and turn it into a movement to improve the lives of girls,” said Leigh Mansberg, assistant head of school.

For Mia Wilson ‘19, that’s exactly what happened. After her time with Jones, Wilson felt better equipped to form more positive relationships with her classmates, and realized “you don’t always know the full story” when you have a conflict with a friend. Wilson also gained a better understanding about how young girls’ actions affect others and how to improve her own relation-ships when she heard Jones’s story and saw the effect it had on her peers.

Jones grew up in Austin, Texas, and attended University of Southern California. After working for FOX Sports, ESPN, MTV, and even participating as a contestant on CBS’s Survivor, Jones real-ized that her gift lies in inspiring others to embrace themselves, and launched I Am That Girl.

Jones’s visit to St. Mary’s moti-vated Upper School students to start their own branch of I Am That Girl. Meg Jones ‘17 explained the intentions of the chapter at St. Mary’s by saying that I Am That Girl “can and will empower the students to transform their self-doubt into self-love, as well as teach the students to strive for their goals and to let them know that one day they will reach them.”

Alexis Jones showed us that any change is possible with the right mind-set, attitude, and determination. She inspired St. Mary’s students to be eager to create a better world and not to fear doing so. She inspires makers who use dreams and determination to establish a more productive world.

By Caroline Ciaramitaro ‘18

MAKING A DIffERENCEAlexis Jones is on a mission to empower young women

Alexis Jones shares her message of support in Chapel.

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Well-rounded, reliable, and smart – but slightly

self-deprecating – Jana Markowitz is the embodiment

of what she sells: the importance of being versatile and

personable while also doing highly technical work.

Markowitz spent the first 15 years of her career

working at IBM. For the last 20 she has had her own

company, The Collective Mind, which helps tech people

hone their non-technical skills. It’s the perfect use of

her master’s degree in organizational psychology from

the University of Memphis and undergrad in computer

science from Vanderbilt. She teaches communications,

body language, and other soft skills and has co-au-

thored a book about it: Shifting Sands: The People Side of

Project Management.

“St. Mary’s is certainly the source of my writing

skills – and of my logic, critical thinking and decision-

making skills. Prioritizing work is a critical business

skill that I learned at St. Mary’s,” she said.

Markowitz is passionate about introducing women

to careers in information technology and has brought

female IT professionals to St. Mary’s and other Mem-

phis schools, hoping to light some sparks. She encour-

ages today’s students to be proactive in planning their

lives and careers. She is an example of a maker as a

thought leader: She is eager for women and girls to see

the many ways of pursing careers in computer science

and technology.

The industry she serves appreciates her talent. The

Memphis chapter of the Society for Information Man-

agement (SIM) named her 2014 Leader of the Year.

Markowitz and husband Barry have two grown

children, Aaron, 27, of Memphis, and Julie, 25, a 2007

St. Mary’s graduate who works in publishing in Detroit,

as well as a beloved 14-year-old German shorthaired

pointer, Leica.

Making Connections: Jana Fletcher Markowitz ’75By Lee Davidson Holt ’95

Then: Math Club, Latin Club,

Ping Pong (there was a

team back then), Drama

Club, Valedictorian

Now: Founder/Principal

Consultant of The

Collective Mind, her

one-person consulting

firm focused on helping

technology organizations,

people and projects be

successful

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Calder Clark has a thing for tabletops. The way she

sets the table sets the tone for the six to eight high-end

weddings she designs each year. But behind each table

setting is an army of creative partners and a design vi-

sion, which are what her clients are really paying for.

Clark’s sought-after expertise is more than her

ability to design a beautiful centerpiece. She has the

decorum of fine china and the business savvy of a

sharpened table knife. About 90 percent of her job is

sales, and she says the work of the actual wedding day

is the smallest portion of the process.

“It’s a trial-by-fire, drink-from-a-fire-hose world,”

she says of the industry. “A lifestyle job will either eat

you up and spit you out, or it becomes something you

can really manage and is fun for you.”

A graduate of Washington and Lee University, Clark

falls into the latter category. She got her start at Design

Cuisine, a full-service catering company in Washington,

D.C., where she worked 18 to 20 hours a day on high-

profile events. She has paid her event-planning dues.

In 2003, after working herself sick, literally, she

decided to make a lifestyle change and move south,

where “sweet tea was at the ready.” She took a job as

a special events manager at a luxury hotel in Charles-

ton, SC, but after nearly three years, she had hit a glass

ceiling financially and wanted to use her talents more

creatively. In 2006, the Calder Clark studio was born.

Armed with what she calls “armadillo skin,” she

started making a name for herself. Eight years later,

she coordinates weddings all over the country.

The six-figure wedding market is narrow, but what

Clark offers her clients is unique. In addition to her

vision and design sense, not many wedding planners

have a warehouse brimming with designer décor and

several lines of furniture. In essence, Clark is a maker:

She sees what a wedding can be, and brings together

the most talented artists — photographers, floral

designers, chefs, musicians, etc. – to make it so.

Making Memories: Calder Britt Clark ’95By Courtney Shove ’96

Then: French Club, soccer,

tennis, volleyball

and track

Now: Founder, Calder Clark,

luxury wedding design

and planning


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Her trademark Low Country style has been featured

in well-known magazines such as Southern Living and

Martha Stewart Weddings.

Meanwhile, at Calder Clark, she takes every phone

call, regardless of whether the firm can take on the job.

Her mainstay is showing courtesy to every potential

client. If a bride leaves her a voicemail, she will respond

with a phone call, not an email. Likewise, if she calls a

vendor, she doesn’t want a text message in return.

“I think that is something St. Mary’s would have

taught me if I were back in school there now — to

respond in like kind,” she says.

Most recently, Clark has been working on the coach-

ing side of her business, passing along both lessons and

passion. Currently, she is mentoring Audrey Bourland

Hurst ’03 and Linley Prosterman Stokes ’07, wedding

planners based in Memphis and Nashville, respectively.

Luckily for Hurst and Stokes, they had more than

just a St. Mary’s connection. Hurst’s sister

Hallie Bourland Wagner ’95 graduated with

Clark, and Stokes’s good friends Caitlin

Colcolough ’07 and Cameron Colcolough

Reynolds ’07 are Clark’s nieces.

“I have always loved her aesthetic and

flair, so once I launched Audrey Hurst

Weddings (in December 2012), it seemed

almost necessary to contact Calder to glean

some of her wisdom,” Hurst says.

Stokes, who started her business in

October 2014, said Clark gave her homework

assignments after their first phone call —

to find an accountant, a lawyer, and a book-

keeper, and to set up a business bank account.

“I’m trying to get them to a place where they don’t

have to go through the rigors and the pains that I went

through to get where I am,” Clark says. “I don’t think

they can completely leap-frog over certain hurdles of

small-business growth, but I do think I can set them

several years ahead.”

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Swatches set the tone for a wedding design proposal.

Calder Clark shares a moment with the bride in a wedding in Charleston, SC.

CLAss of 2015 ACAdemiC Honors

CAMPUS news

Members of the Class of 2015 have been recognized for their academic achievement by local media and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recognized four Seniors for their aca-demic achievement. Ami Agrawal and Gretch-en Vogt were named National Merit Scholar Semifinalists. Meredith Wells was named a National Achievement Outstanding Participant, and Elizabeth Bellott was named a Commend-ed Student by the NMSC.

The Commercial Appeal named Gretchen Vogt, Ami Agrawal, Isabella Arbelaez, and Jane Morrison as Academic All-Stars; Agrawal for Mathematics, Arbelaez for Foreign Language and Vogt and Morrison for General Scholarship.

Upper School English Teacher Shari Ray

is the first recipient of the Apple Award, given

to a teacher or teachers for their outstanding

influence on students.

Lizzie Apple ’14 established the award

to recognize the many teachers at St. Mary’s

who inspired her and her classmates by being

“kinder than necessary.” Apple, a freshman at

Middlebury College, established the award

upon her graduation from St. Mary’s.

The Apple Award will be given annually

to the teacher or teachers who have touched

the lives of students through their passion for

their subject and their compassion for their

students.

Recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation in the Class of 2015 are (from left) Meredith Wells, Achievement Scholar, Ami Agrawal and Gretchen Vogt, Semifinalists.

Not pictured: Elizabeth Bellott.


new Award Honors Teachers

Upper School English teacher and department chair Shari Ray (left) was the first winner of The Apple Award. With her is Lizzie Apple ’14 and Head of School Albert Throckmorton.

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James (Jim) Breazeale recently retired as president of

Valley Products Company, a soap manufacturing company.

He graduated from Duke University where he earned his

BBA degree. Breazeale is an active member of the Church

of the Holy Communion. Breazeale and his wife, Beth, are

the parents of Lisa Breazeale Roberts ’85 and Jennifer

Breazeale Young ’91 and son Jeff. They are also the grand-

parents of Chandler ’13 and Evelyn Roberts ’18.

Ann duncan is a recently retired attorney and certi-

fied public accountant. She received her BS degree from

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and later earned her

MBA from Vanderbilt University and JD from University of

Memphis. She is the Senior Warden of Church of the Holy

Communion.

susan Jones received her Bachelor of Science and Mas-

ters of Education degrees from Vanderbilt University. Jones

is the St. Mary’s Parent Association President. Jones and her

husband, Will, have three daughters who attend St. Mary’s,

Lelia ’17, Mary ’20, and Grace ’23.

michael (mike) matthews is first vice president –

investments with UBS Financial Services, Inc., and earned

his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhodes College. He and

his wife, Julie, have two daughters who attend St. Mary’s,

Lynley ’15 and Hannah ’18.

Julia Chesney mcdonald ’96 is director of market-

ing and communications at the Community Foundation

of Greater Memphis and serves as the current President of

St. Mary’s Alumnae Board. McDonald graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania and later received her MBA from

Southern Methodist University. McDonald enjoys spending

time with her husband, Doug, and their daughter Janie.

Gretchen wollert mcLennon ’93 works with the

Hyde Family Foundations, where she is the program direc-

tor for authentic assets and communications. McLennon is

a former Alumnae Board member, current member of the

Council of Advisors, and former Chair of the Outstanding

Alumna selection committee. A graduate of Northwestern

University, she received her MBA in marketing from Wake

Forest. McLennon enjoys spending time with her husband,

Kojo, and her two dogs, Lucius and Crosby.

new members of the st. mary’s Board of Trustees, 2014-2015

Team st. mary’s Celebrates 20

Years of racing for the Cure

Thanks to everyone who helped

make this year’s Race for the Cure

a success, especially our chairs,

Stephanie Dent and Katie Ferrell,

as well as all the students, parents,

alumnae and friends who sup-

ported Team St. Mary’s. At a special

Chapel the week before the race,

the Middle and Upper School girls

heard from former Headmaster

Tom Southard, who was instru-

mental in beginning St. Mary’s

involvement with the race after his

then-wife Edie was diagnosed with

breast cancer.

Lower School students Race for the Cure. From left, Lacy Ferrell ’24, Erica Ormseth ’24, Eliza Dent ’25,

Sienna Lightman ’24, Isabel Dent ’24.

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new faculty and staff

Jennifer Allen joins the

Lower School staff as a

4th grade teacher. She has

six years teaching experi-

ence, most recently in 5th

grade. Allen is a native

Memphian who loves

Memphis Tiger basketball.

She sat on the eighth row

at the Final Four in 2008.

She is married to Daniel,

who keeps her constantly

laughing. Together they are raising two rambunctious

rescue dogs named Jack and Abbey.

Teresa Leary Jenkins

joined the staff as a Senior

Kindergarten teacher after

teaching 4th, 5th, and 1st

grades in the public and

charter school systems.

She holds Master’s degrees

in teaching and social

work. She’s the mother of

two wonderful children,

James, a freshman at

Houston High School, and

Phoebe, a second grader at St. Mary’s. She also adores

Sammy, a golden doodle. Her hobbies include knitting,

photography and reading. Jenkins loves travel adven-

tures and anything rich in culture.

Suzanne Denman joins

the ECC staff as the “Den-

man” half of the “Snyder/

Denman” Senior Kinder-

garten team. She recently

moved to Memphis to

be near her new Grand

Turkey baby, Adelaide. In

her most recent past, she

could be found teach-

ing 3rd and 4th grades in

Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Denman is the mother to three grown young men, Larry,

Nicholas, and Ben, and one dog, Nellie Blye. She has

been married to Mark for 29-1/2 years (yes, that will be

30 years in August!). Her hobbies include training Nellie

Blye for therapy dog work, quilting, walking, reading, and

enjoying the arts.

Nancy Wilson credits

her experience and the

teachers at Girls’ Prepara-

tory School for instilling a

life-long love of learning

for building her love of

music, which she puts into

use every day as the Early

Childhood music teacher.

While she is new to this

particular job, Wilson has

been a fixture at St. Mary’s;

she’s a long-time substitute and mom to Collin Wilson

Buckner ’05, Bailey Wilson ’07, and Mia Wilson ’19. She

is married to Gib, a lifelong Memphian, and in her spare

time loves to run, bike, swim, sing, strum the guitar,

bake, and travel.

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faculty Honored

Two St. Mary’s teachers were honored for their work in their respective fields last fall.

The Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association named Upper School Spanish Teacher Josie McNeely Walker ’76 the 2014 Teacher of the Year. The award is presented annually by the TFLTA to an outstanding foreign language educator at the K-12 level. As the Tennessee Teacher of the Year, Walker was honored at the TFLTA November conference and was a finalist for the Southern Conference of Language Teachers Teacher of the Year award.

Early Childhood / Lower School PE Teacher Mickey Pitts was awarded the TSSAA’s A.F. Bridges Award for Excellence for his work as an official dur-ing the 2013-14 school year. Pitts officiates volleyball at the local and regional level, and coaches Varsity Track.

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Turkey slam Tennis TournamentThe third annual Turkey Slam Indoor Tennis Tournament is scheduled for Friday, March 20, from 9:00 a.m. - noon at the Racquet Club of Memphis. It will be a roundrobin, ladies doubles format. You do not have to sign up with a partner. The cost is $100 per player and all proceeds support the Athletic Department. Registration is open to the first 36 registrants. Download a registration form online at www.stmarysschool.org.

The write Place debuts in Upper school

A new peer-tutoring program debuted in the Upper School this fall, led by US English Teacher Caroline Goodman with support and collaboration from the Middle and Upper School English teachers. The Write Place focuses on process over product, with a goal of helping each writer gain a more positive attitude and confidence about writing. During each appointment, a trained student tutor conducts a private session in which a student writer is coached through any stage of the writing process in order to strengthen her understanding of the basic processes of writing.

In early October, Director of Plays Jenny Madden led the Lower School in a production of Annie, Jr., which starred our very own Albert Throckmorton as Daddy Warbucks with Sophie Younker ’23 in the title role. The students wowed the crowd with their performance. In No-vember, Upper School thespians took to the Rose Theater stage in John Patrick’s comedy, Curious Savage. Liza Alrutz ’15 played Ethel P. Savage, the matriarch of a money-hungry family.

Lower School students performing Annie, Jr.

Liza Alrutz ’15 in The Curious Savage.

spotlight on Theatre

Josie McNeely Walker ’76

Mickey Pitts


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with the opening of a

new playing field and

standout performances in

each sport, including seven

athletes named to The Com-

mercial Appeal Best of Preps

teams, it was a good fall

sports season at St. Mary’s.

The Varsity Soccer team,

under Head Coach maggie

Glaser and JV Coach Kate

fairless, finished with an 8-7-

3 record and a notable victory

over ECS. The Turkeys fin-

ished 2nd in the district, 3rd

regionally and competed in

state quarterfinals. The senior

class was led by Jane morrison (11 goals, 2 assists) and mary

Caroline newman (7 goals, 1 assist). The talented Freshman

class was led by leading scorer martha Kay williams (14

goals, 5 assists) and olivia House (8 goals, 3 assists). Turkey

defense, led by Seniors maggie mcAtee, meredith wells,

emma farris, Freshman evie Laney, and Sophomore goal-

keeper margie Peeler, recorded 5 shut outs. The TSSAA D-2

All-District team included Morrison, Farris and Williams,

and the All-Tournament team included Morrison and

Williams. House, Newman and Williams made The CA

Best of Preps All-Metro Soccer Team.

The Varsity Volleyball team finished 16-12 and placed

5th in the region. Senior standout eliza williams set several

Turkey records, including first in career blocks (166), third in

career kills (611) and fifth in career service aces (170).

Williams’ leadership and talent earned her a spot on

the TSSAA D-2 All-Region 2nd team. Junior mary elise

o’Brien tallied 576 assists and averaged one service ace per

set. The Turkeys had big wins over Germantown, Tipton-

Rosemark, and Northpoint. O’Brien and Williams made The

CA Best of Preps All-Metro Volleyball Team.

Senior Lila Gordon led the cross-country team with a

12th place finish in the Region

Race; Sophomore Abby Bas-

kind finished 19th. The Varsity

team finished 3rd overall at the

competitive University School

of Jackson Invitational. The JV

team placed 4th overall in the

Brooks Twilight Classic.

Varsity Golf had another

great season, finishing 29-7.

Senior standout KK mitch-

ell finished 13th in state and

helped lead the team to a 2nd

overall finish in the district and

3rd in the state tournament.

Eighth grader megan Tang

placed 7th and sophomore

Aubrey Guyton placed 8th in the state tournament. The

JV Golf team won the city tournament at the end of the

season. Guyton and Tang both made The CA Best of Preps

All-Metro Golf Team.

Last fall St. Mary’s was awarded the TSSAA Doing

What’s Right Award for the 2013-14 school year. We have

won this award, which recognizes sportsmanship, four

years in a row.

fall sports wrap-Up 2014By Maggie Glaser

Senior basketball star Kaylan Pugh signs her letter of intent to play at The Ohio State University, as Athletic Director Sandra

Pitts reminds the crowd of Pugh’s many accomplishments.

Varsity soccer’s leading scorer Martha Kay Williams ’18 streaks down the wing with the ball on the opening day of Joy Field in a game against ECS.

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A big crowd of students, parents

and alumnae — led by the Seniors in the foreground — cheered on the Turkeys at the opening of Joy Field.

For landlocked St. Mary’s,

building a new varsity play-

ing field had seemed like an

impossible dream. Impossi-

ble, that is, until ideas turned

into conversations turned

into a partnership between

Second Baptist Church,

St. Mary’s, and a generous

anonymous donor this fall.

The result: Joy Field, the

new home of St. Mary’s soccer

and lacrosse, opened September 29 across Walnut

Grove Road from the south campus. The field is

named for Nehemiah 8:10, “The joy of the Lord is

my strength,” and also includes a new scoreboard,

bleachers, team benches and a storage and bath-

room facility.

On a beautiful fall day, both Varsity and JV

soccer took on arch-rival ECS

(Varsity lost, JV won) as a

big crowd of students, par-

ents, and alumnae watched

the games. Sophomore Jean

Jackson sang a beautiful

National Anthem as Senior

Carmen Saab presented the

American flag in a pre-game

ceremony. The dedication and

tailgate party was complete

with Mighty Turkey memorabilia,

the Fry Guy providing catfish and other goodies, and

Parker Water Ice.

“This is just the first step for bigger things to

come for St. Mary’s athletics,” said Head of School

Albert Throckmorton. “We are so grateful for our

generous donor and the partnership with Pastor

Stephen Cook and Second Baptist.”

Joy Field Dedicated at Second Baptist

Celebrating a goal against ECS are (from left) Martha Kay Williams ’18, Mary Caroline Newman ’15, Kaitlin

Fields ’16, Hattie Fogarty ’18, Olivia House ’18.

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By AnnA RAnson

It might not have been called a maker mindset in years past, but St. Mary’s has always taught girls to be creative, to solve problems, take on

challenges, and build the world they want to see. Below, meet a few Alumnae who are makers in their chosen fields. Want to add your own maker career story? Go to St. Mary’s Episcopal School Alumnae Facebook page (facebook.com/ StMarysSchoolAlumnae) and share!

MAkIng CoMMunItIes: Valentina shands-Puppione Cochran ’97Then: Pep Club, Carillon staff, president of the Environmental Club, founding member of the bowling team (“we did no actual bowling that first year”)Now: Principal Architect at Architecture, Inc., Memphis, TN, Member of St. Mary’s Alumnae Board

“The thing I love most about being an architect is that my work touches every person that enters or sees a building I have designed,” says Valentina Shands-Puppione Cochran ’97. She is particularly proud of her work in helping design Hope VI public housing in Memphis. “I was involved in the design of the homes, the coordination of site amenities, and the integration of neighbor-hoods such as Legends Park and University Place into the existing urban fabric.” She was also the lead architect for Muddy’s grind House, the newest venture of fellow St. Mary’s alum Kat gordon ’00. Cochran, a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 by the Memphis Business Journal in 2014, and is involved with the Junior League and the Memphis chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

“I got a late start at St. Mary’s (she came in 11th grade), so the fact that I am still such good friends with my schoolmates says a lot about how accepting and fulfilling my time at

St. Mary’s was,” says Cochran. “It was at St. Mary’s that my love to design and create things flourished and my teachers con-stantly encouraged my creative ways.”

Cochran lives “right down the road from St. Mary’s” with her husband Jamie and 2-year-old daughter Lucy.

MAkIng FAshIon: meredith robinson ’06Then: Belles Lettres art staff, Pep Club, inaugural member of the Dance TeamNow: Fashion Designer, Brooklyn, NY

“I am currently in the initial stages of raising funding for my women’s contemporary clothing line, Narcissus New York,” says Meredith Robinson ’06. “Named after the greek hunter

who fell in love with his own reflection, my vision is for women to fall in love with themselves through their wardrobe.”

Robinson’s love of fashion was clear during her 15 years at St. Mary’s. “My favorite activity overall was participating in the planning

committee for the Junior Fashion Show,” she says. “Since the prom theme was Elvis that year, we sourced dresses from dif-ferent vintage stores in Memphis.”

Robinson, who graduated from Pratt Institute in New York, works in customer service at Bumble and bumble’s flagship salon in Manhattan. “Though the beauty industry is a little different from fashion, I am learning a lot about client relation-ships, which will be a major part of having my own brand.”

St. Mary’s encouraged everyone’s unique talents, says Robinson. “I could not have had more support. Not only did St. Mary’s help me find summer programs in Chicago and New York, but (Upper School Art Teacher) Mrs. Prillaman designed a studio art curriculum so that I could work on all of the portfolio requirements.

“Even though it’s been eight years since I graduated, I take those ‘hallowed halls’ with me everywhere. From my extensive vocabulary to our SMS Class of 2006 Facebook group, I always feel like St. Mary’s is a part of me.”

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MAkIng CostuMes: Ashley Bellet ’98Then: Editor of Belles Lettres, Fine Arts Club president, track and field team, and an unstoppable actress, appearing in every play from Middle to Upper SchoolNow: Associate Professor of Costume Design and Resident Costume Designer, School of Theatre, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK

“The most rewarding part of my job is that every day I teach myself how to do something new,” says Ashley Bellet ’98. “My daily routine ranges from sketching, rendering, and making fabric choices to figuring out how to construct garments within a budget, all while guiding students in textiles and building patterns. My work involves a lot of research, but every day I get to teach and spend time creating in the shop.”

Bellet loves working with students, teaching them to think in a three-dimensional way. “My goal is to get my students to a place where they see challenges as opportunities to learn. Educational theatre is the place to take risks and take the time to fix them. Much like what I was taught at St. Mary’s, I try to teach my students that everyone has something to bring to the table.”

Bellet says she never realized the impact of her 14 years at St. Mary’s until she left. “St. Mary’s empowered me and as a result I have always felt that I can do anything I put my mind to. Every time I wanted to start something, create something, or figure out a new project, I was encouraged by my teachers, the administration, and my parents to do so.

“At St. Mary’s I was constantly inspired by the reading, the knowledge, and the power of knowing; it was always so exciting to me. St. Mary’s not only supported and challenged me, but encouraged me to spend extra time on the things I loved to do.

“I know now that I would not be a professor if not for the incredible teachers at St. Mary’s.”

MAkIng gAMes:

Georgina okerson ’96Then: Band, Choir, Belles Lettres and was involved with the first Belles MelodiesNow: Independent Video Game Developer, Sussex, England

“I get to be my own boss,” says georgina Okerson ’96, owner of Hanako games. “As an ‘indie,’ I have to do a lot of different types of work. I do design, writing, coding, market-ing and general business relations, as well as manage other people who assist me on my projects.” Okerson works out of her home most of the time, and says she enjoys being able to work in a place where she can relax and listen to music while she writes. “And having a stable environment is also useful for testing sound effects.”

After graduating from Duke University, Okerson moved with her husband to Sussex, which is an easy trip to London “for a day out exploring museums and theatre, or down to the coast to dress up as pirates, zombies, and steampunk inven-tors for some live-action role-playing.”

For the games she builds, Okerson works with artists all over the world. “Since I can’t draw well enough to use my own

art in games, I hire artists to create things for me. I describe what I need, sometimes with a quick sketch of my own to give the right idea, then someone else turns it into something pretty.

“It’s great to hear about the exciting new things St. Mary’s

girls are getting to do with computing and robotics. The school does such a great job exposing the girls to a variety of methods and tools that allow the students to become excited about learning.”

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ALUmnAe

Why I Give: dr. Catherine robilio womack ’82

By Lee Davidson Holt ’95

Dr. Catherine Robilio Womack ’82 credits St. Mary’s with creating the foundation for her achievements in life and as an Internal Medicine physician at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. For that reason, she decided to include a gift to St. Mary’s in her estate plans.

“I decided to give to SMS for many reasons,” she said. “The most important is related to my success as a mom, wife and physician—in that order.” Womack’s daughter is St. Mary’s alum Elizabeth Womack ’07.

St. Mary’s is “a special place where girls learn to be strong women and are not intimidat-ed by others,” Dr. Womack said. “I think that I am not alone in the belief that SMS prepared me for (various) situations, so I think that many alums would want to include St Mary’s in their will.”

Both Catherine and her daughter graduated from the University of Mississippi and are avid Ole Miss fans. Catherine and husband Marlin also have a 20-year-old son, Chip, who is a sophomore there.

Womack says she seeks to emulate the St. Mary’s faculty while she teaches her medical students, as she encourages others to reach for their dreams and over-come any obstacles. She remains grateful to St. Mary’s for giving her the study skills needed to balance all of life’s demands, especially since Elizabeth was only 2 years old when her Mom entered medical school. She is still connected to St. Mary’s through a book club of St. Mary’s friends that has been going strong for 25 years.

“How fortunate we are to have a place like SMS that allows us to decide what career we want. St Mary’s gives us the tools to be successful in that path, whatever it may be,” she said. “I would tell a St Mary’s graduate that she can do whatever she wants to do in life. She just needs to decide what she wants to do – or be – and point toward that goal. I think the possibilities are endless.”

She hopes that remembering St. Mary’s in her estate planning will allow other girls to follow their dreams for years to come.

1. Young Alums at the Holiday event at Sweet Grass: l-r Royce Miller ’01, Ashley Edge ’08, Elizabeth Holt ’08, Bailey Bethell ’09, Allie Morrison ’08 and Tyler Hyman ’09.

2. Grace Jensen Knight ’05, Cara Greenstein ’10, Lucy Foster ’10 and Sims Munn ’10 visit at the Young Alum event.

3. Class of 2012: Jessica Caie, V. Ellen Mitchell, Chandler Roberts, Camille Vaughn, Neely Sammons and Jordan Upton.

4. Young Alums visit: Torry Whartenby ’13, Louisa Boyd ’11, Olivia Summitt ’13 and Mary Tuggle ’13.

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5. Anna Wheeler with alum Chapel speaker Ayana Fletcher-Tyson ’08.

6. Class of 1996 at dinner: top row (l-r) Lauren Brooks Poindexter, Gwyn Fisher, Emily Farrow Robbins, Julia Chesney McDonald and Sarah Henley.

7. Co-hostesses Kim Justis Eikner ’87, Stephanie MacIntosh Shy ’89 and Mollie McCarroll Newman ’81 at the Alumnae Moms breakfast.

8. Mollie McCarroll Newman ’81, Albert Throckmorton, Stephanie MacIntosh Shy ’89 and hostess Allison Garrott Braswell ’88 at Alumnae Moms breakfast.

9. Abby Yandell Talbott ’03 after her Chapel speech with classmates.

10. Anne Morgan Brookfield Morgan ’99 and Heather Pearson Chauhan ’91.

11. Emily Cochran ’97, Erin Bower ’99, Laura Freeman Rouse ’99, Beverly Stevens ’97 and Anne Spence Lucas ’97.

12. Lisa Mulrooney ’95, Cindy Cates Moore ’87, Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz ’82 and Erin Lyttle Do ’98 visit.

Governor Bill Haslam with First Lady Crissy Garrett Haslam ’76.

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Alumnae at the Dedication of Joy Field.

Class of 1973: Milner Stanton, Sarah Peeples Hodges, Olivia Montgomery at the Joy Field

Dedication and Tailgating.

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Birmingham Alumnae event: Grace Bethell ’12, Lucy Pontius Underwood ’68, hostess Hallie Bourland Wagner ’95, Albert Throckmorton, Hollye Ferguson Stigler ’97, Lucy Newton ’13.

Jenny Maddux Stenberg ’01, Royce Miller ’01 with Alum Chapel speaker Courtney Routt Worthman ‘00, Amy Reinhardt Robinson ’00

and Lauran Glassman Stimac ’00.

Alum Book Club attendees Amanda Vogel ’01, hostess Anne Fisher, Allison Wellford Parker ’83, Kate Wellford Pritchard ’78 and Andrea Weiss Tomes ’82.

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Diane Taylor Newton ’66, Madge Logan Deacon ’69, Minna Thompson Glenn ’66, Cristina Brescia Michta ’70, Patti Person Ray ’65, Catherine Dailey Berger ’71

and Gigi Gould ’70 at the Alumnae holiday reception.

Alumnae Back to Campus Committee Chairs: Jessica Johnson ’94, Madge Logan Deacon ’69 and Julia Chesney McDonald ’96

with honoree Patti Person Ray ’65.

Christmas Pageant volunteers: from top (l-r) Allison Brown Coates ’76, Kirk McClintock, Kathy Daniel Patterson ’78, bottom (l-r):

Shelley Kuykendall Herzke ’90, Chair, Lynn Hitchings Albano ’77, and Carmine Vaughan.

Murff Oates Galbreath ’95, Alumnae Chapel speaker Calder Britt Clark ’95 and Lucy Walt Wepfer ’77.

Alumnae Board 2014-2015, President Julia Chesney McDonald ’96.


1940-1961Elizabeth Taylor Shindler

[email protected]

Betsy Ross Rucks ’47 has moved to Trezevant Manor. She loves being there with so many friends and enjoyed seeing them at her welcome party. Pauline Fisher Handrahan ’47 has been busy in the kitchen in Birmingham. She would love to see everyone and sends her love to all. Joy Powell Smith ’47 who lives in Murfreesboro is getting along fine and was full of wonderful memories of her friends at St. Mary’s. Aimee Gronauer Ginsburg ’47 said all is well and she would love to see everyone. It would be such fun. Joy Brown Wiener ’47 is really busy with her student’s recital. Joy is devoted to enrich-ing musical culture in Memphis. Naomi Gray May ’47 has been in

the hospital in Ark. She has mas-tered the wheel chair and manag-es quite well in her 200-year-old family home. She has a wonderful sense of humor. She talks to her sister Sue Gray Burgess ’52 every week. Iolis Robins Carruthers ’48 said she loves being at Trezevant Manor. There is so much to do there. Kitty Perry Taylor ’53 is recovering very well from hip surgery. She is looking forward to taking her granddaughter to England. They will be staying with a friend of hers. Kay Allenberg Cohen ’53 is happy at Trezevant Manor. She recently had lunch with Aimee and visited with Joy Brown Wiener. Kay is pleased that her grandson is studying at Sewanee. Anne Perry Stamps ’57 stays busy with her artwork on the coast. She has added pillows to her many art forms now. She hears from Marguerite Austin Joyner ’57 and hopes to visit her soon. Mary Joy Prichard Knowlton ’57 is busy as always. She is looking forward to Carnival Memphis this year as their grandsons will be pages for Grand Krewe Memphi founded in 1872 to carry on a family tradition. Punk Aycock Davidson ’57 is so excited that her daughter Shannon is coming for St. Mary’s Alumnae Weekend and that she will love spending time with her grandson. Mary Walton Glass Walker ’54 has a new great grandchild. Her sister Lynne Glass Rice ’57 from Arkansas will be visiting soon. They will be at St. Mary’s festivi-

Class years in orange will celebrate their reunions at Alumnae weekend 2015, April 24–25.

ties for reunion and will enjoy a special time with Mary Walton’s grandchildren.

1962Judy Lawrence McKay

[email protected]

It seems the Class of 1962 is very active and involved and traveling all over the globe. Patty Waddell Smith just returned from two weeks in England. She went to Bristol Cathedral with her choir, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland. They sang for eight days at Evensong beginning of August which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WWI. They also went to Bath, Salisbury, and Stonehenge and on to London for some great theater and fabulous museums. It was a wonderful trip. Patty also stays very busy with her two grand-children, Stella (9) and Julian (7). Nancy Whitlock Hubbs took a week long cruise to Alaska in June. This was her fourth trip to the Inland Passage. In November she will be taking a cruise to the eastern Caribbean. Nancy is still working with mostly teenagers, delinquents, and disabled in child welfare for her seventeenth year and really enjoys it. She has ten grandchildren at last count and one great grandchild two weeks old. The grandchildren all love to spend their vacations on the farm with Nancy and her husband so she stays very busy. In October Beth Whitlock Peterson visited her twin sister Nancy Whitlock Hubbs at her farm on their birthday and they had a won-derful time. Beth just returned from a Viking River Cruise down the Romantic Danube with her husband. They had a fabulous time and took some fantastic pictures. Beth’s daughter Liza was diagnosed with MS and lived with Beth for a difficult year but is doing better and has gone back to school just an hour and a half away. Carolyn Bullard is still loving her job at The Richards Group where she makes sure that the Chick-fil-A cows are properly misspelling everything correctly. In September she flew

to New Jersey to help her sister Ruby celebrate her 80th birthday. Ruby basically raised Carolyn so she did not want to miss this landmark event. Ruby’s grandson took them over the Delaware River to Philadelphia to see the Barnes Foundation in its new home. It was wonderful to see the beautiful impressionist paintings in their elegant new building. As a result of painful arthritis in her right hip she has begun work-ing out with a trainer and has lost 25 pounds! Hats off to you, Carolyn! Valerie Jackson Markley just got her advanced practice nursing license and prescriptive authority and will be starting a new job as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse. She also made a presentation of her research study (Enhancing Adherence to Treatment for Clients with Mental Illness) at an international research conference in Hong Kong in July. She is also trying to help her older sister in Wisconsin since her husband had to move to an assisted living home for dementia last year. We are all very proud of you, Valerie.

1963Jenny Emison Ewing

[email protected]

Julia Alissandratos has recently become the secretary of the Alliance Française de Charleston. The local Alliance Française is extremely active with numerous films, a November film festival, and all sorts of opportunities to speak French over wonderful wine, great cheese, and delicious pâtés. She is also secretary of her Parish Council and active in the Mother’s Day Greek Festival. “And they call this retirement!” Jenny Emison Ewing had a wonderful time having visitors at Ten Mile, swim-ming and boating and lots of fun walks in the woods. “Now it is time to play in the dirt. That is what some call working in the yard.” Tina Heslep Ciliberto is wholeheartedly enjoying being unemployed. No big travel plans right now. “We’ve been exploring the California coast with an RV

Catherine Meacham Durgin ’53 and Elizabeth Van Brocklin

Still ’80.

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and bicycles.” Donna Lansing Plumer has taken up painting and is auditing art classes at U of M. Yesterday she sold her very first one! “I post on Facebook.” Sara Sorsby Dennis has moved! “Don’t do it!” Her new address is in Canada. “Life is good and busy with my practice and 3 eight year olds about...and my son...and his dog!” Joyce Wilkerson Kaplan has had so much fun recently at Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival and our Film Festival. “I’m really enjoying being in my studio. We’ve had fog, clouds, sun, wind and drops of rain. This is the time to settle at my loom and invent things while the win-ter winds begin to blow.”

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1965Julia Malone

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The Class of ’65, which is about to celebrate our golden anni-versary, is also celebrating the contribution made by our own Patti Person Ray, soon to retire as Head of the Upper School. Her career in education spanned 40 years, with 27 years as a high school administrator, including 15 years at St. Mary’s. She took the Upper School post when this year’s seniors were still in pre-kindergarten. “I have gone full cycle” with that class, she says. “All my years in education have been a blessing to me, but my time at St. Mary’s has been especially wonderful.” She and Cathy Hoover Allen will be our class reps for the alum trip to France. In other news, we heard for the first time in ages (we no longer count years) from Ellen Rumsey Bellenot, who is living in Tallahassee, Fla., where she is an artist. She reports that she has retired “from not doing much” and that she and husband Steven have a grown daughter, Elizabeth, who they think is “lovely and screamingly funny.” She adds,

Left: Patti Person Ray ’65 with Lee McGeorge Durrell ’64 at the Durrell Conservatory in Jersey, England. Right: Cissy Lansing Moriarty ’66 in Turkey.

“I admit to bias, but not to er-ror.” Ellen does “the gratitudes” daily on Facebook. Marion West Hammer loves part-time teach-ing, which gives her more time for grandson Caleb and visits with newlywed daughter Elizabeth, who lives in Charlotte and is a free-lance TV producer. Kathy Sweany Bertram is still practicing medicine but has more time off for such things as spending fall in Wyoming and attending the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Ark. Class secretary Julia Malone still lives in and loves our nation’s capital, plays a lot of tennis, loves photography, keeps in close touch with family and neighbors and works part-time in public relations. See you at Alumnae Weekend to celebrate our 50th class reunion on April 24-25.

1966Diane Taylor Newton

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Lynn Hungerford Kittle is wondering where the time has gone. Time flies when you’re having fun! All is well with their family. Diane Taylor Newton just got back from the Tennessee Fitness Spa getting in shape for fall. I signed up for the Alumnae Trip to France in March led by Patti Person Ray ’65, Head of the St. Mary’s Upper School. Ed and I have been spending time in Fla. at The Villages. I am

engaged in their art program and water volleyball. Nancy Whitman Manire ’64 came for a visit. We were busy with yoga, line dancing and a great dinner party. Diane and Nancy’s grand-daughters Keith Ellis Prest ’18 and Elizabeth Mallory Macdonald ’18 are both in 9th grade are very good friends. They love St. Mary’s and St. Mary’s loves them. Claire McCaskill Hughes was visited by her sons and their families in August. She has 8 grandchildren, three under the age of two. She loved reading to them, playing with toys and teaching the older children gin rummy. The oldest son rented a lake house with a boat. They spent lots of time on the lake. Cissy Lansing Moriarty and Charles spent the summer in Turkey, within 10 miles of the Syrian border. Lots of refugee tent camps and wandering refugees. Their trip was full of Christian and Biblical history. The unstop-pable travelers will be cruising the Mediterranean along Portugal and Spain’s shores. They also enjoy visiting their granddaughters ages 3 and 4. Cissy walked in The Cancer Walk with 35,000 other people and many wore pink. That is a wow!

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the Alumnae Weekend luncheon in April: Lynn Bledsoe Buhler, Margaret Barton, Susan McNeely Nicholas, and (Surprise! Surprise!) Wendy Locke. Wendy lives near Shelby Forest on seven acres with “countless critters” and is now an end-of-life caregiver after a career as a clinical nutritionist. Lynn reported that they all “kept their elbows off the table, their napkins in their laps, and their voices down.” She said that she is not sure if our class now qualifies as “cute old ladies” but that our table has been moved to the front of the room. Many in our class have been traveling and retiring. Two took the “trip of a lifetime” to Europe this past summer. In June Alice Cockroft Oates went to Italy with daughter Amy and husband Jack to celebrate Amy’s graduation from Rhodes College and 21st birthday and Alice and Jack’s 25th anniversary. In July Debbie Boehme Salter went to France with daughter Elizabeth to visit her cousin, whom she had not seen in 45 years, where they stayed in her cousin’s barn that has been renovated for rentals. Alice and Jack both retired in March and came to Memphis in May for Amy’s graduation. Alice’s sister Carolyn Cockroft ’71 was also in attendance. Alice and Jack also made a trip in July to Phoenix where Jack spoke at a confer-ence managed by Carolyn, and in August they went with Amy to San Francisco where she is now in


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graduate school at the University of San Francisco. Debbie is not quite ready to retire yet but is be-tween jobs at the moment looking for work as a HR Generalist simi-lar to her previous job but with less responsibility. She enjoys time with granddaughter Elyse and is looking forward to the birth of a grandson in February. Other travelers include Anne Hyde Dale and husband Jamie, both now retired, who went to Bryce, Zion, and Grand Canyon out West along with a stopover in Memphis to visit with Susan, who took them to the Germantown Commissary for a barbeque supper. Dottie Parish Peterson took a three week trip to the Gulf coast and came through the Memphis area to visit with sisters Bonnie Parish Moody ’68 and Billie Parish Lamier’s ’73 daughter and three little girls. Lynn traveled mostly along the East coast with husband Jon from Maine to Key West, but not all at the same time. Adele Tate spent a month in late spring at her fam-ily’s summer home in Michigan. Libba Mann Harbin went to NYC for granddaughter Rebecca’s first birthday October 1 where Rebecca loved being the center of atten-tion; and yours truly, who took a quick trip in June with family to my sister Marion West Hammer’s ’65 daughter’s wedding in the mountains of N.C. Super photos were shared by almost all of us, but special mention must be made of the photos sent by Susan Seelbinder, who shared photos of her two cats, Sophie, Leader of the Pack, and Pi, the sweetie pi, two dogs, KC, mon petit prince, and Angel, the Guardian of the Phunny Pharm, and a visiting dragonfly, the Divine Miss M and Jean Stitt Otto, who sent three photos of her and her husband enjoying the great outdoors of the Northwest where they live on their island just a ferry ride from downtown Seattle. Jean also enters the rolls of us retirees in December after 35 years as a criti-cal care RN in Seattle’s trauma hospital. Finally, Susan McNeely Nicholas is pleased to report that her health is good and PET scans okay, and Lynn along with many other grandparents enjoyed

St. Mary’s Chapel with her grand-daughter. “The girls still sing ‘Day by Day’,” Lynn says. She “kept an eye out for teachers dispensing detention slips but didn’t see any.”

1968Jan Cone Davis

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Thanks to everyone who was able to send me news before Hank and I left for our European River Cruise. We spent 14 days on the Danube, Main, and Rhine Rivers, stopping at different cities each day. We also spent extra days on each end of the trip in Budapest and Amsterdam. It was amazing to actually stand in places that we read about in history and art classes. We had a wonderful time, but are missing the great meals and crew staff that waited on us. It’s back to reality! Carolyn Mayo has been busy completely renovating her late sister’s condo in Germantown. The work should be finished and ready for her to move in before the holidays, which she will spend in Boston with her brother Hughes’ fam-ily. She is planning to travel to Australia and New Zealand next fall. Pam Joyner Evans and “Hank 2” enjoy spending time with their five grandchildren. Pam and Hank had an unbelievable vacation this year. They chartered a catama-ran with three other couples in the British Virgin Islands. The boat slept ten and came with a captain and chef. They sailed all through the islands for a week. The catamaran came with all sorts of water toys. It had a ten -person dinghy that could pull skiers and people in a water tube. There was snorkeling and fishing equipment, paddleboards, and sea kayaks. They caught a mahi-mahi one day and the captain cooked it. The food and drinks were the best they have had on any trip. They had one meal off the ship where had a lobster bake in their bare feet in the sand. Pam said it was especially fun to visit two islands where they had sent their two sons and daughters-in-law for their honeymoons. Holly Rogers is still enjoying

working in Orlando. She says she enjoys following her friends on Facebook as they travel to places on her own bucket list. A second phase of Harry Potter at Universal Studios just opened, and Holly says it would be a good place for all of us to take our grandkids! Marilyn Schwinn Smith is still into her research by writing and reading which she says is mainly for her own entertainment. Her son Garnet is a fifth grade teacher, and his wife is a research sci-entist. Marilyn and Sean visited them in St. Paul. Marilyn recom-mends a restaurant – Moscow on the Hill- if any of us are ever in St. Paul. Another son and his wife live in Providence. Her third son is presently at home, but will soon be “out the door.” It was great hearing from Sandy Skeen Williamson. Sandy also retired from teaching this year. She stays busy helping out with her six-year-old granddaughter, Sophie. Sandy is on the board of an organization that supports educational projects in rural Nicaragua. For many years she worked as a volunteer with this group and also took high school students to Nicaragua. Sandy says she dreams of now having a clean house, no weeds in the garden, and order instead of chaos in her life, but knows it will take time to catch up on 40 years of postponed chores. Elinor Baker Jones and Tom traveled to Amsterdam and Brussels with her mother and her friend. Elinor was kind enough to give me restaurant recom-mendations for Amsterdam. Unfortunately, we stayed in a different part of the city. Elinor is a grandmother again. Lee had her second baby boy. These two babies along with Elizabeth’s triplets make five babies in two and a half years! Deborah Pigott Moore is staying busy with baby-sitting, bridge, Bible Study, and tennis. She also tutors at a city school every week. She and her mother recently went to Rome for a friend’s son’s wedding. They had a wonderful time. Deborah’s oldest daughter, Margaret, and her family live a mile away. She is expecting her third child – a girl! The two boys are two and a

half and four. Daughter, Elizabeth, left teaching at an independent school to work in a city school for underprivileged children. She is getting administrative experi-ence while teaching. Deborah’s son graduated from Emory where he played basketball. He works in leverage finance at Suntrust in Atlanta. Youngest child, Katherine, is quite the world traveler. She is spending her first semester of her junior year in Madrid. She has been to Amsterdam and France. She has been to Barcelona for a birthday party and has done extreme sports in Interlocken. Whew! Thanks for the news, everyone!

1969Pam McNeely Williams

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Greetings to the classmates of 1969! I recently heard from Jean Phillips Lorton who reported she and Orlan vacationed in North Carolina where they had dinner with Julie Bonds Greene and her husband, Fred who live in Brevard, N.C. Jean’s girls are busy and happy with granddaughter Kyla, 4th grade, and grandsons Calin, 3rd grade and Quinn, a bud-ding kindergarten student! Orlan and Jean are working baby boom-ers and have decided to retire when work is no longer fun. We are so happy they are enjoying this part of their lives! Jean’s uncle, Warwick, Mrs. Phillips’ brother, who participated in a Religious Emphasis Week at St. Mary’s when we were in middle school, is now 94 and feeling quite well! I am enjoying retire-ment from the West Memphis Public School System and Brian and I had a very busy spring and summer with Matthew, our 22 year old son, graduating as a 2nd Lieutenant from the United Air Force Academy and marry-ing his fiancée Hannah Peterson, also a 2014 AFA graduate. The wedding was in Minnesota and was one of the prettiest events I have seen. Our daughter Ellen LeVaughn Kowalchuk ’96 and her children Mary, Lydia, Sam, Elizabeth, and Timothy were in

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the wedding as well as our older son, Scott Williams. All of the groomsmen wore party sleeve tuxedo shirts with a variety of Ole Miss, Grizzlies, Elvis, baseball, Cars & Planes and Americana themes on display! We were also fortunate that my sisters, Josie McNeely Walker ’76, Susan McNeely Nicholas ’67 and our mother, Camille McNeely flew to Minn. to participate in this joyous occasion.

1970Cristina Brescia Michta

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We are such a fun bunch of ladies! The summer was marked by “aca-demic bookends” for the Sledge and Denise DuBois Taylor family. Their son Will graduated with a physics degree from Princeton in June, and by August, the three-some was enjoying another week together as they moved Will into his apartment in Providence, R.I. where he began a PhD program at Brown University. Sledge is traveling a great deal as vice-chair of the National Cotton Council, and Denise joins him when she can. Mostly, however, she keeps busy as the Development Director at GSL Episcopal School. Betty Coe Cruzen Manuel and hus-band David are enjoying their second fall in Missouri, with beautiful weather and gorgeous foliage. They will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in December. Cary Pridgen Slatery writes that she enjoys news of her classmates via the St. Mary’s

News. She and her husband, Herbert, reared their daughter, Frances, and son, Harrison, in Knoxville where he was an attor-ney. Four years ago, The Governor, husband of St. Mary’s alum Crissy Garrett Haslam ’76, asked them to move to Nashville so that Herbert could be his Counsel. They moved into a downtown condo near the Capitol and became urban-ites. It’s been a blast as Cary can walk down the street to the main library or to take free line dance lessons at night. She is a mentor-ing mom at a Moms Support Group, leads aged 20-something girls in Bible study and volun-teers. On Oct. 1, her husband became the new Attorney General of Tennessee. Yours truly has been enjoying having daugh-ter, Chelsea, home during her Gap year before leaving for the UK to complete her Master›s at Cambridge. Cristina and Andrew look forward to visiting her. Gigi Gould is looking forward to going on the St. Mary’s Alumnae trip to France in the spring. She also wants to remind us that we have our 45th reunion coming up. Get ready to celebrate April 24-25! Cristina Brescia Michta has been busy substitute teaching, volunteering at her church, Grace St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and advising the Rhodes College Chi Omega chapter. Andrew continues to teach at Rhodes College and to travel to Europe. He was invited by NATO to travel to Afghanistan as one of select group of opinion leaders. Cristina ran the Greenline half marathon. She challenges her classmates to start compiling

news for the next magazine. See you in April at Alumnae Weekend!

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Deborah Abernathy was in Ocean Springs, Miss., for a Main Street Downtown meeting. She walked into a fabulous store and rec-ognized a picture of one of our classmates--Christie Stratton Moody! She had glass ornaments of seashore birds for sale there. Deborah is still loving her job and still caring for aging parents. Julia Sprunt Grumbles completed her “temporary” 12-month assignment at UNC. Husband Bill and she have taken full advantage of the first time in their 25-year marriage just to chill and enjoy traveling, visit-ing family and friends, and living in their N.C. home for six months. Marietta Canale Haaga and husband Fletcher celebrated their 36th anniversary in September. Marietta went to a fitness conven-tion in Atlanta over the summer and got certified in indoor cycling. She also learned lots of fun ideas to implement in personal and group training. Son Martin will be graduating from UT nursing school in December. Son Fletcher is happily married and is a proud homeowner in Chattanooga. In June Avery Malone Kaserman visited her sisters, Julia Malone ’65 and Peggy, and their families, including grandchildren. She saw an exhibit at The National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., on the friendship of Mary Cassatt

and Degas. In Baltimore, Md., she went to the National Aquarium. Husband Joel and she celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in late June. In September Jenny Jones Wardwell visited her parents and Catherine Dailey Berger and Avery had a luncheon visit. Joel is still enjoying playing with his band at Celtic Crossing as well as for the Contra Dance at Idlewild Presbyterian Church which daughter, Julia and Avery attend when they play once a month. Jan Carruthers Sturdivant reports that in the fall, a movie was filmed in the Greenwood/ Itta Bena area that is a western starring Liam Hemsworth (Hunger Games), Woody Harrelson, and William Hurt (Big Chill). The best part is that Woody has rented the house next door to Jan and has been a “very fun” neighbor. The film will be a western called “By Way of Helena.” My big news is that husband Chris and I went on a pilgrimage to Israel in May. Our base was in Jerusalem at St. George’s Anglican College, but we traveled all over the country – to Jericho, where we renewed our baptismal vows in the Jordan River, to Nazareth, Bethlehem, Masada, Emmaus and many other holy sites. We attended Sunday morning Eucharist at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, right in front of the Tomb. I will “ponder all these things” in my heart for the rest of my life. In September our church had its annual country fair where we canned about 1,400 jars of apple butter and Chris and I performed on stage with the Pohick Pickers.

Charlotte Day ‘72 and Margaret Gorman Mahoney ‘72.

Carolyn Cockroft ‘71 and husband Chris Brown on a pilgrimage to Israel.

Class of 1972: Angie King Keesee, Ashley Moore Remmers, Jennifer Wilde Lovejoy, Anne Remmers Phillips enjoy hiking.


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1972Christine Mayer Todd

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There is great and exciting news of a wedding belle! John Remmers and Ashley Moore Mayfield were married Dec. 20, 2014, at Holy Communion. We’ll have two Remmers in our class now. Ashley is thankful John, Anne Remmers Phillips’ brother, moved back to Memphis from Richmond. Ashley wants us to know miracles DO happen! There was a wonder-ful St. Mary’s group who met at Charlotte’s lake house this sum-mer. Charlotte assures they had a blast! Ashley Moore Mayfield, Angie King Keesee, Jennifer Wilde Lovejoy, Meg Jemison Bartlett, Anne Remmers Phillips, Lee Taylor Boyd, Margaret Gorman Mahoney, and Charlotte Day hiked, laughed, and caught up on each others’ lives. Suzanne Hauser Toten wrote, “2014 has been an exciting year for me. I finally broke through the old glass ceiling and am now the Vice President of the Executive Project Management Office for Rushmore Loan Management Services. I just celebrated my 60th. I rented a house in Sonoma County California. My cousin from Memphis and friends from Wisconsin and California joined me for a long weekend of wine tasting and fabulous food. I will be dieting for months to make up for it. No grandchildren yet. My youngest step son is get-ting married in September so at least there is hope in the future.” Sallie Bernard Armstrong wrote, “Reno will have been my home for 34 years this October. Bob (my husband) grew up here, and we moved to Reno right after we married. I never thought it would happen, but I really am a westerner at heart, albeit with a slight accent. Bob and I stay busy with our law practices (we prac-tice with different firms) and our two wonderful daughters, whom we had later in life! Ashley, our older daughter, just graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Development Economics, and, in November, she

will move to Rome to begin an in-ternship with the United Nation’s International Fund for Agriculture Development. Ashley chose to stay on the West Coast for college, and she attended Santa Clara University, where she played D1 basketball and graduated as Santa Clara’s 2013 Valedictorian. Santa Clara was Bob’s alma mater, so it was very special to us to have her nearby and to be able to share in so many of her experienc-es. Elizabeth, our younger daugh-ter, chose to go farther away from home, and she is a sophomore at Vanderbilt of all places! Moving to the South has been a little bit of an adjustment for her, but Nashville is a wonderful city, and it is very special for me that she is getting a taste of Southern life, culture, and manners! I hoped being in Nashville for her events would give me an opportunity to get back to Memphis more frequently, but there has not been a lot of time. However, being back near Memphis has certainly made me think of everyone and the amazing times we all shared. From my perspective, as one of the classmates coming from Arkansas from what then was more of a struggling public school system than it is now, St. Mary’s started me in the right direction and gave me the appreciation for education that I have now enjoyed my entire adult life. We were all very blessed!” Meg Jemison Bartlett’s son Jemison had a wonderful wedding this fall. Her mother, Peggy Bodine, invited us to a wonderful luncheon where we each took on the persona of a famous successful woman like Margaret Thatcher, Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dolly Parton, or Hillary Clinton. We had fun guessing who was who. The truth is tough; the Class of ’72 is successful in their own right. Musette Sprunt Morgan is doing well, is traveling often, and is the last of us to turn 60. She is thrilled her children Worth and Musette ’03 are launched and happy. Jane Gordon Simmons has great skills organizing wedding plans and has helped many people including our classmates’ children tie the knot. She also is invaluable with

makeovers, makeup, retail, and singing the praise of her niece Kat Gordon’s ’00 Muddy’s Cupcakes. Susan Ossorio has a new posi-tion. She teaches preschool at Farmington Presbyterian School. What lucky 3 year olds to have Ms. Susan! Carroll and I are going with another couple to look for Machu Picchu and pink dolphins in Peru to celebrate my 6oth. We all wish each other a happy year!

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Bron Gayna Schmit writes “It’s hard to believe but my mother turned 90 in mid-June! We had relatives from Arizona, Florida and Tennessee plus grandsons surprised her with a 4-day cel-ebration. Neighbors and Atlanta friends joined in the fun– lots of laughter and sharing of memo-ries!” One week later, Bron Gayna flew with nine friends to Alaska for two weeks- one week on land and one week on a ship! She reports it was a life changing vacation … every day she would look at the scenery and wildlife and compare it to one of God’s great panoramic postcards. Bron Gayna also notes that she has started her 35th year in educa-tion. It was actually her 54th if you start at kindergarten. What a prodigy she is! Sarah Peeples Hodges went back to Mongolia last summer with her 20 year old son, Ben. They were there for six weeks. She writes, “The image that sticks in my mind is seeing glamorous university students at ease in an urban setting, but equally at home stoking a fire in a countryside ger (yurt in Russian). The Nadaam Festival, celebrated mid-July, features archery, wres-tling (the sumo always wins), and horseback riding. Hoping to re-turn for a third summer in 2015.” Olivia Montgomery advanced into Gardening 201 after learning the difference between a weed and a plant. A weed is some-thing that you curse, dig up by the roots, destroy with a nuclear bomb … and it still comes back. A plant is something you pay good

money for, plant in an ideal spot, fertilize it, nurture it and whisper sweet nothings into its petals. Then once, only once, you give it a cross-eyed look and it dies.

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Kathy Bell Adams writes, “Daughter Conlee married in June and we love being able to turn her questions over to her husband Alex!! She has just had a career change and is selling real estate for Hobson Co. Her new name is Conlee Stringfellow so be looking for her poster on Poplar!!! Our California grand-daughter just turned two!!” Doris French Jones reported that daughter Trisha and her husband, Jacob, blessed them with their first grandchild, Marion. She is eight months old, and dressed for their church’s baby dedication ceremony in one of Doris’s baby dresses. Husband Ransom and she are both busy with work and travel. They look forward to being full-time grandparents in a few years! Donna Osborne Bradley writes, “I am Training Coordinator for Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council and teaching at Lindenwood University (criminal justice classes), Webster University (labor-management relations), and Columbia College (business law). If you get a minute, please “like” Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council Facebook page at www.facebook.com/EHOCSTL. Chapters 1 and 2 of the dissertation are mentor-approved. I am gathering data so I can write the remaining three chapters and running into a few roadblocks. I just keep telling my-self that it’s nothing that can’t be overcome.” Sally Fri tells me that she “knows nothing and has done nothing”. I assume that means nothing that she cares to report, as we know she is always adding chapters to her book. I know that girl well.....she is up to somethin’!! And we can all know that it is peppered with all the creative, caring, and fun spirit that that girl

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possesses!! So I leave you with a smile on that note...Class of 1974 is keeping us proud. With love from Banks and Bozo.

1975Laurie Walpole

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The Class of 1975 is getting pumped up for our reunion next April 24-25. Thanks to Angie Rose and Watty Brooks Hall for being the Reunion Chairs! There was a mini pre-reunion recently when Deborah Adelson Johns was in town from Colorado, but the real thing sounds like it’s going to be awesome from the ideas that Angie & Watty have. No way am I missing that. Mary Belcher Page’s big news is that her pet sitting company, Creature Comforts Memphis, received the Bark City Bluff Reader’s Choice Awards best Pet Sitter, Best Dog Walker, and Best Pet Taxi for 2014. Congratulations, Mary! Wendi Sloane and husband Steve sold their big family house and moved into a smaller “second honeymoon” home now that their youngest is a senior in college. Business travel took Wendi to Hong Kong recently, and she also went to Berlin, where she ordered a white wine spritzer in German and now considers herself fluent. Susan Page Gates’ daughter Julia is getting married, so Susan will be figuring out how to put on a wedding. Since whatever Susan puts her energy into she does it really well, I’m guessing it’s going to be a wonderful wed-ding. Susan Apperson ran into Jon Hamm at the Atlanta airport. Nora Wingfield Tyson is enjoying being Deputy Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk. She and Wayne like to sneak to their home in Williamsburg and play golf as much as possible. Watty Brooks Hall and husband Chris spent a relaxing vacation in Key West, where all they did was eat fabulous fresh seafood, sleep, and read (Hemingway, I presume). Watty loves to hang out at their farm with their menagerie, which includes their beloved donkey Oliver, who comes running every

time he sees her (of course she’s usually carrying a bag of carrots). Jana Fletcher Markowitz was awarded the Leader of the Year title by the Memphis Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM) for leader-ship, dedication, and service for her work in STEM outreach. Congratulations, Jana! She is currently forging a relationship between SIM and the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools. Jill Jemison Margolin wrote from the hospital, where she was recovering from her second knee replacement. I guess that’s the downside of taking your senior USTA tennis team to the region-als. Jill and husband Peter have traveled recently to Maine to visit Jill’s parents and brother. They also went to Novia Scotia and New Brunswick, and out west to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Jennifer Jones has been studying African Tribal dancing in Manhattan, along with lots of gardening and travel. She’s been to Jamestown, also Asheville, N.C., Alaska, and Sandy Hook, N.J. Gosh, every-one’s traveling more than I am (although I write this in Natchez, Miss. on my way to New Orleans). Thanks to everyone who wrote, and thanks to our Class Agents Betsy Olim and Robin Bartusch Goertz for all their work!

1976Allison Brown Coates

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Edie Loeb is enjoying her life in California. Over the years, she has become a “surrogate mom” for two beautiful girls that live in her neighborhood. They love for Edie to pick them up from school (and make sharp turns while driving) cook dinner, homework (even the “new” math) and put them to bed. Oh Edie, I know you are blessed by them but they are so blessed to have you too! So glad to hear from you! B.J. Fiser Jones writes all is well with her and her family. Chip’s still with ADP, B.J. is volunteering and mentor-ing, Oliver, Ashley and grand-sons keep them happily busy, Andrew’s working on his PhD at

University of Edinburgh (road trip :) ), and Maggie’s a senior at UGA, planning to become a child life specialist. Fun connection: one of her friends at UGA is St. Mary’s grad Lauren Harrington ’11! B.J. is coming back and forth to Memphis about once a month, unless something happens with her parents and she needs to get there sooner. Her Mom and Dad are doing fine right now, but living apart, which is hard after 71 years of living together! Martha Flowers has a new job. She is the new Director of the Semmes Murphey Foundation. Congratulations, Martha! The Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association has named Josie McNeely Walker the 2014 Teacher of the Year! Josie, we are so proud of you! As for me, I am now teaching in the precious 2 year old program ...St. Mary’s Place. If any of you need some love and hugs please come see us! There is always enough love to go around from our angels.

1977Janey Butler Newton

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So nice to hear from Georgia Harrison Hall, a new bride in our class! Georgia married Dan Hall recently, congratulations! And, she has two step-children – Tommy, 14, and Phoebe, 11. She is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia, as well as Graduate Coordinator for the Master of Landscape Architecture program. She would love to see any of us who happen to come to her area. Wish I had known this when I was in Athens tour-ing UGA with my kids. Susan Francisco has so many fun activi-ties going on in her life! She is in charge of the Library Foundation’s silent auction, cooking and mak-ing fun and elaborate decora-tions for the Episcopal Church Women’s annual fundraiser, and traveling for medical meetings to Sandestin, Fla. She is going on a medical mission trip to Honduras, where she will do the students’ physicals. She is planning a

bachelorette party in Nashville for one of her best friends too. And, she and her sister Tabitha Francisco McNabb ’78, and friends went on a cruise of the Iberian Peninsula around Spain and Portugal. Sounds wonder-ful! Oh, and she is still working although she says retirement is on the distant horizon. Ginger Jones Beanblossom’s son Mark Jr, graduated with a Masters of Finance from Tulane. He is living in Memphis in High Point Terrace. I see Mark Sr. often as we work in the same building. Mark and Ginger would be true empty-nesters except for the dog that Mark Jr. adopted in New Orleans is now living with them! We have an invitation to visit Molly Townes O’Brien in Canberra, Australia if we are in her neck of the woods. Molly says that she is doing very well and teaching law at the Australian National University. Her son Cyrus recently got married and is working on his PhD at the University of Michigan. Son Joseph is studying, working, and living in Adelaide, Australia. Michelle Rogers has recently gone on her yearly trip to Cape Cod – sounds pretty great! She is still a training manager at FedEx Trade Networks. Jane Daily Duell’s daughter, Anna had a beautiful baby boy. Congrats to all! Lucy Walt Wepfer is looking at colleges with her youngest, Annie – where does the time go? Her son Walt completed an Ironman Triathlon recently. So impressive! I hear through the grapevine that Gretchen Perkins McLallen has married recently. Much happiness to Gretchen and her new life! Lots of newsy things to share about Lisa Britt Colcolough’s life. The Britt clan, complete with parents, husbands, sister, and children, went on a Danube River Cruise from Munich to Budapest. She describes the movements of all 14 on their trip as “herding cats”, and their fellow passengers called them the “famous” family, which Lisa thinks that they really meant “loud”! I’m sure everyone on the boat was captivated and charmed by the whole family. What a great experience! Lisa’s girls both have


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photography businesses – the same company which is called Duo – but in separate locations. Caitlin Colcolough ’07, caitlincol-colough.com, is in Charleston, S.C., and Cameron Colocolough Reynolds ’07, cameronreynolds-photography.com, and husband Ned are in Greenville, S.C.. They do weddings, baby shots, por-traiture, and food photography. Son Britt is a junior at Princeton, where he plays Varsity Football. Lisa and John enjoy his games and the football families and the campus and surrounding area. She describes the movements of all 14 on their trip as “herding cats”, and their fellow passengers called them the “famous” family, which Lisa thinks that they really meant “loud”! I’m sure everyone on the boat was captivated and charmed by the whole family. What a great experience! Lisa’s girls both have photography businesses – the same com-pany which is called Duo – but in separate locations. Caitlin Colcolough ’07, caitlincolcolough.com, is in Charleston, S.C., and Cameron Colocolough Reynolds ’07, cameronreynoldsphotog-raphy.com, and husband Ned are in Greenville, S.C.. They do weddings, baby shots, portraiture, and food photography. Son Britt is a junior at Princeton, where he plays Varsity Football. Lisa and John have had fun enjoy ing his games and the football families and the campus and surround-ing area. Lisa’s youngest sister, Calder Britt Clark ’95, is speaking in the Alumnae Chapel Speaker series. She owns a design firm in Charleston that creates fabulous weddings and events. And lastly, it is with great sadness to share the news that Sara Muirhead Shanley’s beloved husband, Mike, passed away recently. Sara, know that we are hugging you from afar from many different places.

1978Tracy Walko Balton

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We definitely have one com-mon theme amongst us; we are all quick to report that “nothing

much is going on here.” You are silly girls. The activity in all your lives is fun news to the rest of us. Kelley Hoffman Hook is retired, but of course never still. With husband Bruce traveling more, Kelley has become a “profes-sional volunteer.” Watch out Chicago! Daughter Margaret Ann has recently married and lives in Canada. Carese Clarke Bott loves teaching English in Dallas at her new school. Previously a Jr. High teacher, she understands how hard elementary teachers work, and daily appreciates her old St. Mary’s teachers. Son David is en-joying his new job with Edelman, a national PR firm. Daughter Katie loves Greek life and the pursuit of a nursing major at University of Texas. Fraser Outlan Kelly continues to live in northeast N.C. near Nags Head & Norfolk. She stays busy selling real estate and raising daughter Claire, a high school junior. Ann Chaney is still in New Orleans and anticipating her family’s annual Thanksgiving at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Ala. Tabitha Francisco McNabb took time away from a busy sum-mer at work to enjoy a wonderful trip around the southern coast of Spain. Her step-son and his wife have re-located to Charlotte, N.C. Kathy Edmondson Riley has been diligently working more with husband Billy at their ad agency firm, Combustion. Daughter Claire ’09 is teaching English for the 2nd year in Madrid, while son Nick follows in Dad’s artistic footsteps at Memphis College of Art. Sunita Sheth keeps busy as a board member and officer of Woman’s Way, a philanthropic agency that focuses on Philadelphian women and girls. When not consulting for

pharma and biotech, she is teach-ing at the med school or traveling. Andrea Gilliom Anderson and husband Ben are new “empty nesters” but often travel to N.Y. to see daughter Rebecca ’06 and plan her 2015 wedding. Elizabeth ’09 attends UT Medical School and Meg is now at Belmont University. Life for me could not be better. As Senior Tax Director, I work too much but husband Steve and I try to play equally hard traveling and playing tennis. Daughter Maria is a CPA at Hilton Hotels and Angela enjoys wholesale fashion sales in Atlanta with her new husband. I am especially proud of Vincent, who is now studying chemi-cal engineering at CBU. I spend precious time, albeit not enough, with my grandkids, Lyla ’28 and Henry (9 months old). I recently heard St. Mary’s kindergarteners sing “Day by Day” at the Grand Turkey Chapel. Oh the memories those sweet voices brought back. Lyla later said that “she just loves St Mary’s because it is the perfect school for her.” What a wise 5 year old. Hope to hear from more of you soon!

1979Elizabeth Brown Dunn

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This group of ladies never ceases to amaze me. We are literally scat-tered across the globe but stay close in our hearts. Kakki Wright Ryan has expanded her veteri-nary practice; she has built a new barn and has new veterinarians on staff. Her daughter Kali, seven years old, is the light of her life and precious. Elizabeth Mayhall Sherr is teaching microeconom-ics at SUNY Delhi. She has been traveling the south this sum-mer. She has settled back now in the beautiful Catskills. Barbara Stevenson wants to thank everyone for sending thoughts and prayers as her mother starts out on a new adventure since her job at U of M has come to a close. Anne Golwen Brand had a wonderful summer vacation to Martha’s Vineyard. Her husband David spent the summers there. They met with 2 old friends of his

and their families. Her son John is a sophomore at UT Knoxville and Henry is a 7th grader at Grace St. Luke’s. The boys loved jumping off the big bridge there. Anne is still loving her part time position at Boyle Investment in the mar-keting department.

1980Margaret Stone Graham

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It’s been so good to hear from and visit with old classmates this year. I can’t believe we’ve been gone for nearly 35 years! Jan Holmes Crosby visited Memphis this summer, and Molly Francis Roberts and I had a fun two hour lunch with her catching up with her life. Jan works as an attor-ney with the municipal utility company in Colorado Springs. She has two daughters away at col-lege: daughter Nell is in New York City as a freshman at Columbia University, and her daughter Tate is a junior at Princeton. Sadly, Jan’s brother Geo passed away one week after her visit in a tragic accident, and our prayers are with the entire Holmes family. Also right after our lunch, Molly was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she has been going through che-motherapy followed by surgery. I have to say, Molly is incredibly strong and never complains. She just wants to get it all done so that she’ll be well and cancer-free. In other news, (Carolyn) Blake Burr is a new empty-nester. Her younger daughter, Kala, is a freshman at Marlboro College in Vermont. Her older daughter, Mahal, was married over the summer. Mahal coordinates the BB change program at Bridges (a Memphis non-profit that helps young people become leaders), while her new husband Nick teaches history at Freedom Prep charter school. Blake continues to work as the grant writer for the school district but is dusting off the old “to-do” lists now that she has more free time. Amy Tillman Dodd sent her second child off to college this year. Daughter Hope is a freshman at University of Florida where her brother

Tracy Walko Balton ’78 and granddaughter Lyla ’28.

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Garrett is a junior. They both love it there. Amy’s youngest, Colin, is 17 and a senior at Lakeland Christian School. Husband David is very busy as a doctor, and Amy loves every moment of being a wife and mom. Josie Gilliland Williams was in Memphis re-cently visiting with her in-laws, and we were able to have lunch and catch up. Her daughter Grace is in Spain this year, Owen is in South Carolina, and Fletcher is a senior in high school and visiting colleges. My older son, Nelson, has moved back to Nashville to help start a KIPP Collegiate charter school and teach phys-ics. My son Garrott is a junior at Vanderbilt. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you at Alumnae Weekendon April 24-25.

1981Katherine Lucas Hall

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Mim Stokes Brown loves teach-ing at St. George’s and coaching middle school girls’ lacrosse. Her son, Dean graduated from St. George’s as Valedictorian and started UVa this Fall. Her oldest daughter, Adeline, gradu-ated from Princeton and just finished her first year with Teach for America. Cabell is a senior at Vanderbilt and Miriam just started her sophomore year in high school. Clearly brilliance and service to others runs throughout Mim’s family. Margaret Salmon Bright is so happy that her oldest daughter, Annabelle, chose a school not too far from home at Belmont College in Nashville. Her daughter, Ella is a high school sophomore at Lausanne.Suzette Turner Coors married her Vanderbilt boyfriend, Bill! Bill is from Cleveland, Ohio, but Suzette has not entirely moved away from Memphis. She is often in Memphis when they are not traveling the world together. Her son, George, graduated from Ole Miss and is working at First Ten-nessee Bank. Baby Suzette ’11 is a junior at University of Georgia. Madera Dickerson Beckham

enjoys her work as an admissions counselor at Ensworth School where her two sons, Jack and Wesley, attend. Madera is still playing lots of tennis and living happily in Nashville. (She looks marvelous!) Mollie McCarroll Newman’s son, John, is a junior at Vanderbilt, and Mary Caroline ’15 is a senior at St. Mary’s. She just wrapped up school soccer, and St. Mary’s went to sub-state which is very exciting. Molly continues to do bank consulting from home.

1982Lee Anne Johnson Roehm

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Not many from our class were able to respond to this most recent call for class notes. As-suming all were busy achiev-ing what will be reported in an upcoming publication, we all shall wait patiently on the edge of our seats until all is revealed. Camille LeMaster Shaw, however, reports that her family currently is host-ing a Spanish exchange student, Maria, and in turn Maria’s family will host their daughter Isabel in the spring semester. Isabel also was chosen to be in the Gover-nor’s School this past summer, which is an intense three-week immersion program, paid for by their home state of Va. Younger daughter Audrey plays soccer in her first year of high school and plays in a band that recently played “All Apologies” by Nirvana at a local arts festival! Gail Jones Mallery also adds to our news by informing us that all is quite well in Dallas, Texas where she is working as a Project Manager over Loan Servicing. Although she’s missed family and friends in Memphis, she’s found her move to Dallas has been a great choice for her. She spent her 50th birthday in Santa Fe, N.M. with Ginia Knapp Northcutt ’81 and other college friends and found it a fabulous place to see beauti-ful art in a beautiful setting and enjoyed their spas and shopping and dining. Outside of traveling and working she spends her time keeping up with her four-legged friends, Bradley and Volee, and

in church related and volunteer activities.

1983Bonnie Bolton Lopez

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Josephine Walt Brennan writes that daughter Fitzhugh is a Tri Delta sorority sister with Jodie Barringer’s daughter Libby at Ole Miss. Jodie’s Leila also pledged Tri Delta there. Gee Loeb Sharp says Mimi ’15 is a senior at St. Mary’s. Gee has enjoyed listening to all the seniors give their speeches in chapel and reports that the girls seem so mature and spiritually fit. These 4-6 minute speeches are available on the St. Mary’s website thanks to Mr. Tanner’s videogra-phy. Marshall is in the dual degree program at Penn, studying to get a degree from Wharton and from the College of Arts and Sciences. He continues to play tennis and participate in his fraternity. Gee has been a certified personal trainer for seven years. She is grateful for the opportunity to give back in a positive way, and her job is never boring. Susan Crosby McCloy has moved to Changchun, China, for one year to teach English and debate. She has already met four others with the name Susan! She reports other fascinating names like Coconut, Grass, and Nevermore! Cynthia Hodges Cobb stays exceptionally busy with one college graduate in the family and five more to go! She serves as the advisor for two science competition teams, prepares lunch for 165 rowers and their families for all the boys’ re-gatta weekends, and washes lots of sleeping bags after the many Boy Scout campouts her boys attend. Meanwhile she is surviv-ing a bathroom remodeling and trying to fit in some reading with all her other activities! Allison Wellford Parker reports that she, Cissy Bruce Jackson, and Bisha Sisk Harrington all have children at UGA. Go Dawgs! Allison and daughter Annie ’16 recently went on their own college tour and had some special time together thinking ahead as Annie is now a junior. Allison continues to love

her job as Upper School Coun-selor at St. Mary’s, and I happen to know that the students adore her! I, Bonnie Bolton Lopez, have daughter Lydia in St. Louis where she is working on a Masters De-gree in Deaf Education at Wash. U. She spent last year as a Fellow at Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis. This was the same program Bisha directed several years ago. Son Phillip made me a grandmother when his wife had a baby girl last spring! They are both studying at LSU. I continue to home school Sam (12) and Neal (10) and to teach English and writing once a week to several other homeschooling families. How helpful it is to have Miss O’Sullivan’s foundation in English grammar! Our hearts are saddened to learn that Holly Wal-ters Craft’s husband, Paul, passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Hol-ly. Allison and Brandon Morrison issued an ice bucket challenge to our class in his honor. Please keep the Craft family in your prayers and check out Allison and Brandon on Facebook where a fund has been established for Paul. We love you, Holly!

1984Vanessa Allen Dobbins

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Leslie Darling writes from Nash-ville as a recent newlywed. She and husband, Adam Dread, a local attorney, have been married for over a year. Their “children” in-clude three cats and a yellow lab, Oliver. They also share a love for Nantucket and spend their time between Nashville, Nantucket and Cape Cod where Leslie has a house. Leslie loves her job in the digital business and travels to NYC quite often. She works with advertising agencies and media companies, creating and produc-ing digital video content. Alison Potts Hollewand and family re-cently returned home to Brisbane from a holiday in Orlando, Fla., where she, Mike and Izzy enjoyed “doing the Harry Potter thing”. Izzy, 10, is in fifth grade and lov-ing everything about life. Alison


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continues to teach yoga and meditation, and Mike has his own consultancy and also teaches in the MBA program at the Universi-ty of Queensland Business School. Merri Leigh Masters Johnson and family enjoyed a long vacation that took them through Tenn., Va. and Washington, D.C. The trip included a good mix of historical attractions and just plain fun--theme park / white water raft-ing. Jack, 11, is in sixth grade and is playing, of all things, the TUBA!! It is HUGE, but amazingly not too annoying to listen to being practiced. Charlie is 8 and in third grade. He’s trying his hand in Martial Arts. Merri Leigh and four co-workers developed a seven hour course that will be presented at the Texas Physical Therapy As-sociation annual conference. She is excited because she is present-ing with another PT, an occupa-tional therapist, and a speech therapist---sort of a novelty at a PT conference. Smitha Gollamudi is program developing for Johns Hopkins oncology. Daughter Devi is a junior at Holton Arms girls’ school in Bethesda where she is a talented cross country runner. Son Chander is a seventh grader who is very enthusiastic about baseball and squash. Kendall Weir Jack and family are headed to Orange Beach to meet with friends. Kendall’s son, Davis, 16 and a guitar player, performed at his first School of Rock show at Minglewood Hall. He was excited to be asked to sign a few auto-graphs. Way to rock it out, Davis! Dex, 10, will play his last football game of the season for Christ Methodist Day School. Martin and I are well; just hanging out with our ancient cat, Bandit. I’ve been working at the same local IT Staff-ing and Technology company for the past 17 years and still enjoy it.

1985Polly Piper Rickard

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Lucy Cheek Gordon daughter Madeline, 19 is in her second year at Georgia. Claire, 17 is a senior, Clay, a seventh grader, finished first in at youth nation-

als in sport climbing and fourth in speed climbing, earning him spots on the US team. He will represent the US at the Pan American games. Tino Sage spent time in Hungary, Slovenia and Maine. She is able to pilot a 19’ Boston Whaler in the ocean and in harbors, solo. Margaret Frazier Gardner reports that Miriam ’21, her busy ballerina, is in sixth grade at St. Mary’s and Judy Brundige is one of her teach-ers! Frazier is in fourth grade at PDS. She serves on the St. Mary’s Board of Trustees and the board of Miriam’s ballet. Colleen Kavanagh is currently applying to college, high school and middle school for her kids. ZEGO is doing a relaunch in October. Her nonprofit, is now called A Better Course. Lisa Breazeale Roberts and Ken enjoy tennis. Evelyn ’18, ninth grader at St. Mary’s, plays soccer, basketball, and lacrosse at school. Evelyn got her permit and Lisa is thankful she is the last child to teach to drive. Jackson, a fresh-man at Furman, plays lacrosse. Chandler ’12 is a junior at TCU in the nursing school. Melissa Thrasher Peeler and Lisa see each other on the St. Mary’s sidelines. Mary ’11 is a senior at UNC and knee deep in med school apps and interviews. Anna ’13 is a sophomore at Alabama. Marge ’17 is in 10th grade at St. Mary’s. Katrina Traywick Sippey will see Melissa when she comes to Calif. with Mary, who has an interview at UCSF medical school. Caroline is in fifth grade. Kate is in eighth grade. Trina’s family had a great time with Ivy Wilroy Caravati and her family during their UVA reunion and spending a week together. Charlie taught Caroline how to water ski! Charlie is a senior, Sid a tenth-grader and Thomas ninth grade. Elizabeth Pounders writes that Dorothy, 19, is at SMU. Eliza ’16 is a junior at St. Mary’s interning and model-ing for Justine magazine. Callie is in seventh at Hutchison. Trecia Knapp Tapolsky stays busy with work, hiking her three dogs, playing tennis, volunteer-ing at church and traveling. She and Bruno spent three weeks in France. While in New Orleans,

she met up with Anne Thrasher Lloyd. Galya consults in graphic design. Zhenya is taking an intensive French immersion class in Paris. Kara Kilpatrick Preston looks forward to our 30th reunion! Julia ’18 is in ninth grade at St. Mary’s with Evelyn Roberts ’18. Thomas is in fourth grade. Nancy Dilts started her own business– nancy dilts wardrobe consult-ing. Dan was awarded a visiting professorship in Lyon, France, Grace is in fifth grade. McKenzie Aiken Crisp and son, Drew, a se-nior, went to England and France with his French Club: 11 intense days of walking and sightseeing. Seventh-grade daughter, Catie’s competitive cheer team won Beach Nationals in Destin. Glynn Feild Dean has been working and caring for her growing herd of 14! Two of them, Lucy and Hoss, are on the show circuit. Save the date for our 30th reunion on April 24-25, 2015!

1986Jean Vaughan McGhee

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My family has been foster-ing puppies this fall for the Memphis Humane Society. My youngest daughter Carmen ’27 is officially now nick-named the Puppy Whisperer. I would like to think my deep involvement in pet rescue has rubbed off on some of my classmates. Kim Malone Scott and her family have recently added a puppy to their busy mix. While Kim’s twins started kindergarten this fall, she has been busy consulting for Twitter and Dropbox as well as working on putting together a book on management. Susannah Taylor Marriott is still working with Malia Mills and they have recently opened up stores in Los Angeles and Houston, Texas. She has also recently added to her family by adopting a rescue dog this summer. Mary Helen Pender Moore is still working in dentistry at Children’s Dentistry in Knoxville,Tenn. Helen and her family have been busy set-tling into their new house after spending the summer living on

their houseboat. Lynn Cashman Thurlow is still teaching at a Montessori pre-school in Summerton, S.C. while somehow still finding time to home school her 4 children ranging from high school to 2nd grade. I am not sure how she does all that! Meg Gary Woodhouse and her husband recently bought a house in Locust Valley and enjoyed the summer gardening with her 3 children. Cathy Cape Furey and Meg have been able to keep up regular visits when Meg comes into the city.Meg is still working for Matouk and working on getting her graduating class friends all some really fabulous sheet sets! Irene McDonnell Ayotte, Liz Whitsitt McEwan, Elizabeth Cashman Dickinson and I continue to try to get together regularly and stay in touch. All 3 of them have 7th graders at MUS this year who are really enjoying being at school with all the older boys. Irene’s son Robert has been running cross-country this fall while Will McEwan and Robert Dickinson have been playing football. My oldest, Eleanor ’18 is now in high school at St. Mary’s and is bring-ing back all kinds of great memo-ries for me as she is reading both Shakespeare and mythology. Mrs. Lois Strock, thank you for bring-ing all those ancient characters to life for us so many years ago!!!

1987Allison Tonkin

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After family travels to Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Crazy Horse and Mount Rushmore Janelle Zarecor Ranieri’s Lucy (ninth grade) spent two weeks in China, practicing her Mandarin. John John (sixth grade) loves playing soccer, lacrosse and hockey. Scott and Cindy Cates Moore, Isabelle ’26 and Lucy ’29 camped in N.M. and Colo., where Scott success-fully worked out his transplanted lungs at the Continental Divide (12,000 feet!). They had a great time meeting up with Gigi Gaerig McGown and family outside Ouray, Colo. Kim Justis Eikner joined Cindy and Courtney Morris

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Monaghan as St. Mary’s alum mothers’ breakfast co-hostesses. She missed Ruth Cheney Pat-ton there because she has boys! Kim’s Nora ’22 loves St. Mary’s fifth grade on the other side of the street. Brooks (15) now drives Kim around with his learner’s permit! Kim continues to perform in plays when she can. Flip and Kim continue work at MUS where Kim occasionally sees Missy Huettel Carter, as both her boys are there, with Joe (ninth grade) in Flip’s English class. Talk at Missy’s dinner table is only football! Also now adjusting to the pace at MUS is Courtney’s Tom (seventh grade) while Ellie ’23 enjoys St. Mary’s fourth grade. At St. Mary’s Parents’ day Stuart’s (ninth grade) English class brought back fond memo-ries of Mrs. Strock. In Knoxville Beth Reynolds Bowen lives in her minivan daily. Middle schooler Ella played a character role in her dance recital. Tom (7) loves baseball and second grade. Fon-taine Taylor Brown expressed her gratitude to Virginia Reed Mur-phy for her incredible Playback Memphis work, transforming the city in a beautiful way by bring-ing people together in a unique, delightfully fun, incredibly mov-ing experience. Suzanne White Howell also noted in pictures that Virginia has not changed in a bit since St. Mary’s! Mary Louise Mooney enjoys freelance editing on many interesting projects for her favorite Workman Publish-ing client Beth Levy! Working with NYC’s premier LGBT theater company The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS), ML is assistant directing Kathleen Warnock’s new play The Further Adventures of…, about Hollywood, the closet and the transformative power of imagination, with the produc-tion travelling to the Women’s International Theater Festival in Provincetown, Mass. ML will next be back on stage with the Polaris North Theater Cooperative in a role in Allan Lefcowitz’ Philosophy 101 where she will be “rapping. About philosophy.” ML writes that after her mother recovered from her surprise pacemaker instilla-tion her home at Horseshoe was featured on their local Master

Gardeners Home Garden Tour. Andras and I had great fun catch-ing up with Gwynne Keathley and her parents Barbara and Roy in Park City, dining at the foot of Deer Valley ski lifts. Inviting us all to join her for some yummy crab cakes, Gwynne is now in her second year as Maryland Institute College of Art Vice Provost.

1988Anna McQuiston Holtzclaw

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Laura Blumenfeld wrote in for the first time. After high school she lived in NYC, Europe, and LA to act, write, and model. She went to UC Berkeley and then UCSD for a PhD in biological psych studying schizophrenia. She joined McK-insey in NYC. There she met her partner, Giacomo. They have three children Marisa (2009), Leonardo (2011) and Lily (2014). She works for McKinsey and travels to NYC. They spend time in Italy where Giacomo is developing a ski resort and they own a boot factory. They just renovated their house in Lon-don and are very busy but “super blessed and thankful every day”. Margaret Malone Rosser and her family welcomed Shelby, a new puppy to the family this spring. Margaret looks forward to taking Shelby to work. Moriah McStay Lee’s book Everything That Makes You comes out March 2015 and she is revising her second book due out in 2016. Madeleine ’15 is a senior at St. Mary’s and wants to major in film. Shannon Moore re-ports it’s harvest time in Califor-nia and “the air is perfumed with fermentation and malt”. She stays busy with her business Flour Girl. Sadly they lost their 16-year-old dog Possum this spring. Pidge Colbert Macdonald works at Le Bonheur in the OR and recently moved to Chickasaw Gardens. Mallory ’18 is a freshman at St. Mary’s and is in Mary Lacy Bell’s class. She is the first child of a classmate Mary has taught. Lisa Wright Moses added two cats to her family who spend their time entertaining her kids. Kather-ine Florendo recently competed in the North American Natural

Bodybuilding Federation’s Kansas City Classic and took 1st place in the 40+ bikini class. She won her pro card (one of three given to 58 competitors) and can compete in the NANBF’s pro organiza-tion. Jennifer Hanemann Chan-dler worked on Lafayette’s Music Room (a new restaurant concept in Overton Square). She writes “it has been a blast to design and see it come to life”. Her fourth cook-book The Southern Pantry Cookbook came out in October. Jenny Dyer Pepper has a group of friends that for 11 years cook their way through cookbooks together. This fall they are doing Jennifer’s. Jenny teaches Kindergarten and this spring also became Preschool Sunday School Director at Christ United Methodist in Jackson. Mike is farming blueberries as a hobby and this year they har-vested 250,000 pounds. Heather Nichols Ottinger stays busy running, playing tennis, learning the bass guitar (Sara ’23 gives her tips) and substitute teaching at St. Mary’s. Emily Piovarcy Carlson and Mark were involved in start-ing a charter school in Atlanta that opened up K-8 this fall. Emily was on the launch team as the Enrollment Coordinator and now is in the Student Services (Special Ed) department. Their boys are both at the school. Detra Houseal Brock stays busy substitute teach-ing, serving as grade coordinator, participating in the booster club and her free lance photography business is a fun hobby with a couple of shoots a week and shooting school sporting events. She is running the Savannah Rock’n’Roll marathon in honor of a dear friend who passed away from cancer. I am now a Leader-ship and Team Development Con-sultant with Linda Bailey (mom of Celeste Bailey Herburger ’91). I am very passionate about the job and excited to be doing this work. I spent 2 weeks at the beach with Leigh Vaughan Jaimes this sum-mer and love that our girls are good friends despite living so far apart. Hope to see you all soon.

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1990Mirm Kriegel

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I’m stepping in to give Susan Hearn Morgan a much-needed break after 25(!) years of heroic work herding cats, as she expects Baby #2 in the coming months. More than half our class appar-ently felt inspired to write. (The things that can happen when you threaten to make stuff up…) Given the volume, I’ll keep it tight. Allison Mallory Morris reports that her twins Mallory and Marley ’27 are in St. Mary’s SK now and busy with tennis, guitar and violin lessons. She’s still working at Ser-viceMaster and husband Jay is go-ing on 18 years at St. Jude. Alexis Zanone just celebrated 10 years with the Four Seasons hotel chain and continues her globetrotting thanks to these enviable connec-tions. This year she made it to the Caribbean and to Paris with her family. Jenny Eudy, husband Trent, and son Rye, now in fourth grade, are still in Portland, Ore. and love it as much as they did 15 years ago. She’s still practic-ing law in-house at Banfield Pet Hospitals. Anne Copper DiFronzo and her husband are enjoying life in Great Falls, Va. with their fam-ily – Sofia, 7, and twins Olivia and Dominic, 1. When she’s not chas-ing after toddlers, she works part-time for Cultural Care Au Pair. Stacy Goldate lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Craig Colton, but the two have been spending considerable time in southern Florida shooting a documentary. They took a detour to NYC in the spring, when Shaila, Sujata, Rachel and I got to catch up with them. Great fun! Paige Rus-sel Brooks had a great summer traveling to Massachusetts and Mississippi and an even better Fall visiting Rachel and her family in New Jersey. Rachel organized a fantastic get-together with Shaila and family as well as the Kriegel/Bryfman clan. Paige’s family


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recently adopted two kittens, Suzie Q and Katniss, “because life was too boring without cats.” Taylor Holden Taylor is working hard as the Director of Sales and Marketing at The Racquet Club. She also reports that Holden ’25 is loving second grade at St. Mary’s, that Bruce is loving fourth grade Grace-St. Luke’s, and that she loves being a part of the Alumnae Board at St. Mary’s. (That’s a lot of love.) Beth Kreamer West writes that the kids are all happy and healthy, funny and full of energy. The big two play soccer and are (slowly) on their way to becoming black belts in Taekwondo. “The little one is 2 ½ and quite a mess. Phillip and I just run around chas-ing after everyone.” Sounds awful-ly familiar. Tricia Hood Thomas is still a huge Alabama & Grizzlies fan. She and Brian are going to Disneyworld with their godchil-dren & their parents and she’s “SUPER excited to finally visit HP World.” (by which I assume she means the Harry Potter theme park, not Hewlett-Packard. It took me a minute…) Elizabeth Robbins reports that Sam is in second grade, Sophie is in seventh, and the family has two bunnies, two beagles, 13 chickens, and 14 dozen eggs in their fridge. When Elizabeth isn’t running the farm (otherwise known as her backyard in Lexington, Ky.), she can be found performing voo-doo on her contractor, who botched their plumbing and kitchen renovation. Ouch. Laurie Smith Hooper and her husband Steven have their hands full in Nashville with four kiddos: Lela 12, Cole 10, Katie 6 and Griffin 4 (who, by the way, is a blonde, defying all genetic odds...) Hilary Davis Robinson continues teaching at St. Mary’s, “saving one fifth-grader at a time.” She’s got a full house, with kids Mary Harper ’17 (who is a sophomore looking for babysitting gigs!), Austin (seventh grade, MUS), Henry (sixth grade, Holy Rosary) and Dillard (third grade, Holy Rosary). Speaking of full houses, Jenny Kate Herring McMullan is busy times six. She, husband Paul and their six children now live in Brentwood. The kids are in

fourth grade, second grade, and the other four are in kindergarten. That’s right, quadruplets. My pel-vis hurts just from writing that. Rachel Lightman gave birth to a baby boy, Griffin Lightman Angell, in August. She, husband Jeremy and Colin, 11 (along with Hud-son, River, and Riley, their three canines) are all smitten. Caroline Archer Baker has two teenagers on her hands, daughter Sarah, 13, and Anderson, 15. (Anderson recently got his driver’s permit –ack!). Caroline is still teaching kindergarten in Knoxville and she and husband Rob are loving the football weekends and beauti-ful scenery. Kristen Thompson Keegan is teaching art at De la Salle Elementary and subbing regularly at PDS. Her boys are both at MUS now, in seventh and ninth grades. Her 7th grader is classmates with Hillary’s son, and rumor has it they’ve begun boy/girl parties which have also been attended by Shelley Kuykendall Herzke’s daughter. Let the games begin! Shaila Bheda started a new job at the NYC Health Depart-ment and recently saw Carrie Wood Waller at our 20th Emory reunion. Son Ishan is in fifth grade, is taking guitar and is in a band called the “something something somethings.” Daugh-ter Reva is in the first grade and enjoys Indian dance lessons and gymnastics. All is well with Mary Anne Kish Seibert. She and her family traveled recently to Seattle and to the beach, where the kids Zoe,11, and Turner, 9, parasailed and hung out with sea turtles. Missy Kramer Taranto is still in New Orleans with her family (13 years!) Evie is 10, Jessica, 7, and she’s enjoying watching her city make a comeback. Ali Reaves Smith has been moving house and shared that her son Cole (3 ½) started PK at St. George’s and to-tally digs it. Beth Townley Lewis and Caydie Nickey also wrote to say hello, and Caydie looks forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. My husband and I man-aged to defy statistical odds and each got into the NYC Marathon by lottery (the only time we’ve ever won anything

– go figure), so we’re in training mode once again… here’s hoping by the time this comes out we’ll have both crossed finish. Finally, on a somber note, our hearts and prayers go out to Kasha Winker Shaw, who lost her mother in a biking accident this Fall. Kasha, we’re with you. Hope everyone is planning to attend our 25th reunion on April 24-25!

1991Camellia Koleyni Sharma

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Hello, hello, hello! I hope every-one in our class is doing well. I have news from just a few people, so I hope this means the rest of you are doing amazing and wonderful things that we can hear about next time! Megan Saxon Murphree and her family are doing well. She is enjoying playing tennis and now she has a new niece to dote upon also! Megan’s brother Malcolm had his third baby girl Emma Claire Saxon. Chris Raub Hennes is in her 6th year at Liberty Mutual doing insurance defense. She will be running the Marine Corps marathon later this year and it takes place in D.C. She is actually doing the marathon for a charity organization called team r4v for veterans. I’m sure they will appre-ciate every ounce of help they can get! Alison Nicole Nooks is teach-ing online for institutions in Ga. and Va. as well as teaching in Mo. Her husband Kirk is doing great in his position, and the community and college has really welcomed their family. They enjoyed a trip to the Dominican Republic as well as trips to Ga. and Wis. They even camped with Anniston’s church youth group (their first time) and “survived”, as Alison put it. Kirk and Alison celebrated their 16th wedding anniversary along with their daughter Anniston (age 13) and the twins (age 3). Vineet and I spent a good part of this year renovating/adding on to a home in a historic part of Nashville, so it was a great learning experi-ence with a new home to boot! We would love visitors, so please email or call me if you want to

visit! I wish all of you the very best and hope to hear from you next time!

1992Alison Coons

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The Class of ’92 is crazy busy all over the country (and the world!) as usual! Rebecca Hornstein Doede wrote in to say that she was fortunate enough to see Asma Dilawari and her three beautiful daughters in their new home in D.C. over spring break. Then, Kelley Grant MacDonald and her troop swung through and visited Rebecca and her family en route to visit Kelley’s in-laws in Conn. over the summer. Rebecca was also able to spend some time with Amanda Duke in Seattle in August. Rebecca said that her two children, Henry and Evelyn, were delighted to play with their friends and meet their surrogate St. Mary’s aunts! Leslie Pettit Canon and Harmon are, “…still living in Denver just trying to keep up with 4 crazy little kids!” She said Harmon is still plugging away at his cookie business and hoped all is well with everyone in the class! Linsey Knight has had some great adventures lately and shared a fantastic photo with us on Facebook from a recent trip to Iceland! She said simply, “Iceland is AWESOME!” Bren Boston Padawer checked in to let us know that her husband, Jeremy, is ramping up a new toy company that he and his partners started called “Wicked Cool Toys.” www.wickedcooltoys.com. She said that she is now, “…working very part-time” with her M.D., and is listening to her mother’s advice to “follow her bliss.” She is now working to become certified through the American College of Sports Medicine as a Certified Per-sonal Trainer. Way to go, Bren! As for me and my gang, we are still happily ensconced in German-town juggling all of Emma (14) and Charlie’s (7) various activities and antics. I left my position as Director of Communications at Pi-lot International at the end of the summer to accept my much-loved

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new post as Director of Engage-ment for the Girl Scouts Heart of the South council. I could not be happier doing what I love for an organization I truly treasure! Girl Scouts has been a huge part of my life since Emma was in kindergar-ten, and I am more than blessed now to help bring awareness to the benefits of Scouting for girls throughout the 59 counties we serve! If you want to know any-thing about Girl Scouting in YOUR area or how you can get involved, drop me a line! Girl Scouts ROCK, and so does the Class of ’92! Until next time…keep smiling!

1993Kristen Mistretta Wilson

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I’m happy to share many fun updates from the Class of ’93! Congratulations to Mindy Kronenberg who co-edited a book published by Guilford called Treating Traumatized Children: A case book of evidence-based therapies. Long lost friend Gina Hicks reports that life is good in Dickson, Tenn. and says hi to everyone! After four years in NYC, Beki Rafter moved back to Atlanta where she serves as Executive Director of Georgia Women’s Action for New Direction (Georgia WAND) which Becky describes as building women’s political power in order to redirect ex-cessive military spending to unmet human and social needs.

Michelle Martinez recently wel-comed her second little girl this September named Gabriela Erika Molner. Michelle shared that she had a smooth and quick deliv-ery and highly recommends hypo birthing! Lee Raines Buchmann and Alison Simmons Boyd see each other often in Denver. They live in the same neighborhood! Lee’s children are in 3rd grade, 1st grade and in PK and love to play soccer! Lee and her family can’t wait for ski season! Alison, husband Oliver and son Mason (2) are also enjoying Denver. Alison continues to work for FedEx in Advertising which brings her back to Memphis often. Carrie Evans Hanlon visited Lee and Alison in Denver this past year. Carrie’s son James is 5. She has been a realtor with Hobson Realtors for five years. Kirsten Brown Buerkle stays busy with her three young sons - Adler (4.5), Noah (3) and Stefan (1). She works as a speech therapist at a preschool and joked that she then comes home to her own preschool at home! Kirsten and her family recently moved from Hoboken, N.J. to a home in Ramsey, N.J. because they needed more space. They love their new neighborhood! Leigh Weinberg Abbay shares that she and Rob are busy with their two sons Bo (13) who is in 7th grade at MUS and Van (10) who is in 4th grade at PDS. They took a wonderful family trip to Europe this sum-mer, visiting London, Paris and Rome and she enjoys working

in fixed income sales at Cantor Fitzgerald. Alexia Fulgham Crump serves St. Mary’s on the Alumnae Board and is the new chair of the Board Development Committee. She continues to work in the DA’s office and enjoy the many home renovation and remodeling projects that she and husband Kevin perform. They recently vacationed in New Orleans (where they were mar-ried a few years back) and with family in Destin, Fla. Kathryn Brookfield enjoyed a long visit in Memphis this fall with her two boys and daughter Kate Kannon. They loved spending time with Kathryn’s sister Anne-Morgan’99 and her family. Kathryn stays busy with work and coaching vol-leyball at the Marist School. Her volleyball team is even on target to win state champs! Sam Petrie has had some very exciting travel adventures! She quit her job last year to travel around the world for six months - something she wanted to do for a very long time. She writes, “It was incredible, and I loved every minute of it. I started with two months in Africa visiting South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. After that, I flew to Nepal where I did two 10-day treks in the Himalayas - one to Annapurna base camp and the other to Gokyo Lakes in the Everest region (I didn’t go to Everest base camp - too crowd-ed!). As someone who loves the mountains and being outside, this was a highlight of my travel time. After Nepal, I went to Southeast Asia and spent one week in Bangkok, two weeks in Cambodia, and two months in Indonesia. Asia is the most fascinating place culturally and the food is incred-ible. I’m still editing photos, but people can see pics I posted while traveling at www.samanthapet-rie.com.” I couldn’t have written it better myself and so I just used Sam’s exact words. What an incredible class we have! We are headed in so many different directions yet still so close! Please continue to stay in touch!

1994Edith Ritterband Goody

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Joann Self Selvidge has been busy while hubby travels with his band in Europe. She’s been taking the newest member of her family, Stevie, born in honor of our 20th year reunion, to work with her to finish up her newest documen-tary The Keepers (http://truesto-rypictures.org/seethekeepers). Big sis Frannie, now in Pre-K, enjoys dancing around the house while making up songs and poems with funny rhyming lyrics. After a busy summer of whitewater rafting, horseback riding, and rodeo fun, Carolyn Porter Cates reports her kids are adjusting well to school. Campbell loves preschool, Thomas is in 4th grade, and Amelia ’21 is in 6th grade with Ms. Brundige! Carolyn is teaching in the 3-year-old program at Christ Methodist but amidst the bustle found time to catch up with Mary Evelyn Stevens Fore, Jessica Johnson, and Danielle Shelley Coolidge. Jessica mentioned what a great time everyone had at the reunion. Sounds like there may be more gatherings for the holi-days. Congratulations to Jennifer Lee Farrow Morin who recently purchased her first home with hubby in Crown Point, Ind. She really enjoyed the mild summer weather and isn’t worried about driving in the snow this winter since she has mastered taking the train to Chicago. Thanks to Laura Foster Gettys for reminding us to make lemonade from lem-ons. A fluke house fire destroyed her home over the summer, but she feels lucky to have experi-enced the love and care from her community following the event. She remarked that she is now an encyclopedia of remodeling knowledge. We are all grateful that she and her family are safe. Congrats to Elizabeth Lake Lovett on her family addition, Grace. Big bro Ralphie seems to accept the “pirate baby,” though occasion-ally asks when she’s going back to her “other family.” Elizabeth enjoyed a visit by the recently engaged Sophie Askew. Congrats

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to her too! Sarah Gross Little stopped working in January to focus on her family. After a crazy a summer schedule, the kids, all in new schools, are settling in, allowing her some time to work on home renovations. Now that Katherine Dudley Gray and Amy Wadsworth Anderson live nearby, she’s also looking for some nights out. I’m looking forward to seeing some of those pics! After a year of 2 hour per day commuting Sarah Cole-Turner Vincent is enjoying working as a speech-language pathologist in a pleasant, local school district. She’s enjoying her involvement in church and will soon serve as a deacon and a teacher for 3 year olds in Sunday School. Her family is adjusting well to being in Elon, N.C. and are loving the school’s football games. Kathryn Leigh DeRossitt has been thinking about our Alma Mater and particularly the influ-ential Nanette Quinn. She has a professional advisor for work, Ms. Quinn’s brother-in-law, which allows her an opportunity to reconnect with treasured memo-ries. Now that she’s no longer in law school or studying for the bar she says she’s ready to relax and spend more time with friends, so give her a call! Sarah Lacy may benefit from the home makeover crews in our class as she’s talking about putting some work into her home in SF. Her daughter has begun talking and her son is in preschool. The family had a trip to Disneyland and he was excited to see “Elsa” and “Carsland” but had no idea who Mickey was! Her company, Pando, is doing well and her hard work is paying off. The past year has led me to an amaz-ing work opportunity within the 5 boroughs. I had a great trip to Fla. over the summer, visiting with Jamie Morano’s parents who were excited about her engagement. Looking forward to hearing more wonderful news from everyone soon!

1995Carey Sue Casey Hanback

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Hello, compatriots of 1995! As

we face down the year of our 20th (wait, what?) reunion, it was fun to catch up with you. Mark your calendars for APRIL 24-25, 2015! Here we go: Morgan Chiapella Roselle has a new job with Ashfield Healthcare in Warminster, Pa. She will complete her Masters in Health Services Administration this winter. Congratulations, Morgan! Sarah Carlson Landers, mom extraordi-naire and MD, is still in Lawrence, Kan. Her son has started driving (have mercy)! Her girls are in mid-dle school and elementary school respetively, and they have|a new puppy.Katryn Wiseman was in Sarah’s neck of the woods re-cently, so they caught up over rye. Well played, friends. Well played. Kathryn also visited Allison Roberts, our own “thunder down under” in Australia, on a trip that included a jaunt to New Zealand (where she saw honorary Class of 95er Hall Cannon). I met her for a drink (or three) when she was here in D.C., and we discussed her penchant for running races without training, including a Ragnar ultra-trail run in Atlanta. Of course, she could not hit Atlanta without seeing Elizabeth Cochran Hill and her two cute little munchkins. Big kudos to Kathryn on her recent promotion to Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations at Wal-Mart. I would say, “You go, girl!” but no one says that anymore. Michelle Pao Levine fills her time with Matthew (14 months) and running her popular restaurant, MOSA, which is celebrating its 8th year! She loves serving on the St. Mary’s Alumnae Board, and she and her husband, now a partner for consulting firm Southern Grown Studio, just moved to the ‘burbs of Germantown. All is well with Katherine Arnold Gatza, whose girls Elizabeth (1st grade) and Anna (pre-K) keep her busy with soccer and Girl Scouts. Megan Waters Albonetti’s daughter Abby Kate is really lov-ing kindergarten. Megan balances working from home as a freelance editor, caring for Andrew (3), and serving as the room mother for Abby’s class. Elizabeth Schatz Passarella went to Nantucket

this summer with her parents, plus Vanessa Buch and her mom and step-father. Their children got to spend time together, the grandparents babysat, and they got a photo where everyone is smiling – quite an achievement. Cybil Mah Lieu is having fun with Paxton (15 months) and is the Community Service Chair at his school. She also volunteers for her boss, Michelle Nunn, who is running for US Senate. Olivia Ralston is still in London, with Rafael (4) and twins Paloma and Ilias (20 months), and likes her strategy job at The Financial Times. Charlestonian Calder Britt Clark reports that Camp (5) and Walton (3) are puzzle-crazy and growing like weeds. This summer, her extended family hit Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary, and had a wonderful time. She, Sarah Trosper Olivo, and Alysia Shell Shaver got together in New Orleans for a weekend replete with dancing and lovely meals. I am sure NOLA was also a source of inspiration for Calder’s thriving business. Sarah Trosper Olivo is really enjoying the freedom that her private psychiatry practice in New York affords, including more time with Mae (1) and Jackson (3). In Knoxville, Alysia and Chris bought a house to renovate, which should be an adventure. Jonathan (3rd grade) and Wilson (2nd grade) are both doing com-petitive soccer, so Alysia spends lots of time on the fields, where little sister Abigail (4) has formed a “little sisters club.” Simone Kiersky Coyle is wondering how it is possible that her son Evan started kindergarten. As they sometimes say, “the days are long but the years are short.” I am learning that myself. We had a ball celebrating my daughter Belle’s third birthday with Evan and Simone’s little girl Elise (4). Belle loves the cute hand-me-down clothes from her honor-ary big sis. Allison McConomy Davenport’s eldest daughter, Abby (5), also just started kindergarten. Her youngest, Elizabeth (3), calls herself “Biffy.” Where on earth does she get that personality? Wink. Recently, she and Natasha Heflin Davis had a Philly playdate.

Natasha’s youngest, Tessa, is – per her mom – “VERY TWO.” Amelia (4) is dreamy and imaginative. Natasha is working on getting Sonia Torrey up for a visit. This summer, Sonia went on a Torrey family cruise to Alaska, which she says was amazing. What else is amazing is that Sonia is making headlines – literally – with her running. While on the cruise, she ran a 5k in Juneau and showed up in The Juneau Empire newspa-per. She placed in multiple other races this year, and as if that’s not enough, set a goal to complete a 50K. She still plans to start a Masters in social sciences, and is going strong with longtime beau, Brantley. Out in Seattle, the home of the flannel shirt, which is apparently making a comeback with this year’s “normcore” style (a.k.a. America’s fashion crisis), Dhevi Kumar Broecker and her family are loving the crisp air and farm-to-table lifestyle of the Pacific Northwest. Her curious, voracious son Ranga (1) goes on weekly excursions to Pike Place Market and has yet to meet a food truck taco or pumpkin cupcake he does not adore. He is my kind of person. The cabbage patch will soon produce at least two new cabbages. Murff Oates Galbreath will welcome her third baby this spring, and Hallie Bourland Wagner is expecting her second baby! Hallie’s son Walter (2) keeps her and her husband laughing. She also enjoyed hearing about exciting developments at St. Mary’s at a Birmingham alumnae event. Speaking of exciting, Lisa Mulrooney is engaged to marry Glen Coombs! Yay for this happy news, Lisa! Lisa’s daughter – and official teenager – Brianna ’20 is thriving in 7th grade at St. Mary’s, and had fun on a recent trip to Land Between the Lakes. As for me, I play phone tag with Patricia Graue and joined Ashley Goldstein Allen for a party at her house before her annual Memphis vacation. My work entails some overseas travel, which can be fun when I am not a sleep-deprived zombie. Everyone kept remarking on my lack of jet lag, but I have a secret weapon: I have been jetlagged by motherhood. I want

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to do a half-marathon again, but the Bob stroller is significantly heavier with two offspring Belle (3) and Hank (10 months) in it. I have watched Frozen more than I care to admit and I cannot wait to see all of you in April 2015. TWENTY YEARS, Y’ALL! :)

1996Jaime Newsom

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Gwyn Fisher is the Regional Director for the Tenn. Department of Economic and Community De-velopment. She recently bought a house and is in the process of completely rehabbing it. She also serves as a river guide for the Wolf River Conservancy and is training for two half marathons! Gwyn and Laura Ray Logue are looking forward to celebrating their birthdays with a relaxing weekend in Hot Springs. Court-ney Shove was in Memphis earlier this year to be with her mom, who had surgery. While at St. Francis, she had a visit from nurse Lauren Brooks Poindexter. Back in California, Courtney went to Disneyland for the first time! She will also get to see former St. Mary’s Head of School Marlene Shaw soon as Marlene is one of the consultants in the search for a new headmaster at the Santa Catalina School, where Courtney works. Julia Chesney McDonald is the current president of the St. Mary’s Alumnae Board. She reports that the Board is off to a great start this year and that she enjoys serving with classmate Lauren. Lauren’s daughter Emily ’26 is in first grade at St. Mary’s while Lauren is in her last year of nurse practitioner school. Lauren, Julia, Laura, Gwyn, Sarah Henley, and Emily Farrow Robbins had dinner recently and had a great time. Alexis Nussbaum continues to enjoy teaching at St. Mary’s. She often sees Emily and Lauren by the school cafeteria and in carpool lines. Jane Carr recently moved from Brooklyn to Wash-ington, D.C., where she is on a postdoctoral fellowship through the American Council of Learned Societies. She still edits The

Brooklyn Quarterly (brooklynquar-terly.org), the digital magazine of literature and public ideas she co-founded last year. Husband David is still working in NYC, so they go back and forth between Washing-ton and Brooklyn. Sharlene Sidhu Keithley is busy now that she has taken on another role– work-ing for Desoto Children’s Clinic, her dad’s pediatric clinic. She is happy to be able to work from home while making an impact in the Memphis metro area. Natalie Nussbaum returned to Spain this summer to revisit Toledo, where she lived for a semester in college. She thanks Senora Walker for teaching her Spanish and inspiring her to study abroad in college. Catherine Tracy Sloan welcomed a daughter in June and loved being able to spend time will all her children while on maternity leave. She is now back to work designing houses, includ-ing a few for St. Mary’s alumnae. Betsy Ordonez and her family are having a great year with Oscar in kindergarten and Evie in second grade. Betsy teaches spin classes a few days a week while the kids are in school. She and husband Jose celebrated their 10 year an-niversary with a trip to Chicago. They were blown away by the art and architecture in the city. Ron and I look forward to welcoming our second child early next year. In the meantime, we are enjoying Chicago and preparing ourselves for another long winter.

1997Hollye Ferguson Stigler

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Clare Levy Clarke and I were so proud of our class participation in Annual Fund giving this year—thank you! We have one more year of Ashley’s Challenge, so please plan to give again during this giving year (ends June 30); we’d love to reach more than 71% giving in 2015. Your news over the past few months is exciting…the Class of 1997 is celebrating a lot of new additions in this season of life! Congratulations to Liz Fraim Evans who recently welcome twin baby girls, Emma and Grace,

into her family along with Ryan and big brother Ben. They’re both beautiful just like Ben, who is so in love with his sisters. This sum-mer, Rose Indriolo Englert and her husband Todd also welcomed a baby girl, Ramona. Rose and her family live in Portland and have enjoyed West Coast travel recently. Ramona is already quite the traveler having taken a tour of northern California, the Oregon Coast and Kauai, Hawaii. Melissa Ohsfeldt also welcomed a baby girl, Orinda, to her family this summer. She is enjoying materni-ty leave and the Landmans are all settling into life as a family of six! Elaine Guerra Cotter writes that her daughter, Sophie, just turned two; their family recently moved to Los Angeles and they are enjoy-ing getting settled there…closer to the beach and warmer weather. Elaine has also had a chance to see Clare, who is also living in LA. Ashley Futrell Anderson has re-cently launched a website for her business Peanut & Piglette: www.peanutandpiglette.com, and the site was developed by Hala Khuri. Nice job to you both! I recently got to reconnect with and meet some Birmingham-area alumnae and enjoyed hearing the latest hap-penings from St. Mary’s. Makes me miss you all and reminded me of fun times!

1998Laurin Maddux

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Elisabeth Callihan is living in Brooklyn curating public pro-grams at the Brooklyn Museum, which she thinks is so much fun! Elisabeth and husband, Will, also enjoy traveling and went to Hon-duras Bay Islands for some scuba diving, sun and sand; then later to Maine for some lounging and lob-sters; then nice visits with fam-ily and friends in Memphis and Richmond, Va. Ellen Dean Davis writes, “I got my act together at some point over the last 10+ years I guess” and is a pediatric ortho-pedic surgeon in private practice up in N.J. and is married with two children, Avery (3) and Benjamin (4 months). Ellen thinks she had

us all fooled all those years ago; we all knew she had it in her. She won “Around the World” in Span-ish Class every time! Whitney Jamison Chatterjee and husband, Rano, are still enjoying St. Louis while Rano finishes up his neuro-radiology fellowship and Whitney is a full time mom to Layla (3). Congrats to Allison Martin Nolen, who graduated with her MSN in May and is a staff nurse at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She writes it is a big learning curve but loves it! Katie Broer Parr has also made a career shift recently and now enjoys working with husband, Hampton, at his law office and in the real estate busi-ness in Collierville. They are in the process of renovating Hamp-ton’s grandmother’s antebellum house just off the Collierville town square, and just got official approval from the town to run it as a bed & breakfast and event space. They hope to have it ready for B&B guests by the spring and for events by the summer. Katie is also enjoying being mother to Eleanor (3) and Henry (1). Carly Hansen Kordsmeier and hus-band, Eric, have also started on a new venture and have started a charity called Saints N Angels Animal Rescue, named after their first racehorse that retired from the track. The mission is to retrain retired racehorses so that they can find forever homes. She writes horses are such amaz-ing animals and it’s great to be able to show people that they can do more than just run fast! Tracy Burch Voyles writes she is enjoying working as a special education facilitator, where she serves as the autism specialist and CDC classroom consultant for Maury County, Tenn. She is also a busy mom, taking care of Ethan (10), Claire (4), and Luke (3). Nupur Sidhu Bal writes she will be sworn in as the Chair of the Young Lawyers Division of the Virginia Bar Association in January. In the meantime Nupur and her family have been travel-ing to Mexico and the Dominican Republic this year and are plan-ning a trip to Thailand to ring in the New Year. Her son, Rajvir, just started kindergarten at Collegiate


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School in Richmond, where the outgoing head of school is Keith Evans, who used to be assis-tant head at St. Mary’s and the incoming head is Steve Hickman, a graduate of MUS. Small World! Congratulations to Nupur for her selection by her peers to Virginia’s Legal Elite 2014! Speaking of small worlds, Erin Lyttle Do continues to enjoy being back in Memphis. Both of her daughters Claire ’29 and Samantha ’30 are at St. Mary’s this year. Claire even has a pretty great teacher…my mom, Becky Maddux! Claire Coleman Bowman and her family moved to a new house this summer to give those growing boys a little more room to play. They also enjoyed a trip out west to Portland, Ore. to visit family and see the sights this summer. Erin Wade writes she is currently in a rotation in Pediatrics Infectious Disease in San Antonio. On her way out West, she was able to spend some time with Allyn Jaqua Lowell and her family. Erin will graduate from medical school in May and is ap-plying for pediatric residencies. The award for the most exciting year goes to Monica Wilson Bar-ton! Monica, and husband Derek were married earlier this year and they are now expecting a little boy! Baby Barton is due late fall and we can’t wait to meet him! In other baby news, Lauren Webb Mitchell and husband, Luke, welcomed Henry Jackson Wesley Mitchell to the world in Septem-ber. Henry takes his names from granddads on both sides: Henry Jackson was Luke’s maternal grandfather’s name (who went by HJ or Jack) as well as his great grandfather’s, and Wesley is a name shared by both Lauren’s recently passed maternal grand-father (Silas Wesley, or SW), and her brother (James Wesley). What a neat tradition! Meg Kinnard Hinson writes that she enjoys running, covering S.C. political campaigns, and teaching daugh-ter, Adair (3), to count in French! As for me, Laurin Maddux, I am still at Lakeside working with the kiddos. As Erin Lyttle Do shared with all of you already, I was chosen as one of Memphis Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 this Fall.

It was a completely overwhelm-ing experience and very humbling to be among such a great group of people. I am also enjoying my ever-growing little side business, Beccadot Designs where I make hand sewn Christmas ornaments, garland, and Advent Calendars and working on my MBA at the University of Memphis. Thanks to everyone who wrote in, it makes writing and reading this article much more fun!

1999Kelly Buckner Dallas

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Hello, Class of ’99! I loved hear-ing from so many of you for my first article. It’s been a busy year for a lot of us! I moved back to Memphis this summer from Dal-las, and my two girls are now at St. Mary’s. We love being back! We see Anne-Morgan Brookfield Morgan often as our daughters are in the same class (’29). Anne-Morgan is doing great and loving life with her two girls. Palmer Adams Burt also has her little girl Finlay ’30 at St. Mary’s! She has been busy doing freelance writing and social media management as well as taking care of her new little boy Cooper born this sum-mer. Jenny Jones Savage also welcomed her little girl Maddie this fall and is excited to have a future St. Mary’s turkey! Allison Davies Ford welcomed her second little boy Hill this summer six weeks early! All are doing well, and Allison loves having nearly all of her family relocated to Jackson-ville. Courtenay Adams enjoyed visiting Allison this summer in Jacksonville. Courtenay is still in Memphis living near Over-ton Square. She is fostering an English bulldog mix and is in her 10th year at Dixon Hughes Good-man where she works with Meg Parker. Those of us in Memphis love getting together for lunch regularly including Caroline Pala-zola Conrad and Rebecca Fones Rhea. Rebecca’s daughters are loving school—and Ellie is already in first grade! Erin Bower is still doing great in Nashville and is working in physical therapy. Leigh

Ferguson is also in Nashville and has just purchased her first condo. We have a growing group of St. Mary’s girls out in Califor-nia. Annie McLaren Neufeld is in Pasadena and enjoying married life. She just got promoted to Pastor of Children’s and Student Ministries. In San Francisco, Lillian Askew Everdell is loving motherhood and can’t believe her baby Charlotte is already turning one. It goes fast! Ashley Gaillard Clark is also in San Francisco and is excited to celebrate her son Oliver turning one. Ashley also just started a new role at a non-profit social venture fund called SV2. Sidney Hawkins Gargiulo is an equally busy mom in San Francisco working from home and traveling often. She writes that her son Jack brings her more joy than she could ever have imagined. Sidney, Ashley, Lillian and “Aunt” Brittany Blockman Pelletier try to get together as often as they can. Angela Lam is also still in San Francisco and is loving being a new aunt. She ran into Hilary Dinkelspiel recently near work. Hilary has just moved from San Francisco after nine years to New York and is enjoying it. Hilary and sister Helen Dinkel-spiel ’97 completed Ironman Mont Tremblant late this summer. Way to go, Hilary! Also on the move is Libby Lawson Foster. She and her husband have moved from Austin to Logrono, Spain for a year to take Spanish at the University of Rioja. She says all SMS’ers are welcome to visit Spain anytime! I might have to take her up on that! Thanks for writing in and report-ing your news, and congratula-tions on the new babies, jobs and moves!

2000Katie Garrett Harris

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Mark your calendars for Alumnae Weekend April 24 & 25- It’s been 15 years! Here’s the news for now: Lexie Hicks Johnston is still thrilled about selling real estate in Memphis. She and Emily White went to visit Jen Kaiser in Orlando and took an amazing

trip to Harry Potter World! Lexie is also enjoying having classmates Amy Reinhardt Robinson and Tami Sawyer back in town! Emily White has recently released her new album, Staking Flags in the Valley, recorded in Nashville. You can buy it on iTunes or emily-white.com! She is especially grateful to all the Turkeys who were a part of the pre-order cam-paign. Tami Sawyer writes that she is adjusting to being back in Memphis and loving the redis-covery of the city. She is currently in Leadership Memphis’ Fall Fast Track class and joined the team at Shelby County Schools as the lead of the licensing compli-ance office. She is also working with the voting rights movement in Memphis and doing some sideline freelancing for Phillip Ashley Chocolates. (Look them up! phillipashleychocolates.com). Kat Gordon is enjoying the new Muddy’s Grind House now that it is open in Cooper Young. She’s been touched by how many class-mates have stopped in; it’s fun to see so many friends come over for coffee before work. Kristine New Farnsworth’s second son, Parke Sherrod Farnsworth, was born early (but very healthy) making a surprise appearance at home on September 3rd. Husband Thomas did a wonderful job staying calm and everything turned out won-derfully. They continue to explore the Northwest’s natural beauties and make improvements on their home. Last but not least, Tom’s most recent design work via the game Destiny has been released to the world, so they have had a lot of fun hearing about people enjoying it. Sarah Montgomery Prudhon is in her second semes-ter of CRNA School at UT! Lots of studying, but she loves it! Seven month old daughter Etta Louise is crawling everywhere and pull-ing up on everything...she keeps them on their toes! Walton Allen Webster has been busy teaching 2nd grade and keeping up with Walt (2), John Henry (7) and Jack (9). Megha Karkera Kanjia and husband Mayur are getting settled in Cincinnati and adjusting to life as a family of 3. Baby Kish is now 4 months old and Megha

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just started work as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Lauran Glassman Stimac reports she is enjoying living in Memphis and reconnecting with fellow class-mates. Lessie Calhoun Rainey shared that she and husband Collins are expecting a baby in April! Ellis Dixon did a little trav-eling this summer around Russia and Spain. She will spend the winter focusing on her pop-up shop in Lisbon selling one-of-a-kind clothing. She still freelances in fashion design for some com-panies stateside and also started a new job teaching English at the American School of Languages in Lisbon. Courtney Routt Worthman and husband Michael are living it up in NYC and mak-ing a couple of visits home this fall and winter - one to speak at Chapel on November 18th and then for Christmas. I’m looking forward to Chapel, Courtney! Mary Kathryn Millner Herrington and husband Lewis are loving life as a family of 3 with little Millie, and MK is enjoying having a little more flexibility in her schedule these days. Stuart and I are out-numbered and busy these days. We enjoyed traveling to several fun spots over the summer and fall with Louise (7), Wilkes (4), and Hill (1): St. Louis, Park City, Auburn, and Atlanta. Stuart and I were also able to travel to England in September for work, which was a great change of pace! Thanks to everyone for writing. Hope to see you all in April!

2001Lauren Anderson Stone

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The movers and shakers of 2001 are moving and shaking into new jobs, new homes, and new motherhood. Victoria Corder is now practicing general com-mercial litigation and securi-ties litigation at Olshan Frome Wolosky. She and Tony (and Ellie) are enjoying the newlywed life in New York. Emily Harris Halpern is still working for Crosstown Arts, part of the Crosstown neighbor-hood redevelopment project in

Memphis, and is enjoying all the activity, in addition to taking care of her growing boys, Jackson and Rowan. After having taught first grade at St. Mary’s for the past two years, Meena Sudheendran moved to Washington, D.C., where she is teaching first grade at Maret, a co-ed private school. Though she does miss Moss Hall terribly, she is really loving D.C.! Caroline Gardner left her job in investment banking and is now working for MillerCoors doing mergers and acquisitions for beer distributors, which is very fun. She and her cockapoo, Linus, moved to Lincoln Park and are really enjoying their new place. Susan Buckner is engaged to Cul-len Rose, a business school friend, with plans to marry in the sum-mer! In June, Susan also changed jobs and is now business lead at Instagram, working on increasing revenue. Claire Davies Rhodes and Andrew moved to Florida, where she is now a professor of Converged Communications at Florida State College of Jackson-ville. Luisa Peredo Ewing and family just moved to London for her husband’s job. Luisa has been working from home for a Private Equity fund based in Singapore for a year and a half now, and will continue to do that from London. Mattias is going to develop a British accent! Stephanie Vieron Leary is still loving living on cam-pus at her school and teaching 7th/8th grade English after a sum-mer home with James, who is one and a half. Katherine Eder and Daniel McDonnell made the move to Nashville at the end of June and are really enjoying it so far. It’s definitely nice being closer to home. They got married in Mem-phis in November! Katherine is also enjoying her job at Vanderbilt as a cognitive neurology fellow, doing a mix of clinic and research and seeing some really interest-ing cases. Mira Patel married Ben-jamin Roberts in Chicago in June! Meena, Amrita, Jenni Hirsch, and Katie Holladay Peak were all able to attend. Amrita Dirghangi Goel and her husband welcomed baby Niam in July, and she joins many of us in saying “who knew little boys could be this much fun!”

Courtney Taylor Humphreys and McKee are also having fun with Tucker, 3, and Heloise, 1. Courtney got to see Lizzie Widdicombe recently and reports that she’s doing great! Nishta Mehra and Courtney were really proud to have a writing piece about their friendship across religious beliefs published on Christianity Today’s website for women. Nishta is now teaching high school: an honors creative writing course for se-niors, a new comparative religion elective for juniors & seniors, and two sections of American lit for juniors. It’s been a big adventure and learning curve, but she loves it. Shiv is busy talk talk talking, dancing, climbing on things, and is so excited to now have all his grandparents living in town. As always, it’s great to hear how everyone is doing!

2002Polly Klyce Pennoyer

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Another eventful and produc-tive six months for the class of 2002. In Florida, Lindsey Coates has started a counseling prac-tice, with a focus on meeting the therapeutic needs of low-income people, including recently begin-ning work with prisoners at the Orange County Jail in Orlando. What brave and important work—and it sounds like she likes it besides. Kathryn Schledwitz has braved the wilds of the real estate market to purchase her first home, outside of Seattle, and she says we’re all invited! Anna Coplon Suen is also a home-owner now; she and husband Garrett have recently purchased a house in Madison, Wis., where he is a professor at University of Wisconsin. The two have enjoyed some great international travels since their wedding last January. Wendi Muse is still living the mega-commuting lifestyle, spend-ing half her week at home in Virginia with her husband Kani, and spending the other half in New York, where she is in her second year of doctoral stud-ies at New York University. She spent another summer in Brazil

doing research and is starting to get some of her work pub-lished—way to go Wendi!Laura Hettinger recently celebrated her marriage to George Mauer in New Orleans. Classmates who helped her to celebrate included Lindsey, Rachel Andersen, Leslie Guinn Jerkins, Kelsey Freebing, Kathryn Glassman, Whitney Long Neal and Margaret McQuiston. Leslie’s daughters Juliette and Molly Jerkins made beautiful flower girls. Leslie’s husband Jonathan has started his residency in pedi-atrics in Memphis, and Leslie has a new job, working in advertis-ing at Red Deluxe, downtown. Emily May has added a new letter to monogram—she wed Frank Lequerica (/Lek-a-rica/) in June. Mrs. Lequerica is still teaching JK at PDS, where she has also been appointed the Director of Early Childhood Programs. Classmate attendants for her big day in-cluded Ann Burruss and Lindsey, as well as former classmates Kimberly Finnell Moore and Claire Hicks Tipps. Katie Friend, Margaret and Catherine Ferguson Conger were also present to help the happy couple celebrate. Emily and Frank are also members of the new-homeowners club. Congrats to both happy couples!!! Ann reports that highlights of her summer included a beach get away with Lisa Mabry and Elizabeth Campbell. Ann has been busy—she is still teach-ing second grade at Bodine in Memphis; she has also earned her certified Academic Language Therapist License AND she has started her own business, called Jack and Lulu designs. Check out her stuff; it is so cute! Lisa is still in Birmingham, where she is completing her residency in radiology at the University of Alabama. Hillary Burkett-Buford has moved across the state to Knoxville, where she is now working at the healthcare consulting firm, Pershing, Yoakley & Associates. She, too, has a new home, in Maryville, Tenn., on 2 acres of land—what space! From North Carolina, Nicole Osborne Steck reports that her life is finally settling down a bit—she is finishing up her rotation


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program at Glaxo-Smith-Kline and enjoying her participation in the Durham Junior League. Her son, Braden, has turned from baby to toddler and is now even better at tormenting their poor dog. Michelle Goldwin Kaufman is back in Chicago with her husband Jay, and after spending a long year in Minneapolis she is finished with her Ph.D. and is now a licensed psychologist! Michelle has just started her post-doc at the University of Illinois, and she and Jay have just bought a new place in Chicago. Our happy ’02 family has had several new additions since our last update—Kate Thornton Woolridge and her husband Andy welcomed son Luke Thomas in September. Meanwhile, Whitney Williams Frahm and her husband Russell welcomed daughter Harper Rose in July. Congrats to the new mamas!! In Colorado, Melissa Lawson Romero has graduated from law school and social work school with a JD / MSW, and she is currently clerking for Judge Terry Fox on the Colorado Court of Appeals. She reports that daughter Etta and husband Carlos are also doing great! Valerie Hartmann wrote to us from the sea. She is still based in Slidell, La., but her work as a hydrogra-pher for the Naval Oceanographic Office has her at sea for 2-month stretches several times a year. What an adventure! Valerie loves working in the sciences, but she wishes she had more female colleagues. Good thing St. Mary’s is pushing the STEM curriculum these days! As for me, Robbie and I are six months into our latest adventure—parenting. Many many thanks to Marley Baer for covering for me last time around on this update. Around the time that class notes were last due, Robbie and I were joyfully and anxiously welcoming our daugh-ter Victoria, who gave us all a bit of scare arriving 6 weeks early and in need of some medical interventions. We are thrilled to report that she is thriving now. I’ve gone back to work, Robbie is still in school, and the fun never stops! My admiration for our own mothers grows hourly. . . It’s

always such a treat to hear from so many wonderful ladies. Please keep the updates coming!!

2003Alexanda Bicks

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It’s been so nice to hear every-one’s news. Lizzie Gill has started her very own business, No Limits Tutoring, specializing in ACT and SAT preparation as well as tutoring in academic subjects for students of all ages. Well done Lizzie! Suzie Loveless manages Alumni Relations for Teach for America in Oklahoma and is planning her next adventure to Panama and Morocco. Louise Schumacher Timmons is living in Atlanta with her husband, Drew, and working at the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center. Vi West is still living in Scottsdale, Ariz. and still loves her job as the National Training Manager for Pei Wei. Julia McMillen is in her second year of residency in family medicine at UW Madison and reports that she gets to “deliver babies and take care of the kids and grandparents, too!” Mary Austin Mays Smith graduated from dental school in May and is now in the middle of a one year residency program. She splits her time between UT and the Church Health Center (“which I love!”). Rachel Bresinger is living in Israel and works for a high

tech company in Herzliya. She is busily planning her December wedding to Moshe Ashkenazi and is excited that her family is going to be able to head over from the States to attend the wedding. Catherine Culvahouse Fox has moved from New Haven to San Diego to be closer to her husband Nima. She’s in the dissertation-phase of her PhD at Yale and also working at the Yale University Art Gallery as well as learning Farsi. Katie Hobson Novikoff has recently moved to East St. Louis with her husband Chris, to work with an organization called Rebirth East St. Louis which seeks to develop youth into leaders for their city. Carey Faber Campbell is in her 4th year of a plastic and reconstructive surgery residency in Dallas. Margaret Ann Klinke Mays is in her 4th year of her radiology residency in Memphis and has recently been named Chief Resident. She and husband Ben are the proud parents of an English labrador named Atticus. Brianna Winsett Chapman and her husband Matt welcomed their daughter Grace in May. Grace spends most of her time with Brianna at the flower shop or with her grandma. Finally, my husband Jamie and I are still in Oxford. I’m in the midst of directing a produc-tion of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever for the Oxford Theatre Guild and teaching Latin (again!) to a very nice group of 6th-8th graders at a local independent school.

2004Shea O’Rourke Quraishi

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Hello, Class of 2004! Exciting news just keeps coming. Elizabeth Jemison married Andrew Malwitz in August, and Christine Ruby married Matthew Coveny in October. Meanwhile, Lucy Harris recently got engaged! Abby Kostka Farley and husband John welcomed their first son, John North, in June! Abby still teaches first grade. Martha Guinn Carter and husband Dudley love life with little Jane. Martha also enjoys spending time with Lawrence Taylor Elliott and her new baby girl, Eliza. Welcome to the world, little turkeys! Many are on the move. Blair Carter Tait, husband Tom, and dog Addie moved to Atlanta, where they love see-ing Laine Peeler and Natalie Hartmann. Tom works for Bain Consulting, Blair is job hunting, and they love being aunt and uncle. Ellen Coleman and dog Lily moved to Sacramento, Calif., where she loves working for an Episcopal church. Ellen welcomes visitors! Rachel Bearman is Rabbi of Georgetown, Conn.’s Temple B’nai Chaim, where she leads services, teaches Confirmation and adult education classes, works in the Religious School, and provides pastoral care. Betsy Matthews Rhodes and husband Stuart moved to Dallas, where Betsy does Public Relations for Mary Kay. Grad school brainiacs are putting Ms. Peterson’s “study skills” to use! Camille Wingo is in the final year of her Duke MBA program and will move to Dallas this summer to do brand management for Frito-Lay. Prudence Katze will complete her Masters in Urban Planning at Hunter College in December. Sarah Carter still loves being a nurse at Vanderbilt while in grad school. Connor Trott is in her final year of her Doctorate of Physical Therapy program in N.C., where she is designing and implementing a therapeutic maintenance program for people with Parkinson’s. Clare Patterson graduated with her Masters in

Faye Rainer ’05, Mary Milton Kelley ’03 and Lauren Robinson ’03 putting out back-to-school signs for all students.

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Biomedical Sciences and was first in her program to present her thesis research at an invited research day. Marion Phillips completed her Masters of City and Regional Planning degree and is an economic and community development research analyst at Atlanta’s Georgia Power. Morgan Lobe just started her family medicine residency in Denver after exploring traditional heal-ing in China and Africa. Caitlin Carr is finishing her final year of medical school at UT and apply-ing to Ob-GYN residencies after Denver and Seattle internships. Caitlin is president of the medical school executive council. Angela Wilcox is a neurosurgery resident in Little Rock, Kaitlin Ridder Jaqua is a urology resident in Indianapolis, Lindsey McAlpin is an Ob-GYN resident in Houston, and Lauren Lazar is pediatrics resident in Dallas, where she enjoys seeing Taylor Fisher peri-odically. Several have new jobs! Susan Schwarz is now Group Sales Manager in Bloomingdale’s Ready to Wear. She recently moved to N.Y.’s Lower East Side and got a dog named Charlie. Sasha Castroverde now works on a $6.5 billion capital campaign at Harvard’s University Development Office. Mary Washington is senior account executive at Eaton Medicals, realtor for Coldwell Banker Collins-Maury, and mom to 3-year-old McKenzie. Jessie Walker is fundraising as a Major Gifts Officer for the American Red Cross of the Mid-South in Memphis. Natalie Hartmann is starting a new job doing physical therapy in her Atlanta hospital’s inpatient rehab department. Taylor Fisher is a registered dieti-tian and director of staff wellness at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas and co-chair of curriculum for Kids in the Kitchen, an afterschool fitness and nutrition education program. Shelby Deeney loves being a lawyer in Denver. She recently went backpacking with hus-band Brian in California’s Kings Canyon National Park. Zoe Kahn is a psychotherapist for teens and their families in an L.A. drug and alcohol rehab while start-

ing a private practice. Elizabeth Stevenson teaches kindergarten in S.C. and has taken many recent trips for weddings and concerts. Martha Ferguson Burke lives in Melbourne, Fla., where she’s a college counselor and teaches at husband Chris’s middle school beachside. They recently got a cockapoo named Denver. Martha looks forward to running the St. Jude Half Marathon in December! Ashford Carney Rosenberg and her husband live in New Orleans, where she works with Gulf of Mexico fisheries for the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. Ashford is marching this year in Mardi Gras parades. Amy Crawford Céspedes is a commercial litigator in Houston, living with husband James and dog Coco and going to her first trial soon. Christine Ruby teaches Art History at CBU and Ceramics at the University of Memphis, while serving as Coordinator and Instructor for the Dixon Gallery’s new program, Colorcopia. Watch out, Pinterest! Cathleen Ray Hickey and husband Fassett just bought their first house--in San Antonio--and are planting a gar-den. Cathleen still teaches middle school English. Piper Gray, still at Warby Parker, moved to a new apartment and is excited to deco-rate. Piper is thrilled that Rachel Bearman has moved nearby, and she loved traveling to Bali with Lucy Harris! Brittany Johnson Hernandez and husband Saul are excited to host lots of parties for the first holiday season in their new house in Petworth, D.C.! As for George and me, we’re enjoying Memphis, where I’m still teaching in Orange Mound and taking on some new roles at our school. Hope to see y’all soon!

2005Sarah Atkinson Ball

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Heather Nadolny and her boy-friend moved to Alexandria, Va. over the summer, and Heather started a new job as a Technology Associate with DC Prep Charter

Schools. She is still writing for BroadwayWorld, volunteering, and hoping to do a few shows this fall and winter. Lizzy Rhea Cook is living in St. Louis and working on her masters in reli-gion and culture from Covenant Seminary. Her husband Stu is going to graduate in the spring with his masters in counseling. Elizabeth Tipton Musick is still living in Missoula, Mont., and is in the midst of her third year of law school at the University of Montana. She will be moving to Bozeman, Mont. in May when she graduates and is taking the MT bar exam next summer. Marianne Rizk is now a fourth year gradu-ate student at Iowa. She passed her comprehensive exams last May and is officially permitted to start work on her dissertation. She is also loving her practicum where she works with women who suffer from postpartum depression. Erica Evans is excited about her new position as a Pro Se Staff Attorney for the West-ern District of Tennessee! Erica usually reports that she enjoys living on Mud Island near Sarah Atkinson Ball, but not this time. Sarah is still enjoying their friend-ship, though. Grace Jensen Knight says, “We can’t believe Baby Mary is already a year old. She is such a fun baby! I love working just 2 days in Kindergarten at New Hope. Life is good!” Lauren Kennedy Dake has some good news—she and husband Merritt are excited to welcome twin boys

in December! Daughter Margaret loves to “pat the babies.” Lauren enjoyed hosting a baby shower in the fall for Collin Wilson Buckner with Lauren Wiygul Riley, Laura Montague Haltom, Kate Mes-senger Mendez, and Catie Jane Berger. Baby Anne arrived to Col-lin and husband Sam in October – congrats, Buckners! Claire Arnett Sumner and Falconer Robbins are looking forward to being a dy-namic matron and maid of honor duo in Weezie Cannon’s wedding to Stuart Finlay this fall! More happy news—Laura Jennings Yacoubian and husband Paul are expecting a baby girl in Novem-ber! Laura Holladay Fletcher is still living in Charleston, S.C. Laura was promoted to support specialist at Blackbaud. Daughter Alaina will be 1 year on October 25—right after Laura’s husband (October 23) and Laura (October 24)! Faye Kenner Rainer is still working at Buntyn Preschool. She and her husband have spent the last 6 months working on their fixer-upper in East Memphis. Emily Templeton Gray bought a house in midtown back in Febru-ary and married husband Nathan in September. Megan Bailey was Emily’s Maid of Honor, and Erica Evans and Katie Brookoff were bridesmaids. Emily says that she is already excited about our ten-year reunion; she would like to start auditions ASAP for lead singers for the inevitable Jojo lip sync.We hope to see you April 24-25 for Alumnae Weekend!

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2006Rebecca Anderson

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Rachel White recently got engaged to Iain Johnston and will be getting married in Cambridge, UK at Christ’s College next June. She joined Katie Camille Friedman and Neelam Khan to cheer on Mishi Castroverde for Mishi’s dance company’s first evening length program of dance held in September. Beth Pazar graduated with a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas and is working for the City of Dallas as a Council Assistant. Catherine Smith Denman and her hus-band, Larry, bought their first home this summer in East Memphis and are looking forward to the birth of their first child later in the fall. Grace Wheeler Davis welcomed her first child, Ellen Amelia, in Birmingham, Ala. Grace and her husband, Charles, are overjoyed with their new daughter, and Minor Moore was the first St. Mary’s ’06 visitor to see the beautiful baby. Minor lives in the same neighborhood in Nashville as Ellen Page, who is enjoying her second year at Vanderbilt Business School and spent her summer work-ing as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon in Seattle. Mamie Kostka is in the middle of taking her licensing exams for her landscape architecture work and recently got to visit her new sweet nephew John North in Colorado Springs. John is the son of her sister, Abigayle Kostka Farley ’04. It is turning out to be a party in Southern California for St. Mary’s ’06ers. Ellen Makowsky and Evie Lyras just moved to the area, joining Kristi Ryan and Morgan Robbins. Evie Lyras moved from London, where she received a master’s degree in Electronic Publishing at City University London. Kristi Ryan is in culinary school at the New School of Cooking in LA and enjoying every minute. Jenny West-

Fagan is halfway through her PhD program in Criminology at UCI and is working on a yoga and personal training business that will launch in 2015. Frances Leslie is still enjoying her time teaching middle school in Savoonga, Alaska. Lulu Wilson is working on her masters in Interior Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked for a commercial design firm in Richmond over the summer. She also recently joined the Junior League. Rebecca Anderson recently got engaged to Alaric Eby while vacation-ing in Cape Cod. The wed-ding will be held next fall in Memphis. Elizabeth Braden recently moved to Princeton, N.J. to become the Program Manager at Princeton in Africa. She had the chance to see Katie Camille Friedman in June for a Princeton in Africa event. Becky Bicks is currently living in Brooklyn, N.Y. and writing for Scripted, a ghost-writing agency. She recently co-founded her own web copywriting and editing business. Lindsey Edwards Rushing has enjoyed her first year of marriage to Cameron Rushing, and she is now teach-ing high school psychology and English at the Bowie Center in Memphis. Katie Camille Friedman is heading to do research in the Netherlands for a whole year, and she would she would love to meet up with any European visitors! Neelam Khan is currently doing a year-long research fellowship with the Dept. of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, and she will be returning to Georgetown next year to finish her last year of medical school and apply for residency. Morgan Beckford moved back to Memphis in August and started working for Opera Memphis as the Education and Outreach Coordinator. She also took over Mari Earle’s position at WKNO as a Sunday afternoon station break an-nouncer and is now singing at Germantown Presbyterian Church, in addition to teach-ing voice lessons. Jenay Gipson will be getting married to Alex Boggs in May, and she is currently enjoying her third year teach-

ing kindergarten at Cornerstone Prep School. Kim Johnson Radant graduated with a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Memphis in December 2013, and in May 2014 she married Matt Radant. Kim got to celebrate her wedding in Florida with Amanda Ayerst Jemison, Ellen Page, and Jenna McNair. Kim and Matt re-cently moved to Detroit for Matt’s residency in oral surgery, and Kim is now working as the school counselor at Hope of Detroit Academy, a K-8 charter school. Courtney Foreman Guilfoile mar-ried Russell Guilfoile in April 2014 in Memphis. Courtney and Russell just moved to Missouri where he is posted for 2 years as a JAG officer.

2007Caitlin Clark

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Mary Louise Carrick is in New Orleans getting her Master’s in Education at UNO, and living with her sister Emmaline ’10. She is concentrating in elementary education and mild to moderate disabilities. Ginni Fischer is back in Memphis teaching 3rd grade at New Hope Christian Academy and bought a house that she cur-rently shares with her gray cat. After a summer of solo travels in Ecuador, Chelsea Cook began her first year of law school at Emory University in Atlanta. She is serving as a board member for the reproductive justice group, working with a refugee alliance organization, and trying to learn more about her awesome city. Zina Kumok is still living in Indy with her fiancé and their dog Lyra, and writing on her blog, which recently got more than 5,000 fol-lowers! She still works full-time for a non-profit in town where she does PR and marketing. She’ll be getting married in April. Rachael Brown got married in July to a wonderful Irish gentleman, Stephen Nolan and just recently started a new job as a recruitment consultant in Hong Kong, and so far, so good! Hallie Flanagan

is going to graduate in May and is currently juggling her time between finishing up her history degree, heading up Memphis NORML, LSAT classes, and grad school apps! She just recently finished work on another cam-paign for Congressman Cohen. Caroline Fentress is still in Los Angeles working as a producer at Kojima Productions LA. She is working on Metal Gear Online, which is the multiplayer part of Metal Gear Solid V. In November she is participating in a Crossfit competition where she’s sup-posed to do that one pull up she mentioned last time… Melissa Graunke Decosimo got married in July, and also started pursu-ing her MBA at Emory’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta. Caitlin Colcolough moved to Charleston in June and has been working on growing her photography busi-ness. Erin Fowler is still working on spacecraft systems and space robotics programs for DARPA, and we have an experimental space-craft in development for launch to low earth orbit in September 2015. This fall she started a Masters program in computer science at George Mason University. Charlotte Eagle finished up post baccalaureate courses in Biochemistry at U if M, and recently took a job restoring an-tique furniture for Stair Galleries in Hudson, N.Y. Her second job working for a boutique hotel owned by the artist Brice Marden in Tivoli, N.Y. is only 5 houses away from her sister Anastasia ’11 who is attending Bard College. Cameron Colcolough Reynolds is still in Greenville, S.C. doing photography and loving being close to Clemson. She and Caitlin are excited to be moving towards launching their joint photo and film studio in the coming months! Helen Akers is still in Austin working for VMware, and was just promoted to an inside Sales Representative for North Texas. Adrienne Adler just started the grad school portion of her MD/PhD program at Wake Forest, and is doing drug abuse research. Alexandra Mims is back in the US after almost a month in Australia playing rugby. Her team came

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in third place in the competi-tion. Cory Yandell Lewis moved to Chattanooga and just started a new job working as a social worker with UT Health Science Center on a research program to prevent infant mortality. Maddy Pryor is still working at PGW Experience in LA, who was just acquired by Creative Artists Agency a few months ago and has been undergoing some major changes. She has moved over to the Business Development side and spends most of her time drawing up proposals and pitch-ing, while also leading their Brand Advocate program for AT&T/Cricket. She is gearing up for her adventure to South America. Emily Sells is still loving her job at Chilton Shelby Mental Health. She spends most of her time in the Shelby County Jail counseling inmates, which definitely keeps her on her toes. She also recently got engaged to Blake Franklin and is planning their wedding for May 2015. Caitlin Clark is a 4th year medical student at UT-Houston and is currently on the residency interview trail for Anesthesiology, traveling all across the country. She will be graduating from medi-cal school in May 2015!

2008Katelyn Ammons

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The Class of 2008 is taking their mid-twenties by storm! Jessica Richardson was awarded as Greenville County’s Emerging Teacher of the Year for 2014-2015 and has started a distance gradu-ate program for Spanish educa-tion at Auburn University. Lauren Wolfe loves living in Dallas while studying for a MS in Neuroscience and cognitive sciences at UT Dallas. She is also working as an emergency room scribe. Meg Fowler is still in Morocco, the cold country under a hot sun. She will finish her Peace Corps service in the spring of 2015 and is excited for whatever lies ahead! Estes

Gould is still concierge-ing at The Residences at The Little Nell and loving Aspen. Annie Ostrow Anderson just passed her pre-liminary exams in International Relations and taught a course on terrorism in the fall. She is enjoy-ing exploring all of Wisconsin’s hidden treasures. In her second year at Emory Med, Cristen Garrett is prepping to take the boards in January. Ariel Mason is looking forward to graduating law school this year and beginning her career. Congratulations to Memory Madden for getting her CPA license! She started a new accounting and finance recruiting job in Atlanta in November. Living the California dream, Rachael Holley is work-ing for a startup in Silicon Valley and enjoying a beautiful view of the Bay from her apartment. Christina Lee enjoyed her first se-mester at Cornell Law School and is looking forward to surviving her first winter in Ithaca. Morgan Jordan is Assistant Art Director at Pace University, a freelance stylist, and the proud new owner of a fluffy guinea pig named Butters. Margaret Liddon is still enjoying Washington, D.C., and especially enjoyed travels in Tennessee, Texas, Upstate New York, and Florida over the sum-mer as well as visits from Katelyn Ammons and Christina Carson. In Memphis, Ashley Edge is still working as the Development Coordinator at Grizzlies Prep Charter School, which is now in its third year of operation and ful-ly grown with the sixth through eighth grade. Lane Feler finally learned to like coffee in her final year of law school. Jenny Guyton is continuing to enjoy working in corporate strategy at the Advisory Board Company in D.C.! Jessica Farris is the digital editor and content marketing manager for HOW Design and Print Magazine. She also hosts web seminars and develops online courses on content management and SEO. In her spare time, she’s wrapping up the last course for her Master’s degree in journalism at CU-Boulder. Over the Thanksgiving Break, Katelyn Ammons was thankful to have the opportunity

to visit her sister Ellery Ammons ’12 who was completing a pro-gram in Copenhagen. Kathryn Feder earned her Master’s degree in Effective Teaching and is still teaching kindergarten at UP Academy Charter School of Dorchester. Last June, Hanna Gordon Oysel married a won-derful Frenchman, Franck, who just so happens to be a fantastic pastry chef! She’s been eating very well. She also just got a pro-motion at Adams Keegan where she is now a Client Services Manager. Margarett Frisby is living in Orange Beach, Ala. She works as a finance manager for two restaurant owners as they expand and grow along the Gulf Coast. Anna Wheeler is loving be-ing in Nashville and seeing Ayana Fletcher-Tyson all the time! She is working at First Presbyterian Church and attending school at Memphis Theological Seminary through the Center for Youth Ministry Training. Also apprecia-tive to have Anna in Nashville, Ayana Fletcher-Tyson was so excited to be the first St. Mary’s alumnae speaker of this school year. She absolutely loved being back for the day! In smaller but no less important news, she also got to teach a Dance Blast class at the Y when the instructor failed to show up. Nicolette Overton spent the summer traveling in the United States and Europe and crossed the pond again in August to finish graduate school in London. She will receive an MS in Journalism from Boston University in January 2015. Caitlin Smith received her Master of Science in information studies this past May and accepted an internship with The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. Following the internship she accepted a position with the digital com-munications team for the same department and will be working on the company’s website and social media presence.

2009 Bailey Bethell

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Sylvia Brookoff

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Alex Tyler bought a house in Fort Worth and is enjoying the benefits and trials of homeown-ership. She works at iProspect in Fort Worth doing paid search for a large hotel client. Natalie Earwood made the best decision of her life by accepting an offer in PR and moving to Atlanta to live with Karen Stein. Now she re-ceives free Spanx on the reg and her butt is looking better than ever! Bailey Bethell is working as an Emergency Department Scribe for the Methodist Hospital system in Memphis. Sam Baumstark is working in the tech department at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills. She is excited that her parents just moved back to Memphis so she gets to visit every year. Austin Nichols interned at the District Attorney’s Office over the summer and is now in her second year of law school in Birmingham. She recently made the Cumberland National Mock Trial Team. She enjoyed seeing Melissa Pippin, Catherine Vaughn, Jordan Reeve, Liz Anderson, Kathryn Waggon-er, and Natalie Jacewicz at So-phie Page’s wedding in Septem-ber. Claire Riley is back in Madrid teaching 1st, 2nd, and 6th grade and will be traveling to London and Vienna before the holidays! Reagan Bugg is a second year student at Mississippi State Col-lege of Veterinary Medicine where she’s enjoying performing surgery on shelter dogs so they have a better chance of being adopted. Tyler Hyman just started her first year of medical school in buckeye nation at The Ohio State. She is looking forward to Mr. Volpe’s physics class saving her during her CardioPulm block. Christine Petrin was so excited when Claire Riley came to visit her in D.C. this summer. Unfortunately they were having so much fun that they didn’t see the police officer who gave them both jaywalking tickets. Orange is the New Black had never felt so real for either of them. Wallis Tosi is enjoying working as director of market-ing and product development for Karen Adams Designs. She had a great time seeing Brandon O’Brien, Sarah Donaldson and Sylvia Brookoff while on a busi-


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ness trip in NYC. After completing her digital advertising contract position at archer>malmo in October, Lindsey Driver accepted a full time position as a Social Media Specialist at Magnolia Homes in Germantown. Ruthie Morrison is in her second year of medical school at UTHSC and is enjoying being in Memphis! Grace McNatt recently moved to Charleston, S.C.where her boy-friend is serving as a Navy Nuke. She is loving her jobs as a nanny and in a King Street boutique. She also has a new man in her life: a Golden Retriever puppy named Cotton. Natalie Jacewicz and Christine Petrin went on a hike to some local waterfalls. They both promptly changed their profile picture to the same thing. Sylvia Brookoff designed a Nickelodeon slime umbrella (which you can buy on Amazon!). She started a new job as a production coordina-tor for on-air promos and has had a variety of exciting experiences lately such as meeting Mariska Hargitay, being woken up in a train station by police and dress-ing up as a Ninja Turtle in Times Square so she could experience a day in the life of a costumed char-acter. Helga Wienerschnitzel has been promoted from Face Painter to Ride Attendant at Six Flags, her current place of employment. On the side, she’s been trying her hand at limerick writing and making handmade paper.

2010Erin Stuart

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With our five-year reunion just around the corner, many of us have completed our undergradu-ate degrees and moved on to graduate programs and jobs. Mary Frances Street just started her first semester at UT Knox-ville pursuing her Masters in School Counseling. She is looking forward to the in-depth study of this one step closer to her dream job. Cassidy Gubin graduated this May with her BS in Psychol-ogy and is spending the year in Memphis working

at Baptist Hospital, where she makes rounds at various doctors offices each day. She is looking forward to beginning nursing school in St. Louis in May. Also returning to Memphis is Mary Jensen Nease, who is working as a nurse at LeBonheur and enjoy-ing her life as a newlywed. Ali Fishman graduated from Miami this spring and is now attending portfolio school in Chicago. Elise Heuberger spent the summer in D.C. working for the Senate HELP committee and is now beginning her studies at Vanderbilt Law. Erin Stuart spent the summer doing an intensive Greek course and is now enjoying her first semester at Princeton Theological Semi-nary, where she is particularly happy to be in a handbell choir again. She is also playing first flute for a new opera company in Princeton which seeks to give mostly youth orchestra players the chance to accompany operas. Outside the world of academia, Cara Greenstein is currently the Public Relations Coordinator of Doug Carpenter & Associates and is managing blogs for The Scout Guide Memphis and ArtsMem-phis Culinary Series. She has also just launched ConnecTI, Temple Israel’s newest social initiative for Jewish young adults. Carey Segal recently set sail as a performer on Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas and will spend the next sev-eral months dancing throughout the Mediterranean and Caribbean. Also traveling the world is Meredith Whitten, who has taken a job as a scuba instruc-tor in the Bahamas and will be moving there shortly. Ann Yacoubian is currently in Yere-van, Armenia teaching English and Spanish as well as volunteering in a pediatric hospital. She will be returning to the States in January to begin graduate work at Columbia University.

2011Meg Cornaghie

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Allyson Patterson

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Meriweather Adams was re-cently elected as the president of the Auburn Student Inventors Club and loves blogging about furniture she refinishes. Shelby Chambliss is student teach-ing in a 5th grade classroom at Oxford Intermediate School every Monday and Wednesday. She loves her teacher and students! Christy Cameron is currently serving as president for the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction at Auburn. Her studio is partnering with East Alabama Medical Center this semester to design medi-cal devices for use in the patient rooms. She is also busy cheering on the Auburn football team! Meg Cornaghie worked at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis this summer as a surgery assistant in the OR, which made her even more excited to start at Baylor College of Medicine next fall. She is now back in Houston for her final year at Rice and is loving serving as the president of Will Rice College, her residential col-lege. Eliza Hendrix is happy to be back at Rhodes after spend-ing last spring in Copenhagen,

Denmark studying abroad. She is currently working on a senior Honors Project and is also coor-dinating a project with St. Jude. After graduation, she is hoping to work with children in the field of Psychology. Teresa Hendrix is the design editor of The Ole Miss yearbook and is loving her last year in Oxford! Sarah Jemison is trying to take full advantage of her final year at Princeton and is enjoying writing her senior thesis on Memphis! Tinsley McBride is a senior this year, graduating with a major in Psychology, minor in Child and Family Studies. She is working as a research assistant on a multi-million dollar granted psychological study dealing with couples and relationships. She is also Tri-Delta’s banner chair this year and after graduation plans on going to graduate school for clinical psychology and continu-ing on to get her doctorate. This summer, Anna Morten returned back to St. Mary’s to work in the advancement office. This semester she’s busy planning Wake ‘N Shake, Wake Forest’s dance marathon for cancer research and applying for jobs! Allyson Patterson loves being Editor-In-Chief of The Vanderbilt Review, Vandy’s Literary and Arts Publication, and she is exuber-ant to join design firm PDR’s strategy team full-time after graduation. Mary Peeler worked Emory University Hospital this

Left: Virginia Preston ’11 (second from left) on the National Broadway Tour of Dirty

Dancing with classmates Becca Rinehart, Tinsley McBride and Whitney Wortham,

who came to see her performance in Cincinnati.Right: Cara Greenstein ’10 and Kat Gordon ’00 owner of Muddy’s Bakery.

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summer in Atlanta and saw the Ebola patient’s ambulance first hand! Now, she is finishing up her public health major and apply-ing to medical schools for next year. Virginia Preston is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut with the national tour of Dirty Dancing! Lucy Wade Shapiro is greatly enjoying being the President of the Executive Committee at Washington & Lee which serves as the student government and administers the honor system. Susan Waggoner is enjoying being back in Auburn after studying abroad in Italy last spring and spending her sum-mer interning in Nashville! Allie Williams worked at a sustainable investing firm in San Francisco this past summer and will re-turn to work for them after she finishes at NYU in December! Whitney Wortham is preparing for her medical mission trip to Nicaragua in December and is contemplating her next big move after graduation. She also caught up with celebrity Virginia Preston, while Virginia was touring with the Broadway production Dirty Dancing. Angela Yu has assumed her role as chief fruit harvester at an east Tennessee commune. Maria Zoccola is learning and exploring while studying abroad in Wellington, New Zealand.

2012Ellery Ammons

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Chandler Roberts

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Megan Guyton has her hands full as Director of Conference Logis-tics for UF Model UN. She contin-ues to serve Kappa Kappa Gamma as an officer for standards. Jodie Struminger has declared a new minor in the Business of Sports and is currently participating in Washington University Dance Theater. As Student Association External Vice President, Amritha Kanakamedala helped create a campus-wide initiative to encour-age entrepreneurship and civic engagement on campus. Ellen C. Mitchell is loving her posi-tion as Panhellenic delegate in

Tri Delta and can’t wait to head to Honduras this January for her Marine Biology research program. Kyra Scheiterlein is coasting into junior year in hot pursuit of an operational management degree and entrepreneurial minor. Not to mention filling life with 4 VP positions, the newest being a student based volunteer group named Boulder Assets. She also just adopted a black kitten named Shadow. Grace Bethell enjoyed living in an orphanage in Tegucigalpa, Honduras this summer, and has been accepted to the upper division of the University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing. This year Lauren Petrin was the Public Relations Vice President for her sorority Gamma Phi Beta. She is also excited to be studying and interning abroad in Dublin next semester. Frances Hord is leading Bible study at USC’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Sara Kim is working with Rollins School of Public Health and its partners at the CDC to help develop Emory’s new Department of Complex Hu-manitarian Emergencies. Lesley Stevenson’s new favorite hobby is stalking her freshman brother across the Notre Dame campus. Aside from that, she keeps busy with the daily newspaper and musical theatre on campus. As Executive Director of Up ‘til Dawn at University of Memphis, Melissa Byrd is aiming to raise an un-precedented $200,000 for the kids of St. Jude this year. Alix de Witt has declared a major in English and hopes to go into education. Alix also has recently taken the position of Children’s Ministry Director at Esperanza Church. Chandler Roberts is enjoying her two 12 hour clinical rotations in the Fort Worth hospitals in the TCU Nursing School. Laura Mathews transferred to Rice University and is running on their cross country and track team. She was a national champion in the 20-24 age group at Age Group Triathlon Nationals in Milwaukee, Wis. and 7th in 20-24 age group at ITU Age Group World Champion-ships which was held in Edmon-ton, Canada. Ramie Mansberg is so excited to continue volunteer-

ing at University Health Services and volunteering as a mentor with KIPP Austin. Ellery Ammons studied urban development and design abroad in Copenhagen last semester. She is enjoying being back at Rhodes and continu-ing to work with the Crosstown community. Camille Vaughn had a rewarding summer at the Church Health Center serving as an Exercise and Movement intern and is currently enjoying cheering on the MSU Bulldogs this football season. Neely Sammons is living in Argentina for the fall semester and goes by the name Nelly. She is busy exploring South America and mastering her Spanish skills but misses her fellow turkey friends. V. Ellen Mitchell is still a Diabetics major at Ole Miss and is enjoying working for the athletic department as Dietitian during this exciting time of UM football. Joy Brown has finally moved to Nashville in pursuit of her dream-ing of having a career in the music business. She is currently interning at Webster & Associates, an entertainment public relations firm on Music Row. She is proud to finally call Nashville home!

2013Anna Stukenborg

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Olivia Summitt

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Anna Utley

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Grace Bettis worked as a nanny this summer in Memphis and is living in an apartment in Fayetteville near campus. Lida Kruchten transferred to Ole Miss and has changed her major to computer science. Linda has also joined the club tennis team! Olivia Stevens served as a waitress at Swanky’s Taco Shop in Memphis, managed a princess camp with Mary Egan Clark at her house, and worked the St. Mary’s reading and writing, and theater camp. Liv has also changed her major to elementary education. Sims Peters served as a counselor at Camp Ozark for 12 weeks this summer! Hotty Toddy! Sukriti Mohan worked at

a hospital and an eating disorder treatment center this summer. Sukriti has decided to major in Science, Medicine, and Public Health! Sophie Skouteris lived in Destin all summer and worked as a beach waitress! She is living in the Kappa house and loving life! Mary Egan Clark is loving William and Mary. She had a blast work-ing with the St. Mary’s admissions office to coordinate the first day of school signs in every St. Mary’s girl’s yard! Rachel Chu worked at a law firm this summer and has also started to play RUGBY. Rachel is an outing program trip leader for hiking/caving/climbing/out-door events at Sewanee! Rachel is majoring in Sustainability and is minoring in Women and Gender Studies. Rebecca Park spent the summer out in Colorado working as a camp counselor and climbed 10 fourteeners (mountains greater than 14,000 ft)! Although she had a great time in Colorado, Rebecca is happy to be back in Atlanta and Emory! Claire Fogarty is living in the Delta Delta Delta house at University of Tennessee and has joined the climbing team. Hannah Stein worked a job at Kendra Scott over the summer and has switched her major to Early Childhood Education. Madeline McCann spent this summer working at Fairhaven Treatment Center in Memphis and is studying psychology and biology. Dakota Beasley worked at Holliday Flowers over the sum-mer and is excited to start work-ing with recruitment for football this fall. Dakota is also delighted to serve on the Sisterhood Committee of Chi Omega. Hana Roussey has transferred to Belmont University and abso-lutely loves it. Hana is majoring in Nursing and has joined Kappa Alpha Theta. Sarah Spiers worked at a physician’s office this sum-mer and visited Margaret Walter in L.A. Sarah is looking forward to studying in a castle in the Netherlands and traveling across Europe this Fall. Emma Less interned at the Levitt Shell over the summer and really enjoyed it. Emma is very excited to live in the AOII house this year. She has added Film, Television and Digital


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Media as a double major with Strategic Communications! Callie Wallace worked as a counselor and on the ropes course at Camp Ozark over the summer. Callie has declared her major in Spanish and marketing. Katie Heard was offered an internship with an investment bank and became president of the Durham union society. Katie is studying econom-ics and politics. Lillian Norcross worked as a nanny this sum-mer, is majoring in Marketing, and is living in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. Anna Peeler worked at a lifeguard this summer and is currently majoring in nursing. Anna plans to study abroad in Wellington, New Zealand, London, or Dublin next semester! Rachel Ostrow took classes this summer and helped out with recruitment for the Honors College at Alabama. Rachel is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in the Computer Based Honors Program. She is also in the Stem Pathway to an MBA where she will get her masters in business a year after she completes her under-grad. Rachel is doing research with a professor in Mechanical Engineering titled: Biomechanical Loading of the Lower Limbs During Walking and Running. She is very active in the American Society for Mechanical Engineers and recruitment for the Honors College as well as the College of Engineering - specifically Mechanical Engineering. Rachel is also a member of Alpha Omicron Pi. Alexa Fila worked at Tazikis this summer and is now majoring in management information sys-tems. Anna Utley studied abroad in Paris this summer and had the time of her life. Anna is major-ing in Interior Design. Ariyan (Nikki) Cox worked at St. Mary’s Summer Pursuits as a Munchkin camp counselor this summer. Nikki is co-captain of the Tiger Girls Dance Team, Captain of the Sewanee Step Team, and a member of the African American

Alliance (AAA). Nikki loves it “on the mountain”! Olivia Summitt transferred to Rhodes College and really loves the feel of a smaller school where she can build strong relationships with professors. Olivia volunteered at the Humane Society over the summer and worked at Vantage Point Golf Range in Cordova, Tenn. She is majoring in psychology and hopes to become an animal therapist. Anna Stukenborg absolutely loved working at Camp Greystone in N.C. all summer. She is enjoying sophomore year at Ole Miss and has declared her major as Elementary Education.

2014Lacey Chaum

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Miles Schaeffer

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The Class of 2014 is off to an ex-citing start after graduation this past May. Sarah Steuer spent her summer helping special needs children write and perform their own play, and Keila Mumphord is currently a theater major at Howard University and has joined the Howard Gospel Choir. Abby Huber and roommate Merritt Moore are enjoying the University of Memphis where Abby joined Alpha Gamma Delta and serves as Morale Captain for Up Til Dawn, a St. Jude fundraising organization. Katherine Donovan also pledged Alpha Gamma Delta at Auburn University where she addition-ally serves as a SERVE commit-tee member in the Freshman Leadership Program. Rosemary Dunn is actively involved in her living learning community at UT Chat. and works with the Dean of the Honors College to create new scholarship opportunities. Iqra Siddiq is involved in the Muslim Student Association and Better Together interfaith events at Rhodes College, and Maddie Rhodes is currently in the middle of the Rhodes golf season and

recently joined Tri Delta. Laura Kate Hamilton is in the process of starting the first intramural golf team on campus at Ole Miss, where she joined the Nu Beta chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi. Mimi Billings pledged Chi Omega, and Mary Katherine Harris, Maddie Droke, Natalie Meeks and Elizabeth Rainer pledged Delta Delta Delta. Mary Harbert Stromberg also pledged Tri Delta at Clemson University, and Caro-line Wellford joined Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wisconsin. Ellen Clarke pledged Tri Delta at the University of Ala. and has become involved in the Alabama Finance Association and UA for St. Jude. Hallie Katz joined ADPi and the club lacrosse team at the University of Southern California and is on the board of the campus organization, Challah for Hunger. Bailey Archey pledged Delta Gamma at Miss. State and is involved in the pre-vet club as well as the Reformed University Fellowship. Molly Hanna is also active in Furman’s chapter of RUF and joined the club swim and intramural volleyball teams. Miles Schaeffer has become involved in the Science Days Club at Duke University, where she helps teach science experiments to kinder-

garteners at Durham elementary schools. Mary Allison Pritchard has become involved in Sewanee Women Engaging and Empow-ering Women (SWEEC) and is currently working in the campus library. Phoebe Fulmer joined Sewanee’s club tennis team, and Adira Polite is currently serving as a representative of Bowdoin’s track team. Ellen Cowens plays on the Wake Forest club soccer team in addition to working with Project Pumpkin, the university’s largest non-profit event. Gurbani Singh has become involved in research for Down’s Syndrome at Emory University and is involved in the Best Buddies organization. Haley Steinman is loving market-ing at Emory and is currently an intern at Annie Griffin Collection. Camille Cowart is enjoying her Secondary Education and English double major at Vanderbilt Uni-versity and has become involved in RUF, Best Buddies, and Vandy Dance Marathon. Zara Ali works as Teaching Artist Associate for the New York Philharmonic, and Lacey Chaum currently holds marketing positions for the Daily Pennsylvanian and a local social media startup at the University of Penn. Lizzie Apple is active in Middlebury’s slam poetry group, Poor Form, and is on the prose and poetry board for the liter-ary magazine, Blackbird. Mallory Prater is also enjoying writing ar-ticles for the Fashion Journalism Club at Arizona State University and has joined the National Press Photographers Association. Kelsie Jones has joined the Multicultural Mentoring Program, and Neely Battle has become a programs as-sistant for the Fest, DePaul’s own music festival. Theresa Green is enjoying Carleton College and has joined many student groups including Nordic skiing and out-doors club.

Natalie Meeks ’14, Elizabeth Rainer ’14, Maddie Droke ’14,

Mimi Billings ’14, bottom: Mary Katherine Harris ’14, Anna

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marriages

1. Emily May Lequerica ’02 and husband Frank.

2. Elizabeth Jemison ’04 wedding to Andrew Malwitz with former teachers and classmates.

3. Hannah Gordon Oysel ’08 and husband Franck Oysel.

4. Kat Gordon ’00 wedding with friends.

5. Classmates of 2004 at Lori Goldstein’s wedding: Martha Ferguson Burke, Lucy Harris, Blair Carter Tait, Katie Gore and Morgan Lobe.

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Rachael Brown ’07 to Stephen Nolan, July 5, 2014

Weezie Cannon ’05 to Stuart Finlay, November 1, 2014

Katherine Eder ’01 to Daniel McDonnell, November 1, 2014

Lori Goldstein ’04 to Woodrow Merkel, August 2, 2014

Hanna Gordon ’08 to Franck Oysel, June 21, 2014

Melissa Graunke ’07 to William Decosimo, July 12, 2014

Georgia Harrison ’77 to Dan Hall, June 24, 2012

Laura Hettinger ’02 to George Mauer, October 11, 2014

Katie Hobson ’03 to Chris Novikoff, May 3, 2014

Elizabeth Jemison ’04 to Andrew Malwitz, August 2, 2014

Kimberly Johnson ’06 to Matthew Radant, May 31, 2014

Emily May ’02 to Frank Lequerica, June 14, 2014

Ashley Moore Mayfield ’72 to John Remmers, December 20, 2014

Sloane Metcalf ’08 to Jon Hosack, October 18, 2014

Sophie Page ’09 to Stephen Lintner, September 20, 2014

Mira Patel ’01 to Benjamin Roberts, June 28, 2014

Gretchen Perkins ’77 to George William Thorogood III, September 27, 2014

Hallie Rose ’04 to Kevin Eble, July 4, 2014

Christine Ruby ’04 to Matthew Coveny, October 4, 2014

Emily Templeton ’05 to Nathan Charles Gray, September 13, 2013

Monica Wilson ’98 to Derek Barton, April 30, 2014

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Wyatt Charles Barton to Monica Wilson Barton ’98, October 30, 2014

Dorothy Wyeth Biedenharn to Louise Chandler Biedenharn ’01, July 25, 2014

Anne Eddings Buckner to Collin Wilson Buckner ’05, October 9, 2014

Annabelle Rose Chang to Gabrielle Rose Chang ’95, March 15, 2014

Grace Sarah Chapman to Brianna Winsett Chapman ’03, May 16, 2014

Adelaide Elizabeth Denman to Catherine Smith Denman ’06, November 13, 2014

Eliza Quinn Elliott to Lawrence Taylor Elliott ’04, September 17, 2014

Ramona Helen Englert to Rose Indriolo Englert ’97, June 24, 2014

Emma Kate and Grace Eliza-beth Evans to Elizabeth Fraim Evans ’97, June 16, 2014

John North Farley III to Abby Kostka Farley ’04, June 7, 2014

Parke Sherrod Farnsworth to Kristine New Farnsworth ’00, September 3, 2014

Joseph Hill Ford to Allison Davies Ford ’99, June 21, 2014

Cartter Lupton Gerber to Hayley Bower Gerber ’01, October 8, 2014

Niam Arav Goel to Amrita Dirgangi Goel ’01, July 15, 2014

Rowan Archer Halpern to Emily Harris Halpern ’01, November 19, 2013

Kishore (Kish) Kanjia to Megha Karkera Kanjia ’00, June 6, 2014

Orinda Ruth Landman to Melissa Ohsfeldt ’97, September 16, 2014

Eleanora Margaret Leonardo to Anna Wetzel Leonardo ’08, August 22, 2014

Ray Olivia Lindenschmidt to Katie Moran Lindenschmidt ’93, November 20, 2014

Griffin Lightman Angell to Rachel Lightman ’90, August 9, 2014

Grace Amber Lovett to Elizabeth Lake Lovett ’94, June 26, 2014

Gabriela Erika Molner to Michelle Martinez ’93, September 19, 2014

Henry Jackson Wesley Mitchell to Lauren Webb Mitchell ’98, September 29, 2014

Madeline Elouise Savage to Jenny Jones Savage ’99, September 25, 2014

Elizabeth Owens Sloan to Catherine Tracy Sloan ’96, June 24, 2014

Madeline Weiss to Megan McCulloch Weiss ’00, August 13, 2014

Luke Thomas Woolridge to Kate Thornton Woolridge ’02, September 29, 2014

Harper Rose Frahm to Whitney Williams Frahm ’02, July 10, 2014

James Kennedy and Henry Newman Dake to Lauren Kennedy Dake ’05, December 11, 2014

Lawrence Taylor Elliott ’04, Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling, University of Memphis, May 2014

Kathryn Feder ’08, Master of Effective Teaching, Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education, December 2014

Michelle Goldwin Kaufman ’02, Ph.D in Psychology, University of Chicago, May 2014

Clare Patterson ’04, Master of Biomedical Science, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, May 2014

Beth Pazar ’06, Master in Public Affairs, University of Texas at Dallas, May 2014

Marion Phillips ’04, Master of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Tech, May 2014

Kim Johnson Radant ’06, Master of Counseling, University of Memphis, December 2013

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Fraim Evans ’97.

Dorothy Wyeth Biedenharn daughter of Louise Chandler

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John North Farley III, son of Abby Kostka Farley ’04.

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