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class no es Martin Pitts '81. iust retumed to Bamberg, Germany, where he is currently stationed. Martin is now a colonel in the U.S. Army and commanding a logistics brigade of 2,500 soldiers preparing deployment to Iraq. for andWiI!iam will be 12. Jill has been working at the Forrest Solutions in Manhattan for 25 years as tne director of staffing sales. She works four days a week and is nome for din· ner [ust about every night. Katyjustmade the high school cheerleading team and Wil Ham participates in recreational soccer, basketball and track,Jili will be going on a mis· sion trip to Mexico this summer with her church YOllthgroup, with her daughter, Katy. as a leader. !t12007, their family flew to Jackson Hole, Wyo .. and took an RV trip through Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Jill met up with Pnillis Men;cnner at Disney in April '08 after not seeing eacn other for five years. Rick and Ginni Brown Morani live in Ellicott City. Ginni is working part time at a Howard County Elementary School. Rick and Ginni are golfing, bUI nOI as much as they would like.GinniandRick·soldestdaughter,Megan, just finished second yearatSt Mary's in the spring '08 (Dean's List) and youngest daugh ter, Mary Kate, has graduated from high school and is heading to University of Virginia in the fall '08. Rick saw a bunch of old Betes at tbe '771'78 lacrosse team reunion, SteveAHoff, Scott Kallins, Regan Smith, Jeff Vinson, BoHickey, Rob Bowman, to name a few. Rick then went to the Bete reunion where he saw many other classmates, including Wade Heck. George Boinis, Anthony Tangires and jeff Waldron Mary Momingstar bas become active in an exciting group at McDaniel known as the McDaniel Women's Leadership Network Sbe is the chairperson of the outreach and scholarship committee. The goal is to provide opportunities to future women leaders from McDaniel. II's been fun for Mary to reconnect with the College and the faculty and staff. Sbe is working for Lockheed Martin in the corporate legal department. Mary has been with the company almost 18 years, so you could say that she's a company person nowl Mary and her husband. Wilder Leavill, enjoy hiking, climbing and traveling. Wilder isavohmteerparamedicattheRescueSquad in Bethesda and Mary does quite a few pro bono cases in D.C. Superior Court. She keeps in touch with other McDaniel alumni, including Jane Cavanaugh and her husband, Laura Angel-Hanratty and Dennis Hanratty '80 and Della Butler Higer JoAnne Campitell Nel5(ln reports thaI her daugbler, Jessie, graduated thisp",,1 june from Century High School and is planning toattendJamesMadisonUniversityinfall'08. Her graduation ceremony was held at Gil! Center at McDaniel since they llve in Carroll County. She says it was great to see tbe campus. joanne's eldest son. Joe, will be attending highscbool next year and her youngest son, Tony, middle school. Sports, work and concertsseemtobehermainactivitieslately. They will be going too the Cayman Islands She still hears from Dawn Sweeney lindsay and JanetTrainorByrne from time to time Martin Pith just returned 10 Bamberg,Ger many, where be is currently stationed. Martin is now a colonel,still inthe U.S.Army(27 years) and commanding a logistics brigade comprised 0[2,500 soldiers, preparing for deployment to Iraq. He also has a son headed 10 Jacksonville State University in Iacksonville,Ala.,startingintbefall·08.Hecouldn·t be talked into going to McDaniel. Martin's daughters are going into the ninth grade and sixtb grade. After deployment be will probablybe assigned stateside. Jane Garrity Planlholt reports that her son, Jimmy, is at Washington and Lee University where he is the staning third baseman and closing pitcher on the baseball team. He tied the school record for career saves. Jane's daughter, Katie, is in highschool and they traveled to Cbina at the end of May' oS fora 12-day tour. Her choir has been invited to sing at the pre-Olympic ceremonies and Janewi!lbechaperoningsomeofthestudents. Sbeisinher25thyearofteachingphysical education in Bel Air, Md., and still loving it. Jane and her husband recently celebrated thei'24th anniversary and are preparing themselves for tnc empty·nest syndrome. She recemlycaught up witb Carol Resnick '82 and Palsy Movies '83 when she attended a women's basketball game at McDaniel. Donna Quesada lives and works in Frederick. Her daughter, Nicole, is at Marquette University, her son. Michael, is attending Frederick Community College and her youngestdaughter,Jennifer,isinhighscbool Donna recently changed jobs and is now a physician:sassistantforanorthopcdicsprac_ tice. She Is.able to enJoy coaching volleyball, worklOgWlth.danceand theater groups as well as attendmg art and music classes Molly Mclaughlin Quinn still lives in Balti more and works for the public defender's office. She is an investigator in the mental health division and has been there for 22 years. Molly reallycnjoys her job and thecli. entss~eworkswitn. Molly spent a week On the HIll in June '08 and living in the apartments as a chaperone for her son's high schoolcholfca,":p, He ha~gone the past two years but thIs wIll was Molly's first time as a chaperone. According to Molly, it was strange waking up On campus but even stranger being on campus as a responsible adult. ~ollyco~tinues to get together with her Ph, Alph friends such as Dollie Scroggs Freeman, Fon Bennett Madau(hlan, Ginni Brown Motani, Debi Bessman Funk and Laurie MorsteinRovin. Craig and Sherry Bennett '82 Rae had quite an expertence.with their older daughter Sha~non, who IS a freshman at Wingate Untverslty(N.C.).Shecaughtavirusduringher second week of school which quickly and violentlyattacked her heart, causing an extremcly rarecondllion affecting only about 100 North Americans per year. Even more :are.than the disease, is a correct diagnosis 10 tIme to save the patienl's life, and thankfully, sbe was One of the fonunateones. After an emergency helicopter ride to the phe. nomenal Carolinas Medical Center in Charlone, wbere her heart function was only fivepercent upon arrival, she was immediately put on a heart bypa:;s machine in time to saveallofherotherorgans,whichbecameat risk due to her poor heart funCtion. After two weeks Qn the bypass machinetheyoperated to install a left ventricular assist device (artificial heart), as it was dear that her heart would never recover from the exten slve damage. After two weeks on this rnachine and the UNOS heart transplant list, she was blessed with the gift ofa new heart in surgery performed on Sherry'S birthday, OClober6.w07·lntotal,hertreatmentmcluded six open-heart surgeries. They are thrilled to report that she returned to college three months to me day after her transplant, is doing great medically, and working hard to get back in shape to compete on the golf team. Sberry and Craig beg everyone please become an organ donor In other news, Sherry and Craig celebrated their 25th anniversary in Septelllber (in the hospital). Their oldest, Christopher, graduates from Catawba College in May '08, and younger daughler, Shelley, is a hIgh school sophomore. They live in Hudson, Wlsc., where Craig is tne president of SMC· Innovations. which produces innovative hand and power tools, as well as a few health care products. He spends most of h,s traveling tbrougbout North rope, and Asia, and continues to whenever the opportunity allows. Elizabeth Robertson works for First Annapolis Consulting. They are focused o~ payments services consulting and work wIth all the major card nerwcrks, banks and other companies active in the payments Ifldustry domestically and in major global markets. Her daughter, Lindsey, will be a sophomore at Tulane in New Orleans in the fall '08, where she is majoring in architecture and a minor in Spanish. Herson, Alex, will beasentor in htgb school at Dulaney in Baltim~re. His team recently won the state champiot" .hip in lacrosse. Beth's husband, Marty,con' tinueswithhiscompanyandtravelsforfamilvbusiness to Switzerland. ~e~c~a~nr:~u:;t~~en~~~:::; :~r~~~t~~~ :~- Manckin LLC. a regional full-service real estatecompanyactiveinallaspectsofdevelop' ment,constructionleasingandmanagement Despilethewoesoftheresidentialreales 1ale :~~:e~O~e~~~i:;~:~~;)t~; d~~~~ ~u~~ well. Owen reports that ma~y of ~ur alulll~' would recognize their projects III Harf~ , Cecil. Howard. and Anne Arundel count~:~ Onthenoll.profilside,Owenstartsafl~abi_ year as board preSIdent ~fCh.~sa~ak~dicat_ :~~ f~v~~;~~~~i~~'~~~~t~:tJo~: ~i~ ~ndt :~;h,~nM~hd~c~~~ne~~t~;.n o~ea~da~~ ~~;n~if:, 46 The Hill
Anne, ltve tn Ruxton,Md" and their 2007 interest. (Sorry, Dr. Lightner!). of their property in West Jordan into the travels took them though Madrid and Barcelonaforacoupleofweeks,butunfommately they did not run intn any alumni there, LaurieMor5teinRovinstatesthatlifeisgo,xt no complaints, Living in Greenville. S.C.,is far better now than ever before. She enjoys her community work at the United Way of GreenvilleCounty. Professionaily, Laurie has been focused toward systemic change in early caceandeducation, Her social work training at WMC has helped her immensely over the years. Herhusband,Paul,isa/udaicartistand they have been married almost 24 years, and ~hetrchildrenaregrowingrapidly. Daniel. 19, ts a saxophonist at the New School of Jazz in New York City, and Hannah, 16, i. a sophomor~and hopes to be a broadcaster one day. L.auneworkscJose!ywithsouthernuniversitIes hke Furman and Clemson University, but doesn'tgetalotofopportunitiestovisitWMC stomping grounds. She did drive through recently,andwasamazedwiththegrowth. Louise Herrera Scalzi continues to live in Carroll County. She volunteero with Carroll Cou~ty Community Concert Association (pr~]~ent), church programs, kid's school acttV]tlesand just recently finished up her first season co-managing her kids, Christo- ~hcr'7.andMadeline, 10, Destlnntlcn Imag- Inallonteam.Louisehadaniceconversation With Sally KeckGold '78 at the regional tour· nament in Hagerstown recently, Louise's husband,Michael'Ss,continues to work full time asa behavior support specialist with :he county and she is slowly getting back ]nto teaching "stuff" with substituting and ~omelhospitalteaching.Shehasspe!1tsome Urne with Tracv and Ann WalienmeyerEllis who live with their four children in Damascus,Md, Like many of us, Louise ls expenenclllg being a member of the "sandwich generation" with her own young ones needrng her and her parents needing her as re cemly their health deteriorates after enjoy- ]ng ,very healthy lives. She recommends readmg"TheS People You Meet in Heaven" asanmspiringbook. Ken and Janet Carr Short traveled throughout the southern and west-central portions orCermany for just over Ihree weeks in the slimmerof'07.Theirolderdaughter, Allison, wastostartasafreshmanatMcDanielinthe fall '08. The jounger daughter, Monica, is a freshman at Towson High. 'I'hev cheered together on Towson's varsity cheerleading squad and continued to dance together in a 1000ai program. Ken just completed bissec" and year as architectural historian with the H~ward County Planning Department and stIll does some consulting as well. lanet works at theArmy Research l.abatAberdeen Proving Ground as the team leadcrfor Devel· opmental and Operational Ground Systems, and also has been managing another team of geometric target modelers since October. Jan.et says, "That's beenareal challenge forme, Sl!Icegeometrywas never my strong suit or Hunter and Katie O'Dwyer '82 Steadlev continuetoliveinLutherville.Hunteristhe owner of Renaissance Contractors. Katie is very dose to retirement from U.S Treasury. Their son, Hunter, graduated from Calvert Hall and will be attending Elon in the fall '08. Hunter and Katie's daughter, Cameron, is attending Roland Park Country School Donna Regner Tamburelli is a newlywed! She got married in May'08and after arwoweek cruise in ltaly, she is Ilowback in Coloradoand is a landlord in Baltimore's Inner Harbor and hopefully this will be the last move for a while. Duetope.-,;unalchoiceand career Donna has moved/relocated 15 times in the past 25 years. She tries to keep in touch with the Blanche Ward Girls. Fon Sennett MacLauthlan, Ginni Brown Morani, Dottie Scroggs Freeman, DebbieBessmanFunk,Molly Mclaughlin Quinn and Deb Ambrose but it's hardtomakealunchdateduetothedi5tance Thanks to the Internet and cell phones, they keep in touch the best tbcycan. Donna conrlnues to ski and playgolfwhenshecan. She is also into fly fishing in MOl1tanaand fun travcl.Sheisverygratefulforthedirectflighl between Denver and BWI so she can visit her eight nieces and nephews in Maryland. Con· grats Donna on rhe weddlng. Dee Tavlor resides in Wc~t/ordan. Utah, with her husband, Tom King. They are get ting ready to build a new house on their property and are using "green" methods ror the design and building, They maintain an org:tnicgardenin the summertime and enjoy bicycling and camping, backpacking, and hiking all over remote portions of Utah. They alsotravcl to Maryland a few times a year to see Dee's family. Two of Dee's three children reside in Maryland. both wnh chlldren (Dee is a granny nowl) and the other lives with Dee and Tom. Dee also enjoys digital photog. raphyandprolificblogging. After teaching music for over a quarter of acenturyinpublicschools,Deehasswitched gears and is the educational support services coordinatorinapllbllccharLerschool][JSalt Lake City for students in grades 7-12. Dee oversees the special educatlon department and works with students with disabilities and students who have other health and learning problems. Dee also serves as the servicelearningcoordinatorforhcrschool.Tom also works at Dc
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