’95Attention BSU members past and present!CHESLEY MCNEIL ’94 and YALONDA(WILKINS) ADAMS are requesting that yoube available for Homecoming Weekend<strong>2010</strong>. “There will be a memorial dedicationfor Debbie Evans and scholarship presentationin honor of her and to show appreciationfor her many acts of kindness and dedicationto many of us throughout our <strong>Wesley</strong>careers. In addition, there will be networkingand social events planned. See you there!”To stay in touch about the BSU reunion,request Yalonda on Facebook and explainwho you are. Her cell # is 443-514-8561.’99SANTAE M. (BOYD) COOPER is pleasedto announce her marriage to Kris Cooper.The couple wed on November 21, 2009 atSt. Paul UAME Church in Wilmington,Delaware.4 SANTAE (BOYD) COOPER and KRISCOOPERVANESSA D. NESBIT is pleased toannounce the recent release of her newbook, “Rivers Running in Desert Places.”Released by PublishAmerica, the book is acollection of epic poems about the searchfor life-sustaining sources of refreshing in theoften brutal dry-spells of our lives. Mimickingthe ebb and flow of a river, the author uses amixture of itinerant and gushing verse, andvivid imagery to highlight universal themesof love, self-hatred, regret, introspection,triumphant victory and self-realization. Thecollection celebrates what it is to recall themantra “where there is water, there is life.”’03TOMMI BARRETT-GREENLY reportsthat she and her husband Bryan Greenly, ajunior physics major at Delaware StateUniversity, have been selected as Delawareambassadors for National Aeronautics andSpace Administration (NASA). After both ofthem had internships at the company, thetwo were chosen among 105 NASAambassadors nationwide. They will dopresentations in the Delmarva region, workat job fairs for the agency and conduct otheroutreach endeavors for the space agency.Tommi is currently pursuing graduate studiesin education technology at the University ofDelaware. She also is a teacher at the MorrisEarly Childhood Center in Lincoln, Delaware,where she has been named the <strong>2010</strong>Milford School District Teacher of the Year.LESLEY (KNABLE) LOUDER and herhusband Darrell are pleased to announce thebirth of their first child, Ethan Robert Louder,born Tuesday, April 6. He weighed 8 lbs., 3oz. and was 22 inches long. Ethan joins afamily of many <strong>Wesley</strong> graduates, includingLesley’s mother and father and proudgrandparents, LYNN (SCHMID) KNABLE’67 and GERALD KNABLE ’68, and AuntELISE KNABLE ’09.5 Ethan Robert Louder’05DEB PACE has recently formed her ownbusiness. She has paired her writing skillswith nearly two decades of writing, editing,marketing, public relations, radio andtelevision broadcasting, and othercommunications experience and is nowpresident and CEO of BizCom LLC, a fullserviceprofessional business communicationsfirm. Deb was a freelance journalist withThe Mergermarket Group and Debtwire,divisions of London-based Financial TimesGroup, for more than four years. She spenttime at The Wall Street Journal RadioNetwork in Princeton, New Jersey, TexasRadio Network and KRLD radio in Dallas,The Villages News Network television stationin central Florida, and was a U.S. NavyJournalist. She is also an editor atEditAvenue.com and EditFast.com and hasbuilt and runs her own website www.bizcomllc.com.She has an MBA from <strong>Wesley</strong><strong>College</strong> and a bachelor’s degree in communicationmanagement from WilmingtonUniversity.’07BRENDAN BYRNE, who graduated from<strong>Wesley</strong> with a master’s degree in teaching,has completed a master’s degree inRenaissance literature at the University ofYork in Yorkshire, England (<strong>2010</strong> graduate).He is currently in a PhD program inRenaissance literature at the University ofReading, Berkshire, England.Former <strong>Wesley</strong> <strong>College</strong> All-Americandefensive end BRYAN ROBINSON fromHarrington, Delaware has made the <strong>2010</strong>opening day roster of the ClevelandGladiators of the Arena Football League.In the summer of 2008, he was among thefinal cuts of the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL.He played in the United Football League forthe New York Sentinals last fall after playingfor the Manchester Wolves of arenafootball2during the summer, finishing ninth in AF2with 10 sacks for the Wolves. He hadalso signed with the Hamilton TigerCats ofthe Canadian Football league after the AF2season, before being scooped up by theUFL.MELISSA CAMERON is pleased toannounce her engagement to Maurice Tooles,Jr. The couple got engaged on November 15,2009. Melissa is originally from Jamaica andlived in Baltimore, Maryland, and her fiancé isfrom New Jersey. Both of them now reside inDelaware, where Melissa is a full-time graduatestudent at Wilmington University workingtowards a Master of Science in communitycounseling and Maurice is in the UnitedStates Air Force. The couple is planning aJune 2011 wedding.6 MELISSA CAMERON and MauriceTooles, Jr.’08COLLEEN MCELWEE and her fiancéDavid Primavera, Jr. are proud to announcethe birth of their son, David Primavera, III.David was born on February 19 at 4:54 p.m.He weighed 8 lbs., 7oz. and was 20 3 /4inches long.7 David PrimaveraCAROL (OLSEN) ’71 and ROBERTNEYLAN ’72 announce the engagement oftheir daughter, SUSAN MARIE, of Atlanta,Georgia to Paul Alton Dreher, Jr. ofBirmingham, Alabama, son of Paul A. andIsabelle K. Dreher of Birmingham. The brideto-beis a 2003 graduate of Dover HighSchool and graduated from <strong>Wesley</strong> in 2008with a Bachelor of Science in education.She is employed by the Cobb CountySchool District/Austell Elementary School,Powder Springs, Georgia, as a fourth gradeteacher. Her fiancé is a 2004 graduate ofAuburn University, Auburn, Alabama, witha Bachelor of Science in businessadministration and is a heavy metal brokerfor Jefferson Iron and Metal Brokerage ofBirmingham. An October 9, <strong>2010</strong> weddingis planned in Chelsea, Alabama.8 SUSAN NEYLAN and PAULDREHER, JR.IN MEMORIAMF. Bryan Bailey Jr. ’47Richard L. Everett ’51Frank Vasfailo ’95Joseph S. BellmeyerMarian J. FillmanSusan MatusakLehman R. Tomlin Jr.28 <strong>WESLEY</strong> COLLEGE :: Spring <strong>2010</strong>
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