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Winter 2016<br />
<strong>Bridging</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Gap</strong><br />
Alumnae invest in educational equality<br />
Inside: Choosing <strong>the</strong> 901<br />
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Aristotle said, “Educating <strong>the</strong> mind without educating <strong>the</strong> heart is no<br />
education at all.” St. Mary’s students benefit from this wisdom daily in Chapel, <strong>the</strong> Bridge<br />
to Caring, service learning, and <strong>the</strong> Community Fund. We even find <strong>the</strong> heart in our exams. If you<br />
had been in <strong>the</strong> Rose Theater for <strong>the</strong> Juniors’ semester exams, you would have witnessed <strong>the</strong><br />
newest expression of how our teachers encourage <strong>the</strong> heart of our students and enable <strong>the</strong>m to<br />
find <strong>the</strong>ir unique voices.<br />
Just before Christmas break, I had <strong>the</strong> great pleasure of listening to <strong>the</strong> Juniors each deliver<br />
a four-minute speech in <strong>the</strong> style of a TED Talk. As each student walked onto <strong>the</strong> carpet and<br />
into <strong>the</strong> spotlight, <strong>the</strong> audience of parents and teachers heard a confident, compassionate, and<br />
courageous voice. The two evenings titled “Voices of St. Mary’s” began as a combined history and<br />
English assignment that asked <strong>the</strong> Juniors to express how <strong>the</strong> curriculum has educated <strong>the</strong>ir heart<br />
and not just <strong>the</strong>ir mind. English teacher Caroline Goodman, history teacher Holly Hensarling, and<br />
librarian Jeanine Akers worked as a team to ask: How do <strong>the</strong> facts and stories in your courses<br />
speak to your own experience and how can that make us better human beings?<br />
Students connected Beowulf, Wu<strong>the</strong>ring Heights, Julius Caesar, 9/11, and <strong>the</strong> Holocaust to<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir own experiences with fear, racism, stereotyping, courage, creativity, and faith. Listening to<br />
<strong>the</strong>se voices, it is clear that St. Mary’s is dedicated to letting each girl pursue her individual<br />
potential. It is also clear why our young women pursue <strong>the</strong> careers of service and teaching, and<br />
choose to call Memphis home, connecting to <strong>the</strong>ir community. You will find <strong>the</strong>ir stories<br />
highlighted in this issue.<br />
The heart is at <strong>the</strong> heart of an Episcopal School education. This kind of integrity of mind<br />
and soul and body has never been a more important as we prepare young woman for an often<br />
polarized, terrorized, and fragmented culture. By<br />
not ignoring this vital connection, our students<br />
and graduates are able to teach and serve o<strong>the</strong>rs<br />
mindfully and whole-heartedly.<br />
Head of School<br />
On <strong>the</strong> first day of <strong>the</strong> semester,<br />
Head of School Albert Throckmorton<br />
encourages Middle and Upper School<br />
students to focus on <strong>the</strong> destination<br />
while also enjoying <strong>the</strong> journey.<br />
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The Varsity Volleyball team revs up for state competition, capping its best season in school history.<br />
Winter 2016<br />
The magazine of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is<br />
published twice a year as a service to all alumnae, students,<br />
parents, faculty, staff, and friends of <strong>the</strong> school.<br />
Head of School<br />
Albert L. Throckmorton<br />
Director of Advancement<br />
Leanne Kleinmann<br />
Director of Alumnae<br />
Rainey Ray Segars ’05<br />
Director of Communication / Editor<br />
Sally Walker Davies<br />
Photography<br />
Lisa Buser<br />
Contributors<br />
Courtney Shove ’96<br />
Cara Modisett<br />
Shari Ray<br />
Zina Kumok ’07<br />
Owen McGuire<br />
Letters to <strong>the</strong> Editor:<br />
Please address all correspondence to:<br />
Sally Walker Davies<br />
St. Mary’s Episcopal School<br />
60 Perkins Extended<br />
Memphis, TN 38117<br />
swalkerdavies@stmarysschool.org<br />
901.537.1489<br />
Unless o<strong>the</strong>rwise noted, all photos, with <strong>the</strong> exception of<br />
select photos in Class Notes, are by Lisa Buser.<br />
On <strong>the</strong> Cover:<br />
St. Mary’s alumnae (L-R) Patti Person Ray ’65, Jessica Johnson<br />
’94, Grace Jensen Knight ’05, Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01,<br />
and Lucy Foster ’10 are helping build a better Memphis through<br />
<strong>the</strong> Memphis Teacher Residency.<br />
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Parents of Alumnae: If your daughter no longer maintains an<br />
address at your home, please notify Director of Alumnae<br />
Rainey Ray Segars ’05 at 901.537.1424 or<br />
rsegars@stmarysschool.org<br />
The mission of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is to provide a<br />
superior educational experience for girls which will encourage and<br />
enable each student to reach her individual potential.<br />
St. Mary’s Episcopal School does not discriminate on <strong>the</strong> basis of race,<br />
religion, or national origin in <strong>the</strong> administration of its admission, financial<br />
aid, educational, athletic, extracurricular, or o<strong>the</strong>r policies.<br />
In This Issue<br />
2 <strong>Bridging</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Gap</strong><br />
Alumnae invest in educational equality<br />
7 Choosing <strong>the</strong> 901<br />
Zina Kumok ’07 chats with five alumnae about why<br />
<strong>the</strong>y ultimately chose to call Memphis home.<br />
10-13 College 101<br />
New faces, new spaces, advice for college planning,<br />
and an update on <strong>the</strong> SATs.<br />
14 To Be or Not To Be Ophelia<br />
In <strong>the</strong> first of a series of essays by St. Mary’s faculty,<br />
Upper School English Teacher Shari Ray explains that<br />
<strong>the</strong>re’s no way her students should ever be an Ophelia.<br />
16-21 Campus News<br />
Alumnae<br />
22 Honoring Gigi Gould ’70<br />
23 Class Notes<br />
44 Milestones<br />
/St.MarysEpiscopalSchool<br />
@StMarysMemphis<br />
/StMarysTV<br />
@stmarysepiscopalschool<br />
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<strong>Bridging</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Gap</strong><br />
Alumnae invest in educational equality<br />
By Courtney Shove ’96<br />
St. Mary’s alumnae are a testament to <strong>the</strong><br />
value of a good education — something that<br />
all children deserve, regardless of socioeconomic<br />
standing. Committed to helping bridge<br />
<strong>the</strong> educational gap in Memphis, a group of alums<br />
from across <strong>the</strong> decades are working to improve<br />
public education through <strong>the</strong> Memphis Teacher<br />
Residency, commonly known as MTR.<br />
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St. Mary’s alumnae (L-R) Patti Person Ray ’65,<br />
Jessica Johnson ’94, Grace Jensen Knight ’05,<br />
Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01, and Lucy<br />
Foster ’10 are helping build a better Memphis<br />
through <strong>the</strong> Memphis Teacher Residency.<br />
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Founded in 2008, MTR is a faith-based teachertraining<br />
program that seeks to provide quality education<br />
to students in six low-income areas in Memphis.<br />
After successfully completing a year of graduate<br />
coursework and an in-classroom internship, residents<br />
receive a master’s degree in urban education through<br />
a partnership with Union University. After receiving<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir degree, MTR teachers commit to working three<br />
additional years in a Memphis urban school. So far, <strong>the</strong><br />
program has 239 graduates (those who have completed<br />
<strong>the</strong> four-year commitment) and 231 teachers currently<br />
on staff in Memphis urban schools.<br />
The Veteran Teacher and Administrator:<br />
Patti Person Ray ’65<br />
After spending 25 years of her life working in public<br />
education, Dr. Patti Ray just can’t quit it. Even during<br />
her 15-year tenure as Upper School Head at St. Mary’s,<br />
she taught Union University students training to be<br />
public school teachers. Now,<br />
though technically retired, she<br />
continues to teach in every area<br />
of Union’s graduate education<br />
program.<br />
Since 2009, Ray has been<br />
teaching two MTR courses: Secondary<br />
Methods and Intensive<br />
Content Studies, which are both<br />
Patti Person Ray ’65 taught in <strong>the</strong> first half of <strong>the</strong><br />
residency. Outside of class, she<br />
makes herself available via text message, phone, and<br />
email and is delighted that her students reach out to<br />
her for ideas and o<strong>the</strong>r support.<br />
She credits MTR’s extensive support system for <strong>the</strong><br />
success of its teachers. What sets it apart from similar<br />
programs is <strong>the</strong> common motivation among <strong>the</strong><br />
residents and <strong>the</strong>ir shared Christian call to bring about<br />
social justice through education.<br />
“MTR offers courses that are enlightening as to<br />
<strong>the</strong> challenges that students face in urban schools,”<br />
Ray said. “The students are exposed to Memphis itself,<br />
because so many aren’t from here, and <strong>the</strong> importance<br />
of raising <strong>the</strong> education level.”<br />
The bottom line: MTR residents don’t have to go it<br />
alone. They are clustered toge<strong>the</strong>r in various schools<br />
and even live toge<strong>the</strong>r in Georgian Woods Apartments.<br />
Each cohort also learns about Memphis and its history<br />
and gets involved in <strong>the</strong> neighborhoods where <strong>the</strong>y<br />
teach.<br />
“The city of Memphis depends on <strong>the</strong> success of its<br />
public education,” Ray said. “At <strong>the</strong> root of it all, I’m a<br />
teacher, and that’s still what I’m doing.”<br />
The Prepared Newbie: Lucy Foster ’10<br />
For Lucy Foster, living in Georgian Woods last year<br />
as an MTR resident was unexpectedly significant. Not<br />
only was it her first “adult” apartment, but <strong>the</strong> complex<br />
is also where her grandmo<strong>the</strong>r lived when Lucy’s mom<br />
Lucy Foster ’10<br />
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was born and where Lucy’s mom, Nancy Johnson Foster<br />
’71, had her first apartment after college.<br />
In her cohort of 67, Foster said only five or six were<br />
“local-grown Memphians.” The rest were from all over<br />
<strong>the</strong> country. Her roommate was a young woman from<br />
Corona, California, who had never been to <strong>the</strong> South<br />
before.<br />
Foster, who is in her second year of teaching 7th<br />
grade at Soulsville Charter School, describes <strong>the</strong> Memphis<br />
she knows now as “cooler” than <strong>the</strong> one she knew<br />
growing up: “Memphis seems exciting, especially to<br />
new people. A lot of young people are coming here, and<br />
it feels like Memphis is onto something.”<br />
She said she has found tremendous support<br />
through MTR and that her mentor teacher, who happens<br />
to be a Teach For America graduate, was phenomenal.<br />
Foster now teaches on <strong>the</strong> same team as her mentor,<br />
who is mentoring an MTR resident again this year.<br />
The Coach and Encourager:<br />
Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01<br />
Growing up, Courtney Humphreys could not have<br />
located Orange Mound on a Memphis map, yet she<br />
lived within a few miles of <strong>the</strong> neighborhood. Now, her<br />
work has her rooted <strong>the</strong>re.<br />
A part-time MTR staffer,<br />
Humphreys serves as a coach<br />
for 11 teachers at Hanley<br />
Elementary, a charter school<br />
in Orange Mound.<br />
She and husband McKee<br />
both have MTR connections.<br />
McKee was part of<br />
<strong>the</strong> second cohort, and after<br />
Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01<br />
completing his residency, he<br />
taught 8th grade history for three years at Soulsville<br />
Charter School and Cornerstone Prep. He now teaches<br />
5th and 6th grade history at Presbyterian Day School,<br />
where Courtney taught for four years before connecting<br />
with MTR in 2012.<br />
“MTR has been a real gift for both of us,” Courtney<br />
said. “We have developed friendships with people who<br />
didn’t grow up like us, and that has totally enriched our<br />
lives.”<br />
She supports MTR teachers through regular classroom<br />
observations and debriefing sessions and provides<br />
feedback on <strong>the</strong> residents’ online journals. She<br />
also teaches a Math Content Methods class to elementary-education<br />
residents. Outside of work, she enjoys<br />
having <strong>the</strong>m over for dinner and getting to know <strong>the</strong>m<br />
better.<br />
In her mind, <strong>the</strong> strength of <strong>the</strong> program lies in its<br />
Christian perspective. Courtney feels good knowing she<br />
can tell new teachers that <strong>the</strong>ir ultimate worth is not<br />
wrapped up in <strong>the</strong>ir students’ test scores or in a failed<br />
observation. At <strong>the</strong> same time, she doesn’t negate <strong>the</strong><br />
challenges of working in high-needs schools.<br />
“Seeing all kinds of dysfunction and brokenness<br />
doesn’t mean that you have to get out, that you’ve<br />
chosen <strong>the</strong> wrong profession,” she said. “It might mean<br />
that you’ve chosen exactly <strong>the</strong> right one.”<br />
The Guinea Pig: Grace Jensen Knight ’05<br />
Grace Knight was a member of MTR’s first cohort,<br />
which consisted of 23 residents. Now, six years later,<br />
<strong>the</strong>re are 67 residents. Knight remembers being a<br />
college student at Auburn University and having an<br />
awakening in <strong>the</strong> middle<br />
of <strong>the</strong> night — she needed<br />
to pursue urban education.<br />
The next thing she knew<br />
she was talking to MTR<br />
founder David Montague<br />
while driving from<br />
Memphis to Auburn.<br />
“I remember hanging<br />
up <strong>the</strong> phone and telling<br />
Grace Jensen Knight ’05<br />
my now-husband that this<br />
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program seemed like it was created specifically for Memphis in 2011 and began working at MTR in 2012. As<br />
me,” she said. “It was exactly what I wanted to do after a coach, she supports her teachers by visiting <strong>the</strong>m in<br />
finishing college.”<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir classrooms, offering feedback and ideas, and even<br />
Knight was placed at New Hope Christian Academy looking over student essays or preparing test questions.<br />
during her resident year and remained on staff <strong>the</strong>re<br />
“So often, everything that teachers learn, <strong>the</strong>y learn<br />
for four more years. She was a kindergarten teacher for <strong>the</strong> hard way,” she said. “What’s great about MTR is that<br />
three years and a learning specialist for two. After taking<br />
time off to start a family, she now works part time coach for all four years, and really relevant coursework,<br />
<strong>the</strong> teachers have a mentor during <strong>the</strong> residency year, a<br />
as <strong>the</strong> admission events coordinator at St. Mary’s.<br />
which means <strong>the</strong>y don’t have to figure out from scratch<br />
“I believe that <strong>the</strong> only thing that will really change how to teach <strong>the</strong>ir students well and how to lead a<br />
Memphis is education, so I believe MTR is leading<br />
classroom well.”<br />
<strong>the</strong> city in real change,” she said. “It may not be fast<br />
Johnson underscores that MTR’s vision is about<br />
change, but I believe it’s coming when our students all restoring communities, not just schools. Teachers alone<br />
have access to good education.”<br />
can’t bridge <strong>the</strong> education gap, so MTR encourages its<br />
staff to get to know o<strong>the</strong>r people and organizations<br />
in <strong>the</strong>ir schools’ neighborhoods. The residents study<br />
The Master Teacher/Juggler:<br />
Memphis history, take part in local cultural events, and<br />
Jessica Johnson ’94<br />
really commit to <strong>the</strong> areas in which <strong>the</strong>y teach.<br />
In many ways, Jessica Johnson is a professional<br />
To that end, MTR has focused its efforts on 31<br />
juggler at MTR. Juggler of job responsibilities, that is.<br />
schools in six neighborhoods: Alcy Ball, Binghampton,<br />
A full-time employee, she coaches English teachers at<br />
Frayser, Graham Heights, Mitchell Heights, and Orange<br />
Kingsbury High School, Melrose High School, and GRAD<br />
Mound. Johnson said <strong>the</strong> feedback from schools has<br />
Academy; teaches English Content Methods and an<br />
been positive — that MTR teachers are team players,<br />
instructional planning seminar; and serves as <strong>the</strong> organization’s<br />
development director.<br />
humble, hard-working, and eager to learn from and<br />
work with <strong>the</strong>ir colleagues.<br />
“I always loved school,” Johnson said. “I loved<br />
“I think about how I benefited from St. Mary’s not<br />
St. Mary’s, I loved my college experience, and I valued<br />
only academically but<br />
<strong>the</strong> school communities<br />
also personally, in terms<br />
and <strong>the</strong> chance to grow as<br />
of character and community,”<br />
Johnson said. “I<br />
a thinker and as a person.<br />
That’s something I<br />
think we (at MTR) are in<br />
want for all kids, whe<strong>the</strong>r<br />
a unique position to grow<br />
<strong>the</strong>y go to an independent<br />
school or go to <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
people and streng<strong>the</strong>n<br />
communities, and that’s<br />
neighborhood school.”<br />
my motivation to be in<br />
After graduating<br />
schools.”<br />
from Princeton University,<br />
Johnson taught<br />
Courtney Shove ’96 is a word<br />
game enthusiast and maker of<br />
high school English in<br />
homemade vanilla who recently<br />
Connecticut for seven<br />
moved back to Memphis — for<br />
<strong>the</strong> second time — to be closer to<br />
years. She moved back to<br />
family and to work in communications<br />
at Memphis Opportunity<br />
Jessica Johnson ’94, with teacher Janessa Jordan, at Soulsville Charter School.<br />
Scholarship Trust (MOST).<br />
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Choosing <strong>the</strong> 901<br />
By Zina Kumock ’07<br />
St. Mary’s alums can be found all over <strong>the</strong> world, teaching, working, and putting <strong>the</strong>ir Turkey values to use.<br />
But what about those who return home, or decided to stay in Memphis for <strong>the</strong>ir schooling? Zina Kumok ’07<br />
chatted with five alumnae about why <strong>the</strong>y ultimately chose to call Memphis home.<br />
lives for ourselves outside of <strong>the</strong><br />
city. And <strong>the</strong>n, when <strong>the</strong> calling<br />
comes, we return, bringing some<br />
of that global perspective back<br />
to Memphis, to create something<br />
fresh and new.<br />
Are you involved with<br />
St. Mary’s? If so, how?<br />
Morgan Beckford ’06<br />
I am an Annual Fund class agent<br />
for <strong>the</strong> Class of 2006, so I try to stay<br />
current on what’s happening at<br />
<strong>the</strong> school, so I can relay it to my<br />
fellow 06ers. I have been back to<br />
Chapel on numerous occasions to<br />
sing, speak, advertise Opera Memphis<br />
student performances, and<br />
introduce classmates.<br />
Morgan Beckford ’06<br />
Fellowship Coach,<br />
Memphis Music Initiative<br />
Was returning to Memphis<br />
something you consciously<br />
thought about?<br />
Studying and working in <strong>the</strong> Washington,<br />
DC area after college taught<br />
me a great deal about <strong>the</strong> accessibility<br />
of classical art forms and <strong>the</strong><br />
teaching artistry needed to keep<br />
<strong>the</strong>m alive. When I got <strong>the</strong> opportunity<br />
to bring that knowledge<br />
back to Opera Memphis, I jumped<br />
at <strong>the</strong> chance.<br />
Why do you think it’s<br />
important for alumnae to work<br />
and live in Memphis?<br />
I do think that some of us alums<br />
are very much like Galapagos<br />
Island sea turtles. We leave <strong>the</strong><br />
“St. Mary’s Beach” at 18 and swim<br />
out into <strong>the</strong> world. We create<br />
incredible, purpose-filled, dynamic<br />
Audrey Bourland Hurst ’03,<br />
Owner of Audrey Hurst<br />
Weddings<br />
Was returning to Memphis<br />
something you consciously<br />
thought about?<br />
Upon graduating from Ole Miss, I<br />
completed a nine month Fellows<br />
program in Memphis. It was during<br />
that year that a love for Memphis<br />
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Why do you think it’s important<br />
for alumnae to work and live in<br />
Memphis?<br />
From graduation in 2012 to now, I<br />
have seen Memphis come into its<br />
own and watched <strong>the</strong> community<br />
rally around <strong>the</strong> hard work and<br />
uniqueness that characterizes this<br />
city. This is <strong>the</strong> time to be in Memphis<br />
— job opportunities are bountiful<br />
and <strong>the</strong> pride of <strong>the</strong> community<br />
is incredibly contagious. As<br />
St. Mary’s alumnae, we have a lot<br />
to offer to this community due to<br />
both our roots and our education.<br />
Are you involved with St. Mary’s?<br />
If so, how?<br />
Audrey Bourland Hurst ’03<br />
was re-ignited through a completely<br />
different set of eyes than<br />
my years as a child and young<br />
adult.<br />
Why do you think it’s important<br />
for alumnae to work and live in<br />
Memphis?<br />
Community and connections can<br />
certainly be created and cultivated<br />
wherever one lands, but <strong>the</strong>re is a<br />
huge value in having an immediate<br />
network available.<br />
Are you involved with St. Mary’s?<br />
If so, how?<br />
I have served on <strong>the</strong> Alumnae<br />
Board for <strong>the</strong> last four years as<br />
well as leading a bible study for<br />
five years for St. Mary’s girls who<br />
are now Juniors. They were just 7th<br />
graders when I met <strong>the</strong>m!<br />
Melissa Byrd ’12,<br />
Registration<br />
Coordinator for<br />
Start2Finish Event<br />
Management, intern<br />
at ALSAC St. Jude, and<br />
current University of<br />
Memphis student<br />
Was staying in Memphis<br />
something you consciously<br />
thought about?<br />
As much as a high school<br />
Senior can, I had mapped out<br />
where I saw my career path<br />
heading after college, and<br />
Memphis was that place.<br />
Because St. Mary’s had<br />
gotten me involved in <strong>the</strong><br />
community, I had already<br />
begun <strong>the</strong> networking that<br />
I knew would only deepen<br />
during college.<br />
I am not as involved as I would<br />
hope — but in 2014 I had a great<br />
time spending an afternoon<br />
with <strong>the</strong> graduating Seniors and<br />
answering any and all questions<br />
<strong>the</strong>y had about college.<br />
Melissa Byrd ’12<br />
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Why do you think it’s important<br />
for alumnae to work and live in<br />
Memphis?<br />
Having grown up in Memphis, we<br />
as St. Mary’s graduates are uniquely<br />
equipped to use our talents to<br />
better our city. We understand<br />
Memphis in a way that outsiders<br />
may not. Any time I see something<br />
positive happening in Memphis, it<br />
feels like a small personal victory,<br />
and affirms for me that I’m in <strong>the</strong><br />
right place.<br />
Susan Cooley ’70,<br />
Donor Grants Officer for <strong>the</strong><br />
Community Foundation<br />
Was returning to Memphis<br />
something you consciously<br />
thought about?<br />
Susan Cooley ’70<br />
When I moved to New York, I did<br />
not think about returning to Memphis.<br />
I wanted to live in NYC for so<br />
long and finally things had come<br />
toge<strong>the</strong>r for me to go <strong>the</strong>re, plus<br />
I had a sister <strong>the</strong>re to make <strong>the</strong><br />
transition easy for me (I was 38<br />
and single — still single — when I<br />
moved).<br />
I kept up with SMS friends here in<br />
Memphis, especially Susan Hall<br />
Wilson from my class, and it was<br />
coming to visit her when she was<br />
recuperating from surgery in 1990<br />
that started my thoughts about<br />
returning to Memphis. My sister<br />
had died, my o<strong>the</strong>r sister was<br />
here in Memphis with her children<br />
(nearly grown by <strong>the</strong>n), and I felt<br />
<strong>the</strong> Lord drawing me back to<br />
Memphis while here visiting (and<br />
seeing o<strong>the</strong>r alums).<br />
Why do you think it’s important<br />
for alumnae to work and live in<br />
Memphis?<br />
For support and encouragement at<br />
a younger age, it would be great, as<br />
it is for me now. I imagine nowadays<br />
<strong>the</strong> young women can do that<br />
through social media/Internet/cell<br />
phones — none of which existed<br />
back in 1990!<br />
Dr. Abby Yandell Talbot ’03,<br />
Third-year Ob/Gyn resident<br />
at <strong>the</strong> University of<br />
Tennessee Health Sciences<br />
Center in Memphis<br />
Was returning to Memphis<br />
something you consciously<br />
thought about?<br />
When I interviewed with UT<br />
Memphis, I found myself practically<br />
leading <strong>the</strong> driving tour, pointing<br />
out all <strong>the</strong> places that had shaped<br />
me (including St. Mary’s), and it<br />
was so obvious that this is where I<br />
needed to be.<br />
Are you involved with St. Mary’s?<br />
If so, how?<br />
Does it count if I tell everyone I<br />
meet that <strong>the</strong>y need to send <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
daughter to St. Mary’s? At this<br />
point, I’m more of a sideline<br />
supporter, but once I make it<br />
through residency I’ll be more<br />
involved again.<br />
Dr. Abby Yandell Talbot ’03<br />
Zina Kumok ‘07 is a Denver-based personal<br />
finance writer. She writes about a blog<br />
about paying off her student loans at<br />
debtfreeafterthree.com.<br />
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VICKI ENGELHART-THOMPSON:<br />
NEW DEAN OF COLLEGE COUNSELING<br />
By Cara Modisett<br />
The summer of 2015 brought a few changes to <strong>the</strong> first floor of <strong>the</strong> Taylor Building in <strong>the</strong> Upper School, both in terms<br />
of staffing and space. A new student services center (see story on page 13) was created through <strong>the</strong> reconfiguration of<br />
<strong>the</strong> hallway, <strong>the</strong> Upper School Head’s office, and <strong>the</strong> college counseling offices.<br />
Vicki Englehart-Thompson joined <strong>the</strong> St. Mary’s family as <strong>the</strong> new Dean of College Counseling, taking <strong>the</strong> helm from<br />
<strong>the</strong> retiring Mimi Grossman. Englehart-Thompson, Lee Avant, registrar and college counseling coordinator, and Chancey<br />
Thompson, assistant dean of college counseling, are redefining <strong>the</strong> college process at St. Mary’s as well. The college admission<br />
process and all it entails is as important as ever, and seemingly changing by <strong>the</strong> minute. With an emphasis on advance<br />
planning, in-school application boot camps and more, <strong>the</strong> college counseling team is not only ready for change, <strong>the</strong>y are<br />
well ahead of it.<br />
Vicki Engelhart-Thompson’s background in education is diverse, both as a student and as an educator and administrator.<br />
She went to a Catholic elementary school, a strong public high school, and <strong>the</strong>n to Louisiana State University and <strong>the</strong><br />
University of New Orleans for her undergraduate and master’s degrees. In her career, she’s worked at two all-girls schools,<br />
one all-boys, and one co-ed.<br />
“I think <strong>the</strong>re’s really something about same-sex education. I think it’s good for boys — I think it’s even better for<br />
girls,” she says. She’d known about St. Mary’s long before she came to work here, and she’s finding <strong>the</strong> students here openminded,<br />
warm, and kind. “They celebrate each o<strong>the</strong>r’s differences.”<br />
“I love how <strong>the</strong>se young women speak up. I don’t think <strong>the</strong>y’re afraid to be curious, or even to be wrong.”<br />
Thompson is not completely new to Memphis; some years ago, she began dating her now husband, Carey, who is vice<br />
president of enrollment and communications and dean of admission at Rhodes College. They waited until <strong>the</strong>y both had<br />
empty nests (his daughter, Mary, is a 2015 graduate of St. Mary’s) to marry, and she moved to Memphis in summer of 2015.<br />
As for <strong>the</strong> faculty and staff, “it was very clear to me early on that everyone really cares about <strong>the</strong>se kids.”<br />
Seniors Hibah Virk and Hannah Meacham discuss <strong>the</strong>ir college admissions process with Dean of College Counseling Vicki Englehart-Thompson.<br />
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COLLEGE PLANNING: STARTING EARLIER<br />
Some changes are in <strong>the</strong> works when it comes to college<br />
planning. St. Mary’s is expanding college preparation to 9th<br />
and 10th grades, as parents “wanted more, and <strong>the</strong>y wanted it<br />
earlier,” according to Englehart-Thompson. This fall, Freshmen<br />
and Sophomores attended class information sessions about <strong>the</strong><br />
high school experience, how to approach <strong>the</strong>ir high school academics<br />
in preparation for college, and how to research college.<br />
In August, Seniors attend “boot camp”, which includes practice<br />
interviews, work on <strong>the</strong> Common Application, and a focus on<br />
essay writing. That program will become more concentrated in<br />
2016, with <strong>the</strong> goal of helping students become “<strong>the</strong>ir best selfadvocate,”<br />
she says.<br />
St. Mary’s always takes its underclassmen on yearly college<br />
tours around <strong>the</strong> country. This year, exclusively for Sophomores,<br />
<strong>the</strong>y’re adding local schools - Rhodes, Christian Bro<strong>the</strong>rs<br />
University, and <strong>the</strong> University of Memphis - to <strong>the</strong> mix,<br />
so that students can have a close-by look at <strong>the</strong> differences<br />
between small, large, public, private, and faith-based higher<br />
education. In October, 22 alumnae working in nonprofit<br />
management, finance and investment, banking, law, restaurant and culinary work, real estate, and more, held practice<br />
interviews for Seniors to help <strong>the</strong>m prepare for admission and scholarships interviews.<br />
“What I have really enjoyed so far about working with students and <strong>the</strong>ir families - <strong>the</strong>re seems to be less anxiety<br />
about finding <strong>the</strong> perfect college,” and more focus “on finding <strong>the</strong> right college,” says Englehart-Thompson. It’s about<br />
following individual inspiration, discovered through classes, and also through volunteering and extracurriculars.<br />
That focus on “fit” for each student is apparent in <strong>the</strong> diversity of schools St. Mary’s girls are attending: In 2015, 55<br />
graduates entered 46 universities and colleges, with more than $10 million in merit scholarships.<br />
“The experience <strong>the</strong>y’re getting here,” says Englehart-Thompson, “is helping <strong>the</strong>m to put <strong>the</strong> pieces toge<strong>the</strong>r.”<br />
College counseling team: Lee Avant, Chancey Thompson, and Vicki Englehart-Thompson.<br />
THE SATs: WHAT’S NEW<br />
“Practice, practice, practice.” That’s <strong>the</strong> mantra of Chancey<br />
Thompson, assistant dean of college counseling. St. Mary’s offers<br />
plenty of opportunities to do that, beginning in <strong>the</strong> Sophomore<br />
year with PSAT preparation and testing and it’s paying off:<br />
The St. Mary’s class of 2016 has 17 National Merit Semifinalists<br />
and Commended Students out of a class of 64.<br />
More and more colleges are opting for “test optional” and<br />
“test flexible” in <strong>the</strong>ir admissions (go to fairtest.org for more<br />
information). For <strong>the</strong>ir part, <strong>the</strong> testing companies are revising<br />
<strong>the</strong> standardized tests in an attempt to “better reflect what’s<br />
being taught.”<br />
St. Mary’s recommends that Juniors take both <strong>the</strong> ACT<br />
and <strong>the</strong> SAT in February and March, respectively, for a baseline<br />
score. “We’ll help <strong>the</strong>m decide which is <strong>the</strong>ir better test,”<br />
says Englehart-Thompson.<br />
The new SAT that debuts in January 2016 will be returning<br />
to <strong>the</strong> 1600-point model, combining reading and writing<br />
back into one score, and with a math test that is more in<br />
keeping with student curricula. (“It’s not an IQ test any more,”<br />
notes Englehart-Thompson.) The essay will be optional and<br />
not part of <strong>the</strong> reading/writing results. It’s recommended that<br />
students write <strong>the</strong> essay, because some colleges will ask for it.<br />
The ACT includes English, math, reading, and science<br />
sections, and also includes an optional essay.<br />
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The College Search Top 10<br />
Vicki Engelhart-Thompson, dean of college counseling, and Chancey Thompson, associate<br />
dean of college counseling, offer <strong>the</strong>ir advice for college applications and research.<br />
1. Look for <strong>the</strong> right school, not <strong>the</strong><br />
“best” school.<br />
CT: “Throw away <strong>the</strong> U.S. News and World Report<br />
rankings. A lot of it has nothing to do with <strong>the</strong><br />
undergraduate experience.”<br />
VT: “Consider women’s colleges — keep <strong>the</strong>m<br />
‘on <strong>the</strong> radar’!”<br />
2. Be well-lopsided.<br />
John Gaines, director of admission at Vanderbilt<br />
University, had that advice for 9th and 10th grade<br />
students when he visited this fall.<br />
CT: “‘Well-angled’ or ‘well-lopsided’ is just as good as<br />
‘well-rounded,’ sometimes better.”<br />
VT: “Students don’t have to take <strong>the</strong> most rigorous<br />
course in every track to be competitive.”<br />
CT: “Depth is more important than breadth.”<br />
3. It’s not about <strong>the</strong> name.<br />
VT: “A good college education can be gained<br />
anywhere — it’s what you make of it.”<br />
4. Think about costs.<br />
CT: “If it’s your goal to go to medical or law school, to<br />
graduate school, choose your best financial option<br />
at <strong>the</strong> undergraduate level.” Many schools have<br />
honors programs and o<strong>the</strong>r opportunities for<br />
smaller classes and more intensive study.<br />
5. Plan your conversations.<br />
VT: “College is not all that families should discuss<br />
during Senior year. Make a plan for how you will<br />
communicate about <strong>the</strong> college application process<br />
and stick to it so that it doesn’t overwhelm family time!”<br />
6. Don’t reinvent <strong>the</strong> wheel.<br />
VT: “Use <strong>the</strong> Common App. It’s your best friend.”<br />
In August boot camp, “we walk <strong>the</strong>m all <strong>the</strong> way through<br />
<strong>the</strong> Common Application,” an online application that’s<br />
accepted by 400 schools. The essays will differ for each<br />
school, but this eliminates a lot of repetition in <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
parts of <strong>the</strong> application.<br />
7. Love your college list.<br />
VT: “A student should be happy to go to any of <strong>the</strong><br />
colleges on her list.”<br />
8. Testing is not <strong>the</strong> be-all and end-all.<br />
VT: “If you don’t test well you will still go to college.<br />
Many schools have started to weigh testing less in<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir consideration of students for admission.<br />
Check out fairtest.org.”<br />
9. Visit, visit, visit.<br />
VT: “College visits are very important to <strong>the</strong> development<br />
of a college plan - you really can’t picture yourself<br />
in a place without going and experiencing it. Take a tour,<br />
sit in on <strong>the</strong> admissions presentation, ask questions of<br />
your tour guide, eat in <strong>the</strong> dining hall, attend a class if<br />
that is an option!”<br />
10. “Keep calm. We got this.”<br />
CT: “We don’t teach - we’re fully focused on <strong>the</strong> kids, on<br />
getting to know <strong>the</strong>m. We build a lot of check points —<br />
<strong>the</strong>y’re not going to fall through <strong>the</strong> cracks.”<br />
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New student services center offers<br />
open spaces and focused services<br />
“Children grow with light.”<br />
That’s part of <strong>the</strong> philosophy behind <strong>the</strong> OASIS,<br />
a new and bright re-visioning of space in <strong>the</strong><br />
Taylor Building at St. Mary’s this fall, says Leigh<br />
Mansberg, assistant head of school.<br />
OASIS is <strong>the</strong> acronym for <strong>the</strong> Office of Academic<br />
Services and Inspirational Support, which<br />
houses college counselors, registrar, chaplain,<br />
director of studies and Upper School head, along<br />
with a common space designed to welcome<br />
students and visitors both — coffee, computer<br />
workspace, comfortable armchairs and <strong>the</strong> Living<br />
Edge Conference Room (named for <strong>the</strong> beautifully<br />
crafted local—wood table at its center).<br />
St. Mary’s mission statement is on <strong>the</strong> wall at<br />
<strong>the</strong> entrance. Look closely — <strong>the</strong> two spotlights<br />
above it illuminate <strong>the</strong> words below in <strong>the</strong> shape<br />
of a heart. “That was an accident,” says Mansberg,<br />
but an appropriate one.<br />
OASIS is “a place for <strong>the</strong> in-between things…<br />
<strong>the</strong> things that don’t have a container,” says <strong>the</strong><br />
Reverend Ka<strong>the</strong>rine McQuiston Bush ’93, St. Mary’s<br />
chaplain. The offices have bright windows, sofas,<br />
round tables where families can meet in private<br />
or students can come in for testing or a listening<br />
ear. The common area is open for students seeking<br />
quiet study time. The message behind it, she says,<br />
is “We value you and your presence.”<br />
The “inspiration” in <strong>the</strong> name is important.<br />
“In my opinion, inspiration is where it’s at,”<br />
says Mansberg. It’s “at <strong>the</strong> heart of finding potential.<br />
If you feel supported, you can feel inspired.”<br />
The physical space of <strong>the</strong> OASIS is part of a<br />
school-wide increasing of collaboration and<br />
communication across departments and grade<br />
levels, so that <strong>the</strong> student and family experience<br />
is consistent and supportive from age two to high<br />
school graduation.<br />
“There are a lot of ways to be a St. Mary’s girl…<br />
a lot of ways to put <strong>the</strong> pieces toge<strong>the</strong>r,” says Bush.<br />
“There are a lot of us to help <strong>the</strong> girls see that.”<br />
Cara Ellen Modisett is minister of communication at Church of <strong>the</strong> Holy Communion.<br />
She has worked as an editor, college writing instructor, classical pianist and public<br />
radio reporter, producer and announcer. She moved here from Virginia in summer<br />
2014 and loves exploring <strong>the</strong> city of Memphis.<br />
MacKenzie Campbell ‘16 and Hannah Meacham ‘16 chat with Dr. Dalton Lyon in <strong>the</strong> lighter and brighter first floor of Taylor, home to <strong>the</strong> OASIS and <strong>the</strong> Living Edge conference room.<br />
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To Be or Not To Be<br />
Ophelia<br />
For all of my St. Mary’s girls and <strong>the</strong> women in <strong>the</strong>ir lives.<br />
By Shari Ray<br />
Each October I open up <strong>the</strong> dog-eared, smudgy pages<br />
of my copy of Hamlet to once again teach a new batch of<br />
budding girl-scholars this magnificent story – a tragedy of<br />
such epic depths that many call this <strong>the</strong> greatest of all plays<br />
and Shakespeare <strong>the</strong> greatest of all playwrights.<br />
Of all <strong>the</strong> deaths that inevitably come at <strong>the</strong> conclusion<br />
of a great tragedy, it is Ophelia’s stays with me after <strong>the</strong><br />
book is stored away for ano<strong>the</strong>r year. Ophelia’s death lingers<br />
with my girl-scholars as well; it is her sad story that finds<br />
its way into college essays and Senior speeches, and it is for<br />
her we weep.<br />
Alas, poor Ophelia. She drowns herself. She is found<br />
floating in <strong>the</strong> brook, arms full of wildflowers.<br />
But why? That is always <strong>the</strong> question. The answer is<br />
this: There is simply so much Ophelia lacks.<br />
Ophelia lacks support. Poor Ophelia has no women<br />
in her life. No women with whom to bounce ideas around,<br />
no mo<strong>the</strong>r to ask her important questions, no laughter and<br />
secrets with female friends for Ophelia, tucked away in her<br />
lonely Danish castle on <strong>the</strong> hillside. She is completely alone.<br />
Ophelia lacks knowledge. No books instruct her<br />
-- women were illiterate. No older women passing down<br />
stories laced with humor and wisdom at <strong>the</strong> washing tub<br />
or <strong>the</strong> cooking table. No mo<strong>the</strong>r. Everyone demanding of<br />
her, everyone pushing. While poor Ophelia sits alone in her<br />
closet with only her sewing to keep her company.<br />
Ophelia does not find her voice for she lacks<br />
opportunities to find it. Poor Ophelia never asks questions<br />
— no one has ever given her permission or opportunity to<br />
do so. She is constantly instructed and lectured by fa<strong>the</strong>r,<br />
her bro<strong>the</strong>r, and even her boyfriend Hamlet, but she is never<br />
asked a question and she never asks one. “I shall obey, my<br />
lord,” is her only resting place, and it does not serve her well.<br />
Quiet, blind, verbal obedience is not <strong>the</strong> recipe for successful<br />
womanhood, even way back in Ophelia’s day.<br />
Ophelia lacks strength. No woman has shown her<br />
strength. She is surrounded by only male dominance and<br />
<strong>the</strong> verbal abuse that leads to quiet servitude and fragility.<br />
Our Ophelia is very fragile. The only woman who could stand<br />
up for her, Gertrude, doesn’t. Thus our pretty Ophelia fades,<br />
like <strong>the</strong> wildflowers she clutches. She fades out of sight,<br />
quiet and demure, pretty, thin, well-dressed — many mo<strong>the</strong>rs<br />
would hail her as a paragon of beauty and grace. With<br />
her little sad smile Ophelia heads to <strong>the</strong> brook, mumbling<br />
to herself snippets of old tunes, and goes quietly mad. Just<br />
before she takes her own life.<br />
Dearest Students of Mine:<br />
Please don’t try to go through this life alone. You need<br />
people, you need o<strong>the</strong>r women. Seek <strong>the</strong>m out if <strong>the</strong>y aren’t<br />
seeking you out at <strong>the</strong> moment. Be courageous to do this.<br />
Make amends with your mo<strong>the</strong>r, if you can.<br />
You have been taught to find your voice. Do not forget<br />
this teaching. Ask your questions well, firmly, with dignity and<br />
intelligence. Demand only when you must, but <strong>the</strong>n do so with<br />
courage and forthrightness. Surround yourself with people you<br />
respect and trust, people who listen to you and to whom you<br />
listen. Don’t worry if <strong>the</strong>se numbers are few -- <strong>the</strong>y will be.<br />
Cherish <strong>the</strong> few trustworthy voices and tolerate <strong>the</strong> rest, but<br />
do not listen to unkind, mean voices. Separate yourself<br />
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from <strong>the</strong>se.<br />
Help who will be helped and leave <strong>the</strong> rest. It’s all<br />
you can do. I learned this <strong>the</strong> hard way and it took me<br />
too many years.<br />
Girls, I ask us: Where are <strong>the</strong> strong women? Strong<br />
women stand up for <strong>the</strong>mselves and for o<strong>the</strong>r women.<br />
Strong women ask for help and call on o<strong>the</strong>r strong women<br />
when <strong>the</strong>y fall down. Strong women have names like Rosa<br />
Parks and Malala Yousafzai and Eleanor Roosevelt. They<br />
also have names like Elizabeth and Polly and Whitney and<br />
Kat and Ashley. They are you, my dears.<br />
You are <strong>the</strong> strong women. Quiet heroes, strong<br />
women, helping each o<strong>the</strong>r. Helping Ophelia.<br />
We know what to do, now we must do it.<br />
To be or not to be Ophelia? Absolutely not. It’s out<br />
of <strong>the</strong> question.<br />
Shari Ray is <strong>the</strong> Senior English teacher and English Department Chair.<br />
This is <strong>the</strong> first in a series of essays by St. Mary’s faculty about teaching,<br />
learning, and life.<br />
English Department Chair and Senior English Teacher Shari Ray in <strong>the</strong> classroom.<br />
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Campus News<br />
NATIonal Merit<br />
National Merit Scholarship<br />
Semifinalists<br />
MacKenzie Campbell<br />
Bebe Chancellor<br />
Katie Hieatt<br />
Harlan Hutton<br />
Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Norwood<br />
Annie Parker<br />
Swarna Sakshi<br />
Maire Sweeney<br />
Commended Students<br />
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recognized 17 Seniors from <strong>the</strong><br />
Class of 2016 at St. Mary’s Episcopal School for <strong>the</strong>ir academic achievement, with<br />
eight students named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and nine students<br />
named Commended Students. Each year, <strong>the</strong> National Merit Scholarship Program<br />
honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential<br />
for success in rigorous college studies. Semifinalists score in <strong>the</strong> top 1 percent of<br />
all juniors nationwide who took <strong>the</strong> PSAT in <strong>the</strong> fall of 2014.<br />
Chalmers Benson<br />
A’Doriann Bradley<br />
Molly Cline<br />
Meghan Lancaster<br />
Hannah Meacham<br />
Kathryn Miesse<br />
Lily Norwood<br />
Mary Elise O’Brien<br />
Elizabeth Waggoner<br />
Spotlight on Theatre: The Lion King Jr.<br />
In early October, a crew of 3rd and 4th grade <strong>the</strong>spians performed The Lion King Jr. under <strong>the</strong><br />
leadership of Director of Plays Jenny Madden and many Middle and Upper School student volunteers.<br />
The production proved to be so popular that an extra showing was added to meet ticket demand.<br />
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New Members of <strong>the</strong> St. Mary’s<br />
Board of Trustees, 2015-2016<br />
Campus News<br />
Edward (Ed) Chin is senior<br />
regulatory affairs program<br />
director at Medtronic, Inc. He<br />
earned a bachelor’s degree from<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Tennessee at<br />
Martin. Ed went on to earn a<br />
Bachelor of Science in pharmacy<br />
from <strong>the</strong> University of Tennessee<br />
Health Science Center and<br />
an MBA from <strong>the</strong> University<br />
of Memphis. Ed and his wife,<br />
Rose, are parents of recent St.<br />
Mary’s graduate Chelsea ’14<br />
and current student Rachel ’17.<br />
Laurita Jackson is a managing<br />
partner with 1Source, an office<br />
and facility supply company.<br />
She graduated from Howard<br />
University with a bachelor’s<br />
degree in electrical engineering<br />
and received an MBA at<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Michigan.<br />
Laurita and her husband,<br />
Darryl, have two daughters<br />
who attend St. Mary’s –<br />
Jean ’17 and Joy ’19 – and<br />
a son, Jarrett.<br />
Christina (Tina) Fockler earned<br />
her bachelor’s degree in<br />
psychology from Princeton<br />
University and a Master of Science<br />
in counseling from <strong>the</strong><br />
University of Memphis. Tina<br />
serves on <strong>the</strong> board for Facing<br />
History and Ourselves, as well<br />
as <strong>the</strong> Circuit Playhouse, Inc.<br />
She and her husband, Bob, are<br />
parents of alumna Ka<strong>the</strong>rine ’06<br />
and son Ted.<br />
Ellen Clark Moore ’73 attended<br />
Vanderbilt University and<br />
graduated with a Bachelor of<br />
Arts degree. She has volunteered<br />
with multiple organizations,<br />
including LifeSource<br />
Blood Services and Grace<br />
Presbyterian Church. Ellen is<br />
a former recipient of <strong>the</strong> St.<br />
Mary’s Gold Cross Award. She<br />
and her husband, Alex, have<br />
three children: John,<br />
Margaret, and Charlie.<br />
Robert Fogelman is president of<br />
Fogelman Investment Company.<br />
He earned his Bachelor of Arts<br />
degree at Middlebury College,<br />
a master’s degree in liberal<br />
studies at Dartmouth College,<br />
and an MBA from Vanderbilt<br />
University. He has also received<br />
an honorary doctorate from<br />
Memphis College of Art. Robert<br />
and his wife, Bradley, have a<br />
daughter at St. Mary’s, Eliza ’29,<br />
and a son, Foster.<br />
Jody Shutzberg is a former<br />
pediatric oncology nurse<br />
at Children’s Healthcare of<br />
Atlanta. She earned a<br />
Bachelor of Science degree<br />
at <strong>the</strong> University of Georgia<br />
and a Bachelor of Science in<br />
nursing at <strong>the</strong> Medical College<br />
of Georgia. Jody and her<br />
husband, Larry, have three<br />
girls at St. Mary’s: Becca ’19,<br />
Jessy ’19, and Abby ’17.<br />
Dr. Malika Tuli Goorha attended<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Virginia,<br />
University of Tennessee, and<br />
University of Missouri-Kansas<br />
City where she earned her<br />
bachelor’s and master’s degree.<br />
She works as a dermatologist<br />
with <strong>the</strong> Mid-South Dermatology<br />
Group. Malika and her husband,<br />
Salil, have two daughters at<br />
St. Mary’s: Aanya ’29 and<br />
Avi ’26.<br />
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Campus News<br />
New FACulty and Staff<br />
Back Row: (L-R) Liza Fletcher, Grace Jensen Knight ’05, Vicki Englehart-Thompson. Middle Row: (L-R) Alan Pennington, John Bartholomew, Lake Bailey, Kate Fairless, Christine Mudalige,<br />
Jill Samuels ’92, Gwen Alexander, Kate Stakem. Front Row: (L-R) Sharon Donovan, Brennan Adrian, Lindsay Hammond, Christina Block, Amy Bagwell, and Jenny Levi.<br />
To start <strong>the</strong> 2015-2016 school year, St. Mary’s welcomed a group of new faculty and staff members to <strong>the</strong> family!<br />
Brennan Adrian is <strong>the</strong> first ever<br />
North Campus counselor, serving<br />
ECC and Lower School students.<br />
Gwen Alexander serves on <strong>the</strong><br />
Upper School science faculty,<br />
teaching anatomy and physiology,<br />
chemistry, and biology classes.<br />
Amy Bagwell is a new member of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Senior Kindergarten team.<br />
Lake Bailey is a new to <strong>the</strong> ECC<br />
faculty as a Junior Kindergarten<br />
teacher.<br />
John Bartholomew has served <strong>the</strong><br />
St. Mary’s athletic department as<br />
<strong>the</strong> varsity lacrosse coach since<br />
January 2014 and has been hired<br />
full time as <strong>the</strong> assistant athletic<br />
director.<br />
Christina Block is starting a new<br />
role as <strong>the</strong> director of learning<br />
support for students in St. Mary’s<br />
Place through 5th grade.<br />
Sharon Donovan works in <strong>the</strong><br />
business office as <strong>the</strong> new student<br />
billing coordinator.<br />
Vicki Englehart-Thompson is<br />
<strong>the</strong> dean of college counseling,<br />
heading a reorganized college<br />
counseling office.<br />
Kate Fairless has been assisting<br />
with JV and Varsity Soccer since<br />
2014. She is now <strong>the</strong> soccer coordinator<br />
and serves on <strong>the</strong> Middle<br />
School science faculty.<br />
Liza Fletcher comes to St. Mary’s<br />
in a dual role, serving as a Junior<br />
Kindergarten teacher in <strong>the</strong> ECC<br />
and sports information specialist<br />
for <strong>the</strong> athletic department.<br />
Lindsay Hammond joins <strong>the</strong> ECC<br />
specialist faculty as <strong>the</strong> music<br />
teacher.<br />
Grace Jensen Knight ’05 returns<br />
to her alma mater as <strong>the</strong> event coordinator<br />
for <strong>the</strong> admission office.<br />
Jenny Levi is a member of <strong>the</strong><br />
Upper School faculty as <strong>the</strong> new<br />
physics teacher.<br />
Christine Mudalige has coached<br />
Middle School Soccer and<br />
Lacrosse, and now joins <strong>the</strong><br />
Upper School faculty as health<br />
and fitness instructor.<br />
Alan Pennington has served<br />
St. Mary’s as a consultant for<br />
seven years and now joins <strong>the</strong><br />
technology staff full-time as network<br />
and systems engineer.<br />
Jill Samuels ’92 joins <strong>the</strong> Middle<br />
School faculty as a member of <strong>the</strong><br />
5th grade team.<br />
Kate Stakem comes to St. Mary’s<br />
as <strong>the</strong> new director of studies in<br />
<strong>the</strong> college counseling office.<br />
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Campus News<br />
This Season in Turkey Nation, Fall 2015<br />
By Owen McGuire<br />
The St. Mary’s athletic department just<br />
completed what can be considered <strong>the</strong><br />
most successful fall season in school history.<br />
For <strong>the</strong> first time ever, all four fall varsity sports<br />
(volleyball, soccer, cross country, and golf)<br />
competed at <strong>the</strong> state level in <strong>the</strong> post season.<br />
The Varsity Volleyball team finished <strong>the</strong><br />
season with a 23-8 record. During <strong>the</strong> regular<br />
season, <strong>the</strong>y finished in 5th place in <strong>the</strong> River<br />
City Tournament, <strong>the</strong> program’s best finish ever.<br />
In <strong>the</strong> regional tournament, St. Mary’s took 3rd<br />
place. At <strong>the</strong> tournament, head coach Kari<br />
Varsity Volleyball players celebrate a point during <strong>the</strong> state tournament.<br />
Duncan was named Coach of <strong>the</strong> Year. Junior<br />
Carmen Freeman was named first team all-region, with<br />
Seniors Margaret Cowens, Mary Elise O’Brien, and Wesley<br />
Richards receiving all-region honorable mention. After<br />
defeating Zion Academy in sub-state play, <strong>the</strong> team traveled<br />
to Murfreesboro for <strong>the</strong> state tournament. The team<br />
suffered elimination after losing against Harding and St.<br />
George’s. Cowens, Freeman, and Sophomore Alexis Jamison<br />
were named Best of <strong>the</strong> Preps by The Commercial Appeal.<br />
Volleyball Best of Preps honorees (L-R) Alexis Jamison, Margaret Cowens, and Carmen Freeman.<br />
Varsity Soccer ended <strong>the</strong> season with a 5-11-2 record.<br />
The team won <strong>the</strong> first round of <strong>the</strong> regional tournament Ashley Murrah placed 9th overall. At <strong>the</strong> state championship,<br />
St. Mary’s placed 8th. Junior Abby Baskind was <strong>the</strong><br />
before being eliminated.<br />
Sophomores Olivia House, top runner for <strong>the</strong> Turkeys at state. At <strong>the</strong> Junior Varsity<br />
Evie Laney, and Martha championship meet, Sophomore Hannah Mat<strong>the</strong>ws<br />
Kay Williams were named finished 11th overall.<br />
to <strong>the</strong> all-district team, and Varsity Golf finished<br />
House was also named to a successful season with<br />
<strong>the</strong> TSCA all-state team. a record of 25-11-2. The<br />
Sophomores Ellie McGhee Turkey golfers won <strong>the</strong><br />
and Evelyn Roberts made regional tournament and<br />
<strong>the</strong> all-region tournament advanced to state. At <strong>the</strong><br />
Soccer Best of Preps honorees Ellie McGhee and<br />
Martha Kay Williams.<br />
Golf Best of Preps honorees Aubrey Guyton and Megan Tang.<br />
team. The team fell in <strong>the</strong> regional tournament,<br />
first round of sub-state competition. The Commercial Appeal Freshman Megan Tang had <strong>the</strong> lowest score in <strong>the</strong><br />
named McGhee and Williams as Best of <strong>the</strong> Preps.<br />
tournament, and Junior Aubrey Guyton had <strong>the</strong> third lowest<br />
score. At <strong>the</strong> state tournament in Murfreesboro, <strong>the</strong><br />
Varsity Cross Country enjoyed a strong season. In<br />
September, <strong>the</strong> runners placed 3rd out of eight teams at <strong>the</strong> team came in 2nd place and both golfers finished 6th and<br />
Frank Horton Invitational. They came in 3rd at <strong>the</strong> regional 7th respectively. Guyton and Tang have both been named<br />
meet, which qualified <strong>the</strong>m for <strong>the</strong> state meet. Junior Mary Best of <strong>the</strong> Preps by The Commercial Appeal.<br />
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Class Notes<br />
Gigi Gould ’70 Forges New Path<br />
Class Notes<br />
Gigi Gould ’70 with class of 1970 friends (L-R) Lynn Schadt Thomas,<br />
Susie Hudson, and Susan Hall Wilson.<br />
During her 15-year tenure as Assistant Director of<br />
Advancement/Alumnae and Special Events, Gigi<br />
Gould ’70 rejuvenated <strong>the</strong> way St. Mary’s maintains<br />
relationships with alumnae. As a school with 2,700<br />
graduates, finding ways to stay in touch with everyone<br />
is not simple. What may be daunting to some,<br />
however, was simply all in a day’s work to Gigi.<br />
After graduating from <strong>the</strong> University of Mississippi<br />
and living in Biloxi where she raised her two<br />
children, Louis and Hea<strong>the</strong>r (who teaches 2nd grade<br />
at St. Mary’s), Gigi eventually found her way back to<br />
Memphis and St. Mary’s in 2000. As Gigi herself says,<br />
she spent 40% of her life at St. Mary’s.<br />
During her tenure, St. Mary’s enjoyed a complete<br />
revitalization of <strong>the</strong> alumnae association; Alumnae<br />
Weekend became a highly attended event, with each<br />
year breaking <strong>the</strong> previous year’s attendance record,<br />
thanks to Gigi and her compatriot, Lisa Morrow<br />
Morten ’76. Gigi’s dedication to <strong>the</strong> alumnae program<br />
and <strong>the</strong> school resulted in fun ga<strong>the</strong>rings that<br />
brought toge<strong>the</strong>r not only alumnae, but many friends<br />
of <strong>the</strong> school – both here in Memphis and far away,<br />
from <strong>the</strong> many out-of-town alumnae ga<strong>the</strong>rings to<br />
<strong>the</strong> 2015 trip to France. Parties hosted in Memphis<br />
were typically filled to capacity, and o<strong>the</strong>r out-oftown<br />
events allowed alumnae across <strong>the</strong> country<br />
to meet and mingle with each o<strong>the</strong>r and often with<br />
Gigi and Head of School Albert Throckmorton. Gigi’s<br />
myriad o<strong>the</strong>r contributions to St. Mary’s include<br />
streng<strong>the</strong>ning alumnae giving in support of <strong>the</strong><br />
Annual Fund, creating a strong and active Alumnae<br />
Board, directing <strong>the</strong> Council of Advisors, and<br />
scheduling alumnae speakers for Chapel.<br />
Gigi Gould will always belong to St. Mary’s – both as<br />
a graduate and as a very dear friend – and we are all<br />
<strong>the</strong> richer for her service to <strong>the</strong> school. We wish her<br />
well as she joins her family’s business in Memphis.<br />
–1940-1960<br />
Elizabeth Taylor Shindler<br />
elizshnd@gmail.com<br />
Sarah Loaring-Clark Flowers<br />
’47 said all is well at Trezevant<br />
Manor. She enjoys all of <strong>the</strong><br />
activities and loves being<br />
<strong>the</strong>re with so many St Mary’s<br />
friends. Betsy Ross Rucks ’47<br />
has initiated a new program<br />
at Trezevant Manor called<br />
“Trezevant Explores” featuring<br />
many venues of music and<br />
speakers on history or current<br />
events. Master gardener Sue<br />
Gray Burgess ’52 is a member<br />
of The Historical Society of<br />
Marietta, Ga., and is in charge<br />
of <strong>the</strong> lovely gardens of a home<br />
built in 1850. She plans to compare<br />
gardening notes with Kitty<br />
Perry Taylor ’53, who is known<br />
for her beautiful gardens in<br />
Collierville. Kitty said she has<br />
a new laptop and is having fun<br />
learning all <strong>the</strong> new techniques<br />
involved. While Naomi<br />
Gray May ’47 is in rehab in Little<br />
Rock recovering from a fall,<br />
she is using this time to learn<br />
new computer skills from a tutor.<br />
Anne Perry Stamps ’57 is<br />
looking forward to a visit from<br />
her daughter in Pensacola. Punk<br />
Aycock Davidson ’57 is on her<br />
way to Raleigh, N.C., for her<br />
grandchild’s birthday party.<br />
Mary Walton Glass Walker ’54<br />
is celebrating <strong>the</strong> arrival of<br />
her fifth great-grandchild. Her<br />
sister, Lynne Glass Rice ’57 was<br />
<strong>the</strong>re after a marvelous trip<br />
to Atlanta where she enjoyed<br />
visiting with many of her<br />
friends. After nightfall, Mary Joy<br />
Prichard Knowlton ’57, an avid<br />
gardener, was recently out in <strong>the</strong><br />
dark of night with her flashlight<br />
to see <strong>the</strong> white flowers of her<br />
lovely Cereus plant, which only<br />
blooms annually. Mary Joy expects<br />
to have knee surgery in <strong>the</strong><br />
coming months in <strong>the</strong> Memphis<br />
area. Elizabeth Taylor Shindler<br />
’57 is recovering from spinal<br />
surgery in Cleveland, Tenn. She<br />
is now on <strong>the</strong> upswing.<br />
–1962<br />
Carolyn Bullard<br />
wildcom@aol.com<br />
–1963<br />
Tina Heslep Ciliberto<br />
ciliti@aol.com<br />
Eight of us were able to meet at<br />
Jenny Emison Ewing’s home on<br />
Watts Bar Lake near Ten Mile,<br />
Tenn., to celebrate our 70th<br />
birthdays toge<strong>the</strong>r. Asimoula<br />
Julia Alissandratos came from<br />
S. C., Sara Sorsby Dennis and<br />
Tina Ciliberto arrived from<br />
Calif., Jackie Whitelea<strong>the</strong>r from<br />
Colo., and Patty Ozier Riffel from<br />
Ark. They were joined by Memphis<br />
classmates Donna Lansing<br />
Plumer and Canon Thomas<br />
Hall. Joyce Wilkerson Kaplan<br />
and Carolyn Collier Johnson<br />
were unable to attend and were<br />
much missed. We also missed<br />
our late classmates Evelyn Perry,<br />
Ann Rooke Archer, and Ginger<br />
Lee Sayle, but were grateful to<br />
have so many of us toge<strong>the</strong>r.<br />
We shared good conversation,<br />
memories, laughter, and amazing<br />
food along with Jenny and<br />
Ward’s incredible home and<br />
hospitality. We ate our meals on<br />
<strong>the</strong> open back porch overlooking<br />
one of <strong>the</strong> large lawns and <strong>the</strong><br />
lake, including BBQ from Corky’s<br />
contributed by <strong>the</strong> Memphis<br />
alumnae as well as Jenny’s<br />
mouthwatering preparations.<br />
Julia contributed a homemade<br />
baklava to <strong>the</strong> festivities. We<br />
celebrated with a special dinner<br />
one night with cake and candles,<br />
birthday hats and beads. We also<br />
had a wonderful outdoor yoga<br />
class, swimming and kayaking<br />
on <strong>the</strong> lake each day, and a trip<br />
to Sweetwater for lunch and<br />
antique shopping. One evening<br />
we were treated to a sunset boat<br />
ride, seeing beautiful birds on<br />
<strong>the</strong> peaceful lake. The evening<br />
ended with a campfire, s’mores,<br />
and singing. What we lacked in<br />
talent, we more than made up<br />
for with enthusiasm. It was hard<br />
to say goodbye to each o<strong>the</strong>r, but<br />
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<strong>the</strong> reunion was so enjoyable<br />
that we decided to meet again<br />
in 2016. How special that our St.<br />
Mary’s connection brought us<br />
toge<strong>the</strong>r. It is amazing how old<br />
friends who haven’t seen each<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r in years pick up threads<br />
of conversation as if it has only<br />
been a short time being apart—a<br />
certain kind of ease from knowing<br />
each o<strong>the</strong>r when we were<br />
young. Our class sends thanks<br />
to St. Mary’s for encouraging our<br />
connection and to our classmate,<br />
Jenny, for hosting <strong>the</strong> best possible<br />
reunion.<br />
–1964<br />
CLASS SECRETARY NEEDED.<br />
Contact Rainey Ray Segars ’05,<br />
Director of Alumnae, at rsegars@<br />
stmarysschool.org.<br />
–1965<br />
Julia Malone<br />
julialmalone@gmail.com<br />
Downsizing seems to be <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong>me for members of <strong>the</strong> halfcentury<br />
class! Susan Hoefer<br />
Foster and husband Brad have<br />
sold <strong>the</strong>ir house in Memphis<br />
and are spending more time at<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir Montana home. They’re<br />
keeping a Memphis apartment<br />
for visits with daughter Laura<br />
’94, son-in-law Josh and two<br />
grandsons. “Even more exciting,”<br />
says Susan, is that son Charley<br />
is engaged to Whitney Baer ’00,<br />
a “wonderful” St. Mary’s grad,<br />
and <strong>the</strong>y’ll be moving to Helena,<br />
Mont. More from Montana: Sally<br />
Pace Gingras and husband Paul<br />
have downsized from <strong>the</strong>ir Big<br />
Timber ranch to a condo in<br />
Bozeman. They are back in Palm<br />
Beach for <strong>the</strong> winter, however.<br />
Also in Florida, Ellen Rumsey<br />
Bellenot reports that she is<br />
“sorta trying to downsize too”<br />
but adds, “The problem is that I<br />
keep looping back to old tricks<br />
and so I know I’m going to need<br />
all of those felted wool sweater<br />
sleeves and <strong>the</strong> O rings and <strong>the</strong><br />
wire and <strong>the</strong> paints. Eventually, I<br />
did let go of <strong>the</strong> lea<strong>the</strong>r and <strong>the</strong><br />
basketry stuff.” Susan Taylor<br />
Thompson just put her house<br />
of 26 years on <strong>the</strong> market and<br />
will move into a new Tuscan<br />
villa across <strong>the</strong> lake. She adds,<br />
“I have had no o<strong>the</strong>r life this<br />
summer except to get a third<br />
Shar Pei, named Pearlie, now<br />
six months old and not worth<br />
a nickel,” but who has her own<br />
story with a daily moral on<br />
Susan’s Facebook page. Kathy<br />
Sweany Bertram downsized<br />
her work schedule, spending a<br />
month in Wyoming, returning<br />
to Tennessee for two weeks of<br />
work, <strong>the</strong>n back to Wyoming for<br />
two more weeks with Jack and<br />
<strong>the</strong> dogs before coming home.<br />
Doc Bertram says she’s lucky<br />
to have so much flexibility. Liz<br />
Pryor MacEachran says her<br />
alpaca business had a good year,<br />
and “we have not replaced our<br />
sells with buys, so our numbers<br />
are down, which suits us,” she<br />
reports. She has four grands<br />
in Colorado, and youngest son<br />
Daniel and his wife Jil are expecting<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir first in Cambridge,<br />
Mass., which is “nice and close.”<br />
Marion West Hammer’s clan is<br />
also expanding. She’s looking<br />
forward to a new grandbabe in<br />
early April. This will be son Dan<br />
and his wife Lindsey’s second.<br />
Marion remains among <strong>the</strong><br />
employed, teaching part time<br />
and still enjoying it. Patti Person<br />
Ray claims to be semi-retired<br />
but looks to be still fully engaged<br />
in education, teaching at Union<br />
University, chairing dissertation<br />
committees, and supervising<br />
Practicum Programs. She’s<br />
on <strong>the</strong> board for <strong>the</strong> Gestalt<br />
charter schools in Memphis. She<br />
continues to teach Global Issues<br />
online for St. Mary’s and is planning,<br />
with Cathy Hoover Allen,<br />
<strong>the</strong> next alum trip, which will<br />
be to Italy in October 2017. Julia<br />
Malone, your class secretary, is<br />
delighted that so many are sending<br />
us your news. We do wonder<br />
where in <strong>the</strong> world Lucy Minor<br />
Glasebrook might be since we<br />
heard during our 50th reunion<br />
that she was traveling with<br />
National Art Gallery curators<br />
searching for contemporary art<br />
in <strong>the</strong> Far East.<br />
–1966<br />
Diane Taylor Newton<br />
dianetaylornewton@live.com<br />
–1967<br />
Bette West Bush<br />
bbush11@att.net<br />
Right after I submitted our class<br />
news last spring I heard from<br />
Debbie Boehme Salter about <strong>the</strong><br />
birth of her second grandchild<br />
Mason Cromer McMillan, born<br />
February 23, so now granddaughter<br />
Elyse (3) has a precious<br />
baby bro<strong>the</strong>r. With daughter<br />
Elizabeth and family living in<br />
Atlanta, Debbie is able to help<br />
out with <strong>the</strong> kids. Across <strong>the</strong><br />
pond Jeannie Whitman Esdaile<br />
and Christopher celebrated <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
second anniversary. In addition<br />
to her career as retail manager<br />
for Purdey’s in London, she plays<br />
organ/piano in “two tiny churches”<br />
and sings with a “fabulous<br />
choir” that will perform Verdi’s<br />
Requiem at <strong>the</strong> Royal Albert<br />
Hall in <strong>the</strong> spring. This fall she<br />
enjoyed a visit from sister Nancy<br />
Whitman Manire ’64. Our o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
British classmate Lee McGeorge<br />
Durrell was a guide for “Gerald<br />
Durrell Week” in May in Corfu<br />
where Gerry’s family spent many<br />
vacations when he was a boy in<br />
<strong>the</strong> 1930s. She spent <strong>the</strong> rest of<br />
her summer lecturing at Durrell<br />
Conservation Academy, meeting<br />
journalists and potential donors,<br />
and planning fundraising activities<br />
including <strong>the</strong> American<br />
Friends of Durrell event in New<br />
York in November. Anne Hyde<br />
Dale asked to revise her news<br />
after sending it because, as she<br />
said, she “didn’t want Mrs. Curry<br />
to make (her) stub her toe!”<br />
Since retiring, she and husband<br />
Jamie live in Montreat, N.C., until<br />
<strong>the</strong>y finish building <strong>the</strong>ir home<br />
in Black Mountain, N.C., in <strong>the</strong><br />
spring. They enjoy volunteering<br />
with Habitat for Humanity. Also<br />
on <strong>the</strong> East coast Lynn Clark<br />
White reports from Lynchburg,<br />
Va., that her poodle puppy is<br />
huge and still growing. She encourages<br />
all of us to make every<br />
effort to attend our 50th class<br />
reunion in 2017. This summer<br />
Classmates from 1963 ga<strong>the</strong>red at Jenny Emison Ewing’s home to celebrate<br />
turning 70. Pictured, back row from left: Patty Ozier Riffel, Canon<br />
Thomas Hall, Jackie Whitelea<strong>the</strong>r, Julia Alissandratos.<br />
Front row, from left: Donna Lansing Plumer, Jenny Emison Ewing,<br />
Tina Heslep Ciliberto and Sara Sorsby Dennis.<br />
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Class Notes<br />
Janie Allen Till and husband Bob<br />
went back to Greece where <strong>the</strong>y<br />
lived for many years and experienced<br />
firsthand <strong>the</strong> economic<br />
crisis and <strong>the</strong> thousands of refugees<br />
arriving daily. Back home in<br />
Colorado she still teaches sixth<br />
grade and enjoys her six grandchildren<br />
with ano<strong>the</strong>r granddaughter<br />
due in February. Susan<br />
Seelbinder enjoys country<br />
living in Hardeman County with<br />
her menagerie on <strong>the</strong> Phunny<br />
Pharm. Ana Pearson Jensen still<br />
works fulltime at Blue Cross<br />
Kansas City and also finds time<br />
to teach an online class and<br />
take classes at a Bible college.<br />
In <strong>the</strong> fall Lynn Bledsoe Buhler<br />
took a great trip to Santa Fe, a<br />
“wonderful city.” She laments<br />
that granddaughter Mary Taylor<br />
Buhler, St. Mary’s third grader,<br />
now is in <strong>the</strong> grade where<br />
homework begins. Jean Stitt<br />
Otto spends her retirement from<br />
nursing walking, hiking, and<br />
attacking a long list of house and<br />
yard maintenance projects with<br />
renewed vigor. She loves “misty,<br />
green western Washington,” but<br />
she and her husband also enjoy<br />
wintering in Tucson. Susan<br />
McNeely Nicholas has stayed<br />
busy helping with her niece’s<br />
wedding where <strong>the</strong>re was such<br />
a large contingency of St. Mary’s<br />
girls that <strong>the</strong>y “almost did not<br />
fit in <strong>the</strong> picture.” She loves that<br />
her four beautiful grandchildren<br />
live in <strong>the</strong> area and is thankful<br />
that her treatments for bone<br />
cancer continue to work.<br />
–1968<br />
Jan Cone Davis<br />
jannoni5@aol.com<br />
I hope everyone is doing well.<br />
Carolyn Mayo is about ready to<br />
move into her new condo. This<br />
has been a major undertaking,<br />
and she says she will never<br />
move again! Carolyn’s family<br />
recently welcomed <strong>the</strong> first baby<br />
born into <strong>the</strong> family in 30 years –<br />
a special delivery for sure. Holly<br />
Rogers says she has no plans for<br />
retirement anytime soon. If she<br />
has her mo<strong>the</strong>r’s good genes,<br />
she needs to save enough money<br />
for a long life! Holly enjoys her<br />
job and has time for fun in <strong>the</strong><br />
evenings and on weekends.<br />
Marilyn Schwinn Smith was in<br />
Memphis briefly last winter to<br />
attend her aunt’s funeral. She<br />
left in <strong>the</strong> nick of time before<br />
that big March 4 snowstorm<br />
shut down <strong>the</strong> city. Marilyn was<br />
invited to join <strong>the</strong> Anglo-Russian<br />
Research Network. She says you<br />
can Google it for a “not so good<br />
picture.” Marilyn and husband<br />
Sean are empty nesters at last.<br />
Pam Joyner Evans and husband<br />
Hank “2” had a wonderful time<br />
on <strong>the</strong>ir Scandinavian cruise.<br />
The cruise included stops in<br />
Norway and St. Petersburg. Pam<br />
was nice enough to send me<br />
pictures of a few stops, because<br />
Hank “1” and I will be taking a<br />
similar cruise in about a year.<br />
My family has been enjoying a<br />
year of weddings. My son Chris<br />
was married in June and my<br />
daughter Jennie in May. I’ll have<br />
experience as both mo<strong>the</strong>r of<br />
<strong>the</strong> bride and mo<strong>the</strong>r of <strong>the</strong><br />
groom. What a difference! I am<br />
also a reading coach for two second<br />
graders at Caldwell-Guthrie<br />
Elementary School in North<br />
Memphis, and volunteer in <strong>the</strong><br />
library at my granddaughter’s<br />
school in Germantown. I substitute<br />
from time to time at SMS<br />
Lower School. Love to all!<br />
–1969<br />
Pam McNeely Williams<br />
Usafa2@scbglobal.net<br />
Connie Loveless Friend retired<br />
from full-time teaching two<br />
years ago but still works part<br />
time as a Title 1 reading tutor for<br />
Shelby County Schools. Daughter<br />
Katie ‘02, who works for Teach<br />
for America, has relocated from<br />
Cleveland, Miss., to Olive Branch,<br />
Miss., and Connie is thrilled<br />
to have her closer. Son Joey is<br />
still with Raymond James in<br />
Memphis. I almost cried when<br />
Cristina Brescia Michta ’70 and husband Andrew at daughter Chelsea’s<br />
Masters graduation from Cambridge University in <strong>the</strong> UK, July 2015.<br />
Connie closed her letter, Love,<br />
Cido! Anne Short Born in Beaufort,<br />
S.C., says if anyone wants<br />
to visit <strong>the</strong> Lowcountry she’d be<br />
delighted to show us around.<br />
She and her husband love traveling<br />
to Savannah, Charleston, and<br />
Hilton Head for <strong>the</strong> day where<br />
<strong>the</strong> food is just fabulous. Janie<br />
Hicks Jeter reports that she and<br />
husband Sheldon have a new<br />
Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppy<br />
named Sunny, for Sheldon’s solar<br />
energy work. Marta Richards<br />
spends a great deal of time in<br />
Richmond where her son’s family<br />
lives, enjoying her toddler<br />
grandson Benjamin Massony.<br />
She is practicing animal law and<br />
representing dog rescue groups<br />
and shelters, and fostering many<br />
dogs for Friends of <strong>the</strong> Animals<br />
in Baton Rouge. My family had<br />
visits from our daughter Ellen<br />
LeVaughn Kowalchuk ‘96 and her<br />
children, Mary, Lydia, Sam, Elizabeth,<br />
and Tim for a summer visit<br />
and <strong>the</strong>n for my niece’s wedding,<br />
Jessica Walker ’04 to Chris Wiley,<br />
this past fall. Elizabeth, our<br />
granddaughter, was <strong>the</strong> flower<br />
girl and it was one of <strong>the</strong> most<br />
beautiful weddings I have seen.<br />
Madge Logan Deacon was <strong>the</strong><br />
wedding coordinator for Calvary<br />
Episcopal Church (Memphis)<br />
and it was great seeing her! Our<br />
son and daughter-in-law, Matt<br />
and Hannah Williams, who are<br />
stationed at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque<br />
N.M., were also able<br />
to attend, as was our oldest son,<br />
Scott Williams, who is a juvenile<br />
probation officer in Harrisburg,<br />
Ark. Be sure to update your<br />
information with St. Mary’s and<br />
I certainly hope all of you have a<br />
very healthy an happy new year!<br />
–1970<br />
Cristina Michta<br />
cristina.michta@gmail.com<br />
Let me just say that I love my<br />
job as class secretary, mostly<br />
due to <strong>the</strong> fact that I love my<br />
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classmates. Betty Coe Cruzen<br />
Manuel and husband David<br />
will be grandparents of granddaughter<br />
#2 in late December/<br />
early January (son Edward and<br />
wife Haddy of Ft. Worth). Betty<br />
Coe took her Mo<strong>the</strong>r to Centralia,<br />
Ill., in September to visit her<br />
mo<strong>the</strong>r’s “home place” and Coe<br />
relatives. Kathy Baker Penn and<br />
husband, Bob, welcomed <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
first grandchild, Kate James.<br />
Mom Sarah and family live a few<br />
blocks away in Dallas. Denise<br />
DuBois Taylor writes that <strong>the</strong><br />
Taylor household is in travel<br />
mode. Denise spent a week in<br />
Paris this summer, traveling on<br />
a sibling trip with bro<strong>the</strong>rs Dean<br />
and John. Husband Sledge is<br />
Chairman of <strong>the</strong> National Cotton<br />
Council and travels worldwide<br />
frequently. Son Will spent<br />
a week in Portugal as part of<br />
his doctoral studies in astrophysics<br />
at Brown University.<br />
World traveler Susie Hudson<br />
reports that she will be going<br />
on a river cruise in December to<br />
<strong>the</strong> Christmas Markets along<br />
<strong>the</strong> Rhine River, and has seen<br />
Canada, Florida, and Germany in<br />
one year. Gigi Gould is thrilled<br />
that her first grandchild, Lily Eva<br />
Hengen, daughter of son Louis<br />
and his wife Jill, has arrived. Gigi<br />
is now working as Financial Aid<br />
Director for Gould’s Academy, a<br />
division of Gould’s Salon and<br />
Day Spa. Susan Hall Wilson is<br />
joyously busy <strong>the</strong>se days leading<br />
Sam Harris is <strong>the</strong> grandson of Susan<br />
Hall Wilson ’70, and son of Susan’s<br />
son Sy and his wife Claire.<br />
Bible Study for 2nd graders at<br />
church and taking care of new<br />
grandson Sam Harris as often as<br />
possible. Proud parents are son<br />
Sy and daughter-in-law Claire.<br />
Evelyn Anderson McGehee<br />
sends everyone greetings from<br />
Alabama. She and husband Bill<br />
are enjoying <strong>the</strong>ir six grandchildren,<br />
and are looking forward to<br />
building a house on Perdido Key,<br />
Fla., this year. Jill Tanner Flournoy<br />
is helping husband Tom with<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir family business, Tom’s Tiny<br />
Kitchen, selling pimento cheese<br />
made in Memphis. It is now<br />
sold in six states, with hopes to<br />
expand beyond that soon. Jill is<br />
also working on new product<br />
development for <strong>the</strong> company.<br />
Peg Dixon recently moved into<br />
a 115 year-old house in <strong>the</strong> historic<br />
Irish Hill neighborhood of<br />
Louisville. Peg enjoyed two trips<br />
back in <strong>the</strong> spring, to Massachusetts<br />
for a friend’s CD release<br />
party, and ano<strong>the</strong>r to New Mexico<br />
for a ga<strong>the</strong>ring of dog rescue activists.<br />
Linda Stratton Hancock<br />
and husband Cary enjoy <strong>the</strong><br />
most important aspects of life:<br />
children, grandchildren, and a<br />
family beach trip. Linda enjoys<br />
working for Dr. Ryu three days a<br />
week. Your loyal secretary is enjoying<br />
life as a in Newport, R.I.,<br />
while husband Andrew is teaching<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Naval War College.<br />
Daughter Chelsea completed her<br />
Master’s at Cambridge in July<br />
and <strong>the</strong> graduation (all in Latin)<br />
was lovely. Your loyal secretary<br />
is enjoying life in Newport, R.I.,<br />
while she is at Oxford working<br />
on her doctorate.<br />
–1971<br />
Carolyn Cockroft<br />
carolyn1973@verizon.net<br />
Deborah Abernathy and her<br />
mo<strong>the</strong>r are moving forward after<br />
<strong>the</strong> death of Debbie’s fa<strong>the</strong>r<br />
in September. Marty Jones<br />
combined a visit to daughter<br />
Elise in Los Angeles with two<br />
real estate conferences in<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r west coast cities. With<br />
husband Fred she toured Peru,<br />
including Machu Picchu, and<br />
spent six days in spring rafting<br />
on <strong>the</strong> Colorado River in <strong>the</strong><br />
Grand Canyon. The highlight,<br />
however, was daughter Julia’s<br />
graduation from Tulane and <strong>the</strong><br />
end of college tuitions. Avery<br />
Malone Kaserman’s family is<br />
about to go for a week to Amelia<br />
Island, Fla., to photograph egrets<br />
and o<strong>the</strong>r birds. Jenny Jones<br />
Wardwell retired a year and a<br />
half ago and now has more time<br />
for bridge. She is volunteering<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Isabella Stewart Gardner<br />
Museum in Boston, and is<br />
spending longer stretches with<br />
both Fred’s parents who live<br />
in New York and Maine, and<br />
with her parents in Memphis.<br />
Speaking of retirement, my last<br />
day work was November 6—a<br />
28-year career. I will miss <strong>the</strong><br />
people, but I look forward to<br />
being more involved with my<br />
church activities—such as our<br />
pastoral care outreach, vestry<br />
and music ministry—and giving<br />
more volunteer hours to <strong>the</strong><br />
cat shelter where I adopted<br />
my Marigold. And maybe, just<br />
maybe, I will finally have time<br />
to do more writing.<br />
–1972<br />
Christine Mayer Todd<br />
ctoddmem@aol.com<br />
Meg Jemison Bartlett’s mo<strong>the</strong>r,<br />
Peggy Bodine, celebrated her<br />
90th birthday and still gets<br />
several of us toge<strong>the</strong>r for<br />
Meg’s birthday each year. Ms.<br />
Peggy reminds us, “Don’t mind<br />
growing old, it is a privilege<br />
denied to many.” Meg’s son<br />
Marshall is meeting interesting<br />
celebrity chefs as he expands<br />
his www.homeplacepastures.<br />
com pork business. Meg and<br />
her husband Mike are creating<br />
a USDA processing and packing<br />
plant for pork, beef, lamb, and<br />
goats, <strong>the</strong> only one in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
area. Son Jemison is living in<br />
Charlotte, N.C., and works for<br />
Wells Fargo on agricultural<br />
portfolios. Meg’s daughter May<br />
lives out west and is anxious<br />
to find out where she and her<br />
husband will be after he finishes<br />
his sports medicine MD. Meg is<br />
anxious about <strong>the</strong> placement,<br />
too, because she wants to be<br />
near her beautiful grandchild,<br />
Cate Speed. Also having fun is<br />
Susan Ossorio, who loves to<br />
babysit in Aintree Farms and<br />
substitute teach at Farmington<br />
Presbyterian’s preschool as<br />
often as she can. Jane Gordon<br />
Simmons has two beautiful<br />
grandchildren and works<br />
as a wedding coordinator at<br />
Heartwood Hall in Rossville,<br />
Tenn. It’s an antebellum<br />
home, barn, and garden where<br />
she coordinates everything<br />
with humor, patience, and<br />
grace. Hunter Oppenheimer is<br />
working with x-rays and bone<br />
density scans. There is no<br />
one who could put someone<br />
at greater ease during a<br />
stressful time. Her daughter<br />
Emily is working on an MBA<br />
at University of Memphis and<br />
son Haiz is living in Asheville,<br />
N.C., where he works with<br />
<strong>the</strong> school system and is<br />
studying computers. On <strong>the</strong><br />
weekends he is a rafting guide<br />
on <strong>the</strong> Nantahala and French<br />
Broad Rivers. Anne Remmers<br />
Phillips is loving her new<br />
grandson and is a consummate<br />
kindergarten teacher at Idlewild<br />
where she works hard to<br />
keep my old principal Randy<br />
Thompson happy. I know she<br />
is doing a fabulous job. Peggy<br />
Williamson lives in Brownsville,<br />
Tenn., in author and adventurer<br />
Richard Halliburton’s house. That<br />
may explain why she is reading<br />
voraciously. Her two daughters<br />
live in New York City. Peggy loves<br />
her son-in-law because he, too,<br />
is a reader. Musette Sprunt<br />
Morgan is working every day<br />
to help her son Worth Morgan<br />
in his 5th district race for<br />
City Council. She and o<strong>the</strong>rs<br />
in our class have been doing<br />
some sign twirling for Worth.<br />
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Class Notes<br />
I have a part-time dream job<br />
at Calvary Episcopal Church<br />
serving as community ministries<br />
coordinator (outreach). Carroll<br />
is making beautiful sculptures<br />
and he and I are still spending<br />
weekends at Snow Lake. Caroline<br />
is in graduate school at Pratt in<br />
New York studying city planning.<br />
She, like Jane’s daughter in<br />
D.C., is learning about <strong>the</strong> real<br />
estate business as both girls<br />
recently became licensed. May<br />
Todd is a filmmaker working for<br />
Indie Memphis and exploring<br />
film-making opportunities. Our<br />
class seems to be facing this new<br />
decade of our lives with renewed<br />
spirit as we embrace change and<br />
challenges.<br />
–1973<br />
Olivia Montgomery<br />
olivia@dogsrulememphis.com<br />
The class of 1973 turned 60 this<br />
year! Harriet McGeorge spent<br />
hers on <strong>the</strong> Island of Jersey<br />
(Old not New) with her sister<br />
Lee McGeorge Durrell ’67. Lee,<br />
Harriet, and Milner Stanton<br />
are on <strong>the</strong> board of American<br />
Friends of Durrell, a non-profit<br />
organization which helps saves<br />
species from extinction. The<br />
aforementioned Milner was<br />
kind enough to remind me<br />
that, as of this writing, she<br />
had not yet turned 60. Brat!<br />
She also took a fabulous trip<br />
to Scandinavia and Russia last<br />
summer. Anne Atkinson Fields<br />
and her husband Mark spent her<br />
60th at <strong>the</strong> Greenbrier Resort,<br />
while Deborah Caldwell Halvis<br />
celebrated <strong>the</strong> event in a beach<br />
bungalow on Saint Lucia with<br />
hubby Jim. Ginger Hicks Smith<br />
and Miles went to Tampa where<br />
<strong>the</strong>y had a surprise party for<br />
somebody else, while Beth<br />
Brady Belcher had her very own<br />
surprise party. Terry Maguire<br />
Elzinga has really been on <strong>the</strong><br />
road. Last year, she and husband<br />
Ken cruised through <strong>the</strong> Panama<br />
Canal, and traveled to Africa<br />
to visit a couple of Christian<br />
missions <strong>the</strong>y’re involved with<br />
through 100 Fold, a non-profit<br />
architectural firm which does<br />
work to promote <strong>the</strong> flourishing<br />
of people around <strong>the</strong> world. In<br />
<strong>the</strong> past, she has also travelled<br />
to Cambodia and Thailand with<br />
100 Fold. This is Bron Gayna<br />
Schmit’s 37th year in education,<br />
including 16 years as a principal.<br />
She and her mo<strong>the</strong>r stay busy<br />
updating <strong>the</strong>ir house, and every<br />
three months Bron gets toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />
with Ginger, Lawrie Canale<br />
Peyton, Janie Hicks Jeter ’69,<br />
and Cathy Wilson LaMon for<br />
dinner. Olivia Montgomery is in<br />
her third year of attempting to<br />
grow tomatoes. The first year she<br />
planted <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> wrong spot<br />
and nothing grew. Last year, a<br />
beautiful location … a beautiful<br />
crop … and just before she was<br />
to pick <strong>the</strong>m, <strong>the</strong> birds ate every<br />
one! This year she’s armed with<br />
netting and a fake owl.<br />
–1974<br />
Beth Williford Carson-Wallace<br />
ewcarson@hotmail.com<br />
Donna Osborne Bradley teaches<br />
five classes and continues to<br />
work on completing her PhD.<br />
She is now in two departments<br />
at Webster University, St. Charles<br />
Community College, Columbia<br />
College, and Lindenwood<br />
University, all in and around<br />
St. Louis. She drives 400 miles<br />
a week! The Top Ladies of<br />
Distinction honored her with an<br />
“Unsung Heroine” award, along<br />
with 26 o<strong>the</strong>r amazing women.<br />
Husband Larry is nearing<br />
completion of his BA in Human<br />
Services, and Donna is a part of<br />
a group called Angel Moms of St.<br />
Louis, a group of mo<strong>the</strong>rs who<br />
have children who passed away.<br />
Their support and her faith will<br />
forever sustain her. Lucy Gerald<br />
Cook’s son, Jeff, graduated<br />
from Elon University in N.C.<br />
Jeff is now at ABC News in <strong>the</strong><br />
Washington Bureau. Middle<br />
child David is a sophomore<br />
at Duquesne in Pittsburgh,<br />
married to a pediatric intensive<br />
care nurse and has an unpaid<br />
job with a high school football<br />
team as an assistant coach.<br />
Daughter Rebecca works for two<br />
foundations. Recently, Minette<br />
Allen Kinney’s oldest son<br />
and husband were in <strong>the</strong> yard<br />
wearing head flashlights so <strong>the</strong>y<br />
could better see <strong>the</strong> armadillo<br />
<strong>the</strong>y were tracking. Her youngest<br />
son also caught a 10-pound bass<br />
and a 5-pound bass, at <strong>the</strong> same<br />
time, on a single hook. Minette is<br />
expecting 25 family members for<br />
Thanksgiving and while moving<br />
clutter to <strong>the</strong> attic, she found her<br />
Barbie – <strong>the</strong> clothing case had<br />
a Nixon/Agnew bumper sticker<br />
across <strong>the</strong> front. Desi Franklin’s<br />
son Alex graduated from UT<br />
Knoxville with a business degree<br />
in marketing. He is working as<br />
an ad sales account rep. He has<br />
now gotten an apartment in<br />
Midtown Memphis with some<br />
friends and is off <strong>the</strong> payroll. She<br />
is still in house counsel at First<br />
Tennessee where she continues<br />
to learn to be a banking lawyer.<br />
Kathy Amend Teeters became<br />
a first time grandmo<strong>the</strong>r to<br />
a precious little boy by son<br />
Trey. They named him Trevor<br />
Nathaniel, his middle name after<br />
her late fa<strong>the</strong>r. She retired two<br />
years ago to move her mo<strong>the</strong>r in<br />
with <strong>the</strong>m and be her caretaker<br />
and is so blessed to have a<br />
wonderful husband who helps to<br />
keep her in line.<br />
–1975<br />
Laurie Walpole<br />
lauriewalpole@hotmail.com<br />
A number us in <strong>the</strong> Class of 1975<br />
are still basking in <strong>the</strong> glow of<br />
<strong>the</strong> wonderful reunion we had<br />
in April, but thanks to those who<br />
wrote in! Jill Jemison Margolin<br />
wrote from Nova Scotia in a<br />
cabin overlooking <strong>the</strong> ocean.<br />
She was celebrating her birthday<br />
after spending two weeks in<br />
Maine helping her mo<strong>the</strong>r<br />
recover from a broken hip. Jill<br />
and husband Peter traveled to<br />
Portugal earlier in <strong>the</strong> year, and<br />
<strong>the</strong>n to California to witness<br />
classmate Nora Wingfield<br />
Tyson’s change-of-command<br />
ceremony on <strong>the</strong> U.S.S. Ronald<br />
Reagan. As Rear Admiral (3-star)<br />
and Commander of <strong>the</strong> Third<br />
Fleet, Nora is responsible for <strong>the</strong><br />
Pacific Ocean from California to<br />
<strong>the</strong> International Date Line. No<br />
wonder Nora didn’t have time<br />
to write! Jennifer Jones is living<br />
<strong>the</strong> life I want: that of a traveler!<br />
She started with <strong>the</strong> North East<br />
American Tribal dance camp<br />
and will go on to Flagstaff, North<br />
Rim Grand Canyon, Zion, Joshua<br />
Tree, and White Sands. Margaret<br />
Nettleton Bell has been visiting<br />
colleges with daughter Hayley<br />
and looking for retirement<br />
homes for herself and husband<br />
Ron. Hayley is a junior at<br />
Hutchison and is active in<br />
<strong>the</strong>atre, chorus, and technology.<br />
Sally Hummel Chumney has<br />
been in Chattanooga for five<br />
years and finally got toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />
with Margaret Flowers Ferguson<br />
for lunch recently. Sally is<br />
a nurse practitioner and is<br />
expecting her 3rd grandchild<br />
in December. Whitney Jones<br />
DeVine reports kids (she has<br />
four) bouncing back home,<br />
with <strong>the</strong>ir stuff everywhere, but<br />
that life is good and full. Susan<br />
Apperson is breeding hedgehogs<br />
and planning her outfit for<br />
Anne May Farst’s daughter’s<br />
wedding. Susan also reports<br />
that she recently went to a hot<br />
party in Santa Monica with Rob<br />
Lowe, Khloe Kardashian, and Tori<br />
Spelling. Well, I can’t top that!<br />
–1976<br />
Allison Brown Coates<br />
acoates@stmarysschool.org<br />
Virginia Donelson Curry had<br />
a mastectomy in July, and<br />
feels blessed to be in <strong>the</strong> 20%<br />
of people who don’t need<br />
additional treatment. Her<br />
reconstruction will be complete<br />
by <strong>the</strong> end of 2015. Kim Brown<br />
Mullins’ husband is Virginia’s<br />
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oncologist! Edie Loeb is still<br />
living in San Diego, still single<br />
and still an aunt to one quarter<br />
of <strong>the</strong> population, thanks to<br />
all of her siblings, including<br />
sisters Gee Loeb Sharp ’83 and<br />
Meg Loeb Milligan ’80. Julie<br />
Davidson Barton is happy to<br />
let us know <strong>the</strong>ir son John is<br />
engaged to Carolyn Powell.<br />
Val Zepatos Gosney and her<br />
husband Mark are celebrating<br />
32 years of marriage. Their<br />
oldest daughter Ka<strong>the</strong>rine got<br />
married in October. Bekah is<br />
home from a year in Romania<br />
as a missionary and back in<br />
school. Their son Mark Stephen<br />
is a senior at ECS and probably<br />
headed to UTK next year. Jessie<br />
Walker ’04, daughter of Josie<br />
McNeely Walker, married Chris<br />
Wiley at Calvary Episcopal<br />
Church. Kathleen Person<br />
Longoria, Jan Valentine Wiygul,<br />
Mary Walton Walker Allen, and<br />
Anne Espenshade Kaminsky<br />
enjoyed celebrating with family<br />
and friends. Jessie works<br />
as Major Gifts Officer at <strong>the</strong><br />
American Red Cross, and Chris<br />
is a geologist with Brownfield<br />
Restoration Group. Lise<br />
Barzizza McCormack’s family<br />
celebrated <strong>the</strong> wedding of her<br />
oldest child Mac in September<br />
to Ashley Brooke McCormack.<br />
All of Lise’s siblings came with<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir families, including her<br />
sister Celeste Barzizza Stallings<br />
’84. Molly graduated from<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Arkansas<br />
in 2015 and is now working<br />
as a Marketing Consultant<br />
for a firm in Fayetteville, Ark.<br />
Burkley Mann Allen was reelected<br />
to her second term as a<br />
Metro Council member and is<br />
looking forward to serving with<br />
Nashville’s first female Mayor.<br />
Happy empty nesting to Kaky<br />
Ossorio Wakefield and Walt!<br />
Their boys Will and Michael are<br />
loving life as freshmen at UT<br />
Austin. Wyeth Outlan Burgess<br />
and Ed are also empty nesters.<br />
Their daughter is in medical<br />
school at UT. Wyeth enjoys her<br />
work at Belmont University<br />
and teaching horseback riding<br />
at Camp Nakanawa during<br />
<strong>the</strong> summer. She has run<br />
into Burkley, had tea with<br />
Nancy Muse, and seen Chris<br />
Cowan Norris ’74 in Nashville.<br />
When Wyeth is visiting her<br />
mom in Collierville, she sees<br />
Mary Walton Walker Allen<br />
at church and always goes to<br />
Watty Brooks Hall’s store. B.J.<br />
Fiser Jones is going to be a<br />
grandmo<strong>the</strong>r for <strong>the</strong> third time<br />
in <strong>the</strong> spring. Their daughter<br />
Maggie is finishing Specialty<br />
Internship and Certification in<br />
May and son Andrew is getting<br />
married in June B.J. is staying<br />
busy mentoring an empty<br />
nest group and a sweet group<br />
of young women involved in<br />
urban ministry in Atlanta. She<br />
comes to Memphis about once a<br />
month to be with her mom, and<br />
is grateful for <strong>the</strong> outpouring of<br />
love from <strong>the</strong> SMS community<br />
when her dad passed away<br />
last January. Martha Flowers is<br />
enjoying her new job at Semmes<br />
Murphey Foundation. Austin<br />
is a senior in college this year<br />
and Buckner is a junior. Allison<br />
Coates is teaching in <strong>the</strong> 2- and<br />
3-year-old program at SMS. Her<br />
daughter Lindsey is living in<br />
Orlando, where she is a mental<br />
health counselor. Sam is staying<br />
busy working in Memphis with<br />
Coates Company, a lawn and<br />
landscape company, and he and<br />
Annie Shackelford are getting<br />
married in <strong>the</strong> fall.<br />
–1977<br />
Janey Butler Newton<br />
janeybnewton@gmail.com<br />
Lucy Walt Wepfer now has<br />
a cowbell and is learning to<br />
“Hail State” now that daughter<br />
Annie is attending Mississippi<br />
State University. Daughter Joy<br />
is in Richmond working for<br />
Capital One and son Walt is<br />
getting married in December.<br />
Lisa Britt Colcolough caught<br />
up with Leslie Eason Shuford<br />
and Billy recently and said how<br />
great it was to see <strong>the</strong>m. So sad<br />
to share that both Leslie’s and<br />
Lisa’s sweet fa<strong>the</strong>rs died earlier<br />
this year. Leslie’s daughter Katie<br />
lives in Brooklyn and works in<br />
independent web design. Son<br />
William is recently married and<br />
settling into a new home and<br />
married life with wife Blakely.<br />
Golfing buddies Jekka Ashman Pinckney<br />
’78 and Lisa Francis Turner ’78.<br />
Lisa and John are enjoying<br />
football season at Princeton,<br />
where son Britt is starting right<br />
tackle for his senior year. Lisa<br />
had a good visit with Marilyn<br />
Rhea Cheeseman whose mom<br />
is a close neighbor of Mrs<br />
Britt. Marilyn and Van are busy<br />
on <strong>the</strong> farm growing crops,<br />
raising chickens and ducks, and<br />
developing new products. Sara<br />
Muirhead Shanley appreciates<br />
everyone’s thoughts and prayers<br />
during this past difficult year.<br />
She has taken time off from<br />
working and bought a house and<br />
Friends from <strong>the</strong> class of 1978 attending <strong>the</strong> wedding of Rebecca Anderson Eby ’06. From left, Kathy Daniel<br />
Patterson, Katie Tully Dickinson, Kathy Edmonson Riley, Andrea Gilliom Anderson (mo<strong>the</strong>r of <strong>the</strong> bride), Debby Waltz<br />
Hays, Stephanie Riggs Markham and Tracy Walko Balton. Photo credit: Kathy Daniel Patterson<br />
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reports that she and her boys<br />
are doing well. Laura Sanderson<br />
Healy’s daughter Lucy chose<br />
Ole Miss, where she pledged<br />
Chi Omega. Anne Cole Billings’<br />
daughter Mimi is also a Chi O at<br />
Ole Miss. Laura’s husband John<br />
is consulting on a hotel project<br />
in Mobile, Ala., so Laura has<br />
explored that area as well as<br />
travelling recently to <strong>the</strong> UK and<br />
enjoying London <strong>the</strong>atre and<br />
lots of old friends. Jane Dailey<br />
Duell is also in a travelling<br />
mode having been to Memphis<br />
to visit sister Ca<strong>the</strong>rine, to Ft.<br />
Myers in Fla. to visit daughter<br />
Anna and precious grandson,<br />
to University of Arkansas to<br />
see daughter Lily Jane who is<br />
freshman <strong>the</strong>re. Valerie Hoyt<br />
has had a few visitors in NYC<br />
recently. Adele Orgill Wellford<br />
and Val caught up over a fun<br />
lunch, and Barbara Cape O’Brien<br />
visited Val at <strong>the</strong>ir country<br />
house where <strong>the</strong>y hiked and<br />
bicycled and enjoyed bonfires.<br />
Molly Townes O’Brien is ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
globetrotter: She wrote to me<br />
from Frankfurt, Germany, after<br />
visiting her sister Anne Townes<br />
Daw ’87 in <strong>the</strong> UK and <strong>the</strong>n on<br />
her way back home to Australia.<br />
Gretchen Perkins Thorogood<br />
says her grandson Addison is <strong>the</strong><br />
light of her life. She is teaching<br />
at St Bartholomew’s preschool<br />
with Mrs Goza’s daughter,<br />
Susan Goza Magruder ’70. Alicia<br />
Harwood Baker loves being<br />
grandmo<strong>the</strong>r to baby James, <strong>the</strong><br />
son of daughter Allison Baker<br />
Shields ’10 and husband Joseph,<br />
who live in Houston. And, what<br />
a delight to catch up on <strong>the</strong><br />
scoop from our own “Vicka<br />
Lynn” Victoria Bartlett Snider.<br />
Victoria graduated from Tulane<br />
Med School and School of Public<br />
Health and practiced Child and<br />
Adolescent Psychiatry. She lives<br />
most of <strong>the</strong> time in Cape Town,<br />
South Africa, which she raves<br />
about, but keeps her house in<br />
New Orleans. Lynn Hitchings<br />
Albano says this has been a year<br />
of adjustment since her mo<strong>the</strong>r,<br />
Mary Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Lynn Hitchings<br />
’47, died late last year. She and<br />
Peter get to Florida frequently.<br />
–1978<br />
Tracy Walko Balton<br />
tbalton@cannonwrightblount.com<br />
As our nests continue to empty,<br />
<strong>the</strong> news shifts from busy<br />
working/mo<strong>the</strong>ring lives to<br />
ones filled with exciting travel<br />
for ei<strong>the</strong>r us or our children.<br />
Debby Waltz Hayes enjoyed<br />
her mission trip to Honduras<br />
and hopes again visit Ghana in<br />
2016. At home she still teaches<br />
preschool at her church and<br />
coaches <strong>the</strong> Harding crosscountry<br />
team. After 27 years<br />
as a pastor, Tandy Gilliland<br />
Taylor has retired, but her kids<br />
are <strong>the</strong> travelers! Her son Sam<br />
worked two summers as a<br />
river raft guide, <strong>the</strong>n spent six<br />
months backpacking in South<br />
America after graduating from<br />
Davidson College. Daughter<br />
Emily studied in Peru last year.<br />
Stephanie Riggs has also retired<br />
and is busy planning a big<br />
home renovation while visiting<br />
colleges with son Riggs. Tabitha<br />
Francisco McNabb taxied, tubed,<br />
boated, walked and was bused<br />
all over London in May. She and<br />
Sunita Sheth enjoyed dinner <strong>the</strong><br />
last time she was in town. We<br />
would love to hear more about<br />
Sunita’s hiking trip in Japan.<br />
Kate Wellford Pritchard, Bailey<br />
Johnston Farrin, Leigh Harwell<br />
Vogler, Carol Fri Robinson, Katie<br />
Tully Dickinson, and Hea<strong>the</strong>r<br />
Holmes Andersen took a 55th<br />
birthday trip to Lake Summit.<br />
Kate’s daughter Estes Gould<br />
’08 is working in Colorado at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Aspen Institute, while Meg<br />
Gould ’11 is in Botswana on<br />
a Princeton fellowship. Son<br />
Wellford is headed to Cuba for<br />
a semester at <strong>the</strong> University<br />
of Havana. Dee Dee Clay<br />
Wike feels settled now in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
Virginia home after almost two<br />
years. She works at Bethany<br />
United Methodist, near a lovely<br />
beach on <strong>the</strong> York River. Laura<br />
Vookles continues to manage<br />
art exhibitions while serving<br />
on <strong>the</strong> Board of <strong>the</strong> Greater<br />
Hudson Heritage Network and<br />
competing in regional poetry<br />
slams. Son Evan broke his leg<br />
badly and graduated high school<br />
on crutches. As a self-described<br />
“old” mom, Laura says he helps<br />
her continue to deny her actual<br />
age. Jekka Ashman Pinckney<br />
and Lisa Francis Turner play as<br />
much golf toge<strong>the</strong>r as possible.<br />
Several of us had a ball at<br />
Andrea Gilliom Anderson’s<br />
daughter Rebecca’s ’06 wedding.<br />
Andrea’s meticulous planning<br />
(and a gorgeous bride of course)<br />
resulted in one fantastic event!<br />
Kathy Daniel Patterson, as<br />
always, worked hard as <strong>the</strong><br />
official photographer. Steve and<br />
I celebrated our 5th anniversary<br />
on a fabulous Rhine River cruise<br />
this summer. And sadly, as we<br />
age, our parents grow older as<br />
well. Lisa, Kate, Jekka, Katie, and<br />
I each lost a parent recently.<br />
From all of us, thank you so<br />
much for your kind thoughts. We<br />
appreciate your support.<br />
–1979<br />
Elizabeth Brown Dunn<br />
Elbdunn56@yahoo.com<br />
The ladies of ’79 seem to have<br />
a lot of new empty nesters.<br />
Sandy Weaver Clark has both<br />
of her sons at her alma mater,<br />
Indiana University. Robin Rader<br />
Stein and husband Gil have<br />
been traveling a lot. Hannah, a<br />
junior at TCU, joined <strong>the</strong>m for<br />
fall break. Recently <strong>the</strong>y spent<br />
some time in Washington D.C.,<br />
where <strong>the</strong>y toured <strong>the</strong> National<br />
Ca<strong>the</strong>dral and guess who was<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir docent… Lenelle Morse!<br />
They skyped Sandy Weaver<br />
Clark so she could join in <strong>the</strong><br />
day. Lenelle’s son Jonathan<br />
just became engaged. He lives<br />
in Seattle and will be married<br />
next year. Gina Barron Huck<br />
also has a wedding in 2016. Her<br />
son Barron is engaged. Terry<br />
Lupo Lebedevs will be a<br />
grandmo<strong>the</strong>r soon. Her daughter<br />
Hannah is having a baby girl<br />
Ruby in October. Her son Rob<br />
is in marketing and sales at<br />
The Boat Center in Memphis.<br />
Her daughter Camille lives in<br />
Lakeland, Fla. Terry is working<br />
at Gastro One as a triage nurse.<br />
Husband Peter is working<br />
out of Atlanta as an assistant<br />
tennis tournament director.<br />
Susan Browne Law has ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
child here in Memphis. Ben<br />
moved here and is going to law<br />
school. He lives downtown in<br />
a great old building. He and<br />
Meg, her youngest, love being<br />
in Memphis. Meg is a personal<br />
trainer at Midtown Yoga.<br />
–1980<br />
Margaret Graham<br />
msgraham62@comcast.net<br />
We missed several of our<br />
classmates at <strong>the</strong> reunion back<br />
in <strong>the</strong> spring, including Sarah<br />
McLaughlin Terry, who was<br />
absent because of <strong>the</strong> chance<br />
to show off some of her quilts<br />
and fabric creations at a crafts<br />
show and fair. Sarah teaches<br />
beginning sewing and a few<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r classes at Sew Memphis.<br />
We also missed Helene Norcross<br />
Rayder, whose daughter Virginia<br />
has started college at Sewanee.<br />
Ano<strong>the</strong>r new empty nester is<br />
Meg Loeb Milligan, who has<br />
changed to her husband’s last<br />
name after four years of marriage.<br />
She moved her last child<br />
Amelia to Eugene, Ore., to start<br />
freshman year at <strong>the</strong> University<br />
of Oregon. Meg is excited that<br />
sister Gee Loeb Sharp ’83 will<br />
also have a daughter attending<br />
Oregon. Meg and her husband<br />
Bill will be spending most of<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir time in Colorado now, but<br />
she still has her home in Texas.<br />
At least two o<strong>the</strong>r classmates<br />
have a newly empty nest at<br />
home: Josie Gilliland Williams’<br />
son Fletcher is at Ole Miss, and<br />
Molly Francis Roberts’ daughter<br />
Bette is at Samford. Molly<br />
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Mary Long Merritt ’82 and Carol Gilliland Jordan ’82 both have daughters<br />
at Vanderbilt who are both Chi-Os. From left, Annie Bradford, Carol, Mary,<br />
and Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Merritt at Parents Weekend in September.<br />
Dr. Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Robilio Womack ’82, front left with daughter Elizabeth ’07<br />
after her Alum Chapel talk, and classmates (from left) Mary Kavanagh<br />
Day, Sarah Willmott Cowens, Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz,<br />
Andrea Weiss Tomes, and Lisa Cook.<br />
has finished her cancer treatment<br />
and is feeling well. She<br />
continues to run <strong>the</strong> office at<br />
Regent’s School in Oxford as well<br />
as help with husband Marty’s<br />
business, Sporting Life Kennels.<br />
Rachel Darnell-Heath, one of<br />
<strong>the</strong> talented artists from our<br />
class, will be <strong>the</strong> Louise T. Archer<br />
Artist-in-Residence at St. Mary’s<br />
in January, teaching classes as<br />
well as mounting an exhibit in<br />
Levy Gallery on campus. She is<br />
also showing her artwork at <strong>the</strong><br />
L. Ross Gallery on Sanderlin in<br />
Memphis as well as in galleries<br />
closer to her home near Santa<br />
Fe. I’m so proud of our creative,<br />
talented classmates!<br />
–1981<br />
Carey Stanton<br />
careystanton@me.com<br />
–1982<br />
Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz<br />
esa.sms@gmail.com<br />
Many thanks to Lee Anne<br />
Roehm for her 14 years<br />
of service as our Class<br />
Secretary. Daughters Anna<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine and Elizabeth are at<br />
St. Mary’s, Senior and Junior,<br />
respectively. Hallie Peyton and<br />
<strong>the</strong> Roehm family visited Meg<br />
Beeson Wallace’s family in<br />
Michigan this summer and had<br />
a great time catching up and<br />
reminiscing. We have two brides<br />
in our class! Leslie Johnson<br />
Hughes married Jesse Owen<br />
in January and has moved to<br />
Augusta, Ga. Daughter Martha<br />
is at Presbyterian College. Mary<br />
Kavanagh Day also married<br />
in January and has Elizabeth<br />
Thrasher Kantor to thank for<br />
setting her up on a blind date<br />
in 1984. Mary remembers that<br />
Elizabeth’s grandmo<strong>the</strong>r had a<br />
party during <strong>the</strong> debut season<br />
and set up <strong>the</strong> invitees by height.<br />
Mary’s date was Dan Daniel<br />
and <strong>the</strong>y dated for a while back<br />
<strong>the</strong>n. Now, 30+ years and 5 kids<br />
later, it was love at (almost)<br />
first sight. Mary says, “Of all <strong>the</strong><br />
life-changing things that have<br />
happened because of being part<br />
of Class of ‘82, this is <strong>the</strong> most<br />
unexpected!” Angela Reed Yakel<br />
commutes weekly from Texas<br />
to Utah for her work as a physician<br />
adoption program manager<br />
for an enterprise electronic<br />
medical records program at 22<br />
hospitals across <strong>the</strong> state. Gail<br />
Jones Mallery is still in Dallas in<br />
<strong>the</strong> mortgage lending business,<br />
and asks that we check out a pet<br />
project, bontonfarms.org. Cindy<br />
Kremer Bodker’s daughter graduated<br />
from Michigan and moved<br />
to New York for a publishing<br />
program at NYU and is now job<br />
hunting. Carol Gilliland Jordan<br />
was in Guatemala in <strong>the</strong> mountains<br />
at Lake Atitlan for over two<br />
months last winter. Son Jeremy<br />
graduated from Vanderbilt<br />
Summa Cum Laude and has<br />
moved to Seattle to work for<br />
Microsoft. Daughter Annie is at<br />
Vandy where she is in Chi O with<br />
Mary Long Merritt’s daughter<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine and <strong>the</strong> moms got<br />
a good visit recently. Carol,<br />
Elizabeth Beck Fioravanti, and<br />
Christy Ragen Goss spent a<br />
girls’ weekend toge<strong>the</strong>r and<br />
had a great visit. After her<br />
divorce, Carol changed her<br />
name to Carol Jordan to honor<br />
her grandmo<strong>the</strong>r. Sherronda<br />
Whitmore Johnson was <strong>the</strong><br />
stage manager for A Box of Yellow<br />
Stars at Theatreworks, part of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Women›s Theatre Festival of<br />
Memphis. Bravo, Sherronda! As<br />
for me, I have become an empty<br />
nester. Liza graduated from St.<br />
Mary’s in May and is a freshman<br />
at Northwestern joining Jim who<br />
is a senior. Doug and I love having<br />
<strong>the</strong>m toge<strong>the</strong>r.<br />
–1983<br />
Bonnie Lopez<br />
bonlopez@aol.com<br />
We have been on <strong>the</strong> move!<br />
Cissy Bruce Jackson is doing<br />
white-collar criminal defense<br />
work, and has written an article<br />
for <strong>the</strong> first issue of a new<br />
magazine, Portico, Mountain Brook.<br />
Son Will is a sophomore at UGA,<br />
and daughter Sarah Frances is<br />
investigating colleges now. Posey<br />
Saunders Cochrane wrote to<br />
acknowledge this monumental<br />
year for most of us. Kristi Dart<br />
Tsakir and husband George will<br />
celebrate <strong>the</strong>ir 30th wedding<br />
anniversary in May! She has<br />
been a 3-year-old kindergarten<br />
teacher for more than ten years.<br />
Daughter Alyssa graduated from<br />
North Georgia College and State<br />
University with a degree in Art<br />
Marketing and a concentration<br />
in Graphic Design. Son Nick is<br />
pursuing a degree in Music and<br />
Technology at Atlanta Institute<br />
of Music. Kristi stays in touch<br />
with Laurie Bell Lewandowski<br />
and Beth Jennings Kuhn.<br />
Margaret Jones Fraser reports<br />
that daughter Sara is a Freshman<br />
at SMS and a classmate and<br />
friend of Emily O’Toole, daughter<br />
of Jeannie Beauregard O’Toole.<br />
They attended a Freshman<br />
retreat led by Upper School<br />
Counselor Allison Wellford<br />
Parker. Beachamp Hebb is<br />
engaged to Mads Hansen. They<br />
will marry in Norway where<br />
his large family resides. Eppie<br />
Lunsford-Ozen is sharing her<br />
time between London, Istanbul,<br />
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and <strong>the</strong> U.S. as son Ellis Kaan is<br />
in NYC studying film. Daughter<br />
Emily is in 9th grade in London<br />
with Eppie and Ergun. Sudha<br />
Nimmagadda Ganguli reports<br />
that she and her parents love<br />
watching her girls study at SMS.<br />
Kathryn Carpenter Swords is<br />
immersed in teaching art at<br />
Ensworth in Nashville where<br />
son John (15) is pushing hard for<br />
his hardship license while sister<br />
Sara is applying to colleges. Lela<br />
Bellows Simpson-Gerald says<br />
life without son Max at home is<br />
very quiet! He is studying engineering<br />
at Alabama. Lela is still<br />
very happy working at Buckman<br />
and has had nice visits this year<br />
with Liza Johnston in Atlanta<br />
and Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Trippeer Jameson<br />
in Memphis. Jenny Jon Jarratt<br />
began a new job at UPS as <strong>the</strong><br />
Enterprise Account Manager in<br />
Global Freight Forwarding. She<br />
and Beth Jennings Kuhn made<br />
a road trip to Atlanta to see <strong>the</strong><br />
Rolling Stones. Elise Kilpatrick<br />
Atkins is moving to Washington<br />
D.C. for husband John’s job.<br />
Currently, she and daughter<br />
Amelia Rose (8th) are still in<br />
Oxford until <strong>the</strong>ir house sells.<br />
Gee Loeb Sharp is very much enjoying<br />
her empty nest, but wakes<br />
every morning at 3:30 to meet<br />
fitness clients by 5:00. She and<br />
Gene will celebrate her 50th with<br />
a trip to Prague to meet up with<br />
Marshall who is spending his<br />
junior year abroad with U. Penn.<br />
Mimi is at Oregon rooming with<br />
her cousin, <strong>the</strong> daughter of Gee’s<br />
sister, Meg Loeb Milligan ’80.<br />
Cynthia Hodges Cobb hopes to<br />
see Brandon Garrott Morrison’s<br />
daughter Jane as Cynthia and<br />
son William visit UNC Chapel<br />
Hill. Her oldest son, David, was<br />
able to spend some “guy time”<br />
in Destin recently with Bonnie<br />
Lopez’s husband and sons.<br />
Margie Bailey Sutton spent time<br />
in North Carolina visiting her<br />
parents. Son Dawes is captain<br />
of <strong>the</strong> city championship soccer<br />
team, Doug is a sophomore in<br />
high school, and Britt is in 6th<br />
grade. Margie loves working as a<br />
psychiatric nurse at an inpatient<br />
treatment center for mentally ill<br />
children and adolescents. Joan<br />
Mauldin Hurst has worked in<br />
<strong>the</strong> White House for four years<br />
with <strong>the</strong> Office of <strong>the</strong> U.S. Trade<br />
Representative. Daughter Katie is<br />
in 9th grade; son Matt is in 2nd.<br />
Bonnie Bolton Lopez teaches <strong>the</strong><br />
youth and leads a women’s Bible<br />
study at church and also teaches<br />
a weekly seminar on English<br />
grammar and writing to ten<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r homeschooling families.<br />
Daughter Lydia is finishing her<br />
Masters in Deaf Education this<br />
spring at Wash U. and is engaged<br />
to be married in June. Son Phillip<br />
is in his senior year at LSU, and<br />
his wife is expecting <strong>the</strong>ir second<br />
child in May.<br />
–1984<br />
Vanessa Allen Dobbins<br />
vdobbins3@yahoo.com<br />
After spending her adult life<br />
devoted to oncology, Smitha<br />
Gollamudi stepped away from<br />
her medical career to focus<br />
more on her children while<br />
<strong>the</strong>y are still at home, her rich<br />
life outside of medicine, and<br />
herself after enduring two back<br />
surgeries. Devi is an 11th grader<br />
and is gifted in cross country,<br />
art, and a citizen of <strong>the</strong> world.<br />
Chander, 8th grade, is focusing<br />
on squash competitively and is<br />
heading for Eagle Scout. After<br />
practicing Pediatric Emergency<br />
Medicine, with all of its stresses<br />
and sadness, Kristine Griffith<br />
Williams also made a career<br />
change. She left <strong>the</strong> ER to<br />
start her own private general<br />
Pediatrics practice (upa.wustl.<br />
edu). She and husband Kevin<br />
recently celebrated 16 years<br />
of marriage and completed a<br />
massive house remodel. Oldest<br />
daughter Margaret is a freshman<br />
at Visitation Academy and plays<br />
varsity field hockey. Second<br />
daughter Caroline, 13, loves field<br />
hockey, <strong>the</strong>ir new puppy, and<br />
texting. Ka<strong>the</strong>rine, a fifth grader,<br />
is a great writer who loves<br />
soccer and swimming. Emma<br />
is 8. Alison Potts Hollewand<br />
and family are enjoying beach<br />
wea<strong>the</strong>r in Australia. Daughter<br />
Izzy will soon be finishing sixth<br />
grade in Brisbane. Both husband<br />
Mike and Alison enjoy <strong>the</strong><br />
freedom of having <strong>the</strong>ir own<br />
businesses. Alison asks that we<br />
follow her Facebook page about<br />
meditation and living from<br />
instincts: Alison Potts – Innate<br />
Being. Kelly McCracken enjoyed<br />
a wonderful vacation to Napa &<br />
Sonoma, and hopes to arrange<br />
a class dinner soon for us local<br />
SMSers. Carrie Jaeger Carpenter<br />
and family are fostering four<br />
beautiful children, siblings, age<br />
3 to 11. Their quiet house has<br />
livened up quite a bit. Daughters<br />
Carolyn, 23, and Taylor May, 21,<br />
opened <strong>the</strong>ir Knoxville home as<br />
a safe home for teenage girls.<br />
They obtained non-profit status<br />
and became legal guardians of<br />
two teenagers. Taylor May is<br />
a junior at UT and Carolyn is<br />
marketing director for Theona’s<br />
Girls, a company that sells goods<br />
made by Haitian women. Oldest<br />
child Justin moved to Seattle to<br />
work for Amazon and youngest<br />
Emma Kathryn is a senior at St.<br />
George’s. Carrie had a chance<br />
to visit with Ca<strong>the</strong>y Turner<br />
Alexander and Celeste Barzizza<br />
Stallings where <strong>the</strong>y laughed<br />
like <strong>the</strong>y were still in high<br />
school. Martin and I are doing<br />
well and recently celebrated our<br />
21st anniversary<br />
–1985<br />
Polly Piper Rickard<br />
ppiperaustin@gmail.com<br />
Lucy Cheek Gordon and Michael<br />
spent time in Rome, Florence<br />
and Venice and 10 days in <strong>the</strong><br />
small town of Arco on <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rn<br />
tip of Lake Garda while <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
son Clay (14) represented Team<br />
USA at <strong>the</strong> World Rock-Climbing<br />
Youth Championships, finishing<br />
13th in <strong>the</strong> world. Madeline,<br />
in her third year at Georgia,<br />
has found her own way to Italy;<br />
she will study abroad in Cortona.<br />
Claire, a freshman at <strong>the</strong><br />
University of Arizona, pledged<br />
Kappa and is studying Communications<br />
and Psychology. They<br />
celebrate 23 years of marriage.<br />
Hea<strong>the</strong>r Kirkpatrick Wheat is a<br />
legal assistant in Dallas for an<br />
Estate and Partnership Planning<br />
firm. Rory (16) plays competitive<br />
baseball. NealeyClare (13) is a<br />
<strong>the</strong>atre kid and vocalist and was<br />
diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes<br />
years ago. It’s been a difficult<br />
journey but she fights like a<br />
champ. Reagan Grace plays softball,<br />
soccer, basketball, tennis,<br />
and <strong>the</strong> French horn. Colleen<br />
Kavanagh launched three new<br />
ZEGO bar flavors on a crowdfunding<br />
site to raise funds for<br />
production and awareness. She<br />
still champions allergy safety in<br />
public school nutrition programs<br />
and continues to do social<br />
justice work. Liam is applying<br />
to colleges. Kelsey, a freshman<br />
volleyball player and Evie,11, are<br />
great. Trecia Knapp Tapolsky<br />
volunteers at church and on <strong>the</strong><br />
San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary.<br />
Melissa Thrasher Peeler and<br />
Michael are psyched to be empty<br />
nesters soon and <strong>the</strong>y celebrate<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir 25th anniversary. Mary is<br />
a first-year medical student at<br />
Johns Hopkins and Anna is a junior<br />
nursing student at Alabama.<br />
Margie is a Junior at SMS. On a<br />
college visit to W&L, <strong>the</strong>y were<br />
privileged to have lunch with<br />
Scott Simmons, Mary Gowen<br />
Simmons’s oldest son, who is<br />
a freshman playing baseball for<br />
W&L. Jeanne Rae Fenster’s son<br />
Sam is a freshman at Rhodes.<br />
Menashe is 13, and Andy took<br />
him to Isreal as a bar mitzva<br />
present. The twins are 12.<br />
–1986<br />
Jean Vaughan McGhee<br />
jeanvmcghee@hotmail.com<br />
Jen McDearman is still enjoying<br />
life in NYC while working<br />
as a copy director for HBO and<br />
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Leigh Gordon Wright ’86 and daughter Allie and Irene McDonnell Ayotte ’86<br />
with daughter Mary.<br />
singing and performing with<br />
her band Bobcat. We need to<br />
work on getting <strong>the</strong>m into<br />
town to perform for us during<br />
reunion weekend this spring.<br />
Molly Mednikow is settling in<br />
as a new resident of Portland,<br />
Ore., where she attending <strong>the</strong><br />
Lewis and Clark Law School.<br />
Kathryn Haggitt Garrison and<br />
Molly had a chance to connect<br />
while Kathryn was in town<br />
on business. Camille Lyon<br />
Majors became a mom again<br />
back in February; Evelyn Mary<br />
“Evie” is now entertaining big<br />
bro<strong>the</strong>r Bobby who’s 3. Recently<br />
Camille’s parents sold <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
house of 48 years in Memphis<br />
and have moved up to Richmond<br />
where her sister Natalie Lyon<br />
Horne ’93 lives. Leigh Gordon<br />
Wright and her family have<br />
recently made <strong>the</strong> move back<br />
to Tuscaloosa, where she has<br />
continued to work part-time for<br />
<strong>the</strong> same radiology group for <strong>the</strong><br />
last 17 years while raising John<br />
and Allie. Recently Leigh got to<br />
catch up with Irene McDonnell<br />
Ayotte and her daughter Mary<br />
who were in town visiting<br />
Alabama. Elizabeth Cashman<br />
Dickinson is busy supervising<br />
as her son Robert is buried in<br />
English and Latin at MUS. She<br />
says it makes her appreciate<br />
all she learned from Ms. O and<br />
Ms. Stidham. Her son McRae is<br />
a 6th grader at PDS this year.<br />
Lynn Cashman Thurlow is still<br />
<strong>the</strong> Director and Lead Teacher<br />
for <strong>the</strong> Montessori School<br />
Pre-School in Summerton and<br />
homeschools her four children<br />
(3rd grade to 10th). Kim Malone<br />
Scott has written a new book,<br />
Power is Dead, which has been<br />
bought and will be published by<br />
St. Martin’s Press in 2016. Kim’s<br />
children Battle and Margaret<br />
are now in <strong>the</strong> first grade. Mary<br />
Helen Pender Moore and her<br />
family are getting settled in<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir new house in Knoxville.<br />
Her kids Ashley Kate and Joseph<br />
are both in middle school. She is<br />
still working part-time in several<br />
pediatric dentist offices while<br />
<strong>the</strong> kids are in school. Traci<br />
Sherman Keller is still working<br />
as <strong>the</strong> Middle School Dean<br />
of Students at Harpeth Hall in<br />
Nashville while trying to keep up<br />
with her boys. Traci recently got<br />
to catch up with Kara Finnegan<br />
Finnigan and Leigh Gordon<br />
Wright, who were in town. Kara<br />
has two middle school children,<br />
Maya and Hugh. Susan Whitten<br />
Graber and her husband Blair<br />
took a belated honeymoon to<br />
Italy this summer. She is looking<br />
forward to Thanksgiving<br />
this year, as it is <strong>the</strong> first time<br />
she will have Anthony (eldest<br />
stepson) and his family for that<br />
holiday in five years. Irene, Liz<br />
Whitsitt McEwan, and Elizabeth<br />
Cashman manage to keep in<br />
touch because our boys are all<br />
in school toge<strong>the</strong>r at MUS. Liz’s<br />
oldest son Hastings has even<br />
started driving my son Davis to<br />
school in <strong>the</strong> mornings. Shawn<br />
and I are continuing to grow<br />
Hollywood Feed and now have<br />
40 stores in <strong>the</strong> Mid-South. I<br />
echo what Lynn Thurlow said<br />
about a foot in two different<br />
worlds as Carmen is learning<br />
to read and Ellie is starting to<br />
look at colleges. Ellie is also<br />
playing soccer for SMS and is<br />
now in third year Latin, stirring<br />
up memories of Ms. Stidham!<br />
Finally, we are heartbroken for<br />
Hayes Peyton Olson, who lost<br />
her son Will in an auto accident<br />
in Batesville, Ark., in October.<br />
Our prayers are with Hayes and<br />
her whole family, including sisters<br />
Chalmers Peyton Valentine<br />
’80 and Hallie Peyton ’82.<br />
–1987<br />
Allison Tonkin<br />
4altonk@gmail.com<br />
Thanks to all of you for <strong>the</strong> very<br />
sweet wishes on <strong>the</strong> birth of<br />
Andras’ and my son Chip! We<br />
are thrilled Chip could make his<br />
debut with <strong>the</strong> help of our gestational<br />
surrogate. Thanks also for<br />
all of <strong>the</strong> great parenting advice,<br />
even from folks like Margaret<br />
Alexander Cone whose “little<br />
ones” are now 19 and 16. Beth<br />
Reynolds Bowen and family<br />
visited South Africa. Son Tom<br />
(8) plays baseball and Ella (12)<br />
dances. Beth teaches preschool<br />
for fun. Janelle Zarecor Ranieri,<br />
very active in <strong>the</strong> PTO, serves<br />
on <strong>the</strong> board of <strong>the</strong> Attention<br />
Center which she helped start.<br />
After much Lake Erie-house<br />
fun, John John (7th) added cross<br />
county to his usual hockey. Lucy<br />
(10) plays volleyball and is a<br />
great student. The family will<br />
visit Puerto Rico where John<br />
still works. Gail Borod Giacobbe<br />
and family traveled in France<br />
this summer — thank goodness<br />
for all that SMS French with<br />
Nanette Quinn! Gail still enjoys<br />
working at Microsoft where she<br />
recently launched <strong>the</strong> new Skype<br />
experience for Windows 10.<br />
Josh (1st) and Libby (Pre-K) keep<br />
Paula Jernigan very busy. They<br />
love <strong>the</strong>ir homegrown honey.<br />
Kim Justis Eikner and Flip both<br />
enjoy work at MUS. Kim begins<br />
rehearsal for her first play in two<br />
years, The O<strong>the</strong>r Place, at Circuit<br />
Playhouse. For Science, Nora<br />
James (SMS 6th) has Kim’s 5th<br />
grade homeroom teacher Mrs.<br />
Brundige! Brooks (MUS 11th), bitten<br />
by Mom’s <strong>the</strong>ater bug, participates<br />
in MUS and SMS plays<br />
and is looking at colleges. Laura<br />
Halle Nunnally’s Lizzie (11th)<br />
is now visiting colleges, and<br />
Anna is in 8th. Courtney Morris<br />
Monaghan’s Stuart (16, SMS<br />
10th) is driving, and Ellie (5th)<br />
loves being across <strong>the</strong> street at<br />
SMS middle school. Tom is “battling<br />
through” MUS 8th grade.<br />
Missy Huettel Carter’s Joe loves<br />
Ann McCarroll McWaters as<br />
his MUS English teacher. Missy<br />
saw Laura at Seaside and often<br />
sees Courtney in Memphis. Gigi<br />
Gaerig McGown, senior counsel<br />
litigation at International Paper,<br />
was appointed to <strong>the</strong> Memphis<br />
Bar Association Board of Directors.<br />
Ryan (SMS 6th) is buddies<br />
with Kim’s Nora James. Thomas<br />
(Lausanne 2nd) loves soccer and<br />
husband Will still designs/builds<br />
wood furniture at his downtown<br />
shop. Jay and Kristina Schultz<br />
Weir and sons Jake and Charlie<br />
swam with Caribbean dolphins<br />
in Anguilla. They ran into Ann<br />
Driscoll Prince in <strong>the</strong> Atlanta airport<br />
on <strong>the</strong> way home! In NYC,<br />
Mary Louise Mooney goes home<br />
only for sleep, as stage manager<br />
and assistant director of Doric<br />
Wilson’s Street Theater, about<br />
<strong>the</strong> Stonewall riots. ML also<br />
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Class Notes<br />
acts/reads in a feminist poetry<br />
is still hunting, she is still a<br />
day! Mary Anne Kish Seibert<br />
Oh, and Caroline’s son is already<br />
program with her o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>ater<br />
nurse, and Mary Taylor loves<br />
writes with some big news—<br />
looking at colleges. As for Mirm<br />
company.<br />
being in Ms. Falls’ class at SMS.<br />
<strong>the</strong>y’re building a house in Little<br />
Kriegel, she’s digging this gig so<br />
–1988<br />
Anna McQuiston Holtzclaw<br />
anna.holtzclaw@gmail.com<br />
Frances Coughlin Fenelon<br />
Anna Holtzclaw shares that<br />
Caroline became a 4th grader at<br />
SMS this year, and Anna is enjoying<br />
being a St. Mary’s parent.<br />
It has been emotional knowing<br />
that Caroline is starting friend-<br />
Rock. Alexis Zanone continues<br />
living <strong>the</strong> dream on Four<br />
Seasons currency… she spent<br />
two weeks at both Four Seasons<br />
in <strong>the</strong> Maldives, will be visiting<br />
<strong>the</strong> Four Seasons Florence and<br />
she doesn’t have to self-report.<br />
–1991<br />
Camellia Koleyni<br />
ckoleyni@yahoo.com<br />
reports that Nora started 5th<br />
ships that will be a part of her<br />
sandwiching a trip to Memphis<br />
It’s exciting to think that our<br />
grade at Harpeth Hall, and Nev<br />
life when she is her mo<strong>the</strong>r’s<br />
in between. Ali Reaves Smith<br />
25th class reunion is just around<br />
is in 7th grade with Laurie<br />
age. Anna hopes Caroline is as<br />
is working full-time now at her<br />
<strong>the</strong> corner, on April 22-23!<br />
Smith Hooper’s ’90 daugh-<br />
lucky to have such good class-<br />
veterinary clinic. Son Cole is in<br />
Until <strong>the</strong>n, <strong>the</strong> Young family<br />
ter Lela. Francis recently had<br />
mates and friends.<br />
JK and her big news is that she’s<br />
(Jennifer Breazeale Young plus<br />
10 of Nev’s friends over for a<br />
sleepover, and says “it looked<br />
and sounded so much like<br />
Moriah’s backhouse that it made<br />
me stop in my tracks. Miss those<br />
days and everyone so much!”<br />
Kelly Allen Bauch is running<br />
Bluebird Photography Studio in<br />
Austin, Texas, where she has<br />
lived for 10 years with Brandon<br />
–1989<br />
CLASS SECRETARY NEEDED-<br />
Contact Rainey Ray Segars ’05,<br />
rsegars@stmarysschool.org<br />
–1990<br />
Mirm Kriegel<br />
mirmkriegel@gmail.com<br />
about to become a doting aunt!<br />
Tricia Hood Thomas didn’t have<br />
much news to share except for<br />
this bombshell: “I’ve started<br />
talking about retiring since that’s<br />
only 15(ish) years away, which<br />
is less time than we’ve been<br />
out of SMS.” Thanks for that,<br />
Tricia. Rachel Lightman is having<br />
a ball with her 12-year old<br />
husband Chris, son Christopher,<br />
and daughter Baker) had an<br />
incredible time visiting various<br />
cities in Japan this past summer.<br />
Baker’s elementary school<br />
had an exchange program with<br />
ano<strong>the</strong>r elementary school in<br />
Mito, Japan just prior to <strong>the</strong><br />
trip. Baker attended elementary<br />
school <strong>the</strong>re and spent 10 days<br />
and <strong>the</strong>ir two children. Julia is<br />
OK folks, here’s how we’ll keep<br />
Colin and her 1-year-old Griffin.<br />
living with a Japanese family.<br />
in 5 th grade and loves art and<br />
this interesting… I made a<br />
She’s thrilled to be teaching<br />
She did great, according to her<br />
piano, and Jackson is in 8th and<br />
public promise to my esteemed<br />
fourth grade girls this year after<br />
proud momma! Jennifer’s son<br />
loves football. Amy Weinberg<br />
classmates that I’d make stuff up<br />
spending three long years with<br />
Christopher loves playing tennis<br />
Pearce’s boys are in 5th and<br />
if <strong>the</strong>y didn’t write in. I warned<br />
eighth grade boys. “Fourth grade<br />
for Baylor while Baker is busy<br />
2nd grade. Trey is busy with<br />
I’d draw a deserving name out of<br />
brings back fond memories of<br />
with her soccer and volleyball.<br />
baseball and his social calen-<br />
a hat, and <strong>the</strong> (un)lucky winner<br />
my year with <strong>the</strong> great Carmen<br />
Megan Saxon Murphree shared<br />
dar, and Luke splits his time<br />
would be PUNK’d. This may well<br />
Vaughan!” Big news from Hilary<br />
<strong>the</strong> sad news that her incred-<br />
between karate and Minecraft.<br />
become a <strong>the</strong>me/meme for <strong>the</strong><br />
Davis Robinson: She has left<br />
ibly sweet grandfa<strong>the</strong>r passed<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Florendo is practicing<br />
Class of ’90. Slackers beware.<br />
SMS to be Head of <strong>the</strong> Lower<br />
away at age 98. She feels so very<br />
at St. Luke’s and is <strong>the</strong> Medical<br />
Ellen Rawlins Uzarowicz writes<br />
School at <strong>the</strong> Bodine School,<br />
lucky to have had him around<br />
Director for <strong>the</strong> NICU at <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
that she, husband Piotr, and kids<br />
which serves kids who struggle<br />
for as long as she did, though it’s<br />
east location. This is her first<br />
are still happily in Hollywood.<br />
with dyslexia. Beth Kreamer<br />
still so painful for her and her<br />
year as a professional bikini<br />
She’s still designing clo<strong>the</strong>s but<br />
West and her family have re-<br />
family. If you’d like to learn more<br />
competitor. Chuck has moved to<br />
is excited to be costuming her<br />
turned to Alabama after living in<br />
about <strong>the</strong> game of bridge, Alex<br />
KU and has better hours. Carol-<br />
first music video, which she<br />
Houston for a bit while husband<br />
Turner is your contact. She’s<br />
Ann is a sophomore taking hon-<br />
describes as “ridiculous fun.”<br />
Phil underwent medical treat-<br />
living in Memphis and working<br />
ors everything and is in <strong>the</strong> choir<br />
Anne Copper DiFronzo’s twins<br />
ment. They’re both enjoying life<br />
at <strong>the</strong> American Contract Bridge<br />
and GSA. Sixth-grader Mary-O<br />
Dominic and Olivia turned 2 in<br />
back home with <strong>the</strong>ir children,<br />
League (which is essentially <strong>the</strong><br />
is a 3-sport athlete: volleyball,<br />
September and daughter Sofia is<br />
ages 10, 7, and 3. Beth, we’re so<br />
governing body for <strong>the</strong> game).<br />
basketball, and soccer. Charlie<br />
in third grade. She’s still working<br />
thrilled to hear this. Elizabeth<br />
Alex also went on <strong>the</strong> say “Every<br />
is in 2nd grade and loves his<br />
part time for Cultural Care Au<br />
Robbins is now starring in her<br />
time I turn on <strong>the</strong> news lately,<br />
climbing classes. Leigh Vaughan<br />
Pair and living in Great Falls, Va.<br />
own burlesque show in Vegas.<br />
Hea<strong>the</strong>r Pearson Chauhan is<br />
Jaimes’ kids Windland and Luke<br />
Kristen Thompson Keegan is<br />
She’ll be featured at <strong>the</strong> Bellagio<br />
being interviewed or consult-<br />
started 4th and 2nd, and she<br />
traveling a lot and selling turkey<br />
in <strong>the</strong> spring, so be sure to check<br />
ing on a matter. From what<br />
has a new role practicing and<br />
foot necklaces in addition to<br />
her out if you’re wandering <strong>the</strong><br />
a few friends have said, her<br />
teaching Palliative Medicine full<br />
her hair ties (not as gross as<br />
Strip! Taylor Holden Taylor was<br />
new practice Exceed Hormone<br />
time at <strong>the</strong> Medical University<br />
it sounds—<strong>the</strong>y’re freshwater<br />
thrilled to report that her wom-<br />
Specialists www.exceedhs.com<br />
of South Carolina in Charleston.<br />
pearl and actually look super<br />
en’s tennis team won Nationals<br />
is a game-changer.” Hea<strong>the</strong>r’s<br />
Betsy Carnesale Wiseman and<br />
cool). She’s currently work-<br />
in Palm Springs. Missy Kramer<br />
practice is in Memphis. Margaret<br />
Lang welcomed baby Peter to<br />
ing at SMS in JK for a teacher<br />
Taranto, Kasha Winker Shaw,<br />
Chesney has expanded her law<br />
<strong>the</strong> world on July 13, 2015. He is<br />
who’s on maternity leave, which<br />
and Caroline Archer Baker all<br />
practice (Rogers Berry Chesney<br />
named after Betsy’s dad. Jennifer<br />
means she gets to see Shelley<br />
wrote in to say ‘hi!’ so I wouldn’t<br />
& Cannon, PLLC in Memphis) to<br />
Miller Buhler writes that Jon<br />
Kuykendall Herzke every<br />
make anything up about <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
include her listing as a family<br />
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mediator with specialized training<br />
in domestic violence issues.<br />
When she is not hard at work<br />
helping <strong>the</strong>se families going<br />
through such difficult times, she<br />
spends as much time as possible<br />
with her niece, Jane McDonald,<br />
daughter of Julia Chesney<br />
McDonald ’96. Alison Taylor<br />
Nooks’ summer started off on a<br />
positive note with various family<br />
members visiting. They also had<br />
“mini-vacations” to San Antonio,<br />
Texas and Omaha, Neb. Then,<br />
unfortunately, her fa<strong>the</strong>r had a<br />
significant fall in July, which resulted<br />
in two different brain surgeries,<br />
followed by rehabilitation<br />
in Memphis and Missouri. Now<br />
Alison’s fa<strong>the</strong>r has moved into<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir home in Missouri. They are<br />
so thankful for <strong>the</strong> support and<br />
prayers of family and friends. We<br />
are still living in fun Nashville.<br />
I’ve been busy with medical trips<br />
abroad and doing some urgent<br />
care locally. Take care everyone!<br />
–1992<br />
Alison Roesler Coons<br />
alicoons@hotmail.com<br />
Bren Boston Padawer has<br />
started a new job this year as <strong>the</strong><br />
Director of Pain Management<br />
and Sports Medicine at <strong>the</strong><br />
Akasha Center for Integrative<br />
Medicine in Santa Monica, Calif.<br />
Find more information about<br />
Bren’s great work at www.<br />
akashacenter.com. Rebecca<br />
Hornstein Doede also started<br />
new role in September in recovery<br />
and resolution planning<br />
at Morgan Stanley in New York.<br />
Her adorable Henry and Evelyn<br />
are thriving, and recently she<br />
enjoyed spending time with<br />
both Asma Dilawari and Kelley<br />
Grant MacDonald, including<br />
a fun shopping expedition in<br />
Brooklyn. Leslie Pettit Canon<br />
said to tell everyone hi from<br />
Denver, where she and Harmon<br />
are still busy making cookies<br />
and raising four kids. Hester<br />
Shipp Ma<strong>the</strong>s is having fun as<br />
Curate at Holy Communion and<br />
loves being on <strong>the</strong> same campus<br />
as all <strong>the</strong> Turkeys. She enjoyed<br />
catching up with Jill Samuels<br />
who is teaching 5th graders this<br />
year and recently bumped into<br />
Wendy Taylor on <strong>the</strong> Square<br />
in Oxford, Miss. Hester also<br />
had fun catching up with Aarti<br />
Goorha Bowman at a Super<br />
Women of Business awards<br />
luncheon, and Mary McDonnell<br />
Schell at Holy Communion’s<br />
Book It 5K race. Aarti is still<br />
living in Midtown and working<br />
at <strong>the</strong> bank. She joined <strong>the</strong> SMS<br />
Alumnae Board this year and<br />
loves seeing fellow alums. Her<br />
nieces are in SK and 2nd grade at<br />
SMS. Melissa Anderson Kirkby<br />
recently went back to work parttime<br />
as a private trust advisor<br />
for a family in Nashville. Melissa<br />
enjoyed catching up with Brandi<br />
Haines Torchia and Jane Laster<br />
Finneran in Memphis over <strong>the</strong><br />
summer and getting <strong>the</strong>ir kids<br />
toge<strong>the</strong>r. Life is crazy as usual in<br />
Alison Roesler Coons’ household.<br />
When she’s not busy as a<br />
“band mom” for THE Houston<br />
High School Band, she’s hard at<br />
work in her position as Director<br />
of Engagement with Girl Scouts<br />
Heart of <strong>the</strong> South. Every day she<br />
gets to tell <strong>the</strong> world how Girl<br />
Scouts builds girls of courage,<br />
confidence, and character, who<br />
make <strong>the</strong> world a better place –<br />
just like St. Mary’s does!<br />
–1993<br />
Kristen Mistretta Wilson<br />
kemeliem@aol.com<br />
Amelia Treadwell Howard<br />
loves her new job as a Teacher’s<br />
Assistant in <strong>the</strong> Pre-K at<br />
Christ Methodist Day School in<br />
Memphis, where daughter Anna<br />
Laura is in 4th grade. Her son<br />
George is in 7th grade at MUS.<br />
Kim Lupo shared that she and<br />
Deb made a big move in June<br />
and are now living in Portland,<br />
Ore., where <strong>the</strong>y bought a cute<br />
townhouse right on <strong>the</strong> Willamette<br />
River. Kim leads Global<br />
Total Rewards for Nike and<br />
travels across Europe and China<br />
to meet her new team and learn<br />
<strong>the</strong> business. Congratulations<br />
to Alexia Fulgham Crump and<br />
husband Kevin, who welcomed<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir daughter Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Elaina<br />
Crump on July 23, 2015. Alexia<br />
says that while she is exhausted,<br />
she loves being a mommy. Kathryn<br />
Brookfield is having fun raising<br />
three little monkeys, and celebrated<br />
her 40th birthday with<br />
her sister, parents, and friends<br />
in Florida. Kathryn is planning to<br />
see Katie Moran Lindenschmidt<br />
over Thanksgiving and can’t wait<br />
to get home to Memphis. Lee<br />
Raines Buchmann and her family<br />
moved to a new home in Denver<br />
this summer, and are looking<br />
forward to ski season and hopefully<br />
a big snow year. Jo Cowles<br />
Ellis lives in Atlanta with her<br />
husband John and four children,<br />
Anna (12), Logan (9), Bethany (7),<br />
and Alexis (5). She is a Director<br />
of Product Development<br />
for First Data. Congratulations<br />
to Alison Simmons Boyd and<br />
husband Oliver, who welcomed<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Avery Boyd on April<br />
23, 2015, more than five weeks<br />
early. Big bro<strong>the</strong>r Mason makes<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine laugh, but mostly just<br />
ignores her, especially when<br />
<strong>the</strong>re is a car or truck in sight.<br />
Congratulations to Sam Petrie,<br />
who recently launched her own<br />
business called Clover (www.<br />
cloverartisans.com) offering<br />
artisan-made home decor handselected<br />
from around <strong>the</strong> world.<br />
Best of luck to Sam! Courtney<br />
Mainardi Burger reports that all<br />
three of her children are finally<br />
at <strong>the</strong> same school, with William<br />
in kindergarten and twins<br />
Ellie and Alexis in 3rd grade.<br />
Beki Rafter is house-hunting in<br />
Atlanta with her partner Jamie,<br />
as well as celebrating her dad’s<br />
retirement and her mom’s 70th<br />
birthday. Beki continues to run<br />
Georgia WAND and is involved<br />
in supporting Black women’s<br />
leadership in environmental justice.<br />
Deena Raja Bittles and her<br />
family moved to St. Petersburg,<br />
Fla., in August because her husband<br />
took a job at All Children’s<br />
Johns Hopkins Medicine as a<br />
Pediatric Radiologist. Deena is<br />
still working with her firm that<br />
is headquartered in Nashville as<br />
a Senior Fixed Income Portfolio<br />
Manager. Carrie Evans Hanlon<br />
moved within Memphis this<br />
summer to a home that she<br />
worked to renovate. Her son<br />
James, 6, plays every sport he<br />
can and makes her smile each<br />
day. Carrie continues to love<br />
her job with Hobson Realtors.<br />
Kristen Mistretta Wilson and<br />
her husband Jake were overjoyed<br />
to welcome <strong>the</strong>ir third son<br />
Mat<strong>the</strong>w in June. Big bro<strong>the</strong>rs<br />
Jacob (6) and Alexander (4) are in<br />
awe of <strong>the</strong>ir baby bro<strong>the</strong>r. She’s<br />
stopped practicing law for now<br />
and has adjusted to living in<br />
Baton Rouge, La.<br />
–1994<br />
Edith Ritterband Goody<br />
edithgoody@aol.com<br />
Mary Evelyn Stevens Fore follows<br />
her three girls’ schedules<br />
and helps her husband with<br />
some “behind <strong>the</strong> scenes” office<br />
work. She gets to catch up with<br />
Laura Foster Gettys when <strong>the</strong>y<br />
both drop off <strong>the</strong>ir kids in JK<br />
at GSL. My head began to spin<br />
when I learned of all Joann Self<br />
Selvidge’s activities. Her film<br />
“The Keepers” about zookeepers<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Memphis Zoo will be<br />
released in early 2016 and was<br />
<strong>the</strong> opening night gala film at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Indie Memphis Film Fest,<br />
where it won <strong>the</strong> Hometowner<br />
Feature Award! Joann is consulting<br />
with <strong>the</strong> Memphis Convention<br />
& Visitors Bureau, and says<br />
her kids are doing well and<br />
looking forward to a new kitten<br />
to bring into Daddy’s new studio.<br />
Sigrid Longsworth Orr moved to<br />
Cleveland, Tenn. (Chattanooga<br />
area), at <strong>the</strong> end of June and<br />
loves being back in <strong>the</strong> South.<br />
She’s working towards her Tennessee<br />
Art Educator license for<br />
K-12 and says <strong>the</strong>re’s not much<br />
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Class Notes<br />
time to study while working as<br />
an assistant teacher in <strong>the</strong> local<br />
high school and participating in<br />
<strong>the</strong> formation of <strong>the</strong> Cleveland<br />
Arts Center. Sarah Gross Little<br />
enjoys being an active trader in<br />
<strong>the</strong> market and is taking time<br />
to learn more. I’m thrilled to<br />
hear Karrie Cummings Hendrikson’s<br />
announcement of her<br />
two boys, of whom she hopes<br />
to have full adoption by February.<br />
She’s “completely in love,<br />
and totally overwhelmed” by<br />
<strong>the</strong> 5-year-old and 23-monthold<br />
boys. Speaking of new boys,<br />
in June, Leigh Wilson Jacobs,<br />
introduced her second son Finch<br />
to a struggling older bro<strong>the</strong>r. I’m<br />
sure Finch’s godmo<strong>the</strong>r Jessica<br />
Johnson will shower lots of love<br />
onto both boys whenever she’s<br />
around. Leigh shared news for<br />
Hallie Dinkelspiel Label who<br />
welcomed her daughter Katie.<br />
Babies abound as Jamie Morano<br />
Re is expecting her first child<br />
around Christmas. She’s keeping<br />
busy placing staff on international<br />
medical exchanges,<br />
reforming <strong>the</strong> VA, and combating<br />
<strong>the</strong> infectious disease epidemic<br />
in Fla. Queen bee Evie has dictated<br />
Halloween costumes for<br />
mama bee Sarah Lacy and crazy<br />
fuzzy bro<strong>the</strong>r bee Eli. Sarah’s<br />
company PANDO has been doing<br />
well, but she worked herself to<br />
exhaustion, ending up in <strong>the</strong><br />
hospital! Thank goodness, she’s<br />
feeling better. Her niece Ramie<br />
Bell ’13 has taken some time off<br />
from college to help out with her<br />
kids. Sarah Cole-Turner Vincent<br />
said her daughter would’ve been<br />
envious of our 4th b-day party.<br />
She has bought and refurbished<br />
a house. Let <strong>the</strong> visitors arrive!<br />
She enjoys her job, which<br />
allows her to combine her tech<br />
expertise with speech pathology<br />
to change children’s lives.<br />
Expect <strong>the</strong> next note to come<br />
from Kathryn Leigh DeRossitt<br />
who has excitedly accepted <strong>the</strong><br />
opportunity to be class secretary.<br />
It’s been a wonderful experience<br />
and I look forward to hearing<br />
from and about y’all soon!<br />
–1995<br />
Carrie Sue Casey Hanback<br />
carrie.sue.casey@gmail.com<br />
Lee Davidson Holt’s little girl<br />
Dorothy is named for husband<br />
Kevin’s sharp-as-a-tack, 99-yearold<br />
grandmo<strong>the</strong>r, and is what<br />
her aunt Shannon Davidson<br />
Pflasterer ’94 calls a “trick baby”<br />
because she eats well, sleeps<br />
well, and plays well – she’s<br />
setting Lee and Kevin up for a<br />
major trick at some point. Carrie<br />
Sue Casey Hanback’s kids are<br />
at fun ages (Belle, 4, Hank, 2)<br />
and both of <strong>the</strong>m enjoy wearing<br />
heels around <strong>the</strong> house<br />
and are Nats baseball fans.<br />
She moved into a new office<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Department of Defense<br />
that focuses on innovation and<br />
leadership development. Carrie<br />
caught up with Tricia Graue,<br />
who gave her a book of artistic<br />
chicken photos that <strong>the</strong>y<br />
agreed Allison Roberts would<br />
love. Kathryn Wiseman just<br />
became Director of Global Public<br />
Policy at Walmart, and recently<br />
visited China and embraced<br />
<strong>the</strong> “ridiculous American tourist”<br />
role. Leigh Walker lives in<br />
Franklin, Tenn., and started<br />
working as a Project Coordinator<br />
for Community Health Systems.<br />
In Birmingham, Hallie Bourland<br />
Wagner’s second child William<br />
is a delight, while big bro<strong>the</strong>r<br />
Walter may perhaps be entering<br />
“three-nager” territory. Elizabeth<br />
Richardson Fitzgerald is still<br />
teaching gifted 9th grade English<br />
in Memphis, keeping up with<br />
Erin (sixth grade), and photographing<br />
weddings. Ebony Welch<br />
is <strong>the</strong> new Development Services<br />
Coordinator of Jackson Academy<br />
in Jackson, Miss. Megan Waters<br />
Albonetti is going strong with<br />
her freelance editing and being<br />
a mama. Ann Wood Ray is<br />
getting recertified in nursing<br />
and is also considering a career<br />
change in <strong>the</strong> future. And Sarah<br />
Trosper Olivo and her husband<br />
may move to <strong>the</strong> suburbs after<br />
living in <strong>the</strong> Big Apple for over<br />
15 years. Liz Jenkins moved<br />
from L.A. to San Francisco and<br />
is plotting out her next professional<br />
steps. She is excited<br />
about Dhevi Kumar Broecker’s<br />
impending bambino. Liz had<br />
recently visited Dhevi, and<br />
reports how she, husband Arndt,<br />
and little Ranga are enjoying<br />
Seattle. Simone Kiersky Coyle<br />
reports that time is starting to<br />
fly, with Evan (6) in first grade<br />
and Elise (4) in junior kindergarten.<br />
Elizabeth Cochran Hill’s<br />
little Suzie Marie (3) is obsessed<br />
with gymnastics and has started<br />
ballet and tap. Bro<strong>the</strong>r Wally (1)<br />
started preschool, and Elizabeth<br />
is subbing for preschool teachers.<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Crone Wilson<br />
was promoted to Associate<br />
Director of Marketing Operations<br />
at Troutman Sanders LLP, <strong>the</strong><br />
firm where she’s worked for <strong>the</strong><br />
past eight years. Fellow Atlantan<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Arnold Gatza took her<br />
two girls – Elizabeth (7) and Anna<br />
(5) – on <strong>the</strong>ir first Disney World<br />
trip. Sarah Carlson Landers is<br />
still in Lawrence, Kan. Son Chris<br />
is a junior in high school and<br />
considering colleges and life<br />
goals. Sonia Torrey realized <strong>the</strong><br />
Peach State is where she wants<br />
to be begin school in Atlanta in<br />
2016 for a Master’s in counseling.<br />
Sonia was also accepted into<br />
<strong>the</strong> Boston Marathon for 2016,<br />
after a summer of running and<br />
visiting with Natasha Heflin<br />
Davis and Ragini Gupta, among<br />
o<strong>the</strong>rs. Sonia also spent a night<br />
in Rector, Ark., with Elizabeth<br />
Richardson Fitzgerald and her<br />
daughter Erin. Morgan Chiapella<br />
Roselle is in her last year as her<br />
kids’ Cubmaster and on <strong>the</strong> hunt<br />
for a job to fit her new Master’s<br />
degree. Natasha Heflin Davis’<br />
daughter Amelia started kindergarten<br />
and little sister Tessa was<br />
thrilled to start pre-school. Lisa<br />
Mulrooney Coombs describes<br />
married life as one of bliss. How<br />
cool that Elizabeth Richardson<br />
Fitzgerald took <strong>the</strong> photos at<br />
her pretty wedding. Jada Love<br />
Thompson got married in 2014<br />
and had a ridiculously cute<br />
baby this year, Brett. She is in<br />
Jackson, Miss., and gearing up<br />
to finish her Psychiatric Nurse<br />
Practitioner studies. Murff Oates<br />
Galbreath has learned how to<br />
simultaneously be <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r<br />
of three children and take a<br />
shower.<br />
–1996<br />
Jaime Newsom<br />
jaime.newsom@gmail.com<br />
Lauren Brooks Poindexter is<br />
excited to be finishing her MSN<br />
degree and is looking forward<br />
to becoming a family nurse<br />
practitioner. Her daughter Emily<br />
is in 2nd grade at SMS and is<br />
on <strong>the</strong> soccer team with Emily<br />
Farrow Robbins’s daughter Lilly.<br />
Courtney Shove moved back<br />
to Memphis in August and is<br />
happy to be <strong>the</strong> new director of<br />
communications at Memphis<br />
Opportunity Scholarship Trust<br />
(MOST). Julia Chesney McDonald<br />
still enjoys being president of<br />
<strong>the</strong> St. Mary’s Alumnae Board<br />
and has recently joined <strong>the</strong><br />
board of Ballet Memphis. Brooke<br />
Meggan Wurzburg Kiel ’98 in South<br />
Africa with husband Daniel (who<br />
is working on a research project),<br />
Sadie ’24, and Ben.<br />
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Douglas Looney welcomed baby<br />
girl in June. Brooke writes that<br />
Wynnie is so sweet and her<br />
twin sisters love her! Georgina<br />
Okerson has moved to Crawley,<br />
England, and has released ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
game, Black Closet, set in<br />
an all-girls religious school. As<br />
she says, “don’t worry, it’s mostly<br />
not true.” Maesie Speer is leaving<br />
Portland and moving to <strong>the</strong><br />
Cascade Mountains of central<br />
Oregon to manage an arts center<br />
called Caldera. She will be living<br />
on-site with Jesse and <strong>the</strong>ir cats.<br />
She knows that it is a big move<br />
but says that she and Jesse have<br />
dreamed about living in a rural<br />
area for quite a while. Bernice<br />
Chen also has a new addition –<br />
a baby girl. She is enjoying her<br />
time staying at home but will<br />
return to work soon. Sharlene<br />
Sidhu Keithley is finally a Girl<br />
Scout! She has taken on leading<br />
daughter Saira’s Daisy Troop, in<br />
addition to being son Rajan’s<br />
Cub Scout Bear Den leader.<br />
She is still working remotely<br />
for <strong>the</strong> family business, Desoto<br />
Children’s Clinic, and she’s active<br />
on <strong>the</strong> board of a local nonprofit,<br />
<strong>the</strong> Colorado Children’s<br />
Campaign.<br />
–1997<br />
Hollye Ferguson Stigler<br />
hollye.stigler@gmail.com<br />
Let’s start with news from<br />
our classmates on <strong>the</strong> West<br />
Coast: Congratulations to Hala<br />
Khuri on her engagement this<br />
summer — Hala is planning<br />
her upcoming wedding and still<br />
loves teaching in <strong>the</strong> Bay Area.<br />
Also in San Francisco, Rebekah<br />
Hanover Kurzweil’s son Leo<br />
is 4 and Quincy is almost<br />
one. Elaine Guerra Cotter and<br />
her family have been living<br />
in Los Angeles for just over a<br />
year and are really enjoying it.<br />
Her daughter Zoë is 8 months<br />
and is working to keep up<br />
with big sister Sophie. Their<br />
hotel business has expanded<br />
to North Lake Tahoe, Boulder,<br />
and Calistoga. Rose Indriolo<br />
Englert and her family live in<br />
Portland. Her daughter Ramona<br />
is 15 months and walking, climbing,<br />
running, talking, and giggling.<br />
Rose has been promoted<br />
to a director level position at<br />
CareOregon. Congrats Rose! On<br />
<strong>the</strong> East Coast, Ashley Wilson is<br />
having fun with now 6-monthold<br />
Hudson. They enjoyed traveling<br />
this summer and also visits<br />
from Celia Watson and Jeanne<br />
Herzog. Ashley’s architectural<br />
work has been moving quickly,<br />
she recently broke ground on a<br />
state-of-<strong>the</strong>-art robotic surgical<br />
center as well as working<br />
on several new residential<br />
properties. Autumn Witt<br />
Boyd started her own law firm in<br />
February, focusing on copyright,<br />
trademark, and small business<br />
advising and working with<br />
mostly women entrepreneurs.<br />
Her twins Sam and Tyson are<br />
almost 4. She and Melissa<br />
Ohsfeldt and <strong>the</strong>ir families met<br />
for a visit at <strong>the</strong> Chattanooga<br />
Aquarium this summer. Melissa<br />
recently transitioned to work for<br />
a new company, doing a similar<br />
role. Her four kids are doing<br />
well. Orinda, age 1, is walking<br />
and Charlotte in 4th grade and<br />
starting to study literature<br />
Melissa remembers well from<br />
our SMS days! My family is<br />
enjoying having a baby again,<br />
Amelie is six months old and<br />
a delight. I had a fun surprise<br />
a few weeks ago and bumped<br />
into Liz Fraim Evans and her<br />
beautiful family on <strong>the</strong> beach<br />
along 30A in Florida. It was a<br />
quick visit, but made me excited<br />
about our 20-year reunion...not<br />
too far away!<br />
–1998<br />
Laurin Maddox<br />
laurinmaddox@gmail.com<br />
Lots of job transition news this<br />
time around. Jennifer Fong is<br />
enjoying her new position as<br />
project manager for CBRE and<br />
spent her birthday in Tahiti.<br />
She completed a 125-mile trail<br />
race in Tahoe and is training<br />
for two half marathons. Nupur<br />
Sidhu Bal started her own firm<br />
with ano<strong>the</strong>r partner this year.<br />
Allison Martin Nolen writes that<br />
she recently started a new position<br />
as a nurse on <strong>the</strong> pediatric<br />
hematology/oncology unit. Amy<br />
Sellers transitioned to a new<br />
position as <strong>the</strong> VP of Digital and<br />
Product Marketing for Carena, a<br />
healthcare technology company.<br />
She is also working on a startup<br />
project called dopl, a mobile restaurant<br />
that provides accurate<br />
restaurant recommendations.<br />
Ann Frizzell Pretzer completed<br />
teacher training for Suzuki Violin<br />
Book 1, so all you Memphis<br />
parents, feel free to contact her<br />
if you are interested in lessons<br />
for your kiddos! Ashley Bellet<br />
started her first semester in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Theatre PhD program in<br />
Madison, Wis. She is also teaching<br />
on campus and working in<br />
a pottery shop for fun. Laurin<br />
Maddux started a new position<br />
as <strong>the</strong> Regional Clinical Director<br />
at Strategic Behavioral Health.<br />
She is enjoying traveling a lot<br />
with this new position, especially<br />
to beautiful Colorado for<br />
hiking in <strong>the</strong> Rocky Mountains.<br />
Anne Claire Bellott Jordan<br />
writes that Emma is enjoying<br />
kindergarten this year. She also<br />
went to visit sister Elizabeth<br />
Bellott ’15 at NC State. Erin Lyttle<br />
Do loves being mom to two St.<br />
Mary’s Turkeys! Monica Wilson<br />
Barton writes that she is working<br />
hard at State Farm Corporate<br />
Headquarters in Illinois. The<br />
Barton family has had a busy<br />
year, moving to a new home and<br />
welcoming Wyatt, who turned<br />
one recently. Lauren Webb<br />
Mitchell and husband Luke are<br />
enjoying being parents to Henry<br />
who is walking and teething<br />
and keeping <strong>the</strong>m on <strong>the</strong>ir toes.<br />
Allyn Jaqua Lowell keeps us<br />
all in stitches through her blog<br />
posts and Facebook posts. She<br />
writes that Erin Wade has “given<br />
me <strong>the</strong> greatest gift possible by<br />
becoming a pediatrician who<br />
returns my frantic phone calls<br />
at 11pm and doesn’t charge me.”<br />
Allyn and husband Zach chase<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir adorable twins Hunter<br />
and Grier when not frantically<br />
texting Erin. Erin Wade started<br />
her Pediatric Residency at <strong>the</strong><br />
University of Louisville. Meggan<br />
Wurzburg Kiel writes her news<br />
from South Africa, where husband<br />
Daniel is working on an education<br />
research project. Meggan<br />
and Daniel are homeschooling<br />
Sadie and Ben through this<br />
adventure. Meg Kinnard writes<br />
that she and Adair love <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
new house, especially swimming<br />
in <strong>the</strong> pool all summer long. She<br />
has also been traveling on behalf<br />
of her family, doing work to keep<br />
her grandfa<strong>the</strong>rr’s legacy alive at<br />
UT Martin. Patience Chambliss<br />
Wiggins and husband Chris are<br />
expecting a third boy soon.<br />
–1999<br />
Kelly Buckner Dallas<br />
kellybdallas@gmail.com<br />
Congratulations are in order for<br />
Marynelle Wilson McNamara<br />
who married a fellow attorney,<br />
Doug McNamara, in Washington<br />
D.C., on June 21, <strong>the</strong>n honeymooned<br />
in France. We also<br />
have a few new babies! Rachel<br />
Bearman Plevak welcomed<br />
Oliver back in January, and Lily<br />
Shu welcomed Audrey in May.<br />
Rachel writes that she’s still<br />
living in Atlanta and working<br />
as a prosecutor. Lily has been<br />
living in Beijing and working<br />
for McDonald’s for six years.<br />
Libby Lawson Foster is also<br />
still living abroad in Oaxaca,<br />
Mexico, before wrapping up<br />
her year of learning Spanish.<br />
Angela Lam is also on <strong>the</strong> move<br />
having just relocated from San<br />
Francisco to Chicago. It’s been<br />
a good move, but she’s nervous<br />
about <strong>the</strong> snow! On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
hand, Elizabeth Hatzenbuehler<br />
Hibler loves <strong>the</strong> snow living in<br />
Denver and can’t wait until ski<br />
season. She’s still working as a<br />
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Class Notes<br />
Thirteen St. Mary’s girls attended <strong>the</strong> wedding of Susan Buckner Rose ’01: (from left) Daphne Trainer Bahl ’01, Hayley Bower Gerber ’01,<br />
Caroline Gardner ’01, Kate McCalla ’01, Kemper Kelso Brennan ’01, Susan Buckner Rose ’01, Kelly Buckner Dallas ’99, Jenny Maddux Stenberg ’01,<br />
Emily Harris Halpern ’01, Erin Bower ’99, Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01, Collin Wilson Buckner ’05, Mia Wilson ’19.<br />
Registered Dietitian providing<br />
nutrition counseling to highrisk<br />
families. Hilary Dinkelspiel<br />
moved to New York last year and<br />
has recently purchased a new<br />
home. She also passed <strong>the</strong> New<br />
York bar exam and completed<br />
<strong>the</strong> Ironman Copenhagen. Way to<br />
go, Hillary! Laura Freeman Rouse<br />
is in Nashville and undergoing a<br />
house renovation, which should<br />
be complete by Thanksgiving.<br />
She was recently in town visiting<br />
Jenny Jones Savage and got<br />
to see Rebecca Fones Rhea and<br />
Anne-Morgan Brookfield Morgan<br />
and <strong>the</strong>ir precious girls. Lillian<br />
Askew Everdell also made a trip<br />
to Memphis with her daughter,<br />
Charlotte. Anne-Morgan,<br />
Jenny, Rebecca, and I along with<br />
Caroline Palazola Conrad and<br />
Palmer Adams Burt were all<br />
able to get to visit with Lillian.<br />
It was such fun! Anne-Morgan<br />
is still at Eli Lilly and busy with<br />
her two girls. Anne Elise is loving<br />
SMS and is excited to be a flower<br />
girl in her godfa<strong>the</strong>r’s wedding.<br />
Melissa Reedy Buchanan is still<br />
in Atlanta working as a Realtor<br />
while also chasing around her<br />
two boys, Brooks and Reed.<br />
Ashley Gaillard Clark writes that<br />
she’s enjoying her role at Silicon<br />
Valley Social Venture Fund and<br />
just celebrated Oliver’s 2nd birthday.<br />
She loves getting toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />
regularly with Sidney Hawkins<br />
Gargiulo and Brittany Blockman<br />
Pelletier. Meg Parker is counting<br />
down to her November wedding<br />
in New Orleans. Courtenay<br />
Adams, along with Rebecca, will<br />
be <strong>the</strong>re celebrating with Meg.<br />
Allison Davies Ford recently<br />
had a getaway to Captiva Island<br />
after moving into a new house<br />
in Jacksonville. She writes that<br />
Shepard is now in kindergarten<br />
and Hill is too cute for words.<br />
Erica Smith has exciting news of<br />
her engagement! She is planning<br />
a wedding next fall and will have<br />
Libby, Courtenay, and Allison<br />
in <strong>the</strong> wedding party. Annie<br />
McLaren Neufeld is expecting<br />
her first child in November!<br />
Annie will be returning to work<br />
as Pastor of College and Young<br />
Adults in her same church in<br />
Pasadena. Coincidentally, I am<br />
expecting our third child and<br />
have <strong>the</strong> same due date as Annie<br />
We’re having a boy this time and<br />
are thrilled.<br />
–2000<br />
Whitney Baer<br />
whitney.baer@gmail.com<br />
We begin with a “thank you” to<br />
Katie Garrett Harris for 15 (wow!)<br />
years of secretary duty. Katie<br />
lived in Oxford, England, this<br />
summer, enjoying <strong>the</strong> history<br />
and gorgeous parks. Louise (8)<br />
started 2nd grade at SMS and will<br />
sing in <strong>the</strong> Christmas Pageant<br />
this year! Also across <strong>the</strong> pond,<br />
Ellis Dixon is teaching English to<br />
adults in Lisbon while continuing<br />
freelance fashion design.<br />
Stateside, Jessica Swanson Fila<br />
quit her job as a pastry chef and<br />
started working as a substitute<br />
teacher in Milford, Conn., while<br />
she works towards her Masters<br />
and Certification in Elementary<br />
Education. Kate Wichlinski is<br />
working for a photographer<br />
in NYC and is training for <strong>the</strong><br />
marathon next year. She got to<br />
hear Patti Smith read Ginsberg’s<br />
Howl to commemorate <strong>the</strong> 60th<br />
anniversary of his first reading.<br />
Lauren Weinrich Bernstein<br />
and Justin just bought a place in<br />
Maryland. Lauren is working for<br />
EverFi, a technology company<br />
that teaches students critical<br />
thinking skills in topics like<br />
financial literacy. Tami Sawyer<br />
is a driving force for change<br />
in Memphis and beyond! She<br />
founded PowerBox, <strong>the</strong> black<br />
business directory/website and<br />
started a new job as <strong>the</strong> Director,<br />
Diversity & Leadership at Teach<br />
for America Memphis. She was<br />
<strong>the</strong> sole female speaker when<br />
Minister Louis Farrakhan addressed<br />
over 2100 Memphians at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Cannon Center. From a longoverdue<br />
vacation, Kat Gordon<br />
reported that Muddy’s is doing<br />
well and <strong>the</strong>y are getting <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
ducks in a row for <strong>the</strong> holiday<br />
season. Lexie Hicks Johnston<br />
saw Emily White in Chicago<br />
for a fun weekend toge<strong>the</strong>r.<br />
Lots of exciting news about<br />
mini-2000ers! Courtney Routt<br />
Worthman wrote in to share that<br />
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she and Michael are expecting<br />
a baby boy in February. Amy<br />
Reinhardt Robinson has a new<br />
baby, James Dardis Robinson,<br />
who arrived on July 9th. Mimi<br />
started at St. Mary’s Place this<br />
year and absolutely loves it.<br />
Amy will be <strong>the</strong> godmo<strong>the</strong>r for<br />
Courtney’s baby. Mary-Kathryn<br />
Millner Herrington was surprised<br />
by <strong>the</strong> early arrival of<br />
Logan Hart Herrington, who has<br />
stolen <strong>the</strong> hearts of <strong>the</strong> family.<br />
Lessie Calhoun Rainey is still at<br />
<strong>the</strong> DA’s office and loving it. Baby<br />
James is doing great. Lisa Ansley<br />
Clapper continues at Morgan<br />
Stanley and loves it despite this<br />
crazy market. Robby graduated<br />
from law school, and Lily is<br />
continuing to amaze every day.<br />
Sarah Montgomery Prudhon is<br />
working to finish up <strong>the</strong> didactic<br />
portion of grad school and starts<br />
clinical in January. Etta Louise<br />
is 18 months old and words just<br />
cannot describe how amazingly<br />
fulfilling she makes life every<br />
day. Megha Karkera Kanjia is<br />
settling into Houston, and loving<br />
life with little Kish. Carrie<br />
Lawson Wills really likes working<br />
in <strong>the</strong> cardiac ICU. Carrie<br />
says Lela is a super fun kid and<br />
<strong>the</strong>y have nightly dance parties.<br />
Charley and Whitney Baer got<br />
engaged in June in San Sebastian<br />
(thanks for recommendations<br />
Liz Palomo!) and <strong>the</strong>n decided<br />
to relocate to Montana! She is<br />
still working for UM’s Institute<br />
for Intelligent Systems. She will<br />
finish <strong>the</strong> grants/cross-country<br />
commute for <strong>the</strong> foreseeable<br />
future.<br />
–2001<br />
Lauren Anderson Stone<br />
laurenandersonstone@gmail.com<br />
Well ladies, here we are fifteen<br />
years later…wow! Kristen<br />
Beasley McGlasson is now <strong>the</strong><br />
Literacy Coach for K-2 at Promise<br />
Academy. Kristen and Michael<br />
welcomed Nicholas Edward<br />
McGlasson into this world on<br />
August 27th, 2013, and this<br />
past June, Christopher Watts<br />
McGlasson was born. Caroline<br />
Gardner left <strong>the</strong> world of beer<br />
at MillerCoors and moved back<br />
to banking at BMO Harris in<br />
Chicago. Caroline enjoyed seeing<br />
a number of classmates at Susan<br />
Buckner Rose’s wedding this<br />
summer. Susan married Cullen<br />
Rose on August 1 at Calvary<br />
Church, with a reception at<br />
Annesdale Mansion in Memphis.<br />
Courtney Taylor Humphreys<br />
also enjoyed catching up at<br />
Susan’s wedding. Courtney and<br />
her family moved to Midtown<br />
and are really enjoying it, especially<br />
now that Baby Humphreys<br />
#3, Ann Emerson, is here. Anna<br />
Snyder Rojas and Philip are also<br />
anticipating an arrival in April,<br />
and Jane is excited to be a big<br />
sister. Nishta Mehra and Jill were<br />
thrilled to finally get married<br />
in July after 13 years! Her mom<br />
and Shiv were witnesses to <strong>the</strong><br />
intimate ceremony. She reports<br />
that <strong>the</strong>y still can’t believe it’s<br />
real and that <strong>the</strong>y can file taxes<br />
jointly and all kinds of o<strong>the</strong>r romantic<br />
stuff. They honeymooned<br />
in Santa Fe earlier this fall.<br />
Elizabeth Laws also got married<br />
to Byron Fuller in October.<br />
Royce Miller lost her mom, Faye,<br />
this summer, which has been<br />
incredibly tough because <strong>the</strong>y<br />
were so close. Morgan Raines is<br />
now at <strong>the</strong> London office of <strong>the</strong><br />
American law firm, Greenberg<br />
Traurig Maher LLP, in <strong>the</strong>ir commercial<br />
property department.<br />
Louise Chandler Biedenharn<br />
took some time off after Dorothy<br />
was born, but is currently with<br />
Glankler Brown as a contract<br />
attorney. Louise and I have<br />
both run into Sarah Mat<strong>the</strong>ws<br />
Pietrangelo and her little Louise<br />
at <strong>the</strong> zoo. Louise P. introduced<br />
my Anderson to <strong>the</strong> farm train,<br />
and it’s now a must-see attraction.<br />
Luisa Peredo Ewing<br />
and family are still in London,<br />
though <strong>the</strong>y moved from a flat<br />
to a house this summer. She<br />
had a baby girl, Adriana Sophia<br />
Camelia Ewing, in July! Ashley<br />
Ayres Bryant, Josh, and Mac<br />
welcomed baby Cole in June.<br />
Ashley says that Mac has totally<br />
fallen into his new role as big<br />
bro<strong>the</strong>r. Now if Cole would just<br />
sleep…I feel her pain on that<br />
one. Clifton, Anderson, and I<br />
welcomed Waring in August. He<br />
is a really sweet, smiley baby,<br />
and we just adore him. I can’t<br />
wait to see many of you in April<br />
at our 15th reunion! Seems like<br />
only yesterday we were reenacting<br />
Les Miz scenes in <strong>the</strong> parking<br />
lot on Black Friday.<br />
–2002<br />
Polly Klyce Pennoyer<br />
polly.klyce.pennoyer@gmail.com<br />
The Class of 2002 continues to<br />
thrive and expand! Several of our<br />
classmates had a fun and actionpacked<br />
weekend in Nashville to-<br />
At a baby shower for Mary Austin Mays Smith ’03, who later had a boy, were Ginny Taylor ’03,<br />
Margaret Ann Klinke Mays ’03, Mary Austin, Sarah Machin ’03, Elliot Machin ’06, Lizzie Gill ’03,<br />
and Bethany Mays Owen ’93.<br />
Suzie Loveless ’03 (left) and Katie Friend ’02<br />
at London Bridge.<br />
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Class Notes<br />
Lauren Lazar ’04 celebrated her 30th birthday with classmates (back row, from left)<br />
Shea O’Rourke Quraishi, Sarah Carter, Sasha Castroverde, Brittany Johnson<br />
Hernandez, Marion Phillips, Supriya Sarkar. Front row, from left: Camille Wingo,<br />
Shelby Deeney, Elizabeth Stevenson, Lauren Lazar, Lauren Arnold,<br />
Taylor Fisher, Elise Addington Dugger<br />
Classmates from 2004 celebrate toge<strong>the</strong>r: From left, Kristin<br />
Barry Gibson (with Gracie), Blair Carter Tait, Laine Peeler,<br />
Lucy Harris Collins, and Martha Ferguson Burke.<br />
ge<strong>the</strong>r, including Nicole Osborne<br />
Steck, Lisa Mabry, Elsa Monge<br />
DeGroot, Ann Burruss, Rebecca<br />
Sawyer, and Elizabeth Campbell.<br />
Nicole continues to enjoy work<br />
in marketing at Glaxo-Smith<br />
Kline. Lisa is finishing up her last<br />
year of a radiology fellowship<br />
in Birmingham, before moving<br />
to Atlanta for ano<strong>the</strong>r radiology<br />
fellowship at Emory, specializing<br />
in mammography (overachiever);<br />
in between all of her radiology<br />
work, she is excited to be wedding<br />
planning. Elsa now oversees<br />
marketing for Central and South<br />
America for Chili’s international<br />
restaurants from Dallas. Ann is<br />
still in Memphis, where she has<br />
begun work as a multi-sensory<br />
tutor for children with dyslexia<br />
and o<strong>the</strong>r specific language<br />
disabilities; she even works for<br />
SMS sometimes. Ann is also<br />
knee-deep in wedding plans<br />
as well. Elizabeth is finishing a<br />
fellowship in endocrinology and<br />
starting her job search; while<br />
she was home in Memphis,<br />
she ran into former classmate<br />
Christina Lea<strong>the</strong>rman! Small<br />
world. Lindsey Coates is still in<br />
Orlando, where she has joined<br />
<strong>the</strong> staff of Summit Church, and<br />
as part of her work she leads<br />
regular church services at <strong>the</strong><br />
Orange County Jail. Ca<strong>the</strong>rine<br />
Ferguson Conger and her family<br />
are still in S.C., where <strong>the</strong>y have<br />
just moved into a new house<br />
<strong>the</strong>y built. Meanwhile, Wendi<br />
Muse continues to circle <strong>the</strong><br />
globe, with stops off in São Paulo<br />
and Rio for research, New York<br />
for teaching and PhD work; she<br />
is working as a TA for a course<br />
on <strong>the</strong> African Diaspora at NYU.<br />
Naree Chan and husband Alby<br />
left Boston for Taipei, Taiwan,<br />
where he is working. Naree does<br />
legal work is starting a small<br />
jewelry business on <strong>the</strong> side.<br />
Our New Orleans contingent<br />
continues to thrive as well:<br />
Rachel Andersen is fostering<br />
baby squirrels (of course) and<br />
making sculptures on <strong>the</strong> side,<br />
all while working with special<br />
education students at a charter<br />
school. Laura Hettinger continues<br />
to work as a paralegal<br />
and to nurture her creative<br />
side with freelance calligraphy<br />
and painting projects. Kelsey<br />
Freebing went to NOLA to visit<br />
Laura and George. When she’s<br />
at her normal post, Kelsey<br />
works for Ernst & Young in<br />
D.C. Katie Friend reports that<br />
she took an amazing European<br />
vacation with her cousin, Suzie<br />
Loveless ’03; stateside, she<br />
continues to work for Teach for<br />
America in <strong>the</strong> Delta. Also local<br />
is Leslie Guinn Jerkins, whose<br />
third kiddo George was born<br />
in May. Her older two, Juliette<br />
and Molly, have both started at<br />
SMS this year, and Leslie is now<br />
back at work at her ad agency<br />
post. Newly local is Whitney<br />
Long Neal, who moved back<br />
to Memphis over <strong>the</strong> summer.<br />
Emily May Lequerica continues<br />
to enjoy married life and<br />
teaching at PDS. Hillary Burkett<br />
is happily settled in Knoxville,<br />
working as a senior healthcare<br />
consultant and enjoying spending<br />
time with her two (adorable!)<br />
dogs. Anna Coplon Suen<br />
and husband Garrett welcomed<br />
an adorable baby boy named<br />
Brandon in July. They are still in<br />
Madison, Wis. Anna, maybe y’all<br />
should move home too! Far<strong>the</strong>r<br />
west, Melissa Lawson Romero<br />
and husband Carlos share <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
Colorado home with two dogs,<br />
four chickens and an adorable<br />
(bilingual!) two-year-old daughter<br />
Etta. Melissa is finishing up a<br />
clerkship at <strong>the</strong> Colorado Court<br />
of Appeals, and next up for her is<br />
a District Court federal clerkship.<br />
Far<strong>the</strong>st west of our correspondents<br />
was Marley Baer, who<br />
finished up an MBA program<br />
at Vanderbilt in <strong>the</strong> spring and<br />
moved out to Los Angeles, where<br />
she is now having a “magical”<br />
experience working for Disney,<br />
as well as wedding planning.<br />
I’m continuing to work as a<br />
financial regulatory lawyer for<br />
Davis Polk in NYC, and Robbie<br />
and I continue to live in New<br />
Haven, Conn., where he is in his<br />
last year of divinity school. Our<br />
daughter Victoria continues to<br />
thrive, daycare illness notwithstanding.<br />
Keep <strong>the</strong> news flowing,<br />
my dears! It’s always a joy to<br />
hear from so many of you.<br />
–2003<br />
Laurence Goodwin<br />
slaurencegoodwin@gmail.com<br />
Suzie Loveless is still working<br />
as Manager of Alumni Affairs for<br />
Teach For America and trying to<br />
travel as much as possible; she<br />
recently spent 15 days exploring<br />
Ireland, Wales, and England with<br />
her cousin, Katie Friend (’02).<br />
Musette Morgan is living in New<br />
York and working on lots of large<br />
landscape and portrait commissions<br />
at <strong>the</strong> moment. She’s<br />
been in Memphis a lot lately<br />
supporting her bro<strong>the</strong>r Worth’s<br />
campaign for a seat on <strong>the</strong> City<br />
Council. Louise Schumacher<br />
Timmons is busy working with<br />
designers and architects at<br />
Jerry Pair in Atlanta and looking<br />
after her little girl, Anne<br />
Parkes. Jessica Pfeffer is teaching<br />
“Introduction to Queer Studies”<br />
at Tufts this fall as well as<br />
“Women, History, and Culture” at<br />
Suffolk University; she continues<br />
to work on her PhD. Lizzie Gill<br />
is working away at her business,<br />
No Limits Tutoring. Sarah<br />
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Braden just moved to St. Louis,<br />
and is working on her Masters<br />
of Arts in Theological Studies<br />
from Covenant Seminary. Julia<br />
McMillen is graduating from<br />
residency in family medicine<br />
at <strong>the</strong> UW in June, and will be<br />
doing primary care for people<br />
of all ages, prenatal care, and<br />
delivering babies at a clinic.<br />
Anna Schwartz Shabtay and her<br />
family are moving to Houston<br />
in December. Sarah Machin<br />
has coined my favorite phrase<br />
ever this round of classnotes –<br />
“adulting like champions.” She’s<br />
currently working as a geologist<br />
for an oil company in town<br />
called Continental Resources.<br />
Nicole Henderson Trenholme<br />
moved to Columbia, Mo., for a<br />
residency in Emergency and<br />
Critical Care at <strong>the</strong> University<br />
of Missouri’s Veterinary School.<br />
Jessica Scott Fowler and Ben<br />
spent three weeks in Europe this<br />
summer; she is still working for<br />
Boosterthon. Her job is actually<br />
based out of Atlanta, so she travels<br />
<strong>the</strong>re once a month, oftentimes<br />
getting to stay with Kelly<br />
Sandefer Dennis. Chloe Lackie<br />
Zingaro is working with patients<br />
with borderline personality<br />
disorders and self-harm issues<br />
at her psycho<strong>the</strong>rapy practice<br />
in Dallas. Brianna Winsett<br />
Chapman just bought a second<br />
flower shop this fall where<br />
“<strong>the</strong>y still use Rolodexes and no<br />
computer.” Finally, in o<strong>the</strong>r news,<br />
<strong>the</strong> little ones have arrived!<br />
Congratulations to Mary Austin<br />
Mays Smith and Scott on <strong>the</strong><br />
birth of <strong>the</strong>ir little boy Davidson.<br />
Mary Austin is enjoying her new<br />
job working with two o<strong>the</strong>r pediatric<br />
dentists at Brink and White<br />
Pediatric Dental Associates.<br />
Anna Taylor Halton and Andrew<br />
welcomed <strong>the</strong>ir baby girl in July.<br />
Anna says baby June makes her<br />
“laugh every day.” Katie Hobson<br />
Novikoff and Chris are enjoying<br />
spending time with <strong>the</strong>ir Lizzy in<br />
St. Louis and still working with<br />
<strong>the</strong> urban non-profit Rebirth,<br />
while Anne Taylor Tipton<br />
Manning and Reid welcomed<br />
baby Eleanor in September.<br />
–2004<br />
Shea O’Rourke Quraishi<br />
sheaquraishi@gmail.com<br />
We have much to celebrate!<br />
Shona Strachan Singer and husband<br />
Scott welcomed <strong>the</strong>ir first<br />
daughter Maggie Irene Singer in<br />
October. Martha Ferguson Burke<br />
and husband Chris welcomed<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir first daughter Elizabeth<br />
“Lizzie” Ann Burke in October.<br />
They look forward to spending<br />
Christmas in Memphis and hope<br />
to see some SMSers! Angela<br />
Wilcox married Tommy Palmer<br />
in September, with airplane<br />
tricks to <strong>the</strong> Top Gun soundtrack.<br />
Jessica Walker married<br />
Chris Wiley in October and<br />
honeymooned in Jamaica. Lucy<br />
Harris married Joshua Collins in<br />
October, with Martha Ferguson<br />
Burke, Lori Goldstein, Blair<br />
Carter Tait, and Piper Gray as<br />
bridesmaids. Natalie Hartmann<br />
is enjoying living in Atlanta and<br />
working as a physical <strong>the</strong>rapist<br />
in <strong>the</strong> inpatient rehab setting at<br />
DeKalb Medical Center. Sarah<br />
Carter just passed her exam as<br />
a Certified Pediatric Nurse and<br />
continues through her third and<br />
final year toward a Master of<br />
Science in Nursing at Vanderbilt.<br />
Caitlin Carr is enjoying her<br />
first year as an OBGYN resident<br />
physician at <strong>the</strong> Cleveland<br />
Clinic Foundation. Kristin Barry<br />
Gibson continues to work as a<br />
nurse in Charlotte, N.C., in <strong>the</strong><br />
Electrophysiology Lab and enjoys<br />
being mom to Gracie and to a<br />
baby boy due in December. She<br />
looks forward to seeing lots of<br />
SMSers at <strong>the</strong> upcoming weddings<br />
of Laine Peeler. Lauren<br />
Arnold is spending a year getting<br />
a Masters of Public Health<br />
at Columbia’s Mailman School<br />
of Public Health before finishing<br />
her last year of medical school<br />
at Columbia. She’s also excited<br />
that her sister Mimi Arnold ’06<br />
recently moved to NYC with<br />
her fiancé. Connor Trott is a<br />
board-certified physical <strong>the</strong>rapist<br />
at Baptist North Mississippi<br />
Outpatient Physical Therapy.<br />
Kaitlin Ridder Jaqua is surviving<br />
her second year of urology<br />
residency at Indiana University<br />
in Indianapolis. Rachel Bearman<br />
is enjoying her many adventures<br />
as <strong>the</strong> solo rabbi of Temple B’nai<br />
Chaim in Connecticut. Sasha<br />
Castroverde was promoted to<br />
Assistant Director of Harvard<br />
University’s capital campaign.<br />
She enjoyed seeing so many<br />
SMS friends for Angela Wilcox’s<br />
wedding in Memphis and Lauren<br />
Lazar’s thirtieth birthday in<br />
Dallas. Victoria Luke Morich is<br />
wrapping up her MBA at Georgia<br />
Tech and will be graduating in<br />
May 2016 with concentrations in<br />
Strategy and Entrepreneurship.<br />
To procrastinate studying, she<br />
spends time spoiling her three<br />
nephews in Atlanta and helping<br />
her sister, Jennifer Luke ’02, plan<br />
her wedding. Camille Wingo<br />
recently moved to Dallas, where<br />
she lives around <strong>the</strong> corner<br />
from Lauren Lazar and Taylor<br />
Fisher and works in marketing<br />
at Frito-Lay. Piper Gray still<br />
works in New York as a senior<br />
copywriter at Warby Parker.<br />
Clare Patterson and her husband<br />
Nathan are moving to Tampa,<br />
Laine Peeler ’04 shares her wedding<br />
day with Blair Carter Tait ’04.<br />
where he will be starting a job as<br />
a staff pharmacist and she’ll be<br />
applying to physician’s assistant<br />
schools. Elizabeth Jemison is<br />
Assistant Professor of Religion<br />
at Clemson University teaching<br />
American religious history. She<br />
and husband Andrew both enjoy<br />
spending time with Elizabeth<br />
Stevenson, who just began her<br />
seventh year teaching kindergarten.<br />
She enjoyed summer<br />
trips to Nantucket and Colorado,<br />
where she saw Shelby Deeney,<br />
who still loves living in Denver<br />
and looks forward to skiing this<br />
winter. Marion Phillips plans<br />
to visit for a ski vacation in<br />
February. Martha Guinn Carter<br />
and husband Dudley went to<br />
Yellowstone this fall and had<br />
a blast; it was <strong>the</strong> first vacation<br />
leaving daughter Jane with<br />
her grandparents. Zoë Kahn is<br />
studying for her LCSW licensing<br />
exam and looking forward<br />
to joining private practice in<br />
Los Angeles. She plans to take<br />
more time off to travel following<br />
<strong>the</strong> exam and will be<br />
visiting Lawrence Taylor Elliot,<br />
Lauren Brooks Foti, and Natalie<br />
Hartmann in December. George<br />
and I are in Tampa settling into<br />
our first house and preparing for<br />
our first puppy, thus fulfilling all<br />
of my animal-nut tendencies.<br />
Love to all!<br />
–2005<br />
Sarah Atkinson Ball<br />
sarah.atkinson.ball@gmail.com<br />
Lauren Wiygul Riley<br />
lauren.w.riley@gmail.com<br />
Hea<strong>the</strong>r Nadolny is still in <strong>the</strong><br />
D.C. area serving as Technology<br />
Associate for two campuses of<br />
<strong>the</strong> DC Prep Charter Schools.<br />
Rainey Ray Segars and husband<br />
Coleton moved to and from NYC,<br />
and Rainey has started working<br />
at SMS as Director of Alumnae.<br />
She and Coleton joyfully welcomed<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir son Teddy Taylor<br />
in October; <strong>the</strong>y are looking<br />
forward to what <strong>the</strong>y hope will<br />
be a quiet, predictable 2016 as a<br />
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Class Notes<br />
With Jenny West Fagan ’06 after her Alum Chapel talk are,<br />
from left, Erin Sandefer ’07, Jenny, and Morgan Beckford ’06.<br />
After possibly St. Mary’s first underwear Alum Chapel talk, Karen Stein ’09 (center),<br />
an executive at SPANX, posed with classmates (from left) Wallis Tosi,<br />
Bailey Be<strong>the</strong>ll, Claire Riley, and Jordan Reeve.<br />
family of three. Falconer Robbins<br />
graduated from Columbia with<br />
a Master’s degree in social work<br />
and recently started work at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Issroff Family Foundation<br />
as <strong>the</strong> Foundation Coordinator<br />
in NYC. Her focus is “grant<br />
making for small grassroots<br />
organizations in Africa that<br />
provide service and support for<br />
youth and children.” Elizabeth<br />
Tipton Musick graduated from<br />
law school at <strong>the</strong> University of<br />
Montana in May and started a<br />
job at Oracle at <strong>the</strong>ir campus<br />
in Bozeman, Mont., in August,<br />
where she is negotiating Public<br />
Cloud contracts. Barbara<br />
Phillips Hunsicker was promoted<br />
to Vocational Advisor<br />
and Coordinator of Presbyterian<br />
Ministries at Fuller Seminary,<br />
and joined <strong>the</strong> Ca<strong>the</strong>dral Choir<br />
at First Presbyterian Church of<br />
Hollywood. Abby Schwimmer<br />
Fox married Sean in May at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Memphis Waterworks,<br />
sharing <strong>the</strong> day with Emily<br />
Templeton Gray, Erica Evans,<br />
Katie Brookoff, Laura Jennings<br />
Yacoubian, Megan Bailey,<br />
Elizabeth Batchelor Calkins, and<br />
Emily Schwimmer Cohen ’04.<br />
Abby and Sean live in Atlanta<br />
and discovered that Nelie<br />
Zanca ’03 lives in <strong>the</strong>ir apartment<br />
building! Emily Templeton<br />
Gray will participate in <strong>the</strong> St.<br />
Jude Ride fundraiser this fall,<br />
with Megan Bailey as a teammate.<br />
Grace Jensen Knight<br />
and husband Ethan welcomed<br />
baby Joshua; Grace is working<br />
in <strong>the</strong> Admission Office at SMS<br />
and dropped this knowledge<br />
on us: our class has <strong>the</strong> most<br />
alums working at SMS of all <strong>the</strong><br />
classes! Impressive information<br />
ga<strong>the</strong>ring, Grace—did Alison<br />
“The Source” West Pettus<br />
have anything to do with that?<br />
Lauren Kennedy Dake says<br />
“recently, I won <strong>the</strong> battle of<br />
Mom vs Margaret’s pacifier—<br />
a welcomed victory.” Lauren<br />
looks forward to hosting a baby<br />
shower for Lauren Wiygul Riley<br />
with Laura Montague Haltom,<br />
Collin Wilson Buckner, Kate<br />
Messenger Mendez, and Sarah<br />
Atkinson Ball. Catie Jane Berger<br />
is getting married in April and<br />
is <strong>the</strong>n “probably going to settle<br />
down and get a cat. You know,<br />
typical life stuff.” Lizzy Rhea<br />
Cook and husband Stu have<br />
moved back to Memphis. Sarah<br />
Atkinson Ball spends a good<br />
chunk of her free time trying to<br />
hang out with <strong>the</strong> Memphians<br />
of this group. She relishes <strong>the</strong><br />
opportunity to be in public with<br />
SMS middle school teacher i.e.<br />
local celebrity Lauren Wiygul<br />
Riley and bask in <strong>the</strong> glow of<br />
Lauren’s limelight. Sarah and<br />
Erica Evans frequently lunch on<br />
Main Street, where every fourth<br />
passer-by knows Erica and joyously<br />
exclaims at her presence.<br />
Sarah has managed to keep her<br />
self-esteem despite all her celebrity<br />
friends.<br />
2006<br />
Becky Bicks<br />
beckybicks1@gmail.com<br />
The class of 2006 is up to exciting<br />
things across <strong>the</strong> globe, and<br />
we can’t wait to reunite soon<br />
for our 10th reunion! Rachel<br />
Johnston-White married Iain<br />
Johnston-White on June 24 in<br />
Cambridge, UK. The wedding<br />
was attended by Katie Camille<br />
Friedman, Mansi Narula,<br />
Morgan Beckford, Aasiya<br />
Mirza Glover, and Frances<br />
Leslie. Rebecca Anderson married<br />
Alaric Eby on October 10<br />
at Calvary Episcopal Church<br />
in Memphis. The wedding<br />
was attended by Ellen<br />
Bransford, Grace Wheeler<br />
Davis, Courtney Foreman<br />
Guilfoile, Elizabeth Harris, Holly<br />
Hendrix, Elize Mercer, Minor<br />
Moore, Elizabeth Anderson ’09,<br />
and Zuzanna Stepniakowska<br />
’09. Meredith Robinson loves<br />
her job at Syndicatebleu creative<br />
staffing and recruiting agency.<br />
She still lives in Brooklyn<br />
with her dog, Arsenic. Aasiya<br />
Mirza Glover has moved to<br />
NYC with her husband and<br />
son and is working at <strong>the</strong> law<br />
firm Debevoise & Plimpton. She<br />
is also expecting a daughter,<br />
who is due in November. Evie<br />
Lyras is enjoying <strong>the</strong> bright and<br />
sunny wea<strong>the</strong>r in LA, where<br />
she works as a marketing<br />
director for a startup and visits<br />
with Morgan Robbins, Kristi<br />
Ryan, and Chandler Ford. Lulu<br />
Wilson is an interior designer for<br />
<strong>the</strong> Richmond office of MOI Inc.,<br />
a commercial furniture dealership.<br />
She was also <strong>the</strong> Maid of<br />
Honor in her sister Marynelle<br />
Wilson’s ’99 wedding in<br />
Washington, DC. Ca<strong>the</strong>rine<br />
Smith Denman is working as<br />
<strong>the</strong> librarian and technology<br />
integrationist at <strong>the</strong> Memphis<br />
campus of St. George’s. Minor<br />
Moore is busy with a class<br />
of 16 energetic 3rd graders.<br />
Mamie Kostka is now officially<br />
a licensed Landscape Architect<br />
in Tennessee. Her new roommate<br />
in Nashville is Ka<strong>the</strong>rine<br />
Fockler, who works at <strong>the</strong><br />
Buntin Group as a brand manager.<br />
Jenna McNair is teaching<br />
<strong>the</strong>rapeutic riding lessons at<br />
Trinity Farm in Lakeland. Lauren<br />
Bowden is currently a first-year<br />
MBA at University of Virginia<br />
Darden School of Business. Kim<br />
Johnson Radant is still living<br />
in Detroit with her husband<br />
Matt and loving her new job as<br />
a middle school counselor for<br />
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Grosse Pointe Public Schools.<br />
She said it was great to see so<br />
many ’06ers at Ellen Page’s wedding<br />
in July! Katie Camille<br />
Friedman is still doing PhD<br />
research in <strong>the</strong> Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands.<br />
Jenay Gipson Boggs is enjoying<br />
married life and her fourth<br />
year teaching kindergarten in<br />
Binghampton. Lizzie Harris is<br />
now working in wholesale insurance<br />
as an Associate Broker at<br />
Burns & Wilcox Brokerage in<br />
Dallas, and she is a member<br />
of <strong>the</strong>ir Emerging Leadership<br />
Program. Elizabeth Braden is<br />
in her second year of Princeton<br />
in Africa. She has traveled to<br />
eight different countries on <strong>the</strong><br />
African continent this year. The<br />
program sends recent college<br />
graduates to work in serviceoriented<br />
position in Africa<br />
for a year. Past participants<br />
include Elizabeth Jemison ’04<br />
and Katie Camille Friedman. This<br />
year Meg Gould ’11 is a Fellow<br />
serving in Botswana. Becky<br />
Bicks spent most of 2015 traveling<br />
and writing across Scotland<br />
and Scandinavia. She was lucky<br />
enough to catch up with Nikki<br />
Jones on a short trip to London<br />
in August.<br />
–2007<br />
Caitlin Clark<br />
Caitlin.michaela@gmail.com<br />
Caitlin Colcolough<br />
caitlin.colcolough@gmail.com<br />
Zina Kumok just moved to<br />
Denver with her husband and<br />
dog and is a full-time freelance<br />
writer specializing in personal finance.<br />
Chelsea Cook is finishing<br />
her last two years of law school<br />
at Stanford University. Before<br />
school started, she packed<br />
her car with her belongings<br />
and her dog and <strong>the</strong>y roadtripped<br />
across <strong>the</strong> USA. Hallie<br />
Flanagan is in her first semester<br />
of law school at University<br />
of Memphis. She spent <strong>the</strong><br />
weekend with Suzanne Ray<br />
and Anna Bearman celebrating<br />
Alexandra Mims’ bachelorette<br />
weekend. Alexandra got married<br />
in November to Andrew Pike.<br />
Charlotte Eagle is living in D.C.<br />
working for an art conservation<br />
firm cleaning and restoring<br />
paintings. Caitlin Colcolough<br />
is still living in Charleston, S.C.,<br />
working full-time for herself<br />
making films. She does mostly<br />
weddings and small promo<br />
videos, and gets to work with<br />
Cameron Colcolough Reynolds<br />
a lot too. Erin Fowler and<br />
Caroline Fentress travelled in<br />
New Zealand for two weeks in<br />
September, living out <strong>the</strong>ir 8th<br />
grade Lord of <strong>the</strong> Rings fantasies.<br />
Caroline also just started a new<br />
job in downtown LA as a producer<br />
at a mobile gaming studio.<br />
Caitlin Clark is living <strong>the</strong> busy<br />
medicine intern life in Kansas<br />
City, but loving her new home<br />
and new city. She even ran into<br />
Victoria Rizk, who was interviewing<br />
for fellowship positions,<br />
while working at <strong>the</strong> hospital.<br />
2008<br />
Katelyn Ammons<br />
katelyn.ammons@gmail.com<br />
Margaret Liddon<br />
margaret.liddon@gmail.com<br />
Edie Miller<br />
Edie.r.miller@gmail.com<br />
Elizabeth Holt is enjoying<br />
Memphis and her new<br />
job in fundraising at ALSAC/<br />
St. Jude Children’s Research<br />
Hospital. Also in Memphis,<br />
Margarett Frisby is working<br />
at First Tennessee Bank in<br />
Corporate Communications<br />
as <strong>the</strong> Employee Engagement<br />
Manager. Cristen Garrett is in<br />
her 3rd year at Emory Medical<br />
School. Memory Madden moved<br />
from Atlanta to Austin, Texas,<br />
and is working for a commercial<br />
real estate company.<br />
Rachel McLemore is busy with<br />
her PhD in History in Oxford.<br />
Rachael Holley just started<br />
improv classes and took her<br />
first trip to Colorado for Jessica<br />
Farris Zafarris’s wedding with<br />
MC Holliday, Mary Ca<strong>the</strong>rine<br />
Chase, and Georgina Leslie.<br />
Congratulations to Caitlin<br />
Smith who got engaged this May<br />
and moved to Birmingham. Tina<br />
Xie got engaged in December<br />
2014, and is now traveling<br />
around Sou<strong>the</strong>ast Asia, getting<br />
into architectural design.<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Xie is thoroughly<br />
enjoying herself on <strong>the</strong> wards as<br />
a third year medical student in<br />
Cleveland. She loves her time in<br />
<strong>the</strong> operating room and wants<br />
to be an orthopedic surgeon.<br />
Nicolette Overton completed<br />
her Masters in Journalism this<br />
May. Divya Moolchandani is<br />
looking forward to graduating<br />
with her Masters in Health<br />
Administration in December<br />
and is enjoying living in DC<br />
and getting to see Nayha<br />
Patel, Sarah Wortham,<br />
and Jenny Guyton. Jenny had an<br />
exciting beginning to fall, getting<br />
engaged in The Grand Caymans!<br />
Mary Ward Pollard is busy<br />
planning a June wedding while<br />
finishing her clinical psychology<br />
doctoral dissertation. Hanna<br />
Gordon Oysel and Franck welcomed<br />
family from France who<br />
loved seeing America for <strong>the</strong> first<br />
time. Anna Wheeler is so happy<br />
to have Margaret Liddon in<br />
Nashville and enjoys working<br />
at First Presbyterian Church<br />
and volunteering with Preston<br />
Taylor Ministries. Along with<br />
moving to Nashville this summer,<br />
Margaret also got engaged!<br />
Ayana Fletcher-Tyson just<br />
began <strong>the</strong> Reading Specialist<br />
Masters Program at Peabody at<br />
Vanderbilt. Also in Nashville,<br />
Anisa Allad is enjoying her<br />
second year teaching middle<br />
school special education. She<br />
had an amazing time in NYC<br />
visiting Morgan Jordan, Saba<br />
Dilawari, and Lane Feler for<br />
her fall break. Ariel Mason<br />
passed <strong>the</strong> bar this summer<br />
and is working as an attorney in<br />
Nashville. Meg Fowler started<br />
her first year at Vanderbilt Law<br />
School in August, and is grateful<br />
to have her Vandy upperclassman<br />
Elise Heuberger ’10 as a<br />
constant source of support and<br />
inspiration as she begins this<br />
new and challenging journey.<br />
Edie Miller is now in graduate<br />
school at UAB in Birmingham<br />
and working part-time at UAB<br />
Hospital. Estes Gould recently<br />
accepted a position as Program<br />
Coordinator for <strong>the</strong> Aspen<br />
Institute’s Ideas Festival. Annie<br />
Ostrow Anderson is starting her<br />
fourth year in her PhD program.<br />
She is serving as a project<br />
assistant for a top tier journal<br />
and as <strong>the</strong> teaching assistant<br />
mentor. Kathryn Feder Cooper is<br />
enjoying her third year of<br />
teaching kindergarten in Boston.<br />
Her summer was filled with love<br />
and joy as she celebrated her<br />
marriage to Alex Cooper.<br />
–2009<br />
Bailey Be<strong>the</strong>ll<br />
bailey.be<strong>the</strong>ll@gmail.com<br />
Sylvia Brookoff<br />
sbrookoff@gmail.com<br />
Reagan Bugg is enjoying clinical<br />
rotations in her third year<br />
at Mississippi State College of<br />
Veterinary Medicine. Alex Tyler<br />
is working as a Search Marketing<br />
Specialist at iProspect, a<br />
global digital marketing agency<br />
in Fort Worth, Texas. Sasha Joyce<br />
is living in Memphis while she<br />
completes her Masters in Urban<br />
Studies with a concentration<br />
in Youth Development via a<br />
blended program with Eastern<br />
University. Lavanya Mittal is<br />
in <strong>the</strong> process of finding a new<br />
parka for <strong>the</strong> long, dark winter<br />
on <strong>the</strong> horizon. At med school in<br />
da Bronx, she is on her radiology<br />
clerkship. Sam Baumstark is<br />
starting her second year working<br />
at Cedars-Sinai as a software<br />
analyst and loves living in Pasadena,<br />
California. That is all to<br />
report, as she has unfortunately<br />
just discovered <strong>the</strong> black hole<br />
that is Netflix. Bailey Be<strong>the</strong>ll is<br />
studying in <strong>the</strong> Physician Assistant<br />
Program at UTHSC in Memphis.<br />
Wallis Tosi recently got a<br />
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Class Notes<br />
puppy named Quinn after our<br />
beloved Madame Quinn! Jordan<br />
Reeve is still living in Nashville<br />
working for Caterpillar Financial,<br />
and she recently started a new<br />
position in <strong>the</strong> credit department.<br />
Claire Riley recently<br />
visited Christine Petrin in D.C.<br />
and Zuzanna Stepniakowska<br />
in Seattle before heading to see<br />
her students in Madrid. Sylvia<br />
Brookoff had a brief stint as <strong>the</strong><br />
world’s first Senor Frogs mascot.<br />
Next up is <strong>the</strong> Carnegie Deli<br />
pickle and she has <strong>the</strong> turkey<br />
costume to thank for this weird<br />
interest in mascots she’s developed.<br />
Natalie Jacewicz spends<br />
her days watching whales while<br />
pursuing a Masters in science<br />
communications at UC Santa<br />
Cruz. She received a fellowship<br />
from <strong>the</strong> National Association of<br />
Science Writers.<br />
–2010<br />
Rachel Stuart<br />
rachel.stuart@ptsem.edu<br />
Callie McCool is loving her<br />
second year at Baylor College<br />
of Medicine in Houston. Also<br />
currently living in Houston<br />
is Allison Connell, who has<br />
enjoyed being able to travel<br />
around <strong>the</strong> country for work. Sri<br />
Pulusani and Mary Stevenson<br />
are enjoying <strong>the</strong>ir time as firstyear<br />
med students toge<strong>the</strong>r at<br />
UT. In NYC, Ann Yacoubian is<br />
also preparing for <strong>the</strong> medical<br />
field with graduate premedical<br />
studies at Columbia and<br />
working as a medical scribe<br />
and translator in an emergency<br />
room in <strong>the</strong> Bronx. Liz Damoc<br />
is working in Dallas on medical<br />
device sales for Smith &<br />
Nephew and is now in <strong>the</strong> OR<br />
for trauma and extremities.<br />
She is also preparing for <strong>the</strong><br />
Dallas Marathon in December.<br />
Ali Fishman is finishing her<br />
last quarter of portfolio school<br />
while working at an advertising<br />
firm and experiencing Chicago<br />
Cubs baseball in person. Carey<br />
Segal is still sailing <strong>the</strong> high<br />
seas, performing as a dancer and<br />
aerialist for Royal Caribbean’s<br />
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newest ship, <strong>the</strong> An<strong>the</strong>m of <strong>the</strong><br />
Seas. Also travelling <strong>the</strong> world<br />
is Rachel Green, who graduated<br />
from Indiana University this<br />
May and received a Mitchell<br />
Scholarship, under which she<br />
is pursuing an MA in Conflict<br />
Transformation & Social Justice<br />
in Belfast, Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Ireland. Her<br />
dissertation topic is <strong>the</strong> impact<br />
of social conflict on women.<br />
Kathryn Fowler has graduated<br />
from clown school and is now<br />
pursuing a career in advanced<br />
pyrotechnics. She hopes to one<br />
day marry a very wealthy man<br />
whose trust fund can support<br />
her slowly developing collection<br />
of antique train sets. Elise<br />
Heuberger is enjoying spending<br />
her second year at Vanderbilt<br />
Law with first-year and fellow<br />
SMS alumna Meg Fowler ’08.<br />
Elise is currently working in <strong>the</strong><br />
Tennessee Attorney General’s<br />
office as an extern and looking<br />
forward to her summer job<br />
plans. Cara Greenstein is<br />
becoming famous — her blog<br />
Caramelized was recently<br />
recognized in The Commercial<br />
Appeal’s 2015 Memphis Most<br />
awards as <strong>the</strong> Best Blog! At<br />
Emory, Nica Cabigao is pursuing<br />
her Masters in Public Health,<br />
with a concentration in Health<br />
Management. In her spare time,<br />
she frequently visits friends<br />
and family in Chicago and<br />
Memphis, and she especially<br />
enjoys spending time with<br />
her niece, Olive. Hensley Loeb<br />
moved to Nashville in February,<br />
where she is working at JLL,<br />
<strong>the</strong> second largest real estate<br />
company in <strong>the</strong> world. On her<br />
days off from school, Lauren<br />
Echlin serves as a substitute<br />
teacher at Holy Rosary in<br />
Memphis. Also still in Memphis<br />
is Allie Pryor, who is scribing<br />
in <strong>the</strong> Le Bonheur emergency<br />
department while working at<br />
ano<strong>the</strong>r year of nursing school.<br />
Alex Fountain is pleased to<br />
be returning to Memphis from<br />
her previous work in Colorado.<br />
She will be working at St. Jude<br />
Children’s Research Hospital.<br />
Folake Thomas is celebrating<br />
Alumnae from <strong>the</strong> Washington, D.C., area ga<strong>the</strong>red with Head of School<br />
Albert Throckmorton recently. From left, Erin Fowler ’07, Mary Peeler ’11,<br />
Sarah Jemison ’11, Emma Farris ’15. Photo credit: Marinell Throckmorton<br />
ano<strong>the</strong>r semester of teaching<br />
8th graders. Lauren Pelts is<br />
at <strong>the</strong> University of Memphis,<br />
pursuing her Masters in Speech<br />
Language Pathology. In San<br />
Francisco, Sami Rosenthal is<br />
working at a clean tech software<br />
company called Opower. Kayla<br />
Rosenberg is enjoying producing<br />
her new YouTube show “Child<br />
Therapy,” a web comedy series<br />
in which people discuss <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
problems with a <strong>the</strong>rapist,<br />
who happens to be 6 years old.<br />
Allie Baker Shields graduated<br />
with her Masters in Nursing in<br />
August and just got certified as<br />
a Primary Care Pediatric Nurse<br />
Practitioner. She is also pleased<br />
to report that she and husband<br />
Joseph welcomed James Curtis<br />
Shields II into <strong>the</strong>ir family on May<br />
29th! Rachel Stuart loved being<br />
back in Rochester this summer<br />
for her first field education<br />
placement at Asbury First<br />
United Methodist Church, and is<br />
settling into her middler year at<br />
Princeton Seminary. Sims Munn<br />
Bowen got married in August<br />
and moved to Birming-ham.<br />
She’s working for a non-profit<br />
that works with inner city kids.<br />
–2011<br />
Meg Cornaghie<br />
mary.cornaghie@bcm.edu<br />
Meriwea<strong>the</strong>r Adams loved<br />
her internship with Hollywood<br />
Feed this summer and has<br />
recently started a hand-lettered<br />
print and stationery business<br />
at handletteredwithlove.com.<br />
Sarah Jemison loves living<br />
in D.C., where she works in<br />
charter school administration<br />
and recently got to see Lauren<br />
Harrington, Louisa Boyd, and<br />
Meg Cornaghie. Lauren just<br />
got engaged to <strong>the</strong> man of her<br />
dreams and began <strong>the</strong> Capital<br />
Fellows Program in Washington,<br />
D.C., where she takes seminary<br />
graduate level classes while<br />
working at <strong>the</strong> Federal Reserve<br />
and learning how to blend<br />
her faith with her vocation.<br />
After graduating from UVA,<br />
Louisa moved to D.C., working<br />
on a Phase II clinical trial for<br />
<strong>the</strong> National Human Genome<br />
Research Institute. She hopes<br />
to start medical school in <strong>the</strong><br />
fall and is enjoying this year<br />
off from school. Meg Gould is<br />
teaching at a secondary school<br />
in Gaborone, Botswana, through<br />
a one-year fellowship called<br />
Princeton in Africa, spending<br />
her time doing old and new<br />
hobbies like (coaching) soccer,<br />
ultimate frisbee, adventuring,<br />
and looking up math videos.<br />
Teresa Hendrix is working in<br />
Memphis as a Digital Marketing<br />
& Public Relations Coordinator at<br />
Speak Creative. She also recently<br />
adopted a dog named Tracy Rene<br />
from Real Good Dog Rescue.<br />
Margaret McClintock has started<br />
working at an online media<br />
company called StyleBlueprint<br />
in Nashville and is loving it.
Allyson Patterson adopted a<br />
snuggly kitten named Sasha<br />
(so fierce) and works for an<br />
architecture firm called Planning<br />
Design Research in Houston. She<br />
looks forward to returning to<br />
Nashville to see her artwork in<br />
an exhibition this fall, and she<br />
sees Meg Cornaghie in Houston<br />
regularly. Meg graduated from<br />
Rice in May and is deep into her<br />
first semester of medical school<br />
at Baylor College of Medicine in<br />
Houston. After graduating from<br />
UNC in May, Mary Peeler spent<br />
<strong>the</strong> summer traveling around<br />
Europe with her sisters and<br />
friends from undergrad. She<br />
just started her first semester of<br />
medical school at Johns Hopkins<br />
in Baltimore. Erika Steuer moved<br />
to Albany, N.Y. and started a job<br />
as <strong>the</strong> Director of Fundraising<br />
& Public Relations at an allboys<br />
charter high school. Sam<br />
Taylor graduated from Ohio<br />
State University in Mechanical<br />
Engineering, Summa Cum Laude.<br />
Sam has accepted a fellowship<br />
from <strong>the</strong> University of Texas<br />
in Austin, and is pursuing a<br />
PhD in Mechanical Engineering<br />
with a research emphasis in<br />
Additive Manufacturing and<br />
Design. Susan Waggoner is<br />
back in Memphis working at an<br />
ad agency and enjoying all <strong>the</strong><br />
new, fun things Memphis has<br />
to offer. She regularly sees Lucy<br />
Wade Shapiro, who is also in<br />
Memphis and is working at <strong>the</strong><br />
Church Health Center. Whitney<br />
Wortham loves living in NYC<br />
with Virginia Preston, next<br />
to a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream<br />
store. Whitney still wear socks<br />
with her sandals and loves<br />
graduate school. Maria Zoccola<br />
is spending <strong>the</strong> year studying<br />
writing for her masters in rainy<br />
southwest England.<br />
–2012<br />
Chandler Roberts<br />
c.roberts@tcu.edu<br />
Ellery Ammons<br />
Ammer-16@rhodes.edu<br />
Jodie Struminger is currently<br />
serving as <strong>the</strong> Director of<br />
Outstanding Alumna Award Nominations<br />
It’s time to nominate someone amazing for <strong>the</strong><br />
Outstanding Alumna Award presented at Alumnae Weekend,<br />
April 22, 2016. The nomination process is new – and simpler! –<br />
this year: ALL alumnae, no matter what <strong>the</strong>ir graduating<br />
year, are eligible. To make a nomination,<br />
go to www.stmarysschool.org/alumnaeawards.<br />
The award honors an alumna’s faithfulness, service, curiosity,<br />
courage, compassion, leadership, and kindness.<br />
Outreach for Wash U’s Dance<br />
Marathon and is looking forward<br />
to choreographing a piece for<br />
<strong>the</strong> student showcase in <strong>the</strong><br />
spring. Alix de Witt is making<br />
<strong>the</strong> trek through David Foster<br />
Wallace’s Infinite Jest to complete<br />
her English major requirements.<br />
Carol Elsakr is helping conduct<br />
clinical trials of PK treatment<br />
for congenital Giygas syndrome,<br />
and hoping her work will be<br />
published in a medical journal.<br />
Sara Kim had <strong>the</strong> opportunity<br />
to continue working with her<br />
summer internship at <strong>the</strong><br />
International Association of<br />
National Public Health Institutes.<br />
She is currently applying to<br />
public health schools and jobs.<br />
Lauren Pate is enjoying her<br />
last year at Notre Dame and is<br />
currently applying to law school<br />
for fall of 2016. She is enjoying<br />
being <strong>the</strong> 1st floor RA in her<br />
dorm. Megan Guyton spent her<br />
summer interning in <strong>the</strong> External<br />
Relations Office at British School<br />
of Brussels. Brooks Wingate<br />
started University of Tennessee<br />
College of Pharmacy in Memphis.<br />
Melissa Byrd is busy continuing<br />
her work with St. Jude both on<br />
campus and in her third year<br />
interning at ALSAC, finishing<br />
up her Public Relations courses,<br />
and cheering on her University<br />
of Memphis Tigers. Lesley<br />
Stevenson greatly enjoyed <strong>the</strong><br />
honor of getting Jimmy Fallon’s<br />
coffee this summer and seeing<br />
all <strong>the</strong> Broadway musicals she<br />
could afford. She hopes to see<br />
some Turkey friends at her Alum<br />
Chapel Talk on January 5. Liz<br />
Carter has started her fourth<br />
year at UTK in Architecture<br />
and English-Technical<br />
Communications. She is<br />
interning as a science editor<br />
at <strong>the</strong> College of Veterinary<br />
Medicine and loves getting to<br />
advance her editing skills in<br />
such a different field. Chandler<br />
Roberts is enjoying her last year<br />
of Nursing School at TCU and<br />
loves working on <strong>the</strong> floor at a<br />
local hospital. Ellery Ammons<br />
researched urban branding with<br />
<strong>the</strong> Rhodes Institute for Regional<br />
Studies over <strong>the</strong> summer and<br />
is loving every moment of<br />
Senior year. Ramie Mansberg is<br />
working on her senior <strong>the</strong>sis at<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Texas about <strong>the</strong><br />
power of high school athletics in<br />
helping build resilience.<br />
–2013<br />
Anna Utley<br />
aeu0002@tigermail.auburn.edu<br />
Anna Stukenborg<br />
aestuken@go.olemiss.edu<br />
Sukriti Mohan is working at a<br />
free clinic and autism residential<br />
center. Liv Stevens is in Vienna,<br />
Austria, for <strong>the</strong> semester<br />
learning German and eating<br />
lots of kuchen (cake). Elianna<br />
Landau is studying in Seville<br />
and living with a host family.<br />
Alexa Fila has moved on from<br />
Newk’s and is now working in<br />
<strong>the</strong> computer and electrical<br />
engineering office on campus<br />
at UAB. Rachel Chu is living<br />
in Sewanee’s women’s center,<br />
which is one of <strong>the</strong> only studentled<br />
college women’s centers in<br />
<strong>the</strong> country! Emily Rosenthal is<br />
excited to be doing Semester at<br />
Sea next semester. Katie Heard<br />
is going into her final year and<br />
looking for a job #adult. Nikki<br />
Cox is collaborating with Dr.<br />
Federico Vaca on a project that<br />
will be published in <strong>the</strong> Journal<br />
of Traffic Injury Prevention.<br />
Emma Less is currently majoring<br />
in strategic communications<br />
and minoring in film & media<br />
studies and arts administration<br />
at TCU. Zoe Van Deveer is<br />
studying abroad in Prague and<br />
was elected VP of finance for<br />
Pi Beta Phi at Richmond. Becky<br />
Park is studying in Seoul, Korea,<br />
this semester. Claire Fogarty<br />
is experiencing <strong>the</strong> classic<br />
existential crisis of “what do I<br />
want to do with my life?” Lida<br />
Kruchten changed her major<br />
to management information<br />
systems and is working as a law<br />
clerk. Anna Peeler just started<br />
nursing school and is working<br />
as an EMT and got to give Alexa<br />
Fila her flu shot. Grace Bettis is<br />
starting a chapter at Arkansas<br />
of Lamba Alpha Episilon,<br />
a national criminal justice<br />
society. Mashal Mirza is still<br />
battling her way through premed<br />
classes, debating on med<br />
school or becoming a YouTube<br />
sensation. Hana Roussey is<br />
still a nursing major and has<br />
already given her first shot.<br />
Francie Saunders is an ecology<br />
major and evolutionary biology<br />
major with a new business<br />
minor and will be studying in<br />
Tanzania in <strong>the</strong> spring. Lillian<br />
Norcross is a marketing major<br />
with a minor in general business<br />
at Arkansas. Anna Taylor is a<br />
microbiology major, working<br />
nights as a medical scribe and<br />
will start working in a micro<br />
lab next semester. Ca<strong>the</strong>rine<br />
Moore has started pharmacy<br />
school. Sophie Skouteris loves<br />
having her sister in Fayetteville<br />
now, and just applied to be an<br />
assistant for <strong>the</strong> Razorbacks<br />
Sports Dietitian. Caela Rhea<br />
is l majoring in Psychology<br />
at UTK, hoping to get a PhD<br />
in ei<strong>the</strong>r clinical or forensic<br />
psychology. Ellie Harrison is<br />
double majoring in psychology<br />
and sociology at Tulane. Grace<br />
Akangbe is a pre-med and music<br />
double major at Rhodes and<br />
enjoys cheering and is starting<br />
a music <strong>the</strong>rapy program at<br />
<strong>the</strong> Refugee Empowerment<br />
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Class Notes<br />
Program. Sarah Spiers is <strong>the</strong><br />
Diversity. Natalie Meeks<br />
is also working in <strong>the</strong> consulting<br />
volunteered at Jenny Madden’s<br />
editor in chief of Emerson’s game<br />
declared Integrated Marketing<br />
branch of Tulane’s American<br />
<strong>the</strong>atre company, Voices of <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong>ory and criticism magazine<br />
Communications as her major<br />
Marketing Association and helps<br />
South, this summer. She is pur-<br />
and <strong>the</strong> co-creative director<br />
at Ole Miss, and Phoebe Fulmer<br />
promote campus clubs and<br />
suing <strong>the</strong>atre at Sarah Lawrence<br />
of an animated short. Helena<br />
worked as a counselor at Camp<br />
organizations. Bailey Archey is a<br />
College. Sara Brown spent her<br />
Anderson enjoyed an internship<br />
Illahee in N.C. this past summer.<br />
member of a student recruiting<br />
summer interning with Blue<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Irish Repertory Theatre in<br />
She is currently a member of <strong>the</strong><br />
organization for <strong>the</strong> Honors<br />
Moon Bedding. She is a Tri Delta<br />
New York this summer and has<br />
community service organization<br />
College at Mississippi State,<br />
at Ole Miss and is enjoying cam-<br />
transferred from <strong>the</strong> Playwrights<br />
Sewanee Women Engaging and<br />
and Abby Huber is currently<br />
pus youth group RUF. Carleigh<br />
Horizons Theatre School to <strong>the</strong><br />
Empowering Community. Mary<br />
serving as <strong>the</strong> Spirit Coordinator<br />
Ebbers is studying Neuroscience,<br />
Experimental Theatre Wing<br />
Allison Pritchard interned at<br />
for Alpha Gamma Delta at <strong>the</strong><br />
Physics, and Studio Art, work-<br />
at Tisch. Kim Taylor switched<br />
A Step Ahead Foundation this<br />
University of Memphis. She is<br />
ing in digital arts. Kianna Davis<br />
her emphasis at TCU to pre-<br />
past summer and is a DJ on a<br />
also <strong>the</strong> recruitment director on<br />
is a volunteer at <strong>the</strong> Children’s<br />
dental. Hannah Stein just<br />
local Sewanee radio station, and<br />
<strong>the</strong> executive board for Up ‘til<br />
Healthcare of Atlanta and an<br />
began working at two different<br />
Martha Upton has declared a<br />
Dawn and is now a Non-Profit<br />
employee at <strong>the</strong> Clifton School.<br />
elementary schools and still<br />
Kinesiology major at Arkansas.<br />
Development and Administration<br />
Yue Wu says she’ll try rowing,<br />
loves working at Kendra Scott.<br />
She is hoping to be a pediatric<br />
major with a Spanish minor.<br />
orchestra, and sailing when she<br />
Callie Wallace misses Madrid<br />
physical <strong>the</strong>rapy intern at <strong>the</strong><br />
Rosemary Dunn has transferred<br />
begins her study at Cambridge.<br />
and is hitting reality hard as<br />
American Heart Association.<br />
to <strong>the</strong> School of Nursing at <strong>the</strong><br />
Natalie Dean has joined Kappa<br />
an accounting and integrated<br />
Elle Prosterman is a leader for<br />
University of Memphis and has<br />
Kappa Gamma at Wisconsin, and<br />
marketing/communications<br />
Young Life in Greenville, S.C., and<br />
also pledged Kappa Delta. Ellen<br />
participated in Humorology, a<br />
major. Rachel Ostrow is still in<br />
loves her sorority KD at Furman.<br />
Clarke is now a Finance and<br />
musical that benefits its phi-<br />
mechanical engineering and<br />
Nicole Sanford was initiated into<br />
Public Relations double major at<br />
lanthropy. Kylie McDowell is<br />
attempting to balance AOPi and<br />
Phi Eta Sigma at Furman, and<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Alabama and is<br />
in sustainable urban environ-<br />
her biomedical research. Lucy<br />
Sarah Steuer spent <strong>the</strong> summer<br />
also a part of Capstone Agency,<br />
ments at NYU Tandon School<br />
Newton has officially declared<br />
directing Peter Pan in Hebrew<br />
a student-operated public<br />
of Engineering and works as<br />
a major in general business<br />
at a summer camp. She is now<br />
relations and advertising firm.<br />
a nanny. Gretchen Vogt is St.<br />
with a minor in international<br />
studying <strong>the</strong>atre, music, and<br />
Lacey Chaum enjoyed working at<br />
Mary’s first D1 fencer. This sum-<br />
relations and will be graduating<br />
sociology in London during <strong>the</strong><br />
Sullivan Branding this summer<br />
mer she worked in a research lab<br />
from UAB in August. Landon<br />
fall semester. Maddie Rhodes<br />
as an account services intern<br />
at St. Jude. This summer Maggie<br />
Hopkins spent her summer in<br />
is still enjoying being on <strong>the</strong><br />
and recently joined a for-profit<br />
McAtee enjoyed standing by her<br />
London interning for a nonprofit<br />
golf team at Rhodes and her<br />
consulting group at U Penn.<br />
sister Abby McAtee Gatliff’s ’11<br />
arts group that deals with prison<br />
art. Devon Simms is majoring<br />
in economics and finance with a<br />
minor in philosophy. Anna Utley<br />
spent her summer in Memphis<br />
interning for York Binkley<br />
Interior design and working at<br />
team has celebrated multiple<br />
wins this year. Gabrielle Taylor<br />
is giving stock pitches for a<br />
paper portfolio with Wellesley<br />
Investment Portfolio Initiative<br />
and is busy fundraising and<br />
event planning as <strong>the</strong> Chair of<br />
–2015<br />
Michelle Chu<br />
mchu@oberlin.edu<br />
Emma Farris<br />
efarris@gwu.edu<br />
side as she married Cort Gatliff.<br />
Maggie is a Chi Omega at Auburn<br />
University and is working with<br />
Open Hands Overflowing Hearts,<br />
raising money for childhood<br />
cancer research. This summer<br />
Madeleine Lee visited Yue Wu<br />
Madewell. Anna Stukenborg<br />
<strong>the</strong> Kathleen Daly Committee<br />
We are excited to begin class<br />
in Scotland. At NYU, Madeleine<br />
spent her summer in Cape Town,<br />
for Ethos. Miles Schaeffer<br />
notes for <strong>the</strong> Class of 2015!<br />
loves film school and has joined<br />
South Africa, where she bungee<br />
has declared an Evolutionary<br />
After being asked to recite no<br />
<strong>the</strong> club lacrosse team. This<br />
jumped, sky dived, and cage<br />
Anthropology major at Duke<br />
fewer than 50 digits of pi, Ami<br />
summer Chelsea Chin went to<br />
dived with sharks!<br />
and is currently working in<br />
Agrawal was selected to be<br />
Nicaragua for a mission trip. At<br />
–2014<br />
Miles Schaeffer<br />
lillian.schaeffer@duke.edu<br />
Lacey Chaum<br />
lchaum@sas.upenn.edu<br />
a research lab studying <strong>the</strong><br />
functional anatomy of primates.<br />
Hallie Katz is serving as <strong>the</strong> vice<br />
president of Challah for Hunger<br />
at USC in L.A. and is enjoying<br />
her time on <strong>the</strong> club lacrosse<br />
team and in her sorority, ADPi.<br />
a part of Cornell’s Concrete<br />
Canoe Team. Camille Brown<br />
has joined <strong>the</strong> University of<br />
Alabama at Birmingham’s mock<br />
trial team and <strong>the</strong> Black Student<br />
Awareness Committee. Kaylan<br />
Pugh traveled to Brazil for<br />
St. Louis University, she rushed<br />
Alpha Delta Pi and volunteers<br />
with Ronald McDonald house.<br />
Ivy Leet is participating in boxing<br />
and recycling at Eckerd, majoring<br />
in French and Marine Biology.<br />
Lynley Mat<strong>the</strong>ws continues her<br />
Adair Smith spent <strong>the</strong> summer<br />
Gurbani Singh joined <strong>the</strong> Emory<br />
basketball during <strong>the</strong> summer<br />
swimming career at Columbia<br />
interning with <strong>the</strong> stylist Avena<br />
Entrepreneurship and Venture<br />
and is now playing at The Ohio<br />
University where she is involved<br />
Gallagher in N.Y. and is now<br />
Management club and is helping<br />
State University, majoring in<br />
with St. Jude’s philanthropic or-<br />
working on New York Fashion<br />
with HackATL, <strong>the</strong> largest start-<br />
Neuroscience. Emma Farris is<br />
ganization, Up ‘til Dawn. Brooke<br />
Week shows and photo shoots.<br />
up hackathon in <strong>the</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>ast.<br />
majoring in International Affairs<br />
Saharovici joined Chi Omega<br />
Adira Polite is a columnist for<br />
Dena Frisch is an intern with<br />
at George Washington University,<br />
at Missouri and was selected to<br />
Bowdoin Orient and works<br />
<strong>the</strong> Jewish Studies department<br />
where she was selected to<br />
be on <strong>the</strong> Journalism Student<br />
for Bowdoin Resource Center<br />
at Tulane and is currently<br />
Student Government Freshman<br />
Council. Mary Jane McCaghren<br />
for Gender and Sexuality<br />
tutoring Hebrew students. She<br />
Advisory Council. Olivia Bernabe<br />
is a member of <strong>the</strong> Sewanee<br />
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Milestones<br />
Tennis team and was selected<br />
to <strong>the</strong> Carey Fellows Business<br />
Program. Jane Morrison<br />
joined Kappa Delta at North<br />
Carolina, and is involved with<br />
<strong>the</strong> Core Team of <strong>the</strong> Carolina<br />
Challenge, which plans an<br />
entrepreneurial competition.<br />
Tongta Muangsiri<br />
has started cheerleading at<br />
Rangsit University in Thailand<br />
while pursuing a pre-med<br />
major. Mimi Sharp is studying<br />
environmental science at<br />
University of Oregon. Abbie<br />
Warr is involved with community<br />
outreach with <strong>the</strong> Bonner<br />
Leader program at Sewanee<br />
and is improving her rowing<br />
skills on <strong>the</strong> crew team.<br />
Ashton Terry is in <strong>the</strong> honors<br />
program at <strong>the</strong> University<br />
of Memphis, and recently<br />
traveled to Sparta, Ill., for<br />
trap nationals. At Savannah<br />
College of Art and Design,<br />
Samantha Wischmeyer is<br />
in Expressions Dance Club,<br />
Design Club, and SCAD Radio.<br />
Mary Thompson is a first-year<br />
host at University of Puget<br />
Sound, and volunteers at a<br />
community outreach program<br />
called Pathways. Liza Alrutz<br />
is working on costumes for a<br />
Tennessee Williams show at<br />
Northwestern, pursing a major<br />
in <strong>the</strong>ater. Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Harwell<br />
is on Student Government<br />
Diversity Affairs Committee<br />
at UTK and is considering<br />
a major in Global Studies.<br />
Olivia Grace Tennyson spent<br />
summer hiking in Montana<br />
and is now enjoying her<br />
English classes at University<br />
of Richmond. Meredith Wells<br />
is considering pre-med at<br />
UChicago. Liza Curran is<br />
a Chi Omega at Ole Miss<br />
and volunteers at Lafayette<br />
Humane Society. Emily Shores<br />
is a Delta Zeta at Clemson<br />
and is in <strong>the</strong> pre-med group<br />
Alpha Epsilon Delta. Nessa<br />
Steinberg is in <strong>the</strong> engineering<br />
program at University of<br />
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,<br />
meeting recruiters from Rolls<br />
Royce, Caterpillar, and Yahoo.<br />
Kiraney Loving is writing articles<br />
for Bowdoin news about<br />
events on campus. Mary Allen<br />
is involved with <strong>the</strong> Centre<br />
women’s lacrosse team,<br />
intramural tables tennis,<br />
and Diversity Student Union.<br />
Michelle Chu is a Dining<br />
Loose Ends Coordinator with<br />
Oberlin’s Student Cooperative<br />
Association, allowing students<br />
to cook <strong>the</strong>ir own food with<br />
local produce and writes for<br />
<strong>the</strong> Oberlin Review. Mary<br />
Caroline Newman is loving<br />
soccer at Birmingham<br />
Sou<strong>the</strong>rn College. Pooja<br />
Moolchandani is at USC<br />
and is involved with <strong>the</strong> Los<br />
Angeles Community Impact<br />
organization that helps local<br />
businesses. Courtney<br />
Caradonna is at Tulane and<br />
loves TUSTEP, Tulane’s first<br />
service dog training program.<br />
Madeleine Bradley is a Tri<br />
Delta and nursing major at<br />
Ole Miss. Ayanna Martin is<br />
part of <strong>the</strong> Ron Brown Scholar<br />
program at Vanderbilt, and is<br />
affiliated with <strong>the</strong> National<br />
Black Lawyers Student<br />
Association. Carmen Saab<br />
is on <strong>the</strong> Williams tennis<br />
team and Freshman Student<br />
Council. Hannah Pfrommer<br />
is an Alpha Phi at University<br />
of Colorado Boulder, studying<br />
Integrative Physiology.<br />
McKendree Walker is on<br />
<strong>the</strong> photography team of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Bridge, Rhodes’s student<br />
newspaper given to<br />
homeless vendors for profit.<br />
Meredith Isom is enjoying<br />
Howard, participating in <strong>the</strong><br />
Tennessee club, HU College<br />
Democrats, and is volunteering<br />
for Howard Fashion Week.<br />
This summer Olivia Landau<br />
interned at <strong>the</strong> Downtown<br />
Memphis Commission<br />
and went on a month-long<br />
backpacking trip in <strong>the</strong> Four<br />
Corners. At USC, she is a<br />
Gamma Phi Beta and is enjoying<br />
her classes.<br />
Births/Adoptions<br />
Allen Chip Tonkin-<br />
Nemeth, son of<br />
Allison Tonkin ’87.<br />
James Curtis Shields II,<br />
son of Allie Baker<br />
Shields ’10.<br />
Ka<strong>the</strong>rine Avery Boyd to Alison<br />
Simmons Boyd ’93, April 23, 2015<br />
Cole McCormick Bryant to Ashley<br />
Ayres Bryant ’01, June 22, 2015<br />
Caroline Lawrence Bunker to<br />
Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Vaughn Bunker ’09,<br />
October 20, 015<br />
Elizabeth Ann “Lizzie” Burke to<br />
Martha Ferguson Burke ’04,<br />
October 11, 2015<br />
Bethany Hannah Wen to Bernice<br />
Chen ’96, June 22, 2015<br />
Linden Frances Chiles and Jack<br />
William Chiles to Lisa Bratton<br />
Chiles ’93, Nov. 16, 2015<br />
John Miller Dallas to Kelly<br />
Buckner Dallas ’99, Nov. 13, 2015<br />
Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Elaina Crump to Alexia<br />
Fulgham Crump ’93, July 23, 2015<br />
Henry Joseph Eick to Allie<br />
Stephens Eick ’07, October 8, 2015<br />
Adriana Sophia Camelia Ewing<br />
to Luisa Peredo Ewing ’01, July<br />
28, 2015<br />
June Taylor Halton, Anna Taylor<br />
Halton ’03, July 11th, 2015<br />
Logan Hart Herrington to Mary-<br />
Kathryn Millner Herrington ’00,<br />
August 5, 2015<br />
Ann Emerson Humphreys to<br />
Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01<br />
on October 29, 2015<br />
Dorothy Holt to Lee Davidson<br />
Holt ’95, April 29, 2015<br />
Finch Dupuy Jacobs to Leigh<br />
Wilson Jacobs ’94, June 26, 2015<br />
Joshua Graham Knight to Grace<br />
Jensen Knight ’05, June 12, 2015<br />
Davidson Scott Smith,<br />
son of Mary Austin Mays<br />
Smith ’01.<br />
Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Elizabeth Label to<br />
Hallie Dinkelspiel Label ’94,<br />
July 14, 2015<br />
Gwyneth Brooks Looney to<br />
Brooke Douglas Looney ’96,<br />
June 2, 2015<br />
Eleanor Fishburn Manning, Anne<br />
Taylor Tipton Manning ’03,<br />
September 23rd, 2015<br />
Christopher Watts McGlasson to<br />
Kristen Beasley McGlasson ’01,<br />
June 14, 2015<br />
Elizabeth Roberts Novikoff to<br />
Katie Hobson Novikoff ’03,<br />
August 5th, 2015<br />
Oliver Frank Plevak to Rachel<br />
Bearman Plevak ’99, January 14,<br />
2015<br />
James Dardis Robinson to Amy<br />
Reinhardt Robinson ’00,<br />
July 9, 2015<br />
Teddy Taylor Segars to Rainey Ray<br />
Segars ’05, October 22, 2015<br />
James Curtis Shields II to Allie<br />
Baker Shields ’10, May 29, 2015<br />
Audrey Huang to Lily Shu ’99,<br />
May 2, 2015<br />
Maggie Irene Singer to Shona<br />
Strachan Singer ’04, October 11,<br />
2015<br />
Davidson Scott Smith to Mary<br />
Austin Mays Smith ’03,<br />
September 25, 2015<br />
Waring Hargrove Stone to Lauren<br />
Anderson Stone ’01,<br />
August 6, 2015<br />
Continued —<br />
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Milestones<br />
Brandon Aaron Coplon Suen to<br />
Anna Coplon Suen ’02,<br />
July 9, 2015<br />
Brett Mat<strong>the</strong>w Thompson to Jada<br />
Love Thompson ’95,<br />
April 27, 2015<br />
Allen Chip Tonkin-Nemeth to<br />
Allison Tonkin ’87,<br />
August 14, 2015<br />
Marriages<br />
Mat<strong>the</strong>w Richard Thomas Wilson<br />
to Kristen Mistretta Wilson ’93,<br />
June 9, 2015<br />
Peter Carnesale Wiseman to Betsy<br />
Carnesale Wiseman ’88,<br />
July 13, 2015<br />
William Morris Riley to Lauren<br />
Wiygul Riley ’05,<br />
December 11, 2015<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Janie Paine ’44<br />
•<br />
Joy Powell Smith ’47<br />
Abby Schwimmer Fox ’05 was married in May in Memphis. Celebrating with<br />
her were Elizabeth Batchelor Calkins ’05, Emily Schwimmer Cohen ’04, Erica<br />
Evans ’05, Megan Bailey ’05, Abby, Katie Brookoff ’05, Emily Templeton Gray<br />
’05, and Laura Jennings Yacoubian ’05.<br />
Rebecca Anderson ’06 to Alaric<br />
Eby, October 10, 2015<br />
Susan Buckner ’01 to Cullen<br />
James Rose, August 1, 2015<br />
Mary Kavanagh Day ’82 to Dan<br />
Daniel, January 9, 2015<br />
Ashley Edge ’08 to Scott Adams,<br />
July 25, 2015<br />
Kathryn Feder ’08 to Alex Cooper,<br />
July 19, 2015<br />
Kate Foster ’07 to Dr. Sean<br />
Lindsay, December 5, 2015<br />
Leslie Johnson Hughes ’82 to<br />
Jesse Owen, January 17, 2015<br />
Rachel Johnston-White ’06 to<br />
Iain Johnston-White,<br />
June 24, 2015<br />
Elizabeth Laws ’01 to Byron<br />
Eckart Kaendler Fuller,<br />
October 11, 2015<br />
Nishta Mehra ’01 to Jill Carroll,<br />
July 2, 2015<br />
Alexandra Mims ’07 to Andrew<br />
Pike, November 14, 2015<br />
Abby McAtee ’11 to Cort Gatliff,<br />
July 11, 2015<br />
Sims Munn ’10 to Michael Wray<br />
Bowen, August 8, 2015<br />
Lisa Mulrooney ’95 to Glen<br />
Coombs, May 23, 3015<br />
Meg Parker ’99 to Cory Prewitt,<br />
Nov. 14, 2015<br />
Abby Schwimmer ’05 to Sean<br />
Fox, May 23, 2015<br />
Ca<strong>the</strong>rine Coleman Vaughn ’09<br />
to Bryan Thomas Bunker,<br />
June 6, 2015<br />
Kathryn Annette Waggoner ’09<br />
to Pearce Alexander Edwards,<br />
September 12, 2015<br />
Jessica Walker ’04 to Chris Wiley,<br />
October 3, 2015<br />
Angela Wilcox ’04 to Tommy<br />
Palmer, September 26, 2015<br />
Marynelle Wilson ’99 to Doug<br />
McNamara, June 21, 2015<br />
Lucy Harris ’01 to Joshua Caleb<br />
Collins, October 31, 2015<br />
Nishta Mehra ’01 with wife<br />
Jill Carroll and <strong>the</strong>ir son Shiv.<br />
Graduate Degrees<br />
Elizabeth Jemison ’04, Ph.D. in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Study of Religion, Harvard<br />
University, May 2015<br />
Nicolette Overton ’08, Master of<br />
Science in Journalism, Boston<br />
University, May 2015<br />
Falconer Robbins ’05, Master of<br />
Social Work, Columbia University,<br />
May 2015<br />
Camille Wingo ’04, Masters in<br />
Business Administration,<br />
Duke University, May 9, 2015<br />
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$1,500 per student. It allows Turkey athletes to experience <strong>the</strong> power of team, <strong>the</strong> thrill of victory, and <strong>the</strong> importance of sportsmanship. It keeps everyone plugged in, connected, wired in, and online 24/7.<br />
Your gift empowers girls to become coders, builders, engineer wannabes, science nerds, and math whizzes. It equips our libraries for exploration, problem<br />
A girl is a work of art.<br />
G. Perez B. Zafer<br />
Our girls are painting a bright future.<br />
D. Onyeagocha B. Walker<br />
They count on us - can we count on YOU?<br />
Make your gift to <strong>the</strong> 2015-16 Annual Fund Today!<br />
Online: www.stmarysschool.org/give Or, call Angie Gardner at 901-537-1421<br />
Amedeo Modigliani inspired <strong>the</strong> featured artwork created by Middle School students.<br />
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give <strong>the</strong>m every opportunity to soar. It keeps our campus and students safe and sound. It enables each family to receive a tuition discount of approximately<br />
solving, and global research. It allows dancers to dance, singers to sing, actors to act, musicians to play, and artists to create. It helps us hire <strong>the</strong> best teachers, pay <strong>the</strong>m competitive salaries and benefiits, and
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alumnae<br />
weekend<br />
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