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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 />

—————————<br />

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 />

WINTER 2015 | 23


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 />

WINTER 2015 | 29


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 />

40 |<br />

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 />

WINTER 2015 | 43


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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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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60 Perkins Extended<br />

Memphis, Tennessee 38117-3199<br />

www.stmarysschool.org<br />

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Come Home to St. Mary’s!<br />

alumnae<br />

weekend<br />

2016<br />

Friday, April 22 & Saturday, April 23<br />

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FOR A COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, GO TO:<br />

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