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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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