Bridging the Gap

Class Notes
Lauren Lazar ’04 celebrated her 30th birthday with classmates (back row, from left)
Shea O’Rourke Quraishi, Sarah Carter, Sasha Castroverde, Brittany Johnson
Hernandez, Marion Phillips, Supriya Sarkar. Front row, from left: Camille Wingo,
Shelby Deeney, Elizabeth Stevenson, Lauren Lazar, Lauren Arnold,
Taylor Fisher, Elise Addington Dugger
Classmates from 2004 celebrate together: From left, Kristin
Barry Gibson (with Gracie), Blair Carter Tait, Laine Peeler,
Lucy Harris Collins, and Martha Ferguson Burke.
gether, including Nicole Osborne
Steck, Lisa Mabry, Elsa Monge
DeGroot, Ann Burruss, Rebecca
Sawyer, and Elizabeth Campbell.
Nicole continues to enjoy work
in marketing at Glaxo-Smith
Kline. Lisa is finishing up her last
year of a radiology fellowship
in Birmingham, before moving
to Atlanta for another radiology
fellowship at Emory, specializing
in mammography (overachiever);
in between all of her radiology
work, she is excited to be wedding
planning. Elsa now oversees
marketing for Central and South
America for Chili’s international
restaurants from Dallas. Ann is
still in Memphis, where she has
begun work as a multi-sensory
tutor for children with dyslexia
and other specific language
disabilities; she even works for
SMS sometimes. Ann is also
knee-deep in wedding plans
as well. Elizabeth is finishing a
fellowship in endocrinology and
starting her job search; while
she was home in Memphis,
she ran into former classmate
Christina Leatherman! Small
world. Lindsey Coates is still in
Orlando, where she has joined
the staff of Summit Church, and
as part of her work she leads
regular church services at the
Orange County Jail. Catherine
Ferguson Conger and her family
are still in S.C., where they have
just moved into a new house
they built. Meanwhile, Wendi
Muse continues to circle the
globe, with stops off in São Paulo
and Rio for research, New York
for teaching and PhD work; she
is working as a TA for a course
on the African Diaspora at NYU.
Naree Chan and husband Alby
left Boston for Taipei, Taiwan,
where he is working. Naree does
legal work is starting a small
jewelry business on the side.
Our New Orleans contingent
continues to thrive as well:
Rachel Andersen is fostering
baby squirrels (of course) and
making sculptures on the side,
all while working with special
education students at a charter
school. Laura Hettinger continues
to work as a paralegal
and to nurture her creative
side with freelance calligraphy
and painting projects. Kelsey
Freebing went to NOLA to visit
Laura and George. When she’s
at her normal post, Kelsey
works for Ernst & Young in
D.C. Katie Friend reports that
she took an amazing European
vacation with her cousin, Suzie
Loveless ’03; stateside, she
continues to work for Teach for
America in the Delta. Also local
is Leslie Guinn Jerkins, whose
third kiddo George was born
in May. Her older two, Juliette
and Molly, have both started at
SMS this year, and Leslie is now
back at work at her ad agency
post. Newly local is Whitney
Long Neal, who moved back
to Memphis over the summer.
Emily May Lequerica continues
to enjoy married life and
teaching at PDS. Hillary Burkett
is happily settled in Knoxville,
working as a senior healthcare
consultant and enjoying spending
time with her two (adorable!)
dogs. Anna Coplon Suen
and husband Garrett welcomed
an adorable baby boy named
Brandon in July. They are still in
Madison, Wis. Anna, maybe y’all
should move home too! Farther
west, Melissa Lawson Romero
and husband Carlos share their
Colorado home with two dogs,
four chickens and an adorable
(bilingual!) two-year-old daughter
Etta. Melissa is finishing up a
clerkship at the Colorado Court
of Appeals, and next up for her is
a District Court federal clerkship.
Farthest west of our correspondents
was Marley Baer, who
finished up an MBA program
at Vanderbilt in the spring and
moved out to Los Angeles, where
she is now having a “magical”
experience working for Disney,
as well as wedding planning.
I’m continuing to work as a
financial regulatory lawyer for
Davis Polk in NYC, and Robbie
and I continue to live in New
Haven, Conn., where he is in his
last year of divinity school. Our
daughter Victoria continues to
thrive, daycare illness notwithstanding.
Keep the news flowing,
my dears! It’s always a joy to
hear from so many of you.
–2003
Laurence Goodwin
slaurencegoodwin@gmail.com
Suzie Loveless is still working
as Manager of Alumni Affairs for
Teach For America and trying to
travel as much as possible; she
recently spent 15 days exploring
Ireland, Wales, and England with
her cousin, Katie Friend (’02).
Musette Morgan is living in New
York and working on lots of large
landscape and portrait commissions
at the moment. She’s
been in Memphis a lot lately
supporting her brother Worth’s
campaign for a seat on the City
Council. Louise Schumacher
Timmons is busy working with
designers and architects at
Jerry Pair in Atlanta and looking
after her little girl, Anne
Parkes. Jessica Pfeffer is teaching
“Introduction to Queer Studies”
at Tufts this fall as well as
“Women, History, and Culture” at
Suffolk University; she continues
to work on her PhD. Lizzie Gill
is working away at her business,
No Limits Tutoring. Sarah
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