Bridging the Gap

Class Notes
puppy named Quinn after our
beloved Madame Quinn! Jordan
Reeve is still living in Nashville
working for Caterpillar Financial,
and she recently started a new
position in the credit department.
Claire Riley recently
visited Christine Petrin in D.C.
and Zuzanna Stepniakowska
in Seattle before heading to see
her students in Madrid. Sylvia
Brookoff had a brief stint as the
world’s first Senor Frogs mascot.
Next up is the Carnegie Deli
pickle and she has the turkey
costume to thank for this weird
interest in mascots she’s developed.
Natalie Jacewicz spends
her days watching whales while
pursuing a Masters in science
communications at UC Santa
Cruz. She received a fellowship
from the National Association of
Science Writers.
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Rachel Stuart
rachel.stuart@ptsem.edu
Callie McCool is loving her
second year at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston. Also
currently living in Houston
is Allison Connell, who has
enjoyed being able to travel
around the country for work. Sri
Pulusani and Mary Stevenson
are enjoying their time as firstyear
med students together at
UT. In NYC, Ann Yacoubian is
also preparing for the medical
field with graduate premedical
studies at Columbia and
working as a medical scribe
and translator in an emergency
room in the Bronx. Liz Damoc
is working in Dallas on medical
device sales for Smith &
Nephew and is now in the OR
for trauma and extremities.
She is also preparing for the
Dallas Marathon in December.
Ali Fishman is finishing her
last quarter of portfolio school
while working at an advertising
firm and experiencing Chicago
Cubs baseball in person. Carey
Segal is still sailing the high
seas, performing as a dancer and
aerialist for Royal Caribbean’s
40 |
newest ship, the Anthem of the
Seas. Also travelling the world
is Rachel Green, who graduated
from Indiana University this
May and received a Mitchell
Scholarship, under which she
is pursuing an MA in Conflict
Transformation & Social Justice
in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her
dissertation topic is the impact
of social conflict on women.
Kathryn Fowler has graduated
from clown school and is now
pursuing a career in advanced
pyrotechnics. She hopes to one
day marry a very wealthy man
whose trust fund can support
her slowly developing collection
of antique train sets. Elise
Heuberger is enjoying spending
her second year at Vanderbilt
Law with first-year and fellow
SMS alumna Meg Fowler ’08.
Elise is currently working in the
Tennessee Attorney General’s
office as an extern and looking
forward to her summer job
plans. Cara Greenstein is
becoming famous — her blog
Caramelized was recently
recognized in The Commercial
Appeal’s 2015 Memphis Most
awards as the Best Blog! At
Emory, Nica Cabigao is pursuing
her Masters in Public Health,
with a concentration in Health
Management. In her spare time,
she frequently visits friends
and family in Chicago and
Memphis, and she especially
enjoys spending time with
her niece, Olive. Hensley Loeb
moved to Nashville in February,
where she is working at JLL,
the second largest real estate
company in the world. On her
days off from school, Lauren
Echlin serves as a substitute
teacher at Holy Rosary in
Memphis. Also still in Memphis
is Allie Pryor, who is scribing
in the Le Bonheur emergency
department while working at
another year of nursing school.
Alex Fountain is pleased to
be returning to Memphis from
her previous work in Colorado.
She will be working at St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital.
Folake Thomas is celebrating
Alumnae from the Washington, D.C., area gathered with Head of School
Albert Throckmorton recently. From left, Erin Fowler ’07, Mary Peeler ’11,
Sarah Jemison ’11, Emma Farris ’15. Photo credit: Marinell Throckmorton
another semester of teaching
8th graders. Lauren Pelts is
at the University of Memphis,
pursuing her Masters in Speech
Language Pathology. In San
Francisco, Sami Rosenthal is
working at a clean tech software
company called Opower. Kayla
Rosenberg is enjoying producing
her new YouTube show “Child
Therapy,” a web comedy series
in which people discuss their
problems with a therapist,
who happens to be 6 years old.
Allie Baker Shields graduated
with her Masters in Nursing in
August and just got certified as
a Primary Care Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner. She is also pleased
to report that she and husband
Joseph welcomed James Curtis
Shields II into their family on May
29th! Rachel Stuart loved being
back in Rochester this summer
for her first field education
placement at Asbury First
United Methodist Church, and is
settling into her middler year at
Princeton Seminary. Sims Munn
Bowen got married in August
and moved to Birming-ham.
She’s working for a non-profit
that works with inner city kids.
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Meg Cornaghie
mary.cornaghie@bcm.edu
Meriweather Adams loved
her internship with Hollywood
Feed this summer and has
recently started a hand-lettered
print and stationery business
at handletteredwithlove.com.
Sarah Jemison loves living
in D.C., where she works in
charter school administration
and recently got to see Lauren
Harrington, Louisa Boyd, and
Meg Cornaghie. Lauren just
got engaged to the man of her
dreams and began the Capital
Fellows Program in Washington,
D.C., where she takes seminary
graduate level classes while
working at the Federal Reserve
and learning how to blend
her faith with her vocation.
After graduating from UVA,
Louisa moved to D.C., working
on a Phase II clinical trial for
the National Human Genome
Research Institute. She hopes
to start medical school in the
fall and is enjoying this year
off from school. Meg Gould is
teaching at a secondary school
in Gaborone, Botswana, through
a one-year fellowship called
Princeton in Africa, spending
her time doing old and new
hobbies like (coaching) soccer,
ultimate frisbee, adventuring,
and looking up math videos.
Teresa Hendrix is working in
Memphis as a Digital Marketing
& Public Relations Coordinator at
Speak Creative. She also recently
adopted a dog named Tracy Rene
from Real Good Dog Rescue.
Margaret McClintock has started
working at an online media
company called StyleBlueprint
in Nashville and is loving it.