Bridging the Gap

Allyson Patterson adopted a
snuggly kitten named Sasha
(so fierce) and works for an
architecture firm called Planning
Design Research in Houston. She
looks forward to returning to
Nashville to see her artwork in
an exhibition this fall, and she
sees Meg Cornaghie in Houston
regularly. Meg graduated from
Rice in May and is deep into her
first semester of medical school
at Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston. After graduating from
UNC in May, Mary Peeler spent
the summer traveling around
Europe with her sisters and
friends from undergrad. She
just started her first semester of
medical school at Johns Hopkins
in Baltimore. Erika Steuer moved
to Albany, N.Y. and started a job
as the Director of Fundraising
& Public Relations at an allboys
charter high school. Sam
Taylor graduated from Ohio
State University in Mechanical
Engineering, Summa Cum Laude.
Sam has accepted a fellowship
from the University of Texas
in Austin, and is pursuing a
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
with a research emphasis in
Additive Manufacturing and
Design. Susan Waggoner is
back in Memphis working at an
ad agency and enjoying all the
new, fun things Memphis has
to offer. She regularly sees Lucy
Wade Shapiro, who is also in
Memphis and is working at the
Church Health Center. Whitney
Wortham loves living in NYC
with Virginia Preston, next
to a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream
store. Whitney still wear socks
with her sandals and loves
graduate school. Maria Zoccola
is spending the year studying
writing for her masters in rainy
southwest England.
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Chandler Roberts
c.roberts@tcu.edu
Ellery Ammons
Ammer-16@rhodes.edu
Jodie Struminger is currently
serving as the Director of
Outstanding Alumna Award Nominations
It’s time to nominate someone amazing for the
Outstanding Alumna Award presented at Alumnae Weekend,
April 22, 2016. The nomination process is new – and simpler! –
this year: ALL alumnae, no matter what their graduating
year, are eligible. To make a nomination,
go to www.stmarysschool.org/alumnaeawards.
The award honors an alumna’s faithfulness, service, curiosity,
courage, compassion, leadership, and kindness.
Outreach for Wash U’s Dance
Marathon and is looking forward
to choreographing a piece for
the student showcase in the
spring. Alix de Witt is making
the trek through David Foster
Wallace’s Infinite Jest to complete
her English major requirements.
Carol Elsakr is helping conduct
clinical trials of PK treatment
for congenital Giygas syndrome,
and hoping her work will be
published in a medical journal.
Sara Kim had the opportunity
to continue working with her
summer internship at the
International Association of
National Public Health Institutes.
She is currently applying to
public health schools and jobs.
Lauren Pate is enjoying her
last year at Notre Dame and is
currently applying to law school
for fall of 2016. She is enjoying
being the 1st floor RA in her
dorm. Megan Guyton spent her
summer interning in the External
Relations Office at British School
of Brussels. Brooks Wingate
started University of Tennessee
College of Pharmacy in Memphis.
Melissa Byrd is busy continuing
her work with St. Jude both on
campus and in her third year
interning at ALSAC, finishing
up her Public Relations courses,
and cheering on her University
of Memphis Tigers. Lesley
Stevenson greatly enjoyed the
honor of getting Jimmy Fallon’s
coffee this summer and seeing
all the Broadway musicals she
could afford. She hopes to see
some Turkey friends at her Alum
Chapel Talk on January 5. Liz
Carter has started her fourth
year at UTK in Architecture
and English-Technical
Communications. She is
interning as a science editor
at the College of Veterinary
Medicine and loves getting to
advance her editing skills in
such a different field. Chandler
Roberts is enjoying her last year
of Nursing School at TCU and
loves working on the floor at a
local hospital. Ellery Ammons
researched urban branding with
the Rhodes Institute for Regional
Studies over the summer and
is loving every moment of
Senior year. Ramie Mansberg is
working on her senior thesis at
the University of Texas about the
power of high school athletics in
helping build resilience.
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Anna Utley
aeu0002@tigermail.auburn.edu
Anna Stukenborg
aestuken@go.olemiss.edu
Sukriti Mohan is working at a
free clinic and autism residential
center. Liv Stevens is in Vienna,
Austria, for the semester
learning German and eating
lots of kuchen (cake). Elianna
Landau is studying in Seville
and living with a host family.
Alexa Fila has moved on from
Newk’s and is now working in
the computer and electrical
engineering office on campus
at UAB. Rachel Chu is living
in Sewanee’s women’s center,
which is one of the only studentled
college women’s centers in
the country! Emily Rosenthal is
excited to be doing Semester at
Sea next semester. Katie Heard
is going into her final year and
looking for a job #adult. Nikki
Cox is collaborating with Dr.
Federico Vaca on a project that
will be published in the Journal
of Traffic Injury Prevention.
Emma Less is currently majoring
in strategic communications
and minoring in film & media
studies and arts administration
at TCU. Zoe Van Deveer is
studying abroad in Prague and
was elected VP of finance for
Pi Beta Phi at Richmond. Becky
Park is studying in Seoul, Korea,
this semester. Claire Fogarty
is experiencing the classic
existential crisis of “what do I
want to do with my life?” Lida
Kruchten changed her major
to management information
systems and is working as a law
clerk. Anna Peeler just started
nursing school and is working
as an EMT and got to give Alexa
Fila her flu shot. Grace Bettis is
starting a chapter at Arkansas
of Lamba Alpha Episilon,
a national criminal justice
society. Mashal Mirza is still
battling her way through premed
classes, debating on med
school or becoming a YouTube
sensation. Hana Roussey is
still a nursing major and has
already given her first shot.
Francie Saunders is an ecology
major and evolutionary biology
major with a new business
minor and will be studying in
Tanzania in the spring. Lillian
Norcross is a marketing major
with a minor in general business
at Arkansas. Anna Taylor is a
microbiology major, working
nights as a medical scribe and
will start working in a micro
lab next semester. Catherine
Moore has started pharmacy
school. Sophie Skouteris loves
having her sister in Fayetteville
now, and just applied to be an
assistant for the Razorbacks
Sports Dietitian. Caela Rhea
is l majoring in Psychology
at UTK, hoping to get a PhD
in either clinical or forensic
psychology. Ellie Harrison is
double majoring in psychology
and sociology at Tulane. Grace
Akangbe is a pre-med and music
double major at Rhodes and
enjoys cheering and is starting
a music therapy program at
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