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Class Notes 62 last spring and talked about her experience as a math/science major at Wheelock and some of the good things it led to: “My degree allowed me to complete and graduate from an accelerated EMT-Basic course. I have enjoyed volunteering at the local hospital here [Bozeman, MT] and have also been an assistant teacher for the same EMT course I graduated from. Being a top math and science student at Wheelock College enabled me to be accepted as an American Cancer Society Alvan T. & Viola D. Fuller Junior Research Fellow. This fellowship gave me the opportunity of shadowing a thoracic oncologist at Mass General. I spent the summer assisting with research being done on thoracic cancers (lung cancer, throat cancer, etc.). This fellowship was the greatest learning experience of my entire life.” Marci, who has recently worked in guest services for Marriott, also wrote, “Wheelock certainly not only educated me, but has given me some of the best memories of my life.” Michaela Ross Rice ’11 and Eric Rice ’12 with son Avery James (rockin’ the bowtie!) Michaela Ross has been working at the Joyce Middle School in Woburn, MA, as a special education teacher since she graduated from Wheelock. She married Eric Rice ’12, who currently sells real estate, in April 2014, and they had their first child, a son, Avery James, last January. Rachel Schumacher writes about getting married last June 27: “We met during my [2013] term of service with AmeriCorps NCCC in the North Central region based out of Iowa, where we served on the same team. That was my second year of AmeriCorps – my first was with the Community Health Center in Middletown, CT, in 2011-2012. Since completing my term with NCCC, we moved back to my hometown of Norwich, CT, where I am currently working as the lead teacher of the toddler classroom at Mayflower Montessori School. I stay in contact with my best Wheelock girls from the 301 CCSR suite of 2011: Samantha Suarez, Catherine Piccininni ’13, and Natasha Al-Rafie ’12, all of whom were the bridesmaids in my wedding.” Rachel shared that last August Samantha was headed to Colombia for a one- to two-year adventure teaching English in schools there, Catherine is completing her graduate degree at Wheelock, and Natasha is also doing graduate studies. 2012 Kayla Drescher, now living in Los Angeles, is performing magic all over the country, including a performance at Wheelock’s April 2015 Make-A-Wish talent show. Last summer, she was a counselor and teacher at Tannen’s Magic Camp in Bryn Mawr, PA, where over 150 young magicians gathered to learn the ins and outs of performing magic. The rest of Kayla’s summer was filled with traveling, outdoor fun, and even performing as an opening act for a show on the Las Vegas strip! To find out more, visit www.magicinheels.com. Last year, Ava Jennings ’12/’15MS wrote: “This summer I’m a participant in the Teacher Launch Project. The project is actually part of a research study being conducted by Harvard University. During the four-week summer program we practice behavior management skills, classroom culture practice, and importance of routines and systems, and we receive 20 weeks of mentoring during the school year! The program has been amazing thus far. I am glad I joined!” 2014 Last spring, Megan Mawe, a math/science major when she was at Wheelock, wrote: “I have continued to pursue math/science! I am currently enrolled in an accelerated B.S. and M.S. of Nursing at Regis College. I will be receiving my nursing license next January and will then continue on to complete my master’s degree in nursing to ultimately be a nurse practitioner in acute/surgical care. My degree in math/science was a great starting point for this, as the science prerequisites for this program were very extensive, and a bachelor’s degree was required for acceptance. I also minored in education, which has proven to be incredibly helpful for all the patient teaching required in nursing. I also work as a home health aide for a private-duty nursing company, and this has been immensely helpful for my nursing education!” Master’s Degrees Congratulations to Kim Paddison Dockery ’78MS (Ed.D., University of Virginia), who retired last August after 20 years in the Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools. She had most recently served as chief academic officer, overseeing the daily academic life of the school system’s more than 185,000 students and leading divisionwide instruction and testing services. After joining the school system in 1995 as a special education teacher at Mantua Elementary, she served as an assistant principal at Haycock Elementary, as principal of Westlawn Elementary, and as the assistant superintendent for special services, leading special education, health services, and intervention and prevention programs for students. “She was an integral part of the school system’s efforts to reform the district’s disciplinary procedures, particularly for teens in high schools,” according to a July 2015 Washington Post story. Kim herself writes that she has also done a lot of work in early childhood with Ellen Galinsky (president and co-founder of Families and Work Institute) and in the fall participated in the National Governors Association roundtable on “social emotional learning in early childhood (and the pre- K-12 alignment required to support SEL).” She adds, “Wheelock and Susan Kosoff [’65/’75MS] were so foundational for my career!” Dr. Laurel Waiksnoris Bongiorno ’85MS is dean of the Division of Education and Human Studies at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. Susan Brown Bramble ’94MS was in touch last spring, when she was excited to be starting her new position as learning specialist at Stone Ridge School in Bethesda, MD, where she works primarily with students and teachers in grades 5 and 6. Last fall, Dr. Kimberly Wright Morgan ’05MSW wrote: “Recently, I completed a doctorate in Pastoral Care and Counseling. My husband and I are returning from our summer trip to England, Wales, and Ireland, visiting our family. I will begin my new appointment with the Civil Air Patrol Chaplain Corps, as a character development instructor. Thank you, Wheelock Graduate School of Social Work, for shaping who I am today.” Nyree WINTER 2016
Simmons ’07MS was selected as 2015-2016 Teacher of the Year for the Jasper County School District in South Carolina, where she works at Ridgeland Elementary. An online story about this recognition talked about how Nyree has a positive impact on not only her students but also her colleagues, inspires her students to have the same love of learning she has, and connects with her students in special ways to help them really learn the material she’s teaching. Since shortly after graduating from Wheelock, Beth Kreyling ’10MS has held the position of pediatric hospice child life specialist in the Gilchrist Kids program at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Baltimore, MD. In support of her hospice role with children and their families, she has also received certification in thanatology. Erin Butts ’15MS has been working in the field of early education for 14 years and is now teacher/director of the Haggerty Preschool in Cambridge, MA, a 10-month program for children ages 2.9 to 5 years old. The thing she loves most about teaching is that she never stops learning, she says, and she feels that all of the amazing children and families she has worked with over the years have helped her learn and grow as both a teacher and a person. She says she values the opportunities to make a difference in the lives of children and families and to work with families to help them learn more about their children and the ways they can support their learning at home. Arrivals 96/97 Sarah Zimman Dulong, a daughter, Vivienne Zimman Dulong 97/98 Lisa Marie Klem, a daughter, Grace Margaret Klem 01 Claire Kinkade Dunn, a daughter, Maeve Georgia Dunn 01 Racheal Spicer-Ness, a son, Lennon Josiah Arnold Ness 06 Caitlyn Anamateros Olsen, a son, Logan Joseph 08 Lauren LaBelle Morin, a son, Benjamin 11 Kiera Pritchard Lantz, a daughter, Avery Liliana 11 Michaela Ross (and Eric Rice ’12), a son, Avery James Unions 11 Michaela Ross to Eric Rice ’12 11 Rachel Schumacher to Nick King In Memoriam 33 Rozilla Morton Roberts 37 Katherine O’Hearn Page 38 Jean Gardner Anderson 39 Harriet Rice Wood 40 Rita Jaffe Govenar 41 Barbara Jameson Lawson 41 Jean Tilton Melby 41 Joanne Jamieson Owens 41 Jean Stout Wilson 42 Cynthia Schofield Cleary 42 Elizabeth Hague Erlandson 42/43 Eleanore Moginot Fisher 42/43 Ann “Bucky” Starbuck Gelser 43/44 Elizabeth Thompson DeGuzman 43/44 Lois Crocker Gill 44 Judith Elder Scott 43/44 Nancy Powell White 46 Dorothy Spencer Chaudoin 46 Sarah Ryan Donnelly 46 Medora Wilson Douden 46 Frances Robertson Gill 47 Patricia Portley Bucher 48 Yolanda Restivo Miller 49 Laura Anne “Lolly” McPhee Burton 49 Cynthia “Teddy” Duff Lyons 49 Frances Cummings Partridge 50 Beverly Simon Green 51 Ann Ryan Gilpatrick 51 Ann Parry McKee 51 Bernice Race Senchik 51 Priscilla Janeway Sherwood 53 Virginia Taylor Rowley 54 Joan Kemp Seeber 57 Katherine Kavinoky Goldman 61 Emily McLeod Welch 62 Susan Powers Knapp 62 Marie “Kim” Kimball Thomas 65 Linda Larrabee Blair Lockwood 69 Carol Morrison Currie 72MS Mildred Johnson Bean 73 Mary Lozoraitis Mickey 74AS Nan Jones Brown 74 Patricia Kellaway Hess 76MS Gwen Morgan 95 Megan Marquis Yip 98 Sana bin Laden 99 Cynthia Pease Please send us your news! Please send us your news, both personal and professional. Scribes’ letters asking for news will be sent only by email from now on, so, especially for those who don’t use email, please send your news using the information and form below by Feb. 8 to have your news printed in the Summer 2016 Wheelock Magazine. Thank you. Mail: Name (include maiden name, if applicable) Degree Home address Email School/Company name Title Work address Work email Lori Ann Saslav, Wheelock College, 200 Riverway, Boston, MA 02215-4176 Email: lsaslav@wheelock.edu Fax: (617) 879-2326 News for Class Notes: Telephone Class Work telephone <strong>magazine</strong>
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