Duke School Under the Oak Magazine, Summer 2014

Alumni Connections: Always a Dragon
had a baby girl, Hadley Michelle! Iris says her life
Annelle Sheline went to New York University’s
MINI-PROFILES
CLASS OF 2000
Meet Julia Fiore
Julia attended Duke
School from preschool
through eighth grade
and then went to
Durham School of the
Arts. While at Vassar
College, she majored in
environmental studies
and spent summers
in Durham working at summer camps. After
graduating, Julia spent a few years teaching on an
educational farm in California, and since 2011, she
has been the program director at Camp Riverlea,
a day camp in Durham County. She also worked
at two farms in Durham County, including Little
Sprout Farm, where she helped grow veggies and
the Prodigal Farm, where she worked with goats
and learned the trade of cheese making.
School students and teachers, and is continuing to
grow. Julia looks forward to organizing exciting
community events and expanding the alumni
network in the year ahead.
Julia started connecting with her fellow Class of
2000 alums first and learned that they have had
varied and successful experiences since leaving
Duke School.
Kate Chavez (Hotelling) started working for
a local non-profit that provides resources to
developmentally disabled adults after she
graduated from the University of New Mexico. Her
work inspired her to pursue the behavioral health
field, and she is currently at New Mexico Highlands
University in the second semester of her masters
in clinical social work. Kate is also a newlywed,
marrying in June of 2013. She currently lives in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she works with
high-risk kids at a seventh through twelfth grade
charter school.
is super busy working full time, being a mom and
wife and attending school part time but “totally
worth it.”
Emma Schall graduated from Loyola University in
New Orleans, where she studied graphic design.
After graduating, she began working for Line 58,
a branding and web design firm. Emma has lived
in New Orleans for 10 years and says it has been
an adventure. Traveling has been a big part of her
family’s life as they have visited Ecuador, Chile and
Quebec. She is recently engaged and planning a
wedding for next spring.
(NYU) Gallatin School of Individualized Study, then
worked as a journalist in Egypt and Yemen for a
few years before returning to the United States
to complete a Ph.D. in political science at The
George Washington University in D.C. Annelle’s
research is on the Middle East, and she will be in
the Persian Gulf and the Levant next year doing
fieldwork for her dissertation. Annelle says Duke
School’s former teacher Jane Ann McCullough
remains the best teacher she ever had!
Elyssa Weber is currently enrolled in a clinical
psychology doctoral program at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston, where she researches the
effects of natural disasters. As part of her program,
Elyssa is also conducting clinical work
in neuropsychology at a Boston area
hospital. She previously worked at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore,
conducting psychiatric research after
graduating from Wellesley College. In
her free time she enjoy arts and crafts
and catching up with her old friends from
Duke School.
With many happy memories from being a
student at Duke School, Julia was delighted to
join the Development Office as the events and
Parent Service Organization (PSO) coordinator in
December 2013. She has enjoyed helping the PSO
organize events and re-connecting with the school
and with her former teachers.
Tory Clark received her undergraduate degree
from Tufts University and has stayed in the
Cambridge/Boston area. She spent about five
years “gallivanting about the globe,” teaching
countries about climate change and energy
software. She is now in her second semester of an
energy policy masters program at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).
“The Bench” built by the Class of 2000 and repainted many times since then.
We will feature a class notes section in
future publications. Please send notes to
Julia at alumni@dukeschool.org.
As an alumna, she was the perfect person to lead
Duke School’s alumni network. Since Julia began
working at Duke School, she has created a Duke
School Alumni Facebook Group. The group has
more than 140 members, consisting of former Duke
Iris Jackola (Warszawski) received her nursing
degree from Duke University and is now returning
to school to become a family nurse practitioner. In
May 2011, she got married and this past October,
If you graduated (completed eighth grade)
or ever attended Duke School, you are an
alumnus/alumna.
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