Sweet Briar College Magazine - Fall 2018

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to her system. Darrin is a happy guy!
Kelly Bowman Greenwood
has been traveling: Dana Bordvick
Poleski and I met up in Paris in June
and then spent a week painting our
way through Southern France in a
floating watercolor workshop on a
canal boat. We stayed in Arles and
Aix-en-Provence as well. Hard to
believe it has been 21 years since we
roamed Paris together in JYF! Also
visited Sophie Simonard ’96 and her
sweet baby Lucien this spring!
Alison Burnett has some catching
up to do: I haven’t updated in
forever; so excuse the old news. I had
Tommy (age 5) in 2013. In 2016 the
Cubs won the World Series, which
still thrills me since I literally waited
for them to win my entire life. I
married Joe in 2017. I’m not working
at the moment, but we’ve started
construction on a multigenerational
farmhouse in Wisconsin; so I’m definitely
busy. I’ve really enjoyed seeing
classmates at our Reunions and connecting
with Midwestern alums back
home. My family and I are living in
Chicago. Please look us up if you are
ever in town!
As for myself, Cyndi Hague
Hineline, I just finished a run in
Sondheim’s “Assassins” and am looking
forward to a busy opera chorus
season, starting with “The Magic
Flute.” Alex is starting eighth grade,
and I can hardly believe how much
faster every year flies by! Being brand
new to the class secretary position, I
promise I’ll get better at gathering
and compiling our notes! It was lovely
seeing many of our classmates at
Reunion, and I hope to join some of
you before our next 25th!
2001
Meredith Eads
1905 Vandover Rd.
Henrico, Va. 23229
Meredithk8eads@yahoo.com
The Class of 2001 has had an
eventful year. Our members have
survived floods and wildfires. There
are new babies joining our families
and children heading off to high
school. Many of us are turning 40
this year. Here are updates from a
few of our SBC sisters.
Christina Paolichi was promoted
last year to project manager
within Wood Group, with whom
she has been employed since leaving
the Navy in 2013. Unfortunately, she
was adversely impacted by Hurricane
Harvey, resulting in the need to
gut and rebuild her home. This will
be a long restoration process, but she
is grateful for the aid of countless
work volunteers and the contributions
and/or expressions of concern
by Shweta Sharma Mistry, Elizabeth
Hamshaw Mitchell ’00, Jessica
Shannon ’03 and Jennifer Taylor
Catano ’02, who brought Christina
and her volunteers an awesome
lunch. Christina — we all hope that
your restoration and recovery is going
smoothly, and you are feeling settled
and secure once again!
Jessica McCloskey wrote earlier
in the spring that she was minutes
away (or 4 months, depending on
how you count!) from submitting
her thesis on restorative justice to
earn her doctorate in clinical psychology;
so that is most of her life
right now. She’s still in England, outside
of London, applying for her first
job as a forensic clinical psychologist
to start in the fall. She’s raising a little
miniature schnauzer puppy named
Gerda, who takes beach holidays
without her. By now, I imagine that
her thesis has been submitted. This
is so exciting! Wishing you all the
best, Jessica!
This spring, Amy Tabb let us
know that she is continuing her
work at a USDA lab in W.Va. and
raising two kids (3 and 7) with husband
Dave. She’s had a busy travel
schedule with talks and conferences
this winter but was happy to get
down to SBC for Engineering Week,
where she got to chat with Meta
Glass floormates (from 1997!) Megan
Thomas Rowe and Meredith
Taylor Eads (me!).
Megan Thomas Rowe and her
family recently moved to Fredericksburg,
VA. This was a short move
from Caroline County, but it made a
huge difference for her family. Now
the kids play in the neighborhood
and ride the bus to school. Megan
is still working as a scientist for the
Navy but was recently put in charge
of a new branch requiring her to
spend a lot of time recruiting. It
is new and exciting! Megan and I,
Meredith Taylor Eads, were happy
to join Sweet Work Weeks again this
year in August. We painted rooms
Megan Thomas Rowe ‘01 with her husband, Matthew Rowe (HSC ‘03), at
a 60th Anniversary of the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Program
in Reid and are looking forward to
doing it again next year. We’ll be
recruiting classmates to come and
work and play with us as soon as
dates are released.
Julia Kientz Ambersley recently
wrote that she can’t believe that it’s
her 14th year of teaching! This year
she has a new adventure with teaching
second graders. She’s excited to
share that she was chosen as a presenter
at the NCAIS Annual Educators’
Conference in Oct., where she
will be presenting the class Writing
Essays with Elementary Students.
She always loves catching up with
our SWEET sisters, and recently
had the pleasure of spending the afternoon
with Jamie Solimando!
I’ve enjoyed catching up with
Megan, and Amy this year at different
events. I was also able to spend
the year working with Donna Harwood
’99 in Hanover County Public
Schools! She was a great partner on
our Special Education Elementary
Lead Team! After a 6.5-year stint
with HCPS, I decided to head back
to the private sector and now work
full time as a behavior analyst with
Dominion Youth Services in Richmond.
I miss Donna but am enjoy-
Megan Thomas Rowe ‘01 with her family at Isle of Palms, SC, for the
solar eclipse last August
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