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ALUMNI NOTES >><br />
40<br />
1995<br />
1 Carl Cordova and his wife, Sola, are currently<br />
living in Brooklyn, NY where they just<br />
celebrated the birth of their son, Harvey on<br />
June 3.<br />
1996<br />
2 Jennifer Petrey is currently a Professor of<br />
English for Central Arizona. She moved to<br />
the Phoenix area in 2016 from Barry University<br />
in Miami, FL. She is currently pursuing<br />
a second PhD in psychology and cognition.<br />
Over the years she has published several<br />
works on culture and trauma - focusing on<br />
diasporas and gender identity - and serves<br />
under-represented populations in borderland<br />
Arizona. In addition to her scholarly<br />
and professional pursuits, Jennifer breeds<br />
and shows Australian Shepherd dogs and<br />
German Warmblood horses. She is also<br />
currently working towards representing the<br />
United States in dressage at the next Pan<br />
American Games on her Holsteiner horse,<br />
LeDoux DFF.<br />
1997<br />
Erin Metzger Conn is currently a teacher at<br />
CHCA and is serving on the CHCA Alumni<br />
Board.<br />
1998<br />
3 Brian Garlock and his wife, Brittany, live<br />
in Mason, OH with their two sons, Colin<br />
(7) and Aiden (5). He is working for Mammotome,<br />
a medical device company in Cincinnati,<br />
on the leadership team of the North<br />
American Sales organization as Sales Operations<br />
Manager.<br />
Rebekah Sjogren Osypian is currently living<br />
in San Diego, CA where she owns a consulting<br />
agency that focuses on sales growth<br />
and strategy building.<br />
1999<br />
4 Kristen Stutz Barkimer married Greg<br />
Barkimer on April 22 in Winston-Salem,<br />
North Carolina, where she attended college.<br />
It was an amazing day and the Lord blessed<br />
them by holding the rain off for their outdoor<br />
ceremony until just minutes after everything<br />
was finished! Kristen’s two sisters,<br />
Darah Stutz Kerpka ‘02 and Meredith Stutz<br />
‘12, were the maids of honor. Dear friend and<br />
CHCA alum, Michelle Toy Warner ‘98 read<br />
Scripture and her daughter, Olivia, was one<br />
of their adorable flower girls. Kristen and<br />
Greg are loving married life and are enjoying<br />
living in Hyde Park, Ohio.<br />
2000<br />
5 Chad Leland is starting his 11th year as a<br />
coach for the CHCA middle school football<br />
program. This past year he started a new job<br />
as the employee benefits broker firm McGohan<br />
Brabender as a large account manager.<br />
Chad is involved in an awesome men’s small<br />
group, Inner Circle Cincinnati, which includes<br />
former CHCA football guys coming<br />
together to grow deeper in faith and to be<br />
honest and accountable for what living for<br />
Jesus really means. After 11 years of teaching<br />
at Edgewood Middle School, his wife Allison<br />
is working at home as a part time art teacher.<br />
They are celebrating their two daughters in<br />
every way as tea parties, dances, and ‘feelings’<br />
are ever-present in their house!<br />
6 Michelle Pembaur Pater and her husband,<br />
Michael, welcomed Michael Robert<br />
Pembaur Pater on April 3, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
7 Liz Bronson Rosenau and her husband<br />
Greg welcomed their first baby, Audrey<br />
Kathleen, on August 18, 2016. Life will never<br />
be the same and they wouldn’t have it any<br />
other way. Liz says, “I’d like to apologize for<br />
all the times I rolled my eyes when someone<br />
wanted to show me pictures of their baby...<br />
I get it now!”<br />
2001<br />
8 Matt Warren and his wife Allyson moved<br />
back to Cincinnati just over five years ago<br />
and have enjoyed settling into their life as a<br />
growing family in Loveland. They have two<br />
energetic boys, Declan(age 6) and Beckett<br />
(age 4). This past December, Matt and Allyson,<br />
along with their family, opened Brixx<br />
Wood Fired Pizza and a couple months later<br />
opened Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe in<br />
Deerfield Township.<br />
2002<br />
Zach Bohannon is currently living in Cincinnati<br />
where he works as a field director<br />
for Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the<br />
nation’s leading grassroots activists organization<br />
which supports economic prosperity,<br />
freedom, and opportunity through free<br />
market principles and principles of limited<br />
government.<br />
Wes and Dori Dostal Edmonson are living<br />
in Loveland, Oh with their two children, Oliver<br />
(5) and Henry (2).<br />
Ryan Scott has been working for the last 10<br />
years at GE Aviation where he is an evaluation<br />
engineer. He has been working on the<br />
GE9X engine that will power the Boeing<br />
777; so if you are flying from here to California,<br />
it is likely that he will be powering you!<br />
2003<br />
9 Denis Beausejour and his wife Robynne<br />
are loving life in the suburb of Chicago.<br />
Denis is working at O.C. Tanner, which is a<br />
rewards and recognition company. They<br />
are currently attending Willow Creek Community<br />
Church. September 2016 they were<br />
blessed with a beautiful baby boy, Denis.<br />
10 Jon Beck has been in Santa Cruz, Bolivia<br />
working with World Gospel Mission as a<br />
volunteer since August 2016. While there,<br />
he taught Old Testament Theology, New<br />
Testament Theology, Hebrews/General<br />
Epistles, and Biblical Hebrew to the local<br />
university (Bolivian Evangelical University)<br />
and seminary in Santa Cruz. To say it has<br />
been a great experience would be a huge<br />
understatement! He concluded this term as<br />
a missionary on July 15, and is eager to discover<br />
what God has for him next.<br />
11 Kathryn Ashbrook Folkerth and her husband,<br />
Joshua are living in Dar es Salaam,<br />
Tanzania with their sons Max (4) and Linus<br />
(2). They are there on an international assignment<br />
with Joshua’s job (out of Geneva,<br />
Switzerland). Previous postings were North<br />
Carolina and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They<br />
are loving living inTanzania and having the<br />
opportunity to explore that corner of the<br />
world.<br />
Melissa Perkins Ruch proves you can successfully<br />
balance being a wife, mom, and<br />
having a full career! Shortly after graduating<br />
from Miami University in 2007, she started<br />
her career with the Nielsen company - a<br />
measurement company headquartered in<br />
New York. Melissa has held multiple roles<br />
within the company from sales to research<br />
management to HR leadership, where currently<br />
she helps lead the global employee<br />
engagement strategy across the organization.<br />
Melissa is actively involved with external<br />
branding and marketing for Nielsen,<br />
helping transform the internal employee<br />
experience for associates from the research<br />
and data insights collected externally. From<br />
a personal lens, after attending Miami University<br />
together, “Miami Mergers” Melissa<br />
and Paul Ruch were married in 2008. Paul is<br />
owner of Express Employment Professional<br />
in Cincinnati, a staffing company dedicated<br />
to helping people find jobs and provide<br />
workforce solutions to businesses. Together<br />
they have two boys - Caden (3) and Parker<br />
(1 yr). Both boys are great fun with lots of<br />
energy and smiles! They are currently living<br />
in Liberty Township, OH where they enjoy<br />
traveling, outdoor activities, and simply<br />
hanging out with family and friends.
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