Spring 2012 - Woodward Academy

’00
Jonathan T. Overman
graduated from the
Thomas M. Cooley Law School on
September 25, 2011, and has joined
the firm of Overman & Overman
LLC, where he will practice alongside
his father and lifelong mentor,
Jack Overman, the Special
Assistant Attorney General for the
State of Georgia (SAAG). During
law school, Jonathan served on the
Student Bar Association and served
as a Moot Court Judge. He hopes
to someday become an integral part
of the preservation of the juvenile
system and eventually become a
SAAG himself. Jonathan took the
Florida
Bar
exam in
February
and will
take the
Georgia
Bar exam
in July.
’01
Mary Sessions Newman
has accepted a job offer
at CRANE MetaMarketing in
Alpharetta and has relocated back
to Atlanta. She is joined by her
husband, Jonathan, a brewer at
SweetWater Brewing Company.
Nefertiti A.
Walker is a
professor in
the Isenberg
School of
Management at
the University of
Massachusetts,
Amherst. After completing her
bachelor’s degree in sports management
and business administration at
Stetson University in 2005, she
went on to graduate with her
M.B.A. from Stetson in 2006.
In 2011, she completed her Ph.D.
from the University of Florida.
Her research has taken her around
the world to countries such as
Kenya and Tanzania.
’03
Amy C. Smith is living
in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
After receiving her master’s degree
in secondary math education
from the University of Colorado
at Boulder, she is teaching middle
school math at Escuela Bella
Vista. She enjoyed catching up on
Woodward with recent professional
visitors and current Woodward
faculty and staff members Jenny
Broad and Nneka Robinson. Amy
is still playing Ultimate Frisbee. She
is enjoying the photography opportunities
presented by traveling in
South America and learning more
Spanish every day.
’06
First Lieutenant Grant
Elliot is a paratrooper in
the 82nd Airborne Division and is
currently deployed to Afghanistan.
Kristin L.
McCallum
graduated from
Georgia Tech in
spring 2011 and
was commissioned
into the
United States
Air Force. She
is stationed
in Sembach Kaserne, Germany,
as a weather officer with the 21 st
Operational Weather Squadron.
Kristin is enjoying travel and the
exciting opportunities that living
overseas and being in the military
afford her.
’07
www.woodward.edu/alumni
Jeffrey N. Sayles has
earned one of five highly
competitive sports marketing
internships at Red Bull, edging
out more than 1,400 other student
applicants nationwide. He will start
work with the global energy-drink
company after his graduation from
Northeastern University in May. He
will move either to Santa Monica,
Calif., or New York City to work
on Red Bull’s worldwide, largescale
promotional events.
’08
Ann S. Bates finished
her term as president
of Alpha Delta Pi at George
Washington University in December
2011. She is currently interning at
the White House Office of National
Drug Control Policy in the Public
Affairs Office.
Joshua Cohen has been named
a Gates Cambridge Scholar for
2012. A senior at MIT, Joshua
is double majoring in chemical
engineering and biology. He
will travel to the University of
Cambridge in England to study
for an M.Phil. degree in computational
biology. He then plans
to enter an M.D./Ph.D. program
in the United States. His eventual
goal is a career in tissue engineering.
Joshua already has worked
in a number of research laboratories,
including the Laboratory of
Biomedical Pharmacology at Emory
University, while a Woodward student
in the Academy’s Independent
Scientific Research program,
and the National Institutes of
Health through a competitive
Bioengineering Summer Internship
Program Fellowship. Joshua is
president of the MIT chapter of
Habitat for Humanity.
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