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Aristotle said, “educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” St. Mary’s students benefit from this wisdom daily in Chapel, the Bridge

to Caring, service learning, and the Community Fund. We even find the heart in our exams. if you

had been in the rose theater for the Juniors’ semester exams, you would have witnessed the

newest expression of how our teachers encourage the heart of our students and enable them to

find their unique voices.

Just before Christmas break, i had the great pleasure of listening to the Juniors each deliver

a four-minute speech in the style of a teD talk. As each student walked onto the carpet and

into the spotlight, the audience of parents and teachers heard a confident, compassionate, and

courageous voice. the two evenings titled “Voices of St. Mary’s” began as a combined history and

english assignment that asked the Juniors to express how the curriculum has educated their heart

and not just their mind. english teacher Caroline Goodman, history teacher Holly Hensarling, and

librarian Jeanine Akers worked as a team to ask: How do the facts and stories in your courses

speak to your own experience and how can that make us better human beings?

Students connected Beowulf, Wuthering Heights, Julius Caesar, 9/11, and the Holocaust to

their own experiences with fear, racism, stereotyping, courage, creativity, and faith. Listening to

these voices, it is clear that St. Mary’s is dedicated to letting each girl pursue her individual

potential. it is also clear why our young women pursue the careers of service and teaching, and

choose to call Memphis home, connecting to their community. You will find their stories

highlighted in this issue.

the heart is at the heart of an episcopal School education. this kind of integrity of mind

and soul and body has never been a more important as we prepare young woman for an often

polarized, terrorized, and fragmented culture. By

not ignoring this vital connection, our students

and graduates are able to teach and serve others

mindfully and whole-heartedly.

Head of School

On the first day of the semester, Head of School Albert Throckmorton

encourages Middle and Upper School students to focus on the destination

while also enjoying the journey.

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Winter 2016

The magazine of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is published twice a year as a service to all alumnae, students,

parents, faculty, staff, and friends of the school.

Head of SchoolAlbert L. Throckmorton

Director of AdvancementLeanne Kleinmann

Director of AlumnaeRainey Ray Segars ’05

Director of Communication / EditorSally Walker Davies

PhotographyLisa Buser

ContributorsCourtney Shove ’96

Cara ModisettShari Ray

Zina Kumok ’07Owen McGuire

Letters to the Editor:Please address all correspondence to:

Sally Walker DaviesSt. Mary’s Episcopal School

60 Perkins ExtendedMemphis, TN 38117

[email protected]

Unless otherwise noted, all photos, with the exception of select photos in Class Notes, are by Lisa Buser.

On the Cover:St. Mary’s alumnae (L-R) Patti Person Ray ’65, Jessica Johnson ’94, Grace Jensen Knight ’05, Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01,

and Lucy Foster ’10 are helping build a better Memphis through the Memphis Teacher Residency.

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Parents of Alumnae: If your daughter no longer maintains an address at your home, please notify Director of Alumnae

Rainey Ray Segars ’05 at 901.537.1424 or [email protected]

The mission of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is to provide a superior educational experience for girls which will encourage and

enable each student to reach her individual potential.

St. Mary’s Episcopal School does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or national origin in the administration of its admission, financial

aid, educational, athletic, extracurricular, or other policies.

In This Issue

2 Bridging the Gap Alumnae invest in educational equality

7 Choosing the 901 Zina Kumok ’07 chats with five alumnae about why

they ultimately chose to call Memphis home.

10-13 College 101 New faces, new spaces, advice for college planning, and an update on the SATs.

14 To Be or Not To Be Ophelia In the first of a series of essays by St. Mary’s faculty, Upper School English Teacher Shari Ray explains that there’s no way her students should ever be an Ophelia.

16-21 Campus News

Alumnae

22 Honoring Gigi Gould ’70

23 Class Notes

44 Milestones

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The Varsity Volleyball team revs up for state competition, capping its best season in school history.

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Bridging the GapAlumnae invest in educational equality

St. Mary’s alumnae are a testament to the value of a good education — something that all children deserve, regardless of socio-

economic standing. Committed to helping bridge the educational gap in Memphis, a group of alums from across the decades are working to improve public education through the Memphis Teacher Residency, commonly known as MTR.

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St. Mary’s alumnae (L-R) Patti Person Ray ’65, Jessica Johnson ’94, Grace Jensen Knight ’05, Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01, and Lucy Foster ’10 are helping build a better Memphis through the Memphis Teacher Residency.

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Founded in 2008, MTR is a faith-based teacher-

training program that seeks to provide quality educa-

tion to students in six low-income areas in Memphis.

After successfully completing a year of graduate

coursework and an in-classroom internship, residents

receive a master’s degree in urban education through

a partnership with Union University. After receiving

their degree, MTR teachers commit to working three

additional years in a Memphis urban school. So far, the

program has 239 graduates (those who have completed

the four-year commitment) and 231 teachers currently

on staff in Memphis urban schools.

The Veteran Teacher and Administrator: Patti Person Ray ’65

After spending 25 years of her life working in public

education, Dr. Patti Ray just can’t quit it. Even during

her 15-year tenure as Upper School Head at St. Mary’s,

she taught Union University students training to be

public school teachers. Now,

though technically retired, she

continues to teach in every area

of Union’s graduate education

program.

Since 2009, Ray has been

teaching two MTR courses: Sec-

ondary Methods and Intensive

Content Studies, which are both

taught in the first half of the

residency. Outside of class, she

makes herself available via text message, phone, and

email and is delighted that her students reach out to

her for ideas and other support.

She credits MTR’s extensive support system for the

success of its teachers. What sets it apart from simi-

lar programs is the common motivation among the

residents and their shared Christian call to bring about

social justice through education.

“MTR offers courses that are enlightening as to

the challenges that students face in urban schools,”

Ray said. “The students are exposed to Memphis itself,

because so many aren’t from here, and the importance

of raising the education level.”

The bottom line: MTR residents don’t have to go it

alone. They are clustered together in various schools

and even live together in Georgian Woods Apartments.

Each cohort also learns about Memphis and its history

and gets involved in the neighborhoods where they

teach.

“The city of Memphis depends on the success of its

public education,” Ray said. “At the root of it all, I’m a

teacher, and that’s still what I’m doing.”

The Prepared Newbie: Lucy Foster ’10For Lucy Foster, living in Georgian Woods last year

as an MTR resident was unexpectedly significant. Not

only was it her first “adult” apartment, but the complex

is also where her grandmother lived when Lucy’s mom

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Patti Person Ray ’65

Lucy Foster ’10

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was born and where Lucy’s mom, Nancy Johnson Foster

’71, had her first apartment after college.

In her cohort of 67, Foster said only five or six were

“local-grown Memphians.” The rest were from all over

the country. Her roommate was a young woman from

Corona, California, who had never been to the South

before.

Foster, who is in her second year of teaching 7th

grade at Soulsville Charter School, describes the Mem-

phis she knows now as “cooler” than the one she knew

growing up: “Memphis seems exciting, especially to

new people. A lot of young people are coming here, and

it feels like Memphis is onto something.”

She said she has found tremendous support

through MTR and that her mentor teacher, who hap-

pens to be a Teach For America graduate, was phenom-

enal. Foster now teaches on the same team as her men-

tor, who is mentoring an MTR resident again this year.

The Coach and Encourager: Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01

Growing up, Courtney Humphreys could not have

located Orange Mound on a Memphis map, yet she

lived within a few miles of the neighborhood. Now, her

work has her rooted there.

A part-time MTR staffer,

Humphreys serves as a coach

for 11 teachers at Hanley

Elementary, a charter school

in Orange Mound.

She and husband McKee

both have MTR connec-

tions. McKee was part of

the second cohort, and after

completing his residency, he

taught 8th grade history for three years at Soulsville

Charter School and Cornerstone Prep. He now teaches

5th and 6th grade history at Presbyterian Day School,

where Courtney taught for four years before connecting

with MTR in 2012.

“MTR has been a real gift for both of us,” Courtney

said. “We have developed friendships with people who

didn’t grow up like us, and that has totally enriched our

lives.”

She supports MTR teachers through regular class-

room observations and debriefing sessions and pro-

vides feedback on the residents’ online journals. She

also teaches a Math Content Methods class to elemen-

tary-education residents. Outside of work, she enjoys

having them over for dinner and getting to know them

better.

In her mind, the strength of the program lies in its

Christian perspective. Courtney feels good knowing she

can tell new teachers that their ultimate worth is not

wrapped up in their students’ test scores or in a failed

observation. At the same time, she doesn’t negate the

challenges of working in high-needs schools.

“Seeing all kinds of dysfunction and brokenness

doesn’t mean that you have to get out, that you’ve

chosen the wrong profession,” she said. “It might mean

that you’ve chosen exactly the right one.”

The Guinea Pig: Grace Jensen Knight ’05Grace Knight was a member of MTR’s first cohort,

which consisted of 23 residents. Now, six years later,

there are 67 residents. Knight remembers being a

college student at Auburn University and having an

awakening in the middle

of the night — she needed

to pursue urban education.

The next thing she knew

she was talking to MTR

founder David Montague

while driving from

Memphis to Auburn.

“I remember hanging

up the phone and telling

my now-husband that this

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Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01

Grace Jensen Knight ’05

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program seemed like it was created specifically for

me,” she said. “It was exactly what I wanted to do after

finishing college.”

Knight was placed at New Hope Christian Academy

during her resident year and remained on staff there

for four more years. She was a kindergarten teacher for

three years and a learning specialist for two. After tak-

ing time off to start a family, she now works part time

as the admission events coordinator at St. Mary’s.

“I believe that the only thing that will really change

Memphis is education, so I believe MTR is leading

the city in real change,” she said. “It may not be fast

change, but I believe it’s coming when our students all

have access to good education.”

The Master Teacher/Juggler: Jessica Johnson ’94

In many ways, Jessica Johnson is a professional

juggler at MTR. Juggler of job responsibilities, that is.

A full-time employee, she coaches English teachers at

Kingsbury High School, Melrose High School, and GRAD

Academy; teaches English Content Methods and an

instructional planning seminar; and serves as the orga-

nization’s development director.

“I always loved school,” Johnson said. “I loved

St. Mary’s, I loved my college experience, and I valued

the school communities

and the chance to grow as

a thinker and as a per-

son. That’s something I

want for all kids, whether

they go to an indepen-

dent school or go to their

neighborhood school.”

After graduating

from Princeton Uni-

versity, Johnson taught

high school English in

Connecticut for seven

years. She moved back to

Memphis in 2011 and began working at MTR in 2012. As

a coach, she supports her teachers by visiting them in

their classrooms, offering feedback and ideas, and even

looking over student essays or preparing test questions.

“So often, everything that teachers learn, they learn

the hard way,” she said. “What’s great about MTR is that

the teachers have a mentor during the residency year, a

coach for all four years, and really relevant coursework,

which means they don’t have to figure out from scratch

how to teach their students well and how to lead a

classroom well.”

Johnson underscores that MTR’s vision is about

restoring communities, not just schools. Teachers alone

can’t bridge the education gap, so MTR encourages its

staff to get to know other people and organizations

in their schools’ neighborhoods. The residents study

Memphis history, take part in local cultural events, and

really commit to the areas in which they teach.

To that end, MTR has focused its efforts on 31

schools in six neighborhoods: Alcy Ball, Binghampton,

Frayser, Graham Heights, Mitchell Heights, and Orange

Mound. Johnson said the feedback from schools has

been positive — that MTR teachers are team players,

humble, hard-working, and eager to learn from and

work with their colleagues.

“I think about how I benefited from St. Mary’s not

only academically but

also personally, in terms

of character and com-

munity,” Johnson said. “I

think we (at MTR) are in

a unique position to grow

people and strengthen

communities, and that’s

my motivation to be in

schools.”

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Jessica Johnson ’94, with teacher Janessa Jordan, at Soulsville Charter School.

Courtney Shove ’96 is a word game enthusiast and maker of homemade vanilla who recently moved back to Memphis — for the second time — to be closer to family and to work in communi-cations at Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust (MOST).

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Morgan Beckford ’06 Fellowship Coach, Memphis Music Initiative

Was returning to Memphis something you consciously thought about?

Studying and working in the Wash-ington, DC area after college taught me a great deal about the accessi-bility of classical art forms and the teaching artistry needed to keep them alive. When I got the op-

portunity to bring that knowledge back to Opera Memphis, I jumped at the chance.

Why do you think it’s important for alumnae to work and live in Memphis?

I do think that some of us alums are very much like Galapagos Island sea turtles. We leave the “St. Mary’s Beach” at 18 and swim out into the world. We create incredible, purpose-filled, dynamic

lives for ourselves outside of the city. And then, when the calling comes, we return, bringing some of that global perspective back to Memphis, to create something fresh and new.

Are you involved with St. Mary’s? If so, how?

I am an Annual Fund class agent for the Class of 2006, so I try to stay current on what’s happening at the school, so I can relay it to my fellow 06ers. I have been back to Chapel on numerous occasions to sing, speak, advertise Opera Mem-phis student performances, and introduce classmates.

Audrey Bourland Hurst ’03, Owner of Audrey Hurst Weddings


Upon graduating from Ole Miss, I completed a nine month Fellows program in Memphis. It was during that year that a love for Memphis

Choosing the 901By Zina Kumock ’07

St. Mary’s alums can be found all over the world, teaching, working, and putting their Turkey values to use.

But what about those who return home, or decided to stay in Memphis for their schooling? Zina Kumok ’07

chatted with five alumnae about why they ultimately chose to call Memphis home.

Morgan Beckford ’06

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was re-ignited through a com-pletely different set of eyes than my years as a child and young adult.


Community and connections can certainly be created and cultivated wherever one lands, but there is a huge value in having an immedi-ate network available.


I have served on the Alumnae Board for the last four years as well as leading a bible study for five years for St. Mary’s girls who are now Juniors. They were just 7th graders when I met them!

Melissa Byrd ’12, Registration Coordinator for Start2Finish Event Management, intern at ALSAC St. Jude, and current University of Memphis student

Was staying in Memphis something you consciously thought about?

As much as a high school Senior can, I had mapped out where I saw my career path heading after college, and Memphis was that place. Because St. Mary’s had gotten me involved in the community, I had already begun the networking that I knew would only deepen during college.


From graduation in 2012 to now, I have seen Memphis come into its own and watched the community rally around the hard work and uniqueness that characterizes this city. This is the time to be in Mem-phis — job opportunities are boun-tiful and the pride of the commu-nity is incredibly contagious. As St. Mary’s alumnae, we have a lot to offer to this community due to both our roots and our education.


I am not as involved as I would hope — but in 2014 I had a great time spending an afternoon with the graduating Seniors and answering any and all questions they had about college.

Melissa Byrd ’12

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Audrey Bourland Hurst ’03

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Susan Cooley ’70, Donor Grants Officer for the Community Foundation


When I moved to New York, I did not think about returning to Mem-phis. I wanted to live in NYC for so long and finally things had come together for me to go there, plus I had a sister there to make the transition easy for me (I was 38 and single — still single — when I moved).

I kept up with SMS friends here in Memphis, especially Susan Hall Wilson from my class, and it was coming to visit her when she was recuperating from surgery in 1990 that started my thoughts about returning to Memphis. My sis-ter had died, my other sister was here in Memphis with her children (nearly grown by then), and I felt the Lord drawing me back to Memphis while here visiting (and seeing other alums).


For support and encouragement at a younger age, it would be great, as it is for me now. I imagine nowa-days the young women can do that through social media/Internet/cell phones — none of which existed back in 1990!

Dr. Abby Yandell Talbot ’03, Third-year Ob/Gyn resident at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis


When I interviewed with UT Memphis, I found myself practically leading the driving tour, pointing out all the places that had shaped me (including St. Mary’s), and it was so obvious that this is where I needed to be.


Having grown up in Memphis, we as St. Mary’s graduates are uniquely equipped to use our talents to better our city. We understand Memphis in a way that outsiders may not. Any time I see something positive happening in Memphis, it feels like a small personal victory, and affirms for me that I’m in the right place.


Does it count if I tell everyone I meet that they need to send their daughter to St. Mary’s? At this point, I’m more of a sideline supporter, but once I make it through residency I’ll be more involved again.

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Dr. Abby Yandell Talbot ’03

Zina Kumok ‘07 is a Denver-based personal finance writer. She writes about a blog about paying off her student loans at debtfreeafterthree.com.

Susan Cooley ’70

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VICKI ENGELHART-THOMPSON: NEW DEAN OF COLLEGE COUNSELING

Vicki Engelhart-Thompson’s background in education is diverse, both as a student and as an educator and administra-tor. She went to a Catholic elementary school, a strong public high school, and then to Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans for her undergraduate and master’s degrees. In her career, she’s worked at two all-girls schools, one all-boys, and one co-ed.

“I think there’s really something about same-sex education. I think it’s good for boys — I think it’s even better for girls,” she says. She’d known about St. Mary’s long before she came to work here, and she’s finding the students here open-minded, warm, and kind. “They celebrate each other’s differences.”

“I love how these young women speak up. I don’t think they’re afraid to be curious, or even to be wrong.”Thompson is not completely new to Memphis; some years ago, she began dating her now husband, Carey, who is vice

president of enrollment and communications and dean of admission at Rhodes College. They waited until they both had empty nests (his daughter, Mary, is a 2015 graduate of St. Mary’s) to marry, and she moved to Memphis in summer of 2015.

As for the faculty and staff, “it was very clear to me early on that everyone really cares about these kids.”

The summer of 2015 brought a few changes to the first floor of the Taylor Building in the Upper School, both in terms of staffing and space. A new student services center (see story on page 13) was created through the reconfiguration of

the hallway, the Upper School Head’s office, and the college counseling offices.Vicki Englehart-Thompson joined the St. Mary’s family as the new Dean of College Counseling, taking the helm from

the retiring Mimi Grossman. Englehart-Thompson, Lee Avant, registrar and college counseling coordinator, and Chancey Thompson, assistant dean of college counseling, are redefining the college process at St. Mary’s as well. The college admis-sion process and all it entails is as important as ever, and seemingly changing by the minute. With an emphasis on advance planning, in-school application boot camps and more, the college counseling team is not only ready for change, they are well ahead of it.

Seniors Hibah Virk and Hannah Meacham discuss their college admissions process with Dean of College Counseling Vicki Englehart-Thompson.

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COLLEGE PLANNING: STARTING EARLIERSome changes are in the works when it comes to college

planning. St. Mary’s is expanding college preparation to 9th and 10th grades, as parents “wanted more, and they wanted it earlier,” according to Englehart-Thompson. This fall, Freshmen and Sophomores attended class information sessions about the high school experience, how to approach their high school aca-demics in preparation for college, and how to research college. In August, Seniors attend “boot camp”, which includes practice interviews, work on the Common Application, and a focus on essay writing. That program will become more concentrated in 2016, with the goal of helping students become “their best self-advocate,” she says.

St. Mary’s always takes its underclassmen on yearly college tours around the country. This year, exclusively for Sopho-mores, they’re adding local schools - Rhodes, Christian Broth-ers University, and the University of Memphis - to the mix, so that students can have a close-by look at the differences between small, large, public, private, and faith-based higher education. In October, 22 alumnae working in nonprofit management, finance and investment, banking, law, restaurant and culinary work, real estate, and more, held practice interviews for Seniors to help them prepare for admission and scholarships interviews.

“What I have really enjoyed so far about working with students and their families - there seems to be less anxiety about finding the perfect college,” and more focus “on finding the right college,” says Englehart-Thompson. It’s about following individual inspiration, discovered through classes, and also through volunteering and extracurriculars.

That focus on “fit” for each student is apparent in the diversity of schools St. Mary’s girls are attending: In 2015, 55 graduates entered 46 universities and colleges, with more than $10 million in merit scholarships.

“The experience they’re getting here,” says Englehart-Thompson, “is helping them to put the pieces together.”

“Practice, practice, practice.” That’s the mantra of Chancey

Thompson, assistant dean of college counseling. St. Mary’s of-

fers plenty of opportunities to do that, beginning in the Sopho-

more year with PSAT preparation and testing and it’s paying off:

The St. Mary’s class of 2016 has 17 National Merit Semifinalists

and Commended Students out of a class of 64.

More and more colleges are opting for “test optional” and

“test flexible” in their admissions (go to fairtest.org for more

information). For their part, the testing companies are revising

the standardized tests in an attempt to “better reflect what’s

being taught.”

THE SATs: WHAT’S NEW

College counseling team: Lee Avant, Chancey Thompson, and Vicki Englehart-Thompson.

St. Mary’s recommends that Juniors take both the ACT

and the SAT in February and March, respectively, for a base-

line score. “We’ll help them decide which is their better test,”

says Englehart-Thompson.

The new SAT that debuts in January 2016 will be return-

ing to the 1600-point model, combining reading and writing

back into one score, and with a math test that is more in

keeping with student curricula. (“It’s not an IQ test any more,”

notes Englehart-Thompson.) The essay will be optional and

not part of the reading/writing results. It’s recommended that

students write the essay, because some colleges will ask for it.

The ACT includes English, math, reading, and science

sections, and also includes an optional essay.

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1. Look for the right school, not the “best” school. CT: “throw away the U.S. News and World Report rankings. A lot of it has nothing to do with the undergraduate experience.” VT: “Consider women’s colleges — keep them ‘on the radar’!”

2. Be well-lopsided. John Gaines, director of admission at Vanderbilt University, had that advice for 9th and 10th grade students when he visited this fall. CT: “‘Well-angled’ or ‘well-lopsided’ is just as good as ‘well-rounded,’ sometimes better.” VT: “Students don’t have to take the most rigorous course in every track to be competitive.”CT: “Depth is more important than breadth.”

3. It’s not about the name.VT: “A good college education can be gained anywhere — it’s what you make of it.”

4. Think about costs.CT: “if it’s your goal to go to medical or law school, to graduate school, choose your best financial option at the undergraduate level.” Many schools have honors programs and other opportunities for smaller classes and more intensive study.

5. Plan your conversations. VT: “College is not all that families should discuss during Senior year. Make a plan for how you will communicate about the college application process and stick to it so that it doesn’t overwhelm family time!”

6. Don’t reinvent the wheel.VT: “Use the Common App. it’s your best friend.”in August boot camp, “we walk them all the way through the Common Application,” an online application that’s accepted by 400 schools. the essays will differ for each school, but this eliminates a lot of repetition in the other parts of the application.

7. Love your college list.VT: “A student should be happy to go to any of the colleges on her list.”

8. Testing is not the be-all and end-all.VT: “if you don’t test well you will still go to college. Many schools have started to weigh testing less in their consideration of students for admission. Check out fairtest.org.”

9. Visit, visit, visit.VT: “College visits are very important to the develop-ment of a college plan - you really can’t picture yourself in a place without going and experiencing it. take a tour, sit in on the admissions presentation, ask questions of your tour guide, eat in the dining hall, attend a class if that is an option!”

10. “Keep calm. We got this.” CT: “We don’t teach - we’re fully focused on the kids, on getting to know them. We build a lot of check points — they’re not going to fall through the cracks.”

The College Search Top 10Vicki Engelhart-Thompson, dean of college counseling, and Chancey Thompson, associate dean of college counseling, offer their advice for college applications and research.

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“Children grow with light.” That’s part of the philosophy behind the OASIS,

a new and bright re-visioning of space in the Taylor Building at St. Mary’s this fall, says Leigh Mansberg, assistant head of school.

OASIS is the acronym for the Office of Aca-demic Services and Inspirational Support, which houses college counselors, registrar, chaplain, director of studies and Upper School head, along with a common space designed to welcome students and visitors both — coffee, computer workspace, comfortable armchairs and the Living Edge Conference Room (named for the beautifully crafted local—wood table at its center).

St. Mary’s mission statement is on the wall at the entrance. Look closely — the two spotlights above it illuminate the words below in the shape of a heart. “That was an accident,” says Mansberg, but an appropriate one.

OASIS is “a place for the in-between things… the things that don’t have a container,” says the Reverend Katherine McQuiston Bush ’93, St. Mary’s chaplain. The offices have bright windows, sofas, round tables where families can meet in private or students can come in for testing or a listening ear. The common area is open for students seeking quiet study time. The message behind it, she says, is “We value you and your presence.”

The “inspiration” in the name is important.“In my opinion, inspiration is where it’s at,”

says Mansberg. It’s “at the heart of finding poten-tial. If you feel supported, you can feel inspired.”

The physical space of the OASIS is part of a school-wide increasing of collaboration and communication across departments and grade levels, so that the student and family experience is consistent and supportive from age two to high school graduation.

“There are a lot of ways to be a St. Mary’s girl… a lot of ways to put the pieces together,” says Bush. “There are a lot of us to help the girls see that.”

Cara Ellen Modisett is minister of communication at Church of the Holy Communion. She has worked as an editor, college writing instructor, classical pianist and public radio reporter, producer and announcer. She moved here from Virginia in summer 2014 and loves exploring the city of Memphis.

New student services center offers open spaces and focused services

MacKenzie Campbell ‘16 and Hannah Meacham ‘16 chat with Dr. Dalton Lyon in the lighter and brighter first floor of Taylor, home to the OASIS and the Living Edge conference room.

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each October i open up the dog-eared, smudgy pages

of my copy of Hamlet to once again teach a new batch of

budding girl-scholars this magnificent story – a tragedy of

such epic depths that many call this the greatest of all plays

and Shakespeare the greatest of all playwrights.

Of all the deaths that inevitably come at the conclusion

of a great tragedy, it is Ophelia’s stays with me after the

book is stored away for another year. Ophelia’s death lingers

with my girl-scholars as well; it is her sad story that finds

its way into college essays and Senior speeches, and it is for

her we weep.

Alas, poor Ophelia. She drowns herself. She is found

floating in the brook, arms full of wildflowers.

But why? that is always the question. the answer is

this: there is simply so much Ophelia lacks.

Ophelia lacks support. Poor Ophelia has no women

in her life. no women with whom to bounce ideas around,

no mother to ask her important questions, no laughter and

secrets with female friends for Ophelia, tucked away in her

lonely Danish castle on the hillside. She is completely alone.

Ophelia lacks knowledge. no books instruct her

-- women were illiterate. no older women passing down

stories laced with humor and wisdom at the washing tub

or the cooking table. no mother. everyone demanding of

her, everyone pushing. While poor Ophelia sits alone in her

closet with only her sewing to keep her company.

Ophelia does not find her voice for she lacks

opportunities to find it. Poor Ophelia never asks questions

— no one has ever given her permission or opportunity to

do so. She is constantly instructed and lectured by father,

her brother, and even her boyfriend Hamlet, but she is never

asked a question and she never asks one. “i shall obey, my

lord,” is her only resting place, and it does not serve her well.

Quiet, blind, verbal obedience is not the recipe for successful

womanhood, even way back in Ophelia’s day.

Ophelia lacks strength. no woman has shown her

strength. She is surrounded by only male dominance and

the verbal abuse that leads to quiet servitude and fragility.

Our Ophelia is very fragile. the only woman who could stand

up for her, Gertrude, doesn’t. thus our pretty Ophelia fades,

like the wildflowers she clutches. She fades out of sight,

quiet and demure, pretty, thin, well-dressed — many moth-

ers would hail her as a paragon of beauty and grace. With

her little sad smile Ophelia heads to the brook, mumbling

to herself snippets of old tunes, and goes quietly mad. Just

before she takes her own life.

Dearest Students of Mine:

Please don’t try to go through this life alone. You need

people, you need other women. Seek them out if they aren’t

seeking you out at the moment. Be courageous to do this.

Make amends with your mother, if you can.

You have been taught to find your voice. Do not forget

this teaching. Ask your questions well, firmly, with dignity and

intelligence. Demand only when you must, but then do so with

courage and forthrightness. Surround yourself with people you

respect and trust, people who listen to you and to whom you

listen. Don’t worry if these numbers are few -- they will be.

Cherish the few trustworthy voices and tolerate the rest, but

do not listen to unkind, mean voices. Separate yourself

To Be or Not To Be Ophelia

By Shari Ray

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from these.

Help who will be helped and leave the rest. it’s all

you can do. i learned this the hard way and it took me

too many years.

Girls, I ask us: Where are the strong women? Strong

women stand up for themselves and for other women.

Strong women ask for help and call on other strong women

when they fall down. Strong women have names like rosa

Parks and Malala Yousafzai and eleanor roosevelt. They

also have names like elizabeth and Polly and Whitney and

Kat and Ashley. They are you, my dears.

You are the strong women. Quiet heroes, strong

women, helping each other. Helping Ophelia.

We know what to do, now we must do it.

to be or not to be Ophelia? Absolutely not. it’s out

of the question.

Shari ray is the Senior english teacher and english Department Chair. this is the first in a series of essays by St. Mary’s faculty about teaching, learning, and life.

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English Department Chair and Senior English Teacher Shari Ray in the classroom.

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NATIoNAl MErIT

CAMPUS NEWS

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recognized 17 Seniors from the Class of 2016 at St. Mary’s Episcopal School for their academic achievement, with eight students named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and nine students named Commended Students. Each year, the National Merit Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. Semifinalists score in the top 1 percent of all juniors nationwide who took the PSAT in the fall of 2014.

National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

MacKenzie CampbellBebe ChancellorKatie HieattHarlan HuttonCatherine NorwoodAnnie ParkerSwarna SakshiMaire Sweeney

Commended Students

Chalmers BensonA’Doriann BradleyMolly ClineMeghan LancasterHannah MeachamKathryn MiesseLily NorwoodMary Elise O’BrienElizabeth Waggoner

In early October, a crew of 3rd and 4th grade thespians performed The Lion King Jr. under the

leadership of Director of Plays Jenny Madden and many Middle and Upper School student volunteers.

The production proved to be so popular that an extra showing was added to meet ticket demand.

Spotlight on Theatre: The Lion King Jr.

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CAMPUS NEWS

NATIoNAl MErIT New Members of the St. Mary’s Board of Trustees, 2015-2016

Edward (Ed) Chin is senior regulatory affairs program director at Medtronic, Inc. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin. Ed went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from the University of Tennes-see Health Science Center and an MBA from the University of Memphis. Ed and his wife, Rose, are parents of recent St. Mary’s graduate Chelsea ’14 and current student Rachel ’17.

Christina (Tina) Fockler earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Princeton University and a Master of Sci-ence in counseling from the University of Memphis. Tina serves on the board for Facing History and Ourselves, as well as the Circuit Playhouse, Inc. She and her husband, Bob, are parents of alumna Katherine ’06 and son Ted.

Robert Fogelman is president of Fogelman Investment Company. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Middlebury College, a master’s degree in liberal studies at Dartmouth College, and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. He has also received an honorary doctorate from Memphis College of Art. Robert and his wife, Bradley, have a daughter at St. Mary’s, Eliza ’29, and a son, Foster.

Dr. Malika Tuli Goorha attended the University of Virginia, University of Tennessee, and University of Missouri-Kansas City where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree. She works as a dermatologist with the Mid-South Dermatology Group. Malika and her husband, Salil, have two daughters at St. Mary’s: Aanya ’29 and Avi ’26.

Laurita Jackson is a managing partner with 1Source, an office and facility supply company. She graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineer-ing and received an MBA at the University of Michigan. Laurita and her husband, Darryl, have two daughters who attend St. Mary’s – Jean ’17 and Joy ’19 – and a son, Jarrett.

Ellen Clark Moore ’73 attend-ed Vanderbilt University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She has volun-teered with multiple organi-zations, including LifeSource Blood Services and Grace Presbyterian Church. Ellen is a former recipient of the St. Mary’s Gold Cross Award. She and her husband, Alex, have three children: John, Margaret, and Charlie.

Jody Shutzberg is a former pediatric oncology nurse at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Science in nursing at the Medical College of Georgia. Jody and her husband, Larry, have three girls at St. Mary’s: Becca ’19, Jessy ’19, and Abby ’17.

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CAMPUS NEWS

NEW FACulTy ANd STAFF

Brennan Adrian is the first ever North Campus counselor, serving ECC and Lower School students.

Gwen Alexander serves on the Upper School science faculty, teaching anatomy and physiology, chemistry, and biology classes.

Amy Bagwell is a new member of the Senior Kindergarten team.

Lake Bailey is a new to the ECC faculty as a Junior Kindergarten teacher.

John Bartholomew has served the St. Mary’s athletic department as the varsity lacrosse coach since January 2014 and has been hired full time as the assistant athletic director.

Christina Block is starting a new role as the director of learning support for students in St. Mary’s Place through 5th grade.

Sharon Donovan works in the business office as the new student billing coordinator.

Vicki Englehart-Thompson is the dean of college counseling, heading a reorganized college counseling office.

Kate Fairless has been assisting with JV and Varsity Soccer since 2014. She is now the soccer coor-dinator and serves on the Middle School science faculty.

Liza Fletcher comes to St. Mary’s in a dual role, serving as a Junior Kindergarten teacher in the ECC and sports information specialist for the athletic department.

Lindsay Hammond joins the ECC specialist faculty as the music teacher.

Grace Jensen Knight ’05 returns to her alma mater as the event co-ordinator for the admission office.

Jenny Levi is a member of the Upper School faculty as the new physics teacher.

Christine Mudalige has coached Middle School Soccer and Lacrosse, and now joins the Upper School faculty as health and fitness instructor.

Alan Pennington has served St. Mary’s as a consultant for seven years and now joins the technology staff full-time as net-work and systems engineer.

Jill Samuels ’92 joins the Middle School faculty as a member of the 5th grade team.

Kate Stakem comes to St. Mary’s as the new director of studies in the college counseling office.

To start the 2015-2016 school year, St. Mary’s welcomed a group of new faculty and staff members to the family!

Back Row: (L-R) Liza Fletcher, Grace Jensen Knight ’05, Vicki Englehart-Thompson. Middle Row: (L-R) Alan Pennington, John Bartholomew, Lake Bailey, Kate Fairless, Christine Mudalige, Jill Samuels ’92, Gwen Alexander, Kate Stakem. Front Row: (L-R) Sharon Donovan, Brennan Adrian, Lindsay Hammond, Christina Block, Amy Bagwell, and Jenny Levi.

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The St. Mary’s athletic department just

completed what can be considered the

most successful fall season in school history.

For the first time ever, all four fall varsity sports

(volleyball, soccer, cross country, and golf)

competed at the state level in the post season.

The Varsity Volleyball team finished the

season with a 23-8 record. During the regular

season, they finished in 5th place in the River

City Tournament, the program’s best finish ever.

In the regional tournament, St. Mary’s took 3rd

place. At the tournament, head coach Kari

Duncan was named Coach of the Year. Junior

Carmen Freeman was named first team all-region, with

Seniors Margaret Cowens, Mary Elise O’Brien, and Wes-

ley Richards receiving all-region honorable mention. After

defeating Zion Academy in sub-state play, the team trav-

eled to Murfreesboro for the state tournament. The team

suffered elimination after losing against Harding and St.

George’s. Cowens, Freeman, and Sophomore Alexis Jamison

were named Best of the Preps by The Commercial Appeal.

Varsity Soccer ended the season with a 5-11-2 record.

The team won the first round of the regional tournament

before being eliminated.

Sophomores Olivia House,

Evie Laney, and Martha

Kay Williams were named

to the all-district team, and

House was also named to

the TSCA all-state team.

Sophomores Ellie McGhee

and Evelyn Roberts made

the all-region tournament

team. The team fell in the

first round of sub-state competition. The Commercial Appeal

named McGhee and Williams as Best of the Preps.

Varsity Cross Country enjoyed a strong season. In

September, the runners placed 3rd out of eight teams at the

Frank Horton Invitational. They came in 3rd at the regional

meet, which qualified them for the state meet. Junior Mary

Ashley Murrah placed 9th overall. At the state champion-

ship, St. Mary’s placed 8th. Junior Abby Baskind was the

top runner for the Turkeys at state. At the Junior Varsity

championship meet, Sophomore Hannah Matthews

finished 11th overall.

Varsity Golf finished

a successful season with

a record of 25-11-2. The

Turkey golfers won the

regional tournament and

advanced to state. At the

regional tournament,

Freshman Megan Tang had the lowest score in the

tournament, and Junior Aubrey Guyton had the third low-

est score. At the state tournament in Murfreesboro, the

team came in 2nd place and both golfers finished 6th and

7th respectively. Guyton and Tang have both been named

Best of the Preps by The Commercial Appeal.

This Season in Turkey Nation, Fall 2015By Owen McGuire

Varsity Volleyball players celebrate a point during the state tournament.

Volleyball Best of Preps honorees (L-R) Alexis Jamison, Margaret Cowens, and Carmen Freeman.

Soccer Best of Preps honorees Ellie McGhee and Martha Kay Williams. Golf Best of Preps honorees Aubrey Guyton and Megan Tang.

Class Notes Class Notes

During her 15-year tenure as Assistant Director of Advancement/Alumnae and Special Events, Gigi

Gould ’70 rejuvenated the way St. Mary’s maintains relationships with alumnae. As a school with 2,700 graduates, finding ways to stay in touch with every-one is not simple. What may be daunting to some, however, was simply all in a day’s work to Gigi.

After graduating from the University of Missis-sippi and living in Biloxi where she raised her two children, Louis and Heather (who teaches 2nd grade at St. Mary’s), Gigi eventually found her way back to Memphis and St. Mary’s in 2000. As Gigi herself says, she spent 40% of her life at St. Mary’s.

During her tenure, St. Mary’s enjoyed a complete revitalization of the alumnae association; Alumnae Weekend became a highly attended event, with each year breaking the previous year’s attendance record, thanks to Gigi and her compatriot, Lisa Morrow Morten ’76. Gigi’s dedication to the alumnae program and the school resulted in fun gatherings that brought together not only alumnae, but many friends of the school – both here in Memphis and far away, from the many out-of-town alumnae gatherings to the 2015 trip to France. Parties hosted in Memphis were typically filled to capacity, and other out-of-town events allowed alumnae across the country to meet and mingle with each other and often with Gigi and Head of School Albert Throckmorton. Gigi’s myriad other contributions to St. Mary’s include strengthening alumnae giving in support of the Annual Fund, creating a strong and active Alumnae Board, directing the Council of Advisors, and scheduling alumnae speakers for Chapel.

Gigi Gould will always belong to St. Mary’s – both as a graduate and as a very dear friend – and we are all the richer for her service to the school. We wish her well as she joins her family’s business in Memphis.

Gigi Gould ’70 Forges New Path

Gigi Gould ’70 with class of 1970 friends (L-R) Lynn Schadt Thomas, Susie Hudson, and Susan Hall Wilson.

–1940-1960Elizabeth Taylor Shindler

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Sarah Loaring-Clark Flowers ’47 said all is well at Trezevant Manor. She enjoys all of the activities and loves being there with so many St Mary’s friends. Betsy Ross Rucks ’47 has initiated a new program at Trezevant Manor called “Trezevant Explores” featur-ing many venues of music and speakers on history or current events. Master gardener Sue Gray Burgess ’52 is a member of The Historical Society of Marietta, Ga., and is in charge of the lovely gardens of a home built in 1850. She plans to com-pare gardening notes with Kitty Perry Taylor ’53, who is known for her beautiful gardens in Collierville. Kitty said she has a new laptop and is having fun learning all the new tech-niques involved. While Naomi Gray May ’47 is in rehab in Little Rock recovering from a fall, she is using this time to learn new computer skills from a tu-tor. Anne Perry Stamps ’57 is looking forward to a visit from her daughter in Pensacola. Punk Aycock Davidson ’57 is on her way to Raleigh, N.C., for her grandchild’s birthday party. Mary Walton Glass Walker ’54 is celebrating the arrival of her fifth great-grandchild. Her sister, Lynne Glass Rice ’57 was there after a marvelous trip to Atlanta where she enjoyed visiting with many of her friends. After nightfall, Mary Joy Prichard Knowlton ’57, an avid gardener, was recently out in the dark of night with her flashlight to see the white flowers of her lovely Cereus plant, which only blooms annually. Mary Joy ex-pects to have knee surgery in the coming months in the Memphis area. Elizabeth Taylor Shindler ’57 is recovering from spinal surgery in Cleveland, Tenn. She is now on the upswing.

–1962Carolyn Bullard

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–1963Tina Heslep Ciliberto

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Eight of us were able to meet at Jenny Emison Ewing’s home on Watts Bar Lake near Ten Mile, Tenn., to celebrate our 70th birthdays together. Asimoula Julia Alissandratos came from S. C., Sara Sorsby Dennis and Tina Ciliberto arrived from Calif., Jackie Whiteleather from Colo., and Patty Ozier Riffel from Ark. They were joined by Memphis classmates Donna Lansing Plumer and Canon Thomas Hall. Joyce Wilkerson Kaplan and Carolyn Collier Johnson were unable to attend and were much missed. We also missed our late classmates Evelyn Perry, Ann Rooke Archer, and Ginger Lee Sayle, but were grateful to have so many of us together. We shared good conversation, memories, laughter, and amaz-ing food along with Jenny and Ward’s incredible home and hospitality. We ate our meals on the open back porch overlooking one of the large lawns and the lake, including BBQ from Corky’s contributed by the Memphis alumnae as well as Jenny’s mouthwatering preparations. Julia contributed a homemade baklava to the festivities. We celebrated with a special dinner one night with cake and candles, birthday hats and beads. We also had a wonderful outdoor yoga class, swimming and kayaking on the lake each day, and a trip to Sweetwater for lunch and antique shopping. One evening we were treated to a sunset boat ride, seeing beautiful birds on the peaceful lake. The evening ended with a campfire, s’mores, and singing. What we lacked in talent, we more than made up for with enthusiasm. It was hard to say goodbye to each other, but

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the reunion was so enjoyable that we decided to meet again in 2016. How special that our St. Mary’s connection brought us together. It is amazing how old friends who haven’t seen each other in years pick up threads of conversation as if it has only been a short time being apart—a certain kind of ease from know-ing each other when we were young. Our class sends thanks to St. Mary’s for encouraging our connection and to our classmate, Jenny, for hosting the best pos-sible reunion.

–1964 CLASS SECRETARY NEEDED.

Contact Rainey Ray Segars ’05,

Director of Alumnae, at rsegars@

stmarysschool.org.

–1965Julia Malone

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Downsizing seems to be the theme for members of the half-century class! Susan Hoefer Foster and husband Brad have sold their house in Memphis and are spending more time at their Montana home. They’re keeping a Memphis apartment for visits with daughter Laura ’94, son-in-law Josh and two grandsons. “Even more exciting,” says Susan, is that son Charley is engaged to Whitney Baer ’00, a “wonderful” St. Mary’s grad, and they’ll be moving to Helena, Mont. More from Montana: Sally Pace Gingras and husband Paul have downsized from their Big Timber ranch to a condo in Bozeman. They are back in Palm Beach for the winter, however. Also in Florida, Ellen Rumsey Bellenot reports that she is “sorta trying to downsize too” but adds, “The problem is that I keep looping back to old tricks and so I know I’m going to need all of those felted wool sweater sleeves and the O rings and the wire and the paints. Eventually, I did let go of the leather and the basketry stuff.” Susan Taylor

Thompson just put her house of 26 years on the market and will move into a new Tuscan villa across the lake. She adds, “I have had no other life this summer except to get a third Shar Pei, named Pearlie, now six months old and not worth a nickel,” but who has her own story with a daily moral on Susan’s Facebook page. Kathy Sweany Bertram downsized her work schedule, spending a month in Wyoming, returning to Tennessee for two weeks of work, then back to Wyoming for two more weeks with Jack and the dogs before coming home. Doc Bertram says she’s lucky to have so much flexibility. Liz Pryor MacEachran says her alpaca business had a good year, and “we have not replaced our sells with buys, so our numbers are down, which suits us,” she reports. She has four grands in Colorado, and youngest son Daniel and his wife Jil are ex-pecting their first in Cambridge, Mass., which is “nice and close.” Marion West Hammer’s clan is also expanding. She’s looking forward to a new grandbabe in early April. This will be son Dan and his wife Lindsey’s second. Marion remains among the employed, teaching part time and still enjoying it. Patti Person Ray claims to be semi-retired but looks to be still fully engaged in education, teaching at Union University, chairing disserta-tion committees, and supervis-ing Practicum Programs. She’s on the board for the Gestalt charter schools in Memphis. She continues to teach Global Issues online for St. Mary’s and is plan-ning, with Cathy Hoover Allen, the next alum trip, which will be to Italy in October 2017. Julia Malone, your class secretary, is delighted that so many are send-ing us your news. We do wonder where in the world Lucy Minor Glasebrook might be since we heard during our 50th reunion that she was traveling with National Art Gallery curators

searching for contemporary art in the Far East.

–1966Diane Taylor Newton

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–1967Bette West Bush

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Right after I submitted our class news last spring I heard from Debbie Boehme Salter about the birth of her second grandchild Mason Cromer McMillan, born February 23, so now grand-daughter Elyse (3) has a precious baby brother. With daughter Elizabeth and family living in Atlanta, Debbie is able to help out with the kids. Across the pond Jeannie Whitman Esdaile and Christopher celebrated their second anniversary. In addition to her career as retail manager for Purdey’s in London, she plays organ/piano in “two tiny church-es” and sings with a “fabulous choir” that will perform Verdi’s Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall in the spring. This fall she

enjoyed a visit from sister Nancy Whitman Manire ’64. Our other British classmate Lee McGeorge Durrell was a guide for “Gerald Durrell Week” in May in Corfu where Gerry’s family spent many vacations when he was a boy in the 1930s. She spent the rest of her summer lecturing at Durrell Conservation Academy, meeting journalists and potential donors, and planning fundraising ac-tivities including the American Friends of Durrell event in New York in November. Anne Hyde Dale asked to revise her news after sending it because, as she said, she “didn’t want Mrs. Curry to make (her) stub her toe!” Since retiring, she and husband Jamie live in Montreat, N.C., until they finish building their home in Black Mountain, N.C., in the spring. They enjoy volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. Also on the East coast Lynn Clark White reports from Lynchburg, Va., that her poodle puppy is huge and still growing. She en-courages all of us to make every effort to attend our 50th class reunion in 2017. This summer

Classmates from 1963 gathered at Jenny Emison Ewing’s home to celebrate turning 70. Pictured, back row from left: Patty Ozier Riffel, Canon

Thomas Hall, Jackie Whiteleather, Julia Alissandratos. Front row, from left: Donna Lansing Plumer, Jenny Emison Ewing,

Tina Heslep Ciliberto and Sara Sorsby Dennis.

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Janie Allen Till and husband Bob went back to Greece where they lived for many years and expe-rienced firsthand the economic crisis and the thousands of refu-gees arriving daily. Back home in Colorado she still teaches sixth grade and enjoys her six grand-children with another grand-daughter due in February. Susan Seelbinder enjoys country living in Hardeman County with her menagerie on the Phunny Pharm. Ana Pearson Jensen still works fulltime at Blue Cross Kansas City and also finds time to teach an online class and take classes at a Bible college. In the fall Lynn Bledsoe Buhler took a great trip to Santa Fe, a “wonderful city.” She laments that granddaughter Mary Taylor Buhler, St. Mary’s third grader, now is in the grade where homework begins. Jean Stitt Otto spends her retirement from nursing walking, hiking, and attacking a long list of house and yard maintenance projects with renewed vigor. She loves “misty, green western Washington,” but she and her husband also enjoy wintering in Tucson. Susan McNeely Nicholas has stayed busy helping with her niece’s wedding where there was such a large contingency of St. Mary’s girls that they “almost did not fit in the picture.” She loves that her four beautiful grandchildren live in the area and is thankful that her treatments for bone cancer continue to work.

–1968Jan Cone Davis

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I hope everyone is doing well. Carolyn Mayo is about ready to move into her new condo. This has been a major undertak-ing, and she says she will never move again! Carolyn’s family recently welcomed the first baby born into the family in 30 years – a special delivery for sure. Holly Rogers says she has no plans for

retirement anytime soon. If she has her mother’s good genes, she needs to save enough money for a long life! Holly enjoys her job and has time for fun in the evenings and on weekends. Marilyn Schwinn Smith was in Memphis briefly last winter to attend her aunt’s funeral. She left in the nick of time before that big March 4 snowstorm shut down the city. Marilyn was invited to join the Anglo-Russian Research Network. She says you can Google it for a “not so good picture.” Marilyn and husband Sean are empty nesters at last. Pam Joyner Evans and husband Hank “2” had a wonderful time on their Scandinavian cruise. The cruise included stops in Norway and St. Petersburg. Pam was nice enough to send me pictures of a few stops, because Hank “1” and I will be taking a similar cruise in about a year. My family has been enjoying a year of weddings. My son Chris was married in June and my daughter Jennie in May. I’ll have experience as both mother of the bride and mother of the groom. What a difference! I am also a reading coach for two sec-ond graders at Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary School in North Memphis, and volunteer in the library at my granddaughter’s school in Germantown. I substi-tute from time to time at SMS Lower School. Love to all!

–1969Pam McNeely Williams

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Connie Loveless Friend retired from full-time teaching two years ago but still works part time as a Title 1 reading tutor for Shelby County Schools. Daughter Katie ‘02, who works for Teach for America, has relocated from Cleveland, Miss., to Olive Branch, Miss., and Connie is thrilled to have her closer. Son Joey is still with Raymond James in Memphis. I almost cried when

Connie closed her letter, Love, Cido! Anne Short Born in Beau-fort, S.C., says if anyone wants to visit the Lowcountry she’d be delighted to show us around. She and her husband love travel-ing to Savannah, Charleston, and Hilton Head for the day where the food is just fabulous. Janie Hicks Jeter reports that she and husband Sheldon have a new Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppy named Sunny, for Sheldon’s solar energy work. Marta Richards spends a great deal of time in Richmond where her son’s fam-ily lives, enjoying her toddler grandson Benjamin Massony. She is practicing animal law and representing dog rescue groups and shelters, and fostering many dogs for Friends of the Animals in Baton Rouge. My family had visits from our daughter Ellen LeVaughn Kowalchuk ‘96 and her children, Mary, Lydia, Sam, Eliza-beth, and Tim for a summer visit and then for my niece’s wedding,

Jessica Walker ’04 to Chris Wiley, this past fall. Elizabeth, our granddaughter, was the flower girl and it was one of the most beautiful weddings I have seen. Madge Logan Deacon was the wedding coordinator for Calvary Episcopal Church (Memphis) and it was great seeing her! Our son and daughter-in-law, Matt and Hannah Williams, who are stationed at Kirtland AFB in Al-buquerque N.M., were also able to attend, as was our oldest son, Scott Williams, who is a juvenile probation officer in Harrisburg, Ark. Be sure to update your information with St. Mary’s and I certainly hope all of you have a very healthy an happy new year!

–1970 Cristina Michta

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Let me just say that I love my job as class secretary, mostly due to the fact that I love my

Class Notes

Cristina Brescia Michta ’70 and husband Andrew at daughter Chelsea’s Masters graduation from Cambridge University in the UK, July 2015.

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classmates. Betty Coe Cruzen Manuel and husband David will be grandparents of grand-daughter #2 in late December/early January (son Edward and wife Haddy of Ft. Worth). Betty Coe took her Mother to Centra-lia, Ill., in September to visit her mother’s “home place” and Coe relatives. Kathy Baker Penn and husband, Bob, welcomed their first grandchild, Kate James. Mom Sarah and family live a few blocks away in Dallas. Denise DuBois Taylor writes that the Taylor household is in travel mode. Denise spent a week in Paris this summer, traveling on a sibling trip with brothers Dean and John. Husband Sledge is Chairman of the National Cot-ton Council and travels world-wide frequently. Son Will spent a week in Portugal as part of his doctoral studies in astro-physics at Brown University. World traveler Susie Hudson reports that she will be going on a river cruise in December to the Christmas Markets along the Rhine River, and has seen Canada, Florida, and Germany in one year. Gigi Gould is thrilled that her first grandchild, Lily Eva Hengen, daughter of son Louis and his wife Jill, has arrived. Gigi is now working as Financial Aid Director for Gould’s Academy, a division of Gould’s Salon and Day Spa. Susan Hall Wilson is joyously busy these days leading

Bible Study for 2nd graders at church and taking care of new grandson Sam Harris as often as possible. Proud parents are son Sy and daughter-in-law Claire. Evelyn Anderson McGehee sends everyone greetings from Alabama. She and husband Bill are enjoying their six grandchil-dren, and are looking forward to building a house on Perdido Key, Fla., this year. Jill Tanner Flourn-oy is helping husband Tom with their family business, Tom’s Tiny Kitchen, selling pimento cheese made in Memphis. It is now sold in six states, with hopes to expand beyond that soon. Jill is also working on new product development for the company. Peg Dixon recently moved into a 115 year-old house in the his-toric Irish Hill neighborhood of Louisville. Peg enjoyed two trips back in the spring, to Massachu-setts for a friend’s CD release party, and another to New Mexico for a gathering of dog rescue acti- vists. Linda Stratton Hancock and husband Cary enjoy the most important aspects of life: children, grandchildren, and a family beach trip. Linda enjoys working for Dr. Ryu three days a week. Your loyal secretary is en-joying life as a in Newport, R.I., while husband Andrew is teach-ing at the Naval War College. Daughter Chelsea completed her Master’s at Cambridge in July and the graduation (all in Latin) was lovely. Your loyal secretary is enjoying life in Newport, R.I., while she is at Oxford working on her doctorate.

–1971Carolyn Cockroft

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Deborah Abernathy and her mother are moving forward after the death of Debbie’s father in September. Marty Jones combined a visit to daughter Elise in Los Angeles with two real estate conferences in other west coast cities. With

husband Fred she toured Peru, including Machu Picchu, and spent six days in spring rafting on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The highlight, however, was daughter Julia’s graduation from Tulane and the end of college tuitions. Avery Malone Kaserman’s family is about to go for a week to Amelia Island, Fla., to photograph egrets and other birds. Jenny Jones Wardwell retired a year and a half ago and now has more time for bridge. She is volunteering at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and is spending longer stretches with both Fred’s parents who live in New York and Maine, and with her parents in Memphis. Speaking of retirement, my last day work was November 6—a 28-year career. I will miss the people, but I look forward to being more involved with my church activities—such as our pastoral care outreach, vestry and music ministry—and giving more volunteer hours to the cat shelter where I adopted my Marigold. And maybe, just maybe, I will finally have time to do more writing.

–1972Christine Mayer Todd

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Meg Jemison Bartlett’s mother, Peggy Bodine, celebrated her 90th birthday and still gets several of us together for Meg’s birthday each year. Ms. Peggy reminds us, “Don’t mind growing old, it is a privilege denied to many.” Meg’s son Marshall is meeting interesting celebrity chefs as he expands his www.homeplacepastures.com pork business. Meg and her husband Mike are creating a USDA processing and packing plant for pork, beef, lamb, and goats, the only one in their area. Son Jemison is living in Charlotte, N.C., and works for Wells Fargo on agricultural

portfolios. Meg’s daughter May lives out west and is anxious to find out where she and her husband will be after he finishes his sports medicine MD. Meg is anxious about the placement, too, because she wants to be near her beautiful grandchild, Cate Speed. Also having fun is Susan Ossorio, who loves to babysit in Aintree Farms and substitute teach at Farmington Presbyterian’s preschool as often as she can. Jane Gordon Simmons has two beautiful grandchildren and works as a wedding coordinator at Heartwood Hall in Rossville, Tenn. It’s an antebellum home, barn, and garden where she coordinates everything with humor, patience, and grace. Hunter Oppenheimer is working with x-rays and bone density scans. There is no one who could put someone at greater ease during a stressful time. Her daughter Emily is working on an MBA at University of Memphis and son Haiz is living in Asheville, N.C., where he works with the school system and is studying computers. On the weekends he is a rafting guide on the Nantahala and French Broad Rivers. Anne Remmers Phillips is loving her new grandson and is a consummate kindergarten teacher at Idlewild where she works hard to keep my old principal Randy Thompson happy. I know she is doing a fabulous job. Peggy Williamson lives in Brownsville, Tenn., in author and adventurer Richard Halliburton’s house. That may explain why she is reading voraciously. Her two daughters live in New York City. Peggy loves her son-in-law because he, too, is a reader. Musette Sprunt Morgan is working every day to help her son Worth Morgan in his 5th district race for City Council. She and others in our class have been doing some sign twirling for Worth.

Sam Harris is the grandson of Susan Hall Wilson ’70, and son of Susan’s

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I have a part-time dream job at Calvary Episcopal Church serving as community ministries coordinator (outreach). Carroll is making beautiful sculptures and he and I are still spending weekends at Snow Lake. Caroline is in graduate school at Pratt in New York studying city planning. She, like Jane’s daughter in D.C., is learning about the real estate business as both girls recently became licensed. May Todd is a filmmaker working for Indie Memphis and exploring film-making opportunities. Our class seems to be facing this new decade of our lives with renewed spirit as we embrace change and challenges.

–1973Olivia Montgomery

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The class of 1973 turned 60 this year! Harriet McGeorge spent hers on the Island of Jersey (Old not New) with her sister Lee McGeorge Durrell ’67. Lee, Harriet, and Milner Stanton are on the board of American Friends of Durrell, a non-profit organization which helps saves species from extinction. The aforementioned Milner was kind enough to remind me that, as of this writing, she had not yet turned 60. Brat! She also took a fabulous trip to Scandinavia and Russia last summer. Anne Atkinson Fields and her husband Mark spent her 60th at the Greenbrier Resort, while Deborah Caldwell Halvis celebrated the event in a beach bungalow on Saint Lucia with hubby Jim. Ginger Hicks Smith and Miles went to Tampa where they had a surprise party for somebody else, while Beth Brady Belcher had her very own surprise party. Terry Maguire Elzinga has really been on the road. Last year, she and husband Ken cruised through the Panama Canal, and traveled to Africa to visit a couple of Christian

missions they’re involved with through 100 Fold, a non-profit architectural firm which does work to promote the flourishing of people around the world. In the past, she has also travelled to Cambodia and Thailand with 100 Fold. This is Bron Gayna Schmit’s 37th year in education, including 16 years as a principal. She and her mother stay busy updating their house, and every three months Bron gets together with Ginger, Lawrie Canale Peyton, Janie Hicks Jeter ’69, and Cathy Wilson LaMon for dinner. Olivia Montgomery is in her third year of attempting to grow tomatoes. The first year she planted them in the wrong spot and nothing grew. Last year, a beautiful location … a beautiful crop … and just before she was to pick them, the birds ate every one! This year she’s armed with netting and a fake owl.

–1974Beth Williford Carson-Wallace

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Donna Osborne Bradley teaches five classes and continues to work on completing her PhD. She is now in two departments at Webster University, St. Charles Community College, Columbia College, and Lindenwood University, all in and around St. Louis. She drives 400 miles a week! The Top Ladies of Distinction honored her with an “Unsung Heroine” award, along with 26 other amazing women. Husband Larry is nearing completion of his BA in Human Services, and Donna is a part of a group called Angel Moms of St. Louis, a group of mothers who have children who passed away. Their support and her faith will forever sustain her. Lucy Gerald Cook’s son, Jeff, graduated from Elon University in N.C. Jeff is now at ABC News in the Washington Bureau. Middle child David is a sophomore at Duquesne in Pittsburgh,

married to a pediatric intensive care nurse and has an unpaid job with a high school football team as an assistant coach. Daughter Rebecca works for two foundations. Recently, Minette Allen Kinney’s oldest son and husband were in the yard wearing head flashlights so they could better see the armadillo they were tracking. Her youngest son also caught a 10-pound bass and a 5-pound bass, at the same time, on a single hook. Minette is expecting 25 family members for Thanksgiving and while moving clutter to the attic, she found her Barbie – the clothing case had a Nixon/Agnew bumper sticker across the front. Desi Franklin’s son Alex graduated from UT Knoxville with a business degree in marketing. He is working as an ad sales account rep. He has now gotten an apartment in Midtown Memphis with some friends and is off the payroll. She is still in house counsel at First Tennessee where she continues to learn to be a banking lawyer. Kathy Amend Teeters became a first time grandmother to a precious little boy by son Trey. They named him Trevor Nathaniel, his middle name after her late father. She retired two years ago to move her mother in with them and be her caretaker and is so blessed to have a wonderful husband who helps to keep her in line.

–1975Laurie Walpole

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A number us in the Class of 1975 are still basking in the glow of the wonderful reunion we had in April, but thanks to those who wrote in! Jill Jemison Margolin wrote from Nova Scotia in a cabin overlooking the ocean. She was celebrating her birthday after spending two weeks in Maine helping her mother recover from a broken hip. Jill and husband Peter traveled to

Portugal earlier in the year, and then to California to witness classmate Nora Wingfield Tyson’s change-of-command ceremony on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. As Rear Admiral (3-star) and Commander of the Third Fleet, Nora is responsible for the Pacific Ocean from California to the International Date Line. No wonder Nora didn’t have time to write! Jennifer Jones is living the life I want: that of a traveler! She started with the North East American Tribal dance camp and will go on to Flagstaff, North Rim Grand Canyon, Zion, Joshua Tree, and White Sands. Margaret Nettleton Bell has been visiting colleges with daughter Hayley and looking for retirement homes for herself and husband Ron. Hayley is a junior at Hutchison and is active in theatre, chorus, and technology. Sally Hummel Chumney has been in Chattanooga for five years and finally got together with Margaret Flowers Ferguson for lunch recently. Sally is a nurse practitioner and is expecting her 3rd grandchild in December. Whitney Jones DeVine reports kids (she has four) bouncing back home, with their stuff everywhere, but that life is good and full. Susan Apperson is breeding hedgehogs and planning her outfit for Anne May Farst’s daughter’s wedding. Susan also reports that she recently went to a hot party in Santa Monica with Rob Lowe, Khloe Kardashian, and Tori Spelling. Well, I can’t top that!

–1976Allison Brown Coates

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oncologist! Edie Loeb is still living in San Diego, still single and still an aunt to one quarter of the population, thanks to all of her siblings, including sisters Gee Loeb Sharp ’83 and Meg Loeb Milligan ’80. Julie Davidson Barton is happy to let us know their son John is engaged to Carolyn Powell. Val Zepatos Gosney and her husband Mark are celebrating 32 years of marriage. Their oldest daughter Katherine got married in October. Bekah is home from a year in Romania as a missionary and back in school. Their son Mark Stephen is a senior at ECS and probably headed to UTK next year. Jessie Walker ’04, daughter of Josie McNeely Walker, married Chris Wiley at Calvary Episcopal Church. Kathleen Person Longoria, Jan Valentine Wiygul, Mary Walton Walker Allen, and Anne Espenshade Kaminsky enjoyed celebrating with family and friends. Jessie works as Major Gifts Officer at the American Red Cross, and Chris is a geologist with Brownfield Restoration Group. Lise Barzizza McCormack’s family celebrated the wedding of her oldest child Mac in September to Ashley Brooke McCormack. All of Lise’s siblings came with their families, including her sister Celeste Barzizza Stallings ’84. Molly graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2015 and is now working as a Marketing Consultant for a firm in Fayetteville, Ark. Burkley Mann Allen was re-elected to her second term as a Metro Council member and is looking forward to serving with Nashville’s first female Mayor. Happy empty nesting to Kaky Ossorio Wakefield and Walt! Their boys Will and Michael are loving life as freshmen at UT Austin. Wyeth Outlan Burgess and Ed are also empty nesters. Their daughter is in medical school at UT. Wyeth enjoys her

work at Belmont University and teaching horseback riding at Camp Nakanawa during the summer. She has run into Burkley, had tea with Nancy Muse, and seen Chris Cowan Norris ’74 in Nashville. When Wyeth is visiting her mom in Collierville, she sees Mary Walton Walker Allen at church and always goes to Watty Brooks Hall’s store. B.J. Fiser Jones is going to be a grandmother for the third time in the spring. Their daughter Maggie is finishing Specialty Internship and Certification in May and son Andrew is getting married in June B.J. is staying busy mentoring an empty nest group and a sweet group of young women involved in urban ministry in Atlanta. She comes to Memphis about once a month to be with her mom, and is grateful for the outpouring of love from the SMS community when her dad passed away last January. Martha Flowers is enjoying her new job at Semmes Murphey Foundation. Austin is a senior in college this year and Buckner is a junior. Allison Coates is teaching in the 2- and

3-year-old program at SMS. Her daughter Lindsey is living in Orlando, where she is a mental health counselor. Sam is staying busy working in Memphis with Coates Company, a lawn and landscape company, and he and Annie Shackelford are getting married in the fall.

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Lucy Walt Wepfer now has a cowbell and is learning to “Hail State” now that daughter Annie is attending Mississippi State University. Daughter Joy is in Richmond working for Capital One and son Walt is getting married in December. Lisa Britt Colcolough caught up with Leslie Eason Shuford and Billy recently and said how great it was to see them. So sad to share that both Leslie’s and Lisa’s sweet fathers died earlier this year. Leslie’s daughter Katie lives in Brooklyn and works in independent web design. Son William is recently married and settling into a new home and married life with wife Blakely.

Lisa and John are enjoying football season at Princeton, where son Britt is starting right tackle for his senior year. Lisa had a good visit with Marilyn Rhea Cheeseman whose mom is a close neighbor of Mrs Britt. Marilyn and Van are busy on the farm growing crops, raising chickens and ducks, and developing new products. Sara Muirhead Shanley appreciates everyone’s thoughts and prayers during this past difficult year. She has taken time off from working and bought a house and

Golfing buddies Jekka Ashman Pinckney

’78 and Lisa Francis Turner ’78.

Friends from the class of 1978 attending the wedding of Rebecca Anderson Eby ’06. From left, Kathy Daniel Patterson, Katie Tully Dickinson, Kathy Edmonson Riley, Andrea Gilliom Anderson (mother of the bride), Debby Waltz

Hays, Stephanie Riggs Markham and Tracy Walko Balton. Photo credit: Kathy Daniel Patterson

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reports that she and her boys are doing well. Laura Sanderson Healy’s daughter Lucy chose Ole Miss, where she pledged Chi Omega. Anne Cole Billings’ daughter Mimi is also a Chi O at Ole Miss. Laura’s husband John is consulting on a hotel project in Mobile, Ala., so Laura has explored that area as well as travelling recently to the UK and enjoying London theatre and lots of old friends. Jane Dailey Duell is also in a travelling mode having been to Memphis to visit sister Catherine, to Ft. Myers in Fla. to visit daughter Anna and precious grandson, to University of Arkansas to see daughter Lily Jane who is freshman there. Valerie Hoyt has had a few visitors in NYC recently. Adele Orgill Wellford and Val caught up over a fun lunch, and Barbara Cape O’Brien visited Val at their country house where they hiked and bicycled and enjoyed bonfires. Molly Townes O’Brien is another globetrotter: She wrote to me from Frankfurt, Germany, after visiting her sister Anne Townes Daw ’87 in the UK and then on her way back home to Australia. Gretchen Perkins Thorogood says her grandson Addison is the light of her life. She is teaching at St Bartholomew’s preschool with Mrs Goza’s daughter, Susan Goza Magruder ’70. Alicia Harwood Baker loves being grandmother to baby James, the son of daughter Allison Baker Shields ’10 and husband Joseph, who live in Houston. And, what a delight to catch up on the scoop from our own “Vicka Lynn” Victoria Bartlett Snider. Victoria graduated from Tulane Med School and School of Public Health and practiced Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She lives most of the time in Cape Town, South Africa, which she raves about, but keeps her house in New Orleans. Lynn Hitchings Albano says this has been a year of adjustment since her mother,

Mary Catherine Lynn Hitchings ’47, died late last year. She and Peter get to Florida frequently.

–1978Tracy Walko Balton

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As our nests continue to empty, the news shifts from busy working/mothering lives to ones filled with exciting travel for either us or our children. Debby Waltz Hayes enjoyed her mission trip to Honduras and hopes again visit Ghana in 2016. At home she still teaches preschool at her church and coaches the Harding cross-country team. After 27 years as a pastor, Tandy Gilliland Taylor has retired, but her kids are the travelers! Her son Sam worked two summers as a river raft guide, then spent six months backpacking in South America after graduating from Davidson College. Daughter Emily studied in Peru last year. Stephanie Riggs has also retired and is busy planning a big home renovation while visiting colleges with son Riggs. Tabitha Francisco McNabb taxied, tubed, boated, walked and was bused all over London in May. She and Sunita Sheth enjoyed dinner the last time she was in town. We would love to hear more about Sunita’s hiking trip in Japan. Kate Wellford Pritchard, Bailey Johnston Farrin, Leigh Harwell Vogler, Carol Fri Robinson, Katie Tully Dickinson, and Heather Holmes Andersen took a 55th birthday trip to Lake Summit. Kate’s daughter Estes Gould ’08 is working in Colorado at the Aspen Institute, while Meg Gould ’11 is in Botswana on a Princeton fellowship. Son Wellford is headed to Cuba for a semester at the University of Havana. Dee Dee Clay Wike feels settled now in their Virginia home after almost two years. She works at Bethany United Methodist, near a lovely

beach on the York River. Laura Vookles continues to manage art exhibitions while serving on the Board of the Greater Hudson Heritage Network and competing in regional poetry slams. Son Evan broke his leg badly and graduated high school on crutches. As a self-described “old” mom, Laura says he helps her continue to deny her actual age. Jekka Ashman Pinckney and Lisa Francis Turner play as much golf together as possible. Several of us had a ball at Andrea Gilliom Anderson’s daughter Rebecca’s ’06 wedding. Andrea’s meticulous planning (and a gorgeous bride of course) resulted in one fantastic event! Kathy Daniel Patterson, as always, worked hard as the official photographer. Steve and I celebrated our 5th anniversary on a fabulous Rhine River cruise this summer. And sadly, as we age, our parents grow older as well. Lisa, Kate, Jekka, Katie, and I each lost a parent recently. From all of us, thank you so much for your kind thoughts. We appreciate your support.

–1979Elizabeth Brown Dunn

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The ladies of ’79 seem to have a lot of new empty nesters. Sandy Weaver Clark has both of her sons at her alma mater, Indiana University. Robin Rader Stein and husband Gil have been traveling a lot. Hannah, a junior at TCU, joined them for fall break. Recently they spent some time in Washington D.C., where they toured the National Cathedral and guess who was their docent… Lenelle Morse! They skyped Sandy Weaver Clark so she could join in the day. Lenelle’s son Jonathan just became engaged. He lives in Seattle and will be married next year. Gina Barron Huck also has a wedding in 2016. Her son Barron is engaged. Terry

Lupo Lebedevs will be a grandmother soon. Her daughter Hannah is having a baby girl Ruby in October. Her son Rob is in marketing and sales at The Boat Center in Memphis. Her daughter Camille lives in Lakeland, Fla. Terry is working at Gastro One as a triage nurse. Husband Peter is working out of Atlanta as an assistant tennis tournament director. Susan Browne Law has another child here in Memphis. Ben moved here and is going to law school. He lives downtown in a great old building. He and Meg, her youngest, love being in Memphis. Meg is a personal trainer at Midtown Yoga.

–1980Margaret Graham

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We missed several of our classmates at the reunion back in the spring, including Sarah McLaughlin Terry, who was absent because of the chance to show off some of her quilts and fabric creations at a crafts show and fair. Sarah teaches beginning sewing and a few other classes at Sew Memphis. We also missed Helene Norcross Rayder, whose daughter Virginia has started college at Sewanee. Another new empty nester is Meg Loeb Milligan, who has changed to her husband’s last name after four years of mar-riage. She moved her last child Amelia to Eugene, Ore., to start freshman year at the University of Oregon. Meg is excited that sister Gee Loeb Sharp ’83 will also have a daughter attending Oregon. Meg and her husband Bill will be spending most of their time in Colorado now, but she still has her home in Texas. At least two other classmates have a newly empty nest at home: Josie Gilliland Williams’ son Fletcher is at Ole Miss, and Molly Francis Roberts’ daugh-ter Bette is at Samford. Molly

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has finished her cancer treat-ment and is feeling well. She continues to run the office at Regent’s School in Oxford as well as help with husband Marty’s business, Sporting Life Kennels. Rachel Darnell-Heath, one of the talented artists from our class, will be the Louise T. Archer Artist-in-Residence at St. Mary’s in January, teaching classes as well as mounting an exhibit in Levy Gallery on campus. She is also showing her artwork at the L. Ross Gallery on Sanderlin in Memphis as well as in galleries closer to her home near Santa Fe. I’m so proud of our creative, talented classmates!

–1981Carey Stanton

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–1982Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz

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Many thanks to Lee Anne Roehm for her 14 years of service as our Class Secretary. Daughters Anna Katherine and Elizabeth are at St. Mary’s, Senior and Junior, respectively. Hallie Peyton and the Roehm family visited Meg Beeson Wallace’s family in Michigan this summer and had

a great time catching up and reminiscing. We have two brides in our class! Leslie Johnson Hughes married Jesse Owen in January and has moved to Augusta, Ga. Daughter Martha is at Presbyterian College. Mary Kavanagh Day also married in January and has Elizabeth Thrasher Kantor to thank for setting her up on a blind date in 1984. Mary remembers that Elizabeth’s grandmother had a party during the debut season and set up the invitees by height. Mary’s date was Dan Daniel and they dated for a while back then. Now, 30+ years and 5 kids later, it was love at (almost) first sight. Mary says, “Of all the life-changing things that have happened because of being part of Class of ‘82, this is the most unexpected!” Angela Reed Yakel commutes weekly from Texas to Utah for her work as a physi-cian adoption program man-ager for an enterprise electronic medical records program at 22 hospitals across the state. Gail Jones Mallery is still in Dallas in the mortgage lending business, and asks that we check out a pet project, bontonfarms.org. Cindy Kremer Bodker’s daughter grad-uated from Michigan and moved to New York for a publishing program at NYU and is now job

hunting. Carol Gilliland Jordan was in Guatemala in the moun-tains at Lake Atitlan for over two months last winter. Son Jeremy graduated from Vanderbilt Summa Cum Laude and has moved to Seattle to work for Microsoft. Daughter Annie is at Vandy where she is in Chi O with Mary Long Merritt’s daughter Katherine and the moms got a good visit recently. Carol, Elizabeth Beck Fioravanti, and Christy Ragen Goss spent a girls’ weekend together and had a great visit. After her divorce, Carol changed her name to Carol Jordan to honor her grandmother. Sherronda Whitmore Johnson was the stage manager for A Box of Yellow

Stars at Theatreworks, part of the Women›s Theatre Festival of Memphis. Bravo, Sherronda! As for me, I have become an empty nester. Liza graduated from St. Mary’s in May and is a freshman at Northwestern joining Jim who is a senior. Doug and I love hav-ing them together.

–1983Bonnie Lopez

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We have been on the move! Cissy Bruce Jackson is doing white-collar criminal defense

work, and has written an ar-ticle for the first issue of a new magazine, Portico, Mountain Brook. Son Will is a sophomore at UGA, and daughter Sarah Frances is investigating colleges now. Posey Saunders Cochrane wrote to acknowledge this monumental year for most of us. Kristi Dart Tsakir and husband George will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary in May! She has been a 3-year-old kindergarten teacher for more than ten years. Daughter Alyssa graduated from North Georgia College and State University with a degree in Art Marketing and a concentration in Graphic Design. Son Nick is pursuing a degree in Music and Technology at Atlanta Institute of Music. Kristi stays in touch with Laurie Bell Lewandowski and Beth Jennings Kuhn. Margaret Jones Fraser reports that daughter Sara is a Freshman at SMS and a classmate and friend of Emily O’Toole, daughter of Jeannie Beauregard O’Toole. They attended a Freshman retreat led by Upper School Counselor Allison Wellford Parker. Beachamp Hebb is engaged to Mads Hansen. They will marry in Norway where his large family resides. Eppie Lunsford-Ozen is sharing her time between London, Istanbul,

Dr. Catherine Robilio Womack ’82, front left with daughter Elizabeth ’07 after her Alum Chapel talk, and classmates (from left) Mary Kavanagh

Day, Sarah Willmott Cowens, Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz, Andrea Weiss Tomes, and Lisa Cook.

Mary Long Merritt ’82 and Carol Gilliland Jordan ’82 both have daughters at Vanderbilt who are both Chi-Os. From left, Annie Bradford, Carol, Mary,

and Katherine Merritt at Parents Weekend in September.

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and the U.S. as son Ellis Kaan is in NYC studying film. Daughter Emily is in 9th grade in London with Eppie and Ergun. Sudha Nimmagadda Ganguli reports that she and her parents love watching her girls study at SMS. Kathryn Carpenter Swords is immersed in teaching art at Ensworth in Nashville where son John (15) is pushing hard for his hardship license while sister Sara is applying to colleges. Lela Bellows Simpson-Gerald says life without son Max at home is very quiet! He is studying engi-neering at Alabama. Lela is still very happy working at Buckman and has had nice visits this year with Liza Johnston in Atlanta and Catherine Trippeer Jameson in Memphis. Jenny Jon Jarratt began a new job at UPS as the Enterprise Account Manager in Global Freight Forwarding. She and Beth Jennings Kuhn made a road trip to Atlanta to see the Rolling Stones. Elise Kilpatrick Atkins is moving to Washington D.C. for husband John’s job. Currently, she and daughter Amelia Rose (8th) are still in Oxford until their house sells. Gee Loeb Sharp is very much en-joying her empty nest, but wakes every morning at 3:30 to meet fitness clients by 5:00. She and Gene will celebrate her 50th with a trip to Prague to meet up with Marshall who is spending his junior year abroad with U. Penn. Mimi is at Oregon rooming with her cousin, the daughter of Gee’s sister, Meg Loeb Milligan ’80. Cynthia Hodges Cobb hopes to see Brandon Garrott Morrison’s daughter Jane as Cynthia and son William visit UNC Chapel Hill. Her oldest son, David, was able to spend some “guy time” in Destin recently with Bonnie Lopez’s husband and sons. Margie Bailey Sutton spent time in North Carolina visiting her parents. Son Dawes is captain of the city championship soccer team, Doug is a sophomore in high school, and Britt is in 6th

grade. Margie loves working as a psychiatric nurse at an inpatient treatment center for mentally ill children and adolescents. Joan Mauldin Hurst has worked in the White House for four years with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Daughter Katie is in 9th grade; son Matt is in 2nd. Bonnie Bolton Lopez teaches the youth and leads a women’s Bible study at church and also teaches a weekly seminar on English grammar and writing to ten other homeschooling families. Daughter Lydia is finishing her Masters in Deaf Education this spring at Wash U. and is engaged to be married in June. Son Phillip is in his senior year at LSU, and his wife is expecting their sec-ond child in May.

–1984Vanessa Allen Dobbins

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After spending her adult life devoted to oncology, Smitha Gollamudi stepped away from her medical career to focus more on her children while they are still at home, her rich life outside of medicine, and herself after enduring two back surgeries. Devi is an 11th grader and is gifted in cross country, art, and a citizen of the world. Chander, 8th grade, is focusing on squash competitively and is heading for Eagle Scout. After practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine, with all of its stresses and sadness, Kristine Griffith Williams also made a career change. She left the ER to start her own private general Pediatrics practice (upa.wustl.edu). She and husband Kevin recently celebrated 16 years of marriage and completed a massive house remodel. Oldest daughter Margaret is a freshman at Visitation Academy and plays varsity field hockey. Second daughter Caroline, 13, loves field hockey, their new puppy, and texting. Katherine, a fifth grader,

is a great writer who loves soccer and swimming. Emma is 8. Alison Potts Hollewand and family are enjoying beach weather in Australia. Daughter Izzy will soon be finishing sixth grade in Brisbane. Both hus-band Mike and Alison enjoy the freedom of having their own businesses. Alison asks that we follow her Facebook page about meditation and living from instincts: Alison Potts – Innate Being. Kelly McCracken enjoyed a wonderful vacation to Napa & Sonoma, and hopes to arrange a class dinner soon for us local SMSers. Carrie Jaeger Carpenter and family are fostering four beautiful children, siblings, age 3 to 11. Their quiet house has livened up quite a bit. Daughters Carolyn, 23, and Taylor May, 21, opened their Knoxville home as a safe home for teenage girls. They obtained non-profit status and became legal guardians of two teenagers. Taylor May is a junior at UT and Carolyn is marketing director for Theona’s Girls, a company that sells goods made by Haitian women. Oldest child Justin moved to Seattle to work for Amazon and youngest Emma Kathryn is a senior at St. George’s. Carrie had a chance to visit with Cathey Turner Alexander and Celeste Barzizza Stallings where they laughed like they were still in high school. Martin and I are doing well and recently celebrated our 21st anniversary

–1985Polly Piper Rickard

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Lucy Cheek Gordon and Michael spent time in Rome, Florence and Venice and 10 days in the small town of Arco on the north-ern tip of Lake Garda while their son Clay (14) represented Team USA at the World Rock-Climbing Youth Championships, finish-ing 13th in the world. Madeline, in her third year at Georgia,

has found her own way to Italy; she will study abroad in Cor-tona. Claire, a freshman at the University of Arizona, pledged Kappa and is studying Commu-nications and Psychology. They celebrate 23 years of marriage. Heather Kirkpatrick Wheat is a legal assistant in Dallas for an Estate and Partnership Planning firm. Rory (16) plays competitive baseball. NealeyClare (13) is a theatre kid and vocalist and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes years ago. It’s been a difficult journey but she fights like a champ. Reagan Grace plays soft-ball, soccer, basketball, tennis, and the French horn. Colleen Kavanagh launched three new ZEGO bar flavors on a crowd-funding site to raise funds for production and awareness. She still champions allergy safety in public school nutrition pro-grams and continues to do social justice work. Liam is applying to colleges. Kelsey, a freshman volleyball player and Evie,11, are great. Trecia Knapp Tapolsky volunteers at church and on the San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary. Melissa Thrasher Peeler and Michael are psyched to be empty nesters soon and they celebrate their 25th anniversary. Mary is a first-year medical student at Johns Hopkins and Anna is a ju-nior nursing student at Alabama. Margie is a Junior at SMS. On a college visit to W&L, they were privileged to have lunch with Scott Simmons, Mary Gowen Simmons’s oldest son, who is a freshman playing baseball for W&L. Jeanne Rae Fenster’s son Sam is a freshman at Rhodes. Menashe is 13, and Andy took him to Isreal as a bar mitzva present. The twins are 12.

–1986Jean Vaughan McGhee

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Jen McDearman is still enjoy-ing life in NYC while working as a copy director for HBO and

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singing and performing with her band Bobcat. We need to work on getting them into town to perform for us during reunion weekend this spring. Molly Mednikow is settling in as a new resident of Portland, Ore., where she attending the Lewis and Clark Law School. Kathryn Haggitt Garrison and Molly had a chance to connect while Kathryn was in town on business. Camille Lyon Majors became a mom again back in February; Evelyn Mary “Evie” is now entertaining big brother Bobby who’s 3. Recently Camille’s parents sold their house of 48 years in Memphis and have moved up to Richmond where her sister Natalie Lyon Horne ’93 lives. Leigh Gordon Wright and her family have recently made the move back to Tuscaloosa, where she has continued to work part-time for the same radiology group for the last 17 years while raising John and Allie. Recently Leigh got to catch up with Irene McDonnell Ayotte and her daughter Mary who were in town visiting Alabama. Elizabeth Cashman Dickinson is busy supervising as her son Robert is buried in English and Latin at MUS. She

says it makes her appreciate all she learned from Ms. O and Ms. Stidham. Her son McRae is a 6th grader at PDS this year. Lynn Cashman Thurlow is still the Director and Lead Teacher for the Montessori School Pre-School in Summerton and homeschools her four children (3rd grade to 10th). Kim Malone Scott has written a new book, Power is Dead, which has been bought and will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016. Kim’s children Battle and Margaret are now in the first grade. Mary Helen Pender Moore and her family are getting settled in their new house in Knoxville. Her kids Ashley Kate and Joseph are both in middle school. She is still working part-time in several pediatric dentist offices while the kids are in school. Traci Sherman Keller is still work-ing as the Middle School Dean of Students at Harpeth Hall in Nashville while trying to keep up with her boys. Traci recently got to catch up with Kara Finnegan Finnigan and Leigh Gordon Wright, who were in town. Kara has two middle school children, Maya and Hugh. Susan Whitten Graber and her husband Blair took a belated honeymoon to

Italy this summer. She is look-ing forward to Thanksgiving this year, as it is the first time she will have Anthony (eldest stepson) and his family for that holiday in five years. Irene, Liz Whitsitt McEwan, and Elizabeth Cashman manage to keep in touch because our boys are all in school together at MUS. Liz’s oldest son Hastings has even started driving my son Davis to school in the mornings. Shawn and I are continuing to grow Hollywood Feed and now have 40 stores in the Mid-South. I echo what Lynn Thurlow said about a foot in two different worlds as Carmen is learning to read and Ellie is starting to look at colleges. Ellie is also playing soccer for SMS and is now in third year Latin, stirring up memories of Ms. Stidham! Finally, we are heartbroken for Hayes Peyton Olson, who lost her son Will in an auto accident in Batesville, Ark., in October. Our prayers are with Hayes and her whole family, including sis-ters Chalmers Peyton Valentine ’80 and Hallie Peyton ’82.

–1987Allison Tonkin

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Thanks to all of you for the very sweet wishes on the birth of Andras’ and my son Chip! We are thrilled Chip could make his debut with the help of our gesta-tional surrogate. Thanks also for all of the great parenting advice, even from folks like Margaret Alexander Cone whose “little ones” are now 19 and 16. Beth Reynolds Bowen and family visited South Africa. Son Tom (8) plays baseball and Ella (12) dances. Beth teaches preschool for fun. Janelle Zarecor Ranieri, very active in the PTO, serves on the board of the Attention Center which she helped start. After much Lake Erie-house fun, John John (7th) added cross county to his usual hockey. Lucy

(10) plays volleyball and is a great student. The family will visit Puerto Rico where John still works. Gail Borod Giacobbe and family traveled in France this summer — thank goodness for all that SMS French with Nanette Quinn! Gail still enjoys working at Microsoft where she recently launched the new Skype experience for Windows 10. Josh (1st) and Libby (Pre-K) keep Paula Jernigan very busy. They love their homegrown honey. Kim Justis Eikner and Flip both enjoy work at MUS. Kim begins rehearsal for her first play in two years, The Other Place, at Circuit Playhouse. For Science, Nora James (SMS 6th) has Kim’s 5th grade homeroom teacher Mrs. Brundige! Brooks (MUS 11th), bit-ten by Mom’s theater bug, par-ticipates in MUS and SMS plays and is looking at colleges. Laura Halle Nunnally’s Lizzie (11th) is now visiting colleges, and Anna is in 8th. Courtney Morris Monaghan’s Stuart (16, SMS 10th) is driving, and Ellie (5th) loves being across the street at SMS middle school. Tom is “bat-tling through” MUS 8th grade. Missy Huettel Carter’s Joe loves Ann McCarroll McWaters as his MUS English teacher. Missy saw Laura at Seaside and often sees Courtney in Memphis. Gigi Gaerig McGown, senior counsel litigation at International Paper, was appointed to the Memphis Bar Association Board of Direc-tors. Ryan (SMS 6th) is buddies with Kim’s Nora James. Thomas (Lausanne 2nd) loves soccer and husband Will still designs/builds wood furniture at his downtown shop. Jay and Kristina Schultz Weir and sons Jake and Charlie swam with Caribbean dolphins in Anguilla. They ran into Ann Driscoll Prince in the Atlanta air-port on the way home! In NYC, Mary Louise Mooney goes home only for sleep, as stage manager and assistant director of Doric Wilson’s Street Theater, about the Stonewall riots. ML also

Leigh Gordon Wright ’86 and daughter Allie and Irene McDonnell Ayotte ’86 with daughter Mary.

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acts/reads in a feminist poetry program with her other theater company.

–1988Anna McQuiston Holtzclaw

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Frances Coughlin Fenelon reports that Nora started 5th grade at Harpeth Hall, and Nev is in 7th grade with Laurie Smith Hooper’s ’90 daugh-ter Lela. Francis recently had 10 of Nev’s friends over for a sleepover, and says “it looked and sounded so much like Moriah’s backhouse that it made me stop in my tracks. Miss those days and everyone so much!” Kelly Allen Bauch is running Bluebird Photography Studio in Austin, Texas, where she has lived for 10 years with Brandon and their two children. Julia is in 5th grade and loves art and piano, and Jackson is in 8th and loves football. Amy Weinberg Pearce’s boys are in 5th and 2nd grade. Trey is busy with baseball and his social calen-dar, and Luke splits his time between karate and Minecraft. Katherine Florendo is practicing at St. Luke’s and is the Medical Director for the NICU at their east location. This is her first year as a professional bikini competitor. Chuck has moved to KU and has better hours. Carol-Ann is a sophomore taking hon-ors everything and is in the choir and GSA. Sixth-grader Mary-O is a 3-sport athlete: volleyball, basketball, and soccer. Charlie is in 2nd grade and loves his climbing classes. Leigh Vaughan Jaimes’ kids Windland and Luke started 4th and 2nd, and she has a new role practicing and teaching Palliative Medicine full time at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Betsy Carnesale Wiseman and Lang welcomed baby Peter to the world on July 13, 2015. He is named after Betsy’s dad. Jennifer Miller Buhler writes that Jon

is still hunting, she is still a nurse, and Mary Taylor loves being in Ms. Falls’ class at SMS. Anna Holtzclaw shares that Caroline became a 4th grader at SMS this year, and Anna is en-joying being a St. Mary’s parent. It has been emotional knowing that Caroline is starting friend-ships that will be a part of her life when she is her mother’s age. Anna hopes Caroline is as lucky to have such good class-mates and friends.

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–1990Mirm Kriegel

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OK folks, here’s how we’ll keep this interesting… I made a public promise to my esteemed classmates that I’d make stuff up if they didn’t write in. I warned I’d draw a deserving name out of a hat, and the (un)lucky winner would be PUNK’d. This may well become a theme/meme for the Class of ’90. Slackers beware. Ellen Rawlins Uzarowicz writes that she, husband Piotr, and kids are still happily in Hollywood. She’s still designing clothes but is excited to be costuming her first music video, which she describes as “ridiculous fun.” Anne Copper DiFronzo’s twins Dominic and Olivia turned 2 in September and daughter Sofia is in third grade. She’s still working part time for Cultural Care Au Pair and living in Great Falls, Va. Kristen Thompson Keegan is traveling a lot and selling turkey foot necklaces in addition to her hair ties (not as gross as it sounds—they’re freshwater pearl and actually look super cool). She’s currently work-ing at SMS in JK for a teacher who’s on maternity leave, which means she gets to see Shelley Kuykendall Herzke every

day! Mary Anne Kish Seibert writes with some big news—they’re building a house in Little Rock. Alexis Zanone contin-ues living the dream on Four Seasons currency… she spent two weeks at both Four Seasons in the Maldives, will be visiting the Four Seasons Florence and sandwiching a trip to Memphis in between. Ali Reaves Smith is working full-time now at her veterinary clinic. Son Cole is in JK and her big news is that she’s about to become a doting aunt! Tricia Hood Thomas didn’t have much news to share except for this bombshell: “I’ve started talking about retiring since that’s only 15(ish) years away, which is less time than we’ve been out of SMS.” Thanks for that, Tricia. Rachel Lightman is hav-ing a ball with her 12-year old Colin and her 1-year-old Griffin. She’s thrilled to be teaching fourth grade girls this year after spending three long years with eighth grade boys. “Fourth grade brings back fond memories of my year with the great Carmen Vaughan!” Big news from Hilary Davis Robinson: She has left SMS to be Head of the Lower School at the Bodine School, which serves kids who struggle with dyslexia. Beth Kreamer West and her family have re-turned to Alabama after living in Houston for a bit while husband Phil underwent medical treat-ment. They’re both enjoying life back home with their children, ages 10, 7, and 3. Beth, we’re so thrilled to hear this. Elizabeth Robbins is now starring in her own burlesque show in Vegas. She’ll be featured at the Bellagio in the spring, so be sure to check her out if you’re wandering the Strip! Taylor Holden Taylor was thrilled to report that her wom-en’s tennis team won Nationals in Palm Springs. Missy Kramer Taranto, Kasha Winker Shaw, and Caroline Archer Baker all wrote in to say ‘hi!’ so I wouldn’t make anything up about them.

Oh, and Caroline’s son is already looking at colleges. As for Mirm Kriegel, she’s digging this gig so she doesn’t have to self-report.

–1991Camellia Koleyni

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It’s exciting to think that our 25th class reunion is just around the corner, on April 22-23! Until then, the Young family (Jennifer Breazeale Young plus husband Chris, son Christopher, and daughter Baker) had an incredible time visiting various cities in Japan this past sum-mer. Baker’s elementary school had an exchange program with another elementary school in Mito, Japan just prior to the trip. Baker attended elementary school there and spent 10 days living with a Japanese family. She did great, according to her proud momma! Jennifer’s son Christopher loves playing tennis for Baylor while Baker is busy with her soccer and volleyball. Megan Saxon Murphree shared the sad news that her incred-ibly sweet grandfather passed away at age 98. She feels so very lucky to have had him around for as long as she did, though it’s still so painful for her and her family. If you’d like to learn more about the game of bridge, Alex Turner is your contact. She’s living in Memphis and working at the American Contract Bridge League (which is essentially the governing body for the game). Alex also went on the say “Every time I turn on the news lately, Heather Pearson Chauhan is being interviewed or consult-ing on a matter. From what a few friends have said, her new practice Exceed Hormone Specialists www.exceedhs.com is a game-changer.” Heather’s practice is in Memphis. Margaret Chesney has expanded her law practice (Rogers Berry Chesney & Cannon, PLLC in Memphis) to include her listing as a family

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mediator with specialized train-ing in domestic violence issues. When she is not hard at work helping these families going through such difficult times, she spends as much time as possible with her niece, Jane McDonald, daughter of Julia Chesney McDonald ’96. Alison Taylor Nooks’ summer started off on a positive note with various family members visiting. They also had “mini-vacations” to San Antonio, Texas and Omaha, Neb. Then, unfortunately, her father had a significant fall in July, which re-sulted in two different brain sur-geries, followed by rehabilitation in Memphis and Missouri. Now Alison’s father has moved into their home in Missouri. They are so thankful for the support and prayers of family and friends. We are still living in fun Nashville. I’ve been busy with medical trips abroad and doing some urgent care locally. Take care everyone!

–1992Alison Roesler Coons

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Bren Boston Padawer has started a new job this year as the Director of Pain Management and Sports Medicine at the Akasha Center for Integrative Medicine in Santa Monica, Calif. Find more information about Bren’s great work at www.akashacenter.com. Rebecca Hornstein Doede also started new role in September in re-covery and resolution planning at Morgan Stanley in New York. Her adorable Henry and Evelyn are thriving, and recently she enjoyed spending time with both Asma Dilawari and Kelley Grant MacDonald, including a fun shopping expedition in Brooklyn. Leslie Pettit Canon said to tell everyone hi from Denver, where she and Harmon are still busy making cookies and raising four kids. Hester Shipp Mathes is having fun as Curate at Holy Communion and

loves being on the same campus as all the Turkeys. She enjoyed catching up with Jill Samuels who is teaching 5th graders this year and recently bumped into Wendy Taylor on the Square in Oxford, Miss. Hester also had fun catching up with Aarti Goorha Bowman at a Super Women of Business awards luncheon, and Mary McDonnell Schell at Holy Communion’s Book It 5K race. Aarti is still living in Midtown and working at the bank. She joined the SMS Alumnae Board this year and loves seeing fellow alums. Her nieces are in SK and 2nd grade at SMS. Melissa Anderson Kirkby recently went back to work part-time as a private trust advisor for a family in Nashville. Melissa enjoyed catching up with Brandi Haines Torchia and Jane Laster Finneran in Memphis over the summer and getting their kids together. Life is crazy as usual in Alison Roesler Coons’ house-hold. When she’s not busy as a “band mom” for THE Houston High School Band, she’s hard at work in her position as Director of Engagement with Girl Scouts Heart of the South. Every day she gets to tell the world how Girl Scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place – just like St. Mary’s does!

–1993Kristen Mistretta Wilson

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Amelia Treadwell Howard loves her new job as a Teach-er’s Assistant in the Pre-K at Christ Methodist Day School in Memphis, where daughter Anna Laura is in 4th grade. Her son George is in 7th grade at MUS. Kim Lupo shared that she and Deb made a big move in June and are now living in Portland, Ore., where they bought a cute townhouse right on the Wil-lamette River. Kim leads Global Total Rewards for Nike and

travels across Europe and China to meet her new team and learn the business. Congratulations to Alexia Fulgham Crump and husband Kevin, who welcomed their daughter Catherine Elaina Crump on July 23, 2015. Alexia says that while she is exhausted, she loves being a mommy. Kath-ryn Brookfield is having fun rais-ing three little monkeys, and cel-ebrated her 40th birthday with her sister, parents, and friends in Florida. Kathryn is planning to see Katie Moran Lindenschmidt over Thanksgiving and can’t wait to get home to Memphis. Lee Raines Buchmann and her fam-ily moved to a new home in Den-ver this summer, and are looking forward to ski season and hope-fully a big snow year. Jo Cowles Ellis lives in Atlanta with her husband John and four children, Anna (12), Logan (9), Bethany (7), and Alexis (5). She is a Direc-tor of Product Development for First Data. Congratulations to Alison Simmons Boyd and husband Oliver, who welcomed Katherine Avery Boyd on April 23, 2015, more than five weeks early. Big brother Mason makes Katherine laugh, but mostly just ignores her, especially when there is a car or truck in sight. Congratulations to Sam Petrie, who recently launched her own business called Clover (www.cloverartisans.com) offering artisan-made home decor hand-selected from around the world. Best of luck to Sam! Courtney Mainardi Burger reports that all three of her children are finally at the same school, with Wil-liam in kindergarten and twins Ellie and Alexis in 3rd grade. Beki Rafter is house-hunting in Atlanta with her partner Jamie, as well as celebrating her dad’s retirement and her mom’s 70th birthday. Beki continues to run Georgia WAND and is involved in supporting Black women’s leadership in environmental jus-tice. Deena Raja Bittles and her family moved to St. Petersburg,

Fla., in August because her hus-band took a job at All Children’s Johns Hopkins Medicine as a Pediatric Radiologist. Deena is still working with her firm that is headquartered in Nashville as a Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager. Carrie Evans Hanlon moved within Memphis this summer to a home that she worked to renovate. Her son James, 6, plays every sport he can and makes her smile each day. Carrie continues to love her job with Hobson Realtors. Kristen Mistretta Wilson and her husband Jake were over-joyed to welcome their third son Matthew in June. Big brothers Jacob (6) and Alexander (4) are in awe of their baby brother. She’s stopped practicing law for now and has adjusted to living in Baton Rouge, La.

–1994Edith Ritterband Goody

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Mary Evelyn Stevens Fore fol-lows her three girls’ schedules and helps her husband with some “behind the scenes” office work. She gets to catch up with Laura Foster Gettys when they both drop off their kids in JK at GSL. My head began to spin when I learned of all Joann Self Selvidge’s activities. Her film “The Keepers” about zookeep-ers at the Memphis Zoo will be released in early 2016 and was the opening night gala film at the Indie Memphis Film Fest, where it won the Hometowner Feature Award! Joann is consult-ing with the Memphis Conven-tion & Visitors Bureau, and says her kids are doing well and looking forward to a new kitten to bring into Daddy’s new studio. Sigrid Longsworth Orr moved to Cleveland, Tenn. (Chattanooga area), at the end of June and loves being back in the South. She’s working towards her Ten-nessee Art Educator license for K-12 and says there’s not much

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time to study while working as an assistant teacher in the local high school and participating in the formation of the Cleveland Arts Center. Sarah Gross Little enjoys being an active trader in the market and is taking time to learn more. I’m thrilled to hear Karrie Cummings Hen-drikson’s announcement of her two boys, of whom she hopes to have full adoption by Febru-ary. She’s “completely in love, and totally overwhelmed” by the 5-year-old and 23-month-old boys. Speaking of new boys, in June, Leigh Wilson Jacobs, introduced her second son Finch to a struggling older brother. I’m sure Finch’s godmother Jessica Johnson will shower lots of love onto both boys whenever she’s around. Leigh shared news for Hallie Dinkelspiel Label who welcomed her daughter Katie. Babies abound as Jamie Morano Re is expecting her first child around Christmas. She’s keeping busy placing staff on inter-national medical exchanges, reforming the VA, and combating the infectious disease epidemic in Fla. Queen bee Evie has dic-tated Halloween costumes for mama bee Sarah Lacy and crazy fuzzy brother bee Eli. Sarah’s company PANDO has been doing well, but she worked herself to exhaustion, ending up in the hospital! Thank goodness, she’s feeling better. Her niece Ramie Bell ’13 has taken some time off from college to help out with her kids. Sarah Cole-Turner Vincent said her daughter would’ve been envious of our 4th b-day party. She has bought and refurbished a house. Let the visitors ar-rive! She enjoys her job, which allows her to combine her tech expertise with speech pathol-ogy to change children’s lives. Expect the next note to come from Kathryn Leigh DeRossitt who has excitedly accepted the opportunity to be class secretary. It’s been a wonderful experience and I look forward to hearing

from and about y’all soon!

–1995Carrie Sue Casey Hanback

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Lee Davidson Holt’s little girl Dorothy is named for husband Kevin’s sharp-as-a-tack, 99-year-old grandmother, and is what her aunt Shannon Davidson Pflasterer ’94 calls a “trick baby” because she eats well, sleeps well, and plays well – she’s setting Lee and Kevin up for a major trick at some point. Carrie Sue Casey Hanback’s kids are at fun ages (Belle, 4, Hank, 2) and both of them enjoy wear-ing heels around the house and are Nats baseball fans. She moved into a new office at the Department of Defense that focuses on innovation and leadership development. Carrie caught up with Tricia Graue, who gave her a book of artis-tic chicken photos that they agreed Allison Roberts would love. Kathryn Wiseman just became Director of Global Public Policy at Walmart, and recently visited China and embraced the “ridiculous American tour-ist” role. Leigh Walker lives in Franklin, Tenn., and started working as a Project Coordinator for Community Health Systems. In Birmingham, Hallie Bourland Wagner’s second child William is a delight, while big brother Walter may perhaps be entering “three-nager” territory. Elizabeth Richardson Fitzgerald is still teaching gifted 9th grade English in Memphis, keeping up with Erin (sixth grade), and photo-graphing weddings. Ebony Welch is the new Development Services Coordinator of Jackson Academy in Jackson, Miss. Megan Waters Albonetti is going strong with her freelance editing and being a mama. Ann Wood Ray is getting recertified in nursing and is also considering a career change in the future. And Sarah Trosper Olivo and her husband

may move to the suburbs after living in the Big Apple for over 15 years. Liz Jenkins moved from L.A. to San Francisco and is plotting out her next profes-sional steps. She is excited about Dhevi Kumar Broecker’s impending bambino. Liz had recently visited Dhevi, and reports how she, husband Arndt, and little Ranga are enjoying Seattle. Simone Kiersky Coyle reports that time is starting to fly, with Evan (6) in first grade and Elise (4) in junior kinder-garten. Elizabeth Cochran Hill’s little Suzie Marie (3) is obsessed with gymnastics and has started ballet and tap. Brother Wally (1) started preschool, and Elizabeth is subbing for preschool teach-ers. Katherine Crone Wilson was promoted to Associate Director of Marketing Operations at Troutman Sanders LLP, the firm where she’s worked for the past eight years. Fellow Atlantan Katherine Arnold Gatza took her two girls – Elizabeth (7) and Anna (5) – on their first Disney World trip. Sarah Carlson Landers is still in Lawrence, Kan. Son Chris is a junior in high school and considering colleges and life goals. Sonia Torrey realized the Peach State is where she wants to be begin school in Atlanta in 2016 for a Master’s in counsel-ing. Sonia was also accepted into the Boston Marathon for 2016, after a summer of running and visiting with Natasha Heflin Davis and Ragini Gupta, among others. Sonia also spent a night in Rector, Ark., with Elizabeth Richardson Fitzgerald and her daughter Erin. Morgan Chiapella Roselle is in her last year as her kids’ Cubmaster and on the hunt for a job to fit her new Master’s degree. Natasha Heflin Davis’ daughter Amelia started kinder-garten and little sister Tessa was thrilled to start pre-school. Lisa Mulrooney Coombs describes married life as one of bliss. How cool that Elizabeth Richardson Fitzgerald took the photos at

her pretty wedding. Jada Love Thompson got married in 2014 and had a ridiculously cute baby this year, Brett. She is in Jackson, Miss., and gearing up to finish her Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner studies. Murff Oates Galbreath has learned how to simultaneously be the mother of three children and take a shower.

–1996Jaime Newsom

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Lauren Brooks Poindexter is excited to be finishing her MSN degree and is looking forward to becoming a family nurse practitioner. Her daughter Emily is in 2nd grade at SMS and is on the soccer team with Emily Farrow Robbins’s daughter Lilly. Courtney Shove moved back to Memphis in August and is happy to be the new director of communications at Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust (MOST). Julia Chesney McDonald still enjoys being president of the St. Mary’s Alumnae Board and has recently joined the board of Ballet Memphis. Brooke

Meggan Wurzburg Kiel ’98 in South Africa with husband Daniel (who is working on a research project),

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Douglas Looney welcomed baby girl in June. Brooke writes that Wynnie is so sweet and her twin sisters love her! Georgina Okerson has moved to Crawley, England, and has released an-other game, Black Closet, set in an all-girls religious school. As she says, “don’t worry, it’s mostly not true.” Maesie Speer is leav-ing Portland and moving to the Cascade Mountains of central Oregon to manage an arts center called Caldera. She will be living on-site with Jesse and their cats. She knows that it is a big move but says that she and Jesse have dreamed about living in a rural area for quite a while. Bernice Chen also has a new addition – a baby girl. She is enjoying her time staying at home but will return to work soon. Sharlene Sidhu Keithley is finally a Girl Scout! She has taken on leading daughter Saira’s Daisy Troop, in addition to being son Rajan’s Cub Scout Bear Den leader. She is still working remotely for the family business, Desoto Children’s Clinic, and she’s ac-tive on the board of a local non-profit, the Colorado Children’s Campaign.

–1997Hollye Ferguson Stigler

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Let’s start with news from our classmates on the West Coast: Congratulations to Hala Khuri on her engagement this summer — Hala is planning her upcoming wedding and still loves teaching in the Bay Area. Also in San Francisco, Rebekah Hanover Kurzweil’s son Leo is 4 and Quincy is almost one. Elaine Guerra Cotter and her family have been living in Los Angeles for just over a year and are really enjoying it. Her daughter Zoë is 8 months and is working to keep up with big sister Sophie. Their hotel business has expanded to North Lake Tahoe, Boulder,

and Calistoga. Rose Indriolo Englert and her family live in Portland. Her daughter Ramona is 15 months and walking, climb-ing, running, talking, and gig-gling. Rose has been promoted to a director level position at CareOregon. Congrats Rose! On the East Coast, Ashley Wilson is having fun with now 6-month-old Hudson. They enjoyed travel-ing this summer and also visits from Celia Watson and Jeanne Herzog. Ashley’s architectural work has been moving quickly, she recently broke ground on a state-of-the-art robotic surgi-cal center as well as working on several new residential properties. Autumn Witt Boyd started her own law firm in February, focusing on copyright, trademark, and small business advising and working with mostly women entrepreneurs. Her twins Sam and Tyson are almost 4. She and Melissa Ohsfeldt and their families met for a visit at the Chattanooga Aquarium this summer. Melissa recently transitioned to work for a new company, doing a similar role. Her four kids are doing well. Orinda, age 1, is walking and Charlotte in 4th grade and starting to study literature Melissa remembers well from our SMS days! My family is enjoying having a baby again, Amelie is six months old and a delight. I had a fun surprise a few weeks ago and bumped into Liz Fraim Evans and her beautiful family on the beach along 30A in Florida. It was a quick visit, but made me excited about our 20-year reunion...not too far away!

–1998Laurin Maddox

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Lots of job transition news this time around. Jennifer Fong is enjoying her new position as project manager for CBRE and spent her birthday in Tahiti.

She completed a 125-mile trail race in Tahoe and is training for two half marathons. Nupur Sidhu Bal started her own firm with another partner this year. Allison Martin Nolen writes that she recently started a new posi-tion as a nurse on the pediatric hematology/oncology unit. Amy Sellers transitioned to a new position as the VP of Digital and Product Marketing for Carena, a healthcare technology company. She is also working on a startup project called dopl, a mobile res-taurant that provides accurate restaurant recommendations. Ann Frizzell Pretzer completed teacher training for Suzuki Violin Book 1, so all you Memphis parents, feel free to contact her if you are interested in lessons for your kiddos! Ashley Bellet started her first semester in the Theatre PhD program in Madison, Wis. She is also teach-ing on campus and working in a pottery shop for fun. Laurin Maddux started a new position as the Regional Clinical Director at Strategic Behavioral Health. She is enjoying traveling a lot with this new position, espe-cially to beautiful Colorado for hiking in the Rocky Mountains. Anne Claire Bellott Jordan writes that Emma is enjoying kindergarten this year. She also went to visit sister Elizabeth Bellott ’15 at NC State. Erin Lyttle Do loves being mom to two St. Mary’s Turkeys! Monica Wilson Barton writes that she is work-ing hard at State Farm Corporate Headquarters in Illinois. The Barton family has had a busy year, moving to a new home and welcoming Wyatt, who turned one recently. Lauren Webb Mitchell and husband Luke are enjoying being parents to Henry who is walking and teething and keeping them on their toes. Allyn Jaqua Lowell keeps us all in stitches through her blog posts and Facebook posts. She writes that Erin Wade has “given me the greatest gift possible by

becoming a pediatrician who returns my frantic phone calls at 11pm and doesn’t charge me.” Allyn and husband Zach chase their adorable twins Hunter and Grier when not frantically texting Erin. Erin Wade started her Pediatric Residency at the University of Louisville. Meggan Wurzburg Kiel writes her news from South Africa, where hus-band Daniel is working on an ed-ucation research project. Meggan and Daniel are homeschooling Sadie and Ben through this adventure. Meg Kinnard writes that she and Adair love their new house, especially swimming in the pool all summer long. She has also been traveling on behalf of her family, doing work to keep her grandfatherr’s legacy alive at UT Martin. Patience Chambliss Wiggins and husband Chris are expecting a third boy soon.

–1999Kelly Buckner Dallas

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Congratulations are in order for Marynelle Wilson McNamara who married a fellow attorney, Doug McNamara, in Washington D.C., on June 21, then honey-mooned in France. We also have a few new babies! Rachel Bearman Plevak welcomed Oliver back in January, and Lily Shu welcomed Audrey in May. Rachel writes that she’s still living in Atlanta and working as a prosecutor. Lily has been living in Beijing and working for McDonald’s for six years. Libby Lawson Foster is also still living abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico, before wrapping up her year of learning Spanish. Angela Lam is also on the move having just relocated from San Francisco to Chicago. It’s been a good move, but she’s nervous about the snow! On the other hand, Elizabeth Hatzenbuehler Hibler loves the snow living in Denver and can’t wait until ski season. She’s still working as a

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Registered Dietitian providing nutrition counseling to high-risk families. Hilary Dinkelspiel moved to New York last year and has recently purchased a new home. She also passed the New York bar exam and completed the Ironman Copenhagen. Way to go, Hillary! Laura Freeman Rouse is in Nashville and undergoing a house renovation, which should be complete by Thanksgiving. She was recently in town visit-ing Jenny Jones Savage and got to see Rebecca Fones Rhea and Anne-Morgan Brookfield Morgan and their precious girls. Lillian Askew Everdell also made a trip to Memphis with her daugh-ter, Charlotte. Anne-Morgan, Jenny, Rebecca, and I along with Caroline Palazola Conrad and Palmer Adams Burt were all able to get to visit with Lillian. It was such fun! Anne-Morgan is still at Eli Lilly and busy with her two girls. Anne Elise is loving SMS and is excited to be a flower girl in her godfather’s wedding. Melissa Reedy Buchanan is still in Atlanta working as a Realtor

while also chasing around her two boys, Brooks and Reed. Ashley Gaillard Clark writes that she’s enjoying her role at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and just celebrated Oliver’s 2nd birth-day. She loves getting together regularly with Sidney Hawkins Gargiulo and Brittany Blockman Pelletier. Meg Parker is counting down to her November wed-ding in New Orleans. Courtenay Adams, along with Rebecca, will be there celebrating with Meg. Allison Davies Ford recently had a getaway to Captiva Island after moving into a new house in Jacksonville. She writes that Shepard is now in kindergarten and Hill is too cute for words. Erica Smith has exciting news of her engagement! She is planning a wedding next fall and will have Libby, Courtenay, and Allison in the wedding party. Annie McLaren Neufeld is expect-ing her first child in November! Annie will be returning to work as Pastor of College and Young Adults in her same church in Pasadena. Coincidentally, I am

expecting our third child and have the same due date as Annie We’re having a boy this time and are thrilled.

–2000Whitney Baer

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We begin with a “thank you” to Katie Garrett Harris for 15 (wow!) years of secretary duty. Katie lived in Oxford, England, this summer, enjoying the history and gorgeous parks. Louise (8) started 2nd grade at SMS and will sing in the Christmas Pageant this year! Also across the pond, Ellis Dixon is teaching English to adults in Lisbon while continu-ing freelance fashion design.Stateside, Jessica Swanson Fila quit her job as a pastry chef and started working as a substitute teacher in Milford, Conn., while she works towards her Masters and Certification in Elementary Education. Kate Wichlinski is working for a photographer in NYC and is training for the marathon next year. She got to

hear Patti Smith read Ginsberg’s Howl to commemorate the 60th anniversary of his first read-ing. Lauren Weinrich Bernstein and Justin just bought a place in Maryland. Lauren is working for EverFi, a technology company that teaches students critical thinking skills in topics like financial literacy. Tami Sawyer is a driving force for change in Memphis and beyond! She founded PowerBox, the black business directory/website and started a new job as the Director, Diversity & Leadership at Teach for America Memphis. She was the sole female speaker when Minister Louis Farrakhan ad-dressed over 2100 Memphians at the Cannon Center. From a long-overdue vacation, Kat Gordon reported that Muddy’s is doing well and they are getting their ducks in a row for the holiday season. Lexie Hicks Johnston saw Emily White in Chicago for a fun weekend together. Lots of exciting news about mini-2000ers! Courtney Routt Worthman wrote in to share that

Thirteen St. Mary’s girls attended the wedding of Susan Buckner Rose ’01: (from left) Daphne Trainer Bahl ’01, Hayley Bower Gerber ’01, Caroline Gardner ’01, Kate McCalla ’01, Kemper Kelso Brennan ’01, Susan Buckner Rose ’01, Kelly Buckner Dallas ’99, Jenny Maddux Stenberg ’01,

Emily Harris Halpern ’01, Erin Bower ’99, Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01, Collin Wilson Buckner ’05, Mia Wilson ’19.

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she and Michael are expecting a baby boy in February. Amy Reinhardt Robinson has a new baby, James Dardis Robinson, who arrived on July 9th. Mimi started at St. Mary’s Place this year and absolutely loves it. Amy will be the godmother for Courtney’s baby. Mary-Kathryn Millner Herrington was sur-prised by the early arrival of Logan Hart Herrington, who has stolen the hearts of the family. Lessie Calhoun Rainey is still at the DA’s office and loving it. Baby James is doing great. Lisa Ansley Clapper continues at Morgan Stanley and loves it despite this crazy market. Robby graduated from law school, and Lily is continuing to amaze every day. Sarah Montgomery Prudhon is working to finish up the didactic portion of grad school and starts clinical in January. Etta Louise is 18 months old and words just cannot describe how amazingly fulfilling she makes life every day. Megha Karkera Kanjia is settling into Houston, and lov-ing life with little Kish. Carrie Lawson Wills really likes work-ing in the cardiac ICU. Carrie says Lela is a super fun kid and they have nightly dance parties.

Charley and Whitney Baer got engaged in June in San Sebastian (thanks for recommendations Liz Palomo!) and then decided to relocate to Montana! She is still working for UM’s Institute for Intelligent Systems. She will finish the grants/cross-country commute for the foreseeable future.

–2001Lauren Anderson Stone

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Well ladies, here we are fif-teen years later…wow! Kristen Beasley McGlasson is now the Literacy Coach for K-2 at Promise Academy. Kristen and Michael welcomed Nicholas Edward McGlasson into this world on August 27th, 2013, and this past June, Christopher Watts McGlasson was born. Caroline Gardner left the world of beer at MillerCoors and moved back to banking at BMO Harris in Chicago. Caroline enjoyed seeing a number of classmates at Susan Buckner Rose’s wedding this summer. Susan married Cullen Rose on August 1 at Calvary Church, with a reception at Annesdale Mansion in Memphis.

Courtney Taylor Humphreys also enjoyed catching up at Susan’s wedding. Courtney and her family moved to Midtown and are really enjoying it, espe-cially now that Baby Humphreys #3, Ann Emerson, is here. Anna Snyder Rojas and Philip are also anticipating an arrival in April, and Jane is excited to be a big sister. Nishta Mehra and Jill were thrilled to finally get married in July after 13 years! Her mom and Shiv were witnesses to the intimate ceremony. She reports that they still can’t believe it’s real and that they can file taxes jointly and all kinds of other ro-mantic stuff. They honeymooned in Santa Fe earlier this fall. Elizabeth Laws also got mar-ried to Byron Fuller in October. Royce Miller lost her mom, Faye, this summer, which has been incredibly tough because they were so close. Morgan Raines is now at the London office of the American law firm, Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP, in their com-mercial property department. Louise Chandler Biedenharn took some time off after Dorothy was born, but is currently with Glankler Brown as a contract attorney. Louise and I have

both run into Sarah Matthews Pietrangelo and her little Louise at the zoo. Louise P. introduced my Anderson to the farm train, and it’s now a must-see at-traction. Luisa Peredo Ewing and family are still in London, though they moved from a flat to a house this summer. She had a baby girl, Adriana Sophia Camelia Ewing, in July! Ashley Ayres Bryant, Josh, and Mac welcomed baby Cole in June. Ashley says that Mac has totally fallen into his new role as big brother. Now if Cole would just sleep…I feel her pain on that one. Clifton, Anderson, and I welcomed Waring in August. He is a really sweet, smiley baby, and we just adore him. I can’t wait to see many of you in April at our 15th reunion! Seems like only yesterday we were reenact-ing Les Miz scenes in the parking lot on Black Friday.

–2002Polly Klyce Pennoyer

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The Class of 2002 continues to thrive and expand! Several of our classmates had a fun and action-packed weekend in Nashville to-

At a baby shower for Mary Austin Mays Smith ’03, who later had a boy, were Ginny Taylor ’03, Margaret Ann Klinke Mays ’03, Mary Austin, Sarah Machin ’03, Elliot Machin ’06, Lizzie Gill ’03,

and Bethany Mays Owen ’93.

Suzie Loveless ’03 (left) and Katie Friend ’02 at London Bridge.

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gether, including Nicole Osborne Steck, Lisa Mabry, Elsa Monge DeGroot, Ann Burruss, Rebecca Sawyer, and Elizabeth Campbell. Nicole continues to enjoy work in marketing at Glaxo-Smith Kline. Lisa is finishing up her last year of a radiology fellowship in Birmingham, before moving to Atlanta for another radiology fellowship at Emory, specializing in mammography (overachiever); in between all of her radiology work, she is excited to be wed-ding planning. Elsa now oversees marketing for Central and South America for Chili’s international restaurants from Dallas. Ann is still in Memphis, where she has begun work as a multi-sensory tutor for children with dyslexia and other specific language disabilities; she even works for SMS sometimes. Ann is also knee-deep in wedding plans as well. Elizabeth is finishing a fellowship in endocrinology and starting her job search; while she was home in Memphis, she ran into former classmate Christina Leatherman! Small world. Lindsey Coates is still in Orlando, where she has joined the staff of Summit Church, and as part of her work she leads regular church services at the Orange County Jail. Catherine Ferguson Conger and her family are still in S.C., where they have

just moved into a new house they built. Meanwhile, Wendi Muse continues to circle the globe, with stops off in São Paulo and Rio for research, New York for teaching and PhD work; she is working as a TA for a course on the African Diaspora at NYU. Naree Chan and husband Alby left Boston for Taipei, Taiwan, where he is working. Naree does legal work is starting a small jewelry business on the side. Our New Orleans contingent continues to thrive as well: Rachel Andersen is fostering baby squirrels (of course) and making sculptures on the side, all while working with special education students at a charter school. Laura Hettinger con-tinues to work as a paralegal and to nurture her creative side with freelance calligraphy and painting projects. Kelsey Freebing went to NOLA to visit Laura and George. When she’s at her normal post, Kelsey works for Ernst & Young in D.C. Katie Friend reports that she took an amazing European vacation with her cousin, Suzie Loveless ’03; stateside, she continues to work for Teach for America in the Delta. Also local is Leslie Guinn Jerkins, whose third kiddo George was born in May. Her older two, Juliette and Molly, have both started at

SMS this year, and Leslie is now back at work at her ad agency post. Newly local is Whitney Long Neal, who moved back to Memphis over the summer. Emily May Lequerica contin-ues to enjoy married life and teaching at PDS. Hillary Burkett is happily settled in Knoxville, working as a senior healthcare consultant and enjoying spend-ing time with her two (ador-able!) dogs. Anna Coplon Suen and husband Garrett welcomed an adorable baby boy named Brandon in July. They are still in Madison, Wis. Anna, maybe y’all should move home too! Farther west, Melissa Lawson Romero and husband Carlos share their Colorado home with two dogs, four chickens and an adorable (bilingual!) two-year-old daugh-ter Etta. Melissa is finishing up a clerkship at the Colorado Court of Appeals, and next up for her is a District Court federal clerkship. Farthest west of our correspon-dents was Marley Baer, who finished up an MBA program at Vanderbilt in the spring and moved out to Los Angeles, where she is now having a “magical” experience working for Disney, as well as wedding planning. I’m continuing to work as a financial regulatory lawyer for Davis Polk in NYC, and Robbie and I continue to live in New

Haven, Conn., where he is in his last year of divinity school. Our daughter Victoria continues to thrive, daycare illness notwith-standing. Keep the news flowing, my dears! It’s always a joy to hear from so many of you.

–2003Laurence Goodwin [email protected]

Suzie Loveless is still working as Manager of Alumni Affairs for Teach For America and trying to travel as much as possible; she recently spent 15 days exploring Ireland, Wales, and England with her cousin, Katie Friend (’02). Musette Morgan is living in New York and working on lots of large landscape and portrait com-missions at the moment. She’s been in Memphis a lot lately supporting her brother Worth’s campaign for a seat on the City Council. Louise Schumacher Timmons is busy working with designers and architects at Jerry Pair in Atlanta and look-ing after her little girl, Anne Parkes. Jessica Pfeffer is teaching “Introduction to Queer Studies” at Tufts this fall as well as “Women, History, and Culture” at Suffolk University; she continues to work on her PhD. Lizzie Gill is working away at her busi-ness, No Limits Tutoring. Sarah

Classmates from 2004 celebrate together: From left, Kristin Barry Gibson (with Gracie), Blair Carter Tait, Laine Peeler,

Lucy Harris Collins, and Martha Ferguson Burke.

Lauren Lazar ’04 celebrated her 30th birthday with classmates (back row, from left) Shea O’Rourke Quraishi, Sarah Carter, Sasha Castroverde, Brittany Johnson

Hernandez, Marion Phillips, Supriya Sarkar. Front row, from left: Camille Wingo, Shelby Deeney, Elizabeth Stevenson, Lauren Lazar, Lauren Arnold,

Taylor Fisher, Elise Addington Dugger

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Braden just moved to St. Louis, and is working on her Masters of Arts in Theological Studies from Covenant Seminary. Julia McMillen is graduating from residency in family medicine at the UW in June, and will be doing primary care for people of all ages, prenatal care, and delivering babies at a clinic. Anna Schwartz Shabtay and her family are moving to Houston in December. Sarah Machin has coined my favorite phrase ever this round of classnotes – “adulting like champions.” She’s currently working as a geolo-gist for an oil company in town called Continental Resources. Nicole Henderson Trenholme moved to Columbia, Mo., for a residency in Emergency and Critical Care at the University of Missouri’s Veterinary School. Jessica Scott Fowler and Ben spent three weeks in Europe this summer; she is still working for Boosterthon. Her job is actually based out of Atlanta, so she trav-els there once a month, often-times getting to stay with Kelly Sandefer Dennis. Chloe Lackie Zingaro is working with patients with borderline personality disorders and self-harm issues at her psychotherapy practice in Dallas. Brianna Winsett Chapman just bought a sec-ond flower shop this fall where “they still use Rolodexes and no computer.” Finally, in other news, the little ones have arrived! Congratulations to Mary Austin Mays Smith and Scott on the birth of their little boy Davidson. Mary Austin is enjoying her new job working with two other pedi-atric dentists at Brink and White Pediatric Dental Associates. Anna Taylor Halton and Andrew welcomed their baby girl in July. Anna says baby June makes her “laugh every day.” Katie Hobson Novikoff and Chris are enjoying spending time with their Lizzy in St. Louis and still working with the urban non-profit Rebirth, while Anne Taylor Tipton

Manning and Reid welcomed baby Eleanor in September.

–2004Shea O’Rourke Quraishi

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We have much to celebrate! Shona Strachan Singer and hus-band Scott welcomed their first daughter Maggie Irene Singer in October. Martha Ferguson Burke and husband Chris welcomed their first daughter Elizabeth “Lizzie” Ann Burke in October. They look forward to spending Christmas in Memphis and hope to see some SMSers! Angela Wilcox married Tommy Palmer in September, with airplane tricks to the Top Gun sound-track. Jessica Walker married Chris Wiley in October and honeymooned in Jamaica. Lucy Harris married Joshua Collins in October, with Martha Ferguson Burke, Lori Goldstein, Blair Carter Tait, and Piper Gray as bridesmaids. Natalie Hartmann is enjoying living in Atlanta and working as a physical therapist in the inpatient rehab setting at DeKalb Medical Center. Sarah Carter just passed her exam as a Certified Pediatric Nurse and continues through her third and final year toward a Master of Science in Nursing at Vanderbilt. Caitlin Carr is enjoying her first year as an OBGYN resi-dent physician at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Kristin Barry Gibson continues to work as a nurse in Charlotte, N.C., in the Electrophysiology Lab and enjoys being mom to Gracie and to a baby boy due in December. She looks forward to seeing lots of SMSers at the upcoming wed-dings of Laine Peeler. Lauren Arnold is spending a year get-ting a Masters of Public Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health before finishing her last year of medical school at Columbia. She’s also excited that her sister Mimi Arnold ’06 recently moved to NYC with

her fiancé. Connor Trott is a board-certified physical thera-pist at Baptist North Mississippi Outpatient Physical Therapy. Kaitlin Ridder Jaqua is surviv-ing her second year of urology residency at Indiana University in Indianapolis. Rachel Bearman is enjoying her many adventures as the solo rabbi of Temple B’nai Chaim in Connecticut. Sasha Castroverde was promoted to Assistant Director of Harvard University’s capital campaign. She enjoyed seeing so many SMS friends for Angela Wilcox’s wedding in Memphis and Lauren Lazar’s thirtieth birthday in Dallas. Victoria Luke Morich is wrapping up her MBA at Georgia Tech and will be graduating in May 2016 with concentrations in Strategy and Entrepreneurship. To procrastinate studying, she spends time spoiling her three nephews in Atlanta and helping her sister, Jennifer Luke ’02, plan her wedding. Camille Wingo recently moved to Dallas, where she lives around the corner from Lauren Lazar and Taylor Fisher and works in market-ing at Frito-Lay. Piper Gray still works in New York as a senior copywriter at Warby Parker. Clare Patterson and her husband Nathan are moving to Tampa,

where he will be starting a job as a staff pharmacist and she’ll be applying to physician’s assistant schools. Elizabeth Jemison is Assistant Professor of Religion at Clemson University teaching American religious history. She and husband Andrew both enjoy spending time with Elizabeth Stevenson, who just began her seventh year teaching kinder-garten. She enjoyed summer trips to Nantucket and Colorado, where she saw Shelby Deeney, who still loves living in Denver and looks forward to skiing this winter. Marion Phillips plans to visit for a ski vacation in February. Martha Guinn Carter and husband Dudley went to Yellowstone this fall and had a blast; it was the first vaca-tion leaving daughter Jane with her grandparents. Zoë Kahn is studying for her LCSW licens-ing exam and looking forward to joining private practice in Los Angeles. She plans to take more time off to travel fol-lowing the exam and will be visiting Lawrence Taylor Elliot, Lauren Brooks Foti, and Natalie Hartmann in December. George and I are in Tampa settling into our first house and preparing for our first puppy, thus fulfilling all of my animal-nut tendencies.Love to all!

–2005Sarah Atkinson Ball

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Heather Nadolny is still in the D.C. area serving as Technology Associate for two campuses of the DC Prep Charter Schools. Rainey Ray Segars and husband Coleton moved to and from NYC, and Rainey has started working at SMS as Director of Alumnae. She and Coleton joyfully wel-comed their son Teddy Taylor in October; they are looking forward to what they hope will be a quiet, predictable 2016 as a

Laine Peeler ’04 shares her wedding day with Blair Carter Tait ’04.

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family of three. Falconer Robbins graduated from Columbia with a Master’s degree in social work and recently started work at the Issroff Family Foundation as the Foundation Coordinator in NYC. Her focus is “grant making for small grassroots organizations in Africa that provide service and support for youth and children.” Elizabeth Tipton Musick graduated from law school at the University of Montana in May and started a job at Oracle at their campus in Bozeman, Mont., in August, where she is negotiating Public Cloud contracts. Barbara Phillips Hunsicker was pro-moted to Vocational Advisor and Coordinator of Presbyterian Ministries at Fuller Seminary, and joined the Cathedral Choir at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Abby Schwimmer Fox married Sean in May at the Memphis Waterworks, sharing the day with Emily Templeton Gray, Erica Evans, Katie Brookoff, Laura Jennings Yacoubian, Megan Bailey, Elizabeth Batchelor Calkins, and Emily Schwimmer Cohen ’04. Abby and Sean live in Atlanta and discovered that Nelie Zanca ’03 lives in their apart-ment building! Emily Templeton Gray will participate in the St. Jude Ride fundraiser this fall,

with Megan Bailey as a team-mate. Grace Jensen Knight and husband Ethan welcomed baby Joshua; Grace is working in the Admission Office at SMS and dropped this knowledge on us: our class has the most alums working at SMS of all the classes! Impressive information gathering, Grace—did Alison “The Source” West Pettus have anything to do with that? Lauren Kennedy Dake says “recently, I won the battle of Mom vs Margaret’s pacifier—a welcomed victory.” Lauren looks forward to hosting a baby shower for Lauren Wiygul Riley with Laura Montague Haltom, Collin Wilson Buckner, Kate Messenger Mendez, and Sarah Atkinson Ball. Catie Jane Berger is getting married in April and is then “probably going to settle down and get a cat. You know, typical life stuff.” Lizzy Rhea Cook and husband Stu have moved back to Memphis. Sarah Atkinson Ball spends a good chunk of her free time trying to hang out with the Memphians of this group. She relishes the opportunity to be in public with SMS middle school teacher i.e. local celebrity Lauren Wiygul Riley and bask in the glow of Lauren’s limelight. Sarah and Erica Evans frequently lunch on Main Street, where every fourth

passer-by knows Erica and joy-ously exclaims at her presence. Sarah has managed to keep her self-esteem despite all her celeb-rity friends.

2006Becky Bicks

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The class of 2006 is up to excit-ing things across the globe, and we can’t wait to reunite soon for our 10th reunion! Rachel Johnston-White married Iain Johnston-White on June 24 in Cambridge, UK. The wedding was attended by Katie Camille Friedman, Mansi Narula, Morgan Beckford, Aasiya Mirza Glover, and Frances Leslie. Rebecca Anderson mar-ried Alaric Eby on October 10 at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis. The wed-ding was attended by Ellen Bransford, Grace Wheeler Davis, Courtney Foreman Guilfoile, Elizabeth Harris, Holly Hendrix, Elize Mercer, Minor Moore, Elizabeth Anderson ’09, and Zuzanna Stepniakowska ’09. Meredith Robinson loves her job at Syndicatebleu creative staffing and recruiting agency. She still lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Arsenic. Aasiya Mirza Glover has moved to NYC with her husband and

son and is working at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. She is also expecting a daughter, who is due in November. Evie Lyras is enjoying the bright and sunny weather in LA, where she works as a marketing director for a startup and visits with Morgan Robbins, Kristi Ryan, and Chandler Ford. Lulu Wilson is an interior designer for the Richmond office of MOI Inc., a commercial furniture dealer-ship. She was also the Maid of Honor in her sister Marynelle Wilson’s ’99 wedding in Washington, DC. Catherine Smith Denman is working as the librarian and technology integrationist at the Memphis campus of St. George’s. Minor Moore is busy with a class of 16 energetic 3rd graders. Mamie Kostka is now officially a licensed Landscape Architect in Tennessee. Her new room-mate in Nashville is Katherine Fockler, who works at the Buntin Group as a brand man-ager. Jenna McNair is teaching therapeutic riding lessons at Trinity Farm in Lakeland. Lauren Bowden is currently a first-year MBA at University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Kim Johnson Radant is still living in Detroit with her husband Matt and loving her new job as a middle school counselor for

With Jenny West Fagan ’06 after her Alum Chapel talk are, from left, Erin Sandefer ’07, Jenny, and Morgan Beckford ’06.

After possibly St. Mary’s first underwear Alum Chapel talk, Karen Stein ’09 (center), an executive at SPANX, posed with classmates (from left) Wallis Tosi,

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Grosse Pointe Public Schools. She said it was great to see so many ’06ers at Ellen Page’s wed-ding in July! Katie Camille Friedman is still doing PhD research in the Netherlands. Jenay Gipson Boggs is enjoy-ing married life and her fourth year teaching kindergarten in Binghampton. Lizzie Harris is now working in wholesale insur-ance as an Associate Broker at Burns & Wilcox Brokerage in Dallas, and she is a member of their Emerging Leadership Program. Elizabeth Braden is in her second year of Princeton in Africa. She has traveled to eight different countries on the African continent this year. The program sends recent college graduates to work in service-oriented position in Africa for a year. Past participants include Elizabeth Jemison ’04 and Katie Camille Friedman. This year Meg Gould ’11 is a Fellow serving in Botswana. Becky Bicks spent most of 2015 travel-ing and writing across Scotland and Scandinavia. She was lucky enough to catch up with Nikki Jones on a short trip to London in August.

–2007Caitlin Clark

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Zina Kumok just moved to Denver with her husband and dog and is a full-time freelance writer specializing in personal fi-nance. Chelsea Cook is finishing her last two years of law school at Stanford University. Before school started, she packed her car with her belongings and her dog and they road-tripped across the USA. Hallie Flanagan is in her first semes-ter of law school at University of Memphis. She spent the weekend with Suzanne Ray and Anna Bearman celebrating Alexandra Mims’ bachelorette

weekend. Alexandra got married in November to Andrew Pike. Charlotte Eagle is living in D.C. working for an art conserva-tion firm cleaning and restoring paintings. Caitlin Colcolough is still living in Charleston, S.C., working full-time for herself making films. She does mostly weddings and small promo videos, and gets to work with Cameron Colcolough Reynolds a lot too. Erin Fowler and Caroline Fentress travelled in New Zealand for two weeks in September, living out their 8th grade Lord of the Rings fantasies. Caroline also just started a new job in downtown LA as a pro-ducer at a mobile gaming studio. Caitlin Clark is living the busy medicine intern life in Kansas City, but loving her new home and new city. She even ran into Victoria Rizk, who was inter-viewing for fellowship positions, while working at the hospital.

2008Katelyn Ammons

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Elizabeth Holt is enjoy-ing Memphis and her new job in fundraising at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Also in Memphis, Margarett Frisby is work-ing at First Tennessee Bank in Corporate Communications as the Employee Engagement Manager. Cristen Garrett is in her 3rd year at Emory Medical School. Memory Madden moved from Atlanta to Austin, Texas, and is working for a com-mercial real estate company. Rachel McLemore is busy with her PhD in History in Oxford. Rachael Holley just started improv classes and took her first trip to Colorado for Jessica Farris Zafarris’s wedding with MC Holliday, Mary Catherine

Chase, and Georgina Leslie. Congratulations to Caitlin Smith who got engaged this May and moved to Birmingham. Tina Xie got engaged in December 2014, and is now traveling around Southeast Asia, get-ting into architectural design. Katherine Xie is thoroughly enjoying herself on the wards as a third year medical student in Cleveland. She loves her time in the operating room and wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. Nicolette Overton completed her Masters in Journalism this May. Divya Moolchandani is looking forward to graduat-ing with her Masters in Health Administration in December and is enjoying living in DC and getting to see Nayha Patel, Sarah Wortham, and Jenny Guyton. Jenny had an exciting beginning to fall, getting engaged in The Grand Caymans! Mary Ward Pollard is busy planning a June wedding while finishing her clinical psychology doctoral dissertation. Hanna Gordon Oysel and Franck wel-comed family from France who loved seeing America for the first time. Anna Wheeler is so happy to have Margaret Liddon in Nashville and enjoys working at First Presbyterian Church and volunteering with Preston Taylor Ministries. Along with moving to Nashville this sum-mer, Margaret also got engaged! Ayana Fletcher-Tyson just began the Reading Specialist Masters Program at Peabody at Vanderbilt. Also in Nashville, Anisa Allad is enjoying her second year teaching middle school special education. She had an amazing time in NYC visiting Morgan Jordan, Saba Dilawari, and Lane Feler for her fall break. Ariel Mason passed the bar this summer and is working as an attorney in Nashville. Meg Fowler started her first year at Vanderbilt Law School in August, and is grateful to have her Vandy upperclass-

man Elise Heuberger ’10 as a constant source of support and inspiration as she begins this new and challenging journey. Edie Miller is now in graduate school at UAB in Birmingham and working part-time at UAB Hospital. Estes Gould recently accepted a position as Program Coordinator for the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival. Annie Ostrow Anderson is starting her fourth year in her PhD program. She is serving as a project assistant for a top tier journal and as the teaching assistant mentor. Kathryn Feder Cooper is enjoying her third year of teaching kindergarten in Boston. Her summer was filled with love and joy as she celebrated her marriage to Alex Cooper.

–2009Bailey Bethell

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Reagan Bugg is enjoying clini-cal rotations in her third year at Mississippi State College of Veterinary Medicine. Alex Tyler is working as a Search Market-ing Specialist at iProspect, a global digital marketing agency in Fort Worth, Texas. Sasha Joyce is living in Memphis while she completes her Masters in Urban Studies with a concentration in Youth Development via a blended program with Eastern University. Lavanya Mittal is in the process of finding a new parka for the long, dark winter on the horizon. At med school in da Bronx, she is on her radiol-ogy clerkship. Sam Baumstark is starting her second year working at Cedars-Sinai as a software analyst and loves living in Pasa-dena, California. That is all to report, as she has unfortunately just discovered the black hole that is Netflix. Bailey Bethell is studying in the Physician Assis-tant Program at UTHSC in Mem-phis. Wallis Tosi recently got a

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puppy named Quinn after our beloved Madame Quinn! Jordan Reeve is still living in Nashville working for Caterpillar Financial, and she recently started a new position in the credit depart-ment. Claire Riley recently visited Christine Petrin in D.C. and Zuzanna Stepniakowska in Seattle before heading to see her students in Madrid. Sylvia Brookoff had a brief stint as the world’s first Senor Frogs mascot. Next up is the Carnegie Deli pickle and she has the turkey costume to thank for this weird interest in mascots she’s devel-oped. Natalie Jacewicz spends her days watching whales while pursuing a Masters in science communications at UC Santa Cruz. She received a fellowship from the National Association of Science Writers.

–2010Rachel Stuart

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Callie McCool is loving her second year at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Also currently living in Houston is Allison Connell, who has enjoyed being able to travel around the country for work. Sri Pulusani and Mary Stevenson are enjoying their time as first-year med students together at UT. In NYC, Ann Yacoubian is also preparing for the medical field with graduate premedical studies at Columbia and working as a medical scribe and translator in an emergency room in the Bronx. Liz Damoc is working in Dallas on medical device sales for Smith & Nephew and is now in the OR for trauma and extremities. She is also preparing for the Dallas Marathon in December. Ali Fishman is finishing her last quarter of portfolio school while working at an advertising firm and experiencing Chicago Cubs baseball in person. Carey Segal is still sailing the high seas, performing as a dancer and aerialist for Royal Caribbean’s

newest ship, the Anthem of the Seas. Also travelling the world is Rachel Green, who graduated from Indiana University this May and received a Mitchell Scholarship, under which she is pursuing an MA in Conflict Transformation & Social Justice in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her dissertation topic is the impact of social conflict on women. Kathryn Fowler has graduated from clown school and is now pursuing a career in advanced pyrotechnics. She hopes to one day marry a very wealthy man whose trust fund can support her slowly developing collection of antique train sets. Elise Heuberger is enjoying spending her second year at Vanderbilt Law with first-year and fellow SMS alumna Meg Fowler ’08. Elise is currently working in the Tennessee Attorney General’s office as an extern and looking forward to her summer job plans. Cara Greenstein is becoming famous — her blog Caramelized was recently recognized in The Commercial Appeal’s 2015 Memphis Most awards as the Best Blog! At Emory, Nica Cabigao is pursuing her Masters in Public Health, with a concentration in Health Management. In her spare time, she frequently visits friends and family in Chicago and Memphis, and she especially enjoys spending time with her niece, Olive. Hensley Loeb moved to Nashville in February, where she is working at JLL, the second largest real estate company in the world. On her days off from school, Lauren Echlin serves as a substitute teacher at Holy Rosary in Memphis. Also still in Memphis is Allie Pryor, who is scribing in the Le Bonheur emergency department while working at another year of nursing school. Alex Fountain is pleased to be returning to Memphis from her previous work in Colorado. She will be working at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Folake Thomas is celebrating

another semester of teaching 8th graders. Lauren Pelts is at the University of Memphis, pursuing her Masters in Speech Language Pathology. In San Francisco, Sami Rosenthal is working at a clean tech software company called Opower. Kayla Rosenberg is enjoying producing her new YouTube show “Child Therapy,” a web comedy series in which people discuss their problems with a therapist, who happens to be 6 years old. Allie Baker Shields graduated with her Masters in Nursing in August and just got certified as a Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. She is also pleased to report that she and husband Joseph welcomed James Curtis Shields II into their family on May 29th! Rachel Stuart loved being back in Rochester this summer for her first field education placement at Asbury First United Methodist Church, and is settling into her middler year at Princeton Seminary. Sims Munn Bowen got married in August and moved to Birming-ham. She’s working for a non-profit that works with inner city kids.

–2011 Meg Cornaghie [email protected]

Meriweather Adams loved her internship with Hollywood Feed this summer and has recently started a hand-lettered

print and stationery business at handletteredwithlove.com. Sarah Jemison loves living in D.C., where she works in charter school administration and recently got to see Lauren Harrington, Louisa Boyd, and Meg Cornaghie. Lauren just got engaged to the man of her dreams and began the Capital Fellows Program in Washington, D.C., where she takes seminary graduate level classes while working at the Federal Reserve and learning how to blend her faith with her vocation. After graduating from UVA, Louisa moved to D.C., working on a Phase II clinical trial for the National Human Genome Research Institute. She hopes to start medical school in the fall and is enjoying this year off from school. Meg Gould is teaching at a secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana, through a one-year fellowship called Princeton in Africa, spending her time doing old and new hobbies like (coaching) soccer, ultimate frisbee, adventuring, and looking up math videos. Teresa Hendrix is working in Memphis as a Digital Marketing & Public Relations Coordinator at Speak Creative. She also recently adopted a dog named Tracy Rene from Real Good Dog Rescue. Margaret McClintock has started working at an online media company called StyleBlueprint in Nashville and is loving it.

Alumnae from the Washington, D.C., area gathered with Head of School Albert Throckmorton recently. From left, Erin Fowler ’07, Mary Peeler ’11, Sarah Jemison ’11, Emma Farris ’15. Photo credit: Marinell Throckmorton

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Allyson Patterson adopted a snuggly kitten named Sasha (so fierce) and works for an architecture firm called Planning Design Research in Houston. She looks forward to returning to Nashville to see her artwork in an exhibition this fall, and she sees Meg Cornaghie in Houston regularly. Meg graduated from Rice in May and is deep into her first semester of medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. After graduating from UNC in May, Mary Peeler spent the summer traveling around Europe with her sisters and friends from undergrad. She just started her first semester of medical school at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Erika Steuer moved to Albany, N.Y. and started a job as the Director of Fundraising & Public Relations at an all-boys charter high school. Sam Taylor graduated from Ohio State University in Mechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude. Sam has accepted a fellowship from the University of Texas in Austin, and is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a research emphasis in Additive Manufacturing and Design. Susan Waggoner is back in Memphis working at an ad agency and enjoying all the new, fun things Memphis has to offer. She regularly sees Lucy Wade Shapiro, who is also in Memphis and is working at the Church Health Center. Whitney Wortham loves living in NYC with Virginia Preston, next to a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream store. Whitney still wear socks with her sandals and loves graduate school. Maria Zoccola is spending the year studying writing for her masters in rainy southwest England.

–2012Chandler Roberts [email protected]

Ellery Ammons [email protected]

Jodie Struminger is currently serving as the Director of

Outreach for Wash U’s Dance Marathon and is looking forward to choreographing a piece for the student showcase in the spring. Alix de Witt is making the trek through David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest to complete her English major requirements. Carol Elsakr is helping conduct clinical trials of PK treatment for congenital Giygas syndrome, and hoping her work will be published in a medical journal. Sara Kim had the opportunity to continue working with her summer internship at the International Association of National Public Health Institutes. She is currently applying to public health schools and jobs. Lauren Pate is enjoying her last year at Notre Dame and is currently applying to law school for fall of 2016. She is enjoying being the 1st floor RA in her dorm. Megan Guyton spent her summer interning in the External Relations Office at British School of Brussels. Brooks Wingate started University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in Memphis. Melissa Byrd is busy continuing her work with St. Jude both on campus and in her third year interning at ALSAC, finishing up her Public Relations courses, and cheering on her University of Memphis Tigers. Lesley Stevenson greatly enjoyed the honor of getting Jimmy Fallon’s coffee this summer and seeing all the Broadway musicals she could afford. She hopes to see some Turkey friends at her Alum Chapel Talk on January 5. Liz Carter has started her fourth year at UTK in Architecture and English-Technical Communications. She is

interning as a science editor at the College of Veterinary Medicine and loves getting to advance her editing skills in such a different field. Chandler Roberts is enjoying her last year of Nursing School at TCU and loves working on the floor at a local hospital. Ellery Ammons researched urban branding with the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies over the summer and is loving every moment of Senior year. Ramie Mansberg is working on her senior thesis at the University of Texas about the power of high school athletics in helping build resilience.

–2013Anna Utley [email protected]

Anna Stukenborg [email protected]

Sukriti Mohan is working at a free clinic and autism residential center. Liv Stevens is in Vienna, Austria, for the semester learning German and eating lots of kuchen (cake). Elianna Landau is studying in Seville and living with a host family. Alexa Fila has moved on from Newk’s and is now working in the computer and electrical engineering office on campus at UAB. Rachel Chu is living in Sewanee’s women’s center, which is one of the only student-led college women’s centers in the country! Emily Rosenthal is excited to be doing Semester at Sea next semester. Katie Heard is going into her final year and looking for a job #adult. Nikki Cox is collaborating with Dr. Federico Vaca on a project that will be published in the Journal

of Traffic Injury Prevention. Emma Less is currently majoring in strategic communications and minoring in film & media studies and arts administration at TCU. Zoe Van Deveer is studying abroad in Prague and was elected VP of finance for Pi Beta Phi at Richmond. Becky Park is studying in Seoul, Korea, this semester. Claire Fogarty is experiencing the classic existential crisis of “what do I want to do with my life?” Lida Kruchten changed her major to management information systems and is working as a law clerk. Anna Peeler just started nursing school and is working as an EMT and got to give Alexa Fila her flu shot. Grace Bettis is starting a chapter at Arkansas of Lamba Alpha Episilon, a national criminal justice society. Mashal Mirza is still battling her way through pre-med classes, debating on med school or becoming a YouTube sensation. Hana Roussey is still a nursing major and has already given her first shot. Francie Saunders is an ecology major and evolutionary biology major with a new business minor and will be studying in Tanzania in the spring. Lillian Norcross is a marketing major with a minor in general business at Arkansas. Anna Taylor is a microbiology major, working nights as a medical scribe and will start working in a micro lab next semester. Catherine Moore has started pharmacy school. Sophie Skouteris loves having her sister in Fayetteville now, and just applied to be an assistant for the Razorbacks Sports Dietitian. Caela Rhea is l majoring in Psychology at UTK, hoping to get a PhD in either clinical or forensic psychology. Ellie Harrison is double majoring in psychology and sociology at Tulane. Grace Akangbe is a pre-med and music double major at Rhodes and enjoys cheering and is starting a music therapy program at the Refugee Empowerment

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this year: ALL alumnae, no matter what their graduating year, are eligible. to make a nomination,

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courage, compassion, leadership, and kindness.

Outstanding Alumna Award Nominations

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Program. Sarah Spiers is the editor in chief of Emerson’s game theory and criticism magazine and the co-creative director of an animated short. Helena Anderson enjoyed an internship at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York this summer and has transferred from the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School to the Experimental Theatre Wing at Tisch. Kim Taylor switched her emphasis at TCU to pre-dental. Hannah Stein just began working at two different elementary schools and still loves working at Kendra Scott. Callie Wallace misses Madrid and is hitting reality hard as an accounting and integrated marketing/communications major. Rachel Ostrow is still in mechanical engineering and attempting to balance AOPi and her biomedical research. Lucy Newton has officially declared a major in general business with a minor in international relations and will be graduating from UAB in August. Landon Hopkins spent her summer in London interning for a nonprofit arts group that deals with prison art. Devon Simms is majoring in economics and finance with a minor in philosophy. Anna Utley spent her summer in Memphis interning for York Binkley Interior design and working at Madewell. Anna Stukenborg spent her summer in Cape Town, South Africa, where she bungee jumped, sky dived, and cage dived with sharks!

–2014Miles Schaeffer [email protected]

Lacey Chaum [email protected]

Adair Smith spent the summer interning with the stylist Avena Gallagher in N.Y. and is now working on New York Fashion Week shows and photo shoots. Adira Polite is a columnist for Bowdoin Orient and works for Bowdoin Resource Center for Gender and Sexuality

Diversity. Natalie Meeks declared Integrated Marketing Communications as her major at Ole Miss, and Phoebe Fulmer worked as a counselor at Camp Illahee in N.C. this past summer. She is currently a member of the community service organization Sewanee Women Engaging and Empowering Community. Mary Allison Pritchard interned at A Step Ahead Foundation this past summer and is a DJ on a local Sewanee radio station, and Martha Upton has declared a Kinesiology major at Arkansas. She is hoping to be a pediatric physical therapy intern at the American Heart Association. Elle Prosterman is a leader for Young Life in Greenville, S.C., and loves her sorority KD at Furman. Nicole Sanford was initiated into Phi Eta Sigma at Furman, and Sarah Steuer spent the summer directing Peter Pan in Hebrew at a summer camp. She is now studying theatre, music, and sociology in London during the fall semester. Maddie Rhodes is still enjoying being on the golf team at Rhodes and her team has celebrated multiple wins this year. Gabrielle Taylor is giving stock pitches for a paper portfolio with Wellesley Investment Portfolio Initiative and is busy fundraising and event planning as the Chair of the Kathleen Daly Committee for Ethos. Miles Schaeffer has declared an Evolutionary Anthropology major at Duke and is currently working in a research lab studying the functional anatomy of primates. Hallie Katz is serving as the vice president of Challah for Hunger at USC in L.A. and is enjoying her time on the club lacrosse team and in her sorority, ADPi. Gurbani Singh joined the Emory Entrepreneurship and Venture Management club and is helping with HackATL, the largest start-up hackathon in the southeast. Dena Frisch is an intern with the Jewish Studies department at Tulane and is currently tutoring Hebrew students. She

is also working in the consulting branch of Tulane’s American Marketing Association and helps promote campus clubs and organizations. Bailey Archey is a member of a student recruiting organization for the Honors College at Mississippi State, and Abby Huber is currently serving as the Spirit Coordinator for Alpha Gamma Delta at the University of Memphis. She is also the recruitment director on the executive board for Up ‘til Dawn and is now a Non-Profit Development and Administration major with a Spanish minor. Rosemary Dunn has transferred to the School of Nursing at the University of Memphis and has also pledged Kappa Delta. Ellen Clarke is now a Finance and Public Relations double major at the University of Alabama and is also a part of Capstone Agency, a student-operated public relations and advertising firm. Lacey Chaum enjoyed working at Sullivan Branding this summer as an account services intern and recently joined a for-profit consulting group at U Penn.

–2015 Michelle Chu

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Emma Farris

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We are excited to begin class notes for the Class of 2015! After being asked to recite no fewer than 50 digits of pi, Ami Agrawal was selected to be a part of Cornell’s Concrete Canoe Team. Camille Brown has joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s mock trial team and the Black Student Awareness Committee. Kaylan Pugh traveled to Brazil for basketball during the summer and is now playing at The Ohio State University, majoring in Neuroscience. Emma Farris is majoring in International Affairs at George Washington University, where she was selected to Student Government Freshman Advisory Council. Olivia Bernabe

volunteered at Jenny Madden’s theatre company, Voices of the South, this summer. She is pur-suing theatre at Sarah Lawrence College. Sara Brown spent her summer interning with Blue Moon Bedding. She is a Tri Delta at Ole Miss and is enjoying cam-pus youth group RUF. Carleigh Ebbers is studying Neuroscience, Physics, and Studio Art, work-ing in digital arts. Kianna Davis is a volunteer at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and an employee at the Clifton School. Yue Wu says she’ll try rowing, orchestra, and sailing when she begins her study at Cambridge. Natalie Dean has joined Kappa Kappa Gamma at Wisconsin, and participated in Humorology, a musical that benefits its phi-lanthropy. Kylie McDowell is in sustainable urban environ-ments at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and works as a nanny. Gretchen Vogt is St. Mary’s first D1 fencer. This sum-mer she worked in a research lab at St. Jude. This summer Maggie McAtee enjoyed standing by her sister Abby McAtee Gatliff’s ’11 side as she married Cort Gatliff. Maggie is a Chi Omega at Auburn University and is working with Open Hands Overflowing Hearts, raising money for childhood cancer research. This summer Madeleine Lee visited Yue Wu in Scotland. At NYU, Madeleine loves film school and has joined the club lacrosse team. This summer Chelsea Chin went to Nicaragua for a mission trip. At St. Louis University, she rushed Alpha Delta Pi and volunteers with Ronald McDonald house. Ivy Leet is participating in boxing and recycling at Eckerd, major-ing in French and Marine Biology. Lynley Matthews continues her swimming career at Columbia University where she is involved with St. Jude’s philanthropic or-ganization, Up ‘til Dawn. Brooke Saharovici joined Chi Omega at Missouri and was selected to be on the Journalism Student Council. Mary Jane McCaghren is a member of the Sewanee

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Milestones

James Curtis Shields II, son of Allie Baker

Shields ’10.

Allen Chip Tonkin-Nemeth, son of

Allison Tonkin ’87.

Davidson Scott Smith, son of Mary Austin Mays

Smith ’01.

Births/Adoptions

Katherine Avery Boyd to Alison Simmons Boyd ’93, April 23, 2015

Cole McCormick Bryant to Ashley Ayres Bryant ’01, June 22, 2015

Caroline Lawrence Bunker to Catherine Vaughn Bunker ’09, October 20, 015

Elizabeth Ann “Lizzie” Burke to Martha Ferguson Burke ’04, October 11, 2015

Bethany Hannah Wen to Bernice Chen ’96, June 22, 2015

Linden Frances Chiles and Jack William Chiles to Lisa Bratton Chiles ’93, Nov. 16, 2015

John Miller Dallas to Kelly Buckner Dallas ’99, Nov. 13, 2015

Catherine Elaina Crump to Alexia Fulgham Crump ’93, July 23, 2015

Henry Joseph Eick to Allie Stephens Eick ’07, October 8, 2015

Adriana Sophia Camelia Ewing to Luisa Peredo Ewing ’01, July 28, 2015

June Taylor Halton, Anna Taylor Halton ’03, July 11th, 2015

Logan Hart Herrington to Mary-Kathryn Millner Herrington ’00, August 5, 2015

Ann Emerson Humphreys to Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01 on October 29, 2015

Dorothy Holt to Lee Davidson Holt ’95, April 29, 2015

Finch Dupuy Jacobs to Leigh Wilson Jacobs ’94, June 26, 2015

Joshua Graham Knight to Grace Jensen Knight ’05, June 12, 2015

Catherine Elizabeth Label to Hallie Dinkelspiel Label ’94, July 14, 2015

Gwyneth Brooks Looney to Brooke Douglas Looney ’96, June 2, 2015

Eleanor Fishburn Manning, Anne Taylor Tipton Manning ’03, September 23rd, 2015

Christopher Watts McGlasson to Kristen Beasley McGlasson ’01, June 14, 2015

Elizabeth Roberts Novikoff to Katie Hobson Novikoff ’03, August 5th, 2015

Oliver Frank Plevak to Rachel Bearman Plevak ’99, January 14, 2015

James Dardis Robinson to Amy Reinhardt Robinson ’00, July 9, 2015

Teddy Taylor Segars to Rainey Ray Segars ’05, October 22, 2015

James Curtis Shields II to Allie Baker Shields ’10, May 29, 2015

Audrey Huang to Lily Shu ’99, May 2, 2015

Maggie Irene Singer to Shona Strachan Singer ’04, October 11, 2015

Davidson Scott Smith to Mary Austin Mays Smith ’03, September 25, 2015

Waring Hargrove Stone to Lauren Anderson Stone ’01, August 6, 2015

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Tennis team and was selected to the Carey Fellows Business Program. Jane Morrison joined Kappa Delta at North Carolina, and is involved with the Core Team of the Carolina Challenge, which plans an entrepreneurial competi-tion. Tongta Muangsiri has started cheerleading at Rangsit University in Thailand while pursuing a pre-med major. Mimi Sharp is study-ing environmental science at University of Oregon. Abbie Warr is involved with commu-nity outreach with the Bonner Leader program at Sewanee and is improving her row-ing skills on the crew team. Ashton Terry is in the honors program at the University of Memphis, and recently traveled to Sparta, Ill., for trap nationals. At Savannah College of Art and Design, Samantha Wischmeyer is in Expressions Dance Club, Design Club, and SCAD Radio. Mary Thompson is a first-year host at University of Puget Sound, and volunteers at a community outreach program called Pathways. Liza Alrutz is working on costumes for a Tennessee Williams show at Northwestern, pursing a major in theater. Katherine Harwell is on Student Government Diversity Affairs Committee at UTK and is considering a major in Global Studies. Olivia Grace Tennyson spent summer hiking in Montana and is now enjoying her English classes at University of Richmond. Meredith Wells is considering pre-med at UChicago. Liza Curran is a Chi Omega at Ole Miss and volunteers at Lafayette Humane Society. Emily Shores is a Delta Zeta at Clemson and is in the pre-med group Alpha Epsilon Delta. Nessa Steinberg is in the engineer-ing program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, meeting recruiters from Rolls Royce, Caterpillar, and Yahoo.

Kiraney Loving is writing ar-ticles for Bowdoin news about events on campus. Mary Allen is involved with the Centre women’s lacrosse team, intramural tables tennis, and Diversity Student Union. Michelle Chu is a Dining Loose Ends Coordinator with Oberlin’s Student Cooperative Association, allowing students to cook their own food with local produce and writes for the Oberlin Review. Mary Caroline Newman is lov-ing soccer at Birmingham Southern College. Pooja Moolchandani is at USC and is involved with the Los Angeles Community Impact organization that helps lo-cal businesses. Courtney Caradonna is at Tulane and loves TUSTEP, Tulane’s first service dog training program. Madeleine Bradley is a Tri Delta and nursing major at Ole Miss. Ayanna Martin is part of the Ron Brown Scholar program at Vanderbilt, and is affiliated with the National Black Lawyers Student Association. Carmen Saab is on the Williams tennis team and Freshman Student Council. Hannah Pfrommer is an Alpha Phi at University of Colorado Boulder, study-ing Integrative Physiology. McKendree Walker is on the photography team of the Bridge, Rhodes’s stu-dent newspaper given to homeless vendors for profit. Meredith Isom is enjoying Howard, participating in the Tennessee club, HU College Democrats, and is volunteer-ing for Howard Fashion Week. This summer Olivia Landau interned at the Downtown Memphis Commission and went on a month-long backpacking trip in the Four Corners. At USC, she is a Gamma Phi Beta and is enjoy-ing her classes.

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Milestones

In MemoriamJanie Paine ’44

• Joy Powell Smith ’47

Marriages

Graduate Degrees

Abby Schwimmer Fox ’05 was married in May in Memphis. Celebrating with her were Elizabeth Batchelor Calkins ’05, Emily Schwimmer Cohen ’04, Erica Evans ’05, Megan Bailey ’05, Abby, Katie Brookoff ’05, Emily Templeton Gray

’05, and Laura Jennings Yacoubian ’05.

Nishta Mehra ’01 with wife Jill Carroll and their son Shiv.

Rebecca Anderson ’06 to Alaric Eby, October 10, 2015

Susan Buckner ’01 to Cullen James Rose, August 1, 2015

Mary Kavanagh Day ’82 to Dan Daniel, January 9, 2015

Ashley Edge ’08 to Scott Adams, July 25, 2015

Kathryn Feder ’08 to Alex Cooper, July 19, 2015

Kate Foster ’07 to Dr. Sean Lindsay, December 5, 2015

Leslie Johnson Hughes ’82 to Jesse Owen, January 17, 2015

Rachel Johnston-White ’06 to Iain Johnston-White, June 24, 2015

Elizabeth Laws ’01 to Byron Eckart Kaendler Fuller, October 11, 2015

Nishta Mehra ’01 to Jill Carroll, July 2, 2015

Alexandra Mims ’07 to Andrew Pike, November 14, 2015

Abby McAtee ’11 to Cort Gatliff, July 11, 2015

Sims Munn ’10 to Michael Wray Bowen, August 8, 2015

Lisa Mulrooney ’95 to Glen

Coombs, May 23, 3015

Meg Parker ’99 to Cory Prewitt, Nov. 14, 2015

Abby Schwimmer ’05 to Sean Fox, May 23, 2015

Catherine Coleman Vaughn ’09 to Bryan Thomas Bunker, June 6, 2015

Kathryn Annette Waggoner ’09 to Pearce Alexander Edwards, September 12, 2015

Jessica Walker ’04 to Chris Wiley, October 3, 2015

Angela Wilcox ’04 to Tommy Palmer, September 26, 2015

Marynelle Wilson ’99 to Doug McNamara, June 21, 2015

Lucy Harris ’01 to Joshua Caleb Collins, October 31, 2015

Elizabeth Jemison ’04, Ph.D. in the Study of Religion, Harvard University, May 2015

Nicolette Overton ’08, Master of Science in Journalism, Boston University, May 2015

Falconer Robbins ’05, Master of Social Work, Columbia University, May 2015

Camille Wingo ’04, Masters in Business Administration, Duke University, May 9, 2015

Brandon Aaron Coplon Suen to Anna Coplon Suen ’02, July 9, 2015

Brett Matthew Thompson to Jada Love Thompson ’95, April 27, 2015

Allen Chip Tonkin-Nemeth to Allison Tonkin ’87, August 14, 2015

Matthew Richard Thomas Wilson to Kristen Mistretta Wilson ’93, June 9, 2015

Peter Carnesale Wiseman to Betsy Carnesale Wiseman ’88, July 13, 2015

William Morris Riley to Lauren Wiygul Riley ’05, December 11, 2015

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