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Learning how to build the
world you want to see:
That’s the essence of the maker mindset
at St. Mary’s. It can mean anything from
constructing a cardboard castle for your
Early Childhood Center classmates
to mixing up Turkey-blue slime to
designing and printing a 3D solution
to an Upper School robotics problem.
It all starts with empathy: Learning to
listen — really listen — to someone
else’s problem, and then figuring out
ways to solve it.
What could be more exciting than
building the world you want to see?
What could be more St. Mary’s?
For more on the maker mindset,
see page 4.
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Winter 2015
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 School
Albert L. Throckmorton
Director of Admission & Financial Aid
Nicole Hernandez
Director of Advancement
Leanne Kleinmann
Assistant Director of Advancement
Alumnae & Special Events
Gigi Gould ’70
Director of Communication / Editor
Sally Walker Davies
Photography
Lisa Buser
Contributors
Caroline Ciaramitaro ’18, Maggie Glaser, Lee Davidson Holt ’95,
Leanne Kleinmann, Anna Ranson, Courtney Shove ’96.
Copy Editor
Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01
Letters to the Editor:
Please address all correspondence to:
Sally Walker Davies
St. Mary’s Episcopal School
60 Perkins Extended
Memphis, TN 38117
[email protected]
901.537.1489
Unless otherwise noted, all photos, with the exception of
select photos in Class Notes, are by Lisa Buser.
A box becomes a playhouse for Elin Shea ’30 during the Cardboard Challenge build
at the Early Childhood Center. For more about makers of all ages, see page 4.
In This Issue
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The Maker Mindset
At St. Mary’s, this new way of learning can mean everything
from designing a robot to figuring out a problem to building a
cardboard castle. The maker mindset is taking hold throughout
the school, from the Early Childhood Center to the Senior class.
Watch it change the world.
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From Gaelic Tunes to Slime
Inspiring makers visit St. Mary’s, thanks to two endowed funds:
The Joseph Orgill III Speakers Fund and the Louise T. Archer
Artist-in-Residence Fund.
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Making Connections: Tech Consultant
Jana Fletcher Markowitz ’75
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Making Memories: Wedding Planner
Calder Britt Clark ‘95
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Campus News
Fall Sports Wrap-Up
Alumnae
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Maker Alumnae
On the Cover:
A look at the many maker projects and faces across the school.
Inside the cover, Sydney Dale ’25 and her brushbot, and
Juliana Arbelaez ’17 watches the 3D printer in action.
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Why I Give: Catherine Robilio Womack ’82
Parents of Alumnae: If your daughter no longer maintains
an address at your home, please notify Alumnae Coordinator
Gigi Gould at 901.537.1424 or [email protected].
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Class Notes
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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.
St. Mary’s has always taught girls to be creative and take risks.
Here, four alums share their maker career stories, including
Valentina Shands-Puppione Cochran ’97, Meredith Robinson ’06,
Ashley Bellet ’98, and Georgina Okerson ’96
This mom, wife and physician has included St. Mary’s
in her estate plans.
Milestones
/St.MarysEpiscopalSchool
@stmarysmemphis
/StMarysTV
@stmarysepiscopalschool
I hope the innovative cover of this magazine has
caused you to ask, “What is a maker mindset”? It might
sound like a trendy distraction – education is full of those right now – but let me explain.
You’ve probably heard a lot about makerspaces, and the maker movement – these are hot
topics in education right now, and usually involve dedicated spaces for making ‘stuff’ (that’s a
word our 3rd grade team will not be happy to see me use). But at St. Mary’s, we view the maker
mindset as an important, evolving component of the educational foundation taught here – the
knowledge and skills we impart to girls, and the value set that is at the heart of our community.
In the pages and even on the cover of this magazine, we illustrate this fourth component of a
St. Mary’s education: mindset. It’s another way for us to think about how we approach teaching
and learning, and it’s what sets St. Mary’s apart. The most frequently discussed mindset is the
“growth mindset” defined by author Carol Dweck. When you meet an alumna who is undeterred
by obstacles, confident, and still learning, that is a growth mindset at work.
The “maker mindset” is the newest facet of that St. Mary’s experience. Learning a maker
mindset prepares girls to shape the world they live in, using technology, writing, even sewing
and painting. The maker mindset is about seeing a problem or challenge, trying a solution, then
trying again.
At St. Mary’s, the maker mindset starts with empathy. If we listen carefully to someone’s
problem, we might just be able to solve it. In other words, the knowledge set, skill set, and
mindset are motivated and informed by the value set. That is the interconnected experience
that makes St. Mary’s unique.
Are you a maker? What kind of world would you like to see? Those are the questions our
students have begun to ponder, along with their teachers and the leaders of the school, including
the Board of Trustees.
I hope you’ll join us. The world needs
all the makers it can get!
Sincerely,
Head of School
A maker moment of his own:
Albert Throckmorton as Daddy
Warbucks sings with Annie,
Sophie Younker ’23, in the Lower
School production of Annie, Jr.
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THE MAKER MINDSET:
A New Way of Learning at St. Mary’s
By Leanne Kleinmann
Here was the problem:
proved, but that’s not the most interesting part of this story.
The serrated ends of the surgical forceps were good at hold-
The most important part — and the part that illustrates the
ing firm to tiny sutures, but bad because they injured the
maker mindset that is taking hold all over St. Mary’s — is the
surrounding tissue. The doctors turned to the engineers at
process Moolchandani went through to get to the final forceps
Medtronic for a solution. Enter St. Mary’s Senior Pooja Mool-
design.
chandani, maker extraordinaire, whose Honors Science Semi-
Yes, she ended up with a design that the surgeons ap-
It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t obvious. It involved asking for
nar this summer at Medtronic was all about building better
help, trying something, trying something else, and — let’s admit
forceps.
it — failing. But it also involved learning, new ideas, and fun.
Pooja Moolchandani ’15 explains her redesigned forceps to Natalie Dean ’15.
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“The most frustrating part was learning how to use Creo,
the design software (which we also have at St. Mary’s). Using
the software to make the forceps took countless hours and a
ton of help from Ms. Brinkman, my Medtronic mentor,” says
Moolchandani. “Tapering the tips can be done in many ways,
but I had to find the way that would work with my specific
project design.”
As Moolchandani gave her final presentation, with
Medtronic engineer Jennifer Brinkman in the room, her sense
of accomplishment, and her excitement about what she’d
figured out was palpable. “The most satisfying part was holding the final product in my hands, knowing I created that,” she
said. “Finally, I knew that all my hard work had a purpose.”
Leading a Culture
she says, which means the learning might be different for each
girl, and the end result isn’t always clear at the beginning.
In many ways, St. Mary’s has
“At the end of a class or workshop, not
always been a maker culture.
everyone’s going to be leaving with the
St. Mary’s girls are taught to keep
same thing,” she says. This kind of learning
trying, to look at problems from
can also unlock success for girls who have
different directions, and to ask for
struggled with more traditional methods,
help. But the maker mindset that is
she said.
working its way through the school
In the Middle School, Shannon Bettis
today is a little different. Based in
built her 6th grade math class around
technology but not limited to it, this
sewing pillowcases, and all of the calcula-
movement is being led at St. Mary’s
tions and measurements they involve. It
by two teachers and makers in their
sounds a little like a throwback, but with
own right: Dr. Laura Jaggar and
a maker edge. As Bettis said, “If they made
Jessica Lancaster, working along
a mistake cutting, they had real-world
with willing and adventurous teach-
experience in trying to fix it.”
ers all over the school. Collaboration
is what makes the maker movement
Who Can Be
a Maker?
work, after all.
Dr. Jaggar, a tinkerer who is
proud to say that she has replaced
her own broken washing machine
Shannon Bettis gives her 6th grade math class pointers in sewing pillowcases that
provide hands-on lessons in measuring and calculating.
Dr. Laura Jaggar
“Our idea is that every girl is a maker,”
motor (“I found a $42 motor and watched a YouTube video at
said Assistant Head of School Leigh Mansberg. “They don’t
least three times” to guide her repair), is the St. Mary’s STEM
know what they’ll have a passion for unless they are exposed
outreach coordinator and coordinator of the Honors Science
to it.” She tells of a 2nd grader who has fallen in love with ro-
Seminar. Jaggar teaches a Modeling and 3D Design class in the
botics, something she’d never tried before. “She said, ‘I’ve been
south campus maker space, located where two computer labs
waiting for this my whole life!’”
used to be in the Barksdale Technology Center in the Smith
Library. Making is about the process, not just the end product,
Collaboration is an important element of the maker mindset, along with empathy for someone else’s problem. Jaggar
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purposefully scheduled
For example, the court-
her 3D modeling class
yard behind Moss Hall has
at the same time Josh
become a maker target, with
Hughes’s Upper School
Lower School Science Teacher
Robotics class meets in
Julie Binder and Lower School
the makerspace, hoping
Art Teacher Kathleen McElroy
the two classes would
working with Lancaster to help
collaborate, and that’s
1st graders make rain chains,
what happened. Seems
or alternative downspouts, as
the robot had a problem
a combination art and science
with a particular circuit
project. Binder and Lancaster
and needed a part to
and some 4th graders have
separate two pieces of
collaborated to build chairs
metal. The 3D modeling
for that space as well, learning
class came to the rescue
about force.
with a part for the ro-
“That’s ‘true maker,’” says
bot’s Samantha module
Lancaster, “the idea of improv-
(“I have no idea why they
ing things, making them better,
call it that,” Jaggar says)
sharing” your work with the
that solved the problem.
wider world. “Although we’ll
There’s a new makerspace on the north
campus, too, though
probably never (make chairs)
Makers in the makerspace: Sophomores (from left) Anna Clay Panetta, Elizabeth Caradonna,
Julia Greenstein, and Caroline Culpepper design and build a thermos.
Lancaster, integrated curriculum and technology coordinator,
who spends most of her time in the Lower School and Early
again, it’s an example of the
types of activities I wanted the
girls to experience.”
Lancaster traveled to Denmark this past summer on a pro-
Childhood Center, says makerspaces can be anywhere: “We are
fessional development grant to attend a conference on inter-
tinkering and building in lots of different spaces.”
active design and children, then spent a day at lego, helping
the toy behemoth figure out how their products
fit into the maker movement, and what would be
helpful in the classroom. “They were so excited
to meet an actual teacher,” Lancaster said.
Back at St. Mary’s, this fall saw a full menu
of maker-themed Pursuits after school classes,
which Lancaster said were meant to see what
was possible and who was interested. Lower
School girls could build their own computers
with a circuit board called Raspberry Pi, and
turn bananas into keyboards with a circuit set
called Makey Makey. Middle School girls learned
coding to build video games from Assistant
Director of Libraries Jeanine Akers. More classes
Jessica Lancaster, integrated curriculum and technology coordinator, helps Sophie Wallace ’25 (left)
and Sophie Jordan ’24 turn modeling clay into a keyboard.
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are planned; check the St. Mary’s website (stmarysschool.org/
pursuits) for details.
Even the smallest St. Mary’s girls became makers this
fall as they turned piles of cardboard boxes and cartons into
castles and playhouses during a daylong build called Cardboard Challenge. Big girls came across the street to help their
little friends, as a soccer
field become a village.
As Mansberg points
out, “This mindset embraces everything we have
always been in terms of
content. But this can be a
much better way to frame
the learning.”
What could be more fun than turning a banana into a piano in the Lower School makerspace?
Just ask 4th graders Erika Ross (left) and Lily Becker.
A plastic garbage bag becomes a kite for Emily Weatherly ’21 (left).
A sunny day and a pile of cardboard becomes an enchanted castle during the Early Childhood Cardboard Challenge (below).
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Hawaiian Shirts, Gaelic Tunes and Slime:
Inspiring Makers Visit St. Mary’s
By Leanne Kleinmann
L
istening to Mark Frauenfelder talk is a little like hearing your grandfather tell you about some of the cool
things he invented in his workshop over the years. If your
Mark Frauenfelder
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hair and an orange Hawaiian shirt, that is.
Frauenfelder, former Editor-in-Chief of Make magazine, founder of the tech blog Boing Boing, author, dad,
grandfather
and innovator, was one of the leaders of the 2014 Joseph
were a maker
Orgill III Speaker Series, which focused on the maker
movement
mindset, held in early October. Other headliners included
trailblazer,
Alexis Jones, founder of the I am That Girl movement that
journalist,
helps girls develop the skills and insight to support each
author and
other and empower themselves (see a story on Jones,
blogger who
page 12). Julie Fowlis, Gaelic singer and historian (and
wore punky
composer and singer of the theme song of the movie
Brave), came to St. Mary’s as the Louise T. Archer
tion: a gadget that holds the peanut butter jar and stirs
Artist-in-Residence. Other visitors included artist Carla
it up at the push of a button.
Lobmeir and St. Mary’s own Sylvia Brookoff ’09, who
In an after-school workshop for 30 or so 3rd and
chose St. Mary’s as the venue to reveal her very own
4th graders and their parents led by Frauenfelder, tricks
Nickelodeon invention: the Slimebrella.
and toys were on the agenda; making doesn’t have to be
Frauenfelder made a convincing case that Americans,
about fancy technology. Frauenfelder showed the girls
and particularly students, have lost the ability to under-
and their parents how to rig a jar that made it look like a
stand how things work, and when you don’t know that,
paper clip was floating, make a card trick and a kite from
you lose the ability to fix things, improve things, and
a plastic bag. He was impressed by the spirit in the room.
improve your life.
“Usually when I do these workshops, kids get frustrated,
He is all about solutions, both big and small. For ex-
sometimes there are tears, and there’s lots of asking
ample, he was frustrated that the natural peanut
me questions,” he said. The St. Mary’s girls and their
butter he and his family loves wouldn’t stay mixed; the
parents kept working away, he said, eager to figure out
oil kept floating to the top of the jar. So he made a solu-
the next step.
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Making can be fun: Frauenfelder shows 4th graders Maggie Akers, Grace Day and Allie Burkhart and their parents the fine points of building a card trick.
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Julie Fowlis is a maker of a different sort — a scholar
of Scottish Gaelic language and music, who sings with
traditional Scottish instruments to make a sound that is
uniquely her own. Best known for her inspiring anthem
“Touch the Sky” from the movie Brave, Fowlis sang with
the girls in Lower School Chapel, and conducted a master class with Upper School choir members. A highlight
was when she got out her pipes and played along with
the song she’d just taught.
Artist Carla Lobmeir, too, took our Lower School
Artist Carla Lobmeir works with a Lower School art class.
makers through an exercise that combined maker
sensibility with calm, relaxed creation. She worked on
high school, for example, she played gigs as DJ Syl, and
Asian-inspired watercolors with the Lower School, and
inspiration from her Global Issues class led her to found
spent time with the Upper School AP Studio Art students
DJ for the Displaced, where she gave the profits from her
as well.
gigs to schools in Uganda. Brookoff’s video talents, hard
Then there was Sylvia Brookoff ’09, whom many of
work and willingness to figure out all kinds of jobs led
today’s seniors remember clearly from her time as Pep
her from American University to jobs with NBC and Via-
Club president when she was a Senior. Brookoff has long
com, where she is now a production coordinator for the
been into combining fun and technology with a side of
kids network Nickelodeon, a brand she loves.
empathy — she was a maker before maker was cool. In
One day she decided that nickshop.com — the network’s online shopping site
that sells all things related
to its shows — needed an
umbrella, and knew exactly
what it should look like:
clear, with the famous lime
green Nickelodeon slime
printed on the top. Her
creative activism, learned
at St. Mary’s, led her to
pitch the Nick e-commerce
department, and, one year
later, we were honored
when she unveiled the
Slimebrella in a visit to
St. Mary’s. (See a hilarious
video of Brookoff’s Chapel
talk on the St. Mary’s
Julie Fowlis sings to the girls in Lower School Chapel.
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YouTube channel at youtube.com/stmarystv.)
Later that afternoon, the new Slimebrella
was tested for real, when Upper School physics students dumped buckets of St. Mary’s-blue
slime they’d made with their Lower School
friends on Head of School Albert Throckmorton
and Lower School Head Peggy Stephens. Turns
out the Slimebrella wasn’t necessary after all
— the slime (more or less) missed its target. A
great time was had by all, though, and it was a
true St. Mary’s maker moment.
Sylvia Brookoff ’09 with her Slimebrella and her classmates, from left, Caitlin Quigley, Jordan Reeve, Gracie Gelfand,
Ruthie Morrison, Bailey Bethell, and Wallis Tosi.
Slimed! Lower School Head Peggy Stephens and Head of School Albert Throckmorton get slimed by senior physics students, including Pooja Moolchandani (behind Slimebrella), Lynley Matthews, Carmen Saab, and Natalie Dean.
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Making a Difference
Alexis Jones is on a mission to empower young women
A
lexis Jones is a maker. However, not the kind of maker
that invents things, but the
kind of maker who changes lives
through making a difference in the lives
of young women. Jones is the founder
of the movement I Am That Girl, which
uses meetups and online connections
to empower young women with the
skills to better support one another. Jones was part of this year’s Joseph
Orgill III Speaker Series in October as
an example of how thought leaders
are fundamental components of the
maker movement. “We thought that
our students would be very energized
by her ability to take an idea and turn it
into a movement to improve the lives
of girls,” said Leigh Mansberg, assistant
head of school.
By Caroline Ciaramitaro ‘18
For Mia Wilson ‘19, that’s exactly
what happened. After her time with
Jones, Wilson felt better equipped to
form more positive relationships with
her classmates, and realized “you don’t
always know the full story” when you
have a conflict with a friend. Wilson also
gained a better understanding about
how young girls’ actions affect others
and how to improve her own relationships when she heard Jones’s story and
saw the effect it had on her peers. Jones grew up in Austin, Texas,
and attended University of Southern
California. After working for FOX Sports,
ESPN, MTV, and even participating as a
contestant on CBS’s Survivor, Jones realized that her gift lies in inspiring others
to embrace themselves, and launched I
Am That Girl.
Jones’s visit to St. Mary’s motivated Upper School students to start
their own branch of I Am That Girl. Meg
Jones ‘17 explained the intentions of
the chapter at St. Mary’s by saying that
I Am That Girl “can and will empower
the students to transform their selfdoubt into self-love, as well as teach the
students to strive for their goals and to
let them know that one day they will
reach them.”
Alexis Jones showed us that any
change is possible with the right mindset, attitude, and determination. She
inspired St. Mary’s students to be eager
to create a better world and not to fear
doing so. She inspires makers who use
dreams and determination to establish
a more productive world.
Alexis Jones shares her message of support in Chapel.
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Making Connections: Jana Fletcher Markowitz ’75
By Lee Davidson Holt ’95
Now:
Then:
Math Club, Latin Club,
Founder/Principal
Ping Pong (there was a
Consultant of The
Collective Mind, her
team back then), Drama
one-person consulting
Club, Valedictorian
firm focused on helping
technology organizations,
people and projects be
successful
Well-rounded, reliable, and smart – but slightly
Markowitz is passionate about introducing women
self-deprecating – Jana Markowitz is the embodiment
to careers in information technology and has brought
of what she sells: the importance of being versatile and
female IT professionals to St. Mary’s and other Mem-
personable while also doing highly technical work.
phis schools, hoping to light some sparks. She encour-
Markowitz spent the first 15 years of her career
ages today’s students to be proactive in planning their
working at IBM. For the last 20 she has had her own
lives and careers. She is an example of a maker as a
company, The Collective Mind, which helps tech people
thought leader: She is eager for women and girls to see
hone their non-technical skills. It’s the perfect use of
the many ways of pursing careers in computer science
her master’s degree in organizational psychology from
and technology.
the University of Memphis and undergrad in computer
The industry she serves appreciates her talent. The
science from Vanderbilt. She teaches communications,
Memphis chapter of the Society for Information Man-
body language, and other soft skills and has co-au-
agement (SIM) named her 2014 Leader of the Year.
thored a book about it: Shifting Sands: The People Side of
Project Management.
“St. Mary’s is certainly the source of my writing
Markowitz and husband Barry have two grown
children, Aaron, 27, of Memphis, and Julie, 25, a 2007
St. Mary’s graduate who works in publishing in Detroit,
skills – and of my logic, critical thinking and decision-
as well as a beloved 14-year-old German shorthaired
making skills. Prioritizing work is a critical business
pointer, Leica.
skill that I learned at St. Mary’s,” she said.
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Making Memories: Calder Britt Clark ’95
By Courtney Shove ’96
Then:
French Club, soccer,
tennis, volleyball
and track
Calder Clark has a thing for tabletops. The way she
sets the table sets the tone for the six to eight high-end
Now:
Founder, Calder Clark,
luxury wedding design
and planning
profile events. She has paid her event-planning dues.
In 2003, after working herself sick, literally, she
weddings she designs each year. But behind each table
decided to make a lifestyle change and move south,
setting is an army of creative partners and a design vi-
where “sweet tea was at the ready.” She took a job as
sion, which are what her clients are really paying for.
a special events manager at a luxury hotel in Charles-
Clark’s sought-after expertise is more than her
ton, SC, but after nearly three years, she had hit a glass
ability to design a beautiful centerpiece. She has the
ceiling financially and wanted to use her talents more
decorum of fine china and the business savvy of a
creatively. In 2006, the Calder Clark studio was born.
sharpened table knife. About 90 percent of her job is
Armed with what she calls “armadillo skin,” she
sales, and she says the work of the actual wedding day
started making a name for herself. Eight years later,
is the smallest portion of the process.
she coordinates weddings all over the country.
“It’s a trial-by-fire, drink-from-a-fire-hose world,”
The six-figure wedding market is narrow, but what
she says of the industry. “A lifestyle job will either eat
Clark offers her clients is unique. In addition to her
you up and spit you out, or it becomes something you
vision and design sense, not many wedding planners
can really manage and is fun for you.”
have a warehouse brimming with designer décor and
A graduate of Washington and Lee University, Clark
several lines of furniture. In essence, Clark is a maker:
falls into the latter category. She got her start at Design
She sees what a wedding can be, and brings together
Cuisine, a full-service catering company in Washington,
the most talented artists — photographers, floral
D.C., where she worked 18 to 20 hours a day on high-
designers, chefs, musicians, etc. – to make it so.
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Her trademark Low Country style has been featured
in well-known magazines such as Southern Living and
Martha Stewart Weddings.
Meanwhile, at Calder Clark, she takes every phone
keeper, and to set up a business bank account.
“I’m trying to get them to a place where they don’t
have to go through the rigors and the pains that I went
through to get where I am,” Clark says. “I don’t think
call, regardless of whether the firm can take on the job.
they can completely leap-frog over certain hurdles of
Her mainstay is showing courtesy to every potential
small-business growth, but I do think I can set them
client. If a bride leaves her a voicemail, she will respond
several years ahead.”
with a phone call, not an email. Likewise, if she calls a
vendor, she doesn’t want a text message in return.
“I think that is something St. Mary’s would have
taught me if I were back in school there now — to
respond in like kind,” she says.
Most recently, Clark has been working on the coaching side of her business, passing along both lessons and
passion. Currently, she is mentoring Audrey Bourland
Hurst ’03 and Linley Prosterman Stokes ’07, wedding
planners based in Memphis and Nashville, respectively.
Luckily for Hurst and Stokes, they had more than
Swatches set the tone for a wedding design proposal.
just a St. Mary’s connection. Hurst’s sister
Hallie Bourland Wagner ’95 graduated with
Clark, and Stokes’s good friends Caitlin
Colcolough ’07 and Cameron Colcolough
Reynolds ’07 are Clark’s nieces.
“I have always loved her aesthetic and
flair, so once I launched Audrey Hurst
Weddings (in December 2012), it seemed
almost necessary to contact Calder to glean
some of her wisdom,” Hurst says.
Stokes, who started her business in
October 2014, said Clark gave her homework
assignments after their first phone call —
to find an accountant, a lawyer, and a bookCalder Clark shares a moment with the bride in a wedding in Charleston, SC.
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Campus News
Class of 2015
Academic Honors
Members of the Class of 2015 have been
recognized for their academic achievement by
local media and the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation
(NMSC) recognized four Seniors for their academic achievement. Ami Agrawal and Gretchen Vogt were named National Merit Scholar
Semifinalists. Meredith Wells was named a
National Achievement Outstanding Participant,
and Elizabeth Bellott was named a Commended Student by the NMSC.
The Commercial Appeal named Gretchen
Vogt, Ami Agrawal, Isabella Arbelaez, and Jane
Morrison as Academic All-Stars; Agrawal for
Mathematics, Arbelaez for Foreign Language
and Vogt and Morrison for General Scholarship.
Recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation in the Class of 2015 are (from
left) Meredith Wells, Achievement Scholar, Ami Agrawal and Gretchen Vogt, Semifinalists.
Not pictured: Elizabeth Bellott.
New Award Honors Teachers
Upper School English Teacher Shari Ray
is the first recipient of the Apple Award, given
to a teacher or teachers for their outstanding
influence on students.
Lizzie Apple ’14 established the award
to recognize the many teachers at St. Mary’s
who inspired her and her classmates by being
“kinder than necessary.” Apple, a freshman at
Middlebury College, established the award
upon her graduation from St. Mary’s.
The Apple Award will be given annually
to the teacher or teachers who have touched
the lives of students through their passion for
their subject and their compassion for their
students.
Upper School English teacher and department chair Shari Ray (left) was the first winner of
The Apple Award. With her is Lizzie Apple ’14 and Head of School Albert Throckmorton.
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Campus News
New Members of the St. Mary’s
Board of Trustees, 2014-2015
James (Jim) Breazeale recently retired as president of
Valley Products Company, a soap manufacturing company.
He graduated from Duke University where he earned his
BBA degree. Breazeale is an active member of the Church
of the Holy Communion. Breazeale and his wife, Beth, are
Team St. Mary’s
Celebrates 20
Years of Racing
for the Cure
the parents of Lisa Breazeale Roberts ’85 and Jennifer
Breazeale Young ’91 and son Jeff. They are also the grandparents of Chandler ’13 and Evelyn Roberts ’18.
Ann Duncan is a recently retired attorney and certified public accountant. She received her BS degree from
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and later earned her
MBA from Vanderbilt University and JD from University of
Memphis. She is the Senior Warden of Church of the Holy
Communion.
Susan Jones received her Bachelor of Science and
Mas-
ters of Education degrees from Vanderbilt University. Jones
is the St. Mary’s Parent Association President. Jones and her
husband, Will, have three daughters who attend St. Mary’s,
Lower School students Race for the Cure. From left,
Lacy Ferrell ’24, Erica Ormseth ’24, Eliza Dent ’25,
Sienna Lightman ’24, Isabel Dent ’24.
Lelia ’17, Mary ’20, and Grace ’23.
Thanks to everyone who helped
Michael (Mike) Matthews is first vice president –
investments with UBS Financial Services, Inc., and earned
his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhodes College. He and
make this year’s Race for the Cure
a success, especially our chairs,
his wife, Julie, have two daughters who attend St. Mary’s,
Stephanie Dent and Katie Ferrell,
Lynley ’15 and Hannah ’18.
as well as all the students, parents,
Julia Chesney McDonald ’96 is director of marketing and communications at the Community Foundation
alumnae and friends who supported Team St. Mary’s. At a special
of Greater Memphis and serves as the current President of
Chapel the week before the race,
St. Mary’s Alumnae Board. McDonald graduated from the
the Middle and Upper School girls
University of Pennsylvania and later received her MBA from
Southern Methodist University. McDonald enjoys spending
time with her husband, Doug, and their daughter Janie.
heard from former Headmaster
Tom Southard, who was instrumental in beginning St. Mary’s
Gretchen Wollert McLennon ’93 works with the
Hyde Family Foundations, where she is the program director for authentic assets and communications. McLennon is
a former Alumnae Board member, current member of the
involvement with the race after his
then-wife Edie was diagnosed with
breast cancer.
Council of Advisors, and former Chair of the Outstanding
Alumna selection committee. A graduate of Northwestern
University, she received her MBA in marketing from Wake
Forest. McLennon enjoys spending time with her husband,
Kojo, and her two dogs, Lucius and Crosby.
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Campus News
New Faculty and Staff
Jennifer Allen joins the
Teresa Leary Jenkins
Lower School staff as a
joined the staff as a Senior
4th grade teacher. She has
Kindergarten teacher after
six years teaching experi-
teaching 4th, 5th, and 1st
ence, most recently in 5th
grades in the public and
grade. Allen is a native
charter school systems.
Memphian who loves
She holds Master’s degrees
Memphis Tiger basketball.
in teaching and social
She sat on the eighth row
work. She’s the mother of
at the Final Four in 2008.
two wonderful children,
She is married to Daniel,
James, a freshman at
who keeps her constantly
Houston High School, and
laughing. Together they are raising two rambunctious
Phoebe, a second grader at St. Mary’s. She also adores
rescue dogs named Jack and Abbey.
Sammy, a golden doodle. Her hobbies include knitting,
photography and reading. Jenkins loves travel adventures and anything rich in culture.
Suzanne Denman joins
Nancy Wilson credits
the ECC staff as the “Den-
her experience and the
man” half of the “Snyder/
teachers at Girls’ Prepara-
Denman” Senior Kinder-
tory School for instilling a
garten team. She recently
life-long love of learning
moved to Memphis to
for building her love of
be near her new Grand
music, which she puts into
Turkey baby, Adelaide. In
use every day as the Early
her most recent past, she
Childhood music teacher.
could be found teach-
While she is new to this
ing 3rd and 4th grades in
particular job, Wilson has
Gwinnett County, Georgia.
been a fixture at St. Mary’s;
Denman is the mother to three grown young men, Larry,
she’s a long-time substitute and mom to Collin Wilson
Nicholas, and Ben, and one dog, Nellie Blye. She has
Buckner ’05, Bailey Wilson ’07, and Mia Wilson ’19. She
been married to Mark for 29-1/2 years (yes, that will be
is married to Gib, a lifelong Memphian, and in her spare
30 years in August!). Her hobbies include training Nellie
time loves to run, bike, swim, sing, strum the guitar,
Blye for therapy dog work, quilting, walking, reading, and
bake, and travel.
enjoying the arts.
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Spotlight on Theatre
Campus News
The Write Place Debuts
in Upper School
Lower School students performing Annie, Jr.
In early October, Director of Plays Jenny Madden led the
Lower School in a production of Annie, Jr., which starred our
very own Albert Throckmorton
as Daddy Warbucks with Sophie
Younker ’23 in the title role.
The students wowed the crowd
with their performance. In November, Upper School thespians
took to the Rose Theater stage
in John Patrick’s comedy, Curious
Savage. Liza Alrutz ’15 played
Ethel P. Savage, the matriarch of
a money-hungry family.
Liza Alrutz ’15 in The
Curious Savage.
Turkey Slam Tennis Tournament
The third annual Turkey Slam Indoor Tennis Tournament
is scheduled for Friday, March 20, from 9:00 a.m. - noon at
the Racquet Club of Memphis. It will be a roundrobin, ladies
doubles format. You do not have to sign up with a partner.
The cost is $100 per player and all proceeds support the
Athletic Department. Registration is open to the first 36
registrants. Download a registration form online at
www.stmarysschool.org.
A new peer-tutoring program debuted in the Upper
School this fall, led by US English Teacher Caroline
Goodman with support and collaboration from the
Middle and Upper School English teachers. The Write
Place focuses on process over product, with a goal of
helping each writer gain a more positive attitude and
confidence about writing. During each appointment,
a trained student tutor conducts a private session in
which a student writer is coached through any stage
of the writing process in order to strengthen her
understanding of the basic processes of writing.
Faculty Honored
Two St. Mary’s teachers were
honored for their work in their
respective fields last fall.
The Tennessee Foreign
Language Teachers Association
named Upper School Spanish
Teacher Josie McNeely Walker
’76 the 2014 Teacher of the
Year. The award is presented
annually by the TFLTA to an
outstanding foreign language
Josie McNeely Walker ’76
educator at the K-12 level. As
the Tennessee Teacher of the Year, Walker was
honored at the TFLTA November conference and
was a finalist for the Southern Conference of
Language Teachers Teacher of
the Year award.
Early Childhood / Lower
School PE Teacher Mickey Pitts
was awarded the TSSAA’s A.F.
Bridges Award for Excellence
for his work as an official during the 2013-14 school year.
Pitts officiates volleyball at the
local and regional level, and
coaches Varsity Track.
Mickey Pitts
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Campus News
Fall Sports Wrap-Up 2014
By Maggie Glaser
W
ith the opening of a
12th place finish in the Region
new playing field and
Race; Sophomore Abby Bas-
standout performances in
kind finished 19th. The Varsity
each sport, including seven
team finished 3rd overall at the
athletes named to The Com-
competitive University School
mercial Appeal Best of Preps
of Jackson Invitational. The JV
teams, it was a good fall
team placed 4th overall in the
sports season at St. Mary’s.
Brooks Twilight Classic.
The Varsity Soccer team,
Varsity Golf had another
under Head Coach Maggie
great season, finishing 29-7.
Glaser and JV Coach Kate
Senior standout KK Mitch-
Fairless, finished with an 8-7-
ell finished 13th in state and
3 record and a notable victory
helped lead the team to a 2nd
over ECS. The Turkeys finished 2nd in the district, 3rd
regionally and competed in
Senior basketball star Kaylan Pugh signs her letter of intent to
play at The Ohio State University, as Athletic Director Sandra
Pitts reminds the crowd of Pugh’s many accomplishments.
state quarterfinals. The senior
overall finish in the district and
3rd in the state tournament.
Eighth grader Megan Tang
placed 7th and sophomore
class was led by Jane Morrison (11 goals, 2 assists) and Mary
Aubrey Guyton placed 8th in the state tournament. The
Caroline Newman (7 goals, 1 assist). The talented Freshman
JV Golf team won the city tournament at the end of the
class was led by leading scorer Martha Kay Williams (14
season. Guyton and Tang both made The CA Best of Preps
goals, 5 assists) and Olivia House (8 goals, 3 assists). Turkey
All-Metro Golf Team.
defense, led by Seniors Maggie McAtee, Meredith Wells,
Last fall St. Mary’s was awarded the TSSAA Doing
Emma Farris, Freshman Evie Laney, and Sophomore goal-
What’s Right Award for the 2013-14 school year. We have
keeper Margie Peeler, recorded 5 shut outs. The TSSAA D-2
won this award, which recognizes sportsmanship, four
All-District team included Morrison, Farris and Williams,
years in a row.
and the All-Tournament team included Morrison and
Williams. House, Newman and Williams made The CA
Best of Preps All-Metro Soccer Team.
The Varsity Volleyball team finished 16-12 and placed
5th in the region. Senior standout Eliza Williams set several
Turkey records, including first in career blocks (166), third in
career kills (611) and fifth in career service aces (170).
Williams’ leadership and talent earned her a spot on
the TSSAA D-2 All-Region 2nd team. Junior Mary Elise
O’Brien tallied 576 assists and averaged one service ace per
set. The Turkeys had big wins over Germantown, TiptonRosemark, and Northpoint. O’Brien and Williams made The
CA Best of Preps All-Metro Volleyball Team.
Senior Lila Gordon led the cross-country team with a
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Varsity soccer’s leading scorer Martha Kay Williams ’18 streaks down the
wing with the ball on the opening day of Joy Field in a game against ECS.
Campus News
Joy Field Dedicated at Second Baptist
soccer took on arch-rival ECS
For landlocked St. Mary’s,
building a new varsity play-
(Varsity lost, JV won) as a
ing field had seemed like an
big crowd of students, par-
impossible dream. Impossi-
ents, and alumnae watched
ble, that is, until ideas turned
the games. Sophomore Jean
into conversations turned
Jackson sang a beautiful
into a partnership between
National Anthem as Senior
Second Baptist Church,
Carmen Saab presented the
St. Mary’s, and a generous
American flag in a pre-game
anonymous donor this fall.
The result: Joy Field, the
new home of St. Mary’s soccer
Celebrating a goal against ECS are (from left) Martha
Kay Williams ’18, Mary Caroline Newman ’15, Kaitlin
Fields ’16, Hattie Fogarty ’18, Olivia House ’18.
ceremony. The dedication and
tailgate party was complete
with Mighty Turkey memorabilia,
and lacrosse, opened September 29 across Walnut
the Fry Guy providing catfish and other goodies, and
Grove Road from the south campus. The field is
Parker Water Ice.
named for Nehemiah 8:10, “The joy of the Lord is
“This is just the first step for bigger things to
my strength,” and also includes a new scoreboard,
come for St. Mary’s athletics,” said Head of School
bleachers, team benches and a storage and bath-
Albert Throckmorton. “We are so grateful for our
room facility.
generous donor and the partnership with Pastor
On a beautiful fall day, both Varsity and JV
Stephen Cook and Second Baptist.”
A big crowd of students, parents
and alumnae — led by the Seniors
in the foreground — cheered on the
Turkeys at the opening of Joy Field.
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By Anna Ranson
t might not have been called a maker mindset
in years past, but St. Mary’s has always taught
girls to be creative, to solve problems, take on
challenges, and build the world they want to see.
Below, meet a few Alumnae who are makers in
their chosen fields. Want to add your own maker
career story? Go to St. Mary’s Episcopal School
Alumnae Facebook page (facebook.com/
StMarysSchoolAlumnae) and share!
M a k i n g Co mm u n i t i e s :
Valentina Shands-Puppione
Cochran ’97
Then: Pep Club, Carillon staff, president of the Environmental Club,
founding member of the bowling team (“we did no actual bowling that first year”)
Now: Principal Architect at Architecture, Inc., Memphis, TN, Member of
St. Mary’s Alumnae Board
“The thing I love most about being an architect is that my
work touches every person that enters or sees a building I
have designed,” says Valentina Shands-Puppione Cochran ’97.
She is particularly proud of her work in helping design Hope
VI public housing in Memphis. “I was
involved in the design of the homes,
the coordination of site amenities,
and the integration of neighborhoods such as Legends Park and
University Place into the existing
urban fabric.” She was also the lead
architect for Muddy’s Grind House,
the newest venture of fellow St. Mary’s alum Kat Gordon ’00.
Cochran, a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 by the Memphis
Business Journal in 2014, and is involved with the Junior
League and the Memphis chapter of the American Institute
of Architects.
“I got a late start at St. Mary’s (she came in 11th grade), so
the fact that I am still such good friends with my schoolmates
says a lot about how accepting and fulfilling my time at
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St. Mary’s was,” says Cochran. “It was at St. Mary’s that my love
to design and create things flourished and my teachers constantly encouraged my creative ways.”
Cochran lives “right down the road from St. Mary’s” with her
husband Jamie and 2-year-old daughter Lucy.
M a k i n g Fa s h i o n :
Meredith Robinson ’06
Then: Belles Lettres art staff, Pep Club, inaugural member of the Dance Team
Now: Fashion Designer, Brooklyn, NY
“I am currently in the initial stages of raising funding for
my women’s contemporary clothing line, Narcissus New York,”
says Meredith Robinson ’06. “Named after the Greek hunter
who fell in love with his own
reflection, my vision is for women
to fall in love with themselves
through their wardrobe.”
Robinson’s love of fashion was
clear during her 15 years at St.
Mary’s. “My favorite activity overall
was participating in the planning
committee for the Junior Fashion Show,” she says. “Since the
prom theme was Elvis that year, we sourced dresses from different vintage stores in Memphis.”
Robinson, who graduated from Pratt Institute in New York,
works in customer service at Bumble and bumble’s flagship
salon in Manhattan. “Though the beauty industry is a little
different from fashion, I am learning a lot about client relationships, which will be a major part of having my own brand.”
St. Mary’s encouraged everyone’s unique talents, says
Robinson. “I could not have had more support. Not only did
St. Mary’s help me find summer programs in Chicago and New
York, but (Upper School Art Teacher) Mrs. Prillaman designed
a studio art curriculum so that I could work on all of the
portfolio requirements.
“Even though it’s been eight years since I graduated, I take
those ‘hallowed halls’ with me everywhere. From my extensive
vocabulary to our SMS Class of 2006 Facebook group, I always
feel like St. Mary’s is a part of me.”
A L U M N A E
M a k i n g Co s t u m e s :
M a k i n g Gam e s :
Ashley Bellet ’98
Georgina Okerson ’96
Then: Editor of Belles Lettres, Fine Arts Club president, track and field team, and an unstoppable actress, appearing in every play from Middle to Upper School
Now: Associate Professor of Costume Design and Resident Costume
Designer, School of Theatre, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Then: Band, Choir, Belles Lettres and was involved with the first
Belles Melodies
Now: Independent Video Game Developer, Sussex, England
“The most rewarding part of my job is that every day I
teach myself how to do something new,” says Ashley Bellet
’98. “My daily routine ranges from sketching, rendering, and
making fabric choices to figuring
out how to construct garments
within a budget, all while guiding
students in textiles and building
patterns. My work involves a lot
of research, but every day I get to
teach and spend time creating in
the shop.”
Bellet loves working with students, teaching them to think
in a three-dimensional way. “My goal is to get my students to
a place where they see challenges as opportunities to learn.
Educational theatre is the place to take risks and take the time
to fix them. Much like what I was taught at St. Mary’s, I try to
teach my students that everyone has something to bring to
the table.”
Bellet says she never realized the impact of her 14 years at
St. Mary’s until she left. “St. Mary’s empowered me and as a
result I have always felt that I can do anything I put my mind
to. Every time I wanted to start something, create something,
or figure out a new project, I was encouraged by my teachers,
the administration, and my parents to do so.
“At St. Mary’s I was constantly inspired by the reading, the
knowledge, and the power of knowing; it was always so
exciting to me. St. Mary’s not only supported and challenged
me, but encouraged me to spend extra time on the things I
loved to do.
“I know now that I would not be a professor if not for the
incredible teachers at St. Mary’s.”
“I get to be my own boss,” says Georgina Okerson ’96,
owner of Hanako Games. “As an ‘indie,’ I have to do a lot of
different types of work. I do design, writing, coding, marketing and general business relations, as well as manage other
people who assist me on my projects.” Okerson works out of
her home most of the time, and says she enjoys being able to
work in a place where she can relax and listen to music while
she writes. “And having a stable environment is also useful for
testing sound effects.”
After graduating from Duke University, Okerson moved
with her husband to Sussex, which is an easy trip to London
“for a day out exploring museums and theatre, or down to the
coast to dress up as pirates, zombies, and steampunk inventors for some live-action role-playing.”
For the games she builds, Okerson works with artists all
over the world. “Since I can’t draw well enough to use my own
art in games, I hire artists to create
things for me. I describe what I
need, sometimes with a quick
sketch of my own to give the right
idea, then someone else turns it
into something pretty.
“It’s great to hear about the
exciting new things St. Mary’s
girls are getting to do with computing and robotics. The
school does such a great job exposing the girls to a variety of
methods and tools that allow the students to become excited
about learning.”
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Alumnae
HOLIDAY GATHERING AT SWEET GRASS
Why I Give:
Dr. Catherine Robilio
Womack ’82
By Lee Davidson Holt ’95
Dr. Catherine Robilio Womack ’82 credits St. Mary’s
with creating the foundation for her achievements
in life and as an Internal Medicine physician at the
University of Tennessee Health Science Center in
Memphis. For that reason, she decided to include a gift
to St. Mary’s in her estate plans.
“I decided to give to SMS
for many reasons,” she said.
“The most important is related
to my success as a mom, wife
and physician—in that order.”
Womack’s daughter is St. Mary’s
alum Elizabeth Womack ’07.
St. Mary’s is “a special place
where girls learn to be strong
women and are not intimidated by others,” Dr. Womack said. “I think that I am not
alone in the belief that SMS prepared me for (various)
situations, so I think that many alums would want to
include St Mary’s in their will.”
Both Catherine and her daughter graduated from
the University of Mississippi and are avid Ole Miss fans.
Catherine and husband Marlin also have a 20-year-old
son, Chip, who is a sophomore there.
Womack says she seeks to emulate the St. Mary’s
faculty while she teaches her medical students, as she
encourages others to reach for their dreams and overcome any obstacles. She remains grateful to St. Mary’s
for giving her the study skills needed to balance all of
life’s demands, especially since Elizabeth was only 2
years old when her Mom entered medical school. She is
still connected to St. Mary’s through a book club of St.
Mary’s friends that has been going strong for 25 years.
“How fortunate we are to have a place like SMS that
allows us to decide what career we want. St Mary’s
gives us the tools to be successful in that path, whatever
it may be,” she said. “I would tell a St Mary’s graduate
that she can do whatever she wants to do in life. She just
needs to decide what she wants to do – or be – and point
toward that goal. I think the possibilities are endless.”
She hopes that remembering St. Mary’s in her estate
planning will allow other girls to follow their dreams
for years to come.
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1. Young Alums at the Holiday event at Sweet Grass: l-r Royce
Miller ’01, Ashley Edge ’08, Elizabeth Holt ’08, Bailey Bethell ’09,
Allie Morrison ’08 and Tyler Hyman ’09.
2. Grace Jensen Knight ’05, Cara Greenstein ’10, Lucy Foster ’10
and Sims Munn ’10 visit at the Young Alum event.
3. Class of 2012: Jessica Caie, V. Ellen Mitchell, Chandler Roberts,
Camille Vaughn, Neely Sammons and Jordan Upton.
4. Young Alums visit: Torry Whartenby ’13, Louisa Boyd ’11,
Olivia Summitt ’13 and Mary Tuggle ’13.
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7
6
10
9
8
ALS ice bucket
challenge
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5. Anna Wheeler with alum Chapel speaker Ayana Fletcher-Tyson ’08.
6. Class of 1996 at dinner: top row (l-r) Lauren Brooks Poindexter, Gwyn Fisher,
Emily Farrow Robbins, Julia Chesney McDonald and Sarah Henley.
Governor Bill Haslam with First
Lady Crissy Garrett Haslam ’76.
7. Co-hostesses Kim Justis Eikner ’87, Stephanie MacIntosh Shy ’89 and Mollie McCarroll
Newman ’81 at the Alumnae Moms breakfast.
8.Mollie McCarroll Newman ’81, Albert Throckmorton, Stephanie MacIntosh Shy ’89 and
hostess Allison Garrott Braswell ’88 at Alumnae Moms breakfast.
9. Abby Yandell Talbott ’03 after her Chapel speech with classmates.
10. Anne Morgan Brookfield Morgan ’99 and Heather Pearson Chauhan ’91.
11. Emily Cochran ’97, Erin Bower ’99, Laura Freeman Rouse ’99, Beverly Stevens ’97
and Anne Spence Lucas ’97.
12. Lisa Mulrooney ’95, Cindy Cates Moore ’87, Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz ’82
and Erin Lyttle Do ’98 visit.
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Alumnae
Alumnae at the Dedication of Joy Field.
Birmingham Alumnae event: Grace Bethell ’12, Lucy Pontius
Underwood ’68, hostess Hallie Bourland Wagner ’95, Albert
Throckmorton, Hollye Ferguson Stigler ’97, Lucy Newton ’13.
Class of 1973: Milner Stanton, Sarah Peeples
Hodges, Olivia Montgomery at the Joy Field
Dedication and Tailgating.
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Jenny Maddux Stenberg ’01, Royce Miller ’01 with Alum Chapel
speaker Courtney Routt Worthman ‘00, Amy Reinhardt Robinson ’00
and Lauran Glassman Stimac ’00.
Alum Book Club attendees Amanda Vogel ’01, hostess Anne Fisher, Allison
Wellford Parker ’83, Kate Wellford Pritchard ’78 and Andrea Weiss Tomes ’82.
Alumnae Board 2014-2015, President Julia Chesney McDonald ’96.
Diane Taylor Newton ’66, Madge Logan Deacon ’69, Minna Thompson Glenn ’66,
Cristina Brescia Michta ’70, Patti Person Ray ’65, Catherine Dailey Berger ’71
and Gigi Gould ’70 at the Alumnae holiday reception.
Christmas Pageant volunteers: from top (l-r) Allison Brown Coates ’76,
Kirk McClintock, Kathy Daniel Patterson ’78, bottom (l-r):
Shelley Kuykendall Herzke ’90, Chair, Lynn Hitchings Albano ’77,
and Carmine Vaughan.
Murff Oates Galbreath ’95, Alumnae Chapel speaker
Calder Britt Clark ’95 and Lucy Walt Wepfer ’77.
Alumnae Back to Campus Committee Chairs: Jessica Johnson ’94,
Madge Logan Deacon ’69 and Julia Chesney McDonald ’96
with honoree Patti Person Ray ’65.
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ties for reunion and will enjoy a
special time with Mary Walton’s
grandchildren.
1962
Judy Lawrence McKay
[email protected]
Class years in orange will celebrate their
reunions at Alumnae Weekend 2015, April 24–25.
1940-1961
Elizabeth Taylor Shindler
[email protected]
Betsy Ross Rucks ’47 has moved
to Trezevant Manor. She loves
being there with so many friends
and enjoyed seeing them at her
welcome party. Pauline Fisher
Handrahan ’47 has been busy
in the kitchen in Birmingham.
She would love to see everyone
and sends her love to all. Joy
Powell Smith ’47 who lives in
Murfreesboro is getting along
fine and was full of wonderful
memories of her friends at St.
Mary’s. Aimee Gronauer Ginsburg
’47 said all is well and she would
love to see everyone. It would be
such fun. Joy Brown Wiener ’47
is really busy with her student’s
recital. Joy is devoted to enriching musical culture in Memphis.
Naomi Gray May ’47 has been in
Catherine Meacham Durgin ’53
and Elizabeth Van Brocklin
Still ’80.
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the hospital in Ark. She has mastered the wheel chair and manages quite well in her 200-year-old
family home. She has a wonderful
sense of humor. She talks to her
sister Sue Gray Burgess ’52 every
week. Iolis Robins Carruthers ’48
said she loves being at Trezevant
Manor. There is so much to do
there. Kitty Perry Taylor ’53 is
recovering very well from hip
surgery. She is looking forward
to taking her granddaughter to
England. They will be staying with
a friend of hers. Kay Allenberg
Cohen ’53 is happy at Trezevant
Manor. She recently had lunch
with Aimee and visited with Joy
Brown Wiener. Kay is pleased
that her grandson is studying at
Sewanee. Anne Perry Stamps
’57 stays busy with her artwork
on the coast. She has added
pillows to her many art forms
now. She hears from Marguerite
Austin Joyner ’57 and hopes to
visit her soon. Mary Joy Prichard
Knowlton ’57 is busy as always.
She is looking forward to Carnival
Memphis this year as their
grandsons will be pages for Grand
Krewe Memphi founded in 1872 to
carry on a family tradition. Punk
Aycock Davidson ’57 is so excited
that her daughter Shannon is
coming for St. Mary’s Alumnae
Weekend and that she will love
spending time with her grandson.
Mary Walton Glass Walker ’54
has a new great grandchild. Her
sister Lynne Glass Rice ’57 from
Arkansas will be visiting soon.
They will be at St. Mary’s festivi-
It seems the Class of 1962 is very
active and involved and traveling
all over the globe. Patty Waddell
Smith just returned from two
weeks in England. She went to
Bristol Cathedral with her choir,
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral,
Portland. They sang for eight days
at Evensong beginning of August
which commemorated the 100th
anniversary of the beginning of
WWI. They also went to Bath,
Salisbury, and Stonehenge and on
to London for some great theater
and fabulous museums. It was a
wonderful trip. Patty also stays
very busy with her two grandchildren, Stella (9) and Julian (7).
Nancy Whitlock Hubbs took a
week long cruise to Alaska in
June. This was her fourth trip to
the Inland Passage. In November
she will be taking a cruise to the
eastern Caribbean. Nancy is still
working with mostly teenagers,
delinquents, and disabled in child
welfare for her seventeenth year
and really enjoys it. She has ten
grandchildren at last count and
one great grandchild two weeks
old. The grandchildren all love to
spend their vacations on the farm
with Nancy and her husband so
she stays very busy. In October
Beth Whitlock Peterson visited
her twin sister Nancy Whitlock
Hubbs at her farm on their
birthday and they had a wonderful time. Beth just returned
from a Viking River Cruise down
the Romantic Danube with her
husband. They had a fabulous
time and took some fantastic
pictures. Beth’s daughter Liza
was diagnosed with MS and lived
with Beth for a difficult year but
is doing better and has gone back
to school just an hour and a half
away. Carolyn Bullard is still
loving her job at The Richards
Group where she makes sure
that the Chick-fil-A cows are
properly misspelling everything
correctly. In September she flew
to New Jersey to help her sister
Ruby celebrate her 80th birthday.
Ruby basically raised Carolyn
so she did not want to miss this
landmark event. Ruby’s grandson
took them over the Delaware
River to Philadelphia to see the
Barnes Foundation in its new
home. It was wonderful to see the
beautiful impressionist paintings
in their elegant new building. As
a result of painful arthritis in her
right hip she has begun working out with a trainer and has
lost 25 pounds! Hats off to you,
Carolyn! Valerie Jackson Markley
just got her advanced practice
nursing license and prescriptive
authority and will be starting a
new job as an advanced practice
psychiatric nurse. She also made
a presentation of her research
study (Enhancing Adherence
to Treatment for Clients with
Mental Illness) at an international
research conference in Hong Kong
in July. She is also trying to help
her older sister in Wisconsin since
her husband had to move to an
assisted living home for dementia
last year. We are all very proud of
you, Valerie.
1963
Jenny Emison Ewing
[email protected]
Julia Alissandratos has recently
become the secretary of the
Alliance Française de Charleston.
The local Alliance Française is
extremely active with numerous
films, a November film festival,
and all sorts of opportunities
to speak French over wonderful
wine, great cheese, and
delicious pâtés. She is also
secretary of her Parish Council
and active in the Mother’s Day
Greek Festival. “And they call
this retirement!” Jenny Emison
Ewing had a wonderful time
having visitors at Ten Mile, swimming and boating and lots of fun
walks in the woods. “Now it is
time to play in the dirt. That is
what some call working in the
yard.” Tina Heslep Ciliberto is
wholeheartedly enjoying being
unemployed. No big travel plans
right now. “We’ve been exploring
the California coast with an RV
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and bicycles.” Donna Lansing
Plumer has taken up painting
and is auditing art classes at U
of M. Yesterday she sold her very
first one! “I post on Facebook.”
Sara Sorsby Dennis has moved!
“Don’t do it!” Her new address is
in Canada. “Life is good and busy
with my practice and 3 eight year
olds about...and my son...and his
dog!” Joyce Wilkerson Kaplan
has had so much fun recently at
Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat
Festival and our Film Festival.
“I’m really enjoying being in my
studio. We’ve had fog, clouds,
sun, wind and drops of rain. This
is the time to settle at my loom
and invent things while the winter winds begin to blow.” 1964
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Contact Gigi Gould at
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1965
Julia Malone
[email protected]
The Class of ’65, which is about
to celebrate our golden anniversary, is also celebrating the
contribution made by our own
Patti Person Ray, soon to retire
as Head of the Upper School. Her
career in education spanned 40
years, with 27 years as a high
school administrator, including
15 years at St. Mary’s. She took
the Upper School post when
this year’s seniors were still in
pre-kindergarten. “I have gone
full cycle” with that class, she
says. “All my years in education
have been a blessing to me, but
my time at St. Mary’s has been
especially wonderful.” She and
Cathy Hoover Allen will be our
class reps for the alum trip to
France. In other news, we heard
for the first time in ages (we no
longer count years) from Ellen
Rumsey Bellenot, who is living
in Tallahassee, Fla., where she is
an artist. She reports that she has
retired “from not doing much”
and that she and husband Steven
have a grown daughter, Elizabeth,
who they think is “lovely and
screamingly funny.” She adds,
“I admit to bias, but not to error.” Ellen does “the gratitudes”
daily on Facebook. Marion West
Hammer loves part-time teaching, which gives her more time
for grandson Caleb and visits with
newlywed daughter Elizabeth,
who lives in Charlotte and is a
free-lance TV producer. Kathy
Sweany Bertram is still practicing
medicine but has more time off
for such things as spending fall in
Wyoming and attending the King
Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena,
Ark. Class secretary Julia Malone
still lives in and loves our nation’s
capital, plays a lot of tennis,
loves photography, keeps in close
touch with family and neighbors
and works part-time in public
relations. See you at Alumnae
Weekend to celebrate our 50th
class reunion on April 24-25.
1966
Diane Taylor Newton
[email protected]
Lynn Hungerford Kittle is
wondering where the time has
gone. Time flies when you’re
having fun! All is well with their
family. Diane Taylor Newton
just got back from the Tennessee
Fitness Spa getting in shape for
fall. I signed up for the Alumnae
Trip to France in March led by
Patti Person Ray ’65, Head of
the St. Mary’s Upper School.
Ed and I have been spending
time in Fla. at The Villages. I am
engaged in their art program
and water volleyball. Nancy
Whitman Manire ’64 came for a
visit. We were busy with yoga,
line dancing and a great dinner
party. Diane and Nancy’s granddaughters Keith Ellis Prest ’18
and Elizabeth Mallory Macdonald
’18 are both in 9th grade are very
good friends. They love St. Mary’s
and St. Mary’s loves them. Claire
McCaskill Hughes was visited
by her sons and their families in
August. She has 8 grandchildren,
three under the age of two. She
loved reading to them, playing
with toys and teaching the older
children gin rummy. The oldest
son rented a lake house with a
boat. They spent lots of time on
the lake. Cissy Lansing Moriarty
and Charles spent the summer
in Turkey, within 10 miles of the
Syrian border. Lots of refugee tent
camps and wandering refugees.
Their trip was full of Christian
and Biblical history. The unstoppable travelers will be cruising the
Mediterranean along Portugal and
Spain’s shores. They also enjoy
visiting their granddaughters
ages 3 and 4. Cissy walked in The
Cancer Walk with 35,000 other
people and many wore pink. That
is a wow!
1967
Bette West Bush [email protected]
We were represented by four at
the Alumnae Weekend luncheon
in April: Lynn Bledsoe Buhler,
Margaret Barton, Susan McNeely
Nicholas, and (Surprise! Surprise!)
Wendy Locke. Wendy lives near
Shelby Forest on seven acres with
“countless critters” and is now
an end-of-life caregiver after a
career as a clinical nutritionist.
Lynn reported that they all “kept
their elbows off the table, their
napkins in their laps, and their
voices down.” She said that she is
not sure if our class now qualifies
as “cute old ladies” but that our
table has been moved to the front
of the room. Many in our class
have been traveling and retiring.
Two took the “trip of a lifetime”
to Europe this past summer. In
June Alice Cockroft Oates went
to Italy with daughter Amy and
husband Jack to celebrate Amy’s
graduation from Rhodes College
and 21st birthday and Alice and
Jack’s 25th anniversary. In July
Debbie Boehme Salter went to
France with daughter Elizabeth to
visit her cousin, whom she had
not seen in 45 years, where they
stayed in her cousin’s barn that
has been renovated for rentals.
Alice and Jack both retired in
March and came to Memphis in
May for Amy’s graduation. Alice’s
sister Carolyn Cockroft ’71 was
also in attendance. Alice and Jack
also made a trip in July to Phoenix
where Jack spoke at a conference managed by Carolyn, and
in August they went with Amy to
San Francisco where she is now in
Left: Patti Person Ray ’65 with Lee McGeorge Durrell ’64 at the Durrell Conservatory in Jersey, England.
Right: Cissy Lansing Moriarty ’66 in Turkey.
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graduate school at the University
of San Francisco. Debbie is not
quite ready to retire yet but is between jobs at the moment looking
for work as a HR Generalist similar to her previous job but with
less responsibility. She enjoys
time with granddaughter Elyse
and is looking forward to the birth
of a grandson in February. Other
travelers include Anne Hyde Dale
and husband Jamie, both now
retired, who went to Bryce, Zion,
and Grand Canyon out West along
with a stopover in Memphis to
visit with Susan, who took them
to the Germantown Commissary
for a barbeque supper. Dottie
Parish Peterson took a three week
trip to the Gulf coast and came
through the Memphis area to visit
with sisters Bonnie Parish Moody
’68 and Billie Parish Lamier’s ’73
daughter and three little girls.
Lynn traveled mostly along the
East coast with husband Jon from
Maine to Key West, but not all at
the same time. Adele Tate spent a
month in late spring at her family’s summer home in Michigan.
Libba Mann Harbin went to NYC
for granddaughter Rebecca’s first
birthday October 1 where Rebecca
loved being the center of attention; and yours truly, who took a
quick trip in June with family to
my sister Marion West Hammer’s
’65 daughter’s wedding in the
mountains of N.C. Super photos
were shared by almost all of us,
but special mention must be
made of the photos sent by Susan
Seelbinder, who shared photos
of her two cats, Sophie, Leader of
the Pack, and Pi, the sweetie pi,
two dogs, KC, mon petit prince,
and Angel, the Guardian of the
Phunny Pharm, and a visiting
dragonfly, the Divine Miss M and
Jean Stitt Otto, who sent three
photos of her and her husband
enjoying the great outdoors of
the Northwest where they live
on their island just a ferry ride
from downtown Seattle. Jean also
enters the rolls of us retirees in
December after 35 years as a critical care RN in Seattle’s trauma
hospital. Finally, Susan McNeely
Nicholas is pleased to report that
her health is good and PET scans
okay, and Lynn along with many
other grandparents enjoyed
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St. Mary’s Chapel with her granddaughter. “The girls still sing ‘Day
by Day’,” Lynn says. She “kept an
eye out for teachers dispensing
detention slips but didn’t see any.”
1968
Jan Cone Davis
[email protected]
Thanks to everyone who was able
to send me news before Hank
and I left for our European River
Cruise. We spent 14 days on the
Danube, Main, and Rhine Rivers,
stopping at different cities each
day. We also spent extra days on
each end of the trip in Budapest
and Amsterdam. It was amazing
to actually stand in places that
we read about in history and art
classes. We had a wonderful time,
but are missing the great meals
and crew staff that waited on
us. It’s back to reality! Carolyn
Mayo has been busy completely
renovating her late sister’s condo
in Germantown. The work should
be finished and ready for her
to move in before the holidays,
which she will spend in Boston
with her brother Hughes’ family. She is planning to travel to
Australia and New Zealand next
fall. Pam Joyner Evans and “Hank
2” enjoy spending time with their
five grandchildren. Pam and Hank
had an unbelievable vacation this
year. They chartered a catamaran with three other couples in
the British Virgin Islands. The
boat slept ten and came with a
captain and chef. They sailed all
through the islands for a week.
The catamaran came with all
sorts of water toys. It had a ten
-person dinghy that could pull
skiers and people in a water tube.
There was snorkeling and fishing
equipment, paddleboards, and
sea kayaks. They caught a mahimahi one day and the captain
cooked it. The food and drinks
were the best they have had on
any trip. They had one meal off
the ship where had a lobster bake
in their bare feet in the sand. Pam
said it was especially fun to visit
two islands where they had sent
their two sons and daughtersin-law for their honeymoons.
Holly Rogers is still enjoying
working in Orlando. She says she
enjoys following her friends on
Facebook as they travel to places
on her own bucket list. A second
phase of Harry Potter at Universal
Studios just opened, and Holly
says it would be a good place for
all of us to take our grandkids!
Marilyn Schwinn Smith is still
into her research by writing and
reading which she says is mainly
for her own entertainment. Her
son Garnet is a fifth grade teacher,
and his wife is a research scientist. Marilyn and Sean visited
them in St. Paul. Marilyn recommends a restaurant – Moscow
on the Hill- if any of us are ever
in St. Paul. Another son and his
wife live in Providence. Her third
son is presently at home, but
will soon be “out the door.” It
was great hearing from Sandy
Skeen Williamson. Sandy also
retired from teaching this year.
She stays busy helping out with
her six-year-old granddaughter,
Sophie. Sandy is on the board of
an organization that supports
educational projects in rural
Nicaragua. For many years she
worked as a volunteer with this
group and also took high school
students to Nicaragua. Sandy says
she dreams of now having a clean
house, no weeds in the garden,
and order instead of chaos in her
life, but knows it will take time to
catch up on 40 years of postponed
chores. Elinor Baker Jones and
Tom traveled to Amsterdam and
Brussels with her mother and her
friend. Elinor was kind enough
to give me restaurant recommendations for Amsterdam.
Unfortunately, we stayed in a
different part of the city. Elinor
is a grandmother again. Lee had
her second baby boy. These two
babies along with Elizabeth’s
triplets make five babies in two
and a half years! Deborah Pigott
Moore is staying busy with babysitting, bridge, Bible Study, and
tennis. She also tutors at a city
school every week. She and her
mother recently went to Rome
for a friend’s son’s wedding. They
had a wonderful time. Deborah’s
oldest daughter, Margaret, and
her family live a mile away. She
is expecting her third child – a
girl! The two boys are two and a
half and four. Daughter, Elizabeth,
left teaching at an independent
school to work in a city school
for underprivileged children. She
is getting administrative experience while teaching. Deborah’s
son graduated from Emory
where he played basketball. He
works in leverage finance at
Suntrust in Atlanta. Youngest
child, Katherine, is quite the
world traveler. She is spending
her first semester of her junior
year in Madrid. She has been to
Amsterdam and France. She has
been to Barcelona for a birthday
party and has done extreme
sports in Interlocken. Whew!
Thanks for the news, everyone!
1969
Pam McNeely Williams
[email protected]
Greetings to the classmates of
1969! I recently heard from Jean
Phillips Lorton who reported she
and Orlan vacationed in North
Carolina where they had dinner
with Julie Bonds Greene and
her husband, Fred who live in
Brevard, N.C. Jean’s girls are busy
and happy with granddaughter
Kyla, 4th grade, and grandsons
Calin, 3rd grade and Quinn, a budding kindergarten student! Orlan
and Jean are working baby boomers and have decided to retire
when work is no longer fun. We
are so happy they are enjoying
this part of their lives! Jean’s
uncle, Warwick, Mrs. Phillips’
brother, who participated in a
Religious Emphasis Week at St.
Mary’s when we were in middle
school, is now 94 and feeling
quite well! I am enjoying retirement from the West Memphis
Public School System and Brian
and I had a very busy spring
and summer with Matthew, our
22 year old son, graduating as a
2nd Lieutenant from the United
Air Force Academy and marrying his fiancée Hannah Peterson,
also a 2014 AFA graduate. The
wedding was in Minnesota and
was one of the prettiest events
I have seen. Our daughter Ellen
LeVaughn Kowalchuk ’96 and
her children Mary, Lydia, Sam,
Elizabeth, and Timothy were in
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the wedding as well as our older
son, Scott Williams. All of the
groomsmen wore party sleeve
tuxedo shirts with a variety of
Ole Miss, Grizzlies, Elvis, baseball,
Cars & Planes and Americana
themes on display! We were
also fortunate that my sisters,
Josie McNeely Walker ’76, Susan
McNeely Nicholas ’67 and our
mother, Camille McNeely flew to
Minn. to participate in this joyous
occasion.
1970
Cristina Brescia Michta
[email protected]
We are such a fun bunch of ladies!
The summer was marked by “academic bookends” for the Sledge
and Denise DuBois Taylor family.
Their son Will graduated with a
physics degree from Princeton in
June, and by August, the threesome was enjoying another week
together as they moved Will into
his apartment in Providence, R.I.
where he began a PhD program
at Brown University. Sledge is
traveling a great deal as vice-chair
of the National Cotton Council,
and Denise joins him when she
can. Mostly, however, she keeps
busy as the Development Director
at GSL Episcopal School. Betty
Coe Cruzen Manuel and husband David are enjoying their
second fall in Missouri, with
beautiful weather and gorgeous
foliage. They will be celebrating
their 40th wedding anniversary in
December. Cary Pridgen Slatery
writes that she enjoys news of
her classmates via the St. Mary’s
News. She and her husband,
Herbert, reared their daughter,
Frances, and son, Harrison, in
Knoxville where he was an attorney. Four years ago, The Governor,
husband of St. Mary’s alum Crissy
Garrett Haslam ’76, asked them to
move to Nashville so that Herbert
could be his Counsel. They moved
into a downtown condo near
the Capitol and became urbanites. It’s been a blast as Cary can
walk down the street to the main
library or to take free line dance
lessons at night. She is a mentoring mom at a Moms Support
Group, leads aged 20-something
girls in Bible study and volunteers. On Oct. 1, her husband
became the new Attorney General
of Tennessee. Yours truly has
been enjoying having daughter, Chelsea, home during her
Gap year before leaving for the
UK to complete her Master›s at
Cambridge. Cristina and Andrew
look forward to visiting her. Gigi
Gould is looking forward to going
on the St. Mary’s Alumnae trip
to France in the spring. She also
wants to remind us that we have
our 45th reunion coming up. Get
ready to celebrate April 24-25!
Cristina Brescia Michta has
been busy substitute teaching,
volunteering at her church, Grace
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and
advising the Rhodes College Chi
Omega chapter. Andrew continues
to teach at Rhodes College and to
travel to Europe. He was invited
by NATO to travel to Afghanistan
as one of select group of opinion
leaders. Cristina ran the Greenline
half marathon. She challenges
her classmates to start compiling
Carolyn Cockroft ‘71 and husband Chris
Brown on a pilgrimage to Israel.
news for the next magazine. See
you in April at Alumnae Weekend!
1971
Carolyn Cockroft
[email protected]
Deborah Abernathy was in Ocean
Springs, Miss., for a Main Street
Downtown meeting. She walked
into a fabulous store and recognized a picture of one of our
classmates--Christie Stratton
Moody! She had glass ornaments
of seashore birds for sale there.
Deborah is still loving her job and
still caring for aging parents. Julia
Sprunt Grumbles completed her
“temporary” 12-month assignment
at UNC. Husband Bill and she have
taken full advantage of the first
time in their 25-year marriage just
to chill and enjoy traveling, visiting family and friends, and living
in their N.C. home for six months.
Marietta Canale Haaga and
husband Fletcher celebrated their
36th anniversary in September.
Marietta went to a fitness convention in Atlanta over the summer
and got certified in indoor cycling.
She also learned lots of fun ideas
to implement in personal and
group training. Son Martin will
be graduating from UT nursing
school in December. Son Fletcher
is happily married and is a proud
homeowner in Chattanooga. In
June Avery Malone Kaserman
visited her sisters, Julia Malone
’65 and Peggy, and their families,
including grandchildren. She saw
an exhibit at The National Art
Gallery in Washington, D.C., on
the friendship of Mary Cassatt
Charlotte Day ‘72 and Margaret
Gorman Mahoney ‘72.
and Degas. In Baltimore, Md., she
went to the National Aquarium.
Husband Joel and she celebrated
their 40th wedding anniversary
in late June. In September Jenny
Jones Wardwell visited her
parents and Catherine Dailey
Berger and Avery had a luncheon
visit. Joel is still enjoying playing
with his band at Celtic Crossing
as well as for the Contra Dance
at Idlewild Presbyterian Church
which daughter, Julia and Avery
attend when they play once a
month. Jan Carruthers Sturdivant
reports that in the fall, a movie
was filmed in the Greenwood/
Itta Bena area that is a western
starring Liam Hemsworth (Hunger
Games), Woody Harrelson, and
William Hurt (Big Chill). The best
part is that Woody has rented
the house next door to Jan and
has been a “very fun” neighbor.
The film will be a western called
“By Way of Helena.” My big news
is that husband Chris and I went
on a pilgrimage to Israel in May.
Our base was in Jerusalem at St.
George’s Anglican College, but we
traveled all over the country – to
Jericho, where we renewed our
baptismal vows in the Jordan
River, to Nazareth, Bethlehem,
Masada, Emmaus and many other
holy sites. We attended Sunday
morning Eucharist at the Church
of the Holy Sepulcher, right in
front of the Tomb. I will “ponder
all these things” in my heart for
the rest of my life. In September
our church had its annual country
fair where we canned about 1,400
jars of apple butter and Chris and
I performed on stage with the
Pohick Pickers.
Class of 1972: Angie King Keesee, Ashley Moore Remmers,
Jennifer Wilde Lovejoy, Anne Remmers Phillips enjoy hiking.
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1972
Christine Mayer Todd
[email protected]
There is great and exciting news
of a wedding belle! John Remmers
and Ashley Moore Mayfield were
married Dec. 20, 2014, at Holy
Communion. We’ll have two
Remmers in our class now. Ashley
is thankful John, Anne Remmers
Phillips’ brother, moved back to
Memphis from Richmond. Ashley
wants us to know miracles DO
happen! There was a wonderful St. Mary’s group who met at
Charlotte’s lake house this summer. Charlotte assures they had
a blast! Ashley Moore Mayfield,
Angie King Keesee, Jennifer
Wilde Lovejoy, Meg Jemison
Bartlett, Anne Remmers Phillips,
Lee Taylor Boyd, Margaret
Gorman Mahoney, and Charlotte
Day hiked, laughed, and caught
up on each others’ lives. Suzanne
Hauser Toten wrote, “2014 has
been an exciting year for me. I
finally broke through the old
glass ceiling and am now the
Vice President of the Executive
Project Management Office for
Rushmore Loan Management
Services. I just celebrated my
60th. I rented a house in Sonoma
County California. My cousin
from Memphis and friends from
Wisconsin and California joined
me for a long weekend of wine
tasting and fabulous food. I will
be dieting for months to make
up for it. No grandchildren yet.
My youngest step son is getting married in September so at
least there is hope in the future.”
Sallie Bernard Armstrong wrote,
“Reno will have been my home
for 34 years this October. Bob
(my husband) grew up here, and
we moved to Reno right after
we married. I never thought it
would happen, but I really am a
westerner at heart, albeit with a
slight accent. Bob and I stay busy
with our law practices (we practice with different firms) and our
two wonderful daughters, whom
we had later in life! Ashley, our
older daughter, just graduated
from the University of Cambridge
with a Masters in Development
Economics, and, in November, she
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will move to Rome to begin an internship with the United Nation’s
International Fund for Agriculture
Development. Ashley chose to
stay on the West Coast for college,
and she attended Santa Clara
University, where she played D1
basketball and graduated as Santa
Clara’s 2013 Valedictorian. Santa
Clara was Bob’s alma mater, so
it was very special to us to have
her nearby and to be able to share
in so many of her experiences. Elizabeth, our younger daughter, chose to go farther away from
home, and she is a sophomore at
Vanderbilt of all places! Moving
to the South has been a little bit
of an adjustment for her, but
Nashville is a wonderful city, and
it is very special for me that she
is getting a taste of Southern life,
culture, and manners! I hoped
being in Nashville for her events
would give me an opportunity
to get back to Memphis more
frequently, but there has not been
a lot of time. However, being
back near Memphis has certainly
made me think of everyone and
the amazing times we all shared.
From my perspective, as one
of the classmates coming from
Arkansas from what then was
more of a struggling public school
system than it is now, St. Mary’s
started me in the right direction
and gave me the appreciation
for education that I have now
enjoyed my entire adult life.
We were all very blessed!” Meg
Jemison Bartlett’s son Jemison
had a wonderful wedding this fall.
Her mother, Peggy Bodine, invited
us to a wonderful luncheon where
we each took on the persona
of a famous successful woman
like Margaret Thatcher, Abigail
Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dolly
Parton, or Hillary Clinton. We had
fun guessing who was who. The
truth is tough; the Class of ’72
is successful in their own right.
Musette Sprunt Morgan is doing
well, is traveling often, and is the
last of us to turn 60. She is thrilled
her children Worth and Musette ’03
are launched and happy. Jane
Gordon Simmons has great skills
organizing wedding plans and has
helped many people including
our classmates’ children tie the
knot. She also is invaluable with
makeovers, makeup, retail, and
singing the praise of her niece Kat
Gordon’s ’00 Muddy’s Cupcakes.
Susan Ossorio has a new position. She teaches preschool at
Farmington Presbyterian School.
What lucky 3 year olds to have
Ms. Susan! Carroll and I are going
with another couple to look for
Machu Picchu and pink dolphins
in Peru to celebrate my 6oth. We
all wish each other a happy year!
1973
Olivia Montgomery
[email protected]
Bron Gayna Schmit writes “It’s
hard to believe but my mother
turned 90 in mid-June! We had
relatives from Arizona, Florida
and Tennessee plus grandsons
surprised her with a 4-day celebration. Neighbors and Atlanta
friends joined in the fun– lots of
laughter and sharing of memories!” One week later, Bron Gayna
flew with nine friends to Alaska
for two weeks- one week on land
and one week on a ship! She
reports it was a life changing
vacation … every day she would
look at the scenery and wildlife
and compare it to one of God’s
great panoramic postcards. Bron
Gayna also notes that she has
started her 35th year in education. It was actually her 54th if
you start at kindergarten. What
a prodigy she is! Sarah Peeples
Hodges went back to Mongolia
last summer with her 20 year old
son, Ben. They were there for six
weeks. She writes, “The image
that sticks in my mind is seeing
glamorous university students
at ease in an urban setting, but
equally at home stoking a fire in a
countryside ger (yurt in Russian).
The Nadaam Festival, celebrated
mid-July, features archery, wrestling (the sumo always wins), and
horseback riding. Hoping to return for a third summer in 2015.”
Olivia Montgomery advanced
into Gardening 201 after learning
the difference between a weed
and a plant. A weed is something that you curse, dig up by
the roots, destroy with a nuclear
bomb … and it still comes back. A
plant is something you pay good
money for, plant in an ideal spot,
fertilize it, nurture it and whisper
sweet nothings into its petals.
Then once, only once, you give it a
cross-eyed look and it dies.
1974
Beth Williford Carson-Wallace
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Kathy Bell Adams writes,
“Daughter Conlee married in
June and we love being able to
turn her questions over to her
husband Alex!! She has just had
a career change and is selling
real estate for Hobson Co. Her
new name is Conlee Stringfellow
so be looking for her poster on
Poplar!!! Our California granddaughter just turned two!!”
Doris French Jones reported that
daughter Trisha and her husband,
Jacob, blessed them with their
first grandchild, Marion. She is
eight months old, and dressed
for their church’s baby dedication
ceremony in one of Doris’s baby
dresses. Husband Ransom and
she are both busy with work and
travel. They look forward to being
full-time grandparents in a few
years! Donna Osborne Bradley
writes, “I am Training Coordinator
for Metropolitan St. Louis Equal
Housing and Opportunity Council
and teaching at Lindenwood
University (criminal justice
classes), Webster University
(labor-management relations),
and Columbia College (business
law). If you get a minute, please
“like” Metropolitan St. Louis Equal
Housing and Opportunity Council
Facebook page at www.facebook.
com/EHOCSTL. Chapters 1 and 2
of the dissertation are mentorapproved. I am gathering data so
I can write the remaining three
chapters and running into a few
roadblocks. I just keep telling myself that it’s nothing that can’t be
overcome.” Sally Fri tells me that
she “knows nothing and has done
nothing”. I assume that means
nothing that she cares to report,
as we know she is always adding
chapters to her book. I know that
girl well.....she is up to somethin’!!
And we can all know that it is
peppered with all the creative,
caring, and fun spirit that that girl
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possesses!! So I leave you with a
smile on that note...Class of 1974
is keeping us proud. With love
from Banks and Bozo.
1975
Laurie Walpole
[email protected]
The Class of 1975 is getting
pumped up for our reunion next
April 24-25. Thanks to Angie
Rose and Watty Brooks Hall for
being the Reunion Chairs! There
was a mini pre-reunion recently
when Deborah Adelson Johns
was in town from Colorado, but
the real thing sounds like it’s
going to be awesome from the
ideas that Angie & Watty have.
No way am I missing that. Mary
Belcher Page’s big news is that
her pet sitting company, Creature
Comforts Memphis, received the
Bark City Bluff Reader’s Choice
Awards best Pet Sitter, Best Dog
Walker, and Best Pet Taxi for
2014. Congratulations, Mary!
Wendi Sloane and husband Steve
sold their big family house and
moved into a smaller “second
honeymoon” home now that their
youngest is a senior in college.
Business travel took Wendi to
Hong Kong recently, and she also
went to Berlin, where she ordered
a white wine spritzer in German
and now considers herself fluent.
Susan Page Gates’ daughter Julia
is getting married, so Susan will
be figuring out how to put on a
wedding. Since whatever Susan
puts her energy into she does
it really well, I’m guessing it’s
going to be a wonderful wedding. Susan Apperson ran into
Jon Hamm at the Atlanta airport.
Nora Wingfield Tyson is enjoying
being Deputy Commander, U.S.
Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk.
She and Wayne like to sneak to
their home in Williamsburg and
play golf as much as possible.
Watty Brooks Hall and husband
Chris spent a relaxing vacation in
Key West, where all they did was
eat fabulous fresh seafood, sleep,
and read (Hemingway, I presume).
Watty loves to hang out at their
farm with their menagerie, which
includes their beloved donkey
Oliver, who comes running every
time he sees her (of course she’s
usually carrying a bag of carrots).
Jana Fletcher Markowitz was
awarded the Leader of the Year
title by the Memphis Chapter
of the Society for Information
Management (SIM) for leadership, dedication, and service
for her work in STEM outreach.
Congratulations, Jana! She is
currently forging a relationship
between SIM and the National
Coalition of Girls’ Schools. Jill
Jemison Margolin wrote from
the hospital, where she was
recovering from her second knee
replacement. I guess that’s the
downside of taking your senior
USTA tennis team to the regionals. Jill and husband Peter have
traveled recently to Maine to visit
Jill’s parents and brother. They
also went to Novia Scotia and
New Brunswick, and out west to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Jennifer
Jones has been studying African
Tribal dancing in Manhattan,
along with lots of gardening and
travel. She’s been to Jamestown,
also Asheville, N.C., Alaska, and
Sandy Hook, N.J. Gosh, everyone’s traveling more than I am
(although I write this in Natchez,
Miss. on my way to New Orleans).
Thanks to everyone who wrote,
and thanks to our Class Agents
Betsy Olim and Robin Bartusch
Goertz for all their work!
1976
Allison Brown Coates
[email protected]
Edie Loeb is enjoying her life in
California. Over the years, she has
become a “surrogate mom” for
two beautiful girls that live in her
neighborhood. They love for Edie
to pick them up from school (and
make sharp turns while driving)
cook dinner, homework (even
the “new” math) and put them
to bed. Oh Edie, I know you are
blessed by them but they are so
blessed to have you too! So glad
to hear from you! B.J. Fiser Jones
writes all is well with her and
her family. Chip’s still with ADP,
B.J. is volunteering and mentoring, Oliver, Ashley and grandsons keep them happily busy,
Andrew’s working on his PhD at
University of Edinburgh (road trip
:) ), and Maggie’s a senior at UGA,
planning to become a child life
specialist. Fun connection: one of
her friends at UGA is St. Mary’s
grad Lauren Harrington ’11!
B.J. is coming back and forth to
Memphis about once a month,
unless something happens with
her parents and she needs to
get there sooner. Her Mom and
Dad are doing fine right now,
but living apart, which is hard
after 71 years of living together!
Martha Flowers has a new job.
She is the new Director of the
Semmes Murphey Foundation.
Congratulations, Martha! The
Tennessee Foreign Language
Teachers Association has named
Josie McNeely Walker the 2014
Teacher of the Year! Josie, we
are so proud of you! As for me, I
am now teaching in the precious
2 year old program ...St. Mary’s
Place. If any of you need some
love and hugs please come see
us! There is always enough love to
go around from our angels.
1977
Janey Butler Newton
[email protected]
So nice to hear from Georgia
Harrison Hall, a new bride in
our class! Georgia married Dan
Hall recently, congratulations!
And, she has two step-children
– Tommy, 14, and Phoebe, 11.
She is an Associate Professor of
Landscape Architecture at the
University of Georgia, as well
as Graduate Coordinator for the
Master of Landscape Architecture
program. She would love to see
any of us who happen to come
to her area. Wish I had known
this when I was in Athens touring UGA with my kids. Susan
Francisco has so many fun activities going on in her life! She is in
charge of the Library Foundation’s
silent auction, cooking and making fun and elaborate decorations for the Episcopal Church
Women’s annual fundraiser, and
traveling for medical meetings to
Sandestin, Fla. She is going on a
medical mission trip to Honduras,
where she will do the students’
physicals. She is planning a
bachelorette party in Nashville
for one of her best friends too.
And, she and her sister Tabitha
Francisco McNabb ’78, and
friends went on a cruise of the
Iberian Peninsula around Spain
and Portugal. Sounds wonderful! Oh, and she is still working
although she says retirement is
on the distant horizon. Ginger
Jones Beanblossom’s son Mark
Jr, graduated with a Masters of
Finance from Tulane. He is living
in Memphis in High Point Terrace.
I see Mark Sr. often as we work
in the same building. Mark and
Ginger would be true emptynesters except for the dog that
Mark Jr. adopted in New Orleans
is now living with them! We
have an invitation to visit Molly
Townes O’Brien in Canberra,
Australia if we are in her neck of
the woods. Molly says that she
is doing very well and teaching
law at the Australian National
University. Her son Cyrus recently
got married and is working on
his PhD at the University of
Michigan. Son Joseph is studying,
working, and living in Adelaide,
Australia. Michelle Rogers has
recently gone on her yearly trip to
Cape Cod – sounds pretty great!
She is still a training manager
at FedEx Trade Networks. Jane
Daily Duell’s daughter, Anna had
a beautiful baby boy. Congrats to
all! Lucy Walt Wepfer is looking at
colleges with her youngest, Annie
– where does the time go? Her
son Walt completed an Ironman
Triathlon recently. So impressive!
I hear through the grapevine that
Gretchen Perkins McLallen has
married recently. Much happiness
to Gretchen and her new life! Lots
of newsy things to share about
Lisa Britt Colcolough’s life. The
Britt clan, complete with parents,
husbands, sister, and children,
went on a Danube River Cruise
from Munich to Budapest. She
describes the movements of all
14 on their trip as “herding cats”,
and their fellow passengers called
them the “famous” family, which
Lisa thinks that they really meant
“loud”! I’m sure everyone on the
boat was captivated and charmed
by the whole family. What a great
experience! Lisa’s girls both have
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photography businesses – the
same company which is called
Duo – but in separate locations.
Caitlin Colcolough ’07, caitlincolcolough.com, is in Charleston,
S.C., and Cameron Colocolough
Reynolds ’07, cameronreynoldsphotography.com, and husband
Ned are in Greenville, S.C.. They
do weddings, baby shots, portraiture, and food photography.
Son Britt is a junior at Princeton,
where he plays Varsity Football.
Lisa and John enjoy his games
and the football families and the
campus and surrounding area.
She describes the movements
of all 14 on their trip as “herding
cats”, and their fellow passengers
called them the “famous” family,
which Lisa thinks that they really
meant “loud”! I’m sure everyone
on the boat was captivated and
charmed by the whole family.
What a great experience! Lisa’s
girls both have photography
businesses – the same company which is called Duo – but
in separate locations. Caitlin
Colcolough ’07, caitlincolcolough.
com, is in Charleston, S.C., and
Cameron Colocolough Reynolds
’07, cameronreynoldsphotography.com, and husband Ned
are in Greenville, S.C.. They do
weddings, baby shots, portraiture,
and food photography. Son Britt
is a junior at Princeton, where he
plays Varsity Football. Lisa and
John have had fun enjoy ing his
games and the football families
and the campus and surrounding area. Lisa’s youngest sister,
Calder Britt Clark ’95, is speaking
in the Alumnae Chapel Speaker
series. She owns a design firm in
Charleston that creates fabulous
weddings and events. And lastly,
it is with great sadness to share
the news that Sara Muirhead
Shanley’s beloved husband, Mike,
passed away recently. Sara, know
that we are hugging you from afar
from many different places.
1978
Tracy Walko Balton
[email protected]
We definitely have one common theme amongst us; we are
all quick to report that “nothing
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Tracy Walko Balton ’78 and
granddaughter Lyla ’28.
much is going on here.” You are
silly girls. The activity in all your
lives is fun news to the rest of us.
Kelley Hoffman Hook is retired,
but of course never still. With
husband Bruce traveling more,
Kelley has become a “professional volunteer.” Watch out
Chicago! Daughter Margaret Ann
has recently married and lives in
Canada. Carese Clarke Bott loves
teaching English in Dallas at her
new school. Previously a Jr. High
teacher, she understands how
hard elementary teachers work,
and daily appreciates her old St.
Mary’s teachers. Son David is enjoying his new job with Edelman,
a national PR firm. Daughter Katie
loves Greek life and the pursuit
of a nursing major at University
of Texas. Fraser Outlan Kelly
continues to live in northeast N.C.
near Nags Head & Norfolk. She
stays busy selling real estate and
raising daughter Claire, a high
school junior. Ann Chaney is still
in New Orleans and anticipating
her family’s annual Thanksgiving
at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear,
Ala. Tabitha Francisco McNabb
took time away from a busy summer at work to enjoy a wonderful
trip around the southern coast of
Spain. Her step-son and his wife
have re-located to Charlotte, N.C.
Kathy Edmondson Riley has been
diligently working more with
husband Billy at their ad agency
firm, Combustion. Daughter Claire
’09 is teaching English for the 2nd
year in Madrid, while son Nick
follows in Dad’s artistic footsteps
at Memphis College of Art. Sunita
Sheth keeps busy as a board
member and officer of Woman’s
Way, a philanthropic agency that
focuses on Philadelphian women
and girls. When not consulting for
pharma and biotech, she is teaching at the med school or traveling.
Andrea Gilliom Anderson and
husband Ben are new “empty
nesters” but often travel to N.Y. to
see daughter Rebecca ’06 and plan
her 2015 wedding. Elizabeth ’09
attends UT Medical School and
Meg is now at Belmont University.
Life for me could not be better.
As Senior Tax Director, I work too
much but husband Steve and I try
to play equally hard traveling and
playing tennis. Daughter Maria is
a CPA at Hilton Hotels and Angela
enjoys wholesale fashion sales in
Atlanta with her new husband. I
am especially proud of Vincent,
who is now studying chemical engineering at CBU. I spend
precious time, albeit not enough,
with my grandkids, Lyla ’28 and
Henry (9 months old). I recently
heard St. Mary’s kindergarteners
sing “Day by Day” at the Grand
Turkey Chapel. Oh the memories
those sweet voices brought back.
Lyla later said that “she just loves
St Mary’s because it is the perfect
school for her.” What a wise 5
year old. Hope to hear from more
of you soon!
1979
Elizabeth Brown Dunn
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This group of ladies never ceases
to amaze me. We are literally scattered across the globe but stay
close in our hearts. Kakki Wright
Ryan has expanded her veterinary practice; she has built a new
barn and has new veterinarians
on staff. Her daughter Kali, seven
years old, is the light of her life
and precious. Elizabeth Mayhall
Sherr is teaching microeconomics at SUNY Delhi. She has been
traveling the south this summer. She has settled back now in
the beautiful Catskills. Barbara
Stevenson wants to thank
everyone for sending thoughts
and prayers as her mother starts
out on a new adventure since
her job at U of M has come to a
close. Anne Golwen Brand had
a wonderful summer vacation to
Martha’s Vineyard. Her husband
David spent the summers there.
They met with 2 old friends of his
and their families. Her son John is
a sophomore at UT Knoxville and
Henry is a 7th grader at Grace St.
Luke’s. The boys loved jumping
off the big bridge there. Anne is
still loving her part time position
at Boyle Investment in the marketing department.
1980
Margaret Stone Graham
[email protected]
It’s been so good to hear from
and visit with old classmates this
year. I can’t believe we’ve been
gone for nearly 35 years! Jan
Holmes Crosby visited Memphis
this summer, and Molly Francis
Roberts and I had a fun two hour
lunch with her catching up with
her life. Jan works as an attorney with the municipal utility
company in Colorado Springs. She
has two daughters away at college: daughter Nell is in New York
City as a freshman at Columbia
University, and her daughter Tate
is a junior at Princeton. Sadly,
Jan’s brother Geo passed away
one week after her visit in a tragic
accident, and our prayers are with
the entire Holmes family. Also
right after our lunch, Molly was
diagnosed with breast cancer, and
she has been going through chemotherapy followed by surgery.
I have to say, Molly is incredibly
strong and never complains. She
just wants to get it all done so
that she’ll be well and cancerfree. In other news, (Carolyn)
Blake Burr is a new empty-nester.
Her younger daughter, Kala, is
a freshman at Marlboro College
in Vermont. Her older daughter,
Mahal, was married over the
summer. Mahal coordinates the
BB change program at Bridges (a
Memphis non-profit that helps
young people become leaders),
while her new husband Nick
teaches history at Freedom Prep
charter school. Blake continues to
work as the grant writer for the
school district but is dusting off
the old “to-do” lists now that she
has more free time. Amy Tillman
Dodd sent her second child off
to college this year. Daughter
Hope is a freshman at University
of Florida where her brother
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Garrett is a junior. They both love
it there. Amy’s youngest, Colin,
is 17 and a senior at Lakeland
Christian School. Husband David
is very busy as a doctor, and Amy
loves every moment of being a
wife and mom. Josie Gilliland
Williams was in Memphis recently visiting with her in-laws,
and we were able to have lunch
and catch up. Her daughter Grace
is in Spain this year, Owen is in
South Carolina, and Fletcher is a
senior in high school and visiting
colleges. My older son, Nelson,
has moved back to Nashville
to help start a KIPP Collegiate
charter school and teach physics. My son Garrott is a junior at
Vanderbilt. I’m looking forward to
seeing some of you at Alumnae
Weekendon April 24-25.
1981
Katherine Lucas Hall
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Carey Stanton
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Mim Stokes Brown loves teaching at St. George’s and coaching
middle school girls’ lacrosse.
Her son, Dean graduated from
St. George’s as Valedictorian
and started UVa this Fall. Her
oldest daughter, Adeline, graduated from Princeton and just
finished her first year with Teach
for America. Cabell is a senior
at Vanderbilt and Miriam just
started her sophomore year in
high school. Clearly brilliance and
service to others runs throughout
Mim’s family. Margaret Salmon
Bright is so happy that her oldest
daughter, Annabelle, chose a
school not too far from home at
Belmont College in Nashville.
Her daughter, Ella is a high
school sophomore at Lausanne.
Suzette Turner Coors married
her Vanderbilt boyfriend, Bill!
Bill is from Cleveland, Ohio, but
Suzette has not entirely moved
away from Memphis. She is often
in Memphis when they are not
traveling the world together. Her
son, George, graduated from Ole
Miss and is working at First Tennessee Bank. Baby Suzette ’11 is
a junior at University of Georgia.
Madera Dickerson Beckham
enjoys her work as an admissions
counselor at Ensworth School
where her two sons, Jack and
Wesley, attend. Madera is still
playing lots of tennis and living
happily in Nashville. (She looks
marvelous!) Mollie McCarroll
Newman’s son, John, is a junior at
Vanderbilt, and Mary Caroline ’15
is a senior at St. Mary’s. She just
wrapped up school soccer, and St.
Mary’s went to sub-state which is
very exciting. Molly continues to
do bank consulting from home.
1982
Lee Anne Johnson Roehm
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Not many from our class were
able to respond to this most
recent call for class notes. Assuming all were busy achieving what will be reported in an
upcoming publication, we all shall
wait patiently on the edge of our
seats until all is revealed. Camille
LeMaster Shaw, however, reports
that her family currently is hosting a Spanish exchange student,
Maria, and in turn Maria’s family
will host their daughter Isabel in
the spring semester. Isabel also
was chosen to be in the Governor’s School this past summer,
which is an intense three-week
immersion program, paid for by
their home state of Va. Younger
daughter Audrey plays soccer
in her first year of high school
and plays in a band that recently
played “All Apologies” by Nirvana
at a local arts festival! Gail Jones
Mallery also adds to our news
by informing us that all is quite
well in Dallas, Texas where she
is working as a Project Manager
over Loan Servicing. Although
she’s missed family and friends
in Memphis, she’s found her
move to Dallas has been a great
choice for her. She spent her 50th
birthday in Santa Fe, N.M. with
Ginia Knapp Northcutt ’81 and
other college friends and found it
a fabulous place to see beautiful art in a beautiful setting and
enjoyed their spas and shopping
and dining. Outside of traveling
and working she spends her time
keeping up with her four-legged
friends, Bradley and Volee, and
in church related and volunteer
activities.
1983
Bonnie Bolton Lopez
[email protected]
Josephine Walt Brennan writes
that daughter Fitzhugh is a Tri
Delta sorority sister with Jodie
Barringer’s daughter Libby at Ole
Miss. Jodie’s Leila also pledged Tri
Delta there. Gee Loeb Sharp says
Mimi ’15 is a senior at St. Mary’s.
Gee has enjoyed listening to all
the seniors give their speeches in
chapel and reports that the girls
seem so mature and spiritually
fit. These 4-6 minute speeches are
available on the St. Mary’s website
thanks to Mr. Tanner’s videography. Marshall is in the dual degree
program at Penn, studying to get
a degree from Wharton and from
the College of Arts and Sciences.
He continues to play tennis and
participate in his fraternity. Gee
has been a certified personal
trainer for seven years. She is
grateful for the opportunity to
give back in a positive way, and
her job is never boring. Susan
Crosby McCloy has moved to
Changchun, China, for one year to
teach English and debate. She has
already met four others with the
name Susan! She reports other
fascinating names like Coconut,
Grass, and Nevermore! Cynthia
Hodges Cobb stays exceptionally
busy with one college graduate
in the family and five more to
go! She serves as the advisor for
two science competition teams,
prepares lunch for 165 rowers and
their families for all the boys’ regatta weekends, and washes lots
of sleeping bags after the many
Boy Scout campouts her boys
attend. Meanwhile she is surviving a bathroom remodeling and
trying to fit in some reading with
all her other activities! Allison
Wellford Parker reports that she,
Cissy Bruce Jackson, and Bisha
Sisk Harrington all have children
at UGA. Go Dawgs! Allison and
daughter Annie ’16 recently went
on their own college tour and
had some special time together
thinking ahead as Annie is now a
junior. Allison continues to love
her job as Upper School Counselor at St. Mary’s, and I happen
to know that the students adore
her! I, Bonnie Bolton Lopez, have
daughter Lydia in St. Louis where
she is working on a Masters Degree in Deaf Education at Wash.
U. She spent last year as a Fellow
at Second Presbyterian Church
in Memphis. This was the same
program Bisha directed several
years ago. Son Phillip made me
a grandmother when his wife
had a baby girl last spring! They
are both studying at LSU. I
continue to home school Sam
(12) and Neal (10) and to teach
English and writing once a week
to several other homeschooling
families. How helpful it is to have
Miss O’Sullivan’s foundation in
English grammar! Our hearts are
saddened to learn that Holly Walters Craft’s husband, Paul, passed
away. Our thoughts and prayers
are with you and your family Holly. Allison and Brandon Morrison
issued an ice bucket challenge
to our class in his honor. Please
keep the Craft family in your
prayers and check out Allison
and Brandon on Facebook where
a fund has been established for
Paul. We love you, Holly! 1984
Vanessa Allen Dobbins
[email protected]
Leslie Darling writes from Nashville as a recent newlywed. She
and husband, Adam Dread, a local
attorney, have been married for
over a year. Their “children” include three cats and a yellow lab,
Oliver. They also share a love for
Nantucket and spend their time
between Nashville, Nantucket
and Cape Cod where Leslie has a
house. Leslie loves her job in the
digital business and travels to
NYC quite often. She works with
advertising agencies and media
companies, creating and producing digital video content. Alison
Potts Hollewand and family recently returned home to Brisbane
from a holiday in Orlando, Fla.,
where she, Mike and Izzy enjoyed
“doing the Harry Potter thing”.
Izzy, 10, is in fifth grade and loving everything about life. Alison
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continues to teach yoga and
meditation, and Mike has his own
consultancy and also teaches in
the MBA program at the University of Queensland Business School.
Merri Leigh Masters Johnson and
family enjoyed a long vacation
that took them through Tenn., Va.
and Washington, D.C. The trip
included a good mix of historical
attractions and just plain fun-theme park / white water rafting. Jack, 11, is in sixth grade and
is playing, of all things, the TUBA!! It is HUGE, but amazingly not
too annoying to listen to being
practiced. Charlie is 8 and in third
grade. He’s trying his hand in
Martial Arts. Merri Leigh and four
co-workers developed a seven
hour course that will be presented
at the Texas Physical Therapy Association annual conference. She
is excited because she is presenting with another PT, an occupational therapist, and a speech
therapist---sort of a novelty at a
PT conference. Smitha Gollamudi
is program developing for Johns
Hopkins oncology. Daughter Devi
is a junior at Holton Arms girls’
school in Bethesda where she is
a talented cross country runner.
Son Chander is a seventh grader
who is very enthusiastic about
baseball and squash. Kendall
Weir Jack and family are headed
to Orange Beach to meet with
friends. Kendall’s son, Davis, 16
and a guitar player, performed at
his first School of Rock show at
Minglewood Hall. He was excited
to be asked to sign a few autographs. Way to rock it out, Davis!
Dex, 10, will play his last football
game of the season for Christ
Methodist Day School. Martin and
I are well; just hanging out with
our ancient cat, Bandit. I’ve been
working at the same local IT Staffing and Technology company for
the past 17 years and still enjoy it.
1985
Polly Piper Rickard
[email protected]
Lucy Cheek Gordon daughter
Madeline, 19 is in her second
year at Georgia. Claire, 17 is a
senior, Clay, a seventh grader,
finished first in at youth nation3 6 | S T. M A R Y ’ S E P I S C O PA L S C H O O L
als in sport climbing and fourth
in speed climbing, earning him
spots on the US team. He will
represent the US at the Pan
American games. Tino Sage
spent time in Hungary, Slovenia
and Maine. She is able to pilot a
19’ Boston Whaler in the ocean
and in harbors, solo. Margaret
Frazier Gardner reports that
Miriam ’21, her busy ballerina, is
in sixth grade at St. Mary’s and
Judy Brundige is one of her teachers! Frazier is in fourth grade at
PDS. She serves on the St. Mary’s
Board of Trustees and the board of
Miriam’s ballet. Colleen Kavanagh
is currently applying to college,
high school and middle school for
her kids. ZEGO is doing a relaunch
in October. Her nonprofit, is
now called A Better Course. Lisa
Breazeale Roberts and Ken enjoy
tennis. Evelyn ’18, ninth grader at
St. Mary’s, plays soccer, basketball,
and lacrosse at school. Evelyn
got her permit and Lisa is
thankful she is the last child to
teach to drive. Jackson, a freshman at Furman, plays lacrosse.
Chandler ’12 is a junior at TCU
in the nursing school. Melissa
Thrasher Peeler and Lisa see each
other on the St. Mary’s sidelines.
Mary ’11 is a senior at UNC and
knee deep in med school apps
and interviews. Anna ’13 is a
sophomore at Alabama. Marge
’17 is in 10th grade at St. Mary’s.
Katrina Traywick Sippey will see
Melissa when she comes to Calif.
with Mary, who has an interview
at UCSF medical school. Caroline
is in fifth grade. Kate is in eighth
grade. Trina’s family had a great
time with Ivy Wilroy Caravati
and her family during their UVA
reunion and spending a week
together. Charlie taught Caroline
how to water ski! Charlie is a
senior, Sid a tenth-grader and
Thomas ninth grade. Elizabeth
Pounders writes that Dorothy, 19,
is at SMU. Eliza ’16 is a junior at
St. Mary’s interning and modeling for Justine magazine. Callie
is in seventh at Hutchison.
Trecia Knapp Tapolsky stays
busy with work, hiking her three
dogs, playing tennis, volunteering at church and traveling. She
and Bruno spent three weeks in
France. While in New Orleans,
she met up with Anne Thrasher
Lloyd. Galya consults in graphic
design. Zhenya is taking an
intensive French immersion class
in Paris. Kara Kilpatrick Preston
looks forward to our 30th reunion!
Julia ’18 is in ninth grade at
St. Mary’s with Evelyn Roberts ’18.
Thomas is in fourth grade. Nancy
Dilts started her own business–
nancy dilts wardrobe consulting. Dan was awarded a visiting
professorship in Lyon, France,
Grace is in fifth grade. McKenzie
Aiken Crisp and son, Drew, a senior, went to England and France
with his French Club: 11 intense
days of walking and sightseeing.
Seventh-grade daughter, Catie’s
competitive cheer team won
Beach Nationals in Destin. Glynn
Feild Dean has been working and
caring for her growing herd of
14! Two of them, Lucy and Hoss,
are on the show circuit. Save the
date for our 30th reunion on April
24-25, 2015!
1986
Jean Vaughan McGhee
[email protected]
My family has been fostering puppies this fall for the
Memphis Humane Society. My
youngest daughter Carmen ’27
is officially now nick-named the
Puppy Whisperer. I would like
to think my deep involvement
in pet rescue has rubbed off on
some of my classmates. Kim
Malone Scott and her family
have recently added a puppy to
their busy mix. While Kim’s twins
started kindergarten this fall,
she has been busy consulting for
Twitter and Dropbox as well as
working on putting together a
book on management. Susannah
Taylor Marriott is still working
with Malia Mills and they have
recently opened up stores in Los
Angeles and Houston, Texas.
She has also recently added to
her family by adopting a rescue
dog this summer. Mary Helen
Pender Moore is still working in
dentistry at Children’s Dentistry
in Knoxville,Tenn. Helen and
her family have been busy settling into their new house after
spending the summer living on
their houseboat. Lynn Cashman
Thurlow is still teaching at
a Montessori pre-school in
Summerton, S.C. while somehow
still finding time to home school
her 4 children ranging from high
school to 2nd grade. I am not sure
how she does all that! Meg Gary
Woodhouse and her husband
recently bought a house in Locust
Valley and enjoyed the summer
gardening with her 3 children.
Cathy Cape Furey and Meg have
been able to keep up regular visits
when Meg comes into the city.
Meg is still working for Matouk
and working on getting her
graduating class friends all some
really fabulous sheet sets! Irene
McDonnell Ayotte, Liz Whitsitt
McEwan, Elizabeth Cashman
Dickinson and I continue to try
to get together regularly and stay
in touch. All 3 of them have 7th
graders at MUS this year who are
really enjoying being at school
with all the older boys. Irene’s
son Robert has been running
cross-country this fall while Will
McEwan and Robert Dickinson
have been playing football. My
oldest, Eleanor ’18 is now in high
school at St. Mary’s and is bringing back all kinds of great memories for me as she is reading both
Shakespeare and mythology. Mrs.
Lois Strock, thank you for bringing all those ancient characters to
life for us so many years ago!!!
1987
Allison Tonkin
[email protected]
After family travels to Grand
Teton, Yellowstone, Crazy Horse
and Mount Rushmore Janelle
Zarecor Ranieri’s Lucy (ninth
grade) spent two weeks in China,
practicing her Mandarin. John
John (sixth grade) loves playing
soccer, lacrosse and hockey. Scott
and Cindy Cates Moore, Isabelle
’26 and Lucy ’29 camped in N.M.
and Colo., where Scott successfully worked out his transplanted
lungs at the Continental Divide
(12,000 feet!). They had a great
time meeting up with Gigi Gaerig
McGown and family outside
Ouray, Colo. Kim Justis Eikner
joined Cindy and Courtney Morris
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Monaghan as St. Mary’s alum
mothers’ breakfast co-hostesses.
She missed Ruth Cheney Patton there because she has boys!
Kim’s Nora ’22 loves St. Mary’s
fifth grade on the other side of
the street. Brooks (15) now drives
Kim around with his learner’s
permit! Kim continues to perform
in plays when she can. Flip and
Kim continue work at MUS where
Kim occasionally sees Missy
Huettel Carter, as both her boys
are there, with Joe (ninth grade) in
Flip’s English class. Talk at Missy’s
dinner table is only football! Also
now adjusting to the pace at MUS
is Courtney’s Tom (seventh grade)
while Ellie ’23 enjoys St. Mary’s
fourth grade. At St. Mary’s Parents’
day Stuart’s (ninth grade) English
class brought back fond memories of Mrs. Strock. In Knoxville
Beth Reynolds Bowen lives in her
minivan daily. Middle schooler
Ella played a character role in
her dance recital. Tom (7) loves
baseball and second grade. Fontaine Taylor Brown expressed her
gratitude to Virginia Reed Murphy for her incredible Playback
Memphis work, transforming the
city in a beautiful way by bringing people together in a unique,
delightfully fun, incredibly moving experience. Suzanne White
Howell also noted in pictures
that Virginia has not changed in a
bit since St. Mary’s! Mary Louise
Mooney enjoys freelance editing
on many interesting projects for
her favorite Workman Publishing client Beth Levy! Working
with NYC’s premier LGBT theater
company The Other Side of
Silence (TOSOS), ML is assistant
directing Kathleen Warnock’s
new play The Further Adventures
of…, about Hollywood, the closet
and the transformative power of
imagination, with the production travelling to the Women’s
International Theater Festival in
Provincetown, Mass. ML will next
be back on stage with the Polaris
North Theater Cooperative in a
role in Allan Lefcowitz’ Philosophy
101 where she will be “rapping.
About philosophy.” ML writes that
after her mother recovered from
her surprise pacemaker instillation her home at Horseshoe was
featured on their local Master
Gardeners Home Garden Tour.
Andras and I had great fun catching up with Gwynne Keathley
and her parents Barbara and Roy
in Park City, dining at the foot of
Deer Valley ski lifts. Inviting us
all to join her for some yummy
crab cakes, Gwynne is now in her
second year as Maryland Institute
College of Art Vice Provost.
1988
Anna McQuiston Holtzclaw
[email protected]
Laura Blumenfeld wrote in for the
first time. After high school she
lived in NYC, Europe, and LA to
act, write, and model. She went to
UC Berkeley and then UCSD for a
PhD in biological psych studying
schizophrenia. She joined McKinsey in NYC. There she met her
partner, Giacomo. They have three
children Marisa (2009), Leonardo
(2011) and Lily (2014). She works
for McKinsey and travels to NYC.
They spend time in Italy where
Giacomo is developing a ski resort
and they own a boot factory. They
just renovated their house in London and are very busy but “super
blessed and thankful every day”.
Margaret Malone Rosser and her
family welcomed Shelby, a new
puppy to the family this spring.
Margaret looks forward to taking
Shelby to work. Moriah McStay
Lee’s book Everything That Makes
You comes out March 2015 and
she is revising her second book
due out in 2016. Madeleine ’15 is a
senior at St. Mary’s and wants to
major in film. Shannon Moore reports it’s harvest time in California and “the air is perfumed with
fermentation and malt”. She stays
busy with her business Flour Girl.
Sadly they lost their 16-year-old
dog Possum this spring. Pidge
Colbert Macdonald works at Le
Bonheur in the OR and recently
moved to Chickasaw Gardens.
Mallory ’18 is a freshman at St.
Mary’s and is in Mary Lacy Bell’s
class. She is the first child of a
classmate Mary has taught. Lisa
Wright Moses added two cats to
her family who spend their time
entertaining her kids. Katherine Florendo recently competed
in the North American Natural
Bodybuilding Federation’s Kansas
City Classic and took 1st place in
the 40+ bikini class. She won her
pro card (one of three given to 58
competitors) and can compete
in the NANBF’s pro organization. Jennifer Hanemann Chandler worked on Lafayette’s Music
Room (a new restaurant concept
in Overton Square). She writes “it
has been a blast to design and see
it come to life”. Her fourth cookbook The Southern Pantry Cookbook
came out in October. Jenny Dyer
Pepper has a group of friends
that for 11 years cook their way
through cookbooks together.
This fall they are doing Jennifer’s.
Jenny teaches Kindergarten and
this spring also became Preschool
Sunday School Director at Christ
United Methodist in Jackson. Mike is farming blueberries as
a hobby and this year they harvested 250,000 pounds. Heather
Nichols Ottinger stays busy
running, playing tennis, learning
the bass guitar (Sara ’23 gives her
tips) and substitute teaching at
St. Mary’s. Emily Piovarcy Carlson
and Mark were involved in starting a charter school in Atlanta
that opened up K-8 this fall. Emily
was on the launch team as the
Enrollment Coordinator and now
is in the Student Services (Special
Ed) department. Their boys are
both at the school. Detra Houseal
Brock stays busy substitute teaching, serving as grade coordinator,
participating in the booster club
and her free lance photography
business is a fun hobby with
a couple of shoots a week and
shooting school sporting events.
She is running the Savannah
Rock’n’Roll marathon in honor of
a dear friend who passed away
from cancer. I am now a Leadership and Team Development Consultant with Linda Bailey (mom
of Celeste Bailey Herburger ’91). I
am very passionate about the job
and excited to be doing this work.
I spent 2 weeks at the beach with
Leigh Vaughan Jaimes this summer and love that our girls are
good friends despite living so far
apart. Hope to see you all soon.
1989
CLASS SECRETARY NEEDED
Contact Gigi Gould at
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1990
Mirm Kriegel
[email protected]
I’m stepping in to give Susan
Hearn Morgan a much-needed
break after 25(!) years of heroic
work herding cats, as she expects
Baby #2 in the coming months.
More than half our class apparently felt inspired to write. (The
things that can happen when
you threaten to make stuff up…)
Given the volume, I’ll keep it tight.
Allison Mallory Morris reports
that her twins Mallory and Marley
’27 are in St. Mary’s SK now and
busy with tennis, guitar and violin
lessons. She’s still working at ServiceMaster and husband Jay is going on 18 years at St. Jude. Alexis
Zanone just celebrated 10 years
with the Four Seasons hotel chain
and continues her globetrotting
thanks to these enviable connections. This year she made it to
the Caribbean and to Paris with
her family. Jenny Eudy, husband
Trent, and son Rye, now in fourth
grade, are still in Portland, Ore.
and love it as much as they did
15 years ago. She’s still practicing law in-house at Banfield Pet
Hospitals. Anne Copper DiFronzo
and her husband are enjoying life
in Great Falls, Va. with their family – Sofia, 7, and twins Olivia and
Dominic, 1. When she’s not chasing after toddlers, she works parttime for Cultural Care Au Pair.
Stacy Goldate lives in Los Angeles
with her husband, Craig Colton,
but the two have been spending
considerable time in southern
Florida shooting a documentary.
They took a detour to NYC in
the spring, when Shaila, Sujata,
Rachel and I got to catch up with
them. Great fun! Paige Russel Brooks had a great summer
traveling to Massachusetts and
Mississippi and an even better
Fall visiting Rachel and her family
in New Jersey. Rachel organized a
fantastic get-together with Shaila
and family as well as the Kriegel/
Bryfman clan. Paige’s family
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recently adopted two kittens,
Suzie Q and Katniss, “because
life was too boring without cats.”
Taylor Holden Taylor is working
hard as the Director of Sales and
Marketing at The Racquet Club.
She also reports that Holden ’25 is
loving second grade at St. Mary’s,
that Bruce is loving fourth grade
Grace-St. Luke’s, and that she
loves being a part of the Alumnae
Board at St. Mary’s. (That’s a lot of
love.) Beth Kreamer West writes
that the kids are all happy and
healthy, funny and full of energy.
The big two play soccer and are
(slowly) on their way to becoming
black belts in Taekwondo. “The
little one is 2 ½ and quite a mess.
Phillip and I just run around chasing after everyone.” Sounds awfully familiar. Tricia Hood Thomas
is still a huge Alabama & Grizzlies
fan. She and Brian are going to
Disneyworld with their godchildren & their parents and she’s
“SUPER excited to finally visit HP
World.” (by which I assume she
means the Harry Potter theme
park, not Hewlett-Packard. It took
me a minute…) Elizabeth Robbins
reports that Sam is in second
grade, Sophie is in seventh, and
the family has two bunnies, two
beagles, 13 chickens, and 14
dozen eggs in their fridge. When
Elizabeth isn’t running the farm
(otherwise known as her backyard
in Lexington, Ky.), she can be
found performing voo-doo on
her contractor, who botched their
plumbing and kitchen renovation.
Ouch. Laurie Smith Hooper and
her husband Steven have their
hands full in Nashville with four
kiddos: Lela 12, Cole 10, Katie 6
and Griffin 4 (who, by the way, is a
blonde, defying all genetic odds...)
Hilary Davis Robinson continues
teaching at St. Mary’s, “saving
one fifth-grader at a time.” She’s
got a full house, with kids Mary
Harper ’17 (who is a sophomore
looking for babysitting gigs!),
Austin (seventh grade, MUS),
Henry (sixth grade, Holy Rosary)
and Dillard (third grade, Holy
Rosary). Speaking of full houses,
Jenny Kate Herring McMullan is
busy times six. She, husband Paul
and their six children now live in
Brentwood. The kids are in
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fourth grade, second grade, and
the other four are in kindergarten.
That’s right, quadruplets. My pelvis hurts just from writing that.
Rachel Lightman gave birth to a
baby boy, Griffin Lightman Angell,
in August. She, husband Jeremy
and Colin, 11 (along with Hudson, River, and Riley, their three
canines) are all smitten. Caroline
Archer Baker has two teenagers
on her hands, daughter Sarah,
13, and Anderson, 15. (Anderson
recently got his driver’s permit
–ack!). Caroline is still teaching
kindergarten in Knoxville and she
and husband Rob are loving the
football weekends and beautiful scenery. Kristen Thompson
Keegan is teaching art at De la
Salle Elementary and subbing
regularly at PDS. Her boys are
both at MUS now, in seventh and
ninth grades. Her 7th grader is
classmates with Hillary’s son, and
rumor has it they’ve begun boy/
girl parties which have also been
attended by Shelley Kuykendall
Herzke’s daughter. Let the games
begin! Shaila Bheda started a new
job at the NYC Health Department and recently saw Carrie
Wood Waller at our 20th Emory
reunion. Son Ishan is in fifth
grade, is taking guitar and is in
a band called the “something
something somethings.” Daughter Reva is in the first grade and
enjoys Indian dance lessons and
gymnastics. All is well with Mary
Anne Kish Seibert. She and her
family traveled recently to Seattle
and to the beach, where the kids
Zoe,11, and Turner, 9, parasailed
and hung out with sea turtles.
Missy Kramer Taranto is still in
New Orleans with her family (13
years!) Evie is 10, Jessica, 7, and
she’s enjoying watching her city
make a comeback. Ali Reaves
Smith has been moving house
and shared that her son Cole (3 ½)
started PK at St. George’s and totally digs it. Beth Townley Lewis
and Caydie Nickey also wrote
to say hello, and Caydie looks
forward to seeing everyone at the
reunion. My husband and I managed to defy statistical odds and
each got into the NYC Marathon
by lottery (the only time we’ve
ever won anything
– go figure), so we’re in training
mode once again… here’s hoping
by the time this comes out we’ll
have both crossed finish. Finally,
on a somber note, our hearts and
prayers go out to Kasha Winker
Shaw, who lost her mother in a
biking accident this Fall. Kasha,
we’re with you. Hope everyone
is planning to attend our 25th
reunion on April 24-25!
1991
Camellia Koleyni Sharma
[email protected]
Hello, hello, hello! I hope everyone in our class is doing well. I
have news from just a few people,
so I hope this means the rest
of you are doing amazing and
wonderful things that we can
hear about next time! Megan
Saxon Murphree and her family
are doing well. She is enjoying
playing tennis and now she has
a new niece to dote upon also!
Megan’s brother Malcolm had
his third baby girl Emma Claire
Saxon. Chris Raub Hennes is in
her 6th year at Liberty Mutual
doing insurance defense. She
will be running the Marine Corps
marathon later this year and it
takes place in D.C. She is actually
doing the marathon for a charity
organization called team r4v for
veterans. I’m sure they will appreciate every ounce of help they can
get! Alison Nicole Nooks is teaching online for institutions in Ga.
and Va. as well as teaching in Mo.
Her husband Kirk is doing great in
his position, and the community
and college has really welcomed
their family. They enjoyed a trip
to the Dominican Republic as well
as trips to Ga. and Wis. They even
camped with Anniston’s church
youth group (their first time) and
“survived”, as Alison put it. Kirk
and Alison celebrated their 16th
wedding anniversary along with
their daughter Anniston (age 13)
and the twins (age 3). Vineet and
I spent a good part of this year
renovating/adding on to a home
in a historic part of Nashville, so
it was a great learning experience with a new home to boot!
We would love visitors, so please
email or call me if you want to
visit! I wish all of you the very
best and hope to hear from you
next time!
1992
Alison Coons
[email protected]
The Class of ’92 is crazy busy all
over the country (and the world!)
as usual! Rebecca Hornstein
Doede wrote in to say that she
was fortunate enough to see
Asma Dilawari and her three
beautiful daughters in their new
home in D.C. over spring break.
Then, Kelley Grant MacDonald
and her troop swung through and
visited Rebecca and her family en
route to visit Kelley’s in-laws in
Conn. over the summer. Rebecca
was also able to spend some time
with Amanda Duke in Seattle
in August. Rebecca said that her
two children, Henry and Evelyn,
were delighted to play with their
friends and meet their surrogate
St. Mary’s aunts! Leslie Pettit
Canon and Harmon are, “…still
living in Denver just trying to
keep up with 4 crazy little kids!”
She said Harmon is still plugging
away at his cookie business and
hoped all is well with everyone
in the class! Linsey Knight has
had some great adventures lately
and shared a fantastic photo with
us on Facebook from a recent
trip to Iceland! She said simply,
“Iceland is AWESOME!” Bren
Boston Padawer checked in to
let us know that her husband,
Jeremy, is ramping up a new toy
company that he and his partners
started called “Wicked Cool Toys.”
www.wickedcooltoys.com. She
said that she is now, “…working
very part-time” with her M.D.,
and is listening to her mother’s
advice to “follow her bliss.” She is
now working to become certified
through the American College of
Sports Medicine as a Certified Personal Trainer. Way to go, Bren! As
for me and my gang, we are still
happily ensconced in Germantown juggling all of Emma (14)
and Charlie’s (7) various activities
and antics. I left my position as
Director of Communications at Pilot International at the end of the
summer to accept my much-loved
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Sam Petrie ’93 on Renjo La Pass at 17, 585 feet
(Mt. Everest in the background).
new post as Director of Engagement for the Girl Scouts Heart of
the South council. I could not be
happier doing what I love for an
organization I truly treasure! Girl
Scouts has been a huge part of my
life since Emma was in kindergarten, and I am more than blessed
now to help bring awareness to
the benefits of Scouting for girls
throughout the 59 counties we
serve! If you want to know anything about Girl Scouting in YOUR
area or how you can get involved,
drop me a line! Girl Scouts ROCK,
and so does the Class of ’92! Until
next time…keep smiling!
1993
Kristen Mistretta Wilson
[email protected]
I’m happy to share many fun
updates from the Class of ’93!
Congratulations to Mindy
Kronenberg who co-edited a
book published by Guilford called
Treating Traumatized Children:
A case book of evidence-based
therapies. Long lost friend Gina
Hicks reports that life is good
in Dickson, Tenn. and says hi to
everyone! After four years in NYC,
Beki Rafter moved back to Atlanta
where she serves as Executive
Director of Georgia Women’s
Action for New Direction (Georgia
WAND) which Becky describes
as building women’s political
power in order to redirect excessive military spending to
unmet human and social needs.
Michelle Martinez recently welcomed her second little girl this
September named Gabriela Erika
Molner. Michelle shared that she
had a smooth and quick delivery and highly recommends hypo
birthing! Lee Raines Buchmann
and Alison Simmons Boyd see
each other often in Denver. They
live in the same neighborhood!
Lee’s children are in 3rd grade, 1st
grade and in PK and love to
play soccer! Lee and her family
can’t wait for ski season! Alison,
husband Oliver and son Mason (2)
are also enjoying Denver. Alison
continues to work for FedEx in
Advertising which brings her back
to Memphis often. Carrie Evans
Hanlon visited Lee and Alison
in Denver this past year. Carrie’s
son James is 5. She has been a
realtor with Hobson Realtors for
five years. Kirsten Brown Buerkle
stays busy with her three young
sons - Adler (4.5), Noah (3) and
Stefan (1). She works as a speech
therapist at a preschool and joked
that she then comes home to her
own preschool at home! Kirsten
and her family recently moved
from Hoboken, N.J. to a home in
Ramsey, N.J. because they needed
more space. They love their new
neighborhood! Leigh Weinberg
Abbay shares that she and Rob
are busy with their two sons Bo
(13) who is in 7th grade at MUS
and Van (10) who is in 4th grade
at PDS. They took a wonderful
family trip to Europe this summer, visiting London, Paris and
Rome and she enjoys working
in fixed income sales at Cantor
Fitzgerald. Alexia Fulgham
Crump serves St. Mary’s on the
Alumnae Board and is the new
chair of the Board Development
Committee. She continues to
work in the DA’s office and enjoy
the many home renovation and
remodeling projects that she
and husband Kevin perform.
They recently vacationed in New
Orleans (where they were married a few years back) and with
family in Destin, Fla. Kathryn
Brookfield enjoyed a long visit in
Memphis this fall with her two
boys and daughter Kate Kannon.
They loved spending time with
Kathryn’s sister Anne-Morgan’99
and her family. Kathryn stays
busy with work and coaching volleyball at the Marist School. Her
volleyball team is even on target
to win state champs! Sam Petrie
has had some very exciting travel
adventures! She quit her job last
year to travel around the world
for six months - something she
wanted to do for a very long time.
She writes, “It was incredible, and
I loved every minute of it. I started
with two months in Africa visiting
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana,
Zambia and Mozambique. After
that, I flew to Nepal where I did
two 10-day treks in the Himalayas
- one to Annapurna base camp
and the other to Gokyo Lakes in
the Everest region (I didn’t go to
Everest base camp - too crowded!). As someone who loves the
mountains and being outside, this
was a highlight of my travel time.
After Nepal, I went to Southeast
Asia and spent one week in
Bangkok, two weeks in Cambodia,
and two months in Indonesia.
Asia is the most fascinating place
culturally and the food is incredible. I’m still editing photos, but
people can see pics I posted while
traveling at www.samanthapetrie.com.” I couldn’t have written
it better myself and so I just
used Sam’s exact words. What
an incredible class we have! We
are headed in so many different
directions yet still so close! Please
continue to stay in touch! 1994
Edith Ritterband Goody
[email protected]
Joann Self Selvidge has been
busy while hubby travels with his
band in Europe. She’s been taking
the newest member of her family,
Stevie, born in honor of our 20th
year reunion, to work with her to
finish up her newest documentary The Keepers (http://truestorypictures.org/seethekeepers). Big
sis Frannie, now in Pre-K, enjoys
dancing around the house while
making up songs and poems with
funny rhyming lyrics. After a busy
summer of whitewater rafting,
horseback riding, and rodeo fun,
Carolyn Porter Cates reports
her kids are adjusting well to
school. Campbell loves preschool,
Thomas is in 4th grade, and
Amelia ’21 is in 6th grade with Ms.
Brundige! Carolyn is teaching in
the 3-year-old program at Christ
Methodist but amidst the bustle
found time to catch up with Mary
Evelyn Stevens Fore, Jessica
Johnson, and Danielle Shelley
Coolidge. Jessica mentioned what
a great time everyone had at the
reunion. Sounds like there may be
more gatherings for the holidays. Congratulations to Jennifer
Lee Farrow Morin who recently
purchased her first home with
hubby in Crown Point, Ind. She
really enjoyed the mild summer
weather and isn’t worried about
driving in the snow this winter
since she has mastered taking the
train to Chicago. Thanks to Laura
Foster Gettys for reminding us
to make lemonade from lemons. A fluke house fire destroyed
her home over the summer, but
she feels lucky to have experienced the love and care from her
community following the event.
She remarked that she is now
an encyclopedia of remodeling
knowledge. We are all grateful
that she and her family are safe.
Congrats to Elizabeth Lake Lovett
on her family addition, Grace. Big
bro Ralphie seems to accept the
“pirate baby,” though occasionally asks when she’s going back
to her “other family.” Elizabeth
enjoyed a visit by the recently
engaged Sophie Askew. Congrats
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to her too! Sarah Gross Little
stopped working in January to
focus on her family. After a crazy
a summer schedule, the kids, all
in new schools, are settling in,
allowing her some time to work
on home renovations. Now that
Katherine Dudley Gray and Amy
Wadsworth Anderson live nearby,
she’s also looking for some nights
out. I’m looking forward to seeing
some of those pics! After a year of
2 hour per day commuting Sarah
Cole-Turner Vincent is enjoying
working as a speech-language
pathologist in a pleasant, local
school district. She’s enjoying
her involvement in church and
will soon serve as a deacon and a
teacher for 3 year olds in Sunday
School. Her family is adjusting
well to being in Elon, N.C. and
are loving the school’s football
games. Kathryn Leigh DeRossitt
has been thinking about our Alma
Mater and particularly the influential Nanette Quinn. She has
a professional advisor for work,
Ms. Quinn’s brother-in-law, which
allows her an opportunity to
reconnect with treasured memories. Now that she’s no longer in
law school or studying for the bar
she says she’s ready to relax and
spend more time with friends, so
give her a call! Sarah Lacy may
benefit from the home makeover
crews in our class as she’s talking
about putting some work into
her home in SF. Her daughter has
begun talking and her son is in
preschool. The family had a trip
to Disneyland and he was excited
to see “Elsa” and “Carsland” but
had no idea who Mickey was! Her
company, Pando, is doing well and
her hard work is paying off. The
past year has led me to an amazing work opportunity within the 5
boroughs. I had a great trip to Fla.
over the summer, visiting with
Jamie Morano’s parents who were
excited about her engagement.
Looking forward to hearing more
wonderful news from everyone
soon!
1995
Carey Sue Casey Hanback
[email protected]
Hello, compatriots of 1995! As
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we face down the year of our
20th (wait, what?) reunion, it
was fun to catch up with you.
Mark your calendars for APRIL
24-25, 2015! Here we go: Morgan
Chiapella Roselle has a new
job with Ashfield Healthcare in
Warminster, Pa. She will complete
her Masters in Health Services
Administration this winter.
Congratulations, Morgan! Sarah
Carlson Landers, mom extraordinaire and MD, is still in Lawrence,
Kan. Her son has started driving
(have mercy)! Her girls are in middle school and elementary school
respetively, and they have|a new
puppy. Katryn Wiseman was in
Sarah’s neck of the woods recently, so they caught up over rye.
Well played, friends. Well played.
Kathryn also visited Allison
Roberts, our own “thunder down
under” in Australia, on a trip that
included a jaunt to New Zealand
(where she saw honorary Class of
95er Hall Cannon). I met her for
a drink (or three) when she was
here in D.C., and we discussed
her penchant for running races
without training, including a
Ragnar ultra-trail run in Atlanta.
Of course, she could not hit
Atlanta without seeing Elizabeth
Cochran Hill and her two cute
little munchkins. Big kudos to
Kathryn on her recent promotion
to Director of Public Affairs and
Government Relations at WalMart. I would say, “You go, girl!”
but no one says that anymore.
Michelle Pao Levine fills her time
with Matthew (14 months) and
running her popular restaurant,
MOSA, which is celebrating its 8th
year! She loves serving on the St.
Mary’s Alumnae Board, and she
and her husband, now a partner
for consulting firm Southern
Grown Studio, just moved to
the ‘burbs of Germantown. All
is well with Katherine Arnold
Gatza, whose girls Elizabeth (1st
grade) and Anna (pre-K) keep
her busy with soccer and Girl
Scouts. Megan Waters Albonetti’s
daughter Abby Kate is really loving kindergarten. Megan balances
working from home as a freelance
editor, caring for Andrew (3), and
serving as the room mother for
Abby’s class. Elizabeth Schatz
Passarella went to Nantucket
this summer with her parents,
plus Vanessa Buch and her mom
and step-father. Their children
got to spend time together, the
grandparents babysat, and they
got a photo where everyone is
smiling – quite an achievement.
Cybil Mah Lieu is having fun
with Paxton (15 months) and is
the Community Service Chair at
his school. She also volunteers
for her boss, Michelle Nunn, who
is running for US Senate. Olivia
Ralston is still in London, with
Rafael (4) and twins Paloma and
Ilias (20 months), and likes her
strategy job at The Financial Times.
Charlestonian Calder Britt Clark
reports that Camp (5) and Walton
(3) are puzzle-crazy and growing
like weeds. This summer, her
extended family hit Germany,
Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary,
and had a wonderful time. She,
Sarah Trosper Olivo, and Alysia
Shell Shaver got together in New
Orleans for a weekend replete
with dancing and lovely meals. I
am sure NOLA was also a source
of inspiration for Calder’s thriving
business. Sarah Trosper Olivo is
really enjoying the freedom that
her private psychiatry practice in
New York affords, including more
time with Mae (1) and Jackson
(3). In Knoxville, Alysia and Chris
bought a house to renovate,
which should be an adventure.
Jonathan (3rd grade) and Wilson
(2nd grade) are both doing competitive soccer, so Alysia spends
lots of time on the fields, where
little sister Abigail (4) has formed
a “little sisters club.” Simone
Kiersky Coyle is wondering how
it is possible that her son Evan
started kindergarten. As they
sometimes say, “the days are
long but the years are short.” I
am learning that myself. We had
a ball celebrating my daughter
Belle’s third birthday with Evan
and Simone’s little girl Elise (4).
Belle loves the cute hand-medown clothes from her honorary big sis. Allison McConomy
Davenport’s eldest daughter, Abby
(5), also just started kindergarten.
Her youngest, Elizabeth (3), calls
herself “Biffy.” Where on earth
does she get that personality?
Wink. Recently, she and Natasha
Heflin Davis had a Philly playdate.
Natasha’s youngest, Tessa, is – per
her mom – “VERY TWO.” Amelia
(4) is dreamy and imaginative.
Natasha is working on getting
Sonia Torrey up for a visit. This
summer, Sonia went on a Torrey
family cruise to Alaska, which she
says was amazing. What else is
amazing is that Sonia is making
headlines – literally – with her
running. While on the cruise, she
ran a 5k in Juneau and showed
up in The Juneau Empire newspaper. She placed in multiple other
races this year, and as if that’s not
enough, set a goal to complete
a 50K. She still plans to start a
Masters in social sciences, and
is going strong with longtime
beau, Brantley. Out in Seattle, the
home of the flannel shirt, which
is apparently making a comeback
with this year’s “normcore” style
(a.k.a. America’s fashion crisis),
Dhevi Kumar Broecker and her
family are loving the crisp air
and farm-to-table lifestyle of the
Pacific Northwest. Her curious,
voracious son Ranga (1) goes on
weekly excursions to Pike Place
Market and has yet to meet a food
truck taco or pumpkin cupcake
he does not adore. He is my kind
of person. The cabbage patch will
soon produce at least two new
cabbages. Murff Oates Galbreath
will welcome her third baby
this spring, and Hallie Bourland
Wagner is expecting her second
baby! Hallie’s son Walter (2) keeps
her and her husband laughing.
She also enjoyed hearing about
exciting developments at St.
Mary’s at a Birmingham alumnae
event. Speaking of exciting, Lisa
Mulrooney is engaged to marry
Glen Coombs! Yay for this happy
news, Lisa! Lisa’s daughter – and
official teenager – Brianna ’20
is thriving in 7th grade at St.
Mary’s, and had fun on a recent
trip to Land Between the Lakes.
As for me, I play phone tag with
Patricia Graue and joined Ashley
Goldstein Allen for a party at her
house before her annual Memphis
vacation. My work entails some
overseas travel, which can be fun
when I am not a sleep-deprived
zombie. Everyone kept remarking
on my lack of jet lag, but I have
a secret weapon: I have been
jetlagged by motherhood. I want
Class notes
to do a half-marathon again, but
the Bob stroller is significantly
heavier with two offspring Belle
(3) and Hank (10 months) in it. I
have watched Frozen more than
I care to admit and I cannot wait
to see all of you in April 2015.
TWENTY YEARS, Y’ALL! :)
1996
Jaime Newsom
[email protected]
Gwyn Fisher is the Regional
Director for the Tenn. Department
of Economic and Community Development. She recently bought
a house and is in the process of
completely rehabbing it. She also
serves as a river guide for the
Wolf River Conservancy and is
training for two half marathons!
Gwyn and Laura Ray Logue are
looking forward to celebrating
their birthdays with a relaxing
weekend in Hot Springs. Courtney Shove was in Memphis
earlier this year to be with her
mom, who had surgery. While at
St. Francis, she had a visit from
nurse Lauren Brooks Poindexter.
Back in California, Courtney went
to Disneyland for the first time!
She will also get to see former St.
Mary’s Head of School Marlene
Shaw soon as Marlene is one of
the consultants in the search for
a new headmaster at the Santa
Catalina School, where Courtney
works. Julia Chesney McDonald
is the current president of the
St. Mary’s Alumnae Board. She
reports that the Board is off to a
great start this year and that she
enjoys serving with classmate
Lauren. Lauren’s daughter Emily
’26 is in first grade at St. Mary’s
while Lauren is in her last year of
nurse practitioner school. Lauren,
Julia, Laura, Gwyn, Sarah Henley,
and Emily Farrow Robbins had
dinner recently and had a great
time. Alexis Nussbaum continues
to enjoy teaching at St. Mary’s. She often sees Emily and Lauren
by the school cafeteria and in
carpool lines. Jane Carr recently
moved from Brooklyn to Washington, D.C., where she is on a
postdoctoral fellowship through
the American Council of Learned
Societies. She still edits The
Brooklyn Quarterly (brooklynquarterly.org), the digital magazine of
literature and public ideas she cofounded last year. Husband David
is still working in NYC, so they go
back and forth between Washington and Brooklyn. Sharlene Sidhu
Keithley is busy now that she
has taken on another role– working for Desoto Children’s Clinic,
her dad’s pediatric clinic. She is
happy to be able to work from
home while making an impact in
the Memphis metro area. Natalie
Nussbaum returned to Spain
this summer to revisit Toledo,
where she lived for a semester
in college. She thanks Senora
Walker for teaching her Spanish
and inspiring her to study abroad
in college. Catherine Tracy Sloan
welcomed a daughter in June and
loved being able to spend time
will all her children while on
maternity leave. She is now back
to work designing houses, including a few for St. Mary’s alumnae.
Betsy Ordonez and her family are
having a great year with Oscar in
kindergarten and Evie in second
grade. Betsy teaches spin classes
a few days a week while the kids
are in school. She and husband
Jose celebrated their 10 year anniversary with a trip to Chicago.
They were blown away by the art
and architecture in the city. Ron
and I look forward to welcoming
our second child early next year.
In the meantime, we are enjoying
Chicago and preparing ourselves
for another long winter.
1997
Hollye Ferguson Stigler
[email protected]
Clare Levy Clarke and I were so
proud of our class participation
in Annual Fund giving this year—
thank you! We have one more
year of Ashley’s Challenge, so
please plan to give again during
this giving year (ends June 30);
we’d love to reach more than 71%
giving in 2015. Your news over the
past few months is exciting…the
Class of 1997 is celebrating a lot
of new additions in this season of
life! Congratulations to Liz Fraim
Evans who recently welcome
twin baby girls, Emma and Grace,
into her family along with Ryan
and big brother Ben. They’re both
beautiful just like Ben, who is so
in love with his sisters. This summer, Rose Indriolo Englert and
her husband Todd also welcomed
a baby girl, Ramona. Rose and
her family live in Portland and
have enjoyed West Coast travel
recently. Ramona is already quite
the traveler having taken a tour
of northern California, the Oregon
Coast and Kauai, Hawaii. Melissa
Ohsfeldt also welcomed a baby
girl, Orinda, to her family this
summer. She is enjoying maternity leave and the Landmans are all
settling into life as a family of six!
Elaine Guerra Cotter writes that
her daughter, Sophie, just turned
two; their family recently moved
to Los Angeles and they are enjoying getting settled there…closer
to the beach and warmer weather.
Elaine has also had a chance to
see Clare, who is also living in LA.
Ashley Futrell Anderson has recently launched a website for her
business Peanut & Piglette: www.
peanutandpiglette.com, and the
site was developed by Hala Khuri.
Nice job to you both! I recently got
to reconnect with and meet some
Birmingham-area alumnae and
enjoyed hearing the latest happenings from St. Mary’s. Makes
me miss you all and reminded me
of fun times!
1998
Laurin Maddux
[email protected]
Elisabeth Callihan is living in
Brooklyn curating public programs at the Brooklyn Museum,
which she thinks is so much fun!
Elisabeth and husband, Will, also
enjoy traveling and went to Honduras Bay Islands for some scuba
diving, sun and sand; then later to
Maine for some lounging and lobsters; then nice visits with family and friends in Memphis and
Richmond, Va. Ellen Dean Davis
writes, “I got my act together at
some point over the last 10+ years
I guess” and is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon in private practice
up in N.J. and is married with two
children, Avery (3) and Benjamin
(4 months). Ellen thinks she had
us all fooled all those years ago;
we all knew she had it in her. She
won “Around the World” in Spanish Class every time! Whitney
Jamison Chatterjee and husband,
Rano, are still enjoying St. Louis
while Rano finishes up his neuroradiology fellowship and Whitney
is a full time mom to Layla (3).
Congrats to Allison Martin Nolen,
who graduated with her MSN in
May and is a staff nurse at Barnes
Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She
writes it is a big learning curve
but loves it! Katie Broer Parr has
also made a career shift recently
and now enjoys working with
husband, Hampton, at his law
office and in the real estate business in Collierville. They are in
the process of renovating Hampton’s grandmother’s antebellum
house just off the Collierville
town square, and just got official
approval from the town to run it
as a bed & breakfast and event
space. They hope to have it ready
for B&B guests by the spring and
for events by the summer. Katie
is also enjoying being mother to
Eleanor (3) and Henry (1). Carly
Hansen Kordsmeier and husband, Eric, have also started on
a new venture and have started
a charity called Saints N Angels
Animal Rescue, named after
their first racehorse that retired
from the track. The mission is to
retrain retired racehorses so that
they can find forever homes. She
writes horses are such amazing animals and it’s great to be
able to show people that they
can do more than just run fast!
Tracy Burch Voyles writes she
is enjoying working as a special
education facilitator, where she
serves as the autism specialist
and CDC classroom consultant
for Maury County, Tenn. She is
also a busy mom, taking care of
Ethan (10), Claire (4), and Luke
(3). Nupur Sidhu Bal writes she
will be sworn in as the Chair of
the Young Lawyers Division of
the Virginia Bar Association in
January. In the meantime Nupur
and her family have been traveling to Mexico and the Dominican
Republic this year and are planning a trip to Thailand to ring in
the New Year. Her son, Rajvir, just
started kindergarten at Collegiate
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School in Richmond, where the
outgoing head of school is Keith
Evans, who used to be assistant head at St. Mary’s and the
incoming head is Steve Hickman,
a graduate of MUS. Small World!
Congratulations to Nupur for her
selection by her peers to Virginia’s
Legal Elite 2014! Speaking of small
worlds, Erin Lyttle Do continues
to enjoy being back in Memphis.
Both of her daughters Claire
’29 and Samantha ’30 are at St.
Mary’s this year. Claire even has
a pretty great teacher…my mom,
Becky Maddux! Claire Coleman
Bowman and her family moved to
a new house this summer to give
those growing boys a little more
room to play. They also enjoyed
a trip out west to Portland, Ore.
to visit family and see the sights
this summer. Erin Wade writes
she is currently in a rotation in
Pediatrics Infectious Disease in
San Antonio. On her way out
West, she was able to spend some
time with Allyn Jaqua Lowell and
her family. Erin will graduate from
medical school in May and is applying for pediatric residencies.
The award for the most exciting
year goes to Monica Wilson Barton! Monica, and husband Derek
were married earlier this year and
they are now expecting a little
boy! Baby Barton is due late fall
and we can’t wait to meet him!
In other baby news, Lauren Webb
Mitchell and husband, Luke,
welcomed Henry Jackson Wesley
Mitchell to the world in September. Henry takes his names from
granddads on both sides: Henry
Jackson was Luke’s maternal
grandfather’s name (who went
by HJ or Jack) as well as his great
grandfather’s, and Wesley is a
name shared by both Lauren’s
recently passed maternal grandfather (Silas Wesley, or SW), and
her brother (James Wesley). What
a neat tradition! Meg Kinnard
Hinson writes that she enjoys
running, covering S.C. political
campaigns, and teaching daughter, Adair (3), to count in French!
As for me, Laurin Maddux, I am
still at Lakeside working with the
kiddos. As Erin Lyttle Do shared
with all of you already, I was
chosen as one of Memphis Business
Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 this Fall.
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It was a completely overwhelming experience and very humbling
to be among such a great group
of people. I am also enjoying my
ever-growing little side business,
Beccadot Designs where I make
hand sewn Christmas ornaments,
garland, and Advent Calendars
and working on my MBA at the
University of Memphis. Thanks to
everyone who wrote in, it makes
writing and reading this article
much more fun!
1999
Kelly Buckner Dallas
[email protected]
Hello, Class of ’99! I loved hearing from so many of you for my
first article. It’s been a busy year
for a lot of us! I moved back to
Memphis this summer from Dallas, and my two girls are now at
St. Mary’s. We love being back!
We see Anne-Morgan Brookfield
Morgan often as our daughters
are in the same class (’29). AnneMorgan is doing great and loving
life with her two girls. Palmer
Adams Burt also has her little girl
Finlay ’30 at St. Mary’s! She has
been busy doing freelance writing
and social media management
as well as taking care of her new
little boy Cooper born this summer. Jenny Jones Savage also
welcomed her little girl Maddie
this fall and is excited to have a
future St. Mary’s turkey! Allison
Davies Ford welcomed her second
little boy Hill this summer six
weeks early! All are doing well,
and Allison loves having nearly all
of her family relocated to Jacksonville. Courtenay Adams enjoyed
visiting Allison this summer in
Jacksonville. Courtenay is still
in Memphis living near Overton Square. She is fostering an
English bulldog mix and is in her
10th year at Dixon Hughes Goodman where she works with Meg
Parker. Those of us in Memphis
love getting together for lunch
regularly including Caroline Palazola Conrad and Rebecca Fones
Rhea. Rebecca’s daughters are
loving school—and Ellie is already
in first grade! Erin Bower is still
doing great in Nashville and is
working in physical therapy. Leigh
Ferguson is also in Nashville
and has just purchased her first
condo. We have a growing group
of St. Mary’s girls out in California. Annie McLaren Neufeld is in
Pasadena and enjoying married
life. She just got promoted to
Pastor of Children’s and Student
Ministries. In San Francisco,
Lillian Askew Everdell is loving
motherhood and can’t believe her
baby Charlotte is already turning
one. It goes fast! Ashley Gaillard
Clark is also in San Francisco and
is excited to celebrate her son
Oliver turning one. Ashley also
just started a new role at a nonprofit social venture fund called
SV2. Sidney Hawkins Gargiulo
is an equally busy mom in San
Francisco working from home
and traveling often. She writes
that her son Jack brings her more
joy than she could ever have
imagined. Sidney, Ashley, Lillian
and “Aunt” Brittany Blockman
Pelletier try to get together as
often as they can. Angela Lam is
also still in San Francisco and is
loving being a new aunt. She ran
into Hilary Dinkelspiel recently
near work. Hilary has just moved
from San Francisco after nine
years to New York and is enjoying
it. Hilary and sister Helen Dinkelspiel ’97 completed Ironman Mont
Tremblant late this summer. Way
to go, Hilary! Also on the move is
Libby Lawson Foster. She and her
husband have moved from Austin
to Logrono, Spain for a year to
take Spanish at the University
of Rioja. She says all SMS’ers are
welcome to visit Spain anytime! I
might have to take her up on that!
Thanks for writing in and reporting your news, and congratulations on the new babies, jobs and
moves!
2000
Katie Garrett Harris
[email protected]
Mark your calendars for Alumnae
Weekend April 24 & 25- It’s been
15 years! Here’s the news for
now: Lexie Hicks Johnston is
still thrilled about selling real
estate in Memphis. She and Emily
White went to visit Jen Kaiser
in Orlando and took an amazing
trip to Harry Potter World! Lexie is
also enjoying having classmates
Amy Reinhardt Robinson and
Tami Sawyer back in town! Emily
White has recently released her
new album, Staking Flags in the
Valley, recorded in Nashville. You
can buy it on iTunes or emilywhite.com! She is especially
grateful to all the Turkeys who
were a part of the pre-order campaign. Tami Sawyer writes that
she is adjusting to being back in
Memphis and loving the rediscovery of the city. She is currently
in Leadership Memphis’ Fall Fast
Track class and joined the team
at Shelby County Schools as the
lead of the licensing compliance office. She is also working
with the voting rights movement
in Memphis and doing some
sideline freelancing for Phillip
Ashley Chocolates. (Look them
up! phillipashleychocolates.com).
Kat Gordon is enjoying the new
Muddy’s Grind House now that
it is open in Cooper Young. She’s
been touched by how many classmates have stopped in; it’s fun to
see so many friends come over for
coffee before work. Kristine New
Farnsworth’s second son, Parke
Sherrod Farnsworth, was born
early (but very healthy) making a
surprise appearance at home on
September 3rd. Husband Thomas
did a wonderful job staying calm
and everything turned out wonderfully. They continue to explore
the Northwest’s natural beauties
and make improvements on their
home. Last but not least, Tom’s
most recent design work via the
game Destiny has been released
to the world, so they have had a
lot of fun hearing about people
enjoying it. Sarah Montgomery
Prudhon is in her second semester of CRNA School at UT! Lots of
studying, but she loves it! Seven
month old daughter Etta Louise
is crawling everywhere and pulling up on everything...she keeps
them on their toes! Walton Allen
Webster has been busy teaching
2nd grade and keeping up with
Walt (2), John Henry (7) and Jack
(9). Megha Karkera Kanjia and
husband Mayur are getting settled
in Cincinnati and adjusting to
life as a family of 3. Baby Kish
is now 4 months old and Megha
Class notes
just started work as a Pediatric
Anesthesiologist at Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital. Lauran
Glassman Stimac reports she is
enjoying living in Memphis and
reconnecting with fellow classmates. Lessie Calhoun Rainey
shared that she and husband
Collins are expecting a baby in
April! Ellis Dixon did a little traveling this summer around Russia
and Spain. She will spend the
winter focusing on her pop-up
shop in Lisbon selling one-of-akind clothing. She still freelances
in fashion design for some companies stateside and also started
a new job teaching English at the
American School of Languages
in Lisbon. Courtney Routt
Worthman and husband Michael
are living it up in NYC and making a couple of visits home this
fall and winter - one to speak at
Chapel on November 18th and
then for Christmas. I’m looking
forward to Chapel, Courtney!
Mary Kathryn Millner Herrington
and husband Lewis are loving life
as a family of 3 with little Millie,
and MK is enjoying having a little
more flexibility in her schedule
these days. Stuart and I are outnumbered and busy these days.
We enjoyed traveling to several
fun spots over the summer and
fall with Louise (7), Wilkes (4),
and Hill (1): St. Louis, Park City,
Auburn, and Atlanta. Stuart and I
were also able to travel to England
in September for work, which was
a great change of pace! Thanks to
everyone for writing. Hope to see
you all in April!
2001
Lauren Anderson Stone
[email protected]
The movers and shakers of 2001
are moving and shaking into
new jobs, new homes, and new
motherhood. Victoria Corder is
now practicing general commercial litigation and securities litigation at Olshan Frome
Wolosky. She and Tony (and Ellie)
are enjoying the newlywed life in
New York. Emily Harris Halpern is
still working for Crosstown Arts,
part of the Crosstown neighborhood redevelopment project in
Memphis, and is enjoying all the
activity, in addition to taking care
of her growing boys, Jackson and
Rowan. After having taught first
grade at St. Mary’s for the past
two years, Meena Sudheendran
moved to Washington, D.C.,
where she is teaching first grade
at Maret, a co-ed private school.
Though she does miss Moss Hall
terribly, she is really loving D.C.!
Caroline Gardner left her job in
investment banking and is now
working for MillerCoors doing
mergers and acquisitions for
beer distributors, which is very
fun. She and her cockapoo, Linus,
moved to Lincoln Park and are
really enjoying their new place.
Susan Buckner is engaged to Cullen Rose, a business school friend,
with plans to marry in the summer! In June, Susan also changed
jobs and is now business lead at
Instagram, working on increasing
revenue. Claire Davies Rhodes
and Andrew moved to Florida,
where she is now a professor of
Converged Communications at
Florida State College of Jacksonville. Luisa Peredo Ewing and
family just moved to London for
her husband’s job. Luisa has been
working from home for a Private
Equity fund based in Singapore
for a year and a half now, and will
continue to do that from London.
Mattias is going to develop a
British accent! Stephanie Vieron
Leary is still loving living on campus at her school and teaching
7th/8th grade English after a summer home with James, who is one
and a half. Katherine Eder and
Daniel McDonnell made the move
to Nashville at the end of June
and are really enjoying it so far.
It’s definitely nice being closer to
home. They got married in Memphis in November! Katherine is
also enjoying her job at Vanderbilt
as a cognitive neurology fellow,
doing a mix of clinic and research
and seeing some really interesting cases. Mira Patel married Benjamin Roberts in Chicago in June!
Meena, Amrita, Jenni Hirsch, and
Katie Holladay Peak were all able
to attend. Amrita Dirghangi Goel
and her husband welcomed baby
Niam in July, and she joins many
of us in saying “who knew little
boys could be this much fun!”
Courtney Taylor Humphreys and
McKee are also having fun with
Tucker, 3, and Heloise, 1. Courtney
got to see Lizzie Widdicombe
recently and reports that she’s
doing great! Nishta Mehra and
Courtney were really proud to
have a writing piece about their
friendship across religious beliefs
published on Christianity Today’s
website for women. Nishta is now
teaching high school: an honors
creative writing course for seniors, a new comparative religion
elective for juniors & seniors, and
two sections of American lit for
juniors. It’s been a big adventure
and learning curve, but she loves
it. Shiv is busy talk talk talking,
dancing, climbing on things, and
is so excited to now have all his
grandparents living in town. As
always, it’s great to hear how
everyone is doing!
2002
Polly Klyce Pennoyer
[email protected]
Another eventful and productive six months for the class of
2002. In Florida, Lindsey Coates
has started a counseling practice, with a focus on meeting the
therapeutic needs of low-income
people, including recently beginning work with prisoners at the
Orange County Jail in Orlando.
What brave and important
work—and it sounds like she likes
it besides. Kathryn Schledwitz
has braved the wilds of the real
estate market to purchase her
first home, outside of Seattle, and
she says we’re all invited! Anna
Coplon Suen is also a homeowner now; she and husband
Garrett have recently purchased
a house in Madison, Wis., where
he is a professor at University of
Wisconsin. The two have enjoyed
some great international travels
since their wedding last January.
Wendi Muse is still living the
mega-commuting lifestyle, spending half her week at home in
Virginia with her husband Kani,
and spending the other half in
New York, where she is in her
second year of doctoral studies at New York University. She
spent another summer in Brazil
doing research and is starting
to get some of her work published—way to go Wendi!Laura
Hettinger recently celebrated her
marriage to George Mauer in New
Orleans. Classmates who helped
her to celebrate included Lindsey,
Rachel Andersen, Leslie Guinn
Jerkins, Kelsey Freebing, Kathryn
Glassman, Whitney Long Neal
and Margaret McQuiston. Leslie’s
daughters Juliette and Molly
Jerkins made beautiful flower
girls. Leslie’s husband Jonathan
has started his residency in pediatrics in Memphis, and Leslie has
a new job, working in advertising at Red Deluxe, downtown.
Emily May has added a new letter
to monogram—she wed Frank
Lequerica (/Lek-a-rica/) in June.
Mrs. Lequerica is still teaching JK
at PDS, where she has also been
appointed the Director of Early
Childhood Programs. Classmate
attendants for her big day included Ann Burruss and Lindsey,
as well as former classmates
Kimberly Finnell Moore and
Claire Hicks Tipps. Katie Friend,
Margaret and Catherine Ferguson
Conger were also present to help
the happy couple celebrate. Emily
and Frank are also members
of the new-homeowners club.
Congrats to both happy couples!!!
Ann reports that highlights of
her summer included a beach
get away with Lisa Mabry and
Elizabeth Campbell. Ann has
been busy—she is still teaching second grade at Bodine in
Memphis; she has also earned
her certified Academic Language
Therapist License AND she has
started her own business, called
Jack and Lulu designs. Check
out her stuff; it is so cute! Lisa
is still in Birmingham, where
she is completing her residency
in radiology at the University
of Alabama. Hillary BurkettBuford has moved across the
state to Knoxville, where she is
now working at the healthcare
consulting firm, Pershing, Yoakley
& Associates. She, too, has a new
home, in Maryville, Tenn., on 2
acres of land—what space! From
North Carolina, Nicole Osborne
Steck reports that her life is
finally settling down a bit—she
is finishing up her rotation
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program at Glaxo-Smith-Kline
and enjoying her participation in
the Durham Junior League. Her
son, Braden, has turned from
baby to toddler and is now even
better at tormenting their poor
dog. Michelle Goldwin Kaufman
is back in Chicago with her
husband Jay, and after spending
a long year in Minneapolis she is
finished with her Ph.D. and is now
a licensed psychologist! Michelle
has just started her post-doc at
the University of Illinois, and
she and Jay have just bought a
new place in Chicago. Our happy
’02 family has had several new
additions since our last update—
Kate Thornton Woolridge and
her husband Andy welcomed
son Luke Thomas in September.
Meanwhile, Whitney Williams
Frahm and her husband Russell
welcomed daughter Harper
Rose in July. Congrats to the new
mamas!! In Colorado, Melissa
Lawson Romero has graduated
from law school and social work
school with a JD / MSW, and she
is currently clerking for Judge
Terry Fox on the Colorado Court
of Appeals. She reports that
daughter Etta and husband Carlos
are also doing great! Valerie
Hartmann wrote to us from the
sea. She is still based in Slidell,
La., but her work as a hydrographer for the Naval Oceanographic
Office has her at sea for 2-month
stretches several times a year.
What an adventure! Valerie loves
working in the sciences, but she
wishes she had more female
colleagues. Good thing St. Mary’s
is pushing the STEM curriculum
these days! As for me, Robbie and
I are six months into our latest
adventure—parenting. Many
many thanks to Marley Baer for
covering for me last time around
on this update. Around the time
that class notes were last due,
Robbie and I were joyfully and
anxiously welcoming our daughter Victoria, who gave us all a bit
of scare arriving 6 weeks early
and in need of some medical
interventions. We are thrilled to
report that she is thriving now.
I’ve gone back to work, Robbie is
still in school, and the fun never
stops! My admiration for our
own mothers grows hourly. . . It’s
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2004
Shea O’Rourke Quraishi
[email protected]
Faye Rainer ’05, Mary Milton Kelley ’03 and Lauren Robinson ’03
putting out back-to-school signs for all students.
always such a treat to hear from
so many wonderful ladies. Please
keep the updates coming!!
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Alexanda Bicks
[email protected]
Laurence Goodwin
[email protected]
It’s been so nice to hear everyone’s news. Lizzie Gill has started
her very own business, No Limits
Tutoring, specializing in ACT
and SAT preparation as well as
tutoring in academic subjects for
students of all ages. Well done
Lizzie! Suzie Loveless manages
Alumni Relations for Teach for
America in Oklahoma and is
planning her next adventure to
Panama and Morocco. Louise
Schumacher Timmons is living
in Atlanta with her husband,
Drew, and working at the Atlanta
Decorative Arts Center. Vi West is
still living in Scottsdale, Ariz. and
still loves her job as the National
Training Manager for Pei Wei. Julia
McMillen is in her second year of
residency in family medicine at
UW Madison and reports that she
gets to “deliver babies and take
care of the kids and grandparents,
too!” Mary Austin Mays Smith
graduated from dental school in
May and is now in the middle of a
one year residency program. She
splits her time between UT and
the Church Health Center (“which
I love!”). Rachel Bresinger is living
in Israel and works for a high
tech company in Herzliya. She
is busily planning her December
wedding to Moshe Ashkenazi and
is excited that her family is going
to be able to head over from the
States to attend the wedding.
Catherine Culvahouse Fox has
moved from New Haven to San
Diego to be closer to her husband
Nima. She’s in the dissertationphase of her PhD at Yale and also
working at the Yale University
Art Gallery as well as learning
Farsi. Katie Hobson Novikoff
has recently moved to East St.
Louis with her husband Chris, to
work with an organization called
Rebirth East St. Louis which seeks
to develop youth into leaders for
their city. Carey Faber Campbell
is in her 4th year of a plastic and
reconstructive surgery residency
in Dallas. Margaret Ann Klinke
Mays is in her 4th year of her
radiology residency in Memphis
and has recently been named
Chief Resident. She and husband
Ben are the proud parents of an
English labrador named Atticus.
Brianna Winsett Chapman and
her husband Matt welcomed their
daughter Grace in May. Grace
spends most of her time with
Brianna at the flower shop or with
her grandma. Finally, my husband
Jamie and I are still in Oxford. I’m
in the midst of directing a production of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever
for the Oxford Theatre Guild and
teaching Latin (again!) to a very
nice group of 6th-8th graders at a
local independent school.
Hello, Class of 2004! Exciting news
just keeps coming. Elizabeth
Jemison married Andrew Malwitz
in August, and Christine Ruby
married Matthew Coveny in
October. Meanwhile, Lucy Harris
recently got engaged! Abby
Kostka Farley and husband John
welcomed their first son, John
North, in June! Abby still teaches
first grade. Martha Guinn Carter
and husband Dudley love life with
little Jane. Martha also enjoys
spending time with Lawrence
Taylor Elliott and her new baby
girl, Eliza. Welcome to the world,
little turkeys! Many are on the
move. Blair Carter Tait, husband
Tom, and dog Addie moved to
Atlanta, where they love seeing Laine Peeler and Natalie
Hartmann. Tom works for Bain
Consulting, Blair is job hunting,
and they love being aunt and
uncle. Ellen Coleman and dog
Lily moved to Sacramento, Calif.,
where she loves working for an
Episcopal church. Ellen welcomes
visitors! Rachel Bearman is Rabbi
of Georgetown, Conn.’s Temple
B’nai Chaim, where she leads
services, teaches Confirmation
and adult education classes,
works in the Religious School,
and provides pastoral care. Betsy
Matthews Rhodes and husband
Stuart moved to Dallas, where
Betsy does Public Relations for
Mary Kay. Grad school brainiacs
are putting Ms. Peterson’s “study
skills” to use! Camille Wingo
is in the final year of her Duke
MBA program and will move
to Dallas this summer to do
brand management for Frito-Lay.
Prudence Katze will complete
her Masters in Urban Planning
at Hunter College in December.
Sarah Carter still loves being
a nurse at Vanderbilt while in
grad school. Connor Trott is in
her final year of her Doctorate
of Physical Therapy program
in N.C., where she is designing
and implementing a therapeutic
maintenance program for people
with Parkinson’s. Clare Patterson
graduated with her Masters in
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Biomedical Sciences and was
first in her program to present
her thesis research at an invited
research day. Marion Phillips
completed her Masters of City
and Regional Planning degree and
is an economic and community
development research analyst at
Atlanta’s Georgia Power. Morgan
Lobe just started her family
medicine residency in Denver
after exploring traditional healing in China and Africa. Caitlin
Carr is finishing her final year of
medical school at UT and applying to Ob-GYN residencies after
Denver and Seattle internships.
Caitlin is president of the medical
school executive council. Angela
Wilcox is a neurosurgery resident
in Little Rock, Kaitlin Ridder
Jaqua is a urology resident in
Indianapolis, Lindsey McAlpin is
an Ob-GYN resident in Houston,
and Lauren Lazar is pediatrics
resident in Dallas, where she
enjoys seeing Taylor Fisher periodically. Several have new jobs!
Susan Schwarz is now Group
Sales Manager in Bloomingdale’s
Ready to Wear. She recently
moved to N.Y.’s Lower East Side
and got a dog named Charlie.
Sasha Castroverde now works on
a $6.5 billion capital campaign at
Harvard’s University Development
Office. Mary Washington is
senior account executive at Eaton
Medicals, realtor for Coldwell
Banker Collins-Maury, and mom
to 3-year-old McKenzie. Jessie
Walker is fundraising as a Major
Gifts Officer for the American
Red Cross of the Mid-South in
Memphis. Natalie Hartmann is
starting a new job doing physical
therapy in her Atlanta hospital’s
inpatient rehab department.
Taylor Fisher is a registered dietitian and director of staff wellness
at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for
Children in Dallas and co-chair
of curriculum for Kids in the
Kitchen, an afterschool fitness
and nutrition education program.
Shelby Deeney loves being a
lawyer in Denver. She recently
went backpacking with husband Brian in California’s Kings
Canyon National Park. Zoe Kahn
is a psychotherapist for teens
and their families in an L.A. drug
and alcohol rehab while start-
ing a private practice. Elizabeth
Stevenson teaches kindergarten
in S.C. and has taken many recent
trips for weddings and concerts.
Martha Ferguson Burke lives in
Melbourne, Fla., where she’s a
college counselor and teaches at
husband Chris’s middle school
beachside. They recently got a
cockapoo named Denver. Martha
looks forward to running the St.
Jude Half Marathon in December!
Ashford Carney Rosenberg
and her husband live in New
Orleans, where she works with
Gulf of Mexico fisheries for
the Audubon Aquarium of the
Americas. Ashford is marching
this year in Mardi Gras parades.
Amy Crawford Céspedes is a
commercial litigator in Houston,
living with husband James and
dog Coco and going to her first
trial soon. Christine Ruby teaches
Art History at CBU and Ceramics
at the University of Memphis,
while serving as Coordinator and
Instructor for the Dixon Gallery’s
new program, Colorcopia. Watch
out, Pinterest! Cathleen Ray
Hickey and husband Fassett just
bought their first house--in San
Antonio--and are planting a garden. Cathleen still teaches middle
school English. Piper Gray, still
at Warby Parker, moved to a new
apartment and is excited to decorate. Piper is thrilled that Rachel
Bearman has moved nearby, and
she loved traveling to Bali with
Lucy Harris! Brittany Johnson
Hernandez and husband Saul are
excited to host lots of parties for
the first holiday season in their
new house in Petworth, D.C.! As
for George and me, we’re enjoying
Memphis, where I’m still teaching
in Orange Mound and taking on
some new roles at our school.
Hope to see y’all soon!
Schools. She is still writing for
BroadwayWorld, volunteering,
and hoping to do a few shows
this fall and winter. Lizzy Rhea
Cook is living in St. Louis and
working on her masters in religion and culture from Covenant
Seminary. Her husband Stu is
going to graduate in the spring
with his masters in counseling.
Elizabeth Tipton Musick is still
living in Missoula, Mont., and is
in the midst of her third year of
law school at the University of
Montana. She will be moving to
Bozeman, Mont. in May when she
graduates and is taking the MT
bar exam next summer. Marianne
Rizk is now a fourth year graduate student at Iowa. She passed
her comprehensive exams last
May and is officially permitted
to start work on her dissertation.
She is also loving her practicum
where she works with women
who suffer from postpartum
depression. Erica Evans is excited
about her new position as a Pro
Se Staff Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee! Erica
usually reports that she enjoys
living on Mud Island near Sarah
Atkinson Ball, but not this time.
Sarah is still enjoying their friendship, though. Grace Jensen Knight
says, “We can’t believe Baby
Mary is already a year old. She is
such a fun baby! I love working
just 2 days in Kindergarten at
New Hope. Life is good!” Lauren
Kennedy Dake has some good
news—she and husband Merritt
are excited to welcome twin boys
in December! Daughter Margaret
loves to “pat the babies.” Lauren
enjoyed hosting a baby shower in
the fall for Collin Wilson Buckner
with Lauren Wiygul Riley, Laura
Montague Haltom, Kate Messenger Mendez, and Catie Jane
Berger. Baby Anne arrived to Collin and husband Sam in October –
congrats, Buckners! Claire Arnett
Sumner and Falconer Robbins
are looking forward to being a dynamic matron and maid of honor
duo in Weezie Cannon’s wedding
to Stuart Finlay this fall! More
happy news—Laura Jennings
Yacoubian and husband Paul are
expecting a baby girl in November! Laura Holladay Fletcher is
still living in Charleston, S.C.
Laura was promoted to support
specialist at Blackbaud. Daughter
Alaina will be 1 year on October
25—right after Laura’s husband
(October 23) and Laura (October
24)! Faye Kenner Rainer is still
working at Buntyn Preschool. She
and her husband have spent the
last 6 months working on their
fixer-upper in East Memphis.
Emily Templeton Gray bought a
house in midtown back in February and married husband Nathan
in September. Megan Bailey was
Emily’s Maid of Honor, and Erica
Evans and Katie Brookoff were
bridesmaids. Emily says that
she is already excited about our
ten-year reunion; she would like
to start auditions ASAP for lead
singers for the inevitable Jojo lip
sync.We hope to see you April 2425 for Alumnae Weekend!
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Sarah Atkinson Ball
[email protected]
Lauren Wiygul Riley
[email protected]
Heather Nadolny and her boyfriend moved to Alexandria, Va.
over the summer, and Heather
started a new job as a Technology
Associate with DC Prep Charter
Class of 2006: Rachel White, Katie Camille Friedman,
Mishi Castroverde, and Neelam Khan.
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2006
Rebecca Anderson
[email protected]
Becky Bicks
[email protected]
Rachel White recently got
engaged to Iain Johnston and will
be getting married in Cambridge,
UK at Christ’s College next
June. She joined Katie Camille
Friedman and Neelam Khan to
cheer on Mishi Castroverde for
Mishi’s dance company’s first
evening length program of
dance held in September. Beth
Pazar graduated with a Masters
in Public Affairs from the
University of Texas at Dallas and
is working for the City of Dallas
as a Council Assistant. Catherine
Smith Denman and her husband, Larry, bought their first
home this summer in East
Memphis and are looking forward
to the birth of their first child
later in the fall. Grace Wheeler
Davis welcomed her first child,
Ellen Amelia, in Birmingham,
Ala. Grace and her husband,
Charles, are overjoyed with their
new daughter, and Minor Moore
was the first St. Mary’s ’06 visitor
to see the beautiful baby. Minor
lives in the same neighborhood
in Nashville as Ellen Page, who
is enjoying her second year
at Vanderbilt Business School
and spent her summer working as a Senior Product Manager
at Amazon in Seattle. Mamie
Kostka is in the middle of taking
her licensing exams for her
landscape architecture work
and recently got to visit her
new sweet nephew John North
in Colorado Springs. John is
the son of her sister, Abigayle
Kostka Farley ’04. It is turning
out to be a party in Southern
California for St. Mary’s
’06ers. Ellen Makowsky and Evie
Lyras just moved to the area,
joining Kristi Ryan and Morgan
Robbins. Evie Lyras moved from
London, where she received a
master’s degree in Electronic
Publishing at City University
London. Kristi Ryan is in culinary
school at the New School of
Cooking in LA and enjoying
every minute. Jenny West4 6 | S T. M A R Y ’ S E P I S C O PA L S C H O O L
Fagan is halfway through her
PhD program in Criminology at
UCI and is working on a yoga
and personal training business
that will launch in 2015. Frances
Leslie is still enjoying her
time teaching middle school
in Savoonga, Alaska. Lulu
Wilson is working on her masters
in Interior Design at Virginia
Commonwealth University
and worked for a commercial
design firm in Richmond over
the summer. She also recently
joined the Junior League. Rebecca
Anderson recently got engaged
to Alaric Eby while vacationing in Cape Cod. The wedding will be held next fall in
Memphis. Elizabeth Braden
recently moved to Princeton, N.J.
to become the Program Manager
at Princeton in Africa. She had
the chance to see Katie Camille
Friedman in June for a Princeton
in Africa event. Becky Bicks is
currently living in Brooklyn, N.Y.
and writing for Scripted, a ghostwriting agency. She recently cofounded her own web copywriting
and editing business. Lindsey
Edwards Rushing has enjoyed her
first year of marriage to Cameron
Rushing, and she is now teaching high school psychology and
English at the Bowie Center in
Memphis. Katie Camille Friedman
is heading to do research in the
Netherlands for a whole year, and
she would she would love to meet
up with any European visitors!
Neelam Khan is currently doing
a year-long research fellowship
with the Dept. of Dermatology at
the University of Pennsylvania,
and she will be returning to
Georgetown next year to finish
her last year of medical school
and apply for residency. Morgan
Beckford moved back to Memphis
in August and started working for
Opera Memphis as the Education
and Outreach Coordinator.
She also took over Mari Earle’s
position at WKNO as a Sunday
afternoon station break announcer and is now singing
at Germantown Presbyterian
Church, in addition to teaching voice lessons. Jenay Gipson
will be getting married to Alex
Boggs in May, and she is currently
enjoying her third year teach-
ing kindergarten at Cornerstone
Prep School. Kim Johnson Radant
graduated with a master’s degree
in counseling from the University
of Memphis in December 2013,
and in May 2014 she married Matt
Radant. Kim got to celebrate her
wedding in Florida with Amanda
Ayerst Jemison, Ellen Page, and
Jenna McNair. Kim and Matt recently moved to Detroit for Matt’s
residency in oral surgery, and
Kim is now working as the school
counselor at Hope of Detroit
Academy, a K-8 charter school.
Courtney Foreman Guilfoile married Russell Guilfoile in April 2014
in Memphis. Courtney and Russell
just moved to Missouri where
he is posted for 2 years as a JAG
officer.
2007
Caitlin Clark
[email protected]
Caitlin Colcolough
[email protected]
Mary Louise Carrick is in New
Orleans getting her Master’s in
Education at UNO, and living
with her sister Emmaline ’10. She
is concentrating in elementary
education and mild to moderate
disabilities. Ginni Fischer is back
in Memphis teaching 3rd grade
at New Hope Christian Academy
and bought a house that she currently shares with her gray cat.
After a summer of solo travels
in Ecuador, Chelsea Cook began
her first year of law school at
Emory University in Atlanta. She
is serving as a board member for
the reproductive justice group,
working with a refugee alliance
organization, and trying to learn
more about her awesome city.
Zina Kumok is still living in Indy
with her fiancé and their dog Lyra,
and writing on her blog, which
recently got more than 5,000 followers! She still works full-time
for a non-profit in town where
she does PR and marketing.
She’ll be getting married in April.
Rachael Brown got married in July
to a wonderful Irish gentleman,
Stephen Nolan and just recently
started a new job as a recruitment
consultant in Hong Kong, and
so far, so good! Hallie Flanagan
is going to graduate in May and
is currently juggling her time
between finishing up her history
degree, heading up Memphis
NORML, LSAT classes, and grad
school apps! She just recently
finished work on another campaign for Congressman Cohen.
Caroline Fentress is still in Los
Angeles working as a producer
at Kojima Productions LA. She is
working on Metal Gear Online,
which is the multiplayer part of
Metal Gear Solid V. In November
she is participating in a Crossfit
competition where she’s supposed to do that one pull up she
mentioned last time… Melissa
Graunke Decosimo got married
in July, and also started pursuing her MBA at Emory’s Goizueta
Business School in Atlanta. Caitlin
Colcolough moved to Charleston
in June and has been working on
growing her photography business. Erin Fowler is still working
on spacecraft systems and space
robotics programs for DARPA, and
we have an experimental spacecraft in development for launch to
low earth orbit in September 2015.
This fall she started a Masters
program in computer science
at George Mason University.
Charlotte Eagle finished up
post baccalaureate courses in
Biochemistry at U if M, and
recently took a job restoring antique furniture for Stair Galleries
in Hudson, N.Y. Her second job
working for a boutique hotel
owned by the artist Brice Marden
in Tivoli, N.Y. is only 5 houses
away from her sister Anastasia
’11 who is attending Bard College.
Cameron Colcolough Reynolds
is still in Greenville, S.C. doing
photography and loving being
close to Clemson. She and Caitlin
are excited to be moving towards
launching their joint photo and
film studio in the coming months!
Helen Akers is still in Austin
working for VMware, and was
just promoted to an inside Sales
Representative for North Texas.
Adrienne Adler just started the
grad school portion of her MD/
PhD program at Wake Forest, and
is doing drug abuse research.
Alexandra Mims is back in the US
after almost a month in Australia
playing rugby. Her team came
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in third place in the competition. Cory Yandell Lewis moved
to Chattanooga and just started
a new job working as a social
worker with UT Health Science
Center on a research program
to prevent infant mortality.
Maddy Pryor is still working at
PGW Experience in LA, who was
just acquired by Creative Artists
Agency a few months ago and
has been undergoing some major
changes. She has moved over to
the Business Development side
and spends most of her time
drawing up proposals and pitching, while also leading their Brand
Advocate program for AT&T/
Cricket. She is gearing up for
her adventure to South America.
Emily Sells is still loving her job
at Chilton Shelby Mental Health.
She spends most of her time in
the Shelby County Jail counseling
inmates, which definitely keeps
her on her toes. She also recently
got engaged to Blake Franklin and
is planning their wedding for May
2015. Caitlin Clark is a 4th year
medical student at UT-Houston
and is currently on the residency
interview trail for Anesthesiology,
traveling all across the country.
She will be graduating from medical school in May 2015!
2008
Katelyn Ammons
[email protected]
Margaret Liddon
[email protected]
Edith Miller
[email protected]
The Class of 2008 is taking their
mid-twenties by storm! Jessica
Richardson was awarded as
Greenville County’s Emerging
Teacher of the Year for 2014-2015
and has started a distance graduate program for Spanish education at Auburn University. Lauren
Wolfe loves living in Dallas while
studying for a MS in Neuroscience
and cognitive sciences at UT
Dallas. She is also working as
an emergency room scribe. Meg
Fowler is still in Morocco, the cold
country under a hot sun. She will
finish her Peace Corps service in
the spring of 2015 and is excited
for whatever lies ahead! Estes
Gould is still concierge-ing at
The Residences at The Little Nell
and loving Aspen. Annie Ostrow
Anderson just passed her preliminary exams in International
Relations and taught a course on
terrorism in the fall. She is enjoying exploring all of Wisconsin’s
hidden treasures. In her second
year at Emory Med, Cristen
Garrett is prepping to take the
boards in January. Ariel Mason is
looking forward to graduating law
school this year and beginning
her career. Congratulations
to Memory Madden for getting
her CPA license! She started a
new accounting and finance
recruiting job in Atlanta in
November. Living the California
dream, Rachael Holley is working for a startup in Silicon Valley
and enjoying a beautiful view
of the Bay from her apartment.
Christina Lee enjoyed her first semester at Cornell Law School and
is looking forward to surviving
her first winter in Ithaca. Morgan
Jordan is Assistant Art Director
at Pace University, a freelance
stylist, and the proud new owner
of a fluffy guinea pig named
Butters. Margaret Liddon is still
enjoying Washington, D.C., and
especially enjoyed travels in
Tennessee, Texas, Upstate New
York, and Florida over the summer as well as visits from Katelyn
Ammons and Christina Carson.
In Memphis, Ashley Edge is still
working as the Development
Coordinator at Grizzlies Prep
Charter School, which is now in
its third year of operation and fully grown with the sixth through
eighth grade. Lane Feler finally
learned to like coffee in her final
year of law school. Jenny Guyton
is continuing to enjoy working in
corporate strategy at the Advisory
Board Company in D.C.! Jessica
Farris is the digital editor and
content marketing manager for
HOW Design and Print Magazine.
She also hosts web seminars
and develops online courses on
content management and SEO. In
her spare time, she’s wrapping up
the last course for her Master’s
degree in journalism at CUBoulder. Over the Thanksgiving
Break, Katelyn Ammons was
thankful to have the opportunity
to visit her sister Ellery Ammons
’12 who was completing a program in Copenhagen. Kathryn
Feder earned her Master’s degree
in Effective Teaching and is
still teaching kindergarten at
UP Academy Charter School of
Dorchester. Last June, Hanna
Gordon Oysel married a wonderful Frenchman, Franck, who
just so happens to be a fantastic
pastry chef! She’s been eating
very well. She also just got a promotion at Adams Keegan where
she is now a Client Services
Manager. Margarett Frisby is
living in Orange Beach, Ala. She
works as a finance manager for
two restaurant owners as they
expand and grow along the Gulf
Coast. Anna Wheeler is loving being in Nashville and seeing Ayana
Fletcher-Tyson all the time! She
is working at First Presbyterian
Church and attending school at
Memphis Theological Seminary
through the Center for Youth
Ministry Training. Also appreciative to have Anna in Nashville,
Ayana Fletcher-Tyson was so
excited to be the first St. Mary’s
alumnae speaker of this school
year. She absolutely loved being
back for the day! In smaller but
no less important news, she also
got to teach a Dance Blast class at
the Y when the instructor failed
to show up. Nicolette Overton
spent the summer traveling in
the United States and Europe
and crossed the pond again in
August to finish graduate school
in London. She will receive an
MS in Journalism from Boston
University in January 2015. Caitlin
Smith received her Master of
Science in information studies
this past May and accepted an
internship with The Coca-Cola
Company in Atlanta. Following
the internship she accepted a
position with the digital communications team for the same
department and will be working
on the company’s website and
social media presence.
2009
Bailey Bethell
[email protected]
Sylvia Brookoff
[email protected]
Alex Tyler bought a house in
Fort Worth and is enjoying the
benefits and trials of homeownership. She works at iProspect
in Fort Worth doing paid search
for a large hotel client. Natalie
Earwood made the best decision
of her life by accepting an offer in
PR and moving to Atlanta to live
with Karen Stein. Now she receives free Spanx on the reg and
her butt is looking better than
ever! Bailey Bethell is working as
an Emergency Department Scribe
for the Methodist Hospital system
in Memphis. Sam Baumstark is
working in the tech department
at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills.
She is excited that her parents
just moved back to Memphis so
she gets to visit every year. Austin
Nichols interned at the District
Attorney’s Office over the summer
and is now in her second year of
law school in Birmingham. She
recently made the Cumberland
National Mock Trial Team. She
enjoyed seeing Melissa Pippin,
Catherine Vaughn, Jordan Reeve,
Liz Anderson, Kathryn Waggoner, and Natalie Jacewicz at Sophie Page’s wedding in September. Claire Riley is back in Madrid
teaching 1st, 2nd, and 6th grade
and will be traveling to London
and Vienna before the holidays!
Reagan Bugg is a second year
student at Mississippi State College of Veterinary Medicine where
she’s enjoying performing surgery
on shelter dogs so they have a
better chance of being adopted.
Tyler Hyman just started her first
year of medical school in buckeye
nation at The Ohio State. She is
looking forward to Mr. Volpe’s
physics class saving her during
her CardioPulm block. Christine
Petrin was so excited when Claire
Riley came to visit her in D.C.
this summer. Unfortunately they
were having so much fun that
they didn’t see the police officer
who gave them both jaywalking
tickets. Orange is the New Black
had never felt so real for either
of them. Wallis Tosi is enjoying
working as director of marketing and product development
for Karen Adams Designs. She
had a great time seeing Brandon
O’Brien, Sarah Donaldson and
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ness trip in NYC. After completing
her digital advertising contract
position at archer>malmo in
October, Lindsey Driver accepted
a full time position as a Social
Media Specialist at Magnolia
Homes in Germantown. Ruthie
Morrison is in her second year
of medical school at UTHSC and
is enjoying being in Memphis!
Grace McNatt recently moved to
Charleston, S.C.where her boyfriend is serving as a Navy Nuke.
She is loving her jobs as a nanny
and in a King Street boutique. She
also has a new man in her life: a
Golden Retriever puppy named
Cotton. Natalie Jacewicz and
Christine Petrin went on a hike to
some local waterfalls. They both
promptly changed their profile
picture to the same thing. Sylvia
Brookoff designed a Nickelodeon
slime umbrella (which you can
buy on Amazon!). She started a
new job as a production coordinator for on-air promos and has had
a variety of exciting experiences
lately such as meeting Mariska
Hargitay, being woken up in a
train station by police and dressing up as a Ninja Turtle in Times
Square so she could experience a
day in the life of a costumed character. Helga Wienerschnitzel has
been promoted from Face Painter
to Ride Attendant at Six Flags,
her current place of employment.
On the side, she’s been trying
her hand at limerick writing and
making handmade paper.
2010
Erin Stuart
[email protected]
With our five-year reunion just
around the corner, many of us
have completed our undergraduate degrees and moved on to
graduate programs and jobs.
Mary Frances Street just started
her first semester at UT Knoxville pursuing her Masters in
School Counseling. She is looking
forward to the in-depth study of
this one step closer to her dream
job. Cassidy Gubin graduated
this May with her BS in Psychology and is spending the year in
Memphis working
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at Baptist Hospital, where she
makes rounds at various doctors
offices each day. She is looking
forward to beginning nursing
school in St. Louis in May. Also
returning to Memphis is Mary
Jensen Nease, who is working as
a nurse at LeBonheur and enjoying her life as a newlywed. Ali
Fishman graduated from Miami
this spring and is now attending
portfolio school in Chicago. Elise
Heuberger spent the summer in
D.C. working for the Senate HELP
committee and is now beginning
her studies at Vanderbilt Law. Erin
Stuart spent the summer doing
an intensive Greek course and is
now enjoying her first semester
at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she is particularly
happy to be in a handbell choir
again. She is also playing first
flute for a new opera company
in Princeton which seeks to give
mostly youth orchestra players
the chance to accompany operas.
Outside the world of academia,
Cara Greenstein is currently the
Public Relations Coordinator of
Doug Carpenter & Associates and
is managing blogs for The Scout
Guide Memphis and ArtsMemphis Culinary Series. She has also
just launched ConnecTI, Temple
Israel’s newest social initiative for
Jewish young adults. Carey Segal
recently set sail as a performer on
Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the
Seas and will spend the next several months dancing throughout
the Mediterranean and
Caribbean. Also traveling
the world is Meredith
Whitten, who has taken
a job as a scuba instructor in the Bahamas and
will be moving there
shortly. Ann Yacoubian
is currently in Yerevan, Armenia teaching
English and Spanish
as well as volunteering
in a pediatric hospital.
She will be returning to
the States in January to
begin graduate work at
Columbia University.
2011
Meg Cornaghie
[email protected]
Allyson Patterson
[email protected]
Meriweather Adams was recently elected as the president
of the Auburn Student Inventors
Club and loves blogging about
furniture she refinishes. Shelby
Chambliss is student teaching in a 5th grade classroom at
Oxford Intermediate School every
Monday and Wednesday. She
loves her teacher and students!
Christy Cameron is currently
serving as president for the
College of Architecture, Design,
and Construction at Auburn.
Her studio is partnering with
East Alabama Medical Center
this semester to design medical devices for use in the patient
rooms. She is also busy cheering
on the Auburn football team!
Meg Cornaghie worked at St.
Francis Hospital in Memphis this
summer as a surgery assistant
in the OR, which made her even
more excited to start at Baylor
College of Medicine next fall. She
is now back in Houston for her
final year at Rice and is loving
serving as the president of Will
Rice College, her residential college. Eliza Hendrix is happy to
be back at Rhodes after spending last spring in Copenhagen,
Denmark studying abroad. She
is currently working on a senior
Honors Project and is also coordinating a project with St. Jude.
After graduation, she is hoping
to work with children in the field
of Psychology. Teresa Hendrix is
the design editor of The Ole Miss
yearbook and is loving her last
year in Oxford! Sarah Jemison
is trying to take full advantage of
her final year at Princeton and is
enjoying writing her senior thesis
on Memphis! Tinsley McBride
is a senior this year, graduating
with a major in Psychology, minor
in Child and Family Studies. She
is working as a research assistant
on a multi-million dollar granted
psychological study dealing with
couples and relationships. She is
also Tri-Delta’s banner chair this
year and after graduation plans
on going to graduate school for
clinical psychology and continuing on to get her doctorate. This
summer, Anna Morten returned
back to St. Mary’s to work in
the advancement office. This
semester she’s busy planning
Wake ‘N Shake, Wake Forest’s
dance marathon for cancer
research and applying for jobs!
Allyson Patterson loves being
Editor-In-Chief of The Vanderbilt
Review, Vandy’s Literary and Arts
Publication, and she is exuberant to join design firm PDR’s
strategy team full-time after
graduation. Mary Peeler worked
Emory University Hospital this
Left: Virginia Preston ’11 (second from left) on the National Broadway Tour of Dirty
Dancing with classmates Becca Rinehart, Tinsley McBride and Whitney Wortham,
who came to see her performance in Cincinnati.
Right: Cara Greenstein ’10 and Kat Gordon ’00 owner of Muddy’s Bakery.
Class notes
summer in Atlanta and saw the
Ebola patient’s ambulance first
hand! Now, she is finishing up her
public health major and applying to medical schools for next
year. Virginia Preston is thrilled
to be making her Broadway
debut with the national tour
of Dirty Dancing! Lucy Wade
Shapiro is greatly enjoying being
the President of the Executive
Committee at Washington &
Lee which serves as the student
government and administers the
honor system. Susan Waggoner
is enjoying being back in Auburn
after studying abroad in Italy last
spring and spending her summer interning in Nashville! Allie
Williams worked at a sustainable
investing firm in San Francisco
this past summer and will return to work for them after she
finishes at NYU in December!
Whitney Wortham is preparing
for her medical mission trip to
Nicaragua in December and is
contemplating her next big move
after graduation. She also caught
up with celebrity Virginia Preston,
while Virginia was touring with
the Broadway production Dirty
Dancing. Angela Yu has assumed
her role as chief fruit harvester
at an east Tennessee commune.
Maria Zoccola is learning and
exploring while studying abroad
in Wellington, New Zealand.
2012
Ellery Ammons
[email protected]
Chandler Roberts
[email protected]
Megan Guyton has her hands full
as Director of Conference Logistics for UF Model UN. She continues to serve Kappa Kappa Gamma
as an officer for standards. Jodie
Struminger has declared a new
minor in the Business of Sports
and is currently participating in
Washington University Dance
Theater. As Student Association
External Vice President, Amritha
Kanakamedala helped create a
campus-wide initiative to encourage entrepreneurship and civic
engagement on campus. Ellen
C. Mitchell is loving her position as Panhellenic delegate in
Tri Delta and can’t wait to head
to Honduras this January for her
Marine Biology research program.
Kyra Scheiterlein is coasting into
junior year in hot pursuit of an
operational management degree
and entrepreneurial minor. Not
to mention filling life with 4 VP
positions, the newest being a
student based volunteer group
named Boulder Assets. She
also just adopted a black kitten
named Shadow. Grace Bethell
enjoyed living in an orphanage
in Tegucigalpa, Honduras this
summer, and has been accepted
to the upper division of the
University of Alabama’s Capstone
College of Nursing. This year
Lauren Petrin was the Public
Relations Vice President for her
sorority Gamma Phi Beta. She is
also excited to be studying and
interning abroad in Dublin next
semester. Frances Hord is leading
Bible study at USC’s chapter of
Kappa Kappa Gamma. Sara Kim
is working with Rollins School of
Public Health and its partners at
the CDC to help develop Emory’s
new Department of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies. Lesley
Stevenson’s new favorite hobby
is stalking her freshman brother
across the Notre Dame campus.
Aside from that, she keeps busy
with the daily newspaper and
musical theatre on campus. As
Executive Director of Up ‘til Dawn
at University of Memphis, Melissa
Byrd is aiming to raise an unprecedented $200,000 for the kids
of St. Jude this year. Alix de Witt
has declared a major in English
and hopes to go into education.
Alix also has recently taken the
position of Children’s Ministry
Director at Esperanza Church.
Chandler Roberts is enjoying her
two 12 hour clinical rotations
in the Fort Worth hospitals in
the TCU Nursing School. Laura
Mathews transferred to Rice
University and is running on their
cross country and track team.
She was a national champion in
the 20-24 age group at Age Group
Triathlon Nationals in Milwaukee,
Wis. and 7th in 20-24 age group at
ITU Age Group World Championships which was held in Edmonton, Canada. Ramie Mansberg is
so excited to continue volunteer-
ing at University Health Services
and volunteering as a mentor
with KIPP Austin. Ellery Ammons
studied urban development and
design abroad in Copenhagen last
semester. She is enjoying being
back at Rhodes and continuing to work with the Crosstown
community. Camille Vaughn
had a rewarding summer at the
Church Health Center serving as
an Exercise and Movement intern
and is currently enjoying cheering
on the MSU Bulldogs this football
season. Neely Sammons is living
in Argentina for the fall semester
and goes by the name Nelly. She
is busy exploring South America
and mastering her Spanish skills
but misses her fellow turkey
friends. V. Ellen Mitchell is still a
Diabetics major at Ole Miss and is
enjoying working for the athletic
department as Dietitian during
this exciting time of UM football.
Joy Brown has finally moved to
Nashville in pursuit of her dreaming of having a career in the
music business. She is currently
interning at Webster & Associates,
an entertainment public relations
firm on Music Row. She is proud
to finally call Nashville home!
2013
Anna Stukenborg
[email protected]
Olivia Summitt
[email protected]
Anna Utley
[email protected]
Grace Bettis worked as a nanny
this summer in Memphis and
is living in an apartment in
Fayetteville near campus. Lida
Kruchten transferred to Ole
Miss and has changed her major
to computer science. Linda
has also joined the club tennis
team! Olivia Stevens served as a
waitress at Swanky’s Taco Shop
in Memphis, managed a princess
camp with Mary Egan Clark
at her house, and worked the
St. Mary’s reading and writing,
and theater camp. Liv has also
changed her major to elementary
education. Sims Peters served
as a counselor at Camp Ozark
for 12 weeks this summer! Hotty
Toddy! Sukriti Mohan worked at
a hospital and an eating disorder
treatment center this summer.
Sukriti has decided to major in
Science, Medicine, and Public
Health! Sophie Skouteris lived in
Destin all summer and worked as
a beach waitress! She is living in
the Kappa house and loving life!
Mary Egan Clark is loving William
and Mary. She had a blast working with the St. Mary’s admissions
office to coordinate the first day
of school signs in every St. Mary’s
girl’s yard! Rachel Chu worked at
a law firm this summer and has
also started to play RUGBY. Rachel
is an outing program trip leader
for hiking/caving/climbing/outdoor events at Sewanee! Rachel is
majoring in Sustainability and is
minoring in Women and Gender
Studies. Rebecca Park spent the
summer out in Colorado working
as a camp counselor and climbed
10 fourteeners (mountains greater
than 14,000 ft)! Although she had
a great time in Colorado, Rebecca
is happy to be back in Atlanta and
Emory! Claire Fogarty is living
in the Delta Delta Delta house
at University of Tennessee and
has joined the climbing team.
Hannah Stein worked a job at
Kendra Scott over the summer
and has switched her major
to Early Childhood Education.
Madeline McCann spent this
summer working at Fairhaven
Treatment Center in Memphis
and is studying psychology and
biology. Dakota Beasley worked
at Holliday Flowers over the summer and is excited to start working with recruitment for football
this fall. Dakota is also delighted
to serve on the Sisterhood
Committee of Chi Omega. Hana
Roussey has transferred to
Belmont University and absolutely loves it. Hana is majoring
in Nursing and has joined Kappa
Alpha Theta. Sarah Spiers worked
at a physician’s office this summer and visited Margaret Walter
in L.A. Sarah is looking forward
to studying in a castle in the
Netherlands and traveling across
Europe this Fall. Emma Less
interned at the Levitt Shell over
the summer and really enjoyed
it. Emma is very excited to live in
the AOII house this year. She has
added Film, Television and Digital
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Media as a double major with
Strategic Communications! Callie
Wallace‬‬ worked as a counselor
and on the ropes course at Camp
Ozark over the summer. Callie
has declared her major in Spanish
and marketing. Katie Heard was
offered an internship with an
investment bank and became
president of the Durham union
society. Katie is studying economics and politics. Lillian Norcross
worked as a nanny this summer, is majoring in Marketing,
and is living in the Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority house. Anna
Peeler worked at a lifeguard
this summer and is currently
majoring in nursing. Anna plans
to study abroad in Wellington,
New Zealand, London, or Dublin
next semester!
Rachel Ostrow
took classes this summer and
helped out with recruitment for
the Honors College at Alabama.
Rachel is majoring in Mechanical
Engineering and minoring in the
Computer Based Honors Program.
She is also in the Stem Pathway
to an MBA where she will get
her masters in business a year
after she completes her undergrad. Rachel is doing research
with a professor in Mechanical
Engineering titled: Biomechanical
Loading of the Lower Limbs
During Walking and Running. She
is very active in the American
Society for Mechanical Engineers
and recruitment for the Honors
College as well as the College
of Engineering - specifically
Mechanical Engineering. Rachel is
also a member of Alpha Omicron
Pi. Alexa Fila worked at Tazikis
this summer and is now majoring
in management information systems. Anna Utley studied abroad
in Paris this summer and had the
time of her life. Anna is majoring in Interior Design. Ariyan
(Nikki) Cox worked at St. Mary’s
Summer Pursuits as a Munchkin
camp counselor this summer.
Nikki is co-captain of the Tiger
Girls Dance Team, Captain of
the Sewanee Step Team, and a
member of the African American
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Alliance (AAA). Nikki loves it “on
the mountain”! Olivia Summitt
transferred to Rhodes College
and really loves the feel of a
smaller school where she can
build strong relationships with
professors. Olivia volunteered
at the Humane Society over the
summer and worked at Vantage
Point Golf Range in Cordova, Tenn.
She is majoring in psychology
and hopes to become an animal
therapist. Anna Stukenborg
absolutely loved working at Camp
Greystone in N.C. all summer. She
is enjoying sophomore year at Ole
Miss and has declared her major
as Elementary Education.
2014
Lacey Chaum
[email protected]
Miles Schaeffer
[email protected]
The Class of 2014 is off to an exciting start after graduation this
past May. Sarah Steuer spent her
summer helping special needs
children write and perform their
own play, and Keila Mumphord
is currently a theater major at
Howard University and has joined
the Howard Gospel Choir. Abby
Huber and roommate Merritt
Moore are enjoying the University
of Memphis where Abby joined
Alpha Gamma Delta and serves as
Morale Captain for Up Til Dawn, a
St. Jude fundraising organization.
Katherine Donovan also pledged
Alpha Gamma Delta at Auburn
University where she additionally serves as a SERVE committee member in the Freshman
Leadership Program. Rosemary
Dunn is actively involved in her
living learning community at UT
Chat. and works with the Dean
of the Honors College to create
new scholarship opportunities.
Iqra Siddiq is involved in the
Muslim Student Association and
Better Together interfaith events
at Rhodes College, and Maddie
Rhodes is currently in the middle
of the Rhodes golf season and
Natalie Meeks ’14, Elizabeth
Rainer ’14, Maddie Droke ’14,
Mimi Billings ’14, bottom: Mary
Katherine Harris ’14, Anna
Stukenborg ’13.
recently joined Tri Delta. Laura
Kate Hamilton is in the process
of starting the first intramural
golf team on campus at Ole Miss,
where she joined the Nu Beta
chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi.
Mimi Billings pledged Chi Omega,
and Mary Katherine Harris,
Maddie Droke, Natalie Meeks
and Elizabeth Rainer pledged
Delta Delta Delta. Mary Harbert
Stromberg also pledged Tri Delta
at Clemson University, and Caroline Wellford joined Kappa Kappa
Gamma at the University of
Wisconsin. Ellen Clarke pledged
Tri Delta at the University of Ala.
and has become involved in the
Alabama Finance Association and
UA for St. Jude. Hallie Katz joined
ADPi and the club lacrosse team
at the University of Southern
California and is on the board of
the campus organization, Challah
for Hunger. Bailey Archey pledged
Delta Gamma at Miss. State and
is involved in the pre-vet club as
well as the Reformed University
Fellowship. Molly Hanna is also
active in Furman’s chapter of RUF
and joined the club swim and
intramural volleyball teams. Miles
Schaeffer has become involved
in the Science Days Club at Duke
University, where she helps teach
science experiments to kinder-
garteners at Durham elementary
schools. Mary Allison Pritchard
has become involved in Sewanee
Women Engaging and Empowering Women (SWEEC) and is
currently working in the campus
library. Phoebe Fulmer joined
Sewanee’s club tennis team, and
Adira Polite is currently serving
as a representative of Bowdoin’s
track team. Ellen Cowens plays
on the Wake Forest club soccer
team in addition to working with
Project Pumpkin, the university’s
largest non-profit event. Gurbani
Singh has become involved in
research for Down’s Syndrome at
Emory University and is involved
in the Best Buddies organization.
Haley Steinman is loving marketing at Emory and is currently an
intern at Annie Griffin Collection.
Camille Cowart is enjoying her
Secondary Education and English
double major at Vanderbilt University and has become involved
in RUF, Best Buddies, and Vandy
Dance Marathon. Zara Ali works
as Teaching Artist Associate for
the New York Philharmonic, and
Lacey Chaum currently holds
marketing positions for the Daily
Pennsylvanian and a local social
media startup at the University
of Penn. Lizzie Apple is active in
Middlebury’s slam poetry group,
Poor Form, and is on the prose
and poetry board for the literary magazine, Blackbird. Mallory
Prater is also enjoying writing articles for the Fashion Journalism
Club at Arizona State University
and has joined the National Press
Photographers Association. Kelsie
Jones has joined the Multicultural
Mentoring Program, and Neely
Battle has become a programs assistant for the Fest, DePaul’s own
music festival. Theresa Green is
enjoying Carleton College and
has joined many student groups
including Nordic skiing and outdoors club.
MILestones
Class
notes
Marriages
Georgia Harrison ’77 to Dan Hall,
June 24, 2012
Ashley Moore Mayfield ’72 to
John Remmers, December 20, 2014
Hallie Rose ’04 to Kevin Eble,
July 4, 2014
Weezie Cannon ’05 to Stuart
Finlay, November 1, 2014
Laura Hettinger ’02 to George
Mauer, October 11, 2014
Sloane Metcalf ’08 to Jon Hosack,
October 18, 2014
Christine Ruby ’04 to Matthew
Coveny, October 4, 2014
Katherine Eder ’01 to Daniel
McDonnell, November 1, 2014
Katie Hobson ’03 to Chris
Novikoff, May 3, 2014
Sophie Page ’09 to Stephen
Lintner, September 20, 2014
Emily Templeton ’05 to Nathan
Charles Gray, September 13, 2013
Lori Goldstein ’04 to Woodrow
Merkel, August 2, 2014
Elizabeth Jemison ’04 to Andrew
Malwitz, August 2, 2014
Mira Patel ’01 to Benjamin
Roberts, June 28, 2014
Monica Wilson ’98 to Derek
Barton, April 30, 2014
Hanna Gordon ’08 to Franck
Oysel, June 21, 2014
Kimberly Johnson ’06 to Matthew
Radant, May 31, 2014
Melissa Graunke ’07 to William
Decosimo, July 12, 2014
Emily May ’02 to Frank Lequerica,
June 14, 2014
Gretchen Perkins ’77 to George
William Thorogood III,
September 27, 2014
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Photo by Dennis Zanone
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Photo by Amy Dale, amydalephoto.com
Rachael Brown ’07 to Stephen
Nolan, July 5, 2014
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1. Emily May Lequerica ’02 and husband Frank.
2. Elizabeth Jemison ’04 wedding to Andrew Malwitz with former teachers and classmates.
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3. Hannah Gordon Oysel ’08 and husband Franck Oysel.
4. Kat Gordon ’00 wedding with friends.
5. Classmates of 2004 at Lori Goldstein’s wedding: Martha Ferguson Burke, Lucy Harris, Blair Carter Tait, Katie Gore
and Morgan Lobe.
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Class notes
Graduate Degrees
Births/Adoptions
Lawrence Taylor Elliott ’04,
Master of Clinical Mental Health
Counseling, University of
Memphis, May 2014
Wyatt Charles Barton to
Monica Wilson Barton ’98,
October 30, 2014
Kishore (Kish) Kanjia to
Megha Karkera Kanjia ’00,
June 6, 2014
Dorothy Wyeth Biedenharn to
Louise Chandler Biedenharn
’01, July 25, 2014
Orinda Ruth Landman to
Melissa Ohsfeldt ’97,
September 16, 2014
Kathryn Feder ’08, Master of
Effective Teaching, Charles
Sposato Graduate School of
Education, December 2014
Anne Eddings Buckner to
Collin Wilson Buckner ’05,
October 9, 2014
Eleanora Margaret Leonardo
to Anna Wetzel Leonardo ’08,
August 22, 2014
Michelle Goldwin Kaufman ’02,
Ph.D in Psychology, University
of Chicago, May 2014
Annabelle Rose Chang to
Gabrielle Rose Chang ’95,
March 15, 2014
Ray Olivia Lindenschmidt to
Katie Moran Lindenschmidt
’93, November 20, 2014
Grace Sarah Chapman to
Brianna Winsett Chapman
’03, May 16, 2014
Griffin Lightman Angell to
Rachel Lightman ’90,
August 9, 2014
Adelaide Elizabeth Denman to
Catherine Smith Denman ’06,
November 13, 2014
Grace Amber Lovett to
Elizabeth Lake Lovett ’94,
June 26, 2014
Eliza Quinn Elliott to
Lawrence Taylor Elliott ’04,
September 17, 2014
Gabriela Erika Molner to
Michelle Martinez ’93,
September 19, 2014
Ramona Helen Englert to
Rose Indriolo Englert ’97,
June 24, 2014
Henry Jackson Wesley Mitchell
to Lauren Webb Mitchell ’98,
September 29, 2014
Emma Kate and Grace Elizabeth Evans to Elizabeth Fraim
Evans ’97, June 16, 2014
Madeline Elouise Savage to
Jenny Jones Savage ’99,
September 25, 2014
John North Farley III to Abby
Kostka Farley ’04, June 7, 2014
Elizabeth Owens Sloan to
Catherine Tracy Sloan ’96,
June 24, 2014
Parke Sherrod Farnsworth to
Kristine New Farnsworth ’00,
September 3, 2014
Joseph Hill Ford to Allison
Davies Ford ’99, June 21, 2014
Cartter Lupton Gerber to
Hayley Bower Gerber ’01,
October 8, 2014
Niam Arav Goel to Amrita
Dirgangi Goel ’01, July 15, 2014
Rowan Archer Halpern to
Emily Harris Halpern ’01,
November 19, 2013
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Madeline Weiss to Megan
McCulloch Weiss ’00,
August 13, 2014
Luke Thomas Woolridge to
Kate Thornton Woolridge ’02,
September 29, 2014
Harper Rose Frahm to
Whitney Williams Frahm ’02,
July 10, 2014
James Kennedy and Henry
Newman Dake to Lauren
Kennedy Dake ’05,
December 11, 2014
Dorothy Wyeth Biedenharn
daughter of Louise Chandler
Biedenharn ’01.
Clare Patterson ’04, Master of
Biomedical Science, Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine,
May 2014
Beth Pazar ’06, Master in Public
Affairs, University of Texas at
Dallas, May 2014
Marion Phillips ’04, Master of
City and Regional Planning,
Georgia Tech, May 2014
John North Farley III, son of
Abby Kostka Farley ’04.
Kim Johnson Radant ’06,
Master of Counseling, University
of Memphis, December 2013
In Memoriam
Mary Catherine Lynn
Hitchings ’47
Emma Kate and Grace Elizabeth,
twin daughters of Elizabeth
Fraim Evans ’97.
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Memphis, TN
Permit No. 810
Dated Material —
Please Expedite
Try
Try
again
Lead
Kind
Measure
Empathize
Fun