St. Mary's Episcopal School Winter Magazine 2020 by Chris Porter

Winter 2020 Designing Women I Communicating Visually I Athletic & Wellness Center Opens

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Designing Women Thinking By Design Communicating Visually Logistics Lady Athletic and Wellness Center Opens Q&A with Board Chair and Introducing New Trustees Campus News Alumnae and Class Notes Milestones

On the Cover: Upper School photography students on a field trip to Crosstown Concourse photographed by art teacher Andrea Fletcher.

Director of Communications / Editor Lacey Hibbard P’24’27’31 | lhibbard@stmarysschool.org Assistant Director of Communications Kirkwood McClintock P’11 | kmcclintock@stmarysschool.org Director of Alumnae Gigi Gould ’70 | ggould@stmarysschool.org Director of Admission & Financial Aid Nicole Hernandez P’26’27’33 | nhernandez@stmarysschool.org Director of Advancement Angie Gardner P’01’04 G’32’34 | agardner@stmarysschool.org Photography Lisa Buser P’14 (otherwise noted) Design Creative Punch Marketing Group, Chris Porter | creativepunchmg.com Contributors Jane Greenway Carr, Ph.D. ’96, Kirk McClintock P’11, A. J. Quinlen ’17, Andrea Fletcher, Courtney Taylor Humphreys ’01 Letters to the Editor Please address all correspondence to: Lacey Hibbard St. Mary’s Episcopal School 41 North Perkins Memphis, TN 38117 lhibbard@stmarysschool.org (901) 537-1426

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.

HEAD OF SCHOOL Albert L. Throckmorton

Design is everywhere - from the packaging of our breakfast cereal to the shoes we wear, from the cars we drive to the buildings we inhabit, even in the disposable coffee cup in my hand. Where does a designer begin? What does the design process look like? How do you teach the next generations of designers?

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Robert F. Fogelman II P’29, Chair Allison Garrott Braswell ’88 P’22, Vice Chair Jeffrey Block P’24’26, Treasurer Cristina S. Fockler P’06, Secretary Wendy Pritchartt Ansbro ’79 P’09 James A. Breazeale P’85’91 G’12’18 Edward S. Chin P’15’17 Mikara Davis P’28’32 Timothy E. Davis, Jr. P’20’22 Mary Kavanagh Day ’82 P’23 Brooke Dishmon, D.D.S. P’24 Brian Fowler P’21’25 Malika Tuli Goorha, M.D. P’26’29 Laurita B. Jackson P’17’19 Stephanie Linkous P’21 Andrew Mathes P’21 Michael L. Matthews P’15’18 Julia Chesney McDonald ’96 P’31 Gretchen Wollert McLennon ’93 P’23 Ellen Clark Moore ’73 Elvira R. Ormseth P’24 Joelle Rogin P’25’27 Monica Skipper P’21 Mary Katherine Stout P’29 Kendall Visinsky P’26’29 Hallie McNeill Ward P’25 AT LARGE MEMBERS Sara L. Hall P’18 William (Billy) Orgel P’17 EX OFFICIO MEMBERS The Right Reverend Phoebe Roaf (Bishop, The Diocese of West Tennessee) The Reverend Alexander H. Webb II (Sandy) (Rector, Church of the Holy Communion) Margaret Frazier Gardner ’85 P’21 Katie Zanone Webb ’93 (President, Alumnae Association Board) Kelly Gerhart P’22 (President, Parents Association Board) J. Michael Murphy (Senior Warden) Albert L. Throckmorton (Head of School) TRUSTEES EMERITI Thomas M. Garrott III P’83’88 G’08’09’15’22 Barbara R. Hyde P’17 Brooke A. Morrow ’74 ALUMNAE BOARD Katie Zanone Webb ’93, President Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz ’82 P’15 Ellery Ammons ’12 Essie Arrindell-Williams ’98 P’26’29 Aarti Goorha Bowman ’92 Madge Logan Deacon ’69 Amina Dilawari ’95 Beth Brown Dunn ’79 Whitney Baer Foster ’00 Sudha Nimmagadda Ganguli ’83 P’21’30 Cara Greenstein ’10 Lexie Hicks Johnston ’00 Angie King Keesee ’72 Corinne Friese McLaughlin ’76 P’16 Tabitha Francisco McNabb ’78 Katie Broer Parr ’98 P’30 Patti Person Ray ’65 Lisa Breazeale Roberts ’85 P’12’18 Anna Snyder Rojas ’01 P’32 Courtney Shove ’96 Lauran Glassman Stimac ’00 Kate Metcalf Sullivan ’01 Abby Yandell Talbot ’03 Gabby Taylor ’14 Jennilyn Jennings Utkov ’77 Jan Valentine Wiygul ’76 P'05 Lizzy Holt Yatsula ’08 2

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Design thinking is an idea that has been around since the 1970s but gained widespread popularity in the 1990s with companies like Google and Apple citing it as a primary reason for their success. According to the “d.school” at Stanford, design thinking begins with empathy, something we teach in Early Childhood and continue to foster through Lower, Middle, and Upper School. It also requires collaboration, optimism, experimentation, and the resilience to tolerate risk of failure. The four alumnae profiled in this magazine are all designers in their own fields: a graphic designer, a residential architect, a landscape architect, and a handbag designer. Each woman uses words like creativity, logic, understanding, teamwork, relationships, joy, and Head of School Albert Throckmorton on the possibility to describe what led her construction site. to her particular vocation. And each of them gives credit to St. Mary’s for helping her develop not only her creativity but the grit fostered during her time here that enabled her to meet and conquer the challenges she has faced in her career. The newly opened Athletic and Wellness Center is the result of design thinking - creativity, collaboration, optimism, and determination. We faced a daunting design challenge to fit a dining hall that could feed 300 at a time, a full-sized gymnasium, classrooms, exercise rooms, offices, and a fitness facility all within a proscribed footprint. The plan to demolish two buildings, excavate the area, and construct a 60,000 square foot building in eighteen months was ambitious. The desire to complete the campus master plan that was initiated nearly 20 years ago was strong, and our community responded, donating generously to the For Girls. For Life. For Generations. Campaign. The building opened to our community on January 6, 2020, the first day back after Winter Break. It is magnificent. If you have not yet been inside it, I hope you will come see for yourself how its design has transformed our campus and how our school community lives and learns. We look forward to welcoming you.

Designing Women By Jane Greenway Carr ’96, Ph.D.

Confession... I used to teach “Designing Women” to undergraduates in seminars about gender and culture, so the first women I think of when I see those two words together are Dixie Carter’s Julia Sugarbaker, Delta Burke’s Suzanne Sugarbaker, Annie Potts’s Mary Jo Shively, and Jean Smart’s Charlene Frazier. If you’ve never seen the show, it’s not a spoiler to tell you that they were four women who ran a design business on a sitcom that (for its time in the 1980s and 1990s) put a groundbreaking focus on the friendships and professional lives of women in the workplace. The four St. Mary’s alumnae I interviewed for this article are a far different (and obviously less fictional) cohort of “designing women,” but just as the show’s creators did, they emphasized in our interviews how formative their relationships with women - classmates and teachers at St. Mary’s and mentors, clients and friends in their professional lives - have been to their careers in design fields. They cherish the creativity and grit fostered by their St. Mary’s educations and use them to conquer challenges in graphic design, architecture, landscape architecture and leatherwork.

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People don’t realize it, but design is everywhere. hat’s how graphic designer Meredith Morten ’07 describes what it’s like to use her craft to create or re-imagine the way people see things. Morten, who works at Chase Design Group, a creative agency specializing in branding and packaging design, says “good design is seamless, inviting...I truly believe design can make a good idea great.” She quotes 1960s graphic designer Saul Bass: “Design is thinking made visual.” Morten got her start in graphic design in college at Furman University, where she graduated in 2011, and trained further in the graduate program at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta, finishing in 2013. “When I learned that graphic design existed,” she recalls, “my life plan changed. Design was a way to channel creative thought and stories,” which she remembers being a huge part of her childhood play, “into a visual medium.” This realization was life-changing for Morten, because up until then, she “never thought I would do anything creative as a career. To me, drawing, doodling, and crafty projects were just something I did for fun. I assumed a job would be just that – a job and nothing more.” Morten soon resolved that graphic design, which she describes as “the art of visual communication,” would become her career. “At its core,” she says, the work she does “is creative problem solving” for her agency’s clients, who range from multinational corporations to up-and-coming brands like craft breweries or organic foods. Her work balances color, typography, and photography, often blending in highly creative tasks like illustration and hand-lettering in the service of a strategic message. In thinking about how her work is perceived in the world, Morten notes that most people conflate graphic design with advertising, and while the two are related, she clarifies that both advertisers and graphic designers work with clients to communicate a message. “Advertising is about the message itself, and graphic design is about supporting and delivering the message.” Because the exclusively visual dimension of her work requires interpretation, it can sometimes be 4

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intimidating, especially if someone “disagrees with you or doesn’t like what you’ve done.” Ultimately, she says that creative disagreements produce better work and are an “essential part of the process.” These days, Morten is the design lead for a number of Procter & Gamble brands in North America and Western Europe -- the “creative link on all things Swiffer, Mr. Clean, and Flash.” She cites pop culture, especially improv comedy and comedy podcasts, as a “huge influence” in keeping her work inspired from day to day. She also draws creative energy from visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York City’s thriving ecosystem of installations and popup shops. “Just walking around different areas of the city is a visual experience,” she told me. “I love building a library of references and cultural touchstones.”

When I grow up, I want to be an architect. hen Catherine Tracy Sloan ’96 wrote those words on the cover page of the family tree book she made at St. Mary’s in fourth grade, she could hardly know how prophetic they would prove to be. Her parents noticed her affinity for great architecture during a family visit to the Sistine Chapel when she was ten. Growing up, she was fascinated watching her father, a kitchen designer, working in his office and used to make her own little drawings with his drafting tools. Fast forward to today, Sloan owns her own firm in Nashville, and as a residential architect, she designs custom homes for individual clients. A quick glance at her Instagram page reveals a gorgeous array of home exteriors and interiors, the elegant culmination of a long process that, as she describes it, “starts with conceptual drawings and watercolor renderings and ends with building specifications and construction details.” Throughout, Sloan can go through many design iterations and studies “multiple options for both the interior and exterior of the home to ensure that it’s customized specifically for each homeowner.” Owning her own firm as a working mom with three kids is a “balancing act,” but one that gives her enormous pride. She recalls going back to St. Mary’s a few years ago to give a Chapel talk about her work; she talked to the students about working in a male-dominated field like architecture, especially in the South. She didn’t sugarcoat reality – that she’s often mistaken on job sites as the interior designer (and once even as the babysitter) – but emphasized her relish for the challenge and the importance of her close friendships with male colleagues who have been her allies. She describes architecture as a “unique art,” one that requires creativity from the right side of the brain “to make homes beautiful and have the right proportions,” as well as logic from the left side of the brain “to make the homes structurally sound” and buildable. She credits her St. Mary’s math teachers, Mrs. Bethel and Mrs. Stemmler, as influences. “I never would have guessed at the time how very much I would use geometry

and trigonometry in my job,” recalls Sloan, but “they taught them in a way that really helped me learn to visualize the concepts, not just memorize the formulas.” That foundation has served her well in her work, which she describes as being much more about “creating homes” than designing houses; it’s a deeply personal job – to design spaces for families to “make memories, host holidays, sit at the table to do homework with their children, have coffee with a friend.” She enjoys using natural and reclaimed materials for exteriors and “design concepts rooted in classical architecture” to achieve her aspiration with each job to create an “inheritable home, one that will always be part of the family.” It’s no surprise, then, that she says that one of the “most rewarding” aspects of her profession is the frequency with which her clients become dear friends. Sometimes, however, it’s the other way around. Two of her favorite houses in Memphis are the ones she designed for fellow St. Mary's classmates, Katie Kuykendall Collier and Emily Farrow Robbins. “Having known my clients since kindergarten made for a really fun dynamic in designing their homes.” I asked her what home in Memphis she loves the most, and it’s Moss Hall. “I feel that spending so much of my childhood in Moss Hall is one of the reasons my love for older homes and classical architecture runs so deep. I am inspired by the character of older homes, the stories they tell, and the memories they hold.” WINTER 2020

I do not mow lawns for a living. lot of people get that wrong about what Mamie Kostka Finch ’06 does as a landscape architect. What she actually does as a senior landscape architect and project manager for Page Duke Landscape Architects in Nashville is to help people find ways to make their outdoor living spaces “be better and more beautifully used.” As project manager, she is a hub for a large ensemble cast who work to make the designs a reality: principal designers, clients, architects, contractors, engineers, interior designers, landscapers, pool builders, foremen, surveyors, and many sub-contractors. Truly understanding how to make their day to day life more functional, enjoyable, and safe is the first step to design,” Finch points out. “The fun and creative part is tying together unique personalities, styles, and wish lists while juggling hardships of a natural piece of land or the limits of a budget.” With her father, a home builder in Memphis, Finch used to visit job sites, and she worked for a landscaping company on Cape Cod in high school. But growing up, landscape architecture wasn’t her goal; instead she wanted to be a dolphin trainer or professional athlete. Soccer and track and field were an enormous part of her life at St. Mary’s (she cites Mrs. Pitts, Coach Duncan, and Coach Hensarling’s support and encouragement) and says “learning to be a better teammate and leader” has been an integral asset to her professional relationships as an adult. She was also a college athlete at the University of Georgia where sports, and early morning practices, gave her tools to manage her time and energy under pressure. She has found those tools to be transferable to life as a landscape architect.“It’s so important to educate yourself to have intentional conversations, especially when your time is billed to a particular project,” she says. College at the University of Georgia was also where she realized that “what seemed like a great summer job where I got to be outside” could potentially grow into a career. UGA’s landscape architecture program was a “near perfect blend of the construction and landscape worlds that I loved.” There were some things she had to learn by doing such as 6

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“talking with contractors about things like rebar in retaining walls and concrete footings or the inner workings of an automatic pool cover.” But, Finch emphasizes, “investing in relationships early on” in her career and “learning about other aspects” of projects gave her a deeper understanding of just how complex and collaborative the process is for everyone involved. Now she knows how crucial “appreciating the process and the team aspect of a construction project” is to success. “I am still learning new things from new people every day!” Her goal for the next phase of her career is to “design spaces that are as beautiful as they are sustainable,” and her “forever goal” is to “design timeless spaces for generational enjoyment.”

It’s never too late to begin. hat’s what Mary Belcher Page ’75 told me she would title her remarks if and when she went back to St. Mary’s to give a Chapel talk. Page, a purse designer in Memphis, decided to enter a design field at age 59 after selling a small business. One day while she was looking around for her next project, she was at the barn where she boards her horses, and the barn owner’s “gorgeous leatherwork” caught her eye. At that moment, she recalls, “A light bulb went off, and I took a class over an Easter weekend to learn how to tool. I then joined in with a group of ladies doing leather, and I just never quit.” Page now describes that turn of events as “completely divine intervention.” She never officially decided to become a handbag-maker as a profession; “it kind of chose me,” she remembers. She says that, “Earlier in life, I dipped my toe into art a number of times and retreated. I thought you could not be an artist unless you could draw.” (She’s not alone in this as “I can’t draw” is what Finch told me her chapel talk would be called.) Page also says she felt pressure to “do something corporate because that’s where the steady work is.” (Similarly, Morten told me that her advice to her younger self would be, “There is a place in the business world for creativity.”) Today, Page is still very much a leather artist, incorporating that medium with fiber, lacing, felting, sparkly things, and sometimes even used horse tack and vintage cowboy boots to create one-of-a-kind handbags and accessories. “Many people don’t view leather as art,” she notes, but says leather’s “expansiveness” as a medium speaks

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to its inherent creativity and possibility. “There are so many unique leather products out there – cuffs, earrings, earrings, necklaces, belts, bags, portfolios, journals, makeup bags, luggage….” Each of her works is “very personal,” she says. “I name all of my bags and take them out on ’dates’ to test drive them.” Although she doesn’t consider herself a “natural born artist,” Page singles out encouragement from St. Mary’s art teacher Joyce Gingold, both in school and later in life as an influence on her. “I’m so grateful that I am at a point in my life when I am able to fulfill this goal and purpose. My art brings a lot of joy, color, and smiles to people. It just doesn’t get any better!”

Jane Greenway Carr, Ph.D. ’96 is an editor and contributor for CNN Digital, where she oversees social and cultural commentary. She is a writer and scholar whose work has appeared in publications including Slate, Pacific Standard, The Atlantic, Vox, and academic journals, and she is the co-founder of the online magazine The Brooklyn Quarterly.

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THINKING BY DESIGN

Lower School In Lower School, the Eureka! Student Inventor reading unit is connected to science lessons about simple machines. Guided by the fourth-grade teachers, Lower School Technology Coordinator Jessica Lancaster, Lower School Science Teacher Meagan Michael, and the librarians, students are divided

Early Childhood The Early Childhood Center is a place full of wonder and

into teams (labs) and complete activities and challenges both in groups and individually. They read a range of texts about inventors, inventions, and the process of creation, and

experimentation, where girls engage in design thinking as part

learn about the process of invention through examples and

of their imaginative play. For example, as St. Mary’s Place girls

experiments. Each group explores common problems and

read the story of The Three Little Pigs, they experiment with

comes up with an invention that might solve the problem.

the different types of materials used by the three pigs. They

They shop at Lowe's to find materials, build with tools in the

build “houses,” act out the story, and ask questions about

Makerspace, write a pitch, and share the inventions with

their observations. Through what looks like typical play, they

classmates and judges during the final event for the unit. SMS

are immersed in intentionally integrated learning. They inquire,

Shark Tank is based on the reality series that features the

experiment, collaborate, and rethink their approach.

"sharks" who give budding entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true. It's fun and very challenging! The Sharks judge the inventions, and three certificates are presented to the winning teams: Best Use of Simple Machine, Best Pitch, and Best Invention.

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Design implies intention and purposeful arrangement. Design thinking is a combination of creative and analytical thinking — a process that seeks to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test, though these stages are not always sequential. Design and design thinking are part of the curriculum in every division at St. Mary’s.

Middle School St. Mary’s Middle School Ensemble program emphasizes

Upper School Design thinking is at the heart of Honors Geometry, an

the creative process in Visual Arts, Drama, Filmmaking, and

Upper School class taken by 8th graders. When students

Dance classes. The goal is to expand students’ awareness of the

answer questions, they are challenged as to whether their

myriad choices and outcomes they have on any project.

solution makes sense in the "design" of the particular polygon

In order to make a successful drawing, painting, or

they are discussing. The final exam the past few years has

sculpture, a student must begin with an idea that can be

required students to build a birdhouse which they design and

expressed visually and find a good composition - a solid

construct on their own, given only a few guidelines. Some

foundation onto which layers and details can be built.

designs change during the building process, and the students

Drama students spend a great deal of time understanding

must explain the reasons for their changes. This project

what a choice is in the theater. Foundational choices are made

showcases everything the girls learn in Geometry and also

in order to design the lighting, sound, costumes, scenery, and

teaches them to be adaptable in their learning and planning.

marketing. In Filmmaking, students learn to tell a story visually. They

Some of what we teach in design thinking – empathy, collaboration, resilience – was taught for decades at St. Mary’s

storyboard their ideas, then shoot footage using different angles

long before the term design thinking was coined. The intentional

and perspectives. During editing, they add final touches to

aspect of the method is something we have embraced as we

enhance their film and sometimes discover that in order to make

have further encouraged girls to create, experiment, sometimes

their story complete, they must go back and film a scene that

fail, and to try again, to be innovative when facing challenges,

was originally left out.

and creative in solving problems.

Dance classes encourage students to improvise and choreograph dance. Their choreography is based on prompts that include exploring different kinds of movement, making new shapes, and inventing new ways to travel through space. They practice sharing their work, analyzing, and reflecting.

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Communicating Visually By Andrea Fletcher

hat does every art teacher hope for her students to find confidence doing? Taking risks and exploring ways to communicate visually! This is what I offer St. Mary’s girls in the new Upper School Photography I and II courses. We discuss what choices create good composition and spend lots of time finding evidence of elements and principles (ie. line, shape, rhythm, balance, form, etc.). We also look for strong photographic examples of balanced exposures, with good light, focus, depth of field, and white balance. But at the heart of it all, where the magic happens, is creating meaning. Photography II students have the opportunity to go deeper by editing photographs and making composite images within Photoshop. Students in both Studio Art and Photography often struggle to pinpoint what they want to say through art. They may be quick to discount their experience in life as far as noteworthy ideas.Yet, their grand ideas are to be found. And it is my job to help give those ideas life. Art and photography are largely about observation, and my goal is to habituate careful observation of what my students see and are drawn to. Once that happens, we start making progress

in creating personal meaning and in appreciating other artists’ thoughts and designs. Recently, when composing a photo essay, the girls analyzed the difference between observations and inferences. As humans, we are quick to deduce meaning and categorize things. If we can stop ourselves and make neutral observations first, it can guide our inferences more purposefully. I enjoy getting to know my students while teaching these courses. Their art is personal, an extension of themselves. During classes, we discuss the status of projects in-progress and at completion. It can be daunting to speak to a group of peers about something you made – an extension of your thoughts, feelings, and creative abilities. But that is also how we grow. Staying in the comfort zone is contrary to growth, and as an educator, I occasionally have to remind myself of that. The photos featured here were taken during our October field trip as a photography class to Crosstown Concourse. The girls visited the exhibitions at Crosstown Arts, and photography in the galleries, as well as inside and outside the Concourse. We ate lunch on site and left feeling inspired. I hope the girls leave class each semester feeling inspired as well.

Course descriptions: Both Photography I and II use DSLR cameras, and Photography II edits and creates composite images in Photoshop. Studio art works with a variety of materials- 2D and 3D, from paint, ink, pencil, pastel, charcoal, and paper, to clay for 3D. During these courses, students work on skills in observing and interpreting art in order to refine ideas, techniques, and the message communicated. 10

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From the beginning, the Athletic and Wellness Center was a joint project between St. Mary’s and Church of the Holy Communion, partners and cohabitants of the southeast corner of Perkins and Walnut Grove since 1953. After nearly two decades of waiting, the time was finally right for both institutions. The designing and planning of the largest building on campus, demolition of the Barth building and gymnasium, and 18 months of construction were all carefully choreographed by a team that included Fleming Architects, Linkous Construction, and Filament Project Management Services, with Jenks keeping everyone on schedule and in line.

Sarah Jenks, Director of Operations

Logistics Lady lo·gis·tics

noun

the detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies.

For the past two and a half years, Sarah Jenks has personified logistics. Director of Pursuits since 2009, Jenks was named St. Mary’s Director of Operations in July 2017, just in time to begin the coordination of all of the activity that would take place on the South Campus over the following 30 months. She served as the School’s liaison during the construction of the new Athletic and Wellness Center, and was more than up to the task. “My goal was to make sure that the building we built would both meet the current needs of our community and accommodate future growth. We knew we wanted to maximize every square inch of the new space, both inside and out. This could only have been accomplished with a tremendous amount of planning and collaboration long before we ever broke ground,” she said, looking out onto the floor of the McNeill Family Gymnasium.

“On a good day, deliveries, parking, and logistics can be a challenge, and we had never taken on a project of this magnitude, so we knew we needed to have a high degree of collaboration. We were going to have to demolish two 50-year-old buildings, move the Church offices across Walnut Grove to the Moss Hall campus, and manage construction of a 60,000 square foot building, as well as renovations to the Church of the Holy Communion, all while continuing to operate both a school and a church. Everyone had to do without something, and that something was usually space. “The demolition began the day after school recessed in May 2018 and the new building opened to students the first day back after Winter Break in January 2020. Thanks to Linkous, we were able to build this amazing new space with almost everything working against us. Fall 2018 was the wettest in our area in more than 10 years, and yet we opened on time. In construction, you never see second floor concrete poured and HVAC installation before the roof is fully installed, but the Linkous team pulled one miracle out of their hat after another to ensure that we hit our target date. At the end of the project, everyone worked seven days a week. Not hitting our opening date of January 6 was never an option.” Jenks was one of those who was onsite during the Christmas holidays, ensuring the building was ready for students that first day back.

Mike Davis of Filament Project Management Services worked closely with Jenks and said this about her: “Sarah was a delight to work with during the planning and implementation of St Mary’s new Athletic and Wellness Center. We worked extremely well together to address the unique logistical issues in addition to the normal design and construction of a new building. These issues included continuous operation of a school, limited land for construction storage, circulation, vehicle access, limited parking (from both a construction standpoint and school/ church operations), daily carpool lines, students/faculty/staff safety and security, and construction noise in close proximity to classrooms. “All of these issues required involvement by Sarah, who had a pulse on what was occurring in the daily operations of the school. Sarah’s role was critical to the overall success of the project in terms of scope, schedule, and budget. She was not only a member of the project team but also provided a direct avenue to the school for quick reviews and decisions during the course of daily construction. Sarah’s ʽcan do’ approach and her willingness to jump into deep water to address issues provided St. Mary’s the support needed to deliver a new Athletic and Wellness Center that both the School and Church can be proud of long into the future.” Head of School Albert Throckmorton echoed Davis’s sentiments: “Sarah is a dynamo, a quartermaster, an air traffic controller, and a point guard. This project would not have been on time and on budget without her persistence, collaboration, and attention to detail. She cares deeply about the project and the community. Her character and constitution do not allow her to disappoint herself or others. She set the bar for our expectations and never lowered it.” Thank you Sarah, for absolutely, positively delivering St. Mary’s longanticipated Athletic and Wellness Center.

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Athletic and Wellness Center Opens In just a little over two years, 2,000 people gave a total of almost $22 million to the For Girls. For Life. For Generations. Capital Campaign adding $2.5 million to the School’s endowment and enabling the replacement of well-used Barth Gymnasium and the Blaisdell Cafeteria, both of which we had long outgrown. Church of the Holy Communion generously shared these facilities with us for close to 60 years. We are grateful for the Church’s partnership in the replacement of those spaces and their contributions towards the Athletic and Wellness Center which we built together and will share with them for years to come. St. Mary’s now has a space that fully meets the needs of students and enables the school to, in the words of the St. Mary’s School Prayer, “…keep the students in health of mind, and soul, and body.”

“We are intent on keeping our students in health of mind and soul and body, and this building enables us to do just that. Not only is this a space where girls may focus on their health and wellness, but it is a home for our excellent athletic programs which now have the room they need to grow and thrive.” — Albert Throckmorton, Head of School “We have been able to plan a whole new fitness program for the Middle and Upper Schools because of this new strength and conditioning facility. Before it opened, girls had to train offcampus at local fitness centers. This building enhances our ability to train competitive athletes.” — John Bartholomew, Director of Athletics

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1. "The Team" as recognized during the Dedication Chapel January 24 2. View of the completed Athletic and Wellness Center from Southard Field 3. Dining Hall 4. Strength and Conditioning Center 5. Alumnae Collegiate Athletes Gallery 6. The Donna and Jim Barksdale History Gallery

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Celebrating the Athletic and Wellness Center Donor Celebration and Grand Opening Donors celebrated at a reception in their honor on January 23. Dedication Chapel Students, trustees, alumnae, donors, and friends gathered in the McNeill Family Gymnasium for the dedication of the building on January 24. The Right Reverend Phoebe Roaf officiated at Chapel which was followed by a spirited and energetic celebration that included music, the Grizzline, and the inaugural storming of the court.

Celebration Saturday The Parents Association planned a fun and festive family day on January 25 where St. Mary's girls and their families enjoyed tours of the building, face painting, popcorn and hot dogs from the concession stand, faculty-student basketball games, and the Beale Street Flippers.

1. Mabel and Phil McNeill (seated) surrounded by (L to R) Whitney McNeill, Casey and Phillip McNeill, and Hallie and Jason Ward 2. Allison Garrott Braswell ’88, Margaret Frazier Gardner ’85, and Albert Throckmorton 3. Cheering from the Rafter 4. Two turkey basketball players shoot baskets for the crowd in the McNeill Family Gymnasium. 5. (L to R) Kathy Baker Penn ’70, Lisa Breazeale Roberts ’85, Melissa Thrasher Peeler ’85, Laurin Maddux ’98, Murff Oates Galbreath ’95, Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz ’82, Catherine Robilio Womack ’82, and Mary Kavanagh Day '82 in front of the Donna and Jim Barksdale History Gallery 6. Donors enjoy the History Gallery during the grand opening. 7. Families study the Alumnae Collegiate Athletes Gallery. 14

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Alumna Adds a Touch of Design by A. J. Quinlen ’17

St. Mary’s graduate Anna Utley ’13 is back, working on the School’s new Athletic and Wellness Center as an interior designer for Fleming Architects.

“Having attended SMS for 15 years,” Utley said, “I feel like I know the place like the back of my hand, but it has changed so much since I graduated in 2013.” She’s enjoyed getting to know what’s new and working on what’s to come, though calling her past teachers by their first names still feels odd. Since Fleming hired Utley in late 2017, when the Athletic and Wellness Center project was well into producing construction documents, her work on the project has been detail oriented. Utley had a hand in designing the Spirit Gallery, interior signage, and 3D renderings as well as designing and selecting furniture and furniture finishes. Utley’s interest in design began in Middle School, when an interior decorator working in Utley’s house let her get involved in the process. “I loved the creativity and … ever-changing aspect of the design field, as well as the opportunity for problem solving and innovation,” Utley said. With an Auburn University B.S. in Interior Design under her belt, Utley pointed out that plenty of science goes into design. Designers spend their time speaking with clients and researching how to design for a space based on how it will be used, Utley said. “Every project is like a puzzle, with different users and needs – you are tasked to create a seamless and effortless way of fitting those pieces together.” Luckily for Utley, St. Mary’s taught her the art of hard work, which she said helped get her through her design studio courses. Now, working on a design project at SMS, Utley said she’s still learning, especially from the project’s lead architect and lead interior designer. Under the project’s team, St. Mary’s rich history is being woven into its newest building, Utley said. Barth gym’s wooden floor has been repurposed, used in signage, and the Rhodes Spirit Gallery. The history wall downstairs will showcase St. Mary’s beginnings and the traditions that carry on today.

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1. Head of School Albert Throckmorton with Susan and Richard Faber and their daughter Carey Faber Campbell ’03 and Dottie Campbell '35 2. The turkey mascot leads cheers during the Dedication Chapel. 3. Nancy and Gib Wilson make a toast to the new Athletic and Wellness Center. 4. Allison and former Board Chair Tom Garrott (center) surrounded by daughters Brandon Garrott Morrison ’83 and Joe Morrison (L) and Allison Garrott Braswell ’88 and Bo Braswell 5. Emily Farrow Robbins ’96 and Matt Robbins with Linda and former Board Chair Mike Farrow 6. (L to R) Camille Deaderick, Ellen Klyce, and Cherry Falls 7. Former Trustees Carmine and Bill Vaughan 8. The Reverend Sandy Webb, Head of School Albert Throckmorton, Board Chair Robert Fogelman, and the Right Reverend Phoebe Roaf 9. (L to R) Lisa Breazeale Roberts ’85 and Ken Roberts with Beth and Jim Breazeale outside the Dining Hall 10. (L to R) Margaret Frazier Gardner ’85 and Hall Gardner with Campaign Co-Chair Allison Garrott Braswell ’88 and Bo Braswell 11. Students at the dedication of the Athletic and Wellness Center 12. Mary Hills "Presh" Gill and daughter Kathy Baker Penn ’70 in the faculty and staff dining room 13. Holly Walters Craft ’83 with husband Mike Tutor in the new home locker room 14. Former teacher Becky Maddux with Laurin Maddux ’98, creator of the Donna and Jim Barksdale History Gallery 15. Stephanie and Rusty Linkous on Linkous Field, an indoor turf field in the Strength and Conditioning Room 16. 1982 classmates and co-chairs of the Alumnae Division, Hallie Peyton and Sarah Willmott Cowens WINTER 2020 17 17. Mimsy Jones with daughter and former Board Chair Margaret Frazier Gardner '85

Q&A with Board Chair Robert Fogelman

Bradley and Robert Fogelman and their children Eliza '29 and Foster.

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Could you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your family, your education, your career?

What are you most looking forward to in your position?

I just recently celebrated my 15th wedding anniversary with my

I am excited to monitor the progress of our Board’s Strategic

wife, Bradley. We have two children – Foster (5th Grade PDS) and

Messaging Task Force. Led by fellow Trustee Monica Skipper, this

Eliza (3rd Grade SMS). I grew up in Memphis, graduated from

group is charged with further raising the profile of SMS by sharing

PDS, attended MUS, and left after the 8th grade for boarding

how our school exudes excellence – in all areas of school life. We

school in the northeast. After graduating from St. Andrew’s School

have a phenomenal school, and we want to be sure we share this

(Delaware), I attended Middlebury College. Following graduation

fact far and wide.

from Middlebury, I returned to St. Andrew’s where I taught US History, worked in the admissions office, served as a dormitory

Who serves on the Board, and how are Trustees selected?

parent, and coached football and lacrosse. After departing St. Andrew’s, I attended Dartmouth College where I earned a Masters in history, and Vanderbilt University where I earned an MBA. After graduation from Vandy and a total of twenty years away from home, I returned to Memphis in 2003 to join our family office, Fogelman Investment Company.

What does it mean to you, personally, to be Chair of the Board of Trustees?

The SMS Board is composed of alumnae, parents, and other folks who care for the school. We have a Board committee led by Stephanie Linkous that meets regularly to identify and vet potential Trustees. Once identified, a candidate is nominated by the Trustees and Governance Committee, asked to serve, and then ultimately approved by the entire Board.

How do the Board and the Head of School coordinate their work?

Both of my sisters (Fran Fogelman Hyde ’84 and Catherine Fogelman ’87) attended SMS from Kindergarten through 9th grade. Like me, they also attended boarding school away from

As I remind my fellow Trustees, we have only one direct report

Memphis. Even though neither ultimately graduated from SMS, the

– our Head of School. I act as the primary conduit between the

school played an integral role in their development into ambitious,

larger Board and Albert. He and I talk/meet regularly to discuss

interested, and dynamic women. As such, I have always held SMS

both tactical and strategic issues. Many of these issues rise to a

in the highest regard as an educational institution and a place

level requiring Board input. In these cases, he and I work together

where girls can be girls while growing into exceptional women.

to find the correct avenue to secure required Board input –

When Eliza was born, I quietly hoped that she would end up at

sometimes at the committee level and other times at the full Board

SMS. Bradley, who is from Huntsville, AL, was not familiar with

level.

SMS specifically or single-sex education generally. When Eliza neared PK-age, we visited several local schools as part of our due diligence process in selecting the best option for our daughter. When we ultimately decided on SMS for Eliza, I was ecstatic. When asked to join the SMS Board of Trustees, I was deeply honored given the importance of the School in both the past and present of our family. I am humbled to now serve as Chair of the governing body of SMS – an institution deeply ingrained in the fabric of my family.

What is the role of a Board Chair? What are your responsibilities? A mentor of mine once shared the following maxim with me

What are the goals of the Board for the next two years and how do you plan to help them reach their goals? What are your personal goals for the next two years? In September 2019, the Board approved a new strategic plan that will guide our work over the coming five years. This plan has four strategic pillars that address a variety of issues – from general excellence to diversity and inclusion to strategic messaging. All of our work will be guided by the strategic plan. My personal goals are rather simple – make every effort to exhibit the leadership necessary to ensure that we are on track to meet the directives and goals of the strategic plan.

regarding the role of a trustee: nose in, fingers out. It is the job of any governing board to distinguish between having its nose in governance but fingers out of management. As Board Chair, my job is to lead the exceptional group of SMS trustees by example ensuring that we always stay focused on our role of advising our Head of School, Albert Throckmorton, and providing good governance to SMS. WINTER 2020

NEW TRUSTEES 2019-2020 Mikara Davis

Mikara is a school leadership consultant and coach and founder of Educational Equity for ALL, Inc. in Los Angeles, CA. She recently served as the founding Chief Academic Officer for KIPP Los Angeles, where she developed and managed leaders and ensured that academic excellence was the center of the developing region. Mikara earned a B.A. in Theater and Government from the University of Virginia and received a double Masters in Administrative Policy and Bilingual Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Mikara and her husband, Shawn, have two daughters who attend St. Mary’s: Sophia, a fourth grader and Sarah, a Senior Kindergartener, and a son, Noah who attends MUS.

Mary Kavanagh Day ’82

Mary is currently a partner with the Tradewind Group. She is a member of the Economic Club of Memphis and Leadership Memphis and is a past recipient of the St. Mary’s Outstanding Alumna Award. She was also recognized as a Memphis Top 40 Under 40. Mary attended Vanderbilt University where she earned a B.A. in Economics and received an MBA from Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management. Her previous board memberships include Memphis Oral School for the Deaf, Economic Club, St. Mary’s Alumnae Board, and Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence/Momentum Partners. Mary is married to Dan Daniel. She has three children: Grace, a ninth grader at St. Mary’s, and two sons, Tom and Michael.

Kelly Gerhart

Kelly is President of St. Mary’s Parents Association and is an active community volunteer and benefactor. She is involved with Vanderbilt, the Junior League of Memphis, the Brooks Museum, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Dixon Museum, LeBonheur Children's Hospital, and the Children’s Museum of Memphis. Kelly received a B.A. from Fairfield University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management. Her background includes work in marketing, strategic planning, and fundraising. She spent over a decade in marketing leadership at FedEx before being enlisted as a Strategic Consultant for ALSAC. Kelly and her husband Brent have two children, Gracie, a ninth grader at St. Mary’s, and Charlie, a sixth grader at PDS.

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NEW TRUSTEES 2019-2020 Phoebe Roaf

The Right Reverend Phoebe A. Roaf is Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee, a position she has held since May 2019. Bishop Phoebe grew up in Pine Bluff, AR. She received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MPA from Princeton University and then went on to earn a law degree from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. She was ordained and served as associate rector for three years at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans before going on to serve for eight years as rector at St. Phillip’s in Richmond, the oldest African-American church in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Bishop Phoebe is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Virginia Theological Seminary.

Kendall Visinsky

Kendall serves as Senior Compensation Director for General Electric. She is based in Cincinnati, OH, but works from her home office in Memphis. She received a B.S. in Business from Washington and Lee University and earned an MBA in Human-Organizational Performance and Strategy from Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management. Kendall serves as Chair of the Board of the Nuber YMCA and is a member of the Memphis Summer Swim League. She is the founder and director of the Memphis Elementary Swim League which serves over 100 children across more than 18 Memphis schools. Kendall is a member of Church of the Holy Communion where she serves as a Sunday school teacher and youth leader. She is a recent recipient of the Memphis YMCA Volunteer of the Year award. Kendall and her husband, David, have two daughters who attend St. Mary’s, Leighton, a sixth grader, and Carter, a third grader.

The Board of Trustees gathered in Windland Smith Rice Gallery before their November meeting. WINTER 2020

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NEW FACULTY AND STAFF

FR: Michelle Davies (US English Teacher), Natalie Pettey (MS English/Literature Teacher), and Jessica Love (US English Teacher). MR: Catie Wilcheck (SMP Teacher), Jennifer Allen (5th Grade Math and Geography Teacher), Sara Hill (JK Teacher), and Nathan McHenry (MS Music Teacher). BR: Justin Whitford (Director of Technology), Melissa Benson (PK Teacher), Andrea Fletcher (US Art Teacher), and Paige Leatherman (PK Teacher). Other fall and winter new hires: (top to bottom) Jessica Kostic (SMP Assistant Teacher), Claire Betti (Strength and Conditioning Coach and Athletic Trainer), and Jordan Park (Help Desk Support Specialist).

NANETTE QUINN OUTSTANDING TEACHER AWARD

Recipient Holly Hensarling, Upper School history teacher, with 2019 graduates, Merrill Culpepper, Maddie Jenks, Lily Smith, and Sara Fraser.

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CHRISTMAS PAGEANT

St. Mary's oldest and most beloved tradition is the Christmas Pageant. While 2nd and 3rd grade choirs sing beautiful Christmas carols, the 12-year Seniors enact tableaux vivants of the Nativity Story.

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UPPER SCHOOL MUSICAL

The Upper School presented The Addams Family with a cast of thirty-one students, including young men from Bartlett High School, Briarcrest Christian School, Central High School, White Station High School, and the Home School Association. This crowd-loving musical broke all attendance records and is a contender in the Orpheum Theatre High School Musical Theatre Awards in May. The show was directed by Jenny Madden, with musical direction by Julie Millen and choreography by Christi Gray Hall.

CATHY EVANS WINS I LOVE MY LIBRARIAN AWARD

Cathy Evans, Director of Libraries, along with nine other librarians across the nation, received the "I Love My Librarian" Award. This award, given by the American Library Association, and sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, The New York Times, and the New York Public Library, recognizes exceptional public service by those who have transformed lives and communities through education and lifelong learning. Over 1,950 nominations were submitted, and only 120 librarians have ever received this distinction.

LOWER SCHOOL PLAY

Fifty-six 4th and 5th graders danced onto the Buckman stage for the Lower School play, Schoolhouse Rock, LIVE! Jr. With the help of Upper School directors, Livie Glazier ’20, Evie Fowler ’21, Nora James Eikner ’22, and Bella Littleton ’22, the 1970s Saturday morning cartoons came to life. Each year, the Upper School Performing Arts class directs, designs, and produces the Lower School play under the oversight of Director of Plays Jenny Madden and Musical Director Nancy Miller.

GRANDPARENTS DAY

Senior Kindergarteners and 4th graders welcomed grandparents and special friends to campus for Grandparents Day in November. The Chapel service was centered around our Bridge to Caring character education program which is made up of eight essential values that guide Early Childhood and Lower School Chapel talks: Respect, Responsibility, Thankfulness, Kindness, Self-control, Honesty, Courage, and Cooperation.

HALLOWEEN BAZAAR

The Halloween Bazaar, St. Mary’s Student Council annual fundraiser and longstanding fun tradition, was "spooktacular" again this fall. Willmott Gym was filled with ghosts and goblins, and a haunted house was orchestrated by Upper School students in the basement of Moss Hall.

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Photo by: Carla McDonald

JENNY MADDEN BEST FEATURED ACTRESS

Jenny Madden, beloved Director of Plays, was named Best Featured Actress for her role as Rosie Mulligan in the Theatre Memphis Musical, Mamma Mia!

SIXTH-GRADE GREEK DRAMAS

This year the sixth-grade classes performed the following plays: Atlanta and the Great Race, Demeter and Persephone, Echo and Narcissus, and Daedalus and Icarus. Through their own dramas, the girls interpreted a famous myth and put their own spin on various productions. Many created their own costumes and made props for their drama.

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FALL BREAK TRIP TO CRYSTAL BRIDGES

Upper School Fall Break trip to Crystal Bridges in Arkansas. (From front to back) Lily Becker (9th), Reese Suddarth (9th), Kate Prillaman (9th), and Nancy Prillaman explore exhibits at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR.

NATIONAL MERIT

Each year, about 16,000 of the approximately 1.6 million students who enter the National Merit Scholarship competition are recognized as National Merit Semifinalists and another 34,000 are recognized as National Merit Commended Students. This year, St. Mary’s six National Merit Semifinalists are: Ana Albrecht, Madison Brode, Blaise Burbank, Victoria Ouyang, Riya Valaulikar, and Natalie Vallejo; and four National Merit Commended Students are: Ginny Bratton, Gabriella Couloubaritsis, Claire Lee, and Kate Stukenborg. Congratulations!

HONORS INDEPENDENT RESEARCH STUDY

Seven Upper School students participated in the Dr. Kelly N. Ridder ’02 Honors Independent Research Study (HIRS) program. HIRS offers St. Mary’s students opportunities to experience high-level, engaged research with a community mentor as part of their academic experience. Ria Patel '21 (above) completed her study at the University of Memphis Behavioral Science Lab.

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THE ANNUAL 8TH GRADE TRIP TO WASHINGTON, D.C.

SEVENTH GRADERS VISITED CAMP MCDOWELL FOR THEIR ANNUAL CLASS TRIP

SETH RUGGLES HILER, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

This year's Louise T. Archer Artist in Residence Seth Ruggles Hiler, a portrait and landscape artist, visited classrooms across campus, from Upper School Studio Art to a 3rd grade painting demonstration. His residency was made possible through the generosity of alumna Louise T. Archer ’40, who made a bequest to the School, and her daughters, Nell Archer ’79 and Louise Archer Slater ’67.

DEBBY IRVING AUTHOR VISIT

Author Debby Irving visited St. Mary’s to discuss her book Waking Up White. During the day she met with faculty and staff and led a Chapel talk with Middle and Upper School students. An evening speaking event was open to the community.

SCHOLASTIC ART AWARD WINNERS

Only 1% of the 3,000 entries from around the country are awarded Keys or Honorable Mentions. Upper School

Ninth grader Erin Roy's photography, Through the Looking Glass, won a Gold Key.

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Senior Elena Campos drawing of Sleep Paralysis won a Gold Key.

Honorable Mentions Lily Cloud, 11th, Photography, Live Forever Sofia Jalenak, 9th, Photography, Bird Arden Miller, 9th, Photography, Float Rachel Yeung, 11th, Drawing & Illustration, Conserve, Please

Senior Angela Xu’s painting titled Paving the Future won a Silver Key.

Seventh grader Clementine Taylor’s ceramic sculpture of Chinese Takeout won a Gold Key.

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VARSITY VOLLEYBALL

Four varsity volleyball players were recognized as TSSAA All-Region athletes: Cecilia Boswell (28), Madison Carr (12), Ansley Turner (2), and Simone Ivy (4). Cecilia Boswell was also recognized by The Daily Memphian as an All-Metro athlete.

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Middle School Golf placed second in the Shelby League.

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Lower School Cross Country finished fourth in the Memphis Youth Athletics cross country program.

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SOCCER

Goalie Taylor Gallik ’20 was named an All-Metro winner by The Daily Memphian. She was also recognized as a TSSAA All-Region athlete in soccer.

Virginia Horton ’21 was named an All-Metro winner by The Daily Memphian. She was also recognized as a TSSAA All-Region athlete in soccer.

Carrington Davis ’22 was named an All-Metro winner by The Daily Memphian. She was also recognized as a TSSAA All-Region athlete in soccer.

Sydney Ellen Blen ’20 was named a TSSAA All-Region athlete in soccer.

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1. Isabelle Yawn ’14 and Natalie Iskander ’14 2. Shaila Rao Bheda ’90, Rebecca Harris ’05, Molly Himmelstein Hollenberg ’08. 3. Lanier Yeates ’03, Lauren Bunch ’06 and Head of School Albert Throckmorton. 4. Natalie Jacewicz Kern ’09, Shaila Rao Bheda ’90, Olivia Bernabe ’15. 5. Ellen Klyce, Albert Throckmorton, hostess Polly Klyce Pennoyer ’02 and Director of Plays Jenny Madden. 6. Kate Prasher Cavanaugh '01, Jenny Madden, Lisa Morrow Morten '76 and Meredith Morten '07. 7. Mia Wilson ’19, Hilary Dinkelspiel Dona ’99, Morgan Celeste Paley ’19. 8. Sylvia Brookoff ’09 and Neelam Khan Ali ’06 28

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ALUMNAE

ST. MARY’S ALUMNAE BOARD BR: Courtney Shove ’96, Lizzy Holt Yatsula ’08, and Lauran Glassman Stimac ’00. 3rd row: Angie King Keesee ’72, Katie Broer Parr ’98, Essie Arrindell-Williams ’98, Jennilyn Jennings Utkov ’77, Sudha Nimmagadda Ganguli ’83, and Lisa Breazeale Roberts ’85. 2nd row: Tabitha Francisco McNabb ’78, Elizabeth Simpson Alrutz ’82, Madge Logan Deacon ’69, Jan Valentine Wiygul ’76, Ellery Ammons ’12, and Anna Snyder Rojas ’01. FR: President Katie Zanone Webb ’93, Cori Friese McLaughlin ’76, Beth Brown Dunn ’79, Abby Yandell Talbot ’03, Gabby Taylor ’14, and Cara Greenstein ’10.

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ALUMNAE

1. Alumnae traveled to Spain and France on the biannual Alumnae Trip. Pictured at Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona: Angie Rose ’75, Jan Mitchell ’00, Gigi Gould ’70, Patti Person Ray ’65 , Diane Taylor Newton ’66, Lynn Bledsoe Buhler ’67, Olivia Bernabe ’15, Cathy Hoover Allen ’65, and Asimoula Alissandratos ’63. 2. Heather Ryniec Balkunas ’94 spoke to the students about being a small business owner as part of our Alumnae to Student Career Lunch speaker series. 3. Gabby Taylor ’14, Sabrina Spence ’18, Adalyn Meeks ’18, and Lily Monroe ’18 at the Young Alumnae Holiday party. 4. Alumnae Chapel speaker Christian Turner ’93 with classmates. BR: Allison Keltner Musick, Alexia Fulgham Crump, Lisa Bratton Chiles, and Leigh Abbay Weinberg. MR: Bethany Mays Owen, Carrie Benitone Evans, Christian, Katie Zanone Webb, and Gretchen Wollert McLennon. FR: Former Upper School Head Anne Fisher and Chaplain Katherine McQuiston Bush ’93. 5. Jessie Walker Wiley ’04 was one of our Alumnae to Student Career Lunch speakers on working in the nonprofit sector. 6. Lee McGeorge Durrell ’67 holds a fireside chat with Upper School students. 7. Three generations of SMS alumnae: Katie Broer Parr ’98, Eleanor Parr ’30, and Jill Schaeffer Broer ’68. WINTER 2020

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1. Class of 2012 friends at the Young Alumnae Holiday party: Laura Mathews, Jodie Struminger, Marie Peeples, Linda Fu, Ellery Ammons, and Ana Marinovic. 2. Mary Peeler ’11 and Anna Morten ’11 at the Young Alumnae Holiday Party. 3. Dr. Abby Yandell Talbot ’03 with students as part of our Alumnae to Student Career Lunch speaker series. 4. Learning more about SMS at the Alumnae Admission coffee is Lizabeth Menke Jumet ’05, Lower School Head Hilary Davis Robinson ’90, Anna Snyder Rojas ’01, and Admissions Coordinator Grace Jensen Knight ’05. 5. Loftin Thompson ’01, Emily Harris Halpern ’01, Anna Snyder Rojas ’01, Hayley Bower Gerber ’01, Penny Bower, Susan Buckner Rose, ’01, Daphne Trainor Bahl ’01, Courtenay Adams ’99, and Erin Bower Jarrett ’99 6. Joining Alumnae Chapel speaker Lee McGeorge Durrell ’67 from the Channel Island of Jersey is Beth Brown Dunn ’79, Courtney Shove ’96, Diane Taylor Newton ’66, Patti Person Ray ’65, Lee, Lynn Bledsoe Buhler ’67, Elinor Baker Jones ’68 and Angie Rose ’75. 7. Alumnae Chapel speaker Marinda Anderson ’01 (third from left) visits from New York with classmates Lauren Anderson Stone, Anna Snyder Rojas, Amanda Vogel, Louise Chandler Biedenharn, and Courtney Taylor Humphreys.

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CLASS NOTES 1964 PHYLLIS KOLLER WILLS

Ann Humphreys Copp is adjusting to her mandatory retirement a year and a half ago from the Episcopal Church. She spends a lot of time with her 100-year-old mother who continues to live on her own. She and Dan II, as she calls him, are planning to marry whenever they can get their two families together. Ann’s four grandchildren live in Wisconsin and Oregon. She sees our classmate Nancy Whitman Manire at least twice a year, always a great treat for her. Phyllis Koller Wills and husband Jim traveled to Germany in July with Phyllis’ youngest brother to do a bit of Koller family research and found the house their great great grandfather built in 1818 for his family. His initials and those of their great great grandmother are still over the front door. In September, Phyllis and Jim went to Morocco with another couple for two weeks. A very memorable trip.

Linda Ogle Roach ’64 enjoying a round of golf.

Diane Taylor Newton ’66 with husband Ed.

1966 DIANE TAYLOR NEWTON

Mary Lawrence Hughes Flinn is making contacts for class of ’66 contributions to the St Mary’s Annual Fund. Marie Wilson Cantrell, who lives in Knoxville, attributes the remarkable support she received from fellow classmates when she was faced with life changing circumstances with her sister Linda’s health. Moving her from Memphis to Knoxville, selling her house, and furnishing: she couldn’t have done it without emotional and physical support from St. Mary’s friends. Foxy von Lackum Walker, Minna Thompson Glenn, Mary Lawrence Hughes Flinn, and Susan Dacus provided ground support. Susan took Linda’s dog companion home. Susan provides a home of old wonderful dogs to live out their lives. That’s not all. The encouraging emails from Charlotte Dabbs Algood, Nancy

Perry Gautier, Jeanne StevensonMoessner, and Julia Laney Clarke were greatly appreciated. Diane traveled with Patti Person Ray ’65 on the St. Mary’s Alumnae trip to Barcelona, Carcassonne, and Avignon. This was their third trip together. Beautiful and lovely to travel with alumnae friends and family members. Diane attended floral design school in Atlanta, which was a great experience, especially as she is now designing for her church (Germantown Presbyterian) and other venues. Cissy Lansing Moriarty has been riding camels in Morocco across the Sahara. She has two adorable granddaughters that live in California. Jeanne Stevenson Moessner spent her birthday with granddaughter Rylee, now 4 years old. Jeanne is never without making a difference in the world. Lastly, she presented a paper is Sao Leopoldo, Brazile about plastic surgery from a theological and sociological point of view. Julia Laney Clarke invited the class to visit her in Albuquerque. It was well attended. Julia was director of the main library and accomplished many initiatives for the diverse population. Julia’s dedication to literacy and the public library system has been tenacious and inspiring. She established the Albuquerque Library Foundation and has been its president ever since. All classmates are extremely proud of her accomplishments.

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CLASS NOTES

Six members of the class of 1966 found themselves on Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eugenia von Lackum Walker, Minna Thompson Glenn, Marie Wilson Cantrell, Betty Abbott, Julia Laney Clarke, Cissy Lansing Moriarty, and Mary Lawrence Hughes Flinn traveled for a Southwest adventure.

1968 JAN CONE DAVIS

When this SMS magazine appeared in your mailbox, what was the first thing you did? You probably flipped to the class news section to read about what your classmates have been doing. Alas…only four people submitted news. However, it was great hearing from them. Pam Joyner Evans and husband Hank recently moved to a zero lot line in the Laurels at the Germantown/ Collierville border. They have a park in the front and a conservation area in the back where 17 deer live. There are also wild turkeys, egrets, and some other things she won’t mention. It is fenced so the animals don’t come visiting, but they can see them in the woods- a natural environment in the middle of the city. Pam and Hank have their seventh grandchild now. Matt and his wife had another boy. That makes five grandsons and two 36

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granddaughters.Ya Ya says they are all adorable, of course. Pam and Hank have been traveling a lot since she retired. Their biggest trip was a Tauck tour to Australia and New Zealandfar away, but worth it! Carolyn Mayo moved to Boston! She has had to move twice in Boston to a larger home after having downsized in her move from Germantown. She had too many items she couldn’t part with, but didn’t want that furniture display floor look. Carolyn is a great aunt again. Her niece’s little boy arrived a bit early, so the family had to scramble to get preemie clothes and finish the nursery. Carolyn says she has enjoyed watching The Durrells in Corfu, especially the installment with Lee McGeorge Durrell ’67. Holly Rogers has something in common with actor Tom Hanks. They are both Rollins College alumni. Holly is looking forward to seeing his new movie about Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Holly is still working full time, but is ready to scale back to something part time. Her mom turns 100 next year. As for me, Hank and I have three grandsons under two, plus the four older grandchildren who range in age from 19 to 13. Our oldest granddaughter is living with us while she attends the University of Memphis. It’s fun having her around, and she is a great dog sitter. Hank and I enjoyed back to back river cruises to France. We started in Avignon and ended in Paris. The highlight of the trip was Normandy Beach. It looks just like the movie. It was very moving when everyone started singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Love to all!

1970 CRISTINA BRESCIA MICHTA

Susan Hall Wilson and husband Bubba are busier than ever since his retirement from Agricenter. They enjoy, most of all, spending as much time as possible with grandchildren Sam Harris, 4, and Charlotte, 2, children of son Sy. They are proud of daughter, Natalie, the new CEO of Memphis’ Levitt Shell. Evelyn Anderson McGehee was excited to welcome her eighth grandchild this spring,Virginia Boyd McGehee, bringing the count to three boys and five girls, ranging from 6 months to 16. Along with her oldest daughter, Katy, and her family she went on safari to Kenya and Tanzania. She also enjoyed a French river cruise from Lyon to Avignon with her three

CLASS NOTES were on a cruise. The Class of 1970 is excited to celebrate our 50th class reunion in April 2020! We are very happy that the St. Mary’s tradition lives on in the lives of the wonderful SMS girls today!

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Denise Dubois Taylor ’70 and husband Sledge at the marriage of their son Will to Rachel Pedersen.

offspring. Onto Thanksgiving and a “merry time Cruise “ with Mickey Mouse and her son Boyd’s family. It was not planned to have so much in one year but they were all wonderful trips and impossible for her to pass up! After 16 years of hard labor as Development Director at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School, Denise DuBois Taylor retired and almost immediately traveled to Boulder, CO for a bachelorette party in mid-July. Less than two weeks later, Denise, husband Sledge and family traveled to New Jersey for the marriage of their son Will to Rachel Pedersen in July at the Natirar Mansion in scenic Peapack (near Rachel’s hometown of Far Hills). The newlyweds reside in Milton, MA where the bride teaches high school physics, chemistry and coaches sailing and swimming. Will is commuting to Brown University in Providence, RI, where he is completing his Ph.D. in astrophysics. On a very sad note, Denise’s brother Dean died

of cancer just three weeks after the wedding but not before the family enjoyed a wonderful and memorable wedding weekend together. Betty Coe Cruzen Manuel and husband David welcomed a new grandson, Flynt David Manuel in August (son of their son and daughter-in-law, Edward and Haddy). Their other son Robert and his fiancée are planning a wedding in San Antonio next fall. Betty Coe is looking forward to our upcoming 50th class reunion next spring and is hoping for a great turnout! Gigi Gould is thrilled with the arrival of her 4th grandchild. Jackson is the son of Louis and Jill. That makes 4 grandchildren in 4 years! Your secretary, Cristina Brescia Michta, continues to enjoy Bavaria with her husband, Andrew, Dean of the College at the Marshall Center. Chelsea is completing her PhD dissertation at Cambridge. I enjoyed visiting with Nora Wingfield Tyson ’75, in Regensburg this summer. She and husband, Wayne,

Thank you to all these wonderful women in the Class of 1972 for sending news!!! Malinda Allen Lewis wrote, “Buck and I are really enjoying life in East Tennessee and would love to see anyone who is coming this way. “ Karen Adelson Strauss wrote, “Please let everyone know I have moved to Park City, UT, and welcome visitors! Other than that, life continues to move more or less forward. I am getting ready for winter with lots of exercise and moisturizers, learning the nuances of cooking at altitude, and enjoying the beauty of this state. I miss my SMS friends, and am looking for active travel partners to pretty much anywhere to explore natural and urban settings.” Jackie Pentz Watkins wrote, “We just returned from a group trip to see the Biltmore at Christmas, quite impressive, even if the fall foliage wasn’t as brilliant as I had hoped. We’ve already planned three cruises for next year: a Caribbean cruise exclusively for Star Trek fans, a Hawaiian Islands up to Vancouver, and then a fall colors New England and Canada cruise.” Lane Tennent Shipley wrote, “Ben and I are well and counting WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES our blessings here in Fort Smith. Both my girls are married, my son is not, and I have 1 grandson and 1 granddaughter, with 2 more granddaughters due in November, 2 weeks apart, one in Nashville and the other in Dallas. I’m not teaching anymore, just doing a variety of volunteer work, including acting as a pharmacist on our church’s mission trips to Mexico and Guatemala.” Jane Gordon Simmons wrote, “It has been more fun making the pickles my mom used to make (The Original) when I was a child. I think I told you, Musette Sprunt Morgan, having eaten about as many pickles as I when she was at my house, was the first one to suggest I start marketing them! I always say, Mama was no cook but she made a darn good pickle! I then took another pickle recipe I found in her recipe box and tweaked it a bit and Voila! The Hot and Sassy. With the holidays, I am really busy. People are ordering by the dozens to give to neighbors, co-workers, teachers.... you name it!” Suzanne Hauser Schlittenhart wrote, “Now that my bionic hips have healed we were able to start traveling again. We went over to California for grandchildren’s graduations and up to Paso Robles for some wine tasting. We spent 10 days in Washington visiting friends, attending my stepson’s wedding and exploring Seattle. It was even more fun because our book club just finished reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette? and went to see the movie. I will be cooking 38

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Thanksgiving dinner for Cliff ’s family. My son Ryan is coming for Christmas so we’ll be home till the end of the year.” All is well with the Todds. Caroline is in Brooklyn working in transportation. May is just finishing a long stint at NBC’s Bluff City Law. Carroll has a wonderful show of his sculpture at David Lusk Gallery. We went on an educational tour to Turkey with Dr. Omid Safi who served as the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center and wrote for “On Being”. Dr. Safi specializes in Islamic mysticism, contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history, what an adventure! I am still so happy to be working part-time in community ministries at Calvary Episcopal Church downtown. As we think about our lives, the time we spent at SMS conjures up so many memories. Some are really good and for those and for each of you we are truly grateful.

1974 DESI FRANKLIN

Minette Allen Kinney’s life is a joyous Groundhog Day of repainting, weeding, washing and decluttering, which her family appreciates as she has no intention of downsizing. In fact, this year she will put up 3 Christmas trees in order to separate the children’s construction paper reindeer from the glittered pink flamingos that cannot hang with the angels and the sacred. Mary Hills Baker Powell has retired from

teaching art and moved to Charlotte from Connecticut. Now she is the artist, currently focusing on painting beautiful works featuring water. She plans to start spending time in Memphis visiting her mother, Presh Baker Gill, and would love to connect with her St. Mary’s friends. Doris French Jones is still telling stories in schools, libraries, and museums, and is writing short essays. Doris had several poems that placed in a national poetry competition this past summer. Doris says being with her three grandchildren is absolutely the best gig ever! Louise Mann continues her work advocating for effective and transparent recycling operations, publishing columns to educate the public on reducing and reusing recyclables. Donna Osborne Bradley has moved and started a new lead faculty job teaching criminal justice – she’s “over moving”. Never one to be bored, Donna wins the prize for our class in pursuing the most postsecondary degrees. She’s currently pursuing degree no. 6 - a doctorate in Higher Education Administration. She enjoyed a beach trip in the fall with her sons, their wives and her 6 grandkids, who range from twenty months to 20 years old! Sue Anne Turpin Davis and her husband spent 6 weeks last summer in their new happy places: Paris, Brittany and Normandy. Sue Anne continues to substitute teach, rescue cats, teach women’s retreats at her church and be a loving Cookie to her three grandsons. Per Sue Anne,

CLASS NOTES “Retirement is the biggest vacuum nature ever abhorred!” As for me, I continue working fulltime as an attorney and traveling. 2019 saw two trips to Iceland and one to Morocco. I downsized from my midtown foursquare to a smaller bungalow in November – I heartily join Donna in being “over moving”! I’m excited about my son Alex Kenner’s wedding in 2020. From what I can tell so far, being a mother of the groom involves providing funding as requested and saying, “great idea!” to all the plans.

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Sweet Bettina West Hart, we are so sorry for the loss of your husband, Jerry. Please know our thoughts and prayers are with you. B.J. Fiser Jones is in her second year as coleader of an older/younger mentor program at their church. It is a great and rewarding joy. Chip still manages a tech writing team for ADP and they travel when they can. Although their trips are for shorter distances now that son, Andrew, finished his doctorate in Scotland. They all fell in love with the country and would go back in a heartbeat! They have four (with one more due in March) grandchildren and two sweet foster grandbabies. All of their children live locally for now, so there is always a school program, after-school sports, or dance recital for them to attend. B.J. is loving this stage of life, but don’t let anyone convince you that

Lynn Hitchings Albano '77, Ashley Moore Remmers '72, and Lucy Walt Wepfer '77 at the Donor Party celebrating the opening of the Athletic and Wellness Center.

the empty nest is a boring one! She hopes to get back to Memphis in the spring. Dinner? Martha Flowers is still heading up the wellness efforts at First Horizon. Austin ’12 is home from The World Race mission trip all around the world. I loved following her travels and stories. She made it home in time to attend Buckner’s graduation from Naval Air Traffic Control school. He is in Pensacola and he did experience the devastating shooting there. We are so thankful that Buckner made it out safely. Wooohooo! Walt and Kaki Ossorio Wakefield are so proud of their two 2019 Longhorn graduates! Michael graduated with a BS in Communication Studies and is working for a tech company in Austin. Will graduates in December with a BA in Finance. He received a full-time offer with a home building company in Austin. On to the next phase in life! (maybe girlfriends to

wives to grandkids) At least that is her prayer. Our Nashville politician, Burkley Mann Allen, has been elected to serve as an At-Large Council Member. Congratulations! Their son, Newton, recently got married and their daughter, Sarah, gave birth to their first grandson, Joseph. Another sweet angel! Kim Brown Mullins is busy working and working. She is going to take some time though to be the SMS Mock Trial Coach for the sixth year! Thank you for your continued service, Kim. The girls love you! As you read this article, I hope you have a flashback of something you remember of your time at St. Mary’s that makes you smile!

1978 TRACY WALKO BALTON

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CLASS NOTES babies. Ann Chaney enjoyed lunch with Sunita Sheth in Philly this June, taking a break from the record miserable heat in New Orleans. During many trips to Memphis to see her father, Sunita and husband David have joined my husband Steve and me for great dinners at Interim. They continue to intrigue us with their vast knowledge of wine and amazing travels. The latest ones included a hike along the Hadrian’s Wall in the UK, and birding and hiking trip to Portugal. We will see them in Philly this weekend to take advantage of having our own personal tour guides, as Steve runs the marathon and I tagged along as head-cheerleader. Debby Waltz Hayes and husband Paul enjoyed the The Biltmore in NC recently and hiked some of the Appalachian Trail. Her favorite trip of late was to Israel, running by the Sea of Galilee at sunrise and visiting Jerusalem, Bethlehem & Nazareth. She said she would never forget the feelings she experienced at these awesome places. Debby’s grandchildren, Noah, 6, and Betsy, 3 keep her proud and busy. Their mother, Maggie, is a speech therapist at LeBonheur. Debby’s son Andy is now working outside D.C. at Collegeboard. Paul is quite happy with Andy’s newfound career! Daughter Sarah works as an ESL teacher. She and her husband Matt live in Akron, where he attends medical school. A few of us celebrated over dinner as Andrea Gilliom Anderson and husband Ben came “home” from Sarasota 40

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for a friend’s wedding. Kathy Edmondson Riley with husband Billy, Debby and Paul, Kathy Daniel Patterson and husband Greg, and Steve and I loved catching up at Napa Cafe. Kathy P. has put her beautiful home on the market, hoping to move to a zero lot home, and foregoing some yard work. Andrea has two upcoming weddings this year, daughter Liz ’09 in April in Philadelphia and Meg ’14 in August 2020, in Columbus, MS where she is a Spanish teacher. Her daughter Rebecca ’06 gave Andrea and Ben their first grand baby, Amelia, this past August. What a year! Recently, Jekka Ashman Pinckney, Christy Smith Mestemacher and Kathy P. lunched with Tabitha Francisco McNabb, enjoying new pics of her new grandson, James, born a few months ago. Christy and husband Mark enjoyed two weeks in Israel too. Jekka reports she is still in the corporate secretary’s office at International Paper. She bikes and golfs whenever weather permits. Berry Bingham Mallory shared margaritas with Lisa Rogers in Atlanta where Berry lives. They marveled at how many years of friendship they have enjoyed. Fond memories of her time at SMS are many, as she tries to stay connected with classmates on social media. But she has been busy lately. In May 2020, she will receive her M.S. in Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling and her professional license for helping the disabled to find employment. Having just celebrated

our 40th reunion, she is living proof it is never too late to go back to school! Berry has three children, two in CA and one in GA. Does anyone remember Nancy Schultz Oglesby from lower school days? Berry has reconnected after a 20 year gap as Nancy now lives in Atlanta. Kelley Hoffman Hook is “looking forward” to the long winter months in Chicago. After so many years of plowing snow, she is officially over it! She enjoyed a wonderful trip with husband Bruce to east TN this summer, with all of her siblings and their spouses, and most of the grandkids. They celebrated her Mom, Phyllis’ 100th birthday, for which everyone is quite grateful. Lisa Francis Turner watches the progressing construction of the Athletic and Wellness Center on her daily drive to and from work. She reminds us to be proud of our school and this project. We would have loved to have had a cafeteria outside the dungeon and a gym as nice as this will be. She reminisces of fond SMS memories. My granddaughter Lyla ’28 was recently in an SMS production of School House Rock Live! Jr. The Buckman Theater is amazing, and the perfect place for sweet little voices to flourish. Being the author of these class notes allows me some extra bragging rights. I really appreciate all of your responses. Everyone loves the annual updates. Because as Debby says, “nothing’s greater than a ’78er”. Until next year...

CLASS NOTES 1980 MARGARET STONE GRAHAM

The girls of 1980 are eagerly anticipating our FORTIETH reunion at St. Mary’s! None of us feel as though it has been that long, but we can’t wait to get together and pretend that we’re still 18 years old. However, most of our news revolves around our families rather than our own (no longer) teen exploits. Melissa Bateman is so thankful to have all her children in her own city of New York and is blessed to have her 94-year-old mom living with her. She has had several of her own mini reunions with friends coming through NYC, including Kathy Buckman Gibson, Jan Holmes Crosby, Margaret McDearman Green (who works in NYC), and Elizabeth Van Brocklin Still. Elizabeth Still had news about her children as well: her oldest son George recently became engaged to his girlfriend, Boriana. He is finishing a second degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. George’s twin, Finley, is a musician living in Boston.Younger son John T. is living in San Francisco and working at a software company. Daughter Ellie lives in NYC and works in the world of fashion events. Elizabeth and husband George recently remodeled a home in Pebble Beach and are spending a bit more time there. Her family had a fun time catching up with Jeanne Burrow Wilbourn in Paris over the summer. Their travel schedules worked out perfectly. Elizabeth’s parents are in

Memphis and doing well, very active and still living in their beautiful home. Helene Norcross Rayder also has a daughter who has moved to NYC and works for Rubicon Global. Helene and husband JW are moving into an “empty nest” apartment in Washington, D.C. and will make their home on the Bay their primary residence. Helene’s mom lives in Memphis and is doing very well, traveling to see Helene and JW often. Laura Kilpatrick Lamar reports that she gained two granddaughters only six weeks apart, thanks to her daughter and her daughter-in-law. Florence Davis Lampton and Lillian Louise Triplett are the “amazing and adorable” additions to Laura’s growing family! Laura also has seven more stepgrandbabies, so she stays super busy. Kathi Welch Campbell saw her son David married last spring. He is a pilot in the Marine Corps, flying the CH-53 helicopter and stationed near Wilmington, NC. Her daughter, Rachel, is a sophomore at Elon University. Rachel and Kathi took a trip to southern Spain over the summer, leaving husband John home to dog-sit. Kathi’s mom, Mrs. Welch, whom we all remember from the St. Mary’s office, is still going strong, living independently and driving. I wonder whether Kathi was watching out for classmate Sally Mansberg Rosenberg in Spain? Sally took 17 St. Mary’s girls to Alicante, Spain last summer. I heard that they LOVED being with fun but strict Mrs. Rosenberg!

Sally plans to take husband Jeff to Scotland for his 60th birthday next year for golf, castles, and Scotch! Sally’s son is back in Memphis, working for Tower Ventures, and daughter Kayla ’10 is a represented voiceover actor and screenwriter in LA. Wow! Molly Francis Roberts still works with husband Marty at his business, Sporting Life Kennels. One of her daughters, Bette, has gone on the mission field to Cambodia to work with young victims of human trafficking since she graduated from Samford last spring. Daughter Meg, a recent graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, is going as a missionary to Nigeria with a two-year commitment. My husband Sam and I took a trip this past year “In the Steps of Paul,” visiting Italy, Greece, and Israel. Our older son Nelson has returned to school to earn his MBA at the Owen School at Vanderbilt, while our younger son continues to live in D.C. and work for Deloitte Consulting. I hope to see you ALL at our reunion in April!

1982 ELIZABETH SIMPSON ALRUTZ

Our dear Lee Martin Rantzow died on December 3. For our girl who never missed one single day of school for 14 years, it has been hard to comprehend her dealing with illness and especially one that was so very aggressive. No matter how difficult her day, she never lost that quick sense of humor and that wonderful repartee with Sarah. WINTER 2020

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is working several jobs using her theatre, stage management, and production experience. Emily Adams Davis has a wedding coming up next spring. Her oldest daughter Bailey is practicing law in Charlotte, NC and will get married in May. Her son Tread is working in Greenville and Caroline is in law school at the University of South Carolina. Jeanie Harwood Sikes was a beautiful mother of the bride in November when her daughter, Caroline, got married. Hallie Peyton, Tom and Lee Anne Johnson Roehm, and David and Mary Long Merritt and I all got to celebrate with Jeanie and Stuart in Dallas at the wedding. Jeanie’s daughter Sidney is in New York, and son Charlie is at UT (the one in Austin not Knoxville). When Hallie and I were at the airport on the way back from the wedding, we ran into Jennifer Haas Lansky and her husband Seth who were heading to Memphis. They are living in Park City, UT and were making connections in Dallas to come see her mom in Memphis. We had such fun catching up and Jennifer says to make sure folks know to come visit her in Park City. Jennifer has a keen interest in working with people with differing abilities. She and Seth are enjoying the outside activities available in Park City and she is also into pickleball. I reported to Jennifer that Sarah Willmott Cowens is a pickleball player. Both Sarah and Jennifer say pickleball is more about laughing with friends than skill.

Hallie Peyton reported that she had a great summer with many St. Mary’s touches! She went to Traverse City, MI Film Festival to visit with Meg Beeson Wallace. Lee Anne Johnson Roehm, and Emily Adams Davis joined Hallie on the trip. They had a great time playing Siskel and Ebert! Hallie also enjoyed a long weekend with her godson, Fred Wallace in Park City, Utah (this was before we knew Jennifer lived there). They went zip lining, rafting, mountain biking, and hiking. Hallie says she was doing her best to keep up with a 15-year old. Finally, Hallie went on a trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons and got to spend one day with Jack Wallace (Meg Beeson Wallace’s eldest) who is living in Lander, WY. They had a great lunch and hike. Sarah and Hallie have led the Alumnae Division of the St. Mary’s Capital Campaign that allowed the building of the new Athletic and Wellness Center on campus at St. Mary’s. Their work and devotion to the school is simply amazing. If you get back to Memphis, be sure to come see the new building— you will be amazed. And finally, mark your calendars to come visit at Alumnae Weekend April 24-25. You don’t have to be celebrating a reunion to join in the fun.

1984 VANESSA ALLEN DOBBINS

Kelly O’Shields Klinke and I both agree how much fun it was to meet up for our 35th class reunion

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Class of 1984 friends: Kelly O’Shields Klinke and Molly Brown

at Alumnae Weekend in spring of 2019. It was wonderful of Leslie Darling, Carolyn Thompson, and Merri Leigh Masters Johnson to travel to Memphis to join Kelly McCracken, Cathey Turner Alexander, Carrie Jaeger Carpenter, Kendall Weir Jack and us in the weekend festivities. We had a blast reminiscing and laughing, and only wished more of you could have joined us. In class news, Kelly travelled on two separate occasions to reconnect with fellow classmates. She met Clare Halle Brown in SC where they visited with Kelly’s sons, August, a recent graduate of Furman and Zachary, a junior at Furman. Later Kelly and husband Russell visited OR and connected with Molly Brown. Kelly and Molly enjoyed catching up for an afternoon at Black Butte Ranch and Molly agreed the visit was like hanging out in the Senior Den again. Molly’s son Coby is busy with college applications and

serving as “Spirit Commissioner” for his school. Oldest son Michael is applying to grad school for a PhD in Education. Molly wishfully hopes her boys land at the same school. Celeste Barzizza Stallings’ son Will graduated with distinction from UVA in 2018 with a degree in Economics and is a consultant in D.C. for Edgeworth Economics. Daughter Emily is a junior at Sewanee pursuing a Psychology major with a minor in French. She plays attack on the lacrosse team and serves as chaplain of her sorority. Husband John retired from a 30-year banking career to allow them to enjoy life and balance the demands of his cholangiocarcinoma treatments. They have put their trust in God and are making the most of John’s off weeks from treatment. Celeste is very grateful for the support of fantastic doctors, friends and family. Please keep the Stallings family in your prayers. Alison Potts Hollewand and family traveled to

Spain, and daughter Izzy had her own two week trip to Vietnam, including a service project that her team fund-raised for and assisted on the building of a school in a remote village in the mountains. Alison’s 86-year-old Mom traveled from the UK to Australia for a visit – very impressive! Alison is recovering well from hip replacement surgery and after two weeks post-op is walking two miles a day with one stick only. She loved reconnecting with Merri Leigh Masters Johnson not only for her expertise as a skilled professional, but also because Merri Leigh has had a hip replaced. After 31 years at Baylor Rehab Hospital Merri Leigh will be transitioning to academia with a full-time faculty position at Texas Woman’s University Program in Physical Therapy in Dallas. Husband Tim continues to work and sing in various choirs around the Metroplex. Son Jack continues with JV basketball and first chair tuba in the highest band. Youngest son Charlie made the eighth-grade basketball team and is first chair French horn in the Honors band. Ally Burr Harris has felt connected with Alison and is using Alison’s meditations in her therapy work with teens and young adults with great success. She continues in the realm of therapy focusing on trauma, attachment, and adoption, but may be making a change soon. Ally’s father even followed Alison’s meditation while recovering from back surgery followed by a heart attack followed WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES by two different surgeries to remedy the heart situation. He is healing well and almost back on the river for more fly fishing. Son Solomon is a freshman at the University of San Diego and loves it. Son Jonah lives in D.C. working on health policy research for Westat. Daughter Rae is ever so much a teen and is focusing mostly on hip-hop as she pursues her passion for dancing. For our wedding anniversary Martin and I returned to the most magical, beautiful place on earth where we were married 25 years ago, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. We hope to visit the UK next!

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Susan Whitten Graber is thoroughly enjoying her “retirement” while still working with the SMS Community Fund fund and continuing to contribute to the Facing History program. She enjoys having time to spend with her parents and works in their lake house at Pickwick on weekends. Irene McDonnell Ayotte sadly lost her mom this summer but is keeping quite busy getting Robert ready to go to college. I feel like college shopping is a common activity for many of the class of ’86 right now. Many of us have high school children getting ready to leave the nest. Next fall the sons of Elizabeth Harvey and Myra Gold will be classmates at UMass. Myra’s son Jack has signed on 44

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Class of 1985: Lisa Breazeale Roberts, Margaret Frazier Gardner, and Melissa Thrasher Peeler at the Athletic and Wellness Center opening.

to punt for the football team after his gap year. I can’t wait for those guys to connect. Myra is still working as the director of an orthodox synagogue in Palm Beach while her son Theo is attending high school. Elizabeth Cashman Dickinson and Lynn Cashman Thurlow still enjoy spending their summers in Bluffton together and have even adopted my son Davis as a regular visitor. Elizabeth is thrilled to report that both of her sons attended the MUS homecoming dance this fall with St. Mary’s girls as their dates, with only subtle suggestion from Mom! Yay turkeys! Lynn is homeschooling again and teaching 7th grade Latin tapping into her inner Ms. Stidham! Mary Helen Pender Moore has enjoyed what every parent dreams, to have their children’s activities occur in the same spot! Friday night lights have been made memorable while she watches Ashley Kate cheer on the sidelines while her son Joseph

has been out on the football field. Kathryn Haggitt Garrison got to visit with Jeannie McCullough Lewis when Jeanne made the trip to Seattle to attend Kathryn’s wedding! Kathryn’s daughter Kate is a sophomore at Loyola New Orleans while Anna is busy still rowing all over the country. Kate Hunt/Satyamegha (meaning cloud of truth) has been ordained in the Buddhist tradition and is working as a hospital chaplain, which she reports is both extremely challenging and rewarding. She and her wife Vanessa still live in Nottingham. It was a wonderful surprise to hear from her! I am still busy opening pet stores and running our business with my husband Shawn. I get to enjoy seeing Liz Whitsitt McEwan, Irene, and Elizabeth Cashman regularly and we continue to support each other, generate infectious laughter, and create new memories whenever we are together!

CLASS NOTES 1988 ANNA MCQUISTON HOLTZCLAW

Betsy Carnesale Wiseman and family moved to Nashville for Lang’s new job with Governor Bill Lee as deputy governor and legal counsel. The kids love their new school where Peter is in Pre-K and Sarah Lang is in kindergarten. She loves it but misses SMS a lot and still talks about it and her sweet friends. Beth Gowen Gillespie writes that William is a sophomore at TCU and Sarah is a senior in high school. Beth works part time as a newborn hearing screener and loves the sweet newborns! Pidge Colbert Macdonald started a job in Medical Sales for the Imaging Center at Wolf River. Mallory ’18 is at UTK and pledged Tri Delt. Whit is flying, completed his Eagle Scout project and is looking at colleges for next fall. Jennifer Hanemann Chandler is writing for the Commercial Appeal and is happy that Catherine Denton Wilfong just moved down the street. Hannah is a sophomore at the University of Colorado Boulder and Sarah is a junior at Hutchison. Lacey Taylor Jordan just sent her oldest, Bill, Jr., off to SMU last fall and says all is well in Atlanta. Frances Coughlin Fenelon enjoys having Betsy in Nashville and her daughter Nev has babysat for Betsy a few times. They recently connected with Taylor Uhlhorn Laird who was in town for a conference. Frances is the VP and General Counsel at CHS and loves the work and the people. Jenny

Dyer Pepper’s twins started college this Fall. Daniel is a thrower on the track team at the University of South Alabama and Thomas is at the University of Southern Mississippi. Jenny teaches and is headed to the Netherlands this Spring with her mom. Emily Ragen Smith enjoyed parents’ weekend at UGA with Becca and Mateo is now in high school. She is starting an organization called The Players’ Closet which helps college athletes with financial need dress for success as they transition into the workforce. Heather Nichols Rasch’s big news is she and Bob were married on May 31. They had a private ceremony at home with their families. Her brother (Bret) officiated. Sara is in ninth grade at SMS and learning to drive. Katherine Florendo closed on a new home in October and competes on the pro bikini circuit qualifying for Worlds where she will be one of the oldest competitors. When not on stage she is a neonatologist and medical director for the St. Luke’s East NICU, and will complete her term as department chair this year. Carol-Ann is a sophomore at KU, Mary-Olivia is a sophomore in high school and Charlie is in 6th grade, playing trombone and just tested for his orange belt in kenpo karate. As for me, things are busy back in Memphis. Caroline is in 8th grade at SMS with Mrs. Mulrooney as her advisor. I am busy with work and have been working on the SMS capital campaign this past year. Hope to see many of you soon.

Class of 1990 friends: Caydie Brown Nickey, Alexis Zanone, Rachel Lightman, and Taylor Holden Taylor

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Here we go, the printable update from the Class of ’90 (shame I can’t run with the unfiltered version – much juicier). Kristen Thompson Keegan has been busy growing Good Egg Jewelry, which I can tell you has taken over Instagram. But she still finds time to sub at SMS and PDS. John is a sophomore at the University of Colorado and Jim is a senior — which means she’s almost an empty-nester (gulp). Caroline Archer Baker joins her in this esteemed category. Sarah is wrapping up college applications while Anderson is a junior at Florida Southern College, setting his sights on commercial real estate and investments (a far cry from where I was at Anderson’s age, aimlessly reading What Color is Your Parachute?). Mary Ann Kish Seibert continues as Director of Counseling Services at Hendrix College. She and her family WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES are crushing life in Little Rock. Zoe is in 10th grade and Turner is in 8th. They built a new house and live right across the street from — wait for it — her in-laws. Stacy Goldate continues to edit and produce documentaries. She’s working on two right now that she looks forward to sharing with the world next year. But more importantly, she and her husband Craig adopted a three year-old rescue dog named Skylar. Congrats, Stac! (Rescue is my favorite breed.) Anne Copper DiFronzo is still living in Great Falls,VA with her three kids, Sofia (12), and twins Dominic and Olivia (6) and continues to work for Cultural Care Au Pair. Missy Kramer Taranto is nearing the end of a three-year home restoration project. She swears it’s almost finished (but she also said this last year). Her daughters Evie and Jessica are junior maids in Mardi Gras again. Ellen Rawlins Uzarowicz is still doing professional costuming in Los Angeles. Her oldest, Harlow just got her driver’s permit with her sister, Evie, right behind her. Deep breaths, Ellen. This was the first update I got from Tricia Hood Thomas (ever) without a countdown to retirement. Instead, she shared that she and Caydie Brown Nickey are organizing our 30th reunion this Spring. They hope to see everyone there! Paige Russell Brooks made her annual Fourth of July pilgrimage to Rachel Lightman’s, where Shaila Rao Bheda and I got to see her. Twins Caroline and Greyson are 46

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juniors, fully immersed in all things school while working a side hustle at Baskin Robbins. And speaking of Rachel Lightman, she’s dialed up her inner activist and is considering a run for city council in Edgewater, NJ. As a true champion of the town and its peeps, who better to represent? Susan Hearn Morgan is loving her new job at the UT College of Pharmacy. Daughter Evelyn loves Junior Kindergarten at SMS, and Katherine is learning to handle fourth grade. Beth Kraemer West and family are all doing well. Kids (14, 11 and 7) are busy with the usual soccer, ballet, and piano. They took an amazing desert camping vacation for three weeks, where they hit seven National Parks over 12 days. Hilary Davis Robinson is still shaking things up at Moss Hall (my words, not hers) and counting down until her second of four is off to college. (Austin is now a senior at CBHS, so she’s ever closer.) Laurie Smith Hooper is staying busy with her four kiddos, who are swimming in sports. Lela is a junior, plays soccer and has begun the college search. Cole, a freshman, plays football and Katie, in 5th grade, is all about dancing and tumbling. Then there’s Griffin, in 3rd grade, who can “rattle off any player or team stat you need.” She also shared that her sister Wendy’s boys, Mason and Alden, are doing great, still out in Jackson Hole and loving the snowboarding life. Finally, on a more somber note, our deep condolences go to Ali Reaves Smith, who lost her mom,

Linda Avery Reaves ’61. She loved St. Mary’s dearly. We also extend heartfelt sympathies to Alexis Zanone, who lost her father, George Zanone. Ali and Alexis, the entire Class of ’90 is with you, sending both of you thoughts of comfort.

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Greetings from the Class of 1992! As usual, life is crazy busy for all of us! I’m still pinching myself trying to make myself believe that I truly am the mom of a college freshman - Emma’s living her best life at the University of Alabama! Charlie is in 7th grade now and seems to be living his best life these days, too, as he is now king of the castle since Sis moved to T-Town! I’m still busy as Chief Communications Officer at Girl Scouts Heart of the South and Jeff is still at Memphis Mental Health, so things keep rolling along out here for us in Germantown as we continue to get used to this new phase with only one kiddo at home! Life for Whitney King Fogerty is busy here in Memphis as well! She wrote in to say that her daughter, Abby, is now a junior at St. Agnes and son, Will, is now a 6th grader at Grace St. Luke’s. She’s hard at work as a Managing Director – Employment Litigation for FedEx. Leslie Pettit Canon checked in to say that she is now teaching high school art in Denver! Sounds like fun, Leslie! And congratulations to Melissa Cunningham Pritchard

CLASS NOTES who recently had the honor of being named a “Design Champion” in the senior living industry by the Environments for Aging. That’s amazing, Melissa! Check out the amazing article about her wonderful work at bit.ly/SMS1992_MCP.

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Carolyn Porter Cates reports that all is well. Daughter Amelia, just went on her first college tour, son Thomas is a high school freshman and daughter Campbell, 9, is a delightful age and loving life. Congrats to husband Taylor who is now lead prosecutor in Germantown in addition to his super busy job at Burch, Porter. She and Taylor are looking forward to hosting Thanksgiving for the first time! Mary Evelyn Stevens Fore is busy with school and church activities during the day, but then her afternoons are full of the girls’ activities and shuttling them to and fro! The girls are in 3rd, 5th, and 7th grades now. Husband Dan is doing great as well! Husband Ben and Mary Denton Sensing just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. They had a great time celebrating in Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands. They left their boys Benjamin, 18, and Denton, 15, to fend for themselves at home in Nashville during the vacation, and Mary and Ben came home to the house still intact! Denton can’t get his driver’s license fast enough as age

16 approaches, and Benjamin is a senior set to graduate from high school in May! Sarah Ledbetter completed her Masters in Counseling with an emphasis in Somatic Psychology from Prescott College in AZ. She describes the experience as incredible and is planning her private practice to incorporate creativity and multicultural resources such as story, image, cosmology, and movement. She’s just had her 18 year anniversary teaching yoga, and her filmmaking, dance making, and writing, are part of a shared community/collaborative experience that will be a foundation for this new chapter in her life! She’s excited about that as well as a new dance work inspired by radio deejays of the 80s and 90s with her creative partner, who lives in Indianapolis. They meet in Nashville to rehearse. A film Sarah co - directed last summer, Spent Saints and Other Stories has been released on Amazon Prime. She has started her first novel and just submitted poems for publication after a long hiatus from poetry. That sounds like a perfect new beginning for our Belles Lettres Editor, class of ’94, doesn’t it? In addition to all these projects, she stays in touch with fellow creatives in Memphis, New Orleans, CO, AZ, and beyond. Karrie Cummings Hendrickson says life is wild and busy as usual. Karrie and husband Robert are still living in the desert of Tucson, AZ. Robert is a Rector at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. Karrie still working for Yale-New Haven

health. Their boys Nikolas, 9, and Brayden, 6, are so much fun, but are growing up way too fast. They all just celebrated their 4 year family anniversary! Heather Shove writes in that she is staying busy with teaching while balancing her two middle school daughters’ school and sports schedules. Danielle Shelley Coolidge writes in that she and family are still doing great in east Memphis with two boys - a 6th grader and kindergartner. Over the winter holidays, Virginia Ralston Jaramillo will be in London visiting Olivia Ralston ’95 and family. From there they will head to Paris to spend the new year with close friends. Michelle Ralston ’03 is expecting her third child in the spring so Virginia’s parents will have a symmetrical number of grandchildren per daughter.Virginia’s parents will be retiring to Spain in the next couple of years, which will be wonderful for them and in turn will make her visits to Memphis less frequent. They continue to enjoy life in San Francisco. Mateo and Virginia continue work at startups and the kids are growing and happy. Carolina, 11, is headed to middle school next year while August, 8, and Luis Oscar, 4, will be together at a local public Spanish immersion school. Amy Wadsworth Anderson’s three children are all at the same school in Dallas. Sydney in 4th, Gigi in 7th, and Wes in 9th. Amy serves on the board of trustees and is chairing the capital campaign – where she finds raising money both a lot of fun and a WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES heck of a lot of hard work! Son Wes has his driver’s permit, and a homecoming date! Time flies! Husband Bob is on the board of his Gastroenterology group and the head of an endoscopy center. His stories “never cease to entertain” Amy and the kids! I can imagine! In May, Amy and family will be heading to London for the release party for her great-grandfather’s memoirs! Sir Sidney Wadsworth’s memoirs touch on Indian History and are titled A Judge in Madras. Amy is looking forward to visiting Cambridge with family for the release event- lots of family history there - and having her parents show the kids around their old stomping grounds. Hallie Dinkelspiel Label has enjoyed reconnecting with Dhevi Kumar Broecker ’95 and family who just moved to Baltimore. Jessica Johnson Webb put them in touch, but Hallie’s and Dhevi’s sons actually played on the same rec soccer team but never ran into each other because Hallie was coaching daughter Katie’s team at the same time! Hallie’s son Sam and Dhevi’s son Ranga prefer to chat about infinity and the meaning of life than play soccer, but Hallie has loved being back in touch with Dhevi! Son Henry plays travel soccer and has recently had his first real tournament. He’s a goalie like Hallie was, practice is very fun, and Apple TV allows them to watch videos of saves and goals to analyze them rather than just recalling them like we had to do with sports in the old 48

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days! Rock Springs, the hedge fund where Hallie works, is doing well, and kids Henry, 9, Sam, 7, and Katie, 4, are all in school together and provide pure comedy when they all have to get out the door for the bus by 7:22. Baltimore has been her home for over 5 years now – a wonderful community – and Hallie welcomes any visitors as it is very close proximity to Washington, D.C. Edith Ritterband Goody is working as a pediatric Physical Therapist part-time in an Orthodox Jewish day school on Long Island, NY - West Hempstead - which is so fun. As an example, the kids had a spirit war where each grade sang a Sabbath song as loud as they could to out-do the other classes. Cute! After 6 years teaching music and working way too many hours in a private school, Helen Burr has transitioned to a teaching English to adults in the state system in Vigo, Spain which she is really enjoying. Even more than teaching though, Helen enjoys spending time with family. Daughter Xela is 9 and fascinates Helen with her art and environmentalism, and Aroa at 6 is a little clown. Laura Foster Gettys is Dean at St. Mary’s Cathedral in downtown Memphis where she has been for close to ten wonderful years. She gets to see St. Mary’s girls regularly on Wednesday with Constance’s Crew. She reports her two boys are doing brilliantly and in first and third grade. They are curious, kind, thriving, and full of beautiful energy and questions. There is nothing they don’t ask about or

wonder about! It’s been a crazy year reports Sarah Lacy in San Francisco. She and partner Paul have bought an AMAZING midcentury house in Palm Springs this summer! It’s on Airbnb if anyone needs a getaway and is very kid friendly They also bought a 1973 airstream that Sarah loves so much she wants to live there full time! She sold her investigative journalism company, Pando, and is very happy to no longer be a journalist. She is running Chairman Mom which was a slog all year but is poised to have a huge 2020 which is a relief and awesome! She is also launching a new app called NeedHop and will spin it off as a separate company, which she is raising money for now. Son Eli is fabulous, and he’s got three people paying him to decorate yards for the holidays and planning next year’s family Halloween concept. Daughter Evie continues to be the funniest person Sarah has ever met and a mini animal rights activist. She and family are going to be in Memphis in early January and wants to get together with fellow alums in town! Sarah Cole-Turner Vincent reports she and husband Hal “have completely lost our minds” and are showing their house during the Burlington, NC Historic District holiday home tour, which means they will be decorated to the hilt for Christmas with two days of tours during the first weekend of December! Their home sponsor is an antiques/ reclaimed furniture store, so they are bringing lots of fun items to decorate

CLASS NOTES and sell at the end of the tour. Sarah says she can’t wait to see their completed look ...and also can’t wait until it’s all OVER! Husband Hal is in his 6th year of teaching at Elon with exciting academic things going on. Son Ben has transitioned to a Catholic middle school and wears a uniform Sarah says is precious! He walks to school by himself, is enjoying the independence, playing basketball, acting in plays, and generally cracking the whole family up. Daughter Caroline is doing great in 3rd grade. They had a really rocky start to the year because she suddenly started having daily fainting attacks up to 10 or more times a day, with no warning. After being in the hospital for 3 days, seen by a neurologist, cardiologist, electrophysiologist, allergist, psychiatrist, pulmonologist, they still don’t have an answer, but with the help of an amazing pediatrician they have found some medication that seems to bring them under control. They are waiting right now for the results of a sleep study due to suspected narcolepsy/cataplexy. Sarah has transitioned from the working in elementary school to pre-K speech therapy in the county school system, traveling to preschools and daycares where she loves spending time with the sweet 3- and 4-year olds. Sarah says the smiles, hugs, and huge progress she sees every day is super rewarding. I was thrilled Carolyn Porter Cates, Danielle Shelley Coolidge, Laura Foster Gettys, and Claire Grant

accepted my invitation and were able to attend my wedding this fall just outside Memphis, TN in Crawfordsville, AR. Margaret Chesney ’91, and Courtney Morris Monaghan ’87 were also there! My classmates may recall I was always OBSESSED with the older class “seniors” and Frank knew Margaret and Courtney through family and work connections and so I was of course totally starstruck by these “seniors’” presence at my wedding! Ha! My husband Frank and I enjoyed a great honeymoon at his house in Marco Island and we travelled from there through the Florida Keys, staying in a few resorts and enjoying some down time. Frank is with Raymond James in Memphis and I continue to work in private practice as an attorney in Memphis. Frank is amazing with my dog and cat and I think they love him more than me now! I couldn’t have asked for anything better than that, however!

was grateful that she was asked to stay on when Governor Lee took office. She has been traveling quite a bit for work lately but managed to squeeze in a wonderful weekend in Paris with her boyfriend Pete in November. She still loves on Laura Ray Logue’s kids every chance she gets and has a blast living in Memphis. She and Laura had a great time visiting Katherine Carr Bond this summer in the south of France. Courtney Shove ran her first 10K during the St. Jude Marathon Weekend in December. She is in her third year of being on the SMS Alumnae Board, which she really enjoys. My husband and I recently purchased a new home in Chicago and are in the midst of renovations. We have been traveling as much as possible with our two girls and have enjoyed watching them grow up (even if it is a little too quickly).

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Lauren Brooks Poindexter recently started a new job as a nurse practitioner at Endocrinology Associates and is really liking it. Her daughter Emily is now in 6th grade at St. Mary’s and is across the street at the big side of school! Gwyn Fisher still loves working as the Regional Director for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development and

Rachel Stout Evans and husband Sandy moved to Ruston, LA for her job as a Resource Soil Scientist with the USDA. They also took a recent trip to Norway to see family and kayak above the Arctic Circle. Nupur Sidhu Bal and her family have also been traveling. This year they went to Portugal, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Macao and are planning trips to the Bahamas and Brazil. Allison Martin Nolen and her family also moved this year and WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES are now in San Jose, CA. Allison is working as a floor nurse at Stanford and they have been enjoying day trips to the beaches, mountains, and San Francisco. She enjoyed getting together with Judy Chen Lee and her family who are also in the area. Erin Wade writes that she and Kyle are settled in Atlanta after a move there for her fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatric Medicine at Emory. Erin and Kyle got married this August (Congratulations!) in Memphis and Elisabeth Callihan was Erin’s Maid of Honor and her sister, Adrian Wade-Keeney, was one of her bridesmaids. When Elisabeth is not serving as a rockstar Maid of Honor, she is killing it in the world of museums and social justice. She writes she has been traveling, speaking and writing on the topic. I read an article recently about her work and I was so impressed. Speaking of the arts, Ashley Bellet is working on her dissertation and will spend the month of January in Venice building costumes and cataloguing the work of the costume designer she is studying. Robin Jacks will graduate from nursing school at UMass in Boston in May! In addition to all that nursing school requires, she volunteers working with Boston’s homeless population by doing street-level intervention with an organization in the area. Meg Kinnard Hardee writes that she is on the road (a LOT) covering the 2020 presidential campaign and she recently sat down with Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Pete 50

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Buttigieg. She is also a student, working towards her masters at UNC and also manages to find time to guest lecture at UT and USC. Carly Hansen Kordsmeier still lives in Dallas and enjoyed traveling to Mexico City this year. She is planning her annual trip to Orlando so she can practice her spells at Hogwarts in Universal Studios. Patience Chambliss Wiggins writes that life is “good and boring” in VA. She is busy being Momma to her three boys who are 8, 8, and 4. Claire Coleman Bowman and her family made job changes this year so now all four of them are at the same school! Her two boys are students at the school where she is now teaching second grade and her husband, Craig, is coaching football and in administration. They love being all on the same campus. Another one of our teachers, Tracy Burch Voyles, reports she is now teaching ancient humanities, medieval humanities, and rhetoric at Agathos Classical School in Columbia, TN. Her school defeated St. Mary’s in the 2019 National Mock Trial Championship. She has her sophomores recite the prologue of the Canterbury Tales in Middle English which, of course, reminds her of Junior English at St. Mary’s! Sally Self Helms is also making waves in the education world, by providing professional development for Libertas, a public Montessori charter school in Frayser here in Memphis. It’s their fifth year in operation and now have 450 children enrolled! Her

daughter, Anna Vail, is a student there, as is Joann Self Selvidge ’94’s son, Stevie. Sally writes that she runs into Meggan Wurzburg Kiel occasionally and that she and Allyn Jaqua Lowell play a lot of phone tag. Essie Arrindell-Williams reports that her oldest daughter “crossed the street” and is enjoying the newfound freedom of the Middle School at SMS. Her younger daughter, Madison is in 3rd grade at St. Mary’s and enjoys writing and illustrating. Her two boys,Yale and Dean, are at PDS, and Yale placed in a citywide chess tournament recently and Dean is excited about getting his first library card. As for me, I made a major job change this summer. I decided to leave the corporate world (and all the travel!) behind and opened a private counseling practice in August. I have enjoyed being in Memphis more and getting involved in the city. I have been working on a special St. Mary’s project for the new Athletic and Wellness Center that will display the almost 175 years of St. Mary’s history in museum quality panels throughout the building. I have found more than a few pictures of you guys in the archives and several of you might see yourselves up on the walls!

2000 WHITNEY BAER FOSTER

While I always enjoy receiving our class updates, there is added excitement this year as we head into our 20th reunion! Whether you are

CLASS NOTES in town, or far away, I hope to see you at St. Mary’s in April. This year’s reunion will be made all the more sweet when our own Kat Gordon is honored as the 2020 Outstanding Alumna! Congratulations to Kat on a much-deserved tribute to her dedication to the school and the students of St. Mary’s, as well as the Memphis and business communities. We all see your creativity, vivacity, and heart – and are glad that the Alumnae Board does, too! Kat also wrote in this time to share that she and Thomas have welcomed a new dog into their home. Sophie is a six-year old Havanese who already thinks she is the boss of the house. In more class news, Mershon Sneed Bergeron reports that all is well in New Orleans. Mershon joined the Commercial Team with Regions as a Treasury Management Officer where she is learning all about trade within the port (among other industries). Kit (9) keeps Mershon busy with robotics, cheer, swim team, and choir. From Connecticut, Jessie Swanson Fila shared that her twins (3) started homeschooling with her this year and they are having a blast! She and the kids are looking forward to the holidays – especially pie making. Liz Palomo is still at ALSAC/St. Jude where she is now the manager for digital campaigns. She is also working to establish some sustainability initiatives in the workplace. Way to go Liz! Lessie Calhoun Rainey is in Memphis with the DA’s office and loving it. Recently, she saw Katie Garrett

Harris when Katie was at 201 Poplar with JustCity Courtwatch. James (4) is very active and, no surprise to all of us, is already using very big words. Our ex-pat, Ellis Dixon, sent wonderful news of another baby on the way! Ellis is 7 months pregnant with a little boy that is due on her birthday. Emma (13 months) is walking like crazy and preparing to be a big sister while doing her best to make sense of three different languages. As Ellis notes, good thing high fives are universal! Additionally, Ellis continues to work part time as the Lisbon Operations Manager for Devour Tours and manages AtlasLisboa.com. Rena Frulla wrote in to share that she is now an affiliate broker with Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices Taliesyn Realty. Rena works in both commercial and residential real estate, but is transitioning into more residential in Memphis. Megha Karkera Kanjia and her husband, Mayur, are still enjoying the culture and excitement of Houston. Kish (5) and Kiran (3) are thriving and a lot of fun to learn alongside. MaryKathryn Millner Herrington sent a quick update from Oxford where she is in the trenches raising three kids under 6. She writes that life with Millie (6), Logan (4), and Ryn (1) is full, fun, and that she goes to bed really early! We will all be hearing a lot more soon from Mary-Kathryn and Amy Reinhardt Robinson. Thanks to you ladies – we are grateful for your help in chairing our reunion. As for me,

Charley and I have had a great fall and are keeping busy in Memphis! In September, I started a new role at St. Jude as the Program Manager for St. Jude Global. Additionally, the whole Baer family was thrilled to welcome my new niece, Avery Tait Schauer, in March and I try to see Marley ’02 and her beautiful family as often as I can. Thanks to all for their contributions. Lots of love to all of you and I hope to see you in April!

2002 POLLY KLYCE PENNOYER

Another trip around the sun and another round of life updates from the wonderful women of 2002—as always thanks to those of you who wrote in, including those who responded to my intrusive outreach efforts. I’ll start with personal updates this time: since last year Robbie and I bought and renovated an apartment in Manhattan (come see us if/when you pass through, please!) and added another kiddo to our crew. Russell Cooper Pennoyer (d/b/a “Cooper”) was born a month early on April 1, 2019 (ha ha, April Fools. . .). After a quick trip through the cardiac NICU to get a few things sorted, he is doing wonderfully well. Our big kid,Victoria, started kindergarten at The Brearley School in NYC, which is the closest we could find to SMS here in Yankee territory. And honestly, it’s pretty great! The highlight of the season for me was hosting an SMS alum event in NYC. Attendees ranged WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES from the Class of 1970 to the Class of 2019 and it was a fantastic gathering. For anybody in the NYC metro area who has not received an email from me and would like to --please be in touch so I can keep you on the list for future events! In Memphis, Anna Traverse Fogle continues to rack up major life events. In the spring, she was promoted to CEO of Contemporary Media, which publishes Memphis Magazine and the Memphis Flyer, among others. This fall, she and partner, Cameron, bought a house in Midtown, moved in, got engaged, moved out owing to a house fire, and then got married mere weeks later! Quite a lot to contend with. They are still repairing their home and are looking forward to a good long while with minimal headline updates. Also in Memphis, Elizabeth Campbell Granieri and her husband, Mike, joyfully welcomed baby Brooklyn in August—her name helps to celebrate the life of her big brother, Hudson. I have seen pictures. Baby Brooklyn is adorable. Anna Coplon Suen and her fam are off on an adventure! Husband Garret is taking a sabbatical semester, so they and Brandon are departing Madison, WI for five months in Sapporo for five months and then Tel Aviv for two more. In New Orleans, Laura Hettinger is managing to find a bit of time to pursue hear painting, while keeping busy chasing after her two kiddos—Ike and Mila. Wendi Muse continues to keep busy, splitting her time between Baltimore 52

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and Brazil as she comes into the home stretch of her dissertation and maintaining a podcast side gig as well. Kate Thornton Wooldridge is continuing to enjoy her work as an internal medicine doctor at Vanderbilt. I had the pleasure of spending the evening with her when she passed through NYC this summer, and it was delightful. Katy Ross wrote in from Lexington, KY to tell us that she is still loving being the Executive Director of the Kentucky Horse Council based in the “horse capital of the world.” Naree Chan and her husband, Alby, welcomed a new baby boy, Kody, in the summer. Big sister Dani is delighted with him, and the whole fam enjoyed a restful bit of family leave before diving back into the working world. Congrats, Chan Family! Lisa Mabry Smith and her husband, Chris, also welcomed a new baby boy this summer— Harrison was born in June. Their family is putting down roots in Gulfport, MS, where Lisa is a radiologist, Chris is a lawyer, and the Mabry parents (now grandparents!) have secured a vacation condo to maximize visiting opportunities. Sounds delightful. In Orlando, Lindsey Coates Horvatich and her husband, Tim, are in the early stages of homebuilding (godspeed!) and otherwise are continuing to grow and enjoy their careers. Lindsey reports that she had a lovely slumber party with Emily May Lequerica on a visit to Memphis. Hillary Burkett is also in Memphis,

where she has become the National Director of Strategy and Special Projects at Youth Villages and has also developed a side hustle of event planning with her new company, Phoenix Events Rising. Leslie Guinn Jerkins writes in that her crew is continuing to love life in Coeur d’Alene, where all three of her kids are now in some amount of regular school, enjoying tons of outdoor time, and they’ve recently added a sweet goldendoodle into the mix. Sounds heavenly. Valerie Hartmann Rushing writes in from Gulfport, MS, to report her happy news: she married Mark Rushing and they have welcomed a sweet little boy, Tyler, into their family this spring. Nicole Osborne Steck reports from Durham, NC that her family is thriving, with Braden now in kindergarten and little sister Chloe blossoming into a full-bore kid. Nicole recent accepted a promotion at GlaxoSmithKline, where she is working with their HIV division. Catherine Ferguson Conger writes that the spring was not an easy time for her family, but they continue to derive strength and support from their school and neighborhood communities. She also reports that her daughter Fin has been seen rushing former NFL footballers as part of community sports activities, and it was the footballer who blinked first! From Dallas, Elsa Monge DeGroot is keeping busy with her two little ones—Lisette (2) and Sadie (1)—as well as their “hyper dog.” Rachel

CLASS NOTES Andersen writes in with the happy news that she married her sweetheart, Jonathan Bass, in April of this year. Wedding attendees included Anna Traverse Fogel and Valerie Hartmann Rushing, and Lauren Deeley officiated. How lovely! In Houston, Chrystan Skefos Leasure and her husband, Josh, welcomed baby Lucy this summer, and everybody is doing great. Marley Baer Schauer and her family are settled into Fort Lauderdale a year after their relocation, and their fam has contributed to this apparent baby boom too! Baby Avery arrived this spring; big brother Cameron loves her, of course, and the two of the together are keeping everybody’s hands full. Jordan Robbins Barratt and her husband, Patrick, welcome baby girl Charlotte this fall. Their family has moved from Boulder, CO to Raleigh, NC. Finally, Erica Kronenberg McElroy and her husband, Wayne McElroy, welcome baby Lenora this spring. So many 2002 kiddos this year, our next reunion better include some bouncy castles!

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The Class of 2004 has many professional updates to report! Martha Ferguson Burke shifted careers after nine years of being a school counselor. She is now working at the University of Memphis on an educational research team while

pursuing her Ph.D in Counselor Education and Supervision. She looks forward to working in private practice with children and families in the Memphis area in a few years. Lizzie, 3, and Lucy, 2, keep her very occupied at home. Christine Ruby Coveny has been working as an adjunct professor of Art History and Ceramics at Christian Brothers University. She has also been loving museum life, teaching art to adults and seniors for the Dixon Gallery and Gardens’ outreach program Colorcopia. Clare Patterson recently moved to the Department of Transplant Surgery at UTHSC where she is working to improve the health of donated organs. She is enjoying every second despite very long days without a break. She still making art but is now getting paid for medical illustrations for papers the department is publishing. Lucy Harris Collins recently assumed the role of President and COO of Quarter Zero, an education company that focuses on teaching high school students about entrepreneurship. Piper Gray was promoted to Senior Manager, Copy and Content at Warby Parker and has enjoyed traveling to see Lucy in Santa Barbara and Taylor Fisher Morrison, Morgan Lobe, and Cathleen Ray Hickey for a getaway in Seattle this summer! Camille Wingo was promoted to Senior Marketing Manager of Culinary Innovation at PepsiCo, where she works with restaurants to develop new co-branded menu items. She still enjoys living in Texas

and shares a joint membership to the Dallas Arboretum with Lauren Lazar who is finishing up her third and final year as a Pediatric GI Fellow at Dallas Children’s. Lawrence Elliott is enjoying her fourth year in private practice at Kardia Collective in Memphis. Her two daughters, Eliza, 5, and Briggs, 2, are growing fast and becoming best friends. She has recently completed her first Ironman triathlon in September and is looking forward to training for more races next year. Martha Guinn Carter loved getting to cheer on Lawrence in her Ironman this spring! Martha recently went back to working part-time with Anna McQuiston Holtzclaw ’88 and her various ventures and also sent Jane off to kindergarten this August. She and husband Dudley love watching Jane, 5, and Henry, 3, become the best of friends. Several classmates have recently relocated including Blair Carter Tait and husband Tom who have moved back to Memphis and just bought a house a block from SMS! Mary Mason, 3, is hilarious and so much fun and looking forward to becoming a big sister in January! Amy Crawford Céspedes recently moved back to Dallas, TX after a fulfilling 7 years in Houston. Elena, 2, loves being closer to the Crawford family and enjoying the flight perks at her Dad’s new job at American Airlines. Amy is diving into work-life balance with her new part-time, remote position at a small law firm. Kaitlin Ridder Jaqua has moved to Annapolis, MD and WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES joined Anne Arundel Urology having passed the boards for her first big girl job. She loves the new East Coast lifestyle! Caitlin Carr completed her medical residency in OBGYN at the Cleveland Clinic in June and accepted a three year Gynecologic Oncology surgical fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. She is currently researching novel methods for tumor vaccination in high risk uterine cancer and is loving fall in Manhattan. Marion Phillips and Supriya Sarkar enjoy living four blocks away from each other in Midtown Atlanta, where they have regular playdates with their dogs and enjoy cheering for their home MLS team, Atlanta United. Earlier this year, they traveled to Peru with their West Coast friends Jennifer Soun and Sarah Carter where they ate the most delicious foods in Lima, trekked through the Amazonian jungle, and witnessed the beauty of Machu Picchu. Elizabeth Stevenson Brenner is still enjoying CO life with husband Aaron! They just celebrated one year with their adorable puppy, Sadie. Sadie keeps them on their toes with her energy and playfulness! Elizabeth and Aaron spent two weeks traveling around Italy and England this summer. Florence and Pompeii were some great highlights from the trip. Shea O’Rourke Quraishi is loving mom life! Baby Maeve got to meet Brittany Johnson Hernandez and daughter Ellie on their recent Florida visit and looks forward to meeting other turkey aunties/cousins soon! Brittany had a busy summer traveling 54

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for work and play, getting to see Shea, Marion, and Sasha Castroverde at different stops across the country. She and her family also spent a lot of time down on the “wada” (as Ellie says) of the Chesapeake Bay, where they point out every fish, dolphin, bug, and bird that passes by -- to Ellie’s great delight! Lauren Brooks Foti welcomed her second son Robert (“Robbie”) on May 31, and Michael is really enjoying being a big brother! They also added a puppy named Hank to the family who is two weeks older than Robbie. Victoria Luke Morich and her husband recently decided to add more love, hair, and chaos into their lives down in Atlanta by adopting a rescue lab/pit puppy - Finnigan Morich. Like daughter Erin, he loves constant cuddles and attention, which may prove challenging when Baby #2 arrives in January! Victoria asks “Anyone have a coffee IV?”, and I think many of our classmates are wondering the same thing. Many thanks to Victoria for serving as Class Secretary for the past 3 years!

2006 MAMIE KOSTKA FINCH

Mamie Kostka Finch married Dylan Finch this past May and celebrated with lots of family and friends in Nashville, TN. Living in the same town has given her the opportunity to celebrate with Katherine Fockler who recently got engaged to fellow Memphian, Bill Steele and are planning on

getting married next spring. They also welcomed a precious Golden Retriever puppy named Penny to their family this past summer! Katherine was recently promoted to Account Director at Epsilon and continues to work in direct marketing on the Nissan North America account. Evie Lyras is now working at Sony Pictures on the International Digital Marketing team, has gotten to work on some very cool movies and will be traveling all over the world for work! Her daily experience of going to work on the studio lot and walking by the sets where they film every day is amazing. She just got a dachshund puppy and an apartment just a couple of blocks away from MK Thinnes ’07 and spends lots of her free time hanging out with other St. Mary’s girls in LA. Nashville continues to treat Minor Moore well. Last spring, Minor was recognized by the Nashville Public Education Foundation as a Blue Ribbon Teacher, an honor given annually to 50 Metro Nashville Public School teachers to recognize the top teaching talent in the district. Her school, Westmeade Elementary, was also recognized by the state as a 2019 reward school. Over the summer, she had a blast spending time with Grace Wheeler Davis and her three daughters in Seaside, FL, Elize Mercer at Camp Nakanawa’s centennial celebration, and, more recently, Laura Wilson Wild and her family during a visit to Memphis. Laura and her husband Will have moved back to Richmond,VA after he got out of the Marine Corps. They are thrilled to be back! She has

CLASS NOTES returned to her former company designing furniture for commercial spaces. They have been able to hang out with Beth Pazar D’Arcy and her husband James since moving back to RVA. Lindsey Edwards Rushing has moved with her family of four to Pittsburgh, PA, where a group of wild turkeys often visit her backyard! Jenny West is the director of business development at Digital-Ignite, an advertising technology agency in Charleston, SC.This past year Aubrey Turner moved to Louisville, KY to be near her parents, sisters, and niece, started working at the Children’s Hospital as well as going back to Nursing school. Busier than ever, but she loves what she is doing! Holly Hendrix Vitalis has added a wild little puppy named Charlie Brown to her family this past summer! She got the chance to meet Lauren Bunch and her adorable Corgi named Stella earlier this summer when they were in Memphis visiting.

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2019 has brought big life changes for many members of the Class of 2008! Kathryn Feder Cooper relocated to Atlanta this summer. Kathryn and her husband are enjoying new jobs – Kathryn teaching kindergarten and her husband in consulting. They purchased their first house and welcome guests anytime! Kennan Wood Salisbury and her husband

moved to Seattle, WA this summer! Margarett Frisby moved to Chicago for a new job as an officer and senior corporate communications specialist for First Midwest Bank. Margarett was voted onto the USA Triathlon Women’s Committee National Board to further women’s involvement and development in triathlons. Mary Ward Pollard Black moved to Bozeman, MT and loves working in private practice and fly fishing, hiking, and skiing during free time. She’d love any SMS girls to come stay and visit Yellowstone! Anna Wheeler moved back to Memphis and loves living in Cooper Young! She works at the St. George’s Germantown campus. Ashley Edge Adams and husband Scott welcomed a baby boy, Cal, into their family on October 3. Jessica Richardson Moses and husband celebrated the birth of their first child, James Oak Moses, on September 3.. He is a healthy and smiley little boy! Margaret Liddon Emley and husband welcomed a sweet and happy baby boy, Will, on August 7. Jenny Guyton graduated from Wharton last spring and is now working in health care growth equity at Health Velocity Capital in Nashville. Molly Himmelstein Hollenberg is enjoying her first year as an MBA student at Columbia Business School. A new book by Jess Farris Zafarris, entitled Once Upon a Word: An Etymology Dictionary for Kids (Rockridge Press), was published and is vailable in stores. Ayana Fletcher-Tyson is enjoying settling into her new job this year

as the Dean of Academics at her school East End Prep. Estes Gould Hughes is busy with the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, where she primarily works on a startup competition called Alabama Launchpad. She also helps her husband with projects in residential real estate investment. Edie Miller is a physician practice manager at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital, a brandnew hospital that recently opened in Baton Rouge, LA. She loves working in pediatrics! Hanna Gordon Oysel and husband celebrated their 5-year wedding anniversary, celebrating in Maine. Daughter Emilia is so much fun and Hanna loves being a mom. Hanna has enjoyed having sister Grayce Gordon ’10 back in Memphis working as a vet. Rachael Holley is finishing her Masters in Social Work at the University of Denver and interning at the National Mental Health Innovation Center. Ariel Mason Kelly continues to build her legal practice in the labor and employment area. When not billing hours, you can find her and her husband on a plane to their next international adventure. Victoria Lee is currently studying for additional securities licenses- Series 9&10, and looking forward to celebrating the holidays with friends and family! Divya Moolchandani was recently promoted to manager at KPMG. She has been appointed Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University, teaching Consulting in Healthcare to graduate students, and now realizes how much she took her teachers’ hard WINTER 2020

CLASS NOTES work for granted. She also recently adopted a shih tzu mix named Quincy after legendary producer Quincy Jones.

2010 RACHEL ERIN STUART

We’re just about ready to close out the decade, which means our ten-year reunion is just around the corner— time flies! Mary Stevenson recently graduated from medical school and is now a resident pediatric physician at Emory University. Also at Emory is Erin Stuart Fogle, who just passed her PhD comprehensive exams this November and is relieved to be heading into the dissertation stage. Erin also got married this May, and is particularly proud of her wedding dress, which she sewed herself. She and spouse Denton were thrilled that fellow alumnae Elise Heuberger Reecer and Naziyya Haque ’11 were able to make the trip up to Rochester, NY to celebrate with them. Elise, meanwhile, is enjoying

exploring Denver, CO, where she just moved with husband Matt. Rachel Blackwell graduated in May with her Masters in Nursing and now works at Baptist Memorial in Oxford, MS. When she’s not at the hospital, she’s building a house on the family farm and hanging out with dogs Jack and Cash. Rachel Green graduated from Stanford Law School in June and passed the California Bar in November. She’s currently an Associate at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, where she particularly enjoys working on big cases— including one against an e-cigarette company and one regarding the power company’s role in causing the CA wildfires. On the other side of the Pacific, Hensley Loeb left her director role at JLL to move to Australia/New Zealand, where she says she’s exploring more of the world and more of herself. Alex Fountain and Sri Pulusani both got engaged recently. Around wedding prep, they’re both enjoying new professional opportunities right here in Memphis: Sri is doing her residency, and Alex is now the Manager in Field Development at ALSAC/St. Jude. Congrats to everyone!

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Ellery Ammons is living and working in Downtown Memphis where she enjoys working with the Downtown Memphis Commission on more than $5 billion in investment in the development

pipeline for Downtown. Melissa Byrd is celebrating 5 years with ALSAC/St. Jude this year and continues to pursue her Masters part time at Columbia University. She is loving living in NYC, especially when fellow classmate, Lauren Pate ’12, comes to visit. Chandler Roberts Cummins recently married last spring and is still enjoying working as a nurse on an Intensive Care Unit in Fort Worth, TX. Kyra Rice Duffley and her husband, Jake, purchased their first home in Newport News, VA. Kyra has also accepted the duties of the logistical planning and organization of all annual marketing events for The Mariners’ Museum and Park which reaches over 10,000 event guests annually. Austin Hasenmueller moved back to Memphis this summer and now works as the Alumni Engagement Coordinator at Leadership Memphis. Amritha Kanakamedala will be graduating from Baylor College of Medicine in 2020 and will begin her Ophthalmology residency after. Sutton MacQueen has been living in Washington, D.C. since January but recently starting working at the Center for Global Development, a think tank that works on global development research and policy proposals. Ellen Mitchell Ossorio is living in Oxford, MS and is enjoying working as a Clinical Dietitian at LeBonheur. Hannah Morehead is enjoying her time in Washington, D.C. working at Lockheed Martin. Marie Peeples

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lives in Seattle and attends the University of Washington where she is earning her Masters of Library and Information Science. Lauren Petrin is finishing her last year of law school and lives in Washington, D.C. where she will be working at a health law firm after graduation. She enjoys meeting up with other SMS classmates, Sutton MacQueen, Meredith Taylor, Lauren Pate, and Hannah Morehead every month for an SMS dinner. Neely Sammons is living on the beach in Miami and works in Product Development at FedEx Express’ Latin American & Caribbean Headquarters. Lesley Stevenson moved to Madison, WI to begin graduate work in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, with the ultimate goal of a PhD. She also teaches freshman a speech composition class very similar to the one taught by Ms. Zehring. Jodie Struminger is still loving her job on the FedEx Global Brand Management team and is working on her MBA

at the University of Memphis. Meredith Taylor is living in D.C. and engaged to John Serdakowski, with a wedding date scheduled for February 2020. Jordan Upton lives in Memphis and is the Director of Sales for Aromatique. She is currently planning her wedding in March 2020 at the Peabody. Camille Vaughn recently graduated from the UTHSC Masters of Occupational Therapy Program and is now working as an OT with the geriatric population at Quince Nursing and Rehab. Brooks Wingate is working as a floating pharmacist with Walgreens in the Memphis area and is working to get her MS and AR license.

2014 ZARA ALI NATALIE MEEKS IQRA SIDDIQ

Bailey Archey is in her second year of veterinary school at Mississippi State and interned in Washington, D.C. this summer with USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She has been selected as an ambassador from the World Organization for Animal Health and received a position with the Educational Committee of the International Student One Health Alliance. Maddie Rhodes is back in Memphis working at the Church Health Center as the communications scholar. She will move to New York in September to begin grad school for creative nonfiction writing at Columbia. Abby

Huber is in Memphis working as the Parish House Receptionist & Ministry Associate at Grace St. Luke’s Church. Maddie Droke is in her second year of her Doctor of Audiology degree at the University of Memphis. She is excited to begin research at St. Jude in the spring on the effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapies on children with conductive and mixed hearing losses. Natalie Meeks loves living in Nashville. She is working at a healthcare startup called Healthcare Value Analytics. Elle Prosterman is also in Nashville and began her masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Vanderbilt this fall. Also, she recently got engaged to Ralston Hartness! Dena Frisch graduated from Tulane in May with a BSM in finance and a Masters of Accounting. She also just moved to Atlanta and started a job as an Assurance Associate at PwC. Merritt Moore graduated from the United States Naval Academy in May with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and commissioned into the United State Navy. She is currently stationed at Nuclear Power School in Charleston, SC training to be a submarine officer.

2016 A’DORIANN BRADLEY GRACE UGWUEKE

The St. Mary’s Class of 2016 is graduating college! After graduating from Rhodes College with degrees in Business and Mathematics, WINTER 2020

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Class of 2015 St. Jude half marathon runners Mary Thompson, Meredith Wells, and Abbie Warr.

Harlan Hutton will release an EP, continue touring with her band, and get a Master’s in Data Science. Liz Capocaccia will complete an audit internship with Ernst and Young before graduating Ole Miss in Accounting and pursuing her Master’s of Accountancy. Annie Parker is continuing her research in informal trading infrastructure development in South Africa before graduation at Northwestern University. Molly Cline will work in Advisory for Ernst & Young in Houston after graduating from Tulane University with degrees in Finance and Marketing. A’Doriann Bradley will pursue biomedical research after graduating with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Miami. Elizabeth Bateman will complete her final year of the undergraduate architecture program at Tulane University. MacKenzie Campbell is currently on her professional experience year working as a brain 58

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cancer researcher in downtown Toronto. She’s excited to return to the University of Toronto for her final year of Biomedical Systems Engineering next fall. Margaret Cowens is graduating from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in May with a degree in Communication Studies and a minor in Psychology. Halle Smith will pursue research work after graduating from Vassar College with a degree in Psychology and minor in Mathematics. Tobi Akangbe will continue her final year in her undergraduate engineering program at St. Louis University. Katie Brown will be teaching in Dallas with Teach for America after graduating from Baylor University with a degree in Elementary Education. Grace Ugwueke is preparing to take the MCAT before graduating from the University of Miami with a degree in Psychology and gaining clinical experience interning as a scribe.

The girls of 2018 are moving through their second year at college! Lila Baer finished out her gap year and started school at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is studying in the business school and is involved with the Junior Enterprises Desautels, the consulting club on campus. Caroline Ciaramitaro spent her summer working in the beautiful woods of Yosemite National Park and returned this year to UNC. She founded UNC’s chapter of “The Female Quotient,” a global initiative to help prepare women for the working world and serve as an open conversations about equality. Caroline is also a North Carolina Venture Fund Intern, a TEDxUNC Experience Chair, and the Alumnae Relations chair for her chapter of Kappa Delta. Savanna Grinspun is currently a media coder and research assistant for the Annenberg Public Policy Center and works as a video producer for Nexo Productions. She is on the board of the Glee Club at the University of Pennsylvania as the Publicity Manager. She also joined the Sigma Delta Tau sorority. Jenna Joshi is currently doing research in a Cognitive Neuroscience lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was elected to serve on the Executive Board of Alpha Gamma Delta and VP of Campus Relations. She plans on spending next summer in Lyon, France studying Organic Chemistry. Caroline Landaiche returned to Spring Hill this

CLASS NOTES year and is currently the Licensing Chair for her chapter of Tri Delta and is an intern for the Mobile Rundown, a media consulting firm. Evie Laney is studying Communicative Disorders with a minor in Psychology at the University of Alabama. She has been involved in her sorority, Tri Delta, where she served as the Assistant Activities Chair her freshman year and is now the Director of Lifetime Membership. Olivia Lawrence has transferred to the University of Memphis where she is studying Social Work. She has also been involved with the U of M college Young Life group. Samantha Lee is back at the University of Southern California and is currently an intern for The Exchange, an international film distributor. She is also involved with a sketch comedy group called the Fourth Quarter All Stars. Jessica Lewis attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is involved in the local Jewish sorority, Sigma Rho Lambda as well as Kappa Kappa Gamma on campus. In June she was a Princess of the Royal Court in Carnival Memphis and spent the rest of her summer as an intern at Chickasaw Capital Management. This summer she plans on being a research intern at ALSAC/St. Jude. Mallory Macdonald transferred to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is in Delta Delta Delta sorority. Hannah Matthews is double majoring in Government and English at William and Mary. She is also the Facility Management Director for Theta Sorority and a

member of the art team for William and Mary’s fashion and art magazine “Rocket”. Sam McCann is studying Art History and Film at New York University. Eleanor McGhee is studying biochemistry with a minor in Middle Eastern Studies at Notre Dame. She is learning Arabic and plans on studying abroad. Go Irish! Keith Ellis Prest studies Visual Communications in the Journalism School at the University of South Carolina. She was just elected as Licensing Chairman for her sorority, Tri Delta, and served as the Licensing Chairman Assistant for the past year. Go Gamecocks! Olivia Nielsen spent her summer in Long Island, NY working at a restaurant in the Hamptons. This school year she is on the board for the Honors Student Association at the University of Memphis working as the Community Outreach and Service Chair. She is also about to start an internship at New Hope Christian Church, and work as the Youth Ministry Intern and Girls’ Minister. Paige Nielsen spent last summer in Dubois and Jackson Hole, WY serving as the Parent Coordinator for Teton Valley Ranch Camp. This school year, she returned to Hope College and is serving as the Entertainment Cochair for Dance Marathon and the Student Congress Representative for her dorm. Madeleine O’Toole spent her summer studying Buddhism in Thailand through a Rhodes program. Currently, Madeleine is her class’s representative for the Rhodes College Honor Council and a section editor

for The Bridge Street Paper, a nonprofit newspaper started by Rhodes College students. Outside of her classes, Madeleine has been working at Edible Memphis as a Marketing Intern. Livia Overton is enjoying her first semester at the University of Memphis and is focusing on her band, Livia & the Rosebuds. They recorded two new songs in early November for an upcoming album, hopefully to be released in early 2020. Evelyn Roberts is successfully continuing her lacrosse career at the University of Richmond. Her team won their conference championship, and she’s currently training for the spring season. Meanwhile, Evelyn has been tutoring students from the southside of Richmond. Liz Saeed recently joined Phi Delta Epsilon, the medical fraternity at Tulane University. She also dances competitively with her Bollywood dance team, Jazbaa! Sneha Sharma joined Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also the new co-president of SPIRE, a social impact start-up incubator, and continues to work on her shoe company with help from Stuart Weitzman and Kenneth Cole. Sabrina Spence is currently stage managing for the Washington University in St. Louis Performing Arts Department production of For Colored Girls by Ntozake Shange. She has also declared all programs of study — English major with a double minor in women, gender, and sexuality studies and drama. Who knows what the Class of 2018 will accomplish next! WINTER 2020

MILESTONES POSTGRADUATE DEGREES

Sarah Ledbetter ’94 Masters in Counseling Prescott College Palmer Adams Burt ’99 Masters in Nursing University of Tennessee College of Nursing and Health Sciences Jennifer Ruth Guyton ’08 Masters of Business Administration The Wharton School Rachel Blackwell ’10 Masters in Nursing, University of Mississippi Medical Center Rachel Green ’10 J.D., Stanford Law School Mary Stevenson ’10 M.D., University of Tennessee College of Medicine Dena Frisch ’12 Masters of Accounting Tulane University MARRIAGES

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Alexa Fila ’13 married Chris Berard on August 17, 2019. Celebrating with her classmates from the Class of 2013. FR: Torry Whartenby, McKenzie McClanahan, Lily Yant Hurt, Emma Less, Alexa, Claire Fogarty, Anna Utley, Emily Rosenthal. MR: Grace Bettis, Lida Kruchten, Catherine Moore, Kim Taylor Freeman, Anna Stukenborg. BR: Olivia Summitt, Landon Hopkins, Aubrey Miller, Anna Peeler, Dia Bowden, Ellie Harrison.

Kathryn Leigh DeRossitt ’94 to Frank Daniel Reyes August 16, 2019

Grace Bethell ’09 to Juddy Carlton December 14, 2019

Erin Wade ’98 to Kyle Ogles August 24, 2019

Brandon O’Brien ’09 to Matthew Jankovsky September 21, 2019

Rachel Andersen ’02 to Jonathan Bass April 6, 2019

Kendall Hennessy ’10 to Nick Rosati September 21, 2019

Anna Traverse ’02 to Cameron W. Fogle October 10, 2019

Erin Stuart ’10 to Denton Fogle May 24, 2019

Mamie Kostka ’06 to Dylan Patrick Finch May 11, 2019

Whitney Wortham ’11 to Davis Priester August 10, 2019

MILESTONES Christy Cameron ’11 to Natalie Thrall June 2, 2019 Alexa Fila ’13 to Chris Berard August 17, 2019

Kendall Hennessy ’10 married Nicholas Rosati on September 21. Guests included Alexandra Bullivant ’10, Olivia Marchbanks ’10, Mary Frances Street ’10, Shari Ray, Elise Heuberger Reecer ’10, Alex Fountain ’10, and Rainey Ray Segars ’05 who officiated the ceremony.

Erin Stuart ’10 married Denton Fogle on May 24, 2019.

Whitney Wortham ’11 married Davis Priester on August 10, 2019

Anna Traverse ’02 married Cameron Fogle on October 10, 2019.

Kathryn Leigh DeRossitt ’94 married Frank Daniel Reyes on August 16, 2019.

Mamie Kostka Finch ’06 celebrated her marriage to Dylan Patrick Finch with her sisters Kat Kostka Purvis ’00 and Abigayle Kostka Farley ’04. WINTER 2020

MILESTONES BIRTH/ADOPTIONS (CONT.)

Mary Louisa Copp to Melissa Carson Copp ’96 October 1, 2019 Wilder Huck Dona to Hilary Dinkelspiel Dona ’99 June 12, 2019 Coraline Ann Gargiulo to Sidney Hawkins Gargiulo ’99 September 9, 2019 Orion Wilder Pelletier to Brittany Blockman Pelletier ’99 November 28, 2019 Parker Elijah Prewitt to Meg Parker Prewitt ’99 October 17, 2019 Ashton Taylor Smith and Houston Woods Smith to Erica Smith ’99 June 12, 2019 James Ottokar Vavasour Thomas Laws Fuller to Elizabeth Laws Fuller ’01 January 31, 2019 Gwendolyn Anne Nagy to Liz Keltner Nagy ’01 June 19, 2019 Kosal Chan to Naree Chan ’02 July 25, 2019

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Brooklyn McKenna Granieri to Elizabeth Campbell Granieri ’02 August 19, 2019 Lucy Catherine Maria Leasure to Chrystan Skefos Leasure ’02 July 18, 2019 Avery Tait Schauer to Marley Baer Schauer ’02 March 29, 2019 Harrison Robert Smith to Lisa Mabry Smith ’02 June 26, 2019 William Morgan Connelly to Musette Morgan Connelly ’03 August 2, 2019

Liz Keltner Nagy ’01 with her husband, Matt, and daughter Gwen.

Elizabeth Laine “Lainey” Hurst to Audrey Bourland Hurst ’03 June 4, 2019

Robert Charles Foti to Lauren Brooks Foti ’04 May 31, 2019

Emíliana Rúnarsdóttir Jones to Allison Jones ’03 August 31, 2019

Silas Salvatore Barnes to Caitlin Barnes ’05 August 18, 2019

David Christopher Lynch to Nelie Zanca Lynch ’03 June 4, 2019

Thomas Alexander Boggs to Jenay Gipson Boggs ’06 November 21, 2019

Veyd Nayyar to Vaishnavi Pulusani ’03 November 4, 2019

Thomas Pine Moore to Ellen Page Moore ’06 November 16, 2019

Samuel Everett Robinson to Lauren Coleman Robinson ’03 June 12, 2019

Eloise Margaret Gordon to Elizabeth Summitt Gordon ’07 July 12, 2019

MILESTONES Edward Trammel “Tram” Reynolds to Cameron Colcolough Reynolds ’07 October 22, 2019 Harold James Schnuerer to Anne Atkinson Schnuerer ’07 August 20, 2019 Roy Calvin “Cal” Adams to Ashley Edge Adams ’08 October 3, 2019 William Charles Emley to Margaret Liddon Emley ’08 August 7, 2019 James Oak Moses to Jessica Richardson Moses ’08 September 3, 2019 Dorothy Ann Pinkston to Leah Bearman Pinkston ’09 October 23, 2019 Natalie Ordona Graunke to Nica Cabigao Graunke ’10 August 2, 2019 Abigail Grace Nease to Mary Jensen Nease ’10 November 8, 2019 PROFESSIONAL UPDATES

Betsy Olim ’75 Launch of Export Stories Podcast Catherine Robilio Womack ’82 President-Elect of the Tennessee Chapter of American College of Physicians

Alison Nicole Nooks ’91 Middle GA State University Online Academic Program Coordinator plus Media, Culture and Arts Faculty Becky Rafter ’93 Started a one-year graduate program at the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of their inaugural Masters in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management, the first such program in the state Elizabeth Laws Fuller ’01 Real Estate Advisory Director for Southeast Asia and Australia at WeWork Kate McCalla Rickards ’01 Promoted to Assistant Clinical Director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) at the Kennedy Krieger Institute Saira Khan ’03 Program director, Endocrinology fellowship program, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh Sarah Pazar Williams ’03 President of the Memphis Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Caitlin Carr ’04 Completed Ob/Gyn residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (June 2019) and started Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital

Heather Nadolny ’05 Director of Development and Communications for DC Prep, a network of charter schools in Washington, D.C. Katherine Fockler ’06 Account Director at Epsilon working in direct marketing on the Nissan North America account Ayana Fletcher-Tyson ’08 Dean of Academics at East End Prep Margarett Frisby ’08 Officer and Senior Corporate Communications Specialist at First Midwest Bank Divya Moolchandani ’08 Manager at KPMG Alex Fountain ’10 Manager in Field Development at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Christy Cameron ’11 Packaging Designer, Standfast Group Teresa Hendrix Daniel ’11 Digital User Experience Lead for FedEx mobile app and other digital properties Margaret McClintock ’11 Associate Director of Intramurals and Adventure Programs at Washington and Lee University

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In Memoriam

Lucy Wooten Turnbull ’43

Linda Avery Reaves ’61

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Amy Gronauer Ginsburg ’47

Lee Martin Rantzow ’82

Mary Walton Glass Walker ’54

Sara Elizabeth Perry ’93

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