CLASS NOTES

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2002

1 ABIGAIL SAMPLE ETLING

and husband, Will, live in Santa Ynez, California with their two children, Mercer and Rowan. Abigail’s passion for talking to people, listening to people, and problem solving led her to apply to Jackson State University’s Master of Social Work program. She believes in the power of social work to create a kinder, healthier, and more inclusive society. Will is the web development manager, marketing at FastSpring.

2003

2 JENNINGS ROSS recently participated in America’s premier show house - the Kips Bay Decorator’s Show House in Dallas. Twenty six of the nation’s top interior designers were chosen to transform a room, or space, in an 11,000 square-foot home in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas. She was given the primary dressing room and closets and had eight weeks to take it from studs and sub-floor to a fully finished space. The home was toured by approximately 10,000 people and national media including Veranda, Architectural Digest, and Elle Decor. It was an honor to display designs and work alongside such designers as Ken Fulk, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, and Alexa Hampton.

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2010

LAUREN HOTARD MOORE and husband, Branden, live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Lauren graduated from residency in emergency medicine from UMMC in June 2021. Lauren is an emergency medicine physician at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center. Branden is an attorney.

2012

ALEX LESLEY and wife Kelsey, welcomed a daughter, Thomasen Louise Lesley, on July 6, 2021. Alex is a demonstration artist and trainer at Ross Video. They live in Biloxi.

2015

3 SARAH ALLEN BOWMAN

married William Bullock on May 22, 2021, at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi. The couple lives in Nashville, where Sarah Allen is a secondyear law student at Belmont University College of Law and William is an engineer for Turner Construction Company.

2016

ROBYN HADDEN graduated summa cum laude from Mississippi State University with degrees in biochemistry and foreign languages in December 2020. In March, she commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. She completed Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base before beginning medical school at UMMC in August.

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2017

4 OLIVIA RULE BOURNE married Davis Bourne on July 30, 2021, in Jackson. Davis is a senior portfolio analyst at Finkelberg Investments of Raymond James. They live in Jackson.

2018

ALLIE PERKINS was selected by the Mississippi Nurses Foundation as a 2021-2022 Car Tag Stipend Recipient. The stipend is valued at $5,000 and selection was based on academic merit and an essay contest. She also received the Trustee Scholarship and Presidential Scholarship from Mississippi College. The Trustee Scholarship is the most prestigious scholarship that MC offers, being awarded to only four students per academic year. Allie also serves as president of the Mississippi Association of Student Nurses.

Class Notes printed here were submitted since JA’s Summer 2021 issue.