Kinkaid Magazine - Spring 2020

SPRING 2020

Nothing to Sneeze At

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or many, spring is a time of refreshing.

Ever since I can remember, I have never really looked forward to spring.

It was not necessarily because of any proclivity towards being an ogre, even at the tender age of eight (smile). Spring was always a reminder of the dreaded season of allergies - terrible sneezing, red eyes and sometimes wheezing!

The indoors and air conditioning were (and still remain) my happy place. Since relocating to Houston, spring has not served as a consistent reminder of those allergies.

Although I have not officially grown out of them – as I had hoped and prayed as a child I would – relocating here has significantly decreased my symptoms and impact.

I am grateful!

I am also grateful to each of you for all that you have done during unprecedented times in the life of our country – and world. The global impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been devastating and far reaching. School closures, a significant economic downturn, social distancing, self-preservation, and fear and anxiety were all a part of this response. Our lives have all been affected; some more significantly than others. I pause now to acknowledge everyone who did not have the option to distance themselves. They had to spring into action. Thank you! I also pause to acknowledge the faculty and staff at Kinkaid for their flexibility. We have all changed course in order to provide some semblance of normalcy during an abnormal time.

Thank you!

Dr. Trusty with Kinkaid Open Honorary Chair Steve Retzloff ‘74 and Director of Advancement Tom Moore

As I sat at home spending countless hours on my computer and phone planning, educating myself, communicating, meeting and strategizing, I was reminded that we frequently speak of living in a global world. This ongoing health crisis is a reminder that what is being experienced thousand of miles away is also having similar effects next door. The global world/ humanity is more connected now more than ever before. One goal of our Community, Equity and Inclusion Council is for Kinkaid to help educate students for the global world. The effort is intended to prepare our students to lead and serve in a global society. There is no time like the present! And, that tall task is indeed nothing to sneeze at.

Despite the unusual nature of Spring 2020, this is customarily a time to reflect upon some of what we have accomplished. We have so much to celebrate, and so much for which to look forward. Here are a few examples.

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The Dance Show, Fall Play (Metamorphoses), the Kinkaid Actor Driven Event (The Taming), the Margaret Kinkaid Holiday Concert and the Children’s Theatre Production of the Grimm Spectaculathon, as well as the Upper School Musical (On the Town) were all exceptional!

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Our Kinkaid writers earned over 129 distinctions from the Scholastic Writing Awards.

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Our musicians earned placements in All-State Band and Orchestra ensembles.

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Our Quiz Bowl teams in both Middle and Upper School earned high place finishes.

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Our debaters competed well at regional and national competitions.

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Our Middle Schoolers earned great recognition and qualify for local and national Spelling and Geography Bees.

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Our students continue to make a difference, both within and outside of Kinkaid walls, by both investing in and serving the broader community.

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The Robotics teams competed at high levels, qualifying for regional competitions.

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The Middle School production of Beauty and the Beast, Jr., played to rave reviews.

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Dr. Jean Twenge, professor and author of iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood – and What That means for the rest of Us, shared with students and parents in the early fall.

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Interim Term was once again a huge success, with Upper School students taking a wide breadth of classes and also traveling

to Iceland or Spain. Our seniors experienced three weeks of practical experience in a field of their choice.

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Lower School students traveled to Austria and Brazil for International Fair.

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Our fall and winter teams at both the Middle and Upper School levels competed and represented Kinkaid well.

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We inducted our 61st class into the Cum Laude Society.

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Our student-athletes who will compete at the college level (17 and counting) were celebrated during two signing ceremonies, with one more ceremony planned.

And, all of this is but a snap shot of the wonders that occur and all of the amazing work that our students and employees accomplish.

Thank you for the many ways that you have supported Kinkaid. I hope for safety and wellness for everyone in the Kinkaid community and beyond our walls and borders as we all look forward to healthier and safer times ahead.

Sincerely,

Ed.

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Contents Features

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2 The Evolution of Technology at Kinkaid 2

Departments 8

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Around Campus 8 10 11 11 12 13 13

From the Archives The Kinkaid Open Book Fair Tennis Play Day Falcon Family Feast 3rd Grade Grandparents’ Day Distinguished Honorary Alumnus - Don Sanders 8

Athletics 14 Tracking Your True Athletic Potential 16 Fall Review and Photos

Visual & Performing Arts 18 A Pool Production 20 Review in Photos

Alumni Class Notes & News 23 31 32 37 39 41 44 47 48 50 51 53 54 56 58

Alumnus Profile - Peter Maffitt ‘58 Outstanding Alumni Service Award - Malcolm Waddell ‘70 31st Annual Holiday Party Interim Term Night Distinguished Alumnus - Jay Vyas ‘85 Austin Area Party Alumna Profile - Fallon Ukpe ‘03 Distinguished Young Alumna - Lisa Kaplan Rosenzweig ‘00 14 NYC Area Party KYPO Happy Hour with EHS & SJS Washington, DC Area Party KYPO Holiday Party UT College Gathering Alumni Leadership Day Milestones - Weddings, Birth Announcements and In Memory 18

THE KINKAID MAGAZINE IS A PUBLICATION OF THE ADVANCEMENT OFFICE OF THE KINKAID SCHOOL Tom Moore Director of Advancement

Alexa Leach ’09 Manager of Alumni Activities

Andrea Reyna Gift Records Manager

Rochelle Barnes Communications Coordinator

Tracy McCleary Kinkaid Fund Manager

Lisa Wood Assistant Director of Advancement

Journey Bova Advancement Assistant

Natalie Mercer Special Events Coordinator

Elizabeth Litton Hogan ’91 Advancement Assistant

Rita Morico Parent Liaison & Volunteer Coordinator

Photography contributed by: David Shutts ’74 David Shutts Photography, Inc.

Gina Lamme Advancement Assistant

Georgia Piazza Manager of Communications & Marketing

Design contributed by: Michael Clarke Design

The Evolution of Technology at Kinkaid

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ver the past five years, Kinkaid has been making subtle shifts in the ways that it introduces technology into the educational process for children.

Contributed by V i n n i e V r o t n y, Director of Technology

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These changes include new and renewed focus and emphasis on the content delivered as part of instruction to meet the new realities of our modern world. Instruction is no longer delivered in fixed locations and during specific periods of time that limit student-to-teacher and student-to-student interactions. Content is no longer focused solely on building workplace productivity skills — keyboarding, word processing, spreadsheet and PowerPoint instruction.

Teachers are no longer providing recipe-type instruction where all students create the same project to demonstrate their knowledge. Instead, students are being challenged to be curious and creative and to collaborate in new and exciting ways while using technology.

In the next several pages, we will describe the evolution to our current practices and highlight potential applications for the integration of technology within the context of students’ education at Kinkaid.

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History of Technology Education at Kinkaid The introduction of computers and personal micro-computers into K-12 instruction practice is fairly new, only spanning the past 50+ years. The visions of the great thinkers and early pioneers sparked the early attempts in bringing computer technology into schools. These early experts include Vannevar Bush, whose groundbreaking article, “As We May Think,” published in The Atlantic envisioned interconnected networks of knowledge in 1945 and Alan Kay, whose dream of a personal educational device, the Dynabook, in 1972 would provide students an opportunity to have their own networked personal learning device. Additionally, the duo of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, whose research in the late 1960s and 1970s on how computers can be and should be an integral part of a student’s education, sparked the early efforts of those who initially brought these technologies into schools. Today, we are beginning to realize the aspirations to achieving these early visions of an amplified student learning experience. This has been made possible due to the increased power and miniaturization of devices from mini-computers to mobile devices, the inter-networking and exponential growth of networks that connect us, and the adoption of new instructional methods and practices over the past 35 years.

The faculty and administrators at Kinkaid were trailblazers in introducing students to a future enriched through the integration of technology in education. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kinkaid provided multiple opportunities for students to learn about computers via assemblies, an active student computer club, and even a course on computers and programming during the Upper School’s first Interim Week in 1971. Through the gracious generosity of Kinkaid parents Jeanie and Bill Kilroy, Kinkaid invested heavily in computer technology campus-wide beginning in the mid-1970s. These initial acquisitions created computer labs, placed small clusters of computers within individual classrooms, and provided tools such as Logo turtles to teach programming in all three divisions. In 1996, newly appointed Headmaster Don North convened a Technology Task force which resulted in the networking of Kinkaid’s computers and connection to the newly accessible Internet to facilitate connectivity and communication.

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At the beginning of the last decade, Kinkaid began investing in mobile technologies for students, utilizing both laptops and iPads/tablets to facilitate instruction.

The turn of the century brought continued growth and change to Kinkaid. It was in the early part of the 2000s that the School made investments to create a wireless network that would allow teachers to utilize their own newly issued school laptops to explore new ways to further implement technology within all aspects of the School’s curriculum. The School also began adopting collaborative web-based learning platforms, such as the G-Suite for Education and teacher web pages, to allow for increased collaboration between students and teachers. At the beginning of the last decade, Kinkaid began investing in mobile technologies for students, utilizing both laptops and iPads/tablets to facilitate instruction. Concurrently, as a school which historically had been experimenting with new technologies and approaches, Kinkaid expanded its offerings to utilize newer technologies, such as 3D printing and laser-cutters, and continued to explore how to best incorporate these innovations to support student learning.

A New Vision for the Role of Technology Within Teaching and Learning During the 2014 - 15 academic year, a technology committee was convened as a result of the ongoing ISAS re-accreditation process. The purpose of this group, which had representation from each division and each subject area, was to rethink and redefine the role of technology within learning and teaching at Kinkaid as a result of the expansion of and the growth in the newer technologies. This group developed the following vision, which was adopted and has provided the lens through which to measure our current program and enhancements: Students at Kinkaid utilize technology as an essential part of their learning process so that they will be able to:

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Act as active, responsible and ethical citizens in the digital realm

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Communicate thoughts and ideas using a variety of digital media

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Create and consume digital information and technology mindfully and intelligently

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Apply technology innovatively in a variety of settings and circumstances

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Transformation of Learning Environments

The Lower School Technology program has been designed to maximize cooperative learning opportunities.

The adoption of the newer mobile technologies, both laptops and iPads, provided the divisional computer teachers the opportunity to rethink how to use the space designated for technology instruction within their divisions. This has resulted in the reimagining of the spaces within each division to better take advantage of opportunities to collaborate in new ways. The Inn and The Nest (Middle School), The Launch Pad (Lower School) and The Kilroy Computer Lab (Upper School) have been reconfigured to a modern design. The computer labs with desktop computers lined up in rows facing a central instructional focus were dismantled in favor of flexible learning environments, with tables on wheels, which could be reconfigured to meet the instructional needs and to introduce new age-appropriate fabrication tools and experiences for students.

Additionally, after a successful fifth grade pilot program, the School implemented a division wide 1-to-1 program in the Middle School where each student was assigned their own laptop to use daily in support of their learning beginning with the 2017-18 school year. The Upper School began requiring each of their students to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) beginning in 2018 - 19. When each student has their own device in class, there are enhanced opportunities for digital collaboration with teachers and peers, personalized learning, innovative instructional techniques, additional enrichment activities and equal access to digital resources. Teachers gain the reassurance that student devices will be available to effectively plan instruction while promoting and delivering a 21st-century classroom experience.

In the Lower School, we have intentionally created an environment to best suit the needs of our younger students. Nowadays, students are entering Pre-Kindergarten with significantly more exposure to technology and the Internet before they even enter Kinkaid, unlike the early period of technology adoption when this would have been a novelty. As a result, the Lower School Technology program has been designed to maximize cooperative learning opportunities rather than assigning each student their own personal device. Teachers have access to one device per every two students, an iPad in Pre-Kindergarten through first grade or a laptop in second grade through fourth grade to support instruction. There are additional systems for special projects and the specialist classes for students to use as needed.

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New Focus Areas for Instruction The new vision for learning with technology also allowed for a reexamination of the skills which should serve as the core to best prepare our students for the future. Building off of our discussions, there were three primary areas which emerged — foundational productivity skills, a redefinition of digital wellness and an expansion of our offerings in Computer Science, Design, Engineering and Fabrication (CsDEF). Students now learn to create compelling stories and narratives using a variety of different media, audio, video, and the use of images in addition to the power trio of “old school” productivity tools, word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Students beginning in PreKindergarten through sixth grade students use all of these tools within their regularly scheduled technology classes as well as integrated into their studies in the other subject areas - art, music, social studies, English, reading, writing, mathematics and science.

The digital citizenship curriculum has also evolved into a digital wellness focus.

Our students, all who were born after 2000, only know of a world where access to the Internet is nearly ubiquitous and computing devices can fit into their pocket. Digital wellness asks students to stop and think so they will use the technologies in meaningful and purposeful ways.

The last focus area, CsDEF, is really a return back to the roots of Kinkaid’s original focus for the integration of technology — with an updated twist. In addition to having students immerse themselves in computational thinking, which deepens their ability to problem-solve, newer tools and peripherals make it possible to begin to code and invent solutions to problems within their world.

The availability of 3D printers, laser-cutters and vinyl cutters, allows students the opportunity to build and create, not only in their technology classes, but in the art studio and other subject areas across campus. We are seeing tremendous growth and demand in our elective courses in this area from seventh through twelfth grades.

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Our students, all who were born after 2000, only know of a world where access to the Internet is nearly ubiquitous and computing devices can fit into their pocket.

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Seeds for the Future

“In today’s world if you are not computer literate,you are not up to par with your education” - William Kilroy, The Falcon, October 1990

While channeling the spirit and wisdom of technology benefactor Bill Kilroy, we continually strive to research new ways and avenues to enhance Kinkaid’s Technology program to meet the future needs of our current students. In addition to the technology and computer science offerings, the School is now offering an engineering elective in the Upper School which is in its second year. Instead of computer programming tournaments that students competed in the 1970s and 1980s, Middle and Upper School students today participate in interscholastic Robotics tournaments which marry computer programming, engineering and construction, and remote sensing to allow their designs to run autonomously. Our teams have been successful, qualifying for the Southeast Texas Regionals for the past six years and having been twice invited to national tournaments. Additionally, the Technology department is piloting participation in the growing area of eSports along with other pioneering Independent Schools across the country during the 2020-2021 school year.

We eagerly anticipate the capabilities that new campus spaces might be able to provide for our students in the future and look forward to continuing to provide the most appropriate platform for Kinkaid students’ futures.

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Around Campus

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Contributed by John Rovell, Upper School Librarian and Archivist

he Kinkaid Archives has in its possession several amazing artifacts from the 114-year history of the School.

From championship footballs, to a sundial, to various items of clothing.

One of the most fascinating is our collection of a letterman’s sweater and a letterman’s jacket dating from the mid1940s. These items were donated thanks to the generosity of former student from the Class of 1970 Tom Hale who received them from his uncle Harvey Houck ’45. The Hales and the Houcks have a long association with The Kinkaid School. Tom’s father was listed as “Best All Around Boy” in 1927 and according to Tom, was one of the only student pallbearers at Mrs. Kinkaid’s funeral.

The sweater and jacket themselves are very unusual. To understand why, one must hear about how Tom came to find out about them in the first place. In the summer of 1989, Tom was attending a birthday party for Doris Houck Nelson at Studebakers nightclub where folks were coming in costume in ’40s and ’50s attire. Says Tom: “I am visiting with friends when in walks Doris’ brother, my uncle, Harvey Houck. I could see at a distance he was wearing what looked like his Kinkaid High School football letter jacket….

As he got closer to me, I noticed something odd... The gold “K” for Kinkaid on the front of his jacket had the word “COACH” embroidered in it.”

Tom went on to ask Harvey if he had been a coach for the football team while

he was a student and was told that was correct. During World War II, there was a premium for male faculty and coaches across the country. Many male teachers were drafted into military service and consequently, when this happened or when male faculty retired or left for other reasons, schools often had to get creative in filling their positions.

This led to a lot of innovative solutions in schools that had strong athletics programs. In her book When the Men Were Gone, novelist Marjorie Herrera Lewis tells the story of Tylene Wilson, a Texas woman who coached the Brownwood High School football team during World War II, becoming the first known woman to do so. Little is known about her time coaching her team but the love of football in Texas was such that she was not going to let the team go without leadership.

His sweater and jacket are what live still in the archives today. They serve as a testament to the creativity of Mrs. Kinkaid, the leadership of Harvey Houck, and the grit and commitment of the Kinkaid football team to persevere during a time when many men were overseas fighting for the United States.

Kinkaid’s 6-man football team was in a similar predicament. Mr. McClendon, the School’s first athletics and physical education director had led them to two consecutive undefeated seasons.

In 1943, during World War II, he left to accept an Ensign’s commission in the U.S Navy to go to dental school. Mrs. Kinkaid’s solution was to name the team’s Right Halfback Harvey Houck as a student coach. In 1941 and 1942, Harvey had Coach McClendon

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helped the Falcons win their undefeated seasons. His leadership continued after being made a coach by Mrs. Kinkaid and according to an article in the January 1944 issue of the Kinkaid Kronikle (the predecessor to The Falcon), his leadership and flexibility caused him to be awarded with a coach’s letter and sweater.

Harvey Houck

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The Kinkaid Open in memory of Zack Semander

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olfers enjoyed a beautiful fall day at the Kinkaid Open on October 21, 2019 at Westwood Golf Club.

A record number of alumni, parents, former parents and faculty came out to honor Steve Retzloff ’74, and over $100,000 was raised for the John Germann Scholarship Endowment Fund. Steve was responsible for founding the tournament in honor of former golf coach and math teacher Zack Semander over 21 years ago. Make plans to join us for the 2020 Kinkaid Open on October 19.

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tudents, parents, faculty and staff shopped till they dropped at the annual Book Fair! Everyone had a wonderful time and over 950 books were donated to the Kinkaid libraries.

Tennis Play Day November 2 at Kinkaid Tennis Complex at Kel’s Hill

A big thank you goes out to Chairs Christina Van Os, Kim Hankamer, Jodi Atlsuler and the hundreds of volunteers that make this community event such a wonderful Kinkaid tradition.

We can’t wait to for Book Fair to come around again.

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Falcon Family Feast

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alcon fans enjoyed a beautiful night on the lawn outside of Rice Stadium before the Kinkaid – St. John’s football game at the annual Falcon Family Feast. Over 2,000 parents, students, alumni and friends enjoyed burgers from Beck’s Prime, dancing with the DJ, air brush tattoos, balloons from Emerson Sloan and lots of swag.

Our Talons were Up, and we brought home another Falcon victory against the St. John’s Mavericks. A big thank you to our Feast Chairs Tracey Hull, Blair Loocke, Lindsey Wilson and Brooke Wise and all of their volunteers for making this event such a success for all of our Falcon fans.

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K I N K A I D I S P L E AS E D TO R E C O G N I Z E

Don Sanders as the 2020

Distinguished Honorary Alumnus

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on Sanders grew up in Mexia, TX. He graduated from Mexia High School in 1954 and then attended Sam Houston State University, majoring in photography and business. After graduating from Sam Houston, Don received his MBA the following year from The University of Texas at Austin.

He then joined E.F. Hutton, one of the nation’s most prestigious investment firms, as a trainee in 1959.

Over two decades, he rose to become one of its most prominent executives and a member of Hutton’s Board of Directors.

Don left Hutton to form Sanders Morris Mundy with a vision of serving clients and through the years helped finance some of the nation’s largest and most successful companies, including Browning Ferris Industries, Enterprise Products and Main Street Capital. With Don’s leadership, Sanders Morris grew into one of the largest independent wealth management firms in the United States, spanning 38 cities and boasting nearly $20 billion in assets. Don remains active at Sanders Morris, focusing on people, relationships and providing capital to help businesses and entrepreneurs realize their dreams.

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e love Texas and we love our grandparents and special friends! Family and friends came out to support our third grade students’ Texas, Our Texas performance. The event was packed with music, history and dancing! Yee-haw!

Though Don has worked in the wealth management business for decades, Don has developed other interests. He has accumulated a truly unique and expansive photography collection and has also amassed one of the finest art collections in the United States, including the largest collection of George Rodrigue in the country.

Don also loves sports. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was the largest minority owner of the Houston Astros, where he became beloved by players across major league baseball and developed a life-long friendship with Nolan Ryan. That friendship created an opportunity for Nolan and Don and their children to work together, as they founded Ryan Sanders Baseball which today owns the Round Rock Express (the Houston Astros’ AAA Farm Club) and Ryan Sanders Sports Services also known as RS3.

Although Don is well-known for his financial and sports expertise, Don has given back to the community that has been so good to him. He is the founder of the Houston Police Foundation, a Director of the Houston Police Pension System as well as serving on the Board of Regents of the University of Houston. He is currently a Board member of the Houston Police Foundation as well as a Board member of the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl and the Nolan Ryan Foundation.

Don has a long tradition of supporting area schools and has generously built a baseball field for the KIPP Explore Baseball program, as well as two Kinkaid School baseball fields and other facilities which bear his name. Don donated and endowed a world-class baseball facility at his alma mater, Sam Houston State University (known as The Don) where he was inducted into the Hall of Honor.

Recently, he donated a baseball field to the University of Houston, (Don Sanders Field). In addition, he funded a life-sized bronze statue at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown that commemorates the All-American Girls Baseball League.

Don’s tremendous love for animals led Don to Friends for Life, a no-kill animal rescue and adoption shelter where he personally financed a state-of-the-art shelter and facility. In addition, he financed BARC’s new facility, the Don Sanders Center for Cats and Kittens and the Don Sanders Cattery for Rescue Pets Movement.

Don’s biggest passion lies in his countless friends and especially his family. He is a loving husband to his wife Laura and is proud of his four children - Bret Sanders ’84, Brad Sanders ’89, Susan Sanders ’85 and Laura; step-daughters Ashley Moore Batistick ’01 and Mallory Moore Fernandez ’07; and his numerous grandchildren, including Sanders Keller ’15 and Chelsea Collmer ’17.

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Athletics

Tracking Your True

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trength and conditioning programs have not always been what they are today. Less than 40 years ago, it was believed that building muscle in athletes would hinder athleticism, or in simpler terms, make an athlete slower.

Not until the 1970s did colleges begin experimenting with off-season training.

Coaches were tapped to train athletes over the summer but with one caveat, if the players became slower, that coach often was fired. As these athletes made great improvements in power, strength, speed and endurance, the strength and conditioning coach became the missing link for that competitive edge and a winning program.

Even now in 2020, not all private schools have a defined strength program or coach. Kinkaid is fortunate enough to have a robust strength and conditioning program with two dedicated coaches to facilitate. A seasoned strength coach, Everett Coleman, has been with Kinkaid since 1995 while also serving as one of the Houston Texans strength assistants for eight years. After working for Vanderbilt University, and most recently the University of Houston, Phil Mosley joined the team in 2018. Speaking for both coaches, Coleman commented, “As

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strength coaches, we are constantly researching ways to support us in designing training schedules, monitoring our students and getting them ready for competition while keeping them safe.” Together these two experienced coaches have taken the strength side of athletics to the next level by introducing various technology tools to not only assist their high school athletes into becoming stronger and faster, but to also prevent injuries from occurring. Kinkaid has invested in tools that already have shown great results with our Upper School athletes.

The coaches have even higher hopes for the future with younger athletes who will have more years to benefit from the monitoring these tools provide.

This fall through funds allocated from the 2019 Auction proceeds, Coleman and Mosley were able to purchase Catapult vests that provide them with data on players during practice and games. Each vest is fitted with a GPS device that measures the physical output for the individual athlete including maximum velocity, time spent within a percentage of maximum velocities, acceleration, deceleration and much more. On the more granular side, the coaches can tell when certain players are overworked which can lead to injury. This data is then taken to the strength side of the puzzle where workouts are tailored for each player’s personal needs. Ultimately, using this data will lead to athletes maximizing their performance while minimizing their risk of injury. This past fall, Coleman and Mosley could see in the data that Jonah Thomas, a senior football player, was showing signs of player

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overload. Turns out Jonah had lower body dehydration and a plan was put into place to keep him at 85% of his load to further prevent soft tissue damage.

In addition to mitigating injuries, coaches can also hold players accountable for their best effort. For example, if a coach suspects that an athlete is ‘loafing it’ in practice, but goes all out in a game, which can lead to a pulled muscle, the system now provides the coach with supportive data. The coaches are able to share the data with their athletes and can use the data to know when it is ok to push them harder and when it is time to pump the brakes. Mosley expressed that he is looking forward to using the vests this summer during off-season training and really setting the baseline for these athletes for the upcoming fall.

“It will be such a great tool for these students to see where they started and where they finish in a season.”

Students have really enjoyed the vests as well. Senior Victor Garza wore the vest the majority of his football season. He was able to watch his speed increase from 18.48 mph to 21.81 mph. Garza commented on his numbers, “That’s significant…seeing those numbers increase makes you want to work even harder!” Freshmen Lia Bonet is fortunate since she will have multiple years of data by beginning to use Catapult in her 9th grade year. She exclaimed, “In one game I ran almost eight miles! With this data, I now know that I need to make sure that my conditioning is at the top in order to keep stamina throughout an entire game.”

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Fall Athletics Review UPPER SCHOOL Cheerleading Fall UCA Regional Competition: 8th Place Overall; Bid to National Competition Girls Varsity Cross Country SPC Finish: 1st

Inside the weight room Coleman and Mosley have incorporated TeamBuildr. The software was first introduced to Coach Coleman after Duncan Robinson ’12, who first signed with the Cubs after graduating from Dartmouth in 2016, came to Coleman and showed him the technology that the Cubs were using. This web-based software allows athletes to access their individualized workouts 24/7 through tablets and smartphones. Running a paperless weight room while collecting the data the coaches need has been such a game changer. Students now are able to complete their planned workouts and track better how they are progressing. Coleman remarked on how easy it has become to evaluate athletes individually without standing over them making sure the workout is complete. “As a strength coach, reviewing the data and seeing how determined these athletes are makes our program that much more efficient and in turn produces stronger, healthier athletes.”

Off-season athletes who are wanting to stay in shape for their sport of choice really enjoy the flexibility of being able to have their workout literally in the palm of their hand. Junior Eliot Gottsegen expressed how he has gotten hooked on the system, “I really enjoy seeing my progress over time. I know where I started and where I am now. Being held accountable to do the workout of the day and having all of my stats readily available to show to my coach has paid off for me personally. I’m stronger and faster than I would have been if I was just working off a piece of paper with the one or two workouts on it.” Senior Nakeeya McCardell will be using the Catapult technology for the first time this spring with lacrosse season. She expressed that she is eager to try out the technology and looking forward to seeing how it assists her on the field.

Hudl Technique is another useful tool that has been incorporated into the area of strength and conditioning. This video system allows coaches and strength coaches to film games, practices and individuals from their phone, iPad or any device and use the footage to dissect aspects of the game, proper biomechanical technique and overall athletic performance.

While these current programs gather data on intensity, quantity and quality of movement, the Athletics Department is also looking into systems like Atavus, which is just another step to increase player safety through video analysis in contact sports like football, soccer and cheerleading.

Athletics Director David Holm fully supports his staff finding tools that make practices and games that we all love safe for students at all levels. “Safety, health and wellness is our No. 1 priority for our department.

Incorporating organized strength with these pieces of technology is a great step towards achieving this.”

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Boys Varsity Cross Country SPC Finish: 14th Varsity Field Hockey Record: 13-7 SPC Finish: 2nd Varsity Football Record: 6-5 SPC Large School Finish: 2nd Girls Varsity Volleyball Overall Record: 7-14-1 SPC Finish: 15th Boys Varsity Volleyball Overall Record: 14-16 SPC Finish: 6th MIDDLE SCHOOL Cross Country HJPC Finish: Girls – 1st , Boys – 5th 8th Field Hockey Overall Record: 8-5-2 HJPC Finish: 5th 8th Football Overall Record: 4-4 HJPC Finish: 3rd Girls 8th Purple Volleyball Overall Record: 9-7 HJPC Finish: Tied for 8th Boys 8th Volleyball Overall Record: 6-4 HJPC Finish: 1st

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hat if…what if you had a stage with no lights, no props or music.

Now add back in all of these and you get a production that the audience walks away talking about for days. That is the magic that theatre technicians bring to a performance. The lines, the actors and all the choreography are necessary, but the functioning side of a show, the engine of the production, all comes from the teachers and students that begin their work well before the curtain call.

Kinkaid’s Technical Theatre Director Mark Sell and his three classes of students have built some amazing sets over the years, but this fall, they really set a high-water mark for technical theater.

Metamorphoses is quite a production, based on the classical mythology by Ovid and is set in a pool of water. Mr. Sell, now in his seventh year at Kinkaid, knew he and his students were up for the challenge of building an indoor pool structure in the Edwards Black Box Theatre.

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The pool structure, built from two-by-fours, plywood and a vinyl liner, was designed to be 16’x 28’ and 37” deep, and building began on the second day of school. Students cut and assembled the structural supports for the above ground pool liner and actual construction in the theatre started the following Tuesday. Water first appeared in the structure by mid-September but as construction on any project goes, you run into small issues. Sell and his students found the liner seams were beginning to leak. Never fear, Flex Tape, along with a water sealing roofing compound, came to the rescue and the leaks stopped. Students continued their work until mid-October building out where the audience would sit, the end platforms and walls. Circuited lighting and sound came in last along with the special effects in and around the set. In the end the pool held 6,600 gallons of water and weighed over 55,000 pounds.

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In 2005, the same play was performed and a similar pool was constructed under the technical theatre direction of Torsten Louis.

Since Mr. Louis designed the first one, Kinkaid brought him back for guidance and consulting on how to make this pool better than before. One thing that was significantly different was this time around the water wasn’t chlorinated. The School borrowed a pump from the Alley Theatre and fresh water swirled around chlorine free. Pool maintenance was also needed. As the actors started rehearsing in costumes, small beads and threads would come off in the water, so it had to be swept just like an outdoor pool. In addition to cleaning the pool, the tech theatre students also had to install safety precautions around the pool. Non-slip mats were installed and “tons of mopping” took place throughout the time the pool was in place. Like most huge construction projects, the breakdown time was nothing compared to the hours spent building. The water was pumped into the storm drains and deconstruction took a week.

Mr. Sell reflects back saying, “I am so proud of the work these students have accomplished. They have truly done the remarkable in transforming the Edwards Black Box Theatre into the sanctuary where Metamorphoses unfolded. Planning and managing the build has been professionally satisfying as both a teacher and technical director. Breaking down the build process into bite sized pieces, suitable for teachable moments and keeping those projects skills appropriate was challenging. Yet I had confidence that the students would engage and thrive on the challenge.”

So, what’s in store for next year? You will have to find out when next school year’s season is revealed over the summer.

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Glenn Seureau ’59, Jess Stark ’55 and Barbara Ivy Jogerst ’49 there.

Jane Hoffert Moore ’46 1620 Calumet Street Houston, TX 77004 713-529-9700

Barbara’s touching book about her beloved cousin Paul Swank (Paul Swank: Enduring Hero: An American Soldier’s Sacrifice in Occupied France) is out. You can get a copy through Amazon. You must read this heartfelt story of World War II.

1950 – 1957 Jane Heyck Gaucher Montgomery ’53 3121 Buffalo Speedway, Apt 4104 Houston, TX 77098 713-621-4673 texaschm2@att.net Page Thomson Steele ’54 23714 Cansfield Way Katy, TX 77494 713-504-3792 pagetsteele@yahoo.com From the Advancement Office: Cynthia Ruhl Allen ’54 reports, “Life is good – three grandchildren, one great-grandchild and love the Saints.”

Well, we have gained a New Year since my last report. Onward and upward!

We started the fall with the Junior League Sustaining Brunch. We had those wonderful chicken crepes and pecan balls. The Adelaide Lovett Baker Award for Outstanding Sustainer Community Service was presented at that time. The candidates look younger! Seen there were Beth Connelly McGreevy ’52 and Page Thomson Steele ’54 (fs). Page is the proud great grandmother of Rachel Rosen. Rachel is the daughter of Megan Rosen, who is married to Page’s oldest son.

Our Christmas Garden Club meeting was also at the Junior League… more crepes and pecan balls!

Katherine Fay Smith ’54 (fs) decorated with beautiful red, white and pink poinsettias. She has two granddaughters that are just graduating from Houston Baptist University. Haden, her oldest, is receiving a Master’s Degree in Psychology in May. Isabelle received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Media in December 2019.

Congratulations! They are the daughters of Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa ’76, Katherine’s oldest daughter.

A real treat was the Kinkaid Alumni Holiday Party! It is always a joy to be there! The date was December 5, 2019 – it is always in early December. Join us! The food was delicious – lamb chops, shrimp brochette, etc.…and too many yummy desserts to name, but not too many to taste! I saw Lee and

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days are numbered, so I’m ducking other responsibilities in order to “hit the slopes.”

From the Advancement Office: John Parks is raising and training horses in Hamilton, TX.

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Lastly, Sarabande Dance Club of over 50 years of dedicated dancing happened on December 6, 2019 at Houston Country Club. Seen dancing were Judy and Tom Cronin ’54, Jan and Tom Davis ’55, Lin and Lucy Lee Lamme ’58 and Truett and Harriet Calvin Latimer ’52. Always a treat to see so many Kinkaid graduates!

Jane Jorns VanSanten ‘58

Hope you all have a healthy New Year! Send me your news and your blues.

John David Hagerman The Woodlands, TX johndhagerman@hotmail.com

Hugs, Jane Heyck Gaucher Montgomery ’53 and Page Thomson Steele ’54 (fs)

1958 Lucy Lee Lamme Houston, TX lucylamme@att.net A purple and gold welcome mat out to our new Head of School Jonathan Eades and his wife Elizabeth (a SJS alum!) Amazingly, he is only the sixth Head of School in our 114 years. We entered Kinkaid in 1945 so many of us remember the formidable Mrs. Kinkaid – Dorothy Malone Gumbert, cousin Will Lee, Tami Baird Dyer, Peter Maffitt (fs), Thad Hutcheson (fs), Jimmy Janse, Holcombe Crosswell (fs), me and probably more. We wish Jonathan the distinguished guidance Mrs. Kinkaid gave our school that brought us successfully to 2020.

The Kinkaid Alumnae & Friends Luncheon in February had Tami Baird Dyer and Mary Kay McFarland Gaedcke (fs) hostessing for the ‘58 table of Linda Beeley Denison, Linda Lester Griffin, Jane Jorns Van Santen, Klinka Garrett Lollar (hubby John ‘56), Emily Attwell Crosswell ‘59 and me. As if we didn’t see each other enough.

A perk of writing this is I get to brag.

Our grandson Brady’s Westlake High won THE Texas 6A Division 1 State Championship in football. His QB was Kirkland Michaux who just has to be related to our late Kirk Michaux ‘59 (fs). Could have been Falcons!

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1960 Allan Port Houston, TX 713-569-2194 allan.port@att.net Sassy English Stanton Houston, TX sassy@stanton-pinckard.com We are planning a gala 60th Reunion Weekend in April, with a class dinner on Thursday, April 2, hosted by Sassy English Stanton and Bill Pinckard, and school sponsored events thereafter. A good turnout is expected and we hope that all classmates, including former students who left before graduation, will plan to attend.

Skip Hamilton reports the following from New Braunfels: “I am officially retired at 77. I am going to spend some time doing other things. There comes a time when you become superfluous and not needed as much so it is time to go.” Many of us will echo those sentiments.

Fred Knapp sent a copy of the collection of poetry penned by his daughter Elizabeth Knapp ’92, entitled Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, which is her second published collection and won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize. Elizabeth is a professor at Hood College in Maryland, where she lives with her husband, a novelist, and their two children. She has received a number of other awards for her poetry and Freddy and Linda are doubtless justly proud.

As I write this, your scribe (Allan Port) is packing for 10 days skiing in Aspen with longtime ski pals. Those

I was profoundly touched by the latest installment of mini-bios from ’61. In anticipation of the coming precipitous drop in America’s birth rate, Lola Goff Cook and her husband Steven sired eight children (four and four) who produced no less than 41 grandchildren and 15 (so far, says Lola hopefully) grands. After graduating from the U. of Utah, Lola and Steven lived in Salt Lake City for 10 years, then moved to Spring, TX for 28 years and then back to SLC. Steve was in the real estate business and brokered the land deal that now anchors the Klein/Spring Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Always grounded in her abiding faith and its exhortation to serve mankind, Lola started with a BS in Secondary Education and added a master’s degree. She taught in the highly-acclaimed Klein High School. From my volunteer work in HISD schools I have witnessed firsthand what an overwhelming challenge teaching is in today’s chaotic environment – I admire every one, Lola included. As my favorite t-shirt reads: “I know that the kids are going to insult you and call you names, but you just gotta go to school. You are their teacher.” But as Lola, who lost Steven after 54 years of marriage, says “My life has been full and enriched serving others, e.g. family, neighbors, strangers, LDS missions, less fortunate, homeless… when we are in the strife or our fellow man, we are only in the service of our God.” Lola and Anita Randall Pilling have set, or reflected, the highest standards for a truly fruitful life.

At the risk of detracting from Lola’s inspiring life story, I will note only that Andrea Dixon Walker (fs) recently lost her dear mother. She was an acclaimed artist trained at the best schools in America, an acclaimed beauty (that shown forth for over 100 years) and a highly active Houstonian.

Andrea, who has lived in Savannah for many decades, regularly visited her in Houston and then moved her to Savannah two years ago so that she could be closer. Our sympathies to Andrea and her two sisters. Just to

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eachers can have an incredible impact on the lives of the students. Former Kinkaid student Peter Maffitt ’58 knows this better than many. he was able to spend time with American Ambassador Thomas Mann who helped him understand what was going on in Cuba and the relationship of the Castro regime with other Latin American socialist movements.

This trip, as well as his Spanish language proficiency led Peter to work on Latin American issues in the military, as well Donatila Ratterree as within the academic and business fields. His love of, and interest in Spanish continues to this day. Since Houston is increasingly Hispanic, Peter believes that “Learning Spanish is even more important today.” He credits much of this love and interest to the seed that was planted so long ago at Kinkaid: “I am thankful to Señora Ratterree for teaching me to want to become fluent in Spanish and wanting to learn about Cuba.”

During his time at Kinkaid he had a number of teachers that impacted him greatly including Mrs. Little who inspired in him a love of Texas History and Mr. Goddard who inspired in him a love of American History. But according to him, his most influential teacher was Donatila Ratterree, a Cuban-American Middle School Spanish teacher in the 1940s. “She inspired me to appreciate the importance and beauty of Spanish.”

Mrs. Ratterree was born in Pinar del Río Cuba and was likely Kinkaid’s first Hispanic faculty member. She was exceptional for her era as she had a master’s degree from Rice University at a time when it was not common for women, let alone Hispanic women to do so. During her time at Kinkaid, she was a beloved and dynamic teacher. One memory that Peter has of being in her class was that she would take a bean bag and toss it to a student of her choosing, then ask them a question and they would have to answer in Spanish. This practice required students to pay close attention says Peter, “There was no sleeping in her class!” The Frederic B. Asche Prize, awarded from 1956-1982 for the Middle Schooler who had the most improved Spanish, was given in honor and later in memory of Mrs. Ratterree, who passed away in 1960.

Mrs. Ratterree brought both the Spanish language and Cuba to life for Peter to such a degree that it influenced the rest of his life. He went on to visit Cuba as well as Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico in 1957. He and the friend he was traveling with landed in Cuba during the General Strike of 26 de julio. Upon later arriving in El Salvador,

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add another quotation, increasingly relevant, a 105-year-old dear friend always said, “the hardest thing about getting old is losing my wife, kids and friends.” Yeah, you guys just gotta send me updates.

1962 Adrian Turner Ross Houston, TX adrian@rexross.com Happy 2020, Classmates!

Only two short years until our 60th Kinkaid Reunion. If you are living away from Houston, I hope you will make plans to come back in the Spring of 2022, and if you still live here, plan to join us to catch up with old friends. I will provide the actual dates as soon as they are scheduled. Thank you to those of you who are helping to track down some of our lost classmates. Please note the list at the bottom of this report, and let me know if you have any information about members of our class whose emails or mailing addresses we are trying to find.

dren and eight grandchildren. She is a golfer, a bridge player and a traveler! You may remember that Gunila was one of the first AFS exchange students to come to Kinkaid.

Bob Phillips and his wife Betsy ’63 (fs) took an extended trip to Colorado in the summer visiting with their son Nick ’88 along the way. Bob said they enjoyed Christmas with their other son Chris and his wife and their only grandchild who is nine.

Claudia Turner Aycock and Carolyn Ferguson Means both reported, sadly, that Brooke Tucker (fs) has had some health issues. We wish Brooke well, and hope she will be doing better soon.

Earl Hankamer (fs) said he runs into Charles Steadman occasionally at the barber shop, so that is another “lost” classmate who has been found!

Randi Fay Yocum is also doing some sleuthing for the class of 1962.

Susan Cooper Gaudet and her husband Bob visited with Sandra Moffett Provost and her husband Bob in Ipswich during the holidays, before Sandra returned to her home in Phoenix.

Judy Wilson Grant said that life in Colorado continues to be great.

She obviously keeps very busy with Garden Club, Literary Club and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.

She mentioned that they have added to their house five times since 1974. In addition, she and her husband Newell travel often to see their children and grandchildren, who are “spread far and wide!”

Gunila Hedman Myrnerts (fs) wrote from Sweden. She has three grown chil-

E-mail and/or information needed for the following people:

Charles Castillo Judy Jarvis Ellis Paul Griffin Tim Havens Richard Jones George Mayes Anne Miller Jeff Parker George Riedinger Gay Roane Bill Robinson Thomas Stuewe Thanks, everyone and Happy Spring!

Adrian Turner Ross

1963 Calanne Koenig Choate Pearland, TX mayamom@hotmail.com Hello Friends! As I told you, I am writing a scaled down version of our class due to my circumstances!

John is doing better, but my time is consumed by PT, and driving him for his business stuff. I promise a detailed column next time!

Here is the list of check-ins as I promised!

Art Beane Monique Moser-Verrey Joe Conlon Janie Rommel-Eichorn Ab Fay (fs) Lana Lee Cureton Bob Morse

Arnold Hebert Carlton Carl Patty Milner Marvel Jan Stockard Cato (fs) Lucy Clark Shaw Betsy Bowen Phillips (fs) Marian Strange Cheatham (fs) Leigh Weld David Shaver Kari McGuirt Seger Jane Wadsworth Mason That’s it folks! I hope I got everybody! Forgive me if I left you off! I can always send out an email to our whole class!

Much love to all!

Calanne

1964 Claire Andreae Murray 3913 Rickover Rd Silver Spring, MD 20902 301-946-2184 claire.murray@verizon.net At last the inevitable resurgence of spring that follows winter’s doldrums. For those of us who luxuriate in habitats in the frozen tundras ’tis a blessing indeed to behold mother nature renewing herself and the cycle of life. Speaking of which, George and Kath Susman Howe are joyously celebrating the birth of their grandson Charles. What a marvelous new chapter is about to unfold as grandparenthood takes light in their souls.

It’s as SIMPLE as 1, 2, 3 to create a legacy through your estate. Here are 4 simple ways: 1 Will

As Simple as One Sentence A gift through your will is as easy as adding one sentence to your will. It is a simple way to support Kinkaid without affecting your current cash flow, lifestyle or your family’s security.

Sample bequest language: “I, (name), of (city, state, zip) give, devise and bequeath to The Kinkaid School (EIN 76-0295523) of Houston, Texas (written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property) for its unrestricted use and purpose.”

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Appreciated Assets

Completing a simple form from your financial institution is all that is required to name The Kinkaid School as a beneficiary of your retirement account.

The form is available online. It is another way to support our educational excellence by using funds that may otherwise result in a tax burden for your family.

A gift of appreciated assets, such as securities and real estate, held more than one year, makes an excellent donation.

It’s generally tax deductible at its fair market value, and you avoid all capital gains taxes on the increase in value while receiving a charitable tax deduction.

A Simple Form

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Another Simple Form Insurance is another simple way to make a substantial future gift.

Naming The Kinkaid School as the beneficiary or co-beneficiary on a new or existing policy is considered a charitable deduction for estate purposes when distributed.

You can choose Kinkaid to receive all or part of the proceeds of your plan. All it takes is a beneficiary update to your policy!

For more information, please visit kinkaid.planmylegacy.org or contact Lisa Wood, Assistant Director of Advancement, at 713-243-5023 or lisa.wood@kinkaid.org to further discuss creating a legacy at Kinkaid.

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Rocky McAshan is also delighting in his ever-growing dynasty as he and his bride spent Christmas in Orlando awaiting the birth of their fourth granddaughter who arrived on January 2.

How wonderful to have the little ones to spoil and adore. My two grandsons are off to college and hugging on their paramours instead of their grandma at this point. Looks like waiting for the great grandkids for that extra loving again…

On an equally happy if not mixed note Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter shared, “We spent the month of February 2019 in Encinitas, CA with our daughter and older grandchildren enjoying surfing lessons, kayaking and paragliding off the cliffs at Torrey Pines. Then in July I was thrown out of a runaway golf cart and broke my ankle five days before we were taking our granddaughter Delaney and her mother to London, Paris and Rome. We bought a wheelchair and they took turns pushing me over the cobblestones, but we got to the front of every line, so in a sense I took one for the team!

In August, Gary did something to his back and had spinal fusion surgery right before Thanksgiving followed by the adoption of a two-month-old puppy. The holidays were something of a blur – had 15 at our house for Thanksgiving and 10 people and seven dogs over Christmas. Of particular enjoyment are our younger daughter’s girls (3 and 5), who are – as you might expect – simply adorable in the eyes of their prejudiced grandparents.” Whatever did we do before grandparenthood…

Unfortunately, as one new life enters, another leaves. Sadly, John Malone passed on in April of last year. How bittersweet the cycle of life. I am sure we are all looking forward to more joyous news about the coming of future generations and their delight in themselves and the world about them…

1965 Tami Fox Brau Austin, TX tazmazan@gmail.com From the Advancement Office: James Allison reports, “Just moved to a new (to us) house in West U. I am now working about half-time at the Texas Children’s Pediatric Medical Group at Kirby and W. Alabama. I am now in my 41st year of practice; no plans to retire. Pediatrics is too much fun. Our three sons are now all in Texas, one in Houston, two in Austin. I still have lunch with Ruddy Cravens every Friday, going on 38 years now.”

Mrs. Duckworth’s Fourth Grade class in 1957 1965 classmates Jay Jorns and Ross Rommel

sometime in the spring. I’ll definitely be coming to the reunion. Looking forward to seeing everyone.”

Mr. Wells’ Fifth Grade class in 1958

Larry Hankamer (fs) has been quite busy with his many Central Texas projects. He writes, “I’ve designed a new facade for the restoration of a Mid-Century Modern building at Baylor. Am developing a method to mediate the spread of zebra mus-

Jay Jorns ‘65 and Susan Lorino LaCoste ‘65 in a helicopter over Niagara Falls

sels, the invasive species that has infested hundreds of lakes across the country, and 30 Texas lakes, including Lake LBJ, Lake Austin and my favorite, Lake Travis. And still selling homes in Austin and Lakeway. Looking forward to our reunion and seeing old friends I haven’t seen in many years.”

Sperry Hunt (fs) says, “‘I’m working on a CD of my own songs. (See https:// sperryhunt.com) It should be out

Dr. James Allison ‘65

Marcia Murphey writes, “two cats and a turtle…bike rides around Rice University track, Pilates, workouts at the neighborhood gym…husband Doug…and no more cooking!

Life is good…hugs…Marcia” Jay Jorns reports SuJay back in action. Susan Lorino LaCoste and Jay Jorns (SuJay) traveled to Toronto in September to watch the Astros play the Toronto Blue Jays. Neither had ever seen or toured Niagara Falls. They took a helicopter ride over the beautiful geography. In December they ventured to San Antonio to check out the River Walk lights. While in San Antonio, the two toured the Pearl Beer Brewery area, Jay’s favorite beer. They also visited Debbie ’66 and Ross Rommel at their beautiful place on the Guadalupe River in Hunt, TX. Ross shared some of his mother’s pictures of Kinkaid days.

As for me (Tami Fox Brau), I am happy to say I completed my move to Leander, a lovely Austin suburb.

I’ve been busy unpacking and getting things back in order. Looking forward to gardening, cooking, crafting and enjoying the wonderful sunsets from my front porch.

Tami

1966 Pat Kidson Fogle Cavanagh Houston, TX plkfc@hotmail.com Happy New Year to the Class of 1966! Our buddy Bubba Koenig gave me a start when he suggested that next year will be our 66th Reunion.

Let’s slow it down and think about our 55th Reunion in 2021! Here’s the news from several of our stalwart reporters of news.

From Bubba Koenig: “Hi Pat – you are exactly right. Time does fly. It’s hard to believe that next year will be our SIXTY-SIXTH reunion year.

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nent case of wanderlust, so we’re off again this year on a couple of trips. In April we will be spending 10 days in Israel with a group led by our pastor. It’s going to be a fabulous trip and a number of our close church friends will be making the trip with us. In August we will be on another cruise starting in Venice and making stops along the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea – Croatia, Montenegro and Greece. We’re big Game of Thrones fans, and on our stop in Dubrovnik, we will tour the castle used as King’s Landing in the series. Please keep me posted on plans for our 66th (editor’s note: make that our 55th!) next year. I’ll say again, anyone heading up this way, we’d love to see you. Funny, we haven’t had any takers yet, but we keep having to restock the wine rack (LOL)! My warmest regards and best wishes to all – Bubba” P.S. Pat – this was a typo (LOL). Mr. Windsor is probably turning over in his grave!!

Jim Tang writes: “After practicing plastic surgery at Cy Fair Plastic Surgery Center in northwest Houston for the past 37 years, I am looking forward to retiring from my practice later this year. Also, Elizabeth and I had our first grandchild – Kelly Florence Tang – born to our oldest son James Frederick and his wife Thy in April 2019. We are now experiencing the joys of being grandparents. Middle son Jeffrey ’05 got married in April 2019 to Mehwish Ismaily. Youngest son John (fs) is finishing his anesthesiology residency in New York City this June and will be returning to Houston to practice anesthesia at Methodist Willowbrook Hospital.”

John Hill reminds us that, “It’s almost time to listen to Lee Roy Parnell’s great song, “55 Miles To Houston.”

And from Gibbs Bauer (fs): “Apparently the Beatles’ best music and America’s best graduating class occurred in the same year. My favorite Beatle songs from 1966 are “Rain,” “Drive My Car” and “Paperback Writer,” and I’ll be surprised if they’re not still my favorites in 2066.

Let’s hope we’re all still around to compare notes on that. Our 100year reunion will be in 2066. That’s when we’ll see who’s tough and who’s not! Happy 2020 to all!”

Thanks to John Diffey for sharing such fun news! “Hi all. Lots of travel this past year – and one big event on the horizon. In September and October, we enjoyed two beautiful fall weekends with our son Matt, his wife and their daughter in London.

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Asolo, Cremona, Ravenna, Trieste, Venice and Vicenza. In November, we extended our golf season with two-weeks on Hilton Head Island, returning home to enjoy a nice visit with our daughter Louisa over Thanksgiving. In December, we spent the Christmas holidays with Matt and his family as guests of his in-laws in Athens. Then in early January, Martha flew out to Denver where she and the ladies in fiancé Will’s family helped Louisa pick out a wedding dress. That’s our big 2020 event – Louisa’s and Will’s summer wedding in the mountains of Colorado. Theirs will be a two-educator household. Future son-in-law Will is finishing his PhD in Science Curriculum Development at the University of Colorado and Louisa, having completed her master’s degree in Curriculum and Pedagogy at CU-Denver, is leading the early childhood reading program for the Denver Public School System, among other things. We continue to enjoy and learn from our work with our church and its food ministry, the Kennett Symphony, the Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia and our county’s historical center and museum. A new three-year commitment beginning this year is with the Advisory Board of Duke Performances, Duke University’s performing arts series. We very much look forward to our two 50th college reunions this year and to the Class of ’66 Kinkaid reunion next year. Best to you, our fellow Falcons and your families, John & Martha” Margaret Frederking Barton and Richard Shullaw are doing well. She reports, “We are thrilled to report that our daughter Travis and her family will soon move from Hong Kong to Paris. We are already making plans to visit!”

Maria Whitmore Klein aka “Mimi” has sad news and good news. She writes, “The sad part is that I lost my husband last February from a type of leukemia. My son and I are continuing to run my husband’s love of ranching and raising cattle outside of Crockett, TX. The good news is that my daughter had her second child – a boy – to compete with his sister (3.5). Needless to say I’m busier than a one-armed paper hanger!”

From David Boldrick: “I see Liz Respess at church all the time. I was recently nominated to be on a Mission and Outreach committee at Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church – great opportunity to do good for the needy areas in Dallas. Still doing a little refrigeration work, headed to Jeddah to finish up a specialty bread freezer in February. Need to practice my Farsi!! Going to Big Bend again this spring to do more

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astrophotography. I like those clear skies and Milky Way views. This second half is really fun, feel good, lots of time to do good things! As always my Falcon buddies are my lifetime best memories! Very best to all, especially Ford, Rob (killer), George, Ernie, Steve, Ned – Boldy Boldrick” Happy news from Gayl Ware Carlberg: “The only real news we have is our son Chris ’01 is engaged! He’s marrying Sarah Abare in Saugatuck, MI on Labor Day weekend. We love her to death and are thrilled.”

As for me (Pat Kidson Fogle Cavanagh – do I have the most names in our class?): My family was together around the Christmas tree for the first time in 17 years when my children Elizabeth Fogle Sparks ’91 (fs), Rebecca Fogle Warriner ’93 (fs) and Will Fogle, along with their spouses and children, came to Houston to see my mother Polly Gentry. Mom broke her femur in September, and the kids decided this would be the perfect year for a Christmastime reunion. Mom will be 98-yearsold in March! She is remarkable. I continue to play handbells and sing in the Chapelwood UMC Chancel Bells and Chancel Choir. We toured Savannah, GA and St. Simons Island, GA in October 2019 and we will tour Croatia in September 2020.

With church, several students who come to my home for reading help, doing some consulting and diagnostic testing, volunteering at Spring Branch Elementary School with fourth and fifth graders who are learning to read in English, spending as much time as I can at daughter Rebecca’s AR Workshop Cypress and being part of Team Polly as we care for my sweet mom, my days are jam packed which is just the way I like it. I stay in touch with Liz Respess, too, as a way to stay connected to Dick.

As always, I wish each of you good health and rich blessings as we enter this new decade. Let kindness and gratitude fill your days and your lives.

Pat

1967 Laurye Rutten Tanner Albuquerque, NM lauryert@yahoo.com I (Laurye Rutten Tanner) thought if I asked my class one more time what is new in their life, nobody would response. At our age everyone knows just about everything in our lives. The last time I was at a reunion, the best part was sharing the memories we had when we were at Kinkaid. I asked my classmates to write about

some of their favorite memories.

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Steve McCary remembers Kinkaid being located between the fringes of the city and the countryside. Kinkaid had a more rural or bucolic feel in the 1960s than it does today. He remembers hearing and feeling sonic booms in the early 1960s. He remembers trees that have since been cut down to allow roads to be extended (e.g. San Felipe now goes through to Memorial Drive) and businesses to be built, office buildings and shopping areas to be developed. He remembers a beautiful parking lot that had trees and shade and birds and squirrels making their presence known. Today, when he drives past Kinkaid, it looks more like a lovely private college located in a sprawling city. Steve also added that their son has been doing oral arguments before appellate courts, the 5th Circuit in New Orleans and the Texas Supreme Court. He has turned into an exceptional appellate attorney.

Karen Neuhaus Schneider (fs) was at Kinkaid from K through ninth grade.

First, she was at the old campus on Richmond. Her Kindergarten class was in a cozy little white house.

Then the move to the new school in third grade and the long bus ride “way out Memorial.” She remembers Mrs. McCullough in fifth grade, reading to them every day after lunch while they laid their heads on their desks. Karen’s Field Day memory, which was mortifying, was in the second-grade relay where they were to run up to a line, do a somersault and run back to the next person in line. She did the somersault and took off running the wrong way, not helping the purple team. She can still hear laughing from the stands and still has no sense of direction. Then there were the parties at Nancy’s house where they played many a game of Spin the Bottle. Karen still see many of her classmates and loves running in to others.

Stewart Simonds came to Kinkaid in the seventh grade. Mr. Cooper warned Stewart and his parents that a lot of these students were spoiled and privileged. He ignored the warning and along with his penny loafers began building life long and meaningful friendships. He graduated in the top 66 students of his class in 1967.

Friends of 58 years are special. In his junior year he had Mrs. Clifford for English. He committed to memory Casey At The Bat. He tried hard to emphasize the appropriate parts with the proper voice inflection in front of classmates. Mrs. Clifford gave him a C +.

Since Sarah Lee Hodell was six years old, she always remembers lining

up as a proud “gold team member.” She felt so loyal to the gold team. Her love for dancing began in junior high. There were cool adults who arranged many things for the students. She wrote she was so shy so that really helped her. She has vague memories of hayrides and dances with amazing bands. Younger days she discovered trails through woods across Buffalo Bayou to find homes of other Kinkaid classmates such as Chrissie Norquist Stamey, Prissy Freeman Larson and Alison Anderson Bailey (fs). Many group study sessions at Laurye Rutten Tanner’s house, whose mom would buy us boxes of treats.

Another memory was a car wash at a house on Memorial and Nancy Corley Wehrung hosted an all-night long graduation party. Nancy added: “That car wash was at her home on Chimney Rock in Memorial. The purpose was to raise money for the Senior Prom. Beginning the freshman year, the class would raise money for the Senior Prom for the class just ahead of them. The fundraising continued for three years.”

She was wondering if that is still a practice at Kinkaid and what percentage of the prom the class actually paid for.

Nancy Corley Wehrung went to Kinkaid from third grade through graduation. Football season was always a highlight in the high school years for her. “Each Friday during the season, there was a varsity football game. The home games were always well supported by students of all ages, parents and the Kinkaid community. Following the football game there was a dance for all of the high school at a student’s home with a live band. Everyone danced!

Then there were the “Bus Trips” to out of town football games. Of course, the lights were off on the ride back to Houston, resulting in many rumors and scandals as everyone spied on their fellow students and friends. We had no idea at the time how fortunate we were! This was the typical Friday night during football season, and wow, it was a blast. Another hilarious memory was the third-grade stilt race on Field Day.” Nancy practiced and became very proficient at running on her aluminum stilts. In rehearsal, she was a definite contender to win but learned that Bob Kent was her biggest threat to the blue ribbon. On Field Day, they were all lined up on the starting line and the gun sounded. Bob and Nancy emerged as the clear leaders. Bob would never admit it, but Nancy believed she had him! Wouldn’t you know that her stilts broke just feet away from the finish line. Of course, Bob raced across the finish

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line, winning first place while she walked off the field carrying her broken stilt and spirit. Moral of this story: Be a strong competitor, but loose gracefully! Love you Bob! One of Buddy Trotter’s best memories is during the drama department production of The Crucible, when everyone on stage got lost in what part of the play they were in. “We were in a panic. All actors were trying various lines, trying to get us back on track.” Buddy got lucky enough to throw out a line somewhere near the part of the play that went awry, and someone else picked it up, and they went on without further crisis. Rusty Wynings wrote in Buddy’s annual, “What about the woods?”, which must have been the line. One actress, who will remain nameless, told him when they got offstage, “Buddy, if I could, I would give you a big kiss.” His thought at the moment was, “Why can’t you?”

Rosemary Jacobe Harrison remembers Dr. Kahn and her Psych 101. I was in that class, too.

Our senior class president Joey Tennant started Kinkaid in the ninth grade. At the beginning of his first year at Kinkaid he had a very good history teacher, Mrs. Shreckengaust.

She wanted to let him know who was in charge, because of her memories of his older brother Gail ’61, and the havoc Gail caused in her classes.

The Kinkaid world was brand new to Joey, a very small, skinny redhaired kid with freckles. He was sitting in the front row next to Chrissie Norquist Stamey because they were the shortest kids. Then somebody else, like Larry Knapp or Marvin Morse started making noises (probably fake farts) and before he knew what was happening, Mrs. Shreckengaust had grabbed him by the ear, dragged him to her desk, shoved him under it and told him to look for his brother’s initials written on the inside walls!

Gail’s initials were there.

Alex Diffey’s memory was just as embarrassing. Ann Greenwood Kolb and Alex were seated together at one of those double desks in study hall.

Ann quietly asked him how to tie a tie. He tried to stealthily slip his off, slide it over to her and proceed to oh so quietly whisper instructions on how to tie it. They were confident that being seated at the front wall, Mrs. Reed at her desk in the back would not notice or hear. Just as Ann was finishing her tying of the tie, Mrs. Reed, perhaps two feet behind them and looking over their shoulders, spoke up. “So you want to tie a tie? Come with me!” She took them to the back of the class and tied the tie around their necks and let them stand there tied together for the last 15 minutes of study hall.

Carter Hood Cunningham remembers Mr. Goddard, eighth grade history teacher, who brought American history alive for her. She also remembers our class winning the Little Brown Jug Middle School contest, singing lots of Patriotic songs, Sarah Lee Hodell pole vaulting and Mrs. Owen’s encouragement for her to write.

Buddy Trotter added that in Junior High, he got down on his knee in front of the assembled auditorium singing “Daisy, Daisy” to Demi Lockett Prentiss, and his pants ripped in the back, all the way from the crotch to his belt.

One of Ginger Richard’s most vivid memories of her senior (and only year at Kinkaid) is the senior lounge – fifth period. Someone suggested that they should bring in food

snacks. This was strictly forbidden and vehemently policed by Mrs. Vaughan. Fortunately, she always wore heels and they could hear her walking down the hall from her office. That “warning” usually gave them enough time to get everything out of sight before she arrived. They were caught a few times but were undeterred.

Priscilla “Prissy” Freeman Larson’s strongest memories are based on what a close class the Class of ’67 was and Mrs. “Shriek”. Having been a “Lifer” starting in Kindergarten at the Richmond campus, Prissy was always proud of being part of our class and how welcoming everyone was to new students.

Marty O’Dowd wrote, “The football team was getting ready for the an-

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nual Kinkaid vs. St. John’s football slugfest. St. John’s had a great running back we knew we could not contain. In an effort to get everyone focused for the game, Bill Van Zandt and I, as Co-Captains, had the idea to create a pool, in which everyone put in $5.00. That would go to the player who could knock him out of the game. In hind sight, not very sporting, but we were young and passionate. In the second quarter, the SJS running back was making an end sweep and I went in for the tackle, a clean hit; unfortunately he suffered a broken ankle. Kinkaid went on to win the game. However, when Coach Hart found out about the pool, he made me use the money to buy flowers and personally deliver them to the player in the hospital.”

“Nothing is more important than education.”

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usan and Dick Hansen have enjoyed the benefits of a Kinkaid education through the years and have been devoted to the School in every way. “I was brought up believing that nothing is more important than education. It was actually a no brainer to have Kinkaid listed in our estate plan,” says Susan. They are the parents of two Kinkaid alumnae, Brooke Hansen Spanos ’96 and Brittany Hansen Cassin ’00, and grandparents of two current students, Charlie Cassin ’30 and Jake Cassin ’32.

Susan and Dick feel their daughters flourished at Kinkaid through “the opportunity to challenge their minds and expand their experiences.” Susan shares, “I love that Kinkaid has something for each child, no matter what their interests are. It offers such a wide variety of curriculum that every child has an opportunity to explore and develop in an area that suits them best. Every child is nurtured in their passion, be it arts, sports or academics.”

The greatest impact on their daughters was the faculty that inspired them toward fulfilling careers. “While our oldest daughter, Brooke, was attending Mrs. Katherine Leatham’s 9th grade biology class, she never knew she would be so fascinated with biology, but Mrs. Leatham’s creative teaching did the trick. Brooke went on to Baylor College of Medicine and became a doctor. Brittany found her talent for photography in Mr. David Veselka’s class. After winning several first place photography awards in the State of Texas, Brittany was awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Southern California. We give Mr. Veselka all the credit for being such a fabulous teacher.”

Susan and Dick

The Hansen’s hobbies include traveling, bird hunting, skiing, hiking and spending time at the family farm in Brenham and summers in Colorado.

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Larry Knapp’s favorite memories are Able’s Grub hole and when he had to miss the purple passion party at Woody’s house at 7 AM the last day of school because had to make up a first period Physics test for Mr. Fisher.

Chrissie Norquist Stamey remembers driving around after school in Nancy’s corvette. I remember another classmate getting a corvette when she got her driver’s license when she turned 14. Carter Hood Cunningham took Driver’s Ed with Mr. Perkins. Driving at 14, but she did pass, by some miracle. Her father Rev. Hood must have prayed the whole time.

Ginger Richard says her favorite class was Comparative Religion taught by Mr. Moss. “We used a book and handouts on all of the different world religions. It was the first semester of my senior year. We would discuss similarities and differences.” She thinks Carter Hood Cunningham was in the class. She had Mr. Holder for advanced math which she also loved. She went back a few times and visited him.

Mrs. Miller: Alison Anderson Bailey (fs) remembers Mrs. Miller. She went to every football game with a handkerchief on her head, told us it was more important to eat the orange peel than the orange and made us memorize the elements in the periodic table. She loved her.

Linda Halbouty Revious wrote that there is something that you all may not know about Mrs. Miller. After Linda graduated, she kept up with Mrs. Miller. She would go over to see her at least once a month. When Michel was born, Linda asked her to be one of his God Mothers with Jan Ginther who was the other God Mom. Mrs. Miller would write him letters about the St. Helen’s Eruption, or about anything that had to do with the Earth. Linda has most of them in a book. When Meghann was born, Mrs. Miller made cross-stitch things for framing. Mrs. Miller also crocheted tatting and made yards and yards of tatting for the inside of Meghann’s wedding dress. When they would visit her at her small crowded house on Purdue, they would spend at least an hour in her garden learning about all sorts of fossils, rocks, plants and bugs. Then they would go inside and have tea. Mrs. Miller loved to bring out her tea cups and tea pot.

Mrs. Miller, back in the 50’s before she taught at Kinkaid, was the only lady paleontologist in the country.

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Humble Oil, died. She talked Mr. Cooper into letting her teach.

Buddy Trotter added that Mrs. Miller really wanted Kinkaid to have a band. She came to Buddy’s house several mornings a week in Junior High and picked him up so he could practice before school with a couple of other students to try to form a Kinkaid band. Buddy played the saxophone then. He remembers performing in front of all the Junior High in the auditorium. He said they were terrible, but tried hard.

Ann Lents absolutely agreed about Mrs. Miller. “Do you remember making soap, memorizing long lists of scientists and her mantra of ‘save the prairie chicken’? What an incredible teacher, and so far ahead of her time.”

I (Laurye) remember I was co-homecoming queen with Linda Halbouty Revious. She made a hat from the ribbons. She wore that hat at my wedding. She also made me a cross stitch that is still in my home.

Bob Kent wrote, “My wife Sally ’70 (fs) had Mrs. Miller and Jeb Bush (fs) sat next to her in class. One day Mrs. Bush rapped on the metal grates by the class door and called Mrs. Miller outside in the hall and scolded her for teasing Jebby because he wore white tennis shoes and had bad posture. She had a thing for tennis shoes and bad arch support. Also Sally reminded me that Mrs. Miller made a blanket for our son Alan ’92 (fs) when he was at Kinkaid. She was a great teacher, a bit strict, but probably needed in my case. Nowadays, not sure if that approach is tolerated unfortunately.”

Mrs. Clifford: Ann Lents liked Mrs. Clifford. She learned so much about precision in language from her, and credits her with Ann having some notion of how to write when she hit law school – a huge gift.

Ann Abercrombie wrote that Mrs. Clifford is the only teacher that Ann wrote a personal thank you note to thanking her for preparing her for the dreaded freshman English.

Ann’s most memorable memory was being suspended for three days for smoking in the restroom. Where was that smoker’s lounge??? (Ann, it was in the boiler room.) Years later, she learned that the same thing happened to her mother at a boarding school in Switzerland. Ann will never forget the after-parties at Nancy’s house on Chimney Rock; her pool was so unusual for that day and time. When she drives by today, she wonders if it looks the same as it did.

Jan Ginther started in kindergarten. When her parents took Jan over to the “cozy little white house” and LEFT HER THERE, she thought, “What are my parents doing to me?” But then, she saw Steve Adger doing his Burt Reynolds pose on his little “napping rug,” and she said, “Ok, this is good!” Jan loved Mrs. Miller! She was one of a kind, and Jan only wishes she could remember everything she tried to teach us. As for Mrs. Clifford, Jan was told she had to memorize something for her. They kept rescheduling, so she got away with never doing it, and passed! She thought Ann Abercrombie was going to tell this story. “In high school, Woody always kept asking some of us girls if we had any gum, specifically Chiclets. He was taking all of our ‘supply,’ so we devised a plan to rid him of the habit. We substituted the Chiclets with Ex-Lax. I am not sure who administered the lethal dose, but Woody was seen running out of class. He possibly could have run 100 meters in 9.83 seconds! Graduation night was bittersweet. Sweet ‘cause “I’m outta here,” but to not have our entire class there, was so sad.

My (Laurye) surprising memory was when I was told I made the girls Varsity Basketball team my sophomore year. I had the lead in the senior play, The Company of Wayward Saints. Mr. Boyd told me that the first cuss word ever, in any product he had done, was being said by me.

After the show my parents were mad and so were some teachers. The word was “damn.” I was taught that people who cuss do not have the vocabulary to choose the correct word.

Probably from Mrs. Miller or Coach Lowry. One more, I got Mr. Moss on the back of a small motorcycle. I drove him all over Kinkaid’s property my last day at Kinkaid.

I hope y’all have enjoyed our memories and they maybe brought memories back to you.

Laurye

1968 Annie Owen Houston, TX anniedowen@me.com Elizabeth Topper Nash San Marcos, TX enash@grandecom.net

1969 Bonnie German Chandler Harvard, MA bchandler1@charter.net

Several class members who couldn’t come to our 50th reunion sent messages last spring that were crowded out of our last class notes by all the reunion news, so I have added them along with other news below: Gloria Parker Mallard wrote that she was sorry to miss the reunion, but she was taking her son to the Dominican Republic for spring break – “It’s our boy’s last one before college and we’re taking him to surfing school.”

Peggy Whitmore Douglass couldn’t come to reunion because her husband booked a surprise trip to the Galapagos. This winter she wrote that she and her husband Jim are staying busy with their daughter, son-in-law and grandson (2), who live nearby in Pittsburgh. Her son is an attorney for Citi Corp and loves Florida (he lives in Tampa). Peggy takes her Therapy Dog to visit rehabilitation and senior facilities – 126 visits this year! She rides her horse daily; it is a hunter/ jumper “but I leave the jumping to the younger set!”

Jan Jacobe Houston was also sorry to miss reunion, but she has been under treatment for leukemia for 11 years and has to avoid crowds to protect her immune system. She says her husband, son and daughter and grandchildren take great care of her and she spends a lot of time cooking, reading and gardening.

Marty Dukler had a family wedding at reunion time. He writes that he is living in the DC area with his wife and business partner Dianne and their two children – one in high school and one in college. He and Dianne own a consulting group that helps non-profit and for-profit organizations with vision and mission change. They work with large organizations such as McDonald’s and the Aspen Institute, but also with small businesses as well. “We have 20 employees and it is fun almost every day.” He explains, “After grad school at Penn with Murphy, I decided to get into the public sector and was Deputy Director of the Philadelphia Community Development Program through the bicentennial. That was an amazing time to be at the heart of the country’s foundation. Then I was offered the job of Deputy Commissioner for Programs at the Texas Department of Human Services on a six-year term.” In addition, while still an undergraduate in 1970, “I opened up my first of nearly 100 restaurants which I eventually sold in 2008.

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was boring and launched the consulting business which I still have with Dianne.” Marty and Dianne “hike, bike and hang out” at “one of the most beautiful parks in the US (Rock Creek).” They also love to entertain and cook, as well as be fans of Americana music. “Our family, while concentrated in parts of Texas, is also spread out from sea to shining sea. We get to take as much time as we want and our clients will tolerate, but we have an awesome team doing all the lifting.” He adds, “Not much else other than I haven’t been Marty since high school. I met a woman in college who I thought I would marry (didn’t) and her name was Daphne. I thought Daphne Duckler as it used to be pronounced was just wrong, so I changed it to Martin “Duke ler.” Been that way ever since. Turns out that was the original pronunciation anyway and my dad had changed it because he thought it was pretentious. Funny but irrelevant history.”

Our AFS exchange student Sheila Holloway wrote from London to say she was sorry to miss the reunion.

“I have such wonderful memories of my year in Houston, still vivid after 50 years. In no particular order: the fantastic Stebbins clan that was my family for the year, including Harvey, their asthmatic and flatulent bulldog; The King and I and other wonderful productions with the dance and drama department; the coach trip to Oklahoma for the football game – I never got the hang of American football rules – so much standing about talking; fields of bluebonnets in the spring and the azalea trail; the doughnuts in the school canteen – irresistible; Mr. Hunter’s civics class – tough going for a ‘lily-livered liberal’ (his words!); the chirruping of the frogs and cicadas in the evening; giant cockroaches; Paul Taylor (fs) playing “Hey Jude” and a gang of us singing along round the piano; my good friend Scott Heumann, who taught me so much about opera; the kindness and hospitality of the Kinkaid community; and so many lovely friends.

I could go on for hours. But before I become maudlin and start quoting melancholic lyrics from my 1969 heroes Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen or Judy Collins, I’ll send a true Brit message from The Beatles: You can knit a sweater by the fireside Sunday mornings go for a ride Doing the garden, digging the weeds, Who could ask for more?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I’m 64?

Who’d have thought most of us would get to 64 and beyond, but we’re still here and going strong.

Here’s to the next 50 years! Much love to everyone – and if you’re in the UK any time, get in touch!”

Ken Jones writes, “My life after Kinkaid began in Colorado, where I got a BS degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado in 1973. But ever since my days on the Kinkaid debate team, I had always wanted to be a lawyer, and so I headed off to the University of San Diego School of Law, getting my JD in 1976. I wanted to become a Department of Justice trial attorney, but they did not share my vision. Luckily, a law professor had suggested that I apply to the IRS for a trial lawyer job, and the IRS was more forgiving of my shortcomings, hiring me in 1977. I worked in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel in Washington, DC for 14+ years, and while some of that time was spent in various management positions, I did get the opportunity to litigate a lot of big cases. In 1991, I was lured to the private sector by Big Four accounting firm KPMG. I became the partner in charge of the firm’s IRS group nationally, up until my retirement (the mandatory retirement age for partners at that firm is 60!). I decided that I was not quite ready to retire, and I joined law firm EvershedsSutherland’s tax practice here in Washington, DC, where I continue to represent clients with IRS problems and litigate cases – and preparation for an upcoming trial is what prevented me from being at the Class of ’69 reunion.” Ken and his wife Cindy, a retired IRS attorney, “frequently crisscross the US and Canada” visiting their four children and eight grandchildren. They also spend time in Crested Butte, CO. “My plan is to retire when I turn 69 – but…full disclosure…I also previously planned to retire at 60, then 63, then 66 – you get the picture.”

Jim Crain (fs) wrote enthusiastically after the reunion: “It was special.

To everyone who did not come for whatever reason, you were missed!

Really! I had not had anything to do with this class since I left. After ninth grade I went to The Hill School in Pottstown, PA for the rest of high school. David Daniels (fs) also went there at the same time. Coming to this reunion was like getting a hug I didn’t know I needed. We are a kind of family but without the same kind baggage our nuclear families spawn. We all share some part of the experience of the Class of ’69.

Know that however you remember your time at Kinkaid, you are a member of a family like no other. Consider showing up for some function in the future if you can.

Wandering wayward prodigals: they will have a fatted calf or lamb (or maybe sweet potatoes for vegetarians) in your honor. For those who showed up and shared – thank you!

I heard expressions of things that the rest of us had probably thought, and possibly believed, were unique feelings. That is true in our “real” families, too. But, in this family, all traveling through Kinkaid at the same age, we shared growth experiences over time, with the same age-relevant hopes and fears. That is very different from our families of origin, where we had pecking orders. (There were five kids in my family. Family systems therapy aficionados: I am the middle child, the scapegoat. It’s all my fault!) If you were an only child, you still probably found some camaraderie as part of the Class of ’69 that you didn’t get anywhere else. Whatever you imagined about showing up for a Kinkaid reunion (especially negative images), push all that away.

‘This’ was not ‘that.’ As I said: It was a hug. Come claim your hug next time. All you have to do is to show up. Thanks, again!”

“A memory I recalled after reunion: Lee Hudson (fs), in Lower School (third or fourth grade) used to have shouting fights in French with Mme. Serabian during French class.

Frequently he did not do his homework. She was his nanny when she came to the United States, so he could argue in near flawless French, as an eight- or nine-year-old, with an accent from Toulouse, her hometown. She wasn’t having it. He was dishing it out. I wonder where they both ended up.”

[I never knew Lee Hudson, but I remember Lewis Ducros (fs) in junior high, whose French was better than his English, yet he also frequently got in trouble for not doing his French homework! – Bonnie] In more recent news, Scott Talbot writes that he has been retired since March 2017. “Since then, we have traveled, I have attempted to improve my golf game without any success, watched my two grandkids become teenagers, volunteered at Braes Interfaith Ministries and worked part time at a friend’s company. I wish everyone well and hope to make the next reunion.”

Since reunion, Marianne Tatum and her daughter Mariden traveled to Jamestown, VA to celebrate the 400th anniversary of their ancestor Nathaniell Tatum’s arrival in America in May 1619. “Nathaniell was a London orphan, caught up in the orphan sweep of 1618 which landed him and hundreds of other children in Bridewell prison. They were ‘conscripted’ by the Virginia

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Company as ‘free labor’ (indentured servants) and in spring of 1619 sent to Virginia on the ship George. Of 100 children (8 to 18) on that first voyage, only four survived after four years in the new land. Within 10 years, Nathaniell not only survived hunger, sickness and brutal Indian attacks, he owned 550 acres along the Appomattox River. He remains as the evidence of resilience and strength in our history. I am so proud to have descended from him!”

Carole Smithwick-Kiebach wrote, “2019 was an eventful year for us! The reunion was great, and weren’t we lucky to be able to visit with so many classmates! I have replaced the knee that kept me on a cane for the reunion and the lenses that kept me from seeing anyone else’s wrinkles clearly. David had a very successful lymph-to-vein bypass done on his continuing road to full cancer remission. Our younger son Eric married his beautiful bride L in June and cemented his move to Seattle. David and I spent three months commuting to Omaha every two weeks while our other daughter-in-law was on temporary duty abroad for the Air Force. Bless Skype for the connections it allowed every night when she read the kids their bedtime stories. Her promotion to Lt. Col. and their next relocation are imminent.

She is with Space Command now, and Andrew ’98 (fs) earned his MS in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance this year and was recently promoted to Lead Systems Engineer at Warren Buffet’s Oriental Trading Co. We spent the two-week winter break with them and our grandkids Michelle (5) and Ian (3) in a snowless Omaha. We are debating between two builders for our retirement home on the farm in Willis, but hope to have started building by the spring. With both of us retired from teaching now, our lives completely revolve around our family.

We are so very fortunate!”

Tony Arnold says he and his wife Jennie “are loving our life in the Texas Hill Country on Canyon Lake.

I work part time in three different New Braunfels hospitals while Jennie remains busy organizing the last 40 years of our life into our new home. Oldest son Jason and his wife live in the Woodlands and have two children. They recently started an energy consulting company, ATex Energy Consulting, which is really taking off. Youngest son Dan is the materials and supply chain manager for the company. Middle son Steve is an anesthesia technician in Corpus Christi. We are thankful to be in reasonably good health and hope all the 69’ers are doing well.

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wandering the area with a little extra time on your hands.”

Don Pickels has had excellent results from his new interest in Intermittent Fasting. [A technique that creates a daily “fast” by scheduling each day’s meals and snacks within the narrowest tolerable time frame, in order to help keep insulin levels healthy and other benefits – I have been working toward this recently, too. – Bonnie] “About a year ago I saw a YouTube video on IF and gave it a try, deciding to eat only between the hours of noon and 6 pm.

The first few days were difficult, but within six weeks, I dropped 27 lbs. and discovered my best weight was 170 lbs., not 197! It was actually easy once I started. I also sleep better, am stronger and have improved my rankings in professional Kung Fu and disc golf competitions.

Currently I’m ranked No. 1 in both sports for my age group (over 50) in Houston. It changed my life and could improve yours, too! Check out the many available videos and articles on IF. My buddy Gary Wilkerson also endorses it. Give it a try. Go Falcons!”

Rick Frachtman has some post-reunion news: “Anne and I will have been married 42 years by the time these class notes are printed. We have two sons and one daughter, all in Houston. Two are married and have children, so we have two grandsons (1 and 3) and a granddaughter (8). We have fun spending time with all of them. I am still working but expect to retire within a year. I had a birthday just before the new year, so now I am a true ’69’er in more ways than one. In the late summer, Anne and I joined a group of friends on a cruise to New England and Canada, including stops in Boston, Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. On our way back to New Jersey in early September, we were traveling back down the coast while Hurricane Dorian was coming up the coast. To avoid rough waters, the ship’s captain accelerated our return to arrive Friday night and dock overnight instead of Saturday morning, and to kill some time, he decided as a bonus to sail up the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline. It must have been quite a sight to see a 4,700-passenger cruise ship sailing up and down the Hudson.” Rick’s son Steven ’97 was invited in July to be the local physician for the Rolling Stones when they performed in Houston. “Fortunately,” Rick says, “there were no major medical issues. For his efforts, he and his wife Jenny were given VIP passes and tickets in the pit for the concert. He said he was 10 feet from the stage

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and that it was the experience of a lifetime. We baby-sat for them that night. I heard it was a great show.

Daughter Lindsey is a physician’s assistant but for now is working only as a stay-at-home mom with a one-year-old. Her husband Scott is an attorney. Son Mark ’01 (a tutor and videographer) is launching a Houston-based shopping app this year that lets the user purchase clothing and accessories from local boutiques. Anyone interested can sign up at HoustonFashionApp.com to get a spot and earn discounts and other membership perks.”

Several class members also commended another of Mark Frachtman’s creations, a You-Tube kid’s channel called Cady’s Corner, designed for children aged 3 to 12.

Those of us with grandchildren that age should check it out.

Thank you, everyone, for another great column full of interesting news! Keep it coming!

1970 Malcolm Waddell Houston, TX mwaddell@sba-skincare.com Dear 1970 Classmates, When you read this column in the Kinkaid Magazine, we will be on the cusp of celebrating our 50th reunion. It’s hard to believe that we are now a “golden” class, especially when you were a Purple like me.

I hope many of you will be joining us for the festivities. As a warm up, here’s what’s happening for many of our classmates.

Let’s start with wedding news; Sheryl Lynn Coles Jones married Jack Jones last September 25. Lynn and Jack live in New Braunfels but are currently vacationing on the Big Island of Hawaii. From our 50th state (seems appropriate place to write for the 50th reunion edition), Lynn emailed: “Jack and I are in Hawaii for an extended retirement trip for him. Even though we are retired, we are just as busy as ever combining two houses. Such a great time in life to marry the man I was always intended to be with. Canyon Lake area is our home, and we have five terrific kids and six grandkids in Oregon, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas.

That alone keeps us on the road, in addition to our love of travel and learning/ experiencing new people, cultures, food and beer/wine. Every day is a gift and a Joy! We are both grateful! Look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion!”

I’ve called several folks as we prepare for Reunion 50. First up was

Alan Gerger, who shared: “After a short stint in graduate school, I worked in my dad’s manufacturing business for about eight years. I started practicing bankruptcy law in 1985 and started my own firm in 1992. My wife of 43 years, Arlene, and I are still in Houston. Our two children graduated from Kinkaid in 2003 (Emily) and 2008 (Tracy).

Emily and family – husband and two granddaughters (5 and 4) – moved to Vancouver, Canada last June. Emily has a master’s degree in Hospital Administration and her MD husband Graham is board-certified in family medicine and pathology. He works for a laboratory similar to Quest and LabCorp. In July, Arlene and I drove their car and dog to visit them and dropped both of those belongings off. We spent five days on the road and five days in Vancouver, a great place to visit, before flying back. Tracy and family – husband and two grandchildren (3 for the boy and 1 for the daughter) – live in Houston. Husband Mark is in consulting and investment banking for the oil and gas industry. All is well.”

My next call was to Bill Levin. As I brought up some of our common past, Bill had a vivid memory of Mr. Windsor and his overhead projector from eighth grade math class. He had mercifully forgotten about our infamous days in Mr. Cromack’s 10th grade World Cultures class. That’s probably a good thing; it wasn’t anyone in that class’s proudest moment! Bill gets us up-to-date: “I am retired from a city planning career but serve on the Stamford CT Planning Board, a volunteer position. I also do several other volunteer jobs. My wife Karen is the president of the sisterhood at her synagogue and works part-time at a real estate office. We travel a few times a year. Last year we went to Greece, Seattle/Olympic National Park and Copper Canyon, Mexico.

We headed to Southern California in February to visit family. I wish I had known about the reunion earlier, but I’ll think about [coming to] the reunion.” Suzanne and I shared a New Year’s Eve drink with Bill and Karen on their last visit to town. I’m hoping Bill and Karen will join us in early April.

With the upcoming reunion, I sent out more than my usual number of requests for news, and thank you to all of you who responded. Like clockwork I heard first from Phil Salvador, who wrote: “All is well with me and my family. Son Lucas and daughter Carla will graduate in May from Georgia Tech and Lonestar College respectively. Lucas will start full time work in July in Connecticut with ASML, a semiconductor chip maker. Carla

will go to Korea for three months to learn Korean language and culture.

My wife Christiane and I continue in quiet retirement in The Woodlands, busy with our projects.”

Again in Reunion quest, I started stalking classmates on Facebook and found one of my favorite lost classmates, Cindy Brown. Probably about 20 years ago or so, Cindy decided to leave Houston and as she told me then, “Go off the grid.”

And we lost touch over those years.

Cindy will be joining us for the reunion from her home in Boerne, TX. Via FB Messenger, she shared: “I retired summer before last but continue a couple of days per week consulting as a school psychologist for Bandera ISD. My older brother lives here, and my mom passed away here several years ago at 99-½. I live in a historic limestone house built in 1886. I raise heirloom chickens and ducks, and I’m involved with the Native Plant Society of Texas as President of our local chapter.” At her request, I did connect Cindy with Tomoko Masuzawa, who responded to my connecting email with “delight” and clearly is remaining busy at the University of Michigan where she is a professor still dealing with research grant applications and student job recommendation letters. Still, I’m so happy these two got back in communication together.

I also found Betty Ericson Jones (fs) on Facebook and got her address and email, so hopefully she’ll be joining us at the 50th. Erin Randall-Orgel and Marla Wackman Killebrew had Facebook pages, and I IM’ed them as well, but neither are really active on FB, so no word back yet. I can share that Marla has a granddaughter, and I can report that both she and Erin look great in their profile pictures.

Bonnie Robins Coburn was next to respond with, “I’m still doing my part-time insurance work two days a week (just can’t bring myself to stop entirely). Husband Mickey is still enjoying retirement but seems to work harder now than he ever did at work. He is always starting a new project. We did welcome our ninth grandchild on September 26th, a healthy bouncing baby boy.

That makes four girls and five boys.

We are truly blessed. We headed out on another cruise at the end of January. Seems the only way we really get some down time.”

Another one of my can-count-on correspondents is Bob Frachtman: “I’m still working full time at Austin Gastroenterology and on the clinical faculty of Dell Medical School at UT Austin. I’m also still on the board of trustees of the University of Texas

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Hillel, the AIPAC National Council and the Washington University at St. Louis Central Texas Regional Cabinet. I’m a Longhorn, but two of my three kids are proud Wash U grads. Where do I get the energy?

Plant-based diet (ask Malcolm).

I wish I could say that I’m training for a marathon but just not enough time this past year. Wife Sherrie is still involved in her incredible non-profit work. Her newest project is being on the board of trustees of KLRU (Austin’s public television).

She’s still on the board of trustees of Austin Speech Labs, a non-profit speech therapy effort, which is surpassing all expectations from the neurologists. Son Julian is co-founder of his advertising tech start up (teamed with an engineer from Bangalore, India), is married to our wonderful daughter-in-law Leah and father of our incredible grandson Gabriel (14 months). Second

son Brandon is Head of Real Estate Development for Elevate Growth Partners, a rapidly growing commercial real estate development company here in Austin. He is dating a St. John’s (gasp!) graduate and is also on the local board of the Jewish National Fund. Daughter Adrienne is a speech pathologist for Denver Public Schools and is doing a great job. I just returned from Colorado after skiing with her at Beaver Creek. When I went to Christy’s to rent skis, it turned out the guy that rented me my skis was a graduate of Kinkaid. When he told me that, I surprised him with “Thy praise is high” in my best John Cooper voice.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.” Bobby also got to see and catch up with another lost classmate Debbie Lyle Dysart at the Kinkaid Austin-area Alumni Party in November. I tried to get Debbie to join us this past summer

when Suzanne and I were in Austin for a meeting. Debbie unfortunately couldn’t join us, but Bob and Sherrie did along with Joanne Hankamer.

All’s good with Joanne and her girls.

Fellow Houstonian and sometimes North Carolinian Sam Collins had news: “The big news for the Collins Clan is daughter Emily ’02’s new baby girl – Poppy Collins Blau – who arrived last August. Her husband Lance just finished his residency in Ohio, and for the moment they’re staying put. We’ve made several trips to see them, and we FaceTime with them constantly. We’re hoping they move back to Texas. Jordan ’00 is still in San Francisco, actually recently moving across the bay to Tiburon, and still in solar energy. I’m looking forward to the 50th Reunion.

Happy New Year to the Class of ’70.”

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more of you in a call campaign to get everyone to the reunion checked in: “I’m retired and still living in Central Florida with Delane, my husband of 40 years. Our four children are all over the world, with two grandchildren. Shades of the past: A researcher writing a book about Alaskan oil and my dad asked me in an interview what I could tell him about Merrill Haas. I told the interviewer that I only knew that he was Cecelia Haas Barnes’ dad. He practically went cross-eyed, like everyone else who thought the two of us had to be related which we are not. I love recalling all of my middle/high school friends at Kinkaid. I’d love to hear from Bonnie Mapes, Marilynn Pyle Johnson and Carol Cowling Coulter, to name just a few.” I did speak late last year with Carol Cowling Coulter, who still lives here in Houston, and she shared that Charla was the Maid of Honor in her wedding many

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Malcolm Waddell ‘70 with the 2020 Outstanding Alumni

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alcolm Waddell ’70 received a BA in Economics and Managerial Studies from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University. At Rice, he received the Hugh Scott Cameron Service Award for meritorious service to the Rice community. He was elected Business Manager of The Rice Thresher and President of The Rice Program Council.

In the three years between Rice and Harvard, Malcolm served as Controller and ultimately Assistant to the President and Chief Operating Officer of The Brinkmann Corporation, a small multi-product sporting goods manufacturer in Bryan and Dallas, TX. Those years with Brinkmann launched a lifelong love for entrepreneurship.

After receiving his MBA, he returned to his native Houston and over the next three years held several positions with Entex, Inc., a conglomerate best known as Houston’s natural gas distribution company. His first stint was in the corporate mergers and acquisitions group. He transferred to University Savings where he served as Assistant to the Director of Human Resources and ultimately Commercial Loans Manager. In his last year at Entex, he returned to the corporate office as Assistant to the Executive VP for Entex’s oil and gas, geothermal and oil field drilling division.

In early 1984 with his fellow Harvard and Rice graduate Tim Tarrillion, he purchased

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Texas Catalyst, Inc., an Alvin, TX-based catalyst handling service company. Over the next 10 years, Malcolm as CEO and Tim as COO grew this $1 million revenue operation with a single office and single service line into a $100 million revenue company with 30 offices and multiple service lines. In late 1993, Enclean, Inc., was acquired by Waste Management, Inc. Tim and Malcolm were honored as Ernst & Young’s Houston Public Company Entrepreneurs of the Year in 1991.

In 1997, Malcolm and wife Suzanne Bruce embarked on what has been a 23-year partnership when Suzanne founded Suzanne Bruce and Associates – Dermatology.

Working together, Suzanne and he grew her one-doctor medical practice to a multi-practitioner office providing medical and cosmetic services and operating a site for clinical research studies that conducts trials for major and start-up national and international pharmaceutical companies.

Among his many volunteer activities, Malcolm served as President of the Kinkaid Alumni Association in 1997-98 and as President of the Jones School’s Rice Business Partners. He currently serves on the board of the Houston Area Women’s Center.

Malcolm is a “Lifer” at Kinkaid entering Kindergarten in the opening year of the Memorial campus. In his school years, he played basketball and golf. To this day he is grateful that Coach Fred Billings plucked

him from obscurity to play Varsity Basketball in his junior and senior years. Besides serving on the Alumni Board, he has been his class’ Kinkaid Magazine correspondent since 1993 and currently serves on the J. Barry Moss Distinguished Speaker Series Committee. He has also planned many class reunions, including his class’ upcoming 50th Reunion. Malcolm has taught rock, soul and pop music classes at Kinkaid Continuing Education Nights. His other volunteer activities on behalf of his alma mater are too numerous to mention. He is grateful to his mom and dad for giving him the gift of a Kinkaid education. His lifelong devotion to Kinkaid is his way of honoring them and his 1970 classmates.

Malcolm and Suzanne have two grown daughters - Julianne, Guest Engagement Coordinator at the Denver Zoo, and Amanda Waddell ’06, Performing Arts Program Officer, Japan Society, in New York.

Malcolm and Suzanne will be grandparents soon; Amanda and her husband Yusuke are expecting their first child in April.

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31st Annual Alumni Holiday Party December 5 in The Commons

Mark Breeding ‘74, Alec Mize, Melissa Lyon Johnson ‘74, Cynthia Walker Blackburn ‘74, Tara Crooker Mize ‘74

John Butler ‘57, Penny Butler, Tom Cronin ‘54, Jan Cronin, Jan Davis, Tom Davis ‘55

Ashton Mossy ‘00, Michel Miller Mullett ‘00, Courtney Domercq Daily ‘94, Brittiany Mossy, Susie Loucks ‘77

Rod Crowl ‘66, Pat Kidson Fogle Cavanagh ‘66, George Kuhn ‘66, Elizabeth Tang, Jim Tang ‘66

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moons ago. Carol came to Kinkaid in the middle of her junior year from Lee High School following her other Lee classmate Sheryl Lynn Coles Jones.

Irene Moody Riviere and I spoke several times last year in our quest to get in touch with Cecilia Haas Barnes, and I’m still on that task!

Irene wrote in with this: “Rob and I are still having a blast with our five grandkids. We had a really fun Christmas, spending it at Dana and son Rhett’s new home, especially being there for Christmas Eve and morning. Nothing better as you and Suzanne are about to find out, congratulations on your future grand baby! As far as what else I have been doing, rehab from another back fusion followed by a total knee replacement. As anyone else who may have had one knows, the knee [replacement] is definitely not for wussies! Anyway, I hope this finds everyone doing well and can’t wait to hopefully see everyone at our 50th! Love to all.”

The “Pittsburgh Swinger” (and now long-time Virginian) Selby Schwend, whose Christmas card takes both sides to show all his family, shared: “The news is pretty much the same for the Schwends up here on Smith Mountain Lake located in southern Virginia. All five of our kids (spread out over the mid-Atlantic from North Carolina to Virginia to Tennessee) and all seven grandchildren are faring well. The youngest grandchild Ruey (18 months) is a pure delight and our oldest grandchild Anthony (19) is still at The Citadel (sophomore year) and is engaged to be married once he finishes there. Are great grandchildren in the offing?

How many of you can be approaching that milestone? Kathie and I are doing as much traveling as we can around doctors’ appointments and procedures. I recently had rotator cuff surgery this past October and have to repeat the surgery on the other shoulder in early April, which will keep me from attending the 50th reunion. I wish all the best for all my classmates during this special gathering and hope that great fun is had by all. Hope to see you at the 60th, Lord willing!” Fortunately, Selby and wife Kathie will be here in February, so we’ll get to mini-reunion then.

Katherine Thompson Jordan (fs) also had news: “2019 year was action packed with selling our home in West University, which I had owned for 38 years. We took some trips: first, in April to Salt Lake City to see our youngest, then to England in May where we revisited my grandmother’s original home in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire.

In July, we flew up to Calgary and then drove to Banff and enjoyed

the beautiful mountains and lakes up to Jasper, Canada. In August we went on to Anchorage to see our youngest who had moved there for a job with the University of Colorado. He was working on the Air Force base on trails, cutting trees and brush down for the training there. The highlight of the year was in September with the birth of our fourth grandson – Christopher Roberts – to my oldest son. His wife and baby are in Panama and scheduled to arrive in the states in a few months. In January we went to Disneyworld with my older daughter, her husband and three boys, and our youngest son with his friend. That made 10 of us. Keeping together in the crowds was tough! I did have some scary health issues this past year, but I am much better now.” Katherine will be attending the Lamar High School Reunion our same weekend in April, but she hopes to see many of us at the Sunday brunch which I’m still working to set up. Shelly Cain Caldwell (fs), another Kinkaidian who went on to finish at Lamar, will be in town reunion weekend, and said she’d also be at the brunch.

From West Texas, another of our regular writers is Betsy Mickley Sheets.

She writes: “My older son Shawn got married in November. I’m spending more time in Houston with my granddaughter Molly (9 months).

My younger son Kelly is trying to talk me into moving there to be with her more! We’ll see! John and I went to several football games this fall – Denver for a Broncos game, Green Bay to Lambeau Field (really interesting), Dallas for a Cowboys game (I’m not really a Cowboys fan, but my kids are!) and then Boerne for Shawn’s wedding. We spent Christmas in Houston with everyone for Molly’s first Christmas. Other than that, I’m just looking forward to the reunion in April!”

Another Lower and Middle School classmate Robin Singer Mowrer (fs) checked in: “Hello from Denver.

2019 was a wonderful and challenging year. The challenging part was getting settled back in Denver [from Dallas], getting our real estate business back up and running and adjusting to the cold again. The wonderful part was getting settled back in Denver, building our business, being back in the cold and the mountains and being in beautiful Colorado with my son and his family and our grandkids. Husband Dale and I also have a beautiful new grandbaby in San Diego. Her name is Noa (7 months) and she is so awesome. Dale and I just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary with all of our family, sisters and their families. It was also a surprise, the best surprise of my

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life. We are looking forward to many more happy years together. We are healthy and enjoy our whole-food, plant-based lifestyle. We open our home every month for a whole-food, plant-based potluck open to anyone who is interested. If you are in Denver on the last Saturday of the month at 12:30 pm, let me know, and we would love to have you come.

Happy new year, everyone, have a wonderful 2020.”

To my shared-birthday brother Neal Anderson, I can always count on you for the shortest and most condensed-with-news account. Neal’s update: “All good at the Anderson house. Great daughters, great son in laws, three wonderful grandchildren. Happy 50th to all my classmates, especially to those who are no longer with us. Gone but not forgotten.” See you at the 50th, bro!

Our 25th reunion in 1995 connected me with our elementary school classmate Tom Hale (fs), and we’ve stayed close ever since. Besides selling real estate, Tom is our class’s archaeologist extraordinaire. He and wife Sherry have traveled all over, and Tom relates their latest historical travels here: “Sherry, son Theodore and I made it to the Nazca Lines and Machu Picchu. We had a great time in Cusco and Lima. We had perfect weather for Machu Picchu. Theodore is halfway through law school at U of H. Life is good with the Hales. I can’t wait to see everyone at the reunion!” Tom also sent me a preview of an article that will appear in this magazine on page 8. He has donated two letterman’s sweaters dating from the mid 1940’s. These sweaters came from Harvey Houck ’45, his uncle and father to our very own Trish Houck (fs). The Hales and the Houcks have a long association with Kinkaid.

Tom’s father was listed as “Best All Around Boy” in 1927 and, according to Tom, was one of the only student pallbearers at Mrs. Kinkaid’s funeral. Thanks, Tom, for sharing this piece of our school’s history. Flash forward from 1927 to 1970 and “Best All Around…” likely morphed into our Mr. and Miss Falcon, Bill Happel and Ellen Ginther Reifslager. Hopefully, both will join us for our 50th.

In November, the Hales, Tio Suman and wife Anne, Ron Bernell and wife Carolyn joined Suzanne and me at a gala that supported the Houston Area Women’s Center. I’ve been on the Center’s board for five years now working with this incredible organization to end domestic and sexual violence for all in our community.

I also spoke last fall with Linda Weingarten Kates. She was doing well.

She lives in the museum area here in Houston and has a granddaugh-

ter who will be attending Kinkaid next fall.

Blake LaRue phoned in from the family farm in La Grange where he was visiting from his regular home base in Homer, AK. Blake is still flying adventurers around Alaska while wife Bonnie is heavily involved with the Alaska Head Start Association.

Daughter Hannah graduated from college in Oregon and second daughter Maggie graduated from Montana State. Blake is excited about coming to the Reunion, and given the distance, he and Bonnie will likely win the “furthest traveled” award!

In my insatiable quest for class news in this pre-reunion edition, Janet Lee Cohen accused me of shaming her into submission. I plead, “Guilty,” and here’s Janet’s update: “I’m still doing advocacy work for Holocaust education and genocide prevention.

It seems the need is still there as we continue to compete for the same resources and oppress each other when those resources become scarce. My mother, who’s about to turn 91, asks if my work does any good, and I tell her we have to try.

Sigh! Rick is still working, TWO jobs now. His grocery firm and a spinoff robotics company that has him hanging out with young techies, which is a blast. He’s a grandpa extraordinaire and a baby whisperer to boot. We may actually miss our 50th reunion because our youngest daughter Rachel is expecting a baby in Washington DC on April 3.

Her first baby was a week late, so it’s possible that will happen again.

But if her baby arrives on time, I’ll be very sorry to miss the reunion but not sorry for the reason. This will be her second boy and our sixth grandchild. After a slow start, we’re racking them up. A couple of years ago, our middle daughter Jill married a man with a four-year-old, and they just had a baby in September in Seattle. And our twin grandchildren who live in Massachusetts are 9 1/2. It’s truly a fun time and a blessing with each one of them. I send warm greetings to all of you and best wishes for a year of good health, happiness, peace and good deeds and congratulations to our very own Malcolm for being recognized as Kinkaid’s Outstanding Alumni Service Award recipient. It’s about time they acknowledged your many contributions to our alma mater, which you so dearly love. I’m pleased and proud to know you!

Love to all!” Editor’s note: Thanks to Janet and all of you who’ve sent me nice notes of congratulations about the award I’ll receive on Friday night of our reunion weekend. It has been my privilege among other things Purple and Gold to serve as our class correspondent (my favorite

Kinkaid job) for the past 27 years.

I am grateful that so many of you have been willing to share your life stories over those many years, and God willing, I’m stay at this post as long as you’ll keep sending your notes and emails.

As noted by Irene, our family’s update and most exciting news is that our daughter Amanda ’06 and her husband Yusuke are expecting their first child and our first grandchild (finally!) in April. All else is well with us, and the rest we’ll catch up on at the reunion. And speaking of which, I want to thank Larry Jacobs for using his connections to get us set up for our Saturday night dinner party at La Griglia.

Finally, to honor our class’s milestone reunion and in remembrance of the nine classmates who are no longer with us, several of you have joined me in making the initial contributions to what will be The Class of 1970 Scholarship Fund. The ultimate goal is to endow a full annual scholarship to a student who otherwise would not be able to attend Kinkaid and receive the Kinkaid education and experience that our parents afforded us. As I write we are already halfway to our initial goal of $250,000.

I hope those of you in the class that can will “pay it forward” and help us achieve that goal, so we will be able to announce it at reunion weekend.

If you haven’t already, please make plans to be in Houston on the newly expanded Kinkaid campus the weekend of April 3-5 for what promises to be our best reunion yet! Keep those emails and Facebook posts coming. See everyone in April.

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Pardue celebrated their 35th year in the Philippines last year and hopefully will be here for another couple of years. We have spent the last several years traveling around Asia visiting Asian and American leaders, but are now settling down back in Manila working with students in a graduate school here. We are thankful to have one of our kid’s families (w/ four grandkids!) here with us. We will be back in Houston in March, then return to Asia soon after that.”

Kim Norris is back in Texas! Welcome home, Kim, who reports that: “This past April I moved back from Massachusetts to Texas (Austin) to establish a Medical Writing function at a small biotech company here. I bought a few acres between Austin and Dripping Springs and have settled in with my brother Robert ’67, my dog, his dog and his nine ducks.

Work has been intense but good, and it’s great to be back in Texas! I get to see Marilyn frequently so that’s an added plus.”

Cindi Wilson Ray is celebrating many major milestones and has much to be thankful for! Congratulations, Cindi, who shared that: “My wonderful father will be 92 this March 17th…goes to the gym at 5:00 am with a trainer three times per week and works a full day, still head of PAC committee for UH...and on Greater Houston Partnership Board. My mom is great and goes to Memorial Park – three miles – and has a trainer twice per week.

We celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with 50 descendants!!!

My sons David, Ryan and Preston are happily married with many fun grandchildren. I am married to Sam Ray and I work alongside my father.

I still do the Salt Grass Trail Ride and am grateful to be an American!!!”

Darrell Bock continues to travel the world. “I continue my work at the Seminary. This year will include time in Germany, Romania, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines and Albania. Pop in to visit with Milton West and catch some Houston sports!”

All is well with Ford ’66, Sparky (fs) and me (Claudia Wilson Frost). When he is not at the office or the ranch, Ford is at the Baker Institute or on the Rice campus taking continuing education courses. Sparky continues to raise, train and show showjumping horses from her farm in Bellville, to work with Ford in their family business and to act as a strategy consultant for the USET Foundation, the organization that funds all of our country’s high performance and Olympic equestrian sports. I continue to actively practice law, handling and trying cases in the oil & gas/energy and IP/technology space.

Frank Pardue has made what may be his first contribution to our Class Notes!!! Thank you, Frank. And Frank has great news to share.

Frank advised that “[h]e and Rosa

REUNION NEXT YEAR: Our reunion next year is a big one!!! Please send me your thoughts and suggestions for safekeeping so that we can begin to get organized.

2020 is off to a quick and good start.

Mike Pearson shared some wonderful news. “Our biggest news is that our son Ben Pearson ’10 got married in November 2019 to Lynsey McDonald of Fort Worth. They live in Houston.

Ben is a CPA with Whitley Penn and Lynsey works as an accountant for Weaver Tidwell.”

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‘When Suddenly’ 2019 from artist Kate Petley ‘72 - Archival Print and Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 48 Inches

1973 alumni Lisa Bernell Rostad, Judy Sud Morris, Pam Dilworth Kissiah, Chuck Blanton, Janet Weingarten Battista celebrating Janet’s visit to H-town at Hugo’s

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Kate Petley is our talented and celebrated artist living with husband Mark Purvis in Longmont, CO. She will be having a couple of solo exhibitions opening in Los Angeles and Boulder this year. We are all invited to the scheduled openings in March and in June 2020. Her exhibition in Los Angeles at VonLintel Gallery opened on March 14 and will go through the end of April. Her June solo exhibition opens at the University of Colorado Art Museum (CUAM), located in Boulder on the main campus on Thursday, June 4 from 5:00 -7:00 PM. The address is: 1085 18th St, Boulder, CO 80309. Everyone is welcome to attend. The reception is free and open to the public. These exhibitions represent the culmination of 30 years spent as a working artist. Her initial interest in sculpture now combines with photography and painting to result in canvases that deliberately blur these boundaries. The current work addresses what a luminous surface might mean in today’s screen-driven culture, using color to amplify the visual and physical perception of light.

Wishing Kate continued success with her art work and upcoming exhibitions.

As class correspondent, I have determined that we will have a more robust ’73 news report if we publish news just one time per year; and in the other issue, we will hopefully have a photo or two to share.

Wishing all Falcons far and wide a Happy 2020 and a healthy & prosperous new decade!

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Pam Dilworth Kissiah Houston, TX pkissiah@gmail.com

Judy Levin Houston, TX jude118@aol.com

Lewis Luckenbach Sugar Land, TX lluckfam@aol.com Allan Tang Houston, TX allantang@earthlink.net Judy Lee Lyman reports a very fun mini-reunion with Franci, Tracy, Cathy, Marcia and herself in celebration of Franci’s January birthday – we all wish a Happy BD to Franci. Judy and Jeff have been married for almost 42 years and have two grown kids – Stewart (39) and Ali (36). They also have three grandkids (10, 7 and 5) who keep them busy and serve as their greatest joy when visiting Nashville. They split their time between Tennessee, Houston, Lake McQueeney and Colorado walking two labradoodles and playing pickle ball. I’ve heard that pickle ball is a lot of fun and a really growing sport at our club in Palm Springs as well – maybe an intra-club tournament with Judy’s teammates one of these days?

Tom Wynne and Mary Perry report on delightful travel experiences and a friendship of 1.5 years that evidently only took 45 years to materialize. Evidently, our memorable and amazing class reunions at Michael and Nina O’Leary Zilkha’s beautiful home can conjure up some very fond memories for all of us. Mary is living close to her three grown children and one grandson in Fort Worth, but finds time to travel the world and improve on her golf game with travel buddy and primary golf instructor Tom W. Tom has transitioned into his retirement after a long and storied career as a landman/deal maker in the oil and gas industry. Last summer he and Mary traveled through Europe together and still find time to work on their golf during the high season in Carmel, CA.

In this issue, we have two pictures from 2019 get togethers: (1) Fred Meyer, Marion Perryman Liedtke, Chuck Blanton, Susu Zimmerman Meyer, Missy Baker Jones, Cadell Liedtke, Scott Jones and Pam Dilworth Kissiah celebrating the holidays and so much more!

(2) Lisa Bernell Rostad, Judy Sud Morris, Pam Dilworth Kissiah, Chuck Blanton and Janet Weingarten Battista celebrating Janet’s visit to H-town at Hugo’s.

1974 Madeleine Topper Sheehy Houston, TX madtop05@gmail.com

1973 alumni Fred Meyer, Marion Perryman Liedtke, Chuck Blanton, Susu Zimmerman Meyer, Missy Baker Jones, Cadell Liedtke, Scott Jones, Pam Dilworth Kissiah celebrating the holidays and so much more!

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1976 Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa Houston, TX hbujosa@att.net Recently, I ran into Claire Liedtke Alexander and her mother Bessie at lunch. Claire says that she gets to come visit her mother about once a month. Claire looks exactly the same, by the way!

Newlyweds Nancy Warfield Baker and Mike Baker (fs) report that they are “gloriously happy!” Mike’s father James A. Baker III turns 90 in April, and a big Baker family bash is planned in Florida to celebrate.

Mike’s daughter got married to a “wonderful, gentle soul.” Nancy and Mike are working on their country place, turning it into their dream retreat. An awesome hot tub is on order and Nancy is shopping for a new horse. All such happy news!

Marvin Chernosky and wife Deborah (our dermatologist), are delighted that their son and their daughter are each moving back to Houston after accepting new job offers here. The Chernoskys are also busy building a lovely lake house near Austin which will be next door to Marvin’s brother Jay Chernosky ’77 and wife Melinda.

Deborah says it’s all being planned with future grandchildren in mind.

Sounds great for the Golden Years!

Newlyweds and 1976 classmates Mike and Nancy Warfield Baker

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Peter Bujosa ’07, Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa ’76, Katherine “Isabel” Fay Bujosa, Homoiselle’s mother Katherine Bel Fay ’54 (fs), her stepfather Frank Smith ’39 (fs) (one of, if not the, eldest alumni at age 98) and Carlos Bujosa at Isabel’s graduation from Houston Baptist University

Kari Cole Duncan has moved to Noonan, GA to be near her daughter Taylor Ann and her beautiful new granddaughter Avery (15 months).

Kari is a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Georgia Properties.

Bobby Goldstein was the center of attention at dinner surrounded by lovely classmates: Laura Byrd Herring, Meredith Parsons Grisebaum, Eleni Antonellos Fuller, Holli Hover Baffert and Francy Fondren (fs).

Bob Snyder has recently retired from the Sheriff’s Department. His wife Sandy also recently opened an antiques store called “Junk & Disorderly.” Bob and Sandy are quite devoted to helping Veterans. They help raise funds and find homes for Veterans and have completely outfitted the homes with furniture and household items both new as well as from their shop. I, for one, am extremely proud and grateful for what Bob and Sandy are doing to help our Veterans, one life at a time. How kind. Bob is also an extremely talented artist and he is getting back into painting. You would not believe what a great painter he is! I have asked him if he would consider displaying his work in a new restaurant we are opening in Seabrook, TX in our marina, and he is considering it.

As for my news (Homoiselle Sadler Bujosa): Our youngest child Isabel

Bujosa graduated from Houston Baptist University and she is now studying for her State Real Estate Exam in order to become a residential realtor. She is looking for a townhouse for herself, so Carlos and I should be empty nesters very soon.

On a more serious note: please stop avoiding having a colonoscopy! My dear friend Andrea Vail Reed made me promise her that I’d have it done.

It turned out that I have cancer.

Luckily, it hadn’t spread and the chemo and radiation are working. I feel very positive that MD Anderson is the best place to be and that I will be fine very soon. So, thanks for saving my life, Andrea!

Homoiselle

1977 Jane Van De Mark Houston, TX janevandemark@yahoo.com From the Advancement Office: Jay Chernosky retired from his career as a Corporate and Investment Energy Banker in October 2019 after 36 years. Plans for phase two are still a work in process, but will include staying active in the energy and real estate businesses, enjoying more leisure time for golf, hunting, fishing and ranching and spending more time with Melinda, wife of 35 years, his two children and their spouses and his growing number of grandchildren.

1978 Sarah Deal Frankenfeld Austin, TX sarahf422@me.com

Kari Cole Duncan ‘76’s lovely granddaughter Avery at 15 months

In the last issue I wrote that “it was a big year for the Class of ’78 because, for most of us, it was the last year of our 50s.” Well, it is HERE – the first year of our 60s!!!! Happy 60th to us!!

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Bobby Goldstein ‘76 surrounded by his lovely 1976 classmates Laura Byrd Herring, Meredith Parsons Grisebaum, Eleni Antonellos Fuller, Holli Hover Baffert, Francy Fondren

A few things going on with our wonderful class: Mike Littman and Mary celebrated the marriage of their oldest son Ryan to Katie – his girlfriend of 10 years.

Good things come to those who procrastinate. While some are choosing to downsize, Mike supersized to a home on a pond with all the toys and no common-sense limitations… because “you can’t take it with you.”

January marks his 32nd year of marriage and he reports that growing old together has many a perk. Mike says that thankfully Mary’s vision is failing, so he is still looking like an oasis after a five-day hike through the empty quarter. Lastly and most importantly, Mike’s in-home shrine to Altuve, Bregman and Springer grows larger. The only scandal is in not trying to win.

Clayton Chambers kicked off his 60th year by running the Houston Marathon! (Now that is the way to show 60 who is boss!) Clayton and Allison have a new grandchild – Jack. To celebrate his 60th, he and Allison went on a trip to New Zealand!

Lori Moore Bynum reports that she recently lost her dad, a month before his 99th birthday. He was still living in the house they lived in when we were in high school. Lori also welcomes a grandbaby named Jack and says it is as wonderful as everyone said it would be.

Susan Stone Woodard and husband Rex were in Texas briefly, for the first time in quite a while (they are living in their new home on Kentucky Lake). They attended the NHL Winter Classic in Dallas on New Year’s Day, along with 85,600 of their closest friends.

Susan McClure Jackson is still taking care of animals at the vet clinic. She just welcomed Brady James to the family, the third child of daughter Kristin and Josh. Son Robert and wife Becca are still up North where he works on CareFlite and as an ICU nurse now that he has retired from

the Air Force (impressive). Susan also has North Dakota grandkids, one already getting his learners permit! (I guess we really are 60!)

It was great to hear from Andrea Turtur who was sorry to have to miss the reunion. She has been working for the last four years in downtown Houston as a leasing and marketing manager. That position ended on December 31st so she is looking for a new exciting position. In her spare time, Andrea still loves being super athletic. She sends a big hello to everyone!

A few others wrote that they will have some news in the next issue – so sounds to me like more grandbabies on the way! I hear that the saying “If I had known that grandchildren were so much fun, I would have had them first.” is very true!

Lisa Gruy Brandt and Cindy Osborne Beckham may not have grandbabies yet, but they have precious new puppies. (Which actually may be more work than grandbabies!)

I (Sarah Deal Frankenfeld) guess my own kids are making sure we still feel very young – none married and no babies! Ken and I are downsizing to a new townhome in Austin and are excited for this next adventure. The Austin real estate market proved its strength and our home sold in two days. I am writing this from our downtown apartment that we are in until our townhome is ready. We feel like quite the hipsters and love this urban living and being able to walk everywhere. This lifestyle is definitely keeping us young!

Happy 60th to everyone! May this special year be kind to you and filled with good times, good health and great adventures!!

1979 Steven Arnold Houston, TX sda@3lmc.com

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Evans Attwell Houston, TX eattwell@gmail.com Alice Berry Houston, TX missformicadinette@yahoo.com

1980 Tom Dunlap Houston, TX td@tomdunlap.com 619-929-1413 Caroline Baker Hurley retired from the state district court bench at the end of 2019 after 21 years. She is enjoying more free time with family and friends. She and Bruce, her husband and fellow attorney, celebrated their 20th anniversary last summer. Their oldest daughter Grace ’19 is a freshman at the University of South Carolina. Emma ’22, a sophomore at Kinkaid, enjoys lacrosse and loves science and art.

Their son Bruce ’23 is a freshman at Kinkaid, is involved in musical theater and loves math and creative writing. Bruce currently serves on the Mayor’s Youth Council.

Cathy Criswell Lester reports that her daughter Ann Claire married Tristan Wilson last March. The two met 11 years ago at the Westminster Kennel Club show the day before her 14th birthday. Tristan teaches special ed and Ann Claire is a professional all-breed handler, showing some of the top-ranked dogs in the country. She breeds German Shorthair Pointers. Cathy is on the Board of Directors of Weimaraner Rescue of Texas. She also shows, judges and breeds Weimaraners.

Her son James is about to be 31 and operates an IT business. She and husband Michael are otherwise retired and enjoying life in College Station. If you are looking for a Weimaraner, Cathy’s the go to!

Anne Elise Mumford enjoys volunteer work and, mainly, being back in her hometown! She moved back in 2017, and she recently moved to The Heights – during the Chevron Marathon weekend. Mimi (24) is a schoolteacher in Boston. Hailey (21) is a college student in Florida.

And, Easton (17) attends The Forman School, a boarding school in Litchfield, CT. Crazy life, but it’s good to be home.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Susanne Jones Kirk. Her stepfather of many years recently passed away.

She was recently in Houston to help her mom get organized. Susanne retired from teaching after 21 years.

She and Cain have triplets who will be 29 this year.

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Mark Edelman says that he did not have much new to report. He is still in his plastic surgery practice in Plastic Surgery in Houston. Son Jared ’18 graduated from Kinkaid in 2018 and their daughter is a freshman at Bellaire High School. Mark reports it was nice to spend time at the School again while Jared was there.

Alicia Dewey emailed: “Things are going great here – I am a tenured history professor at Biola University.

I am now applying for full professor and working on my second book.” She loves living in Southern California – lots of hiking and camping close by.

Lynn MacLean Updegraff is trying to stay warm on the shores of the Gitche Gumee. XC skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, even still playing volleyball.

Martha Jackson Brandt has been married to CJ for 36 years. They have two grown kids – Emily (32) who works as a Diplomat (Foreign Service Office) for the State Department and Josh (26) who is the Director at a Government Relations firm in Austin. Martha is a psychotherapist with a practice specializing in trauma, attachment issues and couples work.

Spence Spencer hails from DC and operates an international non-governmental organization called the Institute for International Law and Human Rights, with offices in Washington, Brussels and Baghdad thanks to support from European states, the EU, State Department and private foundations. The Institute focuses on legal and human rights issues in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon. Their bread and butter is advising parliaments on draft legislation. He is still married, after 34 years, to Kathryn. They have two children – Sam (in Los Angeles) and Sarah (in New York).

Katy Liedtke Bade says, “Still in Louisville, can’t believe it’s been 40 years since we graduated. Don’t know about you, but I look exactly the same – except for my weight, my wrinkled skin, my deftly colored hair and possibly my attitude.”

Hugh Robertson reports that he left the music industry about 10 years ago and has been in Solar Energy since then, based in Austin, TX. His wife Stephanie is an attorney. Their daughter Madeleine graduated from Cal Poly and is an architect working in NYC. Their son Hugh is graduating this year with a Computer Science degree at Texas A&M University. Lastly, son Jackson is a sophomore at Texas A&M studying Civil Engineering.

Steve Helm (fs) has two daughters (23 and 21) and a son (17), who is a senior at Memorial HS. Steve works in

the commercial real estate industry with Blake Tartt (fs) at New Regional Planning and with another partner in the Class A multifamily space at HS Development Group.

Larry West has his own law firm, West Mermis, located in downtown Houston. The firm handles civil litigation state-wide, including commercial litigation, construction litigation, on the job injuries and construction defects. Sarah continues to be in high demand as an architectural consultant. She has been published in all of the major architectural publications. Larry and Sarah have three boys. Two of the three boys were Student Body President in high school. All three have Business degrees from UT Austin and are currently working for investment banks and private equity outfits.

Scott Finger (fs) emailed: “My children Zach (26) and Madi (23) went to Houston Christian. Zach graduated Southwestern and Madi lives in Norman, OK. I have been teaching high school math and science at The Briarwood School for the last 10 years. I taught Carter Overton’s daughter and Trey Mayfield’s son (that will make you feel old)!”

Kevin Cardner has been in Colorado going on 19 years: six years in Boulder, five in Aspen, and currently eight in Vail. He is an adult snowboard instructor on Vail mountain.

He works at an exclusive eatery at the base of Lionshead.

Harvey and Holly Williams Giblin and are both in education; he works in Higher Ed and Holly has been leading the Department of Research and Evaluation in Austin ISD for the last 25 years. “Our daughter Weatherly is a senior, so we are making the most of her last year at home (sniff).

Her top three choices are in Paris, London and New York.”

Susan Ryan Sully is loving life in Charleston, SC – one of the most beautiful cities in the world. She is currently working on what must be her 16th or 17th book about Southern architecture and design… writing about and photographing the fascinating homes of this very special region.

Raleigh Gordon borrows a phrase from Justice Rehnquist, “I’ve done nothing in particular, but I have done it very well.”

Heidi Davis Barnes has recently set up home in Los Angeles, after 25 years of living abroad – primarily Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Dubai and Canada. She has three wonderful children, all born abroad.

Heidi has penned two novels and is involved in multi-levels of real estate.

Nick (26) obtained his bachelor’s degree in Business and sells real es-

tate in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Austin (25) is a Red Seal in Heavy Duty Mechanics and has a bachelor’s degree of Applied Sciences in Management. Austin works for Finning/Caterpillar in Kamloops, British Columbia. And, Catherine (23) is attending UC Berkeley, double majoring in Cognitive Science and Data Science.

Sarah Goettsche lives in Hanover, NH and volunteers at a Vermont equine therapeutic riding program helping people with special needs and disabilities. She still is able to see a few classmates on a regular basis: Lee Ellen Johnson Bell, Becky Miller Boucher and Ann Gustafson.

Kelly Sutton and his wife Jennifer are still in Boerne, TX. They have four children from ages eight to 18. Kelly is now in his 34th year of selling ranches and exotic animals. They are lovin’ life and Kelly continues to make an annual pilgrimage to bodyboard in Central America.

Kevin Anderson is busy raising little Longhorns, still in Corpus Christi.

He’s been in the energy business for the last 30+ years in Corpus.

They have one recent UT grad, one about to graduate and the “baby” of the clan is about to head to Austin.

Kevin reports: “Nothing too exciting from the coast just looking for buried treasure and raising Longhorns.”

Emily Tuttle Wilde has been extremely busy in her efforts to make and keep Houston green. For the last eight years she has served as a Board Director for the Houston Botanic Garden. The first phase of the campaign raised $38,000,000 for construction of Phase I of the Garden, which is slated to open late in 2020.

Emily and Carlton are grandparents.

They are looking forward to sharing the wonderments of nature with Boomer (3) and Raleigh (6 months).

Our thoughts and prayers are with Emily’s extended family on the passing of their mother and grandmother, Jean Griffey Tuttle ’53 (fs).

Warren Meyer chimed in with this update: “About 20 years ago my family and I moved to the Phoenix area. In 2003 I left the corporate and consulting world and started my own business which privately operates public campgrounds and recreation areas. Today we are one of the largest such firms in the country, operating over 125 locations in nine states. I have two kids, boy and a girl, who I thought were out of the house and moving on with their adult lives, but they keep coming back. I have been a business and economics blogger for nearly 20 years, and I have several books and short stories published and am working on my second novel.

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Monique Topper Lung has been too busy to look up. She has her hands in several professional endeavors. She and Rob share this from Atlanta: “We have been living in Atlanta since 1994. Married and have one daughter – Sophie, a sophomore at University of South Carolina-Columbia, studying PR/ digital marketing. After a long career in executive search and human resources, and a seven-year stint owning and managing a high-end maternity consignment boutique, I began my own career and business coaching practice in 2015 – Conversation Artistry, supporting individuals and corporate teams to navigate transition and improve performance. Late bloomer!! I LOVE my

coaching practice that allows me to meet and work with incredible people worldwide. I work/live in Atlanta and also in Paris. I am on the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta. I am also involved as a FrenchAmerican Liaison for the development of Rodney Cook Sr. Peace Park in Atlanta, and serve on the advisory board for Olivier Giscard d’Estaing, Founder of INSEAD business school and brother of former President of France who is participating in education initiatives of the Peace Park.” I will take a little license here. Sophie, in college, adopted a dog with issues. Yes, Belia now lives with Monique and Rob. They are both passing in the night. So much

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so, that they are looking for an Au Pair for Belia.

two in college. She now owns and operates a geriatric care business.

Mark McMurrey was short and to the point. He is in Austin where he manages a nationwide technology-based mental healthcare initiative. Belton (22) is a senior at USC’s Film School. Stella (19) is a freshman at UT.

Mark Franzen and his wife have been in Austin for a while. He has a freshman on the basketball team at Westlake High.

Bobby Fox and his wife Cindy will celebrate 29 years of marriage this summer. Their Zach (age 25) graduated MBA school in December and began a career with Pilot. Eli (20) is a junior in Music Business at Belmont. And, Bob is in his 31st year as an intellectual property attorney.

Erin Dougherty Hawkins is married with

Tami Alfrey Grubb is excited that she is moving back into Houston from years living in Sugarland.

Gina Fant-Simon is now in her fourth incarnation of life. From musician/ engineer to software developer to commercial real estate investor and, this time, to the very unexpected role of what she calls a “digital political activist.” She is currently in the process of building The Texas 2020 Voter Guide at Texas2020.org.

Alumni Interim Term Night

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n its fifth year back, Alumni Interim Term Night was on January 22. Over 110 alumni, parents, current and retired faculty and staff and friends attended this fun and educational evening. The wine tasting during the dinner portion of the event was led by John Mason, sommelier and manager at Camerata at Paulie’s wine bar.

Attendees commented that this event helped them feel more connected to the School, they learned a lot from the informative class offerings and they enjoyed getting to reconnect with former teachers and fellow alumni. If you are interested in teaching a class at next year’s event or have an idea you’d like us to consider, please email alexa.leach@kinkaid.org.

Interim Head of School Ed Trusty, Ellen Weingarten Wagnon ‘79, Joseph Jaworski ‘80, Rebecca Jaworski

Journalism & Yearbook Teacher Kimetris Baltrip, Art Teacher Luiza Grandchamp, Yvette Pintar

Adelqui Boué, Suzanne Boué, Greer Pagan ‘88, Elizabeth Oxford Pagan ‘89, Allison McClanahan

Tevin Marks ‘97, Retired History Teacher John Germann, Cindy Hide ‘75, Terry Bell, Rene Bell ‘73, Lucy Anderson ‘85

Hope Morales Young ‘95, Retired Art Teacher Jane DiPaolo, Maya Buryakovsky Pomroy ‘96

Molly Gardere Vaughan ‘81, Susie Peake ‘79, Kathy McAnelly Schwartz ‘79

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This will be a non-partisan voter guide to help Texans not just vote in 2020 but to make informed votes comparing all Texas incumbents and their opponents in the US and Texas Legislatures. The rest of her time is spent producing short educational videos about politics and government called The Two Minute Take. She lives outside of Austin with her wife Shari and their flatulent daughter Beanie, a 4-year-old English Bulldog.

Perry Bolger (fs) is a petroleum landman. He has been back in Houston since the mid-1990s. His daughter (16) is an ace softball pitcher at St. Agnes Academy.

Chris Young is in the commercial and personal property/casualty insurance business and recently joined Securance Corporation Agency. His wife Cindy is a commercial banker for BBVA. It sounds like the two of them spend whatever time they have on the kids’ hobbies. Conner is a senior at Strake Jesuit playing football and baseball. He received 6A district honors in football this year as cornerback and expects to continue playing football in college. Callie is a junior at St. Agnes Academy and plays softball. She won a State Championship last spring as a sophomore. She received district and state honors as well as All State Tournament MVP honors. Chris and Cindy are very proud parents.

After leaving Kinkaid, Robert Sorley spent five years getting a Bachelor of Applied Science (Applied Geophysics) at UBC in Vancouver and joined a French seismic contractor. Thankfully, he was able to get in before Brexit, which would prevent his working in France. Robert joined the marine division which took him to West Africa, the UK offshore and the Netherlands. He was posted to the London office in 1987, where he met Carole – a fellow BritishCanadian, then the Singapore office in 1990, where Ariel and Olivia were born. He joined a Norwegian company while in Singapore who posted him to Houston in 1998, where he got an MBA in night school. Back to Singapore in 2003, and off to Victoria, Canada in late 2006. Houston beckoned with an executive role with a new company in 2014. Both girls graduated from schools in UBC; Ariel works for a social media company representing a “Bachelorette” in Seattle; Olivia edits film trailers (see Jumanji 3) at “Trailer Park” in LA. Having had a career in industry training, Carole is self-employed and sometimes works for Ariel’s company.

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two years ago starting a new phase in life. She is glad to be down the street from her son Stuart.

Gus Lanier graduated from Texas A&M where he was a four-year member of the Corps of Cadets.

He was married a short while but raised his three children alone in Tomball. Gus reports that all three kids are well, have spread their wings, have left home; and, at this writing, all of the kids continue to be self-supportive. Gus worked in commercial real estate until 2008.

Thereafter, he moved into oilfield equipment manufacturing until 2018.

He has since been recovering from a long illness. All is good at this time.

Molly Goodyear is still in Ketcham, ID, and getting used to being an empty nester now. She shares, “Peter is a junior at Middlebury and captain of the cross-country ski team. Ella is a freshman at Bates College in Maine and also on their cross-country ski team. It’s great to have them both on the East Coast and in the same sport! I am the Communications Director at The Community Library, one of only a handful of private libraries in the US. I’m also continuing my environmental work as a board member of Idaho Rivers United, a water conservation organization.”

Shannon Wills Webb and Kirk are still in Chappell Hill, TX. Caroline graduates college this May. Wills works in Chappell Hill. Shannon’s mom Dottie has moved into a cottage on their KW Ranch. Shannon, of course, stays busy in the local charity scene.

Tany Hopper James continues to enjoy being a mom. Currently she works for St. John the Divine.

I have not heard from Marcela Chavez, but she is probably smart to hide from me lest I give her back the mantle of writing up the Class Notes. I am sure she is enjoying a breather on that one.

Darren and I have returned to Houston with our soon-to-be 16-year-old Sarah in tow. We had been in San Diego for about 15 years or so. Sarah is at Lamar and adjusting to the change in scenery and in public schools. I consult for law firms and title companies in title curative work, research and writing and about any other matter that pops up.

We have a solid roster of classmates; however, a few are missing.

And, a very small few would rather not be contacted. A work in progress.

Tom

1981 John McReynolds Houston, TX john.mcreynolds@defectconsultants.com

1982 Maria Semander Crawford Redondo Beach, CA msemander@yahoo.com Welcome to the new decade class of ’82! It was just 20 short years ago that we were partying like it was 1999! The news of the day (or decade) seems to be grandkids, although, there are still a few of us (including me) who still have elementary kids. And if memory serves me well – and it really hasn’t lately – Brig Jones is still the winner for youngest kid!

Moving on to the next competition… who has the most grandkids??

Mike Curran is the proud new grandpa (soooo weird to write that word about Mike) of his THIRD grandson Caleb who is 12 weeks old. Mike and his gorgeous wife Kristin (who does NOT look like a grandma) have two other grandsons – Axel and Judah. If there was a contest for coolest grandparents, I think Mike and Kristin would win hands down.

Mike’s New Year’s resolution is to answer all my emails…so far, so good!

Another grandma (will this get easier for me to write?) is Heidi Balser Budaj who is also expecting a third grandson in June. Heidi’s middle daughter Marcy is getting married in Chicago in June and her youngest Mark is getting married in August in Aspen. Mark currently lives in Dallas and is in Private Equity. He loves Dallas and is a true Texan at heart! Heidi and friends celebrated the new decade with a Sushi New Year and hired two sushi chefs who taught them how to make their favorite sushi rolls. Maybe her New Year’s resolution is to “roll with it” more. J Heidi stays busy with her job as Assistant Executive Director at the local Jewish Community Center.

And to keep her on her toes, her two grandsons sleep over every Friday night. She still lives in Detroit and still hates the winter. She says she also still gets to see Elva Weatherford Riley’s daughter Melissa for dinner.

Which, if you’ve ever seen a picture of Melissa would be like having Elva over for dinner!

Rounding out the grandparent category is Vince Elliott who is also welcoming his third grandchild (I see a pattern here) – a granddaughter,

Mike Curran ‘82 with his two grandsons Axel and Judah

Daphne. Vince and his wife Patti love being grandparents (still not easy to write) but also enjoy traveling. In classic Vince Elliott style, he and Patti have decided to fly around the world in May and June.

Yes, you read that right…fly around the world. They will be landing in 28 countries over 40 days. Trivia note: about 6,800 people have climbed Everest, 536 have been in outer space and 233 have flown around the world in a single engine plane.

(That trivia came from Vince not me lol). You can follow his travels and live vicariously through him on Instagram at @vinceandpattigoroundtheworld. Safe travels! And make sure you make it back in time to host our next reunion. J In “non-grandparent” news…

Jimmy Michaels is looking forward to his son graduating high school this year and using a walker at his graduation. He joked that it seemed like a good idea at the time to get married later in life and then wait a few more years to have kids – at the time.

Now as “almost empty nesters” in their 50s, he is very ready! (I know the feeling. J) Jimmy’s daughter is in law school in New York and he was able to visit her a couple times last semester. Dr. Michaels is still taking care of spine and joint problems in Tyler and continues to see a lot of elderly patients – you know, people in their mid 50s. HA! If you haven’t made a New Year’s Resolution… stretching would be a good one!

Linda Lyons Ewing (fs) reports that she has partnered in a new furniture and lighting store. Her store is called Three Doors in Houston and is on the corner of Bissonnet and Morningside, so check it out if you can!

Helena Papadopoulos Johnson emailed to say hi and to report that her daughter Anna Maria ’18 is a sophomore pre-med at Davidson and her son Will is in seventh grade at the Joy School.

As for me? I stay busy volunteering

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for the PTA at Zane’s school, choreographing for cheer and dance teams and hanging with my family. My older son Daniels is a freshman at San Diego State University and has jumped in head first enjoying all the perks of college life. He joined a fraternity and is pledge class president, takes snowboard trips to Big Bear, surfs every day and oh yeah…goes to class and is majoring in Business Administration. Zane is in fifth grade and doing awesome! Although his autism gives him challenges, he is the hardest working kid I know. He has found a love for the theatre and this year was the White Rabbit in the school’s Alice in Wonderland play.

He even had a singing solo! We are very proud of both kids. My husband Fred is busy with his own law practice. In our spare time, we like to work out, go skiing, enjoy concerts and just kick back!

Happy 2020 to everyone! Hope to see y’all in the near future.

1983 Anthony Brown The Woodlands, TX abrowntex@gmail.com

1984 Jackie Fair Houston, TX jfair36900@aol.com

1985 Carolyn Lasater Hodges Dripping Springs, TX mkcarolynhodges@gmail.com Hello ’85ers!

Mark your calendar, start your diets and schedule the botox (or just come fluffy! Beauty tip: fat don’t crack!)

April 4th – Houston, TX #ReUnion35 Also, if you haven’t received an email from Kinkaid in a while, it means they don’t have it! So email alexa.leach@kinkaid.org.

Our class ReUnion Committee: Tricia Hamilton Blalock Stacey Gillman Jennifer Hamelet Charlie Henke Caroline Whitehead Hildreth Mary Kay Wheless Hunt Melinda Nelson Jackson Frances Koelsch Jeffries Todd Johnson

Caroline Boone Mitchell Candy Clardy Provine Laura McMurrey Sheffield

Jatin “Jay” Vyas ’85, MD, PhD as the 2020 Distinguished Alumnus

Hugs -C

Julie Templin Berman Houston, TX julie@thelimogeslady.com Congrats to Dr. Mary Es Anderson who was recognized in Top Doctors Texas Monthly in December 2019.

1987 Doug Rosenzweig Houston, TX dougrosez@aol.com Here is the latest from some of our classmates: Lance Baird is living in Houston with his wife Dameron and two of three daughters at Kinkaid (Susan ’20, a senior and Emma ’24, an eighth grader). Their oldest daughter Elizabeth ’19 graduated from Kinkaid last year and is a freshman at Ole Miss. Lance is at KPMG doing M&A Strategy consulting.

John Bakht says all is well with the Bakht family. Eli ’19 is a college freshman, Sam is a high school sophomore and Philip is in fifth grade. They live in the Memorial area. John continues to work in the energy sector as GC of an oilfield services company and Cully works as a preschool teacher. They enjoy spending time with friends and family, and both like to play a little tennis. John would love to hear from any of our classmates!

Nicole Domercq Zarr says she and David will be celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. They currently have a senior at Kinkaid and a sophomore at TCU. Nicole continues to practice interior design and recently went through a rebranding changing the name of her company from Triangle Interiors to Nicole Zarr and Associates. She can’t believe she is going to be an empty nester. She says after over 32 combined years either as a student or having a student at KHS, it will be strange to not turn right on San Felipe anymore.

Chad Gnam writes there is not much new in Jackson, MS. His daughter Ashley is a second-year medical student and his son Jack is a sophomore at Ole Miss. Jack is playing golf for the school, so they travel to watch the tournaments.

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atin “Jay” M. Vyas ‘85 is an Associate Professor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. He attended The University of Texas at Austin in Plan II, a liberal arts honors program. He graduated with Special Honors from the University. Jay then attended Baylor College of Medicine in their Medical Scientist Training Program where he received his PhD in 1994 and MD in 1996. He completed his PhD with Dr. Robert R. Rich in the area of Microbiology and Immunology and specifically worked on antigen presentation

by MHC class I molecules. Upon completion of his MD in 1996, Jay moved to Boston to complete his medical internship and residency in internal medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases in the Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital program. He then served as the chief resident in medicine for 18 months. Following a period of extended post-doctoral research training in the Harvard Department of Pathology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research with Dr. Hidde Ploegh, Dr. Vyas joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital as an Assistant Professor in Medicine in 2007.

Dr. Vyas is internationally recognized for his work in fungal immunology, investigating how our body responds to fungal pathogens.

Invasive fungal infections are a leading killer of patients with compromised immune systems (usually from cancer or being a recipient of a transplant). He has distinguished himself by applying novel imaging modalities, including optical traps and live cell imaging, to investigate the molecular basis of recognition of pathogenic yeast by immune cells. His work has demonstrated mechanistic insight into immune cell recognition of pathogens and provides insight onto how to modulate the immune response. His laboratory is supported by NIH grants, industry collaborations and private philanthropy. Jay has clinical expertise in invasive fungal infections. He has been selected as an Infectious Disease Society of America Fellow. He has also been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and as a Fellow in the American College of Physicians.

In 2014, Jatin was named the 10th Program Director of the MGH Department of Medicine Residency Program, supervising 207 interns and residents. As an NIH-funded investigator with interests in basic science, Dr. Vyas provides a unique perspective to the medical housestaff. He mentors physician-scientists who aspire to impact clinical medicine through investigation. He has given talks internationally to discuss the value of mentorship.

Jatin entered Kinkaid in 9th grade. He played soccer for three years and was involved in various clubs throughout high school. He was also on the Falcon newspaper staff and was a member of the 1985 Cum Laude Society. His brother Sanjay Vyas ‘87 also attended Kinkaid.

Jay is married to Tammy and has two children - Austin (21) and Ryan (18).

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who now resides in London, was in Houston in February visiting family and friends.

1987 classmates in Houston November 2019 - Andy Edison, Doug Rosenzweig, Jennifer Jones Rosenzweig, David Nelson, Bill Christian, Stuart Rockoff

Tracie Hall says she is adding “her flavor” to McCormick & Co. She is based at the Global Headquarters, lives in Baltimore and is dreaming of a home in Nevis. Cheers class of ’87.

She hopes our next years are our best years.

Brad Harman says all is good in Ft Worth. Brad is still practicing Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine in south Ft Worth and traveling with the USA Waterski Team as medical staff when they leave the country, and swimming U.S. Masters Swimming meets. His wife Naomi is still practicing Gynecology and teaching martial arts classes.

He can’t believe he is starting to look at colleges! Kids Matthew (16) and Sam (15) are both big swimmers in USA swim and high school.

Mike Harter is living in Nantucket, MA with his wife Rebecca and dog Chamuco, teaching disc golf and tennis and loving island life.

Thomas Helland sent me his message from an express boat inside the Arctic Circle leaving the city of Tromso, Norway and heading to Finnsnes on Senja Island. He and Stephanie are taking a long-overdue honeymoon and celebrating their 12th wedding anniversary by taking a bucket list trip to (hopefully!) witness the northern lights in the new moon phase. They started in Oslo and will finish up in Copenhagen. They are still in Decatur, GA. Thomas is working for the Atlanta Botanical Garden in the special events department and is awaiting budget approval for producing a new local and regional music series there called Roots in the Garden. He also continues to produce his annual Holiday Hootenanny for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, which this year received $6,500 from the event. The 10th annual edition will happen on December 20, 2020.

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years been the Director for Museum Studies and an Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma. Before that, Mark spent 20 years in the museum field as a Curator and Registrar in history and art. He will be undertaking a move to Kansas City in May to seek new adventures with his wife of 10 years. Most of his family lives in Wichita, KS, which is where his parents moved when they retired. His brother, class of ’84, lives there too.

Peter Raspler is at 23 years and counting in LA working in the music business – now at YMU Music Mgmt (311, Blink-182, Jane’s Addiction, Morrissey, etc.). He has also been involved in a recent documentary movie and beer projects/releases.

Elyse Spector Kalmans gave me details on her kids: Aerin ’18 is a sophomore at the University of Richmond in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies. Kendall ’19 is a freshman at Emory University in Atlanta. Tali ’23 is a freshman at Kinkaid and will be studying in Argentina as an AFS exchange student for her sophomore year.

Laura Westmoreland DeVega is in Dallas and has been busy selling residential real estate and keeping up with her kids Lila (16) and David (13). She recently changed real estate firms and loves working at her new company, Compass. Her husband Nelson is still building homes in Dallas and they all try to get to Houston as often as they can.

A couple of name drops – just some I’ve spoken to or seen recently but who didn’t offer a specific update: Josh Adams, Alan Chadd and Leila Wheless all dropped an e-mail to say hello and all happen to live in North Carolina! Right before last Thanksgiving, Bill Christian, Andy Edison, David Nelson and Stuart Rockoff were in town celebrating with the Rosenzweigs for their son Zachary’s Bar Mitzvah. And Tom Chmielewski,

As for your class correspondent (and my better half): Doug Rosenzweig and Jennifer Jones Rosenzweig live in Houston with sixth grader Jacob (11) and seventh grader Zachary (13). Both love playing and watching sports – Jake is on his school’s basketball team while Zachary is on the tennis team. Doug is still an Executive Editor, just now for Thomson Reuters as his former company, O’Connor’s, was sold.

Doug will continue looking for that next great career move since his World Series of Poker venture last year did not result in any million-dollar winnings. Jennifer recently started a new position at Congregation Beth Yeshurun as the Director of Programming.

1988 John Semander Redondo Beach, CA cperiod@hotmail.com So there I was, neck-deep in a detailed analysis of our 1988 Class Elections, fully prepared to recast all of the major ballots and announce a revised list of winners with the incredibly helpful benefit of hindsight: “Most Likely To Succeed/ Recede,” “First To Get Married/ Divorced,” “Most Popular With The Opposite Sex & Thinks He/She Is”… etc., etc., etc.

Until I realized just how much trouble that could potentially get me into, and quickly downshifted into what you are reading now.

Which, incidentally, was like two days ago.

Therefore, per my usual updating skills, all I have to go on is my limited personal interaction with a precious few of you folks.

It did help that I visited Houston over the holidays, where John Johnson woefully overestimated my ability to draw a crowd these days and hosted an impromptu gathering in my honor. The over/under was 4.5 – and that was counting his two cats, Donny and Marie.

which makes me wonder if he finally realized I’m a California resident and can’t vote in Texas Congressional District 2.

It’s okay, though, because that freed me up to see Chad Muir, who I can safely report has lost none of his zeal for competition, as we turned back the clocks on his backyard basketball court for a rousing game of “I don’t care how bad my knees are hurting, I’m just going to act like the tears streaming down my face are sweat.”

Lastly, I got to hang out with Donya Davis at the house that I thought she lost in Hurricane Harvey, thanks to Facebook posts that I took totally out of context back in 2017. Turns out that was somebody else’s neighborhood from which she was getting rescued in a boat. Her television interview with Tucker Carlson cleared it all up for me.

Then it was back to California, which was regrettably only a couple of weeks before Tripp Piper reached the mid-century mark. Apparently, quite a few of the old gang got rounded up to celebrate: Will Davis, Nick Neblett, Greer Pagan, Brent Bechtol, Chuck Scofield and the aforementioned Todd Litton (who obviously values Tripp’s friendship – and/or vote – over mine).

With that kind of girl-to-guy ratio, it must have felt just like high school again. Rumors of a late-night run to East End have not yet been confirmed.

Oh, and if your name wasn’t listed above, then you obviously weren’t popular enough to get invited. You only thought you were.

John Semander

1989 Elizabeth Oxford Pagan Houston, TX elizabethpagan@me.com

1990 Aimee Ford Byrd Phoenix, AZ aimeebyrd1@yahoo.com

I took the under and just barely lost when Matthew Ledbetter showed up fashionably late.

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Over the next couple of weeks, I hung out with a few other classmates, but they were from college, so that doesn’t really qualify for anything here.

Lane Alexander Houston, TX lanealexander@yahoo.com

Not for nothing, but I would have met up with Todd Litton had he not totally ignored a text I sent him,

Wendy Anderson Gatto, Kelly Pearce Stouse, Sandy Selber Sturm, Jennifer Gillett Seale and Alicia Thomas Garrison all got together for some summer fun in Nashville.

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Austin Area Alumni Party November 6 at Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill

1991 alumnae Wendy Anderson Gatto, Kelly Pearce Stouse, Sandy Selber Sturm, Jennifer Gillett Seale, Alicia Thomas Garrison

Many thanks are in order for Lt. Anthony Gonzalez for his 28 years of service to our country in the United States Navy. We are very proud of you Anthony and very much look forward to your return to Texas. Anthony writes, “I took my final trip to Afghanistan and completed a mission with my fantastic team of 152 military, contractors and civilians. We worked together to bring intelligence, communications equipment and other military equipment and training to the Afghan Army to help establish a ‘road map’ to self-sufficiency. Unfortunately, that ‘road map’ does not lead anywhere that I could see. Finishing that tour, I knew my body was slowing down, so, after 28 years that started at the Naval Academy and took me to a fantastic Naval career, I retired on September 1, 2019. Although my knees, back and shoulders won’t forgive me that easily, I can’t complain – I served on Destroyers, a Frigate and a Minesweeper, and have worked with some pretty amazing people. Watched so many of these kids literally grow up right in front of me – and looking back, I always knew that I would not have lasted in my career without their support and teamwork. Now, leaving my fun job, I have taken a contractor job in Virginia where I focus on finding vulnerabilities and improving the security of different installations. I hope to move back to Texas in the next

year and reconnect with as many of you as I can. I have missed y’all.”

Will Harper ‘99, Audrey Barrett Bixler ‘99, Will Withers ‘92

From the Advancement Office: Jennifer Roberdeau Cripe reports, “After less than a year in Colorado, we’ve landed in Issaquah, a half hour outside of Seattle, WA. The misty forest-covered hills really suit us here, and we’re looking forward to staying put for a while!”

1992 Jennifer Wilson Brown Houston, TX jenniferwilsonbrown@yahoo.com

Bowe Partin ‘07, Nick Cersosimo, Kyle Bateman, Sarah Atnipp Partin ‘08, Lee Simon Cersosimo ‘08, Sofie Leon ‘14, Tracy Konig Bateman ‘08

Billy Forney Houston, TX b3@forney.com Amy Stuyck Watson Houston, TX amyswatson@hotmail.com Adam Altsuler is enjoying being a father of two boys, who are both at Kinkaid. Also, he is currently CFO of USD Partners, a master limited partnership formed to acquire, develop and operate energy-related logistics assets.

Tim Anderson is approaching his 20year anniversary of being a resident of Denver, CO. He is married with two kids Ruby (10) and Elin (7) and puppy Chewy (1). He works at CAbased global communications company, Viasat, with a focus on marketing technology. He spends his free time (when available) skiing, biking and enjoying the wonderful city of Denver and state of Colorado.

This past fall, Tim had a visit from Jeff Eberhard, Will Warren and Doug Ames, and spent a long weekend relaxing and catching up in Winter Park, CO. Amy Werlin Bartram is in her fifth year of living in London working for M7 Real Estate. She recently switched internally from her company’s Investment Management team to

Helen Stovall Gilbert ‘85, Johnny Sutton ‘79, Carolyn Lasater Hodges ‘85, David Hodges, David Morley ‘77

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the Technology Solutions Team working in PropTech.

Melissa Wadler Bloome has found a nice work life balance. She practices orthodontics two to three days a week, and is a full-time mom the other days. She is enjoying spending time in her new house, with her husband, three children and their adorable dog Marley.

Pippa Evans works as a geriatrics and hospice physician in Houston.

She will be the first in the class of ’92 to launch a full-fledged adult in the world when her eldest graduates from UT Austin in May 2020!

She and her husband also have two Kinkaid Middle Schoolers and a fifth grader at Oak Forest Elementary.

Billy Forney has been living in Houston (West U area) since 2004 with his wife, three children, playful dog and coy cat. He is currently rejuvenating the old Palace Bowling Lanes on Bellaire Boulevard into a new entertainment concept called Palace Social. Hope to open in late 2020.

Lavannya Raman Pandit lives in Houston with her husband and three kids, two of whom attend Kinkaid – Suraj ’21 and Sanjna ’24. She and her husband both work at the medical center as practicing physicians and clinical faculty for the last 16 years; they love not having to commute to work! Lavannya has been increasingly nostalgic these last few years as she cheers her kids on the sports field and performing arts venues, remembering fondly her time at Kinkaid in the 1980s and 90s. She says that it has been great seeing fellow ’92ers at these events cheering our kids on together.

Kevin Sirmons is currently living northwest of the Twin Cities in Otsego, MN. Daughter Avery (6) and son Reid (4). He recently became Board Certified in Emergency Medicine in addition to Family Medicine and is working on a subspecialty board certification in Emergency Medical Services. He and wife Cindy are approaching their 10-year anniversary and have adapted well to the great white north! They are looking forward to this coming spring and camping more around the state and traveling to other areas of the country with the kids this summer and beyond.

Ashley Gayle Williamson says, “Billy, you could write a lot of it for me as you know the simple life I live!

Still living the dream in Ophir, CO [Billy’s note: Ophir has a population of 159] with hubby Matt, daughters Lillie Pearl and Minnie and lab Einstein. I’m in the middle of my 13th year teaching ELD at Telluride School District, working on National

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Board Teaching Certification, serve as a liaison between the Telluride community and the Latino population. I also sit on several boards as an advisor to assist local youth. Ski, bike, run and play in the backcountry as much as possible.”

Cindy Shapiro Zabel is still living in NYC. Her boys (12 and 8) keep them busy.

Since 2017, she has been working for The Fine Art Group, a London based art investment, advisory and financing firm operating at the high end of the art market. She is at the big auctions where paintings sell for many millions and all the major art fairs – not so bad!

1993 Courtney Dreyer Beauchamp San Antonio, TX courtbeauch@gmail.com Wendie Seale Childress Houston, TX wendiechildress@gmail.com Ashley Morgan Hanna Houston, TX ashleymhanna@gmail.com

1994 Courtney Domercq Daily Houston, TX cdomercq@hotmail.com Hi Class of ’94. I’ve really been doing this too long; don’t you think?

You’re welcome. Thank you to those of you who responded to my email.

Without you, I’ve got nothing.

Lisa Bassili lives in Portland, OR where she performs anesthesia in day surgery centers. Last year was eventful for Lisa – she built a new home and had another baby boy as her son Levi (5) was joined by brother Logan (4 months). Her parents have been making frequent visits to see her and the boys, and they have all spent time at the coast and in the snow on the mountains. Lisa says, “life is good,” and she has enjoyed expanding her wine collection with trips to Oregon wine country.

performing information security and privacy work. He is “equally proud and terrified that [his] oldest daughter is preparing to go to university next year.”

Chris Graf and Kathleen Dunwoody Graf ’95 stay busy with their three boys – Charlie (13), Austin (12) and Tyler (6) – and all that goes with that including lots of baseball, basketball and golf. Chris is looking forward to attending the Motley Crue, Def Leppard and Poison concert this summer with anyone who wants to join him. IN!!

For George Gayle’s update, I’ll give the publication friendly version – dental business is going well, he got very excited when he learned that Motley Crue is touring again and his children are enjoying Kinkaid. His son George ’27 is in fifth grade while twins Pierce ’30 and Kate ’30 “dominate the second grade.” He closed with what sounded like a yearbook senior quote – “Life is good. Never know when [stuff] can go south so enjoy it while you can!”

Doug George is “enjoying life in Houston with first, fifth and seventh grade Kinkaidians.” Doug George had nothing to report on Kenny O’Donnell this year.

David Hornsby is both acting in and helping to write a new show on Apple TV+ called Mythic Quest beginning February 7th. Check it out!

I’m sad to report that he does not wish to take my place as class correspondent.

Over a year ago, Christine Lawhon James decided to take some time off from her psychology practice to pursue a more creative endeavor and opened up “a little side hustle etsy shop” selling t-shirts and other items. She plans to return to psychology in the near future, but for now she is enjoying the break.

Family life with Loralee (7), Gigi (11) and Elis (13) and husband Chip is good! Christine “loved seeing everyone in Houston…for the Turn It

Gold [gala] and celebrating Lauren and Norah!”

Casey Kaplan and his family are “doing fine” in Portland, OR. His three kids are “growing like weeds.” Crawford (7) lost his first tooth (a surprisingly emotional experience for Casey), Isla (4) is finishing preschool and “readying herself for Kindergarten” and Belle (2) continues to refuse to sleep through the night. He got to spend time with Lisa Bassili and her boys at a children’s birthday party.

Casey has extended an open invitation to anyone who would like to visit Portland in August “where the average temp here is about 80” and they have “good wine and no mosquitos.” Sounds great!

Mike Minns is “still peddling homes” as Mr. Dream Home. His daughter is now playing club volleyball and made it to middle school with “straight A’s, unlike her underachieving dad.” Last year he took up rally cross dirt track racing and while he has placed second and third a number of times, he just needs “to get a first-place win now because as you know, if you aren’t first you’re last!” He is still married…”gladly and happily.” He is still “hitting the gym” and has a “sixpack” – but the kind you find in your refrigerator not the gym.

Joel Page had a very Joel Page like update for me as follows: “Joel Page continues to inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.

Although he currently fuels his (largely uncoordinated) bodily movements by digesting plant and animal matter, he hopes to master photosynthesis by the next update.

His thyroid readings are low, but within normal ranges. Observers have generated a range of plausible hypotheses regarding his mental life from his utterances, writings and (largely uncoordinated) gestures, but have failed to reach consensus as to its content.” Here on Earth, he continues to work for the Federal Defender in Dallas, writing appeals

Bart Dillashaw lives in Lincoln, NE with wife and three kids (11, 9 and 6). He said, “By day I run my law firm that works with startup companies throughout the nation. At night, I spend my time being jealous of Scott Smitherman’s travel adventures and keeping David Hornsby’s entry on the Wikipedia page for [TV show] The Mullets up to date.”

Don Edwards reports that he and his family moved to Ireland a couple of years ago where he is Director of Network Security at Salesforce

1994 alumnae Leslie Ladin Strauss, Charlotte Gregory Sullivan, Ellie Bullard Skelton, Stephanie Friedman Evans, Katharine McFall Perrow, Elizabeth Sheedy Johnson, Christine Lawhon James, Courtney Domercq Daily, Lauren Krueger Weeks at the Turn It Gold gala that was chaired by Joslyn Welch Paris – one of the honorees was Lauren Krueger Weeks’ daughter Norah

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for prisoners. His twins Naomi and Jude (4) are in Pre-K. One loves planets and the other loves biology.

He says he misses everyone from our class.

Lewis Pennock has been with the same publishing industry company in Nashville for over 10 years. His daughters June (4) and Daisy (7) are still in need of a “good tour of all that is Texas outside of Houston to round out their upbringing and provide a counterbalance to all the UK countryside they have explored” while visiting Lewis’s wife’s family.

When I last heard from Kim Sweeney Polo, she had completed a 70.3-mile Iron Man competition and was otherwise busy taking care of her five kids. Currently she spends her time “mom-ing” including photographing lots of sporting events. She is also producing a documentary about a medical mission to the refugee camps in Kurdistan. Kim is looking forward to finishing it up in 2020.

Sameer Sheth moved back to Houston from New York two years ago. His wife Sarita is teaching in the Katy public school system and loving it.

His kids are “catching up on years of not getting spoiled by their grandparents and seem to be trying to make up for it all at once.” Ronak (8) and Naina (4) both attend Village School.

Sameer has become well settled into his operating and research at Baylor in the Medical Center.

Liana Hawes Young is enjoying life in New York. Her daughter Bess (5) is in Kindergarten and is “happy as can be and loves school.” Will (3) is in preschool and is “super funny and never stops talking.” Liana spends her time running back and forth between work and their two schools, so life is busy “but super fun.”

As for me (Courtney Domercq Daily): So now that I’m a Kinkaid parent, last spring I attended my first Field Day in 25 years. And while the event has clearly entered a new century as evidenced by the drone flying overhead to record the festivities, I was struck by how much things have remained the same – third grade still does the jump rope race, potato sacks for fourth grade and so many of the same games and booths are around from back in the day. I’m happy to report the goldfish my son won last year is still going strong. As mentioned, my son Charlie (5) attends Kinkaid and is loving Kindergarten. I started a new job last June at oil and gas services and supply company, DNOW. Meanwhile my old boss Harvey Weinstein is on trial, and I have been utterly disgusted by the testimony coming from his case. On a lighter note, I had a super fun time at Ellie Bullard Skelton and Wesley

Skelton’s wedding at beautiful TCYC. I also enjoyed a mini-reunion with a great group of friends in January at the Turn It Gold gala chaired

by Joslyn Welch Paris, which raised money to benefit children’s cancer research. One of the night’s honorees was Norah Weeks, daughter of Lauren Krueger Weeks, who has been an inspiration to so many. Leslie Ladin Strauss, Charlotte Gregory Sullivan, Ellie Bullard Skelton, Stephanie Friedman Evans, Christine Lawhon James and her sister Laura Lawhon Evans ’95, Elizabeth Sheedy Johnson, Katharine McFall Perrow, Meg Malone and I all came together to support Lauren and her daughter. We had such a wonderful time catching up that we ended up being the absolute last people to leave. Fun night, fun times – I’m grateful for my Kinkaid friends.

Hope to see more of you soon.

1995 Dejon Banks Hawthorne Pearland, TX dejonbanks@gmail.com Monica Bailey Bickers and her husband Curtis are enjoying life with their girls Bailey ’30 (8) and Ali ’33 (5), who are loving Kinkaid as current second grade and Pre-K students. Monica just celebrated her 15th year working in advertising at PaperCity Magazine, where she serves as Group Publisher. PaperCity hosted three wonderful Kinkaid interns during Interim Term in January. When schedules permit, Monica and Curtis love to travel with family and friends and see fellow classmates throughout the states.

Dejon Banks Hawthorne is enjoying life!

She is making memories with her husband and family and following her vocation of helping others. She is the Executive Director of Letting Everyone Achieve Dreams (LEAD), a nonprofit that is celebrating 15 years of providing opportunities to youth from under-resourced communities. Dejon’s work continues to allow her to reconnect with fellow Falcons. Lena Twitchell-Heyne Gerecht ’08, Dejon’s former fifth grade student and current doctoral student at University of Houston, is a member of the research team that is studying LEAD’s efficacy and impact. Additionally, Dejon hosted an intern this January and was delighted to learn that she was paired with the niece of fellow classmate John Baird.

Carvana Hicks Cloud is running to become Harris County’s District Attorney. She is grateful for the diverse relationships and opportunities that her journey has afford-

ed her. Her prior work includes being a bilingual attorney, Assistant District Attorney and Bureau Chief of the Special Victims Unit. Her passion remains to create safer communities and a fair justice system.

Learn more at carvana2020.com.

When Carvana is not on the campaign trail, she savors quality time with her husband and two kids.

Kathleen Dunwoody Graf has been a realtor at Greenwood King Properties for 18 years, and this year the company celebrates its 35th anniversary. 2019 was a great year for her!

She was named Top Producer for the company in its top 10 agents for the office. Her three boys are all playing little league, so most of their spare time will be at the ballfields from now until May. Jennifer Chapman Wizel says all is well with her. Their twins Henry ’24 and Grace ’24, are in eighth grade and daughters Anna ’28 and Camille ’30 are in fourth and second grade, respectively, all at Kinkaid. Recently, Jennifer has been part of a nonprofit’s expansion to Houston. It is called Generation Serve, and it creates opportunities for families with children as young as three years old to volunteer in service together, and aims to empower children to learn about their community’s needs and to make a difference.

Lindsay Wadler Hyman and husband Jonathan are living in Houston! She is still working at Accenture, going on 20 years this summer. Their kids Kate ’25 and William ’28 are enjoying their time at Kinkaid in seventh and fourth grades. Lindsay can’t get over that Kate had the same art teacher that we had in Middle School – Mrs. McMillan! They recently moved and now live two doors down from Louis Pearce and across the street from Chris Pitts! And Brian Ross is moving in down the street soon. It’s a mini ’95 reunion there every day!

Mary McFall Groves says, “Our youngest Harrison ’33 started Kinkaid this past fall in Pre-K and joins Khaki ’29 in third grade and Henry ’27 in fifth grade. It’s been so much fun having them all there together. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion in April!”

Meg Penrose Miller and her husband Tony will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in June. They live in Plano (outside of Dallas) with their three sons (12, 15 and 17). Her oldest is about to graduate from high school (what?!) and will be at OU next year. She has been a substitute teacher at the neighborhood elementary school for the last six years, and is one of the directors of her breast cancer Survivor Choir.

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Michael Kuntz is married with a threeyear-old and another due in March.

They live in Tanzania, where he has a business that provides solar irrigation tools to farmers. If anyone’s curious, check out www.simusolar. com. He says, “Warm regards to all.

I’ll try to make the 30th!”

Rachel Applegate shares, “Good news from me – still working away at Alley Theatre as Director of Marketing and Communications. Happy to report we had a Kinkaid senior as an intern as part of Interim Term.”

Aisha Carter Crumbine is trying to make sure kids in Houston have access to an excellent education as the VP of Development at Teach For America, an educational consultant and Dare to Lead(TM) facilitator. Between work, she loves having two awesome kids and a bada** hubby; she’s living her best life.

John Russell is here in Houston living in the Heights and still working in medical device sales. He got married last March. He met his wife (who is also in the industry) during an operation they were both in.

They are expecting their first kiddo in mid-July so he’s enjoying getting full nights of sleep while he can.

Megan Metcalf Williams lives in Houston, has a transactional law practice at Doherty & Doherty LLP, had a baby girl – Julia Ann – in November 2019 and her big sisters Virginia (10) and Clare (8) love doting on their baby sister. She is enjoying being a new, old mom!

Meredith Riddle Chastang is living in Houston with her husband Patrick and their son Mac (2). She is still working in sales at PaperCity magazine. Meredith is involved at University of Houston‘s athletics and public art programs, First Steps Montessori pre-school and the Board of Directors at Bo’s Place.

She is having a ball planning our big 25th class reunion with our host committee and hopes to see everyone on April 4th!

Megan Metcalf Williams ‘95 daughters Virginia and Clare with her youngest daughter Julia Ann Williams who was born on November 13, 2019

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e have all been asked the age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” For some, the answer comes naturally, for others not so much; but what happens when life doesn’t go as planned, should we give up or should we create a new path?

Fallon Ukpe ’03 entered Kinkaid freshman year and like many others, she thought she knew what she wanted to be; her path was determined. After high school, she would pursue her passion for medicine, earn her degree and make her way into medical school. “I always wanted to do surgery...pediatric heart surgery was my first love.”

While pursuing her medical degree, Fallon also aspired to work on her MBA. “I wanted to go change health care. I knew that healthcare is a business [and] if I really wanted to impact and change the way that we took care of patients, that I had to understand the business.”

With knowledge of both sides of the healthcare field, she sought out to be a more effective physician, not only treating her patients but creating a safer space for them.

Fallon had her career all figured out and what she set out to achieve, she accomplished. In 2007 she received her BA from John Hopkins University and in 2013 she received her MD/MBA from Duke University.

Although, what appeared to be a very distinct career path suddenly shifted. “I never thought I’d be doing the things I am doing now.” Fallon knew she had a love for medicine and business but she unexpectedly found herself captivated by the business side. “At the time I thought that doing medicine and business would kind of narrow down the path forward but all it did was create an even wider array of opportunities and say you can do all of these different things.”

In reflecting on her journey she credits Kinkaid as the catalyst for her embracing her new path.

“Kinkaid was a fantastic experience for opening up my mind to the possibilities.” Through the guidance of her teachers, the structure of the curriculum and the community, Fallon was given the “ability to see and do things that are not just in one lane.”

There was one teacher, in particular, Mr. Tom Wey, who encouraged Fallon to challenge herself and explore other avenues of learning. It started with a simple recommendation to take on a second language and from there, things began to change. For Fallon, Kinkaid was more than just a school, it was the place that helped mold her and shape her into who she is today. “ I think I am a different person because I went to school here.”

Now as an adult, having pulled from her experiences and time at Kinkaid, Fallon realized that she wanted to share her journey. It started with a brief note to a graduating friend and gradually unfolded into something more.

In navigating the twists and turns of her career, Fallon had discovered the most important lesson of all, that in life there is no straight path, everyone has a “squiggly line” that leads them exactly where they’re supposed to be. “Life seems like it’s a straight line...but really it’s actually a squiggly line up and to the right.”

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Slowly but surely Fallon began spreading this mantra around and it began to grow.

Her words resonated with so many people that she felt her story was truly worth telling, she just needed a bigger platform. Then it came to her, she wanted to write a book that could touch the masses.

In the fall of 2018, Life is a Squiggly Line was underway!

Early on in the process, she imagined the book would contain several stories that weaved together. However, after much deliberation with her friends and publishing team, she began to narrow her focus. “I really narrowed the book just to focus on the squiggly line, the fact that perfect is impossible, thinking about achievement, success and the paradigm shift that I wanted to share around that and talking a bit about my journey.” Piece by piece she began chipping away at the book and by the fall of 2019, the book was complete.

With 134 pages behind her, Fallon is eager to continue sharing her story and is already making headway on a follow up to her first book. Fallon came back to campus this past fall to meet with Upper School students and even was able to say hi to Mr. Wey! Now as Fallon looks forward to this next chapter in her career, she shares, “Life is truly about becoming you...and it will take different experiences for that to really come into focus. It’s important to have goals and it’s important to know where you want to go because you can’t captain a plane without having a destination in mind. But what does become important is to leave room to change the route and destination if you need to, so that it aligns with what you’re passionate about.”

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Callie Parker Bradford lives in Dallas with her husband Kyle and their son Charles who turned one on January 9, 2020. Callie is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. Fun fact: Callie and her family live just two blocks from fellow Falcon Garrett Holloway!

Parker Stanberry has lived in Miami for the last four years following an eight-year stint in Buenos Aires. He runs a travel start-up that he founded in 2009, called Oasis Collections.

His best recent trip was Japan.

Amount of hair left: minimal.

Ashley Browning Pfiester is still living in Austin with her husband Austin and their two boys Charlie (7) and Ben (5). They’re looking forward to a big family vacation this summer through Idaho, Oregon and Washington. She is the Lower School Literacy Specialist at Trinity Episcopal School in Austin, which means she works in the areas of curriculum and instruction. Ashley caught up with Elizabeth Rozelle Borski at their Rhodes College 20-year reunion this past fall.

Katherine Howe shares, “I had a busy 2019, as my fifth novel THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE HOBBS was released in June, and I had to waddle around promoting it for most of the summer. I say ‘waddling’ because on October 8, 2019, early in the wee hours in New York City, I had a son. His name is Charles Gage Hyman Howe, and he is closing in on four months old now. He enjoys blathering, looking at the light moving across the ceiling, singing silly songs and boobs. We will be bringing him to Texas in March to meet family and friends and smell his first ever real Tex Mex. I am looking ahead to DAUGHTERS coming out in paperback next summer, and to finishing my current project, which is a popular nonfiction book that I am co-authoring with Anderson Cooper, about a subject my NDA will not permit me to disclose. My husband Louis Hyman and I divide our time between NYC and Marblehead, MA, and would gladly connect with any Kinkaidians who find themselves in either of those locales.”

Hillary Holmes Archer is having a blast watching her two boys grow up way too fast, being a Kinkaid parent and taking the boys skiing in Crested Butte as often as possible. She also continues to enjoy practicing law in Houston and was honored to be named a Capital Markets Trailblazer by the National Law Journal and Most Effective Dealmaker by the Texas Lawyer.

Artie Johnson II and his wife Shannon traveled to Naples, FL to support the Naples Winter Wine Festival Charity and will be also supporting Auction Napa Valley this summer. They are

currently living in Napa, CA with their daughter Sicily (3 1/2) and son Arthur III (2 1/2). They are currently working on blends, preparing for bottling and looking forward to the pruning season (Staglin Family Vineyard and Le Artishasic). They are finishing design plans on a vineyard home in Rutherford.

Tim Okabayashi is working in Cambridge, UK for a global oilfield service company at one of their well construction research facilities.

They’ve been there since 2018 and welcome any visitors as they are a short train ride from London. Tim and his wife are otherwise giving free Uber rides to their children Cooper (8) and Forrest (5). One day they are hoping that the children pay them back. In the meantime the kids keep getting corrupted by the UK education system as they learn to insert the letter “u” unnecessarily into words like “colour” and “behaviour.”

Sarah Willcox Swigert says, “I’m into year 20 of living in NYC with my husband Bob and our two daughters Idonia (6) and Beatrix (4), who rule our lives in Brooklyn. We are lucky to be especially close to – among many Kinkaidians in the city – Amanda Hulsey and her amazing family of four. Work for the last nearly two decades has been in supporting persecuted academics, refugees and academic freedom efforts around the world. Travel is our family‘s constant temptation, but lately we get only as far as Prospect Park. Sending love to our class of ’95 – older, wrinklier and better off for it.

Kathryn McCarter Moore is in her sixth year as a VA social worker. Her husband Michael is running for Harris County Commissioner for Precinct 3 – and would love to earn your support! Having served as Mayor Bill White’s Chief of Staff his entire tenure, Michael will be of great service to West Houston – helping with flooding, traffic, parks and more.

Please visit mooreforcommissioner. com. Kathryn and Michael have two girls: Margaret (2) and Mary Helen (4 in April).

Therese Roque lives in Dallas and works as a lead speech-language pathologist for Dallas ISD. She has just been asked to consult with a developer who creates apps for people with special needs and is really excit-

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Mindy Fein got married in May 2019 and moved back to Houston in July after finishing a pediatric emergency fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She started back at Texas Children’s Hospital in September as a pediatric ER doc and is loving it. In other exciting news – they’re expecting their first baby in April!

Deborah Vest Brown says, “Our girls are both middle schoolers at Kinkaid now – fifth and eighth grade – and the eighth-grade musical, Beauty and the Beast was in January. The kids all did such a terrific job! Mary Sommers Burger Pyne and I snapped a photo of the kiddos who have parents in the class of ’95 and thought it would be fun to share. It includes: Camille and Marguerite Pyne (Mary Sommers), Audrey Brown (Deborah), Grace and Henry Wizel (Jennifer) and Turner Chiles (Brett), all class of ’24. Not pictured are the children of classmates Kate Marinis Walters and Sam Cruse. We recently moved and are looking forward to a break from the chaos when we head out to ski over spring break. I will also have a high schooler with a learner’s permit in just a few months, so I’m going to stay in denial about that – and the fact that it’s our 25year reunion – as long as possible!”

Clay Hackerman and his wife Grace reside in Bellevue, WA with their two girls. He continues to practice as a general surgeon. In his free time, he enjoys practicing Judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and playing guitar. He is looking forward to returning to Houston for his 25th Reunion this spring.

Ko Yamada is still in Los Angeles where he is working as a cardiologist. He and Mai welcomed their son Ren in July of 2018. Ren is now 1.5 and is happily toddling around.

Jeff Jeter still serves as VP of Government Relations for UT Arlington. He lives in Austin and spends his time working in Austin, DFW and DC. He and his amazing daughter Allie (almost 10) travel when they can to state and national parks around the country.

Forrest Wynn is on the Host Committee for our 25th Reunion this year. He is excited to see everyone!

Children of Class of ‘95 alumni after the Kinkaid 8th Grade Musical in January – Camille ’24 and Marguerite ’24 Pyne (Mary Sommers Burger Pyne), Audrey Brown ’24 (Deborah Vest Brown), Grace ’24 and Henry ’24 Wizel (Jennifer Chapman Wizel), Turner Chiles ’24 (Brett Chiles)

1996 alumnae Lauren DiPaolo (fs) and Anita Patil ringing in the New Year

Chris Jordan had a 15-year Stanford Law reunion last year. He consults for MGMT, where they make electricity along the eastern shore by putting circuits in the sea :)

1996 Erin Jones Brown Houston, TX erinjonesbrown@gmail.com Emily Mitchell Covey Houston, TX emily.covey@gmail.com Debbie Blumberg finished a first draft of her novel – historical fiction based on a true family story from 1939 – in 2019 and is now working on a second draft. She’s hoping to start querying agents later this year! Debbie also had her first piece published in the Houston Chronicle, a business op ed. Her oldest daughter Sadie is studying Suzuki violin, and Debbie decided to learn how to play as well. She can now perform a mean Twinkle, Twinkle!

Brandt Bowden reports that everything is great in their household. Brandt and wife Mary Kay’s son Russell ’28 (9) is thrilled to welcome ski season this year, while also enjoying lacrosse for the first time. Their eldest daughter Annabelle ’30 (8) is having a great time with dance and anything else Dad is doing. Blye ’32 (6) is loving life at Kinkaid and turning into an enthusiastic singer. The Bowdens’ youngest Mayfair (3) is extremely jealous that her older siblings all get to go to school together, and she hasn’t fully grasped the concept that she’s just too young! Mary Kay and Brandt are enjoying the busy household and being immersed within the Kinkaid community.

In May of this past year, Brandt and fellow Class of 1996 alumni Lewis Leavitt, Nelson Holm, Jim Withers, Jason Creech, Brad Morgan, Cameron Cureton, Taylor Wynn, David Werlin and Philip Wise enjoyed a golfing trip to Bandon Dunes in Oregon.

Kinnison Dunkum Bryan and her family moved to Dripping Springs, TX shortly after closing their children’s boutiques a little over six years ago, and she returned to the world of education as a Kindergarten teacher.

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Texas Children’s Hospital and recently became a Certified Lactation Counselor.

1996 alumni enjoyed a golfing trip to Bandon Dunes in Oregon in May 2019

Kinnison also teaches English online to children in China through VIPKID. Beyond work, Kinnison spends her time volunteering on the baseball board and in the nursery at church, trying to succeed at adulting more often than not and managing her boys’ practice and game schedules. Colton (14 and all that entails – send help!) plays Select Soccer and is a pole vaulter. Chance (11) is a social butterfly, LEGO enthusiast and football stats whiz; he plays football and Select Baseball.

Casen (7) loves cars, policemen/ firefighters and anything his brothers are doing, including baseball, soccer and flag football. Kinnison says that it’s crazy to think that Colton will soon be in the same stage of life where she became a Falcon – how time flies!

Lauren DiPaolo (fs) had a ball ringing in the new year with Anita Patil, as has become their tradition over the last decade!

Jason Goldstein has enjoyed his second year of teaching Form I and Form III English at Hockaday in Dallas. He spent part of the past summer at Bard College attending its Writing & Thinking Workshop.

Beyond the classroom, he serves as the faculty advisor for the student council and sponsor for a new fashion and design club.

Mollie Gordon and her husband Ron will be celebrating their 16th wedding anniversary next month! They are busy planning for their oldest son Jacob’s Bar Mitzvah in March.

Jacob ’25 is enjoying seventh grade at Kinkaid, and playing lots of soccer! Dalia (fifth grade) and Shelly (first grade) are still at Beth Yeshurun Day School. Her Anti-Human Trafficking Program at BCM recently joined the Survivors of torture and refugee Clinic and she founded the Division of Global Mental Health at BCM. Her team is starting their capacity building expansion at the border this month! Her book on the mental health management of human trafficking survivors will be published this spring. If you are interested in supporting her work, her lab is supported by the Houston Health Foundation: http://houstonhealthfoundation.org/our-programs/ bcm-anti-human-trafficking. She enjoys running into Kinkaid classmates around town and in carpool line.

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Melissa Liebling-Goldberg had a big year – she and her husband welcomed son Max Leo Barrett in June 2019. Melissa reports that he’s totally adorable and a huge delight!

Melissa is still consulting on digital marketing and brand content, and her family lives on New York’s Upper East Side (two pugs included).

Nina Mahendra Pilson reports that the Pilsons are well, still in West University and their boys are in second and fourth grade at West U Elementary. Both will be playing baseball, so Nina will be spending a lot of time in a car, shuttling kids to and from practices and games.

After a long stint at Valentino, she is now doing branding work for a healthcare company and a few other fun contracting jobs, which is a welcome change of pace. Over the holidays, the Pilson family went skiing in the Canadian Rockies and then spent some time in beautiful Yountville. Both boys plan to attend Camp Longhorn this summer. Nina is also doing Yale alumna interviews again which is nice because she gets to meet kids from different schools and see what high schoolers are like these days! Between school, three animals and two boys, their lives are busy but fun.

Travis Rea was recently promoted to Vice President, Culinary Product Development and User Experience at Brava, where he’s been working the last three years. The company was recently acquired by The Middleby Corporation, which is the parent company to Viking, TurboChef and dozens of other culinary brands. Expect so see Brava technology in Viking ovens in the coming years! Travis’ oldest son John will be five and his twins Thomas and Robert will be two in the spring. The Reas are happily living in Alameda, CA, just across the bay from San Francisco.

After having her real estate license for 17 years, Lindsey Jones Roberson recently joined Moreland Properties in Austin as a full-time realtor. She and husband Phil and kids Riley (12), Jack (9) and Molly (8) are doing well.

Brian Rosenthal recently moved back to the United States from London to New York where he is working at Facebook leading

their engineering team focused on how Facebook supports News and Journalism. He and his wife Jeannie live in Scarsdale, NY with their three children – Lilly (11), Charlie (7) and Eve (2).

Christie Barksdale Ross, her husband Newton and their three kiddos are ready for 2020! They had an awesome holiday season that included lots of hunting and time with their BIG extended family! The kids – Campbell (9), Newtie (7) and Baker (3) are growing fast and playing hard.

The whole family is looking forward to some quality travel time together in spring and summer. Christie is still keeping her certification active as a physician assistant and is quickly becoming passionate about the field of functional medicine. She has run into several Class of ’96ers recently with whom she doesn’t often cross paths – Alice Watson Ahuero, Kelli Roosth Cooney and Mollie Gordon.

She sincerely wishes everyone a great year and hopes to see more of everyone soon! Cheers!

Brooke Hansen Spanos reports that her boys (8 and 5) are rowdy as ever! She moved her child and adolescent psychiatry practice from Beverly Hills to Santa Monica over the summer and now has only a seven-minute commute, which is very rare by LA standards. Brooke is loving her new office.

Mark Thiessen continues to work hard and play hard. His son Baron played lots of baseball and football, and is excited for Camp Ozark this summer. Berkley is all girl; she loves dancing and wants to go to hair braiding camp. Mark and wife Taly ran with – and survived – the bulls in Pamplona this past summer! They’ll be going on a ski trip to Japow soon. The couple continues to try cases and save people’s futures and freedom. Mark is also breaking into the personal injury world and helped win a $2M case! This year, Mark was honored to be named in the Top 100 Super Lawyers for all of Texas. He’s hoping 2020 brings more adventures and happy verdicts!

Anne Marie Vollero Thompson and Beau continue to enjoy life in Houston with their two daughters (8 and 6). Anne Marie works part time as a Health Education Specialist for

Alex Turboff is still busy in NYC, living in Brooklyn and at the same company, Branded Concept Development, where she leads the real estate team. She’s been there 18 years and still loves helping shape the NYC dining scene! Alex married Mauricio Sanchez in June 2018, officially becoming stepmom to Lucas (8), a complete joy and an amazing big brother.

Asher was born in October 2018, and is now 15 months old, walking and using his first word “hot” profusely.

This year they’ve traveled to Virginia, Houston and Playa del Carmen (where her parents have a house) several times. She saw Debbie Blumberg and her husband Jon when they visited NYC in December.

Philip Wise’s children Laine ’26 (sixth grade) and Burke ’30 (second grade) are both loving Kinkaid. Philip is still in the insurance business – 15 years with Insgroup. Beyond managing his own clients, Philip runs the firm’s Commercial Property & Casualty practice and Private Client Group.

In 2019, they opened up a second office in Dallas and plan to continue expanding throughout Texas.

Christina Cho Yoo had a baby – Gabriel – this past year. Eliana (5) is an incredibly loving older sister. The Yoo family moved to a new home in Noe Valley in San Francisco, just three blocks from Christina’s office. Her company Atelier Cho Thompson has been growing, designing spaces for lifestyle brands like Cuyana and clients like Stanford and the Chase Center Hotel & Condos. They now have an office in New Haven and opened a store called Atelier (www. intheatelier.shop) there and online – and are working on a product line.

Stay tuned!

As for me (Erin Jones Brown), life in Houston is great! Wil ’95 and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary this year – hard to believe! Our kids are at the ages where they seem to be sprouting overnight. Harper ’26 (12) is in sixth grade at Kinkaid and loves school! She keeps busy playing club field hockey and soccer, biding her time until she can play for Kinkaid next year. Hutton ’28 (10) is in fourth grade at Kinkaid and, while he’s not yet the enthusiastic student that his sister has become, he does love aspects of school (recess and PE!). He also loves sports of any kind, but particularly loves baseball and football. We love watching them do anything that brings them joy, and it’s even more fun watching them grow up with many children of fellow Kinkaid graduates!

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ects and responsibilities beyond this Kinkaid newsletter. The latest and greatest is as a Troop Leader for my daughter Elena’s second grade Brownies troop, and we are about to embark on our first Cookie Season! This fall I will be co-chairing the MS On the Move Luncheon (with some Kinkaid moms actually) honoring a mutual good friend who has MS, and with whom I have served on this luncheon committee for many years. I still serve on my neighborhood association board, as President – TBD for two more years unless someone else raises their hand at the next meeting!!! In my free time, I run my own small but effective real estate brokerage, as well as carpool. Actually, my morning carpool entails pushing my nowfour-year-old (Isabel) to preschool in her hand-me-down stroller (weather permitting), and this is truly a highlight of every day. Chad and I are doing our best to soak in these young years with them. Thanks to everyone who responded to our 2020 update. As for the rest of you, we will hope for 100% participation on the ’96 news next time, as it will be 25 years since we graduated!!!

1997 Christina Wilson Altenau Houston, TX Christina.altenau@gmail.com Daniel Jenkins Houston, TX Danieljenkinsiv@gmail.com

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2000 Spencer English Houston, TX spencer.english@gmail.com Alyssa Gardner Kilpatrick Houston, TX alyssakilpatrick@hotmail.com Michel Miller Mullett Houston, TX michelmullett@hotmail.com

2001 Krystal Carter Houston, TX krystaldcarter@gmail.com Catherine Gutermuth Muth Arlington, VA cgutermuth@gmail.com Class of 2001, it was great to hear from each of you! Here’s what everyone is up to: Laura Askew continues to work for the VA remotely from home in Bozeman, MT. She still loves all things about life there. She tied the knot on January 18, 2020 with David Howlett at her parents’ home in the magical Bridger Mountains of Montana.

Their “winter wonderland” ceremony was super small and officiated by her father while surrounded by close family members.

Kameron Averitt Swithin reports, “In July, my husband and I had a little boy – Mason Wallace. His big sister loves her little brother, and we are enjoying life as a family of four! I’m still enjoying my break from law by living in Colorado and working for our non-profit, Outdoor Adventures, which mentors teenage boys across the nation who are without a father.”

Walker Averitt shared: “2020 is a huge year for me! I was blessed to meet the man of my dreams and get engaged! I’ll be getting married this

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Lisa Kaplan Rosenzweig ’00 as the 2020 Distinguished Young Alumna

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isa Kaplan Rosenzweig ’00 resides in San Antonio, making her way to the Alamo City via Dallas and Austin.

Lisa attended The University of Texas at Austin, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Upon graduating from The University of Texas, Lisa accepted a position in Dallas with Crow Holdings, the investment office for the Trammell Crow family. In this capacity, Lisa’s real estate investment and development efforts spanned a wide range of assets throughout the United States, including hotel, land, office, retail and multi-family.

In 2010, Lisa and her husband Shawn moved to San Antonio where Lisa accepted a position with Silver Ventures to redevelop the historic Pearl Brewery into a mixed-use, urban neighborhood. From 2010 until its opening in Fall of 2015, Lisa oversaw the development of Hotel Emma, the Five Diamond, boutique hotel property within the original 1894 Pearl Brewhouse. Following the completion of Hotel Emma, Lisa led the development of Oxbow, a 300,000 square foot projected LEED Platinum office at the Pearl complex. During Lisa’s tenure with Silver Ventures, the Pearl complex and Hotel Emma received numerous accolades and recognitions.

In the spring of 2019, Lisa chose to continue her family office real estate experience, accepting a position as Director of Real Estate for MissArk Real Estate, a private family investment office. She leads inhouse management and strategy of the principals’ real estate portfolio throughout the United States.

Lisa is a member of The University of Texas at Austin Real Estate Center, for which she serves on the Executive Committee. She is also active in the Urban Land Institute, having served as the local district Program Chair and a member of the national Small-Scale Development Council (Blue Flight). In addition, Lisa serves on the San Antonio Independent School Foundation Board.

Lisa entered Kinkaid in the 6th grade. Throughout her tenure, she served as a class officer each year ending her senior year as Class President. Lisa was Co-President of SOK. Additionally, she played sports each season including four years each on the Varsity Basketball and Softball teams. Lisa’s two brothers Steven Kaplan ’98 and Brian Kaplan ’04 and her sister-in-law Erin Finger Kaplan ’04 attended Kinkaid.

Lisa is the proud mother of three children - Reid, Drew and Leigh.

From the Advancement Office: Congrats to Nick Ducoff who took what he learned at his company Edmit and wrote a book, Better Off After College: A Guide To Paying For College With More Aid And Less Debt, which was released in November 2019. It is a step-by-step guide for families who want to enjoy all of the benefits of a college degree - with less anxiety and without taking too much debt. Check it out on Amazon!

year and we’re buying a home in Kingwood. I’ll still be working as a realtor for Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene Memorial. It’s a year of big change and I’m so excited!”

Barrell Barbour Jones is enjoying keeping up with her three kids Ivy (6), Jake (3) and Juliet (1) in Dallas.

Robert Callaway moved with his wife and son (2.5) from Dallas to California in 2018. They live in Laguna Niguel, and Robert works at Healthpeak Properties.

Katherine Campbell Van Steenburgh is enjoying life in New England with her husband Philip and three kids – Campbell (6), Chloe (3) and Iris (1). They live on Cape Cod and love

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NYC Area Alumni Party October 23 at Dos Caminos

Wells Childress ’09, Lailee Taghdisi ’11, Ricky Perusquia ’11, Christine Sangalis Perusquia ’11, Marshall Shaffer ’11, Isabel Ross ’11, Jesse Steinmetz ’11, Carroll Ison ’13, Anabelle Reade ’12, Courtney Greer ’14, Griffith Greer ’14

the four seasons, quaint towns and beautiful beaches.

Chris Carlberg celebrated his fourth year in frigid Minneapolis by taking a two-week trip to sunny Italy. He came back engaged to his wonderful fiancée, Sarah Abare. They’ll be getting married this Labor Day weekend in Michigan.

Michael Constantiner says: “After a conversation with my best friend and former business partner, Matthew Rosenberg, I am in the early stages of developing a new line of glass bottles that are designed to be carried with you at all times. Matthew, a Venice, CA local and self-described “Water Connoisseur,” was explaining to me how terrible water tastes when drunk from a plastic bottle and that he was having trouble finding a portable glass bottle. The company is called “Snowflake Bottle Designs,” intended to represent the distinctly unique taste of glass-bottled water.

I am very excited. Laura and I are also expecting a baby girl at the end of July. I am excited about that too.”

Chris Estes is married and living in Houston with his wife Carrie. He recently purchased Illuminations Lighting Design and Electrical Contracting, serving the Greater Houston area and beyond.

Katina Pappas Dermatas ‘01, Michael Constantiner ‘01, Nina Ha ‘87

Lauren Siegel ‘15, Alex Eastman ‘15, Allison Dyer ‘15, Kunal Kumar ‘15

Michael Rogers ‘06, Zahra Asharia ‘07, Director of Advancement Tom Moore, Liz Eggleston ‘07, Emmy Sprague ‘12, Rana Taghdisi Argenio ‘06

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Jonathan Fischer is living in Richmond, VA and is getting married in June 2020 to Kristen Ziegler. He works for EAB as a Senior Demographic, Student Targeting Subject Matter Expert. They help colleges and universities with enrollment and marketing services – basically an extension of their admissions office. His last adventure was to Sweden and Denmark with Kristen, who has architecture/design background. They both love the Scandinavian styles – so it was a unique experience.

Mark Frachtman is launching a Houston-based shopping app this year that lets you purchase clothing and accessories from local boutiques. Once it launches, it will be invite only, but you can sign up now at HoustonFashionApp.com to guarantee your spot and earn discounts and other membership perks.

Tripp Fried says, “My wife Anne ’04 and I moved to Denver from Houston in late 2018. We each started new jobs in 2019, Anne with Inspirato, a Denver-based travel start-up, and me with AlixPartners, a global consulting firm. We spent the last year exploring different parts of Colorado and would love to catch up with any KHS alums passing through for vacation.”

Alma Gomez Shields lives in Houston and is still practicing law as a

shareholder at Liskow & Lewis. She says, “I can report on my greatest achievement so far – Daniel and I welcomed our son Harris John Shields on December 20, 2019. We are all doing very well, including enjoying all of the cuddles as well as adjusting to life as sleep-deprived parents.”

Sarah Herder Nathan reports: “After seven years as a consultant with PwC and Charles Schwab, I am moving to freelance work, and perhaps more importantly, my husband and I are selling our home, purchasing a camper van and will be traveling for the next 18+ months. We’ll be starting in California, working our way up to Alaska over the summer and then back to the East Coast in the fall. We look forward to visiting many fellow Kinkaidians along the way!”

Iman Houston Farrior and her family of six are loving Los Angeles! Iman is working for a late stage real estate tech startup, Compass. Between working full-time and juggling the increasingly busy schedules of her four kiddos, she relishes time in the nook of her sofa with a tall glass of Cabernet.

Erin McGowan says, “This past May and after 13 years, I left the General Counsel position at the Houston Marathon. I got married to my wonderful husband Graham Forssman on May 24th and in June, I joined the Houston Endowment, one of the largest private foundations in Texas, as the Director of Grants Management. The Houston Endowment provides approximately $60-$80 million in funding each year to enhance civic assets, strengthen systems that support residents and build a stronger Houston. It’s been a busy, but very exciting year. A lot of change, but all good.”

Tony Peterson switched gears from finance to law (plaintiff’s litigation).

He is currently at Smith and Hassler doing wrongful death, car and 18-wheeler and premises liability cases.

Desiree Pipkins and her husband Mike welcomed Delores “Lola” Day – a healthy baby girl – in September 2019.

Stuart Pradia is Head Basketball Coach at Rutgers UniversityCamden. He says, “If you’re in the Philly/NYC areas, gimme a holler.”

This year, Kavita Rao married Neel Trikha in Goa, India. She celebrated her company Karmagraphy’s 10-year anniversary, and is still choreographing for film, TV, commercials and live shows. Some credits include Disney Channel and Disney Jr. commercials, directing and choreographing for multiple artists’ music videos, cho-

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reographing a US tour and world tour and NBC show choreography. She also choreographed and directed a show in Houston at the Miller Outdoor Theater, and had the pleasure of having the Kinkaid Dance Company guest in it. She also continues to conduct master classes on convention and Joffrey Ballet Programs.

Ashleigh Retzloff says, “I am living in California, and am the chef at Gabbi’s Mexican Kitchen in the city of Orange. We received a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand this year, which is a huge honor. Would love for anyone in the Orange County/LA area to stop in and say hi!”

Matthew Rosenberg celebrated a number of big life moments over the last year: wrapping up four years in LA; welcoming a baby girl – Riley Rosenberg; launching his new startup; and raising money from a big VC firm in the Valley. What’s next: Moving to San Francisco.

Tyler Scharar is serving as Executive Officer of U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 in Port Hueneme, CA, where he lives with his wife Teresa and twin daughters (3).

Blair Swick Andres reports, “We are doing well in Charlotte, NC. I am still working from home and running social media/marketing for Merrill Edge/Bank of America. Jon and I love NC and we are having fun watching our girls – Emily (5) and Danielle (2) – grow. We are hoping to expand our family to include a puppy this spring!”

Katherine Tropoli Plumb shared: “Life is good for the Plumbs. John and I are almost finished building a new house for our family. It has definitely been a learning experience but at the same time it has been fun to watch the progress unfold. Mary (8), Jack (6) and Kackie (4) keep us busy with school and sports activities but we have made time to escape on some fun trips to California, Mexico and Colorado over the past few months. I made Partner at Deloitte this past fall and John is still at Hines.”

Meagan Voigt Eure and her husband Brad welcomed Sidney Vivienne in August 2019. Henry (the human) is officially obsessed with his little Vivi.

Cabell Walker Wood reports, “All is well for the Wood Family. David and I are enjoying our three little ones – Walker (5), Sutherland (3) and Lewis (1). And excited for a fun filled spring and summer.”

Not much has changed for Krystal Carter. She’s four years in to running Danny Kay Cloud, helping companies streamline their business processes with Salesforce.

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Michael Muth on December 10, 2019. We are loving every moment of new parenthood!

2002 Ariana Nizza Chapman London, England Ariananizzachapman@gmail.com Leslie Roemer Labanowski Houston, TX leslielabanowski@gmail.com

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part time for Jacob’s plastic surgery practice, Maxwell Aesthetics, handling the Marketing and Social Media.

Anne Tropoli Kahle Houston, TX anne.tropoli@gmail.com Rachael Jones Berry had a baby boy – Finley David Berry – on July 25, 2019. She recently started her own interior design firm, Rachael Berry Design. Editor’s Note: Her work is beautiful! Check her out on Instagram @rachjberry or email her at rachaeljberrydesign@gmail.com.

After working as a nurse practitioner in clinical practice for eight years, Adelaide Zimmerman Emanuele recently made a career pivot into the pharmaceutical industry. She now heads the patient services division for a biotech company called Horizon Therapeutics, which specializes in therapies for rare disease. She and her husband still reside in LA. They had their second son – Gene – in March 2019. Her older son Max (2.5) is enjoying the brotherhood.

Lance Gilliam currently serves as a Senior Public Policy Advisor to Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis. He and his wife Kirsten live in Houston with their two dogs Zeus (11) and Oscar (age unknown, but let’s say 11).

Alexander Weaver and his wife Ali welcomed twins Claire Gray and Barton Lucas on September 26, 2019. The twins grow bigger everyday while Alex and Ali have their hands full!

Kelly Eisenman Unger lives in Nashville, TN with her husband Jacob and their two boys Hudson (5) and Graham (3). They are expecting a baby girl any day! Kelly works

Class of 2003 alumnae Whitney Walker Crenshaw, Rachael Jones Berry, Allison Poarch Coleman, Elizabeth Spradling Gardner, Caroline Baum Spencer at Allison’s wedding on December 14, 2019

Christopher Paiz and Kelsey Low ’04 recently purchased a house in Sugar Land. Chris is in-house counsel for a company based in Houston while Kelsey works at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center as the adult programs manager. While not at the day job, Chris moonlights as an amateur race car driver. For the past three years, he has raced a Mazda MX5 around the country in endurance races with a team based out of Atlanta, GA. He is also a Porsche Club of America national instructor. This year Chris will be racing GT4 class cars with his first race of the season taking place in Houston. Chris also plans to compete in his first international race this year with the 25-hour race at SPA in Belgium.

Katy Bacon and her husband Jesse Madigan are settling into Houston after moving back from Dallas last year. She left consulting for philanthropy and joined Arnold Ventures working on contraceptive choice and access. Russell (2.5) loves getting to spend more time with his grandparents.

Allison Poarch Coleman married Thomas Coleman in December in California.

She is now halfway through the didactic portion of Baylor College of Medicine’s PA program.

On September 25, 2019, Shea Henry Yoesel and her husband Jeff welcomed their first little one – Henry Whitman Yoesel.

And I (Anne Tropoli Kahle) had a blast attending Allison Poarch Coleman’s wedding in December. Our class was well represented – Helena Davis Mendez, Kate Werlein, Whitney Walker Crenshaw, Elizabeth Spradling Gardner, Rachael Jones Berry, Andrew and Ellen English Sheedy, Caroline Baum Spencer and certainly others I am forgetting were all in celebration mode. My husband Walker and I are expecting our third child at the end of April. Our son Augie (4) and daughter Teddy (2) can’t wait to find out if it will be a boy or girl.

Whitney Rape ‘04, Reid Schwartz ‘05, Bradley Singer ‘05, Will Reedy ‘04, Betsy Rosenberg Riley ‘05 during Bradley’s wedding weekend in October 2019

2004 Jordan Allison Boyce Houston, TX jordan.boyce67@gmail.com Emily Catherine Jeter Riggs Houston, TX ecjriggs@gmail.com

2005 Grace Lee Hofer Houston, TX graceleehofer@gmail.com James Cespedes, his wife and daughter moved to Dallas in May 2019 where James started a new job for American Airlines as Director and Senior Attorney – Labor. His wife Amy also started a new job as Senior Litigation Counsel at Accenture. Their daughter Elena turned two in September and is settling in well. They miss Houston and their old house in West U but are enjoying their new house in Dallas!

Stephanie Wilkinson Compton gave birth to daughter Caroline James on July 30, 2019. Stephanie and husband Trae say life with Caroline is so much fun!

In December 2019, Michael Evans and his wife Katie welcomed daughter Grace Quinley Evans into the world.

They still live in Chicago, where Michael completed two fellowships at Northwestern Medical School.

After graduation, he joined the faculty as a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist.

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In spring 2019, Helen Hemingway McLaughlin moved her energy litigation practice and became an associate at Buck Keenan LLP. She and husband Barton joyfully welcomed their second child Barton Neal McLaughlin III to their family in July 2019.

Philip Morgan and wife Katie are enjoying life in Houston. They welcomed their baby girl Lucy Chase on November 20, 2018.

Meredith Claire Markham Seide ‘05 with her 2005 Kinkaid bridesmaids Lauren Thompson Miller, Julia Atnipp Stellar, Eloise Frischkorn

Eloise Frischkorn was personally appointed by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (R) to Chair the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Industrial Hemp Advisory Council as well as become his regional Director of Fundraising.

Eloise also founded an entity called Texas Hemp Educational Organization (THEO) that focuses on consumer education for this commoditized/life enhancing crop and its many purposes: building materials, CBD, textiles, etc.

After surviving five Midwest winters, Cory Lynn Pelfrey Golden and her husband returned to Houston in August 2018. Cory left the transportation sector and is now the Hazard Mitigation Planner in the City of Houston’s Office of Emergency Management. She’s hoping for a quiet hurricane season.

Becky Blades Gregg is a Director for Brentwood Capital Advisors. She and her husband Justin welcomed their second daughter – Madeleine Patricia Gregg – in May 2019. They love living in Houston as a family of four!

Anthony Harrison and wife Ashley are currently living in the Los Angeles area. As often as they

can, they spend quality time with other Kinkaidians including, Iman Houston Farrior ’01 and her husband James and Tom Banks. Anthony works at Warner Bros. and Ashley works in Business Affairs at CAA (Creative Artists Agency). Anthony has also been doing some work with the Los Angeles Dodgers, which he says has been fun and exciting.

Kristi Hubbard moved back to Houston from California with her daughter Kelsa Jane Hubbard in April 2018.

Kristi is practicing law at Cokinos | Young, where she is the lead attorney for the intellectual property practice group.

Alice Gutermuth Lodge and husband JW are adjusting to life with two kids!

They welcomed a baby boy, Harris, in November 2019 and older brother Will is almost four!

Meg McGuire is attending Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education & Psychology, where she’s working toward her MA in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy.

She’s also hard at work creating content for her Instagram @minniemousemeg and blog minniemousemeg.com.

Rachel and David Roosth are living in Houston and are expecting their third child this summer.They already have a busy house with Addison (3) and Fred (1).Rachel is a litigation partner at Norton Rose Fulbright and David works in private equity with Waterous Energy Fund.

Reid Schwartz has worked at Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm, for the last 10 years, and was recently promoted to Vice President where he helps oversee the Austin office’s Brand practice. He and his partner just built a home together in southeast Austin.

Anna Rogers Schwartzel and her husband Charlie welcomed their first child – Alice Marie – in September 2019!

Meredith Claire Markham Seide had an exciting and eventful 2019! She started a new position with SignAd Outdoor Advertising in June 2019 and then married Justin P. Seide in September! She and Justin live in Houston and are loving married life!

Bradley Singer married Kate Nexon on October 12, 2019 at Bryant Park Grill in New York City.They honeymooned in Australia and are currently renovating their new apartment on the Upper East Side (which proves to be more difficult than a Mr. Saltman honors chemistry test). Bradley is in

his 11th year with WME as a talent agent.For those in Houston, catch his client Tamron Hall’s new talk show weekdays at 1 pm on ABC13.

Julia Atnipp Stellar and husband Adam are loving life in Chicago with their two children Hattie (5) and Clay (3).

Sarah Callaway Sulma is in her ninth year of residential real estate and still loving it! John Daugherty was recently acquired by Douglas Elliman and Sarah is very excited for the changes that will be coming with this merger. She and her husband Scott ’01 are still living in the Heights and try to attend the Kinkaid Alumni events whenever possible! Sarah is very much looking forward to seeing everyone at our 15-year reunion!

Thank you all for your submissions!

I (Grace Lee Hofer) am working as the Business Development Specialist for Circa Lighting. I enjoy working with builders, designers and architects in Houston on their beautiful residential projects. I look forward to our reunion and catching up further with everyone!

2006 Casson Wen Houston, TX cassonwen@gmail.com Andrew Grotta has been living in Los Angeles, CA for the past two years and is working at Netflix. He also recently got engaged to Christina Losier!

Perveen Singh just directed her first film and is getting married in the spring. She currently lives in Venice, CA. Elizabeth “Liz” Stoler is getting married! She met her fiancé Chris

KYPO Happy Hour with Episcopal and St. John’s September 25 at Goode Company Armadillo Palace

Blake Mackay ‘05, Sarah Callaway Sulma ‘05, Lexi Sakowitz Marek ‘07, Hayner Rude ‘06, Sam Pouns ‘07, Byron Langford ‘07, Helen Hemingway McLaughlin ‘05, Gracey Winters Howey ‘07, Julia Wood Harris ‘08, Ellie Thompson ‘06

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Washington, DC Area Alumni Party October 24 at Dacha Loft

Lexi Sakowitz Marek ‘07 with family, including sister Brittany Sakowitz Kushner ‘04, at her wedding on October 12, 2019

Director of Advancement Tom Moore, Alumni Activities Manager Alexa Leach ‘09, former Communications Coordinator Cameron Whitaker

Lauren Marsh Thomas ‘07 and sister Lindsay Marsh ‘10 at Lauren’s wedding on September 28, 2019

Jessica Messier Beall ‘08 and husband Charley ‘06 with their new son George Irish Beall born on October 17, 2019

Casson Wen was recently promoted to shareholder at his law firm. He and his wife Nina are busy trying to keep up with their toddler Oliver.

Lauren Lestin Philipson ‘07 with Kinkaid classmates Gracey Winters Howey, Leila Ladjevardian, Victoria Pappas Bludorn, Julie Mackay Petry, Jenny Sangalis Tompkins at her rehearsal dinner

Bell in Chicago in March 2018. He surprised her with a proposal in November 2019 of this year – flying in all her closest friends and family from around the country for the celebration. They’re getting married in Houston in June 2020!

Amanda Waddell and her husband Yusuke Mori are expecting their first child in mid-April!

Will Wilder’s aerospace robotics startup has recently begun full rate production of major components of CH-47 Chinook helicopter fuselages for the US Army and foreign military sales. It all started in the digital electronics lab at school so many years ago.

Niki Frishberg ‘12, Walker Spier ‘12, Annie Cathriner ‘13, Stephanie Keinz Schneider ‘10

2007 Lauren Lestin Philipson Atlanta, GA 713-703-4974 laurenphilipson3@gmail.com

Stacy Sweet Patlovich ‘00, Allison Maffitt ‘04, Clark Ervin ‘77, Sujit Raman ‘96

From the Advancement Office: Mitch Bono married Caroline Emoff in the bride’s hometown of Columbus, OH on August 17, 2019. The two met

Jesse Rickard, Ryan Beiermeister ‘08, Julia Lovett ‘07, Andrew Dolan Elizabeth Robinson Kendrick ‘07 with her bridesmaids, including Kinkaid alumnae Emily Robinson ‘13, Christina Rogers Robertson ‘07, Maggie Watson Nesmith ‘07, Katherine Lartigue Pruitt ‘07, Tany Jeter Klaes ‘07, Mallory Moore Fernandez ‘07 51

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2010 alumni Emma Nwora, Virginia Albert (fs), Grant Wilder, Evan Henke at the NYC Alumni Party in October 2019

Jade Gooding Jurica ‘09 with her bridal party, including Kinkaid alumnae Mary Catherine Fondren Deskins ‘11, Sarah DeWalch Mouton ‘09, Rebecca Harris ‘09

after attending college at Indiana University. Kinkaid alumni in the wedding party included: Mitch’s sisters Ally Bono ’08 and Gayle Bono ’13 and Mitch’s 2007 classmates Collin King, Bowe Partin, Jonathan Plummer and Chris Bramel.

2008 Kirby Allison Los Angeles, CA kallison22@gmail.com Mason Bashaw Clelland Houston, TX mason.clelland@gmail.com

2009 Alanna McAuley London, England armcauley75@gmail.com Jeanie Arnold is finishing up her last semester of grad school at GWU and can’t decide if she’s excited to go back to the real world or sad to leave the stay-at-home dog mom life behind. Her rescue mutt Rogue is almost two and they continue to love living in the nation’s capital!

she’s not planning fundraising events, you can find her teaching dance fitness classes at Dance House Fitness. She recently adopted a blue lacey Pitbull mix named Tigger!

Sarah DeWalch Mouton lives in Houston with her husband Charlie. This past year she started working as the Senior Event Coordinator with Sky High for Kids, an organization that raises funds for pediatric cancer research. Sarah and Charlie enjoy trying new restaurants around town, DIY house projects, traveling and spending time with their families in Houston and Lafayette, LA. Last October, Maddie Dorflinger married adopted Texan and adventure life-partner, Francisco Salas, celebrating with friends, family and fellow Kinkaidians after the ceremony.

She recently started a new job in M&A, and they’re finally settling in to Austin looking for their first home together. Cheers to many more years of tacos and queso.

Liz Furlow Malpass got married on November 9, 2019 to her law school sweetheart Mason Malpass. They spent their honeymoon fly fishing

and wine tasting in Argentina. Liz is a second-year associate in the litigation department of Baker Botts LLP. Cameron Gibbs recently moved to Charlottesville, VA, where he is pursuing his MBA at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. This summer, he will be joining the investment banking advisory firm, Evercore, back in NY. Matt Johnson continues living in Seattle, enjoying the sound of rain on the window. He’s into the fourth year of a technical PhD and finally starting to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel. This time of year in his spare time for fun he’s skiing and snowshoeing in the Cascades with his amazing partner Erin!

Drew Masterson graduated from Duke Divinity School last May with a Master of Theological Studies and a Certificate in Theology in the Arts. Over the summer, he and his wife Ginny moved back up to the DC area so Drew could work as the Director of Communications and Development for Coracle, a Christian non-profit that provides spiritual formation opportunities oriented towards social action, and

so Ginny could start a calligraphy business (perfectcircleco.com).

An added blessing has been living close enough to both of his siblings (Blake ’12 and Kendall ’15) and their spouses to be able to enjoy monthly dinners together!

Alanna McAuley has enjoyed living in London for the last year, where she works in Knowledge Management for a small consulting firm. In her spare time, she has been sewing, knitting and exploring London and the UK with her partner Tim and mini poodle Duncan.

Edmond O’Suji is currently working in Business Development for an employee safety and compliance company in Houston. In addition, he and his wife are excited in expectation of their first baby (a boy) in May. Jessica Rosenthal is super excited to have recently returned to Houston for a role at the Museum of Fine Arts! She loves working as an interpretation specialist, where she gets to focus on visitor experience. In her free time Jess enjoys reconnecting with Houston friends and exploring the plethora of new things going on in the city.

After six years in Chicago, Emily Sangalis Senchuk moved back to Houston with her husband Matt!

She is a kindergarten teacher at St. Francis Episcopal School and com-

Nina Brener-Hellmund wrapped up her MBA last summer and launched her start up – Cult Mia – in July out of London. She is crazy busy, but loving the entrepreneurial journey!

Wells Childress is living in New York, where he is building a digital platform for the luxury furniture space.

Mode Maison was featured in Columbia University’s Startup Lab and will be launching to the public in early 2020. He has enjoyed the perks of living with his youngest brother Knox ’14 who is fresh out of culinary school.

Katherine Cunningham started her new position at the Alley Theatre in Houston as Special Events Senior Associate in October 2019. When

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William Campbell ‘10 and wife Nicole’s wedding party, including Kinkaid alumni William Duncan ‘10, Kevin Snodgrass ‘10, Andrew Campbell ‘12, John Ed McGee ‘10, Caroline Reid ‘17

pleted a Master of Education as a reading specialist.

After completing her MBA from Georgetown University in May ‘19, Grace Schirrmeister moved to New York City to work at Citigroup in Product Management. She is focusing on digital initiatives and product enhancements for consumer banking customers. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and exploring new neighborhoods with friends.

Glyn Tower Bock has enjoyed life in Southern California for the past three years, where she worked in interior design. She married in February 2020, took an adventurous

honeymoon to Bali and has since moved back to Texas with her husband and their goldendoodle Buddy.

Stuart Upfill-Brown writes, “This year I started working as a product manager for an insure-tech start up in San Francisco. My day job is mostly a means of funding my true passion: becoming a wedding singer. I live with my partner/manager in the lovely Cole Valley neighborhood, we enjoy walking and reading in Golden Gate park.”

Jarrett Wadler is finishing up the final semester as a full-time MBA at the University of North Carolina and will be moving to the Bay Area to work

for Cisco in the fall. Jarrett is excited to be leading a group of 30 classmates on a 10-day trek to Israel over Spring Break and will graduate this May.

from Los Angeles to New York with his fiancé Kelly Cox. Also, he will begin his residency in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in June while Kelly will be practicing general dentistry in the area.

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Chelsea Fred is engaged! She and her fiancé Forrest Reed were engaged on November 20, 2019 and plan to get married in the fall of 2020.

Evan Henke New York, NY henke.evan@gmail.com Look forward to seeing everyone at our 10th Reunion on Saturday, April 4th!

Shaun Dadjoo is graduating from dental school this May and is moving

Abbey Hickman Hendrix was promoted to Executive Producer at Walker and is now running the New York office and studio where she manages licensing and producing music for brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola and Google. Additionally, she has

KYPO Holiday Party December 18 at Under the Volcano

Stephanie Tillison ‘12, Alexis Roberts ‘12, Sam Rogers ‘12, Jay Mullen ‘11, Elizabeth Carl ‘14, Trey Murphy ‘11

Grace Notestine ‘15, Jacqueline Fatjo ‘15, Emily Ashworth ‘15, Emma Eggleston ‘15

Mary Rodman Crawford ‘11, Ellie Thompson ‘06, Hayner Rude ‘06, Marshall Crawford ‘09

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Hannah Fred Bradley ‘12 with her bridesmaids, including Kinkaid alumnae Anabelle Reade ‘12, Chelsea Fred ‘10, AnnaCatherine Wilson ‘12

been having fun serving on the leadership team for The New York Junior League’s Senior Friends Committee and as the Soprano 1 Section Leader for The Young New Yorkers’ Chorus.

Russia. She thinks it will be a fascinating job – lots going on in that space! Stephanie married Brandon Schneider in Jackson Hole, WY on June 29, 2019.

On November 14, 2019 Ben Pearson married Lynsey McDonald in a private beach ceremony in Tulum, Mexico. This past fall they also bought a 1924 bungalow in the Heights and rescued a mutt named Mia! You can find them working on the house, exploring the neighborhood with Mia at their side or enjoying a cocktail at one of the many fun places the Heights has to offer.

2011

Stephanie Keinz Schneider recently graduated with her MA in International Affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and plans to stay in DC. In February, she started a new job with Bank of America as the “Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst” lead for

Avery Geisler St. Louis, MO aag459@gmail.com Harry Hantel New York, NY hhantel@gmail.com Lailee Taghdisi recently tried bacon for the first time (and is still trying to figure out what the fuss is all about...).

Ben Atnipp moved to Amsterdam full time for work. Veel succes, Ben! Brad Berry is back at University of Houston to complete his degree!

You can catch Brad playing music

UT College Alumni Gathering

around Houston at House of Blues, White Oak Music Hall and more.

Rock on, Brad!

2012 Kirby Gilbert Houston, TX kirbycgilbert@gmail.com Hannah Fred Bradley married Bryant Bradley on October 19, 2019 in Laguna Beach, CA. They are living in Houston – she is an associate at Hunton Andrews Kurth, and Bryant is a geologist for DeGolyer and MacNaughton.

2013 Marissa Smith Washington, DC marissa.smith@me.com

Class of 2014 alumnae Annie Jeckovich, Grace Wang, Amber Chen all in the same McGovern Medical School class at The University of Texas Health Science Center

2014 Haley Ebel O’Brien Houston, TX hbeobrien@gmail.com Elizabeth Carl is moving to New York City to join CBRE’s Project Management team for Google’s Headquarters. Good luck in the big apple!

Georgi Andrews is a current master’s degree student at Baylor College of Medicine’s Orthotics and Prosthetics program. She’s spent the last six months as a resident in two different clinics working towards improved mobility for our patients by designing and creating braces (orthoses) and prosthetic limbs. They worked with victims of trauma, cancer, stroke, diabetes, etc. to get them moving and working again. She will graduate in December and will then be able to practice as a clinician, working towards improved awareness and support for those with mobility challenges every day.

November 6 at Dirty Martin’s Place

2015 Need volunteer

2016 Need volunteer

2017 Ellee Dukes Austin, TX elleedukes@mac.com

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2015 alumnae Alex Eastman, Fernanda Gonzales-Blanco, Catalina Parra, Kendall Masterson Cross and her husband Robert, Ashley Davis, Caroline Powers, Elise Peters, Allison Reynolds at Kendall’s wedding

2018 Katherine Berman Lexington, VA katherine@katherineberman.com TX Harris Salt Lake City, UT txharris92@gmail.com Isabel Stallings Orange, CA isabel.stallings@gmail.com From the Advancement Office: Cole Hammer was a key member of the US amateur team that won the Walker Cup in England on September 8, 2019. This was the first time in 12 years that the Americans celebrated a Walker Cup victory away from home.

2019 Elizabeth Baird Oxford, MS elizabethbaird2000@gmail.com

Antonio Castro Dallas, TX antonio.castro0@yahoo.com Ellie Lucke Austin, TX ellielucke15@gmail.com Seb Seager New Haven, CT seb.seager@gmail.com From the Advancement Office: Congrats to Josh Williams who is a running back for the LSU Tigers - 2020 College Football Playoff National Champions!

Daniel King serves as a senator in Duke’s student government this year, and is helping Durham residents get registered to vote in the 2020 elections.

Lara Lin has joined a ballroom dance team, runs a student-led escape room on campus, is an editor for a public policy journal (RJPP), is currently competing in the Houston Policy Challenge and plans to study abroad this summer.

Class of 2019 alumni Kate Carmain, Seb Seager, Hannah Shi together at Yale University this past fall

Emma Stout is thrilled to work as a mountain biking/backpacking instructor in North Carolina this summer. Though she misses the Houston sun, she has found Tufts to be a delightful environment, and Boston’s dreary nights beautifully nostalgic.

Jennifer Sekili is having a wonderful first year at Baylor studying Biology on the Pre-Medical track, serving as an officer of Baylor’s Medical Service Organization, helping underprivileged children in the Waco community and conducting research on the ecology of wetland ecosystems.

Callie Rosenthal has been immersing herself in the Stanford and Silicon Valley entrepreneurship scene.

She works with Stanford Women in Business to secure partnerships with venture capital firms and tech companies, and to empower future female leaders through business education workshops, industry panels and speaker events.

Eli Bakht has had an excellent first semester, and is excited to be-

Josh Williams ’19 (right) after LSU won the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship

gin coaching lacrosse at Regents School.

In addition to training five days per week for football season, Ameer Mustafa hopes to pursue a triple major in Spanish, Accounting and Finance. He also enjoys writing music, learning to play guitar and organizing musical collaborations with friends. His teammates heard that he used to eat whole rotisserie chickens in high school so they bought him one as a prank. He ate it before the meeting was over.

Cameron Rudin writes and acts for three TV shows (RIOT!, Boom In The Shot and Next Week Now), which broadcast to the greater Austin area on UT’s only FCC-regulated student network.

Elizabeth Baird is delighted to become a Chi Omega at the University of Mississippi.

Morgan Parker went to ACL for the first time!

If you would like to volunteer to be the class notes correspondent for your grade, please contact Alexa Leach ’09 at alexa.leach@kinkaid.org or 713-243-5054.

Congrats to Cole Hammer ‘18 (bottom right side of trophy) for his part in the 2019 American Walker Cup victory!

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n October 16, 2019, over 50 young alumni returned to campus to participate in the 14th Annual Alumni Leadership Day. Hosted by the Kinkaid Young Professionals Organization (KYPO), this day is designed to bring young alumni to campus to spend time with our high school seniors and to share their educational and career experiences as the students consider life after Kinkaid.

This year’s keynote speaker was Dr. Andrew Coskey ’07, Orthopaedic Surgery Resident at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). Andrew entered Kinkaid in Pre-K in the Red Door class. He played football and lacrosse throughout high school, captaining both Varsity teams his senior year. He was also an active member of the band throughout high school, a Peer Mentor and a member of many clubs, including KOCI and Saferides.

After Kinkaid, Andrew attended Gettysburg College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2011, and was also a member of their men’s lacrosse team. After college, Andrew got his Master of Science degree from the University of South Florida and then his MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch. As an Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, Andrew gets to treat a wide variety of patients every day, from people with sports related injuries to people with multiple fractures. Dr. Coskey discussed his time at Kinkaid, his time in college and his road to success with our Class of 2020.

He gave a great message about perseverance, hard work and never giving up on your passion. To hear Andrew’s full speech, visit The Kinkaid School YouTube page.

After Andrew’s speech, students attended three industry-specific panels led by the young alumni. Students chose from 11 industry-specific panels and were able to meet in small groups to better understand the diverse career paths students follow after graduating from Kinkaid. A question and answer session took place at the end of each panel. Each student received a brochure with the panelist bios and contact information. enjoyed learning about various career options and what those paths may look like. YAL CoPresident Megan Maclay ’20 commented, “Alumni Leadership Day was a great opportunity to hear about different career paths and how people found themselves where they are in life. I loved hearing everyone’s stories and experiences.”

Casson Wen ‘06, Hayner Rude ‘06, James Eilers ‘06

Anthony Harrison ‘05, Daniel Romero ‘04, Marshall Crawford ‘09, Andrew Coskey ‘07

After the panel sessions, Alumni Leadership Day concluded with a roundtable luncheon in the Ogilvie Lobby, where students were able to talk with alumni one-on-one. YAL Co-President Noah Rubinson ’20 remarked, “Alumni Leadership Day provided my peers and me with an unparalleled preview into the experiences and journeys that we may one day encounter ourselves as we embark on our own professional careers in the near future. This event is one of the most unique and rewarding opportunities offered to Kinkaid students, and the stories and advice offered to my classmates and me during the event may very well have had profound impacts on the professional futures we choose to pursue in years to come.”

Entrepreneurship panelists Krystal Carter ‘01, Campbell Cravens ‘12, Lanie Markham ‘13, Franco Silva ‘09

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Anthony Harrison ‘05, Megan Ebel ‘11, Katherine Cunningham ‘09, Haley Berkman Karren ‘06, Joe Branch ‘94, Paige Poe ‘14 with students in their Arts & Entertainment panel

YAL Alumni Leadership Day Senior Committee Margaret Bass ‘20, Carson Keller ‘20, Megan Maclay ‘20, Meredith Burpeau ‘20, Noah Rubinson ‘20

Arts & Entertainment:

Healthcare/Medicine:

Joe Branch ’94 Katherine Cunningham ’09 Megan Ebel ’11 Anthony Harrison ’05 – Moderator Haley Berkman Karren ’06 Paige Poe ’14

Jeffrey Berman ’08 Andrew Coskey ’07 Lauren Leavitt-Griffin ’00 – Moderator Maggie Watson Nesmith ’07 Laura Sheedy Pipkin ’01 Elizabeth Love Ross ’02

Banking, Finance & Accounting:

Law:

Mason Bashaw Clelland ’08 Carolyn Dyer ’13 Byron Langford ’07 – Moderator Katherine Tropoli Plumb ’01

Mary Rodman Crawford ’11 Valerie Grainger Henderson ’04 Andrew Klein ’08 Brittany Sakowitz Kushner ’04 – Moderator Casson Wen ’06

Computer Science, Military, Security & Intelligence:

James Eilers ’06 – Moderator Energy/Oil & Gas:

Marshall Crawford ’09 Kenner Smith Francis ’10 Daniel Jenkins ’97 – Moderator Haley Ebel O’Brien ’14 Daniel Romero ’04 Hayner Rude ’06 Engineering:

Marketing & Communications panel with Neha Batavia Agrawal ‘02, Aimee Cronfel ’90, Julia Wood Harris ’08, Elizabeth Robinson Kendrick ’07

Kevin Clegg ’08 Eleni Pappas ’04 – Moderator John “Jack” Peden ’05 Glen Allen Wind ’11 Entrepreneurship:

Krystal Carter ’01 Campbell Cravens ’12 Lanie Markham ’13 Franco Silva ’09 – Moderator Constantine Zotos ’13

Marketing & Communications:

Neha Batavia Agrawal ‘02 Aimee Cronfel ’90 Julia Wood Harris ’08 – Moderator Elizabeth Robinson Kendrick ’07 Non-Profit & Education:

Stephanie Wilkinson Compton ’05 Jenna McGaw Fondren ’13 Carly Gray ’12 – Moderator Rodney Kennedy ’12 Ellie Thompson ’06 Real Estate:

John Frazier ’08 Sasha Levine ’08 Collins Orr ’14 Lexi Sakowitz ’07 – Moderator Sarah Callaway Sulma ’05

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Allison Poarch Coleman ‘03 and husband Thomas

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Bradley Singer ‘05 and wife Kate

Kavita Rao Trikha ‘01 and husband Neel

Lexie Mize ’09 & Caldwell Moore June 1, 2019

Meredith Claire Markham ’05 & Justin Seide September 14, 2019

Katie Skarke ’08 & Peter Danysh October 26, 2019

Lindsey Tate ’95 & Jason Yocum June 15, 2019

Lawson Mischer ’04 & Oliver Fackelmayer September 14, 2019

Elizabeth Furlow ’09 & Mason Malpass November 9, 2019

Mary Beth Tyler ’03 & Matt Torpey June 15, 2019

Ann Kathryn Dunavant & Marshall Crawford ’09 September 21, 2019

Lynsey McDonald & Ben Pearson ’10 November 14, 2019

Stephanie Keinz ’10 & Brandon Schneider June 29, 2019

Bethany Kelm & Preston Moore ’10 September 21, 2019

Elizabeth Clark ’14 & Will Waltrip November 23, 2019

Katherine Fisher ’14 & Lucas Cooper ’14 July 6, 2019

Lauren Marsh ’07 & Christopher Thomas September 28, 2019

Alexis Jacobson ’10 & Jimmy Taylor November 23, 2019

Kendall Masterson ’15 & Robert Cross July 6, 2019

Reese Lasher ’02 & Alice Delahunt October 12, 2019

Ellie Bullard Essalih ’94 & Wesley Skelton November 30, 2019

Nicole Halliday & William Campbell ’10 July 27, 2019

Kate Nexon & Bradley Singer ’05 October 12, 2019

Jade Gooding ’09 & Joe Jurica November 30, 2019

Elizabeth Robinson ’07 & Corey Kendrick August 3, 2019

Lexi Sakowitz ’07 & Mike Marek October 12, 2019

Shauna Levy ’00 & Lars Carlsen December 7, 2019

Caroline Emoff & Mitch Bono ’07 August 17, 2019

Britney Blodget ’06 & Bryan Walwyn October 19, 2019

Caroline Looke ’08 & Andrew Benak December 7, 2019

Sarah Atnipp ’08 & Bowe Partin ’07 September 1, 2019

Claire Campbell & Mike Mayfield ’12 October 19, 2019

Allison Poarch ’03 & Thomas Coleman December 14, 2019

Lucia Wilson ’10 & William Baird September 13, 2019

Hannah Fred ’12 & Bryant Bradley October 19, 2019

Kavita Rao ’01 & Neel Trikha December 18, 2019

Elizabeth Fontaine ’09 & Cushman Laurent September 14, 2019

Maddie Dorflinger ’09 & Francisco Salas October 26, 2019

Madison Grieco ’07 & Alex Hoffman September 14, 2019

Lauren Lestin ’07 & Bram Philipson October 26, 2019

M I L E S T O N E S

ANNUAL REPORT SPRING 2019 2020 SPRING 2015

Mitch Bono ‘07 and wife Caroline

Preston Moore ‘10 and wife Bethany

Lauren Lestin Philipson ’07 and husband Bram

Meredith Claire Markham Seide ‘05 and husband Justin

Kendall Masterson Cross ‘15 and husband Robert

Lauren Marsh Thomas ‘07 and husband Christopher

Caroline Looke Benak ‘08 and husband Andrew

Stephanie Keinz Schneider ‘10 and husband Brandon

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William Campbell ‘10 and wife Nicole

Lindsey Tate Yocum ‘95 and husband Jason

Jade Gooding Jurica ‘09 and husband Joe

Lexi Sakowitz Marek ‘07 and husband Mike

Ellie Bullard Skelton ’94 and husband Wesley, along with Libby Essalih, Hudson Skelton and Grace Essalih

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Mary Beth Tyler Torpey ‘03 and husband Matt

Hannah Fred Bradley ‘12 and husband Bryant

Elizabeth Furlow Malpass ‘09 and husband Mason

Elizabeth Robinson Kendrick ‘07 and husband Corey

Sarah Atnipp Partin ‘08 and husband Bowe ‘07

M I L E S T O N E S

ANNUAL REPORT SPRING 2019 2020 SPRING 2015

Birth Announcements Zachry Lowry Mays March 26, 2019 Marie Brown Mays ’10 and husband Ryan

Holden Carlisle Brewer June 27, 2019 Stephen Brewer ’03 and wife Linden

Madeleine Patricia Gregg May 17, 2019 Becky Blades Gregg ’05 and husband Justin

John “Jack” Stephen Chambers June 28, 2019 Andrew Chambers ’05 and wife Liz

Richard Barry Leonard June 3, 2019 David Leonard ’04 and wife Kelly

Luke Alexander Messier July 3, 2019 Ben Messier ’06 and wife Laura

Aden June Schulte June 4, 2019 Andrew Schulte ’07 and wife Ashley

Mason Wallace Swithin July 9, 2019 Kameron Averitt Swithin ’01 and husband Eric

Benton Ellis Steitz June 5, 2019 Matt Steitz ’06 and wife Brittany

Ruthie Bea Rowe July 11, 2019 Audrey Gordon Rowe ’04 and husband Ben

Wilkin Andrew Martin June 12, 2019 Anna Beall Martin ’03 and husband Jon

Barton Neal McLaughlin III July 22, 2019 Helen Hemingway McLaughlin ’05 and husband Barton

Miller Alan Spencer June 13, 2019 Caroline Baum Spencer ’03 and husband Kyle

Finley David Berry July 25, 2019 Rachael Jones Berry ’03 and husband Jimmy

Chloe Lucette Kittler June 14, 2019 Nicole Weitz Kittler ’04 and husband Andy

Caroline James Compton July 30, 2019 Stephanie Wilkinson Compton ’05 and husband Trae

Blair Morgan Alexander June 20, 2019 Emily Merrill Alexander ’05 and husband David

Presley Clara Dinerstein July 30, 2019 Brittany Bloom Dinerstein ’07 and husband Brad ’03

Robert “Robbie” Sutherland O’Connell June 20, 2019 Catherine Bradley O’Connell ’05 and husband Stephen

Ann Catherine DeWalch July 2019 Jane Banos DeWalch ’08 and husband Taylor ’07

Anne “Annie” Sheedy Pipkin June 21, 2019 Laura Sheedy Pipkin ’01 and husband Michael

Isla Ann Reckling August 4, 2019 Stephen Reckling ’06 and wife Adele

Max Leo Barrett June 23, 2019 Melissa Liebling-Goldberg ’96 and husband John Barrett

Elizabeth Lyle Coskey August 5, 2019 Andrew Coskey ’07 and wife Patricia

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Charlotte Reese Garson August 5, 2019 Courtney Cohen Garson ’07 and husband Josh

Sally Bell Thompson September 10, 2019 Mattie Rutherford Thompson ’07 and husband Craig

Caroline Louise Brollier August 9, 2019 John Brollier ’06 and wife Lauren

Julian Christopher Viviano September 10, 2019 Stephen Viviano ’06 and wife Hannah

Poppy Collins Blau August 13, 2019 Emily Collins Blau ’02 and husband Lance

Delores “Lola” Day September 16, 2019 Desiree Pipkins ’01 and husband Michael Day

Emilie Helen Neuhaus August 19, 2019 Tim Neuhaus ’03 and wife Sarah

Logan Blake Bassili September 21, 2019 Lisa Bassili ’94

Sidney Vivienne Eure August 22, 2019 Meagan Voigt Eure ’01 and husband Brad Bowen Douglas Petry August 22, 2019 Julie Mackay Petry ’07 and husband Jeff Worthington “Worth” Michael Brewster Fleming August 28, 2019 Sallyanne Bell Fleming ’00 and husband Brian Avery Elizabeth Berman September 3, 2019 Jeffrey Berman ’08 and wife Andria Tess Elizabeth Foster September 4, 2019 Blair Burke Foster ’06 and husband Jack Briar Campbell Beckwith September 7, 2019 Erin Atmar Beckwith ’07 and husband John Alice Marie Schwartzel September 7, 2019 Anna Rogers Schwartzel ’05 and husband Charlie Olivia Hudson Currie September 10, 2019 Katie Decker Currie ’06 and husband Mitchell ’06

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William Blackstone Britt September 21, 2019 Harris Britt ’06 and wife Kristin Henry Whitman Yoesel September 25, 2019 Shea Henry Yoesel ’03 and husband Jeff Barton Lucas Weaver and Claire Gray Weaver September 26, 2019 Alex Weaver ’03 and wife Ali Alexander Clark Zehner October 2, 2019 Georgiana Smyser Zehner ’07 and husband Carl John Terrell Lozeron October 7, 2019 Camille Panaccione Lozeron ’08 and husband Nathan Charles Gage Hyman Howe October 8, 2019 Katherine Howe ’95 and husband Louis Hyman Pearl Sue Prewett October 12, 2019 Laura Altman Prewett ’02 and husband Hartford Miller Ann Jones October 15, 2019 Mary Catherine White Jones ’04 and husband Will

M I L E S T O N E S

ANNUAL REPORT SPRING 2019 2020 SPRING 2015

George Irish Beall October 17, 2019 Jessica Messier Beall ’08 and husband Charley ’06

James Harrison Rambin November 25, 2019 Lizzie Lawrie Rambin ’09 and husband Joe

Olivia Marie Lodge October 18, 2019 Amanda Rutherford Lodge ’09 and husband Eric

Harry Booth November 30, 2019 Katherine Bookout Booth ’08 and husband Will

Hazel Elizabeth Guillory October 21, 2019 Angel Gibbs Guillory ’08 and husband George

Kate Elizabeth Sanders December 2, 2019 James Sanders ’05 and wife Ryan

Blair Margaret Galloway October 22, 2019 Amy Wynne Galloway ’09 and husband Thomas

Grace Quinley Evans December 4, 2019 Michael Evans ’05 and wife Katie

Grace Marie Roff October 24, 2019 Haley Freeman Roff ’08 and husband Thomas ’08

Benjamin Lawrence Gerardo Gustilo Cooper December 10, 2019 Terence Cooper ’90 and wife Gia

Harrison David Lodge November 1, 2019 Alice Gutermuth Lodge ’05 and husband JW

Henry Michael Muth December 10, 2019 Catherine Gutermuth Muth ’01 and husband Keith

Chloe Elizabeth Escher November 4, 2019 Charlie Escher ’98 and wife Leah

Walker Thomas Fatjo December 16, 2019 Austin Fatjo ’07 and wife Ally

Sarah Elizabeth English November 11, 2019 Dan English ’97 and wife Dianne

Harris John Shields December 20, 2019 Alma Gomez Shields ’01 and husband Daniel

Julia Ann Williams November 13, 2019 Megan Metcalf Williams ’95 and husband Jason

Charles Douglas McConn December 26, 2019 Douglas McConn ’06 and wife Ann

Nolan Micah Raizes November 15, 2019 Ashleigh Nankivell Raizes ’99 and husband Steve Madison “Maddie” Hunter Clyce November 19, 2019 Lauren Goodall Clyce ’04 and husband Andy Ruth Camille Lowry November 25, 2019 Garrett Lowry ’08 and wife Natalie

Share your milestone events with us!

Please send them to Alumni Activities Manager Alexa Leach ’09 at alexa.leach@kinkaid.org *Baby and wedding announcements through December 31, 2019 included

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In Memory Former Coach & Upper School English Teacher Richard Bernard “Dick” Curran Jr. July 8, 2019

Peter “PJ” Simien III ’04 July 15, 2019

Estelle Lindsey Shepherd Dunn ’41 July 29, 2019

Former Choir Director David Arey Knickel August 8, 2019

Former Trustee Ernest Linwood Deal August 10, 2019

Karen Dyke Amerman ’77 (fs) August 13, 2019

Linda Cummins West ’06 September 15, 2019

Rosario “Rosie” Salvador Blakely ’76 October 3, 2019

Maurice McAshan Adams ’56 October 4, 2019

Jeffrey Lester Vallone ’84 (fs) October 27, 2019

Matthew Muller Adams ’84 (fs) November 12, 2019

Former Lower School Teacher Sherwood “Sherry” T. Cooley November 12, 2019

Harry Holmes Cullen ’54 (fs) November 16, 2019

Josephine Muller Shanks ’51 (fs) November 25, 2019

Lynn Walling Baker ’57 December 7, 2019

Jessie Westphal Scott ’47 (fs) December 18, 2019

Jean Griffey Tuttle ’53 (fs) December 29, 2019

Thomas “Walker” Kerns ’04 (fs) January 3, 2020

Barbara Kirkland Chiles ’38 (fs) January 17, 2020

Patricia “Patsy” Huey Weiler ’52 (fs) January 24, 2020

Former Director of Theater Arts G’ann Boyd January 26, 2020

Former Spanish Teacher Vale Asche (Ackerman) Russell ’51 (fs) January 31, 2020 Andrew William Manias ’13 February 9, 2020

Robert B. Peacock ’49 February 9, 2020

Sue Trammell Whitfield ’50 February 18, 2020

Listings through February 19, 2020 included.

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any thanks to all the donations to the 2018-19 Fantasical Fetê and Field Day.

Through your donations and financial support, Kinkaid was able to fully fund every division and department wish list along with support for Kinkaid’s EMSI summer program and start up money for the School’s future STEM program.

Lower School

Middle School

Some of the funded items include:

Some of the funded items include:

Upgrade Forum Space for Teachers and Guest Speakers PK - 4 new ipads per class for Osmo K - New STEM materials and manipulatives K - 4 sensory tables 3d Resin printer for Art/Science/Launch Pad 3d Clay printer Laser cutter Music/Playground instruments

9 Dry Erase Wave Tables w/ 18 chairs Promethean Board Waterjet

$63,990

Upper School

$37,756

Kayem Library Digital books 2 - Nook Collaboration Pods 4 - Custom core value banners 2 - OFS Bends straight laptop stands

Athletics

Fine Arts

$183,495

$147,750

$152,719

Some of the funded items include:

Some of the funded items include:

Some of the funded items include:

Science equipment Student table and chairs Purple node desks Standing desk system Amphitheatre seating with folding arm desks Moran Library Bar height tables Wall bar Table with charges and 9 stools White marker board

Technology

$125,000 Some of the funded items include: AV for Recital Hall

Softball batting cage New Stadium Press Box Baseball batting analysis system Pulsed eltectromagnetic field therapy Track & field timer-chip analysis (relay and lap) Soccer Goal iPads for varsity sports stats Bola hockey machine for Field Hockey

STEM Program

$400,000

Refurbish MS Art Studio Photography - cameras Costume Shop upgrade - Phase 1 and Phase 2 Technical Theater upgrades Monitor system for orchestra pit Band - Euphonium (small tuba instrument) Choir - rolling promethian Smart board Dance -Lockers for dancers x 40 Dance - Replace ballet barres Visual Arts/Sculpture - Laser cutter Visual Arts/Sculpture - 3D Printers Art Car

EMSI

$100,000

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K I N K A I D I S P L E AS E D TO H O N O R

2020 Distinguished Alumni Award Winners

Distinguished Honorary Alumnus

Distinguished Alumnus

Distinguished Young Alumna

Outstanding Alumni Service Award

Don Sanders

Jatin “Jay” Vyas ’85, MD, PhD

Lisa Kaplan Rosenzweig ’00

Malcolm Waddell ’70

Financial & Sports Executive, Community Leader, Philanthropist & Animal Benefactor

Physician-Scientist, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Real Estate Developer

Entrepreneur & Devoted Kinkaid Alumnus

Please read their distinguished bios inside and visit kinkaid.org/distinguishalumni for their Alumni Award videos!