Summer Magazine 2016 by The Kinkaid School

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THE CLASS OF 2016

From the Headmaster

Dear Kinkaid Community

hope that you and your family are enjoying the somewhat slower pace of the summer months. By every measureable outcome— fine arts and athletic achievements, college placement, admissions applications, community service volunteer hours and annual and capital fundraising, to name a few categories—we had a truly outstanding 2015-16 school year! I am humbled by the commitment of the faculty and staff, the talent and spirit of the students, the partnership of the parents, the passion of the alumni and the support and strength of the Board of Trustees. To use Assistant Headmaster Ed Trusty’s phrase, we are “One Kinkaid”! Some of the major highlights of the year are as follows: •

We completed the $28.3M Building Together Capital Campaign to fund the construction of the parking garage and the Dining and Learning Center. Thank you for your exceptional generosity!

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The parking garage opened for business on April 13, just in time for a terrific Field Day on April 14. The Dining and Learning Center is scheduled to be open when school resumes in late August.

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Our Auction, A Night in Old Havana, was a huge success, raising nearly $1M for student programs and facility enhancements in all three academic divisions, fine arts and athletics. It was a special evening full of camaraderie; special thanks to our Chairs Nancy DeWalch, Jessica Jacobe and Marie Louise Kinder!

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Our Upper School musical, Hairspray, was a truly remarkable collaborative with George Washington Carver High School. The show was nominated for 10 Tommy Tune awards, a competition under the auspices of Theater Under the Stars (TUTS), and took home the Best Choreography Award; furthermore, three students earned prestigious Tommy Tune scholarships. Our Middle School musical, Guys and Dolls, was excellent, and our Lower School artists and singers amazed their parents and family members with their high-quality and joyous pieces and performances throughout the school year.

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Kinkaid again captured the Southwest Preparatory Conference (SPC) Athletic Directors’ Cup, which measures overall performance in SPC playoffs during the school year. For the second consecutive year, Kinkaid finished as the #1 school in girls sports, #2 in boys sports, and the #1 co-ed school. We had two championships this year (football and boys golf), five second place finishes and out of 23 total SPC sports; we had a remarkable 14 teams place in the top 4 for their season. Moreover, our Middle School teams won two championships and had 14 top 4 finishes this year.

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Fifty members of the Class of 2016 were accepted to the University of Texas, Austin. Seniors also received admission offers from all eight Ivy League schools, plus the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The class as a whole was offered a stunning 219 merit-based college scholarships totaling $12,819,912, including our first-ever Gates Millennium Scholar.

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Upper School students completed approximately 4,000 hours of school-sponsored community service and built a house for Habitat for Humanity. All Middle School students participated in a Day of Service, while Lower School students participated in a wide array of projects to benefit our community partners, including making over 2,100 sandwiches for Kids Meals and collecting over 100 toys during the holiday season for Toys for Tots.

Congratulations to our students, faculty and staff for their outstanding accomplishments in 2015-16! Thank you very much for your continued strong support of our School. I look forward to seeing you on campus in the fall; it will be a true pleasure to show you around the new Dining and Learning Center. Until then, have a wonderful summer, and Go Falcons!

Regards,

SUMMER 2016

Contents

Features 2 36 40 48

Building Together Update Following their Passion The Class of 2016 Reunion Weekend 2016

Departments 2

Around Campus 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 18 22 23 24

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International Fair Interim Term Notable Visitors Community Service First and Fifth Grade Grandparents’ Day 2016 Cum Laude Auction 1906 Society KGP Event 14th Annual Sporting Clays Benefit Field Day Honor Day Faculty Awards and Accolades Retirements New Trustees

Athletics Fine Arts Class Notes & Alumni News 52 56 64 74 78

Letters from the Presidents Alumnus Profile – John Diffey ’66 Alumna Profile – Bronwyn Becker Charlton ’91 Alumna Profile – Katy Broesche ’11 Milestones

THE KINKAID MAGAZINE IS A PUBLICATION OF THE ADVANCEMENT OFFICE OF THE KINKAID SCHOOL Tom Moore Director of Advancement tom.moore@kinkaid.org

Andrea Ibarra Gift Records Manager andrea.ibarra@kinkaid.org

Cindy van Keppel Advancement Assistant cindy.vankeppel@kinkaid.org

Emily Wynne Bolin ’82 Manager of Alumni Activities & Annual Giving emily.bolin@kinkaid.org

Alexa Leach ’09 Assistant Manager of Alumni Activities alexa.leach@kinkaid.org

Cameron Whitaker Assistant Communications Manager cameron.whitaker@kinkaid.org

Kate DeWitt Assistant Manager of Special Events kate.dewitt@kinkaid.org

Georgia Piazza Manager of Communications & Special Events georgia.piazza@kinkaid.org

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

Blair Burke Foster ’06 Assistant Manager of Annual Fund blair.foster@kinkaid.org

Tiffany Smith Parent Liaison & Volunteer Coordinator tiffany.smith@kinkaid.org

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Building Together Campaign Meets Goal We are very pleased to report that Building Together, the capital campaign to raise funds to build a parking garage and new two-story Dining and Learning Center, has reached its goal! “Raising $28.3 million in two years is a great testament to the wonderful generosity of the Kinkaid family,” said Campaign Co-Chair Pam Fullenweider. Co-Chair Bill Montgomery added, “Achieving this level of support is even more remarkable in light of the past two year’s other highly successful Kinkaid fundraising activities -- Kinkaid Fund and the Auction -- and the depressed energy prices which have had a large impact on many people, especially in the Houston area.” In making the announcement of the Campaign’s success, Headmaster Andy Martire joined Mrs. Fullenweider and Mr. Montgomery in thanking the 473 donors and campaign volunteers. “I continue to be amazed by the broad level of generous support, not only in terms of gifts but also volunteer time,

that Kinkaid receives from all across our community, a level that few schools in the country are privileged to have. By funding the construction of the parking garage and the Dining and Learning Center, these gifts will have a tremendous impact on students, families, faculty, staff and visitors to our campus for years to come.”

The Dining and Learning Center will be ready for students come August and the garage opened in mid-April just in time for Field Day!

A final campaign report and listing of donors will be published in the Kinkaid Magazine this fall.

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Up on the Roof To celebrate the completion of Kinkaid’s newly opened parking garage, the Kinkaid Community came together ‘up on the roof ’ of the garage on Sunday, May 1. Kinkaid families, alumni, trustees and faculty and staff enjoyed James Coney Island hot dogs and Mams Snoballs while taking in the beautiful views from the top of the new structure. Remarks were made by Headmaster Andy Martire, Building Together Committee Co-Chairs Bill Montgomery and Pam Fullenweider and Building Committee Chair Gene Werlin to thank everyone who helped the garage reach completion. The event was also a great way to bring together the many volunteers throughout the 201516 school year. Parent’s Association Presidents Kay House and Beth Cozby recognized the volunteers and thanked them for all their efforts in helping make the school year such a success! It was certainly a day of celebrations! Chris ‘98, Harrison, Sarah Leavitt

PA Co-Presidents Kay House and Beth Cozby, Parent Liaision and Volunteer Coordinator Tiffany Smith, Gayleen Breeding, Manager of Annual Giving and Alumni Activities Emily Bolin

Molly ‘28, Emma ‘29, Dena Cornell

Christie and Billy McCartney with Kellen, Kinley ‘27, Katie Reese ‘25

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International Fair 2016 Thank you to International Fair Chairs Amy Goldstein and Sarah Shughart and their team of dedicated volunteers who magically transformed two lower school classrooms into South Korea and Denmark. A full list of donors and volunteers will be listed in the Kinkaid Magazine this fall.

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Interim Term Experience Every January, the Kinkaid Upper School takes three weeks to allow students to explore new interests and pursue passions. This year, groups of students traveled to Spain and the Galápagos Islands, studied abroad in France, took classes at Kinkaid and seniors all experienced the work life. The Interim Term experience is truly like no other!

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Notable Visitors Likover Visiting Author Each year, combined with the generosity of the Kyle Likover Memorial Visiting Author Endowment and Kinkaid’s enthusiasm for children’s literature, The Jacomini Family Library is excited to host a nationally recognized children’s author or author/illustrator. This year Kinkaid welcomed author/illustrator Jason Chin. Mr. Chin grew up in New Hampshire and studied illustration at Syracuse University. His most recent book Water is Water has earned several starred reviews. His rich illustrations allow readers young and old to be swept away whether it is to deepest space, the depths of the ocean, or witnessing the marvels of the Galápagos Islands. The exquisite details in Mr. Chin’s books make them treasures to share time and time again. His talent of taking a complex topic like the force of gravity or the complexities of an ecosystem makes his nonfiction subjects wonderfully approachable. Mr. Chin met with all grade levels and delighted them all with unique stories of his research and writing. He finished off each session with a drawing of one student from each grade level placed into a story suggested by the audience.

Papadopoulos Fellow Thanks to the generous endowment of the Papadopoulos Family, every year, the Science Department, specifically the Biology section, has the privilege of inviting an accomplished scientist to come and spend a day with us. The 2016 Papadopoulos Fellow was Dr. Mireya Mayor. Dr. Mayor has a PhD in Anthropology, with a specialization in primates (Anthropologist/Primatologist). For the last ten years, she has worked as a wildlife correspondent on numerous television programs, including National Geographic’s television series ‘Ultimate Explorer’, ‘Explorer’ and ‘Out There.’ She presented at the Kinkaid Upper School assembly in February and walked the students through her journey beginning with her childhood to being an NFL cheerleader and then an anthropologist. Students had a chance to travel with her through the rain forest and villages. They learned about her research as well as makings of the National Geographic series. Her presentation was followed by many questions that carried over to a luncheon seminar.

Weiner Family Fellow

Rachel Weiner Davis ‘75, Andy Weiner ‘78, Dr. Penelope Bonnen, Upper School English Teacher Charlie Scott, Headmaster Andy Martire

On Monday, March 28, a group of Kinkaid students visited our 2015-16 Weiner Family Fellow Dr. Penelope Bonnen at her lab and office at the Baylor College of Medicine, where she is Assistant Professor of Genetics. Over the course of the entire day, the students worked on projects in Dr. Bonnen’s lab, visited and toured the BCM Genome Center, as well as the brand new BCM Diagnostics Lab in the old Nabisco building just outside the Houston Medical Center proper. The following day, Dr. Bonnen came to Kinkaid’s campus and delivered a 30-minute talk to the entire Upper School assembly on her career as a scientist and how she decided initially to go into the field of Genetics. Andy Weiner ’78 and Rachel Davis ’76, children of Sandra and Leon Weiner, the originators of the fellowship program, were in attendance at Dr. Bonnen’s presentation and afterwards hosted her and several special guests from the Kinkaid faculty and administrative team at a luncheon.

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‘15 -’16 Community Service UPPER

SCHOOL

STUDENTS

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3,957

HOURS INCLUDING :

930 hours for 9th grade at Brookwood MIDDLE SCHOOL

402 hours at Habitat for Humanity

432 STUDENTS

participated in the two Days of Service offered

446 hours served June-August ‘15

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SANDWICHES were made for Kids Meals by the Kindergarten class

100 TOYS

were collected for Toys for Tots

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Fifth and First Grandparents’ Day Here at Kinkaid we love our grandparents and special friends. On April 7, the fifth grade presented a mathematically inspired art exhibit and performance echoing the work of M.C. Escher. While on May 13, the first graders performed the great tale of Stone Soup. Thank you to all the grandparents, special friends and parents who came to watch.

Holden Peacock ‘23 with Sarah Beth and Dexter Peacock, Julie Peacock

Sophie Lighvani ‘27 with Afi Siamak, Niaz and Andre Lighvani

Olivia Utterback ‘27 with Brittany Utterback, Terry and Robert Leal

Lyles Hutcheson ‘27 with Ruth Beery

Charlie Forney ‘27 with Sally and Chuck Leonard, Carolyn Forney

Mia Abello ‘23 with April Abello, Nuala and Dick Haddox

James Loeffler ‘27 with Ashley Loeffler, Jan and Jim Copeland

Baley Metclaf ‘23 with Carter Metclaf, Richard and Jane Bales, Evelyn Vollmer, Petra Guzmann

Joycie Brass ‘23 with Katie Brass and Joyce Brass

George Ruthven ‘23 with Laura and Perry Ruthven and Kay Newman

Rohun Reddy ‘27 with Anna and Shashi Reddy, Sreelatha and Satish Reddy

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CUM LAUDE 2016

n Monday, March 6, 30 students from the Class of 2016 were inducted into the John H. Cooper Chapter of the Cum Laude Society during an assembly and were honored that evening at a dinner at the Junior League of Houston.

Uche Amaechi ’95 gave the address for this year’s induction assembly. Uche attended Harvard University for his undergraduate degree. He also earned a MBA from the University of Phoenix online while working for the Cambridge, MA public schools. Uche is completing a doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and working part time as a school level administrator in the Cambridge public schools. Later that evening, David Lasater delivered the parent address and Kaveh Badrei ’16 gave the student address.

Congratulations to the following seniors: Kaveh Badrei Jackson Baur Kendyl Bree Worthley Burke Grant Carmain Joe Cozby Amy Drews Madison Frandina Alex Goeringer Emma Hanan

Martha House Lindsey Jacobe Shivanki Juneja Aliza Kajani Sarah Lasater Jeel Mehta Mason Mings Grace Nevil Josh Raizner Arjun Reddy

Zach Roubein Vidya Sivaramakrishnan Tarun Srinivasan Louise Stephens Q Tabarestani Natalie Thurman Clara Tian Monica Titus Madison Whiteside Sita Yerramsetti

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hat a fiesta! The 2016 Kinkaid Auction was an exciting evening -- filled with silent and live auctions, dinner with close friends and late night salsa dancing. All three gyms were packed with partygoers who wanted the first glimpse at Old Havana. A city that had been trapped in time until now! The proceeds from the once every three years event went to fund the David M. Underwood Endowment for Teaching Excellence, the Upper School’s Habitat for Humanity projects, Kinkaid’s Engineering Math Science Institute summer program and department/division needs for technology enhancements, equipment upgrades and specific classroom needs. From the vintage cars to the fashionably dressed guests, the success of the Auction was not to be beat. A big thank you goes out to Karen and Harry Susman and Dolar and Pat Patolia for hosting the Underwriting and Wine Cellar parties leading up to Auction; and huge round of applause to the Jefes of the Evening – Nancy DeWalch, Jessica Jacobe and Marie Louise Kinder!

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Christine McCartney, Elva and Truett Akin, Billy McCartney

Felicia Baker, Stephanie Cockrell, Tama Klosek, Director of Advancement Tom Moore, Bert Baker

2015-2016 Liz Leiman, Christine Morenz, Melissa Massey

The 1906 Society Reception On a beautiful March evening, over 200 members of The 1906 Society attended a cocktail reception in their honor at the Forest Club. The 1906 Society, named for the School’s founding year, recognizes all donors to the Kinkaid Fund who have given $3,000 or more. Caroline Mitchell, Kinkaid Trustee and Kinkaid Fund chair, adds, “We are overwhelmed by the generosity of our community. Their support allows Kinkaid to operate at a level of excellence we could not provide without their assistance.”

Kay and David Lasater

Jacob Thomas with Donna and Michael Lam

Pam and David Ott with Lucinda Marinis

Laurie and Ace Holley

Pilar and Richard Colvin with Ashley Golshani and Reza Malek

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Carol Frankel and Lynn Locher

Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence

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Lucinda Marinis and Suzi Swanson

KGP Event The 2015-16 Kinkaid Fund gave special recognition to those grandparents whose gifts exceeded $500. Members of the newly created â&#x20AC;&#x153;KGPâ&#x20AC;? society were honored at a cocktail reception on May 4 at the beautiful home of Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence. Grandparent chairs Phyllis and Jack Selber thanked the over 50 Kinkaid grandparents who attended the event for their continued support of the School. Headmaster Andy Martire also made remarks and filled grandparents in on the many happenings and achievements from the 2015-16 school year. It was a lovely evening to be a Kinkaid Grandparent! Sallie Davis, Jeanne Moses, Phyllis Selber

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14th Annual Kinkaid Sporting Clays Benefit The 14th Annual Sporting Clays Benefit was certainly one for the books! Tournament chair Jeb Bowden ’98, co-chair Steven Looke ’99 and honorary chair Murry Bowden led the fundraising efforts for the benefit, raising a record breaking $184,000 for the Barbara Cooney Teaching Fellowship Endowment. A large number of Kinkaid’s alumni, parents and friends came to The Greater Houston Gun Club on Friday, April 1 for an afternoon of clay shooting, lunch and mingling to support the program. A full list of donors will appear in the Kinkaid Magazine this fall.

Shoot-off Champion George Ball

Charlie Christ and Roy Horlock

JP Hutcheson and Miller Crosswell ’94

Co-Chair Steven Looke ‘99 and Chair Jeb Bowden ‘98

Matt Liuzzi, Cameron Cureton ‘96, Scott Gardner

Kelly Barnhart ‘99, Lindsey Looke, Nicole Katz, Katie Barnhart

Headmaster Andy Martire, Cooney Fellow Jack Matthews, Honorary Chair Murry Bowden

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Field Day Everyday really should be this sweet! Thank you Cathy Watson, Wendy Nockolds and Melissa Massey for doing a SWEET job in chairing Field Day 2016. The weather was great and our community celebrated a special tradition that brought the entire school together. All volunteers and donors will be listed in the 2015-16 Annual Report featured in the Kinkaid Magazine this fall.

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Kinkaid Honor Day Lower School Awards

John Cooper Award 3rd Grade Isabel Huddle, John Klevenhagen 4th Grade Stella Hall, Eric Wang Glenn Ballard Award 4th Grade Kate DeWalch, Carter Pitts Character Education Award 2nd Grade Max Martire, Gretchen Merman

Camille Pyne ‘24 and Andy Guy ‘24 with Headmaster Andy Martire and Lower School Head Krista Babine

Eric Wang ‘24 and Stella Hall ‘24

Daphne Murray ‘25 and Matthew Gonzalez ‘25

Isabel Huddle ‘25 and John Klevenhagen ‘25

Kate DeWalch ‘24 and Carter Pitts ‘24

Max Martire ‘26 and Gretchen Merman ‘26

3rd Grade Matthew Gonzalez, Daphne Murray 4th Grade Andy Guy, Camille Pyne

Middle School Awards Charles B. Sanders Jr. Fifth Grade Award Audrey Lobb, Gardner Watson Fifth Grade Academic Achievement Award Charlie Loach, Mia Price Leigh Weld Sixth Grade Award Avery Brazelton, Prescott Lau Sixth Grade Academic Achievement Award Grace Beilstein, Connor Blake Prescott Lau ’22 and Avery Brazelton ‘20 with Sally Frost, daughter of Lee Weld

Greg Gephart Seventh Grade Award Connor Heath, Martha MacMane

Eighth Grade Fine Arts Award Jonathan Mitchell, Carlie Sachs Eighth Grade Jack Hanagriff Award Alex Caldwell Eighth Grade Jan Braden Award Kate Neal Glenn Ballard Award Andrew Linhart Emma Jane Miller Award Meredith Burpeau Arthur E. Goddard Award Nicholas Dillon

Seventh Grade Academic Achievement Award Zoe Price, Anthony Treistman Seventh Grade Fine Arts Award Ethan Fang, Serena Thompson Seventh Grade Jack Hanagriff Award Tyler Lewitton Seventh Grade Jan Braden Award Charlotte Shively Ethan Fang ‘21 and Serena Thompson ‘21 with Headmaster Andy Martire and Middle School Head Chelsea Collins

Eighth Grade Academic Achievement Award Jonathan Frumovitz, Meredith Huston

Meredith Huston ‘20 and Jonathan Frumovitz ‘20

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Kinkaid Honor Day Upper School Awards

Citizenship Award receipients with Assistant Headmaster Ed Trusty

Citizenship Awards The Class of 1978 Award for Freshman Citizenship Jake Adamson, Ameer Mustafa The Mark Lester Award for Sophomore Citizenship Sara Burpeau, Ashton Lambert The Class of 1953 Award for Junior Citizenship Bryn Anderson, Petra Nordgren The Class of 1975 Award for Senior Citizenship Halle Brazda, Grant Carmain

Academic Merit Award recipients with Upper School Head Patrick Loach

Academic Merit Awards The Freshman Academic Merit Award Riley Shaper The Sophomore Academic Merit Award Allison Favaloro The Junior Academic Merit Award Ashley Deutser The Senior Academic Merit Award Emma Hanan

The Cooper Award Jeel Mehta

Fine Arts

The Mrs. W.J. Kinkaid Award Sarah Lasater

The Lauri Jones Shepler 2D Art Award Carter Green

The W.W. Kinkaid Award Kaveh Badrei

The 3D Art Award Hannah Holliday, Lenox Butcher The Acting Award Ty Doran, Natalie Thurman The Band Award Alondra Reyes The Choir Award Kate Hickman The Dance Award Emily Talbert

Sarah Fullenweider â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;17 with Headmaster Andy Martire, Jay and Anne Coskey

Scholarships The Elena Semander Scholarship for Art & Athletics Jennifer Jacobe The John and Dorothy Cooper Scholarship Sarah Fullenweider The John Fontaine Memorial Scholarship Kaylie Mings

The Filmmaking Award Jack Schuette The Orchestra Award Q Taberstani The Photography Award Lindsey Siff The Technical Theater Award Culver Stedman The Tom Boyd Musical Theatre Award Brock Looser, Ashton Lambert

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The Dan Hart Award recipient Rhett Cardwell ‘16 and the Cathy Merrill Award recipient Louise Stephens ‘16 with Headmaster Andy Martire

The Jeanne S. Alsup Award for American Literature Studies Vivian Liu

Athletics Awards The Cathy Merrill Award for Athletics Louise Stephens The Dan Hart Award for Athletics Rhett Cardwell

Academic Awards Computer The William S. Kilroy Computer Award Colby Gottschalk

The William S. Kilroy Computer Award receipient Colby Gottschalk ‘16 with Upper School Computer Teacher Harlan Howe

English Award recipients with Upper School English Department Chair Kate Lambert

The Junior Class of 1953 Award for English Kendyl Bree, Sita Yerramsetti

Foreign Language The Chinese III Award Vivian Liu The Lucette Topper Level Three French Award Christos Papandreou

English

The Schlumberger Award for French Literature College Level Kaveh Badrei

The Callie B. Law Writing Award Kaveh Badrei, Amy Drews

The Stone Award for French Language AP Robert Lahourcade

The A.J. Carothers ‘50 Award for Creative Writing Kylie Lohrenz, Zachary Roubein

The Latin III Award Melanie Kate Yeager

The English I Award Darius Goodman

The Dorothy Rice Cooper Award for Latin Literature College Level John Goettee

The English II Award Grace Manes

The Francita Stuart Award for Spanish Literature AP Sita Yerramsetti

Foreign Language Award winners with Upper School Foreign Language Chair Jane Murdock

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The Haynes Award for Spanish Language AP Sabrina Bajwa

The Malcolm Cravens Award Sita Yerramsetti

The Spanish III Award Lauren Rice

The Mathematics and Science Award Tarun Srinivasan

History The American History Award Ashley Deutser The Celina Kilpatrick Research Award Sabrina Bajwa The Damon Wells Award Zach Roubein The Freshman History Award Hannah Shi The Mike Moncrief Debate Award Sita Yerramsetti The World Civilizations Award Collin Lawrence

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Science The Chemistry Award Hayden Rome The Four Year Science Award Q Tabarastani The Goettsche Physics Award Kristine Yang

The Damon Wells Award recipient Zach Roubein with Upper School History Chair Ed Harris

The Herder Fellowship for Science Leadership Caroline Hanan The Monroe Rust Biology Award May Moorefield, Callie Rosenthal The Papadopoulos Award for Biology Sita Yerramsetti

The Algebra II and Trigonometry Award Lauren Rice The AP Calculus Award Q Tabarestani The AP Statistics Award Hayden Rome, Maggie Wallis The Class of 1980 Mathematics Award for Precalculus Zachary Bell The Kathryn Wade Geometry Award Annaliese Fowler, Katherine Jacobe

Alumni Association Award Winners Brendan Martin ‘16 and Natalie Thurman ‘16 with Alumni Association Board Member Ellen Wagnon ‘79

Mathematics Award recipients with Upper School Mathematics Chair Sheri Offenhauser 21

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Faculty Awards and Accolades

Special Summer Grants

Chief Financial Officer Joanne Margraves has been asked to serve on the Board of Trustees for The Joy School in Houston.

Upper School Science Chair Sonia Clayton received the Glenn Ballard Fellowship to travel to Fairbanks, Alaska through the University of Alaska.

Lower School Teachers Melissa Eggleston, Mary Margaret Greer and Kathryn Leisz were inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, an International Honor Society, for maintaining an “A” average throughout their graduate school at Houston Baptist University. All three teachers will graduate with a Masters in Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a Specialization in Technology in August 2016. Lower School Counselor Nancy Simpson received the 2016 Walter Kase Teacher Excellence Award given by the Anti-Defamation League Southwest Region at the 2016 No Place for Hate Luncheon.

Upper School English Teacher Christa Forster received the Kinkaid Jennifer Hicks Memorial Fund Summer grant to attend the Tin House Summer Writing Workshop at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Melissa Eggleston, Mary Margaret Greer, Kathryn Leisz

Upper School Spanish Teacher Esteban Longoria was promoted to table leader by the College Board to grade the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam. Upper School English Teacher Angélique Jamail’s e-book, FINIS that was published in 2014 came out in print at the end of 2015. The book illustrations are by Lower School Art Teacher Lauren Taylor. Together with her daughter Katrin Muir Lau ‘90, Career Development Counselor Judy Muir authored Finding Your U: Navigating the College Admission Process. Judy is also the author of Live Wires: Neuro-Parenting to Ignite Your Teen’s Brain.

First Grade Teacher Betsy Thompson received the Joseph Barry Moss and Gary Brent Moss Fellowship to travel to the Galápagos Islands. Third Grade Teacher Jennifer Beitler and Middle School Science Teacher Christina Zeigler both received Continuing Education Leadership Grants to attend Project Zero workshop at Harvard University and Science Talk Course at Stanford University, respectively.

Kinkaid Applauds Three Outstanding Members of the Faculty/Staff The Columbiana Award for Excellence in Teaching is presented annually since 1984 and recognizes a member of the Kinkaid faculty who has demonstrated outstanding pedagogy within his or her field, and who reaches out beyond the classroom to serve as a mentor and role model for students and colleagues. The recipient of this distinguished award exemplifies the abilities, dedication and inspiring qualities that define great teaching. This year’s recipient is Byron Williams. Byron is an intellectual and his students become intellectuals as they explore the world beyond the classroom. He is dedicated to the success of each student, providing customized academic instruction when necessary, while consistently reflecting upon his own teaching practices. Bryon is a collaborative, team-oriented and student-centered example of teaching excellence. The Georgia and Eddie Leonard Staff Excellence Award is named in honor of two long-time staff members who were adored and respected by students, faculty and staff, parents and alumni. The award is presented annually to a member of the Kinkaid staff that has demonstrated the highest levels of excellence in his or her own work over the course of the year. Georgia and Eddie embody the values of warmth, generosity, respect, commitment and integrity. This year’s recipient, Dorothy Barnes, embodies the very same qualities. Dorothy is the friendliest,

most cheerful, most upbeat and positive person with whom many people have ever worked with in his or her careers. Her attitude is infectious and can brighten any day regardless of the circumstances. In addition, she is incredibly hard working, she is truly outstanding at her job, efficient and effective, extremely professional, accurate, and manages to juggle many tasks and projects at the same time. She is extremely well liked, well respected, admired and she is a role model for us all. In January, the entire Kinkaid community suffered a tragic loss when fourth grader Faris Virani passed away after a three-year battle with cancer. To honor and remember Faris’ remarkable legacy, The Kinkaid School—in conjunction with the Virani Family, has established The Faris D. Virani Memorial Award. The Award will be given at the conclusion of the academic year, in perpetuity, to a faculty member who “displays a positive ‘go with the flow’ attitude and embodies the inspiring and joyous spirit that made Faris so special.” This year’s recipient is Meredith Kottler. Meredith is an exemplar of Kinkaid’s core values and consistently models what makes Kinkaid such a special place for children and adults alike. Intelligent, kind, patient, thoughtful and dedicated are just a few of her abundant positive qualities. Entering her classroom, it is easy to recognize her passion for teaching as she cultivates an environment in which all students are truly visible and valued. Like Faris, Mrs. Kottler’s “go with the flow” attitude and joyous spirit serve as a beacon in Lower School to be our best selves and to support each other with compassion and respect.

Congratulations to all three recipients.

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Faculty and Staff Retirements Dedications contributed by admiring colleagues

Fred Angerstein Fred started working at Kinkaid in 1972. He was the first band director at Kinkaid, and started the whole program with five students from the fourth and fifth grades. Over his 43 years at Kinkaid, Fred has been the fine arts department chair, performing arts chair and an advisor. He was the coordinator for Kinkaid’s hosting of the Independent School Association of the Southwest’s Fine Arts Conference. He has served for years as ATSSB’s Region 23 Coordinator and been an active advocate for the arts in private school education. Altogether, Fred is an incredibly loyal friend who sets high expectations of those around him, and helps them to reach those heights. He has dedicated his life to music education and his students, some of whom still come to visit him even decades later. There is no way to accurately measure the impact he has had on the lives of the people he has met.

John Henry Childs After 12 years of teaching part time at Kinkaid, John Henry Childs will be pursuing other professional endeavors next year. John is an outstanding photographer and passionate artist. In addition to teaching photography courses at Kinkaid, he taught Visual Arts I for years and helped bring the new one-semester Introduction to Visual Arts curriculum to fruition this year. A collection of John’s inspirational work was showcased in our faculty exhibit last fall. A dedicated teacher, John has helped many students develop their artistic skills and creative vision. He will be missed in the Fine Arts Department.

Annette Johnson Annette came to Kinkaid in 1981 and quickly became the right-hand person for ANY entertaining event at Kinkaid from making last minute coffee for 100 to helping serve a seated dinner for 25. In 2003, Annette decided to retire, but that didn’t last for long. She came back part-time, but still worked a full load with a big smile and a helping hand. Everyone knows Annette, and she knows everyone -- most by name from current students and faculty to alumni. She has worked in almost every part of the School and will be missed!

Diana Kokernot Diana began teaching and coaching at Kinkaid in August of 1989, and every student in our Middle School learned valuable lessons from her kind, focused

John Henry Childs, Michelle Miller, Clifton Walker, Diana Kokernot, Katie Wagner, Annette Johnson Not pictured: Fred Angerstein

example during those years. Diana offered a scholarly knowledge of history, nurtured her students in their reasoning from facts and as writers, and set the pace for Kinkaid track athletes as a national-level long distance runner. How many Kinkaid teachers have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro or driven in a convoy of trucks all the way from Cape Town to Khartoum, skirting a civil war in the southern Sudan along the way? Diana gained invaluable perspective as a Kinkaid teacher by being a Kinkaid parent – her two children, Stephanie ’10 and Peter ’12, made their own contributions to Kinkaid and are now successful young adults in their twenties. Diana will miss Kinkaid, but she is very much looking forward to her new life in Memphis with husband Chuck Britton.

Michelle Miller In her 12 years at Kinkaid, Michelle taught all four grade levels of upper school English, and she devoted herself to her work, to her students, and to her colleagues. Even when she was working only part time, she worked as if she were full time, giving up her free periods to work one-on-one with students who needed additional help and constantly reading more in her field to better herself as an educator. Her colleagues admired her and often sought her counsel in questions of grammar and vocabulary, but mostly we treasured Michelle for her love of learning and for her compassion. Michelle cared genuinely for each of her English students and took great pride in their growth as readers, writers and thinkers. Outside of English, Michelle also dedicated herself to Kinkaid’s community service program, especially to her work with Sally’s House,

where she hosted an on-going journaling workshop, designed to help women overcome their trying pasts. We will miss her knowledge and her support, but we feel lucky to have learned from her.

Katie Wagner After 26 years of teaching at Kinkaid, Katie Wagner will be retiring to spend time with her husband, Jack and two children. Within her tenure, Katie has served the Middle School by teaching sixth and seventh grade science, serving as grade level dean, coordinating the Mo Ranch Trip, co-sponsoring Robotics Program and mentoring new faculty. Katie is a passionate master teacher who has exemplified true dedication to each of her students both in and outside of the classroom. She has positively touched the lives of her students and colleagues with her true passion as an educator. She has demonstrated an extraordinary sense of dedication, professionalism and genuine love for teaching. Indeed, she will be missed!

Clifton Walker Clifton has taught at Kinkaid for 13 years, and his work as a fourth and second grade teacher has exemplified his passion to provide a safe, organized and effective environment for his students, their parents and his colleagues. Throughout his tenure at Kinkaid, he has consistently contributed enthusiasm for curriculum alignment and hands-on teaching. He utilizes technology, manipulatives and a variety of activities to enrich students’ learning opportunities. His peers respect Clifton for his dependability, punctual, participatory nature and energy for his work. We will all surely miss Clifton next year. 23

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New Trustees 2016 Evan Katz ’82 (fs) Evan Katz is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Jerold B. Katz Interests, which is a privately held investment and management company. Evan also serves as Chairman of the Board of First Community Bancshares, Inc., a privately-held banking concern. Evan’s board affiliations include the Houston Methodist Research Institute, the Weill Cornell Medical College Board of Overseers and the Development Board of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Evan is an alumnus of the University of Oklahoma, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. He and his wife Nicole have three children – Sam ’30, Alexandra (age 4) and Roxana (6 months).

Elizabeth Leykum

Doug Swanson ’90

Elizabeth Leykum is the founder of Serenade Capital LLC. She began her career in finance at Goldman Sachs in the Principal Investment Area and worked for over a decade in investment management for ESL Investments and as a Founding Principal of HEG Capital. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard University with an AB in Economics, and with distinction from Harvard Business School. Elizabeth has served on several public company boards, including Lands’ End, where she was previously Chairman of the Board. She is also a trustee of her alma mater Greenwich Academy. She and her husband Charlie have three children - Diane ’29, Charlie ’30 and Lucy.

Doug Swanson is a Managing Partner with EnCap Investments, LP where he serves on the Investment Committee and Management Committee. Prior to joining EnCap in 1999, Mr. Swanson spent three years as a corporate banker with Frost National Bank and Amegy Bank (formerly Southwest Bank of Texas). Doug graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration. At Kinkaid, he has served on the Alumni Board and currently serves on the Advancement Committee and the Building Together Steering Committee. Doug and his wife Courtney ’91 are the parents of four Kinkaid students Sarah ’21, Skyler ’21, Will ’23 and Doug ’29.

SAVE THE DATE

The School would like to extend a thank you to departing Trustees Blake Hogan and David Oelman ’83 for their dedicated service to Kinkaid and to congratulate Trustee Gene Werlin on being named a Trustee Emeritus.

Co-Founder and Vice President of Wistera

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ANNUAL REPORT SUMMER 2016

on MAY 10, we launched our first Kinkaid Thank You Project. 70 VOLUNTEERS including parents, alumni, faculty and staff made phone calls over a FOURTEEN HOUR period to every donor from the 2015-2016 school year to thank them for their support.

18 instagrams with 417 likes increased excitement throughout the day. Check them out! #Kinkaidthankyouproject

2,235 reached

248 views

The School tweeted and re-tweeted 17 times during the day, generating

#WELOVEOURDONORS

10,678 Twitter impressionS

how many people did we THANK?

2,417 TOTAL 909 Alumni 746 Parents 294 Faculty & Staff 244 Grandparents 167 Parents of Alumni 57 Trustees 25

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Athletics Review Winter Athletics Review Varsity Boys Basketball Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-10 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .5-2 South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .3rd Place SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .6th Place

Varsity Girls Swimming SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . . .2nd Place All SPC: Emily Moak ’19 - 4th 50 Freestyle, 5th 100 Breaststroke; May Moorefield ’19 - 2nd 200 IM, 4th 00 Butterfly; Audrey Orange ’19 - 1st 100 Freestyle, 1st 100 Breaststroke Ellie Lucke ’19, Emily Moak ’19, May Moorefield ’19, Audrey Orange ’19 - 1st 200 Freestyle Relay, 1st 400 Freestyle Relay

All South Zone: Brandon Charnov ’16, Jae LeDee ’18 All SPC: Jae LeDee ’18, Jake Shaper ’17

Varsity Wrestling SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . . .3rd Place

Varsity Girls Basketball Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-4 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .7-0 South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . .1st Place

All SPC: Edward Chamblee ‘18 and Noah Chan ‘18 - 1st Place; Colin Lawler ‘18 and Alexander Treistman ‘19 - 2nd Place; Brighton Huynh ‘17 and Max Mannetti ‘18 - 3rd Place; James Goettee ‘17 and Philip Smith ‘16 - 4th Place

SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . . .2nd Place All South Zone: Alexis Johnson ’17, Chinaza Ndee ’17, Jasmine Smith ’18

Spring Athletics Review

All SPC: Alexis Johnson ’17, Jasmine Smith ’18

Varsity Baseball Varsity Boys Soccer Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-5-2 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .6-1 South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st Place

Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25-9-2 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .7-0 South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st Place SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .2nd Place

SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . . .4th Place

All South Zone: Michael Goldak ’16, Cole Green ’16, Davis Sheffield ’16, Johnathon Thomas ’18

All South Zone: Cole Green ’16, Jon Hopkins ’17, Brendan Martin ’16, Josh Raizner ’16, Becket Toussaint ’19

All SPC: Michael Goldak ’16, Cole Green ’16, Davis Sheffield ’16

All SPC: Jon Hopkins ’17, Josh Raizner ’16, Becket Toussaint ’19

Varsity Boys Golf Varsity Girls Soccer Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-4-1 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .6-1

Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seven 1st place wins SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .1st Place All SPC: Cole Hammer ’18, Jake Lipman ’16, Mason Nome ’19

South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tied for 1st Place SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . . .5th Place All South Zone: Caleigh Doran ’18, Izzy Nelson ’18, Louise Stephens ’16 All SPC: Ellie Bolin ’18, Louise Stephens ’16

Varsity Girls Golf Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Six Top 5 wins SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . . .5th Place All SPC: Emily Talbert ’17

Varsity Boys Swimming SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . . .6th Place All SPC: Nicholas Fernandez ’16 - 1st 200 Freestyle, 1st 500 Freestyle

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Varsity Boys Lacrosse

Varsity Girls Tennis

Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-8

Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-2

Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .4-1

Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .6-1

South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st Place

South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .2nd Place

SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .3rd Place

SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .5th Place

All South Zone: Rhett Cardwell ’16, Rob Lahourcade ’17, Lucas Mason ’16, Reese Sullivan ’18, Evan Wind ’16

All South Zone: Halle Brazda ’16, Sasha Inchauste ’17

All SPC: Rhett Cardwell ’16, Lucas Mason ’16, Phin Sprague ’17 THSLL All State: Evan Wind ’16

All SPC: Halle Brazda ’16, Sasha Inchauste ’17

Varsity Boys Track & Field

THSLL All District: Phin Sprague ’17

SPC Tournament Finish: 1 . . . . . . .12th Place

THSLL Honorable Mention: Rhett Cardwell ’16, Lucas Mason ’16, Reese Sullivan ’18

All SPC: 3rd Place: Noah Chan ’18 - Pole Vault

Varsity Girls Lacrosse Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-9 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1 South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .2nd Place SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .3rd Place All South Zone: Chloe Hunter ’19, Belle Martire ’18, Louise Stephens ’16 All SPC: Chloe Hunter ’19, Belle Martire ’18, Kaylie Mings ’17, Louise Stephens ’16 THSLL All State: Belle Martire ’18

Varsity Girls Track & Field SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .4th Place All SPC: Kennedy Gamble ’18 - 3rd Place 100 m, 3rd Place 200 m; Taylor J. Cowan ’16, Kennedy Gamble ’18, Jenny Miller ’16, Gracey Wallace ’16 - 2nd place 4 x 100m Relay; Katie Erikson ’18, Allison Favaloro ’18, Kennedy Gamble ’18, Gracey Wallace ’16 - 3rd Place 4 x 400m Relay; Ali Ammons ’18, Lindsey Ho ’19, Laine Jacobe ’19, Ellie Lucke ’19 - 3rd Place 4 x 800m Relay

Lightning Strikes Twice for Falcon Athletics

THSLL All District: Louise Stephens ’16

For the second year in a row, Kinkaid has won the coveted SPC Athletic Directors’ Cup emblematic of overall co-ed excellence in team competition throughout the course of the year.

Varsity Softball

The SPC Athletic Directors’ Cup is an award given annually to the school with the most success in SPC athletics. Point totals are awarded based on team finishes at the Fall, Winter and Spring SPC tournaments for each of the varsity teams from each of the 19 schools in the conference. And once again, the Falcons displayed consistency throughout the year as 14 of the 23 teams placed in the top four at the SPC Championships.

Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-7 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .3-3 South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .4th Place SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .4th Place All South Zone: Kelli Montgomery ’16, Morgan Parker ’19 All SPC: Sarah Lasater ’16, Kelli Montgomery ’16, Grace Nevil ’16

Varsity Boys Tennis Record: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-3 Conference Record: . . . . . . . . . . . .5-2 South Zone Finish: . . . . . . . . . . . . .3rd Place SPC Tournament Finish: . . . . . . . .2nd Place All South Zone: Michael Smith ’17, Q Tabarestani ’16 All SPC: Michael Smith ’17, Q Tabarestani ’16

To become the overall co-ed champion, the Kinkaid girls team finished first in conference, outdistancing the number two team by a (mere) single point, while the Kinkaid boys teams finished in second place. The combination of these outstanding performances enabled the Falcons to retain the aforementioned AD’s Cup. The Overall Co-ed and Top Girls Program trophies remain proudly displayed in the athletic department hallway. Congratulations are in order for the student-athletes who displayed excellence on the courts, fields, mats, track and in the pool throughout the 2015-2016 year and to their supportive coaches and trainers. 27

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FALCON WATCH

Raevyn Rogers ’14 did it again! The sophomore at the University of Oregon took the 800m title at the 2016 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, her second title in the race in back to back years. Raevyn continued her hot streak this summer competing in the Olympic Trials and made it all the way to the finals for the 800m. Congratulations on another outstanding season!

Duncan Robinson ’12 recently signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs after being selected in the ninth round with the 284th overall pick in the Major League Baseball Draft. The same week of the draft, Duncan graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was named 2015 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year and made first-team All-Ivy League the past three years. Congratulations, Duncan!

Varsity Letter Winners 2015-2016 First Year Winners Jillian Bass (2016) Volleyball, Basketball, Track & Field Jordan Jafarnia (2019) Cross Country, Swimming, Tennis Rhett Cardwell (2016) Football, Basketball, Lacrosse Julia Lasater (2018) Volleyball, Basketball, Softball Farise Cravens (2019) Field Hockey, Soccer, Track & Field Madi Malouf (2019) Volleyball, Basketball, Track & Field Wesley House (2018) Football, Basketball, Baseball Hayden Rome (2018) Football, Soccer, Baseball Marquis Hubbard (2018) Football, Basketball, Track & Field Paul Thompson (2018) Cross Country, Swimming, Track & Field Laine Jacobe (2019) Field Hockey, Soccer, Track & Field Clara Tian (2016) Field Hockey, Swimming, Track & Field

Second Year Winners Nia Caldwell (2018) Volleyball, Basketball, Track & Field Emmy Heyser (2017) Cross Country, Soccer, Lacrosse

Sarah Fullenweider (2017) Field Hockey, Soccer, Track & Field

Grace Nevil Softball

Tres Duytschaever Wrestling

Lucas Mason (2016) Volleyball, Basketball, Lacrosse

Halle Brazda Tennis

Kylie Lohrenz Volleyball

Levi Wilkins (2016) Football, Basketball, Track & Field

Lindsey Jacobe Field Hockey

Gracey Wallace Cross Country, Track & Field

Third Year Winners

Josh Raizner Soccer

Nicholas Fernandez Swimming

Lenox Butcher Track & Field

Brendan Martin Cross Country, Soccer, Track & Field

Katie Kim Golf

Madison Whiteside Tennis

Phillip Smith Wrestling

Bradlee Few Cross Country

Fourth Year Winners

Rhett Cardwell Lacrosse

Lucas Mason Lacrosse

Brendan Martin (2016) Cross Country, Soccer, Track & Field

Mary Labanowski Tennis

Evan Wind Lacrosse

Louise Stephens (2016) Field Hockey, Soccer, Lacrosse

Louise Stephens Field Hockey, Soccer, Lacrosse

Madison Frandina Swimming

George Clark Golf

Jenny Miller Track & Field

Sarah Lasater Basketball, Softball

Luke Zarr Golf

Q Tabarestani Tennis

Michael Goldak Baseball

Taylor J. Cowan Track & Field

Sophie Mireskandari Field Hockey

Taylor J. Cowan (2016) Cheerleading, Wrestling, Track & Field Sarah Lasater (2016) Volleyball, Basketball, Softball Caroline Orr (2016) Cheerleading, Soccer, Lacrosse

Four-Year Varsity Letter Winners Jillian Bass Track & Field Emma Hanan Tennis Kelli Montgomery Softball Mia Bonner Soccer Lauren Herring Golf

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Fine Arts Review

he Spring 2016 season allowed our student artists to share a remarkable body of work with the Kinkaid community.

The Carver-Kinkaid co-production of Hairspray opened at the G.W. Carver Magnet School in Alief ISD on January 15, amazing audiences with its energy and originality. The show moved into our own Brown Auditorium for additional performances in the final week of February. With close to 150 students in the cast and crew, the collaborative efforts of this ensemble reinforced the themes of this boundary-challenging musical and fostered many friendships. The show garnered 10 Tommy-Tune Award nominations, Tommy Tune scholarships for three seniors — Ty Doran, Alex Goeringer and Alexandra Szeto-Joe — and the Tommy Tune Award for Best Choreography.

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usical theatre talents abound in our Middle as well as our Upper School.

Working hard behind the scenes or dazzling us with their song and dance skills on stage, the entire 8th grade class contributed to the huge success of the classic Broadway musical, Guys & Dolls. Our 5th and 6th grade students did a delightful job bringing their “Broadway Bound” production of Disney’s Camp Rock to the Brown stage on April 29. Paired with beautiful performances by our 7th and 8th grade dance students, the evening showcased the artistic vitality of our Middle School.

Guys & Dolls

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Fine Arts Review I

n addition to musical comedy, the Spring 2016 Fine Arts season included a number of impressive dramatic works.

Based on the true stories of children who survived the Holocaust, the Middle School Play, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, was especially moving. The cast and crew are to be commended for the empathy and expertise exhibited in this production. The five seniors who directed Theatre Company’s One-Acts: An Adventure in Your Own Backyard did laudable work as well, presenting five one-act plays filled with fast-paced wit, physical humor, poetic elegance and some lovely romantic moments. In yet another dramatic undertaking, our Upper School Children’s Theatre students met with some of our Lower School students as well as elementary students at several local schools and helped them to write their very own short plays! The Children’s Theatre ensemble then went on— with great results—to mount the work of these enthusiastic young playwrights. I Never Saw Another Butterfly One Acts: An Adventure in Your Own Back Yard

MS Choir Concert

Student Choreographed Dance Concert

he Spring 2016 Fine Arts Season included seven memorable concerts.

Dance Company’s spring concert featured a diverse collection of outstanding student-choreographed pieces. On April 15, the Middle and Upper School Bands collaborated with Concert Choir and Encore, sharing a bill that included folk songs and many favorites from the wonderful world of Disney. The Middle and Upper School Orchestras followed suit on April 16, presenting an upbeat repertoire selected by the Class of 2016. In addition to the traditional Treble Choir, 6th Grade Choir and Middle School Choir concerts that were enjoyed by all this spring, the Upper School Concert Choir joined the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church Choir and members of the Houston Symphony for an inspirational event on May 1 at the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church: a concert featuring Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Bernstein’s Mass, some of the most famous and spectacular works in Western music history.

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he 2015-2016 Fine Arts Season concluded with three sensational Visual Arts events.

Our Upper School film students screened an imaginative colleccollec tion of well-received short films at the historic River Oaks Theatre on April 25, and there were so many accomplished artists in the Class of 2016 that we needed not one but two Senioritis exhibits exhibits to showshow case the work. From April 11-25, the Student Life galleries housed the Senioritis Photo ’16 exhibit, and from May 2-13, the Senioritis Senioritis Studio ’16 exhibit. While our Senioritis exhibits exhibits are always exciting, the quality of work this year was notably modern and truly exceptionexception al. From the thought-provoking photography, to the exquisite ceramic pieces, paintings and mixed media works, to the video and sculpture installations, our senior artists proved they can produce professional-quality work.

Christina Choi ‘17 Binz DeWalch ‘18

Clara Tian ‘16

Zoya Virani ‘18

2015-2016 was indeed a remarkable year in Fine Arts! Lenox Butcher ‘16

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Following their passion

n previous issues of the Kinkaid Magazine we have highlighted employees who have been celebrated for their personal interests outside of the classroom. This edition will highlight a few more faculty members, each of whom brings a tremendous amount of expertise in their respective professional fields. Those passions inside of the classroom inspire their passion outside the classroom – and vice versa. From the performing and visual arts to the athletic fields, we have much to celebrate as a school community.

At Kinkaid we expect all of our faculty members to embody our four core values and to serve as mentors and role models for our students, from the earliest years to their senior year in high school and in every discipline of academia, arts and athletics. The faculty recognized in this article, and others you will get to know over time, embody those key elements we look for in those who work closely with our students and parents, and who serve as collaborators with their teaching colleagues.

Stephanie Toro – Science I have two equal passions in my life, teaching and my fascination with the marine world, and it’s difficult for me to separate the two. My love for the ocean began crabbing and fishing in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. My uncles would take me sailing, teach me to water ski/wake board, and push my surfboard into waves. I began teaching

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at 16 as a summer TA in Virginia for a program similar to Kinkaid’s EMSI. Since then I have continued teaching with the exception of one year to focus on my oceanographic research, but quickly realized I needed back into the classroom, to share my passion of the ocean with students. Two weeks ago, I was teaching a friend to surf in Galveston; it involved a physics of waves and mini meteorology crash course, all while floating on boards in the water. I get excited teaching chemistry and physics because I can relate the concepts to stories about my experiences in the ocean, either diving, surfing, fishing or my own research. Moving to MS, I will miss teaching US interim courses such as the Science of Surfing or Marine Science Field Methods. My students love that what they are learning can be applied in the real world, in a hands-on way.

Toro with students

Next year my MS students will learn mapping skills and ocean current concept by tracking online the movements of the ocean drifters that EMSI students are building, and deploying in the Gulf this summer. Recently, we finished our pressure lesson, an inquiry lab in which students experimentally isolate depth as the variable that determines pressure. Then with students sitting in extra large plastic bags, we used shop-vacs to suck out the air to simulate pressure in places like the Marianas Trench. The students couldn’t even move their fingers! We have quite a bit of fun in the classroom connecting concepts to marine science.

Christa Forster – English During the school year, I mentor students to develop their reading and writing skills and to meet their required deadlines. During summer, I task-master myself, setting and meeting various deadlines related to my own literary goals and activities. This past Sunday, for example, I participated in a discussion of Tony Hoagland’s and Sharon Olds’ new books of poems. In

To this day, I continue to spend most of my weeknights at the softball fields teaching these kids ways to better their positional play and offensive game. Aside from giving lessons, I have also been given the opportunity to help coach a few travel ball teams. I currently help coach a 12 and under select softball team, the Aces Express. There is something so beautiful in the bonds I make with these children and parents! There’s no better feeling than seeing the way a little Christa Forester

preparation, I read and reflected on their work in my writer’s notebook -- exactly what I ask students to do when prepping for discussions. My summer reading assignments include finishing Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan novels and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Volumes III and IV of My Struggle. My homework involves preparing for class this July -- I’ll be attending the Tin House Summer Writing Workshops at Reed College (thank you Jennifer Hicks Memorial Fund!), where I’ll work with the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Gregory Pardlo, and Tin House Magazine’s Executive Editor, Matthew Dickman. I spent the first week of summer vacation revising my poetry manuscript; now I’m working on a query letter and a pitch that I can share with editors and agents there; prior to the start of the workshop, I must respond to eleven poetry manuscripts from the other poets in Pardlo’s workshop. So much to do! Before school starts in August, I want to meet several submissions deadlines -- for poetry manuscripts, essays, grant applications. For sure, I’ll seek feedback (aka, a tutorial) from my talented peers Casey Fleming, Angélique Jamail, and Charlie Scott (all stellar writers) about how to make my submissions stronger. To stay sane amidst all these activities (I’m also a mom and a wife and a friend!), I continue practicing mindfulness meditation, another aspect of my personal life that I share with students during the school year.

Haley Outon – Athletics Softball is more than a passion of mine. Softball is something I owe so much of my life to! From the long, tiring practices and tournaments to the team dinners and sleepovers, softball has blessed me with some of the greatest relationships and opportunities I could have ever asked for. One huge opportunity I have been blessed with was being introduced to giving individual lessons to kids who want to improve their hitting, catching and overall softball skills.

Haley Outon

girl’s face lights up when they have success during an at bat, make a phenomenal play on defense or finally understand a drill they have been working on for weeks. Lastly, softball has given me the opportunity to become a professional athlete. I have been able to travel around the U.S. (from the middle of May until August) to play against the most elite softball players in the country. I cannot say enough about the way softball has impacted my life personally for the better. For reasons I can’t explain, I dedicate my personal time to softball because I want to continue to give back to the softball community and do my part as an avid softball player/fan to shape the young players, and continue to grow their love and passion for the game!

Anthony Suber – Fine Arts For me, it has always been essential to maintain a studio practice as a visual artist outside of my work as a sculpture and art history teacher at Kinkaid. When I began teaching, I wasn’t always certain how to align the two worlds, though it has been truly remarkable how one inspires the other. One of the key components to creating and teaching art has been the well of creativity and new ideas that is drawn from to make both possible. In order to keep the well refreshed, renewed and full

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Following their passion me. My students here at Kinkaid have given me so much support and respect as a person and a teacher. They challenge me daily, but I am constantly amazed at the level of commitment and expertise that they are able to achieve. My students love that I can share personal experiences about a career that they aspire to and are passionate about. There is nothing more rewarding than watching a triumphant Austin Karkowsky ’17 succeed in executing a tour enl’air, a standing ovation for Dance Company at ISAS or seeing members of Dance Company along with Harrison Poe ’15 and Grant Martin ’15 remember every step from last year’s Tommy Tune award winning, Best Musical “A Chorus Line”. I have been given

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it has been imperative that I’ve had a strong connection to who I am as an artist. Over the last couple of years my work outside of Kinkaid has consisted of numerous gallery and museum exhibits and public art installations. This has also opened the door for programming and lectures about the breadth and conceptual scope of my art. These opportunities have given me the platform to speak on numerous subjects dealing with our contemporary society and various cultural and ethnic issues, which is the foundation of my work. Recently, I was a part of a group exhibit featuring the work of other artists who were also arts educators. One of the common threads revealed through our individual artist talks was the love that we all shared for our vocation; but also the inspiration that is provided by our daily calling to the classroom. It has been a wonderful experience to have a fluid exchange between my passion for the arts as an artist, and my passion for lighting the way for our students through arts education. I look forward to the future potential to further broaden my experiences as both artist and educator; but also extend the horizons for my students through my experiences as a multi-disciplinary artist.

Krissy Richmond – Fine Arts As a professional and as a teacher, I expect the highest standard for myself and for my students. There is a fine line in continuing to grow as an artist and giving all of yourself to your students in the classroom. Teaching was not something that I had ever thought of as a possibility but has been such a blessing to

Krissy Richmond

so much success in my professional life: dancing with the Houston Ballet and on Broadway in many leading roles. I have also had the opportunity to choreograph for the most prestigious companies and theaters in this country. My work here at Kinkaid is equally as important as anything I have done. Making a difference in a young person’s life is what teaching is all about. Working with my students is and always will be one of the highlights of my life. I am truly honored and humbled to be a member of such an esteemed and decorated faculty.

Justin Doran

Kinkaid each summer and place them in internships around town. This summer is no exception as I am working with William Ison ’17 (rising senior with an interest in technical theatre) and Virginia Cathriner ’16 (theatre major at UT). In addition to stage acting and assisting students, the commercial business has been a steady component to my career outside of school. I just shot another commercial for Hyundai with my son Jackson ’22 that will air this summer. I do a number of Hyundai spots and was recently the spokesperson for the United Way campaign. I am currently back in Los Angeles (our home before Houston) meeting with various people who are very interested in my son Ty ’16 after his run on ABC’s American Crime this past year. He has been invited to a number of charity galas as a “celebrity” who is lending his voice to their cause. Also, this summer I am fortunate enough to go and spend some time at the NY Public Library to research the shows I will be directing at Kinkaid next year. I find the time in the library reading and getting to access their special collections is invaluable to both my continued study and my creative planning process as a director for Kinkaid.

Angélique Jamail – English The first time I ever read one of my short stories to an audience, I was in fourth grade. It was a character building experience.

I am currently starting work on a summer show at Stages Theatre in Houston doing a run of Shear Madness as an actor.

Even though very few of my classmates had gone on that fantastical narrative journey with me––and my teacher looked at me sideways while trying to figure the story, and probably me, out of my love of writing could not be dampened. By the time I hit middle school, my path to becoming a writer had been paved.

This project will rehearse and perform through the summer and go right up to the start of school. I am also wearing other hats in various theatres around town. I am the resident director at a theatre and serve on a few boards. I usually take a few kids from

From there, teaching was an easy choice. The ability to share my love of writing with others, to teach them how to do it and to appreciate its value, contributes to my sense of purpose. Through literature we more clearly understand our humanity and our place in the world. The enjoyment and creation of

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Following their passion and then it is time to explore. Among the highlights have been consulting for a biofuel company to identify anaerobic bacteria in Woods Hole, spending time in labs at MD Anderson, joining an archeology team in southern Spain with Earthwatch and hiking through the National Parks of Ireland on a botany adventure. This summer, thanks to the Glenn Ballard Fellowship I was studying the arctic tundra biome in Alaska. I learned different ecology field sampling techniques with a University of Alaska Fairbanks research team as we trekked the Dalton Highway all the way to Beaufort Sea at the edge of the Arctic Ocean. What makes my job even more rewarding is that I sometimes have the chance to take my students along

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literature is something I hope to instill in my students, and it’s one way I spend my personal time as well. How can one teach something that one does not also do? If I didn’t need sleep, I would keep reading past my bedtime all through the quiet hours every night. And each break from school finds me writing, writing, writing. This pursuit feeds my creative, thinking self, yes, but also feeds my teaching self. The more I explore different forms and genres in my own work, the better I’m able to teach my students how to do it––and hopefully how to love it as much as I do (though I’ll settle for mastery of skills). Literature––reading it, creating it, teaching it––guides me always. It gets me out of bed way too early on Saturday mornings to meet other writers and stay on word count. It makes my summer breaks a little hectic, heavy with deadlines. And when school starts up again each August, it motivates me to share with my students everything I’ve learned, too.

Luiza Grandchamp – Fine Arts Growing up, I spent endless hours outside my parents’ home in Brazil exploring the ranch and its gardens and discovering nature. Celebrating nature and incorporating it into my art, both in school and at home, continues today. The art I create from nature’s inspiration has become a part of my personal and cultural identity. I transform nature into decorations, which become part of the life of the wearer and the viewer. The adornments I create have their own personality, energy and story to tell as part of their beauty. During my summer vacation travel, I bring elements of nature back to my home studio and to my classes. My studio is full of specimens of nature such as seeds, small branches, seashells, acorns and much more that I bring to my creative board. These discoveries from near and far form the basis for my inspiration to create and teach.

Luiza Grandchamp

Nature’s influence can be found not only in my jewelry, but also in my ceramics and glass work. It infuses my classroom and reinforces and diversifies my sensitivity to the world around me, inspiring the shape, line, form and function I incorporate into my designs. Often, I lose track of time, forgetting to eat and sleep, when I am at my studio or in class creating and making a piece of art. Deciding upon a subject inspired by nature is only the first step toward creating my art. Next, I research the subject matter and then create many drawings before I finally build the piece. When I envision my future I see myself as an artist who remains true to her roots and continues to complement her artistic expression with teaching. Teaching young people is deeply satisfying and provides me with unexpected learning every day. Their magic and vitality inspires and motivates me to think in more creative and expansive ways that support my growth as a human being and an artist. I am grateful that I get to do what I love every day, during work and during my personal time.

Sonia Clayton – Science I don’t know about you, but I have the best job in the world. I have the opportunity to share my passion with my students nine months of the year. I get to feed the curiosity of eager ones and expose the beauty of science to entice the not so eager ones. After all, who can resist being intrigued by the chemical warfare among plants, the intricate dance of chemicals as they form ideas in our brain or the crazy way chameleons change their color seconds after they see their surrounding. My free time outside the classroom is about honing my craft of teaching, and most importantly “doing” science. I sharpen my pencil by taking part in the national AP reading

Sonia Clayton at the MD Anderson lab

with me and share the experience, as in our interim trip to the Galapagos Islands. The “why” and “how” in the world around me dominates my mind. In some ways I think if they opened my skull, a hundred question marks would pop out at any moment. That makes every adventure whether in the classroom or in the natural world, a beautiful one. At Kinkaid, we are committed to attracting and retaining teachers just like these; those who are committed to personal and professional growth and have a desire to be experts in their field. The tremendous generosity of our Kinkaid community allows us to create unique opportunities to encourage and support their professional and personal growth. You have read about some of the exceptionally gifted men and women who, with integrity and care, inspire our students to have unparalleled experiences in the classrooms, on the stages, on the fields and courts and beyond our walls.

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he members of the Class of 2016 said their final goodbyes to Kinkaid and their high school careers with a weeklong schedule of events leading up to Graduation.

Seniors and their parents attended the Senior Banquet to kick off the last week of high school. Speakers included Headmaster Andy Martire, Upper School Dean Claire Logsdon, Upper School parent Ira Green and the Class of 2016 representative Rhett Cardwell. Sunday’s Baccalaureate was a great way to honor the seniors as Reverend Martin Bastian gave unforgettable remarks. The Senior Dinner at the home Marjorie and Lee Jacobe allowed the seniors one last meal together and a chance to view their fabulous yearbooks. Graduation was incredible! The weather cooperated as Kinkaid said farewell to the Class of 2016. Friends and families of the 139 seniors listened as Governing Council President Mason Mings, Headmaster Andy Martire and guest speaker Joe Ehrmann, who founded Coach for America, a division of Building Men and Women for Others, delivered memorable words of wisdom.

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“So today, on the very last night that all 139 members of the class of 2016 are ever together again, I’d like to talk about experience— specifically, our experiences. Eventually, our daily proceedings here at Kinkaid will fade away. We might forget our schedules, where our locker was, how we performed on tests. But as a class, we’ve experienced so much together. Experiences that have and are to become the memories we’ll cherish forever.” — Governing Council President Mason Mings ’16

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Falcons at the Next Level Congratulations to all the athletes and artists in the Class of 2016 who are taking their talents to the next level. Athletics Kendyl Bree Duke University, Fencing Lenox Butcher University of Pennsylvania, Sailing Rhett Cardwell Rice University, Football Brandon Charnov Brown University, Basketball Taylor J Cowan Tulane University, Cheer Demian Gass Williams College, Soccer Michael Goldak College of William and Mary, Baseball Kelli Montgomery University of Houston, Softball Caroline Orr University of Texas, Cheer Joshua Raizner Colorado College, Soccer Louise Stephens Rice University, Soccer

Levi Wilkins Southern Nazarene University, Football

Emily Grove Elon University, Technical Theatre

Hallie Wilson Southern Methodist University, Cheer

Sydney Krantz Carnegie Mellon University, Studio Art

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Christina Oti University of Southern California, Theatre

Mia Bonner The University of Texas, Art Design

Joshua Raizner Colorado College, Piano

Vitaly Bourenin University of Texas, Film

Hobbes Reynolds Southern Methodist Universty, Film

Virginia Cathriner University of Texas, Theatre

Rebecca Roff Wesleyan University, Art

Charlotte de Marigny The University of Texas, Studio Art

Lindsey Siff The George Washington University, Studio Art

Ty Doran Northwestern University, Acting

Alexandra Szeto-Joe New York University, Theatre

Amy Drews Wakeforest, Studio Art

Natalie Thurman Washington University in St. Louis, Theatre

Lauren Herring Southern Methodist University, Studio Art

Clara Tian Rice University, Film

Kurt Goeringer Vanderbilt University, Music

Levi Wilkins Southern Nazarene University, Graphic Design

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The Class of 2016 College Matriculations

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Austin Abernathy The University of Texas, Austin Shruti Agrawal Northeastern University Lexie Ammons University of Southern California Catie Asarch Auburn University Will Atnipp Tulane University Samantha Babine Furman University Kaveh Badrei Princeton University Catherine Baker Texas A&M University Hanson Barr Texas A&M University Jillian Bass Chapman University Jackson Baur Dartmouth College James Bay Texas A&M University Luke Binet University of Virginia Mia Bonner The University of Texas, Austin Vitaly Bourenin The University of Texas, Austin Halle Brazda The University of Texas, Austin Kendyl Bree Duke University Thompson Brown Texas A&M University Worthley Burke University of Virginia Lenox Butcher University of Pennsylvania Turner Caldwell University of Missouri, Columbia Rhett Cardwell Rice University Grant Carmain Columbia University Aine Carolan Haverford College Virginia Cathriner The University of Texas, Austin Brandon Charnov Brown University John Churay University of Chicago

George Clark The University of Texas, Austin Christopher Combs Southern Methodist University Sarah Kate Cone The University of Texas, Austin Taylor J. Cowan Tulane University Matthew Cox The University of Georgia Joe Cozby The University of Texas, Austin Morgan Daniel Boston University

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seniors Charlotte de Marigny The University of Texas, Austin Ty Doran Northwestern University Amy Drews Wake Forest University Tres Duytschaever Texas A&M University Joseph Edwards Massachusetts Institute of Technology Channing Fatjo The University of Georgia Nicholas Fernandez The University of Texas, Austin Bradlee Few Harvard University Lily Fitzpatrick Colorado College Madison Frandina Johns Hopkins University Demian Gass Williams College Conner Gilliam Baylor University Evan Glass California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Kurt Goeringer Vanderbilt University Michael Goldak College of William and Mary Colby Gottschalk Colorado School of Mines

Marcelo Gracia University of Pennsylvania Frankie Granato Louisiana State University Carter Green Rhode Island School of Design Cole Green University of Virginia Emily Grove Elon University Taylor Guidry University of Missouri Columbia Kara Hachigian Georgetown University Pacey Ham The University of Alabama Emma Hanan Rice University Harrison Hart McGill University Lauren Herring Southern Methodist University Kate Hickman Brigham Young University Kate Hinnant Texas A&M University Blake Hogan University of Oklahoma Hannah Holliday Baylor University Martha House Washington and Lee University Lindsey Jacobe The University of Texas, Austin Leah Jacobs Lipscomb University Shivanki Juneja University of Pennsylvania Aliza Kajani Duke University Alex Kalai Rice University Katie Kim Washington University in St. Louis Sydney Krantz Carnegie Mellon University Mary Labanowski University of Southern California Sarah Lasater Rice University Blake Lattimer Texas Tech University Jake Lipman College of William and Mary Kylie Lohrenz Kenyon College Brendan Martin Baylor University Lucas Mason The University of Georgia Jeel Mehta Rice University Jenny Miller Texas A&M University

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The Class of 2016 Mason Mings University of Pennsylvania Sophie Mireskandari Tulane University Kelli Montgomery University of Houston Kevin Mora Boston University Shreya Muchimilli Northeastern University Barrett Neath University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Grace Nevil Smith College Neeshali Odhav Washington University in St. Louis Caroline Orr The University of Texas, Austin Spencer Oster Texas Christian University Christina Oti University of Southern California Nihil Patel Trinity University Tessa Perusquia New York University Ben Racusin Tulane University Joshua Raizner Colorado College

219 merit scholarships totaling $12,819,912 Joseph Edwards is Kinkaidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Gates Millennium Scholar. The Gates Millennium Scholars Program will fund undergraduate and graduate school for the 1,000 recipients chosen from over 53,000 applicants. Will Roff Washington and Lee University Zachary Roubein Louisiana State University Lauren Rubenstein The University of Texas, Austin George Sarvadi The University of Texas, Austin Jack Schuette Lehigh University Mary CarolineScofield Southern Methodist University Davis Sheffield Austin Community College Lindsey Siff The George Washington University Paolo Silva Northeastern University

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out of state Stuart Raty University of Miami Faizan Razak Wesleyan University T. Reckling Texas Christian University Arjun Reddy University of Southern California Omar Rehmatulla Southern Methodist University Alondra Reyes Centre College Hobbes Reynolds Southern Methodist University Rebecca Roff Wesleyan University

Q Tabarestani Rice University Dean Taylor The University of Texas, Austin Natalie Thurman Washington University in St. Louis Clara Tian Rice University Monica Titus The University of Texas, Austin Buck Tower The University of Texas, Austin Daniel Vernik University of Miami Morgan Vicknair Southern Methodist University Reagor Wagnon University of Southern California Gracey Wallace Georgetown University Madison Whiteside Vanderbilt University Levi Wilkins Southern Nazarene University Hallie Wilson Southern Methodist University

Vidya Sivaramakrishnan Rice University Phillip Smith Texas Christian University Ryan Smith The University of Georgia Tarun Srinivasan Columbia University Culver Stedman University of Virginia Louise Stephens Rice University Emily Stone Sewanee: The University of the South Alexandra Szeto-Joe New York University

in state Evan Wind The University of Texas, Austin Connor Wood Chapman University Sita Yerramsetti Harvard University Luke Zarr Louisiana State University

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Reunion Weekend 2016 Distinguished Alumni Awards & All Alumni BBQ On April 8 & 9, alumni from the classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 celebrated their reunion year. The weekend was kicked off on Friday evening with the Distinguished Alumni Awards Program in the Brown Auditorium. This year’s honorees were Distinguished Honorary Alumnus Glenn Ballard, Distinguished Young Alumna Katherine Howe ’95 and Distinguished Alumnus Bill Faubion ’84. The weather was perfect for the second annual All Alumni BBQ which was held outside on the Falcon Green. Everyone enjoyed BBQ from the Brisket House, the Sweet Mellow s’mores bar and live country music by the Porkbelly Band. On Saturday, the Purple and Golden Luncheon was held for the classes of 1928 – 1966 and honored the classes of 1956, 1961 and 1966. Lower and upper school students gave campus tours following the luncheon. On Saturday evening the individual class parties were held at various locations around town. A great time was had by all!

David Wise ‘96, Brad Morgan ‘96, Canaan Factor ‘96

Katrina Dale Matthews ’93, Kelly Russell McWherter ‘95, Marcari Coleman Potter ‘95, Mary Sommers Burger Pyne ‘95, Callie Parker Bradford ‘95

Drew and Whitney Weems Mogavero ‘96 with Lewis Leavitt ’96, Maya Buryakovsky Pomroy ‘96

Stephen Laswell ‘11, Tom Moore, Walt Mayfield ’11, Timm Wooten ’11

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Courtnay Tartt Elias ‘84, Annette Faubion Stephens ‘82, Claire Cummins Lorenz ‘84

Bettie Hankamer with Jeanie and Billy Binns

Jane Hoffert Moore ‘46, Jaynie King Sloane ‘46 and Robin Gill Stanford ‘46 celebrating their 70th Reunion

Amir Mirabi ‘91 and Sherri Sandifer ‘91

Jane and Rocky McAshan ‘64

Joan Herrin Lyons ‘47, Page Thomson Steele ‘54, Fanelle Logue Laughlin ’52, Martha Madlock Coskey ‘47, Dorothy Seay Wynne ‘47

Distinguished Honorary Alumnus Glenn Ballard and Patty Edwards

Distinguished Alumnus Bill Faubion ’84

Craig Cavanagh, Peter Maffitt ‘58, John Diffey ‘66

George Howe ‘64 and Katherine Susman Howe ’64 with daughter Katherine Howe ‘95, Distinguished Young Alumna

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Letters From Our Alumni Association Presidents

Dear Kinkaid Alumni,

Dear Young Alumni,

I am honored to serve as president of the Alumni Association Board for the coming year. I would like to thank outgoing president Adam Altsuler ’92 for his outstanding service this past year. Under Adam’s leadership, the Alumni Association Board was able to successfully implement several key initiatives including holding Alumni Interim Term Night in January and starting new alumni chapters in Washington DC and New York City.

It is hard to believe that summer is already here, and we are wrapping up yet another outstanding year for the Kinkaid Young Professionals Organization. I would like to congratulate Brian Kaplan ’04, as he will be taking over as KYPO President for the 2016 – 2017 school year.

We have a number of great events planned for the remainder of 2016 including the AJ Carothers Speaker Series titled “From Page to Stage” featuring Jeff Martin ’78 and Eric Ladin ’97 on September 25, the Zack Semander Memorial Golf Tournament at BraeBurn Country Club on October 17 and the Alumni Holiday Party in Kinkaid’s new Dining and Learning Center on December 1. Next spring, the McMillan Speaker Series featuring Mack Brown will be held on January 25 and the Kinkaid Alumnae & Friends Luncheon is set for March 3 at the Omni Hotel where we will honor Shannon Bristow Newsom ’88, co-owner of Wisteria – a successful online furniture and accessory business. I would like to thank all of the alumni who participated in this year’s Kinkaid Fund (formerly called the Annual Fund). Our alumni have played another major role as we are on track to raise $1 million again as a group for the second straight year! Thank you again for giving back to Kinkaid and its students! This past year, we were well served by our senior representatives, Kate Hickman ’16 and Ryan Smith ’16, who dutifully reported on the Upper School happenings at each Board meeting. We welcome our incoming senior representatives, Anvi Nandish ’17 and Drake Greenwood ’17. I would like to thank the outgoing Board members, Virginia Mary Thompson Brown ’84, Gayl Ware Carlberg ’66, Jim Frankel ’69, Philip Wise ’96 and Nicole Domercq Zarr ’87, for their dedicated service and welcome incoming Board members, Kent Altsuler ’89, Lynn Meyer Fort ’68, Eleni Antonellos Fuller ’76, Iman Houston Farrior ’01 and Ryan McCleary ’91. We are very excited about what the Alumni Association has accomplished this past year. Be on the lookout for new enhancements to the alumni program this coming school year including the re-launching of KinkaidKonnect, our online job and mentoring platform. And please let us know if you have any ideas for how the Alumni Association can better serve our members in and outside of Houston. Enjoy the rest of the summer and I hope to see you at one or more of our alumni events this fall.

Last September, we joined young alumni from St. John’s and Episcopal for a happy hour at Saint Arnold’s Brewery. Over 200 people attended this 2nd annual event, and the 3rd annual event is set for September 22nd. In October, we organized a very successful Alumni Leadership Day with 10 industry panels and over 50 alums present to offer career advice to the seniors. A big thank you to keynote speaker Pierce Bush ’04 who gave an inspiring speech about his professional career. He started out in private equity while volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters and eventually became CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star. In November, KYPO recruited other Houston young alums to join them in calling former classmates for donations to the Kinkaid Fund at the annual Phone-A-Thon event held in the Lower School. The Kinkaid selfie sticks were a big hit! In December, KYPO hosted its annual holiday party at Owl Bar. Board members Catherine Bradley ’05 and Phillip Morgan ’05 deserve our praises for planning this great event that our young alumni look forward to every holiday season. In January, the KYPO Board met with Headmaster Andy Martire to learn more about the improvements happening on campus as well as the admission process and upcoming events and activities. Many board members also helped make calls to thank our donors at the Thank You Project event held in May. Finally, we rounded out the school year with a summer happy hour at Kirby Ice House in June. Once again, thank you Catherine and Phillip for your event planning help! Looking forward to the fall, KYPO will be promoting the re-launch of the KinkaidKonnect online career-networking site. KYPO will also be focused on its signature event – Alumni Leadership Day. On October 19 we will welcome dozens of working professionals from the Kinkaid alumni community back to campus to meet with the senior class of 2017. As usual, we anticipate a fantastic program wherein the seniors will have the opportunity to ask questions and seek career advice from alumni who have found success across various fields. If you are interested in serving as a panelist, I encourage you to contact Advancement Associate Alexa Leach ’09 at alexa.leach@kinkaid.org or 713-243-5054. It has been an honor serving as KYPO President this year and working with such a phenomenal group of accomplished and dedicated alumni. I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable summer!

Yours truly,

Sincerely,

Wyatt Hogan ’90 Alumni Board President 2016-17

Brooke Bagby O’Neil ’02 KYPO President 2015 – 2016

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THE KINKAID SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 2016-2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Wyatt Hogan ’90 Vice-President Brad Morgan ’96 Secretary Brian Dinerstein ’95 Directors Marshall Adkins Jr. ’80 Kent Altsuler ’89 Scott Anderson ’76 Marie Fay Evnochides ’59 Iman Houston Farrior ’01 Lynn Meyer Fort ’68 Eleni Antonellos Fuller ’76 Doug George ’94 Katherine Susman Howe ’64 Helena Papadopoulos Johnson ’82 Alicia Lee ’98 Ryan McCleary ’91 Jane Hoffert Moore ’46 Elizabeth Oxford Pagan ’89 Susie Peake ’79 Mike Robinson ’70 Lisa Crosswell Stone ’83 Ellen Weingarten Wagnon ’79 Rodney Williams ’97 Ex-officio Adam Altsuler ’92 Trustee Liaison Caroline Boone Mitchell ’85 Faculty Representative Christine Papadakes ’87 Sr. Representatives Drake Greenwood ’17 Anvi Nandish ’17

NEW BOARD MEMBERS 2016-2017 Kent Altsuler ’89 graduated with a BA from Duke University and then attended law school at The University of Texas School of Law. He is a partner at Nathan Sommers Jacobs where he practices commercial litigation. Kent and his wife Kim have two children, Megan ’20 and Scott ’22, both at Kinkaid. He has been an active volunteer for the Kinkaid Fund and enjoys exercising and spending time with his family. Iman Houston Farrior ’01 graduated from Tulane University (B.S.) and then received her JD from The University of Texas School of Law. She is currently in business school full-time at Rice University concentrating in real estate and will receive her MBA in 2017. Iman is working in Walmart’s real estate group this summer. She has three daughters, Marli (2), Demi (2) and Lia (11 months). Iman and her husband James spend most of their free time traveling, exercising, golfing and chasing around their kiddos.

Eleni Antonellos Fuller ’76 attended The University of Texas at Austin graduating with a BBA in Finance. She later received an MBA from the University of Houston. She and her husband Thad have one daughter Gabriella ’20 at Kinkaid. After a long career with the Archon Group, Eleni retired four years ago to be a stay-at-home mom. She currently serves on the board of Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts. She likes traveling whenever she can, which is never enough, and recently took up golf. She’s not sure how long that will last, as she doesn’t know if she has the patience or skills for it! Ryan McCleary ’91 graduated with a BA from Vanderbilt University. He currently works for Citi Private Bank and has been in the investment advisory business his entire career. Ryan and wife Tracy ’92 (fs) have a son Christian ’26, and a daughter Erin ’28, both at Kinkaid. Ryan enjoys playing tennis and waving runners home as third base coach at Post Oak Little League.

Lynn Meyer Fort ’68 attended Queens College and LSU prior to graduating with a BA in Spanish from the University of Houston. Lynn worked as Kinkaid’s Alumni Director for 12 years, and she now loves retirement! This year Lynn will celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary with husband Ron. Their son Chris ’92 (fs) and his wife Isabelle have two boys Marshall (5) and Seve (3) who are Lynn’s favorite pastime. Second son Taylor ’03 and his wife Judy reside in Torrance, CA. Lynn has been involved with the School Art Committee for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for the past 29 years. She also enjoys playing mahjong, taking continuing education classes, attending art lectures at MFAH and keeping up with her retired Kinkaid faculty friends at their monthly luncheon group.

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KYPO BOARD MEMBER ROSTER 2016-2017 President Brian Kaplan ’04 Vice-President Catherine Bradley ’05 Caroline Hemingway Harrell ’02 Brooke Bagby O’Neil ’02 Ricardo Cantu ’03 Emily van Keppel Romero ’03 Emily Catherine Jeter Riggs ’04 Philip Morgan ’05 Marshall Holmes ’06 Maddy Foxx Moffitt ’06 Gracey Winters Howey ’07 Sam Pouns ’07 Kirby Allison ’08 John Frazier ’08 Matthew Crandell ’09 Hannah Lockwood ’09 William Campbell ’10 Chelsea Fred ’10 William Reade ’11 Christine Sangalis ’11

NEW KYPO BOARD MEMBERS 2016-2017 Kirby Allison ’08 attended Texas Christian University and graduated with a degree in Strategic Communications and a minor in Business. She is now an Account Supervisor and Publicist at New York based boutique PR firm, JONESWORKS, working with clients in the national entertainment and non-profit space. Kirby recently relocated from New York back to Houston, continuing to work remotely for JONESWORKS and splitting her time between Houston, New York and Los Angeles. Gracey Winters Howey ’07 attended The University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) and a Masters in Public Accounting at the McCombs School of Business. Gracey is currently a CPA working in financial reporting for Fieldwood Energy, a large upstream oil and gas operator in the Gulf of Mexico, located in Houston. She also got married to Chris Howey this past year.

William Reade ’11 attended The University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a degree in History and an International Business Foundations Certificate. He is currently attending law school at South Texas College of Law and is interning as a Law Clerk at Christian, Smith, & Jewell LLP this summer. William has a pet dog named Duke, enjoys playing rec league basketball and softball and is an assistant coach of the Athletics at Post Oak Little League. Christine Sangalis ’11 attended The University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a degree in Public Relations. She is now planning and coordinating social events and weddings working as a consultant at Keely Thorne Events. When Christine is not at a wedding, she enjoys traveling, trying out new places in Houston and seeing friends and family.

Hannah Lockwood ’09 attended The University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a degree in Government. She is currently working as a marketing assistant and office manager for Axis Tenant Advisors in Houston. Hannah enjoys spending time with family and friends and going to Lake LBJ in her free time.

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Class Notes & Alumni News 1929 – 1949

Jane Hoffert Moore ’46 Houston, TX 713-529-9700 On May 24 Jane Hoffert Moore ’46 and Robin Gill Stanford ’46 celebrated 70 years since their high school graduation from Kinkaid. Jane and Robin have known each other since the first grade. They had 11 people in their graduating class and the School was located on Richmond at that time. To celebrate this special milestone and friendship they plan on going to Brennan’s for a jazz brunch this summer. From the Advancement Office: On April 27 Francita Stuart Ulmer ’49 was honored by The Garden Club of America the Zone IX Historic Preservation Award in Little Rock, Arkansas. Francita has been an active member of the Houston Garden Club, the Junior League of Houston, Archives of the American Gardens, the Harris County Historical Commission, the Battleship Texas Commission, the Houston Parks Board, the Alley Theatre and the Houston Symphony. In 2015, Francita was also honored by the Junior League of Houston with the Adelaide Lovett Baker Award, which recognizes a sustaining member of the League who exemplifies such innovation, dedication and leadership by continuing to serve and make a lasting impact through ongoing volunteer work in the Houston community. A big congratulations goes out to Francita – Kinkaid is sure proud of you!

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Linda Beeley Denison Houston, TX lindabdenison@comcast.net

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John Hagerman The Woodlands, TX johndhagerman@hotmail.com Sonja Waaser still drives from McAllen to Houston for lunch. Susan Booth Keeton (fs) said that it was so good to make it to Lunch Bunch. Life is still good for her even though she says

she finally feels like a “senior citizen”. Tish Compton Hale (fs) and her husband Tony live in Memorial now. They have two cats at home, and they three grandchildren in college now. Tish recently retired from The Fourteenth Court of Appeals. Tony still practices law part time. Tish says that all is well.

Sassy English Stanton Houston, TX sassy@stanton-pinckard.com

Karen Tellepsen (fs) enjoyed catching up with friends of long standing. She is out of the classroom and enjoys volunteer work. The proposed St. Francis Episcopal High School is her main interest now. She is hopeful it will open in 2018. She says the wonderful foundation from Kinkaid education has always been important to her; remember never end a sentence with a preposition.

Sassy English Stanton and husband Bill Pinckard have been married for 26 years. They have a farm and ranch real estate business. At the recent Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Sassy rode in the World Versatility Reining Cow Horse Competition. Her horse Boon Doc Pepto received 3rd in the Cutting. Sassy’s oldest grandchildren have moved onto middle school this year and are straight A students. She really can’t believe they have grown so fast! Their fathers, Troy Stanton ’89 and Austin Stanton ’92 (fs) both attended Kinkaid as well.

Emmet Crow (fs) also enjoys Lunch Bunch. He is now semi-retired but doing some electrical consulting. He says that his two sons are doing well. His oldest son Doug is living in New Braunfels with his wife Brandi and their two kids Dax (15) and Ellen (14). Dax is a great hunter and Ellen is a good basketball player. Emmet’s youngest son Robert ’91 (fs) lives in Houston with his wife Kimberly and their two daughters Kate (11) and Kirby (9). They’re both great soccer players and attend Rummel Creek School. Emmet says that his lady friend does a fantastic job of helping parents adopt children. Also, Emmet just returned from a wonderful cruise of the Scandinavian countries and St. Petersburg, Russia. His email address is ecrow@crowtime. com. Dianne Asbury Gordan is involved in a book club that occasionally reads great books. A group in the country has a coffee every month mainly just to socialize. Scott Tillinghast is fixing up his townhouse many years after the flood of 2001. His living room is cleared, but he says that it will take some work to have it ready for company. Raine Phillips Roberts (fs) is happy to be living in Bellville, Texas. Raine has two book clubs that she loves and is on the vestry at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. She is also playing Bunco – believe it or not! Sally Byrd Ohrstrom lives in Palm Beach, Florida, and is addicted to golf. She and her husband also spend time at their summer home in Newport, Rhode Island. They both love walking their dog along the ocean at both houses. They also love classical music, theater and travel. She said that she was so happy to see all of her friends from our class!

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Allan Port Houston, TX allan.port@att.net

Susan Sneed Barksdale reports that she and husband John ’62 are doing pretty well considering the passing years (going fast!). John is still working and is a great bible study teacher on every 3rd Sunday at 8:30am – standing invitation for all to check it out! I am still enjoying life, my kitchen is still open and we are waiting for our 12th grandchild to arrive this June – six girls and six boys! We are very blessed. So thankful for family and friends! We are still ready to teach the 14 year olds to drive – they keep us young!

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Samuel Crocker Houston, TX samuelcrockerlaw@gmail.com

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Adrian Turner Ross Houston, TX adrian@rexross.com Dear Class of 1962, It is refreshing to know how active many of you are! Your responses indicate that many members of the Class of 1962 are still busy and vibrant. Susan Cooper Gaudet continues tutoring and traveling. One of her most recent trips was to her 50th Reunion at Duke. She stayed with Kinkaid and Duke classmate Lucy Austin. In addition, Susan plans to spend time this summer with Sandra Moffett Provost and her husband, when the Provosts come to their summer home

in Massachusetts. Lucy Austin also mentioned that she and Susan were together for their Duke reunion. Other news from Lucy concerns lots of travelling—to Cuba, Russia and Finland, to mention three interesting locations. Lucy’s daughters have both graduated from college and Lucy is busy helping the older daughter plan her wedding. Judy Wilson Grant and her husband Newell still live in the home where their children grew up in Colorado. She volunteers with the Central City Opera (“not singing”) and the Mesa Verde Foundation as well as the Garden Club of Denver. They have four grandchildren: two in Denver, one in Connecticut and one in Massachusetts. Justin Morrill reports that after three sons and five grandsons, they finally have a granddaughter in the family! Tony Kupersmith (fs) has been gravitating back to Texas after 36 years working in the DC area. He and his wife Beecie spend some of their time at Texas Corinthian Yacht Club in Kemah, Texas and are currently looking for a retirement hideout in the Texas Hill Country. Tony said one of the highlights of our 50th Reunion was renewing the friendship with his neighbor and classmate Toni Walsh Duperier. That leads us into Toni’s report that she and her husband Henry have been travelling with friends and family. They visited children and grandchildren in Georgia and the Carolinas, and will be spending most of the summer in Sequim, Washington. Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton had a great trip with the Houston Seminar to the Yucatan despite the fact that she fell and broke her finger. Dorothy has recently been re-elected president of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Texas. Judy Schudy shared news of George Schudy. He is to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award at his 50th reunion at Denison University. Congratulations, George! I also heard from Gibson Carothers – I will say that he is still creative and fun, and will leave it at that! John Butcher is claiming the “honor” of being the last classmate to receive a first grandchild. Nathan Butcher was born on March 29, 2016. We will see how that record holds up. John is enjoying the good golf weather in Birmingham, Alabama. He recently played in a charity golf tournament with three first-year medical students. John wrote: “Combine their ages and add

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John Diffey ’66 – A Leader and Contributor Contributed by: Debbie Blumberg ’96

oon after graduating from Duke University in the 1970s, John Diffey ’66 found himself surrounded by hogs, corn and cotton in a 200 year-old farmhouse with no plumbing in the poorest county in North Carolina.

For $5 a day, Diffey had been hired to supervise workers after the farm’s owner fell ill. “I knew beans about farming,” he says, “but they told me, ‘we can teach you that; we need someone to lead the labor.’” At 21, Diffey led workers with a decisive, yet collaborative style that he credits to Kinkaid. It’s an approach that he later used to create havens for senior citizens and to grow one of the country’s largest non-profit development retirement communities from $30 million to nearly $300 million in annual revenue.

Kendal, which is founded upon Quaker principles, has expanded steadily under Diffey’s watch, from just two communities in two states to facilities in eight. “There is a deep respect for every individual in Quakerism,” he says, and a unique way of working together. “When we meet to make a decision, we don’t vote, we reach unity.” Meetings, however, have to be well led for each voice to be heard, and that’s where Diffey lends his expertise. Kendal also prides itself on inclusion among staff and residents; the organization was early in extending benefits to same sex partners. Two of the happiest days of his life, says Diffey, were when two gay men, one in New York and one in Ohio, approached him after presentations to say they were living more openly and comfortably at Kendal than they had anywhere else in their lives.

John Diffey ‘66

Diffey says residents inspire him every day. They’ve lived through the Great Depression and world wars, survived the Holocaust, won the Pulitzer Prize and served as college and university presidents. “They’re extraordinary, and continue to be vital long past their full-time working careers.”

“Kinkaid gave me early opportunities to be in leadership roles,” Diffey says, from the classroom to the basketball court. “I’m so grateful.”

With Kendal now under new leadership, Diffey plans to consult, work on his golf game and spend more time with his daughter and son, in Colorado and London.

At Kinkaid, Diffey played point guard on the boys basketball team, served as baseball team captain and as student body president. He vividly recalls his basketball coach, Jack Hanagriff, who spent time helping him perfect his ball handling on Saturday mornings.

He advises alums at the start of their careers, and current Kinkaidians, to decide how they want to contribute, but also be open to discovery. “You really can find a place in this world to make a difference,” Diffey says.

This year, Diffey retired from Kendal Corp., a system of not-forprofit communities for the elderly, where he has spent 24 years of his career. “The job of serving older adults has been deeply satisfying,” he says. Diffey was recruited to Kendal in 1992 after prior positions working at an Atlanta-based intermediate care facility and as an executive director at a Chapel Hill retirement community. He’s also worked at a residential psychiatric treatment center and as a fundraiser. He earned his MBA from Emory.

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4, and you get me.” We all know the feeling. If you haven’t already done so, please let me know your interest in a 55th Kinkaid Reunion next Spring. Would you commit to attend or would you prefer to wait until 2022? Best wishes to all!

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Calanne Koening Choate Houston, TX mayamom@hotmail.com Hello all you wonderful classmates and friends of our beloved Class of 1963. I hope that all of you are well. Summer is upon us once more. I hope that this wonderful season will bring you relaxation and happiness. Recently I heard from many of you who responded to my email about the loss of Peg McKenzie Milbourn at the beginning of May. Shortly before that we also lost our dear friend Janet Boyle. During that short time we heard from more of you than usually respond to the alumni requests for feedback. Thank you for that. Please know that I sincerely appreciate your outpourings of love for our two sweet classmates. Dave Shaver reports that he and wife Debbie hiked and explored many trails in the Great Smoky Mountains in March. They will do more hiking and exploring at Olympic National Park in August. He adds that their nine-month old grandson David is helping hone their babysitting skills! Well done, Dave! Betsy Bowen Phillips (fs) tells us that she and hubby Bobby ’62 have also spent time traveling the United States this year in the great outdoors. They hiked in the national parks, saw Mt. Rushmore, and then went to Denver to see their son Nick ’88, who has lived there for 25 years. Later on they went to Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina coasts, and they often travel to Austin to see their grandson Stuart (6). She adds that Bob is very active on the Buffalo Bayou Partnership Board. They are very active and would welcome the idea of a mini reunion! Joe Conlon writes that he and his wife Barb spend more and more time at their home in Florida. They had dinner with Peg McKenzie Milbourn and her husband George on April 12. He said it was great to renew their friendship after 53 years. He added that Peg was ill at that time and as you know passed away on May 7. Art Beane writes, “My four adult children are gainfully employed, healthy and promoting balance for our planet. My three step-daugh-

ters are doing the same. My wife Margaret’s oldest daughter is expecting her third child, a boy, in early July. At that point we will have six grandchildren. As I mentioned in my last version of the Class of 1963 notes, my latest book has a new title. It is “Waitin’ for Her at the Station.” As of this writing, the pre-production phase of my paperback book is complete. Outskirts Press in Denver, CO. is publishing my book. Sometime this week I expect to hear from a Production Team leader about next steps. If all goes well, and I am expecting it will, my book SHOULD be ready for press mid July to early August. From beginning to end, this writing experience has been fun. Hopefully, my enjoyment will add to the “psychic” energy in the 200 song lyrics I wrote. On another note, I laughed out loud at your comment about the Facebook video of me singing at the VFW Post in Georgetown, MA. I sing and play the harmonica about three Friday nights a month. I can barely contain my excitement before and during using a mic. More to come!” Jane Wadsworth Mason writes that her daughter Hayley Wadsworth Dickson ’01 and husband Scott Dorin have a new daughter, Isla Jacqueline Dorin, born February 17. Janie will travel with Hayley and the baby for business to Banff, London, and Paris as Hayley returns to work for Freemantle Media. Hayley is SVP of Freemantle Acquisitions and Development Global Content. Many congratulations and love to our most recent grandma! I think this is about all I have to tell you right now. I wish for all of you a happy and restful summer season. Love to all, Calanne

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Claire Andreae Murray Silver Spring, MD claire.murray@verizon.net Welcome to the dog days of summer. I’m not sure if that is a reference to global climate issues or the intemperance of the electoral process. Either way this too shall pass in one form or another...I must confess I have already booked my caboose on the Rocky Mountaineer Escape Train from Vancouver to Calgary after panning for gold in northern Alaska this summer. Open ticket on the return flight...TBD... Cindy Bambeck Smith shared, “We recently returned from Barcelona. In addition we are gearing up to have our annual Cousins Camp in Crested Butte, CO for our seven grandchildren”. There’s a budding dynasty!! What else should retirement be

about than family and travel, hopefully combined. Judge Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter basking in the glow of grand parenthood as well reported “ Our big news is that we had another granddaughter in January, Piper Elizabeth. We celebrated her big sister’s second birthday Saturday. I’ll send by separate message a photo of Ruby at her party with our older grandkids and one of Ruby “reading” to Piper from one of the stupidest books in the world, which, of course, we gave her. Otherwise, I took senior status in February so that I could cut back and have more free time, but seem to be busier than ever. Had the opportunity to sit on the PA Supreme Court for one case in May when all but two of the justices had to disqualify themselves from hearing it. Interesting experience. Haven’t seen any of our classmates since the 50th reunion, and I would love to do that sooner rather than later. That’s about it, other than that my golf game keeps getting worse and worse (they talk about some people scoring their age. The way I’m going, my handicap will soon match my age)”. A reminder from Rocky McAshan also that health and family actually take precedence over all the silliness of political posturing as he shares “The surgery that interrupted my reunion in 2014 did not cure the pain problem. But I was able to attend a destination wedding for my niece on Isle de Passion near Cozumel in June. Second spinal surgery in two years was in August – spinal fusion T9 and T10. It did the trick and I was back to work after Labor Day. However, on the way to Orlando for Christmas with my whole family, I rolled down a step I didn’t see at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The chair stopped but I did not. I broke my tibia and fibula as I fell out of the chair. After a three-hour delay the ER at Gulf Port Memorial put me in a splint and we continued to Florida. The time with kids and grandkids was wonderful. We stayed at the Legoland Hotel and Saratoga Springs at Disney. We also did Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Downtown Disney and Disney Quest. It helps to have power wheels. Also thanks to son Robert who had to do most of the driving and held my leg stable while we waited for the ambulance in MS. On the way back we stopped at Stennis and took the tour we missed. The doctor in Houston ordered two plastic braces for me – a straight one for sleeping and a bent one for sitting. I was able to get back into the driver’s seat of my van. I’ve been back at work since but I am still in the braces and my next appointment is not until July 1. This will be at least a 28-week recovery. In the meantime Jane and I have been driving to Austin about every three weeks to visit with architects

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as we design our retirement house for our lot in Leander. Retirement after 35 years at Frost is scheduled for October 31. I enjoyed seeing George and Katherine Susman Howe at their birthday celebration at Ouise’s. We saw them again at the Distinguished Alumni Awards celebrating their daughter Kate Howe ’95. To be sure we all wish Rocky a speedy and complete recovery. Not to mention congratulations go out to Rocky as well for his fall retirement, joining J.B. Jones and me. I wonder how many others in our class have dared to take the plunge? I also wonder how everyone’s health is holding up as we head into the gloriously unpredictable 70’s. Falls are evidently the “in “ thing for our generation now. I did a Rocky myself falling off a train in Marseilles and fractured my knee, tore my rotator cuff and the tendons in my wrist and hand. I am dogging my recovery from the first of three tortuous repair jobs as my hubby invests in bubble wrap, helmets, knee pads and butt cushions etc. for our summer on a train in the Rockies. Don’t be shy; do tell how the rest of you are faring with salud, dinero y amor.

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Tami Fox Brau Austin, TX tazmazan@yahoo.com Barbara Moses Robertson is spending a lot of time at Kinkaid for sports events and extra-curricular activities.... as she and Corby have eight of their nine grandchildren attending Kinkaid: Keen Robertson ’28 and Shea Morenz ’28 in Kindergarten, Jake Robertson ’27 in 1st Grade, Gayle Robertson ’25 in 3rd grade, Hope Morenz ’23 and Hunter Robertson ’23 in 5th grade and Lillie Morenz ’21 and Bradyn Robertson ’21 in 7th grade. Their youngest grandchild Kaki Robertson is only three years old, but they hope she will be a Kinkaid Falcon when it’s time. All of the grandchildren are on the Purple Team during Kinkaid Field Day...the “tradition” continues in the family as Barbara was also on the Purple Team during her time as a Kinkaid student! Daughter Christine Robertson Morenz ’92 serves as a Trustee and Barbara’s husband Corby is a Trustee Emeritus. Richard Low is still in pediatric medical practice. He now has three grandkids: Miles (3), Jessie (9 months) and Arianna (1). An update on the kids: Jeanie addressed an International Social Work conference in Malaysia, returned from being a guest professor in Bangladesh and is producing her first feature length film. Christensen is a professor at

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University of South Korea. William manages a hospice in Waco and Elizabeth is an accountant in Houston. All four are married. Richard’s wife Susan continues to practice Japanese acupressure. They have been married for 40 years! Richard is thinking about bringing in a partner to eventually take over his pediatric practice. Rod Everett (fs) is “still alive after 51 years since graduation! Nothing really new here!” Susan Neptune (fs) reports, “Wow... well after a couple of years of bad health, I am getting stronger and continue to keep my small store open three days a week here in Houston. I am hard at work and at my hobbies, so it’s all good! Would enjoy hearing what everyone is up to.” Rick Horsey says, “Let’s start with the best. Our daughter Heather and her husband have just given birth to their first baby, who is 10 days old as I write this article. Everyone is doing great. He appears to be the calmest baby I have ever seen; he just eats and sleeps and is as fun as a newborn can get. Watching this process unfold is so full of changes since the miracle of making a new human being is always so magical, beautiful and spiritual. We are so happy and blessed for our new parents and our fifth grandchild. Our other two children who live in Austin and in San Antonio with our other four grandchildren are all doing well. I traveled to Austin to play golf with our two sons recently and as always those few and far between experiences are some of my most cherished. Marleen and I just moved to a new house located in Brookhaven Golf Course in Farmers Branch, TX, which is just to the left of a green on one of the three courses here at this location. Our house overlooks two fairways and it feels almost like being out in the country. It has been a great change and we both are enjoying it very much. Between the new house and this new baby, we have not been back to our place in the Santa Fe, NM area since early February of this year. If I do go again this year, it may very well be by myself. Somehow, little

babies seem to take precedent over most everything else these days…I am sure that is a good thing, sort of, anyway.” Judi Yelvington Suttles’ grandson David Suttles ’27 played in his first judged all city piano recital. He was one of four from Kinkaid. He won a trophy and was rated Superior Plus – the highest rating! It was a great day. It’s been a hectic and good year so far for me, Tami Fox Brau. I am still working as a technical writer in high tech in Austin. My all-time favorite thing is spending time with family and especially my grandson.

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Pat Kidson Fogle Cavanagh Houston, TX pat.cavanagh@kinkaid.org Friends, Our 50th reunion is now a fond memory. Almost 50 of us enjoyed a lovely evening at the home of Janiece and Steve Lasher. We reconnected with friends we haven’t seen in decades and shared stories of family, work, hobbies and travel. We paused for a moment to remember our deceased classmates Kaye Dillon, Frank Harshman, Errol Sweeton, Mike Terry, Marshall Echols, Sharon MacDonald and Susan Kamas. The Advancement Office is pleased to announce that in honor of our 50th reunion, our Class is creating a new endowed fund which we hope other reunion classes will support in the future: The Reunion Class Faculty Professional Development Fund. The earnings from this fund will be used to support continuing education programs for Kinkaid faculty who bring back what they learn to the classroom to help inspire their students with newly acquired knowledge and passion for their subject area. Here’s some news from our classmates: From Dr. Jim Tang: “Elizabeth and I were up in Dallas recently attending the Texas State Republican Convention as delegates. We had an oppor-

tunity to get together with Dick Respess and his wife Liz while we were there. Dick treated us to a delightful lunch at his golf club, the Dallas Athletic Club. Glad to report that he is doing well, back working as an emergency room physician. Elizabeth and I had a wonderful trip to Japan last month and got to see the cherry blossoms in bloom. We visited Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara. Two of our sons accompanied us. Happy to report that youngest son, John Tang ’07 (fs), will be graduating next week from UT Southwestern Medical School. He will be headed to New York City to do a residency in anesthesiology.” From John Diffey: “It was great to see so many of our ‘66 classmates at our reunion! Thanks to all who made it back and to those who planned it and generously hosted and funded it. At the end of June, I will conclude a wonderful 24 years with The Kendal Corporation and a 40-year career in the field of aging, all spent serving not-for-profit organizations. Martha and I look forward to seeing our Denver and London-based kids more often and continuing to get oars in the water with other service organizations – in the arts, education, ethical elections and government, and other areas of need and interest. And we are hoping to finish more books, break 90 more regularly, get outside more often and travel more extensively.” From Bubba Koenig: “It was so great to see everybody last month. We’re all a little older, but I’m not sure about wiser (LOL). Linda and I just returned from Peru and Brazil. Macchu Pichu was fantastic, Iguasu Falls was spectacularly beautiful, and Rio was a dream, even with Olympic prep going on. Headed for Yellowstone in September and a Med cruise next spring. This retirement gig is NOT THAT BAD!! Best regards to all, Bubba” Tua Smith Burke and Ernie Graham report that they attended the wedding of their granddaughter Tara Soucie in Lincoln, Nebraska in late May. It was a wonderful day for all! As I write this news today, I am celebrating my 32nd last day of school. Don’t ever doubt that the teachers are as excited as the kids! Summer will bring special days spent with children and grandchildren and our first cruise on the Rhine River. Please stay in touch. It’s wonderful to hear from all of you. Blessings to everyone in the Class of 1966! Enjoy Summer!

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Steve Adger Houston, TX sadger@yahoo.com

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

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Don Pickels Houston, TX Donwayne69@gmail.com It’s still raining cats and dogs. What a soggy, soaked Houston Spring! But a few ‘69ers came out of the rain to share their lives with the rest of us. Here’s hoping for some fine sunshine and more classmates willing to chime in. The next class notes are only six months away! Dr. Rick Frachtman continues to enjoy and support the incredible music of our youth. He and wife Anne in March took the Celebrity “Flower Power Cruise” from Fort Lauderdale to Cozumel and Key West. For five days they got to watch some golden-oldie bands perform their greatest hits and mingle with the fans. The bands included The Monkees, Herman’s Hermits, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Peter & Gordon, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, and The Rascals, along with surviving members of Blood, Sweat & Tears, The Buckinghams, The Grass Roots, The Guess Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Sly & the Family Stone (without old Sly). Goodness gracious, they saw more bands than I’ve seen the past three years! Rick and Gary “EZ Rider” Wilkerson see more concerts than any other Falcons I know. Keep up the good work. My buddy Bill Liedtke emerged from his restaurant empire to report that no Oklahoma City earthquakes or tornadoes had silenced him yet. Around April Billy visited with classmate Murphy Lents & wife Dianne at their Twisted Rose Ranch in Kerrville. He was impressed with their thoroughbred horses and the news that his Lents godson Max had recently founded the Baltimore Whiskey Company up in Maryland. Watch for their first proud product, Shot Tower Gin. Not to be out-paced by Rick Frachtman, Bill reported going to Los Angeles and getting V.I.P. treatment at the Hollywood Bowl courtesy of the performer, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd! Bill’s business partner had met Gilmour, so their concert seats were third-row, center. To top it off, David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash showed up to sing with the band. Billy has issued no invitations (yet), but his rock-star daughter Victoria gets married this summer in scenic Balfour Castle, near York, England in the Yorkshire

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Dales. I’ll be glad to host an unauthorized wedding party over there if enough ‘69ers rally to the cause! Finally, Bill thanked me for the thankless task of hounding classmates for class notes. You’re welcome. Marcy West emailed from her farm/ ranch in Fayetteville that she and hubby David “are still kicking.” They breed some horses and dogs, sometimes sell cute puppies from their growing business. On a sad note, Marcy’s mother passed away in February, but a second beautiful granddaughter Segan was born to Marcy’s son Wesley and wife Andrea. In addition, Marcy’s daughter Kelley and husband Gabriel had a bouncing daughter Francesca born in February to go with their threeyear-old son Elliot, alias Eli. Marcy was happy to note she gifted David with a new boat trolling motor for last year’s wedding anniversary. She said it lightens the load on having to pole their 23-foot bay boat through shallow waters. Hey Marcy, try paddling a kayak 12 miles into a stiff wind! Out of nowhere I got to hear from two long-lost ‘69ers, Alba Warren and David Daniels (fs). Alba reacted via email to one of my lame body-enlargement jokes, offering, “I’m still kicking, but not very hard.” David said he’s living on the Devil’s Backbone in Fischer, Texas, not far from Gary “EZ Rider” Wilkerson on Canyon Lake outside Seguin. David serves on the important Fischer Fest board of directors for that music festival coming November 11-13 (fischerfest.org). Please contact Dave for tickets because he says they will probably sell out. Apparently he sees classmates Mason Carter and Rick Suman in Austin for monthly lunches, although I thought those two had gone on to Sixty-Niner heaven! Hope to hear from them, too. Our classmate Bonnie German Chandler seemed happy to say her kids had finally all left the nest in Massachusetts. Her daughter Holly got a graduate library degree and now works at the database company EBSCO. Son Cedric is a Navy nuclear engineer on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, based in Japan. Hubby John still works at the Harvard Observatory as a research astrophysicist. Bonnie’s nuclear family has to be the smartest group of folks since our Sixty-Niner Prep Bowl team! You go, girl! About 25 years ago Bonnie finished her job as community newspaper reporter to become a proud farmer in rural Harvard, MA. She raises good old goats, trains dogs, rides horses and sings with a local choir. She has a website full of entertaining pictures at www.fairleafarm.us. Thanks, Bon-Bon! Got some vacation news from our classmate Sarah Johnson Mueller. Sarah and her husband got to flee

the cold weather of Ohio and head to the tropics. They spent a month on Maui, then a month on Marco Island, Florida, a week in La Paz, Mexico, and then a cruise with their two grandkids to Haiti, Jamaica and Cozumel. That sounds more like a lifestyle than a vacation! My good friend Jeff Cross continues to work the insurance trade for Wortham Insurance when not entertaining our Friday lunch group with good old stories of Falcon glory. Recently we heard the hilarious golf story of our senior-year threesome at El Dorado Golf Club with Jeff, Bill Liedtke and myself. The details are fun and outrageous but might breach the moral content code of The Kinkaid Magazine if published. Jeff sometimes kindly invites me and a couple of friends to his excellent club-level seats for Astros games. At our last outing the Astros even managed to defeat the hard-hitting Seattle Mariners, a ballgame featuring some loud oldschool cheers and jeers from our group. Maybe we should go more often because our team is currently playing under .500 ball. Go Astros! Our youngest-looking male classmate, Jim Frankel, kindly sent a family biography which is fact-filled and impressive. He admits to still being married to “his high school sweetheart,” Carol. His four kids Kevin Frankel ’97, Scott Frankel ’99, Leslie Frankel Wiener ’03 & Lisa Frankel Lee ’03 are all married and live in Houston. Kevin and wife Kristina have three children, Ivy ’25, Millie ’26 and Simon ’29, all attending Kinkaid next year. Kevin and Scott are co-presidents of Frankel Building Group which was started by Daddy Jim. Scott and wife Dara have twoyear-old Will and Hunter, only four months a Houstonian! Leslie has a PhD from The University of Texas and teaches Child Development at the University of Houston. Her husband is Gary Wiener (no relation to ex-Congressman Anthony!), and they are proud of “gorgeous daughter” Hannah who turns one on July 3. Leslie’s twin sister Lisa got an MBA from The University of Texas and is director of Consumer Insights at Fuddrucker’s/Luby’s. She & Evan celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary on May 9 and expect a baby boy in September. Jim, thanks for the update, and may I say your whole family sounds as strife-free and perfect as my 1960’s model family, the mighty Cleavers from “Leave It to Beaver!” There were three Sixty-Niners who emailed pithy comments worthy of publication. Marty “Duckman” Dukler lamented that he “just doesn’t have anything new in my life to share. OK – my son will turn 14 in September.” Good for you and your anonymous son, Marty! How about sharing the health regimen or holis-

tic hormones allowing you to sire a son at 51! Keep it up, man! It was a treat to see classmate Dr. Mark Bing at the Kinkaid Christmas party, looking happy and calm like he did in high school. He was Mark Bing pumped up for ‘69 at Katy the Katy High football game School state championship football game. For many years Mark has been an ardent railroad enthusiast, collecting railcar models and even helping build a steam locomotive! After some cajoling from friends, he bit the bullet and bought his own railroad car, the sleek “Silver Iris” built by Burlington in 1952. He found it rusting in some weeds outside Pueblo, Colorado and then had it refurbished in Sparks, Nevada, adding comfortable seats, a kitchen and lounge. Sounds like Agent Jim West in that great old TV show “The Wild Wild West!” Mark’s first family trip was to the famous Albuquerque Hot-Air Balloon Festival, then fun trips to Seattle, Montana and New Orleans. Some Kinkaid people have ridden his train, including our retired history professor John Germann and wife Caro Ann along with Kathleen Hazlehurst Bywaters and husband Ban, Garth Whittington, and Mark’s siblings Sarah Bing Wolfe ’71, Martha Bing Culbreth ’74, Rebecca Bing Quantz ’75 and Paul Bing ’78. Lately Mark has discovered the joys of “all-female” trips, and is organizing one for this summer headed through Oakland and Denver for the annual Shakespeare Festival. Perhaps that railroad group could use a Falcon lawyer not burdened by “work” or family tribulations (call me). See below for a photo of Mark at the big Katy football game last year won by Katy High. Our long-hidden blonde-on-blonde quarterback Kenny Meyer briefly reminisced via email about his glory days as Editor of our Kinkaid Falcon. He remembered publishing “some pretty radical articles,” but Ken, that wasn’t much compared to the crazy articles and cartoons appearing in our beloved underground paper, The Pigeon! I say bring back The Pigeon! President Paul Taylor’s (fs) pithy comment is saved for last. As for me, I continue to fight my paternal family scourge of diabetes by working out almost as hard as speedster Dana Harper training to sprint hundred-yard dashes. When it’s not flooding I go kayak-fishing in the local bays or surf, sometimes catching enough speckled trout to feed a lunch crew of buddies like Jeff Cross, Gary Wilkerson and others. I play disk golf a lot and have won a few mini-tournaments with my lucky 400-foot sidearm frisbee

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bombs. Am looking forward to an upcoming fly-fishing and frisbee golf trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado to stay with some Princeton classmates. I’ve also discovered the joys of a fully charged Kindle containing my favorite new books! Lately I have been reading up on quantum physics and the sacred religion of Tao. Learning is what keeps me happy. I leave you with classmate Paul Taylor’s (fs) sage advice: “Captain, stay fearless and remember my personal motto; all wounds are self-inflicted.” Ouch! SUMA, Sixty-Niners! Capt. Don Pickels, Esq.

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Malcolm Waddell Houston, TX mwaddell@sba-skincare.com We are just one year shy of the 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The second song on side two of that classic album is Paul McCartney’s “When I’m Sixty-Four”. And that’s what age most of our class finds itself embracing or anticipating this summer. So here are some of the reflections on this subject as well as other thoughts and updates. I received a note from Janet Lee Cohen: “I turned the ripe old age of 64 way back in January and from my perch it’s…well, it’s…well, I’m still here! No, it’s good and certainly better than the alternative. Life is full for us. We recently got back from our first ever trip to Japan and can’t stop raving about it – the culture, the history, the beauty, the food, the cleanliness and the cherry blossoms. It was magnificent.” Trey Lander responded, “My dearest Janet — in August this grey-haired old man will be 65. Believe I was the oldest in our class with Blake LaRue close behind. Then again I had a little more experience since I had the privilege to attend 5th grade twice! Once at Hunters Creek Elementary and again in Falcon Land – I didn’t do too well in either! If you haven’t already been bombarded with Medicare Supplement Insurance you will soon. Seems as if everyone in the insurance business knows I’m about to turn 65. My grandson (my one and only) turns two this month. Unfortunately he and his family live in California. We only get to see him about four times a year which is frustrating. Thank goodness for FaceTime! Wish we had bunches more. I’m spending most of my time at our farm running cattle, exotics,

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NYC Alumni Party February 2 at Baryshnikov Arts Center

Jeb Bush ‘71 (fs) and Janet Lee Cohen ‘70

goats and donkeys. The country life out here is my heaven on earth.” Stefy Palandjoglou Allen ‘00, Whitney Weems Mogavero ‘96, Alexis Lipshultz Moses ‘96, Kelli Roosth Cooney ‘96, Alex Turboff ‘96

New York Alumni and guests

Meredith Pickett ‘04, Madeline Hemingway ‘07, Sara Jane Jornayvaz Howell ‘05, Victoria Pappas ‘07

Dimitrios Cokinos ‘10 and Michael Pappas ‘07

Event host Vernon Scott ‘79 and Chris Boyd ‘80

Our honorary classmate Lynne Barlow Bentsen ’69 also shared her wisdom about being our age: “Turned 65 this year and love it. I can go to the grocery store barefooted and in pigtails and I don’t owe anyone an explanation! Here’s a past memory: When my family moved back to the states from Egypt in 1956 we moved in a few doors down from Agnes Dawson Wommack’s (fs) family on Milford. I remember playing with her. I believe my mom told me a few years back that Agnes’ nanny was actress Renee Zellweger’s mother from Katy, Texas. Agnes, is that right?” Phil Salvador also responded with “I turned 64 in April. I have to admit it feels like a non-event compared to the next birthday – 65. At 65 we become official seniors in anybody’s book. Bring on the cheap movies, meals, etc. Our daughter Carla had a brain operation in February to treat her epilepsy. We are not ready to celebrate but so far, so good. She is being schooled at home and is keeping up with her high school junior academics. She is also riding and jumping horses again. Our son Lucas did very well in his freshman year at Georgia Tech. He likes the mechanical engineering program at GT a lot. Wife Christiane stays busy with many projects and I continue to look for work as a geologist in the oil industry. At the moment this scene is very quiet – hopefully the calm before the next boom.” When Irene Moody Riviere saw my birthday notice on Facebook, she sent this correspondence: “I’d forgotten that I am nine days older than you. Rob and I are enjoying our new home [in Austin] and not having to maintain all that goes with several acres – a pool, a big house and a boathouse. As for family news: Ryan, Anne and granddaughter Vivi decided to move to Des Moines, Iowa to be closer to her folks with plans to move back to Austin in a few years. As you can imagine this grandma is not too happy. God bless FaceTime! As for Rhett and Dana and the boys, they got a wonderful

surprise in January. After having three boys and finding out their sex ahead of time, they decided not to find out on number four. We all assumed it would be a boy and when the doctor said congratulations on your little girl, no one believed him. Sure enough Keagan was a girl. Leyton (9), Nolan (6) and Colton (3) absolutely adore her! I pity any boy who tries to date her! Anyway Rob and I feel totally blessed to have these wonderful grandkids! I hope everyone in our great class is doing well!” By phone I spoke with Carla Wilkerson O’Brien who lives in Ruidoso, NM. She and Ray have been empty nesters for two years now and Carla said life remains busy as ever. She and Ray have retired but she stays very active working with various groups and organizations in town including the Chamber of Commerce. Their daughter Grace just completed her 2nd year at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Carla said it’s nice having her just two hours away but even better to have her home for the summer. Grace is working this summer in the shop at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track. I hope to see Carla and Ray this summer when Suzanne and I head to our mountain home near them. I also checked in via phone with Selby Schwend. When we discussed that classic Beatles’ tune, he stated, “When I got up the morning of my 64th birthday that song was playing thanks to a visit from our daughter Jessica. I simply can’t believe that’s where we are, old friend. I wake up every day and thank the good Lord for another one.” He and Kathie have completed and moved into their new home on Smith Mountain Lake which is an hour south of Roanoke. As for daughter Jessica she now works in marketing for the Fresh Market headquarters in Greensboro, NC. I got a nice note from Tomoko Masuzawa updating us on the status of her home search in New York. She writes, “We have secured our New York apartment in the Upper Westside where we have a lot of

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friends from different phases of our lives living nearby. Besides, if you are situated at the navel of the universe soon or later everybody else will show up…right? Meanwhile, we both are still on the faculty at Michigan, but I am on leave for the 2016-17 academic year (courtesy of a Guggenheim fellowship I got some years ago) so I am settled in NY for the next 15 months. For American suburban standards the apartment is small of course but this is a happy and convivial way of downsizing I’d say. We just hope we won’t get tired of looking at New Jersey.” I got some great notes from four classmates who hadn’t checked in for a while. Let’s start with Robin Singer Mowrer (fs). Robin writes, “I will be turning 64 in August and am constantly working on staying healthy. I plan to be around for a long time to enjoy our kids and grandkids. I just became a grandma for the second time. My son Eddie and his Japanese wife Emily, who live in Denver with my grandson Oliver (2), just had a new little boy named Hiro, meaning generous and prosperous, and he surprised us all by surviving. They detected hydrocephalus when Emily was three months pregnant and said it was very severe. We were on pins and needles for the remaining six months. He was born so beautiful and healthy. He is doing great and we are all so happy and excited to have him in our lives. My daughter Briana got married in February and is happily living in beautiful San Diego with her husband Dan. She is an ESL teacher at the university there and he is a chemical engineer and has a flourishing business. My youngest son Kyle is graduating from Soka University in Aliso Viejo, CA and will stay there to work and go to graduate school for music education. He is an awesome trumpet player if I do say so myself and he loves to teach so I believe he will be happy and successful with that career. We spend as much time as we can going back and forth to Colorado and California. My husband Dale and I still live in Dallas and are partners in real estate. If anyone needs to buy, sell or invest in real estate in the Dallas area, I would love to help. Wishing you all an awesome summer!” Next up is Sally Weld Frost (fs). We’re Facebook friends but getting this email gets us all up to date! “All is well in the Weld/Frost camp. Carl and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary with a trip to Harbour Island off the coast of Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas – standalone bungalow, huge private deck, gorgeous sand dunes and a pinksand beach. The Goombay Smash cocktail was awesome too albeit very, very strong! This May I went to Kinkaid to stand in memory of my dad during the Middle School Honor Assembly. Since all of my siblings

work I always go to this alone. I attended countless times with my dad and now I have attended nine years without him. It always makes me a bit teary when they award the Leigh Weld award to the outstanding sixth grader. This year in the introductions/explanations of the awards they gave very personal descriptions of the people they were honoring like Dad, Art Goddard, Jack Hanagriff, etc. It was a very special ceremony. Our daughter Sarah is in California with her two children, our grandson (8) and granddaughter (5). She remarried an absolutely wonderful young man two years ago and they are now expecting a brand new little one to add to the family in December of this year. This new son-in-law is absolutely over the moon about our daughter, our two grandkids and now this new baby. We are so thankful that he entered her life and ours. Our son Andrew, after working in the air conditioning/heating field for the past 12 years, is opening his own company in Houston, Arctic Frost Cooling and Heating, LLC. He took and passed the air conditioning/heating contractor licensing exam recently so he is on his way! His number will be 713-724-3954 so if anyone in the Kinkaid family needs experienced, expert, honest HVAC help, give him a call. We made a big change this year and sold our beloved oceanfront penthouse in Upper Baja Mexico between Tijuana and Ensenada just south of San Diego that we had for 8+ years. Carl just felt that it was a little too cool for him and he wanted to find someplace more tropical. God and everyone knows that 99.9% of the population thinks that San Diego weather is perfect and it is but you do have to put on a light jacket if you want to eat outside at night! We have kind of been eyeing an oceanfront home in Puerto Vallarta but we’re not really sure where we will end up.” Betty Ericson Jones (fs) and I have corresponded over Facebook for several years. Back in 2012, Betty was seriously injured in an accident. While alone she had fallen backwards down the stairs in their condo in Rockport. She was life-flighted to Methodist Hospital in Houston with a broken neck. I am happy to report in her own words, “I am recovering well…just slow. Mike and I will celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary in June. Our middle son Chase lives in Vancouver, B.C., and I spend as much time in Whistler as I can.” Betty, who reminded me that she started young, shared that she has a great grandson! Another Facebook classmate is Sheryl Lynn Coles Mays. One of her posts indicated she was getting ready to move from San Antonio to Vintage Oaks, a beautiful new development in New Braunfels. She wrote that she would be enjoying

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Washington DC Alumni Party January 14 at Lincoln Restaurant

Jason and Roseanna Baber Hill ‘99 with Mary Beth Tyler ‘03

Eric and Stacy Sweet Patlovich ‘00 with Greg and Bridget Murphy Nikodem ‘97

Julia Lovett ‘07, Jennifer Orr ‘11, Jesse Steinmetz ‘11

Bob Morse ‘63 and Sujit Raman ‘96

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‘the hill country breezes on an acre hilltop, the German heritage and all the things to do there!” The last of the haven’t-heard-fromyou-in-a-while classmates is our resident author Lisa Tuttle (fs). She says, “Husband Colin, daughter Emily and I continue to live quietly in our little house in a forest on the shores of a sea-loch in the west of Scotland. If any of my old classmates are planning a trip to Scotland, it would be nice to catch up in person and I can recommend the very nice local inn, Stonefield Castle Hotel, with the restaurant where our daughter Emily (25) works. My latest book, The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief, will be published in a couple of weeks – at least it will be coming out here in Britain in paperback. So far I have not found an American publisher for it. It’s a mixture of crime and supernatural fantasy set in London in 1893 about the adventures of a detective partnership – Jasper Jesperson and Miss Lane – on the track of some missing psychic mediums. End of advertisement!” Brian Atlas (fs) sent a brief family update: “My daughter Angela graduated in May with an MBA from University of Texas in Austin. We are very proud of her. She is moving from Houston to Denver this summer to live with her boyfriend and get a job. My middle daughter Julie is pregnant with her third child. She has a four year-old daughter, a one year-old son and another son due in July. I now have three granddaughters and one grandson.” Another family note came from Larry Jacobs stating, “Kids are doing well. Scott is enrolled at the Bauer School of Business at UH and has an internship with the UH football program working in the recruiting area. He loves sports so this is a natural thing for him. The staff is teaching him how to evaluate potential players, etc. Jacqueline ’13 just completed her junior year at Tulane. She is a psychology major like her mom. This summer she will intern in Austin working for a child welfare clinic. Next fall she has been asked to work on a federally funded study involving less fortunate children in the New Orleans area. As for Lorraine and me we just keep rolling along.” Finally, Suzanne and I just returned from a week-long tour of Colonial Virginia. We traveled with a Rice U group led by Rice southern history professor John Boles. We visited Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and the battlefield at Yorktown, the location of the decisive battle of the American Revolution back in 1781. We also spent time at three U.S. Presidents’ homes – Jefferson’s Monticello, Madison’s Montpelier and Washington’s Mount Vernon. It was an incredible trip! Our older daughter Julianne has been pro-

moted twice since she started in the education department at the Denver Zoo full time in August 2014. She even has an assistant now. Her younger sister Amanda ’06 who has lived in Japan for five years ever since graduation from USC is now managing as well as acting in her 30+ Japanese theatre troupe. This summer Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker will be performing at festivals in Braunschweig, Germany, Poznan, Poland and wrap up with a two-week run in London, England. Both daughters are living the dream! Thanks to everyone for the notes. Enjoy your summer. Remember no matter your age, I hope you stay young at heart. I love hearing from you so drop me a line anytime!

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Claudia Wilson Frost Houston, TX claudia.frost@dlapiper.com

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Sandy Howard Turner Houston, TX sandy@mochimabay.com I will begin with Scott West and Craig Anderson letting me know that nothing new, nothing of note to add that would be of entertainment value has happened, other than Scott’s son Zach ’06 getting married to Linda Cummins ’06 in March. Guess no news is good news. And more of not much to report, Judy Sud Morris, Dana Lyon and I continue to get together to walk around Memorial Park or to eat dinner somewhere. I also visit with Chuck Blanton now and then. Chuck Cunningham ’72 came into town recently and this group went to dinner at Club No Minor. Susu Zimmerman Meyer reports that she and Fred Meyer just returned from bone fishing and had a grand time. Most importantly, they have a new grandchild, Joseph Robert Meyer, born on April 8. Marion and Cadell Liedtke said that Midland is experiencing one more boom/bust cycle. The last boom brought lots of young people to town and loads of fun along with them. Marion and Cadell welcomed their 13th grandchild into the world, Robert Bates Arnot III, son of their daughter Claire and her husband. The family lives in Dallas. In Houston, there are four grandchildren (Fertittas) attending Kinkaid. Plans are in the works for all of their children and grandchildren to travel to Colorado for a family gathering this summer! Cadell ended with amaz-

ing news that his 90 year old mother, Bessie, teamed up with his two sisters, Laura Liedtke Bucholz ’71 and Claire Liedtke Alexander ’76 and with Susu Zimmerman Meyer to win the San Antonio Country Club Ladies Golf tournament. How cool is that? Sam Siegler checks in with the news that his daughter, Samantha Siegler ’11, has been working in corporate development at Quanta Energy since graduating Summa Cum Laude with a BBA in finance from Texas A&M. She will be moving to Austin in August to attend Texas Law Class of ’19. Daughter Kelsey is on a WWII study abroad trip this summer and will be a junior at Sewanee in the fall. Sam’s wife, Kelly, has a reality series, Cold Justice. Filming for Season Five with an NBC affiliate will begin this summer. Sam joked that his life is comprised of continuing to work in the salt mines of medicine…nothing as exciting as his three girls. Lisa Bernell Rostad is finally, really an empty nester. He son Marcus has moved to New York City to a job at LinkedIn. His office is in the Empire State building with an amazing view. He is loving it! A few months back, Pam Dilworth Kissiah came to Bethesda to visit with Janet Weingarten Battista. Lisa, Janet, Pam and Jane Staub Towler got together and wined and dined for a few days. Lisa said that while Cline Young was in Bethesda on business, she met him and Chip Nichols for lunch. Speaking of Cline Young, he reports that while he was in DC on business, he was able to meet Chip Nichols and Lisa Bernell Rostad for lunch. He, also, is awaiting the birth of his 3rd grandchild by his daughter that lives in Boston. She is a “rock star baker” per Best in Boston magazine! Cline closes his news with, “while in Houston on the day that my mother died, Chuck Blanton’s dog bit me.” Speaking of Chuck Blanton, he starts his news with, “while Cline Young was here, my dog bit him.” Chuck has been traveling a bunch. While mountain biking, he sprained an ankle and healing seems to be taking longer than expected. Maybe getting older and extreme sports don’t mix well?? So, he went to Mexico to sit on the beach for a week! Sitting on a beach sounds perfect. I close this newsletter with a memorial to Sarah Witmer Jones, who passed away May 17. Many fond memories remain that bring a smile or laughter. Sarah will be missed greatly. Stay in touch everyone.

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Madeleine Topper Sheehy Houston, TX Madtop5@sbcglobal.net

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Judy Levin Houston, TX jude118@aol.com

1976

Laura Byrd Herring Houston, TX laura.herring@bgllp.com On April 30 the class of 1976 celebrated our 40th reunion at Laura Byrd Herring’s house. 25 classmates attended. We all got along!

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Sarah Deal Frankenfeld Austin, TX sarahf422@me.com Hello Class of ’78! Hope this finds you well. Thank you to those that sent in some news. Here we go… Graham Gilliam sent me some great pics that said it all but I’ll just have to put in words instead. Conner ’16 just received his Eagle Scout and is now a Kinkaid Graduate and off to Baylor. Carter flew in for the ceremony from Seattle where he builds “stuff” for airplanes. (We parents never know what our kids do.) The oldest, Taylor ’05, still walks the halls of Congress with her fiancé Matt where they both work in the House of Representatives. Taylor and Matt are getting married in October in rural Virginia. Graham is trying to stay out of the way of the planning! Graham and Diane have joined the rank of empty-nesters. Miles Manning and Julia moved to Ft. Worth last summer and are empty-nesters also with their son at Texas State and daughter at Texas Tech. They love Ft. Worth! Alexis Melancon Rogers wanted everyone to know that her sweet mom Catherine Melancon who taught many of our group in 3rd grade passed away on February 7 after a few years with Alzheimer’s. We are thinking of you Alexis and all have many sweet memories of your mom! Alexis’ daughter Elizabeth (24) works in Houston for Shell and her son Alex (21) is a senior at Texas State majoring in mass communications/advertising. Alexis is still a partner with Richard, Wayne & Roberts where she has been since 1984! Jon Finger reports that his middle son, Nate ’12, is graduating from UConn with a degree in math. “Everything else is copacetic,” Jon says. (Great word Jon! For those who don’t know

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what this word means, the definition is fine; completely satisfactory; OK. Guess I missed this word in Allison’s Reader Digest vocab lessons!) Robert Pullen and Jill are celebrating their 20-year anniversary this fall. He says that is the best he’s got – which by the way is great news. Congrats! Side note: Allison and I had the opportunity to visit with Robert’s precious parents at Mr. Preston Moore’s funeral. They haven’t changed a bit and were so much fun to visit with! Kevin Wheeler wrote in from the airport in Seattle on his way to Sitka, Alaska with his three boys where they were going to celebrate middle son Graham’s graduation from A&M and upcoming job at E&Y and Kevin Jr.’s completion of his first year in veterinary practice. Two off the payroll and Ross is close to finishing his senior year in mechanical engineering at A&M. Wife Susan (Sue) Wheeler has given up cardiology and is teaching Algebra II at Kinkaid. Wow – great addition to the Kinkaid staff! Mimi Topper Stinson and Bob have moved to New York City and are settling in. Daughter and son-in-law are remodeling an apartment and will be living about four blocks from Mimi and Bob. Mimi has been spending time exploring the city, browsing the art galleries and shows and getting to know her neighborhood. She has had a couple of Kinkaid sightings – Sarah Cox Lewicki and Lisa Gruy Brant. Through a chance encounter she met Susan McClure Jackson’s nephew. The world is small and apparently Kinkaidians get around! (I look forward to seeing you on my next trip to NYC, Mimi!) Judy Gates Ramsey and Matt have recently moved to Dallas and are slowly getting settled! Clayton Chambers’ oldest son Andrew ’05 got married in January and recently graduated from the MBA program at Rice. Youngest son David ’09 has started a new food truck business in Houston. (Very cool and a very Austin thing to do, if I might say so myself!) Clayton and Vivian just got back from Peru where they visited Machu Picchu and then he joined his two brothers on a twoweek hiking trip in the Andes. Heather Fichter Cassidy was in Houston in February where she picked up a new golden retriever puppy from Ellen Wilson Schultz (fs). Party hostesses Jennifer Tuttle Arnold and Susie Vail Ackerman hosted a FUN gathering so that Heather and John could see some buddies (and maybe they got to love on that puppy too?) In attendance were John Heyne, Christine & Craig Van De Mark, Sellers Thomas, Mary & Jimmy Byrd, Mimi & Charlie Prioleau, Vivian & Clayton Chambers, Scott Lucy, Clare & Bill Bruce, George Sealy and Ellen Wilson Schultz (fs) and Tim.

Heather said she was amazed that despite all the time that has past, friendships have hardly skipped a beat! Also, son Robert graduated from Ole Miss. Hotty Toddy! One more to go – son Michael will be a junior at Ole Miss. As for me (sorry, you always get to hear about me since I write this) – After 21 straight years of having kids in elementary, middle and high school, WE are graduating! Our daughter Caroline is headed to University of Georgia where she will study International Affairs. She has lived with families abroad and was in the International Baccalaureate Program in high school and is excited about this next adventure. Our son Kyle finished the Masters of Accountancy program at Ole Miss and son Kevin is still snap-chatting in NYC. Life is good and while we will miss the fun days of high school, we’ve been doing that for a while and are excited to do this empty-nester thing! Life seems to be going by faster… hope you are all doing well and enjoying the big celebrations of life and the little ones too! Take care.

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Steven Arnold Houston, TX sda@3lmc.com Evans Attwell Houston, TX eattwell@gmail.com Alice Berry Houston, TX missformicadinette@yahoo.com

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John McReynolds Houston, TX j-mcr@comcast.net

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Maria Semander Crawford Redondo Beach, CA msemander@yahoo.com Hey class of ’82! It’s almost time for our 35th (OUCH) year reunion. How is that possible? Seriously, it seems like it was just yesterday when we were pulling senior pranks and sneaking out of the “sock hop” at field day! I don’t have much info on the reunion yet, but start getting those surgeries, facelifts and injections scheduled as soon as you can.

No, in all seriousness, I hope everyone can make it. Because although, it’s fun to catch up on Facebook, there’s really nothing better than seeing each other up face-to-face.

Carol Attwell Bourne ‘82 and Maria Semander Crawford ‘82

And that is exactly what I had the pleasure of doing when Carol Attwell Bourne visited Southern California this spring. Carol took me up on my offer to “call if you’re ever in the area” and I was able to meet her and a college friend for dinner. We had such a great time and Carol looks AMAZING! She and her husband, Mike, enjoy the simple life living in beautiful Wimberly, Texas and I can’t wait to visit her there and maybe even take a little ride down the river for old times’ sake. I did hear back from a few of you who graciously gave me info for missing alumni. So here’s a shout out thank you to Bubba Vandiver, Cathy Davis Bell, Dr. Melissa O’Toole Smith and Laura Wynne Cale who sent me missing emails but neglected to include what they have been doing lately! Ania Battlestein Bender wrote to say she was heading to Austin for her daughter’s graduation from The University of Texas College of Education. After the ceremony, she was continuing on to Houston for her son’s graduation from South Texas College of Law the next day. Attending two graduations in one weekend is almost as busy as my kids’ crazy sports schedules nowadays. Ania’s daughter Hannah got a job teaching 5th grade in Houston at Briarmeadow Charter School, which I have heard wonderful things about. Her son Aaron takes the Bar Exam in July and is currently looking for a job. Ania said she ran into Kristin Terhune Sjoberg in Houston at an awards ceremony for the South Texas College of Law, where Kristin’s daughter Allison also attends. Nancy Couch Davis emailed to thank me for writing this column (you’re welcome!). Her youngest daughter Robin Kate ’17 will be a senior at Kinkaid this upcoming year. After that she and her hubby will be of-

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ficial empty nesters. Nancy says it has been fun reconnecting as parents with past alumni from Kinkaid. Her oldest daughter is entering her junior year at TCU working towards a BFA in Musical Theatre with aspirations of going to NYC. Linda Lyons Brown (fs) reports that all three of her girls have graduated from college. Yeah! Carson Brown ’11 (fs) graduated from Ole Miss and Krissy Brown ’12 (fs) and Kaddy Brown ’12 (fs) from Alabama. All three are happily employed and Kaddy begins law school at University of Houston in the fall. Krissy will be working for Cowboys and Indians Magazine and living in Dallas. Linda is still working as a residential and commercial designer for Three Doors Houston. And most exciting of all, the four Brown girls are headed to San Francisco & Napa for a weeklong celebration over July 4. Linda’s last “hurrah” before the girls are officially “adults” on their own. Dewey Gaedke emailed me that he has some great “secret scoop” which unfortunately has to remain just that until the next magazine. As for me? Not much to report except that I’m still a busy and happy wife, mom, choreographer and volunteer of EVERYTHING! I’m looking forward to the LA Kinkaid Alumni reunion in June and will be making my annual summer trek to Houston in August. I know life is busy…sometimes too busy…but I hope you had enough time to at least slow down and read this column. Looking forward to hearing from everyone for the next article. Happy summer to all!

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Anthony Brown The Woodlands, TX abrowntex@gmail.com

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Jackie Fair Houston, TX Jfair36900@aol.com

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Carolyn Lasater Hodges Dripping Springs, TX carolynhodges@marykay.com

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Julie Templin Berman Houston, TX thelimogeslady@gmail.com

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A Q&A With Bronwyn Becker Charlton, Ph.D. ’91 When did you know you wanted to help parents be the best parents they could be? When I was pregnant with my oldest, I had just left NYU, where I was part of longitudinal study looking at pathways to achievement success. At the time, I was focused more on the power of the peer group, and not parents. But of course, about to be a mom myself, I had this newfound interest in parenting. For the first time, I started dipping in to the popular resources like BabyCenter, etc. And just like everyone else, I began to feel overwhelmed with how much was out there when it came to raising kids, and even more so, by how much of it was contradictory, anecdotal and polarizing. I’d complain to my husband about how frustrated I was that there were all these academics who were sitting on mountains of really quality research, and how little of it actually reached parents. Somewhere during those conversations a tiny notion of SeedlingsGroup was born, or rather, the idea that it would be cool to figure out a way to be that bridge.

we had a big response of people wanting to know whether we would meet privately, and if we could speak on other topics. Just like us, a lot of parents wanted quality information, but didn’t have the time or the tools to sift through the academic jargon themselves. We started out with a handful of families, some friends of friends, etc., and today, through word-of-mouth, SeedlingsGroup meets with families and schools throughout NYC and LA, the US and beyond (thanks to Skype). Aliza and I are now on the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in the Department of Pediatrics, where Aliza is the Co-Founding Director of the not for profit Mount Sinai Parenting Center, and I am on the executive advisory board.

There are quite a few topics that you specialize in; which ones do you enjoy learning and researching about the most? Well they say that “research is me-search,” so naturally, I like reading the research that is relevant to my own parenting and children (ages 9, 6 and 21 months). Not surprisingly, one of the most popular topics for the families we work with is discipline and limit setting. But lately, I’ve been reading a lot about fun ways to strengthen kids’ executive function skills (key skills when it comes to reaching potential, happiness and well-being) through Mindfulness and games, and am collaborating on a new venture with my partner and a few others, that I’m really excited about. Stay tuned!

What are your favorite memories of Kinkaid and how did it impact your career choice? Were there any teachers/coaches that had an impact on you?

Bronwyn ’91, with husband Josh, children Graydon (6), Helena (21 months) and Olina (9)

Your business is such a great tool for parents. How did you and your co-founder come up with idea and business model for SeedlingsGroup? SeedlingsGroup came to be not only because my co-founder and I happened to be pregnant at the same time, but also because all of our friends started having kids as well. Basically, everyone began reaching out to us, wanting quality child development/parenting information. At that point in time, I was trying to figure out how to use a Developmental Psychology Ph.D., towards anything but research. Aliza, my soon-to-be-partner, was just finishing up her doctorate, and pretty much in the same boat. We heard about a new center for kids opening up in Tribeca called Playgarden. Over many conversations of how we could get the good information to parents (a center? classes? a blog?), we decided to test the waters. We had no idea if people would even be interested, considering there was so much parenting information available (albeit mostly confusing and anecdotal) on the web. We didn’t have a name, a business card, or even a plan, but after giving two lectures for free at Playgarden,

In many ways, people who knew me from my Kinkaid days, probably wouldn’t have predicted that I would go on to get a Ph.D., or to become an academic. Back then, I was most inspired by my creative outlets, like my experiences with Patty Edwards and our crew that traveled all over, competing in speech tournaments, and also by Shirley Wiley and the ways she strengthened my writing voice in her creative writing class. Honestly though, in many ways, while my focus took an academic turn through college and beyond, those skills have been instrumental in my career path since much of what I do involves translating psychological science into more of an empathetic and familiar tone, and engaging an audience. Basically, SeedlingsGroup is the result of a creative spin on what one can do with a typically traditional academic career.

What do you like to do when you’re not working? Any fun summer plans? When I’m not working, I like to be with my family. My two oldest children are fun to experience NYC with, and inspire me to do things I wouldn’t otherwise (like making a trip out to Ellis island and catching as many Broadway musicals as we can). This summer, we’re trying to spend the month of July at our home in the 1000 Islands, which is a completely magical place for us. And then, in the end of August we’re Europe bound. We got lucky with baby number three; she’s very easy going and totally along for the ride, so it hopefully should be a fantastic time.

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Doug Rosenzweig Houston, TX dougrosez@aol.com

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Kim McGaw Houston, TX kimmcgaw@me.com

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Elizabeth Oxford Pagan Houston, TX elizabethpagan@me.com Sheereen Azimpoor writes in, “We’re all doing fine and still live in Potomac, Maryland. I continue to work remotely for the University of Louisville’s radiology department and am keeping busy with our daughters Lily (7) and Vida (6).” Jill Selber Beilinson writes, “I am sending my youngest son Jacob (11) to Camp Longhorn this summer to help bring out his inner-Texan! If anyone’s kids are there 2nd term, tell them to look for the kid in Seahawks shirts!” Jay Cunningham has been busy since the school year started. He is a board trustee for Clear Creek ISD where his two boys Jay Jr. and Jordan go to school. Jay’s “regular job” (sales manager for an leading air conditioning manufacturer) keeps him traveling through Louisiana and South Texas. Jay says, “Anytime Kinkaid plays one of CCISD’s high schools, I try to catch a game whether it’s basketball, volleyball etc. Hope all is well with my fellow classmates. I enjoy keeping up with everyone! Enjoy summer and be safe.” Jill Lichtenstein Deutser reports, “Both of our kids are at Kinkaid. It’s hard to believe that Ashley ’17 is now a senior and Andrew ’19 is a sophomore! Things are great - but crazy!” Joel Elkins reports, “Our younger son Timothy ’23 will be starting at Kinkaid for 6th grade next fall. My older son William will be a freshman at Strake Jesuit.” Bo Ford and his wife Cassie moved to Midland about 1 ½ years ago. Bo is working for Concho Resources. Bo and Cassie have daughters Caroline (6) and Alice (almost 5) and are all doing great! Webb Jennings and his wife Christy are staying busy chasing Mary B (9) and Lila (7). Mary B attends The Joy School and Lila attends St. Francis. Webb says, “The girls will be going on their 3rd pack trip in the Wyoming hills this summer. Trying to take some of the “city” out of them.”

Webb also wrote that he left his old firm after nine years to start his own investment firm named Salt Investment Partners. Grady Lee writes, “We are still living in Los Angeles. Parker (boy) is finishing 3rd grade. I’m starting a new company based on the similar (to the old company) concept of producing concerts where people volunteer to attend. I have also started working with the United Nations agencies to get people to engage around the Sustainable Development Goals. The summer will be spent in soccer camps, surf camp, the office and a trip back to Houston in August to make sure I don’t get too soft out here with dry, sunny, cool, perfect weather….” Elizabeth Jennings Mackie is enjoying being a stay-at-home mom to son Robert (2). They are excited he will be attending First Steps Montessori School in the fall. Adam Raspler writes, “Hello all… I’m still living in Los Angeles & working in the music business with my brother Peter Raspler ’87. We’re at Red Light Management managing bands. My parents both moved out to California as well so there’s no more home base for us in Houston. I got married in 2014. I just planned a trip to do some hiking and biking in Utah (Bryce/Arches/Canyonlands) later this summer. Hope all is well with all of you!” Corby Robertson writes, “Our three kids go to Kinkaid – daughter Bradyn ’21 will be in 8th grade and our two boys Hunter ’23 and Jake ’27, will be in 6th and 2nd grade respectively next year. Corby and wife Brooke are looking forward to spending some time on the water fly fishing this summer after a busy spring of work and kids’ sports.” Big milestones for Jennifer Deal Rogers this upcoming year! She reports that “her oldest Mary Louise (14) will be starting high school; Will (12) will be in 7th grade and Margaret (11) will be in 6th grade. No more kids in elementary school! Other than watching her kids play all their sports, and trying to monitor their social media lives, life is good!” Jennifer is also happy to report that her third niece/ nephew will be attending The University of Georgia in the fall so she gets to see her sister Sarah Deal Frankenfeld ’78 more often! Debbie Wright Songer reports, “We are preparing to send our oldest to the University of Chicago in the fall – makes us feel old! Real estate keeps Erik and I busy here in Houston and our youngest is entering 6th grade.” Bobby Stanton reports that he and Katie have been happily married for 14 years. They have three boys – Locke (12), Sam (5) and Holt (3). Bobby re-

cently started a new job and new career at Merrill Lynch. Bronwyn Burke Tilton has joined a multi state firm, Litchfield Cavo LLP, as a litigator. In January 2016 Katherine Ginzburg Treistman left Susman Godfrey after 20 years and founded, along with 20 other partners, the new Houston office of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe. Among the other 20 was her husband Carlos who is the managing partner of the office. Amy Cox Vitt writes, “We are still in Houston living in the Montrose area. It has been five years since we moved from North Carolina. Our daughter Lily (13) is a rising 8th grader at Woodrow Wilson Montessori. She is pretty darn independent, loves photography and writing, enjoys riding road and mountain bikes with us, and she is a voracious reader. I am still seeing private clients in my home studio for corrective or functional movement and integrative health coaching, along with teaching mindfulness and yoga in corporate environments and local schools. I have a new website: www.mindfuladventure.com. Check it out to see what I’m up to. My husband Jim is in Finance over at UT Health Medical School but yearns for the day he can leave it all and just ride his bike all day!” Bonnie Burch Ward says, “As far as family news, Emma is about to finish her freshman year at Clear Falls High School and she will be spending her 10th summer at Kickapoo Kamp. Time truly does fly! She did have a very mild freshman initiation since she was in choir, but it was embarrassingly tame compared to walking around as a smelly, red crayon with dried shaving cream in my hair for a week. She has diverted from the family tree already as I believe she actually read every book required by her teachers and has only had teachers call our house to say how much they enjoy having her as a student. Barry remains the director of Trees For Houston and I am still with Baxter in hospital sales. Of course I am still speaking out about colon cancer awareness every day, and I am excited to celebrate five years post-treatment this summer!” Phillip Winston has a new business venture called Feliz Interiors (www. felizinteriors.com). It is a luxury home goods shop opening this June. It will be in the shopping center off Voss near Buffalo Grille. Please come check it out! He also writes that back in December “I met up with Brad Sanders in Atlanta for the Peach Bowl and we ate at Laura Hyman Graber’s house with Beth Young and Andrea Boone Chapman.” All is well over here at the Pagan house. My son Charlie ’21 (13) is

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going in to the 8th grade at Kinkaid next year (along with Katherine Treistman’s son Anthony ’21 and Brandon Lobb’s daughter Carolyn ’21). He is looking so forward to Camp Lonehollow in June. My husband Greer Pagan ’88 and Charlie ’21 have finally gotten me taking golf lessons so I can try and keep up with them. It should be a fun summer! Loved hearing from everyone. Thank you for writing in! Happy summer to all, Elizabeth

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Aimee Ford Byrd Phoenix, AZ Aimeebyrd1@yahoo.com

1991

Lane Alexander Danville, CA lanealexander@yahoo.com

1992

Jennifer Wilson Brown Houston, TX jenniferwilsonbrown@yahoo.com Billy Forney Houston, TX BForney3@mccombsenergy.com Amy Stuyck Watson Houston, TX amyswatson@hotmail.com

1993

Courtney Dreyer Beauchamp San Antonio, TX courtbeauch@gmail.com Wendie Seale Childress Houston, TX wchildress@yettercoleman.com Ashley Morgan Hanna Houston, TX ashleymhanna@gmail.com On August 18, 2015, Shelley Johnson received the Ernie Williamson Award from The University of North Carolina Department of Athletics. This award recognizes the employee who best exemplifies the spirit of the late Ernie Williamson, long one of the most beloved members of the UNC Athletics family. His unselfish devotion to the University and the Department of Athletics was an inspiration to all who had contact with him. A recipient of the award will have an unquestioned love and loyalty for the University, the

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Department and the student-athletes. An inspirational work ethic, an encouraging demeanor and the respect and admiration of his or her coworkers will demonstrate this love and loyalty. Way to go, Shelley!

Medical center. Scott works at the FAA. Son Logan (5) does karate regularly and will attend 1st grade in the fall. Daughter Hayley (4) will start kindergarten this year and is active with gymnastics – must be taking after her mother.

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Demetri Dale’s sons John (6) and Vasili (4) are very excited to take their first trip to Greece this summer. Opa! I also heard that Demeat and his wife Elise “stay super cool as ever – wearing matching sweat suits to roller birthday parties and taking their kids to music fests like Free Press.”

Courtney Domercq Daily Houston, TX cdomercq@hotmail.com Another year, another round of updates. While most of us are coping with turning 40 (and some even 41) we have another milestone to acknowledge. This is my 21st year to write the class notes for ‘94 which means our class notes are now legal and will be going out to party later. Cheers! Mark Adam is still enjoying his work at Baker Hughes selling liner hangers for the Gulf of Mexico. He is happily living in the Heights with his family of five. Mark has conducted serious research in the last year as follows: “While I love skateboarding to and from Town & City Brewing seven blocks from my house, my experiments have established a trend indicating that light beer works better after 40 than IPAs.” Really good to know although I would assert that Uber probably works the best. Bernie Gallagher Chance and her husband Scott built a new house in Sugarland. She is a nurse practitioner over the transitional care program for congestive heart failure and diabetes patients at Baylor St. Luke’s

Mark Donnelly got to enjoy his 30s well into the summer and enjoyed watching the older among us “deal with mid-life crises.” He continues to work in the U.S. Attorney’s office and is now in charge of the government fraud section. This means he no longer has to worry about cartels chasing him. Mark’s children are nine and four. Overall he is “just livin’ the dream.” It was so nice to hear from B.J. Edwards as neither he nor I can recall the last time he sent me an update. He is living in Oklahoma with his wife and two children – son Braylon (2) and daughter Brooklyn (4). B.J. serves as a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor working mostly with alcoholic court adjudicated teens. He tries to get back to Houston as often as possible and will be making a special trip to watch the Sooners take on the Cougars in football this September. Stephanie Friedman Evans reports that “everything is staying steady.” Son

Henry ’28 will start 1st grade in the fall at Kinkaid. Her daughters Eloise and Frances are four and two. Brooke Herzstein Feather’s boutique Brooke Feather is still going strong and keeps her incredibly busy as do her two daughters Lily (9) and Brette (3). She takes trips to California from time to time, during which she gets to visit fellow alumni David Hornsby and Chris Conner ’93. I had to censor George Gayle’s report as it will not pass muster through editing. Let’s just says it’s old news. “Life is good,” according to Doug George. He lives in Houston working in commercial real estate development with Scott Gordon (fs). His two daughters are heading into 2nd and 4th grade at Kinkaid this fall and his son is three. But Doug’s big news is that Brent Wise and he recently travelled to Colorado to watch Kenny O’Donnell participate in the USEF Dressage For the Cure competition. Kenny and his horse, “Snowgoose Is On the Loose” performed well but didn’t place. I will leave it up to you to determine the veracity of this information. In addition to being a Vice President of Business Development at Kanaly Trust Company, Chris Graf also holds the positions of West U Little League baseball coach and football coach to sons Charlie (10), Austin (8) and Tyler (2). He said that, “one of my kids loves golf…the others will come around.” Chris has a great August ahead with tickets to Guns ‘N Roses on the 5th and Def Leppard on the 22nd. The Student

Council Dance called and said it was jealous. As am I! Russell Hamman kept it simple for me: “Nothing of interest to report.” Christine Lawhon James is practicing psychology part time at Rehab Without Walls and helping husband Chip with Juice Austin, writing the wellness blog and assisting with social media. And now for some free advertising for Juice Austin: “If you are in Austin, check out our juice and smoothie business on South Congress. We do salads, cleanses, deliveries and events too!” While Christine keeps busy with her three children Elis (9), Gigi (7) and Loralee (3), she said that a highlight for her year has been celebrating lots of her friends’ 40th birthdays here in Houston. We have loved celebrating with her! Casey Kaplan and his wife are marking one year in Portland, Oregon, and according to Casey, “the show Portlandia is 100% accurate. It’s true. All of it.” So I’m guessing that means lots of American flags waiving in front yards and pick up trucks with gun racks? Casey’s son Crawford is “three going on 15,” and his daughter Isla is “one and still a joy.” His wife Amanda is finishing her PhD in criminology, and Casey is “enjoying the t-shirt/sneaker dress code” working in the legal department at Nike. He describes Oregon summers as fantastic, temperatures in the mid-80s with no humidity or rain, and he lives just two hours from the mountains, the beach and the wineries. Casey said, “it’s good living

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up here except for all the liberals.” I guess he’s not “Feelin’ the Bern.”

ductor of the Pacific Summer Music Festival of Guam 2017.”

“seven kids under one roof.” (I’m exhausted thinking about it.)

Ashraf Lakhani enjoys living in Houston (“not far from the rapidly expanding Kinkaid campus”) with his wife and two kids Shaan and Sofia. He has been head of business development at Porter Hedges for five years, and this summer Ashraf will test his patience by trying to coach his seven-year-old son’s basketball team. Also, I stand corrected. While previously designating Evy Pappas as the youngest person in our class, it turns out Ashraf will not turn the big 4-0 until this November. He asked me not to age him too quickly as he is trying to hold on to 39 as long as possible.

Joel Page enjoyed seeing everyone at the reunion. Last October, he and wife Peggy welcomed the arrival of twins Jude Nicholas Kallumadiyil Page and Naomi Francis Kallumadiyil Page. Professionally, “life is whatever.” He still writes appeals for the Federal Public Defender in Dallas where he “theoretically supervise[s] the appellate division.” Joel also informed me that “Dallas remains a pale imitation of Houston and a paler imitation yet of Austin. He also wanted me to wish everyone well and tell Evy Pappas that he “didn’t mean to blow her off when she called about fundraising, he just actually had to go.” No worries Joel, our class still beat out the others in participation and funds raised, once again!

Will Robertson reports that he and wife Laura “are so blessed with Gayle ’25 (9) who is calm, cool and sweet, Keen ’28 (7) who is all-boy and Kaki (3) who is the archetypical third-child – cute and fun like any other child, but relative to the others, more athletic and certainly a lot more strong-willed. She will stand her ground.” They live in Houston and are aiming for a little beach and mountain time this summer.

Meg Malone has found her calling with her new event planning business and has had great success. Malone Strategies develops, plans and executes outdoor festivals. She loves being the Festival Director of Houston Parks Board’s Bayou Greenway Day, an annual event that highlights the Bayou Greenways 2020 project. She also just wrapped the Bayou City Art Festival where she spotted some fellow Kinkaidians. She said, “ironically, I was never a festival goer until I produced my first event and got bit by the bug… although one summer Ellie Bullard Essalih and I astounded our DC friends by singing (read: yelling) along with the Gatlin Brothers at Farm Aid in Virginia.” Yee-haw! Julie Herman Meyer welcomed a (surprise!) baby boy this past February. Cole Woods Meyer (“the third and final act”) joins two older sisters who are “loving him to pieces.” Julie continues to live in San Francisco but is taking a temporary break from work while “in the trenches with three kids under four years. Intense!” Paul Milton still lives in San Diego and his kids are growing up fast. His daughter is almost four and his son is almost two. His family recently returned from a vacation in Cancun that was made much easier than the previous year by the fact that his youngest is no longer an infant. Paul was lucky enough to take 10 months off from work to help with his kids, and now he is at a communication chip start-up which is his third start-up out of six companies. He explained, “I guess I am a glutton for punishment, and hopefully one will succeed!” When not working or parenting, Paul has tried to squeeze in some “pre-kid activities” like backpacking, white-water kayaking and skiing. Dabney Moriniere Moxham, nice and concise: “Status quo. No interesting updates. Survived first year of having a puppy.” Kenny O’Donnell failed to give me a report on himself however, he did inform me that, “Doug George was recently named the honorary con-

Evy Pappas reports that, “Baby #4 Irene arrived October 21st. Girl, boy, girl, girl. Enough, I think.” Things are understandably busy with four kids, so Evy has taken a break from working as an architect for Pappas Restaurants until Irene can start up at school next spring. In the mean time she is working on some home improvement projects and maybe getting furniture. (Why start now with the furniture? We’re due for another reunion in three years.) Having witnessed her neighbor Daniel Ferber survive life with four kids, Evy is optimistic that her family will get through it too. The update from Joslyn Welch Paris is that her kids are “growing up too fast!!” Son Jack (10) is going into 4th grade, and daughter Evan (8) is heading into 3rd grade. This summer they are both attending Camp Longhorn. Joslyn and husband David are “doing great in the 40s,” and she believes this will be the best decade yet. Lewis Pennock still lives in Nashville working for Ingram Publishing with a focus on e-books and e-commerce. His second daughter June who was born last August is keeping him very busy, but not as busy as first daughter Daisy who turns four in the fall. Kim Sweeney Polo is raising five kids in Orlando. She completed her first 5K race this year and took a film class to further study the art of film making. In addition, she did a lot of laundry. Katharine Ordway Reishman and family moved to a new house in the same neighborhood in Washington, DC where they already resided. She is reliving her childhood with three boys and a girl, two of whom are a set of twins – “such an Ordway move.” Thomas is seven, William is five and Alexa and Andrew are three. Katherine is looking forward to a visit this summer from Mosby and Katharine McFall Perrow when she will have

Sameer Sheth lives in New York where he has continued with his neurosurgical practice at Columbia University, specializing in brain tumors and surgery for epilepsy and movement disorders like Parkinson disease. He has also started performing surgery for less conventional indications like OCD and depression, which he describes as, “an exciting trip into the world of psychiatry.” Research has also been going well for Sameer as he recently received a large R01 grant from the NIH. He believes that because such a grant keeps the university very happy, he does not need to fear being fired any time soon. Thank goodness, because we all know what a slacker Sameer is otherwise. His wife Sarita is teaching elementary school in Scarsdale. Their son Ronak (10) is into Harry Potter, baseball and percussion, and their daughter Naina (6) is into everything her big brother likes, plus pink and princesses. According to Sameer who would like to wish the Class of ’94 a Happy 40th, “we’re only getting smarter, faster and stronger,” to which I add, “and taking a lot longer to recover from hangovers.” Maybe our class brain surgeon can find a cure for that. Leslie Ladin Strauss is busy with her interior design business (and loving it). Her son Ladin ’24 just finished Lower School at Kinkaid and now she will have two children in middle school – Ladin ’24 in 5th grade and daughter Lexie ’21 in 8th. She said, “time flies, and I feel SO OLD!!!” With an 8th grader, just be sure to hide the car keys at night! Charlotte Gregory Sullivan claims that she, “may not be winning any Nobel Peace Prizes, but [she is] raising a happy and healthy family – and that’s what matters most.” Of note this year is that Charlotte’s daughter Olivia ’22 just completed 6th grade at Kinkaid and shared many of the same teachers Charlotte had back in the prehistoric time known as 198788. Sadly for Olivia that did not include Miss Cooney; however, Charlotte was a Klingman girl anyway. Liana Hawes Young reports that, “all is well up here in NYC.” She continues to work for the architectural and interior design firm Wilson Associates designing hotels around the world although, thanks to Zika, she has been grounded from most travel this year. Liana’s daughter Bess (2)

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who is “very busy” and “funnier by the minute” will soon be a big sister as Liana and husband Jeff are expecting a baby boy in August. Congratulations! As for me, Courtney Domercq Daily, I have nothing too noteworthy to report. My son Charlie is two, and I am really enjoying this age. He has a personality now and is talking so much which is a lot easier to understand than interpreting cries. I have also been very amused watching the most crazy, upside down election season of our lifetime however, I will refrain from any commentary as such comments usually either get me in trouble, get edited out or both. It should be an interesting fall. I was a little sad to see Downton Abbey come to an end and very sad by the loss of Prince (who took a piece of my childhood with him). At least Madonna is still going strong. Thanks to all of you who submitted updates to me and please keep them coming in the future (even the fake ones). As Joslyn Welch Paris said, she believes this will be our best decade yet, so let’s prove her correct. Now, to paraphrase another television institution that met its demise this year, “Daily, out!”

1995

Meredith Riddle Chastang Houston, TX meredithchastang@gmail.com Mary Sommers Burger Pyne Houston, TX marysommers@yahoo.com Clay Hackerman and wife, Grace, welcomed their second child, Lilly Rose, on March 7. Lilly joins big sister Isabelle (4). Clay continues to practice as a general surgeon in Seattle while Grace runs her day spa, Recoop, in Bellevue. John Barksdale is still living in Austin, on the Eastside. The Barksdales are in the process of remodeling their original home in West Campus. Johnny (6) graduated kindergarten and likes playing baseball and golf. Isla (4) also enjoys playing golf. This summer the Barksdales are taking a family trip to Hanalei, Kauai. Michael Kuntz is recently married and co-founded an off-grid solar company operating in east Africa (Tanzania) while living in San Francisco. Kathryn McCarter Moore and husband Michael welcomed a baby girl, Mary Helen Moore, on April 18. Congratulations! Niels Jensen continues to enjoy the island life in the Bahamas. He reports “But our days are not only spent relaxing at the beach, as between our two boys, Luke (2) and Erik (6) we tend to stay quite busy.” Niels continues to work with the Cruise Ships, 67

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and is now working on an exciting new project, Bahamas Motor Sports Park, which involves bringing auto racing back to the Bahamas. BMSP aims to be an exciting new sports tourism destination in the Bahamas, which will be a motorsport park for locals and tourists alike to enjoy Go-karting, professional instruction, SuperCar experiences, as well as International Racing.

1996

Erin Jones Brown Houston, TX erinjonesbrown@gmail.com Emily Mitchell Covey Houston, TX emily.covey@gmail.com

1997

Christina Wilson Altenau Houston, TX Christina.altenau@gmail.com Daniel Jenkins Houston, TX danieljenkinsiv@gmail.com Dr. Kim Davis Callaway and her husband David welcomed baby boy #2 Jonah on May 15. Big brother Levi (2 ½) is thrilled. Kim continues to enjoy

private practice as a psychologist in Austin.

are looking forward to spending a busy summer at the beach.

all of the sports teams that kids Ben and Libby are involved in.

Noelle Eason Gray still lives in beautiful Santa Fe, NM. She keeps very busy as a stay-at-home mom to her two kids Carolena (3 ½) and Eason (13 months). She’s also been spending time lately with fellow KHS alum and New Mexico resident Brooke Barer.

Lindsay McMackin Sturm is busy traveling for work with Chateau Domingue where she is the Director of Sales. She hopes all of her former classmates are happy, healthy and enjoying their 2016!

Kathleen Young Zinn, and husband Jeff are still in Houston. Their four children Luke (9), Oliver (7 ½), Josey (almost 5) and JW (1 ½) are very excited about summer break!

Lisa Leiman Hearn lives in London with her husband Robert and children Matthew (7) and Arabella (5) but she still desperately misses the Texas sunshine and good barbecue! Lisa is a partner in the cross border transactions group at Akin Gump in London. Caroline Forney Helander and husband Bill welcomed their third child Eliza Marie this past September. Big sister Stella and big brother William are having fun with their new playmate! Leslie Reader Mazvinsky and her husband Michael enjoy being back in Houston. Leslie is still producing for ESPN and NFL Network and is heading to Rio for the Olympics in August. Carrie Geller Schein and her husband Jeremy are still living in NYC and welcomed another baby boy, Beckett Solomon Schein, this February. She can’t believe that her daughter Chloe (5) will be starting Kindergarten this fall and her son Ryder (3) will be starting nursery school. They

Lauren Taft has kept very busy with her on-demand beauty app, Pageboy! In addition to servicing wonderful Houston women day to day with in-home hair and makeup services, Pageboy has also been involved in some special charitable events in the past months. “Pageboy Pros” as they call their stylists, provided hair and makeup services for the first ever MD Anderson Prom and also the for the Boys and Girls Harbor style show held at The Houstonian. Pageboy is also doing a back-to-school event in late August providing a day of beauty for volunteers, teachers and staff at the Small Steps Nurturing Center. Lauren and her colleagues are keeping very busy this summer finalizing the Pageboy Austin launch followed soon thereafter by San Antonio, Dallas and Ft. Worth in the fall. Sydney Welch Teegarden continues to love doing residential interior design in Dallas. In her spare time, she and husband Sloan enjoy watching

And I, Christina Wilson Altenau, am still living in Houston with my husband Matt and children Anna (5), Blake (3) and Jack (1). We look forward to escaping the heat when we can and enjoying the summer with family and friends. It’s been great hearing from the ladies in our class. Guys – if you have an update to share for the next issue please contact Daniel at danieljenkinsiv@gmail.com.

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Amy Parker Beeson Houston, TX amyparkerbeeson@gmail.com Liz Riddle Anders and her husband David ’97 welcomed their daughter Frances “Franny” Kathleen Anders on March 1. They are enjoying life as a family of four and look forward to a fun summer with Oliver (3 ½) and Franny. Meredith Hopson Beaupre and her husband Andy welcomed their second daughter Brooke McClellan

Purple & Gold Society Wine Tasting The 2nd Annual Purple & Gold Society Wine Tasting Event was held at the home of Brad ’03 and Brittany Bloom Dinerstein ’07 on Tuesday, June 7. Around 40 alumni and spouses attended this event with wines from Rome chosen by sommelier Nicholas Brooks. The Purple & Gold Society recognizes Kinkaid’s young alumni who give to the Kinkaid Fund at a leadership level. This year membership has increased to include over 100 alums!

Event hosts Brittany Bloom Dinerstein ‘07 and husband Brad ‘03

Dara and Scott Frankel ‘99 with Bevin Bering Dubrowski ‘00 and husband Dan

Elizabeth Spradling Gardner ‘03 with Andy and Meredith Hopson Beaupre ‘98

Will ‘99 and Caroline Brown with David ‘97 and Liz Riddle Anders ‘98

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Beaupre on January 6. Their older daughter Lauren (2) is excited to be a big sister!

she is hanging out with her two kids (7 and 20 months) finding adventure and seeking hidden treasure.

Greg Burzynski and his wife Ania were blessed to welcome their newest family member Roman Stanislaw Burzynski on February 1 as he weighed in at 9 ½ lbs. Roman is a happy, mindful baby bringing much joy to his proud parents.

Ashley Gillespie (fs) and her husband Kyle Gupton recently relocated to Seattle and are finally feeling settled in! She is still working in both festival production and commercial real estate finance (during the off season) and enjoying time with their two fur children (two terribly behaved and spoiled Chihuahuas) during time off. They miss Texas terribly and hope to move back at some point in the future so they can enjoy their nieces (and hopefully a new nephew) and family!

Kasey Buza Davis and her husband Tim welcomed their third child, a baby girl named Lily Kate on May 27. Lily Kate joins big brother Jack and big sister Charley. Heather Heidemann Deiss has a summer full of vacations, the first of which will be to celebrate her 10-year wedding anniversary with her husband Scott in Nantucket. Then they are off to Maui in June. There are so many activities she wants to do that she’s starting to wonder if she’ll have any time to relax on the beach. Then it will be off to Nigeria again for her annual business trip followed by attending a wedding in Napa and then will finish off the summer with their favorite annual labor day weekend trip in Punta Mita! Alex Curlet and his wife Catherine are living in DC. They love being Maggie’s parents. She will be 18 months in June and is starting to become quite the talker. Alex continues to work for Clark Construction in Bethesda, MD. The company has a Houston office so Alex gets to come back to visit a few times a year. They are looking forward to the summer and visiting their families at the beach. Grayson Fitch and his wife Kristi are enjoying being home after spending a few months remodeling their new house in The Woodlands. Grayson recently moved into a new role at Constellation in downtown Houston and is still loving the job after 10 years at the company. Several months ago he traveled to Puerto Rico to go scuba diving. He and his wife and recently took a vacation to Turks and Caicos to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Wylie Garcia is the new recipient of The Barbara Smail Award, an annual award and stipend given by the City of Burlington, VT to a mid-career artist who has fostered community involvement and has displayed enthusiastic support of his or her peers. She is also the new Education Director at The Shelburne Craft School, a small non-profit traditional craft based arts program. She is represented by a wonderful gallery on Cape Cod in Provincetown called The Schoolhouse Gallery and says “if you are on the cape this summer stop in and take a look!” She has also been in artistic collaboration on several projects spearheaded by Dealer.com, a company that this year was named among the Top 10 “Best Businesses Partnering with the Arts in America” by Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit organization that focuses on art and education. When she’s not working on art or art related projects,

Margot Fried Hogan is enjoying her newly expanded family with husband Brett ’93. She had fun reuniting with other friends from Class of 1998 at Kinkaid Field Day and is happy that her son Henry ’29 has joined the Purple team! Brooke McGuyer Hutson and husband Scott are enjoying family life with Parker (6) and Caroline (22 months).

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Dallas/Ft. Worth Alumni Party April 20 at Globe Life Park Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers

Lilian Nwora ‘09, Therese Roque ‘95, Eric Outsey

Chris Leavitt and his wife Sarah are enjoying their family of four. Chris is still working at the Buzbee Law Firm, of counsel. Jimmie Luthuli is still living in Washington, DC and working for the DC Government. She just bought her first home and she is on the board of directors of the Wanda Alston Foundation, a charity that provides housing to homeless LGBTQ youth. Erika Palmer Mandel reports that her family is doing well. Life with two boys a year apart is crazy but fun. She was recently recruited to do technology sales with KPMG which has been an exciting change.

Russell and Michelle Knight Baker ‘91

Ty Sponsel’s (fs) son Ty is 18 and just about to head off to college! Ty and his wife Katie are busy with their two young children Brooke (6) and Reed (3). Ty is practicing commercial litigation at Sponsel Miller Greenberg PLLC. Angela Sellin Strain and her husband Matt are enjoying Durham and their two-year old daughter. Michael “Mike” Winningham and his wife Leyla Abou-Samra just moved to a new home overlooking the Greenbelt in Austin, TX. They have two children – son Moustapha (6) and daughter Nour (3). Michael owns a residential design/build company called RubyAnne Designs. All is well!

Pam Pappas Mattingly ‘77, Keith Crawford ‘77, Mary Ann McKinley ‘77

Lindsay Green Wallace and husband Sam are still enjoying Houston, both working in energy (yikes) and taking in every moment with their baby boy Miller who turns one in August. Michelle Cho Wood has spent the last several years working in film development and financing as well as representing intellectual property, including graphic novels and dramas, to be made into film or television. She co-produced a film entitled Au Revoir Taipei which won the Netpac Award

Event host Vianei Lopez Braun ‘85 with husband Jason

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at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2015 she founded a career exploration and inspiration non-profit called Gladeo (www.gladeo.org) to help young people find and pursue their dream careers by creating multimedia career content and distributing it through the web and social media. Their main program GladeoX (www. gladeoX.org) is an online career exploration website that shows young people inspiring career stories of diverse individuals, helps them explore the many career paths and options out in the world and equips them with the knowledge and tools necessary to help them pursue their dreams. Michele credits Kinkaid’s Interim Term as a big part of her inspiration for founding the organization. Michele married Zachary Wood in 2012 and the couple currently lives in Los Altos, California.

Connor Cook ‘99 and wife Melissa welcomed their second daughter, Allison, this past fall! Big Sister Molly is a happy girl!

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Elizabeth Evans Mann Houston, TX elizabeth.e.mann@gmail.com

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Michel Miller Mullett Houston, TX michelmullett@hotmail.com Alyssa Gardner Kilpatrick Houston, TX alyssakilpatrick@hotmail.com Spencer English Houston, TX spencer.english@gmail.com Stefy Palandjoglou Allen and her husband Thomas are loving NYC life with their two boys, Andreas and Elias. They are looking forward to a family trip to Italy this summer. Stefy is still growing her business, Editorialist.com, and says she’s “having a lot of fun trying to juggle it all!” Lacey Liedtke Brunner is busy chasing after her two kids Laurie (almost 2) and Ross (almost 1). She says, “Yes, they are a handful, but I’m actually glad I had them so close together because they are starting to entertain each other, which is so fun to watch!” Lacey and her family have

lived in Midland, Texas for the past four years. Although the oil and gas industry is experiencing a downturn, young couples continue pouring into Midland to take advantage of the business opportunities that arise when oil prices drop. Lacey hopes to get back to working parttime in interior design as soon as she can maintain some semblance of order in a house with two kids and three dogs. We’ll see how she has done at our next update! Brittany Hansen Cassin is still a residential realtor with John Daugherty Realtors. She and her husband Travis have two boys, Charlie (4) and Jake (2), who keep them very busy. Brittany enjoyed chairing the Bayou Bend Children’s Party last spring with fellow-Falcon Amy Spalding Urquhart and will be chairing the Bayou Bend Preservation Party in the fall. Jennifer Vosko Caughey writes, “All is great here. Emily (3) is having a blast at St. Francis, and little James just turned one. They are so much fun! I’m enjoying practicing law parttime at Smyser, Kaplan & Veselka and spending lots of time with my family. My husband Ryan is happy at Susman Godfrey and we love living in West U.” Lizzie Buza Devlin and her husband Ryan Devlin ’99 welcomed their newest addition, Luke William, on November 11, 2015. Lizzie says, “He brings such joy to our family with his constant smiles and giggles!” Luke’s big brother Ryan ’30 will be starting Pre-K at Kinkaid in the fall, and the Devlins are “beyond thrilled to return to campus as parents!” Shaun-Elizabeth Hopson Dickerson reports, “Life is very busy for our family! I am still Vice President of Capital Markets at Cypress, and this coming year I will serve as the president of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Board. Wes and I are looking forward to taking summer trips to Cabo and Telluride with our two boys Beau (2) and Teddy (1).” Bevin Bering Dubrowski is now the proud mother of two! Jack Dubrowski was born on November 9, 2015 and is a very happy and fun baby boy. Bevin’s daughter Edie (3 ½) is loving being a big sister. Bevin is primarily focusing on the kids these days, but is still consulting with the Phoenix Art Museum and has agreed to chair the 2017 Houston Center for Photography Fine Art Print Auction. The Dubrowskis will spend most of July in/around Maine, and Bevin and Dan will make a quick trip to Ireland in August for a grown-up getaway. Elizabeth Williams Dwyer’s biggest news this year was the arrival of her twins who were born four days after her son Alexander’s third birthday. Juliet Estelle and Willoughby “Liam” Lusk are both doing great and getting lots of attention from

their older siblings, Lila and Alexander. Lauren Manford Gauthreaux and her husband Kyle welcomed their baby girl Cecily Anne on November 18, 2015. She weighed 8 lbs., 1 oz. and according to Lauren she was/is her daddy’s twin! Lauren says CeCe is happy as can be and loves everyone and she is surprised by how much Kyle’s three boys have taken to her. “They are the best big brothers, which has been so fun to witness,” Lauren states. Lauren Leavitt Griffin and her husband Dallas welcomed their first child Grant last July. With their son and three yorkies, they’ve been very busy! Lauren continues to work in the Emergency Department at Memorial Hermann and Sacred Heart. Barrie Gordon Gruner is still at Hulu serving as the head of public relations and events, and says she couldn’t love it more! Barrie writes, “Our little girl Billie is almost one and somehow has managed to steer clear of any injuries from her very loving (and sometimes physical) big brother Max. Raising kids in the hills of Los Angeles adds some new challenges – like explaining the dangers of coyotes or restricting scooter rides down a steep driveway...” Bethany Morehouse Howlett reports, “Eric and I are loving springtime in Madison, WI. I continue to serve on the faculty of UW’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and practice full-scope family medicine and obstetrics. My partners are amazing and I feel honored to teach such bright and compassionate medical students. I’ve also started a non-profit, Madison Area Care for the Homeless, a street medicine and patient advocacy program for community members experiencing housing instability.” Jessica Jones Meyer is still active in residential real estate with John Daugherty Realtors. She and her husband Peto also stay busy with their two children, Peter Meyer ’29 and Emma. Peter can’t wait to start Kindergarten at Kinkaid this fall! Rebecca Kates Miller and her husband Ben are excited to report that their daughter Kara ’30 will be starting Pre-K at Kinkaid in the fall. Their younger daughter, Melanie will be 1 ½ in July and hopes to follow in her sister’s footsteps in a few years. Rebecca is still enjoying being a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley. Her husband is hard at work at the law firm he started, Sponsel, Miller, Greenberg, PLLC, which he’s proud to say is growing and is now in its second year. Lelia LaGrasse Nichols and her husband Josh Nichols ’99 are still living in Dallas with their two children Dinny and Cooper. Lee is working at UT Southwestern in the Heart & Lung

transplant department, trying her best to juggle her day job with being a mother of two. Mary Rambin is enjoying the entrepreneurial life in Southern California. Based in Santa Monica, she continues to consult businesses on brand and marketing solutions by building stronger identities and engaging websites for them. Her spinning studio, RYDE4, the only indoor-outdoor studio in LA, is over a year old now and continues to grow. Lisa Kaplan Rosenzweig is still living in San Antonio with her husband Shawn and two children Reid (4) and Drew (2). In November 2015, she completed and opened Hotel Emma at San Antonio’s Pearl redevelopment. If you are looking for a fun getaway, Hotel Emma is definitely worth checking out! It was recently written up in Architectural Digest and was named one of Travel & Leisure’s Top New Hotels. With the hotel project completed, Lisa is now working on a new development project at Pearl. Murphey Harmon Sears is still enjoying her job fundraising for the Dallas Women’s Foundation. She and her husband Jeff love watching her two sons Phelps and Price get bigger every day. Murphey says, “We are looking forward to family trips to Charleston and Aspen this summer, but as you know, traveling with toddlers is more of a ‘relocation’ than a ‘vacation.’” Yes, Murphey, truer words have never been spoken! Sarah Zeller Seelaus reports, “After nearly ten years in New York City, we finally moved to suburbia. Ben and I built a new house in Short Hills, NJ (Barrie Gordon Gruner was our first visitor!) and Ben is now running his family business in nearby Summit. I still work in the city at Sound Point, where I have been for over six years, running business development. Our daughter Alice (2 ½) is excited to spend the summer in Quogue, NY and for her first year of school in the fall!” Whitney Stubbs writes, “Although I still haven’t legally changed my name, I’m slowly transitioning to Whitney Newton after marrying my honey on New Year’s Eve of 2015. We held both the ceremony and the reception in Houston at the Museum of Natural Science, where we toasted among the trilobites and danced among the dinosaurs. Now, we’re back on the California coast, wrapping up another academic year at the Menlo School, where we both teach. Mark and I are looking forward to lazy summer days on the beach with our Australian Cattledog puppy. If you ever find yourself driving up scenic Highway 1, seriously, stop in El Granada to say ‘hi.’” Amy Spalding Urquhart and her husband Robert are still living in Houston with their son Dean (3 ½)

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and their daughter Louise who just turned one in May. They are heading to northern Michigan this summer to escape the Houston heat and visit Amy’s in-laws, and they are also planning a quick beach getaway to Port Aransas. Shannon Feste Werme and her husband Les are keeping busy with their three children. Their oldest Blair just finished kindergarten at Hunters Creek Elementary and loves being a big sister to Anna and Russell. Traci Thompson White and her husband Caperton are still living in Dallas with their son Payton who will turn three this July. In addition to being a mom, Traci owns her own interior design firm, Traci White Designs, which serves clients all over the Texas and the surrounding states.

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Catherine Gutermuth San Francisco, CA cgutermuth@gmail.com Lindsey Boyd Hunt Houston, TX lindseysboyd@yahoo.com

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Ariana Nizza Chapman New York, NY ariananizzachapman@gmail.com Leslie Roemer Labanowski Houston, TX leslielabanowski@gmail.com

Your other class correspondent, Alyssa Gardner Kilpatrick, retains her very prestigious role as mother to Foster (3) and Colin (1) and has not received any promotions or bonuses – in spite of the fact that this job has proven to be the most challenging of her career. Luckily, it’s also been the happiest and most rewarding! The Kilpatrick family is heading to the Hill Country and to the beach in Florida a couple of times this summer, and will later take a trip to Colorado Springs in early fall.

Ted Sangalis Long Island City, NY tsangalis@gmail.com

Finally, I (Michel Miller Mullett) am still living in Houston and continue to work full-time as the Client Services Manager for Thompson & Knight LLP. My husband Philip and I bought a house in Briargrove last August and we are loving the new “hood”. Our biggest news this year was the arrival of our second daughter Anna Kathryn who decided to make her debut two weeks early – on Christmas Eve of all days! She is a very smiley and happy baby, despite the “love taps” she regularly receives on the head from her big sister Charlotte who turned two years old in May.

Katy Bacon Madigan married Jesse Madigan in Houston. Her wedding party included several falcons: Aline Brown Copp, Katie Schlesinger, Mary Beth Tyler, Michael Viviano, Sara Cain, and Zachry Brown ‘02. Upon finishing her MBA at Colombia, she moved to Dallas and now works at Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, where she has benefited from the counsel of a great group of falcons including Jessica Solera ‘02, Michael Short, Robert Campbell, and Jessica Lev ‘04. Katy says, “Please holler and reach out to George K and me if you are ever in Dallas!”

Many thanks to all of the Class of 2000 girls who wrote in this year! We loved hearing from all of you, and are already looking forward to learning about your 2016-2017 adventures next summer!

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Anne Tropoli Kahle Houston, TX anne.tropoli@gmail.com The class of 2003 is busy with exciting careers, growing families and marriages!

Hannah Smith received a Master of Public Health, with a concentration in Biostatistics & Epidemiology, from USC (in Los Angeles) in 2013 and is currently in a doctoral program for naturopathic medicine in Seattle. Stephen Brewer married Linden Boyd in January 2015 in Houston, and they welcomed their first baby, Tucker Morgan Brewer, into the world on January 11, 2016. Stephen is the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis with Greene’s Energy Group, and Linden is a nurse anesthetist with Houston Methodist West Hospital.

Hayley Wadsworth Dickson ‘01 with her baby girl Isla Jacqueline Dorin

Aline Brown Copp and her husband Josh still love life in San Francisco with their labradoodle, Butters. They can’t wait to welcome their first child, a little girl, in July. Emily Gerger Segal reports, “My husband Graham and I live in Hous-

ton. Graham stays busy as a double-boarded physician working in the Family Medicine department and Pathology department at UT Houston, and I am staying very busy at home with my two little girls who are less than a year apart. Devyn will be 2 in April and Maeve will be 1 in March. I am FINALLY graduating in May 2016 with my Masters in Healthcare Administration. Life is nonstop, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!” Congratulations, Emily! Leslie Frankel Wiener is an assistant professor at the University of Houston; she and her husband, Gary, recently had an adorable baby girl, Hannah. Mary Beth Tyler lives on Capitol Hill in Washington DC and recently bought her first home near the RFK Stadium. She is a Technology Consulting Manager with Accenture working on a federal client, helping them with technical security risks and financial advising. Volunteering with the Junior League of Washington, Mary Beth is completing her year as Chair of the New Member Committee where she supported 300 women as they joined the League. In February Will Sanders and his wife, Pamela, celebrated their six year anniversary. They have a two-year old boy, Thomas, and just welcomed daughter Betsy on April 5. Will works in finance for Plains All American Pipeline, and his wife is a real estate agent for Greenwood King. Kelly Eisenmen Unger recently moved to Nashville with her husband Jacob and their son Hudson. They spent the summer living in Paris while her husband did a Plastic Surgery Fellowship. What a great adventure! She had her second little boy Graham Olan Unger on May 18. Andrew Montgomery still lives in Colombia, SC. After graduating from USC, he stuck around to attend law school. It will be 13 years this summer! He has been married to Katie since 2013 and three years later is still trying to master horticulture at their first home. In February he traveled back to Texas for the first time in 8+ years, being sure to visit Kinkaid. Ashley Anderson Pettibon and her husband Keith still live in Birmingham, AL where Keith is completing his Residency and Fellowship in Interventional Radiology. Ashley works as a Special Education teacher and Instructional Coach for a school district. Their son Henry turned two in April. Kristin Tiner got engaged last June and will marry this summer in New York. Her fiance Guy Brearey will start his MBA at NYU Stern while she relocates back to New York after four years in Hong Kong running Thomson Reuters’ Risk Business.

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She will remain with Thomson Reuters in New York – new role TBD! Matt Baldwin completed his residency training in pediatrics last summer and has been working in a private practice in Raleigh since then. His twin girls Emma and Charlotte turn three in June. His wife Meg blogs for Huffpost. Katie Lents founded a tech startup last year, www.showup.media. It’s a curated platform for indie web series. They partner sponsors directly with filmmakers and avoid the bloggers and cat videos. She offers a discount to any alums that would like to sponsor one of their filmmakers. Despite being deployed (#6) to parts unknown, Adam Huber was full of updates on his fellow falcons. In June, Cole Stephenson married Rachel Valadez in Culver City, CA; Taylor Fort was a groomsman. They live in LA and work in the biz on the legal side, Cole as a paralegal in the Business Affairs department of Sony Pictures Television. Taylor Fort and his wife Judy Lee live in Redondo Beach. And as for Adam: He is still a Navy SEAL. He is hoping for a career change in the near future. He is accepting all suggestions with the exception of medicine. He will leave that to his wife, Dr. Rebecca Romero. They married in May at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis and held their reception at the same place as in Wedding Crashers. Robert Wooten and his wife Jennifer still live in Austin with their sweet daughter Davey (2) and Goldendoodle Addy (6). They celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in May. Robert has been with HFF since graduation and is in commercial real estate finance. Adelaide Zimmerman Emanuele continues to live the California dream in LA, working as a cardiology Nurse Practitioner at Cedars Sinai Medical Center for the last four years. She married the love of her life Alex Emanuele last year and they recently celebrated their one-year anniversary. They are the proud parents of an adorable pup named Bunny Bear. She welcomes any KHS visitors! Lance Gilliam has been living in Houston for a year with his lovely wife Kirsten, a Houstonian, photographer and marketing consultant. They will celebrate their first anniversary in August. They live in Oak Forest with two weenie dogs and zero children of any size. Lance works as a consultant in local politics, which should come as no surprise. Currently he works for state senator Rodney Ellis where his job hinges on the results of a campaign for county commissioner. Fingers crossed, Lance! Shea Henry Yoesel married Jeff Yoesel last July in Napa at The Carneros

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(Shortlist) and moved out to Silicon Valley. Ryan also got engaged. Jordan Allison Boyce and her husband Beaumont moved to Austin in August. Jordan is working as an Academic Language Therapist at Rawson Saunders School, a school for children with dyslexia. They are enjoying being in the capitol city while also being close enough to see family and friends in Houston. Lauren Goodall Clyce and her husband Andy had a baby boy Charles “Charlie” Mann Clyce on December 16, 2015.

Cyrus Aghili ‘03, Katie Decker Currie ‘06, Lauren Thompson Miller ‘06, Mitchell Currie ‘06, Jeb Golinkin ‘06, Peter Mugno ’06, Ben Messier ’06 (groom) and wife Laura (bride), Pete Peterson ’06, Andrew Grotta ’06, Jessica Messier ’08, Eddie Moore ’06, Charley Beall ’06, Charles Labanowski ’06, Jimmy Stroope ’76, Ian Gemp ’06, John Roff ’06, Kevin Clegg ’08, Katherine Verity Clegg ’08, Jeffrey Berman ’08

Inn. They live in Houston where she has been an attorney for six years. Shea recently returned to work for her former boss at his new firm, Lapidus Knudsen, PC. She does civil trial work, mostly insurance defense and general civil litigation. Blake Feste lives in Austin and works in commercial real estate. He recently made the move from lending to development and works for Capsa Ventures. Omeed Abedin recently created a tech startup and has an iOS app in development in the automotive sector. He continues to host an annual charity event at the Formula One track in Austin. He also directed and submitted his first documentary film, Corsa Vita, to the Austin Film Festival and SXSW. After finishing an MD/MBA at Duke, Fallon Ukpe joined McKinsey in Atlanta as an Engagement Manager focusing on healthcare-related projects. Sam Allison is still playing music and lives in Austin. Currently he is touring with his band, The Lonesome Band, and several other bands including Lucky Tubb and the Modern Day Troubadours, Reverend Horton Heat and Unknown Hinson. After completing his Master in Architecture at UH, Michael Viviano has recently wrapped up his first major project as an architect: a new house for his parents! He and his partner Ryan Johnson, a clinical social worker at Legacy Community Health, live in Houston where he is focusing on building his design practice. After 12 years in Washington, DC, Frank Vargas recently accepted a new position as a civilian employee of the Department of the Navy at a base in Sicily, Italy. He is enjoying the local culture, history and cuisine

with his wife Rachael and their son Felix (17 months).

live in Rice Military and enjoy spoiling their two dogs Izzy and Sammy.

Anna Beall continues to live in NYC (almost nine years now) in an apartment near the Hudson River and Battery Park. She works at a hedge fund doing both Marketing and Investor Relations and still enjoys work and life in the big city. She travels frequently for fun and visits her mom in England and brothers in Houston and Vermont and friends all over the map.

Cameron Decker is member of the emergency medicine faculty for Baylor College of Medicine working at Ben Taub and he also serves as the medical director for several EMS systems in Houston. He still works for the Sheriff’s Office in Homeland Security’s High Risk Operations Unit. In his free time, he loves traveling, SCUBA diving and piloting airplanes.

Elizabeth Spradling Gardner and her husband Scott still live in Houston with their son James (1). Elizabeth works for CapStreet in Investor Relations.

Wakeford Thompson and his wife Elizabeth live in Houston and are the proud new parents of baby girl Allie born February 10. They are over the moon!

In November Emily van Keppel Romero married Daniel Romero ‘04 at Boot Ranch in Fredericksburg. After a two week honeymoon trek through Thailand and Cambodia, they were thrilled to come home to their two rescue pups Rue and Dexter. In April they welcomed their first niece Halliday “Hallie” Elizabeth van Keppel and could not be more in love. Emily is currently a Senior Vice President at CAZ Investments where she leads their marketing and client relations initiatives. Lizzie Heaney Ziccardi graduated from Wharton with her MBA in May. She and her husband Andrew live in NYC with their dog Peter. Lizzie currently works for Bain & Co. They celebrated their fifth anniversary in May! After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law in 2010, Martin Simchowitz moved back home to Houston to practice law. He now works as an in-house attorney at Plains All American Pipeline, where he frequently bumps into Will Sanders. Martin and his wife Meghan, a Neonatal ICU nurse at Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital and a fellow University of Texas graduate, were married in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in October 2014. They now

Robert Campbell and Claire Smyser Campbell welcomed their second child Eloise Grace on March 22. And as for me, Anne Tropoli Kahle, my husband Walker and I had our first child, a boy, “Augie” in October. I am still with T.D. Williamson, Inc. as a Sr. Benefits Specialist in Houston.

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Jordan Allison Boyce Houston, TX jordan.boyce67@gmail.com Emily Catherine Jeter Riggs Houston, TX ecjriggs@gmail.com David Alviar continues to work in education publishing for Houston-based Accelerate Learning, a purveyor of national PreK-12 STEM curriculum. When not at work David is finalizing his efforts to row across the Atlantic Ocean this December as part of team American Oarsmen. Follow his journey at racetheatlantic.com! 2015 was a pretty good year for Ryan Borker. He started his own company

Max Erwin has been back in Houston working for about a year and half. Now since moving back Max has bought a house in the Heights to join in with the hippie crowd. When he is not traveling for work (still with GE) two weeks out of the month, you can still find him on the pitch with a local rugby team, despite two ACL replacements. Additionally, like everyone else in our grade he hit the 30 mark! Now that we are considered ‘old’ enough the other generations have to respect our opinions and thoughts since we’ve reached the dirty thirty. Anne Hoppe Fried is the Assistant Director of Volunteer Programs and Events at Baylor College of Medicine. This past January she married Tripp Fried ’01 in New Orleans, Louisiana. They live in Houston close to family and friends. Audrey Gordon is getting married this summer to Ben Rowe, a chap from London. She is a television agent at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles. Bailey Thomas Haidamous and her husband Simon are still living in Houston with their two boys Thomas (3) and Robert (1). Parker Harrison has been working on his first big music release, a 5-song EP part 1 CD, with the part 2 EP to follow soon after. The music went live on the Internet May 16 available for download on Amazon and iTunes. The release is: Clear Conscience: Part 1. The physical CD became available for purchase on May 26. Check it out! In November Ashley Springmeyer Jones and her husband Stephen welcomed their third child Everett Campbell. Big brother Lawson (4) and big sister Amie (2) have loved living in Charlottesville, VA for Stephen’s one year MSK Radiology Fellowship training. With Stephen’s medical training complete, they are excited to be moving to Baton Rouge in June! Kimberly Heine Nettles and Charlie Nettles ’05, along with big brother Mays welcomed Wells Walter Nettles on March 29. They love their family of four! Kim is working as a

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PRN Speech Pathologist for Harris Health System at LBJ Hospital. Whitney Rape has had quite the year! Whitney moved to West U and loves being in a new area of Houston. In January she started at Amegy Bank in their Private Bank Mortgage Group and in February she got a King Charles Spaniel named Dutch who is very fun and active. Whitney completed her 8th year volunteering at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and her sixth year on the Mutton Bustin’ Committee. Here’s to a great 2016! Emily Catherine Jeter Riggs and her husband, Ben Riggs ’02 welcomed their daughter Tany Tobin at the end of August 2015. Emily Catherine enjoys spending time with her daughter and volunteering with the Junior League. Andrew Watt is back in Houston and is launching an oil and gas investment firm. Nicole Weitz is starting her final year of dermatology residency at Columbia University Medical Center in New York and applying for fellowship to be a pediatric dermatologist. She is getting married in November to a great guy from California and she has a very cute but ill-behaved dog named Wally who eats all of her shoes.

Mary Catherine White is still living in Lexington, KY. She recently joined Red Mile Racetrack as Events Manager. In addition Mary Catherine works on her two other businesses, Rent The Races and Bluebonnets & Bluegrass, and stays very busy! In her free time MC enjoys teaching cycling and playing polo.

2005

Grace Lee Fort Worth, TX lee.gracep@gmail.com

2006

Kase Lawal New York, NY kase.lawal@gmail.com

2007

Lauren Lestin Atlanta, GA lflestin@gmail.com

2008

Kirby Allison Houston, TX kallison22@gmail.com Mason Bashaw Clelland

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beaches and perfect weather, but excited to start her career and be closer to family!

Matthew Hussey lives in Oklahoma City and is working as an engineer at Chesapeake Energy. In 2015 he became engaged to Chelsey Carothers of Houston, who is also a UT Austin graduate. Their wedding is planned for November of this year.

It is likely Jeanie Arnold will be in Washington, DC for many more years than she originally thought. She has honed her skills in avoiding politics, tourists and people with clipboards on the sidewalk. Recently promoted to the Smithsonian Associates’ digital marketing specialist, Jeanie spends her day job writing emails and social media posts. Outside of the 9-5 she is studying for certifications in personal training and Olympic weightlifting to make sure she lives a well-rounded life of museum nerd and gym nerd.

2009

Alanna McAuley Seattle, WA armcauley75@gmail.com Rashi Agrawal just graduated from the University of Southern California with her Doctor of Physical Therapy in sunny LA. The past three years were full of studying, making lifelong friends and entering a profession she truly loves! Her next step is moving back to her old stomping grounds in Houston where she will join Baylor College of Medicine’s Harris Health System for neuro-residency where she will spend a year specializing in brain and spinal cord injuries. Currently she is excited to spend some time traveling this summer by hiking through Zion National Park in Utah and studying for her boards in July before starting residency. She’s sad to leave behind the

Michael Atmar and his wife Erin are enjoying living in the beautiful Ozark mountains of Branson, Missouri where they work as camp directors for Kanakuk Ministries. Michael is also taking online classes through Dallas Theological Seminary as he works towards a Masters in Christian Leadership. Michael and Erin are excited to announce that they are expecting their first child, a baby boy, in August 2016! Corrin Barnes is alive and well in Somerville, Massachusetts! She recently began working as a front-end web developer at The Grommet, an online retailer dedicated to launching unique products from undiscovered entrepreneurs. After surviving

Lauren Robinson Eicher ’06, Nancy Zdunkewitz ’06, Kelley Hayden ’06, Michael Rogers ’06, Maddy Foxx Moffitt ’06, Hibba Itani Pletcher ’06, Ellie Thompson ’06, Menaka Iyer ’06, Maggie Giles ’06, Caitlin Bailey ’07 at Maddy’s rehearsal dinner in Napa, CA

Headmaster Andy Martire, James Cespedes ‘05, Retired Headmaster Don North, Lillian Nwora ‘09 at the Kipp Houston Public Schools Annual Dinner. Kinkaid was one of the four locally honored schools that evening for their partnership with KIPP.

Andrew Levy ‘06 and wife Ariel filming their wedding adventure film

Jeb Golinkin, Holly Blalock Guthneck, Maggie Giles, Blair Burke Foster attending their 2006 Class Reunion Party at El Patio 73

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Katy Broesche ’11 Called to Serve

he summer after her sophomore year, Katy Broesche ’11 went on a mission trip to Nicaragua with Kinkaid Young Life that would forever change her. After witnessing the crippling effects of poverty, unclean water, lack of education and the plague of everyday violence, Katy knew that she was called to serve in Latin America.

Katy attended Pepperdine University in California because of its focus on faith, service and purpose. Throughout her time at Pepperdine, she did whatever she could to spend time in Latin America. From working at orphanages in Guatemala, to community development in Nicaragua, to studying abroad in Argentina, Katy continued to follow her passion. After graduating in 2015 with a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish, Katy took a job working with International Justice Mission (IJM) in La Paz, Bolivia, where she currently lives. IJM exists in Bolivia to “rescue thousands, protect millions, and prove that justice for the poor is possible.” Established in La Paz in 2006, IJM fights against the silent yet profound issue of sexual violence that leaves thousands of young boys and girls as victims. IJM provides a holistic and sustainable approach to this societal problem: as a team of investigators, lawyers and social workers in the trenches, they put perpetrators behind bars, secure convictions and restore survivors back to the fullness of life. Katy serves as the assistant to the Investigations team and director of Church Mobilization. She is responsible for the organization’s perpetrator profile database, management of arrest warrants and other investigative documents and reporting. Working with Church Mobilization, she plans and executes seminars focused on educating and equipping the local church to fight against sexual violence. Katy assists with the Administration and Aftercare departments as well. Some days she even has the responsibility of taking donors on site visits, or accompanying a client to the hospital for a check-up. “Every day is a new opportunity to discover, learn and grow. One day I may be organizing a six-hour training for local police officers in proper techniques for investigation of crimes of sexual violence against minors; the next day I may be gathering with a group of pastors in El Alto to pray over their communities and the plight of violence. This job is fast-paced and dynamic. It has stretched me in more ways than I could have ever imagined, and for that I am deeply grateful. I have learned so much about myself, other people and both goodness and evil that exists in this world. It may not be successful, glamorous or safe by societal standards, but I’ve never been one to follow the rules. I am exactly where I need to be: “this place where my deep gladness and the world’s deep need meet (Frederick Buechner).” Katy credits her experience at Kinkaid that encouraged her to pursue her passions at all costs. It was in Angela Wainwright’s class that she researched challenging yet eye-opening topics like the Rwandan genocide. Jina David always pushed her to dig into meaningful stories as an editor of the school newspaper. “I am grateful to my Spanish teachers who made Latin America come alive to me. It’s because of them that I am living in this beautiful part of the world now. And of course, I am forever thankful to Kinkaid Young Life for showing me that there is a lot of brokenness in the world, but that we are invited on this crazy journey to bring redemption to the darkness. There is truly nothing else I would rather be doing than serving in Latin America.”

Katy Broesche ’11

Read Katy’s blog at: www.kathrynbroesche.com For more information about International Justice Mission visit: www.ijm.org

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Archive, the Seattle Athenaeum and the Junior League of Seattle. Vacation can’t come soon enough!

Brooke Grisebaum Powell ’07 and husband Preston with wedding party, including Victoria Pappas ’07, Ashley Bush ’07, Julie Petry ’07, Brittany Bloom Dinerstein ’07, Lauren Lestin ’07, Jenny Sangalis Tompkins ’07, Leila Ladjevardian ’07, Catherine Murphy ’07, Gracey Winters Howey ’07, William Doggett ’05, John Bell ’04

another winter, Corrin is excited for long walks, beautiful beaches, summer séances and fresh tomatoes! Taylor Bass just finished up her second year teaching at Kinkaid. She has loved having the opportunity to educate students in grades 1 – 6 and working alongside some of her former teachers. In August she will begin teaching for the 2016-2017 school year at The Monarch Institute for students with neurological differences. Malcolm Bremer started with the Philadelphia 76ers back in late July as a Sales Associate within the Sixers ticket sales department. While it has been an everyday challenge to sell tickets for a struggling franchise, Malcolm has found success with his sales numbers ranking him within the top 10 in his department of over 40 sales people. With the basketball season now over, Malcolm plans on spending his free time attending baseball games at different MLB stadiums within the northeast area and spending weekends down at the Jersey Shore with friends. Based in London, Nina Brener-Hellmund has finished her second year at UBS Investment Bank working in the Private Equity team covering Latin America and Southern European clients. In parallel, Nina is launching an exciting new startup, Insider,

Amanda Rutherford Lodge ’09 with wedding party, including Jacklyn Jacobe ’13, Glyn Tower ’09, Alice Gutermuth Lodge ’05, Ashley Fatjo ’09, Lindsey Jacobe ’16, Hannah Lockwood ’09, Kerbey Finger ’09, Mattie Rutherford ’07, Amy Wynne ’09, Clare Bailey ’09

which is a networking platform connecting job applicants to employees from their firms and roles of interest. Nina is hoping to make the interview process more transparent, democratizing networking and providing more clarity on career trajectories. She is looking forward to traveling in Europe over the summer and taking a break from rainy London! David Chambers writes, “After serving as the Manager of Adair Kitchen for two years, I have left to begin my own food truck and catering business. We are operating here in Houston and are called Colonel Eats Gourmet Street Food.” You can reach David and find out more at coloneleats@gmail.com. Katherine Cunningham is still living it up in Houston. She is still working in Development at the Alley Theatre as well as performing and choreographing in theatres all around the Houston area. At the end of June you can catch her in Mildred’s Umbrella’s short play festival Museum of Dysfunction! David Finger writes, “I started working for Accenture after graduating from Washington University in St. Louis. I traveled from Houston to Austin almost every week for my client Whole Foods Market to work on a customer loyalty app. I fell in love with Austin, ended up moving there in January and started a new job at a startup (that got bought out on my first day of work). The company that bought us out actually owns Tinder and OkCupid (which is funny because I feel like I am writing a dating profile right now).”

gests sharing an iPhone panorama on Facebook to see a cool 360 photo. Matt Johnson is enjoying his last few months in the sun as he prepares to begin a PhD program at the University of Washington in Computer Science this fall. He is excited to apply all the tools he has learned towards building a new community oriented networking infrastructure! He still enjoys acroyoga and has been working on his handstand, travelling and volunteering as a youth mentor when he’s not at work. Tara Ladjevardian is loving life in the Big Apple! Three years of living in New York City has flown by and she is pursuing her dream career in marketing at NBC Universal. Other than work, she continues to be involved with UNICEF serving as a NextGen member and enjoys exploring the city with friends and traveling on weekends. Alanna McAuley is loving life in her adopted city of Seattle, Washington. She is looking forward to wrapping up her first year of library school in the University of Washington’s Master of Library and Information Science program, which has been wonderful, fascinating and exhausting all at the same time! When she isn’t busy being a part-time graduate student, Alanna works full time for UW Advancement, volunteers with the Washington State Jewish

Lilian Nwora is blessed and enjoying life in Dallas, TX. She is a Registered Dietitian working as a Diabetic Educator at one of the top endocrine practices in the city. She has also cultivated a budding business, Dresses & Dumbbells, LLC, and is looking to expand her reach and assist others in meeting their overall health and fitness goals. She is also looking forward to traveling to her native country of Nigeria this summer on a medical mission. When she isn’t in the gym, feeding her shopping addiction or assisting clients, she’s working on improving her gifts and giving back to those who have given to her. Jessica Rosenthal loves living in Boston. She spends her time working at the MIT libraries, riding her bike around the city and exploring the area’s fantastic art museums. She is looking forward to starting graduate school in the fall and will be studying art history at Williams College’s Clark Art Institute. Emily Sangalis Senchuk is loving life in Chicago with her husband Matt and their English Bulldog George! She is finishing up her third year of teaching and is thrilled to teach first grade again next school year. Stuart Upfill-Brown is leading the life of yuppie scum in San Francisco and largely enjoying it. He eats a balanced breakfast, exercises once a week and carpools to work. He’s designing structurally for a solar company, NEXTracker, Inc, which was acquired in the fall. Stuart spends his free time playing soccer, singing privately and FaceTiming Rohit Kuruvilla. Jarrett Wadler recently hit his oneyear anniversary of moving to Denver. He is enjoying his job as a business analyst for OrthoFi and loves working for a software company that is constantly changing. Jarrett enjoyed getting to ski 15 times this winter but is very ready for summer – concerts, hiking, camping and exploring Colorado. Jarrett’s always looking to reconnect with former al-

Liz Furlow lives in Austin, Texas, where she has just finished her first year at the University of Texas School of Law. Andy Huang has been travelling a lot recently. He spent January in Asia and currently splits time between San Francisco and London. He sug-

Alums at the wedding of Neil Howell ‘09 — Jennie Porter and husband Ben Porter ‘09, Franco Silva ‘09, Amy Chapman ‘10, Taylor Baycroft ‘09, Liz Furlow ‘09, Drew Masterson ‘09, Matt Johnson ‘09, Katherine Cunningham ‘09, Tommy Das ‘09

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ums so give him a call if you’re ever out in Colorado!

2010

Evan Henke New York, NY evanhenke@yahoo.com

Zach Wood, Brooke Hansen Spanos ‘96 and husband George, Michelle Cho Wood ‘98

Grace Cho ‘01, Eileen Jones ‘01 and husband Tyler Gillett, Alicia Cho ‘02

Shaun Dadjoo just finished his fellowship program in pediatric surgery research at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. He has been working with preterm infants and neonates who had rare complications of the cardiac and respiratory system to develop a novel alert system for physicians and surgeons. He was really fortunate this year to be able to travel around the United States and present his personal and his team’s research. He was also really grateful to be accepted into both medical school and dental school. It was a tough decision to make but he will be starting on his doctorate of dental medicine this fall in Pomona, California. Evan Henke just graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with his Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance. This summer he will be singing with the International Vocal Arts Institute in a production of Leoncavallo’s La Bohème as Il Visconte Paolo. He will be working with world-renowned coaches, conductors and directors from the Metropolitan Opera House and many other international venues. Later in the summer he will be heading to Italy to sing Il Conte d’Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with the Narnia Arts Festival. He has just moved into a new apartment and is excited to start his “adult” life in New York. Abbey Hickman is engaged to marry Danny Hendrix! The wedding will be in Houston this November. She also was promoted this year and is now running the Portland office of We Are Walker with the title of Senior Music Producer.

Kate Lee, John Semander ‘88, Grady Lee ‘89, Maria Semander Crawford ‘82

Layne Kirshon just started a PhD program in economics at MIT. Melanie Rosin is currently working as a summer associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Houston. She will return to the University of Michigan in the fall to finish her last semester of law school.

2012

Kirby Gilbert Austin, TX kirbycgilbert@gmail.com Many members of the class of 2012 graduated from college this year and are moving all around the country! Here are some highlights on what our class is doing: Niki Frishberg graduated with a BS in political communications and a minor in government from UT. She has been working at a political fundraising/event planning firm in Austin since sophomore year and just accepted a full time associate position. Mia Fredricks will be working as the Business Operations Coordinator for SMG, a venue management company in New Orleans. She will work in SMG’s south region office located in the Mercedez-Benz Superdome. Rachel Feig will be working for a year at Massachusetts General Hospital as a clinical research coordinator while also applying for physician assistant school. Meagan Zwahlen will be working at MD Anderson in a full time nursing position on the pediatric unit. Melysa Barth will be moving to DC to join the 2016 Teach for America Corps. Clemmie Pierce will also be working for TFA, teaching at KIPP Shine Elementary School in Houston. Clemmie recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, Plan II, with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She was recently notified that her thesis, “Evaluating Educational Disparities in Developing Nations: A Case Study of Primary Education in Uganda,” was selected as one of the Plan II Model Theses for the Class of 2016. Congratulations to Clemmie! Emily Lahourcade will be working as an art direction intern in the creative department at Y&R advertising agency in New York. Stephanie Tillison will be working on the advertising team at Allure Magazine in New York. Michael Levine recently graduated with honors in Economics from the University of Richmond and was selected to present his senior research thesis at the 10th annual Econom-

Walker Short is engaged to marry Chantel Brock next March.

2011

Avery Geisler St. Louis, MO aag459@gmail.com Meg Marinis Vernon ‘02, Ko Yamada ‘95, Kavita Rao ‘01, Clifton Levine ‘02

Harry Hantel New York, NY hhantel@gmail.com

Allison Bolin ‘12, Emily Gemp ‘12 and Annie Stephens ’12 after the Austin Half Marathon

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down. Our class members are going all over the country and world to do amazing things.

Michael Levine ‘12 presenting at the Economics Scholars Program Conference

ics Scholars Program Conference sponsored by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank this past April. Michael was one of approximately 40 undergraduate students from across the country who presented original research at the conference on topics ranging from the economic impact of smuggling cigarettes to the effect of a local sports stadium on crime rates. Michael’s paper, “The Effect of Debt on the Production Decision of an Exploration and Production Company,” focused on the differential effects of debt between distressed and non-distressed companies in the oil industry. His work was roundly praised as groundbreaking by the professional economists and Fed management at the conference. Michael will be joining the Houston office of the investment-banking firm, Jeffries, this summer. Maddy Gould will be going to UT for graduate school in the Earth and Energy Resources program and I will be attending UT Law School. We will be carrying on our falcon pride as roommates! Congrats to everyone and I wish you success in all of your future endeavors!

2013

Marissa Smith Austin, TX marissa.smith@me.com

2014

Haley Ebel Elon, NC haley.ebel@gmail.com After a busy year as sophomores, the class of 2014 is not slowing

Alumni Interim Term Night

Lucas Cooper will be working for private equity firm Claremont Square Capital Partners. There he will be researching potential investment opportunities, talking to brokers and creating reports in which he outlines why he believes they should buy the company.

New this year, Alumni Interim Term Night was held on January 20th. Over 130 alumni, parents, parents of alumni and friends attended this fun and educational evening! Attendees commented that this event helped them feel more connected to the School and gave them a good taste of high school again. We’re already planning next year’s Alumni Interim Term Night to be held on January 18. Please email Alexa Leach ’09 at alexa.leach@kinkaid.org if you are interested in teaching a class.

Sydney Spier is taking part in a summer internship abroad program through USC. She will be interning in Prague, Czech Republic with other USC students and students from other schools around the country as well. She will be doing public relations for Prague TV Media, which is a media company in Prague that owns four different online portals focusing on life in Prague. PTV has grown into the web’s most visited source for information related to Prague and the Czech Republic for Americans living there.

2016 Class Offerings and Instructors:

Michael Chase also has a busy summer! He will be at Kanakuk again teaching wake boarding, skiing, knee boarding and tubing all July before he heads off to Cape Town, South Africa. In South Africa he will be taking classes for three weeks as well as serving at an orphanage for a week. He will finish his trip with a week of travel full of safaris, skydiving, bungee jumping and shark diving.

Fantasy Sports Analysis - Ken Conner & Sarah Shea

Whether you are in Texas or have the opportunity to go somewhere abroad for a few weeks, the class of 2014 hopes you have a great summer!

Nutrition and Health - Roberta Anding The History of Kinkaid - John Germann 2016 Election - Ed Harris Fast Food - Charlie Scott Chocolate Appreciation - Araya Artisan Chocolate Social Media Bootcamp - Jeff Diedrich The Magic Behind Great Movies - Dennis Huston Military Technology in 2016 - Tom Peden

Roberta Anding, Sports Dietician, discussing “Nutrition and Health”

Ashley Brown ‘11 and Ashley Morgan Tharp ‘11

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2016

Need Volunteer

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.

Peter Ceccotti ‘64 (fs), Michael Bakht ‘15, Headmaster Andy Martire, Harrison Poe ‘15, Graham Marsh ‘14, Chelsea Grate ‘04 at the Los Angeles Alumni Event

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Birth Announcements Hannah Leba Wiener, July 3, 2015 Leslie Frankel Wiener ’03 and husband Gary

John Raymond “Jack” Dubrowski, November 9, 2015 Bevin Bering Dubrowski ’00 and husband Dan

Lilah Ella Adler, September 10, 2015 Debbie Blumberg ’96 and husband Jonathan Adler

Cecily “CeCe” Anne Gauthreaux, November 18, 2015 Lauren Manford Gauthreaux ’00 and husband Kyle

Eliza Marie Helander, September 23, 2015 Caroline Forney Helander ’97 and husband Bill

Grayson Anne Mogavero, November 19, 2015 Whitney Weems Mogavero ’96 and husband Drew

Allison Braley Cook, October 12, 2015 Connor Cook ’99 and wife Melissa

Charles “Charlie” Mann Clyce, December 16, 2015 Lauren Goodall Clyce ’04 and husband Andy

India Grace Barrow, October 13, 2015 Bettina Adger Barrow ’99 (fs) and husband Brian

Victoria Miller Collie, December 18, 2015 Ted Collie ’99 and wife Natasha

Hallie Fisher Faulk, October 19, 2015 Brittany Phillips Faulk ’99 and husband Jordan

Harper Lynn McMillan, December 21, 2015 Lance McMillan ’89 and wife Brenda

Irene Evelyn Spiliotis, October 21, 2015 Evy Pappas ’94 and husband Nick Spiliotis

Anna Kathryn Mullett, December 24, 2015 Michel Miller Mullett ’00 and husband Philip

Jude Nicholas Kallumadiyil Page and Naomi Francis Kallumadiyil Page, October 2015 Joel Page ’94 and wife Peggy Varghese

James Jeffrey Ross, October 22, 2015 Liz Love Ross ’02 and husband Adam

Zachary Richard Solera, October 22, 2015 Jessica Schreiber Solera ’02 and husband Josh

Dylan Beck Wise, November 4, 2015 Jeff Wise ’99 and wife Brooke

Everett Campbell Jones, November 6, 2015 Ashley Springmeyer Jones ’04 and husband Stephen

Brooke Madelyn Kaplan, December 30, 2015 Erin Finger Kaplan ’04 and husband Steven ’98

Alexander James Whittington, January 2, 2016 Alex Whittington ’99 and wife Jen

Keasbey David Luxor Bauer, January 3, 2016 Eloise Frischkorn Bauer ’05 and husband Luis

Brooke McClellan Beaupre, January 6, 2016 Meredith Hopson Beaupre ’98 and husband Andy

Tucker Morgan Brewer, January 11, 2016 Stephen Brewer ’03 and wife Linden

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William Leslie “Will” Doggett III, January 14, 2016 William Doggett ’05 and wife Rebecca

Eli Jordan Shapiro, February 29, 2016 Michele Soefer Shapiro ’98 and husband Andy

John William “Will” Lodge V, January 19, 2016 Alice Gutermuth Lodge ’05 and husband JW

Frances “Franny” Kathleen Anders, March 1, 2016 Liz Riddle Anders ’98 and husband David ’97

Roman Stanislaw Burzynski, February 1, 2016 Greg Burzynski ’98 and wife Ania

Lilly Rose Hackerman, March 7, 2016 Clay Hackerman ’95 and wife Grace

Jackson Brants Templin and Thomas Thorne Templin, February 1, 2016 Mark Templin ’89 and wife Emily

Catherine “Cate” Jennifor Milam, February 2, 2016 Cassie Detering Milam ’04 (fs) and husband John

Cole Woods Meyer, February 4, 2016 Julie Herman Meyer ’94 and husband Jon

Bennett Matthew Alexander, February 10, 2016 Emily Merrill Alexander ’05 and husband David

“Allie” Allena McCann Thompson, February 10, 2016 Wakeford Thompson ’03 and wife Elizabeth

Teddy Gaw, February 12, 2016 Jon Gaw ’02 and wife Tiffany

Isla Jacqueline Dorin, February 17, 2016 Hayley Wadsworth Dickson ’01 and husband Scott Dorin

Beckett Solomon Schein, February 24, 2016 Carrie Geller Schein ’97 and husband Jeremy

Nelson Reed Hrncir, February 29, 2016 Trent Hrncir ’99 and wife Harlan

Martha Leigh Falik, March 11, 2016 Alan Falik ’01 and wife Raine

Chloe Scott Van Steenburgh, March 16, 2016 Katherine Campbell Van Steenburgh ’01 and husband Philip

Luke McConn Jornayvaz, March 17, 2016 Isla McConn Jornayvaz ’02 and husband Joseph

Eloise Grace Campbell, March 22, 2016 Claire Smyser Campbell ’03 and husband Robert ’03

Wells Walter Nettles, March 29, 2016 Kim Heine Nettles ’04 and husband Charlie ‘05

Elizabeth “Betsy” Lee Sanders, April 5, 2016 Will Sanders ’03 and wife Pamela

George Rawlings Fontaine III, April 16, 2016 George Fontaine ’00 and wife Melissa

“Mary Helen” Moore, April 18, 2016 Kathryn McCarter Moore ‘95 and husband Michael

Jack Alfred Leiman, April 20, 2016 Tracy Gerger Leiman ’08 and husband Mark

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Weddings

Halliday “Hallie” Elizabeth van Keppel, April 22, 2016 Justin van Keppel ’01 and wife Kathleen

Juliet Estelle Dwyer and Willoughby “Liam” Lusk Dwyer, April 25, 2016 Elizabeth Williams Dwyer ’00 and husband Alexander

Addie Coolidge Monteleone, April 28, 2016 Will Monteleone ’02 and wife Jennifer

Linda Cummins West ‘06 and Zach West ‘06 - Carter Brown ‘06, Hayner Rude ‘06, John Barerre ‘06, Jonathan Powell ‘06, James Eilers ‘06

Anne Michelle Roff, May 6, 2016 John Roff ’06 and wife Julia

Jonah Rhodes Callaway, May 15, 2016 Dr. Kim Davis Callaway ’97 and husband David Jewel Crosswell Stone ‘11 and husband Luke

Adam Huber ’03 and wife Rebecca

Graham Dean Unger, May 18, 2016 Kelly Eisenman Unger ’03 and husband Jacob

Walter Thomas Springmeyer, May 22, 2016 Courtnay Manford Springmeyer ’02 and husband Ryan ’02

Lily Kate Davis, May 27, 2016 Kasey Buza Davis ’98 and husband Tim

Whitney Stubbs Newton ‘00 and husband Mark

Lena Twitchell-Heyne ’08 & Paul Gerecht ’98 May 24, 2015 Clementine Carolyn McBroom, June 3, 2016 Courtland Crosswell McBroom ’05 and husband John

William Hart Tuck, June 3, 2016 Ashley Fondren Tuck ’06 and husband Cody

Ariel Hall & Andrew Levy ’06 September 5, 2015 Jennie Simmons ’03 & Kurt Roedel October 10, 2015 Caroline Wallace ’07 & Josh Fugle October 17, 2015

Carter McKean Simmons, June 5, 2016 Charles Simmons ’05 and wife Leslie

Jewel Crosswell ’11 & Luke Stone December 12, 2015 Whitney Stubbs ’00 & Mark Newton December 31, 2015 Liz Clayton & Andrew Chambers ’05 January 2, 2016

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Amanda Rutherford Lodge ‘09 and husband Eric

Alexandra Lacy Friel ‘99 and husband Jeremy

Andrew Levy ‘06 and wife Ariel

Jennie Simmons Roedel ‘03 and husband Kurt

Brooke Grisebaum Powell ‘07 and husband Preston

John Brollier ‘06 and wife Lauren

Katherine Verity Clegg ‘08 and Kevin ‘08

Lena Twitchell Heyne Gerecht ‘08 and Paul ‘98

Cullen Cone ‘08 and wife Elizabeth

Ben Messier ‘06 and Jeffrey Berman ‘08 & wife wife Laura Andria

Maddy Foxx Moffitt ‘06 and husband Patrick

Ashleigh Nankivell Raizes ‘99 and husband Steven

Lauren Howell ’08 & Stefan Anderson January 9, 2016

Ellen Doramus & James Bookout ’06 April 2, 2016

Brooke Grisebaum ’07 & Preston Powell April 23, 2016

Ashleigh Retzloff ’01 & Andy Gee January 16, 2016

Sandy Gahagan & James Jeter ’98 April 2, 2016

Ashleigh Nankivell ’99 & Steven Raizes May 14, 2016

Laura Runkel & Ben Messier ’06 January 23, 2016

Amanda Rutherford ’09 & Eric Lodge April 2, 2016

Maddy Foxx ’06 & Patrick Moffitt May 21, 2016

Elizabeth Herndon & Cullen Cone ’08 March 12, 2016

Katherine Verity ’08 & Kevin Clegg ’08 April 2, 2016

Rebecca Romero & Adam Huber ’03 May 28, 2016

Linda Cummins ’06 & Zach West ’06 March 12, 2016

Alexandra Lacy ’99 & Jeremy Friel April 9, 2016

Torry Breen & Neil Howell ’09 June 4, 2016

Lauren Dies & John Brollier ’06 March 19, 2016

Andria Levitt & Jeffrey Berman ’08 April 16, 2016

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In Memory Former teacher Dorothy Schultz Trimble passed away on December 1, 2015. She worked at Kinkaid for 11 years, retiring in 1969. Her last title was “Supervisor of Kindergarten”. Lynn Meyer Fort ’68 recalls that Dorothy was her very first teacher and that she has such fond memories of her kindergarten year, all of which revolve around Dorothy. She touched many lives and left quite an impact on all of her students. After retiring, the Trimbles moved to Brenham, TX and became the first residents of Kruse Village. Dorothy was active in the Brenham community and volunteered at the local hospital and Kruse Village nursing home. She enjoyed traveling on Elderhostel tours and frequently visited Bryan/ College Station to see theater and musical performances. Dorothy also enjoyed visits with her goddaughter Sally Couch and Sally’s parents, Dave and Amanda Williams. Hendley Edgar Tomlinson Jr. ’46 passed away on December 8, 2015. He graduated from The University of Texas and worked as treasurer of Kirby Lumber Company retiring in 1986. Hendley is preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Marguerite “Peggy”. He is survived by six children and many grandchildren. Former Pre-K Assistant Teacher Mildred Ashton Ellett Young passed away on January 6. Mildred graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.A. in Education. In 1953, she and her husband Howard moved to Houston, where she began a long and rewarding career in teaching. Mildred touched many young lives through the years. Intuition, compassion and teaching were her most true gifts. Mildred is preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Howard. She is survived by her son Cline Young ’73, daughter Cary Young Fyfe ’77, son Christopher Ennis Young ’80, and many treasured grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Former Third Grade Teacher Catherine Dozier Melancon passed away on February 7. Catherine attended the University of Maryland and Stetson University in Florida. She taught at Kinkaid and Hunters Creek, where she blessed many young people’s lives with the gift of her teaching. Her passions were painting, teaching, travel, her family and her cats. Catherine is preceded in death by her husband Alexander. She is survived by her brother Byrd Dozier; her daughters Denise Melancon Finley ’69 and Alexis Melancon Rogers ’78; and her grandchildren, Elizabeth Cannon ’10 (fs) and Alex Cannon ’13 (fs). Kase Velasco ’82 passed away on February 7. Kase graduated from Texas A&M University. He was a commercial real estate broker in Houston specializing in tenant representation. Kase served as a Cub Scout den leader and Boy Scout troop volunteer. He will be remembered for his passion for golf and hunting, telling stories of his experiences living in Aruba as a youngster, cooking gourmet dinners for friends and teaching his children how to cook. Kase is survived by his children, Farrin and Kadon; father Harold Velasco; and former spouse Leisa Velasco. Former Middle School Shop, Technology and Mathematics Teacher Stephen Joseph “Steve” Krivda passed away on February 12. Steve graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1977 and Sam Houston University with a Master’s of Education. Steve taught at Kinkaid for over 27 years. He was a contributing writer for the The Technology Teacher. Steve is survived by his father Thurman Krivda; brothers, Timothy Krivda and Vincent Krivda; sister, Karen Krivda Beyer; and his companion and caregiver Kim Harrison.

Janet Boyle ’63 passed away on February 21. Janet was a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. She was a member of the Ashbel Literary Society which recognizes high scholastic standards in English. Janet practiced oil and gas law for most of her adult life, was a passionate reader of English history and cookbooks and she was a longtime Looscan Library volunteer. She is survived by sister, Irene Louise Boyle, along with many nieces and nephews. Stephanie Ebert Adams ’79 passed away on April 11. While at Kinkaid, Stephanie graduated cum laude, excelled in athletics and academia, and was elected class president by her peers. Stephanie attended Vanderbilt University and then joined her sister at the University of Texas where she graduated with highest honors. Upon graduation she was elected into the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society. Stephanie’s passion for politics led her to work for Senator John Tower, Gov. Bill Clements and Texas State Treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchison. She also served as Assistant Director of Scheduling for the Reagan-Bush ‘84 Campaign and as Senior Presidential Trip Coordinator for President Ronald Reagan. Stephanie ended her career as an independent political consultant in Austin. Her greatest joy in life came from her two sons, Harrison and Nicho. She is survived by her sons, Harrison Acklin Adams and Nicholas David Adams of Austin; her mother, Katherine Flythe Ebert of Houston; her twin sister, Allison Ebert Wagner ’79 of Fort Worth; her brothers, David Grant Ebert ’83 and Andrew Marshall Ebert ’91 and many nieces and nephews. Margaret “Peg” McKenzie Milbourn ’63 passed away on May 7. She received her BA in Sociology from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Peg spent nearly 48 years as a “professional volunteer,” working with non-profit organizations, especially in the development and governance areas. Peg had a deeply sincere interest and passion for her college alma mater and served as a Denison University Trustee from 2001-2007. Peg had a keen interest in genealogy; was proficient in pen and ink drawing, photography, needlepoint and cross stitching; loved the piano and was a strong supporter and former Board member of the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Traveling and spending time with family were also huge priorities in her life. In addition to husband George, immediate survivors include daughter Jane Neubauer; son Michael, and son Jeffrey; eight grandchildren; and sister Dr. Susan McKenzie. Joan Farish Quillen ’46 (fs) passed away on May 16. Joan attended Chatham Hall and Finch College before returning to Houston to begin her first enterprise, Top Drawer, a boutique that was the first of its kind in the Houston area. She also launched and managed other businesses relating to her passions for interior design, decorative arts and antiques. Joan’s other passions included painting, tennis, gastronomy and travel. As an artist, Joan had many successful exhibitions, some of which were dedicated to raising money for schools and hospitals. Joan is survived by her husband of 37 years, Parker S. Quillen; her son David R. Demers; her daughter Laura F. Demers; her granddaughter Paloma Demers; her grandchildren Paloma Demers and Lake Demers; and her step-sons Parker L. Quillen, Whitney S. Quillen, and Barton H. Quillen. Virginia “Dinny” Kirkland Innis ’45 (fs) passed away on May 16. When she was three, Dinny contracted polio, and it profoundly impacted every aspect of her life. In addition to attending Kinkaid, Virginia also attended the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, PA and then graduated from Vassar College. She loved music, dancing, reading and baseball - taking pride in knowing how to score a game, taught by her father. She lived in Midland, Kansas City, Providence, Houston and Boston throughout the years. Dinny loved to support worthy causes of social, political and religious value. She is survived by her sister Barbara Kirkland Chiles, her

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son Stephen Warren Pond, daughter Barbara Pond Baker, her grandson Alexander Kirkland Baker, a niece, nephew and many cousins. Sarah Witmer Jones ’73 passed away on May 17. She attended The University of Texas, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Sarah’s passions were her children, literature and writing. Sarah was an avid reader and a prolific writer. Her jobs throughout the years always highlighted her ability to write. She will be remembered as a caring and generous mother, sister, aunt and friend. Everyone who knew Sarah knew her kind spirit, her sense of humor and her bravery. Sarah is survived by her daughter Paige Jones Harper ’04 (fs), her son Cameron Jones ’05 (fs), her sister Becky Lorino, her brother Worth Witmer ’83 and many nieces and nephews, including Will Witmer ’13 (fs) and Mills Stewart Witmer ’11 (fs) Caro Ivy Walker ’46 passed away on June 8. As part of Kinkaid’s original Richmond Guard, she was instrumental in publishing the first annual yearbook. She attended Beloit College in Wisconsin graduating with a degree in Anthropology and Archaeology. She devoted herself to family, the civic community and the Texas Republican Party. Serving in the office of U.S. Senator John Tower and as a Republican Precinct Chairman and Election Judge were just a few of her many political roles. Caro helped establish The Junior League and Museum and Arts Center in Wichita Falls and served on multiple school, arts and medical boards in both Wichita Falls and Houston, including the American Cancer Association, the Junior League of Houston, the Kinkaid Alumni Board, the River Oaks Garden Club and the Houston Archaeological & Historical Commission. Caro later became a residential real estate agent/broker. She loved the outdoors, visiting the lake, hunting birds, fishing and boating. Caro is predeceased by her brother John S. Ivy, Jr. ’53. She is survived by her daughters Caro Walker ’79 and Cynthia Gayle Walker Blackburn ’74; her grandchildren Catherine Ivy Blackburn Frazier, Robert Allen Blackburn, Jr. and Caro Elizabeth Key Blackburn; her siblings Barbara Ivy Jogerst ’49, Mary Ivy Farr ’53 and Conway Gayle Ivy ’59; as well as numerous cousins, nieces and nephews and their children, many of whom also attended Kinkaid. Alice Evans Pratt ’30 passed away on June 10. She was very involved with Kinkaid throughout her and her family’s lives and was honored as a Distinguished Alumni in 2000. She was preceded in death by her husband Fletcher S. Pratt, her sons Charles W. Pratt ’55 and Peter E. Pratt ’56 and her grandchildren Kimberly Pratt Bashaw ’79 and Scott R. Pratt ’83. She is survived by her daughter St. Clare Pratt Seifert ’60 (fs), four grandchildren including Jody Pratt ’92 and Pito Pratt ’82, eight great-grandchildren including Travis Bashaw’10 (fs), Mason Bashaw Clelland’ 08 and Lexy Pratt ’21 (fs); multiple nieces and nephews, many of whom attended Kinkaid; and her dog Mysty. Former Third Grade Teacher and Lower School Principal Marilyn Cruse Johnson passed away in July. Marilyn graduated from Illinois College where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society. She then received her masters from the University of Tulsa. She was an educator for 30 years and worked at Kinkaid for 20 of those years. She loved and influenced scores of students at Kinkaid during her tenure. She then lived abroad in Australia and Malaysia and later spent time in Rockport, TX and Eagle River, WI. Marilyn is predeceased by her husband Carlton. She is survived by her children, Julie Johnson Knox ’73 and Lee Ellen Johnson Bell ’80; three grandchildren, Collin Christopher Bell, Evan Carlton Bell and Logan Henry Bell; and other family and friends.

Thorndike “Dike” D. Howe III ’54 passed away on July 4. In addition to Kinkaid, Dike attended Exeter Academy and the University of Texas and University of Houston. He was owner and president of T.D. Howe and Assoc. Insurance Agency for many years. During retirement, he became a volunteer consultant with the Executive Service Corps of Houston and loved working with the Children’s Museum of Houston as a consultant on risk management. He was a past director of Heights State Bank and Pine Forest Country Club and was an usher at Chapelwood United Methodist Church for over 30 years. Dike enjoyed traveling, cruising, playing bridge and golf, having dinner with wonderful friends, cooking and spending time with his grandchildren. He is survived by his loving wife of 36 years, Sue Baker Howe; his son T. D. Howe IV; his daughter Phyllis H. Chaney; four grandchildren, Chris Chaney, Rebecca Chaney, Cory Chaney and T. D. Howe V and two step-grandchildren, Brian Pender and Jessie Pender; his siblings, Olivia Howe Barstow ’56, Virginia Howe Kincaid ’60 and George Howe ’64 (wife Katherine ’64); and many nieces and nephews, including Kate Howe ’95. Kinkaid was a special place to Dike and his wife; they recently created the Sue and T. D. Howe III Endowed Scholarship Fund. John Lawrence Graham ’81 passed away on July 5 after a two-year battle with ALS. While at Kinkaid, John was a multisport athlete and excelled at debate. He and Keith Fullenweider ’81 were nationally ranked debate partners and both went on to attend Princeton University. At Princeton, John founded one of the first Greek fraternities at Princeton in the modern era, the Princeton chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. After graduating with honors, John went to law school at the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his J.D., cum laude. John practiced law for 28 years; first with Baker Botts in Houston and New York City; then with King & Spalding in New York City; and ultimately with Clifford Chance in both Abu Dhabi and New York City. He focused on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures principally in the telecom and media sectors. John traveled extensively throughout his life and spent his summers in the Hamptons where he enjoyed fishing on his boat and relaxing with family and friends on the beach in Amagansett. John is survived by his two sons, JW and Rome; his mother and father, Barbara Graham Williams (former Kinkaid teacher) and Jack Graham; his sister Mary Margaret Graham ’77; his former wife and the mother of his boys, Michelle Gauthier; and many friends and colleagues. Walter Max Mischer III ’01 passed away on July 7. He was a “lifer” at Kinkaid, where he was a state champion wrestler. He continued his education at Colorado State University, where he completed a degree in business. Following college, Max became a member of the ski patrol at Steamboat Springs Resort. He then returned to Houston earning an MBA from the Jones School of Business at Rice University. Max became Vice President of Mischer Investments, focusing on management of marketable securities, real estate and ranching operations. Outside of work, Max served on the board of the Holocaust Museum and the board committee of the Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital, co-chairing its 2015 gala, in partnership with his wife, Sarah. Above all, Max’s greatest love was for his family and friends. Max is survived by his wife, Sarah Mischer, and their daughters, Molly and Mary Campbell; his parents, Walt ’68 (fs) and Leila Mischer; his sisters, Lawson Mischer ’04 and Morgan Mischer Warth ’05 (fs); his grandparents, Mary Mischer and Sam Winters; his nephew; his aunt, Paula Mischer ’66 (fs); and cousins, including Duncan Watson ’02 (fs).

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ATTENTION ALUMNI!

Seniors with Alumni Parents and Grandparents First Row: Elizabeth Jacobs Labanowski ’73, Todd Siff ’85, Lindsey Siff, Emily Grove, Charlotte Grace Grove ’85, Reagor Wagnon, Jillian Bass, Jackie Fair ’84, Ryan Smith, Melissa O’Toole Smith ’82, Virginia Mary Thompson Brown ’84, Thompson Brown, MaeLissa Brauer Lipman ’85, Jake Lipman, Lauren Herring, Laura Byrd Herring ’76, Isla Winston Reckling ’54 (fs) Second Row: Mary Labanaowski, Graham Gilliam ’78, Conner, Sydney Krantz, Missy Yellen Krantz ’84, Ellen Weingarten Wagnon ’79, Stuart Raty, Jack Schuette, George Clark, Ashley Brunson Clark ’87, Emily Attwell Crosswell ’59, Jackie Goss Cathriner ’81, Virginia Cathriner, T. Reckling Third Row: Charles Roff ’79, Will Roff, Sally Radelat Ray ’79, John Schuette ’85, Annette Faubion Stephens ’82, Lisa Crosswell Stone ’83, Holcombe Crosswell ’59, Bill Cathriner ’81, Laura McMurrey Sheffield ’85, Davis Sheffield, Spencer Oster Fourth Row: Todd Wood ’88, Connor Wood, John Scoffield ’85, Mary Caroline Scoffield, Rebecca Roff, Andrew Roff ’81, Morgan de Marigny ’73, Louise Stephens, Charlotte de Marigny, Emily Stone, Rebecca Leach ’84, Caroline Orr, Lindsey Jacobe, Lee Jacobe ’86, Sarah Kate Cone, Chris Cone ’86, Marc Oster ’83 Not Pictured: Lenox Butcher, Thad Hutcheson ‘58 (fs), Blake Lattimer, Daniel Lattimer ’93, Gail Wolf Orr ’81

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