2013 Connections Magazine

Connections Ro l a n d Pa r k C o u n t ry S c h o o l

Spring 2013

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Feature Articles

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abulous at Forty – Kaleidoscope Lifelong F Learning Program

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Alumna Delivers the Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Lecture

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Camp Pecometh

by Paige North, Upper School History and Grade 9 Level Dean

8 My Year of Magical Training and Travel

by Catherine Proutt Bennett, 1969

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An Adagio Day – the Anne Healy Lecture

12 Alumnae Association Awards Prestigious

McCauley Bowl to Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982

by Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993, Alumnae Association President

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Giving Back Feeds My Soul Profile: Monica Butler Mitchell, 1998

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Connections is published annually for the Roland Park Country School community.

Head of School: Jean Waller Brune Director of Marketing andCommunication: Nancy Mugele Director of Integrated Media Strategies: Kristin Raneri Nicolini, 1998 Assistant Director of Communication: Sarah Cody Proofreaders: Missie Dix Mack, Director of Alumnae Relations, Katy Spencer, 1994 Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations Designer: Paul Miller, Freefall Design Printing: Diversified Printing

Front Cover: Libby Grandy, 2013

Departments 2 Headlines 17 Alumnae Class Notes 114 New Babies in the RPCS Family 116 Memorials

Reprinted with permission of The Baltimore Sun Media Group.

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Headlines Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

–Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War

At Roland Park Country School, our best advertisement for what we mean by An Education Above is the exceptional group of women who proudly call themselves Alumnae. Our Alumnae dare to dream and achieve the impossible.

The late Adrienne Rich, 1947 challenged gender boundaries with her nationally-acclaimed poetry and prose, while Melissa Stark Lilley, 1991, broke them by taking to the sidelines as a reporter for Monday Night Football. The late Virginia Hall, 1924, an undercover spy during World War II, used the acting skills she learned at RPCS and Nicole Ari Parker, 1988 continues to stun audiences and break through color barriers with her deeply honest character portrayals in film and on Broadway.

Catherine Sharkey, 1988, was a beloved goalie while at RPCS whose academic career soared at Yale Law School and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and is now dedicating her life to teaching law as a tenured professor at New York University. Former Trustee Vicki Kummer, 1976 is a litigator and trial attorney handling complex commercial disputes and international arbitrations.

Even recent alumnae are taking great strides toward their dreams. Dr. Lauren Battle Wills, 1998 is the recipient of a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award to support her research in cancer therapeutics in the College of Pharmacy at the Medical University of South Carolina. Beccy Jossowitz, 2004, is a MD/ PhD candidate undertaking extensive stem cell research. Caroline Cobert, 2008, is working on her doctorate in paleopathology while designing an exhibition of the Ti-Ameny-Net mummy.

Current students also dream of making a difference in the world and do so with our guidance. Two years ago, students in the Sustainability Design and Engineering elective researched and developed a proposal for a solar photovoltaic array, and supported their proposal with suggestions on how the solar array could be used to educate the RPCS community about the importance of using solar energy to reduce carbon emissions.

They even secured funding from the Lockhart Vaughan Foundation for the installation of 152 solar panels on the roof of the Lower School.

Martha Isaacs, 2013, Student Government President and President of the Sustainability Club, came to me with a recommendation to discontinue the sale of non-reusable bottles of water in the School Store. Given the Class of 2011 generously donated water bottle filling stations upon their Commencement, I agreed. Martha was also just named a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she will enroll in the fall. The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is the first merit scholarship program established in the United States, founded at our nation’s first public university. Established in 1945 SPRING 2013

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and inspired by the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University, the Morehead-Cain provides an undergraduate experience without peer while providing a four-year merit scholarship. The Morehead-Cain’s purpose is to identify and invest in promising leaders, and Martha is our third Morehead-Cain Scholar in the past four years; all three of our alumnae will be on the UNC campus together next fall. We know Meg VanDeusen, 2010 and Meghan Herwig, 2011 are eagerly awaiting Martha’s arrival!

In the STEM Institute this year, 9th Grader Taylor Brewer and 10th Grader Grace Laria were selected to present their research paper at the 23rd Annual Maryland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. The Effect of Music Volume on Short Term Memory explored how the volume level of background music positively or negatively impacted short term memory. 8th Graders Hailey Morris, Marianna Salvatori and Sally Askew were named National Finalists in the 2012-2013 Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge!, sponsored by Siemens, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers’ Association (NSTA). Middle school teams from across the country competed, and their project, Erosion Stoppers, created sustainable, reproducible environmental improvements in the Backwoods.

Three other 8th Grade teams in the Middle School competed in the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision science competition which encourages students to imagine what technology might be like in the future. The following teams received Honorable Mention: Julia Garber and Danielle Chalecki for Cancer Cell Destructor; Ariel Egbunine and Sophie Shippe for Curatio Treatment; and Mia Thomas and Lindsey Feinstein for Arth-o-Glaze.

Each of these amazing dreamers shares an enduring bond: a thirst for knowledge and lifelong learning, a gift of personal inquisitiveness fostered at RPCS where students learn how to think, not what to think. Perhaps equally important, they also form connections to each other that are second to none.

I am so pleased to present the annual edition of Connections.

Our alumnae never cease to amaze me. The feature articles and the Alumnae Class Notes in this issue demonstrate how An Education Above at RPCS encourages and inspires the incredible women we are so fortunate to call our Alumnae. Their accomplishments speak for themselves.

Jean Waller Brune Head of School

Some of the best minds in Baltimore are teaching at Roland Park Country School. ~ Advertisement in the window of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in the mid-70s

Fabulous at Forty

Kaleidoscope Lifelong Learning Programs

Forty years ago, Alumnae Director Peggy Webb Patterson, 1947, was charged by the Board of Trustees to create outreach programs for alumnae and their friends. The RPCS Evening School was established during the 1972 – 1973 academic year and with Peggy’s guidance, RPCS began to develop and offer courses. The goal was to support the School’s mission to foster a lifelong love of learning in alumnae and sustain their connection to RPCS. One to two classes per year were offered originally and Kay Cavanaugh’s popular course in modern art paved the way for success.

Today, the Kaleidoscope program at RPCS has grown significantly.

Academic courses, book talks, trips, Lower School clubs and summer camps are offered in the fall, spring

and summer semesters. Over 100 Kaleidoscope educational programs and entertainment options with 1000 participants are hosted each semester. Subjects taught include: Foreign Language, Cultural Arts, Creative Pursuits, Film, Personal Development, Culinary Arts, Body, Mind and Soul, Children/Family Programs and Travel. A partnership with Diversions affords Kaleidoscope patrons outstanding seating at major Broadway theater events.

Judy Pittenger, former RPCS faculty member, teaches Great Books. A popular course, this is now offered in the afternoon and the evening, and is fully subscribed with a waiting list!

Kaleidoscope’s reach has expanded exponentially and now includes the greater Baltimore community.

Catalogs are mailed to a database of 13,000, the majority of whom do not have any other connection to RPCS. Kaleidoscope is led by the External Programs Advisory Board who serve as ambassadors to develop and support Kaleidoscope programs and promote the School’s mission of lifelong learning. RPCS is deeply grateful to these dedicated volunteers who help identify opportunities, design programs, provide contacts, chaperone trips and distribute catalogs wherever they can!

For more information or to receive a catalog call Judy Comotto, Director of External Programs at 410.323.5500 x3045 or visit Lifelong Learning at www.rpcs.org.

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Alumna Delivers Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Lecture RPCS was excited to welcome Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 1960 to campus this year as the Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities. Sharon spoke to Upper School students during the day and held an evening lecture. Calling Miss Faissler, “the light of my high school years,” Sharon opened her lecture in the Faissler Library thanking her alma mater and her most beloved teacher.

At RPCS Sharon was known for her love of learning, her conviction and her debating skills! Sharon was an American Field Service Representative in Holland during the summer before her senior year at RPCS. The American Field Service sponsors international travel for high school students as a way of furthering friendship and understanding among the peoples of the world.

With her background at RPCS and abroad and her BA with Honors from Swarthmore, it was only fitting that she became the author of highly-praised books about scientific discoveries and the woman scientists who make them, combining her love of English with her intellectual curiosity.

Sharon is especially interested in exploring the cutting-edge connection between social issues and scientific progress – and in making science clear and interesting to non-specialists.

Thus, her first book dealt with changing patterns of discrimination faced by leading women scientists

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RPCS classmates Sharon and Jean

during the 20th Century. This was the definitive book on Nobel Women in Science and is the book to point to when people ask if there are great women scientists!

Sharon’s talk to the Upper School students focused on these “aristocrats

of science” and described how hard it was for women scientists to become college and university professors.

A senior who told Sharon how much she really came to appreciate her all girls’ education this year in particular, asked Sharon what

Poised and quiet, she possesses a keenly discerning mind and an amazing ability to create vivid images verbally or by drawings.

–1960 Quid Nunc the students could do to make sure women were not discriminated against. Sharon replied, “work for women’s issues.” Her message was to continue to fight against discrimination in all fields.

Sharon’s latest book, The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from

Sharon speaking in the Faissler Library

Two Centuries of Controversy, tells how an 18th Century approach to assessing evidence was ignored for much of the 20th Century before – in an overnight sea change – it permeated our modern lives. It was described by Nature magazine as a rollicking tale of the triumph of a powerful mathematics tool which was impressively researched. Sharon focused her evening lecture on this

book and was surprised when one member of the Coast Guard who had been interviewed for the book came to the lecture.

The Class of 1960 had many members in attendance to hear Sharon, including Head of School Jean Waller Brune, 1960 who delighted in introducing her classmate. RPCS connections last a lifetime!

About the Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Lecture Through the generosity of the late Charles Crane, a Baltimore businessman and philanthropist, an endowment was established at Roland Park Country School in 1993. This fund was created in loving memory of Mr. Crane’s mother, Sarah Crane Cohen, a warm and compassionate woman who possessed a genuine fondness for all people. The Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities endowment brings a distinguished educator to campus each year.

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Camp Pecometh

By Paige North, Upper School History and Grade 9 Level Dean

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or the seven years that I have been a teacher and ninth grade advisor at Roland Park, the ninth grade has made its annual pilgrimage to Camp Pecometh for an overnight retreat. Our backdrop is the bucolic Eastern Shore, with soybean and corn fields that stretch for miles, and a night’s sky that features more stars than we ever see on a daily basis, living as most of us do in the metropolitan area. There were many moments of breathtaking awe – from the sun-kissed faces of our charges to the glow of the evening bonfire to the frequent sight of girls linked arm-in-arm skipping towards dinner with shoulders unburdened by the demands of homework, practices, and other commitments. It is a wonderful gift to feel free for a mere twenty-four hours.

While the two hundred acres of Chester River waterfront have come to occupy a special place in the hearts

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of the entire ninth grade advising team, for me it signifies another sort of homecoming in that I was raised several miles from the camp. Camp Pecometh was always a known entity during my childhood and it is therefore a place of comforting familiarity. Given that most things in life make their way full circle, it is not surprising that this place – a place where I came of age – is where I am blessed to engage in some of my most meaningful work as an adult in helping our students to do the same.

It also comes as no surprise that under the auspices of guiding and mentoring those I am privileged to call my students and advisees, I always find myself duly humbled by them and the lessons they offer me. These spirited and generous young women manage to teach me more about the capacity to give and love and grow than I think I ever teach them.

The purpose of our retreat is to do just that: collectively retreat from

one’s familiar surroundings and seek to understand a bit more about our world from both an individual and a group perspective. As idyllic as the setting is, this retreating business is actually hard work. As a class, in advisories, and during solo reflections, we ALL –students and advisors alikemust step outside of our comfort zones. In large and small groups, we spend the first day problem solving with trained facilitators who gently guide us through the ins and outs of forging a class identity and learning to work together as a team. Low ropes courses and a fair share of honest reflection can be intimidating for the sole reason that they demand that we face some piece of ourselves in need of tweaking and ask that it be shared.

Such exercises are, I think, so hugely important in this watershed moment of high school. Our facilitators spoke of stewardship, of service leadership, and above all, of learning how to celebrate the gifts and strengths of

I always find myself duly humbled by them and the lessons they offer me. These spirited and generous young women manage to teach me more about the capacity to give and love and grow than I think I ever teach them. others before seeking to celebrate ourselves. And it isn’t as easy as it sounds.

One moment (among many) illustrates this. During the Thursday evening bonfire, each advisory performed fairy tale skits. They were given a bag of random props and all of fifteen minutes to prepare the skits before performing them in front of the class. One of the skits was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and the advisory chose one classmate to play the part of the mirror. As two girls stood and faced one another and made steady eye contact (one as the wicked queen and the other, her vexingly hilarious mirror), it occurred to me that this act of looking in a mirror and seeing someone else is actually an appropriate metaphor for what the retreats are all about. It is sometimes easy to stand in front of a mirror and greet the safe familiarity of one’s own reflection. It is more difficult to gaze into a mirror, only to see oneself in another person, and to then do the soul-searching work of reflecting upon her struggles and strengths so that in turn she may feel better understood and supported.

I am proud of the Class of 2016 for channeling their formidable energy and joie de vivre towards

these lofty goals. It isn’t always easy to transition from one division of the school to another. It isn’t easy to be a new name and face amidst so many unfamiliar faces and personalities.

It is downright intimidating to be thrust into a throng of your peers, aware of friendships forged, broken, changed, and in question. Navigating high school is tricky business, and this ninth grade rose to meet these challenges with grace, spirit, and humility. I was witness to more random acts of kindness than I think most people give teenagers credit for being capable of offering. That wonderful term “service leadership” was showcased in such great volume that even the head of the challenge course remarked upon the many positive leaders we have in this, the

on Friday, I noted the weathered farewell sign posted at the exit: “May God be with you until we meet again.” Faith aside, I treasure this simple message because it implies the hope of return to a place – physical or otherwise – where renewal, selfdiscovery, and connecting with others are possible. Hope is possible, and that is a very powerful thing. For the Class of 2016, I hope the retreat reinforced that there is strength in their numbers. Holding up a mirror and seeing the beauty in others is a really great way of recognizing what you yourself have to offer. Whether they ever return to Camp Pecometh or not, I trust that after our time there together, each girl has 85 individual reminders of what it means to lead, to serve, and to know that they, too, can

largest ninth grade to ever grace Roland Park’s Upper School. For many on this year’s retreat, I think it proved to the girls that there is always an opportunity to begin anew and refashion oneself. And they did.

It is always amazing what positive reinforcement can do. If one is told that one is a leader, or that one possesses a strong moral compass, one can become a leader and use that moral compass in service of the larger community.

As our buses left Camp Pecometh

come full circle in their relationships and their dreams. May they look in the mirror and be proud of what they see in themselves and in one another, and may their four years in the Upper School bring hope and reflection to all that they do.

Editor’s Note: Paige North was the recipient of the Apgar Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009 and the Davidov Faculty Prize in 2012.

She also serves on the Admissions Committee.

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by Catherine Proutt Bennett, 1969 Director of The Michael Phelps Swim School

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n the summer of 1964 I started teaching swimming lessons at Meadowbrook Pool. I worked teaching lessons, life guarding, and managing the business through all of the summers from 1964, through RPCS, and until I graduated from college. I also swam.

In the 1969 Quid Nunc I noted on my senior page: “Stacks of swimming medals – I’m not that good though.”

Yet, it was the teaching aspect that really motivated me.

The summer after college I got a job teaching in York, PA and became deeply committed to the profession. I taught Kindergarten and Pre First at Cedarcroft School from 1980 – 1995 while also teaching swimming lessons in the summer. I finally realized that the teaching of swimming was my passion. I developed a curriculum and way of teaching that promoted and supported Meadowbrook’s philosophy of building comfort and confidence in the water. I was eventually charged with building a swim school that had excellent quality instruction which would prepare swimmers for recreation and

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Cathy with Michael Phelps

exercise, employment or competitive swimming. We continued (and still continue) to adapt the curriculum as we go. We hope that everyone is comfortable in the water, learns the properties of water and how their body reacts to these properties, and will swim until they are at least 100 years old.

Things really changed for me in 2009 when Michael Phelps’ success in the pool began to help the sport to grow. At age five Michael was in my summer lesson program, and I get the credit for being his first swim instructor! Michael wanted to make swimming lessons available to more people so he took over the North Baltimore Swim School and renamed it the Michael Phelps Swim School. In addition he started a foundation with a dedication to The Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The foundation awards grants to Boys and Girls Clubs to hold a special eight week Learn to Swim Program comprised of swimming, nutrition and goal setting.

The Michael Phelps Swim School is responsible for training the aquatic directors and swim instructors at the Boys and Girls Clubs. We now have clubs in 38 states.

The Foundation has also recently partnered with Special Olympics.

The Michael Phelps Swim School has always worked with special needs

athletes and Meadowbrook donates pool space for the Baltimore City Special Olympic Swim team but this has been something very unique.

Special Olympics International has adopted our method of teaching and would like all of their athletes worldwide to experience. In the spring of 2012 we held our first demonstration and training for Special Olympic Coaches from eight countries. In the summer of 2011 I was invited by Special Olympics to attend and do a short demonstration in Athens for the Special Olympic Summer Games.

The relationship between Special Olympics and the Michael Phelps Swim School has developed and grown this past year. Anne Turner Lawler, 1975, who joined Meadowbrook in 1996, and I started the season in Puerto Rico at a Special Olympics International Swim Meet.

Their goal for the next Summer Games is to have all participants trained by the Michael Phelps Swim School. I have travelled to South Korea, China and will be in Ireland in June holding Train the Trainers workshops for Special Olympics.

I am calling the next year My Year of Magical Training and Travel. I am very excited about the opportunities that I have been presented with.

Teaching swimming is very special.

There is a moment when a child or adult learns that they can trust the water and what their body will do in the water. It is a magical moment when buoyancy and balance are realized and a person can float.

Learning to swim has many, many benefits. The most basic benefit is that learning to swim will save your life. Learning to swim is important in more subtle ways. It is a fantastic sport because it is easy on the joints, keeps you in great shape, and is good for your heart. About ten years ago

I was eventually charged with building a swim school that had excellent quality instruction which would prepare swimmers for recreation and exercise, employment or competitive swimming.

I realized how great swimming is for the autistic population as well as other special needs children and adults. Using the water to make you feel good, to provide exercise and to give you inner peace is wonderful.

I have discovered how learning to swim can help children learn better, become more focused and learn to use their bodies in an organized fashion.

Because of Michael Phelps I have had

the opportunity to learn more and to experiment with new challenges. It has been an amazing journey.

I think many of us realized as we graduated and went off to college that our preparation at RPCS was outstanding. We were good workers, good questioners, good people. We had been challenged. We were taught to accept a challenge and we were taught how to go the extra mile. We understood when it was important to ask questions, and Mrs. Brock taught me to outline! RPCS instilled in me a quiet confidence. Not a day goes by that I do not use these skills. When my daughters Jenn Lears Lohse, 1997, who has helped develop a swim program for autistic children and their families, and Erin Lears Richardson, 2001, the Assistant Director of Annual Giving at RPCS, attended our School I was re-challenged by RPCS, and when we had a tragedy in our family, RPCS was there for us. I remember all of this, and it impacts what I do and what I hope to do each and every day.

Cathy (center) with Anne Turner Lawler, 1975 in Puerto Rico with Special Olympic coaches.

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An Adagio Day Steven Galloway returned to Baltimore as this year’s celebrated author at the Anne Healy endowed lecture, after speaking at One Maryland One Book this past fall.

Celebrating its fifth year in 2012, One Maryland One Book, a program of the Maryland Humanities Council, brings together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book. This year’s chosen selection for Maryland as well

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as a summer reading selection for all RPCS employees was international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo

by Canadian-born author Steven Galloway.

This novel tells the story of three people trying to survive in a war torn city, but their story has universal resonance. Although the author compresses the time of the siege of Sarajevo – the longest city siege in modern warfare, the title character is based on a real person and an actual event. On May 27, 1992, several mortar shells struck a group of people waiting in a bread line.

Twenty-two people were killed, so for the next twenty-two days cellist Vedran Smailović played Albinoni’s Adagio once a day to honor the victims. The cellist’s actions inspired the novel, but more importantly his music healed the soul of all of the protagonists, including the cellist.

Steven Galloway shared his thoughts on how war can change one’s definition of humanity, how music affects our emotional endurance, and how the rituals of daily life can, in fact, be a form of resistance. Steven

expressed his resounding message of hope to the audience in the crowded Sinex Theater. “What does hope accomplish,” Galloway asked the juniors and seniors rhetorically. “It keeps you alive,” he answered.

When asked in a recent interview how he became a writer Galloway responded: “I got caught skipping English class in twelfth grade. My teacher threatened to turn me in to the Principal unless I attended a writing workshop where you got

Steven with Jean

Though the setting is the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s,

Steven Galloway in Upper School English class.

this gripping novel transcends time and place. It is a universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amidst the most

About the Anne Healy Lecture

unimaginable horrors.

The Anne Healy endowment was

—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

created to honor Miss Healy who served as the Head of School for

to submit your work to a published author for review. Since it was not the first time I had skipped class, I decided I better go to the workshop.

So I went and within twenty minutes a big light went on in my head – ‘I like this’ (not that I’m necessarily any good at it, but I like it!), and here I am years later.” In addition to the lecture, students in AP English had an opportunity to work with Steven Galloway in small groups during his time on campus and learned some valuable writing tips to use in their own work.

Galloway once said: “If you can’t deliver a story that people care about, and fundamentally want to find out what happens, be surprised and be moved, it doesn’t really matter what else you’re doing. People don’t read to be morally hectored, they read for stories. If you’re sneaky you can give them morality too, but first and foremost you’ve got to be able to tell a story.”

And tell a story, he certainly can.

Beautifully. Poignantly. And with so much heart.

twenty-five years, from 1950 1975.

A special day is set aside

each year and a distinguished person in the field of letters is invited to meet and work with groups of students during the school day and to present an evening program for students, faculty and members of the larger school community.

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McCauley Bowl Awarded to Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982 With excerpts from remarks by Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993, President, Alumnae Association at the Reunion Weekend Champagne Reception

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would like to welcome you all back to Roland Park Country School. First, I want to thank the Semiquavers for a wonderful performance, as usual. I say “as usual” because I was President of the Semis almost twenty years ago and I know how hard they work to represent the School. My mother, Anne Bennett White Swingle, 1962 is also here celebrating her 50th Reunion, so as you can imagine, RPCS is in our blood.

One of the highlights of the Champagne Reception is to honor an alumna with the Alumnae Association’s most prestigious award, the McCauley Bowl. The McCauley SPRING 2013

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Bowl is awarded periodically to an alumna or other member of the school community who has distinguished herself through long service to the school and its graduates. This award is made in memory of and in gratitude for the life of Bell Lazenby McCauley, 1931. Mrs. McCauley’s life of service defines the standards and values, which are used by the Board of the Alumnae Association in selecting recipients of this honor.

The family wishes the Alumnae Board to make this award only intermittently as an exceptionally worthy candidate is proposed, but hopes the Board will feel free to place a broad interpretation on the

Ingrid Boynton Polk 1982 Quid Nunc

(l to r) Elsa Boynton, Tim Polk, Ingrid and George Boynton

I absolutely adore volunteering! I do it for three reasons: to be around my daughters and help make their day a little brighter, to meet and get to know other wonderful parents as we take on projects together (many of whom have actually become some of my best friends in life), and to get to know the amazing faculty and employees at RPCS. They are second to none in my book.

–Ingrid Polk

criteria. Marsha McCauley Sutton, 1957 one of Bell’s twin daughters, is here tonight celebrating her 55th Reunion, and we would like to thank her and her family for continuing to support the Alumnae Association with this award.

Our recipient this year is Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982, who wrote on her Quid Nunc page: no matter how far apart we might spread, this bond can never be broken. The turnout for the Class of 1982 this evening is a testament to that quote.

Voted Class Leader in her yearbook, Ingrid was a 12-year girl and senior class president. She was very active in athletics, playing field hockey, basketball and lacrosse, and was the recipient of the White Blazer Award, the School’s highest athletic accolade as well as the Herbert E. Witz Award for leadership and undaunted loyalty as evidenced by service to School and community. She was also on the technical crew for the Living Reproductions and the Layout editor her senior year for Quid Nunc.

Ingrid has many connections to RPCS. She had two aunts who graduated from RPCS, as well as a sister Nicole who attended, and a sister Allison, who graduated in the Class of 1988. She sent her two daughters here as well. Natalie, 2012 graduated in May and Kristin, 2014 is a junior. Ingrid has worked

tirelessly for our School and for that we are deeply grateful. The list of her volunteer activities is lengthy. Ingrid served on the Alumnae Board and has chaired annual giving efforts for her Class as well as planned every reunion for the past 30 years! Ingrid has served as Decade and Grade Chair for Annual Giving as well as Class Agent. For the Parents’ Association, Ingrid has served as Lower School and Upper School Network Chair, Mentor, Volunteer Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Little Red Cook Book with her classmate Valerie Edwards Vaile which earned $12,000 for the School. She also served as a Centennial Representative for the 100th Anniversary of RPCS. In an email to Missie Mack, Director of Alumnae Relations regarding her 30th Reunion, Ingrid wrote: We will keep looking for someone to head our reunion. If not, I can certainly do it since I have done it every time since we graduated.

Ingrid, we are grateful for your dedication to your Class and your wholehearted love for Roland Park Country School, which is obvious from this long list of efforts. We thank you so much for all of your time and support, and we know you deserve this. You are definitely an exceptionally worthy candidate.

Congratulations!

McCauley Bowl Past Recipients 1990: Eleanor Graham, 1916 1991: Helen Metcalfe Duncan, 1921 and Elizabeth Protzman Webb, 1921 1992: Judy Waters, 1950 1993: Marguerite Kelley - Honorary Alumna 1994: Kay Hamilton Cavanaugh, 1937 1995: Anne Healy - Honorary Alumna and former Headmistress (1950 - 1975) 1997: Peggy Webb Patterson, 1947 2000: Agness Fulton Bond, 1941 2002: Betty Ann Schmick Howard, 1957 2003: Celeste Woodward Applefeld, 1964 2006: Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964 and Janie Susemihl Griffin, 1974 2007: Jane Desvarreux January Daniels, 1982 2008: Courtney Jones McKeldin, 1958 and Pam Miller Loya, 1969 2009: Lil Wise, 1950 2010: Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948 2011: Jane Wilhelm Daniels, 1946

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Tradition and Innovation Live in Harmony During the winter season at Roland Park Country School, each Division presents a musical performance.

While the December Lower School Holiday Concert and the January Middle School Winter Program represent the religious and cultural diversity of our student body and the RPCS community, the Upper School Christmas Program, one of the School’s oldest traditions, continues today almost unchanged.

This beautiful program, whch celebrated 90 years in December, combines the voices of our Upper School Chorus, Gospel Choir, Employee Singers, Somettos and Semiquavers, poetry read by members of our Footlights

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Theatre Ensemble, and most notably the Living Reproductions of art that have awed audiences for years. The figures are represented by our Middle School students holding the correct pose for an unbelievably long time, and the work behind the scenes is equally impressive.

As stated in the 1922 Quid Nunc: on “the last day before School closed for Christmas vacation, the Upper and Lower Schools joined in carol-singing and in a series of tableaux depicting famous Christmas paintings.”

Biblical readings preceded the viewing of each tableau. It is said that English teacher Helen Irvin was so inspired by the tableaux she saw while in Oxford, England, that she brought the idea back to RPCS. During these early days, Miss Irvin supervised the production’s staging and costuming. In 1945, under the guidance of art teacher Elizabeth Winn, an industrious RPCS eighth

Some artists begin with human models or still life arrangements and begin their work from there. Roland Park Country School starts with famous pieces of art and Carol Witz Hunt, 1976, Deborah Banker Doyle, 1975 and Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 with Deborah’s sculpture.

grader volunteered to help paint her first tableau flat. Today, that student, Judy Waters, a graduate of the Class of 1950 and a former, long-time Upper School art teacher, continues as the Artistic Designer and Director of these living reproductions of religious paintings and sculptures.

Over the years Ms. Waters has been aided by many alumnae.

Most notably, for over 30 years, Janet Bauer Hartman, 1968, former Middle School Art Teacher, was invaluable in assisting in the design and production. Amy Barrett Frew, 1972, Middle School Math joined the production for many years to help her aunt. Annie Ferebee Short, 2001, Middle and Upper School Dance who worked on the stage crew for the living reproductions as an RPCS student has been involved for several years. A former student of

Judy Waters and former Trustee and President of the Parents’ Association Carol Witz Hunt, 1976, took a leadership role and was an integral part of the past few productions as an artistic assistant. Carol is intent upon working to continue this tradition rather than see it fade away.

She worked on the organization of the program and developed the backdrops and props. This past year Kathy Shade Hooper, 1972 also lent a helping hand.

Another RPCS alumna, sculptor Deborah Banker Doyle, 1975, produced the Christ Child for Rest on the Flight to Egypt, a new living reproduction which debuted in 2011 and graciously donated the piece to RPCS. She is a professional sculptor, who teaches sculpture at St. Johns College in Annapolis and at Glenelg Country School. The sculpture is a

works backwards. life-sized reproduction of a cherub sized Christ Child, who is seated on his mother’s right thigh. He is reaching up toward Joseph, who is offering Him a date from a tree that has lowered one of its branches, so that they could enjoy its fruit during their difficult flight to Egypt. This relief sculpture by Carlo Monaldi (1683 – 1760) is in The Pantheon in Rome and was a wonderful addition to these beautiful pieces of living art.

RPCS is dedicated to upholding tradition and promoting innovation.

By working together, these alumnae have been able to capture the nostalgia of the living reproductions and sustain the tradition through all these years.

Words cannot fully describe this moving, aesthetic performance. It is awesome in the truest sense of the word. If you have not seen it, join us on December 19, 2013.

The Christmas Program Endowment was created by the late Elizabeth Edgar Swope, 1931 whose generosity helped to sustain the Christmas Program each year for many decades. In honor of the School’s Centennial, Mrs. Swope established an endowment to ensure the continuation of this treasured RPCS tradition.

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Giving Back Feeds My Soul

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eneath Monica Butler Mitchell’s senior portrait in the 1998 Quid Nunc, is a thoughtful and revealing quote, I came here a child; I leave a woman. Monica believes that while children can sometimes be focused on themselves, it was at Roland Park Country School where she gained the maturity to see that the world is a much bigger place. She learned that there is value in making someone else’s life better; a passion she holds dear. “It was because of my experiences and education at RPCS that I became the person I am today,” Monica said. And, she attributes her approach to life, her commitment to community service and her empathetic nature to lessons learned at RPCS. Monica is deeply grateful for the gift of her education. Her single mother worked hard to send her and her brother to independent schools and Monica received financial assistance to attend RPCS. “I was the recipient of kindness,” said Monica recently, “and I am so fortunate to be able to give back.” Monica remembers that it was her 4th Grade teacher Carole Redline, and a project to make 20 meat sandwiches for My Sister’s Place, that changed her life forever. She realized then while handing out the lunches that there were people “just like me,” who might need a helping hand at a particularly difficult time in their lives, and she desired to lend her hand.

Monica participated in Magic Me at RPCS, an afterschool program that

Monica, who mentors with Big Brothers Big Sisters is pictured with her “Little Sister” Taliyah at a Ravens game.

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From Monica’s Facebook page:

Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

–unknown

brought students to area retirement communities to visit with the residents.

“The conversations were fulfilling,” said Monica, who also remembers reading to students and working in the classrooms at Furman L. Templeton Elementary School in Baltimore City.

“It impacted me that the First Graders did not have their own text books.

How can you learn if you do not even have your own books?” Recently, Monica returned to Templeton Elementary School with her company and helped with a building renovation.

As life came full circle, she began to think about ways to give back to RPCS. A member of the RPCS Alumnae Board, Monica wanted to give the School as much as she could afford at the beginning of her career. So, at the age of 28, she made a deferred gift in the form of a life insurance policy and created a $25,000 policy which RPCS owns and is the beneficiary. Charitable life insurance policies provide a tax deduction to the donor while supporting the School.

Monica does not take her good fortune for granted. She supports RPCS for its many wonderful opportunities, its faculty and the lifelong friendships formed with classmates. She fondly remembers Judy Pittenger’s class. “I did not appreciate history at the time, and worked the hardest in that class, but, the amount of information that I retained is amazing! I love history now.” She really enjoyed English with Anne Heuisler who had a “fun approach to the classics and encouraged

us to think creatively. She brought modern day applications to Shakespeare and I will never forget the discussions.”

Monica Butler Mitchell, a graduate of the University of Maryland, works in the finance industry. Her job as Vice President, Senior Relationship Manager at Wells Fargo Bank was created for her and is “the perfect role for me as I get to pursue my passion for community development initiatives and community service events on a state-wide level. I have built a Habitat for Humanity home with President Jimmy Carter and have attended events with poet Maya Angelou. I am involved in issues like providing healthy food to those in need, finding affordable housing and supporting education. It feeds my soul.”

Named to the list of Maryland Daily Record VIP in 2011 and Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2012, Monica lives and breathes her commitment to helping others both personally and professionally. One of 54 hand-selected leaders to attend the 2013 Class of Greater Baltimore Committee Leadership program, Monica will meet and learn from some of the region’s most influential leaders and come to understand Baltimore City from a completely new perspective. She is up to the task!

RPCS is eternally grateful for her planned gift to help guarantee lifechanging opportunities for future students.

Alumnae Class Notes

Members of the Alumnae Board at the Tri Board Reception: Sabrina Johnson Turner, 1998, Elizabeth Massing, 1993, Kate Jordan, 1998, Sarah Harrison, 2001, Stefanie Warns, 1998, Sally Foley, 1956, Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, 1994, Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993 and Harriet Cullison Quandt, 1936

The annual spring issue of Connections is a labor of love and we thank each of the eloquent Class Reps who submitted news and notes for the magazine.

Another way to stay connected is with the launch of the RPCS Alumnae Online Community – where you will be able to stay connected online. This summer you will receive login and password information to access your account. Please take a few moments to login and update your contact information. You will be able to register for Reunion Weekend events, submit Class Notes, find classmates, as well as other RPCS alumnae who live near you. We hope you will join us online.

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Alumnae Class Notes Class of 1945 Sunny Klein Lee beach2212@verizon.net In two more years we will be celebrating our 70th Reunion. Imagine that! We have experienced WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and now many conflicts around the globe. Shirley Temple was our first big movie star. Going to see Gone with The Wind was a major event, at least for me. In the area of arts and literature, many artists and authors have entertained us. Radio gave way to TV and from “party lines” to iPads, iPhones and all the other modern technological means of communication have been developed.

A lifetime of advancement! Thanks to text messaging and answering machines, I have been able to contact our classmates. Betty Corddry and I had a nice conversation about Snow Hill, MD and the renewal of the historical area, which is of interest to her through family history. Betty is now writing poetry in hopes of getting her works published in the future. Mary Ellen Dandy Marmaduke continues to be very involved in the Walter E. Dandy Neurological Society, Oregon Health and Science University and is now preparing neighbors, and neighborhoods for an impending earthquake, which is scientifically imminent to hit the west coast area. She emphasizes the need to be prepared with water, phones, radio, food and to have personal documents safely stored. Mary Ellen, you are a true humanitarian, and so full of energy! Mary Frech Lamborg (Freckles) and Marv were in the process of unpacking boxes as they had just downsized to a new home.

They enjoy their two grandchildren, one of whom is studying in Sochi, Russia on the Black Sea. This granddaughter is a junior in high school, and hopes to gain employment with the Olympics in 2014. That’s very exciting! I found beautiful pictures of Sochi on the internet. Ursula Stewart Koerber and Pat Waters Barrett live at Blakehurst and take advantage of the many opportunities to attend cultural events at the Lyric, Hippodrome and other venues. Often, they have dinner together. Both of them seem to be well.

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kept very connected to Roland Park with daughters and granddaughters. As she said, “Roland Park is like my second home.” Pat has been in the same Book Club for many years, and enjoys reading. Mary Wilhelm Barton (Jinx) lives in her home on Tibbs Lane, and follows her interests and keeps very busy.

Marion Marshall Hooper (Dicky) and Laurie continue to enjoy family visits and activities with friends in warm sunny Florida. Catharine Foster Black (Kitty) and Walt are residents of William Hill Manor in Easton. Kitty is currently busy as co-chairman of the facility Treasure Sale, to be held in May. Bill and I are fortunate enough to have lunch with Kitty and Walt occasionally, although not as much as we would like. When I spoke to Betty Ruth Cleaver (Beatle) up in Providence, RI, she was looking out at a beautiful winter wonderland.

She has many opportunities to stay active, and looks forward to playing tennis in the spring and summer. Speaking of tennis, Margaret Fox Rawls (Mardy) celebrated her 85th birthday on the courts with friends, followed by dinner. Recently, Mardy was notified that an undergraduate group in Oxford, England had transformed Jack’s first philosophy book into a musical. That was a very exciting surprise! Each summer she takes her annual pilgrimage to France to paint. Mardy is very

Mardy Fox Rawls, 1945 with her daughters Anne and Liz

Mardy Fox Rawls, 1945 in France

active, keeping fit through exercise, shoveling snow and gardening. The golfer in the group is Martha Lewis Kingsford (Lewie). Although she has given up on tennis, she stays very fit.

Dolly Eisenbrandt Sener is in Chestertown as of the time of this writing, but sorry to say I did not connect with her. Bill and I enjoy 21 grandchildren between us, and seven great grands on my side. They keep us busy with birthdays and events, so we travel back and forth to Baltimore frequently. Our trip this spring was a driving tour throughout the south, with a stay in Covington, LA to welcome a great granddaughter and to attend Whitney’s graduation from Law School. Elizabeth and David, sister and brother, are both getting married this year; May 4 and October 12.

More trips to Baltimore. This year has been a banner year for my oldest son, Bruce. In February he was appointed Federal Court Magistrate Judge, and then qualified for the U.S. triathlon team. In September, we will be off to London to see him compete in the world competition. My son, Gary, is a senior vicepresident with PHH in Cockeysville, and my youngest son, Richard, successfully owns and operates two seafood businesses in Harford County. Daughter Sunny continues to travel as a technology trainer for AT&T. That’s it for now. Keep in touch. Stay well and exercise!

Class of 1948 Ann Wittich Warfield annwarfield@gmail.com I am so sorry to have to report to you all that Nancy Jean Curtis Blaine’s husband died this fall after several months of illness. Theirs was a Hopkins/Goucher romance and Dee was always very supportive of Nancy and RPCS. A blessing for her is that her three children and many grandchildren live very close in Charlotte. Mollie Allen said that she really enjoyed meeting with Jean Waller Brune, 1960 and Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964 when they were in the Big Apple recently. Barbara Hoffhines Yellott is now living at Pickersgill in Towson and continues to keep her mind stimulated with courses at Osher, a continuing education program at Towson University. Dot Obrecht Johnson is one of our two classmates with five great grandchildren, hers are all boys!

She is looking forward to a granddaughter getting married in September. Margaret Herman (Mari) is very enthusiastic about her cat, Finlander, who is now a Double Grand Champion. She traveled to Russia to get him as a kitten. She is looking for more competition at another show to be held in Denver in July.

Good luck Mari and Finlander! Margaret Crawford Demere is living in Alabama now near her daughter, Jody, which is comforting because her husband, Charlie, has been very ill. She is the other classmate with five great grandchildren but she has boys and girls. A great email from Mary Sturgis Wolfe which I shall quote: she hurts, aches, reads, is a whiz at crossword puzzles, watches TV, swims, enjoys evening cocktail(s) and is happy to retire at 9 o’clock. Ditto for many of us I think. Her daughter, Torrey, lives with her - Florida in the winter and summer in New England. Cynthia Troxell Dunoyer is a very accomplished classmate. In addition to her dressage prowess, she had an exhibition of her lovely water colors in a gallery in Paris last summer. I was thrilled when she sent me a calendar with twelve of her paintings! Carolyn Demarest Wells has moved to a condominium at Adam’s Farm in Shrewsbury, Mass. and happily celebrated with Jerry their 60th anniversary with all her family recently. They enjoy music festivals and concerts and lots of activities in Worcester.

Summers are at the Mergantic Club in Maine.

One of my son Guy’s specialties is having pig roasts - so he and his siblings planned one for us as a Farewell to Coniston Road in October.

We used the gathering as an opportunity to have a “Giveaway” in our garage. It made the trauma (to me) of leaving after 45 years

Jane Young Acton, 1948 and Sally Long Buck, 1948

a bit easier - and now that we are settled at Blakehurst. I wonder why I dreaded it so much.

What’s not to like about this very easy life? Of course, fortunately we will still spend four months in Michigan in the summer, although I hope I will not have forgotten to cook by then!

It was a disappointment to me that, despite several phone calls and postcards I was unable to reach Sally Long Buck, Tillie Jones Bayless, Kitty Lewis, Betty Harris Goldstein, Becky Near Taylor, and Sybil Looper Chandler.

Come on gals help me out or next year I will make up a whole lot of stuff about you!

rush out and get vaccinated.) Her Christmas card picture with her family of fifteen on the beach at their summer place in Small Point, ME, looks just like the same jolly Sabra we all remember. Pam Sylvester O’Dowd keeps very busy with a rigorous exercise program, bridge, social activities and volunteering her nursing skills at the local hospital in Berlin, MD. Following in the musical tradition of her grandfather (first cellist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestras) and her own piano playing, Pam’s daughter, a singer, heads the music department in a school in Virginia and her granddaughter is a college freshman majoring in stage direction. In the spring, Bob and Karen Howard Hamer went on an interesting Elder Hostel tour of historic Richmond followed in June by a tour of Scandinavia. (Karen had long ago visited Danish cousins of her mother’s several times.) In October they made an annual visit to Vermont. Carolyn Smith enjoys being a docent on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus where she has seen many changes.

Phil and I, Betsy Wilkins McMaster, have had a pretty quiet year which at our age is not a bad thing. Phil spends a lot of time enjoying painting classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and the 125-year-old Providence Art Club. He plays tennis with other octogenarians twice a week and in season we sail our 14-foot cat boat. We belong to a Shakespeare Reading club. I belong to a 114-year-old women’s debating club – serious debating, not like the set tirades of political candidates (Wouldn’t Miss Faissler be proud – and astonished?) My major volunteer effort for twelve years or so has been tutoring English as a second language.

Class of 1949 Betsey Wilkins McMaster Mousamryc@verizon.net When I look at Class Notes from RPCS, I am amazed at how large recent classes are compared to 1949 which varied between eight (Second Main) and seventeen. Joan Brigstocke Lyons (cousin of Judith Brigstocke Hundertmark, 1950) joined us our senior year, becoming immediately a jolly, outgoing addition to our group. (Her school in York, PA had closed that year, leaving Joan and her brother Dick, to find schools near relatives in Baltimore.) Joan went on to Duke University. Over the years I was lucky enough to connect with her several times in Bethesda and Connecticut. After almost a year, Sabra Toulson Jayne has mostly recovered from her bad case of shingles (which prompted me to

Pam Sylvester O’Dowd, 1949 and Cordie Lee “Trip” Moody Wilkinson, 194

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My most recent student has been a Chinese professor of medical education who was sent here for a year to study American medical education and make recommendations to her government. She is delightful, but I think I may have learned more from her than she did from me. Trip Mooney Wilkinson reports that she is keeping busy with her activities in Lewes and has no desire to seek the warmth of Florida.

Shirley Wingo Hooper is still enjoying her home of forty years in Ruxton. On a sad note, Shirley reported that Joan Brawner Blueford died in early January after a long illness. Joan had been in a nursing home for a number of years - Keswick, Brighton Gardens and Emeritus. I last saw Joan at our 45th RPCS Reunion when she seemed very well and happily married to Bill Blueford who had the courage to attend the reunion and meet us all.

He has predeceased her. Joan is survived by four children from her first marriage. We shall always remember her twinkly eyes and merry sense of humor.

Class of 1950 Polly Powell Gregory pollygregory2@gmail.com Polly Powell Gregory mentions that classmates in the Baltimore area try to meet twice a year for lunch or dinner. Last time they met was Christmastime. Not much is new or changed.

Being 80 has its limitations. Nancy Randall Rouse’s granddaughter, Georgia Gould (and daughter of Susan Rouse Gould, 1976) was quite busy this past summer bicycling in the London Olympics. Georgia won a bronze medal for women’s mountain biking on the same day as Nancy’s birthday! What a special day for her family. Judith Brigstocke Hundertmark reports she is excited for her granddaughter’s college graduation! She enjoys

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Susie Passano Macfarlane, 1950 and family at the graduation of her granddaughter Kate Long, 2005 from Law School

life at Broadmead. Susie Passano Macfarlane shares: My granddaughter, Katherine Long, 2005, received her MA from the Lauder School of International Studies, part of the Wharton School, and her JD Law degree from Penn just a day apart! Kate, as she is now known, received the Hiltgunt Zassenhaus award at RPCS and in learning about the Lauder Schools’s values and purpose, it seemed that maybe she was following that global caring in her work at Lauder. Next month Kate’s brother, Graham, will be graduating from St. Andrews in Scotland. With parents Margie and George living in China and all of them speaking Chinese, they are a very global family.

Sadly, the Class of 1950 sends their sympathy to the family of classmate, Carol Lynch Perry, who passed away on April 1, 2013.

Class of 1953 Lucy Fallon Otto jrotto2@gmail.com Thanks to Parker Gundry Trostel and Beverly Busick Pearson for responding to my plea for news. Beverly said she and her family were all well – no noteworthy news. At our age no news is probably the best news. Parker wrote that their biggest news is that Molly, their granddaughter from Alaska became engaged.

She has graduated from Bard College. She and Al are healthy and involved with University of Minnesota’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Parker is also a hospice volunteer. The rest of the family are busy and well. Jean Horst Gore is well – Ken is battling eye problems.

Jean continues riding and competing. Their grandsons are thriving, one having graduated from Hobart College and the other at Colgate.

Jean manages to keep our class Annual Giving at a very high participation level. We thank her! Rollin and I are well – he also is fighting macular degeneration but doing very well.

We spend the summers at the beach. Our

children and grandchildren are a huge source of joy. Our oldest graduated from Virginia Tech, another is there, and the other three in college are at Stevenson University, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton. Our youngest granddaughter is a junior in high school and headed towards nursing school. We have wonderful times with them at the beach in the summer. Next year please send me more news!

Peace and blessings to all, Lucy

Class of 1954 Margo McElvain McClellan margomcc@comcast.net Greetings dear Classmates! Welcome to a new era! Sue Whitely Payne, as you know, has done a fabulous job over the years of collecting news from all of us. When I saw her in Florida recently, she dropped a hint that she might like to move on to another “career.” I accepted her invitation to become Class Rep and voila, here we go! Sue Whitely Payne is so excited about celebrating their daughter’s 50th birthday that she offered to take her three children (Sarah, James and Betsy) on a little trip! They came up with a surprise request for London, Paris, and a Channel ride! Jim, she says must stay home and figure out a way to pay for it. She goes on to say that they continue to be very happy at Willow Valley, outside of Lancaster, PA where they have been relieved of all the unpleasant chores of life. Sarah Grimes Howard writes: Jim and I are in Florida visiting our son Ted. We then will head north to Atlanta to see our son Doug and his family then onto Columbia, SC to visit with Beatrice, the wonderful woman who took care of our family at St. Johns Road in Baltimore. Then we are off to visit Lauren, our granddaughter and new greatgranddaughter, Faith! (Congratulations Sarah and Jim! I suspect this might be the first for our class?) After that we will be visiting a college friend and then home for Easter! Libby Carr Hines sent a cute picture of herself with her granddaughter and mentioned that she had a total knee replacement in January 2012. She said: At the time, I told my grandchildren that if I could walk without pain I would take them somewhere they wanted to go. Me and my big mouth! In October I took my 19 year-old granddaughter Lindsey to Europe and we had a wonderful time. In April, I am taking my two grandsons to Disney World and Lego Land.

This summer my 14 year-old granddaughter is coming to Chicago for two weeks of shopping, theater and museums. It is all fun and since they live out of town, it’s wonderful to have

Grandchildren of Isabel Thomson Meisler, 1954

one on one time with each of them. Everything else is fine and I’m still busy with volunteer work. Isabel Thompson Meisler claims: An interesting year in that things are different.

Instead of us going to see the kids as we always have, they are beginning to make sure they come here and I guess that’s a sign of age. As those of you who still travel a lot know, air travel is a shot in the dark whether you get cancelled, delayed, lost luggage etc. So, California came to see us, so did Colorado and then New Jersey for Thanksgiving. I, while “getting in shape” by raising resistance on a bike at the gym created a major, long-lasting bursitis that required a cane that I named Bernie and then, twisting on a crowded airplane in February I added a deep sciatic nerve injury so out comes Bernie from the closet and lots and lots of down time again.

Other than that, all is well, though Arnold misses his office which he relinquished at 81 and now he takes an art history course and works out three times a week and kind of looks like my kid brother. On we go girlfriends.

We really never do change in spirit! C.C. Ramsay Merriam reports: We are still living in Georgetown. I run a small foundation concerned with child labor, sex trafficking, and solitary confinement, among other things. We went to Martinique last winter and in the summer to Budapest, Paris, and then the house we always rent in Brittany. Duke has had several rounds of chemotherapy but it seems to have worked and he is back to normal. We have seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. My ole pal and roommate, Anne Turner Pope says: We are fine. I just celebrated my 75th birthday with sons Peter and Michael and granddaughters Catherine Pope, 2001 and Marion here in New York.

Lots of laughs as always when we get together.

We are heading to Arizona where we will gather in Phoenix for more laughs with son Chris, daughter-in-law Liz, and granddaughters Emma and Pharibe, and then south to Tucson for a few more days. We are celebrating the fact that one of the perks of old age is that we don’t have to take off our shoes and jackets to go through security when we fly. This year, I have been part of a holistic health panel that has been going around the country to professional conferences to talk with audiologists about the importance of taking into account more than just the hearing aid if they want their patients to live well with hearing loss. The only downer in our lives at this point is that Mikey’s knees have become very painful, so he is thinking hard about whether to go for replacements. Despite this, Mikey and I have lots to be grateful for. And we can hardly begin to believe how old we are or how long we have known each other and all of you! Anne Wilson Boyce says: We spent a lot of time traveling last year (Annual Family Trip-Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Poland and last fall Viet-Nam/Cambodia) and visiting family in Jacksonville a couple times. I think I told you that Heyward had valve replacement/heart surgery in DC last spring.

We stayed at our son’s home in Germantown for his two months recovery. Other than that, we’re still on the go and enjoying the life of retirement on Marco. Our motto is “have ticket, will travel”. Welby Hamilton Loane writes: Margo, Good for you! And I do have some news for you! First of all Puttie and I are in Stuart, FL for February and March and are thrilled to be here in the bright sun, even though the temps are lower than usual right now. We love this area and one of the perks is that we get to see Martha (Rock) Ause and her husband, Bob who “winter” here from Michigan every year. We four really enjoy getting together. It’s great fun! And now for my news; After all these years and raising two sons and never having a daughter, after having only two grandchildren, both who attended Friends School from Pre-First on, I suddenly have my granddaughter, Elena, entering the Ninth Grade at RPCS! Blue uniforms, school songs, field days, etc. Wow! All of you classmates out there who came to RPCS in the Ninth Grade, please tell me it was a great experience! We are excited! If her classmates remain as close as ours have over the years, she’ll be a lucky lady!

A note from Martha Grimes Mabie says: First many thanks for being the scribe for the Class of 1954. John and I are spending more time on the East coast of Florida north of Palm Beach in a place called Loblolly. John was one of the original investors here so we have been here almost 30 years, but only recently are here for

Libby Carr Hinds, 1954 on a river cruise with her granddaughter Lindsey

most of the winter, finding the Chicago winters a bit harsh. Our golf is still okay, and I am about to give up on bridge, I have tried, but find at this age all the new rules a bit baffling.

We will be with Sarah and Jim in May celebrating his 80th. We have three children in the Chicago area and one in Tucson, a very nice place to visit! Of our 12 grandchildren, three have graduated from college and one is a freshman! So far we are both in good health and hope the same for the class of 1954! Here in Baltimore, Scootie Michel Twells adds: we’re tired of taking care of this “plantation,” and we’re looking forward to our gorgeous high rise apartment! We’re dumping stuff off on our children as fast as they will allow. In the meantime, the generator died, the well didn’t pass the yield test, and we can count on one hand the number of potential buyers who have looked at the house. But nevertheless, Tom and I are having the same wonderful time together that we’ve always had. Margo, hope you and Tony are well. Thanks for taking over for Mary Sue. I’ll never forget the euphoria when she took over from me! Anne Clark Bass wishes everyone laughter and good health, and goes on to say that a knee replacement has

Grandchildren of Margo McElvain McClellan, 1954 at Planet Hollywood

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been successful, and raves about her Florida time this winter, especially her get together with Peggy Sutton Taylor and her daughter, Meg! Jeanie Walter Teare writes: I can’t think of anything earth shattering. I expect to retire from the bookstore either this summer or fall.

Our oldest turns 50 this year - a milestone many of you have passed but it’s a shock! I am still singing with the Washington Chorus.

Carolyn Powell Lalley says: My time is taken up these days here at our retirement community because I became President of the Residents Association last July. This is a two year commitment. I am enjoying it and am told I am doing a good job which is very rewarding. We did take a river cruise last summer on the Rhine and the Mosel. This year we have another trip planned in Russia. Both of us continue to be in good health for which we are most grateful. My library job keeps me very busy and I often see Ann Painter, 1953 (the former librarian) when I’m at my desk in our main building. To those of my classmates contemplating moving to a retirement community I want to say, “yes!” It’s so nice to have virtually all your chores done for you so you can concentrate on having fun. Leaf raking, snow shoveling, gas and electric bills, maintenance problems-all are distant memories. I spoke to Peggy Sutton Taylor recently and she agreed to write about her news. She says: Life in the Florida Keys remains idyllic. Nothing much changes and that’s the beauty of my little Island, Cudjoe Key. I continue to make gemstone/crystal jewelry and beaded glass art. I display and work in a gallery/gift shop. My daughter, Meg, in Baltimore, has worked as a psychiatric occupational therapist for the State of Maryland, for more than 30 years. She is now manager of all therapeutic services at Spring Grove Hospital and leads a program for mentally ill prisoners at a maximum security prison. My son, Tim has a farmette near Chestertown, MD with chickens, a huge vegetable garden, and two dogs. I invite anyone to stop in to see me, my partner in crime Tom, who lives around the corner, and my amazing 14-year-old toy poodle. Tony and I are hanging in, but this period of our lives is not easy by any stretch on the imagination.

You all know that. However, each of our children are doing well with inevitable bumps in the road, but so far so good. Thank goodness! We are still doing our thing; for me, my Menagerie business, now at Christmas shows, tennis, golf, and I love photography as an art form. Tony is into watercolor painting and some board involvement and we have absolutely no plans to move anywhere for right now, but stay tuned! As time goes by so quickly, let’s take a moment to remember our

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friends whom we have lost over the years; Betty Glazier Norton, Eleanor Watmough Stout, Carol Anne Muhly Allen, Anna “Rusty” Bienemann Tessaro, Pat Smallwood Parks, Leonora “Sis” Hunner, and Barbara Taylor Raley. Lots of love to everyone and let’s start planning for our next get together!

Class of 1955 Anna Dorsey Cooke Allison wda11ison@aol.com Cruising must be the way to go. Susan Kendall Nolte wrote that in January she took a seven day cruise around the Hawaiian Islands with her family. Carolyn Swisher Mathiasen went on a cruise in 2012 though the Baltics on a small passenger ship visiting Gdansk, St. Petersburg and the three Baltic states. I, Anna Dorsey Cooke Allison, seem to have spent 2012 on the go: to Cape Cod to visit a friend and North Carolina in April. Then in May I went to England for the Jubilee going to Yorkshire, as I did in 2002, staying with my friend. Elise and I went to Iceland in July – wonderful – and to Maine in September. Finally in November it was to Seattle to visit my cousin and again North Carolina to see Elise. This March I went to Hawaii with a friend and visited four islands. I am finally no longer secretary of my U.D.C. and D.A.R. chapters after many years, lovely going to meeting and not taking notes!

Not much from 1955 this year, so this is it.

Class of 1956 Sally Foley sallyfoley@verizon.net Heather Andrews Perkin hmperkin@comcast.net

I, Sally Foley, have been busy with my organization, The Pet Pantry Project, which operates under the aegis of Action in Maturity in Hampden. Since November 2011, we have provided a month’s supply of pet food and litter to nearly 40 low-income senior citizens in Hampden. I hope to expand the program to include people who depend upon the Hampden Food Bank. For all of the clients, their pets are a major source of love and companionship. Sadly, the soaring cost of pet food has resulted in many choosing to feed their pets rather than buy requisite medication and/or quality food for themselves. We have been fortunate to receive donations of funds and food from various businesses, individuals (especially from RPCS), churches and private school drives. I cannot remember whether the past class notes included the fact that Dickie Wilson has moved back to Florida permanently.

She still swims in the ocean, only three blocks away, and is active with the Unitarian Church and Democratic politics. I joined her in body surfing, with happy memories of Ocean City. Unfortunately, my many artificial parts prevented me from being able to rise up after a tumble as I was going ashore. I tried to

Kathie Wilson Ratcliffe, 1956 and Connie Reed Goldsmith 1956 in the Dolomites of Italy

pretend that I was having a rip-roaringly good time being tossed hither and thither in front of a golden oldies who were sensibly sunning, not swimming. Finally a pair of strong young men realized that my waving, while apparently wildly cheerful, might also mean that I needed help and managed to haul me upright. So now I can only watch Dickie cavort like a seal. I am looking forward to my third summer of renting a house in the Berkshires, close to Tanglewood, surrounded by natural and architectural beauty, and replete with dry land activities.

Heather Andrews Perkin writes, “I don›t have a lot of news. Sally Foley and I see each other for dinners and at The Woman›s Club. I see Anne Obrecht Shreve every week as we play Mah jongg together. We also attend a craft show twice a year and have dinners together.

As to my family: Lisa and Tim run Triathalons and Ironmen, and Cynthia has run Big Sur in California. That›s about as exciting as it gets, this year. I guess everyone else is on Face Book and keeps in touch that way. We›re getting to «that age» now. Stay healthy!” Heather recently received an award for volunteering at the Baltimore public animal shelter BARCS. The award, signed by the Governor and other officials, was fulsome in praise of the positive impact of her work on the well-being of the animals and on the community at large. For nearly seven years, Heather has spent most Saturday mornings at the shelter where she is responsible for «socializing» kittens and cats to help them become comfortable, and more adoptable, in the shelter environment. In addition, Heather has trained more than 100 other volunteers to do the same work. Heather is also recording secretary of the Women›s Club of Roland Park. Sadly, Heather lost two of her Newfoundlands this past year. Though, like Dickie, Judy Connolly Connally did not pass along any “notes” about how she spends her time, we keep in touch. They were in Baltimore recently, and Judy not only got to see the wonderful Athletic Complex but read her very own name on the RPCS Athletic Hall of Fame plaque. Her newish hip keeps her ever so agile on the tennis court, but hockey and lacrosse are but dim memories. She and Tom never slow down and continue to be deeply involved in community and political activities in Arlington and manage to vociferously root for the ever-so-many sports and stage activities of the five nearby grandchildren. They also initiate and instigate creative and raucous fun at their farm (fish, snakes, pastoral-scene creating rental cows) in Hume, Virginia, now enlarged to share with the extended family.

Kate, their technological whiz-kid, does join them from San Francisco often, but not often enough. In April, though, the oldsters will go there because Tom will be receiving the

Boston area alumnae Perky Gantt Kahn, 1957, Holly Cross Heine, 1962 and Diana Young Humphrey, 1956

American College of Physicians and Surgeons’ annual award for distinguished service (for his fifty plus years of internal medicine practice and advocacy for policies and practices to improve health care and to ensure its equitable delivery to all Americans). I hope Judy will wear her white blazer to the ceremony.

(Let us not forget that she served in the Commonwealth’s legistature for several terms and has also received impressive awards for her many contributions to the community - she will hate my writing this, but ‘tis true!).

Class of 1957 55th Reunion Gay Parsons Walker walkerrg@telus.net Can you believe our 55th Reunion has already come and gone? By all accounts it was wellattended and a great success. There were rave reviews for the first event, a magnificent dinner hosted by Ellie Mills Weinstein and her husband at their gorgeous country home, with the gourmet feast prepared and presented by Steve. Head of School Jean Waller Brune held a luncheon for the class at her home on Saturday, and this was followed by the Alumnae Champagne Reception. The highlight of the latter gathering was, of course, the

opening of the spectacular Photography Exhibition by our own Perky Gantt Kahn, the school’s 2012 Alumna Artist. Perky, we are SO proud of you – and those of us who couldn’t be there still wish we could have seen your work!

It was good to hear from Ellie, who reports that she and Steve lead a relaxed life since their retirement and are content to stay home as they don’t care for airport hassles and have already visited the places they wanted to see.

They have eight grandchildren, of whom the two eldest are at Middlebury College and M.I.T. Lynn McManus Mazzarella has also written about her eight grandchildren, aged eight to twenty-three, who lead interesting and varied lives that include language study, sports and ballet. Judy Ashworth emailed from Boston that she was expecting yet another grandson in March, 2013. She says: “I have finally had to give up thinking about those adorable Polly Flinders smocked dresses that my mother used to give my girls!” Peggy Parr Gallagher is going to be a great grandmother!

She’s thrilled and “cannot imagine living long enough to have a great to hold and love!”

Libby Callard Olson also sent news of her children and grandchildren, including the June wedding of her youngest son, Nick. In January, 2013, Libby was planning to travel with a small group to Burma/Myanmar and then go to China to visit her son Peter, who is an instructor in Formula One racing near Hong Kong. Another world traveler is Kate Woodward, who often accompanies her partner Patti Peterson on her trips for the

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American Council on Education. Last May they were in Houston, where Kate visited Marsha McCauley Sutton, and recently they had a very enjoyable business/pleasure trip to Hawaii. Kate had hoped to see Betsy Kendall McCreary there, but Betsy was cruising the islands with her sisters that week. Kate and Patti still enjoy Washington’s cultural offerings: museums, theater, operas, concerts and lectures. Kate says there’s more than anyone would have time for, but they try. Susie Wills Hunter and her husband Bill have recently moved to the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson and find it pleasant and friendly. Their large, sunny apartment overlooks part of the wooded Goucher campus, and although moving has been a huge adjustment, they are sure they’ll be very happy there. While they missed hosting Christmas dinner for their boys and their families for the first time, they all did have a week together at Bethany Beach last summer. Susie has some wise advice for us all: when you see downsizing in your future, start well in advance to get rid of unnecessary stuff! Sort through files and distribute excess possessions among your

children, and you’ll breathe a huge sigh of relief when you finally get moved. I’m sure Nancy Norris Kniffin and Hazen will agree with Susie, as they have decided to move to Roland Park Place and should be settled there by early summer (thus becoming the first of our class to return to our old campus!) Nancy says that calling this continuing-care community a “retirement home” is a misnomer, since Hazen still sees patients and she continues to teach part-time at Hopkins. Betsey Ullrich Slanker isn’t moving but she and Hank have been very busy with extensive renovations to their Pasadena house to make it into their “personal life care home”. She looks forward to settling in again when it’s finished, unpacking all the artwork that they have been missing and restoring all their landscaping to include a deer-proof kitchen garden so that they can enjoy the harvest themselves. Also recently inundated with home renovations is Perky Gantt Kahn, who has had to deal with contractors in both Scottsdale, AZ and Waban, MA (near Boston). In addition, clearing up business matters continues to keep Perky very busy, and all of this, she says, has involved a

Join us for a morning of fun and entertainment

Little Bear Jamboree Alumnae Weekend Saturday, October 5th 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Bring your kids, grandchildren and family.

Children’s entertainment including a magician, face painting and activities on the RPCS Lower School Playground Light refreshments served

Tours of the School and the RPCS Athletic Complex available

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big “shift in orientation… to explore new pathways” in her life. Perky wrote with great enthusiasm about our 55th Reunion and the many classmates who attended the opening of her photography exhibition. She was delighted with the school’s involvement in mounting the show and her opportunities to speak to students and faculty about her work. When I heard from Perky in February, she was in Arizona and anticipating a visit from Marsha McCauley Sutton. Wonderful that the two of them could get together! Marsha says the highlight of her “Ying and Yang” year was the 55th Reunion and Perky’s “incredible photography show”. In Baltimore, she stayed with Susie and Bill Hunter and was able to inspect their new “digs”. Marsha continues to have health challenges that prevent her from exercising, but she happily follows the athletic successes of her granddaughters Lauren and Erin, who are both champion swimmers.

Frances McCauley King continues to lead a very busy life, working part-time as the director of a pre-school, tutoring a high school student and singing with the Lancaster Association of Retired People, a group that performs in local retirement centers. Frances has also been helping her daughter through an illness and her husband John with his recovery from broken ribs, but as she says: “At my age, I need to make wise choices as to how many places I can be in at one time.” Very true, Frances, for all of us! Mary Stewart Townsend Rossbottom (Misty) is active at her church, in the chancel and handbell choirs, and at her local senior center, participating in an exercise class and volunteering as treasurer. For the latter, she finds her bookkeeping experience coming in handy. Chotard Doll Fenik sent a very upbeat email to say that she and Bernie “marvel at the rightness” of their move to Tucson, where they enjoy being near their daughter Kirsten, as well as Tucson’s mild weather, beautiful sunsets, opportunities for hiking and the mountain views from their windows. She says “We are Docents in Training at Tohono Chul (Corner of the Desert) Park and Gardens, and it has been a profound introduction to the desert mysteries!

We love it. Keeps the brain active!” The training is intense and includes homework, quizzes and practice leading tours. Perhaps we should all visit Tucson and let Chotard share her enthusiasm as she guides and educates us!

As for me, Gay Parsons Walker, I keep active with grandchildren, hobbies and travel. Last May Roger and I took our 8th trip to Norway, visiting friends in Bergen (where we’ve lived several times) and then joining Canadian friends on a Hurtigruten coastal cruise northward to the Russian border. It was all spectacular and very rugged, as were the

Lofoten Islands, which we explored afterward.

There’s plenty of mountain scenery to enjoy here at home, too, when we visit our daughter and her family in the Rockies near Calgary or head further west into British Columbia for winter sports, winery touring and visiting friends. Betty Ann Schmick Howard writes: “The highlight of this past year for Johnny and me was celebrating our 50th anniversary with our family. I know others in our class have come earlier to this milestone, but we felt very lucky to have made it here together and to have so much of our family nearby. Another happy thing in my life came my way through Nancy, who recommended me to a prominent businessman and philanthropist to help him with his memoirs. This association has been a great delight, and I look forward to meeting with him every week.” Sadly, we have lost another classmate.

Caroline “Kaki” Thiermann Gladstone passed away on July 16, 2012. Despite years of ill health, Kaki was able to maintain a very active life as Director of Volunteer Services at the Philadelphia Museum of Art until her retirement in 2009. It was a career she adored – and where she was deeply loved, respected and appreciated. She and her husband Gene traveled extensively, visiting favorite European cities several times each year, taking frequent cruises and attending many operas and concerts in New York. We extend our condolences to Gene and to Kaki’s brother and his family. We’re all grateful to Jennie Ladew, who keeps us in touch with her monthly email birthday reminders, class news items and address updates. Thank you, Jennie, for being our “glue!” Betty Ann has suggested that our class establish a Booklist, perhaps by email, in which we can recommend books and films we have enjoyed. This idea has received quite a bit of support from classmates, and I hope that by the time you read this article we’ll be sharing our favorites with each other.

Class of 1958 Courtney Jones McKeldin courtney@mckeldin.com This year will be our 55th Reunion and it will occur the weekend of October 4-6. I really hope that all of you will save the date and join your classmates for this momentous event.

Your local organizing committee is working hard to plan a memorable weekend. One highlight is having lunch on Friday, October 4, at RPCS’ head, Jean Waller Brune’s, 1960 house, as she welcomes us back. The news of the class of 1958 is sparse as we must all be

Class of 1958 with Norvell Brinton, Nancy Biggs Cole, Margot Bond Wittich, Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, Courtney Jones McKeldin, Dedi Smallwood Whitaker and Frankie Sherwood

faring pretty well and remaining very involved with our families and communities. The prize goes to Betsy Mills Hughes who, with her husband, Jim, are participants in all varieties of life in their community including the arts, education, music and, of course, their family’s activities in Ohio. After I finished reading her Christmas letter I felt worn out. Bravo Betsy for being so active! Norvell Brinton has moved back to Baltimore which she says is the best move of her life. She is involved with some of our classmates, among others, in playing bridge, going to the movies, having luncheon dates and hosting dinner parties. She is also a participant in Match.com and has had some interesting dates. Sadly, both her knee and hip need replacing so she will have one replaced this spring and the other several months later.

Nancy Biggs Cole had shoulder surgery last fall but recovered well and is back to her archery in her back yard defeating those pesky deer that eat all her flowers. Linda Godine Long and husband, Dave, are snow birds who flee to the west coast of Florida for the winter, but are here in town for the summer. Their acumen at croquet is legendary. Judy Shafer Hoff, an accomplished golfer, whose handicap is very low, has been a ladies’ champion at her country club in Baltimore on several occasions.

Our condolences go out to Clare Callard, who lives in Atlanta, whose brother, Alex, died rather suddenly last fall in Costa Rica where he lived. Alex was her only sibling and the last of her immediate family, although she has many cousins. Her first cousin, Libby Callard Olson, 1957, has moved back to Baltimore after living for many years in Chevy Chase, MD. Brooke Nichols Taylor, after living for over 20 years on a farm in Charlottesville,

Virginia, will be moving into a smaller house in downtown Charlottesville this summer with her beloved cat and dog. She still works full time and will also be attending our 55th Reunion in October. Brooke has taken up bird-watching big time and attends national bird-watching conventions. Bonnie Sawyer and her husband, Bruce, travel between their houses in New Hampshire, Baltimore and Florida enjoying retirement thoroughly. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last winter and their three children gave them a surprise anniversary party which was held at Bonnie’s brother, Buzz’s house. It was a memorable event. Their daughter, Nancy, gave birth to a boy, last fall and their son, David and his wife had a little girl, also last fall. The Sawyers joined me and my husband, Ted, last June for a river cruise from Paris to Normandy and back on the Seine. While in Avignon, tied up at the city dock, the Tour de France bike race came through and it was quite thrilling to see hundreds of thousands of people fill the streets to welcome the cyclists. Donna Lee Frisch and Dick Frisch are preparing to move into Blakehurst, a Towson retirement community. While the move may not be until next year, they are de-cluttering their house in Ruxton where they have lived for many years. The Frisches spend every summer at their house in Martha’s Vineyard. Ann Cherry and her husband, Jerrie, are also at Blakehurst and several of us have lunch with them periodically. Margot Bond Wittich has had some medical challenges but seems to have overcome them and is enjoying life by babysitting a lot for her four grandchildren, playing bridge and tasting food at various restaurant venues around Baltimore. Margot

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has taken up the ukulele. Both Margot and I lead trips for RPCS’ Kaleidoscope, the adult continuing education program. Mary Grimes Olk’s daughter was recently married and Mary will be attending our 55th Reunion in October.

Linda Hamilton is moving from her house into a town house in Ft. Collins, CO, and will also be attending our reunion. Our condolences go out to Ann Talbot Boyer, whose husband, Paul, died In March of 2012. Additionally, our condolences go to Frankie Sherwood, whose husband, Bob Lattmann, died rather suddenly over President’s weekend 2013.

Class of 1959 Caroline Savage Wanstall nonniew@yahoo.com Thanks to all who responded to my request for news of you and your family. We appreciate hearing from you. June Adams Salaun: Still have only 4 dogs and 3 orange cats and they keep me busy along with golf and yoga and am active with University of Maryland group. In June I had rotator cuff surgery and was down and out a month and then lots of therapy and

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am now back playing golf. Flew to Boseman in September and drove over 2000 miles with friends through Montana, Idaho and Jackson Hole, Wyoming – saw the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone – crossed Snake River on horseback and was sore a week. October to Sapphire Valley, Cashiers, Highlands, North Carolina for golf, music and laughs with old friends from Jacksonville and Atlanta. Anne Carter Brothers: I continue to enjoy painting and showing my work in several galleries.

Who knew I would even have commissions of dogs. They are challenging to photograph! I don’t crawl around as easily as I used to! John and I drive to Virginia to see son Carter and his family several times a year. Our eldest Jay lives in Nashville so we have two granddaughters close by. Cary continues to live in LA. We get to hear his voice on songs on TV shows on a regular basis...the latest was on The Vampire Diaries. Hopefully, he will be through here on tour this year. I didn’t realize how much I missed RPCS connections until I saw everyone in 2009. I went to Roland Park longer than any other school, and those days are still very vivid. Gail Gardner Long: Ted and I spent several weeks in Switzerland last summer, visiting old friends and touring this beautiful country, much of it by public transportation including clean trains, buses, and even boats! I

continue to volunteer as a reader for Lighthouse International. My assignment includes proof reading for a published author.

I enjoy going to a part of the city (the Times Square area)I usually do not spend much time in because my client lives in a residence for people in the theater and the arts just off of West 42 St. This journey gives me the opportunity to observe tourists heading for all sorts of adventures, the backstage folks loading their sound equipment and lighting in and out of trucks, the odd types in costumes, and others in fetching outfits all looking for attention (and tips) from the mobs of tourists.

Then there are the pizza and Chinese food delivery men on their bikes racing in and out of the incredibly snarled traffic. It is quite a scene....all to be enjoyed. Cathy Hart: I’m still living on the small island of Deer Isle in Penobscot Bay, Maine, and find living in a small, rural town suits me. This is a very special place as many of the residents are artists or craftsmen, and the creative minds are very evident. There is a lot to do, even in the winter so I don’t get bored, and there are many people here about my age. My days are filled with my own creative efforts making beaded jewelry and metal work, volunteering at the local food pantry, historical society and land preservation trust. Life in a small town is interesting to observe, to see how a small local town government works and how a small community supports its needy residents. The major industries are lobstering and tourism, and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts brings people here in the summer from all around the world. I am fortunate to be able to live in a renovated 1860s-era house that was once the parsonage of the local Congregational church. It was once a farm house, with a large barn in the back, and lovely grounds leading through the woods to a salt-water pond. Lots of hiking trails and good kayaking places are a short drive away. Lyn Schmeiser Cook: Grafflin and I enjoy golf and traveling, he hunting and me Bridge, Garden Club and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Women’s Board among other things. Our girls and their families are thriving with one grandson graduated from college and in a management training program, the next two at Gilman, one a senior and getting accepted at colleges, the other in 9th Grade and a serious swimmer. Last summer and again this summer he will attend water polo camp at the Naval Academy. The two granddaughters play soccer and love horses and riding lessons on Saturdays. We enjoyed a very special Thanksgiving, hosting two exchage teachers from Moscow for our dinner.

They were in Baltimore in conjunction with the Russian program at Roland Park in which our senior at Gilman is in the Advanced

Placement level now. Kathie Scott Rysanek: I am hoping 2013 will be a better year healthwise than 2012. Bill came down with an infection in his leg last December that put him in the hospital twice, and in two rehab facilities until March. With home health care, physical therapy twice a week at home and his sheer will and determination, he is back to where he was before the infection. He is in a wheelchair, but can walk a little if necessary. We built an addition to the house three years ago which enables him to be totally independent. MS is not easy, but he has a fabulous outlook and never complains. I’ve had two hip replacements in the last three years and am finally without pain. My gait is certainly different but all in all, I feel good. I am still involved with Guiding Eyes for the Blind, but after raising three dogs, I have found that my flexibility and strength are limiting. I do what I can for the group here in Raleigh. We continue to meet for a family reunion in Sunset Beach, NC each summer. I take my daughter, daughter-in-law and cousin for a girls spa weekend each spring in Asheville, NC at the Grove Park Inn. It was supposed to be a one-time celebration of my 65th birthday, but we enjoyed it so much, we have gone every year since. We all want to continue the tradition as long as we are able. They are the two “can’t miss” occasions and we see the family in between whenever we can. Bill’s mother died last June so we don’t get back to Baltimore anymore. Barbie Stafford Jones: This year of 2012 finds us with a new Grandson, Bennett Wesley Jones, brother to Eleanor Sierra Jones, son and daughter of Douglas and Jennifer Jones. Doug teaches and coaches at The Hill School in Pottstown, PA while Jenn travels to Reading and surrounding area where she is one of the RIU (Reading Intermediate Unit) Psychologists.

The McLeods (Betsy, Scott, Isabel, Lucas and Colin) drove in from Iowa for a lovely Christmas with Doug, Jenn and children and beautiful snow falling on Christmas Eve. Also on Christmas Eve, Doug and Scott helped me take and return my harp to church for two services to play Still, Still, Still with our church organist. Previously in August, Hugh had a very successful total knee replacement. Betsy and her boys blessed us by coming and helping tremendously. Coco Voigt McCoy: Heading down to Mexico tomorrow in Elephant, our grey Tundra. This is our tenth year visiting San Pancho, a fantastic community north of Puerto Vallarta, offering beach yoga (I watch), a new chef for the polo game crowd, enjoying sunsets on the mile-long white palm lined white sand beach, and living among smiling people. Local foods are red snapper, shrimp, pineapples, mangoes and avocados. Son, Will, is still with Industrial Light and Magic newly acquired by

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Disney. He has worked on over 40 movies!

Son, Chris, continues working at two local Santa Fe ranchitos with extra landscaping work on the side. Wyn Drake Varney: Last year, I went to England to spend Christmas and the New Year with my brother Bill: we value our time together, because we’re “it”.

Bill and I are the last surviving members of our branch or the Drake family. 2012 saw me in the operating room for the third spinal fusion, recovery from which was less than fun. What made this so challenging is that I now have virtually no curves in my spine, completely changing my balance - necessitating that I learn to walk, stay upright and not fall over my own feet! I belong to a group called Bone Builders, which does exercises for balance and bone building. This year, Bill joined me here for Christmas. He is the owner of William Drake Ltd., the organ building firm which he founded. If you Google him, you can see the work he’s done, including instruments at Buckingham Palace, St. Pauls and other notable places. We had a splendid Christmas, serving ourselves a traditional English dinner, including Christmas pudding. Plans for 2013 include staying out of the operating room! Bill will celebrate his 70th in October and I haven’t been home in the autumn for more than 30 years, so I thought I’d go around midSeptember. I’ll hire a car and go up-country to visit friends before I lose them, or they I. I, most definitely, do not plan to adopt more cats! I’m up to four – and no, that doesn’t make me a ‘cat lady;’ one has to be possessed by five to reach that status! I hope that everyone has had wonderful celebrations and that 2013 will bring whatever you wish for yourselves! As for me, your scribe, Caroline Savage Wanstall, we have been blessed this year with the engagement of our daughter on June 21. She and Dean was married in May at our home church. All four of the grandchildren

will be participating – the girls, Nan and Sienna will be bridesmaids, and the boys Dakotah and Max, will be ushers. We’ve been having a lot of fun with planning and looking forward to seeing family and friends gathered together at that time. As most of you are aware, we lost our dear friend and classmate, Wendy Cross Gross on September 27, 2012.

Wendy had battled breast cancer a number of years ago, and unfortunately it recurred in February of 2012. Several classmates have written the following tributes to Wendy. Coco Voigt McCoy: I was so grateful to have spent quality time with Wendy during the 2009 RPCS Reunion. Seeing her with Bobby at their sweet home in Lutherville was a joy, as were the hours she spent driving the two of us around Homewood, Guilford, all over Roland Park, out to Loch Raven reservoirs and spending most of that afternoon leisurely walking around a lovely garden. The highlight of all was Wendy’s laughter and attitude. The BEST. I still feel her spirit.

Gail Gardner Long: It was really wonderful seeing Wendy at our 50th Reunion, having not seen her for many years. I always felt she was a very good observer of human nature, and always tempered her observations with a wonderful sense of humor and wit, both priceless attributes. Lyn Schmeiser Cook: I celebrate her wonderful wry sense of humor and story-telling, as well as being among the first of us to enter the ‘cyber’ world with her jobs at Alex Brown and the telephone company. Most touching however, was the day we were to play Bridge and she arrived a little late, having just been diagnosed with the recurrence of her breast cancer and her utter dismay for Bobby having to experience the agonies of it all over again. It was not at all about herself, but her concern and compassion for him. She was truly a remarkable woman!

Heaven is definitely an even more joyful place now. Cathy Hart: I was so sorry to learn of Wendy’s death, and surprised as I had not known she had been treated for cancer in the past. I remember her fondly and am so glad I had the chance to see her and chat at our 50th Reunion in 2009. She was such an honest and direct sort of woman and was able to say exactly what she meant. I remember her saying that she found the education she got at the University of Maryland was excellent and that a person really did not need to go to an expensive college to get a good education. I remember seeing Wendy sometimes when we were both young mothers and our sons went to Riderwood Elementary School. I think they were in the same grade, or maybe one grade apart. That was a long time ago! Kathie Scott Rysanek: Who can forget that smile and laugh?

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people I knew. Anne Carter Brothers: After reconnecting with Wendy at our 50th, we were able to get together in Nashville when she was visiting her son. The years melted away as we talked nonstop through lunch and an afternoon of sightseeing which included a stop at my studio at home. I feel very fortunate to have the memory of that day. We shall all miss her wonderful sense of humor and her zest for life.

We all send our sympathies to her family. You may write to her husband Bobby Gross at 905 West Seminary Rd., Lutherville, MD 21093.

Sadly, I must also report the death of George Govatos, husband of Betty Norris Govatos.

George passed away on December 16, 2012.

We all extend our condolences to Betty and her family.

Class of 1960 Polly Starratt Lemire, 1960 polly.lemire@gmail.com Lynda Engel Meade shared that she, Merry Roszel Rogers, Susan Rose, Sandra Rockwell Aronoff, Donnie Smith, Melinda Mitchell Davis - celebrated 70th birthdays in Cape May in September. “We had a great time sightseeing, sitting on the beach, going out for dinner, enjoying a cocktail party and delving into cake. Of course, we laughed the whole time!”

As with many of us, Lynda loves to watch her grandchildren’s performances at games, plays, concerts, gymnastics exhibitions and awards ceremonies. Lynda and George have planned a trip to Italy, Greece and Croatia this Spring and are looking forward to the adventure.

“Life is definitely a blessing.” Susan Wood Schuchts had a great Christmas in Colorado visiting her red-headed granddaughter as well as a grandson who got to see snow and go skiing for the first time. In addition to eBay, Susan now sells antiques and collectibles in two local antique malls and loves her treasure hunts at auctions, estate sales and such. This past winter, Sandy Clark Cooper visited friends in Texas as well as her son Randy in Pacifica, CA. While in California, Sandy enjoyed the hiking, scenery and the Dungeness crab - even though it’s not the same as Blue Crabs from the Chesapeake Bay area! Ann Streett Benya is expecting that she’ll be making a lot more trips to Baltimore, now that her sister Livvie Streett Rasmussen, 1964, is retired and her daughter Frazier has also moved just blocks away from the family home on Wendover Road. Ann and her dog Valor, have now earned their Nose Work 3 title. Ann and her husband still ride their road bikes and took a seven day road trip

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through the Cotswolds with Pedal England last summer. Ann Carter Smith is still singing and sang at Miss Healy’s funeral. She has been busy with house repairs inside and out.

Last year she and Lou went on a wonderful cruise and visited Prague, Budapest and Amsterdam, along with a visit to Germanynow they are looking forward to a motorbike week in Daytona. “Wheeeeeee” says Anne.

Merry Roszel Rogers, Anne Harrington and Rose Alexander-Shuman say that life is good and are grateful for health. Merry says she has been volunteering at a children’s hospice and that it has been a powerful experience for her. Polly Starratt Lemire forged through two separate hip replacement surgeries (February and September) and tons of physical therapy and is beginning to spread her wings again she made it to Brooklyn Heights, NY for a Christmas visit to one of her daughters and grandchildren and is looking forward to a trip to St. Simons Island and to California in early spring. During the long recovery she knit lots of socks and re-discovered her enjoyment of creating art, turning half of her office into an art studio. Carol Clark Coolidge has been commuting from Santa Fe to Brooklyn, NY to visit her daughter and two grandchildren Carol is even beginning to feel a bit like a New Yorker, having attended some Nets games, Broadway shows and survived big storm Sandy.

For her 70th she took a trip to the Grenadine Islands with her family. We are all so proud of Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, who was asked to give a public presentation at RPCS - based on one of her books, The Theory that Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma

Members of the Class of 1960 gather in Cape May

Code, Hunted Downs ‘Russian Submarines & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy – as well as a talk to students about a female Nobel Prize winner who lived just down the street from our school and sent her daughter there in the 1930s. Jean Waller Brune was awarded the Birgit Baldwin Faculty Prize for travel upon the completion of her 20th year as Head of Roland Park Country School last June. She cruised to Bermuda with her family last summer as part of the award. In the fall, Jean went to China on school business as part of group of educators who attended school fairs to meet with students and parents about coming to school in the U.S. Jean was so pleased to have Sharon Bertsch McGrayne on campus this spring to deliver the Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities Lecture and hosted a dinner for classmates while Sharon was in town. Melinda Mitchell Davis keeps busy with bridge, and a lot of travel. The highlight for last year was a cruise from Sydney to San Francisco. This spring she’ll be off to Southeast Asia and China.

Our other world traveler, Sally Emory quotes Susan Sontag: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” Sally took a trip to Albania and then celebrated her 70th with a group of college chums in Argentina “seeing as much of the country as we could while learning the tango - sort of - and riding with the gauchos rounding up cattle - being of great help I am sure.” Dixie Coleman was also a world traveler, following her passion for birding to Kenya and to Madagascar and this year to China. She celebrated 44 years of marriage and living in New Hampshire with winters

Team Gaga’s Girls at the Red Hot Run: Jean Waller Brune with her daughter, Marion Brune Paterson, 1984, (second from right) granddaughters Emma and Idabelle and Idabelle’s godmother, Tess Campbell (far right)

in Florida. Dixie was very active in last year’s elections and loves the fact that there are now so many women holding office in the State of California. Sandra Rockwell Aronoff moved from Indiana back to her roots in Baltimore.

She and Don are enjoying life with all the variety of cultural events and activities that city life offers after spending a number of years in Southern Indiana. Louise Farley Reilly and Sandra have been taking classes at the Osher Institute. Weasa Huey Gaines and her husband are still enjoying their farm, which, thanks to the presence of her daughter Weasie’s family, is now actually becoming populated with chickens, a couple of cows and goats. Weasa still enjoys a month in Seabrook, SC where she can sit back, read, do needlepoint and walk on the beach. Weasa says her son, Wick, a single parent of three, is also doing well.

any excuse to meet for meals. So far there have been three get-togethers. Tyson Greer Meeks Halliday came from Lake Forest Park, WA. She missed the reunion, so it was special to see her. Gail Gathman Becker came from Kansas to visit her 103 year old Mom, which she does often during the year. More about Tyson and Gail later. Other classmates from afar attending lunch were Linda Schwaab Hodges from North Carolina, Sue Brewington Schier from Maine and Lois Athey from DC. The girls who live in or near Baltimore who you should call and tell you’re coming are: Babs Norris

Woodward, Sandy Kamtman Stellmann, Nora O’Donovan Yaggy, Dorrie Boone Talbott, Robin Buck Nicolls, Merry Gladding Highby, Joanne Garrard Schill and Francie Warfield Parrack. They do a tremendous job of keeping track of us and helping me. Thank you all. On to class news for 2012...Judy Tinley Lenz, who lives in Illinois and her husband Bruce both had the distinction of turning 70 last year, as did many of us. They celebrated by traveling.

First to the east coast, Connecticut and New Jersey to spend time with children and grands, then to Peru, traveling from Lima to the headwaters of the Amazon where they boarded an eight passenger boat and spent “five days exploring both the river and rain forest.” They saw incredible wild life, fished for piranha, (there was no mention of what one does with a piranha after it is caught) and fed a baby manatee. Their trip ended at Machu Picchu and Judy says “words can’t describe” that.

Tyson Greer Halliday as you know was in Baltimore a few days, than traveled with husband Jim to a U.S. Park Motor Way to follow the 1805 Lewis and Clark journey.

Later they explored the Nez Perce flight through the Bitterroot Mountains. After that, Tyson attended a “writers retreat” in Georgia.

She is on a second draft revision of a novel.

When not writing or traveling, she has a company called Ambient Insight that published her Global Location-Based Learning report.

Speaking of writing, Gail Gathman Becker has added another book you’ll like. It’s the sequel to Twisted Path: Present Evil and it’s titled Exoneration. Both books are “good reads” per Babs, Nora, me and I’m sure many others.

Nora and I wrote reviews for Amazon, and there’s another book in the works. Gail also reports that her daughter “got married under a

Class of 1961 Cathy Turner Carter, 1961 Cathytcarter@aol.com Okay everyone, by the time you read this, we’ll only have three and a half years until our 55th Reunion. But in the meantime our wonderful Baltimore contingent of classmates is doing a marvelous job of organizing mini reunions for any out-of-towners that give convenient notice of their arrival. That Baltimore group will use

Class of 1961 dinner with Merry Gladding Highby, Dorrie Boone Talbott, Francie Warfield Parrack, Sue Brewington Schier, Lois Athey, Triminie Marlow Shelton (second row): Gail Gathmann Becker, Connie Saint Martak, Nora O’Donovan Yaggy, Sandy Kamtman Stellmann, Linda Schwaab Hodges, Nancy Niedringhaus Bennett, Babs Norris Woodward

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1961 classmates (l to r) Sandy Kamtman Stellmann, Francie Warfield Parrack, Nora O’Donovan Yaggy, Robin Buck Nicolls, Tyson Greer Halliday, and Merry Gladding Highby

full moon September 29th at the Denver Botanical Gardens. And remember she travels to Baltimore so we can see her next time she’s East. Francie Warfield Parrack continues to help me with class news and updated addresses.

She also has helped RPCS find lost classmates.

She and Ray live in Silver Spring, MD and last year had a family gathering on the Outer Banks at Kitty Hawk, NC. Speaking of lost class mates one of them is Charlotte Watson who lives with her husband Fleming in Front Royal, VA. Charlotte said she used to travel a lot when working for the State Department or USAID. Now she works as herbalist and writer, “dabbles in various art forms” and sings in a choir. She and a friend co-facilitate a Jungian dream group. One of the memories I have of Charlotte is she and Linda Schwaab galloping around as horses. Is that a dream or does anyone else remember it? Another “found” is Anne Redmon who was with us through fourth primary. She now lives in the UK and her name is Anne Nightengale. She’s happy to be back in touch with the class, and her main contact is Trimmie Marlow Shelton.

The only Mayor in our class that I know about is Frankie Whitescarver Cook, but she retired last year as mayor of Fraser, CO to move to a Denver suburb to spend more time with her two sons and grandson. Before leaving Fraser, she was “feted and celebrated way beyond deserving.” She was awarded Lion of the Year in June, and the Winter Park-Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Citizen of the Year in November. And last but not least, a huge retirement party was put on by her church.

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have no doubt Frankie will have found or organized lots of new niches to fit into the next time we hear from her. Robin Buck Nicolls lets us know that she’s still working with Calvert Online home instruction with seventh grade students worldwide. She also takes courses at Washington College, is addicted to Words with Friends and volunteers at Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge. She also celebrated the significant birthday with husband Nick and her brother and sister-in-law. Carolyn Card Shumate is living happily in Lakewood Ranch, FL and trying to keep up with her granddaughter Chelsea Shumate, 2022 who is in her fourth year at RPCS! Carolyn’s daughter, Brigit Shumate Taylor, 1988 spent her senior year in Vermont training as a ski racer. Now Brigit lives in Ocean City, MD and runs the Resort Quest office in Bethany, DE. Connie Saint Martak writes that she and Dave still run the North East Food Pantry. She’s also looking forward to several big family gatherings in honor of her 70th birthday. She and Dave have 11 grandkids and plan to spend a week at the beach with everyone. With all this going on Connie still sings in her church choir, which amazes her since she didn’t start singing until she was a youth of 40. Nora O’Donovan Yaggy says how great it was to see Tyson and others at their lunch gatherings. She also noted that life is on an even keel, and she hopes it stays that way. And last but not least she commented on my 70th surprise birthday party which she said was fun. I’ll get to that later.

Sue Brewington Schier did appear in Baltimore for lunch. And she has weathered some tremendous storms while living in Maine.

Maybe when we talk to her again, she’ll let us

know how she fared. We hope all’s well with you, Sue. Millie Panetti Gibson seems to do everything. She spends as much time as possible with her children and grands, while attending board meetings, playing tennis, going to concerts and taking a cooking class.

She and her family ski in the winter and sail in the summer. Last Fall wasn’t so good, however, when the boat broke and two storms tore through the area, and her husband had a knee replacement. That led to a quiet holiday season and into the last three to four foot blizzard. She wishes for all of us “fruits of the spirit: peace, love, joy, kindness, gentleness and self control.” Mimi Rand Anderson is also a New Englander living in Scituate, MA. She says she never imagined herself as a grandmother of ten. She has four children, and they and their kids show up for visits in the summer at the beach. In winter, Mimi goes to Naples, FL and urges anyone who can to call her at 617-605-1567 and come for a visit.

How kind of you Mimi. You never know who might show up. Thanks. Babs Norris Woodward took and enjoyed her annual fly fishing excursion to Idaho. She also enjoys the mini reunions. Joanne Garrard Schill is remembering 2012 as the year the Schills finally sold their Baltimore house and now live full time on Gibson Island. Her other news is that their Bernese Mountain dog had to go to Ohio State University to the only veterinary surgeon who could repair the dog’s tricep tendon tear that occurred in an accident with a tricycle. Peggy McPherson Hendricks has a life in the South Carolina low country that sounds like paradise. Golf, tennis, social time with good friends. And staying healthy. And of course, wonderful weather. Do you have mosquitoes there, Peggy? Just kidding. You all

Alex Saral Vadnais, 1992, with her mother Jane McCleary Saral, 1961 and Jean Waller Brune, 1960 in Atlanta

never know when company might arrive.

Speaking of stopping by, Betsey Norris Luechs and husband Ron came to Virginia Beach to visit Jack and me. They live in Wilmington, NC and spent a night with us on their way to a family party. That was fun, but wait! We also saw them again in Baltimore at my sister Lin Turner Hardy, 1964 and Bill Hardy’s house the evening before Thanksgiving, when my husband Jack had a surprise 70th birthday party for me. I was completely surprised. He’d contacted many of my oldest pals, and some of our classmates. Only Nora and Betsey represented RPCS, but about 20 other people I’ve known 60 or so years came, and it was marvelous. Jack had been working on this since April. What a wonderful man! Finally, Jack and I will be going to France in March to visit the Rhone Valley, taste wine, Normandy and meet my son and his partner in Paris for a few days. May finds us at Jack’s 50th Princeton Reunion. Everyone have a safe summer. Please find me on Facebook, Catherine Turner Carter, if you feel like it. Betsy Randall, Robin Buck, and Sue Brewington sometimes share stuff there. Thank you to all that contributed to this article.

Class of 1962 50th Reunion Betti Haines Sheldon bettisheldn@gmail.com Bennett White Swingle swingle22@gmail.com It was just about a year ago that a group of us met in the school’s Alumnae Office to begin planning our 50th Reunion for the weekend of October 5. There were seven of us: Mary Ann Wright Clarendon, Gigi Hampshire, Holly Cross Heine (in absentia), Carole Hocker McCrory, Jayne Harris Murphy, Betti Haines Sheldon, Anne Bennett White Swingle and Babs Reed Vilar. Our Reunion has now come and gone, but still stands out clearly as a truly memorable event. Quite a few classmates came from afar. Carlton Sterling Nebrekelievski flew in from California. Sharon Davis Gratto arrived from Ohio. From the south came Brooke Carter Taliaferro (Florida), Jane Uhlig Lochman (North Carolina), Marilyn Witt Sedlack (West Virginia) and Prentiss Davies Murphy and Linda Bond Verdery (both from Virginia). Holly Cross Heine came from Massachusetts; Ann Donovan Marshall, from Pennsylvania; and Emily Hewitt, from

coffee at Bennett’s and then lunch at Betti’s.

Jeanne Polk Dobson who lives close by joined us and Saundy Gardner Mercier stopped on the way from her home in northern Baltimore County, en route to visit her daughter in Charlottesville. Our official class dinner was held Saturday night, at the Hopkins Club. The Reverend Judith Harris Proctor said grace. It was another special evening for classmates and spouses to catch up on how far we have come.

Sunday brunch in Baltimore’s new Harbor East neighborhood gave many an opportunity to see just how much our city is changing. And also a chance to say farewell with promises to keep in touch until our next time together.

Classmates from the Class of 1962

Washington, DC. Those who did not come especially Molly Schmick McGoldrick and Robin Carter Smith who had to cancel at the last minute due to family obligations – were sorely missed. A tour of the school on Friday afternoon, courtesy of a troupe of enthusiastic, fifth-grade pen-pals, impressed not only these out-of-towners, but even some who live in the area yet had never seen the “new” campus.

Sarah Jones, for one applauded the experience.

Now a Friday evening reunion tradition, dinner at the home of Jean Waller Brune, 1960 with spouses, marked the formal beginning of the weekend. Saturday just the “girls” spent a day on Gibson Island, and although we had envisioned outdoor activities – a hike or even tennis, perhaps - no one could be lured away from talking and reminiscing over morning

Class of 1963 Frances Rutherford frannie1022@yahoo.com Almost incomprehensible that it’s been 50 years since we graduated from RPCS, but we’ll celebrate anyway this October! Many of our class wrote to say they’d come to the reunion, and our committee (Ginna Naylor, Suzi Wenger O’Brien, Barrie Frey Sigler, Libby Baker, Laurie McCulloch Fisher, Edie Chapman Gillis, Sue Townshend Townsend, Peg Schmeiser Markowski and I) hopes we’ll have a really fine turnout because it’s gonna be great! Anne Roeder Kern: This year has been wonderful for me and my family. First of all, I retired from teaching English to high school freshmen. What a delight not to live by the bell and to impulsively live in a right-brained experience! A major change also came with my

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Anne Roeder Kern, 1963 with grandson Will

daughter, Tamara, marrying the man of her dreams and her boyfriend of four years.

Recently, she added an adorable grandson to my heart: William Cole Fancher! I travel to California and spend ten days a month with them-thank goodness there is a non-stop flight that gets me from OKC in two and a half hours! I still live around the corner from my wonderful son, Nick, and daughter-in-law and fabulous grandsons and spend the rest of my time enjoying them. On the other end of the generational experience is my 86-year-old mother who found a sweet new husband online! They go on cruise after cruise, really enjoy life and are taking all of his and her family (40 people!) to Costa Rica for a week.

My life is rich with family, good health and joy.

Laurie McCulloch Fisher: I have been living in Portland, ME this winter. I have two children and five grandchildren living in the Portland area. I decided that this winter would be a particularly lonely one for me if I stayed in Annapolis. The winter of 2011 was so busy with my daughter, Annie having twin boys and my playing Granny Nanny, that it allowed me to escape the reality of Dave’s death in July of 2011 a little. So with this dark winter looming, I decided to rent a cottage in Cape Elizabeth, ME for three months. It was a perfect decision.

I watched masses of basketball games and swim meets as all my grandchildren up here are very athletic. My two children fed me constantly which was such a treat. My grandchildren dropped in after school for games of Monopoly, cards and general Granny time. It’s been great. Peg Schmeiser Markowski: Mark and I celebrated our 16th wedding

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anniversary Dec. 21st in Baltimore where we have a place in Cross Keys right down from 219 Edgevale Road where I grew up. Mark is still working and I am still decorating with First Coast Interiors. We are Florida residents and still live in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Lucky us! Hall and Caroline are moving to San Francisco with AON Hewitt and have two adorable daughters, Chloe and Jane, six and two and a half. Stewart and Jamie live in Cos Cobb, CT and Stewart works for UBS. They have a boy, Paul two, and a girl, Abby, three and a half. Lorentz was married to Gina in St. Louis, MO last May and moved to Reno, NV to work for IGT. Gina has a master’s in electrical engineering and works for GE. I am still playing League tennis and have begun to take up golf just in case the tennis gives out. Marion Talbot Brady: I am loving retirement and keep extremely busy costuming period shows for local theater and at Cape May and with my volunteer work as Eucharistic Minister to the homebound and a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteer. I work with children in the foster care system in Passaic County and am on my third case in two years with a fourth on the way. Happily, my last case ended with the adoption of two little girls. Fran Cleveland Corcoran: I live in Boston’s South End and work for Fidelity Investments handling their meeting and events which entails travel, creating agendas, vetting speakers and generally organizing people. My son Richard lives outside San Francisco - he and Kerry have Sam and Miles who are seven and nine. He works for Credit Suisse and she owns a Dailey Method studio in Berkeley. My daughter Max

Frannie Rutherford, 1963

and her man live in Ocala, FL where she is involved in the horse world of 3-Day Eventing and Grand Prix jumping. It would be wonderful to catch up with my RPCS classmates. I spent 11 quality years in those halls, and I would still recognize the smell of the little gym anywhere. Katherine McCleary: OK, I’m thinking...what has happened this year? It’s been dominated by hip pain and laundry. Oh! and the chickens! We have five

Laurie McCulloch Fisher, 1963 on a Monarch butterfly trip with her granddaughter, daughters, daughter-in-law and best friend.

moved back to Vermont. Believe it or not, the heat really started getting to us and we also missed the seasons. It is wonderful to watch them play basketball, cheerlead and play hockey. Come spring we will watch lacrosse and baseball. Soccer will be in the picture too.

Frances Rutherford: I’ve had a year of engaging work as a media analyst at McGraw-Hill, fun trips to Costa Rica and Cambridge, England with some philosophically like-minded friends, and buying a co-op (only took eight and a half months to get the financing worked out – oy, New York real estate!) Now I’m really enjoying my new neighborhood (Kensington, Brooklyn, very near the Green-Wood Cemetery) and a view of the Freedom Tower, nearly complete.

Class of 1964 Sue Townshend Townsend, 1963 biking with her daughter and grandchildren in Spain.

beautiful chickens that I raised from tiny chicks in a big box in the back room of our house. My son Ben has healed from his third, biggest-yet aortic surgery and is back at work as a firefighter, which is miraculous. His oldest child, the reminds-me-so-much-of-myself Chloe, just turned 18. My grandson Bennett is 14 and Bella will soon be 12. They are wild and wonderful children, bright and fiercely energetic. My husband Dan (whom I love more than ever) has rented a sailboat and is taking me, his son and his son’s girlfriend sailing in the Virgin Islands in April. Dan is a great nautician and I will be his gimpy mate.

My hip surgery will be sometime after we get back. My therapy practice is full and the permutations of human growth through challenge continue to engage me. I count my blessings daily. Sue Townshend Townsend: All in all, 2012 has been a good year: I was able to move to a new house that I have liked for some time - still in the Timonium area, but quite different from my prior home. It has been really challenging and fun to fix up. Best of all, it is right around the corner from my son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. I was also able to take an amazing biking trip from Barcelona, up to the Pyrenees and down the Costa Brava with my daughter and two grandchildren. I also have joined forces with my daughter’s nonprofit organization, Mariposa Child Success Programs. She has created programs for teachers and parents within the Baltimore City Public School System

to assist children in becoming socially and emotionally competent. I am happy to be assisting in providing feedback to participants via online interactions. (Hopefully helping me to become more computer savvy(!) - and giving me a chance to use some of the skills for which I was trained.) Innes Smallwood Kasanof: My biggest news is that we have been given a second granddaughter, Molly Elizabeth Kasanof, who lives in New Jersey with her parents, Vanya (our son) and Jen, our dear daughter-in-law. Grandparenthood is so delicious that we have installed “Mollycare” into our hectic schedules, allowing us to sit with her every two weeks while her mom does other chores. We love it! Can’t wait to see everyone in October. Patti Bedford Gaede: We have our first grandchild (son, Bill) and we’re loving the winters in Vero Beach - golf, tennis, eating and drinking! (Haven’t changed!) Spend summer in Cincinnati with more of the above.

And I would add that I worked very hard to get our President re-elected and was happy to help deliver southern Ohio. Also continue to volunteer and support Planned Parenthood in both Ohio and Florida. Really looking forward to our “blank” reunion! Margaret (Peggy Webster) Coolidge: Can’t believe that it has been 50 years since we graduated! Must mean we are getting old... I have not been back to RPCS since leaving Maryland in 1965. My husband and I had been living in Florida for nine years and decided that we had missed a lot of our grandchildren’s lives, so we have

Connie Sparrow connie.sparrow@verizon.net Celeste Woodward Applefeld: The same evil people invaded our daughter-in-law’s email.

She too was said to be in London in desperate need of funds - except she was actually in the hospital giving birth to twins. So THAT is some of my news. Alexis Lauve and Paige Romas Applefeld were born with relative ease on September 5th. They were 35 weeks and weighed 4-15 and 5-11 respectively. At the time their older brother was 16 months old. Busy. All are healthy. I remain just a little sad that they are not in Baltimore. But Bronxville, NY isn’t that far away. In August, Grace and Will moved to Charleston, SC. (Will’s hometown, but Grace actually ‘caused’ the work related move). Nice town (again, but not home). So in the meantime we are taking road trips up north (weather and Mark’s schedule permitting) and flights south - again schedule permitting. And of course, I do make the occasional solo trip especially to help with baby care. I come back exhausted! I am keeping busy with some volunteer teaching of medical students, other volunteer efforts, reading and lots of needlework (needlepoint and a little bit of knitting). Best wishes to all.

Ginny Wood Delauney writes: Our daughter Anne is engaged and will be getting married on October 5, 2013 in Saratoga Springs. She has recently taken a position in the annual giving office at Miss Porter’s School. Clay is in LA and is an editor for the World Poker Tour. In his free time, he is working on a script for another film. Susan Anderson Mason says: My big news is that I retired the end of January after 30 years as the bookkeeper at St. John’s Episcopal Church. They gave me a lovely and

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humbling retirement celebration and Graham whisked me off to Aruba to enjoy my new freedom. The nice thing is that St. John’s is my church so it wasn’t good-bye. I sing in the choir, play handbells and plan on being an elf behind the scenes for my replacement. We are looking forward to 2014 and our 50th Reunion. Thank Lin Hardy for reminding us of the date. Connie Cavanaugh The news from us is that Dan and I are both retired and have recently finished a long overdue house renovation. So now, we are just trying to figure out how to spend our gloriously free time. Our son, Max, works in San Francisco for an online sports media company called bleacher report, recently purchased by Turner.

Sandy Cissel Olson writes: I guess spring has come to Maryland by now. Here it is above freezing and raining. The garden is almost free of snow. I became inspired to write as I ponder the last third of my life. What is next? We all know the challenges but I am inspired by the voice inside my head that says: “You’re not done yet.” I have been at the local college library for ten years now. I started out as a library assistant and now I am the media technician helping students with editing video

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and photography and the like. Who knew? I have learned a lot about media technology, software etc. but as I said I am not done yet.

So what is next? I have been studying multimedia digital storytelling, writing and taking pictures and video, collecting stories about the regional watershed and trying to understand the physical and cultural world in which we now find ourselves in 2013. I keep asking myself what I can do with the rest of my life that will make the slightest positive impact?

What else could the final third of a life now be for? Who invented retirement anyway? What we need, I think, are the voices of elders. I keep thinking of Miss Healy. She was such a genuine voice and kind. Still serious, still inquisitive, learning to be positively engaged. Mimsy Baker Spaulding: My big news is that I will be getting a new right hip on March 20, 2013! I asked if I will be able to get to my 45th college reunion over Memorial Day Weekend and my surgeon said yes - here’s hoping! I’m still working full time and loving it. Not much other news for now, but I have your email and will keep it handy...:) Brooke Mangels Travelstead: I’ve had a great year - miraculously we finally sold the house we had restored in

the historic district of Hudson, NY and are now full time at our farm in Climax, NY. We still go down to “the City” several times a month, especially to see my granddaughter in Brooklyn. This fall we had a wonderful trip to Tuscany and Venice. As usual it was fun to see Ginny, Jean, Missie, Katy and local alums this February in New York. Best wishes to everyone and am so looking forward to the big reunion in October! Olivia Streett Rasmussen writes: I have been retired for over a year now 11/11/11 was my last official day at work.

After 26 years at Legg Mason Capital Management and close to 45 years total, I was definitely ready for a break. I thought I might miss it, but that has not been the case. I do miss the people. I made some good friends while there and do still meet up with several of them for dinner every couple of months. I have two grandsons and my son and daughter are both in Baltimore which is very nice. My son and daughter-in-law are both engineers and my daughter is the office manager at the First Unitarian Church on Charles Street. I am volunteering at the Baltimore County SHIP office in Towson. We help senior citizens and disabled people with questions about

Medicare. And we recommend low income programs that help with healthcare costs. If anyone might be interested in this, let me know. We can always use more volunteers. I became interested when I had to sign up for Medicare and was baffled by the choices to make and when and how to do it. I have a five month old standard poodle who also keeps me busy. We take long walks in Cromwell Valley Park. I had never heard of this park in all my years in Baltimore. It’s a beautiful place bordering Loch Raven. They have a CSA on site and all kinds of programs for adults and children. If any of you love the outdoors like I do, check out their website. I have also taken up golf and plan to take some more lessons this spring. Don’t think I’m a natural, but am enjoying it so far. I have found some inexpensive places to play and always walk no cart. I went to England last fall with a friend for three weeks. I never had time to travel before and this was a wonderful trip. We met up with my sister Ann Streett Benya, 1960 for part of the trip. We started in London and then drove to Wales and the Peak District and back to Cambridge. Cathedrals, castles and hiking filled all our days. Driving was a little nerve wracking, but I did get used to it just about two days before we turned the car in.

And those English trains are amazing - always on time and incredibly clean. Lynn Kreider Panlilio: It is hard to believe a year has gone by, life in Atlanta is good - we have two granddaughters here, so we stay quite busy attending their activities - we also make many visits to DC visiting my grandson... I have been a member of Community Bible Study for 15 years and attend class and meetings two days a week... I recently joined the Assistance League of Atlanta, which helps women and children and devote as much time as I can each week, when we are in town. We love to travel and go away often - we went to Amsterdam in October, that jewel of a city with canals, bikes, houseboats and tulips and took a Rhine River cruise from there to Basel, Switzerland - from there we went to our favorite Spa town in Germany, Baden-Baden....we took a cruise down to Panama in January and came back to Florida for two weeks - Key West and Anna Maria Island.....we leave in April for a transatlantic cruise which will end in London, we will stay in England for a week, before heading to the south of Spain for some beach time....I’m sending you a photo of Anne Blalock and me on the beach in Siesta Key, FL in January on our winter break on the beautiful Gulf Coast....I hope you are well and life is good - looking forward to our 50th, Blessings to all. I, Connie Sparrow, loved hearing from everyone. Thank heavens for the internet. Had visits with sister Dottie, first, second and third

cousins. Hooray for genealogy and new generations who are interested in who did what when! Both Medicare and Social Security have found me. The first time I ever felt old was when AARP found me at age 50! My old email ID got destroyed last year. I did not get stranded in London and did not need money.

Sorry to anyone who received such a message from “me.” My new email is connie.sparrow@ verizon.net. Let’s keep in touch throughout the year because next year is the big 50th reunion!

Class of 1965 Carol Blankenship Davis carolbdavis@verizon.net Another year has passed so quickly and the time between pleas for updates for Connections seems to get shorter and shorter! 2012 continued our new tradition of getting together in non-reunion years. In May, Linda Strangmann Robinson hosted a lovely evening at her home. It was a smaller than usual gathering due to all our busy lives, but I think that those of us who were there would agree that bigger is not necessarily better. A larger group may have intimidated Marydele Stolte Donnelly from entertaining us with her hilarious recounting of the evening of her 40th birthday. Ask her sometime. In the end of August, Vivien Davis Tsu was in DC for a conference which provided us with another opportunity for a get together. Once again Margaret Gray Kincaid graciously provided her home and most of the dinner for this party. Her childhood home is a familiar place for many us and she has made it a warm and welcoming place to visit. On their return trip to Florida, after summering in Minnesota, Chic Dwight and husband Freddie passed through Baltimore. Even with one day’s notice, several of us were able to join Chic for dinner. She is as busy as ever with her real estate business and was looking forward to being back at their winter home. Freddie was happy to be able to spend an uninterrupted evening of watching sports while she was gone. On their trip south, they stopped in North Carolina to see Martha Gomer. As most of you know, Martha was stricken with a major stroke last April. Luckily, a quick thinking coworker got her to the emergency room. It has been a long hard road for her since and she has had to relearn much of what we take for granted. She moved from a facility in Raleigh to one in Fayetteville where she could receive more intensive therapy. As I write this now, they are looking for a

Carla Eger Brumfield, 1965’s mother and grandson, Walker James Smiley.

permanent home for Martha since her rehabilitation has now come to an end. She is planning on returning to Raleigh and has found a facility that she likes a lot. All of her siblings, Chuck, Brookie and David visited her recently and enjoyed a laughter filled evening.

They also have gotten her house ready to sell. Karla Newsom wrote that she had nothing exciting to report but that she still often sees Mary McCormick Meyer, Matilda Woodward and Libby Purvis. (Libby was in our class through part of the lower main.) She said she “still plays golf and oodles and oodles of Bridge and Duplicate. Wish I had listened to Anne Dukehart (Lambdin) years ago and been more serious then about Bridge. Oh well, wish I had listened to my parents as well.” Becky Harrison Anderson, an Episcopal priest, retired a year ago and has moved to Bristol, RI which is on the water. She lives close to her children and four grandchildren, ages nine months – twelve years. She has been working as a supply (substitute) priest, but in February she begins sharing a job with another retired woman priest overseeing a parish in Portsmouth, RI. Recently, she found herself in a no-lose situation while watching the New England/Baltimore playoff game, but she said she would happily root for the Ravens in the Super Bowl. And she promises that this is the year she will get back to Baltimore...you heard it here first! Our other member of the clergy, Helen Armiger, will be leaving St. Paul’s UM Church in New Windsor in June, but she is not retiring just yet. She is hoping for a parttime appointment closer to DC to be near her

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son and daughter-in-law. Jake is a diplomat with the State Department in Foreign Service and Martina is a global consultant with Mercy Corps. They will be in DC for another 15 months before going to India, Kenya or some other post. When Helen does retire, she wants to have the flexibility to enjoy long visits with her family and more time to relax, write and travel. Toni Madrigal Martin’s big news is that her son Teddy and his wife Gretchen are expecting twins in February. Their first child is in a coed preschool program at RPCS. She and I are hoping to attend the Alumnae Valentine’s Day Luncheon at RPCS; she with grandson Teddy and me with granddaughter Ava. Toni and Ed were planning on being in California for a week at the end of January with a few days in San Francisco and a few in St Helena, a nice break from Baltimore in dreary January. Barbara Bond wrote that after 40 plus years in the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Maryland, she is finally exploring retirement from government service despite the risk of turning into a Mall walker.

If Barbara is walking the Malls it will be with credit card in hand I am sure! Nelva Hart Hall reports that nothing much for her has changed this year except her age. She and husband Noel keep talking about travelling, but it is hard to leave the four legged children behind, so she takes some trips with special girlfriends and he takes car racing vacations.

Her son Michael has had his job reduced to part time after 19 years and she is hoping this situation will change for the better soon. She continues to work from home and finds it nice to have the health insurance coverage. Helen Tayloe Lambert continues as a reading aide at a local elementary school while hubby Mike is still working in design and remodeling. Her youngest son, Will, is joining his brother in his brother’s start up engineering company. Helen wonders how this will work since Will is not an engineer! Stay tuned for next year’s update.

Her dad turned 95 in November and is eyeing the century mark. She sends much love to her “sisters.” Calla Pappas Merkle and husband Rick went to the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, GA last Spring which for golfers, is like a trip to Mecca! In addition, they went to Boston with Calla’s sister Christina Pappas Stone, 1966 and her husband. In July, a joyful celebration was held in Annapolis for the wedding of Rick’s daughter. This Fall, she took a drawing class through Kaleidoscope at RPCS and loved it. While Calla had major surgery in October, she is fully recovered and remains active in her church as well as attending to her mom, granddaughter and various other family members. Randy Saint Low spent Christmas visiting her son and his family in California.

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here on New Year’s Eve. She has been filling in as an occupational therapist in nursing homes for vacationing staff. While finishing up a two year presidency of the Gunpowder Garden Club and at the same time beginning her presidency of the Baltimore County Master Gardeners, she is wondering what she has gotten herself in to! She also is involved with her grandchildren and her 96 year-old motherin-law. This summer, she and Clifford will take a cruise to Norway to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary.

Margaret Gray Kincaid has finished the major renovation of her mother’s 18th century house in New Hampshire. Despite many snags along the way, the house is now habitable and the whole family was able to spend Christmas there with her. Betty Cooper Smith sends a warm “Hello” to everyone from her winter home in Ponce, Puerto Rico where she enjoys swimming, hiking up to her mountain property where the newly planted trees and gardens are making progress, writing creatively, reading, sketching and making new friends. In April she will return to North Carolina where she is involved in the annual Art Safari where 40 local artists open their studios to the public for tours. Pam Fenhagen Corckran wrote from Petit St. Vincent, a very small island in the Caribbean where she and Cork were relaxing and celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.

They still spend a great deal of time in Bermuda where daughter Gambrill is in her second year of law school online. Gambrill and her two daughters will be moving to London this summer so she can complete her degree in English law. Next year Pam will be adding London to her regular destinations. She wanted to thank everyone who was in touch and who offered their much needed support after the tragic loss of their beloved son, John.

While one never gets over losing a child, she and Cork are going through the very slow healing process. Mutzie Marek Jones and husband Nip were looking forward to spending time at their condo in Florida when she wrote. She and daughter Shelby are traveling to Prague in May where they will meet up with relatives that she has known for years as well as with relatives from the Marek side of the family that have just found them.

She is very excited about that. She said that since she had to travel so far for this trip, she might as well tack on a side trip to Paris.

Makes sense to me. This summer they will be taking their first ever family vacation to Ocean City with their two wonderful children, wonderful spouses and three miraculous grandchildren. Vivien Davis Tsu had a heavy travel load last year racking up nearly 200,000 miles, but it gave her lots of interesting opportunities related to her work on breast

and cervical cancers. She and Theta were able to visit Morocco for the first time in May as part of a business trip. They also found time to make it back to their cottage in France for a week in September followed by a week in Rome where she had a conference. Her best news was that her younger son, Jonathan, found a job after being laid off for eight months. He has just moved to northern Virginia with his girlfriend where Vivien hopes she will see more of him than she did when he was in San Diego. Marga Cummings Hill and husband Bob are now residents of Florida where they spend six months and a day. They play lots of golf and have a small boat that they enjoy. She keeps herself busy with volunteering, book clubs and playing Mah Jong. Three of their children are in Ohio where Brian has two little boys and Pat and Jen are not married. Daughter Melissa, her husband and 17 month old Abigail have moved from Germany to the Bahamas where Marga is hoping to visit and see more of them. Kate Wise and Rich have decided to retire to the Bethany Beach area where they are building a new villa style home. They will keep their DC home and careers going for at least another year, but plan to move there permanently in the future. Fortunately, her three sons, wives and three grandgirls all live close enough that they will visit often especially since they are all a beach loving family. She is still working in real estate, but had cut back and is choosy about her clients, which makes her job more gratifying. Her greatest accomplishment for 2012 was her role as leader of a project to build a Labyrinth at her church in Bethesda.

The dream had languished for more than a decade before she accepted the call to make it happen at last. The dedication was on December 1st with the original leader of the project rising from her wheelchair to walk the Labyrinth, tears streaming down her face: a powerful moment that Kate will never forget. Susan Gelston Mink has had a busy year spending a lot of time with their grandchildren at home, in Florida, and in Denver while still finding time for a lovely trip to Paris in October. Jessie Zapffe says she has been working like a fiend in her new career of real estate. She will be going for her Broker’s license in a few months and was #1 in sales in Siskiyou County last year out of 100 agents.

She said that she has had no life with all this work and worries that Otto will mistake someone else for her, as his memory of her dims! She can’t retire because of the expensive house she bought when the economy was chugging along so now she must work to support her choice. She has so many cute kids, grandkids, a lovely home and wonderful partner that, while she worries about things,

she considers herself many times blessed with great health, great faith, optimism and a great sense of humor to get her through challenging times. This certainly sounds like the Jessie we have always known. Carla Eger Brumfield lost her dear father last July, but while they miss him, they happily celebrate his 96 years. Her grandchild count is now seven as Mollie had her third child, James Smiley, on September 12, 2012. Carla refers to the time with all seven of them as “the best fun ever!” She and Woody are still enjoying their time in Naples, FL reconnecting with many friends from their teenage years. She said that it is a delight to spend time somewhere new, but have a group of “old” friends already assembled. Woody is still sailing, Carla is still painting, and both are wondering how to plan for the future which she acknowledges is here! Anne Nicholas Costain and her family made a trip east last June and spent several days in Baltimore where she gave a talk at the Maryland Historical Society on the anti-slavery movement in the state. During their stay, Sam and I were able to join them one evening for dinner and to catch up. Over the summer she had the front yard of her home landscaped and trees trimmed in hopes that this coming summer’s wild fires will spare them again. She is arranging with the University of Colorado to retire in December.

Other than taking water exercise and yoga with her daughter, she reports that not much else is new. Elizabeth McCleary PrimroseSmith and husband Ed drove over 4500 miles touring National Parks in the Southwest: Petrified Forest, Bryce, Zion, Cedar Breaks, Devil’s Tower, Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse. This Fall, they are planning another trip to Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and Glacier National Park stating that there are so many wonderful and magical places in our own country. Farther from home, they took a cruise of the Adriatic. She is enthralled with ancient Greek and Roman ruins and history (thanks to Miss Feeley!) She said that Croatia is full of historic sites which were fascinating and amazingly well preserved. When she wrote, they were about to embark on a cruise through the Panama Canal. When home, she continues her clogging classes, playing Mah Jong in a couples group, knitting obsessively (mostly for the grandkids), attending a knitting guild and reading with her local book club. Her children and grandchildren are all doing well and life is good for her. She is especially treasuring her youngest grandchild who is five and the last years of amazing funny statements and viewpoints of childhood before they think they know more than we do! As many of you know, Nancy Davidson Neal lost her husband Bill this fall after his long and courageous fight with cancer. Many of us knew Bill when they

were “high school sweethearts” and the perfect couple. I know you all join with me in sending Nancy our deepest sympathy. She wrote: “I want to thank so many for writing to me when they heard that Bill passed on in October. I feel so blessed! It has been a whirlwind since Bill’s memorial service in November to then help with my daughter/husband and family pack up and move from Phoenix to Atlanta during Christmas.” She visited family and friends in the January in “the south” and will then return to Phoenix to wrap things up and eventually move back to her home on Daufuskie Island, SC, hopefully by summer. She is looking forward to being able to return to Baltimore for a reunion soon. Eve Scheffenacker has been making trips back to Baltimore in the spring and fall from her home in Madison, WI. Eve is an independent consultant for the CAbi clothing line and when she visits she packs the whole season’s wardrobe in two (albeit large) suitcases. While here, she does in-home parties and, being a regular host, I can tell you that these are really fun “girls’ nights out.” Usually her visit is just the excuse we need for a classmate event! Betsy Kohlerman Winship continues to be busy with her publishing services business. She recently spent six months editing a 2000 page, two volume book on knee reconstruction and replacement.

With her arthritic knees, she will have to undergo this procedure in the not too distant future. Now that she knows the types of prostheses, complications, surgical approaches, etc., she plans to delay the replacement for as long as possible. The conversation with the surgeon should be interesting! Daughter Kitzie Winship, 2000 is working on her master’s degree in drama therapy at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. During football season, at Kitzie’s request, she sent her a Ray Lewis t-shirt. Betsy hopes her new friends were not diehard 49er fans!

Daughter Lauren Winship, 2005, is living at home, house and pet sitting as well as chauffeuring and loving her work despite the long hours. Betsy has some travel plans this year to attend two weddings, the first in Turks and Caicos for that of a friend’s son and the second in Chicago for the nuptials of Ashley Conklin, 2003. Finally, Betsy said: “I want to tell my classmates how much I have enjoyed our get-togethers over the past two years and I look forward to seeing you again soon.” I think that those of us who have been able to attend these events are pleased and perhaps surprised at how our friendships have grown and matured over time. As for me, Carol Blankenship Davis, Sam and I had our usual trip to Texas last March and squeezed in another in June as part of his 50th high school reunion in Kansas. I know, “Kansas, Texas”?

We get there any way we can. In June, we celebrated the wedding of our son Chris and his bride Claire. The entire event was held at a venue on the Chester River on the Eastern Shore that they had rented for the weekend.

The weather cooperated, although extremely hot, and everyone, especially Claire’s family from England, had a fabulous time. We were occupied during a major part of the fall with a long overdue gutting and redo of two of our bathrooms. I love the results, but I really have to take my hat off to those of you who take on big renovation or building projects! My 95 year-old Daddy fell at the end of November which required hospitalization and rehab and is now back in his independent living apartment awaiting a space in assisted living.

So for now, he requires a lot more attention. I am lucky to have the time and be close enough to help. I am loving my connection to Roland Park through my granddaughter Ava Yensan, 2016. It is hard to believe that it has been so long since we were in the ninth grade. I hope Ava will be able to stay in touch with her classmates as we have when her time comes.

Finally, Betsy Kohlerman Winship has suggested that we take our “get-togethers” to a new level by going to Ocean City for the weekend of October 4-6. She is proposing the Dunes Hotel and has some connections due to her work with the Girl Scouts. Be thinking about this and I will be sending information a bit later. It would be two years before our Big reunion and might be a great interim adventure. Finally, if you do not receive emails from me, it means that I do not have a current address for you. Please write to me at the above address so that our class directory can be as complete as possible.

Class of 1966 Ann Hurlock AnnHurlock@aol.com For some reason only a handful of you felt motivated to submit your updated stories for this year’s report. I have to assume - and hope - that for those “silent” classmates either you were too busy to respond or maybe you had a status quo attitude and not much to report.

For those who wrote in, I have cut/pasted your stories in no particular order. Lee Hampshire: I wish I had something exciting to report (in which case you would have already heard from me), but alas my life is just plain boring… still working (my company just finished the drywall etc. on the new Under Armour store in Harbor East), still involved with the five

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grandsons (will be traveling to Disney World for a week this spring with two of them) and still dreaming of adventures in travels to far off lands - that’s about it. Andy Creed: No big changes for me. Boys are both well: live close by and have good jobs. What more can one ask? I’m off the courts for a while with a bum knee, but otherwise doing well. Not in touch with anyone else so your class notes will be an update for me. Jennifer Bodine: I am the opening shot in my daughter’s movie, Forward and Motion, as a homeless woman digging through trash cans. We are in the second week of shooting. I am having a food party once or twice a day for 12 people when they are shooting at the apartment where I am staying.

The kitchen is small and I had bigger refrigerators in college. I have no microwave which is the appliance I most miss. My business seems to be steadily growing and I am starting to sell original pictures, which is the whole point of the Bodine business. I can make more money selling two originals than I make in royalties in a year. Presently I have three exhibitions in planning and a fourth that has just come up. There is always a sales bump with one exhibit. Four should be sweet on top of releasing another book. I have an advance copy. It is titled Bodine’s Industry, The Dignity of Work. Arranging two exhibitions for fall, 2013 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry and the Washington Museum of Fine Arts; Still cataloguing Bodine’s photographs. Mary Joe Maccubbin Clark writes: I really don’t have much news. Still ‘retired’ and hating every minute of it! Lots of volunteer work which is good. The twins are walking! Stepgranddaughter graduating from same high school Amy did. Bill is still poster boy for

retirees - golf, bridge, etc. He’s 81. I’m healthy, almost no sign of the stroke except my handwriting, but who does that anymore? Eva McManus Edmonds: This should be an exciting year for us as we begin to carry new health insurance cards! I am celebrating the big birthday with a trip to Istanbul; cruise from Athens visiting some Greek Islands and stops along the Adriatic coast. Some places I toured as a college student, but Craig and I both wanted some new adventures. I continue to teach two classes at Shepherd University and will continue as long as it is energizing for me.

Joann Wells Greenbaum writes: You are so good at pulling me out of my shell, that I just couldn’t resist. This year there have been many art related projects. A dream come true is that my potter husband, David Greenbaum, and I opened our own gallery called BlueStone Studio in Milford, PA where we show exclusively our own works of art. This is our third gallery since moving to Milford in 2008, but it is a culmination of all we have learned about the gallery business, and we’re still learning. I also have been collaborating with a talented young writer on a children’s story.

Kevin Maloney has overcome dyslexia and learning disabilities to pursue his passion for writing and when he contacted me to illustrate his children’s story, I was as impressed with his personal challenges and perseverance, as I was with his charming tale based on the true adventures of two homeless kittens. The book will be ready for publication in June. It is titled Biscuit, Smudge and the Fisherman. We designed a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Kevin’s book, and were overwhelmingly surprised and grateful for the response. Several of our RPCS classmates were included in the

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list of backers for our project. Many thanks to all of you. We traveled with our two sons and one son’s fiancée to celebrate David’s birthday.

David had always wanted to visit Costa Rica, so we spent 15 days exploring that beautifully nature-rich country. We all enjoyed the wildlife: monkeys, sloths, iguanas, agoutis, pizotes, tropical birds and more. The diversity of landscape, beaches and dense jungles were breathtaking. Anyway, I hope this is a passable report, and thank you for all you do to make this happen. I hope you and everyone from the Class of 1966 have a wonderful 2013. Lucille Cobb Nurkse: Happy New Year! I published two small art books in 2012; Music, Music, Music, musical collages, and Cherry Blossoms, cherry watercolors. Please visit my website www.lucillenurkse.com. I visited Maui in January to snorkel. The fish are noticeably depleted in unprotected areas by overfishing and toxic run-off, I am told. Hurricane Sandy brought evidence of climate change to my area.

My vote is for renewables, not for hydrofracking across the country. With a nod to history at RPCS I highly recommend Robert K. Massie’s Peter the Great: His Life and World and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2013! Sue Ellen Darnell May: Our most exciting news is quite recent: my oldest son, Neal, married on December 15, 2012 and just announced that he and Sarah are expecting my first grandchild on August 20th! Sarah is from St. Mary’s County, and they live in the DC area, so that will be a great reason to plan trips to Maryland. He also started a new job the very same week, and they are moving very soon. Middle son, Tommy, remains in Denver; he and his wife, Bethany, are house hunting also. The youngest, Steve, is already a homeowner at age 25, in Coeur d’Alene, ID. His Army Reserve duties will likely include a deployment in 2013. As the lone social worker in a family of engineers, I am still figuring out how my husband, Tom, and I will manage his recent retirement. So far, no one is doing cooking/laundry/cleaning except me...what’s wrong with this picture? I remain highly involved in my job, Suicide Prevention Coordinator at the Alaska VA, and have no plans to retire just yet (although the advent of grandchildren may change that idea). We are still in Eagle River, AK, still enjoying our “bipolar” seasons in this beautiful place, and we welcome visitors. Penny Starratt Duffy: My big news is that my novel, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, is being published this coming November by Penguin in Canada and

by W. W. Norton in the U.S. It takes place during the First World War, so the timing is good because the 100th anniversary will be in 2014. It’s about a Canadian, Angus MacGrath,

Penny Starratt Duffy 1966 - The Cartographer of No Man’s Land P.S. Duffy’s novel The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, published by W.W. Norton in the U.S. and by Penguin in Canada, is due out this coming October. The book takes place during the First World War on the Western Front through the eyes of a soldier, Angus MacGrath, and back home in Nova Scotia through the eyes of his 13-year-old son, Simon Peter. According to Penny, the novel’s theme is “we are saved by hands reaching out.”

Although Penny has had other books published, and she writes for the Mayo Clinic in neuroscience, this is her very first book of fiction. She says, “It has been quite an experience and quite a journey to write this, not to mention the process of publication.

You can imagine, given that the book is set back in 1917, my thoughts turn often to my English and history teachers at RPCS – especially Anne Healy, HA, Peg Kelley, HA, Pat Feeley, 1948 and Miss Faissler, and even as far back as Miss Engle (2nd Main English), Mrs. Wilson (3rd Main history) and a Mrs. Groebler (1st Main English). What incredible good fortune I had to learn from and be nurtured by them. Their love of their subjects was palpable, and their enthusiasm and exacting standards left a profound and lasting imprint. Those early years are indeed critical in forming who we become.”

Here is a small excerpt from the publisher: When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and find him. Assured a position as a cartographer in

who goes against his pacifist upbringing to enlist so as to find his much-loved brother-inlaw, missing at the front. Hoping to be a military cartographer in London, Angus is instead sent directly into the front lines.

Meanwhile at home in Nova Scotia his 13-year-old son, Simon Peter, must navigate the shifting ground of a fishing village torn by grief and a rising suspicion of anyone expressing less than patriotic enthusiasm for the war. It is basically a story about what it takes for the heart to survive. That’s my elevator speech. I’m thrilled and nervous both.

But in it all, I often think back to the privilege of being taught at RPCS by history and English teachers, each of whom I can still name, who instilled in me their own love of those subjects.

Other than that, I continue to write for Mayo Clinic’s Neural Engineering Lab on deep brain stimulation research, which I love, and to have fun with our four grandchildren. Joe and I are headed to the U.K. for the first time in April.

Brushing up by watching Downton Abby. And we are now watching lots of fourth grade basketball tournaments. At ten, our oldest grandson is almost the same age as Melanie was when she and I moved up to Minnesota.

The old cliché holds - where did the time go?

Thank you so much for doing the notes - no easy task! Anne Nelson Apgar: Anne and husband Sandy have been busier than ever!

However, Anne will complete her term as Chair of the Walters Women’s Committee in April. Their joint effort with neighbors to help the City improve Federal Hill Park is well underway. They look forward to the wedding of their eldest, Clayton, and actress Kate Chadwick in Napa in June. Clayton is building Clayton Apgar Design in LA. Sarah loves working for start-up Warby Parker which sells boutique-quality eyewear online for a great price, while husband Ben is a second year student at Hofstra Medical School. Now in his third year, Jamie is pursuing doctorate in musicology at UC Berkeley. Anne invites all to visit Federal Hill! Anne Mountcastle Bainbridge: I am so happy to be back in Baltimore! In September I moved to a little house in Wyman Park which I have been working on ever since. I am loving being near family and so many of you. Would love to hear from you! Mimi Roeder Vaughan writes: With Associated Black Charities, I have been selected to chair the Jada Pinkett Smith event November 7, 2013. As a Board member for five years, ABC has invited me to be their

London he is instead sent directly into the visceral shock of battle. Meanwhile, at home, his son Simon Peter must navigate escalating hostility in a fishing village torn by grief.

With the intimacy of The Song of Achilles and the epic scope of The Invisible Bridge, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land offers a soulful portrayal of World War I and the lives that were forever changed by it, both on the battlefield and at home.

representative at the Black Caucus in Annapolis. I saw Ann Hurlock and Kathy Leslie at BCC for lunch. Ann hosted it and we laughed a lot. Still hang out with Deb Anderson Stuffel. Roeder Travel is having a great year in sales as we celebrate 40 years in business. The big news is that my granddaughter Livia Pizza is in her first year at RPCS’s preschool three’s!

So, we are one of three generations at RPCS. Ann Hurlock: I always enjoy hearing from you. Wish I had more to report. I am still hiding from winter here in Key West where I run every day, play lots of tennis and practice law as a solo practitioner. My husband Tom still practices law and travels back and forth to Baltimore. There are lots of quirky people here who keep things interesting. Sunshine and palm trees make winter a lot easier to endure!

And a great dog park! Will be back in Baltimore soon (early May) and in Rehoboth a lot over the summer.

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Class of 1968 Susan macDCG Andrews Susan102@aol.com Our 45th Reunion year! So amazing! Saturday morning at 9:00 am is a breakfast at School for our class. Stuart Kelly Trinkle has put together a very nice 7:00 pm dinner at The Hopkins Club after celebrating at School at 4:00 pm for the Alumna Artist Opening Reception with our very own Janet Bauer Hartman, 1968! Plans for gathering Friday night and Sunday brunch are still in the works, but we’ll keep you posted!

We are so proud of our now, twice published author, Barbara Mossberg Morrison: I have a new book of poetry, Terrarium. My memoir, Innocent: Confessions of a Welfare Mother, continues to do well. This year has brought more speaking engagements and invitations to teach writing classes. At the same time, I’m still working as an information systems security engineer, work which continues to fascinate me, and making time to stay in touch with my sons, Jeremy and Justin, who are out in the world building their own careers. For more information about my writing life or to scope out books for your book club, see my web site and book blog at www.bmorrison.com.

Connie Day Dunn sends word: Son Charlie and wife Abby and granddaughter Brooklyn are in Boston about to plant a church in the neighborhood of Southie. Son Chris is due to get married in August and working for a company in Charlotte called Red Ventures.

Husband Charlie still works at his second

career for a seminary as VP of Development.

We enjoyed a wonderful trip to Tuscany back in October. I am enjoying life as grandmother, and volunteer in several things. Sheila Tayback Leatherman reports: Life is good. I continue as a Professor at UNC School of Public Health (though I live in Minnesota) and work globally on improving health systems generally, and especially focusing on poverty reduction and community health in very poor countries. For family life, happily, I am still married to the person I met in college and have two daughters both of whom are in graduate school. Emily Parkhurst and I are still best friends, traveled together last year in India and are planning our next adventure in Central America.

Susan Scott Wheel, “Schott,” says: Here is pic of my daughter Kristin, her baby, Evan, born February 3, 2012, and my son Gavin.

I get to babysit Evan twice a week...love it!

Gavin is a paramedic and Kristin works as VP educational services for a documentary company. She will be 30 on January 22! Eve Bremermann Collard: Bruce and I moved this year to Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. We love our new location, the bay views, the hiking trails along the Pacific that begin in our back yard and the proximity to San Francisco for restaurants and culture. Schott lives close by; we got together last week for lunch and hiking. I’m consulting in leadership development which involves quite a bit of work with the young, hot techies in the Silicon Valley. It definitely keeps me on my toes and tests my savvy when it comes to all things technological. Consulting is providing the flexibility to engage in more “hobbies” and get up to the ranch in

Jean Waller Brune, 1960 with Kathy Rohrer Haight, 1968 and Nancy Townshend Haas, 1969

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Susan Scott, 1968’s daughter and son Kristin and Gavin with grandson Evan

Northern California more frequently. Our daughter, Gibson (26), is living and working in San Francisco. Bruce’s three kids and their families are scattered along the northern west coast so we are able to see them and the six (I may actually tie Cathy Huether McClelland) grandchildren who range in age from six to 17.

I’d love to get together with anyone who heads this way, and look forward to re-connecting with everyone at the reunion...45th!...this fall.

Continuing to prove that God has a sense of humor, I, Susan macDCG Andrews, am in my eighth year as the pastor’s wife! I’m pretty sure they were expecting pearls and a kindly spirit!

Surprise! On March 1, Leon Lev Galitzin VII (yes, seventh!) was born in Malibu, CA. I was thrilled to be there with them! I am equally as proud that the next president of our Alumnae Association is Jesse Galitzin, 1999! Stuart Kelly Trinkle writes: All is well with us. I am officially a geezer now that I am collecting Social Security - where did the time go! It has been fun becoming more involved with my volunteer work and doing a bit more travel. I am in Baltimore on a regular basis visiting Mom who will be 96 in May and still in independent living. I’m looking forward to our 45th - it sure won’t be the same without Liz Carlin Hopkins and Elizabeth Blake. Before the reunion invitation goes out from school, we have already had some nice RSVPs! Please consider joining us and making sure our other friends who aren’t so in contact with School, know that we love them and want them with us! Stuart is right.

Class of 1969 Marianna Spicer Joslyn Marianna.Joslyn@Turner.com Hi friends, an abbreviated class notes this time. My mea culpa for letting the deadline get away from me during a news blitz. I’m going to make an attempt to find some of the “lost girls” and find out what’s up in their lives. Any of you who are out there who have heard from any of our classmates we’ve lost touch with, let me know. So here’s the news: Susan Waxter says she is headed to Peru for the last three weeks of May, and when she returns, she’ll only have a year until she can retire. Jane Beazley DeCell tells me her son Charlie graduates from college, son Clay from law school and husband Hal is having a knee replacement. Jane was able to visit with Susan Waxter at Susie’s father’s funeral this spring, and also saw Susie Bradley Boutilier and Boot there. She says they both look great, which is wonderful to hear after Boot’s lung transplant!

Jane says they had a great trip to the Amalfi Coast of Italy and Paris last October and they hope Hal’s knee will be strong enough for a fall trip. She and Christina Fleps look forward to returning the hospitality of the Baltimorebased 1969ers and any out-of-towners this summer or fall. Cathy Lears Bennett’s family is growing by leaps and bounds. She has five grandchildren and another on the way! Her youngest daughter Erin Lears Richardson, 2001 is working in the Development Office of RPCS. Erin’s daughter Penny is in the Little Bear Child Care Center there. At work, Cathy says her swimming center is having a great time working with Special Olympics International training coaches around the world. She and her husband Woods are also planning a trip to Ireland this summer. JL Sprol Hurley says the big news in her family is her daughter Jill’s engagement to James Adams. They have plans for a Bryant Park wedding in New York in September. It was great to hear from Nan Banker. She and her husband Jim moved from Occidental, CA (as she says, “small, nestled in the redwoods town) to the outskirts of Santa Rosa. The new house, she says, is “technically” in the city but has ¾ acres that feels like country. They have a blocked off street due to the elementary school a couple blocks away.

“Yeah! No traffic!” She is happy to be there and to never move again. Nan is volunteering with a group called 4Paws. She and her dog Kiki, who she rescued after he was injured after being thrown out of a moving vehicle passed training to be a therapy team.They visit hospital patients and work with struggling

(L-R) Members of the Class of 1969 Nancy Townshend Haas, Susan Waxter, Susan Bradley Boutilier, Genie Harper-Jones, Mary Hays Vollmer, Cathy Lears Bennett, Jane Beazley DeCell

readers – the kids read to the dogs. Mary Hays Vollmer says she recently received an NEH grant for Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and her Eatonville Roots, a Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop at Rollins College this summer. Sounds like fun! Ann King Kotmair is also a grandmother again, her son Jamie and wife Cristina had a boy, Sydney Charles, in November. (Recognize the name?) Ann’s oldest granddaughter, Hana, turned 13 in January on Mr. King’s 88th birthday, in Berlin, Germany. Ann says her two younger granddaughters turn two in June. She’s looking forward to everyone being in Baltimore this summer. Ann’s parents live in Elkridge Estates, along with Carey Davis’ mother Rufus. Carey’s father Herbert passed away at the end of April after a long illness.

Genie Harper Jones says things are much the same, except daughter Jessica is graduating from Smith so “we’ll see what Northampton looks like in May. My guess is lovely as a picture.” I love the way Genie describes what comes next: She’ll hit the pavement looking for a job and somehow figure it all out. As I have observed, some of us forge a path, others let the current take them along. Either way, the ride’s on. Genie says she had dinner with Mary Hays Vollmer when she took her kids to Sanibel in March. (There’s a place I’d love to go back to!) Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle is a new grandmother. Her son Rob and his wife Pam had a son, Luke, in March. Valerie says since they live in Bel Air, MD, she’s able to visit and babysit every weekend (lucky Rob

and Pam!), and loves seeing her son in his new role as father. She and her husband Chris went on another mission trip last July, to Ethiopia, their sixth trip in ten years. And Valerie was promoted to be the first nurse executive at the system/corporate level at WellSpan Health in south central Pennsylvania! You go girl! She saw Kathy Waters Marshall Weatherly for a weekend, and got to spend some time in Boone, NC and stay at the Biltmore House.

I took my Mom there a few years ago and it is beautiful. Heard from our baroness in Germany, Christine Pierpont von Klencke, that daughter Anna’s son Justus, who weighed only 1.8 lbs after arriving 14 weeks early last May, celebrated his first birthday and seems to have no complications! He was released from the hospital last September just in time for his aunt Celeste’s wedding. Celeste has started a residency at a Berlin hospital. Son Ludolf is “enjoying practicing law,” and son Henry is working on his master’s degree. Christine says she’s very busy with the museum and café, especially the latter, trying to manage part-time help. She says family and friends “often find me selling coffee and cakes on the weekends.”

Christine is also very busy with her church, and is a delegate to the Synod and member of the Bishop’s cabinet. Husband Lippold is “enjoying retirement” and “is being very creative in and around the castle.” (I don’t know about you but I just love telling people I have a classmate who lives in a castle). Her Wellesley reunion is in June (Kathy Conklin yours too, right?) and Christine plans a week

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in Baltimore afterward. She hopes to see some classmates while she’s there – time to plan a get-together. I wish more of you had been able to send in news – I’ll catch you next time. I’m still plugging away at CNN, which has new leadership and into many new and exciting things. I’m getting to “vet” the programming we’re buying from the outside, the most exciting of which has been chef Anthony Bourdain’s new show Parts Unknown (forgive the shameless plug). The shows I’ve seen so far are from Myanmar, Colombia, Libya, Tangier, the Congo, Canada and Koreatown in LA. A really unusual approach to both travel and food! Other than that I’m going through my first major renovation inside the house – the master bath. I feel about renovation what Nan feels about moving. It’ll be awhile before I do it again. George is busy with barbershop contests and shows, and we’re looking forward to being back on the lake. We still have three dogs, one of which unfortunately is in treatment for lymphoma, but we have high hopes for her. Oh – I was fortunate enough to get together with 15 RPCS’ers at Jean Waller Brune’s, 1960 get together here this week in Atlanta. Loads of fun. Please let me know what you’re up to! You can send me updates anytime – I have a special file for them.

Class of 1970 Kathryn Lenhard Beck kathylbeck@gmail.com 2013 had its ups and downs for our classmates, but on the whole, I would say that there is a lot of professional talent and success in this class of women, who experienced school life and the changing times of the 1960s. Now we are in our 60s with many grandchildren who are growing up in a fast-paced world full of electronic devices. From our friends: Cinny Nuttle Beggs and I shared Christmas cards and news. Cinny decided to get her MBA, and will graduate this spring. She says maybe she’ll get a real job! “Although I closed my production company, for whatever reason I’m a glutton for punishment and will be producing Sandhills Has Talent for a local charity organization and will be hosting a huge fundraiser for Temple Theatre in Sanford where I actually first began my theater journey. I think after this one, though I’m going to stop. It’s a lot of work and I’m going to concentrate on me for a change.

My husband Skip had some serious back problems in the past year, but is doing much better now, and is slowly going back to playing golf.” Barbara Dexter Agerton writes: My

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sister and I are still work together in my parents’ business. We’re starting to slow down, and are contemplating retiring within the next three to five years. Still not sure, but I’d certainly love to spend three or four months in Ft. Lauderdale during the winters. My husband Gene is retired and spends most of winter down there. I’m still enjoying tennis and paddle tennis, and just maybe I’ll take up golf again when and if, paddle tennis and tennis are too hard on my body. Unfortunately, I found it too difficult to play both tennis and golf on the same day so I gave up golf in favor of tennis. It probably won’t be too many years before the reverse happens and I put away my tennis racket and paddle in favor of golf. So far, however, I’ve been lucky, and am still able to enjoy the rackets sports. Actually, I saw Barbara and Gene a few weeks ago in Ft. Lauderdale while I was there with my mother, so it was a very nice visit. Our places are about a half block away from each other! Denise Dempster Watkins writes: Fred and I love our condo on the water in Clearwater Beach, FL! It seems we’re always busy doing something and try to find as much time as possible to go out on our boat. I’m still working as a house manager at Ruth Eckerd Hall where we have rock concerts, Broadway musicals, comedians, the symphony, etc. One night I could be working with Alice Cooper, the next Robin Williams and the next The Florida Orchestra.

When I’m not working at the Hall, I stay busy with my local woman’s club, my Tri Delta sorority alumnae group, my book club and, of course, I try to be good and go to the gym regularly. I’ve also been really busy for the past ten months planning our oldest daughter’s wedding! Lauren and her fiancé, Brendan, live in San Francisco, but they’re getting married here in Florida on April 6. Our younger daughter, Meredith, lives in Old Town Alexandria and works for Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Washington, DC. Our son, Tucker, is in the Army and loves his job! Ceci Haynsworth writes: Unfortunately, my news includes being divorced after 30 years, alone and lonely, and unemployed due to health limitations. One daughter is doing well, but possibly moving farther away. The other daughter is doing well professionally, but has a major health concern and is definitely moving farther away. Dorsey Waxter writes: The biggest news I have is the opening of Van Doren Waxter Gallery in New York. We specialize in post WWII abstraction continuing our work with the estates of Richard Diebenkorn, James Brooks and Alan Shields.

Other artists whose work we will offer include Sam Francis, John McLaughlin, Helen Frankenthaler, Dorothea Rockburne and Ellsworth Kelly. The other big news for me is

that I am the new President of The Art Dealers Association of America. This organization is celebrating its 50th anniversary and represents 175 dealers in America who specialize in art ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary.

It’s all very exciting and I don’t think I’ve ever worked this hard in my life! From Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks: My news is that my oldest son David is getting married this June to Lisa, who he met at Penn senior year (mother of the groom wearing beige!) Peter moved to Lower Manhattan in NYC the day before Hurricane Sandy hit so that was a special introduction to the city. Molly is finishing up her final year at Denison, and I am still working part time, but also started selling the W clothing line. I had a lot of Roland Parkers come to my first show which was fun, so I’m keeping busy and starting new things at 60!

Nancy Strahan writes: We are fine. Becky Blackstone, 2015 is in tenth grade at RPCS and is thriving. She is in AP history! Did they even offer AP courses as sophomores when we were there? She is still skating and starting to think about the college application process.

Twin sister Maggie is in tenth grade at Jemicy.

This is the perfect school for her and I hope we can find something just as perfect for college.

Bill does a little consulting work, but not as much as he would like, so he is playing Mr. Mom since I have been busier than ever. I am the medical director of my office at Greenspring Station. We are currently struggling with shifting to an all-electronic system which goes live in May. Hopefully life will settle down by the summer. Barby Patterson Nixon: Everything is about the same in ol’ Michigan. I did have surgery on my foot and leg in January, so I have been off work for six weeks walking in a boot. It’s going to be tricky getting a shoe on. I retired from the community college in December, although I will go back for a limited amount of time per year. I’m still at the public library where I have been for ten and a half years. Libby Cooper Curran: I’m doing well and keeping busy with volunteer work at our church. I work the office phone two days per week, distribute food for those who come to us; I am a lay reader, a chalice bearer, a counter and finally, a pastoral counselor. Val is still working hard and traveling a lot and sometimes I go with him! For fun this past year we have traveled to Mexico to visit our son who is a head chef in Mexico City, went to Key West twice for some fun in the sun and twice I traveled to Anchorage, AK to care for my brother’s children while he was away on business in China. I also visited Gin Barrett Shanley in Naples, FL. My daughter Beth and her husband live here in Moorestown and are expecting their first baby this summer! Son, Kenny, is in Mexico and daughter, Margie,

lives and works in Denver, CO and we hope to visit her this spring. Life is good and Val and I are enjoying this stage. We are spending lots of time at the Bay Head house on the NJ shore as we got severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy and the house need lots of repairs. But we count our blessings as several friends lost their houses completely. I send my best to all of my RPCS classmates. Marguerite Ingalls Jones: This year finds us plugging along. Greg continues to be busy with his commercial real estate appraisal and consulting practice and I still plan primarily alumni travel programs for JHU, and was fortunate to accompany a group to Cuba last fall. It’s also been a year of House and Garden – either maintenance on the inside or gardening on the outside, which I love.

Daughter Carolyn left RPCS after tenth grade and is at a small boarding school in Idaho she’s doing well there and will graduate this year. We are looking forward to a trip to Europe this summer for my niece’s wedding (Susanna Ingalls, 2003) in Bavaria. Last fall, my classmates from JHU (the first group of coeds) had a wonderful gathering over a weekend. Since so many of us went to newly coed schools back in 1970, I am wondering if anyone else is having reunions of the first women of their schools. Ellen Keats Stifler: In January, Billy and I visited Gin and Gary Shanley in Naples, FL. We had a great time and overlapped with their son Patrick who recently graduated from Colgate and is joining the Marines. I am now a grandmother of six soon to be seven - and loving it! Billy and I moved out of our home on Club Road in Roland Park last year and moved in to a great condo with a courtyard in Cross Keys. I’m still at Hopkins in Development at the Kimmel Cancer Center and very much enjoy my work.

Mary Thomsen Davisson: I continue as executive director/port chaplain of the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center. This year has been enriched by the presence of an ordained Lutheran colleague, funded by Seafarers and International House in New York, as well as an Episcopal Service Corps intern whose skills include Russian. I enjoyed a week at Credo, a clergy development conference, in Prescott, AZ - her first real exposure to the Southwest. E.O. (Ed) retired from Aberdeen Proving Grounds this summer.

He continues to golf with Aberdeen colleagues, has helped me with a variety of Seafarers’ Center projects and has visited or is planning to visit assorted Davissons in Texas, Indiana and Martha’s Vineyard. During our annual week at Kanuga’s Liturgical Arts conference (near Asheville, NC), E.O. sang with me in the conference choir. Toddy Atkins Haciski: As far as our class, I can’t imagine they’re letting 60 slip by unanswered. I certainly didn’t. To

celebrate my 60th birthday, I took a walkabout in Mongolia in July 2012. It was fascinating and a challenge. I broke several ribs, but am back on the tennis court and dance floor. Rafael and I divorced in 2011. He just loves Florida more than me. We now have five spouses for our six children, and six grandchildren. The children work in medicine, law, public health, banking and government.

The grandchildren are eight and under. Susan Heldrich Borges: I am still enjoying my work as a reading teacher at one of the elementary schools in my town and recently I have been involved in planning a town-wide conference called Teaching in the Digital Age. It has been exciting to get all the speakers together and plan this event, especially since I find myself constantly challenged by technology! Larry continues to enjoy his work in neurosurgery and his real passion now is 3D video of surgery, in the hopes that it can be used as a teaching tool. We are looking forward to the wedding of one of our sons this year, and we are looking forward to the arrival of our sixth grandchild in April. My big travel plan is that I am going on a bike and barge tour in Holland this spring with a group of friends! Gail Stewart Beach: I’m still chair of the drama department at Catholic University, and this year is its 75th anniversary, so that has taken up much of my time. The big Gala is in late April, after which life will be much simpler. I’ve continued to design a bit outside the university, but the demands here have definitely limited by ability to do that! At the end of the summer I am turning the reins over to someone else, which means I can perhaps rekindle the free-lance work. Gin Barrett Shanley writes: I am down in Naples, FL enjoying the warmth and sunshine in a condo that I have been furnishing and enjoying for the last couple of winters.

After 30 years in upstate New York where they measure snow in feet, instead of inches, I am finally able to head south for a few months and enjoy being outdoors. Ellen and Bill Stifler were just here visiting with me and we had a terrific time together. Please know that I would love visitors at any time! Gary and I have also spent the past couple of years building a lakefront house and boathouse on one of the Finger Lakes, Skaneateles Lake. I served as the general contractor when our building project ran way over the anticipated construction time and the GC had to leave for another job. What a demanding, challenging experience it was, but it was so well worth it. We are still working on the landscaping and docks, but we hope that things will be mostly finished this summer.

Now, we just have to get a boat and take some boating lessons so we can enjoy lakefront living in the summers. And we are also looking forward to visitors there too! Our children are

becoming more independent each day. Patrick graduated from Colgate University and is living in Boston, studying Chinese and working for a non-profit while he awaits joining the Marine Corps in the fall. Margaret is finishing her senior year as a psychology major at Franklin and Marshall College. Gary continues to manage his fuel oil company and convenience stores and I can’t imagine his ever really retiring, although he is beginning to appreciate the Florida lifestyle in the middle of the winter. I enjoy trying to figure out what my next chapter in life is going to be, now that our household is much more settled. Mara de Oliveira Gordin: My family and I are well, and really I‘d love to receive all of you here in Brazil! Why don’t you try to fix the next reunion? I miss everybody, and for sure it would be fun! Say hi to the girls. Genie Kenny Kline: We are living in Memphis area and I am still teaching special needs students at a public middle school. I will most likely retire within the next few years. We are thinking of living part time in Houston near our daughter and two grandsons (ages four and seven) and our summer place in North Carolina. Teaching has consumed my time and I have loved what I do, but am ready for a new challenge. It is always good to hear the news about our old classmates and the interesting paths we have all gone. I have lots of good memories of sleepovers and Motown. Martha Dudley Keller: Last fall I attended the Cherry Tree Council Colloquium.

Wow! Our school is amazing! Check out the current curriculum and when you have a chance, tour the facilities.....truly amazing opportunities at RPCS for today’s students.

While not “actively” employed at the moment, I am busy with a number of volunteer activities including founding and co-chairing an arts alliance. I talked with Kristen Drechsler Henderson, 1972. I also serve on a committee for our town of Waynesboro, PA to become an official Appalachian Trail town. I am in regular contact with Libby Cooper Curran, Gin Barrett Shanley and Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks. And recently friended Phyllis Orrick Day, Lannie Taliaferro and Nancy Duke Beury on Facebook.....what fun! Seems Phyllis and I recently rescued pups. Ours is a yellow lab mix named Barney, a sweet little fellow. My sweet fellows were home for the holidays...our daughter, Lexie with her south African/Australian/British husband, Rod (they are urban slum missionaries living and working among the urban poor in Klong Toey, Bangkok’s largest slum. I promise you, Lexie inherited her goodness from neither of her parents; she just came that way. Our son, Jeb, is a first year law student at Pitt and loves it.... so we are still helping out with tuition and such, but they are good investments.

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My husband, John has been coming back home every night of our marriage for 38 years.

He is a saint! He continues to practice law, but will retire one day, I hope. Kathy Lenhard Beck: Wow, it was great to get so many emails from classmates. I really enjoyed reading the news and finding out what’s going on. Don and I continue to work on our real estate careers now that we both got our Delaware Licenses. I am with Long & Foster in Ocean City, MD and Don is in our Bethany Beach office. He still has his estimating business. We are both involved at church. I am working with the choir on a post-Easter cantata, and Don is running the sound system for the band.

I just spent two weeks with my mother in Ft. Lauderdale, and had a great time. She turned 90 in December 2012, and there have been four parties to celebrate her birthday. We survived the Sandy storm, but with quite a bit of flooding in our garage. Our grandson is now 18 months old, and is playing on all the electronic devices, including his parent’s iPhones. You should see his little finger go! The oldest daughter and Mom, Lindsay, will be getting her PhD this May. OK guys, how about a mini reunion in Rehoboth or Bethany Beach this summer. Some of you go down there anyway, so it would be great to get together.

Just email me and let me know when you will be there, and anyone who wants to join in on the sun and fun. Thank you all so much for taking the time to respond to my plea for your emails!

Class of 1971 Cindy Conklin cconklin@ywgcrealty.com Mollie Lewis Lang lange@kennedykrieger.org Meg Hudson Rice megpeg123@aol.com Dear Classmates, Our news this time starts with some sadness. Many of you know that Mary Jean Ridgely Eig died on January 17 of this year, just a few days short of her 60th birthday. Unfortunately, we received the news too late to attend funeral or shiva services.

Leslie Phelps Perlik sent this lovely remembrance of Mary Jean whom she describes as “a beautiful woman inside and out.” To quote Leslie, “When Paul was at Walter Reed, I looked up Mary Jean who lived in nearby Takoma Park with her husband and children who were about Jess and Sam’s ages.

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each other’s birthday parties. We also went out to their house for dinner after they moved to the country. Mary Jean was such a graceful and gracious woman.” Sadly there is more. As I was searching for some of our lost classmates, I found an obituary for Holly Jory from 1999.

What a shock! She was living in Oregon at the time and has three children. There was little additional information about her life. Holly and I spent a lot of time together in high school, but had lost touch over the years.

There is a very cute picture in our yearbook of Holly and myself practicing the “graduation walk” in the old study hall before the ceremonies. Meg Hudson Rice had this to share with us: At Miss Healy’s memorial service it was mentioned that Miss Healy did not say that someone had died; she would say that the person had fulfilled her destiny. I am saddened by the loss of our classmates and certainly hope that they both fulfilled their destinies. Beth Jones Elkins wrote of her mother’s recent passing: My mother, R. Lucille Gettier Eliasberg, 1937, died peacefully on February 6; she was 93. Mom was vibrant and fun, and we miss her. We had a memorial service for her at RPCS and she is interned at the columbarium on campus. We like that she is in the Anne Healy Memorial Garden and we can visit her when we visit school. On a happier note, son Greg is getting married this December in Chapel Hill, NC and we are delighted with our prospects for a daughter-inlaw. Daughter Meredith is half way through her PhD program and still enjoying Boston.

Steve and I are well and still working. Meggie and I see each other several times a week as we do spinning in an attempt to defeat the laws of gravity. Beth’s spinning partner Meggie reports: My life is good. I enjoy my work at

Marshall Craft Associates (an architectural and interior design firm). My daughter Burgess graduated from UVA School of Architecture in May and is working for the architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York. Before Burgess graduated from UVA last spring, I enjoyed seeing Nancy Ricketts Barrazotto’s youngest son, Joe who will graduate this spring. My son Drum is also in New York. He is an associate in the equity capital markets department of J.P. Morgan where he has been since 2003. I visit them as often as they can tolerate and enjoyed getting together with Cyndy Stautberg Amling when we happened to be in New York on the same weekend. And during the fall, I was able to see Marcie Baker Keating and her husband Bob when they were in Baltimore. Hathaway Clark Ferebee is enjoying her grandson who attends the Little Bear Child Care at RPCS where Hathaway’s daughter, Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 and her husband, Justin Short, both teach. Hathaway runs Safe and Sound Campaign in Baltimore and a movement to increase public investments in affirmative opportunity. Using a finance tool to reallocate State dollars from failing programs to those that work, the Campaign saves the State of Maryland money while increasing positive activities in neglected communities. The strategy known as Opportunity Compact is attracting attention from cities across the country where Hathaway has been invited to share the technique. Leslie Phelps Perlik reports that granddaughter Lucinda is nearly two already and helped me blow out the candles on my birthday cake.

Daughter Jess and her husband Ryan live in New Orleans. Son Sam and his wife Kerney are headed to Ft. Hood, TX, and son Will graduates from Virginia Tech in May and will

head to Ft. Rucker, AL for flight school. Cyndy Stautberg Amling writes that her daughter Nancy is being married in Baltimore on June 1.

Cyndy lives in Palm Beach, FL. Martha Nesbitt Turner writes that her daughter Sarah is studying physical oceanography at the University of Washington as well as doing freelance writing, both creative and business.

She is published in Seattle Business magazine.

Martha’s son Sam is an associate attorney in the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Martha and Harry will celebrate their second wedding anniversary in April.

Harry’s son Jeremy is at Friends School and his daughter Dani is at Skidmore College. Sondra Kornblatt writes: I’m still working in corporate communications at Group Health (an integrated clinical and health plan), supporting interest in my Restful Insomnia program, looking for colleges with my daughter (junior in high school), and glad my son is enjoying his sophomore year at Goucher. From Carol Porter Adkins: Life is hectic at this “sandwich time” in my life. Although all three of my girls are over 21, I still find parenting a significant part of my life. Added to this is the seriously failing health of both of my parents which requires frequent visits to Baltimore while trying to maintain my jobs as a Spanish and French teacher and a music director for the high school musical, Meet Me in St. Louis. I am about to get a much needed break, though.

Greg is an invited speaker at a Physics conference in Sao Luis, Brazil in March, and I

Holly Buttner, 1971 hiking on Mount Whitney

Kathy King, 1971 and Charlotte Eyring, 2001

am going, too! It’s the rainy season there, but that’s fine with me. It’ll be warm, and I’ll be away, so all will be good. My oldest, Becca, has bought a house in Lancaster and has her own ballroom dance studio. She performs and teaches a great deal in Lancaster, Philly and New Jersey. Meghan, who works for Chubb, now lives in Washington, DC and loves it.

Lauren graduates from Messiah College in May with a theater degree. Anybody need anyone to do a voice-over or an advertisement or anything? She is currently having nightmares about her future. Florence Davidovski and I have been getting together for breakfast or dinner about once a month since our last reunion, and it has been wonderful to reconnect with an old friend. She remembers a lot more than I do about life at RPCS, and it’s been really fun to remember the craziness!

Mary Lou Linthicum Kramer is still living in Pittsburgh working for the Welfare Department and hoping to retire in 2014. Lou visits LA several times a year where her daughter Janet is working for Yahoo. Terry Leach Conkwright has been teaching for two years at Valley Baptist Preschool. Her daughter Sarah is in Baltimore working as a bankruptcy attorney.

Her son Tom is following his dream and training to be a brew master both in Munich and Chicago. Cindy Conklin and Bob Merbler are still enjoying city life in Federal Hill, where they sell residential real estate. Now that daughter Casey Merbler, 2011 is in college, they have more time for volunteer activities.

Cindy serves as a commissioner for The Commission for Historic and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) in Baltimore City and enjoys volunteering for Port Discovery. Cindy and Kathy King enjoy regular trips to Dewey Beach together. Kathy is busy as two of her children, Charlotte Eyring, 2001, and son Peter, are planning weddings for later this year.

Kathy is retired from The Odyssey School, and

enjoys having more time for her gardening and her grown children. Holly Buttner reports that life is good. She writes: I continue to explore the High Sierras in California on backpacking trips during the summer. This past July I climbed Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states at 14,508 feet. It was a trip of a lifetime. We camped one night at 13,300 feet and looked down into the cirque we had just climbed 3000 feet below and across miles of peaks under a full moon. We had perfect weather, no bugs and incredible scenery. I plan to go back to the area in 2013.” This comes in from Lee Kelly: I celebrated my 60th birthday in January and it has been a great year so far!

My sister, Stuart Kelly Trinkle, 1968, treated me to a birthday trip to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC in December. The Christmas decorations were absolutely beautiful and we thoroughly enjoyed our time together. On the date of my actual birthday, my family hosted a dinner gathering at the Johns Hopkins Club to celebrate. Our guests included my 1971 classmates Meg Hudson Rice, Leslie Phelps Perlik, Beth Jones Elkins, Hathaway Clark Ferebee and Anne Dyer Fontaine. My sister Stuart traveled from her home in Roanoke, VA and our Mom was the grand hostess at age 95.

Mom will be 96 in May and she, my sister and I will celebrate her birthday at the beach. Lee recently started working in a new position at Cylburn Arboretum Association and continues to volunteer at the Baltimore Humane Society.

She enjoys helping to socialize the cats and dogs as well as assisting at the adoption events for the BHS. She says “It is difficult to leave the property at the end of the day because I want to bring the animals home with me!” From Mollie Lewis Lange: Jack and I live in Ruxton

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with our two ill-behaved golden retrievers. I continue to work at Kennedy Krieger Institute in spinal cord injury research. I am inspired and amazed daily by the courage and persistence of our patients and their families. I am planning a trip to Ireland in June. Anne Winter West is Mollie’s Ruxton neighbor. They see each other at the gym and occasionally (not often enough they both say) get out to a ballet or a movie. Anne currently serves on the Boards of The Pratt Library and Baltimore Outreach Services (BOS). BOS, located at Christ Lutheran Church on South Charles Street provides comprehensive services and programs to homeless women and their children. BOS recently published a cookbook (Anne wrote the introduction). Son Christopher lives in the Baltimore area and is working as an EMT and loving it. Husband Chris West will be running for State Delegate and Anne is organizing the announcement party to be held in April.

Class of 1972 40th Reunion Cindy Conklin cconklin@ywgcrealty.com The highlight for many of us last year was our 40th Reunion, which was a fun filled weekend of seeing old friends and catching up. Kudos to Barbara Ewing and Diane Hutchins, along with their committee, for planning all the great events. Barbara wrote a summary of all the parties, starting with Friday’s happy hour at Little Havanna. Barbara wrote: Many classmates showed up including Thordis Simonsen. We took over Jean Brune’s side porch at her brunch on Saturday morning and had such fun talking and laughing that we were the last to leave. I think Jean was afraid we were going to stay all day. The festivities continued at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange on Saturday night. Wine, food, shopping and reminiscing…a great combination! Many thanks to Anne Davis Sullivan for lugging her slide projector from Chicago. It was such fun to see the pictures from our RPCS days.

Sunday’s brunch at Liz Pindell Blue’s lovely home was made all the more festive with champagne courtesy of Debbie Brawer Silva and Cindy Reynolds van Putten’s special caviar. Check out Cindy’s web site at cartercavier.com, if you want a special treat. I will not forget how cute Carol Fiske Platt’s and Amy Barrett Frew’s Moms were trying to figure out how to take our group photo with

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digital cameras and cell phones. I think the best parts of the 40th Reunion were the connections we all made, not only over the weekend, but also via email and via our Facebook page (thanks to Kristen Drechsler Henderson). It was great to reconnect with classmates with whom we had lost touch over the years. Over half of our class attended at least one of our 40th Reunion events. Let’s stay in touch and plan for an even larger turnout for our 45th! Barbara then added her personal news: Besides flying to Ft. Lauderdale en route to Key West seated next to Torrey Smith, I had a fun trip with Manon Lauderdale Schladen to Meg Shea Klink’s ski house. Despite unseasonably warm weather, we did get a day and a half of skiing in. Meg was such a gracious hostess and is quite a good skier. She is also a great tour guide and we visited Stowe and other Vermont towns near her place in Waitsville, VT. Jan Stewart Hoffberger writes: Our big news is that the house we bid on over Reunion weekend became ours on the Monday of Superstorm Sandy - made for some interesting settlement arrangements, as driving back and forth across the Severn River was not an option as the storm rolled in. We’re set to move in February 11. After 30 years in the same house, it’s quite the event to be making the move. Our girls were not thrilled at first, as the old house was the only one they’ve ever really known, but they’re coming around and helping with painting and packing. Looking forward to living on one floor and having a flat yard, as my knees do not like stairs or weeding on banks anymore. It was great to see everyone in October, especially those who haven’t been around in a while and to see some Moms who all looked the same as they did 40 years ago – hope the genes hold true through our generation! Amy Barrett Frew wrote: My news

is unchanged since the reunion. I am still teaching middle school math part time at RPCS, Scott is still commuting to NYC to work, we have built and moved into a new home, both children live out of town and we all have thankfully been in good health. It was great fun seeing those who came to our 40th reunion, and I would love to see more people at the 45th. It really is fun to catch up with others who “knew us when.” Maybe some will have retired by our next milestone and will have more time to make the trip!” Sonia Ehrlich Sachs emailed a great photo of her and her three month old granddaughter, Sienna, having a serious discussion about diapers. She exclaimed, “To all of you who said how fun grandmotherhood is: you were so right.”

Manon writes: Several of us had a minireunion after the RPCS Traditional Upper School Christmas Program. Barbara (Ewing) and I went, ran into Amy there and went on to Donna’s in Cross Keys to meet Lisa, Diane and Neetu. Nice meal, better company. Then Barbara and I took Meg Shea Klinck up on her offer to visit her in New Hampshire/Vermont early January. She and husband, Chip, have a lovely ski house on the edge of Mad River Glen. We had a great time, visited three resorts and skied at two despite a warm snap that weekend. It was fun being with Meg and meeting her grandkids, one of whom is on the race team. We watched her race at Stowe.

Then I went to Ft. Lauderdale for ten days for two conferences and some face time with my advisor at Nova Southeastern University. So maybe, I might finish my dissertation this year!

Sue Wylie Lovett writes: So sorry I missed the 40th – sure sounds like everyone enjoyed getting together. Twenty-two years after leaving Baltimore, I am back part time living in Glyndon. The rest of the year I return to

40th Reunion for the Class of 1972 at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange

Alice Brock, 1972 and Juliet Kostritsky, 1972 in Exeter, New Hampshire

Florida to see my children, and their children! I have two grandchildren whom I adore.

Charlotte is two and Hunt is three months. I look forward to connecting with classmates still in town. Cindy Reynolds van Putten emailed a photo of her three month old grandson, on her lap. He is her daughter Caroline’s first.... “an amazing gift to us all!

Our caviar company, Carter Caviar, has been invited to serve at the Masters Golf event in August GA, which is a huge honor. They are doing an article in their Clubcorp magazine about me and the company, covering the caviar and the environmental impact of aquafarming.

Best to all and hope to see everyone again soon…remember if anyone is coming to Longwood Gardens for any reason, I am fiveminutes away...all are welcome!!” Linda Morton wrote: I’m still enjoying life in San Diego, despite weather in the 50’s which, to us, might as well be below freezing. Our son is likely headed east to college next year, so I hope to have more opportunities to visit friends and family east of the Mississippi. Meanwhile, it can’t be overstated - Great job on the reunion to all involved!

Diane Hutchins writes: It’s hard to believe that it has been four months since our reunion. It was wonderful to see so many members of the Class of 1972 and to communicate with even more. It was also a hoot watching grandmothers purchase items for their grandchildren at the WIE Gift Shop. It was a fun weekend. Thanks again to Liz for hosting the Sunday brunch. As I write this, I am in the midst of the legislation session. I am amazed that after 36 years of being around legislatures, I still enjoy (most days) the sausage-making of it all. That’s probably because I am doing it to preserve the Baltimore Zoo and all that it means. Neetu Dhawan-Gray writes: I enjoyed seeing classmates at the fall reunion. We are settling into a new lifestyle after Seth went off to college last fall. He is really happy at Tufts and with Boston. What’s not to like about

Boston? I am traveling for work to Bermuda and Virgin Islands. Both interesting and lovely.

Anne Davis Sullivan emailed: I am happy to report that the Sullivans are all doing well out in the Midwest and visitors are always welcome! I absolutely loved coming home for our 40th. It was so good to see RPCS and to witness how time may fly but things never change! We are all as good friends as we always were and in many cases even better… age broadens our horizons. A friend here loaned me her Mac and I am determined to get those slides and movies out on YouTube sooner or later…may be later, but don’t give up on me! Our youngest will head off to college in the fall. Cheers with Debbie’s champagne and Cindy’s caviar…doesn’t get better than that! Debbie Brawer Silva, whom it was so good to hear from after all these years, emailed the following: My daughter Rebekah graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Chemistry in January 2013 and has been accepted at Caltech in the PhD program in Chemistry starting this fall. My son (David Louis Faber Silva – I know some of you remember my Uncle Louie Faber) advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout in December 2012 and loves computer science. He is preparing for a security/hacking competition this spring. Both of my children are kind and smart and have benefited from the rigorous training I received at RPCS. I graduated from UCLA Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, worked selling pharmaceuticals, went to graduate school at UC Riverside (MS in plant science), married David in 1985, reared our two children and

did technical editing and writing. Since 2004, when my mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia, I have been her 24/7 caregiver, the hardest job I have ever had. My mom became a widow before I was two years old and sacrificed for me to attend private school. I cannot place her in a facility. My recent environmental science editing project with Dr. Andrew Chang, UCR agricultural engineer, will be published by Springer later this year as a volume in its Global Issues in Water Policy series. Lynette Phillips writes: I recently discovered an unhealthy attraction to Words with Friends, but justify it as combating early dementia; looking forward to new swaths of grass and flowers in the aftermath of Sandy and Nemo; off to Belize in a day or so for a mid-week fling. It was great to catch up with folks at the reunion!! Pamela McDonnell Hindsley emails: All goes well for my family.

Daughter Charlotte returned to KeenanFlagler School of Business in Chapel Hill. Ellie perseveres with law in Richmond, where we all happily celebrated Ellie’s 30th birthday in January. Payne still travels to exotic lands for reinsurance and the next trip is to Grand Cayman. I have been working hard as co-chair for the Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage Centennial Guilford Tour to be held April 28 to celebrate my neighborhood’s 100th anniversary as well as chairing the Carry On Shop for the Women’s Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. I enjoyed seeing RPCS friends this October and promise to devote all my energy for our 50th when I ‘retire’ for a second time. Liz Pindell Blue writes: Not much

Mary Dierdorff, 1972 vacationing at Bowman Lake Glacier National Park with husband Bob Wesolowski and sons Daniel and Teddy

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Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, 1972 and her granddaughter, Sienna

new to report, but I do want to say that I thought our reunion was so great and I loved reconnecting with so many of our classmates. For those that I only see every five years or more, it is always as if we saw each other yesterday! Meg (Shea Klink) and Cindy (Reynolds van Putten) get my much coveted “dynamic duo” award! Kristen Drechsler Henderson sent in her “morning ramblings and muses,” which I am loathe to edit, so won’t. She writes: Not to dwell on regrets from 2012, but can I just say I regret not making the reunion? I do. It looked like tons of fun, and some of my favorite long-lost friends were there. The pictures helped make me feel like a virtual attendee....that and the fact that I stalked Anne D., Anne S., Amy and others begging for minute-by-minute updates.

Thanks, friends. All is well here in the not snowbound south. Charlotte is (finally) rebounding like a champ from the last five years of bank town apocalypse. In a strange twist of fate for her double-Dukies parents, our youngest daughter will start the fall as a freshman at Chapel Hill. We actually could not be happier. Middle daughter is a starving artist; a happy, creative force in Greensboro doing everything from publishing an art magazine to writing and performing music and comedy and teaching fashion design. That girl is a bundle of energy. Our oldest, Katie, is happily defending the accused in courtrooms across the San Francisco area, fighting for truth and justice and the American Way. Calligraphy for me continues to be an actual full time job…who would have thought?

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ago! What are the chances I might get on their list of in-house calligraphers? How weird and wonderful (and, let’s face it.... unlikely) would that be? Fingers crossed. Bob puts up with all of his women, as well as the dog and cat, who are also naturally female. Poor Bob. Best to all my fellow RPCSers. Elizabeth Beirne Lippitt emails: Our big news is a wedding for daughter, Julia and Josh Wood planned for September 2013. We are delighted to have Josh join our family. I am still executive director of an agency that provides health care for low income children. Francie Murray Keenan wrote: Our youngest of three, Jack graduated from Syracuse and is now living at home working at T. Rowe Price. We have not seen much of him over the last four years since he spent his summers in Canada so we are really enjoying having him liven up the home front. John retired from KPMG after thirtyeight years of service but agreed to teach accounting at Loyola College on a part-time basis. We are all having fun calling him Professor Keenan. I am still working at the Abell Foundation and John has advised me that since he is retired he does not want me underfoot at home. The compromise was he would learn to cook. I will report back next year. Jeffrey and Allison are enjoying Durham. Jeff is completing his second year of surgical residency with many more years ahead. Allison is an angel. Laura is working in Washington, DC for the PR firm Edelman. She is still on cloud nine after attending the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Her sister-in law got her a free ticket minutes before kick-off. Jackie Miller emails: So bummed to have missed seeing everyone at our reunion. I have a new book out called The New Heart At Work with strategies and stories to rebuild self esteem. I lost mine and am still trying to find it through these books and films we produce.

And speaking of films, in addition to Miss Representation, which we sponsored along with others our film The Invisible War, was nominated for an Oscar and just featured on Katie Couric with all proceeds going to our organization Partnerships For Change. But the big news is Barbara Ewing came out to San Francisco and we had a blast! Barbara used her powerful connections in the sailing world and got us all, including my brother Tom (also visiting from Baltimore), into the St. Francis Yacht Club for a fabulous time and wonderful dinner. My husband and brother, Tom, are heading to India, Europe and UAE next week.

Our book was translated into Arabic. This is a dream come true to be in the land of the burkas, since I have gained a million pounds.

No one will be able to tell! Katie Lilly Kirby writes: It was so much fun seeing everyone at our reunion. Everyone looked wonderful! I

really enjoyed catching up and reminiscing about our days at RPCS. The video that Anne brought really brought back some fun memories. Latest news is that our youngest daughter Emily bought her first home this week! It is really exciting to see her take this big step on her own. Her house is in Loch Raven Village, an older neighborhood with charm and residents of all ages. She completed the “short sale” process, which is indeed an oxymoron, after five months! There were lots of twists and turns, but she hung in there. We are looking forward to being invited to dinner and her niece and nephews are looking forward to sleepovers at Aunt Emmy’s. I, Meg Price Whitlock, rereading news from last year’s Connections realize that there is not much new to report, other than daughter Lydia’s book To My Assistant is being published by Random House in April and is the basis for a Fox TV pilot. Running Vanns Spices continues to be all consuming, but we are planning a few more trips this year, including one to Paris and Somerset, England. Attached is a photo of Alice Brock and Juliet Kostritsky. When Juliet was in Exeter, New Hampshire for her reunion, Alice drove down from her house in Maine.

They spent three hours catching up on the last 35 years or so. They last saw each other in the fall of 1977 when Alice was finishing her master’s in history and Juliet was starting her first year of Law School at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. They plan to meet again when Juliet comes east. Since she was elected class president for her Exeter class, it will be at least every fall for the next five years.

Alice is now teaching European History at the Waynflete school (her 30th year) and Juliet is teaching law at Case Western (her 28th year).

Not surprising that they both went into teaching given the great teaching they received at RPCS.

Class of 1973 Clarke Miller Fitzmaurice clarkefitz@aol.com I have procrastinated quite long enough and am taking the opportunity granted by a March non-snowstorm snow day and finally writing up class notes. I didn’t threaten or hector very much this year and for that I have been rewarded with news from some of you. Here goes in no particular order. From Perky Ridgely Smoot: My daughter Ann got married this past June and they are living a little north of here in a house they bought and are redoing! Ann is a nurse at GBMC in the medical intensive care

unit in case any of you wind up there for any reason....you can’t miss her, she looks just like I used to when I was 25! My son graduated from Jacksonville University last May and works for Merrill Lynch in Jacksonville, FL. He lives with his girlfriend and is going through the series of brutal exams to get his broker licenses. She is a first grade teacher, and they have been together for three years. I have my house up for rent now, and hope to rent a place in Rincon, Puerto Rico once I get all of the details worked out. I would like to have one and all come to visit once I am settled in down there! I will keep you all informed of that so you can book your trip to come see me.

Puerto Rico is part of the U.S., so no need for a passport, just grab your driver’s license and go!

As many of you know, Karen Jarrell de Garcia lost her husband Avelino to cancer last year.

She wants to thank everyone for their warmth and support during this time. She is buoyed by her work, friends and family. Daughter Luisa is doing a master’s in corporate public relations at the University of Westminster in London and plans are afoot for her wedding which will take place this coming July. From Cheryl Dees Kensington: I am still living in Darien, CT and working part time as an elementary substitute teacher in the Stamford Public Schools. I enjoy the children and I love having a flexible schedule. Our son graduated from Skidmore College in May and our daughter moved to San Francisco in August – not surprisingly, both are job searching. Lynn Kettlewell Alonso reports that Ramon celebrated one-year with his new kidney in December. He looks and feels fantastic. The marvels of modern medicine! Also, oldest son Chris got married December 7 (yes, a day that will live in infamy) to a wonderful girl, Jennifer Feeney. They have a house only ten blocks away from ours. Mike is doing well and is teaching special education in middle school in Anne Arundel County.

Everyone is well. Love to all. Beth Parker sent news from the other coast. I just took a new job as chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. Our eight affiliates operate 100 clinics and annually serve more than one million patients in California. We’re also working hard to ensure that the seven million uninsured Californians will be able to get health care under the Affordable Care Act. I will be celebrating 30 years of marriage this spring although I am now splitting my time between San Francisco and Sacramento. Please tell everyone that we live in the heart of San Francisco and always welcome visitors. From Debbie Black Moore we hear that 2013 got off to a great start: On January 19 our daughter Emily got married! She and her husband Mike live in College Park, where she is teaches biology and forensics at Eleanor Roosevelt

High School, and he works in DC for Booz Allen. But I still won’t be a grandmother for a while longer. She wants to get her master’s first and will be starting a program in forensics at Stevenson in the fall. Daughter Lindsay is living in Annapolis and teaching pre-K at Eagle Cove School on Gibson Island, and daughter Courtney is a junior at Towson University majoring in early childhood education. It’s wonderful having them all so close to home, and we plan to have lots of family time together in Ocean City this summer. From Sally Davis: Hello all! I have taken a break from snowy Telluride and have been in San Francisco since the new year began, working with children at The Marsh Youth Theater in the Mission District. I am doing my story theater workshops and co-directing a play called The Drum, an adaptation of an East Indian folk tale. I have also been bringing my work into the San Francisco public libraries and spending time in Inverness with my lovely partner, Bart.

In April, thanks to a grant from The Just For Kids Foundation, I will be doing Story Theater residencies at three schools in Colorado, Norwood Elementary School, Naturita Elementary and the Paradox Charter School.

In May, I will be at New Durham Elementary School in New Hampshire, followed by a busy summer in Telluride, CO full of children’s theater productions. The Telluride Academy and the Ah Haa School for the Arts have been my non-profit sponsors for many years, and have made it possible for me to continue exploring the world of theater and art with young people. I love my work and continue to be inspired by the wildly creative minds of children. As much as I can, I will also be visiting my wonderful family in Baltimore! All the best to everyone. Rickie van Berkum sent the following news from out west. Our youngest, Liliana, will be graduating from college in May (Marymount Manhattan, dance major), and my husband and I are enjoying our empty nest outside of Missoula, MT. Never mind that our “empty” nest includes three dogs, one cat, one rabbit, two canaries and three llamas (and two goldfish in the llama water trough)!

I am happily immersed in growing my small fiber arts business (www.ravenridgefiber.com), dyeing knitting yarns and spinning fibers in colors inspired by Montana landscapes. I get to work full time doing what I love in a place I love. And from your long-suffering class correspondent, Clarke Miller Fitzmaurice, this past year has seen both wonderful new challenges and great sadness. After more than five years at Girl Scouts of Central MD, I accepted a new job in development at The SEED School of MD, the only college preparatory, public boarding school for underserved children in Maryland. This is only the

Karen Jarrell 1973’s daughter Luisa with her fiance, Josemi

second SEED school in the country but more are coming – plans are underway for schools in Miami, FL and Cincinnati, OH. It’s a really exciting opportunity and I am so fortunate to be a part of it. It also offers me the opportunity to see Lynn Morrison Venetoulis as she is a very active member of the SEED MD board.

On another bright note, our very own thirteen year girl Madeleine Lee Fitzmaurice, 2013 will be graduating from RPCS this June! We are waiting on college acceptances with bated breath. I also get the chance to see Mary Miller Faulkenberry several times a year when she visits from Bermuda. Paul and I got together with Mary, husband Terry and father, Norvell Miller, at the newly renovated Mount Washington Tavern a few weeks ago. The place is just as raucous as it has always been and I’m sure we added to the noise level considerably.

We did lose my mother Jean Fulton last April after a long illness. She died less than a week after Nancy Taliaferro Faulkner’s mother Emily Tompkins Taliaferro, 1947 and their memorial services were held a few days apart at the chapel at the Church of the Redeemer.

Nancy and I had the opportunity to spend a bit of time together during the week and giggled to think of our two artistic, crazy moms sitting on a cloud together, arguing, painting and probably drinking copious amounts of wine.

2013 is our 40th Reunion year; Stay posted for news on the upcoming celebrations. Stay well everyone.

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Alumnae Weekend 2012

The Class of 2007 celebrates their 5th Reunion

Sharon Davis Grotto, 1962 and Holly Cross Heine, 1962 join the 5th Graders for Tea.

Jean Waller Brune with members of the Class of 1957 (back row) Nancy Norris-Kniffin, Frances McCauley Flinn King, Betty Ann Schmick Howard, Perky Gantt Kahn, Susan Smith House, Marsha McCauley Sutton, (seated) Araby Steiber Nicholson and Misty Townsend Rossbottom at their 55th Reunion.

Members of the Class of 1947 Patricia Goldsborough, Jane Thomas Acton, Ann Howell Veghte and Lou Dukes Pine celebrate their 65th Reunion.

Alumna Artist Perky Gantt Kahn, 1957 (seated center) with her classmates at the Alumnae Artist Reception

Members of the Class of 1972 (Front row left to right) Neetu DhawanGray, Amy Barrett Frew, Anne Davis Sullivan, Carol Banker Smith Back row: Carol Fiske Platt, Barbara Ewing, MC Jones Johnson, Diane Hutchins, Anne Hughes DeCamps and Linda Morton celebrate their 40th Reunion.

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Alumnae Weekend 2012

Members of the Class of 1962 celebrate their 50th Reunion.

Members of the Class of 1987 celebrate their 25th Reunion.

Members of the Class of 1967 Kathy Hudson, Carol Gebelein Cavanagh, Susan Berwager Law, Susan Humes Artes, Barbara Mattingly Wilson and Frances Naylor Douglass celebrate their 45th Reunion

Members of the Class of 2002 celebrate their 10th Reunion

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Alumnae Weekend 2013

Career Day Assembly Panel

October 3 - 6 Join us in celebrating the Reunion Classes of 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003 & 2008

Schedule of Events Thursday

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Cherry Tree Council Colloquium for all Alumnae A day in the life of RPCS

Friday

10:30 AM Career Day Assembly and Luncheon for all Alumnae 12:30 PM Reunion Luncheon for the Classes of 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958

Head of School Jean Waller Brune, Kathy Hudson, 1967, Lara Shafer McLaughlin, 1974, Elisabeth Dahl, 1987, Parveen Kaur (Saluja) Dhillon, 1992, and Moderator Kelsey Twist Schroeder, 2001, (front row) Jeanne Martinet, 1976 and Caroline Smith Hickey, 1994

Cherry Tree Council Colloquium

2:30 – 3:30 PM 50th Tea for the Classes of 1963 & 2021 4:00 PM RPCS versus St. Mary’s Varsity Field Hockey game 7:00 PM 50th Reunion Dinner for the Class of 1963

Saturday

9:00 AM 40th and 45th Reunion Breakfast for the Classes of 1968 & 1973 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM School Tours and Little Bear Jamboree for all Alumnae and their children or grandchildren 12:30 – 2:00 PM 5th and 10th Reunion Lunch for the Classes of 2003 and 2008 4:00 PM Alumna Artist Opening Reception with Janet Bauer Hartman, 1968 5:00 – 7:00 PM Champagne Reception for all Alumnae 7:30 PM Reunion Classes – Dinners and Celebrations

Sunday Members of the Cherry Tree Council Colloquium Susan Humes Artes, 1967, Martha Dudley Keller, 1970 and Mira Courpas, 1980 with Jean Waller Brune

11:30 AM 25th Reunion Brunch for the Class of 1988 Individual class parties will be planned by the following Reunion Planning Chairs: 60th Reunion: Jeanne Horst Gore, 1953 55th Reunion: Courtney Jones McKeldin, 1958

Little Bear Jamboree

50th Reunion: Ginna Naylor, Laurie McCulloch Fisher, Barrie Frey Sigler, Edie Chapman Gillis, Frannie Rutherford, Suzi Wenger O’Brien, Libby Baker, Susan Towshend Townsend, Peg Schmeiser Markowski, 1963 45th Reunion: Stuart Kelly Trinkle, Susan macDCG Andrews, 1968 40th Reunion: TBD 35th Reunion: Susan Irving Taylor, Susan Taseff deMuth, Mary Stuart McKenzie, 1978 30th Reunion: Ann Daniels, Becky Schlott Redett, Carol Hansen Breining, Julia Close Sweeney, Julie Buchanan Salovaara, Georgette Csobaji, 1983 25th Reunion: Darcy Christhilf Carroll, Anna Lincoln Rianhard Whitehurst, 1988 20th Reunion: Muffy Menton Fenwick, Melissa Ladenson DeLong, Ally Sibal Baker, Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, Natasha Markowski Makowka, Katy Spencer, Elizabeth Massing, 1993

Children of Alumnae enjoy the magic show.

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15th Reunion: Kate Jordan, Monica Butler Mitchell, Kristin Raneri Nicolini, Sabrina Johnson Turner, Stefanie Warns, 1998 10th Reunion: Lindsay Higgins, Sarah Swiss, 2003 5th Reunion: TBD

Alumnae Champagne Reception

Members of the Class of 1982 at the Champagne Reception

Amy Cahill, 2007, Jordan Braun, 2007 and Annie Morrison, 2007

Betty Ann Schmick Howard, Perky Gantt Kahn, Alice Fort Dorshow, Betsy Kendall McCreary, Jennie Ladew, Misty Townsend Rossbottom, Susan Wills Hunter and Marsha McCauley Sutton from the Class of 1957

Classmates from 1967: Kathy Hudson, Carol Gebelein Cavanagh, Susan Berwager Law, Susan Humes Artes, Barbara Mattingly Wilson, Frances Naylor Douglass, Kathy Dexter Crothall, Suzy Ross McDowell and Kathy Magruder

Members of the Class of 1992 enjoy the Champagne Reception

Classmates from 1997: Jade Khouri Hubbard, Julia Garrett Randolph, Emily Lough Johnson, Carey Baugher Piraino, Tammy Passano Wiggs, Kate Archibald Stakem and Gillian Harvey Humphrey

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Alumnae Holiday Reception Reunion SpreadRHed ead Hot Chili Cook-off

Shannon Doyle Pope, 1995, Rebecca Ward, 1994, Lisa Dilonardo Lyman, 1994 and Rita Beyer Buettner, 1994

Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993, Jean Waller Brune and Kim Mitchell Wolff, 1995

Classmates from 2010 Helen Yearley, Meredith Blomquist, Kalli Parchman, Sarah Welch and Jennifer Fowler

Class of 1999 Classmates Katie Swiss King, Jesse Galitzin, Wendy Forbes, Kristin Sudina, Betsy Gaines, Whitney Jamison and Christina Smith Fenton

Classmates from 2007 Theresa Statkiewicz, Megan Pendleton, Abbie Mitchell, Eunice Kwon, Joanna Taylor and Justine Li with Lisa Diver, 2006

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Regional Reunion Reunions Spread2012-2013 Head

New York, NY Maryland/Delaware Beaches

Places RPCS Visited in 2012-2013 Boston, MA • Philadelphia, PA • New York, NY Delaware Beaches • Atlanta, GA • Wilmington, DE

RPCS will host Regional Reunions in the following cities in 2013-2014 Boston, MA

November

November 10 November 20 November 21 November 22

Princeton Providence Boston Boston

January

January 16 Annapolis

January 22 Washington, DC

February

Philadelphia, PA

February 25 Orlando

February 26 Vero Beach area

April

April 3 New York City May

May 6 Virginia Beach June

June 19 Denver June 20 Boulder

Atlanta, GA

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Alumnae Valentine’s Day Luncheon 2013

Mt. Washington Happy Hour

Carlisle Darrell, 2016, Erin Murphy, 1982, Maddie Muth, 2014, Shawn Murphy George, 2000, Elizabeth Murphy Darrell, 1985 and Libby Rutledge Murphy, Honorary Alumna

Penny Johnson Brown, 1974, Jean Waller Brune, 1960 and Cynthia Green, 1975

President of the Board of Trustees Catherine Passano McDonnell, 1994, with her daughters Abby, 2024, Emma, 2022 and Kate who is in the RPCS Preschool.

1978 Classmates Mary Stuart McKenzie, Susan Taseff deMuth and Susan Irving Taylor

Valerie Edwards Vaile, 1982, Christine Vaile, 2013, Carol Croft Lind, 1982, Shapard Croft, 2023, Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982 and Kristin Polk, 2014

1993 Classmates Elizabeth Jones, Ally Sibal Baker, Elizabeth Massing, Betsey Swingle Hobelmann and Katy Spencer

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Class of 1974 Katharine Somerville Whitmore kemsome@gmail.com Nelda Dierdorff Horwitz writes: My wonderful children, Samuel and Ben, live together in NYC. Samuel is working as a computer developer after graduating from NYU, and Ben is in his second year of acting school, which he loves. My Mom is still well and living in Annapolis. She is a very active volunteer with her church and “The Clothes Box” that raises funds for the hospital. Three of my siblings also live in Annapolis, so that is great for the three of us who do not. I found a picture of my sisters and I all lifting our uniforms to show our petty pants. Remember those? Diane Breger Kearney writes: My big news is that I am now a grandma! My grandson was born August 30th, 2012. His name is Thomas Lincoln Kearney V (believe it or not!) and we call him Lincoln. I have been watching him full-time since the New Year and though it is a lot of work keeping after a baby, I have loved getting to know him so well. I love it when he smiles at me each morning when my son brings him over! Tracey Watson, married in 2010 to a beautiful man from Trinidad, writes: I’m in the U.S., but travel to Trinidad often, as I have been going there a lot since 2001. Still in the catering business (Watson Caterers), and love my work as well. Let’s do this reunion thing and see if we can break a record with attendance! Cathy Counselman Kelly writes: This past year, I have had the pleasure of getting together with Anne Albert Patterson and Marjorie Gonzalez Blackwell.

Marjorie and Doug, neighbors to my daughter Courtney in Hoboken, were able to shelter Courtney during the wrath of Hurricane Sandy! Courtney is a special ed teacher in Brooklyn, and Cathy’s other daughter, Erin, is receiving her master’s of engineering this year at Lehigh, and Caitlyn married last summer and is working at Price Waterhouse in Manhattan. Cathy adds, I am still returning to Baltimore fairly frequently to see my aging parents (93 and 96), so perhaps I will see more of you soon! Holly Zink Brent’s mother lives at Blakehurst with my parents, and she moved into my aunt Bobba’s apartment after my aunt passed away. Small world, again. Mary Stuart Andreae Gephart’s mother lived there too until her passing. Mayo used to work at Blakehurst, and Lara Shafer’s mother-in-law recently introduced herself to me there. In addition to Facebook, Blakehurst is bringing us together!

Jennifer Dewey Berk writes: Our oldest, Ellie, is a freshman at Emory in Atlanta and is

thriving there. She loves school, is working hard and playing hard too. And we are treasuring the last few years at home (or not!) of our high school sophomore, Margot, at Park School. I spend my days in my studio, painting. I had a recent show at Sascha’s restaurant that was up for six months or so and is now hanging at the Meyerberg Center in northwest Baltimore. We travel when we can and most recently had a wonderful family trip to Israel. Cathie Spicer-Tolliver writes: I still practice law part-time (mostly probate law), teach at the local college part time and volunteer in too many different directions. My husband Bob still travels a fair amount but, since his office is in the house, I see him lots when he is in town, so we’ve found a comfortable balance in it all somehow. My son Marc (27) is happy with his job as a litigation associate at a mid-size Dallas firm.

Marc and his girlfriend join us for a while most Sundays and occasionally we all catch a show or a ball game. My younger son Matt (24), who is a 2011 academy graduate, received his first promotion to LTjg (Lieutenant Junior Grade) in November. He is now in specialized training for his upcoming oneyear deployment to the Persian Gulf. We miss him a lot, but he really likes what he is doing and we are looking forward to having him bring his fiancée and spend a little time with us before he goes overseas. Jane Woltereck: After a ten year run as director of a small museum, I have broken free and am back to doing consulting work and loving life! I also find time to do volunteer work at Hampton Mansion and the Historical Society of Baltimore County working with their collections. My oldest son (Alex) graduated with honors last December from the University of Maryland, College Park with a degree in Graphic Design. He was chosen as the class speaker at his graduation so you can imagine the pull on the heartstrings! Nick is a sophomore at UMBC, psych major, doing well and loves it! Ernie and I attended the service for Mr. Kelly and it was a wonderful tribute by the whole family. Amazing. And it was so great to see the family again and so many of our classmates there. Look forward to Tracey whipping up another fantastic reunion for us!

Page Southerland: My husband Gabe and I still live in metro Atlanta. I stopped practicing landscape architecture a few years ago. Now I enjoy taking care of my own yard, playing tennis (three different teams) and just started learning to play the piano. Brett, my daughter, loves working for Morgan Stanley in NYC. Sadly my younger sister Ann passed away from cancer last year. Note from Katharine: many of us remember Ann as a spunky and cheerful little kid at Camp Atahi.

Lincoln Kearney, grandson of Diane Breger Kearney, 1974

We are so sorry, Page. Dodee Goldsmith Foster has been working in Baltimore as a nurse manager at Carefirst for the past several years.

Her husband Mort is now retired and involved in all sorts of projects. Their oldest son Adam works as a chemist at Nutramax, and younger son Charlie lives in Portland, OR, and works with adults that have developmental disabilities doing art therapy. He is very involved with urban farming, and he loves life on the west coast. A new puppy, Beaker, has brought even more love and energy to the family! Helen Tangires writes: Despite life’s challenges, it is nice to see how we all find great pleasure and comfort from creatures great and small. As our DC correspondent and condo dweller, no chickens or dogs for me! But I do enjoy walking to the National Zoo to see my favorite buddy-the Cayman Island Iguana at the Reptile House. He is most commonly seen resting, with his eyes closed and tongue hanging out, the perfect metaphor for surviving the politics and media craze that define life “inside the Beltway.” Mayo Levering Matlack is now working at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Business Development Office. She writes: I saw Jennifer Berk and Penny Johnson Brown (and her two grown sons who were hanging out downstairs) at the Mt. Washington Tavern last week for the RPCS, Gilman, Bryn Mawr and BL reunion for Classes 1970 to 1990. Mayo adds that she was nicely surprised to see so many familiar faces from all four schools and classes, and hopes that more of us can attend if it is held next year. Penny Johnson Brown writes: It was great seeing Mayo at the

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Mt. Washington Happy Hour. Our oldest son is an Assistant State’s Attorney here and our younger two are looking at graduate programs. My husband and I are still working in our respective professions. I had the opportunity to cast my vote for Lili and I hope that she was successful. I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the reunion. Paris Grady Warfield writes: In 2011, our daughter, Elise Warfield, 2000, married Tim Maahs in Charleston, SC. Seven months later in June 2012, Becca Warfield, 2004 married Beau Smith (Gilman 1999) at our home. Becca is an account executive with TBC Advertising in Baltimore and Elise is a transactions director at Greystar in Charleston, SC. I continue to teach at St. David’s – it’s been close to 20 years now and I continue to love kindergarten. Guy and I will be celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary this August. Katharine Somerville Whitmore: Our class had some losses this year: Tina Kelly Crowley’s father, Mary Stuart’s mother, and most recently Mary Langrall Pinkard’s mother. Our thoughts and condolences are with you guys. Thank you to everyone who wrote in! If you have not received anything from me it means that I do not have the correct email for you. Please drop me a line and I’ll send you the uncut version of our class notes! As for me, in January of this year my husband Scriba retired. It’s good to have him around a lot more, and he is a big help to my mother when I’m busy with my work at Duke’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Music Department. My mother turns 90 in May! She is great – exercising and forever searching for new authors to read. My girls, Mattie and Kriddie, are fine – Mattie in Baltimore and Kriddie only a few miles away from us. Until next year...

Class of 1976 Jeanne Martinet jeanne@jeannemartinet.com Here’s the latest dish from the Class of 1976, who in 2012 celebrated their 36th reunion (Though I myself refuse to believe it. We simply can not be that old): Emily Bang Jackson continues to love working in the Advancement Office at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and encourages all those on college searches with their kids to get in touch and visit. Emily is very much looking forward to her first grandchild, due the end of June.

(Okay, I guess we are that old.) Melissa Beck Dudley is still teaching kindergarten at Boys’ Latin. Last summer she also started working for fellow classmate Kearny Rodgers Dietrich at her store, Jewels, in Ruxton. Kearny has now started her own private label clothing line called JG Sassy, in addition to her jewelry line.

“We have the most fun there and I couldn’t be more proud of her,” said Missy. Missy’s middle son, Patrick, will graduate from Sewanee in May, while her oldest just moved to New York City to work at Barclays Bank (Missy: why have you not sent him up for a martini chez moi?) Her youngest, Bo, is a freshman at Boy’s Latin. Jenny Black Kaurinki has been substitute teaching at Roland Park Elementary Middle School – helping the kids harvest and sell lettuce, sweet potatoes and other crops in the school garden – as she continues her “education” in urban agriculture. While managing her neighborhood cooperative microfarm, she continues to look for paid opportunities in urban agriculture. She says

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that a recent stint at a commercial hoophouse operation off Hanover Street has increased her appreciation for the backbreaking labor of migrant farm workers! This past year Jenny traveled with her family to a wedding in Fort Collins, CO, on a road trip down to Taos and Santa Fe, NM, to the Florida Keys and on a lovely girls’ trip to Isla de Mujeras, Mexico. (Whew!) Her children are ten now and involved in ice skating, tae kwon do and soccer. From Redwood City, CA, Diane Dees Agate writes that she has been working at Visa for three years and is still enjoying the job. Her oldest son, John, graduated from the University of Arizona last May and is working for a start-up mobile ad company in San Francisco. Diane and her husband see him every couple of months, along with Diane’s niece Ragan, the daughter of her sister Cheryl Dees Kensington, 1973. Ragan moved to San Francisco from New York in the fall. In March, Diane and her husband took a trip to visit their other son, Mark, in Florida, where he is a junior at the University of Miami. Then they drove up to Baltimore to spend Easter week with Diane’s sister, Nancy Dees Golya, 1979. Susan Dierdorff Taylor’s daughter graduated from Bryn Mawr College last May and moved to Illinois with a friend who is in graduate school there. Chandlee is working as a job coach – taking special ed students from the local high school into the community to learn job skills. Her son Peter has one more year at Annapolis High School before he starts working in the community full time. He is working several days a week in the community now. He also participates in the newly state mandated unified sports program where special ed “athletes” join their partners to compete in tennis, bowling and bocce ball. Susan is still swimming and will be doing the 4.4 mile Chesapeake Bay Swim in June with her coach and many teammates. She and her husband and son are also doing a lot of distance bike riding on rail trails and plan to make a trip out west this summer to explore some trails there. Daral Donkervoet Boles announces that her son John will be married this September to Becky Smith, whom he has been dating since freshman year six years ago; so she is already “part of the family.” Daral’s youngest child, Laura, graduated from University of Toronto last May and the oldest, Leslie, is getting ready to buy a house in New Orleans. Daral did the Camino de Santiago last summer, which is a 500-mile walk over 33 days across northern Spain (Wow!) which she said was absolutely the most challenging thing she’s ever done.

She made all sorts of life decisions on the way, the most salient one being that she opened her own counseling practice last fall with a partner in downtown Lancaster. She also adopted a

Members of the Class of 1976 at the Valley Swim and Tennis Club

five-year-old white German Shepherd rescue dog. Christine Donovan has been with Merrill Lynch for fifteen years as a Financial Advisor and is living in McLean, VA. Her niece, Catherine O’Hern, 2012 graduated from RPCS last June and is a freshman at Villanova, and loving it. Christine still has four nieces at the RPCS, ranging from second to eleventh grade. Christine spent sixteen days last August playing in a Court Tennis tournament in Cambridge, England. She met up with fellow classmate Susan Rouse Gould, as well as Susan’s mother and husband, outside London

several days before Susan’s daughter, Georgia Gould, won the Bronze medal in the Olympics for mountain biking. “It was exciting to watch her win from a pub in Cambridge!” Thanks to Christine, many of the Class of 1976 had a fun summer reunion at the Valley Swim and Tennis Club last June. She would love to do it again this year. Mary Kemp O’Connell, who still works with a local community bank, writes that life on the Eastern Shore is great, but that she and her husband made many more trips than usual to Baltimore during the last year in order to visit their wonderful

grandson, Charlie. She and Pat are extremely excited about their seven-night Mediterranean cruise they have planned for the spring; they will even be staying over in Italy to do some touring. (I’m so jealous). But when they get back, Mary wants everyone to know that they have plenty of room for any RPCS friends on their way to and from the beach this summer.

I think the biggest news this year may be that Vicki Kummer and Michele finally got married “after a 26-year engagement.” (I am so happy for them – in spite of the fact that I was not invited to the wedding, even though I live a mere two blocks from them.

Ahem.) “Like so many newlyweds,” joked Vicki, “I celebrated by flying off to Phoenix to try a case that is STILL going on as of this writing.” She says that between teaching, trying cases and presiding as an arbitrator over commercial and international disputes, she hasn’t really had much of a honeymoonand that is definitely something she intends to change in 2013. Margie Macfarlane Long is still living in Hong Kong and complains that she has yet to have any RPCS visitors. She says they have combined two flats and now have a guest room, “so no excuses!” While not making important decisions about exhaust hoods and drawer pulls, she is working part time, hiking the hills while the weather isn›t too hot, playing tennis and traveling. She had a great family trip to Myanmar over Christmasthe first time in three years her family has all been together for more than two days. They especially loved riding bikes through the pagodas in Pagan. “The number of tourists has increased dramatically, so we were glad to be able to visit while things are still manageable.”

I, Jeanne Martinet, am still writing and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I published my first novel, Etiquette for the End of the World, in August of last year. The first person to write a rave review on Amazon?

None other than Carol Witz Hunt. There is nothing like the loyalty of Roland Parkers.

Class of 1977 35th Reunion Leslie Heubeck Heystack40@aol.com

Mt. Washington Happy Hour with Carol Witz Hunt, 1976, Margaret Miller, 1976, Missy Beck Dudley, 1976 and Denise Reather McKissock, 1976

June 7, 2012 marked 35 years since we sat on the Main Gym stage (in a single row!), had 98 ROCK as ambient music, and walked out with our RPCS diplomas. It seems like yesterday, yet the many roads we have traveled make a magnificent map of life. Our 35th

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Reunion weekend also marked the marriage of Nancy Gumm Blount’s daughter, Lauren. She married her beloved John in a lovely ceremony.

Nancy and Bill were, of course, busy with that. Lynn Clifford and Brad also attended the wedding. Amory is now a veterinarian with the US Army (Capt. Dr. Koch!), Liam is currently living at home and working and Elliott is in NYC contemplating grad school in philosophy. Facebook has been such a wonderful way to reconnect with classmates, especially our California classmates. Donna Roberts Lucci is living about an hour north of San Francisco. She and her husband, Joe, have two beautiful daughters, Natalie (19) and Olivia (17). Natalie attends Sonoma State University and Olivia will be attending AMDA in LA this coming fall where she was accepted into their highly-competitive dance program. Donna is an avid tennis player and does Bikram Yoga when not competing in tennis tournaments. Betsy Somerville loves being a grandmother and her FB page is filled with pictures of beautiful blue-eyed Chloe who is almost two! Shelby Tilghman Strudwick is in Piedmont and continues to work for The Worth Collection as Director of Business Development. She sent me a hilarious email detailing dating after being off the market for 20 years. I think she should write a book because her email had me in stitches!

Sue Deemer-Luck is still running her store Pele Organics, a holistic health store, in Carbondale, CO. Another FB pal is Grace “Muffie” Doyle Bigelow. Through her job at the JHBSPH, Grace is making huge impacts for women’s and children’s health.

Her daughter, Callie, is halfway through high school now! Our class has two RPCS graduates to boast about this year: Claire Utermohle, 2013 daughter of Peggy Pine Utermohle and hubby Clarke, and Kim Credit, 2013 daughter of Sharon Donkervoet Credit and Joe. Congrats to both gals as they head on to that great and wondrous adventure called college! Claire has kept Peggy and Clarke busy with all her international travels and the many students who come to stay with them in turn. Sharon’s oldest, Katie, 2009 graduated from Syracuse in May and already has a job!

Third daughter, Jodi, 2016 just finished her freshman year at RPCS. Peggy has been doing yoga at the Women’s Club of Roland Park.

Alix Cochrane Rodman is doing a fantastic job as the office manager for TWCRP and is busy keeping the organization of 400+ women moving smoothly. Brooke McDonald is also a member. Brook Gomer Yearley wrote that it’s business as usual in the Yearley household.

Not much has happened, but then again no news is good news. Tucker Ellinghaus Hackett is also reporting business as usual! They are

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busy with their kids (7 and 12) and loving their new house in Stamford, Ct. Tucker continues to work at the Royal Bank of Scotland. In the “small world” department, Tucker’s brother, Brison, stays in close contact with his Gilman pal, Dan Beirne, the other half of our own Betty Simpson Beirne. Betty is doing market research at MedImmune in Gaithersburg.

Dan, is still at T. Rowe Price. Son, Matt is working at Toyota Financial in Owings Mills.

Her other son, Sam, also graduated from Syracuse this May. Got an amazing holiday note from Mandy Young Hickman, in which she describes golden moments. These are inconsequential snippets of time that symbolize her family. It was a wonderful to read about Lucas and Wyatt, her mom, and hubby Walter.

As for me, Leslie Mosberg Heubeck, I ticked off a bucket list item (put there after reading about Jenny Teufel’s adventures) in February.

I ran in the Disney Princess Half Marathon with my daughter Hilary Heubeck, 2007.

Hilary finished about 45 minutes before I did, but this old gal finished solidly in the middle of the pack. We had such fun together. Hanly Heubeck, 2006 is in San Diego but planning on returning to the east coast sometime this summer. David and I enjoy our time in North Carolina and spending time with our girls, including our chocolate lab, Kobe. Despite my pleas, I didn’t hear from many of the “usual suspects” this year. So I will end this with the hope that our 36th year apart finds each of you happy and healthy, living life with love and a lot of laughter.

Peggy Pine Utermohle, 1977 and husband Clarke

Class of 1978 Susan Irving Taylor susan@tdtsit.com Another milestone year is upon us – our 35th Reunion will be in October!! And after 35 years, we can finally officially welcome Kristin Ranum Franceschi as a graduate of the Class of 1978 – complete with her original diploma!

Leslie Kovacs Meek held a luncheon on February 9 which included the surprise presentation of her diploma and red roses by Jean Waller Brune, 1960 and Missie Mack, Director of Alumnae Relations. In addition to Leslie, celebrants were Margot Van Buskirk Hoerner, Liza Freeze Ebeling, Elizabeth Levy Malis, Susan Taseff deMuth, Mary Stuart McKenzie and Kathy Startzman Shires. And we also have a lot of updates this time around.

Martha Fitzpatrick Bishai is living in Durban, South Africa with her husband and three of their four children. Martha is program director of an educational outreach program called The Umkhumbane Schools Project and her husband Bill is director of the KwaZuluNatal Research Institute for TB and HIV. Her oldest daughter Annie (20) is a sophomore at Harvard, while her sister Emily (18) has just finished high school in Durban (the school year in South Africa goes from January to December) and is waiting to hear about college acceptances for next fall. Graham (15) and Trevor (13) are in grades 11 and nine, respectively at St. Henry’s Marist College, a small, co-ed Catholic school in Durban.

Martha reports that life is interesting and fun in Durban, though not without its challenges – such as the monkeys who come into the kitchen to steal fruit! The Bishais are enjoying the opportunity to learn about this very diverse and complex country, with its rich cultural diversity, its vast socioeconomic disparities and its great promise for a brighter future. She says visitors are welcome anytime! Susan Taseff deMuth and Murray have finally returned to their house. After 16 months of (well, you know what) they moved back home on December 3rd – just in time for the holidays.

When the tree hit their home on August 28, 2011, they had no idea that it would have started a 16 month journey that included one insurance company, two claims – the tree claim and then the water damage claim (a plumber left a pipe open just three weeks before they were to move home in June which put them back to square one), two lawyers, two insurance company adjusters, three private insurance adjusters and one remarkable husband who kept her sane during all of it!

Susan also reports that “In the middle of it all Perk (25) left for Russia where he is in his second year teaching English as a foreign language in St. Petersburg. Ellie, 2010 (21 and a junior at Hobart & William Smith Colleges,) is majoring in psych and chemistry. Susan says, “If anyone can remember my prowess (not!) with chemistry – this will be a mystery – I know it is for me! Ellie and I made it back to the Traditional Upper School Christmas Program this past year – the tableaux were just stunning! On June 1st, I was promoted to the roll of Executive Director of Alumni Relations at Johns Hopkins University. So for all 178,000 alumni from all nine schools, I am to establish strategic direction and provide organizational leadership for programs, Alumni Association fundraising and projects that seek to engage alumni from across the university and around the world in a mutually beneficial lifelong connection to each other, their school and the university. I have enjoyed this new role and am beginning to get a bit of traction.” Libby Baldwin Vernazza says: We are doing well here in Chatham. I have a new job as a Planned Giving Representative at The Salvation Army that I am enjoying. Dominic is a junior in high school and has started to think about colleges. We are primarily looking at D3 running schools as he is active in cross country and track and field. Tina is a freshman in high school and has made that transition well. John and I are coming upon our 20th wedding anniversary and are a planning romantic getaway in October to celebrate that milestone.

Mandy Hopkins Tirrell completed her second year with UConn Medical Group in Farmington, CT where she has been serving as Chief Operating Officer and leading a number of big projects including the design and construction of a $203 million, 300,000 square foot ambulatory care center. She is commuting an hour each way from East Longmeadow, MA where she and her husband Chris still live as “empty nesters” with her daughter Penelope away at college. Penelope is a junior at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL where she is studying anthropology and leaning toward a community service or global/ international service career. Mandy has also managed to connect with several of our classmates this past year. She reports: I reconnected with Christina Darby Leblanc at a masters swim meet at Harvard and Chris was a great sport and actually swam a backstroke event – I was injured and couldn’t swim, but I cheered her on and we have been in touch since then. It is great that we have the swimming and RPCS connection after all these years. And I am now back in the pool swimming masters at least two times a week for both my physical and mental health. I also

It Only Took 35 Years!

Kristin Ranum Franceschi, a member of the Class of 1978, who left RPCS after her junior year to begin her college career, has finally received her RPCS diploma thanks to classmates Kathy Startzman Shires and Susan Irving Taylor.

Last year Kristin casually mentioned to her classmates that she never received her RPCS diploma because even though she had completed her freshman year at Johns Hopkins University, she was still short a high school English credit and a half credit in Physical Education. She was not allowed to attend Commencement and receive her diploma based upon this technicality. Knowing that Kristin graduated at the top of her class at JHU, (majoring in Classics), and played on both the basketball and fencing teams, before graduating from Stanford University Law School, Kathy and Susan went into action. Based upon Kristin’s college major and athletic commitments, the RPCS Administration determined that she had met the requirements to graduate! Kathy, RPCS Controller, searched the RPCS safe and found Kristin’s original diploma signed by Gordon K. Lenci, Headmaster of RPCS from 1975 - 1983! Jean Waller Brune, Head of School and Missie Mack, Director of Alumnae Relations delivered Kristin’s diploma along with signature RPCS red roses at a surprise gathering of several members of the Class of 1978. Kristin, an attorney with DLA Piper in Baltimore, was elected President of the National Association of Bond Lawyers in 2011. She was recently named to the list of Maryland Top 100 Women by The Daily Record, and is so happy to have her diploma firmly in hand.

reconnected with Mindy Hetrick after many, many years and was delighted to hear from her and all about her adventures since we graduated from high school. Mandy also thanks many in the class for the support this year as she juggled her job and the mid-life challenges of aging and ill parents, flying back and forth from New England to Bel Air to support them. Sadly, her dad, Wylie passed away on December 8th at the age of 91. Her 82 year old Mom, Robin, is still living in Bel Air and they are anticipating her transitioning to some sort of assisted living situation in 2013. I’m sure we will see more of Mandy in the Baltimore area as that move progresses. Liz Pockel is still working as global marketing manager at VIKING Life-Saving Equipment.

She notes: I finally delivered my thesis for my masters in international corporate communication (got an A!). My twins are 11 now. Eskild goes to the international school where he just hopped over sixth Grade, so he’s in seventh Grade now getting A’s in chemistry, which is a pretty big miracle, considering he has a congenital brain injury and spent the first 5 years at a special school. Torvald is still at the special school, but doing great and we expect him to move within a year or two when

he’s ready. We’re all living on the chicken farm and spending most of our vacations in the U.S., getting homesick often in my old age!”

Maureen Anderson is still living in California.

Maureen and Susan’s younger daughter, Delia, had her Bat Mitzvah on March 9, 2013. No, you’re not senile yet, Maureen was and is not Jewish, and neither is Susan, but Delia’s late father, Elliot Klein, started her in Hebrew school in her early years, and they felt it was important for her to continue after his death in 2009. Fortunately they live in a very diverse area and Delia’s ‘mixed’ heritage is no issue!

Their older daughter, Zoe, is turning 20 this spring and has opted to work for a special events company before beginning college in earnest. Susan Moore Short also lost her father this year. She says: I would like to thank everyone for the warm support and comfort you all provided our family when Dad passed away last August. Mom is adjusting well, and I’m looking forward to seeing Susan Taseff deMuth in the halls of the retirement home Mom shares with Susan’s in-laws. On to the family: the kids are growing like weeds and continue to amuse, intrigue, thrill and, well, challenge us. Mackie (7.5) is just now getting into the sports scene, adding soccer, basketball

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and baseball to his existing swimming schedule, and now he’s taking piano lessons.

Will (4) is a drummer – in other words, loud, all the time (except when in the company of certain alumnae who offer cupcakes and fruit).

We had another week at Lake Anna last summer, and are planning a return for this summer – at this rate, we’ll have to buy a boat, when the kids get past the thrill of jumping off the dock. Q whisked me off to Annapolis for Mother’s Day, which was wonderful – just one day, but worth every minute to be away from the grind. The rest of our vacations were Ravens-oriented: Jenny Davis Hope and I went to the Houston game, staying in Galveston and taking advantage of the 80-degree weather to sit on the beach and dine outside. Jenny and I also went, on a whim, to the Denver playoff game, which was quite the thrill – the gametying play happened right in front of us, and Jenny met the game-tying play-maker’s mom after the game. The following week, Q went up to New England to watch the Ravens tromp the Patriots handily. Then we had to go to New Orleans, so we made it our adult vacation of the decade, staying for a couple of extra days, bombing around the city after the big Super Bowl win. So life back home is kind of boring compared to all that! Work progresses – my team has grown a lot over the year, and we are embarking on a really large set of projects that will turn my hair completely gray once and for all. Q’s company is doing well as always, and he is traveling a bit more, working on a new product concept. Most recently, I was asked to join the Board of Trustees of Adoptions Together, the agency we used to build our family. I’m really looking forward to working with this organization, as Q and I have always been passionate advocates of their mission and approach. As for me, I’ve pretty much committed to the “retired” life and am sometimes busier than I was when working.

I’m volunteering heavily with the BSO and Terry and I are readying the house to sell and downsize here in Baltimore…before starting the work up in Maine! Terry is now officially done with his first career and starting in on career #2 and we’re also officially empty nesters. After graduating from University of Delaware last year, Becca, 2008 is living in Silver Spring and working in DC. Rachel, 2012 is a freshman at University of Rhode Island and is now officially sick of snow. After a very mild winter last year, they got hammered this year! Hold the weekend of October 4-6 for Reunion and if anyone wants to help plan, let me know!

Class of 1979 Noel Rippel Bradley noelerbradley@verizon.net Well it’s finally happened, dear classmates... we now have a grandmother among us... congratulations to Brigid Pecora Bertazon, the proud grandma of Hazel Keen Hartley, now one year old! She was born to daughter Heather and Jared Hartley on March 27, 2012. At the same time, the leading trend for many members of the Class of 1979 is the move into the empty-nester stage of life. Jane Bennett Taeger reported on her daughters: Allie is in medical school at the University of Manchester in England after graduating from St. Andrews in Scotland last year... while Isabel is at Florida Southern College. Both girls graduate in 2015. Mark and I are greatly looking forward to a tuition-free future! I am still in the Customs business at Samuel Shapiro & Company, Inc. as the Director of Compliance. On the singing front, I left the Baltimore Choral Arts Society after nine years and am back as a section leader at the Church of the Redeemer. Elaine Howard Christ will join the empty nester crowd in the fall when younger son Patrick heads off to Davis and Elkins College. Older son Jack is heavily into the rowing team at Washington College where he’s a sophomore. She welcomes any tips on life in the empty nest!In May, Kathy Levy Crenner celebrated a double graduation when son, Nathaniel, graduated from high school

From the Class of 1979, Catherine Hilgartner Masucci, Lisa Campbell Sylvestri and Margie Waters Forner

and Emily graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and will be in NYC for a summer fellowship at the Bronx Zoo. Natty will be attending Middlebury College in the fall. “I’m not sure what I will be doing... it’s a work in progress!” From Patti Evans Best in Germany: My youngest son, Evan Gray Best, graduated from Wiesbaden American High School last spring and is now a nutritional science major at Potomac State College in West Virginia. My oldest son, Raymond Karl Best, graduated in May from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA with a double major in international business and German. He’s still awaiting notification as to which master’s program he’ll be attending in the fall. I’m busy working to pay for their education and upkeep - and still running like a fool and training for the Ironman Salzburg in early September and then the Munich Marathon in October.

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Page McDonald Crosby writes: Oldest son, Nelson, graduated from architecture school in May and is working in Boston. Number two, Reiley, is finishing his final semester at Dickinson College and will have played lacrosse for the last time. Youngest, Sam, graduating from high school is hoping to major in communications. We may be empty nesters, but it is very possible that Reiley will end up here for a bit after graduation. Go figure! All is well in Bucks County, PA for Missy Harper Rose, where she and hubby Paul are enjoying empty nesting by traveling, golfing and volunteering more. They welcome the kids’ visits home and to Lancaster, PA where oldest Jeff lives, and Cambridge, MA where Trish works. There youngest Hunt just turned 21 and is a junior at Temple in Philadelphia. From Lynn Goldstein: Daughter Samantha has been accepted to Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Son Shane is still doing well at University of Washington and was in the top 20% of his class at Air Force Field training in Mississippi this summer. I am still working with my husband on sales commission software application, and feel lucky to be able to work at home. The rest of my time is spent on Words with Friends with Catherine Hilgartner Masucci and Patti Evans Best. Lynn also visited with Sheila Maith last summer. Johanna Miller Lewis had a blast attending her 30th college reunion in April. She spent time in North Carolina at the beach with her parents Norvell (87) and Jo (83) who now reside at Roland Park Place (our old RPCS campus!) where Elaine’s parents are moving this summer and where she saw Lulu at Christmas! And then, there are still a few of us in the trenches with teenagers and younger! Catherine Hilgartner Masucci is about to embark on the college hunt for her triplets. Colleges of interest for Joey, Clare and Maggie range from states of Illinois, Texas, Vermont and Washington.

Artwork by Deirdre Tanton, 1979

Margie Csobaji Smith, 1979 and Brigid Pecora Bertazon, 1979

Yes, it’s gonna be a challenge! Marge Csobaji Smith is coming up on 18 years at Hopkins, where “there is never a shortage of projects and buildings to plan for. Son, Sam will be a junior at Friends in the fall and Sydney, I am thrilled to say, will be a freshman at RPCS next year! I’m so impressed with the school and all of the teachers and administrators that I’ve met and I know that Sydney will love it there! We’re planning a trip to Hungary over the summer; Sydney has a tour with Children’s Chorus of MD that will take her to Budapest, and nearby towns for ten days, so we decided to take advantage of a good reason to go and check out my Hungarian roots!” And now for news from the Joyce “Saville” Janney MacDonald clan - “same job, same house, and same husband. I’m happy to report that I paid my last orthodontist bill. My ‘baby’ Maggie will be starting high school at St. Timothy’s School next year. Her new school is walking distance from her Aunt Bizzy’s house. My oldest daughter Becca played both basketball and varsity golf for Mount de Sales Academy as a freshwoman. That ‘Sports Banquet’ they have at the end of each season is a misnomer.

There’s nothing “Banquet” about it. You might get a better meal at Miss Havisham’s wedding reception.” (Good RPCS reference huh? Thanks Mrs. Heuisler!) I was thrilled to hear from classmate Mimi Kapiloff. We have a lunch date ‘in the works’. And finally, it’s official, as of this year – I’m now living with two teenagers! Pray for me.” Laurie Alkire Selby and family enjoyed a “two week return adventure to Hawaii visiting husband Lorin’s family and Navy friends (we lived there 200407). It was tough to come back to Maryland - of course there was a beautiful rainbow in the sky as we flew off island! I am back working full time as a school social worker at The Harbour School in Annapolis. Lorin is still active duty with the Navy (26 years!). He is not at sea anymore so that’s been great to have him home more. Jack (14) just finished middle school and is four inches taller than me! Jimmy (12) is in seventh grade (12) and Annie (10) is in

fourth grade (10). We are blessed with good kids at great ages for almost everything and are good conversationalists without much attitude (yet).” Following a change in marital status, Amy Schlott Downing, moved into a new home in February with Genevieve (9) and Michael (16 in July), a sophomore at a culinary-focused high school, an altar server at church and “my knight in shining armor.”

Will is a sophomore at Princeton (Amy’s alma mater), and Maggie will be a freshman at Georgetown this fall (Steve’s alma mater).

“Lucky thing, those legacies. So I will be down to two kids in September, both a good and a bad thing. I’m still the Financial Director at the Martin House Restoration Corporation, a non-profit dedicated to the restoration of a neglected Frank Lloyd Wright house and its operation as a museum, but am thinking it may be time to move on (a life theme for me these days?!) As my children progress through high school, I am amazed at how wonderful and challenging RPCS was by comparison.” I, Noel Rippel Bradley, am enjoying a busy life in the trenches with Taylor (15) at Holton Arms School (where I’m a “room parent” and yes, loving it – though it’s still not RPCS and I’m constantly wondering why they don’t do things the way we did?!) and Jack (11) who will enter sixth grade at Landon School for boys next fall (we are so psyched!). Gee, just ten years to go ‘til I’m an empty-nester! In May, I left my position of eight years at our church - to embark on a new path (yet to be determined as of this writing!). Life is good, we are blessed and I can’t wait to see what happens next!

Blessings to you all dear classmates! I look forward to our next gathering - dare I say it, can it be 35 years in 2014?

Class of 1980 Helen Otto Tuten helen2ten@gmail.com With so many years growing up and learning together our roots became entangled and so reconnecting and hearing from each other brings joy, smiles and memories. Martha Galli-Leslie says: I am an internist focusing on kidney diseases and acute complex care; I have worked in the Hague since 1998. My husband, Ivo, works at the Patent Office. Helen, (19), started university and Raphael, (11), is in middle school and loves dogs. Finding the right balance between work and family remains a lifelong challenge: one not yet mastered.

Favorite recent book: God is a Verb: fresh rethinking of old stories, surprising, intriguing.

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Allyson McCaffray Rhodes, 1980 and Wallis Murphy Weiner Trapness, 1980 with their families at Christmas

I loved Miss Kelly’s English class, and write poetry in my spare time. Jennifer Nutt says: I still live in Berkeley with my husband Herb and my boys, Nate and Nick. Nate just turned 16 and goes to Berkeley High, and I am happy to say that he has taken up my dad’s hobby and plays on his high school tennis team. He is even starting to look a lot like his grandfather.

Leslie Summers McCracken says: I have been married and living in Cincinnati for 25 years.

I work two days a week for an Interior design firm. My husband has just retired from Procter and Gamble after 31 years. I may have to work a couple more days, just kidding. He has not gotten on my nerves yet, but he is my new lunch date. Our oldest, Nick went to the College of Charleston and is married and still in SC. I think I am the first grandmother! Lily is six years old and smarter than all of my kids put together. She is six going on 60! Our middle child, John, is attending his third college, Full Sail University, a film school, in Orlando FL. He loves it, but I am knocking on wood as I type this. Caroline, the baby of the family, (thank God I got a girl), is a junior at Indiana University. I have become a Hoosier fan. Wow, I have really turned into a Midwesterner! My mom still lives in Federal Hill and is doing great; she can run circles around me. I had dinner with friends in Siesta Key this last week where they were playing all of the songs from our past. The songs, (especially Dream

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Weaver and Robin’s Stairway to Heaven), brought up memories of Redeemer Mixers and the coat rack! Those were the good old days! We all had so much fun in and out of classes. Mira Courpas reports: I’m enjoying being both a business owner and plant geek, as I enter into my sixth year as a professional garden designer. My 6’4” tall son, Asher, is a senior and has his mother’s entrepreneurial spirit, and has started his own skateboard design company. My daughter, Annika, is also following in my footsteps as she is a sophomore at the all-girls school, Holton-Arms. Hubby Jonathan has taken up bike commuting to work every day all year long and I enjoy hiking and long walks. Kathy Connor says: At work, I am in the midst of a global filing for a new drug for the treatment of insomnia.

As a longstanding insomnia sufferer (since age five), I am very excited. I have been in the Philadelphia area since 2006 and remain active in the squash doubles community, though the knees aren’t what they used to be. One of my objectives for 2013 is to welcome a puppy into my family/home… and, albeit not from experience, I recognize that puppies become dogs. Past pets have included goldfish and a parakeet (Thanks to Patty’s big bro Douglas!)

So I am venturing into unchartered waters.

Very big change, as I live alone in a condo with limited excursion for a dog. Maura Chippendale says: Last November I purchased

the private audiology practice where I have been employed for the past 25 years so am now quite busy changing it to my way: all new equipment and computers and a general overhauling of the office. In November I also started a doctoral program in Audiology.

Thus, I have very little free time and no life outside of work and school. However, I have still managed to find time to get to Colorado many times since my daughter moved there last June. So far, I am surviving my son’s first Marine Deployment and counting the days until he gets back on U.S. soil! I enjoy spending time with Mom and Dad – ages 90 and 93, respectively. Somewhere in between, I get to take in a movie with my husband, Marcelo, who is trying to be patient with me and all the things that pull me in different directions. I saw Jodi at an Audiology Conference in New Orleans the week before the Ravens won the Super Bowl there; I am sure it was due to our presence in the city that made this possible.

And, yes, the class of 1980 produced two audiologists! (see picture attached!) My favorite saying is: ‘Forget the Dark Side and the Light Side. Come to the Crazy Side, we have milk and cookies. Plus we have these awesome jackets that let us hug ourselves!’ Wishing us all a prosperous and healthy new 2013. Lizzy Heuisler (aka Liz H. Kelly) has become a Tony Robbins groupie and recently walked on fire at one of his events! She also loves the book Sales Dogs by Blair Singer, and thinks she is a Golden Retriever/Poodle (check it out to learn which type of dog you are). Along with her marketing/PR/social media agency, Liz is having a blast building the Goody Awards for social good. She’d love your feedback, and contact her if you want to build a cause

Helen Otto Tuten, 1980 and family in Costa Rica

marketing campaign tied to social good. And finally, my family and I still call the small farm in southern Pennsylvania home. I continue to work as a pediatric physical therapist with mostly Spanish speaking families in York City and David teaches math in a small private school there as well. Abiwren (17) is a junior at the same school, loves having her Dad as a teacher and aspires to be a nurse. Caleb (20) is a sophomore at Princeton where he swims and studies economics, finance and Spanish/ Portuguese. And Seth (24) has returned to his birth place of Key West where he works for the Hyatt and spends his free time on the water.

As a family we love to travel (Florida, Costa Rica and Omaha for swimming Olympic Trials were our destinations this past year), garden (David is a wonderful Farm Boy), knit (my daughter and I) and read. Thank you so much to all who sent news. I hope to hear from more of you!! As Piglet asks Pooh, “We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?” “Even longer,” Pooh answered.

Class of 1981 Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981 annhillers@gmail.com This year I’m going to start with my news since it’s the most exciting: Jorie Rice Cogguillo and Molly Whitaker O’Donovan are coming to visit me in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in honor of our milestone birthdays. I will actually turn 50 while they are in residence so I’m happily crafting memorable moments, like a mimosa and early morning swim inside a thermal cave outside of town and a horseback ride through the dry plains with local cowboys.

Sam and I are starting our fifth year here with boys Bo (12), Redding (11) and Mason (9).

They, like us, love it more every day. One last thing: I have a travel piece coming out in the New York Times! If you’re a reader of the Sunday 36 Hours section and see something on San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, that’s me! Speaking of Molly, she says: I am still working for green energy company until the Maryland tax structure drives us under. Kate O’Donovan graduated from RPCS in 2012 and is now happily ensconced at UNCW. Eliza, 2015 is still loving life at RPCS. My highlight for this year has been a remarkable trip with my Mom and sister, Kate, to Israel.

And now I am looking forward to celebrating our 27th birthdays with Jorie and Ann in Mexico! No doubt there will be some tales that is, if we decide to come back. Chances are we will want to follow Ann’s lead and move

Christine Smith, 1981’s best in show painting

our families south of the border too! And Jorie weighs in, when she has electricity and an internet connection in the snowy northeast, with the following: My son, Will, is embracing fraternity life and bioengineering at Lehigh.

Megan is loving her freshman year at Dartmouth. Other than a few days, she walked to class in negative 15-degree weather, she is embracing winter and all Dartmouth has to offer. Grace, a freshman at Lauralton Hall, discovered field hockey this year. LH is an allgirls Catholic high school which reminds me a lot of RPCS but bigger (and not nearly as luxurious as the present RPCS). Leah is a sixth grader and keeps us laughing. We were recently buried under 38 inches of snow (you may have seen Milford, CT on CNN news and the front page of NYT). Beautiful and kind of fun when life shuts down for a few days – but only barely. This makes the fourth freak storm in

our area in a little over a year. Will has been sent home from college twice now because of no power and Milford celebrated Halloween on November 9 this year.” Julie George Evans: We just completed the harrowing process that college admissions has now become for our first born. With acceptance rates at the most selective schools now in the single digits, you may as well win the lottery. While not his top choice, Austin is looking forward to studying biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and cheering on their Big Ten football and hockey teams. I am looking forward to a year’s respite before starting the admissions process again for our daughter, Claire, 2016, who is currently a freshman at RPCS. Claire has discovered a new found interest in running track and especially loves to run the hurdles. Andrea Strudwick Bender: Our year has been pretty good. Dave and I sold our business for scads of money, have both retired and are currently traveling the world climbing mountains and helping starving children. Both of our beautiful children have received full-ride academic and athletic scholarship promises to top-tier schools and our dog recently won the AKC National Championship. Our home in Minnesota was on the National Garden Showcase for the third year in a row. When we are home, we keep busy hosting a “100 best books” book club, hosting wine and cheese benefits for local and national charities and training for triathlons as a family. Karoline McAdam Obora is living in Naperville, IL, as an indentured servant to her three demanding, but adorable, children and her husband Brian.

Jorie Rice Coguillo, 1981 and Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, 1981 visit Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981 in Mexico

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Ann Schlott Hiller, 1981’s three sons Bo, Redding and Mason in the old silver mining town of Pozos, Mexico

When not at a football, soccer or baseball field; swim practices; or academic competitions, she can be found volunteering at one of their schools or scout function. In between, Karol strives to keep a small niche software company’s product development group afloat. It’s never a dull moment! Libby Sunderland Fitzgerald writes during a brutal NYC winter: Not a whole lot new here in the Fitzgerald household. William is now a freshman at Georgetown, Robert is a junior at Taft and starting to look at colleges, and Laird is in the fourth Grade at Saint David’s School in NY. I saw Molly and Jorie over Thanksgiving break and we celebrated Jorie’s 50th birthday!

Christine Herman Smith: I am trying to become more active in enjoying RPCS Kaleidoscope offerings – some classes and

daytrips seem very inviting. I continue to paint dog portraits and am gearing up for another exhibition which will include numerous foxhounds! Vicky Stuelpnagel Murray writes: “After 20 years with the same company I finally took the plunge last spring and changed jobs. I now work for InforMed, a medical technology company and am adjusting to the fact that many of my coworkers had not yet been born when I graduated from college and entered the work force. Samantha is thriving in Pre-First at St. Paul’s and getting ready to start lacrosse this spring. Keith works as a financial advisor at Chapin Davis and his close proximity to St. Paul’s makes our lives much easier. I continue to post to my blog, which is now closing in on 15,000 hits and am working with a friend to develop an app for needle pointers. Still playing tennis, paddle tennis, golf and trying to stay current with my book club so life is busy. Clare Stewart Perry is living on Beijing; teaching at International School of Beijing to kids in ninth, seventh and fifth grade. Still traveling around Asia as much as she can. She welcomes visitors! Coverley Steinman Beidleman Moran, 2012 is a college freshman, enjoying school and the independence and Molly, 2016 is spending most of her first year in Upper School on her phone. I have been named the Assistant Director of Operations for Graduate School Admissions at Towson University so if anyone is thinking about grad school, give me a call!

Muffie Cook Sandberg is managing the Clubs and Activities program at Connections Education for schools in 23 states. Part of the

Chrisoula Kakavas Kucharski, 1981 and Eleni Kakavas Monios, 1982

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Clare Perry, 1981 and family in Tibet

program is designed to provide opportunities for exceptionally talented students in the fields of sports, the visual and performing arts and STEM to network with like-minded students and professionals in their fields of talent.

Muffie was chosen employee of the year by Connections Education, a virtual school of 2500 employees and more than 50,000 students in over 23 states and across the globe.

Todd (23) has graduated from University of South Carolina and doing very well in sales.

Ward (19) will graduate from Gilman this spring and head to Guilford College in the fall, and Jay (15) is in ninth grade at Gilman and having a great time on the water polo and swim teams. Mark continues to consult for Caesar’s, building their e-commerce portal.

Muffie has enjoyed spending time with Vicky Stuelpnagel Murray needle pointing and enjoying her delicious cooking. Amy Wheeler: My husband, Barry Fudim and I are still loving life in the northeast kingdom of Vermont. Our acupuncture practices are thriving and we continue to expand our services within the Dartmouth community. Winter finds us doing a whole bunch of snowshoeing and crosscountry skiing. We went to visit an old Baltimore friend in Santa Fe, NM last September. That’s a magical place. We spent some time pampering ourselves at two amazing places: Ten Thousand Waves and Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs, where we saw the Horse Whisperer, Buck Brannaman, at work.

Chrisoula Kakavas Kucharski: I’m hoping to go to Greece this summer (I have not been there since 2010 and am having major withdrawals). I miss all of the relatives and I

especially need to see the older generation (aunt and uncles). Stephen and I stayed local in 2012. Aside from trips to the Greek monasteries in Roscoe, NY and White Haven, PA, we travelled to Fripp Island, SC for some sun and fun. Eleni, Jimmy and I pulled off a surprise 50th Wedding Anniversary party for our parents. Both of my parents were in a state of shock…truly, they did not know what hit them! Ma thought she was in the “wrong place.” Dad just stood there at the entrance of the party room and did not budge for several moments. Our Dad played his clarinet (he still is awesome!) for hours with his old band members/friends and Jimmy was on the drums.

They had a lot of fun while the rest of us Greek-danced nonstop!

Class of 1982 30th Reunion Kathy Keys Osborn bmorekathy@verizon.net We celebrated our 30th Reunion in the Fall of 2012. Unbelievable. Thirty Years. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I still can’t wrap my mind around that number. Anyhow, thanks to Jane Daniels and Dave Calhoun and Elsa and George Boynton, Ingrid Boynton Polk’s parents, we had a fantastic reunion weekend! Wonderful conversations, lots of laughter, great food and bourbon slushies!

Although we didn’t know it at the time, that was the last time the Class of 1982 will meet at the Boynton’s. Elsa and George put their beloved house on the market just a few months after our reunion and, not surprisingly, it sold in a day! Of course, we hope the new family will have a wonderful time there and create their own memories, but I know there’s not

Valerie Edwards Vaile, 1982’s husband Ernie and son Danny planting the Redbud in memory of Ernie’s sisters.

Class of 1982 celebrates their 30th reunion at the home of Ingrid Boynton Polk’s parents.

one member of our class that won’t miss that house. We all always felt welcomed there and are very grateful for all the years the Elsa and George opened their home to us! We wish them just as much happiness in their new home as they gave us in their old home! Also regarding our reunion, Valerie Edwards Vaile says: Christine, 2013 is graduating from RPCS in the spring of 2013 and headed to Davidson College. Danny is still at High Point.

Ernie and I will be empty nesters too! We planted the new tree in memory of Ernie’s sisters, Kathy and Laura. The whole time we worked on this project, we thought about the generosity of our class. The gift (from Reunion) allowed us to buy everything we needed to replant. I wanted to send out a huge thank you to the members of our awesome Class of 1982 who made this possible. Our love and appreciation is overwhelming. Nothing is better than planting a new tree! Thank you again for organizing our secret gift! You are amazing. At our 30th Reunion weekend, Ingrid Boynton Polk was awarded The McCauley Bowl which is awarded periodically to an Alumna or other member of the school community who has distinguished herself/ himself through long service to the school and its graduates. We’re so proud of Ingrid, the second recipient in our class! And so, 30 years later, there are some of us with grandkids, some of us just sending kids off to college and a few of us just sending our youngest to

kindergarten or even preschool! Kira Sekulow writes: After homeschooling my 13 year old for five years, he started ninth grade at Boys Latin this year! Woohooo....let the party begin! (For Mama!) Actually, Mama has been actively looking for a job this year, enjoying having some free time for the first time in 13 years, and loving hanging out at soccer games and volunteer events with Alison Kenny Brennan who also has a ninth grader at BL. Alison has done an excellent job of taking over for Ingrid Boynton Polk in keeping “Most Easily Confused” Kira on the straight and narrow. Having never managed to come to school dressed down on a dress down day myself, I’m forever shocked and in disbelief when my son tells me tomorrow is a dress down day. How do people know this stuff?

And I “almost” sent him to school on a day when there was no school one time! Even though I caught Alison Kenny Brennan “in the middle of the frantic season known as bringing your kids home from college,” she still filled us in on her busy life. Kallie 2010 has just finished her junior year at University of Richmond and is having an amazing experience there! She spent the fall semester studying in London and has fallen in love with all things British! I brought her home from school Friday and am packing her up to return to London for the summer where she has an internship at the British Museum. As an Art History Major/ Archeology minor, this is her idea of

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Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982 with her parents after receiving the McCauley Bowl

heaven! After a rocky start with an unstable roommate who had to be separated from the university, Jonathan has had a great year at American University. He is in the Kogod School of Business, has pledged Delta Tau Delta fraternity and has thoroughly taken advantage of being in the nation›s capital, including attending the inauguration and trick or treating at the embassies (a must for all the AU students). I pick him up from school the day after tomorrow. He and his band are about to release their second CD this month and have plans to “tour” the east coast this summer. Andrew has had a wonderful first year at Boys’ Latin where he is taking a tough load of honors classes and making Dean›s List. He is on the soccer team and lacrosse team, both of which he has really enjoyed, and he is a Laker buddy - going across to the lower school once a cycle to work with a second grade class. Andrew and Cory Sekulow are classmates which means I get to see Kira on a fairly regular basis on Lake Avenue. Brian is still at T. Rowe Price and this fall traveled twice to London where he was able to see Kallie and then once to Saudi Arabia where he saw a lot of sand... I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time at Boys’ Latin where I am on the Parents’ Association and a Development Committee and where I also sat on the search committee for the new upper school head. Erin Murphy’s daughter is at RPCS and Erin is “back to work full-time since September and crazy busy. Maddie Muth, 2013 is finishing up at RPCS this year.” Asmat Khan’s daughter, Ammara Elsevier, 2021 is also wearing the red. She writes: We have had a great year. Willem is still working with the Baltimore City Government as an architect to design, build and renovate buildings in Baltimore City. I am still with the U.S. Trademark Office through the Department of Commerce and am lucky enough to have work-at-home. Ammara is finishing the fourth grade at RPCS! The year passed so quickly!

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Hard to believe she’ll be a fifth grader in September. She has had a fantastic year at school. She, unfortunately, had to have surgery on her foot and ankle in early April, but is recovering well and should be walking again

by July. We were so moved by the showing of support from everyone at RPCS. We look forward to London, Amsterdam and Paris in July to visit friends and family, then New Hampshire in August before we kick off a new school year and life gets crazy busy again.

Wendi Frenkil Biemer is enjoying life-afterkids-move-out (which, by the way, I cannot even imagine at this point) Wendi’s been an “empty nester since September. Loving the time with husband. Empty nester is a misnomer. Still living in Chicago suburb, and hoping to move downtown to a cool apartment.” Liz Brune mentions Wendi in her update: Life is good here in Chicago. I am looking forward to Christine Vaile’s graduation from RPCS. She is such a terrific person.

Wendi Biemer keeps threatening she is moving downtown, but she has yet to make the move.

I’m looking forward to summer here in Chicago because there is so much to do after a long winter inside. Vienne Hucek Rea has a daughter at RPCS and has great news from the art world! “Many exciting things are happening for me with my art. I have exhibited several times this year in Maryland galleries, as a photographer and sculptress. Most exciting is the Baltimore premiere of DIRTY WATER (an art collaboration with Rivers Scott Fisher) featuring my photography which will be exhibited, along with one of my installation pieces at UPstairs Gallery (an art gallery owned

by Carol Hansen Breining, 1983 in Hampden’s Mud and Metal. Later this year, in September, I will be exhibiting several of my metal sculptures at Frederick Community College.

Special thanks go to Fran Kobsa Lynch who thoughtfully responded to my enquiry at our 30th reunion, and helped me connect with Baltimore-native sculptor David Hess whom I have been blessed to have as a mentor. My daughter, Annaliese Rea, 2017 will graduate eighth grade with honors this year and enter Upper School next year! Time flies. Soon she’ll be in the long white dress holding red roses.

Lastly, I want to mention how grateful I am that we, as the Class of 1982, come together and share joyful events with genuine celebration and sorrowful ones with heartfelt compassion. Many of our 1982 classmates, as well as other classes have experienced losses this past year, and I am so inspired by and proud of the responsive and compassionate women in our RPCS family circle. Amory Clifford Woodman is also getting ready to send Courtney off to college. “After a year of college visits and applications, we were very

Kathy Keys Osborn, 1982’s family atop the Natty Boh Building

excited to have a wide variety of choices for our daughter. In the end she chose Northeastern University where she will start studies in Behavioral Neurosciences. She was accepted into their IN program. So along with my baby going off to college, I am sending her to Australia for her first semester freshman year. The experience is going to be incredible for her and we are all very excited. Hopefully I get to work a “trip down under” myself while she is there. In March, my husband had a total knee replacement and it has been an adventure having him home for almost three to four months. Things went well and hopefully he will be back to full routine soon.” Beth Atkins Schroeder is about to become a nurse! (What?!)

She writes: I wasn’t going to write because I always feel like such a bore but I finally have something fun to report :) I am graduating from nursing school in a week! It’s been the longest, hardest, most grueling two year program, but as of May 16th I will be an RN. C’mon, who wouldn’t hire a brand new 50 year old nurse with no experience?

Bahahahaha. In other news, my eldest is headed to University of Vermont in the fall.

Thought I would be much more torn up about him leaving. My middle one is going to be a senior next year and I’m hoping to brainwash her into looking at Bucknell. My littlest will be starting high school next year which, I think, is the official start to the “older than God” stage of my life. Speaking of those of us going back to school, Sarah Mello just won’t stop! “I am just finishing up the coursework for what will be my third master’s degree, this time in mental

health counseling (physician, heal thyself!) and am looking forward to beginning internships in the fall. I don’t have a placement yet, but am hoping to find a place where I can combine my organizational development skills with my new counseling ones. As for the boy, he is already eating me out of house and home, and he’s only ten! He says it’s a shame I’m 48 because I don’t get any of the really funny fourth grade humor. He is proving to be every bit as challenging as I was to my mother when I was a teenaged girl. Whoever told me boys were easier was out right lying. Casey Case Scase in one of us still in the throes of little kid life. “I’m working for Computer Security Division here at NIST. My husband, Greg, is here too. Charley attends preschool at the NIST Child Care Center for which I am now on the board – that’s a first for me. Anneke is in second grade at our local Montgomery County Elementary School, with which we are quite pleased. When I’m not provisioning, cooking or chauffeuring the kids to activities, I like to swim and cycle. Greg is an avid in-line skater. Anneke’s favorites are horseback riding and gymnastics, for which she has quit ballet, sigh. Latest addition: Charley’s drum lessons!

We’re sorting out an ankle injury, so Anneke is sitting out her sports right now. This has allowed me to catch up on some yard work before the Brood II cicadas emerge. I think we should organize a class trip to celebrate our 50th birthdays. (I think that’s a fantastic idea, Casey! Count me in!) Libby Davis Fraker is also in little kid land and not with her own kids! Libby writes: Still live in Stoneleigh. My oldest, Christopher, is headed into his junior year at Friends. My middle child, Sally, is going to Towson High School in the fall and my youngest, Kenny, will be in fifth grade at Stoneleigh. My husband is about to celebrate his 30th year at the French Company! I am loving what I do as a Preschool teacher in the three-year-old room three days a week and teaching PE to 2s, 3s, and 4s two days a week.

I will be starting and co-directing a new summer camp at my school this summer. As much fun as that will be. I’m not too crazy about giving up my free summers!” Caroline Pyeatte Mahle writes: Life for the Mahle family is good. Mandy should get her PhD in a couple of months and then starts medical school on August 15. Lacey is working in the DC area using her business/marketing degree. Perry is graduating UMCP in a few weeks with a civil engineer major and nuclear engineer minor, and will start working as an engineer this summer. All the kids are out of the house except Campbell, so I look forward to when they all make surprise visits. Usually for food or money, but I will take what I can get! Campbell is doing well at Rodgers Forge

Elementary School. She is busy now with baseball and lacrosse. She is giving up football after three years and trying soccer this fall. Yea! I am still at Notre Dame of Maryland University splitting time between the Business & Economics department and the Office of International Programs. John is still with the army. We have a new addition to the family: a golden retriever named Cena. She is beautiful and sweet, but is defiantly a hand full. Lacey brought her home last July against our wishes, but we all love her. As for me, Kathy Keys Osborn, I continue my adventurous life. I am a chef (for my family), a race car driver (shuttling children for baseball to swimming to karate), a butler (serving the young royalty that live in my house) and a swashbuckler (you should see me wield a light saber or a MineCraft pick axe!) Mark and I are still in West Towson and all three of our kids are in elementary school now. Max is in fourth, Boomer is in second and Kate is in kindergarten. You’d think because they’re all gone all day that I’d have more free time. Well, I don’t because I’ve gone back to work as a preschool classroom assistant at Towson Presbyterian Preschool. We continue to have many adventures, like our pictured trip to the top of the Natty Boh building in Canton, our trips to Bethany Beach and our first planned trip to Disney World, Legoland and the other Florida parks tentatively scheduled for January 2014! Take care, Class of 1982, until we see each other again! (Next fall – when we’re flipping to the next decade?) Love to you all!

Class of 1983 Lisie Franklin Smith lisiefranklin@hotmail.com This update is very difficult to write with the recent passing of classmate Siobhan Sharkey.

She was the founding principal of Health Management Strategies, Inc., a healthcareconsulting group established in 1996. The entire Class of 1983 sorely misses her.

Whenever I think back to my days at RPCS I see Siobhan’s big smile. In my opinion she was the epitome of the Class of 1983. Julie Brown checked in from London reporting that life in London is good. She worked on a soap opera there for part of last year and continues to audition for various bits and bobs. She is still enjoying living in Europe as there are many places to visit and Paris is just two hours away by train. After living there for four and a half years, she feels pretty Europeanized with many friends from all over the world. She says that

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life continues to be an adventure! Another classmate found abroad is Sally Thorpe Curimbaba. She and her family have been living in Brazil for nearly two years. While Sally enjoys the tropical climate, she now looks forward to a month of cold weather in the U.S. to get a break (and, of course, to see friends and family). It appears they will be staying in Brazil for a while. In late 2012 they purchased a home in Holambra, a small town of about 10,000 in the state of Sao Paulo. It’s 30 minutes from Campinas, a city of two million. So they have most of what they need in a small distance. Sally is mainly busy working and getting her girls to and from school and activities. Without many of the conveniences she had in the U.S., she’s spending much more time on household duties than ever - to her dismay. However, she is also enjoying researching and learning how to do things herself. Can you believe she’s making her own laundry detergent? She hopes that in this third year she can have a little more leisure time to pursue some of her own interests. She still loves dancing and singing, also hiking, biking and kayaking. Maybe she will have something more interesting to write next year than how excited she was to receive her clothes dryer from the U.S. (after hanging clothes to dry for two years). One positive - she gets to see palm trees and parrots every day in Brazil, and an occasional toucan! Not so bad after all.

Traveling back to the states we find Martha Pritchard Spear who has moved with her family into the dorms at a boarding school in Lake Placid, NY. She shares that there is not much difference between raising hogs and house-parenting teenage boys; however, the boys are more polite than the pigs were. She misses her farmhouse, chickens and river, but now she has two lakes, loons and a village with church bells. Ivana Hrga-Griggs is still at Harvard and on Facebook; she undertook her annual winter break pilgrimage to her homeland; rediscovered why she loves Belgrade

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as much as she loves Baltimore and Boston (see the pattern w/ the B’s); found her heart, calm and peace without intending to; certified in blood she has the best friends on five continents and - got surprised that her 12 1/2 year old is taller than the old 5’8” Vanya. In Baltimore we find Alyson Lane Dietz who has decided she needed to make a career change to something steadier than photography, although she still does some of that when she has time. After a lot of soul searching, she decided to go back to school for nursing. She is taking prerequisite classes at CCBC, and believe it or not, she is not the oldest one in her classes! So far, school is going great. She joined Phi Theta Kappa (honor society), and got hired by CCBC as a supplemental instruction leader for a cell and molecular biology class. Hopefully, she’ll be in nursing school a year from now. She has been able to work it so that she is in school, and at work, while her two boys, (ages 11 and 7), are in school too, and home by the time they are done. They are also doing great, busy with sports, music, scouts and socializing. They were happy to visit with Sally Thorpe Curimbaba and her girls over the summer while she was in the U.S., and she got to catch up with a few other RPCSers at a Young Vic reunion, which was fun. Also in Baltimore is Ann Daniels. Her daughter Josie Kalbfleisch, 2023 is in second grade at RPCS and loving it. She is in the art, dance and drama after school clubs. She wishes RPCS went through college. Eric and Ann are pretty sure that will change when she hits about 13. Ann, Josie and her grandmother are off to Disney World for the first time at spring break. This year, Ann steps down as board chair of an education non-profit for middle school students. The organization, middlegradespartnership.org is great and has programs at many Baltimore public and independent schools. Eric is well and still doing IT work and his painting. Josie says she wants him to be a famous painter.

They have several originals in their house and know the Met will soon come knocking. At the moment he and Josie are creating a website www.josiesponyworld.com. She is hoping it is live by the time this goes to print. They are looking forward to a summer trip to either California or Colorado and seeing all of us at the reunion in October. Mary-Catherine Knipp Irving reports her son, Stephen, is a freshman at Sarah Lawrence College in NY and studying film and writing. Chris suffered a nasty concussion last October in soccer, but is finally on the mend. He chose to repeat ninth grade, as he missed most of last school year. Elizabeth is in eighth grade and plays field hockey nonstop. Mary-Catherine is still teaching first grade at McDonogh. She is now in her 24th year of teaching (scary thought). Rebecca

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Suzanne Doud Galli, 1983 as a guest of the Ministry of Gender and Equality during her trip to Korea

Schlott Redett is married to Rick with three kids in high and middle schools. They live in Mt. Washington from where Becky continues to commute downtown to work at Planned Parenthood. Guess the big news of the last few years is that she has discovered a love of biking and tries to ride whenever possible. Carol Hanson Breining has been at Mud and Metal in Hampden for 17 years. She reports the girls are awesome! Out of college and on their own.

She is a very lucky and grateful lady! Liza Ward Jarrett reports that their son, Bosley, is a freshman at Vanderbilt and working for the Vanderbilt newspaper as a photographer.

Their daughter, Bayly, is a junior at Garrison Forest and has just been recruited to play field hockey for Bucknell which they are super excited about. Liza is busy with www.lizabyrd. com participating in trunk shows around the country and filling her web site orders.

They had their best year ever in 2012.

Elizabeth Spencer Sutley says life is good and she continues to enjoy the simple pleasures of watching her children grow up. McKay is 18, a senior at St. Paul’s and headed to Elon this fall; Barrett is 15 and in ninth grade at McDonogh; Spencer is 13 and in seventh grade at Calvert; and Max is ten and in fourth grade at Calvert. They are awesome and keep a big, exhausted smile on her face! Reporting in from the Eastern Shore of Maryland is Merrie Miller DeLauder. Only two of her seven kids, Jimmy and Becci, have not flown the coop. The others are busy with their families, work and school.

They have given her two adorable grandsons ages seven and nine and a beautiful one-yearold granddaughter. Heather is a first year

third grade teacher in Glen Burnie, and Jessica is in grad school at Loyola pursuing her masters in psychology. Jim and Merrie celebrated their 27th anniversary in September. Wow! Julie Buchanan Salovaara says her news is about the same as last year.

She is enjoying living in Baltimore and working in DC. Life is full with Ellen in third grade and Jay in Pre-K. They are great kids and they feel very lucky. The highlight of Suzanne Doud Galli’s year was a trip to Korea as a guest of the Ministry of Gender and Equality. She attended a conference in Yeosu and met with Korean women from all over the world (and learned how to dance Gangnam style). The trip culminated with tea in the Blue House with the First Lady of Korea. While in Korea she had the opportunity to visit with family and participate in rhinoplasty surgery. She has been very active in the Asian community in DC as a founding member of the Jade Philanthropy Society. Their mission is to encourage and facilitate local philanthropy by Asian Americans in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Recently she presented on Healthcare Issues and Policy at the request of the Korean Consul General as a panelist for a conference for young Korean American leaders. So when she is working...she still has facial plastic surgery practices in DC and Northern Virginia.

Her daughters are 11, 11 and 15 and attend an all girls’ school (heeheehee). Lawrie Balfour and Chad have been in Charlottesville for almost 12 years, and are both teaching at UVA. (They are always happy to entertain the parents of would-be undergraduates!) Reid is in fifth grade and continues to love gymnastics and the flute - where those talents come from, nobody knows. The three of them are headed to semester-at-sea next summer where Lawrie will be teaching a course on Freedom, Slavery, and Empire, and Chad will offer a class on memory, while their floating classroom takes them around the Mediterranean. Aimee Westbrook continues to work slavishly at Facebook managing a few financial services accounts based on the west coast – specifically Visa, Wells Fargo and LendingTree, teaching them how to be interesting and how to not only talk to, but listen to their various constituencies. It is fast paced and fascinating. Her kids are aging far faster than is humanly possible, and certainly faster than she. Jackson, at 13 is in seventh grade and continues to love all things computer and gaming in addition to mastering his amazing red velvet cake recipe. Grace, at eight, is perfecting the fine art of getting anything she wants and Spencer, six, aka the third who must be heard, is eager to start playing ‘“real” baseball - matriculating out of tee ball. She reports that life is hectic and full but she loves

sneaking peeks at classmates’ worlds on a regular basis as one of the perks of her job is having Facebook as a home page! Rebecca Morton shared that life in Columbus is good.

She’s still teaching part time, and has now filled in the other part of her workday schedule: she’s developing micro artisan businesses for adults on the autism spectrum - it’s a terrific gig, but she has had to cut back on the tennis, so she will not be bringing any more garish electroplate trophies into the house for while.

C’est dommage. Kids are awesome: Lotte started driving, and Becca says she is ready!

Lucian is ten. They are both sweet and hilarious. David recently edited what they hope will become the definitive classroom edition of “She Stoops to Conquer,” which will forever in her mind be bound to Miss Kelly’s dramatic readings. So if any English teachers read this - request a desk copy from Broadview Press. And please, judge the book by its cover - it could not be more adorable.

Nancy Christianson Curry reports that she has no major updates, but stays busy with all three kids playing lacrosse in all three levels: high school, middle school and elementary. “Chris is coaching middle school lax and I’m just trying to get everybody where they need to be and dinner on the table four out of seven nights a week. :- Best news is that everyone is healthy and happy.” Finally for me, Lisie Franklin Smith, I am still teaching high school Spanish and ESL in rural America. I was fortunate to take a group of students to London and Paris for spring break this year.

My daughter, Shay, is enjoying skiing and volleyball, which I am sure, will change to swimming once the snow has melted. I would love to hear from everyone so please if you are in contact with anyone not included here, please ask them to forward an update to me.

Class of 1984 Linda Schaefer Cameron lindajschaefer@yahoo.com It was wonderful seeing many of you in February at the Alumnae Valentine’s Luncheon.

It appears that everyone is well and life is moving quickly! So jumping in, Anne Ward Angel, shares: In September of last year, I was promoted to Vice President of the residential division at Continental Realty Corporation. I have been with the company for 11 years. Betsy, 20 is at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA and loves it there. She is playing lacrosse and after a successful ankle surgery in October, she is ready and anxious to

Heather Stark Noyes, 1984’s daughter Lilah, 2016 in Tanzania at the Tumaini Orphanage.

get back out on the field. Jack is now in seventh grade at McDonogh and is loving life as well.

He is involved in Honors Choir and a musical called Superhero written by Mrs. Brune’s nephew - Jonathan Waller. Mary Caskey Gregory says: I am doing well, working at Brown Advisory. I see Darcy Christhilf Carroll, 1988 around the halls. Kids are well, Bridget is 11 and Farrell is nine at Calvert, and I love seeing classmates there, even if it’s just in passing in the driveway. I am looking forward to spring break, warm weather and no email.

Paradise! Heather Stark Noyes and her family are traveling to Cambodia and Vietnam on spring break, visiting Siem Reap, Cambodia and Angkor Wat. (How amazing! I can’t wait to see the photos) Lilah, 2016 is a freshman at RPCS and Hannah is a junior at Friends. Last year they traveled to a Tumaini Orphanage, located outside of Arusha. The orphanage cares for many children who have been orphaned because their parents have died from AIDS. Some of those children in there were also HIV positive themselves. Continuing the spring break update, Raquel Dureza Muneses, “took a cruise with my family and parents during Spring Break 2012, and had a great time and grateful for being able to spend time with family and parents before parents’ health issues surfaced that summer.” Leslie Rice Masterman reports: all is well in the Masterman family. All three kids Joe (11), Ali (9), and Mallory (7) are at St. Joseph’s School

in Cockeysville and are doing great. I’ve been busy volunteering at their school, working on my vegetable garden and trying to avoid speed traps as I schlep kids from this practice to the next. I haven’t bumped into too many fellow RPCS’ers lately except for Suzy Witmer Wolffe a few weeks ago who very sweetly led Ali’s Brownie troupe on a tour of the BMA. She was awesome, everyone loved her of course.For Debbie Elsnic Burgio, “the homeschooling journey is winding down. Tom is a freshman in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland. Elizabeth will be joining him as a Terp in the fall in bioengineering. I can’t believe it. It has been a great adventure for sure. Rob and I will be celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary this summer. Another hard-to-believe-it-is-here-already milestone!

Now to figure out what is ahead for me. I am still a Mary Kay beauty consultant, but my real passion has turned to family history/ genealogy. It can be quite addictive. I have inherited boxes and boxes of treasured family photos starting from around 1900. They need lots of love and attention. More Mayflower Society lines to verify. Much more research lays ahead and I can’t wait. Maybe this will be the year that book will be written. I am looking forward to seeing all of my classmates at the 2014 reunion” Kate Tubman Cameron says: A big year for the Camerons since my wonderful stepdaughter Kathryn Cameron, 2000 is getting married at our house in May. Her

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fiancé is Cris Jacobs, former front man of The Bridge, who is now with The Cris Jacobs Band.

Should be an amazing day! My two girls, Coco (9) and Kerry (11) are junior bridesmaids and are thrilled. They are still at Calvert School and love it. Lacrosse, guitar and tons of homework fill our days. Pat is nuts for his girls and really enjoys doing life all over again, though admits to being wiped out frequently! I am busy with family life and a few volunteer activities, including being on the RPCS Alumnae Board which I just adore. Enjoy bumping into classmates whenever I can; Helen Havard Harchick, Heather Stark Noyes, Mary Caskey Gregory, Eileen Talucci Mutch, Sallie Benninghoff Warren, Suzy Witmer Wolffe and, of course, Linda Schaefer Cameron! Pat and I are planning to take the kids to Wyoming this summer for their first taste of the west. Really looking forward to that since it’s one of our favorite places on the planet! Love to all. Beth Howard Gantt is “grateful to report that we are well and happy here – Drew is still commuting to DC, but has a relatively new job of heading the Health Care and Life Science Regulatory Practice at Cooley LLP. Will is finishing his last year at Friends and will be heading off to Bowdoin in the fall. I am very happy for him and so proud of him. Ben is in tenth Grade at Gilman; David is in seventh Grade at Friends; Molly is in fourth Grade at RPCS. They are thriving and I am a grateful mother for such great kids. I am on the job hunt and hope to report something new and exciting on my next class notes! Suzy Witmer Wolffe, is “the Manager of School Programs at The Baltimore Museum of Art and look forward to seeing her classmates’ kids on tours.” Let her know if you are visiting!

And for those closest to our alma mater, Kathleen Finnerty Curtis shares: I am working at RPCS in the Admissions office and love seeing everyone when they visit our campus. I can’t believe Fannon, 2013 is graduating from RPCS this June! She is headed to Auburn University next fall. Caitlin, 2015 is a sophomore and just received her RPCS class ring! Shelby is in sixth Grade at Odyssey and is in their spring musical, the Wizard of Oz. Lock is training for his fifth Ironman in Arizona this fall. Life is great.” Liz Law Meredith, also at RPCS, shares: I am still teaching First Grade at RPCS and loving it. I had the opportunity to work with Kate Tubman Cameron’s lovely girls at my camp this past summer. They were so great to work with - super nice and fun girls! My oldest daughter is a sophomore at Maryland and on their lacrosse team. My husband and I enjoy heading back to our old stomping grounds to cheer for her team! My younger daughter is a senior in high school and planning on heading off to college. Just as

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Raquel Dureza Muneses, 1984 enjoys a cruise with her family and parents

Barry and I will be having no one at home, we ended up with three Golden Retriever dogs, too funny! We enjoy them so much. Oh well, I guess we like having commotion in our house.

Unfortunately, my father passed away recently after a three month struggle with complications from cancer. We are all very sad, but are cherishing our wonderful memories of him and so thankful that my family is so close.”

Sallie Benninghoff Warren’s oldest daughter, (and my goddaughter), Blair, 2013 is graduating from RPCS this year, will be performing with her theater ensemble in three cities in Italy in June and is headed to Skidmore in the fall. Landon, 2015 (Kate’s goddaughter) is enjoying 10th Grade at RPCS, is running track and playing field hockey and will be working again as a counselor this summer at Friends Summer Camp. From sunny California, Brett Edwards Nausha shares: We are all well. My oldest son George is a freshman at the University of Colorado in Boulder and is having a great year. Will is a junior and is playing lacrosse for his high school. This is the school’s first year of having a team and they still have a lot to learn, but it is fun to watch.

It brings back memories of my high school years in Baltimore. Danny and I are both working and busy and having mixed feelings about being empty nesters. My niece Christine Vaile, 2013 is graduating from RPCS this June after 13 years!” Closest to the equator, Patty Ordonez is “an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus. I am teaching Introduction to Data Management this semester. I am trying to

start a research lab in biomedical infomatics. I love living in Puerto Rico!” And from far north, Kate Whitaker Chaplin says: We’re doing great in Maine – still on the island. Kids; Louise (11), Susannah (8) and Whitaker (8) are growing and involved and brilliant. My husband, Courtney, is still working hard and being an outstanding dad and husband. I had the privilege to visit Israel with my mom and sister - an amazing, unforgettable adventure.

Just before our trip, I had the opportunity to be in Baltimore and saw Kathleen Finnerty Curtis and her hubbie at the RPCS/Notre Dame Prep varsity indoor soccer championship.

Unfortunately, our girls suffered a brutal loss, but it was fun to be a part of the Reds’ spirit once again! One other RPCS incident: I work as a vacation rental agent in the Mt. Desert Island area, and got a call last spring from a nice young woman searching for a vacation home – turned out she was calling from the Baltimore area which of course got us chatting and mid-way through the conversation, I discovered that she was none other than Courtenay Rianhard’s sister, Anna Lincoln Rianhard Whitehurst! Love the small world.

Claire Danko Krause shares: We are still here in Ellicott City. Our oldest, Brian is a sophomore at Towson University, our middle Matt is a junior at Mount St. Joe’s and our daughter Kendall is in seventh Grade. They keep our schedule full! Just last week we went with Kendall’s lacrosse team to the Maryland vs. Penn State women’s lacrosse game and the girls all lined up for the MD team autographs.

After checking the MD roster I believe that she

got Liz Law Meredith’s daughter Mattie Meredith, 2011’s autograph!! Small world!”

From Caroline McKeldin Wayner: Life here in Tuxedo Park (that little neighborhood behind Eddie’s) is good! My husband works from home (programming computers and writing about technology), and I work three blocks north at the kids’ school, Roland Park Elementary/Middle, so we need only one car.

My job is part time, which is perfect for this stage of our lives. I’m the director of the Write Place writing center and run creative writing workshops, but also help kids with their writing process skills. I highly recommend that young writers use graphic organizers; just Google “graphic organizers for writing” to find some online. I’m also on a few boards: two local history groups, the RPEMS PTA and our neighborhood association. Claire is now in seventh Grade and is an avid birder! I took her to the Baltimore Bird Club’s annual meeting in January where we ran into the mother of Missy Sinwell Smith, 1981, and Julie Buchanan Salovaara, 1983’s mom and Mrs. Wyskiel!

Who knew there were so many birders with RPCS connections? My son Charlie, who is often called a “character” by his fourth Grade teachers, is a fishing, Lego and movie fanatic.

They are both lots of fun! And we are all fortunate that my parents are doing well and still living just a mile north of us on Roland Avenue. The kids are now old enough to walk to their house using the Stony Run Trail. And Amanda Schlott Lietman shares: I have two 15 and a half year olds with driving permits. So far, we’ve had run-ins with curbs, a drivethrough window ledge, a pole, our other car (parked) and the side of the garage, but none with the law, so all is well here in Chagrin Falls, OH! Lastly, for me, all is well. Dennis and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last fall with a trip back to Banff Canada, where we honeymooned, with part of the wedding party. Dennis has retired as the VP and Chief Counsel of Northrop Grumman’s ES sector and is enjoying life setting up our new vacation home, and preparing to play a lot more golf! We are taking a trip to Germany and Switzerland this summer – a Rhine River

Children of Anne Callard Pilson, 1985

cruise which I am looking forward to. I am still working with CCS (Fundraising Co.), as a Corporate Vice President in the Mid-Atlantic region, and love working with the amazing organizations in Baltimore and Washington area on their capital and endowment campaigns. The family is well. Next year is another big reunion! Take care. P.S. We are missing email addresses from approximately one-third of the class, so please be sure to share your address with the Alumnae Office.

Thanks.

Class of 1985 Lenka Hopkins Nolan hnolan@cba.ua.edu Missi Bowman has a new King Charles Spaniel puppy - #3! His name is Winston and lives with Missi in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Missi has done some traveling this year. She went to Key West for Easter and will head to the Greenbrier Resort in June to celebrate her niece’s fifth grade graduation! She sends all her best wishes to our class. Caitlin Nass is happily settled in Rhode Island and just finished her first year at the VA Hospital in Providence. She has enjoyed two mini-reunions with Marcie Schein Randall and Ann Zeitung Lombardi since moving there. Jamye Siegel Stern says: Experiencing my daughter Sydney, 2016, winning the middle school music award today was awesome. However, watching a student receive the Echo Award which was created in memory of our beloved classmate Sarah Wood was equally emotional. Sarah’s memory lives on at RPCS! Nitya Lydia Griffith writes: I just read through the latest edition of Connections and it always makes me reminisce about those early RPCS days - so many wonderful memories. I had a little visit with Beth Murphy Darrell last weekend and it is get togethers like that which remind me how important it is for us to stay in touch. Our thoughts go out to Rachel Burgunder Hoch who lost her mother this spring. I ran into Jenny Stuelpnagel Hovermill in New Orleans! What a wonderful surprise. She was on spring break with her family and we were enjoying a long weekend with some of our Baltimore cousins in the Big Easy. She looks fab and has recently taken a clerkship in Annapolis. Anne Callard Pilson reports: It has only taken almost 30 years, but I finally may have something newsworthy to report. This year, my family and I have stepped out of the rat race and gone a little off the grid. Yearning to temporarily escape

Bridget Brennan, 1985 and Rebecca Moses Loughlin, 1985 in Atlanta

the crush of homework, sports practice, my part-time work, not to mention the cost of private school for three kids, my husband and I decided to homeschool our kids for a year.

Using trusty Calvert School as our educational compass, we have spent the year together, at a slower pace and with the luxury to travel where and when we please. God bless our three kids - Isabelle (13), Nate (11) and Phin (10) - for having the patience and faith that this experiment would have upside and not just be an exercise in social alienation. The year has been an incredible ride with the obvious highlights being a trip to London and a sailing adventure in the BVI’s. But honestly what has been most rewarding for everyone has been the small day-to-day interactions and the insights we have gained on one another and the world around us. Originally, I had hoped to use this year to make sure that everyone had all the tools they needed in their toolbox and to be sure that we had a handle on each of our kids

Lenka Hopkins Nolan, 1985’s children

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Class of 1987 25th Reunion Cindy Kerr Salmond 1987 cksalmond@gmail.com

The Murphy Legacy Team at the Red Hot Run

and that they had a handle on us and what we expected of them. The proof will be in the pudding some 20 years from now, but suffice it to say, that I, as a mother and teacher, will treasure this year as one of the most magical and wonderful in memory. Rebecca Moses Loughlin and Bridget Brennan caught up at the RPCS Alumnae Dinner in Atlanta recently. Ann Zeitung Lombardi checked in saying modestly that she has nothing to report - however, being her FB friend, I know she has been busy with her beautiful children, husband and traveling worldwide! Lisa Fitzhugh is still in Seattle, but she’s moving from where she’s lived for the last 13 years and she doesn’t know where she’s landing! Doesn’t matter, she says. Another adventure. She’s still challenging the status quo inside public institutions mostly, and just created a new film describing her work, check it out on her website. (www.creativegroundhq. com). We can’t wait to see what Lisa does next! Beth Murphy Darrell is thriving in her Real Estate Business at Prudential PenFed, with a concentration in Corporate Relocation.

She writes: finally back in our home nine months after the June Derecho caused a huge tree to fall through roof, damaging over 60%.

Carlisle, 2016 is a freshman at RPCS and thriving thanks to their very supportive faculty and staff. Jack will be graduating from St. Paul’s this year and heading to Hobart in the fall. David and I will celebrate his birthday and 20+ years together, during a May trip to Paris and Monaco, which he was awarded by his Company. All is well and we feel very fortunate and blessed! Hugs to all of my RPCS cronies! As for me, Lenka, I am in my 11th

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year as faculty at The University of Alabama’s Business School. My coauthors and I just finished a paper that examines renewable energy use by top U.S. firms and how it affects firm financial performance. Turns out these top renewable energy purchasing firms outperformed their peers in key financial indicators! So, I am headed to Copenhagen in June to present a paper at the Copenhagen Business School at a sustainability themed conference. Hoping to bring the whole family for some cooler, summer fun! I know RSCS is doing great things with their efforts, too!

Wishing everyone a wonderful year!

We are all running with our busy lives, but a few of us managed to send in some updates.

Hope everyone is well out there and we look forward to hearing from you soon! It was good to hear that much fun was had at the reunion and I have included a photo sent in

by Laura Killebrew Finney. Elisabeth Dahl: My first book Genie Wishes, a story about fifth Grade (highs, lows, and hamster erasers) from class blogger Genie’s perspective, comes out in April 2013 from Abrams Books. My son is an eighth grader, taller than me, and very kind, unless you’re one of the enemy zombie-robots (or whatever) in his current video game. Oh, and the class reunion? All our classmates seem like “new and improved” versions of their former selves. We are wearing age well. Adena Testa: We moved to a new house, still in the DC area. We spent some time updating a 100-year-old house - fun and frustrating all at the same time. I am still at Carlyle, and I am thoroughly enjoying my job (most days). We took the firm public last year, which made for a very busy year. Our boys are now 17 (Luke) and 15 (Logan). Luke has his driver’s license - scary - and he is starting to go through the college selection process scarier! Logan is a freshman and enjoying the start of his high school experience. Overall life is good! Laura Killebrew Finney: My husband Michael and I still have a store in Stevenson

25th Reunion for the Class of 1987 at Laura Killebrew Finney’s home

Former RPCS faculty Myra Goldgeier and Anne Heuisler with Nicole Ari Parker, 1988

called Yoicks, where we still sell equestrian paintings, bronzes, Barbour coats and men’s clothing. Ralston (12) just switched to GFS from Calvert this year and loves it! She’s in the same class with Pam Petry Ward’s daughter, Madeline. Kris Sotir Martinson: I am still a Realtor at Long & Foster and happy to report that the market is improving. Most exciting event over the past year is that my entire family went to the London Olympics. It was incredible and we were able to see the U.S. Women’s’ Soccer team take home the gold medal! Cindy Kerr Salmond: I recently left my job at Shock Trauma and am now directing the Acute Pain Management Service at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. My new boss was especially excited when I announced, six weeks into my position that I needed time off to travel to Paris with my mother and daughter!

As of this writing, I am editing a manuscript for publication relating to my thesis from my doctoral program for publication later this spring.

Casey Lord Briggs, 1991 (left) and Nancy Lord Lewin, 1989 (right) with their mother Lindy Lord and daughters Lindy Briggs, Violet Lewin and Nina Lewin at the Red Hot Run

Mindy Rose McCue, 1991 and son Liam

Class of 1991 Lisa Caldroney Schline lschline@verizon.net It is once again my great pleasure to report that the Class of 1991 has had another year of continued happiness and success. April Britton Fahr is associate director in the Global Investigations & Compliance practice of a consulting firm where her focus is on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. Her work takes her all over including Toronto and London but she does most of her commuting to the NY/NJ area.

Her kids are doing great: Caitlin, 2017, is 13 and in the eigth Grade at RPCS and Jordan, 18, finished Gilman last year and is now a freshman at Johns Hopkins where he plans to major in Physics. During her free time from work, April likes to spend as much time as she can with her kids, traveling with Caitlin for soccer all over the mid-Atlantic to NY, NC, NJ and VA. Patricia Burt has good news to share – she just accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Music at Valparaiso University in Indiana. She says she had a very happy year teaching and researching at Illinois Wesleyan and has found much to her surprise, that she loves the Midwest. Karen Cecil Sauers reports that not much has changed since last year - she still lives in Alexandria, VA with her husband, Bill, and their two boys – Will, nine, and Sam, six. Karen spends a lot of time volunteering at her sons’ school

and being their personal taxi for all of their various activities. She also volunteers at a local homeless shelter, serving lunch to the residents and working on fundraising efforts.

Christina Culotta Celebi is a stay-at-home mom for her three little ones, Sophie, five, Alex, three, and Oliver, one, who keep her busy around the clock. She and her family left Baltimore last year to enjoy the quiet life up in Hanover, PA, and so far they really love it.

All is well with Emily Holmes McCarthy and her family. She had a baby boy in July, named Ronan, who she says is a sweet baby and has very proud brothers and sisters. The arrival of Ronan makes a total of six McCarthy children! Emily’s stepdaughter heads off to college this summer and they are taking a family vacation to Ireland to send her off.

Amy Janofsky Miller celebrated her son Jake’s first birthday in late December. Amy says he adores playing with his big sister, Emma, six, who is in kindergarten. Amy continues her work as an attorney defending shareholders’ rights, while her husband renovates buildings in Brooklyn and converts them into condos.

They are looking forward to a spring break trip in Paris! Casey Lord Briggs and her family continue to live in Roland Park and all the kids are doing great: Emily, Lindy and Sam are enjoying being together at Calvert School, and Will began preschool two mornings a week which he absolutely loves. Casey says life is certainly busy with all of the sports and other activities, but it is so fun to watch the kids doing what they love. Casey continues to be home full-time and enjoys various volunteer opportunities. “I end my term on the

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Class of 1992 20th Reunion Laura Thompson Jacobson laura.thompson.jacobson@gmail.com

Lisa Caldroney Schline, 1991 with her family in OC, MD

RPCS Alumnae Board in June which will be bitter sweet as I have had fun reconnecting with other alumnae and being more involved at RPCS. Erik continues to work as a sales trader and is still astounded at the amount of food the kids can eat. We can’t imagine what it will be like when they are teenagers!”

Sarah Mumford Peacock and her family are happily living in Colorado. Both of her sons are in school full day, and Sarah teaches parttime at their school. Sarah shares that she finally bought some snow shoes so she can try to enjoy the Colorado winters as much as she does the other seasons. Julie Rider Waldron is happily married with three kids: Frankie, nine, Lila, seven and Millie, six. Julie is living in Lutherville and working part time for Baltimore County Infants and Toddlers program, a free service to support children birth-5 and their families with medical diagnoses or developmental delays. Mindy Rose McCue has big news for this year: they are moving to Richmond, VA this summer, where they will be learning a new city and the kids will be starting new schools this fall.

Mindy says that her sons, Conor, 12, Thomas, 10, and Liam, 7, are nervous but excited for the changes ahead! Mindy is sad to leave MD but also looking forward to this new adventure for her family. Melissa Stark Lilley and her family are still living in NJ, where she is trying to balance work - hosting a weekly show on NFL Network, her four kids – Mikey, Jackson, Clara and Clementine and managing social media with her new twitter account. Melissa shares: “the kids are at a great stage – still young and

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innocent and want to be with Mike and me, but out of the baby stage, so they can actually make their own breakfast and get themselves dressed. I want to freeze them!” Greer Yeaton Wortman is enjoying her continuing work in NYC in the television industry. The show she worked on for five years, Damages, wrapped production last year, and since then she has worked on a pilot for HBO, and is currently working on a pilot for FOX starring Jason Ritter. She and her husband, Jonah, are restoring their brownstone in Brooklyn near Prospect Park, and love living in an old house, although they sometimes feel like they may never finish it. Greer spent the holidays with her family in Amsterdam this year, and was able to squeeze in a couple of Ravens games on her travels back home to Baltimore. The Schline family had a great year: Both kids are now in school full-time at Jacksonville Elementary – Hannah is in third Grade and continuing her pursuits in art and dance and Harrison is in Kindergarten and obsessed with all things sports. Don continues to enjoy his work in Commercial Real Estate Investment Sales at Mackenzie, and I am happy to be at home and volunteering at school and for the kids activities. The biggest change in our life is that we now get to spend our summers at our beach condo in a very colorful area of Ocean City near 13th street. The kids love swimming and boogey-boarding and it has been great fun for the whole family! It has been a joy to put together these notes and to get to stay in touch with RPCS classmates. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2013!

Lisa Wagner Macnew writes: Really not much new to report, still living outside SF, doing a little HR consulting on the side, and hanging with the kids who are now six (Ronan) and nine (Miya). I still see Lauren Currie Uppington and Ann Torres. Sad Amanda Rothwell McConnon has left the Bay area. I still love to travel, and will be coming back east for a few weeks this summer. Hope all is well. Melissa Bristow Carter-Bey shares exciting news: I am going back to work, back to teaching. After nine years of raising three kids, I am ready for the challenge! I will be teaching second grade at RPCS, as Sydney, 2023 will be going into third grade there. My two boys are four and six, enjoying school and loving just being boys! Vic and I are still in Lutherville and things are pretty good right now. My best to everyone! Courtney Pippen writes: I received my master’s (my second) of public policy from American University in December. In January, I started a new job at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services helping implement the Affordable Care Act. Other than professional news, I’m just ready for summer to get here or at least some consistent warm weather. Hope all is well! Kim Bogue Barbaro writes: After four years of graduate school and a year spent subbing around the area, I landed my first fulltime teaching job (and first job post children after a ten year hiatus) this fall. I am teaching sixth grade math/science in Winnetka, IL. I am challenged and engaged by my students daily and it is a nice corollary to my parenting.

Maryam Zamani, 1992’s children

a new position at Apple. Megan Palmer Sivera’s daughter, Sophie, recently turned one and the family is still in the NYC area. As for me, Laura Thompson Jacobson, I just wrapped up my first full year as an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Central Connecticut State University. It was a whiz banger, but I survived. The kids are doing great, all three learned to ski this winter and I got my first year with ten+ days on the mountain since long before I had kids. After teaching winter term, I am really excited to take the summer off. We’re headed to Europe for the kids’ first trip out of the country and we’re all really excited. Otherwise it is soccer, soccer and more soccer around here.

Class of 1993 Alice Chung Cootauco, 1992 and Courtney Pippen, 1992 at the Mt. Washington Happy Hour

Benjamin (age 10), Henry (age 8) and Spencer (age 4.5) all think it is pretty cool that their mom is a teacher. I don’t know how long that will last-but I will take it for now! We are still settled in Evanston, IL in the same house we have been in for the last ten years. As Frank and I both turn 40 this year, we are planning a birthday trip to Portland, OR in June and will relish some time away from the daily hustle and bustle of our lives at home. We look forward to spending three weeks in Averill, VT this summer where we have been going every summer since my childhood. It is fun to watch our children enjoying the same activities I did as a kid. History repeats itself :) Maryam Zamani reports: Casper is four, Lily is two and we are still in London. I just started my private practice in November and it’s been fun working part time. We made two trips to the states to see family and friends; once to Baltimore and DC and the other to Fisher Island. I am sad I missed the reunion, but it just couldn’t happen.

I did get to see Lisa though last spring when they came to London. And of course Parveen Saluja Dhillon and the family. We are looking forward to a nice summer holiday in the Greek islands. Michelle Farrell Webb is knee deep in school and sports with her four boys. Every time I talk to her, she is going to school or on a sideline somewhere! It is very busy. Joe (8) had his first communion this spring, which was exciting. Amanda Rothwell McConnon has moved with her husband and two boys to New Jersey from the Bay area. Ann Torres got married and has a new daughter, Syndey and

Muffy Menton Fenwick fenwicks@gmail.com It’s been a busy year as the Class of 1993 welcomes seven new (and two almost-new) babies into the world! Welcome Liam Gunn, Milo Makowka, Bailey Murphy, Anna Clark, Olivia and Liam LaNasa, Noam Adams and soon-to-be babies Ballweg and McCormick. A huge congratulations to their moms, Margie Fink Gunn, Natasha Markowski Makowka, Carla Bailey Murphy, Brady Beale Clark, Megahn Hallahan LaNasa, Jessica Wilson Adams, and moms-to-be, Anne Plowden Ballweg and Colleen McCormick!

Ticket from Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993’s Cabaret

Classmates from 1993 join Betsey for her cabaret, (l to r) Katy Spencer, Muffy Menton Fenwick, Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, and Whitney Fenwick Wasson

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as the sultry voice in many a TV spot. Also in New York is Anne Zink Blachman whose precious twins, Jane and Nathalie, just turned two. In Brooklyn, Alex Meier Broenniman is a busy mom to adorable daughters, Charley and Scarlett. Across the globe, Julie Hackett just celebrated her birthday in Luanda, Angola. She continues to marvel us all with her incredible travels. This year, I, Muffy Menton Fenwick, also made a career change and began teaching Pre-First at Bryn Mawr – a fun new challenge that has taught me a lot of patience! Annie (10) and Charlie (9) continue to also teach me patience and keep me very busy, and very happy. Thanks to all of you who submitted notes. It is always so good to hear from you!

Class of 1994 Rita Beyer Buettner, rfbeyer@juno.com Anne Plowden Ballweg, 1993’s baby shower (front row) Katy Spencer, Margie Fink Gunn, Kelly Carden Grieger (back row) Natasha Markowski Makowka, Melissa Ladenson DeLong, Melanie Diaz Dodson, Anne Plowden Ballweg, Jessica Wilson, Philana Ng Murphy

In addition to babies, many of you have exciting career changes. Juliet Randall Fisher wrote that after seven years of being a mediator and arbitrator, she will now be practicing law with a new focus on divorce and domestic matters and will drafting. While still showcasing her amazing talents as a photographer, Whitney Fenwick Wasson has opened a studio in Wyndhurst Village where she can expand her business and shoot clients in her new space. It has all the creative touches that make Whitney so coveted. Betsey Swingle Hobelmann continues to help Whitney when she is not juggling her many remarkable volunteer and philanthropic endeavors for RPCS, Calvert and the BSA. Betsey has recently embarked on a new venture, helping to create and launch a charter school in Baltimore for underprivileged boys. In the meantime, she also managed to wow a packed house at Germano’s restaurant for a two-show solo cabaret. As many in the RPCS community can attest, she was truly amazing – and even revived some numbers from our Middle School musical! Carroll Knott McGill became certified as a barre instructor and now teaches at Lynne Brick’s in Belvedere. If you are not afraid of a little pain, she would love to have you for a class.

Rumor has it she is tough though! Carter Arnot Polakoff and Katy Spencer continue to work in Development. Carter just successfully completed her fourteenth Expressions for

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the Baltimore School for the Arts where she is directs the Development Office. As usual, the event was a huge success and a wonderful showcase of the exceptional talent at the school.

It was great to catch up with Katy Spencer who joined her RPCS Development colleagues for Betsey’s cabaret. Anne Roche continues to light up New York City and can be heard

Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993 and her daughter at the Red Hot Run

You have to love that Erin Greenwood cared enough about whether I met the deadline for class notes that she emailed me shortly before heading to the hospital to meet her new baby.

And she even had her husband, Sam Goff, write to let me know that it is a boy, in Walnut Creek, CA! The adorable Ian James is taking names from his father and maternal grandfather. Ian was welcomed home by Cal, “our Super-Kitty,” and by the time you read this, he may already be a fan of watching Homeland with his parents. On the edge of her seat as she waited to meet Ian was Rachel Kowal Pedersen, who threw a baby shower for Erin. Rachel and her husband, Greg, live in Sonoma, CA, with Isabel, (3), and Eric, (1), who love to hold hands while they are riding in the car. Rachel works 15 minutes from home for Athleta as art director. Rachel writes: Just trying to grasp being a better mother and better employer. They should have taught us that at RPCS instead of physics, since I can’t seem to do either one of my jobs well these days! Rachel sees Megahn Hallahan LaNasa, 1993 and spent time with her twins in Mexico last March. But you don’t have to go all the way to Mexico to see Rachel. She’d love to have you visit wine country! And we are planning to use wine and anything else we can think of to coax you to come back for our 20th Reunion in October 2014. Rebecca Ward is back on the east coast. She writes: Dave, Lucy and I have moved again with the Army and we are now living in the Bethesda area. Lucy started Kindergarten a year early and is blossoming as a student! She had a great time hanging out with Shannon Doyle Pope, 1995

Ashley Lanahan, 1994’s two children, Golden and Emelia

on the drive to RPCS for the Traditional Upper School Christmas Program. Since our move I have gotten a chance to reconnect with Sarah Brumfield. She lives very close to me and we have been able to meet for lunch a few times. Her baby is precious. We even drove to Baltimore for the Ravens Super Bowl Parade (and met up with Judah Adashi, Gilman, 1994)! I am in the middle of transitioning to a position at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and still running with Wear Blue Run to Remember. I ran the Marine Corps Marathon in 2012 wearing blue to honor the service and sacrifice of American military members and their families. If anyone is interested in running in blue, please

Ashley Lanahan, 1994’s daughter, Emelia, in Ravens gear.

Lesley Whitten Armstrong, 1994 and family in Disney World

contact me! Dave is in the middle of the first year of his second residency. After finishing two deployments in Afghanistan he decided to change from internal medicine to ophthalmology - what a leap! Oh, and we adopted Frank the Cat. And Ny Kenya-Chamberlain is my hairdresser and we had a great time at her daughter’s eighth birthday party! Jerome Jackson and Sarah Brumfield’s daughter, Fiona Alexina, is still looking forward to her first birthday since she was born just a few hours before the derecho storm passed through Maryland. Sarah writes: In the movie version she will be born just as the power goes out in the hospital and I will be played by Angelina Jolie. Sarah was able to take leave from her job as a reporter for the Associated Press until mid-April, when she returned to work in the Baltimore office. Nick and Sara Speert Edelstein were hoping for good weather - or at least no storm causing power outages - for the birth of their first child, due April 11. No word yet on whether “Swee’ Pea” is a boy or a girl, but what won’t surprise us will be the sure-to-be-exquisite photos of Baby Edelstein since Sara has such an amazing eye. Her photography business continues to thrive in Atlanta. And if Sara had been at New York City’s Fashion Week this year, maybe we would have a photo of Ashley Olsen wearing a coat Whitney Bedford collaborated on with the Row Resort 2013.

When she isn’t hanging out with celebrities, Whitney is spending her birthday with Ashley Lanahan and working on art projects for Sao Paulo, Auckland, New York City and Hong Kong. She writes: Hope that the summer will

be quieter in my new house by the beach. Not likely enjoying much quiet at her house is Abbe Creaney, who writes that her fifth child, Ronan, “is not the sleepingest baby ever.”

Despite not sleeping in close to two years, Abbe is busy building her private acupuncture practice. And I wish I could say it was her lack of sleep that led her to write that Jojo, 2017, is starting high school - high school? - at RPCS next year, but I fear it is all too true. What fun to have Jojo at RPCS, but it’s so hard to believe Abbe’s sweet baby girl is going to be a high

Melissa Cully Anderson, 1994’s three children Chase, Liam and Mairin

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Children of Rita Beyer Buettner, 1994, Maureen Beyer Moser, 1990 and Marny Helfrich, 1990 (l to r) Gregory Moser, Michael Buettner, Paul Moser, Louis Buettner, Julia Moser, Mary Moser and Gracie Helfrich

school freshman next year. As an RPCS parent again, Abbe is going to run into plenty of classmates. Gina Pizza’s daughter, Livia, is in the Preschool 3s at RPCS and loves it. Gina writes: We went to the Alumnae Valentine Lunch this past Tuesday and saw Mallory Schofield Branson, Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, Catherine Passano McDonnell, and their girls.

In January, Liv and I went to Disney World.

She fell madly in love with Goofy and followed him around the Magic Kingdom. We had a great trip. Looking forward to the trip of a lifetime are Bret and Virginia Hodges Jeffery, who have at last sold their house in New Zealand and bought a Warwick 50-foot boat to travel the world. Before they embark on that journey, however, they are looking forward to another adventure: parenthood.

Virginia writes: Bret and I are expecting a little girl in mid-June. And although Virginia had a vivid nightmare in which Melissa Cully Anderson was using a stopwatch at a class

Children of Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, 1994, Alex, Lindsay, Evan and Owen

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party so she wouldn’t spend more than five minutes with any classmate, Melissa didn’t seem particularly rushed when I saw her and Chris and their daughters, Chase and Mairin (6), and their new baby boy, Liam, born last April. By the time I met Liam in November he was already 30 pounds - and so, so cute. Also growing unbelievably fast are Peggy Boutilier Williams’ children, Tommy (8) Tyler (6) and Emmy (4) who also met up with us to see Santa and model trains the day after Thanksgiving.

She writes: Enjoyed our mini reunion where the kids now completely run the show and outnumber us at Kenilworth Mall. When Peggy isn’t busy dealing with yet another power outage in Charlottesville, VA - which seemed to be the snowstorm capital of the midAtlantic this past year - she is volunteering at school, church, a hospital fundraiser, playing tennis, watching Tommy convince his class to cheer for the Baltimore Ravens and getting inducted into the Virginia State Lacrosse Hall of Fame. On her way into the Kids’ Birthday Cake Makers Hall of Fame is Kim Shuey Hackman, who posts the most amazing photos of the creative cakes she makes for her children - Kiersten, Lance and Brooke. Because running after her children apparently wasn’t enough of a challenge, Kim ran a half-marathon in Wilmington, NC, and as she ran, she thought about Ms. Dwyer, her fifth grader teacher and cross-country coach who taught her the basics of long-distance running. Kim writes: I barely finished those three-mile races back in high school. Never thought I’d run 13.1! Kim is

super excited that her sister, Meredith Shuey, 1996 is getting married in Martha’s Vineyard in June. After their trip to Disney World this year, the Hackmans could compare notes with the Armstrong family. Lesley Whitten Armstrong writes: We have been keeping very busy with our three girls! The Armstrong Family just returned from our first big trip to Disney World with our princesses. It was so magical at this age - with Graysen and Courtlyn (4) and celebrating Finley’s seventh birthday while at the Magic Kingdom. We got to experience so many wonderful attractions.

It was one of the best vacations we have ever had! There is something so nostalgic, yet heartwarming when seeing the smile and excitement the faces of your own children. We are looking forward to another summer at our beach house, and by fall our sweet twins will be starting kindergarten, as Finley moves on to second grade! Oh my, they grow up so fast!

Also growing quickly is Kathleen Slingluff Wyatt’s son, Sean (3). Kathleen writes: Sean is still all about hockey, although he now takes breaks for football. I’m excited that my first scientific article will be published in April. I’m also very excited that Adam’s Irish band, the ShamRogues, is starting to do very well especially in the Baltimore area and they will be doing a two-week tour in Ireland this summer. I encourage everyone to look them up a catch a show. It’s a ton of fun. Everything is keeping us very busy! Keeping Kimberly Ford busy is her daughter, Tanner, who just started Kindergarten. Kim writes: I still love teaching art to kids through adults. My little girl is into singing and dancing and loves art - lucky me!

Hopefully feeling lucky to be back in Baltimore

Erin Greenwood, 1994 and her newborn son, Ian James Goff

Erin Greenwood, 1994 and Rachel Kowal Pedersen, 1994

after living in Europe for a few years are Alan and Melissa Riepe Cranston and their two sons, who moved back from Geneva to Baltimore in 2012. Now that they’re back in town, maybe the Cranstons will see Vanessa Bliss, who lives with her family near Patterson Park. She writes: Caspar (2) and so sweet. I love being a mom. Loving motherhood in Westchester County, NY, is Katherine Gary Foley, who relocated there with her husband, Michael, and their daughter, Brigid, almost two years ago. Katherine writes: We love it up here, but miss Baltimore. Not necessarily missing Baltimore is Emily Brendler Shoff, who is teaching seventh and eighth grade humanities classes at the Telluride Mountain School, while also doing freelance writing and trying to keep up with my little ripper skier girls, Siri (6) and Quincy (3). Escaping the cold March weather of Chicago in March was Brent McCallister Gamse who was headed to Florida for spring break with Mac and their three children when we exchanged emails on Brent’s birthday. Singing a different tune is Sarah Berger, whose voice you can hear in a variety of the classiest and most distinguished venues in Baltimore, including at my sister Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001’s wedding at the Baltimore Basilica in November. Sarah and her husband, Ruediger, and big brother, Jonathan (3) welcomed baby Sebastian, who was born in October. Our class expert on writing books for young readers is our author Caroline Smith Hickey, who offered a “Writing for Children Boot Camp” in RPCS’s Kaleidoscope program

in March. Also in the market for children’s books are Meghan Donnelly Slocum and her husband whose daughter, Caroline James Slocum, was born in September, and Giti Dhillon and her husband, whose son, Rikhil Jolepalem, was born in January. If Meghan and Giti are looking for a classmate with a bit of parenting experience - and the largest collection of children’s books outside (and maybe inside) a library, they should contact Lisa DiLonardo Lyman. Lisa and Brian and their children, Alex, Lindsay, Evan and Owen, are living in Sherwood Forest, just outside Annapolis, where photos of the Lyman children always show them posed beautifully, often in coordinated outfits. Of course, it’s her Scrabble scores I envy the most. For Halloween the Lyman children all dressed up as teeth.

Putting some teeth in her nursing career is Audrey Lucas, who is halfway through nursing school and who traveled to Argentina - for fun, not for school - during 2012. Having fun and working at the same time is Sarah Macsherry Huculak, who changed positions from Johns Hopkins to Patient First at Greenspring Station in the summer of 2011, and, she writes: It’s been a great thing for my family. I’m there three very long days but home so much more with the three kids. Joey just restarted his career in the Howard County Fire Department after retiring from the Baltimore City Fire Department. Shanita Leake Chase’s youngest son, Daniel (3) might be interested in hearing more about Joey Huculak’s job.

Shanita and Dennis and their three children

were moved to their new home in Howard County in March. And marching up the aisle in November was my baby sister, Treasa Beyer, 2001, who married George Matysek, who writes, dances, makes pierogies and won his house after buying a $10 raffle ticket back in 2001. The newlyweds were lucky enough to have a beautiful wedding day, a truly dedicated matron of honor to give their toast (but enough about me), and now they are living and baking pies in Owings Mills in the house George won.

If we’re lucky, they’ll join us and Maureen Beyer Moser, 1990, and Shaileen Beyer, 1991, and the rest of the Beyer clan for a trip to Rehoboth Beach this summer, where the adults will run to keep up with my parents’ 11 grandchildren, including the youngest, William, who was born to my brother Ricky and sister-in-law Christina in September. Also new to our circle of friends this year is Gracie Helfrich, whose mother, Marny Helfrich, 1990, adopted her from China in February 2012. Gracie (4) our sons, Louis (5) and Michael (3) consider her a cousin - and fantastic fun. John and I, Rita Beyer Buettner, are living in Catonsville, MD, and thoroughly enjoying the world of superheroes and vehicles and songs and stories that our boys have added to our lives. In my longest run in any job (except being our Class Rep, I suppose), I’m editing the magazine for Loyola University Maryland. Last year I started a blog on adopting and parenting called “Open Window” on The Catholic Review’s website.

And my mother will be upset if I don’t tell you that the blog won an award from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association.

And your mother will be upset if I didn’t mention you in these class notes - or say enough about you. So if you’re not on Facebook, maybe one of your parents is. And if you or they friend me, maybe I won’t be scrambling to gather news next year at this time. Of course, chances are I will. But at least we’ll have our 20th (gulp) Reunion to look forward to in the Fall of 2014. I hope to see you all there!

Rachel Kowal Pedersen, 1994’s little ones, Isabel and Eric

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Class of 1995 Grace Kim gracejkim@gmail.com Hi everyone, as usual it was so great to hear from you! On to the news! Eleanor Cordi writes: I got married this summer to Matt Hauptly in Baltimore. Anne Chemers Sperling and my sister Sarah Cordi, 1993 were in the wedding and Molly Christhilf Finnegan, Kim Mitchell Wolff, Emmie Mink Frank, Cameron Proctor Amirault, and Kellie MacDougall Lawler were all there to celebrate. It was a gorgeous day. Matt and I still live in Boulder, CO and I continue working as a veterinary technician at a small animal hospital called Pet Menders. Heather Winter Theissen: my update is that I got married December 1 in Baltimore.

Tori Fingles, Ginnie Plitt Teti, Kristen Creticos and my sister Holly Winter, 1992 were in the bridal party and Cary Zink Kassouf, Leighton Hyde, Christine Lusk Jones and Michelle Willats Wetzel were guests attending! Too bad we missed that photo! I am living in San Francisco and was able to transfer my same job in NYC – vice president and assistant general counsel at News Corporation – to our San Francisco office. I reconnected with Linda Rothemund Wells out here which has been fun - jogging partners and socializing. Cary Zink Kassouf writes: The past few months have brought lots of change, the most exciting of which is in July, Mark and I welcomed our first child into the world (a baby boy named Zachary)! He has bright red hair just like his daddy and has been so much fun! We moved to Baltimore and bought our first house. And finally, I started a new job as a neuroscientist at the newly founded Lieber Institute for Brain Development which is privately funded, but part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. We call 2012 our “year of transition” and are thankful to have survived! We are happily settling into what seems like a whole new life. Kathleen Carmody Franz: I am still a nurse in the ER. I just gave birth to our second child three weeks ago. It was a boy! So now we have Grace (2) and Seamus (3 weeks). It’s been wonderful!

Things in the Wolff household continue to be busy for Kim Mitchell Wolff with her sons (3), (4) and (6) running around. She writes: The kids are involved in swimming and soccer in addition to school. Our oldest, Mitchell, is in kindergarten at Boys’ Latin. Our middle child, Lincoln, will attend Boys’ Latin next year in kindergarten. The youngest, Nolan, is in the 2s program at the Redeemer Parish Day School.

The big accomplishment this winter was that our house became diaper free! On the work

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Rebecca Smoot Anderson, 1995 and her husband with son Matthew Benjamin

front, I was promoted to VP for Business Operations & Local Sales for Mood Media (formerly Muzak). This March marked 14 years with the company though now rebranded to Mood. John is still with Legg Mason Technology Services in Baltimore. We both travel almost weekly for work so we have to coordinate our schedule really well. I’m finishing up my last year on the Alumnae Board and I will miss being as closely connected to the School. I have a feeling I’ll still be involved with certain events throughout the year. Leighton Hyde writes: I’m still in town, working in biotech, rowing crew and planning a backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon this spring. Micah Mitchell Hines is enjoying Minnesota and her second year as General Counsel for Minnesota Governor Mark

Dayton. Micah is excited that Mrs. Brune, Mrs. Moore and Mrs. McClarry have arranged for the new Juanita Jackson Mitchell exhibit to visit Minnesota in April and May of this year!

Micah is staying active in her community by serving on the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys, the YWCA of Minneapolis and the Business Institute of Hamline Law School.

Linda Rothemund Wells writes: Well Heather Winter Theissen moved to SF and lives just a couple blocks from me, so we’ve been able to get together. It’s been nice to have an RPCS neighbor! Also, I am in the middle of my yoga teacher training which has been an amazing experience. Karel Valentine: I’m still in Philadelphia and working at Merck. I recently attended the RPCS alumnae dinner in Philadelphia a couple weeks ago with Jean Brune (I still want to call her Mrs. Brune), where I saw Cameron and Rachel Spahn McCurdy. It was great to catch up, if only for a few hours. Ridgely Bennett Bowman: My three boys (6), (4) and (2) keep me very busy!

Jack is in kindergarten and is in the same class as Emmie Frank’s little boy, Connor, so I get to see a lot of Emmie! Jen Abraham Strauss was laid off from Genzyme, working on diabetic neuropathy and was rehired to work on idiopathic lung fibrosis. She writes: I still get to work in the same great company with a wonderful new boss and tackle a completely new disease area. I’ve learned so many awesome new techniques and been trained on rodent surgery. Surgery was my Holy Grail.

Children of Anne Chemers Sperling, 1995, Emmie Mink Frank, 1995, and Kimberly Mitchell Wolff, 1995; Max and Teddy Sperling (bottom row), Connor and Abby Frank (upper left) and Lincoln, Mitchell and Nolan Wolff (middle and upper right)

Eleanor Cordi, 1995 and Matt Hauptly

Things really did work out in the end and I’m really grateful. Ginnie Plitt Teti writes: I am in my chief year ENT and things are going well.

Hubby is overseas currently and looking forward to his return. We are heading to California next year! Jeremiah will get a masters in special operations/seal stuff and I am doing a fellowship in facial plastics/ reconstructive surgery at Stanford. We are thrilled to be close to my brother in California and to have a year together without deployment interruptions. The boys James (4) and Josh (2) are an absolute joy and keep me moving!

Kristen Creticos writes: Everything’s about the same here. I still live in downtown Bethesda.

And I still teach fifth grade at Seven Locks Elementary School in Montgomery County.

Same apt, same school, same system, same grade. I’m sorry to be so boring! The only thing different is that I no longer have dear, sweet Cary as my neighbor now that she’s moved to Baltimore. (I tutor current middle schoolers/former students in the evening and am taking classes for CPD credit, but that’s boring too. Genevieve Polk: I am writing you from southern Spain. Since October I have been working as a “language assistant” helping teachers in a public school teach English in Jaén. I help teach English and Science from Grades one through six. A true adventure. I consider myself very lucky because I work with great administrators and very friendly and welcoming teachers. The kids are cute too, even when they are misbehaving. I am hoping to do this program for another year, but will be home for Maryland blue crabs and Natty Boh over the summer! Sending all my best! Caroline Donahue is still in Silver Lake in Los Angeles

and very happy with her weather this past winter. She is thrilled to have started a new position as catalogue production manager for Gooding & Company, a collector car auction house and brokerage. She spends her time editing catalogue text on Ferraris and other fun cars and crawls in and out of them onsite for auctions three times a year. Outside of work, she looks forward to a trip to southern Spain this April to visit fellow RPCS classmate, Genevieve Polk, who is teaching in Jaen. Kim Owens Nalda: We are living in Newark, DE in our forever home which we moved into a year ago. My children Rebecca (2) and Abigail (5) are growing up quickly. I am working three days a week for Concentra Immediate care. We do a lot of workman’s compensation, preemployment physicals and urgent care. Ruben is the Chief of Emergency medicine at the VA hospital. I get to see Becky Smoot Anderson fairly often, and thus we are living the dream that we imagined in high school with our children growing up reasonably close to each other in age and distance. Life is good. We are blessed. Molly Christhilf Finnegan: My husband and I are still in DC, but come back to Baltimore to visit friends and family frequently. I am in my ninth year with Winebow, Inc and went to Argentina and Spain with my company last year. I enjoy teaching for the Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) in DC as well as conduct private wine classes. Chris enjoys his job at Discovery Communications, Inc and both of us see friends from RPCS and Loyola in Baltimore and DC. Dana Bennett writes: Alara started first grade this year, learned how to read (in English and Turkish) and is learning cursive.

She also has homework every night, which has been a challenge for me (especially the Turkish assignments). Kaya (1) is very active and happy. My work at IFC continues to be very interesting and challenging. Last year I traveled to India and Dubai a few times for work. I was able to spend about a month in Baltimore and DC this summer with the kids. Alara went to a wonderful camp in Baltimore (thanks to Kim Mitchell’s recommendation) and had a great time. Michelle Willats Wetzel: The kids are growing up quickly: Maisie (5), Kate (3), and Evan (1). I have a new job as a high school librarian, and I love it. Every day is different and filled with research, promoting books and technology. Kip also took a new job with Capital One. We moved this past summer to a cute town called Wayne - the community is great and we feel so at home already. Busy year, but all good stuff! Anne Chemers Sperling: Life in Brooklyn is great! Max and Teddy (2) are little criminals but a lot of fun.

I’m still with the NYC Department of Health working on food/obesity policy. I’ve been

lucky to see lots of my classmates over the past year, between Eleanor Cordi’s wedding, visits to Baltimore and get-togethers in NYC. Elizabeth Weiss: I am doing well in Baltimore!

Still living in Hampden and loving it. Working as an architect with a boutique firm in Stevenson Valley, and teach sailing lessons in the summer for the Downtown Sailing Center.

I try to get out on the water as much as possible when the weather is nice! I think I wrote the exact same thing last year...a sign that I have finally settled down? Megan Smith is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Iowa. She is living with “two cats, one toddler, one husband in the wilds of Iowa.” Brooke Bulkeley Peterson writes: Greta is in third grade and Will is in kindergarten. I teach seventh grade language arts at Columbus Academy. My job is immensely rewarding, and Columbus feels more like home to me than any other place.

Kellie MacDougall Lawler: Finally after years of studying, training, growing school debt, etc, Jeff has finished the medical journey and has landed his first “real job” (maybe I should just say “paying job”) With that has come my job end. We have landed permanently in Anniston, AL. Sadly, my district position with Target in this area would require serious weekly overnight travel between stores. With the addition of our newest bundle of joy, Pierce Beverly Lawler, that just isn’t possible right now. We bought an awesome house, kids Marcus (4) and Blakely (3) are in a great school, and I never go into the town grocery store without seeing at least two people I know!

Anyway, I hope all is well with the rest of our classmates! Rachel Spahn McCurdy is still in Pennsylvania with her husband, Rich, who is a cardiologist: We moved into our dream house in the fall. My girls are doing great in school.

Elliot keeps me on the run. I’ve picked up tennis and skiing after a 20 year hiatus!

Rachel Spahn McCurdy, 1995, Karel Valentine, 1995 and Cameron Proctor Amirault, 1995 at the Philadelphia Regional Reunion

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Micah Mitchell Hines featured in Minnesota Lawyer

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Girls weekend in Florida with Classmates from 1995 Lindsay Walker, Cameron Proctor Amirault, Kellie MacDougall Lawler and Kimberly Mitchell Wolff

Page Watts Rogers: I am still in Ocean City, MD. I am married and have a girl, Wylie (1), a boy Chappy (3), and a step-son, Nash (7). I am still the varsity basketball and lacrosse coach at Worcester Prep and bartend at Seacrets every summer. I am back in school to get my master’s in elementary education. I really enjoy the classes I am taking, but time management is my greatest obstacle. I hope to eventually teach kindergarten or first grade. I love life at the beach and cannot wait for the warm weather! Cameron Proctor Amirault: All is well with us in Havertown, PA. Amelia (3) is full of spunk. She enjoys being a big sister to Eloise (9 months). We are fortunate to be able to get to Baltimore fairly often and enjoyed seeing many RPCS friends over the holidays.

Kristen Cunningham Jones: Our one year wedding anniversary is on February 4th. Our wedding and honeymoon was all that we dreamed it could be. We are happy in Boca Raton, FL being mommy and daddy to the most lovable lab, Lucy. Vanda Lerdboon is still

Rachel Spahn McCurdy 1995’s three children

working for the International Refugee Committee in Maryland. She bought a condo in Baltimore. Lindsay Walker: Everything is going well on my end! I love living in Mount Vernon and was promoted to account executive at Silberstein Insurance Group this past year. Becky Smoot Anderson: It has been a busy year in the Anderson household. Our biggest news is our son Matthew Benjamin was born in June. He has been such a joy. I really love being a mom. I’m still workings as a vet in a small practice in Harford County.

Nora Malaisrie works in a practice in Chevy Chase as an ENT surgeon. She is swimming synchronously and her husband, Sean, has now joined in. I’ve seen some of their routines and it’s amazing. Lauren Scott got married in January in Mexico in what looked to be an amazing and beautiful wedding. Grace Kim: I have graduated from residency in Radiation Oncology from UMD and now work for Duke, splitting my time between High Point and Durham, NC. I love taking care of patients and haven’t started the research component of my job yet, but I hope to get into nutrition based research. Emmie Mink Frank: Connor has started kindergarten and loves school. I am at home with Abby who turned one in November. I love being at home with her. I lost my mother from brain cancer last April. This was a very hard time, and I miss her every day.

I am very thankful that she got to meet Abby.

Emmie, I remember reading the tribute to your mom in the Baltimore Sun. It described likely a small fraction of the ways she gave of herself and loved everyone around her. Our sympathy to you.

Class of 1996 Meredith Hartman Shanley meredith.shanley@gmail.com Hello again ‘96ers (every time I write that I think of the movie The Great Outdoors)!

Many thanks to all of you who responded to my pestering. Your updates make me smile, even if you don’t think that much has happened over the course of your year, we all love the annual check in. Let’s get right to it, shall we? Lizzy Bennett Sweeney writes in from Baltimore: The kids are doing great: Ryan (5) and Jane (3). Both kids go to Good Shepherd which makes my life easier having them at the same nursery school. They love school. I work in commercial Real Estate at Cassidy Turley as a Vice President. Lot of jugging with schedules, but I really enjoy my work. Darren finished up his master’s

at Hopkins a few months ago so it is nice to have him around more as well! Kate Heuisler Foan coming to us from Africa: I’m about to celebrate my third year living in Uganda with my daughter, Naomi, and husband, Lendell, who runs a regional public health program.

I do really interesting consulting work that I love, from design of new development programs to helping with strategic planning, and I got to work briefly in a place I’ve always wanted to go: Myanmar/Burma. Feeling lucky!

Melanie Donnelly tells us: I finally rejoined all of my RPCS friends on the east coast in December when I moved to Boston to be with my fiancé. We will be married in Healdsburg, CA in March. Amy Barbour Stevenson: Our sister Lauren Barbour was married in March in Baltimore. I got a promotion at work, which entitled me, among other things, to a lab coat with my name embroidered on it. I bought a new sewing machine after running my last one into the ground, and am ringing all the use out of it that my meager spare time allows. Annie Pfaff MacFadyen is loving life in CA: Life in Tahoe is beautiful and super fun to raise the little guy, Angus (2), in the great outdoors. He has already rocked his first pair of skis. Work is going well, continues to challenge me and grow my network of interesting people and inspiring work. I’m really looking forward to seeing familiar faces at both Melanie Donnelly and Jill Kusner’s weddings this spring. Jenny Elliot has some exciting news: I’m still living in Baltimore and am a Digital Analytics consultant for eCommerce companies. My company is mostly remote so I get to work from home with the occasional travel. Last April I gave birth to a super cute baby girl, Josephine Rose Elliott and learned that all the clichés about how a baby changes your life/ perspective/world are all true. My wife decided to leave her job at PBS to be a stay-at-home mom, so I count myself extremely lucky that I get to see Jo throughout my work day - just

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don’t tell my boss! Hedy Born Koczwara also welcomed a new addition. She says: Our big news is the arrival of our second son, Marek, in October. Even though we live in San Francisco, I’m hoping that with the Ravens’ Super Bowl victory in his first year we can ensure he’s a Ravens (rather than a 49ers) fan.

Laura Brave Whiteley writes that she lives in Providence, RI with her husband Matt and son Ian and their two very hairy dogs. She is a psychiatrist at Rhode Island Hospital and an assistant professor at Brown Medical School.

Laura is a director of a College Mental Health Program that provides psychiatric care to students from over eight different universities and colleges in Rhode Island. She also does research with youth and young adults living with HIV. When Ian and Matt are not playing Lego Star Wars on the computer, the family enjoys weekend ski trips. She enjoys these ski trips with her much more athletic husband and son but is more risk averse than when she skied Round Top with her RPCS friends!

In fact, Matt says she skies like a grandma!

Emily Hamilton Cave tells us: We’ve just about finished our first year in Switzerland and I’ve thus far survived my first Swiss winter. No skiing yet because we are expecting another boy in early July. Our son Henry is thriving here and learning French. Wish I had paid more attention to Madame Colombat myself.

We finally feel like we are happily settling into life here though. Ellen Ginsberg Simon chimes in: I’m still an attorney at DLA Piper in Baltimore, working in litigation and corporate compliance. I just started singing with a local jazz band. On a much more exciting note, I’ve just completed my first year of motherhood.

I have a wonderful little boy named Sammy who is the light of my life. He’s running around my house at the speed of light these days and constantly giggling. Meredith Shuey’s big news: I’m engaged! Simon proposed in the middle of Grand Central Station in January while we were up in New York for the weekend “to visit friends” (which turned out to be a ruse to whisk me away to New York for an engagement weekend). We have

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Do you have a life insurance policy that you took out years ago and no longer need? Why not consider making RPCS the owner and beneficiary of the policy.

For information about making a deferred gift to RPCS, contact Ginny Wood Delauney, Director of Gift Planning, 410-323-5500, ext. 3139 or delauneyg@rpcs.org.

set a date for June 8th of this year in Martha’s Vineyard, which is where Simon is from. With less than four months to go, we are in the midst of wedding planning and celebrating!

Heather Lazusky writes: I am still working as a pediatrician in Cumberland, but will be leaving this summer after three years here. Am in the process right now of looking for a new pediatric position closer to family and friendswish me luck! Nicole Michael Henry fills us in: Our family has been living in Pittsburgh for the past year. My twins, Gracie and Claire (5) will start kindergarten in the fall. Maggie (3) will start preschool. They keep me busy with school, ballet and lots of fun times together.

My own update goes a little something like this: My husband Kevin and I welcomed our son Luke into the world in February, 2012.

The year that’s followed has been the most incredible time in my life. I was so unprepared for how quickly and deeply in love I’d fall with this tiny little person; he has made the world new and wondrous for me again and we delight in him every single day. Other than that, Kevin continues to commute into NYC for work and I stay home with our little stinker, for which I feel very grateful. Kevin and I even managed to take a trip to the Bahamas for Tricia Ward’s wedding in January (Gram and Grumps Hartman stayed with their favorite – ok, only – grandson) and a quick 24 hour trip to NOLA for the Super Bowl (Kevin is a lifelong Niners fan. It was interesting). We survived Hurricane Sandy with minimal damages (just need a new roof!) and winter storm Nemo

with 29 inches of snow in 12 hours. Life is good and we count ourselves among the lucky ones daily. At the time of this writing I have just learned that our old friend and classmate Melody Tagliaferri Cronin passed away after a long battle with leukemia. I will remember her always - beautiful when the rest of us were awkward, a singular talent with a voice to match her name and a quick mind that spat in the face of the idea that pretty girls can’t be smart. Our thoughts and love go out to her husband, Ben Cronin, her son, Luca, her parents and family. What a bright, brilliant star we now have in the heavens. Be well, dear ones. Congratulations on all of your news, big and small. Love to you all and only the best in the year ahead. Until next time.

Meredith Hartman Shanley, 1996 with her son, Luke

The Class of 1997 celebrate their 15th Reunion at Hillary Zouck Shaffer’s home

Class of 1997 15th Reunion Hillary Zouck Shaffer hshaffer@bcps.org It was so much fun to catch up with classmates at our 15th Reunion in October! A big thank you to Julia Garrett Randolph, Tammy Passano Wiggs and Lindsay Robin Saffer who helped me to host a cocktail party for the class.

We had a great time planning and reminiscing together. Katie Dryden Hamilton travelled the farthest – all the way from Texas! Brooke Grumbine writes: I am living in Jupiter, FL and working towards a degree in interior design.

I took the bar exam here and earned my license to practice law in Florida, but after a lot of thought, I realized that law wasn’t going to make me happy in the way that being creative does. It was scary to walk away from law, but I made the right decision. I am really excited to get further along in my studies and start working on real-world projects! 2012 was a big year for my family. Caroline Grumbine (Fe), 2003 got married in June to a great guy whom she met in college. My brother and his wife had their first baby in September. Lots of big stuff happening! Alison Michels-Pettinelli writes: Still working in Rehabilitation Medicine near my home in Scarsdale, NY where I’m living with my four-year-old son Leo, my twoyear-old daughter Ana, and my husband. Jade Khouri Hubbard: In January my husband Jesse and I welcomed a baby girl named Camilla.

She is wonderful. We continue to live in the country and I work with horses, which I

love. I’ve just come from a dinner with best friends and classmates Emily Lough Johnson, Sophie Gerard, Nikki Sheridan Alworth, and Katie Dryden Hamilton. Raegan Burroughs Carmon I have really been enjoying being a mom and watching the children entrusted to me grow and change. All four of them have unique and different personalities. They are now seven, five, three and one. I can’t believe it! They are so young and so old at the same time. Our family has chosen to homeschool.

I am very glad that I can stay home with the kids and help them learn. A highlight for the year would be when any of my children is able to do something for the very first time or when out of the blue they tell me thank you or I love you. Because as you know, being a mom is great, but it is not always rosy. It’s the hardest job I have ever had. Jenn Lears Lohse says: We are doing well, enjoying life with three little girls. I have started to dip my toe back into the workforce by starting a swimming program

for autistic children. It’s been rewarding and fun, and I hope it grows! Nikki Sheridan Alworth says: still in Baltimore. Both my kids (Finley and Jack) will start at Calvert in the fall. I’ll be working as an ER doc at St. Joe’s Hospital in Towson. My husband works in DC as an attorney. Lindsay Robin Saffer says: We actually have had a great year. We bought a house in May, and while we are still recovering from some Sandy damage, we are very happy in our new place! Anyone in Baltimore is welcome to stop by! I am still teaching First Grade at RPCS and am happy. I am most looking forward to using my sabbatical this summer. Due to a contest, Chris “won” a trip to Hawaii so I am using my sabbatical to join him! I can’t wait! Emily Lough Johnson writes: The Johnson household has been a little nutty as of late. We had our second little girl in June, Sadie Scott, who’s been a pretty awesome baby. Austin, who turned two in December, has been a great big sister (generally speaking) and is at such a fun age. Our most recent news is that we’re moving to Northern New Jersey in April! My husband Christopher accepted a new position and I’m staying with Under Armour. We will truly miss friends and family in Baltimore, but promise to visit often! Sophie Gerard shares: I expected another uneventful Valentine’s Day, but oh boy. I was wrong. That evening I went to our chicken coop to collect eggs and what did I find among the eggs, a little black box. In perfect Sophie fashion with headlamp on intending to search for eggs; my boyfriend asked me to marry him. I could not have been more surprised and excited. Among the clucking sounds of our hens, I said yes! Life for me, Hillary Zouck Shaffer, is now filled with trains, cars and trucks – the passions of my two-year old son, George. He is so lively and joyful, and I enjoy our many playground adventures and car-ride conversations!

Children of Catherine Passano McDonnell, 1994, Tammy Passano Wiggs, 1997 and Sarah Passano Meech, 2001

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Class of 1998 Grace Applefeld Cleveland gracecleveland@gmail.com Kate Jordan kateejordan@gmail.com Paige Kimos Odabashian paige.odabashian@gmail.com Valene Whittaker valenewhittaker@gmail.com This year is the 15th Reunion for the Class of 1998, which made receiving updates from the class even more special. In Baltimore, Helene Apostolides Christman shares that she is still working at Under Armour as Associate Art Director. She and her husband, Randy, can’t get enough of their two daughters, Valentina (2) and Gia (7 months), and Helene reports that “life is good!” Also in Baltimore is Natalie Ciotola Dabrowski, who celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary with husband Ben in the fall. Gracie (2) and Chloe (1) are growing fast, and Gracie will start preschool this coming fall. Natalie recently returned to work in the position of Operations Manager in the Admissions Office at the University of Baltimore. She shared that “my favorite part is working with the students – it’s great watching them experience such a profound time in their lives.” On August 31, Dulaney Wible Farkas and her husband Ben welcomed their son Holden George Farkas into their family.

Dulaney is loving life as a new mommy and balances that role with her responsibilities as Director of Marketing at a local accounting

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Helene Apostolides Christman, 1998 holding daughter Valentina with husband, Randy Christman at daughter Gia’s baptism

firm. She recently reunited with Anna Hitchner, Leigh Bulkeley, Carri Winfelder Eachus, Laura Ryan Lubin and Jessica Straus, to meet baby Holden. Anna wrote in that she just celebrated her 10 year anniversary working at Bain & Company as the Boston office’s Human Resources Manager and loves having her sister Cara Hitchner, 2005, who recently moved to Boston, closer to her! Close to me, in San Francisco, Leigh Bulkeley shared that she continues to teach English to students from all around the world. Lauren Miller Hauk writes that although the past year has been a good one, “the highlight will surely be the arrival of baby Hauk in late May. I can’t wait for our first trip to Baltimore to introduce him to everyone!” Laura McKenna Burdt recently welcomed some more new additions to her home: two new “furbabies”, bringing the grand total to four for the household (a husky, great dane, mastiff and pitbull). Laura, who adopted the new four-legged family members from the military pet fostering organization with which she volunteers, shared that they each have special personalities of their own and have taught the four human members of her household a great deal about humility, patience, humor and unconditional love. After ten years living in Washington DC, Lizzie Getman moved to New York City this February to join a financial services company as in-house counsel. She is working on a master’s degree in cybersecurity (because as she shared, “two higher Ed degrees just weren’t enough, I suppose!”), and has enjoyed exploring her new city. I was excited to gather over the holidays for a baby blessing service in

honor of Lauren Battle Wills’ daughter, Anita Eileen, with Lauren, Sabrina Johnson Turner, Carol Dixon Croxton and Tara Bynum. Tara continues to teach at Towson University, and has written a number of pieces on race and social issues; notably, she was selected last spring to give a TEDTalk. Over the past year I was happy to receive visits from her and Carol, and their presence offered a welcome infusion of home into my life in California-and a great opportunity to play “tourist”! I, Valene Whittaker, continue to love exploring Oakland, CA, my current hometown, as I complete a Clinical Fellowship in Professional Psychology at UC Berkeley. I am thrilled to share that I successfully defended my dissertation in the spring, and I am finally ready to make my mark on the world as Dr. Whittaker! I am looking forward to the next adventure this post-grad school life will bring, and to seeing members of our class at the reunion in October! Wynter Evans Pitts is

Laura McKenna Burdt, 1998 with three of her four pups: Hunter, Martha and Hagrid

Superbowl fans from the Class of 1998 Michele Morton, Tina Reed Milnes, Monica Mitchell and Tara Bynum

trying to keep up with her brood of four girls while publishing a magazine for girls aged sixeleven called For Girls Like You. Leigh Anne Rainford was promoted to a position as Health Inspector Supervisor last year. Leigh Anne and her husband live in Philadelphia and have two children, Jack (3) and Caroline (1). Elizabeth Serotte is keeping busy balancing working at Fidelity Investments and chasing after son Elliott (4). Erin McInnes Shaughnessy loves being a mom to daughter Avery (2). Kristin Ricketts Sparkman and her husband Tommy are enjoying their volunteer work with the All American Dachshund Rescue group fostering Dachshunds. Kristin and Tommy have joined forces with a few others to start a Dachshund enthusiast group called B-More Wieners.

Kristin is still working at Pandora. Jessica Strauss was promoted to Senior Manager of Congressional and Governmental Affairs at DISH Network, the nation’s third largest pay-

Katherine Perry Trumbauer 1998’s son, Teddy

(From L to R) Dulaney Wible Farkas, 1998 and Holden, Jessica Straus, 1998, Carri Windfelder Eachus, 1998, Leigh Bulkeley, 1998 (holding Virginia Eachus), Laura Ryan Lubin, 1998 and Anna Hitchner, 1998

TV provider. She continues to enjoy life in Washington, DC. Garrity Pfeifer Testa and her husband Jarred added to their growing family with the birth of baby girl Ryland Harriet Testa. Ryland joins son Mason (6) and daughter Dylan (2). Stefanie Warns has rejoined the finance industry working for Steifel Nicolaus on their fixed income trading desk in Baltimore. She is looking forward to April when she will join her boyfriend in Paris for his R&R from deployment in Afghanistan.

She is happy to report that so far, life only gets better after 30! Kelly Phelan writes: I returned from Costa Rica. I was there with 20 of my students for a class titled, Ecotourism and Sustainable Development in Costa Rica. In April, I leave for China, where I will be guest lecturing and conducting research at universities in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Macau. In late June I’m moving to Africa!

I just received a Fulbright Fellowship, so I will serve as a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Botswana during the 2013-2014 school year, teaching courses in tourism policy development and sustainable tourism practices.

If anyone is interested in coming to visit I would love to have some guests join me on safari. I also took one non-work related trip this past year. I went to Aruba for two weeks and learned how to windsurf. I, Kate Jordan, am looking forward to catching up with my class at our 15 year reunion in October. My how time flies when you are having fun! I am still enjoying my career in Commercial Real

Estate and being part of the RPCS Alumnae Board. I am excited to report that my cousin Cassidy Craig will be a freshman at RPCS in the fall of 2013. I am looking forward to living vicariously through Cassidy as she experiences all the wonderful RPCS traditions. Jennifer Medina writes that she started a new job in October as a program manager for a nonprofit organization, CFED that advances policies and strategies to help low and moderate-income families build and preserve their assets.

Sabrina Johnson Turner, 1998 with Lauren Dodrill, 2001 at the Baltimore County Bar Association’s Annual Gala.

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Some downtime with the ladies after the baby blessing for Anita Eileen Wills. Members of the Class of 1998, (clockwise from the top), Valene Whittaker, Carol Dixon Croxton, Tara Bynum, Sabrina Johnson Turner, Lauren Battle Wills and Anita.

Jen lives with her sister Allison Medina, 1996, in Northern Virginia, sees her parents pretty regularly, travels often to South America to see her partner Max, and is training for a triathlon.

Monica Butler Mitchell, Michell Morton and Tara Bynum ran into Tina Reed Milnes while they were all in New Orleans for the Super Bowl. Michell also writes that she started a new job this past July as the Subgrant Administrator for Connect, DC’s Digital Inclusion program within the District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Michell enjoys working with

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community groups and DC residents by connecting them to technology. Zaineb Makhzoumi is recently engaged! She writes that her fiancé proposed over New Year’s and that they are planning a winter wedding.

Zaineb lives in San Francisco while completing a fellowship, but will be starting as a cosmetic and dermatologic surgeon at University of Maryland in the summer of 2013. Kate Cooper Kolbe writes to report the birth of her second daughter, Sadie June Kolbe. Sadie was born in April, the day after her sister’s third birthday.

Susan Italiano Mueller works as a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her daughter Mary will turn four this October; daughter Claire turns two on the same day! Susan, her husband, and their girls live in Timonium and would love to see folks if anyone is interested in setting up play dates. Laura Ryan Lubin and her husband Eri moved to Miami Beach in January. Laura works for a language school, teaching English to international students, and just started a master’s program for teaching English to speakers of other languages. I, Grace Applefeld Cleveland, also moved this year. My husband Will and I moved to his hometown of Charleston, SC. I am clerking for a federal judge and Will is working for a law firm down here. We are enjoying our new city and love spending time with Lauren Battle Wills and her husband. Amanda Wolff Torsani writes: We added two yellow lab puppies to the family in January. Who thought that would be a good idea?! Evan starts

preschool in the fall and Josie is looking forward to another summer at Red Hot Summer Camp. Mike and I are planning a trip to Key West for our ten year wedding anniversary in October. Congrats on your 10th anniversary! Nakiya M. Traynham works in public relations for CareFirst and really enjoys it. Nakiya will be teaching a beginner Bellydance class this summer that is open to the public at BCCC. She adds: If anyone has ever wanted to learn, they should come take my class! She also plans to do more traveling this year. Katherine Perry Trumbauer lives in Chestertown. She and her family are “loving small town life!” Katie is working as a fulltime stay-at-home mom to her three wild children – Alida (5), Lucy (3) and Teddy (10 months). I bet they do a great job of keeping you very busy! Katie adds that she is looking forward to seeing everyone at reunion this year. Sabrina Johnson Turner writes: I am a Trial Attorney for Allstate Insurance. I received my spinning certification last summer and I will be getting my personal training certification this year. I love teaching spinning, watching the Ravens and being Auntie Bri or Tia Sabrina. Sabrina looks forward to planning our 15-year reunion house party blowout bash, alongside Kate Jordan, Kristin Raneri Nicolini, Stefanie Warns and Monica Mitchell.

She continues to run and work out, and is training for a bunch of races this year. Lauren Waesche reports: 2012 was a busy year! In the spring, I sold my house in Canton and bought a new house in my old stomping grounds of Timonium. The fall brought on some sad times as I had to say goodbye to my 1992 Honda Accord-at least I finally own a car that isn’t older than my college-aged sister! Finally, after ten years at my previous job, I decided it was time to move on and my new job couldn’t be better. Congrats on your new job, Waesche!

Lauren Battle Wills loves living in beautiful Charleston, SC with husband, David, and daughter, Anita: We love that Grace Applefeld Cleveland and Will Cleveland have moved

Leigh Ann Haciski Rainford, 1998’s children Jack and Caroline

Class of 1999 Gretchen Crook Bauer gcbauer03@yahoo.com

Sutton Nicolini, RPCS Preschool 3’s and daughter of Kristin Raneri Nicolini, 1998, completes the Red Hot Run

here. Together, we are trying to experience the city one amazing restaurant at a time. Our daughter, Anita, is almost one and we love being parents to that feisty little girl! Lauren continues to conduct research at the Medical University of South Carolina and teaches biology to 80 Citadel cadets. “Life is busy, but we are having so much fun!” Congrats to Caroline Winter! She recently accepted a new management position within her company covering Latin America. The new position will entail relocation to Puerto Rico and the family is very excited about the change. Her daughter Elise is one. She is an absolute joy and beach lover just like her parents! And I, Paige Kimos Odabashian, manage the marketing communications and public relations department for a tech company in the greater DC area. I began pro bono PR work for the Baltimore chapter of Dress for Success, the international non-profit organization that encourages economic independence for disadvantaged women. A very rewarding experience! Drew and I love living downtown with our pug, Sydney. We will be moving to Fells Point this summer and are very excited about the move! Looking forward immensely to reconnecting with the Class of 1998 at our 15th Reunion in October!

Adventures for the Class of 1999 continued in 2012 and 2013. Notably, several of our classmates have started new jobs this year.

Adrienne Smith and her husband Trung moved to Knoxville, TN last summer. She is in her first year as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee and it’s going well so far. She likes living in Knoxville, but the slower pace of life is taking awhile to get used to. She says that one of the best parts about living there is the access to outdoor activities, particularly hiking, camping and bike riding in the Smoky Mountains. Vicky Pass is also joining the ranks of assistant professors this year. She will be joining the Art Department at Salisbury University as an assistant professor of art history this fall. Congratulations Vicky!

Sara Levine Kornfield started a new job as a clinical psychologist at the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness and is directing the Maternal Wellness Initiative, which is a program to bring co-located mental health services to low-income and uninsured women during pregnancy. She and Noah live in Philadelphia and their daughter Orly is getting so big so fast! Wendy Forbes is moving to Chicago this summer for a change and Meghan Kelly is there as well. Meghan says that, after a divorce from her husband last year, things are going great! She just got a big promotion at Tornier Orthopedics, a company that specializes in joint replacement and reconstruction, as well as sports medicine.

She is now running sales of the Midwest Region. Maya Tasher started a new job at Johns Hopkins International last summer and is getting married in May! It is a busy and exciting spring for her. Congrats to all of these women and their new jobs. Candace Leake works as an assistant director of admissions

Sons of Kimberly Miller Alsip, 1999

Asia Leeds, 1999, Professor at Spelman College, with her student and fellow alumna Chelsea Roberts, 2012

at Stevenson University. She is also in the final months of completing her master’s degree in higher education administration at Drexel University and then her plans are to research PhD programs soon. Lauren Slevin Capelle works as an attorney for State Farm Insurance and enjoys arguing cases in the courtroom. She and her husband Andy are still loving city life in Canton. Alene Wilmoth Reich enjoys her time coloring, painting, dancing and planting seeds with daughters Izzy (3) and Evelyn (1) and husband Jesse. Speaking of kids, there were some new additions this year as well as expected arrivals for 2013. First, Kimberly Miller Alsip gave birth to her third boy, Cortland Leo Alsip in May. Christina Smith Fenton had her second son, Pete McCormick on 12/12/12. She adores having two kids under two and has scaled back her full time work. She also started her own Arbonne business after being introduced to it by classmate, Jesse Galitzin, at eight months pregnant. She is also enjoying seeing Ashley Zink McLain now that she’s back in Baltimore, and is planning a September vacation to Charleston with Lindsey Zeren Zarlengo, Ashley and Sarah Rodgers Atwood. Ashley also had a little boy this past year and Sarah is due with her second child in April. Katie Swiss King welcomed her first, a little girl, Delaney, this spring as well.

Danielle Lyons Bell relocated to San Antonio, TX due to a job transfer for her husband, Cass.

They had another child join their family.

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Mackenzie Grace Bell was born in the water at their home in Maryland. Their first child, Matthew, has really taken quite a liking to his little sister. In fact, he calls her “his baby.”

Danielle still plans to go back to school for a career change, but that will have to wait a bit more as she has found the transition to two kids challenging to say the least. Lastly, Erin Cohn Risch and her husband Nate are expecting the arrival of a baby boy in May. They are extremely excited to become new parents! Finally, well wishes go out to Stasia Thomas Nargengeli who got married on NYE 2012 and Anne Visser who is now engaged to Logan Nicholson and planning a September wedding. Anne and her fiancé live in New York City. As for me, Gretchen Crook Bauer, I returned to teaching at The Potomac School in August after a wonderful seven months home with my son. I actually enjoy being a working mom and am lucky that his early bedtime leaves me time to grade and plan in the evenings. He is on the verge of being a complete toddler now and I love every minute of watching him explore the world. We still live in the DC metro area and have just bought a new house in Vienna, VA. Hopefully we will be settled there by the summer in time to enjoy our new space with the little one over summer break. Best wishes to everyone for a happy and healthy 2013!

Class of 2000 Lisa Trader Giacobbe lisatgiacobbe@gmail.com It has been a busy year for the Class of 2000!

I, Lisa Trader Giacobbe, was promoted to Program Supervisor with Catholic Charities, where I supervise licensed clinicians and help to manage an outpatient mental health clinic.

Shawn and I also had our first child, Caroline Grace, on August 5, 2012, and we are loving parenthood! Liz Cremeans writes: Happily divorced and selling diamonds! Liz is also doing some commissioned paintings on the side. Lindsley Dischinger Stys finished her master’s from the School of Communications Design at University of Baltimore this May. She writes: I’m still loving my job as the Director of Marketing and Communications at United Way of Central Maryland, where I work with many wonderful nonprofits, donors and volunteers around a mission of helping low-income families overcome poverty in Baltimore and the surrounding counties. Lauren Koch Herlihy is still living in Durham, NC. She received her master’s in

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Lauren Wasserman Clark, 2000 and Jessica Norwitz, 2000

nursing from UNC Chapel Hill and is now a certified pediatric nurse practitioner. She and her husband celebrated their five year wedding anniversary and also welcomed a baby girl, Nora Mae, on November 11, 2012. Liz Levin Hlavek was elected to the MD Board of Counselors and Therapists to sit as the first licensed art therapist on the Board. She and Adam are excitedly expecting their first child, due on their fifth wedding anniversary in August. She writes: We made a bittersweet move from Federal Hill to Silver Spring to be closer to Adam’s job in DC, but are looking forward to exploring a new city as a family of three. Caitlin McCormick writes: my husband and I welcomed a little boy, Pierce Brault, this past August. He is a smiley happy boy and the biggest flirt I’ve ever met and we adore him. Otherwise I am still living in Old Town Alexandria and working as a healthcare attorney at Patton Boggs in DC. Jessica Norwitz continues to enjoy living in downtown Baltimore. She is a digital marketing manager at T. Rowe Price. Emily Plowden Feldhusen is in her third year of living in Boulder, CO and is about to celebrate her third wedding anniversary as well. She and her husband recently bought their first home in December 2012 and welcomed a new baby boy, August Scott, into the world on April 29, 2013. They are anxiously waiting what the rest of 2013 will bring their way! Maria Smith is still living in Texas. She was selected to do a chief resident year at Texas Children’s hospital and will soon

start a fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology. Liza Randolph continues to live in Vancouver, BC, and is hopeful to gain her Permanent Residency in Canada by this summer to stay just a little bit longer. She still works in architecture, but recently switched to a new company called Studio One. While architecture pays the bills and keeps her legal in Canada, Liza’s true passion just might be yoga. She recently gained her 200hr yoga teacher training certificate through a program in Baja, Mexico called Yandara! Maggie Sunderland Berman had a baby girl, Nell Marie, on December 17, 2012. She is a happy and healthy girl and has already made several trips to RPCS to see her cousins’ athletic games and concerts.

Lauren Wasserman Clark is enjoying her time in Washington, DC as a managing account supervisor at Ketchum.

Perhaps most exciting was that she married her husband Christopher Clark in November after meeting him on the Amtrak train four years prior. Jessica Norwitz served as her maid of honor. Kitzie Winship moved out west to San Francisco last August after being accepted into a graduate program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) where she is pursuing a master’s degree in Drama Therapy, a form of Counseling Psychology. In addition to her work as a grad student and counseling trainee, she’s enjoying improv, priestesshood and her work-study job at the CIIS library (which of course makes her miss her beloved adviser, Mrs. Moore!) Visitors welcome! Meghan Young is about to start a master’s of art in teaching (MAT) and is also looking to get her Oregon State teaching license with a biology subject endorsement.

Class of 2001 Courtney Brent cgbrent@gmail.com Erin Lears Richardson richardsone@rpcs.org The Class of 2001 has had a very exciting year including some new additions! Lindsey Miller Stone and her husband Brandon welcomed their second son, Kieran Murphy Stone in January, who joined big brother Sam. She is still planning events with her company Union3 Event Productions for Baltimore area clients like University of Maryland and Enoch Pratt Library. Jane Li Kenyon and her husband Jason are still living in Chicago where Jason will graduate law school this year! They adopted a puppy named Gus who

The Beyer family at Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001’s wedding: Rita Beyer Buettner, 1994, middle row third from left, Shaileen Beyer, 1991, back row just above the groom, Treasa, and Maureen Beyer Moser, 1990 just behind Treasa.

has been thriving with agility training. She was able to be a part of Menaka Sirithara’s wedding this past year in Baltimore along with Elizabeth Lesser. Kate Owens Eckstein is living outside of Boston with her almost three year old, Owen, and husband, Benjamin.

They are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Baby #2 (another boy!) in July. When Kate

is not at home, she manages internal training for the Americas region for Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. In June, Samantha Levin Whitcomb, her husband Dan and two year old daughter Amelia are headed from Arizona back to Baltimore to spend the summer. In August, the Army is moving them to Germany for three years in Wiesbaden,

Anne Sheridan Quigley, 2001’s wedding (l to r): Dina Karkar, 2001, Finley Alworth (Preschool 4s), Courtney Brent, 2001, Anne, Kristen Sloan, 2001, Becca Gorski, 2001, Sarah Harrison, 2001 and Nikki Sheridan Alworth, 1997

Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001 and husband George Matysek

20km from Frankfurt. They are looking forward to the adventure and if anyone needs a place to stay they will have a guest room!

Kerri Huebner Carlile had an exciting year!

She was promoted at work and is now a Senior Analyst. She and her family recently bought a home in Gilbert, AZ, and in March she and her husband welcomed their second daughter Sarah Jane (Sadie) Carlile into the family. Lulu Zeitouneh is still enjoying life in New York City as the advertising art director for Marie Claire.

In January, Meredith Forbes Coleman and her husband welcomed boy #3! Grady Forbes Coleman. Grady and his two big brothers Kinsey and Brooks are keeping her busy, but she is enjoying every minute! Sheena Cline got married in May. She was living in Chicago managing Timkens sales office and their North American wind business, but recently moved to Southern Indiana. She also completed her MBA from Kellogg Northwestern University.

Last June, Anne Sheridan Quigley married her Boston sweetheart Ryan in Baltimore, and Rebecca Gorski was one of her bridesmaids.

She and Ryan are living in Wellesley, MA and she works at Milton Academy as the Assistant Director of Admissions and coaches Varsity Lacrosse and JV Squash. Alex Thomas is still living in Marina del Rey, CA with her dog Zeus. She recently changed firms and is now an attorney with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, which is a national firm based out of Los Angeles. She has had several RPCS classmates coming out to visit her in sunny California.

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planning division. Courtney Brent and her fiancé, Tim, bought a new home in Lutherville last summer. He works for Northrop Grumman near BWI and she recently began working at a financial advisory firm in Towson. She and Tim are set to be married next May. Erin Lears Richardson and her husband John are anxiously awaiting their second child this fall

to join big sister Penelope. Finally, Courtney, Erin and the rest of the Class of 2001 would like to extend our love and condolences to the Mooney and Spence families on the loss of our beloved classmate, Bridget Mooney Spence.

One can only strive to lead by example; Bridget achieved this every day. We are all inspired by you Bridge. Miss you.

Bridget Mooney Spence, 2001

by Kristin Raneri Nicolini, 1998

Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 with her husband, Justin Short, and son Hudson at the Red Hot Run

Mike, Annabelle and Sarah Passano Meech were thrilled to welcome their son, Grady Edward Meech in November. She is enjoying chasing the kids around and having play dates with Kelsey Twist Schroeder and Lindsey Miller Stone in Baltimore. Allison Higgins Keenan and her husband Jeff are still living in Durham, NC. Jeff is completing his General Surgery residency at Duke and she is working at Biologics in the marketing department nearby in Cary, NC. They recently bought a house in Durham, and when they aren’t working, they are trying all the restaurants as Durham was recently voted one of “The South’s Tastiest Towns!” Meri Price lives in the DC area and started a new job at Georgetown University in the International Programs Office back in December 2012. She says: loving the beautiful Georgetown campus and starting to consider crazy things like a second master’s degree. In the past year, I was also the maid of honor in my sister, Leigh Price’s wedding.

This coming year, I will become an aunt, as Leigh is expecting and due in August. In December, Lauren Dodrill became engaged to James Benjamin in National Harbor, one of their favorite getaway spots. They are set to be married in Baltimore this coming December.

Both she and her fiancé are attorneys, James with Pessin & Katz and Lauren with Smith, Gildea & Schmidt in Towson. Carly Kahoe Kolo and her husband have been living outside Detroit, MI for the last two years with their dog. Last fall they bought a new house and are keeping busy decorating. She recently started with a new law firm in their trust and estate

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At the age of 21, Bridget Mooney Spence was diagnosed with Stage IV Metastatic breast cancer. She battled that diagnosis for six years but passed away on April 5, 2013, a few months shy of her 30th birthday. I had the pleasure of knowing Bridget, but those who didn’t, got to know her through her blog, My Big Girl Pants: Live, Love and Hope in the Face of Metastatic Breast Cancer. In her first entry she wrote, “I am giving birth to this blog because I want to raise awareness about living life with breast cancer. Not beating it, not surviving it, not closing that door, but truly, happily, sadly, thoroughly and completely living with it.” This year’s Upper School students were fortunate to hear her speak in October at RPCS, as they geared up for the Race for the Cure. She told them, “I am beating cancer every single day just by getting up and getting out of bed. And I wouldn’t be able to do that without the fierce passion that I cultivated here in these hallways. And if I can do all of this, living with cancer, than you can set the world on fire.” After graduating from RPCS in 2001, Bridget went to Boston University, where she graduated with a cum laude degree in international relations in 2005. She was the national sales and service coordinator with Event 360, a firm that stages large fundraising events.

Bridget lived a life filled with joy, courage, sorrow and fear, but most importantly love. In his eulogy, her husband Alex, remarked, “Bridget turned a shocking and difficult situation into a tour-de-force of goodwill, honesty and awareness for a disease that has touched all of us at some point in our lives.” She understood that her time on earth would be dramatically different because of cancer’s presence but she did not allow it to deter her from making an impact.

Although many people have said Bridget “lost her battle” with cancer, I believe she really won. She won because she inspired thousands, she won because

she lived more in 29 years than most of us live in a lifetime, she won because she found her soul mate, she won because she raised awareness, she won because she saved a countless number of lives, she won because she made other people into warriors, she won because she has made us all want to be better people and she won because she persevered. And whether she knew it or not, her life has changed the world.

In her last blog post, she thanked everyone for their support of her journey.

Bridget wrote, “Thank you for fighting with me over these past six years. Thank you for hoping with me. Walking every step of the way alongside me. I couldn’t have done this without you. I wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for each and every one of you and the dollars you have raised in my name.

Please, don’t forget about me.”

Roland Park Country School is honored to have had Bridget’s resilient spirit dance in our hallways, and here, she will never be forgotten. I would like to thank her for teaching me the most important lesson of all. I have heard it said that “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Thank you, Bridget, for teaching us all how to dance in the rain.

Class of 2002 10th Reunion Edith Birney ee.birney@gmail.com It was great to see so many familiar faces during our 10th Reunion weekend. As always, when we’re all together again, it doesn’t feel like much time has passed. However, the exciting events that have taken place among our classmates proves that in fact, our class is doing some pretty amazing things in the world and that it’s been some time since we roamed the halls as students. Down in Raleigh, NC is Virginia “Jenny” Galvez working for Cintas Fire Protection. Virginia works as a customer integration manager, and while she’s not busy traveling for work, she plays the guitar and mandolin in a local cover band. Parissa Jahromi has had a busy and exciting year. She writes: The highlight of last year was marrying Grey Ballard (fellow Wake Forest alum) at his parents’ home in North Carolina. I will graduate this June with my PhD in child and adolescent development from Stanford University. This summer, I am starting a position as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of California San Francisco/ UC Berkeley. My research will focus on promoting health through civic engagement.

I still miss friends and family back east but can’t complain. I love living in California!

Saidee Price is in her first year of medical school at Ross University School of Medicine.

After graduating from Darden, Jordan Mixter

Usha Tyson, 2002 in India

is back in DC working in merchandising for Total Wine and More. Usha Tyson writes: I am still working as an engineer in Baltimore, but I have returned to my first love of acting! I have been in three stage plays in Baltimore and DC and I’ve done a commercial for Julian Wines.

I recently went to India with my mom to tour and visit our family. Katie Prevas has been busy planning a September wedding. Katie and her fiancé Jon are planning a Baltimore wedding with classmates Eliza Alexander and Perri Kraus as bridesmaids. Katie is working as physician assistant in an emergency room, but is transitioning full time to an urgent

care facility, which she is looking forward to.

Jessica Nyce is also in Baltimore after moving back from Boston last year. Jessica is living in Hunt Valley and working in the marketing department at Sandy Spring Bank. Also back in Baltimore is Kristina Pompa. She lives in Little Italy and working at an event production company, Feats Inc. Kris has enjoyed reconnecting with the other Roland Parkers in the area. Lisa Kebejian will be completing her residency this year in pediatrics at the University of Maryland. She writes: I really enjoyed catching up with everyone who was able to make it to the reunion. Lauren Burd had an exciting day watching the Superbowl!

She got engaged right before the big game!

Christine Werthman is still living in Brooklyn and working in music journalism. She became an aunt last summer, and in the fall, she had the pleasure of attending the wedding of Kate Landefeld Hixon in North Carolina. Rachel Caplan moved to North Carolina where her husband John is stationed. They will be moving again this spring, but not sure where.

Although living in North Carolina, Rachel is still working for a small residential interior design firm based in NYC. As for me, Edith Birney, I feel old every time I think about my sister, Martha Isaacs, 2013 being a senior at RPCS. Weren’t we just seniors?! I’ve been busy planning a summer wedding. Dave and I are getting married this July in Queenstown, MD and will have Lucy Rogers and Jordan Mixter as bridesmaids. Wishing you all another happy and healthy year.

Class of 2003 Lindsay Higgins lindsaymhiggins@gmail.com Charlotte Hindsley is at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business in Chapel Hill. Last year Anne Troup finished grad school at NYU receiving her MFA in acting and performed in a production of Ivanov alongside Ethan Hawke, Joely Richardson and Austin Pendleton. Her performance landed her in the New York Times! Kellie Bland just returned from Nicaragua. She finished two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She is glad to be home and she is currently applying to graduate school for the fall. Right now she is enjoying her family and eating all the food she missed over the past two years! Joi-Marie McKenzie is an entertainment producer for ABC News.

She currently lives in Harlem and is the proud owner of a seven-year-old dachshund

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RPCS Alumnae from the Black Awareness Club Sydnee Wilson, 2004, Ashlee Tuck, 2002, Erin Miles, 2001, Joi-Marie McKenzie, 2003, Sydnie Mosley, 2003 and Dea Thomas, 2001 along with their guests caught up at the recent RPCS Young Alumnae Event.

named Arista. She was recently featured in the Washington Post for producing a comprehensive guide to the 57th Inauguration of the President of the United States. Hannah Whitman’s year has been full of happy things! In May 2012 her fiancé proposed and she graduated from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School Of Law with a JD and a Health Law Certificate. She took the Maryland bar in July, passed in November, and began working for the firm of Adelman, Sheff & Smith in December. She loves living in the Brewer’s Hill neighborhood of Baltimore and is looking forward to getting married in September! Erin Lacy lives in Canton with her fiancé Brett Hollander. They are getting married in July at The Baltimore Museum of Industry. She is in her third year of teaching Kindergarten at Calvert School and she loves it! Kate Brockmeyer lives in Washington, DC and practices antitrust law at Jones Day. She recently got engaged and is excited to get married in Baltimore next fall. Lauren Best will be starting a new job in a few weeks with the Fairfax County Department of Housing after working at Metropolitan Baltimore Quadel for over five years. She will be moving to the DC metro area shortly and is very excited about the new opportunities. Stephanie Shapiro is working at the Smithsonian in the office of advancement’s operations & systems and she love it! She is a volunteer curator at The Center for Green Urbanism Tubman-Mahan

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Gallery in DC’s Ward 7 where she focuses on community and sustainable (green) art. She is also on the Board of the American Alliance of Museum’s Green Professional Interest Committee and had an article published in Museum last July/August called A Greener Tomorrow. Otherwise, Stephanie is enjoying life in DC, following the Ravens and traveling.

Susanna Ingalls moved to Paris in June 2012 for work and is regularly in Frankfurt to be

with her husband. They married in a civil ceremony in Maryland on 12-12-12 and are planning the church wedding for next summer in Germany, after which she will move back to Frankfurt. Susanna will be based there for the duration of her MBA, which starts in September. Molly Frew is currently in her second year of her MBA program at The Wharton School and expects to graduate in May. She has really enjoyed her time there and feels lucky to have had such enriching learning and growth-inducing experiences, both in the classroom and while traveling over breaks. Molly interned this summer in Boston at MFS Investment Management, and will be returning there full-time as an Equity Research Analyst in September. She is looking forward to spending a few weekends in Baltimore next fall, for Hannah Whitman’s wedding in September and the Class of 2003’s 10th Reunion in October! Kathleen Trotter will graduate from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in July. She currently lives in Locust Point.

Jordan Plumhoff is still living in New York City and working at NYU Medical School.

She is continuing to do research in public health and health disparities. Twice this year she had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Kumasi, Ghana to help coordinate a project NYU is running there. It was an incredible experience for her and she met some amazing people along the way. Stacey Wolff is living in Baltimore and working as a health assurance auditor. She has a new passion for fitness and will be training for a triathlon in the fall. Nadja Tilstra was awarded a fellowship through the Attorney General’s Honors Program.

She will be working as a judicial law clerk

Members of the Class of 2003 Kellie Bland, Grace Keith, Elizabeth Brushart, Meredith Davis and friend Mimi Hobart in Nicaragua.

Class of 2004 Katharine Fox Castro Kfox1@mtb.com

Amanda Ortel Frank, 2003, Isabel Rodgers, Casey Harwood, 2003, Libby Cole, 2003, Lindsay Higgins, 2003 and Jordan Plumhoff, 2003 cheering for the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium.

for the federal Immigration Court in Denver, Colorado beginning in September. Amanda Ortel Frank was married to Grady Frank in Baltimore at Second Presbyterian Church in September. Amanda and Grady just moved to their new home in TriBeCa, and they have been enjoying exploring their new neighborhood and getting ready to welcome a baby boy this coming June. Amanda also completed her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business last year. Airlia Lotz moved back to live in Maryland in February. She accepted a job offer from Johns Hopkins Hospital to join their Neurosurgery team. Airlia and her

Lindsay Higgins, 2003, Kellie Bland, 2003 and Kathleen Trotter, 2003 celebrate Kellie’s return from Nicaragua.

husband plan to build a home in Harford County. They are looking forward to being closer to family and friends on the east coast.

Ashley Dent Eklund and her husband Gray are living in Chicago, and they are looking forward to his graduation from Booth business school in a few months. Ashley is enjoying her occasional work travel – she returned to India in December, and she also gets to see classmates in NYC on occasion. Ashley and Gray did a bike trip in Normandy with her brother and parents this past fall. They were honored to visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Omaha beach as part of their trip. They are forever grateful for the sacrifices of our military. Jennie Tuttle is finishing her master’s in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. She is moving with her boyfriend to California where he will be coaching college baseball and Jennie will be studying to be a licensed professional clinical counselor. Of course their dog, Emmie, will be moving with them. Jennie has absolutely loved Denver, but is excited for her new California adventure! Lindsay M. Higgins has lived in New York City for five years now, luckily alongside a handful of RPCS alums. Last August, she moved to her fourth apartment in New York, yet again trying to take full advantage of what her new neighborhood has to offer. Lindsay is trying to travel as much as possible; her last trip was to Jamaica. She is also looking forward to her RPCS 10th Reunion this fall!

It has been another amazing and exciting year for the Class of 2004 as our 10th Reunion rapidly approaches! Each time I get to gather our Class Notes I am blown away by the great things our class is doing both personally and professionally – job promotions, graduate degrees, buying houses, engagements, weddings and a baby on the way are just a few of the highlights for our class! Here’s hoping that the 2013-2014 school year continues to bring great news to the Class of 2004! Ana Agelopas and her boyfriend bought a house in Cockeysville in October 2012 and they have been enjoying working on projects around the house. Around the same time, Ana got into CrossFit with fellow classmate Rachel Franz and sometimes runs into Katharine Fox Castro there as well. Ana is traveling a lot this year for a bunch of friend’s wedding and is looking forward to being in a wedding for a college friend in Austin, TX on the 4th of July. Ellen Cameron Jones just got married to hubby James on March 30th! James and Ellen live in London and would love to hear from anyone who is visiting their side of the pond!

Peri Cohen is living in Canton and loving it.

She is working at the Woodbourne Center as a social worker and she is working in treatment foster care with emotionally disturbed teens.

Peri has been doing this challenging, but very rewarding (and very important) work since

Becca Warfield, 2004 and Beau Smith, (Gilman 1999), on their wedding day

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June 2011. Shannon Deoul is living in LA and loving it! She is in her fourth year working as a publicist. Despite being on the West Coast, Shannon has been able to catch up with lots of awesome ’04 ladies! In February, Shannon was able to meet up with Nkenge Wheatland (who lives about an hour away in Riverside) and Cat Crowder (who lives in San Diego) at the La Brea Tar Pits in LA (site of the epic Tommy Lee Jones movie Volcano.) Shannon also got to tailgate with Allison Davis and Audie Fugett when the Ravens played in San Diego last fall.

Shannon makes a strong argument that clearly SoCal is the place to be and she encourages any RPCS ‘04s that come to town to give her a call! Katharine Fox Castro is still in Baltimore working at M&T Bank in Investment Banking where she became an Associate this year. She loves being involved in RPCS through the Alumnae Board (and of course gathering Class Notes) and served as a mentor in the Baltimore Girls School Leadership Coalition this past year with classmate Sydnee Wilson and Kelsey Twist Schroeder, 2001, RPCS Upper School Dean. Katharine, Justin and Stella Castro, 2023, went to Kauai, HI this past march for Spring Break. It was an amazing trip and they can’t wait to figure out a way to go back!

Katharine would love to get together with anyone in the Baltimore area – just let her know! Rachel Franz has headed west! Rachel moved to Denver in January 2013 to begin a new adventure where she is going to school to become a Natural Foods Chef. Rachel is hoping to get a job as a private/personal chef following school. Yum! Lacey Haciski Zelino married Steve Zelino at a small ceremony in Augusta, GA in October 2012. The entire

Kiki Law Perrini, 2004’s wedding with RPCS bridesmaids and classmates (l to r) Katie Atkins, Sarah Sims Hagan Chesson, Andrea van Wagenberg, Chris Perrini, Kiki, and Wendy Blue

Haciski clan showed up to celebrate the day with Lacey. In case Lacey wasn’t busy enough planning and executing the wedding, she was also going to school full time to get her MBA, which she will complete this May (home stretch, Lacey!) Lacey is continuing her work with the government and expects to move somewhere new and different this summer!

Sarah Sims Hagan Chesson married Mark

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Chesson in a beautiful ceremony on December 1, 2012 at the Maryland Club. Wendy Blue, Kiki Law Perrini, Andrea van Wagenberg, Katie Atkins, Kelly Soth and Becca Warfield Smith were all in attendance from the Class of 2004 as were fellow RPCS grads (and Sarah Sims’s sisters) Blair Hagan, 2001 and Bethy Hagan, 2007. Sarah Sims and Mark are currently living in Mark’s hometown of Raleigh where they are expecting their first baby – due in September! Congrats Sarah Sims and Mark, you will be fabulous parents! Nancy Kwan has moved to Chicago in order to pursue a new position within MetLife. Nancy joined MetLife’s Leadership Development Program, which is a three year rotational program and she is currently working as a Project Manager.

Nancy says if anyone is ever in Chicago let her know! Kiki is living in Canton and working as a nurse for Johns Hopkins. Kiki married Chris Perini on October 13, 2012 at BCC in Roland Park. Fellow classmate, Wendy Blue, was Kiki’s maid of honor and Katie Atkins, Sarah Sims Hagan Chesson and Andrea van Wagenberg served as bridesmaids. It was a beautiful day and was followed by an amazing honeymoon in Turks and Caicos! Kiki and Chris are house hunting a little bit and just generally enjoying married life. She is looking forward to Katie Atkins’s wedding this summer! Ginger Owens is living in Wilmington, DE and working at a fabulous group practice, Pike Creek Psychological Center. Ginger is continuing to

just bought a house in Baltimore and is a senior sales manager for Power Plant Live! with a focus on conventions and corporate conferences. She reports that life is good and that she is excited that with her two dogs – crazy dog lady status has been achieved (which makes at least two of us as Katharine loves her two dogs too!) Kelly Soth reports that wedding bells are in the future! Kelly is now happily engaged and planning her Baltimore wedding! Congrats Kelly! Andrea van Wagenberg is living outside of Bethesda where she is working as an account manager at Affigent, a small Alaskan Native Corporation in Herndon, VA. Andrea is juggling work and school while she is finishing up her master’s in Cybersecurity Policy at UMUC and then hopes to pursue something more in the cyber security and criminology field.

Sarah Sims Hagan Chesson, 2004 and Mark Chesson on their wedding day

Class of 2005 Erin Durbin erintdurbin@gmail.com

build her therapy skills and experience while pursuing state licensure for Delaware. In June, Ginger is heading back to Africa! This time she will be in Burundi with a number of co-workers from Pike Creek to partner with a local organization, Trauma Healing & Reconciliation Services. Ginger and her team will provide continuing education as well as support and encouragement to the local counselors in bringing healing to a community that has experienced much devastation from civil war, refugee problems and genocide. Very impressive work! Elizabeth “Libby” Sheain

Katharine Fox Castro, 2004 in Hawaii with Justin, Stella and their Brad Pitt look alike surfing instructor

I write this year’s Connections column from my apartment in New Orleans, a stone’s throw away from where the Ravens reigned victorious in Super Bowl XLVII. Welcoming all of the Baltimore fans to my new city was the first time in my year of living in The Big Easy that it truly felt like home to me. No matter where you go, Baltimore pride stays with you forever. I was so happy to once again be around people who understand that you boil crabs in Old Bay, purple camo pants are for the Ravens, not LSU, and while it may have been a few years since we took home the Lombardi, crabcakes and football is still what Maryland does. Ahsha Merson, who’s still living in San Francisco with her two cats and working at TPG Captial, came to visit for the game.

We had a blast catching up and sporting our Ravens gear all weekend. Also in town for The Harbowl was Stacy Cooper-Kirsch. Stacy has been working for the U.S. Navy since August of 2009. She is lives in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC, which she loves because she doesn’t need a car. Stacy married her long-time boyfriend Matthew Kirsch in August and they had an amazing honeymoon in Italy! Now that Matthew has finished law school, Stacy is in the process of applying to part-time MBA programs for the fall. After teaching for a few years in DC, Cara Hitchner moved to Cambridge, MA, and is working towards her master’s of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Cara plans on returning to the classroom in the fall

and is applying to Early Childhood teaching positions in charter schools in Boston. A little farther south, in NYC, Lawrie Peck has joined Relay Graduate School of Education as the manager of talent. After teaching fifth grade for three years in both East Harlem and Brooklyn, Lawrie now works to recruit people across all functional areas to join Relay GSE, which is expanding nationally to prepare excellent public school teachers for the classroom. Nearby, Maria Stratakis is in her third and final year at Teachers College of Columbia University. Maria is looking forward to graduation in May and receiving her Ed.M. in Psychological Counseling. Amy Kiyota is at the Teachers College of Columbia University as well, studying economics and education. Amy lives on the Upper West side and reports that she visited Paris and Berlin this fall. Elisa Prosperetti reports that she had a wonderful 2011 and 2012 teaching history at a high school in Singapore and making use of school holidays to explore Asia. Elisa starts graduate school in the fall, as a PhD student in African history. Elisa’s next stop is Cameroon, where she’ll teach English and burnish French. Brigitt Roveti lives in Vienna, Austria and loves it. Brigitt spent the bulk of 2012 interning at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and is on the hunt for a new job. She is also still modeling here and there, blogging about flea market finds and caring for her two cats.

If anyone is ever on the European continent and want to meet up, please email Brigitt because she loves visitors! Jocelyn Durkay had an interesting adventure abroad this year.

Stacy Cooper-Kirsch, 2005 with bridesmaids and RPCS classmates Tina Knipp and Amanda Mardiney

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From the Class of 2005, Lawrie Peck, Stephanie Gisriel, Cara Hitchner and Taylor Fragapane at the Harvard vs. Yale Lacrosse game

She spent six weeks in China last summer with her professor working on conservation education through a panda research base!

Jocelyn lives in Denver finishing her master of social work this year at the University of Denver.

Julie Smyth went into social work as well! Julie graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Social Work in May. She moved to Philadelphia where she is working as the social worker in the Special Defense/Homicide Unit at the public defender’s office. Julie absolutely loves her job and says she would gladly talk more about it with anyone who is interested – especially all of the law school folks. On the side Julie is learning how to knit, play piano and bake perfect scones. Life is good! Shannon Burke lives in Philly. She is in her final semester of her master’s program.

From there, she still hopes to attend either dental school or possibly dental hygienist school. Shannon began the application/ interview process for dental schools in December, so hopefully some good news will be coming her way! Olivia Myers is a prenatal

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genetic counselor in Savannah, GA and she loves it! She’s happy to finally have her dream realized. Also living down south in Gainesville, FL, is Krista Romita. Krista is working on her PhD in astronomy. Krista reports that she received her master’s this year, so just one more degree to go! Krista has been traveling a lot for conferences and observing runs. She went to Perth, Australia, Antofagasta, Chile and Leiden, Netherlands. That makes four continents in six months. Erin Catzen works in Winston Salem at IMG College. Erin was promoted in August to Regional Properties and Consulting Manager, and she is working with their 12 Non-BCS schools, helping with forecasting pacing and sales strategies. Erin is also the point person for all of our consulting relationships. She acts as the liaison between the national sales staff and the consulting clients as well as analyzes current and creates new business materials. Erin is also running a Meet Up group for twenty-somethings in the Triad area. Mary Palmer resides in Washington, DC, where works for a campaign consulting

organization. Mary plans and executes finance plans targeting Political Action Committee finances for elected officials. She personally manages a client base of several Members of Congress and one Senator, Senator Cardin of MD. This position broadly expanded her DC network and granted Mary access to different industries and issues, which has been useful in directing her long-term career focus. Mary reports that she enjoyed catching up with some RPCS ladies over the 2012 holidays, and looks forward to receiving updates from the rest of you! Tina Knipp is also in DC, where she works for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda as a management analyst. Tina started school as a part-time student at the University of Maryland, where she is working towards her master’s in public policy. Emily Gates also lives in DC, but she is applying to grad school in transportation engineering. Emily hopes to go to school in another city and looks forward to designing the walkable cities of the future!

Rachel Klein is returning to Maryland after spending the last year working at Total College Sports, a national digital sports network in Chicago. Rachel is extremely excited about her new job with Fox Sports and scout.com where she will be covering University of Maryland athletics and Division I prospects in the Maryland area. Several of our other classmates are still in the 410 as well. Tara Lewis moved back to Baltimore from DC, and is teaching Kindergarten for Baltimore County Public Schools. Brianne Kopf also works for BCPS as a third grade teacher for Colgate Elementary. Brianne plans to start grad school next year, and is living in Canton with Blakely Goldsmith. Blakely works as an admissions coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Nichole Leonard works for her family business, the Leonard Paper Company. As a sales associate, Nichole manages supply-based sales with hospitals and nursing homes in the Baltimore/DC/Virginia area. Nichole moved into Hampden last year, and is really enjoying the new restaurants that continue to spring up in the neighborhood.

Nichole hopes everyone else is doing well!

Brittany Bland works full time and is pursuing a master’s degree in speech pathology. As for me, Erin Durbin, I live in New Orleans with my boyfriend, Britton Nyce, Gilman, 2005 and work as an account executive at Peter Mayer Advertising. I enjoy spending my free time exploring New Orleans architecture, music, culture, and cuisine, playing with my dog, Brewer and volunteering with the Louisiana SPCA. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the 2013 Connections!

Class of 2006 Lisa Diver Diverl@rpcs.org As I write this year’s Connections article, I cannot help but think back twelve years ago when we were in the seventh grade. You may be wondering why I am referencing a time when we were in the middle of the middle, but it was when we were all going through that slightly awkward, transitional stage in our lives that the Ravens won the Super Bowl. Fast forward twelve years, and we have another Super Bowl victory under our belts! It seems that we are quite literally all over the world, which is why I have chosen to break this year’s article into geographical locations beginning with DC and ending with our classmates living and working abroad. Without further ado, here are our class notes for 2013. Brooke Christofferson has had a whirlwind year, and it seems like an exciting summer lies ahead!

Last June, Brooke got engaged, and plans to marry this June in Baltimore. Jane Dewire is going to be a bridesmaid in the wedding.

Brooke and her fiancé, who will graduate from the Pennsylvania State Dickinson School of Law moved to Alexandria, VA as he completes his final semester as an intern at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. After their wedding, they are planning on will honeymoon in Croatia. Brooke is applying to Graduate School, and hopes to start an MBA program in the DC area this fall. She continues to work for GSA FAS, and is now working in FEDSIM, which works with a number of civilian and defense agencies. As a Project Manager, she manages large, complex, IT procurements. Laura Keenan works as an account executive at Edelman Public Relations.

She works on the health team with multiple health-related clients including, supporting a trade association and pharmaceutical company among others. Her office is six blocks away from her apartment which she says makes for a convenient commute. Laura still really enjoys living in DC and being so accessible to family and friends at home. After finishing her two year Teach for America placement, Chelsea Kirk has chosen to continue as a High School English teacher at Maya Angelou Academy, a DC charter school located in Laurel. The school is located within New Beginnings Youth Development Center which is DC’s secure facility for adjudicated males. Chelsea writes: I absolutely love teaching and love my school, I love being part of an amazing staff that is working towards ensuring that all of our students rehabilitate through education and

Abbie Mitchell, 2006 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

truly see their full potential. Chelsea is also coaching basketball. Last summer, Chelsea was interviewed by Chelsea Clinton as part of a special program highlighting her school on the NBC TV show, Rock Center hosted by Brian Williams. Chelsea also graduated from American University with her master’s in education. Chelsea tries to visit Lizzy Lenrow, now living in Florida. On a recent trip to Florida, Chelsea and Lizzy ran into Kendall Poling while out on a jog. Small world! Annie Seibert writes: I just started a two-year master’s program this past fall at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in DC where I am concentrating in strategic studies and international economics. I am pursuing internship opportunities for this coming summer in the defense and security field. I also serve on the staff for a department-led trip that will take me to Vietnam this spring to analyze the Vietnam War. Heather Brake works in Canton with the financial advisory firm, Chesapeake Corporate Advisors. Heather began graduate school at Loyola University, where she is pursuing her MBA in finance.

Although the first few weeks of balancing work and school life were challenging, she has mastered the routine now. This summer, Heather plans to travel to Germany to visit a friend from college. Jane Dewire works for Johns Hopkins Hospital as a research assistant in the electrophysiology department, investigating atrial fibrillation trends and procedures. Last year, Jane went on a trip to Egypt. While living in Hampden, Jane Hollon spent the past year working as a production

assistant for the Netflix TV show, House of Cards. She is currently working for the Executive Producer on VEEP, an HBO show starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, where she is kept quite busy on the show’s set. In Jane’s words: even though I work extremely long hours (about 70 a week), I really love my job because I get to be creative, be around like minded people and it never gets boring. Now living in Federal Hill, Lauren Kelly, works as a sales representative at Tesco Technologies. She really loves the people that she works with and has learned a great deal. Last July, Lauren traveled to Vail, CO with Patty for a lacrosse tournament and ran into Caroline Atwater, Lizzie Lauman and Kristin Paterakis. Patty Kelly works for Under Armor, but has changed positions and is now on the Athlete Services and Event Merchandising team. She travels a lot for her job, but is in charge of product/ merchandise on-site at events. This past year Patty traveled for work to Orlando, FL, Mobile, AL, as well as Indianapolis, IN for the NFL combine. Patty and Lauren had the great pleasure of attending Barrett Neale Scott’s wedding this past August. In her third year of graduate school at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Aerospace Engineering Department, Justine Li is studying supersonic turbulent boundary layer interactions through numerical simulations. This past year brought her several travel opportunities, including a trip to Melbourne, Australia where she worked with international collaborators, while enjoying summer in January. Justine is now published and gave her first conference talk

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Barrett Neale Scott, 2006 and husband Sam Scott

this past January, with another conference publication on its way. She lives in College Park, and one of her roommates is Stephanie Ward. Sarah Morehead, 2009. works for Altria and lives in Federal Hill with Molly Ricely and two other girls. After briefly considering going back to school for her MBA, Sarah got a puppy and auditioned for a comedy troupe. She has since realized that these two things keep her plenty busy in her free time and are much more entertaining than grad school. Molly is still with JDRF and coordinated their most successful annual gala to date this past November. The girls had quite a time this year trying to keep up with the openings, closings and changes of ownership of various eateries on their block. Luckily, DIRECTV introduced a DVR box that allows subscribers to record up to five shows at a time, so things are running smoothly on that front. Molly and Sarah see Laura Hearn as often as possible. Laura teaches at the Forbush School and takes classes at Notre Dame to earn her advanced teaching certificate. Laura, Molly and Sarah are gearing up for their sixth kickball season and will be joined by Elizabeth Robertson on the Big Swingin’ Kicks’ roster.

The highlight of Barrett Neale Scott’s year was in August, when she married her high school sweetheart, Sam. Their reception took place at Camden Yards. Unfortunately, her husband’s third and final year of Law School began three days after their wedding so their honeymoon

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has been put on hold until this summer. Barrett works for PressBox, a local sports media company covering Maryland sports teams to youth teams. As the managing editor, Barrett edits all of the print (monthly newspapers) and online content, assigns stories to reporters and oversees the company’s editors and editorial interns. Her job has been especially busy this year due to the Raven’s Super Bowl win. Gabi Romanoski works at Key Point Health Services as a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Counselor. She writes: It’s really interesting to work hands on with the seriously mentally ill and to see the direct impact I can have on their lives. Work is unpredictable every day! On top of work, Gabi is pursuing her master’s in social work at the University of Maryland Baltimore. In the future, she hopes to use her degree to continue working with the mentally ill as a psychotherapist. Gabi lives with her chiweenie (Chihuahua-dachshund mix) in Mount Vernon right across from Peabody. Living in White Hall, Anna Scanlan works as a student nurse at GBMC in their labor and delivery unit in addition to being a student at Towson University. She is pursuing her master’s of science with a concentration in nursing, which she will complete in 2014. Anna hopes to continue to work in labor and delivery at a local Baltimore hospital, and possibly become a teacher or clinical instructor. Anna lives within walking distance of her sister, Carey Scanlan Swift, 1999, which is wonderful as she is an aunt to Adeline Mae and Thomas Swift.

Theresa Statkiewicz graduates this May from the University of Maryland, School of Nursing.

She hopes to work in a local obstetric or pediatric unit following graduation. This December, Theresa completed her first half marathon in Walt Disney World! After two years working as a Junior Research Scholar at the NYU Center for Dialogues, Joanna Taylor, relocated to Baltimore where she lives in Charles Village. She works as a senior administrative assistant at Walker and Dunlop, a financial services firm specializing in multifamily, FHA real estate. She explains: I’m getting to learn a whole new set of skills; I’m learning about finance, which for someone who never excelled at math, is very exciting.

She is traveling to Kinsale, Ireland where she will serve as a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding.

After the wedding, she will travel to Paris!

After spending the last six years living in DC, Mallory Twist, returned to Baltimore, where she works for Architectural Ceramics Inc. that provides tile for apartment buildings, schools, malls and hotels. She has an inside sales role and assists in large commercial projects. “I have wanted to get into the interior design industry as well as a sales roll and this was a great opportunity. I am looking forward to

learning and growing in this position.” This move also allows for Mallory to be closer to her family! Graduating cum laude last spring from West Virginia in Interior Designs with a minor in International Studies, Elizabeth Wahbe moved back to Maryland in what she reports is a “crazy and rewarding year.” In her last semester at WVU, she had a, “huge part in the WV solar decathlon in California in 2013.”

Elizabeth volunteered while looking for a job and built a “face in hole” board for her local fire department, and also spent some time at RPCS where she taught the sixth grade about passive and active solar polar for an upcoming project they were completing. Elizabeth works on both the bay and ocean sides of the Eastern shore at Sherwin Williams in their management training program. Lauren Waters works as a property manager in training in Baltimore County. In addition to auditioning in Baltimore and surrounding areas as a vocalist and actress, she recently reconnected with former RPCS dance teacher, Dana Martin. This spring, Lauren began teaching and choreographing for Ms. Martin’s studio, The Moving Company. She plans to make a big move next year to either New York City or the west coast.

Living with fellow classmate Sara O’Neil, Courtney Weir lives in Federal Hill and works for DSM Nutritional Products, LLC selling vitamins, omega 3 and six polyunsaturated fatty acids, nutraceuticals, and more for use in infant nutrition products. She also began her first semester at Loyola University doing a part time MBA program concentrating in international business. Kelsie Cooper lives in Queens, NY and works as the assistant wardrobe supervisor for the popular NYC attraction, The Ride, as well as occasionally working wardrobe jobs at NYU’s Skirball

Elizabeth Wahbe, 2006 working on an art project she created for her local fire department.

Center. Kelsie attends pub trivia nights, once a week with classmate, Allie Simmons. When their schedules match up, Kelsie and Caroline Galvez also get together. Daniella Faust moved to New York where she is pursuing her master’s of science at NYU’s Professional Program in occupational therapy. After Christmas, Daniella traveled to her favorite place-Italywhere she spent five days in Rome. Caroline Galvez remained in the Big Apple where, when she is not auditioning, she is babysitting for a family with a newborn! This past December, the babysitting company for which she works, named her December babysitter of the month!

Although NYC is a big place, Loretta Lee, still finds herself running into RPCS classmates while living in downtown Manhattan. She continues to work for Ralph Lauren, and even after working there for a few years still gets “butterflies” when she sees Ralph Lauren whom she says, “dresses so well.” While she says it is a tough industry, she loves her job.

Loretta has regular contacts within Asia and Europe to produce the most fashion forward, beautiful products that serve as a reflection of Ralph Lauren’s vision. This summer, Loretta and her family plan to go on a backpacking trip throughout Europe to celebrate her sister’s college graduation! Kathryn Hampton moved to Denver. She is working in advertising for DISH. Having returned from the Super Bowl game, Cassie Mathias graduates this spring from Harvard Law School where she focused on Criminal Justice policies and Complex Litigation. Cassie writes: I have been working on writing part of a course book and a teacher’s manual that are aimed at providing a new type of law school curriculum for a Complex Litigation and Mass Tort course. In a separate project, I am working on analyzing alternatives to incarceration and probation for drug offenders in Baltimore City. Cassie will move to DC, where she accepted an offer to work as an associate at the law firm, King & Spalding in their Special Matters department. Meghan Murphy is in her third year pursuing a doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis. Excitingly, Meghan’s first textbook contribution made its debut in Orthopaedic Biomechanics. Over winter break, she also caught up over lunch with Annie Seibert, Chelsea Kirk and Abbie Mitchell. She particularly enjoyed Abbie’s newly developed English accent! She also enjoyed spending the holiday with her sister-in-law Carla Murphy, 1993 and her nephew, Teddy Murphy, and newborn baby Bailey. Lizzie Lauman has made a large life change, and reports: After graduating from Colgate University, I moved to the Big Apple for quite the adventure. I decided to follow my dreams and move to colorful Colorado. I packed my belongings

Lisa Diver, 2006, Upper School Music teacher with the RPCS Semiquavers

into a green 2006 Subaru Outback and drove across the country with Kathryn Werthman.

We landed in Denver where I later ended up moving into a great house in a young and trendy part of the city with Kristin Paterakis. I landed a great job as a creative coordinator at one of the world’s top ad agencies, Crispin Porter + Bogusky. I work with some of the industry’s most creative and well-known executives and get to witness extremely innovative and ground-breaking advertising on a daily basis. I spend my free time hiking, biking, camping, snowboarding and hanging out in the Rockies. You can often find me tasting Colorado’s finest brews, mastering new yoga asanas, checking out musical artists and simply exploring all that Colorado has to offer.

Davina Passeri is in her third year of her PhD program in Civil Engineering at the University

of Central Florida. She writes: This past year I presented my research estimating shoreline erosion due to sea level rise along the Florida coasts at the American Geophysical fall meeting in San Francisco. My lab also hosted the tenth annual International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering in Orlando where I presented my research and aided in organizing and running the conference. I have also been doing field research to study the effects of sea level rise on marsh systems.

Davina hopes to have some of her research published in manuscripts this year. Megan Pendleton is in the College Student Affairs Administration pursuing her master’s of education at the University of Georgia.

Megan has a graduate assistantship position working in the Center for Leadership and Services. This past summer was quite special

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Sarah Morehead, 2006 with her puppy, Lucy

for Ateret Reisner, as she became engaged, “to my love and creative inspiration, Stuart Cope, a chef here in Pittsburgh.” Ateret works for a small Production Management company running events such as, Three Rivers Arts Festival over the summer, The Pittsburgh International Children’s Theatre Festival in the late spring, and First Night Pittsburgh, the New Year’s Eve celebration. Although she is busy with her job, she has also begun an online master’s in business in art and design program through MICA, where she one day hopes to use her degree to start her own creative business. When she is not busy with work or school, Ateret also enjoys freelancing in graphic design. Carly Dierkes writes: I’m in my second year of teaching conversational English at a high school in a small town outside of Bilbao, Spain. I love my school, Arrigorriaga, where I teach children ages 12-18 as well as a small group of professors. I’m also taking Euskara (Basque) classes at the local language school which is fun, but very challenging. I’m absolutely in love with the Basque Country, being surrounded by gorgeous green mountains and living 20 minutes from the ocean isn’t so bad. I will most likely be here one more year, or possibly many more. Eunice Kwon has returned to the U.S. after having spent the past year living in both Japan and Korea. While in Korea, Eunice had an internship involving IT, education, and translating Korean, English and Japanese. Now that she is back home, Eunice plans on applying to law school. On a personal note, it was wonderful to have Eunice work with the Semis as we sang a song in Japanese as part of our Spring Concert. Abbie Mitchell made a visit back to the U.S. this

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Christmas and surprised me when she came to the RPCS Traditional Upper School Christmas Program. Abbie lives in Edinburgh, Scotland where she works at a boarding school called Fettes College. She writes: I live in a girl’s boarding house as a Resident Tutor, helping to look after 60 teenage girls - it is tough work!

She coaches field hockey, lacrosse and tennis and teaches two classes of eighth and ninth grade History. She says that this is one of her favorite parts of her job, but also the most challenging. “I was able to travel down to London for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, which was quite interesting as an American! I did catch a glimpse of the Queen at the Epsom Downs Racecourse. I also travelled to Prague with the Junior Scotland Lacrosse team for a tournament. I traveled to Southern Spain Costa del Sol, Granada, Seville and Cadiz! I traveled to the Algarve in Portugal as well with an America friend of mine where we were lucky enough to lay on a beach all day!” Abbie has no intentions of slowing down in 2013 and has plans to travel to Toronto, Canada with Junior Scotland Lacrosse where she also hopes to watch the Senior Lacrosse World Championships. Rima Zeitouneh moved from the States to work in Istanbul. For security reasons, she is not able to provide too much information about what she is doing, but she is very excited about this next step in her life and career. As for me, Lisa Diver, this has been a year of changes and beginnings. Last May, I completed my master’s in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College, graduating with Distinction. To celebrate, I spent three weeks last summer traveling through Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. I had a special 24th birthday, celebrating in London, England with my family and friend. While in London, I especially enjoyed experiencing all of the pre-Olympic festivities as well as the Queen’s Jubilee. The biggest change in my life occurred this fall as I began teaching Upper School Music at RPCS. There have been many surreal moments this year, watching students go through the Opening Day Convocation, Christmas Program, Senior Day, Class Day and Commencement. This has been an incredibly rewarding year, and I feel very fortunate to begin my teaching career at RPCS. In keeping with a school tradition, this summer I will travel with the FTE, Roses and Semis for a performance-based trip to Italy. In January, I, just like Theresa Statkiewicz, completed my second half marathon at Disney World in Orlando, FL. This summer, I will be working as the musical director of the Young Actors Theater program at the McDonough School. I am also looking forward to my brother’s wedding this August.

Class of 2007 5th Reunion Caroline Martinet martinetc11@gmail.com This past year the Class of 2007 celebrated our 5th Reunion. It’s truly wild to see how far our class has come since the days of dancing in the senior room and “stealing” snacks from Mrs. Brune’s office. I can’t imagine where we will all be in five more years! Emily Adams is living with Megan Knipp in the Mission District of San Francisco. Emily is in graduate school getting her master’s in integral counseling psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is also a licensed massage therapist. Megan spent much of the past year as a campaign director for the Fund of Public Interest. She worked in the Obama campaign during the presidential election in Colorado.

She works as an assistant to the owner of the Weinstein Gallery which is a surrealist art gallery in the city and is applying for positions in the environmental advocacy field. They both enjoyed being in enemy territory when the Ravens won the Super Bowl and luckily they made it through unscathed! Jessica Adnani started her own company, Personalized Solutions, and January 25 was their one year anniversary! Her company is a DC-based elite concierge service for wealthy Washingtonians.

Their services include personal styling, shopping, hiring of personal assistants, managing of travel, schedules, home organization projects, IT training and more.

The company has really taken off and they are currently working hard to relaunch the website in the next few months. Jessica is also an advisor for a new startup called the Personable Persian. In her spare time Jessica has finally gotten around to taking Farsi classes. Her goal is to sell the company in the next two to three years and then move back to California.

Meena Al-Talib has been working at an orthodontist’s office where she gets to do exciting things like take patient’s wires out and give new patients instructions. She has also been doing research on subjects who have tongue cancer and have had parts of their tongue surgically removed to see how this procedure has impacted their speech at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in the Vocal Tract and Visualization laboratory.

Her research was just recently published! She is applying for jobs at the National Institute of Health (NIH) for next year as well as studying for the Dental Admissions Test, which she is taking this April so that she can apply for

dental schools this summer. Courtney Amelung is in her second year of law school at the University of Maryland. A paper that she wrote for Law Review on parole sentences for juvenile homicide offenders is going to be published in May or early June. Courtney is also going to a Notes and Comments Editor for Law Review, meaning that she will help the 2L’s write and edit their papers next year. This summer she will be working for Schlachman, Belsky & Weiner, a law firm in downtown Baltimore, doing either medical malpractice or products liability work. She is also working towards applying for a post-grad clerkship with a federal judge. Jessica Davis Bashaar is in the Army loving life as a military intelligence officer. The past year she lived with her husband John in Fort Drum, NY where she was very busy first as the assistant military intelligence officer of the battalion, and then as a platoon leader. She got promoted to first lieutenant this year and spent most of her time conducting pre-deployment training. She is in Afghanistan on a nine-month deployment, supporting the Brigade’s intelligence operations. Emmy Bergbower is in her second year of her PhD at the John’s Hopkins School of Medicine. She officially began her dissertation research in May after completing three research rotations. Her work focuses on elucidating the role of SOX2 in small cell lung cancer. Emmy was a co-author on three papers last year, one of which was published in Nature Genetics last October. Jessica Rieger Berman is the first member of the Class of 2007 to have a baby! She and her husband had a beautiful boy, Dominic Gabriel Berman, in March. She will start nursing school in August. Caroline Brown graduated from Skidmore College in 2011 with a degree in studio art. She took a year of anatomy and physiology, which she used as inspiration for her art. The link between art and science sparked her interested in medicine, and she is now getting ready to graduate from NYU College of Nursing this May. She is doing clinical rotations through school at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn on a Cardiac Unit. She is also taking a Community Health course and is working in the outpatient clinic of the Tillary Street Women’s Shelter in Brooklyn. After graduation from NYU she plans to move back to Baltimore to begin her career as a registered nurse hopefully working in pediatric oncology. Amy Cahill is a second year financial statement auditor at KPMG, for a large international trade credit insurance company, as well as one of Baltimore’s largest health systems in Baltimore. She lives in Federal Hill with Jordy Braun and Austin Campbell. They all ran the Baltimore Marathon Relay this past October and they placed in the Top 100 for female

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teams. Austin started as a part-time clinical study coordinator at Spectrum Clinical Research. They are sponsored by the FDA and are doing seven different clinical trials with a couple hundred patients at her location. About six weeks ago she got her Certified Nursing Assistant license. She has been waiting tables and bartending at Porters Pub in Federal Hill and taking classes at the Community College of Baltimore County and is applying to Physician’s Assistant schools in May. Hanley Casey was hired by the insurance agency Maury Donelly & Parr, Inc. in Baltimore. She is part of the Arts Insurance program which handles insurance for all types of artists including Broadway shows, filmmakers, ballets, operas and gallery openings. She was promoted and will be taking over all the films within the program. Rebecca Clark is finishing up her second year as a Teach for America Special Education Teacher in rural Louisiana.

She plans on moving back to Baltimore next year to teach Special Education and pursue her master’s degree in education. Jaime Crawford graduated from Towson and is an Operations Specialist at GP Strategies Corporation. Her team focuses on LMS systems and hosting sites. They are growing rapidly and expanding to Europe and she hopes to transition over to one of their new departments in China or England. Outside of work she has fallen in love with scuba diving and this April will officially be a certified diver. Zoë Dolan lives in New York City and works for Moda Operandi, an e-commerce site that allows people to

pre-order fashion directly from the runway.

They did a relaunch of the site this past fall, so now they feature products for immediate ship “in season” along with the pre-order items.

The company is rapidly expanding which has been very exciting! This past October, Zoë travelled for a week to Rome and Florence where she was able to stay near her old apartment from when she studied abroad by the Colosseum in College. Hollis Dvorkin is a first year PhD student in the history department at Princeton University. She studies the high Middle Ages (1000-1360), but particularly 12th and 13th Century France. She received a grant to study German this summer so she will be in Munich for the month of August. Kaylie Forner graduated from Stevenson University with a bachelor of art’s in business communication. She was a Production Intern for Feats, Inc., an event production and management company in Baltimore, during her last semester of school. She loved working with Feats so much that she joined their team after college as a traffic communicator working with the design and production teams to keep projects moving quickly and the lines of communication open. One of her coworkers is Kristina Pompa, 2002! She will run in the Baltimore half-marathon this year. Annabel Franz is in the applied behavior analysis field working with developmentally challenged children. In her spare time she waits tables and bartends at the Mellow Mushroom. She finished sending in applications for clinical psychology master’s and PhD programs for the

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fall. Carrie Gamper was promoted from being a Customer Service rep to being the National Events Manager to now running Women’s Lacrosse Marketing at STX! She has traveled all over the country, run photo shoots, signed athletes and has spent a lot of time on STX’s social media sites. Kiley Gray is in culinary school at Johnson & Wales University in Providence. She spent her winter trimester as an intern at the Langham Hotel in the Financial District in Boston. This spring she will have her associate’s degree in culinary arts, and by next spring she hopes to have a second bachelor’s degree in food service management.

Hillary Gross lives in Washington, DC and will be graduating from American University this May with her master’s degree in political science. She works on Capitol HIll as a Staff Assistant for Congressman Bob Gibbs. She is focused on finishing her degree and looks forward to the next step in her career in politics. Bethy Hagan lives in Santa Monica and works for Adrenaline Lacrosse. She got promoted earlier this year to be the Regional Program Director of Los Angeles. She organizes all the youth programs, training, leagues, camps, marketing, outreach, etc. for her region. Bethy will be starting at the University of Maryland’s Smith School in August to get her MBA in business! Jessica Harris lives in Baltimore and is in her second year of teaching kindergarten in Baltimore City. She loves being a teacher and enjoys living in the city. She is also working at Hebrew School on Sunday mornings with three and four year-olds. This past summer she was lucky enough to be selected to write curriculum for her district and will be doing the same thing this school year. She is now writing curriculum that all kindergarten teachers in the city are required to use. She has been presenting to teachers all over the city on professional development days. Jessica is also in graduate school part-time at Towson University. She will also be going to Israel with her family this summer. Stephanie Heldrich is the first assistant for one of the top fashion photographers in Chicago, Billy Rood, who has been working on major projects like Burberry’s Art of the Trench campaign. She attended Burberry’s new Chicago store launch where Carl Barat performed. Before working with Billy she worked at Refinery29 Chicago as a photographer. She is also working as a professional re-toucher working on images of models (see, their skin isn’t actually that perfect!). Casi Horstman works at Baltimore’s Best Events as a part-time graphic designer where she makes ads, flyers, invitations, party graphics and basically anything else that the owner needs. She is also one class away from leaving Towson University with a certificate in

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Interactive Media. She hopes to one day be a web designer/programmer. She also works part time at a restaurant and has an internship with Milestone Media. She will be moving to Washington, DC this summer with Hillary Gross and Meena Al-Talib! Kate Kauffman works at Anthropologie as their display coordinator in charge of the store windows and interior displays. It’s her dream job and she couldn’t be happier being able to get paid to make art! She just got an art studio downtown in the arts district so she should be able to make her own work in her spare time.

She’s had some art shows in Washington, DC and Baltimore but she hopes with this studio to create new artwork so she can apply for more shows and grants. Naina Khandelwal is making it through her second year of medical school at Washington University in St. Louis.

She participates in hospital sessions every two weeks where she gets to apply what she’s learned and talk to real patients. Bella Kline hiked the Appalachian Trail last summer from Mount Katahdin to the southern terminus, Springher Mountain, in northern Georgia. It was the hardest and most amazing five and a half months of her life and she met truly amazing people on the trail. Now she is off to Chicago to find work in the restaurant industry. Aly Massof is in her second year of graduate school at Ohio State pursuing her PhD in philosophy. She started developing her dissertation topic where her research will be on the role of patient autonomy in developing standards of informed consent in the medical field as well as the compatibility of patient

autonomy with the authority of physicians.

She is also teaching undergraduates about issues in ethics. Suzie Mellinger has been in Nashville for about a year and a half and loves it. She is in graduate school at Lipscomb University earning her master’s in special education and is getting certified in applied behavior analysis. She goes to class at night and works full time as a teaching assistant at an elementary school. In her minimal free time she also works for a small tutoring company where she was recently promoted to the Director of Educational Services. Rachel Meyer lives in Washington, DC and works for a boutique consulting company, Avascent. She started focusing on the healthcare industry and is taking an online class on applications for healthcare data in the cloud. She is also still running road races with her third halfmarathon coming up this spring. Hayley Milbourn moved to New York City after graduation and started working at Edelman PR in the corporate division. It was an amazing experience and she got to work on great accounts such as Citi, Samsung and GE. She left about a month ago to work for a smaller corporate/financial PR firm called Sloane & Company in Times Square. She says working in Times Square is a madhouse and that she gets accosted by Spiderman and Mickey Mouse whenever she leaves the building.

Desiree Pais has been studying Eastern Philosophies, particularly Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. After completing two Yoga teacher trainings she decided she wanted to explore her interests in natural medicine and is

currently pursuing a master’s in chinese medicine. Allegra Romita lives in Brooklyn and is the administrative assistant at the American Center for the Alexander Technique.

She also teaches yoga at Power Yoga and New York Sports Club. She dances for Amy Cova Dance, Denae Dance Theater and Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (Sydnie is a 2003 RPCS grad!).

She has been busy performing at many spaces in the city as well as Jacob’s Pillow and Middlebury College. Most recently, she was part of a performance at State College, PA at Penn State University which was a part of their Women’s Studies Conference Speaking Up: A Feminist Practice. Amy Ryan lives in Baltimore and works at the Hotel Monaco as a Sales Manager booking entertainment. This spring she will be moving to Dallas to start her dream job with Expedia. Molly Sober lives Manhattan and works as an advisory associate at Winston Art Group, an art appraisal and advisory firm.

She assists clients in selling their art and collectibles either by placing work in auctions or by soliciting private purchase offers. Lisa Taber works in advertising in New York City.

Up until this past Chrismtas, she was working with the global agency Grey advertising as an account executive on the Ally Bank account.

Now Lisa is working at a smaller agency in Soho called Anomoly where she works on accounts such as Google+ and Seagram’s 7 Whiskey. Jenny Wolock is in New York City working at Tory Burch as a production assistant. She traveled to Mexico this past year with her family to swim with whale sharks! I am living with Megan Trenery in Woodley Park in Washington, DC. Megan is a development assistant at Children’s Hospital Foundation and particularly enjoys planning special events for the kids with the Washington Capitals, Nationals and Wizards. We both ran the Baltimore Half Marathon this past fall and raised $700 for the One Love Foundation. As for me, Caroline Martinet, I have been working at an international affairs think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies since March 2012. I am a program coordinator for the Transatlantic Media Network (TMN) and the Williamsburg-CSIS Forum. Basically, for the TMN I assist in the running of a fellowship program for European journalists to research and travel in the US and for the Williamsburg Forum I help to plan two major international conferences a year aimed to promote the development of effective political and economic systems in areas where they are weak or lacking. Our first conference this April is focusing on Egypt.

Class of 2008 Katie Riordan k.riordan517@gmail.com I always knew the Class of 2008 would take the world by storm! Now that our college experiences are over, my classmates have embarked on yet another new adventure, which required a lot of relocating! They live all over the place including Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, England, Egypt and even Thailand! Savannah Bass graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama in May, with a degree in public relations. She lives in Nashville, TN and works for Peritus Public Relations as an account executive, working with clients ranging from Stoney River to Special Olympics, with lots of public affairs clients in between. Savannah enjoys all that Music City and the south have to offer, with occasional trips back to Alabama to cheer on the Crimson Tide football team. Caitlin Cantrell graduated form The University of the Arts with a degree in dance education. She has briefly returned to RPCS (along with fellow classmates Liz Hamiton and Caroline Riina), where she choreographed the RPCS Upper School musical Nunsense. She has made her professional debut in The Doors Project. She has enjoyed her time back in Baltimore, she plans to move to NYC to pursue a career in dancing. Caroline Cobert graduated from University of Richmond with a BS in biology and classics (minor in archaeology). In February 2012, the gallery exhibition she curated about her work on the mummy TiAmeny-Net opened; it was an amazing experience for her and a great success. Caroline moved to Sheffield, UK in September to begin her MSc in human osteology and funerary archaeology. The program is fascinating and challenging, and Caroline loves living in England, despite the weather. After completing her master’s work in September, Caroline plans to go on to a PhD and continue her work in analysis of ancient human remains. Tanaira Cullens did a fellowship last year at the Duke Marine Lab, took some marine biology related classes, and traveled to Singapore and Malaysia for snorkeling, hiking and more learning. She is waiting to hear back from graduate schools, as she is hoping to get her master’s in science/ biology. Ellen Franz graduated cum laude from Brandeis University last year, with degrees in Art History and Film, Media and Television Studies. She works for Lemon and Lime Event Design in Baltimore, as an event coordinator.

Eventually, Ellen would love to become a wedding planner. Elise Gonzales finished her

days at Carnegie Mellon, graduating with a BS in computer science and a minor in Chinese studies. She’s since moved to Seattle to work for Microsoft. She works on the calendar application in Windows 8, as well as championing for accessibility and localization of the apps. Chris Gummerson is back in Baltimore working as a medical scribe for the Emergency Department at Anne Arundel Medical Center. Natalie Hazlehurst graduated with an MA in sustainable development from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) in June. She moved back to Baltimore and is working at Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. in Washington DC as a proposal coordinator. Jennifer Hearn graduated from St. Lawrence University in May, and took some time off after college to return to Copenhagen, and visit her Danish host family. She lives in Boston and works in property management of commercial real estate for Beal & Company.

Cathy Hebert is working at a co-ed boarding school called Rendcomb College in Cirencester, England. She predominately coaches lacrosse, but also works in the school’s marketing department. During her time off from teaching, she has had plenty of time to travel. She has recently signed on for a second year of teaching in England. In May, Bridget Hollon graduated from University of Maryland, College Park with a BS in psychology. She lives in Washington, DC working as an administrative assistant at Carr Workplaces, a Commercial Real Estate Company, which specializes in executive business office space. Since graduating from Johns Hopkins University, Dasha Iventicheva moved to Washington, DC, where she works for the General Counsel at the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. Dasha enjoys exploring her new city. After graduating from The University of Pennsylvania in May, Andrea Lynch took a trip to Europe with Jasmine Moss, which was filled with adventure. Andrea lives in Washington, DC and works with a consulting firm. Andrea does not know what lies ahead with her career, but she is counting down the seconds until attending Beyoncé’s concert in NYC in August. Last summer, Whitney McClees had a summer internship with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. She worked in their Marine Invasions Lab with a mud crab native to the Chesapeake Bay and it’s invasive parasitic barnacle. She was in charge of fieldwork collections and ran an experiment with the crab larvae and their salinity tolerance. She has a part-time job as a Peer Review Associate for online scientific journals, PLOS One. Ugochi Njoku is enrolled in the Public Administration Graduate Program at American University, which includes a specialization in international social and health policy. She is awaiting an internship with the

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World Bank within their Global Food Crisis Response Program. Elizabeth Piper and Patty Redfield moved to Thailand after graduation.

After graduating from Loyola College, Elizabeth decided she wanted to explore the world and return to the country that captured her heart during her time abroad. In Thailand, she is teaching English to the university students. This year has been full of both struggle and success, but she is feeling optimistic that this experience is going to lead her somewhere completely unexpected! Patty teaches third, fourth, and sixth grade math and science. After traveling in Indonesia, India and Nepal, Patty will be moving home to Baltimore to pursue a career as a Physician Assistant.

Lauren Pratt graduated from the University of Tampa in May, and returned to Baltimore to work at the Animal Medial Center in Mount Washington as a veterinary technician. Lauren has applied to veterinary schools, and is hoping to attend school next year. After her time with America’s Next Top Model, Jane Randall returned to Princeton University to finish up her senior year, as a history major. After graduation, she plans to move to New York City to continue modeling with IMG, while also applying to law school. In May, Bailey Reeves graduated from Penn State University, with a major in supply chain and information systems. After graduation, she went on a European Tour with the Alumni Association visiting London, Paris and Rome. In June, she moved to Appleton, WI, where she is a materials planner for Kimberly Clark. She plans all of the raw materials for one of their plants in the area. She survived her first Wisconsin winter, and all of the Packers Fans (Go Ravens!). After graduating magna cum laude form Georgetown, Kate Reilly moved to Cairo, Egypt where she is working in the Presidential Internship Program at the American University in Cairo. Caroline Riina and Liz Hamilton have returned to Roland Park Country School to teach and coach Upper School students. Caroline is teaching ninth grade biology and is coaching the crew team.

She is so happy to have studied with David Brock, and now has the opportunity to be mentored by him during her first year of teaching. She loves being back at RPCS, and having the opportunity to work directly with the faculty that we admired during our time as students. After graduating from the University of Virginia in May, Lucy Scholz moved to New Orleans to teach high school math for Teach for America. Aside from loving the food, awesome music, great weather and southern culture, she loves teaching algebra and geometry. Her students are always entertaining and make her job enjoyable. She plans to stay in the south for the next couple years, as she

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can’t imagine living anywhere other than the “Big Easy.” Lilly Siems graduated from Brown University with a BA with honors in community health and a BA in psychology. Lilly’s senior thesis in Community Healthy was titled Disability to Ability: Using Sport to Improve Health and Empower Children with Disabilities in a World of Limited Resources. This thesis documented her research in Zimbabwe while working at a Sport for Development non-profit for three months. Lilly finished her gymnastics career by going to The USAG National Championships as a competitor on uneven bars. Lilly works as a Research Assistant at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. She works on a longitudinal study called Project Viva doing Maternal and Child health research. After work, Lilly coaches gymnastics at Gymnastics Academy of Boston. Laura Simanski graduated from University of Cincinnati last year, with a degree in political science. She is taking all prerequisite classes for nursing school at Towson University. After graduating from MIT last June with a degree in biology and a minor in history, Lauren Sless works as a research associate between the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital to contribute to the development of treatments for Crohns Disease and Type I Diabetes. She volunteers with the Brides Against Breast Cancer program and is involved in planning the Lungevity Foundation’s 2013 Breathe Deep Boston 5K charity walk. In addition, Lauren has begun the application process for medical school and plans to matriculate in 2014. Becca Taylor worked as an intern at Meridian International Center, which is a global non-profit in DC committed to developing global leadership through the exchange of ideas, people and culture in their Global Service Leaders division. She worked to connect over 300 service leaders from around the world and organized an MLK International Day of Service. In January, she moved to Silver Spring and started as a full-time employee at Meridian as a program associate working to design and organizes exchange programs for the U.S. Department of State’s International Volunteer Leadership Program, which brings leaders from all over the world to the United States on exchange programs. Julia Tompkins will graduate from UNCW in May with a degree in communication studies and community health. Julia has started looking for jobs, and plans to move to Raleigh, NC after graduation. Kerry Weir lives in Baltimore, and works at TBC Inc., a local advertising agency in Fells Point. She is thriving at her job, as she was promoted to account coordinator after only six months, and she now works directly with the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. Noelle Winicki

graduated from Vanderbilt University in May, and lives in New York City and is working at an art gallery. And finally I, Katie Riordan, graduated in May from Hobart & William Smith Colleges and moved to New York City with my friends from college. I work at Marie Claire magazine (alongside fellow RPCS alumna, Lulu Zeitouneh, 2001) as a sales assistant to the fashion representatives.

Everyday brings something new, and I am taking full advantage of everything that the Big Apple has to offer! I think 2013 is going to be a great year for the Class of 2008, and I am excited to watch my classmates embrace their next big adventures!

Class of 2009 Dani Makia dem5aj@virginia.edu 2013 is going to be a big year for the RPCS Class of 2009. Most of us will be graduating and moving on to a different chapter in our lives. It’s crazy to think that four years have passed since we left the gates of 5204 Roland Avenue. Let’s see what some of the class has been up to! Mackenzie Cooke is finishing her senior year at Elon University. She spent her fall semester interning at Child Protective Services and she absolutely loved it. She also had the privilege of studying abroad in South Africa over winter term. Mackenzie takes two classes, works at a local homeless shelter and is trying to figure out what she is going to be doing in the years to come. Claire Downs is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis. She is captain of the varsity softball team, social chair of the equestrian team and a member of the Ervin Scholars program. After completing her degree in environmental biology and ancient studies, she plans to move to Ann Arbor, MI to work for the social advocacy group, Fund for the Public Interest, as an assistant director. Morgan Dvorkin will graduate from Northwestern University in June with a double major in industrial engineering and economics. After graduation, she will travel to Peru to work as part of a medical mission for two weeks. In mid July she will move to Washington, DC where she will start her career as a business analyst for Capital One. Kelly Martinet will be graduating Cum Laude from Skidmore College this May. She majored in French and minored in arts administration, art history and dance. Frances Loucks will be graduating from Northwestern this year with majors in industrial engineering and economics and a certificate from the Kellogg

School in managerial analytics. This summer she will move to Washington, DC and in the fall she will start working for Accenture doing management consulting for Federal clients. She is excited to move back to (or at least close to) the land of Old Bay and the Ravens! In the meantime, she plans to enjoy her last Chicago winter, hopefully making it to all the museums, restaurants and cultural sites she has wanted to see since arriving in Evanston.

Lindsay Katz is one semester away from graduating from Tufts University with a BA in psychology and child development. She is the captain of the varsity tennis team and a research assistant at the Emotion, Brain and Behavior laboratory at Tufts. Next year she is hoping to work as a full-time research assistant and eventually pursue a career in pediatric neuropsychology. Courtney Kuhn graduated from Boston College with a degree in political science. Over the summer, Courtney staffed a congressional campaign. Last fall, she was a political intern at a national presidential campaign headquarters. She spent her spring break touring Rome with the Boston College University Chorale and performed at St. Peter’s Basilica. Kenny Likes is graduating from Haverford College with a degree in biology/ neuroscience. Through her employment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, she has presented clinical research at several meetings across the country. Her fourth season as an attacker on the HC Women’s Lacrosse team is under way. Lily Mackenty is enjoying her final year at Dickinson College. She is busy as a double history and political science major while continuing her involvement in her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, among other campus activities. Katy Sherman will be graduating in May from The School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. This past semester Katy has had the good fortune of working on the television show Mad Men, which helped her decide to stay in Los Angeles after graduation. In June, Katy will begin her professional career in the Digital Marketing department of the Fox Network. In the past four years Katy has been an active participant of the USC Equestrian Team as well as her sorority Gamma Phi Beta. Nealy Harnsberger graduated a semester early from Dickinson College with honors, where she double majored in Spanish and Russian. At Dickinson, she enjoyed being an RA and in Pi Beta Phi. She is now pursuing a career in private banking. As for me, Dani Makia, I will be graduating from the University of Virginia in May, with a BA in government. I am hoping to work either as a Legal Assistant at a private law firm or as an Associate at an economic consulting firm for a couple years before pursuing law school. Until next time, Connections readers!

Class of 2010 Meg VanDeusen mcv.deusen@gmail.com Helen Yearley yearhb0@wfu.edu Jenn Abrams had an amazing study abroad experience during the first half of her junior year in Maastricht, Netherlands.

While abroad, she did lots of traveling, some studying and now has friends in every corner of the world. She finished up her junior year at Hobart and William Smith and is looking forward to senior year. Mahu Attenoukon has enjoyed traveling and improving her Spanish skills during her second semester abroad in Madrid. She is looking forward to an exciting summer in New York and returning to Penn next year as the president of her sorority’s chapter. Tenley Bands has recently become a team member of the Syracuse University sailing team. She is still studying biology with intentions to attend dental school in the future.

Liza Barley is finishing up her junior year studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa.

She has been taking advantage of all of the activities that Cape Town offers including bungee jumping, skydiving, shark cage diving and safaris. Billie Beckley spent spring semester studying marine ecology in South Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands. Meredith Blomquist went to Australia for four weeks on a service learning trip last May and just successfully finished her junior year of college at JMU as a Health Service Administration major and business minor. This past year has been wonderful at JMU and she’s looking forward to a relaxing summer! Kallie Brennan had an

amazing fall semester studying abroad in London. She just finished her junior year and will be returning to London for the summer where she will be interning at the British Museum! Meredith Callis spent her fall semester traveling abroad in Europe, while attending school and playing on the Royal Holloway lacrosse team in Surrey, England.

This summer she has an internship at the Child and Adolescent Day Hospital at Sheppard Pratt in Towson. Meredith Chasney is currently studying abroad in Madrid at the Universidad de Complutense! She is still pursuing a major in government with a double minor in art history and spanish. Lindsay Cheek is majoring in Digital Media with a minor in General Business. She plans to graduate from the University of Alabama in December 2013.

Elizabeth de la Reguera spent her first semester junior year in Woods Hole at the Marine Biological Laboratory conducting her own research on the effects of human management on urbanized lawns. This summer she will be at the Cary Institute, working directly with Peter Groffman at the Baltimore Ecosystem Center’s Long Term Ecological Research site.

Catherine Dougherty is still having an awesome time at Bucknell where she is an active member of DoRAK (Do Random Acts of Kindness), Engineers for Sustainable Development and Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity. She had the most incredible time abroad in London last fall and can’t wait until she can visit again! This summer she will be interning at PwC before gearing up for her last year of college! Jillian Downing is currently interning as an editorial assistant for the Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group and working as a writing tutor for the University of Maryland Writing Center. She is completing her BA in English literary studies and

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pursuing two minors in global poverty and sustainability studies. Jennifer Fowler has been really busy at WashU! When she’s not focusing on art history, marketing and architecture, she’s involved in her sorority, AEPhi, on various committees including the 2014 rush executive board. Life in the Midwest has been wonderful! Hanna Frank finally left Baltimore this past fall when she studied abroad in New Zealand and had the time of her life. She came back for the spring semester at Loyola where she continued to peruse her marketing degree, and also got an internship working with Chipotle as the Student Brand Manager for Loyola. Ann Friddell is graduating early in December from UVA and hoping to pursue graduate school for clinical psychology.

She will be in Charlottesville in the spring doing research. Andrea Gebel has been studying Psychology in Brussels, Belgium, for the past year and will study there for the next two years. Kate Geraghty is having a great time at Northwestern University writing for NU’s fashion magazine, STITCH, and showing off her Wildcat spirit as Northwestern’s Homecoming Co-Chair. Kalli Bouloubassis was an RA and peer tutor this year, still in biomedical engineering and materials & science engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. This summer she will be working as a materials engineering intern at Nucor Steel in Charleston, South Carolina. She could not be more excited to be near a beach! Shelby Kalm studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina this past Fall. Next year she will be finishing up her undergraduate degrees in both studio art and public policy. Ellen Kauffman loves the University of Maryland! She spent her second semester studying abroad in Sydney, Australia and is considering looking for a career there.

Morgan Lambert, a strategic communications major and sports management minor, has been extremely busy this year with school and lacrosse. After winning the first ever Big South Conference Women’s Lacrosse Championship, her team is on the way to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history. Kelsey Lynch has been working on her degree in policy analysis and management at Cornell University in addition to being involved in several clubs on campus. She will be spending the summer in NYC interning for Korff Enterprises. Cameron McClees helped make a prototype for the video game she is going to help create, for her final project, next year. She is also working for Pay Pal again this summer, going back to SIGGRAPH and getting her second degree black belt. Alex Pace finished her third year competing for the MSU gymnastics team with career high scores on both beam and floor. She is living in Michigan this summer for an internship with MSU’s

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strength and conditioning program and couldn’t be more excited. Chelsea Pajardo completed a BA in psychology at the University of Connecticut and continues to study history with a minor in political science. She worked with a graduate student’s dissertation on the early detection of autism and assisted a professor in collecting oral histories of migrated west indians. This summer she will resume being a law clerk for attorney Warren A. Brown and in the fall will continue as an R.A., Employee of UConn Video, CFO of African Students Association and member of UConn Law Society and become the fundraising chair for Kicks For Africa (KFA).

Kallie Parchman had another great year and could not be more excited for her senior year.

She helped lead the Yale women’s lacrosse team to a winning season and won the Holgate Award for most dedicated player. Among other things on campus, she continued her work with the non-profit Operation Opportunity. Last summer, she studied abroad in Cambridge and will be interning in NYC this summer. Molly Prey just got home from a semester abroad in Florence, Italy. Her next adventure will be living in New York City for the summer and working for Vogue Magazine.

While she is sad to be a senior at UVM, she cannot wait to return to Burlington after so much time away. Diane Radov just finished her junior year at Syracuse University. She was appointed a trainer and head crew chief on the Syracuse University ambulance and continues to pursue her pre-med interests. In addition she is working on her honors capstone thesis at SU. Sage Schaftel is finishing her junior year at Pitzer College. There she is double majoring in environmental analysis and anthropology, running track, and working with a Food Justice non-profit. After next year she hopes to remain in California and work with AmeriCorps. Olivia Slawinski just finished her

junior year at Ohio State University and is studying political science and security and intelligence. She is currently the academic chair for her sorority Delta Delta Delta. Also Olivia is studying abroad in Ireland for the month of May and has an internship in DC working for a lobbying firm for summer 2013.

Caroline Thomsen is studying business administration at Georgia Tech, concentrating in finance. Outside of class, Caroline enjoys being involved in the local community through Eye to Eye, a mentoring program for students with learning disabilities. Erin Trenery spent the fall semester of her junior year studying abroad through Semester at Sea, an opportunity which enabled her to visit 16 countries in a span of four months. This past April, she participated in the DC Nike Womens Half Marathon in honor of her late friend Casey Schulman. She plans to graduate from UVA next spring with a degree in economics and a certificate in business. Meg VanDeusen spent her fall semester in Chapel Hill continuing her women and gender studies and anthropology majors while diving in to the world of oral histories. Many of her interests have culminated into a research project documenting and analyzing the life stories of women leading Holland’s food movement during her semester abroad in Amsterdam.

Meg is looking forward to spending her summer with an HIV clinic in Kampala, Uganda! Helen Yearley had a fantastic year at Wake Forest University! She is pursuing PA school after graduation and is majoring in health and exercise science with minors in biology and psychology. Helen is very involved in her sorority, Kappa Delta, as well as many other organizations on campus. She is staying in Winston-Salem working with a grant to do Diabetes research through the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the URECA Foundation.

Members of the Class of 2010 on campus for a Varsity basketball game

Class of 2011 Sally Tucker sally.tucker@furman.edu Haley Venick venick@email.sc.edu Rabia Ahmad attends Loyola University Maryland. She is involved in various clubs such as Autism Awareness, dance, and Asian Awareness. Jodi Askew is a sophomore at George Washington University and is a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority and is applying get her bachelor’s degree in public health services with a minor in sustainability.

She will be working at the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health this summer with Joel Gittelsohn’s research team on the project, Maryland Healthy Stores, which works to improve healthy food availability and consumption by intervening on small stores in rural Maryland. Talia Aygun loves sunny Santa Barbara. She recently declared her major and is pursuing dual degrees in bioanthropology and sociology. Next year she hopes study abroad in Australia at the University of Sydney.

Molly Blondell is majoring in environmental studies and political science at the University of Chicago. This past fall she ran in the Chicago Marathon and hopes to do the same next year. Juliet Boucher traveled to Cuba with Madison Formwalt on an Inside Lacrosse trip introducing lacrosse to the country. Juliet studies nursing at Messiah College and tutors first and second graders. As a sophomore, Victoria Campitelli has made the Dean’s List three semesters in a row, studying health sciences at Towson University. In the fall she joined Zeta Tau Alpha sorority as a way to get more involved in the community and raise awareness for breast cancer. Lauren Edwards is enjoying her second year playing volleyball at FDU. She made the Dean’s List in her fall and spring semesters and is majoring in communications. She is taking a lot of communication electives to determine what field to focus on. Madison Formwalt transferred to San Diego State University. She is on their lacrosse team and this spring will be their second season as a varsity program. She loves the weather, San Diego and is fortunate to spend a lot of time on the beach. Briana Hines is majoring in chinese studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a member of the executive boards for the Spirit Buggy Team (an unofficial sport at CMU) and the Spanish and Latin Students Association. She is hoping to study abroad over the summer and sometime during the next academic year. Jaymie Im is an art and computer science major. Also, her niece

Grace Lee, 2011 and Kelly Smulovitz, 2011 at the Atlanta Regional Reunion

is now a student at Roland Park Country School. Zoe Jack has kept busy at Hopkins and will major in psychology, with a double minor in economics and entrepreneurship and management. She is thrilled to have made Dean’s List for the past two semesters and continues to focus on her academics. She is a member of the investment team for the professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi, and serving as a pre-orientation director and leader for the JHU Outdoor Pursuits program. Zoe is still blogging for Hopkins Interactive, and therefore attends many admissions events and loves speaking with prospective students. Maya Jackson has decided to finish her education at Hood College and she plans to major in social work with a minor in gerontology. She runs track and is still working in the Sports Medicine Center. Tracy Kaczorowski is a theatre arts administration major at Wagner College. She enjoying taking both business and theatrerelated courses, and is grateful to be studying and living in New York City. She is looking forward to performing throughout Germany and Austria this spring as a member of the Wagner College Choir. Regan Kaestner loves school in snowy Erie, PA. She is majoring in athletic training and considering a minor in pre-physician’s assistant. With lacrosse starting, she is very busy, but is looking forward to going to Orlando for spring break with her team. Jinny Kim is on track to major in communications and minor in consumer

behavior. She is also in two clubs: Strictly Funk and Wharton Retail Club. She is the assistant chair of Strictly Funk as well as a dancer and choreographer. As the deputy vice president of digital media and design, she has spent the year designing flyers, brochures and banners for Wharton Retail Club’s events and conferences. She is currently in the process of applying for study abroad next fall. Angela Leasca is a public health major at the University of Maryland. She is active in her sorority and a member of the Student Health Advisory Committee, which serves as the student voice of the Health Center. She also keeps busy with her Gemstone Honors project, for which she is using laparoscopic methods to study endocrine disruption in largemouth bass. This winter, she studied abroad in India. Claire Lidston is working towards a double major in chemistry and mathematics at Williams College. She is performing with the Contemporary Dance Ensemble and had an internship this past summer at a materials science lab. Allyson Luray transferred to the University of Delaware as a fashion merchandising major. She is enjoying the new school, active in clubs on campus and will be rushing in the spring. Allie Mason is enjoying her sophomore year at Elon University. She has loved living with nine other girls in her sorority house. Allie is also looking forward to spending next fall abroad in London. Casey Merbler loves Dickinson and has become involved in numerous activities.

She recently went on a service trip to New Orleans to renovate damaged homes, pledged a sorority and is enjoying a photography internship on campus. Mattie Meredith attends the University of Maryland and loves it there. Catherine Mitchell also loves UMD and has become a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.

She has declared kinesiology as her major with a physician’s assistant focus. This past summer she spent a month in Italy and had the time of her life. She plans to go abroad again, and is deciding between London and Australia. Ellie Murphy played field hockey and lacrosse for Sewanee this year and is headed to the London School of Economics this summer. Julia Palmer is enjoying her second year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is majoring in media and society with a focus in TV and film, and is double minoring in English and psychology. She will be continuing her media studies while she is studying abroad in Rome next fall. Ady Pié lives in Emerson College’s 14th Century Dutch castle in Well, Limburg. She will probably never return.

Jordana Pollack attends George Washington University in Washington, DC. She serves as Vice President of Standards for her sorority, Alpha Epsilon Phi. Jessica Pupkin is a sophomore at Syracuse University. She is

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majoring in public policy and philosophy with a concentration in ethics in legal systems and government and a minor in strategic management. She also serves on the junior Panhellenic Council and was elected to be on her sorority’s executive council as the vice president of campus relations. Megan Riedel is studying exercise science at the University of South Carolina and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. This summer she will be interning at Sinai Hospital shadowing surgeons. Caroline Seats transferred to the University of Virginia where she is playing lacrosse. She also enjoys being classmates with Daniela Eppler. Noor Seth has been going to Salisbury University.

She started her glass blowing at Salisbury and it is now her major and new obsession. Liza Siems loves Tulane. She is double majoring in economics and social policy and practice and minoring in political science. She is on the New Member Education committee of her sorority, Sigma Delta Tau and on Tulane’s dance team. They got to dance at the Super Bowl half time, and will also be dancing in Mardi Gras Parades and the NCAA Women’s Final Four in Nola this spring. Kelly Smulovitz is in her second year studying civil engineering at Georgia Tech. She will be starting a threeterm co-op in Maryland this summer. Patricia Statkiewicz is a double Biology and Dance major at the Muhlenberg College. She has been cast in multiple dance concerts, is currently on the Dean’s List, and loves her time at school! Cameron Steadley is in her second year at High Point University. She is the intramural chair for her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha. She also hopes to study abroad in Florence, Italy this fall. Niki Steel attends Towson University and rushed Zeta Tau Alpha. She is the formal co-chair with two of her pledge sisters. She is also on the Towson Equestrian Team and competed for Miss Maryland 2013. Paige Strott spent the summer working at a restaurant in Baltimore, but she is happy to be back at the University of Tampa.

She has been studying public relations and has loved working in a Performing Arts Center downtown. Daisy Strudwick is a student at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi. She is a member of Chi Omega and is majoring in journalism and minoring in Spanish. Sally Tucker is enjoying her sophomore year at Furman University. She is an elementary education major, and is involved in organizations such as Young Life, Care for Aids, RUF and the Kappa Delta Sorority. Sally could not be happier in the South. Haley Venick is enjoying her sophomore year at the University of South Carolina. She was elected to be the Vice President II/New Member Coordinator of her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha. Haley is an

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elementary education major and loves her education courses. She spends a lot of time in local elementary schools, which she really enjoys. Meredith von Paris is in her second year at WVU and made the dean’s list for the fall semester. Her major is communication studies and she is a member of the Undergraduate Communication Association.

She works for the University’s catering company and hopes to play club lacrosse this spring.

Class of 2012 Blake Foster hbf2sc@virginia.edu Kelsey Dwyer ked87@georgetown.edu Sarah Adams is studying the health sciences at Gettysburg College. She is also refereeing and score keeping for the intramural basketball league, playing in the intramural floor hockey league, applying to be a tour guide and beginning the rushing process for sororities this spring. Daisy Alaeze has been playing basketball nonstop. In her spare time, she likes to hang out with either her teammates or the other friends she has made. She loves VCU so much and could not be happier with the college she chose. Katherine Barley is busy at Furman University with school work and

Megan Lavin, 2012

many extracurricular activities. She is continuing her community service as a freshman representative and coordinator for The Heller Service Corps, an organization that works with non-profits, and as an ambassador for Care for Aids, a non-profit that fundraises for HIV/AIDS education in Kenya. Most recently, she has become a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Rebecca Band is loving life as a Mule! She is on the Muhlenberg dance team, the Perkulators, has made great friends and loves her classes. She plans on double majoring in business and dance. Moran Beidleman is having so much fun at Lynchburg College! She has tons of friends and is doing really well in school. She is currently in the choir, and is also hoping to start an a cappella group because so far Lynchburg does not offer this activity. Meredith Birely was recently elected merchandise co-chair for her sorority, Alpha Phi. She remains active on campus while balancing her GenEd requirements and trying to choose a major. Stephanie Braiser has been busy with academics and military training. She is up and in uniform by 5:30 every morning. After the academic day is over, she goes outside with her company and does athletic activities such as going on seven mile marches up mountains, skiing, rock climbing or working on battle tactics in the woods. Allie Brent has been spending most of her time at the University of Georgia assimilating to a totally unfamiliar southern culture. However, she already deeply treasures the friendships she has made and the activities she has been a part of for these past six months. Outside of her academic sphere, she is currently a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Greek organization, UGA Heroes and UGA miracle. Molly Cantrell has been at Bucknell pursuing engineering.

Fortunately, she has still had time for dance because otherwise her brain might have exploded from all of the studying! Thema Coleman, along with studying last semester, joined the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. This semester she is getting more involved with her sorority by choreographing dance for Greek Sing, a philanthropy event that happens during CMU’s famous Spring Carnival. Kelsey Dwyer is having a great time in DC. When she is not studying, she is involved in club tennis. She has not chosen a major yet, but she is considering the School of Foreign Service majors of science, technology and international affairs or culture and politics. Arielle Faulkner has had nothing but fun at Stevenson. She is very happy with this choice and loves the friends that she has made so far. Even with all of her busy activity, she still makes time to see her Roland Park friends too! Meghan Fawcett is studying at Colby College in Maine. She is on the pre-med track with a double major in biology and art.

Blake Foster, 2012 with her sorority sisters

In addition to academics, Meghan is a member of Colby Taiko, the Japanese Drumming team, a mentor for CCAK, an elementary school mentoring program, and a member of Powder and Wig, the Colby Performing Arts group.

Megan Fish is busy studying international business and management at Dickinson College. When she is not studying, she is running cross country and track for her college team or hanging out with the new friends she has made. Sasha Frankel loves college. She isn’t sure what she is majoring in, but is considering global affairs or ethics, politics and economics. Outside of class, she spends her time leading conferences for the Yale International Relations Association and is involved in several other clubs. Maya Hairston has had a stellar freshman year at Howard University. She is a marketing major and a School of Business Executive Leadership Honors Program scholar. She also serves with her older sister, Leah Hairston, 2010 on the leadership team of a Bible study on campus called “The Huddle” and is pursuing a position as an athletic tutor and a summer internship to gain exposure to the corporate world. Devon Hitt is concentrating in biological basis of behavior while pursuing pre-medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She became a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, is involved in a tutoring program for underprivileged students in the city, and is absolutely loving Philadelphia! Glenys Hunt is studying at Grinnell College in Iowa, in the pre-law track and majoring in anthropology. She spent much of first semester on an anthropological case study focused on the growth of midwestern small towns, to be published in book-form this spring. She is currently waitressing at a local bar, riding for Grinnell’s Equestrian Team and DJing her folk/classic rock radio show “Bring Out Your Dead.” Katie Johnson attends Rhodes College in Tennessee and plays on the

field hockey team there. This fall her team won their division, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference! She also joined the Delta Delta Delta Sorority this fall and is enjoying her time with them. This spring Katie traveled to New Orleans for Mardi Gras where she ran into fellow RPCS graduate Chelsea Roberts.

Maddie Kaufman is studying at the University of Miami. She is on track to double major in biology and marine science. She is a newly initiated member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority.

She is very excited that her basketball team is number two in the nation. Megan Lavin is taking a semester off from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is attending Towson University for the semester, as well as continuing with her job as a hostess at Pratt Street Ale House in downtown Baltimore. During her semester at HWS, she enjoyed being a part of campus life; she was a member of the club field hockey team, the Colleges’ Chorale (an audition SATB ensemble) and the PRIDE Alliance. She looks forward to returning to HWS in the fall. Carli Levitt is enjoying herself at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is planning on pursuing a major in communications. She became involved in AEPHI sorority and plans to get involved in many clubs in the near future.

Niccola Lynch is a freshman at Cornell University. She joined the club lacrosse team on campus and also just rushed Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Her planned major is human biology, health and society, and she is still on the premed path. She looks forward to getting more involved this semester. Meredith Mansinne attends Indiana University. She spends most of her time in class, working out or pestering Maggie Wilder to keep her company. Laurel Meyer attends Bates College in Lewiston, ME. She is considering a major in psychology, yet is continuing to explore a

Elizabeth Howard, 2012 with a college friend

range of other subjects including sociology, environmental studies, women and gender studies and more. Other than having to walk to class in temperatures often hitting below zero, she is truly enjoying her time at Bates. Serene Mirza attends University of Michigan. She loves the school spirit at the football and basketball games. She’s still on the pre-med path and plans on declaring her major next year in biopsychology cognition and neuroscience. Kate O’Donovan is studying at UNCW where she plans on majoring in theatre with concentrations in performance and production. In her first semester she was on the set construction crew for several main-stage productions. She has also joined the United States Fencing Association and has started fencing épée in the UNCW fencing club. Katie O’Hern loves Villanova and is planning on majoring in communication, possibly specializing in media. She loves going to Villanova basketball games and exploring Philly, but really misses all of her Roland Park friends. Heather Oros is enjoying her first year at Bucknell University. She wishes to pursue a double major in psychology and Spanish. She plays for the club squash team, takes photos for the Bucknellian and teaches yoga at the recreation center. She is working with a professor in his lab, helping with the research of motivation and eating behaviors. She is eager to continue getting involved on campus activities and events. Hannah Blake Foster loves UVA! She plans to major in environmental thought and practice and to potentially apply for a master’s program in public policy. She joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority (with three other Baltimore girls!) this semester, is volunteering with the Abermarle SPCA and is looking forward to getting more involved this semester.

Glenys Hunt, 2012 on the cover of The Baltimore Messenger

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New babies in the RPCS Community

Kate Roche Hope, 1989 Nancy Kathryn

Marny Helfrich, 1990 Grace “Gracie” Mellier

Margie Fink Gunn, 1993 William “Liam” John

Anne Plowden Ballweg, 1993 Maximilian Anthony

Kathleen Carmody Franz, 1995 Seamus Matthew

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Carla Bailey Murphy, 1993 Bailey Grace

Sarah Berger, 1994 Sebastian Michael

Meghan Donnelly Slocum, 1994 Caroline James

Christine Lusk Jones, 1995 Eloise Adams

Susie Michaelson Burbidge, 1993 Ethan Gregory

Hedy Born Koczwara, 1996 Marek Richard

Natasha Markowski Makowka, 1993 Milo Ian

Melissa Cully Anderson, 1994 William “Liam” Joseph

Erin Greenwood, 1994 Ian James

Cameron Proctor Amirault, 1995 Eloise Proctor

Cary Zink Kassouf, 1995 Zachary Mark

Ellen Ginsberg Simon, 1996 Sam Simon

Tammy Wiggs Passano, 1997 Eleanor Kirby

Emily Lough Johnson, 1997 Sadie Scott

Garrity Pfeifer Testa, 1998 Ryland Harriet

Helene Apostiledes Christman, 1998 Gia Alice

Nicole Rock Mink, 1998 Elizabeth “Lizzy” Boswell

Christina Smith Fenton, 1999 Peter “Pete” McCormick

Dulaney Wible Farkas, 1998 Holden George

Sarah Rodgers Atwood, 1999 Isabel Stuart

Jessica Wheeler Hackett, 1998 Noah Jonathon

Kimberly Miller Alsip, 1999 Cortland Leo

Babies Not Pictured 1993

1999

Megahn Hallahan LaNasa Liam and Olivia

Katie Swiss King Delauney Smith

1994

Danielle Lyons Bell Mackenzie Grace

Sarah Brumfield Fiona Alexina Polly Bartlett Offutt, 2000 Elinor “Ella” Lane

Lauren Koch Herlihy, 2000 Nora Mae

Lisa Trader Giacobbe, 2000 Caroline Grace

2000

Giti Dhillon Rikhil Jolepalem

Maggie Sunderland Berman Nell Marie

Sara Speert Edelstein David Tomer

Caitlin McCormick-Brault Pierce Brault

1995

Emily Plowden Feldhusen August Scott

Kellie MacDougall Lawler Pierce Beverly Becky Smoot Anderson Matthew Benjamin

2007 Jessica Rieger Berman Dominic Gabriel

1997 Sara Jones O’Keefe Emma Sara Jade Khouri Hubbard Camilla Sarah Passano Meech, 2001 Grady Edward

Lindsey Miller Stone, 2001 Kieran Murphy

Helen Lee Williams Sale, 2002 Lawrence “Ellee” Lee

Alli Harper Anna Inde

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Our sympathies to the families and friends of: 1927

1938

1971

Caroline Hyatt Lincoln

Nancy Fisher Reeder, Cousin - Caroline

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Fisher, 1938

Mary Jean Ridgely Eig, Daughter of Jean Hutchins Ridgely, 1943; Niece of Emmy Hutchins Russell, 1939, Estelle Hutchins Tulloss, 1936 and Anne Hutchins Cresap, 1934

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1945

Jean Sullivan Hite

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Judy Baldwin Waxter, Mother is Rachel Reaney Baldwin, 1922; Mother of Susan Waxter, 1969; Aunt of Dorsey Waxter, 1970

1934 Jane Tinsley Swope, Sons George (1962) and Harry (1961) Swope - Boy Alums

3/20/2013

7/30/2012

1949 Joan Brawner Blueford

1/8/2013

1936 Mary Owen Johnston

4/20/2007

1950 4/1/2013

R. Lucille Gettier Eliasberg, Mother of Regina Elizabeth (Beth) Jones Elkins, 1971; Grandmother of Meredith Elkins, 2002; Sister of Elise Gettier Watkins, 1932

1957 Caroline “Kaki” Thiermann Gladstone

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1938

1978 Jay Egerton Schlueter, Grandmother is Carolyn Griswold Butler, 1926

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1983 Siobhan Sharkey,

Carol Perry

1937

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Wendy Cross Gross,

Mary Margaret Joslin Jones

Susan Cross Fuchs, 1956

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9/27/2012

Sister - Cathy Sharkey, 1988

12/18/2012

2001 Bridget Mooney Spence

4/4/2013

HA Elizabeth “Libby” Ogden Preston, Mother of Ann Cooper, 1964

10/5/2012

Memorial Gifts may be made in the name of any of the Alumnae listed above.

For more information contact Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964, Director of Gift Planning and Assistant Director of Development at delauneyg@rpcs.org.

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Emory Knott, 2016

Katherine Harrison, 2014

Amy Chaney, 2019

Sophie Allen, 2019

Mily Jenkins, 2022

Claire Muller, 2013

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Charlotte Jacobsen, 2013

RPCS PHILOSOPHY Roland Park Country School, a college preparatory school for girls, is dedicated to the intellectual, aesthetic, physical and moral development of its students. While maintaining high academic standards, the school upholds tradition and promotes innovation. The school encourages selfdiscipline, independence of thought, tenacity of purpose, creativity, and spiritual well-being. It also fosters personal integrity, respect for others, an appreciation of diversity, and a cooperative, resilient spirit.

Roland Park Country School values the friendly atmosphere of mutual trust inherent in an inclusive community. The school strives to instill in its students a lifelong love of learning as well as the motivation to look within and beyond themselves in order that they become responsible, contributing members and leaders of their communities.

Parents of Alumnae If this publication is addressed to your daughter who no longer maintains a permanent residence at your home, please notify the Alumnae Office of her new mailing address. Thank you!

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