Connections 2016

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

Spring 2016

Uphold Tradition and Promote Innovation

Mutual Trust

Character and Choices An Education Above

Affirmation

Change and Continuity

Sustainability Understanding Ourselves Commitment and Consideration

Honor

Responsibility, Accountability and Heritage

Gratitude

Self-Discipline

Courage, Caring and Integrity

Appreciation of Diversity

Community

Spiritual Well-Being

Tenacity of Purpose

Mission

Love and Leadership

Resilient Spirit Communication and Cooperation

Education for the 21st Century Connectedness and Respect

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eflections on the Leadership of R Jean Waller Brune

10 Alumnae Association Awards Prestigious

McCauley Bowl to Jean Waller Brune, 1960 Remarks by Katharine Fox Castro, 2004

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Departments 2 Headlines 24 Alumnae Class Notes 150 New Babies in the RPCS Family 152 Memorials 10

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

Head of School: Jean Waller Brune Editor/Assistant Head of School for External Relations: Nancy Mugele Director of External Programs and Athletic Communication: Dani Kell Steinbach, 2004 Associate Director of Communication: Sarah Cody Assistant Director of Communication and External Programs: Kelsy Mugele Director of Alumnae Relations: Missie Dix Mack Associate Director of Alumnae Relations: Katy Spencer, 1993 Designer: Paul Miller, Freefall Design Printing: Harris Media Group

Cover: Portrait of Jean Waller Brune unveiled on May 12, 2016 which will hang at RPCS Inside Covers: Jean Brune’s Key Words - each academic year Jean chose a word or phrase to hold before the students and employees. The words and phrases were painted on plaques outside her office. They represent fundamental, enduring qualities of an RPCS education, characteristics that transcend the years and the trends of the teaching and learning.

Back Cover: Jean’s first Connections cover in 1993

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any of you know that in my childhood, I loved the Betsy-Tacy-Tib series by Maud Hart Lovelace.

Those three girls were among the literary heroines who showed me that women could be leaders,

at a time when there were not many books with strong women protagonists. Betsy, in one of the books, said: each one of us has to be true to the deepest thing that is in us. For me, it was the knowledge that I always wanted to be a teacher. Even in today’s world where a wide range of professional opportunities are available to women than when I was growing up, I would still choose teaching, advising, learning from, and interacting with students and other people who are equally passionate about education. Nothing is more fulfilling. Educating tomorrow’s leaders has been my joy for more than a half-century and I have learned many lessons along my journey.

As a young Kindergarten teacher I found my passion as an educator who valued literature and reading aloud.

Even as I moved from the Kindergarten classroom to Third Grade to positions in administration at Gilman School and then as the Head of RPCS, I have always continued to read aloud to our youngest students. There is so much joy in reading to children who are entranced by the story and the illustrations of children’s books. Fostering reading and appreciation of books is essential to build a strong foundation of learning in our students. Perhaps not surprisingly, a recent study by Scholastic found that reading aloud through elementary school seemed to be connected to a love of reading generally.

Reading, both personally and professionally, feeds my soul. We lose ourselves in books; yet, we also find ourselves in them as well. I have learned many life lessons from books, and they have guided me throughout my life.

Anna Quindlen, this year’s Anne Healy lecturer, wrote in How Reading Changed My Life, “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” From books I have learned to follow my dreams and heed my instincts.

I will share three lessons I have learned about teaching from some of my favorite books during my time at Roland Park Country School:

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Love your students unconditionally In one of my favorite the children’s stories Koala Lou thinks her mother does not love her anymore. So Koala Lou enters the Bush Olympics to get her mother’s attention. This book illustrates that no matter what you do, your mother will always love you for the person you are. You don’t have to try to be someone else. I feel the same about students. Students need to feel loved at school and at home, even when they don’t do their homework or make a wise decision. They need to be held accountable, of course, but they always need to feel safe and loved.

That is how they grow to become thoughtful, empathetic individuals able to live a life of purpose.

Recognize each student has unique gifts In Every Soul a Star, three very dissimilar teens become friends at a solar eclipse campsite gathering where each comes to terms with her/his flaws and begins to recognize her/his gifts. In the Forward of the novel, the author quotes from Plato’s Timaeus: “And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny.” Each of our students is a star – in the many definitions of that word – and

each has a soul that needs to be nurtured, challenged and treasured. There are times when frustration sometimes dims the quality of that star, but it is the star and the soul that we need to remember as we help our students learn and grow into their great potential.

connections to this School, and it will always hold a place in my heart. I am most proud of these ten characteristics that have remained constant through all these years at Roland Park Country School: •

Help each student find who she really is

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In A Wrinkle in Time, one of my all-time favorite novels, third grader Meg Murry sees only her faults and finds nothing loveable about herself. Yet, she is the one who discovers that she has the strength of mind and character to seek and find her missing father and rescue her little brother Charles Wallace from the mind controlling IT. She is a wonderful heroine for all girls and young women because she is so human - her strengths come not out of perfection but out of challenge and self-discovery. Meg demonstrates what many educators believe; one of the main goals of education is helping students over time figure out who they are and celebrating their uniqueness. In so doing, Meg learns that what she thought were weaknesses were ultimately her strengths when she learned how to use them. It was her ability to be tenacious, to love and to use her resilient spirit that made her the heroine.

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I am in the middle of a three generation RPCS family and my mother also taught here. I have many lifelong

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Leadership in girls’ education Academic excellence and personal integrity Expanding horizons through technology A commitment to the arts and athletics An exceptional faculty Outstanding students Dedicated alumnae A lifelong love and pursuit of learning Service to the community Joy and school spirit

I wish for my beloved Roland Park Country School continued innovation, continued excellence and continued heart.

Jean Waller Brune Head of School

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In these pages you will find reflections from many in the Roland Park Country School community who have had the privilege of knowing Jean Waller Brune through all these years.

Throughout her 24 years of service to RPCS Jean has identified and directed significant improvements that have affected students, employees, the physical plant and the financial operations.

Jean placed as her highest priority the students and the academic program. Under her leadership the curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular programs have been strengthened in so many ways.

RPCS introduced the first one-to-one laptop program at a girls’ school in Baltimore, created the RPCS STEM Institute and Foreign Language Certificate program, instituted an international boarding program, increased AP offerings, re-established the Preschool, and significantly deepened the TriSchool offerings. The athletic and arts programs have been expanded and Varsity sports have doubled.

1600 graduates have been impacted by the educational program she directed – An Education Above.

Jean values all RPCS employees and has initiated many professional development opportunities for faculty with Kent Summer Sabbaticals and the Faculty Summer Grant program. In addition, she created a child care center for employee children to help attract and retain faculty and those employees who support teaching and learning.

RPCS is financially strong and under Jean’s leadership the endowment and plant fund have grown exponentially during her tenure along with efforts in environmental sustainability. Jean presided over three capital campaigns that transformed the campus. She is responsible for the completion of the three-part Campus Master Plan that added the Killebrew and Faissler Libraries, the Macfarlane Arts Center with its Sinex Theater, state-of-the-art science labs, the Smith Middle School, the Dining Hall and LEED Gold Certified RPCS Athletic Complex.

Jean has garnered the admiration and affection of many in the Baltimore community and beyond. RPCS has a renowned reputation locally and nationally due to her vision, leadership and personal outreach.

Alumnae across the world are more connected to the School through her caring communication and regional reunions.

With deep gratitude for the leadership of Jean Waller Brune we present this special commemorative issue of Connections.

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My Days with Jean Brune

By Richard Tilghman, President, RPCS Board of Trustees, 1992-1996

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ean’s and my paths first crossed in the 1980s when she became Head of the Lower School at Gilman after many years as a classroom teacher. At the time, I was a member of Gilman’s

Board of Trustees and Chair of its Lower School Committee. As Jean and I began to meet regularly to discuss various strategic matters, it quickly became entirely clear to me that she was an extraordinary woman with tremendous intellect and vision, coupled with a very practical sense of what is feasible, all the while with an abiding love of children and firm grasp of the science of education.

No sooner did my tenure on the Gilman Board come to an end in 1990 than I received a call from my friend, John Schmick, then an RPCS Trustee and a Gilman teacher, who was later to become Head of Gilman. John is very persuasive and quickly prevailed upon me to join the RPCS Board of Trustees. I attended my first meeting in the late summer of 1991, at which the Chair of the Board announced that Margaret Smith had resigned as Head. There began a search for her successor, ably chaired by Virginia Riesner Dunn, 1974. Many applications poured in, but only a very few candidates stood out from the pack, one of whom, of course, was Jean Brune. Needless to say, Jean was the unanimous favorite

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and “got the job.” The evening of her election, a small group of us drove over to her home to give her the news. It was now about 10 pm, but she answered the door on the first ring, dressed in her best sweatshirt!

The mood was truly electric. We knew we had our leader, and she had just realized her lifelong dream of being Head of her alma mater!

I have to say with all honesty that RPCS had serious morale problems when Jean assumed the Head’s position in June of 1992. Faculty and administrators were deeply divided on many issues. As is always the case, this atmosphere spilled over to the students, parents, alumnae and other friends of the School, causing serious concern among the

Jean with Richard Tilghman at Commencement in 1993

Board of Trustees. The Nominating Committee and Search Committee decided, in their infinite wisdom, that I should become the Chair of the Board because of my prior experience with Jean. They believed that I could help smooth Jean’s transition and provide moral support and advice as she worked through the many issues she faced. While I was hesitant to take the position, given my short tenure on the Board, I accepted because of my deep admiration for Jean. We worked hard to maintain a “partnership” between us as we had been told was critical at a NAIS

Were you a visitor coming to the school during the day or after hours, you need not have looked for Penny, the dog (or before her, Parker) or checked to see if the lamp was lit in the paneled office. No. You felt instinctively that Jean Brune was there. Sure enough, there she’d be – greeting you enthusiastically, ever armed with news of a scholastic achievement, a significant statistic, or a recent “big red” victory to share. And, invariably, she’d be wearing school colors. Red. Louise White, 1955

conference we attended soon after we assumed our respective positions.

We met at least once per week for the next four years and talked by phone even more often. So, I had the enviable position of being in the catbird’s seat as Jean began to work her magic. Through her leadership skills and genuineness, she quickly was able to restore morale, heal the wounds and put RPCS back in its rightful position as among the best schools for girls.

I could not possibly list all of the things RPCS has accomplished over the 24 years that she has been our leader. No one could have a greater love for an institution or a greater sense of how to keep making it better. She will be sorely missed! I consider myself truly blessed to have been Jean’s friend for over 30 years and to have watched as she made RPCS the great school it is today.

Year

after year,

Mrs. Brune has worked tirelessly to make RPCS the best school in Baltimore and has given the school national prominence. I have so many fond memories of my thirteen years at RPCS, and I am so thankful to Mrs. Brune for always supporting and encouraging me.

Mallory Twist Dunn, 2006

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A People Person

By Mary Ellen Thomsen, President, RPCS Board of Trustees, 1996-1999 & Roszel Thomsen, President, RPCS Board of Trustees, 2008-2011

Mary Ellen: Jean is a “people person.”

And yes, she’s a leader in education. No other Head in the United States has founded a charter school. But many people will remember her for her interest in, and devotion to, them.

Jean knew all her students. She shared their triumphs and their disappointments. She had a group of advisees, which is unusual for a Head.

The students were her priority. She might look at her calendar and say, “I can’t do that. There’s a Middle School hockey game.”

George, Caroline, 2010 and Mary Ellen Thomsen

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When she began as Head, Jean started a tradition of having Faculty dinners at her home. A former teacher, and head of the lower school at Gilman, she knew what to look for in teachers and how to encourage and support them. She rejoiced in the Kent Summer Sabbatical program and helped faculty design appropriate projects. She was thoughtful of all employees, and one of her favorite days was the All School Convocation to Honor Employees. She also had a knack for choosing just the right Trustees. She wanted to get to know all about them, and whether their engagement would be beyond the desired skill set, and truly in the best interests of the entire RPCS community, Not everyone can be a “people person,” and you can’t fake it. But that style of leadership can move a really great school to the very top of the list.

Jean with Roszel Thomsen

Roszel: I recall sitting on the podium with Jean during the dedication of the RPCS Athletic Complex. It was the autumn of 2008. Financial markets were in free fall. The value of the endowment was plummeting.

I began thinking about how the School would cope with the consequent reduction in transfers from the endowment to the operating budget.

I should have realized that Jean already was considering contingency plans. Jean managed to maintain employment, enrollment, and even significant funding of depreciation,

I wish Jean well in her retirement and hope that she enjoys every moment of it. She deserves it.

Ateret Reisner, 2006

during the darkest days of 20082009. Today RPCS has the largest endowment per student of any allgirls school in the region, thanks to Jean’s friend-raising, fundraising and financial leadership through all these years.

Thank you for making my time at RPCS so special. I have so many fond memories of my 13 years at RPCS with you. I will never forget how I thought it was the neatest thing that Tarby (and then Parker) would walk around the school and come into our classroom just to relax. It always made my day when he would end up in our classroom! Or the story that my mom tells me of how one day in pre-first I was walking out of school with her and I yelled, “Hey Ms. Brune, wait up!” And you patiently waited for me to run up to you and give you a hug. Thank you for all of the special times at RPCS - you will be truly missed.

Elizabeth Robertson Chriss, 2006 www.rpcs.org

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Jean Has Left Us a Gift

By Jeffrey Seibert, President, RPCS Board of Trustees, 2004-2008

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y relationship with Jean Brune began, somewhat inauspiciously, in 1991 when my son was admitted to Gilman’s Lower School, of which Jean was then the head;

but started to blossom shortly thereafter when Jean was named the Head of Roland Park Country School and my daughter enrolled in the School’s Pre-First program. It continues to this day. Little did I realize at the time of my daughter’s matriculation at the School how important Jean’s appointment as Head of School would be to the future of Roland Park and to my daughter’s education.

During Jean’s 24-year tenure as Head of RPCS, the School has been transformed through significant improvements to its physical plant and through bold changes to its academic programs, including not only the addition of the Sinex Theater, a new lower and middle school, and a state-of-the-art athletic facility; but also, cutting-edge academic changes like the laptop initiative, and an insistence on a diverse and inclusive academic environment which allows each student to thrive. I am convinced that few, if any, of these initiatives would have come to fruition without Jean’s inspiration and forceful direction. From my vantage point

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as a member of the School’s Board of Trustees from 1997 through 2008, I was able to witness, firsthand, Jean’s introduction of many of these ideas (some of which were greeted by the Board with healthy skepticism), and her commitment to overcome the hurdles necessary to achieve these goals.

Jean is, undeniably, one of the most forward-thinking, strategic leaders that I have met. She is also a tenacious fundraiser, which has provided the School with the wherewithal not only to embark on these initiatives, but at the same time, to significantly grow its endowment to the envy of its peer institutions.

Jean with Jeff Seibert

The strength of the endowment today will ensure the School’s prosperity for many years to come and will allow the School, with proper direction, to nimbly adapt to changes that may be necessary in the future as the educational landscape evolves.

I am proud to have served on the Board during Jean’s tenure as Head of School, and feel blessed for the education that my daughter

Congratulations, Jean Brune for a leading the School these past 24 its

tradition

of

high

standards

phenomenal job of years—maintaining

while

embracing

new

technologies and expanding its offerings to ensure its place as a model school for the

21st Century.

Penny Starratt Duffy, 1966

was able to enjoy; however, I am also excited for the School’s future.

Jean’s legacy to the School, through her untiring devotion and all of her accomplishments, has left a gift which will be enjoyed by future generations of RPCS students and their families, faculty, staff and administrators for many years to come. The value of that gift cannot be quantified.

I remember handing Penny Waller her lunch card every day in the cafeteria. I just keep thinking who knew then that she’d be in Miss Healy’s footprints!

Byrdie Tharrington Donaldson, 1962

Please girl at

Mrs. Brune well wishes from me! As a 13-year RPCS, my experience would not have been the same without her! She will be greatly missed!

send

Courtney Weir, 2006

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We Are Many, We Are One

By Celeste Woodward Applefeld, 1964, President, RPCS Board of Trustees, 1998-2002, Chair Search Committee, 1992

Twenty five years ago the Board of Roland Park Country School was in search of a Head of School: a leader who would build on a legacy of strength, who could be a bridge and a community builder and who above all was an educator able to stabilize the School while focusing on the future of educating girls and young women. We looked nationwide and chose a proven leader. We placed our hope and trust in Jean Waller Brune. Fast forward through the 24 years of Jean’s tenure and look to the School Philosophy to grasp what she, her administrators and faculty strive to achieve.

Each year as girls enter and graduate, the student body evolves.

So too, curricular offerings multiply, teaching methods change and education supports (think computers) advance. But fundamentally RPCS remains a place of academic excellence where students achieve as individuals but develop within a community.

Students are encouraged to think critically, to cultivate curricular and extra-curricular interests and to advance along the path of lifelong learning.

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achievement and experience. Within the School, many have used Faculty Summer Grant support and the Kent Summer Sabbatical Program to extend the bounds of teaching.

Many have earned advanced degrees; individuals have been recognized nationally for teaching excellence and for research in teaching methods; still others have progressed to leadership positions as division or school heads.

As a School wide celebration, the Convocation to Honor Employees was established because under Jean’s guidance so many awards have been created which recognize employee contributions.

More than any Head before her Jean has extended her leadership, and therefore the position of RPCS,

Jean with the late Rhoda Dorsey, President of the RPCS Board from 2002-2004, and Celeste

beyond the walls of the institution.

Early on she was invited to participate in the Leadership Maryland program.

Since then she has steadily built community connections. Among other efforts she has served on Boards of regional schools; she has led AIMS reviews for other schools; she has been Regent for the Cum Laude Society; she promoted and spearheaded the establishment of a Baltimore charter middle school for girls. Working with the Alumnae Board, Cherry Tree Council and through alumnae

Ms. Brune

never forgot a name or a face.

She made RPCS

a second home for all of us.

Ariel Brown, 2007

gatherings in Maryland and around the country, she emphasizes the rich history of our School while informing the future.

By “friend raising” Jean has been remarkably effective in fund raising.

We are a stronger School community because of her innovation and tenacity. We remain a School under one big roof. Three successful capital campaigns have extended that roof over the heart of the Lower and Middle Schools, the science wing, the Upper School, the wing for visual and performing arts, the repurposed Faissler Library and the RPCS Athletic Complex. Amazing.

In the words of the Centennial Song “We are many, we are one.”

What a rich refrain – perhaps the richest of Jean’s legacy. That trust, placed 24 years ago, was well founded.

If I

had any reservations about

RPCS

when

they were quickly erased the first time

I

I

Prep, Tarby. As

started

saw

a five-year-old, it was so comforting to find a place that shared my then-fervent belief that dogs should be allowed absolutely anywhere.

Now,

as an adult and almost ten

years since my graduation from upper school,

RPCS

I realize that

was special in so many ways, in addition to having

dogs roam the halls, which was due in large part to your leadership.

Thanks

to

RPCS, I

felt confidently prepared

for the challenges of college and life beyond the walls of school.

Most

importantly, the deepest friendships

I have I first made at RPCS. Thank you so much for making RPCS the welcoming, intellectually curious, compassionate and fun-loving family it was for so many of us. I wish you all the best on your next adventure and hope you’ll keep in touch! today are the ones

Joanna Taylor, 2006 www.rpcs.org

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The Legacy She Leaves...

By Courtney Jones McKeldin, 1958

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​any years after she had retired as Roland Park Country School’s headmistress, Anne Healy told me that Jean Brune was one of the most brilliant students she had

ever taught. I never doubted her.

Jean was just a few years behind me at RPCS in the 1950s and she was known then as Penny Waller. She was an academic and I was an athlete; therefore, our paths rarely crossed, although I was certainly aware that she was the smartest girl in her class and probably in the entire school.

Fast forward to 1972. Penny Waller had morphed into Jean Brune, and her daughter, Marion, was in first grade with my daughter, Caroline. We shared a carpool for the five years of Lower School (these were the days before RPCS reinstated its Kindergarten). Jean was a quintessential mom. Caroline remembers birthday parties at Marion’s house involving taffypulling, cookie-baking and reel-toreel movies rented from the Pratt Library -- no VCRs back then! She also remembers how Jean very kindly invited her over to help her use the

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sewing machine to make a pillow for her grandmother (my mother) because Jean is crafty, which I am decidedly not!

I believe the average length of time for a head of school is seven years, so Jean has more than tripled that tenure because she is quite simply an amazing leader who is able to relate and endear herself to students, faculty, board members and alumnae. Jean is gracious and diplomatic in all areas of school life and a very effective fundraiser. It saddens me that she is leaving, but her experience and continuity have given RPCS an immeasurable amount of stability and success in these past 24 years, and the legacy she leaves will be nearly insurmountable.

Thank you, Jean, and enjoy your well-deserved retirement!

Courtney on the evening of her McCauley Bowl presentation in 2008

Mrs. Brune’s

Roland Park Country School can be measured by benchmarks but her greatest School. It’s not only what she has said, but how she has made us feel. Her affirmation makes us feel appreciated and needed. RPCS is losing its visionary but she still remains its most spirited cheerleader. While she may be spending less time at RPCS, her legacy will remain omnipresent. Her commitment to the School is evident by her care in addressing every single person by name and asking about an event you were involved with. Her respect for the School is matched with her love for each student and employee. Mrs. Brune is a living yearbook and archive. As a School of numerous firsts and changes, from diversity to innovation and sustainability, and a leader in every discipline, Mrs. Brune has continued to expand this community’s presence in the world making education for the 21st Century An Education Above. She loves to quote her favorite song from Wicked, For Good, in her communications when reflecting upon the past, so to continue the tradition: “I’ve heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn, and we are led, to those who help us most to grow, if we let them...but I know I’m who I am today because I knew you...I have been changed for good.” It’s an honor for many to have attended RPCS where they have developed a resilient spirit, accountability, and self-discipline under Mrs. Brune’s leadership. It is her mutual trust in the character and choices of the students and faculty that ensures continuity through connectedness and cooperation.

She considers integrity and tenacity of purpose most courageous when understanding ourselves. Her tenure at

impact is from her intrinsic love of the

mission and responsibility is to consider our heritage but to also build upon it to better the school and its students.

I’m grateful for not only everything she has done for me but also for this school’s well-being.

We will dearly miss her love for each of us and her unwavering support.

Anne Holly, 2013

Thanks

so much for your tremendous leadership

over the past every stanza

The

entire

24 years. You exemplified each and of our School song and philosophy. past, present and future RPCS

My deepest appreciation to Jean Brune for all that she has been and accomplished for Roland Park Country School. Her years of leadership have moved the school forward, adjusting curriculum

community will reap the benefits of your limitless

and activities needed to prepare students for

wisdom,

the ever changing world.

ingenuity,

equity

and

last

but

least loyalty.

Penny Johnson Brown, 1974, P2007

not

Best

wishes to her

as she moves into the pleasant and exciting world of retirement.

She

will be remembered, so

fondly, by those who have been fortunate to be on staff during her tenure.

The

students will be

forever thankful to have been rewarded by her presence. Thank you, Jean.

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Something That Cannot Be Measured

By Betty Ann Schmick Howard, 1957

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efore I knew Jean as Head of our School, I knew her as Penny Waller, a few years below me. There she was with her brown oxfords and a barrette in her hair, wearing the same blue

uniform as I, walking down the halls at University Parkway and sharing Anne Healy as our headmistress.

Some years later, Jean and I met again as mothers of first graders at RPCS. Here I first got to know Marion, who was in the same class as my daughter Beth.

“Marion had the best smelling house of all my friends,” Beth remembers. “It always smelled like something delicious had just come out of the oven.” She went on to recall that one of her “favorite parties as a child was one that Marion had when we made homemade taffy. We all participated in adding the ingredients and pulling the taffy. Mrs. Brune was (and I’m sure still is) a wonderful mother – very present, very warm and very creative.”

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As Marion grew up and then married, Jean and I continued to speak of our daughters and, later, grandchildren. We also spoke of our mothers. In later years, Jean’s mother, the beloved former RPCS teacher Jean Waller, lived at Roland Park Place, and Jean was devoted to her.

The way in which she managed to “be there” for her mother in the midst of her own pressing responsibilities at school quietly showed that nothing was more important to her than simply being a daughter.

Jean’s values were nurtured during her years as a student under Anne Healy. When she, herself, became Head of RPCS, she infused

Betty Ann on the evening of her McCauley Bowl presentation in 2002

the campus with the warm and vibrant spirit of her mentor. It seemed to me that there was, upon Jean’s inauguration, a collective feeling of “coming home” among those alumnae and parents of Miss Healy’s years.

Although Miss Healy had been retired for seventeen years when Jean became Head, she found ways to

Jean embodies the spirit of everything that is Roland Park.

She made everyone feel special and remembered every name and detail of her students. I am always so impressed with that. I would have never loved the 13 years I spent at RPCS without the leadership of Jean Brune. I wish her all of the luck and relaxing time that comes with this next chapter of her life.

Thanks.

Brittany Bland, 2005

bring her back to the campus and, in particular, expanded the Anne Healy Chair. This new tradition enkindled alumnae spirit and underlined Jean’s gratitude for the education that she, herself, had received.

Jean Brune will be remembered for many obvious accomplishments throughout her tenure at RPCS. However, what I will always appreciate about her is something that can’t be measured --her loyalty and dedication to those whom she loves.

As one of Ms. Brune’s very first “Prep” classes back in 1993, just a year after she had taken over as head of the school, I can confidently say that Ms. Brune had a large part in raising an entire generation of female leaders who will continue to shape our world.

I

will always remember

Ms. Brune

for

“Tenacity of Purpose” in me and my peers and am so 13 years of a wonderful education her leadership. We will all miss Ms. Brune but her

instilling

grateful to have received under

influence throughout some of the most formative years of our lives will always remain with us!

Laura Keenan, 2006 www.rpcs.org

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The Gift of One Red Shoe

By Catherine P. McDonnell, 1994, President, Board of Trustees

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o commemorate your retirement from Roland Park Country School, you’ll receive awards, have articles written about you, enjoy a number of celebrations to publicly

acknowledge your amazing 24 years of service as Head of School, and be showered with tokens of affection and retirement gifts from many constituents. In addition to the other gifts you receive, I want to give you one more. I am giving you the gift of one red shoe.

Let me tell you a little bit about this shoe. It is a visible reminder of all the steps we have taken, together and alone, and all the steps that are taken through the halls of Roland Park Country School each day. The shoe is high enough

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to pose a bit of a challenge when wearing, but not so high that the challenge is insurmountable. The style is a combination of practical and fancy, modern and traditional, shiny and bold, edgy and sharp – all while still being feminine. These are all qualities that we strive to instill in our girls in the perfect balance.

And of course the shoe has to be red!

Red represents the passion and fire of RPCS students, employees, parents and alumnae, and the deep love that goes along with the color. Red symbolizes dominance

Catherine and her family at Emma’s 5th Grade Closing Program last year

in the classroom, on the sports field and in the theatre.

Why not a pair you ask? This shoe is yours to keep on a bookshelf in your library or at your home in Vermont to remind you of your many years at RPCS. But the other one will remain in the Head of School’s office as a tangible reminder to our Head-Elect, Caroline Blatti, of all the people who have walked before her and as a symbol of the path that is hers to forge. The shoes will provide a deep connection to your legacy at the School, while serving as a symbol of the future of the School that will always remain with you.

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Ever since I started in Third Grade at RPCS, I have looked up to Mrs. Brune as a leader and role model. When I was in Middle School, she had lunch with small groups of students so she could hear about our experiences directly.

She was always available to us and tirelessly led the School with poise and dedication. Her expansion of the School, and especially the creation of new science classrooms and

STEM Institute, kindled my interest in science and gave me access to opportunities that I would not otherwise have enjoyed. As an alumna, I am continually impressed by her commitment to the alumnae network, and am touched by the

the fact that she takes the time to remember details about my life and interests.

Although I

am saddened by the fact

that she is transitioning out of her current role,

I

know

that her fearless, warm, and inspired leadership will remain with

RPCS forever.

Alexandra Day, 2011

of many good outfits, you have been the foundation of Roland Park Country School for the past 24 years. Please accept this shoe as a symbol of my affection, appreciation and excitement. I am grateful for your time at RPCS and the deep relationship we have built, from the time you served as my advisor to our working in partnership to ensure a bright future for our beloved School.

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Boys’ Latin son Roland Park for a dance, Jean was at the door shaking EVERY student’s hand as they entered, and asking for their name and where they go to school. And then she stayed in the building for the duration of the throbbing, headache producing music! was always impressed that every time my

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Reflections Reflections

Reflections on my Friend

By Barbara Hull Francis, 1960

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have known Jean, Penny, since before we both started at RPCS, Jean in Pre-K and I, in First Grade. When asked to contribute to Connections, my first thought was of our moms who waited for our dads during WWII, who were serving in the Pacific as doctors, and of our dads, who did not come home until we were about three when the war was over. Our parents had enormous internal strength and faith, continuing in hope each day, not knowing if they would ever see each other again, or if and when the war would end. And when it ended, and we were old enough at the dining room table to hear the war stories, the narrative was of hope, courage, dedication, gratitude, discipline and obligation to family and the larger community. Putting yourself first was not an option.

This is the cauldron from which Jean was formed. Jean exemplifies the values and moral principles we received from what is now called “the greatest generation.” Added to my unstinting admiration for Jean’s accomplishments is the effable joy of having known Jean when we were

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knee high to grasshoppers and then throughout our RPCS years – what an honor.

There have been great leaders at RPCS, yet there was a time, that many of us thought RPCS was faltering.

Jean’s appointment and long tenure placed RPCS firmly back on the rails of its principles. Jean guided my (and my children’s and my grandchild’s) alma mater through changes and growth maintaining and enlarging the core precepts that shaped us. Jean has assured that the girls at RPCS cultivate creativity, independence of thought, tenacity of purpose, selfdiscipline and emotional, physical and spiritual well-being. This is what we were given and what still permeates our lives.

Jean modelled these qualities to the students, the faculty, the alumnae and the community through her words and deeds. Jean’s energy and love of RPCS and children is boundless. Jean’s firm foundation of belief in fairness and opportunity led her to guide RPCS to a place of inclusion, for all children and buoyed her when RPCS led the way in completing and opening a charter

Barbara and Jean with classmates at the Alumnae Champagne Reception

school based on the RPCS way.

In this way the School expands its role in the community by sharing its unparalleled educational way with those who are not fortunate enough to attend RPCS. Leaders with RPCS values will come forth from these efforts.

Jean, you have touched so many, and left a legacy of incomparable worth for all of us. Through your work and your spirit you honored your parents, Jean and Kennedy Waller, and the sacrifices they made for all of us. Thank you.

s Reflections on my Mother

By Marion Brune Paterson, 1984

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hen I pause to think upon writing about my mother, I come to a full stop.

It is an overwhelming task of both emotion and content.

Jean Waller Brune is the definition of an educator. She literally eats, sleeps and breathes education. And family. And Roland Park Country School. These things are not separate from each other. She both believes and expresses with her whole being that education is the greatest gift we can give to anyone.

So many hours of my life have been spent in schools. The third grade classroom and the faculty room in the Gilman Lower School are firmly fixed in my mind. Being allowed to turn the heavy handle of the ditto machine as well as the cold, purple smell of the ink are fond childhood memories.

Occasionally I snuck down the hallway to a classroom where there was a boa constrictor, but mostly I loved hanging around Mom’s room where books were read, boys were inspired, and there was an atmosphere of caring, learning, and community.

When I was living in Scotland and working at a girls’ school, Mom and I talked often. One day she called and asked me not to laugh at what she had to say. She told me that the position of Head of RPCS was open, and she was seriously thinking of applying.

Far from laughing, I told her I thought it made perfect sense! I was so excited for her to be appointed, and have been consistently proud of her work for the last 24 years. As her daughter and as an alumna of this amazing school, I have adored watching her shape, nurture and deeply care for our shared alma mater.

When I was a junior, she gave me her school ring - the laurel leaf with 1960 raised in gold. We had it changed to say ‘84 - ‘60, and I wore it with pride. I know that it has held meaning for both of us as a physical expression of our shared ties to the School. RPCS is a large, extended family that spans so many years of love, life and learning. The School has existed since before my grandmother’s time, through my mother’s time, my time and on through her amazing tenure as Head of School. On one hand I cannot imagine RPCS without

Jean and Marion holding a photo of Jean’s mother

Jean Brune, and on the other hand I have known it in my own right, and therefore know it is a place of profound learning and community that shall outlive one amazing leader.

And, truthfully the School will never be without her as she now part of its enduring history.

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Jean Waller Brune Awarded the McCauley Bowl Excerpted from Katharine Fox Castro’s, 2004, address at the Alumnae Champagne Reception, October 2015

It is my distinct honor to present this year’s McCauley Bowl. The McCauley 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 criteria.

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pressed to think of anyone who has given more to the School, who could possible distinguish herself more through long service to the School and its graduates. The answer lies in 24 years of extraordinary hard work and dedication. The answer is the person who lives, sleeps and breathes Roland Park Country School. So as she is here, surrounded by family and friends to celebrate her 55th Reunion, it is my greatest pleasure to award this year’s McCauley Bowl to my friend, my advisor, my Head of School Jean Waller Brune.

Bear with me, as I try to make it through this without tears. Jean (I still can’t believe I can call her that) is the personification of all that defines Roland Park Country School – energy, spirit, tenacity of purpose. She is the embodiment of

the mission of this School. And it seems that has been true ever since her first days at RPCS. As I was preparing this speech – you know I had to do some digging. We went to the RPCS Archives and it turns out your high school “besties,” many of whom are here tonight, pretty much had you pegged then, Penny. Not only were you voted the Best Student of the Class of 1960, you were also voted Hardest Worker, a fact that surprises exactly zero people in this room. I have to say, the description of you as a high school senior is also exactly spot on, so please allow me to share it. “Somehow Penny manages to combine practicality with idealism, spontaneity with thoughtfulness, and industry with a warmly cheerful humor. She is gifted with a keen mind, evident not only in

Facing page: Jean with her family l. – r. Guy Paterson, Emma Paterson, Marion Brune Paterson, 1984, Jean, Kennedy Waller, and Idabelle Paterson

the classroom, but also in the world of human understanding. Giving freely of her own inexhaustible source of sympathy, strength, and courage, always trying to help others, Penny will be an invaluable friend to all who know her.” A brief 55 years may have passed since that was published in the Quid Nunc, but the description still holds so true.

As you just saw, we were able to surprise Jean this summer and tell her she would receive the McCauley Bowl during a luncheon with many of her classmates and it was so fun to be able to catch the always ontop-of-it Jean, a little off guard. We had voted on a phantom McCauley Bowl recipient the night prior at our Alumnae Association Meeting where Jean schooled us all on the proper bylaws and voting procedures – unaware it was just a ruse. As she begins her 24th (and final year) as Head of School, it is nearly impossible to think of anyone who has given more to the School. Jean has led the School through tremendous change and advancement – three significant capital campaigns that funded the Campus Master Plan that added this Faissler Library (newly repurposed), the Smith Middle School, the Sinex Theater and our incredible athletic facilities. She has led RPCS into the Digital Age – just yesterday she told the Parents’ Association how much she loves following RPCS on Twitter!

But beyond all of these incredible accomplishments, her greatest contribution is the impact Jean has had on the lives of literally thousands of young women. I am humbled to include both myself and my daughters in that list and for that I am eternally grateful. I was fortunate enough to have Jean as my advisor in Upper School and she has remained an advocate in my life and I am so impressed by her ability to remember

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

Jean with Katharine

the details of everyone’s lives. You simply cannot find someone who cares more and has more passion for educating and empowering young women. Her life revolves around the well-being of “her girls” – past, present and future.

Jean, perhaps most importantly, you have made RPCS a home. It is evidenced by all of the people in the room tonight and all of the alumnae who return to grace these halls on a daily basis as employees (currently 20) and the many of us whose children now attend the School. You have made RPCS a place to which we can always return and I firmly believe you are a significant part of why we have such a strong alumnae base. You will always have a place in our hearts and we are forever grateful for the tremendous contributions you have made. It doesn’t even begin to convey our gratitude, but thank you.

Thank you for all you have given of yourself to this place, but more importantly, to us.

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 2012: Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982 2013: Laurie McCulloch Fisher, 1963 2014: Mary Ellen Thomsen, HA

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DAVID STUCK

A 1960 graduate of RPCS, Jean Brune graduated magna cum laude from Middle­ bury College, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and received her master’s of liberal arts from Johns Hopkins. She taught in Charlottesville and in the Baltimore City Public Schools before serving for 24 years as both teacher and administrator at Gilman School. In 1992, she became RPCS’s sixth head of school and the first alumna to serve in that position.

Regular STYLE contributor Kathy Hudson, also an RPCS alumna, recently asked Brune to reflect on 50 years in education.

Head of the Class THIS SUMMER, JEAN BRUNE RETIRES AFTER 24 YEARS AS HEAD OF SCHOOL AT ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL—AND 50 YEARS IN EDUCATION. By Kathy Hudson

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What has changed the most in your long career? Three separate pieces have changed significantly: First, because of neurodevel­ opmental research, we know a lot more about the way students learn.

This has empowered educators to view students as individual learners and empowered teach­ers to learn to teach in different ways. This is truly transforming for our students.

Secondly, parents are more engaged in the life of the students, which is both a strength and a challenge. In general, the parent­ school partnership is a benefit for students, families and the school, but I have also seen respect and trust for educators diminish as parents hold schools more accountable for student performance. We’re always trying to do right by our students, and we hope that is apparent. School and home often see different things, and it is as we work together that we can do the best for children/young people. On the other hand, the so-

called “helicopter parent” is a great worry, because that parent doesn’t let their child learn from mistakes, then it takes much longer for that child to become a re­sponsible adult.

Lastly, technology as a learning tool has profoundly altered classroom teaching. Knowledge is now at our fingertips at all times, so teachers no longer need to teach information; rather, they need to teach students how to analyze and evaluate information and how to use technology responsibly. They need to encourage criti­cal thinking, questioning, and creativity in the classroom as a direct result of the technology. Because of technology, learn­ ing has become much more collaborative. It is critical that we teach students in ways that they understand the relevance of the curriculum.

What do you consider to be the value of an independent school education in 2016 Baltimore?

Independent schools are able to tailor their program to fit both

their mission and the needs of their students. Independent schools have the flexibility and autonomy to be more easily adaptable. Independent schools offer choices to parents, because no two independent schools are identical. Each independent school has its own mission, and we can really develop each child as an individual learner. We can also focus on building community, leadership and character.

What do you consider your most signif­i cant accomplishment at RPCS? Being head of a school is a complex (but reward­ ing) responsibility, in part because there are many constituencies with varying priori­ties. I am proud that I’ve been able to help RPCS remain fiscally strong; doing so has meant that I could always keep the student at the center of our attention and decision making. It touches me deeply that students and employees have come to find joy in the teaching and learning that goes on at RPCS, and that “joyful” is an integral part of our

school philosophy. I’m most proud of the diverse and inclusive community of students, employees, parents, and alumnae who make up the REDS. If you could give young teachers one piece of advice, what would that be? There are late bloomers who become magnificent adults. We don’t all grow or learn at the same pace. Discover and teach to a variety of learning styles. I always treas­ure a line from The Education of Henry Adams: “A teacher affects eternity; he/she can never tell where his/her influence stops.”

If you could give students one piece of advice, what would that be? You are not in this journey alone.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions and to find a teacher who will support you. Take a risk, work hard and have the tenacity to always find the support you need.

Reprint courtesy of Baltimore STYLE

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Alumnae Class Notes Class of 1945 60th Reunion Agnes Klein Lee grandmasunbun@gmail.com

It has been a pleasure talking to most of you and collecting the latest news for Connections.

So many of us continue to stay involved in our diversified interests. However, all good wishes for full and speedy recoveries to Pat Waters Former Trustee Betty Stewart and Dicky Barrett, Mary Frech Lamborg, and Ursula Marshall Hooper, 1945 Stewart Koerber who have recently fallen.

Pat is healing from back pain; Freckles from a broken hip; Urs from broken arms. Hope you are all healed and enjoying the springtime.

Mardy Fox Rawls continues her very active life. She paints, plays tennis, walks, goes to the gym three times a week, and takes care of her Victorian home. Her comment is “Life is OK.” Such energy! Mardy attended an RPCS Regional Reunion in Boston last November and was fortunate enough to have been seated next to Jean Waller Brune, 1960. Jinx Wilhelm Barton enjoys theater, reading, playing bridge, and travelling. In April, she attended Bridge Camp in Capon Springs, WV. Along with her sister, Jane Wilhelm Daniels, 1946, she cruised in March from Miami to Cuba, which must have been a very interesting stop. In late April and early May, I, Agnes Klein Lee, and my husband, Bill, flew to Amsterdam, and toured the Netherlands, Luxembourg, ending in Brussels to visit Bill’s son and daughter-inlaw, who works for the U. S. Embassy. While there, we took a trip to the Normandy beaches where we rented a cottage for a few days. Our next stops were Giverny and Mont St. Michel in France. Arriving back in Brussels, we took day trips and explored more of the city of Brussels. In September, Mary Ellen Dandy Marmaduke attended the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in New Orleans. Her father was honored. Nineteen members of her family were in attendance. She signed the second edition of the book she had written about her father, Dr. Walter Dandy.

It was an exciting and special time for Mary Ellen and her family. Unfortunately, my efforts to make contact with Martha Lewis Kingsford and Marion “Dicky” Marshall Hooper were unsuccessful. I do know that Lewie has moved from her home into a situation with supportive care. I hope that Dicky enjoyed the warm Florida sunshine during February, while we

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were here trying to stay warm. Sadly, Dicky’s husband, Laurie, passed away in February. We send our condolences to her on behalf of the Class. Catharine “Kitty” Foster Black continues to visit her summer home with her sons and their families. I had a nice conversation with Betty Corddry, who seems to always be involved in interesting projects. She is now compiling old letters of an author acquaintance who lived in Montana. Originally he was a barnstorming pilot, but became a paraplegic following an industrial accident. The goal is to have them published. As we all are getting older, our families continue to grow, blessing us with great grandchildren. Pat has one. Jinx has nine. I have eleven. Luckily, eight of mine are close by so that I can see them often. Best wishes to all of you. Mary Frech Lamborg, and Ursula Stewart Koerber have recovered from their falls. Pat suffered back pain, Freckles a broken hip, and Ursula broken arms. At our age a constant reminder is to NOT FALL. Certainly send all good wishes that you are all mended by now. Mardy Fox Rawls is amazing.

She continues to paint, plays tennis, continues to walk, even on the coldest days, and goes to the gym three times a week. That’s in addition to caring for her Victorian home.

Class of 1947 Priscilla Long Beirne Jane Thomas Acton and her husband David are happily enconsed in a villa at Waverly, a posh retirement community just five blocks from

their previous home. Jane heads the welcome committee, does line dancing, walks two miles every day, and volunteers at their thrift shop called Windfall. David is on the lecture committee, wine committee, swims every day and continues to maintain his law office as well as his involvement as board member of the Museum of the American Revolution which is to open in Philadelphia on April 17, 2017. Florence Maher Cromwell is still living in Santa Fe, NM. Neither she nor her husband drive, but she has a wonderful grandson who helps them every Friday. Florence has macular degeneration, but she swears she has not had any arthritis for years because of the wonderful climate which encourages walking. She now has four great grandchildren. Penny Hughes Doolittle and Dick are still in their house in Bethesda. She still drives and kayaks on the Potomac! Penny takes painting lessons in Glen Echo and has done quite a few portraits of nieces and nephews which she enjoys doing.

The Doolittle’s still spend summers in Blue Hill, ME. When I talked to her, she said she was suffering from an annoying case of shingles. I had a nice chat with Joyce Kellam Dougherty. She and her husband still live in a retirement home in Washington State. They are both fine. A daughter lives an hour away, and their two sons are in California. Joyce was introduced to her husband by Pas and Polly Byrd Mitchell. Pas had been in the marines with Joyce’s husband. Who knows what a blind date may lead to? Dottie Klinefelter Earll still resides at Ginger Cove in Annapolis.

She is legally blind, but continues to knit lap robes for the wheel chair bound. She enjoys listening to TV and interacting with other residents. She sounds fine and very upbeat! I reached Alice Nelson Furlaud in Trino, MA. She still lives in the family house with her cat Catherine. She no longer drives so she finds getting places difficult. She still gets to Maine in the summer and keeps up with Penny. Mary O’Rourk McKenzie is still in her lovely house on Baldwin. Both her daughters are with her, and John, her son, is in a nearby tenant house and keeps track of the farm. Mary has a bad hip, but steroid shots are helping, and she still drives locally. She will soon be a great grandmother. Peggy Webb Patterson and Sterling are both housebound on Fortieth Street. Their most interesting news is that their son-in-law, Michael LeDonne, has raised funds through two successful jazz concerts in NYC. This effort supports “Disability Pride” in

honor of his and Margaret’s, daughter who is severely disabled. Last July a parade was held in NYC to increase awareness of disabilities, and another will be held this July. It is hoped the “disability price” movement spreads nationwide. Lou Dukes Pine still lives on Wickford Road. Having closed her school and sold the building she is enjoying her retirement.

All the grandchildren are in college. Jonny Pine is a senior at Radford and already has a job waiting for him. Claire Utermohle, 2013 is a junior at the University of Maryland and Lauren Pine, 2015 is a freshman at Elon. In the summer, Lou spends a month at the family cottage at Long Lake, NY. Lou still gets around well, drives, and stays busy with family and friends. Ann Howell Veghte returned my cell from Vero Beach, FL where she has a house.

She is in Florida from January to April each year. If she doesn’t play golf she walks about a mile and a half each day. What a good set of genes! I am still in my house, but I have long term care, so I have help each day. I have to use a walker to keep me upright. My last big outing was to the BMA to see the new changes and have lunch at Gertrudes with my daughter. For all the class members I couldn’t contact please notify the Alumnae Office and make sure they have your correct telephone numbers. “No longer in service” sounds very ominous. We wonder how those of you we couldn’t reach are doing.

Class of 1948 Ann Wittich Warfield annwarfield@gmail.com In the last issue of Connections our class was right at the beginning – in the second place – which causes me to pause for reflection. This is the 68th time I have written Class Notes about the 31 graduates of the Class of 1948, which at that time was the largest class to ever graduate. Colleges, careers, marriages, babies, grand and great grandchildren – ups and downs of life – we have covered it all over the years and continued to maintain contact with most everyone. However, there are four that I have had no news of for ages – Tillie Jones Bayless, Sybil Looper Chandler, Betty Harris Goldstein, and Becky Near Taylor (although Becky did come to our 50th reunion).

I would love to hear from them. Molly Allen is continuing to take advantage of all the cultural opportunities living in NYC offers.

Although Cynthia Troxell Dunoyer misses her beloved horse, In’shallah, and dressage. She is

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Nancy Curtis Blaine, 1948 and her pup, Duncan

very upbeat about the progress her husband, Philippe, has made since his stroke last year.

He has even, with help, been able to return to the ski slope and bicycling. Mari Herman’s life in Texas is a little less hectic now that her cat, Filander, has retired from the show circuit.

Recovery from a hip replacement has gone well for Carolyn Demarest Wells and she keeps up with her two grandchildren in Florida and two in Wisconsin. Nancy Curtis Blaine continues to be very involved with church and community life in Charlotte – when she is not going to graduations and weddings with her brood. She is planning a trip to Paris and Vienna in July where she will meet up with a granddaughter who will be finishing a term abroad. The most difficult part of compiling these notes is having to pass on the news of a death. This time it is Margaret Crawford Demeré who died last fall. Margaret was a twelve year member of our class and a dear friend of mine. We were in each other’s weddings and we both raised three boys and a girl. The quotation under her photo in Quid Nunc said it all: “Grace and charm and manners fine, truly the very world is thine.”

For me, life at Blakehurst continues to be busy and fulfilling (and easy). Four months in Michigan enable me to continue to know my way around the kitchen. We were blessed in October with the birth of a little great granddaughter who was born on her brother’s second birthday! A wedding in Boulder, CO in September and another coming in the Adirondacks in July are family milestones.

Remember “The days may come and the days may go, but still the hands of memory weave the blissful dreams.”

After having lost contact with Joan Brigstocke Lyons, possibly due to her having moved out of her Punta Gorda, FL condo for a while when the area was struck by a hurricane, I reached her by email and received a long Christmas letter. Following the death of her husband, her daughters provided her with a busy summer of travel and visiting. She had a great time with daughter Linda and husband, John, rediscovering the delights and cuisine of Baltimore. Then she had a sojourn with Karen, Sandy and their sons in their Vermont farm house, enjoying the mountains, followed by a trip to Montreal and then a stay at the beach.

A stay with daughter, Peggy, in Milwaukee convinced her that she would be happy living in Wisconsin, and she has signed up for a retirement community there when she is ready to make the move from Florida. As I write this, we are having a heavy New England snow and Punta Gorda sounds quite appealing. Another classmate who made a decisive move in 2015 was Pam Sylvester O’Dowd. After considering a move to Richmond where their daughter lives, they decided to stay on the eastern shore of Maryland and are comfortably settled at Heron Point, a moderately sized retirement community in charming Chestertown. I know how lovely the Chester River is from our sailing years on the Bay. As Pam’s husband, Jim, suffers from fairly advanced dementia with memory loss and cannot be left alone, she feels relieved that they will both get the care they need. I think Bob and Karen Howard Hamer were our first classmates to enter a retirement community and they are now recognizing the wisdom of that move: Bob had a hip replacement followed by three months of rehab and pneumonia last year. This year a balance problem while gardening caused Karen to fall and hit her head on a cement porch. She has recently had surgery for glaucoma. Both daughters are near enough to visit fairly often and, as I can confirm, two cats provide a lot of comfort and companionship. There has been no change in our lives this year except for the feelings of slowing down. It can’t be due to age can it?

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Class of 1953 Lucy Fallon Otto jrotto2@gmail.com Stuart Bodine Moore enjoys living on Amelia Island, FL and is always eager to welcome Roland Park visitors. Janyce Fuhrman Smith shares: Life in Florence is good. She has had knee replacement and is getting back to normal. Her first great grandchild was born last November. Parker Gundry Trostel and Al spent much of 2015 traveling and visiting family. Parker’s interest for the last two years has been to help people in the community become more knowledgeable about dementia and be more friendly to those with the disease.

Whitney Foley Fuller and Pep spent a month traveling in Cornwall and London. This fall they had the whole family for Thanksgiving in northern Virginia. Twenty-two of us, including nine cousins. It was wonderful to see them all together and how much they cared for each other. Jeanie Horst Gore and her husband, Ken, are still in their lovely home. Jean continues to ride horses and compete. Thanks to Jean for the excellent job she does as our class representative for annual giving. Paula Hassencamp Lynch continues as business manager of Worcester Preparatory School in Berlin, MD. She and Franklin are well and enjoying life on the eastern shore. Lucy Fallon Otto writes: Rollin and I have moved to Blakehurst, a retirement community, a block from Jean Gore’s original home. Her parents were early residents. We continue to spend summers at the beach. Our seven grandchildren are the joy and delight of our lives. We wish for you all good health and peace in the world.

Class of 1954 Margo McElvain McClellan margomcclellan1@gmail.com Greetings to our awesome Class of 1954! This is a milestone year for us, as you are well aware, so Happy Birthday to everyone! I’m so grateful to you all who have shared your experiences with us…Here’s a special voice from our past Millicent Doll “Mia” Shargel: I’m sorry to have missed the reunion, especially since on a summer trip to Baltimore I managed to see a few old friends, including my long-lost dear friend Jane Marbury Keggi. Margo McElvain McClellan asked for a quick review of my life since RPCS-whew-62 years?! I went

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to Northwestern, transferred to Radcliffe, and did various things appropriate for an obedient daughter of the sleepwalking ‘50s until the ‘60s and the feminist revolution woke me up!

Most significant things in my life have involved revolution against some kind of orthodox consciousness. Such as me, the bishop’s daughter marrying the rabbi’s brother. Manny and I met in graduate school at Hopkins, and married after four years of trying to run from what even we thought was a clearly unsuitable union. Yet nearly 52 years later we are still loving and respectful best friends, spiritual and temporal. Or that I, a teacher and product of unabashedly elitist schools, and he, a philosopher of education and ardent advocate of the public schools, were pivotal in starting what is now the oldest “free school” in the country modeled on England’s Summerhill. We have been in Tallahassee. Manny taught philosophy of education at FSU since 1968.

We have one glorious daughter, Delia, now a superb psychotherapist in San Francisco (thank goodness for phones and Skype). I have spent much of my wage-earning life as an editor of academic books and articles, and have always worked in the neighborhood movement in Tallahassee, particularly in the last ten years trying to save a rapidly developing small city from destroying its ethos in the name of “vibrant” modernism. I am ever more grateful for what Roland Park was and continues to be. Looking at 80, I feel like I have one more decade of energy and revolution in me and would like one last opportunity to live into a heresy on its way to becoming a new orthodoxy! A word from our pal, Martha Grimes Mabie: All is well in the Mabie home.

We are in Florida more now, and have a new home, that we moved into a few months ago, on the east coast. Our 12 children and grandchildren are growing up fast. Our youngest grandchild is 12 and the eldest is 32.

Five boys and seven girls. Three are out of college, one graduating in May from Denison, one at Bucknell as a sophomore and one going to Vanderbilt in the fall. We try to keep up, but we are not that fast. I was so sorry to miss the last reunion and hope to see some of the class of 1954 in the future. Amazingly in Florida, we have several friends whose grandchildren are at RPCS and one whose daughter-in law is a dean there, her last name is Schroeder. Small world! Have a great 2016. With her wonderful, timeless sense of humor, Mary Sue Whiteley Payne writes: I can’t believe that most of my classmates are going to turn 80 this year, when I am only going to be 20! After many years of feeling cheated for only having a birthday every four years, now I’m pleased that I can give my age as 20. Willow Valley continues to be a perfect choice for us and we are so grateful

Margo McElvain McClellan, 1954

that we found it. Jim and I adopted a lynxpoint Siamese kitten from Lost Paws, a rescue organization, in October and she has taken over the house and made us her slaves. She’s more like a dog, and wants to be with us every minute. This presents problems when making beds (she fights with the covers) or working on taxes (she lies on the papers) or using the computer (she enters her own information into anything we’re working on) and once even managed to include a self-portrait. I was so happy to hear about Lynn Brewington Havard’s incredible experience this year! Lynn shares: As an early celebration of my 80th, I treated myself to a three week trip to India in January. Despite having a terrible case of bronchitis, I visited Delhi, Jaipur, Ranthamore National Park (stayed at a campsite), Agra (viewed the step wells and the magnificent Taj Mahal), Varanasi to cruise the Ganges to witness cremation ceremony, Mumbai with side trips to Ajanta and Elora caves. Every day was a new exciting adventure amongst the beautiful people of India. A trip to be remembered for a life time. Here is such an interesting report from Welby Hamilton Loane: I’m writing this in mid-February and have just returned from the Valentine’s Day luncheon for alums and their special students at RPCS. Thinking I would be the oldest I was amazed to see so many other familiar faces from days gone by as well. It was delightful and of course, standing and singing the School song with my granddaughter gave me goose bumps! Puttie and I are well and are on the verge of taking a 10-day trip to the San Diego area. We’ve never been and the weather promises to be ideal so that is our “winter getaway”. We’ll be back in Baltimore just in time for the gala 200th anniversary celebration of the family business, Loane Bros., Inc. It is truly remarkable to know that back in 1815, young Joseph Loane arrived from England as a sailmaker for clipper ships. Always remaining

in the Loane family, the canvas business grew and adapted to different eras, such as covered wagons, store front awnings, fuselage covers on aircraft carriers, hammocks on navy vessels, window and patio awnings in residential districts, and then the party tents and corporate tents. Today whole “tented” rooms are supplied with heat/AC, dance floors, tables, chairs, carpeting etc. Puttie and I are immensely proud of what our sons, Bryan and Scott have accomplished. It is quite a remarkable milestone! That’s what has kept us in Baltimore all these years. Always love seeing you all when you’re passing through. Good news from Ann Wilson Boyce: We continue to stay busy traveling and enjoying family. Our most recent family reunion found us on a Viking River cruise from Luxembourg to Prague.

Beautiful cities visited were in southern Germany and Prague is always a treat.

Thanksgiving at our daughter’s ranch in Jacksonville followed by Christmas gathering on Marco meant wonderful family time!

Continuing to update my mature aging process, I had cataract surgery. Now headlights on cars at night don’t have circles around them anymore. Amazing...All family members are thriving. Only one granddaughter left in college...Hard to believe. Just returned from my birthday gift trip to India (river cruise) and Nepal, including flight seeing Everest and the Himalayas. Heyward and I mean to keep exploring by travel until we drop! A delightful note from Scootie Michel Twells: Tom and I spent another fun year at our nest in the sky.

Okay, not quite the sky...only the 11th floor... but the view is wonderful! We did get away for a memorable cruise on the Danube in May, two weeks in a lovely house on the beach at Fripp Island, SC, in August, and ten days sightseeing and visiting family in Seattle and

environs in September. Mostly we’ve been enjoying our Baltimore family, especially the six of our eight “grands” who live here. Oh, yes, and exchanging funny jokes with classmates about getting older. Guess we have to admit we’re no longer “middle aged” but who cares? We still have each other! Cheers!

Jeanie Walter Teare continue to sing...just like a LARK(!) and is very involved in her concerts: Five rehearsals this week and a performance of works by Luna Pearl Woolf. We do one concert of contemporary music each season. We’re well and a bit boring. Lucky Anne Clark Bass writes from Key West again this year: I am sending my news from Key West where I am again staying January and February, but this year during an El Niño season. It has rained hard and blown almost every day. I have been lucky enough to have family members visit, so we’ve waded through the puddles together. My daughter, Elizabeth, and two granddaughters are living at my Annapolis home for a year, so there is never a dull moment there. I hope all are well and having a good winter. C.C. Ramsay Merriam has had another amazing year: My news is virtually the same. Duke and I went to Jamaica last February (and will go again this year). In June we sailed off the Dalmatian Coast in Croatia, then flew to Paris for a few days, and then drove to our country house on the Ile aux Moines in Brittany for part of June and July. We rented a house in Damariscotta, ME for the end of the summer.

In November we visited San Francisco. We spent Christmas with Duke’s youngest son, Andrew, and his wife, daughter and son. I still am working at my foundation, funding organizations which combat forced child labor, sex trafficking, human rights abuses, and solitary confinement (a human rights abuse). Duke and I are for Bernie Sanders, but

The family of Margo McElvain McClellan, 1954 in Nantucket (l. to r.) Katherine Williams, Jackson Parsells, Mark Parsells, Cort Williams, Brooke Williams, daughter Lisa Curlett, Clare Parsells, and daughter Cathy Curlett Parsells, 1976

will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee. We loathe Donald Trump. A quick note from Carolyn Powell Lalley in Charlottesville: Your email arrived as we are packing to go to Egypt and Jordan! As you said we are in the middle of a huge snow storm, but assuming everything is going again in two days we will be off. Yes, we will be celebrating our 80th birthday this year. Hard to believe! Obviously Dick and I are well and able to still do most things. Good luck to Libby on her knee I’ve had a busy year with volunteer work, Tai Chi, book club, etc.

In December, my older daughter and I went to Paris for Christmas. We had a wonderful time.

Paris was busy with Christmas shoppers and things seemed to be getting back to normal despite soldiers and police everywhere. On February 4, I am having my right knee replaced so I will be slowed down for several months.

Jane Marbury Keggi’s big decision: I guess my big news is that I am definitely retiring at the end of this May! Doing so with very mixed feelings, since I think I am somewhat addicted to my work as a therapist, which has felt mostly very rewarding for 40(!) years. Big news from Anne Turner Pope! Mikey’s back is acting up so we have cancelled travel plans. All the family is fine. All sons and grandchildren are thriving. Our biggest news is that our granddaughter Hannah has just been offered a job with the Peace Corps teaching middle school English in Ethiopia. Sarah is looking forward to her celebration as well. Jim and I continue to enjoy seeing our grandchildren and spending time with family and friends. We went to Tampa this year to celebrate Thanksgiving with our son Ted and his husband, Stefan. Always such fun and the weather was gorgeous! We may have to make this an ongoing event! I am looking forward to my 80th in April, our family all coming here!

A great celebration! Peggy Sutton Taylor writes that things are back to normal for her: I was glad to hear that her great friend, Tom is in remission and that her activities are now back in full swing! She is once again making jewelry, doing shows, and working in the local shop. She says her kiddies are fine and flourishing and it was great to get caught up on her special life in the Florida Keys! And finally my news, Tony and I both have our big birthdays and my “baby” Lisa turns 50, so we are really celebrating with a week-long excursion to the Riviera Maya in Mexico next August! There will be 11 of us and it promises to be a magical time together! I often think of our friends who aren’t here to celebrate with us......Shall we take a moment to remember them? Eleanor... Betty...Carol Anne...Sis...

Cindy...Rusty...Pat...My very best love to each and every one of you! Please stay healthy and happy!

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Class of 1955 60th Reunion Anna Dorsey Cooke Allison wda11ison@aol.com To those of you who answered, my heartfelt thanks. I know your classmates will enjoy your news. Kitty Bond Allen: the only major update in my life is that last April I moved to Edenwald, a retirement community in Towson. Life is now like a cruise ship on land. I continue to work 20 hours a week at GBMC in Spiritual Support Services, and edit newsletters for three organizations. I enjoy the evening programs at Edenwald, having folks to dine with, and the security that such arrangements offer to an “aging” me. Gale Chance Fitzwater: Happy Holidays a little late to all from Montana. We had the requisite snowy Christmas. Mike and I were out plowing and snow-blowing with the John Deere tractor and the Gator, before breakfast (but after coffee). Isabelle (10 years) called to be sure there was enough snow on the driveway for sledding. We had a gracious plenty with ten inches. Ended up with 11 family members for dinner, presents and a bonfire. My son, Chance, used the walk behind snow blower to cut a path to the fire ring. Ski season is in high gear, two older girls, Paetra and Isabelle are ski racing slalom and also cross country Nordic skiers. For Thanksgiving we had 19 including house guests and neighbors for dinner Thursday and the traditional Friday go into the woods and cut down Christmas trees.

It took four pickup trucks to get everyone and the dogs and the trees back to town after stopping to have hot chocolate and pictures with the trees in the woods. Thanks to all who sent the lovely card with all the messages from the lunch reunion I missed. Will try to get back to Virginia the end of March or early April, visit Baltimore and get together with whoever is around. Anne Stewart Fiske Kearns: Bill and I were in Florida for two months this winter. We go back and forth a couple of times to New Jersey as Bill still works. After the rush of Christmas, just sitting and looking at a palm tree is heaven. We walk three miles each day, enjoy golf adventures, dinners in Palm La-ti-da Beach and great conversations with people from everywhere who stumble into the Cafe Polo, a delightful, mochaserving restaurant in Wellington where we live. Last August we went to Nantucket and continued our walking (Bill walks about 800 miles a year and I trail with 650. Not literally trail, I do other much more interesting things.

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Anne Stewart Fiske Kearns, 1955 and her husband, Bill

Ha!) Our time together is busy and so much fun. I’m blessed to have found love a second time! Susie Kendall Nolte recently lost her husband of 59 years, Charlie Nolte, to a sudden heart attack. A memorial service was held on January 2nd at Severna Park United Methodist Church. He had so many friends and relatives that they needed to put up extra chairs. He will be greatly missed by so many and especially by Susie. Laura Somerville Ramsay: I retired from Carefirst BCBS in 2013 and moved to my daughter’s separate Carriage House on their property in Somerville, MA. It’s been a wonderful new adventure: able to walk to shops and a myriad of restaurants; learning to get around Boston on the T; involved in Garden, Book, and Current Events Clubs. Trying to keep in shape with a regular exercise group; enjoying fantastic musical events as diverse as Somerville’s PorchFest and HonkFest to Berkley College jazz and the Boston Symphony; taking classes at Osher LLI at Tufts University (Next door! Homework, but no grades!). Also been a “labrat” at Tufts and Harvard and serve on the Board of Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services, Inc. I enjoyed a great trip to southwest France in 2015, where I stayed at my friend’s 15th

Century chateau, built on the 12th Century fort walls and towers which surrounds the 13th Century village of Pujols...lived history.

Been fun seeing RPCS regional alums at the annual dinner in Boston; would welcome visits from any RPCS New England travelers. Sarah Leavitt Roebas: I am beginning my ninth year here in Tenino, WA midway between Seattle and Portland, OR. I moved here to create a sustainable living, growing and preserving my food, having chickens, bees, mushrooms and gardens. My practice as a Medicine Woman has blessedly continued expanding to me to new arenas. This is very different from Tucson where I lived for 25 years. The heat there has increased and it is challenging to grow food. I have two Westies who keep me company and laughing. My life is peaceful and my home is a sanctuary. I enjoy each day. So I probably couldn’t get further from Baltimore yet in my mind I am there with you and all the learning and experiences that gave me the foundations of my life for which there are not enough words of gratitude. Sending you much joy.

Barbara Hocker Simmons: Right now, I’m snowed in, as we all are, and am rummaging through years of collected “whatevers” and actually getting rid of them. Not exciting, of course, but a long-overdue accomplishment at least. I always enjoy the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays as I spend them in Florida with my daughters. Great fun! I enjoy my bridge groups and Book Club here and keeping up with friends near and far via email, as I’m sure we all do. Wishing a Healthy, Happy New Year to all of us. I, Anna Dorsey Cooke Allison: In March 2014 Elise and I went to Belize to warm up. In September of that year we flew to Croatia. We visited Plitvice Lakes National Park, which consists of waterfalls that connect 16 lakes in forests of beech, fir, spruce and rock formations. After touring along the Adriatic we drove east to the Lipica Stud Farm. Driving into the farm, we stopped alongside the pasture to look at the mares and foals. They came over to us and I rubbed the nose of one friendly mare; it had been years since I had done this and I had forgotten how soft the nose of a horse was. Later we attended a performance, which was wonderful. In March 2015 Elise and I went to Spain, north of Madrid, visiting Salamanca, Avila and Segovia. In the fall we went to New Hampshire and Vermont – her idea as she had endured Spain for me! At home I keep busy with the U.D.C., D.A.R., am on the Altar Guild at church, go to the Bird Club dinners, and into the Historical Society and help in the library. In warm weather I am outside working as much as I can – usually two hours is enough! Until next year.

Class of 1956 Sally Foley sallyfoley@verizon.net Joanne Yundt Calvert writes: Davis and I continue to be involved in heritage groups and the genealogy required. One of the most exciting events we attended was Maryland Day, held in the Basilica with a host of ecumenical ministers and other illustrious folks to celebrate Maryland’s founding and its freedom of conscience. Three small crosses made from the last standing Liberty Tree were blessed (Davis presented one) and two were given to Pope Francis and Queen Elizabeth, the third is to grace the tabernacle of the Brick Chapel of 1667 in Historic Saint Mary’s City.

We also celebrated the Maryland 400, those brave men who saved Washington and his troops at the Battle of Long Island, with a visit to Brooklyn for the ceremony and met the most delightful group of Irish ladies.

We had a marvelous trip to Ireland with Henry Miller (Historic St Mary’s City), seeing historical sites related to Maryland’s history and culminating with the Galway Oyster Festival. Disappointing, their oysters can’t hold a candle to ours! We ended with a visit to the churches of my great- and greatgreat grandparents, the townland with cottage remnants of my great-grandfather in the middle of a pasture. A visit to New Grange was mind-boggling. Lastly we saw the ruins of Lord Baltimore’s castle Elfeete; Davis’ tenth great-grandfather received it as part of his Irish title. Eve Davens Firor shares: I am still living close to the land and people life in West Virginia. Tom (Gilman 1953) and I are amazing healthy for our age. Heating with wood gives us something to do besides reading on the long cold winter days. In the summer months, we grow and preserve most of our food and bring in the winters wood. Visit our youngest Emily who has Sabina, age six, and Thomas, age four, in Medford two or three times a year, they come here in the summer.

Matt, our middle son, lives on a horse farm in Maryland with Margot, Nadya age twelve and Andrei age fourteen, they ride, run races, play soccer and keep their parents busy. Oldest son Andrew and his children and grandchildren live nearby. Eve recently retired from years of managing the food bank for the area’s high proportion of low income residents.

Marjorie Barton Richmond still has three horses, two goats and a cat in Upperco, MD. She teaches and competes in carriage driving, which involves not just keeping the carriage and horse in show condition, but hauling them to competitions as far away as

Syracuse, in a pretty big truck. She also takes care of a couple of acres of grass, vegetables and flowers, after shoulder-replacement surgery in March. For many years Marjorie has served on the board of directors of a federally subsidized seniors-only apartment house in Bolton Hill. And for years the board has worked with HUD to comply with a myriad of behind-the-scenes building and funding rules and regulations required for this major renovation project. After frustrations a-plenty, work is underway and residents are already benefiting from the changes. Marjorie is also active in many outreach programs for her Episcopalian church in an economically disadvantaged city neighborhood. With good spirits and flying colors, Heather Andrews Perkin came through two major health challenges, including open heart surgery, in two years. She credits her wonderful nurses and big brown Newfoundland, Riptide, for making each of the long periods of recuperation not only tolerable but almost enjoyable.

Riptide was newly adopted when Heather was first hospitalized. Shortly after coming back to his ecstatic greeting and constant companionship, off she went again, leaving him once more with a team of care givers. The second time she returned, however, he became velcroed to her side. Now Heather is back to

her usual activities, which include maintaining her spacious property, with the tens of thousands of desiccated fall leaves, painting anything that needs it, and keeping the swimming pool clean. The latter presents more than the usual challenge because long haired Riptide, typical of the breed, loves the water. Heather also enjoys the activities of two women’s clubs and an active social life.

Charlotte Purnell Haven lost her husband this year after a long illness. Fortunately, their four children live in California, not very far from the avocado ranch where they were raised, and where Charlotte lives greatly enjoying the land and her animals. Millie Baker Roberson shares: Have been having a mostly enjoyable time these past several years since my beloved husband’s death in December 2007. I have both traveled and dated (who knew we might find ourselves dating in our seventies?!) Re: travel, have been on three trips to Europe: first to England, next to Germany and most recently in 2015 to France. I have been fortunate to travel with a friend who lives in Manhattan. He’s a very experienced traveler which is helpful. In France was able to visit Normandy (especially Bayeux) as well as Giverny and Paris. My husband had flown fighter aircraft over Normandy in WWII. I have also been to Washington, DC and to

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Houston, TX. The former was to attend the awarding of the Congressional Gold medal to the American Fighter Aces. This medal now resides in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. A bronze replica was given to each living Ace, as well as to next of kin for those deceased. I will treasure mine! As for dating, met a couple of new gents in 2015, one from Florida and the other from Pennsylvania. It’s an interesting and at times, challenging experience...may get around to writing about it one of these days. Health has been relatively stable. The AMD hasn’t advanced and I hope it never does! I have become even more petite.

I’m both short and slim. I try to do the exercises I should do so I can keep on keeping on! I have stayed in touch with classmates Jane Adams Watts, Sally Foley and Charlotte Purnell Haven. Between that and keeping up with friends from my nursing professorial career, I spend too much time on the computer! My sister, Selina Baker Martin, 1953 survived a near-death experience in a Maine hospital last fall, but is doing well now. Her home is on the market and she hopes to move back to Massachusetts when it sells. Perhaps 2016 will be the year I finally get my courage up to move...maybe to southern California! Have never been a fan of winter and Virginia isn’t far enough South! Pokey Harris Brown writes: For a change I have some news, sort of. We have sold our house and are moving to Elkridge Estates at the end of March. It will be quite a transition, but we need to be on one floor. On the family front, Sandy, our oldest, lives in Greenwich, CT and runs a sports TV network called One World Sports. His daughter, Kendall, is a junior at Westminster School in Simsbury and his son, Alex V (not many original names in this family) is off to boarding school next year in the ninth grade.

Our daughter, Julie Brown, 1983 lives in London and is still pursuing her acting career.

She works part time for her husband who is head of a forensic financial company (the company looks for money that has been obtained illegally all over the world). Alex and I will celebrate our 55th anniversary this yearwe are in fairly good shape all things considered. Life changed dramatically for Dickie Wilson this past year. Sadly her husband, Monk, with whom she had shared decades of happiness, died at the venerable age of 93. They had considered moving from Florida to Mountain Meadows (MM), a retirement community in Ashland, OR, where Dickie’s children live, but were delayed by Monk’s long illness. Dickie made the move on her own, an emotionally and physically arduous undertaking. Leaving behind years of friendships and interests, she has settled in and loves MM and her new apartment overlooking

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Whitney Foley Fuller, 1953 and Judy Connolly Connally, 1956

the mountains. As always, Dickie’s life-long interests eased her transition. She sings with the Unitarian Church choir and volunteers with the homeless program, often staying overnight in shelters (in a supervisory role).

She is also in a weekly hiking and exercise group, enjoys country dancing regularly, takes courses at the local university, enjoys events offered by MM and in Ashland, and is about to become immersed in volunteering for and attending the renowned Shakespeare Festival Theater. Best of all, Dickie lives only minutes from Kate, a practicing psychologist, and Garth, a college professor, for the first time since they graduated from college. They’ve had “first” Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and loads of casual visits and adventures. Dickie has even been able to help Kate with office paper work and pet sit for both families, the grandchildren having scattered geographically. Jane Adams Watts writes: To all my 1956 class members - Life does hit you in unexpected ways. I have been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis which has put me on oxygen around the clock. Am trying to accept the fact and love that I have heard from several classmates. My RPCS years were some of the best in my life. Not only did you all accept me fully when I entered tenth grade, but I loved being involved in all the activities RPCS had to offer, among them the opportunity to develop some of the best friendships I have.

My love and thanks go to each of you. My

“kids” are a great help. The oldest, Rick, lives near Gibson Island and has two kids in college.

One at Duke and one at University of Maryland. My second son, David, lives close to me so gets most of my headaches! His daughter, Grace Watts, 2018 is in tenth grade at RPCS. My daughter, Leigh Watts Mello, 1986 lives in Plymouth, MA, but she got everything set up for me at home and comes frequently to check up on me. Her daughter is in eighth grade. I am truly blessed to have their help. I do have two lovable coon hounds that will need a home with a fence. One is four and full of energy and the other is ten and a quiet girl. If any of you know of anyone who loves hounds and can adopt them, please let me know. They do not have to be placed together and I do not want to release them until I can no longer care for them. They are my love!

My e-mail loves hearing from you and all you are doing. We really do have an outstanding group of classmates. Connie Reed Goldsmith, who remarried a few years back and lives in California, is still painting in her studio, travelling extensively with her husband, including taking several trips to Italy with Kathie and Nick Ratcliffe, and coming back to Baltimore to visit with children and grandchildren. Kathie and Nick still live in their super charming farm house in the super charming historic town of Watertown, VA. Until just a couple of years ago, retired geologist, Nick, coached lacrosse. Rather than

run along the sidelines with Nick, Kathie has chosen the sit-down hobby of quilting. Her works, now done in miniature, are exquisite.

“Google” her at “ninepatchstudio” and be awed by her skill and creativity. Their son lives in San Francisco and the nearby daughter’s son will be a May graduate of the Maryland Institute of Art, which doesn’t have a lacrosse team! Ann Peterman Hill has made us feel younger at heart with her announcement of her April wedding to a gentleman who’s an active volunteer for the church where she’s been employed for many years. Ann Obrecht Shreve recently gave up the country life she loved and her huge garden, both of which she has thoroughly enjoyed for decades. She has moved to a memory-care facility. Fortunately her two attentive daughters (one named Heather) live nearby and eased the transition.

Sally Foley writes: when not being an attentive pet owner (five cats and three dogs), I volunteer at the SPCA, foster dogs for various rescue groups, enjoy a women’s group at church, volunteer for its food bank, manage a Pet Pantry, which gives pet food to low income oldsters, and do a range of stuff calling out to retirees - lectures, naps, concerts, bungee jumping, gardening, MRI’s, EKG’s, etc. I continue to be impressed by RPCS’s spirit and philosophy and enjoy being on the Alumnae Board. It’s refreshing to be in contact with bright younger people who understand current technology and whose professional and personal experiences are so much broader than ours were at the same ages. I traveled a little and visited Dickie in Florida shortly before she moved to Oregon. Despite the physical and emotional strain of caring for her husband for the many years Alzheimer’s took to steal his mind and body, she made good decisions for her future and pulled together a complicated move to Ashland, OR. She’s now rejuvenated, living only minutes from her son and daughter.

Class of 1957 Gay Parsons Walker walkerrg@telus.net We send our sincere condolences to Nancy Norris-Kniffin, whose husband, Hazen Kniffin passed away on January 27, 2016. A man of many interests, Dr. Kniffin was a well-respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who had a private practice, taught and held major executive positions at several psychiatric hospitals in the Baltimore area. A number of our classmates attended his memorial service

to offer comfort to Nancy, and Susie Wills Hunter wrote a vivid account of the service for those of us who couldn’t be there. Nancy continues to live at Roland Park Place and lectures at the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. A delightful email last fall from Susie also described a visit that she and Alice Fort Dorshow had with Peggy Parr Gallagher in Columbia, MD. Peggy lives in a beautiful lakeside apartment filled with her treasures and art work, and Susie reported that she looked “fabulous, fashionably dressed with that big ‘Peggy’ smile.” They had a wonderful reunion, laughing and chatting over lunch at a nearby restaurant. Susie and her husband Bill are very busy with all their activities at Edenwald Retirement Community and their volunteering there, at church and for other outside groups. Susie still enjoys her garden club, and she’s involved with the Buildings and Grounds and the Garden Committees at Edenwald. They get exercise with walks and aerobics - and by attending the sporting events of their four very active grandsons, who range in age between eight and 12. Bill’s eightieth birthday gift from Susie was a marvelous eight-day Viking riverboat cruise on the Rhine, starting in Basel, Switzerland and ending in Amsterdam. In December, Betty Ann Schmick Howard and her husband Johnny moved up the road from their house to Blakehurst, a continuing care community where her parents had enjoyed living for their last ten years. Betty Ann emailed: This is a wonderful place...as I write, we have been here two months and have been warmly enfolded into the community.

Coming with us is our new dog, Milo, a tenyear-old black and white cardigan corgi (the kind with a tail!). He is a great companion and makes the apartment feel like home. Kate Woodward and her partner Patti have bought a beautiful house overlooking the village of Sperryville, VA where they’ve been living part time while trying to sell their Washington house. They hope to complete their move in the spring of 2016 and look forward to having only one property to maintain. In spite of the upheaval, they did manage a trip in June to London and Paris, where Patti attended conferences and they rented apartments in interesting districts. In London, two movies were being filmed right in front of their building, and they watched the filming of a car chase, but didn’t see any “stars.” In Paris, they managed to get tickets to the French Open and enjoyed lots of tennis. Patti is planning to retire soon from full-time work and take on only interesting short-term projects (“Hope springs eternal,” writes Kate!) Retirement doesn’t seem to be slowing Janet Hatter Taylor down at all. Her husband Lee sent an impressive list of Janet’s many activities, which

include fitness exercises at the gym five days a week, volunteering at her church on Sundays and taking continuing education courses. In 2015, their travels took them to Florida and New York City, as well as one cruise from Hong Kong to Singapore via the Philippines and Borneo, and another visiting the Greek Isles and Turkey. Libby Callard Olson is another widely-traveled classmate. In March, she attended the wedding of her son Peter in China, and afterwards accompanied the newlyweds on a fascinating trip to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in South Vietnam. Libby, her children and grandchildren plus other family members, gathered for Peter and Jenny’s American wedding celebration at the family’s summer home in Nahant, MA in July. When Libby visits her daughter Emily’s family in Shelburne, VT she spends time with her two grandchildren there and also sees her two older grandsons in nearby Plattsburgh, NY. (Emily’s husband Dan works in Bernie Sanders’ senatorial office in Burlington, but not on his campaign.) Libby also has a granddaughter in Annapolis: son Nick’s little girl. In Baltimore, she still enjoys tutoring at a school near her home. It was good to hear from Lynn McManus Mazzarella, who wrote just before she and husband Bob were going to Sunapee, NH, for their annual ski week with the disabled veterans. Bob, whose mobility is severely limited by MS, loves being guided down the mountains on a sit-ski by volunteers, while Lynn enjoys soaking her arthritic joints in the pool and having leisure time for herself.

Lynn is Bob’s principal care-giver and is grateful to the Veterans’ Administration for rehabilitation and extra home-help. Their children and grandchildren also help, and good neighbors provide snow-shoveling when the Boston-area weather turns nasty.

Peggy Parr Gallagher, 1957, and Alice Fort Dorshow, 1957

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Jennie Ladew and her sister Rebecca now live with daughter Jodie in her Leesburg, VA apartment. Jennie wrote that she would have liked to put skis like Bob’s on Rebecca’s wheelchair to help her get around after the huge blizzard of January, 2016.

Jennie accompanies her sister to Washington when Becky serves on FCC committees for disabilities, a volunteer job she has done for years. The three ladies support their various pro sports teams avidly, Jennie still enjoys taking basketmaking classes, and their beloved cats keep them amused. Marsha McCauley Sutton wrote that she’s had an “unprecedented year of firsts” with her oldest granddaughter’s graduation from college with academic and athletic scholarships, a new job plus her engagement and upcoming wedding; her second granddaughter’s high school graduation, also with a four-year scholarship, and the two younger girls finishing junior high and elementary school. ”No more babies - that must mean I am really old!” Marsha also said, “Life is full and busy. I am blessed with amazing friends, health, and a plethora of different and fun experiences. At 76, I’m still vertical and moving, so Life is Good!” Frances McCauley King and her husband John are still waiting for an available place at their nearby retirement community, hoping to move in 2016. They still sing with the AARP Chorus, giving concerts at Christmas and springtime, and they really enjoy the camaraderie with other singers.

Frances wrote that as a result of some neck surgery, she now sings “tenor with the guys” instead of soprano. My husband Roger and I, Gay Parsons Walker, keep very busy with our hobbies: Roger’s model railroading and my quilting both involve some teaching and organizing of shows and events, as well as doing projects with like-minded friends. I’m also on the board of our local homeowners association, working to keep the neighbors happy and their homes in repair. In September, Roger and I celebrated fifty delightful years of love and laughter. We treated ourselves to a quiet anniversary getaway at a beautiful winery guesthouse in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley and then enjoyed much livelier festivities here in Calgary with our kids and grandkids.

Our classmates are wonderful at looking after each other and staying in touch, and nothing demonstrates this better than the loving care and concern they have shown to Mary Stewart “Misty” Townsend Rossbottom. When Misty was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the spring of 2014, needed urgent help and had no family to provide it, a group of her Baltimore classmates, along with a few of her church choir friends, became her “guardian angels.”

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apartment and possessions, organized her finances and even found a good home for her little dog. They have kept Misty cheerful with frequent visits and phone calls, and they’ve been kind enough to keep more distant classmates in the loop with regular email reports of Misty’s health and spirits. We faraway ladies have been able to do little besides writing notes to Misty and calling her once in a while, and we are tremendously grateful for all that our classmates have done.

(I would shout their names from the rooftops, but they are a modest lot and have done this without thought of recognition. But we know who they are!) The marvelous kindness and support she has received has helped Misty enormously throughout her ordeal, and she has been very appreciative of it all. Misty’s chemo has now been discontinued and she is comfortable at ManorCare of Roland Park.

Class of 1958 Courtney Jones McKeldin courtney@mckeldin.com Just think! The class of 1958 has been out of RPCS for fifty eight years and in two more years we’ll be celebrating our 60th reunion with a new Head of School as Jean Brune retires this June after having been the Head of School for twenty four years. I actually emailed everyone who had an email address listed with the Alumnae Office for news and even received a few unsolicited emails for which I am exceedingly grateful. Norvell Brinton is our bionic woman as she just got a new knee right before Christmas and seems to be doing well.

She has other new parts, too numerous to mention. Frankie Sherwood got a new knee in early January and she, too, seems to have progressed nicely. Brooke Nichols Taylor has announced that she will join the retirement brigade in March after many years of working and is very much looking forward to her leisure time. I suspect that she will pursue her hobbies of birdwatching and bowling. Dedi Smallwood Whitaker emails that she is still working as Assistant to the Rector of The Church of the Resurrection, She says: a thriving Anglican church on Greenspring Avenue in Baltimore County just north of the beltway. In the summer Dedi spends several weeks in her little island family cottage in Maine. In April, she and her sister, Innes Smallwood Kasanof, 1963 will be taking a Viking River cruise on the Rhone from Lyons to Avignon. Bon Appetite, Dedi! Linda

Judy Shafer Hoff, 1958, her husband Sandy and daughters (l. to r.) Sally Hoff Thomas, Jennifer Hoff Floyd and Dorsey Hoff Campbell

Hamilton, of Ft. Collins, CO, writes that she and Carol Wilson Keenan got together last summer in Boulder and had a wonderful, mirthful visit. In 2012 Linda retired from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, but still works part time in the membership department at Ft. Collins Club and volunteers with Wildlands Restoration. Linda took a trip to Samburu, Kenya, in January of this year through the Samburu Youth Education Fund founded in Ft. Collins. She was amazed at the abundant assortment of wild animals. Linda’s daughter, Georgia Daniels, lives in Washington State and is a firefighter. Linda’s son, Peter Daniels, is getting married this winter in a yurt in Crested Butte, but snowshoes need to be worn to get into the chosen marital site! Another classmate, Patty Rafferty Buchan, was in Africa in January with her husband, Dave. She emailed me from Dar Es Salaam and was headed to Zanzibar. I suspect it was a trip of a lifetime.

She keeps busy, stateside, by reading with kids two days a week at the local elementary school in Brookfield, CT. She also has Literary Volunteer students two days a week from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Thailand and Ecuador. Carol Wilson Keenan, of Colorado Springs, CO, says she loves her parttime job helping people get basic needs met such as rent, utilities, medical and food. She still skis as much as possible in the winter and bikes in the summer and last summer biked the Texas Hill country. Carol loves the informal life style and the outdoor focus of Colorado.

Judy Shafer Hoff writes that her family, including three daughters and many grandchildren, spent this past Christmas at Paraiso Maya in Mexico while celebrating many monumental birthdays. Her grandkids range from Charlotte Thomas, a Boston University graduate who is a budding thespian in Chicago and her sister, Brooke, who is a

Members of the Class of 1958 (l. to r.) Frankie Sherwood, Courtney Jones McKeldin, Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, Nancy Biggs Cole and Norvell Brinton

senior at the University of Denver, both daughters of Sally Thomas. Judy’s number two daughter, Dorsey, has a son, Chase, in his second year at UVA and plays on the lacrosse team where Judy’s husband went and played lacrosse as well as her brother, Punch Shafer, who also attended UVA and played lacrosse.

Dorsey’s daughter, Annie, is a senior at St. Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore and her youngest son, Jay, is at Gilman. Judy reports that Dorsey is a top realtor in the Baltimore market! Judy’s youngest daughter, Jennifer, and her husband live in Durango, CO, where they enjoy skiing and all the wonderful outdoor activities there. Betsy Mills Hughes of Ohio reports that her husband, Jim, is miraculously back on his feet again, 50 pounds slimmer and a bit more frail. Jim was hospitalized due to various serious infections and spent a year of at-home nursing care and therapies. Betsy still writes poetry and got her first prize-winning book of 2014 published which she attributes to beginner’s luck and has another manuscript ready to send off. She says the joy is in the writing. Lynn Hammond Voss of North Carolina writes: My husband, David, and I have relinquished both the pleasures and the responsibilities of a house and moved, in December of 2013, to Glenaire, a continuing care community in the heart of Cary, NC, where we have lived for 23 years. She says that

she is within walking distance of their daughters, Jane, Ellen and Kate and their families and their church in which they are overly involved. Her daughter, Ellen, lost her husband unexpectedly, and Lynn is glad that her daughter and her 12 year old twins live nearby so she can offer support to them as the past year has been sad and difficult for all of them. Lynn and David spend their summers in northern Vermont and have for the past 53 years. This summer Lynn will drive from Vermont to New Brunswick, Canada, to meet her daughter, Jane, for a special motherdaughter Road Scholar experience. Ann Talbot Boyer, of Madison, WI, writes that she has a special male friend who’s a fab ‘Mr. Fixit.’ He is from Green Bay and Ann says that they are going to Havana, Cuba in the spring with Road Scholar. Ann has been doing more writing – just short pieces. Her older grandson is in high school now and deep into robotics.

Mary Grimes Olk of Royal Oak, MI, writes that her daughter, Maggie, got married in 2012 and her baby boy was due in early February of this year. She says her business is going well and she works for builders and has private clients as well. One of her larger clients is Edward Rose and Sons, the sixth largest apartment builder in the country. Mary is featured on their website and they are located in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and Mrs. Rose, senior,

is supposedly the wealthiest woman in Michigan. Mary’s next project with this company is in Memphis, TN. She will ship all her materials there and will fly in for one day for the install. She is a member of the Home Builders Association locally and nationally and last year was the Associate of the Year for her local HBA of southeastern Michigan.

Sandra “Sandy” Johnson Johnson: Jim and I are both doing relatively well. Jim just had his second knee replacement and I am busy playing chauffeur to physical therapy and wherever else he desires. Jim’s surgery prevented us from spending our usual three months in the Florida Keys. We miss seeing our friends there, but Jim’s mobility without pain is more important. Soon we will both be back to all the things that make us happy; for Jim it’s golfing, fishing, hunting and for myself, golfing, charity work and spending time with family and friends. Our son, Josh stays busy enjoying all the same activities with his dad and running his company. Josh’s daughter, Jennifer, became engaged on a trip to Ireland last year and plans for an October wedding in Deep Creek. His son, Matt, is still kissing lovely ladies while looking for the right Princess. Our daughter, Kim had an eventful year. Her son, Graham, graduated from college and entered the workforce, awaiting the Navy and her daughter Julia entered college and is in

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Scotland for a semester. Kim’s MS hit a slight bump, but she remains strong in every way.

Tough lady and her faith is unwavering. As for me, Courtney Jones McKeldin, my husband, Ted, and Bonnie and Bruce Sawyer and I went on a Viking Cruise last April to Belgium and the Netherlands, the highlight of which was visiting the Keukenhoff Gardens outside of Amsterdam. Then in September, I went to Ireland with a group from historic St. Mary’s City and, among other things, kissed the Blarney Stone! One of the boards that I am on is The Peale Center Board, the former Peale Museum, and I persuaded Governor Hogan to put $400,000 in his budget to help finance the revitalization of The Peale so we are more than half way to our goal of three million dollars!

One of the other boards that I am on is The National Center for Health Research, a think tank out of Washington, DC, which deals a lot with Congress, the FDA and the White House Office of Public Engagement. It is a very worthy board and I enjoy it tremendously.

Class of 1959 Caroline Savage Wanstall nonniew@yahoo.com Thank you to all who contributed to our news notes this year. It was good to hear from Tom Ahern who wrote: It has been sixty-five years since Miss Jose’s class at RPCS. Since I cannot recall sending in any Alumni news in the past, I will fill you in on life after RPCS. I graduated from Gilman and Johns Hopkins. I joined the Navy in 1963 and trained as a computer programmer. I moved to California in 1967 and stayed in the computer business for thirtythree years, after which I bought a struggling independent bookstore in Laguna Beach as a semi-retirement venture, and had a ball until I closed it four years ago. You may remember my mother, who was a coach at RPCS and referee of field hockey and lacrosse. She died at ninety-four in 2003, still feisty as ever. Priscilla and I have been married nearly twentyseven years. We live literally on the beach in Newport Beach. We love to travel, and have visited over a hundred countries together.

I have come to appreciate what a fantastic education we received at RPCS. As one of the boys who had to leave after third grade, I credit RPCS as the best foundation for learning one could hope for. I shall always be a proud alumnus among the alumnae. Kathie Scott Rysanek reports: Bill and I have had a good year. We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary with a January cruise and took the kids and

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spouses for a week. This was a surprise. Bill and our daughter, Barb, planned the whole thing and I had no input. We feel very blessed to have each other and to be in good health.

Bill’s MS seems to be stable and in spite of the wheelchair, we get out and about with the help of the ramp van. Bill had been asking me for years to have a casino party and I had always put him off. Well, after the cruise, I thought it would be the only thing I could do that would be a fun surprise for him, so we did that on our actual anniversary which is in April. Hired a company to run it, had an old fashioned juke box and a photo booth and I think it was a success. Our children and grandchildren are doing fine. Oldest grandchild is a sophomore at San Diego State. Two boys are both juniors in high school going through the SAT and college tour routine. Son, Bill, lives in Stafford, VA and daughter, Barb, lives here in Raleigh, NC about fifteen minutes away. Everyone will be here for Christmas and we are looking forward to it.

Our parents are gone, so we never get further north than Virginia. We miss them, but not the trip from here to Delaware and Maryland.

My brother lives in Connecticut, but is very good about visiting knowing that traveling is a struggle for Bill. We all get together every summer at the beach which I love. Life goes on and we have no complaints. We have our names on a list for a continuing care retirement community here in Raleigh, but every time we get the call, we say that we aren’t ready. I am sure it will come to us all, however. In the meantime, I’d better start cleaning out closets.

Barbie Stafford Jones sent the following: This is our news in 2015! We also are on a list waiting to hear that the Menno-Haven Retirement Community in Chambersburg has a lovely two bedroom apartment available.

Meanwhile, we have taken a River Cruise to Paris and Normandy which was excellent. I have been elected to the Session for two years at the Presbyterian Church of Falling Spring at which I am excited to serve. I am still singing in the choir, directing handbells, playing the harp and have added playing the French horn in the Chambersburg New Horizons Band. I still have ten piano students; part of my giving back what I have been given. Hope Tillman shares her news: We decided it was time for a change for us this year. We went home to Woburn, MA, in January just in time for the first major snowstorm of the season, and this year the snow was relentless. The newscasters had all sorts of terms for the more than nine feet of snow that fell from January to March, such as Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse. It took a toll on our home, as an ice dam turned our living room into a construction zone for most of the winter and was not repaired until midsummer. As we fixed up our home, we decided that while we have loved living at Quail Run, it was the right time for a change. We no longer have family ties to New England and so we looked to move closer to our children.

We found an ideal solution in Maryland at a senior community called Charlestown.

So we sold our home, packed and moved to Catonsville, MD in early October. So, after

Miss O’Neill’s second grade class. (Back l. to r.) Fay Karfgin Stevens, Caroline Savage Wanstall, Ann Owings, Russ Bradley, Billy Spencer-Strong, Billy Schmick, John Ramsay. (Front l. to r.) ?, Margaret Murgatroyd Beall, Carol Smink, Andy Staub, Tommy Lilly, Carolyn Mitchell Molenda, Tommy Ahern, Miss O’Neill

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Barbara Stafford Jones, 1959 and husband Hugh at Normandy Beach

more than fifty years, I’m back near Baltimore.

Caroline Savage Wanstall: It seems like this is the time in our lives when we’re simplifying and “downsizing.” When you receive this news, George and I will have moved into a fifty five plus coop known as 7500 York. It’s located very close to where we’ve lived for twenty years. There are adjustments to be made (one third the space we had before), but the benefits outweigh that restriction. We’ll enjoy the exercise room, library, banking, stores all on site, the programs offered and the bus service, as needed. Otherwise, we’re doing well and our families are too. We feel very blessed. I am sorry to inform you of the following sad news: Helene Fredeking passed away. I remember her as a sweet gentle girl and at the same time a very good hockey goalie! I also heard recently that Lloyd Carroll D’Angelis lost her husband Dave this past year.

She also lost her brother and son-in-law. She is planning to move to Utah to be near her daughter. Our sympathy to her and her family.

Debbie Broderick Edwards, 1959 and Barbie Stafford Jones, 1959

Sally Emory and the rest of us wanted to say how much we admired Jean’s leadership at RPCS, how proud we are to have had her as a classmate. Our class lunch bunch group still meets the third Friday of the month at the Village Square Cafe in Cross Keys, so if you’re in town that day, please stop by. After 47 years of vacations on the Florida East Coast Sandra Rockwell Aronoff and husband Don are spending their first winter in Sarasota, the west Florida coast area and loving it. “Oak trees and Spanish moss blend in with the palm trees and there are still remnants of the old Sunshine State that I remember from the 60’s.

Friends and family visiting and living nearby complete the picture.” Ann Streett Benya surprised us with a visit in December. Rose McCleary Alexander report as that she’s going to reactivate her law license. With all the snow of the past winter, Rose survived because she likes to read. She is still enjoying bluegrass concerts. “My life is better than it has been in years. Quiet, peaceful. I love it.” As with all of us, Rose enjoyed seeing those who could attend any part of last fall’s reunion. Emily Tongue Richardson also attended the reunion this past fall: “It was so great to see so many classmates and friends. We all look the same, act the same, and have fun being together - same as always. It was the first time I had seen the “New” School. WOW! I try to get to Baltimore for the Lunch Bunch once and a while. Let’s not wait 50 years for another reunion! I ever anyone comes my way, call ahead and I’ll make brownies! I also can sleep eight. Louise Farley Reilly continues to enjoy adult education courses at Osher-(sometimes with Sandy Rockwell Aronoff or Lynda Engel Meade). As her grandsons’ skills improve, she spends a lot of time in bleachers or on the sidelines of travel team games of soccer and basketball and a little pretty amusing wrestling. Sandra Clark Cooper says that her life is pretty much in tune with the usual, “mostly my retirement FUN...... enjoying volunteer teaching of ESL (English as a Second Language - Intro Class) Tuesday evenings with my church’s outreach to our internationals in the local community, and looking forward to serving (Short Term Missions Trip) once again in July 2016 at English Camp in Lakitelek, Hungary!” Sandy also enjoys being close to her family who live nearby. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne reports that she’s working on a

Jean Waller Brune, 1960 and Gordon Lenci, HA

big project but details aren’t forthcoming till later this year! Merry Rozel Rogers had hip replacement surgery and is gearing up for surgery on the other hip. She’s enjoyed our class monthly luncheons with the locals and the occasional inclusions of visitors such as Ann Streett Benya, Rose McCleary Alexander and Emily Tongue Richardson. Merry was devastated by the death of her nephew Stephen in November 2015 almost a year to the day following her brother’s death. Prissy Frey Parcells says: Wick and I are very fortunate to have both children and grandchildren here in Virginia Beach. Son Beau is still with Wells Fargo as a senior VP in commercial lending and travels around the state occasionally.

Daughter Whitney continues to be the nanny/ house manager for a wonderful family with two precious children, ages seven and four.

Her grandchildren have both graduated from college. Prissy and Wick have lots of travel plans for the year, some as near as the Outer Banks and as far as a river cruise in France.

Carol Clark Coolidge continues to be a docent at the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe and gives tours for the school students that participate in the programs designed to familiarize the children with the exhibits. “The kids come for the day and start by going into the galleries, having lunch, and then making artwork that ties into the focus of the gallery tours they took.” Carol’s next tour subject is “Flamenco” and she’s learning not only the history of it, but also how to play the castanets and a few dance steps! Carol’s daughter now has three children, the oldest of whom is about to turn five, and she makes frequent trips to Brooklyn during the school year. Polly Starratt Lemire also makes frequent trips to Brooklyn to visit three grandsons, who live a few blocks from Carol’s grandchildren. Polly still has a recruiting business, works with Senior Helpers part-time, and visited friends and family from California to New York, France and Minnesota. Her favorite pastime is to be in her studio designing greeting cards and she’s still knitting lots of

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socks. Lynda Engel Meade is totally involved with the grandchildren: “The girls and their hubbies terrific; grands thriving...Connor: eight-time Carson scholar, president of Student Council, playing three varsity sports and trying to decide what college to attend; Caitlyn placed eighth in national gymnastics competition in Texas, is a Special Olympics buddy and was elected by her class for Homecoming court; Courtney thriving at Maryvale with all A’s, playing three sports and president of Middle School national honor society! Lynda says: George and I living the good life! We are so blessed. Anne Carter Smith has been dealing with some terrible losses. Her husband Louie passed away last year and her only brother Joe got lung cancer and died in December of 2015.

She has been helped enormously in dealing with her challenges thanks to wonderful friends and classmates at RPCS “who are the best one could have.” Anne enjoyed the class reunion party last fall at her home. Susan Rose is grateful for everything in her life! She moved again to another apartment in Reisterstown, and she loves it. She is surrounded by a very diverse group of Seniors. She thought she would like apartment living, but “it is great to have people down the hall that you can call on and visit. Makes me feel like dormitory living, and it was terrific to gather when we just got the most snowfall ever in Baltimore-30”!

Makes you feel like you aren’t alone. I am blessed!” Linda Kiefer Sanders had a great time seeing those who were at Anne Carter’s house last fall, and she hopes that she and Donnie Baukhages-Smith still might get to Africa.

“Here’s to our 60th!” Susan Wood Schuchts’ antiques business is booming. Soon she will be in her third antiques mall–plus EBay. Susan avoided the storm of the century by being in St Augustine, FL for the worst of it! And she spent Christmas in San Antonio where it was also very warm. Melinda Mitchell Davis had a great year. She spent five weeks in Australia (out of the cold winter) and then in October, she and Sally Emery went on a Kaleidoscope trip to San Miguel de Allende hosted by Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981 who lives there. She was the perfect hostess and knows everything about San Miguel. “I would suggest this trip to anyone.” This year marks Jean Waller Brune’s 24th and final year at our beloved alma mater.

Jean has been a visionary leader and we are deeply grateful for her service to RPCS. Jean was awarded the Alumnae Association’s most prestigious honor this year on Reunion Weekend when she won the McCauley Bowl with many of our classmates in attendance.

There is no one more deserving. Jean is looking forward to her “next chapter” spending time in CT with her family and in Baltimore and Northern VT.

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Class of 1961 Robin Buck Nicolls robinnicolls@gmail.com Francie Warfield Parrack rparrack@verizon.net Francie and I thank all of you who took the time to send in your news. It was great to hear from you. Mimi Rand Anderson: I am sending a picture of all my family taken the day after Christmas at my son, Christian’s, house. We get together every year the day after Christmas for our dinner and gift giving. It is absolutely wonderful and crazy with all the little ones. As you can see, the weather was amazingly “warm” that day. My daughter Brooke’s husband had to work so he is the only one missing. I am so lucky to have them all in my life. I retired from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2012 and am lucky to be enjoying life up north in the summer and in Bonita Springs, FL in the winter. Golf, beach, tennis, etc. As some of you know, my mom passed away in 2013 at age 98. I miss her a lot as we would talk for hours on the phone reminiscing about many things, one of the favorites being all my classmates. She loved everyone and was so interested in what all of you were doing. I hope to get down to another reunion sometime so keep me up to date on when there might be one. Happy New Year to everyone and may we all stay in good health!

Gail Gathmann Becker: Karl and I continue to spend a lot of time in Colorado. Our son has boys, eight and ten, and lives a half an hour north of Denver where his sister lives with her 18-month-old son. We love their respective spouses and have nice visits pretty often. When we aren’t at their houses, we are in southwest Colorado in Pagosa Springs, where we have vacationed for over 30 years. There are beautiful mountains for hiking, and interesting places like Mesa Verde that never diminish in interest. After all these years, we have friends whom we enjoy seeing out there, so we are probably more social away than at home. The highlight of last year was two and a half weeks in Alaska. We hiked and walked all over Juneau and Sitka as well as having a ball on board a boat of about 70 in and around Glacier Bay. We bushwhacked and ice kayaked.

It was misty and rainy, but, oh, the beauty and wildlife! I uploaded my third mystery on Amazon last December and have plans to begin a fourth soon. Look up GG Becker on Amazon Kindle Editions. Justification is the most recent addition. I continue to like living in Kansas City. We have great friends and

neighbors, and I do a lot of gardening. I send my best to everyone. I miss seeing those of you who came to those lunches in Timonium and think of you with fondness. Cathy Turner Carter: I’m returning to life, like our class news is, after missing two years, too. Jack died. I got sick and almost died. I woke up gradually in Baltimore at Symphony Manor.

The first inkling Bo had that I was “coming back” was when I said to him one day, “is that the water tower, is that Roland Avenue, is that University Parkway?” He calmly just said yes to all those questions, but inside he was flipping out. Then I said, “I used to walk to school right there!” And that was the beginning of my waking up. As soon as everyone realized I might be okay, I moved back to Virginia Beach to a retirement community that also has assisted living if you need it. I’d been there 11 months when I found a little duplex to rent on the street where Jack and I lived a block from “my” ocean. I moved in December 28! That’s it in a nutshell. I know many of you sent get well wishes to me, and I’ll forever appreciate your kindness. I’ll see you at our next reunion.

Best love to all! Frankie Whitescarver Cook: For someone who prided herself on being a good student, I came to failure late in life: I failed retirement. Before I retired from the Fraser Town Board and church office management in 2012, I thought I could never tire of reading and hiking and shopping and leisurely lunches and going to the movies huh! I discovered that half of what I looked

Carolynne Card Shumate, 1961

The family of Mimi Rand Anderson, 1961

forward to doing during retirement cost too much money on such a drastically reduced budget to do often, and the other half lost its appeal after too many hours. So when our church secretary left last January, I agreed to run the office to get us through Easter. But then we had a huge construction project that was going to relocate the offices and create considerable havoc. Well, by then I was settled into the position and no one wanted to ask a new hire to put up with the hassle of construction and temporary quarters, etc., so I was to stay on until we could move back into the new offices. But then, that’s early February and gosh, Lent starts on February 10. The minister doesn’t want to be training a newbie during Lent now, right? So I agreed to stay on until April, just didn’t say April of what year.

I had one of my dream trips last November on a Viking river cruise up the Danube from Budapest to Nuremberg and all I can say is it was an equal draw between shipboard travel and town tours as to which was the most enjoyable. I can hardly wait for Viking to start river cruising down the Mississippi! I bought my dream house in August of 2014: a singlelevel townhouse with almost no maintenance that still has room for all my most treasured things, so I feel totally at home here for the first time since leaving my beloved Fraser. And I love being able to host meetings and small groups here. Unfortunately, it’s beginning to show its age (maybe that’s why it feels so natural to me?) and in the year I’ve owned it I’ve had to replace the furnace, air conditioner, refrigerator, range, and the master bathroom floor and shower. It doesn’t exactly qualify as a

money pit but let’s just say it’s providential that I have a job I love. I also love getting to see my two sons and teenage grandson much more often; Noah usually spends school holidays with me. Last July I even got to have dinner with Jean Waller Brune on her trip to Colorado.

So when are some of you guys going to come see the heart of the West? My guest room is always available! Love to all! Millie Panetti Gibson: All is well at the Gibson ranch. Dave and I rented in Vermont for another seven weeks of skiing for daughter Melissa, son Greg and wife Cheri, granddaughters Emily (14) and Amy (12), and various friends. Emily had an eight hour operation to correct her scoliosis in May so she will be with us and not ski. We will take her to points of interest including the Vermont Country Store and Billings farm, etc.

We enjoyed Scotland in the early spring and so loved it! Then we came home and worried about Emily who was a real trooper, helped with her recovery and had a relatively quiet summer. Sailing was fun, and I did a lot of work! I still host all the family get together parties and celebrations and now I am slowly going through each room in the house to see what needs to be changed, thrown out. We have no plans to move, but I do need to accomplish this task. Whoopee! I am still battling my allergies with lots of input and reading...and I will conquer this problem! Dave has a few days a week off and I am so pleased, but I am constantly rearranging my schedule!

Hope you are all well and content. Onward we go! Tyson Greer Halliday: I was so delighted last year to combine a speaking engagement at a Defense Acquisition University conference (I

forgot I had retired) with a trip to Baltimore. I loved seeing my 99-year-old aunt, having a mini reunion luncheon, and spending a few days with Nora O’Donovan Yaggy. Jim and I traveled to China particularly to see the terracotta warriors and to London for the British Museum’s Celtic Art and Identity exhibition. Most importantly, I polished my novel set in rural Idaho. Peggy McPherson Hendrick: Well, you did get my attention and I realized that I have not checked in for ages.

Yes, I am still around, thriving in my wonderful life on Spring Island, SC. Actually I could say that I am even spoiled by living in such a wonderfully uncomplicated, low key, pristine environment. Arthur and I are involved in many aspects of the life here including golf, fishing (almost daily for him), working out in our great rec center, etc. Life is good here. My children are both great. Bruce is a residential architect in Boston with his own firm—luckily he is doing very well and never missed a beat during all the crisis in 2008-2009. He has become a true Yankee, and it all seems to agree with him. Ann is living in DC with her dear husband, Bill Kaye, and their two boys, 13 and ten. Ann is loving her painting and is tutoring as well, which along with working out and walking (or running) the dogs, gives her a full day. The boys seem to both have the “jock gene” and love tennis, golf (they both can outdrive their grandmother - ugh), sailing etc. Other than that there isn’t too much of interest - can’t even think of anything to make up. All in all, things are great and I feel so fortunate. I continue to miss my RPCS friends and am rarely around the Baltimore area, but

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never give up the hope of having lunch with any of you sometime before we don’t even remember who we are. Judy Tinley Lenz: In June Bruce and I had our 50th wedding anniversary and in August celebrated the occasion with a trip which took us from Prague in the Czech Republic north through the eastern part of Germany to Berlin. For those who have not been to Prague, put it on your “bucket list.” It is truly enchanting and lots of fun! In September we returned to our alma mater, Wake Forest, for our 50th class reunion at which time we were inducted into the Half Century Club....talk about feeling old. I keep myself busy by working out at the health club five days a week and am actively involved in my P.E.O. chapter and the local Methodist Church. Our eight grandchildren continue to keep us busy and bring us great joy. The eldest will graduate from the College of Wooster in Ohio in May while the youngest is in nursery school. When our three sons and their families all get together, there are sixteen of us. This past summer we all vacationed at our beach house in Avalon, NJ for two weeks and were in Breckenridge, CO for skiing over Christmas and New Year’s. Bruce and I are truly blessed. Wishing you all good health and happiness in 2016. Condict Saint Martak: Dave and I continue to be the volunteers that run the North East Food Pantry serving 120-140 families a month. Since the Pantry is open five days a week, we never have to worry about not having something to do. Friday it will be putting away 3,400 pounds of food from the Maryland Food Bank. When we are not at the Pantry we are busy with one or more of our 11 grandchildren or a church activity.

After a week of snow, we are looking forward to April, the start of camping season, and September for a granddaughter’s wedding.

Blessings. Robin Buck Nicolls: Most of this past year has been consumed by our trying to sell our house on the eastern shore in order to move back to Baltimore to be near family and friends. So far, no luck in either selling or buying. I took a leave of absence from my Calvert home school teaching, and I must admit that I am enjoying not having to meet deadlines. It is the first time I haven’t taught in 50 years! I continue to enjoy my volunteer work at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge and the Humane Society of Kent County. I also love taking classes at Washington College. Betsey Norris: Well, I’m enjoying living the single life again and staying in the South. We’ve had no snow, but the temperature is freezing and there is so much wind being close to the ocean (which I love in warmer temps). I love my private English language tutoring of college - level non-native students three mornings a week. I also take courses at

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Members of Class of 1961 (front l. to r.) Francie Warfield Parrack, Babs Norris Woodward, (back l. to r.) Merry Gladding Highby, Nora O’Donovan Yaggy, Dorrie Boone Talbott and Tyson Greer Halliday

UNC Wilmington and play bridge. The big thrills are the traveling, last July to Paris and Normandy (before the terrorist disaster) and this April to Rome and the Amalfi Coast. I can’t believe the election process I’m watching now - won’t give away any secrets! I see one of my grandchildren in NYC area, but not much of the two in California. I would like to plan a visit to Baltimore at some point, just don’t know when. Francie Warfield Parrack: My main focus is on moving forward even if slowly – so much better than sideways. I keep busy trying to use up my stash of fabric making quilts and other projects. So far the fabric is still winning. So much of it and so little time. I have also enjoyed volunteering, reading, and working on the church bazaar. Ray has been working a few days a week. I think he is getting ready to retire again. I believe this is retirement #7 but who is counting? If he does retire, he will have more time to devote to working with therapy dogs. We are fortunate that our two daughters live nearby. Thus, we get to see them and the grands. Our family continues to journey each summer for a week to Kill Devil Hills in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It has been great to see our grandchildren, Parker and Alaina, learn to embrace the ocean and the beach. Caution has turned to fun and enthusiasm and handstands on the sand. It has been enjoyable visiting classmates when they have been in the area. If you are coming this way, please let someone know. It doesn’t seem possible that 55 years have passed since we left RPCS. Perhaps some of you will be able to attend our reunion in October. Betsy RandallDavid: Wow, trying to remember two years’ worth at our age, that’s a Herculean task! I continue to enjoy spending time with my five

grand prizes, ages two to 11. They allow me to play, be creative and a little crazy too. Travel has been a big focus. I have been to Italy twice in the last couple of years. It’s hard to say which of the cities has been the most fabulous− Venice, Florence, or Rome. This year we’re off to Cuba. I want to get there before there’s a McDonalds on every corner. A big project for this year is organizing all of our stuff to downsize next year. It’s amazing how many books, records and photos one has and feels an emotional attachment to. I’m sure you all have had to do a similar process, but yikes this is tougher than I had imagined. We are going to be relocating from Durham, NC, to Wilmington, NC, full time. Since our children and grandchildren are there, that’s where our heart strings are. I have been trying to do less work than usual and I’m only accepting a few consultations per year now. Meanwhile, I enjoy coloring, collaging, making mandalas and doing fun art projects with my grand prizes. I hope everyone else is doing well.

Please give a call should you find yourself in North Carolina. Jane McCleary Saral: Rein and I are still in Atlanta, very near our daughter Alex and her family, who include Charlotte (11) and twins Lily and Paige (7). Other daughter Katie is still in the Bay area, working as a health care lawyer for Kaiser Permanente.

We’re preparing to renovate our next home, a condo about a mile away from our current house. Plans held up a bit by a total knee replacement this past September and continuing sciatic pain (supposedly unrelated) in the other leg. My jogging days are over, but I am slowly building my walking endurance. Have retired from teaching and subbing and am instead enjoying theater, book

clubs, being a grandma and circles of vibrant, smart, funny friends. Sue Brewington Schier: My big news is that I moved to Yarmouth, ME not far from where I used to live, into a much larger space. I am enjoying the possibilities now of having family and friends visit more often. I am still working for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine but am planning retirement soon. My youngest daughter and family who currently live in Virginia are moving to Hawaii (Pearl Harbor) in June. Her husband, a Navy Commander, is deployed for three years and will be away a lot so I am hoping to visit her or maybe move in for a while! Hoping to travel to Baltimore for our 55th reunion October 2016.

Wishing everyone from our Class the best for a healthy and happy 2016! Thank you Robin and Francie for taking on this task! Joanne Garrard Schill: I suppose my biggest news is my new little King Charles Spaniel that Santa gave me for Christmas. His name is Ralphie and he is so cute and sweet. I’m in Delray Beach, FL for the winter and he’s a great little companion on our walks each morning. I’m playing lots of bridge and some golf and enjoying being with friends down here. Lyle flies back and forth and takes care of our big strong Lab, Bailey, when he’s on Gibson Island.

He is still working, enjoys it, and probably won’t ever retire. He’s active on committees on Gibson Island where we’re building a new Club House from the original 1920’s plans that were never used. It’s very exciting. Our three children and seven grandchildren are all busy and doing fine. We’re so lucky to have them close by. They will be down for their spring breaks so that will be fun. Our daughter, Allison, and I are going on the Wayfarer’s hiking trip with friends (one of whom is Mary McCormick Meyer, 1965) and their daughters in September to Northumbria which is in northern England. We’ll touch into Scotland.

My best to all of our Class. Triminie Marlow Shelton: I’m still involved in Tai Chi and Qi Gong as a teacher and a student, practicing, meditating, and encouraging others to get into this wonderful “moving meditation” for health and wellbeing. I’m interested in poetry, collage, and just starting to become interested in photography (nothing fancy or ambitious.) I read a lot, and take adult education courses in areas I’m fascinated by, such as the ancient Maya, religion, shamanism, prehistoric people, astronomy, ancestry, human consciousness. I visit friends and relatives out of state.

Carolynne Card Shumate: Our daughter, Brigit again chaired the Hair of the Dog run New Year’s Day, in Bethany Beach. I came in second in 5K in my age group (only two runners...just kidding)! In July, Roland and I took Brook’s daughter, Chelsea Shumate, 2022 and Brigit’s

son, Anderssen for a week in London and week in Paris. Both are 11. Very busy, but fun!

In November, I visited sisters Rita, now living in Tucson, and Marianne Card Warmer, 1963 in San Diego. I’m still playing MJ, bridge and golf. Just so so in all, but having great fun and love the warmer weather in Florida. Best wishes for a happy, healthy and safe 2016.

Dottie Sparrow: Greetings from sunny and warm Yorktown, VA. It is always nice to see what’s going on with the Class of 1961. Has it been 50 years? I have been with Crawford & Company for more than 40 years...chasing those casualty accidents of all types. As a general adjuster, friends see me on the road interviewing people about accidents–trucking, slip and fall, product claims, fraud, etc. Never a dull moment. Outside of work, I stay very busy playing bridge, volunteering with the Williamsburg Farmer’s Market early Saturday mornings, and keeping up with the USO as a volunteer for more than 25 years. Take care and the very best to ALL! Dorrie Boone Talbott: In June of 2014, I had bilateral knee replacement (yup, both at the same time).

Following the surgery and rehab, I am back to normal−whatever that might be. Jim and I are now able to do some of the traveling that we had postponed due to my lack of mobility. Last February, we took a wonderful trip to the Galapagos Islands and to Peru. We climbed the terraces of Machu Picchu and marveled at the construction of this wondrous site. And yes, there are blue footed boobies in the islands.

This past October we ventured west to San Francisco, Napa Valley, and then on to Albuquerque. We are looking forward to visiting Barbados and then going on a sailing cruise this March. Both Jim and I are still working, though part time. We enjoy the time we get to spend with our 12 grandchildren.

Old age has not slowed us down too much!

Margot Michael Thompson: Joe finally retired the middle of last year. Since his retirement we have both been able to devote more time to our dental non-profit. Both our educational program to teach all first graders how to care for their teeth and our dental screenings in all the elementary schools in the New River Valley continue to run smoothly. We have recently partnered with Donated Dental Services of Virginia and in January of 2016 sponsored a workshop in which dentists were trained on the Benchmark Denture program and eight underprivileged folks received free dentures.

We are also developing a program to replace our Free Adult Dental Care Day whereby folks who cannot afford dental care will be able to receive needed care throughout the year by participating dentists in the New River Valley.

We are so fortunate to be able to work with such delightful people who are anxious to help

their neighbors in need. Hope all is well with you and yours! Lee Walker: You just caught me in Oxford, MD, after having an inspection of the new, hopefully, future home. I will fly back to Glen Ellen, and expect to leave California next month and drive to the eastern shore. I have two grandsons; I need say no more. Babs Norris Woodward: I am still “up da creek” in Annapolis, landscaping, practicing yoga, fly fishing, and watching my grandkids grow up much to fast! I enjoyed seeing out of towners Cathy Turner Carter, Sue Brewington Schier, and Tyson Meeks Halliday when they came to Baltimore as well as assorted locals. This past summer I fished in Montana with college chums and am looking forward to seeing Peggy McPherson Hendrick as well as several Hollins friends in Charleston, SC in March. I hope you are all well and hope to see you sometime in the near future. Nora O’Donovan Yaggy: Our grandchildren count is up to six! Our daughter, Laura, who lives in Westchester County, NY, had a son in August, 2014. Lulu is seven and Teddy is five. Our daughter-in-law, Erin, and her daughter, Lizzie, age nine, moved to New Orleans to be close to her family. It was wonderful to have her here for six years after David died, but I think this is a better place for them. Alex, Rebecca, Owen (12) and Corbett (9) live in Brooklyn, NY. For the last five summers, everyone comes here for “Camp Yaggy.” It is wonderful to have some time when the grandchildren really spend quality time together. It is getting more complicated as the kids get older and have their own activities.

We will see what this year brings. Michael and I are retired and enjoy the opportunities to visit the kids and watch them playing soccer, dancing, or whatever the activity.

Class of 1963 Frances Rutherford frannie1022@yahoo.com Hello from the class that mostly turned 70 in 2015! I’m glad to report that we continue to live well and see many diverse possibilities ahead. I, Frances Rutherford [Wise], for one, am continuing on an artsy path (photography, writing, collage-making, singing), as well as enjoying trips to Cambridge, England, Costa Rica, and Iceland upcoming. And in no particular order: Laurie McCulloch Fisher writes that she traveled to Iceland (popular place!) in December with her son, Tim and his family, where they saw Christmas lights

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Laurie McCulloch Fisher, 1963 in Iceland

everywhere, even in the remotest of areas. Life in Mountain Lakes is happy. She sees a lot of her youngest daughter and husband and three youngest grandchildren. She also sees her two children and families who live in Maine. She says she still misses Dave madly, but is better and embracing her seventh decade. Anne Roeder Kern writes that she’s had stem cell treatment to regenerate her knees and includes a photo of grandson Will and herself on a merry-go-round. Peg Schmeiser Markowski tells us that she and husband Mark went to San Francisco for a wedding as well as to see Hall, Caroline, Chloe, and Jane in their new house in Tiburon, CA. She says she’s still going to Baltimore/Cross Keys for First Coast Interiors and to Greenwich, CT, to see Stewart, Jamie, Abby and Paul. In April she celebrated her birthday with Patti Bedford Gaede and Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, 1958, then met Ginna Naylor and some Bryn Mawr 1963 grads for further partying. Kate Grimes Weingarten writes that she and Seymour traveled to London, then on to Paris and Pommard, exchanging houses in these last two places. She celebrated her 70th by giving herself a party with 40 women friends that was great. She also traveled with a college friend to Honduras and Guatemala in December, visiting some pretty obscure Maya ruins. She loves her new apartment in New York City. Patti Bedford Gaede reports turning the big 70 wasn’t quite so bad. She says she and Jim are very busy in Vero five months of the year. At Orchid Island she started a garden club which has now grown to 51 members (yikes). Jim is in line to be the club’s next president, as well as still running his Cincinnati company. They both try to play golf as often as they can. Their granddaughter,

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Quinn, is three and a huge joy. She and Jim were lucky to check off the top item on their bucket list: they went to South Africa last fall, including a trip to Cape Town and two camps in Botswana. Susan Townshend Townsend writes that 2015 was a good year for her.

She continues to spend most of the winter between Colorado and Utah with her family and friends. Last fall, she and Tom spent two weeks in the Andalusia area of Spain and Portugal – beautiful, fascinating to learn the history – fun hiking and, naturally, the local food and wine! Highlights for her are still the times she spends with her four grandchildren, who all live close by. Celebrating 70 was a wonderful time in that her daughter gathered all her family together for the occasion. Peg Webster Coolidge tells us she and her husband sold their condo and camp on Lake Champlain and then bought a 400 square foot seasonal cottage in South Hero, VT. Talk about downsizing… Their permanent residence is now in Austin, TX, where they have a place across the driveway from their son and family.

The plan is to winter in TX and summer in VT, where all the rest of the family resides. It’s the best of both worlds! Nancy Rose Adams says she and Eddie had a wonderful trip to London in October. They also enjoyed their visit to Oxford and the Cotswolds. They are currently in Siesta Key for two months with many of their friends from Baltimore. Their daughter Julie has a new house in Frederick, so they can visit her often. Their other daughter, Molly, and her husband, Mark, are expecting their first child in September. All are doing well! Ginna Naylor writes that the passing of her mother in the summer of 2014 has left a big hole in her life as well as more time to fill with other activities. Like a great family trip to Idaho with son Alec, his wife, Lee, grandsons Eliot and Henry and some close friends. They embarked on a six-day guided raft trip on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. They had perfect weather, saw bears,

Kate Weingarten, 1963’s dog Gus

wildfires, and enjoyed being in such a wild and scenic, isolated (no cell phones) and gorgeous area. She and Jimmer spent three more weeks camping around Idaho and Montana. They plan to take their camper to big Bend and the Southwest this spring, hopefully to witness the desert in bloom. Tish Pierce Robson tells us that in spite of limitations caused by unusual complications of a hip replacement, she was able to do a lot more this year, probably due to regular workouts at a gym in Cross Keys.

She met her son in Iceland (that place again!) and was able to trek into a volcano and a glacier. Also got to San Diego to greet her husband, a Vietnam Veteran for Peace, after he skippered a small, historic peace boat 700 miles down the California coast with a crew of septuagenarians. She adds that she’s starting to volunteer with local homeless and immigrant support groups and sends her best to us all!

And concluding our notes is Helen Sanger Pierce, reporting that in addition to a flying trip (she had an Alaska fishing license in 2015), she had two road trips: one to Bend, OR, to attend the “graduations” of one grandson into high school and his brother into middle school, with a few extra days in Yosemite and Lake Tahoe, where her brother, Frank, served as her guide. The second road trip’s purpose was to celebrate the wedding of her cousin’s niece in central Colorado. Her cousin is Haskell “Kelly” Walker, 1965. Kelly’s niece and fiancé were well-launched in a charming outdoor ceremony.

Class of 1964 Connie Sparrow connie.sparrow@verizon.net Andrée Williams Wight: My life is pretty quiet these days. I’ve been retired for about three years. I volunteer at the closest library. I was employed with the system for about five years and can’t seem to make the break. Since their budgets have been slashed, volunteers are especially needed to help out. Other than that, it’s books and cooking which I really enjoy having time for. Cooking for one is a unique challenge, but I am a master of freezing small portions. My oldest son, Clayton, lives here in Sarasota so I have family nearby. My next son, Ned, and his family live in Maine. I get up there each year to visit and see how my two granddaughters are growing. Of course, I have no frame of reference since I had three boys.

They seem wonderfully alien and magical to me. My youngest son is moving from Boston

1964 Classmates Ginny Wood Delauney, Mimsy Baker Spaulding and Betsy Athey in DC

to California, a very big transition. I couldn’t be more excited for him. Other than that, I share my life with two cats, but I promise I do not have treats in my pocket! Wishing you the best in the New Year. Phyllis Gatch Harbert: Diving in Bonaire was excellent and we hope we can get back to the South Pacific this year. I am on two USTA (United States Tennis Association) teams this spring and hope all the body parts hold up! It’s amateur tennis all over the US. All abilities, all ages. Linda Diwoky Miller also plays. If you win locally, you play against the other winners in your state. Win that, go to sectionals, of which US has 17. If your team wins THAT, you go to Nationals.

There are all levels of play from beginners to pro level. You meet women from all the local clubs, make new friends, and enjoy competing. Wally has made three Nationals and was the oldest singles player at one of them. The other competitors didn’t know whether to cheer him on or get an ambulance on standby. The teams exchange small gifts representing their home states. One of the Rhode Island teams presented Wally with a t-shirt that read Older than Dirt, a genuine antique. Penny Armstrong: My year+ of mourning for my late husband Mario has been tough and unusual in a way that I did not expect and no one could have forecast. It included my falling backwards down the bottom basement stairs (and not seeking care at the ER; I was not sufficiently motivated), being the object of serious cyber harassment from my ex-husband of 35+ years ago; losing two of the three pets Mario and I cared so

much about; and, most recently, being elected by my colleagues at Bryn Mawr College to Chair of the Faculty, a post that involves running all faculty meetings and representing the Faculty to the Board of Trustees. The latter event restored a tiny bit of confidence in myself that the younger male colleagues in my department have managed to sap (even in a women’s college!), but I’m not sure that I’m up to the task with which my kinder extradepartmental colleagues have invested me.

We’ll see. Knock on wood for me, please! I want to thank again all the classmates who so kindly wrote me on the loss of Mario and who, I hope received my notes of thanks over a year ago. Betty Tignor: I spent a week in Rome with a dear friend. We had the best time in spite of some rainy days. Also went to Pompeii which was extraordinary. For those of you who are Episcopalians, I graduated from Cursillo 78 (western North Carolina), a life changing experience. I continue to be very active in church activities: altar guild, vestry, church foundation trustee, church treasurer and office volunteer once a week, as well as year three of Education for Ministry, a four year course of study sponsored by Sewanee, The University of the South. Keeps me very busy. Following some hip and back issues, I have rejoined a gym (after five years since the last time I was a “gym rat”) and enjoy working out three times a week. Life is very good in these wonderful North Carolina mountains that I love so much. Brooke Mangels Travelstead: This has been a great year with a new granddaughter and thus two visits to Los

Angeles to see her and son Andrew and family.

I also traveled to Honolulu for a fun birthday trip specifically to visit Doris Duke’s magnificent estate, Shangri La. She was a fellow lover of Islamic Art and built a Persian Palace to house her collection perched over the ocean. Goli Irani Farrell, you would be amazed! We’re heading off tomorrow for LA to celebrate my big 70th. This August we all will gather at our farm for our 50th wedding anniversary. (Lin and Bill will do the same!)

Great to see the RPCS gang in NY two weeks ago. I look forward to that every January.

Jeannie Lawing Lawrence: I loved all of the wonderful photos of everyone at the reunion, and I was so sorry to miss it! I know that it was so much fun. I also loved the Quid Nunc−I know that a great deal went into putting it together, but it is such a fun way to catch up and know what is going on with old friends. Thank you all that were involved! I am now happily blessed with two new knees and life is returning to normal. All is well on Hilton Head Island, and we would love to hear from anyone that is down our way. God bless!

Clare Chapman Fisher: Life has been very busy! Last year my husband and I took a trip down the Danube. I resigned my job−too much spreadsheet work! I am doing volunteer/ professional work and assisting in training new volunteers. All five kids (three Rick’s and two mine) are doing well. As for my children, Lisa has her own business, Green Product Placements, and was recently in Paris for the Environmental Warming convention at the request of the Dutch film group. Peter is in Atlanta doing camera work on several films, TV, etc. Rick’s sons Kurt is a manager of a large law firm in NYC and travels a lot in Europe and the US and Zac does commercials and did a Super Bowl ad. Rick’s daughter Krista lives in DC and is in marketing for Bloomburg. All is well and I hope to make our next reunion. Dolly Porter Rowles: Good that you said you didn’t mind if we thought our lives were boring. Mine has been, but I am not complaining. Bud and I are still in the Church choir, plus Bud is now taking on responsible job in the Church hierarchy, so next year will be busy. I was the chairperson of the Bake Table at our Church Fair this past December. I know that seems like a piddly do-nothin’ job, but I thought I had had an epiphany, I loved it so much. My vision was to have a WOW factor when the customers walked by, and we did. All the goodies the parishioners brought in had been repackaged in silver, gold, red or green, so it was all in the presentation. It was a lot of last minute work but so much fun, with so much happiness at our table. I immediately signed up to be chairman again! The making of a Christmas fair, or any fair for that matter,

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Morgan Wright, 2003 at the NYC Regional Reunion with (l. to r.), Frances Rutherford, 1963, Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964, Brooke Mangels Travelstead, 1964 and Betty Adams Guerin, 1964

is much like being in a play. Three weeks out from opening night you can’t believe it will come together in time, and then, boom, it does.

For Thanksgiving we went to Chicago to see my daughter, Vail, and hubby, Teddy, and my eight-year-old granddaughter, Remington.

Teddy has a large family out there and it was fast and furious and just what I wanted to do.

Bud had a few medical setbacks, but we fended any big things off and moved forward. We will be going to Montreal over Easter to see Vail, as she is a producer for the TV show Quantico, and so is on location there. I have never been to Montreal but am furiously sharpening up my high school Francais in order to speak to even the cabbie on the way to Vail’s apartment.

That will be the week I turn 70, so it is a little bit of a big thing. Of course, I know I am “preaching to the choir” when I talk about turning 70! Right girls? Hm, I feel so young!

As far as just the day to day goes, we hobble along, enjoy where we are, try to make the most of each day, do the housekeeping, try to eat less and laugh more. So far we are succeeding. Judy Mitchell Wright: I graduated from a four year program called Education for Ministry (EFM) offered by the Episcopal Church and finished my BSN at Notre Dame in July. The RPCS education came shining through as I graduated with a 3.9 GPA − far cry from my GPA in high school. Presently, I am starting my second semester at Loyola University of Maryland working on an MA in Spiritual and Pastoral Care. Russ finished his year as Past President of MedChi (the Medical Society of the State of Maryland) and is presently working as a consultant doing intake physicals for the young men and women who are applying to the Armed Forces of the United

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States. He is still very busy with the Boy Scouts and plans to attend the National Jamboree for the sixth time (five as a physician). Alex is working as a consultant with Accenture and is moving on to a new project working in the training arena. Morgan Wright, 2003 still lives in New York and works at MacKenzie-Childs.

She is still acting and her short film, What’s Eating Dad is being shown at film festivals all over the states and Paris, France as well. It’s so much fun to watch her act in a variety of genres. Check out her website (MorganWright.com).

Retirement is busy and gratifying. We are both involved at The Church of the Redeemer and love our community of fellow parishioners. Russ ushers and reads and I sing with the Contemporary Christian Music choir. Hoping this finds all wonderful members of our class well. Morgan attended the recent reunion in New York City and had time with Betty, Ginny and Brooke. She stated that I have awesome classmates. I agreed that they are the best! How blessed we all are! Anne Hollyday Smyth: 2015 was a different year for us. I retired at the end of July so the summer was one long vacation, capped off by our annual trip to the Outer Banks. Being beach people, we planned to celebrate our 50th anniversary and Christmas in Aruba. Five days before we were to leave Fred had a heart attack. While not major, he was taken to University of MD Medical Center because the doctor knew it was beyond what our hospital could handle.

Two days later he had quadruple bypass surgery! He was home five days later and is making a great recovery. When we think that we could have been on the plane or in Aruba, we are very thankful for the timing. Celeste Woodward Applefeld: Our big news is the

birth of a new grandson: William C Cleveland V (aka Liam). He is now an adorable, brilliant (NO bias here!) almost nine month old. He is Grace and Will’s first. They love Charlottesville and their respective jobs. And we visit as often as we can and they want. Lewis, Pam and their very energetic trio are deeply ensconced in life and activities in Rye, NY. So we are the grandparents in the middle. Mark is working like crazy and I am enjoying retirement activities. Best wishes to all. May 2016 bring you blessings and good health. Ginny Wood Delauney: We did have a wonderful visit with Connie Cavanaugh and Dan Rausch in Palo Alto last summer. Clay, Anne and Ben were all home for Thanksgiving and Christmas which was great fun. Happy 70th birthday to everyone (except Martha Dorman, who may be turning 69 this year.) Connie Sparrow: I too am turning 70 this month. Where did the time go? The real estate market is improving, rentals as well as sales, thank heavens! I taught two genealogy classes at the Anne Arundel Community College again, getting more people hooked on tracing their ancestors. I’m President of the Huguenot Society of Maryland in case you would like to join us for two luncheon meetings (March and October) a year. I’m in my last year as Program Chair of my DAR group in Annapolis. Also, I am the newsletter editor for The Shipleys of Maryland.

I think I’ve OD’d on genealogy! Keep those cards, letters and emails coming to me as your Class of 1964 scribe. I love reading them!

Class of 1965 50th Reunion Carol Blankenship Davis carolbdavis@verizon.net I can’t believe it is time for this class update. I feel like we just had our 50th Reunion weekend, and what a weekend it was! Thirtysix classmates participated in at least one of the six activities between Friday and Sunday.

Starting with the Pen Pal Tea on Friday afternoon, dinner at Jean Brune’s that evening, a luncheon hosted by Margaret Gray Kincaid on Saturday, the Alumnae Champagne Reception at RPCS before dinner at Pam Fenhagen Corckran’s, and finishing up at Linda Strangmann Robinson’s for brunch on Sunday, it was a whirlwind. It went by in the blink of an eye. I don’t think any of us were talked out. What I noticed and felt was the

closeness and, dare I say love, between classmates. Fifty years has passed and yet we are interested in one another and the trials and tribulations that we have all experienced. And I see one class. Many of us have gotten to know classmates better over the years than we knew them at school. Funny how that works.

In addition to the “usual suspects,” this momentous occasion brought Jessie Zapffe Gresham back for the first time. Lata Katey Gadgil, only with us for our senior year, traveled from her home in India to reconnect with her class. Bobbie Keene Bruenner, Peggy Darden Pickall, Jeanne Roberts Mangus, Susan Towles King and Betty Cooper Smith were welcome faces after long absences.

Martha Gomer was able to enjoy the weekend and her classmates thanks to her daughter Brook who brought her from North Carolina and sister Brook Gomer Yearley, 1977 both of whom accompanied her to several events. Even with the great turnout, there were others who wanted to be with us, but couldn’t for a number of reasons. You were missed! It is wonderful that the interest in our class is still strong. We are a special class! And on that same note, Beth Pfeffer Orr and Mary McCormick Meyer, co-chairs for our 50th Reunion Class Gift, sent this statement: Congratulations on our fundraising successes!

There was a lot of support from many of you who are not ‘annual givers’ and we surpassed our $50,000 goal. We are optimistic that we will improve our class participation and get closer to 100% this year. You have until June 30, 2016 to contribute to the Annual Fund or make a bequest to the Red & White Legacy.

Many thanks to everyone for responding so generously and so warmly to our requests. We are very proud of the Class of 1965! So now on to the updates. I think there are fewer this year because our reunion was a major update for many of us. So, in no particular order, here is what your classmates shared.

Nancy Davidson Brazill is becoming more familiar with Kansas and is enjoying the “Plains” with the amazing sunrises and sunsets. She is looking forward to the spring arrival of grand baby #6. Becky Harrison Anderson was happy to see the end of 2015, a year with health issues including several surgeries and long recoveries which interfered with her plans to attend our reunion. She is now doing well and thankful to be alive. The highlights of her year were two weddings. Her son, Chris, got married last January to a wonderful woman.

They both have two teenage kids so their house is full and happy. Becky performed the wedding of her beloved Godson, Will, on a beautiful September day in Newport. She is hoping to go back to work at St. Paul’s, Portsmouth, where they are “holding” a place

for her. She sends her best to all. Vivien Davis Tsu wrote that since the reunion, she has been traveling even more than usual with her job at PATH with a conference in Vancouver, BC and trips to London, Paris, Geneva and Zimbabwe.

When she wrote, she was in Dubai and was heading to Uganda. She was looking forward to a quiet holiday season at home. No plans for retirement as yet. Betsy Kohlerman Winship said it was wonderful seeing everyone at our 50th Reunion and thanks all for your comments on the yearbook. She had such fun working on it with Eve Scheffenacker and getting to know each of you better from your bios. (I, Carol, think I speak for all of us when I say that Betsy and Eve did a wonderful job with the monumental task of putting together the new Quid Nunc. It is a wonderful souvenir and will happily sit next to the original one in my house. Thanks to all of you who sent in updates.) Betsy had a great holiday, spending it with both of her daughters which was a real blessing. Kitzie and her partner, Marco, traveled by train from San Francisco. After Marco returned, Kitzie was able to stay for another week for quality time with Mom before flying home. Helen Tayloe Lambert wrote that there was no news from the Northland where son Will (30) is planning a wedding in August and son Joe (37) is well.

She and Mike are looking forward to retiring one of these days but they both enjoy their work. She sends all her love to her Sisters!

Toni Madrigal Martin was happy to report that her twin grandchildren, Annie and Charles, will be attending RPCS preschool next year. Her grandson Teddy went to preschool there for several years before starting at Gilman this year. She will be happy to have the ongoing connection to school including the Alumnae Valentine Luncheon each February.

Mimi Hayward now lives full-time on her farm in Glen Rock, PA just over the MD/PA line, but is happy to spend time in late summer at her house in Nantucket. She is still doing architectural history work in Baltimore, doing National Register nominations for different parts of the city. She is also on the board that is trying to restore and reopen the old Peale Museum and is active with the Irish Railroad Workers Museum on Lemmon Street which she helped create in the late 1990’s. Her daughter Milly Brugger, 2007 is working at her first job now after receiving her Nurse Practitioner’s degree from Hopkins. Betty Cooper Smith wants to thank each person who made our 50th Reunion gathering possible, beautiful and so special. She has posted snapshots from the weekend on her Facebook page. In November she, Mark and their adorable pooch, Buchi, flew to their home in Ponce, Puerto Rico where it has been an

unusually warm winter. With a warmer ocean, it has made for great swims and exercise.

When she wrote in January, she had lost 50 pounds since November which brings her closer to being ready for knee surgery. She says she has her work cut out for her but she is going for it! They have enjoyed a steady stream of Airbnb guests since their return and plan to stay on the island until summer when they return to North Carolina until autumn.

Barbara Bond wrote how wonderful it was to catch up with so many of Class of 1965 comrades at our 50th Reunion and connecting about where we are and where we want to be among other things. She continues to think about retiring from her position with the Attorney General’s Office for the State of Maryland where she is now the longest serving employee and hopes that decision will be easy and timely whenever it happens. Katherine Wise didn’t have any real news to report but said she is adjusting nicely on her own. All her kids and grandkids are doing well so life is good. Elizabeth McCleary Primrose-Smith wrote that since the reunion she has had another checkup and her blood work showed her cancer marker four points lower than the previous one three months earlier! She feels good and is doing more things but still is tired by the end of the day and thinks maybe this is just getting old. She is so happy that she came back for the reunion and hopes to keep in touch with folks more often now that we have re-established contact after all these years.

When she wrote she was preparing for a long cruise from Sydney to Hong Kong with six days driving around Tasmania before picking up the boat. She was excited to see parts of the world that she has never seen like the Great Barrier Reef, Bali and the Philippines and will have more news for the next update! Susan Gelston Mink had an incredibly wonderful year with lots of time for children, grandchildren and friends, and trips to Florida, Bethany, Denver, Taos and Santa Fe. She thought our reunion was beyond fun— entertaining, nostalgic, heartwarming, and a little bit of magic. She didn’t realize how much she missed people until she saw them. And best of all this year, the grandchild who said “Giggy, you’re da worst gwandmotha in da world” has changed her mind. Nelva Hart Hall is enjoying retirement and especially swimming at least five days a week, as does husband, Noel. She credits this with helping him recover so well from a heart attack last year. Helen Armiger spent three weeks in India in New Delhi, Pune, Sangamner (where Lata Katey Gadgil and her husband, Vivek, grew up), Agra, Mussoorie, and Rishikesh in Rajastan. During the last week they went to Ananda in the Himalayas, a beautiful destination spa and also stayed at

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The Glass House on the Ganges, where her balcony overlooked Mother Ganga. She was able to see and experience so many things—a feast for the eyes and the soul. Lata and Vivek showed her so many places including each of their family homes and she was able to celebrate Lata’s birthday as well as Diwali, the Festival of Light, with their families. She was able to experience once again the natural and deep connection she has with Lata. Spending time with her son and daughter-in-law in India was a gift and she looks forward to returning this December. She will be retiring from parish ministry at the end of June and is looking forward to traveling back to India, Italy and wherever Jake and Martina move in 2017. She knows she eventually will be moving from Baltimore, but is not sure where, and wants to pursue creative writing now that she will have the time. Calla Pappas Merkle and husband Rick hosted a family vacation to Bethany Beach last summer with all the children and grandchildren. Everyone loved it and all are asking for another trip this year! She wrote that being on the 50th Reunion Committee was such a joy and she was thrilled to see everyone. She writes: Our class of 1965 truly was a special one. I cherish the memories even more now that I’ve been down memory lane again with all of you! Blessings to you, my classmates, and your families. As for me, Carol Blankenship Davis, Sam and I had a wonderful trip to Nova Scotia last August. It was a new place for me and we fell in love with the people and the scenery. My Dad turned 98 in July (717-17!) and still is managing in assisted living.

Much of last year was strongly influenced by our reunion and the planning for it. What a great committee we had and how fun were our planning sessions? I want to thank everyone that had a hand in making our reunion exceptional and that especially includes those of you who attended. All the planning in the world would be for nothing if no one showed up. I thank everyone who volunteered to be on the committee and for your commitment to our class. Just think how easy it will be for the 55th! Can I sign you up now? And for those of you who were not involved in the planning, I want you to know that Missie Mack and Katy Spencer in the Alumnae Office were truly amazing. With their experience and guidance we didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. The School did more for us than you can imagine.

They wanted our reunion to be a success as much as we did. They spent so much time and energy for this event that sometimes I forgot that they were responsible for all the other alumnae functions that weekend as well as our class! We owe them our thanks and gratitude.

Best wishes to my terrific classmates!

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Class of 1966 Lee Hampshire Tolman mtolman30@gmail.com

Wow, what a class! Thanks so very much to everyone who answered my plea for information now that we are fast approaching the big and unfathomable 50th Reunion! The first response to my email request was from Anne Nelson Apgar, which was impressive, because she wrote from Atlanta, GA on her way to Antarctica! No news on how that trip turned out, but Anne writes that she sings with the St. David’s choir; is on the Women’s Committee at the Walters Art Gallery; is the President of a nonprofit to preserve and improve Federal Hill Park and recently became a Wellesley Fund representative. Her husband, Sandy, is still active as a real estate professional and serves on the Defense Business Board which advises the Secretary on best business practices. Together they are restoring a former whaling cottage in the village of Sconset on Nantucket in Massachusetts. Anne’s three children are married. Her son Clayton works for international interior designer Michael Smith in Los Angeles, CA and is married to actress Kate Chadwick. Daughter Sarah works for the eyewear company Warby Parker, is married to a medical student, and is about to make Anne a first time grandmother. Her youngest son Jamie, and his wife, are PhD candidates at UC Berkley, California completing their respective dissertations in musicology. Anne Mountcastle Bainbridge relayed the sad news that her father died last January, but she is comforted by the recognition he has received from Johns Hopkins in his honor. Anne’s mother is residing at Roland Park Place, which allows Anne to park on the old hockey field whenever she visits. Anne’s son Clayton lives in Richmond, VA and has a daughter, Nadia, who is in first grade and busy breaking the Tooth Fairy bank. Her older sons, George and Garrett, and their wives are expecting baby boys the same week in May. George lives in Arizona and Garrett is close by in Charles Village. Daughter Julia Bainbridge, 2001 is having great success freelance writing about the world of food and Anne loves to cook with her when Julia is in town. Sydney Brookes writes that she retired in July, 2014 and does not miss working one bit. Activities include a garden club, a book group, classes at Washington College in their Academy of Life Long Learning and attending the meetings of a group that studies near death experiences. She lives in a sun-filled home, in a beautiful rural

setting, in Chesterton, MD and is surrounded by gardens she created and maintains. She enjoys the company of a gentleman, Steven, who lives in Baltimore. They ride bikes on the country roads, hike, visit museums and recently traveled to Mt. Beacon, NY. Nancy Freeman Brooks has had a difficult few years. Her husband, Gary, passed away in October, 2013 after a long illness, and a year later, her very active 97 year old father also died. Nancy writes that she is grateful that Gary was able to see both of their daughters married and meet two grandsons. Daughter Courtney is an economist, living in Connecticut with her husband and two sons, ages four and one. Kristin teaches elementary school and lives in Rockville, MD with a son who is two and new baby girl born in January, 2016.

Nancy recently moved to a nearby townhouse and Kristin and her family moved into the old home, which is close enough so that Nancy can babysit a couple of days a week for her grandson. She stays busy with exercise classes, two book clubs, garden club and a house in Lewes, DE. She would like to travel and is thinking about getting a dog. Barbara Porter Carr is busy with family, family and more family. Her two daughters, Jenny Beers Cathrow, 1991 and Christy Beers Carey, 1989, are RPCS graduates and her granddaughter Paige Carey, 2015 is a RPCS graduate as well. Paige is attending Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL and Barb sees her when she, and her husband Bobby, visit their condominium on Tidy Island, FL. Two other grandchildren, Harry age eight and Alison age four, live in Ashland, VA. Barb travels to Ashland at least once a week to see them and reports that Alison is a ballerina who loves Taylor Swift and Misty Copeland. A fourth grandchild Macklin, age six, is in kindergarten in San Rafael, CA. Bobby has his own financial advisory firm and their daughter Christy works with him. Christy and Barb just joined the RPCS Alumnae Board in September.

After Paige graduated, they missed RPCS and decided to become involved in a different capacity and are enjoying it together. Mary Joe Maccubbin Clark reported in from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She is busy with volunteer work and says both she and her husband Bill are healthy and enjoying life in Florida. She comments that her grandkids are growing fast — too fast! Kathy Cross writes: Hard to believe it’s been 50 years since we danced to Stevie Wonder in the senior room. Kathy lives in Hinton, WV where she is an avid birdwatcher and has seen mink go by her house last spring and summer. Her sons, Jamey and Alex, are working in historical renovation and electrical engineering and Kathy says that, while there are no grandkids, there are eight

Mimi Roeder Vaughan, 1966 with her four granddaughters

grand-cats! Ann Day is still living in New York City and working for Credit Suisse. She is not acting at the moment, or at Juilliard, because of her work schedule. She does, however, meet with several former Juilliard classmates once a week to play something and discuss it. Ann says that most of her free time is spent practicing and figuring out what to play next.

Her significant other of 14 years, Michael, has recently proposed and Ann said “yes!”

Michael’s son has four boys who are already calling Ann “Gramma” even though she says: “I wish they’d just call me Ann - I’ve skipped a lot of steps.” Ann and Michael are traveling to Switzerland in April where Michael is presenting a paper at a conference and then later in the month they are headed to Hawaii to meet up with Michael’s sister. Muffy Deeley sang with the Deer Creek Chorale in Carnegie Hall for the premiere performance of Mortals and Angels: A Bluegrass Te Deum. This was during the weekend of the blizzard in New York City, but Muffy said that “it was an experience of a lifetime!” Penny Starratt Duffy is alive and well in Rochester, MN. Her husband, Joe, retired from Mayo Clinic after 31 years, but continues to work there three days a week. Penny writes from home for Mayo’s Neural Engineering Laboratory and is co-editor of a book on deep brain stimulation which will come out later this year. She reports: The work is stimulating and a good balance for my creative writing. The creative writing includes her novel, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land. Penny continues to receive personal notes from readers and considers

each one a blessing. Their two children, Melanie and Matt, have good jobs and growing families which include four grandchildren, ages five to 13. They live close enough to allow Penny and Joe to be “very much part of their lives.” There is also a Golden Retriever grand-dog who has helped them overcome the loss of their own 14-yearold Westie. Penny reports that she has been elected the Junior Warden of their Vestry at Calvary Episcopal Church, which takes her back to her “clergy-daughter roots.” She writes: I think fondly of our days at RPCS, with gratitude for the friendships and the classical education we received. Penny closes her update by congratulating Jean Brune for “a phenomenal job of leading the school these past 24 years - maintaining its tradition of high standards while embracing new technologies and expanding its offerings to ensure its place as a model school for the 21st century. Eva McManus Edmonds remembers when she was in Primary and seeing the ladies celebrating their 50th reunion and thinking “I will never look like that.” She says that the friendships are what she values the most and cites an evening she shared last April with Jennifer Bodine. Jennifer was speaking at the Washington County Free Library about the books she has written highlighting her father’s work. Eva and Jennifer have known each other since nursery school at RPCS and during the presentation, Jennifer proceeded to tell the audience about a princess costume that Eva once wore. Whether in person or on Facebook, Eva treasures her friendship with Jennifer.

Eva’s husband retired in June from his ophthalmology practice of 38 years. They have cruised to Norway and around South America and are headed to France in June. Eva has traveled with friends to Costa Rica and climbed to Machu Picchu and says that she will continue to travel as long as she can walk.

Her happiest excursions are the frequent trips to Boston, MA to see her grandson William, age 16 months, who will be joined by a sibling in June, and to Philadelphia, PA to visit grandson Charles, age 20 months. She continues to be Trustees Chair at her church and President of P.E.O. Maryland Chapter which supports and raises funds for women’s education. Eva says: I am so grateful for the education afforded me at RPCS, college and grad school. Lisa Huber Fast has moved to a new home in Waltham, MA. She reports that she is happy and healthy, still skating and exercising her creativity in an art studio. Mary Schaub Galey has recently been living in Phoenix, AZ, but plans to move back to Maryland in the near future. After completing her Master’s in Architecture from Tulane University, Mary worked for the Federal Government in design and construction for 32 years which exposed her to every aspect of the field of architecture. Upon retirement from the government, Mary went to work for the private sector which prompted the move to Arizona. She dotes on her niece, Beth Schaub Huwe, 1998, a RPCS graduate who went on to Cornell and Tufts to become a veterinarian.

Beth is renovating a home for Mary to move into when she returns to Maryland.

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Penny Starratt Duffy, 1966 with grandsons Finn and Aidan

Joann Wells Greenbaum and her husband, David, have retired from owning an art gallery which has given them time to explore other interests. Their two grown sons and daughterin-law live not too far from them in Brooklyn, NY. Joann writes: It is a sweet time in life, filled with many rewards of a great community of friends and family, and activities that bring us emotional, physical and spiritual meaning and nourishment. I wish for all of you and yours to have joy and peace in your lives, and am grateful that we have shared some parts of this journey together! Ann Hurlock reports that she is in Key West, FL hiding from winter!

The bitter cold weather is not for her and she spends her days in the sun playing tennis, running and practicing law. Sometime in April, Ann will migrate north to divide her time between Baltimore and Rehoboth, DE. Molly McGlannan Lindner is living in Ann Arbor, MI and has retired from her position as Associate Professor of Art History at Kent State University. Molly and her husband, Rudi, have two married daughters living in opposite parts of the country prompting lots of opportunity to travel. Their daughter, Belle, is an attorney in Brooklyn, NY and Clare is a physician in Tucson, AZ. The Lindner’s also spend time with Cindy Wallace McKee and her husband, Michael, at the beach. In August, 2015, Molly’s book: Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, Priestesses of Ancient Rome, was published by the University of Michigan Press. Molly said that it took a long time to complete the book, but it was worth it in the end. Sue Ellen Darnell May lives in faraway Alaska. She has retired as

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a VA Social Worker and has been working as a Certified Interpretive Guide at a local nature center. She also practices yoga and volunteers with Special Ed children. Sue and her husband, Tom, are visiting parts of Alaska that they missed seeing during their working years.

Their three boys live out of state and their two grandsons live farthest away in Fairfax, VA. Sue writes: It is hard to believe it has been 50 years since we graduated. I still recall important events of the times that we experienced — remembering President Kennedy’s assassination and our shocked tears. We certainly had some dedicated and unique teachers who worked so hard to push and pull girls into academic achievement. Pam Townshend Neale said that she was writing with a cat perched on the arm of her chair. She remembered that her caricature in our yearbook depicted her sitting with a cat on her lap, so not much has changed! Pam just retired from hospice nursing and is taking a much deserved break until her “next endeavor materializes.” She and husband Dave live in York, PA. They have four precious granddaughters, ages four to 14, and family is a top priority. The whole family gathers each summer for a week of sun and fun in the Outer Banks and Pam hopes to travel to as many new places as possible. Andy Creed Razak reports that 2015 was a very busy year. In February, her oldest son, Matthew, and his wife, Ashley, had the “cutest, brightest, sweetest baby ever” named Asher. Asher is the first grandchild.

Younger son Michael married “the wonderful Jennifer” in October. Both sons live near Andy and her husband in Potomac, MD, so it is easy to see them often. Chrissie Pappas Stone checks in from Bellair, TX where she recently moved her law practice into her home. She has a joint practice with her husband and the firm is: Stone & Stone LLC. Chrissie represents construction contractors and her husband specializes in wills and probate. Their three grown children, Alex, Melissa and Emerson, are doing well and they are planning a hiking trip to Big Bend National Park in south Texas.

Chrissie said they had a wonderful trip last May to England, Scotland and Paris and even played golf at St. Andrews. She still enjoys practicing law and is not ready to retire; is involved in politics; plays golf once a week and does a lot of work for her Methodist Church.

Mimi Roeder Vaughan traveled to New Zealand and Australia for two weeks with college roommates in 2015. She is renting a condo in New York City for a year. Her daughter, Gina Pizza, 1994 is an attorney at Venable. Ryan and Kelly work for the family real estate company helping to manage properties. Mimi has four grandgirls! She is chairing the Associated Black Charities Gala in

Christy Beers Carey, 1989, Paige Carey, 2015 and Barbara Porter Carr, 1966

2016 with over 1,000 attendees. She also chaired Girls’ Night Out in 2015 for Associated Black Charities. Mimi started the event seven years ago with Deb Stallings. Kathie Leslie, Debbie Anderson Stuffel, Muffy Deeley and Jennifer Bodine came to her summer party at White Hall. She still has Roeder Travel— celebrating 44 years. Mimi has been a member of the Mayor of Baltimore’s Minority Board for three years now. She had lunch with Ann Hurlock, Nancy Harrison, Sydney Brooks and Kathy Leslie, and Sydney said the sweetest thing - “I love my classmates!” Debby Schultz Woods retired from the position of Director of Music from a Lutheran Church in Bel Air, MD last June. She is looking forward to sleeping-in on Sunday and having some free time to spend with her four grandchildren. Travel is also on her “to do” list. She is on the Board of the American Guild of Organists and enjoys working with other professional musicians in the Baltimore area. She sings with the Handel Choir of Baltimore and invites all alums to come and hear “a top-notch choral group.”

Debby says she is grateful to RPCS for giving her an important foundation for an active professional life. I am so impressed with the amazing and diverse directions we have taken over these past 50 years. I, Lee Hampshire Tolman, closed my construction company of almost twenty years in 2014 and have been enjoying the freedom. I have two wonderful daughters, Brooke and Robin, and five handsome and engaging grandsons, ages seven to 18, who live close by. In the summer, I escape to my place at the beach as often as possible and read and watch the waves roll in.

As many of you have said, I too am so grateful for the love of learning that RPCS instilled in us. My very best wishes to all of you!

On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden Kathy Hudson, 1967 On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden written by Kathy Hudson, 1967 was published in October 2015. Over 46 years A.C. and Penney Hubbard, with the help of the late Kurt Bluemel, have transformed two hilly acres in Baltimore County into a horticultural masterpiece.

In On Walnut Hill, Kathy Hudson chronicles the story of the garden and the Hubbard family in their garden.

Kathy offers seasonal essays, as well as the history of the development of this stunning piece of living sculpture.

With photographs by award-winning landscape photographer Roger Foley, the book captures the garden in all four seasons.

Class of 1967 Kathy Hudson hudmud2@gmail.com Susan Berwager Law susanlaw1@comcast.net Greetings, and many thanks to all who responded to our email. If you did not receive an email, it’s because we don’t know your email address. Please send it to RPCS when you can. From fellow class rep in Baltimore, Susan Berwager Law: I had knee replacement surgery in the fall and have been rehabbing with physical therapy, maybe too much cheerleading at RPCS! Still enjoy playing bridge, part-time real estate with Long and Foster. Planning to visit with Alice McCormick Meiners, Barbara Mattingly Wilson, and Patty Sager Allan while in Florida in March. Our first responder was Beth Bishop: I’m still at Johns Hopkins (41 years in February) but looking into various “life after work” options. I took a spill while “power walking” in February 2015, and broke several bones in my left hand and damaged my mouth. So, have discovered the joys (?) of root canals, hand surgery, and physical therapists

On Walnut Hill offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a world-class garden.

It is a story about passion, artistry, and, above all, a family’s love for the land on which they live.

(or is that physical terrorists?). Bless Union Memorial Hospital and the Curtis National Hand Center! I was born there at UMH, and they’re still trying to fix me! Lucy Ritter Skeen seems to be thriving in retirement, gardening, traveling, and having fun with her grandchildren and friends. Before the Blizzard of 2016, Lucy’s report: It is 19 degrees as I write this. 19! I am now convinced that I am a reincarnated bear. Bears spend all winter curled up in their caves and only come out when it is NOT 19 degrees. See you all in the spring when I come out of my cave. Next, from Susan McFeely: I am happily retired from 40 years of Wall Street investment banking madness, living in Litchfield, CT with my yellow lab, Tulip. I am supportive of several local charities; I am on the Vestry of my church, including chairing its major annual fundraiser; and some of my passions and pastimes include fashion, design, cooking, walking and hiking, paddle tennis, the Opera, wooden jigsaw puzzles and the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle.

Life is good! My brother, Stuart, and sister, Betsy McFeely, 1972, are living in Seattle, WA. Stuart is married with two sons, Liam and Reed, and has his own architectural firm; Betsy is Director of Community Relations for Goodwill Industries. May and her three children, James, Lindsay and William, are

living in Lynchburg, VA, Richmond, VA and North Carolina respectively. “Magoo” Kathy Magruder wrote from Charleston: I retired (finally!) from the VA and am cutting down my University responsibilities as well. I hope you’ll also be able to write that we got together when Huddy came to Charleston on the book tour!

[It’s on the calendar, as I write.] Betsy Downes Brown has been in Baltimore often this year.

She and her siblings, Bill and Elinor, lost their mother in February 2015. Mrs. Downes was a beloved class mother, as was Jean Mattingly Smith, Barbara Mattingly Wilson’s mother, whom Barb lost in January 2015. Our sincerest condolences to Betsy and Barb. Betsy sent this message: Betsy Brown aka Doots spent the night at Huddy’s (Kathy Hudson’s) back in September-just like old times! Doots and Hud paid a visit to Doots’ aunt who is a resident of Roland Park Place (on the previous site of RPCS). They celebrated her aunt’s 97th birthday with chocolates and flowers. A good time was had by all. Doots and husband Randy are back from Charleston and living year-round in Rehoboth Beach, where Doots is a personal trainer working out of the Firm Fitness Center. Charley Brown, their black standard poodle, continues to keep them both on their toes! And Barbara Mattingly Wilson writes: I am here in Stuart, FL where a few days ago it was sunny and warm. Now it’s in the 40’s at 6:00 a.m. (1/19). F.L. and I drove from Annapolis on December 28 with our two dogs and two cats. We towed a small boat on a trailer and made the trip in one day. Charlie [Barb’s son] and [his wife] Victoria will visit in February and Jeff, Sally, Isabelle and Penelope [F.L.’s children and grandchildren] will come join us in the Bahamas. Suzy Ross McDowell sent a note in January: Bobby continues to practice pediatrics and I continue at Steptoe [Steptoe & Johnson] with my practice focusing on nonprofit organizations. I love my work, but do wish I had more time for other thingslike my friends from RPCS! Ashley was named Dean of Students at Episcopal High School as of last July 1. She loves the job and will be able to continue coaching the girls’ varsity lacrosse team as well. Andrew continues to work at Smathers and Branson. After building their

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Kathy Magruder, 1967 with her family, including her mother, aged 96, on Christmas Day Frances Naylor Douglass, 1967 and her daughter Megan on New Years’ licensing program, they asked him to become Director of Golf Sales, a job for which he seems ideally suited. Initially hesitant about the change, he has come to love it and loves seeing (and often playing) the country’s best golf courses and clubs. We count our lucky stars every day that we have two such well-adjusted kids who live in the area and actually seem to enjoy spending time with us. Chesley Schultheis Garrett and Marietta Koch Nolley gathered twice this year, once in July in Highlands, NC for the wedding of Chesley’s daughter and Marietta’s goddaughter Elizabeth, then on Chesley’s birthday in Atlanta. Ches has two

granddaughters, Ramsey and Catherine, and Marietta has one, Elizabeth, with a second grandchild on the way. Such happy news.

From Frances Naylor Douglass: Since I retired in June, 2013, I’ve added on three more jobscrazy, isn’t it? I thought I’d be writing a novel, or composing a photo-montage memoir, or painting, or doing a lot of sewing by now (all while living in a small Mexican town for the winter), but it hasn’t worked out that way. I miss talking to my mom, but hope to visit Baltimore again when we have our next

Susan Berwager Law, 1967, Joanne McCall Bosley, 1967, Barbara Mattingly Wilson, 1967, and Cathy Zinc deVilliers, 1968 at the Oregon Grille

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Frances Naylor Douglass, 1967 with her husband Lathrop

reunion. Life is good. Anne Gelston Hubbard and her husband, Fraser, still live in Warrenton, VA. Anne is about to retire from preschool teaching and hopes to visit Baltimore more often to see friends, daughter Cassie, and granddaughter Izzy. Josie McCall Bosley says: Art and I traveled around the world again for five months, starting in Fiji and ending in Iceland. Great trip, missed the earthquake in Katmandu by two weeks. Stopped in Dubai and Bahrain to see my son and his family.

Home safe now, except for all the snow, and off to Arizona to see my daughter Chrissy and her family. Working part-time and enjoying some free time. Susie Hume Artes: Larry and I are both retired and loving it. I’m taking a metal working class at The Baltimore Jewelry Center and throwing pots on the wheel at The Clayground in Ellicott City. My daughter, Maria, became engaged on Christmas to a terrific young man. My granddaughter Riley is in first grade and spends nights with us regularly. Consequently, Larry and I play a lot of “school”, dolls, and princesses. I hope to see many of you at the next milestone reunion for our class! Bonnie Bang Lounsbury, attorneynow-organic farmer, wrote before heading to Costa Rica with Ben to meet their son Bart, his wife, and her parents: Next farming season, Natalie [daughter] and I will likely do much of the same we did this year-our own vegetables and a few crops in larger quantity mainly for wholesale. It’s so much fun to have Carol Gebelein Cavanagh come to Baltimore

Class of 1968 Eve Bremermann Collard eve@evecollard.com Stuart Kelly Trinkle sktrinkle@aol.com

Grandchildren of Carol Gebelein Cavanagh, 1967

regularly to see her sister Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks, 1970, Carol’s daughter and sonin-law, Sarah and Skip Cornbrooks, and their two children. Carol has 11 other grandchildren in New England with two on the way, so life for her and Joe is busy and happy. As for me, Kathy Hudson, the October publication of On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden was exciting. The book now seems to have a life of its own. Recently, for example, photographer

Roger Foley won second place in the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition for a photograph from the book. Continuing to work with the owners of the garden, A.C. and Penney Hubbard, is pure pleasure. Huge thanks to RPCS friends, on and off campus, for generous support. Hope to see everyone in 2017 at our 50th reunion. How did THAT happen?!

Susan Berwager Law, 1967 and her son Rob at Christmas

The making of On Walnut Hill by Kathy Hudson, 1967

It’s been such a treat for Stuart and me to hear from so many of you. Thank you all for your updates. The themes seem to center around grandchildren and family, ongoing but tapering careers, much great travel, and thoughtful volunteering. Not surprising and pretty appropriate for this stage of our lives. So from north to south and east to west, here’s the news. From New Hampshire, Lee Walker Oxenham writes: 2015 was a big year. My son, Ian, graduated from Haverford College magna cum laude in political science and environmental studies. My husband, Evan, retired and is pursuing his passion for photography. After 50 some years of environmental activism (including serving as Patapsco Riverkeeper for five of them), I currently represent four towns in the House of Representatives of the New Hampshire State Legislature, Plainfield, Springfield, Grantham and Cornish. You may recall that the reclusive J.D. Salinger lived in “remote” Cornish. Two summers ago I got to canvas for votes in his barn! I currently sit on the House Resources, Recreation and Development Committee where we oversee everything from clean water, public lands, invasive species and wetland protections, to the ski and ATV industries. I have three bills before the Legislature this year, all aimed at moving New Hampshire away from a reliance on fossil fuels and to sustainable, renewable energy sources. I’m on the Steering Committee for the New Hampshire Bernie Sanders campaign and the most fun I’ve had all year was introducing his “mystery endorser” at a huge rally at Dartmouth College. The next most fun was judging the Sullivan Co 4-H debate contest-shades of Ms. Faissler! (Those of us who remember Lee’s stellar debating skills are probably not surprised to hear this news!) Barbara “Muff” Winter Glauber reports that she and Bob continue to live in Boston where Bob teaches at Harvard. Muff’s involved with the New England Conservatory of Music and Boston Lyric Opera (more talents put to good use!)

Muff writes: Our two children live in NYC where we also are part of most weeks. It is a full and peripatetic life. Ann Lord writes: My husband and I are still in Boston, still running the Boston Ski and Sports Club, but with a staff of 14 we spend time “running” away to

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fun places. Summer is spent pretending that I’m a golfer; winter, we try to go elsewhere.

We’re leaving soon on a 34 day cruise that goes from Bangkok to Tokyo. Oh, the calories!

Besides the two grandkids, (who are in college), we have two gorgeous Siberian Forest cats that follow us around the house pretending that they are dogs. Ann also reports that Charlotte Baker Lord is still in St. Helena enjoying the California lifestyle, so no snow for her. Hugs to all! Sally Loring Buttner in Delaware ran for State Senate in 2014 and writes: What a great, intense experience. I continue my passionate interest in public policy, with a focus on energy efficiency and renewables. (Amazing...two politicians from our class and both involved in renewable energy!). I’m still cycling a lot, but not as intensely as before a significant crash last July. Next spring I’m headed to South Dakota for a week of cycling. My son is a mechanical engineer and lives in Pasadena, CA designing and building electric buses. It’s a long way away, but a great place to visit.

Hoping to see us all at our 50th (really?) reunion. And from our home state, Susan Athey has just dug out from the Blizzard of 2016 in Baltimore reports: all Balto-morons are safe! Had a short trip to gulf side of Florida and got to visit Janet and Andy Hartman in their beautiful new condo. Wonder if Janet will be hosting our 50th reunion there? (Just kidding, Janet!) I spend time between Baltimore and the Magothy River houses. I find that I have accumulated too much “stuff” and am attempting to clean out. Does that sound familiar to anyone? I have really good deals on Semiquaver albums, first grade construction paper “books”, Quid Nuncs from many years, lapel sports pins, invites to proms, etc. Have had wonderful visits with Mary Lang Logan and Nancy Martin at least annually, as well as visits with Emily Parkhurst (who is also a “river gal” on the South River) and Andy Hodges Whitney and Janet Bauer Hartman, both residents at Rehoboth Beach in the summer. I’ve also had the pleasure of seeing Stuart who comes here periodically to stock up on seafood, cookies, and other delicacies of Maryland. Cathy Zink deVilliers writes that husband, David, is still working with oldest son, David, by his side. Their other son, Jack, lives and works in DC and is doing very well.

She writes: Between my two boys, David and I have five wonderful grandchildren-three girls and two boys. I am thoroughly enjoying my retirement, playing golf, learning bridge, and seeing my girlfriends! David and I are able to go once a month for a week to Ocean Reef from November to April which gives us wonderful breaks from the cold, and we go to Bethany Beach quite a bit during the summer/ fall months. We are still in our home of

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Gail Stewart Beach, 1970, Jan Stewart Hoffberger, 1972, Jamie Stewart, Nancy Stewart Bowers, and Lyn Stewart Simensen, 1968 celebrate the 90th birthday of their mother Betty Stewart, seated

32 years along with our two German Shepherds and our Maine coon cat. All of whom are my constant companions. Most importantly, everyone is in good health and I count my blessings every day. Hope all the news from our classmates is good as well! Can’t believe our 50th is coming up. Are we really getting that old? Cathy Huether McClelland is still gainfully employed with the Independent Can Company. She tried retirement for ten weeks, but was asked to return to work due to an ill employee. Cathy holds the record with nine grandchildren who range in age from high school sophomore to first grade, several of whom are at Bryn Mawr and McDonogh. She and her husband took an Explore Cruise, which was “gorgeous and exciting”, with daughter Whitney and her husband, to Chile starting in Valparaiso and ending in Ushuais.

They were also in Quebec last year with Janet Bauer Hartman and her husband, Andy, a city Cathy and her husband enjoy and have visited several times. For those of you in the Baltimore area, Cathy recommends Roeder Travel, the company of Mimi Roeder Vaughan, 1966.

Cathy also keeps in touch with Holly Murphy Spector and Lyn Stewart Simensen and their husbands. Rachel Magruder Allen continues as Deputy Director at the Smithsonian American Art, which is currently enjoying enormous success with their branch museum, the Renwick Gallery. The Renwick recently reopened after renovation with an exhibit, WONDER, which the Washington Post calls the “most instagrammable spot in DC.”

Rachel says it’s been a thrill to see lines of visitors out the door. Her husband, Bob, retired after 35 years at the Hirshhorn Museum. Rachel writes: I miss not having my commuting partner, but he’s been good to get me to the train station AND have dinner ready when I get home. Can’t ask for much better than that! He’s getting back to his own art work and was part of a small group show this fall at the Arlington Arts Center in Virginia.

Rachel and Bob’s daughter, Laura, continues in the entertainment business and has recently returned to the Cartoon Network as a line producer. She’s involved in a variety of productions outside of work as well. Rachel says it’s fun to see what she and her creative colleagues come up with. Rachel’s entire family, mother, sister, brother, daughter, niece, nephew, great nieces, great nephews were in town for the Christmas holidays. A good multi-generational time was had by all. Rachel says she enjoys seeing Sally Morton who is currently headed off to Cuba with Katherine Cobb. She writes: Connie Day Dunn and Charlie stopped by last summer on a drive to Boston. Love seeing you all. Emily Parkhurst writes: I’m halfway through a fine jaunt to India with a good pal, this time to see the Ganges in Rishikesh (Beatles hangout), the Golden Triangle of Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, the smaller Rajasthani city of Udalpur and then south to Kerala. This is my third trip, the first in 1977-78, and the second with Sheila Tayback Leatherman in 2012, so you can see I’m an India addict. Life at home is great. I leapt into retirement last year and have found all kinds of trouble to get into, including a service project in Guatemala and archaeological digs at the Smithsonian’s environmental center nearby. And I have summer camp at my house for grand girls for several weeks over the summer to keep me on my toes. Randy Abramson Steiner writes: Career-wise, I am most proud to announce that I founded the CCCAP (Coalition of College Architecture), a 501.3c non-profit organization in 2014 to unite the 167 architecture programs in community colleges across the country. A most important mission is to widen the pathway to the profession. We also host an annual conference to establish Student Design Competitions, and work to increase the articulations between 2 year and 4/5 year schools of architecture. Randy is also President of the PVAF (Potomac Valley Architecture Foundation), a non-profit branch of the local AIA Chapter, where they do mostly promotion of the value of architecture and good design in Maryland, and orchestrate Architecture Week and scholarships. She adds: I’m finishing my 26th year of running the Architecture Program at Montgomery College in Maryland, but I do

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see retirement coming soon. (Randy was too modest to mention, but I happen to know, that she received the 2014 award as Outstanding Educator of the Year from the AIA for the state of Maryland, the first time the award has been offered). Quite modestly, I share the good news that all three of our children have found their soul mates. Our eldest, Alexander, is a physical therapist in Owings Mills, MD and has a wonderful wife and our only grandchild, five-year-old Eli. Our second son, Peter, is an industrial designer with Code + Theory in Manhattan and had a “rustic chic” wedding in May 2015 in upstate New York. Our daughter, Mariel, earned her Master Landscape Architecture degree from Cal Berkeley in May 2015 and is engaged to her long time beau, Gabriel, to be married in Washington, DC in August 2016. She lives in San Francisco and seems content with that earthquake techie town. My husband and I celebrated a 41st anniversary with a trip to Luca, Italy where we painted and sketched and traveled to Tuscany for another week. Hello to wonders that I learned from Mrs. Cavanaugh. I do see Georgia Stevens and Vis frequently. Georgia has a 35+ year group going to the Kennedy Center for dance performances and I am fortunate to be one of her posse. Our house is open to anyone who wants to come visit DC. In McLean, VA, Sally Heldrich reports that she’s a video producer (Senior Producer) at Westat, a social sciences research/analysis/ communication company based in Rockville.

Sally modestly claims that she has no special

news to report. Andy Hodges Whitney writes: Dave and I are now retired and settled in Alexandria, VA and are enjoying the good life.

Dave retired from the Navy and again is a contractor, supporting the Marine Corps, and I retired from many years as a systems engineer for the Department of Defense. Without the hectic schedules of full-time jobs, we have been able to play golf, tennis, swim and sail, which have been interrupted from time to time by “time-outs” to let worn body parts heal following reconstructive surgeries. If we had only taken more precautions along the way!

Dave is also singing with two barbershop choruses, and I volunteer at a Navy Wives’ gift shop in the Washington Navy Yard where all profits are donated to scholarships and charities for military families, a truly worthwhile cause. Our two kids and four grandkids (15, 13, 5 and 2) live within a five mile radius of us at this time, so we are truly blessed to be able to spend time with them. We recently bought a tiny condo in Rehoboth Beach, DE that has been a fabulous relaxing getaway that we dreamed of years ago. Sadly we have already lost a few classmates, so let’s not wait until our 50th reunion to get back in touch with each other. (Amen to that!) Stuart Kelly Trinkle is enjoying her retirement from the world of college admissions and is working just a little with Tommy’s property management company. Stuart writes: At least my travel is now for enjoyment which make delayed and canceled flights a bit more bearable. I highly recommend trips organized by Road Scholar.

They are great for couples, but especially for solo women travelers like me. After recovering from my knee replacement in September, 2014, I spent five days in the Sedonna, AZ area culminating with my first trip to the Grand Canyon. I visited Montreal and Quebec in August and will be spending a week in March studying the great gray whale migration and Baja’s natural wonders. I love the academic component of their trips. I continue to volunteer extensively with the Ronald McDonald House Charities. We still spend as much time as possible at our house on Smith Mountain Lake-the door is always open for classmates traveling through. Connie Day Dunn is still living in Charlotte, has four grandchildren, two of them in Boston where her son and “daughter-in-love” (don’t you love that expression?) are planting a church.

Connie writes: Our other son and family live just a few miles away. My husband is retired for about the third time. I think this one might take. We enjoy traveling and have some trips coming up to New York City, Boston, Florida and St. Maarten. We spend a lot of time in the North Carolina mountains in the summer. I spend other time being a grandmother and volunteering for our church. Nothing famous going on here, but grateful for lots of blessings.

It’s hard to believe that we are now elders. I remember thinking that in 2000 we would be 50 and that was almost unfathomable. Now it sounds pretty good. Our Florida contingent also checked in. Jane Day Stuart in Jacksonville has three kids, one an attorney, one in private equity and one a therapist, so all the bases are covered. They all live in New York, two are married and one engaged, and she and Marty have one two-year-old grandson and are hoping for more. They divide their time between Florida and Maine. Jane Day still plays tennis perpetually and also swims. Her next scheduled trip is to China. She writes that she’s still in contact with Susan Scott Wheel and Georgia Stevens, and occasionally with Christie Rosser Moseley. She reads a lot and would strongly recommend Go Set a Watchman. Jane Day writes: Roland Park could devote an entire semester juxtaposing it with To Kill a Mockingbird. Hope all is well with each and every one of you, my dear classmates. Lyn Stewart Simensen writes: We’re retired and currently splitting our time between Pennsylvania and Sarasota, with stops in Columbia, SC and El Segundo, CA for as many grandchildren visits as we can fit into our schedule. We’re looking forward to spending a week in Vermont in early February with our daughter Erica and her husband, Jim, and our son Christian, his wife, Paige, and their children. Our next big travel adventure is a month in Europe in June 2016 visiting my

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sister Nancy Stewart Bowers, 1971 and her family in Belgium, followed by a visit with John’s cousins in Oslo, before a two week cruise up the Norwegian coast and across the North Sea to Scotland and England. This April, we’re gathering our extended family in Sarasota for a 180th birthday party (Mom is turning 90, my sister, Nancy, 50, and our daughter Erica, 40). It will be fun to have everyone together for a long weekend.

Janet Bauer Hartman writes: Having spent the better part of a lifetime as a Roland Parkerstudent, alum, parent and 30-year employee-I was asked to join the RPCS Board of Trustees, which I consider a great honor and in a way coming full circle. I’m also loving life as the grandmother of two young grandsons. We had a memorable Christmas celebrating with our family, coming in from New York and Washington, as well as the in-town branch. It was our last as hosts in Baltimore. We spent the next ten days wildly packing up and clearing out before we made the move to a small apartment down the street and the more radical move to Longboat Key, FL. Lyn Stewart Simensen has a place nearby, so I look forward to catching up with her, and hope to have lots of visitors, too! Here’s to our 50th...and her organizers. Wait, did we sign up for that, too?

(And on to California!) Our TV mogul, Christie Rosser Moseley writes: Greetings from the BU (OK, that’s a weird term inhabitant’s use for Malibu). I have been continuing my entertainment brand strategist roles and headed out to Santa Monica as EVP and CMO of a stand-alone cable network called Game Show Network (co-owned by Sony and AT&T) about a year and a half ago.

Had been in similar capacities at a Madison Square Garden Co., History Channel, Hallmark Channels and Discovery Channel.

Tom is putting up with my marketing mercenary roles while practicing as a tax/estate attorney and CPA. We still have outposts in Ruxton, 2 Wyndhurst, and Tom’s family spots in Cooperstown, NY and Hyde Park. But, we’re spending a lot of time on respective career fronts and not getting much travel in, except for backing-and-forthing. RPCS fearlessness training is super helpful in the corporate world, as well as dealing with screaming coyotes in the Bu. Only for children to mention, and they are a handful. Looking forward to our 50th and appreciate getting started now! Christie notes that she only goes

by Chris in business because no one could spell Christie (“try Krystee on for size.”) “Schott” Susan Scott Wheel, writes that she’s working with her husband’s headhunting firm part time and serving as nanny to her two grandchildren.

Schott writes: No retirement in our future!

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Documentaries at Roco Films and son, Gavin, is with the San Francisco Fire Department as a paramedic. Life is good in Marin! (That’s a county in California north of San Francisco for you easterners.) I, Eve Bremermann Collard, have just returned from a relaxing and warm trip to Mexico. We felt the getaway was well deserved after my husband underwent seven surgeries in the last seven months. I think this must be a record! All, except for the broken femur, were those pesky getting older operations that lead to a good recovery. He says, though, that he thinks he may be going through withdrawal from lack of his monthly dose of anesthesia. I’m still working part time (becoming more and more part time) as a Leadership Development consultant. At this point, it’s primarily conducting seminars and providing leadership coaching. So as I wade into retirement, I’ve begun Spanish classes, attend a weekly French conversation group, and swim and hike with friends (including Schott). I’m also enjoying a book club. Our six grandchildren range in age from eight to college sophomore. We enjoy visiting them in Ashland, OR and at the ranch in Northern California (a summer camp for kids, the Bar 717 Ranch, in case you’re looking for a ranch experience for your grandkids) and in Berkeley, just a bridge trip from our home in Sausalito. We hope to continue hearing from other classmates. In the meanwhile, please mark your calendars for October 2018 to celebrate our 50th! Stuart and I are personally looking forward to spending time with a group of incredibly interesting women.

Class of 1969 Marianna Spicer Joslyn Marianna.Joslyn@turner.com I was very happy since our last Class Notes to catch up with Becky Koch, who is living the good life in New Mexico. Becky teaches Avatar courses and, from what I’ve read about it, it sounds as though it involves techniques similar to “mindfulness,” which is being more aware of where you fit in the universe and how you impact and are impacted by everything around you. Getting out of your own head, seeing and appreciating the similarities and differences in other people, examining how you look at the world and challenging yourself to open that view. Becky has been teaching the course for ten years now. Besides work, Becky says she’s enjoying her three amazing children and three wonderful grandsons. Daughter Sarah Garlick lives ten minutes from Camp Atahi (weird huh?), son James lives in Chapel Hill and Jennifer in Austin. We found each other on Facebook and I’m sure she’d love hearing from you. Another voice I was especially glad to hear from was Sharon Joyner’s, who writes: I’m still slogging away at Apple, but I moved from being a Project Manager in Corporate Legal/Online Business Conduct Training to being an Engineering Project Manager in Apple Product Documentation. Talk about Deja vu. I started there during my first Apple tour of duty from 1992-1997.I still have

Nancy Townshend Haas, 1969 with her grandchildren

The Christmas card of Christine Pierpont von Klencke, 1969, our baroness, and her family at their home in Hamelschenburg, Germany. The castle has been in her husband Lippold’s family since the 1400’s.

friends in the department so it’s comforting to see other old gray heads. (I know what she means.) Sharon says her mom is still hanging in there, living alone in Baltimore. Sharon came to Baltimore around Thanksgiving to attend to her mom’s health and says she turned 95 in February! Sharon adds: she usually comes to Redwood City on her own to spend Christmas with us, so this time I just brought her back with me. My husband Stuart and I’ll take her back in February to celebrate the milestone. Ellen Reichenbach Gruber and I did the same thing this year–downsized our houses. Like me, she says she’s not sure she downsized enough! She’s back in Roland Park, not far off Falls Road, where she has to fight traffic when she is trying to get to RPCS, among the other prep schools! And, she’s noticed the students and some of their parents need some politeness training. Ellen says she’s still got two 20-somethings in college. Younger son is taking an extra year to double major in chemical engineering and food science (and getting another year of eligibility in rowing, by the way!) Her older son is working toward graduating this spring with degrees in environmental studies and geography. She says she’s taking a philosophical view of paying the bills-that if they can figure out their direction and sense of purpose, satisfaction, happiness and hopefully success, it’ll be worth every penny! Ellen continues working as an

administrative appeals law judge for Social Security. She’s expecting some interesting changes this year, and is thinking about retirement, given how many of us seem to be enjoying that. Then, she writes: This time next year I may have more interesting news. I’ll leave that to everyone’s imagination. Susie Bradly Boutilier reports that her husband Boot has almost reached the five year point with his new lung and is going strong. (Love to hear that.) She says they went to London and Paris last year, and plan to visit Ireland in the fall.

Her most fun time recently was with her whole family, including all five grandchildren, ages five to 11. Guess where they went? Bowling at Stoneleigh, remember? They even put little bumpers up, so yes, no gutter balls for Susie!

She and Boot went to Hilton Head last November and saw Suzanne Smith Moyer and her husband Keith. Susie writes: They haven’t changed at all, and are getting ready for retirement once the finishing touches are done on their new home on a golf course, just gorgeous! (Let me hear from you Suzanne so I can get the details! My husband (and maybe me) will be in Hilton Head in March sometime.) Bi-coastal Kate Singley Dannenberg continues to bop between the left and right coasts, spending summers in Seattle where her husband has a job, and winters in Atlanta. You would think we’d see one another once in a while! Kate, you and me, OK Café, when

you’re ready. Kate says her daughter Alice is getting her Master of Social Work at NYU, and son Ned is working for NBC in Memphis and just bought a house! Courtney Rice Martin, whom I got to see after many, many years at our reunion a year or so ago, and who has not aged a day, darnit, tells me this is her big year for Medicare-me too and probably many of us! Courtney writes: I continue to love my job as a professor and advisor in Family Studies and Community Development at Towson-the power of choices, decisionmaking, management and leadership on our families, communities, and the world! The beauty of my job is my ability to share so much time with my grandbabies, Palmer and Webb!

Christine Pierpont von Klencke writes from Germany: The numbers of refugees arriving from the Middle East and Africa and all the resulting problems are immense. We have offered housing, but integration into the laws, behavior and thought of the Western world will take time, patience and one to one support.

On the family front, Christine’s life is full of weddings and babies! Son Ludolf married his bride Britta in a civil ceremony last April.

Christine says in Germany couples must be married by a Justice of the Peace. Their first child Leopold was born in July and Christine writes: We can enjoy watching him grow in leaps and bounds, because they live in the other wing of the castle. Son Henry earned his

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master’s in July and married his Charlotte in November. Both have good jobs in Berlin, where [daughter] Celeste also lives with her family and is training in cardiology. [Daughter] Anna and family are doing well in Hamburg.

Both Ludolf and Henry will have church weddings at the castle this year. Finally, the Baroness says she and Lippold go to South Africa for the first time in February. (Christine will kill me, but I just love saying “The Baroness.”) She writes: I am still busy managing the tourist business, café and events.

I keep telling everyone that I am retiring this year, but no one takes me seriously. I hope that I will! The Lutheran Church synod is still time consuming, frustrating, and challenging.

Repairs on the castle never end. The newest task is to repair and secure the sandstone ornaments, estimated cost 1.5 million Euros.

Time to go begging for subsidies. Peripatetic classmate Susan Waxter finished her quest in 2015 to visit all 50 states–the last state was– want to guess? North Dakota! She also squeezed in ten new countries (I’m exhausted just thinking about it), in the Adriatic and Central America and returned to some other favorites. Her passport must get filled up twice a year. She says she’s taking a little break (no pun intended) to get a new hip this year, but says then she will be “off to the world again!”

And, “In the meantime, I do enjoy lunches with some of those 69’ers as we prepare to register for Medicare!” Jane Beazley DeCell’s husband Hal retired last November after a career in political positions, and she writes: I suppose it won’t be long before I throw in my high heels! (She’s still wearing high heels?

Brave one!) Her sons Clay and Charlie are also working in Washington, DC, and her daughter Carrie is in New York. Jane’s Mom, who is 87, is in Richmond, VA, which she says makes it easy for family to gather for holidays.

Jane says she looks forward to hosting another 1969 class lunch and outing when the weather improves, with a big cake to celebrate our 65th birthdays! Very short notes from Cathy Lears Bennett and Chris Roseberry (I just love her name!) Cathy writes: Life is good. Life is busy.

Still working…and enjoying the six grandchildren. Chris (Eger for those of you who don’t know her new name) continues living the good life on the eastern shore of Maryland, working as the Assistant Director of the Kent County Public Library. Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle is loving retirement the past two years, traveling quite a bit with her husband. She went to Normandy, France (and found her 19-year old uncle’s grave), Greece, Italy, Alaska, British Columbia, Aruba, Easter and Western Caribbean, plus a bunch of short car trips. They have five grandchildren ranging in age from 18 months to 23 years,

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close by. Her husband, Chris, lost his father last year, but his 87-year-old mother lives nearby. They continue to be active in many church ministries. Nancy Townshend Haas didn’t have any updates, but she was the catalyst for a very funny email exchange between a bunch of us about pettipants. Yes, pettipants. Yes, it was very funny. Chris Fleps, Genie Harper-Jones, Dorothea Stierhoff and Mary Hays Vollmer joined in and the conversation turned to modern equivalents.

And then, as if to sum up where we all are now, Chris Roseberry offered that she found a lump on her leg that morning, only to find it was a sock caught in her tights. What day is this? Oh yes… like Ellen, I, Marianna Spicer Joslyn “downsized” in November to a wonderful townhouse. We’ll be unpacking until next November. And throwing away… a lot! I get to Baltimore to see my Mom, who just turned 90, as much as possible. I’m really enjoying vetting CNN’s outside programmingseries and films. It’s introduced me to a whole different kind of television, and even the opportunity to work with Baltimore boy Mike Rowe, who it turns out was a barbershop singer at one time. I’ve been taking a hiatus from chorus singing, doing occasional gigs with my Virginia quartet. Unfortunately, we suddenly lost our bass in November, and after 20-some years singing together for me and much longer for my lead, we haven’t quite gotten back on our feet from that. Meanwhile I’m thinking about retirement in a couple years, and George and I continue to enjoy barbershop events, boating, and our dog, Bertie. JL Sprol Hurley says she didn’t have anything new to share except this musical note: Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64? Yes, we all still love and need each other now we’re 64 (and older)!

Class of 1970 45th Reunion Kathy Lenhard Beck kathylbeck@gmail.com Ellen Keats Stifler: I am still at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Hopkins. My only news is sad – that my sweet husband Billy died in November from dementia. Marguerite Ingalls Jones: Greg and I had a good year traveling to such far off places as Bhutan and Italy. Our daughter Carolyn moved home with us from Vermont and is taking time off from college and volunteering at the Aquarium. Greg’s real

Debbie Cahn Carroll, 1970 with her grandson

estate business is now based at home and I continue my work at Johns Hopkins closing in on almost four decades. Egads! Greg and I are excited to be going to Martinique for a week this winter and will be involved in his 50th Gilman reunion this spring. I started to play golf last spring and expect to give it a go again.

It was so great to see many of you at our reunion last fall! Denise Dempster Watkins: Fred and I continue to love our Florida lifestyle. I can’t remember if I told you that we downsized to a townhouse on the water in Dunedin. Dunedin is a charming little town on the West Coast of Florida filled with little boutique shops, restaurants and bars. Yes, bars...thank goodness! From our townhouse we can walk to downtown, the marinas and even the Pinellas Trail which is an old railroad track that has been resurfaced for bikers, joggers, etc. We love it here! It’s probably my favorite place I’ve ever lived. I’m still working as a House Manager for two theaters which house musicians, comedians, dance troupes, Broadway plays, the symphony, etc. I’ve been doing this for eight years now and I love it! I’m also still on the board for my sorority alumnae group (Tri Delta) and my women’s club. I love my book club, going to the gym and being on the water morning, noon and night. Fred loves his job and refuses to retire. Our daughter, Lauren, is still living in San Francisco with her husband. Our daughter, Meredith, is in Jackson Hole, WY loving nature, sports, her job and her boyfriend. Tucker, our son, has finished his four years with the Army, is home safe from Afghanistan and has an amazing job

with NSA (National Security) at Ft. Meade, MD. I hope you have a fabulous 2016. Cinny Nuttle Beggs: When many of our classmates are retiring from their lifelong, fulfilling careers, I am just starting. Having graduated in 2014 with an MBA from St. Andrews University, I found my confidence to convince the university that it needed a theater department. And guess what?! St. Andrews hired me and now I’m the Department Head (I’m the only one in the department-ha!). The good thing is I can make up my classes as long as they satisfy certain criteria. So I’m teaching theater and putting on shows. And my head tech is Skip–it’s a family affair. Enjoyed the RPCS reunion. I could do another beach reunion anytime. Glad to see you all. Barbara Dexter Agerton: Thanks, Kathy for doing this.

You have done a wonderful job keeping our class in touch with each other, and although I haven’t been to many reunions, I’ve enjoyed hearing about our classmates through your emails, class notes, and photos that you’ve shared from the reunions. Ellen Barclay Post: It feels nice to be in the loop again. I am just back from northern Arizona where I delivered my fourth grandson on New Year’s day at my home where all the kids have been born (I had two of my three at home). All these boys! My oldest, Matthew, is an artist and art handler for SF MOMA; middle child is Chris who is a family therapist specializing in work with addicted adolescents and trauma victims; youngest is Lily who is a social worker with non-profits, currently living in Portland but also an avid world traveler (serendipitously sending prayers and flowers down the Ganges

The Class of 1970 celebrates their 45th Reunion

when my daughter-in-law was delivering!) My single life is mostly introspective, spiritually oriented and pretty quiet excepting for family and work. I am constantly wondering about how much longer I can keep up with strenuous hospital work, no matter how much I’d miss it, but what would retirement look like and where? I dearly love Sonoma county and the Bay area but too expensive for a single retired nurse, I’m afraid.

I’m touched and heartened that all my kids want me to come live with them but what would that look like?! Interesting stage of life, no? Lots of considerations, and answers slowly evolving. I am looking forward to whenever it can work out to rendezvous with the RPCS crowd, especially at the beach. I hardly ever get to the east coast. Please keep me in the loop!

Cheers to you and all! Rebecca Levering McNelis: This past fall, Niall and I had a wonderful trip to Ireland to visit his large family. We travelled with two of our sons and their wives, and really enjoyed the castles and pubs and amazing scenic views. Driving on the opposite side of the road is so stressful! My dad passed away this past December and had a military funeral. A bugler played Taps and then the Honor Guard Detail folded the American Flag. What an amazing, bittersweet experience for me to have a soldier kneel at my feet and present me with the flag. Martha Dudley Keller: 2015 was a big year for us.

Our daughter and son-in law moved from Bangkok to Melbourne, Australia where Lexie has started seminary. So, we, of course, travelled to Australia to visit. In March, we flew to Sydney, drove to Melbourne, saw

Dorsey Waxter, 1970 and Ellen Keats Stifler, 1970

kangaroos, koalas, the home of the fairy penguins on Phillip Island, and season opener of Aussie rules football. Our son, Jeb, graduated with many honors from University of Pittsburgh Law School, and was the President of his class. I only add this because, as such, he was the student speaker at his commencement. Objectively speaking, he was the best speaker in the ceremony. He passed the PA bar and is currently working with his Dad’s law firm in Waynesboro. On Christmas day, he made his movie debut in Will Smith’s movie, Concussion! He has a wee role as a high school football coach. Go see it and see him! As you can see, our kids bring us a lot of joy and are so much fun. John and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary last August so our second big trip in 2015 was in August and we travelled to Milwaukee (don’t ask why, I’ve always wanted to go there) and Madison. What a fabulous, beautiful, cultural and great food and beer filled trip. Plus, I laid my own eyes on our own Marianne Morton in the flesh, in her office in Madison. She is marvelous. Of course I went to Baltimore for our 45th reunion, but was only able to stay for Friday night. Terrific.

Can’t wait to see you all again. Debbie Cahn Carroll: Just to give you some info. The most important things that have happened in the past while...my father, Charles Cahn Jr., passed away two years ago and this past year my husband’s father, Paul Carroll, passed away. They had both lived very long and fruitful lives. Fortunately, both of our mothers are still alive! Our most exciting news is that our daughter, Lois, and her husband adopted Angelo who arrived on Thanksgiving Day 2014. I am now in my second year of retirement so I am able to enjoy my time with family and doing things that had been on hold for

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Alumnae Weekend 2015

Katherine Wise, 1965 with Isabelle Ubriaco, 2023 at the 50th Reunion Tea

Members of the Class of 1950 Judith Brigstocke Hundertmark, Jean Wright Wareheim, Susie Passano Macfarlane and Nancy Randall Rouse

Members of the Class of 1945 Kitty Foster Black, Sunny Klein Lee and Jinx Wilhelm Barton

The Class of 1965’s 50th Reunion committee

Joan Buckler Claybrook, Laura Somerville Ramsay and Louise White from the Class of 1955

Members of the Class of 1965 Natalie Dixon McCeney, Lata Katey Gadgil and Katherine Wise at the 50th Reunion Tea

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Martha Dillard Gomer, 1965 with her sister Brook Gomer Yearley, 1977 and Martha’s daughter Brook Gomer Buck

Alumnae Weekend 2015

Members from the Class of 1980 celebrate their 35th Reunion.

Nancy Strahan, 1970 and Sally Strahan Matthews, 1975

Mary Renner-Beech and Hope Bodie Grenzer from the Class of 1990

50th Reunion Dinner for the Class of 1965

Members from the Class of 1990 Sue Forrester, Heather Harlan Warnack and Katherine Behrens Crosby

Front rew: Beckee Shaw, Susie Chung and Missi Bowman; Back row: Jamye Siegel Stern, Sonya Kazazian Hannan, Jenny Stuelpnagel Hovermill, Rebecca Moses Loughlin and Becky Rothgaber Barnes from the Class of 1985 celebrate their 30th Reunion

Members from the Class of 1995 celebrate their 20th Reunion.

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Family Fun Fest Roland Park Country School Alumnae Weekend October 7-9, 2016 Celebrating the Reunion Classes of 1936, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 & 2011 Please join us for the Installation of Caroline Blatti, Head of School Friday, October 7 at 10:30 AM – all Alumnae welcome!

Schedule of Events Friday October 7 Penny Richardson, 2029 and Hudson Short, 2029

10:30 AM Installation of Caroline Blatti, Head of School 12:30 PM Reunion Luncheon for the Classes of 1936, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1956 and 1961 2:00 – 3:30 PM 50th Tea for the Classes of 1966 & 2024 5:00 – 6:00 PM Alumna Artist Opening Reception 6:00 – 8:00 PM Alumnae Champagne Reception

Saturday October 8 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Family Fun Fest for Alumnae and their families – face painting, a magician, popcorn, treats, and more!

Front Row: Lydia and William Rickard, children of Kristen DeMarco Rickard, 2002 with Back Row: William and Penny Richardson, 2029 children of Erin Lears Richardson, 2001

12:30 – 3:30 PM Alumnae Crab Feast ($) 6:30 PM 50th Reunion Dinner for the Class of 1966 – on campus 6:30 PM Dinners and Celebrations for Reunion Classes – off campus

Sunday October 9 11:30 AM 25th Reunion Brunch for the Class of 1991 7:30PM Reunion Classes - Dinners & Celebrations

Nominations are being accepted for the 2016 McCauley Bowl recipient through June 1, 2016.

For more information or to nominate a classmate or alumna, contact the Alumnae Office.

Middle School students at Family Fun Fest with Ann Garrett Randolph, daughter of Julia Garrett Randolph, 1997

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Alumnae Champagne Reception

Jean Waller Brune with Sydnee Wilson and Katharine Fox Castro from the Class of 2004

Betsy Kohlerman Winship, 1965 and Lauren Winship, 2000

Alumnae Champagne Reception

Jean Waller Brune with members of the Class of 2010 Amena Chaudhri, Anastasia Keramidas and Caroline Thomsen

Pat Waters Barrett, 1945, Barbara Barrett Neale, 1973, Carroll Neale, 2010 and Amy Barrett Frew, 1972

RPCS Alumnae Board: Sabrina Johnson Turner, 1998, Sydnee Wilson, 2004, Ashlee Tuck, 2002, Jean Waller Brune, Katharine Fox Castro, 2004, Kristen DeMarco Rickard, 2002, Back Row: Kate Tubman Cameron, 1984, Sarah Harrison Lenahan, 2001, Lauren Dodrill Benjamin, 2001, Mallory Twist Dunn, 2006, Sarah Foster Rhea, 1989

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Career Day AssemblyRPeunion anel Spread Alumna HeadArtist Deborah Banker

Career Day Assembly Panel: Lisa Diver, 2006, Deborah Banker, 1975, Jane Hollon, 2006, Helene Apostolides Christman, 1998, Sydnie Mosley, 2003, Tracy Kaczorowski, 2011 and Jean Waller Brune

Members of the Class of 1975 with Alumna Artist Deborah Banker, 1975

Cherry Tree Council Colloquium

Alumna Artist Deborah Banker, 1975 with Jean Waller Brune

Upper School students with Bettie Harper Porth, 1938

Judy Waters, 1950 with the 2015 Alumna Artist Deborah Banker, 1975

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Regional Reunion Reunions Spread2015-2016 Head

New York, NY

San Francisco, CA

Boston, MA

Sarasota, FL

Naples, FL

Virginia Beach, VA

Richmond, VA

Wahington, DC

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Alumnae Valentine’s Day Luncheon 2016

Susie Passano Macfarlane, 1950 with granddaughters Ellie Macfarlane, 2014, Irene Macfarlane, 2018 and Paige Macfarlane, 2022.

Alexandra Carroll, 2011 with sisters Olivia and Victoria, 2017 and cousins Laila Carroll, 2024 and Gwendolyn Wilson, 2028.

Julie George Evans, 1981 with her daughter Claire, 2016 and niece Maddie Cochran, 2021.

Jenny Stuelpnagel Hovermill, 1985 with daughters Daisy, 2018, Corky, 2020 and Penny, 2024.

Deeley Close Middleton, 1979 and her daughter Emmy, 2016.

Christine Donovan, 1976, Kelly DonovanMazzulli, 1994, Maggie Mazzulli, 2024, Mary Mazzulli, 2024 and Molly O’Hern, 2016.

Jane Daniels, 1982, Grace Calhoun, 2017, Jane Wilhelm Daniels, 1946, Ann Daniels, 1983, Annie Calhoun, 2016 and Josie Kalbfleisch, 2023.

Tammy Passano Wiggs, 1997, Catherine Passano McDonnell, 1994, Courtney Wiggs, 2028 and Cate McDonnell, 2027.

Cary Zink Kassouf, 1995 with her mother Evelyn Ragland Zink and her cousin Hannah Zink, 2023.

Sharon Donkervoet Credit, 1977 with her daughter Jodi, 2016.

Cathy Lears Bennett, 1969 with her daughter Erin Lears Richardson, 2001 and granddaughter Penny Richardson, 2029.

Hathaway Clark Ferebee, 1971 with daughter Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 and grandson Hudson, 2029.

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Marguerite Ingalls Jones, 1970 and Cathy Bang Papantonio, 1970

36 years! Libby Cooper Curran: Val and I are doing well and we thoroughly enjoyed our 45th RPCS reunion in October. It was so nice to see people we hadn’t seen in quite a while.

Thanks to all the organizers who made it possible. We are enjoying our two grandchildren who live nearby and see them several times each week. Val still travels for business quite frequently and I continue to volunteer several days a week at our church.

Every six months I travel to Alaska to care for my nephew for two weeks while my brother travels to China for business. Anchorage is a wonderful city to explore and I love having the opportunity to spend time with my nephew and 22 year-old niece. As Val’s mom is still living in Baltimore, I often return to care for her in her Ruxton home and enjoy reminiscing about my formative and happy years at Roland Park. My daughter, Beth, and her husband and kids live nearby; son, Kenny, is a chef in a great restaurant in San Francisco; daughter, Margie, lives in Denver and is loving the outdoor life there. Thank goodness we are all in good health and hope to keep it that way! Robin Ward Puleo: One of the highlights this year was celebrating the 90th birthday of my mom, Dorothy Mears Ward, 1942, with two parties - a surprise family dinner and a surprise ladies’ luncheon with several RPCS friends and alums in attendance. Pete and I celebrated our 30th anniversary and all of our boys are doing well.

Chris graduates from medical school (Columbia P&S), Peter from Bucknell with a degree in mechanical engineering and management, and John is a structural engineer with Severud Associates in Manhattan.

Lanning Taliaferro: Our greatest excitement in the past year was the birth of Samantha Marie Lange on March 30, to our son Austin and daughter-in-law Annie. We are fortunate to live just 45 minutes from them. I’m still working as a journalist, and since I can work remotely and Jim is retired we travel a lot.

Martha’s Vineyard, New Hampshire, Hawaii (a lifelong dream), Rehoboth and Grand

Cayman in 2015; Puerto Rico and the Baltics coming up! And Toronto, where daughter, Anne, and her husband, Paul, just bought an urban fixer-upper and I will be gardening in the spring. Oh, and the Adirondacks, because our Christmas present to the new parents was a week’s vacation with babysitting, cooking and cleaning services (us) and they fell for it!

Dorsey Waxter: Life is full and busy in New York. The gallery now has three locations: one on the upper east side called Van Doren Waxter where I spend most of my time and two locations on the lower east side which go by a different name, 11R. We show more historical work uptown from artists’ estates and foundations, primarily American, and downtown we show living artists from the US, Europe and South America. I have stepped down from being President of The Art Dealers Association of America having served for three years so my life is now back to one job rather than two. Between my life as a dealer and Richard’s life as a museum director of the Guggenheim, we are deeply immersed in art. We both have parents that we try to see regularly, my mother in Baltimore and his father in Kansas City. When I go to see my mother at Blakehurst, I invariably see Mrs. Nuttle and Mrs. Barrett amongst others! Ceci Haynsworth: Every time I start to write about my life, I get bored. In her email, Cinny said, “We’re all doing cool stuff.” Well, maybe you are, but I’m sort of meandering through what seems to be an awkward phase of life: still surprised to be divorced after 30 years together; mostly retired from nursing; in North Carolina, primarily because it’s easier on the body than Maine-but really missing New England; seeing my favorite/only two daughters occasionally (in Albany and Richmond); working through health issues that decrease my ability to kayak and paddleboard and ride my bike (and ski). Having memory tests next week, because I don’t know what’s “normal” for this age. Decidedly older, but not yet old-I’m floating around in limbo, trying to find my footing. Genie Kenny Kline: We really enjoyed the reunion dinner in Baltimore. So sorry I missed the brunch, but it was so great to see everyone! After I retired from teaching two years ago, we moved from Memphis to Houston to be closer to our daughter and grandsons. It has been an awesome transition to soccer games, sleepovers, family dinners, etc. We are so grateful to be here and the fact that they want to spend time with us-priceless! We are also very fortunate to be able to spend extended summers (May−October) at our beach house in Bald Head Island, NC and escape the Houston summer heat. Nancy Duke Beury: It’s been a very interesting, but not particularly

From the Class of 1970 Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks, Cathy Bang Papantonio, 1970 and Sydney Armiger

elevating, year here in Maine. I think, overall, we’re going to come out on the right side of everything, but it’s been a trial for reasons too personal to go into here. On the plus side, we grabbed the opportunity (after being given the word by older son, Benjamin) to use our Amtrak points for a terrific vacation. Firstclass train travel from Boston to Oakland, CA, with stops to visit friends in Chicago, Las Vegas (New Mexico, the real Las Vegas), Flagstaff, AZ (first time for me to see the Grand Canyon, and it certainly is grand), brief walk-around in Los Angeles, and three nights with two friends in Oakland (Hi, Phyllis Orrick Day!). Oh, and if you’re ever in Chicago and have used up all the other museums (yah, sure), be sure to check out the International Museum of Surgical Science-unless you’re of the queasy sort. Eleanor Deland Lederer: My professional life really did not change much. I am still at the University of Louisville, Division Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension. I assumed the role of Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at our affiliated VA Medical Center, the Robley Rex VA. And I became President-Elect of the American Society of Nephrology. I love my work.

Sometimes it’s hectic, but the challenges keep me hopping. My personal life has changed quite a bit. My son, Paul, got married in September of 2014 in Chicago. He and his wife had a baby just today! A little boy named Liam DeLand Lederer. My daughter Maitland got married in September of 2015 in Austin, TX. My daughter, Stephanie, assumed the position of Director of Marketing and Communications for the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. My son, Philip, has been hired as a feature writer for SRQ, a Sarasota magazine. My father died in February of this year. He was 93 and he was my chief role model, champion, and confidante. He led an exciting and highly productive life. We miss him terribly. My mother is devastated, but doing her best to hold up. Fortunately, my brother and I are both here and we can help

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her out. Overall, I am probably the happiest person alive. I am blessed with health, a wonderful husband and family, a great job, and my wits. I keep hoping I can make one of our reunions as you guys seem to have such a good time when you are together. Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks: I had so much fun at the reunion! I really do not have that much different to report; maybe at our age that is good thing! Kids are all status quo for now and I am busy selling the W by Worth line in my home throughout the year and I am back at making jewelry again. I see lots of RPCS alums doing this and that is so much fun! I also try to get Rehoboth when I can and hope we can do some sort of reunion again there soon! Christina Fales: I have been living in the New York area and working at a research institute where we investigate the brain basis of schizophrenia. It’s a really fun but nerdy way to spend your life. So, a side project for me has been studying how to function as a clinical psychologist. This involves learning to be a therapist, where people come in and tell me their “stuck points” in life. It is really rewarding, and also fascinating! Since I didn’t have kids, working as a therapist provides a way to get involved with people whose humanity sticks out, even if they are totally unlike me. I feel grateful every day that I have not one but two kinds of work I love. So come visit me in NYC! I’ll let you lie on my sofa and tell me all about your childhood neuroses. Or for more a directly therapeutic experience, you can snuggle with Bessie, my basset hound, who is, let’s face it, much cuter than any offspring I might have produced. Greetings to all! 2015 was a great year for Dorian McGlannan and her family. She is really enjoying retirement and has devoted a good bit of time to passions

that had to be largely set aside while working.

She has joined the Northwest Chorale in Seattle, a choral group that raises money for the local food bank. She is training two minischnauzers that joined her family in late 2014. Walking, hiking, kayaking, swimming and cross country skiing get her outdoors on a regular basis. She is reading more than she ever has and has joined a local book group, and she is slowly getting more politically active. Her husband, Joseph Cospito, had a shoulder replacement surgery in November, but is doing well and will return to gardening soon. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in September by taking a cruise on the Inside Passage to Alaska (Brrr!) A young woman named Morgan joined their family when she left an abusive situation at home at age 18. She is now firmly a part of the family, is married and has an almost one-year-old daughter who is adorable, but lives too far away (NC).

Joseph and Dorian love being grandparents! Their son Justin (23) has started a PhD program at Seattle Pacific University in the area of Organizational Psychology. They are really happy to have him so close. Daughter Lee-Joan (18) graduates from high school in June of 2016 and plans to have her black belt in Tae Kwon Do by that time. She also sings in the top choirs at her high school. She is not sure where she will go to college. Daughter Kaylee is a junior in high school and in a competitive equestrian program which involves ridiculous amounts of driving from her parents, but she is soon to get her driver’s license. Dorian is also leading Women’s retreats now and then, and does some supply work in churches in the diocese, but she is very content to be mostly sitting in the pews on Sunday mornings. Dorian writes: By the way, I

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am planning a trip to the east coast in September mostly to see Morgan and our granddaughter, but will probably stop in Maryland. If there any plans for a minireunion at the beach, let me know so I can plan around that. Gin Barrett Shanley: Gary and I continue to enjoy life as empty nesters and traveling between our home on one of New York’s beautiful Finger Lakes and our condo in Naples, FL which I have now completed building and remodeling respectively. Our son, Patrick, is an engineer specialist in the Army and is completing his training as a Green Beret at Ft. Bragg, NC. Our daughter, Margaret, is a research assistant at the NY State Psychiatric Institute in NYC. There are no weddings or grandchildren in our immediate future, but we are enjoying our “grandpuppy” Maxie who lives with Margaret and visits with us often. I am also going to Baltimore regularly to spend time with my mom, Pat Waters Barrett, 1945, and check on my Aunt Judy Waters, 1950. I don’t have to tell you, this aging process is tough! And it is hard to watch your loved ones try to endure it with grace and dignity. I also am hoping to make it to whatever RPCS does for Jean Brune’s retirement. My sister Barbara Barrett Neale, 1973 who works at the school tells me that this will be a very busy spring as the school prepares to say goodbye to Jean and I hope to be there for whatever I can. Louisa Lippincott Avery: Hello all, I know I have been off the grid! I have been living in Nashville since 1992 and am self-employed as a national and local trainer, training consultant and a program assessor for after school programs.

Most of my non-work travel is to Baltimore and Raleigh to visit my wonderful family. I totally enjoy my two grandchildren: Rin at seven and Max at five who live in Raleigh. I just returned from Puerto Rico where I have gone for three years now with my brothers.

They surf and I don’t. We have a great time!

Pam Kellogg Green: I live in Washington, DC, with my husband of 36 years, Tom Green. We have four children - Josh and Michael, both living in DC, and David and Marisa, both living in Oakland, CA. David and Marisa are both married and Marisa has a daughter, Violet, four-weeks-old - our first grandchild.

I’m in my 34th year at The Kellogg Collection and still enjoying it. I’m also involved in women’s Bible studies at our local church. This is my great passion. I haven’t seen many of our classmates, but was very happy to read what they generously shared about their lives. Nancy Strahan: My girls are now in college. Becky Blackstone, 2015 is at NYU at the Tisch School for the Arts studying film and television.

She loves living in NYC, her courses and new friends. Don’t know where this will lead, but will keep you posted. Maggie took some

courses at Goucher College in the fall and will finish the rest of her college career at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. She wants to be an elementary education teacher and eventually teach those with language based learning differences like herself. Bill and I finally have our empty nest. I am enjoying it more than he. I still work three days a week and am spending a fair amount of time in skating. I still skate myself and have become a judge with US Figure Skating, slowly rising in the ranks until I can judge competitions. It is refreshing to start something new at this age.

Plus, I get to travel which is the other activity I hope to enjoy more. Caroline McClees Apple: I am still in North Carolina. I am in Greensboro where I have lived for ten years now. I am still in the healthcare arena just in a different side of it. After losing my job of 20 years I had to scramble to locate a new job. Not the easiest thing at the tender age of 63. I am now working in the home health side rather than the rehab equipment area. I work more for the elderly as opposed to children. Apropos since I am approaching elderly. My daughter and her husband are living in southern California.

They are both PhD chemists. If you really want to feel stupid, sit in on a conversation between them. They have just purchased a home in Long Beach and are renovating it themselves. I hope to be able to visit soon. My life is fairly quiet and uneventful, but I’m okay with that. It has been nice to hear what some of our classmates are up to after all these years. I can’t believe it has been almost 46 years since we graduated. Rebecca Kornblatt: I’m busy with my psychotherapy practice, active in my synagogue, and enjoying Boston. Ginger Norris Novak: I’ve been running my own company that downsizes/organizes/moves people both residentially and commercially. I originally worked with my sister as we started out together in the business, but I went solo in 2012. My ADD self loves what I’m doing and really enjoys working with all my clients. It’s also great as I can bring in my design background with space planning, staging for home sales and interior design work. David and I moved from our house in Roland Park in 2013 into a townhouse across from Church of the Redeemer after deciding it was nuts to keep up a three floor house with kids gone. We do still have a four legged child (dog) at home with us that our kids think has priority over them as he is so spoiled. His name is Natty Boh and he is pure bred “Heinz variety” rescue from the SPCA. Needless to say, we have become big supporters of the bully breeds. As for David, he is enjoying some time off from work while looking into non-profit fund raising possibilities. Thank goodness his orthopedic issues with hip replacements/

dislocations have been silent for the last couple of years! We spend a lot of time at our house in Cape May when it’s not rented as well as visit our children. Our oldest, Ginna, lives in Melbourne, FL with her husband and my adorable (of course!) grandchildren-Teddy who is one and Mia who is four and wow, so much fun. Ginna’s husband is an electrical/ computer engineer with Northrup Grumman and the US Air Force. My son, Matt, lives in downtown Baltimore, works very successfully for Harbor Investment Advisors and really enjoys the city life. Norris, my youngest, is engaged to another Baltimorean (Daniel Latshaw) with their wedding taking place in June. In the meantime, the two are living/ working in London and having a ball traveling.

Peggy Bradley Bugg: I am still working as my husband’s paralegal in a small law firm in Irvington, VA on the Chesapeake Bay. It has been fun, but we still take two cars to work and always will. Nothing much to report except that my fifth grandchild (precious little girl) was born December 22 and actually came home Christmas Day! She wasn’t due until January 8 via c-section, so her early arrival caught everyone by surprise. Luckily, Dave and I were in Richmond, VA for a family Christmas dinner so we could go to my daughter’s house and take care of her threeyear-old twin girls while she and her husband raced off to the hospital. It was quite a Christmas present! Dave and I are still going to Stowe, VT as much as we can get away with since we are both still working full time. And we are finally doing more and more cross country skiing instead of keeping up with our kids and grandkids at Stowe Mountain. So life is good. Barby Patterson Nixon: Our son, Devon, was married October 3, 2015 to Emily Papin-Wynne in Bloomfield Hills, MI. It was a beautiful event and all went well. Devon is a third year Resident in orthopedic surgery at Washington University in St. Louis and Emily works in the graduate social work program at Washington University. My husband still works full time as a psychoanalyst and, although I “retired” two years ago, I still enjoy working as a librarian at the community college and our local public library. We love to see our two grandkids, son, and daughter-inlaw in North Carolina whenever we can!

Nicole Mosberg Mones: Paul and I changed our residency back to Los Angeles in the spring, and our eldest son Ben moved to the city in August. We love having him near-even when he drops in just to raid the fridge, we grin at each other like fools. Luke, our second son, is still happy in New York. Paul did delegate more at work this year, and as a result, we actually went to Europe for two weeks! Our first travel vacation alone since we

got married! I, on the other hand, have become quite slothful, having discovered that being a writer while avoiding doing any actual writing is a lot of fun. 2015 did see me squeeze a few months of self-justification out of traveling to China to help with the translation of my fourth novel (about jazz), a riotous adventure between languages that began when the translator texted me from Shanghai to ask, “What does it mean to flat the seventh?” and ended with the two of us attempting to methodically sample every dim sum house in that food-crazy metropolis. I should recover well before our 50th, and hope to see you all there. Mary Thomsen Davisson: I missed reunion last fall because of my husband’s rotator cuff surgery and my non-profit’s annual fundraiser. Work and family considerations continue to limit my travel, but I enjoyed visiting our older son (Edwin, software engineer at Google) and then my sister (Alice Thomsen Bockman, 1975) in California last June. And I’m blessed to “travel the world” by visiting international cargo crews docked here in my role as Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center chaplain. I’m also blessed by our amazing volunteers-and always working to recruit more, so we can serve more seafarers. Younger son John graduates this spring from Georgetown Law School. Kathy Lenhard Beck: In 2015, we had some major events. First, the sad news: As most of you know, my mother passed away in April. She was 93, so she had a good, long life.

I retired as the Choir Director at my church and Don closed his business and retired from estimating. Our dog Dewey died in August.

Second, some happy news: The youngest daughter, Devon Beck, was married in September to her college sweetheart, so there was a big wedding near Bethany. The two of them have moved to Boston where she is working for Ernst and Young, and has completed her CPA. He is still working on his thesis, and will be looking for employment and a PhD program in Physics. Our oldest daughter and her husband also live in Boston and we have two darling grandchildren. The two sisters live very close to one another in Brookline. Bethany Beck, our middle daughter, lives about five miles west of us and works locally as a Recreation Manager at a large community. We see her regularly. More big news: We are planning to sell our home in South Bethany and move into a brand new community about three miles from our house.

It might be July before the house is completed.

In the meantime, we are doing a number of improvements in our home to make it more marketable. There were many contractors coming and going for a couple weeks this winter doing painting, bathroom renovations, and new flooring, as well as other repairs. We

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will miss our home when we sell it, but not our mortgage payment. I am still selling condos in Ocean City, MD, and Don is still selling homes in Bethany. We are both licensed in Delaware, and I have my Maryland license. Delaware has become a great place to retire, and there are many new communities all over the area. It’s been great hearing from so many of you who have contributed to the Class Notes for 2016.

The 45th Reunion in October was fun, but a small turnout. Now you have four years to start thinking and planning for our 50th in October 2020! We will be 68 years old. Oh brother, can it be true?

Class of 1971

Paul Perlik, husband of Leslie Phelps Perlik, 1971 and grandchildren Wes and Lucinda

Leslie Phelps Perlik, 1971 and grandson Wes

classmates and other RPCS alums. Jack and I still live on Carrollton Avenue with our two dogs and fat cat, Maybellene. Life is good.

Kim Hupfeldt writes from not so sunny (at the time) Florida. She is loving her new art studio. She and Scott have a good time with tech savvy, nine-year-old grandson Julian.

Kim reports a flourishing flower garden and cherishes a productive avocado tree started from a seed by her father ten years ago. Terry Leach Conkwright writes: Bob and I retired in May, and have been getting caught up on all our projects and hobbies. Our daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Rob, gave us our first grandchild, Henry, in October. They live in White Marsh so we get to see them all the time. Our son, Tom, married a lovely woman, Kaitlyn, in November and they live in Philadelphia. Lee Kelly is also looking forward to our reunion and enjoys serving on the RPCS Alumnae Board. She spent time during the Christmas season with classmates Meg Hudson Rice, Beth Jones Elkins, Kim Hupfeldt, Hathaway Clark Ferebee, Martha Nesbitt Turner and Anne Dyer Fontaine.

Lee’s godson was married last summer and she thoroughly enjoyed all the festivities.

Speaking of Meg and Hathaway, apparently they have recently spent time together painting pottery and at least Hathaway is considering turning their talents into a second career. You go girls! Hathaway enjoys her two grandsons, Hudson, four, and Clark, one. Daughter Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 teaches dance at RPCS, and proud mama Hathaway enjoys watching the students’ shows. Our intrepid hiker Holly Buttner writes: Last summer I had a great time backpacking for a week on the Pacific Crest Trail in Oregon. Along the way we went

through a very large forest fire burn area and the devastation was complete. Very thoughtprovoking. Sadly, my Dad (my backpacking buddy in my teens and early twenties) passed away in January 2015, 54 days shy of his 100th birthday. I miss him deeply. His glass overflowing view of life and his gratitude were truly inspiring. Holly, we are very sorry for your loss. Carole Porter Adkins shares the wonderful news that “Everyone is well and content in my world.” Carole is planning her middle daughter’s wedding which will take place over Labor Day weekend. She says that the dresses are bought and the vendors have been chosen. She is on to making all the favors and says her sewing machine will be in use for many months! Carole still teaches French to students all over the world and reports that “Online teaching is terrific; I love having class

Lee Kelly eleekelly@comcast.net Mollie Lewis Lange maryslange@gmail.com Meg Hudson Rice meghudsonrice@gmail.com Greetings Class of 1971. Many of the notes Meg and I received from you all expressed shock at the fact that our 45th reunion is approaching. The word “appalled” came up at least once. Does this milestone mean we are supposed to be mature now? We are certainly all very good looking. I, Mollie Lewis Lange, am working at Morgan State University, doing bench research, training undergraduates and participating in a NIH funded initiative to increase diversity in biomedical research.

I am using every single skill I have learned throughout my career and learning lots of new stuff. It’s exciting. I also work on Saturdays at the local needlepoint store, where I often see

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The grandsons of Hathaway Clark Ferebee, 1971 enjoy a snow day.

Ella, daughter of Sondra Kornblatt, 1971 performs at the Alamo Bowl with the University of Oregon. on the sofa in my PJs. I’m thinking of taking my students to Quebec this summer. It should be fun to meet them all in person!” Husband Greg continues to teach Physics at Franklin and Marshall. Their eldest is ballroom dancing competitively and their youngest has just opened her home portrait studio. Grace Benet Smith reports: 2015 was a great year for Ralph and me as we were sent by HSBC to live in London for seven months for his job.

We were able to travel around the UK and Europe extensively and it was an experience we will never forget. Our third grandchild, Gavin, joined sister, Madeleine, in April in Baltimore and I was there for his birth. Cousin Noah turned one in December in Winter Park, FL with a big family celebration at the Magic Kingdom. Back in Buffalo, I am enjoying retirement and grandmotherhood. Kathy King and husband Jef Eyring welcomed their first granddaughter Waverly King Eyring Freed into the world on September 1, 2015. Daughter

Margaret “Muzzy” Cleveland, 1974, her brother George, and Beth Jones Elkins, 1971

Charlotte Eyring, 2001 is the proud mama. Son Andrew married Emily Lamasa in October. A post-wedding bash was held at Little Havana in Locust Point where a good time was had by all. Classmates Mollie Lewis Lange and Cindy Conklin were in happy attendance.

Leslie Phelps Perlik writes that she enjoys her grandchildren Wesley, who is one, and Lucinda, who is five, and volunteering at Wing Haven Garden and bird sanctuary. Leslie is looking forward to reunion #45. Meg Hudson Rice shares that the release of her sister, Kathy Hudson, 1967’s book, On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden, has been a highlight of the year. Touring the Hubbard’s garden, the book launch at Cylburn Arboretum, a talk hosted by the Ivy Bookshop and an upcoming trip to Charleston have afforded opportunities to know Kathy on a different level. I am one proud sister! The friends I made at RPCS continue to play an important part in my life and I am grateful for that. I hope that many of our classmates will be able to celebrate our 45th Reunion on Saturday, October 8, 2016.

Class of 1972 M.C. Johnson mcjohnson23141@verizon.net Nicky Teufel-Shone sends greetings from Arizona. She continues to work as a professor and Chair of Department of Family and Child Health in the College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on how Indigenous communities can use social and cultural strengths to support healthy childhood development. In 2015, she was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Chair position with the University of Alberta, Canada. She worked primarily in Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories just south of the Arctic. In addition to working with inspiring Indigenous people, she saw the northern lights, dog sled races and learned to work in -35 F temperatures. Amy Barrett Frew writes: My life has taken a big turn as I retired from RPCS in June. Scott is doing a good bit of international travel for his job, and I am now able to join him sometimes. We also spent the winter in Florida which was timely in missing the blizzard. Hope everyone came through it unscathed. Manon Lauderdale Schladen dropped a line during the storm-formerlyknown-as-Jonas: I am thinking our upcoming trip (Barbara Ewing, Lisa Reichenbach, Liz Pindell Blue, and me) to hang with Meg Shea Klinck in Vermont may be interesting news!

The family of Manon Lauderdale Schladen, 1972 digging out from Jonas

Maybe I will write it up in advance and send it to you. Then people can be on the edge of their chairs waiting for the next Class Notes to find out what adventures we actually had: How did we like the ER in Mad River Glen? I have stayed warm inside, pretending to work, but, obviously, playing on e-mail. Thanks to Neetu Dhawan-Gray for contacting Lynette Phillips, lest we miss her wit: Committing to CUNY’s graduate schools required a NYC home base again. This time, a little further north: a ramshackle four-square perched on a Yonkers cliff. Torture of renovation? Buying ‘as is’? How as is can ‘as is’ be? Down to the studs reality. After new electric, new plumbing, new kitchen and bathrooms, the place is beginning to look habitable. Waiting with waning patience in a lovely pied-á-terre overlooking the Hudson River, tugs and barges going to and from the Domino sugar factory.

Life begins at 60. And now, Neetu, what has been going on with you? Meg Shea Klinck,

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Meg Shea Klinck, 1972 at the Ice Hotel in Quebec

our northern correspondent reported: It was fun to send and to receive emails from our classmates Barb, Liz, Lisa, Manon and Cindy Reynolds van Putten as they prepped for, and hunkered down during the storm. Luckily, it sounds as if all were and continue to be safe.

Sadly, New Hampshire and Vermont did not receive one snow flake and our ski slopes could benefit from a big dumping of snow! Not much to report up here. I continue to work as Senior Commercial Lines Underwriter for an insurance company, while husband Chip straddles the line of work and retirement. Last year, we made several trips to Canada, one to spend the night in the Ice Hotel in Quebec City. It was quite an experience-beautiful, but cold! Last year, Barbara Ewing ventured north to visit and we skied both Mad River Glen and Sugarbush. It was shortly after her visit that I discovered that I had been skiing on a broken foot for three weeks! Hard to do in a ski boot,

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but I did. Perhaps at my advancing age, I need to take calcium pills! So my skiing and racing came to an abrupt halt last March, but I am now healed and hitting the slopes every weekend. But, mostly, I am looking forward to Barb, Manon, Liz and Lisa coming up this March to stay at our Vermont ski house, and to ski those same two resorts. Pancakes drenched in real maple syrup for breakfast, skiing, and après skiing, including fondue, and long soaks in the hot tub are on their agenda! Anyone else who would like to strap on a pair of skis or snow shoes, (sorry, but no snowboards allowed at Mad River Glen) are welcome!

Elizabeth Beirne Lippitt writes: Our big news is that Alex and I became grandparents! Issac Alexander Wood was born on September 18 to our daughter Julia and her husband Josh.

They live close by, so we are so fortunate to see them often. After 20 years at the infant Welfare Children’s Clinic, I left to take a new job at Advocate Healthcare managing three clinic sites. Never a dull moment! Meg Price Whitlock has been around! Meg writes: An uneventful, but fun year with lots of short trips all over the U.S. Highlights were a stay in Joshua Tree, a Rolling Stones concert in Buffalo, hiking in Big Bear, CA and some amazing family weddings out of state. Vanns Spices continues to consume much of our time otherwise, and while challenging, it is also rewarding to help it grow every year.

Pam McDonnell Hindsley sneaked in at the last minute: Apologies for while snowbound, we were overwhelmed with great dig-out for afraid of flat roof collapse over garage. In any case, 2015 was wonderful for oldest daughter Ellie Hindsley, 2001 married Ken Clendenin on April 18. We also enjoyed having youngest daughter Charlotte Hindsley, 2003 nearby in Washington, DC where she works for IBM. However, it was also a difficult year emotionally and physically for the sad task of emptying family home of 48 years. Mom saved everything, a legacy which I do not intend my girls to find! I feel that I have finally returned to land of living for the house just sold in December. As for me, M.C. Johnson, I stay busy caring for our baker’s dozen horses (average age 25) and donkeys; every time the vet comes, she is just amazed at how healthy they still are-if only we could find them some dentures. Our spare time is devoted to Lab Rescue, transporting, adopting, doing home visits and fostering; we had four fosters (plus our four) for Thanksgiving and then again from Christmas through New Year’s! Greg and I have decided that work is just taking too much time away from the critters, so we both plan to retire at the end of this school year.

Class of 1973 Clarke Miller Fitzmaurice clarkefitz@aol.com It’s a dreary Sunday evening in early February and instead of watching Super Bowl hoopla (much thanks for the excuse to not indulge in that particular excess of sports madness) I am instead sipping a glass of wine and writing up our class notes. Any mistakes and/or errors can therefore be attributed to said glass of wine. Whew – time really does fly. It seems like just yesterday that we were talking about jobs, marriages and babies…now we are talking about retirement, marriages (our children’s) and grandbabies. Suzi Keats Cordish reports that her father, Ed Keats, affectionately known as “The Admiral” celebrated his 101st Birthday on January 30, 2016 with close friends and family. Suzi writes: He is remarkable. He lives on his own at Brightwood, walks in the park several times a week, drives everywhere and is reading and conversing with everyone and anyone on politics and philosophy. I know all of my classmates remember him well! And I have an almost twoyear-old granddaughter, Taylor Thompson, who is the light of my life! She and her parents live in Homeland - aren’t I lucky? Debbie Black Moore reports that 2015 was a big year: Our first grandchild was born in March, and he’s the most amazing grandchild ever! In May we lost our 11-year-old, three-legged dog to cancer, and six days later Mother died after many, many years lost in the fog of Alzheimer’s. In July, Lindsay and Emerson were married in Bayside, ME in the middle of an incredible two week family vacation, and the day after we returned home, a French Brittany puppy named Lottie joined the family.

All three of our daughters are now teaching, with Emily teaching high school science in PG County, and Courtney and Lindsay teaching

Karen Jarrell de Garcia, 1973 and Tricia Waters, 1973 in Madrid

Joy Nolte Brumfield, 1973 with daughters Chelsea Kirk, 2006 and Courtney Kirk, 2008

kindergarten and first grade in the same school in Annapolis. We are so fortunate to have all our kids so close and to see them so often. Life is great! Now I just have to come up with a fabulous 40th anniversary celebration for 2016.

Donna Jennings Ward wanted to share the following: I would like to take this opportunity to thank my classmates who wrote me such beautiful condolence letters after the passing of my dear beloved brother, Kurt, and the support I received from Roland Park Country School. For those of you who were not fortunate enough to know my brother, I will share a little bit about him. Growing up in a household with four siblings, Kurt and I were the two youngest and the best of friends. Or as Stephanie Schmidt Graham reminded me in her condolence letter, “you guys were as thick as thieves!” We were so close that I married his best friend, Mark, and that was over 41 years ago! Unfortunately, on September 10, 1978, Kurt chose the wrong wave to ride in front of the Sheraton Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland and broke his neck. The active athletic life Kurt had known ended that instant and he now faced the challenging life as a quadriplegic. It is hard to wrap your mind around what it must have been like to face a world completely dependent on other people for your basic survival. I know I would have been angry, resentful, and basically an

unpleasant person to be around. However, Kurt chose the high road. I can honestly tell you that for the next 36 years Kurt never complained or showed any kind of resentment.

Once I asked him how can you always be so pleasant, and his answer to me was that if he was not pleasant no one would come to visit him. It amazed me then and it still amazes me today of how someone with such limited mobility was able to reach out and touch so many, many lives, but Kurt did. He was even given the honorary title, “Mayor of Schenley Road.” I attribute his never ending friendships to his sincere ability to listen without judgment. When I think of Kurt, which is often, I remember all the good times we shared together and how very blessed I was to call him my brother. At the end when Kurt was tired of fighting the fight it was so very hard for me to let go, but Kurt reminded me of how hard it was for him to hang on and so we said our goodbyes. From overseas, Karen Jarrell de Garcia reports in from Spain: I am still living in Madrid, adjusting to being here on my own.

I think I am doing ok, but it is quite a challenge. Luisa married Josemi two years ago, and they live in London. That means I am truly an “Empty Nester!” I have a great circle of close friends, and go out a lot as we do in Spain. I also visit London three or four times a year. The kids live near Kensington Gardens;

it’s a great neighborhood to explore. I really enjoy not being a tourist anymore and I’m proud to say I can get around now without maps! Had a great visit with Tricia Waters in September when she was in Madrid as a courier. We had drinks and tapas and lots of good conversation. Tricia said this would be a great place for our 45th reunion. Maybe I’ll be retired by then. Jenny Geary Fleischer has this to say: Our youngest daughter, Kate, was married July 4, 2015 in Maryland to Mackenzie Brown. Kate and Mac met at the University of Richmond and live in Takoma Park, MD. They had a fabulous wedding reception at Walker’s Overlook in Walkersville, MD after a lovely church wedding at the Glade United Church in Walkersville. Then on November 8, 2015 our middle daughter, Megan, was married to Eric Mouyal at the Early Mountain Vineyard in Madison, VA. This was another terrific celebration! They also live in Takoma Park in the same apartment building as Kate and Mac. Our first grandchild, David Walter Bryce, was born on September 20, 2015 to our eldest daughter Amy and her husband Jim. We are over the moon and happy that they live fairly nearby. Add in two showers for each of the brides, a baby shower, some family and friends’ weddings and parties etc., and the year flew...oh yes and I had a hip replacement on July 8 - best thing and it’s great to be pain free! I will be retiring in June 2016 to enjoy being a grandmother full time, and do some other things too. Walt and I are really alone now as our beloved dog, Pepper died in October, 2015. We had her for 15 years and she was so sweet; we may get another, but not quite yet. We also have a trip to Aruba planned in April with friends and family to anticipate. My dad lives at Blakehurst and

Suzi Keats Cordish, 1973 and her father, “The Admiral”

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works for my brother; he is 86, and is happy.

And for news of another classmate, Walt and I were in Panera recently and who was there but Hennie Fitzpatrick! She lives in Morristown and works at the hospital. Hopefully we will get together soon! Here’s the gist from Joy Nolte Brumfield: First, the girls. Chelsea Kirk, 2006, 27, is the Assistant Principal and English teacher at the Maya Angelou Academy in Laurel, MD. Basically, she runs a charter school that is affiliated with a jail which houses male juvenile delinquents. She has done amazing things there and is in the process of applying to schools for her PhD. She would like to run her own school someday. Courtney Kirk, 2008, 25, lives in Nashville and works for Warby Parker, which is a business that offers higher quality prescription eyewear at a very low price. It is a very interesting company and it has been a great opportunity for her. As for me, my husband and I are traveling to Chile in February on a bike tour, hoping to escape part of the winter! On a sad note, I lost my brother suddenly right before Christmas.

He was 79, but had been in good health. We had an amazing memorial service for him on January 2. He will be missed. And from Sally Davis: I am in San Francisco for the winter, living with my lovely partner Bart Hopkin and doing Story Theater workshops with five different groups of children in the Mission district through San Francisco Youth Theater.

In April, I will be traveling to Bali with a group of teens and adult collaborators to create and co-direct a theater production. This is a project of the Telluride Academy, Mudd Butt International. I will spend the summer in Telluride directing Circus Holus Bolus and codirecting our 30th Mudd Butt Mystery Theater production. This is all really fun, challenging and rewarding work and I love it! I am feeling very blessed and am inspired to continue to try to do good work in this world. Children have been such a huge part of my life. They constantly teach me new things and there is so much to learn! As for me, Clarke Miller Fitzmaurice, it’s been a pretty quiet year.

Maddie Fitzmaurice, 2013 is living at home and is enrolled full time at the University of Baltimore. Paul is still working in public relations with a variety of clients all over the country. We still have a full household of critters; two big dogs and four (I know, I can’t believe it either and I blame it entirely on Maddie) cats. Our nest is definitely not empty.

At the age of 59½, I secured my dream job at The Walters Art Museum. It is no small achievement for me to be working with a dedicated group of professionals among priceless works of art!

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The wedding of Matt Tolliver, son of Cathy Spicer-Tolliver, 1974

Class of 1974 Katharine Somerville Whitmore kemsome@gmail.com The Class of 1974 is doing great. Some of us are already 60, and all of us will be by the end of 2016. As always, I am proud of being a part of this class: we are studio artists and writers, business people, and educators. What I especially love is the way that so many of our classmates are involved in community work and working to improve the lives of others.

Everyone is busy: new jobs and new web sites, children getting married, and some of us becoming grandparents! Helen Tangires: Susan Adler Davis and her mother came to have lunch with me at the National Gallery of Art, where we had an impromptu celebration in honor of Susan’s book, Saidie May: Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting. I wanted Susan to come down and autograph my copy, which I donated to the National Gallery of Art Library. We had a great time reminiscing about RPCS and life in Baltimore. It was great fun!

Dodee Goldsmith Foster: I still live in Baltimore, and continue to work in the Nursing profession. Health Care continues to be such a challenge and I am grateful to be able to still make a difference in other people’s lives through my work. My husband, Mort, is retired, and still works hard to maintain our over 100 year old house. The boys are both doing well, and it is great to have added another woman to the family with Adam’s new wife, Laura. I have also spent some time with Susan Adler Davis, basket weaving in a wonderful class at RPCS. Susan Adler Davis:

Things have been good! Michael and I have spent a month in St. Augustine, FL and have had a fun and relaxing time. It’s so good to get out of the damp cold in Baltimore. I spent three weeks over the December holidays in Madison, WI with my younger son, Brian, nursing him through an ACL and meniscus reconstructive surgery. Dorothy Rowan: I had a magnificent time in Costa Rica for two weeks in January with a workshop called “Say Yes to Your Life” - great fun and energizing! Now I’m preparing to get my Commercial Driver License, required for my Supervisor position, so if necessary I can drive a bigger Parks truck. Not an 18-wheeler, but 15 tons.

Why not, at 60? I am coming to Baltimore in late May for my nephew Ben Stevens’s wedding, Sally’s son, who’s also graduating from Maine Maritime Academy. My brother Tony lives in Lutherville, so I’ll see them too.

Guess I’m hooked on NYC - look me up if you visit the Big Apple! Cathy Spicer-Tolliver: I got to celebrate my mom’s 90th with her and with my siblings last November in Baltimore, She didn’t want a party, but we watched old, old family movies, went to afternoon tea, and took a long drive/walk around town and through “memory lane”, past our first house in Northwood, sharing memories and lots of laughs along the way. I barely practice law anymore. I teach legal courses part-time, only because I love doing it. I substitute often at the local high schools too, and I spend many hundreds of volunteer hours mentoring high school students who come to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT during the summer Academy Introductory Mission programs. My sons both married within the last year and a half. No grandchildren yet, but I babysit grand-puppies. Marc lives in Dallas

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Dodee Goldsmith Foster, 1974 on the occasion of her son Adam’s wedding

and Matt has been commanding a Coast Guard ship, which is home-ported only 300 miles away from us in Galveston. Mary Stuart Andreae Gephart: February 14 last year marked the start of a very busy year. Our younger son, Charlie, moved to San Francisco for a new job and our older son, Alex asked his longtime girlfriend, Maura McCall, to marry him! We had just started rebuilding our beach house in Spring Lake, NJ in January and finished in December, just in time for family and friends to gather for a New Year’s Eve wedding. Alex is still in the military and they will be moving to Vicenza, Italy in March for two or three years. Deborah Patterson: I am still very happily painting and enjoying life on the Avenue in Hampden, where I live above my studio/gallery. (Who would have ever imagined that Hampden would make the list of the “Ten Hottest Neighborhoods of 2016” in the U.S.?)

In the fall, I received a wonderful, and deeply meaningful, commission for two large paintings (16’ high) for the newly-built Hospice of the Chesapeake in Pasadena, MD. In addition to regular showings of my work, I keep busy with portrait commissions too. I still teach Italian, which I love, and plan to spend my 60th whooping it up in Italy with my partner in crime, Charles. Come find me in Hampden at 834 on the Avenue or at deborahpatterson.com. Page Southerland: I am looking forward to travelling to both Japan with my husband and on an African Safari with my daughter, Brett, to celebrate my birthday. Brett will be getting her MBA from the University of Texas in May. Mayo Levering: I am a Research Program Coordinator with Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (part of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine). I am working on a national project to reduce harms (in particular pneumonia) associated with being mechanically ventilated. Not a happy subject but the changes we see are inspiring. For those who remember him, my wonderful father

Karen Eubanks, 1976 is a dance teacher in NYC. In a recent NY Times article A Dancer Is Driven to Succeed After a Homeless Childhood, a former student referenced Karen as an unnamed teacher who influenced her life. Karen believes wholeheartedly that the success of this student to enter college is a testament to the impact of a dance curriculum with its differentiated methods to support cognition to scholarliness. “RPCS and Headmistress Anne Healy instilled in me that I had a light to shine and that it was my moral obligation to provide opportunities to turn on the light of others. As an Afro-American female attending RPCS during the Civil Rights Movement, I had privilege that has led me to scholarliness and an awareness beyond myself to assist others. Thank you RPCS and the Class of 1976 with our unique consciousness that binds us together to this day.”

passed away December 25th. My three girls (Becky, Cathy and Jenny) are now ages 27, 25 and 24. Holly Albert Coxe: 2016 is a big birthday year for our family. Our daughter, Julianne, turns 30, Lou and I turn 60 and Lou’s mom turns 90. To celebrate, Lou and I along with our children are taking Lou’s mom to Hawaii this summer. In September, Lou and I will celebrate our 37th wedding anniversary. We are thankful for so many blessings. Margaret “Muzzy” Cleveland: I have a new job as a Senior Communications Strategist for an 80-year-old nonprofit called Fedcap, out of New York City, that helps people surmount barriers to economic self-sufficiency. They work with all sorts of folks, but specifically enticed me with the idea that I could help develop programming to eliminate poverty for women - a tall order, but they are doing some extraordinary work, and I am hoping to

Helen Tangires, 1974 and Susan Adler Davis, 1974

contribute to any part of their mission in a small way. I get to work from home, but travel to NYC once a month or so - it’s busy and I’m learning a ton. I’m moonlighting still as an executive and organizational coach, so I try to work that in when possible along with some personal writing projects. I am happy and healthy - and I get to have dinner every Monday night with my two favorite men Alex, 25 and Jake 24. Janie Susemihl Vaughan: I became a grandmother on November 19, 2016! Betsy Griffin Petrelli, 2004 and Nick gave me a precious baby girl, named Clarke. I am enjoying living in Boca Grande, FL with my husband, Todd. I am a realtor with Michael Saunders & Co. and very much enjoy real estate, and showing beautiful homes. We still have a home in Baltimore, and get back there periodically. Now that I have a granddaughter, I will surely be back more often! Betsy, Nick and baby Clarke are here in Boca Grande visiting right now, and it is so much fun to have them here! Jennifer Dewey Berk: Not much to report. Now that we’re finally empty nesters, we have taken lots of little trips.

Leaving less time for my painting, but happy to launch a new web site. Check it out at jenniferberk.com. Anne Albert Patterson: John put together a fantastic 60th birthday celebration for me in Aurangabad, India, as part of a tour of southern India that he designed and we took in January. Southern India has amazing wonders to see; lush coffee plantations to visit; lovely, friendly people to meet; delicious food to enjoy; and interesting history to learn. On our way home, we stopped in Dubai, UAE and went up the tallest building in the world (for now), the Burj Khalifa. We enjoyed it all and happily missed the big blizzard. Cathy Counselman Kelly: We have a busy and exciting year with our first grandchild

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due in June (Caitlin expecting), and our second daughter Courtney planning her wedding for October 8 in Naples, FL. In September, Charlie and I will celebrate our 60th birthdays in Hawaii, where I will also be doing a photography workshop. Photography has been keeping me busy in Naples through February and March. I have been publishing my photography blog three to four times a week, and am looking to increase subscribers.

I hope you might check it out: blog. cathykellyphotography.com. Diane Breger Kearney: We just completed a nine month addition and renovation to our house and it is good to have it done. My head was spinning with all the decisions that needed to be made, but I love it all! As I write this note I am in San Diego visiting my daughter, Joy, who moved out here in October 2015. This is a beautiful city and worth a visit. I guess we all turn 60 this year so that will be an adjustment, but thank God we made it this far! Raising my three children was a joy (sometimes hard though!), but my two grandkids, Lincoln and Hailey, are so dear and I love being their Bubbie! Paris Grady Warfield: We welcomed our second grandchild, a girl named Milly, and she arrived on her brother’s birthday, October 6, 2015! Still enjoying teaching, and Guy and I are headed to Paris in April for my 60th!

Katharine Somerville Whitmore: My biggest news is that our older daughter Mattie is engaged to be married this June at my family’s place on the eastern shore. We are all looking forward to this event! My mother is a wonder at almost 93: she is living with us and continues to be interested and engaged. Thanks to Facetime and her iPad, she regularly visits with my brother Dan’s grandson, Alex, in Baltimore, and my brother Jim Somerville’s (RPCS 1958) granddaughter Audrey in Minneapolis.

Class of 1977 Leslie Mosberg Heubeck Heystack40@aol.com Well gals, we are at 39 (again!) and counting!

The big 4-0 looms before us in just one year, so please mark your calendars so we can all get together and have some laughs! Alix “Babby” Cochrane Rodman remains at the helm of The Women’s Club of Roland Park, making sure all the inner workings of the club are running smoothly. Jeff and Bab loved having Drew and John home over Christmas. Drew is a Sr. Software Manager at Pandora in San

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Keeping Us Safe Suzanne Gray, 1977 retired last summer from her role as a Senior Officer in the Directorate of Operations at CIA after almost 34 years. “I am not the first, and hopefully not the last RPCS’er to serve at CIA. One of the great heroes of WWII, OSS and CIA was RPCS alumna Virginia Hall, 1926, who died four days before I entered duty. There is at least one other RPCS’er who also served but I don’t know her cover status at retirement so I am not free to share her name.”

Suzanne found her calling in college but believes that she was unique among her peers because she had taken five years of Latin at RPCS. Suzanne, a member of the Virginia Bar Association, was an accomplished Senior Counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence officer at CIA with twenty-three years of CI expertise dealing with Insider Threat and Cyber Programs. She collected foreign and counterintelligence information from real people, rather than using computers to do it and had full command of and deep substantive expertise on the Insider Threat program with broad experience working with the Intelligence Community and foreign liaison partners. Suzanne possessed substantive experience against Asia, Latin American, and Near Eastern Intelligence services and extensive experience teaching CI issues to all levels of personnel. She was an expert at identifying issues and designing, developing, and implementing paths to resolve problems.

Suzanne holds thirteen Exceptional Performance Awards, two CIA Meritorious Unit Citations, four Letters of Appreciation from the FBI, and one Meritorious Unit Award from the Director of National Intelligence who oversees the 16 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community.

Describing the CIA Suzanne said: “Every day at CIA is about keeping us all safe. It is what I used to remind the young officers I trained and I am especially reminded of it today, after Brussels.” RPCS is deeply grateful for your service, Suzanne.

Francisco. John just finished his freshman year at Syracuse University where he is double majoring in Chemical Engineering and Physics.

Peggy Pine Utermohle and hubby, Clarke, said au revoir to daughter Claire Utermohle, 2013 in January as she headed off to a semester in Nice, France. Claire is loving the University of Maryland where she is a junior. Peggy and Brook Gomer Yearley continue to teach Pre-K together at Good Shepherd in Ruxton. Clarke still holds onto to his Mick Jagger roots and plays with a band in his free time. Who says you can’t come home again? Shelby Strudwick has returned to Maryland where she hasn’t lived full time since her RPCS days. She has just bought a house in Chestertown and is looking forward to putting down roots there as well as re-connecting with RPCS pals. It was very exciting to hear from Suzanne Gray for the first time ever since high school. She retired

this past summer as a Senior Officer in the Directorate of Operations at CIA after 33-almost 34-years. She never expected to be writing that as they’ve traditionally been the silent service, but times have changed. Suzanne is doing a lot of things she didn’t have time to do before, like travel with her husband, going to movies in a theater rather than on a plane and reading lots of fiction. She hasn’t sorted out what her next chapter will be, but we know it will be exciting. Hopefully she will make it to our 40th and we can all catch up!

Tucker Ellinghaus Hackett is still in Stamford, CT and commutes in to Manhattan every day for work at Morgan Stanley where she is an Executive Director in Credit Policy, Regulatory Relations and Governance. She enjoys the new job, but is experimenting with ways to use the train time more effectively. So she is re-reading the classics we read at RPCS in order to relate

Jenny Teufel, 1977 on the Tonto Trail in the Grand Canyon

to her kids school reading! Tucker and husband, Chris, have Alexander (15) and Elizabeth (10). Betsy Somerville got married in July 2015 to Arnold San Miguel so she is now Betsy Somerville San Miguel! Their honeymoon trip started with a night aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach and then up the California coast to Solvang and Santa Barbara. As if getting married wasn’t big enough, Betsy also started a new job as a web designer in December at Mopro and is very excited to see where it leads. More changes for Sharon Donkervoet Credit as Joe and she have a year of “RPCS Lasts” since Jodi Credit, 2016 is now a senior! After 14 years at Roland Park, they are savoring all of the “lasts” which involve: Opening Convocation, Holiday Fair etc. And, as Jodi is set with college (St Mary’s College of Maryland), they have truly been able to enjoy this final year. Joe continues to sit on the Board of Trustees (which, no surprise, was particularly busy this fall with the new Head search), and Sharon continues to volunteer as a parent network rep, but they are definitely starting to look ahead to life beyond Roland Park. There are plenty of us emptynesters who can help fill your time! Jenny Teufel and husband, Bob, started off 2015 by spending a week in El Pescadaro in Baja California Sur, Mexico with some friends. In June, Jenny and her sister, Nicky Teufel-Shone, 1972, completed their 34th backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon–the yearly tradition continues! At the end of July, Jenny took the leap of faith and retired. After two years in the

oil industry, 30 years in data storage and 10 months working on medical devices, she decided it was time to move on to the next stage of her life and is having a blast! Aside from slowly reversing the effects of 30 plus years of sleep deprivation, she has been doing (what else?) some traveling. In October, she went to Edmonton, Alberta Canada to visit Nicky. They took a beautiful road trip through the Canadian Rockies via the Jasper and Banff National Parks. Despite living in the foothills of our own Rocky Mountains, she found the Canadian scenery breathtaking. Next July, Jenny and Nicky will be attending the 5th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development in Lisbon, Portugal to present their paper Grand Canyon: Cultural Heritage Ignored? At home, Bob and Jenny are enjoying the slower pace of co-retirement - mid morning walks with their dog Earl and trying to remember what day of the week it is. Bob and Earl enjoy fly fishing and were able to spend some time on the Yellowstone River in Montana last fall. Betty Simpson Beirne is in her sixth year at Medimmune/AstraZeneca where she is responsible for business insights for Medimmune’s inline pediatric products.

She loves being on the client side after 25 years as a supplier. The work is always interesting as are the people she works with, and the travel can be fun! Dan is in his 30th year at T. Rowe Price (he is officially the ’grumpy old man’), and is currently in learning design which gives him the opportunity to stay current on all sorts of software. Matt is living in Hampden (much more hip than when his parents were starting out in the early 80’s!) and still works for Toyota Financial in Owings Mills. Sam is at home where he telecommutes for a non-profit now and is still searching for that perfect job in energy policy in DC. They are still enjoying their little slice of heaven in Reisterstown, with no plans of leaving any time soon. Grace “Muffie” Doyle Bigelow left Hopkins after 14 years, in July 2014, and started her own consulting company, Sherwood Bigelow Enterprises (SBE), LLC. She has remained active in efforts in East Baltimore, mostly associated with Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, The Sisters Together and Reaching Foundation (STAR), and the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) Program, a part of the Obama Administration’s larger Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative (NRI) that helps local and tribal communities develop place-based, community-oriented strategies with coordinated federal support to change neighborhoods of distress into neighborhoods of opportunity. Grace also did some volunteer work on the RPCS initiative, serving on the Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School Health and Wellness

Committee. Currently she is working as an independent contractor as the CommunityBased Organization Outreach Coordinator/ Project Manager for the Northeast Sickle Cell Collaborative (SiNERGe) Project and the William E. Proudford Sickle Cell Fund (WEPSCF) to gather momentum in the fight against sickle cell disease by fostering connections among community-based organizations in the Northeast region. One of the highlights for her is producing a bi-monthly webinar series on such topics as Hydroxyurea Therapy, Nutrition, and other alternative/ complimentary approaches to improving quality of life and health outcomes for those living with SCD. The work is incredibly rewarding and she feels completely liberated no longer being at Hopkins. And if all that isn’t enough, Grace is still looking to fill in her schedule with other opportunities! Callie has graduated from Towson High, is living in her own apartment with a roommate in the Copy Cat Building (known as studio, apartment, and performance space for all variety of artistic types) in the Station North neighborhood. She’s working full time at About Faces Salon in Canton, holding off on college for now, learning to be a stylist, and Lord knows, the girl’s got style! So, if you find yourself in the Canton About Faces, keep your eyes out for Callie. Blair Schwitzer Taylor still works at Towson University, teaching computer science and specializing in cybersecurity education.

She is currently traveling constantly for work.

Last year, Blair was named one of the Baltimore Sun’s 50 Women to Watch! But she doesn’t count that honor nearly as exciting as her granddaughter, Molly, who turned two in May. For the past 6 years, Nancy Gumm Blount and husband, Bill, have been living in Columbia, MD. She continues her work at a Silver Spring retirement community in the Philanthropy department. Bill will be retiring this year. Their daughter, Lauren, and her husband, John, are now living in Austin, TX. Lauren continues to teach math for Hopkins’

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The wedding of Betsy Somerville San Miguel, 1977 and her husband, Arnold

CTY program and John is teaching Math at Southwestern University. Their son Justin is an Associate Producer for a production company in Silver Spring. No moss grows under Amanda “Mandy” Young Hickman’s brood’s feet!

Wyatt (16) and Lucas (18) travelled to Jamaica on a church mission trip last April. Then, Wyatt spent the summer in Maine as a sailing instructor. He traveled to Philmont, a Boy Scout high adventure camp in New Mexico in August where he hiked in high-altitude back country for over a week. Lucas continues his vocal studies at the New England Conservatory of Music and spent most of summer 2015 at Tanglewood in the Berkshires. In October, he had the opportunity to sing in a national chorus in Nashville, TN. Mandy had a year of global travel conducting leadership development programs and was grateful to spend two weeks in Istanbul. Walter works with local community projects and, in 2015, started working with a local soup kitchen.

Maralee Sweren Clark reports her family has expanded as son Andrew married his college sweetheart, Christa, in December 2014 and moved to Charlotte, NC this past summer.

Rebecca, 2007 is a 5th year special education teacher at KIPP Harmony, a charter school in Baltimore City. In September 2015, her husband, Steve, retired after 30 years at T. Rowe Price! No retirement in sight for Maralee. She opened another new school for Baltimore County Public Schools in August 2015 named Lyons Mill Elementary. If anyone wants to stop by, the school is located in Owings Mills on Lyons Mill Road.

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Margaret “Miggy” Yarlott Brown’s brood is busy, busy, busy! Duncan is 21 now and a junior at Army West Point. Mark, 19, is in his freshman year at the Air Force Academy (in Colorado Springs). David is a junior in high school her, so they are getting ready for the third round of college search/visit/apply etc.

Elisabeth is 15, and a freshman in high school, doing well, and seems happy. Both she and David play soccer at school and on club teams.

Elisabeth plans to run track this spring rather than play lax. Their Australian Shepherd is now three and a joy for the whole family, though she was really unhappy for several months after Mark left-running out to the car to put her paws on the windowsill to see if he was there, for instance. Rich is still working hard as a partner at Day, Pitney LLC. Maggie is fired up to declutter, which is amazingly cathartic, but otherwise still knitting, baking, cooking and driving people and things all over the place (and mailing packages to West Point and Colorado Springs). Betsy Close is thrilled to announce her oldest daughter, Rachel Meyer, 2007 will be married in July! She met her fiancé, Nick (who originates from just outside Boston), while an undergrad at “Wash U” in St. Louis. Her middle child, David, continues to live and work in Charleston, SC since his graduation from the College of Charleston in 2014. Her youngest daughter, Laurel Meyer, 2012 graduates this May from Bates College in Maine. Betsy’s husband, David, is enjoying early retirement, serving on a mutual fund board and honing his culinary skills. Betsy is working two part-time positions

as a therapist - one with a psychiatrist in Bel Air, and the other with a company, Business Health Services, in an office in White Marsh. Ellen Meyer Abrams reports her daughter, Jenn Abrams, 2010 lives in DC and is in her second year working as a Research Assistant at Child Trends, a non-profit in Bethesda. She has applied to PhD programs in sociology for next fall, so will likely be relocating. Ellen is in her sixth year as HR Director at Rosedale Federal which keeps her busy along with fun tennis games and not as much fun workouts at the gym. She is looking forward to a special vacation in Hawaii with Jenn this summer! Donna Roberts Lucci’s daughters continue to amaze! Her oldest, Natalie, has more than a few pieces published over the past year. Her latest, in The Elephant Journal, is entitled A Buddhist Principle That Helps Us Succeed in Life and is really quite good. Olivia continues with her successful dancing career. In November, Donna traveled to Costa Rica for a teacher training session for her career as a Health and Wellness Coach.

Add ‘published author’ to the list of Brooke McDonald’s many accomplishments! She has a book coming out this spring, a photographic essay on Baltimore which she wrote and created with the very talented photographer Alan Gilbert. It will be a beautiful hard-bound coffee table book. Michael and Brooke are still living in Federal Hill and producing commercials, documentaries and online videos. They continue their work with television journalists in Uzbekistan as well as host friends from Tashkent here in Baltimore. This past year they were able to visit Michael’s family in Switzerland and France. Your intrepid scribe, Leslie Mosberg Heubeck, has had a year literally of ups and downs! Our Hilary Heubeck, 2007 graduated in May with an MFA in Interior Architecture and Design from George Washington University. About five weeks later, a 100-foot hickory tree fell across our not-even-year-old home. It took the rest of the year to rebuild our “new home” so now we have New Home 2.0!

Hanly Heubeck, 2006 continues her very successful event planning work at The Boathouse in Canton. David and I try to spend as much time as possible in Corolla where we enjoy swimming, walking the beach, kayaking, and SUP-ing on the sound. To close, Betsy Close said it best: I have to be honest and admit that while most of our “kids” are now young adults, we are surely the same active, fun loving group of “young” women that we were when we graduated! Hear ye! Hear ye!

Ladies, mark your calendars–we celebrate our 40th next year and it will be Red Hot!

Class of 1978 Susan Taylor susan@tdtsit.com As always, 1978 is GREAT! And as usual, there are plenty of updates. Mandy Hopkins Tirrell is happily settled in Augusta, GA and working as COO for Augusta University and the Medical College of Georgia Faculty Practice. Her husband Chris is driving all over the southeast drumming up new underwater diving construction work for his company. She was lucky enough to travel to St. Pete for a conference and to visit her daughter Penelope, who is finishing her second year teaching for AmeriCorps and is beginning her job search for a teaching job. Her mom is still living in Bel Air so Mandy gets up to the Baltimore area frequently to visit since it’s difficult for her mom to manage the small planes that fly from Baltimore to Augusta. Margot Van Buskirk Hoerner celebrated being the Mother of the Bride when her daughter, Bitsy, married her Naval Academy sweetheart in Annapolis. In addition, she started a new position with P&G in New York City as the Vice President of HR for the Fragrance Division (Gucci, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Dolce Gabbana brands). She still lives in Lititz, PA and commutes to New York Tuesday through Thursday. She is learning the New York style and attitude. Her son, Cameron, lives in New York so they enjoy mother-son dinners and he even buys sometimes! Her other twin, Margaret, is part of Teach for America and is thriving in Boston.

Like many of us, Margot is managing the physical and emotional challenges of watching parents age and getting the support for them that they need. In their spare time, she and Eric are enjoying some travel, tennis and golfing.

Elizabeth Pöckel and her family have been through a year of major change. Unfortunately, the financial crisis took her husband’s fifth generation family farm which was both traumatic and tragic beyond words. But they got through it and he’s gotten a job he genuinely likes at a feed company. They just spent their first year in their new house on the coast just north of Germany. They have an incredible view of the water from their living room and love being close to the water!

Elizabeth is still in marketing communications at VIKING Life-Saving Equipment and close to finishing up a supplementary degree in digital journalism. Her twin boys (there’s a recurring theme here – stay tuned!) are finishing up ninth grade, which is a big deal in Denmark. After that, kids can choose to continue at some sort of high school, attend a

training school, take a trade or just take time off. With her guidance the boys have chosen to go to a traditional high school. Both want to study languages-Torvald, modern languages, and Eskild, the classics. Elizabeth’s dad has become a snowbird, spending half his time at a retirement community in Florida and the other half in New Jersey. So, it’s Florida for her in February, and New Jersey in the summer.

Hopefully some of us can connect with her when she is stateside! Kristin Ranum Franceschi continues to be our dancing queen and is doing very well in many ballroom dance competitions. Those of us on Facebook have loved all of the photos and videos. On December 21, she celebrated her five year anniversary of her cancer journey. While it is not over, most likely, that she has made that was INCREDIBLE. Kristin writes: As of now, all is well by me. I think often (and tell the story) of how you all came together to bring my family all those meals and, by so doing, all that support. I would love for this group (or at least the Baltimore group) to get together some time for laugh or giggles. (And I know many of us have stories to tell about navigating her wild driveway in snow that winter! Let’s see if we can pull off a get-together this spring in the Baltimore area!) Mary Stuart McKenzie is still selling real estate with O’Conor and Mooney Realtors and doing very well. She still lives on the farm with her 87 year old mother who is also doing well. She continues to play a little bit of golf when she has time. She was the real estate agent for Susan Taseff deMuth’s daughter Ellie deMuth, 2010 who just bought a house in Canton. As for Susan, she is still at Hopkins and traveling more than ever. In 23 days this fall, she was on two continents and three states! She posts some fantastic photos for all of us to see. The big news in the deMuth household is that their son, Perkins, was married to Nastya Tsapina on May 23, 2015 in Russia. They were not able to get there, so to include, them Perk and Nastya chose to get married on the 23rd, which was Susan’s father’s number. Jeannie Fetting reports that they are still living in Arkansas where she has opened a private psychotherapy practice, hoping some of her mom’s wisdom from her work rubs off! Her eldest daughter, Lacy, is working in Washington, DC as a fundraiser for an international non-profit helping kids in poverty. Jeannie’s 15 year-old twins (third set in our class–Stuey is wondering what was in the RPCS water!), Jack and Catherine, are in the ninth grade, playing soccer and basketball.

She’s very happy to report that they do not take after her in sports, something her former teammates might understand! The kids keep her humble as they tease her about most of what she does and says. She asks, “did we do

that to our parents?” (My bet is “yes!”)

Jeannie’s husband, John, is retiring in a bit as the Director of the State Department of Human Services and looking for something else to keep him busy. They too, are dealing with John’s aging parents as much as they can as his mom has dementia and life is getting tougher for both of them. If anyone travels to this “fly-over” state, they would love to play host! Liz Levy Malis continues to do the “Mom thing”. With 14- and 10-year-old daughters in tow, she’s busy with carpools, kids’ activities and homework. In between all of that she enjoys being a docent at the Baltimore Museum of Art. As many of us recall, Elizabeth loved taking history of art classes with Mrs. Cavanaugh which has led her to love being at museums. As for other arts, she indulges her interest in theater these days (in the audience rather than on the stage) by going to New York to see shows on and off Broadway. In addition, she still writes professionally for magazines and newspapers on variety of topics that range from travel to business. Her work with the Baltimore chapter of Yorktown Heights, NY-based Guiding Eyes for the Blind is very rewarding and brings the most wonderful guiding-eye-dogs-in-training into their lives. Jane Greenberg Domb and her family have been very busy and have faced a number of challenges. With five children staying in Israel this year, the security situation in the Middle East is never far from their minds. This reality became chillingly personal this past October when their 22 year-old son was chased and stabbed by a terrorist in a light rail station in Jerusalem. Jane writes: Fortunately his physical injury was relatively minor, and while the emotional and psychological wounds (for him and for us) were deeper, there is much to be grateful for. My husband and I went to Jerusalem to make a celebratory meal of thanksgiving for family and friends. It was a moving occasion indeed. On a more cheerful note, Jane and her husband celebrated the wedding of their son, Moshe, this past August, and the grandchildren keep a-coming. Jane is still working as a psychiatrist in the Cleveland VA Medical Center and says, “Uncle Sam is a great boss, and it is gratifying to provide care for those who served our country, no matter what your politics might be. (I know the VA is getting bad press these days, but our particular hospital gives high quality care.) Jane also has a small private practice on the side and her family is involved in their synagogue and a variety of community projects. Leslie Dierdorff Powell has exciting news from Colorado! She will be transitioning from interpreting for elementary school students in Littleton Public Schools to interpreting for high school students in Cherry

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Creek School District. It will be more hours, a longer commute, and a lot more challenging, but definitely the best choice for her personally and professionally. She will still get summers off and plans to spend about a month with her mom in Annapolis again this summer. Her husband, Russ, started teaching skiing parttime at Keystone this year which allows them to ski at any Vail Resort for practically pennies so she’s been taking advantage of that perk often. Her son, Evan, is studying Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy at the Colorado School of Mines and will be doing an internship in Nicaragua this summer, installing solar panels and building solar ovens. Leslie’s daughter, Caroline, is exploring majors at Colorado State University and wants to work in Annapolis this summer on or around sailboats (gee, where did that come from?). Scott graduates high school in May 2016 and recently received his first college acceptance letter. He will be somewhere next fall, studying Film, Theatre, Directing, etc. with the dream of becoming a movie director and opening up his own film studio someday.

Leslie and Russ still love Colorado, even though they don’t get as much snow as we all seem to be getting on the East Coast! Jenny Davis Hope still loves her job at Telesis and is excited that they are building on Greenmount Avenue near North Avenue. She’s been campaigning both locally and nationally for Elizabeth Embry for Mayor and Martin O›Malley for President and just returned from the Iowa Caucus. Jenny and Susan Moore Short continue their annual road-trips to Ravens games. This year was Arizona with a lazy river trip and a visit to the Grand Canyon! Jenny also has been staying in touch with Ms. Parker, Connie Williams Maybin’s mom, and her kids, Aaron and Connie. Aaron has become quite the activist artist! Connie has become very interested in photography as well. Jenny’s kids and the rest of the Davis clan are also doing well and you can catch many of them on game day at a mean tailgate in Lot B! As for me, Susan Taylor, we are happily settled in our guest house in Maine and Terry hopes to have the “big house” done sometime this fall.

After a total of 12 feet of snow last winter, we have only had two small storms, but what we have had is very pretty. I’m volunteering at a local hospital and also at our island’s Historical Society–this year is the tri-centennial of the island so there is a LOT of history. I’ll be playing computer and database geek for them– what a shock! It’s quiet here right now because there are only about 1,200 year-round residents, but the population swells exponentially in the summer. We’ve adopted a second Maine Coon kitten so we now have a five-month old and 14-month old. They’re our

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“kids” now and keep us hopping! We still have the apartment in Cockeysville, so I’m down every few months to visit, collect things I’ve forgotten and see the girls if they are around.

Becca Taylor, 2008 is still working full-time in Washington, DC and has just started grad school in International Development at American University. Rachel Taylor, 2012 graduated a semester early from URI and is staying in Rhode Island this spring interning for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management before figuring out her next adventure. We still try to do two or three dive trips each year which gets us out of the cold weather for a break. We’re looking forward to Cozumel in March! It’s hard to believe that in two years we’ll have our 40th reunion–it’s never too early to start planning.

Anyone want to step up?

Class of 1979 Noel Rippel Bradley noelerbradley@verizon.net Greetings Classmates! I hope you enjoy the featured collage from our senior year that Jeanie Dyer Jones found under her bed when cleaning out her parents’ house. Among those pictured, you’ll find Mrs. McNamee, our former-faculty lunchroom, senior room, Ms. Gaver, a lot of bad hair styles, John Belushi, uniform-signing, and Nancy Dees Golya in a significant number of photos. I don’t know about you, but I sure miss that uniform and

Johanna Miller Lewis, 1979 and her father

not having to decide what to wear every day.

Speaking of Nancy Dees Golya, she’s quite the accomplished entrepreneur as Direct Sales Business Accelerator/ Strategic Planner, Collaborator, Idea Generator for individual direct sellers and direct sales companies through coaching and training. And, Nancy provides streamlined business solutions as a certified brand partner with Infusionsoft, Outstand and Ziglar Social. Nancy is also among several of us who have high school seniors this year doing the “college admissions thing.” Other “senior moms” include Deeley Close Middleton, Saville Janney MacDonald, Laurie Alkire Selby, and me, Noel Rippel Bradley - and, as of this writing in February, we’re all still waiting to learn where our kids will land. Deeley Close Middleton’s youngest, Emmy Middleton, 2016 is currently riding in winter circuit through March in Ocala, FL, and plans to continue riding in some capacity in college. Her oldest son, Ben, finished Law School in May 2015 and is currently working for the Law Office of Deeley’s brother Louis G. Close. Second son, Michael, is living and working in DC which he loves. Hubby Bob is crazy busy with his Arts Insurance Program, while Deeley remains at Maxim Healthcare Services as VP of Clinical Services NE. They also have two “gosh darn cute” dogs, Bella and Bailey. Saville Janney MacDonald writes: I wish I had more interesting news to report but, again, so far no one is calling my agent asking about my availability to do a reality TV show! My two girls are finishing up high school (Becca at Mount de Sales Academy and Maggie at St. Timothy’s) so, we’re playing the college admissions game. (Mommy says,

‘Show me the money. I don’t care where you go to college!’) Last month I received an award for teaching which marked my 30th year in education. (One of my dear friends commented that they must have counted the years that I was “playing school” because how could that be possible?) And finally, I’m proud to report that my dad’s first foray as a movie producer was a success. The DVD Mock Con, History of the Washington & Lee Mock Presidential Convention has been viewed by thousands and is available for sale on the website of his beloved alma mater, Washington & Lee. There’s a special discount for our Class of 1979, just be sure to ask for it. Take good care Class of 1979! Laurie Alkire Selby reports: All’s well here in Crofton, MD with several college trips for Jack (17). Jimmy (15) is still in that tenth grade “sweet spot” and Annie (13) is happy and healthy (21 months of clear MRIs so very soon she can go to only two scans/year instead of four). I cannot adequately describe how relieved and happy we are about all of this and really believe God must have some very special plans for her. Lorin now heads up the Naval Surface Warfare Command and I’ve joined him on the Navy Yard as an analyst with the Counseling Advocacy and Prevention Program (which provides HQ support for the Navy’s counseling and domestic violence/child abuse programs).

Going back full time was not pretty, but after a year I can say that I like my team and the work, and occasionally having lunch with Lorin isn’t bad either! It’s been fun staying in touch with everyone on Facebook! As for me, Noel, my oldest, Taylor, will also fly the nest in September 2016, leaving brother Jack “home alone” with Paul and me as he goes into high school. We’ve enjoyed a busy senior year, so drastically different from our RPCS experience, while Jack is thankfully on the end of his middle school ride! Now, I’m finally ready to rejoin the workforce. We visit my mom as much as we can down in Virginia Beach, but I really miss being able to come back to Baltimore! In Annapolis, our class artist, Deirdre Tanton, is working as a graphic designer for the Comptroller of Maryland.

Deirdre writes: In addition to my state job, I’ve developed a line of fabrics inspired by how pretty it is living on the water in Annapolis.

The fabric can be applied to home decor and fashion accessories like pillows. If you’re in Annapolis I’d love to see you. Otherwise, looking forward to our next Class of 1979 gettogether - really loved seeing everyone who went to Margie Csobaji Smith’s. Lynn Goldstein Phillips is still working at her financial software company, Core Commissions. In addition to a tour of the Columbia River Gorge with Margie Waters

Class of 1979 throwback collage from Jeanie Dyer Jones, 1979

Forner and Catherine Hilgartner in July 2015, Lynn also caught up with Lulu Davidovski Kauffman at her beach house on the boardwalk in Ocean City. Lynn writes: Her appetizer platter would put any restaurant to shame!

And, more recently, I saw Sheila Maith when she lent me her son’s car to go visit my dad in Ocean City. Our family had a great Christmas in Tulum, Mexico where we saw Mayan ruins, amazing freshwater cenotes and enjoyed some warm sunshine! Speaking of Sheila Maith, I had to track her down for her news while she was gallivanting in New York City and going to Broadway shows. Sheila continues to work as an executive coach and consultant with both corporate and nonprofit clients. Sheila writes: My son EJ is spending a semester abroad in Amman, Jordan studying Arabic and politics. It’s been hard to imagine him so far away, but we’re in touch by What’s App and Skype. He’s taking advantage of this great opportunity to see parts of the world like Sri Lanka for spring break. Sheila’s eighth grader, Ella, plays guitar and rides horses. And, she and husband David invested in a canoe this year! In August 2015, her family vacationed in Paris, “the first time I’d been since the famous trip with Page McDonald Crosby, Neva Sjodin Wagner et al in 11th grade!” Sheila also squeezed in a quick visit with Lynn and they stay in regular touch via Words with Friends and a healthy recipe exchange. Nothing like a 42 year friendship to warm the soul! This

brings us to the growing crowd of emptynesters in our class (I think Amy Schlott Downing, Laurie Selby and Kim Miser Yost will be among the last!) Lulu Davidovski Kauffman in Baltimore writes: We’re becoming empty nesters again. Andrew is gainfully employed and has just signed an apartment lease. He’ll be close by in Hampden. Bittersweet news for older daughter, Kate, who got a transfer to continue her beautiful work as a Display Coordinator for Anthropologie, but must move to Spokane, WA. We took a family vacation to Costa Rica last year right after tax day, April 15 (I work for public accounting firm) and it was divine to travel somewhere warm right after tax season. We are looking forward to going to Hawaii this year at the end of tax season with the kids. Love traveling with our young adult kids! So much fun!

George and I got together with Lynn Phillips at the beach this summer. Hadn’t seen her since RPCS - great to catch up and swap our memories of high school. We had no problem enjoying some wine and cheese on the deck! A short, but very happy report from Kathy Levy Crenner that her daughter, Emily, got engaged and will be married in New York City in 2017.

Congrats and hope to get a photo for next year! Big news from Patti Evans Best is she added a daughter-in-law to her family when oldest son Karl got married in August 2015.

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visit” list and running - while waiting to find out about her transfer to a new duty station.

She’s requested remote teaching assignments first choice is Korea, followed by Guam, Cuba and Sigonella, Italy. She’ll know by end of February 2016, so stay tuned for where to find her! Happy housewarming to Missy Harper Rose who recently moved into an 1842 farmhouse near the Delaware River in Pennsylvania that features walk-in fireplaces, pie stairs, barn, settlers cottage and other outbuildings. Missy writes: Quite a change, but we are settling in and the many projects are keeping us busy. Our youngest son, Hunt, just started working with Paul as a financial advisor. Our daughter, Trish, lives in Denver working for a software company which is kind of far but a fun place to visit. And our oldest, Jeff, just moved to South Orange, NJ with his girlfriend of eight years where he’s an engineer.

Maybe we can do a class trip to Missy’s! Elaine Howard Christ writes: I’m still enjoying farm life and keeping an eye on my parents who are in Roland Park Place. My college senior, Jack, is graduating this spring 2016 from Washington College with a BA in Humanities and concentration in Chesapeake Regional Studies, while younger son, Patrick, enjoys his theatre arts work in pursuit of his degree at Davis and Elkins College. Page McDonald Crosby has lots to share about her three grown boys.

Youngest, Sam, now 21, will be in his senior year at University of South Carolina, graduating in 2017. Oldest, Nelson, is back in Boston from San Francisco and just passed his last architecture exam which gives him the title AIA (American Institute of Architecture) after his name and means he’s a full-fledged licensed and accredited architect. The entire process included seven exhaustive tests and hundreds of logged-in design hours, all of which took about a year and a half to complete. In the middle, Reiley enjoys his work for Royal Bank of Canada assisting with 401K planning.

Elaine and Page’s fellow former Semiquaver, Johanna Miller Lewis, down in Arkansas, enjoyed “15 minutes of fame” when she was featured last winter on Antiques Road Show with a 17th century map of Maryland that her father gave her! How cool is that? Thankfully, her knees are holding up well, too! Three final report shorts from Catherine Hilgartner: Nothing to say...Love being back in Baltimore!; Lisa Campbell Sylvestri who’s living and loving the life as a retiree in Lewes, DE in a lovely new home that husband Ken built; and Margie Waters Forner who texted while on vacation in the Dominican Republic during a break from teaching at Cathedral School. Until next year...

Class of 1980 35th Reunion Kathy Connor kathryn_connor@merck.com Susie Miller Lloyd suslloyd@peddie.org A lively group gathered for our 35 the reunion dinner (Seriously, 35th reunion?) last fall at Bluestone in Timonium. Many, many thanks to Izza Michel Schorr for finding the spot, organizing, and being our fearless go-to girl.

The group included Izza Michel Schorr (MD), Tricia Burch Farrell (MD), Robin Frenkil Matthews (FL), Penny Kovacs Boulden (PA), Gill Murray Koerber (MD), Allyson McCaffray Taubman (MD), Leslie Summers McCracken (OH), Sally Strott Sessions (MD), Jenny Jensen (KS), Jan Suter Deike (TN), Wallis Murphy Wiener-Trapness (NJ), Laurie Williams Goldstein (NC), Sissy Murphy Nye (PA), Florence Edeline (MD), and Susie Miller Lloyd (NJ). It was a fun and spirited evening with conversations that ranged from memories of RPCS back on University Parkway to kids, spouses, marriage, divorce, dating and on and on and on. It was great getting caught up with long-time friends, and it seemed as if time stood still. There was no mistaking Sissy’s laughter which could be heard throughout the room. The laughter was loud and frequent as we reminisced about the Imps and Elves, the TLM, Robin’s magical drive across the Bay Bridge, the senior room, Barbara Black Clarke

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raking her coffee mug across the grate in the window yelling “Let me out, let me out,” math class and out of body experiences with Mrs. Francomano, Mr. Badger, Lillian, and lots of crazy antics. The general consensus of the single crowd was that dating is much more challenging now that when we were younger. A highlight of the evening was seeing Jenny Jensen’s honest-to-goodness FBI badge!

And she had her firearm in her car. We all felt much safer knowing that we are being well protected by one of our own. Ladies who were absent - if your ears were burning that evening, it was because we were talking about you, wondering where friends are and what people are doing with their lives. We want to reconnect with classmates and get the group together again soon. Other bits of class news that have traveled in or been seen on Facebook include: Barbara Black Clarke is still in Oregon with her husband Stephen and has one granddaughter and another grand on the way.

Kellie Taylor Mahaffy recently moved back to Baltimore from Pennsylvania to be closer to her parents, Evans and Bob. Liz Heuisler is living the fancy life in California running her Goody Foundation. Kristina Anderson Krenzien is an attorney living on five acres outside of Chicago with her husband, 13-year old daughter who is a dancer and 28-year old stepdaughter. We had horses for a long time, but now we just have chickens; no time to ride right now!

Kris’s mom, Joey, recently got remarried to a long-ago beau – congratulations, Joey! So single ladies, this is good proof that there are still decent men and women out there. Jane Turner is living a quiet, simple life in Florida and sharing beautiful pictures of her garden

Members of the Class of 1980 (front l. to r.) Allyson McCaffray Taubman and Gill Murray Koerber, (back l. to r.) Diane Teti Meyers, Leslie Summers McCracken, Robin Frenkil Matthews and Wallis Murphy Weiner-Trapness

with us on FB. She recently took a trip to Italy which was a long-time dream of hers.

Thanks for sharing the beauty and tranquility to inspire us! Mary Russo Rau lives in Idaho with her husband and two children, Sarah (17) a competitive rodeo rider and David (14) a competitive skateboarder. Mary owns her own business assisting and managing digital marketing for others. She loves being outdoors and loves camping... who knew?

Florence Edeline is living in Baltimore and working as a preschool teacher. She loves her work and her kids, but isn’t getting rich.

Maura Chippendale is still enjoying life in Florida and has her own audiology practice.

Her son is out of the Marines and her daughter lives in Colorado, and it appears that Maura loves to travel. Oh, by the way, she earned her doctorate in audiology last year. You go girl!

Diane Teti Meyers is thrilled to share that she and her love Jerry married this year. Son TJ is a senior in high school, doing well and looking forward to college. Jodi Cole Greene is another audiologist in southeast Pennsylvania. It is still amazing that Chippendale and Cole (yes, I sat right behind Maura in eighth grade) became audiologists! I am also 30 years happily married with two sons (27 and 23). Mira Courpas shares: I started designing flowers this year at Little Acre Flowers, DC’s only 100% locally-sourced flower shop. It has been a lot of

fun and a great way to combine my interested in sustainability and design. My goal was to get a job out of the house before I became and empty nester. Asher is a sophomore at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and studying graphics design. Annika is planning to attend college in Los Angeles and is waiting to hear from her last school. Jonathan and I will celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary this year. Please visit when you are in DC. Susan Phinney Silver and family enjoy life on the west coast, with one teenager en route to college and the other not far behind. She loves her work at the Packard Foundation.

Robin Frenkil Matthews and hubby Tom are still living in Florida, where they can be on the water every weekend. Robin shares: Our children’s lives are moving along way to quickly (ages 20-32), from beginning college (University of Alabama, 2015 National champions!) to getting married! Rob is excited to have reignited her travel franchise, back working for herself. Jenny Jensen continues to look over us, working for the FBI (29 years in May). Di has been test driving retirement the past year and loves it and they are traveling more and enjoying a slower pace of life. Patti Sunday-Winters, hubby and family moved to Phenix City, AL in early 2015 after 15 years in Tennessee. She writes: With two wonderful boys in their early to mid-20s, we are adjusting

to an empty nest all over again! Ed is Senior Pastor and I enjoy gardening and volunteer work at church. And of course, my part-time job is PT three times a week for the MS; my most challenging symptoms are balance, muscle weakness and fatigue. PT has been a real gamer changer for me! Congratulations to Allyson McCaffray Taubman and Mort on the celebration of their 16th wedding anniversary this year! Children and step-children are all doing well, finding their paths by their own compasses. Allyson says: If you are around the Annapolis area (other than August when we will be in Nantucket), give a shout and we will arrange a sail and drinks on board! Kathy Connor continues to live in the Philly suburbs, working in the pharmaceutical industry. After 10 years of living in a 55+ community, she has decided that as she is closely approaching 55, a move is in order to a non-55+ community; Sophie the pup agrees. Susie Miller Lloyd is still living in New Jersey and working in the admission office at the Peddie School. Next year all four of her daughters will be in college - one each at Kenyon College, Macalester College, Williams College, and Gettysburg College. Anyone have any ideas on how to get rich quick? In this crazy day and age, it goes without saying that all of us are busy.

But please, please keep in touch or reconnect with each other. One thing life has taught and shown me is that life is too short. We are a great group of funny, supportive, bright, and interesting women, and we need each other in our lives.

Class of 1981 Ann Schlott Hillers annhillers@gmail.com Hello from the ever-shrinking class of 1981.

By that I mean fewer of us are finding their way through their inbox and into the pages of Connections. It’s something you’re going to come to regret throughout this year so don’t make that same mistake when I hit you up again in 2017 for details of your life. I guess I’ll start with myself this time, just to shake things up, get things moving. After six years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico my family made the sudden and impetuous decision to move back to the States. On June 16 we were happily living there in a brand-new house we’d just built; on July 1 we left for the summer and never returned. Well, not to live full time at least - we went back for Thanksgiving and I hosted another RPCS Kaleidoscope adventure

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Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, 1981 and Jorie Rice Cogguillo, 1981

in the fall as well. But we opted to finally get the kids into an American school system and picked Coronado, CA, a small tidal island and military base off the coast of San Diego-just 15 miles from the Mexican border so that we can get back easily to our hometown. My sons, Bo (15), Redding (14) and Mason (12) settled in pretty quickly to life in America, hitting me up for cash so they can head to the local Panera and Starbucks. Only downside is that said cash adds up a lot more here rapidly in sunny SoCal than it did in colonial Mexico. It was a fantastic ride for the bulk of their childhood and for a nice chunk of our adult life. But onward and upward. We’re off to Vietnam, Malaysia and Borneo this summer for seven weeks, probably our last big family vacation now that we’re Stateside. Jorie Rice Cogguillo and Molly Whitaker O’Donovan made one more trip down to San Miguel before we left, this time with their husbands, Chris and Charlie, in tow. What a ball we had, the highlight probably the day spent in the sun at the hot springs playing Cards Against Humanity and howling for hours. (The margaritas were a nice accompaniment.) Jorie is still in Connecticut, still playing the lottery, hoping for that ticket back to Baltimore. In her spare time she is binge watching Netflix commercial-free TV: Watching Rectify is actually a milestone for me. I have only recently taken the time to figure out how to watch our TV. Actually, the stumbling block for me was thinking of TV watching as a social activity and then waiting for someone to watch something I am interested in. But I have given up on that because of.... puppy, who is more than happy to keep me company. (Jorie adopted a new dog named Milan who joins Memphis, another rescue from Tennessee.)

Clearly life is racing by as it seems like moments ago we were gathered at the RPCS

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lunch table eating croutons and blue cheese dressing. Milestones galore for 2015-16. My oldest (24) received an MA in applied math from Lehigh and headed out to Salt Lake City for a job with a biotech firm and lots of mountain biking and skiing. Fortunately for him the company runs on a European-style schedule with lots of long weekends which he takes full advantage of. Megan (22) will graduate from Dartmouth in June and will be working in New York City for Global Atlantic.

Grace (just turned 18 which is really not that exciting these days - you can vote and buy lotto tickets) is a senior in high school and waiting to hear from colleges. Leah is a freshman at the same all-girls school. They played on the same field hockey team this fall and will play lacrosse together, making my life incredibly convenient. Which must be why we have acquired two puppies in the past year.

Clearly I am dreading the empty nest. I started working part time about two years ago for my husband’s dental practice which is working out surprisingly well. Molly spent Snowmageddon in February holed up in New York City where she had gone for an opera….before all of Broadway was cancelled. Fortunately she had her mother and dear cousins in the same East Side apartment watching the blizzard swirl around them. When she finally made it out and back to Baltimore she found no one had plowed her street and she walked the last mile home.

In other heartwarming dog stories Molly and Charlie adopted our dear Mexican pup, Nacho. We couldn’t have him in

Sons of Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981 - Redding, Bo and Mason

California so he and Sam (his dad, my husband) made a long and circuitous trip to Charm City. Nacho is adjusting to life in Baltimore County (and snow), and even has ingratiated himself with their family lab, Crush. We are so grateful to the O’Donovans and their top dog for letting Nacho into their lives. Molly writes: Charlie and I are digging the whole empty nest deal; having more time to hang out with our friends certainly takes the edge off of missing the girls. We aren’t doing too much traveling, due to two university tuitions, so we are hanging out with the dogs and binging on Netflix. Not too exciting, but very pleasant nonetheless! Missy Sinwell

Amy Wheeler, 1981 with her husband Barry Fudim in Italy

Smith writes: So, still working at IBM celebrated my 30th year this past summer. Still a horse show Mom - and my car still smells like ponies. When I am not stomping around in muck boots, I’m traveling a bit more for pure pleasure. Gotta get out of that barn!

Enjoying catching up with RPCS alums on FB! Hope this finds you and all of our classmates and their families doing well - Happy, Bright and Merry Holidays, and a 2016 that has started joyfully. Annlee “Booper” Jones Boutwell, proud mother of two Roland Park grads, shares: All is well here in lovely West Towson! Rob and I became empty nesters this year and have been enjoying the peace and quiet! I continue to work at Hopkins Bayview as the Orthopedic Surgical Coordinator and enjoy the challenge it brings on a daily basis.

Kelsey Jackson, 2010 (23) is living and working in The Big Apple in the neighborhood of Chelsea. She works in marketing at PHD Worldwide. Amity Jackson, 2014 will be turning 19 and will be in her sophomore year in engineering. She is transferring from Miami of Ohio to Arizona State for her second year. I hope all my former RPCS classmates are happy and healthy...reunion #35 is just around the corner. Last time there was a Triple Crown winner, we were in High School and the future was a wild, crazy dream! Let’s do something spectacular for #35! Libby Sunderland Fitzgerald is still in New York and busier than ever. She started her own company with a friend and began selling in July 2015. She’s essentially back to work full time and it’s been great! Check out their line of shoes and beach gear at Sea Star Beachwear. Olivia “Livi” Evans tells us: I am still working as an Information Assurance Manager at Lockheed Martin. I managing the information security program for Lockheed’s cloud. I have been working there for about 18 years which is just about enough time to truly develop Stockholm Syndrome … I have come to love my captors…. err, I mean employer. That said, things should be changing for me in the next year as Lockheed has announced that they are trying to sell off a huge part of the company - which of course is the part that I work for. Apart from work, I have been living a quiet but enjoyable life in Clarksburg, MD. I look forward to catching up on what you all are doing. Muffie Cook Sandberg has moved on to greener pastures and may perhaps have someone new in her life: I continue to work for Connections Education working in online education. It is a challenge and fun keeping up with new technology and working with students from across the country and the globe. Over the past year, I had fun trips to Santa Fe and Palm Beach, new locations and lots of fun. Todd (26) is in his third year of

In NYC with Annlee Jones Boutwell, 1981, her mom Mary Katherine Pechulis, and daughter Kelsey Jackson, 2010

working for Power Home Remodeling and doing very well. Ward (21) is a junior at Guilford College majoring in psychology. Jay (18) is a senior at Gilman and still waiting to hear from colleges. Jay spent one month last summer in China, Cambodia, and Thailand.

During Christmas of 2015, I had fun visiting hospitals with a new friend giving gifts to sick children who had to spend the holidays away from home in the hospital. This in from Deb Wheeler Nyul: Life is good here in Texas - still raising the last boy, giving away copious

hours to local school, PTA and civic enterprises, and traveling when possible. This past summer we visited Switzerland to watch eldest son, Tom, perform in the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Returning stateside, we launched him off to NY for his freshman year at Cornell. Am still amazed at how bittersweet such a happy moment in life can be. Fortunately, we still have second son at home to fill the house with sounds of jazz trumpet and litter the home with lacrosse equipment. We’re developing a dubious reputation as the “Von Nyul Family”

Beth Ballard Kilgore, 1981 with her daughter Brooke in New York

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Christine Herman Merrill Smith, 1981 on her horse Pass at the Tranquility Horse Show

players at our church for adding jazz as a quartet (piano, trumpet, saxophone, and vocals) whenever stars align and all four of us are together. AFS sister, Liliana Congote, has kept loyal contact over the years is still as beautiful as ever with great career, wonderful husband, and her two grown handsome sons.

Who knows? We may be able to lure her to the October reunion! Tell Missy and Molly that I have entered them into the RPCS archives with a number of sepia-toned photo relics found in a recent trip to see my folks. Chrisoula Kakavas Kucharski always charms with her personal tales of political and economic upheaval in Greece. Who needs Mrs. Brock when you’ve got Chrisoula: I went to Greece this summer with hubby Stephen and we had a fabulous time. We were there for the historic demo-psifisma (vote that took place all over Greece: “Yes” or “No”). The country voted “No” but the government officials still took another loan….why did they even bother asking the people? Never understood politics.

We were there for the banks closing/limited funds given, etc. Fortunately, we had euros so we were not affected. I was particularly impressed by what one tourist had to say during an interview. The question was: ‘are you afraid to travel to Greece?’ The response: ‘No, we love the Greek people and we need to support them!” I was happy that we were able to do so. We stayed four and a half weeks. It was super great to see everybody and to stay at our parents’ home. Truly, it was very hard to leave. Other than that, we visited my sister, Eleni Kakavas Monios, 1982 in her beautiful home/town in Glen Rock, NJ! There is a fantastic Greek restaurant right in Glen Rock (excellent/authentic food). I need to visit her again…it’s like going on vacation! Eleni was with us for the Christmas holiday. It was awesome having her with me, but you know I cried when she left. I am still at Thunderbolt Global Logistics. So far, after eight years, it’s still fun. Hope all is well with everyone! Lots of xoxoxo to all. Clare Stewart Perry now claims sole Ex-Pat title and I’m a little bit jealous of continuing peripatetic lifestyle. Just in from South America this news flash: Living in Santiago, Chile - heading to Panama tonight for three weeks. Searched Spanish language school at the beach and came up with Bocas del Toro, Panama. Will study first in a mountain town, Boquete, for a week and then to the ocean. Homestays all around - my husband and I in one and kids in another.

Living in Santiago now for close to two years - will be here at least another year and a half gorgeous country with mountains and seas, lakes, deserts, and volcanoes. Missing “home” - Northampton, MA sometimes, but we do get to spend a month in June/July there. Three teenagers in the house! A junior, sophomore

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Julia Somerville Ulstrup, 1981 and her husband Leif in Scottsdale

and eighth grader so college is looming on the horizon. Who knows where we will be living or where kids will be in a couple of years, but so far we are liking the somewhat nomadic lifestyle. We also love visitors. Any plans to visit Chile - we are here and would love to show you around! Love and hugs. Jeanne Gerstley Weiner sends us this news: The Weiner crew remains busy and rather boring.

My oldest son Zach is still living in NYC and still working at JP Morgan Chase. Jake also is living in NYC and recently changed jobs and is now working at a startup. Having left the banking world, he loves going to work in jeans, t-shirts and flip flops when the weather allows it! Emmy is entering her final semester at Kenyon, and is looking forward to graduating and joining the working world.

Other than lining up that job, she’s ready!

Allie is trudging through her junior year at McDonogh. She plays lots of field hockey, and even met Jorie’s daughter at a field hockey camp last summer. And then Jorie and I ran into each other as we were taking our girls on a college tour. This winter my girls had the privilege of playing field hockey in Santiago, Chile. And lucky for them, Clare Stewart Perry just happens to be living there! Just loved hearing that they met up for ice cream and an afternoon visit. RPCS friends are amazing! As for Jeff and me, things are pretty much the same. Jeff is a financial planner with BF Edwards and loves the business, which is good since he works a lot! And I have kept myself busy in the volunteer world at McDonogh.

Looking forward to seeing lots of you at our 35th Reunion. YIKES! Are we really that old?!

Julie George Evans sadly laments: my children’s news seems more exciting than my own these days. [Who among us can’t really say that?]

However, one highlight of my year was to reconnect with my AFS host family in Turkey

Children of Karol McAdam Obora, 1981

whom I first met 35 years ago during the summer of my RPCS junior year. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the October wedding of my host “sister’s” only son. The wedding with some 600 guests was amazing. I was surprised how much of the Turkish that I had learned all those years ago came back. I can’t wait to go back to Turkey once again.

Our son, Austin, is now a junior in college and is very excited to be spending a semester studying at the Danish Technical University in the outskirts of Copenhagen. He won’t miss the extreme cold typical of Wisconsin winters.

Our daughter Claire Evans, 2016 is now a

senior at RPCS and very busy as the co-editor of the yearbook, singing with the Semiquavers and running track. Her creative talents continue to amaze me-especially since I share none of them. She plans to study graphic design in college, but we don’t yet know where she will go (though she received two acceptances before Christmas so that took a lot of pressure off the rest of the application process). Christine Herman Merrill Smith fills us in: Last year was my first year bagpiping again, and the band performed in 15 parades and three shows all told! Four St. Patrick’s, five July 4th’s, three Memorial Days, one National Legioneers’ Convention, and two Veterans’ Day mini parades. My band, the John F. Nicoll Pipe Band, is now gearing up for the St. Patrick’s Day parades! We do four parades in York, Harrisburg, Baltimore, and Annapolis.

We adopted a new dog, a Pom/Cocker Spaniel mix last August after our dear Golden died.

We named her Penny – she hails from a high kill shelter in Tennessee and was saved then fostered by a lovely couple in Virginia. Saw her on Petfinder and fell in love. She is eight – yet full of life and a beautiful and sweet dog.

Please consider adoption when thinking about getting a dog – and don’t be afraid of the older ones – they usually are calmer and are housebroken if raised right. Painting dog portrait commissions and gearing up for a future exhibition (English Royal Breeds). And I’m finally on Facebook under my married name: Christine Smith, only took 12 years for me to get aboard!! Also, in October, I entered my very first Horse Show and actually won a Second and a Third Place ribbon! Vicky Stuelpnagel Murray is still recovering from the snowstorm of the century: You have to cut the

Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, 1981 and Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981

Mindy Harper Stensrud, 1981 and her children Baltimore gang a bit of slack as we are still digging out from the enormous blizzard!

Schools closed early on Friday and finally went back two hours late the following Thursday. I have served quarts of hot chocolate to adorable neighborhood children as their sodden snow suits run in my dryer and they sit on our couch in their long underwear watching marathons of SpongeBob Square Pants. I have actually spent a fair amount of time on the RPCS campus the last few years taking Thai cooking classes in the Kaleidoscope program. It’s been great fun and Keith is an enthusiastic guinea pig. Samantha is in third grade at St. Paul’s and I am humbled to learn that they have actually changed math since my day and I no longer know how to do it (I can get the right answer but not the “right” way.) We share our house with two dogs, two fish and a hamster who help to keep things lively. I am in my fourth year as the Director of Training and Documentation for Conifer and still try to find time for some tennis, paddle tennis and golf.

Hoping to catch up with lots of you in person this year at our 35th Reunion. EEK! How did that happen? Soon-to-be-expat Beth House Graham tells us: Scott stalks Ann Hillers because he wants to “winter” in Mexico or Equator. Duncan (25) and has two startups in the techie world of San Fran. Rachel (22) after a gap year living in Paris is a junior at UMD College Park. Maria (18) after the past three years graduates from Friends in May...our only child to graduate from a real school since older two were homeschooled. For me the yoga/ nutrition works is fun and booming! I teach group classes for both, have corporate classes and give private yoga lessons plus have skype and in home nutritional clients...plus cooking classes and my work at Nava Health & Vitality. I love it all! Can’t wait to see everyone not on Facebook, but in flesh and blood!

Karol McAdam Obora lives in Naperville, suburb of Chicago shares: Nothing changes here. Looking at colleges for TJ (16) and

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hauling the twins (11) around…TJ helps with that. My pics of my three challenges are last.

Still working for ClaimForce last nine years.

Beth Ballard Kilgore writes: This year has been a very busy year for us. My daughter Brookie started her second year at Towson majoring in Special Education. She boards there and absolutely adores it and it is nice for us having her so close to home. I got to fly out with Brookie to Oregon this past summer for the first time to spend some time with my cousin Jocelyn and her husband Mark. They took us all over the place. Loved Oregon! Our son, Andrew, (a junior at Hereford) worked very hard this past year on a very special Eagle Scout Project - two memorials he built on the grounds of Hereford High School for two fallen marines, Norman Anderson III, and Josh Snyder, who attended Hereford, both were in scouts. The project was completed late summer, his Eagle Scout ceremony was in September (the weekend after I had unexpected gall bladder surgery!) and dedication was in November. Now we will be starting the college search with him. Time flies! I am still working at Wedding411, a local Maryland Wedding resource magazine, where I handle all the website and accounting work and my husband, Trevor, is in home improvements/carpentry.

News from down south and Suzanne Michels: I continue to live in Charlottesville, VA (29 years here), with my husband, Mike, and two daughters, Eileen (19) and Catherine (16).

Eileen is in her first year of college and Cat is in her junior year of high school, both doing well. Parenting teenagers brings up frequent memories of all the crazy things we did in our RPCS days and gratitude that my children are much more tame! I have been in private practice as a psychologist for a few decades, currently focused on assessment (learning issues, emotional difficulties), and also do volunteer work for the local Sierra Club and democrats. I visit my dad frequently, who is still in Baltimore and recently moved to assisted living. I wish I got to see more of everyone! This year, Clare, Jorie and I rendezvoused at Jorie’s in Connecticut. Please let me know if anyone visits Charlottesville to show UVA to their prospective college student…would love to show you around.

Amy Wheeler, way up north, writes: Life in Vermont continues to be great. I am here with my husband and Acupuncture business partner, Barry Fudim, and our dog Bodhi. My acupuncture practice is thriving and I continue to get more involved in the local community.

We have our main practice in St. Johnsbury, VT and also maintain a practice in Hanover, NH two days a week. We have been teaching a seasonal class at Dartmouth College, which incorporates general information about

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Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and the students also receive Acupuncture treatments.

There is sadly an epidemic level of opiate and heroin addiction here in the Northeast Kingdom and I am working with a local methadone clinic to offer Acupuncture and meditation as new ways to work with people and their recovery experience. The more fun news from the last year is, I took my first trip to Europe. Barry put an excursion together for us that took us through the northern part of Italy. We flew into Milan and then took trains, boats and buses from point to point. We spent two weeks in total and made stops in Venice, Cinque Terre and Lake Como. All our friends wanted to know was if we got to see George Clooney? The answer would be no! Amy wins the prize for least changed in 35 years.

Look at that photo of her and her hubby!

From the land of no return comes an update from Mindy Harper Stensrud, whom we had to flush out of hiding: I have been living in the Pacific Northwest for the last 18 years. My husband built us a house in Browns Point Washington which overlooks the Puget Sound and a view of the Olympic Mountains. We have two kids Maddie (17) and Russell (14).

They both are very active teenagers! We enjoy boating, camping, skiing and golfing together as a family. I have been with AmerisourceBergen Corp for 18 years now. I currently am a Director of Field Sales Training and love it.

Muriel Castadot Tashjian tell us: Hello from NJ! Reunion date is on my calendar.

My daughter, Natalie, is in Copenhagen this semester. Going to see her at Spring Break with husband Craig and ten-year-old son, Julian. Meanwhile, I’m working with an Education Foundation in town to bring

Muffie Cook Sandberg, 1981 with three sons

Stevie, the daughter of Missy Sinwell Smith, 1981 with her horse

additional programs to the local school.

Martha Hall Messineo tells us: I’m living in San Luis Obispo, CA with my husband, Chris, and two kids … I mean dogs (Nina, 12, and Buddy, two). We just moved into a new home last fall and are finally getting settled. So far we are loving the California central coast – mostly 70s and sunny and we are about 15 minutes to the ocean and within 30 minutes of at least a hundred wineries … it’s hard to beat!

And, we’re only about three hours from Burbank where my sister Jane Hall, 1983, lives, so it’s nice to see her more often! I’m still working as a software developer for SAS (a software company in North Carolina). I’ve been with them for 27 years now (gulp!).

Chris is also a computer programmer and we both work from home, which is really convenient, but a lot of togetherness! Golf takes up a lot of our spare time (and money) – though after shoulder surgery last year, I’m just getting back into it so it’s not all that much fun right now. Last summer we took a safari in Tanzania to celebrate Jane and Chris’s 50th birthdays (I know … they are so young!). It was amazing. We saw four of the Big 5, but never could find a leopard. Chris and I are hoping to take a golf vacation to Scotland next year with my dad. From BBQ Hill Country chimes in Apple nee Alexandra Garcia: I can’t wait to see you all in October. In the meantime, life is good in Austin, TX! I work a lot as Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin School of Nursing. I teach courses in global health, public health nursing and research. I teach freshmen through doctoral students and I love it all. Half my job is to conduct research - proposal writing, doing the studies, analyzing the data, and writing manuscripts. Who would have thought? My mom and two brothers are here in town and

my husband, Jim, keeps me laughing and gets me out to enjoy music and theater. I hope 2016 is the year I put my rock climbing shoes on again! No kids, but two kittens to love on and push me away like typical teenagers. I miss you guys a bunch and love seeing all that you are up to. Julia Somerville Ulstrup, who takes second prize for never changing, says: Leif and I are still in Washington, DC, enjoying our empty nest. Our son, Christian (24), is living, working and thriving in Santa Monica, CA. He works at Red Bull Media House doing data analytics for Red Bull TV. Our daughter, Sarah (21), is a junior at Oberlin College in Ohio, pursuing a theater major. She’s our amazing actress. Both kids were home for the holidays.

It was great to be all together! In July, my parents moved out of their house in Bolton Hill after 53 years and into a wonderful apartment in the Ambassador, right near Hopkins’ main campus. Dad broke his hip Christmas 2014 but has made a full recovery.

He and Mom are as busy and independent as ever. In 2013, I became Vice President and General Counsel at ICI Mutual Insurance Company. The new role has kept me busy but I’m enjoying the challenge. I travel quite a bit now, both in the US and Europe. Amazing what I’ve learned to cram into a carry-on bag!

Some girlfriends and I recently decided to learn to play Mahjong - really just an excuse to get together once a month to catch up and drink wine (without having to read a book). Reminds me of Pearl Wilkes and the original RPCS Bridge Club - it was all about the snacks. :) I’m really excited to see everyone at reunion.

Love the idea of a class FB page!

Class of 1982 Kathy Keys Osborn bmorekathy@verizon.net Now that we’re all in our 50s, I mean 40s….. damn, I do mean 50s….there are so many more amazing, exciting and just downright cool things happening in our lives! Wendi Frenkil Biemer is living the life we all wish we were living! Wendi checks in from England with her annual Valentine’s Day greeting: We’ve been here over a year now, and we’ve adapted to the many culture and lifestyle changes - our life in England is quite different from our life in Glencoe, IL! More about that later in this letter, though …The big life-changing news to share this year is that we are going to be grandparents! Yay! When Rachel and Garrett told us the news, I was in a restaurant preparing to pay the bill and my wallet flew

Annie Calhoun, 2016, Dave Calhoun, Grace Calhoun, 2017 and Jane Daniels, 1982

from my hands in excitement! How appropriate – with a granddaughter on the way, I finally get to shop in the pink aisles of the stores. After the baby is born, Rachel is planning on taking the rest of this school year off and returning to teaching the following year. Garrett recently changed jobs and is now working for Goji, a small start-up insurance brokerage. Their new home is in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood, and the wee one’s nursery is ready and waiting. Our beloved Colan is a private person, and he doesn’t enjoy us broadly sharing details about his life. For this year’s Valentine’s Day letter, he has authorized us to say that he is “OK,” which is consistent with previous years’ letters. “OK” is a very thin description of our multi-faceted son, and although we could fill this page with much news, alas, “OK” is all that Colan wishes for us to say about him. This means that we won’t tell you about Colan’s academic achievements at Drexel University, or that he is entering his last year of school; or that he is weighing whether to go to grad school or seek employment (he might be saying things like, grad school puts off reality for another couple of years). We can tell you, though, that we spent Christmas with Colan in the Canary Islands and the New Year holiday eating our way thru Barcelona. You can infer from that that Colan remains deeply interested in both travel and tasty food – us, too! We downsized from a five-bedroom house to a two-bedroom flat, reducing a home filled with furniture to two storage lockers, giving away about 80% of what we owned. This was an amazing

experience in and of itself - it is liberating not owning a house. However, living in a rented flat also has its challenges! We’ve suffered from multiple ceiling leaks that seem to be caused from rain – or, as our landlord describes it, ‘extremely rare weather conditions.’ It has been a huge learning experience and an incredible opportunity to travel around Europe. We’ve had many visitors this past year, and we’d love to welcome more of you!

Remember to shoot us an email if you are anywhere nearby–we’d love to see you!

Xoxo. Asmat Khan writes, We are all doing well. Ammara Elsevier, 2021 had a great school year last year. She was Dorothy in the Middle School musical The Wiz, represented

Ammara Elsevier, 2021, daughter of Asmat Kahn, 1982

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The girls of 1982 (l. to r.) Jane Daniels, Kira Sekulow, Libby Davis Fraker, Valerie Edwards Vaile, Susie Roberts Bingham, Beth Atkins Schroeder, Kerry Schloeder Boyle

RPCS in the Baltimore Spelling Bee, was in the TWIGS performance of Hansel and Gretel, and made Honor Roll for the year. We had a “renaissance summer” and went to Venice, Florence and Rome before returning to Paris.

We had a great time and survived the heat wave by eating gelatos at every turn! So far this school year has also been fantastic. She will be “Ripper” (the skater dude) as well as in the ensemble for the Middle School

performance of High School Musical, she had a great season of field hockey, and is continuing her ballet at TWIGS and piano at Peabody. She is having a lot of fun. Willem and I are happy and busy with work … and keeping up with Ammara! Thank you, Liz Brune, for sending in the great photos! Next time, how about including yourself in one? Liz writes: Another year has gone by for me here in Chicago. Off this week to meet up with Val Edwards Vaile in

Children of Valerie Edwards Vaile, 1982, Carol Croft Linde, 1982 and Katie Brooks McEntee, 1982 (l. to r.) Danny Vaile, Christine Vaile, 2013, Mattie Linde, Claire McEntee, Kate Linde, and Sam Linde

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Palm Desert and visit with the Edwards.

Looking forward to 70 degrees and sun which beats the -20 degrees we are experiencing in Chicago. Miss my friend Wendi Frenkil Biemer who is currently living outside of London, I know she has lots of good news to share. I’m back in Baltimore occasionally visiting friends and family. B’more still has the best crab cake, hon. Alison Kenny Brennan writes: Kids are growing up too fast! Kallie had her five year RPCS reunion in the fall. Earned a Master’s in classical art and archeology from Royal Holloway in England and is job hunting.

Jonathan graduates from American University in May and two weeks later will start work at his top choice company Cambridge Associates.

Andrew graduates from Boys’ Latin a week later and will head to Washington and Lee University in September. I will graduate with Andrew (sort of) since my year as President of the Parents’ Association will come to an end when I hand him his diploma. In July, I will start a three year term on the Randolph College Alumni Association Board and am sad that I will start my term after Heather Ayers Garnett has left to start a new job at Lynchburg College. Hard to believe my days of volunteering at the kids’ schools is coming to an end and I’m about to start my last season in the lacrosse stands! It goes by too fast!

Another 82-er with kids in college, Carol Croft Linde reports from Boston, MA: Life is slowly changing…my oldest daughter, Kate, graduated college this year and is working fulltime in NYC - living her dream, adopting a kitten and working hard. My middle daughter, Maddie, is a junior in college in NYC so it is great that the sisters can get together and I can visit my favorite city a lot. My youngest, Sam, is a senior in high school. He is happily looking forward to not living at home with his parents staring at him all of the time. Doug and I are bracing ourselves to be empty nesters - I am hoping for some sage advice from Ingrid Boyton Polk and Valerie Edwards Vaile! I am keeping busy with all of my family and friends. I feel very thankful for social media as it has reconnected me with so many RPCS classmates. Valerie Edwards Vaile has been all over the place, visiting her children and her friends. She writes: I am working part time for a VC firm specializing in pharma. It keeps me out of trouble. Everyone is so much younger!

My official title is Company Mom. I went out to California in January to see Melanie and George and Brett Nausha, 1984. My timing was perfect - I missed that dreadful Snowmagedon! I had to stay a few extra days in the sun. Oh well :) Ernie, Danny and I went to London over Thanksgiving to see Christine Vaile, 2013, who was studying abroad for the Fall Semester. Wendi Frenkil Biemer was my

Kathy Keys Osborn, 1982 and family at a wedding with Max, Kathy, flower girl Kate, Mark and Boomer

back up Mom for Christine in London. Wendi took Christine to see the inside of Buckingham Palace and to formal tea at the Savoy! As a Mom, it was very reassuring to have Wendi there for my girl. We spent time with Carol, Katie Brooks McEntee, and Liz over Christmas break playing poker and ping pong. We hoped to see Ingrid, but she was sick as a dog and

decided not to share the love. Katie Brooks McEntee writes: started a new job with Visa managing the Chase relationship in Wilmington, while also trying to manage my anxiety with Claire starting to drive and beginning the college search process. Travel adventure this year was exploring Machu Picchu and the Amazon. Ingrid Boyton Polk always tells us there’s not much new, then goes on to add all the wonderful things her daughters are doing: Not too much new info from the Polks. Natalie Polk, 2012 is still at Clemson doing her Computer Engineering degree and enjoyed their fabulous football season (made it to the National Championships vs. Alabama in case you all weren’t paying attention). Kristin Polk, 2014 is a Systems Engineer at UVA and is loving her time there even though she does not go to as many football games as Natalie does – basketball is the thing there. On another note, Tim is still the Paddle Tennis Commissioner of Maryland and loving that sport, playing in many national tournaments. I pretty much stay home with my sweet dog, Sadie (a cockapoo) and travel a lot to visit my kids. I am still trying to master that stupid game called golf and one day I will get it! Life is Good! Love spending time with my mom as our whole family is still getting over the death of my sweet, wonderful, kind and talented gem of a dad (March, 2015). GEB… you are greatly missed by the entire RPCS community and especially the Class of 1982!

Kira Sekulow shares: In addition to the website management work I’ve been doing for the last decade or so, for the last couple years I’ve been working as a job coach for an adult who was my camper 25 years ago! And this year I also started working for a retired Hopkins

Jaimie Rose Biemer, granddaughter of Wendy Frenkil Biemer, 1982

doctor/researcher, helping him do things around the house etc. that he can’t do on his own anymore. Feels good to be out helping people again! As for me, Kathy Keys Osborn, my family really keeps me on my toes. I am currently entering the world of glasses, braces, zits, and attitudes. Between soccer and lacrosse, piano and drum lessons, my job at preschool, and trying to help my mom declutter her house in anticipation of her moving to Pickersgill (in our backyard, almost!) I can barely see straight. I miss my little kids, but these bigger kids get jokes and enjoy movies and play games. And there are no diapers to change! My issue now is that my oldest son has a much more active social life than my husband and I do. We are currently only chauffeurs! We had a busy, road tripping 2015, visiting Chicago in June for a wedding, taking our annual trip to Bethany in July, and attending another family wedding in Virginia Beach in October. So, as you see, it really is quite an incredible time in our lives. Some of us might be moving kids out to college or into their first apartment and maybe doing a secret little happy dance; other of us are saying a final, heartbreaking farewell to our parents; still others are filled with the joy of the birth of grandchildren! Through it all, we have been here for each other. We remain the close knit class of 1982. Love to you all!

The Vaile family in London: Christine Vaile, 2013, Danny, Valerie Edwards Vaile, 1982 and Ernie Vaile

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Class of 1984 Linda Schaefer Cameron lindajschaefer@yahoo.com It is indeed a big year for our class! I don’t want to even put into print that over the next year we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of our 40th birthday! This seems to be a year of transitions for many: several in the class are approaching the first year as an empty-nester, while others have moved, are searching for a new project or job or are enjoying travel. Our west coast girl Brett Edwards Nausha shares: We are all well. Danny and I became empty nesters last year and were a little nervous about it but have been having a ball traveling a lot locally and abroad. George is a senior in college already and Will is a sophomore and they are together at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am working for Nestle in their nutrition division.

My parents are in Palm Desert so I get to see them often. I can’t believe we will all be turning 50 this year! Hello to everyone. Brigid Jones Fahmy shares: My husband, Tim, and I still live in Rockville, MD. Our oldest son, Tamir is 23 and working in Bethesda in a job he really loves. Zack, 20, is a sophomore at the College of Charleston, SC and is so happy there. We love visiting! The four of us were able to take an amazing trip this past summer to Germany, Greece, Egypt and United Arab Emirates.

It was great spending three weeks together before Tamir started his full-time job and Zack went back to college. Hope the rest of our class has a healthy and happy 2016! Anne Ward Angel shares: It is hard to believe that Betsy Angel, 2012 has just started her last semester at JMU which is also her last lacrosse season ever. Tom and I will not know what to do with ourselves after traveling in the fall and every weekend from February through mid-May. The JMU Dukes won the CAA Conference in 2015 and made it to the NCAA Tournament, but lost to USC in the first round. It was a disappointment, but we were thrilled to have gotten that far and Betsy was the leading scorer for the season. She was voted captain for 2015 - 2016 and is focused on the upcoming season. Jack is in tenth grade at McDonogh and involved in theater, dance and is part of the Gentleman Songsters choral group. He had an opportunity to travel to Spain and Portugal with the concert choir in June and was in Pippin in the fall. He will be in Peter Pan in the spring and will help to direct the show which is a great opportunity. Time has certainly flown by! Catherine Lucas Wyatt: is still teaching preschool, but I have switched schools. I am now teaching the 2s at Redeemer. Timmy, the

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Members of the Class of 1984 at The Valley Inn while Amanda Schlott Lietman is in town for the holidays

girls, and I are all great. Lucy is a sophomore at The University of South Carolina. Maeve is a senior at St. Paul’s and making her college decision soon. Keelty is a sophomore at Friends and looking forward to being an only child next fall. Mary Caskey Gregory shares: I’m at Brown Advisory, enjoying work there as well as involvement with several nonprofits. Kids are now 12, Farrell, and 14, Bridget who is looking at high schools. It’s been fun spending some time at RPCS for that purpose. Ed and I just spent a weekend in New York celebrating a college friend’s 50th!

Mine’s around the corner. I see a lot of RPCS classmates here and there, especially at Calvert School. Marion Brune Paterson: I am working as Director of Development at The Ethel Walker School, where my two daughters are a freshman and a junior. The college application process is looming before us! It is fun to be where they are and we enjoy sharing lunchtime and assemblies, and I feel right at home in an all-girls’ school. If anyone is passing through the area, please come to visit me at home and/or school! And reporting from sunny Puerto Rico, Patricia Ordóñez, PhD shares: just finished three and a half years as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras. I go up for tenure next semester. Not sure whether I want to stay or go or am just dreading the process. I miss my family in Maryland a lot!

Hoping to do many great new things this year like adopt a child and find a way back home. It’s so beautiful in Puerto Rico, but home is where the heart is and my heart is still in Maryland. Our art educator Suzy Witmer Wolffe shares: Clare is a ninth grader at SPSG. Sarah is in seventh grade at Calvert. I am now

Manager of Teacher and School Programs at the BMA and hope that you’ll all visit now that renovations are over and the galleries are completely reopened. Kate Tubman Cameron shares: All is well with the Cameron clan. My oldest, Kerry, is graduating from Calvert this June and is doing the Baltimore high school hunt. I am crossing my fingers for RPCS, but time will tell. I’m trying very hard not to be a pushy mama. My youngest, Coco, is in sixth grade at Calvert and is very happy there. She plays lacrosse for TLC and loves it. Both are off to Camp Seafarer, NC this summer for a whole month. My project list is a mile long! Pat and I will take a side trip to Nashville too. I stay busy volunteering for several groups, one being the RPCS Alumnae Board. I love working with fellow grads, old and new! Pat is still racking up long hours at Ober, Kaler, practicing commercial/corporate law... Wishing all ‘84ers a great year! Patty Healy Howells shares: I live in Portland, ME with husband Eddie, our 13 and ten-yearold girls, and our furry dog. I teach cooking to kids and to grown-ups, and I volunteer at The Telling Room, a creative writing center for kids in Portland. We love living in Maine, and we enjoy visitors, though for some reason they arrive mostly in the summer! Kathleen Finnerty Curtis, the Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management of our alma mater, says: My exciting news for 2015 is that we moved from the city to the county! We are loving it - still unpacking as we moved between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The girls are thrilled to have their own rooms, but I think the chickens are the happiest with their new digs! Lock, the girls and I are all doing well.

Debbie Elsnic Burgio shares: It has been a

busy, but blessed year. Tom will be graduating from the University of Maryland in May with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He will be working with Textron Systems in Hunt Valley.

Too far to live at home, but I am so thankful he will be close by. He will probably bring me his laundry on weekends. Elizabeth is a junior at UMD in biochemistry and microbiology and will most likely be working at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research this summer.

I graduate from Wesley Theological Seminary in May with a Master of Theological Studies.

We are all looking forward to a graduation/ birthday/anniversary cruise this summer before Tom enters the real world. Rob and I are adjusting to the empty nest, sort of, and are ready to celebrate our 28th anniversary in June. Hard to believe. Amanda Schlott Lietman is well and made a brief visit to Baltimore over the Christmas holiday to visit family. Several of us were thrilled to be able to see her for a gathering at The Valley Inn. As for me, Linda Schaefer Cameron, in October Dennis and I moved out to the county (granted, not California, but a change nonetheless!) and are just minutes from sister-in-law Kate and other classmates. We are enjoying the change and setting up our new home. We celebrated Christmas and New Year’s with family in the new space and loved it. We had a wonderful trip with friends to Banff, Canada last fall, and will travel to Napa Valley and Kennebunkport, ME this summer. Dennis is working on his golf game and I have just celebrated my 12th year with CCS (international fundraising consulting firm) as Senior Vice President in the MidAtlantic region. Life is good. I hope everyone is well and I look forward to seeing you at our next gathering; perhaps a mini reunion this fall! Take care and please stay in touch.

Class of 1985 30th Reunion Helenka Hopkins Nolan helenka.nolan@gmail.com Susan Cho: I’m back in Maryland, at an intentional community that I helped to found, seven years ago. http://maitrihouse.org/.

Visitors welcome! (as long as you’re OK with some chaos). Jamye Siegel Stern writes: Not much to report on my end either. I have Sydney, 2016 graduating from RPCS in June.

A 12 year girl! Has not decided on where she is going to college yet. The 30 year Reunion was super fun. Susie Chung hosted in her gorgeous home in Ruxton. Bridget Brennan shares: Still

Carlisle Darrell, 2016, Libby Murphy, HA and Beth Murphy Darrell, 1985

in Santa Cruz, CA and working at Google. My oldest graduated from Georgia Tech recently and started her new job in Florida as a Software Developer for a subsidiary of a German company. A highlight this year was getting together with Margaret Smith, former Headmistress of RPCS. We met in San Francisco. Was great to learn more about her and RPCS when she was there. Looking forward to seeing her again sometime. Sorry to have missed the 30th Reunion, but would love to see some pictures. Send in more notes! Love hearing about all of the cool things people are up to. Rebecca Moses Loughlin: It was great to see our classmates at Susie Chung’s house for the Reunion last October. Everyone seems exactly the same. I am still in Atlanta after almost 14 years. My girls are growing up - Ava is 13 and Emma is 15. My biggest change would be that I am newly single, but it’s all good and I am happy. As for my professional life, I have been a Talent Acquisition Manager with Ultimate Software for two years. I feel fortunate to be at such a great culture. Hope everyone is off to a good start in 2016! Lisa Fitzhugh is still charting a course changing culture inside government through her Seattlebased company Creative Ground. Mostly she spends her days “peace brokering” and supporting teams to do conflict well. Which means she also spends a lot of time on self-care to balance that out! She loves the young man her son Jack is becoming and they just spent some time out on the Washington coast with family. Don’t hesitate to seek her out the next time anyone is in the Pacific NW. Beckee Shaw showed incredible perseverance in her efforts to find a way to post her update on Facebook for me to get into Class Notes: Going into my 20th year as a psychologist in Baltimore City Public Schools and keeping busy on the crisis intervention team! My daughter is deep into middle school - we know what that means! She passed the taller-than-mom milestone last

Julie George Evans, 1981 with her daughter Claire Evans, 2016 and Sydney Stern, 2016 daughter of Jamye Siegel Stern, 1985 at the 100th Night Dinner for the Senior Class

year! I also remain involved in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - working toward a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. Had a great time at the reunion! Loved catching up everyone looks great! I would like to see pictures, also. Best wishes to everyone!

Suzanne Black would also love to see pictures of the reunion: Sorry I missed it. I am still living in Oneonta, NY where I teach professional writing and modern world literature at the local SUNY. The good news is that I love the area and got tenure in 2014; the bad news is that we have an intractable “twobody problem” and my husband Babak is still working in Indiana. I live with our third grader, Keyon, who is currently obsessed with soccer, video games and YouTube, and with

Children of Ann Zeitung Lombardi, 1985 and Lenka Hopkins Nolan, 1985: Jamie Lombardi, Jillian Lombardi and Isabelle Nolan

Ann Zeitung Lombardi, 1985 and her family with Lenka Hopkins Nolan, 1985 and her daughter

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Lisa Fitzhugh, 1985 and her son Jack

Katey Miller Goldberg, 1985 and her sister Merrie Miller DeLauder, 1983 in the Galapagos

our guinea pig, Mr. George, whose interests are apparently limited to carrots and parsley.

This summer we made our first trip to China awesome food and sights. Let me know if you pass through upstate New York. Marcie Schein Randall writes: I went on an incredible safari to South Africa with the family and am already, at least mentally, planning a return trip! I continue with photography and am “focusing” (sorry) on Special Needs Portraiture as my niche. Step kids are 16 and almost 20 (sophomore at BU) and our little boy turns eight in February, making lots of wonderful progress despite his many challenges. Beth Layne Van Dyke: My update is that I am currently working with Meg Hendrickson Darrell at her financial company, and I love it!

I mostly take care of bookkeeping for the elderly. It beats working in a CPA firm any day! We live in Roland Park very near RPCS. I am married to George (22 years), I have a 20 year old son, Eddie, who attends Bucknell, and a 16 year old daughter, Lucy Van Dyke, 2018, who attends RPCS and loves it! George, Eddie, Lucy and I just went to Cambodia and Thailand over Christmas and enjoyed that trip so much. I hope you are staying healthy and doing well! Beth Murphy Darrell: Real estate

is going great. Jack is a junior at St. Mary’s College and Carlisle Darrell, 2016 will be graduating from RPCS in June and heading to Roanoke College in the fall. Mom and I went on a 16-day Viking River Cruise together In September. What a trip! Can’t believe David and I will be empty nesters soon! I hope you are well! Katey Miller Goldberg: I just returned from a trip to the Galápagos Islands with my sister, Merrie Miller DeLauder, 1983.

Amazing landscapes and unique animals! Still living in Greenwich, CT with my husband, Steve, who works for Citadel Hedge Fund, and our three children Sam (16), Zoe (14) and Henry (11). I am a tennis fanatic and went to Nationals with my team in October. We came in Fifth Place! I am the managing member of Miller Properties which is my extended family’s real estate investment company.

Mostly busy with motherhood. Kim Taylor: I’m still in Florida where I am in my 22nd year on the faculty in the College of Business at Florida International University. As a mom of two boys, I spend a lot of time going to Miami Marlins, Dolphins, Panthers, and Heat games, as well as our kids’ baseball games and guitar concerts and theater nights with my husband. Becky Rothgaber Barnes: Entering my third year in development with the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; children are finishing 11th, eighth (Campbell Barnes, 2020 at RPCS!), and fourth grades (x2). Susie Chung: Still practicing solo general Obstetrics and Gynecology at St Joseph Medical Center. Almost moved a couple of times because of job opportunities for Bert, but we are now settled for some time in Baltimore as he was just named chief of Cornea at Wilmer. Our daughter, Rebecca Jun, 2014, is in her second year at University of Michigan and loving it. The cold does not seem to faze her. Noah is a freshman at Gilman. Had a small, but lovely Reunion in

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our home this past fall. Hope everyone is doing well! Nitya-Lydia Griffith: I am doing well and thanks so much for keeping up with all of us! My work with kid’s yoga is doing really well and it is keeping me more than busy. This year I will receive my Masters in Chinese Astrology which I first began studying and practicing over 14 years ago. My daughter Beatrice (17) is a junior in high school. I have no idea where she is headed after high school but I’m sure it will be an adventure. I’m looking forward to the next reunion. I am happy to report that I saw Ann Zeitung Lombardi this summer with her beautiful family in Newport and then again in Providence for dinner. Her kids are superstars in sports and academics. Jamie will take a quick break from his usual scholar athlete schedule to attend the very selective Milton Mountain School this spring. Jillian is excelling in sports and academics, as well. As for me, Lenka Hopkins Nolan, my family is doing well… did I mention we have a teenager…need I say more?! Isabelle (15) is still enjoying tennis and Calvert (12) swims on the Crimson Tide Aquatics swim team. I am taking a break from the University for the next few years to be a mom for the teenager and soon-to beteenager in the house. I am trying to pick up consulting work in the energy sector and training for a half marathon. It sounds like our Reunion went incredibly well thanks to Jamye Siegel Stern, Susie Chung, Sonya Kazazian Hannan, Becky Rothgaber Barnes, Rachel Burgunder Hoch, Missi Bowman and Jenny Stuelpnagel Hovermill. Thank you to all of you for persevering through Facebook to get me information! Ann Zeitung Lombardi, thank you for helping me rally the troops!

Have a great year and stay in touch!

Members of the Class of 1986 (l. to r.) Beth Jarrett Wilkinson, Sarah Alfriend Ebert, Nelly Greene Perkins, Dolly Alevizatos von Hollen, Lea Craig Ward

Class of 1986 Kimberly Theis Sgroi kimberlys6@me.com There was quite a bit of change in 2015 for Beth Jarrett Wilkinson. She started a new job in February 2015 and moved to a new house (same town) a few months later. Her boys, William (7) and Peter (5) and husband, Jib, keep the family on the go with soccer, hockey, baseball and sailing. If classmates ever visit the Boston area, Beth would love to see you! Well, Beth, Kimberly Theis Sgroi hopes to take you up on that offer this summer, as she and her family will be in Boston for a few days prior to heading to Martha’s Vineyard. Kimberly continues to live in Portland, OR with husband Joe and four children, Matthew (15), Caroline (13), and twins Anna Catherine and William

Blake and Gus Wilson, children of Melanie Evans Wilson, 1986

(10.5). Matthew is finishing his freshman year in high school and will be getting his driver’s permit soon. “YIKES! Well, as least he may be able to help me shuttle his siblings to-and-from all of their many activities….” Kimberly and Joe celebrated 21 years of marriage this past March. Liz Gould Neustaedter continues to live in the Boston ‘burbs’ with Dave, Abby (12), Sarah (10), Odin the Lab, and Freya the Newfie. She is looking forward to her 14th year at Isaacson, Miller, 17th wedding anniversary and 49th - I mean 29th birthday. She cannot figure out where the time has gone. She adds, “Life is very sweet if a bit untidy, just as it should be.” Leigh Watts Mello sums it up briefly: Changes: joining a small law firm representing public school districts across Massachusetts and learning to navigate parenting through the teen years!

Constants: happily married to Ted for 16 years and living on the beach in Plymouth, MA. Nelly Greene Perkins is still living in Sparks, MD with her husband Drew, and two boys Giles (16) and Henry (13). Giles is a junior and beginning to look at colleges, and Henry is in the seventh grade and playing lots of sports.

Nelly is enjoying her job as the Director of Finance with a Baltimore-based private equity firm, Ecosystem Investment Partners, and loved seeing Birgitta Bortner Williamson while Birgitta was in Baltimore over Christmas.

Nelly also spent a long weekend together with Lea Craig Ward, Sarah Alfriend Ebert, Beth Jarrett Wilkinson and Dolly Alevizatos von Hollen this past November. It’s always a lot of fun seeing RPCS friends! Nelly hopes all in the Class of 1986 are thriving and is looking

forward to our 30th - WOW - reunion this fall! Still living in the Hereford Zone, Sarah Alfriend Ebert reports: working from home while David teaches at the Odyssey School.

Our kids are both in middle school and we are learning what it’s like to have a teenage daughter in the house. OMG! It’s crazy, but exciting to think that in six short years both kids are off to college and we will move down to South Carolina where we just bought a rental property. Check out VRBO listing 400447 and come see us! In the meantime we are in the chilly northeast and looking forward to our son’s lacrosse season and lots of long walks on the NCR trail with our Brittany Spaniel Penny. Life is good! Lea Craig Ward writes that after eight years of being a stay-athome Mom, she has returned to work full time. Her role is raising money for McDonogh School. Her son JP (14) is in eighth grade at McDonogh. JP loves lacrosse and plays on a club team called “The Crabs.” Lea’s younger son, Craig (12) is in fifth grade at Jemicy School. Craig has taken up wrestling for Jemicy. Lea also reports that they got a new yellow lab puppy in March of 2015 named Lucy. She joins “older sister” Pearl who is five.

Lea and husband Pete celebrated 15 years of marriage this past September. Stacy Snyder Johnson is still in shock that she has a college kid! James is a freshman at the University of Maryland majoring in Computer Science and loving life in College Park. Emma is a junior in high school and has verbally committed to playing Division 1 lacrosse in college at Longwood University in Virginia in 2017.

“She is a much better lacrosse player than her mom!” With one less kid at home, the Johnsons decided to take on the challenge of raising a guide dog. Stacy says they adore “Randy”, a black lab pup from the Guiding

Lily Mariano, daughter of Ji-Hyon Kim Mariano, 1986

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The Sgroi family (l. to r.) Anna Catherine, Joe, Kimberly Theis Sgroi, 1986, Caroline, Matthew and William in Oregon

Eyes for the Blind program, and cannot imagine how they will say goodbye to him after his one year with them. Mi Ji Kim is still begrudgingly living in Columbia, MD and raising her twin 12-year-old girls, Faith and Hope. In December 2015, Mi Ji passed her doctoral oral examinations and will soon have her PhD in Early Childhood/Special Education from the University of Maryland College Park where she has halted teaching so that she can concentrate on “dissertating” (Mi Ji promises that “dissertating” is, indeed, a verb, but I’m just going to take her word on that… she is the one with the PhD, after all!). When she is not (ahem) dissertating, Mi Ji consults for a small non-profit that fights to improve the educational plight of our court-involved youth - a job that involves domestic travel and visits to correctional facilities. She also advocates for families with children who have disabilities.

She reports that this work keeps her busy,

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humble and grateful. She just celebrated her 15th year of service at the Clarksville Volunteer Fire Department as President. Because good is never good enough for us Roland Parkers, Mi Ji also runs the infant/nursery program at her church, leads a Girl Scout Troop, serves on several educational foundation boards and continues to travel internationally every occasion she gets. She sends along this message: To my classmates - I cannot express the countless occasions where I remember so very fondly and vividly the days at RPCS with you all. Those days are more precious and dear to me now as I witness my own girls’ very different experience at a co-ed pubic school. I treasure those memories and experiences that are such a large part of who I am today. Katie O’Donovan Hanusik is living in McLean, VA with her husband and three boys. She is celebrating her 11-year anniversary at her PR firm, which specializes in the technology sector.

This year, her oldest son will be graduating from high school and hopefully headed south.

She and her middle son will be traveling to Germany this winter for a high school exchange program with a German youth orchestra. Her youngest son is enjoying his first year in middle school and playing lots of youth sports. Whitney Emory Yeager and her husband Tim are enjoying their 15th year as Coloradans and 20 years of marriage. Her indentured servitude as a middle school English teacher is complete, and she is thrilled to be teaching 10th grade American Literature. The 140 plus students in her charge make it challenging to keep up

photography, but she still keeps a camera nearby. Tim switched from being a sole proprietor and is working for a large national REIT called UDR. Their senior son, Sam, wants to go to college far away from their home state, but they hope the Rocky Mountains will lure him back. Madeleine (16) is a sophomore at the same school with her older brother, and Whitney wonders if it was a wise decision to live across the street from the high school – on certain Friday’s the kitchen looks a little like a FAC! Her daughter, Haven (13), is loving lacrosse, plus all that seventh grade has to offer. All is well in paradise with Melanie Evans Wilson: Our restaurant Michaels just celebrated 19 years in Key West!

I can’t believe it! We are also busy running a food truck here called Pescado! Our newest adventure is Steak+Vine, which will be opening in La Grange, IL around April! Mike will be going back and forth and I will be holding down the fort here in Key West. Our daughter Blake is a freshman and will be playing lacrosse for Key West High School. It’s their second season with a team. I have been busy building lacrosse in Key West as a co-founder of the Key West Youth Lacrosse League. Our son Gus is in sixth grade and loves playing lacrosse too!

Miss you all! Kiki Bourneuf Smith started 2016 with a clean bill of health and is now officially cancer free! She and her family are thrilled and are grateful for all the love and support they received over the past year. “A BIG hug to the RPCS sisterhood that raced, sent cards, emails and texts! I couldn’t have done it without you.” Kiki is months away from finishing her midwifery degree and hopes to be practicing full scope midwifery by the fall. At the time of this writing, her “catch

Members of the Class of 1986’s “Team Kiki” running for breast cancer awareness: Sarah Alfriend Ebert, Nelly Greene Perkins, Beth Jarrett Wilkinson, Melissa Jones Wolf and Stacy Snyder Johnson (and Betsy Harrison Lamb not pictured)

Whitney Emory Yeager, 1986 with Birgitta Bortner Williamson, 1986

count” is twenty-two! Her husband Rick is enjoying auditing geology classes at Williams; she writes, “They really enhance our Grand Canyon trips.” Amelia (20) is finishing up her junior year at University of Vermont. She is the assistant manager at the Burlington Farmer’s Market and is always looking for ways to make fresh, organic food available to all. Moses (19) is doing a fantastic job of navigating his first year of college at Goucher in Baltimore. He is committed to his pre-med track and says it gives him lots of time in the library. Ezra (16) is enduring his junior year and has begun his college search - looks like he will be heading south. He is anxiously awaiting lacrosse season as running with a stick works for him. “That is all the good news from the Green Mountain state. Joy in 2016!” Julie Flanigan Hill is starting to feel settled after a year and a half in Charleston, SC. The kids are all enjoying their new schools and new sports.

Andrew (16), James (13) and Charlotte (10)

The family of Meredith Wingate, 1986: Jack, Meredith, Madeline and Brad Drda

have made great new friends in America while Blake has started a new job with the charity Water Mission helping to raise funds and awareness. Julie is using her creative energy sewing and redesigning vintage furniture. She has enjoyed seeing RPCS friends more in Charleston, especially Susan Shugert Franyo, Mary Boatwright Mulvey, 1987 and Sarah Alfriend Ebert. Meredith Wingate writes: “This year has been a slog for me, remodeling a house, and letting everything else go undone. I have been totally out of touch and absorbed with the challenges of keeping it all together, but generally, it’s all good, and hopefully behind me now.” Meredith continues her work as a Program Director in the area of clean energy policy and climate change at a foundation based in San Francisco. She and husband Brad just moved into a new house after eight months of remodeling and doing a total energy efficiency overhaul. Her children, Madeline (12) and Jack (9), are happy to finally have their own rooms!

Meredith reports that she’s looking forward to resuming her social life, entertaining more and catching up with RPCS friends this summer during the annual trip back east. Lisa Kenner is founding principal of Legacy Charter School, serving scholars on the west side of Chicago since 2005. Committed to nurturing and emboldening public education as a transformational lever in under-served communities, she continues her work in breaking entrenched prison pipelines and creating tangible opportunities for children, youth and families. She embraces performing arts, writing, intergenerational connections, animal rescue and all that is possible in the synergy of big hearts and big minds. Lisa lives with her love Paul, a journalist, and a tribe of rescue cats in a vibrant brick cottage “Hirsch Haven” in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Ji-Hyon Kim Mariano is living in Ellicott City with her daughters, Lily (15) and Willow (11), and a menagerie of four legged friends: Sammy the cockapoo, and three cats, Axel, Ozzy, and Marie. Life is good there but it’s also a bit hectic between tennis, lacrosse, equestrian shows and the full throttle of teenage drama.

Downtime is usually filled with adventure. JiHyon and her girls enjoyed the blizzard of 2016 snowboarding at Wisp. “Needless to say, it was perfect.” When she’s not having family fun, she’s working as a manager with Online Services at the IRS. She’s been able to carve out a creative niche at the IRS, so it’s not as ho-hum as one might think. Ji-Hyon will be starting a new and quite frightening chapter in her life as her daughter, Lily, starts driving school in February. Keep her in your thoughts. Stay tuned for news of our 30th Reunion, ladies!

Class of 1988 Susannah Goldsborough Uroskie tsuroskie@verizon.net Thank you very much to everyone who responded to my plea for your life updates. I’ll try to get the news from the other half of the class for the next issue of Connections! JeanMarie Negron Faherty is living in Birmingham, AL with her husband and her two children.

Her daughter is a junior in high school and her son is in second grade. When she is not busy being “mom” she does PR and media consulting. Jenny Slingluff Levy and her husband live in Chapel Hill, NC with their three kids (ages 14, 12, 9). She is starting her 21st season as the head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at the University of North Carolina.

Jenny appreciates how Roland Park’s lessons of women and leadership have come full circle in our lifetime, and how we now live in a time where strong, confident and driven women are celebrated. Dorie Lynn Ellwood Ferguson still lives in Portland, OR with her husband and her daughters (17, 14 and 11). Dorie Lynn loves staying home and managing her kids.

She enjoys gardening, vegan cooking, eating at all of Portland’s fabulous restaurants, playing tennis, working out, and enjoying all the family time she can get. Allison Boynton Bateman has been a Cabi stylist for the past nine years and loves it! She loves helping women feel beautiful and stylish. She and her husband, Greg, have two kids (ages 16 and 13) and she stays busy running them everywhere.

In her free time she loves to play tennis. Darcy Christhilf Carroll is still working at Brown Advisory and recently moved into the position of Portfolio Manager, Private Client Group. She celebrated a wonderful milestone this year: 20 years in the investment business.

Darcy writes that her 12-year old daughter, Hannah Carroll, 2022 is thriving at RPCS. She had a great field hockey season and is in the throws of basketball as we speak. She is one of the sixth grade Athletic Association Reps and

Susan Hovanec, 1988, second from right in Sydney, Australia with friends

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In San Francisco with members of the Class of 1988: Marilin Colon, Ashley Smith and Lisa Perkin

claims to love most all sports, although her favorite is lacrosse (followed closely by skiing). At a lacrosse tournament this past summer, Darcy bumped into a former RPCS teammate, Kate Harris. Kate was there with her daughter and Darcy thought it was nice to catch up even if it was just briefly. Darcy’s other daughter, Sumter Carroll, 2025 also adores RPCS and is a true live wire. She is in third grade and keeps us on our toes. She was one of a handful honored in her class for a still life pastel she drew. Sumter’s work was exhibited at the Walters Museum and she received a certificate recognizing her work at the state level which was really thrilling to experience. Darcy’s son, Hudson, just turned 16 this fall and is eagerly working his way towards freedom - needs some driving time before getting his license. He loves Gilman and has his hand in everything: on student government (VP of his class), writes articles for the paper, and plays volleyball, basketball and lacrosse. He is also a very good golfer (go figure - all Carroll in this regard) and had his first hole-in-one this past year. David’s government relations firm, Capitol Strategies, continues to expand. David was humbled to be invited back to speak to the fifth grade at RPCS for the second year in a row. He was impressed by the caliber of students at RPCS and described the girls as incredibly thoughtful, engaging and inquisitive. Missy Langmead Cochran reports seeing Janet Lewin’s name in big huge letters while seeing Star Wars at the Senator with her brothers. Missy and her husband live in Catonsville, MD. She has been teaching middle school language arts and trying to keep up with her four kids: Jane (12), Lily and Emma (identical twins who are 9), and Tim (6). Amy Kayler lives in Atlanta with her husband David, daughter Samantha, and

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her dog Ginger. She has been practicing as a certified nurse midwife (CNM) since 2001.

Immediately after completing her graduate degree she did a fellowship at a birth center, Holy Family, in Weslaco, TX that was run by the local Catholic Diocese. In my current practice she delivers babies at the 1-2 busiest labor and delivery hospital units in the country.

She works with a great group of midwives and physicians and would love any of her RPCS alums to visit if they are in the area. Karen Wechsler is going into her 10th season with the Baltimore Orioles and she just bought a house in Canton, MD. Tracy Horst is still living and teaching in Milan, Italy. Her son Luca is nine and her daughter Greta is seven. Her kids’ last name is Macchiaiolo, but she advises against trying to pronounce that unless you’ve studied some Italian! Tracy met up with Terri Doud last summer in Miami and Ashley Smith came to visit her in Umbria (next to Tuscany) for a few days last summer. Susan Hovanec writes that life in DC is good! She is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at RBC Wealth Management. Susan works with individuals and families on investment management and planning for retirement. She has been with RBC for over 20 years and really enjoys it. In her spare time, she does a lot of biking and travels. Recently, she took a bike trip to New Zealand. She likes getting back to Baltimore fairly often to see family and fellow RPCS classmates. Kelly Linaweaver French shares news from Jackson Hole. Her boys, Max and Alex, now ten and 12, and the whole family loves skiing, fishing, music festivals, foreign adventures for surf and sand, and weekend road trips to hockey and lacrosse tournaments (yes, we now officially have a Jackson Hole Lacrosse Club!). She still owns and runs Jackson Curbside Recycling, and her

husband, Dave, has his own woodworking business, Grow Woodworks. Kelly wants us all to come visit her in JH! Heather Stobo is living in Ojai, CA where she co-owns and codirects the Porch Gallery Ojai - a contemporary art gallery. Recently Nicole “Nikki” Ari Parker came through on a scavenger hunt organized by a co-star of her husband’s television show.

Heather writes: Afterwards, I was applauded by friends and patrons of the gallery for daring to be photographed with someone, my same age, who is significantly better looking than myself. Janet Lewin is living in Mill Valley, CA, with her partner Liz, their four kids (Walker, 13, Eliza, 10, Alden, 7 and Noah, 7) and their two crazy pugs. Life is hectic with teens and pre-teens (and crazy pugs), but also tons of fun. They are in the midst of preparing for Eliza’s transition to Middle School and Walker’s to High School and at the same time, trying to keep the twins from growing up too fast. This year, in honor of her daughter Eliza, they all participated in the Best Buddies Ride, with me and Walker completing a 30-mile bike ride in Big Sur and Liz and the younger set completing the 5K run/walk. The Best Buddies organization raises awareness and programs for jobs and other services for adults with Down’s Syndrome. Janet has been working at Lucasfilm for 20 years and currently serves as VP, overseeing Visual Effects on the Star Wars and Lucasfilm Franchise projects, including films, ride films, commercials, virtual reality productions, etc. She travels to London about every five weeks as they are filming at Pinewood Studios and have a Visual Effects studio in London. So please let Janet know if you are ever out in Northern California or in London and hopefully the stars will align for a get together! The 25th Reunion was a blast; Janet had so much fun reconnecting with all of you who were able to make it. Hoping that we get full participation for #30, in just a few years. Janet wants to know how did we get so

Heather Stobo, 1988 and Susie Parker, 1988

From the Class of 1988: Allison Boynton Bateman, Martha Mercier Stockhausen, and Susannah Goldsborough Uroskie celebrate Martha’s 45th

old?! Anna Lincoln Rianhard Whitehurst is living in Baltimore, MD with her husband William and two boys, Will (13) and Ben (11). Working part time running a campaign for Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills, MD. Otherwise, volunteering for Hopkins’ Project Restore focused on finding causes/ cures for multiple sclerosis and also Middle Grades Partnership. Anna Lincoln would love to reconnect with any Class of 88ers who are in town! Brigit Shumate Taylor is doing well in West Ocean City. Max (13) and Anders (11) attend Worcester Prep in Berlin and are avid soccer, basketball and lacrosse players. Brigit has followed in her parents’ footsteps in real estate ever since she hung up skis for a living.

She misses the mountains of Vail, CO but has enjoyed east coast living and certainly life on the eastern shore. She currently runs a company, ResortQuest, in Bethany Beach, DE which covers an area from Lewes down to Ocean City, MD. Her husband, Dan, originally from Australia works for a health care company from Australia and he is able to work from home. Brigit’s parents now live in Sarasota, FL and are enjoying retirement. Her brother and sister-in-law are in Baltimore and her niece, Chelsea Shumate, 2022 is in sixth grade at RPCS and nephew is in third grade at BL. Running has become a new passion of hers ever since she decided to train for a marathon.

Like skiing, it is something her entire family can do together, which they have really enjoyed. For any runners out there, Brigit organizes three large 5K/10K races per year at the beach and would love to have any of our former classmates participate. When she is not working, hauling her kids to and from school or sports, she spends the rest of her free time involved in several non-profits. She finds it so rewarding to offer scholarships and grants to folks within our community. Lisa Perkin is enjoying west coast living! She makes it back to Baltimore several times a year. She is still

very active and is sure to have a few adventures in 2016 to report on for the next Connections!

After five years of being together, Marilin Colon married Greg Jensen on Aug. 8, 2014 at the San Francisco courthouse. They have lived in Oakland, CA for the last eight years. They just closed on their house where they live with three rescue dogs, 14-year-old pug/chihuahua, Maximus, 17-year-old chihuahua, Papaya, and five-year-old, blind chihuahua, Olive. In August, 2015, Marilin quit her consulting job as a behavior analyst (which she had been doing for the past 20 years!) to concentrate on teaching full time. She is an adjunct Psychology instructor at California State University, Hayward. She has been teaching there since 2010. In August, she started as Assistant Professor and Site Director for the School of Behavior Analysis at the Bay Area Florida Institute of Technology site. It is a master’s program and she has 22 graduate students. She is really enjoying it. Marilin is hoping to get together in the Bay Area with some alums when RPCS hosts a Regional Reunion there in February. Sonia Chung Kim has been in the Chicago area since 2002. She is married and has three kids, Natalie (15), Benjamin, (13) and Olivia (9). She works at Northwestern University where she markets new technologies to companies and also directs a couple of graduate programs that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. On the side, Sonia recently started a company with a friend called MyCredo which sells credo cards and bracelets - which they designed to help their daughters with the mental game in their respective sports.

Her sisters and parents still live in Baltimore, so she is in town 1-2 times per year. Regina Helen Boone wrote to me from LAX airport after visiting Nicole “Nikki” Ari Parker RPCS ties are forever strong. As for her life these days, she remains in Detroit.

Unbelievably, she is going into her 13th year in

Tracy Horst, 1988 and Ashley Smith, 1988 in Umbria, Italy

Time magazine cover by Regina Boone, 1988

working hard as a staff photojournalist for the Detroit Free Press. She is constantly busy telling people’s stories visually. Her latest and most difficult story has been that of the Flint, MI water contamination crisis for which she had a photograph selected for a Time magazine cover! Regina’s life is stressful at times, but she is grateful to have a job that allows creativity, freedom and a platform to those who may not have one. Sadly, Regina lost her father to pancreatic cancer in June of 2014 in Richmond, VA where her mom and brother still live. Laurie Nice Roche lives in Marshfield MA, which is south of Boston. She has been married for 16 years to Michael and they have two boys, Patrick (13) and Will (11). Both of her boys love sports: baseball, football, basketball and hockey. So, needless to say, they are always on the go! Laurie is a lawyer and works for Fidelity Investments in compliance; where she has been for 16 years, too. She is happy to report that everyone is happy and healthy.

Kären Heroy Welsko reports that she is definitely a classic case of the “sandwich generation” trying to take care of her Mom and her two kids - all while working, taking care of the home/pets and day to day stuff that every household needs. She, her husband, and children live in Baltimore and that is fantastic.

Not only is she still close enough to really help her Mom, it’s just a great place to live. She is still involved with horses, but it’s totally for pleasure. Nothing beats a day long trail ride.

She is very blessed career wise and opened her own commercial interior design business in 2007 and has been busy ever since. The focus is on health care settings such as doctor’s offices, dental practices and hospitals. It’s such

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a fun niche and she always looks forward to working. Cathy Sharkey emailed to say that it might be better if I penned a fiction piece imagining what we’re all up to. Maybe next year, Cathy, I’ll do exactly that with the classmates who never responded to my email.

Cathy teaches at NYU Law School, sees RPCS friends all too rarely, and is in that stage of life where she tries to dive headlong into pursuits with her son, Caleb (9), daughter Phoebe (5 1/2), and spouse Ina (one year shy of Cathy) and pretends that she can simultaneously slow down time and keep up!

Cathy would love to see folks should they venture to NYC with some free time on their hands. Melissa Theis McVeigh still lives in Portland, OR. Her two daughters are both in high school. Lydia is a junior and Megan is a freshman. Melissa is keeping busy writing, working part time, volunteering for the girls’ school, and doing lots of traveling as a family.

She also moved to a new house in August, which was a fantastic excuse to get rid of a bunch of stuff and finally get organized. It is a pretty sentimental process to pack boxes of memorabilia and baby clothes when your kids are nearly all grown up (think of the scene in Christmas Vacation when Chevy Chase is in the attic, watching old movies and crying - that was Melissa). The college visits have taken them east, so she was lucky to see Terri Doud over Thanksgiving. Melissa and her husband, Jeff, also showed their girls the RPCS campus, and now that they’re older, she has shared some colorful stories of our ill-behaved yet fun class. Nicole Ari Parker reports that life is good. She lives in California with her husband and two children - Sophie is in fifth grade and Nicolas is in fourth. Nikki is acting in film, television and theatre. She has a small business she started after creating a new sweatband called the Gymwrap for working out. Nikki also started SophiesVoiceFoundation with her husband to support families with special needs. She is on Twitter and Instagram.

Jen Banister Figler is thankful to report that she and her family are healthy. Early stage breast cancer filled their world last year, but all is fine now. Jen is working at Mercy in administration, almost 20 years now. Kids keep her and her husband busy, Sam (17) a junior at Calvert Hall is looking at colleges, Mason (14) is a freshman at Boys’ Latin, playing baseball and really enjoying robotics and Suzannah Figler, 2023 (11), is in fifth grade at RPCS and plays travel soccer, basketball, and softball. Crazy and exciting, that Suzannah is practicing for the Maypole dance - the more things change, the more they stay the same. Not a lot of time to do things beyond children and work, but Jen loves the families that her children are friends with so

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that pretty much makes up their social life.

Caroline Noah Johnson lives in Baltimore with her husband Chris and 11-year-old daughter Elizabeth and three-year-old son Russell. She works in the development office of Calvert school where both of her kids attend.

Ashley Smith has spent the last two years between Petaluma, CA and Tuscany, Italy doing personal and professional development work with horses. She is looking for a home base this year and just returned from scouting in Maryland! Ashley wanted to keep it open for what seemed like a good next home for her and her three horses. She does love the California weather, wine and consciousness about sustainable farming though so we shall see. I, Susannah Goldsborough Uroskie, am doing well! It has been great hearing from a lot of you. I thought this “job” would be a pain in the you-know-what but it has been really fun reconnecting with you all and compiling our notes. When I come back to Baltimore to visit my family it is so fun showing my kids RPCS. Since my parents live close by to the school my daughter and I sometimes jog on the grounds.

I’m amazed at all the changes. What a gorgeous school and campus! My husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in August of 2015. We live in Virginia Beach with our four teenagers. I know this won’t come as a shock but it isn’t always easy having four teenagers. Sometimes I want to pull my hair out and scream, but then I remember what I put my parents through during my years at RPCS and I realize that my husband and I have it much easier than my parents did. Alexa is in her second year at James Madison University.

Tripp is a senior in high school and will be heading to JMU in the fall - having them both at the same university will certainly be convenient. Matthew is a sophomore in high school and Luke is graduating from eighth grade this year and will be heading to Matthew’s high school in the fall. The kids definitely keep us busy with dance, kiteboarding, surfing, martial arts, basketball, and lacrosse. I fill my days volunteering at the kids’ schools, our church outreach, and with our civic league. In my spare time I also love to kickbox - it is a great way to let out all my frustrations! I was able to hang out with Martha Mercier Stockhausen and Allison Boynton Bateman in October at The Homestead in Virginia to celebrate Martha’s 45th. We had a great time celebrating and reminiscing!

Martha is a family travel consultant and would love to plan your next vacation. Thank you very much to everyone who responded to my plea for your life updates.

I’ll try to get the news from the other half of the Class for the next issue of Connections!

Class of 1989 Robin Feldman Curtin belljac202@comcast.net Jody Kent Lemken jodylemken@yahoo.com Well it’s that time of year when we all look forward to receiving the RPCS Connections and get to catch up with one another on how everyone is doing and what is new. A BIG thank you to Emily for having done this tradition and always keeping all of us updated on one another. Anytime anyone has news to share, feel free to pass it along to Robin Feldman Curtin and Jody Kent Lemken who are now taking over this responsibility! To begin, Jody Kent Lemken and I will be taking on the new task of keeping all of us updated.

Jim and Jody have been married for 19 years, and most of their free time is consumed with caring for their three children - Lulu (14), Kent (12), and Winn (8). Lulu is currently looking at high schools, and Jody is excited that Lulu will attend RPCS next year! Jody has recently re-joined the Maryland SPCA Board, a decision strongly supported by their two pugs. She still lives in the same house across from Bryn Mawr, and her parents live behind her, a true blessing for her and her family. She also loves catching up with fellow classmates, Robin Feldman Curtin and Melissa Hubbard Boyer, during their summer trips to Kiawah, SC. Wesley Naylor Finnerty is doing well. She and all four of her kids are heading to Colorado in a few to visit with Eileen Finnerty McCoy.

Paige Carey, 2015, daughter of Christy Beers Carey, 1989 at her Commencement

Robin Feldman Curtin, 1989 at the finish line with her sons Jacob, Ben and Max

Wesley’s oldest son started at Dickinson College this year after graduating from Boys’ Latin and number two son is at Gilman. Their third son is graduating from Calvert this year and is deciding between Boys’ Latin and Gilman. Wesley’s fourth and only daughter is a fifth grader at Odyssey. Tom and Wesley continue to work together in which he works with estates and antiques and Wesley is a fulltime interior decorator. Emily Miller is chief investigative reporter at the Fox owned TV station for the past two years. She loves it and finds it very rewarding to be a local TV reporter because on the best of days she can make a positive impact on people’s lives and fight for the underdogs. The highlight of her year was going to an intense surf camp in Costa Rica and is planning her next trip to catch some waves! Beth Feldman Love is the regional director of business development for Genesis Healthcare. She has two kids, Samantha who is now a freshman in high school and Cameron who is in sixth grade.

She loves baking beautiful cakes and other baked goods and is even catering small affairs.

She continues to design beautiful jewelry and is featured at many bazaars and local stores in the Baltimore area. Life is busy and good in the Love household. Robin Feldman Curtin has a busy day to day schedule with her three boys. Jacob (16) a tenth grader and driving, Max (15) a ninth grader and Benjamin (10) a fourth grader. Life is full and really good.

Terrence and Robin just celebrated their 22nd anniversary, two bar mitzvahs and have two dogs, Ellie and Anya from Entlebucher, Switzerland. The three boys and Robin will uproot to South Carolina for the summer as

they have a home in Kiawah, SC. Her husband flies himself down on weekends. Robin often gets to see Jody and Melissa Hubbard Boyer on this beautiful island and what a treat it is to get coffee and catch up with one another.

Robin continues to train for marathons and plays tons of tennis with her boys and husband.

She does a lot of fundraising for two organizations dear to her heart and finds herself running races for these organizations that helps keep her motivated and going strong. Sarah Foster Rhea: Life is good for the Rhea family in Baltimore. Their girls are now 11, 13 and almost 15. She has all the bases covered; one in lower school, one in middle school and one in upper school. She is still working for Pfizer and happy to report she really enjoys her job. Her younger two and husband have developed a passion for skiing and have been doing a lot of it this season! She is happy to snap pictures from the sideline. She sends her well wishes to everyone! Laura Maslin Wille has three kids, Georgia (15), Davis (13), and Grant (11) all of whom keep her busy with running them all over the place.

All three are attending St Paul’s. Georgia is at St Paul’s School for Girls and the boys at the boys school. They are building a house right down the street in Ruxton. It’s been a fun project that she could not have gotten through without classmate, Peggy Webster Tomick who is a great decorator! “Would love to host our next reunion! I hope my classmates are well!!” Christy Beers Carey is officially an empty nest Mom who really misses the mess and noise of a child at home! Her daughter, Paige Carey, 2015 graduated from RPCS last June. She is now a freshman studying graphic

design at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. Luckily, she doesn’t mind when Mom shows up in Florida on a regular basis.

“I am enjoying my work at Retirement Strategies of Maryland where I am completing my financial advisor certifications.” Christy keeps busy with her niece and nephew in Virginia and with photography. She is incredibly grateful for the support that my RPCS classmates provided this past year.

Reconnecting with so many of you has reminded her of what an extraordinary group of women we have always been. Marti LewisWorms and her family spent Thanksgiving in Belize, kayaking through caves, zip lining over the forest and visiting Mayan ruins at Tikal in Guatemala. Then they wrapped up their jungle trek and headed to the beach for snorkeling in Ambergris Caye. Awesome!

Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley’s Caroline and Henry are the most wonderful children ever! Caroline keeps them busy as an accomplished horseback rider and Henry is an energetic, always-smiling nine year old. Roger keeps all three of us moving right along happily! “We all love to travel and Roger and I were so excited this year when Caroline and Henry discovered how much fun it is to go on a ski vacation rather than just the day trips to the Poconos.”

Alexandra is the Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, for 15 years. She is pleased/ relieved to have just completed a significant art acquisition that took more than five years! She has a major exhibition opening at the PMA on September 8, 2016, that will be accompanied by a gorgeous catalogue (PMA/ Yale U Press). She too is thrilled that the New York Times reported on the exhibition last October - 11 months before it even opened.

“Here’s hoping they like the final product as much as they hoped-Ha!” She is also researching and writing a catalogue of the American furniture collection at PMA that will be published in 2020. “That seems like a long ways off, but to me, with 200+ pieces of furniture to write about, it’s around the corner!” She travels a lot for work, but, as much as she is able, she makes the trips quick so she can be home in Wilmington with Roger, Caroline, and Henry (and Rocky!). Her mom and Dad sold the house and farm in Sparks - a strange but ultimately good thing for everyone in the Alevizatos family, especially Mom and Dad. “I don’t get to Baltimore as much as I wish I could - and I certainly wish I could see my RPCS friends more often.” Peggy Webster Tomick: All is good with the Tomick family.

Ben will be heading into Loyola high school next year, Kate will be in eighth grade at NDP and Paige is in fourth grade still at Carroll Manor. Peggy still enjoys doing interior design

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Class of 1991 Lisa Caldroney Schline lschline@verizon.net

Marti Lewis-Worms, 1989 and her husband Wolf and daughter Alexandria

and has been working on The Wille’s house which has been tons of fun to work along side Laura! Paul and Peggy love catching up with Kelly Linaweaver French, 1988 and her family in the summer up on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Kim Sachs Greeley sends her greetings! Liza is 11, in fifth grade at Calvert School, where she also subs. Sydney Greeley, 2025, is eight, in third grade, at RPCS. “Always a treat to come in and see Mr. Forbes, still at the piano, still the favorite teacher.” Kim is looking forward to celebrating John and Clifton’s 50th birthdays with Sarah! Maria Ranieri Watters is living the dream in Sewanee, TN with lots of acreage for gardens, kids, dogs and hunting.

“Our biggest change was Davis leaving for Atlanta as a freshman at Oglethorpe University.

Luke is looking forward to kindergarten, though he misses his brother, and we are all looking forward to a really successful lacrosse season here - go Tigers!” Nancy Lord Lewin: In 2014, Nancy started her own business called Asana Consulting. She is a communications strategist for nonprofit and social impact organizations that want to elevate their mission and expand the impact of their work. Nancy shares, “I do a lot of coaching and writing in my work, and have connected with inspiring organizations and leaders working in public health, education, the arts, and youth development. I think I’ve finally created a way to do the work I love to do while satisfying my professional, entrepreneurial, creative, and social justice advocate sides! Jack and the kids have been stalwart cheerleaders and business advisors.

Our two girls are doing great. Nina is now in sixth grade and loves reading, soccer, playing clarinet, and anything related to design and making things. Violet is in fourth grade and likes singing and playing music, making art, cooking, soccer, and anything in nature. We love to travel whenever possible - this summer

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we’re excited for our first family trip to Guatemala. We all love living down the block from my sister Casey Lord Briggs, 1991 and her four kids - our six kids are quite the cousin pack. Love to all my fellow 1989ers!”

Christina Linsenmeyer is in her fifth year living in Helsinki now, enjoying Nordic culture and nature, and is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy. Until 2018, she is working on her project “The Beautiful Past: Rethinking Stradivari Violins in the Aesthetics of European Neoclassicism (1760-1814)’’ funded by the Academy of Finland. Highlights of 2015 were seeing northern lights on a ski trip in Lapland, northern Finland above the Arctic Circle, and visiting Moscow and St. Petersburg for the first time, including the stunning Hermitage. Stacie McCoy DeRamus, her husband Cornelius, and their son Nicholas (7) are still in Bethesda, MD. Nicholas is in first grade at Washington Episcopal School (WES). Nicholas loves anything sports related and is keeping them busy playing soccer, lacrosse, ice hockey, baseball and swimming. Stacie has coached his soccer team for the last three seasons. Stacie just celebrated six years as a Health Systems Principal at the MITRE Corporation in their Center for Transforming Health. Stacie also volunteers her time serving as a member of the Board of Trustees at WES. In their spare time, they enjoy travelling to see Stacie’s family in Aruba. Eileen Finnerty McCoy and Tate live in Denver with their four boys Tyler (17), Carson (15), Finn (13) and Cash (9). All the boys go to the same school, Colorado Academy which has been the perfect fit. She is having so much fun running events and meeting people with the Mothers of Boys organization while holding down the house! “Life is good and we would LOVE any visitors.” We hope this New Year finds everyone well and keep staying in touch.

Savonne Ferguson: I continue to enjoy my position as Vice President and Senior Legal Counsel - Mutual Funds at T. Rowe Price (started in September 2014). In addition, I have joined the Board of Directors of the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Services. I am still enjoying my service as a Board member of the Samaritan Community, as well as enjoying my induction (2014) and membership in The Harbor City Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. In addition, I was just recently admitted to the United States Supreme Court Bar. Amy Lentz: I am still living and working in Playas del Coco, Costa Rica. My husband and I own and operate a tour and adventure company, Avispa’s Adventures. Our adventures in Costa Rica and Nicaragua give us a first-hand view of where and when people need a helping hand. As a result, we started a nonprofit here in Costa Rica, Patas y Manos (Paws and Hands) to help animals and humans alike. We assist students with school supplies, we share the Christmas spirit, we provide victims of misfortune with house hold items and clothing, and we work with independent rescuers to help animals (dogs, cats and monkeys!). We educate about preventive health for humans and animals. I am fortunate to be able to live a life of my passions! Buffy Rubenstein Minkin: Hi to the class of 1991!

Things have been busy since I last updated.

It is hard to believe, but Abby, 2021 is in seventh grade at RPCS and loves all the school has to offer! Zach is happy and loves fourth grade at Gilman. Both kids are active in sports and with friends, and Abby is prepping for her bat mitzvah in April. Will and I are busy with our family life and lots of carpools plus busy jobs. I recently became President of the Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds and am now working full time. I also continue to be very active at both kids’ schools. As many of you know, RPCS has a new Head of School starting this summer. I was on an advisory search committee for the new head, Caroline Blatti. She is a dynamic educator whom we are thrilled to welcome to the RPCS community.

I am looking forward to celebrating Jean Brune’s 24-year tenure as Head of School; her dedication and efforts have been tireless. She retires at the end of June. I love seeing many of you, and I hope to see more of you. I hope you are all well and happy! Emily Holmes McCarthy: For my oldest daughter, Ella’s tenth birthday, we went on a trip, just the two of

us to Spain! We visited Madrid and Barcelona and had such a great time sightseeing, eating great food, and speaking Spanish. She is a huge soccer fan so we had to visit Real Madrid and FC Barcelona’s Stadiums. I must say, they were impressive. It was such a special trip for us. We made an enormous lifestyle change and picked up and moved to Florida. I never thought I’d raise my family at the beach, but I am loving waking up every day and seeing palm trees! Neal has known this secret for years, but I am just discovering how great it is!

We were in temporary housing until the week before Christmas and then we moved into our new home. It is very exciting, although I am not sure I will ever see the end of all the boxes. Somehow the kids persuaded me that we needed a puppy in all this chaos, so a few days after Christmas we picked up our puppy and are loving having her with us. Mindy Rose McCue: My update includes moving from Richmond, VA to Monkton last June. I am loving being back in Baltimore for the first time in 17 years! My oldest son, Conor, (14) will start high school in the fall (yikes!), and I’m enjoying substitute teaching at Hereford High School. Molly Rice Goetz, and Hope Bodie Grenzer, 1990 have kids in the same grade as my youngest son and it is so fun seeing them together! Kate Walker Wagner: I have lots of great news. I got engaged to Jeff Strzelcyzk on Christmas Eve! We are moving into our new home in Phoenix in February and have been combining our families - he has five boys (four in college), so our family is growing!

The funny thing is that Ridgely is the only girl! Dashiell, Trafford and Ridgely all love our new family. I also returned to recruiting and launched my new business in December, Calvert Search Group, exclusively working with financial advisors. Lots of new exciting things happening! Julie Rider Waldron: I am fully homemaking these days. Our oldest, Frankie (12) attends Harbour school; Lila (10) is in fourth grade at Riderwood and Millie (9) is in third grade at Riderwood. They are keeping me busy with driving to all of their appointments and practices, but I am trying to absorb this time while they still want me around. Lisa Caldroney Schline: My family has had another busy, but fun year! After a relaxing summer at the beach, Hannah started sixth grade at Bryn Mawr and Harrison is now in third grade at Jacksonville Elementary.

Kate Walker Wagner’s children are in school at Jacksonville as well and we have enjoyed reconnecting. I am home full-time and taking a yoga teacher training course so that I can start teaching classes part-time, hopefully by next school year. Hope everyone has a happy & healthy 2016!

Amanda Rothwell McConnon, 1992 and her family

Class of 1992 Laura Thompson Jacobson laura.thompson.jacobson@gmail.com So who knew that more than 20 years after graduation there would be a baby boom for the Class of 1992. I know from Facebook that Eve Johnston Saylor, who is also in Baltimore, had a big year, managing a wedding and the arrival of a second son! Amanda Rothwell McConnon had a beautiful baby girl, Annika Rose, and in August quit her retail/ corporate work to try her hand at a different job, SAHM. “It’s a new kind of tough but, so far, it’s been great. I love how I get to be much more involved with the kids, Eamon is in first grade and Declan is in Pre-K at a mandarin immersion school. I’m soaking in this experience for now. I’ll figure out my next work role later.” Lauren Currie Uppington is also in the “new person club”, welcoming Charlie a year and a half ago. She continues to be busy with Lizzie (9), Lauchlin (7) and her role as CMO for JustFab and ShoeDazzle, which means commuting to LA three days a week. As I’m writing this in February, Jennie Yunyongying Morrison is due to welcome a son at any moment! Her ten-year-old daughter isn’t too excited after all the years of getting all the attention, but that is likely to change once she sees that little guy’s face. Her pregnancy has been okay for the most part, though a little

uncomfortable because of what her doctors have referred to as her “advanced age”! (Oh man!) She just celebrated nine years working with MEDHOST, whose work parties from all evidence, are to be envied, and went horse packing through Yellowstone last summer, complete with a camp visit from a grizzly bear!

Megan Palmer Sivera has a little surprise for us too. She’s due with her second daughter at the end of April! After living in NYC for many years and working full time at the Food Network, her husband Keith found his dream job in Boise, ID to work for Bodybuilding.com.

So they moved two years ago with daughter Sophie. “I continued my work as a culinary producer for Food Network, I just freelance and do it from here. I spend most of my time as the Supervising Culinary Producer for Guy’s Grocery Games on FN, which takes me to California quite a bit.” So many new members of the 1992 family! Let me know if you want a live in nanny! All of us with teens and tweens will be happy to oblige! Living on the west coast, in San Jose, Parveen Saluja Dhillon’s second book came out, Lohri: The Bonfire Festival, and managed to have an amazing launch in Baltimore at Port Discovery! Her three kids, Zoraver (14), Hazuri (11) and Nivaaz (8), all started attending the ground breaking Khan Lab School run by Sal Khan.

“It has been an incredible experience to be on the frontline of how education is going to change! Wish we had our own RPCS in the Bay Area, but since we don’t, we are trying experimental learning instead :)” She’s not in

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the pregnancy club, but her fourth baby is a new English golden retriever, Hero. “I’m head over heels in love!” Jenny Csobaji Klock is also still out west. “My husband Anson and myself are coming up on 20 years in Seattle and love our life of outdoor adventures in the Pacific Northwest.” Monica Brown is still in the Las Vegas area, where she is busy with work, fitness, and the best Oreo and chip reviews I’ve ever seen. D’Arcy Byrnes Talley is still in town and still working with the Attorney General’s Office. Her sons, John and Reed, are well and turn five in June. Alice Chung Cootauco is also in Baltimore, where she is still working at Saint Joseph’s. “I was able to work part time this last year and get back into playing tennis again and am having a lot of fun with that. Sadly, I will go back to full time this spring.” Kids are growing up, nine and seven. Karen Kwiterovich Perritt lives happily in the Annapolis area. Cassaundra Moore is also still in the Baltimore area and reports that she is newly engaged! Congratulations!

I know that Amy Winkelstein in still doing well in the Baltimore area and is working as a pediatrician (to my brother’s kids among many others!). Courtney Pippen is still in the DC metro area, where she works for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Last year she got the cutest yellow lab, named Bailey, who I will never get tired of seeing pictures of because she’s too cute. Gina Lewis Stack is living in Pennsylvania with daughter Kate and husband Mike. Kate is almost nine and according to her mom, “is wonderfulvery smart and extremely athletic - such a joy to watch her grow.” Gina and Mike celebrated their 11th anniversary in October. Maryam Zamani is still living in London where she is busy working part time doing Oculoplastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine. In addition, she is developing a new skincare line, which is exciting and will hopefully launch in the fall. (Free samples for the class of 1992?) Son Casper and daughter Lily have their seventh and fifth birthdays coming up in the Spring and they have had some fun holidays this past year since the kids here get a holiday every six weeks! (Keep a lid on that or we may have a revolt on our hands.) “We were just skiing in Gstaad over Christmas and we are planning to go to the countryside for our February break (which I have never done in ten years!), and maybe the Maldives for Easter (when they have a month off!). Otherwise, all is great and time is flying by way too quickly.” The education crowd continues to be busy. Michelle Farrell Webb is teaching full time at St. John the Evangelist School in Severna Park, where three out of her four boys are still attending, with the oldest now in high school! Michelle Powell Alexander is still working at Cannon

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School, just north of Charlotte, NC, where she has been serving as the Head of Lower School for the past five and a half years. “It is challenging work, yet it is extremely fulfilling, as I am able to work with my faculty to create a meaningful learning experience for students in grades JK-4. Trust me, it is never a dull moment.” Her son Tyler (14), son Harrison (12) and daughter Maryne (8) keep her busy between sports and dance. “I am so proud of all of them.” Melissa Bristow Carter-Bey, our RPCS first grade faculty representative, is still living in Lutherville with husband, Vic. Her daughter Sydney Carter-Bey, 2023 will graduate from the fifth grade this year. Julian is eight and a half and Sean is seven and both are typical boys. “It is nice to see so many of our RPCS alums back at school as parents. I also enjoy seeing our classmates Amy, Alice and D’Arcy out and about in Baltimore!” I, Laura Thompson Jacobson, am still working as an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Central Connecticut State University. It is a busy time to be in teacher preparation and working in higher education; between statewide fiscal crisis and ever-increasing state and national oversight of teacher prep, things can get a bit overwhelming. Thankfully, outside of school I’m so busy that I don’t get much time to worry about it. My eldest, Harris is a freshman at Kingswood Oxford School (I have a private school kid! Unexpectedly, when we took the tour it felt so much like I was home.

I guess after 12 years at RPCS that private school vibe is comforting.) Daughter Isabel is in seventh grade at our town middle school, and daughter Ellen attends a magnet school for the performing arts in Hartford. All told, we have five academic calendars in one house.

Thank goodness for Google calendar. We’ve also had an English soccer coach living with us

for over a year, just to add some excitement!

With three passionate soccer players, and a general mob-scene of a house, he’s a good fit for us. I know that we tend to keep up through social media but I’d love to see more of you represented in here! Next time! Also, we’ve lost track of some of our crew, Trinice Hairston, Rose Davidson, Kathleen Macsherry Goldberg, and Alanna Lee Shin.

Class of 1993 Muffy Menton Fenwick fenwicks@gmail.com The past year has brought several new…and soon-to-be…babies! Congratulations to Julie Hackett, Jessica Wilson, Colleen McCormick, and Anne Plowden Ballweg, all of whom welcomed new little ones this past year!

Over Christmas, Betsey Swingle Hobelmann graciously hosted a baby viewing of Julie Hackett’s son, Kemet Sebastian HackettSanches, born September 28. Betsey, Alex Meier Broenniman, Juliet Randall Fisher, and I fought over baby Kemet while catching up with glowing mom, Julie, home in Baltimore for a few months following Kemet’s birth. Julie has been in Luanda, Angola where she continues her work with UNICEF. However, she was happily nestled at home with her mom, the perfect grandmom and babysitter. Juliet writes: I am enjoying being a judge on the bench of the Baltimore County Orphans’ Court and am also continuing to practice divorce law when I am not on the bench. I am amazed to be the mom of a high schooler, Milo who is in ninth

Lawrie Peck Givner, 2005, Katy Spencer, 1993 and Stephanie Gisriel, 2005 in NYC

grade at Towson High and Miranda, who is a sixth grader at Dumbarton Middle. Alex was home for the holidays with daughters, Charley and Scarlet, from Brooklyn, NY where she and husband Phil live. The girls were enjoying their own grandmom time, baking cookies and getting ready for Christmas. Of course, between her own Christmas bustle, Betsey was the perfect hostess. She manages to juggle a million balls in the most amazing ways, including her involvement on the Board of the newly opened Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys. This September, Betsey saw the fruition of her tireless hours volunteering, planning and fundraising for the charter school which opened its doors in September. The school educates 200 boys from every zip code in Baltimore in fourth through sixth grades and will grow a grade per year. It has been quite a rollercoaster ride, but very rewarding.

Betsey also worked at Calvert School again as the assistant director of the middle school musical, Shrek Jr. She keeps a toe in the door at Baltimore School for the Arts helping with their annual gala, Expressions, with boss Carter Arnot Polakoff. Betsey’s kids are 13, 11, and eight, and her husband Greg just finished his second residency from Hopkins in Psychiatry. Anna, her oldest, will look at high schools next year and Betsey is trying not to be too persuasive about RPCS! In San Francisco, Jessica Wilson and husband Miko welcomed a baby boy, Omer “Riko” Mizrahi on January 5th. Riko joins proud big sister, Noam.

Also on the west coast, Colleen McCormick and husband Don welcomed a third child, a baby girl, Aela Caritas Hudson, on May 5th. It’s been a busy and exciting year for their family. In addition to a new baby, they opened a store in Portland, Seahorses, for dads and kids. It provides kid and baby gear but specifically targets what dads would use. In addition, the store provides community space for classes to meet. Colleen also switched to a new Gynecologic Oncology practice. She writes: It has been quite a learning curve but I’m very excited for our future. Anne Zink Blachman writes: As for this year, we finally moved to a house in Westchester after nearly two decades in Manhattan. I still miss the city, but we purposely stayed close, I’ve even been able to meet up with Anne Roche a few times! When I’m not chauffeuring my three preschoolers around suburbia, I’m working with an interesting start-up and will hopefully have news on that front by next year’s Connections. Finally, last February, in Germany, Anne Plowden Ballweg welcomed Lucy, a precious baby girl who joined big brother, Max. The new moms will have much advice for Elizabeth Jones Gredlein who is expecting her first child, a little girl,

in July. Elizabeth married Jeff Gredlein in a beautiful wedding in Captiva, FL last May. She was joined by Carla Bailey Murphy, Ally Sibal Baker, and Elizabeth Massing. Our condolences go out to Ally who recently lost her step-father, Bill Stifler. Ally continues to work at Johns Hopkins and is a busy mom of three. Carla practices law at Duane Morris and is enjoying children, Teddy and Bailey.

Open any social page and you will likely find Massing smiling back at you. She was recently featured on the cover of Roland Park Living with her adorable daughter by her side. Jolie takes after her mom in more ways than one, including following in her footsteps at RPCS in the Lower School. Also following in mom’s footsteps is Ashby McGill, 2025, a third grader at RPCS and daughter to Carroll Knott McGill. Carroll has enjoyed her involvement in the search for RPCS’s new Head of School as well as spending time volunteering in Ashby’s class and also with her boys, Burk (11) and Peter (13), at Gilman. You might soon find Carroll on tour as she is quickly climbing the gold ranks, claiming many local tournament titles. Carroll, Whitney Fenwick Wasson, and I often see each other as our boys are all in the fifth grade together. In some ways, their antics are very reminiscent of ours back in the day!

Whitney continues to manage her thriving photography business between being an active mom to boys, Colby (13), Alex (11), and CJ (9).

As a testament to her success, she was recently a recipient of the Maryland Family Readers’ Choice Award for Best Family Photographer.

She has also published food photographs for a cookbook and interior shots for Baltimore Style Magazine. Whitney is happy to report: It was a good year! Carter Arnot Polakoff continues to run the Development Office at the Baltimore School for the Arts, a job she truly loves. Between her many BSA commitments, she still finds time to run around with boys, Nate (11) and Samson (9). Anne Roche is still living in New York City, but has been engaging her Chicago connections, writing for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and Ariel Investments. I enjoyed catching up with Emily Rodgers while she was home from Chicago for the holiday. She took an amazing trip to Croatia this fall with her three sisters. Also reporting in from afar was Katie Guba who recently travelled to London for her job at T. Rowe Price in Baltimore. Megahn Hallahan LaNasa and her husband, Sam, live in New Jersey with their adorable twins, Olivia and Liam. Megahn continues to work at Celgene and saw her twins off to Pre-K this fall. Susie Michaelson Burbidge celebrated son Ethan’s third birthday in New Hampshire where she lives with husband, Greg. “There’s really nothing new up here in New Hampshire.

Ethan turned three in November which is hard to believe but we are having such a good time watching him grow and learn. I’m still working for the Loon Preservation Committee as the Outreach/Volunteer Coordinator. It’s a great organization! Hoping to get out in the field a little more this summer, but we’ll see if it works out. Other than that, we see my Dad most often since he lives in Connecticut, but I don’t see my mom and sister nearly enough. They are forever trying to convince us to move to Charlotte! It makes me sad that I never get down to Baltimore and at this rate the next trip will probably be for our 25th Reunion. Crazy. We’re getting old!” Brady Beale Clark had exciting news to report about her Penn Vet affiliation with the Philadelphia Zoo. Brady recently operated on a 62 year old condor who had been blind for two years. The operation successfully removed the condor’s cataracts to restore her vision. Brady says this was incredibly rewarding. I, Muffy Menton Fenwick, continue to spend the majority of my days shuttling my kids around. It is hard to believe that next year they will both be in middle school! They are both busy with sports and activities and constantly keep my husband, Charlie, and me on our toes. I have been freelance writing for Baltimore Fishbowl and the Scout Guide and substitute teaching.

Keep the updates coming and enjoy the New Year!

Class of 1994 Rita Beyer Buettner rfbeyer@juno.com As you’re reading this, if you come across something you could swear was in last year’s class notes, please just chalk it up to my increasingly scattered memory. After all, many of us in this group are celebrating a milestone birthday this year. So please forgive me if I can’t recall whether I’ve already reported that Peggy Boutilier Williams and her family welcomed a Springer Spaniel puppy named Willie last year. Willie is thriving along with Peggy and Tim and their three children Tommy, Tyler, and Emmy. Peggy writes: I have been busy as PTO president, coaching youth field hockey and lacrosse, and driving our kids around! We are bracing for middle school, but know our son is ready so that makes it easier.

Ready to give Tommy tips on how to succeed in middle school is Addy Branson, 2021, daughter of Mallory Schofield Branson, who is in seventh grade at RPCS. Mallory writes: She

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Caroline and Elizabeth, daughters of Meghan Donnelly Slocum, 1994

Ian and Thomas, sons of Erin Greenwood Goff, 1994

Audrey Lucas, 1994 and her baby Leo

just did a solo in the middle school winter concert and is currently in the middle school musical, High School Musical! Jack is in fourth grade at St. Paul’s. His artwork was just selected to be in a show at MICA! After more than 17 years at Hall & Co., Mallory accepted a new position as an associate interior designer for Jenkins Baer Associates. Mallory isn’t likely to run into Virginia Hodges Jeffery while commuting to and from Baltimore. Virginia writes: My husband, daughter, and I have returned to New Zealand after six months up in Tonga. We had a great trip. The highlight was swimming within a few feet of several humpback whales. One whale was 80 feet long, and Samantha (2) got to swim next to a mother and baby whale. We are back in New Zealand to avoid the cyclone season and regroup before seeing more of the South Pacific. I am currently planning the best way to sail back to the States as I miss everyone back

home. When Virginia comes back to the States, she will need to travel to Milwaukee to see Meghan Donnelly Slocum and her family.

Meghan writes: Drew and I moved to Milwaukee in March of 2014 when he got transferred for work. He grew up here so we live about five minutes from our in-laws. I took a job with BMO Harris in their Commercial Banking Group as a relationship manager. I provide advice to, and help create financial solutions for mid- market companies headquartered in Wisconsin. I also joined the Board of the Milwaukee American Heart Association and COA Youth and Family Centers. Between the girls, work, and community commitments, life is pretty busy :)!

Caroline (3) and Elizabeth (2) both love reading, swimming and gymnastics. And we love having visitors, so if you find yourself in Milwaukee for any reason, give us a call.

Traveling to a different place that starts with

M is Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, who goes with her husband, Brian, and their children, Alex, Lindsay, Evan, Owen, and Carter, to Michigan and Florida to visit their grandparents. Lisa reports that she has also been working on the board of the Junior League of Annapolis and that her children are starting to get into basketball. Talking hoops for different reasons is Sarah Berger, who has launched her own jewelry design business. Sarah writes: Singing continues, and making jewelry out of actual Messiah scores. Singing + musicology + English + scissor skills equals orangescissorart.etsy. com. Who says you can’t make use of multiple

Rebecca Ward, 1994 skiing with her family, Lucy and Dave

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Children of Maureen Beyer Moser, 1990, Rita Beyer Buettner, 1994 and Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001, (l. to r.) Gregory Moser, Mary Moser, Julia Moser, Paul Moser, Louis Buettner with Michael Buettner behind him and Lucy Matysek in front

The family of Rosanna Best Corbin, 1994 with Steve, Drew, Rosanna and Colette, Preschool 3s

Dinner in Baltimore with Nicole Rock Mink, 1998, Emmie Mink Frank, 1995, Ridgely Bennett Bowman, 1995, Emily Rose Harding, 1994 and Liz Frank Cohart

degrees in the humanities? My boys Jonathan (6) and Sebastian (3) are doing great. (Full disclosure: I purchased a custom-made map necklace from Sarah and I get questions and comments on it all the time.) Fielding many questions and comments from her high school students is Melissa Cully Anderson. She writes: I’m the co-director of college counseling at

Greenwich Academy, still coaching the lacrosse team, and getting a B+ in parenting. (That’s with the grade inflation.) Chase and Mairin are in third grade and just dazzled the throngs of loyal family members as part of the great production of The Adventures of Lewis and Clark. Liam is almost four and may graduate Preschool this spring out of concern that he might accidentally eat or step on the smaller children. Chris is working hard in all his endeavors, spending nearly as much time at work as he is prepping for his weekly basketball coaching duties! Melissa isn’t likely to run into Kathleen Slingluff Wyatt on the sidelines unless one of the Anderson children takes up ice hockey. Kathleen writes: I’m still with the NCI as a project manager and love it.

I get to work with so many different cancer researchers it keeps me on my toes. Adam had been busy with his Irish band and I have managed a few times to go see them! Sean started Kindergarten this year and has been doing really well. He likes his school and his teacher a lot. He has kept us very busy with his hockey schedule. He is on a team this year and it has been a lot of fun watching all the kids improve and have fun. It won’t surprise anyone that he wants to be a goalie! Luckily he has had the chance to try it and appears to have a knack for it. But of course he won’t accept any advice or suggestions from mom.” Perhaps tired of receiving advice on being a new mother

Emily Rose Harding, 1994 and her children Ella, Henry and Kate

is Audrey Lucas, who worked as a maternity nurse before welcoming her son, Leo Lucas Arica, on July 29, 2015. She and her boyfriend Koray are enjoying their baby boy very much.

Also enjoying life as a new mom is Whitney Bedford, who writes: My news is that I got married to my sweetheart Barton Jahncke and we had a little girl named Elizabeth Louise,

Early Morning Starbucks Run (l. to r.): Courtney Wiggs, 2029, daughter of Tammy Passano Wiggs, 1997, with cousins Abby McDonnell, 2024, Cate McDonnell, 2027, and Emma McDonnell, 2022, daughters of Catherine Passano McDonnell, 1994

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Virginia Hodges Jeffery, 1994, her husband Bret and daughter Sam

whom we are calling Betty Bedford after my grandmother. I finished solo shows in New York City and Los Angeles, the normal art fair circuit, and started teaching at University of California San Diego, which means I get to see Ashley Lanahan Hupf and her family at least once a week in my commute from LA. If Whitney has a solo show in Hawaii, maybe she’ll see Rebecca Ward in Oahu, where she is now living with her family. Rebecca writes: We

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are stationed here for a few years and then onto somewhere new. Dave is settling in at Tripler Army Medical Center in his second career as an ophthalmologist. No, he hasn’t fixed my eyes with LASIK. Yes, I still wear glasses. I am in the middle of my PCS scramble to find a new job. My days of sand, sun, and surf while I wait is a real drag. Lucy is the only kid on Oahu who Irish dances so we found someone to give her private instruction. She

hangs out every Tuesday at Anna O’Brien’s Pub in Honolulu to ceili. She will be dancing in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and dancing and fiddling all over Honolulu the rest of the day.

She started attending a minuscule all-girls school called Huakailani School for Girls and is enjoying herself immensely. I volunteer as the STEM coach and we won the STEM award at the last qualifying VEX-IQ tournament! I sew a lot even though I don’t actually know how to sew. Our backyard opens onto Kaneohe Bay and my family loves to kayak to the sandbar.” Rebecca was dealing with sciatica and a torn ACL from a great skiing trip, so she was looking forward to having those surgeries behind her. Looking back fondly on Jenner Manson’s birthday party in 1982 is Erin Greenwood Goff, who found Jenner’s invitation inside one of the Frog and Toad books she has had since her childhood. Erin writes: If I recall, a few years back I reported that I was still using a pink comb that I got at her birthday party. I am assuming it was the same party! I should be our class archivist!

(The position is yours, Erin!) Ian is about to be three and says that he wants to ‘keep Thomas safe from the big grabbers of the garbage truck.’ Thomas is nine and a half months and mellow and smiley and sweet as can be. I have tons of gray hair, get no sleep and am newly addicted to coffee (I know, I am late in the game for that!), but our household is definitely alive and kicking!” Also enjoying life with two boys is Vanessa Bliss. She writes: Caspar is five and little Augie is two. Life is good. Still working at 1199, fighting (IMHO) the good fight. Fighting a different kind of fight is Susanna Pitts, who has been deep in home renovations. She writes: 2015 was a busy year in London! I bought and renovated a Victorian apartment. Between odd British property laws and foreign builders, it was an adventure. But even more exciting, Christian proposed on our first night in the new flat and we are getting married in the Alps, this March. Fingers crossed for the right mix of snow and sun. If any classmates are ever in London, I hope they will let me know. We love visitors! Visiting with Jenner not long ago was Caroline Smith Hickey, who reports that Jenner has left Washington, DC, for a new job in New York City. Caroline is still in DC and writes: Mike and the kids and I are doing well! I have a new Sew Zoey series book coming out in March 2016, called Cut from the Same Cloth, and I’m also writing for a humorous new series now about time travel. My first two books in that series, Wrong Place, (Really) Wrong Time and There’s No Wi-fi on the Prairie will be out in late 2016. They’re published under pseudonyms. I’ve also been teaching a graduate writing class at McDaniel College. Bridget and

Whitney Bedford, 1994 and her daughter Elizabeth Louise

Rory are 7 1/2 and 4 1/2, and I’m lucky I get to work from home and spend so much time with them. Can’t believe we’re all turning 40 this year! Hopefully catching 40 winks occasionally in between the busyness of working and raising a family is Rosanna Best Corbin, who writes: Drew is in second grade at Gilman and thriving in every capacity and I am beyond excited to share that Colette is in Preschool at RPCS! I am eight years into the family business now and am in regular touch with the gang.

Rosanna stays active at RPCS, where chances are good she sees Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, who is very involved there, as well. Kelly writes: Mary, 2023 and Maggie, 2024 are in fifth and fourth grades and loving RPCS. I can’t believe Mary will be a middle schooler next year. I’m still busy with the swim and tennis club and working as a children’s attorney in the city.

Catherine Passano McDonnell writes: Despite graduating 22 years ago (yikes, that makes us sound old!) I still spend a lot of time at RPCS between volunteer activities and having three girls at the school: Emma, 2022 (sixth grade), Abby, 2024 (fourth grade), and Cate, 2027 (first grade). I’ve also been involved in the search for our new Head of School, and as sad as I am to see Jean retire, I am so excited for all of you to meet Caroline Blatti. Even among an exceptional pool of candidates, Caroline stood out from the very beginning! And I think she is going to bring amazing energy to the position. I also am fortunate to regularly see other members of our Class who have children at RPCS: Abbe Creaney, Mallory Branson,

and Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli. Hoping to make it back to RPCS sometime soon for Reunion Weekend is Emily Rose Harding, who moved with her family out of New York City to New Jersey more than a year ago and loves it. She writes: The kids, Henry (6), Ella (4) and Kate (2), are so happy in school and in a house with a yard after city life! Dave started a new job at Lenox Advisors which he is thrilled about. I stopped working (in an office!) and have been home with the kids for three years - hard to believe. I have started volunteering more at school which has been a great way to be involved with the kids and get to know the community. Sometimes when I volunteer at our children’s school, St. Joseph School in Cockeysville, MD, I see Sarah Macsherry Huculak, whose children, Ian, Hannah, and Natalia, are students there. I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear that Ian received special recognition this year for his middle school science fair project. Sarah is still working at the Patient First at Greenspring Station, where my family seems to be just a little less often than we are at St. Joseph School. As for me, Rita Beyer Buettner, when I’m not whining about how soccer season eats away our family time or mixing up our boys’ lunchboxes, I am working as director of marketing and communications for Loyola University

Mary Mazzulli, 2023 and Maggie Mazzulli, 2024, daughters of Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, 1994

Ice hockey mom Kathleen Slingluff Wyatt, 1994 with her son, Sean

Maryland and raising - with my husband, John, of course - our two spirited, compassionate, curious sons, Louis (8) and Michael (6). I continue to blog for The Catholic Review and started writing a monthly column in their print issue when they switched it to a magazine format a few months ago. I’ll never find the surface of the dining room table, which is buried under Kindergarten worksheets and Lego parts, but I do see classmates from time to time, including Sarah Brumfield, who came to visit with her baby girl, Fiona, and even did the dishes before she left. Sarah is working for the Associated Press in Washington, DC. A highlight of every year for my family is traveling to Rehoboth Beach with the whole Beyer clan - or as many of them as we can round up. Our boys adore Maureen Beyer Moser’s, 1990 four children, Julia (12), Gregory (11), Mary (8), and Paul (7), and Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001’s daughter Lucy, who is 16 months as I am typing this. Maureen is teaching Latin at the Amani Public Charter School in Mount Vernon, NY, and Treasa, who just moved to Rodgers Forge with her husband, George, is home full time with Lucy.

And more than once we have tapped the expertise of Shaileen Beyer, 1991, since she is a fiction librarian at the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s central branch and knows books better than anyone else I know. It is such fun to hear your news and to stay in touch via Facebook and email and however else. Hope all is going well and that we will connect soon!

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Class of 1995 20th Reunion Grace Kim gracejkim@gmail.com A huge thank you to Kim Mitchell Wolff and John for hosting a wonderful 20th Reunion at their beautiful house! Thank you for making the party so special for us. It was amazing to catch up! There is nothing like seeing old friends from childhood. How special was our shared experience at RPCS! Onto the news!

Becky Smoot Anderson: Really enjoyed seeing everyone at the reunion. Hopefully it won’t be another 20 years before we can all get together again. Enjoying spending time with our kids and am still working at the same vet practice.

Jennifer Abraham Strauss: It was so wonderful to catch up with everyone at the reunion! I loved showing off RPCS to Jon and introducing him to people he had been hearing about for years. I started a new job last August, project manager for PAREXEL. Every day brings something new and I love learning about clinical trials. Lindsay Walker: I am still doing great. Living in Mount Vernon and commuting to DC a few times a week. Looking forward to upcoming trips to Mexico, Florida and Puerto Rico. In Florida, it is our annual girl’s trip to Kim’s house with Kim, Emmie Mink Frank, Cameron Proctor Amirault, Anne Chemers Sperling, Eleanor Cordi and Kellie MacDougall Lawler. Kristen Creticos: Still a fifth grade teacher and team leader at Seven Locks Elementary in Bethesda (MCPS) and still an Elected Faculty Representative (EFR) acting as a liaison between staff and administration.

Nothing else new and exciting. Also still living in same condo in downtown Bethesda that I’ve been renting since I moved here in 2009. Karel Valentine: It was so great to see everyone at the reunion! It felt like we just graduated! I’m enjoying life in Southern California. I’ve started some wine tasting and education classes and exploring wine country whenever I get the chance. The headquarters for my company’s division is in San Francisco, so I visited Napa last year and am planning a weekend in Sonoma next time I’m in the vicinity. I’ve also started hiking, which has become something of my new obsession! The local hiking in my area is wonderful! It’s funny how the things that didn’t interested you as a teen can become your passions as an adult.

Kellie MacDougall Lawler: We still live in Anniston, AL where my husband is an orthopedic sports med surgeon. We have four kids, one boy and three girls. Marcus (7.5), Blakely (6), Pierce (3) and the newest and last

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(!) Leighton Miranda Lawler born May 26th.

They keep me very busy with football, baseball, gymnastics, etc! I volunteer at my children’s school regularly and hold a position on the school’s Parents’ Association. I’m also in my third year as a sponsor and mentor for a second grade class at another local school in the area. Many public schools do not have funding or allocated time for the arts. I visit two to three times a month with an art/craft project to complete with my class. I hope all is well with the rest of the class. It was so awesome to see everyone this past fall! Micah Mitchell Hines moved to Akron, OH a year ago for her husband Daron’s job at the J.M. Smucker Company, and is adjusting to the move. She is happy to be closer to family and friends in Baltimore (just a six hour drive away) and is working remotely for a law firm that she used to work for in Minnesota. Her daughter Alivia Ann (Livvy) is growing, is almost two and is really tall (unlike her Mom).

Livvy is doing wonderfully and loves being close to and seeing her family in Baltimore.

Kimberly Owens Nalda has recently opened a solo family medicine practice called Rekindle Family Medicine. It is a direct primary care practice dedicated to authentic relationships, convenient and value based medical care. She is fulfilling a lifelong dream to practice medicine in a relational way, to treat patients as they deserve to be treated, spending time and saving them money on co-pays, labs, imaging and prescriptions. Megan Smith

Kellie MacDougall Lawler, 1995’s children Marcus, Blakely, Pierce and Leighton

continues to work as a staff neuropsychologist at the VA Maryland Health Care System. “I enjoyed seeing everyone at reunion! I live in Catonsville with my two little girls (5 and 1) and my husband. I’m so happy to be back in Baltimore.” Shannon Doyle Pope: Still living in Columbia with Kenton and our parrots and working for DOD. I love having Megan Smith and Genevieve Polk nearby - we get together when we can. Cary Zink Kassouf: When I am not wearing my neuroscientist hat in search of better medication targets for mental illnesses, I spend my time wearing my mommy hat

Members of the Class of 1995 Grace Kim, Megan Smith, Vanda Lerdboon, Genevieve Polk, Shannon Doyle Pope and Michelle Willats Wetzel

watching my two boys, Zachary (3) and Spencer (1), grow up too fast! Where does the time go?! They are both at RPCS (Zach in the Preschool, Spencer at Little Bear Child Care Center) and loving it! My husband, Mark, enjoyed meeting so many of you at the reunion...hopefully we will all cross paths again sooner rather than later! Anne Chemers Sperling: It’s been a busy but wonderful year. I survived the transition from government to private sector and have found working at a hospital (New York-Presbyterian) suits me!

Maxwell and Teddy have loved Kindergarten and are the best of friends most of the time.

Our 20th Reunion last fall could not have been more fun and I can’t wait for some girl time in Florida with Eleanor Cordi, Cameron Proctor Amirault, Kellie MacDougall Lawler, Kim Mitchell Wolff, Lindsay Walker and Emmie Mink Frank in May. Eleanor Cordi, her husband and new son, Gus are in Boulder, CO. Eleanor continues to be a veterinary technician at an animal hospital there. Michelle Willats Wetzel: We are all doing well. Maisie and Kate are really enjoying first and second grade, and Evan loves his Preschool. We just booked a trip to Seattle and Portland for Spring Break, so we are really looking forward to seeing friends and family on the West Coast. I loved getting together with our RPCS friends over the holidays- catching up and being introduced to Baltimore’s Charm. I am still loving my job as the Librarian at Radnor High School in the Philly suburbs! Aminah Wells: I start a new

job as the upper school counselor at Garrison Forest in March and I still have my private practice in Roland Park. Looking forward to having summers off so I can travel and enjoy time with my family. Brooke Bulkeley Peterson: I loved being in Baltimore and seeing the Class of 1995! I continue to live in Alabama and work at Tuscaloosa Academy, now as the Middle School Dean and an AP English teacher. The job is professionally rewarding.

Greta, who is now in the sixth grade, and Will, who is in the third, keep Erik and me busy. We look forward to our trips up north each summer, as we escape the heat. I hope to make Baltimore stops on these summer trips a bit more frequent than once every 10-15 years.

Kim Mitchell Wolff: This past year has gone so quickly! The highlight of the year from an RPCS perspective was hosting the 20th Reunion at our house in October. It was so fun to see everyone. We’re quite an impressive group of women and I especially enjoyed meeting everyone’s spouse/significant other.

Seeing people face to face is way better than just seeing updates via Facebook! I thought we had quite an impressive showing. On the work front I am still working with Mood Media in Marketing and Business Operations. My travel has cut down some which is nice because it gives me more flexibility at home with my boys’ activities who are now nine, seven, and six. The boys are off to overnight camp this summer at Camp Sea Gull, the brother camp of Camp Seafarer where I spent all my summers

Molly Christhilf Finnegan, Cameron Proctor Amirault, Kellie MacDougall Lawler, Anne Chemers Sperling and Emmie Mink Frank

Amelia and Eloise, daughters of Cameron Proctor Amirault, 1995

as a kid as both camper and counselor. John and I still enjoy going to Ravens games, Orioles games, the theater, and other events around town and we celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary this year. I am volunteering with The Baltimore School for the Arts for their annual fundraiser in March and I am on the Board for the Women Of The World or “WOW Festival” that is happening in Baltimore in October that focuses on celebrating women as agents of change, building sustainable support for the next generation of women leaders, and by providing diverse forums for discussion and action to advance positive transformation for Baltimore and beyond. So as you can tell I remain pretty busy, but really I wouldn’t have it any other way and my organization skills continue to pay off! Did you hear that Molly Christhilf Finnegan just became a mom to new baby Charles Dennis Nicholas Finnegan? It is so exciting! Ginnie Plitt Teti: I am really thankful to announce we welcomed our third boy to the Teti family on December 1, 2015. David Gregory Teti is our newest bundle of joy. I think we will call him Gregory. Older brothers James and Joshua are super excited to have another teammate. Elizabeth Weiss Nook: I started my own business, Revolve Design, practicing both commercial and residential architecture, got married in May of 2015, and now we are expecting a baby in May 2016! How did I get so lucky? Caroline Donahue is still living in Los Angeles and has finally succumbed to the entertainment industry. She is working at a creative agency and loves being able to bike to work. This past fall, she was thrilled to be able to see so many

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Children of Becky Smoot Anderson, 1995

classmates at the 20th Reunion. She is also very excited to be getting married this October and does not understand how she now has three cats and a dog. Kristen Cunningham Jones: I live in the Fort Lauderdale area with my husband; two-year-old son, Jake; and Lucy the Labrador. Jake keeps us laughing, thinking creatively, and running - usually behind his bike in his dust. Lucy has adjusted to her change in status as the dog instead of as our pampered four-legged child, and she and Jake have become buds. I really loved attending the reunion and seeing everyone’s beautiful, happy faces in person! I felt such pride and joy being a part of such a wonderful group of women!

Cameron Proctor: Still happy in Havertown, PA where we’ve been for almost seven years. I’m working part time at a pediatrician’s office in New Jersey and enjoying watching

Amelia (6) and Eloise (3) grow up. Christine Lusk Jones: We are currently posted in La Paz, Bolivia. We are learning Spanish and the girls are attending the French school. I’m awaiting clearance to work at the embassy. We miss all of our friends back in the states and hope to visit sometime in 2016. Rachel Spahn McCurdy: My life is exactly as it was last year - still have three kids, still have same great husband and still working in public relations.

Vanda Lerdboon started a new job in November at the Howard County Health Department, Bureau of Health Promotion. She is loving the shorter commute! Nora Malaisrie had a new baby, Mason Zeigler. She and her husband, Sean, have already started teaching him how to synchronize swim. They tell me he is a prodigy. Nora continues to work as an ENT physician in private practice in the Maryland/DC area. It was great seeing Caroline Horst Franano and her husband, Michael, during our reunion. They should have been awarded furthest traveled as they live in Abu Dhabi. I think Caroline and Michael both continue to work for Etihad Airways, the national airline for the UAE, and see amazing places! Dana Bennett-Gosku: We are still in Istanbul, Turkey. Alara turned nine this month and Kaya is four. Work continues to be interesting and I’ve had the opportunity to work on deals in Asia recently, which has been a nice change. The turmoil in this region and in Turkey is very concerning and each day we are hoping for positive news about the war next door in Syria. Emmie Mink Frank continues to live in Baltimore with her husband Dave. “Abby is in the Three’s class at Good Shepherd School. She is creative and very

Camel rides with Caroline Horst Franano, 1995, her husband Michael, and her parents

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loving. Connor is in the third grade at Cathedral School. He is very bright and into all sports.” Genevieve Polk: Still working at the MD Department of Public Health in injury prevention (helmets for all!). Loved seeing everyone at reunion. Other big news is that I bought a house in Hampden, hon! And hope to run into my neighbor Elizabeth Weiss Nook, soon! Have had lots of fun spending time with Megan Smith and Shannon Doyle Pope, and hope to see more local ‘99ers this year! As for me, Grace Kim, I love living in Durham, NC. I am still in Radiation Oncology at Duke University Medical Center where my focus is on treating brain tumors.

Class of 1996 Meredith Hartman Shanley meredith.shanley@gmail.com Hello Class of 96ers and welcome to our 20th Reunion year! Hopefully we can all catch up in person in the fall but for now, here’s a taste of what our classmates are up to. Allison Medina tells us that her “biggest news is my sister Jennifer Medina, 1998 did an Ironman (2.4 mile swim, 116 mile bike, and 26.1 mile run) in Chattanooga, TN and I was her Sherpa! What that entailed is getting up with her at 3:30 am in the morning, waiting in line with her until she jumped in the water at 7:30 am, running the 2.4 miles along side of her while she swam, cheering for her as she biked for eight hours and then ran a marathon - all while I was wearing a She-Ra costume. And finally being the proud big sister when she came across the finish 15 hours 21 minutes at 11 pm! Otherwise work, yoga, and still being vegan is all good.” Hedy Born Koczwara has had a challenging year, as most of you know.

“We welcomed our third child (and first girl), Vivienne, on April 15th, 2015. Six weeks later my husband, Phil, was diagnosed with leukemia. After several months of inpatient chemotherapy, Phil underwent a bone marrow transplant in October and he was recently declared cancer-free. We had much to celebrate over the holidays, but there is still a long road to wean him off of the immunosuppressant drugs and rebuild his new immune system. The outpouring of love and support during all of this has been incredible. Fifteen of my former RPCS classmates organized a “PhilStrong” campaign in his honor to train for a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society half marathon, which they ran in Brooklyn in October. Many other classmates, teammates, teachers and friends

Class of 1996 members of the PhilStrong team in Brooklyn: Kelly Sloan Warlow, Hilary Chertkof Trader, Lizzy Bennett Sweeney, Meredith Hartman Shanley, Emily Fenwick Johnson, Laura Brave Whiteley, Hedy Born Koczwara and Annie Pfaff MacFadyen (marathon group pic)

from the RPCS community contributed or have reached out to us. A silver lining has been reconnecting with people who I have not talked to in years!” Lizzy Bennett Sweeney says: Moving off of Falls Road, to a bigger house with more land the end of the month (yikes!). Still working at Cushman & Wakefield as a senior VP. Ryan is in first grade at Cathedral and Jane in Kindergarten at Redeemer. All is well and hectic, but life would be boring without the craziness. Right?

This in from Laura Brave Whiteley: Matt, Ian (7) and I are living in Providence, RI near the Brown University Campus. Matt works at Fidelity Investments. Ian is in first grade at The Gordon School. I am the Clinical Director of a Young Adult Behavioral Health Program that provides outpatient psychiatric care for young adults from local colleges in Rhode Island. This year I also became Associate Director of the Brown Psychiatry Residency Program. I am continuing to enjoy my research in HIV prevention and treatment

among young adults. One of my best memories from this year was running the Brooklyn half marathon with many of my RPCS friends in honor of Hedy and Phil. I will never forget Lizzy holding my hand across the finish line, and I gave Annie Pfaff MacFadyen a run for her money! The fact that I had a similar time to Annie is my claim to fame. I repeat this fact to Matt on a daily basis and he keeps replying ‘it does not matter, you are still not as athletic as her! Speaking of Annie Pfaff MacFadyen, she tells us: We are well. Loving life in the Sierras and finally blessed by a decent winter - first since Angus was born! It’s kind of like a little magical bubble here for which we are eternally grateful. Biggest highlight of last year was being with you guys in Brooklyn, supporting Phil and Hedy. I got to see them last week truly full circle, giving Phil a fist bump [cause I couldn’t hug him], and he is cancer free. Angus and Zoe are loving ‘mountain life’ although they know nothing different. Hoping to get to Italy in the fall to visit my sister Sara! Amy

Brazil Morrison has exciting news! “I wanted to share the news that my husband, Don, and I are still living in Baltimore and welcomed our baby girl, Lucinda Brazil Morrison, in May!” Congrats Amy and Don. Natasha Gorski LaVoie tells us she is expecting her first child in March! Good luck and wonderful news. Spanning the globe, Emily Hamilton Cave writes: We are in our second year in Brussels and all is well, albeit busy. Belgium is indeed not my favorite place, but my sons are very happy in their school and speaking French. Although they are young, thankfully, we have not let it hinder our frequent travels and we hope in turn they are going to remember some of it! Further afield, Kate Heuisler writes: We are still living in Phnom Penh, in an old house down a narrow street with a mango tree in the front yard. I started working at DAI again this year, DC-based consulting firm, running a development project called Development Innovations. The project uses the business start-up “innovation hub” model popularized in Silicon Valley (and Kenya and South Africa) by creating a co-working and creative space for networking, brainstorming technology solutions, connecting to tech and business talent. The project applied the model to the NGO community (mostly non-profit organizations working on social and development causes) in Phnom Penh.

It has been fascinating to try to connect the NGO and tech communities to solve social problems together. Our girls, Naomi (6) and Ceci (2) love riding around town in motorcycle rickshaw taxis called tuk-tuks and exploring the temples and ruins (read as falling in 12001400 year old holes) around Angkor Wat. Most days, we feel super lucky. As for me, Meredith Hartman Shanley, it was a big year.

I still stay at home with two rascal toddlers who keep me very busy and only half sane. We

Lucinda Brazil Morrison, daughter of Amy Brazil Morrison, 1996 and Don Morrison

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Members of the Class of 1996 about town

moved to a new (old) house in late December.

It’s near the beach here in Huntington and reminds me a lot of the old houses in Roland Park that I grew up around and still love so much. For that reason, it felt immediately like home. At Christmas, we said goodbye to my parents’ house in Baltimore, as they moved to Florida. It’s been a time of great transition letting go in order to grow and move on. It’s been by turns exciting and bittersweet. We are looking forward to summer when we can wander down to the beach in our new neighborhood. I have to say though that the most meaningful part of last year for me was running the half marathon in Brooklyn in honor of Hedy and Phil. They continue to be an inspiration to me...as do all of you. I cannot thank the RPCS community enough for the support they gave our campaign. Mostly, Class of 96ers, you all proved that though we graduated and live different lives in faraway places, we are still that wild, close, head strong and emotional class who rallies around each other and gives everyone else a run for their money. We may never have won angel wings, but you all are angels in your own right. Thank you for all you gave. It meant so, so much. So that’s all for now. Love and luck to all of you in the year ahead.

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Class of 1997 Hillary Zouck Shaffer hzouck@yahoo.com Hillary Zouck Shaffer: We are moving to Rodgers Forge this spring, and I look forward to walking George to school when he starts Kindergarten in the fall! Still at Woodmoor Elementary, I am in my second year as a special educator in the primary grades, which I enjoy very much. My one year-old daughter Emily is full of smiles and curiosity - and her boundless energy keeps everything moving at a full, but fun speed these days. Laurie Zink Haller writes from Los Angeles where she lives in Pacific Palisades with her husband, Alexander, and two children (David (5), Fiona Evelyn Zink (1).

She is very involved in her synagogue and son’s preschool, Kehillat Israel, co-chairing their annual fundraising campaigns, and serving on their Board of Trustees. She is co-founder of a philanthropic women’s group called, The Spark. Laurie writes in her free time. Rianna Matthews-Brown: My wife, Kibibi, and I are still living in Baltimore. We love being so close to both of our families and friends especially since we’re expecting our first baby - a boy at the end of March and we are over the moon.

I started working for Johns Hopkins about mid-way through my pregnancy where I am the Assistant Director of State Affairs. It’s a busy time in Annapolis, and I am loving the

change of pace. Emily Lough Johnson: We had a wonderful 2015, welcoming Molly Dixon in May. Austin (5) and Sadie (3) have been excellent big sisters as Mommy and Daddy adjusted to life as five! Not easy going back to work with three little girls at home, but I’m still at Equinox in NYC, heading up Brand Marketing there. I see a lot of Ali Bourne La Fiura who had her son Sam one day after Molly was born, in the same hospital!

Two Roland Parkers, 18 years later, living one mile apart in New Jersey, and we’re shuffling up and down the postpartum hallway with our brand new babies. A lifelong friendship indeed! Alice Levy Burns: I am still living in Arlington, VA with my husband, Todd, and our dog CJ. The most exciting part of the year was May when we welcomed our son, Gavin Levi into the world. Watching him grow and change has been a continuous source of entertainment. I work for the federal government in Washington, DC, and love the fact that I can run and bike to work instead of drive there! Jade Khouri Hubbard: I’m staying busy with my daughter Camilla who just turned three in January and horseback riding. I recently went back to RPCS for an event and enjoyed seeing lots of familiar faces - teachers, alumni and current students. It was great to be back, and the visit brought back lots of wonderful memories! I love seeing and keeping in touch with many of my longtime classmates! Allison Michels Pettinelli: Still in Scarsdale, NY- living with my husband and two kids, Leo (7) and Ana (5), and working as rehabilitation physician. Lindsay Robin Saffer: I still live in Baltimore and my daughter, Gretchen, was born in May 2014. And while I stay home with her, we do not stay home!

We are very busy with activities, including a music class with the children of Julia Garrett Randolph and Tammy Passano Wiggs!

Gretchen will be starting preschool in the fall,

At an RPCS Phonathon – Jenn Lears Lohse, 1997 and Julia Garrett Randolph, 1997

which is very exciting. Chris and I have still managed to do some fun traveling, which has been nice. I am looking forward to reconnecting with some classmates in person at our 2017 reunion! Carey Baugher Piraino: I am still a director at Advertising.com, which is part of AOL, which was purchased by Verizon. It’s a great job and exciting to see so many women thriving in the ad technology sector! Nick and I are expecting our second son on April 3 and looking forward to a late spring/early summer maternity leave! It was great to see Brooke Grumbine and Kate Archibald Stakem over Christmas, and baby Sophie (Sophie Gerard Cameron’s little girl) and Charlie (my son) had a great time hanging out together on the beach this summer! Sarah Reiley: I teach eighth grade history at The Dalton School. Things are busy at home with two baby boys. Lucas is 18 months, and Theo is almost two months.

We are still living in Brooklyn and becoming experts in keeping a toddler entertained in small city spaces! Alli Harper and her wife, Jenn, and now three-year-old, Anna, are getting ready to move to Portland, ME from Philadelphia. Alli spends most of her time exploring with Anna and then also does some work with the ACLU on the side. Let us know if you find yourself up north! Raegan Burroughs Carmon: We are doing well. We now have five kids (10, 8, 6, 4, 1) and a family photo where everyone is looking at the camera with some sort of smile. You all know how noteworthy this is! We have been continuing to home school. This is our fifth year! My oldest turns double digits this year and he is very excited. Life is very full, yet the closer I stick to our schedule the smoother the day goes (except when the 15 month old gets into trouble). As you know, there is rarely a dull moment with kids, and I am so glad that I am able to be home with them. Brooke Grumbine: I’m enjoying much warmer weather down here in south Florida. I’m currently working on

Daughters of Tammy Passano Wiggs, 1997, (l. to r.) Courtney, 2028, Lizzy and Ellie Wiggs

Class of 1998 Paige Odabashian paige.odabashian@gmail.com Kate Jordan kateejordan@gmail.com Valene Whittaker valenewhittaker@gmail.com

From the Class of 1998 in Vegas: Monica Butler Mitchell, Aja Dorsey Jackson, Shelley Fulton-Powell and Michell Morton

getting my nursing credentials. I’m still painting commissions. Hopefully soon I’ll have time to paint my own two dogs and cat! So, life is pretty good. Tammy Passano Wiggs: 2015 was an exciting year for our family as Justin and I welcomed our third daughter, Elizabeth (Lizzy) Passano Wiggs, in August. Then one week later our oldest daughter, Courtney Wiggs, 2028 started Kindergarten at RPCS! It has been so exciting seeing so many familiar faces around the school and reminiscing on my time there, as I walk through the halls with Courtney. Her younger sister, Ellie, asks almost every day when she will be able to join her sister and cousins at Roland Park. Kate Archibald Stakem: Things in Memphis are still great. I started a new job this year as Director of Studies at St. Mary’s Episcopal School. St. Mary’s is very similar to RPCS, and I am loving it so far. Charlotte is in the third grade, so it is fun to work where she goes to school. She thinks it is awesome, but I have a feeling she won’t be as amused with my presence once she hits the middle school! We still get back to Baltimore twice a year, and are already looking forward to stopping there as we make our way up to Maine this summer. Hilary Winfield: I’ve been back in Baltimore for almost six years and to my initial surprise, I love it here.

I’m still working at the Montgomery County Attorney’s Office where I work on child abuse and neglect cases. The commute is horrific most days. I restore my soul developing urban garden and art projects. My whole block is my garden/studio and as I hoped, my neighbors enjoy it and many have become involved and quite instrumental. Not only that, pedestrians and drivers often stop to take pictures, ask questions, and offer to help. Check me out on Facebook at 11 Hunnit Block Urban Greening.

I hope everyone is doing well and I’m looking forward to our 20th Reunion next year!

Welcome to 2016! It feels good to have a whole year ahead of us, so much yet unwritten and memories to be made. But for now, let’s see how the Class of 1998 has been busy during the past year. I, Paige Kimos Odabashian, continue to soak up city life in Fell’s Point and time with my family and friends to endless avail. My pug, Sydney, and I recently became certified with Pets on Wheels, and look forward to beginning our visits to nursing homes in the coming weeks. I really enjoy giving back to the community through my work with Dress for Success Baltimore, and managing the marketing for my parents’ pub, Peter’s Pour House, especially in its 42nd year! Several classmates are celebrating new jobs or new homes, or both! Tara Bynum left Towson University and is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Rutgers University. “I am a new homeowner, having bought a cute row house in the Oliver community just north of Fells Point and Hopkins hospital.” Carol Dixon Croxton writes: 2015 was a busy year for me and my

Classmates from 1998 Monica Butler Mitchell, Sabrina Johnson Turner and Carol Dixon Croxton

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Members of the Class of 1998 at the 2015 RPCS Boston Regional Reunion, (l. to r.) Tifany Cline Menasha, Valene Whittaker, Anna Hitchner and Elizabeth Serotte

family! We moved to Owings Mills at the beginning of the summer and are enjoying our new home. Shortly after in the fall, I started a new position as the Marketing & Communications Director at OrthoMaryland and am loving it! Our son turned two and we are adjusting to full-on toddler life. It’s been great catching up with and visiting RPCS alums. Hope to do lots more of that in 2016!

Helene Apostolides Christman is celebrating her tenth year at Under Armour in the Brand department as Senior Manager of Creative Operations. What an awesome milestone as

Kristin Ricketts Sparkman, 1998 and Monica Butler Mitchell, 1998 on Opening Day of the Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School

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the company celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! Helene, her husband, Randy, and daughters Valentina (5) and Gia (3) are in the process of moving from their Locust Point home of the past seven years to North Homeland. She is excited about the new change and looking forward to being near her old RPCS stomping grounds! Lauren Miller Hauk writes: Hard to believe it’s been a year since we left NYC and moved to Richmond!

Lots of adjustments - new city, new friends, we bought our first house, Judson started preschool - but all for the better. Finally feeling settled and happy to have a permanent place to call home! Natalie Ciotola-Dabrowski shares: I’ve been working at the University of Baltimore for three years in the Office of Admission. We moved to the county last year and I just got used to having a driveway! Ben and I celebrated our seventh anniversary this past fall. Our three girls - Grace, Chloe and Isabelle - are proving girl drama starts early and is no joke! We are expecting our fourth child in the beginning of April after which point I’ll need a daily sanity check. Elizabeth Getman joined Deloitte in April, doing privacy and data protection consulting. “I’m really enjoying it even though the travel schedule is brutal and more appropriate for a 25 year old, ha! It’s taken me to some awesome and fascinating places like Minneapolis and Atlanta, but I am hoping for some international trips in 2016. When I am home, I’m hanging with my boyfriend Shane and my crazy German Shepherd pup who takes up far too much room in our tiny NYC apartment. When

I have extra time I take in a CrossFit class or try to work back up to running after my hip surgery in 2014.” Our Class of 1998 family continues to expand as a few classmates welcomed new additions to their families in 2015. Natalie Rothemund Dowgiewicz shares that she and Kevin welcomed a second daughter, Veronica, in June. Veronica joins big sister, Lucy, and big brother, Tyler. Dulaney Wible Farkas and husband, Ben, welcomed another son, Rowley Michael Farkas, born on July 9. Big brother Holden has been wonderful in his new role. Jessica Wheeler Hackett shares that son Noah is three and new baby, Graden, is one and a half months, born on 12.14.15!

The boys are keeping her busy and Noah is loving his role as big brother! Meghan Ferguson Feld and her husband also welcomed a new child last year. “In May, we moved to Sudbury, MA and have been enjoying suburban life. We welcomed our second son, Cameron, in September and big brother Hunter loves being Cameron’s big bro. I am loving having the opportunity to be at home with the boys.

Life is good!” Also in Massachusetts, Anna Hitchner writes: We are still living in the South End of Boston, enjoying urban dwelling with our toddler, Will. It was wonderful to have Carri and Dulaney visit for a girl’s weekend in November, and to see Valene, Tifany and Liz Serotte at the Boston Alumnae event. I am still at Bain, after 13 years, and continue to love leading the Human Resources team. Speaking of Carri, Caroline Windfelder Eachus is happy to leave snowy Minneapolis for warmer pastures in Greensboro, NC. “It’s been a busy year with a cross country move to North Carolina over the summer. I am slowly getting the family settled in and adjusting to working part-time from home. It has been fun to reconnect with Laura Cohen Marsh and feels

(L. to r.), Ashley Fiastro, Vivian Odabashian, and Mary and Claire Mueller, daughters of Lauren Waesche Fiastro, Paige Kimos Odabashian and Susan Italiano Mueller from the Class of 1998

Founding board members of the Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, (l. to r.) Jack Pannell, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Kate Jordan, 1998, Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993 and Mark Mullican

like no time has passed since graduation.”

Which really speaks to how awesome our class bonds are considering we graduated 18 years ago! Back home in Baltimore, Faith Pilecki Hudson shares: I am hitting my one year anniversary of being a stay at home parent. I keep busy with the family, friends and moms groups, library story time (where sometimes I see Natalie Rothemund Dowgiewicz and her kids), book groups, yoga, weightlifting and Pilates. Glad I can keep in contact with our class via Facebook! Elizabeth Schaub Huwe writes: I continue to enjoy working as an emergency and critical care veterinarian in Calvert County, and continue to live at and slowly rehab the family farm. The current project is renovating my great uncle’s house so my aunt can move back to be closer to family.

Paul and I are doing a second honeymoon to Japan in February for two weeks and we’re super excited! Shelley Fulton-Powell shares that her son Noah is now in ninth grade. Her youngest, Naeem, just turned eight and is in the second grade. Shelley is in her ninth year teaching, and is currently teaching Kindergarten in Baltimore City. Aja Dorsey Jackson shares that Kya Sykes, 2018 is in tenth grade at RPCS and excited to get her school ring this year. Logan is seven and in first grade.

Wyatt will be two in May. “I keep busy as the Associate Director of Communications at Garrison Forest, and am writing and publishing a ton when I’m not working. I had a great time traveling to Vegas with Shelley, Monica Butler Mitchell and Michell Morton last summer. I, Kate Jordan continue to enjoy the ever challenging, but always interesting field of Commercial Real Estate. In December, I was promoted to Senior Vice President of

Lee & Associates. My real passion has been the founding of Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, an all-boys Charter School in Baltimore city with fellow RPCS alumna, Betsey Swingle Hoblemann, 1993 and RPCS father, Mark Mullican. After years of hard work, we opened our doors in August of 2015 to 201 students. This has been the most important thing I have ever been part of and comes at an undeniably critical juncture in the history of Baltimore City. I am forever thankful for the education I received at RPCS and am pleased to be able to help some of Baltimore’s young men gain access to a high quality education.

Yvonne Crispino Klinger reports in that “life is good!” Yvonne is still in Bethesda with husband, Ben, and kids, Adam (7), Rachel (5) and Lauren (3).

Katherine Cooper Kolbe continues to enjoy raising her daughters, Annelie (7) and Sadie (4), and growing her business, Reed Silk Studio, where she sells her own hand-painted play silks and her dad’s handmade wood cars at farmer’s markets and online. Over the past year she has also been very active as a founding member for a local Waldorf charter school opening this fall. Kate is really enjoying how all the most important parts of life are converging - family, art, and work! Laura Ryan Lubin reports in from St. Pete, FL. Laura works with international students studying English. She recently returned from her daughter Lily’s first trip to Cuba. It was the first time Lily was able to meet her grandparents, uncle and extended family.

Zaineb Makhzoumi is practicing at the University of Maryland School of Medicine specializing in Mohs Surgery and procedural

Lily Lubin, daughter of Laura Ryan Lubin, 1998 dancing in Old Havana, Cuba

Carri Windfelder Eachus, 1998, Anna Hitchner, 1998 and Dulaney Wible Farkas, 1998 in Boston

and cosmetic dermatology. Zaineb loves working with the residents on a daily basis and has become more involved with the school of medicine and curriculum development for the medical students. Zaineb also moved this summer and is loving her new house! Zaineb and her husband are in Lutherville where they both grew up and despite the numerous boxes stuffed in the basement, are settling in nicely and loving the new neighborhood! Laura Cohen Marsh writes: Things are good here in Greensboro, NC. Benjamin is already two years old and through him, I have learned the names every construction vehicle there is… from pay loaders to excavators... He knows them all! He’s just awesome and it’s so cool to see what a wonderful Dad my husband Nate is. I’m still a part time paralegal for a nonprofit.

I love what I do but love even more that I’m home every day at 1:00 pm with Benjamin.

Other than that, I recently acquired a new neighbor. Carri Windfelder Eachus! It’s been so fun to reconnect and her son is just about Benjamin’s age. Jennifer Medina’s big news for 2015 was the completion of her first Ironman triathlon in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A total of 144.6 miles in 15 hours, 22 minutes. As you can imagine, most of the year leading up to the race was consumed with training, but Jen loved it and is looking forward to another season of races! Tifany Cline Menasha’s girls Ava (7) and Kayla (4) “continue to keep me busy and I’m volunteering as treasurer of the PTO.” Sam and Tifany are hoping for a better winter than last when Tifany says: We got like

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Class of 1998 (l. to r.) Dulaney Wible Farkas and baby Rowley, Natalie Rothemund Dowgiewicz, Carol Dixon Croxton and son Ryan, Helene Apostolides Christman, Zaineb Makhzoumi and Paige Kimos Odabashian, at Vivian Odabashian’s 2nd Birthday party

a million feet of snow here in Boston. It was insane! Tifany enjoyed seeing Jean Brune in November for her annual trip up to Boston and the other ‘98ers. She reports: Everyone seems to be doing well although we got bumped up to the middle aged table at the dinner which was disturbing (I guess we’re getting old!), but comical to all! Tina Reed Milnes writes: After graduating from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition last May, I began an online health coaching business, in

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an effort to foster wellness to busy women everywhere. In addition to health coaching and blogging, I began teaching barre at a wonderful studio in Timonium, called Barrevolution. I could not be happier and just love having RPCS’ers stop in to take class!

Monica Butler Mitchell had a pretty incredible year! Michell, Aja, Shelley and Monica took a well-deserved girls trip to Vegas over the summer and are hoping to do another trip this summer. Her oldest son started high school and her youngest son started seventh grade!

Monica writes: It is unreal how quickly the time has flown by. The boys are my biggest fans, greatest teachers and biggest inspiration and it’s so amazing watching how mature they have become. August also brought the opening of the Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School, the first charter school in the nation to open with a charter held by an independent school – RPCS! It has been my great honor to lead the work and serve as President of the Board of Directors. (RPCS alumnae Raquel Whiting Gilmer, 1989, Ann Daniels, 1983, Carla Spawn-van Berkum, 1977 and Jean Waller Brune, 1960 also serve on the board and classmate Kristin Ricketts Sparkman is our Office Manager.) We have incredible people of every background committed to the success of the school including our phenomenal faculty and staff. Many of our Class of 1998 classmates and RPCS alumnae spanning the generations contributed to help each of our inaugural 79 students receive a full uniform set prior to the start of school. The GoFundMe

campaign surpassed the goal in less than a week with over 150 individual contributions!

On the same day that the school opened and immediately following our opening ceremony, I dashed off to DC for a job interview for a new role within Wells Fargo handing Community Development for Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia. Less than 12 hours later, I found out that I got the job! My role is to make investments and provide support through strategic philanthropy and collaboration of affordable housing, workforce development and small business/ entrepreneurship initiatives in low-tomoderate income communities throughout the region. It is work that is ever-changing, keeps me learning, growing and helping people and fulfills my primary requirement of any role that I have - it feeds my soul. In October I was named one of the Baltimore Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 which was an incredible honor.

This summer, I will be in Florida for an extended vacation with the boys as they immerse themselves in their passions with Will attending summer film camp at Walt Disney World Studios. Tyler will be feeding his space passions by attending NASA’s camp at Kennedy Space Center. We’re looking forward to an exciting 2016! Michell Morton is adjusting to being a student again. Michell is a MS Project Candidate for George Washington University’s School of Business. She works full time for DC’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer and attends school in the evening.

Michell says “although I’m super tired most days, I’m learning a lot!” Susan Italiano Mueller started a new job in September setting up home care for patients. She is still just on as the weekend crew, but it was quite a transition. So far it is going well. Her girls, Mary (6) and Claire (4), have had an eventful year. Mary started Kindergarten and is doing

Lauren Battle Wills, 1998 and family Lauren, Anthony, Anita and David

Daughters of Natalie Ciotola-Dabrowski, 1998, Grace, Chloe & Isabelle

great. Claire is doing very well in Preschool.

Susan is also very proud of her family, mostly her hubby who rebuilt their shed this past summer. They also held it together very well in 2015 when they had to replace part of their main sewer line for the second time. Susan says “It make me appreciate a flushing toilet!”

Kelly Phelan moved to Australia and took a professor’s position at The University of Queensland. Kelly says: I love it here, especially being able to spend every weekend at the beach. I also spent two months in Thailand for summer/Christmas break. During those two months I was training to become a muay thai boxer! Looking forward to the 20th Reunion!

Wynter Evans Pitts is still living in Dallas, TX with Jonathan and four daughters (11, 9, 6, 6).

Her oldest daughter, Alena, stars in the box office hit War Room. She is a full time Mom and the author of two books (For Girls Like You and You’re God’s Girl- Devotional for Tweens) and still has the magazine, For Girls Like You. Leah Heumann Reed is pleased to share: My biggest news is that my husband Andy and I are moving back to Baltimore. I’m so excited to be coming home to be closer to family and of course my classmates! Amanda Wolff Torsani is now an accounting manager at a Maryland based commercial real estate company. She and her husband are looking forward to several family vacations this year with their children, Josie (8) and Evan (5).

Jessica Straus continues to love living in Washington, DC. In the fall of 2015, she received a big promotion at DISH Network, where she has worked for over four years.

She’s been made a Director at the company and heads their congressional relations. She got to travel to a lot of fun places for work in 2015, but also adventured to both Peru and northern Italy for great personal trips. Kristin Ricketts Sparkman writes: I have been working with Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School since July as Office Manager. It has

been a pleasure reconnecting with Monica Butler Mitchell, who is the Chairperson of our Board of Directors. The work that our school has done over the last five months with our scholars is amazing! I cannot express how necessary a school of this caliber is to this generation of young women. Having graduated from the first independent school in the Nation to start a public school-what an honor it is to be an integral part of its implementation, development and future success. Our Class is very proud of the work you both are doing, Kristin and Monica!

Lauren Waesche Fiastro and her husband continued to pursue their love for travel by taking trips to Disneyland, Aruba, and by going on a river cruise in France. The highlight of their busy year was welcoming their daughter, Ashley Grace, into their family in December! Katherine Perry Trumbauer is enjoying raising her four kids in Chestertown on the eastern shore. Her children are keeping her very busy, and she sends her well wishes to the rest of the class. Lauren Battle Wills and her family were blessed with the arrival of a baby boy, Anthony, in 2015. She is excited to join the faculty of Charleston Southern University as a Biology professor.

Congratulations Lauren! Stefanie Warns Carter continues to enjoy working at Bloomberg and living in New York with her husband, Evan. Erin McInnes Shaughnessy reports: Everything is great! I have a baby boy, Beckett, who will turn a year old on June 8th and we are applying to RPCS for Avery, who will hopefully be in Kindergarten in the fall of 2016. Time flies! Lauren Andrews Rodgers is enjoying life with her husband, daughter and two step-daughters in Monkton, MD. This past year, Lauren has been helping her husband build his company, Porter Tree Services, LLC. Between the children and the company, she shares that she is “very busy, but enjoying every minute!” In an attempt to maintain her title of “Sabrina the Explorer,” Sabrina Johnson Turner is headed to the following

Helene Apostolides Christman, 1998, her husband Randy and daughters Valentina and Gia

places in 2016: Brazil, Belize, Croatia, Sonoma, and Denmark. She also adds: I just dyed my hair Ravens purple, I broke my finger playing football, but I am still playing in four leagues, and I am super excited about taking over as RPCS Alumnae Board President in the fall of this year. Caroline Winter and her family are on the move again in 2016, with plans to relocate to Ohio in February for Caroline’s new position. They are enjoying new baby Diego’s milestones and enjoying their last days of island life. They plan to keep their place in Puerto Rico to vacation for many years. Not far from me in Massachusetts, Elizabeth Serotte writes: I’m still living near Boston and working in the city. My son Elliott is about to turn seven and we’re making the best of the New England winter by skiing in Vermont most weekends. We’re learning together and he is already surpassing old mom as a great little skier. Finally I, Valene Whittaker, am continuing to enjoy my work as a psychologist at the Bedford VA Medical Center. Last year I became an auntie when my brother and his wife welcomed a daughter in February, and I am excited to celebrate my niece’s first birthday soon! In November, I was incredibly fortunate to travel with friends from grad school to visit my mentor in Tanzania. My colleague and I co-facilitated a symposium presentation examining clinical considerations for working with women and girls who are survivors of Gender-based violence, at the University of Dar es Salaam. We managed to balance work on the trip with some play as well, taking a few days for Safari in the Serengeti and Ngorogoro Crater region, and concluding our adventures by hiking on Mount Kilimanjaro. I am always so grateful to receive updates from our Class each year – I look forward to hearing more from you all in 2017!

Annelie and Sadie, daughters of Kate Cooper Kolbe, 1998

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Class of 1999 Maya Tasher Barron mayaonfaya@gmail.com Hello there, Class of 1999! It’s been such fun catching up with so many of you this year. We certainly have a lot of news to share from the last year, from job transitions to marriages to babies (so many babies!), as well as some newly-earned passport stamps to report! I recently stopped by Elizabeth Graziosi Nilsson’s new home in the DC metro area to meet her beautiful new daughter, Anna. The last year has been an eventful one for Grazi, who married her wonderful husband John (Jennifer Cummings and I served as bridesmaids), continued her work on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Child Safety campaign, bought a new house, and became a first-time mom. Several of our classmates traveled to Baltimore to celebrate these milestones with her, including Natalka Burian, Rosemary Yi, Susan Willats McInerney, and Alene Wilmoth Reich. Alene is looking forward to some exciting transitions herself this spring, including a move into a house that will be the envy of New Englanders everywhere come wintertime: an American Four Square with an attached garage! Additionally, with both of her girls now in school, Alene has a chance to get back to professional ventures and will be joining a

public-private team managing redevelopment in a historic district. She writes: I am eager to begin research and writing about establishing public processes for interpreting and/or renaming sites with racist legacies, providing for discussion and mending instead of sanitizing and sweeping under the rug. Also making waves of change in the world is Sara Levine Kornfield, who relocated to St. Louis last summer after her husband began a fellowship in Anesthesia at Washington University. Sara was able to transfer her NIH grant funding and take a position in the Washington University Department of Psychiatry, where she continues to work on developing mental health treatment interventions for low-income minority women dealing with trauma-related symptoms in pregnancy. Such important and rewarding work! At home, she enjoys spending time with her husband and children, Orly (4) and Caleb (2). Jill Casey made a big move this year, too, returning to the east coast after spending the last two plus years living in San Francisco while working at Twitter. Now a New Yorker, Jill runs the supply side partnership team of a new tech start-up. She’s happy to be closer to home, as the short drive from NYC allows her frequent trips to Baltimore (and Bethany Beach in the summer) to visit with her nieces and the rest of her family. In other big career news, Candace Leake accepted a position in the admissions office at Bucknell University, which moved her from the DC metro area to central Pennsylvania. She misses living in

Members of the Class of 1999 celebrate Grazi’s wedding (front row): Susan Willats McInerney, Jennifer Cummings, Alene Wilmoth Reich, (back row): Rosemary Yi, Elizabeth Graziosi Nilsson, John Nilsson, Maya Tasher Barron, Natalka Burian

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From the Class of 1999 in Charleston, (l. to r.) Lindsey Zeren Zarlengo, Sarah Rodgers Atwood, Christina Smith Fenton and Ashley Zink McLain

Maryland, but is enjoying this new opportunity. Candace is also in her second year of a doctoral program in Higher Education Administration at George Washington University, which has been keeping her busy. In another doctoral program far, far away, Megan Kutzer writes that her Ph.D. position in Muenster, Germany will end soon and she will be making another move to Sweden! There, she’ll live with her boyfriend and will hopefully begin a postdoc position shortly after her arrival. Congratulations, Dr. Kutzer! Meanwhile, three of our medical doctors have been keeping busy as well. Susan Mabrouk is a pediatrician in the Johns Hopkins Emergency Department. Being an ER physician isn’t easy, but she loves the kids and, in my humble opinion, is a phenomenal doctor. Luckily, she was able to take a few breaks this year for travel, which allowed her the opportunity to recharge her battery before returning to work in the emergency room.

Tania Markowski Peters is practicing cosmetic dermatology at the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery in DC. She is happy to announce that she and her husband Matt (Gilman 1999) welcomed their second daughter, Penelope, in July of last year. Big sister Eleanor turned four years old in December, and the family is back in Maryland after several years in North Carolina while Tania completed her medical training at Duke. Maria Mainolfi-Palarata is also balancing motherhood and medicine after giving birth to her daughter, Anna Bernadette, last year. She is excited to return to Baltimore

Jesse Galitzin Dunlap, 1999 and her husband, Christopher Dunlap at their wedding in September

this spring, where she will be working as a Preventative and Environmental Medicine physician at Mercy Medical Center. Her husband Arthur, a chef, has a new project in the works as well, and Maria adds that her grandparents, Fred and Ann, are doing well and are still involved in Community Theater. We all miss Mrs. Mainolfi and her wonderful drama classes, and it’s great to hear that she’s still sharing her talents with the community!

Speaking of busy new moms, Whitney Jamison Price and her husband, Jeff, welcomed baby girl Finley last July. Whitney reports that her daughter is happy and healthy, and attends St. Paul’s School for Girls, where Whitney is the Assistant Head of Middle School. The day after little Finley was born, Wendy Forbes Grossman gave birth to Samantha, her and husband Scott’s first child. Betsy Gaines and Stasia Thomas Nardangeli flew out to Chicago to visit them in September, and Wendy reports that they all had a blast together. I’m sure it was just what the new mom needed before returning to work as a chemistry and biology teacher (and squash coach!) at Beacon Academy. Another busy mom/teacher is Gretchen Crook Bauer, who dropped to part-time teaching in order to spend more time with her children, Annabel (2) and Luke (4). She writes: We enjoyed trips to the beach, pool and zoos last summer, while the fall and winter brought Star Wars Halloween costumes and anticipation of Santa. Other than that, I love having the flexibility to play Legos, read books and color with them every day. She reports that they are energetic, curious, and loving kids (as if we would have expected anything less from Gretchen’s children!).

In North Carolina, Meghan Kelly Long has her hands full working for Omeros (a biotech company specializing in ocular surgery), keeping up a strong fitness/wellness regimen, and being mom to two sweet doggies and a

new baby boy! She and her husband, Jeremiah, are having the time of their lives being new parents to little Brayden. They already have plans to take him to some UNC games this spring, and I’ll bet that the future Tar Heel looks great in Carolina blue! Another new mommy is Julia Gontrum Solomon, whose son Owen was born in November. She and her husband brought the little guy home on Thanksgiving Day, making for an extra-special holiday with much to be thankful for! Clare Cunningham Gilmore had her second child last autumn, a daughter named Lorelei Rose. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl! Stasia Thomas Nardangeli and her husband, Matthew, are exhausted but happy after spending the past year attempting to keep up with their one-year-old daughter, Lyra.

Stasia is also enjoying those much-needed breaks from mom duties (if there really is such a thing) so that she can continue to practice law as a corporate attorney at Thomas & Libowitz, P.A. Katie Swiss King writes that her husband Kyle started a new job last fall, continuing to work in surgical sales for Ethicon. Katie has been staying at home with her little ones, Delaney (2) and Emmett (1), and loves being able to share these early years with them full-time. Delaney is in nursery school a few days a week and loving it, while Katie and Emmett get a little mommy/son time together. She and the kids have had several play dates with fellow classmates, including Stasia, Whitney, Kristin Sudina Freitag and Christina Smith Fenton. She has a girls’ trip planned with Betsy Gaines and a few others that she is very excited about... A well-deserved break, I’m sure! Kristin Sudina Freitag is also keeping busy as mom to one and a half yearold Ryleigh and District Manager for Pepsi Beverage Company. She lives in Cockeysville with her daughter and husband, Chris, who has his own medical device company. Also nearby is Christina Smith Fenton, who has been getting her workouts in by chasing after three rambunctious little boys! Baby Gus joined his two big brothers as the latest addition to the Fenton family last year.

Christina reports that he is amazingly happy, as any third child should be, and that she’s feeling great now that the four-month-long stretch of sleep torture is over. She managed to squeeze in a little getaway to Charleston in November for a girls’ trip with Sarah Rodgers Atwood, Ashley Zink McLain, and Lindsey Zeren Zarlengo, which recharged her soul.

Now she’s back to her search for the perfect job that allows her to “make lottery-like money, be home with the kids, hire a housekeeper, and not be pulled in a thousand directions.” Christina is accepting suggestions, so please call her if you have any ideas! On the

opposite coast, Sarah Rodgers Atwood has been tending to her brood of three, Jack (5), Isabel (3), and William (1). She has been living in beautiful Marin County, CA for nearly ten years now and works as an interior decorator for residential homes. She loves making time to visit with family and friends, and is very excited to celebrate her dad’s 70th birthday this year. Sarah had a blast at her recent girls› escape to Charleston with her RPCS friends and is now looking forward to a siblings-plusspouses vacation sans children. A few hours down the California coast, Jesse Galitzin Dunlap has found a new path in real estate, property management, and vacation rentals, having joined McLain Properties while continuing to expand her entrepreneurial spirit with Arbonne International. On a beautiful September day on the beach, she married her handsome golfer-in-shining-armor, Christopher Dunlap, Calvert Hall graduate and two-time RPCS chili cook-off champion. They live in a darling San Diego seaside village called Carlsbad with their cat and their dog, Roland.

In other milestones, Danielle Lyons Bell is celebrating her third year as a Texan and her tenth year of marriage! She has been homeschooling her son Matthew (6) and is really enjoying it. Her daughter, Mackenzie (3), tries to get in on the action by attempting to do schoolwork alongside her brother, but mostly plays with her dollhouse and pretends to be a puppy (also useful skills). Danielle also volunteers at her son’s Trail Life USA troop, as well as other organizations, and makes time to read and enjoy her life. Back on the East Coast, we have more exciting wedding news to share. Jennifer Abras married her husband, Ian, last June and lives in a charming waterfront town on the Potomac River.

Katrina Shank is happy to announce that she got engaged on Christmas Eve and is planning a wedding for September of this year. She has also assembled one heck of a bridal party: Maria Mainolfi-Palarata, Anjali Blob Sunita and Rosalie Parker will serve as bridesmaids,

Annabel and Luke, children of Gretchen Crook Bauer, 1999

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locking Katrina in for an epic bachelorette night. In professional news this year, Heidi Klotzman celebrated the tenth anniversary of her marketing and events company, HeidnSeek Entertainment. She is enjoying new projects and clientele, and is busy managing and optimizing social media presences for hospitality-based businesses. Heidi notes that her life is truly blessed; she spends most of her leisure time with family and friends, reading, watching films, donating to her favorite causes, advertising, and working on her goals. She hopes to reconnect more often with her RPCS classmates and is happy to support all of our businesses and endeavors. In the academic world, Vicky Pass is in her third year as an Assistant Professor of Art History at Salisbury University. She taught a travel study course on the history of art in Venice that focused on the Renaissance, as well as the 20th Century and the history of the Venice Biennale. Last summer she had a fantastic experience leading 15 students on a trip to Venice and Florence. She writes: The first time I traveled to Italy was with Ms. Miller’s trip my senior year with Mr. McNulty and Ms. AbouHana, and it was incredible… seeing my own students encounter the beautiful art and architecture of these places for the first time. The trip also helped Vicky develop a new vice (coffee addiction) and indulge in an old one (Shoes!

Beautiful shoes!). Shortly thereafter, she participated in a month-long National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Philadelphia, Teaching This History of Modern Design. There, she visited archives and museums, and worked with a group of international scholars to develop innovative techniques for teaching design history. Vicky finally topped off her busy, work-centric year with a real vacation and spent a week in that beautiful and snowy wonderland, Santa Fe. Way to go, Vicky!

Lastly, I, Maya Tasher Barron, have had a banner year. After humbly accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing a ketchup bottle that doesn’t jam, I took a threeday break to read Infinite Jest from cover to cover. I then successfully robbed a bank and used the loot to fly to Madagascar so that I could pet one of those cute lemurs that keeps showing up on my Facebook news feed.

(Totally worth it.) On my way home, I overturned a dictatorship and helped biologists regenerate the endangered population of mountain gorillas. I won the Powerball a few weeks ago and have pretty much been coasting since then. Anyone who shows up to the next reunion gets a free car!

See you then. **Obviously, I did none of those things. The note about Infinite Jest should have been a dead giveaway.

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Class of 2000 15th Reunion Masha Bodansky MashaB1217@aol.com It is hard to believe we just celebrated our 15th Reunion! At the last minute, I became the Reunion chair and planned our class event at the Arthouse in Hampden. If you are ever in the Baltimore area, please consider supporting them. They were extremely nice and accommodating. I’m sorry most of you were not able to attend, but Maya Brown and I had a great time relaxing and reuniting! We even discovered a shared love of ice cream, which meant we had to take a quick walk to the nearby Charmery. It was a perfect reminder of all the wonderful times we, as a class or individually, would walk to Baskin Robbins, during and after school. In September, I also became the new Class Rep. A huge thank you to Lisa Trader Giacobbe who did it for so many years before! She writes: I live in Towson and continue to work as a Program Supervisor at an outpatient mental health clinic with Catholic Charities. Shawn and I welcomed our second child, Cole Nathan, on June 5th, and big sister Caroline is three years old now. We have our hands full and are having a blast with these two little ones! Rachel Woodward Early writes: We, Bill, Rachel and big brother Evan (age four), welcomed a baby girl on February 7, 2015, Lillian. I’m working as a nurse part time at Johns Hopkins Hospital and love spending time at home with my kids. We are living in Parkton, MD. Jennifer Lalley Veatch writes: My husband Jason and I welcomed Ginger Lalley Veatch on May 11, 2015. This is my twelfth year teaching history at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, GA - hard to believe! Rachel Morgan Spencer writes: My husband and I welcomed our first child, our son Porter, in October 2014 and we’ve spent the last year getting used to the parenting gig and enjoying every second! We’re still in Roanoke, VA and I’m now heading a new marketing research department at the Ad agency I’ve been with for the past eight years.

Liz Levin Hlavek writes: She is an art therapist in private practice in Annapolis, MD, where she lives with husband Adam and two year old daughter, Scarlett. She recently began a doctoral program in art therapy and expects to graduate in 2018. Liz is also busy in her role as the Local Arrangements Chair for the American Art Therapy Association’s annual conference in Baltimore this July. Congrats on all your exciting news! Congratulations to Kitzie Winship as well who writes: she

Daughters of Lisa Trader Giacobbe, 2000

graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in December with a Masters in Counseling Psychology, Drama Therapy concentration. She has spent the past year facilitating group and individual Drama Therapy sessions in a community mental health setting in Oakland, specializing in cooccurring disorders. She lives in San Francisco, CA. Also in San Francisco, CA as I write this, although temporarily, is our own playwright Sarah Shaefer. She is currently hard at work rehearsing and preparing for the world premiere of her new play Selkie at the Z Space!

For more information, please read the on-line articles written by a number of publications including the San Francisco Chronicle and Broadway World! She will be in San Francisco until the end of February and then she will return to NYC to start new projects. Congrats and break a leg Sarah! With even more exciting news is Erica Wilmoth Smith who writes: I got married in September to Kirby Smith (Loyola, 2002) in Havre de Grace, MD. We purchased our first home together in Towson and are enjoying settling into married life! Congrats Erica! Currently getting ready

Kerri Huebner Carlile, 2001 and her son Edison

Masha Bodansky, 2000 and Maya Brown, 2000 celebrate their 15th class reunion

for her Baltimore wedding as I write this is Mary McCeney! She will be getting married this April to Clarke Nelson (Gilman, 2003).

Congrats Mary! Finally, I apologize if you had news you wanted to share and did not see my many Facebook messages on our class page in time. For future class notes, if you would prefer I send you an e-mail reminder, please let me know and which e-mail address to use. I won’t include information unless you specifically ask me to, so please write! Congrats and best wishes to all!

Class of 2001 Courtney Brent cgbrent@gmail.com Erin Lears Richardson RichardsonE@rpcs.org Another big year for the Class of 2001! Tala Al-Talib is currently a second year cardiology fellow at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She will be starting the job search for attending cardiologist positions this coming year as she will be finishing up fellowship in Summer 2017. Tala’s husband Rani finished his fellowship this past year and he is currently on faculty as an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. This past year was filled with change and joy as they welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Aya this past July. Tala gets together with Stacy Patterson Montgomery (and her one year old son Logan) and Michelle Hessey Oakley occasionally and recently over the holiday season, her daughter got to meet Michelle’s two-year old son Micah and her brand new identical twin girls Talia and Miriam. Lauren Dodrill Benjamin and her husband, James, bought their first home

this year. They love their neighborhood, and enjoyed getting to meet many of the neighbors as they shoveled out of this year’s blizzard!

Lauren also celebrated her fifth anniversary with her law firm, Smith, Gildea & Schmidt, LLC, where she continues to practice complex civil litigation. Shawn Slotke Brown lives in Canton (yes...still, it’s been ten years!) with her awesome husband, Rob and energetic black labrador, Camden. She recently started a new job as the Director of Marketing and Leasing at Seawall Development. Shawn is in Yoga Teacher Training at Charm City Yoga and will be RYT-200 in May. In addition to yoga, she enjoys running and volunteering.

Her passion for the two is the perfect match with organizations like Girls on the Run and Athletes Serving Athletes. We were excited to also hear from Semeria Byner this year, who is the proud mother of two precious girls who are both under the age of two! Semeria writes that they keep her on her toes daily and that she is enjoying every moment! Semeria and her family live in North Carolina. Also in North Carolina are Anne Landay Sherbine and Allison Higgins Keenan. Anne is a registered nurse at Carolinas Medical Center and lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband Evan.

Allison, lives with her husband and their son in Durham and recently celebrated Lindsay Higgins Vane, 2003’s wedding this past fall and looks forward to celebrating Alexandra Thomas’ come October! Speaking of Alex, she reports that things are great for her in Southern California (everyone in the North East is jealous)! She lives in Marina del Rey with Zeus and her fiancé Max. Alex works as Senior Counsel for Conifer Health Solutions, working for their Value-Based Care line of business. She is busy wedding planning and traveling and working. She just got back from an awesome trip to Salvador, Brazil and they are heading back to San Paulo and Rio in May! However, she says their favorite times are just getting to take advantage of their own neighborhood. Alex sends California love and has invited us all to visit! In a slightly colder climate, Sheena Cline Byrnes writes that she is transitioning from Darien, CT to Pittsburgh, PA. She’ll be wearing her Raven colors proudly in the Steeler country. Sheena is still with Danaher managing their global OEM sales team for Thomson Linear. Kerri Huebner Carlile is still in sunny Arizona with her family. Two exciting things happened in her life last year. She started teaching math online for BYU Idaho in her “spare” time and has really enjoyed it. In November, she welcomed a baby boy, Edison so now they are a family of five. Kerri was home on maternity leave over the holidays and got to spend lots of time watching her girls play with the baby.

Sutton, daughter of Kirsten Stone Simpson, 2001

Kate Owens Eckstein left her corporate job to start her own interior design business. So far things are going well and she loves working for herself. Kate is still living outside of Boston with her husband, two crazy boys (Owen, five and Emmett, two) and their labradoodle Schnitzel. She also invites visitors! Kirsten Stone Simpson reports that 2015 held a lot of changes for her family, especially in October!

First Sutton turned one (!), then her brother got married and her son Reid was the ring bearer. A week later their house closed in Ellicott City and they moved to Charleston, SC. Kirsten resigned from her position at Thermo Scientific and now stays home with the kids, Reid (three) and Sutton (one), full time.

Her new bosses are very demanding but super cute and she loves being able to spend this time with them. They live fifteen minutes from the beach and she’s so excited to let the kids

Reid, son of Kirsten Stone Simpson, 2001

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Reds Run for City Council There will be two familiar names on the ballot for the 2016 Baltimore City Council election. Elizabeth Ryan Martinez, 1999 is a candidate for City Council District 5 and Dea Thomas, 2001 is a candidate for City Council 11th District.

Elizabeth Ryan Martinez, 1999 – District 5

Dea Thomas, 2001 – District 11

For the People of Baltimore, for a Change

I am your voice! / Imagine. Innovate. Inspire.

RPCS is so proud of both of your campaigns.

Election day is April 26 and the magazine will be at the printer.

grow up running and playing in the water and sand which they absolutely love! Kirsten wrote that the environment and community down in Charleston is very welcoming and active; there is always something to do! Also at the beach is Sarah Passano Meech who writes that she loves living in Rhode Island and all it has to offer from skiing to beaches and everything in between! They were thrilled to welcome Sawyer Jane Meech into the family on May 1, 2015. Annabelle and Grady love having a little sister! Dina Karkar Riddle will be starting a

new job as lead designer at an ad agency in Austin and she’s looking forward to the career change. Additionally, she and her husband, Ryan, are taking a long overdue honeymoon in March which they are extremely excited for! Katie Scott Potter reports that after having her daughter Selah in 2013 that she had inadvertently put her photography on hold, but 2015 was quite artistically rejuvenating.

Elena Olivi recently moved to Switzerland where she’s pursuing a one-year MBA at IMD with her fiancé. They are getting married in

The wedding of Sarah Harrison Lenahan, 2001 with (l. to r.) Lauren Dodrill Benjamin, 2001, Heidi Kendall, 2001, Kelsey Twist Schroeder, 2001, Sarah, Sarah Passano Meech, 2001, Amanda Wolff Torsani, 1998, Kristen Sloan, 2001 and Katharine Fox Castro, 2004

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September in the Italian Dolomites and are aiming to move back to Africa after graduation.

Elena will be seeking a job with a private sector company that is one, known for good supply chain management in the developing world, and two creative about aligning profits with corporate social responsibility. The idea is to later return to public health and apply the skills she learned from the MBA and the private sector. Her parents moved to Rome last year and it’s very nice to be living on the same continent as them for the first time in nearly decade! Erin Lears Richardson is still happily working in fundraising at RPCS. Her daughter Penny Richardson is in the Preschool 4’s and son William (two) is in Little Bear Child Care Center. She loves seeing Kelsey Twist Schroeder and her two girls, Hazel Schroeder, 2028 and Lillian Schroeder, Preschool 3’s as well as Annie Ferebee Short and her two sons, Hudson, Preschool 4’s and Clarke also in Little Bear. As for me, Courtney Brent Kaufman, I am still living in Baltimore with my husband Tim and working in Towson. I am looking forward to getting the plans started for our fifteen year reunion!

Class of 2002 Edith Birney Wilson ee.birney@gmail.com Hi Friends! Hope this update finds everyone happy and healthy. I will be the first to admit that I sound like a broken record, but I really can’t believe another year has passed. When will we stop being invited to the Young Alumna events? That will be a hard one to take! As always, our classmates have been up to some exciting things! Christine Werthman is now the deputy editor for the website Complex Music. She celebrates ten years of living in New York this summer, and she has no plans to leave anytime soon. She still gets back to Baltimore a lot to hang out with her parents and cause trouble with her rambunctious niece and nephew. Kinsey Morrison Sale is also in NYC. She and her husband Will welcomed William Walker Sale on March 5, 2015 in NYC. They are still living in Manhattan where Kinsey is a VP in the Global Real Assets group at JPMorgan and Will is working in private equity in Greenwich, CT. Kinsey writes: Walker is saying mama, walking (!), and filling the apartment with so much laughter and love. Many of our classmates are setting their roots in Baltimore. Emily Dierkes is currently teaching ninth grade English and

William Walker Sale, son of Kinsey Morrison Sale, 2002 From the Class of 2002 Bethany McEvoy, Laura Kerr, Jordan Mixter Stahl, Edith Birney Wilson and Christine Werthman celebrate Jordan’s wedding in October 2015

also in the art department at RPCS and having the greatest time! Emily is also in year two of a three year Master’s of Fine Art program at Towson. If that’s not enough, Emily is also planning her May wedding! Emily and her fiancé are living in Hampden, where they bought a house almost two years ago. Emily is also coping with the loss of her beloved mom last year (I think we all know where Emily got her creativity and sweetness), but writes: being a teacher makes me feel so close to her.

Emily sees Kristen DeMarco Rickard around RPCS. Fizz loves being back at RPCS, working in the Development Office with Erin Lears Richardson, 2001. She is also staying busy running around after Lydia (2) and William (1).

Kristina Pompa is working at Feats in Baltimore and travels constantly producing events for clients domestically and internationally. She also is a member of the Alumnae Board this year and having a great time getting involved with RPCS again. Kris spends a ton of time with Alex Moylan who is also on the Alumnae

Board! Jessica Winicki Kallaugher had a busy year. She and her husband Dan welcomed their son Connor McKeown Kallaugher on June 1, 2015. They bought a house in Guilford.

Jess graduated from University of Maryland and became an Adult/Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. While Ashlee Tuck is not busy traveling, she’s living in DC and is a member of the RPCS Alumnae Board. Ashlee is a contracting officer at USAID and spent two months in Zambia this winter for work.

I encourage all of you to read Ashlee’s blog, Will Drink for Travel. It’s a fun one! Jordan Mixter Stahl married Jonathan Stahl in a beautiful October wedding. I can say she was the most beautiful bride, because I was there as a bridesmaid. It really was a spectacular celebration with lots of RPCS classmates dancing all night long. She and her husband are living in DC. Carrie Schenning Sheehan

and her husband welcomed their daughter, Claire Elizabeth Sheehan, in July. Lil’ Claire has already had a few playdates with Jess’s baby Connor and Kinsey’s baby Walker.

Jessica Kaplan Kuenzi writes: This past year has been very exciting as I got married! My husband and I were married on May 30 in Annapolis, MD. Dan and I met through our college a cappella group back in Los Angeles at USC. Our mutual love for music was a large part of our wedding - we led the way from our ceremony location to our reception by kicking it off with a fully orchestrated flash mob to Hooked on a Feeling and recorded our own version of Tenerife Sea by Ed Sheeran to dance to for our first dance. My husband’s name is Dan Kuenzi and I will be Jessica Kaplan Kuenzi (no hyphen) once I finally get to doing that! Kristen LaMotte Ebersole was one of my lovely bridesmaids. Dan and I honeymooned

Daniel McCoy Hallenbeck, son of Sarah Scalia Hallenbeck, 2002

A playdate for Walker Sale, Claire Sheehan and Connor Kallaugher children of Kinsey Morrison Sale, Carrie Schenning Sheehan and Jessica Winicki Kallaugher from the Class of 2002.

Parissa Jahromi Ballard, 2002 and her husband Grey with their sons, Maz and Benson.

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Class of 2003 Lindsay Higgins Vane lindsaymhiggins@gmail.com

Jessica Kaplan Kuenzi, 2002 and her husband Dan on their wedding day

in Belize and live in Washington, DC where I am a litigation attorney and my husband runs his company, Local Roots Farms. Molly Baker Brant got married in Annapolis in May 2014, got pregnant in June 2014 and had a baby girl, Gracie, in March 2015. Wow! Molly and her husband, Jason are about to break ground to build a house in their current community, Bay Ridge, in Annapolis, MD. Molly is working in Mobile Advertising for Verve Mobile and enjoys the flexibility to work from home with occasional travel up to the headquarters in NYC. We’ve got a few classmates living the life on the West Coast. Cara Bunker is living in Los Angeles and loving it. She continues to work on MTV’s Teen Wolf. She’s looking forward to expanding her horizons and get into producing soon. Parissa “PJ” Jahromi Ballard and her husband, Grey, were very excited to welcome their second son, Maz Jahromi Ballard, on January 31. His big brother, Benson (age two), is showing him the ropes and they are enjoying the adjustment to life as a family of four. Sarah Scalia Hallenbeck is living in Orange County, CA with her husband and adorable son, Danny.

Daniel McCoy Hallenbeck arrived on August 18, 2015. As for me, Edith Birney Wilson, I’ve had quite an exciting year. My husband Dave and I welcomed our son James Douglas Wilson in May 2015, and bought a house in Millis, a tiny town about forty minutes west of Boston. I’m still teaching fourth and fifth grade special ed and loving it, but am appreciating the weekends more than I ever have! It’s fun to see where everyone is, and think about how far we’ve all come since our days at Roland Park.

Lots of love to you all...always.

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Sowmya Ravi is living in Dallas, TX where she is completing a Mohs surgery fellowship after having completed her dermatology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She got married in November in Baltimore, with Joanna Breslow Boyd as her bridesmaid, and with fellow RPCS classmates in attendance! Sowmya’s husband, Shiv, is a neurosurgeon who lives in Seattle and is completing a spine fellowship. They are looking for jobs and a place to call home.

Ashley Nolan Gwynne is working in Baltimore city as a PreK teacher still and was promoted to the early childhood supervisor. She writes: This year we are having our first baby due this July and just bought our first house in Perry Hall! Meredith Davis just moved to Brooklyn and is doing pediatric occupational therapy.

Kellie Bland is currently living in Baltimore, and after finishing her M.A. in Intercultural Communication and Training this past May, she is working in International Education at a high school foreign exchange organization.

She is hoping to do at least one international trip this year with her job. She is happy that many of her friends from RPCS have moved back to the area and she is looking forward to connection with them. Joi-Marie McKenzie is still living in New York City. She recently penned a book titled The Engagement Game.

Lucy Barrett Crannick, 2003 with daughter Peyton Leigh Crannick

It is slated to hit bookshelves in 2017. Molly Frew is still living in Boston even after 2015’s record breaking snowfall. She spends most of the fall vehemently defending her loyalty to the Ravens. Molly enjoyed spending some time back on campus in May to honor her Mom’s retirement from RPCS. She is happy/ lucky/grateful that weddings, work trips and

Labor of Love As a transplant from Baltimore to Inglewood, CA with a small child and no car, Nicole Carter Steele, 2003 was forced to walk several miles to the nearest grocery store.

Steele observed the many vacant lots along her walk, and began to grow increasingly frustrated. She could imagine Inglewood coming alive with a fresh local food system. Not content to sit by, Nicole began petitioning local politicians and designing the 100 Seeds of Change initiative. 100 Seeds of Change empowers community members to eat healthy, thus lowering their risk of diet related diseases. Starting as a volunteer, and now as the Health Equity Programs Coordinator at the Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI), Nicole is pleased with the growth of 100 Seeds of Change. A certified Master Gardner from University of California, LA, Nicole manages all SJLI farms and nutrition programs.She is very involved in community gardening, sustainability, nutrition education and food equity in underserved neighborhoods in the LA. How wonderful that our alumna has used her “green” education from RPCS to make a difference in the world!

Lucy Barrett Crannick, 2003’s baby shower, (l. to r.) Barrett Neale Scott, 2006, Barbara Barrett Neale, 1973, Carroll Neale, 2010, Joan Smith, HA, Ashley Dent Eklund, 2003, Kathleen Trotter O’Doherty, 2003, Lucy Barrett Crannick, 2002, Kellie Bland, 2003, Sara Zorzi Shultz, 2003, Jean Waller Brune, 1960, Molly Frew, 2003, Amy Barrett Frew, 1972, Patricia Waters Barrett, 1945, Libby Cole, 2003, Virginia Barrett Shanley, 1970 and Leigh Martin Lowe

Sowmya Ravi, 2003 and her husband Shiv at their wedding

holidays have allowed her to connect with old friends over the past year. 2015 was an eventful year for Emily Duvall Jolicoeur!

She moved out of Baltimore City and to Lutherville, literally across the street from her sister Kate Duvall Frankton, 2000. Emily and her husband welcomed a baby girl, Olivia, on June 3, 2015. Erin Lacy Hollander is still teaching at Calvert School and living in Canton. She and her husband, Brett recently celebrated their daughter Mae’s 1st birthday.

Jordan Plumhoff is still living in New York City (going on year seven!) She is working in pharmaceutical marketing, which keeps her

busy and allows for lots of interesting travel all over the world. Highlights of the past year include trips to Paris, Rome, Buenos Aires and paragliding in Rio de Janiero. Airlia Esworthy Lotz and her husband, Greg, are living in New Windsor, MD. She is still employed as a surgical assistant, but recently relocated to a local hospital, Carroll Hospital Center.

While Airlia is not working, she stays busy chasing around their almost two year old son, Oxford. The Lotz family is expecting a little girl in March! Kate Brockmeyer and her husband, Elliott Hunter, welcomed a son, Robert “Bobby” Ewell Hunter, on December

10, 2015. She is enjoying getting to know her little boy during her maternity leave from Jones Day. Kathleen Trotter O’Doherty married Patrick O’Doherty on September 12, 2015 in Baltimore, MD. They recently moved out of the city to Carroll County. Amanda Ortel Frank is expanding her family in New York, expecting a third baby in the spring of 2016. She and her husband, Grady, have a son and a daughter already. They live and work in Tribeca, where they get to enjoy many family friendly parks, restaurants, shops and activities for kids. Lindsay Higgins Vane married Scott Vane on October 10, 2015. They are currently living in Rodgers Forge with their two yellow labs, Ben and Bruce.

Lindsay Higgins Vane, 2003 and Scott Vane

Mae Hollander, daughter of Erin Lacy Hollander, 2003 at her first birthday party

Olivia Jolicoeur, daughter of Emily Duvall Jolicoeur, 2003 and Mae Hollander daughter of Erin Lacy Hollander, 2003

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Kathleen Trotter O’Doherty, 2003’s wedding to Patrick O’Doherty

Since 2014, Ana Agelopas has been working on the marketing team at Ventev Mobile, a company that designs and manufactures premium mobile device accessories in Timonium, MD. Ana is in charge of packaging design, merchandising and tradeshows and really enjoys working with companies within the US and in China. She is still living in Cockeysville and has made some great friendships over the past three plus years attending Titan CrossFit. She is currently planning a trip to London, England for the fall and cannot wait for all the new experiences that come with traveling across the pond! Ginger Owens Asher continues to

enjoy the successes and challenges of being a professional counselor at a private practice in Delaware. In June she will have her third opportunity to travel to Africa working with a nonprofit called eduKenya that seeks to empower children and families in the Nairobi area to break the cycle of poverty by partnering with them to encourage their education and skills base training. After four years in Washington, DC, Wendy Blue relocated to New York City where she continues to work for Jones Lang LaSalle as a Real Estate Consultant. She currently advises a global financial services firm and manages the client’s leased and owned real estate portfolio in the Midwest and South Central regions of North America. Wendy loves getting together with Natalia Rodriguez, Hilary Rogers and Laura Welch in NYC! Caroline Boeke has been working for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health nonprofit, as an epidemiologist. She has been advising

Katie Loya, 2004 and Sydnee Wilson, 2004

Reid and Milly Smith, children of Becca Warfield Smith, 2004

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on evaluations of government programs supporting HIV services, nutrition, and health systems strengthening in low income countries. While still based in Boston, she has been working in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Thailand, and she is loving the adventure! Katharine Fox Castro is living in Baltimore and working in Investment Banking at M&T. She is finishing up her term as President of the Alumnae Association. Katharine enjoys watching Stella (2023) and Zoe grow up together and traveling to new adventures! She loves running into other alums around town and hopes to see everyone soon! Sarah Sims Hagan Chesson is pregnant with her second child, a little boy, and is due July 3, 2016. Peri Cohen is living in Canton. Peri is an LCSW-C (Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical). She works at Advanced Therapeutic Connections doing in-home mental health therapy with kids and adults. Susanna Cooper loves living in Boston, MA. She started a new job at Boston Medical Center over the summer. Even though she loves New England, she is getting married over Labor Day weekend 2016 in Baltimore!

She can’t wait to celebrate with friends and family in her hometown, and hopes to catch up with any Roland Parkers in Boston, or at future events. Elizabeth Duke is in her final year of Pediatrics Residency at Boston Children’s Hospital, starting her training in Pediatric Neurology this July. Loving Boston, MA, she recently reminisced with classmates Lauren Veverka, Caroline Boeke and Michele Slotke Floeckher at the RPCS in Boston alum event. Katie Duncan is living in Canton and finishing up her ophthalmology residency at University of Maryland. Next year, she will be heading to Pittsburgh, PA for an oculoplastic surgery fellowship. Meredith Hauf is enjoying planning for her June wedding while working for Broadmead in Cockeysville, MD. Audie

Members of the Class of 2004, Carla Johnston, Natalia Rodriguez, Hilary Rogers and Laura Welch

Evidence for Impact: Supporting Global Health at the Clinton Health Access Initiative

Lacey Haciski Zelino, 2004 with her mom Toddy Atkins Haciski, 1970 in Antarctica

Fugett Jones and husband, Adam, welcomed their second son, Axel William on February 15, 2016. She is enjoying being a mom of two boys and living between Lutherville and San Diego. Kelly Soth Nolan and husband, Chris, bought their first home together in Canton.

She is currently the US Sales Manager for a Canadian engineering company and travels across the U.S. every week. Kiki Law Perrini is still at Johns Hopkins working in the Weinberg PACU. She is living in Hunt Valley and enjoying every minute of her one and a half year old, Topher! She likes to get together with Katie Atkins Kauffman and Becca Warfield Smith for playdates! Betsy Griffin Petrelli continues to do personal training at the Under Armor Performance Center powered by FX Studios, training Under Armor athletes, employees, and gym members. Betsy and husband, Nick, welcomed a sweet baby girl, Charlotte Clarke, in November and love life as a family of three!

Katlin Pless is currently living and working in Washington, DC, completing her architectural licensing exams. She is recently engaged, and was lucky enough to celebrate with soon-to-be

Classmates from 2004 Carla Johnston, Melissa Paterakis, Katlin Pless and Lindsay Macdonald

After pursuing graduate training in Epidemiology and Nutrition, Caroline Boeke, 2004, has been busy working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health nonprofit committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. Founded in 2002, CHAI operates in more than 20 low and middle income countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.

At CHAI, Caroline has worked on a number of interesting projects, including helping to evaluate new diagnostic tests for HIV – as part of an effort to better understand how accurate these new tests are, negotiate pricing discounts to make these tests more affordable to patients in low-income settings, and assess whether they are feasible to implement in the field. Unfortunately, stockouts, lab delays, and even electricity are still a challenge in many areas in sub-Saharan Africa, so even if a test is cheap and accurate, it may not work well in practice. Another interesting project has been working with staff from Kenya’s national HIV program to understand risk factors for treatment failure among patients on HIV drugs in Kenya. Hopefully, this project will help hospitals to target patients at high risk of drug resistance or nonadherence to their treatment and prevent them from getting sicker.

One of Caroline’s favorite programs at CHAI is the Demand Driven Impact Evaluations for Decisions Initiative (3DE). This program was created due to the lack of access to high quality and relevant research available to inform health policy decisions in low income settings. In countries that are part of the 3DE program, CHAI works with the Ministry of Health to identify a pressing question around health programs and then implement a short-term, high quality evaluation, usually in the form of a randomized trial design, to answer that question. For example, in rural Zambia, where mortality in childbirth is very high and few women deliver in health facilities, Mama Kits (a small package with a nappy, baby blanket, and chitenge cloth for carrying the baby) were distributed to new mothers as an incentive to give birth in hospitals, where mortality is much lower. Through this 3DE evaluation, Mama Kits were found to be cost-effective and the Ministry of Health scaled up use of Mama Kits in districts with low hospital delivery rates across Zambia. This year, Caroline is supporting the Ministry of Health in Rwanda to identify policy-relevant questions as part of the next phase of evaluations.

CHAI has yielded many fantastic travel experiences, but for Caroline, the most amazing part has been working with the in-country national staff. “These people are incredibly dedicated to improving patients’ lives and know their national health systems intimately, and working with them has been an inspiration.”

Caroline Boeke graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008 with an A.B. in Anthropology and Art History. She received a doctoral degree in Epidemiology and Nutrition from Harvard School of Public Health in 2012.

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Katharine Fox Castro, 2004 with Stella Castro, 2023 and Zoe Castro in Puerto Rico

Nurse Practitioner, Melissa Paterakis, PICU nurse Carla Johnston, and publishing associate/fellow bride Lindsay Macdonald.

Hilary Rogers is living in NYC and is now working for Weill Cornell Medicine as a Major Gifts Officer. She recently celebrated her thirtieth birthday with RPCS classmates Carla Johnston, Natalia Rodriguez and Laura Welch.

Allie Robinson Sandstrom married Greg Sandstrom in May 2014 and, after four years at CQ Roll Call, subsequently started a new job at Pew Research Center as the copy editor for the religion research area. Allie occasionally research’s original topics and writes pieces for the Center’s Fact Tank blog, but her main job is editing the survey and demography reports the Center produces. It’s fascinating work!

Becca Warfield Smith and her husband, Beau, welcomed a daughter, Milly Warfield Smith, on their son, Reid’s, second birthday! Dani Kell Steinbach continues to enjoy her work at RPCS. She is grateful for the professional support and guidance she’s received from Jean Brune over the last three years, and is looking forward to a move to the Communication department this summer. Dani’s daughter, Kaylee, will turn two in July and loves her days at Little Bear at RPCS. Andrea van Wagenberg is currently the West Coast Channel Manager at a Cybersecurity startup company in DC called Thycotic. She currently lives in Woodley Park/ Tenleytown, DC. She spends a lot of time on the eastern shore and in Baltimore. She is seriously considering relocating to Chicago, IL or Austin, TX. Lacey Haciski Zelino is living in Minnesota with her husband and one and a half year old daughter. Most of her time is occupied by being a stay-at-home-mom with some independent contracting on the side.

She still takes time to travel and spent early December in Antarctica with her mother.

Lacey and her husband are also expecting their second child in August.

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Attending the wedding of Lawrie Peck Givner, 2005 to Michael Givner in October (front row, l. to r.) Tara Lewis Bisciotti, 2005, Taylor Fragapane, 2005, Stephanie Gisriel, 2005, Lawrie, Cara Hitchner, 2005, and Katie Peck Fuchs, 2002 with (back row, l. to r.) Lizzie Baird, 2005, Rachel Klein, 2005, Jackie Carr Lagratta, 2005, Maria Stratakis, 2005, Jessica Winicki Kallaugher, 2002, and Carrie Schenning Sheehan, 2002

Class of 2005 Tenth Reunion Erin Durbin erintdurbin@gmail.com 2015 was the year of engagements and weddings for the Class of 2005! We celebrated our ten-year reunion last fall and it’s amazing to see how far we’ve come. Our classmates are business owners, teachers, doctors, mothers, social workers, homeowners, corporate

executives, wives and world travelers. It’s an honor to know you inspiring women and share your accomplishments with the RPCS community. I can’t wait to see what you’ll do next. A few of our classmates are traveling the world this year! Maria Stratakis sent her Class Notes at 6:45 a.m. from Hanoi, Vietnam.

Maria decided to start the first few months of 2016 traveling around Southeast Asia. She arrived in northern Vietnam last week and she’ll be bopping around Vietnam for the next month before heading to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Japan. Elisa Prosperetti is in her third year of a history PhD at Princeton. Elisa is

Jacqueline Carr Lagratta, 2005’s wedding to Kyle Lagratta in August with bridesmaids and friends (l. to r.) Cara Hitchner, 2005, Maria Stratakis, 2005, Tara Lewis Bisciotti, 2005, Jackie and Taylor Fragapane, 2005

Nichole Leonard, 2005, Caley O’Neil Petty, 2005 and Mary Palmer, 2005 Ameerah Brooks Waddell, 2005’s July wedding to Derek Waddell spending the academic year doing archival and oral history research in Ghana, Ivory Coast and France. Over the last year she has - at long last! - become a real Francophone, fallen in love with squash, and continued to make no progress on her long-standing goal of being on time for things. Sarah Zimmerman is currently living in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she is a medical student at the American Program of the Sackler School of Medicine. What this means is that she gets to be on a Mediterranean vacation for the first three years of medical school, and then come back and do her rotations and residency at home in the states! Sarah reports that Tel Aviv is an incredible, lively city right on the sea, with a very different feel from a lot of the rest of Israel. It’s more like Miami than Jerusalem. Sarah continued that although Baltimore will always have her heart, it’s really not too shabby living here in paradise. Tel Aviv is beautiful here and when she’s not holed up studying, there’s always something to do, some new bar or restaurant or coffee shop to check out, some walk or bike ride along the sea at sunset, markets both typically middle eastern

(think stalls, and shouting) and modern (think Chelsea market), and farther afield, some awesome hikes near ancient caves, some mystical village to explore, and weekend trips to other countries. I think we can all agree that it sounds amazing! In the states, you’ll find Jennifer Graillot Rivard, who just put her New Hampshire house on the market and is looking for a new home in Cambridge soon. Jennifer is a Senior Technician at Shire Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA, and a mother of two!

Jennifer reports that her family is doing great!

Her first born, Logan, is now two years, four months and is growing up so fast! Logan is an excellent big brother to his little sister, Noëlle, who is six months and a champion sleeper.

Jennifer also reports that Ian is doing well and continues to be an amazing and supportive husband! Nearby in Boston, Cara Hitchner is in her third year teaching Pre-K at UP Academy Dorchester, a turnaround school in Boston.

Cara plans to return for the 2016-2017 school year as well. Cara is looking forward to getting

Tara Lewis Bisciotti, 2005’s bridal party, (l. to r.) with friends and classmates Maria Stratakis, 2005, Lawrie Peck Givner, 2005, Caroline Cobert, 2008, Tara, Jacqueline Carr Lagratta, 2005, Claire Cobert, 2011, Taylor Fragapane, 2005 and Cara Hitchner, 2005

The wedding of Caley O’Neil Petty, 2005 and Tom Petty in September

married to her fiancé, Matt Fuchs, in August of 2016 on Cape Cod! Blakely Goldsmith is also living in Boston and working for Bain & Company as a Global Recruiter. Blakely is halfway through her Master’s in Communication at Johns Hopkins University. In the city that never sleeps, you’ll find Julie Smyth, who is living in Brooklyn and still loving life in NYC. Julie is the Adolescent Defense Project Social Worker at the The Bronx Defenders, a public defenders office in the South Bronx. In September 2015, Julie started as an adjunct faculty member at The College of New Rochelle’s Rosa Parks Campus in Harlem, where she teaches bachelor’s level social work curriculum. Lastly, this year Julie began her 200-hr Yoga teacher training at The Bhakti Center. She will graduate and become a certified instructor in March 2016. Stephanie Gisriel also lives in NYC and works at Baron Capital as a National Account Manager and Head of the Internal Sales Desk. Lawrie Peck Givner is still living in NYC and working in education. Lawrie is leading the recruitment team of a growing graduate school of education that trains urban teachers and principals.

Lawrie reports that the most exiting update in her life was getting married to Michael Giver on October 10, 2015! Fun fact – Michael and Lawrie were set up by their sisters who met at Carrie Schenning Sheehan, 2002’s wedding.

Lawrie and Michael had a blast celebrating their nuptials with many RPCS friends.

Amy Kiyota is also in New York, where she serves as the Managing Director of Development at Educators 4 Excellence-CT, a nonprofit that works to elevate the voices of classroom teachers. Amy is also engaged to be married in May 2016. Another New Yorker,

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Erin Durbin, 2005 with classmate Kristin Pelsis, 2005 and her guide dog

Caley O’Neil Petty got married in September 2015. Fellow classmates Mary Palmer and Nichole Leonard were bridesmaids in the wedding. Caley works in International Marketing at Tory Burch and lives in NYC with her husband Tom and their black lab, Lucy. Speaking of Caley’s bridesmaid, Mary Palmer is still living in DC and recently accepted a position at Georgetown University Law Center. Mary is enjoying the world of academia, although she does miss working in politics, especially as the presidential election ramps up! Mary reports that she and Nichole Leonard had a great time at Caley’s beautiful wedding a few months ago! Nearby in Bethesda, MD, Tina Knipp is working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also a part-time student at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy. She plans to complete her master’s degree in public policy this May 2016. Tina also recently got engaged to her boyfriend, Gareth Harrison.

Jewel Jennings-Wright also works in DC, though she recently moved back to Baltimore and bought a house. Jewel reports that she is glad she got to see everyone at our reunion last fall. Catherine Bonaparte lives in Baltimore, too. Catherine has a full plate! While pursuing her master’s in teaching, she serves as a fulltime student teacher in Baltimore County, along with working full time in technical support. Following graduation in the end of April 2016, Catherine is heading to Mexico for a well-deserved vacation! Ameerah Brooks Waddell had quite the year, too! Ameerah finished her MBA in HR Management, got married in July and found out she and her husband were expecting their first child in August! Ameerah is due on April 25, 2016.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Waddell! One of Ameerah’s bridesmaids, Brittany Bland, is working towards her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Johns Hopkins University, while also working in development

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at Hopkins. Brittany now lives with Lauren Winship and she loves it! Lauren and Brittany live in walking distance to Liz Vayda. Liz owns B. Willow, a business that specializes in indoor plants and terrariums. B. Willow provides custom work, plant design for weddings and events, educational outreach, and plantmaking workshops around Baltimore and DC. Liz lives in Waverly with her dog and her boyfriend. Nearby, Hallie Atwater works for the University of Maryland, Promise Heights as a community organizer and social worker at a high school in central west Baltimore. Hallie reports that she has learned so much since starting the job six months ago and she really loves it. Hallie sees Nichole Leonard from time to time around Fells Point and even had the pleasure of seeing Brigitt Roveti, who lives in Austria, twice in 2015! Brianne Kopf is still teaching third grade for Baltimore County Public Schools. She is also looking forward to completing her master’s of education this summer! Shannon Burke is also in Baltimore and is in her second year of dental school.

Projected to graduate in May of 2018, Shannon will then serve four years as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Dental Corps. To date, Shannon is serving as a Petty Officer, 2nd Class with the Navy, and looks forward to pursuing her career with them in just a couple of short years. She will start seeing her first set of patients this summer! In continuing with her love and passion for lacrosse, Shannon is also entering her third year as a lacrosse coach for a local club program and is looking forward to assisting the players as they develop into young athletes who play at the highest level possible. Tara Lewis Bisciotti got married in July 2015 to Jason Bisciotti. Tara and her husband currently live in Canton, but are moving to Annapolis this summer. Tara is in her fourth year teaching Kindergarten at Pine Grove Elementary School in Parkville.

Jacqueline Carr Lagratta reports that 2015 was a huge year! Jackie got married to her husband, Kyle Lagratta, in late August at the Tidewater Inn in Easton, MD. And per usual,

Jennifer Graillot Rivard, 2005 and her daughter Noelle Rivard

Alli Lacy Watts, 2005 with her husband Brendon and son Max following his seven month deployment

Jackie chose some of her most favorite RPCS girlfriends to help her celebrate her special day including Taylor Fragapane, Tara Lewis Bisciotti, Maria Stratakis, Cara Hitchner, and Rachel Klein. Jackie was also happy to witness the nuptials of some of her best friends from RPCS including Tara Lewis Bisciotti and Lawrie Peck Givner. Jackie is looking forward to another special year of celebrations, including Cara Hitchner’s wedding! Mr. and Mrs. Lagratta are living downtown in Federal Hill and Jackie is working at Videology, a technology startup in Locust Point. Fingers crossed that 2016 will bring Jackie a puppy!

One of Jackie’s bridesmaids, Rachel Klein, is staying active in Baltimore! She started teaching spin at Rev Cycle Studio and ran her first marathon this year. Rachel is living in Canton and working at Under Armour as a wear test analyst. Alisha Williams is in year two of her pediatric residency at Lehigh Valley hospital in Allentown, PA, officially making it past the halfway mark! Alisha will be finishing up residency in a little over a year, and in the next six months or so will be applying for pediatric critical care fellowships, hoping to ultimately bring her talents back home sweet home. The family is doing very well; there have been two adorable not-so-little anymore nieces added to her family, and Alisha is in love with them! Alisha reports that she can’t wait to read of everyone else’s accomplishments and seeing the photos! Alisha says that it was amazing seeing everyone at the reunion, and hopefully it won’t take long for us all to gather together again. Caroline Hartman moved from Baltimore to Nashville this past September, and took a new job as the primary therapist of a child and adolescent treatment program specializing in eating disorders and anxiety disorders. Also down South, Olivia Myers is in

Austin where she is working as a prenatal genetic counselor. Olivia got engaged to her boyfriend, Andrew, on New Year’s Day and is now planning a wedding back in South Carolina next spring. Erin Catzen Deedrick reports that like so many other ladies in our class, she got married this year! Erin married her husband, Robert Deedrick on October 10, 2015. The Deedricks are still living in Winston Salem, NC and just bought their first house.

Rob works for Corning and Erin continues to work at IMG College. Erin also went back to school recently and is hoping to complete her MBA at Wake Forest by summer of 2017! On the West Coast, Jocelyn Durkay is still in Denver, CO, working in state energy policy research. Jocelyn is very excited that its snowboard season again. In San Diego, Alli Lacy Watts’ husband Brendon recently returned home from a seven month deployment on The U.S.S. Rushmore. Luckily, he made it back just in time to celebrate their son Max’s first birthday. Alli reports that they are all happy to be together and are enjoying life as a family of three! If you think life couldn’t get much more tropical than San Diego, get ready to be jealous because Eileen Flanigan Doane and her husband Nathan are busy getting ready to move to Hawaii! Eileen reports that she enjoys being a landlord and running her own business (most of the time). Eileen loves educating and empowering people on how to use essential oils to improve their wellness and for many solutions around their homes. In San Francisco, you’ll find Kristin Pelsis, who is looking forward to her wedding to Kenny Sheppard at Grace Cathedral this May! I am also looking forward to being one of her bridesmaids! Kristin earned her Master’s in Orientation and Mobility in December and is currently finishing internships with Blind Babies Foundation and Orientation Center for the Blind. Kristin is also still raising puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind. As for me, Erin Durbin, I am now living just a short drive from Kristin in Berkeley, CA with my boyfriend of six years, Britton Nyce (Gilman, 2005), and our dog, Brewer. Britton is now a Senior SEC Reporting Analyst for peer-to-peer lending company, Prosper, Inc., and I am still working in the city at ad agency DDB San Francisco, as an Account Manager for Qualcomm Technologies. I missed seeing you all at the reunion last year, but I was on a fabulous hiking and wine vacation in Northern California with my family, so that helped ease my Fear of Missing Out a bit. I’m very much looking forward to the RPCS regional reunion in a few weeks here in SF! As always, thank you all for sharing your lives and staying in touch! I really enjoy hearing from you all and writing about your incredible lives.

The wedding of Laura Hearn Kameen, 2006 with bridesmaids Kathryn Werthman, 2006, Jennifer Hearn, 2008, Molly Ricely, 2006 and Sarah Morehead Pope, 2006

Class of 2006 Lisa Diver DiverL@rpcs.org Happy New Year, Class of 2006! Another year finds our fantastic class up to new adventures, and wonderful experiences. It was a joy hearing from so many of you, and I hope you enjoy reading our updates for this year! Be sure to read to the end as I include a brief mention about our 10th Reunion. Heather Brake completed her MBA in Finance at Loyola University this December. She continues to live and work in Canton. Elizabeth Robertson Chriss was married this past August

to Evan Chriss (Gilman, 2004). She loved having Molly Ricely, Cassie Mathias, and Davina Passeri be a part of her wedding.

Elizabeth and Evan live in Federal Hill with their adorable and lovable new golden retriever puppy, Thacher. She is especially excited for Thacher to start having playdates with Sarah Morehead Pope’s lab, Lucy! Elizabeth is graduating from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in May with a Master’s in Nursing. Betsy Cohn is now living in Austin, TX as she is in the process of completing her Master’s in Public Health. Jane Dewire is currently working as a medical assistant for a group of general surgeons in Chevy Chase, MD. This summer she will begin medical school at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Mallory Twist Dunn writes: I

The wedding of Sarah Morehead Pope, 2006 and Matt Turner Pope (grandson of Anne Turner Pope, 1954) with bridesmaids (l. to r.) Hannah Pope, Laura Hearn Kameen, 2006, Meg Giffen, Emma Pope, Pharibe Pope, Kelly Monahan, Catherine Pope, 2001, Kendall Lam, and Molly Ricely, 2006

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currently live in Forest Glen, MD with my husband, Patrick, and commute to downtown Washington, DC for my new job at Williams & Connolly, LLP. I continue to enjoy participating on the RPCS Alumnae Board as Corresponding Secretary. I was able to see Daniella Faust, Laura Keenan, Anna Swift, Hanly Heubeck, Catherine Guarnieri, Liza Lacy, Cate Goytisolo, Chelsea Kirk, and Brittany Kalkstein over the winter holiday season. It was wonderful to catch up with so many classmates and see how well everyone is doing! We spoke of how difficult it is to imagine RPCS without Jean Brune. This has been a busy year for Daniella Faust. Last January, she earned her master’s from NYU, and in February passed the National Boards for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). Daniella loves her current job, working as an Occupational Therapist at the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, working in acute care and inpatient rehabilitation. She currently lives in Canton where she often sees her RPCS friends.

Caroline Galvez packed up camp and moved down south this summer. She writes: I’m currently attending the Savannah College of Art and Design, working on a second BFA, this time in graphic design. Living in the South is pretty interesting, but I think I will end up somewhere a little closer to family. As it is now, I’m working hard at my classes, while also freelancing as a designer and illustrator. I made it onto the Dean’s List for my first quarter. I’ll be the maid of honor at my sister’s wedding in the next year, which is very exciting - and RPCS will represent, I am sure. Brooke Christofferson Gill graduated with her MBA from George Washington University this

December. To celebrate Brooke and her husband, Misha, traveled to Belize where Brooke earned her PADI open water certificate.

The two continue to enjoy residing in Alexandria, VA where her husband has recently opened his own estate planning law firm. In October, Brooke traveled with Jane Dewire and Kathryn Hampton to spend a weekend together celebrating Kendall Poling Gomber’s wedding. After five years in Chicago, Catherine Guarnieri, has moved back to the area. She is currently in her first year at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business where she is pursuing her MBA, with a focus in Marketing. She plans to graduate in the spring of 2017. Kathryn Hampton has relocated from Raleigh, NC to Durham, NC. She continues to enjoy her job in market research at Time Warner. Her newest endeavor is looking to adopt a rescue dog. Hanly Heubeck continues to work as the marketing and events manager at the BoatHouse Restaurant. For the second year in a row, her restaurant was lucky enough to host the cast and crew of The House of Cards TV series.

This fall, Hanly Heubeck and Cate Goytisolo moved into a house in Canton. Amanda Hessinger is living in Philadelphia where she has gone back to school beginning a program to become a dietician. After a little less than a year at BuzzFeed, Deniece Holley, has been promoted to Senior Project Manager and will continue to help grow the department alongside the Project Director. She has been living in LA for a little over five years, and still loves it! Deniece and her boyfriend are expecting a baby boy this June!

Congratulations, Deniece! Jane Hollon is in her last semester at The American Film

Brooke Christofferson Gill, Jane Dewire, and Kendall Poling Gomber from the Class of 2006

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2006 Classmates Meghan Murphy, Brooke Christofferson Gill, Chelsea Kirk, Laura Keenan and Mallory Twist Dunn with Jean Waller Brune at the DC Regional Reunion

Institute Conservatory where she is working on her master’s degree and producing her thesis film, titled, Lockdown. Jane returned to RPCS in October to speak as part of the Upper School Career Day panel featuring alumnae for Professions in the Arts. Joanna Taylor Iacobucci writes: 2015 was awesome! On July 11, I married my best friend, Andy Iacobucci, in Baltimore at Rawlings Conservatory surrounded by our family and friends. Later in the year, I enrolled in a Master of Science program through JHU’s Carey Business School, which has been a blast, but exhausting.

Other than that, I’m still at the same job and continuing to love life with my (now) hubby in Charles Village! Peale Iglehart continues to work as a second grade teacher while also pursuing a master’s as a reading specialist which she will complete this summer. Peale and her husband, Ed, have enjoyed getting together with fellow classmate, Jane Dewire and her wife, Kelly. Krystin Johnson just responded following her military duty. She writes: Over this past year I returned home safely from deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I took over as Company Commander of 361st Military Police Company United States Army Reserve in July. I graduated Military Police Captains Career Course. On the civilian side, I took a new job as a sales manager for Xfinity. After leaving the corporate commercial real estate world in June, Brittany Kalkstein, moved to McLean, VA to join a start-up called Xolin. Her company works in creating athletic and casual apparel made from recycled plastic bottles. She writes: we are still in the infancy stages, but it’s been so exciting to be a part of something from start to finish. She and her boyfriend also recently moved into a new apartment in Tenleytown near American University. While she is slowly moving out of the city, which is terrifying for her, she finds comfort in being only a block away from Whole Foods, Starbucks, and great Mexican and pizza restaurants. Her boyfriend has two

sons, Ryder and Keller, ages six and eight, who go to elementary school directly across the street from their apartment building’s front doors. Laura Hearn Kameen, completed her master’s at Notre Dame in special education.

She is also in her fifth year working as an eighth grade Special Education teacher at the Forbush School. This October Laura got married to Stewart Kameen. Her bridesmaids included her sister Jennifer Hearn, 2008, Sarah Morehead Pope, Molly Ricely, and Kathryn Werthman. Laura Keenan, continues to work at Edelman, a global communications marketing/PR firm, as an account supervisor on the Health Team. She writes: I’ve been at Edelman for almost three and a half years now and am really enjoying my time there. Living in Washington, DC, Laura continues to enjoy seeing many fellow RPCS girls in both the DC and Baltimore areas. Lauren Kelly continues to work as a Project Manager for UBS in New York City. She enjoys living so close to New York, and experiencing all the city has to offer.

Additionally, Lauren is enjoying being a first time Aunt! Patty Kelly’s big news happened on December 4th when she announced her engagement! After finding cheap tickets on a whim, she and her fiancé traveled to Ireland for a long weekend. While in Dublin, they ran into David Marshall (Gilman, 2006) who was also on his own trip. On the job front, Patty continues to enjoy working at Under Armour.

Chelsea Kirk, continues to work at Maya Angelou Academy (MAA), in Laurel, MD. She is currently their Assistant Principal and an English teacher. MAA is a school located within the New Beginnings Youth Development Center, which is a secure juvenile facility for court-adjudicated DC male youth ages 15 – 21. Chelsea lives in Washington, DC in the Adams Morgan area. She gets to see Mallory Twist Dunn a lot since she is close by, and enjoys seeing some of our fellow classmates when in Baltimore. She also writes: I do see Cate Goytisolo a bunch especially with our recent Dartmouth wedding circuit! Eunice Kwon, is currently a third year law student at Emory University’s School of Law. This past summer she worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore. Upon graduation in May, Eunice hopes to work with criminal law or white collar crime cases. Loretta Lee, is finishing up her fifth year working with Ralph Lauren. She continues to live in Brooklyn, and frequently sees Catherine Kim, 2005. This year she will run her third half-marathon!

After completing her MBA at NYU’s School of Business, Lizzy Lenrow, currently works at JPMorgan’s Private Bank in New York City.

Next September, she is incredibly excited to serve as Annie Seibert’s Maid of Honor. Beth Swinski Messier continues to work for The

Young Victorian Theater Company. She also had the opportunity to work at the Lyric as the wardrobe assistant for two different operas.

Abbie Mitchell writes: My biggest update is that I am getting married in June! Stephen and I will be tying the knot in Brunswick and Georgetown, ME on the 18th! It’s very exciting and we cannot wait. Besides wedding planning, Abbie and Stephen have moved to London, after she completed her Master’s Degree in Museum Studies at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Abbie is now volunteering at three museums, as well as working part time as the Surrey Development Officer for the English Lacrosse Association. She says the position mainly involves helping to grow the game in the county of Surrey, helping to start new clubs and introducing it to local elementary schools.

I am really enjoying it, but eager to make my way in the museum sector. Meghan Murphy, recently moved back east and is enjoying a new role as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA. She is working in the area of Smart and Connected Health and enjoys being close to family and friends again, including Annie Seibert and Chelsea Kirk in DC. Meghan is looking forward to a May wedding in Baltimore. Her fiancé is currently applying for residency and only time will tell where the two will be next, but hopefully, not too far! Sara O’Neil, continues to work as a Registered Nurse in the Operating Room at The R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. She is looking forward to

Julie Taylor Schultz, 2006 and Ben Schultz

seeing everyone at our ten year reunion next fall! Davina Passeri writes: I graduated in May from the University of Central Florida with a PhD in Civil Engineering. My dissertation was on the effects of sea level rise on tides, storm surge and coastal erosion in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Upon graduation, I received a prestigious post-doctoral research fellowship with the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg, FL to continue doing coastal hazards research. I moved to downtown St. Pete in June, where I live within walking distance of work, restaurants, bars and museums, and a 15-minute drive to the beach!

Megan Pendleton is the Assistant Director of Multicultural Services and Programs at the University of Georgia, Athens. She is involved with the development and implementation of campus programs addressing social justice as well as the UGA Social Justice Retreat. Sarah Morehead Pope writes: I got married and then decided to change careers and become a teacher. She always enjoys having puppy playdates with Elizabeth Robertson Chriss’ dog. Ateret Reisner celebrated her first year wedding anniversary this January after secretly eloping in 2015. After earning her Master’s in Social Work, and receiving her license last spring, Gabi Romanoski currently works as a clinical social worker at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, for Child/Adolescent Psychiatry. She enjoys spending time with Molly Ricely, Courtney Weir, and Kathryn Werthman on the weekends. It was a very big year for Julie Taylor Schultz. She writes: I spent the 2014-2015 academic year pursuing a Master’s in Public Health at Hopkins. In March 2015, my fiancé, Ben Schultz, and I ‘Couples Matched’ for our Residencies in the NYC area. We were both fortunate to land our dream jobs; Ben matched into the Plastic Surgery residency at North Shore LIJ while I matched into the Family Medicine residency at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel. Shortly after graduating from Hopkins with my MPH, Ben and I were wed on May 30, 2015 in Howard County, on a family friend’s farm. After a short, but sweet, honeymoon in Mexico, we moved to NYC, where we plan to be for (at least) the next six years. We are now both halfway through our first year of residency, and things are going well! Well... at least we’ve survived! We’re both working long hours, and don’t get to see each other much, but the work is rewarding.

Barrett Neale Scott, has moved down to Annapolis, MD where she currently lives with her husband. She is working for The Nanny Network, a nanny agency in Towson, as the recruiting director. Annie Seibert, continues to work for the Federal Government in Washington, DC. Breaking from her normal

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work routine, she spent a month this fall in Southeast Asia. Annie is looking forward to getting married this September, where Lizzy Lenrow will serve as her Maid of Honor.

Theresa Statkiewicz, continues to work as a nurse in the SICU at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. This summer she served as one of the Maids of Honor in her sister, Anna Statkiewicz, 2008’s July wedding. Courtney Weir completed her BMA this year and is continuing her career in Marketing as part of DSM Nutritional Products’ Early Life Nutrition division. She writes that it has been an exciting year with lots of international travel for work. Courtney currently lives in Federal Hill with her sister, Kerry Weir, 2008 and Molly Ricely. She sees Roland Park girls often. Kathryn Werthman continues to reside in Baltimore, and works as the Creative Director at the DuClaw Brewing Company.

Beth Yancey teaches fourth grade at St. Dominic’s School in northeast Philadelphia where she has lived for the past three years.

When she has the opportunity, Beth still enjoys traveling around the world! As for me, Lisa Diver, I am currently in my fourth year of teaching at RPCS. Over spring break, I travelled on a cruise with several friends throughout the Caribbean. Last June I had the opportunity to travel with our Performing Arts ensembles throughout Greece. It was a wonderful trip, but also incredibly surreal as this was the exact same trip and itinerary that many of us took ten years before as members of FTE, Roses, and Semis. Unfortunately, due to a back injury and surgery, I was unable to participate in any marathon races this year, however, I am hopeful that there are more in my future next year. Another year is in the books for our wonderful class! I do want to give a special shout-out to Mallory as she was a great help in encouraging classmates to respond for this year’s publication! It is hard to believe that next year marks our ten year reunion. If you have not done so already, please be sure to let me know your current address so all materials are sent to the correct location. I look forward to seeing everyone at all of our Reunion events!

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Sisters Julia Palmer, 2011 and Emily Palmer, 2007 with Megan Trenery, 2007 and Erin Trenery, 2010 at the NYC Regional Reunion

Class of 2007 Caroline Martinet martinetc11@gmail.com Emily Adams graduated from her Master’s in Psychology program in August and has been continuing to see clients at the Golden Gate Integral Counseling Center in downtown San Francisco. She is chugging along towards the whopping 3,000 hours to complete before she becomes a licensed marriage and family therapist! She just started a training program at Josie’s Place which provides grief counseling for families who have lost someone in the last year. It’s free for the families so it’s a great resource that she’s excited to be a part of.

When she’s not practicing psychotherapy, she still loves being a bodyworker providing therapeutic massage for the tense people of San Francisco. She is happy to be working at the same place she’s been for the past three years, as well as a new spot just in the past few months. Jessica Adnani has been busy with her business, Personalized Solutions. They just celebrated their four year anniversary! She has hired an executive events coordinator for DC and she is in the process of expanding to Naples and Miami, FL. Her other business, poptheQ, was launched this past spring and so far the response has been very positive! Lastly, she is working on co-authoring a book about female entrepreneurship and chasing your dreams. She’s hoping to have it finished

by October of 2016. She still lives in

Washington, DC. Meena Al-Talib is in her second year at the University of Maryland Dental School. She took the national boards last summer and passed! This summer she will start seeing patients - she admits she is nervous but also really excited! Her sister Tala Al-Talib, 2001 just had a beautiful baby girl in July, so she is now a proud aunt and loving every minute of it! Courtney Amelung started working in September as an Associate Attorney at Tydings & Rosenberg LLP in downtown Baltimore. She works in the Litigation Department handling various civil litigation matters. Her practice is currently a mixed bag of employment law, commercial law, medical malpractice, and products liability, among others. She took her first deposition back in October which she says was an amazing experience. Emily Bergbower finished her PhD last June in cellular and molecular medicine. She has six papers in the submission process at the moment and she’s looking forward to seeing them published. She discovered a regulatory pathway related to mutant CFTR in cystic fibrosis and she’s hoping a particular protein in this pathway, called CAL, will targetable clinically in a specific patient population. As for the present, she’s currently a first year medical student.

Emily says it’s different, but wonderful. She’s still working with her PhD lab on the side, and this summer she will be designing and running a gene profiling project for a transplant surgeon. She still captains a social league kickball team and plays soccer two times a week. Jessica Rieger Berman just graduated from nursing school in December and is about

to take her board exams. She’s in the process of applying to nurse residency programs and hopes to land a job in the emergency department. She currently works in home care with a patient who has Alzheimer’s disease. It has been busy, but coming home to her son (who is about to turn four!) after a busy day makes everything worth it. Caroline Brown is currently enjoying apartment living on the water in Canton. Last year, she worked for a mural company, NS Studios, painting murals in local charter schools and residential homes.

She decided to go back into nursing and got a job in the General Operating Room at GBMC as a perioperative nurse. She’s been working there since September 2015 and loves it. She’s still in orientation and looking forward to working on her own this March. It’s been a lot to learn, but it’s a wonderful work environment.

She’s hoping to transfer to the surgical intensive care unit in a couple of years so she can go back to CRNA School to become a nurse anesthesiologist. Other than that she still enjoys oil painting and is currently working on a series of seascapes. Rebecca Clark is living in Mt. Vernon and is still teaching Special Education at KIPP Harmony Academy in Baltimore City. In May she graduated with her Master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins.

She’s looking forward to visiting her family in England again in the spring, and maybe do some teaching abroad this summer.

Jaime Crawford started a new job as a project coordinator this past June with a telecommunications company called Nexius.

Her team builds and integrates the cell towers for AT&T throughout the BaltimoreWashington market. Grad school has kept her pretty busy. She’s entering her final year at Georgetown University and hopes to have her Master’s of Professional Studies - Technology Management completed this December. This past spring she became an official resident of Baltimore City and the proud owner of a cute little rowhome in Highlandtown, a couple blocks away from Patterson Park. She lives with her two kittens and her now fiancé, Mark. So, sometime between work and school she’s also attempting to plan a wedding! Zoe Dolan is still living in New York City and is the cultural events and exhibitions coordinator at the Onassis Foundation (USA). They organized a four-day arts festival in the fall that she helped produce and this March-June they are hosting an archaeological exhibition, Gods & Mortals: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus. All of the artifacts have never been shown in the U.S. before and there are some stunning mosaics coming over! She says if anyone is in town or in the NYC area come by - it’s free! Jessica Davis Bashaar this year finished up her contract with the Army and moved back to

Leslie Mosberg Heubeck, 1977, Hilary Heubeck, 2007 and Hanly Heubeck, 2006 at Hilary’s graduation from George Washington University

New York City. She currently works for Lutron Electronics as the commercial shading specialist. Her job is basically meeting with architects, interior designers, and general contractors as a design consultant on large commercial construction projects.

It’s completely different than military intelligence and she says she absolutely loves it! She also has become a Pilate’s addict over the past couple of months. Hollis Dvorkin is now in the fourth year of her PhD in History at Princeton University and is still living in East Harlem in New York City. This year has been mostly devoted to doing archival research for her dissertation. She works on the relationship between Carthusian monasteries and the comital administration in 13th and 14th century Provence. She was in southeastern France for two months in the fall and she heads back to Europe in about two weeks.

She’ll be in the archives in France for March and April, but has scheduled a bonus trip to Rome, Naples and the Amalfi coast with her fiancé first. They are getting married next September! Alex Forsythe is still living in northern California in Roseville. Last year she was working at a local dog and cat grooming shop that employed some of the best show groomers in the country and the world. She gained lots of knowledge and experience, but after three years of working for them she decided to open her own dog grooming business called Wet Noses Pet Grooming by Alexandra. She has only been in business for about six months, but so far she says it’s

booming. This summer she will be going to a grooming convention in Las Vegas called Super Zoo where she will take part in seminars and grooming competitions. Next fall she will be going back to Sierra College to finish getting her vet tech certification. Kiley Gray says this year she had a bit of a change. She recently left her previous job in order to find a job that gives her more culinary freedom and experience. She is currently the sous chef at Coconuts Restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and is loving it. She has permanently moved to Ft. Lauderdale, and is now officially a Florida resident! Hillary Gross is still living in Arlington, VA and working for Congressman Bob Gibbs from Ohio. She was recently promoted to Senior Legislative Aide. Congress recently passed a long-term highway bill that was signed into law - so that was very exciting for her office! Bethy Hagan is still living in Fells Point. She finished her MBA at Maryland University in May and then did some consulting for startups for a few months before starting a new job at IBM. She’s in software sales in IBM’s Summit Program, which is a leadership training program that she really loves. On the side she does a lot of work for UVA. She helps run the alumni club for Baltimore and is also on the selection committee that interviews high school students for a large merit scholarship. Sarah Humphries is in her second year as the head field hockey coach at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. She also works in their Sports Information office helping with game day

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operations and event management. In August she graduated with a Master’s of Science in Recreation and Sport Management from Western Kentucky University. When she is not in season she spends a lot of time traveling to different recruiting events and coaching at camps and clinics. Kate Kauffman is currently living in Washington, DC and working at Anthropologie as the display coordinator on F Street. She moved here over the summer after commuting from Baltimore for nine months so she says it’s really nice to be closer to work!

She’s living with two friends from college in Petworth. She will be relocating through Anthropologie and is moving to Spokane, WA in March. She says after living in Washington, DC for about seven months she is definitely not a city girl and is excited to be starting this next chapter of her life! Megan Knipp is still living in San Francisco and loving it, even with El Niño trying to convince her otherwise. She says she spent a couple of magical months last spring in Maui working on an organic cacao farm and exploring the coast. Now she’s studying to be a Holistic Nutrition Consultant at Bauman College in Berkeley. Rachel Meyer is still living in Washington, DC and working at Avascent, a management consulting firm focused on the aerospace and defense industry.

She’s currently transitioning from a project management role into more business development, which she says is both terrifying and exciting. She got engaged in 2015 and is now deep into wedding planning! They’re just a few months away from the wedding now and she couldn’t be more excited! She’s hoping to pick running back up more in 2016 and run another marathon in the next year or so.

Maggie Nyce is living in Washington, DC in Dupont Circle and is working at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in the Africa Division. Their programs

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focus on strengthening the justice sector in various African countries to protect human rights and prevent atrocities. She recently traveled to northern Nigeria for their program on community security in the northeast where Boko Haram is active. Naina Khandelwal Rengarajan is still in the dual MD/PhD program at Washington University in St. Louis.

She’s working on her PhD in Immunology, specifically the interaction of the immune system with the intestinal microbiota. She says thesis work has been draining but she does enjoy it. She hopes to defend her thesis in about a year and then get back to the hospital to finish the MD. Allegra Romita is still living in Brooklyn and loving it. She is currently pursuing certification as a Movement Analyst (CMA) at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in Brooklyn, NY. She is still teaching yoga at Brooklyn Yoga Project, Tangerine Hot Power Yoga, and Prana Power Yoga. She is honored to continue to be a member of and the Company Administrator for Sydnie L. Mosley Dances. She and her mother signed a book contract with Oxford University Press for their book Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers.

So keep an eye out for their book this Summer/ Fall! They are teaching workshops at Towson University and in New York City. She says to spread the word to any friends who are passionate about movement and want to learn more about their bodies. Abby Trader Schumacher says that 2015 was a big year for her! She graduated from physical therapy school with her doctorate, passed the boards, and accepted a position with MedStar NRH in the outpatient orthopedic location in White Marsh. She got married at the end of September and officially became a stepmom as well! She also trains in an obstacle gym in White Marsh for American Ninja Warrior and competed on the show in May. She says she is trying to go back on the show this season. Megan Trenery is still living in Woodley Park in Washington, DC. She’s a fundraiser for pediatric cancer research at Children’s National Health System.

She’s also a member of the RPCS Alumnae Board and has enjoyed reconnecting with classmates at special events. She completed the 2015 Baltimore Running Festival King Crab Challenge which included the Frederick Half Marathon, Baltimore Ten-Miler and the Baltimore Marathon. Jocelyn Young-Hyman is in Denver, CO. She’s doing pre-recs for Occupational Therapy school and working on the side. She says she’s still asking herself why she decided to go back to school after all these years but she loves being in a classroom again - just not the exams! She says she’s living a typical Colorado life which includes lots of skiing, climbing, camping, and hiking. She’s

still taking Hip Hop classes, she just started glass blowing, and she’s involved in the deaf community and the Peace Corps community in Denver. As for me, I have been loving life as a Greenwich Village resident in New York City.

I am still working at Columbia Journalism School as a Program Manager for Professional Prizes. As such, I manage the solicitation, entry processes and logistics for five annual awards (the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, the John B. Oakes Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Meyer “Mike” Berger Award, and the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award). I love working with journalists’ every day and am proud to support their work. I’ll be running the Airbnb Brooklyn Half this spring with Megan Trenery - this will be our fourth half marathon we’ve run together! I enjoy bumping into fellow Roland Parkers in NYC, and look forward to seeing everyone at our ten year reunion next fall (Ah!).

Class of 2008 Katie Riordan k.riordan517@gmail.com Savannah Bass is living in Birmingham, AL working as an account manager at Peritus PR, a public relations and public affairs focused firm. Savannah has built a niche for herself in garnering earned media for clients, recently securing coverage in publications like Town & Country, Inc. magazine, The New York Times and Southern Living. She is engaged to Adam Koplon of Mountain Brook, AL, and they will be getting married July 3, 2016 in Baltimore at the American Visionary Arts Museum after Adam graduates dental school in June.

Savannah recently cheered the Crimson Tide on to their fourth national championship and loves life in the South and all it has to offer,

Savannah Bass, 2008 with her fiancé Adam Koplon

Cathy Hebert, 2008 ran the Brooklyn Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon with fellow classmates Bridget Hollon and Noelle Winicki

although she will always be partial to Charm City and the Baltimore Ravens. Caitlin Cantrell moved back to Maryland and is living in Annapolis, MD. She is the Competition Team Director at GJ Dance Studio and a dance instructor at Edna Lee Dance Studio. She has students dancing all over the east coast, and is happy to be teaching and sharing her love of dance! Nia Clark is currently living in Atlanta, GA. Recently, she completed her second degree in nursing at Chamberlain College of Nursing, and is beginning her career as an ICU nurse at Atlanta Medical Center. After graduating with her Master’s in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology from University of Sheffield, Caroline Cobert came back to the US and taught Anatomy and Physiology for a year at Germanna Community College. She’s since taken a job with a consulting firm in Washington, DC, and lives in Alexandria, VA. In addition to her work as an analyst, she teaches Archaeology as an adjunct professor at George Mason University.

Tanaira Cullens is currently teaching and working as the extended day program coordinator at the charter school RPCS opened, Lillie May Carroll Jackson. She is also working as Co-Director of a joint summer program, with RPCS and LMCJ called Growing Girls and Gardens during the summer. Along with her involvement with Lillie May Carroll Jackson, Tanaira is working on attaining her PhD! Chris Gummerson is currently working as a research program assistant in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She will be starting medical school at Hopkins in August 2016. In August 2015, Jennifer Hearn moved from Boston, MA to Salisbury, CT. There, she is working for a real estate development

company developing The Silo Ridge Field Club in Amenia, NY. Cathy Hebert is currently living in Brooklyn, NY, and is working for a book publisher in midtown Manhattan. In October 2015, Cathy ran the Brooklyn Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon with fellow classmates Bridget Hollon and Noelle Winicki. Courtenay Hogg Trainor got married in 2013, and now lives with her husband in Long Island, NY. Courtenay is currently in nursing school, but will have her hands full come March 2016, as she and her husband are expecting their first child (it’s a boy!). Bridget Hollon has now relocated to New York City, and is currently working at a hedge fund. MariaLisa Itzoe is pursuing her dream of becoming a physician, currently completing the first year of medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Despite a busy schedule, MariaLisa finds time for her passions of music and the brain by singing with “Pulmonics,” PCOM’s co-ed a cappella group, and serving as class representative for the Student Interest Group in Neurology. She retains her love for research and is excited to have been selected as one of eleven students to work with Dr. Art Sesso, Surgery Department Chair, on a project to design and build a drone capable of delivering medications and equipment to patients in emergency situations. During free time, MariaLisa enjoys volunteering at Inglis House, a nursing facility that provides long-term residential care for adults of all ages with physical disabilities, including multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury and stroke. Though med school is extremely rigorous and both intellectually and emotionally challenging, her program is incredibly rewarding and she is thoroughly

enjoying the journey!

In May, Dasha Iventicheva graduated from SAIS (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies) with an MA in International Relations and Economics and a concentration in European and Eurasian studies. Dasha is currently living in Washington, DC and recently started a new job as an International Associate with the Public Affairs Council, a non-profit association for public affairs professionals. Andrea Lynch is now a Strategist at Seiden, a small branding and advertising agency in Manhattan. She moved to a new place on the Upper East Side and took a oncein-a-lifetime trip to Australia at the end of 2015. Whitney McClees is working on her PhD at Portland State University in Oregon.

Her focus is marine invasive species, specifically marine invertebrates. She has a fellowship this year that has paired her with a middle school science classroom, where she has been teaching sixth graders ecology a few times a week.

Portland has been amazing so far, as it provides Whitney with trips to the coast and hikes in the Columbia River Gorge. While she is very busy with school, Whitney has also found time to join a choir which has been a lot of fun!

Erin O’Donnell is working as an assistant at DF Dent and Company, a private investment firm in downtown Baltimore. She lives in Towson, MD with her fiancé Luis Velez, and they are planning on getting married in the spring of 2017. Maria Pasquini gets paid to write about Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and a bunch of other people who are a lot cooler than she is for Galore Magazine. Lauren Pratt is in her third year of Veterinary School at the University of Illinois. Lauren will start her clinical rotations in March 2016, which will

Classmates from 2008 (l. to r.) Julia Tompkins, Elizabeth Piper, Erin O’Donnell, Emily Smith, Megan Smith, Isabel Tawney, Kerry Weir, Bailey Reeves and Maria Orfanos at Emily and Megan’s joint engagement party

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bring her closer to receiving her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. She also plans to get her Master’s in Public Health (MPH), allowing her to spend an additional year in Chicago. Jane Randall lives in New York City and works at the National Review Institutethe sister non-profit organization to National Review magazine-whose mission is to preserve and promote the conservative principles that William F. Buckley Jr. championed. Prior to joining NRI, she provided research for Newt Gingrich in Washington, DC Patty Redfield Hallman will be celebrating her third wedding anniversary with her husband, David Hallman, in October 2016! Patty and David live in Baltimore, where David teaches English at Calvert Hall and Patty currently works as an obstetrics technician in labor and delivery at Mercy Medical Center. After almost three years of working at Mercy Medical Center, Patty will begin attending Physician Assistant School in May 2016. Bailey Reeves lives in Philadelphia and is graduating with her MBA this spring from Villanova University. She is specializing in both Strategic Management and Marketing. She currently works in Supply Chain for CertainTeed, a construction products company owned by Saint-Gobain.

Kate Reilly is attending King’s College in London to study the Political Economy of the Middle East. In her free time, she is exploring the city and practicing her British accent.

Caroline Riina is in her fourth year of teaching Biology and coaching crew at RPCS. For Caroline, it is a true joy working here and she loves having Diane Radov, 2010 as a fellow science teacher! This fall, Caroline ran her first half marathon with Nealy Harnsberger, 2009

and even crossed paths with Cathy Hebert, 2008 during the race! One of the highlights of her year was attending the wedding of Anna Statkiewicz. Lucy Scholz is currently in her fourth year of teaching Geometry at Bonnabel High School (a large public high school located just outside of New Orleans). While she loves teaching, Lucy is particularly excited about a new project that she started working on last summer: Live Oak Wilderness Camp. Lucy helped found the new leadership development sleep-away camp and is currently working as Program Director, running programming with students during the summers and throughout the school year. The camp serves middle school students from across New Orleans who attend a wide variety of schools from public and charter to independent and parochial.

(Thirty-six different schools were represented in our opening summer). This fall, Lucy began working on her master’s in education online through Johns Hopkins University and will finish her degree in August 2016. To top off her year, she just purchased a house in New Orleans and is thrilled to really be able to call New Orleans home! Lilly Siems is currently in her second year of grad school. She is working towards her Master’s of Science in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her specialization is in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control.

Lilly’s thesis is in malaria epidemiology and the contribution of population movement on sustained malaria transmission. She spent four months in Honde Valley, Zimbabwe conducting research on malaria and population movement and is now finishing up her thesis at Johns Hopkins University. Lilly is also involved

with International Vaccine Access Center, where she is conducting research on Pneumococcal Vaccine efficacy. Lastly, Lilly is coaching gymnastics part time at Docksiders Gymnastics, where she trained throughout high school. It is an exciting year for the Smith twins, as they are both engaged! Emily Smith is set to marry Ryan McCoy in May 2016, and Megan Smith will be marrying Chris Carroll in October 2016. The girls celebrated a joint engagement party to kick off the bridal festivities with many of their fellow classmates from the Class of 2008! When Emily is not busy planning for her wedding, she is getting her master’s degree in social work from University of Maryland. Anna Statkiewicz graduated from University of Maryland, College Park with an MS in Geology and moved to Cleveland, OH where she began a career in environmental consulting. This past summer she got married in Baltimore. Isabel Tawney is living in Baltimore, MD and working for the Kimmel Cancer Center. Becca Taylor still resides in Washington, DC and is working at Meridian International Center with a division that implements the International Visitor Leadership Program in partnership with the Department of State.

Besides a promotion to Division Administrator this past year, Rebecca began working on her master’s degree in International Development at the School of International Service at American University. There, she will be concentrating on gender-based issues. Kerry Weir is living in Baltimore and has been promoted to Account Executive at TBC advertising, where she has worked for the past four years. And, I, Katie Riordan, am happily living in New York City and working for Hearst Corporation. At Hearst, I handle advertising for Good Housekeeping and Country Living magazines.

Class of 2009 Mackenzie Cooke mcooke3@elon.edu Dani Makia dmakia9@gmail.com

Anna Statkiewicz, 2008’s wedding with (l. to r.) Tracy Kaczorowski, 2011, Lilly Siems, 2008, Caroline Riina, 2008, Anna, Patricia Statkiewicz, 2011, Theresa Statkiewicz, 2006 and Lisa Diver, 2006

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It’s hard to believe that it has been seven years since the class of 2009 wore their blue skirts and white polos for the last time. All of our classmates have now graduated from college and are moving up in “the real world.” For some that means working while for others that means graduate school or traveling. One thing

Upper School Head, Ereni Malfa with NYC alumnae Dani Makia, 2009, Nealy Harnsberger, 2009, Ashley Grebow, 2009 and Allegra Romita, 2007

that we can all agree on is that RPCS helped shape us into lifelong learners and leaders in our community. Keep reading to get a sneak peek into the lives of the members of the Class of 2009! Jenifer Arman is in her third year of teaching for Baltimore County Public Schools.

She is currently working on her Master’s in Special Education along with her ESOL certification. She lives in Federal Hill with Riley Schamburg and Lily MacKenty. Ashley Cahill is currently working as a first grade teacher at Victory Villa Elementary School in Middle River, MD. This is her third year at the school. She also just started her Master’s in Special Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University and plans to graduate in the summer of 2018. She currently lives in Federal Hill with three other friends. Mackenzie Cooke is in her final semester of her master’s in Social Work at University of Maryland. She is in the Title IV-E education for public child welfare program so she will be working in public child welfare upon graduating in May. Mackenzie is

Attending the DC Regional Reunion are Jennifer Fowler, 2010, Carroll Neale, 2010, Becca Taylor, 2008 and Kelly Martinet, 2009

currently interning in Child Protective Services in Baltimore County and serving on the board of the Westmoreland Volunteer Corps in Bethesda, MD. Jillian DiPasquale graduated from Bucknell University with a major in International Relations. She is currently living in Baltimore and working as a Territory Manager for Henry Schein Animal Health, where she is selling pharmaceuticals and diagnostic equipment to veterinarians in the Greater Baltimore area. Morgan Dvorkin experienced her quarter life crisis this year! She decided that she no longer wanted to work in finance and quit her job, moved to Baltimore, and began her epic pursuit of becoming a veterinarian. She is currently taking classes at UMBC with all of the eighteen year old freshmen! Halle Gray is currently in her second year of law school at University of Baltimore. She is concentrating in criminal law, specifically criminal defense. She is a member of University of Baltimore›s Law Forum Journal, and has been interning for the Honorable Barry Williams of Baltimore City Circuit Court since May 2015. This coming summer, she is one of the selected recipients of the Public Interest Fellowship of the Public Defender of Baltimore City. Her goal is to become a public defender here in Baltimore City. Ashley Grebow moved to New York City in August 2015 to join Modern Spaces’ Commercial & Investment Property Group.

She is responsible for managing the team’s extensive owner and investor databases, as well as originating and marketing new business. Prior to her career in brokerage, Ashley worked in Commercial Real Estate at CoStar Group in Washington, DC where she

was a researcher on several U.S. markets. She holds a real estate salesperson license in New York and Maryland. Bailey Hylbom decided six months of backpacking wasn›t nearly long enough to see the world. She is currently in the process of getting certified to teach English as a second language and hopes to have a fulltime teaching position in Seoul, South Korea by the summer. She has heard of something called “settling down” but she’s not totally sure what it is. Amber Jones is currently atrophying in the bowels of retail banking where she panders to the demands of ruthless account holders. Rene Kaminski currently lives in Charleston, SC. She is happily employed at the Daniel Island Club where she is the membership services coordinator.

Lindsay Katz is currently a second year Clinical Psychology doctoral student at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. She works as a therapist for children and adolescents with emotional disability at a therapeutic day school. Additionally, she works at a private practice administering neuropsychological assessments to children and adults for outpatient services. In her free time she loves exploring all that the city of Chicago has to offer! Grace Ko is currently living in Seoul, Korea. After graduating college she worked for a chemical production company (headquartered in Germany) called BASF, in Seoul. She is currently not working at the moment but learning German these days, as she is moving to Germany this coming July!

She is planning to apply for her master’s degree at a school in Germany. Courtney Kuhn is in her second year at Maryland Carey Law, and is currently the 2L (second year) class president.

She›s a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team and is a staff editor on a Law Journal. Last summer she was a legal intern working in-house for Colfax Corporation in Annapolis Junction. This spring she will be

Caroline Riina, 2008 and Nealy Harnsberger, 2009

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competing in a national negotiations competition at the University of Richmond Law School. Frances Loucks currently lives in Philadelphia, PA where she works as a Management Consultant for Accenture. She recently got engaged in Maui to Calvin Ketchum, who she met four years ago at Northwestern University. Together they are enjoying cheesecakes, Tastykakes, and other Philly delicacies. Amy Lowitt graduated from Connecticut College with a major in Economics and minors in Mathematics and Statistics. She is currently living in Baltimore and working at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking Division, where she was just promoted from a Financial Analyst to Financial Associate. Lily MacKenty is currently living in Baltimore and in her second year at University of Maryland Law School. Dani Makia is still living in Brooklyn, NY and working as a Litigation Paralegal at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. She just applied to law school and is looking forward to figuring out where she’ll be going to school this coming fall. After conquering the New York City marathon this past November, she’s bit the “racing bug”, and is currently training for her second half marathon in April. Kelly Martinet is still living in Washington, DC and is working as an advancement associate with the Smithsonian Institution. In her spare time she is keeping up with ballet by taking evening adult dance classes at The Washington Ballet. Lauren Padussis graduated from Clemson University in 2014 with a BS in Packaging Science. She now lives in Louisville, KY and works at Brown-Forman Corporation. Lauren is a Packaging Engineer at Brown-Forman, specializing in luxury gift and primary packaging. Julianne Payne graduated with both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She is currently living in south Florida, where she works as a Senior Staff Engineer at Geosyntec Consultants.

Julianne is predominately involved in Geosyntec’s environmental due diligence and remediation system design practice areas. Veronica Roppelt graduated from DeSales University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance. She is currently living in Orlando, FL, and working for the Walt Disney Company as an Attractions trainer and coordinator in EPCOT. She is enjoying the Florida sun with her family and her new cat Inara. After almost six years in sunny southern California, Katy Sherman is now back on the east coast. She lives in New York City and is working on multi-platform content and strategy for all Stand-Up Specials and Series at Comedy Central. Emily Sunderland is currently living in Los Angeles, where she works as a

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Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

At BCG, she works for clients within various consumer goods and retail industries, focusing on topics such as pricing strategy and digital marketing, among others. She will be leaving BCG this summer to spend two years pursuing her MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Kathleen Yoo graduated from Towson University with the certification of Art Education. Currently she is working at Booker T. Washington Middle School for the Arts, a Title One inner city school in Baltimore City.

Her goal is to fight for the equality of arts for all students in Baltimore City and to keep the students’ creativity alive. We don’t know about you, but we can’t wait for next year to once again see the successes of the members of the Class of 2009!

Class of 2010 Fifth Reunion Meg VanDeusen mcv.deusen@gmail.com Jennifer Abrams currently lives in Washington, DC and works at Child Trends, a nonprofit research organization in Bethesda, MD. She is looking forward to the fall when she will begin a Sociology PhD program. Mahu Attenoukon moved from Connecticut to NYC last summer to be closer to friends and family and now reverse commutes to her job at Nielsen. This year, she hopes to say goodbye to Metro North altogether and spend more time traveling! Tenley Bands recently graduated

Members of the Class of 2010 Hanna Frank, Cate Wilson, Lindsay Cheek and Olive Waxter

from Rutgers University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences where she earned her Master’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences with a concentration in Oral Biology. Liza Barley is living in Washington, DC and doing project management at Fannie Mae. She is traveling but also loving how much opportunity there is to keep up with volunteering, fitness, and friends in the city. Kalli Bouloubassis is working as a consultant for an electronic medical record software company to make patient safety a priority in hospital healthcare. She lives in Wisconsin and loves it, but misses Baltimore!

Kallie Brennan just finished her Master’s Degree in Classical Art and Archaeology and is currently living and working in Baltimore.

Meredith Chasney is staying busy in Madrid spending her mornings at a primary school

Former Semiquavers Jeanie Walter Teare, 1954, Betsy Athey, 1964, Meg VanDeusen, 2010, Becca Taylor, 2008, Jennifer Fowler, 2010 and Carroll Neale, 2010 at the DC Regional Reunion

(Back row, l. to r.) Laura Lubke, 2010, Hanna Frank, 2010, Erin Cheek, 2007, Lindsay Cheek, 2010, Flo Porterfield, Eviee Freeman, (front row, l. to r.) Erin Trenery, 2010, Kelsey Jackson, 2010, Meredith Chasney, 2010 and Molly Prey, 2010

as an assistant language teacher and working at Monkimun, an ed-tech startup that makes language-learning apps for young children.

Amena Chaudhri lives in northern Virginia and works for Strayer University’s corporate office as a financial specialist. On the side she is working on getting an MBA and has a small “at home bakery” that caters to customers in the DMV area. Kitty Close received her MA in US Foreign Policy and National Security from American University’s School of International Service in May. She is currently researching US defense policy and budget at the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Ellie deMuth is currently working as a Marketing Associate for Archon Interactive LLC but currently waiting to hear back from graduate schools and mater’s programs. Hopefully something exciting will come but as of right now she is living downtown in Canton and has a lovely puppy named Nash! Jennifer Fowler is living in Washington, DC with Carroll Neale and is working at an architecture firm in their marketing department. Loving life back on the east coast! Hanna Frank is having a blast working at WBAL/98 Rock. She has reconnected with high school buddies Lindsay Cheek and Olive Waxter and they are now all roommates in Fells Point. Ann Friddell is working in Washington, DC and is enjoying spending time with her fiancé and two dogs.

She misses the Class of 2010! Katie Gansler is doing research and data analysis for a nonprofit, Center for Political Accountability, in Washington, DC after returning from six months working on former Senator Mark Pryor’s campaign in Arkansas. Kate Geraghty is an Associate Editor at WhatToExpect.com, living in New York City. Kelsey Jackson is

The Class of 2010: Lindsay Cheek, Erin Trenery, Molly Prey, Kelsey Jackson, Olive Waxter and Hanna Frank in Boston currently living in NYC working as a media buyer. Shelby Kalm is living in Baltimore and working for Waterkeepers Chesapeake on their Fair Farms program. She is also working as an Outreach Coordinator for the Center for a New American Dream on a campaign to reduce plastic consumption. Anastasia Keramidas graduated with a psychology and education degree and began working at Baltimore start-up OrderUp and doing marketing for the Kali’s Court restaurant group and other Fells Point local businesses.

Now she is working with Intake Mobile, the third largest IT agency in the nation, in

account management and currently lives with two roommates in Canton and her puppy, Old Bay. Morgan Lambert is living in Baltimore and working at Producers as an Assistant Producer and Marketing Coordinator. She is also the Assistant Varsity Lacrosse Coach at Garrison Forest as well as a lacrosse coach for Skywalkers Lacrosse Program. Kelsey Lynch is still living in New York City and working for a Marketing Analytics consulting firm. Cat Marzella spent two years as an AmeriCorps VISTA for an anti-poverty organization in Washington, DC and is now excited to start a new adventure pursing a master’s of

Members of the Class of 2010 Kelsey Jackson, Hanna Frank, Molly Prey, Erin Trenery and Olive Waxter

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Class of 2011 Haley Venick hvenick14@gmail.com

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Social Work at UNC in the fall. Alex Pace is finishing her master’s degree at Northern Arizona University while pursuing her passion as a Strength and Conditioning professional.

She plans to attain an assistant position in the fall to impact many student athletes’ lives through strength training. Kallie Parchman is still living in New York City and working at Morgan Stanley. Half-marathons keep her busy now that her lacrosse days are over.

Katie Prey is living in Austin, TX working as a nurse at Dell Children’s Medical Center.

Sage Schaftel is currently living in Denver and working in the Colorado Governor’s Office for Governor Hickenlooper’s Legal Counsel and Office of Boards and Commissions. She plans to go back to school in the fall to study public policy and environmental law. Olivia Slawinski is currently living in Washington, DC and working in Cybersecurity for CSRA. She is also working on her master’s Degree from George Washington University and studying Cybersecurity strategy. Meg VanDeusen is finally state-side again! After graduating, she worked in India for six months before teaching English in Malaysia as a Fulbright ETA. Meg spent the winter traveling around southeast Asia seeking the best meals and stunning dive spots, and now continues to find adventures while also embarking on the dreaded job search. Helen Yearley is in her first year at the Wake Forest School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program. She loves living in Winston-Salem.

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Jodi Askew has graduated from GW with a degree in Public Health and is enjoying living in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. She works as a Health Care Research Associate at the Advisory Board Company, where she answers to the questions of cardiovascular and health care IT hospital leaders across the country. Claire Cobert moved to Charlotte, NC in July and joined the sales division of Advantage Solutions, a sales and marketing agency serving the CPG industry, working mainly with Smuckers, Mars Chocolate, and Bertolli Ragu. Kiera Davis graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in May of 2015 with degrees in Civil Engineering and Public Policy. She is currently working as a field engineer for Hensel Phelps Construction Company on a $720 million dollar project at Fort Meade for the Department of Defense.

Alexandra Day graduated from Wellesley College in May and worked at MIT this summer. In the fall, she interned at the White House Domestic Policy Council and spent time with family and friends while living in Maryland. She was glad to make it to the RPCS Christmas concert for the first time since graduation! She is now working as a researcher in the Boston area. Lauren Edwards graduated last year from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies. Lauren was a part of the five year BA/MA accelerated program so she will be graduating again this May with her Master’s in Corporate and Organizational

Communication. She is currently a graduate assistant at the university working for the Department of Communication studies.

Lauren is also currently seeking full-time employment upon graduating in May (in the field of PR, marketing, advertising, anything communications related). Daniela Eppler is currently finishing her Master’s Degree in Leadership and Public Policy at UVA. She is graduating this May. Daniela spent last summer as an intern working on a rural development project in the Venda region of South Africa.

She learned about how to use community engagement and servant leadership to bring comprehensive solutions to developing issues in rural communities and conducted her own research about these concepts. Daniela is now trying to decide on the next steps of her career before eventually fulfilling her goal of creating her own NGO using sports as a vehicle to solve development issues internationally.

Erin Golueke graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology. She is currently preparing to apply to dental school. Betsy Hebert moved to Arlington, VA in the beginning of January with a friend from Randoph-Macon. She is working for Robert Half in Washington, DC and has adjusted to the metro less than smoothly. Liz Knott left Lynchburg College a few years ago and transferred to Shepherd University. She is happy to finally be graduating with her BSN in Nursing after one more semester. Currently, Liz’s academics are time consuming with seventeen credits along with thirty six hours of clinical per week. Angela Leasca graduated from University of Maryland, College Park with a BS in community health. She is now living in Baltimore again and attending nursing school and University of Maryland School of Nursing. Allyson Luray has graduated from

Alice McIntyre, 2002, Emily Palmer, 2007, Tracy Kaczorowski, 2011, Jean Waller Brune, 1960, Julia Palmer, 2011 and Morgan Wright, 2003

Connecting Scientists and Policymakers Since graduating from RPCS in 2011, Alexandra Day’s journey has taken her to the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider and the halls of the White House. Alexandra’s love of science research and interdisciplinary learning began at RPCS, and her experiences continue to reflect the interests she developed at RPCS. Alexandra attended Wellesley College, where she majored in physics, minored in math, and was a Fellow in the Madeleine Albright Institute for Global Affairs. Through the support of the Institute, Alexandra traveled to Switzerland for an internship in international relations at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where she was able to practice the French she learned at RPCS. After graduating from Wellesley, she interned in the White House Domestic Policy Council and was thrilled to be able to contribute to important initiatives and events. She was recently featured at the inaugural Albright Reunion and Symposium, where she gave a TED-style talk before Secretary Albright and other Fellows.

Based on the support she received at RPCS, Alexandra is committed to supporting women and minorities in STEM fields. She served as President of Wellesley’s Society of Physics Students during her junior and senior years and helped increase student participation and interest in the physics department. Alexandra is now working as a researcher at MIT and aspires to a role that connects scientists and policymakers. RPCS is confident that Alexandra will do just that!

the University of Delaware and moved to New York City. She is working for Macy’s Corporate as a handbag Digital Merchant Assistant. Allie Mason has recently accepted a job offer at a local marketing firm. She appreciated the job search process as it gave her time to explore her new neighborhood of Canton. Casey Merbler graduated from Dickinson College in May with a BA in Environmental Studies with a Spanish Minor. She is currently enjoying living in Baltimore City and working through the Chesapeake Conservation Corps for the Waterfront Partnership’s Health Harbor Initiative. Catherine Mitchell graduated from the University of Maryland, School of Public Health in May and moved to London to pursue a career in healthcare. She has been offered a position as a Health Services Manager at a practice in London and is looking forward to learning more about how the UK health system works! Jessica Pupkin recently graduated from Syracuse University with a BA in policy studies and philosophy and is currently in her first year of law school at University of Baltimore School of Law. Megan Riedel graduated from the University of South Carolina in December. She

is currently doing research at Sinai Hospital and is pursuing a career in the medical field.

Caroline Seats is working at Under Armour Headquarters in Baltimore in the Team Sports department. She currently lives downtown in Canton, and volunteers for the One Love Foundation serving as a National Advisory Council member. Niki Steel graduated from Towson University in December 2015. She works full time as a Mental Health Worker at Sheppard Pratt Health System in the Male Adolescent Stabilization Crisis Unit. She also works at Barcocina as a bartender and server. Paige Strott is an Accountant Executive working at a boutique public relations firm in Tampa, FL. Daisy Strudwick graduated from Ole Miss with degrees in Journalism and Spanish. She now works on the David Warnock Mayoral campaign. Sally Tucker is currently a fifth grade teacher in Greenville, SC. She is also completing her Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education at Furman University where she graduated from in May. Haley Venick moved back to Baltimore after graduating from the University of South Carolina. She is currently a third grade

teacher in Baltimore County Public Schools.

Hannah Zimmerman is working as a research technician at Walter Reed studying combatrelated traumatic brain injuries.

Class of 2012 Kelsey Dwyer ked87@georgetown.edu Blake Foster hbf2sc@virginia.edu Chelsea Roberts crober15@scmail.spelman.edu Devon Hitt is finishing up her senior year at Penn. She will graduate in May with a major in public health and a minor in chemistry. Next year she will move to New York where she will pursue a career in health care consulting.

Heather Oros is in her last semester at Bucknell University and has been accepted to graduate school in New York City to receive her Master’s in Clinical Social Work. Blake Foster is finishing her final year in her Master’s of Public Policy program at University of Virginia. She is not sure yet of her plans for the coming year! Katherine Wright is finishing her final year at Bucknell University.

She will be working next year in New York City.

Niccola Lynch is graduating from Cornell this year and is currently applying to medical schools! Rachel Taylor: I graduated in December with a major in marine affairs and a minor in environmental economics. I am now working at the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management until I walk with my class in May. Betsy Angel will be graduating from James Madison University with a degree in sports and recreation management with a minor in business. Her lacrosse team looks to win the CAA championship again this May. She will be moving to northern Virginia to work in sales and coach club lacrosse. Katherine Barley will be graduating from Furman University this May with a degree in Health Sciences and Poverty Studies.

She remains heavily involved on campus and is currently assisting research examining youth BMI in the Greenville County School District.

She is in the job search for a position in public health and hopes to return to graduate school for an MPH in a few years. Alex Hemphill is graduating from Loyola University this May. Her major is Multimedia Journalism with a Minor in Spanish. She’s finishing up capstone classes for her major, and she’s doing a corporate communications internship at

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Katherine Barley, 2012 and Chelsea Roberts, 2012 studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa

CareFirst in Canton. After graduation, she’s planning on working at a local news station so that she can work towards becoming a news reporter. She’s busy this semester, but Alex is really excited to finish out senior year with a bang. Sasha Frankel is graduating in May from Yale University, where she is doublemajoring in Economics and Global Affairs.

After graduation, she will begin working in investment banking for Goldman Sachs.

Meredith Mansinne is currently enjoying her last semester at Indiana University. While she’s sad to be leaving after four incredible years, she’s excited to start the next chapter of her life with her move to Chicago, IL. She will be a consultant for HBR Consulting in The Loop.

Serene Mirza got published in her third paper under Kenny Likes (former RPCS student) on their work on thoracic outlet syndrome. Her research under Dr. Thad Polk at the University of Michigan received a grant for their aging study that she’s been working on since freshman year. She plans to move to Boston, MA to work as a patient care coordinator in her gap year prior to medical school.

Natalie Polk will be graduating from Clemson University with a computer engineering degree in December 2016. During her last summer before graduation, she will be traveling to South Africa with her sister Kristin Polk, 2014 for an eight week computer science program, specifically iOS app development. She is still unsure as to what she will be doing postgraduation, but can’t wait to see what the future holds. Christa Reese is about to enter her final season, as captain, playing lacrosse at the University of Denver. Her plan is to graduate this spring with a Hospitality Management major and Accounting minor and to spend the summer studying abroad in Europe. Upon her return to the states, she will be looking for

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jobs in the Hospitality Real Estate industry.

Chelsea Roberts is making the most of her final semester at Spelman College, since returning from her semester abroad in Cape Town, where she’ll graduate with a degree in Political Science in May. She’s currently interning for Bernie Sanders’ Presidential campaign and still teaching yoga in the Spelman Museum of Art. In addition, Chelsea is applying to jobs with plans to head to business school in a couple of years. Bella Salvatori is currently completing her last semester at Boston College majoring in Political Science and Communications and will be graduating this May. She has accepted a position as an Allocation Analyst at the TJX Corporation in Boston and begins working in July of 2016. Prior to that, she plans on traveling around the world for a month with her friends. Sarah Adams is in her second year at the University of Delaware.

After completing a summer internship with Aerotek, Sarah joined her school’s Blue Hen Leadership program. She interviewed for and was accepted into the New Bern, NC Habitat for Humanity Alternative Spring Break trip through the school’s leadership program. She will be traveling to North Carolina to help build an affordable house for a community during her spring break this year. Sarah is currently interviewing for a sales, marketing or communications internship in Baltimore this summer. In the A-10 quarterfinal game between VCU and St. Bonaventure, Adaeze Alaeze scored her 1000th collegiate career point at VCU! Daisy is the all-time leader in points at RPCS with 1457. Go Daisy! Meredith Birely is graduating from Duke University in May with a dual-degree in Psychology and Visual Media Studies. Before starting work this fall, she plans on traveling with friends and family.

Kelsey Dwyer will be finishing her last semester

at Georgetown University this May. She will be taking four classes as well as working with the Hypothermia Outreach Team in her spare time. She will most likely continue to live in Washington, DC next year. Megan Fish is finishing up her last semester at Dickinson. She is studying International Business and Russian.

Megan will also be running her last track season. Glenys Hunt has been enjoying her last year at Grinnell College. She has been training at the local climbing gym in preparation for the outdoor season, playing mandolin and banjo in local bluegrass and jam bands, applying to backcountry guiding jobs, and perfecting the martini. She will be completing ethnographic research on collective memory in Ireland and Northern Ireland this spring. After graduation, she will be permanently moving back to Colorado. Laurel Meyer is writing a year-long psychology thesis during her last semester at Bates. She will be looking into jobs in clinical health care, and is hoping to live in either Boston or DC next year. Dylan Otterbein graduated from Middlebury College in February with a degree in the History of Art and Architecture. Since then, she has moved to Los Angeles, where she spends a lot of time outside with her dog. Sarah Riedel is in her final semester in architecture school at UVA. She is looking to work in real estate development in Washington, DC post grad.

Sarah is also thinking of traveling to Europe this summer. Sandy Stewart is getting ready to graduate from The College of William & Mary with a major in Marketing and minor in Public Health. She’s also having an existential crisis about getting a job and being an adult. If you’re interested in hiring her, please contact her before she gives up, flees from her responsibilities, and moves to Thailand.

Class of 2013 Fannon Curtis fdc0002@tigermail.auburn.edu Abby Abrahams is currently having an amazing semester studying abroad in Rome.

She is looking forward to travelling all over Europe and eating endless amounts of pasta and pizza. She misses her friends at Ohio State but she is enjoying making new friends and having new experiences.

Justina Bagger partook in a neuroscience program in Copenhagen, Denmark this past summer, and loved the course and exploring neighboring countries. She is seriously considering a career in clinical psychology, and is excited for what

Former FTE members Claire Utermohle, 2013, Blair Warren, 2013, Arthur Robinson (Gilman 2013) and Anne Holly, 2013

is to come in the future. She also tried iceclimbing and enjoys doing so when the opportunity presents itself. Brooke Berg is in her junior year at Towson University. She is an English major with a minor in Dance. Brooke is part of a hip-hop team on campus, along with a long boarding club. She was recently invited to join Delta Alpha Pi, a national honor society for students with learning disabilities.

She is proud to be a Towson tiger. Sydney Burns is currently finishing up her junior year at WVU, trying to savor every moment. Katie Callahan is majoring in Human Performance Exercise Science at the University of Alabama.

She plans to continue to PT graduate school.

She is working as a gymnastics and cheerleading instructor and a personal trainer. Tina Canady is loving her junior year at NYU. She is currently working on a show called The Fever, devised by a theater company called 600 Highwaymen. Last semester she was the only undergraduate actor in an NYU graduate acting production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson. This summer she plans on acting in some summer stock theater.

She is very busy but has been loving her time in New York! Ella Charon is still pursuing fine art and design at USC school of fine art. She is on the triathlon team and loves racing. She will be traveling to Berlin in May as a part of her program and is very excited! Briana Cohen has just returned to the U.S. after a year of traveling. She spent the summer interning for AHAVA Cosmetics in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Afterwards, she studied abroad in the beautiful

city of Paris, France. Her favorite phrase in French is “Un croissant s’il vous plaît.” She enjoyed exploring Europe, but is happy to be back in jazzy New Orleans, pursuing her degree in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management. Madison Cole is a Business Administration major at W&L and it’s going really well. She is going to Sienna, Italy for the month of May to take a chemistry of cooking class which should be really cool! Kim Credit just finished her third year at the University of Cincinnati, and is planning to complete her third Co-op in the DAAP program this summer. Fannon Curtis is enjoying her junior year at Auburn University. She is currently enrolled in the Elementary Education program and is excited to be working with a third grade class during her spring semester. She is also very thrilled to be a Pi Chi, a recruitment leader, for a second year in a row in August.

She is the fundraising chair for Kappa Delta Pi, an education honor society, and a counselor for the Auburn High School Leadership Conference. She is loving life as a Delta Zeta, and is actively involved in her church, Church of the Highlands. She recently got rebaptized and cannot wait to see what the Lord will do in her life. Despite the disappointing football season she still screams, “War Eagle!” whenever she can. Molly Dubin is studying abroad in Florence for her spring semester of her junior year. Elisabeth Fassas is a Molecular/ Cellular Biology major with a Social Policy minor. This semester, as a part of her minor program she is doing a part-time internship with the Center for Child Health Research, learning about the effects of poverty on health outcomes. She will also be performing with her a cappella group at the ICCAs in February!

Rebecca Finney is majoring in Health and Exercise Science at Wake Forest University and is also minoring in English and Psychology.

She hopes to become a physical therapist and to work with either athletes or veterans. She is also a member of and chaplain, a position that helps to motivate, inspire and encourage the chapter, of Kappa Delta sorority. Maria Folgueras is absolutely loving her junior year at Duke! Majoring in Electrical and Computer engineering, and minoring in Earth and Ocean Sciences. Maria is involved in many engineering and energy-related organizations and classes on campus. She will be taking what she has learned from these experiences and from her internship last summer in Portland, OR to her internship this summer at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab. Maria made Dean’s List for the Pratt School of Engineering again last semester, and has served as Treasurer on her sorority’s Executive Board for one and a half years now. Caroline Foster is still on the nursing route, but transferred

from Stevenson University to Community College of Baltimore County. Along with school she works at a gourmet grocery store in candy, coffee, tea, flower, and gift department, which she really enjoys. But most of all she is thrilled to pick up dancing again because dancing is her true passion in life. Dana Gillispie is in her second semester of her junior year at Sarah Lawrence College. She is studying literature, and creative writing. Her focus is on American Gothic Literature, alongside of the nature of poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge among other romantic and classical poetry.

She recently has been interested in and studying the gothic as it appears on the American stage.

Once she graduates she plans on attending graduate school, as she wants to get an MFA in Fiction. Over the last several years she has been working on a collection of short stories, a book of connected stories as well as a novel.

She eventually wants to teach Literature and Creative Writing at the undergraduate and graduate level. Libby Grandy is enjoying Furman University as an active member of GDI and enjoying her studies as a communication major! Courtney Grebow is currently studying abroad in London during her second semester of junior year. She is excited about being immersed into a new culture for an entire semester. When she returns to UW - Madison in the fall, she will be finishing her last year as a Badger! Hewit Harchick is currently studying Classics and Studio Art in Athens, Greece for the spring 2016 semester. Haley Hauser was accepted to the International Honors Program and will be studying abroad comparing the challenging healthcare systems in India, South Africa and Brazil. Anne Holly is absolutely loving her time at Connecticut College as an Economics major and Math minor as well as a leader on the women’s varsity Squash team. She has spent the past four summers working at the Aloha Foundation in Fairlee, VT. On campus she works as a Stagehand for Theatre Services and submits her still almost illegible notes to Student Accessibility Services as a Notetaker.

She is also an active member of the Peggotty Investment Club, Tennis Club, the Outdoors Club, and Green Dot (reducing domestic violence via bystander intervention).

Furthermore, she has spearheaded initiatives to bring the You Can Play Project and Athlete Ally to Connecticut College. She misses Roland Park dearly and still wears white and royal blue almost daily! Kate Howard is currently spending her spring semester studying abroad in Ireland. She ran the Baltimore marathon in October and continues her running routine despite the 30 mph winds and the 8:30 am sunrise in Ireland. Martha Isaacs spent the fall semester studying Urban

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Planning and Sustainable Development in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dakar, Senegal, and Hanoi, Vietnam. She then returned to school for the spring, joining club cross country and researching design. Lizzie Jaspan is enjoying her Junior year at Marymount Manhattan College! She is currently a BA theatre major with a concentration in Playwriting; She is having her first 20 minute play produced at the end of this upcoming semester! She is still working in the MMC admissions office and loves it! She can’t wait to get back to the city and see more shows as well as finish up her Junior year! Beth Kelly just finished her junior year at Lynchburg College, where she is double majoring in Business Administration and Sports Management. She got nominated for Omicron Delta Kappa honor society. She is involved with her schools One Love program, Athletic Events and Students Helping Honduras. Alaina Mandel’s junior year at Sewanee has been challenging but also extremely rewarding! First semester she was inducted into the order of the gownsmen, an old academic tradition rewarding students for superior grades. She also was able to compete for a third year on the swim team! And this semester, she will be traveling to New South Wales, Australia for her semester abroad! Life is good! Sarah Mandel’s life after RPCS is great! She just got back from six months abroad in Australia and realized her love of traveling. RPCS prepared her very well for college and the real world and she is forever thankful. Mattalyn Miller completed two internships with Baston-Cook Healthcare in the last year. She worked as a Project Engineer Intern on the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Atlanta and worked as a Field Engineer Intern on the new replacement Northside Hospital in Atlanta. She did the building’s layout using surveying equipment as well as designing interior mock up rooms for the owners in the Emergency Department. She transferred to Southern Polytechnic under the new name Kennesaw State University to continue her studies in Civil Engineering and a minor in Criminology. Mattalyn plans to continue interning throughout her education.

After transferring to Towson University, Claire Muller declared a major in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. Currently, she works part time as a nanny to triplet two-year-olds and is the marketing intern for Heritage Finacial Consultants. When not busy with work and school she enjoys hanging out with her roommates and Kappa Delta sisters. Maddie Muth has taken her major in a new direction.

She is no longer studying environmental science, but instead learning graphic design.

She has begun selling her artwork and recently

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has been designing wedding invitations. After ten years of episodes, October of 2015 marked her one year anniversary without seizures or faints. Hooper Neale is a Third Year at the University of Virginia majoring in Media Studies. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and served as a Pi Chi during formal recruitment this year. She is also working with UVA Athletic Media Relations and hopes to keep pursuing sports media. Jennifer Newman has just returned from studying abroad in London, where she visited 15 cities and 11 countries. She is back at Fordham working on her BA in Marketing and a minor in Economics.

Her next project is finding a summer internship in advertising. Lena Olin is currently living in New Hampshire, where she is studying to be a nurse. Rachel Orlinsky is currently a junior at the University of Pennsylvania studying Health and Societies with a concentration in Public Health. She is also Pre-Med, a member of the sorority Sigma Delta Tau, and the Artistic Director for Sparks Dance Company. Laurel Payne spent her first semester of her junior year in Madrid, Spain and traveled to several other countries. She is majoring in Finance and Marketing at Tulane University.

Sydney Ramer is a History and English major at Skidmore, which she really enjoys. She plans to work in a museum this summer and travel.

Sarah Schrum just got back from studying abroad in London. She continues to enjoy her time in her sorority, Delta Zeta. Although she is very busy, she is still choreographing dances for the dance program at University of Tampa, and loves it! Carly Smith spent the fall in New York going to school and interning at Scotch & Soda. This winter/spring she is in London studying fashion with an NYU program and interning at Suitcase, a London based fashion and travel magazine. Shelby Smith is totally stoked to be working on her own video game.

It’s a large task for a one woman team, but exciting nonetheless. Grace Stewart got back from studying abroad in Prague for her fall semester and is now thinking about senior thesis ideas. Some possibilities include water recycling and wave energy. Katie Tutrone is loving life. She finished with the requirements for her Psychology major, so she is trying to get a minor in Theater Dance Media. She now helps co-host a Sunday radio show for a local radio station in Cambridge called WHRB 95.3. She is still playing squash and her team is undefeated this year so far so she is hoping for a title! Claire Utermohle is excited to be studying abroad in Nice, France for her spring semester. She can’t wait to go back for her senior year at Maryland! Christine Vaile had an incredible fall semester studying abroad in London, England at King’s College London.

She is now back at Davidson College for her

junior spring. She is the General Solicitations Chair for Bosom Buddies, an organization that raises money for earlier breast cancer detection research and is class rep for her Eating House.

Blair Warren is double majoring in Psychology and Art History at Skidmore College. She also spends a lot of time on the Ultimate Frisbee Team and works at Saratoga Mentoring, a program that matches at-risk youth with mentors in the community. This summer, she is going to Cambodia to work for an NGO; but for now, she is just enjoying her time in the beautiful New York State! Maggie Waxter is a junior at Washington and Lee and is still playing lacrosse and field hockey. She is also a Theater minor where she was a stage manager for Desdemona Good Morning Juliet, a recent play that was performed. She was very excited because she worked on it for almost two months. Sarah Weatherford is a Hospitality major and is excited to be going to the Oxford film festival event. She is currently working at Pure Barre. Emma Wernecke will be finishing her undergrad this semester and will be attending physician assistant grad school in the fall. Julia Wingate is currently enjoying her junior year at Miami University of Ohio. She just got back from studying abroad fall semester in Barcelona. Now, she is completing her degree in Communications and Business Management. She is excited to work in Washington, DC this summer.

Class of 2014 Meghan Shippe shippem@dickinson.edu Bracken Woolley bracken.woolley@richmond.edu Ann Bradley Lewis just finished her January Term. She recently declared Sports and Event Management as her major. She is currently going through recruitment with her sorority, and is looking forward to some warm weather down at Elon! Alex Paglia is loving college!

Abbey Muhly is still loving life at Furman University! The Fall semester was a busy one, but now that Abbey has survived Organic Chemistry and declared her Health Sciences major, she is so excited to continue along the pre-heath track. Abbey plans to become a physician assistant after graduating from Furman. As a member of the women’s varsity lacrosse team at Furman Abbey looks forward to the spring season, and she cannot wait for games to begin. Go ‘Dins! Claire Mullican is a

Alumnae performing in the Upper School Winter Dance Concert, (l. to r.) Stacia Der, 2014, Cheyenne Pajardo, 2014, Rachel Orlinsky, 2013, Molly Cantrell, 2012 and Caitlin Cantrell, 2008

student in the Business School at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She is an active member on the board of the College Republicans and the Entrepreneurship Club. She interns at the office of Marco Rubio in downtown Washington, DC and is enjoying all that the city and her school have to offer.

She misses all her lovely classmates from Roland Park and hopes they are all doing well! Erin Penn enjoyed her sophomore year at Franklin and Marshall and continued to find her home in its community. She declared an Art History Major. Erin participates in leadership roles in her sorority, Kappa Delta, F&M’s Hillel, and her residential house’s government. This year Cheyenne Pajardo is juggling a full credits worth of classes while working for the Goucher costuming department (which actually pulls costumes for RPCS…super exciting) the Women’s Basketball team, and Inertia Performing Arts. She is currently dancing for a semi-pro basketball team, The Bay Area Shuckers and is prepping for professional cheerleading on NFL/NBA teams. This has been one of the most challenging years thus far, but it’s definitely been rewarding! Alexis Green is currently in Baltimore finishing up her general education requirements, and in the process of transferring to a university that has the major that she’d truly like to study. Unfortunately, Winthrop did not have engineering so she is taking classes near home and working at Sinai Hospital. She is a French minor with the hopes of studying abroad within the next few semesters. The south has left a major mark on Alexis, so she and the friends that she made at Winthrop get together every few months

for a weekend to catch up and celebrate their progress in school and work. In the fall she plans to be living in North Carolina and attending a University there. Over the summer she will be a part-time assistant basketball trainer while she continues to work at Sinai.

Meghan Shippe is enjoying her sophomore year at Dickinson. It has had its challenges, but also its rewards. She recently declared a double major in psychology and philosophy.

She is still playing on the Varsity Women’s Squash Team, and was recently elected as the Service and Philanthropy Director for her sorority. Meghan is excited for the spring semester. Kristin Polk just finished her first semester as a second year at the University of Virginia. She is enrolled in the University’s Engineering school and has declared a systems major and business minor which she hopes will help her pursue her dream of owning her own company! Kristin loves not only her courses this year, but also her continued participation in the Delta Zeta sorority on campus. She recently joined the philanthropy committee of her chapter and helped plan their successful “DZ Donuts” fundraiser to raise money for the Starkey Hearing foundation.

This summer, Kristin will be traveling all the way to Cape Town, South Africa to study IOS App development and intern at one of the city’s growing businesses. Kristin can’t wait to spend the summer exploring a beautiful new city and immersing herself in a vibrant, diverse culture! Rachel Poverman is attending Johnson & Wales University and has just finished her first year as a Culinary Arts and Food Service Management major. She has made great friends who have a hysterical sense

of humor. She has also made the dean’s list for her culinary labs. Kara Powell had a pretty busy start to her sophomore year at Skidmore College. She performed in a student directed studio workshop of The Breasts of Tiresias

by Guillame Apollinaire. Once that was over, she spent the rest of the semester focused on schoolwork. She also started taking piano lessons again, and plans on taking them this coming semester as well. Kara expects the rest of her sophomore year to be equally busy, as she plans on declaring her theater major with a minor in arts administration. Since she plans on going abroad next fall, Kara is also going to be looking for acting programs in either England or Italy. She hopes she’ll be able to spend part of her summer as a counselor at Camp Center Stage once again. Annie Riley had another great semester at Cornell and is still studying Math and Near Eastern Studies with a concentration in Arabic. She has gotten more involved in the Ithaca community by volunteering as a ‘Feline Friend’ at the local Tompkins County SPCA. She is currently living in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house and serving as Steward. Next semester she will straddle three positions: Steward, Social Chair, and Intramural Chair. In addition, she holds the competitive title of ‘Equipment Manager’ for the Cornell Women’s Club Lacrosse Team.

Who knew Annie would be so involved in sports that require any kind of coordination!

This summer Annie will find an internship where she can utilize her math and/or Arabic skills or will study abroad in Amman, Jordan.

Catherine Romadka-Fahl is singing in the Intonations a cappella group, and she is an RA at the College of William & Mary. She is really looking forward to minoring in Italian!

Samantha Shawver still loves the University of Miami but has changed her double major to marine science and meteorology with a minor in math. She is doing research with one of her professors this semester looking at hurricane intensification. This coming summer she is interning at CMERA in Clearwater Florida working on a boat tagging sharks and rays and collecting DNA samples for a month in May. She is then continuing to ocean lifeguard for her fifth summer on the Sea Colony Beach Patrol in Bethany Beach, DE. Natalie Shramko transferred to Stevenson University and is majoring in early childhood education.

She is currently completing her field placement at Pinewood Elementary, where she helps teach a kindergarten class and loves it! Ava Todd has decided to major in philosophy with a double minor in Spanish and religion.

This semester, she will compete in her second season on the Davidson women’s tennis team.

This summer, she plans to study abroad in Cádiz, Spain. Emy Urban loved being the

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Technical Director for the student theater group at Wellesley and getting to tell people what to do. She is excited to be a sociology major, and she is enjoying staying honorable as a part of Honor Code Council. Toni-Ann Williams competed in her third gymnastics World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, and helped team Jamaica qualify a spot at the Olympic Qualifiers in April taking place in Rio de Janeiro. She is also looking forward to her second competitive season at Cal and looking forward to taking more classes geared towards the Public Health major. Bracken Woolley is enjoying her sophomore year at the University of Richmond and has decided to major in economics and minor in English.

She loves the work she does with student government, admissions and Greek life at UR, and hopes to find an internship this summer in Baltimore to help her explore her interests in business and writing. Next semester, she plans on studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark or Edinburgh, Scotland.

Class of 2015 Regan Gore Regan.C.Gore.19@dartmouth.edu Libby Kluttz kluttzthumb@yahoo.com Grace Laria gflaria@gmail.com Caroline Tucker caroline.tucker@furman.edu Gurleen Ahuja never thought that she would have enjoyed University of Maryland, Baltimore County as much as she currently does. She has made a wonderful group of genuine friends and has solidified her major in Global Studies! She has the opportunity to be on a Punjabi dance team and was able to perform her song “Challenge the Darkness” at a big event on campus. Finally, she is the cofounder of Students Helping Honduras, which is very exciting. Kelly Bare loves Penn State and has decided to major in elementary education. She says that school is going very well! Hannah Baron had a great time in a new place during her first semester at Hobart and William Smith Colleges! She took a diverse range of classes in the humanities, ranging from public policy to education to religion, which has helped her figure out her majors and minors. As a recruit for the William Smith

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rowing team, she came into school with a friendly group of faces who have had her back through absolutely everything, whether is has been helping her to understand a new workout or study for a test. Her first semester helped her to find her balance between athletics, academics, and social activities, and she is excited to succeed in a new semester. Jenna Baverman’s first semester of college at Hofstra was jam-packed. Absolutely a challenging semester academically, but fall ball helped her to keep on track and gave her many things to look forward to each weekend at lacrosse tournaments. After a successful semester both on and off the field, Jenna is looking forward to spring season. She was recently invited to try out for the Israeli Women’s National Lacrosse Team this summer, and she couldn’t be more excited to spend yet another summer playing lacrosse in her favorite place. Cameron Bell could not be happier heading into her second semester at Georgetown. She has been thrilled with the opportunities that she has had to pursue both her academic and extracurricular interests, namely her involvement in concert choir and student theatre. She is especially excited to be assistant music directing a student-run production of Into the Woods this spring. Mackenzie Birely is absolutely loving her time at Villanova University. She is studying nursing and while the curriculum is very difficult, Roland Park has prepared her to conquer anything thrown her way. She has gotten involved in various intramural sports such as flag football and dodgeball, and she has recently joined the Chi Omega Sorority. She looks forward to working with their philanthropy, The Make a Wish

Foundation, and raising money to help grant a wish to a child in the Greater Philadelphia Area. This coming April, she will be running in her first half marathon in Philadelphia. Becky Blackstone has had a really great experience so far at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. First semester, she focused on learning about audio production, and now she is focusing on the visual components of film.

She has also been working for the Fusion Film Festival and has joined the NYU figure skating team. Adjusting to a new town, a new school, and new faces has definitely been an eyeopening transition for Maddie Boucher. She

Sally Tucker, 2011 and Caroline Tucker, 2015 at Furman Homecoming

misses Roland Park everyday. However, her friends are great and her classes at Savannah College of Art and Design are a lot of fun.

Being able to have an open schedule at Roland Park really taught her time management skills that she uses at school now. Maddie also thinks the city of Savannah is amazing; the city is draped in Spanish moss with a park around every corner. Riley Brager loves Monmouth so far! At first, it was a really hard transition since she is playing lacrosse and doing school work. She is very excited to start her first season, especially since her first game is at Towson, so she gets to go home! Riley also notes that the year feels like it has flown by.

Paige Carey adores Ringling College – going to an art school is a dream come true! She got to make a science fiction ray gun, pop-up book, and film friends – all for homework! She has met with several recruiters from big-name companies like DreamWorks, College Humor, and Disney, among many others. She is currently looking to intern at a few design magazines this summer, and has sent out applications. With luck, she will be in San Francisco over the summer. She thanks her stars every day that Roland Park prepared her well for the professional world; learning how to write well and professionally, as well as being taught how to deliver a good speech and presentation has helped her so much in many of her classes. She absolutely loves it down in warm, sunny Florida, though she does miss the snow a bit. Sarah Chaffman is doing very well; she is now double majoring in forensic science and chemistry. She has also joined Chi Alpha, a campus ministry. She is excited for what this new semester brings, and is definitely enjoying her time at West Virginia University.

Ally Cirelli’s first semester at Kenyon College was an exciting new beginning. She became very involved in the theatrical community there; she took drama classes and participated in several shows. She was in a production of Heathers: The Musical, an opera intensive showcase, and is currently working on Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.

She also became a member of The Broken Legs, Kenyon’s premier a cappella group centralized around musical theatre. She took classes in a variety of different departments focused in the humanities in an attempt to find a major and meet diversification requirements. Overall, she had a great start to college and can’t wait for the next semester! Michala Clay reports that College is going very well on Hawk Hill! It is very different from high school and she really likes it. Basketball is very time consuming, especially during the season, but overall things are going well. RPCS has definitely prepared her for St. Joseph’s. Katie Clements is playing lacrosse at Roanoke College. School is going

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very well and she is really enjoying it! Hannah Clemons: Penn State has been such an amazing experience for Hannah! She has a lot of fun going to all of the sports games, especially the football games. She really enjoys meeting new people in her classes and clubs. Alex Cory is a freshman at Elon University. She is majoring in marketing and minoring in business communications. Evelyn Cortezi is enjoying the warmer Atlanta weather at Emory! She has not declared her major yet, but is planning on neuroscience and behavioral biology, and she is premed. She has gotten involved in Emory’s Relay for Life, which is an organization with the American Cancer Society. Evelyn also just finished spring rush and is now a member of Kappa Alpha Theta!

Caitlin Curtis attended the University of Denver in the fall and decided it was not the school for her. She is currently taking classes at Towson University and will be transferring to a new school in the fall. Regan Gore is loving Dartmouth so far! She has made a lot of wonderful friends, many of whom live in her dorm, and taken some interesting classes, though her major is still undecided. She has also become involved in She’s the First {Dartmouth}, which supports girls’ education in developing countries, and is a big sister to a second grader in the Upper Valley through the SIBS program. Regan enjoys going to the nearby skiway and venturing into nearby towns in her free time. She misses Roland Park a lot but is very grateful for how well it prepared her for college. Isabel Haus attends Auburn University. She is in the sorority Alpha Omicron Pi and is thinking about majoring in marketing. She is on the pre-business track currently. Isabel participates in Auburn’s mentoring program, where she works with underprivileged students and acts as their peer.

She had a great first semester and is looking forward to finishing the year. Alexis Emmett had a great first semester at Dickinson College.

She is thinking about majoring in international business and management. Alexis is part of the

Dog House which is a club that trains puppies to become service dogs. She is rushing for a sorority during second semester. Alexis is also part of the golf team. Andrea Fraiman attends High Point University. She is majoring in elementary education and considering minoring in special education. She hopes to become a kindergarten teacher. Andrea made the dean’s list and played club field hockey this past fall. Andrea is rushing for a sorority this semester. Allie Graul attends the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is majoring in international relations and business, and is looking into economics. Allie plays squash for the St. Andrews Saints on their varsity women’s and men’s team. She is member of UNICEF and the management society. Next semester Allie is hoping to join snowsports and tennis.

Natalie Gallo has been enjoying Clemson University immensely. She had a great first semester and joined the sorority Sigma Kappa.

Natalie is currently a genetics major, but she may be switching to biology. Natalie is hoping to start volunteering more and she really enjoys having a good football team! Hope Duke is currently attending the College of William and Mary. During her first semester she joined Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service fraternity. Hope is a member of Young Democrats and the Student Environmental Action Coalition. She participates in athletics by being a manager for William and Mary’s men’s Basketball team. The job takes up most of her time between home and away games.

Jessica Hwang attends Mount Holyoke College. She is thinking about majoring in international relations. So far Jess has joined organizations such as Network and Project Theatre. Jess performed in the play No Exit.

She is enjoying her college experience so far!

Allie Hough enjoyed first semester at Washington University. She auditioned for the show Company and was cast as Jenny. She auditioned for a cappella and is now a member of the Mosaic Whispers. She is possibly majoring in French and minoring in music.

Allie is considering a second major in computer science. Allie rushed the sorority Kappa Delta at the beginning of second semester. Tyla Hairston is a freshman dance major at Howard University. Last semester she performed in a benefit honoring Mr. Louis Johnson titled Up In The Air in New York City. Tyla also performed in Spectrum the student choreography showcase. During second semester, Tyla got the opportunity to perform in Denver for a ballet piece titled “H.E.L.P.” This was held at the International Association of Blacks. Brittany Day is enjoying her time at Duke University. She is planning on majoring in public policy. She has joined the sorority Gamma Phi Beta. Brittany also plays on the

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club squash team. Caroline East attends Yale University. She is playing for the squash team and taking many interesting courses such as Indonesian. Caroline is hoping to major in psychology and is currently rushing during second semester. Libby Kluttz has started her second semester at Auburn University. She has joined the sorority Alpha Omicron Pi and recently played on their volleyball team. Libby is on the pre-business track and majoring in marketing with a minor in journalism. She is a part of Auburn’s Mentoring Program and Freshman Leadership Program. Lindsey Edwards loves High Point University! She is in the middle of her basketball season and her team is playing well with the conference tournament approaching. Although basketball takes up most of her time, Lindsey is an avid member of the diversity club. She decided to major in communications and minor in French.

Lindsey remarked that she is grateful for the opportunities RPCS gave her to be able to succeed at HPU! Meredith Grabowski attends the College of Charleston and has rushed the sorority Chi Omega. She remarked that RPCS has prepared her immensely to challenge herself and take on new opportunities.

Meredith is involved in several clubs such as water sports and outdoors. She is working at Fuel Charleston and plans on majoring in arts management and marketing. Makayla Franks is really enjoying her time at Hamilton College.

She is possibly double majoring in psychology and creative writing, and then thinking about minoring in women’s studies. Makayla joined Rainbow Alliance and is on the E-Board as

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treasurer. She is thinking about becoming an RA next year or studying abroad in Stockholm, Sweden. Makayla has two jobs on campus in two different libraries, which she really enjoys.

She really enjoyed first semester, but also misses Baltimore. Allison Kuhn loves Quinnipiac University and all the school has to offer. She has started in many games on the Division I lacrosse team and is looking forward to the spring season. Allison also represents the freshmen class on the Student Government Association. Currently, Jen McPherson is undecided in the business school at Fairfield University, but is fairly certain that she will major in accounting after taking a course in the subject first semester. Jen also volunteered in Bridgeport, CT at an elementary school where she tutored first grade boys and girls in reading and math. She’s enjoying Fairfield very much. At Georgetown University, Didi Lowitt has been involved in GIVES, a club in which members participate in “RAK,” or random acts of kindness, to try to spread happiness throughout campus, and also in Project Sunshine, in which members go to the local hospital and do arts and crafts with children who are receiving treatments. Rowing has been great for Didi, who plans on majoring in math. Megan Lynch loves school at Towson University! She loves being able to come home and see her family whenever she has free time.

Megan has been keeping up with the rigor of her classes more than she expected, and loves the friendships she has made through her lacrosse team. Their love and support as well as the competitive spirit RPCS instilled in her

inspire her to keep playing. At Tulane, Leigh Miller is majoring in public health and cellular and molecular biology. She volunteers with her fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, spreads awareness of organ donation as the treasurer of the Tulane Organ Donor Association, and is a newly inducted sister at Alpha Delta Phi. Hannah Krich’s first semester at Bridgewater College has been a wonderful experience. She is a part of the Equestrian Program at Bridgewater College. She takes two lessons a week, and has fallen in love with the horses and the people that are involved in the program. Hannah has met some of the most caring and generous people through riding, her classes, and the events that she has attended.

Hannah participates in the Equestrian Club, Lend-a-Paw (an organization that helps animal shelters), and Crusade for Christ (a fellowship that meets weekly). Hannah is majoring in health and exercise science (someday hoping to go to graduate school to work on becoming an Occupational Therapist) and minoring in equine studies. She has already taken Human Biology, which was a challenging class, but ultimately one of her favorites. Bridgewater requires a class called PDP, or Personal Development Portfolio, to graduate, and Hannah took a course called Only Frontier, during which she and her classmates watched Star Trek and related it back to their lives by discussing issues that they deal with on a daily basis. Hannah loved the class because her professor was in the psychology department, providing Hannah with input that made her really think and apply her learning in a way she had never thought about before. Hannah believes Bridgewater is the right college for her, where she has access to hands-on learning and countless educational opportunities.

First semester was really fun for Jenna Janes at the University of Vermont. She met a lot of new people from all over the world. For Jenna, balancing school and lacrosse is doable due to the great support system provided by Vermont.

At University of Maryland, College Park, Irina Kolesnik is double majoring in cell biology and molecular genetics and anthropology as an honors student in the Integrated Life Sciences Program. Irina participates in College Mentors for Kids and the American Medical Student Association, and has made a lot of great friends from Maryland who live in her dorm.

Grace Laria loves going to the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She plans on majoring in culture and politics with a certificate in Latin American Studies, and achieved proficiency in Spanish at the end of fall semester. Besides Spanish, some of Grace’s favorite classes include Problem of God, Political & Social Thought, and International Relations. Outside of the

Michala Clay, 2015 and Daisy Alaeze, 2012

classroom, Grace served as a Project Ambassador for One World Youth Project first semester, and second semester has joined the leadership board of Hoyas for Choice (a prochoice student group on campus) and has started working in the Layout Section of The Hoya, Georgetown’s newspaper.

Emma McCormack has been cast in two musicals at Tulane University: Sweeney Todd and Stone Soup: A New Musical. She plans on majoring in musical theatre and neuroscience. The past few months at the College of Wooster have been challenging for Rachel Mandel, but in the best way possible. Academically, Rachel has realized that she wants to minor in Spanish.

The College of Wooster women’s swim team finished its season with a 10-1 record, only losing to a Division II, nationally ranked team.

Rachel is looking forward to Conference Championships and discovering what her future academic path will turn out to be.

Meredith Kuser has loved everything about her time at Wake Forest. She joined the sorority Tri Delta and has loved getting to know all of her new sisters. Meredith has loved all her classes and cannot wait for what’s to come during second semester! Since Mellie Poggi graduated, she has officially enrolled at the University of Michigan, joined the rowing team and a sorority. It’s all been a little tough to balance, but definitely worth it! Going into her second semester at James Madison

University, Eliza O’Donovan can say with confidence that JMU is the perfect school for her. She rushed this semester and is now a sister of Sigma Sigma Sigma. She also participates in YoungLife to keep herself grounded and to definitely feel stable during the most stressful weeks of school. Even though she loves JMU so much, she is always excited to see her RPCS girls when she comes home. Susan Radov feels right at home at the University of Pennsylvania. She feels intellectually stimulated in her classes, supported by her friends and peers, and encouraged in leadership roles through her clubs. She is continuing with her love of humanities, social sciences, and languages at UPenn, and she is very active in political and environmental life on campus. Caroline Tucker absolutely loves her first year at Furman University where she is an intended communications major. She is involved in a couple of on-campus ministries and just accepted a bid to Kappa Delta. She also enjoys living in the same city as her older sister, Sally Tucker, 2011, as they get to spend time together often. Landon Warren had a great first semester with field hockey and academics at the University of Vermont. She is a business major, concentrating on entrepreneurship. Her field hockey season went really well. She was able to start and contribute a lot to the games!

Francesca Whitehurst attends Georgetown University where she plays on the lacrosse team. The academics are tough but she is having fun and enjoying her time there. Sierra Rosenzwog attends school at Stevenson University. She is involved in the Human Society Club as when as the Psychology Club.

Clare O’Brien attends Villanova and got recruited to their Division I rowing team later during her freshman year. She was also recently accepted into Villanova’s honors program.

Another highlight of her year was visiting her brother in Morocco during her winter break.

Caroline Pate is having a great year at the University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, where she is an intended business major. She is involved in her sorority and clubs, and she is loving her classes so far. Sasha Rosenzwog attends school at Towson University and is loving it! She has made a lot of great friends, including her roommate. She had a successful first semester and picked her major, marketing.

She has really adjusted well to her new life.

Even though she is still close to home, she still feels like she is away. She is looking forward to rushing a sorority and can’t wait to learn about all the clubs she can join. Abbey Roswell is having a great time at Kenyon! She is on the field hockey team and her team made it all the way to conference championships! They had a very successful season. She is in the process of

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pledging Zeta Alpha Pi. She is an economics major with a concentration in public policy.

Hailey Wolf attends the College of Charleston and plans on majoring in marketing. She has also become a member of the Chi Omega Sorority.

Lexie Peterson loves Howard University in Washington, DC. She was accepted into Howard’s prestigious School of Business, and her fellow classmates feel like a family of different individuals with the same kind of passion and drive. She is involved in four different clubs, two of those clubs being rooted in the business school and the other two being social clubs. She would not change anything about her college experience so far.

Mary Bryan Owen is currently playing on the golf team and studying biophysics at Claremont McKenna College. Since leaving Roland Park, Lauren Pine is a student at Elon University, and she is absolutely loving it! After taking the first semester to get acclimated with her studies, she has declared a major in public health and a minor in health and wellness education. Her ultimate goal is to continue on to Physician’s Assistant School in the future. Olivia Stevens attends San Diego State University in southern California. Her major is international business with an emphasis in France and Western Europe coupled with a minor in German. Between classes she loves to go to the local beaches and surf and relax in the sun. She has volunteered many times for Associated Students and helped with numerous events for students, alumni, and visitors. Joanna Zhong attends Michigan State University. She has joined MUSMUM, a Model United Nations club for MSU students, and is involved in other volunteer activities. She worked hard on the CSE, which is a requirement for business school students. She is doing well in school and misses the Class of 2015!

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Legacy Relations of the Class of 2016 Back row, l to r.

Claire Evans, 2016 Julia George Evans, 1981, Mother Laura George Cochran, 1990, Aunt

Carlisle Darrell, 2016 Beth Murphy Darrell, 1985, Mother Libby Rutledge Murphy, HA, Grandmother Wallis Murphy Weiner-Trapness, 1980, Aunt Erin Murphy, 1982, Aunt Kimberly Miller Alsip, 1999, Cousin Shawn Murphy George, 2000, Cousin Lindsay Miller Stone, 2001, Cousin Ellie Murphy, 2011, Cousin Maddie Muth, 2013, Cousin

Ava Yensan, 2016

Emmy Middleton, 2016

Emory Knott, 2016

Carol Blankenship Davis, 1965, Step Grandmother

Deeley Close Middleton, 1979, Mother Betsy Close, 1977, Aunt Julia Close Sweeney, 1983, Aunt Laurie Nice Roche, 1988, Cousin Suzanne Nice Bauer, 1994, Cousin Rachel Meyer, 2007, Cousin Katherine Close, 2010, Cousin Laurel Meyer, 2012, Cousin

Suzanne Michel Twells, 1954, Great Aunt Greer Michel Jackson, 1963, Great Aunt Beverly Pierce Michel, 1965, Great Aunt Mary Ann Knott-Grasso, 1974, Aunt

Asha Holmes, 2016

Georgie Finney, 2016

Baheera Sterrett, 1997, Mother

Rebecca Finney, 2013, Cousin CeCe Finney, 2014, Cousin

Annie Calhoun, 2016 Jane Daniels, 1982, Mother Jane Wilhelm Daniels, 1946, Grandmother Jinx Wilhelm Barton, 1945, Great Aunt Ann Daniels, 1983, Aunt Ann Lord, 1968, Cousin Charlotte Lord, 1968, Cousin

Caroline Hernandez, 2016 Alexis Emmett, 2015, Cousin

Abida Tara, 2016 Sadiqa Tarar, 2013, Sister

Anna Hauser, 2016 Haley Hauser, 2013, Sister

A Family Front row, l to r.

Gabrielle Woolley, 2016

Alanna Aboulafia, 2016

Eva Frankel, 2016

Emily Fishel, 2016

Bracken Woolley, 2014, Sister Addie Ogier Bracken, 1933, Great Aunt

Arielle Aboulafia, 2014, Sister

Alexandra Frankel, 2012, Sister Daniela Frankel, 2014, Sister

Jodi Credit, 2016

Meghan Ramzy, 2011, Cousin

Ariana Rodriguez, 2016

Caroline Friedman, 2016 Wendy Friedman, 1984, Aunt

Sarah Rouse, 2009, Cousin

Dylan Ramer, 2016 Sydney Ramer, 2013, Sister

Molly Beidleman, 2016 Coverley Steinmann Beidleman, 1981, Mother Moran Beidleman, 2012, Sister

Jordan Tapp, 2016 Ashlee Tuck, 2002, Cousin

Casey Wong, 2016 Lindsay Wong, 2011, Sister

Sharon Donkervoet Credit, 1977, Mother Katherine Credit, 2009, Sister Kimberly Credit, 2013, Sister Daralice Donkervoet Boles, 1976, Aunt

Sydney Stern, 2016 Jamye Siegel Stern, 1985, Mother

Ava Mandel, 2016 Alaina Mandel, 2013, Cousin Sarah Mandel, 2013, Cousin Rachel Mandel, 2015, Cousin

Not Pictured: Lilah Noyes, 2016 Heather Stark Noyes, 1984, Mother Helen Lee Williams Sale, 2002, Aunt

Molly O’Hern, 2016 Katie O’Hern, 2012, Sister Kelly O’Hern, 2014, Sister Debra Donovan Smith, 1975, Aunt Christine Donovan, 1976, Aunt Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, 1994, Aunt 153

New babies in the RPCS Community

Julie Hackett, 1993 Kemet Sebastian Hackett-Sanches

Jessica Adams Wilson, 1993 Omer Mizrahi

Whitney Bedford, 1994 Elizabeth Louise Bedford Jahncke

Audrey Lucas, 1994 Leo Lucas Arica

Tori Durrer, 1995 Eva Goldie Mae Moore

Amy Brazil, 1996 Lucinda “Lulu” Brazil Morrison

Tammy Passano Wiggs, 1997 Elizabeth “Lizzy” Passano Wiggs

Alice Levy Burns, 1997 Gavin Levi Burns

Reagan Raneri Koffel, 1997 Holton Thomas Koffel

Meg Ferguson Feld, 1998 Cameron Parker Feld

Jessica Wheeler Hackett, 1998 Graden Wheeler Hackett

Lauren Waesche Fiastro, 1998 Ashley Grace Fiastro

Dulaney Wible Farkas, 1998 Rowley George Farkas

Tiana Redfern Oguaman, 1999 Avery Elise Elumelu Oguaman Ariana Emily Elochukwu Oguaman

Julia Gontrum Solomon, 1999 Owen Dave Solomon

Elizabeth Graziosi Nilsson, 1999 Anna Sofia Nilsson

Erin Cohn Risch, 1999 Brooks Risch

Meghan Kelly Long, 1999 Brayden Wilson Long

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Corrin McBride Hunt, 1999 Zipporah Elizabeth Hunt

Wendy Forbes Grossman, 1999 Samantha Shade Grossman

Whitney Jamison Price, 1999 Finley Haxall Price

Clare Cunningham Gilmore, 1999 Lorelei Rose Gilmore

Tania Markowski Peters, 1999 Penelope Frances Peters

Maria Mainolfi-Palarata, 1999 Anna Bernadette MainolfiPalarata

Tara Markowski Cutillo, 2000 Georgiana “Gigi” Alice Cutillo

Jen Lalley Veatch, 2000 Ginger Lalley Veatch

Erin Miles Cloud, 2001 Nora Essen Cloud

Kerri Huebner Carlile, 2001 Edison James Carlile

Edith Birney Wilson, 2002 James Douglas Wilson

Kate Brockmeyer, 2003 Robert “Bobby” Ewell Hunter

Carrie Schenning Sheehan, 2002 Claire Elizabeth Sheehan

Ashley Dent Eklund, 2003 George Forbes Eklund

Sarah Scalia Hallenbeck, 2002 Daniel “Danny” McCoy Hallenbeck

Parissa Jahromi Ballard, 2002 Maz “Mazi” Jahromi Ballard

Becca Warfield Smith, 2004 Milly Warfield Smith

Audie Fugett Jones, 2004 Axel William Jones

Lucy Barrett Crannick, 2003 Peyton Leigh Crannick

Jen Graillot Rivard, 2005 Noëlle Emily Rivard

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Alice Meikle Bristor

Margaret Glann Rieck

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1943 Ann Cleveland Robertson, Step Daughter of Jesse Black Cleveland, 1937; Sister of Charlotte Cleveland Look, 1947; Half sister of Frances Cleveland Corcoran,1963; Half sister of Margaret Cleveland, 1974

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Eugenia Lenox West

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1955 Molly McCormick Bond

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1946 Anne Walke Pennock, Sister of Emily Walke Woodside, 1943;

Sister- in- law of Clare Pennock Hilgartner, 1946; Aunt of Catherine Hilgartner, 1979

1959

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Helene Fredeking

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Janet Roop Cremeans, Grandmother of Elizabeth Cremeans, 2000

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Jacqueline “Jackie� Harrison Baldick, Cousin of Noel Rippel Bradley, 1979

1948

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Margaret Crawford Demere, Daughter of Edith Gantz Cooper, 1921; Daughter-in-law of Joan Carre Crawford, 1950; Aunt of Virginia Patterson, 1978

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1965 Susan Peck Knott, Sister of Helen Peck Allen, 1962

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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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Appreciation of Diversity Uphold Tradition and Promote Innovation

Affirmation Courage, Caring and Integrity

Community

Love and Leadership

Mutual Trust

Responsibility, Accountability and Heritage

An Education Above

Gratitude

Communication and Cooperation

Change and Continuity

Sustainability

Connectedness and Respect

Character and Choices

Tenacity of Purpose

Mission

Honor

Understanding Ourselves

Self-Discipline Spiritual Well-Being

Resilient Spirit

Education for the 21st Century

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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 self-discipline, independence of thought, tenacity of purpose, creativity, and spiritual wellbeing. 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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