Connections 2015

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

Summer 2015

Understanding Ourselves

Autumn Travers, 2018

Christina Wang, 2017

Aveon Green, 2027

Casey Feinstein, 2019

Courtney McCormick, 2021

Addy Branson, 2021

Skylar Spore, 2017

Ellen Crosby, 2027 Lucy Haerian, 2026

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Feature Articles 4

60th Anniversary of the Semiquavers

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2 0th Anniversary of the Sinex and Sound of Music All School Musical

6 How RPCS Inspired My International Life

by Julie Hackett, 1993

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8 Create Change by Embracing Common Humanity

by Margaret VanDeusen, 2010

10 Alumnae Association Awards Prestigious McCauley

Bowl to Mary Ellen Thomsen, Honorary Alumna

Remarks by Katharine Fox Castro, 2004

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12 Baltimore Rising: RPCS Alumnae lend their Time,

Talent and Voice to Our City

Reflections by Monica Butler Mitchell, 1998, Shelley Fulton-Powell, 1998, Nancy Lord Lewin, 1989, Buffy Rubenstein Minkin, 1991 and Tanaira Cullens, 2008

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

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Why I Give?

by Catherine Huether McClelland, 1968

Head of School: Jean Waller Brune

Departments

Editor/Assistant Head of School for External Relations: Nancy Mugele

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Editor, Class Notes/Director of Integrated Media Strategies: Kristin Raneri Nicolini, 1998

17 Best of Social Media

Assistant Director of Communication: Sarah Cody Communications Associate: Kelsy Mugele

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Alumnae Class Notes

Contributers: Missie Dix Mack, Director of Alumnae Relations, Katy Spencer, 1993 Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations

86 New Babies in the RPCS Family

Designer: Paul Miller, Freefall Design

88 Memorials

Printing: Diversified Printing

Front Cover: (top left)Annabelle Slowikowski, 2026, (top middle) Emory Gatchell, 2019, (top right) Lucy Joyce, 2027 (bottom right) Angela He, 2017 (center) Senay Washington, 2017 (bottom center) Makena Stoller, 2019 (bottom left) Annabel Keelty, 2016

Headlines Each year it has been my practice to choose a key word or phrase to hold before our community, beginning in 1992 with Communication and Cooperation, through Understanding Ourselves this year. The words and phrases I have selected through all these years are written on plaques outside my office; representing fundamental, enduring qualities of an RPCS education: characteristics that transcend the years and the trends of the teaching and learning we provide. This academic year as we began both a new strategic planning process and also our AIMS ten-year accreditation self-study, Communication and Cooperation remain as relevant today as when I first became Head. Additionally, the value that each of us brings to our teaching and learning community is worthy of examination and celebration. Working together to understand, first, ourselves and then others, enables us both to embrace each other’s uniqueness, and also to look beyond ourselves to our city, state, country and the world.

Understanding Ourselves, in this way, will propel RPCS firmly into the next chapter of our history.

At RPCS An Education Above is personified by an extraordinary group of women who are on a journey to understand themselves – our Students and our Alumnae.

Each are committed to a lifelong journey of excellence, purpose and service first nurtured and cultivated in the classrooms and laboratories, on the fields and courts, and in the studios and on the stage of RPCS. To be successful in today’s fast changing world, students must possess skills in inquiry and curiosity so they can ask the right questions to find solutions to real problems. Their future, in any field, depends on the ability to build bridges among diverse groups, work as a team and think creatively.

RPCS students distinguish themselves in so many ways and each in her own right is uniquely talented. A few examples of our students’ individual and group achievements follow as a prelude to the stories of our Alumnae in this publication.

RPCS teams of Grade 5 and Grade 6 readers competed against areas schools in Battle of the Books, a reading incentive program for students in Grades 3 - 12. Students read books and come together in teams to demonstrate their knowledge. Our 6th Grade team won 1st prize. We have received 2nd and 3rd places in the past, but this was a first for first! One of our 5th grade teams took 3rd place,

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the first time an RPCS Lower School team has ever placed at Battle of the Books!

In the Middle School, our 8th Grade STEM program produced several outstanding awards this year. The team of Taja Washington, Casey Feinstein, Adele Spencer and Gabrielle Emge were the MD state winners in the 13th annual eCYBERMISSION competition – one of several STEM initiatives offered by the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program. The team worked together with advisor Elisha James as they tackled the effect of sleep deprivation on teenage girls. In addition, two teams earned Honorable Mention awards in the 2014-2015 Toshiba ExploraVision competition that encourages students to simulate real research and development to bring ideas to reality. Team One: Mary Pate, Cydney White, Hannah Rhea and Hadley Saba for Cerebum Statera and Team Two: Gabby Emge, Emory Gatchell and Adele Spencer for Anti-Malaria Vaccine.

In The STEM Institute this spring, for the first time, STEM certificates were awarded to Meredith Kuser, 2015 and Regan Gore, 2015 who completed the rigorous program, a year before we anticipated any student would receive a STEM certificate! Regan worked on an analysis of PSAT math data to identify possibe gaps in the RPCS curriculum coverage. Her findings will help our Math department as it continues to evaluate our programs, as part of the AIMS Self-Study.

Meredith’s work, Effects of Sleeve Gastrectomy on Glucose Homeostasis and Body Weight of LeptinDeficient Mice, looked at the impact of stomach stapling on the interactions between the hormone leptin that helps regulate glucose levels in the blood stream. Meredith placed 4th in the Maryland program of the 53rd National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium for her oral presentation of this study, and as a Top 5 winner, she represented the state of Maryland at the national event in early May. As part of her 11th Grade STEM research internship Blaire Miran, 2016 worked last summer at Kaufman Products investigating cement formulas. They were so impressed with her work that they discussed it with The American Concrete Institute who gives awards annually in recognition of college engineering students who do innovative research in cement chemistry and concrete additives. The ACI honored Blair this spring; the first time an ACI Excellence in Concrete Award has ever been given to a high school student, and named the award in her honor! Blair is currently back at work at Kaufman Products, and we are excited to see what she will do next.

In the Humanities, Foreign Language Certificates were awarded this year to Susan Radov, 2015 and Mellie Poggi, 2015 for their mastery of more than one foreign language in the Upper School. Last year was the first time this certificate was given. RPCS has distinguished itself with STEM and foreign language concentrations for academically qualified students who understand themselves and know they want to be challenged in those areas.

In the visual arts, Annabel Keelty, 2016 distinguished herself with a 1st place painting in the Young Artists Showcase. In addition, two of her works received awards in the prestigious 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Competition. Ocean of Salt, which she produced at UCLA last summer won an Honorable Mention in the Media Arts Category and Computer Blues which she created in her AP art class at RPCS in the fall semester won a Silver Key in the Drawing and Painting category. Hannah Clemons, 2015 also won a Silver Key award for her double exposed photograph Haunted. Liz Schlerf, 2017 was named a Gold Key winner in the same competition for her personal essay A Crack in the Table which she composed for Honors English 10.

In the performing arts, our Semiquavers won a gold award at the Washington, DC Choral Festival and represented RPCS as they sang the National Anthem at an Orioles game in May. Eighth Grade Singers received a Gold Festival Award at the Philadelphia Festival and were

also awarded the Spirit of Philadelphia Award to honor their professionalism, courtesy, and responsible conduct throughout their performance time.

Francesca Whitehurst, 2015, excelled in athletics this year helping her Soccer, Basketball and Lacrosse teams make Championship runs. She was recognized as the Baltimore Sun Athlete of the Year, an IAAM All Star for lacrosse and soccer as well as the Sun’s All Metro Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year and first team All-Metro.

She was one of the female nominees for the Baltimore Sun High School Athlete of the Year and was named The Messenger High School Athlete of the Year. USA Today also recognized her as the High School Lacrosse Player of the Year. She was also a named a first team All-American

by US Lacrosse as well as an Academic all-American.

She was named an Under Armour All-American and was selected to represent the United States as a member of the US Lacrosse U19 Women’s team. Her REDS teammate Jenna Baverman, 2015 will play for the Israeli national team this summer, so they may compete against each other on the field in Scotland!

Entrepreneur Megan Schaller, 2010 launched her own app this academic year. She is the Founder and creator of social platform Hoppen as well as the founder and designer of Barely Legal Designs. She designs merchandise, including shirts and tote-bags and promotes them through social media outlets.

Like our students, RPCS alumnae have such unique passions and strengths; I am so pleased to share the annual edition of the Alumnae magazine Connections. The feature articles and the Alumnae Class Notes in this issue demonstrate how An Education Above at RPCS informs the incredible women we are so fortunate to call our Alumnae. Their personal triumphs speak for themselves.

I hope you will take the time to read about how their understanding of themselves fuels their passions, their travel and their hearts.

Each of these amazing Roland Parkers, past and present, share an enduring bond: intellectual curiosity, a lifelong love of learning, personal inquisitiveness, resilience and tenacity, and global awareness, all fostered at RPCS where students learn how to think, not what to think.

Perhaps equally important, they also form connections to each other that last a lifetime.

Jean Waller Brune Head of School

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Semiquavers Celebrate 60 Years The Semiquavers have been a part of RPCS Performing Arts since 1954 – as long as most alumnae can remember.

Although the members, directors and concert dress have changed through all these years, their beautiful music has remained constant. The Semiquavers were founded in 1954 and this past October, celebrated their 60th Reunion during the 2014 Alumnae Weekend. An excerpt in the 1954 Quid Nunc, explains their creation: The Semiquavers, organized last year as a project of Miss Larkin, specialize in singing madrigals,pieces that require too much time for the whole Glee Club to study and songs particularly adapted to a small group of singers. This year, the Semiquavers have appeared many times as representatives of the School.

These girls have made us realize

our tremendous potential in the field of music. Roland Park has good reason to be proud of its Semiquavers.

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Semiquavers was a joyful reunion that included 70 former and current Semiquavers who gathered in the Sinex Theater. Semis of all ages had the opportunity to reminisce and share fond memories with one another about their experience as a Semiquaver. Attendees also had the opportunity to participate in a workshop led by Lower School music teacher Doug Forbes and Upper School music teacher and director of the Semiquavers, Lisa Diver, 2006.

In honor of the 60th Anniversary, a CD was created compiling favorite songs performed by the ensemble throughout their history. The CD project began in May of 2014 and

concluded on October 11th when all Reunion attendees, including those from the very first Semiquavers, recorded the pieces How Can I Keep from Singing, Softly the Stars Were Shinning, and The School Song. It was wonderful having so many Semiquavers spanning all sixty years present at our Reunion and recording session.

Year after year the Semiquavers have proven that Roland Park Country School students have unlimited potential in the field of music. Audiences have enjoyed their performances recently at Carnegie Hall, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the annual Tree Lighting at Mount Vernon Place, and other venues and choral festivals in Baltimore and beyond. It will be exciting to see what the next 60 years brings.

Semis 60th Reunion

The Sinex Theater Celebrates 20 Years The hills are alive with The Sound of Music with songs they have sung for a thousand years—or in the case of Roland Park Country School’s Sinex Theater — 20 years!

The 2014 cast, Maria and children

In 1994 The Sound of Music opened the Sinex Theater; the School’s 425-seat theater built through the generosity of the Sinex family.

The main stage is housed in the Macfarlane Arts Center, a multi-use complex of performance and practice spaces for both the Visual and Performing Arts. Additionally, many donors and arts supporters believed in the School’s mission and honored RPCS with named spaces and theater seats. In two decades, there have been countless practices, auditions, speeches and performances on the main stage - a true example of the extraordinary talent of our students.

There was no better way to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Sinex Theater than with another all-school performance of The Sound of Music. The final collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, this popular musical revolves around the fictionalized story of Maria von Trapp, the high-spirited postulant dispatched to

Jean Brune in the 2004 production, a role she reprised in 2014.

serve as governess for seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Set against the Nazi invasion of Austria this family-friendly tale provides an inspirational parable of overcoming adversity through unity and love.

This musical holds treasured memories for RPCS alumnae for many reasons. The Sound of Music was the final show presented on the University Parkway campus in 1979 and was the inaugural event when the Sinex Theater opened in 1994. The Sound of Music was again presented to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Sinex Theater in 2004. In 2004,

The cast, Maria, the Captain and children in 1994

the role of Gretl was played by Allie Hough, 2015, who played the Mother Abbess in 2015. In addition, Lisa Diver, 2006, Upper School Music and the musical director of the 2015 production, played Sister Margaretta in 2004.

Missy Sinwell Smith,1981, played the Baroness Elsa Schraeder and she has fond memories of performing The Sound of Music. She shared, “RPCS Performing Arts reinforced the spirit of team which was so much a part of being at Roland Park - we truly united to get things done for the performances!” That collaborative spirit was clear in this year’s production which was double cast to include 30 RPCS students from all three Divisions to four sold-out audiences. Speculation into the title of next year’s musical has already begun, and the treasured tradition of the sound of music will continue to inspire audiences in the years to come.

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How RPCS Inspired My

International Life

by Julie Hackett, 1993

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n October 2009, I found myself standing in the middle of Red Square, for the second time, breathing in the beauty of St. Basil’s Cathedral, one of the world’s architectural miracles.

Although eighteen years had passed since the first time I stood in Moscow’s historic square, it seemed like only yesterday. It was 1991 - two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the year that the Cold War would officially come to an end. It was also the year that I traveled to Russia, one of seven American exchange students, to live with a Russian family and immerse myself in a culture that was worlds apart from my own.

This experience had a profound impact on my life, opening up a world that I could not have imagined. Over the years and throughout my travels, I have often thought about how RPCS helped to shape me as a person, and I always remember how that first trip to Russia truly set the stage for my life.

After taking three years of French with Madame Mills from Grades 6 8, I knew I wanted to study something more exotic, so I left the Romance languages behind and headed further east. The first few months of Mrs. Vikan’s Russian class were filled with excitement at the challenge of learning a language so different from my own.

We worked tirelessly to perfect the Cyrillic alphabet: everything from the meticulous crafting of each letter to the precision of pronunciation.

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Walking the streets of Moscow, I got lots of stares – some that looked like surprise, but mostly that of curiosity about where in the world I had come from.

Russian became and remained one of my favorite classes throughout the duration of Upper School, because it allowed me to escape into another world, a secret club for those of us who dared to be different.

Mrs. Vikan’s patience was remarkable as she held our hands through every letter of the alphabet, every verb conjugation and every new vocabulary word. I passed the first year with flying colors ready for more. In the beginning of my sophomore year, RPCS granted me a scholarship to participate in a one month exchange to Moscow, where I would live and learn with a Russian host family. I will never forget that cold March day, when seven teenagers and our beloved chaperone math teacher Mr. Timm, climbed into

the BWI bound van, ready to embark upon the experience of a lifetime. We had no idea what to expect, but we were beside ourselves with anticipation and open to the possibilities of how this next month would change our lives. I had never been on an airplane before, and there I was at age 15 with my crisp new passport taking a journey across the Atlantic to a country that loomed large in my imagination.

Almost 15 hours later, we landed in Moscow where we were greeted by our new families. My host sister Lena, a towering blond beauty with translucent white skin embraced me warmly, like we were family. Behind her stood my host Dad, Victor, a stern, square-jawed man, and although he almost never smiled, he took me warmly into his home and treated me like his own daughter, the same way that Nadie, my host mother and the family dog, Friend, who were waiting for me at home, welcomed me as one of their own.

That next month was spent going to school alongside our Russian classmates and tearing down our preconceived notions about the fabled Soviet Union. I quickly came to learn that even though we were from different worlds, we all had the same worries, fears and many of the same desires. We were all afraid of the threat of nuclear war and expressed a sense of relief that lasting peace was on the horizon. But most of all, we talked about clothing and boys and music.

Julie Hackett, 1993 in Red Square.

Outside of the classroom, I walked around the city in wonderment at the centuries-old architecture with its onion-domed Russian orthodox churches and restored iconic paintings dating back to the 8th C., which added splashes of color to an otherwise bleak winter backdrop. The first time I entered Red Square, I really felt like I was in a dream. I remember thinking that St. Basil’s Cathedral looked like something out of a fairytale. I immersed myself fully in the richness of Russia’s history and culture.

Walking the streets of Moscow, I got lots of stares – some that looked like surprise, but mostly that of curiosity about where in the world I had come from. People wanted to touch my hair and feel my skin – I had somewhat of a celebrity status and I enjoyed every minute of being different and special.

What I most appreciated though, was the deep friendships I developed and the desire it planted inside of me to explore further. I left that experience

with my mind set on having an international life; one that would allow me to see the world and experience all that it had to offer. I decided right then to study International Relations at Georgetown University and in the fall of 1993, I made that dream come true.

I continued to study Russian until the end of my years at RPCS and in my first year of college, until I decided to focus on Spanish as I began to think about future career aspirations. Regardless, I will always be grateful to the beautiful Russian language for putting me on a trajectory of discovery and personal enrichment.

I returned to Moscow in 2009 on business to a city that was almost unrecognizable. The capitalism that was just seeping into their society in 1991, had taken a toll, resulting in deep divisions of wealth. Seeing luxury brand cars lining the streets and the frail babushkas (grandmothers) begging for change at the entrances of the metro, was an incredible contrast to what I had seen almost 20 years

before. The excitement over capitalism in the early 1990s had not benefitted everyone. Even more sad for me was that I was not able to connect with my Russian family. I cannot end this story without giving special thanks to the RPCS teachers and administrators, especially: Mme. Mills, who introduced me to the beauty of French and sparked my love for languages, Mrs. Vikan who guided me through the complexity of Russian and was instrumental in making my trip to Moscow happen, Mr. Timm, who had the courage to chaperone seven crazy teenagers and took such good care of us in Moscow, and Mrs. Blumenthal who pushed me to my Russian best in my junior and senior years. Although my Russian now lies dormant in my brain, I am still able to write and recite the Russian alphabet, more than 25 years after I wrote my first Cyrillic letter! My RPCS experience helped me to become the woman I am today and for that, I will be forever grateful.

Editor’s Note: Julie currently lives in Luanda, Angola where she works as an independent communication consultant. She first moved there in 2012 where she worked for UNICEF on polio eradication and community level health. Julie received her MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 2004 and has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Travel and the study of languages continue to be her greatest passions. She has visited 64 countries and hopes to continue this journey of discovery to see as much of the world as possible. Julie is currently working on her first book of travel stories that chronicles her many adventures

around the globe.

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Create Change by Embracing Common Humanity

By Meg van Deusen, 2010

Every mornging I wake up to the sound of call to prayer, put on my full baju kurang (a traditional dress that covers women from collar bones, to wrists, to ankles), and weave through rice paddies on my drive to school.

I live in Kelantan, Malaysia as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant.

In this remote placement I am the first foreigner most of my students and collegues have ever seen. I am tasked with teaching the English language to teenagers who cover their mouth with shyness when they speak. I am tasked with the US State Department’s soft diplomacy to create peaceful understanding between Americans and Muslims. You might wonder what this looks like in a state that’s run by Sharia law. More critically, what drew me to these challenges and where was my desire to teach outside of the developed world born?

“If baseball players get paid so much, how come their teachers – who are the reason they’re able to do so well – get paid nothing? That doesn’t seem fair!” my seven year old self demanded of my parents as we sat comfortably a few sections behind the Orioles’ home plate. If they had not known by then what an opinionated, justice driven girl I was going to grow up to be,

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it became clear on that hot summer evening overlooking Camden Yards. A few months later I had my heart set on starting at RPCS. Determined to make those blue jumpers my own, I explained “Well, boys are distracting!” My reasons for a Roland Park education shifted over the ten years that followed, but my decision remained one that significantly shaped the rest of my life.

This is where my current international teaching trajectory was born. At RPCS I was surrounded by classmates and teachers who pushed me to ask hard questions and shaped me to become a life-long learner.

My life-long learning most memorably began in 5th grade when Mr. McKnight and Ms. Dyer asked us to create our own society. We created our own definition of a citizen, of religion, of government. We crafted artifacts that we wanted to be remembered by and buried them behind the gym.

As a ten-yearold scrambling around in the mud I was fully engaged, and I’ve never

forgotten those lessons. I became infatuated with any activity that got me out of my desk and talking to people.

Those classes helped me discover my experiential education learning style.

Experiential education took an international twist in 7th grade when RPCS trusted Ms. Jaspan’s Spanish class to hike the Camino de Santiago.

Our teachers believed we knew enough Spanish to communicate, our parents trusted us to jet set across the world without them (before FaceTime and WhatsApp!), and together my best friends and I discovered something completely new. Wandering through old cobblestone streets in the search for a perfect churro we got ourselves a little (safely) lost in Madrid, and used our Spanish to find our way home.

My confidence blossomed with the freedom we were given. We had to discover what we needed to know and then search to find the tools learn it. I could not have asked for a more empowering act.

By my 9th grade Model United Nations trip I was hooked on learning about foreign countries and striving to find peace among them. The millennium

development goals became my new obsession. I rambled on about the needs of Papua New Guinea’s women and children to anyone who would listen.

We were going to solve the world’s problems. Of course we were wrong, and over the course of high school I came to recognize the limitations of my own assumptions. I became aware of just how much I did not know.

At the start of my senior year I found myself in a heated debate with Gilman boys over issues of women’s equality – or lack thereof – globally.

How could those boys not see the blatant oppression that many women faced? My 17 year old self was shocked to be faced with individuals who, through no fault of their own, were ignorant to the world’s disparities.

The result was learning just how much more I wanted to know.

Roland Park Country School sparked my love for education and inspired me to seek opportunities to learn in a hands-on-way about global issues. Over the course of my four years at the University of North Carolina, the lessons I took from Roland Park became crucial in my education – and now work – trajectory. I immersed myself in the problems at hand. I took courses on preventing interpersonal violence on college campuses and worked at the local Women’s and Children’s homeless shelter. Children were the answer.

Leading an emotional coping group, I watched kids release pain from their past. I showed them that I trusted and cared about them. Little girls built their confidence and young boys become less aggressive. If everyone learned to treat people equally, be compassionate, and love themselves from an early age, could we make the world a better place? It was no longer about solving the world’s problems. Instead, I wanted opportunities to empower others to create their own change.

As a Morehead-Cain scholar at UNC I was able to pursue my new-found thesis. The scholarship

sponsored me to teach in India and work with HIV maternal health clients in Uganda. Here were children from the lowest socio-economic class being given the opportunity to learn. Here were stigmatized women and youth being provided with the means to create a healthy family. These people experienced more hardship and hatred in their lives than I can ever understand, and, yet, they are without a doubt the most gracious and compassionate individuals that I know. These friends inspired me to keep asking questions about the world we live in, and to do so by working with underserved youth.

Today, travel is how I cultivate my need for life-long-learning. It is an incredibly humbling reminder

have been told their whole lives that a “good student” means quiet and obedient, that speaking up means they are “naughty.” Rather than feeling appalled, I acknowledge the social forces that keep them quiet and let my RPCS education guide the way I encourage them. Small victories – like my shyest student projecting beautifully in choir, or a girl admitting she likes to play soccer with me – keep me doing what I do.

I am not traveling or teaching to save the world. Far from it. I am trying to learn more about it. And in doing so, I wish to inspire others to do the same. I believe if more people sought to understand different cultures we could work towards peace. I know

Meg in India

that I know so little. Meeting people from different cultures forces me to reconsider my own assumptions and challenge my comfort zones. Every day I am reminded that just as I am struggling to understand Malaysia and the context within I now live, my students are struggling to understand me and the world that I come from.

They are just as shocked by my nose piercing and my outgoingness as I am by their excessive shyness. My girls

that actively immersing yourself in education allows for lessons – which you never expected to learn – to forever change the way you think. I am convinced that RPCS will continue to graduate girls who ask the right questions. I hope that these are the young woman who will see that the world is a lot smaller than we once thought, and who will engage their common humanity to create change within it.

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McCauley Bowl Awarded to Mary Ellen Thompson, HA With excerpts from remarks by Katharine Fox Castro, 2004, President, Alumnae Association at the Reunion Weekend Champagne Reception

One of the highlights of the Champagne Reception is to honor an alumna with the Alumnae Association’s most prestigious award, the McCauley Bowl. The McCauley 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 Alumnae Association Board in selecting recipients of this honor. The family wishes the Alumnae Board to

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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.

This year’s recipient of the McCauley Bowl embodies everything the McCauley Bowl represents. She has been a lifelong champion of girls’ education and has given extensively of her time to the School. It is my great honor, to present the McCauley Bowl to Mary Ellen Thomsen, HA. Mary Ellen is a cum laude graduate of Radcliffe Harvard and has a master’s from Johns Hopkins University. She served as Headmistress of St. Paul’s School for Girls.

“There are three things that I hope you will do, and though they may seem contradictory, they are related. Know when you need to follow directions, know when to take risks, and learn how to make decisions and live with them.”

–Mary Ellen’s Commencement Address, 2007

facing page: Granddaughter Meghan Thomsen, 2007, Mary Ellen and George Thomsen, and daughter-in-law Dorothy Gay

McCauley Bowl Past Recipients 1990: Eleanor Graham, 1916 1991: Helen Metcalfe Duncan, 1921 and Elizabeth Protzman Webb, 1921 1992: Judy Waters, 1950 1993: Marguerite Kelley - Honorary Alumna 1994: Kay Hamilton Cavanaugh, 1937 1995: Anne Healy - Honorary Alumna and former Headmistress (1950 - 1975) 1997: Peggy Webb Patterson, 1947 2000: Agness Fulton Bond, 1941

Celeste Woodward Applefeld, 1964, Former President Board of Trustees, Mary Ellen and Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964, Assistant Director of Development and Director of Gift Planning at the Champagne Reception

2002: Betty Ann Schmick Howard, 1957 2003: Celeste Woodward Applefeld, 1964

Mary Ellen has been an active and involved member of the Roland Park Country School community for over 25 years. She originally joined the Board of Trustees in 1989 and ultimately was the first woman to serve as President of the Board of Trustees from 1996 to 1998. At the conclusion of her term as President, Mary Ellen was named an Honorary Alumna in recognition for her service to the School. She continues her stewardship of RPCS as an Honorary Trustee and has remained active in the growth and development of the School. Mary Ellen has also served in a variety of roles including Annual Giving Committee Grandparent Chair, Capital Giving Honorary Committee, Centennial Campaign

Grandparents’ Committee, and A Place in Our Hearts Campaign Planning Committee.

Her son, Roszel C. Thomsen, also served as President of the Board of Trustees and is an Honorary Alumnus. As she mentioned in her Commencement Address in 2007, perhaps her proudest accomplishment is as the grandmother of two RPCS graduates, Meghan Thomsen, 2007, and Caroline Thomsen, 2010. Mary Ellen’s contributions and impact to the School have been significant and as such, the Alumnae Board is thrilled to present this year’s McCauley Bowl to such a worthy recipient. Thank you, Mary Ellen, for all you have done and continue to do for Roland Park Country School.

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

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Baltimore rising: RPCS Alumnae lend their Time, Talent and Voice to Our City

Monica Butler Mitchell, 1998 My brother and I could not sleep with images of the manifestation of the pain of our beloved city seared in our brains. Jason called me on April 28 at around 3:30am, just as I was thinking about calling him, and we decided to go out to Pennsylvania and North Avenues with bags, gloves and brooms to start cleaning up early because we had to do something and we didn’t want another day’s media narrative to focus on hopelessness without solutions in Baltimore.

Today was not going to be The Wire without our demanding that we focus on The Hope, The Love, The Work.

When we arrived there was no one out except a few media trucks and the police in riot gear when we arrived, lined up blocking access to North Avenue. We easily pulled up

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and parked in front of the unscathed Enoch Pratt Library. It looked like a war zone, and the mess was overwhelming. But then we picked up a piece of trash; and then another; broom sweep by broom sweep clearing glass out of the intersection so that people going to work would not get flat tires; clearing trash so that the bus stop and subway entrance looked clean; picking up charred remnants so that the burned out CVS somehow looked loved.

Soon one corner was clean.

Then, amazingly, police officers started picking up the trash around them. And a few journalists held bags for us as we dumped our shovels full of trash. And then one by one, neighbors who saw us on the early morning news came down with their brooms and trash bags, too! The Department of Parks and Recreation

trucks came, and we started loading trash on the trucks. Soon the street sweepers came, too. But we had already made their work so much easier. Crystal, whom I met because she saw us on the news, came out of her North Avenue home and decided to help pick up the pieces, using the morning of her birthday to help serve others.

We saw and spoke to elected officials who came down early to thank us and others for helping. My brother had a photograph taken that has been shared over 250,000 times.

Local, national and international media wanted to speak to us to ask why we came out. The hugs and kind words from people saying that seeing us on TV inspired them to help were beautiful. But when we stopped to visit my mother after we finished, she just smiled, hugged us and then

looked seriously at us and said “I’m proud of you, but that’s what you’re supposed to do.”

And that’s the story of Baltimore, of us. We are supposed to help where there is need, and we should not wait to be asked. The need is mentoring, quality education opportunities for students regardless of income or zip code, jobs for students and non-violent ex-offenders. The need is saying good morning to a stranger, an officer stooping down to pick up a piece of trash on the street or someone picking up a prescription for a neighbor. At 4:00am, there were only a handful of people, hoping to make a difference in the midst of chaos. By 7:00pm, thousands had come out to help clean up, neighbors hugging and laughing, drumlines were playing and children dancing in the street where fire burned just 24 hours before. I witnessed the most beautiful sunrise over Pennsylvania Avenue when I was cleaning up.

The new day brought the perfect reminder that there is hope, love and people ready to do the work in Baltimore.

mother a doctor in a community clinic near Pennsylvania Avenue. I am now a teacher in the very same community in which I grew up. I witnessed the events of April 27 as I traveled home in horror and disbelief.

There were so many emotions that flowed through me. When I saw the faces of the people who were causing so much violence

and destruction, I saw the faces of children that I dedicated my life to protecting, serving and educating. In my heart I felt that we, as adults and residents of Baltimore City, had failed these children and these communities that have been underserved for generations. The riots weren’t just about the death of Freddie Gray but all the injustices that these families have faced and the lack of opportunity and consistency that has plagued communities of lower socioeconomic status for a countless number of years.

Some may say that it does not make sense that these children choose to express their anger and frustration through violence, but for many that

Shelley Fulton-Powell, 1998

When asked why I wanted to get involved in the rebuilding of Baltimore City after the riots, I can only give one real response: inaction was not an option. I was born and raised in the neighborhood most affected by the unrest and its aftermath. Both of my parents grew up near North Avenue. I was raised in Bolton Hill and Ashburton, which are both less than a mile away from where most of the protests and riots took place, and I am still a resident of the city I love.

Growing up my parents always instilled in me an obligation to serve the community. My father was a legislator for our community and my

Top: Monica cleaning up North Avenue Middle: Monica and her brother with MD Governor Larry Hogan Bottom: Clean up efforts

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have felt like their voices are not valued or heard, this is the only way that they feel that they can gain the attention needed to change their situation. Please don’t misunderstand what I am saying, I don’t condone their actions, but I work with families who don’t know how to express themselves through any means other than anger, violence and destruction.

There is a serious need for better communication and respect between the law enforcement community and these neighborhoods. We need effective mental health counseling, family preservation efforts and drug addiction treatment. Training and educational opportunities need to be more equitable.

I could have responded to the events that unfolded on April 27 negatively, but what I saw was an opportunity to help build a stronger Baltimore. I love my city and there are so many great people and things that happen here. There are strong families that live in these neighborhoods, who want to see their community thrive.

In the faces of the children in these neighborhoods I see the faces of my sons, and I see the future of our city. My friends and I were determined to find the positive in this situation.

We found opportunities to restore and improve the people and communities that have been forgotten for so long, and to become better citizens of the city that we love. Monica Butler Mitchell, 1998 kept telling me and anyone else that we encountered that “it’s time to change the narrative” from the negative portrayal of our city and our people in the media to reflect the more positive aspect that we hold dear. I believe that the negative perception would not have been changed if it had not been for the dedicated faith community groups and the citizens who came together to promote all of the positive things we can do when

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we are united like peaceful protest, helping our neighbors rebuild, listening to our children and residents, creating solutions and holding people accountable.

I have to be the change that I want to see in the world. I am determined to make an impact on more than just my children and my students, but to the greater community that I belong to and to the city I love.

Nancy Lord Lewin, 1989 The Thursday after Freddie Gray died I went to City Hall to raise my voice for justice. I have been part of many protests since my freshman year of college; yet, this was my first in Baltimore. As I walked through the streets of downtown towards City Hall, I was deeply sad and shaken. The crowd was relatively small, and the demonstration was peaceful. Around us, police on foot lined the west side of the square, police helicopters circled the sky, and the adjacent streets were barricaded.

Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old fellow Baltimorean, lived in a completely different city than I did on a daily basis. He was from SandtownWinchester, a neighborhood I knew well that was home to many people who have loved my family and whom we have loved for almost two decades. The ugly truth about America’s “criminal justice” policies and practices in the Sandtowns across this country hit home to me, and I was moved to action.

My work for the past fifteen years has focused on improving community public health in Baltimore City’s forgotten communities. I was raised by my parents to see and grapple with the privileges that I have because of my race, my class, and my zip code. I was taught to look for inequities around me and use my

voice and power to make positive change. These lessons have shaped every part of my life - my educational choices, my work, my parenting, and the organizations I support.

Protesting at City Hall showed me firsthand the huge disparity between the on-the-scene realities of the protests and the largely inaccurate news coverage. I began to track social media and mainstream news coverage closely. When the uprising and rioting began on April 27, I felt like I needed to use my voice to shine a light on the truth of what was unfolding. I saw inflammatory coverage by the national news, radio silence from city leaders, and compelling posts from the scene on Facebook and Twitter. I began sharing the posts of reporters, photojournalist advocates and residents. I turned off CNN, and tuned into the community. I shared opportunities for others to join in and help - through clean ups, peace gatherings, art-ins, donations and marches. It was amazing to see people answer the call and turn out, ready to work for peace and recovery in our city.

On a personal level, I know that the tragic recent moments in Baltimore have only been a symptom of the injustices that are faced by Baltimore’s poor, black communities every day, and over many generations.

In a society where racism has defined public and social policy for centuries, I believe it is the responsibility of white people to examine our privilege and invest it in ways that support healing and positive change across the city. There are many ways to do this, creating safe spaces for learning about structural and institutional racism and listening to those affected by it every single day; building bridges between communities; supporting organizations that serve struggling neighborhoods; investing in the

development and education of youth in poor communities; and advocating elected officials for reform.

I will continue to lend my voice to build bridges between the city’s communities so that we can build a stronger movement for justice and civil rights that will bring real change. The work ahead will not be easy, but it must happen. The alternative is unthinkable. I hope many others in our community will raise their voices and join in building a better Baltimore for all.

Buffy Rubenstein Minkin, 1991

As Vice President of Baltimore and Domestic Initiatives of the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds, my work is focused on supporting the neighborhood organizations that strengthen neighborhoods each and every day in Baltimore – whether or not there is visible unrest. I work hard to keep conversations open and honest with the civic leadership of the city, nonprofits, funding organizations and agencies around issues of race, class and poverty. It is a little harder to understand the work I am doing related to the recent events in the City because it is not the substance of the media’s focus. I am striving to ensure that we maintain civil discourse in the hopes that we can empower organizations and citizens alike to push toward systemic change to address the root cause of the unrest.

I work with the trustees of the charitable funds to steward our engagement in the work of our city. As Baltimore faces uncertain times, we will continue to prioritize community building work and partnerships throughout the city. We are committed to building bridges among all races, religions and income levels. We remain steadfast

in our support of a vibrant Baltimore through peaceful protest and civil discourse. The privilege of working with so many talented and committed fellow citizens makes us confident that Baltimore will emerge stronger and healthier in the months and years ahead.

Tanaira Cullens, 2008 Having grown up in the Sandtown Winchester community of Baltimore City where the Freddie Gray incident occurred, I was compelled to march to City Hall with my younger brother and a few RPCS colleagues to show support and lend our voices. I had no intention of speaking at City Hall; it was by chance that I found my way to the mic. One of the women in charge of the flow of speakers asked my younger brother to speak; however, he volunteered me. I had only ten minutes to collect my thoughts and present a coherent and positive message. I have spent the majority of my life thinking about how blessed I am to have had so many positive experiences in spite of the events that happened on a regular basis in many of the neighborhoods I lived in. I grew up in a two parent household; I was able to attend RPCS from Grades 8-12; and I was able to spend every summer at Morgan State University’s Science, Engineering, Math and Aerospace Academy.

Those experiences among many others have allowed me to be successful and to have a positive outlook on life. The main focus of my speech, and my interview with CNN, was that I believe that the issues found in many of our disenfranchised communities come from four things: • •

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Limited access to quality education.

Constant negative external input.

It has been my hope that people in the generation ahead of mine would take initiative and rebuild some of the necessary programs for the success of children and their families; however, nothing substantial has happened in recent years to make living conditions better in downtrodden communities.

I agreed to put forth my voice as the next generation of thinkers and doers who seek positivity, equality and opportunity, not just for the communities they grew up in but within the global community. It is my personal aim to influence positively the generation behind me and to help them see that they can do great things in life.

Editor’s Note: Tanaira was recently honored with a Black Wall Street Award for using her voice to talk about change in Baltimore. Presented

by Doni Glover, radio show host of BMORENEWS on Morgan State University’s WEAA the Joe Mann’s Black Wall Street Awards aims to celebrate black entrepreneurs and professionals as well as the people who support them regardless of race.

Congratulations Tanaira!

Limited access to community enrichment programs.

Lack of two parent households.

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Why I GIve – Profile of Cathy Huether McClelland, 1968

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athy Huether McClelland, 1968 was a twelve year girl at RPCS. She was voted “most dependable” and “most conservative” by her Class in the 1968 Quid Nunc.

Cathy was very active in the life of the School. She was President of the American Field Service Club and was the Class Librarian and on the Play Committee throughout her years in Upper School. Cathy also found time to play JV basketball while her classmates noted that she could be found “planning a bake sale.”

When Cathy graduated and left RPCS to attend Centenary College for Women and the Fashion Institute of Technology she was armed with several important life skills - public speaking, organization, time management and confidence in herself which she carries with her today. While Cathy was told early on that she was not a strong writer, with true RPCS resiliency, she channeled her communication skills into public speaking. Today, Cathy can present effectively anywhere at any time and can converse with anyone!

A proud RPCS alumna Cathy believes that what she has accomplished in her life is a direct result of her education at RPCS. It is not surprising, however, that the senior who could be depended upon as an “understanding friend,” claims it is the lifelong friendships that she

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Cathy Huether McClelland, 1968 on why she is a member of the Red & White Legacy:

“Education is one of the most important opportunities that a parent can give a child, and I was fortunate that my parents chose Roland Park Country School for me. The twelve years that I spent there have impacted every part of my life. It is my hope that I will be able to help other young women have the positive experiences that I did.”

has with her classmates that bring her the greatest joy. Cathy remains close to many RPCS friends and kept in touch even while she lived in Germany for a time when she was first married. She will be retiring from her career at Independent Can on June 1 and will leave the very next day on a trip to Quebec with a classmate!

Cathy feels strongly that education is the most important gift a parent can give a child. She valued her own RPCS education and made it a priority for her children. Cathy has nine grandchildren and deeply values the schools they attend for helping each of them blossom in their own unique way. Cathy supports RPCS so that gifted girls and young women who may not otherwise be able to attend the School have the resources they need. “The future of our culture relies on great education,” said Cathy in a recent conversation. She also supports RPCS to help provide faculty compensation.

Cathy is a former member of the RPCS Board of Trustees as well as the Alumnae Board. She is a member of the Red & White Legacy and generously granted the School a planned bequest toward the endowment during the A Place in our Hearts campaign. For this, and for her volunteer service, RPCS is deeply grateful for the gentle power of Cathy Huether McClelland, 1968.

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We Are

Legacy Relations photo of the Seniors, Class of 2015 Front row, l to r.

Becky Blackstone, 2015

Rishka Mehra, 2015 Lushna Mehra, 2013, sister

Nancy Strahan, 1970, mother Susan Strahan, 1968, aunt Sally Strahan Matthews, 1975, aunt

Grace Nalley, 2015

Rachel Mandel, 2015

Devon Nalley, 2013, sister

Landon Warren, 2015

Sallie Benninghoff Warren, 1984, mother Blair Warren, 2013, sister

Allison Kuhn, 2015

Courtney Kuhn, 2009, sister

Sarah Mandel, 2013, sister Alaina Mandel, 2013

Eliza O’Donovan, 2015

Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, 1981, mother Kate O’Donovan, 2012, sister Kate Whitaker Chaplin, 1984, aunt Eleanora Cooper O’Donovan, 1926, great grandmother Ida DeRosset Smallwood, 1926, great grandmother Gail Brewington O’Donovan, 1957, grandmother Dedi Smallwood Whitaker, 1958, grandmother

Nora O’Donovan Yaggy, 1961, great aunt Innes Smallwood Kasanof, 1963, great aunt Patricia Smallwood Parks, 1954, great aunt Lynn Brewington Havard, 1954, great aunt Sue Brewington Schier, 1961, great aunt Mary Lynn Havard Schnader, 1982, aunt Helen Havard Harchick, 1984, aunt Morgan Harchick, 2011, cousin Hewit Harchick, 2013, cousin Katie O’Donovan Hanusik, 1986, cousin

Tyla Hairston, 2015

Leah Hairston, 2010, sister Maya Hairston, 2012, sister

Gretchen Herwig, 2015 Meghan Herwig, 2011, sister

Meredith Kuser, 2015 Mattie Meredith, 2011, cousin

Caroline Meek, 2015

Leslie Kovacs Meek, 1978, mother

Caitlin Curtis, 2015

Kathleen Finnerty Curtis, 1984, mother Fannon Curtis, 2013, sister Wesley Naylor Finnerty, 1989, aunt Eileen Finnerty McCoy, 1989, aunt Sara Zorzi Shultz, 2003, cousin

Riley Brager, 2015 Erika Brager, 2013, sister

A Family Back Row, l to r.

Susan Radov, 2015 Diane Radov, 2010, sister

Hope Duke, 2015

Elizabeth Duke, 2004, sister Molly Duke, 2014, sister Barbara Barrett Neale, 1973, aunt Barrett Neale Scott, 2006, cousin Carroll Neale, 2010, cousin Hooper Neale, 2013, cousin

Allie Graul, 2015

Dorothy Clark Graul, 1986, mother

Mackenzie Birely, 2015

Meredith Birely, 2012, sister Alex Roemer Sullivan, 2005, cousin

Lindsey Edwards, 2015 Lauren Edwards, 2011, sister

Lauren Pine, 2015

Paige Carey, 2015

Christy Beers Carey, 1989, mother Barbara Porter Carr, 1966, grandmother Jenny Beers Cathrow, 1991, aunt

Lou Dukes Pine, 1947, grandmother Peggy Pine Utermohle, 1977, aunt Claire Utermohle, 2013, cousin

Didi Lowitt, 2015

Issy Haus, 2015

Caroline Tucker, 2015

Tina Kelly Crowley, 1974, aunt Kathy Haus Smith, 1985, aunt

Aminah Brooks, 2015 Ameerah Brooks, 2005, sister

Amy Lowitt, 2009, sister

Sally Tucker, 2011, sister

Madeline Kim, 2015 Jane Lee, 1982, mother

Elena Folgueras, 2015 Maria Folgueras, 2013, sister

Hailey Wolf, 2015

Melissa Jones Wolf, 1986, mother

Libby Kluttz, 2015

Ashton Kluttz, 2004, cousin

Katie Clements, 2015

Becky Winter Thompson, 1995, cousin Kelsey Witherspoon, 2010, cousin

Maddie Boucher, 2015 Juliet Boucher, 2011, sister

Alumnae Class Notes Class of 1945

Class of 1948

Sunny Klein Lee grandmasunbun@gmail.com

Ann Wittich Warfield annwarfield@gmail.com

We are about to celebrate our 70th Reunion in October! Has it really been that long ago?

Those of us who graduated in 1945, remember the old buildings and fields at the 40th St. campus and the driveway into the primary school. My greatest pleasure is contacting classmates for this magazine. The northeast experienced such a severe February, so I found Margaret Fox Rawls (Mardy) taking a breather from shoveling. The snow mounds around her house were 12 feet high. Despite it all, Mardy managed to keep fit through exercise and tennis. Her computer and painting kept her busy during the “stay at home” days. She enjoys being a great-grandmother. In New York City, Elizabeth Corddry (Betty) occupied herself reading and sorting through her old drawings, trying to decide what to do with them. She uncovered some matted marsh scenes which were very pleasing. Martha Lawrence Lewis (Lewie) fell and was in physical therapy but is eager to get back to playing golf. Hopefully, by the time this Alumnae News is received, she will be back on the golf course. We send our best wishes to Elizabeth Ruth Cleaver (Beetle) and want her to know that she is in our thoughts. The Baltimore girls are busy with many activities. Mary Wilhelm Barton (Jinx), a great-grandmother to nine, plays bridge frequently, attended an opera class this winter and is proud to be the longest serving volunteer at Pickersgill. She recently went on a cruise with her daughters. Patricia Waters Barrett (Pat) is at Blakehurst with Ursula Stewart Koerber (Urs) and they both attend activities there and in town. They often enjoy evenings together for happy hour and dinner.

Both feel blessed to be at Blakehurst, where Ursula gets her exercise from walking. While enjoying the Florida sun and warm weather, Marion Marshall Hooper (Dicky) could hold in memory, with a smile, the cold, snowy winter weather that many of us experienced.

In Ohio Mary Frech Lamborg (Freckles) and her husband moved into a retirement home where she continues to be active at the Nature Shop, and is looking forward to visiting her daughter Phoebe and son-in-law, who, after spending time in the Arctic, have just moved to Santa Cruz where they are on the faculty

With sadness I begin our Class Notes this year with the announcement of the death of Sally Long Buck. In our yearbook under her photograph it read, “If you are wise, be merry” and I know we all remember her sense of fun and leadership. She came with her husband, Whip, to our 50th Reunion and shared their enthusiasm for their beloved Phillies baseball team. Mollie Allen is still up and about in the Big Apple - though not as much this year with their dreadful winter which has kept her unusually housebound - not like her usual life with lectures, concerts, plays, etc. I learned Dot Obrecht Johnson died in November.

She and her husband Roger were at our 50th Reunion and we had such a good time remembering the old days. Our sympathy to her husband and family. Carolyn Demarest Wells is always faithful about sending news.

She has four grandchildren - two in Florida and two in Wisconsin. She had a total hip replacement in March which will keep her close to home for a while. I finally caught up with Mari Herman in Texas. After many years of competition, her dear cat, Filander, has been retired from the show circuit. She said that he just was not enjoying it the way he had for so long. Visits with Nancy Curtis Blaine, have always been fun as she fills me in on her extended family. Graduations, engagements, weddings, trips to Rehoboth—she is one busy grandmother! Those of you who follow these notes will remember the exciting year when she became the grandmother of quadruplets (three boys and one girl) – the only ones in the alumnae record as far as I know. They have all completed college and are on their way in the world. What a wonderful success story and blessing for the Blaine family! Margaret Crawford Demere is in Alabama quite close to her daughter, Jody. She has not been too well recently, but rose to the occasion and was quite chipper when I spoke with her. When I called to thank Cynthia Troxell Dunoyer for the lovely calendar she sent me with her watercolor paintings, I learned that her husband, Philippe, unfortunately, had had a stroke last fall. He is a very active man who skied and biked all over the world so it has been a challenge for him to recover but they are still planning their annual

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

at the University of California. In Portland, Oregon Mary Ellen Dandy Marmaduke writes about her Dad, Dr. Walter Dandy, a well-renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon.

While on her amazing journey researching his life, she has made interesting contacts around the world. She and her daughter will attend a medical meeting at the World War II Museum in New Orleans in September where she and her family will get together for a reunion.

Catherine Foster Black (Kitty) stayed warm and cozy in her William Hill Manor home in Easton. We send our deepest sympathy to Kitty and her family upon the loss of her husband, The Honorable Walter E. Black, Jr. who passed away last September. As for me, Agnes Klein Lee (Sunny), I am still in recovery from my back surgery, but doing well. Bill and I spent the Christmas and Easter holidays in Baltimore, visiting our growing family. We also try to attend birthdays and weddings wherever they may be. Our tenth great-grandchild arrived in February, bringing our combined family total to fifty-four. It is my hope that we will be able to do some road travel throughout the United States this summer. I am looking forward to our 70th Reunion in October. Best wishes to each of you and your families.

Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948 and her friend Honey Passano

trip to France this summer. Cynny’s beloved horse, In’shallah, is over 25 years old, ready to be retired and Cynny sadly had to give him away after so many happy years of dressage.

No news from the Warfield front except for lots of smiles on Trev’s face as he watched all the snow pile up this winter knowing that he did not have to plow and shovel! We also have a granddaughter getting married in Colorado in September – a happy event to anticipate, since it requires only that we be there and enjoy! After several phone calls and unanswered emails I was distressed to hear from Mary Sturgis Wolfe’s daughter, Torrey, that she had very recently died in her sleep just six weeks after her sister, Cynthia, had died Many memories of our school days including a great graduation party at her house will help to lessen our sorrow. Depression is living in the past. Anxiety is living in the future. Happiness is living in the present. Isn’t that something we should try to remember each day? Also, don’t forget to keep some twinkles in your wrinkles!

bans, non-stop shoveling and grumbling - but it has also been beautiful. I think longingly of the wonderful Maryland spring weather which comes earlier and lasts so much longer than ours. Jean Waller Brune, 1960 was in Providence in November and had dinner with local RPCS graduates. There were several of us, all from different decades. (Of course, I was by far the oldest.) They were a group of impressive young women. It was fascinating to hear what they were doing and their experiences at RPCS. Jean has accomplished wonders as Head of School and will be a tough act to follow! Pam Sylvester O’Dowd writes that she and Jim have happily settled near Ocean City and are involved in the community but are considering moving to Richmond to be near their daughter. Bob and Karen Howard Hamer have been settled in their retirement community for a number of years and miss their Vermont days and many trips to Europe. Despite feeling somewhat creaky, (don’t we all?) Karen grew a successful garden with colorful flowers and delicious tomatoes. Last October, Carolyn Smith was the only one of our small class to attend a RPCS Regional Reunion with Jean Brune. Carolyn is staying healthy and getting around well. She hopes to get involved with some research at the Maryland Historical Society. Shirley Wingo Hooper phoned to tell me that Anne Helms Irons died in December. From this call I learned that Shirley had been at Pickersgill for about a year, following a stroke. Her stepchildren keep an eye on her, but she misses her lovely Ruxton home. Unfortunately, I have lost track of Joan Brigstocke Lyons. Cards to her have been returned to me for two years. Although she was with us only for our senior year, she was a great

addition to our class and I had opportunities to see her for a number of years. Sabra Toulson Jayne’s husband, Kennon, died last spring after a brief illness. Their courtship took place while Sabra and I were having a fabulous time sharing an apartment in New York. For their 58-year marriage, they lived in Kennon’s home town, New Canaan, CT where he was an active member of the community. Over the years Phil and I were able to get together with them there and in Maine, where they also had a house.

Until next year.

Class of 1953 Lucy Fallon Otto jrotto@gmail.com Rosemary Gatch Donnell: I now have two stents in my right coronary artery and we plan to stay in our house for the duration and have whatever help we need here. Hope you are well. Beverly Busick Pearson: Life goes on - I’m blessed with a wonderfully supportive family and many community involvements - Soup kitchen, tutoring through Schools of Hope (through United Way), Thrift Shop at Congregational Church, and reading to a blind friend. Parker Gundry Trostel writes: Al and I just returned from a north to south Oregon trip where we saw our son Rick in Portland, nephew John Gundry (Dick’s son) in Eugene, and niece Barbara Rose (Dick’s daughter) in Medford and their families. We ended up with Al’s sister and brother-in-law in Ashland at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for three

Class of 1949 65th Reunion Betsy Wilkins McMaster mousamryc@verizon.net It is hard to believe that I am writing these notes on the first day of spring! Here in New England our snow drifts are slowly diminishing after weeks of record-breaking blizzards which caused many cancellations of events and schools, impassable streets and parking

Jeanie Horst Gore, 1953 with Welby Hamilton Loan, 1954, Judy Waters, 1950 and Jean Waller Brune, 1960

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very interesting plays. We had a fine time.

I think that Oregon is the most beautiful state I’ve been in. I’ve been heavily involved in education on dementia, specifically getting the Mayo Clinic program to come to the Twin Cities. It’s an effort to see whether people with mild cognitive impairment can develop some habits which will stave off full-blown dementia or, at least, slow it down. The program/study is proceeding right now at our Plymouth Congregational Church. Perhaps we can get a support group going after this.

Paula Hassencamp Lynch retired after 26 years as City Council woman of Berlin, MD. It was voted “the coolest city in a America.”

She still is business manager of the Worcester Preparatory School which Franklin started forty-five years ago. Jean Horst Gore and Ken are still in their lovely home. Jean continues to ride horses and compete. Their grandsons are mostly finished college. Jean’s nephew continues to run the Lord Baltimore Laundry.

He is the fifth generation. We continue to salute and thank Jean for a superb job as our class representative in annual giving. Lucy Fallon Otto: Rollin and I recently moved to Blakehurst, a retirement community. 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 60th Reunion Margo McElvain McClellan margomcc@comcast.net Greetings lovely classmates and welcome to the era of unfolding mysteries and surprises as we experience the aging process together! In October we came together to celebrate our 60th year since we graduated from RPCS! We Baltimore girls – Scootie Michel Twells, Lynn Brewington Havard, Welby Hamilton Loane,

Tom and Scootie Michel Twells, 1954

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Libby Carr Hinds, 1954 and her granddaughter in Venice

Anne Clark Bass, and myself welcomed 13 classmates and spouses: Anne Turner Pope and Mikey, Jeanie Teare and Dick, Sarah Howard and Jim, Carolyn Powell Lalley and Dick, C.C. Ramsay Merriam and Duke Grimes, Anne Wilson Boyce and Hazy and a wonderful surprise bonus of Jane Marbury Keggi, whom we had not seen since we were 16 years old! We all had a ball! I am so deeply touched that our dear Isabel Thompson Meisler has shared with us so openly. Thank goodness for her great sense of humor: Well, dear ones, 2014 was a year of many challenges, one of those life chapters all of us know at one time or another when we have to explore loss, grieving, acceptance, and for most women, the difficult art of asking for, and receiving, help. When neither of us could drive, and without family here, I became accomplished in that role and found how willing most people are. Due to injuries, I lost my ability to wander into nature and am still limited. My image as that “adventurous, fit woman” who solo-camped across America, climbed the Himalayas, canoed the Canadian tundra, and tromped jungles in Costa Rica, dissolved into a lot of compassion for the disabled and acceptance.

But the biggest loss, the greatest challenge for Arnold and me is the slow progression of his dementia. With a life slowed as never before, I have had time to discover and accept that life is a recipe full of many sorts of ingredients and can only be fully experienced with the embrace of all of them as part of the mix. Finally, the saving grace is to see, when looking deeply, that in every loss, every change, there lies a gift, for

life is a balance. To continue finding them is now my journey. (If all of this sounds terribly grim, I am still that yearbook girl who was always found laughing. Humor is the other saving grace!) Jeannie Walter Teare is celebrating her roots with the original Roland Park Semiquavers. She is still singing like a lark in very auspicious places like Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in DC. We are proud of you, Jeannie. Mary Sue Whiteley Payne shares that they are so happy in their community at Willow Grove. Lancaster has a lot to offer in the way of theater, symphony and

Millicent Doll Shargel, 1954

restaurants and the Amish countryside is beautiful at all times of the year. She is still running the largest library in the community and it has become almost a full-time, unpaid job but the residents are so appreciative that it is very worthwhile. C.C. Ramsay Merriam reports that: Duke and I still live in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. We have three living children, seven grandchildren, and four great grandchildren, all via Duke! We rent the same house in Brittany, France each July. Lately we have made winter trips to Jamaica. I work through my foundation to combat child labor, sex trafficking, and solitary confinement. A colleague of mine, Kailash Satyarthi,won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize in the fight against child labor in India which he shared with Malala. We had a festive Christmastime dinner with Jeanie and Dick Teare, Sarah and Jim Howard, and Joan Claybrook. Welby Hamilton Loane: Upon learning that after 24 years Jean Brune will retire as Head of RPCS in 2016, I am moved to pen a few thoughts to my classmates because as with everything else these days, “things are a-changing.” I have been most fortunate to live in the city where I was born. Not only have I been able to keep up with our other “local” classmates but throughout the years I have joined organizations, sat on committees, shared in the arts, struggled with politics, continued my education, played golf, and enjoyed social gatherings almost always in the company of other RPCS alums. In their presence I am constantly reminded how well grounded and how savvy these women are. It is always a treat to run into another Roland Parker. What an advantage I’ve enjoyed! Just a few weeks ago I attended the Christmas program at RPCS complete with singing Hosanna to the Living Lord and watching the incredible living reproductions still directed by Judy Waters, 1950! I remember thinking how lucky I was to still be able to see a memory of our past perpetuated. Many of the School’s traditions that we all once knew have been continued under the wonderful, warm and caring influence of Jean. We have been so fortunate to have our daughters and granddaughters

Jeanie Walter Teare, 1954 and Dick Teare

The Class of 1954 Reunion committee with Scootie Michel Twells, Lynn Brewington Havard, Welby Hamilton Loane and Margo McElvain McClellan

experience familiar customs over the years thus securing an incredible bond between generations. The new Head of School will undoubtedly take RPCS in a new direction so change is bound to take place which is as it should be, but again I’m grateful to have been able to share a bit of my nostalgia at RPCS with my granddaughter. Our 60th Reunion was wonderful! We missed those who could not join us but what a treat to see so many beautiful classmates and their husbands. They all looked like movie stars to me! Carolyn Powell Lalley: The year has been filled with activity including keeping up with family in Washington and Jacksonville for family celebrations. Travel is a recreation for us and Iceland and Cuba were on our punch list. We find it of note that after we left Iceland a volcano that we visited, erupted and now Cuba has the door open for relations with the USA! We took a land trip to Sicily in October and have decided we are now ready for easier travel so we have signed up with American Cruise Line to go from New Orleans to Vicksburg and back in late April. We are thankful we can still travel at all. I am just coming up for air after a massive, rare and wonderful gathering of far-flung family for five days here. Jane Marbury Keggi: My son Fendall and two of his three sons visited from Montana.

There were four generations and twelve of us, with all but four staying in the duplex I share with my daughter. We were also celebrating the engagement of my grandson Ben to a lovely young woman. They live in Yakima, WA, where he is studying with plans for a family

practice. I am still working in Appleton, WI, as a clinical social worker in a group private practice, probably retiring at the end of 2015.

Although I still enjoy my work so I have some doubts about that. My daughter Elizabeth works as a teacher of dyslexic children in Appleton. Other than work, I am usually busy with progressive causes, gardening and the choir. I really enjoyed the Reunion! Millicent Doll Shargel: I have worked in the neighborhood movement for years but recently I have gotten really organizationally active in city committees and neighborhood coalitions. My goal is to induce the young entrepreneurs who want,

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Anne Wilson Boyce, 1954 and husband Hazy Boyce

Jane Marbury Keggi, C.C. Ramsey Merriam, Mikey and Anne Turner Pope, 1954

admirably, to make Tallahassee a “vibrant modern city.” I am working harder than when I was an editor, and I love it! Scootie Michel Twells writes: Tom and I still love our 11th Floor “aerie” in Towson. Tom celebrated a significant birthday in December and our whole family gathered for a festive dinner to wish him well. One of the high points of our year was the 60th Reunion in October. Tom and numerous other spouses have been to so many reunions and class get-togethers they feel

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as though they graduated with us! We missed all of our classmates who could not join us but were amazed and delighted to see Jane Marbury Keggi whom we haven’t seen since the end of 10th grade at RPCS. Many thanks to Welby, Margo, Lynn and Anne for making the weekend so much fun. I learned that Anne Turner Pope’s children and grandchildren are thriving! In fact her grandson, Matthew is to be married to Sarah Morehead, 2006! That’s always exciting news and nice to “keep it in the family.” Martha Grimes Mabie: John and I are enjoying sunny Florida this winter and have had a lot of family to visit. We have been in the same home in Hobe Sound for 26 years but are very excited about downsizing to our new one story home in the same area. Our four children and 12 grandchildren (aged from 10-30) have visited us this year. We will be gathering again as a family next Christmas to celebrate my almost 80th, can you believe that? We are both healthy and happy. Anne Clark Bass shares that she spent Christmas in the Keys, one week at Big Pine and two months in Key West. I hope everyone has a happy holiday and a healthy New Year. Lynn Brewington Havard: she is excited about the spring term at the Renaissance Institute and will take a beginning class in Italian, another yoga class, as well as a special dance class that gives the body a real workout!

She adds that she loves to be challenged! Sarah Grimes Howard writes: Jim and I are both well and enjoying each other and our wonderful family! We have eight grandchildren.

Our oldest is 30 and dances with the Rockettes in New York! Our youngest is 5

and in Kindergarten. We also have a great-grandaughter, Faith (2). We plan several trips a year to Tampa, FL. We went for an early Thanksgiving in November and will be returning in March to celebrate our daughter Sally’s birthday and to see our son Ted and his partner, Stefan. How fortunate we are! Libby Carr Hinds: my granddaughter Lindsey and I had a great trip to Italy and a wonderful time together! I am sorry her fall break from Roanoke College was the same weekend as the reunion, but I gotta say hanging out with a 21-year-old was a lot of fun. I had a nice conversation with Peggy Sutton Taylor who is fine, but recounted the sad story of her partner of 19 years, Tom, who has gone through a terrible bout of mouth cancer. Peggy said he is doing much better now, but it has left both of them totally exhausted. She has cut way back on her jewelry business, but is still very happy in her warm environment of the Florida Keys.

Tony and I continue to enjoy and work at our respective art mediums, we still run the Elkridge Club Art Show, we play golf and tennis and especially love watching our grandchildren grow up (way too quickly I might add)! It has been such a pleasure to reach out to you all again and I thank you stalwart ones who have found a few moments to share your thoughts. I truly believe it means more and more to all of us to stay in touch. Our roots are deep and we had a very good start in life together at our alma mater.

Puttie and Welby Hamilton Loane, 1954 with granddaughter Elena Loane, 2017

1958 Class lunch at Blakehurst (l to r:) Linda Godine Long, Norvell Brinton, Ann Mohlhenrich Telford, Sally Mitchell Baldwin, Nancy Biggs Cole, Linda Hamilton, Frankie Sherwood, Margot Bond Wittich, Donna Lee Schwaab Frisch, Courtney Jones McKeldin, Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, Dedi Smallwood Whitaker and Peggy Frizzell Powell with Ann Posey Cherry seated.)

Class of 1958 Courtney Jones McKeldin courtney@mckeldin.com The first big news of the year is that Norvell Brinton was married to Jamie Myers on Valentine’s Day at her house. The former minister at St. David’s church in Roland Park, Bill Krulak, performed the ceremony. Norvell reports that she is ecstatically happy and our best wishes go out to her. Dedi Smallwood Whitaker’s grandson appears in one of L.L. Bean’s winter catalogues. He is a very handsome young man. Donna Lee Schwaab Frisch and

Norvell Brinton, 1958’s wedding to Jamie Myers on Valentine’s Day

husband, Dick, moved last fall into Blakehurst where he hosted a 75th birthday dinner. Ann Posey Cherry is also at Blakehurst and has been there for several years. Our deepest sympathy to Ann as her husband, Dr. Jerrie Cherry, died in his sleep last April. Brooke Nichols Taylor is thoroughly enjoying her cottage in downtown Charlottesville. She feeds the birds regularly and even has a pet raccoon who visits daily for a little handout. Brooke has had some medical issues but is in recovery mode and is doing well.

She also has a secret admirer who she will not reveal at this time. Stay tuned. Clare Callard has had a few medical challenges with her back but now seems to be on track as she has taken up bowling! Added to her bridge-playing, luncheon engagements and travel, Clare is a very busy Atlantan. Margot Bond Wittich continues her food blog Margot’s Munchies and is also the sentry for Charlesbrooke. Her official duty is being in charge of its community pool and will be organizing synchronized swimming lessons this summer. She also continues to babysit for her grandchildren, play bridge and tennis and samples the food at all the new restaurants in town. Judy Shafer Hoff and husband, Sandy, also live in Charlesbrooke.

Judy is an award-winning golfer and also plays bridge. She is an avid reader and goes through a novel a week. Nancy Biggs Cole is our information guru but between bridge-playing and deer hunting she has little time left to convey any tid-bits. Frankie Sherwood is very happy in her new apartment at Elkridge Estates where she continues to feed the wild foxes in her back yard. Frankie is an accomplished golfer and spends most of her summer days on

the golf course. When she isn’t golfing, she is having lunch and seeing a movie with Norvell and me and others. In addition, Frankie has written two unpublished novels.

Bonnie Getschel Sawyer and her husband, Bruce, and I (Courtney Jones McKeldin) and my husband, Ted, will be going on a Viking cruise to Holland and Belgium and hope to see the famous Keukenoff Gardens in full bloom in April. My children refer to me as “the bionic woman” as I now have a new, titanium shoulder and hip. All the bells and whistles go off when I go through the metal detectors at airports. Our condolences go out to the family of Marion Stafford Lorr, our classmate, who died last year. In addition, Ann Talbott Boyer’s husband, Paul, died last year. Our condolences go out to Ann Boyer and also to Ann Posey Cherry. We would like to hear about or from: Susan Hensen Trotto, Sally Hensen, Susie Gibson and Trixie Rumford. Also, please email me your news for next year’s class notes.

Class of 1959 55th Reunion Caroline Savage Wanstall nonniew@yahoo.com Our 55th Reunion was great fun, although we missed seeing many of our class mates. There were eight of us including myself at various events over the weekend – Mimi Ritter O’Neil, Jonnie Struven Barroll, Lyn Schmeiser Cook, Gail Gardner Long, Fay Karfgin Stephens, Betty Norris Govatos and Coco Voigt McCoy. We were also joined by some intrepid husbands – Grafflin Cook, Anthony O’Neil, Bobby Barroll and Ted Long. A few of us had lunch at Jean Waller Brune’s, 1960 on Friday. Friday evening we got together for dinner at the restaurant at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Saturday we met for dinner at the Elkridge Club. All the meals

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Class of 1959 reunion dinner at the BMA (l: Coco Voigt McCoy, Mimi Ritter O’Neill, Betty Norris Govatos, Caroline Savage Wanstall, Gail Gardner Long, Lyn Schmeiser Cook and Fay Karfgin Stephens.

we had were wonderful and included crab served in amazing ways. We hope to see all of you at the next reunion! Thanks to all who wrote to share their lives and activities. Natalie Meeks Bowie: Life is quite fine down here in Beaufort, SC. It is hot and humid but I enjoy this slower low-country living. David and I moved out of Northern Virginia about five years ago to get away from the crowds and stress of DC area. It’s worked! I have a pretty view of the marsh from my home-office, overlooking Battery Creek and across river to Beaufort. I have significantly cut back working but it is still hard to turn down new requests. I plan cruises and special trips for people who have been clients for many years. With less client demands, I have more time to become involved in Beaufort. I became a master gardener about three years ago, since gardening down here is radically different from anywhere else. I am also a docent at Beaufort History Museum, Charleston Historic Foundation Home & Garden tours and Historic Beaufort Foundation. David and I are taking longer trips, more frequently, too. In 2013 we cruised aboard Seabourn Quest from Monte Carlo to Barcelona and in July, we flew back to Barcelona for a Regent Mariner cruise to Rome and this past fall, we spent five weeks in Southeast Asia on a fabulous Seabourn Odyssey cruise Burma to Bali. Ellen Rumford Barrett: In the fall, while our 55th RPCS Reunion was taking place, Ken and I went to Portland, OR to see one of his good Clemson University friends and then went on to

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Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, and Moab/Castle Creek, UT where we spent several days at Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. In late fall, we went to Northern Spain with a Smith College Travel small group and enjoyed that experience. Thanksgiving was in Tampa with Heidi’s family. Sadly, in November, son Frans, who was living in NYC with his wife Mona, suffered a seizure. Once in the hospital he went into cardiac arrest for over 15 minutes and died on December 11. Frans converted to Islam when he married Mona because she is from an Egyptian Muslim family. Thus the funeral followed Muslim traditions. We spent Christmas and New Year’s with daughter Katrinka and her family at their lovely beach home at Litchfield by the Sea, SC. We had plenty of distractions between the 10 and 12year old grandsons and their energetic dog, plus a visit to our two and five-year old grands in Charleston. Frans’ wife, Mona, seems to be doing well and has returned to her job at the United Nations which keeps her very busy. She also has a good network of friends in NYC. We are now all looking forward to a happy, healthy 2015. Barbie Stafford Jones: I direct a handbell choir at the Presbyterian Church of Falling Spring that provides music for several retirement homes in the Chambersburg area in addition to playing in our church services.

Having retired from teaching music in 2006, I have picked up the french horn playing in the New Horizons Band as well as our church brass ensemble. My passion is still my harp. I am very proud of our oldest granddaughter

Isabel as she made the Iowa State High School Band and Orchestra with her harp. Debbie Houstle Edwards emailed me that she will be in Pennsylvania and Maryland this summer. I would be glad to host a small impromptu reunion in Chambersburg. Or perhaps meet in the restaurant that used to be Morgan and Millards. Jonnie Struven Barroll: In November Betty, Lyn, Eve, Fay and I had lunch with Zilla Johnson Clinton and her sister Ozzie at the Valley Inn. How much fun we all had just like old times. Zilla is as cute and bouncy as she always was. Bobby and I celebrated 50 years of marriage in May. We went to London for a week in September followed by a river cruise down the Rhone River in France. The journey went from Paris to Lyon via fast train where we met our boat and toured villages on the Rhone to Arles and back to Lyon. It was a wonderful anniversary celebration for us. Another couple from Baltimore went with us who had just had their 50th. Julie Veltman Parry: John and I are trying to sell our Denver house so we can move permanently to our home of 20 years in Connecticut where the Mystic River meets Fishers Island Sound. There was just too much traveling between the two states, given that our children are settled in neither one. Brooke is in Chicago where she is president of the Center for Humans and Nature, an environmental think tank with offices in the Lyric Opera Building. She and her husband live in Glencoe with their two little girls (7 and 4). Our son, Pres, is the Director of Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Mississippi in Jackson and he and his wife have two little boys (5 and 2). Both our daughter and daughter-in-law got their PhDs at Yale on the same day. We are thrilled to settle down a bit so we can see more of our children and grandchildren. I am also looking forward to pursuing interests in writing, singing, Italian, and traveling. Coco Voigt McCoy: We are

1959 luncheon Front: Lyn Schmeiser Cook, Jonnie Struven Barroll, Back: Zilla Johnson Clinton, Betty Norris Govatos, Eve Handy Hilgenberg and Fay Karfgin Stephens

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that I have had two shoulder replacements.

Recovery and physical therapy went well. I have hit golf balls a few times and plan to start playing a bit. Wick continues to play golf three times a week and walks and carries his bag. He has also been a wonderful nurse and chef during my down times. Yvonne Vasseur Moden reports that she: is preparing to go down to our summer house next week. I will stay there six weeks and hopefully play a lot of golf since we are on a 36-hole golf course by a lake. It is very nice! We have had the rainiest May in 200 years and it has been colder than usual and very windy so hoping for a sunny and warm summer especially when our two grandchildren come for two weeks. I have been busy with the kids, playing bridge and knitting but stopped taking Spanish lessons because no matter how hard I try I seem to forget all I have learned as soon as I close the books. Age may have something to do with that they say. Linda Kiefer Sanders says: It certainly would have been nice if someone had explained early on that life is as complicated as ever: drama, tragedy, joy, aggravation and five aging dogs fill my days. Baja California is still home but I realized earlier this year how much I miss my Baltimore friends after spending some time with Anne Carter, Poe Day Hardcastle and Merry Roszel Rogers. I am in a fitness phase, going with a friend three times a week, after which we treat ourselves to a fantastic vegetable/fruit smoothie and a stop at one or two segundas. All of the kids are doing well, the grandchildren are doing great things and dogs are doing dog things. Carol Clark Coolidge is about to take off for several months in Canada where her daughter and her family Fritz (4), Birch (2) and Pippa (1) will visit. I continue as a docent at the Folk Art Museum and give children’s tours but would love to take anyone from RPCS around if they come to Santa Fe. Dexter continues to be

Anne Carter-Smith lost her beloved husband this year and is slowly venturing out into the world again. Polly Starratt Lemire is living a happy and lovely life in St. Louis designing custom greeting cards, running a small recruiting business, riding her bike and still knitting socks! Her blog is creatingwithspirit.

Rose McCleary Alexander Shuman lives in Urbana and says that her life is better than it has been for a long time. She went to a bluegrass festival in Gettysburg. Lynda Engel Meade says: my children, grands, George and I are thriving. We are very blessed.

Susan Rose is moving to another apartment in Reisterstown. This new one is better managed and nicer in many ways, but lacks storage and only one closet so I must really downsize this time. Prissy Frey Parcells: My news this year is

Ann Streett Benya, 1960 and Livvie Streett Rasmussen, 1964

Lunch with members of the Class of 1960

planning a January arrival in San Pancho, Mexico the small, wonderful town we visit every year. This is the background for 5-6 months of fun, colors, dancing, music, great food, laughing, and Pacific beauty. We host parties and fund-raisers in our jungle home high over the Pacific. We also enjoy quiet times watching the coatamundi trying to bathe in the bird bath and applauding amazing sunsets with friends. The house on the hill (El Castillo) is finished and made perfect with views of ocean and jungle. The rest of the year we go back to Santa Fe where we enjoy hanging out with son Chris. We also attend the International Folk Art Festival. In October I flew to New York for a dose of honking horns, fashion, ballet and art, shared with a dear friend. Then went to Baltimore for a sweet reunion with classmates.

Dan continues to shoot fine photos and has also been reviewing his older black and white photos – JFK’s and MLK’s funerals, civil rights, poets, actors, etc. Dan’s son Will and his new wife Leah live in Marin County, California where Will continues to work for ILM-Disney.

Gail Gardner Long: Ted and I went to Cuba in February on a Road Scholar Cuba Today: People and Society tour that was fabulous. We saw magnificent architecture from the Colonial thru the Deco periods. We attended dance and musical performances. Cuba is a fine country, rich in culture with a strong love of family, and a joyous love of life. We met graciousness wherever we went. As for me, Caroline Savage Wanstall, our year has been rewarding. In January, George and I had the privilege of singing at Carnegie Hall with our concert choir and choirs from Argentina, Canada, Holland and one other U.S. choir. It was an awe inspiring moment – especially when we first convened on the stage of the Isaac Stern Auditorium. Imagining the presence of the great artists who had performed on that

stage was a humbling experience. We were thrilled to have Gail Gardner Long and Ted, as well as our daughter and son-in-law at the concert. While in New York, we also enjoyed seeing Gail and Ted’s daughter Bess after many years. Our granddaughter graduated from high school, always a proud moment. We also traveled east to Cape Cod and spent a week there with daughter Molly and son-in-law Dean. P.S. If anyone is interested in becoming our class scribe, I’m ready to let someone else take over. Just let me know.

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Ann Streett Benya, 1960 with her family - Alex, Frazier, and Paul

involved in environmental issues. Susan Wood Schucts says that her life is full: Foremost, as with many of us, are the grandchildren. I never imagined what joy they would bring to my life. I see my three in San Antonio, TX the most and they all have red hair. Who would have thought it? I am so busy with my booths in two antiques malls, going to auctions, estate sales, and antiques shows. The treasure hunt is so much fun. I also sell on eBay. redhead2 is my user name. I am on a couple of boards so volunteering directs the rest of my life community theater, Habitat for Humanity and Downtown PKB. I feel like I am always fundraising. Isn’t that the way with nonprofits? Ann Streett Benya just returned from Italy where they visited Rome, spent time with friends stationed in Sicily and ended with a wonderful DuVine bike trip through Puglia: we were lucky to have our daughter and sonin-law on that trip with us. We are now making our own pasta with the help of a pasta guitar. I am still doing dog nose work with our German shepherd Valor and this year we attained our Nose Work 3 elite title. There are only eight German Shepherds in the U.S. with that title. Last June there was a nose work trial held at RPCS. I have collected a few free airline miles and so am hoping to get to Baltimore before the end of the year.

In January, Jean Waller Brune announced that she will retire at the end of the next academic year in June 2016 after serving 24 years at our alma mater. “This is truly bittersweet for me.

While I look forward to having opportunities to travel, read, pursue other interests, spend more time with my family, and enjoy each of the seasons in my Vermont home, my lengthy association with RPCS has been a privilege and has brought much joy to my life.” Jean is looking forward to her summer vacations and

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to celebrating our 55th Reunion in October.

Florrie Roy Brassier’s chemo continues to be effective. Her husband Tom is still on kidney dialysis though getting closer to a kidney transplant which they hope will take place in late summer or early fall. They enjoy their lives in the woods and their garden. Their daughters Mollie, Ellen and their son in-law John live happily in Portland. John is often on tour with Red Fang. A highlight was going to Florida to visit her sister at Christmas and coming to a pre-reunion in Baltimore in early June. Merry Roszel Rogers has had a difficult time with the death of her dear brother Dick and the day after had surgery as a result of a broken wrist weeks before. Merry had a successful hip replacement and welcomed Dick’s son into her home. Merry retired in December and is anticipating this summer being fun. Sarah Woolley Begus has been helping her husband Otto struggle with the challenges of Alzheimer’s and finding time to read extensively. Her son is in Seattle and they have two children who are just brilliant. Betty Stevenson Green and husband Doug have recovered from a destructive house fire and now are in a renovated house with high tech kitchen equipment. Betty continues to work in real estate, plays golf and volunteers in a nutrition program for children at risk. They see their son Doug who moved to Charlottesville where he is a website developer often. Their daughter Emily is in Madison, WI where she and her husband are raising two boys (6 and 8). Emily balances motherhood with her entrepreneurial efforts, a partner in Fit Moms for Life. Betty was one of the hardy souls who travelled to Baltimore for our prereunion party in June and anticipates being here in October. Marsha Owens Capezio and her husband Eugene are happily ensconced in

Shrewsberry, PA at Shrewsberry Courtyards retirement community. This allows them to participate in a variety of activities: church, gardening, reading and have a stimulating group of friends. Marsha finds joy in writing poetry and her friends. Marsha was happy to join us for the pre-reunion for Florrie being in town and anticipates being at reunion in October. Susan Rose continues in her volunteer activities: Cylburn, Paul’s Place and the Reisterstown Community Cemetery. Susan really likes Reisterstown and is moving to a more contained apartment. Susan’s granddaughter Lauren is a sophomore at the College of Charleston, Meg is a senior at Towson High School and working hard in her spare time at Graul’s. Steven is a high performing trumpet player in Atlanta and there are four others who are equally as talented. Susan’s greatest joy remains gardening.

Two years after Ramsey’s death Emily Tongue Richardson is traveling, seeing more of her children and continuing her work with the DAR, Colonial Dames and Daughters of Colonial. Emily is spending time in Solomon’s which means that she can occasionally join the Baltimore Lunch Bunch who meets monthly. Emily has eight grandchildren by her three sons: Thomas, a Nashville cardiologist, Kirk, an English professor at VCU and James works at the Pentagon. Emily’s joys are being with friends and enjoying each moment she has. Prudence Painter Wendel has survived the fall of the century in which she broke seven bones and teeth while delivering meals on wheels after getting two replacement knees. Terry and Prudence are still on the farm and learning to live with the vestiges of aging. Prudence was glad to be here for the pre-reunion. Barbara Hull Francis is grateful for the support during the time of her brother’s illness until his death from cancer on Easter. Retirement gave me time to spend with Jack and his wife before he died and to celebrate his life during memorial services in Cleveland and in Baltimore. As life

Jean Waller Brune, 1960 and Marion Brune Paterson, 1984

Marsha Owen Capezio, 1960, Prue Painter Wendel, 1960, Anne Carter-Smith, 1960, and Merry Roszel Rogers, 1960

takes it also gives and we celebrated my granddaughter, Hannah Rhea, 2019 as she moves to Upper School. We celebrated Heath Foster, 1983’s master’s in psychology from Antioch. I continue to seek my mojo in retirement and am enjoying more time for family, my church community, and meditation. I play bridge and counsel several young women with Build. My intent is to get in shape and be buff like Ann Streett Benya. I enjoyed our pre-reunion, especially our Saturday night dinner. I, Louise Farley Reilly, enjoy taking enriching classes at Osher Institute and try to keep up with the athletic competitions of four very active grandsons in soccer, wrestling, lacrosse, basketball, baseball and flag football. It’s a very enjoyable way to spend the current years. See you in October!

Class of 1962 Betti Haines Sheldon bettisheldn@gmail.com Carolyn Campbell Beall: George and I will be in Jackson Hole for the summer. In the spring and fall we are so happy on the Jenkins farm in the tenant house walking all the wonderful paths and enjoying a lot of reading. Our older son Jamie and his family are going to camp and Nantucket for the summer. My daughter Tobey lives in Bethany at Cripple Creek and

beaches and golfs all summer and her kids visit. Nick is taking care of Cole (17) who works at Caves Valley Golf Club. For all of the ups and downs we all live through: it’s the little things that count in the moment where we are.

Byrdie Tharrington Donaldson: I had to leave my Sweet Adelines chorus because the commute between Chincoteague and Annapolis finally wore out my truck. I do community theater with the Chincoteague Island Theatre Company. I still have three dogs and one horse, but I have not been riding lately. I walk the trails on Chincoteague and Assateague. To relax I do jigsaw puzzles and have my Kindle read aloud to me. Carole Hocker McCrory: My grandson Henry just finished his freshman year at Ole Miss and my youngest grandson Everett is two. In between are five girls – three go to RPCS and two toGarrison Forest. I also have two stepgranddaughters at Riderwood and Dumbarton.

All of the kids are happy and well. We are truly blessed. I am playing bridge and golf and enjoying family and friends. Sharon Davis Gratto: Pete and I now have a grandson, Peter Merritt Edmondson (Merritt), son of daughter Eugenia Gratto and her husband Paul Edmondson who is a computer software designer for Pixar Animation. They live in Oakland, CA. In April at the end of my seventh year as Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Dayton, I received the Distinguished Service Award from the College of Arts and Sciences. Lynn Bendann: Trudy, my partner of 25 years and I were married in

2014, when Pennsylvania finally made same sex marriage legal. We enjoy life on our Bucks County 15-acre farm. Complete with bank barn and stone house, circa 1860, we have a lot of animals including our one remaining horse Bailey who is looking towards his 37th birthday. I am retired and trying hard not to over-indulge in a passion for renovating old houses. Trudy is very slowly retiring from her business and spending more time with the grandkids. We are grateful every day for good health so we can heft hay bales and dig post holes! Ann Donovan Marshall: My biggest news is that our youngest daughter, Cornelia, gave birth to our first grandson. He is named after my husband, Charlie, and will be called Chase. His big sister Sadi (2) is thrilled as are cousins Susanna (5) and Cici (3). Charlie and I are farming, volunteering and gardening as usual. We had a delightful dinner meeting with Anne Bennett White Swingle and Dick Swingle in Philadelphia in March. Jane Uhlig Lochman: Besides the usual bridge, book club, gym, Teen Court and Assistance League, I have kept busy with travel. I have visited often with son Brad, his wife Nancy and children Ryan (11), Jack (9), and Grace (8) who live just northwest of Atlanta. I also saw Laura and her husband Joe and son Nicholas (7) in Bogota at Christmas and again in Orlando in April. I also took a trip down the Danube for a couple of weeks in September, Morocco in October, and Antartica in February of this year. Whew, it was a lot of travel abroad in a relatively short time frame so I haven’t set up any big trips at this point! There are still so many places I want to see while I am still able to do some of these more aggressive trips. I am really looking forward to a family reunion for a week toward the end of June in Hilton Head. Both of my kids and their children are coming as well as my brother Rick and his extended family and my sister Susan and her family. It should be a wonderful and rare opportunity to get all of the family together! The only other trip I have planned is to Indianapolis in September for the wedding of an old friend’s daughter. Judith Harris Proctor: I have a busy few months ahead of me as the Rector of St. Paul’s, the church where I serve, is on sabbatical. Even though I have been there for 14 years, 11 of those years as Vicar, leading a congregation of 2,800 is something I’ve never done before. I am grateful for everything I learned on various fields of play and for what I learned in the classroom especially the training I received as a member of Miss Faissler’s Guinea Pig Club. I reassure myself that September 8th when the Rector returns will be here before I know it. Meanwhile, I rely on my homeowner’s experience when the AC doesn’t work in the

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Summer is here and with it comes vacations!

Before you travel, you will want to take the following preparations:

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Check the car Stop mail and paper deliveries Put lights on timers Take Marley and Kitty to the kennels Unplug electrical devices Write a will or codicil

The last may be the most important preparation on the list. As you check off the items above, please consider including a small bequest to Roland Park Country School. By doing so, you will join the many others who have had the foresight and generosity to ensure that the RPCS mission will live on in perpetuity. If you do decide to do so, it would be wonderful if you will let us know so that we can include you in the Red & White Legacy, our planned giving society.

Happy summer and safe travels! church and as water came pouring through a window in the church kitchen during a recent torrential rain. Don is well and we love being grandparents. I am especially interested to see the new direction of RPCS in the years ahead.

Linda Bond Verdery: I live in the country in a cottage where I read, write, garden and mostly paint. I belong to an Episcopal church with average attendance of 17 diverse and interesting folk. Three sons and their wives have graced me with nine grandkids, ages 15 to one. My loyal partner is a goldendoodle named Charley. Charlottesville is relatively close by and Richmond is about an hour away, so I am not without the arts, a Trader Joe’s and the gym. I look back on a 30 year career as an educator in fine schools as such a fortunate choice and am so glad my upstart nature was respected at RPCS by women whose dedication I never fathomed. I watched the Belmont Stakes Race and the U.S. women’s soccer team; enthusiasm for sport so nurtured in Baltimore.

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Gigi Hampshire: I work in real estate for Baltimore County and enjoy as much time as possible at my house on Lake Champlain in upstate New York. My son Taylor married Roshni Patel Hurt in a Hindu ceremony and a Christian ceremony last fall. He moved to San Francisco to take a new position with J.P. Morgan. My daughter, Elizabeth completed her master’s in counseling and has a private practice in family therapy in St. Johnsbury, VT. I have two grandchildren Alyssa and Andrew in college, Sophia in high school, Micah in middle school, and Gloria in elementary. Anne Bennett White Swingle: Since our Reunion, I did not keep a promise to see as many RPCS classmates as I had hoped to see. Two summers ago, I went to Deep Creek Lake as part of a golf “play-away” and since we were so close to Marilyn Witt Sedlack, who lives just over the state line in West Virginia I did spend a night with her. It was fascinating to see how she manages out there in a very remote and

beautiful corner of the country, surrounded by a network of good friends. More recently, Marilyn, Betti Haines Sheldon, Mary Ann Wright Clarendon and I got together on Gibson Island late last summer. Carole, Jayne Harris Murphy and Mary Ann and I had lunch together on a cold winter day early in the year.

And finally, this spring, on a visit to Philadelphia, Dick and I dined with Ann Donovan Marshall and Charlie Marshall at a delightful French restaurant in Rittenhouse Square. Betti Haines Sheldon: John and I are enjoying our special spot on Gibson Island when I am not commuting to Baltimore where I still work with my brother managing the three family businesses. We have not traveled since we lost our oldest son Bill in 2012, but may plan a trip to Australia for next year.

Middle son Chris lives in the DC area with Holly and their two girls, Willo (12) and Noey (10). Chris is a creative director in advertising and Holly works for Marriott’s advertising

division. Our four other grandchildren, Summer (14), Adam (12), Cole (9) and Evan (7) live with their mother in Cockeysville. Our big news is the marriage of our youngest son Tommy to Sarah Brown. Tommy is a professional photographer and Sarah teaches in a Baltimore City Charter School. The wedding was in May on the water at our Gibson Island home. It was a beautiful day!

We enjoy visits with our children and grandchildren whenever we can. They love coming to Gibson Island for fishing, swimming, boating and crabbing and cooking. Since our move in 2012 we have experienced the most tragic down and now a most joyous up. As Carolyn said so well, it’s the little things that count in the moment where we are. Babs Reed Vilar shares: Miguel and I are still dividing our time, since retiring, between Baltimore and Puerto Rico - with occasional side trips to New England, Iceland and Spain. The northern half of six-months-here and six-months-there has gradually expanded into longer stays in Maryland, where two of our three children live, an inevitable expansion, of course, with six grandchildren in the area. Our daughter, Tana, and her family live here in Lutherville, where she is the Spanish teacher at the Greenspring Montessori School. Michael and Company live in Woodbine, near Mt. Airy. He commutes to DC, to National Geographic, where he is working on the Genographic Project (Have you had your DNA sequenced? Everyone can participate!) And our third, Alec, and his wife Catherine live in Brooklyn, NY with six-month-old Mireia. He works at the YMCA with immigrant families.

I am sure that I mentioned before in Connections my intention to “work” as an interpreter (Spanish-English) in medical settings. It is still in the planning stage!

Carlton Sterling Nebreklievski writes: I’m enjoying the gorgeous southern California weather with a great vista of the Pacific Ocean from our house. I feel like a bum because I play Mahjong once a week, go to water aerobics three times a week, go walking and to lunch with a group of women (we’re all in our 70s), and go to as many movies as possible followed by happy hour! We took a three week cruise to the Caribbean with my brother and sister-inlaw, and we had Peter’s relatives from Belgrade here for quite a while. No travel plans - we go on the spur of the moment. I think of all of you often. I so very much enjoyed the reunion.

Everyone is the same! Jayne Harris Murphy: All is well with the Murphy family. We are spending our time between Florida, where we have two children and four grandchildren, Baltimore (Harris and Emily and their two children live in Chestertown and where Harris was elected States’ Attorney of Kent County)

and New Hampshire where we will spend the summer. Swede is working as a Recalled Judge, and plans to fully retire someday. We are planning a trip to Alaska in early September with some friends who we have traveled with over the last 30 years.

Hoping this finds everyone healthy and happy. Brooke Carter Taliaferro: Joel and I have had a “life changing” item in our lives; a move off of the water after 44 years and 35-40 miles south of Treasure Island, FL (just west of St. Petersburg) and on to a gated and lovely golfing community in Parrish, FL. We found we could not stand “communist” living any longer in our lovely townhouse of 14 years on the intracoastal. Joel was president of the condo association for too long and we couldn’t take the “politics” any longer. Now that we are in our own home again (Alleluia!), we are enjoying it immensely.

Most people downsize in later life, but we chose the opposite and are very happy! We do, though, miss all our family and friends in St. Petersburg and Treasure Island. Still keep in touch with them and get together with family (and friends) as much as possible. After moving to Parrish, we found a new Episcopal church twenty minutes from us and are getting active there after leaving our beloved St. Alban’s Church in St. Pete Beach after 34 years! We now have our 41 foot sailboat at St. Petersburg Yacht Club after keeping it behind our townhouse and our home since we are “landlocked” now, so we have a “condo” in St. Petersburg (which has become quite the cultured and “trendy” city!) Joel won the 46th Annual St. Petersburg to Isla Mujeres, Mexico Race in his division and was second overall in May of 2014 after losing his mast the year before half way to Mexico, leading the whole fleet, having to cut all the rigging away, and motoring for 30 hours to Key West with the wind and current in his face. Thank God he had a great crew! I am still racing at St.

Petersburg Yacht Club with the women’s group called the Salty Sisters. This is my 40th year of racing, my 39th year of skippering boats in races and I have taught several classes of the Salty Sisters. We may come up this fall to St. Michael’s for an annual meeting we have with one of our cruising clubs, CCA. If we do, we hope to see some of you! You all are a very special class to me and I am so glad to be a part of it! RPCS means a lot to me! Love to you all!

Class of 1963 Frances Rutherford frannielo22@yahoo.com I am so relaxed in my semi-retirement that I forgot to invite comments from my classmates until rather late, so I have just a few kind respondents. Nancy Rose Adams: Ed and I are enjoying retirement in Bethany. We love having our daughters and their families visit us often. We had everyone at our house for Christmas this year and Jacob (7) and Avery Rose (3) made it very exciting. Ed and I spent February in Siesta Key, FL where we have several friends who vacation at the same time.

We spent March in Juno Beach with Anne Dix Blalock, 1964 and her husband Dandy. We explored the beaches and restaurants in the area. We plan to have our grandson, Jacob, for the first week in August. We visit our daughter Molly in Madison, NJ and spend time in New York often. Our other daughter, Julie is house hunting in Frederick County, MD. and is busy with her children. Susan Townshend Townsend: I have spent the year with four grandchildren, enjoying watching their various teams play, going to plays and concerts and just hanging around with them. Tom and I

Susan Townshend Townsend, 1963 with her grandchildren

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Patti Bedford Gaede, 1963 and Jim Gaede

spent the winter skiing in Park City and Vail.

I think we had warmer weather in the west than in Baltimore. Last October we travelled to Ireland to visit friends and stayed at a really charming cottage on the Irish Sea. Spectacular!

Now it is time for summer relaxation, golf and spending time with family and friends. Patti Bedford Gaede: Lighten up! We are turning a terrible number this year! Jim and I just returned to Cincinnati after a great winter in Vero Beach. I was very busy being on the golf committee, a Riverside theatre committee and I also started a garden club where we live in Orchid Island. I am home now for a rest and lots of fun with our granddaughter Quinn (2). Kate Grimes Weingarten has reconnected with Susan Robertson, whom she hasn’t seen since 4th Grade and Kathie Flanigan Asmuth had lunch with Bonnie Blackwood Stafford and Katherine Vollmer Odell in Oconomowoc. I, Frances Rutherford, was laid off with severance from McGraw Hill Construction (now Dodge Data & Analytics) in December. I’m happily spending my days walking in the neighborhood cemetery and park, managing the landscaping in front of my building, singing in a chorus, showing my collages, reading, writing, watching Netflix in a vastly entertaining city called New York. I have such wonderful friends here so I am reluctant to travel much but will at least go to Cambridge, England and Costa Rica in my year to come. Until next year!

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The Class of 1964’s 50th Reunion Committee

We had such fun at our 50th class reunion last October, 2014 that we have been meeting for lunch about once a quarter this year whenever a classmate comes to town. Any excuse to get together. We had a blast at the recent lunch at the Valley Inn! Let us know when you are coming to the area and we will get a group together. We have also created a Facebook private group “RPCS1964” for us to share information, photos, etc. just among ourselves. We also have video with sound of us singing at our reunion. Quite a few of us were in the Semiquavers and enjoyed singing with the current Semis at our reunion. The

School was wonderful in sending us a CD of the singing. RPCS helped us prepare a class yearbook prior to the reunion to catch us all up with each other’s lives, with 40 participating.

We live in France, Australia and all across the USA. The reunions get better each time. I’m sorry I missed the first one. Please contact me and let me know if you are on Facebook so I can join you into our Facebook Group.

The more the merrier!!! The 50th Quid Nunc has contact information for each of us. Pick up the phone, write a letter or send an email.

Keep in touch! Phyllis Gatch Harbert shared: I have never had a speechless moment in my life until I went diving in the Somo Strait of Fiji on the Rainbow Reef. After the first of about 20 dives, I got out after the first one and just sat there shell shocked. Sensory overload. I had to learn how to dive in a lot of current and it was very challenging! The diving was absolutely thrilling and unlike anywhere else we have been. If you want to stop, you

Martha Fulford, 1964 with Judy Mitchell Wright, 1964 and Susan Anderson Mason, 1964

Celebrating their 50th Martha Dorman Clark, 1964, Patti Pfefferkorn Griffin, 1964 and Jane Melvin Amsbaugh , 1964

Class of 1964 50th Reunion Connie Sparrow connie.sparrow@verizon.net

The Pen Pal Project It has been a tradition at RPCS for the past nine years for our 50th Reunion Class to connect with the rising 5th Graders. During the spring of their 4th Grade year students correspond with members of the 50th Reunion Class culminating in a Tea where the pen pals get to meet each other in person during Alumnae Weekend.

(At the time of the tea the students are in 5th Grade.)

The pen pal project is a way for our 50th Reunion Class to rediscover RPCS through the eyes of an RPCS student who is ten or eleven years old.

Last October the current 5th Grade enjoyed meeting the members of the Class of 1964 at the 50th Reunion Tea, learning about the history of RPCS, paging through the 1964 Quid Nunc and comparing RPCS from 1964 to 2014.

Hannah Carroll, 2022 met her pen pal Phyllis Gatch Harbert, 1964 from Tulsa, OK that afternoon and they became fast friends. After learning a lot about each other Phyllis presented Hannah with a gift. “If I did not have a daughter by my 50th Reunion I always knew I would pass on my school ring,” said Phyllis.

At the tea, Phyllis presented Hannah with a necklace.

On the chain hung the School seal from her RPCS ring which Phyllis had made into a pendant.

Hannah and her mother, Darcy Christhilf Carroll, 1988 attended the Class of 1964’a 50th Reunion Dinner at the home of their neighbor Celeste Woodward Applefeld, also a member of the Class of 1964. Darcy and Hannah were struck by the strong women in the room and their connections to each other. A few months later, Celeste gave Hannah a Christmas gift – a lovely box to hold her RPCS pendant. Two special gifts from Hannah’s two friends in the Class of 1964.

And while Hannah sees Celeste in the neighborhood, it is wonderful that she and Phyllis have continued their special pen pal relationship.

Class of 1964 having lunch at the Valley Inn

Hannah wearing her necklace at her 5th Grade Closing Exercises

Phyllis

have to find a rock, hold on and face into the current. The variety of hard and soft corals was incredible. So many fish that even Disney couldn’t think up. I loved all the sharks. The Fijians are a lovely people, interesting mix of Indian, Asian and Melanesian. We were able to get some birding in too. We go to Angel Fire, New Mexico for a month every summer and hope to get to Bonaire after Thanksgiving for more diving. Wally’s still working and will turn 76. I’m still mowing the lawn, playing tennis, bridge and Mah Jongg. If the oil industry doesn’t crawl out of the tank, I am applying to be Wal-Mart greeter. One of the many nice things that came out of the reunion was joining Facebook and being able to keep up with classmates. It was great to see Linda Diwoky Miller on a trip with Wally to Houston. Recently Sandy Cissel Olson started a dialogue about Camp Atahi. It was fun to find out I wasn’t the only one Miss Murray threatened to throw out of Camp. Learning about all that is going on at School just knocks me out. RPCS is amazing!

Class of 1965 Carol Blankenship Davis carolbdavis@verizon.net

The Class of 1964 celebrating their 50th Reunion Dinner at Jean Brune’s home.

As I am writing this I realize that many of us will have real “connections” by the time I do this again with our 50th Reunion being the best connection possible. Martha Mueller Cook continues to be grateful for a life of bountiful gifts. She is working as an executive/ leadership coach. This allows her to spend wonderful time with her grandchildren, Jane and Emmett, and will include a third grandchild in May. Happily, Emmett and his family recently moved back to Boston! Her flexible schedule also allows for more travel which so far this year includes a trip to

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Phyllis Gatch Harbert, 1964 and Nemo

Costa Rica in March for a niece’s wedding and to Savannah to celebrate her husband’s 50th birthday! She pointed out that he is a lot younger than she. Don’t worry, Martha, we know how old you are! She has lots of places on her bucket list to visit including the Amazon, Machu Picchu, the Black Hills and a transcontinental train trip. She needs to talk to Vivien Davis Tsu who has been almost everywhere it seems. Vivien continues to work for PATH on programs related to women’s cancers. Her travels for work this year were Ghana, Geneva, Laos, Philippines, London, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Australia! While in Australia, she and Theta tacked on two weeks for pleasure including a guided hike in Tasmania. Other pleasure trips included the Seychelles, a 40 mile hike in the Sierra Mountains of California and their annual trip to France in September which included two days in Paris. Vivien’s mom, Joan (87) continues to live independently in Seattle.

Son Michael celebrated his 5th anniversary at his Safeway store receiving a nice plaque and appreciative words from his manager.

Thankfully he was there for house managing during his parents various travels. Vivian’s other son, Jonathan, works as a software engineer in downtown Washington, DC He and his wife Madeleine live with their two cats which seem to be enough family for the time being. She looks forward to seeing everyone at our Reunion. Margaret Gray Kincaid wrote after having returned from her New Hampshire house where she had eleven house guests for Christmas. She has begun workshops at her home in Baltimore as part of her doll business, Blackberry Studio. They have been very successful but it’s also a lot of work. In May, her second granddaughter was born in Massachusetts where Margaret spent most of the month helping out. In late July she had her second knee replaced which entailed a long recovery but she now walks pretty well and is off of pain medication for the first time in years. Speaking of knee replacements, Natalie

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Dixon McCeney had a total right knee replacement in early December and is recovering well, having had the left knee replaced four years ago. For anyone who is considering this procedure, she wants you to know that it involves weeks of recovery time and hard work at physical therapy. Natalie wants to thank classmates who sent condolences after her mom’s death last July. She was 90, still active and totally sharp.

She went to sleep one night and never awoke.

On a happier note, her son, James, married last May and is living with his wife, Rebecca, in Pittsburgh. He has started his own winery, Bridges Wine Company, after getting a degree in viticulture and working in Napa for ten years. Daughter Mary has returned to Baltimore after living in New York for six years and telecommutes for her job in public relations. Katherine Wise writes that life is “interesting” now as she finds herself single again. She has the opportunity to deepen bonds with family, friends and church and she feels she has come full circle to once again become the girl she was at RPCS. For this reason she has begun using her name “Katherine” because this is the person she really is. (I think to most of us she was always Katherine!) She is still a realtor specializing in first time homeowners and baby boomers and really enjoying it. Her three sons and their three ladies and her four granddaughters light up her life and thankfully are all within an hour’s drive. She is so looking forward to our Reunion and she hopes everyone will come. What she remembers most about our class is the relationships with girls with whom she spent her whole childhood. She wrote: For me to share again with those whom I hold dear in my memory will be the highlight of my Reunion Weekend. See you at the Reunion. Toni Madrigal Martin said that retirement is going well. She and Ed still go to the beach and travel when they can. Her twin grandchildren Annie and Charlie turned two in early February. Their brother Teddy is at Gilman and Wyatt is at the Harbour School.

She is happy to have them all close by. In January she visited Lynn Alban Homes, 1964 in Palm Beach and had dinner with Mary McCormick Meyer who spends much of the year in Florida. Last fall, Mary was kind enough to host a fun evening for classmates who were able to attend. Busy schedules and travel kept the number to around ten, but as usual, we had a great time. Tilly Woodward Dorsey writes that all is well despite finding herself “homeless” after selling her house in the village of Arcadia in November.

She is looking for a small farm but has yet to find one. She is staying with friends and has her animals scattered. Her days are spent driving from place to place to care for them and doing

home and hospital tutoring for children who are unable to go to school. Elizabeth McCleary Primrose-Smith was finishing up an arduous chemotherapy treatment following surgery last summer when she wrote. She is looking forward to getting her life back after this “detour” and resuming normal things. To that end, she and her husband have scheduled a cruise on a small ship in May from Ft. Lauderdale to Southampton, England. She looks forward to leisurely days at sea to read, knit, and get her strength back. Her 68th birthday is October 4 so she looks forward to celebrating with her old classmates at our Reunion. Calla Pappas Merkle plans to travel to Seattle to visit their newest granddaughter, Violet Helen Merkle, born in January. She joins sister Dahlia in Calla’s little flower garden. This August she and Rick have rented two adjacent apartments in Bethany Beach where all four children, spouses and grandchildren will vacation together. She is hoping that it turns out as well as it has in her imagination. She and Rick will also attend a family wedding in Maine this summer. She keeps busy with her large family responsibilities, her church ministries and now, co-chairing and planning our 50th Reunion Weekend. Helen Armiger serves as pastor of Salem United Methodist Church. She is working on some drafts for children’s books and trying to find the time to focus on them. Her son Jake and his wife Martina are thoroughly enjoying living in India. Jake is a diplomat in the Foreign Service and handles the issues of India, Pakistan and China. He has been to Islamabad and Kabul and will travel to Beijing this year. Martina is a global consultant for Mercy Corps and also travels for her work, having just returned from Nepal. On Christmas morning Jake gave Martina a ride around their neighborhood on top of an elephant! Helen is looking forward to visiting her family in New Delhi in October.

She has made plans to visit with Lata Katey Gadgil in Pune, India as well. Carla Eger Brumfield wrote from sunny Naples while Baltimore was in the midst of yet another arctic

Betsy Athey, 1964, Jane Fankhanel, 1964, Judy Mitchell Wright, 1964 and Susan Anderson Mason, 1964

Class of 1967 Kathy Hudson hudmud2@gmail.com Susan Berwager Law susanlaw1@comcast.net

In Boothbay Harbor, Maine (l to r) Kathy Hudson, 1967, Lee Kelly, 1971, Beth Jones Elkins, 1971, and Meg Hudson Rice, 1971

blast. Andrew and Allison’s son, Cole (3) is doing well but will continue to beat leukemia until August 2017 when he and his twin, Holly, will turn 6. Daughter Mollie is chaperoning a Christchurch School immersion trip to a village in the foothills of the Himalayas in India in March. Her husband, Will has the challenging assignment of herding Abigail, Owen and Walker, the two weeks she is gone. Tyson’s children, Corbin and Avery, are at the Tatnall School in Wilmington where their mother Carli teaches Kindergarten. Carla’s mom is still doing well and very independent at 94! Nelva Hart Hall has joined the ranks of the retired and happily enjoying it. Her son Scott (49) has worked for Tessco for over 21 years. Husband Noel is becoming more bionic each year as he had his second knee replacement recently the result of years racing motocross on motorcycles.

(Knee replacement seems to be a theme here) They have become Associate Members at Broadmead retirement community which allows them the use of facilities such as pool and gym so they are busy trying to stay in shape. Betty Cooper Smith still loves to write, read, photograph, study and learn more about the fruits and veggies that grow best on Puerto Rico’s South Coast where she lives much of the year. Longtime companion Mark Peyton is active working on their farmland up in the mountains there. Airbnb continues to be a good thing for them in Ponce where they enjoy receiving guests from all over the world. They will spend the summer in North Carolina where Mark has a successful beach glass design business. She had anticipated seeing everyone at our fabulous 50th but her mobility and freedom of movement are seriously impaired by terrible knees. She wants everyone to know that if it is not physically doable for me to be there, know that I’m so there in spirit. Much

love and hugs to everyone! We can only hope that things will work out to allow Betty to make the trip. Helen Tayloe Lambert teaches reading fulltime to elementary students while husband Mike still works 12 hour days. She thinks they need to get themselves organized to retire before they “turn into fossils.” Both sons live in Ann Arbor where Will is engaged and Joe is happy running his engineering company. Nancy Davidson Neal Brazill and Rick were married last spring. They met when both of their spouses were being treated at a center in Arizona. After both were widowed, they reconnected. He is from Wichita, so they now split time between Kansas and South Carolina. As for me, Carol Blankenship Davis, this year had lots of travel. We went to Houston three times, the Hill Country of Texas, Germany, Florida, Savannah and Charleston. We were lucky enough to have a nice evening with Karla Newsom and her husband Bob Zimmer in their beautifully restored home there. They had just returned from their home in Virginia where they spend half of the year. And of course, there was my trip to Ocean City with Barbara Bond, just the two of us, for our annual getaway. She is fine and continues to make noises about retiring but says she likes her job too much and doesn’t mind the paycheck either! As I write this, I along with some of your classmates have begun work on our upcoming 50th Reunion Weekend.

By the time you read this, you will know all about it and hopefully made your plans to attend. I have heard from so many of you who are excited and anxiously awaiting a chance to spend some quality time with girls with whom we shared so much. Let this Connections be a teaser to get everyone excited about our most important “connection” yet. See you in October!

It has been wonderful hearing from you. 2015 has been a very challenging winter in Baltimore with lots of snow. We send our deepest condolences to Frances Naylor Douglass, Barbara Mattingly Wilson and Betsy Downes Brown on the passing of their dear mothers this year. All three mothers were active at RPCS and were such a part of our class. We will miss them. We also send our deepest sympathy to Janie Stafford, whose sister Marion Stafford Lorr, 1958 died in July.

Bonnie Bang Lounsbury writes: A couple of years ago I changed careers, bought River Rise Farm, a 200 acre former dairy farm and woodlot, and began growing certified organic vegetables. I figure this is a way to keep young or to hasten arthritis. It is an evolving process as we try to make the farm sustainable. We welcome visitors. Maine in the summer is “vacationland.” People have camped, hiked, and canoed at the farm. My mother turned 90 and we celebrated with a family reunion at Rehoboth. Ben is retiring on March 1. Natalie got married to her longtime boyfriend in Japan where his family lives, and again in Maine at the farm over the 4th of July. She and Taki are living here, building a house at the farm. She plans to return to grad school for a PhD in soil science in the fall and Taki is opening a rock climbing gym in a few months. Bart and his wife Deepa live in Oakland, CA with their two dogs. He is an environmental lawyer for the

A reprise of Lucille and the Dreamettes with Lucy Ritter Skeen, 1967 and Marietta Koch Nolley, 1967

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The family of Marietta Koch Nolley, 1967: Tyson, Dawson, Marietta and Ed

University of California and Deepa works for a solar energy company. Kathy Magruder (Magoo) has been to Baltimore several times this year. Her mother (95) is still the Energizer Bunny, who travels with Magoo whenever possible. Magoo, husband Jeff Walker and Mrs. Magruder went to Cuba in the fall of 2013. They plan to visit Magoo’s son Adam, daughter Katie and her four children and Rachel Magruder Allen’s, 1968 daughter Laura in California. Katie has been accepted at a number of east coast law schools, so she may soon be moving. Adam continues to do his magic at Pixar Animation Studios. Magoo received the H.A. Tyroler Distinguished Alumni Award last fall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She said that the most fun part was having all of the family together. Carol Gebelein Cavanagh also comes to town often to see her sister Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks, 1970 and her daughter Sarah, who is married to Skip Cornbrooks (cousin of Bruce Cornbrooks). Carol’s youngest daughter is heading to college in the fall, so we hope to see more of Carol and Joe next year. Two of their children, Mary and Joe, are attorneys in husband Joe’s firm, another son Paul is an accountant, son Dave is in finance, son Jim is a teacher, and daughter Carol is an attorney in Boston. Carol and Joe thoroughly enjoy spending time with their 13 grandchildren who range in age from five months to nine years. Betsy Downes Brown, husband Randy and their standard poodle Charlie Brown, divide their time between Rehoboth Beach and Charleston. Betsy, who is retired from Chubb Insurance, is a personal trainer with clients in both places, and Randy still works for Chubb.

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Elinor. Betsy celebrated Randy’s birthday in Marana, AZ in October. Betsy says: Had a great time mountain-biking and hiking and exploring the beautiful terrain. So different from the east! Chesley Schultheis Garrett is now the proud grandmother of two granddaughters, one just born to daughter Chesley and her husband John on Christmas Day. Chesley’s middle daughter Elizabeth is being married in July in Highlands, NC, where Chesley and Lee have a second home. Daughter Edith teaches high school math at a school for the deaf in Boston. Marietta Koch Nolley has a new business, Nolly & Fitzpatrick Event Design in Baltimore. They did an exquisite job at an event last June at Cylburn Arboretum.

When Marietta and her family were visiting Charleston last year they ran into Magoo and her family. She heard from Jane Stafford last summer. Marietta retired in June. “I am thoroughly enjoying the freedom and the ability to structure and schedule things on my terms.” She visited Nini Harper and her sister Genie Harper Jones, 1969 in Captiva last winter, and they had dinner with Wendy Lyon Mitchell in Naples. Kathy Hudson: Greg and I are fine, still living on Ridgewood, painting, gardening and writing. Greg is painting New York and doing drawings of rarely seen areas of Baltimore. I continue to write garden articles for Baltimore Style magazine, The Baltimore Messenger and BaltimoreFishbowl. com. My book, On Walnut Hill, The Evolution of a Garden, about the Ruxton garden of A.C. and Penney Hubbard, comes out in October. I have had fun leading garden tours and tours of the Roland Park footpaths with Olmsted expert Judy Dobbs. We do the footpath tour several times a year for the RPCS Kaleidoscope program and 50th Reunion classes at RPCS and for other organizations. Joanne McCall Bosley: I was skiing in Colorado for two weeks in February, then to Las Vegas for a week and then to Arizona to see two of my four grandbabies. The other two are in Bahrain and I will visit with them sometime in May. Taking some much needed time away from work, but hoping to return in July. Frances Naylor Douglass: I will miss visiting my mother, Kitty Boo, at Roland Park Place taking walks around our old playground, which reminded me of games of SPUD and dodgeball, and certain class events, like 3rd Grade marriages, Code Club Gazette, and a 4th Grade boxing duel, with classroom trial following.

Mom’s example of loving appreciation and cheerfulness will always be in my heart. We put a little sunshine in our lives at the end of 2014 going someplace new, Maui, joined by two sons, one daughter and her boyfriend. I am still working part time with two special programs in a school district north

Anne Gelston Hubbard, 1967 and Susan Berwager Law, 1967

of Seattle and traveling to Southern Oregon to visit my youngest daughter and family. Barbara Mattingly Wilson: I am thankful that I am down here in sunny Stuart, FL now rather than north in Maryland. My son Charlie Kneip married Victoria Budosh in September. At last I have a son and a daughter. She is wonderful!

Mom passed away in January after a brief illness. She was 91. I miss her so very much and think of her every day. F.L. is cruising to and through the Caribbean beginning March 1. This trip will last three to four months. I joined him in April for a couple of weeks. I am enjoying bridge, walking with my dogs, Traveller and Auggie (I have two cats, but they opt out of the walks), taking gym classes, reading and boating. Lucy Ritter Skeen: Unlike many of our classmates I am doing nothing during my retirement. I sleep late, go out to lunch and thrift store shopping a lot, but pretty much am a total sloth and proud of it. I see Marietta some but, unlike Lazy Lucy, she has her own business now and always looks so professional next to me in my baggy sweatpants. Sweatpants and Uggs are my preferred ensemble. I see Sue Berwager Law, too, and of course she always look like a million dollars. I see Huddy when she walks to the post office to pick up her mail. If you will all come to the next Reunion, I promise to get a new pair of sweatpants to wear! Alice McCormick Meiners lives in Ocean Ridge, FL and continues to be very busy with her travel agency, Gulf Steam Travel. She planned and participated in a trip to Cuba. Her daughter, Megan had a baby girl. As for me, Susan Berwager Law, I am still living in Ruxton Crossing with my spoiled dog Brooks, the bichon, and probably am a pesky mother to my son Rob (31). He is a principal at Shot Tower Capital and lives in Federal Hill. I really enjoy playing bridge and also occasionally golf and bowl which is very difficult for these old

Ann Wiltzius-Schmidt and Genie Kenny Kline, 1970

The Annual fall beach reunion for the Class of 1970

joints. I work part time as a real estate agent with Long and Foster and enjoy selling homes in my neighborhood. I currently serve on the HOA Board of Ruxton Crossing and Ruxton, Riderwood, Lake Roland Improvement Association. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at our next Reunion. Please stay well.

Class of 1970 Kathy Lenhard Beck Kathylbeck@gmail.com Martha Dudley Keller mdk110@comcast.net Why not get together to share the news instead of collecting class notes? And it’s so darn fun to see everyone. The last two years we gathered in Rehoboth Beach and Bethany Beach, DE the weekend after Labor Day. The weather was perfect allowing us to sit on the beach swapping stories of lives, careers, kids, spouses, partners, parents, books read,

Members of the Class of 1970 - Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks, Cinny Nuttle Beggs, Louise Meledin and Dorsey Waxter

reactions to current news and RPCS! Nancy Gebelein Cornbrooks hosted our beach days with extra parking, showers, towels, chairs and water. The highlight, of course, has been a crab feast at the lovely home of Don and Kathy Lenhard Beck, and Dewey, the dog, and Itty Bitty Kitty, well, you can probably guess. We refer to this event as Crabe Diem but that has caused some controversy over ablatives! The other highlight has been the inclusion of our honorary class members, spouses and partners! So much fun. They’re good sports too. From Maine came Nan Duke Beury and Dan Moore. From the other coast ventured Nicole Mosberg Mones (CA) and Dorian McGlannan (WA) who made us all spend hours in the Atlantic. We looked like a “school” of 60 somethings, that’s for sure.

But what fun. We even lured Christina Fales (CT) down to the waterfront even though she was in a leg cast, poor lady. Cinny Nuttle Beggs whom we hadn’t seen in quite a while travelled from Pinehurst, NC and Robin Ward Puleo came last year from Allentown, PA. Libby Cooper Curran (won the award for the classmate who has stayed married to her high school sweetheart!) (NJ), Lannie Taliaferro (CT) (Lannie can recite all the members of our class from memory!), Louise Young Meledin (MD), Nancy Strahan (MD), Ellen Keats Stifler (MD), Gin Barrett Shanley (NY/ FL), Marguerite Ingalls Jones (MD), Barbara Tucker Ellinghaus (CT/RI), Genie Kenny Kline (TXNC), Dorsey Waxter (NY) who invited her cousin Susan Waxter, 1969 to come, Ann Schmidt Wiltzius (CA/NJ), Peggy Bradley Bugg (VA/VT) is promising to join us too, but her husband’s trials keep getting in the way....also promising and we’re holding you to it are: Barbara Dexter Agerton (MD/FL), Ginger Norris Novak (MD/NJ),

Judge Martha Dudley Keller, 1970, Kansas City Barbeque Society

Dorsey Waxter, 1970 and Gin Barrett Shanley, 1970

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Class of 1971 Meg Hudson Rice, 1971 meghusonrice@gmail.com Mollie Lange, 1971 maryslange@gmail.com

Cinny Nuttle Beggs, 1970 and Ellen Keats Stifler, 1970

Barby Patterson Nixon (MI), Mary Thomsen Davisson (MD), Cathy Bang Papantonio (MD), Coco Dugan Dumont (SC), Debbie Cahn Carroll (MD), Eleanor Deland Lederer (MD), Ceci Haynsworth (NC), Susan Heldrich Borges (MA), Pam Kellogg Green (DC), Gail Stewart Beach (MD), Rebecca Kornblatt (MA), Denise Dempster Watkins (FL), Rebbie Levering McNelis (MD), Louisa Lippincott Avery (TN), Phyllis Orrick Day (CA), Mara de Oliveira Gordin (Brazil), and Ellen Maulsby Barclay (CA). We’ve tried, but haven’t connected with: Toddy Atkins Haciski (MD), Jeanette Klass Fontanella (PA), and Caroline McClees Apple (NC). When you see or talk to them, encourage them to join us.

We have expressions of sympathy to offer our classmates who we know have lost loved ones: Kathy Lenhard Beck’s mother passed away, Cinny Nuttle Beggs’ father, Sydney Armiger’s brother, and Dorsey Waxter’s father. As we’ve been meeting, we realize that we’ve lost touch/ contact with the following mates: Jane Allison, Lee Dickinson Paul (MD), Marianne Morton (WI), Katie Salley Rosemund and Julie Wilson Kratz. If you have contact information, please pass it along to Kathy Lenhard Beck. We have set up a RPCS Class of 1970 Facebook page.

It’s just for us, in our class. If you want to join, let Kathy know. Hope to see you All at our... gulp, 45th Reunion the weekend of October 3rd in Baltimore. Hopefully, we’ll resume beach reunions in 2016!

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Lee Kelly eleekelly@aol.com After forty some years of collecting our class notes, Cindy Conklin has stepped down. We are sure when Cindy was elected in 1971, she had no idea how much of a commitment she was making. Thanks for so many years of service to our class. Meg Hudson Rice has picked up the torch and Mollie Lewis Lange and Lee Kelly will assist. Meg reports: I still enjoy working at Marshall Craft Associates, an architectural/interior design firm. For fun I enjoy biking (indoor and out - often with Beth Jones Elkins), kayaking, trips to NY to see my grown children, Hathaway’s precious grandsons, and staying in touch with family and friends. I am lucky to be in touch with many of our classmates and other RPCS alumnae. My sister, Kathy and her husband, Greg, live nearby, and we have a lot of laughs.

Hathaway Clark Ferebee writes that her daughter, Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 had a second son, Clark, in September 2014 and big brother Hudson (3) is delighted. She and her husband, Justin, both teach at RPCS. Hathaway says, “I love being a grandmother. I am in my 18th year running the Safe and Sound Campaign working to ensure all Baltimore’s children have equal access to opportunities to grow up safe and healthy.” Carole Porter Adkins reports that “Life is very good.” She and her husband Greg bought a condo in Bradenton, FL close to Carole’s sister’s home.

She says “While we won’t be snowbirds anytime soon, it’s great to go there and bask in the sun with my sister and her husband.” Greg and Carole are still teaching and spend as much time as possible with their three girls and “their men.” They love Lancaster and enjoy the active music, theater and art scene there. Sondra Kornblatt: It’s the empty nest and a full life as my youngest daughter started college. Just me and my doggie against (or better, with) the world. The best news is that I am developing my Restful Insomnia program into a successful business. I had to step aside from it after my husband died, though corporate life was good.

I am excited about launching webinars, personal coaching, speaking, and more. It has been a life dream for over a decade, and a joy to be helping women rest and renew when they

cannot sleep. Family life brings much joy as well. Ella played trombone in her University of Oregon marching band, going to the Rose Bowl and Texas for the national football championship. She is in the starting lineup for the nation’s No. 1 women’s Ultimate (Frisbee) team and staying focused on school. My son Milo is about to graduate from Goucher in computer science, and I have been filled with love as I watch his care of my parents, who live at Roland Park Place on the old RPCS campus.

What goes around comes around. Holly Buttner: Last summer, I climbed Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the continental U.S. for the third time. Just below the summit, I watched the sun rise at 13,300 feet. It was absolutely spectacular. I am still teaching and doing research at the business school at UNCGreensboro and it keeps me extremely busy.

Sadly, my Dad passed away in January at the age of 99. We were so fortunate to have him for so long, but I miss him deeply. Happily, my partner Christian and I celebrated 31 years together in May. Beth Elkins reports that her family is doing well. Son, Greg and wife Blair are enjoying Chapel Hill although that may not last long as Blair will hear on March 20 about where her residency may take her. Daughter Meredith Elkins, 2002 is recently engaged and due to marry in 2016. She is hoping to finish her dissertation this year and begin her internship program in NYC. Steve is enjoying his semi-retirement and I am still working full time and enjoying my work in health care. I continue to spin regularly and often with Meg, although she is not quite as committed as I! Meg and I get together periodically with Lee Kelly and Leslie Phelps Perlik when we coax her to town and we love that girl time! Kim Hupfeldt: Life in Florida after 23 years is still awesome! Love the winters! Love playing in my garden year round. I am still making jewelry and participating in arts and crafts festivals during the fall, winter and spring. I finally completed my new studio/addition to our house but it just needs a little more tweaking.

Scott and I have a wonderful grandson, Julian (8), who is full of energy and constant amazement. Cindy Conklin: I am starting my 30th year selling real estate in Baltimore, teaming not only with my husband Bob Merbler, but also Kathy King’s daughter Charlotte King Eyring, 2001. I love seeing my RPCS friends whenever I can. Meggie Rice and I recently had a great visit with Kathy King. My daughter Casey Merbler, 2011 is graduating from my alma mater Dickinson College this spring. Our son Tyler is a freelance photographer/graphic designer in Baltimore.

Still love spending time in Dewey Beach every summer. Lee Kelly: I am enjoying my first year of serving on the RPCS Alumnae Board. It has

Alumnae Connections in Kaleidoscope!

The Kaleidoscope program is filled with dedicated Alumnae for whom RPCS holds a place in their hearts. And, it begins with the Director of External Programs, Dani Kell Steinbach, 2004. Dani started in 2013 and has done a remarkable job continuing the incredible growth of the program and she has lots of plans for the future of Kaleidoscope!

Hathaway Clark Ferebee, 1971 with her grandson Hudson Short and daughter Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 in the Preschool at the Valentine Luncheon.

been nice getting to know other board members from various class years and becoming more involved with the School. I had a wonderful summer as I traveled to the Canadian Rockies and toured Glacier National Park in Montana.

The scenery was breathtaking! A few weeks later, I was fortunate to join Meg Hudson Rice in Boothbay Harbor, ME for several days with other friends from RPCS. I started a new job at a communications firm in the fall and I continue to volunteer at the Baltimore Humane Society which is very rewarding. Mollie Lewis Lange and husband Jack live in Ruxton with their two golden retrievers and cat Maybelline. Mollie’s job at Kennedy Krieger Institute was terminated in October, 2013 after 22 years due to lack of research funding. She explains: After leaving Kennedy, I had a brief but fascinating forensic neuropathology assignment at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland. During my downtime, I was able to spend a lot of time with Kathy King at her home in Guilford and also worked a few days a week at the local needlepoint store. Last June, I made a second trip to western Ireland and climbed the 600 stone steps (no handrail!) to Skellig Michael, a 6th Century island monastery off the southwest coast of County Kerry. One item crossed off the bucket list. I am back in the lab bench at Morgan State University, performing experiments and training students in research skills. Terry Leach Conkwright continues to teach preschool. Husband Bob is planning to retire this year and their son Tom is getting married. Martha Nesbitt Turner: I took a position as the learning and support coordinator at Calvert School. The faculty is wonderful and the role an exciting one but the commute is the real perk as we live right across the street! The new job has left little time for singing, but I still sing in the shower. Harry and I work hard and we really look forward to summer travel. My children are well. My daughter Sarah is enrolled in the oceanography

Courtney Jones McKeldin, 1958: Courtney has organized and led multiple travel experiences through Kaleidoscope, both internationally and in the states. With her love of travel and her love for RPCS she found a way to combine them by staying connected with RPCS and showing our Kaleidoscope friends beautiful parts of the country and the world. As a member of the Advisory Board Courtney helps Kaleidoscope by being a wonderful ambassador who constantly organizes exciting trips that everyone should go on once!

Kathy Hudson, 1967: Kathy is our go-to for any garden trip and also serves on the Kaleidoscope Advisory Board. She runs the Fall Beauty in Baltimore garden tour through Sherwood Gardens, and the historic Baltimore neighborhood of Guilford.

In the spring she showcased local residents’ own personal gardens. Kathy’s day trips highlight endless forms of unexpected and hidden beauty in Baltimore. Kathy is also releasing her book On Walnut Hill in the fall which we will be featuring in a few of our Kaleidoscope programs. Be sure to check out the book and register for the Kaleidoscope trip that goes along with it to explore the wonderful garden Kathy so beautifully writes about!

Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981: Ann, also an Advisory Board Member has been leading/ hosting our Kaleidoscope friends for years to San Miguel Mexica where she now resides with her family. After making the decision with her husband to move out of the hustle and bustle of Baltimore to a more relaxed refreshing environment, Ann still wanted to stay connected to her roots. What better way to do so then through her alma mater! Ann graciously helps guests with hotel and travel accommodations and takes groups through wonderful sightseeing excursions throughout San Miguel.

This is a once and a lifetime opportunity that Kaleidoscope is so lucky to offer. If you have not gone, you should check out the details in our next catalog!

Elizabeth Paal, 2005: Elizabeth is a certified Financial Planner practitioner at Heritage Financial Consultants and oversees client relations and project management. Together with her mother, Kathy Armstrong, they teach classes in the fall and spring that deliver objective, straight-forward strategies to help clients achieve their lifetime goals and plan for retirement. If retirement is in your future be sure to register for one Elizabeth’s programs and learn things you never knew you needed to know!

Alumnae have helped shape the Kaleidoscope Program into what it is today. If you are interested in being involved with RPCS, Kaleidoscope is a great way to go. Additional Alumnae Advisory Board members also take part in making our program amazing. Special thanks to Christy Beers Carey, 1989, Ann Posey Cherry, 1958, Peggy Waxter Maher, 1951, Peggy Webb Patterson, 1947, Michelle Sun Smith, 1989, Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948, Louise White, 1955, and Margot Bond Wittich 1958. Please be sure to check out our fall catalog set to be released at the beginning of August for programs and trips, and if you are interested in running a program of your own please call the office of External Programs!

Roland Park Country School’s Commitment to An Education Above through lifelong learning is reflected in Kaleidoscope. Imagine, explore, and experience everything Kaleidoscope has to offer!

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The wedding of Dodee Goldsmith Foster, 1974’s oldest son, Adam

PhD program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research on climate change and sea ice includes flying from Alaska over the Arctic Ocean and dropping probes to measure the water’s movement, temperature, and salt content. She also manages to fit in some freelance writing. My son Sam took a new job on Capitol Hill as the chief investigative counsel for the Senate Committee on Aging. Stepdaughter Dani Turner is graduating this year from Skidmore College. Like her dad, she is studying theater but with a focus on directing and managing. My stepson Jeremy Turner is a freshman at Cornell and he is living the life! Anne Winter West continues her extensive volunteer work. She is president of the Board of Directors at Baltimore Outreach Services. BOS provides shelter and services to homeless women and children. Anne is also volunteering her time to work with patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Baltimore. Her husband Chris was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates and son Christopher is in training to be a paramedic.

Debbie Wagner Shawen continues her work as an educational consultant helping families with the best therapeutic program and/or school for a struggling student or young adult. She says that is “very rewarding work that keeps me

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traveling across the country doing visits.

Michael and I divide our time between Baltimore, Rehoboth, and Sarasota and are super excited about welcoming our first grandchild in London.” Until next time.

Class of 1974 40th Reunion Katharine Somerville Whitmore kemsome@gmail.com The Class of 1974 had a heartwarming Reunion back in October. There was brunch at Jean Waller Brune’s, Jennifer Dewey Berk’s art reception, dinner downtown in Little Italy and the Semiquaver’s Reunion and Champagne Reception. In between, the day was packed with classmates visiting and catching up. It was remarkable that we were together like this for the first time in 40 years. An interesting and wonderful part of the Reunion planning has been finding classmates from the past.

With the help of Anne Albert Patterson we were able to get in touch with Susan Adler Davis and many of us saw her at the Champagne Reception. I want to recommend Susan’s book: Saidie May, Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting. Last winter, Susan and Nelda Dierdorff Horwitz had dinner during the Pen Show in Philadelphia. Susan shares: My son Brian graduated with honors in psychology from UNC last May. My older son Andrew will begin graduate school in computer science at Stevenson University in the fall. Helen Tangires said that she can’t wait to read Susan Davis’s book on Saidie May and wishes she had read it this past winter. She reports: While many classmates braved record snow accumulation this past

Cathy Counselman Kelly, 1974 and Cindi Ackrill, 1974

winter, I was thankful, but guilty to be in Washington where hazardous weather forced the National Gallery to close for a few days, giving me much needed time for writing, not to mention laundry and housekeeping. Dorothy Rowan shared: I am being promoted to Park Supervisor in the NYC Department of Parks and Rec where I have been a gardener for 12 years. Jennifer Berk writes: It was so great to see so many at the RPCS Reunion in the fall.

We had a wonderful family trip to Argentina to visit our eldest daughter who was enjoying six months in Buenos Aries for her junior semester. If anyone has plans to go, contact me and we can plan a wonderful trip for you.

We are bracing ourselves for empty nesting as our other daughter goes to college in the fall.

Katharine Somerville Whitmore shared that she had a really nice phone chat with Danene Washington before the Reunion. She was still living in VA but frequently makes the trip to Columbia to help her parents. Last summer I had a lot of fun with Nelda and Susie when they drove down from Philadelphia to spend

Katharine Somerville Whitmore, 1974, Susan Vaughan Kahn, 1974 and Nelda Dierdorff Horwitz, 1974

The Class of 1974’s 40th Reunion Committee

the day with us at my family place on the Eastern Shore. Forty years before we had spent the better part of two weeks on that site for our senior project camping out and “living off the land” as we ate oysters and crabs, mulberries, and steak; all prepared by the really nice farmer next door. I am still in Durham, NC. My girls are in Columbia, MD and Blacksburg, VA; Mattie doing big data analysis stuff, and Kriddie researching water quality. My mother is great, loves her books, conversations and life in general. I have had some aches and pains and have added physical therapists to my list of idols. My husband Scriba is retired and completely immersed in reading French literature – who knew I would end up thinking about what I learned in class with Madame Regis and Madame Lewis?

Karen Eubanks tells me that Jon, her oldest son, graduated from Adelphi University in May with a degree in theater technology. He had been working in this field prior to graduation at Adelphi’s multiple theater complex. His dream is to become a lighting designer for a Broadway show. Ali (13), her youngest son, is showing a serious interest in becoming an activist and civil rights advocate. Karen is in pursuit of an administration degree and plans to apply for doctoral program in curriculum and teaching at Columbia University. Her goal is to write and implement a program in dance with a strong literacy component for students with dyslexia. Vicki Kummer says retiring from her law practice was the best thing she ever did. She has been keeping busy the past year by presiding over several international arbitrations, a few commercial mediations and teaching two law school courses. She also enjoys going to the movies and playing golf.

Cathy Nolan has also decided that change is good. She gave up her high school principal role after completing 30 years in education in Colorado, did a few years of consulting work and then decided to downsize and try something completely different: she sold her house and packed up and moved to Bozeman, MT in May 2014. She now works part time at Montana State University in the Office of Student Success and spends a good amount of time hiking. Her daughter Megan (25) lives in Columbus, OH and works for JP Morgan.

Her son Kyle (23) graduated from Montana State University in December with a degree in geology and has been taking time off, skiing, fishing and working two jobs in town. Carol Witz Hunt reports having an unusually empty house at the moment. Her daughter Glenys has a job in Colorado for the summer before going

Class of 1976 Jeanne Martinet Jeanne@Jeannemartinet.com Thanks to everyone who got in touch. Next year for our big Reunion year I will have try to pen something brilliant. Susan Dierdorff Taylor wrote that her daughter Chandlee seems happily settled with her partner Emilia in Michigan where they both love their jobs at the Michigan State University library.

Susan’s son Peter spends a lot of time with his caregiver taking care of animals and doing other volunteer jobs in the community. Susan loves her job teaching and coaching sailing at the U.S. Naval Academy, and her husband is enjoying fishing and helping care for Peter.

At the Class of 2014’s Commencement Margie Macfarlane Long, 1976, Carol Witz Hunt, 1976 and Christine Donovan, 1976

back for her senior year at Grinnell in Iowa.

However, Carol did spend a wonderful week with Glenys during her fall semester last year in Florence, Italy and shared that getting to see so much of the art from Janssen’s History of Art was amazing. I, Jeanne Martinet, am still living on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. I have been doing some ghostwriting this year along with working on my own books and blogging in the Huffington Post. I am eagerly awaiting the publication of a new, revised and updated edition of my first book, The Art of Mingling, due out in the fall from St. Martin’s Press. And, of course, I am still playing the ukulele and perform for people whenever and wherever they let me!

Class of 1977 Leslie Mosberg Heubeck heystack40@aol.com 38 years and we are still on fire! The 1977 women continue to astound and inspire me.

Celia Pelham is the Chief Risk Officer at Jennison Associates. One daughter is a forensic psychology major in senior year at John Jay School and one goes to Drexel University where she plays attack on the lacrosse team.

Her husband Ian Lacey works for Bank of New York. She is primarily focused on identifying the year for their retirement! And, of course, deciding on their next vacation spot.

Betsy Somerville has some very happy and sad news. Her second granddaughter, Mia, was born in May and she is a happy, beautiful baby, joining her sister Chloe (4). They live very close to Betsy so she gets to see them several times a week, which is wonderful!

Betsy’s dad, Jack Somerville passed away at age 90 in December. Betsy had a wonderful visit with him and her stepmother last November. The Broadway Lights Are Always Calling! Carson Quarngesser Gleberman started a new part-time career producing on Broadway. We should plan a trip to New York to see one of Carson’s hits -- A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder that won a Tony for Best Musical, or It Shoulda Been. Her kids are stars in their own right. Carson’s oldest daughter is studying for the MCAT. Her second daughter is hoping to major in architecture and got a summer job working for a company that builds sets for TV and Broadway. Her youngest is in 10th Grade and scored a goal in each of his first two varsity lacrosse games. Shelby Strudwick was the chair of the San Francisco ballet opening night gala and, no surprise to any of us, it was sold

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out and the most successful gala in the history of the ballet. Shelby and her team raised $2.7M for the ballet. Donna Roberts Lucci and husband Joe moved from NorCal to SoCal last year. They live in San Diego where Donna is teaching yoga and working as a health and nutrition consultant. Natalie (21) attends the University of San Diego and is studying psychology. She also works as a nanny. Olivia (20) graduated from AMDA in the dance conservatory program. She lives in Hollywood, recently got an agent, and is taking her first steps into the world of professional dance. In Donna’s words: Life is good and I am thankful every day for life’s simple blessings. Lynn Clifford has been singing My Old Kentucky Home this past year as she and Brad settled into their home in Lexington, KY. When we caught up, UK had just been bumped from the NCAA basketball playoffs, but Lynn told me the whole experience of living in a town caught up in chasing a national title was so much fun!

Daughter Amory is on Oahu working as a vet and son Liam works at the University of Kentucky. Elliott graduated this spring with a master’s in philosophy from the University of Chicago and he is considering whether to press on for his PhD or work for a few years. Lynn loves Lexington, enjoys the bourbon and traveling through the south with Brad as he attends various work-related conventions.

Grace (Muffie) Doyle Bigelow has had a busy year. She is the community-based organization outreach coordinator/project manager on the SiNERGe project where she is working with local community-based organizations to support physicians in educating their peers about sickle cell disease. She is a participant on the McElderry Park Community Revitalization

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Bonsal Waters Brown, 1977 and her son, Redmond

Coalition providing professional guidance for youth and those re-entering the workforce. She has started her own business, Sherwood Bigelow Enterprises, where she is working on a plan to create a gallery/retail establishment with a commitment to the City of Baltimore on a variety of fronts. And, if all that’s not enough, she is a member of the health and wellness committee at the Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School. Daughter, Callie, graduates this June from Towson High School and is on her way to pursuing a career in skin care. She works full time at About Faces in Canton. Last May, Jenny Teufel left her long-time job at Oracle and started a new job as a principal development engineer at Covidien/Medtronics.

During her time off she was able to travel with her sister, Nicky Teufel-Shone, 1972 to Portugal where she presented a paper at the International Conference on Intangible Heritage. Then her new bosses allowed her to take five weeks off to take an extended vacation with Bob. They flew into Madrid and stayed a few days before renting a car and heading northwest. They visited Santiago de Campostela, then traveled east through the Asturius and Cantabria regions, then all the way over to Barcelona, down to Valencia and back to Madrid. Maralee Sweren Clark spent her spring break in England visiting Steve’s family. Their son, Andrew got married in

December to Christa whom he met on the Duke swim team. Rebecca Clark, 2007 was a bridesmaid. Maralee is the principal of a new public school, Lyons Mill Elementary, in Baltimore County that will open in August. If anyone wants to volunteer in the new classrooms at Lyons Mill, please let her know!

Steve and Andrew still work at T. Rowe Price and Rebecca is a special education teacher at KIPP Harmony in Baltimore City. Rebecca is getting her master’s from Johns Hopkins School of Education in May. This past year Alix (Babby) Cochrane Rodman has seen one son start his climb on the corporate ladder and another get ready to go to college. Drew is in Oakland, CA where he is a software engineer at Pandora. John graduated from high school and will go to engineering school at Syracuse.

Alix continues her work managing the Women’s Club of Roland Park’s daily activities.

The family is taking a trip to California in June to visit Drew. Betty Simpson Beirne works at AstroZeneca in business insights for infectious diseases. Husband Dan is in his 29th year at T. Rowe Price working in corporate training. He serves as the interim president for the local toastmasters (no surprise for all of us who know him well!). Matthew lives downtown and works at Toyota Financial and Sean is in DC working as an intern for an Energy Policy NGO. Tucker Ellinghaus Hackett’s son, Alexander (14) is now taller than his mother!

Elizabeth (9) is absolutely adorable. The Hacketts are happily entrenched in Stamford, CT and Tucker is transitioning to new work in New York City.

She attended an RPCS Reunion in New York City at the home of Cathy Caplan, 1978 and enjoyed catching up with those who were there. May marks 5 years for Ellen Meyer Abrams as HR director at Rosedale Federal, a job which keeps her busy. She loves having Jenn Abrams, 1999 close by in DC where she works as a research

Lauren Pine, 2015 with her grandmother Lou Dukes Pine, 1947 and aunt Peggy Pine Utermohle, 1977

assistant at a nonprofit. Peggy Pine Utermohle teaches Pre-K at Good Shepard in Ruxton with Brooke Gomer Yearley. Clarke is working in a band on the side – he played at the Towson Festival in May. Claire Utermohle, 2013 transferred to the University of Maryland following in her dad’s footsteps as a Terp and loves it. She is working hard but still finds some time to enjoy sorority life. Her niece Lauren Pine, 2015, the last of the Pine legacy (for now) at RPCS, graduated this year. Hard to believe! Peggy is still playing Dr. Doolittle to a cat, dog, rabbit, gecko and many fish.

Brooke McDonald and husband Michael have been to Uzbekistan four times in 18 months to work with young television journalists on developing new programs and better journalism. They also had a wonderful trip to Geneva to meet recently discovered relatives on his side. Bonsal Waters Brown has been at PNC for 37 years, ten of which were overseeing their Towson office. Since the end of January, she has been at their Hereford office, which is a good thing since she and her husband Steve moved to Upperco. Steve designed their new home, which was featured in Style magazine.

Bonsal’s son Redmond graduated from PNC’s management training program and is a business banker in Towson. Maggie (Miggy) Yarlott Brown and Rich are busy parenting their talented brood! Her oldest son Duncan goes to West Point and Mark received his pilot’s license in November as a senior in high school. David and Elisabeth are both into soccer. In her spare time Maggie has honed her knitting skills and participated in some local workshops. Sharon Donkervoet Credit, Joe, and the girls have had a great beginning to this year.

Kim, 2013’s industrial design program at University of Cincinnati is a co-op program, and the first co-op she chose was in Hunt Valley. She loves ID and is unbelievably energized and engaged by her program. Katie, 2009 works at Whitman, Requardt and Associates as a structural engineer in Fells Point and is very happy living in the city. Jodi, 2016 is doing a good job of navigating her way through all of the extra stress that goes along with 11th Grade. “It’s kind of hard to believe we only have one more year at Roland Park!”

This past year has been a year of change for the Heubecks. David and I, Leslie Mosberg Heubeck, made the move from Homeland to Baltimore County after living all our Baltimore Lives within a mile of both our childhood homes. We love county life and it’s been a wonderful first step to retirement.

Our daughter Hilary, 2007 graduated in May with a MFA in Interior Design from George Washington University and Hanly, 2006 lives and works in Canton.

Connie Williams Maybin, 1978 Memorial Endowment In January RPCS alumnae who are members of the Connie Williams Maybin, 1978 Memorial Endowment Committee met for lunch with Connie’s mother Vandelia Parker. They gathered to celebrate reaching the $50,000 threshold for the endowed fund in memory of Connie. The Connie Williams Maybin, 1978 Memorial Endowment was established in 2014 with a generous grant from the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation, Inc. along with personal contributions and corporate Jenny Davis Hope, 1978, Vandelia Parker matching gifts from her classmates, (Connie’s mother) and Susan Moore Short, 1978 teammates, RPCS alumnae and parents.

This fund provides financial assistance to deserving students, with preference given to those who are African American and demonstrate interest in athletics. This endowment also underwrites the Connie Williams Excellence in Athletics Award.

Class of 1978 Susan Irving Taylor susan@tdtsit.com Susan Taseff deMuth is still at Hopkins after nearly 20 years and loves it. As Executive Director of Alumni Relations she travels quite a bit – Southwest is one of her best friends. She shared: Murray and I still live in Homeland and will be celebrating our 30th anniversary this summer! Perkins is engaged and lives in Russia. It looks like the wedding will be in Russia where he lives and when they move

back we will have a party here to celebrate.

Ellie, 2010 lives in Canton and works as a marketing associate for Archon Interactive. If you have a chance to visit Canton it is quite the happening place – great restaurants and shops!

Susan Moore Short writes: Q and I are in status quo mode and learning to deal with the second set of homework problems, the second list of activities to fold into the calendar. Mackie (9) finished 4th Grade plays piano and clarinet, participates in plays and choir at church, and plays baseball. Will (6) finished Kindergarten, started to play baseball this year and reluctantly participated in church presentations. I am still at T. Rowe Price in the front office data space with my team working on building a

Judy Waters with Susan Taseff deMuth, 1978, Ellie deMuth, 2010 and Jean Waller Brune, 1960

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new data enhancement environment. It is an interesting time for data work with a lot of regulatory issues, new tools to learn in addition to new and old data to analyze. Q’s company is working on a new web app for the hotel industry that he is enjoying immensely.

Jenny Davis Hope and I went to New Orleans for our annual Ravens trip, which was a lot of fun. I am still learning gospel music in the choir at church and have my first solo in May. We are headed to Charleston, SC in April for a family wedding, and then back to Lake Anna and Long Beach Island for our bookend summer vacations. Other than that, the kids grow like weeds and my gray hair volume increases. Margot Van Buskirk Hoerner has discovered the joy of Facebook and how it can keep us all connected. She says: I enjoy the opportunity to stay connected on Facebook with all of you from 78 is great! While I am not a fan of Facebook, it is a quick way to hear what is going on. I think many of us have moved to a different chapter of our lives with aging and dying parents, health challenges, college tuitions and even being grandparents.

Our kids are all out of the nest and doing exciting work, one at the Pentagon with the Navy who is getting married in September, one working for Teach for America in Boston, and our son is working in NYC in banking. I recently accepted a new job with P&G that is based in New York so I commute three days per week and work from home the others. So far I love it. I continue to be grateful for the treasured friendships from our Class who keep me laughing, loving and living. Jenny Davis Hope remains very involved in community development: I enjoy my work at Telesis as a project manager on the redevelopment of the Barclay neighborhood. My daughter Maggie got married this past year to Matt. They live in Pikesville with their pit bulls and George is living in Canton with his dog. I love the grand dogs but sure will love the babies more - not so subtle hint! Susan Moore Short and I returned to watch the Ravens in New Orleans in November after being there in May for Maggie’s wedding. A lot of my nieces and nephews are heading down the aisle this year, so that will be fun! The Duke and Duchess moved in with my brother Tucker and his wife in Baltimore County. I am happy to have Tucker closer to home and it is a great party house keeping the cold duck tradition alive! I saw Connie Williams Maybin’s family this week at the celebration of Aunt Pearline’s life. I encourage everyone to look at our yearbook and the ad that Pearline took out for Connie - “Remember all those times you left me waiting for you after school in the cold.

Congrats anyway. Love, Aunt Pearline”. Too funny! Looking forward to our next Reunion.

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Kristin Ranum Franceschi lives in Baltimore, juggling work, dance and ongoing medical issues. She and her dance partner, a JHH physician, won two national championships in March and placed second in their other two events. Amanda Hopkins Tirrell writes: After 13 years in Massachusetts, I said goodbye to the ice and snow, made my 13th career move and headed south to Augusta, GA where I am the Chief Operating Officer for Georgia Regents Medical Associates, the faculty practice of the Medical College of Georgia. I love the challenges this job has, the people are great, and the climate is amazing! My husband Chris was able to arrange a transfer with his marine construction company to base out of their Chattanooga, TN office so he works from our new home in North Augusta, SC and is on the road quite a bit developing new clients for his company. My daughter Penelope graduated from Eckerd College last May and works for AmeriCorps teaching English in an amazing inner city charter school in Tampa, FL. We are glad to be closer to Penelope although we don’t see her as often as we would like. My mom is still hanging in there at 84 years old and lives in Bel Air. Although want her to relocate further South, she is determined to maintain her independence. As for me, Susan Irving Taylor, I’m nomadic, dividing my time between Baltimore and Maine. The house is well underway but not ready for a girls’ weekend just yet! Terry and I try to travel every few months with diving being the focus for him and relaxing and enjoying beautiful places being the focus for me! I also agreed to stay involved with the Symphony Decorators’ Show House and co-chaired it this year. It has been fun because there are so many old RPCS ties to the house. We are enjoying being empty-nesters even though we have multiple nests! Rachel, 2012 is entering her senior year at URI and Becca, 2008 has been living and working in DC for several years. We don’t see them enough and I know I’m not the only one in the class who says that! Until next year...

Class of 1979 35th Reunion Noel Rippel Bradley noelerbradley@verizon.net Those who were able to attend our 35th Reunion last fall at the home of Margie Waters Forner, we had a great time telling each other how great we still look as well as reminiscing with our beloved 7th Grade English teacher Mrs. Heuisler and Upper School French

From the Class of 1979 Lynn Goldstein Phillips, Margie Waters Forner, Catherine Hilgartner, and Nancy Dees Golya

teacher Mrs. Trapp. We were excited to have Mimi Kapiloff with us whom we hadn’t seen in a long time along with Deirdre Tanton who lives in Annapolis where she is a graphic designer in the communications department at the Comptroller of Maryland. We extend congratulations to several classmates for their significant accomplishments this past year, including Sonia Hosono Mintun who recently won the Woman of Note Award from Crains Cleveland and also ran in her first half marathon: I am still in Cleveland and life here is good although the winter was really long. My younger son is in the graduate program at the University of Chicago and my oldest lives in Jacksonville, FL working for Sherwin Williams. Lisa Campbell Sylvestri retired last December after 17 years with Sprint and 31 years in the wireless industry.

Lisa and Ken sold their home in Arlington, VA moved to Lewes, DE where they built a new home and welcome visitors. Lisa’s oldest son Ross graduated from Christopher Newport University in May with honors and returns to Northern Virginia to find a job. Alison Owens lives in West Towson and finished her master’s in nursing last December from Johns Hopkins.

She works at JHH as the functional unit nursing programs coordinator for Radiology/ Interventional Radiology and is busy with various projects and managing a nurse coordinator team. Her oldest daughter Sarah graduated from Towson in May with a master’s in occupational therapy and her daughter Kelly is a college student in Baltimore, following a year working in New York and teaching at a children’s school in China last summer. Her son Tony (19) is a

Poster design by Deidre Tanton, 1979

computer science major at Towson and her youngest son Drew (18) is a computer science major at the Community College of Baltimore County. Her mother lives in Edenwald and is in Gilchrist hospice care. She is “frail, but always in good spirits, which is a true blessing.” Congratulations also to Johanna Miller Lewis now the associate dean of undergraduate programs in the College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences at University of Arkansas, Little Rock. She shared: a week after our fabulous Reunion, I managed to break my left foot when my right knee collapsed. This led to me spending seven months in a boot and on crutches. The entire Miller clan went to Bermuda for Christmas.

We celebrated at my sister Mary’s house, ate wonderful food, and spread my mother’s ashes in the Atlantic Ocean per her wishes. Patti Evans Best is still on the run having completed several marathons including Madrid and Mainz last spring and is in her 30th year of government service as a teacher for the Department of Defense in Wiesbaden: The light is most definitely shining in the end of the work tunnel. My oldest son Raymond was married in August to a wonderful woman who is also from the U.S. but whom he met while studying abroad in Australia. Catherine Hilgartner returned to Baltimore after years in New Jersey. Her triplets finished their freshman year, Maggie at Denison University, Joe at Champlain College and Clare at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has enjoyed reconnecting with classmates Nancy Dees Golya who lives in Bel Air, Margie Waters Forner and Lynn Goldstein Phillips when she is in town visiting from Oregon. Catherine contends her life is a soap opera and is open to selling the rights to the story. Nancy Scriba

Noppenberger reports: the Noppenbergers are well with one son finishing up his freshman year at RIT studying industrial design. The biggest lesson he learned is that there is no such thing as cramming for a design class. 150 sketches must be done on 150 pages! His little sister wrapped up her junior year at Maryvale with lead roles in The Wizard of Oz (the Wicked Witch), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck) and stepping offstage as costume designer for the student led production of Our Town. Her summer featured a lead role in the local summer stock production of Addams Family Values (Morticia). We are widening the doorways at home to accommodate the grand entrances! Nancy works as the chief financial officer of the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore while her husband toils away at M&T Bank. Mark and Jane Bennett Taeger have been on the 2015 Plan: after 22 years we are finally done with tuition bills! Isabel (22) graduated from Florida Southern College with a degree in philosophy. She works in the HR department of Champs Sports in Bradenton, FL. Allie (25) did her study abroad this year at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine doing research in adolescent medicine which will be published this summer. In July, Allie received her M.D. from University of Manchester in England. She will do her residency in Dundee, Scotland and wedding bells will be ringing in Scotland for Allie next year. After ten years as Director of Compliance for Samuel Shapiro & Company, Inc. and 30 years as a customs broker, Jane has crossed over to the other side of the business and works for Danfoss, a large multinational importer/exporter. She was thrilled to travel to Denmark in June on her first official trip with the company. On a very sad note, her brother David Bennett passed

away unexpectedly in May at the age of 58.

Elaine Howard Christ reports: my sons are thriving in college. Our oldest Jack had a stellar year as a varsity rower and Patrick performed in his school’s concert choir. My parents moved from their home on Tunbridge Lane and have adjusted to Roland Park Place.

My husband Jeff retired from Gilman last spring after 38 years – a huge milestone! Page McDonald Crosby continues occupational therapy work at Stella Maris Home Care.

Nelson moved to San Francisco to work for SOM architecture. Reiley lives in Federal Hill and works at RBC. Sam is entering his junior year at South Carolina University which he loves. Her husband Andy has a new job as a project manager for a local commercial building company. They are enjoying their empty nest and getting back to playing tennis, golf, lots of reading, walking, biking and gardening. J. Saville Janney MacDonald is Sra. MacDonald at Baltimore’s Trinity School.

Jeanie Dyer Jones celebrated her daughter Katherine’s graduation from Cornell last spring. Her oldest son Clay is training for Special Forces at Ft. Bragg and Paul and Missy Harper Rose enjoy being empty-nesters by traveling, visiting family, playing golf and volunteering. We were saddened by the news that Selby Hall lost her mother this past spring.

I was able to briefly visit with Selby and Kim Miser Yost, both of whom look fabulous, in Baltimore and am hoping to catch up with them again soon. I, Noel Rippel Bradley, spent the past year saying yes to way too much in my kids’ and love every minute of it! I have lived a bit vicariously, especially through Taylor, now a senior at Holton-Arms School, where she choreographs pieces for her school dance ensemble, leads a new Fellowship of Christian

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Like Mother, Like Daughter Claire Evans, 2016 wore her mother’s prom dress from 1981 to the Gilman Prom in June. Her mother Julie George Evans, 1981 exclaimed, “There is no question who wore it better but I am so glad Claire ditched the capelet!” Claire will be a co-editor of the 2016 Quid Nunc next year and is looking forward to her senior year.

Claire Evans, 2016 with her date at the Gilman Prom

Athletes group for her school and appeared in her first stage production Damn Yankees with the local boys’ school. My fun was raiding the school costume closet to dress all the girls in the show. Now it’s on to college shopping, while trying to figure out how to keep up with our Jack (13) who is in 8th Grade at Landon School. Sheila Maith reports: I am trying to make time stand still by not doing anything different. My son, a cross country runner at Oberlin, is a junior and my daughter is in 8th Grade at St. Andrews Episcopal School in Potomac, MD. She stole the show last year as donkey in Shrek (ok, that is her mother speaking). I got my certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown at the end of 2014 and am continuing my work as an executive coach and consultant; tell class of 1979 to send me clients. My husband gave me a canoe for Mother’s Day. Yes, the girl who could not carry her own backpack at Woodlands. It was great to see so many at Margie’s for the Reunion and I send greetings from the Bald Dog’s girlfriend, who is living quietly in semiretirement.” And that my dear friends, is the perfect conclusion to this update!

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Julie George Evans, 1981 gets ready for her Prom at RPCS.

Class of 1981 Anne Schlott Hillers, 1981 annhillers@gmail.com A new year and actually some new news!

Mostly we are starting to see empty nesters or kids heading off to college, which may explain some budding entrepreneurs. My sister Becky Schlott Redett, 1983 has launched her own company, Sassy Cyclist, selling colorful, fun and funky biking jerseys to women. Also in this esteemed category is Libby Sunderland Fitzgerald. She writes: I started a company with a business partner last year and we are launching in July. It’s called Sea Star Beachwear and we are making a chic water shoe.

Essentially it is an espadrille that has been reimagined out of neoprene and rubber so that it can stay on your feet when you wear it in the ocean or pond. It has been an interesting learning experience and we have had a lot of fun. If you can wear Libby’s shoes while sporting one of Becky’s shirts we may have a talk show in the making, Business Stars of

Roland Park. Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, with whom I had occasion to spend the most fabulous week down here in San Miguel de Allende with husband Charlie and Jorie Rice Cogguillo reports: As I write this, our youngest daughter, Eliza is about to put on that long white gown and graduate from RPCS. She’s had a fantastic time and ​I’m glad to say she was a far better student than I was. Charlie and I joined Jorie and​ Chris Cogguillo and we all had a ball freeloading off Ann and Sam Hillers in San Miguel this spring. Their new house is spectacular. After a day exploring this beautiful town we inevitably found ourselves drinking Ann’s superb margaritas, soaking in their solar heated pool while Sam grilled the juiciest pork chops we’ve ever had. It is about as close to perfection as I am likely to experience this side of heaven!​ Beth House Graham is still getting the most out of life and possibly thinking about a move down to my neck of the woods. She shared: Scott is busy planning our future, Duncan lives in San Francisco as a techie doing computer design work independently, Rachel is at UMD College Park and has settled into college life after living in Paris for a gap year and Maria is a senior at Friends. So after this school year the Graham nest will be empty and we are recreating our lives. We will always have a base in Baltimore City, but Scott’s gotten so excited about the concept of international living. Teaching yoga and nutrition will be a part of the mix and Scott will be program designing computer applications and staying in contact with insurance clients. So we are looking at the next few years as a time of a lot of fun, exploration and new adventures! So many simple pleasure we enjoy every day: just planted the veggie garden, fun night in Hamden last night, walk to Belvedere Square to food shop, taking a yoga class all with smiles, chuckles and laughs.​Clare Stewart Perry is a fellow ex-pat like me. She logs on from south of the border, way south of the border. She reports: I moved ​from ​China to Chile. I like those five letter C countries.

Anyone have any suggestions for next stop?​

Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, 1981 with sister Kate Whitaker Chaplin, 1984 and Amanda Schlott Lietman, 1984

Congo? Not sure I’m in. Three teenagers in the house; well one is in boarding school so only sometimes in the house. I used to work at a boarding school and thought who are those parents who send their kids to boarding school? Not only do we have a kid in boarding school but on a different continent! He loves it and so we love it for him. Santiago is a great place to live; mountains, great food, Spanish nearly attainable, fresher air than Beijing. We would love visitors! Karol McAdam Obora is still running herself ragged as Sports Mother of the Year. She barely had time to type this: You can make something up. I am writing back after a very long but successful lax championship and think I am going to collapse.

We seem to endlessly traipse from sport to sport activities these days. We are very grateful for our newly minted driver helping us manage.

Time is flying by! Christine Herman Smith is making big changes: I am now a member of a

local bagpipe band, playing and marching. I hadn’t been in a band since the Baltimore City Pipe Band when I competed seriously as a solo piper and with a competition band, then I totally gave up pipes when my art career took off. The John F. Nicholl Pipe Band was recruiting so I contacted them, then started the very next week! Some of you remember that I piped from our old School to the new one in fall of 1980, up Roland Avenue in kind of a parade. It took a little time to get back into the groove, but practicing every week got me back into shape. Come see us at the annual Towson Fourth of July Parade. I still have my horse Bombay and am down to one dog Lilibelle.​ Julie George Evans writes: In one year I will be an empty-nester, which I have mixed feelings about. I am looking forward to my daughter Claire Evans, 2016 final year at RPCS and all the excitement surrounding being a senior (minus the college application process). She

has a busy summer planned working on themes for the yearbook, artwork for her portfolio, community service and Semiquavers practice for opening convocation. My husband Dan and I had fun going to the first University of Wisconsin/University of Maryland football game, where our son Austin is now a junior. It was homecoming weekend and I have never seen so much red and white school spirit in my life. Coincidentally, Claire may also continue the red and white tradition if she ends up at the University of Cincinnati School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. My mother has experienced a major health issue this year so I am grateful that I live nearby and that my job at Second Presbyterian Church allows me the flexibility to help when needed. I am also continuing my master’s program in professional writing at Towson University.​Missy Sinwell Smith: I have been spending time as barn Mom/Sherpa for my daughter Stevie at different horse shows. She qualified for Nationals in West Palm Beach. It’s lovely to see her lose her cares on the course. It’s just her and her pony. It reminds me how the plays use to be for me. For all the Moms in our class, I bow to you for the late nights and early mornings you’ve already had in supporting your children’s passions.​Booper (Annlee) Jones-Boutwell is getting us geared up for our 35th Reunion. I suggest we take her advice: All is well in lovely west Towson. Rob and I became empty nesters this year and have enjoyed 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 (23) is living and working in the big apple in the neighborhood of Chelsea. She works in marketing at PHD Worldwide. Amity (19) is transferring from Miami of Ohio to Arizona State for her second year in engineering. I hope all my former RPCS classmates are happy and healthy. Let’s do something spectacular for

Annlee Jones-Boutwell, 1981 in Crested Butte with her husband Rob Boutwell.

Sons of Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981 - Redd, Mason, and Bo Hillers in Yelapa, Mexico

Charlie and Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, 1981 in San Miguel de Allende

Amity Jackson, 2014’s graduation from RPCS last spring with her sister Kelsey Jackson, 2010, mother Annlee Jones-Boutwell, 1981 and aunt M.C. Jones Johnson, 1972

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Christine Herman Smith, 1981 bagpiper

Molly Whitaker O’Donovan, 1981, Jorie Rice Cogguillo, 1981 and Ann Schlott Hillers, 1981

Julie George Evans, 1981 and her daughter Claire Evans, 2016 Semiquaver.

our 35th! Jorie Rice Cogguillo: All is well in Connecticut. I just finished up a busy spring sports season with countless games and practices but both Grace and Leah had winning lacrosse seasons. Megan finished her junior year at Dartmouth and will be interning in New York City this summer while living in Brooklyn. Will received a master’s in math from Lehigh this spring and has rejoined the nest while searching for employment. Leah graduated from 8th Grade and will be headed to high school in the fall with her sister. We have had the good fortune this spring to host the AFS student from Grace’s high school. She is from Switzerland and, unlike Liliana, has successfully avoided the American 50. Chris and I had a great time this spring visiting nuestros amigos Ann and Sam in San Miguel d’Allende, Mexico, enjoying awesome food, margaritas, and company. We love their incredible lifestyle! Another mother in the throes of sportsdom is Jeanne Gerstley Weiner who found a few spare moments to fill us in: I wish I could pass on some great and funny events of the past year, but boy are we a boring bunch! Zach and Jake have both landed jobs in NYC and are living together in Brooklyn.

Exciting that they are both employed and independent, but I wish they had more free time to hang with us at home. I miss seeing my little boys. Emmy just returned from a semester in Prague and is heading to Maine for another summer as a camp counselor. She will return to Kenyon College in the fall for her senior year. Yikes! Allie also is heading up to

Maine for her final summer as a camper. Just like her mom; she loves life in Maine and spending the summer at camp! Jeff and I are doing well. We travel to NYC to visit the boys and watch lots of field hockey games, which is always fun. I, Ann Schlott Hillers, am reporting live from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, moving into year seven of expat life south of the border. Because we have no school, family or sports commitments, we travel a fair amount. We spent nine weeks in Southeast Asia last summer, exploring street food in Bangkok, segways in Chiang Mai, the Mekong in Luang Prabang, Angkor Wat in Siam Reap, Cambodia and the killing fields in Phnom Penh. We ended up in Bali for a month where the whole family learned to scuba dive.

The highlight was a wreck dive at dawn where these prehistoric looking beasts called bumpnose parrot fish came gliding out of the ship as the sun started to filter through the water. The trip was so wonderful that we are heading back next summer to Vietnam, China and Myanmar. I would love some company! So, let’s all start thinking about 35.

I’m in.

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Stevie, daughter of Missy Sinwell Smith, 1981

Class of 1982 Kathy Keys Osborn bmorekathy@verizon.net Megan Mardiney’s son Jackson is making his Broadway debut this year in Finding Neverland and Elizabeth Rosenberg is going to be a grandma in September. Kira Sekulow reports: my report seems the same every year: Boring! But my son went to his prom with Libby Davis Fraker’s daughter. How cute is that? Wendi Frenkil Biemer had all sorts of exciting news to report: I spent two months in Paris celebrating my 50th birthday in March. During the course of my stay, I had many friends visit. We traveled, visited many wonderful museums, ate well, laughed and talked for hours on end. Garrett married his college sweetheart Rachel in Rochester, NY. They live in Boston where Rachel is a high school biology teacher and Garrett works for a division of British Aeronautics. Colan

Natalie Polk, 2012 and Ingrid Boynton Polk, 1982 with Kristin Polk, 2014

Classmates from 1982 in Paris - Carol Croft Linde, Katie Brooks McEntee, Liz Brune, Valerie Edwards Vaile, and Wendi Frenkil Biemer

is in his third year of a five year program in computer science at Drexel University. As he instructs me to write every year, I am to report nothing more about him other than he is doing ok. Ed accepted a new job at Hasting Direct, a British insurance company. We sold our home in Chicago and moved to Eastbourne, England in December. Eastbourne is a summer retreat so picture us living at the New Jersey shore but with everyone driving on the wrong side of the road. If you are anywhere nearby, we have a guest room or we are happy to meet you in London for a spot of tea! Sarah Mello writes: I finished my graduate program in mental health counseling last June and have been gradually building a private practice specializing primarily in parenting, coparenting and divorce issues. One day a week I work for Robin’s Nest, a county agency where I work exclusively with children and

teens, many with devastating histories of trauma. This work is helping me keep things in perspective as my son is into his tween stage. I was never great at math and surely didn’t calculate that menopause and puberty would be happening in our tiny little house at the same time. Charlie asked me which lasts longer and I told him I wasn’t entirely sure we would both make it out alive and that I was raised to be pretty tough. Caroline Case Scace and her family are bouncing back after a tough year dominated by Greg’s ACL replacement and physical therapy: I’m pleased to report he is doing great and even skied in January. I did the Mom thing and managed the kids, Anneke (10) and Charley (6) and their activities as best as I could. Now it is my turn to address a shoulder injury so I can return to swimming. Asmat Khan shared: We are all happy and healthy so no complaints

Kathy Keys Osborn, 1982 and her family at Halloween

Suzy Dunseath Bohn, 1982 and her son Scott Bohn

Ammara, 2021 just finished the 6th Grade.

How did that time pass so quickly? She had an amazing school year. She was Dorothy in the Middle School production of The Wiz, she came in 5th in the Baltimore Selling Bee, she was a lovely candy cane in the TWIGS ballet performance of Hansel and Gretel and had a beautiful piano recital at the Peabody. She is looking forward to a fun and relaxing summer, kicked off by our family trip to France and Italy at the end of June. Amy Taliaferro lives in Roland Park doing massage and trauma therapy and A.J. Johnston is living on the Eastern Shore, doing historic preservation work, and teaching classes on racial justice.

Vienne Hucek Rea’s fine art nude photography won an international juried competition and exhibited at LightBox Photographic Art Gallery in Oregon. Her winning photograph will be published in BLUR magazine’s April 2015 issue. Vienne’s desire to create traditional metal sculpture urged her to reach for her

Jackson, son of Megan Mardiney, 1982 his Broadway debut in Finding Neverland outside the Lunt Fontanne Theatre.

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From the Class of 1982 Suzy Dunseath Bohn, Kerry Schloeder Boyle, Libby Davis Fraker, Jane Daniels, Brittish Miser, Beth Atkins Schroeder

further goal and she learned to weld. It was her good fortune, via Francesca Kobsa Lynch, to be introduced to her mentor, renowned sculptor David Hess. With tenacity of spirit, Vienne’s metal sculpture has made its way into existence and into exhibition. Vienne’s first sculpture series, Ladder, premiered at the Mary Condon Hodgson Art Gallery in Maryland. Vienne is also a co-producer and co-collaborator with artist Rivers Scott Fisher on numerous contemporary art series-including Dirty Water, COVERGIRL and 33 RPM. She is preparing for a joint exhibition at the Jordan Faye Contemporary Art gallery in June as well as several other unannounced U.S. cities. Ten of Vienne’s artworks will be on exhibit for 18 months in a new gallery space at BWI Airport. She shares that she is busy and happy! As always, I am so grateful to be a mom to my three beautiful kids. Ingrid Boynton Polk is enjoying being an empty nester; the house stays clean, there is barely any trash and recycling, her grocery bill is a quarter of what it used to be, she has minimal laundry and she gets to sleep by ten on weekend nights.

Life is good! She does miss her girls though: Kristin enjoyed her first year at UVA majoring in systems engineering. She just pledged Delta Zeta. Natalie is a junior at Clemson majoring in computer engineering and she is in a Alpha Chi Omega. Ingrid wonders how she can have such smart math kids when she could barely get through Calculus with Ms. Reynolds and Ms. Hall! She thinks they have their dad to thank for most of their smart genes. They got Sadie,

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a Cockapoo puppy, last year who is keeping her company. Golf is her new thing and she admits it is a lot harder than most people think. On a sad note, she is still mourning the loss of her dad George Boynton this March who died after a five-year battle with ALS. She thanks everyone for the outpouring of love through Facebook, texts, emails and cards. It is difficult at this age as many of us are losing a parent. Keep God in our hearts and hold onto the wonderful memories. I, Kathy Keys Osborn, just finished my first year as a true soccer, baseball and lax mom. I am considering having a port-a-potty installed in my minivan because I think we spend more time in it that we do at home. Max (12), Boomer (10) and Kate (8) keep me busy between their sports and music. I endured the first year of middle school with Max. Our newest excitement is our kitten

A.J. (Anne Johnston), 1982 and Amy Taliaferro, 1982

Libby Davis Fraker, 1982’s daughter, Sally Fraker and Kira Sekulow, 1982’s son, Corey Sekulow together at their prom

Popoki and that my husband Mark and I are in the newest Old Bay commercial. Look for us as the punchline, “This could be you” plays at the end. The Class of 1982 are celebrating their big 50’s in all sorts of places, in all sorts of ways! Suzy Dunseath Bohn writes: Oldest son just got home from first year at college... so fun to see him!!! Second son headed to high school next year and third will be 8th grade... teenager boys everywhere, and that is why our dog must be a girl! I am still working as merchandiser and buyer at natural food co-op.

Still in Minnesota... which is a place I know you all have on your bucket lists to visit...come on out!”

Joanna Ester Flynn, 1982 and Marcia Holmes-Maye, 1982 still silly after all these years!

Class of 1993 Muffy Menton Fenwick fenwicks@gmail.com As I write this, school is winding down and everyone is excited for summer! First, a huge congratulations to Elizabeth Jones who married Jeff Gredlein last month in Captiva.

As expected, Elizabeth was a beautiful bride.

Ally Sibal Baker, Elizabeth Massing and Carla Bailey Murphy were there to celebrate with her. Elizabeth Massing is wearing a new red hat at RPCS, that of mom. Her daughter Jolie finished Kindergarten and from all accounts seems to love it. Also a new RPCS mom Carroll Knott McGill has enjoyed spending time at school with Ashby, 2025. Ashby loves cheering for the lacrosse team and showing off her red spirit costume. Carroll’s sons, Peter (12) and Burk (10), keep her equally busy. However, it is fun to tease Carroll that she is not too busy to perfect her golf game!

Whitney Fenwick Wasson is also busy with her three boys: Colby (13), Alex (10) and CJ (8). They go to Gilman and are active in many sports and activities. It is no surprise given Whitney’s endless energy and her ever-growing photography business, Whitney Wasson Photography. Whitney relies on help from Betsey Swingle Hobelmann who also manages to juggle a million balls and three busy kids, Anna (12), Caroline (10) and James (8). Over the past few years, Betsey has devoted so much time, energy and effort to the Collegiate Boys Charter School which will be a wonderful gift to Baltimore’s youth and an amazing accomplishment for her and her board. In addition, she remains very involved with the Baltimore School for the Arts where Carter Arnot Polakoff is the Development Director working tirelessly each year to showcase the unbelievable talents of their students. She balances this with keeping up with her two boys Nate (10) and Samson (8). It was so fun to celebrate Emily Rodger’s 40th birthday with her over Easter weekend. She came from Chicago to spend the holiday with her family and was surprised by friends and family including Megahn Hallahan LaNasa who came from New Jersey for the occasion with her twins, Olivia and Liam, in tow. Both Emily and Megahn have thriving careers but manage regular visits to Baltimore. For Megahn, living in New Jersey means being close to her brother and two nieces, a perk for her and her kids.

Emily timed her visit right after she had moved to a new apartment, escaping unpacked boxes for some birthday fun! Julie Hackett celebrated her birthday with a big announcement, that

she will soon be a mom! Congratulations to Julie who is expecting her first baby in a few months. She will certainly be a wonderful mom! Susie Michaelson Burbidge lives in New Hampshire where she remains active in loon preservation. She is having a ball with her son Ethan and recently enjoyed a trip to Boston to visit her sister and Ethan’s cousins. Colleen McCormick shared: In May our family welcomed Aela Caritas Hudson. She joins her big brothers Declan (4) and Camden (2).

I work as a gynecologic oncologist in Portland, OR. My husband is transitioning from being a stay-at-home dad to opening a small business, Seahorses, a dad and kids boutique. It’s been a crazy year! In New York, Liz Fishman is a beloved 5th Grade teacher while Anne Roche pops up on the small screen much to the delight of all of us! Katie Guba lives in Baltimore, works at T. Rowe Price and has fun making the trek to New York to see Anne Zink Blachman who has made the move to the “burbs” with her husband and three adorable kids, twins, Jane and Natalie, and son, Alex. Also enjoying motherhood in the city is Alex Meier Broenniman who loves living in Brooklyn with her daughters, Charley and Scarlett. She makes time for regular visits for some grandmom pampering in Baltimore and even put the girls on the ski slope this spring where she met up with Carroll Knott McGill. Brady Beale Clark is also always up for some grandparent time in Baltimore with her two girls, Anna and Livie.

Brady lives outside Philadelphia with her girls and husband Davis and keeps busy with her veterinary practice. Like everyone, I, Muffy Menton Fenwick, am looking forward to a happy and relaxing summer. My two kids, Annie (12) and Charlie (11) keep me forever busy and on my toes but it is crazy to think

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about how fast they are growing up. Just yesterday, Betsey and I reflected on the fact that we now have daughters who are officially 7th Graders which is the year that we both started RPCS and the year we remember most poignantly. I can only hope that Annie looks back on her time in Middle School with the same fondness I do! I hope all of you have a wonderful, relaxing summer. Please keep in touch and keep the notes coming. It is always so good to hear from you.

Alumnae Board President Katharine Fox Castro, 2004 with former Alumnae Board Presidents Betsey Swingle Hobelmann, 1993 and Kimberly Mitchell Wolff, 1995

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Alumnae Weekend 2014

Members of the Class of 1954 celebrate their 60th Reunion (front row) Jeanie Walter Teare, Ann Wilson Boyce, Lynn Brewington Havard, (back row) Margo McElvain McClellan, Anne Turner Pope, Ann Clark Bass, Suzanne Michel Twells, Welby Hamilton Loane, Carolyn Powell Lalley and Jane Marbury Keggi

Carolyn Smith, 1949 with Jean Waller Brune at her 65th Reunion Betsy Rumford Thwaite, 1964 with Kendall Keehner, 2022 and Paige Macfarlane, 2022 at the 5th Grade Tea

Members of the Class of 1969 (front row) Cathy Lears Bennett, Mary Hays Vollmer (back row) Ellen Reichenbach Gruber, Nancy Townshend Haas, Ann King Kotmair, Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle, Pam Miller Loya, Jane Beazley DeCell

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Members of the Class of 1959 Mimi Ritter O’Neill, Betty Norris Govatos, Caroline Savage Wanstall, Jonnie Struven Barroll

Alumnae Weekend 2014

The Class of 1974 celebrates their 40th Reunion

The Class of 2004 celebrates their 10th Reunion Members of the Class of 1989 Michelle Sun Smith, Raquel Whiting Gilmer, Jody Kent Lemken, Sarah Foster Rhea

Members of the Class of 1984 Linda Schaefer Cameron, Marion Brune Paterson, Amanda Schlott Lietman, Kate Whitaker Chaplin and Caroline McKeldin Wayner at the Champagne Reception.

The Class of 2009 celebrates their 5th Reunion

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Alumnae Champagne Reception

Janice Moore with members of the Class of 1994 Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, Peggy Boutilier Williams, Rita Beyer Buettner, Caroline Smith Hickey, Melissa Cully Anderson, Eliza Smith Steinmeier, Mallory Schofield Brauson, Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, Sara Speert Edelstein, Jen Nelson Descoteau

Members of the Class of 1969 Mary Hays Vollmer, Ann King Kotmair, Cathy Lears Bennett, Nancy Townshend Haas, Pam Miller Loya, JL Sprol Hurley, Marianna Spicer Joslyn, Valerie Stafford Hardy-Sprenkle, Jane Beazley DeCell

Members of the Class of 1964 Livvie Streett Rasmussen, Sue Sharp, Martha Dorman Clark, Betsy Athey, Connie Sparrow

Former and current Semiquavers join in singing the School Song

Members of the Class of 1999 Maya Tasher Barron, Brooke Crittendon and Christina Smith Fenton

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Members of the Class of 2001 Lauren Dodrill Benjamin, Sarah Harrison Lenahan, Erin Lears Richardson

Jean Waller Brune with members of the Class of 1964

Dushane Luncheon

SAVE THE DATE ALUMNAE WEEKEND October 1st – 4th, 2015 Join us in celebrating Reunion Classes of 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 & 2010

Schedule of Events Thursday, October 1 11:15AM - 4:00PM Cherry Tree Council Colloquium for all Alumnae A day in the life of RPCS - tours, classroom visits, lunch, meetings with student leaders and faculty presentations

Friday, October 2 10:30AM - 12:30PM Career Day Assembly and Luncheon: Professions in the Arts 12:30PM - 2:00PM Reunion Luncheon for the Classes of 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 & 1960 2:30PM - 3:30PM 50th Tea for the Classes of 1965 & 2023 7:00PM 50th Reunion Dinner for the Class of 1965

Saturday, October 3 9:00AM - 11:00AM 40th and 45th Reunion Breakfast for the Classes of 1970 & 1975

Jean Waller Brune with Jeanie Horst Gore, 1953

9:30AM - 12:00PM Family Fun Fest for all Alumnae and their families with face painting, magician, treats, tours and more!

11:00AM - 12:00PM Book Discussion from the RPCS Summer Reading Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen 12:30PM - 2:00PM 5th & 10th Reunion Lunch for the Classes of 2005 & 2010 4:00PM - 5:00PM Alumna Artist Opening Reception: TBD 5:00PM - 7:00PM Champagne Reception for all Alumnae 7:30PM Dinners and Celebrations for Reunion Classes

Sunday, October 4 11:30AM - 1:30PM 25th Reunion Brunch for the Class of 1990 (Front row) Jinx Wilhelm Barton, 1945, Courtney Jones McKeldin, 1958, Pris Long Beirne, 1947, Lou Dukes Pine, 1947 (back row) Jean Waller Brune, Sally Foley, 1956, Lin Turner Hardy, 1964, Bonnie Getschel Sawyer, 1958, Ginny Wood Delauney, 1964, Ann Wittich Warfield, 1948, Betty Ann Schmick Howard, 1957, Eve Handy Hilgenberg, 1959

Contact the Alumnae Office to volunteer for your Class Reunion Committee!

Hotel Accommodations - Make Reservations by September 2: Hunt Valley Inn, Wyndham Grand - $125 per night - (877) 999-3223 Sheraton Baltimore North Towson - $129 per night - (888) 627-7147 Reference “Roland Park Country School Alumnae Weekend”

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Career Day Assembly Panel

Red Hot Chili Cook-off

(Front row left to right) Jen Nelson Descoteau, 1994, Tiana Redfern Oguaman, 1999, Upper School English teacher and Moderator, Melissa Cully Anderson, 1994, and Tara Bynum, 1998 (back row) Liz Dover Baker, 1990 and Chelsea Kirk, 2006 Members of the Class of 1998, Sabrina JohnsonTurner, Kristin Raneri Nicolini, Carol Dixon Croxton, and Kate Jordan

Cherry Tree Council Colloquium

Susan Anderson Mason, 1964, Ben Whitman friend of Livvie, Livvie Streett Rasmussen, 1964 and Mimsy Baker Spaulding, 1964

Little Bear Jamboree

Alumnae and their children enjoy the Little Bear Jamboree

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First place winner Dani Kell Steinbach, 2004 with her mother Stephanie Kell and Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, 1994

Alumna Artist

Alumna Artist 2014 Jennifer Dewey Berk, 1974

Athletic Hall of Fame 2014 Inductees Ann Tucker Gundry, 1952 Babs Norris Woodward, 1961 Andrée Williams Wight, 1964 Paula Sotir, 1975 Jeanne Lekin-Nash, 1993 Meghan Kelly Long, 1999 Dani Kell Steinbach, 2004 1998 Varsity Lacrosse Team Lin Turner Hardy, 1964 and Pat Voneiff Finney, 1964 accepting the AHOF award on behalf of Classmate and Inductee Andrée Williams Wight, 1964

Inductee Paula Sotir, 1975, with her family including sister Kris Sotir Martinson, 1987 and niece Alex Martinson, 2018

Connie Dent with Inductee Ann Tucker Gundry, 1952

Inductee Dani Kell Steinbach, 2004, with her family including sister Jackie Kell, 2009

1998 Varsity Lacrosse Team

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Alumnae Valentine’s Day Luncheon 2015

Carole Hocker McCrory, 1962 with granddaughters Scarlett Shek, 2023, Madeline Shek, 2026, and Francesca Shek, 2020.

Missy Cashman Vasile, 1990 with her daughters Riley, 2025, Cameron, 2027 and her niece Lindsay Cashman, 2018

Molly O’Hern, 2016, Mary Mazzulli, 2023, Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli, 1994, Maggie Mazzulli, 2024 and Christine Donovan, 1976

Carol Croft Linde, 1982 with her nieces Blake Croft, 2027 and Shapard Croft, 2023.

Susan Strahan, 1968, Becky Blackstone, 2015 and Nancy Strahan, 1970

Maddie Cochran, 2021, Laura George Cochran, 1990, Claire Evans, 2016, Julie George Evans, 1981

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Libby Rutledge Murphy, HA, Shawn Murphy George, 2000, Beth Murphy Darrell, 1985, Carlisle Darrell, 2016, Erin Murphy, 1982, Lindsey Miller Stone, 2001

Class of 1994 20th Reunion Rita Beyer Buettner rfbeyer@juno.com Even at one, Samantha Jeffery doesn’t need a sippy cup. You might not be overly impressed with that until you hear that she drinks from an open cup while sailing on the high seas.

Samantha and her parents, Bret and Virginia Hodges Jeffery have sold their home in New Zealand, bought a boat, and are off on their sailing adventure. Virginia wrote in March: We started a circumnavigation of NZ to prove the boat and our abilities. We just pulled into port after sailing for five days down the West Coast of the North Island. Sam is a real trooper and does not mind the high seas. Her first few words have been beach, baked beans, and Curious George. Do not stand in her way when one of those three things is involved. We are so happy to be on our way. Well on her way through another year of homeschooling as founder of the Hackman Academy is Kim Shuey Hackman, who is living with her husband, Trevor, and three children in Chapel Hill, N.C. She writes: Our big field trips this year included Hawaii, New York City, Emerald Island and Disney World. The kids really wanted to add on Greece and Alaska. Maybe next year! While in NYC, I met up with my former RPCS classmate Lindsay Mortimer and we took our kids to the top of the Empire State Building. I also loved being back in Baltimore for a weekend and seeing all our RPCS classmates. I was fortunate enough to squeeze in an O’s playoff game with my son and was filled with nostalgia being at Camden Yards. I have not been to a game since I worked there during the 1997 season! Seeing so many classmates for our Reunion at Eliza Smith Steinmeier’s home in Mount Washington was fantastic! If you missed it, please come for our next one. Eliza writes that she is still doing the

same work in Baja, and that Matt is still running CSG. Her sons Sam and Nicholas are savvy enough to open a lemonade stand to attract the Preakness crowds coming to their neighborhood. Unlikely to be stopping by for lemonade for a few years is Rebecca Ward, who is moving to Oahu with her husband, Dave, and their daughter, Lucy. Rebecca writes: Dave is finishing up his second residency—this time around he is an eye surgeon. He received orders ten days ago to Tripler Army Medical Center so we will be moving to Oahu in 90 days. I am doing the “permanent change of station” shuffle; studying for my law exam to allow me to practice pharmacy in Hawaii, finding a school for Lucy, sprucing up this house for rent, and trying to find a house on the island. I am picking up a few more grey hairs along the way. Picking up foster dogs and cats on a regular basis is Abbe Creaney whose daughter Josiah, 2017 is finishing up 10th grade at RPCS. Liam is beginning 6th Grade at Gilman in the fall, Violet just turned eight, Ruby is six,

and Ronan is three. Abbe writes: I still have a private acupuncture practice part time and teach at MUIH in Laurel part time. In April it will be one year since we started fostering cats and dogs through AARF animal rescue and it’s the best thing I’ve done in a long time! I encourage everyone to join me. Happy to join their grandparents for sleepovers are Craig and Lesley Whitten Armstrong’s daughters— Finley (9) Courtlyn (7) and Graysen (7). Lesley writes: Still living in Leesburg and our girls are growing up way too fast! Finley loves ballet, art, and fishing with daddy. Graysen loves science, ballet and golf. Courtlyn is our little mommy and loves ballet, dress-up, and helping Mommy with anything around the house! My parents moved to Leesburg a couple years ago and the girls just adore going to Nana & PopPop’s house for slumber parties. I am still very involved with school as class mom and I volunteer at least once a week and love it. It is so rewarding to help and the girls get so excited to see me at school. Craig’s favorite times with his girls is taking them for some

Sam and Nick, sons of Eliza Smith Steinmeier 1994

Kim Shuey Hackman, 1994 in NYC with former RPCS classmate Lindsay Mortimer

Rebecca Ward, 1994 and Sarah Brumfield, 1994

The Class of 1994 celebrates their 20th Reunion at Eliza Smith Steinmeier’s home

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Lesley Whitten Armstrong, 1994 and her husband Craig with daughters Finley, Graysen and Courtlyn

daddy/daughter golfing and fishing. The girls all take ballet, played basketball this winter, and look forward to playing golf, tennis, and lots of swimming this summer! Eager for swimming and warm weather this summer when she wrote in March was Katherine Gary Foley who was tired of shoveling snow in New York with her husband Michael and their daughter Brigid. Digging through drafts of her fifth book for Simon & Schuster’s middle grade series Sew Zoey is Caroline Smith Hickey who is writing under a pseudonym. In the fall she will be teaching a graduate class on writing for children. Caroline writes: Mike and the girls (6 and 3) are doing great and it seems like this year things have started to get a little easier managing the household. I am definitely jinxing myself by saying that.

Possibly jinxing herself by promising all of us tomatoes from her summer garden is Peggy Boutilier Williams, who is living in

Charlottesville, VA, with her husband, Tim, and their three children. Peggy writes: the Williams family welcomed their first dog into the family and yes - you guessed it - a liver and white English springer spaniel we have named Willie. He fits right in and loves playing fetch.

We have all three in the same school now with Emmy in Kindergarten, Tyler in 2nd, and Tommy in 4th. I am currently busy volunteering as PTO vp, coaching Emmy’s lacrosse team, and planning the summer garden! Growing much faster than Peggy’s tomatoes are Mallory Schofield Branson’s children, Addy, who is finishing 6th Grade and Jack, who is in third grade at St. Paul’s. Growing her boutique is Kate McAllister Walker, who writes: we are crazy as usual in South Carolina. Hayden will be 13 in June (yikes!). I loved watching him flourish in cross country and track and field.

My boutique passed its one-year mark in December and I love every minute. I am

Virginia Hodges Jeffery, 1994 and Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, 1994 with Samantha Jeffery and Carter, Lisa’s little guy.

Hala Tomhe Alsadek, 1994 with her sons, Khalid and Zayd

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looking into a second location and my mother plans to move more local and join me. (They are now in Naples, Fla). My husband owns his own business and stays quite busy. We plan to take our first real vacation in six years this summer to St. Martin. Being business owners does not allow much time off. Other than that I try to stay involved in Hayden’s school activities, local events and organizations and I am still running and doing some crossfit.

Fitting in time for their wedding last fall were Andrew and Amanda Behrens Buczynski, who are now married and living in Baltimore where they occasionally see Rosanna Best Corbin, who writes: things are great. Drew is entering 1st grade next year at Gilman and truly loves it. Colette (2) will be enrolling at Hunt’s Preschool in the fall. We live in Owings Mills and I am in my sixth year at the family business, Best Battery. I am in touch with many of the girls and really enjoy getting together to catch up. Trying to keep up with her daughter Tanner’s full schedule is Kim Ford, who is teaching art and enjoyed having Suzanne Nice-Bauer and her daughter Molly visit them in Atlanta this past year. Suzanne writes from New Jersey: Jackson is ten. Molly is eight. I am subbing in their school district as the school nurse. Our girls are the same age that Kim and I were when we met at RPCS. They hit it off so well! Lisa Loban Coleman and Jim Dills hit it off so well that they got married on Christmas Eve! Lisa writes: We have a fun and happy and very busy household and we are trying our best to keep up with four kiddos who all play sports. It’s not uncommon to have four to six games each weekend.

Obviously they didn’t get their athletic ability from me! Already showing his athletic ability on the ice is Kathleen Slingluff Wyatt’s son, Sean. Kathleen writes: we are still in Gaithersburg and I have been with the National Cancer Institute for just over a year in their Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genomics. I love it. Sean (5) has started playing hockey. No games yet as he is still

The family of Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, 1994

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getting the basics down. Adam has been busy with work and his band. We are still displaced right now from the burst pipe we had back in February, but hopefully will be able to move back into our house in the next month or so.

It’s been an interesting experience and I don’t recommend it to anyone! Melissa Cully Anderson had her own interesting experience when one of her children decided the family should wear matching Christmas pajamas on a family road trip in April. Melissa is the college counselor at the Greenwich Academy, where her daughters, Mairin and Chase, are students.

Her son, Liam, somehow turned three this May. Wearing not matching Christmas pajamas but beautifully coordinated outfits in their family photos are Brian and Lisa DiLonardo Lyman, who have four sons and one daughter. The Lymans live in Sherwood Forest, near Annapolis, which is where Amy Devadas works as a policy analyst for the Maryland Department of Legislative Services.

Also working in the same job is Shanita Leake Chase, but Shanita is also running her own business on the side, Celestial Sweets, which you might see at a local farmers market.

Dennis and Shanita’s children – Sera (13), David (10) and Daniel (5) are growing fast.

Also raising a five-year-old is Anne-Claire Hervy, whose husband, Simon, is still at American University. Anne-Claire writes: I am still working in international development and traveling a fair amount. Liam and Julien are five and three. We will be spending a month in France this year hoping to get the kids speaking French a bit more because they refuse at the moment. I am looking forward to that adventure. Not yet teaching her daughters

Sons of Anne-Claire Hervy, 1994

French is Sarah Brumfield who, with her husband, Jerome, and their daughter Fiona welcomed their daughter Deirdre in May 2014. If Sarah and Jerome are looking for a getaway, they are invited to London—as we all are—thanks to Susanna Pitts, who has been living there for 11 years. Her work in corporate strategy for a digital media agency involves travel to Asia. Susanna spent Easter in the Canary Islands, but her flat in London has lots of room and we are all welcome. 25th Reunion in London, anyone? Not missing Maryland as much as we might have hoped is Hala Tomhe

Alsadek who writes that she is still enjoying life in Southern California: Khalid and Zayd are 13 and almost seven. Still can’t believe I have a teenager! I started working again full time with CVS. Pharmacy practice is pretty different out here. I actually get a lunch break now. In Maryland I was lucky to get a few minutes to just run to the bathroom. Perhaps getting a few minutes to herself now and then is Erin Greenwood Goff, who with her husband, Sam, and son Ian welcomed their new baby boy, Thomas Bea Goff in May. And it wasn’t 2:40 p.m. when I stopped by the grocery store a few weeks ago and saw Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli who was buying ingredients for a pasta dish for an event at RPCS. If I am not running into Sarah Macsherry Huculak at Patient First, where she works, I see her at mass at St. Joseph Church, or volunteering at St. Joseph School in Cockeysville where our children go to school together. Because Baltimore is just that wonderfully small. Also in Baltimore is Catherine Passano McDonnell who continues to spend a lot of time on the RPCS campus with her and Seth’s three girls, Emma, 2022, Abby, 2024 and Cate, 2027 and her involvement with the Board of Trustees. I am sure I have seen many of you over the past year and heard your news and am failing to report it here. So please, please send it in next year. As for me, Rita Beyer Buettner, when I am not working for Loyola University Maryland, where I am director of marketing and communications, or blogging for The Catholic Review, I am worrying about the 1st grade homework assignment I accidentally threw away from Louis’s backpack or trying to convince Michael, who’s in Pre-K, that

Kelly Donovan-Mazzulli with daughters Mary, 2023 and Maggie, 2024 at the Red Hot Run

Lisa Loban Coleman, 1994 and her husband were married in December

Kim Shuey Hackman, 1994 and family

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Suzanne Nice Bauer, 1994 and Kim Ford, 1994 with their children

marshmallows are not a nutritionally complete lunch. John and I continue to love parenthood—and also unclehood and aunthood, as we welcomed our newest niece, Lucy Kateri Matysek, daughter of Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001 in October. My sister Shaileen Beyer, 1991 is Lucy’s godmother and an excessively popular aunt (as I send insincere apologies to Treasa and Maureen Beyer Moser, 1990, who won’t argue this point). Hope you all are doing well and that we will be in touch soon!

Class of 1995 Grace Kim gracejkim@gmail.com

Children of Emily Rose Harding, 1994

Erin Greenwood Gott, 1994 and Rachel Kowal Pedersen, 1994’s children

Jack and Addy, children of Mallory Schofield Branson, 1994 from Addy’s 5th grade graduation last year

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Welcome to the 20th edition of our class notes!

Jennifer Abraham Strauss reports: Dana is wrapping up Kindergarten. He loves school and it has been a great year. I work at Johnson Matthey and am enjoying the career change. I have learned a lot this past year. Genevieve Polk: I finally moved back to the States and to Baltimore. I work in injury prevention at the MD Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. I love being back in Baltimore and seeing RPCS folks like Shannon Doyle Pope and Megan Smith when we can swing it. Molly Christhilf Finnegan: I was promoted to the U.S. Brand Manager for Spain and Portugal for MundoVino. I live in DC with my husband and get to see some Roland Parkers from time to time. Hopefully, I will see you at the Reunion. Rachel Spahn McCurdy: After years of staying home with my three kids, it’s back to work I go. I was able to translate my love of social media and content writing into a job with a commercial real estate company. My youngest is heading off to Haverford School, while my middle kid is rocking her blue tunic at an all-girls school. My oldest dons a blue kilt to begin Middle School (gulp) in the fall. Tori Fingles: I still live in Baltimore. I started a new job at R.E. Michel as a buyer last August. Michelle Willats Wetzel: Everything is going well in Pennsylvania. I am in my third year as a librarian at Radnor High School. My family is great. We had an amazing trip to Montevideo, Uruguay over winter break to see my brother and his family. It was such a memorable vacation. I hope that everyone else is doing well! Caroline Donahue lives in Los Angeles and has taken her first job in entertainment. She is thrilled to be working at Angel Valley Media heading up operations.

She is especially pleased since her brother Tim is head of post-production so she gets to see

him every day. She moved from Silverlake to the mysterious region between Los Feliz and East Hollywood in the shadow of the Scientology center. She was happy to have a visit recently with Megan Smith and is eagerly anticipating the arrival of her first niece.

Things have been very busy for Kim Owens Nalda lately. She is in the process of starting up a solo direct primary care family medicine practice in Newark, DE. This is quite possibly the first of its kind in her area and it is an up and coming model of healthcare delivery. She is managing the challenging transition from an employed physician to an entrepreneur and is enjoying no longer being the PTA president after several years of service. Her girls (5 and 8) frequently spend time with Becky Smoot Anderson’s children who live nearby. Susie Graham Schwartz: We live in Sammamish, WA and love it. We had a baby last October to join Nathan (5) and Abby (3). Our daily life is pretty much a circus, but lots of fun. Hope everyone is doing well. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years! Yikes! Lindsay Walker: I am doing well. I still live in Mount Vernon and work at Silberstein Insurance Group. I just found out this week that I am one of Living Classrooms rising stars of 2015 for my community work and professional achievements, which I am very excited about. I was at Elizabeth Gredlin Jones, 1993’s wedding a few weeks ago with a few other RPCS girls. I am also looking forward to the annual girls’ trip with Emmie Mink Frank, Kim Mitchell Wolff and Cameron Proctor Amirault to Florida. Unfortunately, Eleanor Cordi, Anne Chemers Sperling and Kellie MacDougall Lawler can’t make it this year. Kellie MacDougall Lawler: I live in Anniston, AL with my husband Jeff, our son Marcus (6), and daughters Blakely (5) and Pierce (2). We are actually welcoming our fourth and last baby. We like surprises so we have to wait a little longer to find out if it’s a

Lindsay Walker, 1995 and Elizabeth Massing, 1993

Cary Zink Kassouf, 1995, Megan Smith, 1995 and Genevieve Polk, 1995

Anne Chemers Sperling, 1995 with sons Maxwell and Teddy

Kristen Cunningham Jones, 1995 and family at Easter

boy or girl. Kristen Creticos: I am a 5th Grade teacher and team leader at Seven Locks Elementary School in Bethesda and I am still serving as the elected faculty representative acting as a liaison between administration and staff. I had my M.Ed, but spent the last two years taking classes so that I now have my master’s +30. I live in downtown Bethesda in the same condo complex I have been in since I moved to the area in 2009. I have been house hunting in the Kentlands so hopefully I will have something exciting to share next year.

Vanda Lerdboon works in the Bethesda office of the International Refugee Committee. She lives in her condo in Baltimore. Micah Mitchell Hines moved to the Akron/Cleveland area of Ohio because her husband Daron accepted a job at Smucker’s. When she moved she took an extended maternity leave from her job with the Governor of Minnesota and stayed home with her daughter Alivia Ann (1). Micah is searching for a new position. She is happy to be closer to family in Baltimore because she is now only a six hour drive away. Cary Zink Kassouf: When I am not working as a Neuroscientist trying to figure out better treatment targets for schizophrenia (It’s really a lot more exciting than it sounds!), I am working as a mommy chasing around Zachary (3) who happily welcomed his little brother, Spencer, to the world in November. Between the two boys, my husband (third boy) and the male dog, I am definitely outnumbered. It is a far cry from my days at RPCS and two sisters at home, but I love my boys. I cannot believe that we graduated 20 years ago. I can’t wait to see everyone at the Reunion. Karel Valentine: Since the last update, I took an amazing trip to Thailand and did some sight seeing, scuba diving and rock climbing in spite of my fear of heights. It was truly a wonderful experience and I hope to go back someday. I’m enjoying life in California and am hiring some new employees into my group at work. We’re working on a major facility expansion so it’s

an exciting time to be here. I have gone sea kayaking a few times. Hoping to do it again this summer once the water temperature warms up a bit! I’m going to try to make it back for the Reunion. My youngest sister in England is getting married the weekend before, so I might stay in England for a week then stopover on the East Coast for the weekend before heading back here. Hopefully the stars will align and I’ll be able to pull that off! Kim Mitchell Wolff: We are busy! Last year I changed jobs at Mood Media and am now VP of marketing and business operations and I celebrated my 16 year anniversary with the company. I still travel a couple of days every week for work as does my husband John who is at Legg Mason. Balancing our schedules with our boys’ school and activities schedules (8, 6 and 5) is a skill we have honed mainly out

of necessity. Next year we will have all three boys at Boys’ Latin - Go Lakers! We continue to be active around Baltimore between the Ravens, Orioles, theater, boating and other events. In November we moved to my parents’ old home in Lutherville after renovating it to fit our family and now my mom has her own place just across the driveway. We miss the old neighborhood of Roland Park, but we are very happy where we are now and it’s a great situation for us. I look forward to any opportunity to catch up with RPCS in real life and not just over Facebook (though that’s really fun). We are looking forward to hosting everyone in October for our 20th Reunion after the Champagne Reception. How time flies! Elizabeth Weiss Nook: I am doing great. I got married to my best friend Mark and couldn’t be happier and more excited for all that the future holds for us! I started my own architecture firm in September, Revolve Design Shop. I work with small business owners, non-profits, and individual homeowners and specialize in small scale commercial and residential work. I love being my own boss and continuing to work hard at being an architect and business owner. I am looking forward to our Reunion! Kristen Cunningham Jones: Life has been happy in south Florida. We bought a new house last summer so that I could live closer to work. I still work at a University in Fort Lauderdale, but have also picked up more private practice work in all of my free time. Jake (1) keeps us giggling, snuggling and making silly faces. We are pretty hilarious in his eyes. He knocks our socks off every day. Emmie Mink Frank: Connor and Abby are great. Connor is in second grade. He is a good student and is very into sports. Abby is finishing up the twos. She is a sweetie and adores her big brother. I am enjoying my time with them. Nora Malaisrie works as an ENT surgeon in Maryland. She and her husband Sean Zeigler are still taking synchronized swimming lessons after all these

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years. Aminah Wells: I am doing well. I just bought a house in Parkville and I’m still with Gilchrist and working in my private practice.

Life’s good so I can’t complain. Becky Smoot Anderson: I can’t believe it’s been 20 years! We are settled in our new house and are enjoying the extra space. Maddie Rose has arrived and is starting to show us her personality more and more every day. Matthew is quickly becoming a little man. I’m still practicing with a friend of mine from vet school. Sureena Nair: I am taking the pre-requisites to hopefully apply to physician assistant school in the near future.

My son (1) is really active. Ridgeley Bennett Bowman: I have three sons Jack (8), Ben (6) and Drew (4). I am looking forward to our Reunion. Megan Smith moved from Iowa to Maryland and is a staff neuropsychologist at the VA Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore. Her husband works for an

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education research non-profit in DC. She writes: Our second child, Annelien Margaret, was born at Maryland. Jacob and I have been having fun getting re-acquainted with the Mid-Atlantic region with the little ones in tow. Page Watts Rogers: I will be finishing up my master’s in elementary education this fall. I am eagerly awaiting my school placement. I am about to start my sixth summer bartending at Seacrets and will also be bartending two days a week at the Hilton Pool Bar. The kids and I have moved back into Ocean City and love being on the water again and I’m psyched I get to ride my bike to work everyday! Chappy is finishing up Kindergarten and is looking forward to a summer full of surfing. We spent 12 days in Rincon, Puerto Rico this past winter and he caught the surfing bug. Wylie is finishing up her first year of Preschool and she and Chappy are often

mistaken for twins because she is so tall. She is a true threenager right now and I am eagerly waiting this phase to pass. I continue to love yoga and go as often as possible. Anne Chemers Sperling: I started a wonderful new job last month at New York Presbyterian Hospital overseeing their government and community affairs team. It’s a big change from city government, but I love it. Maxwell and Teddy start Kindergarten in the fall, which is hard to believe. We are still very happy Brooklynites and city life continues to suit us just fine. I can’t wait to see everyone in October and catch up in person. Eleanor Cordi: I live in Boulder, CO and work as a veterinary technician. I still really love my job.

I had a baby boy named Gus in February. He is so much fun. I just returned to work last week from maternity leave. I really hope I can make it back for the Reunion in October. Lauren Scott: Peter and I had a baby girl named Isabella in December. We are totally in love with her, as you can imagine. I am still in Washington, DC but recently got a new job which takes me to NYC a few times a month. Brooke Bulkeley Peterson: Two years ago we relocated to Alabama where I teach AP English at Tuscaloosa Academy and serve as the iPad integration specialist for the Lower School. Erik is a professor at the University of Alabama, Greta is finishing 5th grade and William is finishing 2nd grade. As much as we miss the north, we have made a home for ourselves here. We will, however, spend our summers in New Hampshire. Grace Kim: I work for Duke Hospital in Durham, NC as a radiation oncologist mainly treating brain and spine tumors. I am beginning a lab research project focusing on brain cancer and immunotherapy this summer. Finally, I would like to take a moment to remember our dear classmate Ginnie Plitt Teti’s brother, Gregory Plitt. Below is an excerpt from the Baltimore Sun from earlier this year, “Over the last nine years, Greg Plitt - actor, model, entrepreneur and motivational speaker - appeared on over 250 fitness magazine covers and was undisputed America’s No. 1 male fitness model. He continually preached the value of sweat equity in hopes to achieve the goal of teaching others to cherish each moment and overcome challenges. He was the most generous person I’ve ever known. Whether he could help you emotionally, financially or with your career, he was there. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with you, Ginnie, and with your parents and family.

for over two years and really love being in higher education. My girls keep me super busy – Gracie (5), Chloe (3) and Belle (1). Even though they are young, the purse and clothing brawls have already started – uh-oh teenage years! Three of everything has become essential. I saw Susan Italiano Mueller at Pinewood Kindergarten registration this week. Small world! Natalie Rothemund Dowgiewicz writes: I can’t believe Tyler is going to be starting high school in the fall! We love to watch him play soccer. His sister Lucy (3) says she wants to be a soccer superstar just like him. Helene Apostolides Christman reports: I have hit my 10-year mark at Under Armour and continue to enjoy working in the brand department in creative operations. Randy and I and our daughters, Valentina (4) and Gia (2) still live in Locust Point and love every minute. We love spending time walking around the city and are excited about the growth that is happening downtown. Aja Dorsey Jackson writes: I am still working at Garrison Forest and

writing and blogging. Wyatt just turned one, Logan is finishing Kindergarten and Kya, 2018 is finishing ninth grade at RPCS. I am going to Vegas with Michell Morton, Monica Butler Mitchell and Shelley Fulton-Powell in June. As for Shelley, she reports: I’m in my eighth year teaching in Baltimore City. I teach Kindergarten and coach other teachers. My children are doing well. Noah (13) will be graduating from 8th grade in June. Naeem (7) is in the 2nd grade. I received my master’s in reading education last May and am looking forward to using everything that I have learned to benefit students in Baltimore.

Faith Pilecki Hudson writes: I left my job with the federal government in February and gave birth to a baby girl Alice in March. Alice joins older brother Bruce (2). We are adjusting to my new role as a stay-at-home parent. Playdate anyone? Carol Dixon Croxton writes: I love being a mom and watching Ryan grow except that it is happening way too fast! Laura McKenna Burdt reports: We now have three kids, McKenna (11), Garrity (13) and our newest addition Seins (14) as well as our three big dogs and a cat. We are about to reach our one year milestone as a family of five in June.

It has been quite a journey for all of us. We are so grateful for all of the thoughts, prayers, and donations towards bringing our son home. A special thank you goes to Monica Butler Mitchell, Tina Reed Milnes and Katie Perry Trumbauer for your donations. It truly means the world to us and to a boy who now has a family of his own. I am still coaching my sons’ U14 soccer team and am very involved with the Boy Scout troop they belong to. I also work part time in a pediatric and special needs dental & orthodontic dental office.

It is amazing what can happen in a year.

Beth Schaub Huwe writes: Life continues to chug along in Gambrills. I work in emergency veterinary medicine in Calvert County but one significant change is that my husband is now working for NASA at Goddard. I greatly enjoy

Gracie, Belle & Chloe, daughters of Natalie Ciotola-Dabrowski, 1998

Drew and Paige Kimos Odabashian, 1998 with daughter, Vivian

Sabrina Johnson Turner, 1998 leading the warm up for the Red Hot Run

Class of 1998 Paige Kimos Odabashian paige.odabashian@gmail.com Kate Jordan kateejordan@gmail.com Valene Whittaker valenewhittaker@gmail.com Hey lovely ladies! There is a lot of exciting news happening in our class, so let’s jump right in. Anna Hitchner writes in from Boston that she and her husband welcomed a son named William Thomas Ebeling in August. We are happy, healthy and busy! More fun baby news comes in from Dulaney Wible Farkas, who is enjoying life in Hunt Valley and expecting baby No. 2 this July. Holden will be three in August and is excited to be a big brother.

Dulaney accepted a new opportunity as director of marketing for a Lutherville-based employee benefits firm, SIG. She works with fellow alumna, Lindsay Walker, 1995. Lauren Miller Hauk writes: After 12 years in New York City, we decided to say goodbye to city living and relocate to Richmond, VA. We love discovering a new town, living in an actual house and being closer to family and friends. It is definitely a big change, but a good one! Carri Windfelder Eachus is also preparing to move this summer: We are relocating from Minneapolis to Greensboro, NC for my husband’s job. It will be so great to be closer to friends and family on the east coast! Natalie Ciotola-Dabrowski has also moved: Ben and I recently moved from Baltimore City to Lutherville - officially county folk now! I’ve been working at the University of Baltimore

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Paige Kimos Odabashian, 1998 and daughter, Vivian with Caroline Winter, 1998 and her daughter, Elise

Aja Dorsey Jackson, 1998 and her daughter Kya Sykes, 2018

reading Connections and catching up on everyone. Jessica Wheeler Hackett writes: I am enjoying life in Towson with my hubby and my son - the 2.5-year-old love of my life!

We are thinking about moving to Carroll County but no immediate plans as of now. I still waitress part time and spend the rest of my days with Noah and the fam! I also squeeze in playdates and dinners with RPCS gals too.

Leigh Bulkeley reports she is loving life in San Fran. I, Paige Kimos Odabashian, am enjoying staying at home and being the mama to Vivian, who will be two this fall. Drew and I love living in Fells. It just really suits us being near the water and walking distance to everything the city has to offer. We definitely take advantage even with baby and pug in tow!

Veronica Griffith Kirkland is enjoying being home with her three children (6, 4 and 2). She has become more involved at church and is directing the children’s choir and has also taken on leadership roles elsewhere in the community. Yvonne Crispino Klinger and her husband Ben are enjoying life in Bethesda.

Yvonne is keeping busy chasing Adam (6), Rachel (4) and Lauren (2). Kate Cooper Kolbe is enjoying the continuous pursuit of striking a balance between motherhood and career. Kate writes: Since I am in the business of making play silks for children, those worlds often inspire one another reciprocally which is a lot of fun! I am also an avid gardener and enjoy cooking and canning my homegrown food so much. I just might have reason to buy myself that fabulous Haciski stove I have coveted through all these years. Laura Ryan Lubin, her husband and her daughter Lily relocated to St. Petersburg, FL where Laura is the academic director of an ESL program. Laura writes: life

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is gloriously hectic and Lily is a constant source of entertainment. She dances non-stop and is discovering the world around her. The Lubins plan to visit Cuba in October to visit with family. They have an apartment in Cuba that they are renting to tourists. Sign me up!

Zaineb Makhzoumi works at the University of Maryland School of Medicine practicing Mohs surgery, general and cosmetic dermatology.

Zaineb writes: I love working with the residents and medical students and am so happy to be practicing where I grew up. My husband and I live in Greenspring and love it.

Who knew we would both end up living a few miles from our schools? Laura Cohen Marsh lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband Nate and son Benjamin. Laura is a part-time paralegal at Legal Aid and says: My mornings are spent working and my afternoons with Benjamin. I get to have my cake and eat it, too.

What a lucky girl! Jennifer Medina works at the non-profit Corporation for Enterprise Development. CFED promotes asset building policies and strategies for low and moderate resource families. Jennifer is training with a local triathlon team and has several tris in the

Lauren Waesche Fiastro, 1998 and her husband Lou Fiastro

pipeline! Tifany Cline Menasha and her family, Ava (6) and Kayla (3) moved into a new house in Waltham, MA. She hopes to get to Baltimore for a visit this summer. Tina Reed Milnes earned a certificate in health coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Be sure to check out her blog, blondebeetnirvana.

Kate Cooper Kolbe designed her site and Kristin Raneri Nicolini designed the logo.

Talk about RPCS teamwork! Kristin, her husband and daughters Sutton (5) and Campbell (3) welcomed a son Quinn in October. Kristin and her sister Reagan Raneri Koffel, 1997 completed another successful season coaching RPCS lacrosse, including their second consecutive trip to the IAAM Championship. Kristin continues to enjoy her work in the RPCS communication office but will be taking a step back from coaching to spend more time with her family. Nicole Rock Mink and her husband Toby welcomed their second child, Thomas Mills Mink in July.

Thomas joins daughter Lizzie (1). Monica Butler Mitchell is happy to report: after years of hard work, the Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School will open on August 24, 2015 with a fully enrolled inaugural class and with a wait list of more than 100 students! This has truly been a labor of love from all involved and I am forever grateful to Jean Waller Brune for trusting me to lead this effort. I still work for Wells Fargo handling social responsibility and financial education outreach for Maryland. I love my job and how it has been able to intertwine with and support my personal community efforts. At home, I am finally coming to grips with the reality of having one high school aged son and one in his last year of pre-teenager hood. What I cannot understand is how the time went so fast! The boys and I have a trip planned to Costa Rica this summer.

Our annual summer vacation is fully financed by the cost savings earned by our decision to rid ourselves of television about four years ago. Lastly, I cannot wait for my girls’ trip to Las Vegas with Aja, Michell and Shelley!

Susan Italiano Mueller works as a nurse at

Sabrina Johnson Turner, 1998 and Kate Jordan, 1998

Hopkins. Her daughter Mary goes to Pinewood with classmate Natalie CiatolaDabrowski’s daughter Grace. Her other daughter Claire (3) is in Preschool. The Muellers went on a great trip to Oak Island, NC with Susan’s parents and had a blast. Our class globe trotter, Kelly Phelan checked in to say: This year has actually been rather tame for me compared to the last few. I came back from my sabbatical in Africa and less than six months after I got back to the States, I was offered a job at the University of Queensland.

By the time Connections is published I will be a permanent resident in the land down under. I am excited to trade in my sightseeing adventures with elephants and lions for koalas and kangaroos. I’ll be sure to keep up with my blog drphelanipresume. Leigh Anne Haciski Rainford reports that all is well but time is flying by! Jack is six and Caroline turns four in October. I, Kate Jordan, have enjoyed another successful year doing commercial real estate brokerage at Lee & Associates. In my spare time along with fellow RPCS alumna, Betsey Swingle Hoblemann, 1993, I helped found an all-boys charter school in Baltimore

Bruce and Alice, children of Faith Pilecki Hudson, 1998

City, Baltimore Collegiate Boys Academy. It has been a challenging roller coaster but an unbelievable learning experience. Hopefully it will help change the future of Baltimore for the better. I am so thankful to have my RPCS education to hold as the gold standard.

Stefanie Warns Carter is happily settled in New York City, loves her work at Bloomberg LP and anxiously awaits the safe return of her husband Evan from Afghanistan. Leah Heumann Reed writes: My husband Andy and I are still living in West Virginia with our dog and hope to move again this year. I miss Baltimore and of course my second hometown Richmond. Melissa Torres continues to work in the education field, most recently as a project manager at the Maryland State Department of Education. She is excited to be involved in various National Education ventures and is also looking forward to travel and volunteer opportunities in Hawaii this summer with friends. Sabrina Johnson Turner continues to balance work and play and is planning to add a number of stamps to her passport this year. She writes: Dubai in May, Iceland in June, Cozumel in September, Ecuador in November, Jamaica in December and Cuba in February. Jury trials and stuff. I am rec league football captain and the Alumnae Board President-Elect. I lost 21 pounds and love it! Kristin Ricketts Sparkman will be another member of the Class of 1998 contributing to the Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School as the office manager! She shares: What a blessing it will be to make a difference in girls’ lives in our beautiful city of Baltimore. I am still working with Coast to Coast Dachshund Rescue as the Baltimore member, organizer of the Mid-Atlantic Spring

DoxieFest, actively volunteer with Sherwood Gardens in Guilford and I have recently joined the Free State Daylily Society. Erin McInnes Shaughnessy had a baby boy, Beckett Thomas in June who joins big sister Avery (4). Caroline Winter: Baby Diego was born in May. He joins big sister Elise and is named after his father. I am also putting the final touches on our new house in Puerto Rico. She and her family were able to visit with Paige Kimos Odabashian and her family when they came to visit in April.

Lauren Waesche Fiastro writes: In September last year, Lou and I set out for an adventure to Norway. It was a fun vacation which was topped with a proposal at the top of a Fjord.

We were married this past March and had a great time celebrating with our friends and family. Nakiya Traynham shares: All is good here. I am still working at CareFirst and shuffling some stuff for plans to buy a house next year. I am also traveling a lot and just trying to see more of the world. Not too far from me in Massachusetts, Liz Serotte works at Fidelity Investments in Boston and recently moved into a new role where she focuses on encouraging women and young Investors to take control of their financial lives. A good message for the young women at RPCS! I, Valene Whittaker, am happy to share that after completing a postdoctoral fellowship last year; I accepted a staff psychologist position at the Bedford VA Medical Center, just northwest of Boston. I am thrilled to continue my work with veterans as part of an innovative team that provides mental health services to student veterans transitioning from military service to college, as well as those who are seeking mental health treatment for the first time. Our team recently received a VA I CARE award for our advocacy efforts and while I am appreciative of this recognition, I am even more grateful to serve veterans as a mental health provider. Outside of work, I am looking forward to taking some time to travel and hopefully get involved with some volunteer efforts in the Boston area. Till next time, take care ladies!

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The wedding of Ellie Hindsley Clendenin, 2001 with classmates Dina Karkar Riddle , Monica Mancusi-Ungaro, Lulu Zeitouneh, Erin Miles Cloud, Kristen Sloan, Meri Price, and Kathy Delauney Bosse

Erin Lears Richardson richardsone@rpcs.org

Barbara Ewing, Francie Murray Keenan, Lisa Reichenbach and Stephanie Schmidt Graham, 1973. We live in Richmond, where we met and we plan to adopt a puppy. Stacy Patterson Montgomery: My husband John and I were thrilled to welcome Logan Miles Montgomery into our family in September. Our cat Oscar is less than thrilled. Esther Ehrmann Shucosky:

Lauren Dodrill Benjamin: I have really enjoyed my time serving as the 2014-2015 Alumnae Chair for The Fund for Roland Park Country School and working closely with Erin Lears Richardson. My husband James and I are still busy with our legal careers, but we managed to take some time away to go on a wonderful cruise to the Southern Caribbean in April. Meri Price: In November Heidi Kendall and I were bridesmaids in Dina Karkar Riddle’s wedding in Austin, TX where we also caught up with Lulu Zeitouneh and Ellie Hindsley Clendenin.

In April Lulu and I were bridesmaids in Ellie’s wedding, where we caught up with lots of other RPCS ladies! I am still in DC working a pretty cool job at the Smithsonian. Ellie Hindsley Clendenin: I got married in April in Baltimore to Ken Clendenin. Many RPCS alums attended the event including Monica Willats MancusiUngaro, Erin Miles Cloud, Kathy Delauney Bosse, Kristen Sloan, Dina Karkar Riddle and Meredith Davis 2003. Charlotte Hindsley, 2003, Meri Price and Lulu Zeitouneh were bridesmaids. RPCS classmates of my mom, Pam McDonnell Hindsley 1972, were also in attendance including: Elizabeth Pindell Blue,

The wedding of Dina Karkar Riddle, 2001

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This was an exciting year as Chris and I had our first son Beau in March. We are loving life as parents. I am enjoying working in training and development for a large multi-disciplined architectural/engineering firm in Sparks. When I’m not working, I love volunteering for the March of Dimes and spending time with my friends and family. Katie Crook Etoh: I live in Baltimore and work at Ziger/Snead Architects after taking a few months off last year when I had my son Asher who turned one in April. Since her last update Jeramie Peacock has had two more children Nimue (2) and Odin to join Seamus (10) and Eolande (4).

She lives in the Salish Sea on Orcas Island in Washington. Mostly she hangs out with her kiddos, cooks yummy food and does crafts.

She looks forward to having more free time in about five years. Sam Levin Whitcomb: Dan, Amelia (4) and I are still living in Wiesbaden, Germany. We have been taking full advantage of this opportunity of a life time and visited several other countries; Spain and Morocco being among our favorites. We are looking forward to traveling more in our last year here but just as excited about moving back to the U.S. in the summer of 2016.

Kerri Huebner Carlile: I live in sunny AZ with my husband and two little girls. I am keeping busy by being a mom and working as an analyst for a health and wellbeing company.

Our big adventure this past year was going to Disneyland with my parents; it was my their first time there. I also lost 50 pounds in 2014 but will be putting some of it back on as we

Kate Owens Eckstein, 2001 and her sons

are expecting our third child in November.

Dina Karkar Riddle: Ryan and I got married in November; we’re enjoying married life and living in Austin. I love it here but of course I miss Baltimore. Anne Sheridan Quigley: I welcomed a healthy baby boy Graham Martin Quigley in December with my husband Ryan.

I am the assistant director of admission at Milton Academy and coach the girls’ lacrosse team. Sarah Passano Meech: Annabelle and Grady love this beautiful weather and their

Campbell Nicolini and Penny Richardson, 2029

Bethany McEvoy, 2002 and Kristen DeMarco Rickard, 2002

Annabelle, Grady and Sawyer Meech, children of Sarah Passano Meech, 2001

new little sister Sawyer who was born in May. She is so sweet already and the big kids can’t get enough of her. Kelsey Twist Schroeder: This fall I will begin my tenth year teaching at RPCS. It’s hard to believe that I have spent more time on campus as an employee than I did as a student. I am thrilled to have my two daughters on campus with me as well Hazel entering Pre-first and Lillian joining the Preschool 3s. Our family grew this year when we welcomed an international student from Shanghai into our home. Albert attends Friends School and will stay with us until he graduates in 2016. He’s a great “big brother” and we have enjoyed getting to know his family and learning about his culture. This summer I start a mid-career doctoral program in educational leadership at University of

Pennsylvania and will spend the next three years juggling work, school, and home life. I love following the personal and professional lives of the Class of 2001 on social media and continue to be amazed by everything this special group of women has accomplished.

Allison Higgins Keenan: Quinn Edward Keenan was born on Thanksgiving Day. He entered the world right around dinner time and while we missed turkey this year, Jeff and I could not have had a happier Thanksgiving celebration. We are enjoying parenthood and love seeing Quinn grow. I am back working as director, marketing and communications at Biologics, Inc. Jeff is about to enter year four of his residency at Duke. Durham has been treating us well and we love getting back up to Baltimore to spend time with family and

Blair Hagan Gee, 2001 and her husband

Lilian and Hazel Schroeder, 2028 daughters of Kelsey Twist Schroeder, 2001

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in May of 2014 in Baltimore. Her sisters, Laura Brent, 2003, Elizabeth Brent, 2006 and Allie Brent, 2012 served as bridesmaids.

Kate Owens Eckstein: I am about to make a huge career change, leaving my position at a management consulting firm and starting my own interior design business. There are many exciting changes this summer as a result of that.

I live outside of Boston with Benjamin and my two wild boys (2 and 5) and our oversized labradoodle Schnitzel. Until next year.

Class of 2003 Lindsay M. Higgins lindsaymhiggins@gmail.com

Best friends Penny Richardson, 2029 and Hudson Short, 2029 children of Erin Lears Richardson, 2001 and Annie Ferebee Short, 2001

friends when we can. Sheena Cline Byrnes: I have been back on the east coast now for about a year. I live in Darien, CT and could not be happier being close to family and friends.

I am managing a sales team for Thomson Linear, a division of Danaher Corporation.

Sarah Harrison Lenahan: Ed and I got married in August and it has been a great (almost) first year so far. We had a beautiful ceremony at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart and reception at the Elkridge Club. I was very lucky to have some lovely RPCS alums at the wedding – Lauren Dodrill Benjamin, Heidi Kendall, Katharine Fox Castro, 2004, Kelsey Twist Schroeder, Sarah Passano Meech, Kristen Sloan, Welby Hamilton Loane, 1954 and Mandy Wolff Torsani, 1998. Ed and I live in Harford County but hope to start house hunting this summer. Towson and Lutherville are at the top of our wish list! I am still with Morgan Stanley on their global workforce team and enjoying keeping up with RPCS as part of the Alumnae Board. Monica Willats Mancusi-Ungaro: We have a third baby boy on the way and due this

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August. We are also making the move from NYC to CT so the kids can have more space to play. Blair Hagan Gee: Will Gee, Gilman 1995, and I got married at 2640 Space in Charles Village which is where the first ever Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS) performance was held six years ago. Will and I have been active in BROS since we started dating. Will does set work and tech and I dance and sing. So it was super special to be married there. Lindsey Miller Stone was our logistical mastermind and helped with all the planning. Sarah Sims Hagan Chesson, 2004, Bethy Hagan, 2007 and Julia Bainbridge were bridesmaids. Erin Lears Richardson: All is well. I am enjoying my time working at RPCS and love bringing my kids to school with me. Penny (3) is finishing up in the Preschool 3s with her friend Hudson Short, son of Annie Ferebee Short and William (1) loves playing at the Little Bear Child Care Center with his best bud Ryan Croxton, son of Carol Dixon Croxton, 1998.

Courtney Brent Kaufman works for a financial firm in Towson. Courtney was married to Tim

Amanda Ortel Frank lives in New York with her husband Grady and their growing family.

Little Grady (2) and the Franks welcomed Paige Alden in October. Amanda loves being a stay-at-home mom, and enjoys spending time with her classmates from RPCS whenever possible. Lauren Shepley finished her second year of PT school at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and will be spending the summer in Baltimore working at an outpatient physical therapy clinic. She will graduate in May and plans to continue living and working in New Orleans. Phoebe Legg Barrett was married last June in Baltimore.

She and her husband relocated from Colorado to Boston in the fall and have been loving life back on the east coast with their two dogs.

She completed her yoga certification and has begun teaching in Boston which has been both tremendously rewarding and challenging. She also started a lifestyle blog, Sister Code which has been a fun creative outlet. She is looking forward to summer and some exciting trips to Hawaii, Canada, and Paris. Erin Lacy Hollander lives in Canton with her husband Brett. They just had their first child, Mae Margaret in February. Erin teaches at Calvert School and Mae is looking forward to attending Kiddie Calvert in the fall. Lindsay Higgins got engaged in Hawaii and will be married to Scott Brinsfield Vane in October. Airlia Lotz changed jobs in November. She is now working at Anne Arundel Medical Center, but still in the surgical assistant role. Airlia Esworthy and her husband welcomed a son Oxford last June and still live in Carroll County. Kathleen Trotter will be married to Patrick O’Doherty in September.

Have a great year!

Class of 2004 10th Reunion Meredith Hauf meredithholden@gmail.com Peri Cohen: I live in Canton and work as a therapist for Advanced Therapeutic Connections. I am involved in mental health therapy with both children and adults in their homes. Last April I went on an awesome hiking, yoga and winery retreat in Luray, VA and completed an eight hour hike, which was a huge accomplishment for me since I’m not so much of a hiker. Lacey Haciski Zelino: Last year was a busy year for us! I quit my career with the government to become a stayat-home mom. My husband and I moved to Minnesota to follow his career with Microsoft. In October, Steve and I welcomed a daughter, Ella. She’s growing well, and we’re enjoying our new roles as parents. Ellen Cameron Jones: James and I have a daughter.

Eowyn Cameron Jones was born in January.

Jen Wright earned her master’s in fine art photography in 2012 and has been working as a professor at Maryland Institute College of Art. In June of 2015, Jen will be relocating to San Francisco, CA. Dani Kell Steinbach: Chris and I welcomed our daughter Kaylee Kell to our family last July so we are excited to plan her first birthday party. I am now in my second year as Director of External Programs and Kaleidoscope at RPCS. Laura Welch: I graduated with my MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth a year ago and since

Meredith Hauf, 2004 and Fiance, Kike Hudkins

then have been working at Citi as part of their HR management development program. I moved back to NYC after spending some time in DC. Ginger Owens Asher loves being a professional counselor at a private practice in Delaware. Together with her husband Seth, they had an opportunity to tour Israel to take in its diverse landscape, intricate cultures, and rich spiritual history. They are also discovering the joys and challenges of being first time home owners in Newark, DE. Nancy Kwan: I moved to NYC this year for a new job and have

been able to reconnect with some old friends including Parilee Edison Wang. Courtney Zeiders De Pol: I am still living in Japan. My husband Robb and I are forward deployed and stationed at NAF Atsugi. In May, our beautiful baby girl Colette Reagan made her debut. We couldn’t be happier for this new chapter of our lives to begin. Kiki Law Perrini: In September my husband and I welcomed a little boy Topher to our family. I work in the Weinberg PACU at Johns Hopkins, and I love getting together with Katie Atkins Kauffman

Courtney Zeiders De Pol, 2004 in Japan with husband, Robb and daughter Colette Reagan

Sydnee Wilson 2004’s daughter Sage Edwards, 2026 and son Ray Ruff

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and Becca Warfield Smith for play dates with our boys. Katharine Fox Castro writes: We welcomed our newest member to the family (and hopeful future Roland Parker), Zoe Jean Castro, in September. She is a total joy and has brought much laughter to our lives. She is very much in love with her big sister, Stella Castro, 2023. I love staying involved in the School as President of the Alumnae Association and seeing other RPCS grads and their kiddos.

Sydnee Wilson is still getting adjusted to life as a mother of two. Thankfully, she can drop them both off at the same place in the morning - good old RPCS! Meredith Hauf: I am the assistant administrator of Broadmead and lead the development of Broadmead’s nationally recognized dementia care center in partnership with Johns Hopkins. I look forward to marrying my fiancé Kike Hudkins in June. We had a successful ten year Reunion which over a third of the class attended. It was fantastic to hear of classmates achievements, both personally and professionally. Even though some of us had gone ten years without keeping in touch, our connections are deep enough as a class that we didn’t miss a beat and were able to reconnect effortlessly. A part of each of us will always be Roland Park Country School.

I am grateful to have graduated with such strong, phenomenal women.

Class of 2005 Erin Durbin erintdurbin@gmail.com I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since we graduated from RPCS. Our 10th Reunion is quickly approaching in the fall! I can’t wait to see what the next 10 years hold for us. This year was an exciting one filled with engagements, weddings, babies, promotions, new cities, new jobs and more weddings! As for me, Erin Durbin, I moved to San Francisco in October with the two loves of my life, Britton Nyce, Gilman, 2005 and my dog Brewer. Britton works for Ernst & Young and I quickly found a job at worldwide ad agency, DDB, where I worked to launch the first-ever global brand campaign for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. We absolutely love SF. We have found a lot of Baltimore people here and we even have a Ravens bar right down our street. I also enjoy being a short drive from my best friend from RPCS, Kristin Pelsis. Kristin got engaged to her boyfriend Kenny Sheppard and I am looking forward to being a bridesmaid in her 2016 wedding at Grace Cathedral. Kristin is in her final semester of her master’s program in orientation and mobility. O&M specialists

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Alli Lacy Watts, 2005 with her husband and son Max.

teach people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired the skills and concepts they need in order to travel independently and safely in all environments. Kristin is still raising guide dogs for the blind and they are adorable!

Also on the west coast is Alli Lacy Watts who lives in San Diego with her husband, Brendon, and their sweet baby boy, Max. Alli reports that they absolutely love life in Southern California! Nearby in Denver Jocelyn Durkay just finished her first snowboard season. She reports that life in the west is amazing. Jocelyn recently attended an RPCS wedding along with Emily Gates, Carin Bortz, Amy Kiyota and Elisa Prosperetti. The beautiful bride was Krista Romita who married Aaron Grocholski last April at the Gramercy Mansion. Krista hopes to finish her PhD in astronomy by the end of the year. Amy Kiyota is a development portfolio manager at Educators 4 Excellence, a nonprofit that works to elevate the voices of teachers so that they can be part of policy conversations that impact their classrooms, profession, and students. She calls Crown Heights, Brooklyn home and is mom to a rescued alley cat named Nacho. Elisa Prosperetti is working on a history PhD at Princeton University. Beginning in September, Elisa will be in West Africa and Europe for 18 months for dissertation research. Also a world traveler, Cori Salmeron returned from teaching at The American Community School at Beirut for two years. After six years of teaching in elementary schools in NYC and Beirut, she

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Classmates from the Class of 2005(l to r) Lauren Winship, Brittany Bland, Jocelyn Durkay, Sarah Zimmerman, Krista Romita Grocholski, Elisa Prosperetti, Jen Graillot Rivard, Amy Kiyota, Emily Gates and Carin Bortz at Krista’s wedding

will be starting a PhD program in literacy and education policy at University of Texas in the fall. Also in Austin with her boyfriend and two dogs is Olivia Myers who works as a prenatal genetic counselor. In Boston, Cara Hitchner teaches Pre-K at UP Academy Charter School of Dorchester. Cara is a new aunt and loves spending time with her nephew, William, son of Anna Hitchner, 1998. Cara looks forward to standing beside several of her closest RPCS friends, Tara Lewis, Jackie Carr and Lawrie Peck, as they are married in the upcoming months. Speaking of Tara and Lawrie, Tara is still teaching Kindergarten at Pine Grove Elementary that was named a Maryland Blue Ribbon School. Only six Maryland schools earned this honor so they are incredibly proud of their accomplishment. Tara got engaged in October and is getting married this summer.

She lives in Canton with her fiancé, Jason.

They plan to get their first dog together after the wedding. Lawrie is in NYC and recently got engaged to her fiancé Michael Givner.

As the director of talent acquisition at Relay Graduate School of Education, Lawrie leads a team that hires faculty and staff for Relay’s eight campuses across the country. Lawrie feels incredibly lucky to live so close to her older sister, Katie Peck Fuchs, 2002 and longtime friends and RPCS classmates Taylor Fragapane and Stephanie Gisriel. Also in NYC is Julie Smyth who lives in Brooklyn.

Julie leads the social work team at The Bronx Defenders Adolescent Defense Project, which

represents adolescents charged as adults and advocates for their cases to be in juvenile court. Alisha Williams is finishing up her first year as a pediatric resident at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA. She and her family are doing very well and she looks forward to making her way back to her beloved Baltimore city when she completes her residency training.

Ameerah Brooks is graduating with her MBA in human resource management this May. Ameerah is also excited to report that she is getting married this summer, Jewel JenningsWright moved to DC last August and works as the counsel to one of the commissioners at the Federal Maritime Commission. Nearby in Charm City, Brittany Bland works at Johns Hopkins University in development and donor relations. Caroline Hartman works for a treatment program specializing in women and eating disorders. In September, Caroline earned her full clinical license, and is now a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) after three years of accumulating clinical hours and supervision. Kiersten Osterchrist left University of Maryland Shock Trauma to work for Walgreens Infusion as a clinical nurse liaison. Kiersten is getting married next April and will be staying in the Baltimore area. As always, thank you all for sharing your lives and staying in touch. I really enjoy hearing from you all. Hope everyone can make it to the Reunion in October.

Greetings Class of 2006! I know many of us keep well connected via Facebook, but thank you to everyone who wrote in for this year’s Connections. Kelsie Cooper was one of 20 people accepted to the physical therapy assistant program beginning in June. She writes: I expect to graduate at the end of 2016 and, while this is getting a bit ahead of myself, plan to head to graduate school after that. She is extremely excited to be a part of Joanna Taylor’s wedding. Jane Dewire: over the past year - I completed a master’s in physiology and biophysics from Georgetown University and got married in Baltimore last June. I live in Washington, DC and am working as a medical assistant for a general surgeon in Chevy Chase (which has been great since I get to see Brooke Christofferson Gill regularly!) Caroline Galvez is ready for a big move. This fall, she will be moving to Savannah to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design for a degree in graphic design. Caroline had several schools to choose from but the weather down south was a major deciding factor. Brook Christofferson Gill, works at GSA and resides in Alexandria. In October, Brooke received a promotion where she works in IT procurement as an IT project manager. She is pursuing her MBA part-time at GWU and hopes to graduate in December. Her husband Misha Gill started a new job as a lawyer at Obed Law Group. She is looking forward to a trip out to Colorado this summer to go fly fishing. Kathryn Hampton lives in Raleigh where she loves her job in market research with Time Warner.

Hanly Heubeck moved downtown to Canton last October and is the marketing & events manager at the BoatHouse restaurant, which opened last April in Canton, is operated by Laura Keenan’s aunt and uncle. After spending a few years on the west coast, Hanly loves being back east! After two years, Deniece Holley wrote: I’m leaving Complex Magazine to work at BuzzFeed as branded video project manager. I’ll be instrumental in helping build the department as it just started and will be working on all of their campaigns utilizing branded video. Jane Hollon lives in L.A where she is pursuing a master’s in film producing at the American Film Institute Conservatory.

Through her coursework, she has already produced four short films. Even though she is on the west coast, Jane still supports the Baltimore Ravens, and watched every Ravens game with fellow west coast-er,

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Justine Li, Sarah Morehead and Charlotte Suelau from the Class of 2006

Elizabeth Brent. Last summer, Jane traveled throughout Prague and Munich. As a first lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves, Military Police Corps, Krystin Johnson is deployed in Guantanamo Bay. Krystin serves as the company executive officer, second in command of 123 soldiers overseeing all training, administrative functions and logistics.

Krystin is also responsible for over $5 million dollars in assets, and is looking forward to a

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promotion to captain this summer. Krystin will return home to DC this summer with plans to start pursuing her MBA part-time.

Krystin works as a banker with Capital One and a marketing district manager with Mosaic Sales Solution. Krystin got engaged to her fiancée Angela Esquivel, a teacher at George Washington University, in September. Krystin, thank you for all that you do for our country!

Having returned to the United States after a whirlwind year working for UBS in London, Lauren Kelly lives just outside of NYC, working as a project manager for UBS. She sees Cathy Hebert, 2008 who is in Brooklyn.

Lauren traveled to Italy, Germany, Amsterdam, Ireland, Hungary, Croatia, and Spain. Now that her sister, Lauren, is stateside again, Patty Kelly, says there are no big travel plans coming up. Patty was promoted to manager, athlete services event merchandising for Under Armour and lives in Fells. Chelsea Kirk: I live in Adams Morgan in DC and work at Maya Angelou Academy, which is a high school located inside of a juvenile detention center in Laurel. I am our vice principal and I also continue to teach many English classes. Last year, Chelsea was named Teacher of the Year in Alternative Settings. I have been partaking in many bootcamp classes and soul cycle classes just trying to stay active! I see a lot of our classmates around town. Also, this year I was lucky enough to speak at the RPCS Career Day Panel on education, which was amazing to get back to RPCS and see the school and so many beloved teachers!! Currently a 2nd year law student at Emory University School of Law, Eunice Kwon, is hoping to focus her

studies on international and/or intellectual property law. This summer she will work at the U.S. Attorneys’ office in Baltimore and is excited to see many of her friends while home.

After spending seven months teaching English in Thailand and traveling throughout southeast Asia, Liza Lacy, returned to the U.S. this past October. Since returning home, Liza has begun a job with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society working as the campaign manager for Team in Training. She is also happy in her new role as an aunt! Lizzie Lauman works as a product anthropologist at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Colorado. Part producer, part cognitive anthropologist, she is tasked with building brands from the ground up. The group has created award-winning brands such as Papa’s Pilar and Angel’s Envy. Lizzie is now working on the brand strategy and platform for a surf company with more exciting projects in the pipeline. Being so close to the outdoors, she spends a lot of time in the mountains, doing yoga and embracing all that colorful Colorado has to offer. Lizzy Lenrow works in NYC as an associate at J.P. Morgan’s private bank. With a focus in entrepreneurship, she is also pursuing her MBA in the evenings at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she will graduate next December. This past fall, she became a junior board member for CO/LAB Theatre Group, a nonprofit that provides individuals with developmental disabilities a social outlet through theatre arts. After four years living in Manhattan, Loretta Lee, now lives in Brooklyn with her sister. She works for

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Ralph Lauren and says the new women’s polo line is going well. This year she, “died and went to Italian art and food heaven,” traveling throughout Italy. She writes: as Ms. Vikan’s student, art history definitely stayed with me from AP class to college, and finally to amazing Italy. I hope to visit again soon. Loretta also plans to run her first half marathon in May, which she says is tough for someone who hated running and only likes tennis and golf.

Go, Loretta, go! Cassie Mathias works as a lawyer in DC She is a second year associate in King & Spalding’s special matters and government investigations practice group.

Abbie Mitchell is in her final semester of her one-year museum studies course at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland: I love the course; it’s really hands-on and practical. This

term we are curating our own exhibition at the University Museum which will open in June. I also volunteer at a Scottish country home called Haddo House. It’s where Lord and Lady Aberdeen lived until about the 1980s! I am still coaching the U19 Scotland Lacrosse team, and the first week in April we will be coming to Baltimore for an eight-day lacrosse tour. Not only are we playing the RPCS Varsity team, but we will also be playing a few RPCS alums when we compete against the One Love club team. Abbie is excited to announce that she is engaged and looking forward to a June 2016 wedding in Georgetown, ME. In April, Sarah Morehead wed Matt Pope. In addition to Laura Hearn and Molly Ricely, Matt’s sisters, Kelly Monahan, Catherine Pope, 2001, Emma Pope, Hannah Pope and Pharibe Pope were

also bridesmaids in her wedding. Meghan Murphy was awarded her PhD in biomedical engineering from University of California Davis and also celebrated an engagement to her fiancé, Chase Houghton. Chase and Meghan met at Vanderbilt University as undergraduates. They are looking forward to a Baltimore wedding in May of 2016. Sara O’Neil, is an RN working in the operating room at the Shock Trauma Center at University of Maryland Medical Center. She says: I work different shifts every day and feel like I am constantly on call, but the amazing experience and incredible stories make it all worth it.

Davina Passeri graduates this May with her PhD in civil engineering from the University of Central Florida: This past year has been very exciting, I presented my research at international conferences in Delaware, San Francisco, and in Hamburg, Germany. I won the award for best oral presentation at the Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference at the University of Delaware. I am currently applying for jobs and hope to obtain a position at a federal agency, continuing research on sea level rise, storm surge, tides and coastal erosion. Megan Pendleton lives in Athens, GA where she works within the office of Multicultural Services and Programs at the University of Georgia. She became engaged this March, and currently lives with her partner and her daughter. Captain Kendall Poling (U.S. Army) is stationed at Fort Campbell, KY and was married this March.

Elizabeth Robertson, is finishing up her second semester at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she is pursuing her master’s degree in nursing. She lives in Federal Hill with her fiancé, Evan Chriss, Gilman, 2004.

Elizabeth and Evan will tie the knot in August.

Molly Ricely is her maid of honor, and Davina Passeri and Cassie Mathias are two of her bridesmaids. Since graduating with her master’s from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in May 2014, Annie Seibert, has been working with the federal government in counterterrorism. This February, Annie got engaged, and she is thinking of a possible fall 2016 wedding. Beth Siwinski Messier is in her tenth year with The Young Victorian Theatre Company. This summer, they will prepare Pirates of Penzance and it will be performed at RPCS. Theresa Statkiewicz works as a nurse in the surgical intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview.

Joanna Taylor: I would say 2014 was a pretty good year. In June, I got engaged to my wonderful boyfriend, Andy Iacobucci. We are getting married in Baltimore in July. This June will be my third year at Walker & Dunlop. I was recently promoted to an analyst role and very much look forward to the challenges and

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responsibilities that will come with this new position. I don’t have any big travel plans at the moment, but I am taking suggestions for good honeymoon locations. Julie Taylor: I graduated from medical school last year and will be graduating from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with my MPH in May. I am getting married to my fiancé Benjamin Schultz in May on a farm in Howard County and then honeymooning in Mexico for a week afterwards. I am planning to take his name so I’ll be Dr. Julie Taylor Schultz soon. Both Julie and her husband will begin residency shortly after their honeymoon, which will mean they will be moving to another city in June. Mallory Twist recently married her longtime boyfriend, Patrick Dunn, in February. She is a new member on the RPCS Alumnae Board and loves being involved in all the events the Board helps run and support for RPCS. Mallory works for Architectural Ceramics selling tile, stone, glass, and porcelain. She lives in Silver Spring. Elizabeth Wahbe, has been promoted to store manager at the Sherwin-Williams store in North East, Maryland. On the side, she has also been selling commission art work and prints as well as cooking for her food blog: thymeandtemptation.com. This May, Courtney Weir, will finish her MBA at Loyola University Maryland. She still lives in Federal Hill and works for DSM Nutritional Products, LLC in their Infant Nutrition Division. She writes that she sees Molly Ricely, Kathryn Werthman, Laura Hearn, Sarah Morehead, Elizabeth Robertson, and Gabi Romanoski often! As for me, Lisa Diver, after running several half-marathons, I decided this year— my 26th year—would be the perfect year to run 26.2 miles which I accomplished this past January. I had the pleasure of running the Baltimore Half Marathon Running Festival with Joanna Taylor last October. I enjoyed flying to the top of Mt. McKinley in Alaska last August where on that day it was announced that I was a member of the 10% club because it is quite unusual for it to be that clear. I look forward to traveling to Greece this summer. I love teaching at RPCS, and I was thrilled to have been recognized at the 2014 employee convocation with the Elsie Y. and Henry L. Meledin Chair award. This spring we lost our dear classmate, Sonia Wahbe. Our condolences and prayers go out to her sister, Elizabeth, and the entire Wahbe family. We are thinking of you all.

Class of 2007 Caroline Martinet martinetc11@gmail.com Emily Adams loves San Francisco and is graduating in May from her graduate program at CIIS in integral counseling. She has been seeing clients since September. She has also been building her massage career and has recently started pregnancy massage. Three years ago, Jessica Adnani founded a luxury boutique concierge service provider, Personalized Solutions, which caters to highend customers in the DC area. This year they expanded to Dallas and have plans to expand further. She is also in the process of launching a new start-up called poptheQ, which will help to execute the perfect proposal, engagement party and bachelor and bachelorette parties.

Meena Al-Talib is in her first year of dental school at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry. The first year mostly consists of science classes, but they have already started in the pre-clinic. She lives in downtown Baltimore and loves it. Courtney Amelung graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in May, took the bar exam in July, found out that she passed in October, and was officially sworn into the state bar in December!

She is clerking for a magistrate judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Her position ends in late August so she is interviewing and hopes to get a job as an associate at a law firm in Baltimore or

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Washington, DC. Emmy Bergbower is finishing up her PhD in cellular and molecular medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her thesis committee just passed her for graduation in February and she is set to defend in July. She will start on her M.D. in August. Emily also volunteers with a healthcare clinic in East Baltimore and just bought a house in Homeland. Meg Bowen works as a coaching coordinator at KIPP Baltimore (along with Rebecca Clark). This is her first year teaching young children and she loves it! She is also going to Hopkins to get her MA/PhD in urban education and administration. Caroline Brown graduated from the New York University College of Nursing in May 2013 and passed the NCLEX to become a registered nurse. She has since been pursuing her passion as a mural artist and has been working for a small mural company based out of Towson called NS Studios. They paint at many of the charter schools throughout Maryland, as well as residential homes. Caroline recently completed a project for RPCS, helping to design and paint their middle school musical set for The Wiz. She says it was so much fun, and brought back memories from when our class did Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 8th Grade. She lives in Canton with a friend where she has a studio space.

Their house is full of paintings. Austin Campbell started nursing school this past January and will be getting her second bachelor’s at University of Maryland Baltimore in 2016. She absolutely loves the program so far and is looking forward to eventually becoming a nurse practitioner. Rebecca Clark teaches special education at KIPP Harmony Academy. She graduates from Johns Hopkins University this May with her master’s in elementary and special education. Her mom is opening a new school next year so she will be helping her this summer, and her brother just got married so she loves having a sister. Jaime Crawford started a master’s program for technology and security at Georgetown University. She’s still with GP Strategies Corporation and they’ve been plugging away at getting their European division up and running. She lives in Baltimore City and is now officially a homeowner! Jessica Davis is still in the Army stationed at Fort Drum, in upstate New York. She was promoted to captain last month, and has thoroughly enjoyed her career as a military intelligence officer. This year she made the decision to transition out of the Army, and will be moving to New York City in May to pursue a career in sales with Lutron.

She is excited to move onto the next phase of her life as a civilian. Zoe Dolan lives in a cozy apartment on E. 77th in NYC. She works at the Onassis Foundation, but her role has

Carrie Gamper, 2007, Caroline Martinet, 2007, Zoe Dolan, 2007 and Erin Trenery, 2010 in NYC ath the Tri-School Reception

changed slightly. She will be working with more modern art/artists now and she is the newly appointed coordinator of a four-day festival set to inaugurate the Onassis Cultural Center NY this October. The festival’s theme is Narcissus, which will be explored through music, art, science, literature, choreography, and food from the original myth to today’s selfie culture. Hollis Dvorkin lives in East Harlem with her fiancée Max. She is in the third year of her PhD in history at Princeton.

She passed her general exams last spring and so is now “all but dissertation.” She is working on a project on Carthusian monasteries and political power in 13th C Provence; she spends most of her time reading Latin legal charters.

One of the benefits of this project is that she will spend part of next year doing archival research in southeastern France. This semester she is also precepting for her professor’s course on High Medieval Europe and is really enjoying working with students again. Kaylie Forner lives in Canton and works for Feats Inc., though she now has a dual role as traffic manager and marketing associate. Feats celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and she couldn’t be happier to be part of their milestone. She is running more half marathons in the fall in both Brooklyn and Philly with her co-worker, friend and fellow RPCS alumna Kris Pompa, 2002. She volunteers for the Tyanna Foundation and will be co-chairing their main event, BreastFest, in the fall.

Annabel Franz is enrolled in a clinical

psychology master’s program at Western Carolina University. She has been working as a counselor in the university’s counseling center conducting several independent research projects. She plans to graduate in May and will hopefully continue working in the field either near Asheville or back in Charleston. Carrie Gamper has traveled a lot this past year, which has included scuba diving in Greece, vineyard tours in Austria and coaching lacrosse in Israel. In January she submitted her master’s dissertation on a theory of entrepreneurship.

She graduates from Durham University in June and hopes to go back to the UK with her dad.

She is now re-entering the corporate world, having just accepted a senior position with Repucom, an international sports analytics company, and will be based in Stamford, CT. And most importantly, this year she became the proud mom to a hilarious puppy and an aunt to a beautiful niece. Kiley Gray is the assistant culinary manager at Hillstone Restaurant in Winter Park, FL. She spends her days butchering and cooking, so it can’t really get better than that. Hillary Gross lives in Arlington and works on Capitol Hill for Congressman Bob Gibbs. Last summer she was promoted to legislative aide and she handles issues including transportation, judiciary, healthcare, immigration and social security. She really enjoys working on the Hill and her new role keeps her busy! Bethy Hagan lives in Canton and is set to finish her MBA at the University of Maryland, College Park in

May. Her focus has been on early stage business strategy, so she’s interested in startup operations, consulting, and general economic development strategy for urban areas. She lives with Amy Cahill and Austin Campbell and she is the aunt to an incredible 1 1/2 year old named Carter (Sarah Hagan Chesson’s, 2004 baby), and she is really excited to see her oldest sister Blair Hagen, 2001 get married in April.

Casi Horstman lives in Baltimore and works for a government contractor at the United States Social Security Administration as a multimedia specialist. She lives with her boyfriend and her dog in Baltimore County.

Lizzie Jarow lives in the West Village. She recently left the world of fashion wholesale, and is now a talent scout at a fashion tech start up called The Runthrough. She scouts out both established and emerging designers and helps them to establish their own brands. She has also started taking classes at the New York University School of Professional Studies, and is currently in the procress of getting her certificate in both integrated communications and digital marketing. Kate Kauffman spent the last year traveling around the country. She lives in Baltimore and commutes everyday into DC where she works at Anthopologie’s F Street store as their Display Coordinator. She is also in the beginning stages of starting her own company in the wedding industry, making custom displays and installations for ceremonies and receptions. She’s been working with Lemon & Lime Event Design based out of Baltimore as a contractor and hopes to branch out with her own company in the next few years. They just signed their first client for a May wedding with a beautiful hanging backdrop made of hand-dyed doilies! She says she’s so excited that she can do what she loves everyday. Jessica Lovelace is in her second semester of nursing school and she is looking forward to graduation in May 2016. Aly Massof lives in Columbus, OH and is working on her PhD in philosophy at Ohio State University, concentrating on biomedical ethics.

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Caroline Brown, 2007 designed the mural for the RPCS production The Wiz.

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courses at OSU. After a four-year hiatus, she has started dancing again! In January she was hired to dance at the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation’s fundraising event during the NHL All-Star Weekend. The event raised over half a million dollars for pediatric cancer research. She says it was an amazing thing to be a part of. She has also performed with some local artists around the city and plans to keep doing so. Suzie Mellinger lives in Nashville. Last May she graduated with a master’s in special education and a dual license in elementary education. She teaches 3rd Grade and loves it! Rachel Meyer lives in DC and was recently promoted to associate at Avascent, a boutique consulting company focused on aerospace and defense. She leads projects and works with teach analysts. She ran the Baltimore marathon in the fall - her first full marathon! Naina Khandelwal Rengarajan got married in January in India and she says it was truly magical. She is studying immunology in the combined MD/ PhD program at Washington University in St. Louis and is in the midst of proposing her thesis and applying for grants. Her husband Arvind will graduate from medical school in May and will join the internal medicine residency program at the University. Allegra Romita has been living in Brooklyn for almost four years. She performs with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (Sydnie Mosley, 2003) and she teaches yoga at Prana Power Yoga and Brooklyn Yoga Project. In December, she completed her master’s in dance education at New York University Steinhardt. Also, alongside her mother, she is a co-creator of Functional Awareness Anatomy in Action (FA). FA is a practical somatic approach that provides a series of explorations in experiential anatomy to enhance our understanding of movement function, facilitate ease in body action, and improve dynamic alignment. They will be presenting at the International Conference on Teaching Somatics-Based Dance in July and the National Dance Education Organization conference in October. Amy Ryan moved to Carlsbad, CA where she is a director at the Jenny Craig corporate offices, which has been a really great place to work. Lisa Taber works at Anomaly, a creative advertising agency in NYC. Her team just launched a global campaign for Converse called Made by you and she helped lead the team in producing a film for the campaign. She leads the account with MyMusicRx, a charity that brings the healing power of music to children suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses. This December, they created Bedstock, an online music festival for kids that spend so much time in bed. Meghan Thomsen moved to

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Charlottesville, where she is a first year law student at Virginia Law. She will intern in the Baltimore District Courthouse this summer.

Abby Trader lives in Baltimore and is finishing up her second-to-last clinical at Kennedy Krieger’s physical therapy outpatient spinal cord injury unit. She has one last clinical before she graduates with her doctorate of physical therapy in August from Shenandoah University. She is training to be on American Ninja Warrior. She is also engaged to be married in September and keeps herself busy with wedding planning! Megan Trenery lives in DC and works for Children’s National Health System as a fundraiser for the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. She manages the hospital’s Be Brave and Shave program, which raises money for pediatric cancer research. She is also a member of the RPCS Alumnae Board and would love to see everyone at upcoming events especially the young alum event this Thanksgiving that she is co-chairing. She is running the Baltimore marathon for the One Love Foundation in the fall. As for me Caroline Martinet, I quit my job at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in DC and moved to NYC in August.

I live in Greenwich Village and am in love with the neighborhood. In October I started working at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as a program manager for professional prizes. I manage many of the prizes, including awards for environmental journalism, nonfiction book writing, and more. This past October I ran the Baltimore half marathon for the third year in a row with Megan Trenery for the One Love Foundation.

Class of 2009 5th Reunion Dani Makia dmakia9@gmail.com All is well with the Class of 2009, whom just had its 5th Reunion this past October. Jen Arman just finished her second year as a 5th Grade teacher in Baltimore County. She is in the process of getting her master’s in Special Education at Goucher College. She lives in Federal Hill with two members of our class, Emily Turner and Lily MacKenty. Mackenzie Cooke moved back to Baltimore to pursue her master’s in Social Work at University of Maryland. She is in the Title IV-E education for public child welfare program. In addition to her classes, Mackenzie spent the year interning at Baltimore County Department of Social Services in Foster Care and she served on the Westmoreland Volunteer Corps Board. Nealy Harnsberger is living and working in NYC for JP Morgan Chase as a New Accounts Analyst.

Amanda Hirschfeld lives in Baltimore and works for Under Armour in International Supply Chain Operations. She will be embarking on a four month assignment for UA in Panama City, Panama this June and is excited to travel to Central and South America. Courtney Kuhn and Lily MacKenty just finished their first year of law school at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Betsy Mullally is working in Baltimore, cooking up delicious meals as a chef at Woodberry Kitchen.

Julia Osterman lives in Denver, CO, and works in the Chief Conservation Office of The Nature Conservancy. She says, “I’m enjoying and

looking forward to hiking, snowboarding and living in the wild, wild west. Please, please come visit me!” Leah Osterman graduated from Yale University this past Spring, and is moving back to Baltimore where she will be working in the theater department of a school for special needs kids. Sarah Saxon works in DC as a consulting engineer at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, where she collaborates closely with architects and contractors to design new buildings and renovate existing buildings. She also works on historic preservation projects and forensic building investigations. Emily Turner is living in Federal Hill with classmates Lily and Jen and is working as an interior designer at BCT Architects. Kelly Martinet is still living in Washington, DC and is working as an advancement associate at the Smithsonian Institution. As for me, Dani Makia, I am still living in Brooklyn, NY, working as a paralegal and preparing to apply to law school. I’ve fallen in love with the sport of running once again, and am gearing up for the TCS NYC Marathon (my first!) this fall. Until next time!

Class of 2010 Anisha Khandelwal shares: I am still in Severna Park. I will graduate this May from UMBC with a bachelor of arts in psychology, bachelor of arts in health administration and policy, and a minor in management of aging services. I will then graduate from UMBC in 2016 with a master’s in public policy (concentration: health policy). I am currently a research assistant at UMBC, involved with leadership at UMBC, and the corporate compliance intern at Maxim Healthcare Services. I aspire to eventually become a senior manager of a healthcare organization. I am currently applying to positions and searching for a job beginning June 2015.

Anisha Khandelwal, 2010 and Naina Khandelwal Rengarajan, 2007 at Naina’s wedding.

Carroll Neale, 2010, Barrett Neale Scott, 2006 and Hooper Neale, 2013

Class of 2011 Sally Tucker sally.tucker@furman.edu Haley Venick venick@email.sc.edu Jodi Askew is graduated from George Washington University in the spring of 2015 with a degree in public health and a minor in sustainability. Jodi worked as a research and evaluation Intern at the American Legacy Foundation during her senior year, where she supported the foundation’s “truth” PSA campaign in their mission to end youth smoking. She will remain in Washington DC after graduation and is excited to start her career as a research associate in the Advisory Board Company. Claire Cobert graduated from Washington College in May and has a few months off before she starts her new job with Advantage Sales and Marketing in Charlotte, NC. Alexandra Day will be working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory this summer and living on the MIT campus. She is so thrilled to be staying in the Boston area and says “I am excited to start this next phase of my life.” Erin Golueke is a recent graduate from the University of Maryland and is currently taking classes there to pursue her dream of going to dental school. Betsy Hebert’s senior year has been a whirlwind.

She completed her internship this summer at GKV in Baltimore and helped to complete her collegiate requirement for her major. She worked for a personal organizing company in the fall called Abundance Organizing. The

whole year has been filled with lacrosse and as the season is coming to a close her team is ranked second in the conference. Betsy plans to move back home to Baltimore for the summer and to California in the fall. Casey Merbler graduated from Dickinson College with a BA in environmental studies. She was the captain of the school’s first varsity squash team and they finished the season with a divisional national championship win. She is now back in Baltimore to begin her career in sustainable urban development. Meggie Ramzy graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in human and organizational development and as a member of the Women’s Lacrosse Team. She is moving to Atlanta in August to begin work with Deloitte Consulting as a human capital

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Community Engagement and Servant Leadership

By Daniela Eppler, 2011 At RPCS I developed a passion for seeking social justice and for becoming a leader.

Starting from my days in PreFirst, I was constantly reminded of how one person can make a large positive impact on the world. Therefore, although I began my college career aspiring to practice medicine, I graduated with a substantially different plan for myself. Despite my love for science, I constantly searched for ways to move my passion for social justice and human rights to the forefront of my studies. During my summers as a rising Junior and a rising Senior at the University of Virginia, I took part in two very different community development projects in Pokhara, Nepal and in the Nomzamo Township of South Africa, with my particular focus being in health care. Through these projects I was able to realize the complexity of health related issues in different communities. It became apparent that issues related to health care involve policy, nutrition, education and sanitation. Because of the multidisciplinary make-up of the issues I was interested in, I believed that getting a master’s in Leadership and Public Policy from the Frank Batten School at UVA would give me the tools to play a role in addressing systematic problems that occur within communities and to help develop strategies to alleviate these problems.

Taking part in an internship related to an area of individual interest is part of the second year of my master’s program and my interests in community development, social justice and leadership led me to a nine week internship with the Institute for Rural Development (IRD) at the University of Venda in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Through this internship, I will learn strategies that can be used to address local policy issues throughout different communities and can serve as a catalyst for the communities’ further development in the future.

Through my studies and various other experiences, it has become apparent to me that regardless of what solutions policy makers, NGOs, or other outside sources believe they can develop to solve local problems, it is the involvement of local populations that is required in order to fully understand the issues at hand and to come up with the proper strategies to address these issues. Therefore, the focus of my internship is on community engagement and servant leadership, which are a huge focus of the work done by the IRD at the University of Venda. Community engagement involves a two way process through which communities and universities form relationships that are mutually beneficial. Both the community and the university benefit from an exchange of knowledge that can be used to assist with developing strategies for solving problems that can arise on both ends. Through this exchange, community members are given a venue through which to get involved in the developmental processes that impact them as individuals and as a collective. As a result, the strategies created to address the issues local populations are faced with reflect their needs and enable their participation. Servant leadership involves leaders who motivate others, prioritize the needs of others, and who help others to reach their fullest potential. The combination of servant leadership and community engagement can be used to enable communities to engender their own development.

My goal for this internship is to learn about community engagement and servant leadership from many experts on community development and from the communities themselves. I hope to learn how these concepts are developed, how they are put into practice, and about the effectiveness of their implementation, so that I can play a better role in prompting social change in different communities in the future. This learning process will require that I engage with the different stakeholders, evaluate the types of leaders that exist, as well as the differences in understandings of servant leadership. I will also take part in community engagements, hoping to understand why people get involved in these engagements and how to turn them into social action, which will allow me to experience the theories I have read about and studied in a real life setting. Ultimately, this internship will supply me with a foundation of experiences, skills, and understandings of how development is catalyzed so that I can help to develop strategies that address complex social issues in the future.

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Simone Ijoma, 2011 and Meredith Von Paris, 2011

analyst. Lucy Rosenbloom has been working as an intern in the communications department of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team. She looks forward to graduating from Rhodes College in May, and hopes to work in the community relations department of a professional sports team. Carolyn Smith is getting ready to graduate from Davis and Elkins College where she double majored in religion and philosophy.

She also will be graduating with a minor in history. She also received the Honors Award for outstanding work in religion from the religion department. On top of her studies she is now an Ordained Minister through The Universal Life Church. In the fall of 2015, she will be working with the middle school students at Boys’ Latin.

Niki Steel will graduate from Towson University in December with a degree in psychology. She is currently interning with Sheppard Pratt and recently moved into a new house. Paige Strott graduated Cum Laude from the University of Tampa in December. She lives in Tampa and works as a public relations and social media specialist at a boutique PR firm. Daisy Strudwick graduated from the University of Mississippi as a journalism and spanish major. Sally Tucker graduated from Furman University with a degree in elementary education. She is currently living in Greenville, SC hoping to teach her own class while pursuing

Casey Merbler, 2011, Anne Holly, 2013 and Meghan Shippe, 2014 meet for a collegiate squash tournament.

Victoria Carroll,2017, Alexandra Carroll, 2011 and Olivia Carroll, 2017 with their mother April Carroll, Assistant Director of Admissions at RPCS.

her master’s in early childhood education.

Haley Venick graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of South Carolina with a degree in elementary education. In April, Haley received the Outstanding Senior Award for exemplary achievements in elementary education. This year has been busy, fun, exciting, and challenging. As sad as it was to leave South Carolina, Haley is so excited to return to Baltimore to begin her teaching career. She will be teaching 3rd Grade in BCPS! Hannah Zimmerman is enjoying her last year at Hopkins. She is planning to work as a lab assistant next year before attending medical school in 2016.

Class of 2012 Blake Foster hbf2sc@virginia.edu Kelsey Dwyer ked87@georgetown.edu At the University of Georgia, Allie Brent is a consumer journalism major with a focus in public relations and textiles merchandising and interiors. This past fall, she embarked on a four-month voyage with Semester at Sea and traveled to four continents, 17 countries and 27 cities. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, on the marketing team for Spoon University, and is a weekly food bank volunteer with UGA Food2Kids. Blake Foster

graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s in environmental policy and planning. She will be completing a master’s of public policy next May. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and works with multiple offices and organizations on grounds to promote sustainability such as the Zero Waste Initiative. This summer she will intern for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and do research on the local food system of Charlottesville for a research grant she won this spring. After college she is looking at pursuing a degree in urban planning, possibly in the UK. Serene Mirza is a neuroscience major at the University of Michigan. She will be continuing her research with Dr. Thad Polk on neural dedifferentiation and aging and working on another project on smoking cessation. Last year, she was published for an addiction course. Heather Oros enjoyed her junior year continuing her major studies in psychology and Spanish. On campus, Heather is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, takes pictures for the Bucknellian, teaches weekly yoga classes and conducts psychological research. She was fortunate to spend her second semester studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she fell in love with the Latin American culture and life style. Katherine Wright is majoring in international relations with a minor in economics. She just returned from a great semester abroad in Florence, Italy. Katherine Barley just finished her junior year at Furman University, where she studies health sciences and poverty studies. She spent her spring semester studying global health inequalities,

poverty, and child development in South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. She will be spending the summer working as an intern and research assistant with the Carolina Population Center in Chapel Hill, NC. Moran Beidleman conducted research for two of her psychology professors that studied the effects of Disney princesses on child development.

She presented the research at an international conference for child development. She also became president of recruitment for her sorority. Meredith Birely had an incredibly exciting year, from studying abroad in London and travelling around Europe to getting to see her University’s basketball team win the NCAA Championship live in Indianapolis.

This summer she will be busy working two different internships, one in Baltimore and one in DC. Molly Cantrell is finishing up her semester abroad in Sydney, Australia. She has been able to study engineering and dance while having an incredible experience travelling to many different places. Kelsey Dwyer studied abroad at the University of Auckland and had the most amazing experience travelling around New Zealand for her fall semester. For her spring semester, she returned to Georgetown where she had an internship with a local investment firm. She conducted research for a project helping to bring solar panels to local DC schools. She also decided to add an international development minor to her degree. Meghan Fawcett is still a student at Colby College with a double major in cellular/ molecular biology and studio art with a concentration in painting. She is working at Colby over the summer on a research project funded by the National Science Foundation where she is investigating the role of genes, hormones and the environment of wing polyphenism in O. Fasciatis and J. Hemateloma through RNA interference of Distallis, FoxO and Insulin receptor pathways. By the end of the summer she will hopefully submit her paper to Nature for peer-review and publication.

In the upcoming year, she will continue her

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research which will be incorporated into her final senior research thesis. Maddie Kaufman studied abroad in the Galapagos Islands for her spring semester, where she took classes in marine biology, terrestrial ecology, and geology. She had many priceless experiences in the Galapagos including camping on a volcano, swimming with sea lions and wild dolphins and diving with sharks. Laurel Meyer studied abroad in Cork, Ireland in the fall and returned to Bates for her second semester. This summer, she is participating in a 10-week research program at UNC where she is working in the departments of sociology and city and regional planning. Sarah Riedel changed her minor to global sustainability. She is studying abroad in Germany and Switzerland, travelling to different cities including Berlin, Freiburg, Zurich and Riva San Vitale. When she returns, she will be interning with a real estate investment firm in Baltimore. Francesca Santini is studying dietetics at the University of Maryland. This summer she will take classes in order to finish her chemistry sequence for her major. She will also continue to intern at Rebecca Bitzer and Associates, a local dieticians office. Sandy Stewart loves being a member of the Tribe, after transferring from Clemson University to The College of William & Mary.

She has a summer internship at a startup catalyst company, which will prepare her for a career in business. She is looking forward to completing her senior year bucket list before heading out into the real world. Rachel Taylor is working towards a degree in marine affairs with a minor in environmental and natural resource economics. She will spend her summer interning at Geo-Technology Associates, which is an environmental consulting firm in Abington. Mari Yamaguchi completed her first year at University of Colorado Boulder after transferring from University of Arizona.

This summer she will be staying in Boulder and taking classes. Anna Zoulis is a prelaw student. Last spring, she worked at an immigration law firm writing memorandums and conducting research on a variety of visas for clients. She also went on an alternative spring break trip to New Orleans, where she helped rebuild homes that were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. Sarah Adams transferred to the University of Delaware last fall and is now pursuing an organizational and community leadership degree. She is playing on the women’s club ultimate frisbee team there. Megan Fish is studying international business and Russian at Dickinson College. She just returned from her spring semester which she spent studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. This summer Megan is interning at Hamilton Bank and training for her last cross country season at Dickinson.

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Class of 2013 Fannon Curtis fdc0002@tigermail.auburn.edu Catherine Crozier ckc3zb@virginia.edu Christine Vaile chvaile@davidson.edu Kate Howard lives in DC where she is slowly becoming Indiana Jones in order to complete her field work for her archaeology and American studies majors. She will intern with a non-profit to help with PR and children’s education before beginning her junior year and taking on her responsibilities as new member Chairman for Kappa. Sydney Burns is spending her summer in Washington as an intern for the Washington Post and for Roland Martin on his show NewsOne Now. She will be entering into her junior year at WVU as a sport and exercise psychology major and communications minor.

Fannon Curtis will spend half of her summer in Baltimore and the other half in Auburn. She was admitted into her elementary education program and is very excited to get started.

Catherine Crozier will spend the summer working in Jackson Hole and then heads to Paris to study abroad in the fall. Hooper Neale lives in Charlottesville and works as an athletics media relations intern for UVA sports teams. Madison Cole is the chapter registrar for her sorority Kappa and is working in South Carolina for the summer. Justina Bagger had a great second year. She made the Dean’s List, declared a psychology major with a minor in statistics, became a copy editor for SLU’s newspaper and is taking a neuroscience course in Denmark over the summer. Ella Charon became part of the triathlon team at USC and started training for races throughout the year.

She found her best friends on the team! She is majoring in fine arts, photo and design. This summer she is interning at Annie Liebovitz’s studio in New York, which still feels unreal to

Fannon Curtis, 2013 and Claire Utermohle, 2013

Bella del Hierro, 2013, Anne Holly, 2013, Laurel Payne, 2013 and Elisabeth Fassas, 2013

her. She’s excited to spend her summer in the city. After her second year as a food science major, Annie Cobb is working in Buffalo at Sorrento Lactalis in their cheese plant. She is spending her summer interning in their quality assurance department. Courtney Grebow is working at a physical therapy office this summer as a physical therapy aide. Martha Isaacs, as the 2014-2015 co-chair of UNC’s Students United for Reproductive Justice Organization, organized the 2015 Women’s Issues Now Conference and rallied for women’s health advocates in North Carolina.

She also enjoyed performing in The Vagina Monologues and creating a short documentary about Burmese refugees. This summer, she is in London working for an urban planning design firm focused on empowering communities to build their own public spaces. Lizzie Jaspan is thrilled to be going into her junior year at Marymount Manhattan College on the Upper East Side. She is a playwriting major and a drama therapy minor. She worked in her school’s admissions office and learned so much. She saw 13 theatrical productions.

Beth Kelly is working in Baltimore this summer after finishing a successful sophomore year on the Dean’s List at Lynchburg College.

After another successful semester at Sewanee, Alaina Mandel is spending half of the summer working at the beach in Ocean City, and the other half traveling through Europe. After finishing her sophomore year at Fordham as a marketing major, Jennifer Newman is spending her summer interning at a tech startup in New York and will be studying abroad this fall in London. Rachel Orlinsky is at the University of Pennsylvania and is pre-med majoring in health and societies with a public health concentration. She is a member of the executive board for Sigma Delta Tau, artistic director of Sparks Dance Company and is excited to be part of the Big Brothers-Big Sisters mentor program. She is spending the summer in Philly doing autism research and can’t wait for junior year. Sarah Schrum studied abroad in London

for the spring semester of sophomore year. She is in Delta Zeta and got inducted in Delta Epsilon Iota, the academic honors society.

Next year Sarah hopes to get an internship abroad. As a declared mechanical engineering major, Grace Stewart is taking a semester abroad in Prague at the Czech Technical Institute this fall. Even though the engineering life is full of work and struggles, she is having a lovely time at Union with friends. Sadiqa Tarar just finished her sophomore year at the George Washington University with a declared major in biomedical engineering. She is serving as a board member in the GW chapter of the biomedical engineering society and is doing research in optical coherence tomography.

Katie Tutrone finished her second year at Harvard. She is majoring in psychology and is part of the Bee Keeping Club. Katie was taking distance education classes in broadcast meteorology at Mississippi State in preparation for her summer internship at The CNN NY news bureau. Claire Utermohle definitely made the best decision to transfer to Maryland. She loved getting to know her sorority sisters at Maryland and welcoming Roland Park alum Arielle Aboulafia, 2014 to the sisterhood. She is looking forward to junior year and finally being an official psych major! Christine Vaile had a fantastic sophomore year at Davidson College.

She was the general solicitations chair for Bosom Buddies, an organization that raises money for earlier breast cancer detection research, class rep for her Eating House, and was the president of club lacrosse. This summer she studied at the London School of Economics. She will be returning to London this fall to study abroad at King’s College London for the semester.

After a trip to Iceland, Blair Warren is starting work as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for the summer. Maggie Waxter had a great second year at W&L. She spent her summer in London taking a class on contemporary British politics and working on an internship in marketing. Emma Wernecke made the Dean’s List for the second year in a row at DeSales University. She is scheduled to graduate after this coming year and is looking forward to starting graduate school. Sarah Weatherford is majoring in hospitality and is working at the Mount Washington Tavern for the summer as a waitress and interning with the event. This past year was an amazing year full of great friends, hard classes and fun memories for Julia Wingate at Miami University of Ohio. Miami is such a great school for Julia and she is happy for making the decision to transfer there. This summer she was in NYC as a marketing intern for a new app.

Julia has decided to study abroad in Barcelona in the fall.

Isabella and Natalie Thomas, 2014 with Valarie Searles, 2014

Class of 2014 Rebecca Jun rebjun@umich.edu Meghan Shippe shippem@dickinson.edu Bracken Woolley bracken.woolley@richmond.edu Arielle Aboulafia started her freshman year at the University of Maryland declaring her major as criminology and behavioral psychology with the intention of working as a criminal profiler at the federal level. She realized her interest in the criminal justice system was with victims and is now gearing her studies towards victimology specializing in sex crimes. Arielle is a UMD scholar in the justice and legal thought program and hopes that her involvement in the program will allow her to get involved in creating legislation on campus regarding sexual assault. She spends her free time with friends as well as volunteering at the UMD Help Center, a crisis hotline for students of the University. She expects to be a certified counselor by the end of her sophomore year. Arielle joined the Alpha Chi Omega chapter and loves everything about it. Her favorite part is being surrounded by incredibly intelligent, motivated, hysterical and loving women who support her in all her endeavors. Arielle misses the lovely gals of RPCS and wishes them all the love and success she knows they will achieve! Marguerite Adams is very happy at Dickinson College. She intends to major in

biology, psychology, or business. She is involved in the Relay for Life club, dog house club, psychology club, and MOB. In addition, she was chosen by her professors to participate in a selective leadership retreat. She misses the long-standing traditions of RPCS and the amazing friends that she made over 13 years.

This summer, she is working in Rehoboth as a hostess/bus girl and as a beach girl. Stephanie Altman had a great freshmen year at the University of Delaware. She plans to major in cognitive science. She is involved in yoga hoop and outing club. Her favorite part about freshmen year has been meeting new people and exploring white clay creek. She misses the teachers and the people from RPCS. Her summer plans are to live at the beach. Annie Bailey completed her first year at Towson University where she majors in jazz/ commercial performance in guitar. She hopes to move into a house with two other Towson students and ensures that her door is open to all her fellow classmates from RPCS. Annie works at a local Burger Bros in Towson.

Megan Beto enjoys Wake Forest and is considering a major within the business school. She loves her classes and college life, but definitely misses her friends at RPCS. Megan is looking forward to a relaxing summer and can’t wait to go back in the fall.

Katie Bolte’s favorite part of the year was making new friends and playing lacrosse. She misses the senior room the most from RPCS. She is living in Stone Harbor this summer and will be working in an ice cream shop. After spending her first year at Towson University, Stacia Der will transfer to the University of Maryland in the fall. She auditioned for their dance team and was one of the twelve out of forty who made the team. Look for her on the

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football field and basketball court next year.

She will continue as a government and politics major with a track for pre law. Stacia plans to spend this summer spending time with her friends, working for Victoria’s Secret, laying in the sun, and returning to the law firm where she completed her senior project to continue as an intern. Hayley Dott is transferring to Johns Hopkins University in the fall to be closer to friends and family, especially her twin nieces. At Tulane, Hayley was a facilities assistant for housing and a writer for the school newspaper. Her love of music continued to flourish in New Orleans, compelling her to attend many concerts and impacting her decision to try out for an a capella group at Hopkins in the fall. She misses the close connection with the Semiquavers and the impromptu dancing and singing gatherings she used to perform with the track team in the senior parking lot. This summer she will be working at Nordstrom. Toby Dubin just finished her first year at Wagner College. She declared her major as early childhood education and sociology/anthropology. She joined Alpha Delta Pi and is the treasurer of Hillel. Her favorite part about her freshman year was meeting new friends and trying new things. The thing Toby misses the most about Roland Park is wearing the uniform every day and seeing all her friends every day. Her summer plans are working at The Jewish Community Center in the Preschool. Natalie Faust attends The Ohio State University where she is majoring in sport industry and plays on the field hockey team. Her favorite parts about freshman year were meeting new people, forming great friendships with her teammates, and traveling to many different

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schools during her field hockey season. Her favorite memory this year was when the OSU football team won the national championship.

What Natalie misses most about RPCS is the Class of 2014. This summer she is working in Baltimore, coaching camp in Columbus, and visiting Ocean City and South Carolina.

Kendra Foster will be transferring to the Fashion Institute of Technology to study fashion merchandising. She is excited to explore all New York has to offer. Ella Frankel loves being a marketing major at UMD and is considering adding an accounting double major. She is excited to be an America Reads mentor and help kids enhance and refine their reading abilities. She can’t wait to see what the next year brings. Maiya Futrell will be transferring to Towson in the fall. She is a bio major on the pre-med track.

Kitty Glick will double major in economics and policy management at Dickinson College.

She is involved in Phoenix, an all-girls community service club and she is a member of Pi Beta Phi. The best memories of her freshman year were meeting new people and creating new friendships. Kitty misses free periods at RPCS where she could hangout and socialize with other classmates. She will be spending the summer taking a class at Towson and working in Baltimore. Rebecca Jun loved her first year at the University of Michigan.

Although it was a big adjustment entering a huge school and facing the cold weather in Ann Arbor, she learned a lot and gained many special memories. She is undecided, but she is keeping her options open and plans to use this summer to gain experience in areas she is interested in. In addition to studying and spending time with friends, Rebecca enjoyed

getting involved with her church and Young Life. This summer, she looks forward to spending time with friends and family, learning how to play the guitar, making art, playing tennis, and going on random adventures in Baltimore! Connelly Kline had a great first year at Frostburg State University.

She loved all of her classes and met some really nice people. She is thinking about majoring in nursing and is involved in Kappa Tau Epsilon. Erin Penn had a great freshman year at Franklin and Marshall. She became a member of Kappa Delta and is active in the campus’s Hillel sitting on its Board. Next year she will take on the role of a peer advisor in her dorm. Abbey Muhly had a great year at Furman University and cannot wait to head back to Greenville in August. Abbey is trying to decide whether to major in biology or health sciences and is on a pre-health track.

Abbey plays on the women’s varsity lacrosse team; she had an especially exciting first year on the team as it was the inaugural season for women’s lacrosse at Furman. Abbey pledged Alpha Delta Pi and is so happy to have her fellow RPCS alum, Katherine Barley, 2012 as one of her sisters on campus. Alex Paglia is transferring to Johns Hopkins University in the fall and hopes to pursue an economics major. Amity Jackson will transfer to Arizona State University next year and will continue to study biomedical engineering. She will spend her summer in Orange County, CA. Cheyenne Pajardo is a double major in dance and English with a concentration in creative writing at Goucher College. She is a member of the Goucher Dance Team, Umoja, and the manager of the women’s basketball team. Her favorite part of freshman year was rooming with her cousin, whom she did not know she was related to until they decided to room together. It has been an adventure. She misses her RPCS advisor Mrs. Popp, but is doing her best to stay in touch. This summer she will be nannying and working as a dance instructor at Inertia Performing Arts. Ann Bradley Lewis has been thinking about studying exercise science at Elon University because it is something that she can relate to and she has a lot of interest helping people. Her favorite part of freshman year was getting to meet new people and her classes. She became close friends with the girls on her hall and really enjoyed the time they had together. She also loved her classes because they are small, just like RPCS, and it is nice to have a personal connection with teachers who care about their students and want them to succeed. She misses hanging out with her RPCS girls in the senior room and has realized how special the close community and spirit is that RPCS has. She loved walking down the hallways and

recognizing everyone and being able to have a conversation with them. This summer she plans on working a lot as well as relaxing with her family. Meghan Shippe had a positive year as a Red Devil at Dickinson College. She is excited about her plans to double major in philosophy and psychology and cannot wait for next semester to begin. She is an active member of Kappa Alpha Theta and the women’s squash team. She had a very successful and fun season with the squash team, which was topped off with a national title win. This summer she is working at Connections Education in Columbia, MD but making sure to take enough time to relax and enjoy the summer. She is happy to be home with her family but misses her school friends.

Kristin Polk just completed her first year in the Engineering School at the University of Virginia. She has declared a major in Systems Engineering and plans to minor in business.

Kristin is a member of the Universities Challah for Hunger club. Kristin also recently became a member of the Delta Zeta sorority, which she joined because it reminded her of the lasting friendships and memories formed with her RPCS Class of 2014. She frequently plays intramural sports such as tennis and volleyball with friends and plans to try out for the club tennis team next year.

Kara Powell just finished her first year at Skidmore College. She hasn’t declared her major yet, but is planning on studying theater and English. Kara will be spending part of the summer in Maine performing in a fringe festival, as well as interning at Center Stage.

Annie Riley followed in the footsteps of her former RPCS friends Niccola Lynch, 2012 and

Annie Cobb, 2013. Annie applied ED to Cornell, enrolled there, and joined the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta with Annie and Niccola.

Annie is on track to double major in math and near Eastern studies. Arabic is still her favorite class; there is less dancing at Cornell but Annie has gotten to know her ten classmates very well and went to her professor’s apartment for dinner each semester. Other than school and Greek life, Annie taught Spanish at Head Start in Ithaca and enjoys exploring the many gorges, waterfalls, and swimming holes surrounding the campus and the greater Ithaca area. Catherine Romadka-Fahl is involved with HerCampus, Lambda Alliance, and ultimate frisbee at William & Mary, and she is planning on majoring in computer science.

Samantha Shawver is double majoring in marine science and microbiology/ immunology with a minor in chemistry at the University of Miami. She is a part of the marine mammal rescue team, the scuba club, and a member of the marine and atmospheric honors society. While Sam had an amazing first year at school, she misses all her good friends at RPCS and some of the awesome teachers she had while she went to school there. Specifically, she says Mr. Brock is one of a kind and she was so lucky to have him early on in her school career because he had a huge influence on her decision to pursue a career in science. This summer Sam will be starting her fourth summer ocean lifeguarding on the Sea Colony Beach Patrol in Bethany Beach Delaware so if anyone is in the area come say hi! Sophie Sibel had a fantastic first year at Franklin and Marshall! Second semester she went through rush and received a bid

Mary Donovan O’Hern, 1983, Katie O’Hern, 2012, Kelly O’Hern, 2014, Christine Donovan, 1976, Maggie Mazzuli, 2024, Kelly Donovan-Mazzuli, 1994, Mary Mazzulli, 2023, and Molly O’Hern, 2016

from Chi Omega, which has made her more involved on campus and with the sorority’s national charity alliance, the Make-A-Wish foundation. She hopes to major in government with a minor in sociology. Isabella Thomas is very happy at the University of Richmond. She is thinking about an economics major but is still undecided. She joined the Delta Gamma fraternity and is excited to spend three more years getting to know her new sisters. Next semester she is thinking about joining APO the community service fraternity, and can’t wait to get back to start her sophomore year in the fall. Ava Todd is likely majoring in philosophy or religion. She is playing for Davidson’s tennis team and hopes to become a tour guide next year. Although she loves Davidson, Ava misses her Roland Park classmates and teachers.

This summer, she plans to stay in Maryland to play tennis, teach fitness classes and spend time with friends from Baltimore. Emy Urban was a founding member of Wellesley’s Curling Club and enjoyed learning about the sport only old people and Canadians play. She was a senator for her dorm and next year she’s excited to be a member of Wellesley’s Honor Council. She is planning on majoring in economics. Elizabeth Weglein is at University of Delaware majoring in apparel design. She joined the UD Women’s Rowing team and had a great season. She plans to add fashion merchandising as a second major next fall and get more involved with other artists on campus. Toni-Ann Williams enjoyed her first year at University of California, Berkeley. She is a part of the Women’s Varsity Gymnastics Team and is considering majoring in public health. She loved being able to go to a different coast and meet different people from all over the country. Some of her favorite memories will always be going to travel meets with her team and bonding with them. This summer she is staying in California to train for the World Championships and take summer courses. Bracken Woolley has loved her first year at University of Richmond! She is a representative on student government, a tour guide and a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. As of now, she is considering a double major in economics and communications.

She is looking forward to spending a lot of time with her friends from RPCS this summer in Baltimore. Sherry Xu is studying at Washington University in St. Louis, double majoring in fashion design and finance. She is involved with the Armour magazine club, the fashion magazine at WashU. She also recently started taking some equestrian lessons. She spent every holiday traveling to different places, including Chicago, Puerto Rico and Alaska. She is spending her first month of summer in Europe and the rest in China.

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New babies in the RPCS Community

Raquel Whiting Gilmer, 1989 Joshua Michael “Mikey”

Anne Plowden Ballweg, 1993 Lucille Claire “Lucy”

Cary Zink Kassouf, 1995 Spencer Zink

Hedy Born Koczwara, 1996 Vivienne Hedy

Reagan Raneri Koffel, 1997 Dyson Murray

Kristin Raneri Nicolini, 1998 Quincy John

Anna Hitchner, 1998 William Thomas “Will”

Stasia Thomas Nardangeli, 1999, Lyra Anastasia

Brooke Crittendon, 1999 Lennon Grey Joseph

Nicole Rock Mink, 1998 Thomas Mills III

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Colleen McCormick, 1993 Aela Caritas

Erin Greenwood Goff, 1994 Thomas Bea

Ali Bourne La Fiura, 1997 Samuel Bourne “Sam”

Becky Smoot Anderson, 1995 Madeline Rose

Emily Lough Johnson, 1997 Molly Dixon

Grace Applefeld Cleveland, 1998, William Choice V “Liam”

Hillary Zouck Shaffer, 1997 Emily Josephine

Faith Pilecki Hudson, 1998 Alice Katharine

Christina Smith Fenton, 1999 August Smith “Gus”

Kristin Sudina Freitag, 1999 Ryleigh Anne

Ashley Zink Mclain, 1999 Charles Henry “Charlie”

Annie Ferebee Short, 2001 Clark Haydon

Sarah Rodgers Atwood, 1999 William Rodgers

Esther Ehrmann Shucosky, 2001, Beau Campion

Betsy Rasmussen, 2000 Beatrice Streett

Stacy Patterson Montgomery, 2001, Logan Miles

Allison Higgins Keenan, 2001 Quinn Edward

Sarah Passano Meech, 2001 Sawyer Jane

Treasa Beyer Matysek, 2001 Lucy Kateri

Jess Winicki Kallaugher, 2002 Connor McKeown

Babies Not Pictured 1997

2001

Laurie Zink Haller Fiona

Anne Sheridan Quigley Graham Martin

1998 Erin McInnes Shaughnessy Beckett Thomas Kristen DeMarco Rickard, 2002, William George

Helen Lee Williams Sale, 2002 Kinsey Morrison Sale, 2002 Louisa Vaughn “Lou Lou” William Walker “Walker”

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2003 Erin Lacy Hollander Mae Margaret Amanda Ortel Frank Paige Alden

Katie Swiss King Emmett Tinkam

2004

2000 Meghan McInnes Palmer Ella

Courtney Zeiders De Pol Colette Reagan Ellen Cameron Jones Eowyn Cameron Jones Kiki Law Perrini Topher

Please send us your baby photos for publication.

Dani Kell Steinbach, 2004 Kaylee Kell

Katharine Fox Castro, 2004 Zoe Jean

Alli Lacy Watts, 2005 Maxwell Joseph “Max”

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Our sympathies to the families and friends of: 1933

1943

1958

Elizabeth “Libby” Chapman, Mother of

Sidney Phillips Morse, Sister of

Clare Chapman Fisher, 1964

Susanne “Sue” Phillips Woolwine, 1939

9/23/2014

10/19/2014

Marion Rose Stafford Lorr, Sister of Barbara Stafford Jones, 1959 and Jane Stafford, 1967; Sister-in-law of Bonnie Blackwood Stafford, 1963

1935

1948

Kathleen Vinup Brooks

Beverly Evans Lyons

7/30/2014

5/4/2013 Mary Sturgis Wolfe, Sister of

7/27/2014

1968 Janet Stewart Coppack, AFS Student.

Host family was Katherine Langrall Innis, 1968

1939

Cynthia Sturgis Earle, 1954

Margaret “Peg” Bishop, Sister of Mary Bishop Bargate, 1936 and Ruth Bishop McClees, 1936; Grand Aunt of Cameron McClees, 2010 and Whitney McClees, 2008

6/16/2014 Sara “Sally” Long Buck

5/30/2014

Dorothy “Dot” Obrecht Johnson

Debbie Weber Obici, 1977

11/28/2014

10/9/2014

1949

2006

Anne Helms Irons, Sister of Mary Jane Blaustein, 1951

Sonia Wahbe, Sister of Elizabeth Wahbe, 2006

11/28/2014

5/6/2015

Nancy Obrecht Victor, Great Aunt of Liz Voneiff Paternotte, 1991

11/7/2014 Susan Pincoffs Tippett, Mother of Susan Tippett, 1972 and Ann Tippett Nutt, 1975

2/10/2015

8/23/2014

9/8/2014

1978 Leigh Weber, Sister of

1954 Cynthia Sturgis Earle, Sister of Mary Sturgis Wolfe, 1948

1940

5/6/2014

Martha Reid Hudson

11/10/2014 Ellen Foster Althouse

12/27/2014

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 at delauneyg@rpcs.org.

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Jannah Bukhari, 2018

Gretchen Herwig, 2015

Caitlin Curtis, 2015

Lucy Regales, 2020

Ashley Wilkins, 2020

Annabelle Slowikowski, 2026

Josie Kalbfleisch, 2023

Charlotte Biggs, 2017

Kearstin Saunders, 2021

Riya Jari, 2022

Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Baltimore, MD Permit No. 3621

5204 Roland Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21210 (410) 323-5500 Visit us on the Web at www.rpcs.org

Phoebe King, 2027

Danielle Chalecki, 2017

Emerson Gray, 2022

RPCS PHILOSOPHY Roland Park Country School, a college preparatory school for girls, is dedicated to the intellectual and moral development of its students. We cultivate creativity, independence of thought, tenacity of purpose, self-discipline, and emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. We maintain high academic standards, uphold tradition, and promote innovation. We nurture a cooperative, resilient spirit within an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. In a diverse, inclusive, and joyful community, Roland Park Country School strives to instill in its students a lifelong love of learning as well as the responsibility to look within and beyond themselves to contribute to and serve as stewards 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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