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Honoring Nancy Conklin

Darius Shayansmith ’15, John Bush ’15, Nick Karahalios ’15 and Michael Sherlock ’15 celebrated their Sage Hill graduation. These four have been friends since first grade, played four years of football, and graduated from Sage Hill together. Bush and Karahalios now attend Texas Christian University. Shayansmith and Sherlock attend Southern Methodist University.

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17 Molly Joyce ’17 is enjoying her junior year at Corona Del Mar High School. She was recently featured in the Daily Pilot for her incredible accomplishments in volleyball.

Robby Keilch ’17 attends Mater Dei High School and enjoys being on the golf team. Last spring, Keilch played in a PGA U.S. Open qualifier at Oak Creek Golf Course and shot nine under par with a final score of 61, a new course record.

18 Lauren Sognefest ’18 is a sophomore at University High School in Irvine. She has recently been selected to be a member of the Irvine CubeSat team, which is composed of students from six local high schools. The Irvine CubeSat STEM Program's main objective is to assemble, test and launch a nano-satellite into low Earth orbit. The Program, with support from many supporters, including NASA, has successfully launched two CubeSats and is anticipating its third launch during the first quarter of 2020. Sognefest also continues to train and compete in Brazilian jiu jitsu at the Art of Jiu Jitsu. In February 2019, she won her sixth consecutive International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation PanKids title and has recently been promoted to blue belt. Sognefest will compete in the juvenile division in the United States and internationally for the next two years.

Serving the families, faculty and staff at Pegasus has been an extraordinary gift to me personally. Watching the School grow from about 100 students to more than 570 means that this world has the opportunity to be served by capable, compassionate leaders in the future.

The Pegasus community is very special, not only for our students, but for their families as well. Our school is fortunate to have a unique team, whose focus is building the community at Pegasus. In this spirit, it is bittersweet to share the news of an upcoming retirement of one of our beloved Pegasus family members, Nancy Conklin, Director of Admission.

We are truly grateful for Nancy’s leadership in admission, recruiting many wonderful students and families. She began her journey at Pegasus in 1991 as a third-grade teaching assistant then soon became the first (and only) director of admission in the school’s history. Her sincere devotion to Pegasus for nearly 30 years has made an invaluable impact on our community. Although Nancy will be closing this chapter at Pegasus, she will remain a part of our community as a volunteer alumni ambassador. Her children, Sarah and Elizabeth, graduated in 2001 and her granddaughter, Elizabeth Bowles ’25, attends Pegasus.