Class Notes

Beth Mazza Robertson is celebrating her fifth anniversary of living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last September, she and her husband, Lance, started their own small business consulting service called Robertson Consulting Group. They love working together from home, helping small businesses with their website and marketing needs. Beth and Lance have two children; Henry, who is finishing his sophomore year in high school and Emily, who is graduating from eighth grade middle school this June. Beth laments about how time passes so quickly and she is surprised to have two high school students now! She and her family miss living in Virginia and being able to road trip to Fredericksburg and Mary Washington (and Carl’s), but she hopes both kids will look at east coast colleges when the time comes. For now, the family loves living in sunny California and have embraced the lifestyle completely.

Tina Forbes Pullen wrote from Chesapeake, Virginia, to share the happy news that her daughter Leslie will be going to UMW this fall, in the class of 2020. Her son Phillip recently graduated from Virginia Tech and starts law school at the University of North Carolina in the fall. Tina and her husband, Phil, will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary in July. She works in public affairs for the federal government.

Robin Carrier‘s son, Wyatt Lipscomb, will also start at UMW in August as part of the Class of 2020. Wyatt was awarded the Talon Award.

Kara Thurmond and her husband, Andrew Amelinckx, recently launched an online shop, Fellow Well Met, which specializes in vintage and handcrafted men’s gifts and accessories. Kara is also a freelance graphic designer and lives in Catskill, New York.

Meghan Baldwin Lau and her family recently moved to Katy, Texas. Her older daughter, Rachel, moved with them, and her younger daughter, Hannah, just finished her freshman year at UT-San Antonio.

Mike Tringale was accepted into a postgraduate program to study healthcare research and bioethics at the University of Oxford—No sleep for him, as he’ll be pursuing this part-time while still keeping his full-time job.

I started working at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in February, and will be following Mike’s lead in pursuing my Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in the fall, studying systems engineering with a focus on cybersecurity. Glad to hear from everyone!