Class Notes

David Rickey bought a four-family house in Cincinnati with an apartment for himself and three to lease. Kristin Simmers teaches at London’s Southbank International School. Melissa Nilsson earned an MFA in graphic design from San Francisco’s Academy of Art University. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with her husband.

Meghan Mascelli began a doctoral program in educational administration and policy at George Washington University. Erin Hill of the United Kingdom married in May and was finishing an associate’s degree in baking and pastry arts at Stratford University. Caroline Ellis Pinegar and husband Jason welcomed Henry Blair Pinegar last December. Matt Lowe earned an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and planned to work as an associate with Barclays in NYC.

Kelli White of Beaverdam, Va., an immigration paralegal with Richmond’s Challa Law Offices, has sons Hudson and Warren with husband Mark Curtis. Bridget Murphy and her husband bought a home in January. Heidi Schenkel Hajart and husband Bradley of Garden City, N.Y., welcomed daughter Hazel Beth in May. Mark Malone and Emily Talbot Malone ’08 of Kent Island, Md., welcomed their first child, Lauten Thomas, last October. In spring 2011, Kate Barbuto Charette and husband Joseph won a St. Lucia vacation on Let’s Make a Deal.

Carolyn Huckabay is a public relations associate with the boutique PR firm Canary Promotion and plans to marry Brian Howard in April at Philadelphia’s Crane Arts Building. Jason Lancaster, a training officer aboard the USS Tortuga based in Sasebo, Japan, was promoted to lieutenant. Annie Mazes earned a master’s degree in library science and works for Harper-Collins Publishing in NYC.

Anna Mills Matthews, husband Barrie, and their son, Jackson, of Miles City, Mont., expected a baby girl in October. Anna, a school librarian, earned a master’s degree in education and an endorsement in school library media. She helps Barrie manage his dental practice. Lauren Goor Geres, a Fairfax, Va., preschool autism teacher, married Marine Corps officer Peter Geres. Cristy Tilghman Morrow and husband Jamie expected their first child in December. Sameer Vaswani completed an MBA at the University of Maryland’s Robert Smith School of Business.

Kristen “Kiki” Skove King, a senior writer at Advocates for Human Potential, and her husband, Jesse, welcomed twin sons Miles Alan and Emmett James last December. Will Trahan graduated from Tufts’ School of Dental Medicine. He was inducted into the national dental honor society Omicron Kappa Upsilon and received the American Academy of Periodontology Dental Student Achievement Award; Jack Frommer Award for excellence in the morphological sciences; and Robert E. O’Neil, D51, Prize in Oral Surgery. He planned to be in a periodontology residency and VCU master’s degree program for the next three years.

Cassandra Martin Gwizdala of Richmond has children Noah, 2, and Grace, 5 months. Kendall Jennings, a business development executive at IBM in Northern Virginia, received a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in corporate finance/investment banking from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in May. She then traveled the world, visited 16 countries, and attended the Olympics.