Class Notes

Matt Kapuscinski and Tricia Piccinino Kapuscinski welcomed first child Olivia Jean in August. Krystin Gokey Ryan and husband Jim of Richmond welcomed Claire Aubrey Ryan in June. Andrew Blate, owner of Beautiful Home Services, LLC, and Jessie Thomas-Blate ’03 of Fairfax, Virginia, welcomed son Leo in June 2012. Erin Dexter welcomed Anderson Patrick White in October.

Maria Cedeno Lapins and husband Adam traveled to Ireland this spring. Their son was due this summer.

High school teacher Kevin Johnson and Amber Rector Johnson,a supervisor at the Social Security Administration, of Spotsylvania, Virginia, havedaughters Amelia, in kindergarten, and Natalie, 3. Elementary school teacher Emily Falvey Townsend andhigh school math teacher and baseball coach Sean Townsend ’03 of Chesapeake, Virginia, have daughters Lily, 4, and Ella, 1.

Magdalena Mrowiec Campbell and Stephen of Frederick, Maryland, married six years, have sons Jack, 5, and Hank, 2. She’s an adjunct teaching GED classes at Baltimore County Community College.

After 18 months in Monterey, California, while husband Ryan studied at the Naval Postgraduate School, Suzi Gallagher Welch, a Troy University professor of leadership studies, planned to move with Molly, 2, to Woodbridge, Virginia. Ryan was to start work at Fort Belvoir.

Aaron Layman, a Wells Fargo collections operations specialist and Roanoke Star freelance writer, planned a fall trip up the East Coast. Kristin Simmers studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and works for NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand.

Kevin Buffardi earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech and was to start this fall as an assistant professor at California’s Chico State. David Rickey is rehabilitating a historic Cincinnati house. Ryan Bodenstein earned a Ph.D. from U.Va. and is working to build a particle accelerator in South Korea.

After two years in investment banking at Barclays, Matt Lowe joined Estee Lauder Companies in NYC as the CFO’s director of financial planning and analysis. Matt married Amer Ahmed in Chappaqua, New York, in May. Chris Baily, Gigi Beier, Matt McKay, and Erica Rozek attended.

Hannah Slotnick Lindoff wrote a children’s book, Mary’s Wild Winter Feast. Kendall Jennings lives in the D.C. area, works for IBM, and has traveled to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Osasu Airhiavbere is a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board attorney in D.C. Elizabeth Terrell works for Deloitte in Sydney, Australia.

Jennifer Henley went on the UMW service trip to Peru, talking with current students about changes on campus.