Class Notes

Jen Carter Tsimpris and her husband, Basil, are expecting a daughter later this year—perhaps before this issue goes to press! Their son John is VERY excited. Jen works at a retirement community in Richmond, Virginia, as the Resident Life Services Manager.

Tara McGintee Gibbs and her husband, Dave, welcomed their fourth baby boy, Declan Reilly, in September.

Jen Katz has published a children’s book titled Sparky & Squeaker. 50 percent of the proceeds from the sale of her book are donated to the American Cancer Society. It’s available wherever books are sold, so please buy one for your kid, or for the kid of one of your Mary Wash classmates!

Adrien Snedeker Dickerson is also helping to fight cancer through her work at Conquer Cancer Foundation. While her husband, Adam, is guarding our coasts, Adrien guards the home front with her son Simon.

Caitlin Jenkins recently began work as a paper conservator at the Academy of Motion Pictures. She and her husband, Jason Losh, are living in Los Angeles with children Paul and Edith.

Joshua Bacigalupi will be in charge of 600 kids in a K-5 Elementary school just outside of Ithaca, New York. Good luck, Josh!

Justin Mink is in the midst of developing his tech company, Music Audience Exchange, which helps brands partner with musicians.

Erin Leigh Hicks-Rorrer Haithcock received the Progressive Grocer’s Top Women in Grocery Rising Star recommendation for her work with Kroger Mid-Atlantic. For her top essay on who inspires her she was awarded a Microsoft Surface. Erin has been a Kroger employee since 1994, working through college as a cashier. After graduation she was hired as a co-manager of the Cave Spring Kroger in Roanoke. She has worked in Human Resources, the Business Division of Kroger in Richmond, and now is head of Customer Care in Roanoke. Erin lives in Roanoke with her husband, Mike, and son Landon Brooks.