Class Notes

This past spring Katherine Stephens ’03 completed a fellowship with the progressive New Leaders Council and was elected to serve her first term as a member of the City of Schenectady Board of Education. She lives with her husband Drew Pearson in the historic town of Upstate New York.

This past April, Kendra Hitz Steele presented The Distinguished Alumnus Microbiology & Immunology seminar at East Carolina University, where she completed her Ph.D. graduate work in 2010.  She has mutated a sexually transmitted virus that sterilizes the Helicoverpa zea pest, which is an insect costing U.S. farmers billions of dollars each year.  She is the Chief Scientific Officer and part owner of the company that does this work, Lepidext, LLC.

Allie Kochert is currently a licensed professional counselor in private practice in York, PA, with a specialty in peripartum women’s mental health and mindfulness studies. Erik Kochert (’02) and Allie have three kids ages 9, 6 and 4 and live in York, PA.

Rebecca (Romaneski) Sneller and her husband, Deric, are missionaries with Cadence International in Okinawa, Japan. They have three children: Tobin (7), Evan (4), and Kara Jane (2). Kara Jane was adopted from China in February 2017.

Meredith Camp Rhodes and Jimmy Rhodes (1999) are living in Woodbridge, VA, just outside of Washington, DC and are expecting their third child in October.  They have boy/girl twins who will be two in November.