Class Notes

Amanda Neptune Bridges and her family lived just outside of St Louis, in Southern Illinois, for the last two years. Desperate to get back to their former lives in Rhode Island, her Colonel husband is retiring from the Air Force after 23 years of active duty. They’ve bought a house in the quaint island town of Jamestown, Rhode Island, and look forward to getting back to beautiful scenery, sailing, kayaking, and lots of friends. After nine moves in six states and two countries as a family, they are thrilled to be planting roots! Amanda hopes to get back to teaching and her husband is plans to fly for the airlines… unless he finds something he likes better. Their three kids, Kate (13), Nick (11), and Will (8) are real troopers and are eager to get back to the state that feels most like home to them.

Christine Rollins Ragan completed her first half marathon at the North Face Endurance Challenge at Wachusett Mountain, a whopping 13 months after full ACL tear surgery. She and her family spent a week in June with Rebecca Giles Malin ’96 and her family at Lake Champlain. Other than that, my business, CMR Transcription Services Inc. is still going strong and loving life.

Julie Newell Leslie traveled to Tokyo and Seoul this spring. She was in Chicago in June, where she and Friar Patrick Daniel Tobin had a chance to catch up and explore the Windy City’s culinary scene. Friar moved from Minneapolis to take a new assignment in Chicago.

I visited my 6^th continent with a visit to Morocco. Highlights included glamping in the Sahara desert, taking a couscous cooking class, and randomly running into a childhood friend in Marrakech at the Jemaa el-Fnaa square.