Class Notes

From Kim: In August, I was accepted to the Leadership Lawton-Fort Sill program, designed to develop leadership skills and show participants how different aspects of the community are run. We meet for nine months and each month visit a different aspect of the community, such as law enforcement. At about the same time, the opportunity arose to become co-owner of the yoga studio where I’ve practiced for eight years. My business partner and I took over in September, and I taught my first yoga class. It was a scary experience but has gotten better with each class. I went to Houston in October to complete my 200-hour yoga teacher training and am now certified to teach. Ken and I celebrated our 20th anniversary in June 2013. Contact me via Facebook under “Kim Jones Isaac” or email. I’d love to get lots of updates for each edition.

Julie Magness has a spouse who loves theater as much as she does and lets her pick the shows. She still pursues her love of photography and looked forward to vacationing this year in Oregon and Crater Lake. She has a huge yarn stash and specializes in blankets and scarves. So far, she has listened to Kathy saying “three cats are enough,” but she remains hopeful.

Michelle Evans of Kill Devil Hills, N.C., is a registered nurse in a Chesapeake Regional Medical Center ICU step-down unit and has sons Taylor, 20, a junior business major at Virginia Tech, and Justin, 23, a College of William and Mary graduate and an IT systems administrator. Michelle had her first stand-up comedy gig last summer at a Virginia Beach club.

Jane Ellen Brennan Herrin mostly runs her own business, getting hired under contract as a media coach. Clients consult her for personal brand imaging, and she determines if people, businesses, and products have their social media in order across platform. This can include everything from styling them for their professional headshots to coming up with contests and engaging with their audience/clients for them, as them. Jane Ellen specializes in Google+ business pages, runs some pages with millions of followers, trains people to do G+, and helps people get their G+ and YouTube accounts to play nice together. She produces and/or hosts Hangouts on Air, which streams in G+ and ends up on YouTube, and has worked with actors, producer/directors, and the monster brand Skinny Ms. Her newest clients are the celebrated Joe McNally, who’s shot lots of TIME and National Geographic covers, and Roger Hill, pioneering storm chaser and photographer. Jane Ellen and Jim, married 20 years, have Anna Grace in third grade and Jenna in second. Jane Ellen apologized to her mom for everything she ever did to make her hair turn white. Anna Grace has an after-school “job” at a friend’s pet store, making sure the rodentia are well handled and helping transfer fish from back tanks to show tanks. Jim is still at the Putnam County Election Commission and writes for himself and for Jane Ellen’s company. Dogs Gracie and Max were old but well. They also have dwarf Siberian hamster Carmen and guinea pigs Cleo, an American silkie, and Ruby, an Abyssinian.

From Rene: Jeanette Bergmann Engel, Anne Zemienieuski Fowler, and I had a reunion weekend at Lake Anna with 1984 MWC Blue Tide basketball teammates Helen Morrow Worst ’86, Mel Taylor Bounds ’84, Joanne Ciccone Alger ’85, and Ruth Bonner Grosskopf ’85! Twenty-nine years and 17 kids later, and everyone is doing great!