Class Notes

George Rohman and Laura Parmelee married at a Christmas- themed wedding at the Adventure Aquarium outside Philadelphia along the Delaware River on a gorgeous 55-degree December day in 2011. They had recently bought a house on the New Jersey Shore. George’s entire career has been in the water park industry, so friends and colleagues from parks across the country supported him, including those from Schlitterbahn, Splish Splash, Morey’s Piers, and Disney. Jennifer Repella called it “the wedding of the century.” She and Michael Gordon live in Ashburn, Va., with Jen’s daughter, Alexa Gwen, 9. Jen is senior manager of global clinical development for Otsuka Pharmaceutical, managing first-in-human clinical trials.

Megan Burke Filipovic returned to San Diego after graduation and lives in Del Mar with husband Dan, daughter Ava, 5, and son, Evan, 3. Her third child was due in May. After earning a master’s degree in business management, Megan traveled the world, working for an international incentive planning company. She loves keeping up with Mary Washington and classmates through updates in the alumni magazine.

John Glymph teaches U.S. history at Washington High School in Charles Town, W.Va., and was completing a master’s degree in education at Fairmont University. He lives with his wife, Jennifer Oldakowski, and stepchildren Zoe, 10, and Caleb, 9. Paralegal Leigh Brockman planned to marry geographical engineer Jeremy Horowitz on a December Disney cruise and have a huge spring 2012 New Orleans bash to celebrate. Leigh teaches ballet at Loyola University and planned to perform with the Komenka Ethnic Dance and Music Ensemble in France in July.

Since being ordained in May 2010, Dominican friar Patrick Daniel Tobin O.P. has been assigned to Columbia, Mo. Proving that no skill is wasted in ministry, he has been a prank consultant for college students, informal chemistry tutor in the parish student lounge, chaplain to the local Hispanic community, parish IT manager, DJ for dances, facilities manager, and purveyor of chocolate to damsels in distress. He recently sought a whole hog for a traditional Hawaiian pig roast and luau and was looking for a new job teaching chemistry.

Kathleen Gillikin MacCubbin is a librarian at Baltimore County Public Library’s Rosedale branch, home of Storyville interactive learning center for children from birth to age 5. Husband Patrick has a degree in computer-aided design and drafting and works for a civil engineering company. They live with son John, 4, in Patrick’s grandparents’ mid-century row home and work to update it. Jenn Sydnor Fessler trains horses and teaches riding at her family’s farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Lynchburg, Va. She and husband Adam have daughter Lily Robin, 2. Jackie Curry Todaro and husband Jim of Windham, N.Y., have skiing-superstar daughter Courtney and son Jay.

Jorin Botte, wife Karolien, and son Griffin, 4, are back in sunny Fort Collins, Colo., after five years in Belgium. The couple works at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. Griffin’s sibling was due in August. Robin Birnbaum Allen lives with husband Tim, their cat, horses, and dogs in Tucson, Ariz. Robin, a civil engineer for Tucson Water, is project manager for design and construction of water facilities within the City of Tucson and Pima County. Mai Trinh Joubert, mother to Jacobus Petrus, 1, Estelle, 2, and Anais, 6, lives in Old Town Alexandria and does corporate wellness seminars through her company, Mai Health Now. Debbie Henderson has been an accounting manager at Hilldrup Companies in Stafford, Va., since graduating from Mary Washington. She lives with boyfriend Mike Brosnan and daughter Ashley Mackenzie, born in March.

This issue marks my 15th year writing our class notes. It continues to be an honor to have you share your news with me. Here’s to another 15 years of Class of 1997 notes!