Class Notes

I started a new job as client development director at Investec Wealth Management, still live in London, and look forward to Jubilee and Olympic celebrations this summer.

Kate McGinn Pipke and Nate Pipke ’99 welcomed first child Garrett Michael in November. Jessica Landers Hopkins, director of a national non-profit education organization, returned home to Maryland from Boston, and her daughter turned 1. Steve Hinchliffe of Tucson, Ariz., spent a year in Hawaii and was to receive his MBA in May.

Sherri Trudeau Martin teaches at a Denver area charter school. Son Andrew was to graduate from Overland High School. Nicole McIntyre moved to China to teach fifth grade at Shanghai Community International School. Rebecca Hirschman and Dennis Ti (Johns Hopkins ’02) bought a house in Raleigh, N.C., and were married in Raleigh in November 2011. Virginia “Ginny” Evans Beimdick and Melissa Kittrell Micare attended. Kelly Hahn was promoted to senior associate with Censeo Consulting Group. She was to be married in April in Washington, D.C., and move to Mexico City. Lauren Oviatt Brennan and her husband welcomed second child Keaton Carter in April. Lauren finished her Rhode Island School of Design photography program, and the family moved from Providence to Northern Virginia. Seth Kennard, in his third year as an elementary school principal with Alexandria City Public Schools, and wife Kathleen welcomed second child Ella Kate in November.

Teresa Joerger Mannix and husband Mark welcomed first child Bryce David in January. Melissa Wilson is an interpretive park ranger with Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Mass., and an educator for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. She was working on her doctoral dissertation on museum education at Capella University. Kelly Turcic Bailey is director of alumni engagement at Slippery Rock University.

Jennifer Stringfellow Bing and Stephen married in September and live in Dumfries, Va. Jennifer works at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Anthony Foster completed his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., and began a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. He moved to Sterling, Va., and planned to be married in May.

Allyson Bristor is a City of Bozeman (Montana) neighborhood coordinator and was engaged to marry Christopher Brekke of Duluth, Minn., in July. Laura Reigle Campling and husband Bob have children Benjamin John, born in January, and Grace, 3. Jennie von Drehle of Chicago works in DePaul University’s international programs office. She and husband Ryan welcomed first daughter Zoe Grace in January.

Virginia Bartlett earned a doctorate in religion and ethics at Vanderbilt University and moved from Nashville, Tenn., to California with husband Shane and daughter Sophia. She is assistant director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Missionary Trixy Franke is a physician at the Seventh-day Adventist Health Centre in Cameroon, Africa. She married William Colwell Jr.

Matt Cliszis, a Chartis Insurance regional underwriting manager, and Pam Kirby-Cliszis, a Spike TV producer, live in Brooklyn, N.Y. They welcomed Alexa Jane in March 2011. Matt Wright, married in August in Warrenton, Va., is a special education teacher in Fairfax County, writes for websites and magazines, and started a website with Nene Wallace Reed ’02. Jacquie Frank and Rory Caswell bought a home in Toms River, N.J., planned an April wedding, and looked forward to seeing Alevia Colwell Colombell, Kelli Brittain Reinhardt, and Danielle Matuch. Zac Sargent and Aimee Sargent welcomed first child Oliver William in April. Jen Amore of Washington, D.C., is a policy analyst in the U.S. Department of Labor’s wage and hour division and teaches power flow yoga. Sarah Smith Komssi and Mike Komssi ’00 welcomed their second (and last!) set of twins, Miles Henry and Calvin Robert, in September 2010.

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