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2003

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Jeff Howard, a General Dynamics information technology engineer, married Laura Schabinger in April in Washington, D.C., where they live. Ryan Quinn, Nick Mancini, Bonnie Ryan Lefkowitz, Emily Ruesch, Kevin Dalmut, and Jess Brandes attended.

Sarah Hunt was able to get to mile 25.8 of the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon in April before the course was closed due to the tragic attacks at the finish line. She ran on the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge Team and raised more than $6,000 toward research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she is a clinical research manager in pediatric oncology. She was not injured.

Kelli Zezulka, a theater and opera lighting designer who lives outside Leeds, England, is on the Association of Lighting Designers’ executive board. She recently designed for York Theatre Royal and the York Shakespeare Project’s Othello, Mooted Theatre Co.’s Macbeth, and Hidden Gems

Productions’ Somebody’s Son_. Clare Denk moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and earned a master’s degree in film preservation in 2006. An Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences special collections cataloger, she was working on Gregory Peck’s papers.

Meredith Camp and Jimmy Rhodes ’99 of Falls Church, Va., plan an October wedding on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Meredith earned a master’s degree in education from Old Dominion University and works for a Tysons Corner training development company.

Rebecca Baughman lives in Sumerduck, Va., with her husband and son. She taught family and consumer science in Prince William County and is a Louisa County Middle School librarian. Nick Mancini won his fantasy football league, taking down Ryan Quinn and Jeff Howard. Nick planned a July wedding to Anku Nath in Pittsburgh.

Amber Crafton was part of the onsite Alternative Missions staff in Cofradía, Honduras, from 2006 to 2010, then moved back to Richmond and took a second job as a full-time nanny to triplet boys. Last August, she moved to the St. Louis area, where she’s an Alternative Missions coordinator and nanny to preemie twins.

In February, Dan Dupras of Annapolis, Md., welcomed second son Jack, who joined Max, 18 months. In March, wife Christy celebrated the one-year anniversary of Annapolis Offices at Bestgate, her executive office space company. Dan worked in space systems at Northrop Grumman for nine years but recently joined a start-up salad dressing business with a neighbor. He’s now CFO for Tessemae’s, which sells natural, gluten- and sugar-free vegan salad dressings, dips, and marinades.

Annwyn Milnes Sharman and Andy Sharman welcomed their first child, daughter Miriam, in December. Mike Steele lives in Chesapeake, Va., with his wife and two children. He moved his legal practice to Williams Mullen’s Virginia Beach office, where he handles management-side labor and employment matters. Mike recently served as adjunct professor at the College of William and Mary Law School, joined the Chesapeake Humane Society board of directors, was asked to teach employment law at Tidewater Community College’s Academy for Nonprofit Excellence, and started a four-year term with the Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission.

Diana Daly and Jonathan Epstein of Alexandria, Va., married in May in Clifton. Jess Brandes officiated. Jill Davis, Sarah Sedaghatfar Little, Carrie Pencek ’02, Emily Ruesch, Caroline Otto Lemire, and Matt Lemire attended.

Garett Seeba graduated last June from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, where he plans to finish residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery in June 2015. Wife Tashia is a dental hygienist in Laplace, La. They have three dachshunds.