Class Notes

I hope this update finds everyone happy and healthy. My husband and I were married a year this past March, expect our first child in September, and are looking for a new home. Keep sending updates my way!

Chad and Jenny Moss Van Riper welcomed Connor Moss Van Riper – 7 pounds, 13 ounces, 20.25 inches long – in February.

Brian Straight finished his diplomatic assignment to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, took four months of intensive Portuguese classes in the D.C. area, then transferred to his current posting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last year. He took a monthlong work trip to Uganda, visiting Rwanda and touring the country’s genocide history. He planned to marry, was expecting his first child, and hopes his next assignment, due next year, will be Havana, Cuba.

Keith and Flora Adams Mays and son Porter moved from Birmingham, Ala., to Louisville, Ky., for Keith’s job and welcomed triplet girls in May 2013.

Jimmy Rhodes married Meredith Camp Rhodes ’03 in an outdoor October wedding at the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, N.C. In attendance were John Thibodeau, Chuck Markley, Jim Archy, Matt MacDonald, Paul Junod, Jeremy Duval, Alex Panek, Matt White, Chuck Floyd, Steve Lamanna, Mike Holmes, Ted Tschan, Jason Gleason, Melissa Floyd, Jay Hartey, Amanda McLennan MacDonald, Jaimi Lacaria White, Jen Amrhein Junod, Jen Hartey, Jennifer Flynn Duval, Jarrett Whitlow ’00, Kevin Bird ’02, Gina Nardi ’03, and Kellie Shanahan Bird ’03. Meredith and Jimmy, who met in an alumni tent at the 2008 Mary Washington Homecoming, planned to sell their Falls Church, Va., condo and buy their first house together this year.

Stephen Charnoff is a partner with a Tysons Corner, Va., law firm. He and wife Katherine Fry Charnoff ’00 have a 3-year-old son and welcomed a daughter in February.

Corey Sell earned a Ph.D. in education last May from George Mason University and accepted a position as assistant professor of elementary education there in fall. After 13 years teaching elementary students, Corey was enjoying higher education and working with pre-service teachers.

Carol Chace married Marlon Washington in September. Martha Smith, who’s still in the film business, and Susanne Eymer Maurer, who welcomed son Owen in winter, attended.

Laura Reilly Lewis, her husband, and daughter Reilly welcomed Lane Elizabeth in April 2013.