Class Notes 2000s
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2000
Joy Barnes
3760 Bengal Road
Gulf Breeze, FL 32563
mwc2000@hotmail.com
2001
Caroline L. Jarvis
426 N. Armistead St., Apt. T2
Alexandria, VA 22312
mwcgrad01@hotmail.com
Teresa Joerger Mannix
12506 Heykens Lane
Bristow, VA 20136
mwcgrad01@hotmail.com
The Class of 2001 has been busy! Here are just a few updates.
John Dangerfield and Erin Forrest are engaged and planned to marry in May of 2007 in Richmond. Fellow classmates in the wedding party are Ted Dangerfield ’00, Marc Speed ’03, Dave Bessom ’03, Katie Laskey, Monica Price Dangerfield, and Yvette Uhalde.
Corie Tarbet teaches world history and advanced placement comparative governments for the Center for International Studies and Languages program at C.D. Hylton High School, Prince William County, Va. He completed his master of arts degree in history in January at George Mason University. Karyn Hava planned to travel to southwest Asia to serve as a veterinarian for the U.S. Army in the spring of 2007. In August, Kelly Turcic Bailey left her position at United Way and accepted a position with Thiel College as the director of annual giving and parent relations. She is working on a graduate degree in public policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh.
Zac Sargent lives in San Francisco and is an architectural photographer and photography assistant. Amy Benson finished her master’s degree in applied developmental psychology and is engaged. Sara Harney married Jim Correll in October 2006; they live in Fairfax, Va. Jen Amore passed the New York and Connecticut bars and is an attorney at an employment law boutique firm in D.C.
Madelyn Marino traveled around Southeast Asia for three weeks, visiting Singapore; Bangkok, Thailand; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Siem Reap, Cambodia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; where she visited numerous temples and did her fair share of shopping. James Ahlmann is the United States special agent-in-charge of a collections unit in Afghanistan.
Sarah Bigelow is assistant vice president of institutional programs at Merrill Lynch in Philadelphia, where she is completing her MBA at Drexel University. She plans to marry Brendan Duffy in August. In August, Carla Villar finished her bachelor of science in nursing from the George Mason second-degree accelerated nursing program, and she is a registered nurse in the medical/surgical unit of Inova Alexandria Hospital. Lauren Oviatt Brennan is manager of student affairs for the Division of Engineering at Brown University and takes photography classes at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Virginia L Green married Shane K. Bartlett in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in August 2006. They live in Nashville, where Virginia is working on a doctorate in religion and ethics, and Shane is working on a bachelor of fine arts in film.
Teresa Joerger Mannix was recently promoted to interim director of news and public information at the University of Mary Washington. Caroline Jarvis lives in Alexandria, Va., but she plans to move to England in the fall of 2007 where she hopes to work on her MBA.
Caroline and Teresa would like to remind you to continue sending in your updates – it’s great to hear from you!!
2002
Travis Jones
tljones8@hotmail.com
Carolyn Murray
3253 Arrowhead Circle, Apt. H
Fairfax, VA 22030
turtlecjm@yahoo.com
2003
Jennifer Nisoff
nisoffj!hotmail.com
There is lots of news to report. Virginia Atkinson is studying for a master’s degree in international relations at the University of Reading in England. While living in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sarah Sedaghatfar is getting a master’s degree in interior architecture/design at Pratt Institute; she works part time at an architectural firm. Nina Cronin graduated from St. John’s University School of Law, passed the bar exam in Connecticut, and is now a staff writer covering the political beat at the Long Island Press in Long Island, N.Y. In addition, she is writing for the College Music Journal, reviewing the latest in independent and alternative music.
Karolina Nowak Dembinska-Lemus received a master’s degree in linguistics from Georgetown University, where she is pursuing a doctorate. Michael Steele will work as a summer associate with the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Washington, D.C., during summer 2007. He is working on his J.D. at Boston College Law School and plans to graduate in 2008. Stacy Rogers graduated from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in biology and is pursuing a doctorate of physical therapy at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
Laura Sussman works as a media specialist at an elementary school in Goochland County, Va., and is working toward her master’s degree in public school administration through VCU as well as a certification in school library science through Longwood University. Libby Eddy graduated from George Mason University last summer with a master’s degree in education and teaches fourth grade in Stafford County. She is engaged, and she plans a July 2007 wedding, followed by a move to Colorado.
Paige Golden is a literacy coach in the New Haven Public School System in New Haven, Conn. Mieke Lynn Lane Wall is a second-grade teacher at Potomac Elementary School. Rebecca Romaneski lives in Arlington, Va., is a Jazzercise instructor, and is a full-time grad student, pursuing a master’s degree in divinity from Regent University. Jess Brandes and Diana Daly are living in Alexandria, Va. Diana works for washington-post.com, and Jess works in nonprofit development at a medical facility. John Chiles, wife Sara ’02, and their son live in Gordonsville, Va. John runs his own landscape business, is an environmental engineer for VDOT, volunteers as a firefighter, and is a member of the town planning commission. Gayle Yanez is a human resource manager at Childhelp in Lignum, Va. Chad Denton recently published a book, Absolute Power, a historical nonfiction work that will soon be available in the United States.
Stefani Moore has switched careers and is now a new-townhome sales associate in Raleigh, N.C. Rebecca Hinckley Kinn lives in Upper Marlboro, Md., works as a geographer for the U.S. Census Bureau, and just celebrated her first wedding anniversary. As executive director of the Virginia Department of Fire Programs, Billy Shelton is in charge of the training program for Virginia’s Fire and Emergency Services, is responsible for seven regional offices, and oversees an annual budget of $24 million.
Many UMW alumni are living abroad. Kara O’Connor and her boyfriend, Arthur Scibal, live in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kara teaches Spanish at the American International School of Johannesburg, and Art works as a tutor and full-time fourth-grade assistant. Prior to moving to South Africa, Art completed his masters of education at Framingham State College’s program in Katowice, Poland. He then taught business English in Kiel, Germany. Diana Bendixen planned to move to Costa Rica to attend the Costa Rican School of Massage Therapy in February.
This summer, Katie Kugler Drummond graduated from MCV-VCU with a doctorate in physical therapy, got married, and now lives in Silver Spring, Md. Jennifer Worcester Moore married last fall in a wedding attended by many UMW graduates. She and her husband reside in Hamilton, Va. Suzanne Perry Wallis was married this summer in Virginia Beach, Va. The couple met while serving in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Oakland, Calif., and now reside in Richmond, Va.
Erin Donegan and Eric Frere were married in July. Jennifer O’Leary and Kevin Pushee ’04 were married in August 2006 in Hanover, N.H., with many UMW graduates in attendance. Mary Schmotzer and her husband recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary and bought a home in Williamsburg. Mary works for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Katie Wood married Matt Sevon and both joined the Peace Corps. They completed their service in Bolivia in June and live in Maryland. Marcy “Lee” Crockett Darcy moved to Vermont in 2004, married her “reenacting sweetheart” in May of 2005, and expected her first baby in May. Erin Medlyn Clapp and her husband had their first child, Cillian.
Jenny Crites Dye and her husband live in Roanoke City, Va., where they celebrated the birth of their first child, Madeleine. Jenny also completed her master’s degree in counselor education from Virginia Tech and is now working as a professional school counselor in Botetourt County, Va. Matt Korniotes, of Fredericksburg, married in the summer of 2005 and had a baby girl in the summer of 2006. Matt is a subcontract administrator for Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems in Falls Church, Va., and is pursuing an MBA in contracts and procurement from the UMW College of Graduate and Professional Studies.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this issue. Please continue to send me your updates.
2004
Katharine E. Leesman
4417 Harrison St., NW
Washington, DC 20015
Katie.Leesman@gmail.com
Sarah B. Smith
5804 Merton Court, Apt. 182
Alexandria, VA 22311
sarahbsmith@gmail.com
Sameer Vaswani
710-1 College Lane
Salisbury, MD 21804
sameervaswani@msn.com
Worth Stokes Haile and her husband live in Champlain, Va. She has opened a photography business and gallery, Studio 9, and has been collaborating with graphic artist Mary Rothlisberger ’05 on a logo and public relations materials. She exchanges business advice with colleague Amanda Tillman ’03, who recently started her own photography business in Seattle, Wash.
Mary Kate Sheridan is in her third year at Columbia University of Law, and she expects to graduate with her J.D. in May of 2007. She was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and she is a writing and research editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems.
Erin Hopkins married Connor Peterson in August 2006 in Forest, Va. Chris Dimotisis, Tyler “Boo” Holtzman, and Lars Holmstrom ’05 were groomsmen; Andrea Devening and Brianna Miller ’03 were bridesmaids. Dan Sherman officiated.
Katie Leesman works for Dell, Inc., in its government relations office in Washington, D.C., where she also lives. Josh Morris, of Centerville, Va., is a copy-writer for Clearword Communications.
2005
Allyson V. Lee
82 High St.
Butler, NJ 07405
allyvlee@gmail.com
Corinne Meyerhoff Kuehner, a native of King George, Va., runs her own business, The Dancer’s Wardrobe, in the Galleria on Caroline Street in Fredericksburg. She and her husband of more than one year, Jermie, plan to buy a home and start a family when he gets out of the Navy next May.
2006
Shana Muhammad
11739 Ledura Court, Apt. 208
Reston, VA 22554
Shana_m@hotmail.com
Carl Frank Puleo
610 Geneva Drive
Westminster, MD 21157
CFPuleo@alumni.umw.edu
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