Dia Quillen Hablutzel
1989 Hilltop Road
Rock Hill, SC 29732
dhablutzel@yahoo.com
Amy Rose LaPierre
7033 Bradwood Court
Springfield, VA 22151
amyrlapierre@msn.com
Bill Donovan
P.O. Box 1468
Philadelphia , PA 19105
MasonDonovan@hotmail.com
From Dia:
I continue to keep busy as field placement coordinator for Winthrop University’s
College of Education. My husband, Deron, and I visited friends and family
this summer.
Stephanie Smythers Carr and her husband, Scotty, celebrated the arrival of
their second child last June, Kaycee Marie, who joins big brother Jackson.
Stephanie is assistant director of residence life at JMU.
Jennifer Bryant Langdale reports that her husband, Jay, was diagnosed with
leukemia in June 2001 and received a bone marrow transplant last year. He
still was in the recovery process when I heard from her, but they are very
hopeful. After spending several months in Houston for treatment, they returned
to Florida where Jay is working on his dissertation at the University of Florida.
Rhonda Lefever Poff and her husband, John, live in Matthews, N.C., with their
two children, Maddy and Evan. Rhonda’s Mary Washington roommate, Nancy
Askew Sheleheda, and her husband, Mike, had their first child in July 2003,
Clayton Frank. Nancy managed the annual giving department at the Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C., but recently moved to the IT department; Mike is a stay-at-home
dad.
Kim Cavedo Longenecker and her husband had a baby girl in April 2003; she
joined a big brother. They live in Richmond. Kim earned a master’s degree
in May 2003 from Mary Baldwin College, but is taking a break from teaching
to stay home with her children. Kim remains best friends with Pam Smith Davis,
who has two sons and is a teacher in Albemarle County, Va.
Courtney Wait Speer and her husband, Greg, live in Charlotte, N.C., and were
expecting a second child to join son Nicholas. DeAnna Toten-Beard received
a Ph.D. in theater history, literature and criticism from Indiana University
in 2001. She has a job at Baylor University as assistant professor, which
she loves, and is also doing a lot of writing. She contributed a chapter to
Blackwell’s Companion to Twentieth Century American Drama. She and her
husband, Kemper, have two children – Gracie, 10, and Henry, 5.
Molly Brown Phelps and her husband, Randy, welcomed son Tristan Lawrence Phelps
in February. He joins sister Mikayla.
From Amy:
My husband, Steve, and I welcomed a baby girl, Caroline Rose, on Halloween
2003. I’m staying home with her and thoroughly enjoy it.
Kendal Powers Kruse and her husband, Kent, live in Richmond with their daughter,
Hanna. Expecting a baby boy, Kendal was working part time as an account manager
for Dominion Benefits. She often gets together with Heather O’Donnell
King and her sons, Liam and Dalton, for play dates. Heather and her husband,
Tim, also live in Richmond. Heather works part time as an organizational development
manager at Capital One. Heather also keeps in touch with Brantlee Campbell
Lemmink ’92. Brantlee works as Technology Architecture Operations Manager
at Ferguson Enterprises and lives with her husband Jason and son Alex in Yorktown,
Va.
Lisa Gates Brunetti also works at Capital One, as a senior human resources
consultant in the Northern Virginia office. Lisa and her husband, Joe, have
a baby boy, J.P. Lori Bluhm Layman has moved to Richmond with her husband,
Bob, and three children: Campbell, Emily and Grace. Lucy Mullis Kitner and
her husband, Oliver, also recently relocated. They now live in Atlanta with
their daughter, Sloane. Lucy is the director of administration and governance
for the American College.
Cindy Roberts is living in Australia and working on a master’s degree
after spending several years in New York working for MSNBC.
Barbara “B.J.” Gibbons-Thompson lives in Tucson. She and her fiancé,
Eric, were planning a wedding in Hawaii. B.J. wears three hats – she
works at the NBC affiliate, does some work in commercials and is into real
estate development.
Kristina Jones Harless is an associate with Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs,
working in the employment law and workers’ compensation practice groups.
Kristina earned her law degree at the University of Akron in Ohio.