Ashish Thakur ’99 resides in Atlanta and is working as a client advisor in Private Wealth Manager at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. He is part of a team with over 50 years of investment expertise in assisting high net worth individuals, corporations, foundations, endowments and pensions in providing customized investment solutions. Tolliver Williams ’99 received his MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill in May and started with Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Group in New York.
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Tina Stults ’00 recently completed her course work for a graduate degree in information science at the University of Tennessee. She will graduate in December 2006. In August Tina began a new job as a media specialist at an elementary school in Smyrna, Georgia. Melissa Stracener Beauregard ‘01 was awarded her MBA from the University of Oklahoma in Norman this summer. Beauregard has pursued the degree for the past two and a half years while working full time and graduated with a 3.8 GPA. Currently, she is employed by OPUBCO Communications Group in Oklahoma City. In her role as an account manager, Beauregard oversees the newspaper, direct mail, online and niche advertising needs of her clients. She and Brett, her husband of four years, live in Edmond, Oklahoma, with their two four-legged children, Smokie and Bandit. The couple is anxiously anticipating the arrival of their first child in November. Karyn Bulow ’01 is starting law school full time this fall at the City University of New York, Queens College. Betony Hall ’01 is currently working as a special education teacher in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. Laura Hope ’01 is studying for her master’s at Oglethorpe’s partner university, University of Dortmund in Germany. She is giving lectures in industrial engineering, which is an English class with a cultural studies approach. She is always excited to see Oglethorpe students in Dortmund! Lance Ozier ’01 is a policy advisor for the National Academy for Excellent Teaching at the Teachers College of Columbia University.
Eleanor Kinlaw-Ross ’03, a writer and producer, has made history as founder and producer of the first annual Island Heritage Festival, celebrating history and culture on James Island in Charleston, South Carolina. This five-day event attracted people from all across America and according to an editorial in the James Island Journal, “...has done something no one else has done in recent history...brought blacks and whites together for a celebration of history on James Island.” South Carolina’s governor issued an official proclamation for the festival. Kinlaw-Ross received a BALS in communications and history in 2002. Cassandra Whitehead ’03 graduated from Oglethorpe with a degree in international studies, French and arts (photography). Cassandra will be conducting a market study of in vivo trials for cosmetics products for the U.S. market with Laboratoire Dermscan for a period of three months. The internship is sponsored by the international internship program of Rhone-Alps France. Six students or recent graduates were selected for the program from Georgia and Pennsylvania universities. Lisa Gossett ’04 is working at Youth Villages in Memphis, Tennessee, as a family counselor. She provides in-home long term counseling for families with children that are emotionally disturbed with serious behavioral problems and provides support and interventions to change the environment of the child to improve current behavior and symptoms of the child. Melissa Patterson ’04 is a third-year graduate student in the chemistry department at Emory University. She is working on Ph.D. research on synthesis of elastin-mimetic polymers for medical applications, including tissue regeneration and small molecule drug delivery. Christina Vinluan-Heda ’04 will be leaving her position at PricewaterhouseCoopers to pursue her master of education. Christina was accepted to the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She will be attending the elementary education program at Penn GSE in July 2006 and will accompany her husband at Penn who is pursuing his MBA at the Wharton School. Christina hopes to focus on urban school development. Amy Davis ’05 moved to San Francisco to study for her master’s in economics. She has completed her first year and is enjoying all the difficult work. She could not have done it without Dr. Cassandra Copeland.
Robert G. (RG) Lamar ’05 is currently living in Washington, D.C. and working at the U.S. Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). He has traveled to Afghanistan, Colombia, the UK, Hungary and Russia in the last six months while advising senior INL officials. He hopes to go surfing in as many former British colonies as possible after he leaves the State Department.
A New Alumni
Community
Rachel Jones ’06 is currently teaching English in Ichinohe, a small town in rural Iwate, Japan. She loves the warm-hearted people and the beautiful scenery. The summer festivals are great, and although the students don’t care about English, they are a lot of fun and are interested in America. Rachel has to walk three miles to the grocery store and eight to the bank. Rachel would love to receive emails or visits from alums visiting Japan! She has lots of extra room in her enormous apartment, so come to Japan and grab a slab of tatami!
The Alumni Office is pleased to announce that, coming in early 2007, Oglethorpe alumni, parents and friends will soon have a new place to gather – anytime and from anywhere – in an online community. The epetrel community will be a free, secure and interactive website designed to keep our alumni, parents and friends in touch with one another and the school. Epetrel will eliminate the geographic boundaries separating the Oglethorpe community. The Petrel family is a broad one that consists of over 15,828 alumni, parents and friends spread throughout 48 United States and 47 countries worldwide. The site will reconnect classmates with each other and ensure Oglethorpe’s friends know the happenings of the school. Features of epetrel include: ■ Your own personal page, where you can update your contact information, submit a class note or upload photos ■ A searchable database of classmates and parents ■ A newsfeed with the latest Oglethorpe news and current events ■ Online registration for events, like Alumni Weekend or Parents Weekend ■ A free Oglethorpe email address that will forward email to your personal account for life ■ And a secure way to contribute to the Oglethorpe Fund Registering for epetrel will be very simple. You will receive a letter and/or email explaining the community, listing its URL and giving you a username and temporary password. Once you have logged in, you will be able to change your password to one of your choosing. We look forward to seeing you online at epetrel, the virtual Oglethorpe!
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